6 THE MORTGAGE PAID. <Vr've done a lot of scrlmpln' ar.' a^llvln' hand to mouth, We've dread id too wet weather an' we've worried over drought, for the thing kept drawln' Int'rest, wheth er crops were good or bad. An', raii-in' much or little, seemed It swal lowed all we had. The "V •omen folk." were savin', and there ain't a bit of doubt llut that things they really needed lots of times they done without. So we're breathfn' somewhat easy, an' we're feelin' less afraid Of Providence's workin's, since we got the mortgage paid. I wit h I'd kept a record of the tilings that mortgage ate, In principal an' Int'rest, from beginnin' down to date!— A hundred dozen chickens, likely fowl with yellow legs, A thousand pounds of butter an' twelve hundred dozen eggs. Some four or five good wheat crops, an' at least one crop of corn. An' oats, an' ry<—it swallowed in its life time, sure's you're born, Besides the work an' worry, ere its appe tite was stayed! So we're feelin' more contented, since we got the mortgage paid. We've reached the point, I reckon, where we've got a right to rest, An' loaf around, an' visit, wear our go-to meetin' best— Negleetin' nothin' urgent, understand, about the place, llut simply slowln' down a bit, an' restin' In the race! In time I'll /jet the windmill I've been wantin', 1 suppose; The girls can have their organ, an' we'll all wear better c.olhefc for we've always puKid together, while we saved an' scrimped an' prayed, Ar." it seems there's more to work for since we got the mortgage paid. —Roy Farreli Greene, in Orange Judd Farmer. 112 The Trouble on the Torolito. BY FRANCIS LYNDE, CHAPTER XII. FOR BETTER OR WOHSE. Maepherson's foreboding that the -strain and exposure of the trying night would be too much for me was as true as many another reluctant prophecy. The following morning, and for many mornings thereafter, 1 was unable to leave my room or my lied beneath the low-pitched rafters; and Mrs. Selter and Winifred came and went and ministered to me. Macpherson came, also, like the loyal friend that he was, sitting with me night after night, after the day's bard work on the placer bar; and when I was once more able to taklf a passing interest in the things that are, he told me what had befallen. It came out by littles while Angus watched with me in the intervals when sleep would not- come for all iny wooing.s. Wykamp had not been fieriously injured in his narrow, es cape; had ridden to his work the following day, in fact, with his head bandaged and a fierce frenzy of determination driving him. The force 011 the dam had been doubled; a night shift had been put on, and, as Angus talked, I could hear 1 lie bum of the dynamo in the electric plant set up to furnish the light for the night gang. As a result of all this Increased activity, the dam was Hear ing completion, and the stock of the j land company was no longer a drug i in the market. As for Macpherson, he had turned i miner as he had promised to. His -demand for water had been prompt ly acceded to, and so far from prov ing an obstructionist, the engineer bad allowed his own workmen to 'build that portion of the miner's flume which delivered the water at the placer-workings. More than that, he had re-established the settlers'l ditch, and bad thereby quieted the opposition of every farmer in the I colony save one. That one was Selter. In reopening the ditch which served the homsteaders at Valley Head, Wykamp had built a new flume anil surveyed a new line, being con strained thereto, lie explained, by the location of the newly begun work ings tin the placer bar. And, since Setter's holding lay nearest the can yon, it had been possible to run the new ditch so that it served every acre in the colony save those within the Tennessean's fences. It was Winifred who told me about this, and naturally her sympathies were with the farmer. "It seems such o needless piece of injustice," she sai«), in conclusion. In all our talks I had been care ful to ignore the very existence of such a person as Wykamp; but at this time I ventured to suggest that the injustice to Selter might be a bit of personal animosity. She did not reply at once. There was that in her face which bet rayed the struggle between womanly reti cence and an overmastering desire to share her burdens with a sym pathizing listener. In the end the burden outweighed the conventions. "1 have suspected thai, too," she said. "That is the reason why I have refused to teach an autumn term. I must go away, Mr. Halcott." I took this as a beginning of a r.onfidence, and made it easy for her by pretending not to understand. "It is because I am here that Mr. Setter is made to suffer," she ex plained, "He was on ffood terms wth the company until—until—" "Spare yourself, Miss Winnie; I know what you would say. But you are quite mistaken. The quarrel be tween Selter and the man who shall he nameless between us does not hinge upon your presence here." Sh looked troubled. "May I ask you to tell me what it does hinge upon?" I hardly knew how to answer her. It would be shameful to tell her what was apparent to everyone else Cmi acoUttiuciil} lUal aWU a 4 liisison with the engineer, (frown more flagrant since my ineffectual attempt to break it off, Macpherson told me, was at the bottom of Set ter's feud wth Wykamp. And yet it was 110 time to fence witli dissimula tion. "Hav«*n'f you seen?" I asked. "Jacob Selter is a plain man, and not over-sernpulous, as we all know. Hut he is a father."" Her eyes went wide in deeper trouble and the shock of it filled them with quick tears. "1 have been very blind," she said. "It must be prevented. 1 will goto Nan and tell her what she ought to know." "Pardon me; you must do nothing of the kind. She would not believe you, and—she knows already." There was bewilderment in her faltered rejoinder. "I—l don't understand. How can she know? Surely, he could not be base enough to—to boast—" 1 cut in swiftly. "You very well know he is base enough for any thing. He gave her his own version a long time ago, and knowing that he had done so, 1 gave her the facts. It was a blunder on my part, Miss Winnie; well-meant, but a blunder, nevertheless. She did not believe me; and when she was finally convinced, she used the information against you ?" "Against me? How could she do that?" It was not altogether the weak ness of illness that set the perspira tion thick on my forehead. "May I speak as freely r.s your brother might, Winifred?" "I have given you the right," she said; and her voice was low and tear shaken. "Then let me tell you what you haven't suspected. You have come be tween Nancy Selter and the man whom she really loves. It was to him that she went with the miserable story of what an unjust world calls your shame." It crushed her as I feared it would. For a long time she sat with her face hidden in her hands, and her sobs ws;re so many dagger-thrusts for me. When she lifted her eyes to mine there was the light of a new pur pose in them. "I must go away from here—at once," she said. "I should have gone at first. I would have gone, if I had not been afraid—" "I know. But you may trust An gus. And it is for him that I must plead, Winifred. He knows the worst, now, and since he loves you the ver dict of an uncharitable world is nothing to him. Won't you give hiin leave to speak to you, Winifred?" She started with a little cry of anguish. "You speak of shame, and it is you who tempt me!" she said, in sor rowful reproach. "That would be shame, indeed—shame and sin. You say you know the facts. Are you quite sure you know all of them?" "Let me tell you what I know, and you shall say if it be the truth. Two years ago the nameless one hart a business engagement which domi ciled him in a village in New Hamp shire. While there he met a young girl, an orphan, whose father had left her a modest competence. I know not if it were for the sake of ; ! the money that he wooed and won j lift-, and was willing to dare the con* "I'VE GOT A WARRANT FOR YOU, MAC." sequences of a crime punishable by law. But the tiling was dotje, and the crime was scarcely committed before another woman came with a child in her arms to claim him as her lawful husband. He fled, like the coward that he was, and the young girl's people connived at his escape to bury the shame of it. And since, the girl-wile who was no wife has paid the penalty of a sin that was not hers. That is what I learned through a friend of mine in Massa chusetts who has known the man anil the evil heart of him from his youth lip. Was my informant cor rect, Winifred?" She had heard me through with out flinching-, and her eyes met mine steadily. "Not entirely correct," she said, with a hardness in her voice which I had never heard before, "Bitter as it would be, 1 could almost wish he were. 'Wooed and won', you said, but that is hardly fair to—to tlie young' woman. There were constrain ingl circumstances; her guardian was urgent—strangely urgent, it seemed to her at the time." "Why should lie have been?" I queried. "SurVly, the most ordinary inquiry would have shown the young' man up in his true chtrader." "There were reasons why the in quiry was not made; why any past of his, however despicable, would not have weighed an ounce in the scale. You said that the young woman's father had left her a competence. That is true; and it is also true that hti Q —liiiii" - -' CAMKRON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1902. 1 began dimly to the drift c? it and supplied the leluctant word. —"llatl stolen it. Goon." "There was a chance for him to re trieve, through a speculation to which the other man, as the chief engineer of the Improvement company, held the key. He was willing to sell the key—at a price and the price was paid." "I understand; the price was the young woman, herself. Is that the only inaccuracy in my friend's story?" "No; there is another. You say there was a mock marriage, and so there was; but it was the first one. The poor girl with the child in her arms has that shame to bear." "What!—then you are—" "So far as a scarcely completed ifiarriage ceremony can make me so. I am Herbert Wykanip's lawful wife?" She left me at that, and it was a full week, and many things had hap pened, before 1 could bring myself to tell Macpherson. I did it at last, and he heard me through patiently. "That settles it,"he said, Soberly; "and I'm too glad for her sake to be sorry for my own. The thing is bit ter enough without the shame; and, somehow, Jack, I have a feeling that my love could never have made that up to her. They can drive me out now, as soon as they get ready. I'll go without a kick." "She is going," I ventured. "Is she? —but, of course, she would. Then I must stay. There must be no chance for the evil tongue to wag." "I thought you would say that. Is that Selter coming up?" There was a heavy step on the stair, and Macpherson listened. "No, that isn't Jake," he said. "I wonder who it is at this time of night?" We were not left long in doubt. The door opened presently to admit a man whom Angus knew and I did not. He got up, greeted the incomer with a hearty handshake, and intro duced him. "Shake hands with Dick Burt, Hal cott. Dick's the man 1 was legging for for sheriff when I wrote you to come up to the Torolito. How are things with you, Dick? Who are you after up here?" The big man with the bushinan beard seemed singularly embarrassed. "I'd rather be shot, Mac," lie blurted out; "d —d if I wouldn't. But I've got a warrant for you." "For me? What have 1 been do ing?" Macpherson sat down to laugh the easier. "Not a thing on God's green earth to be ashamed of,l know, Mae; but this enssed ingineer for the (ilenlivat people comes to the front and swears out a warrant against you for blow ing up his coffer-dam. I've got to take you, and I'd rather be shot, as 1 say." Macpherson got upon his feet rath er unsteadily. "That's the thanks I get for saving his miserable life," he said. Then he thrust out his hand: "Good-by. Jack. I'll be out on bond in a day or two, and when I get back you'll hear something drop. Come on, Burt; duty's duty. You don't need to pack a gun when you come after me." CHAPTER Xlir. TIIE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP, j Maepherson's trial was set for the ! October term of court, and I was not j without the hope of being able togo to the fort in term time to appear for him. The case was not as simple us it seemed. Wykanip's evidence would lie difficult to set aside; and only those who knew Macpherson would be able to escape the suspicion which pointed naturally to the man whom the land company's scheme ■ would dispossess. There were two or three ways to clear Angus, but just how to do it without implicating Sel ter was a problem. As a last resort, I determined to bring the Tennessee an to book; and this determination was clinched when Selter refused to come to the rescue of his own mo tion. 1 put it to him conditionally, asking him if he would make a depo sition and take his chances of escape if it should become necessary to save Mac from paying the penalty in his stead. "I reckon ye wouldn't hardly expect a man to do that ther', would ye, Mr. Halcott?" lie said, when I had laid the matter before him. "Kz you say, Mac's been a powerful good friend to me, an' all that, but titer's limits, ain't ther'?" 1 said yes, and did not urge him, but 1 made out my case for Angus with a ruthless alternative in reserve. If I couldn't clear him without involv ing Selter, the Tennesseean should pay the price. 11l the meantime, matters went on the even tenor of their way in the valley. For a purpose of my own, a purpose which detailed itself at some length in a technical correspondence with my legal partners in Denver, I dissuaded Winifred from leaving the valley; nay, more; I even succeeded in convincing her that it was her duty to take the Valley Head school for the fall term. She did it; did it under protest, I fancy; but that mattered not so long as my end was subserved. Not to make a mystery of it here, I was determined to set her free, le gally, and it was a strong point in her case to have her resident within rifleshot of her husband's camp and ignored by him. There was but one plea which could be set up and sus tained against Wykamp. but the evi dence of that was not lacking. Nan no longer went about her work with a laugh and a gibe for all comers. She hid herself, as is the wont of such stricken creatures. Now that it is all over, T willingly confess that 1 had serious doubts as to my ability to persuade Winifred to appear in court in her own behalf; doubts which would have been con victions had I known her half so well as I thought 1 did. For her the in ccjiip.ctc marriage was a bouil not to be set aside by an}' decree of court, and I oufj'ht to have known it from the beginning. Bad as lie was Wy kamp was still her husband, and I did her an injustice by daring to hope that his added sin would make her forget it. It was in the latter part of Septem ber that the (ilenlivat dam was com pleted, and the great canal with its laterals was ready to receive the water. The "turning on"was set for the first day of October, and there was to be some fitting celebration of the event. A rude barrack for the accommodation of the invited guests had been built on the slope below the engineer's camp, and there was to be a stockholders' special train from Denver, and a barbecue, and after ward a brass band auction sale of some of the choicer tracts of the company's land. [To Be Continued.] OLD NEW ENGLAND TAVERNS. (•utlirriiiKß In Them in Former Dnyi llsul (irent Influence in I'ublie Even In. At the first meeting of the Bostonian society for the season, George Leslie Nichols read a paper on "Old Taverns," which, it appears, had an important ef fect on the development of New Eng land, says the Boston Transcript. In ante-revolutionary days the tavern was"the center of events and the cen ter of alarm." John Adams writes somewhere of putting up for a night in a tavern at Shrewsbury, where the political discussion of the farmers over their pipes and bowls amazed him in its penetration and comprehensive ness. "American independence is close at hand," was the great pat riot's con clusion after pondering over tavern dis courses. In old tavern days rum, or "killdevil," as it was known at the time, was the almost universal New Englftnd drink. One old New Englander, however, wrote from Philadelphia: "Whisky is used here instead of rum, but I can't see but it is just as good." An ancient Massachusetts statute forbade the sell ing of rum to drunkards, and an official was in attendance at the tavern to de termine when a man had drunk enough. As early as 10i!2 two gallons were con fiscated from a Boston tavern keeper for a violation of this law, and sold by the deacons for the benefit of the poor. In the early colonial days the sale of strong water was forbidden to the In dians, but a later generation decided "that it was not fitting to deprive the Indians of any lawful comfort," and re pealed the statute. A RESTRICTED DIET. Kveentrlt l Olil-Tlnie London I'hy- Mlfian Who Did \ot Prp.Hcribe lor lliiunelf. A famous and eccentric physician of London, who flourished 130 years ago, was a stout advocate of a re stricted diet. He held that one meal it day was enough for anyone, and he practiced what he preached. But that meal! A chronicler of the time, re lates the Boston Advertiser, said of it: "For over 20 years Dr. Fordyce dined daily at Dolly's chop-house, near Paternoster row. At four o'clock he entered and took his seat at a table always reserved for him. A silver tankard full of strong ale, a bottle of port wine and a measure containing a quarter of a pint of brandy were in stantly placed before liiin. "The moment the waiter announced him the cook put a pound and a half of rump steak on the gridiron, and on the table some delicate trifle as a bonne bouclie to serve until the steak was ready. This morsel was some times half a broiled chicken, some times a plate of fish. When he had eaten this the doctor took one glass of brandy, and then proceeded to de vour his steak. "When he had finished his meat he took the remainder of his brandy. (Tie drank the ale during his dinner.) He then took his bottle of port. He thus spent daily an hour and a half, and then returned to his house in Es sex street to Rive his six o'clock lec ture on chemistry. He made no other meal until his return next daj- at four o'clock to Dolly's." !S T « lli lid rn nop, Harold, aged 20, had just returned from a trip to the mountains, having 1 been out of reach of the barbers for a period of about six weeks. He brought back with him, there fore, a perceptible streak of down across his upper lip. "Well, Puss," he said, as his ten year-old sister met him at the door. "T suppose you won't kiss me this time." "Why not?" she asked. "Because I've raised a mustache." "Huh!" said Puss, putting up her mouth, "when I want to kiss anybody do you think a little thing like that is going to stop me?"— Chicago Trib une. IlcftectlonN of n llsichclor. The man who doesn't fail isn't al ways a success by a long shot. Any sensible woman would rather win an argument than be rig-lit. We win to try again and lose; we lose to try again for the same thing. The difference between men and women who lie is that the women don't mean to; the men do. A slide down-hill seems ten times as swift and fast when you are on it as when the other fellow is. When women are going to have a club meeting to debate an important question their first preparation for it concerns the lunch and floral dec orations.— N, Y. Press. Make Kuril Oflirr Tlrc«l. The man who talks without thinking and the man who thinks without talk ing are apt to make each other tired. —Chicago Daily News. SPEED AND STOP CHECK. AN II»K;€*II lorn* Device Tlint Help* O v<»rl>ll rilcntl Truck HOIMCN JIIMI Tlieir OunerN, An ingenious little device that is proving' a boon to overburdened horses and is bringing woe to many a careless, dilatory or brutal driver is to be seen nowadays on the delivery wagons of many big mercantile houses, breweries and truekingcompanies. Jn these days of sharp competition and good wages it is essential to the success of large business enterprises that the greatest possible service be obtained from inen and horses alike, but wise employers, who take pride in their handsome de livery animals and pay tidy sums for ANTI-CRUELTY DEVICE. (Designed to Give Relief to Overburdened Truck Horses.) stanch horseflesh, find no economy in overworking their draught animals. But try as they would,the managers of many businessconcernshaving 50 or 100 or more horses found it almost an im possibility to place the responsibility for abuses until the "speed and stop check," or indicator, of which there are several patterns, came into the market to aid the work of the li'rgh society, delivery superintendents and stable bosses. Now, if Fritz or Patrick stops at his favorite saloon to play a game of pinochle with his cronies and then com pels his horses to make up the lost time afterward, it is all indicated on the "speed and stop check," modelled after I the fashion of the cyclometer of bi j cycle fame. The indie itor is about the shape of an ordinary alarm clock, with a face about five inches across and di ! vided by minute and hotlr lines. A j clock hand moves continuously, but I another dial is so arranged that it J records only while the wagon moves, stamping each quarter mile as it is wheeled off. The indicator is attached to a rear wheel, and if a driver stops the time hand goes on, but the distance marker does not. With the number of miles traveled, the time consumed and the stops all indicated, it is easy for the employer to tell at a glance if his horses have been overdriven and if the driver lias been attending to duty promptly. MISS VIVIAN SARTORIS. Gramlilitiiicliter of Gen. V. S. Grant Hn» lJeelded to Hot ire from the Soelnl World. Miss Vivian Sartoris, of Washing ton, I). the beautiful graHildaugh -1 ter of Gen. U. S. Grant, has decided i to retire completely from the social \ world and devote herself to an ar ! tistie and musical career. .Miss Sar j toris at present is in Paris, spending 12 hours a day in fitting herself for j the examination to the Ecole des j Beaux Arts. MisA Vivian is the elder |of the two daughters of Algernon ! and Mrs. Sartoris, her mother being j the only daughter of (ien. Grant, j She was one of the most beautiful j and attractive girls of Washington I society, and rumors of her engage m MISS VIVIAN SARTORIS. (Will Devote Her Life to Artistic and Musical Pursuits.) ment or marriage have been fre quent. In a recent letter to her mother Miss Sartoris explains that she be lieved herself in love with Mr. Bah four, but as the time of the wedding approached she discovered her unfit ness to assume the responsibilities of matrimony. Mrs. Sartoris tells her friends she does not think her elder daughter will ever marry. None of her relatives is surprised at the announcement of her absolute withdrawal from society and devot ing her brilliant talents to art and music. A few of her friends believe that she will essay an operatic ca reer. but her entrance to this Kcole des Beaux Arts would indicate that her ambition is to become a painter or sculptor. M omnil with n llriKht Idea. An Alton (111.) woman has started a crusade against men who will not work and support their families. She wants an ordinance passed requiring such men to be arrested and put at work on the rock pile with wages. The money she would turn over to the families for their support. A DEAL IN ISLANDS. Uncle Sam Has Made a Very (*00(1 Bargain. thkdamsii westixijies W ere at One Time Offered to Us for $ 15,000,000. PRICE IS NOW $5,000,000. -» Tlie Throe Inlands arc or Mm li Strat egic Importune?, llolli Iroin a Mili tary and Commercial Viewpoint- A Senate Committee'* Keport. Washington, Feb. B.—The recent favorable report by the senate com mittee on foreign relations of the treaty for the cession of the islands of the Danish West Indies was ac companied by a written statement made by that committee to the sen ate. This report contains a diagram showing the location of the three islands and the positions relative to Porto Uico and gives numerous in teresting facts relative to the islands. It shows that during the year 1900 the islands exported to the United States sugar, molasses and distilled spirits amounting to $568,945, and that during the same period the exporta tion from the United States amount ed to $624,524. The annexation of the islands was sought by the United States years ago and as far back as 1867 Denmark declined to sell the islands for $5,000,- 000, but made a proposition to part with them for $15,000,000. Secretary Reward offered $7,500,000, which was declined. He afterwards agreed to pay that amount for the islands of St. Thomas and St. John, but the trade fell through because of compli cations which arose. At that time Denmark insisted that the consent of the people of the islands should be given before the sale should be con summated, and when the vote was taken there were only 2:! out of a total of over 1,200 ballots against the. cession. When the treaty was re turned to the United States senate it was tied up there for two years and ultimately failed of ratification. Continuing, the report says: These islands, together with Porto Kico, are of great importance in a strategic way, whether the strategy be mili tary or commercial. St. Thomas is the natural point of call for all Euro pean trade bound to the West Indies, Central America, or northern South America. These islands, together with l'orto Kico, form the northeast ern corner of the Caribbean sea and are of great importance in connec tion with the American isthmus, where a canal will be constructed be tween the Atlantic and the Pacific. They are of first importance in con nection with our relations to the region of the Orinoco and the Ama zon and with our control (if the Windward Passage. In view of the isthmian canal and European settlements in South Amer ica every additional acquisition by the United States is of value. Porto Kico is densely populated. Its roads are poor. It has a long coast line without ports for large vessels. It is consequently very difficult of defense. San Juan is the only harbor capable of fortifications and this is only suit able for vessels of light draft. Explaining the provision in thv treaty for continuing the pensions to retired local functionaries it is stated that the total amount re quired annually for this purpose will not exceed $2,000. An t'lilfjiic Will, Chicago, Feb. B.—ln the will of Mor ris Keiman, filed in the probate court here Friday, appears the following: "To the Roston Investment Co., of Boston, Mass., for the purpose of dis tributing Robert C. Ingersoll's lec tures among Christians in order to civilize them, 1 give $1,000." The will leaves to the Hebrew Benevolent as sociation of New Orleans, a cotton plantation of 1,760 acres in Yazoo county. Miss., with the proviso that the association bury the testator's body on the plantation. The remain der of the estate, which was valued at $120,000, is left to the decedent's family. .Tinnier ami Suicide. Great, Falls, Mont., Feb. B.—Frank Fennel, a hostler in the employ of Dr. F. <!• Adams, shot and killed Annie Johnson, a domestic in the same family, and then sent a bullet, into his own brain, from the effects of which he died a short time later. The murderer fired five shots into his victim's head. No cause is assigned for the desperate deed, except that Fennel and the woman had a quar rel over some trifling affair. Sewer Pipe I'lant Humeri. Bed Wing, Minn., Feb. 8. —The T Wing Sewer Pipe Co.'s plant was stroyed by fire last night, entailii. loss of from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO, w< insurance of $50,000. The loss id tides valuable machinery, pattei and dies. ICliflit Damage Suits. New York, Feb. B. Eight actions for damages, amounting in the ag gregate to $185,000, for injuries re ceived in the wreck in the New York Central railroad tunnel in this city on January 8 were commenced Fri tlay in the supreme court at White Plains. I'rexirienl'* Soil I* Sick. (Washington, Feb. B.—Mrs. Roose velt, the wife of the president, left Washington Friday afternoon for liroton, 'Mass., where their sou, Theo ilore, jr., is lying seriously ill of pneumonia.
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