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>1 A FOOL \d
FOR. LOVE
By FRANCIS LYNDE
Author of"The Grafters," Etc.
(Copyright, 1906, by J. P. IJpplncott Co.)
CHAPTER lll.—Continued.
"Why, my dear Virginia—the idea!
flfou don't know in the least what you
•re talking about. I have been read
ing in the papers about these rlght-of
jvay troubles, and they are perfectly
terrible. One report said they were
»rinlng the laboring men, and another
■aid the militia might have to be called
®ut"
"Well, what of it?" said Virginia,
jrith all the hardihood of youth and
•nknowledge. "It's something like a
burning building; one doesn't want to
be hard-hearted and rejoice over other
j>eople's misfortunes; but then, if it
tias to burn, one would like to be
there to see."
Miss Bessie put a stray lock of the
Gaxen hair up under its proper comb.
"I'm sure I prefer California ana the
orange groves and peace," she asserted.
♦Don't you, Cousin Billy?"
What Mr. Calvert would have replied
Is no matter for this history, since at
this precise moment the rajah came
In, "coruscating," as Virginia put it,
from his late encounter with the su
perintendent's chief clerk.
"Give them the word togo, Jastrow,
and let'a get out of heah," he com
manded. And when the secretary had
Vanished the Rajah made his explana
tions to ail and sundry. "I've been
obliged in a manneh to change ouh
itinerary. Anotheh company is trying
to fault us up in Qua'tz Creek canyon,
and I am in a meashuh compelled to
be oa the ground. We shall be delayed
only a few days, I hope; at the worst
only until the first snowstorm comes;
and, in the meantime, Callfo'nla won't
run away."
Virginia linked arms with Bessie the
flaxen-haired when the wheels began
to turn.
"We are off," she said. "Let's go out
on the platform and see the last of
Denver."
It was while they were clinging to
the hand-rail and looking back upon
the jumble of railway activities out of
which they had just emerged that the
Rosemary, gaining headway, overtook
another moving train running smooth
ly on a track parallel to that upon
which the private car was speeding. It
was the narrow-gauge mountain con
nection of the Utah line, and Winton
and Adams were on the rear platform
of the last car. So It chanced that the
jlour of them were presently waving
!their adieux across the wind-blown in
terspace. In the midst of It, or rather
•at the moment when the Rosemary,
gathering speed as the lighter of the
two trains, forged ahead, the Rajah
came out to light his cigar.
He took in the little tableau of the
tear platforms at a glance, and when
the slower train was left behind asked
a question of Virginia.
"Ah —wasn't one of those two the
young gentleman who called on you
yestehday afternoon, my deah?"
Virginia admitted It
"Could you faveh me with his
tame?"
"He Is Mr. Morton P. Adams, of Bos
ton."
t "Ah-h; and his friend —the young
gentleman who laid his hand to ouh
Klow and put the engine on the track
ist night?"
"He Is Mr. Winton—a— an artist, I
jfcelieve; at least, that is what I gath
ered from what Mr. Adams said of
jklm."
| Mr. Somerville Darrah laughed, a
Wlovr litle iaugh deep in his throat.
"Bless your innocent soul —he a pic
lehuh-painteh? Not in a thousand
yeahs, my deah Virginia. He is a rail
road man, and a right good one at that.
iFaveh me with the name again; Win
teh, did you say?"
i "No; Winton—Mr. John Winton."
"D-d-devil!" gritted the Rajah, smit
ing the hand-rail with his clenched fist.
"Hah! I beg your pahdon, my deahs —
a meah slip of the tongue." And then,
to the full as savagely, "By heaven, 1
(hope that train will fly the track and
ditch him before ever he comes within
ordering distance of the work in
Qua'tz Creek canyon!"
"Why, Uncle Somerville—how vin
dictive!" cried Virginia. "Who is he,
and what has he done?"
"He is Misteh John Winton, as you
Informed me just now; one of the
brainiest constructing engineers in this
entiah country, and the hardest man in
this or any otheh country to down in
a right-of-way fight—that's who he is.
And it's not what he's done, my deah
it's what he is going to do.
If I caa't get him killed up out of ouh
way,—" but here Mr. Darrah saw the
growing terror in two pairs of eyes,
and realizing that he was committing
himself before an unsympathetic au
dience. beat a hasty retreat to his
stronghold at the other end of the
Rosemary.
"Well!" said the flaxen-haired Bes
sie, catcheing her breath. But Vir
ginia laughed.
"I'm glad I'm not Mr. W T inton," she
said.
CHAPTER IV.
Morning In the highest highlands of
the Rockies, a morning clear, cold aad
tense, with a bell-like quality in the
Srosty air to make the cracking of a
snow-laden fir bough resound like a
pistol shot. For Denver and the dwell
ers on the eastern plain the sun 1b an
hour high; but the hamlet mining
ramp of Argentine, with its dovecote
railway station and two-pronged sid
ing, still lies in the steel blue depths
of the canyon shadow.
In a scanty widening of the main
canyon a few hundred yards below the
station a graders' camp of rude slab
shelters is turning out its horde of
wild-looking Italians; and on a
crooked spur track fronting the shan
ties blue wood smoke is curling lazily
upward from the kitchen car of a con
struction train.
All night long the Kosemary, drawn
by the speediest of mountain-climbing
locomotives, had stormed onward and
upward from the valley of the Grand,
through black defiles and around the
shrugged shoulders of the mighty
peaks to find a resting-place in the
white-robed dawn on the siding at Ar
gentine. The lightest of sleepers, Vir
ginia had awakened when the special
was passing through Carbonate; and
drawing the berth curtain she had lain
for hours watching the solemn proces
sion of cliffs and peaks wheeling in
stalely and orderly array against the
ky background of sky. Now, in the
.«teel-blue dawn, she was—or thought
she was—the first member of the par
ty to dress and steal out upon the
railed platform to look abroad upon
the wondrous scene in the canyon.
But her reverie, trance-like in is
wordless enthusiasm, was presently
broken by a voice behind her—the
voice, namely, of Mr. Arthur Jastrow.
"What a howling wilderness, to be
sure, isn't it?" said the secretary,
twirling his eye-glasses by the cord
and looking, as he felt, interminably
bored.
"No, indeed; anything but that,"
she retorted, warmly. "It is grander
than anything I ever imagined. I wish
there were a piano in the car. It
makes me fairly ache to set it In some
form of expression, and music is the
only form I know."
"I'm glad it it doesn't bore you," he
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READING THE WARRANT.
rejoined, willing to agree with her for
the sake of prolonging the interview.
"But to me it is nothing more than a
dreary wilderness, as I say; a barren,
rock-ribbed gulch affording an indif
ferent right-of-way for two railroads."
"For one," she corrected, in a quick
upflash of loyalty for her kin.
The secretary shifted his gaze from
the mountains to the maiden and
smiled. She was exceedingly good to
look upon—high-bred, queenly and
Just now with the fine fire of enthu
siasm to quicken her pulses and to
send the rare flush to neck and cheek.
Jastrow, the cold-eyed, the business
automaton set togo off with a click at
Mr. Somerville Darrah's touch, had
ambitions not automatic. Some day
he meant to put the world of business
under foot as a conqueror, standing
triumphant on the apex of that pyra
mid of success which the Mr. Somer
ville Darrahs were so successfully up
rearing. When that day should come,
there would need to be an establish
ment, a menage, a queen for the king
dom of success. Slimming her up for
the hundredth time since the begin
ning of the westward flight, he thought
Miss Carteret would fill the require
ments passing well.
But this was a divagation, and he
pulled himself back to the askings of
the moment, agreeing with her again
without reference to his private con
victions.
"For one, I should have said," he
amended. "We mean to have It that
way, though an unprejudiced onlooker
might be foolish enough to say that
there is a pretty good present pros
pect of two."
But Miss Carteret was in a contra
dictory inood. Moreover, she was a
woman, and the way to a woman's
confidence does not lie through the
neutral country of easy compliance.
"If you won't take the other side, I
will," she said. "There will be two."
Jastrow acquiesced a second time.
"I shouldn't wonder. Our compet
itor's road seems to be only a ques
tion of time—a very short time, judg
ing from the number of men turning
out in the track gang down yonder."
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER i, 1906.
Virginia leaned over tlie railing to
look past the car and the dovecote sta
tion, shading her eyes to shut out th*
snow-blink from the sun-fired peaks.
"Why, they are soldiers!" she ex
claimed. "At least, some of them have
guns on their shoulders. And see—
they are forming In line!"
The secretary adjusted his eye
glasses.
"By Jove! you are right; they have
armed the track force. The new chief
of construction doesn't mean to take
any chances of being shaken loose bT
force. Here they come."
The end of track of the new line
was diagonally across the creek from
the Rosemary's berth and a short
pistol shot farther down stream. But
to advance it to a point opposite the
private car, and to gain the altitude of
the high embankment directly across
from the station, the new line turned
short out of the main canyon at the
mouth of the Intersecting gorge, de
scribing a long, U-shaped curve around
the head of the lateral ravine and
doubling back upon itself to reenter
the canyon proper at the higher ele
vation.
The curve which was the beginning
of this U-shaped loop was the morn
ing's scene of action, and the Utah
track layers, 200 strong, moved to the
front in orderly array, with armed
guards as flankers for the hand-car
load of rails which the men were push- j
ing up the grade.
Jastrow darted into the car, and a
moment later his place on the observa
tion platform was taken by a wrath- \
ful industry colonel fresh from his :
dressing-room—so fresh, indeed, that
he was coatless, hatless, and collarless,
and with the dripping bath sponge
clutched like a missile to hurl at the
impudent invaders on the opposite side
of the canyon.
"Hah! wouldn't wait until a man
could get into his clothesl" he rasped,
apostraphizing the Utah's new chief
of construction. "Jastrow! Faveh me
instantly, seh! Hustle up to the camp
there and turn out the constable, town
marshal, or whatever be is. Tell him
I have a writ for him to servo. HUB,
seh!"
The secretary appeared and disap
peared like a marionette when tho
string has been jerked by a vigorous
hand, and Virginia smiled—this with
out prejudice to a very acute appre
ciation of the grave possibilities which
were preparing themselves. But hav
ing her share of the militant quality
which made her uncle what he is, she
stood her ground.
"Aren't you afraid you will take cold.
Uncle Somerville?" she asked, archly;
and the Rajah came suddenly to a
sense of his incompleteness and went
into finish his ablutions against th'o
opening of the battle actual.
At first Virginia thought she would
follow him. When Mercury Jastrow
should return with the officer of the
law there would be trouble of some
sort, and the woman in her shrank
from the witnessing of it. But at the
same instant the blood of the fighting
Carterets asserted itself and she re
solved to stay.
"I wonder what uncle hopes to bo
able to do?" she mused. "Will a little
town constable with a bit of signed
paper from some justice of the peace
be mighty enough to stop all that fu
rious activity over there? It's more
than incredible."
From that she fell to watching the
activity and the orderly purpose of it
A length of steel, with men clustering
like bees upon it, would slide from it*
place on the hand-car to fall with a
frosty clang on the cross ties. In
stantly the hammermen would pounce
upon it. One would fall upon hands
and knees to "sight" it into place; two
others would slide the squeaking track
gauge along its inner edge; a quar
tette, working like the component
parts of a faultless mechanism, would
tap the fixing spikes into the wood;
and then at a signal a dozen of the
heavy pointed hammers swung aloft
and a rhythmic volley of resounding
bloVvs clamped the rail into perma
nence on its wooden bed.
(TO BE CONTJUNUEJOJ
THE PERISCOPE.
Description of the Eye of the Sub
marine.
The submarine, as a practical mech
anism of war, would be unusable with
out some means by which its com
mander may see what is going on
around and above it. This is fur
nished at present by the periscope,
Which A. Sauvalre Jourdan, a retired
Submarine with Periscope.
officer of the French navy, writing in
La Nature, and translated for Literary
Digest, calls with some justification,
"the eye of the submarine." Writes
Mr. Jourdan:
"In principle, the periscope is com
posed of a tube of small diameter
placed vertically on the upper part
of the submarine. Its lower end pen
etrates into the boat, while its up
per end rises above the water by a
few inches.
"It works by one of the simplest op
tical devices —the use of mirrors. A
mirror in the upper end of the tube,
inclined to 45 degrees to the horizon
tal, receives the images of objects on
the water and sends them vertically
downward to a second parallel mirror
at the lower end of the tube, within
the submarine. ...
"Though every maritime nation has
adopted for Its submarines an instru
ment based on this theory, some, as in
our own case, have an excellent one,
while others have been retarded in the
utilization of submarines by the in
sufficiency and ineffectiveness of their
optical devices. . . .
"Without betraying military se
crets, we may give a few details re
garding the installation of the peri
scope on French submarines, which
will make their working a little
clearer.
"In the first place, the mirrors,
epoken of above, are replaced by
prisms. The arc of the horizon cov
ered by the upper prism is about 90
degrees. The periscope has two
tubes, a short one, fixed in the hull
. . . and a movable one which slides
in it. The latter is pushed up above
the surface, or withdrawn below it,
at will.
"The tube is moved up and down by
a screw, a counterweight, or even by
a little electric motor, as in our
latest models. The upper prism is
fixed in the movable tube, the lower
one in the stationary tube. Certain
imaginary pictures that have recently
been published show the images . . .
thrown on a horizontal table under
the eyes of the commanding officer.
This is an error. The observer places
his eye at a single or double eye-
IMPROVED POTATO KNIFE.
At One Operation the Potato Is Cut
Into Eight Pieces.
It has been surmised that invent
ors had reached the limit in the im-
New Potato Kni'e.
provement of household ipventions,
but this does not s.oem to be the case.
Inventors still arc on the lookout for
some device that will prove a house
hold necessity, as they realize it will
command a ready market.
As an example, an lowa man has
patented a kuife for cu ting potatoes
that does eight times the work of the
ordinary knife. Instead of requiring*
eight cuts to divide the potato into
pieces it is all done at one operation.
The illustration plainly show« the
construction of the knife, no descrip
tion being necessary. Six small blades
and one center blade, attached to a
handle, are all that is required. One
stab at a potato divides it into eight
pieces. In hotels, restaurants, etc.,
where thousands of potatoes are cut
up each day, this knife would save
considerable labor and time.
New Pen Metal.
An American patent has been
grranted for making peqs of tantalum
or its alloys. 1
piece, through which be sees the
ocean and objects upon it exactly as
his comrade does with his field glass
on the deck of a battleship.
"When it is necessary to examins
the horizon in another than the for
ward direction . . . the observer
grasps two handles on the movable
tube and turns it in the desired di
rection. . . . The quality of the vision
is pronounced excellent by the com
manding officers of all our submarines.
The images are sharp and clear, and
may be compared with those of a
good field glass."
In case of rough water, the author
goes onto say, the drops easily run
from the inclined surface of the up
per prism, and the latter may be
cleared at any time by pulling it un-
der water, and then pushing it up
quickly. He goes on:
"Thus the periscope is the eye of
the submarine, without which it would
be absolutely unusable. But this in
dispensable organ i*» also the sole
means by which the presence of the
submarine is revealed. The tube,
small though it be, leaves a wake be
hind it, which is apt to attract the at
tention of those who are watching for
the attack.
"This is an evil without a remedy,
but its gravity need not be exag
gerated. What can be done by a ship
that discerns this slight object at
short distance? To destroy it by gun
fire would be difficult in so brief a
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Design of Periscope: 1, 1, Mirrors;
2-2, Tube; 3, Surface of Sea; 4, Ship
on Horizon; 5, Its Image in Interior of
Submarine.
j time, and the destruction of the per
| iscope would leave the submarine un
harmed. . . .
"Besides this, nothing is easier than
to have a second periscope for use in
: case the first is destroyed; and this
has actually been done in our latest
I submarines.
"We may imagine the nervous strain
' of the officers and crews of a war
! ship who fear an attack of submarines,
i All floating objects, the slightest
debris, bottles, fishermen's buoys, will
. be suspected of being periscopes, and
| a hail of projectiles will be directed
! ->n the most inoffensive objects, while
the real enemy may pass unnoticed.
. . . Probably the submarines will en
courage these mistakes by scattering
about them all sorts of floating ob
jects, in the midst of which their
periscopes will have a good chance of
escaping notice."
A LAMP OF SCIENCE.
Important Use Discovered for the
Mercury Vapoc Lamp.
An important use has been found
for the Cooper Hewitt mercury vapor
lamp in scientific investigation. In
optical experiments in the laboratory
it is often important to liavo at com
mand a monochromatic light. For
merly the mercury arc light was em
ployed for this purpose, but after be
ing used for a short time, the effi
ciency of this source of light seriously
falls off. It has been found, however,
says Youth's Companion, that the
Cooper Hewitt lamp gives the same
monochromatic light, with very fine
rays, so that it is admirably suited
for the study of interference phe
nomena, and it possesses the great
advantage of being steady arid trust
worthy in its output. Moreover, be
ing a commercial apparatus, it is
o
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Mercury Vapor Lamp.
easily obtained, and can be used at a
comparatively small expense.
A New Word.
French aeronautic authorities have
given the name "aeronef," or aviation
apparatus, to a flying machine that
is heavier than the air. The varieties
include: (1) the helicopter, sus
tained and driven by one or several
propellers; (2) the aeroplane, chiefly
sustained by one or more flat oi
curved surfaces, and (3) the orthop
ter or mechanical bird, sustained and
propelled by beating wings.
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Lengest and Oldest Tunnel.
The near completion of the Pena
■ylvanla tunnel reminds the American
Israelite of the oldest known tnnnel
In the world, that of Shiloah, near Je
rusalem. It was used as aa acque
duct. The famous inscription dis
covered a few years ago, celebrates
the first meeting of the diggers from
both sides. Newspapers 414 not ap
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cannot he exactly dated, but U. most
probably took place under King Hexe
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| Instead of two on postal cards intend
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| Instead of writing postal cards, they
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j with sending their effusions in an en
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I as to bring the weight of the letter to
[ the maximum of 250 grams. As the
I envelopes they now use are of the
I maximum size tolerated it Is easy to
J obstruct a letter box with only a doz
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thorities are alarmed at this obstruc
tion of the postal service, and it is
i probable that the former tariff of two
pfennigs on postal cards will have to
be reestablished.
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