jfc\ A FOOL Idf FOR, LOVE By FRANCIS LYNDE -J Authoj o( ' 'The Grafters," Etc. j. 112 (Copyright, l'JOa, by J. p. L'.ppiucott Co.) CHAPTER Vll.—Continued. She turned upon him quickly. "Was it an accident, Mr. Jastrow?" "How could it be anything else?" ■he inquired, mildly. "I don't know. But there was an explosion; 1 heard it. Surely l.'ncle •Somerville wouldn't—" The secretary shook his head. "No; I think you may exonerate Mr. Darrah, personally; in fact I am quite «ure you may." "But someone planned it. You knew it was going to happen—you were out here watching for it." "Was I?" The secretary's smile was •a mere baring of the teeth. His blood was the sycophantic lymph which •flows in the veins of those who do murder at a great man's nod. "It is horribly unfair," she went on. "I understand the sheriff is here. ■Couldn't he have prevented this?" Jastrow's reply was an evasion. "Oh, it's all legal enough. That bare place up there is a placer claim. Sup posing the owners found it necessary •to putin a few sticks of dynamite to loosen the frozen ground. It is Mr. Winton's misfortune if his railroad happens to be in the way, don't you think?" "But it was planned beforehand, and you knew of it," she insisted. Her •eyes were Hashing, and the so.-retary's •desire for possession warmed into «omething like admiration. "Did I?" "Yes, you did." "It would le impolite to contradict you." "It is more impolite not to answer •my question. Couldn't the sheriff have prevented it?" "Supposing he didn't want to pre vent it? Supposing he brought the men who did it over on his train last night?" "Then I say agair. it is horribly un fair." The rejoinder was a platitude: "Everything is fair in love •or war." "But thi3 is neither." she retorted. "Think not?" he said, coolly. "Wait and you'll see. And a word in your ear, Miss Carteret: you are one of us, you know, and you mustn't be dis loyal. I know what you did yesterday after you read those telegrams." Virginia's face became suddenly wooden. Until that moment it had not occurred to her that Jastrow's mo tive In showing her the two telegrams •might have been carefully calculated. "I have never given you the right to speak to me that way, Mr. Jas •st.ro w," she said, with the faintest pos sible emphasis on the courtesy prefix; and with that she turned from him to focus her field glass on the con struction camp below. At the Utah stronghold nil was ac tivity of the fiercest. Winton had raced back with his newj of the catas trophe, and the camp was alive with !nen clustering like bees and swarm ing upon the Hat cars of the material train to be taken to the front. While she looked, studiously ignor ing the man behind her, Virginia saw •■the bis octopod engine come clamor ing up tiie grade, shoving the fiats be fore it, losing itself quickly in the •doubling of the gulch loop to reappear presently on the scene of the disaster. tn a twinkling the men were off and At work, and the l'rosty morning air rang with the battle shout of labor triumphant—or meaning to be. Virginia's color rose and the brown ryes fillet! swiftly. One part of her ideal —her masculine ideal —was cour age cf tiie sort that rises the higher for reverses. So the prompt counter • strokf filled her with joy, and at tiie moment. Winton was as near gaining a partisan as the ltajah was to losing •one. In the open compartment of the Rosemary the waiter was laying the plates for the early breakfast, and Bessie and the Reverenu William were -fit the window, watching the stirring industry battle now in full swing on the opposite slope. Virginia joined them. "Isn't it a shame!" she said. "Of course, i want our side to win; but it seems such a pity that we can't tight fairly." The flaxen-haired cousin looked her <*ctire lack of understanding, and Cal vert said; "Isn't what a shame?' thereby eliciting a crisp explanation from Virgin! in which she set well founded suspicion in the light of fact toucning the cause of the landsl.de. The Reverend Billy shook his head, ft was his metier to deprecate vio lence, and he did it. • "Such things may be within the law —of business; but they will surely •breed bad blood and leat to reprisals. I hope—" The interruption was the Rajah in h!a proper person, bustling out fierce ly to a conference with his myrml -dons. By tacit consent the three at the window fell silent. There was battle and murder and sudden death 'in tho Rajah's eye. The event for which they waited did mot linger. There was a hasty muster ting of armed men under the windows of the Rosemary, and they heard iShcrlff Deckert's low voiced instruc tions to his nosse. ♦ "Tales It siow and easy, boys, and don't get rattled. It's the majt-.j or the law against a mob, and the Micks won't fight when it comes to a show down. Keep in line with the car as long as you can. There ain't going to be a shot fired from up yonder so long as there's a chance of hitting t.13 ear instead of you. Now, then; guns to tho front! Steady!" The Reverend Biily rose, and the veins in his forehead stood out like whip cords. "What are you going to do?" said Virginia. She was standing, too, and her hand, trembling a little, was cn his arm. Tho clerical meekness in the ath lete's reply was conspicuous by its ab sence. "I'm going to give Winton a tip if it's the last thing I ever do. They'll rush him like a rat in a corner!" She shook her head and pointed eastward to the mouth of the lateral gulch. Under cover of a clump of fir scrub a man in a wicie-flapped hat and leather breeches was climbing swift ly to the level of the new line, cau tiously waving a handkerchief as a peace token. "That is the man who arrested Mr. Winton yesterday. This time he is going to fight on the other side. He'll carry the warning." "Think so?" said Calvert. "I am sure of it. Open the window, please. I want to see better." As jet there: was 110 sign of prepara tion on the embankment. For the moment the arms of the track force were laid aside, and every man w.3 plying pick or shovel as if his life de pended on the amount of earth he could add to the re-forming dump in a given number of minutes. Winton was in the thick of the pick and-shovel melee, urging it on, whoa Biggin ran up. "Hi!" he shouted. "Fixin' to take another play-day in Carbonate? Lookee down yonder!" Winton looked and came alive to 5 - ' NNl:i ■■■Mi^.J^HSZ 7/ I y ¥^.,^lfo^'^"~ in/ J^S^ £> • *~ " >.C-" " • ' ! "COME DOWN!" 118 BELLOWKD. the possibilities in the turning of a leaf. "Guns!" he yelled; and at the word of command the tools were flung aside, and the track force, over 200 strong, became an army, not with banners, but well-weaponed withal. Winton snapped out his orders like a martinet major of drill squads. "Alulcahy, take half the men and go up the grade till you can rake those fellows without hitting the car. Branagan, you take the other half and go down along till you can cross-fire with Muleahy. Aim low, both of you; and the man who fires before he gets the word from me will break his neck at a rope's end. Fall in!" "By Jove!" said Adams. "Are you going to resist? That spells telony, doesn't It?" Winton pointed to the waiting octo pod. "I'm going to order the 215 down out of way; you may go with her if you like." "I guess not!" quoth the teehnoio gian, calmly lighting a fresh cigar ette. And then to the water boy, who was acting quartermaster, "Give me a rifle and a cartridge belt, Chunky, and I'll stay here with the boss." "And where do I come in?" said Biggin, reproachfully. "You'll stay out, if your head's level. You've done enough now to send you to Canyon City, if anybody cares to take it up. Heavens and earth, man! Do you forget that you are a sworn officer of the law?" "I ain't, a-forgettin' nothing," sr-d I'eter, cheerfully, casting Himself fiat behind a heap of earth on the dump edge and sighting one s jtinn of hi:; hip battery over the breastwork. Winton pounced upon him, gasping. "Here, you fire-eater! you mustn't shoot!" he protested. "It's only a long bluff, an:l I'm going to rulso the limit so those fellows can't coma in. There are laaies in that car!" "You play your bluftin' hand and leinmo alone," said the ex-cow Joy. "I'm CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1906. I jest goin' to have a little fun with old Bart Deckert wuile the suu'a a-shin ln'." It was at (his moment, whilo the sheriff's posse was picking its way gingerly over the loose rock and earth j dam formed oy the landslide, that the window went up in the Rosemary and | Winton saw Virginia. Without mean ing to, she gave him bis battle-word. While she looked on he would fight to win, and that without violence. "We are a dozen Winchesters to your one, Mr. Deckert, and we shall resist force with force. Order your men back or there will bs trouble." Winton stood out on tho edge of tha cutting, a solitary figure where a few minutes before the earth had been flying from a hundred shovels. The sheriff's reply was an order, but not for retreat. "He's one of the men we want; cover him!" he commanded; and Vir } ginia caught her breath. Was she to j see him shot down before her eyes? j Happily the tragedy was only poten ' tial. Unless the public occasion ap ! peals strongly to the sympathies or 1 the passions, a picked-up sheriff's I posse is not likely to have very good j metal in it. Winton was covered by three or four of the guns, pointed awk wardly, ana Peter Biggin laughed. I "Don't be no ways nervous," he said |in an aside to Winton. "Them profes ; sional veniry chumps couldn't hit tho side o' Pacific Peak." Winton held his ground, wailing the turn of events and looking .on, not without interest, while the sheriff tried to drive h.s men up a bare slone commanded by 200 rifles to right and left. The attempt wa . a humiliating failure. Being something less than soldiers trained to do or die, the depu ties hung back to a man, hugging t:ie backgrounding shelter of the Rose • mary as if they were shackled to tho ' private car by invisible chains. Virginia, Si.ar.ding a„ tho open win- doxv and trembling with excitement, could not forbear a smile. It was too much for the sheriff, the added straw, and his exhortation to his foot-pocso burst into caustic profanity. Where upon Mr. Peter Biggin rose up in his place, took careless aim, and sent a builct to plow a little furrow in tho ice and frozen snow within an inch of jueckert's h?els. "I£x-cuse me, Bart," he drawled, "but no cuss words don't go in this here highly morii show. They pains us extreme." Under ordinary circumstances the sheriff would have replied to Mr. Big gin's salutaaou In ldnd. As it was. he ignored Peter Biggin as a person who could ,■argued with at leisura anil turned his attention to Winton. "Come down!" he bellowed. Winton lav.;, bed. The tide had turned, and he knew it. "Let me return the invitation. Coma up, and you may read your warrants to us all dav." The crisis was past. Decker! with drew lik? men, ami at Winton's signal the track layers came in and the earth began to fly again. Virginia sighed her-relief, and Bes sie plucked up courage togo to the window, which she had deserted in the moment of impending battle. "Oh-h-h! I wish l.'nc'e Somervlllo would lake us away!" she gtsped. "Can't you peusuade him, Virginia?" "I'll try," said Virginia, gravely, foreseeing future tragi;: situations too terrifying to be witnessed. "Breakfast is served," announced tho waiter as calmly as if the morning meal were the only matter of conse quent e in a world of happenings. They gathered about the. table, a silent tri.i made presently a quartette by tln-' advent of Mrs. Carteret, who, from having her stateroom on the peaceful side oi the Rosemary, had neither se?n nor heard anything of tho warlike episode with which tha Ufcy had begun. tTO EIC CONTINUED,) SEVEN KILLED In a Railroad Accident Near Lynchburg, Va. SAiVSUtL SPENCER, President of the Southern Railroad Co., and Six Other Men Were Hurled Into Eternity. Lynchburg, Va. —Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Rail way Co., and recognized as one of the foremost men in the development of the southern states, and six other persons were killed Thursday morning in a rear-end collision between two fast, passenger trains ten miles south of Lynchburg and a mile north of Lawyers depot. Philip Schuyler, a re tired capitalist, of New York, was among the killed, together with other guests of Mr. Spencer. Only Mr. Spencer's private secretary, E. A. Mer rill, of New York, and one of the three porters survive the accident. The dead: Samuel Spencer, New York City. Charles D. Fisher, of Baltimore. Philip Schuyler, of New York City. Francis T. Redwood, of Baltimore. D. W. Davis, of Alexandria, Va., private dispatcher to President Spen cer. William Pollard, negro porter on President. Spencer's car, who died in a hospital hero. An unknown person, whose head and limbo are burned off short, who is believed to be the third porter on the private car, who is missing. His name cannot be learned. Mr. Spencer's destination was Friendship, N. C., where he was going ' 1 112 miming trip with Messrs. Schuy ler, Fisher, Redwocd and Merrill as his guests. Ten persons, seven of whom are ne groes, were badly injured. It is be lieved all will recover. The collision was between the Jack sonville express and the Washington and Southwestern vestibule limited, both southbound. President Spencer and his entire party, as far as is known, were sleeping when the colli sion occurred, and the probabilities are that all of them excepting Dis patcher Davis were killed instantly. It is certain that life was extinct before the flames touched them. President Spencer's body was burned almost be yond recognition, as was that of Mr. I'isher. The body of Mr. Schuyler was taken from under the train before it was burned very much, having been singed only slightly. President Spen cer's car was attached to the rear of the Jacksonville train, which was standing still when struck. President Spencer was lying direct ly under the big locomotive of the rear j train. So great was the force or the ' impact that the train was sent 150 feet j ahead, the locomotive going over and I upon the body of Mr. Spencer. Until ' after the debris burned itself out and the engine cooled off the bodies could not be removed. The i.ipact drove th« combination car forward and the express car lifted up, together with its trucks, and crushed the car for 40 feet, leaving the remainder of the cars with tons of baggage and colored passengers, who were pushed back like rats as the ex press car crushed the combination car. The combination car did not leave tho track and in clearing the track the ex proSa car was hauled to a siding a ftiile distant on top of the combination car. How the negro passengers in this compartment, which is known as the ".lim Crow" part of the train, escaped, none of them being killed, is beyond explanation. Several cases were reported in which persons ransacked the wrecked cars for plunder. Some of the passen gers are said to have participated in this and a large amount of valuables were obtained. F. M. Curtis, of Jamestown, N. Y., who was a passenger on the Jackson ville train, saw one negro porter go through a lady's grip. He saw him throw away such things us were of 110 value to him and appropriate those things that he wanted. Mr. Curtis de clared he would have killed the porter if he had had something to do it. with. New York. —Samuel Spencer, presi dent of the Southern Railway Co., who was killed in the wreck near Lynchburg, was a resident or Wash ington, but his business headquarters were in this city. Be was one of the most prominent railroad men of the United. States and for nearly 20 vear3 had been at the head of one or more great railroad enterprises. Mr. Spen cer was president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. ri 1837 and 1888 and later was appointed receiver for the Richmond & Danville Railroad Co. and for the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Co. He was a mem ber of the rapid transit commission of this city from lS9i to 12? i. He wa:; 59 years old. Philip Schnvler. who lost his life,in the wreck, was a member of one of the oldest and best known New York fami lies. S'.vect Marie Is Sold for $ 14,000. New York. Sweet Marie, ti ; famous tratti-g mare witli a rec ord of 2:02. was sold at tho Old Glory horse rale i:t Madison Snuara Garden Thursday, for $14,000. George M. Webb, manager for I?. T. Stotesbury, a Philadelphia banker, was tho pur chaser. Pclicsman Kill?d a Wedding Guant. Chicago. !li. —John Jania, n gnost nt a Polish wedding in the rear of Mrs. Frank Kominaki's oaloor.. va; shot and '.rilled by a policeman in a row Thursday. LAND FRAUD INQUIRY. A Special Agent of the Government I Tells of Efforts Made by Prominent Men to Induce Him to Cease Work Salt Lake City, Utah. —Reports that, a federal grand jury, which has been investigating coal land frauds, has voted several indictments cannot be confirmed. According to the report, the indictments will not be returned until after the close of the investigation conducted by Edward K. Clark, inter-state commerce commis sioner. E. M. Allison, attorney for the Rio Grande system, in arguments before Commissioner Clark, has charg ed thlit. most of the testimony brought out was for the purpose of influencing public opinion against persons who might be indicted by the grand jury. Testimony was given by Michael A. Myendorff. a special agent of the gov ernment who began an investigation of the coal land frauds in Utah, and who before he had completed his in vestigation was transferred to Los An geles and then to Portland. Mr. Myen dorff presented an affidavit in which he told of efforts made by influential men to induce him to cease his investi : gation of the coal land frauds. He j named Senators Warren and Clark, of Woming, Commissioner Richards, of the general land office, and Geor&e F. Pollock, chief of Department B, in terior department, Washington. Myendorff alleged that in Denver Senator Warren told him he ought not togo after the Union Pacific and incur the enmity of that company. He charged that the land department at Washington had suppressed evidence procured by him. in two charges which he filed against Robert Forrest er, geologist of the Utah Fuel Co., he alleged, no action was taken. The witness further alleged that George F. Pollock, chief of Depart ment R, interior department, instruct ed Uim to destroy four affidavits which lie had procured against the Union Pacific Coal Co. Myendorff's affidavit goes at length into the methods of the coal companies in procuring coal lands by entries through dummies who transferred their rights to tho corpor ations. Myendorff's affidavit alleges that on one occasion 77 men were taken into offices in the Union station at Denver, before W. I. Gifford, agent of the Union Pacific, and signed their names to powers of attorney, relin quishments and affidavits which were used to acquire title to coal lands in Wyoming. Some of these men, it is assorted, signed fictitious names. The men who signed received $4 each for their trouble. WAS WIPED OFF THE EARTH. A Factory for the Manufacture of an Exlosive Is Destroyed—Two Dozen People Killedand Hundreds Injured Berlin.—A "roburit" factory near Witten, Westphalia, exploded Tuesday evening and was wiped from the face j of tho earth. So far as can be ascertained 24 per sons were kiiled, 90 were dangerously wounded and several hundred were slightly injured ae a result of the ex plosion Wednesday night of the ro burit factory near Annen. All the windows in the adjacent town of Annen were destroyed by the concussion and many houses were un roofed. No house escaped injury. The inhabitants of the immediate neighbor hood fled and are expecting another explosion in the vaults of the factory. Robufit is an explosive of high power, composed of saltpetre, am monia, sulphur and other ingredients. It Is not. easily exploded by a blow and it can be burned with safety in the open air. Its power is second to that of dynamite. OIL COMPANY IS INDICTED. The Federal Grand Jury at St. Louis Finds True Bills Against the Waters- Pierce Co. for Rebating. St. Louis. The federal grand jury on Wednesday returned two indictment.3, with a total Of 72 counts, against the Waters-Pierce Oil Co., charging the company with hav ing accepted rebates and discriminat ed in legal freight rates on shipments of oil *n violation of the inter-state commerce law and the Elkins act. If convicted on all counts in the in dictments the aggregate maxium pen alties that may be collected is sl,-140,- 000. It is charged in the indictments that the Waters-Pierce Co. is a subsidiary corporation of the Standard Oil Com pany of New Jersey. Under the provision.-, of the federal laws each shipment of a car load of oil at less than the legal rate is a separ ate offense and punishable by the Elkins law by not less than SI,OOO or more than $20,000 fine. Wealthy Woman Seeks a Divorce. Cleveland. O.—Miles F. Cornell has disappeared. So has several thousand dollars ijelonging to his wife, Ellen M. Cornell, a widow of 05 whom he married at Elyria two years ago. "Ho was an adventurer," she says now. A year after tho wedding Cor nell left, she says, in an affidavit filed Wednesday by Mrs. Cornell she asks that, a divorce case which she has brought be advanced for immediate hearing. Fight Ended in a Drasv. Los Angeles, Cal. —Before the Pacific Athletic club of this city "Phil adelphia Jack" O'Brien and Tommy Burns met last, night in a 20-round contest for the championship of tho world. The fight was decided a draw it tho end of 20 rounds. Ten Lives Lost in Fire. St. Louis.—Tho lighthouse hotel, a three-story structure used as a Salvation Army barrrcks, was dam aged by fire early Wednesday when 500 homeless men worn lodg :1 within Ton lost their live 3. I DIRECTIONS FOR TEA OOSEY. j Useful and Ornamental Adjunct to th# Table. • Take four pieces of any dull colored silk measuring eight and one-half inches at the base, the half inch al lowing for turnings, and cut into a dome shape 13 inches high. Work the front and back pieces, with a Japanese inscription in gold' thread, but the lettering must be pad ded (bat the gold will be very much raised when worked over. Cut tile inside pieces the same shape, but an inch or so longer, to al low for a thick wadding lining. Pad each inside and outside piece. Insert a thick piece of cord to an inch in depth along the bottom to give the cosey the required firmness when standing. The inside wadding is caught to the lining by occasional stitches. After the four pieces are lined and wadded, they must be sewn together and the joins hidden by a fiat si 11c cord, half an inch wider, which goe» around the bottom and finishes at th» top with four flat and one upstand loops. To Cure Feathers. Collect as soon as possible after the plucking of the fowl. Pick out the iurge feathers and place the rest in a large pair of stout paper bags, and heat for several hours in the oven. I During this time they should be fre | quently stirred and shaken. The heat destroys the egg 3of insects and drives off the oily matter. It also stiff ens (he feathers, rendering them more elastic. When thoroughly cured by heat they should be cleansed as fol lows: Mix one pound quicklime with a gallon of water. When the lime is precipitated in a fine powder, pour off I the clear lime water. Put the feath j ers in a tub and cover with the lime I water to the depth of several inches. I When thoroughly wet the feathers will sink down and should then be left j in soak for three or four days. Rinse I in several clean waters, spread on a i sieve to drain between washings and ' rinsings, then dry in mosquito netting i bags in the sun. If one raises their own fowls, or buys their poultry alive they can easily keep themselves sup plied with feathers for the many sofa | pillows which are now in such de mand as indispensable adjuncts to our comfort. Two Ways to Cook Eggplant. Stuffed with Nuts—Boil the egg plant till tender; then cut into halves, scoop out the inside, chop it fine and add a cup of English walnuts or hick ory nuts, a tablesponful of bread crumbs, two well beaten eggs, salt and pepper. Mix well, fill the shell and; bake until brown. With Cheese—Pare the eggplant and cut in thin slices; sprinkle with salt, and pile, with a weight on top. After an hour wash the slices in cold water and wipe dry; then dip into beaten eggs and crumbs and fry brown. Make a very large cup of white sauce, and put a layer of it into baking dish, then a layer of eggplant, then one of grated cheese, then sauce again, and so on. When the dish is lull put crumbs and cheese on top and brown in the oven. Meringrc for Lemon Pie. Allow twice as many level table spoonfuls of sugar as there are whites of eggs, and as many whites of eggs as are conveniently at hand . Two whites will do, but three are better, and foui will be required, if the last of the meringue mixture be put on with pas try bag and tube. Beat the whites until dry, then gradually beat in half the sugar. Continue beating until the mixture is very glossy and firm, thei> "cut and fold" into it the last half of the sugar.. Let the pie cool a little before the meringue is spread over it. Set the pie in a moderate oven, to cook the meringue. After ten min utes longer if the meringue is very high, increase the heat, if necessary, to color the meringue slightly. How to Make Bread Dressing. ' To a quart of freshly grated bread crumbs add a teaspoonful of salt, d saltsponful of pepper and teaspoonful of powdered sage (or other preferred sweet herbs). Bring two-thirds of cupful of milk almost to a boil, add two-thirds cupful of butter, take from the stove and stir until butter is melt ed, add two eggs beaten well, with a tablespoonful of water and pour mix ture over the bread crumbs. When thoroughly mixed put into the poultry, allowing ample room for swelling. To Clean Chamois Skin. Put six teaspoonfuls of household ammonia into a bowl with a quart of Tepid water. Soak the chamois in this for one hour. Wi>rl: it about with a spoon, pressing out as much as possible of the dirt. Then lift into a basin of tepid water and wash with the hands. Rinse well, and dry in the shade; then rub between tho hand 3 to soften. Arrf*wroot Biscuits. Sift together two cupfu'is of arrow root and OIK: cupful of flour. Rub two thirds of a cupful of butter <nto the Hour and stir in gradually sutticient milk to make a stiff dough. Roll ouf into a thick theet, boat again, repeat ihis process for five minutes. Roll out the last time aljout an inch thick, cut with a round cutter, bnush with egg, and bake in a moderate oven. Steainad Molasses Pudding. One cup molasses, one cup sweet milk, one cup chopped raisins, half cup butter, one teaspoon of all kinds of !j;:ice, one teaspoon, of soda, one of salt, throj cups flour. Steam three and one-half hours. Serve with sauce. If a small pudding ia desired, half of this may be used. T!;l» 1B U reei pa. 3
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