6 , - %| AFOOL id' I FOR. LOVE I By PRANCIS LYNDE J Author ot "The Grafters," Etc. (Copyright, I'JU.I, by J. t". LlppincottCo.) CHAPTER IX—Continued. But another member of the Rose mary group had more courage —or fewer scruples. When Miss Carteret fet herself out of the rear door, Jastrow disappeared in the opposite direction, passing through the for ward vestibule and dropping catlike from the step to inch his way silent ly over the treacherous snow-crust to « convenient spying place at the other end of the car. Unfortunately for the spying pur pose, the shades were drawn behind the two great windows and the glass door, but the starlight sufficed to show *fee watcher a shadowy Miss Virginia motionless on the side which Ura.ve her an outlook down the canyon, ! leaning out, it might be, to anticipate j th« npcoming of some one from the /construction camp below. "Th«» secretary, shivering in the j "knifelJke wind slipping down from j the bald peaks, had not long to wait. | By the time his eyes were fitted to the darkness he heard a man coming ! the track, the snow crunching frostily under his steady stride, Jastrow ducked under the platform and gained a view point on the other side of the car. The crunching foot falls had ceased, and a man was j swinging himself up to the forward isfep of the Rosemary. At the instant i n voice just above the spy's head | called softly: "Mr. Winton!" and the newcomer dropped back into the snow ; and came tramping to the rear. The secretary saw him take her iiasxJ and heard her exclamation, half j indignant, wholly reproachful: "You had my note. I told you not ! ttj r-ome!" "So you did, and yet you were ex- j muting me," he asserted. He was still j footing her hand, and she could not j —our <3id not —withdraw it. "Was I, indeed!" There was a trifjek of the old-time raillery in the j vwords, but it was gone when she j added: "Oh, why will you keep on \ coming and coming when you know j «/r well what it means to you and yomr work?" "I think you know the answer to j that better than anyone," here- I finned, his voice matching hers for : earnestness. "It is because I love j you; because I couid not stay away 1/ 5 should try. Forgive me, dear; j t did not mean to speak so soon. But j said in your note that you t/ould j &e leaving Argentine immediately— j that I should not see you again; so> I hsid to come. Won't you give me a ; u»tsed, Virginia?—a waiting word, if i it must be that?" Jastrow held his breath, hope dying within him and sullen ferocity crouch ing for the spring if her answer [ should sic it on. But when she spoke i the secretary's anger cooled and he breathed again. "No; a thousand times, No," she j burst out passionately; and Winton | ■staggered as if the suddenly freed | band had dealt him a blow. CHAPTER X. For a little time after Virginia's (Tawtaionate rejection of him Winton Wood abashed and confounded. Weighed in the balances of the after thought, bis sudden and unpremedi tated declaration could plead little ex owe in encouragement. And yet she j bstA been exceedingly kind to him. j **l have no right to expect a better *SBwor," he said, finally, when he <-r»»ld trust himself to speak. "But I i a® tike other men; I should like to lorttyar why." "Yc.u can ask that?" she retorted'. "Yon fay you have no right. What Have you done to expect a better an swer?" He shrugged. "Nothing, I suppose. But you knew that before." "I only know what you have shown me during the past three weeks, and It has proved that you are what Mr. Adams said you were—though he was only jesting." "And that is?" "A faineant, a dilettante; a man with all the God-given ability to do jes he will and to succeed, and yet who ■aifft not take the trouble to perse vere." Winton smiled, a grim little smile. Tou are not quite like any other woman I have ever known —not like any other in the world, I believe. Ytrar sisters, most of them, would take 6t as the slncerest homage that a man s&ould neglect his work for his love. Eto you care so much for success, then?" "Kor the thing Itself —nothing, less Jthan nothing. But —but one may care tittle for the man who wins or Hoses.** He tried to take her hand again, tried and failed. "Virginia!—is that my word of Jhope ?" "No. Will you never see the com fOTonjtUce effrontery of it, Mr. Win itom? Day Liter day you have come 1 'jere, idling away the precious hours Ighat meant everything to you, and ucrw you come once again to offer me « nhars in what you have lost. Is that jfovsr Idea of chivalry, of true man hood?" A&tUi the grim smile came and went. "An unprejudiced onlooker might say that you have made me very wel come." "Mr. Winton! Is that generous?" "No; perhaps It is hardly just. Be cause I counted the cost and have paid the price open-eyed. You may remember that I told you that first evening I should come as often as I dared. I knew 4hen, what I have known all along; that it was a part of your uncle's plan to delay my work." "His and mine, you moan; only you are too kind—or not quite bravo enough—to say so." "Yours? —never! If I could believe you capable of such a thing—" "You may believe it," she broke iD. "It was I who suggested it." He drew a deep breath, and she heard his teeth come together with a click. It was enough to try the faith of the loyalest lover. It tried his sorely. Yet he scarcely needed her low-voiced: "Don't you despise me as I deserve, now?" to make him love her the more. "Indeed, I don't. Resentment and love can hardly find room in the same heart at the same time, and I have said that I love you," he rejoined quickly. She went silent at that, and when she spoke again the listening Jastrow tuned his ear afresh to lose no word. "As I have confessed, I suggested It. It was just after I had seen your men and the hheriff's ready to fly at each other's throats. I was miserably afraid, and I asked Uncle Somerville if he could not make terms with you in some other way. I didn't mean—" He made haste to help her. "Please don't try to defend your mo tive to me; it is wholly unnecessary. It is more than enough for me to know that you were anxious about my safety." But she would not let him have the crumb of comfort undisputed. "There were other lives involved besides yours. I didn't say I was spe cially afraid for you, did I?" "No, but you meant it. And I thought afterwards that*l should have given you a hint in some way, though the way didn't offer at the time. There was no danger of bloodshed. I knew —we all knew —that Deckert "Ah, Well, It's Only One More Fool for Love." wouldn't goto extremities witß the small l'orca lie hatl." "Then it was only a—a —" "A bluff," he said, supplying the word. "If I had believed there was the slightest possibility of a fight, I should have made my men take to the woods rather than let you witness it." "You shouldn't have let me waste my sympathy," she protested, re proachfully. "I'm sorry; truly, I am. And you have been wasting it in another direc tion as well. To-night will see the sliale-slide conquered definitely, I hope, and three other days of good weather will send us into Carbonate yards." She broke in upon him with a lit tle cry of impatient despair. "That shows how unwary you have been! Tell me: Is there not a lit tle valley just above here —an open place where your railroad and Uncle Somerville's run side by side?" "Yes, it is a mile thi3 side of the i canyon head. What about it?" "How long is it since you have been up there?" she queried. | Winton stopped to think. "I don't know —a week, possibly." "Yet if you had not been coming here every evening, you or Mr. Adams would have found time to go—to watch every possible chance of inter ference, wouldn't you?" "Perhaps. That was one of the risks I took, a part of the price-paying I spoke of. If anything had happened, I should still be unrepentant." "Something has happened. While you have been taking things for grant ed, Uncle Somerville has been at work day and night. He has built a track right across yours in that little val ley, and thero is a train of cars or something, filled with armed men, kept standing there all the time!" Winton gave a low whistle. Then he laughed mirthlessly. "You are quite sure of this? There is no possibility of your being mis taken?" "None at all. And I can only de fend myself by saying that I didn't know about it until a few minutes ago. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1907. needn't tell me. I am not worthy o* your confidence." "You are; you have just proved it. But there isn't anything to be done. The next thing in order is the exit of one John Winton in disgrace. That spur track and engine means a cross ing fight which can be prolonged in definitely with due vigilance on the part of Mr. Darrah's mercenaries. I'm smashed. Miss Carteret, carefully and permanently. Ah, well, it's only one more tool for love. Hadn't we better go in? You'll take cold stand ing out here." She drew herself up and put her hands behind her. "Is that the way you take it, Mr. Winton?" The acid laugh came again. "Would you have me tear a passion to tatters? My ancestors were not French." Trying as the moment was, she could not miss her opportunity. "How can you tell when you don't know your grandfather's middle name?" she said, half crying. Ifis lauglr at this was less acrid. "Adams again? My grandfather had no middle name. But I mustn't keep you out here In the cold talking genealogies." His hand was on the door to open it for her. Like a flash she came be tween, and her fingers closed over his on the doorknob. "Wait," she said. "Have I done all this—humbled myself into the very dust —to no purpose?" "Not if you will give me the one priceless word I am thirsting for." "Oh, how shameless you are!" she cried. "Will nothing serve to arouse tho better part of you?" "There is no better part of any man than his love for a woman. You have aroused that." "Then prove it by going and build ing your railroad, Mr. Winton. When you have done that —" He caught at the word as a drown ing man catches at a straw. "When I have won the fight—Vir ginia, let me see your eyes—when I have won, I may come back to you?" "I like men who do things. Good night." And before he could reply she had made him open the door for What is to be done? —but stop; you her, and he was left alone on the square railed platform. In the gathering-room of the private car Virginia found an atmosphere sur charged with electrical possibilities, felt it and inhaled it, though theri was nothing visible to indicate it. The Rajah was buried in the depth!) of his particular easy-chair, puffin?, his cigar; Bessie had the Reverend Billy in the tete-a-tete contrivance; and Mrs. Carteret was reading undot the Pintseh drop-light ac the table. It was the chaperon who applied tin* firing spark to the electrical possibili ties. "Didn't I hear you talking to sonM one out on the platform, Virginia?' she asked. "Yes, it was Mr. Winton. He cant to make his excuses." Mr. Somerviile Darrah awoke oul of his tobacco reverie with a start. "Hah!" he said, fiercely. Then, In his most courteous phrase: "Did 1 undehstand you to say that Mlsteb Winton would not faveh us to-night, my deah Virginia?" "He could not. He has come upon —upon some other difficulty, I be lieve," she stammered, steering a peril ous course among the rocks of equivo cation. "Mmph!" said the Rajah, rising "Ah —where is Jastrow?" The obsequious one appeared, imp like, at the mention of his name, and received a curt, order. "Go and find Engineer MeGrath and his fireman. Tell him I want the en I gine instantly. Move, seh!" Virginia retreated to her stateroom. In a few minutes she heard her uncle go out; and shortly afterwards the Rosemary's engine shook itself fret of the car and rumbled away west ward. At that, Virginia went back to the others and found a book. Bui if waiting Inactive were difficult, read ! ing was blankly impossible. "Goodness!" she exclaimed. "How i hot you peopls keep it in here! I Cousin Billy, won't you take a tan 1 with me on the station platform? | can't breathe!" i (TO BE CONTINUED.) GATE WITH A WHEEL ON IT. j The Swinging of a Heavy Gate May Be Made Easy. Many times for various reasons it is necessary to have an extra long gate on the farm. Generally a wide gate is heavy and hard to handle in open ing and shutting. The sketch which I am sending you illustrates an easy way c*\ overcoming the difficulty of handlinjßK heavy gate, writes a cor respondent of Prairie Farmer. In attaching the wheel to the gate I first take a piece of 2x4 about three feet long and size one end down until it will enter the hub of an old cultl it* — Tin |w —IM. j IT JJLL— Wheel Attached to Heavy Gate. vator wheel. After the wheel is fast ened to the end of the 2x4 I fastea the latter to the gate by two or three strong bolts. Place the 2x4 and wheel Just high enough so the gate will clear the ground when swung to one side. .When the gate is shut the wheel stands between the end of the gate and the post, as shown in the cut. When a gate of this kind is arranged properly a child can open and shut it without difficulty. GOOD SOIL FOR CROPS. Some Comments By J. F. Wojta, of Gustavus Adolphus College. An ideal soil for the growth of crops should be one containing the property of being friable, loose and porous; one that detains a reasonable amount of moisture and heat; one that will allow itself to be worked over easily and of which drainage is good; one whose aeration or ventilation is good. To get such a soil we would recommend the following composition: 1. A certain amount of clay, enough to regulate the capacity of the soil for water and heat a3 well as mineral matter. 2. A certain amount of humus to supply nutrition and regulate capacity for moisture, heat and chemical ac tion. 3. A certain amount of sand to in crease capacity for drainage and till age. This would, in brief, furnish a good mixture of the various soils for such climate as is found In this middle northwest. TIMELY HINTS. Coach horses are rapidly increasing in prices notwithstanding manufac turers of automobiles are full of busi ness also. The Kaffir corn introduced for trial in the arid region in the southwest, where it has succeeded remarkably well, makes very excellent meal. It is a splendid time, these cold days, to sharpen up the saws, grind the axes and fill the box with kindling, j While you are at it, don't forget the I butcher knife, the shears your wife I uses and the chopping knife. A correspondent of the Rural New j Yorker tells that paper that a flock of ; seven sheep brought him in SIOO in a ! year. If a large flock can be made j profitable in that proportion, there should be no question about the ad vis < ability of keeping sheep. A common wire can be used I to remove tho rust from farm tools. If a finer finish is desired a bit of sand paper will answer the purpose. After this treatment apply some good metal paint. Thi3 will prolong the life of any iron or steel tool. There is a demand both for little pigs and for hogs. Therefore pork is not likely to decline in price in the near future. The conversion of a large part of the enormous corn crop into pork is sure to be profitable to all who engage in it. —Farm Journal. Fall Seeding of Alfalfa. The Pennsylvania experiment sta tion has gained much experience in fall and spring seeding of alfalfa, and says that the principal objection to spring sowing Is that weeds come up and choke out the young plants before they can get a good start. The fall seeded alfalfa on dry land was able to withstand the severe winter climate perfectly—in fact, better than the common red clover. Under average good conditions from 20 to 30 pounds of seed should be sown to the acie. Manure gave better results on Penn sylvania soil than uid commercial fer tilizer. Lime did not give satisfactory results. In some instances it gave no appreciable results, and in others it was decidedly harmful, but in no case was it applied to advantage. Deep, well-drained soils are the best for growing alfalfa. Husk in the Barn. When corn is to bo husked from the shock in cold weather, time may bo saved and comfort added by hauling part of it to the barn. Cold and stormy days may then be used to ad vantage in husking coru iu the barn THE SIZE OF FARMS. They Should Be Smaller Rather Than Larger For Best Results. The American farmer has always had before him the temptation to grasp a large amount of land. Thi3 is not surprising when we consider what his education has been. It has been seven or more generations since our ancestors settled in this country and during all of that time the de scendants of the old settlers have had the thirst for land bred into them. This was because in the beginning of the development of this country land was very easily obtained, and the most common way for men to enrich themselves was to get posses sion of large tracts of land. But to-day the new conditions are in conflict with the tendency to own land for the mere sense of owning it. Before a man buys more land he should first sit down and consider whether he can use that land, says Farmers' Review. He should also consider more carefully the question of whether he can not more fully use the land he has. To-day there are multitudes of families that are made miserable by the possession of too much land. A man known to the writer had 80 acres of land located within a few miles of a thriving town. He had only himself and wife to pro vide for, and he found it hard to get help even to take care of the 80 acres. But he had always owned a farm of from half to a square mile in area, and he was miserable on his little piece of 80 acres. His wife wanted to stay there, for she had been overworked on the big farm. But he insisted on selling the nice little farm, 1 and then moved to the city while waiting to get hold of a big farm. | What the country needs is a large ! number of well-tilled small farms. ! That means more Independent farm- I crs and fewer hired men. It means a solution of the hird help problem. It means more families in a township, and that too of families that own the : land 011 which they are located. Such make the best citizens in the world, i Such people thrill with the delights of ownership. They are a help to the ; communities. Their children do not j have to rush to the cities to make a living. More farms means better schools. It means more electric [ lines running here and there over the ' country; for the electric lines go | where populations are sufficiently 1 dense to insure them patronage. If the American farmer does not get ! down to this idea the foreigner will i take his land. The foreigner comes ; in from his little piece of land in Europe. He has been accustomed there to farm intensively a little piece lof territory. He takes a small piece here and is contented with it. He works, and his family work. They have no hired help problem. 1 hey soon own the land on which the i American farmer was lord, but on | which he had a mortgage. The thirst for mere ownership of land is a thirst I that can no longer bo gratified with | out the danger of losing even the land | necessary for the support of the farm ; er's family. ' " DURABLE WATER TROUGH. I ! How an Old Boiler May Be Given a New Lease of Life. A useful and durable watering trough can be made of a 30-gallon galvanized boiler such as used for holding hat water and connecting with ranges. The openings in each end are closed with plugs. The boiler Good Use for Second Hand Boiler. : is laid on its side on a suitable foun j dation, as shown in cut, says the Farm 1 and Home, and an opening cut length wise about 8 to 10 inches wide, 'ihe I edges arc turned smooth. Water can | be let into the trough at either end I or wherever desired and a shut off j can be screwed into the bottoui foi | a clepn cut. Manure and Corn. Experiments continuing for three years at the Indiana experiment sta j tion with barnyard manure a3 a ferti lizer for corn, showed that while three tons to the acre increased the yield 14.9 bushels per acre, six tons made an increase of but 1C.2 per acre. Thus the addition of the second three tons of barnyard manure estimated as hav ing a value of two dollars per ton as a fertilizer, or six dollars for the three tons, increased the yield only 1.3 bushels or about 65 cents in value. Tree Growth. Trees naturally grow where theie is moisture. In the fall leaves fall from the branches because they are not needed there any longer but are needed to protect the roots and retain the moisture in the soil you always find a rise around tho base of trees. The raise around the trees keeps the water away from the stein and also keeps the ground frozen and mice or worms are not attracted to winter there. Take Care of Plow. When through with tho plow, whether for the season or for a few days, always cover the share and moldboard thoroughly with linseed oil. An old brush or cloth, a very lit tle oil, and a minute's time, are all that you need to keep the plow free from rust. To remove when ready for work, use kerosene and rub vigorous iy. TORTURED WITH GRAVEL.' Since Using Doan's Kidney Pills Not a Single Stone Has Formed. Capt. S. L. Crute, Adjt. Wm. Watts Camp, U. C. V., Roanoke, Va., says: S"I suffered a long, long time with my back, and felt draggy and list less and tired all weight, 225, to 170. Urinary pas sages were too frequent and I have had to get up often at night. ' **" L *- 1 ' I had headaches and dizzy spells also, but my worst Buffering was from renal colic. After I began using JJoan's Kidney Pills I passed a gravel stone as big as a bean. Since then I have never had an attack of gravel, and have picked up to my former health and weight. I am a well man, and give Doan's Kid ney Pills credit for it." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Country youths sow wheat and raise corn, but some of their city cousins sow wild oats and raise Cain. PILES CURED IX O TO 14 DAH. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of itching. iiiind, Bleeding or I'rolruding I'ilea iu 0 lo 14 days or money refunded. f>Uc. Insist on Insularity. The people of Cornwall's coast ob ject to the Great Western Railway company applying foreign names to their climate and scenery. One adver tisement called a certain locality the "English Riviera," and a Cornishman at a meeting of protest the other night said Cornwall had "nothing to gain by being called after something in the south of France or a dirty lit tle Italian town." SIOO Reward, 5100. The readers of this paper will bo pleased to learn that there In at least one dreaded disease that scleuce lias been able to cure In all lli Hinges. aud that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the otiiy positive cure no*? known lo the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitu tional treatiaent. HaH's Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, actlUK directly upon tbe blood and mucous surfaces of tiio system, thereby destroying tho foundation of tho and giving the patient strength by building up tho constituiion uud ansUt ing nature In doing its work. The proprietors havo ■o much faith In lis curative powers that they oflfor One Hundred Dollar* for any case that It falls to cure. Send for lint of testimonials. Address F. J. CIIKNhV & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by ail Druggists. 7"» c. Take Hall's Family Pill., for constipation. Peru Claims Kuroki. Gen. Kuroki, the famous Japanese ■oldier, has been variously described as of Polish, Russian and German ex traction. Another intteresting chap ter has been added to this genealogical symposium by an official publication in the Official Gazette, of Lima, Peru, which makes the claim, and submits a plausible statement of facts to prove It, that Kuroki's father was a Peruvian patriot whose name was Transito Charroqui. It. is also declared that the general's father was a descendant of the Incas, who themselves are be lieved to have been descendants of an Asiatic race, so Kuroki is an atavism and has come into his own in the land of his fathers. ODELL OBEYED HIS FATHER. Emphatic Message That Broke Up Conference of Politicians. Four years ago, when ex-Gov. Odell, of New York, was coming up for a re nomination at the convention in Sara toga, there was a plan to put a man on the ticket with him for lieutenant gov ernor to whom Odell objected strongly. The governor's father, 88 years old, a deacon in the church and very strict in religious matters, was in Saratoga. There was a conference at one of the hotel cottages that lasted until late in the morning. The other lead ers were trying to force Odell to take the obnoxious man. About two o'clock Odell's father, who had hehrd what was going on. stalked angrily over to the cottage and rapped on the door. Frank Piatt, son of Senator Piatt, came to the door. "Well?" said Piatt sharply. "I want to see my son," demanded Odell. The governor came to the door. "What is it, father?" he asked. "Ben," said the old deacon, "tell them togo to !" "Yes, father," replied the governor obediently, and he went back and did just that. —Saturday Evening Post. PO3TUM CEREAL CO., LTD. Guarantee On Their Products. We warrant and guarantee that all packages of Postum Cereal, Grape- Nuis and Elijah's Manna hereafter sold by any jobber or retailer, comply with the provisions of the National Pure Food Law, and are not and shall not be adulterated or mis-branded within the meaning of said Act of Congress approved .lune 30, 1906, and entitled, "An act for preventing the manufac ture, sale or transportation of adul terated or mis-branded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, liquors, and for regulating traffic there in for other purposes." Post i*M Cereai. Co., Ltd. C. W. Post, Chairman, Battle Creek, Mich. ■Dec. 12, 1906. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of December, 1906. Bknmami.n" F. Reid, Notary Public. My commission expires July 1, 1907. Our goods are pure, they always have been and always will be, they are not mis-branded. We liave always since the beginning of our business, printed a truthful statement on the packages of the ingredients contained therein and we stand back o£ every package.
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