6 A FOOL \Gk FOR. LOVE I By FRANCIS LYNDE I J Author of"The Grafters." Etc. v (Copyright, I'JOS, by J. I*. LipplucottCo.) CHAPTER X—Continued. Calvert acquiesced eagerly, scenting possibilities. But when they were out tinder the frosty stars he had the good sense to walk her up and down in the healing silence and darkness (or five full minutes before he ven tured to say what was in his mind. When he spoke it was earnestly and to the purpose, not without eloquence. He loved her; had always loved her, he thought. Could she not, with time and the will to try, learn to love him? —not. as a cousin? She turned quickly and put both hands on his shoulders. "Ob Cousin Billy—don't!" she fal tered brokenly; and he, seeing at once that he had played the housebreaker where he would fain have been the welcome guest, took his punishment manfully, drawing her arm in his and walking her yet other turns up and ifown the long platform until his pa tience and the silence had wrought their perfect work. "Does it hurt much?" she asked, softly, after a long time. "You would have to change places with me to know just how much it hurts," lie answered. "And yet you haven't left me quite desolate, Vir ginia. I still have something left — till I've ever had, I fancy." "And that is-—" "My love for you, you know. It Isn't at all contingent upon yopr yes or no; or upon possession—it never has been, I think. It has never asked much except the right to be." She was silent for a moment. Then »he said: "Cousin Billy, I do believe tthal. you are the best m;tn that ever llve«S. And I am ashamed—ashamed!" "What for?" "if I have spoiled you. ever so lit tle, for some truer, worthier woman." "You haven't; you mustn't take that view of it. I am decently in love with my work —a work that not a few wise men have agreed could best be done alone. I don't think there will be any other woman. Yon see, there Is only one Virginia. Shall we go in now?" She nodded, but when they reached the Rosemary the returning engine was rattling upon the open siding. Virginia drew back. "I don't want to meet Uncle Somer vilk» just now," she confessed. "Can't we climb up to the observation plat form at the other end of the car?" He said yes, ami made the affirma tive good by lifting her in his arms over the high railing. Once safely on the car. she bade him leave her. She was shivering a little in the chill wind sliding down from the ■snow-peaks, yet she would not go in "until she had made sure. In a little time her patience was rewarded. The huge engine came storming tip the grade on the new line, pushing its three flat-cars, which were black with clinging men. On the car nearest the locomotive, where the dazzling Leant of the headlight pricked hint out for her, stood Winton, braced against the lurehings of the train over the tmeven track. "God speed you, my love!" she mur mured, softly; and when the gloom of th« upper canyon cleft had engulfed man and men and storming engine she turned togo in. She was groping for the doorknob in the darkness made thicker by the glare of the passing headlight when a voice, disembodied for the moment, aaid: "Wait a minute, Miss Carteret; I'd tike to have a word with you." She drew back quickly. "is it you, Mr. Jastrow? Let me go In, please." "Jn one moment. I have something to say to you—something you ought to hear." "Can't it be said 011 the other side of the door? I am cold—very cold, Mr. Jastrow." It was his saving hint, but he would not take it. "No, it must be said to you alone. We have at least one thing in com mon. Miss Carteret—you and I. That Is a. proper appreciation of the suc cessful realities. I—" She stopped him with a quick little gesture of impatience. "Will you be good enough to stand aside and let me go in?" The keen breath of the snow-caps ■was summer-warm in comparison with the chilling iciness of her manner; but the secretary went on unmoved; "Success is the only thing worth while in this world. Winton will fail, tout; I shan't. And when I do succeed, I shall marry a woman who can wear the purple becomingly." "I hope you may, I'm sure," she answered, wearily. "Yet you will ex «*U3f me if I say that I don't under stand how it concerns me, or why you should keep me out here in the cold .to tcV! me about it." "Don't you' It concerns you very nearly. You are the woman. Miss Carteret." "Indeed? And if I decline the honor?" The contingency was one for which the suitor seemed not entirely pre pared. Yet he evinced a willingness to meet the hypothesis in a spirit of «rfect candor. "YQM Tjeuldrj't dQ that, definitely, I fancy. It would he tantamount to driving me to extremities." "If you will tell me how Iran do it 'definitely,' I shall he most happy to drive you to extremities, or anywhere else out of my way," she said, frigidly. "Oh, I think not," lie rejoined. "You wouldn't want me togo and tell Mr. Darrah how you have betrayed him to Winton. I had the singular good fortune to overhear your con versation—yours and Wlnton's, you know; and if Mr. Darrah knew, he would cut you out of his will with very little compunction, don't you think? And, really, you mustn't throw yourself away on that Senti mental Tommy of an engineer, Miss Virginia. He'll never be able to give you the position you're fitted for." Since French was a dead language to Mr. Arthur Jastrow, he never knew what it was that Miss Carteret named him. But she left him in no doubt as to her immediate purpose. "If that be the case, we would bet ter go and find my uncle at once," she said in her softest tone; and before he could object she had led the way to the Rajah's working-den stateroom. Mr. Darrah was deep in one of the cipher telegrams when they entered, and he looked up to glare fiercely at one and then the other of the intrud ers. Virginia gave her persecutor no time to lodge his accusation. "Uncle Somerviile, Mr. Winton was here an hour ago, as you know, and I told him what you had done —what I had helped you do. Also, I seftt him about his business; which is, to win his railroad fight if he can. Mr. Jastrow overheard the conversation, purposely, and as he threatens to turn informer, I am saving him the trou ble. Perhaps I ought to add that he c?sered to hold his peace if I would promise to marry him." What the unlucky Jastrow might have said in liis own behalf is not to be here set down in peaceful black and white. With the final word of Virginia's explanation the fierce old master of men was up and clutching for the secretary's throat, and the working complement of the Rosemary suffered instant loss. \\T~J7S ' I i "GO!" "You'll spy upon a membeh of my family, will you, sell!" lie stormed. "Out with you, bag and baggage, befo' I lose my tempeh and forget what is due to this young lady you have In sulted, seh, with your infamous pro posals! Faveh me instantly, while you have a leg to run with! Go!" Jastrow disappeared; and when the door closed behind him Virginia faced her irato clan-chief bravely. "He was a spy, and he would have been a traitor —for a consideration, Uncle Somerville. But I am little bet ter. What will you do to me?" "So it was a case of the trappeh trapped, was it, my deah? I'm sor ry—right sorry. I might have known how it would be; a youngeh man would have known. But you have done no unpahdonable mischief. Mlsteh Winton would have found out for himself in a few hours at furthest, anil wo are ready for him now." "Oh, dear!" she said. "Then he will be beaten?" "Unquestionably. Faveh me by go ing to bed, my deah. Your roses will suffeb sadly for all this excitement, I l'eah. Good night." CHAPTER XI. It seemed to Virginia that she had but just fallen asleep when she was rudely awakened by the jar and grind of the Rosemary's wheels on snow covered rails. Drawing the curtain, she found that a new day was come, gray and misty white in the gusty swirl of a mountain snow-squall. Without disturbing the sleeping Bessie, she dressed quickly and slipped out to see what the early morning change of base portended. The com mon room was empty when she en tered it, but before she could cross to the door the Reverend Billy came in, stamping the snow from his feet. "What is it?" she asked, eagerly. "Are we off for California?" "No, it's some more of the war. Winton has outgeneraled us. During thg night he pushed his track up to CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1907 the disputed crossing, '•nishwT tha guarded engine, and ditched it." Virginia felt that she ought fo be decorously sorry for relationship's sake, but the effort ended in a little paean of Joy. "Hut Uncle Somervtlle—what will he do?" "He is with McGrath on the engine, getting himself —and us—to the front in a hurry, as you perceive." "Isn't it too late to stop Mr. Winton now?" "I don't know. From what I could overhear I gathered that the ditched engine is still in the way, that they are trying to roll it over into the creek. Bless me! McGrath is getttlng terribly reckless!" this as a spiteful lurch of the car flung them both across tho compartment. "Say Uncle Somerville," she amend ed. "Don't charge it to Mr. McGrath. Can't we go out on the platform?" "It's as much as your life is worth," he asserted, but he opened the door for her. The shrilling wheels were tracking around a curve into a seamy widening of the canyon. To the left, on the rails of the new line, the big decapod was heaving and grunting in the midst of an army of workmen swarm ing thick upon the overturned guard engine. "Goodness! It's like a battle!" she shuddered. As she spoke the Rose mary stopped with a jerk and Mc- Grath's fireman darted past to set tho spur-track switch. The points were snow-clogged, and the fireman wrestled with the lever, saying words. The delay was meas urable in heart-beats, but it sufficed. The big decapod coughed thrice like a mighty giant in a consumption; the clustering workmen scattered like chaff to a ringing shout of "Stand clear!" and the obstructing mass of iron and steel rolled, wallowing an',l hissing, into the stream. "Rails to the front! Hammermen!" yelled Winton; and the scattered forco rallied instantly. But now the wrestling fireman had thrown the switch, and at the Rajah's command the Rosemary shot, out oa the spur to lie thrust with loou'd brakes fairly into the breach left de fenseless by the ditched engine. With a mob-roar of wrath tho infuriated track-layers made a rush for the new obstruction. But Winton was befoi a them. "Hold on!" he shouted, bearing them back with outflung arms. "Hold on, men, for God's sake! There aro women in that car!" The wrathful wave broke and ed died murmurous while a square-shoul dered old man with fierce eyes and huge white mustaches, and with an extinct cigar between his teeth, clam bered down from the Rosemary's en gine to say: "Hah! a rat.heh close connection, eh, Misteh Winton? Faveh me with a match, if you please, seh. May I assume that you won't tumble my pri vate car into the ditch?" Winton was white-hot, but he found a light for the Rajah's cigar, easing his mind only as he might with Vir ginia looking 011. "I shall be more considerate of the safety of the ladies than you seem to be, Mr. Darrali," he retorted. "You are taking long chances in this game, sir." The Rajah's laugh rumbled deep in his throat. "Not so veliy much longer than you have been taking during the past fo'tnight, my deah seh. But neveh mind; all's fair in love or war, and we appeah to be having a little of both up heah in Qua'tz creek, hah?" Winton flushed angrily. It was no light tiling to be mocked before his men. to say nothing of Miss Carteret standing within arm's reach on the railed platform of the Rosemary. "Perhaps I shall give you back that word before we are through, Mr. Dar rali," he snapped. Then to the eddy ing mob-wave: "Tools up, hoys. Wo camp here for breakfast. Flanagan, send the 215 down for the cook's out fit." (TO HE CONTINUED.) VENTILATING A STABLE. How It Can Be Done Without Draft and Cold. To provide ventilation for a stable In a very cold climate it is well to have double windows. Make a wide frame and put one sash near the outer edge, and the other near the inner edge, leaving a dead air space eight to ten inches wide between the two. This arrangement will effectually bar out the cold and keep the warmth from passing out, for there is no more effective barrier for such pur- LOFT * " -■* 1 ■ 1 j j J P-l ,4 .L. £ H. Fla.L Diagram of Ventilator. poses than perfectly dead air. The> windows must be tightly fitted so as to prevent circulation of the air. Putin about three of these double windows on each side and two on each end. Putin the same number of fresh air intakes, six inches in diameter, after the manner shown in Fig 1, and furnish each with a damper or cap 60 that it may be closed, or partly iLU" ~p \t ' <* o 1/ Flue for Foul Air. closed when the wind blows too fierce ly from any quarter. For removing the cold and foul air, says Montreal Herald, locate a flue where it will be least in the way. Build it in one corner, as shown in Fig. 2, by enclosing 22 inches on each side and making an opening 20 inches wide and same in height. Make this flue practically air tight, just as one would build a chimney and let it ex tend well above the highest part of the roof. HOME GROWN FEEDS. What Will Prove the Most Economical in Feeding the Cow. The most economical feeds that I have been able to find for feeding dairy cows include corn, rye, peas, bran, clover hay and corn stover, writes a farmer in Farm and Home. The quantity will depend upon the size of the cow and should vary ac cording to the amount of milk pro duced. For tho average cow, weighing around 1,000 pounds, and giving from two and one-half to three gallons milk per day, I find the following to be about the right amount for a dairy ration: Four pounds corn, three-fourths pound bran, 10-15 pound cow peas, 5-10 pound clover hay and all the corn stover that they will eat. Whenver I do not have the cow peas, I increase the amount of clover and add one to one and one-half-pounds cottonseed meal. I think cow peas one of the best and most economical feeds for dairy cows that we have. The cows like them better than any other dry feed, and they are rich in protein. I always try to raise enough peas to feed my cows a small amount dur ing the winter. The only feeds 1 buy are bran and cottonseed meal. My cows are fed in stalls and mangers similar to the Board's dairy stall, which is very satisfactory. In feeding, I think it best to be reg ular both as to quantity and time of feeding. Any increase or lessening of feed should be done gradua'ly. THE DAIRY. Sunshine will make the stables sweet. It is the cow that counts, not the name of the breed. A thorough dairy cow milks close up to calving. She hangs on far bet ter than the "scrub." This is the case where the well-bred makes only half the loaf. —Rural New Yorker. You can't rub rust off your cans, pails and pans. Better got new milk things just as soon as they begin to show signs of rust. Don't, let tho cows nor the young stock start to lose flesh this month. The one-cow dairy arrived long ago and a mighty handy institution it is* The one-cow sHo has not yet reached the one-cow dairy, but it is on the way. The man who looks on a cow as a machine and treats her as he would a machine, will get from her ground-out results, and nothing tnoii'. —Farui and Home. Some men can't even do their duty without making a fuss about it. TO CI'KE A COLD IN ON K DAY Talin LAXATIVE llllOMOQulDineTablets. IJrnff gls'i retuml money if il fails to euro. i£. VV liKUVK ri biKuatoro is on eacti box. 25c, New York Philanthropist. Dr. Adelaide Wallerstein, rich, young and handsome, has turned part of her elegant New York home into a physician's office. Here she devotes about six hours a day to practicing medicine, all the income so derived going to her charity work on the east side of the city. Mrs. Wallerstein is accomplished and socially prominent, but has given up most of her society pleasures for her professional and charitable work. Comment That Stung. The marquis of Lansdown, leader of unionist peers in the British parlia ment, speaks rarely but always with effect. He revels in grave sarcasm. On one ocasion Lord Crewe, the lib eral leader, made a speech on a subject which he desired to leave a matter for open voting among his followers. Lord Lansdowne congratulated his friend on his eloquent speech. "I have followed it,"he said, "with earn est attention not only on account of the importance of the subject but also on account of the noble lord's judicial attitude. I admired his earnestness and eloquence, but what impressed me most was his impartiality." A pause. "Yes, until the last minute I did not know on which side of the fence his I lordship was coming down." j . Safe, Sure and Speedy. No external remedy ever yet de j vised has so fully and unquestionably met these three prime conditions as j successfully as Allcock's Plasters, i They are safe because they contain ! no deleterious drugs and are manu ; factured upon scientific principles of : medicine. They are sure because nothing goes into them except ingre- I dients which aro exactly adapted to ; the purposes for which a plaster is re | quired. They are speedy in their ac tion because their medicinal qualities go right to their work of relieving pain and restoring the natural and healthy performance of the functions of muscles, nerves and skin. Allcock's Plasters are tho original and genuine porous plasters and like I most meritorious articles have been j extensively imitated, therefore always make suro and get the genuine. MANY SOURCES OF SALT. That from Natural Springs Is Gener ally Most Nearly Pure. The purity of salt depends upon the source from which it is obtained and ! the sanitary conditions under which jlt is prepared for the market. The j supply of common salt, the most in ! dispensable of all the seasoning sub- I stances both as a relishing condiment [ and a well-nigh universal food pre- I servative, is exhaustless, yet even so j there is salt and salt, says the Pic- I torial Review. ! Formerly salt was obtained by evap orating ocean water, a process that left many impurities in the residuum, to say nothing of Its exposure to all kinds of dirt in its shipment from sea ports. The Turk's island or rock salt, which is still largely used in pork packing and in tho manufacture of ice creams, comes to the United States in holds of vessels continually sub jected to dirt and foul odors. Upon its arrival it is again handled, then packed in coarse burlap bags, permit ting dust to sift into the salt. In this condition it reaches the consumer. Latterly, however, the product of salt springs has largely taken the lead In this country not only for table salt but for meat packing. The annual production from this source in the United States reaches more than 40,- 000,000 bushels, the state of New York in the vicinity of Syracuse furnishing a large proportion of this important ■upply. NEVER TIRES Of the Food That Restored Her to Health. "My food was killing me and I didn't know the cause," writes a Colo, young lady. "For two years I was thin and sickly, suffering from indigestion and inflammatory rheumatism. "I had tried different kinds of diet, plain living, and many of the remedies recommended, but got 110 better. "Finally, about five weeks ago, mother suggested that I try Grape- Nuts, and I began at once, eating it with a little cream or milk. A change for the better began at once. "To-day I am well and am gaining weight and strength all the time. I've gained 10 lbs. in the last five weeks and do not suffer any more from indi gestion and the rheumatism is all gone. "I know it is to Grape-Nuts alone that I owe my restored health. I still eat the food twice a day and never tire of it." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. The flavor of Grape-Nuts is peculiar to itself. It is neutral, not too sweet and has an agreeable, healthful qual ity that never grows tiresome. One of the sources of rheumatism Is from overloading the system with acid material, the result of imperfect digestion and assimilation. As soon as improper food is aban doned and Grape Nuts is taken regu larly, digestion is made strong, the or gans do their work of building up good red blood cells and of carrying away the excess of disease-making material from the system. The result is a certain and steady return to normal health and mental activity. "There's a reason." Read tho little book "The Road to Well -1 ville" in pkga. No m«R?» or fa made with PUT* NAM lADLLKPS DYES; bright, bcauti* £ul colors a certainty. Each wrinkle on a woman's brow represents an experience. Mr*. Wliiftlow'A *iyrup. For children teeming, soften* t.ie trum», ieuii<.-ea frw ttAiniimilon alluya pain. cine* wind colic. 'ifJcatuUM. With too many people charity la more of a fad than a virtue. PII.F.S CIRKI) IN O TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is to euro any cum of Itching. iiiiijfj, Bleeding or Protruding I'iie* ia 0 lo U days or money refunded. &l>c. A woman would rather do things to worry a rival than to afford herself pleasure. FITS, St. Vitus Dance and all Nervous Diseases permanently cured bv Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for Free $2 00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. It. H. Kline Ld., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. ' Woman's Important Position. An American woman, Mrs. John Leslie —familiarly known as Mrs. Jack Leslie—who was Leonie Blanche Jer ome of New York, is inofficial adviser in fashion and dress of the duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia, to the former of whom she ia lady in waiting. Made Much on Small Capital. Twenty-five years ago W. S. Wetham left, the town of La Grange, Ga., with the munificent sum of one dollar In his pocket and landed in New York with nothing to his credit but his clothes and his character. The quality of the former does not matter and tha quality of the latter has shown itself. He is to-day president of 75 banks, all but four of which are situated in his native state. In return for Georgia's small advance of 100 cents he has pretty well cornered her banking in terests and has in keeping a goodly amount of her funds. The four banks of which he is president outside of the state of Georgia are situated in Flor ida. ~ AN IMPORTANT CASE | Patient Cured of Ataxia Gives the Entire Credit to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Mrs. S. C. Wcllocl:, of 114 Cleveland Avenue, Everett, Mass., the wife of an employe in the government works at Chelsea, Kays: "1 had been troubled with nervous ness for ten years and the disease kept growing on me. Then I learned that I was suffering from locomotor ataxia.. I had terrible tremblings in my right leg which would get rigid and when this happened in the street 1 uad to stand still until it passed away to keep from falling. My right arm felt as it' a thousand needles were pricking it. The sheet touching my knee in bed would nearly cause mo to scream out with pain and both knees were so weak I could hardly stand. "I had to use a cane and bo helped about by my son. Then the pain be gan to settle in the calves of my legs and the muscles became numb ani quivered constantly. The cords un der my knees seemed to be drawn up tight and the terrible shooting pains in my legs would nearly drive me in sane. My toes became numb and at times would prickle as if needles were being thrust into them. My eyes be came dull and black spots floated be fore them. My heart was very weak. "My attention was called to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and I bought sev eral boxes right away and soon felt relief. I was so pleased that I kept on taking them until they cured me entirely, and I have had no symptoms of the trouble for over a year." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by ail druggists or sent, postpaid, on re ceipt of price, 50 cents per box. six boxes $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Med icine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. A booklet, entitled "Nervous Dis orders," sent free on request. THE CANADIAN WEST IS THE BEST WEST Ijrl,WfJ-rajfeHTJW. ll -i Tho testimony of thon bal,rts during ', ho P*Ht rijffj Wontis tho bust. IV est. J.tJl Year by year the agri- f JA eultiiro I returns hu ve in i* 'J creased In volume and in WH W value, mid still the Cana w dlan Government offers 8 100 ««•»•«*• Fit EE to ( every bona fide settler. Some of the Advantages The phenomenal Increase In railway mileage— main lines and brandies—has pat almost, every por tion of the country within easy reaeh of churches, schools, markets, cheap fuel and every modern convenience. The NINETY MILLION BUSH KL WHEAT CROP of this year means fM,OUO.UUU to the farmers of Western Canada, apart from the results of other grains and cattle. For advice and Information address the BI7PRII INTKNDKNT OK 1 MM Hi U ATI ON. Ottawa, Canada, or any authorized Government A tent. H. M. WILLIAMS. Law Building, Toledo, Ohio. SICK HEADACHE ; —i Positively cored by 1 PABTITOQ these .Little Pills. VnUI Lllw They also relieve Dt»- HB| _ tress from Dyspepsia, In- HBITTLE digestion and Too Hearty sIS I\BF £J Eating. A perfect rem- I V Lli edy for Dizziness, Nausea, jgjS PILLS Drowsiness, Bad Taste £& JW la tho Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain tn tho Side. iTOBPXD LIVER. They regulate tho Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. IrADTCDcI Genuine Must Bear jAKItKO Fac-Simile Signature Pp. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. J Drilling Machinery. ilic or Rock Drilling Machines I any sized wells to any depth, erated by Steam or Gasoline pines or Horse Power. Dept. 10. ftRTA IRON WORKS COMPANY SPARTA,WIS., U.S. A,
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