6 FOR LOVE By FKANCIS LYNDE J Author of"The Grafters," Etc. (CopyrliiUl, I'JUS bvj. P. LlppmcoitCo.) CHAPTER Xl.— Continued. The Rajah dropped his cigar butt In the snow and trod upon it. "Possibly you will faveh us with your company to breakfast in the Rosemary, Misteh Winton —you and Misteh Adams. No? Then I bid you a vehy good morning, gentlemen, and hope to see you lateh." And he swung up to the steps of the private car. Half an hour afterwards, the snow still whirling dismally, Winton and Adams were cowering over a handful of hissing embers, drinking their com missary coffee and munching the camp cook's poor excuse for a breakfast. "Jig's tip pretty definitely, don't you think?" said the Technologian, with n glance around at the idle track force huddling for shelter under the lee of the flats and the decapod. Wixton shook his head and groaned. "I'm a ruined man, Morty." Adams found his cigarette case. "I guess that's so," he said, quite lie artlessly. Then: "Hello! what is our friend the enemy up to now?" McGrath's fireman was uncoupling the engine from the Rosemary, and Mr. Darrah, complacently lighting his after-breakfast cigar, came across to the hissing ember fire. "A word with you, gentlemen, if you will faveh me," he began. "I am about to run down to Argentine on my engine, and I propose leaving the la dies in your cha'ge, Misteh Winton. Will you give me your word of honeh, sell, that they will not be annoyed in my absence?" Winton sprang up, losing his tem per again. "It's —well, it's blessed lucky that you know your man, Mr. Darrah!" he exploded. "Goon about your busi ness—which is to bring another army of deputy sheriffs down on us, I take it. You know well enough that no man of mine will lay a hand on your car so long as the ladies are In it." The Rajah thanked him, dismissed the matter with a Chesterfieldian wave of his hand, climbed to his place in the cab, and the engine shrilled away around the curve and disap peared in the snow-wreaths. Adams rose and stretched himself. "By Jove! when it comes to cheek, pure and unadulterated, commend me to a Virginia gentleman who has ac quired the proper modicum of west ern bluff," he laughed. Then, with a cavernous yawn dating back to the sleepless night: "Since there is noth ing immediately pressing, I believe I'll go and call on the ladies. Won't you come along?" "No!" said Winton, savagely; and the Technologian lounged off by him self. Some little time afterward Winton, glooming over his handful of spitting embers, saw Adams and Virginia come out to stand together on the observa tion platform of the Rosemary. They talked long and earnestly, and when Winton was beginning to add the dull pang of unreasoning jealousy to his iother hurtings Adams beckoned him. "I should think you might come and •say 'Good morning' to me, Mr. Win iton. I'm not Uncle Somerville," said iMiss Carteret. Winton said "Good morning," not too graciously, and Adams mocked him. "Besides being a bear with a sore head. Miss Carteret thinks you're not much of a hustler," he said, coolly. "She knows the situation; knows that you were stupid enough to promise not to lay hand 3 on the car when we could have pushed it out of the way without annoying anybody. None the less, she thinks that you might find a way togo on building your railroad without breaking your word to Mr. Darrah." Winton put his sore-heartedness far enough behind him to smilo and say: "Perhaps Miss Virginia will be good enough to tell me how." "I don't know how," she rejoined, quickly. "And you'd only laugh at me" if I should tell you what I thought of." "You might try It and see," he ven tured. "I'm desperate enough to take suggestions from anyone." "Tell mo something first. Is your railroad obliged to run straight along In the middle of this nice little you've been making for it?" "Why—no; temporarily, it can run anywhere. But the problem is to get the track laid beyond this crossing be fore your uncle gets back with a train load of armed guards." "Any kind of a track would do, wouldn't it?—just to secure the cross ing?" "Certainly; anything that would hold the weight of the decapod. We shall have to rebuild most' of the line, anyway, as soon as the frost come 3 out of the ground in spring." The brown eyes became far-seeing. "I was thinking," she said, musing ly, "there is no time to make an other nice liule ridge. But you have piles an 1 piles of logs over there" — she meant, the cross-ties —"couldn't you build a sort of cob ho use ridgrs with those between your track and uncle's, and cross behind the car? Don't laugh, please." But Winton was far enough from laughing at her. Why so simple an tea i:.;l itself ia- stantly he did not stop to inquire. It was enough that the Heaven-born idea had been given. "Down out of that, Morty!" he cried. "It's one chance In a thousand. I'asa the word to the men; I'll bo with you in a second." And when Adams was rousing the track force with the bawling shout of "Ev-ery body!" Winton looked up into the brown eyes. "My debt to you was already very great; I owe you more now," he said. But she gave him his quittance in a whiplike retort. "And you will stand here talking about it when every moment is pre cious? Go!" she commanded; and he went. So now we are to conceive the mad dest activity leaping into being in full view of the watchers at the windows of the private car. Winton's chilled and sodden army, welcoming any bat tle-cry of action, flew to the work with a will. In a twinkling the corded piles of cross-ties had melted to reap pear in cob-house balks bridging an angle from the Utah embankment to that of the spur track in rear of the blockading Rosemary. In briefest time the hammermen were spiking the rails on the rough-and-ready trestle, and the Italians were bring up the crossing-frogs. But the Rajah, astute colonel of in dustry, had not left himself defense less. On the contrary, he had provid ed for this precise contingency by leaving McGrath's fireman in mechan ical command on the Rosemary. If Winton should attempt to build around the private car, the fireman was to wait till the critical moment; then he was to lessen the pressure on the automatic air-brakes and let the car drop back down the grade just far enough to block the new crossing. So it came about that this mechan ical lieutenant waited, laughing in his sleeve, until he saw the Italians com ing with the crossing-frogs. Then, I **■ * 1 " "RUN, CALVERT." judging the time to be fully ripe, he ducked under the Rosemary to "bleed" the air-tank. Winton heard the hiss of the escap ing air above all the industry clamor; heard, and saw the car start backward. Then he had a flitting glimpse of a man in grimy overclothes scrambling terror-frenzied from beneath the Rose mary. The thing done had been over done. The fireman had "bled" the air tank too freely, and the liberated car, gathering momentum with every wheel-turn, surged around the circling spur track and shot out masterless on the steeper gradient of the main line. Now, for the occupants of a runa way car on a Rocky mountain line there is death and naught else. Win ton saw, in a phantasmagoric flash of second sight, the meteor flight of the heavy car; saw the Reverend Bil ly's ineffectual efforts to apply the hand-brakes, if by good hap lie should even guess that there were any hand brakes; saw the car, bounding and lurching, keeping to the rails, may hap, for some few miles below Ar gentine, where it would crash head long into the upward climbing bonate train, and all would end. In unreasoning misery, lie did the only thing that offered: Ran blindly down his own embankment, hoping nothing but that he might have one last glimpse of Virginia clinging to the hand-rail before she should be lost to him forever. But as he ran a thought white-hot from the furnace of despair fell into his brain to set it ablaze with pur pose. Beyond the litter of activities the decapod was standing, empty of its crew. Bounding up into the cab, he released the brake and sent the great engine flying down the track of the new line. In the measuring of the flr.-,t mile the despair-born thought, took shape and form. If he could outpace the runaway on the parallel line, stop the decapod and dash across to the C. & ff. R. track ahead of the Rosemary, there was one chance In a million that he might fling himself upon the car in mid (light and alight with life enough left to help Calvert with the hand-brakes. Now, in the most unhopeful struggle It is often the thing least hoped for that comes to pass. At Argentine Win ton's speed was n mile a minute over a track rorgher than a corduroy wagon-roan; yet the decapod held the rail nml was neck and neck with the runaway. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1907 Three miles more ot tho surging, racking, nerve-killing race and Win ton hail his hand's-breadth of lead and had picked his place for the million chanced wrestle with death. It was at the C. & G. R. station of Tierra Blanca, just below a series of sharp curves which he hoped might check a little the arrowlike flight of the runa way. Twenty seconds later the telegraph opera cor at the lonely little sta tion of Tierra Blanca saw a heroic bit of man-play. The upward-bound Carbonate train was whistling In the gorge below when out of the snow wreaths shrouded the new line a big engine shot down to stop with fire grinding from the wheels, and a man dropped from the high cab to dash across to the station platform. At the same instant a runaway pas senger car thundered out of the can yon above. The man crouched, flung himself at it in passing, missed the forward hand-rail, caught the rear, was snatched from his feet and trailed through the air like the thong of a whiplash, yet made good his hold and clambered on. This was all the operator saw, but when he had snapped his key and run out, he heard the shrill squeal of tho brakes on the car and knew that .John Winton had not risked his lift for nothing. And on board the Rosemary? Win ton, spent to the last breath, was lying prone on the railed platform, where he had fallen when the last twist had been given to the shrieking brakes, his head in Miss Carteret's lap. "Run, Calvert! Run ahead and — stop—the—up-train!" he gasped; then the light went out of the gray eye 3 and Virginia wept unaffectedly and fell to dabbling his forehead with handfuls of snow. "Help me get him into the divan. Cousin Billy," said Virginia, when all was over and the Rosemary was safe ly coupled in ahead of the upcoming I train to be slowly pushed back to Ar j gentine. But Winton opened his eyes and struggled to his feet, unaided. "Not yet," he said. "I've left my automobile on the other side a£ the creek; and, besides, I have a railroad jto build. My respects to Mr. Darrab, and you may tell him I'm not beaten j yet." And he swung over the rail | ing and dropped off to mount tha I octopod and to race it back to the j front. Three days afterwards, to a scream ' ing of smelter whistles and other j noisy demonstrations of mining-camp j joy, the Utah Short Line laid the final I rail of its new extension in the Car | bonato yards. The driving of the silver spike ae- I complished. Winton slipped out of the ! congratulatory throng and made his | way across the C. & G. R. tracks to a I private car standing alone on its sid j ing. Its railed platform, commanding ; a view of the civic celebration, had its quota of onlookers —a fierce-eyed j old man with huge white mustaches, ;an athletic young clergyman, two | Bisques and a goddess. "Climb up, Misteh Winton. climb up | and join us," said the fierce-eyed one i heartily. "Virginia, heah, thinks we ought to call each otlieli out, but I tell her —" What the Rajah had told his niece is of small account to us. But what Winton whispered in her ear when he had taken his place beside her is more to the purpose of this history. "I have built my railroad, as you told me to, and now I have come for me—" "Hush!" she said, softly. "Can't you wait?" "No." "Shameless one!" she murmured. But when the Rajah proposed an edjournment to the gathering-room of the Par, and to luncheon therein, he surprised them standing hand-in-liand and laughed. "Hah, you little rebel," he said. "Do you think you dese've that block iof stock I promised you when you should marry? Anseh me, my deal?." She blushed and shook her head, but the brown eyes were dancing. Tii? Rajah opened tho car door with his courtliest bow. "Nevertheless, you shall have it, my donh Virginia, if only to remind an old man of tho time when he was sim ple enough to make a business run | federate of a charming youui; woman, j Straight on, Misteh Adam; after you, j Misteh Wint in." I ;TUE END.£ ARA PIC IS FOUND | ANCIENT TEMPLE OF AUGUSTUS UNEARTHED AT ROME. Rare Art Treasures of the Long Age Brought to Light, Enriching the Collections of That Period. A year or so ago, excavations were begun in Rome, somewhere about the middle of the modern Corso Umberto, the site of the ancient Campus Mar tius, for the purpose of discovering traces of the remains of the Ara Pacis of Augustus, known to be existing; attempts which have been crowned with marked success. At the time of writing, these excavations were still in course of operation, and the press, as well as the public, have shown as 1 r r Restoration of the Ara Pscis of Augustus. enthusiastic an interest in them as they have in the recent discoveries on the Roman Forum. In the extensive plain of the Field of Mars, over a large part of which the Home of the Renaissance, as well as of more modern times, has spread itself, there was in the tenth century, amongst the countless remains of ancient greatness, a statue existing, which pointed with one finger to the ground. This gave rise to the suppo sition that beneath it a treasure lay ■hidden, and one fine day they began to dig. The explorers soon happened upon some magnificent mosaics, rep resenting the seasons of tho year, and the allegorical figures of animals standing for the signs of the Zodiac. These proved eventually to be por tions of the pediment of the famous sun-dial of Augustus, but it. can easily be imagined what astonishment, and what attempts at explanation, these strange and curious objects called forth at the time. It has since been ascertained that the figure with the finger pointing earthwards represent ed the setting sun, whilst on the op posite side 1 there must have been an other pointing skywards, representing the rising sun; the sun when rising, would shine on the finger of the lat ter, whilst in setting it. would in like manner gild the finger of the fcwiier with its parting rays. But amid all these interesting discoveries the hoped-for treasure itself was not forthcoming, and the common people declared that the priests must have secretly made away with it. But if this spot conceals no shining gold, the mere material treasure sought for by the people of the year 1,000 A. D., it nevertheless encloses, despite the centuries of ruin heaped upon it, an ideal treasure of art and of priceless memories. The systematic excavations demand ed by archaeologists and since under taken by the minister of public in struction have, as has been said, yield ed the most satisfactory results. In fact, beside an immense number of fragments, and large blocks of marbles adorned with reliefs, the foundation walls of the monument have been found, so that it is quite possible to reconstruct the whole in imagination. It apparently consisted of an en closed wall of white marble of up wards of five metres in height, form ing a four-sided figure of 11 by 10% metres square. In the inner space of this enclosure, whose floor was paved with white marble slabs, still in good preservation, stood, close to the wall opposite to the entrance, and raised 011 steps, the altar of the deity. It is this beautiful piece of work, frag ments of which have been known and used for a lr.r.g time past in the study of decorative art in the schools. A Greek scroll separates the lower from the upper half, which latter is of great beauty and both as regards historical and artistic interest is the gem of the whole monument.. A procession un folds itself of men, women, priests and children, whose figures, somewhat less than life size, appear in two rows, one behind the other, those in the fore ground in high relief, those behind being only slightly indicated in quite low relief. The whole represents a procession moving forward to a sol emn sacrifice. In the background, fol lowing the lines of the procession are to lie seen temples, the identifying of which has given ri3e to much discus sion. In the middle of the enclosure a large door opened on the side of the Via Flaminia, through which was an uninterrupted view of the altar, and behind it was another door looking on to lhf> Campus Martins, used for bringing l:i the beasts for sacrifice. These sculptures undoubtedly repre sent the first solemn sacrifice offered in this place, and as Pro?. Peterson justly observes, recall to the life the original enclosure adorned with fresh green wrei t.hs sucli as would b> placed around the altar on the 'occasion of the triumphal return of Augustus. There are some who ro?:>giii::o in the reliefs, the figures both of Augustus and tl"j most important re tenta tive?! cf hi:: family, and en 1 that of the gi<iat .lulius hlnvolf, idealized, after tho manner of the art of that £iuie, ANTONIO PASQUIXILLI. UTTERLY WORN OUT. Vitality Sapped by Years of Suffering with Kidney Trouble. Capt. J. W. Hogun, former postmas ter of Indianola, now living at Austin, Tex., writes; "I wafi afflicted for thf years wsth pains ifc across the loins v and in the hips <£. and shoulders. I bad headache '* also and neural r~W J Tfc Sia. My right eye ' from pain, jF| J was of little use ' to me for years. The constant flow of urine kept my system depleted, causing nervous chills and night sweats. After trying seven different climates and using ail kinds of medicine I had the good for tune to hear of Doan's Kidney Pills. This remedy has cured me. I am as well to-day as I was twenty years ago, and my eyesight is perfect." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Voster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Newspapers for the Blind. The announcement that the London Daily Mail is about to issue a weekly edition for the blind, draws attention to the other British journals published In Braille type, which have had along and useful career, though they have seldom been seen by the general pub lic. The first weekly newspaper for the blind was published on June 1, 1892, and called the Weekly Summary. It has always been issued below cost price, and Its promoters derive no benefit from its publication. An other was started only last year, called the Braille Weekly, aud issued from Edinburgh. TO CURE A COI.I) I!* ONE IIAT Take J«AXATIYK BKOMO Quinine Tablet!!. Driiff- BistK refund money if It lulls 10 euro. E. W CiUOVE'tJ Nignaiure is on each box. 25c, Most people find fault with their neighbors in order to get even with neighbors who find fault with them. To recover quickly from bilious attacks, sick-headache, indigestion or colds, take Garfield Tea, the mild laxative. Guaran teed under the Pure Food Law. Prefer Their Own Way. Thousands of men do not know what is good for them, but you might as well remember that the majority ol them do not want to be told.—John A. Howland. Sixty Years a Lamplighter. Timothy Boldra, who has died at Yarmouth, England, at the age of 82 years, had been in the service of the local gas company more than GO years, and before that, as a youth, was em ployed to light the street oil lamp 3 with a flint and steel. Convict's Peculiar Claim. A life convict In the Andamans had served some long period when an or der recently came for his release. All the time he had. been in the band, and had evidently so far forgotten that he was a prisoner that on his release he putin a claim for a pension on ac count of his long and faithful service as a government servant. —Madras Mail. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy tlie sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering It through the mucous surfacea. Such articles should nevor he used except on prescrip tions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do Is ten fold to the good you can possibly de rive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney A: (Jo., Toledo, 0., contains no mer cury, and Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and uiucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure he sure you get tha genuine. It !s taken Internally and made In Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co, Testimonials tree. Sold by Druggists. I'rlce, 75c. per bottle, lake Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Hints for the Pipe Lover. The Canadian Cigar and Tobacco Journal gives some hints to those who smoke pipes. Everybody thinks he knows how to smoke a pipe, but tc do It perfectly is not easy. "Time is a keynote of successful pipe smoking," says the Journal, "and another is gen tleness. Take it easy. Don't crowd the pipe to the top of the bowl. Nevoi get a pipe hot. Keep cool, and keep your pipe cool. You can relight a pipe and if you are an old smoker you will be all the better for it. When you have finished do not refill a heated pipe." HEADS SHAPED TO ORDER. German Doctor Explains Causes of Various Formations. At a recent convention of German naturalists and doctors Dr. Walclier, of Stuttgart, in an instructive paper put forth a sensational theory to ex plain the formation of the shape of the head of infants. He maintained that tho head of a child could be molded artificially. He found by ex perience that when a medium-shaped head is placed in a soft cushion the child turns on its back, or rests on the back of its head, in order to free mouth, nose and face. In this manner the head rests smoothly, and a short head is developed. Bui if the medium shaped head of a child is placed on a hard under-rest, like a hair mattress or rolled carpet, the child's head turns aside, as it cannot stand any more on its head than an e'gg, for the muscle of the back is weakened. Therefore, with continued resting on the side a long head is developed. To prove his assertions the lecturer pre sented a child whose mother and sis ter are short-headed. The child at its birth had a short head, now after IS months it Is long skulled. If the child had been placed on its back, according to other experiences its head would have been short-shaped. Br. Walcher did rot deny that the sha;:e of uhc hcad was inherited, but asserted that it could be greatly influenced by tho way the child rested. • THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAIL ROAD AND WESTERN CANADA. Will Open Up Immense Area of Free Homestead Lands. The railway facilities of Western Canada have been taxed to the ut termost in recent years to transfer the surplus grain crop to the eastern markets and the seaboard. The largo influx of settlors pud the additional area put under crop have added large ly to the grain product, and notwith standing the increased railway facil ities that have been placed at the dis posal of the public, the question of transportation has proved to be a se rious one. It will, therefore, be good news to interested in Western Can ada to know that an authoritative statement has been given out by C. M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, that that rail way will do its share towards moving the crop of 1907 from Alberta, Sas katchewan and Manitoba to tide water, and thus assist in removing a serious obstacle which has faced the settlers during recent years. Mr. Hays, who has just completed a trip from Port age la Prairie to Edmonton in a prai rie schooner, a distance of 735 miles, which was covered in eighteen days, is enthusiastic about the country. _ This will be gratifying to settlers in the Canadian West, even if Mr. Hays declines to be bound to a time limit with the exactitude of a stop-watch. The Grand Trunk Pacific road will bo In a position to take part in the trans portation of the crop of 1007, and that will be satisfactory to the settlers in that country when the harvest is gar nered. The wheat crop of 190 Gin Western Canada was about 90,000,000 bushels, and, with the increased acreage which Is confidently expected to be put un der crop next year, it is safely calcu lated that fully 125,000,000 bushels will be harvested in 1907. The necessity for increased transportation facilities are, therefore, apparent, and the state ment made by Mr. Hays will bring en couragement to the farmers of the Canadian West, new and old. The opening up of additional thousands of free homesteads is thus assured by the agent of the Canadian Govern ment, whose address appears else where. NOT DOOMED TO SECLUSION. Austrian J'uns of Noble Blood Lead Pleasant Lives. The "first lady" in the Austro-Hun garian court is now the abbess of the Theresiau Convent of the Noble In dies in Prague, a position which is always held by an archduchess. The Archduchess Maria Annunciata, the present abbess, who is a niece of the emperor, has succeeded to the position of first lady through the widowhood of the Archduchess Maria Josefa, wife of the late Archduke Otto. The noble nuns of Prague live a very different life from what is the usual conception of convent life. They play a leading part in the society of the city and are not even compelled to live in the ab bey, where each is provided with two rooms and service. Handsome car riages with liveried servants are also provided for their use, and they have a box in the opera. Each noble lady is paid SSOO a year, while the abbess has a salary of SIO,OOO. When they attend court balls they must wear black evening dress with a ribbon of light blue. SCALY ERUPTION ON BODY. Doctors ana Remedies Fruitless—Suf fered 10 Years Completely Cured by Cuticura. "When I was about nine years old small sores appeared on each of my lower limbs. 1 scratched them with a brass pin and shortly afterwards both of those liinbs became so sore that I could scarcely walk. When I had been suffering for about a month the sorrs began to heal, but small scaly eruptions appeared where the sores had been. From that time on ward I was troubled by such severe itching that, until I became accus tomed to it, I would scratch the sores until the blood began to flow. This would stop the itching for a few days, but scaly places would appear again and the itching would accom pany them. After I suffered about ten years 1 made a renewed effort to effect a cure. The eruptions by this time had appeared on every part of my body except my face and hands. The best doctors in my native coun ty advised me to use arsenic in small doses and a salve. 1 then used to bathe the sores in a mixture which gave almost intolerable pain. In ad dition I used other remedies, such as iodine, sulphur, zinc salve, 's Salve, Ointment, and in fact I was continually giving some remedy a fair trial, never using less than one or two boxes or bottles. All this was fruitless. Finally my hair began to fall out and I was rapidly becoming bald. I used 's , but it did no good. A few months after, having used aimost everything else, I thought I would try Cuticura Ointment, having previously used Cuticura Soap and being pleased with it. After using three boxes I was completely cured, and my hair was restored, after fourteen years of suf fering and an expenditure of at least SSO or in vainly endeavoring to tiud a cure. I sliail bo glad to wrlto to any one who may :;.-3 interested in • ny cure. I!. Ilirani Matt'n; T ly, Ver inllliDU, S. Hale., Aug. 18, 1900." Trade-Mark for Ireland. Ireland now has a trade-mark with 'vt.ich her products are to be stamped. A penalty may bo iullietcil lor it,; iia- Biouer ut'j.
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