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The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08
A Wyoming Schoo|marm.
BY EDGAR q. BRADLEY.

ID ID3AR 9. DHADA1
Copyright, 1900, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
place Diamond"
The shock head extended itself
into a tall, broad-shouldered young
man of twenty-three, dressed in the
usual loose woolen shirt, corduroy
trousers covered with leather leggings,
below which cleaned the long, star
shaped, single spur of the cowboy.
Grace Loveland suddenly paused in
the burst of raiety with which she
greeted the appearance of the shock
head around the corner of the dilapi-
dated log hut used as station by the
Cheyenne & Northern road, towards
which she was tripping with her com
panions on a tour of investigation as
a relief from the long hours of the hot,
dry ride across eastern wyoming. Sne
became impressed with the fact that
the "shotk-head" was more of silky
texture and less unkempt than that OF
the regulation COW puncher, while
something in the clear, blue eyes,
turned sharply upon her and then
caused her own to droop.
Wal, 1 spose it's COS it's set in
the rough" replied the man.
Say, Grace cried Jennie Waterton,
a strongly built, handsome brunette.
You seem to have found more than
ons Diamond, from the sharpness of
that reply"
in
to this sally, the stranger slowly
drawled:
Wall, diamonds amt a-plenty
about hyar, but of there be two on us,
we be'ent alone on the ring. Jest
now there do seem to be mighty fine
pearl settin' along with the dia-
monds."
This gallant compliment was fol-
lowed by an awkward but expressive
bend of the body in the direction of the
group of teachers, who were return
ing to their districts from the annual
examinations just closed at Cheyenne.
Rapidly as girls tongues will roll
came a volley of mirthful shots, which
were responded to with equal readi-
ness of wit, though with the slowness
Of utterance and monotone of the
ranchman, unaccustomed as he is to
lively or continued conversation.
Grace, however, had grown strangely
silent, though she was the acknowl-
edged life of the party, and showed
some signs of embarrassment when
the stranger boarded the train with the
party at the signal from the engine.
An indefnable impression that the
stranger was not all that he seemed
crept over her, and his occasional
lapses from the dialect of the ranch
to smooth, polished utterances, served
to confirm her opinion. The other
girls, however, were delighted with the
advent of this unexpected wit of the
prairies, who would serve to shorten
the wearisome journey.
AS the train proceeded the heat of
tue car forced the party to the door
way to catch the slight breeze impaired
by the motion of the train. Grouped
in as comfortable attitudes as the con-
ditions permitted, the party was in
the height of merriment over dis
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HOW TO SPEND MONEY.
Rich Men Are Not the Ones Who
Understand Its Use

Understand Its Use
Truxton Beale, formerly United
States minister to Greece, believes that
millionaires need education in regard
to the proper manner of spending their
money. He says that among the men
possessed of millions there exists a
fallacy in relation to their wealth,
which fallacy was exposed by Adam
Smith in the very year in which we
started on our national life, and that
is that spendthrift expenditure is a
good thing for society. This idea per-
tains to great extent among the mil
lions as well as among the millionaires
Mr. Beale says: Despite the fact that
every great economist since Adam
Smith has demonstrated the contrary,
it is fallacy that has not yet been
rooted out of the minds of large ma
jority of even the educated Indeed it
might be called the pons asinorum of
economics. There are so few even of
college bred men who have ever given
themselves trouble to understand the
subject in the abstract, and of those
few some are constantly stating propo-
sitions that are altogether inconsistent
When the millions as well as the mil
lionaires thoroughly understand that
absurd and vulgar expenditure impov-
erishes society and checks the produc-
ton, and when they learn that there
is no economical justification for the
present vast, unproductive expenditure,
then public opinion will compel the
'multis' to expend their fortunes in
ways that will be more in accordance
with simplicity and good taste. The
vulgarity of wasting wealth will be all
the clearer when it's effects upon the
public wealth is understood and no
sound public opinion on the subject
can be formed until the public under
stands the purely economic side Of the
question"
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08

A group of mechanics who are now
returning from British India bring
with them the story of an American
expansion in which all can rejoice.
They have just completed the con-
structicA Of a great steel bridge in
the Shan Hills of Burma, which is to
be part of a railroad built by the gov
ernment from Rangoon into China
The steel was made by Pennsylvania
concern, which secured the contract in
competition with the world. Three
great freighters conveyed the structur-
al material across the seas, and forty
mechanics went out to do the skilled
work. Higher than the tallest office
buildings of Philadelphia and nearly
half a mile long, this bridge is fitting
monument to the expension of Am
erican trade.
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first girder. across which he sprang to
the rescue of the silent form. which
might be that OF life or death.
7 An involuntary shout of Joy came
from him before he reached her side,
lifted her head from the side Of which
the red blood was slowly trickling, and
discovered she was breathing and was
apparently not seriously injured.
Something in the white, blood-stained
face, the pitiable weakness of the
dainty form now nesting closely
against his breast, caused strange
fluttering at his heart strings. Strong
piquant form and fairy-like face dur
ing their ride up the road, he had cast
more than one glance of deep interest
In her direction, and now as she lay
painting, broken, helpless, senseless in
his arms, a strange yearning to which
he had never before yielded, took pos
session of hi mand he cried despair
ingly:
Grace. Grace, come back. can
not let you die. Live, live for me-"
AS if recalled to life by the pleading
of the tones, the pretty brown eyes
opened, and look crept into them
which caused the young stranger to
more strongly clasp her to his breast
and his heart to beat furiously against
hers.
AS full consciousness returned,
Grace realized the position in which
she was held, and blushing divinely,
gently drew herself away.
She quickly returned in terror, for
below her she saw the death she had
escaped and the fright took from her
all her strength. Notwithstanding her
feeble protests the stranger took her
again into his arms, as lightly and ten
derly as though she were child, and
started along the narrow, dangerous
ledge, from which a misstep would
hurl them both to the cruel. sharp
pointed rocks far below.
Fortunately the ledge rose to the
top of the canyon, and few moments
the head and a slight nervousness from
suspense resulted in Grace being re-
stored to her friends, unharmed, ex-
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08
A COntented
Man

A remarkable man has been found
in the Mississippi valley. His home
is in st. Louis and his name is Rus
sell E. Gardner. Perhaps there is not
another man in the world like him.
He is contented, absolutely satisfied
with what he possesses. He is only
35 years old, yet he has retired from
business with a quarter million dol
lars which he has made during the
past ten years. He says that making
money is as easy as rolling off log
and believes that any man should Sc
cure enough wealth by the time he is
35 years old to live in comfort the
remainder of his life. In the year 1900
he made too much money and a few
days ago distributed $4,000 of his
years earnings among his employees.
His Rapid Rise.
Ten years ago he was working at
his trade of carriage making. He
made up his mind that people wanted
cheaper, well-made, pianobox bug
by. He reasoned that if he could make
enough of these buggies to sell them
at close margin he could get rich.
With this idea he started in. Last
year his shops turned out and sold
$4,000 of these vehicles and on each
one he only made $3.50, but the total
net profit exceeded $4,000 His shops
and offices are fitted up In the most
comfortable style. In them he has in
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08
To Stimulate T aithful

The Presbyterian church has under
taken to raise funds on an increased
scale for the beginning of the new
century, and in other ways seeks to
stimulate the growth and effectiveness
of the church. Rev. DR.. Charles A.
Dickey of Philadelphia, the moderator
of the general assembly Of that denom-
ination, is devoting his time to the
work, and at present is speaking in
the west. He will visit all parts Of
the Union. The Presbyterians have
not fixed upon definite sum as their
goal. but their aims run up into the
millions. DIR. Dickey's purpose is to
stimulate the faithful to more liberal
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08
CALLS IN A HURRY.
What Telephones Mean to the Remotely
Situat ed Farmer.


The farmers Of Oneida county have a
telephone service almost as complete
and convenient as that of any small
city, says Utica dispatch to the New
York Press. For rural telephone en-
terprise this county is one of the fore
with the local lines, and for its long
distance system the farmers line has
had the praise of electricity experts.
The remarkable feature of the develop
ment, which has been recent, Is that
practically every farmer in the county
is in reach by telephone with every
other. Not all have telephones in their
houses, but tho.e is not neighbor-
hood in the county where every farmer
may not, in few minutes walk to the
telephone and communicate with every
other farmer in the county, and at the
same time he Is able to talk with the
small villages and the cities as we'll
The system has proven invaluable Not
only has it increased the social feat
ures Of the farmhouse life, but by 1t
physicians have been summoned from
the cities and help has been secured
from neighboring farm houses in
emergencies. Two years ago, before
the system was as we'll developed as it
is today, Cassville farmer, who had
been attacked by burglars, was also
able to give the alarm over his tele-
phone and thereby hastened the cap
ture Of the bandits.
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sun-rays on the wooden hulls
means of a piece of glass. Erlcs'
the man who invented the Nom
made a small engine that was SCI
motion by sunbeams. William Cal
Of Washington has just invented
apparatus that is said to produce
900 degrees of heat by means OF foca
sunshine. The greatest heat ever
duced heretofore was 5000 deg
which was obtained with an ele'9
arc. A number of mirrors are
ranged in the new machine so
the rays falling on each one an
focused at single point. Thick
and tough Russian iron are SAID
melt like wax under the focused
The apparatus will, it is said, bon
dozen holes in a soaking wet p
in as many seconds. 1t might
haps, be used to advantage In SD
ing ores. Its use in connection
the steam engine would be in proa
ing steam without the use Of coz
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Such is Russell =
Gardner Of &
Louis.

troduced many novel feature. a.,
which is barber shop. Here NJ.
ployes are tonsorially treated
man calls on business or tn ~
chat, he is asked to have a sba,-
shampoo If his appearance maj.
that he needs either. Mr.. cs,ss
considers this hospitality as more \.
tical than treat to cigar or ~. -
Then he finds a great deal OF nv
1t. He says that the idea tickles ~.
one and people talk about it afterv,1
thus making 1t good advertisam.'
Employees Get q Chance
Mr.. Gardner has turned his hrs,.-
over to his employees, but Is still h
owner Of it. He says that shoula i
get tired of boating, fishing and =,
ming he will return again to the .bs,
take off his coat and go to WORK 4
has no desire to travel in foreign eou,
tries, but will spend his time in n
Mississippi valley, which he consId.
the most beautiful and interesting =
ton of the world. He has yacht !,
the river and intends to see eyery \
Of the noble section from St. Pan, y
the gulf, to look up all its tributarI.I
pry into Its bays and bayous and \
its every island and natural beam
He is jolly young man, free Of ~
full of happiness and. with his n
will enjoy life according to his n
fancy.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08

Plans for a new botanical school,
which is to be erected by Henry Phipps
in Schenley Park, Pittsburg, have been
completed. This school will be the
only one in the United States devoted
exclusively to the study of botany and
is to be so located with reference to
the park conservatory that the plants
there can be made use of for purposes
of instruction. The institution is in
tended for the benefit of the pupils OF
the public schools. as well us for that
of private classes.
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cepu from the light cut at the side OF
fright
At Wheatland, the next station, the
stranger took his departure from the
train. Grace bade him fareweu with
a sinking of the heart, but it was re-
placed by pleasant calmness, when
as he bowed over her hand, he mur
INJURED SO she alone could hear: I'VE
shall meet again"
1t was not until after the train had
passed beyond the town that it was re-
membered the strangers name had not
been learned in the excitement of the
incident in which Grace had so i'm
portantly figured and chagrin took the
place of the wondering comment of
the girls as to his identity
Two months passed, when one day,
sitting in her school room at Lusk, the
scholars just dismissed, Grace was
dreamily recalling the incidents of
that day near Chugwater. Suddenly
stalwart form passed across the line
Of her vision from the open door, and
glancing up in momentary alarm at
the unexpected intrusion, she looked
into the eyes of her rescuer. For
moment neither spohe, then with a
soft light spreading over his features,
he opened his arms, his eyes beaming
with manly love, forced hers to remain
within their light, and he said, almost
in whisper, but every word pene-
tratlng her heart:
Grace, | have come for you. !
could not keep away. From the mo-
ment l met your glance that day at
Diamond, l knew l had met the one
in whom the happiness or the despair
of my life would lie. My fate is in
your hands"
She stood silent and tear cleaned
across her ruddy cheek, splashed to
the floor and was tamped lightly with
the delicate foot. This stranger,
strong, handsome, the pleading manli-
ness Of his tone, the wealth of love
in his eyes, caused her breast to pant
and thrill with conflicting emotions.
Again he spoke and more earnestly
the words of passion poured forth un-
til she could no longer resist, when
suddenly the incongruous position of
both struck her fancy. and unable to
COutrOl Her rlSlDllltleS, Sne emitted a
peal of laughter which caused the
stranger to shrink back with an ex-
preston of pain at her seeming care
lessness of his feelings. But as she
quickly and roguishly exclaimed:
"Wny, do not even know your name, "
he caught the infection and Joined
heartily in her laugh.
Well, call me Frank, until you
know me better" he said, and then
resuming his seriousness, he pleaded
for her love until she was fain to sub
nit as he drew her slightly resisting
form to him, tenderly raising her face
to his she succumbed
AS they were leaving the school, bis
arm about her, his eyes tenderly gaz-
ing into hers, seeking for assurances
of her love, SIZE quantity asked:
Frank. what will my name be?"
Lady Grace Caverleigh."
Grace had gained an English title
Frank was one of the proprietors oi
what is probably the largest ranch in
eastern Wyoming, and had been or
one Of his occasional trips to his
property when he met his fate.
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Grace, Grace, come back. 1 cannot let
you die"


cussion of the reason for calling the
station they were approaching by the
strange and unpleasantly sounding
name of Chugwater, when a sudden
Jar, followed by a frightful, crashing
sound, caused each to grasp at the
nearest support. At the same instant
q slight female form was seen flying
out over the trestle spanning the
canyon they were crossing, and Jennie
shrieked:
"Grace has fallen into the canyon"
She leaned far out over the plat
form of the now stationary coach, but
before she had completed her startling
sentence another form flew past her,
down over the side of the trestle and
could be seen working its way hurried
ly along the steel girder to the side
of the canyon, and to a ledge of rock
on which she now saw the petite, un-
conscious form Of her companion, ly-
Ing double1 and soiled, twenty feet be-
low.
A coupling had broken, the two parts
Of the train had come together with
such momentum as to force Grace to
release her grasp Of the platform rail-
ing and she was now lying where the
slightest movement on return to con-
sciousness, would precipitate her to
the bottom of the canon. two hundred
feet below.
Instantly the stranger had grasped
her danger. and with the agility Of a
trained athlete, had clambered over
the side OF the trestle, allowed himself
- slide down the steel supports to the
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08
Princess Imprisoned Between VI


Elevators are by no means too
cent invention generally supposea
amusing account of what was pro',
the first attempt at an elevator
by St. Simon and according to nl,
was from a M. Villayer that tho
Of flying chair" first emanatea' u
ingenious person set up a passaDle
totype of the modern elevator u
house in Paris, working 1t up
down between the walls. The oaJ
ter Of Louis XIV. was so delS7
with the novelty that she had ons
up in her own apartments at Va
les. This honor was, however, Wv
doing Of poor M. Villagers mac
The chair suddenly stopped m'
while the princess was between
landings and she had to remain
ed up for three hours until tne
men broke a hole through tne
wall. The king was so annoyed
that he forbade any further
ments in the same line.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08
New Vegetable Wanted

Our present garden vegetap'''
cultivated varieties Of wild ~
Why do not our horticulturiss
for other wild plants that coulo
troduced with profit to our tap's1
fortune awaits him who does 'ns
cessfully. says LIE Science r1s
We may be shy, at first, OF
iris, or a saxifrage salad,
papers will relate how Bernns
Coquelin ate and liked them,
the iris and the saxifrage VIII
popular. like the potato.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08

The minister of war in Sweden has
prepared bill establishing compul-
sorry military service and there is no
doubt that in due course it will be
passed by the Swedish parliament. Up
30 the present time the Swedish army
has been recruited by voluntary enlist
ment. deficiencies being 9lled up by a
certain number of men being com
PEELED to serve for period of ninety
days.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08

1t conveys a rather striking idea OF
the growth of the country in popula-
ton to consider that the two states of
Iowa and Minnesota contain together
more inhabitants than did the country
over which Washington became rresi-
dent in 1889.
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s O N @

She Is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be.
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me:
Oh! then l saw her eye was bright,
A well OF love, a spring of light.
But now her looks are coy and cold.
To mine they ne'er reply
And yet l cease not to behold
The love-light In her eye:
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maiden's are.
Hartley Coleridge.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08

Tunis, the famous black horse which
General Boulanger rode at the review
in 1886. has died Before his death
the former minister of war consigned
the animal to the charge of his friend,
M. Louis Barber, who sent it to tn
Gironde to end its days in peace. 1t
has been decided to send the animals
tail as a present to NJ Henri Roche
fort
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08

At an experiment in St. Joseph, Mo-,
cat was apparently killed by shock
of electricity carefully administered
Two hours after the heart had ceased
to beat the current was reversed and
the second shock restored the heart
beats, family at first, but growing
stronger until the cat was finally re-
leased as playful and frisky as ever.
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POWER FROM SUNBEAMS.
An Apparatus Devised That Produces
10000 Degrees of Heat.

An APphfatuH DsVHeu THU FrOuuces
10000 Degrees of Heat.
Many a person every day sees the
most powerful engine ever made,
without knowing 1t. Not wheel goes
round anywhere in the world that is
not driven, indirectly. by the sun. 1t
furnished the coal used in the steam
engine and provides the stream that
drive the water wheel. Without 1t
there would be no plants, and there
fore no horses, no oxen, no living crea-
ture of any kind.
Great inventors have tried to find a
way to use the suns energy directly.
Everybody has heard how Archimedes
set nrs to an enemy's feet by focusing
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08

REV. DIR. CHARLES A. DICKEY.
giving for all the agencies Of the
church, for the payment Of debts. for
the support of colleges and missions.
and for the aid of various philanthro-
pies The church already has a move
ment under way to add 100000 chill
dren to the 100000 already attending
its Sunday schools.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08

Electricians have just talked across
the Mississippi at St. Paul by tele-
phone without wires. and it is believ-
sd that conversation can be carried on
in the same way at twelve miles dis
tance. May we not look forward to
the time when all the people of the
earth will be for social purposes in
single room?
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08

Owing to the ever increasing mum
ber of her warships in the Pacific Rus
sia has decided on extensive improve
ments at Vladivostok and Port Arthur
The cost of these figures in the budget
for 1901 amounts in round numbers to
the comfortable sum of $1,0000o0 fol
Vladivostok and $1,5O0,O0o for Port
Arthur
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08

According to advices from London
Japan has invited tenders for the es-
adjustment of an armor-plate factory
at Tokyo, which, it is thought, means
that in the future Japan intends to
construct her own war vessels.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08

Rifaat Bey. Turkish minister to
Athens. was recently bitten by mad
dog owned by his wife. He went to
Paris for treatment.
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THE MARBLE TIMES
AND
CRYSTAL SILVER LANCE
MARBLE. COLORADO.

Ernest Bremen the new president OF
Ewitzerand, is only "A years old but is
one of the ablest International lawyers
In Europe. He is native of the Can
ton of Basle
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-03-08

The representatives from Louisiana
will make an effort to induce congress
to provide for the translation and pub
lication Of some sixty volumes OF
manuscript now in the Ministry OF
Colonies of France, which relate to the
early history of the Mississippi Valley
The existence Of the works was discov-
cred by Prof. Alcee Fortier, president
of the Louisiana Historical Society,
while making researches last summer.
The volumes contain correspondence OF
the colonial governors, orders, procla-
nations, census, grants Of land, regis
try of marriages, births, and deaths,
accounts of the colony and various
data referring to the colony from 1878
to 1907. This literature undoubtedly
contains matter of great interest bear
ing on the early history Of the Mis-
sissippi valley, but it might very well
be translated and published at the ex-
pense of the states directly interested