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other way. And in this way 1t had ended.
 Gresham took in every curve of the face with long haIf-famished look. and closed his eyes to shut out all of its sweetness just as Mrs. Bronsons skirts whispered and rustled along the polished oak.
 "oh. but this Is too funny" she laughed. "Et tu? I din't know you ever looked at a woman unless she had a microbe of some sort" Again she laughed and trailed up to the big, wide fireplace. saying as she took the bit of pasteboard from him: She's wonderful really. To say that men have loved her but faintly approaches 1t. The shore is bleached with the bones of her. victims, She's a siren. The men are on the rocks before they can pull their eyes away. Want to hear about herr" She settled herself comfortably, and Gresham dropped into a big leather chair that sat in the shadow away from the fires tell tale light.
 Her name? What's in a name. laughed Mrs. Bronson. Two years ago she left her home and friends, broke her engagement to one of the finest young fellows I know, and entered a training school for nurses. She isn't whimsical There's something back of 1t; can't fathom it. though. None of her friends thought Frances would stick. She has. Has never been home. know it's hard for her. I can't bear to think of her washing the feet of New York's paupers. Oh," breaking off. that little smothered sound did sound so tired. I'm going to leave you alone in this cosy dusk Don't you move until dinner. I'll see that you aren't disturbed-that no lights are brought
 With another silken whisper of garments Mrs. Bronson was gone, leaving Gresham in stiffness broken only by the fires querulousness and the winds pushing fingers at the window. .a7-'5
 ''oh, you dear" said delicious voice that sent Gresham's pulses bounding and leaping, its just what I wanted vi slender, impatient hand caught back the portiere. It's too bad to find you all alone. had few days off and followed the picture.Y I couldn't help it. The old women grumbled: the babies cried, I had to come" All the pent up lone- Illness of her days was in her voice. With a swift. little rush she crossed tne room and dropped down beside the big chair that held Gresham.
 T want my own people" she. cried, sob in her throat. want to be loved again; to be kissed goodnight. Edith. do you know why did 1t? I'm going to tell you. I've got to tell you" '. Stop? Gresham commanded. and there was something not far from agony in his voice.
 The girl sprang up and looked down at him with eyes that blazed in the uncertain light.
 T couldn't help it," he said. with little quivering smile that would nave gone straight to any woman's heart Two hundred words a min ute. wasn't itr' The fire. fIarinr showed the pent-up passion of his thwarted life in the eyes that looked into hers' loving and despairinE of her. VI
 White. wide-eyed. trembling. she dropped to her knees beside him again. What made you do it?" she
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WIPES NAME BRANDED ON HIS BACK.
Army Lieutenant on Frontier the Victim of
 Singular Accident. Brooklyn Ea1ia

Brooklyn Eagle.
 Time was when 1t was a rather common practice for soldiers and sailors to have DOT traits of their sweethearts tattooed on their arms and breasts. but never heard of moro than one man who had his wife,s name &C., tualiy burned into his flesh with a hot iron. That was Lieutenant Blank-I dare not use real names, for this is a true story and the lieutenant Oong since retired as a coloneD and his estimable wife are stili living.
 It was at frontier post many years ago that the young officer met and welded the popular daughter of a ranchman Her name was Sarah, but in the West in those days it was almost mark of disapproval not to re- duce persons Christian name to a single syllable William was always Bill. Henry was Hank and in the same affectionate way Sarah was always Sal.
 Some Luxuries Lacking.
 Quarters at that post were primitive and accommodations few. For instance when the lieutenant wished to take bath he heated the water on little Universal" wood stove in the kitchen and performed his ablutions in an ordinary washtub.
 We'll. one very cold morning he had filled the little flat-top stove with wood. making rousing fire. not only to heat the water, but to counteract the wintry blasts that sifted through the cracks and crevices of the kitchen walls.
 AHeh' ndNinB poured the water into the washtub. he threw off his bathrobe and was preparing to enter the tub. when, losing his balance. he fell backward and sat square ly upon the red-hot top of tho low stove.
 Rises None Too Soon.
 It doesn't seem necessary to say that he didn't wait for orders from Washington be- fore getting up. Indeed, he assumed per sonal command of the situation as quickly as he could and scrambled to his feet But the deed was done-irrevocably. irremedia- bly, done.
 He snatched a bit of looking glass from the shelf above the sink and backed toward the little window for inspection
 Need I go further than to say that the top of the stove bore the name. ''The Uni versal" In great raised letters, and that the lieutenant had sat upon the final three of them?
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cried. The old memory stung her lips into grief until they quivered like little childs.
 With wavering gesture Gresham swept his hand across his eyes. That he should love her so! That for him there should be nothing in all the wide world but a pair of misty eyes and two. red trembif lips. Phghted words break like glass in the face of big love-" she said softly You taught me that day, ] was going to marry a man I did not love. You taught me-" she said again simply. "'T knew from the very min- ute as I watched you come over the tumbling sea. I wasn't afraid any more. I felt like a cradled child ] ran away because my word was giv- en. I wanted to run right back. You were so eager and sunbrowned and | strong and dear." softly. Again Gresham's hand swept across his eyes as if to clear a mist from them. His brain rocked with the agony of the thing he meant to do Was I like that?" he asked, won- deringly T am now a husk of a man."
 You are better?" she asked quickly Do not the doctors promise" | "Yes." bitterly. They give me straws of hope as I sit at my fireside l of ashes"
 Bid love come in and sit with you" the girl said softly,
 That he should love her so! That for him there should be just her dear face grown white and wistful as a flower and nothing more In all the wide world.
 Love does not come to such as l." he said gently. Tt Is to men like the lad who followed you across the sea 1t comes"
 Tt comes to all men," the girl said Suddenly her lips went white and stiff. You love me?"
 T do not" Gresham said.
 Will you say 1t again." she asked him piteously.
 Greshams eyes did not leave hers as he said the words that burned his lips like fire; they did not waver as she left the room, her head held as a youngn queens should be. But when she was gone his self-restraint | snapped like cord too tightly drawn His head dropped to the chairs big | leather arm.
 The rooms stiffness was broken by the clicking catch in the little clock that ran off an hour or an aeon o1 time, and then. An then! shadowy hair brushed his face. a cheek of mar. vicious softness was crushed to his
 You have lied" she cried. with the little sob he knew in her throat. "You love me-" | T love you" he said brokenly, all his defenses down. ''God help me, q husk of a man."
 The best and the bravest man. | she sobbed. | But his lips. seeking, had closed or hers.
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partment. accredited to Teheran as en- voy on a special mission.
 Dr. Norton Is the American Consul at Harput, who has recently been investi- gating troubles in Turkey. It is be- lived the Persian Government will be impressed with the frmness of purpose of this government regarding the Labaree case by the sending of a special envoy.
 At the State Department it is said that the leader of the band supposed to have murdered Labaree has been ar- rested. There are several others the order for whose arrest has been given, but they are still at large.
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THE STORY RUrNETH THUS.
BY SARA LINDSAY COLEMAN. kcopyrisht. 1904. By Daily Story Pub

Col
 The lamps had not been brought in. but as Gresham crossed the room the firelight. seeking what 1t might il- iumine in the Bronson's quaint. old fashioned library. touched his face. a face that had retained the purity and sweetness which had been its boyish charm. and showed lines of weariness, of hopeIessness almost. traced there as with chisel: showed too, the flush that swept the worn young face as he caught picture from the mantel that had not been there an hour before when Gresham. a bird of passage. new CT very long anywhere. first entered the room.
 As eager as a boy. Gresham dropped to the rug and devoured the sweetness of the pictured eyes. of the mutinous curving lips. Memory came in gusts like the wind outside the window, and telling himself that he must not remember. he knelt there in the fires glow and held tryst with thoughts of the past.
 It had happened in this way: Gres- nam had saved the girls life, and she was grateful. They touched the peir in a world adrift in rolling fog. Glad of his youth and strength. his good name and wealth, Gresham was specu- iating as to the length of time that should elapse before a passion could be declared to find himself crying out for the girl had made step as if med ftating flight, T love you. Love is a mountain torrent to the men of our blood. have dreamed of your lips sweetness, of your hairs softness have drawn back on the edge of every passion and waited for you"
 You woo as men should woo." the girl had said, her eyes like misty stars q little brilliant smile lowering about her lips. Suddenly. a catch fin her throat. frightened at her own audac ity. she had said. as though she had no win to keep back the words. Prince Charming. why didn't you come. r. waited too" had flashed up the pier and disappeared in the hotel doorway
 Through endless days Gresham searched for the girl the sea and the fog had given him. Failing o find her he plunged again into the science that was as the breath of life to him Again he overworked recklessly. Strung to the last notch of his endur- ance he went through the last weary days of an epidemic at the lash of his merciless will. Too tired out to care he went down into the shadows that closed over him, babbling of a fog maid who had eluded him. Life won In the struggle that was just sun mote balancing in the dusty air; but when year had gone by Gres- ham walked on crutches and was still slightly paralyzed. Che day he made his painful and slow way down a mountain village street. He had gone there in his search for health, and found himself looking into her eyes wide eyes that looked into his with be- wilderment to suddenly leap. He saw the glad little color that stuns her rheeks, the eager hand outstretched, and with an effort that brought the sweat to his twitching lips, he walked past. Keeping his head through the throbbing binding moment and tell ing himself fiercely that there was no
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EnIrea-PrIca

Florence. Oct. 2s.-(special. J. Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. J. W. Stutts on Tombigbee Street, Miss Annie Price was married to John Henry Faires of Waterloo, In response to invitations a number of friends had gathered to witness the simple ceremony. there being no at- tendants. MT. Faires is a prosperous farmer of Waterloo and yesterday mrning he left with his bride for their home at that place.
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gy and the wheels were found yester- day in blacksmith's shop on the Mo- bile road near the city where they had been taken for repairs by John Fielder. negro, to whom they had been sold by Redd. Both the buggy and the ex- tra wheels are valued in the warrants at $25
 The case Is set for hearing before Recorder A. H. Arlington this after noon.
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CHARGED WITH LARCENY.
Charlie Redd. n Negro, Is Accused Of
 Stealing Buggy.

Charlie Redd, negro. is confined Tn the city prison on two charges or grand larceny which were preferred yesterday after an investigation by Special Officers Payne. Jackson and Graham.
 Redd Is alleged in the warrants, to nave stolen a blackboard from the Alabama stables and four buggy wheels from a buggy in the stable of Joe Caldwell, a negro. on Columbus Street.
 The buggy was stolen a week or more ago and the four wheels WI . stolen Saturday. As
 On the description furnished by . negro the oficers arrested Redd Thurs- day afternoon on suspicion. The bug
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Crew of Bark Rescued.

Havana. Oct. 27-The American steamer Miami which arrived here to- day from Miami, Fla, brought twelve of the crew of the Spanish bark Cosme Calseada. which was wrecked recently on the Florida coast.
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THE MURDER OF LABAREE.
United States Will Insist on Punish
 ment of the Guilty.

Washington, Oct. 2S.-Immediate ac- tion looking to the arrest and trial of the outlaws implicated in the murder of MT. Labaree. the American missionary, nearly year ago in Persia, will be insisted upon by Dr. Norton, who has been sent to Persia by the State De-
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Couldn't Be Positive.
Philadelphi

Philadelphia Ledger
 Hell--He asked me If your hair was dyed. Bslle-fhe ideal. What did you tell him ? NellseI told him I didn't know; I wasn't with you when you bought it.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
WAS FORMERLY a WAITRESS.
Frank Wheat Sued FOR $4,000 For Al
ieCed Breach of Promise-Giri
Known as Nellie Burns.

WHEELING. w. Va, May 24.-Ne!-
lie Peltier, who has entered suit ct
Detroit, Mich, against Frank Wheat,
OF this city, for fifty thousand dollars
tor alleged breach OF promise, was for
merly employed in this city, at the
Royal Blue, where she was known as
Nellie Burns.
Last July the girl was engaged as a.
waitress in the Royal. position OBJ
tanned for her, it is said, by the de-
PENDANT in the suit. The girl came
here from Mt. Glen ems. She was
young, only about seventeen. bru-
nctte. pretty and petite. She quit
working at the restaurant in Septem-
Der, but she went back to Michigan
only about six weeks ago.
The suit was begun by habias, and
Wheat was arrested Saturday at the
Hotel Normandie in Detroit. An eff
fort was made to compromise the
suit. but the defendant declares that
he intends TO iSht it. He denies that
it was through him that she came 10
Wheeling. as she affirms, but. on the
contrary. followed him here.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
GOULD WAS
SUSPENDED
AND THE COMMITTEE WILL REC
THE FORCE.
HE WILL STILL DRAW SALARY
UNTIL COUNCIL TAKES
SOME ACTION.

The Police Committee of City CouH
Gil met last night to investigate the
conduct and action OF Policeman
Gould.
Chairman Lilly, E,verhart and eX
officio member. Mayor Kinsey, con-
Quoted the meeting. The latter acted
in place of Como Gilman Davis, who is
ont of town.
Gould, it viii be remembered ar
rested Lillys son-in-law Saturday
night, shot several times to induce
another man TO stop. and was alleged
20 have used very bad language. be
sides other offences which will be in
vestigaret at the next meeting of
Council. Gould made no defense
whatever. With the exception Of eX-
kibitin;c q bruised arm, which lie
Claims vas struck with stone or
brick during the fight He Will make
q defense before Council.
The committee recommended MS
dismissal, and decided to suspend
him until Council meets on the first
Tuesday il, June.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
DR.. AND MRS.
pURINTONI
Were Horored With Fine Reception
Last Night

MORGANTOWN, May 2l-The re-
ception given last night in the West
Virginia University Armory by the
members Of the faculty in honor OF
Dr. d. 3. PurintOn of the University
and his estimable wife, as a welcome
home after their trip to the Holy
Land, was a brilliant social success
and most highly enjoyed by the 1I3
guests present, including members OF
the faculty and their wives, members
of the GIee Club and young ladies of
the Woman's Hall.
\ short but admirable address OF
welcome was delivered by DR.. D. p.
Reynolds, and was responded to in
most happy manner by DR.. PCrinton,
whose love for the beautiful West Nir
ginia hills is stronger, if that be pos
sihle. than before he viewed the tow
cring mountains of the Old World.
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R(JNllAW AY
0UIpL
ARRESTED
TWO YOUNG PEOPLE FROM FOL
SOM &ELOPE, BUT ARE TAKEN
INTO CUSTODY BY POLICE
IN CuARkSBURG.
Police Releases Them After Girl Tells
So Story. and They Leave For Cum
II bertrand to Get Married Short
" Before Father Arrives.

CLARKSBURG. May 23-Life was
full of uncertainties, exciting Incl
dents and unpleasant experiences for
q runaway young couple i'll Clarksburg
short time Monday morning. They
we're running off to get married, but
alter arriving in Clarksburg were
taken into custody by the police. In
this particular instance love conquer
ed and laughed at the law as well as
1t did at locksmiths, and a pursuing
fatherS7was outwitted after all.
333E The telephone bell at police head
quarters rang furiously for a short
( time early Monday morning before
the day policemen had taken their
beat 1t was answered by Policeman
Rogers, who heard the high pitched
4 voice of an irate father at the other
end of the line. He asked the police
man to stop his daughter who had
: left his home at Folsom with her low
8 er with the very evident intention of
getting married. a short description
officers went over to the Baltimore
and Ohio passenger depot to find the
young couple.
ss;g Nv men The young man and his in
s tended bride arrived at the depot with
s4the intention of leaving on a train for
/ the East, they were taken into custody
by the. police. Their happy dreams
were rudely shaken and things began
4 10 look very dark for them as they
We're being marched off to police head
quarters.
s s$ Arriving at the city building the
young couple We're taken before Chief
Howe. a little court of inquiry was
held and the young girl told the whole
4 story. She was seventeen years of
y age and he was nineteen. They had
slipped away from parental restriction
sand were going to get married. The
arI told her story very plainly and
AT the conclusion the police thought
that the circumstances were such that
the very best thing the young couple
SeouId do at this stage OF the game
ssaNiTId be to get married. The young
s'H' ,Ie were released from custody
zEs hey hurried a to the passenger
81 where they caught the East
ST "a for Cumberland, at which
no doubt now enjoying
arTied life. They got
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
Charged With Vagrancy.

ALBANY, n. Y, May 23-John
Rush. of Pittsfield, Pa. Frank Nor
gan, William Johnson and Charles De
1aney, of this city, four of the gang
arrested in connection with the re,
covery. of the Depeymaster jewels,
were arraigned in police court today
charged with vagrancy. Rush and
Morgan were sent to the penitentary
for thirty days. Johnson to the city
Jail for Is days, and Delaney was
given over to the custody of detectives.
More of the stolen jewelry has been
recovered from pawn shops about the
city.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
EAGLES
SECURE LODGE RooM-TEN WILL
BEiMlTlATEO INTO THE MYS-
TERIES OF EAGLEDoM To-
MORROW NIGHT

The local Aere of Eagles has Sc
cured the rooms formerly occupied by
the Eiks. in the Skinner building on
Main street, Tor their lodge room.
The rooms will be thoroughly reno
waited, have several partitions remoT-
cd and be refurnished throughout.
They expect to move to their new
quarters in about two weeks. This
lodge is certainly growing To-mcr-
row night about ten will be initiated
into the mysteries of Eagiedorn-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
Deadly Headache Powders.

CHARLESTON, May pa physi-
clan at LewisburS some time ago put
up a lot of headache powders for the
female college there. and as a result
two died and others suffered terrible
agony. II is claimed they We're put up
by an inexperienced drug clerk. who
got the wrong stuff in them. Author
tiles are Investigating.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
NEAT SUM
OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS is TO BE DIST RIB
UTED AMONG EMPLOYEES
UNDER PROF!T-SHAE-
ING PLAN.

NEW YORK, May 24.-Under the
profit-sharing plan adopted two years
ago, the American Smelling and Re
fininS Company Will distribute in a
few days 100000 in cash among its
employees. The arrangements are now
being made to divide the cash in pro
portion to the amount of earnings.
According to the plan surplus is set
aside over and above S7,5O0,00O, which
the Smelter trust must have earned in
order TO make n cash deposit
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
BUGGY "SlDESWIPED"
BY a Big Wagon and Thrown In Front
Of An Approaching Car.

a large wagon belonging to the West
Virginia Grocery and Candy Com
pany ':sideswiped" buggy at the cor
ner of Jackson and Barney streets
yesterday evening about o'clock.
The buggy, which had been stand
ing on the street for some time. was
thrown across the car track directly
in front of an approaching car, which
struck the vehicle, without much dam
age, however.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
LOST HIS MONEY I:
In ST. Louis, Did Henry Peterson, a
Morgantown Man.

Mike Yasso was arrested yesterday
for drunkenness. His Honor fined
him $500 this morning. 5:55
Henry Peterson IS Morgantown:
man. Henry is just returning from
the Worlds Fair. He says that he
was touched for all the money he had
the second day he was in st. Louis
Yesterday, Officer Stone, of the b. &
O., grabbed him al the station; $500
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
Prominent People Drowned.

ST. JOHN, n. B., May 23.-John H
Thompson, a prominent shipping mer-
chant, r. P. Foster, of the general
bank of Canada here, and E. P. Stew
art inspector Of the bank of New
Brunswick, were drowned Sunday
while sailing in sail boat South in
the branch of Oromocto Lake. They
we're among the most prominent cit
liens here.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
Mystery Surrounds Death. \

BERLIN, May 24.-The death of
Duke Paul Frederick, of Meck1enburg,
few days ago, is surrounded by a
considerable mystery. The first re-
ports had it that he had died as the
result of nights carousal. Several
other causes. however, have been Civ
en-, the latest being that while intox-
icated he fell down stairs and broke
his neck.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24

Attended Funeral! At Sl1innston.
c. w. Walker and wife, with Miss
Allie Nay, attended the funeral OF
Laura Tucker at Shinnston yesterday.
The deceased was 4 cousin to Mrs
Walker
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
DECORATION DAY
A. Grafton, Monday, May 3oeh-On:y
IS cents Round Trip.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
will sell excursion tickets to Grafton
ard return on Monday. May 30th. Dec
Grafton Day, for trains leaving Far
mont at 900 a. NJ. and 1888 a. NJ.
Grand parade at 100 p. NJ. Hon. =.
G. Dayton, orator of the day.
For tickets and additional informa-
ton call on ticket agents.
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Mrs. darlington Better.

Mrs. ]. r. Tall>ington, of the Fifth
ward. is considera bly, better to-day.
although she feels pretty sore yet as
morning.
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Meet me! "Whcn?" ''When?" Nor
gantown, May 3Oth. Great day. .
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away at the depot about an hour be-
fore the Short Line train which bore
the pursuing father, arrived.
The young mans namc was Hess
and the bride-elect was Miss Call
man. Both are we'll known young
people of Folsom.