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CHAPTER XIV.
FOUR GENTLEMEN OF WEALTH.

I" HE situation Of Harvey Irons
on the hayboat was critical
E~fSl in the extreme; but, great as
~ was his danger. he regarded
1t as nothing compared to the danger
that threatened Alma. He was al
most exhausted from hunger, cold and
grief. The boat slowly drifted in
southern direction, making toward the
eastern side Of the Caspian. 1t drift
ed out of the ordinary course Of navi-
cation. and he watched in vain for a
as possible the course of the ameers
sloop and reasoned that 1t was making
for the nearest Bokharan port. Night
came on, with no rescuing vessel In
sight Hour after hour he drifted,
hoping almost against hope, ever think
Ing of Alma and of a way to help her
About midnight IL seemed to him that
the rocking motion of the boat had
ceased; that it had become stationary.
"Here is n pretty messg he exclaim-
ed. 81 wonder II this old hulk has run
aground. The Caspian is shallow, but
I did not think boat like this could
run aground in the middle of it."
An examination In the dark was not
easy. Harvey slid down the pile Of
hay, cropping about with one hand
while he clung for safety with the 9TH
er. He fancied he saw faint light
glimmering some distance from him,
but 1t disappeared as suddenly as 1t
had come. He saw the light again. a
quick passing from one point to anoth-
er, but showing for moment only.
"Now, that light Is not on vessel. "
Harvey reasoned. "It is n lantern car.
ried around by person who is walking
on land. II drifted aground here. Ger
tainly there cannot be water enough at
that place to float any kind Of vessel.
I've probably drifted on the shore Of
some Island. Is It q hospitable island.
or will be worse OF In the clutches Of
the Inhabitants than where I ami The
wind may drive me OF again before
morning and a vessel pick me up. But
would the vessel be any safer than this
island2 And how can investigate
without attracting attention.
Soon there was another gleam Of
light such as might come thfs1gA "a
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Hold on there. Yet that mnn nlone~

''Hold on there! Yet that man alone-'
shouted Harvey. rushing In.
His presence disconnected the rob
bers, and they stopped lighting Domi-
tan, with n curse and l;asping for
breath, rose to his feet and seized his
knife.
"Who are your" the robbers demand
ed I'm chorus.
The four seemed rendy to join
against Harvey.
MY friends" he said. permit me to
say that this conduct upon my own
territory, to which you were not invit-
ed, is most unsecmly | am the owner
of this island. having just purchased it
from the Russian government I'll have
no murder committed here"
You! The owner of the island of
Ping Shongr'
"That's what l said! At this moment
own the island
at is lier' said Domltan. You die
on your island, them
He made II rush. but Palpak inter
cepted him. The other two, recovering
from their astonlshment. Joined with
Domitan.
Suddenly from the outer cavern came
the rush of booted feet and the clank of
arms.
"Selze them all,'' commanded Captain
Sergius Orskoff to the force of Russian
soldiers, who rushed upon the coml at
ants and executed the order before the
American and the robbers Were aware
Of their presence.
At the moment Harvey recognized
Orskoff the latter exclaimed;
"The American, | have found you
At last!"
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The Best Thing In Beulah

Owner will sell one third or one
half interest in q summer resort prop
osition at Beulah Doctor or expert
enced hotel man preferred.
Would require $4,000 to $1,000 tx
acquire interest in the real estate anc
for share in improvements that SHOULD
be made. Open to the closest investi'
CATION. Burlington & McWilliams,
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"Who are youf" the robbers demanded.
use originally intended. Three against
one. II can save the leader. can NO
doubt enlist him in my behalf"
He crept to the wall and peered
around. A strange sight met his eager
gaze. On wooden peg that had been
driven into crevice Of the rocky wall
hung n lantern. On the stone floor Of
the cavern squatted four men in a cir
Gle, and between them were many bags
Of cleaning Jewels, bales Of choicest
fabrics and bags of gold.
II was not difficult to pick out Pal
pax, for his watchful eyes were rowing
from one to the other as he remained
on his guard against an attack. But
the plans Of the other three were al.
ready laid. 1t was evidently a precon-
eerted arrangement. The one called
Demitan shouted tNow! and the three
Aueied themselves upon Palpak.
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HARVEST LABORERS' RATES
To aid in harvesting the enormous
grain crop of Kansas the Santa Fe has
made very low rates for harvest hands
to various points. See Nikirk for par
ticulars, 225 North Union avenue.
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Prices Fall

A Groom frame dwelling; east front
on car line, reduced from s1,s0O to
81, 200. On easy terms. Liberal
reduction for cash. Burlington &
McWilliams.
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Some Of the Best Things.

Drink Blue Ribbon and Red, White
Z Blue Beer, they're the best. Drink
Pure Health Giving White Rock Lithia
Water." Silver San Juan, the BEST
SMOKE" "A Real Havana Smoke,
JEFFERSON CIGAR"
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G. A. R. RATE TO BOSTON.

The Santa Fe will have the best ser
vice and lowest rates to the Grand
Army reunion In Boston. See us for
particulars. Q. G. Nikirk, Q. P. and I.
A., 225 North Union avenue. 28
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TO Be Continued)

ABSOLUTELY QUICKEST, BEST
Leave Pue bio 4 p. m, arrive St. Louis
s p. M. next day, Santa Fe, Sl715
round trip.
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House Right In Town

A 5-room house for rent in the paw
ing district No mud nor dust and
"right in town" Cheap. Burlington
& McWilliams.
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$1,000 Chicago and Return
Via Santa Fe. For particulars
phone Main ?. Shortest and best
line to Chicago and St. Louis.
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FASTEST TRAIN IN COLORADO
The c, & S. Limited, leaving Pueblo
at $40 p. m. for Colorado Springs
and Denver. carries cafe car
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Burlington & HcVilllams

Are are offering an east front lot OF
Pine st. in the 1900 Block, for $50.
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CHAPTER XVI.
At last!'

AN ARGUMENT AND AN EXPLANATION.
~ 1ENGEANCE cleaned In Ors.
koif's eyes. His sword was
EssS at the throat of the American.
kASfS) "Stealer of women, Scoun-
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CHRISTMAS NUMBERS OFF wAe.
 ZINES.
The AEetr0pOIitan Nraraulne.

U ~SeESNoHtAm Magazine AFa ls
 Nothing holds interest frmer than sne relation of the things that are. Af- ter one has reached a certain mark in IiVIhs' or in experience, that is not counted by the yearss. fiction nsIIs Storytelling is only interestinr ss it conforms closely to the real. Tt is this narration of the real that makeE .Tohn Corpins paper in Metropolitan one of tne pest in the number. "A Boy's Eve View of the Circus" is good reading. ". A. Fraser's prize story, 'Yarn the Cost" is story of strength that gives vivid glimpses of the vast Nortbvsaat- woods and their mongrel inhabitants among whom the civilized must keen a watehful eye to dwell in safety. The vivid narrative carries the reader on with breathless interest. one believes thet such things are in the actual. Tho etyie is little marred by that over. metaphoric exaggeration of diction that seems to belong more to a tvro-Ie. porter's copy of a street dog fight in a penny paper than to the pages of A magazine of worth and beauty. ns
 sometimes sought with strong ciawed Feet to dislodge the army of feas that housed in the thick hair-forest that crowned his back like a wolf's erest " And this, "A rod tongue darted from tha plack mouth of his Winchester; A huff of dust spat upward from the doT'S feet" If a reader stops to get a men tai adjustment of this metaphor. or many-mixed metaphors, what ia 1t? he loses the thread of a good yarn. Again. The hot sun had drawn his yellow robes about his shoulders and stalle,I from our sight over the brow of the western uplands. The singing agents of unrest, the mosquitoes, clouded the air, rising in fierce strength with the alow-growing gloom of the coming night" Night, thank heaven, is ai- lowed to come without accompanying metaphors The over-exhuberant dual- fly of the word-plctures pending is di- verting in both senses of the word But with the progress of the story. the writer forgets to so inoumber his nar- rative. or makes us forget in interest the incumbencies. which is quite as good a thing to do.
 Mfr. Joel Chandler Harris has another of the later Uncle Remus" stories. Brother Rabbit and the Glzzard-Eat- er," in this number. In these later tales there is little of the snap, and wit and homely philosophy that made 'TJn- ele Remus" the worlds best story teller. The fiction that the Alligator
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Eddring: "Tell me. how do you make
 Ana | rddring: .wsIi. Colonel Blount, in our family we used to have an old silver mug--aort of plain mug, you know, a few flowers around the eNea of It--been in the family for years. Now. you take a mug like that. and let 1t lie in the ice-box all the time. and when you take 1t out, it's sort of got d white. frost all over 1t. Now, my old daddy, he would take this mug | and nut some dne ice into it4-not too | fne. Then he'd take little cut loaf sugar, in another glass. and he'd mash 1t up in a little water-not too much water--then he'd pour that in over the | ice. Then he would pour some good
 corn whiskey in till all the interslices {, of that ice were filled plumb up, then he'd put some nlint4--"
 Didn't smash the mint7 Say, he l didn't smash the mint, did her"
 Smash it7 I should say not. sIrt | Sometimes, at certain seasons of the mint, he might just sort of twist at the leaf, to sort of release little the flavor, you know"
 would dare venture that Mir. Hough
 has heard just that verbatim in the l Delta Country. One learns to know when little bits of actual happenings --AAN e1S SOo snug up IEQm IHe QGKC. Unless one had heard of the rapid slip ping into barbarisn and voodooism of
 the blacks where they come little into contact with the dominant race 1t would be hard to credit the forest wor-
 ship Of the Quadroonoueen, the guttink to the beat of the primitive drum in the fastness of the forest the wild dance and excitant song of the blacks at their weird and horrid rites.
 The "white-folks-nigger" appears in this volume also. The negro who havA ing no sympathy with them. but thInly veneereQ barbarian of his people ia by them distinct and dubbed a white. mans. black nigger- Jack was suoh an one, hear him tell of his being sent to jail for shooting at one of his race wife, me
 Dem Whlte folks never would let me Tn Jail at all. When I got thar de jaiier man and his wife was right sick, and dey want no one to take care .,
 tninks. l amt bad at nussin' folks. so Jest turned in an nussed dat jail- CT man an his folks fer bout siy
 weeks. sort O run dat jail fer awhile
 myser. De jailer was too poly to en- Joy workin hard, so I took de keys an,
 When dey didn't need me at nights. over at nis house, allus locked myse'f Tn riglar ever night. sos to feel was doin' right, you know In de Ynornin'. right early. I made breakfast fer dem. an nx dem up right. Finally, dey got ven. an. l gave de keys to de taller or 1e she In' or whoever he was and I sez reckon he better lock me 0n no,,- ana he sey to me. Go long, you damn nigger ain't a-goin' to lock you mn az all l couldn't. It looks lak dera aint no place for a nigser,''
 another bit of the actual, I venture.
 The story runs rapidly through many excitlng events, race war, treacherv oi the blacks. a revenge horrible as ia alWays the revenge of the Angfo-saxon s.p upon all opposed to him in every land. the moss-hung forests of the Delta ana all ends happily. 0''" Hough. sun
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Camp at Bear Pond" (Harpers;) and MT. Rood. having reason to doubt the authenticity of the statement, wrote to Julian Hawthorne, and received the following interesting reply:
 Yonkers N. F.. Nov. B. 1904.
 Dear Mir. Rood,--I have yours of Mo- vember 1. The statement to which you refer is quite baseless. ''The Gentle Boy was written before my father had become known to the Peabody family But 1t was the occasion of his meeting them; for Elisabeth Pea body, having read 1t, wrote to him about it: and their correspondence finally resulted in his calling at the Peabody house. Afterward Miss S0- phia Peabody, my mother. made an H. illustration for the story, which was engraved and a separate edition of the atory was published with it This is as near as she came 10 writing it.
 Sincerely yours.
 Julian Hawthorne.
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PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
An UnpubIished Letter from O. w
 Holmes.

An UnpubIiHhed Letter from o. w.
 Holmes.
 An interesting and hitherto unpub- lIshed letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes appears in the Books and BOokmen" department of the current issue of Harper's Weekly. It was sent to a Scottish minister, now living in Edinburgh, who had written a review of Holmes's life of Motley for a Dun dee paper. Here is a passage in which the genial autocrat appears in a char acterlstic vein: "A writer ought not, suppose, to thank a critic for his good opinion and his favorable judgment. He is supposed to be like justice with her balance. but without her bandage flair. but by no means blind. Yet we cannot help feeling differently to those who speak well of us. and those who fail to discern our excelleneies and are eloquent in exposing our defects"
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JOHN l.. COBBS & co.

of the "old time darkies," who have always been distinctly aristocratic in their tastes. as full of Southern pride as any of their masters and inclined to take a rather contemptuous view of reformers of their race; a curious phase of the negro character, but one that undeniably exists.
 A number of sketches in the book were made by outcauIt, the creator of Pore LII Nose" and Buster Brown made famous by the New York Herald. The volume will undoubtedly have a large sale everywhere, as Uncle Bob's abundant fun, keen wit. shrewd phllos- ophy and common sense, yet pathetic faith in religion make a strong appeal to the average man and woman.
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Harold sIacCsrath.

Box has just been issued, is one of the many men who have blossOmed into fiction from the newspaper field. Mir. MacGrath's journalistic work has been carried on chiefly in Syracuse, N. r.. where he has made his home for many years. His previous novels. The Puppet Crown" and The Grey Cloak % both extraordinarily successful, were swashbuckling romances. With '"rhe Man on the Box" he comes back to present day America after his long wanderings In old days and imaginary Kingdoms. But he has left none oe his high romance behind him. In mod
 ern Washington he dnda situations as adveHturous, wit as polished, laughter
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The shrine

 Dear, have built in a wood
 A shrine that Is sacred to you, And there I would dream if could.
 But there's a duty to do. Deep in the forest it stands,
 Fragrant with balsam and pine. Built not by arduous hands
 But by fancy divine. Cut of its twilight your eyes
 Look into mine. with a gaze Eloquent, wistfully wise,
 Of impossible days. Yet, though my joy and my woe
 Fade with the dimness of years, Still to your shrine will go
 For my laughter and my tears. Louise Morgan sill. in Harper's
 Weekly.
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Bernard shavs. Eceentrlelty.

George Bernard Shaw, whose Man and Superman" will be presented shortly by Robert Lorraine, is that cu- rious anomaly, a literary man of inde- pendent fortune--a fact which makes the playwright himself rather aggres- sively independent.
 Cyril Maude once confessed to Mfr. Shaw: T have taken the liberty of cut ting six lines out of the third act of You Never Can Tell
 Mir Shaw replied: That was a lib- erty that I cannot allow"
 But my dear sir, you must under stand that, with those lines, it would
 'Tmpossiblew exclaimed the drama tlst; you don't say so. My good feI- low. you delight meF'-Harper's Week lY
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The Efficacy Of Prayer.

Mrs. Aaude Howe Elliott tells of a conversation that once took place in a friends house In Boston in which there were discussed certain phenomena of the mind. Some one observed that 1t was a curious thing that no man could do one thing and think of an- other.
 During the discussion a little girl of ten, the daughter Of the host, was listening attentlvely.
 T can do one thing and think of an- other" she said.
 "What is itr' asked her father.
 Well" she said. 'lt is very easy for me to say the Lords Prayer and think of almost anything else I want to. do it every night."--Harper's Week. lR
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Tn Washington, the second week af- ter issue, Thaekeray's Letters to an American family" and Tudor Jenks's Life of Captain John Smith" jump ed at once into the list of books most called for at the Library of Congress Miss Miriam Michelson's new book, ''The Madigans,1 in the same library took immediate rank among the four most poular works of fiction of the week
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ssUnels BOB"-HiS "Reminiscences

By Laura FitEhugh Preston. Illus trated by R. F. Cutcault. S126. The Grafton Press, New York.
 'TJncls Bob," said Tom, you're a regular Arabian Nights Entertain ment." This remark, made by 'sMarse Tom" as Uncle Bob begins one of his his recitals describing very happily the form in which Mrs. Preston has put her iuiuaitable stories and sketches of Southern, life and character. Uncle Bob spins yarn after yarn, ranging from some of the funniest negro stories ev- or written to pathetic and even tragic epfgodes in the history of the old Virginia family which ne has so faith fully served for nearly 8 century.
 Uncle Bob is a real character and a famous parsonage in his section of the country, having reached the advance d axe, he says. of one hundred and four" It Is certain, anyhow, that he haa been a member of the "fambIy'' further back than anyone can remem- her. at the close of three generations that of Miss Lucy and 'Marse Tom" their mother, who threw the rose that hit the Prince of Wales on his nose; and their grandmother,--and~ truly loved them all Tn return he has been held in that afEectionate regard so of- len given as a matter of course in the south to old servants, to the surprise of households who change cooks every two weeks.
 In short, Uncle Bob tS one of the last
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JeFernon na q nnnAr.

The popular idea that Thomas Jeff ferson was an exemplar of simplicity in habit and theory is not supported by some entertaining details which tre contained in a collection of Vir- ginian "reminiscences of Jefferson pub lished in the current issue of Harper's Weekly. It appears from these recol- lections that Jefferson was a good deal of a dandy in the matter of dress and peraDnaI appearance. He wore a roundabout" coming down low as a coat, a long red vest, knee brooches, gray stockings, and low shoes with ailver buckles. The collar, bosom and wristbands of his shirt were "done up" in the most careful style, as he was very fastidious about the washinR and ironing of his linen; the washerwom- en at Monticello would never allow themselves to be interfered with when doing up MT. Jefferson's shirta' '
 q Valuable Bit of UnWrftten History.
 There has lately been repeated a cer- tain statement about Hawthorne's sto- Fy, "The Gentle BoyF which has stood uncorrected for some time for lack of any challenge to the contrary. Both the challenge and the correction have now been made. The statement to the effect that Hawthorne's wife who was Miss Sophia Peabody. had really herself written "The Gentle Boy" came recently to the attention of Mr. Henry Edward Rood, author og Tn
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the strongest and most convincing Of British writers of fiction is introduced to Americans in The InkerlopeF, (Doubleday, Page and companyl, by Violet Jacob. Her first novel. ~rha Sneep-stealers." made a deep imprea- sion. and its promise Is fulfilled in The InteEloper." AErs Jacob ia the wife of Major Arthur Jacob. who had a distinguished military career in In- dia, and who now has an important post in India. She has rare distinction of style. and her whole work has lite- rary quality of a high order Tho scenes of "The InterlopeF1 are laid in a quaint Scotch coast village. whicn ls the picturesque background of an ab- sorbing and dramatic tale. Tho Eng fish critics agree that Mrs. Jacoh'a place In literature is secure
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JOHN L. COBBS & go.
Making PSpay0Ons for hs H0Hdov Several sOcks reduced 10 Us pyOpe dpy 6 Christmas sfOck D
Handsome Furs.

Nothing sssOve acceptable fOy a Cbyfsfsss0s present. EElAy ssOf bsey ssOsV 6sfoYs |shc sfOck is dsbIsfsG. Some b0yficssI0yiy h an ds Onss llljnk 0sd Sa6Le Fos Sets im sf0ck fhis sVssk.
 Oms IOt Of S06Is 0'sd Ls- absiI0 FoF. Scayfs at sls,yo s0ch. Best for fhs nsOssy sVsv offered hsxs.
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Hard Colda-PeopIe whose blood M pure are not nearly SC likely % tAkN hard colds as are others d0odE HgFa saparilla makes the blood puras anN this great medicine recovaFM kha NgHv tenn after a cold aa no otAae matieinM does Tak2 Hoods.
 Adv. tu-thU-au.
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as hearty, ladies as fair, men as brave, and love as strong, as ever he found them in osia and Paris.
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A Toast.

A roast Let him who will drink to his love. Or pledge a friend in wine; A rousing toast I'll give to thee. o enemy of minol Pour forth the amber liquid: i'll Your glasses to the brim; Here's to the man whose heart for me Bears naught but hatred griml How oft when steep ascents climb Would I cast down my load. Did not his royal enmity My tagging footsteps goadi So drink again! your bumpers raise And gaily clink with me; Here's to the nan yho hates me we'll Down with Mine Enemyp Blanche Goodman, in December
 Smart Set.
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The Coming os Might.

The Coming o3 Might The last Sun glories are Into vast dimness gone; Night. busy at her dawn Begins 1t with a star. John Vance Cheney, in neeembee Smart Set,
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Only Four Weeks Before Christmas.

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