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The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-16
LOCOMOTIVE BLASTS

stepped on a rusty nail last Friday in
getting of an engine, inflicting pain
full wound.
Brakeman j. F. Schwambach fell
off a car at Mt. Vernon, ILL.,, Saturday
in train OF. He was not disabled
from the fall, however, and worked
through to Howell.
Mike DEWEY, machiniSt at Howell,
has resigned.
Fireman H. c. Tornatta, of the St.
Louis Division, has resigned.
The coal train between MaScoutah
and E. st. Louis has been taken off.
j. L. Darneal, who has been watch
ing the coal train engine all winter, at
MaScoutah, ILL.,, has been started out
as fireman.
Fireman J. w. Porter is laid up
with a broken knee cap.
Switchman RoSemeier was slightly
injured between twocarS while switch
ing in Howell yards Friday.
A western railroad recently dis
charged seven of its best engineers on
short notice. Special agents had seen
them enter saloons. Each of the en-
gineers admitted that they had visited
saloons, claiming, however, that they
did not take anything to drink, but
simply took something to smoke.
That made no difference with the
railroad company. If they had only
entered for the purpose of looking at
the paintings or Statuary, or listening
a moment to the grinding of graph
ophone or music box, the result
would have been the same. What
more than the railroads are doing
could be done to advance the cause of
temperance?
Thomas Walsh left last week for
Redding, California, where he will
spend sometime on business.
In attempting to climb to the top
of the coal gate on the tank of engine
20 pulling train % Saturday, fire
man J. w. Rogers fell off into the
deck of the engine, striking his back
on the fire door latch and injuring
himself.
A. j. Bruning, foreman painter, is
making an inspection trip over these
divisions. He was at Guthrie recent
ly, from which place he went to st.
Louis.
Train y left jacksonville the 9TH
er evening. with two passenger who
evidently thought they were seated in
pig'pen-to judge from the way
they covered the floor around their
feet with tobacco Juice. 1t is we'll
known fact that such disregard for
public decency has a tendency to
spread disease. Some men will raise
the window to expectorate and some
will even swallow the juice rather than
cover the floor, but these two gentle
men (?) cared to do neither. But
let them beware. Every dog has his
day. Since the Kentucky State Board
of Health has adopted regulations
which make splitting on the floor of
any railway car or station violation
of law, punishable by fine and i'm
priSonment, to be put into effect at
an early date, such objectionable
scenes will be eliminated. The peo-
pie of Kentucky have about as much
to rejoice over as the people of Indiana.
Edgard Van Etten, vice president
of the New York Central R. R., has
an article in last weeks LeSlie'S Week
lyon 1.-The Rate Question.
Jessie Wilson, known throughout
the country as the railroad evange-
list, is in Spencer, Indiana. No 9TH
er person is doing as much effective
work among railroad men.
pronar Treatment of pnenm onia
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-16

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Morris tribune., 1905-12-23

REFUSED my daughter! And you.
shameless girl, you forced yourself up
on hin-threW yourself into his arms n
Eyes. | loved him. Didst never1ove
in thine own day, my father? Didst
never feel that life itself were as moth
ing compared to what beats and throbs
here?'
"But Don Felipe?'
..He is a gallant gentleman. / love
him not Oh, SIR
Press your daughter no further, Don
Alvaro. She is beside herself" gasped
out Alvarado hoarsely. "'Tis all my
fault. loved her so deeply that she
caught the feeling in her own heart.
When am gone she will forget me.
You have raised me from obscurity;
you have loaded me with honor; you
have given me every opportunity. I will
be true / will be faithful to you.
Twill be death, but I hope it may
come quickly Misjudge me not, sweet
lady. Happiness smiles not upon my
passion; sadness marks me for her
own. pray twill be but for little
space. Give me some work to do that
-
Morris tribune., 1905-12-23
BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRAD
Author of THE Southerners, For

| balcony ran along the second story
passing the viceroy's cabinet, beyond
| which was his bedroom and beyond
| that the apartments of his daughter
| The rain had ceased and the storm had
! spent itself. 1t was calm and beau
| tiful night. The moon, shining with
tropic splendor through the open win
dow, dispensed with the necessity OF
lights. There was no one in the cabi-
net when he entered, and he felt at
last able to give way to his emotion,
Mercedes, though she was not mar
ried, was now lost to him beyond re
course. After the women withdrew
from the hall with Donna Mercedes
there was no restraint put upon the
young mobiles, and from the other side
of the patio came the sound of uproari-
GUS revelry and feasting, his friends
and comrades with generous cheer fe-
licitating the happy bridegroom that
was to be- Alvarado was alone, I'M
disturbed, forgotten, and likely to re-
main so. He put his head upon his
hands and groaned in anguish.
"Why should it not have been I?'' he
murmured. lis he stronger, Drawer, a
better soldier? Does he love her more?
Riches? Can / not acquire them
Fame? Have not large measure?
Birth? All, that is it! Ny father! My
mother! If l could only know! How
she looked at me! What piteous ap-
peal in her eyes! What reproach when
stood passive, cased in iron, with a
breaking heart. Mercedes! Merce-
desv'
In his anguish he called the name
aloud So absorbed and preoccupied
in his grief had he been that he was
mot aware of a figure softly moving
along the balcony in the shadow. He
did not hear football coming through
the open window that gave into the
room. He did not realize that he had
an auditor to his words, witness to
his grief, until touch soft as snow
flake fell upon his fair head and a
voice for which he languished whis-
pered in his ear:
s'You called me- I am come"
ing his head and gazing upon her in
startled surprise, ''Now came you
nere?" he added brusquely, catching
her hands with a fierce grasp in the
intensity of his emotion as he spoke.
SIS this my greeting?' she answer
ed, surprised in turn that he had not
instantly swept her to his heart.
She strove to draw herself away,
and when he perceived her intent he
opened his hands and allowed her
arms to fall by her side.
Il have been mistaken" she went on
piteously. II am not wanted"
She turned away and stood full in
the silver bar of the moonlight stream
ing through the easement. Her white
face shone in the light against the dark
background of the huge empty room
that face with it's aureole of soft,
dark hair, the face of saint, pale yet
not passionless, of the heaven heaven
Morris tribune., 1905-12-23
Do Tobar recoiled in surprise

! calls thy name! By ST. Jago, sir, have
| you dared to offer violence to this
! lady?"
His hand went to his sword. To
draw it was the work of a moment
He menaced the young soldier with the
point.
II could kill you as you stand therep'
he cried in growing rage But the
memory of our ancient friendship
stays my hand. You shall have a
chance. Where is your weapon!''
"Strike, if it please you. want
nothing but DEATH answered AIyara-
do, making no effort to defend himself
"Hast deserved it at my hands.
then?" exclaimed the now Infatuated
De Tobar.
..'Stayr' interrupted the viceroy, re-
entering the room. What means this
assault upon my captain? Donna Mer-
cedes?"
.She revives,' said the duenna.
SIS it thou, senora?" said the viceroy.
81 sought thee unayailingly.''
''Your highness,' said the old wo-
man. II missed the. senorita and found
her here'
'sAnd how came you unbidden into
my private cabinet, Don Felipe?"
Your excellency, Sonora Agapidal
found me in the corridor She was dis
trauglt over her lady's absence. We
knocked. There was no answer. We
entered. I crave your pardon, but it.
was well I came, for | found my be
trothed and my best friend alone here
he pointed gloomilv. - 4 Spanish gen
tleman alone at this hour of the night
with.
,sflence.7 thundered the viceroy 4
SSoulleist asperse my daughters
name? Darest thon BY heaven, you
hold q weapon in your hand. I am old,
but Guard thyselfr' he called. whip
ping out his sword with astonishing
agility.
II cannot fight with YOU said De
Tobar, lowering bis point. ..But ex
plain!''
aI'he Donna Mercedes IS as pure as
heaven asserted Alyarado,
Morris tribune., 1905-12-23

'Into the women's apartments, my
lord 2?
May, l will 60 Watch you here
answered the old man, promptly rum
ming through the window and out on
the balcony toward the apartments of
his daughter. He went quickly, but
making no noise, for he did not wish
the events of the evening to become
public.
Left to himself, Alvarado. resisting
the temptation to take the PROSTATE
form of his love in his arms and cover
her cold face with kisses, knelt down
by her side and began chatting her
hands. He thought it no breach of pro-
priety to murmur her name. Indeed,
he could not keep the words from his
lips. Almost instantly the yiceroy de
parted there was commotion in the
outer hail. There was knock on the
door, repeated once and again, and be-
fore Alvarado could determine upon a
course of action Don Felipe burst into
the room, followed by Sonora Agapida,
the duenna of Donna Mercedes.
"Your excellency," cried the old wo-
man in agitation, 81 missed the Sc
norita. | have searched
"But who is this?" interrupted De
Tobar, stepping over to where Alyara-
do still knelt by the PROSTATE girl
"'Iis not the viceroy!'' He laid his
hand on the other mans shoulder and
recoiIed in surprise.
in ho ssWbot
do you here, and Who
"There lies the Donna Mercedes
shrieked the duenna
"She is hurt?"" asked Felipe, for the
moment his surprise at the presence Of
Alvarado lost in his anxiety for his be-
trothed
81 know not" answered the distract
ed old woman.
.sShe lives" said Alvarado, rising to
his feet and facing his friend. "She
hath but tainted"
? "Waterw said Sonora Agapida.
Both men started instantly to hand
her the carafe that stood on a table
near by. Don Felipe was nearer and
got it first.
Sonora Agaplda lOOSened the dress of
the young woman and sprinkIed her
face and hands with the water, laying
her head back upon the floor as she did
so, and in a moment the girl opened
her eyes. In the darkness of the room,
for no lamp had as yet been lighted,
she had not recognized in her beWilder-
ment who was bending over her, for
Alvarado had forced himself to draw
back, yielding his place to De Tobar
as if by right.
''Alvaradov' she murmured
''She lives" said Don Felipe, with re-
lief and jealousy mingled in his voice,
and then he turned and faced the 9th
er.
"And now, Senior Alavarado, perhaps
you will be able to explain how you
came to be here alone at this hour of
night with my betrothed and why she
Morris tribune., 1905-12-23
us this the honor Of Captain Alvarado ; =

| I may kill sorrow by losing my life,
! my lord. And thou, Donna Mercedes,
forget me and be happy with Don
1 Felipe"
Never, neverv' cried the girl.
| She rose to her feet and came nearer
| to him. Her father stood by as if
stunned She laid her arms around AL
yarado's neck. She looked, into her low
er's eyes.
matters anything else?'
| 'Oh, my lord, my lord" cried AL
| varado, staring at the viceroy, ''kill
me, pray, and end it allp'
''Thou must first kill mer' cried Mer-
cedes, extending her arms across her
| lovers breast
Donna Mercedes" said her father,
'thou hast put such shame upon the
name and fame of De Lara as it hath
never borne in 800 years. Thou hast
been betrothed to an honorable gentle
man. 1t is my will that the compact be
carried out"
''Oh, my God, my God" cried the I'M
happy girl, sinking into a chair, wilt
thou permit such things to be2''
''And, AIvarado," went on the old
man, not needing his daughters .pite-
GUS prayer, 81 know not thy parentage
nor to what station thou vert born,
but | have marked you from that day
when, after Panama, they brought you
a baby into my house. | have watch
ed you with pride and joy Whatever
responsibility have placed before you,
you have met it Whatever demand
that hard circumstances have made
upon you, you have overcome it. For
every test there counts d victory. You
have done the state and me great serv-
ice, none greater than tonight. With
such a temptation before thee, that
few men that [ have come in contact
with in my long life could have resist
ed, you have thrown it aside. You and
your honor have been tried and not
found wanting. Whatever you may
have been, I know you now to be the
finest thing OH earth, Spanish gentle
man! Nay, with such evidence Of your
have set, aside the claims Of birth and
station
"Oh, my father, my fatherp' inter
rupted the girl joyously.
''And have given you Donna Mer-
cedes to wife"
"Your excellency''-
"But tits too late The betrothal has
been made, the contract signed. My
word is passed. In solemn attestation
before our holy church | have prom
Used to give my daughter to Don Fe-
Hpe de Tobar Nothing can be urged
against the match
'But love- interjected Mercedes,
''That is wanting
st seems So" returned the viceroy.
"And yet where duty and honor de
mand, love is nothing Donna Mer-
cedes, thou hast broken my heart.
That a Spanish gentlewoman should
have shown herself so bold l could
punish thee, but thou art mine all. 1
am an old man. Perhaps, there is
some excuse in love. | will say no
more. / will cen forgive thee, but 1
must have your words, both of you,
that there shall be no more Of this;
that no other word Of affection for the
other shall pass either lip forever, and
that you Will be forever silent about
the events Of this night
Speak thou first, Captain Alvarado,"
said the girl.
.You have loved me-" cried the young
man, turning toward Donna Mercedes,
Morris tribune., 1905-12-23
A soft touch fell upon his head

ly, yet with just enough of earthly
feeling in her eyes to attest that she
was a very woman after all.
$50 not" he cried catching her
again and drawing her back.
Gone were his resolutions, shattered
was his determination, broken was his
resistance. She was here before him;
at all hazards he would detain her.
They were alone almost for the first
time in their lives. 1t was night; the
balmy wind blew softly; the moonlight
enveloped them. Such an opportunity
would never come again.
81 heard you" she murmured, sway
ing toward him. IT heard You seemed
to be-sufering. / do not know why
something drew me on. You whispered
you were speaking listened. |
came nearer Was your heart breaking
too? Despise me!' -
She put her face in her hands. 1t was
a confession she made. A wave of
shame swept over her.
"Despise you? All, God help me, I
love your
And this time he gathered her in his
arms and drew her back into the deep
er shadow.
'sAnd you were 50 cold,' she whis-
pered. II looked at YOU. | begged you
with all my soul before signed. You
did nothing, nothing! Is there no help?"
''Dost love me?
''With all my SOUL" she answered.
"Poor'
''Nay''
"Obscure''
..Nay''
"LowIy perhaps ignobly born
EBAY, love, these are mere words to
me. Rich or poor, high OF low, noble or
ignoble, thou only hast my heart It
beats and throbs only for thee. I have
thought upon thee, dreamed upon thee,
loved thee cannot marry Don Fe-
Morris tribune., 1905-12-23

Never cried the old man, hath he
loved thee so truly and so grandly as
at this moment"
1T may be, it may be" sobbed the
girl, reeling as she spoke. Take me
away 'Tis more than can bear"
Then she sank PROSTATE, senseless,
between the two men who loved her.
Morris tribune., 1905-12-23

"and You have trusted me- bowling to
the old man. Here are two appeals.
God Ielp me, cannot hesitate Thou
shalt have my word. Would this were
the last from my FPS.
.And he could promise he could say
it!,' walled the broken hearted woman.
a"Oh, my father, he loses lie not {
have besI lind Pre- se thee on the
honor of Ile Lara llaYe teamed Up
on a broken reea-
Morris tribune., 1905-12-23
CHAPTER XII.

g fwArlE must have assistance cried
M the yiceroy in dismay. "Alva-
INV RADIO do you go and sum-
49, mani
Morris tribune., 1905-12-23
synopsis of Preceding Chapters.

Chapter one-Sir Henry Morgan, former
piFate. having purchased immunity and
aSsisgalthood from the king of England
has reformed and has become vice-goNs
t.rrior of Jamaica. He is deposed and
killing the officers sent to arrest him, de
terr1ineS to become again freebooter
H.-Benjarnin Hornigold, ex-pisate,who
had l>een bitterly wronged by MORGAN
Joins the fortunes of the latter in order to
seek an opportunity to wreck vengeance
on him,
HI and IV.-Having recruited crew
ofsex-,irates and other desperadoes, Nor
gan =seiEes an English frigate and muir
ders her crew. Off for the Spanish coast
in search of treasure.
" and Win a desperate action, w here
in are shown the daring and resourcefu1-
ness of NJ ryan and the courage of his
4raen. he defeats two Spanish frigates
and captures their convoy, a treasure
salleor carrying an abbess and priests
aspassengers.
YI-Morgau shows his qualities by
heaying overheard a mutineer and
shooting down a priest who attempts to
SAKE the man.
yHI-Wrecked on the Venezuelan coast,
,aesr La Guayra, to which city Morgan is
attracted by Donna Mercedes de Lara,
daughter IF the viceroy of Venezuela.
TX-Donna Mercedes and Captain Dom
i2ique Alvarado comnandante of La
Guayra, are in love with each other, but
tile unknown, parentage of Alvarado pre-
vents their marriage. Donna Mercedes
i 5 YSetro tIled by her father to Don Felipe
80 Tobar, friend of Alvarado.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-08-22

actual manufacture Of that crystal
cost me 60. On the market. as you see
1t now, the stone is worth fully f1,9O0."
"And this is what you've been peg
ging ut all these years?"
"It's what l have had in my mind all
my life. It's what I've worked for ever
since l could read or reason. It's been
my one idea for making a fortune, just
as other men try for their millions in
Goals or cotton. I'm there now, assets
ready to realize. but 1 tell you, old
man, the apprenticeship has been too
bad to even remember in detail. The
original outfit before even | touched
work was normous-chemistry, miner
alogy and the whole Of physics, crys-
tallography, geology. mechanics-all to
the utmost verge that any man had
ever worked before They took up
years of ferocious labor and almost
all my capital. The balance Of money
went in buying diamonds to expert
ment upon. Then l had to work for
more funds and got this job Of analyst
here in Burton. It's been an awful
time. You know I'm luxurious mind
ed chap, fond of purple and soft living
and yet I've not spent ESQ twelve
month OH my body through all these
years. Except the odd moments when
| had my swim in that tank, I've been
biting against the fates from waking
hour to sleeping time.
1.-The big mistake l worked under for
long time was in thinking with other
chemists that diamonds were nothing
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-08-22
Local Beef Raising Profitable.

When we note the percentage of beef
consumed, furnished by the west TO the
east, we must regret that our farmers
do not equally share the profit of local
beef supply.
Portland, Me-, consumes 80 per cent
of western beef; Cambridge, Mass, w;
Providence, K. L., 9S, and even in Syra-
cuse Is per cent is brought from the
west. Our regret deepens into pity
and sorrow for the farmers OF the EN-
pire State.
Why should the east depend upon
poorer beef raised in the far west and
southwest where the poor brutes are
half starved half the year and never be-
come of the fine quality of those reared
and fed near our home market? 1t is
not because good beef does not pay for
home consumption. Steers well fed and
well bred near our best paying markets
Weld larger profits than any other
products of home farms.
A thrifty farmer of New York state
told me that fifty purchased steers fed
through one winter on hay and sum-
mer on grass pays him % per cent on
the investment. What does the dairy
paw? What hay or corn or oats or pota'
toes? Surely not % per cent profit.
What some have done others can do.
The demand for good beef was never
greater nor the prices ever higher than
at present.
Fast horses nor automobiles driven at
the highest speed can compare with the
profit on home beef production.
Though hint, there is money in itP And
who despises honest profit?-Dr. A. S.
Heath I'm New ENGLAND Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-08-22
Sheep and Wool Prospects.

Mr.. Mortimer Levering, the secretary
of the National Wool Growers associa-
ton, in a recent interview said:
~ am not prepared to predict higher
prices, but at present the market ap-
pears to me to be on legitimate basis.
A worlds shortage of wool has been
growing on us for several years. 1t was
aggravated by defamation Of focks in
a Australia and Argentina, but our peO-
pie were not quick enough to anticipate
this condition. The fight made
against sheep growers in the west by
cattlemen discouraged many and caused
them to close out, all these influences
combining to create the present scarcity
with the result that wool is now selling
higher than at any time since the civil
war. In my opinion, present prices will
be maintained for two years to come.
Even if the whole country should de-
vote its energy to producing wool an
over supply would be impossible for at
least half a decade. Manufacturers,
not spectators, are responsible for the
present market and they know wha,
thew are doing. / do not say We are
going to have a higher market, but
would not be surprised at further
appreciation of one or two cents"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-08-22
Top Dressing for Hay.

have heard that top dressing now
ing fields with barn dressing does not
give the best results; that the proper
way to pursue to renovate worn out
moving fields is to plow and cultivate
and seed to grass.
In the early spring We intended to
plow a certain field for crops and ap-
piled fair quantity of coarse barn ma
nure to the surface to plow under the
sod. but for certain reasons a portion OF
the field remained unplowed. To our
surprise when we cut the hay recently
we found an excellent crop of hay,
clover and timothy showing q good
yield, where there had been none noticed
for q year or more before.
Last fall we spread some dressing
on a strip of sod and this season
found a coed stand of grass, green and
thrifty, showing plainly where the
dressing had been scattered. These
results show that il a fair quantity OF
well-pulverized manure be evenly
spread over o field by manure
spreader, if our aim is to raise hay
top dressing old fields Is the easiest
and most economical method to pursue
&C. A. Mace in New England Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-08-22

Give all horses on the place at least
a three weeks vacation in the fields.
The grass will be good for their feet
and as feed will help to get all the old
grain out of their system, besides giving
them a good rest. Horses that are
worked every day must be given diet
of grain. On Sundays and days when
not in use, turn work horses into the
fields.-Philadelphia Ledger. Com,
menting on the above the Middlebury,
VT, Register aptly says: While this
item was intended doubtless to apply to
the city equine it can be applied to his
country brother. Horses like men will
do better work if given period OF re-
Taxation and the delivery team horse
will wear longer if given two or three
weeks respite from daily toll.