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much favored, Sarah. I would have given all
have in the world to have changed places with YOU
Tell me, was this man-this Mr.. Strauss-kind to
herr
He must have been miss. He"
Must have been? But you saw and heard"
Jenny kept her head, though she flushed little
People often do put on different way before
servants, miss to what they have in private Not
that l have reason to think anyways bad of Mr.
Strauss. He was very generous sort of gentle
man, always free with his money. What l meant
that Miss-er-Miss Gwendoline used to speak
of him as a lovin husband
Jenny caught her breath trife. She did not
dare to look at van Hupfeldt, he had specially
warned her against doing so. Like most of her
class, she was prepared now to any mistake
by excessive volubilty.
Did you address her Miss Gwendo1ine ,
them
Yes miss That is the way on the stage you
know
But this not on the stage
Quite right, miss, only ladies in the profession
mostly uses their stage names in private"
My sister never appeared any stage to my
knowledge" Violet little incredulous.
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posed to be somewhat snappish So the girl driv
en- back on her sad imaginings, they dissi-
pated by Davids two little notes. When she the
messenger away the second time she in strange
state of calm. Despair had numbed her she thought
persistenty her sister, and wondered the only
rest was to be found in that dark nook of the grave
She saw carriage depart for the railway station
to bring van Hupfeldt. In half an hour its wheels
grated on the gravel of the drive and servant
came to her room to summon her to the fateful
cave. She was on her knees, in dry eyed prayer,
and the frightened maid, who loved Miss Violet,
had little catch in her voice as she said:
"You wanted in the drawing room, miss,
and please, miss, do hope you won't take
Everybody says you ought to be happy; but l,
sniff know yer amt, miss5
Violet rose and kissed the girl 1t good to
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her mistress to whom she very greatly attached
Were you not, Sarah?"
"Oh, yes Sir She such lovely lady, and
nice an kind in her ways, that nobody could help
lovin' her."
That was better. Violet thawed again Il
hardly know what to ask you," she said wistfu1ly.
did she ever speak of us, of my mother and me?
She would talk about you for hours, miss.
Many time could hardly get on with my work,
she anxious to have to gossip with.
Bless your cart, miss, know your well as
my own"
Strange, most unutterab1y strange, thought vi
olet; but she said, with sad smile: You were
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her sister, who gossipped for hours with her, yet
the girl knew little about a child which Gwen
must have dolized.
Then you never saw the baby?" she asked
mo, miss-that is, once, / Think for Jenny did
venture to look at Hupfeldt, and his slight
the infant safe topic, in regard to it's appearance
and the mothers love of it.
Mrs. Mordaunt, who had been listening intent1y
enough, caught Jenny's hesitation: 1T is odd, u"
she said, that you should have forgotten, be
uncertain of, such definite fact as seeing my
daughters child"
A maid entered with telegram, which she handed
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have such honest sympathy.
In the big cheerful salon be-
meath she found her mother,
stiff and self-conscious, wonder
ing what people would think
if Violet persisted in her folly;
van Hupfeldt, collected and
deferential, wearing a button
hole of violets (of all flowers
in creationD; and, seated gin
gerly on the edge of a chair, a
quietly dressed young woman
with domestic servant" writ
large upon her. But Dibbin,
for whom Violet's eyes searched
dreamily, was not there.
Van Hupfeldt, who seemed to
have an uncanny trick of read
ing her thoughts when they were
hostile, explained instantly:
Not all my persuasions could
bring Mr.. Dibbin from his Office
to-day. He had some business
engagement which was impera-
tive, he said. But l have done
the next best thing. Here is a
letter from him. He will sub
stantiate it's statements in per.
son some later day"
He held out a letter. The
girl took it mechanically. The
envelop bore her name, typed.
She broke the seal and began to
read; but her mother, resolved
to have mo nonsense this
time" interrupted with an I'M
usual sharpness:
" Aloud, pleased"
So Violet read:
DEAR Miss MoRDAUNr - For
some reason, not explained to me,
gentleman named van Hupfeldt has
asked me to assure YOU that he is
not Johann Strauss, who rented the
fiat No. 7, Eddystone Mansions,
some two years since. Of course,
/ do that readily. l much regret
that / cannot travel to Rigsworth
with Mr.. van Hupfeldt to-day; but
/ do not suppose that the odd
request he makes is really SO urgent
as he would have me believe.
Please convey my respectful regards
to Mrs. Mordaunt Yours faith
fully, JOHN DIBBIN.
Excepting the signature, the
letter was type written. Violet
knew the old agents scrawl-
ing handwriting very well. He
had never sent her a type
written letter before. She laid
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Jenny became little denant.
of course, miss, she answered
tartly, Il didn't know much
about my missus's comin's and
COINS, but she used to go
regular to rehearsal. The call
was for eleven and two most
days"
Violet found herself in a new
world. What could have come
to Gwendoline that she should
have quilted her home and gone
away among these strange peo-
pie? And what had she said
that this servant girl should sud-
denly show the shrew in her?
She glanced toward her moth
er, who indeed, was as greatly
perturbed as herself. The old
lady could scarce comprehend
that the talk was of her darling
Gwendoline Then van Hup-
feldt, thinking to lead Violet's
ideas into a fresh channel, broke
in:
Il was sure that these things
would distress you," he said in
the low voice of sympathy.
Perhaps you would prefer to
send Sarah to the housekeeper's
room while you look at the
documents l have brought.
Violet, in whose brain
hundred wild questions as to
her sisters life were jostling,
suddenly faced Jenny again.
What was my sisters baby
called?" she asked.
Henry, miss, after its
father"
But why Henry since the
fathers name was Johann"
THAT is puzzle, miss.
I'm only tellin' you what 1
know"
And what became of the
child? Why was it spirited
away from its mother? Or was
it not taken away until after
her DEATH"
Jenny had been told to be
close as an oyster on this mat
ter. Il don't know why the
baby was sent out to nurse,
miss" she said. Il can only
tell you it was never in the
fiat
Violet passed a hand across
her eyes as though to clear a
bewildered brain. This domes-
tic lived in a small fiat with
slipped for hours with her, yet
lie about a child which Gwen
saw the baby?" she asked.
is, once, / think" for Jenny did
, at van Hupfeldt, and his slight
tant of her denial. He thought
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which had borne the parchments of yesterday.
We'll? Is that satisfactory" said van Hup-
feldt.
Quite conclusive murmured Mrs. Mordaunt
Who is this?" asked Violet, turning toward the
nervous young person on the edge of chair.
That is Sarah Gissing, poor Ovens maid
1t not Sarah Gissing; but Jenny, loaned by
Miss Ermyn L'Estrange for the day at a stiff figure
paid to both-Jenny schooled for her part, and
glib enough at it, though her Cockney pertness was
momentarly awed by the old-world grandeur of
Dale Manor and its two real" ladies.
So van Hupfeldt was playing with loaded Dice
he had discarded the dangerous notion of trying
Copyright
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CHAPTER XIX.
Violet De c i d e s

1IOLET, walked from broken rest by the
cooling of doves, had rue in her soul. She
had met her mother at breakfast, and the
good woman, thinking her daughter not
altogether in her right senses, was dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-14
SITTING ON THE vERANDA.

Don't begin to carp and cavil at the
very outset. 1 shall start out with six
hundred hens. This is exclusive of
ROSTERS. There are hens that lay
every day in the week, and others that
only lay every other day You can
figure on at least five hundred eggs
every day in the year That's about
1.52S dozen. At twenty cents the dozen
we have an income of about $34 per
day. That again is $12.500 per year.
Any objections to raking in that tidy
little sum every year for the rest of
your life. Mrs. Bowser2''
Not the slightest. Go on
We have figured on the eggs only.
Among a thousand hens there ought to
be at least six hundred that would set
twice a year and bring forth twelve
chicks at each setting. That's over
seven thousand chicks a year. Figure
it at the lowest possible notch, and the
income is $3.5eO. That's $4,000 a
year altogether and as you've nothing
TO do but gather and market the eggs
ana increase. I'd like to know what
more a reasonable being could ask for.
Increase the number of chickens to
two thousand and you Increase your
income to $4,000. I think I shall
stop at two thousand. as several hun
dred ROSTERS Growing at once in the
small hours of the mOrning might dis
turb some sick person. Well also cut
$4,000 a year off for accidents and
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1 first knew HMM 1890 I think il
was-he told me that his father and all
his paternal grandfathers had died
suddenly of heart disease on or about
their forty-ninth birthday, and that he
expected the same meagre shrift and
no more. During my last visit to Lon
don, in the winter and spring of 1904, ]
asked him, Jestingly, being under the
impression that thirty-nine was the
atal birthday, how it was that he was
still alive. oh. il is fOrty-nine,' he
said, laughing; and he was in the best
of health and spirits still have near
~ two years And so he had; he died
almost upon entering his fftieth year
One of the Paris papers announces
the death of an interesting link with
the Bohemians of the Latin quarter
of sixty years ago-Madame Dehors,
whose maiden name was Schaune, and
whose brother was N. Schaune, who
figures as Schaunard in Henri Muir
gers Scenes de Ia Vie de Boheme,'
first published in 1S45.
The Lothrop, Lee & Shepard COM
pany has just received from DR..
Everett T. Tomlinson the manuscript
of an important juvenile entitled
-Four Boys in the Yellowstone" the
first volume of "Our Own Land Sc
ries." In this important series DR..
Tomlinson will by the travels and
good times of his characters teach an
actual knowledge of the United States
as few are qualified to do.
Messrs Frederick Keppel & co.
announce an exhibition of recent
drawings by A. 3. Frost which are
mainly Illustrations from the stories by
Joel Chandler Harris and Henry
Wallace Phillips, contained in the new
volumes by these writer's, entitled
Told by Uncle Remus" and Red
Saunders Pets and Other Critters"
Both books are on the list of Mcclure
Phillips. The latter will be published
early in the spring.
Publication of DR.. S. Weir Mitchells
story. "A Diplomatic Adventure" is
announced by the Century company for
Aprli >. rms IS a tale' toid IN the
first person. of certain exciting adven-
lures in Paris at the time of our Civil
war-adventure which, despite their
Importance, have never crept into his
torical records. The book will have a
frontispiece by Relyea.
Lafayette McLaws. author of maid
of Athens recently published by Lit
tie. Brown & Co, Boston, is a native
Georgia and at present one of the
living in New York city. She was born
in Augusta Ca. less than thirty years
ago. was educated at home and in pri-
vate schools Nv hen the Land Was
/
Englishmen and Spaniards fought for
the Florida border and when bUc-
cancers sailed the Spanish main. pub
iished in 1901. was a popular success
This was followed by "Jezebel.' Maid
of Athens" Is a romance of great
charm. dealing with the love Of Byron
for ThVrza, the Maid of Athens, to
whom ne wrote immortal verse. and
whom the author portrays him wOoing
with abandon and disregard of danger
/ The higher and more tender side of
/ Pyron's complex character and the
noble personality and compelling
charm of the lovely Greek girl form
the firm warp of a rich nara tive
tapestry. whose wool is the brilliant
background Of court life en- the shores
/ of the Bosphorus and an attempted
] Greek UPRISING at Athens.
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BOWsER's CHTCKEN FARM.
He Still Insists There's Millions
II It.

Instead of sitting down to his paper
and cigar after dinner. as is Mr.. Bow
ser's usual programme. he paced up
and down the sitting room with his
hands behind his back and his fore
head wrinkled with some mental puz-
zle. When he had wasted fifteen min
utes at this Mrs. Bowser asked:
Has anything gone wrong with your
business affairs today?"
NO" he replied. as he paused.
Then What bothers you -
Il want to talk to you about a mat
ter. and if YOU can possibly do so. I
wish you'd talk straight and sensible.
mean by that that I don't want any
sarcasm or giggling."
We'll, I'll try my best"
"Fhen I want to talk about a chicken
farm 1 know We canvassed the sub
ject before. but ] was not as well post
ed on the matter as I am now I have
been going into the matter very thor
oughly for the past week.
II will help you all | can" said Mrs
Bowser. as she took down pencil and
pad and prepared to make notes.
I am getting along in years, Mrs.
when the daily grind is going to be too
much for me. BY that time I want to
be so situated that I can take things
easy; sit on the veranda and boss and
let other men do the work"
am in accord with your ideas.
What are your plans -
ITO run chicken farm. I tell YOU.
Mrs BOWser. there's a gold mine in it.
I am amazed that Rockefeller don't
drop Standard oil and Armour let go
or beef and private cars and go into
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chicken raising. have figures to
prove beyond a doubt that it discounts
the South African diamond fields
Then you shall have my hearty CO
way TO make a success of it,
That's the talk!'' exclaimed Mr..
Bowser as he waved his arm around
his head. Now you are speaking like
a true wife and helpmeet. and I'm
proud of you. Now. We'll take it easily
and quietly. and I'll show you some
wonderful figures I start in with six
hundred hens. divided between Early
Rose and Naiden's Blush. Those are
the best layers in the world. They'll
60 out and lay eggs in a snowdrift.'
Il thought Early Rose was the
name Of a potato. and that Aaidens
Blush was the name of an apple said
Mrs BOWser
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place the income at 100000"
Where did you get your figures
from, Mr. Bowser?" asked Mrs Bowser,
as he sat rubbing his hands together
and beaming at the cat.
From a man right in the chicken
business
And does he want to sell out2''
Yes His mother-in-law has come
to live with him, and she hates chick
ems. She went out with a pail of boil
ing water the other morning and scald-
ed thirty of them. He has either got
to break her neck or give up chickens,
and as he is man without tmuch back
bone he has decided to sell out. I'm to
give him an answer tomorrow. He'll
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Through Daily Pullman Tourist Sleep
inc. Cars. ST. Louis Los Angeles.

The Union Pacific has placed in ser
vice a through Sleeping Car between
above points, via the Wabash, Union
Pacific, oregon Short Line and the San
Pedro Los. Angeles and Salt Lake rail-
roads Cars to leave st. Louis every
day and run through without change
Stopover is made at Salt Lake City
thus affording passengers a whole days
sight seeing in the Mormon City.
This line is equipped with Is section
wide. vestibuled Pullman tourist sleep
ing cars, of the latest pattern and first
class in every respect
Connections can be made en- route
with Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars in
same train for San Francisco and Port,
land. Inquire of F. A. Lewis, city tick
ct agent, or J. c. Fulton. depot agent
Don't miss the japanese fete at the
Grand Monday and Tuesday. Seats on
sale now at RoWley-s drug store
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W TIdL 40 you 0leaT
IF you take a jackass farm you can
be der biggest one among en-
Mr.. Bowser couldn't take a man SIS
years old by the neck and shake his
whiskers loose, and so he went out.
Just as he stepped out doors a man
asked:
''Can I ask you the way to the Rev.
George Thompson's church please %
You can, but I'll eat you in re-
turnl'' shouted Mr.. Bowser, as Mount
Pelee finally burst forth.
The questioner was a clergyman
himself. He knew asphalt pavement,
and he knew when to strike gait.
With one loud. long cry of sPolice.1
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he started, and the three or four
watchers of the race agreed that at
the end of the first block he had
gained ten feet on Mr.. Bowser and
would run him out of sight in three
or four blocks more Copyright
1qn6. BY Engene Parcells.l
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Go to New York on the Lehigh.

Double Track Scenic highway Con-
meets at Buffalo or Niagara Falls with
all lines from the west Write Passen-
ger Department, Lehigh Valley r. r.,
21S South Clark street. Chicago, III.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-14

Gertrude Athertbn, who is now in
California at work upon a new novel
for the Harpers, recently contributed
an anecdotal letter about the late Will
liam Sharp to the San Francisco Argo-
naut- Almost interesting fact in con
nection with Sharp was that he pos
sessed the knowledge o fhis exact term
of life Mrs. Atherton asserts. when
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-11-16
Circuit Court.

Judge Galloway, in department
No. 2 OF the circuit court for Marion
county, granted the petition OF j. NJ
Woodruff, and appointed Thomas
Burrows assignee OF the estate of
Leo Willis, deceased, to I'LL the va
caney made by the death of NJ. l..
Chamberlain.
The foreclosure suit of NJ, Giesy
against G. w. Dimmick, ct al, was
settled and dismissed.
The testimony in the foreclosure
suit OF James Still against William
Stringham was heard. and the mat
ter taken under advisement.
The following cases were set for
trial:
Louis Laehmund & Co. VS.. G. ].
Moore, ct al, injunction; November
%, at p. m.
A. Schafer VS.. Katie Schafer. d.
voree; November 2s, at IL a. m.
Lulu Dumas vs. E. NJ. Dumas, d.
vorce; November 2s.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-11-16
THINKS
ALL WAS
STRAIGHT

Chicago, Nov. 16.-Barnest Bick-
nell. superintendent of the Chicago
bureau of charities, says: II don't
think there has been any criminal di-
version of the San Francisco relief
fund. When the disaster arose.
schmitz rose to the occasion and
showed there is greatness in him. I
do not think the money that passed
through the hands of the commit
tee of fifty, or through the hands of
the mayor, was misappropriated. Inn
agine an emergency bureau organ
ized from the victims of the disaster,
haphazard, for receiving funds and
recording them. Then think of the
immense number of contributions
and the paralysis of the agencies of
transmission. No doubt many remit
tances were wrongly entered. and all
trace of them lost. / do not doubt
but that every cent contributed
reached its proper destination, and
was honestly distributed"
Letters arrived at the rate of two
or three hundred every mail. Two
hundred inexperienced clerks worked
in one room, where the noise of 75
typewriters added to the confusion,
Men were keeping account of the vic
tins whose homes were wrecked,
families living in tents or lost in the
ruins. These men couldn't be re-
lied on for accuracy. Many letters
were received without addresses, and
many signatures were Ineligible. In
such cases many erroneous entries
would be made. All who know the
difficulties under which the work was
done marvel that IL was so well
done. The governor received mil
lion, Phelan hundreds of thousands,
Morrow large amounts, SprecRles,
Young and others large amounts.
All these funds went to the sufferers.
These men were men of brains. Had
they designed theft they could have
done so by far safer methods; could
have used dummy benefciaries,
grated" in payment for cottages
and supplies. II is believed the
mayor is honest, and members of the
citizens committee are honest. The
story is incredible. in the assumption
that these men were dishonest, and
further in the assumption that they
would be dishonest in a manner rem
dering detection easy.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-11-16

May Not Play
Three men of the Willamette Uni.
versity football team are in poor con-
dltion, and may not be able to play
the game tomorrow at Portland
Coleman is out, owing to a sprained
ankle, and II Is reported that RAIDER
and owens are crippled so that they
may be prevented from taking part
In the game. The former has a par
TALLY dlslocated hip, and the latter
has lame shoulder. Neither OF the
men are hurt seriously. and It Is
hoped they may be in the game to-
morrow afternoon. The team Is try
ing to persuade the old Willamette
standby, Pollard" to enter the con-
test, but It is reported that he cam
not be induced to play.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-11-16
Personal

Rev. Kimball went to Portland this
morning.
A. LaFollette left today for Port
land.
II. r. Roberts went to Marion on
business today.
j, w. Draper. lawyer OF Oregon
City, is In town today on business.
l.. c. Rullfson left this morning
for Portland on business.
Professor C. l.. Boyer went to
Portland today.
Judge Galloway left this morning
for Albany to hold a session OF court.
Prof. l.. A. Kerr left this morning
for weeks visit I'm Portland.
Mrs ]. l.. Steiwer and son went
to Turner for a short visit this morn
ing.
X. NJ. Commack left this morning
to attend the Friends quarterly
meeting.
II. C. Hockenberry will be umpire
In the M, A. A. CIV. U. game at
Portland Saturday.
Miss Gertrude Campbell. OF Port
land, has accepted a position as stem
ographer al the insane asylum.
j. r. Finn, OF Portland, repre-
senting the Blake-MeFan Company.
is in the city on business.
Or, w. o. Manion. a supreme off,
Ger OF the order OF United Artisans.
left this morning. after a short visit
in the city. for Roseburg. on lodge
business.
Ellis Ridel, the plumber left this
morning for North Bend. where he
will insist In installing heaters in
course OF construction. He will be
away from the city several weeks.
Lebanon has been without -four
mill since last summer. when the
Drueks mills were burned. A Nc
Minnville man is now negotiating TO
build new one.
Rev. and Mrs. o. G. Kenworthy. d.
ID. Keeler and wife. Mr.. and Mrs. J..
b. Frazier and Mrs. Mary Gear left
this morning for Marion TO attend
the quarterly meeting OF the Friends
church.