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CHAPTER VI.
The Girl and the Canoe.

THE persimmons are of the place.
sir. Mr.. Glenarm was very fond OF
the fruit"
I had never seen a peTsimmon be-
fore. but I was in a mood for expert
ment. The frost-broken rind was GER
ta!nIy forbidding. but the rich pulp
brought a surprise OF Joy 20 my pal
ate. Bates watched me with respect
f,ll satisfaction. His gravity was IN
no degree diminished by the presence
Of A neat strip OF iesh-colored court
master over mis- right eye. A faint sug-
r.estion OF arnica hung in the eir.
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wishing TO give him an opportunity TO
explains his encounter OF the morn
ing
.sYou are quite right, sir. As your
grandfather used TO say. It's place
OF peace"
when nobody shoots az you through
a window" ] suggested
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IuIy 8, 1905.
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July s, 1905.
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INTERNAL MACHINE JOKE
Suspicious Looking Package Sent to
 Governor Pennypaclker.

Harrisburg, Penn, Oct 5.-A suspi cious looking package addressed to Governor Pennypacker, and containing what appeared to be an internal ma chine was found in the governor S mall at the executive mansion to-day. It was about three inches square, and resenbled in shape baking powder box. Newspaper clippings were tied around the box with small pieces of yellow ribbon. The peculiar appear ance of the package excited the suspi- -cion of Executive Clerk Lynch, who placed it in a bucket water, and let it soak for several hours. Upon being opened, 1t was found to contain a small case resembling a cartridge shell surrounded by black powder, and was intended to be exploded by the renewal of the lid.
 None of the attaches would discuss the subject, though 1t was generally re- garded as a. practical joke. The con- struction of the machine was not such as to have made it very dangerous, even if it had exploded. There is no clue to the sender.
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DENIED IN ST PETERSBURG.
Alleged Statement of Dire Straits of
 Russian Treasury.

St. Petersburg, Oct. 5.-The Of1ciA Telegraph agency issued a note to-day regarding the report published in the Paris Temps last Thursday made by the minister of finance, M. Kokovsoff, to Premier Ctolypin, exposing the alleg- ed dire straits of the Russian treasury; the impossibility of concluding another exterior loan, and the pressing necessi- ty for cutting down expenses in gov- ernment departments. The note in question says:
 "We are authorized to declare that the minister of finances made no such communication to Premier Stolypin. Tn a letter. however, sent to the premier a short time ago, NJ Kokovsoff merely pointed out the necessity of avoiding fresh expenditures not provided for in the budget, as disbursements in excess of the estimates would cause great em- barrassment. and the ministerial coun- cil eoncurs in the minister of flnance's g declaration, M, Kokoxsoff's S desire to keep within the limits of the budget will be realized. Moreover, there is every reason for taking a decidedly favorable view of the present finan- cial condition of Russia"
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Four on the Programme and Three Are
 Finished,

Danbury, Oct. 5.-Four races were. on the programme at the Danbury fair grounds to-day Of these three were finished, but one, the 2:25 pace, to be run in five heats, was unfinished on ac- count of darkness. The summarizes:
 2:15 trot, purse $5O0-Nancy Nelson won in three straight heats; Henry e., second; Bedelia, third. Best time, 2:19. Ilo Ilo, Crescent Lass and Rallies also started
 2:17 pace purse $3oO-Silver Barr won second, third and fourth heats and the race; Red Fellow, second, won the first heat; Kansas Boy, third. Best time, 2:167a. Milton S., jro Nikko, c. o. D., Del Inez, Nat H., Nonesuch, Captain Weeks, Carrie Fletcher and Richard B. also started.
 225 pace, purse $500 Diminished on account of darkness)-Nettie Direct won the second and third heats; Rub- Der won the fourth and fifth; Grace Davis won the first. Six others start. ed.
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HUGHES OPENS CAMPAIGN
CARNEGIE HALL NOT LARGE
 ENOUGH TO HOLD CROWDS.

Hundreds Fail to Gain Admission--Gu-
 bernatorial Candidate Receives Flat
 tering Welcome-Rends Thomas Jef-
 ferson's Writings on How to Conduct
 Newspaper-Causes Amusement---
 Hearst's Campaign Up the state.
 New York, Oct. 5.-The republican state campaign was formerly opened in this city tonight with ratification meeting that attracted greater crowd than could be accommodated within Carnegie hall Hundreds who failed to gain admission, remained in the adja- cent streets to greet the candidates as they arrived and to give them a noisy send off as they left the hall.
 Charles E. Hughes, the gubernatonal candidate who made the principal speech, received a fiattering welcome. The usual campaign enthusiasm that found expression in an outburst of cheers and shouts of personal complir ment accompanied with the waving of banners and hats that greeted the can didate's entrance to the hall, grew to a deafening demonstration when he ap- peared upon the platform.
 MT Hughes spoke at considerable length in defining the issues as inter- preted by him. Several matters touch- ed upon in his letter of acceptance we're elaborated and he again emphasized that the question before the voters was one of good citizenship rather than of politics.
 Preceding to-nlght's meeting MT Hughes addressed at Eearl Hall large number of Columbia university stu dents, who late this afternoon formed a college club. He urged his hearers to take an active part in the campaign choosing between humbug and good citizenship.
 Lieutenant Governor Bruce also talk ed to the students and warned them of what he termed the momentous conse. auences of the campaign. "If the forces arrayed against us" he said "can carry this great empire state the educational, financial and manufactur- ing center of this country, it will light a fire which will sweep from Maine tc California"
 In calling to-night's meeting to order Chairman Parsons said the opposition ticket as headed by two millionaires born with silver spoons in their mouths the leader being a man who hoped tc 1 get into office by appealing to the pas sions of men. The men on the repub-
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GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN
 BED OF INDIAN OCEAN
PROBABLE LOCATION OF THF ONE RECORDED AT SIDNEY.
 AUSTRALIA.

Seismographs of Washington Weather
 Bureau Also Recorded the DIsturb-
 ance--OmciaI Bulletin Issucd--Evavv
 Evidence That the Quake Was Great
 One--Owing to Its Location It CouId
 Not Have Been Especially Disastrous.
 Washington, Oct 5-The weather bureau to-day issued bulletin an- nouncdng that the bureaus seismo- graphs recorded another great earth quake beginning at 9:05 D. m. on Oc- tober 1, but that the earthouake was probably not disastrous. The official bulletin follows:
 The seismographs at the weather bu- reau recorded another earthquake be- ginning about nine hours, five minutes, p. m, seventy-fifth meridian time, De- tober l. The distinctive features of the record consist of the long duration of the earthquake, and especially of the long duration of the relatively strong motion.
 The amplitude of the strong mo- tion, as recorded at Washington was only about O.S millimetre, which is very much less than in the case of either the San Francisco or the Valparaiso earthquakes. The record indicates, however, that the disturbance was at a very great distance from Washington, dn fact almost at the antipodes, or with in an indefinite region in the Indian ocean westerly from Australia.
 There is every evidence from the records that this is another great earthquake It would seem unlikely that 1t was especially disastrous in view of it's probable location in the bed of the Indian ocean. It might, however, have been accompanied by strong tidal waves.
 "Advices have been received from the London Daily Mail that a great earth quake has been recorded on the seismo- graphs at Perth and Sydney, Autralia, which are not far distant from the es- timated origin from the Washington observations.
 (Signed) Willis l.. Moore.
 "Chief Weather Observesr' D
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RESPoNSIBILITY FOR WRECK.
Engineer of Troop Train Arraigned--
 Attempted Suicide.

Trop, N. Y, Oct. 5.--All of the score of injured in the wreck on the Boston and Maine road in this city Thursday are doing we'll and will recover with the possible exception of George D.. Stevens of Winchester, Mass, who is in a serious condition at the Leonard has, pital here.
 Thomas Holleran, the engineer of the troop train which crashed into train No. 5 and caused the accident, was ar- raigned to-day. He is suffering from a sprained ankle and was taken to court in carriage. The preliminary exam ination was conducted in front of the carriage door by Justice Jones. Hol- loran was charged with manslaughter in the second degree. He pleaded not guilty. Te case was adjourned to De- tOber IS and Holleran was admitted to bail in the sum of S2,OO0 He just after the accident tried to commit suicide.
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MILLION DOLLARS OF
 DAMAGE BY TORNBD0ES
NEW ORLEANS THE CENTER OF TERRIFIC CYCLONIC
 DISTURBANCES

Six Persons Perish nnd Ten Are Fatally
 Injured Heavy storms Break
 Throughout the Surrounding Country
 mt DnyIisht-Durins Tornado Which
 Struck the City at o'clock 800 Build
 inss Are Damaged Causing at Least
 Half Million Dollars Destruction.
 New Orleans. Oct 5.--This region was to-day the center of cyclonic disturb ances, at least three of which were tor nadoes and caused the loss of six lives with ten persons fatally injured, About daylight heavy storms broke throughout the country within 100 miles west, north and east of this city. To- night reports of sugar cane and cotton crops blown down, or sugar mills de- molished are coming in from this en- tire section The damage, including that done in New Orleans, is placed at over $1,OO0 000
 The worst tornado was north of New Orleans, where it devastated portions of three parishes. New Orleans was visit ed by another tornado, and another passed northward of Biloxi on the gulf coast
 The first tornado struck west of Baton Rouge parish about O'Clock, killing Theodore Forel and daughter, found in the field near her demolished house. Two children in Mrs ForeIs house were fatally injured, and five men Were injured in the collapse of a sugar refinery on the St. Delphine plantation The city of Baton Rouge was slightly damaged. In St James parish one woman, whose name was not learned was killed, while Mrs H. R. Webber and daughter Mrs. John Meyer, and also a negro, were reported fatally in jured. Fifteen buildings were blown down in the parish.
 At Ponchatoula, which the tornado reached about o'clock, George Hawse and son were killed in the collapse of their house and the two other children of Mir. Hawse were fatally injured. A dozen other persons were injured there | Another tornado struck New Orleans about s o'clock, and while no lives were lost here, property damage reached $50O,00O and about 50 persons were in 1ured Fully 800 buildings were dam- aged, about seventy-tiye of which were blown flat Most of the demolished buildings were negro cabins, and it was here that nearly all the injuries occur red. The path of the tornado through the city was eight miles long, entering l from the Mississippi river at Audubon park, and trayeling northwest to Ma ringo and Carondelet streets, and then after oircuitous course to Gravier ant Magnolia streets. where it went north ward out of the city. In places tho storms path was about thirty feet wide and only at two or thee points did il reach hundred feet in width.
 The tornado here appeared at a dis tance az a cloud sweeping along the surface of the earth. Its course was undulating, some buildings being skip ned entirely as 1t bounded skyward Frequently it demolished verandas and fences on one side of the street, while
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THREE HUNDRED HORSES SATED
Stubborn Fire in Metropolitan stables
 in New York.

New York, Oct. 5.-For more than three hours tonight firemen fought an exceedingly stubborn blaze in the Met ropolitan boarding and livery stables in West SOth street. About 300 horses in the stable were saved. The damage was estimated at $3O,O0O. The fire was marked by a thrilling rescue of three firemen. These men jumped down into small shaft under grating and started to work this way into a base ment. A back draft came and they were enveloped in flames. It was then thought that they had been burned to death, but Chief Binns ordered iremen to play their hose into the basement at that point. They had started to do so when two firemen jumped into the shaft and managed to reach and save three women who were nearly over come.
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BLOW TO CHAMPIONS
 OF TARIFF REVISION
BAY STATE REPUBLIOANS ARE AGAINST IMMEDIATE
 CHANGES.

State Convention Adopts Platform Csill-
 ing for Such Revision From TfD.e to
 Time as Shall be Found Necessary
 and Applied to Whole Country
 Roosevelt Strongly Endorsed--sym-
 p"thy Expressed for Jews in Russia
 and Humiliation at Outrages in the
 South--Ticket Renominated.
 Boston, Oct 5.A blow to immediate tariff revision, and to the champions of increased reciprocal trade schedules. led by Eugene N. Foss, was delivered to-day at the Massachusetts republi- can convention, which adopted without remonstrance a platform calling for such tariff changes as might be found necessary from time to time, with the understanding that they be applied to all sections of the country and to all industries. Undisturbed harmony prevailed at the convention, which re- nominated by exclamation state tick ct composed entirely of men now in of- flee. The ticket named was as follows.
 Governor, Curtis Guild, jr., of Bos- ton; lieutenant governor, Eben S. Drap- CT of Hopedale; secretary of state. William M. Olin of Boston; treasurer and receiver general, Arthur B. Chapn of Holyoke; auditor, Henry E. Turner of Maiden; attorney general, Dana Malone of Greenfield
 The convention cheered Attorney General William H. Moody repeatedly. He acted as chairman A platform ap. proving his national accomplishments was adopted, especially his efforts to- wards carrying out the provisions of the antitrust and interstate commerce laws.
 The platform expressed especial com mendation of President Roosevelt greeting him as the man "who had ex- posed the misconduct in public office without pity and punished it without mercy" and potent influence for peace in the world, and a wise and sue. cessful leader in wholesome legislation m the interest of the whole people,
 The administration of Governor Guild was approved. The public own. ership of railroads was opposed sym- pathy was expressed with the suffer ing and outraged Jews in Poland and Russia, although with a sense of nro- | Iouhd Humiliation that our own gar ments are not free from the innocent blood Of Americans of African descent.,
 The platform also, dealing with the disfranchisement of the negroes in IA
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TONER'S EDITOR INDICTED.
District Attorney Jerome Accuses Him
 of Criminal Libel.


 White Plains, N. r., Oct. 5,-Frank E. Xavier, editor of the Yonkers Herald, was indicted to-day by the grand jury on charge of criminal libel entered by District Attorney William T. Jerome, of New York. The grand jury to-day ex- tended to the editor the privilege of the grand jury room but he declined with thanks, explaining that he had received word from the district attorneys office that an explanation on his part would be unnecessary and that an indictment was inevitable. He gave bonds for trial at the next term of court.
 The article to which MT. Jerome takes exception was an editorial in the Yon- kers Herald on September 27 The edi- torial intimated that Mir, Jerome enter ed into conspiracy with life insurance officers in accordance with which he was not to prosecute them.
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WHR S7EINHARDT WAS CHOSEN
Selected Over Charge Sleeper Because
 of Long Experienc.


 Washington, Oct. 5.-Inquiry has been made at the department of state as to why Consul-General steinhardt, instead of Charge Sleeper, conducted the inn portant correspondence relating to the intervention in Cuba. as shown by the dispatches made public last evening, and the reply made is that the long ex- perience of MT. Stelnhardt In Cuba and his close association with President Palma and other officials there caused him to be selected for consultation when the crisis was reached. MT. Steinhardt was connected with the gov- ernment of occupation after the Span ish war and when the United States forces were withdrawn was made con- sul-general at Havana
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Shipping News.

Cape Race. N F. Oct. 5.-Steamer Noorland, Rotterdam and BouIogne for New York. was in communication with the Marconi station 160 miles southeast at noon. She will probably dock at D. m.
 Plymouth, Oct 5-Arrived: Steamer Amerika, New York for Cherbourg and Hamburg (and proceeded).
 Lizard, 4:10 D. m.-Passed: Steamer Staatendam, New York for Boulogne and Rotterdam.
 Hamburg. Oct. 5.-Arrived: Steamer Graf WaldeTsee, New York via Ply mouth and Cherbourg.
 Queenstown, Oct. 5-Arrived: Steam- CT Lucania, New York for Liverpool 4and proceeded).
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VERDICT ron $S, 9I5.
Returned Against New York Life in st.
 Louis.

St. Louis, Oct. 5.-A verdict of $S,915 against the New York Life Insurance company was returned by jury in the United States circuit court here this afternoon. The verdict was reached after an all-day dellberation on the case of George c. Rankin, receiver for the First National bank of Niles, Mich, who sought to recover $17S6 insurance on the life of George A. Kimmel, for mer president of the Farmers State bank of Arkansas City, Kan, who mys- teriously disappeared in 1S9S Interest was also awarded, making the total amount SS,915.
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Won by HOrgan.

St. Louis, Oct. 5.-sThe second block of 200 balls in the SOO-ban match for the worlds continuous pool champioa- ship between John Morgan, of New York. champion. and Horace B. Lean, of St. Louis, challenger, was won by Morgan, 196 to t61. The total score of the match is; Morgan 4OS, Lean 336. The final block will be played to-mor- row night
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SYRACUSE CRIPPLED.
Veteran Tackle and End Out of the
 Game.

Syracuse. N. Y, Oct. 5.-Syracuse university football team will miss her veteran tackle and end, Oliver K. Har- wood, in to-morrow's football game against Yale at New Haven, the latter having been the victim of peculiar accident in last Saturdays game with Rochester university. In a collision with an opponent Harwood broke his nose and cracked the roof of his mouth so that he has been unable to grip nose mask with his teeth or eat any thing of hard nature. He was acting captain of the Orange team when hurt, Captain stimson being out of the game with water on the left knee.
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MORMON CHURCH MEETING.
Address by President Smith the Princi-
 pal Event.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 5.-An ad- dress by President Joseph F. Smith was the principal event of the seventy seventh annual conference of the Nor mon church to-day. President Smith made no direct allusion to his own in dictment for unlawful cohabitation with his five wives, but ha said:
 Let every man live such an exem- plary life that there can be nothing said against him. Let him be true to his people; let him be true to Zion and pure in his ways, and the one God will uphold him whether he is deprived of his liberty or in prison cells"
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WoMEA,S GOLF CHANPIoNSHI
Interesting Preliminary to Opening of
 National Tournament.

Interesting Preliminary to Opening of
 National Tournament.
 Newton, Mass, Oct. 5.-As an inter- esting preliminary event to the national women's golf championship there will be played tomorrow team match be- tween nearly a score of the representa- tives of the western and eastern wom- ems golf associations.
 The contest is the first between the two associations, both of which have been in existence a little more than a year. The west team arrived on the scene of the national championship, the Brae Burn club, yesterday morning, coming from Toronto, where a tie match was played with the Canadians.
 The western players, nearly all of whom are from clubs in and about Chi cago, are led by Mrs. A. T. H. Brewer, of the Evanston Golf club, but Mrs. c. L. Deering, the western champion, will play No. 1 on the team.
 The match tomorrow will be an 1S- hole contest.
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TENNIS HoNORs DIVIDED
Columbia and Yale Carry Them OfR--
 Match Here Next Week.

Philadelphia, Oct. 5.-Columbia and Yale divided the intercollegiate tennis honors for 1906 as a result of the con- cluding rounds of the annual champion ship tournament this afternoon at the Merion Cricket club, Haverford, Pa. LeRoy of Columbia won the singles, defeating ir the final round Pell of Harvard. Yale took the doubles, all though the final round has not yet been played. Partridge and Dolbear of Yale defeated Tilden and Register. Pennsylvania, in the semi-fnal, and will meet in the final their fellow col legians, Wells and spaulding. As the doubles championship must go to Yale in any case, the match will be played at New Haven next week,
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More Miners Entomhed.

Denver, Oct. 5.-According to a dis patch to the News fifteen men are be- lieved to have been entombed in the Dutchman mine at Blossburg, N. M, to-day, by an explosion which wrecked the walls and roof of the tunnel in which they wore working.
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AMERICANS EXEMPT
Not Subject to Church Taxes in Ger
 many.

Washington Oct. 5.--lt is announced at the state department that the Ger man government has determined that American citizens are exempt from church taxes in Germany This was ascertained after correspondence be- tween the American ambassador at Berlin and the German government. Germany exempts from such taxes cit izens of any country that does not ex- act church taxes from Germans. The United States has no church taxes.
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DEAD PROBABLY VENTY
Twenty-nine Bodies Taken From Fork
 in POcahOntas Mine,

Bluefeld, W. Va, Oct 5.-Twenty- nine bodies have been recovered from the west fork of the Poeahontas Col fiery company mine at Pocahontas. Va. and a conservative estimate tonight places the total number of dead at sev- enty.
 The rescuing party reached the scene of the explosion, but the immense amount of debris and wreckage has hampered the search for bodies. There is no evidence thus far of fire.
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T. p. o'cOnnOr to See President.

Washington, Oct. 5.-T. P. O'Connor, member of the British parliament, ar President Roosevelt to pay his respects tomorrow and leaves tomorrow after noon for Boston to attend mass meet ing there Sunday in connection with the Irish parliamentary party.
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BODY NGIFIED.
Man Found in Water at Bridgeport J. c.
 Onkey.

Bridgeport. Oct 5.IThe body of the man found in the water to-day was to- night identified as that of Joseph c. Onkey, of New York, brother of Philip J. Onkey, a manufacturer of this city. He was twenty-eight years old and silver worker. He was visiting hls brother here. Wednesday night he dis appeared and nothing more was heard until tonight. when the Identification was made. The police are still investi- gatlng.