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settled it, he sald. You couldn't ac-
Cept such an idiotic offer as that
Captain Ezra took his cigar from his
mouth. We'll, Brad" he answered so
berry, that's what l did; / accepted
it,
Now, Cap'n Ez, look here, You and
/ have put almost our last copper into
the new schooner. We've got practical
ly no ready money. We must hire from
seventy to a hundred men at SO day
and pay them every week. We must
feed 'em. We must spend money fit
ting up the shanty TO lodge 'em in.
It'll take, macbe, month before we
get her cIear--if we do clear her. We
may have TO spend five or six thousand
before then. Where's the money com
ing FROM"
II know all that. Well mortgage
the Diving Belle and raise the cash.
Are you out of your head? We've
been lucky so far and haven't had a
failure. But failures are bound to
come. Suppose we work on this barge
for a month and then a heavy gale
strikes"
But, Brad think of what it means
to us if we make good"
"Cap'n EZ, we got that job because
nobody else would take it that way.
We can do it if anybody can, but no.
body else would be fool enough to
gamble against the Lord Almighty's
weather. We'd be called fools from
here to Provincetown."
The captain drew long breath. "All
right" he said gloomily. Maybe
you're right. Brad. 1t is a crazy gam
BILE, / s'pose. and I was afraid you'd
see 1t that way. Only you must make
up your mind to this-if we give up
this chance we must settle back and
be nothin' but anchor draggers the rest
of our lives. We've fiunked once, and,
no matter how good the reason is, no
more big jobs II come our way. But
if we make good-whew!"
Now it was Bradley's turn to hest
tate. There was some sense in what
his partner said, but it was playing
against odds and with the last dollar
on the table.
Suddenly Bradley spoke. "Oh, hang
It, what's the odds?" he exclaimed reck-
lessly go ahead. cap'n! III sink or
swim with your
Captain Ezra grasped his hand. Il
swOre you would" he cried. Son.
this jobs gon' to make us!'
Bradley's laugh was short and rather
bitter.
YES" he said, "make-or break
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late. lie says the whole town THINKS
you can't carry it through. Men that
know all about wreckin' say
who says. the jeremiah club:
The jeremiah club was Captain Tit
combs name for the daily gathering
about the stove in Weeks store
NO. indeed. Men like Cap'n Joaa-
dab Wixon and Mr. Wingate and lots
more. They say that you've mort
gagged ycGr vessel and that if you fail
you'll be Enthusiastically ruined.
They lay it all to Cap'n Ezra. OF
course Tempy and me stand up for YOU
and the capn and pretend we amt
mite anxious; but, oh. Bradley, If any
such awful thing should happen 10
you, to our boy. 'twould break our
hearts,
Bradley felt a pang of reproach.
Miss Prissy's eyes were wet. and the
tears were running down Miss Tempy's
checks. He was very grave as he an
swered.
Miss Prissy," he said, please don't
worry. / know how people are talk
ing: but. honestly and truly, l think
we shall succeed. Ii we do. it means
everything to Us. If we don't-well,
whatever happens, if God let's me live,
you and Miss Tempy shall never suf-
fer | owe everything in the world To
you. I'll promise you something else
too. If we win out now, I'll never take
another contract where the risk is as
big as this. Now. good night, and, to
please me. don't worry any more"
As he was leaving the room Miss
Tempy said timidly: Bradley. you
don't go to prayer meetin' any more
Prissy and me pray for you every night
hope you won't let your bus
crowd out your religion
Bradley shook his head, answered
hurriedly that he was working hard
and was tired and went up
70 his room. The last time he had
been TO prayer meeting Gus went with
him. He had no wish to go there now
and perhaps see her in Sans company.
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SSSSJ at a cigar and talking in al
unusually loud voice of New York an6
his experiences there. He seemed te
be very happy, and his boisterous
laughter penetrated even to the lltt,e
company Of worshipers on the settees
inside
When the meeting was over he threw
away the stump of his cigar and shout
dered himself into the front row OF
waiting SWANS by the door. AS Gus
came out he stepped forward to meet
her and in doing SO bumped against
Mrs. Piper. who, looking the other
way. had not seen him, and, being
deaf. had not heard his step.
Gracious sakes alive" exclaimed the
old lady, rubbing her shoulder. Eek
cuse me, Mr.. Hammond. / didn't see
you
Sam nodded serenely. Don't men
ton it, he shouted. winking over bis
shoulder at Georgiana Bailey. You
didn't hurt me a Bit
Georgiana gggled, and most Of the
young men grinned at the joke. Gus
glanced hurriedly at Mrs. Piper and
then at Hammond. She looked sur
prised and troubled.
Sam took her arm without asking
permission and led her to the sidewalk
She still looked back.
I'm afraid you hurt Mrs. Piper.
she said. What made you so rough:'
Her escort laughed. Il guess it WON
be fatal" he observed. IF I'd man
aged to fracture that voice of hers sos
she couldn't sing maybe the congre
cation would give me vote OF
thanks
Gus didn't reply. There was some
thing in her companions manner that
made her recoil instinctively. She dis
engaged her arm from his, but he took
it again and walked on, joking and
laughing.
what crowd of jays there is in
this town. he remarked after awhile,
with a sneer-"enough to stock a dime
museum"
He had always spoken patronizingly
of the townspeople-that she had not
minded so much. coming from city
man, but heretofore he had not openly
made fun of them. She resented the
remark, but most of all the tone in
which it was uttered.
"Why do you stay here, them" she
asked coldly.
"Why? / guess you know the reason
all right. Don't you, Gus? Hey:"
He chuckled and bent down to look
in her face She shivered and drew
=
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(To be Continued Next Sunday
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- /.
ySSM@ol had planned and figured ant
49, estimated. and each nov
knew what his part in the great figh
4 was to be. AS he was leaving Bradle.
asked the captain how, in his opinion
had the contract.
"Phoned the Salvage company" re
! piled Captain Ezra decidedly. It'll be
/ on it. You see. Brad. this jobs big
one, and the salvage folks might have
figured there was sugar enough In it
to drop lump in friend Obeds tea
cup providin' he stirred up their spoon.
Well, good night. or good mornin',
rather. It's double or quits with us
this time, son, for sartin, but if Tit
comb & Nickerson do go under it'll
be with colors flynn"
Within the week Setuckit Point from
lonely. gull haunted sand pit, inhaDit-
ed only by the life saving crew and the
lighthouse keeper and his family, be-
came small town, the population OF
which left each morning for the Razor
back shoal and returned at night to
eat and sleep in the big shanty and
those surrounding ii.
Captain Titcomb saw the people at
the Wellmouth bank and placed a mort
gage on the Diving Belle. As the
partners owned her free and clear, he
was able to get her cost price. $4,000.
Placards announcing that men were
wanted at once and at So day and
board were hung in the postoffices and
railway stations in Orham. South Or
ham, West Harniss Harniss Center.
Wellmouth and other towns: also an
advertisement appeared~in the Item.
The response was immediate. Work
at good wages was scarce in the win
ter months, and men came from TWEEN
ty miles away to obtain it.
The Diving Belle carried them down
to the Point. There, under Barney
Smalrs supervision, some set to work
building extra hunks in the big shanty,
Singing hammocks. putting UP stoves
the partners bought five secondhand
ranges-and making three neighboring
abandoned fishing huts inhabitable
The rest worked over the stranded coal
barge. getting out the anchors. strip
ping her of all unnecessary ironwork
and rigging and preparing to bring the
coal from her hold and dump it over
board.
Seventy men We're hired altogether
and to feed them it was necessary to
buy large quantities of provisions.
Captain Titcomb managed this part of
the business, and the bargains he made
with Caleb Weeks and other store
keepers were wonderful and in some
cases not too profitable for the sellers.
As Mr.. Weeks said: ..Ez Titcomb spent
ha'f the forenoon with me today, and
afore he got through talkin' he'd tan
gled me up so with figgers that don't
know whether l sold him salt at Il cent
a pound or cornmeal at a dollar a
barrel. I'll have TO put in the rest
OF the day callatin' and addin' up
SOS TO know whether I've made money
or lost it,
Soon the work on the Freedom was
in full swing. and the great hull hum |
med like beehive. Men We're stand |
ing by the patches and by the derricks. |
Men We're working By the rail trans |
ferring ropes and ironwork 10 the Div |
ing Belle. Down in the hold gangs Of |
men with faces sooty black except |
where the sweat streaked them with /
pallid channels were shoveling the coal /
into the big iron buckets that the |
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CHAPTER XVI.

1SJ 0T was close to daybreak when
IXl i the partners separated. They
I66MM1& had planned and figured and
I62He6J estimated and each now
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do for me or Tor YOU eitner, Brad
They separated TO plunge again into
their work. But Bradley's hint about
the dynamite still troubled Captain
Titcomb's conscience. When the Div
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CHAPTER XVII.

T that very moment Mr.. Ham
mond. seated on the fence by
the vestry door, was pulling
at cigar and talking in an
Bisbee daily review., 1907-02-19

easily increase to a population of 50,000 and perhaps, 75.000.
 And this condition can be created in many other places by the irriga- ti6n fund For instance. the town of Florenee>eould be increased to a pop. ulatIon of 15.0oO or 20,OOo. with a sur rounding farming population of 15.. 900. Aside from this. there are many projects that can be developed in Arizona alone and room can be creat- ed in this territory for farming pop ulatIon of 500.000. In time every spring, every we'll and every small creek throughout the arid west will have the attention of the reclamation department and every inch of avaiia- Ole water will be developed It means, in fact. the creation of a new and mighty empire and shows that the ir. rigation act Is the most statesman, like measure of this generation.
 Just think of what could be done with the money that has been spent on the Philippine lsianos! The orig inal cost would have developed s5, GOO twenty-acre irrigated farms, and the s25O,OOOOO0 that we have since paid out would have worked marvels in our own country. And yet the Philippine Islands are useless to us and in time are going to get us into trouble with the Asiatic people.
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THE TERRITORIES CANNOT KEEP UP WITH THEMSELVES

There is not a city in New Mexico or Arizona that is not at this mo- ment engaged in some work of pub lie improvement, says the Fl Paso Herald. The newspapers of the ter ritories are alive with announcements of bond issues, waterworks exten sions, new school buildings. street i'm proyements. road building, tree plant ing and other projects of merit and public concern.
 The last two years in the terri tories have shown a greater propor- tionate change in outward aspect and inward spirit than any preceding five years. There has been general awakening to the money value of an attractive town, and means of easy communication. The different towns gain ideas from each other, the news papers are progressive and help to spread the good news and. arouse the right spirit in the laggards, and the general impression one gains from a trip through the territories or from perusing the newspapers is that both are well out of the ravine and travers- ing the glorious tableiand of bound less opportunity.
 Strong men are taking the leader ship and right policies prevail.
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARID WEST.

The enactment Of the national ir- rigation law was the best investment that this government ever made. In fact, the enormous growth of the fund has developed a movement far be yond the hopes of the most ardent ad- vocates of the bill The fund has en- larged since the passage of the act in 1901 until it has reached the sum of s39, ,95s, ,192.12, with an estimated increase of four millions a year for 1907. Works have been commenced in sixteen states and the sums allotted amount to S39, ,161, and this will bring under cultivation 1,263, 900 acres of land that is now desert. This means homes for 100000 families or 1,500,0 600 people, and at the same time the system of indemnifying the gov ernment creates a perpetual fund that will be turned over and over, constantly repeating the reclamation work In other words, the policy of reclamation will go on years after the present generation is dead. and the fund will constantly increase until it assumes gigantic proportions.
 There are now twenty-six irrigation projects under construction, the one in the Salt river valley in Arizona be- lRg the most advanced and probably the most extensively advertised. The cost of the Tonto dam will not be as much as the cost of single first-class battleship and yet it will be paid back to tue government. Twenty acres of land urGer this project will easily support family. There is no shad- SOW of doubt about this. It has been zzapeatedly established that with plen- ty of water twenty acres are all that any family needs; thus, while this reservoir brings under intense culti- vation 1s0,000 acres of land it creates homes for 45,000 persons. This means that the town of Phoenix can
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THE CUBAN LOAD.

Congress is likely to adjourn leav- ing a good mary large questions un- settled, and without any attempt worthy of the name to reach def nite policy. If congress could be re lied upon to devote an extraordinary session to a few issues like that in volved in the suzerainty over Cuba, it probably ought to be called together promptly after the 4th of March; but politics and political ambitions will be absorbing and as little risk of trouble vii be taken as possible, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. The situa, ton in Cuba is reported to be ex tremely unsatisfying to the better class of the population. Indeed, i. does not meet with the approval ct any of the islanders except few wh
 may have worked themselves into profitable positions under the pro yisional government. There is all earnest demand in Cuba that the United States shall take hold of Cuba in earnest and run the island without reservation and explanation or apol
 ogy. The prosperous and thrifty Feo
 pie are not moved by sentiment Q. patriotism, but they want good got
 ernment that will assure peace, orde and guarantee a chance for general prosperity. They want the discor
 tented and mischievous barre from all participation in the adrninistrs
 ton of public affairs. They see ns
 way to serenity and prosperity bu'
 the assertion of positive authority b.
 this country The best sentiment v
 sse United States is probably againf
 annexation of Cuba. but nobody hal
 been able to present scheme of oT Ger without some proceeding tha
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THE JAPANESE SITUATION.


 The Japanese school controversy seems likely to be disposed of to the satisfaction of President Roosevelt, Mayor Schmitz and the San Francis co school board, and presumably of the Japanese government by the framing of an amendment to the pending immigration bill. If congress Is willing to accept the amendment the incident may soon be closed.
 The amendment proposed will ex- clude foreigners who use passports to gain admission to the United States to the detriment of labor conditions in this country. The wide latitude given immigration authorities seems satisfying to the Californians and the school authorities of San Francisco are willing if the bill becomes a law to rescind their order establishing ori- ental schools.
 A provision iR the immigration bill conference report restricts the use of passports granted by foreign countries for the admission of their subjects into the outlying possessions of the United States, including the Panama canal zone, which was in tended to aid the. administration in adjusting the California situation and is regarded with favor by the sena' tors and representatives from that state. However, it is not held that the provision satisfies the demands | California has made regarding the ex- clusion of Japanese laborers from the | United States. Nothing in the pro vision excludes such laborers from i the ports of the United States.
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will be the substantial equivalent of annexation.
 Says the Clifton Copper Era: About the only thing so far accom- plished by the New Mexico legisla- ture has been the appointing of about three clerks for each member. There is a big row on between the young republican governor, who seems determined to run the part and the territory with a big stick anc the republican leaders who do not ac- knowledge him as boss. This fghl has clogged the wheels of legislation. The members of the legislature are attempting to strip the governor of the powers heretofore exercised b., him of appointing district attorneys. and county officials. whe. vacancies occur, etc, but His Exceliency will not attach his signature to the bIll. The democratic members, who al ways enjoy a republican row, are with the goyeruor, hence the Tpsasures oh iectionabIe to him cannot be passed over his veto by the necessary two thirds majority. Nobody seems to know what the row is about. neither do they appear to care, but the fric' ton Is increasing all the time, and the probability is that no legislation of any importance will be passed. The legislature would do a graceful thing to adjourn and go home. but the at taches, who are drawing their per diem, will not permit this, and the fun must therefore go on to the end"
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CIRCULATION STATEMENT, DE.
 cEM6eR, 1906.

Ayerzoe Circulation, November ..25s3 Ayeraoe Circulation, December ..2625
 Gain for month of December .. AZ
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TERRITORY OF ARIZONA.

County of Cochise. sA-
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The New Mexico legislature is showing symptoms of an attack of the anti-gambling feever. A bill has been introduced in the lawmaking body of our neighbor territory sim liar to the one passed in Phoenix two weeks ago and it is believed that this bill will pass by practically unani- nous vote.
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Subscription Rates.
Ne ishborhood Talk.

Mrs. s. e. Millar was quite sick last
week.
Protractirg meeting is bniug well at
tended despite the cold weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clutter entertained sew
eral of their friends Friday evening.
Mr.. Geo. Arner's children seem 10 be
lucky in obtaining prizes ut school.
Miss Brous offered prize to all those
who came every day and weren't tardy.
Gerald, Leah and Maud each received
prize which was onn silver dollar and
George was given one half dollar for OBJ
tanning certain number of head marks
in his class.
Mr.. Go Barry has quit raising
tame geese and commenced catching
wild ones.
Miss Yates entertained Emma Cline,
Della Brous, Nora Lawless and Rennie
Cotton at dinner Sunday.
Some of the "baehelors" 10 this Vi
ciuily had better retire earlier or get
them dn alarm o'clock.
Charlie Buzzard and John Brown are
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sit is now eleven years since l had a
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acres Of stalks bifre breakfast the
other day. How many acres would
they have broken had they worked all
day?
Nora Lnwless and Della Brous visited
Rose Braoch school Monday evening.
Several of tho Duvalites were al
Bethel Sunday night.
MIR. and Mrs. p. ~, Cline Supeayed
at Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Tyler's.
PHOENIX.