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reputation OF being abba to understand
and forgive others"
4 think I see the way, the only way
out Of this"
She walked up and down the aoo-
eNcitedly- Suddenly she went over 70
the window. and stood there motion
less like a statue. Her left hand al
most touched the electric bell button
but she did not press II Then she
said without stopping TO think: Il
have it, 1 SHAH save youl Marry me-"
The burglar was at the window I'm
one bound.
What are you going to DOR Maria
asked
Leave tAis room" he Eroaned
pushing her aside.
II you do / shall ring this bell ="
Ring the bell madam. as much as
you want %. but forgive me II I can
not give up my freedom as easy as
you seem 10 think IL I'm caught by
tbs police I viii be sent up for a couple
Uf years. but II I'm caught BY you I
viii get a life term -
Farewell" "
With these words he made a dnSh
through the window and landed IN the
garden below.
Coward" she hlssed: and closed the
window behind him
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TIE WIDOW AND THE BURGLAR! :: = AAvf6SSrGg{ BIT SE Is

NH RS. MARIA HAuFF. a Jolly
m and very pretty widow, open
F ed the door leading into her
bed room and turned on the
electric light. Then she went over to
the window and for q moment enjoyed
the fragrance OF roses which came in
70 the room with the evening breeze
from tho garden below. Then she
looked into the little mirror. hanging
on the wall Her face WAS flushed and
her blue eyes smiled at the image in
the mirror. as she Iokoed on the dark
hair and pulled the hat pins from her
large hat
Suddenly she held her breath and lis
tened. she thought she heard steps
outside and a noise as II somebody
was breaking the branches OF the rose
bushes. She looked out Of the win
dow. but outside everything was
again quiet. There were few clouds
in the sky and the silvery light OF the
moon fell upon the roofs Of the neigh
boring houses. It would have been
easy to jump through the window
down into the garden. and Maria felt
sudden desire to DO so. and take a
walk among the rose bushes. Then
she looked At her watch and saw that
II was 10 o'clock. She shock her head
and put aside her hat. On the table
was letter which she loked at time
and again. At last she picked fl up
and began 10 read T>ver sinSe she had
received Il IN the morning she had felt
nervous and excited. Now she once
more read through the few lines II
contained. which ran:
beautiful Merfs''-
AT Last I have come 10 the conclu-
sion that you are playing with me. OF
course. you have nothing to lose. but
have-e heart. II 1 should lose IL TO
YOU Il might fall into hands which In
time 20 come would crush II and throw
il away That must not happen.
SHAH never forget the happy hours
have spent with you. which passed like
so many minutee. but know now that
10 you these hours were nothing but a
passing, rather pleasant experience.
but your heart never went out 10 me.
Having come 70 this conclusion. !
see nothing for me 90 DO but to STAY
aWey from you and to beg you al
Wnys to remember me as
Yours faithfully.
ROBERT BROOK"
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Thomas. Not the slightest suspicion
came 20 her mind to warn her against
the peril she vas about 10 encounter
Before her the charmed vista Of her
life unrelled itself faWless. perfect.
harmonious as the rhythm Of a poem
DID not her beloved sit beside her as
the horses hO0fs beat away the miles
between them and the marriage altar?
Surely sho woul1 have been "a strange
girl, after all. had not her thoughts
been of the haDDy future and the
years OF life with her hearts beloved
Charleston was reached. The cere-
mony was performed The venerable
minister OF the gospel pronounced tie
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DisirlusIoned. Her Heart Breaks.

Then came the drive back TO Chris
man. Alvin was in Chrisnan. OF his
thoughts while his brother had we'd
the girl VINO was 70 have been his
own 1ite. there is no record That
he was orazen in his treachery TO the
young woman who had given into his
keeping her Heart and soul was proven
by what followed He came into the
house that very day with Calvin.
Both men tried 10 carry OF the decep-
tlcn as 81 II had never been perpe-
trated.
But the lovely bride knew. Her
sight that had beer blinded BY her
dreams OF happiness came bacs4. She
started as II an icy hand gripped her
by the threat For a few minutes shs
was bereft OF the power Of speech
When she did speak. the words came
slowly from her eonvulsed lips The
two men-one who had betrayed her
trust in him. and the other who had
married her against her will-were
transfxed by the look OF pain. OF
horror, on the beautiful face before
them IT was such scene as sears
itself deep into the human intelli-
gence- II was one OF woe. unutterabls
grief. a woman's knowledge that her
curtain OF dreams had forever fallen
from the threshold Of the future.
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Pride Bads Her Keep sns+ce.

one thing saved these men from
Immediate exposure. according 20 the
wronged woman's story. she was
proud At the call Of pride q woman
viii endure much Rather than tell her
friends and her family of how she
had been dupsd, she stified tns shrieks
OF protest that rose to her twisted
lips. and said she voud I've as tie
wife Of Calvin. the man she haA never
loved. the man she had never wanted
10 marry.
Fer two years sne bore the burden
OF ner sweetheart's tEsachery. She was
unhappy every day OF those two years,
she says. Always before her she saw
the phantom OF the happiness she had
lost and il was more than she could
bear She had lOnged for happiness.
and missTy was her portion. She had
dreamed Of the tenderness OF the devo-
don OF the man she loved-and these
things were swept out OF her life as a
sponge ruhs from a slate the cAlculR-
tions OF a schOolbOy.
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words that made her the wife OF
Calvin Thomas. although she thought
she was marrying Alvin That night
she spent IN ignorance Of the cruel
deception that had been practiced
upon her The loving words OF her
husband sounded TO her ears ike the
loving words sle had so often heard
Torn the a6ored lips of her sweet
heart
he next morning when she arose,
She threw open the shutters 81 her
b~oIoom and looked upon the world
a. Pc lay bathed ia the sunshine or
q spring morning On everything
there was a touch OF .Deauty. Even
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ure. she is endowed with what Is more
beautiful. a soul attuned to the great
est and sweetest things In life. She
is one whose good works are known
where she lives. and one capable OF
the highest flights OF tender sentiment
1t is easy. therefore. To realize how
this woman. when she was in the
flower Of her girlhood. heard with 10Y
the words OF love from the lips or her
lover. Alvin As they drove over the
mOonlit roads or sat on the vine-em-
lowered porch OF her home, her heart
was lifted up by her dreams of the
bliss the future held in store for her.
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Blessed with content and happiness
since ns- earliest years. she saw only
content and happiness in the future
for her
The night for her marriage 10 Alvin
Thomas came at last Out OF the
doorway Of her parents home. down
the iiowe-- -bordered walk. through the
gate. at the foot OF the lawn. and the
first stage OF the lovely girls journey
TO the matrimonial altaf was com
pleted. Once through the gate, she
hesitated a nom sat. held by the very
sweetness Of the summer night. Per-
fume. light as the touch OF fairies,
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FIGHTING SHIP OF FUTURE

r T is today the almost unanimous
opinion OF naval officers that one
4 big ship is more effective than two
smaller ships of half her size.
Future engagements viii be fought
with the two fleets steaming in parallel
lines. in what is known as line ahead
formation: that is. with each ship OF
feet steaming IN the wake OF one
ahead, with an interval of about 800
yards between them II. OF two such
fleets. one were made up of four 10000
ton battleships. each carrying eight
l2-inch guns. the whole line would be
about 400 yards In length: and II the
other fleet consisted Of eight 10.000-ton
ships, each mounting four Pinch guns
the line would be $500 yards in length
or over three miles. The fleet Of
larger ships veuld probably have suf-
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hcient advantage IN speed for ne as
miral to maintain his four vessels
abreast Of the first four Of the enemy's
line; and, In this case. an eight-gun
ship would be opposed to a four-gun
ship. with the inevitable result Cf the
gunners were at all equally matched
that the four smaller ships would then
slackea speed and drop back. taking
the ships OF the enemy in turn. and
smothering them with a superior gun
fire At the opening OF such an en-
gagement the fifth and sixth in line
of the four-gun ships would be able
TO direct a diagonal fire upon the last
OF the eight-gun ships, but the range
would be 50 great that II could not
prove to be very effectual UnoueS-
tiona BIZ, the victory IN future engage
ments VIII lie with the feet which -
able 10 concentrate the largest nun
Der Of heavy guns within the shortest
lire Of battle
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WOOed by One Twin,
Deceived and Wed
by Other;
HeartbrOken and Sad
Wife Seeks
SOlaCe in DivOrcc

ROM the adoring speeches
- and rapturous kisses of a
man who had wooed her
= for three months to mar
rage by trickery with another man
who was practically a total stranger
to her was the awful experience of
an Illinois woman, an experience
made all the more dreadful because
her mistaken marriage was the re-
suit OF her wooer's treachery in
sending his twin brother to wed
her.
The woman who has just told
this remarkable story of herself is
the lovely Mrs. Ada Thomas, of
Chrisman, small town in Illinois.
and she told il to explain her action
in asking a divorce from Calvin
Thomas, wealthy man of Chris
man, to whom she has been mar
ried two years.
In brief, her history of loves
shattered dreams, a history that
would become wen the Imagination
Of de MaupaSant, Is that Alvin
Thomas wooed her for three
months. Then she yielded to his
perSuasions and consented to fly
with him by night to the town of
Charleston, which was nearby, and
there become his wife. The next
day she discovered that Alvin had
sent his twin brother, Calvin, to
marry her. She endured the mis-
cry Of marriage to a man she had
never loved. She endured It for
two years and then, wom with the
misery of it all, asked a few weeks
ago for a divorce from the man
she had never chosen as her hus-
band.
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filled the air. In the starry dome
above her. the million eyes If The
heavens looked down ia white serenity.
She clasPed her hands across her
bosom. her heart beating fast with the
transport of thankfulnsss that held
hc-
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A Lovely Woman In Face, Form,
and Mind.

n order that all may understand
tho unspeskable misery that came
10 Mrs. Thomas as 6 result Of this
terrible mistake, Il Is well To tell
What manner OF woman she is A
beauty In her girlhood, wher Alvin
told her Of his love. she Is a strikingly
handsome woman today. But. in ad-
dition 20 her beauty OF face and fig
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InnOeentIy. BlIssfuny. She Was
Deceived.

Soon she was in the buggy driving
with all speed 20 Charleston. the man
beside her full OF tender words aud
solicitation. She thought ne was Alvin
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Strange Story
of Mrs. Thomas
SurpasSeS Fiction
of &c Maupassant.
RudeIy Awakened
From Love Dream

the light of the sun was grander to
her dreamy eyes than IL had ever
been before She was happy. Her
dream OF bliss bad come true. Shs
was married to the man who loved
her and whom she loved She de-
sired no more
At breakfast. in the town Of Charles
ton, her husband punctuated the
meal with endearnents and express
sions OF his alteration She heard
him and told him Of her delight
Everything was clear and beautiful as
she could wish.
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Defender 22, 1907
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01

only for its beauty, but because it couldn't be
had without the danger of risking our own
skins in getting it.
1--WE killed sloth, an armadllo. two ant
creatures, besides bagging two large monkeys
and number of splendid parrots and cocka-
toos.
"On the third day. while going very quietly
through strip of forest. we got prodigcus
start from two ocelots that snrang out of
hollow tree not twenty feet from us. We shot
both of them dead on the spot, and they were
the most beautiful animals / ever saw Even
the African leopard isn't so handsome.
They measured about three feet in length
However, that day ended our hunt and
made us willing to go home, for it was then
that the adventure happened that / started 10
tell you about
Within the tropics, you know, everything
OF the vegetable kind has rank growth, and
DICK and had several times come upon
measure We had seen, too. a number of dry
ones floating upon the water close to the
fiocks of fowl.
Dick said he had heard that the natives,
by putting the shells ON their heads and
wading up to the chin, often got right In
among the birds, SO as to catch them by the
legs.
Here was an idea, and what fine fun it
would be to act upon it!
the lakeside, with hundreds of fowls swim
ming about in it, and it seemed to us that
here was just the place for our experiment.
There were few gourds drifting near the
flock, and this encouraged u.s. for it showed
that the. birds wouldn't take alarm at our
helmets.
"a line of reeds by the water kept us from
being seen, and SO, leaving our dugout just
without the cove, we went looking for gourds
to fit our heads.
Finding two enormous ones we made eye
holes and mouth-holes in them, and then Jam
med them over our crowns till they covered
our faces completely; then, stripped of every
thing but our duck trousers, we stood ready
for the trial.
"But, dear me, what spectacle we should
have made if there had been anybody to see
us! AS we stood there in the blazing sun,
barefooted and bare-shouldered, with our
heads feeling as big as buahel baskets, we
laughed till / thought we should scare all the
ducks out of the cove.
eve were about twenty rods from the wa
ter, and just as we began to move toward 1t,
there came some queer little squeaks and
grunts from among the trees behind us. We
stopped and listened.
"fOogh. oogh. ooghi- quee, quee, queei'
There was rustlins sf grass and brushwood
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deal thinner and better than you would sup
pose it could have been. Dick had some tools,
and he had given it the finishing touches him
self
1T had sail and oars and set of pad
dies and there was a canvas cover that could
be drawn over about half the length OF the
hull so that two OF three fellows could sleep
under it, if they should happen to be out all
night :,
Of earth it was ever my fortune to light upon.
1t smelt of logwood everywhere, Just like a
dye house. Nobody thought Of dealing n
anything else.
"The inhabitants had more time than they
knew what to do with, and don't believe a
single one of them was ever in a hurry in his
life. No wonder that Dick felt lonesome, l
Thought.
"As to myself, the case was different Be
ing at liberty to go or stay, as pleased,
could feel quite easy and contented, and SO
few days the rest of the Rainbow's crew went
over to Havana in Spanish brig, but / re-
mained behind.
"Diek owned a very good gun. but, as it
was the only firearm of modern pattern
that he knew of in the place, it seemed at
first as if / should have to take up with some
old Mexican f;ntlock. But, finally. was
lucky enough to get a double-barreled fowl
ing piece from the skipper of a Dutch bark
which was loading with logwood for Rotter-
IL,
Laguna stands on one of 4 chain of islands
at the mouth of Lake Terminos, and we took
an oblique course for the main shore, where
we hoped to find some large game. Dick
thought we should be likely to meet with ta-
pirs, ant-eaters, sloths, gluttons, and perhaps
a bear, besides standing fair chance of stir
ring up jaguar or herd of peccaries
II had seen good many jaguars behind the
bars of cages, but peccaries knew nothing
about, except that they were a sort of small
swine. / found. though, that Dick had real
dread of them. They were worse than the
jumping toothache. he said, and always look
Inc for fight. Out of full hundred, you
might kill all but one yet the hundredth fel-
low would come right on just as if nothing
had happened, clashing his ugly tusks and
bristling all over like little fury.
"After reaching the mainland, we coasted
along the shore for two days, sometimes rang
ing the woods or pampas, at other times off
on board our dugout
'Now and then we would come upon a
camp of logwood cutters and next there
would be an unbroken forest OF wide plain,
with no human being In sight
."Our object was to get as many specimens
as possible of the skins of curious birds and
animals to be carried home as trophies. We
wanted. above all things. jaguar skin, not
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and then, good gracious, If we one ugly
little snout bearing down upon us, we saw two
or three hundred! 1t was living wave of
tusks and bristles.
Peccaries, peccaries! Dick yelled We
must run for it,
I'VE still had our guns with us, intending to
leave them on the bank while we wad d after
the ducks; but to have fired just then at that
legion, of black little demons would simply
have been TO waste time, and just then we
needed all the time there was.
With our helmets and our chests and
shoulders bare, we sprang away like couple
OF wild colts. What the peccaries thought we
were with the heads we had on, don't know
1t was no doubt the frat time they had ever
seen the new kind of animal they were in
chase of.
The open ground behind us was fairly ahve
with the savage little wretches; and how we
pulling up with all the power of their stout
legs! :.
eve plunged through the line of reeds and
into the. water, wading off until it was up to
our waists before turning to fire. We had the
advantage of them now, for, although they
were every one swimming for u.s. we could
touch bottom, while they could not
I'VE gave them the contents of our four
barrels, and saw that number of them turn
keel up; but all the. others came straight on.
and we were obliged to spring away in lively
style, wading along as fast as possible, or
they would have had us sure enough
"They chased us out of the little cove and
away around to our boat, though we re,oad.d
and fred number of times before getting
there.
"Once we crossed deep place where we
had to SWIM and here they came within an
ace of catching us, because it was difficult to
carry our guns and make headway at the same
time.
eve forgot all about our gourdshell he'll
NETS. but foundered and splashed along. look
ing through the eye-holes like couple of
Coeur de Lions crusaders right from Pales.
tine In fact, it was no time to think of our
headgear with a whole army of peccaries a.
our heels.
"a dozen or two of them had got into shoal
water, where they could touch bottom, and
when we reached the dugout they were al
most up with us.
1--WE, grabbed it by the gunwale; but. be-
fore the clumsy craft was fairly aloat. we
had to spring in and defend ourselves with the
oars.
"The little scamps crowded alongside.
squealing and swapping their jaws, till it seem
ed as if they would come right in upon us, in
spite of all we could do.
But We managed to push the boat afoat
CONTINUED ON PAGE six
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was seventeen said Mont. per
haps you may have heard of the brig Ram
bow, and how and where she was lost. / was
IN her at the time.
1--WE had been freighting about the West
Indies for nearly year. going from port to
port with whatever invoice could be picked
up, until finally, at Havana, we were ordered
over to the little Mexican town of Laguna,
where we were to take in a cargo of log
wood.
$50 we ran over toward the place and got
into the Bay of Campeachy; but the brig
never arrived at her port l suppose. it was
a piece of carelessness on the captains part;
but, at all events, she struck reef, and that
was the end of her.
AFTER few thumps, away went both
masts over the side. and she was very soon
full of water. We got off with the yawl and
ing, and the next day reached Lagnna, where
we came under the care of the American
Consul.
However. we were in no real distress. as
all OF us had some specie, and a verv little
of this would go a long way in such sleepy
port as that old Mexican town.
I'VE before the mast had been permitted
to buy and sell some little ventures at the
ports the brig had visited, and /, for one,
had nearly hundred dollars.
"The Consul was Mr. Clark from Con-
nectieut. where he had once been school
teacher. he was a fine man, and he had a
son named Richard, who as it happened, was
Of my own age to single day. That, l
suppose. was what people would call sin
gular coincidence
"Dick Clark seemed as glad to see me as
If had been his own brother, though l was
On entire stranger to him. He said was the
first American boy he had set eyes on for a
whole year, though he had now and then been
refreshed with the sight of few live Yam
kee men, who had come there after logwood
in vessels flying the dear old stripes and
stars.
and Dick said if would remain at the place
for a time, we would have some fine sport
hunting wild animals and exploring the neigh
boring shores.
"He showed me dugout that he owned
q sort Of double-ender, about twenty feet
long and four feet wide, made from a single
tree. Of course. it was rather clumsy, as
boats go, but then it had been burned down.
and hewn down. and chiseled down a great
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YOUNG shipmate of mine, named
Montrose Merton. once related to
me an adventure which he had met
with upon his first voyage.
"It happened two years ago, when
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-09-26

The statement by John Graham
Brooks. that it costs about $4,000
TO bring up an American boy, is at
tracing widespread attention, and
In addition to the comment In this
country, the English statistlcians
have come forward with the an
nouncement that It takes $25, 900
to bring up a boy in the middle
class. An exchange comments that
this amount refers to boys of families
enjoying an income of $4,000 to
$4,000 year--under present
financial conditions numerous
enough in this country to be called
middle class.
But even at this ratio the boy is
rather expensive unless he Is
brought up to repay with interest
the amount spent upon him. And
1t Is an interesting fact that a large
amount spent in training youth
does not insure that he will prove OF
very great value to the community.
To expend this sum means that he
will have the best advantages from
every point of view; that he will
have the benefit of a college educa-
tipii duu ludl every tuOTI viii DO
made to develop his faculties to the
best advantage. And at such a rate
the boy should prove very good In
vestment. But the question will al
ways be an interesting one: Is he,
as a rule, the superior from an eco
nomic standpoint of the boy who
has to make his way and pay as he
goes? 1t Is not necessary to go to
extremes and demand that a man
live in a log cabin and split rails
to qualify him for useful citizen
ship; but experience has proved that
the boy who comes from a family
not so we'll of and to which $4,000
year represents a good income, Is
not under any appreclable handicap.
II might be unfair to take the names
OF men whose family income has not
been one-quarter of that amount.
and who have been, as the result OF
poverty, barefoot" boys. and use
them as illustration that poverty is
n better incentive TO successful labor
than wealth. But history proves
that merit and ability like murder,
will out, and the fact that he has
not had $4,000 spent In educating
him for his life work need not dis
courage nor deter any youth who is
starting upon his chosen career
Baltimore American.