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orderly precisloA N ulcn characterized his own dealings. A man of education and little learning, of attainments and little cultivation, conversant with usages, formal, intensely sensitive to ridicule, incapable of humor. This was Quarter as she knew hiI, or had known him. Recently she had little by little, become aware of an fin. detinable change in the man. For one thing, he had grown more reticent. At times, too, his reserve seemed to have something almost surly about 1t. Un- der his cold composure hint of some thing concealed, watchful and very quiet.
 Condolences she had never looked for In him nor desired. It appalled, her at moments to realize how little they had In common and that only on the sur face-a communion of superficial in- terest incident to the fultillment of so- cial duties and the pursuit of pleasure. Beyond that she knew nothing of him, required nothing of him. What was there to know? What to require?-
 Now that the main line of her route through life had been surveyed and rarefully laid out, what was there more for her in life than to set out upoh her progress? It was her own road. Presumptiye leader already, logical leader from the day she mar ried-leader, in fact, when the ukase, her future legacy, so decreed. It was royal road laid out for her through the gardens and pleasant places. A road for her alone, and over it she had chosen to pass. What more was there to desire?
 From tho going of Siward all that he had aroused in her of love, of intel
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ligence, of wholesome desire and sane curiosity-the intellectual restlessness, the capacity for passion, the renais- sance of the simpler innocence-had subsided into the laissez faire of dull quiescence.
 Riding there, head bent, her pulses timing the slow pacing of her horse, she presently became aware, without looking up, that Quarter was watching her. She moved slightly in her saddle to look at him and for an instant fan cied that there was something furtive in his eyes. Only for an instant, for he quietly picked up the thread of con- versation where she had dropped it, saying that 1t had been raining for the last ten minutes and that they might as well turn their horses toward shel- ter.
 Without reason, through and through her shot shiver of loneliness-utter loneliness and isolation. Without req son, because from him she expected nothing. required nothing. except what he Offered-the emotionless reticenee of indifference, the composure of per feet formality. What did she want, then - companions? She had them. Friends? She could scarcely escape from them. Intimates? She had only to choose one or a hundred attuned responsive to her every mood, every caprice Lonely? With the men of New York crowding. shouldering. crushing their way to her feet? Lone lyf With the women of New York
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luxurious in loose and flmy lace, her small white feet shod with silk, she lunched alone, cradled among the cush- ions of her couch.
 Twice she strolled through the rooms leisurely, summoned by her maid to the telephone, the first time to chat with Grace Ferrall, who, it appeared, was victim of dissipation. being still abed, and out of humor with the rainy world; the second time to answer in the negative Marion's suggestion that she motor to Lakewood with her for the weeks end before they closed their house.
 Sauntering back again, she slipped her milk and vichy. tasted the straw berries, tasted big black grape. dis carded both and lay back among the cushions, her naked arms clasped be- hind her head, and. dropping one knee over the other, stared at the ceiling.
 The room was very still and dim, but the clamor in her brain unnerved her, and she sat up among the cushions, looking vacantly about her with the blue, confused eyes, the direct, unsee- ing gaze of a child reused by a half heard call.
 The call-low, imperative, sustained continued softly persistent against her windows, the summons of the young years rain.
 She went to the window and stood among the filmy curtains, looking out into the mist. A springlike aroma pen etrated the room. She opened the window a little way. and the sweet virile odor enveloped her.
 A thousand fongings rose within her Unnumbered wistful questions stirred her, signing. unanswered. Every breath was drawing her backward, nearer. nearer to the source of memory. An, the cliff chapel in the rain! The words of a text mumbled deafy-the yearly service for those who died at sea. And she, seated there in the chapel dusk thinking of him who sat beside her and how he feared a heavier, stealth fer, more secret tide crawling, purring about his feet.
 Always, always at the end of every thing. he! Always, reckoning step by step, backward through time. he. the source. the inception, the meaning of all.
 Unmoored at last, her spirit swaying. enveloped in memories of him, she gave herself to the food, overwhelmed as tide on tide rose, rushing over her, body. mind and soul.
 She closed her eyes, leaning there heavily amid the cloudy curtains. She moved back into the room and stood staring at space through wet lashes. The hard, dry pulse in her throat hurt her till her under lip. freed from the tyranny of her small teeth, slipped free. guivering rebellion.
 She had been walking her room to and fro. to and fro. for a long time before she realized that she bad moved at all.
 And now impulse held the helm. A blind. unreasoning desire for relief bur rfed into action on the wings of i'm pulse
 CTo be Contfnued.,
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restive horse, ranged up alongside of her.
 Probably" he said. scarcely glanc- ing at the sky, where, above the great rectangular lagoons, hundreds of sea gulls, high in the air, hung Tapping, stemming some rushing upper gale unfelt below.
 On their daily rides together it was her custom to discuss practical mat ters concerning their future, and 1t was his custom to listen until pressed for suggestion. an assent or a reply. Sparing words-cautious, chary of self commitment and seldom offering to assume the initiat!ve-this was the surface character which she had come to recognize and acquiesce in. This was Quarrier as he had been develop ed from her hay, preconceived ideas of the man before she had finally ac- cepted him at Shotover the autumn be- fore. She also knew him as a meth odical man, exacring from others the
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struggling already for precedence in her favor?-omen significant of the days to come, of those future years diamond linked in one unbroken, tri- umphant glitter.
 About that Amalgamated Electric company she began without prelude. Would you mind answering a ques- ton or two, Howard%
 You could not understand it." he said, unpleasantly disturbed by her abruptness.
 "As you please. It is quite true can make nothing of what the newspa- pers are saying about it, except that MT. Plank seems to be doing a number of things"
 Tnjunctions and other matters" ob- served Quarrier.
 "Is anybody going to lose any money fin it?"
 "Who, for example"
 "Why-you, for example, she said, laughing
 "I don't expect to-"
 Then 1t is going to turn out all right? And MT. Plank and Kemp Fer rall and the major and-the other peo- pie interested are not going to be al- most ruined by the Intercounty peo- ple:"
 Do you think a man like Plank is likely to be ruined, as you say, by Amalgamated Electrici"
 "No. But Kemp and the major"-
 q think the major is out of danger" replied Quarter. looking at her with the new. sullen narrowing of his eyes
 q am glad of that. Is Kemp-and the othersT'
 'Ferrall could stand it if matters go wrong. What othersT
 "Why-the other owners and stock holders"-
 What others? Who do you meanT
 "Mr. siward, for example," she said in an even voice. leaning over to pat her horses neck with her gloved hand.
 "Mr. Siward must take the chances we all take" observed Quarter.
 But. Howard. 1t would really mean ruin for h!n if matters went badly. Wouldn't itT'
 "I am not familiar with the details of MT. siward's investments"
 "Nor am I.' she said slowly.
 She spoke about other things. He responded Ia his impassive manner. Presently she turned her horse and Quarter wheeled his. facing a warm, fine rain slantIng thickly from the south.
 His silky vandyke beard was all wet with the moisture. She noticed it. and unbMden arose the vision of the gum room at Shotoyer Quarters soft beard wet with rain. the phant0ms of people passing and repassing. Slward's straIght figure swinging past silhou- cited against the glare of light fr-m the billiard room. And here she made an effort to eIacc the vision. shutting her eyss as sne rode there In ths -1in. but clearly against the closed lids she saw the H1altOms passing specters of dead hours. the wrath of an old hap piress masked with youth and wear isg Siward's features.
 She saw herself beside him among the cushions. tasted again the rose petals that her lips had stripped from the blossoms. saw once more the dsEu of something h his steady sTes; felt his arm about her. his breath
 Her b9rze. suddenly spurred- bound ed forward thr01ga the rain. and she rode brsathEeSs. vith her lips half pzrt cd e If afraid ts-aiag her head b look heain1-zs though she could out TSbe f1e PsaEtn1 elingrg io her sir rap. Esaske1 Izke yguth wearing the shsd0vy syes of love,
 Az b01r htsz. fr=A frgu her bsth.
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trary. You can't stop them from smok- ing by law. It would only make them smoke.'
 How'd you like to meet lady on Broadway smoking a clay piper ask. ed Larry Mulligan.
 "Just as we'll as I'd like to meet a man smoking a rotten three cent ci- gar" replied the ready John Henry.
 Miss Roberts spoke in favor of wo- men having the privilege of smoking.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-21
'R1CHApTERrH
 M ELEVEN EM

THE park was very misty and
 damp and still that February
 morning. Far away on the A wooded bridle path the dulled double gallop of horses sounded, now muffied in hollow, now louder, jar ring the rising ground, nearer, heavier,
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t h e n suddenly checked to a trample, as Syl- via drew bridle by the reservoir and, straighten- ing in her sad dle, raised her flushed face to the sky.
 Rain ?" s h e asked as Quar- rler, controlling
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WOMEN CAN'T SMOKE
New York Aldermen Take Steps
 te Stop Putting In Public.
CITY ORDINANCE PROPOSED
"Littie Tim" Sullivan Starts Moral Wave Among City Fathers That Carries All Before It-chorus Girls Attend the Hearing.


 New York, Jan. 21.-After listening to two speeches by Little Tim" Sulli van the committee on laws and legis- lation of the board of aldermen voted unanimously to report in favor of Lit tie Tins" ordinance against women smoking in public at today's meeting of the board. Unless the moral wave which swept the aldermanic chamber is headed of before this afternoon 1t is counted safe prediction that the aid. ermen will pass the ordinance.
 It was a great moral victory fer "Lit. tie Tim." Larry Mulligan and the oth. CT Bowery reformers. Larry sat at Little Tins" right. nodding approval and mixing up the other side. Harry Oxford. the sergeant at arms, saw that no one treated the matter frivolously, and the two Whites, Johnny and Char lie, saw that there was no foul hitting.
 "LittIs Tim" in Earnest.
 Twelve chorus girls from upper Broadway, chaperoned by a press agent, supplied a splash of vivid col or to the scene. Miss Robbie" Rob- erts of ''The Knight For a Day" com pany acted as their spokesman. sey-, eral stout ladies with austere eounte- nances sat behind Little Tim" and lent him encouragement.
 Other women were scattered about the hall whose attitude seemed to be- fin doubt. Little Tim" had discarded his red necktie for the occasion and was soberIy gsrbed in black from head to foot. He wanted everybody to un- derstand that he was dead in earnest; that he wasn't kidding"
 This ordinance" he told the com mittee. "is favored by go per cent of the women of the city. Why. I've got 100 letters e week since I introduced 1t. IL does not put the penalty on the woman who smokes. but upon the pro prietor of the place that permits wo- men to smoke. Now. two restaurant men have posted notices that women may smoke In their places.
 Don't Want Eurepsan cVstema "T understand that it Is a custom in Europe. I don't know. I was never there. But we don't want any Euro pesn customs here. They say it would be right 10 make this spply to certain sections. but come from a district Ia lower New York where q woman is never seen smoking. and I say what is good for my part of town Is god for Broadwsy. I know of 10 better attempt to do good than this Ondi- nance-
 There was q voIIey of plauiits when Little I'm sat down Dr. Charles e. Pease said he approved Of Alder man SuIlivsnis efforts. but he wanted to @ further and step Hsen fron smoking ia any p1bltc place where women were present The women ciap2ed their hands at thia
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Grip Kills Fifty..ix In Chicago. D.

Chicago. Jan. 21.-Grip established ( new mortality record last week. with fifty-six deaths reported. The disease is more prevalent in Chicago now than at any other time in the city's history
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CTo be Continuedys

Save money and get the Evening Democrat and three monthly maza- tines by paying subscription in sd- vance. The price of paper and three
 magazines. naneIy. the Evening Democrat, Spare Moments. Dress- making st Hone. and The NOtbsr's Magazine, all for 42 cents . month. This is not . choice of the three mag axines. remember. but the whole combination for 42 cents . month.
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Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
Will Probe Scandal

The Chicago Record-Herald of yes
terday has the following to say of
Charles d. Richards, who was born
and reared in this city. He is a son
of the late Hon. John Richards, and
left here for Chicago about twenty
years ago, where he has since resided:
Charles D. Richards, who has been
appointed by President William Busse
of the county board as chairman of
the committee which will investigate
conditions at the Dunning insane asy-
lum, is a native of Wisconsin, but has
been a resident of Chicago since early
youth. For twenty-five years he has
been in the real esetate business here
and is also an attorney at law, prac-
ticing, however, only in connection
with his own business or that of his
real estate patrons. For eighteen
years he was connected with the firm
of Ogden, Sheldon & Co. and during
the year 1905 was president of the
real estate board. He is at present
in thereal estate business at 164 Dear
born street
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
First Case Tried

The first case tried in the room set
apart by the city council on the third
floor of the city hall, was tried yester-
day before Justice George Henze. The
case was an action brought by Ed
ward VOlkman, a real estate agent OF
this city, against Emelie Wolff of the
Seventh ward. Mr.. Volkman claimed
that he and his associates had been
instrumental in finding a purchaser
for Mrs Wolff for her twenty acres OF
land in the Seventh ward at the price
of $4,000. The purchaser was Gustav
Krotz of Chicago. Mrs. Wolff claimed
that the purchaser had been found in
dependent of any effort on the part of
Mr.. Volkman and his associates. Sew
eral witnesses were sworn who testi-
led. The jury, however, decided the
case for Mr. Volkman, and brought in
a verdict, after being out a few min
utes, in his favor for the sum of SIS,
the amount claimed by him. Judgment
was given by the court for said amount
and the costs of the action taxed at
S2749, a total of S115.49. Kading &
Kading were the attorneys for Mr..
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
DOINGS SATURDAY
Taxes Levied

The Jefferson county board of SUI
pervisors, which adjourned Thursday,
levied a tax of $4,000, including the
state and the state school tax. The
board voted to expend s8400 for ma
chinery and $4,000 for the highway re-
serve fund to be used this summer in
the building of roads. The board last
year levied tax of 1892, 985 and this
year made an increase of $17,9 The
board appropriated $4,000 for machin-
cry and $4,000 for the highway re-
serve fund and with these appropria-
lions taken from the total amount
levied leaves an increase of $5585
over last year. The county board last
year made an assessment of 40,58S,-
214 for the county, and has raised the
assessment this year over 100000,
and an increase for the five Jefferson
county wards Of WatertOwn of $780,
900. The Jefferson county ass ss
ment made against the city of Water
town last year was $5,265,302 and the
increase this year will be 100000
more. The Watertown members of
the board voted in favor Of the in
crease in the assessment. The assess
ment made by the city officials of the
city of Watertown will remain as here
tOfOrp
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
DOINGS MONDAY
St. Marks Church ediCdtiOn

With impressive ceremony st.
Marks Lutheran church was formally
dedicated yesterday in the presence of
a large congregation which filled the
church edifice. At 10 o'clock the
trustees of the church turned the
church property over for dedication
to Prof. ]. Schaller of the Wauwatosa
seminary, who delivered the dedica-
tory sermon. Prof. Schaller is one of
the most able speakers in the synod
and his words were very impressive
and were listened to very attentively
by the large congregation. Prof.
Schaller was assisted during the day
by the Rev. A. Keibel of Kirchhagen,
who spoke at o'clock in the after
Hartland, who spoke in English in the
'evening. The singing of the choir was
especially good and was a pleasing
feature of the dedicatory services.
The parish was organized in 1854
with the Rev. Christian Sans as its
pastor. The Rev. Julius Klingmann
has been pastor of the church since
1904 and has about 1850 communi-
cants. The church is in a strong and
f1ourishing condition. Following is the
board of trustees of the church:
President-William Gorder, ST..
Secretary-Fred w. Gamm.
Treasurer-Charles Piper.
Ferdinand Volkmann, August Tanck,
Jr, Ferdinand Kruger, August Zim-
mermann, William Rohde, f. G. Jaeger.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
More iJOuDle Tracking

From present indications the double
tracking Of the River division of the
Milwaukee road the entire length
from La Crosse to Minneapolis will
be finished next year and all trains
will have two tracks for the entire
run, says the Portage Register. The
double tracking is already completed
over a greater part of the division but
some stretches still remain to be fin
ished. The longest of these is the 80
miles between Winona and Wobasha
and the engineers are now at work
making the levels and setting the
stakes for the work there. 1t is
probable some of the bridge work will
be done this winter, but none of the
grading will be started until the
warm weather comes in the spring.
Last year but little attention was
given to the River division work, as
all energies were centered on push
ing the work on the Pacific coast ex-
tension, but several crews were en-
ployed on this division during the
greater part of the summer of 1908
Most of the attention this year was
given to finishing the second track
from Lake City to Red Wing and the
work was almost finished, although
the second track will not be ready fol
use until the finishing touches have
been put on next spring.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
FOreS'erS Elect Officers

The committee Of arrangements in
charge of the dancing party to be Civ
en- by Court Watertown No. IA
United Order of Foresters, In the as
sembly rooms of the Masonic Temple
on Thanksgiving eve, Wednesday, No
vember 25, are sparing no effort to
make this party the social success of
the year Sloans orchestra will fur
nish the inspiration for the dancers
land a good time is anticipated. A
light luncheon will be served. Court
Watertown No. IA was organized July
l31, 1902, with seventeen charter mem
bers and now has a membership of
siXty-fve. Monthly meetings are held
in the |. 0. o. F. hall Oh the first Tues
day of every month, and the society
is III a flourishing condition. The local
officers are:
Past Chief Ranger-William Kramer
Chief Range-W. J. Stube.
Vice Ranger-William Cooper.
| Treasurer-Emil Tanck
Secretary-Mrs. w. ]. Stube.
| Chief Archer-W. J. Jones.
| Physician-T. F. Shinnick
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
Personal mSntfOn

Miss Ida Becker spent the day in
Madison.
Mrs w. c. Stone spent the day in
Milwaukee
Mrs E. F. Wieman is visiting with
friends in Waterloo today.
Miss Elmira Henry will spend Sun
day with relatives in Milwaukee.
Mrs Carl F. Otto and children Wis
tied with relatives in Jefferson this
afternoon.
Mrs Louise Castle, who has been
the guest of her sister, Mrs. H. J.
Bonner, in North Church street, for
several weeks, returned to her home
in Oak Park today.
Among those from here who attend
ed the Chicago Wisconsin football
game at Madison today were Messrs.
and Mesdames William H Woodland
G. G. Lewis, Mayor Arthur Mulberger
w. G. Stone and son Jesse, L. w
Parks, Edward Wieman, Paul Thorn
C. a. Gamm, w. E. Brandt, August
Kading, Miss Minna Weber.