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New-York tribune., 1908-11-29
CHAPTER IL
The Storm WITHOUT


The Storm WITHOUT
81 IT. woman -l--- thought when she stepped
] -z-s5e -he Ea.- was that u al hazards
4 .- must g r-.-. The wind almost swept
zEav- only --- ~readvlng grasp 81 the
E II le-te- prepared than She Tor the attack
TT Storm. e-at led heT 10 keep her feet
II TX presence IS hat CHASTITY thing on the
n Ehlch We --sltIng even her iron nerve.
II -sgs1ted Their return Whatever happened.
mast & e-. The door of that shelter
Is -l1S55 = them forever by the dead OT
II II -v-la-t- She realized. however that
q y chances 1- ping freezing u death n
--- e-deav we're so small as 10 be pTac-
j -v none Ws- -ate had forced her INTO
u position. ~a- Mould follow the path she
j L chosen. w.-a---e- might be Il the end Of
way
speech We Ue- --gn impossible. The boy
B zEge-e5 q Ia-- -le window. and she fOl-
Ee5 anti -he l-e g the house was reached.
q tween < c-ea- .---- and the wall. n . little
- space -he horses were -led. The boy Was
-1-se1a-- H r-E -r-cEed ol- the TWO best
-11los 2 -he .a-a-. i -lv animals could
- hen 70 -a-a-r- --eE could Not Vet
-iec Bv ne -e-.- I'D they united the shlv-
-1E -elugtar-. terrified horses from the pms
j -ren mo -le L.--. ~ which they had been
i -.-ltd. -lC,-u-.5 --a-- and threading Their
ag round --e l--- --a-teG southwark on
,l- aw1ul -lde I.-- ,ef- death behind them
I'D. To- death doomed before.
Except Wht-e --- torn was broken Dy
.c7es drifts hal -.- re- formed The wind
lls tp5 te---t. -- -EeT- the level praITle
-s1. BIZ. awav - -- --e shelter 81 the house
afE g. ne I'LL -.-.s Z Il Although they
-@-s t-l-s-v clad u v..- and tJ--. the pressure
g n storm l-gvt ----- garments against their
.f-les a1C soon -.--- -he-u with ICY cold
ae-e wes 10 helr -- Il no relief from il.
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that they must have compassed the greater
part ~ the Journey. when her horse suddenly
stumbled and fell. She was larger and heaV Vler
than the boy. and hers had been the weaker
Steed. Her bronco's matchless endurance had
- last been exhausted by the terrible struggle
N their tourney. He lav diving where he fell
and nothing she could do could get him up
again. He was down and out, done Tor. The
boy had stopped, OF course, when her horse
had fallen He had dismounted and helped
her 70 rlse- He had assisted her vain efforts
70 get her own played out horse on its feet-
The two now stood staring at each other IN
dIsrnay.
You must take my horse" said the boy
At last.
The woman nodded. With MS assistance
she climbed slowly and painfully INTO the
saddle, took the reins from the boy and
started on. Her companion caught hold OF
the stIrrup leather and staggered forward by
her side. The going was now infinitely harder
for the remaining horse The woman iTnme-
diatelv realized that with this almost dead
weight dragging al the StlTrup leather the re-
naming bronco would soon be exhausted. The
cold had grown more intense. She was numb
and dumb with il: and what must be the con-
ditiOn # the man reeling and staggering by
her side sustained only by his COnvulslve
grasp on the stirrup leather, she could well
imagine She meant 70 play fair with hun.
And 50 for = long time the tho plodded on III
this way, the woman neTvlng herself 10 q
fTIghtful action as best she could She hesl-
tated 70 do II. She was reluctant
But no horse that ever lived could stand
such q strain She knew that II would be a
matter of minutes now when the animal She
rode would also fall. and lie when he had fallen
ike his dead brother back on the trail and
then She and the boy would inevitably perish
She looked down at him as he reeled and
plunged bv her side She could not see the
bows face His head was bent over He too
was almost at the limit OF hls endurance He
was covered with ice and snow. a ghOstly sort
of wrath llrchlng at her feet,
WTELL. II was his life or hers, 1t had 70 he
" The hand that pulled the trigger was
willing 10 do what TO be done agaln. his
time i needed no weapon. Her horse was GO
lng verv slowly She reached over and before
the bov realized what happening she
caught his hand, tore his fingers from the
saddle strap. and thrust him violently back
ward Unprepared, unsuspectlng, half-dazed,
he could offer no adequate resistance lie was
= slender lad. not Yet having reached ms luIi
growth for all his nineteen years lie TeeIed
and fell s,1pine. She struck the horse heavily
with q whip that hung from the saddle bow, |
and the animal plunged forward wildly. 10 |
r,1r IS much distance between herself and the
bow. She urged him on She knew that she
was safe unless he should try 10 shoot her;
ta- he was too weak and too exhausted 70
catch her 4 few more steps would put her
out II sight too though there were already |
indications - breaking day 70 her lett SO she |
-ger.lIeSslv urged forward the dying horse.
-rJr- .--. -,,-a.z nor. o,g1cLer7e5 INTO IN |
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THE bows senses were qulcEened INTO N
slant action by her conduct Alter the
-5T-r moment Of surprise. ne knew II once thaJ
z-.- v-s- deli llerat.lE abandoning hIm 10 de N
-i7. --7azy s hot rush OF blood. IN spite Of the
cold swept over him He thrust ms hand
within his coat and dragged out q weapon. lie
raised u and trained II on the woman $ DaCh-
--,7 for rf.- moment hls hand did not tTemble
Then there rose before hlm that other CORY
fg--. Though he had lived some months on
the -s-ll6 frontier and had seen more than one
man Ellled there. he had never been e'LietIeH
with murder before even as an accessory 'ilel
IN. fact and the horror 81 Il was stIA upon
l,;rn He lowered the pistol though ne could
..seil. have shot her dead As he dld 50 the
figures Il horse and woman disappeared from
lIs vision III me snow, thicker no" ana lalilhs
more steadily and softly He thrust the pistol
back .utg lts holster, fastened ms coat AGAIN
md F,- q 1r,1,,rltirlar effort rose TO ms i-et-
such treacherv on the part oi . woman
would have killed some men, not 50 TINS boy
In that moment he became man ne ',, "a"
himself - fool he determined that ne "yuI4
not see himself coward ClenchIng ms h hs'S
and sllmmoning his strength, ne ioi9"ed
southwark afOot IN the woman s wake "haI
ms idea Was.-whetheT u pursue her 70 over
take heT. o. TepToach her maybe 70 hlH i.si
oT whether Il was simply the herolG Iesg1.o
that he would not be beaten down, that II ne
died. he would die not supIr@y but eXertn9
ms manhood 10 the last limit # lis poWeTt-hc
did not know. be could not tell Probably II
was a combination IL both motives At any
rate with leaden feet and aching muscles, "lth
bursting heart and throbbing temples with
freezing body and dead soul, he staggered on
and on. Nor was he alone. As before the red
figure was with hIm- This time II seemed TO
lie by has SIDE He had q strange sort Of sym
pathv for that dead man now. Perhaps there
had been reasons for ms drunken abandoned
course
Alone or not. he staggered On. II was such
feat Of endurance and determination as
humanity under normal conditions was not
cauable Of He walked-li that be the word
foT hss progress-WIth ms head down and his
BODY bent lower and lower. He took long
rests between the steps. By and by ne tell
forward On ms face. The sensation Il delicious
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-10
THE DOCTORS GIFT
Food Worth Its Weight in Gold.

We usually expect the doctor to put
us on some kind of penance and give
us bitter medicines.
A Penn. doctor brought a patient
something entirely different and the re-
suits are truly interesting.
1.-TWO years ago." writes this patient.
ST was frequent victim OF acute indi-
eestion and biliousness, being allowed
to eat very few things. One day our
family doctor brought me small pack
age. saving he had found something
for me to eat, at last
He said it was food called Grape
Nuts and even as it's golden color might
suggest, it was worth its weight in gold.
I was sick and tired, trying one thing
after another to no avail, but at last
consented to try this new food.
well! It surpassed my doctors fond
est anticipation and every day since
then I have blessed the good doctor and
the inventor of Grape-Nuts.
1T noticed improvement at once and
in a months time my former spells of
indigestion had disappeared. In two
months I felt like new man. My
brain was much clearer and keener. my
body took on the vitality Of youth, and
this condition has continued"
There's Reason" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read
THE Road to MELVILLE in pkgs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-10
THEY ARE ACQUITTED.
Was No Evidence Against Projectors
of Chesterfield.

Fred Ross and Wood Fowler, proprie-
tors Of the Chesterfield hotel, who were
arrested by order of Mayor Green on
the night of February 20 on a charge
of maintaining nuisance, were found
not guilty in police court last evening.
The evidence against them was the find
ing of two bottles of beer in the room
of thirty guest, who ''roared" Justify
when the police seized his beverage as
evidence that the entire hotel was a
nuisance"
The police knew they had no case
against the Chesterfield, but did all they
could to convict. They even went back
for a period of two years in their evil
dence, and testified to bar which was
operated in the Chesterfield, long before
Ross and Fowler bought and rejuvinat-
ed the old place. The defense put on
the proprietors of the three leading
hotels in the city to show that guests
frequently drank beer IN their hotels
without their knowledge or consent, and
they admitted that, judging from the
number of empty bottles they found
at frequent intervals in the rooms OF
their obstetrics, none Of them would be
safe at any time, should the precedent
of arrest and conviction on nuisance
charges be based on two bottles OF beer.
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Prices: 10, IS and zoe per can.
ing Company, f' issa indianapolis, Indiana.

vestigated the ruins of the school, gave
his opinion as to the cause of the fire
and said that the janitor had told him
that he was in the school building at
the time the fire was discovered.
You did your ddty and was in no
wise to blame" said Coroner Burke to
Janitor Herter at the conclusion Of
Herter's examination at the inquest.
Herter said he was at the school
building frors Z o'clock on the morning
Of the fire Until he was driven out by
fire. He said the fire started at about
500 O'Clock. The first he said he knew
of the fire was from three little girls
who HID been in the basement When
they went upstairs, he said, they dis
covered the smoke, and one of them
colled to him.
81 ran up the steps," Herter testified,
"and opened the door. I saw smoke
coming through the basement stairs at
the top step. About as much as a cigar
would make. i did not hook the doors
back. The doors stayed back without
hooking.
Then I went to room No. 1, Miss r.
WINS room, on the first floor, then to
the rear entrance and opened the inside
and outside doors. The right hand
doors I hooked back, the two left hand
doors stayed OPEN
Then 1 ran to Miss Roses room, No.
2, opened the window and threw out two
children One fell. I jumped out the
window and picked him up"
On other points Herter said:
IT was not outside of the building that
forenoon except for two or three min
1Ita
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-10
COLLINWOOD INQUEST.
Tho Coroner Exonerates the Janitor
From All Blame.

Cleveland, o., March 10.-When Coro-
ner Burke resumed his inquest for the
purpose of attempting to fix the re-
sponsibility for the great loss of life in
the Collinwood school fire Mrs. Julius
DIETRICH, who lives near the burned
school and also lives near the home of
Janitor Fritz Herter, testified that a
few minutes before smoke began issu-
ing from the Lakeview school building
she saw the janitor on the back porch
of his home. A few minutes later, she
said, Herter came from the rear of the
school building, and, with a poker,
broke the glass in the front doors.
Mrs. Deitrich's daughter. who was
saved, said she first attempted to es-
cape from the burning building through
the front door, but found it locked.
Janitor Herter was at the hoaring and
was represented by an attorney.
The city fire chief, WAllnce, who in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-10
ice MEN RELEASED.
After Serving 81 Days of Sentence for
Violating Antitrust Law.

Toledo. March 1o.-Judge Brough.
in common pleas court, today issued
an order releasing from jail R. C.
Lennon. R. A Beard and Joseph Mil
Ter, the ice dealers sentenced to six
months Imprisonment for violation Of
the antitrust laws. The men had
served thirty-Seven days.
The motion for suspension of SEN
tence was made last week and there
was also presented to the court a Pc
tition numerously signed asking that
the men be given their freedom.
Counsel for the prisoners and the
prosecuting attorney agreed that the
court had authority to suspend the
sentence if it was thought the ends of
justice had been served. The state
declared 1t would make no objection
to an order of suspension. 1t was
argued that the families and business
of the prisoners need them and that
they had been sufficiently punished.
The court ordered their immediate
release. The three men plainly show
the effects of their thirty-seven days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-10
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease Ca
tarrh is blood or constitutional disease,
and in order to cure it you must take in
ternal remidies. Halls Catarrh Cure is
taken internally, and acts directly on the
tarrh Cure is not a ouack medicine It
was prescribed by one of the best physi-
clans in this country for years and is a
regular prescription. 1t is composed of the
best tonics known, combined with the best
blood purifiers, acting directly on the mu-
cous surfaces. The perfect combination
of the two ingredients is what produces
such wonderful results in curing Catarrh
Send for testimonials free.
r. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo. O.
Sold by druggists, price TIC.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ttion.
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PRINCE IS EXPELLED.
Ludwig MeneIik Charged With Being
Drunk and DisOrderly

Hamburg, March 10.-Prince Ludwig
Menelik of Abyssinia has been expell-
ed from Germany, as an undesirable
foreigner. The prince is a near rela-
tive of the king Of Abyssinia, and a ne
gro. He was born at Adds Abbea and
for long time past he has been max
ing unsuccessful efforts to organize
companies for the exploitation of mines,
rubber and cotton In the kingdom OF
his relative. He has been charged re-
peatedly with drunkenness and disor-
derby conduct in various parts of Ger
many. He has already been expelled
from Saxony.
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confinement. They at once left the
court room for their homes.
1t has now been nearly a year since
the ice men were brought to trial un-
der the Valentine law charged with
conspiracy in restraint of trade. The
case was fought through all the state
courts, and while the original sentence
was to the workhouse the supreme
court held they would have to go to
jail instead. All three men are in
poor health and two of them are with
out means.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-10
SHOOT SIX NEGROES.
Night Riders Then Take Out Five
Others and Whip Them.

Paducah, KY, March 10-One hundred
masked night riders rode into the town
of Birmingham, Marshall county, late
last night, shot six negroes,one of them
1t is believed fatally, and whipped five
others The riders took possession of
the town and shot into negro cabins in
the place. In one of these, John Scruggs,
his wife and three children and
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granddaughter, were struck by bullets.
Scruggs is probably fatally injured
The riders then took five other
negroes to the banks Of the Tennessee
where they whipped them. After warm
ing about Is other negroes to leave the
place the masked men rode away. The
raid followed a warning of two weeks
ago to all negroes to leave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-10
The Lucky Quarter

Is the one you pay out for a box of Dr.
Kings New Life Pills. They bring you
the health that's more precious than jew
els Try them for headache, biliousness,
constipation and malaria. If they disap-
point you the price will be cheerfully re-
funded. At all drug stores.
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The LAST Train

morning is the Union Pacific No. los
at S:15 a. M. arriving in Kansas City
at 1918 a. m. The afternoon train
returning is the earliest train into To-
peka at 6:15 q. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-09
Letters to Santa Claus
Rock Island, H., Dec. 9, 1908

Dear Santa Claus:-I am just a
lovely little girl for my grandmas both
say SO, and of course you know when
grandmas say that, it is always true,
so if you please send me dolly that
looks like Christmas tree, all dressed
in green with popcorn and tinsel dang
ling all over it. Just like a really
Christmas tree, and then I'd like
little straight backed chair and a
table and two or three story books and
dolly with yellow hair and blue eyes.
Then I'd love to have a cupboard with
dishes in it and please don't forget a
nice lovely tree all lit up with lights
and put my cupboard in front of the
! tree. And I'd like to have new bed
Or couch as mine are awful to look up
on, and then l need some handker-
| chiefs bad and my dolly will need some
new dresses. Then you can bring me
| whatever else you want to and I'd be
so thankful to you for it and I'll be a
good girl all the next year to come.
With love to you,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-09
had QUIT WORK
READY TO GIVE UP IN DESPAIR
Restored to Health By Vino

Restored to Health By Vinol
81 was sick, rundown and finally
had to give up work. After trying
number of remedies and several ply.
sicians, was just about ready to give
up in despair. saw Vinol adj
vertised and decided to try It,
and it has done more good for
me than all other means combined. It
has built me up and restored my
strength until now feel twenty years
younger, and am able to attend to my
work again as usual" Job Jeayons,
1896 Lind street, Wheeling, W. Va.
The reason Vinol is so successful in
such cases is because it contains tonio
iron and all Of the strengthening
blood-makng and bodybuilding ele-
ments Of cod liver oil, but NO oil.
Vinol is unexcelled as a strength
creator for old people, delicate children
weak, rundown persons, and ate:
sickness-and is the best known rem.
edy for coughs. colds and bronchitis
We return your money IL vinol fail
| TO give satisfaction.
HARPER HOUSE PHARMACY.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-09
speaking watching mtenty oth

others though cannot understand how much England
has hardly been opened Schwartz obtained the
solely because hoped he would back
had pocket letter from stock exchange people
himself telling him they could ascertain the OF
the real owner That the letter Rkk secured Po bidding
and hid in his cage
prove Schwartz really the bad
did quite grasp the meaning
though old Dad being swndled but
3D. pocket and 900 good paid father
and the safe in the scu "copper" where Evangene would hight
SUPPER would be queer failed bring Schwartz to
Besides the assistance older head
than ne business rather bothered and was too
young to be we'll up in "squeezes'
Ny lifted his hat with grand air when said "Good
night" quietly such hubbub of strange
talk when Prince John rejoined his companions.
other negroes the road the fancled
watching turning the railway station to make
that Schwartz Holly Lodge without their knowledge
any I determined take risks morning, it
probable John would tell his conderates OF the
| new power behind the juju
locked bedroom examined the little idol
carefully roughly carved The ivory yellow with
cracks which looked like of fine hair
The skirt made Of of hemp plated together with small
cooed bead between each knot 1t beaded CLOTH
which Tapped joint held position by Of
string had but almost
monkeys eyes emead but good Nam
has a emerald and diamond ring I know.
don't mind telling you that half afraid of the thing
1t seemed quite absurd that many should be will
ing kill ownership One might imagine baby
because babies always prefer the most dsrepuable
wooden horse drt rag DOLL but it made ones hair tnge 10
think and money good bad fortune goodness knows
how people depending the whereabouts of this eight
piece of tusk Worst of all beginning to believe IN It,
seemed squirt chummy with its wicked little
much heard of knew brought
lying Schwartzs portmanteau the
carriage You will remember touched Schwartz for e5 in five min
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-09

Then the creeps passed away, and 1 fell asleep
There sunhny frost when awOke and and
shrub in the garden deked with sparkling gems Evangene
seemed to be annoyed when unlocked the door.
"Nce thing" she said, "makn bump in that fash
ion"
Dan came in with her. that clattered along
with the without looking she going Of
the door didn't yield usual her head struck the panel
Dan and laughed and Evangene rubbed her with black
finger Then laughed and Evangene looked her
self in the glass.
We all be nggers this house soon she declared in
and slammed
"Wel, what's the game today said Dan sitting his tail
Nothing than yesterday I answered.
81 told the parrot that but the blessed bird swinging bis
perch and roaring something about another revolution"
''What does he meanp'
Hes talking Spanish believe The few words could make
of showed that he regarded last nights
the calm before the storm"
Dan" said I, "you only years old. Polly twenty
the least you up you will find that he
than you"
Dan looked suspiciously. After thinking for
and scratching hard the back of his head he let him
When down breakfast discovered him listening
Polly who singing the latest musical comedies The
appeared Polly became silent He chung the wires side
and watched steadily first with and then with the
other Even Tbbe blinking from the hearth and when
stable old Bob turned his stall stared
at solemny Talk about uuhe gang read my very
| thoughts!
Dan and Tbbe and Rkh began follow my heels and it
greved much be compelled shut them the coach
house. put my aakhan
jacket through the gae doubled down the paddock
crossed the plantation and made field path Breckon
hurst the
remained in the waiting until and then popped
quickly into the carriage At Waterloo sat in the
until the other had quilted the platform After that
took my chance of not being recognized.
My first call jewelers. Piccadily. showed him the
uu and asked him what the beads He screwed funny
shaped glass into his right eye and examined them.
"They different varieties of chalcedony he said here
agate carnens sard and three kinds Of Ants
this collection"
| "Cood gracious" said I.
"What it 2" he asked, looking curously the idol
GA joujou answered, blessing mademosele inwardly
( The didn't speak French told him ouou
u
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-09
ANNA SCHROEDER.
Rock Island ILL.,. Dec. 9. 1908.

Dear Santa Claus:-I thought l
would write a letter to you and tell
you what to bring me for Christmas.
would like TO have a doll, a go-cart,
a set of paper dolls. box of nice
paints, a pair of roller skates. some
candy and nuts. Do not forget my
little brother, Ransom. He wants a
horn, drum. a jack-in-the-box, a-sol-
der suit. Bring my sister. Bessie, a
big doll. set of paper dolls, pair of
roller skates, a few books and some
games. Do not forget mamma and
papa We live in the same house as
We did last year. So do not forget to
stop. Your little friend.
RUTH SWISHER,
1921 Fifth avenue.