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Chance to Win $4,000.

The sand was lifted from the edge of
the river when the water was low. and
lodged along the railway track at differ
ent places, forming large dunes which
drift about like snow. The grains are so
fine that the slightest breeze will carry
them on it's wings, and. according to the
usual perversity Of nature, 1t usually de-
- them between the rails. The COM
pany has offered reward of $4,000 to
ANY one who will contrive measures by
which this nuisance can be abated, but
no one has yet submitted a practical
plan. Screens of lumber, like snow
sheds, have been placed on both sides of
the track. and gangs of men are perma-
nently employed to shift them from
place to place where they are needed, &C
cording to the changes in the wind. The
sand forms itself into curious shapes and
assumes all sorts of picturesque designs,
but the railway officials do not see any
thing in them to admire.
They have tried to dig it up and haul
II away, but it is so fine that 1t will not
stay In a car. 1t will leak through the
narrowest crevice and. no matter how
still the air may be. the motion of the
train will furnish breeze enough to carry
1T off. Just now a gang OF men, with
train Of steel coal cars. are hauling large
quantities Of the sand tn dump in "f1ll'
al Mill Creek. near The Dalles. but 1t
will not stay there. When the boss
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DOCTORS UNDHR CRITICISM.
Homeopathic Society Lays Down
the Law Of Living.

CHICAGO, September 17.-Doctors who
are not living examples of morality to
their patients. those who chew and smoke
tobacco and drink beer, especially in the
presence of children, were excoriated last
night by Dr. II. S Hand, president of the
Chicago Homeopathic Medical Society, at
a meeting of the society.
In addition to this criticism of doctors
who neglect to set examples of right liv-
ing for their patients, he deprecated the
tendency on the part of certain members
of the profession to mix up in the specu-
lative world and act as agents in business
transactions for their patients.
He deplOred the tendency to exact
fancy fees. asserting that it was not ideal
for the physician to base his charges on
the benefits derived or on the wealth of
the patients. He discouraged the amalga-
nation of doctors and ministers in the
psychic healing movements that are
Springing up all over the country. eau
toned the medical profession as individ-
uals not to become egotistical.
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DROWNED IN CANAL.
Accidental Death of Prominent Resi-
dent of Vineland. N. j.

WILMINGTON, Del, September IL
Adelbert NJ. Pitcher. aged forty years a
well known resident of Vineland. \. J..
was drowned in the Delaware and Chesa-
peake canal near the Delaware railroad
bridge yesterday.
Pitcher, accompanied by his brother-in-
law, was bound from Philadelphia to Bal
timore on Ericsson line steamer and
it Is not known whether he jumped or
fell from the boat. He left his state
room shortly after midnight and when he
was missed the boat was stopped and
search made for the missing man i'm vain.
Today Pitchers remains were found in
the canal.
The body was brought here last night
and subsequently shipped to Vineland.
Coroner Gaynor is making an investiga-
ton.
Pitchers brother-in-law continued on to
Baltimore.
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AT 81 HE'S PROUD FATHER
Mr.. Thiry's Fifth in Ten Years Il
John Henry. Jr.

NEW YORK. September 17.-From the
fact that his friends did not learn until
yesterday that he had again become
father on Saturday, September I, il may
be inferred that j. II. Thirty. eighty
seven years old, OF Academy street. Long
Island City. is not of a boastful dispo-
sition. But Mr.. Thirty is proud and
happy over the advent of his youngest
child.
Mr.. Thirty became widely known years
ago when, he originated the school saw
ings bank system. Eleven years ago.
when seventy-siX years old. he married
Miss Margaret O'Connor, a comely young
woman.
About year after the marriage .
young Thirty was born, and there was
jubilation in the home. At intervals dur
ing the intervening ten years four other
children have been born to the couple
The latest is John Henry, jr.. who does
not yet know how happy he has made
his father.
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Death Of Prominent Banker.

DURHAM, n. c.. September 17.-Louis
A. Carr, president OF the Interstate Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company; sales
manager Of the Virginia-Car Chem
ical Company: a banker and prominent
citizen Of this city and state, died here
yesterday, aged fifty-four years. Mr.. Carr
was a native OF Howard county, Nd. His
first wife was sister of George w.
Watts, one of the leading men of the
American Tobacco Company and multi
millionaire. Mr.. Carr has been living in
Durham for fifteen years. He leave three
daughters and one son by his first mar
riage and son by his second marriage.
The second Mrs. Carr is living. The fu-
neral will be held here Saturday.
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VICTIM OF HAZING.
High School Boy Dying of Injuries
in Cranston, r. I.

CRANSTON. Il. l., September 11.-Haz-
ing at the local high school il alleged To
have been responsible for the injuries
from which Maxwell Harrison, son az
Rev. Il. Harrison, fourteen years IF age.
is believed to be dying at the Rhode Is
land Hospital. Three other boys are
SUFFERING; from less serious injuries.
Chief of Police Patrick Tranor an
rounced Yesterday that he expected IN
make several arrests in the case shortly,
and the superintendent of schools states
that all boys found to be implicated viii
be expelled from the high school.
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Decision Against Railway.

LYNCHBURG, Va, September IL
Judge Mcdowell has decided the demur-
rer in the safety appliance cases against
the railways. holding that the govern
ment had the right to require agents of
the common carriers to produce their rec
ords to be used against the company in
cases for failing to comply with the safe
ty appliance statute. No appeal will be
taken and four cases against the South
ern are being tried now.
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Quarantine Against Cattle Ticks.

ROANOKE, Va, September 1.-THE
state veterinarian of Virginia today
placed a quarantine on farm in Roam
oke county because of the presence on
the farm of the Texas cattle ticks in
large numbers. The owner of the farm
and cattle says the cattle were import
ed into Virginia some time ago from
North Carolina. Other cattle have been
exposed to the ones bearing the ticks
Every precaution' will be used to prevent
u spread Of the ticks.
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comes down the next morning he finds to
his disgust that about half the sand he
dumped there the day before has blown
off and Is back on the right again.
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Dependent, Commits Suicide.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, September H.
Despondent because of i'll health. Miss
Mabel Bolker, aged twenty-six years, ~
Willow Grove committed suicide yester-
day by placing her head beneath a NOV
ing freight car. She was decapitated
She had allowed all of the train except
the last to pass before placing her
neck ON the rail.
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Has No Commercial Value.

off and Is back on the right-of-way again.
Has No Commercial Value.
Many carloads have been hauled into
Portland for sale. but it is too fine for
building purposes. and they can't get rid
Of 1t that way. It has no silica properties
and therefore is worthless for making
glass. Indeed, no one has ever found any
useful purpose for this sand, and the rail-
way officials have about given up trying
to do anything to get rid Of it.
Down on the Southern railway in Peru,
which runs from the port of Mollendo up
to Lake Titicaca. by way of the city of
Ariquipa. a similar phenomenon may be
found. A level desert, sixty or seventy
miles wide, which stretches for hundreds
Of miles parallel with the coast. has
been strewn by nature with similar sand
It is always restless and constantly NOV
ing from one spot to another. but in
variajbly lies in piles shaped like cres
cents. absolutely perfect in form. They
move from place to place according to
the changes of the wind, which blows the
sand about, and when one crescent is
destroyed another is Immediately formed
Of the same sand a short distance away
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mixed up in the scrape, although she was


ents and tribesmen. who were the heredi
tary enemies of his clan. objected to theii
marriage. He, Of course, defied them
eloped with the girl and was hurryine
across the bridge when the Great Spiri,
butted in and threw it down into the
water. The islands and rocks. which
now form The Dalles are the remains OF
the bridge.
Sheridan's Old Blockhouse.
Just below the cascades, on the Wash.
ington side of the river, Is an old block
house, which was built Of logs by Lieut.
Philip H. Sheridan in 1856. when he was
soldering in this country. and nearby
was the scene of his first battle. Gen
Grant spent several years at the bar
racks Of Vancouver. which Is still! a mill
tary post, on the Washington side. op.
posite the city Of Portland, where the
Willamette river joins the Columbia The
quarters occupied by him are still
standing.
There are many other interesting his
torical associations with the Columbia
and legends enough to fill large book
People who go up the river on the boa,
always inquire the significance OF maroi
| shaft which rises from an island almost
in the center of the stream. This is the
burial place of q famous scout, hunter
and trapper named Vic Trevitt. He was
pioneer in this country. and was with
Capt Bonneville. the explorer. whose ad'
ventures have been related by Washing
ton Irving in his most charming style
| Trevitt, by his dying request. was laid
to rest upon that beautiful island, and
the monument was erected many years
ago by his friends to perpetuate his
memory.
Between Cello and Quinton stations. q
distance of about sixty miles along the
track of the Oregon Railway and Navi.
cation Company, is another curious phe.
nornenon which at the same time Is very
expensive. The right of way follows the
windings of the river quite close to the
water. and on the other side for almost
the entire distance is frowning preci
pice. varying from 800 to 900 feet ir
height. The shelf upon which the rail
way track is laid Is partly natural ant
partly artificial, and has been pre-empteG
by a mass of sand that annoys the rail
way company as much as the plaques an
! noyed the Egyptians when they would
not let the Israelites go.
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Editors Protest Against Censorship

SAN SEBASTIAN. September liking
Alfonso yesterday listened to the protests
of a number of editors against the censor
ship on news as now exercised in Spain.
after which he announced his immediate
return to Madrid for the purpose Of call
ing the cabinet in consultation. The ed
itors are Of the opinion that his majesty
is in favor of a relaxation of the censor
ship.
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From The Dalles almost all the way to
scenery and at places it becomes sublime.
There are more than twenty waterfalls,
greater or less streams of water. which
tumble over the rim of the canyon into
the Columbia. Nature is splendid sculp-
tor and the wind and the rain and its
other tools do thorough work. Both sides
of the canyon have been carved into
palisades, turrets, pinnacles. battlements
and other formations, some times fam
tastic sometimes dignitied, and always
large but are very high. A small stream
which drains the plateau back of the can
yon with a reckleSSneSs that is fearful
tumbleS over the rim into pool $50 feet
below. In the spring when the melting
SHOWS in the mountains swell the stream
it must be we'll worth seeing, but during
the dry season there is not enough water
to make much show.
The Bridge of the Gods is the name of a
strange phenomenon, explained by a ro-
mantle tradition, which F. H. Balch ha $
woven into novel If you will go out In
boat to the center of the river and look
down to the bottom, you will see the
trunks of several enormous trees some
of them standing upright, with an air of
determinations, others more submissive,
lying between and across piles of broken
rock. The tradition of the Indians is
that the Columbia was once spanned at
this point, by a mighty natural bridge
And that a fringe of timber grew on
cident occurred that provoked the wrath
of the Great Spirit, although lie seems
to have made more fuss than the facts
justified. OF course. there was q woman
The weekly true Democrat., 1909-11-05

ENm DoEgies, m OK wnIch tney pFOsaIc-
ally carried with them baek't0 the sta.
ton. lacking leisure a. they did 20 par
take Of the food before train time.
Without attempting coneealment
CHobbs, be knew, was eavesdrOpplng
round the corner Of the door Kirk
wood purchased &C the ticket window
passages on the Dunkerque train. Mr..
Hobbs promptly battered him By lmi-
tation. and 20 Jealous Of bis luck was
Klrkwood By this tins grown through
Sontinuai disappointment that BE- did
not even let the girl into his plans un.
til they were aboard the 500 IN q com
Dartment ell 10 themselves. Then. hav-
ing with his own eyes Eaen Mr.. Hobbs
dodge Into the third compartment IN
the rear OF the same carriage. Kirk
wood astonished the glrl by requesting
her TO follow him. and together they
left By the door opposite that By which
they had entered.
The engine was running up and
down a scale of staeeato anOrts IN
preparation Tor the race and the cars
were on the edge Of moving. coup
Ilngu clankinG. wheels a-grOan, ere Mr.
Hobbs cOndoscended 10 Join them BE-
tween the tracks
YEARLY, disheartened. KlrkWood re-
opened the door. 6ung tie bars IN and
helped the girl back into their despised
compartment. Tha quicker route to
England via ostond was now ont Of
che question. As Cor himself. he wait
"a for q brace Of seconds. eying Wick-
sdly the ubiquitous Hobbs. who had
popped back into hla compartment. but
stood ready % pop out agaln on the
least encouragomenE IN the meantime
be was pleased 60 shake q friendly foot
at Mr.. KirkWood, thrusting that mem.
Der out through the half open door.
Only the tlmsly departure 0f the
train. compelling him 70 Fetoin Doro-
thy st once n az ail. prevented the
American from adding murder % the
already noteworthy catalogue of hls
high crimes and miBdemeanoFs.
Their almpIo neal. consumed % the
Ultimate drop and erumb while the
DunkerQno train meandorod serenely
through q sunny, smiling FlemlBh
countryside. somewhat revived their
faded spirits.
Tor q time they laughed and chat
tered. praisn6lng that che present held
40 cares o. tro8bles. bnt soon .the glrl.
uoslling her head IN q corner ee the
dinsy cushlona. Was smiling ever mere
drowuily "a RllkWood. And presently
che slept m good 1eFnegl the Wkfn
blood obblnr anf ngwina bsaakek lha
ezou1nita eoEluFe 81 hof cheota. tho
eho1l of 81 unc1neIeus gnl|a Eelgel
iaa aheui lhe sensitive scEi., ppplh
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vide brown eyes, then. 90 their
drowSiness vanished, q little laughter,
q little tender mirth.
GOOD morning, SIR knight Of the
Bomber COuntenanceT she cried,
standing up. "Am I 20 utterly disFep-
utable that yOu ind Il necessary 20
frown on me 90 darkly"
he shook his head, smiling.
Il know I'm q fright" she asserted.
vigorously shaking out the folds OF her
plated skirt. "And, as for my bat, II
win never bo on straight; bat, then,
you wouldn't know"
'Tt seems eli right" be replied Va.
eantiy.
''Thon please to try to look a little
happier since yOE ana me quite pre-
aentabie."
II dO."
without lifting her bendod head she
looked up, laughing, not ill pleased.
You'd say 20 reallyT
Far down the railway tracks there
rose q murmurins that waxed to a
rumbllng roar. A passing porter an
awsrod Klrkwood's inquiry; Il was the
night beat train from osiend. He
picked up their bags and drew the girl
into the waiting room, troubled BY q
Sickenlng forebOdlnG.
Through the window they watched
the train ron m and stop.
Among others allghted, sinking. the
unspaakable HObba
ne lifted hls hat and bowed jaunti-
y 10 the waiting room window, max
Inc Il plain that bis keen eyes had die.
covered them instantly.
The weekly true Democrat., 1909-11-05

tno broess through the Open w1nG0w
90 Der side wantoning at win IA the
sunlit WitchGEy of hor hair. And KIRK.
wood. worn with SleepIess watching.
dwelt IN longing upon the dear, innO-
cent allure OF her. until the ache IN
bis heart had grown well nigh insuD-
portable. then instinctively turned bis
gaze upward, searching he heart,
reading the faith and desire Of t. 70
that AZ length knowledge and under
standing came 10 him Of his weakness
and strength and the clean love that
be bore for her. and, giaddened, be sat
dreaming in waking the same clear
dreams that modelled her unconscious
Ilps secretly fOF laughter ana The ioy
Of living. =
when Dunkerauo haited thSlr prog
roas they were Obliged to alisht and
change cars. Hobbs { diacrsetiT ainiss.
ter shadow at the end Of tho platform.
BY schedule they were 20 arrive IN
Calais about the middle o. the fore
noon. with q wait Of three hours 10 be
bFidssd before the departure Of the
Dover packet That Would b en- anx-
ious Tina The prospect of 4 rendered
both DOrCthy and KirkwOOd d0ubly
anxious throughout this 1nai stage of
their Gight IN three hours anything
could happen OF be brought about.
Neither could forget thst g was quite
within the bounds of possibilities foR
Calendar 20 BE- aWaitins them n Ca.
lals. Presumlng that Hobbs had been
acute enough 70 guess thelr plans and
adVise Bis employer by telegraph. the
latter could readily have anticipated
their arrival, Whistler by zee m the
brigantine on by land. taking TIE direct
route via Brussels and lila n such
proved to Be the case Il were scarcely
sensible % count upon the arch ad-
ventures contonting himseIf win q
waiting rOie like Hobbs,
VITA such unhappy appEehensions
for q Btimulnnt. between them fhe
man and the girl contrived make
shin counter stratnRsm, o. e were
more accurate % aay that Kirkwood
proposed n, whlie DorOthy reiected.
disputed ana &c length aeeepted a. ai'
belt with sad misgIvingA for q h.
voived a separation that might not
prove Temporary.
Together they could never escape ths
Surveillance q Mr. Hobbs; parted ~
would Be obIlecd % fellow one O. tha
ether The task OF misleading tn Ale.
theap mats Kirkuood un1eGlppk dels.
eating b TIE All fha dulS % escao
lna When ~ eoui1 ploViee htf lhe %
pozlunitg, % koanIna un1g coFo a..
tn ghs honf az nIlne ard fen rfb-
ceodins e ns|and ullo f1t rlaG1lcns
oae alone M KII1n Nat una1io ~
tlaurht n nseo - flIs ~ a.
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tho boat
IN furthefanee of this design
5ority OF the girls belongings Nere
transferred from her travelling bag o
KiFkWood's. the gladstone taking TIER
place, and the young man pfovilod her
with vuiuminOus Instructions, re-
VOlveg which she did not know how %
handle and declared she would neyef
oss for any consideration and enough
money 20 pay Tor hor acconmolatien
at the Terminus hotel, near the pl1,
and for two passages 70 London -
was agreed that she should secure f1B
steamer booking Isst KlFkW0od ~ g.
iaysd until the last moment
These arrangements cOnciuoeos az
1naiF Of biatte6 idiots aat gteeDo1
moIanchOly sil66tS, avoiding each oll
ers eyea. Until ths train drew q %
the Care csntrale. calais.
m profound silence. teo. they let
their compartment and paegee thf0o
the station into the quiet sun drencoe
streets o. tho seaport. Hobbs hovoTlN4
aolicitOusly IN the onlng
WIlaNut to1NA4-uA " NAAAotu ANANtH
Of mind they were awaFa that tnl
fears had been without appar
foundation. They saw 10 algn oe orb
ondar, Btryksg o. Mulready. Ths els
cumstance, hoWUvor, counted fol n0s1
Ing One o. aIl of the edvontn
might arrive n Calais e sny minatp
1lomortarlly more miserable e fs
time az parting drew neaPor. domt
with unhappiness. they turned as|1f
from the main thoroug1farc4 of t
city. leaving tho business aecii0n, ans
gained tho nieoplsE side srbets t
dered By the roaldencos of th8 pr1Is
tariat. where for blocks none but cn1
dron were % ~ ooen, ana of t1eu naI
fsw-Quafnt, sober ntiis bodles
ing almost noiseles1iy IN taes DOR
yards
AZ lensth GirkWood spoko
~Lsis make q the cofaeE.e - eti1
without looking as tha eiFL eite
abort block 70 the next street X
hurry 60 the TGTmllns end Ioek fo
1slf n youE room. HaQo tht u11e
mont book beth pSseagta ponk f
TIE rIsk Of goihe q TIE per g9g
ga mako things inierestlne lor
Hobbs and jcin yoe - soou 81 eA
ig can"
~Ycu must" replied ths e
Ilan't Eo wilho1l yoe"
"Buk Dor-lsila csieadal 81
Itfme1. nfh
u &rI,l 49,. l..,n. y -.
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CHAPTrR xXYI.

~ mKwOOD'g hsaFt nRk with
the hopelesaness Of q an II
the railway dlrectoFatos of Eu.
\ n rope conspired against tham.
what chance had thoyf II che night
boat train from Osiend bad only had
the deconcy 10 b. twenty-five minutes
ais, instead of arriving promptly on
che minute o. a4B. they two might
have escaped BY che 500 fer pun.
korQuo and Calais.
's1flss CalondaF." said KirkWood
from hia heart "iuas % soon aa set
yOu home safe and sound l am going
b take q dag 0i. hunt up that little
vIllaln and aay hlm ailVs. IN the
moantims I forgot 70 aims last night
and am remlrded that We had better
forage for breakfast
Hobbs doEgod them at . aafe dls.
tance while they sailed foFth and d
q nolehhorlna al1pel dieeosesed en- ear.
b bird bahogy. Here they were able
% pnfchaoe r0lls aleamIng IRON the
even. frrah pats of goldsn Dulinl WIap
pot 81 citan ltlluta leas1l enc nm A.
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iute mistress og that treasure of Jew.
eia, yet that night she bad been forced
- sleep on q hard, uncushlonod bench
IN lhe open afr, and this morning be
must Waken her 10 the llfo Of hunt.
"a thing. A week ago she bad had az
her command every luxury known 60
the clyllized worlds today abe was
lgisndiesg bat for hls ineGncbant, worth
lees self and IN q strange land. A
week ago. had be known her then. be
bad been froo 10 tell her of bis love,
30 olleF her the protection Of bic name
as well aa his devotloni today be was
an Rll but penuiless vaEahond and
there could bO no dlahonor deeper than
10 let her know the nature Of his
hearts desire.
Was ever lover hedeed from q dec.
IfFati0n % his mistress By clfcum'
stances 90 hateful, % untownrdi Hc
conlf have FaRod and rallied against
hia frts like any mailman. for be a..
a.r11 her greatly, and aho waa very
loFciy a. be sight She was 10 him
81 nll created things the most wonder.
fni. 1ho most desirable.
ne temptation Of his ionging seem.
"a more than ~ could long Withstand.
Bet resist ha must % part forever
With aug title 10 her conzideration-or
hl1 own re shut he teeth and knot.
le1 ~ browu An q transport of desire
a. touch. a only with BE finger tlpe.
ne woven uoutaf of hef hair.
Ard ltae tho Eaw blm Whgn, With.
tal NafN So eWoho.
ntnt fnl ai fral lnfaama1 tna
The weekly true Democrat., 1909-11-05

READtRS MOLE. T5st I.ss,,5., @
Of q lack OF interest In
what we thought would
be q warm contest, the
cash offer for a solution Of
the mysteries In this story
le hereby withdrawn.