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CHAPTER VI.

In silence Mr. Hallam turned 10
Kirkwood, her pose in itself a question
and a peremptory one. Her eyes had
narrowed; between their lashes the
green showed, thin edge like jade,
cold and calculating. The firm lines
of her mouth and chin had hardened.
Temporarily dumb with consterna,
ton, he returned her stare as silently.
We'll, Mr.-Kirkwood?"
Mrs Hallum,'' he stammered, L
She lifted her shoulders Impatient
~ and with a quick movement step
ped back across the threshold. where
she paused. a rounded arm barring
the entrance one hand grasping thu
door-knob. as ii TO shut him out at
any moment.
I'm awaiting your explanation she
said coldly.
He grinned with nervousness, striy
| ing to penetrate tho mental processes
of this handsome Mrs. Hallam. She
seemed to regard him with suspicion
which he thought inexcusable. Did
she suppose he had spirited Dorothy
| Calendar away and then called to ap
prise her of the fact? Or that he was
sort of an adyenturer, who had mann
featured q plausible yarn to gain hin
access to her home? Or-harking bach
| to her original theory--that he was
an en1issary from Scotland Yard
| Probably she distrusted him or
the latter hypothesis. The reflection
| left him more at ease.
ITO be Continued)
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FINDS BABY DEAD IN BED.
Father is Away and Mother Asks
Coroner to Help Find
IIi,,,

nes Moines, Jan. 16 - On awaken
ing yesterday Mrs. Sam Stricken Of
1917 Franklin avenue found the body
of her nine months old baby cold In
death. The child had heen suffering
from a slight cold for the past few
days but the mother had not. consid
cred the illness in any way serious.
When the child was put to bed on
Thursday night it seemed to be rest.
ing easily and the mother dropped off
to sleep, little thinking what the TO!
lowing day would bring forth.
Several months ago the woman's
husband left her, and frantic at tbs
thought that he would not be presen;
at the funeral of the baby, she has
asked Coroner Newlen to locate hin
for her. The coroner viewed the body
of the child but decided that an i'll
quest was not necessary.
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Asthma Sufferers Should Know This.

Asthma Sufferers Should Know THIS.
Foley's Honey and Tar has cured
many cases of asthma that were con-
sidered hopeless. Mrs. Adolph Bues-
ing, 7o1 West Third ST., Davenport,
Iowa. writes: "A severe cold con-
ed until it finally grew into asthma.
The best medical skill available could
not give mo more than temporary re-
lief. Foleys Honey and Tar was rec
commended and one fifty cent bottle
entirely cured me of asthma which had
been growing on me for twelve years.
If had taken It at the start would
have been savs.a years of suffering"
F. B. Clark and J. H. L. Sweenson's
Drug Stores.
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ELDON A.R.P,A.
HOLD SESSION
w, n. THOMAS OF KANSAS CITY
MAKES SPLENDID ADDRESS
80 NEW MEMBERS,

Eldon, Jan, 1S,-tSpecial. THE
American Railway Protective asso-
citation held its regular meetin~ at the
I. Q. O. r. hall. Quite a large crowd
attended W. Il Thomas from Kansas
City was present. Mr.. Thomas is or
ganizer of. this movement which or
iginated at Des MoineS a { the old time
railroad mems union at that place.
The organization at this point Is
gaining membership Very rapidly un-
der the new manag cement. At this
meeting there were 33 new members
taken in. making a, membership of 1913
at this place. Hon. e J. Bradley and
Paul r. Ranlser spoke at length in
favor of the organization. Both Of
these men are able speakers
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Il KILLED AND 80 INJURED IN
R|0GRANDE WRECK |NCOLORADO,
MANY OF THOSE HURT MAY DIE
Partial List of Injured
in FataLColorado Wreck

Denver, Jan. 16.--A partial list of
the injured in the Glenwood wreck
follows:
]. T. Jeffrey and Sig Olson, en-
gineers.
John Ross. Cleveland, Ohio.
Thomas Elliott. Pendleton, Iowa.
W. Adair. Ravenna, Ohio.
T. B. Miller, Denver.
Mrs. G. Blanker, Wapolin, Mo,
Charles p. Nance and wife, Anth-
ony, Kas.
VIM. Barber, Anthony. Kas.
B. H. Hayden and child, Buffalo,
Okla.
Fred Jansen. iowa Falls. la.
Mrs. Nellie J. Morton, Standish, Cal.
Mrs. A. w. McCaulley and child,
Los Angeles, Cal.
w. G. Moxey. Los Angeles, Cal
J. B. Thompson. Bookin, s. d.
f. C. Handler. Denver
Clyde E. MCGOWAN, pullman con-
ductor
Clearance Nassau, Middlesburg. Va.
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Glenwood Springs. Colo, ian. IT,
Fifty persons We're killed and as many
more injured in collision at Dotsero
siding. twenty miles east of this city
between a Denver and Rio Grande
passenger train double-headed, No.
westbound and freight NO. 66, east
bound last night. Both trains were
making good time for a siding fiye
miles west of Dotse-o. where they
were to pass. when they collided. The
result was that both engines were
smashed, the baggage car was left
standing on end, the day coach was
telescoped with the chair car and fifty
people in them we're mangled almost
beyond recognition. The sleeping
cars remained on the track and none
of their passengers We're injured,
Passengers Not Identified.
Twenty bodies have been removed
from the chair car 1t is said not q
single passenger in the day coach es
capped. A relief train is expected tt
reach here with the dead before noon
The passenger engineer, Gus Olson
was killed and the freight engineers
Sig Olson and J. T. Jeffrey were prob
ably fatally injured. The names Of
none of the passengers have yet beer
learned
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But One Saved From Coach.

Denver, Jan. 16.-To add to the hor-
ror of the wreck "a second relay train
on it's way to Glenwood and loaded
with the injured has been tied up by
the derailment of freight cars. The
first relief train bearing number
more or less slightly injured reached
Glenwood this morning, bringing re-
ports of the wreck which make it ap-
pear to be one of the worst in the his
tory of railroading. Most of the
slaughter was done in the chair car.
OF the sixty-nine passengers In that
coach sixty.eight are said to be killed
Young Girl Only Survivor.
The only human being to escape was
a six year old girl who was found
under the dead body of her mother
and who is too near dead even to re-
member her name, farther than that IT
Is Alice
No further identifcations of the dead
have been made, as in many instances
the bodies are so horribly mutilated
that Identification is very difficult.
At the Office Of General Manager
Ridgeway Of the Denver &c Rio Grande
it was stated that the dead number
% and the injured from twenty-five tc
| thirty
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WILL INTEREST MANY.

Every person should know that good
health is impossible If the kidneys are
deranged. Fcley's Kidney Cure will
cure Kidney and Bladder diseases
in every form, build up and strength
their functions property. No danger
of Bright's disease or diabetes if 1rol-
ey's Kidney Cure it taken in time. F.
3. Clark and J. II. L. Sweenson's Drug
Stores.
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slaim Laid to Dead Engineer.

Among those on the train who es-
capped are f. l.. Boff Of Winsjde, Neb.,
and Hugh Gregg and family of Harris
burg. Illinois. According to inlorma-
ton received here the wreck was caus;.
ed by the failure OF Engineer Gus OF,
son of the passenger train to correctly
read the time indicated by his watch
When nearing Dotsero Olson looked at
his watch aud read the time to be
9:45 p. m. 1t was then $50. Think
ing he had plenty of time to make the
next siding below Dotsero. he pulled
the throttle of the engine wide open
and was making forty-five miles al
hour on the down grade when he col
lided with freight which was labor
iously climbing up the hill, under =
full head of steam of two big engines.
Victims Horribly Mutilated.
Eight passengers in the chair cal
were decapitated as though by tht
guillotine, their heads rolling from
their bodies Most of the bodies o
the dead were mutilated so badly tina
Identification may take many hours
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LIVES LOST IN
PEORIA WRECK
TWO FREIGHTs COLLIDE WHILE
UNDER SPEED; THREE
DEAD, ONE MISSING.

Peoria, Jan. 16---Two extra freights
on the Northwestern colllded head-on
yesterday evening near Limestone,
four miles northwest of this city
Three trainment were instantly killed,
one is missing and believed to be IN
the wreckage. and two others are ser1-
ously injured, one Of whom may die.
The dead:
JOE CURTAIN, engineer, of sterl
ing, Ill
NJ. METzLER, fireman, home in Vir
ginia.
J. A. RUSSELL, brakeman, Of sterl-
ing, III.
Missing:
o. A. HoUCHINs, brakeman, Of
Sterling, III.
The injured
w. j Watson, OF Chicago, fireman;
serious. Twill die).
Thomas Neville OF Chicago, engi-
neer; leg broken and bruised.
Collide at Full Speed.
The trains met in a narrow valley
and each was going at full speed. The
northbound extra was in charge Of
| Conductor w. G. Donichy and the
southbound in charge of Conductor J.
Schafer. Owing to the darkness and
a ftful fall Of snow, the engineers
could not see each others trains until
too close to avoid smash. Both en-
gines and half dozen loaded freight
cars in each train were piled into a
splintered mass.
No cause can definitely be assigned
for the disaster. though it is generally
believed that it was mistake in train
orders. The road on which the acct
] dent occurred Is a branch of the North
western, which extends from sterl-
! ing, H., to Peoria.
Drove OF Cattle Causes Wreck.
San Bernadino. Cal, Jan. Is. The
Santa Fe California Limited, west
bound, was derailed yesterday IS
4 miles west of Barstow. Several pas
senngers, names unknown, were
slightly injured The accident was
caused By the train running into a
ldrove of cattle.
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The only person who escaped in the
chair car has been identified as Alice
Williams, aged 4, from some point in
Iowa. The wreckage caught fire i'm
mediately after the collision. A holo.
caust was averted by the uninjured
passengers and the train crews.
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Body of Rojestvensky Inferred

ST. Petersburg, Jan. 16.-The body
of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky was
inferred in the Alexander Nevslli
monastery this morning with full
military honors.
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PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAIN
CRASH DURING NIGHT NEAR
GLENWOoD SPRINGS WHILE
BOTH TRAINS WERE SPEEDING.
ONLY ONE SAVED
FROM CHAIR CAR
FAILURE OF ENGINEER GUS OIL
SON OF PASSENGER TRAIN TO
CORRECTLY READ THE TIME
ASSIGNED AS CAUSE OF WRECK.

Denver. Jan. ia telephone
message from Glenwood Falls says
the dead at Dotsero number sew
enty-one and the injured fifty,
twenty of whom will probably die.
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moment, to Kirkwood, tagging after
her with an uncomfortable sense OF
having somehow done the wrong thing
her fgure--full fair shoulders and
arms rising out Of the glittering din
ner gown-cut a gorgeous silhouette
against the darkness. Then, with a
sudden, imperative gesture, she nall
turned towards him.
But" she exclaimed. perplexed
gazing to right and left, "but the cab
Mr.. Kirl5wood?"
He was on the stoop a second later
Standing beside her, he stared blank
ly.
To the left the Strand roared, the
stream of its night-life in high spate;
on the right lay the embankment, com
paratively silent and deserted, If bril-
liant with its high-swung lights. Be
tween the two, quiet Craven street
ran, short and narrow. and wholly in
nocent of any form of equipage.
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WRIGHT BROTHERS HoNoREp BY
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
Washlngton's Birthday Marked by the
Bestowal of the Red Ribbon Of
Legion Of Honor Upon Amer
lean Inventors.

The French government has been
the first of the nations TO officially rec
ognize and honor the maker of fly
ing machine and the men thus dis
tinguished are the two plain. unassum-
ing but busy Americans-the Wright
brothers. 1t would seem that the red
ribbon of the Legion of Honor was
well bestowed, for the achievements
of these two men has set all the air
ship builders of the world agape with
wonder and envy. 81
But what will the red ribbon mean
to Wilbur and Orville Wright? Just
what ii means to the other Americans
who have received it from the French
government. 1t is first and last and
all the time an honor which great
nation confers for some special reason.
Napoleon created the Legion of Honor
first of all for the members of his
army. 1t was to be his reward of
merit. He carried around with him on
his person half a dozen of the little
crosses which constituted the decora-
ton; and in the smoke of battle pinned
now one and now another on the
breast of some soldier he had caught
in the very act of heroism. In times
of peace he found that this same dec
Grafton excellently took the place of
the old orders of nobility. and he con-
ferred it on civilians, especially on Of
ficeholders, to recompense them for
faithfulness to his interests.
All the French governments since
Napoleon, in spite Of new revolutions,
have found the Legion of Honor use
full for what they call ''honorific dis
tinctions." 1t is the republics only way
OF doing what King Edward does when
he singles out a man for knighthood
or the peerage.
Among Frenchmen the military le-
gionaries still enjoy something of the
original privilege OF the order-a small
pension and free tuition of their daugh.
ters at the schools founded for that
purpose. But for civilians-and for
foreign legionaries-the cross and red
ribbon is the highest honor within the
gift of the French government-and
that is enough. During his life the lie.
gionary, with the red ribbon in his
buttonhole, will be honored by au.
thorities from policemen up and if he
dies in France the soldiers of the re.
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who, from their official position, CONT
into direct contact with government
diplomats who please in delicate nego.
tiations or who have long represented
their country with honor in France.
and of late those who have had high
positions in the worlds fairs where
France has shown. Then there are
men of science recognized already by
the French academies or university
and, of course, men of world wide dis
tinction like Edison and the Wrights
whom the French government for the
credit of France holds to honoring
After these, until lately, it seemed as
if American artists resident in Paris
would carry off about all the remain
ing red ribbons.
Within fifteen years time great
change has been wrought The French
government has more and more con
ferred its coveted decoration on Ameri
can business men. Americans in plair
commerce and industry and finance.
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ioUTH AMERICAN REPUBLIC ONE
OF GREATEST IN WORLD.
Delegate From That Country, L
Baeta Neves, Calls Attention to
Some Remarkable
Facts.

Brazil is the country of liberty 1t
Is friend-brother of the United
States, and lives i'm the most cordial
relations with all the civilized ma
tons. Thus spoke l.. Baeta Neves,
mining and civil engineer of Brazil
and delegate from that country to the
recent sixteenth annual irrigation con
gress, and he went on TO point out
some interesting facts which are not
well known.
Who has known that the united
states of Brazil make ii one of the
greatest countries of the world in size,
and that the territory constitutes
about half of the total surface OF the
South American continent? Who has
known that Brazil absolutely repre-
sents the largest territorial extension
Of the globe, that under the same flag
makes harmonious and homogeneous
whole, single nation, where all over
the same language is heard, the same
people are met, without difference of
habits and customs, and with the
same spirit of nationality.
national type exists resulting from
the amalgamation of Portuguese, Afri-
can and American Indian, without any
physical or intellectual inferiority, and
which is capable of great labor, tena-
cious of purpose, with great depth
Of affection.
Living among the Brazilian people
are principally Portuguese, Italians,
Spaniards, French, Anglo-SaXon, Poles
and Syrians, who find in the country
favorable conditions for the highest
development, thanks to the advantage
Of it's splendid climate and fertile
lands.
The population has doubled every
30 years, and now is about $4,000. 900
inhabitants. More than half of this
population consists of whites.
One of the factors at work in Brazil
for the betterment of the country are
the American missionaries Albert
Hall, the author of South America"
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EGYPT OF THE WEST

who sleeps his last sleep in the historic
parish church OF Kingston-a church
in which is many record of England s
imperial greatness, although the build
ing itself is almost a total wreck, 9
painful memory of the earthquake OF
two years ago.
The West Indies always possess un
dying fascination and interest for the
lover Of romance. When you stanc
upon one or those beautiful little ia
maican silver-sand beaches, girt with
gracefuils-bending palm trees, and
gaze out upon the blue horizon, you
find yourself almost unconsciously
thinking of dear old r. NJ Ballan
tyne's Coral I. Island" or w. H. G
Kingston's Three Admirals," and the
glimpse you obtain of a white sail glid
ing and glooming in the far distance
reminds you of some little caravel oil
Elizabeths long-dead splendid and
spacious days.
And then there are the flowers an6
foliage. the palms and trees and ferns
10 reward one for ramble inland
There is nothing to equal, much less t
surpass, the superb flowers of Jamai
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Effect of Radium on Bacteria-A COL
ony Of bacteria (coIi community as
partly destroyed by the emanations Of
radium. The middle Of the plate,
where the emanations have been, is
clear of bacteria.
an element very like radiun naturally
causes a big stir in the scientific and
therapeutic world, for radium is held
to have great curative properties. :
Before the Southern Homeopathic
convention at New Orleans, DR.. +.
Stillman Bailey announced that he had
discovered a substitute for radium
which Is available in such large guam
titles that IL will be almost as cheap
as ordinary lead.
II call il radiothor," said DR.. Bailey
1T generates the purple ray, the same
which Finsen used so succe ssfully in
treating lupus, and which Is given off
by radium. The substance resembles
kid leather and is made from pitch
blende, of which 20 tons have been dis
covered near a Colorado mine, with 20
tons more in sight under the surface"
Although radium. which burst on the
popular imagination like the new star
in Perseus a few years ago, and as
quickly faded. has formed the subject
of thousands of scientific treatises
since it's discovery by NJ and Nine.
Jurie six years ago, yet we know re-
narkably little about IL. The respon-
sibility for our ignorance is largely
iue to the fact that there is so little
solated radium, or partially isolated
'adium in existence.
Nine. Curie has Is milligrammes OF
adium She and her husband once
lad more, but an unfortunate expert
nent robbed them of the result of sew.
sra' years work Sir William Ramsay
has .bout 20 milligrammes, which was
LEM 10 him by the Vienna Academy of
Science Sir William Crookes had
about ten milligrammes, which he has
spanked away in spectroscopic work,
and we may note in passing that the
most important thing which science
alucidated from the shy element is its
spectrum The two other important
things are the number OF atomic par
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SEARCH FOR RADIUM

ticles or "Alpha-rays' which IL throws
off and which last year were counted
by Rutherford-a miracle OF scientific
research-and its atomic weight, which
Nine Currie seems to have satisfac-
torily fixed at the figure of 1898, the
heaviest element known. At the high
est estimate the amount of radium in
all the laboratories of the world rs
less than two grammes,
LebJls consider for a moment what
that impsses. Suppose that copper
were a newly discovered metal and
been extracted. What should we know.
of all it's properties, of it's malleabilftF,
ductility, OF It's electrical conductivity-
or of its conduction of heat2 Scat
tered over two continents there is less
than the seventh of an ounce OF radi-
UNI What science wants for further
Information is to assemble one ounce
of radium in one place. Then we
might begin TO learn something about
its properties. There is a remote pos
sibiity that we might learn something
of these properties in highly discon-
certing manner NJ. Curie, when alive.
once burnt himself severely by GRITTY
ing in his waistcoat pocket for a few
days a glass tube which inclosed a tiny
speck of radium. He said that III IL
became possible to isolate consid-
cradle quantity of pure radium he
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eternal sunshine and brilliant seas, the
land of romance and story, is what
that little isle in the Atlantic means TO
its inhabitants and those who visit
there.
Jamaica is full OF history and ro-
nance. The traveller realizes this
when, having slid down the ocean
through myriad shadows and sunshine,
and chased the glittering hying-fish
and outrun the happy dolphins. he
glides at last alongside of Port Royal,
green and tropic-looking and redolent
with memories of that redoubtable buc-
cancer, Captain Kidd; where Drake
and Hawkins used to put in for shelter
when pursued by some mighty Span
ish galleon which now lies, laden with
treasure. i'm that beautiful land-locked
harbor And what Mr.. John Henderson
says in his delightful Jamaica, from
an Englishmans point of view, at least,
Is so true.
$50 far as we are concerned" he
writes, the history of the Indies Is a
medley of romance, the romance of
British greatness. There we laid the
foundations of our empire: the Carib.
bean sea is the font of the temple of
our greatness"
And OF this fact brave old Archdea-
con Downer. the rector OF Kingston, re-
minds you when he points out to you
the burial place Of Admiral Benbow,
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BRAZIL IMMENSE

has this to say regarding their work:
Anyone who followed the colporteur
on his by-path journeys across Brazil
knows that 1t is not always contempt
or bigotry which perpetuates ignor-
ance, but that quite as often the mar
tive never before had opportunity to
find out truth for himself. Anyone
who has followed the daily round OF
the true missionary among rich or
poor, cultured or unlettered. aristo-
crat or peasant. and has seen the
eagerness with which progressive.
Christianity is received, knows that
the Brazilian has plenty of grace in
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FLIERS DECORATED

public will convey him to his resting
place.
This decorating of the Wright broth
ers is a good occasion for taking a
general view of the living Americans
whom the French government mas
named to the Legion Of Honor. The
legion constitutes an order like the an
cient order of knigh'hood, with its
chevaliers and their officers. command
ers. grand officers and grand croix.
Foreigners who are named TO the Le-
gion of Honor are those whom the
French government recognizes have
deserved well of France or of all hui
manity,
Naturally those who catch most
easily the eye of government are those
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him. Our church ENJOYS are teach
ing cleanliness as well as religion.
chastity as well as good manners, In
dustry as well as genufection, physi-
cal as well as spiritual uplifting; All
this in the name of America. One of
the most powerful agents in making
familitr to Brazil the ambitions of our
country is the American missionary,
and large proportion of the newer
education offered to BraZilians comes
from religious sources.