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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-01-06

whsn Maria Rivas. dropping her bead'
burst into a torrent OF sobs. her white
shoulders heavlng as her agony got the
better OF her.
AS he stood there biting his lips she
threw back her head and darted up
and to the window. lie heard her
moan. as II she saw and heard some
thing too awful 10 comprehend. He
walked over and stood back Of her til
she swung round. and he saw the tear
stained face relax and the swimming
eyes close. lie carried her 10 the ta-
bic. and laid her down across Il. aud
rubbed her hands. Then the maid came
In. still glggiing Historically, and to-
gether they revived her untll she SAT
up between Vincent's arms and slid
from the big table to the floor. Vim
cent sent the astonlshed maid out by a
gesture OF command.
snow what's the matter~ he de
manded. hoarsely. IF you're In trou.
Bile tell me-
She painted before him. 1T was
" unt frliruluEttus sic tNFtAN@@
How can l forgetf
~After ! had been Ave years In the
States papa sent for me to meet him
In Colon. l got of the steamer. and he
was waiting on the wharf. ! knew he
would do It just that way. He put on
bis glasses with both hands. and looked
at me as II he were very glad. and oh !
loved II. for II was Just like Il was
when was little girl and ran into
the big room
.But trouble came In Panama, and
papa thought we'd better come up TO
San Francisco. I've been 80 busy
down here one way and another he
said. that I'm always suspected OF con-
splracy. Your mother Is dead. and the
FUN Of life Is out Of H. We will live
pcaceably as beiits an old man and his
daughter
vincent's voice broke 10 on her story.
when was thIsr
Five years ago. And everything
went all right til we got to Amapala.
There a friend OF papa's came on
board and showed me a paper. II said
papa was not TO be allowed 10 land In
Honduras. as he was plotting an insnr-
rection. lie put on his glasses 70 read
II. When he looked up At me. he said
we shan't see where your mother Is
buried. nor the place where you were |
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-01-06

there who would do the sstpe ror me
Wherever Napoleon weat ~ brought
strife; wherever 20 strife follows He
ceased looking through me. and gazed al
me. "You have your quiet beach, your
snug house. your summer with the fair
lady Of this afternoon do you still wish
me to stayG"
The ship is any ones property |
| said, land the shore is free. II you want
more, you have only to ask for il at my
cottage"
"what would the lady sayl~ he conrin-
ued
The lady has nothing whatever to SAP
in the natter" l returned. annoyed at
his continual reference to Miss Graham.
Il am free to choose for myself"
Duponceau smiled. Mr. Selden. you
are young man Of spirit, but you are
ignorant. very ignorant II all depends
on the lady. You would not weigh me In
the balance for a moment II she willed
otherwise. No one IS free; there Is al
ways some other power. Even the Corsi-
can could not withstand his star" The
smile faded. vanished: Duponcean's eyes
were stern and fixed.
NANC uCCu tuAlC@A . tHAA1tNf . A'-fN~-a
modern Juggernaut. but II was only be-
cause ! had my vision. and could see tar
Their than Others could"
He was leagues away. his thoughts
lighting. watched him until bis mind
came back.
Now he said. I'VE viii eight it out.
I take you at your word-the Ship is
mine. the shore any ones property
Suddenly he rose and stood peering up
the beach. Some one is coming" he
said, and 1 saw that his hands felt for
the pistols on the table.
/ looked. and saw Charles swinging
lantern. 1T is only my servant" ! an
swered
"Can be be trusted."
Implicitly"
Tell him who am"
We waited until Charles came on
board. He showed no surprise at seeing
the two Of US.
Il came for the dinner things. Mr.. Fee
lix.'' he stated. looking at me and ignor-
ing Duponceau.
Charles | said. "this is Monsieur
Duponceau. who has lately come TO stay
in this Ship. You are not TO mention his
presence mere 10 aHt '1't r"s "t+- ~
whatever be asks. You need not take the
things away: they way be Of use 70 him
in the cabin. Monsieur Duponeeau. you
may rely on Charles as on yourself.
Charles bowed to the man in black.
fine figure. gazing steadily at my man
could not help noting the picture that
be made. his hand still on the pistols, bis
soft black hat low upon his forehead. bis
cloak flung across his shoulder.
Charles turned TO go. Has there been
any message for mes" asked as an az
terthought.
NO. Mr.. Felix" Charles hesitated
~but l found a man prowlins about the
back road after supper. and shouzh ia
never seen him before. : couldn't learn
his business. He looked ike sly one.
sir"
/ turned to Duponceau; he was sHil-
ing.
You see, Mr. seldom. how quickly my
words find proof. Where come strife
ITO be eOntinued-)
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-01-06

born He shook hands with the friend.
and said nothing more.
-On the day we were as Ocos. IN
the afternoon. I saw the comandants
come on the steamer with some sol
diers. He said he wanted to arrest
papa. but that II be came along viii
Iingiy he would not use force.
~'r am under the American Jag
papa said I know who has done this.
IL would mean my death n went
with you Suddenly heard a shot
and then another. hurried 10 papa's
room. Outside there we're two soldiers
aiming into H. Jaw papa sfttlng on
his camp-stool and his two revolvers
xere IN his lap. He was hunting for
his glasses. but the chain had slipped
down. He could not see to shoot. One
Of the soldiers. after long time. fred
his gun again. and father suddenly
picked up his revolvers. and I cried
out again. lie didn't shoot. and I
know now that be was afraid OF hit
ting me- Then be fell The soldiers
fred again and ran away. painting and
yelling to each other. went in to
papa. and he asked for bis glasscs. sit
ting up on the floor very weakly. When
found them and gave them to him.
tie blood was running very fast down
his breast. lie put on his glasses with
both hands. wrinkiing up HIS forehead
In the old way. and looked at me very
He looked lie said. 4
am glad could see you, little one
before I 60 Tint was ALL"
She went to the window and stayed
there. immobiIe. while Vincent walked
I'D and down behind her. At last she
turned around. THAT was Ave years
sgo. No one has done anything to pun
ixh them"
Vincent. because she was suddenly to
him the woman, did what every man
once in his life will do for one woman:
he sacrificed his sense Of humor. With
AL seriousness he stiffened up. 1T was
under my dag he was shot down. I've
served under IT, Give me another flag
for Guatemala and III 20 down there
and those murderers shall die against
wall. with your dag flying over their
heads, its shadow wavering at their
feet on the yellow sand
Maria Rivas, because she was the
woman In this case understood per-
fsctly. "A revolutionf~ she said. very
quietly. He went over her hand grave
ly and youthfuIly. His manner was
confident. ar II be saw very clearly
what was to be done and knew how
to do II not a. n he had promised
girl with tear stains on her cheeks to
overturn government because OF a
murder one hot afternoon on steamer
In foreign port.
This was the beginning Of the affair.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-01-06

fts continuation was n q little e IN
on the Guateslalan coast. where VIM.
cent landed wl.h ton Of munitions p
war. marked Manufactures OF Metal
and thirty ragged soldiers A month
later he had thousand Insurgents ana
twenty tons OF munitions. and MS
blood had drunk In the fever thar
burns up the years IN hours The nrs'
thing Vincent did under lis spell WIS
10 march on Ocos aud take H. When
the town was his and the eomandante
Ia irons, the young man took out OF MS
pocketbook a little list OF names made
out IN Maria Rivas hand. lie com
pared this list With the list OF prison
ers. and ordered out a hring squad
Half an hour later the shadow Of tho
dag made BY the woman IN the Vale
10 street nat wavered over the sand on
which lay six men In tangle Gen
eralisslmo Thomas Vincent went out
into the sun and looked al the last pos
lures OF the six. and then out across
the brimming waters Of the Pacific. \
mail steamer lay out there In the midst
OF cluster OF canoes the American
nag dropping from her stan.
An freshman IN q MAJORS uniform
came out OF the cool Of the barracks
and stopped beside Vincent -Another
week ought 70 see us In the capital"
he said slowly. ~Isut don't like this
business. general These beegars don't
amount TO anything Why did you or
der them shotf''
A barefoot girl Of some ten years
erept around the corner o. the sun
baked wall. She picked her way over
the sand. darting aes glanees fearfnliy
az the two officers suddenly she
stopped over the crooked body OF one
OF the motionless ones She tugxed ~
the sleeve OF q shirt and a. the facs
turned slightly upward 10 her effort.
she fell 10 beating on the ground With
both hands. snd sobbed IN the heat.
dry eyed.
Vincent STROBE over 10 her. and grn'
lily picked her up. Her quick sobs ga
not cease As he carried her into The
shade. bis own faec drawn and white.
lie looked over AZ the major. who
stood gnawine on bis stnboy mnsfaehe.
He did not reply 70 the auesiion uuill
the major repeated 4 anrriiy. II wrs
because they dcserved r.
: - Vincent stopped. and then
vent on. almost inandihiy. God knows
Why ala Il. and then there's
ihe--~ lie stopped once more. for
ne GIRLS hard sobs had ce1sed. nrd
her liihe hand had darted from tho
'oids o. her scanty gown 10 ne young
generals throat. and the major saw
lin set the burden softiy down. and
hen fall forward. the hioosi pouring
around the biads Of knife dep IN bis
hroat.
With an oath the malor ieaped over
o him and lifted hls head. vIncrnt's
yes looked eicaTly into hls Then the
rounded mnn looked over a. The little
fri. poised for eight q dozen feet
way. he Nodded a. her with ar air
Z absolute comprehension. and thea
ied--ssn Francisco ArgonHut
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-01-06

Rftsy's rsrfssr In sfxs rsistinE.
10 may not BE- generally known that
James whitcomb Riley. the poet. was
at one tins = sign painter and good
one. Il Il said Ills place u business
was a. Peru. lad. ard bic partner was
W. J. Ethel. later Tor many years an
employs Of the United siEfes senate.
Riley for~ook paints and oils for the
painting Of word picfurpn. but Ethel
could never get over his fondness Tor
brush and coiorA One Of his duties ln
the senate was to pot out the weather
map On clustering winter days nen-
ators used to md the maps borders
Decorated with scenes from tropical
lungIez. and when the sessions wcrs
prolonged and the weather got hot lcc-
berrs used 70 surround the map which
told Of depressing heat Senators uscf
20 make mock hefs ~ 70 whether n
was hot enough to melt Etheis lcr-
berKs."
One day Riley. who had not heard
from bis former partner for yraru. was
a caller at the capitol. Vice President
then senafor) Fairbanks was showing
him the sigttA They stopped In front
OF the weather map.
Ethel. BY thunderi- exclaimed RI
leg.
There was joyful reunion.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-01-06
CHAPTER TX.

Darkness fell. and still the man In the
cloak did not return, and I went back &c
the cottage with my curiosity satished
I did not know what TO make Of his sud
den appearance, nor Of the summary fash
lon IN which he had interposed between
Miss Graham and myself. he. total
stranger, esccrting her home through the
woods And yet this phase of the mat
ter did not 30 much surprise me, for /
felt intuifiyely that we were dealing with
. gentleman As far as my recollection
Of sea-rogers went. recalled that pirates
had always been scrupulously polite In
their relations with the gentler ser
There was no gainsaying that this sud
den spparition had interposed himself be-
tween Miss Graham and me, yet did not
resent this so much AZ / might have, be-
cause things had been coming to q very
bad pass. and might speedily have result
ed In even more serious trouble than had
occurred
questioned Charles closely as to
whether he had detected any suspicious
characters prowiing about the beach, but
his answer was In the negative. III you
should notice anything unusual,v told
him. "be sure to report II Immediately to
me-. 1t was clear to me that something
was happening Of more substantial texture
than dream.
Later ia the evening lighted my pipe
and walked il ~ direction Of the ship.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-01-06

Hsw wssps Preserve Fr~.A Meat.
That remarkably seif-sulsicient In
sect. the huntress wasp. knew how 10
preserve fresh meat for the use OF her
children long before man Invented his
canning processes The huutrens
wasDsr capture spiders. administer 10
them an anesthstic sting that leaves
them alive but unconscious for a peri.
cd OF about two weoka. ana than
"cans" them IN the tubular cell whsrs
she deposits her egxk The preserved
spider lives Just long enough to fur.
nish fresh meat to the young wasp~
These mother wasps are not only
skilled In the arts and sciences. but
are most valiant hunter. Even the
dreaded tsrantuls succumbs ia feae
to wasp Of large and handsome
species known az tarsntuls killsrx
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-01-06

A woman who can ~fun- In ths fac
Of uncertainties has bsen Discovers
By the New York Sun.
She had telephone IN her spsrt.
msnt, and called up the telephone co,,,.
pany and asked that the seryics h
discontinued.
we are sorry TO loss you.v sa,d ths
man who took her message. aAr. vo,,
dissatisfied with anythlngY'
I am" said the woman. ssnpb.t,o.
ally.
am very sorry" said tho man
Perhaps we can help you. what 1.
Il you do not liker'
"single blessedness." said the wo
man. 7 am going to be married =.
morrow '''e 70
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-01-06

where be you going In such a
hurry. pat" asked the tall woman in
the red sunbonnet as her husband
dashed by with & powerful pair Of
farm horses
'-Golng to pull an automobile party
out Of the mud. sis,v laughed me old
farmer. They've got the g. d. O.
signal flying from their machine"
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-01-06

He (thoughtIessly) This bread isn't
like the kind
She (angrily)-welI, your mother
made It, all the same.
He (deprecatingly)--1 was going to
say, my dear, like the kind we had the
last time you made It.--Baltimors
American.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-01-06

@Matrimony without love-" remarked
the married woman. lis something
awful"
TT can't be more awful than love
without matrimony,v sighed the spin.
ster.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
Jupiter the Future Heaven

inside of twenty-four hours Proof: Jesus said to
the repentant sinner crucifed alongside of him. To
day you will be with in paradise" Also in
twenty-four hours
Where is heaven? Can it be situated
sun? The sun is turning around himself about every
ten days; he is slowly cooling of; large continents,
so-called sun spots, forming his surface only
to be engulfed again Fire and gases shoot up
thousands and thousands of miles, particularly when
of those sun spots sinks There is no ghost of a
chance for ghost to exist ouF sun, any other
sun oflthe universe So may eliminate
and all other fixed place for heaven.
1T is obvious that the inferior or inside planets
Venus Mercury, Vulcan and Titan, all too small.
I'VE now will examine the superior planets. Mars
is the next he is smaller than earth and by his
red light other signs shows that he is in dying
condition, though he is likely inhabited the same as
Venus, we pass him by.
Now Jupiter, the largest of all our planets.
He turns around himself in nine hours ffty-fve min
utes twenty-seven seconds he has day of about
five hours, which beats the eight-hour day all to
pieces He has five moons to light the night. He is
1880 times as large earth in volume four
fths dense earth and, not solid enough for
human beings there is enough to give every ghost a
150-acre homestead He has the best climate a per-
petual spring like May, about rs to 80 degrees
Fahrenheit, because his axis stands only in angle
of degrees 80 minutes to the plane of the Jupiter
ecptic to earths axis of 23 degrees at present
to the earths eclptic plane. On account Of Jupiters
large size and rapid rotation anyone fly the
equator of Jupiter without aeroplane If
earth would turn 'seyenteen times fast
everything would be flying away in space. Jupiter
has atmosphere, but on account OF his perpetual
spring, storms and high winds not possible. Trees
must be Of immense size also there must be plenty
of flowers
"Jupters distance from the earth is between
316,OOOOOO to 100000 miles and soul would
have to fly only 5,972 miles per second to get there
inside of twenty-four hours. This is less than the
velocity of electricity, $4,000 miles Of light which
is 10000 miles per second, Jupiter has 400
ecpses OF the moon and many of the There
probably will be many heavens maybe for each
solar system, and may go visiting the by and
by. For the people of earth there is but one
heaven, and that is on Jupiter.
God rules the universe by the laws Of nature and
the chemical actions; automatically each soul will find
its place through the law OF par pari gaudet'
Between Mars and Jupiter there eighty
smaller planets planetods During her Journey
through the planetary atmosphere, which is
thousandth part dense earths atmosphere, the
soul will probably gather the substance for her celes
tial body.
THE soul will have TO stay Of the above
panetoids till she purges herself of all sins and when
strong enough fly over TO Jupiter"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
How Built.

solomons temple planned by David and it is
said that he collected much of the materials AS to
Solomon himself he made bargain with Hiram king
Tyre, aid him in supplying the timber and GER
tain classes of the mechanism. Hiram a Phoeni-
clan king who lived up the coast and who controlled
the forests of Lebanon. He gave Solomon conces-
sion certain tracts OF cedar and fir and Solomon
sent men in parties of 1000 each to the mountains
to cut down the trees The servants of Hiram aided
them and it is said that they carried the lumber to
the shores of the Mediterranean and hoated it down
to jana whence it carried to Jerusalem about
forty miles inland 1t is stated that Solomon annu-
ally gave King Hiram 10000 measures of wheat and
twenty of oil his part of the contract and
that the two kings were associated together.
The first temple was begun by Solomon just 2,915
years ago and it took years to build IT, have
translated of its dimensions into feet taking the
cubit which then the unit of measurement, as
twenty inches. The cubit a long
the distance from mans elbow to the tip Of the mid
die finger and 1t varies from eighteen to twentyone
inches At twenty inches the ground plan OF the tenn
pie sxtysix feet wide and 1873 feet long, and
cordng to statements, its height fifty feet
although of the roofs eight feet and the other
sixteen above the inside walls. There is another place
in the Bible in which it is stated that the height OF the
porch was 12O cubits. which would make It 200 feet
high
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
Some Freak MiserS

The other day old woman in Paistow England
died Of starvation. She had $3.50 in gold and notes
in the house at the time and was possessed of free
hold property besides
John ELVES, who lived in the eighteenth century,
was a typical instance of the miser, who prefers the
means to the end. When he, possessed Of a million
of money walked the of London, philanthropic
people would sometimes thrust penny into his hand
so beggarly poverty-stricken his appearance
One the anecdotes told OF ELVES is rather pleas
ing BY accident in the street he received in
jury to both his legs and doctor called in,
ELVES protested that the expense quite unnec-
essary and that he not much hurt So he made an
arrangement with the doctor The doctor to take
one leg and treat it as he liked. ELVES would take
the other leg and do nothing to it, And he would
bet the doctor the his bill that the INTENDED
leg got we'll first He used TO boast afterward that
he beat the doctor by fortnight.
Hume tells of a miser who, on his deathbed sum
moned the magistrates and said he would leave them
500 for charitable purposes. No sooner had they
gone than he had them recalled TO know If they would
take IS off for ready money.
Another miser meant to disappoint his natural
heirs and leave his money hospital But the hos
pital had to pay for the drawingup of the Will he
would have died intestate than face the eX-
pense himself. Hume declares that avarce is the
'only one vice which may be found in life with as
strong features and high coloring need be EN-
ployed by any satirist comic poet"-New York
World
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
In solomon's Stables.

The plateau OF the temple rises in terraces. We
first enter that which known the Court of the
Gentiles and open to Jew Gentle alike From
this go to the Court OF the Israeltes then
to the Court OF the Priests which is now under the
great Mosque of Omar It the later court that
the open air altar for burnt offerings stood or fact
the very rock upon which Abraham tied when he
was about to burn him. obeylng the Lord
Before examine the plateau itself want to
take you down underground. There is said to have
been Jerusalems which have been built aud de-
stroyed and rebuilt again. The Holy City has a sub
terranean region many parts of which have been ex-
oavated, exposing wonderful ruins Right under the
temple platform is catacomb OF great tanks and the
walls said to go down many feet There are steps
at one place, and descending them come into
wilderness OF vaults whose are upheld by pill
lars and arches OF stone Some OF the stone blocks
are OF enormous size. have measured one which is
eight feet wide and fifteen feet high These stones
beautifully laid. They are closely Joined and
show mechanical ingenuity in their construction The
pillars about four feet square some Of them
have holes bored through the corners 1t is claimed
that the vaults constructed by Solomon for his
stables and that the holes in the columns we're the
tying places for the horses OF the vaults are
stone hangers which the guides claim were used long
others that this stable story is fiction and
that the excavations made in erecting the temple
and the great columns put up sustain its platform
But however that be- the architecture is wonder
full and it should be considered so now There are
altogether. hundred more vaults and the mighty
stones which wall them heavy that It would be
impossible to handle them at the present time without
the OF machinery
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
Solomon's Temple.

is connected with the fact that know this was the
actual site Soomons temple well that of the
two other temples which succeeded it, The first house
of God erected by the Israeltes the tabernacle
This was constructed at the direction of Moses in the
Desert Sinai just after he had received the COM
mandments. 1t is said have been just about half
the size of the temple Solomon although there
passages in the scriptures which lead to think the
temple must have been very much larger. The taber-
nacle was a movable building. 1t about fifty feet
long and sixteen or seventeen feet wide The roof
and walls formed of curtains made OF linen or
wool beautifully sewed fastened in places with
gold buckles. There also curtains of
goats hair and of rams wool dyed red Some sup
pose the the tabernacle to have been fat and
others that it was rdged like tent, with cube in
side about sixteen feet square which the holy of
holes In the latter the ark of the and
the table of the law.