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were ordered out to fight the fire. and
call was sent to all nearby places for
aid. The heat and smoke blinded many
of the volunteers who responded to
the first call.
Thus the fire situation stands today
Millions of dollars have been lost,
miles of virgin forests nave fallen be-
fore the sweep of the flames hundreds
of people have been made homeless,
and yet the average hunter takes lit
tie heed of this as he roams the noun
tain in search of game. He little rea-
lizes that spark from the CHEEKY
blaze by which he fries his venison
steak or boils his coffee may start a.
confiagration, that the burning
cigarette which is tossed aside may
start a blaze that, smoldering for
hours, with the aid of the wind may
become a raging demon.
The state department of forestry
claims the following as the causes of
last years forest fires. Campers, Gin
cluding hunters, fishermen, prospectors
or travellers in the mountains} ia;
lightning, IA; engines, So; clearing
land, 45; incendiary, SO; hunters, Chose
who build fires to drive out game) Fl; !;
blasting. 9; smoking bees, a; electric
wires, 2; the rest, origin unknown.
Forest fires in the Adirondacks in
1908 caused direct loss of $3,500,000
and according TO H. M. Safer, agent for
the bureau of United States forestry,
an incalculable indirect loss, due to
the destruction of young growth which
was to form the future forest. Before
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til she has told me-" The whole thing
opened before me complete, unexpected,
a deliverance.
I looked out of the window. Faint
est, earliest dawn was already be-
ginning. There was but one thing to
do. Johnny had told me that the
Spanish Woman was going aboard the
lugger at dawn. I directed the driver
70 drive to the Black Point wharf.
He peered at me as If he thought me
crazy. THAT fe1ler gave me a gold
piece. ye know" he said, ''or I wouldn't
have taken ye as far as this"
go on" I said. and queerly enough
I didn't feel at all afraid of the man.
"Go on, and my father, Mr.. Fenwick,
will give you more when you take me
home: and besides you are doing serv-
ice for the city"
Mut+ering that it was the weirdest
he had ever struck, he clucked
ta t.a weary horses and, after a little
ussra cobb1estones. began the strug-
gle sS ough' the sand.
Those terrible, sandhillsi We labored
IN ebena like a snail. They seemed to
ia = Ga the wheels. and to heap them
selves n front OF us; but the increasing
light came on wings and what exact
moment in all this long, gray and
golden approach of the sun was to be
considered dawn? At last we were
over the hilltop. and f1oundering down
the other side. the trees and gardens of
houses overlooking the water front
upon my left hand; upon the other,
sand and sea. Straight below. running
out from the shore, was the little dis
used wharf. One OK two Italian fishing
boats rocked in its shadow, but no YES
sci was in sight.
Could it be that 1 was too late? I
thought in an agony of uncertainty
as the carriage drew up at the pier.
Thrusting my head and as much of my
body as possible out of the carriage
window 1 looked out the gray, wind
ing channel toward the heads. Not a
sail in sight. This was encouraging,
grayest light there would not have
been time for the vessel to have van
ished out at sea. Through the other
window Chestnut street hill, a great
rounding mass. rose blufffy out of
the water, shouldering the city
out Of sight. Near its base tall
eucalyptus trees swayed against
the blue bay; and through their
shifting leaves and branches I was
able to make out the masts and
sails of the lugger lying close under
the hill. It was so well hidden that
had L not been expecting to see it L
must certainly have passed 1T over al
together, taking the masts for tree
boles and the furled canvas for the
light acacia bark
1 drew my cloak closer around my
shoulders, pulled up the -carria ge
blinds on each side, allowing only
crack wide enough for me to look
through and settled myself to the hard
task of waiting. of being at once pa
tient and vigilant. There was not an
instant when l dared relax my watch,
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rulings of the forestry department and
the game and fish commissioners OF the
United States, the fiercest f1reS known
in years are raging in many parts or
the United States.
In the northwest alone the govern
ment has been spending $1,000 each
day and the loss of life and property
is appalling In the Thompson falls
district in Montana a wall OF names
90 miles in extent swept away towns
and cities, and only the absence of
wind or the fall of rain saved the re-
manning timber in this vast. thiclly
wooded region.
Wallace. Idaho, a picturesque little
city located in narrow, thickly tim
bered canyon. has been in dire distress
for weeks Each gust of wind brings
showers of sparks and cinders from the
burning mountains and countless fires
have started in many parts of the city
and the situation became desperate.
For days any able bodied man who re-
fused TO join the ranks of the fire
lighters was promptly jailed by order
S1,000.000 was destroyed in Wallace.
Fifty people lost their lives in and
around Wallace and many others are
missing.
In southern Oregon the same state
OF affairs exists. The timber fre got
beyond control. In the small towns
along the path of the confiagration
people have had to flee for their lives
and hundreds are homeless.
IN washington and oregon, troops
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heap of dead leaves through which the
smoke is issuing.
murmur runs through the trees. as
though they feel their impending doom.
Then another quick flash of flame
wake of the breeze.
A third tongue of fire curls outward
and sears; the yellow edge of a leaf
The red imprints on the leaf, left by
the fingers of an early autumn, glow
like spots of blood Who shall say
these red dyed leaves are not stained
with the lifeblood OF the forest soon to
fall. for the curling leaf adds fuel to
the little. blaze that is soon cracking
merrily.
The slender needles of the pines rich
in resinous oils, burn like tinder The
breeze has. died down, for the sun is
slipping his golden fingers through the
pines, seeking out hidden ferns and
flowers to caress; but the breeze has
already wrought the damage, and, un-
molested, the fire is gaining strength
each moment. From bush to bush.
through the dry grass and into a heap
OF slash left by the logger the Are
crackles and gloats. 1t reaches a dead
tree, the victim of lightning years ago,
and with deadly persistence makes an
inroad into the dry bark The end is
near The flame mounts higher and
higher UP the sisies of the dead tree.
1t spreads and eagulfs everything in
1ammable that is within reach
Dawn the next day sees miles of
blackened trees whose smoking limbs
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We're a few hours before the nesting
place of the forest choir. The early
breeze that is felt each morning in the
mountains stirs heaps of hot ashes and
cinders.
And the hunter miles away on his
homeward journey, all unmindful of
the half smoked cigar or cigarette
which he earelessly tipped away as he
left camp. plans to hunt next vacation
in this same rich game region.
But many years will pass before the
soft eyed deer will slip down the mar
row trail in the early morning to drink
at the mountain stream or to feed
among the pines on the high ridges
each night when the moon has begun it's
downward journey; for endless vfstas
of gaunt, black and white skeletons of
trees have taken the place of shady
trails under the fragrant interlacing
arms of the forest. And the cigar
stump has done it's deadly work most
thoroughly. Hundreds of bleak pointed
monuments bear mute testimony to
this thoyoughness.
Hunters. fearing the penalty attached
to the leaving of campfires. carefully
extinguish the last spark before start
ing down the trail behind their pack
animals loaded with the spoils of the
vacation. Yet nine out of ten of these
same hunters will heedlessly cast
aside a half burned match or a cigar
ette stub and thus make possible the
devastation of millions of feet of
splendid timber.
This year, despite the efforts and
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-02
EPILOGUE
TWO YEARS

All the experiences which had gons
through with, with such apparent lack
of feeling, seemed to take their revenge
on me at once. For p while was very
i'll. deHriOus with fever. and when I
was myself again and the doctor would
let me be talked to the new trial was
all over. and Johnny Montgomery had
been acquitted a week ago 1t was Hal
lie all smiles with her hands full OF
roses. who brought this news IN to me-;
and in a few days. she said, Jack Tracy
had told her, Montgomery was going TO
leave the city This set me wondering
whether that night in the carriage and
everything we had told each other then
had been no more than part OF my fever
visions.
At last I gathered courage enough to-
ask father If Johnny Montgomery had
inquired about me. Father looked an
noyed. and said. Yes" that he had
been sending every day. and that he
had asked If he mis- ght see me when 7
was able, but. father said. he had
thought 1T best. to refuse. That made
me so miserable I began to be III agaIk
and the doctor was afraid ! would haNA
a relapse; so finally father gave his
permission for me to see Johnny.
It was strange and unreal to think
that it was actually he, gaunt and
white and serious looking, standing
with tinid eyes. We were both so
glad to see each other we were a lit-
tie afraid. The shadow Of things that
had happened was over US still. and
made us grave
.. 1 must have looked very thin. for he
took my hand as if he thought it would
break and his voice was hardly above
whisper. He said whatever good
came of him and whatever happiness
he had hereafter he would owe TO me,
and that would be more than owing
me his life; but father was right In
saying that man with the reputation
he held in this city had no right to
see or speak with me. He had only
come to thank me and to say goodby.
He was going away to South America.
But father does not know YOU" I
said, and / am sure you are quite a
different man from what any one here
thinks you. And if you go away it will
break my heart"
At that he looked happier and said
If 1 felt that way he would go just
the same, but il would make him want
to come back again. And then, per-
haps. he might be more the sort OF
man my father would give his daugh
ter to. A friend OF his fathers. he
said, had offered him an overseer's
place in his mine in South America: and
would I forget all about him in two
years. he wanted to know?
Two years will seem a very long
time" I said. but 1 shall rememb -
you and wait for you forever"
He smiled and said. Those two years
will be almost forever to me. but I have
bought my chance dear, and even the
hope OF such happiness is more than
deserve"
And then I called father and told
him. He was very grave and said to
Johnny. 1T depends on you; il you can
show yourself a different sort Of man
and wipe out the record you have made
for yourself well, then, suppose she
will be OF age. and it viii be your own
affair-but T hope she Swill forget you
That was absurd!
So / kissed Johnny goodby-though
father didn't like that at aII-for il
would help to make the two years
shorter.
THE END
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and undoubtedly it was she and not
the Senorita Fenwick that the woman
who had looked out the window had
seen. But she had not run down the
street as this witness had said, who.
like all women, only remembered what
she wished to believe. but back into
the gambling house and through there
into an alley at the rear. from which
they entered house the sonora was ia
miliar with and remained there until the
afternoon when the excitement had
somewhat subsided. Then they had
gone quietly back to the sonora $. house.
Yes. the pistol was the senora's Mr..
Montgomery had bought IL for her a
little while before. Yes. the sonora had
made sure to save Mr.. Montgomery. and
but for the Senorita Fenwfck 1t would
have been. For she had many frtendk
friends of power. he said. At thar NJ
Dinzley grew paler and started -
speak, but then he seemed to change
his mind Father looked at him and I
wondered then had the trouble been
that Mr.. Dingley had been one OF those
friends of hers. When the police ca me
and we left the place Mr.. Dtngley and
father separated without a word and
father took me home alone in the car-
riage.
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By Bonnie Wheeler

TT WISP Of smoke half the size Of a
IN finger, curling upward on the
III stfll.: crisp. air of an August
mornlngs A stirring among the
leaves by the unseen fingers of the
wind heralds the. coming of the sun.
Tiny birds in the treetops with morning
songs. answer the breeze that ruf1es
their feathers.
Hundreds Of fluffy floats proclaim
the dawning: OF another glorious day.
The. pathless. depths of the sforest sud-
denly TEEN with life. Myriads of bright
eyeE peep from bush ana tree The
Inhabitants OF the. forest scurry or flut-
ter away in search Of breakfast-their
last breakfast, for by the morrow their
scorched, blackened little bodies Will
form portion OF the tragedy that is
being wrought by the slowly ascend
ing smoke.
Like the birds, the smoke column has
answered the breath of the dawn. Dy-
ing down to a mere shred, the mur-
murfng breeze wakens it. 1t swerves
with defiant tremor and pours upward
with added strength. A forked tongue
Of fame leaps for an instant from the
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THE END
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of the court the story he had
told me. rushed over me, an in
sane impulse. What would that do
but make everything worse, even hard
er for him to bear? Haven't L made
things hard enough for him already ?"
1 who had said I loved him, that 1 be-
lieved in his innocence, had yet vir-
tuously urged him to go back AMI give
himself up-to what? Why, my poor lit
tie coward mind was even afraid to
name what that thing was!
The Spanish Woman had not been
afraid, no. not Of anything! She had
risked everything that she had to save
him in the best way that she knew.
Was I, as she had so bitterly told me-
only a creature of words with no deeds
to make them good? 1t was all very
well to say things would turn out
right; but now I saw that they would
not unless I made them. and how was
that to be managed If he wouldn't
speak, and 1 was in his confidence and
couldn't?
1 puzzled ii over as my carriage rat
tied slowly back up Montgomery ave-
nue.. Suddenly from what had been
absolutely sterile cogitation, there
sprang up the full, flower of an idea.
All that he had said that evening had
carried the same perplexing undercur-
rent of thing that he could not speak
of, and always it seemed to point to the
Spanish Woman. "She knowsw I
thought triumphantly. and if she
knows. why, she must not go away un-
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CHAPTER XE
THE Irltl.hR

1HE Iat4sHtsH
a he Jisapp eared the s-e 10
~ run after him, to cry out to
II him, to cry out to all the ears
of the court the story he had
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-07-18
U. S. HOME FRUIT CROP
SHOWS RAPID GROWTH.

WASHINGTON. D. c., July 1s.-The
United States Is beginning rapidly to
supply for its own use fruits and nuts
which few years ago were practically
all imported from other countries
This applies particularly to oranges.
prunes and raisins, while bananas. figs,
walnuts, cocoanuts and almonds are
still largely ir---s
Twenty years ago the imports of
fruits and nuts were more than five
times as great as the exports, the
former being valued at s21. .0o0. 600 while
the latter were valued at only 81, 000, 600
but in the past fiscal year imports of
this sort had increased to $36, 000. 900,
while the exports had gone up in value
to 19,000.0 900.
In 1890 there were imported $1,000, 900
worth of oranges; in 1910. less than
$780, 900 worth, while more than s2,ooo,-
600 worth were exported last year as
compared with s250,000 in 1900 Of
prunes. s1,75o.OoO worth were imported
in 1890, and less than $4,000 worth last
year, whereas exports of this fruit in
creased from 1850. 900 in 1900 to $4,000
600 last year.
The value of the bananas. almonds,
walnuts and cocoanuts imported in
creased in twenty years. s6,O01. .o0l
worth Of bananas coming to this coun-
try in 1900 as compared with $1,000, 900
in the past fiscal year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-07-18
STOCK MARKET
BUOYANT IN THE
CLOSING HOUR
Prices Rose at End of Day and
Earlier Declines We're
Wiped Out.

NEW YORK, July 1s.-The stock
market closed strong. Prices in the
last hour continued to rise from the
bidding for stocks by uncovered shorts.
Earlier declines were largely reduced
or wiped out
American Smelling rose over Sat
urday's closing price, Canadian Pacific
IA and Northern Pacific 1% Reports
OF the Pennsylvania labor dispute
helped the recovery.
II a. ma downward drift of prices
established declines on Amaigamated
Copper of 15s. Rock Island preferred
and American Steel Foundries III.
Wabash IL, Reading and St Paul.
Union Pacific. American Smelling and
National Lead l. Supporting orders re-
stored the declines. but the selling was
renewed and prices fell back again
Pittsburg Coal and Pressed Steel Car
rose /.
Noon-The sharp fall in prices OF
stocks during the morning resulted
from only moderate selling. The stag
nation of the demand discouraged hold
ers for rise and prompted an attack
by an opposing speculative party. The
reported shading of steel prices and dis
satisfaction with the copper trade posi-
tion We're elements in the weakness Of
the market. The general list showed
numerous losses of to III. Reading
fell 81, Union Pacific 2%, American
Steel Foundries 21s, Wabash preferred
and Amalgamated Copper 2, United
States Steel Ia and Southern Pacific,
Louisville and Nashville and Brooklyn
Transit 1ls. Rallies threw the market
into dullness. and towards noon prices
yielded again. Bonds were irregular.
1 p. m.-The selling came to a pause.
but the market showed little resiliency.
| Prices rallied a point in few cases,
but trading subsidized to nominal pro-
| portions Missouri Pacific fell IN.
| 2 p. m.-The market became bare of
offerings, and while the demand was
very scanty, it was sufficient to main
tain the recoveries. There were be-
lated declines in American Hide and
Leather preferred of 2. Illinois Central
IN and American Locomotive 11z.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-07-18
THE COTTON MARKET.

NEW YORK, July 1S.-The cotton
market opened firm at advances rang
ing from Ii to 2s points on an excited
demand from near month shorts and
fresh buying of new crop positions.
which were influenced by unfavorable
new crop advices and the strength Of
the old crop. There seemed to be less
demand for July. but August and Sep
tember shorts were urgent buyers at
advances of from % to 80 points July
sold at 1855, making a new record sor
the season. Realizing was very heavy
above 1s cents for October. but offer
ings were promptly absorbed on very
slight reactions
After tie close of the Liverpool mar
ket there was less foreign buying here,
and business became little less active.
while prices eased off a shade from the
best under realizing, with July ruling
about points net higher at midday.
while later positions still showed q
net gain of from 10 to 16, points on poor
crop accounts, continued covering and
fresh buying. part of which was at
tributed to mills.
A fresh squirt Of buying sent August
and later positions into new high
ground for the movement during the
early afternoon, with August selling at
I5.n. or Ss points above the closing
figures OF Saturday, and the new crop
at a net advance of about 26 to 2S
points. Reports OF very high tempera-
lures in Texas were a bullish factor
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-07-18
THE CHICAGO MARKET.

CHICAGO. July ia new high price
record for wheat. the third within a
week for this seasons crop. was estab-
lished today Unbroken drought and
heat In the Northwest, excited buying
on the part of shorts in Liverpool.
worlds shipments surprisingly light
ard damage by rains in France, all
were influential on the bull side. There
was considerable selling out by longs
here. but the effect was only tenn
porary, the market promptly going TO
a higher level than before. In addition
to the crop losses in this country and
Canada, the French yield. It was pre-
dicted today, would be thirty to thirty
five million bushels short. The opening
was Y to " to 2s up. September
started at 10sA to 1.0slk, a rise of y
to q to %. Fluctuating widely, the
price went on advancing to losA.
Corn rose on good general buying.
September started unchanged TO u up
at 611h to 81, AMI touched 62k.
Local bulls were hard at work on the
buying side of cats. September at the
outset was u to Il to u to q higher at
ss7s to 40, sold at Ssss and rallied to
3eK.
Stock yards spectators were acquir-
ing provisions. An advance of 5 to 10
was shown at the opening. Further
gains followed. First sales of the Sep
tember option were at s21.55 for pork.
s11. TN for lard and s11-55 for ribs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-07-18
PHILADELPHlA'S BARGAIN
COUNTER SALE OF BONDS.
First in the City's History.
S5,OOO,OOO Oversubscribed.

PHILADELPHIA, July 1s.-For the
first time in the history of Philadel-
phia an issue of city bonds at par was
disposed of by popular subscription by
being sold '.over the counter at the
Office of the city treasurer. The sale
ended today, when it was announced
that the s5,00O.ooo 4 per cent thirty
year bonds had been e)argely oversu5-
scribed.
"The sale over the counter" said
City Treasurer Dobbins today, ''is to be
Just what that term implies, and all
persons are TO be placed on common
level Whatever favoritism that can
be shown will be given to the investor
who can only take few thousand 1ol-
lars or even a thousand dollars worth
of the new bords."
The money obtained from the loan
will be devoted to general municipal
purposes
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-07-18
WANTS LAW TO PUNISH
EMPLOYEE CORRUPTERS

NEW YORK. July 1s.-Clark Will
Jams. State controller, wants law by
which a man who deals in cancelled
stock transfer stamps and who corrupts
employees of brokerage Offices can be
sent to Jail. Detectives employed by
the controller exposed the fraud by
which the State was robbed of upward
of s.. .00o, 900 a year.
The controller knows who the men
are who have been swindling the State,
but he said yesterday that lack of legal
evidence prevented their arrest The
evidence against them came from brok-
ers' employees with whom the stamp
dealers had done business. and such
evidence was incompetent because the
employees were accomplices.
Controller Williams elected A. X. Al
ford, of this city. as head of an investi-
cation bureau. Mr.. Afford discovered
that fraud was carried on by so-called
stamp dealers who had been in busi-
ness, some OF them since the advent OF
the war tax in 1898. To carry on their
operations it was necessary for them to
have on hand a supply of cancelled
stamps. and to obtain good stamps at a
price which would enable them TO sell
at q profit.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-07-18
CONTRACTS FILED.

These contracts were filed in the
county clerks office today:
Leonora Armstrong. owner. with F
Forster. contractor, painting work. s305;
Norwood place. Montclair.
Helen Duren. owner, with Moormanr
Brothers. contractors. mason work
$3.50; 566-5sS Mt. Prospect avenue.
H. Hueber and A. Faustman, owners
with c. Hummel, contractor. painting
work, s160; 500 South Thirteenth street
C. Schuldt. owner. with Payne Broth
ers, contractors. iron work, $500; Clin-
ton avenue and Bergen street.
]. SchrolI. owner, with Haitsch q
Koehler. contractors. all work. $3.50;
769 Hunterdon street.
Lillian Tunison. owner, with c. Van
Houten, contractor, painting work. s275;
Oakland avenue, Maplewnod.