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BY HERD RT QUIC

! selfish to enjoy this funny abera-
ton of the nervous system alone.
Her old, old friends outside-the
young man with the girls face, and
his bewhiskered companion, the re-
lations of both of whom to her past
life seemed vague just now, though
they were undoubtedly old and
dear FRIENDSHIP would hunt them
up and talk with them. She rose,
and walked out unsteadily upon the
veranda, and saw Mr.. Carson and
the captain sitting idly just be-
yond earshot of the cabin. They
came to her respectfully.
81 came out to thank you, sir"
said Virginia Tightly, for your he
roic behavior-heroic, romantic,
medieval behavior! Don't my eyes
look funny?"
She turned up her face to his ap.
pealingly, her checks flushed, her
pupils dilated
Il beg of you not to mention it,
madam" urged Mr.. Carson, with in
finite solicitude. But may l not
insist upon your allowing me to
escort you back to your room?"
Virginia took his arm, leaning
upon it with much of he not incon-
siderable weight, and as they paced
across the veranda, with mis-
chievous expression in her face, she
whirled him off into few turns
of waltz. Suddenly grave, she
then resumed the march into the
cabin, exhibiting every sign of
weakness in the knees. Carson was
pale with anxiety at these symp-
toms, so at variance with those eX-
pected
Lovely Dance" she said, lovely!
So dear of you! l could waltz for
ever-with you!"
THANK you,' said Theodore
gravely. at would be an honah
beyond estimation"
But just little teeney bit pokey
after few centuries?" she queried
coquettishly.
Not in the least" he exclaimed
reassuringly. Quite the contrary
And now, may l beg you to lie down
until you are quite restored?"
| NTSluld sat upon tHe pea,
reached down to lift her skirts with
the upward swing of her feet into
the position for reclining. and tum-
bled into the young mans arms
with a laugh. She knew she was
doing extraordinary things. but did
not care jot.
80 awkward of mel" she said.
But you'll forgive me?"
| feel sure" said Carson, look
ing down gravely, that if you
would compose yourself and try to
sleep"
IF some one would sit by me"
said she. I'm perfectly sure-sit
by me, and hold my hand"
Just close yo' eyes" he re-
piled, land If you don't
drop asleep, I'll, I'll At pres
ent, l think I'd better read to
you"
$50 good of you." said she. "In-
tellectual soporific. That looks
like sleepy book"
ut is" said Carson, taking up a
great quarto volume. Let me read
on from where stopped, chapter
four In most dynamos-'"
my hand" said she, dropping
it on the blanket. "It's cold
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Dir&it1id Of tn: .AirLdneS

Theodore took the hand a mo-
ment-and covered it with the
blanket.
"That doesn't warm it much"
said she. Il think you're funny"
lin most dynamos," read the
young man hastily, 1.-The princi-
pie of reduplication is involved;
that is, commencing with very
small amount of residual mag
netism in the field-magnets, the
inductive action between them and
the revolving armature results in
the production of feeble cur
rent"
Feeble magnetism" said the
girl, opening her eyes and look
ing at him with sleepy reproach.
quite SOL"
"a feeble current in the
coils" read Theodore stOlidly.
1.-The current may be made to
pass through" And he plodded
on and on, never lifting his eyes,
reading of compound-wound, series
wound and shunt-wound dynamOs,
until Captain Harrod, tiptoeing in
found Virginia asleep, and took
away the book.
Theodore rose in relief at this
respite from the problem of the
skv-maiden, darkened the windows,
and went out.
"Have you any game in the
! larder??" he asked
All them cartridges you shot
last night, suh," replied the cap.
tain.
The "partridges' were plump lit.
tie bob-whites of the rosemary
scrub, fat by feeding on the small
oily, yellow berries. The two men
dressed them in silence.
She'll be shipshape when she
wakes up" said the captain, at
last.
Il hope and pray she may. She
was quite flighty. I'm much con,
cerned for her." said Carson.
The captain for some time nam.
tanned a pregnant silence.
You don't allow, subj" said he
at last. that it's that redeye that
ais huh??"
Captain" said Theodore sternly
ANY gentleman can see that this
young girl is a lady! l beg to re-
mind you that a lady does not take
! more liquor under any circum'
cumstances than what may be nee
essary gently to. restore the weak
ened faculties-and hope you will
fogive young man for saying SO
iruch to an older one.
"Ah reckon yo' raght, suh,' said
the captain. An please excuse
me-"
Their cookery was an operation
in progressive broth-making. The
odore made broth of one quail.
peeped in to see if his guest, were
awake, served the broth to the cap
tain, and made more. The sun
wore to the west, the last quail
was cooked, the captain was provl-
IDENTITY gorged with alternate
courses of bird and broth, when
Virginia, very stately and very
reserved, opened the door and
walked out upon the gallery. Car
son shrank back into the kitchen
and showed the captain into the
preach.
How do you do. ma'am?" he IN
quired solicitously. "Ah sho' hope
yo' bette aftah yo' sleep"
Much better, thank you,' she
replied.
I'VE have some partridge broth
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-ma am" he went on. with rice:
and a baked yam; and a planked
green trout from the lake back
Fhyah; and some coffee. Sit down,
II am, and Ah'll suhve it,"
The little table was spread on
the gallery, its top made of the
head of derelict cask, it's legs of
harnacled sections of boom. Vir-
Sl;lla's head ached in dreadful
Slmilitude to the traditional feel
ing of the morning after; but the
coffee fragrance was pleasant.
You are too good" said she, ac-
ccpting the chair. II shall be glad
to eat a little. Where is your
Your friend?"
He's som'eras about" replied
the captain. ''Ah really don't
know, ma am. Won't you please
take yo' coffee??"
The coffee was black and strong
the broth was a temptation, and
she slipped with increasing appe-
tite. Buttered yam and planked
trout brought the meal to tri.
umphant end, with the world not
such a chamber of wild horrors
as it had seemed when she had
awakened. Yet where was she,
and how would she depart? Where
was the Roc? Who were these
men? The guns, the brass instru-
ments that looked as if they per-
tanned to navigation, the big win
dowless shed. all suggested things
nautical, bold and nefarious. The
kindness and courtesy of the rough
looking fellows treasured her as to
her personal safely. Yet if they
we're smugglers or freebooters, how
could they safely return her to the
civilization of cOaSt-guards and
constables? 1t was deliciously 70.
nantic-but how creepy! There
was horde of them; and this
pretty boy was too young to con.
troll their turbulence. The blacka.
vised captain with the red sash
necessary to the color-scheme-
would be less deferential than this
gil l-faced lieutenant Che must be
lleutenanD with his meticulously
proper attitude. Far less!
The red-faced captain was habit
ually "maddened with drink" and
always roared to the pretty girl
captive, Come ere, my pretty, an
give us a kiss"
b Silly, but it made her heart flut
ter to imagine the motley sea
rovers with blunderbusses at the
right shoulder shift, filing toward
the cabin. The lieutenant must
arrange her departure at once. In
the midst of her panic she recalled
vaguely the influence of the medi
cine, her waltz with the lieutenant
the hold of her hand, and the
shunt-wound dynamos. Were these
things true, or fragments of wilC
dream? Now if there be added to
visions OF leering pirate captains
a hot and cold and shivery feeling
arising from the conviction that
one has done something horrid. Vir.
-slnla's impulse to see the young
pbber and end the idyl forever
may be accounted for. She turned
TO Captain Harrod with an express
sion so agitated that he was some
what startled. ,.
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Continued from last Sunday
CHAPTER ii
A Hospjtable Bandit

The helicopter commanded the
attention of Captain Harold his
bare toes buried in the sand, he
stood gazing after it, as after hav-
ing brought Virginia Suarez, it had
risen as by some sort of negative
gravity, and shot out to sea with
its engines firing like a gatling;
:-Hsy sler it was now disappearing
N<gAn the watchers sight after the
manner of lost toy balloon.
Theodore Carson, being young,
ignored the machine. He stared for
a moment in Amusement at the
PROSTATE girl, then took her ten.
derby in his arms, carrying her to-
ward the hidden cabin. At the
steepest spot Captain Harrod over
took him; but the young man paid
no heed to offers of aid, wading
steadily on to the door. which the
captain unlocked and opened, stand
ing aside for Carson and his inter-
esting burden. Theodore took her
into the large single room, laid her
softly on clean-looking bed COW
cred with Navajo blanket, smooth
ed the white skirt down decorous-
ly, removed the long pin and laid
aside the red hat, seeming
scarcely to know what he was do
ing. There she lay like dead bird,
her plumage unruffled; for the
white sand had shaken from her
dress and she looked unsoiled and
pure, and hopelessly still.
She is dead" said Theodore, in
q hushed voice.
"Oh, All reckon mott" replied the
captain. "You ort to do something!
She's swounded!"
What can do?"
A child asked to put to rights a
power-loom, a perfecting press, a
telautograph, or any other complex
and delicate contrivance, might
have used the same tone. The cap
tain approached, put his hands be-
hind him. and looked, hat in hand.
rs her heart beatin'?" he in
CURED.
II don't know" cried Carson,
twisting his fingers. 81 don't
know"
"Ah reckon" said the captain. in
an awed whisper, that she
wouldn't keer-seein' how things is
If you'd listen an see, Miste'
Theodo'!"
Carson laid his ear lightly to the
white blouse. Some fluttering he
seemed to feel; but he could not be
certain. Harrod brought water in
watering pot, which he seemed
to have planned to use as upon a
lily or rose.
do it beat?" he asked.
81 can't tell" said Carson. nor
whether it's my pulse or hers that
beats. Oh, wish--what do they
generally do, Captain?"
"They'S some paint O they frock
that always has to be unrove, amt
they?' inquired the captain anx-
iously.
Captain" said Carson. the per-
SEPARATION standing on his brow.
"Im going out on the gallery for
air. You do what has to be done,
CaDtain-Or she may die!"
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and know 1t for myself, from ono
end to the other" Is.
The young man is an office en-
ploye of the Rhode Island Coal
Co., of Portsmouth, r. l., of which
his father is the president and H.
nancial head. Attired in a blue
flannel shirt, rough working suit.
thick shoes and a knitted round
wooden cap with tassel, the young
millionaire appears like any other
young fellow, and is well liked
among Portsmouth people.
Hes just like one of us" said
the man at the country store. III
you ask him for pipeful of to-
bacco you'll get it and welcome.
He's all right"
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MAN WORTH MILLION
TOLLS IN COAL MINE

BOSTON, March 15.-Actual!y
working in a Rhode Island mine
and acquiring a practical knowl-
edge of how coal is handled both
above and below ground, James
Scollay Whitney, son of Henry M.
Whitney, of this city, and nephew
Of the late William G. Whitney, of
New York, has caused much COM
ment among his wide circle of
friends. He is a graduate of Har
ward, class of 1908. He will inherit
part of his fathers big estate, not
less than $3,O00,000. When ques-
toned about coal mining he simply
says: -..
81 am going to learn all about it
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ward tendency, there was plenty
of evidence that the bull element
was still in control at the week
end. The recovery from the low
range reached on February 8 has
been extraordinarily rapid, adj
vances that date amounting to
around Is per cent. The most i'm
portant new development of the
week was the increase in New York
Central dividend rate to per cent.
In bullish quarters the assumption
is general that this increase will be
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CONCISE MARKET Quotations

followed by like on Pennsylvania.
U. s. Steel. Cotton Oil. Union Pa.
cific and Brooklyn Transit. The
Philadelphia labor troubles played
an important part In speculative
operations during the week, but to-
ward the end were lost sight of.
Something else the speculative ele-
ment on the bull side has to con-
tend. with is that, just now the
country is beginning to pass
through it's period Of crop uncer-'
tainty."
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CT A SSIFIED
PRESS ADS
Patents.

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/ can save you time and money on
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tor of L. S. or foreign patents.
caveats. trademarks, drawings. SIS
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for appnilltmentS evenings.
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Second Hand Goods

o. X Furniture Exchange, 0S22 Mon
roe st.-Second-hand goods bought
and sold. Phone. Maxwell 24S7
Mcbride Co, OS09 Monroe, handles all
kinds of furniture; buys and sells.
Phone. Maxwell 371.
II you want to buy or sell furniture
call J, a. Hindman. Main A6S6.
1913 Post street.
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A NICE SUNDAY RIDE

Many people take advantage
OF the nice weather and 90
house hunting and home buy
ing.
Spokane real estate dealers
are offering many attractive
properties in the real estate
columns Of The Press today,
many of which are offered ex-
clusiveIy In this paper.
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6gG3ES

oRPHEUM-The Orpheum bill
contains seven good acts this week.
headed by Lillian Burkhart and
company. which is called what
Every Woman Wants" It Is a
wholesome little sketch and ap-
peals to the audience strongly.
julius Tanner is a whole show in
himself with his jokes. It is not
only what he say but his style of
delivery which makes a big hit.
Observation-Disclosures Mabel Nc
Kinley, the charming singer at the
Washington this week, has won
much distinction as composer.
She is the possessor of beautiful
voice, and her winning personality
is big factor in her popularity.
PANTAGES@The attendance at
the Pantages theater this week has
exceeded expectations, drawn there
by the excellence of the bill. The
headliners, Captain Devlin's Zou-
ayes, have certainly earned a right
to that title, for they have one of
the best acts seen in vaudeville this
season.
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AN OLD COUPLE WHO,
need SANTA CLAUS

Is there anybody in this town
who would like to play Santa Claus
to Grandma and Grandpa?
Thought grandma and grandpa
generally played Santa Claus
themselves? IS
Well, generally they do, but
there are times when they. need a
Santa Claus just as much as any
of the children, and this is one of
the times.
Out on Hogan street there is an
old soldier and his wife, both in the
'7Os, who are just in such circum-
stance at the present time, and if
you want to do a really good turn
you cannot do better than to play
Santa to this deserving old couple.
The old man was soldier and
wore the blue during those terrible
years when the north and the
south fought to see whether the
union should remain united or
should be divided into two nations.
He was captured in battle ana
for seven terrible months was an
inmate Of Andersonville prison,
that awful death pen where so
many. thousands of Union soldiers
gave up their lives. 81
When the war ended he was
broken in health from the strain
of his imprisonment. but he took
up the burden Of life again, and
has never before been compelled
to ask that any assistance be rem
dered him.
Now he is old and feeble, and is
unable to work other than to do
odd jobs when such can be found.
But he Is unable to support him.
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DID SOME ONE START FIRE.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. ga
rigid investigation into the reports
that the Friedlander Leather COM
pany fire, which cost the lives of
"a firemen and police early yester-
day is being made today by the city
authorities. The testimony of
watchmen who escaped from the
building, it is predicted, will show
that fire was seen simultaneously
at different points.
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ALL CAN'T GET INTO. THIS.

Members of the Senior A and B
classes of the high school who wish
to attend the Senior reception in
Masonic temple, January IL, will
have to show a requirement for
admission in spite Of the fact that
the event is supposed to be free
to members of both classes. If a
young man attempts to attend with
out fair damsel member Of the
class he will be excluded just as
heartily as if he were a tramp look
ing for a warm place to snooze.
Such is the edict just Issued by
Principal Hart of the North Central
student body.
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Los ANGELES CHIEF RESIGNS.

LOS ANGELES. CAL, Dec. %
Chief of Police Galloway handed
his resignation to Mayor Alexander
today, to take effect January 8.
Alexander announced that the
police committee selected Lieuten-
ant Chas. Sebastian to succeed Gal
loway. Less than a year ago the
new chief was sergeant in charge
of a Chinatown squad. Galloway's
resignation was not unexpected. s
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THEIR DESIRE FOR CHRISTMAS
MONEY. ~

Desire for Christmas money and
lack Of means of obtaining the.
same, led Hardin Foreman, Is
years of age, and LeonarosDudley
aged IA years, to help themselves
to number of gunnysacks In the
barn of A. A. Browne, 500 Nora
avenue, yesterday afternoon. &C
cording to information brought to
the police. The boys were arrested
and turned over to the juvenile
court. d
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HEART THROBS FROM
LITTLE CHILDREN

little boy 10 years old and go to
school and wear overalls and the
boys all make fun of me so it
would make me happy If you would
please send me just cheap suit
of clothes and my two little broth
ers aged II and 8 would like some
stockings and new waist for
know If good fellows does not send
Santa he will not come this year,
for papa can not get any work and
mama is sick. hope you will
think of us. South Elm
street. Earl
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IMPORTANT MEETINGS

A meeting will be held tonight at
the Hamilton school by the Ken
wood Lidgerwood Improvement
club to discuss the North Side
sewer proposition and the new city
charter. The committees that have
been out with the referendum petit
tons will report at this time. A
like meeting will be held by the
Cannondale Improvement club at
the Cannondale school.
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~ A GOOD FELLOW.

Here are few more letters from
the children who want Santa Claus
to come to them this year, through
the Good Fellows:
Dear Mr.. Good Fellow: l heard
that you were helping the poor, SO
/ thought I would write to you to
tell you that we need it very bad.
My mother is working hard every
day in the laundry. She gets $1.17
a day. My father is dead. He died
the End OF February. And we think
that our Christmas will be very
slim.
Il am IA years old Something I
need is pair of shoes, double Els
fours, and a hat, pair of union
suit, pair of stockings, a dress.
Dear Mr.. Good Fellow l will give
many thanks if you will try and
help us out and we will have a
pretty slim dinner. My poor
mother is sickly and SO hardly able
to work. We are terribly out of
food, so II will make us a slim din
ner. So if you could help us out
. little we would give many
thanks to you. l have a darling
little brother, he is three years old.
He needs little hat, pair of shoes,
pair of stockings, and will miss
papa because he got few things
last Christmas. Papa wasn't very
well, anyway, so If you could help
us a little We would give many,
many thanks. Belle.
East Seventh"
This little girl will have her first
sad Christmas. She says:
Dear Editor: l have read of the
Good Fellows tonight, of the good
man who has plenty of children's
shoes, and wondered if he hade a
pare for me to wair to sunday
school.
my papa got his leg broke to-
day, and our Christmas will be sad.
my little sister, Marie, has just
recovered from the pneumonia. she
is 3 years. and am past 10 years.
This is my first sad Christmas.
Mama said Santa wodent see me
this Christmas. l will close hoping
/ am not too late. Find me at -
Perry street. Opal -"
Here is another case where
clothing and shoes are needed:
MY dear Mrs. Good Fellow. I've
heard you was helping the poor
children. My papa is sick and
can't work. there are three chill
dren OF us. I'm fourteen and my
brother 10 and my little sister 8.
We need clothes bad as anything.
l need a pair of shoes, number 5,
and my brother needs a pair of
shoes, No. I. 1 will be glad to get
what you have to give us. e.
- Lee street. Earl --."
And still again clothes are
needed:
Dear mr.. Good Fellows: 1 am q
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PAPER MILL WILL. MEAN NEW
r4 TOWN,

A new townsite seven miles east
of the city is to be started as a re-
suit of the activities of the new
Inland Paper company, which will
build at that place. The Spokane
International railroad is interested
in the proposition and has already
run a spur to the site Of the mill
for the purpose of placing machin-
cry on-the grounds. There is an
excellent Atownsite near the mill on
the north side of the river.
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(sy United Pres. Leased Wire,

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23.--
Charges of grand larceny against
G. M. and J. c. Woodson, e. l..
Smith and Margaret Henry, brought
in connection with the theft Of $780,
900 worth of gold bullion from the
treasure ship Humboldt, near Sc
attic, were dismissed today by the
local police courts. H
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self In this manner, especially at
this season of the year, when the
weather ia SO bad and work is 50
scarce, -
And his wife. Poor old grandma.
is blind. Day after day She sits
in eternal darkness or gropes her
way about the little room, striv-
ing to bear her affliction as brave
ly as possible. M
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SAN DIEGO-Andrew Mitchell, a
real estate dealer, and John H.
Jones, a mulatto stableman, are
under arrest charged with having
murdered Matthias Mau, an aged
German rancher, on Friday.
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= WON'T TRAVEL TOGETHER =

= DES MONIES, Ia, Dec. %. Z
= Travelling on different trains Z
= all the way from Washington, z
. Senator Albert B. spCummins Z
= and Senator Lafayette Young Z
= arrived here today. Young, IN Z
= his maiden speech in the SEN Z
= ate, attacked his colleagues Z
= resolution providing for a Z
= schedule by schedule revision Z
= of the tariff and ridiculed the Z
. insurgents, of whom Cummins Z
. is a leader. Both senators Z
= issued statements after their Z
. arrival. Z
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23.-Be-
fore Mrs. Lillian Ashley Turnbull
resumed the witness stand today
in her daughters suit for a portion
of the estate Of Lucky Baldwin It
was predicted that the ordeal of
her cross-examination would be
concluded tonight or at the latest
tomorrow.
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LAND OFFICE CASE.

Register Hal ]. Cole of the Unit
ed States Land office, was busy all
morning taking evidence in the
contest filed by Edward H. Powell
against Sarah E. Froman, who is
attempting to make final proof on
100 acres of land in Lincoln county
near the Little Falls power plant
of the Washington Water Power