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her. The ground she stands on y
hers. There all about her II heE
future" The very hardsbips se0m
blessings because they have pus
away from her forever the neccs-
sity of pretending ~ living
someone else's life to be conve@
tional and to have friends. She y
free!
In IA short months she will own
absolutely 100 acres Of ground, the
air over It clear up into the
heavens, the earth beneath 1t down
to the very center Of the globe.
In that time she viii have paid
the dollar or 20 an acre which the
government charges, and then her
Savings" will be valued 1T several
thousand dollars and will be N old
age pension which will every year
fill her storehouse with grain and
fruit and meat. Besides that i
will give her splendid health, .
clear conscience. . vigorous body.
And, too, there h the Man from
Omaha" who II . very obliging
neighbor, Indeed.
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icontinued.l


Again he plunged on, q muffled
shout of defiance on his lips. Never
had the fire of battle ragged In his
vens as now. Back In the window.
listening In terror. praying for him.
was Meleese. The knowledge that
she was there, that at last he had
won her and was fighting for her,
stirred him with Joy that was next
to madness. Nothing could stop
him now. He loaded his revolver
as he ram slackening his pace as
he covered greater distance. for he
knew that in the storm his trail
? could be followed scarcely faster
than a walk.
He gave no thought to Jean
Croisset, bound hand and foot in
the little cabin on the mountain.
Even as he had chung to the win
dow for that last moment 1t had
occurred to him that 1t would be
folly to return to the Frenchman.
Meleese had promised to come to
him, and he believed her. and for
that reason Jean was no longer of
use to him. Alone he would lose
himself in that wilderness, alone
work his way into the south, trust
Ing to his revolver for food. and
TO his compass and the matches in
his pocket for life, There would
be no sledge trail for his enemies
to follow, no. treachery to fear. 1t
would take thousand men to find
him after the nights storm had
covered up his retreat. and II one
should find him they two would be
alone to fight 1t out.
For moment he stopped to
listent and stare futilely into the
blackness behind him. When he
turned to 60 on his heart stood
still. A shadow had doomed out Of
the night half a dozen PAGES ahead
OF him. and before he could raise
his revolver the shadow was light
ened by a sharp flash of fire. How
land staggered back, his fingers
\ loosening their grip on his pistol,
and az hecrumpled down into the
snow he heard over him the hoarse
voice that had urged on the dog
After that there was a space or
silence, of black chaos in which he
neither reasoned or lived. and then
there came to him family the sound
of other voices. Finally all Of
them were lost in one--a moaning,
sobbing voice that was calling his
name again and again. voice that
seemed to reach to him from out
of an infinty OF distance, and that
he knew was the voice of Meleese.
He strove to speak. to lift his arms,
but his tongue was as lead, his
arms as though rfettered with
steel bands.
The voice died away. He lived
through cycle OF speechless, pain.
less night into which finally a
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sides of the house with sod which
she herself dug. Wood she OBJ
tanned for the mere hauling home.
This Red Tomahawk was glod to
do in return for the sewing which
Jane taught his wife.
From Indian farmers who have
grown good crops this summer
Jane bought potatoes and other
vegetables, very cheaply, and these
she stored away in a dugout, a
half cellar and half storeroom
where fruits and vegetables may
he kept during the cold winter.
From a mushroom town on the
banks of the Missouri came her
sugar. flour, tea and the like.
She has outlined the farming she
will do next year. There will be a
small wheat field, lots Of chickens
and garden truck, for her table
during the entire year, and she has
set her mind on raising some pigs,
too. An orchard has been mapped
out, and about the first thing she
will do when the weather breaks
In the spring will be to set out a
great many fruit trees and some
berry bushes.
= Over on a nearby claim is the
young man from Omaha. He used
to be one of the stenographers in
a meat packing establishment I'M
til failing health began to leave
warnings too frequently. Then he
packed up his trunk and came to
the Dakotas. While waiting for
his claim he worked on a farm
over near Aberdeen.
He has been down on James
claim often enough to get a worn
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1t looked Az II little Wilifred at
Thanksgiving diner was trying to
make sure that there would be no
cold turkey for lunch on the Friday
after.
'Dearier. hadn't you better stop
eating turkey? Remember, there's
pumpkin pie coming. You won't
have room left for pie
I'm membering," said willfred, as
he took piece OF dark raisin
and an oyster. all In one bite. I'm
saving my neck for .dessertg'
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The spokan Prsss. Delivered. Tor
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VITAL RECORD


To Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Carlson. S21S
Hogan street, November Is, a daugh-
ter.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Schultz.
Weldon court, November ii, daugh-
ter.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Frank c. Davis,
E13O7 Twelfth avenue, November 8,
a daughter
To Mr.. and Mrs. C. Earl Hyer, Hill
yard, November 10. a son.
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8leam OF OaWn returned. he felt
as II Vars were passing In his
efforts to move, to lift himself out
OF chaos. But at last he won. His
eyes opened. he raised himself. His
first sensation was that he was no
longer in the snow and that the
storm was not beating into his
face. Instead there encompassed
him q damp dungeon-like chill. Ev-
erywhere there was blackness-ev-
erywhere except in one spot, where
a yellow We of fire watched him
and blinked at him. At first he
thought that the eye must be miles
and miles away. But It came
quickly nearer-and still nearer
until at last he knew that it was
a candle burning with the silence
OF a death taper yard or two be-
y0nd his feet.
CHAPTER XVI.
Jeans Story.
1t was the candle-light that drag
ged Rowland quickly back into
consciousness and pain. He knew
that he was no longer in the snow
His fingers dug into damp earth
as he made an effort to raise him.
self. and with that effort 1t seemed
as though red-hot knife had
cleft him from the top of his skull
to his chest. The agony OF that
instant's pain drew a sharp cry
from him and he clutched both
hands to his head, waiting and
fearing. 1t did not come again and
he sat Vi, A hundred candles
danced and blinked before him like
so many haunting eyes and turned
him dizzy with sickening nausea.
One by one the lights faded away
after that until there was left only
the steady glow Of the real can
ole.
The fingers OF Howland's right
hand were sticky when he drew
them away from his head, and he
shivered. The tongue of flame
leaping out of the night. the thun-
derous report, the deluge OF fire
that had filled his brain. all bore
their meaning for him now. It
had been a close call. so close that
shivering chills ran up and down
his spine as he struggled little by
little to life himself to his knees.
His enemy's shot had grazed his
head. A quarter of an inch more.
an eighth of an inch even, and
there would have been no awaken
ing. He closed his eyes for few
moments. and when he opened
them his vision had gained dis.
lance. About him he made out in
distinctly the black encompassing
walls of his prison.
II seemed an interminable time
before he could rise and stand on
his feet and reach the candle.
Slowly he felt his way along the
wall until he came to low, heavy
door. barred from the outside, and
just beyond this door he found a
narrow aperture cut through the
decaying logs. 1t was a yard in
length and barely wide enough for
him to thrust through an arm.
Three more of these narrow Sits
in his prison walls he found be-
fore he came back again to the
door. They reminded him of the
hole through which he had looked
out on the plague-stricken cabin at
the Maison de Merit Rouge. and he
guessed that through them came
what little air found its way into
the dungeon.
Near the table on which he re-
placed the candle was a stool, and
he sat down. Carefully he went
through his pockets. His belt and
revolver were gone, He had been
stripped of letters and papers. Not
so much as a match had been left
him by his captors.
ITO Be Continued.)
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Teliefson--At E2107 Empire ave.
nue., November %, L. c. Tellefsen. 1
year 10 months % days, Of pneu-
mona. whooping cough contributory.
McGovern-At Sacred Heart hospi-
tai, November 23. Ella McGovern. il
years. of appendicitis.
Wilkinson-At 2417 Mallon avenue
november 20, Frances Wilkinson. so
years. OF cirrhosis Of liver, bronchitis
contributory.
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TOOTH PULLING rs
FATAL TO A GIRL

SANDUSKY, Ohio, Nov. 24.-Be-
cause the attending phy stefan refused
to grant death certificate, Coroner
southwick investigated the death of
Aivina l.. Nemitz, who died at her
home near this city, following the
extraction of tooth by dentist.
Coroner Southwick states that
death was either from .tetanus or
blood poisoning, .-,s
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LINKS CLUB WILL DANCE.

ROOM ro1 rxn DHsszar.
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Make Your
Teeth Do
-
Their Share

Since Digestion is changing
food into blood" and the first and
most important step of digestion
begins in the mouth, 1t stands to
reason that nature intended the
teeth to play very important
part in her plan of preparing the
food to become parts Of, and to
build up worn out portions of the
body.
Are your teeth in condition to
do their share in this great work.?
Are some missing. Others aching
and tender SO that you cannot
chew your food properly and thus
prepare 1t for the next step in
digestion to take place in the stom-
ach?
II your teeth are in such con-
dition that you do not chew your
food properly, but swallow 1t in
humps and chunks you are at
do work it was never intended for
it to do, and as a result you are
soon victim of indigestion and
its train of attendant ills, all be-
cause your teeth failed to do
their part.
Get tsour teeth put in good con-
dition- and be we'll.
Cur3 your indigestion by a trip
to the dentist.
StbpSuffering with those tender,
aching teeth!
Go ITO the RED CROSS DEN
TISTSt where work is absolutely
guaranteed and prices so reason
able; that to suffer as you are is
worse Jthan foolish.
Look at some of the prices:
Rubber plates ......$6.5O
Go0 crowns -. $3.50
All work done under the per-
sonal Supervision of DIR. Farms
worth.
RedCr0SS
Dentists
GAlENA BLOCK
Corner Of Post and Riverside.
German Spoken.)
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THIRD COLUMBIA CONsERvA-
TORY RECITAL.

The third of the recitals given
by the Columbia Conservatory of
Music will be held in the Westmin-
ster Congregational church. Mon
day evening, December 5. at 8:15
p. m. The program will be one of
unusual interest and will give an
idea of the excellence of the work
done in musical education by this
school. The recital will consist of
work rendered by a large class of
intermediate pupils who will be as
sisted by Miss Alice Ham, contral-
to. The public is cordially invited
to attend. Admission is free.
= 3 =
MISS DuRkiN WEEDS.
Only the members of the family
were present last evening when
Miss Eva Durkin, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. James Durkin, S312 Stew
ems street, was married to Mr..
Leon Jones of Olympia. Wash. The
Rev. Father verhagen OF the
church of Our Lady of Lourdes,
pronounced the ceremony and Mr..
and Mrs. Jones left at once for
their wedding tour. The courtship
started when the principals were
both attending the University of
Washington, Mr.. Jones having
studied there at the Columbia law
school.
4 4 =
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS EN-
JOY DANCE.
The Hall of Doges was the scene
of a merry dancing party last
night when the Knights OF Column
bus entertained about 70 couples.
The decorations were simple. but
effective and the programs were
prettily> engraved with the X. of c,
insignia
LINKS CLUB WILL DANCE.
The popular Links club OF this
city will give their regular weekly
dance Saturday evening in the Pa.
cific halls. The arrangement com.
mittee, Mrs. Russell Macdonald.
Mrs. Rodney Thompson and Mr..
Russell Macdonald will have
charge of the affair, with Mr.. Rod
ney Thompson, who is Head Links
Caddy.
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. . . . . . Q Q Q . Q Q Q Q . Q q . Q
. WHAT WOULD ADVISE THIS
= WOMAN TO DO IN A CASE LIKE THIS?
Miss Cynthia Grey Spokane you kindly
your advice? have been twice married separated
divorce from
= cation with and be0s him.
. But there m sur love py<
first husband best
drinker; able
.
Shall divorce my present
= my first? Oh, what shall do? @. B. Z
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Social news Is q daily feature Of
The Press. Any one wishing to In
Creased to the society editor. or phone
before 10 q. m.
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onds for the 220. He has never com
peted in a quarter of a mile event, but
his many friends have the utmost con-
fidence in Wells ability to defeat Jor-
dan at that distance ON Sunday.
Jordan. has also earned quite a repu-
tation as a Splinter. He was formerly
a member of the Gordon House relay. of
New York, and has stepped a quarter
of a mile in SO seconds. He was the
winner of the Bayley Lyceum time
prize at that clubs cross-country run.
lie has a number of hackers from the
Lambert Hosting Company. who are as
confident of a victory for their favorite
as are Wells supporters. In a test
recently while training he states that
he did 440 yards in 81 seconds.
Among the other ~well-known stars
who will compete are George Vree-
land, Andy McDonough. Joseph Doyle,
p. e.. Brady, Frank McKeever, Freder-
ick Seyfarth, II. r. Conger, Harry
Coates, II. p. Sweeney, j. Reilly and
Bart Freeman.
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SANDLOT LEAGUERS PLAY TOMORROW

teams were to have played last Satur-
day. but were prevented by rain. Inc
teams will line mp as follows:
Essex-Albano, shortstop; Dc Camp,
left field; Jones, first base; Conlon, sec
ond base; Harding. third base; Hall
gring. right field; Stickel, centre field;
Hammock, catcher; Shoemaker, pitcher.
Union-Clayton. left field: Best, CEN
tire field; Sanders. shortstop; Smith,
catcher; Fcinswog or Johnson, pitcher;
Scamler, second base: Getzoff. first
base; Sauer, third base; Sauerwein,
right field.
On the Verona oval tomorrow after
noon the strong Verona baseball team
will have as its opponents the strong
Montclair A. A. This is the first game
of a series of -four. The battery for the
Verona nine will be Hipfel and Brewer.
while Teed and Fields will work for the
Montclair team.
The Holy Names, Of Montclair, viii
open the season on Decoration Day
morning and afternoon at the East
End Oval. Grove and Walnut streets.
In the morning at 10:30 sharp they viii
cross bats with the strong Park +. C.'
of Orange. Joe Grohe. formerly of the
Bloomfelds. and his brother Val VIII
form the Holy Names battery, while
Pagan and Carr will look after the
Park +. C.'s interests. In the after
noon at 3 o'clock the Holy Names viii
clash with the well-known Lenex A. c.
of Newark. Hughes, Mcdonald and
McDonough will do the battery work
for the Holy Names. Case and Terry
will work for the Lenox A. C.
The Bloomfield baseball team will
meet the strong Irvington A. c. to-
morrow afternoon on Williams oval.
Bloomfield.
The Oriental baseball nine will go to
up against the strong Summit Y. NJ. c..
A., of that place.
Caldwell A. A. will have as its oppo-
nents tomorrow afternoon the strong
Mutual baseball team, of Belleville.
Stoney Machette and Sehurr will be the
battery for The Belleville team.
The Arlington A. A. will cross bats
with the strong Armory a. A.. ball team
tomorrow afternoon in the first game Of
d series.
On Rosevilie oval tomorrow afternoon
the Roseville City League baseball team
will line up against the strong Branch
Brook baseball nine in an exhibition
contest.
Yesterday afternoon at Morris Park
the Coleman Business College team
went down to defeat at the hands of the
st. Benedict's Prep team by the score
of 3 to 2. Pitcher Madden, who was on
the mound for the Saints, held his OPP
ponents to four hits and made nine hit
the breeze.
Through the fine pitching of Maxwell
the Newark High School baseball team
added another victory to its credit yes
afternoon ON Ashland Field,
East Orange. by winning from the Ste
High school by the score of : to /.
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CLUB MANAGER SUSPENDED.

NEW HAVEN. Conn.,, May 27.-Man-
ager Thomas j. Connery, of the Hart
ford Club in the Connecticut League,
was indefinitely suspended by Presi-
den Tracy. of the league, because of a
letter he SEN which Mr.. Tracy de-
clared was insulting and which ac-
cused Umpire Fahey Of starting a riot
at Northampton last Monday and OF
"robbins' bridgeport Of a game at New
Haven last Saturday.
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Jordan and We'll to Settle Dis
pute at Irish=AmeriCan
Games.

A I Wiedenmayer's Park, where the
~ Irish-American A.. A. games are
to be held mex Sunday, the spe-
cial quarter-mile match race between
Joseph We'll and William Jordan Will
be had. Both of these runners claim
supremacy and the event was placed
on the program because of the intense
interest that has been aroused by the
controversy during the past few weeks
between these men.
We'll. the Irish-American crack, is
well-known to lovers of athletic sports
in this city. He has won several VIC
tories at the First Regiment Armory
and at Olympic Park. He is the holder
of the 22o-yards Hudson county cham
pionship and has a mark Of % 20 sec
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EASTERN LEAGUE NOTES

The Skeeters dropped another yes
terday. This time Baltimore was the
victor. Lefty Russell. the Oriole
southpaw, famed twelve men. Russell
is n OF the most promising left-hand-
ers in the Eastern League. Manager
Ryan made a shakeup in his lineup,
but it availed him naught.
The Royals scored their third
straight shutout yesterday and the To-
ronto sluggers We're the victims.
I'm the fifth, sixth and seventh in
rings at Baltimore yesterday Russell
struck out eight men. Had he famed
the ninth he would have equaled Des-
sau's performance at the Oriole Aviary
when the Brooklyn twirler famed nine
men in three innings. Dessau per
formed the feat two years ago.
Ray Demmitt. the former Newarker
helped the Royals to defeat the Maple
Leafs yesterday with a home run
Wigs made six of the Kelleyites bes,
time with their wands to the anvil
chorus.
Buffalo Is on the t~oboggan. The BIZ
sons played much better ball on the
road than they are putting up at pres
ent. The champs threw the harpoor
into the Smithies yesterday and am
other defeat will put the Bisons at tho
500 mark.
Tim Jordan is at present under the
care OF Bonesetter Reese. at Youngs-
town. Q. Tim is expected to play frs
for Toronto In about W. weeks. Mean
while Myron Grimshaw, who used to
play first, is filling in well at the put
out station for the Leafs. Yesterday
he had twelve putouts and made two
singles.
Roy Rock is playing his same OLD
game at short for the Grays. This
same boy may have been a major
league star had he no broken hi:
knee cap in 1906. For two years h'
has not been doing we'll, but now thai
the knee is all right again he is in tn,
pink of condition.
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County, Branch Brook, Court
House, Manufacturers, Junior
Order and Independent Games.
COUNTY LEAGUE
GAMES TOMORROW.
BY SEMI-PRO.
MOTHER series OF games

"a NOlltEh series ol gaines WIN pS
- decided by the County League
teams tomorrow. The big game
of the day, which is expected to draw
out a large crowd will be the meeting
OF the two leaders, Bloomfield and
Forest Hill. This game will be played
on the Forest Hill grounds and will
show how these two c~ontenders com
pare with one another, The Newark
Turn Vorwaerts are scheduled to clash
with Orange at the latter teams
grounds, while Newark will play at
East Orange, In the other contest the
strong B%elleville team will cross bats
with the I%rvington nine at Camptown,
all games to be started at $3.50 p. m. II
will be the first home game for the
Forest Killers and Mayor Haussling is
expected to toss the first ball over the
plate.
-Four contests will be played in the
Branch Brook League tomorrow. The
following teams are scheduled: ~Iroquois
VS.. Acme, Bayley VS.. Chester, Lennox
VS.. Orioles, and Chadwick VS.. Melrose.
Chadwick. Bayley and Acme have each
won a game, while the Iroquois. Orioles
and Melrose teams have lost one. The
Lennox and Chester teams have not
played.
On the Lyons avenue oval in Irving
ton. Wayne will have Essex Council as
its guests tomorrow in a Junior Order"
League anne As both these teams
are from Newark, and each has a large
following. a lively time is expected.
kid Weaver n Kohn will be in the
points for Wayne. and Hallett and Ed
dinger will oppose them.
East End will have Reliable, of Ho-
boken. at Johnson oval, in the same
league. Reliable is going at a fast
clip, and will give East End a tussle.
Reliable will depend on H%oagland and
Fyfe. and East End will have Fritz and
ZONES in the points.
Success will cross bats with Orange.
The batteries for Success will be Flem-
ing and Rupel. and for Orange. Krouse
and Hoffman.
The Sunday School Baseball League
will open the season tomorrow after
noon. The schedule has been adopted by
the Essex Federation of Sunday School
Boys Clubs. Ten teams will represent
the league. The anne tomorrow will
be as follows: First Italian VS.. Fifth
Avenue; Grace Church VS.. First Presby-
terrain; Rosevi1e Methodist vs.. Peddie
Memorial; South Park VS.. Roseville
Presbyterian and Second German Pres
pyterian VS.. Summarized M. f.
, Four games will be played in the
Manufacturers League tomorrow after
noon. The Mergott team. which is tied
for first place with the Blanchard team,
will meet the Rubbersets on the Park
view wal. The Blanchard nine will
have as its opponents the Hyatts. The
Straus team will cross bats with the
Hanson Van Wrinkle baseball nine and
the Public Service team will play the
Celluloid team.
The opening game of the Inter
County Cour House League will be
-2ya
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ORIOLES 3, SKrTTERS /.

BALTIMORE, Md. May 27.-"Lefty''
Russell was the whole show in the first
game of the series against the Shelters
here yesterday, and obtained the de-
cision by a vote of 3 to l. He was in
. strike-out mood, and an even dozen
of the Skeeters slammed the ambient.
The visitors We're never in the run
ming. The score:
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ming. The score:
Frs CITY.
ROCHESTER 4, BIsONS l..

BUFFALO,, N. Y, May 27.-Rochester
got to Taylor in the seventh and scored
enough run to win here yesterday. The
final score was 4 to 1. Taylor had been
pitching shutout ball when the visitors
broke up the game LATTE was irwin
chile in the pinches. The score:
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BUFFALO

Totals ....32 : z 10
Slated for Taylor In the eighth.
Runs-Henline; Alperman 2. Holly. Blair
Errors-East Sabrie.
Rochester ......... 0 0 . o 0OS l o.