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The Robesonian., 1910-06-13

''HANDs UP! QUICK!' unconscious Bru-
HE CRIED. tus.
Getting his revolver" she replied.
with quaver in her voice.
"GoOd"' he said. eXultantly. Lets
don't dare turn these fellows loose,
even if we disarm them. They'll have
a crowd after us in two minutes
"We'l keep the boat. There! Now
push off. Newport For King had
recognized his guard in the witch's
hovel in the person of one of the oars
men.
What the devil'- began Newport.
but King silenced him. The boat slow
ly drifted out into the current.
'Now row. he commanded. With
his free hand he reached back and
dragged the limp Brutus into the boat.
Cad. l believe he's dead" he NUT
tered.
"Can you swim?'' demanded King.
Not a stroke" gasped Newport.
Good Lord, pal. you're not going to
dump US overheard. It's ten feet deep
along here"
5, Pull on your left, hard. That's
right I'm going to land you on the
opposite Shore"
Two minutes later they ran up un-
der the western bank of the stream
which at this point was fully 300
yards wide. Under cover of the dead
ly revolver the two men dropped into
the water. which was above theiI
waists. The limp form of Peter Bru
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such luck-no, no, don't mean it just
that way! Let me think it out. Let
me get it through my head.
Miss Tullis,'' he said, thrill in his
voice. you are a princess just the
same. l never was SO happy in my
life as l am this minute 1t isn't so
black as it was. thought l couldn't
win you because YOU
win me?" she gasped.
Precisely. Now I'm looking at it
differently. l don't mind telling you
that Pm in love with you-desperately
in love. It's been SO with me ever
since that day in the park. l loved
you as duchess or a princess and
| without hope. Now, I-I-well, Pm
| going to hope. Perhaps Vos Engo
has the better of me just now. but I'm
| IN the lists with him-witk all of
them. If l get you out of this place
and myself as WE'LL want you to un-
derstand that from this very minute l
am trying TO win you if it lies in the
power Of any American to win a girl
who has suitors among the nobility
"Are-are you really in earnest?'' she
murmured.
Il mean every word of it. do love
you''
IL cannot talk about 1t now, Mr..
King" she fluttered, moving away
from him in a sudden panic. Pres
entity be went over to her She was
standing near the candle, staring down
at the fame, with strangely preoc-
! cuniad exnreSSiOn in her eyeS
"Forgive me-" he said. Il was
hasty. inconsiderate r.
"You quite took my breath away
she painted, looking up at him, with .
queer little smile.
81 know" he murmured.
Her troubled gaze resumed it's sobe!
contemplation Of the flame.
"You won't leave me to my fate be
cause you think Pm going to marry
some one else?"
He grew very sober. Miss Tullis
; YOU and l have one chance in a thou
:, sand. You may as well know III
, truth"
, "Oh l can't bear the thought CT tha
dreadful old man. she cried, abjec
distress in her eyes.
He gritted bis teeth and turne'
away.
Late in the afternoon Anna Creme
appeared before them, accompanie
by two Of the men, Crisply she con
= manded the girl TO come forth.
. She was in the outer room for th
better part of an hour listening
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the desolate night.
They'll see us by the lightning"
gasped TruXton. almost ready to drop
from faintness and exhaustion.
Following vivid fash Of lightning.
two shots were fired by the men who
were now plunging up through the
gates. a hundred yards or more away.
The same fash of lightning showed
to King the narrow. muddy street
that stretched ahead of them. Instead
Of doing the obvious thing be turned
sharply to the left. between the lines
Of freight cars. Their progress was.
SLOW
At last they came to the end Of their
rope. They were literally UP against
the great city wall.
car door stood open in front OF
them. He waited for a second fash
of lightning to reveal to him the ma
ture Of its interior. 1t was quite emp
ty. Without hesitation he clambered
in and pulled her up after him. They
fell over on the floor. completely fag-
ged
A few minutes later the storm broke.
He managed to close the door against
the driving torrents.
We've fooled them." he managed to.
whisper close to her ear. They won't
look here You're safe. Lorraine. Cad.
I'd like 10 see any one get you away
from me nowv'
She pressed his arm. Then she was
fast asleep.
He sat with his back against the side
Of the car a pistol in one hand. the
other lying tenderly upon the drench-
ed hair of the girl whose head rested
upon his leg She had slipped down
from his shoulder He did not have
the desire or the energy to prevent it.
Manfully as he bad fought against the
impelling desire to sleep. he could not
beat it off, His last waking thought
was Of the effort he must make /,
reach Dangloss with the warning.
Something stirred in the far end Of
the cara still small noise as Of some
thing alive that moved with the un-
most wariness. A heavy. breathing
body crept stealthily across the inter-
vening space, SO quietly that a mouse
could have made but little less noise.
An instant later the blush fame Of
a sulphur match struggled for life,
growing stronger and brighter in the
hand of q man who stood above the
sleepers.
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tus was pulled out and transferred to
the shoulders of his companions.
Good night called out Truxton
King cheerily. He had grasped the
oars
"Fll row over to the east side,' an
nounced King to the girl, but l don't
like to get too close to the walls. Some
one may have heard the shouts of our
friends back there
Not another word passed between
them for ten or twelve minutes She
peered anxiously ahead. looking for
signs of the barge dock. which lay
somewhere along this section Of the
city wall.
At last the sound Of rapidly work
ing rowlocks came to the girls ears.
They're after u.s. grated Truxton
in desperation. They've got word TO
friends one way or another. By Jove,
I'm nearly tagged too, can't pull
much farther. Hello. What's this?''
The side Of the boat caromed off a
solid object in the water. almost spill
| ing them into the wind blown river.
! 'The docksv' she whispered. I'VE
struck small scow. / think. Can you
find your way in among the coal
barges?'
He padded along slowly. feeling bis
way, scraping alongside the big barges
which delivered coal from the distant
mines. At last he found an opening
and pushed through. A moment later
they were riding under the stern Of a
broad cargoless barge, plumb up
against the water Tapped piles Of the
dock.
managed to pull himself up over the
slippery edge. 1t was the work of q
! second to draw her up after him. He
gave the boat a mighty shove. sending
it out into the stream once more.
In a few minutes loud curses came
from the river. proclaiming the fac
that the pursuers had found the empty
beat. Afterward they were to learr
that Newport's shouts had brought {
boat load Of men from the opposite
bank. headed by the innkeeper, il
whose place Lorraine was to have en-
countered Marlanx later on, if plan.
had not miscarried.
BY this time King had located thu
open space which undoubtedly afford
ed room for the transfer Of cargoe
from the dock to the company's yard
inside the walls. Without hesitation
he drew her after him up this wide
sinister roadway
The pursuers were trying for land
ing. noisily. even boisterously. ]
struck Truxton as queer that thes
men were not afraid of alarming tb'
watchmen ON the docks or the man a
the gate above suddenly it came Il
him that there would be no one ther'
to oppose the landing of the miScre
ants. No doubt hundreds of men al
, ready had stolen through these gate
, during the night. secreting themselve
in the Businesses of the city. ready to
) the morrow's fray.
o They rushed up the narrow r:iilwa
chutes and through one of the numel
= Gus gateways that opened out upon I'll
barge docks. No one opposed then
0 No one was standing guard. From b'
l. hind came the sound Of rushing foo
O STEPS: Lightning flashed in the SIX!
r and the rumble Of thunder broke owe
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q maZed OarSmen
covered with the
weapon.
III a n d s up!
Quick" he cried.
Two pairs Of hands
went up. together
with strange oaths.
Truxton's eyes had
grown used to the
darkness: he could
see the men quite
plainly. wv b a t
are you doing?"
he demanded Of
Lorraine. who, be-
hind him. was
fumbling in the
garments of t b e
unconscious Bru-
The Robesonian., 1910-06-13

A man must be excessively stupid
as we'll as uncharitable who believes
there is no virtue Dut on his own side.
Addison.
The Robesonian., 1910-06-13
An Old sayino Amended.

The Man-Won't you marry me.
then? Bachelor Girl-Certainly not!
When singleness is bliss tits folly to,
be wives.-Illustrated Bits.
The Robesonian., 1910-06-13
fro BE CONTINUED
TcId Often Enouoh,

'I ought to know what is right and
proper"
"So:'
Yes; I'VE three grownup daughters
at home to tell me:'-Detroit Free
Press.
The Robesonian., 1910-06-13

AYO word was spoken during this
N cautious, extraordinary yoy-
age underground. The pseudo
IuIiuc Sl1pnOrtod his cha roo in
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
BAPTIST MINISTER QUITS
TO GO INTO BUSINESS.

b : q " D. & i .I
Rev. Donald D. MacLaurin has re.
signed as pastor of the Second Baptist
Church in Chicago and leaves the pull
pit to embark on a business career.
The withdrawal of DR.. MacLaurin
from the ministry is the result of his
espousal of the cause of Prof. George
Burman Foster of the University of
Chicago before the Baptist ministers
conference of Chicago during the pro-
ceedings that resulted in the expulsion
Of the university lecturer from that
body because of Unitarian utterances
and writings. Ysi.-.is
Severe criticism of the action Of the
conference and the ministers who were
responsible for it was voiced by DR..
MacLaurin, who declared that they
we're guilty of a betrayal of the fun
damental principles of the Baptist de-
nomination" The retiring pastor said
his defense of Prof. Foster was merely
In the name of Justice and that he
would have defended any other mem
Der OF the conference in the same way.
There is an impression throughout
the country" said DIR. MacLaurin,
that because defended Prof. Foster
share his religious views. This I
wish to deny emphatically."
~ DR.. MacLaurin has been Baptist
minister thirty-six years, including the
nine years he preached while work
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08

world conauerors:
they
The climate California
Of the world for human existence
of the Pacific
regions OF the Mountains
introduced which
prevailing winds the
Utah Winds Further
producing American
Sahara the influence
meteorologis At
works his shelves united
shunt the nbearng winds the gulf
fields s.
blow the land the
according that Of the
tains losing
high Rockies
VIII lost all
Is 81 81
heat through
without beyond
wind
clared that
winds they do all their
the wind
ned by the nature Of the earth
passing Further influences
is
rotation of the earth
1T is this variability climatic
climates Thus explained the fact that easy
Winds and England with Its southwest
of while gentle twilight
this section among
men Of science Of Prof Mos
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
Bibles IN $50 TONGUES.
Stream Starting from "Door Of a
Million Bibles That Cir
Giles Globe.
INTEREST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
Ninety Million Copies Printed in
Various Languages and at Prices
to Suit Every Purse. Z

There is door in a 4th avenue
building In New York City which has
all the hallmarks of shipping depart
ment doors in general battered side
posts, polished iron chutes, boxes on
the sidewalk marked with names that
seem to have been taken haphazard
from a gazetteer. the New York Sun
says. There is special name at
tached to this particular door. This
is the door of a million bibles. Out of
this door each year 100000 bibles
pass to be distributed through the
world.
The rumor that conditional gift of
100000 from Mrs. Russell Sage awaits
The action Of the bible society in rails.
ing a similar amount is confirmed.
Already large sums have been received
from the various agencies about the
country to be added to the fund which
is being raised 1t takes approximate
ly 100000 to pay the expenses of the
society each year and the $1,OOO,OO0
that the officials expect to receive
through Mrs. sage's gift will be con.
sidered in the light of nest egg,
something to depend on in financial
depressions and Stacking up of con-
tributions.
1t was Sir Walter Scott who in his
last illness, after asking a friend to
read aloud to him and hearing the In.
terrogation as to the book desired.
said, There is only one" As to this
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08

The friends who fiatter us are the
ones we say understand" u.s.
Gee whiz. but how a busy man hates
the idle people who bother him!
The trouble with the hen that lays
the golden egg is that she is not very
busy.
When a woman says of man, "He
amt no angel" it's sign she thinks
she Is. M
A man occasionally makes what he
thinks is concession, which after
wards turns out sixty or seventy bush
els to the acre.
II you have good opinion Of your
self, and wish others to have 1t. keep
1t to yourself.
When a man says SABBATH instead
of Sunday" that is sign he belongs
to the church.
AS a mule is compelled to listen to
his own voice. we don't blame him for
being chronic kicker.
The reason men don't understand
women is because no woman ever
tries to make herself plain.
Truth is said to be stranger than flc-
ton, yet 1t is only in fiction they get
married and live happily ever after.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08

terms Of the agreement then entered
into no other revision was to be pub
lished until after fourteen years, SO
it was not until the summer Of 1901
that tho American standard edition Of
the revised edition was given out.
foundations in $50 Tongues.
+ Altogether, through the efforts OF the
society, translations OF the bible have
been made into about 45O languages
and dialects.
At tile present time the Bible Society
is printing the bible in three OF the
languages of Africa which have never
been used for writing 1t is also print
ing bibles in five of the languages Of
the Philippines and slowly completing
the printed list Of thirty languages
used in the Islands Of the south Paci.
fic.
A great many Of the books intend.
ed for distribution in the far east are
printed in places other than New
York. For example, there is fine
printing establishment at Yokohama
under the auspices of the Bible soci-
ETY. which employs Japanese workmen
under contract. From this place dis.
tributton is made to the Philippines
and to Korea. The society also prints
in Shanghai and Chentu and at Bangs
kok in Siam, and at Beirut in Syria
similar work is done, some OF it on
presses belonging to the Presbyterian
American Bible Society co-operates.
Many of the colporteurs, particularly
those In the northwest, speak at least
twenty different languages and contin-
ualy requests are coming from them
and from outside people begging that
the bible may be translated into some
dialect or language spoken in far-off
points, the very names of which are
unknown to the majority Of New York
ers. In the agency which distributes
the scriptures from the city OF San
Francisco in California, Nevada, Ore
gon and Washington are Spanish.
speaking Mexicans. Portuguese, one
half of all the Chinese In the United
States, Japanese, Koreans, Hindoos,
Malays. Hawaiians and Filipinos.
Early in its history the society made
arrangements to supply bibles at half
cost to hotels, steamboats, and railroad
cars. and at the principal seaports,
with New York in the lead, large
number are regularly sent among the
naval forces and among seamen gen.
orally. About a million and half
books have been distributed by the
marine committee.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
ArcH1soN GLOBE SIGHTS.

It is always better to throw bou-
quet than pickle.
We all throw a little more cold wa
ter than is necessary.
Every mother is easy" and her
children soon find It out. s3
An old man becomes stove up"
the same as an old horse.
No one admires preacher, or q
woman, who is easily fooled.
The suckers are rapidly providing
sensible people OF the earth
WHAT has become Of the old.fash.
Toned man who said he could do q
thing in the switch Of lambs tail?''
When women wish to praise another
woman's housekeeping abilities, they
say "she has everything around her
house Just So"
As rule when married people kiss
with any degree Of affection, 1t indi.
Gates that they have been parted at
least six months. ii
When man receives an anonymous
letter, he can always put two and two
together, and make a mighty good
guess % to the writer. U
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
HousEHo1pl HINTS.

A plain salt gargle is very good for
sore throat.
Gasoline is good to clean soft white
leather shoes.
k All frozen buildings are improved
by being served with whipped cream.
Mix is good to wash white paint;
cold tea equally good to wash colored
paint.
In buying potatoes pick those that
are Arm and hard and have the few
est eyes"
Leftover biscuit are much better
cut in two and toasted than II merely
warmed over.
When cooking mackerel or other
salt fish. see that the skin side Is
placed uppermost.
To lengthen the life of tin wash
basin. paint is inside with any good
quality of paint.
Clean zinc with kerosene, rubbed on
with soft cloth, and follow with boil.
ing water.
A whisk broom that has outlived it's
usefulness can be shortened and made
into sink brush.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
BEAR TEARS KEEPER.

With his body badly torn and man.
gled by teeth and claws and his left
arm almost torn from its socket, Rich
ard Spicer. keeper at the Bronx
Park Zoo. New York, was unconscious
when rescued from the bear pit after
desperate struggle with an angry
bear. He was removed to hospital
in critical condition. Elwyn Sanborn.
photographer, escaped from the pit
with minor hurts after hard fight
with the animal. Patcha. a huge brown
Russian bear. who had always been
considered mild-tempered, became an.
gered when spicer attempted to make
her sit up with her cubs and pose for
photograph. First dealing him a
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
BIRD CHAT.

s. aa o. d
Birds shun pestilent places and all
places infected with plaques.
The hens Of America lay $50, 900 900
eggs annually.
The swiftest animal is the ostrich,
which can do; a mile minute.
A pigeon has been known to fly a
thousand miles in two days. six hours
and seventeen minutes.
Game cocks and ducks sometimes
take to catching mice, which they de.
YOUR greedily.
The voice of the naked-throated bell
bird can be heard at distance Of
three miles.
In the interior of Peru eggs are
used as currency. Who knows what
kind of eggs they are?
In proportion to Its owners weight,
birds wing is twenty times as strong
as mans arm.
Every eight months ostriches are
plucked, and each plucking yields
about q pound of feathers.
The kick Of an ostrich is terrible;
It will knock out a man quicker than
one Of Jim Jeffries' solar plexus blows
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08

did 1t into Calmuck. There is a copy
Of the "Mazarin bible," the first book
printed from movable metal types in
two volumes, which appeared about the
year 1455 and the first recognized copy
of which was discovered In the library
Of Cardinal Mazarin- hence the title.
It is called the Gutenberg bible,"
from the name of the printer, and
again termed the "Forty-two-line
bible" from the number Of lines in
each column of its pages. Copies of
the several editions of the Gutenberg
bible have been sold for sums which
would procure nearly 100000 bibles
now printed by the American society.
4 There are also copies of the Douay
version Of the bible used by Roman
Catholic Of. the translations from the
Latin vulgate made by the English col
lege at Rheims, of the English version
of the scriptures now in common use
and of the revised edition, the work Of
English and American scholars, which
appeared in 1885. According to the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
so.0oO.QOo volumes in eighty years

s0,0oO,QOOs volumes in eighty years
speaks eloquently to the contrary.
In the salesrcom of the society are
cases filled with duplicate copies of orr
ginal books and manuscripts. The fact
that the building is not freproof is the
reason why the interesting collection
owned by the society is at present
housed at the Lenox library. This
collection contains editions OF the bible
in more than $50 languages and dia-
lects. OF English versions and revi-
slons there are approximately 5000
volumes exclusive of the manuscripts.
Here you will see one of the few
Vinegar bibles Oxford, 1716. in
which a printers mistake has been
immortalized. as in the "Breeches
bible" There is a facsimile of the
bible printed on white satin which was
presented to the empress dowager of
China in 1894 by 10000 Christian
women. There is copy Of the bible
done Into 1.-THE Monaghan dialect by
Schrescherowsky, a cripple, who also
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08


cast aside and thrown the the east wind Prefer
ably that the
weather that II TO the
wind that Americans proudly
the wind carries disease highly bears has
downward component all
It's opposite the wind pencou
day great nation and commercial
well known to that eaery winds either hug the
earth or have upward notion
gather the humidity disease and other bacteria
humid conditions
animal life which
the winds themselves disseminate The
winds They come from above with
that relation
regions where the air is dry highly electrified
exists In comparatively large quantities
west wind is therefore. inygoaing air"
seekers after health
The more constantly hathed in its electricity
component complete
IN sick when friends agonies
pnse whether patient
ing into other regions doctors WIN be quite
needs IS weather II the wind boweth
the sick one viii But the wind is from the
letters
casts impossible ~, 4
Summer visitors Atlantic Indignantly
og Of the east wind foul and humid while the
would willing
MOI Pc sneersd though and i must be deuston that
q an aid health and happiness nceforh eastern
nore doomed friends
east and southeast winds prevail for than six months
cannot nation
lived h which the wind is
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
Iowa News
FALLS FROM TREE WITH AXE.

Nashua Boy a Cripple for Life as
Result of Accident.
Falling from tree with an ak in
his hand, Ernest, the young son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Klinehart, residing
near Nashua, met with an accident
which nearly cost, him his life. He
had climbed up high in tree to cut
OF some limbs. He had started to
come down and when he thought he
was near enough to the ground to
jump he seized the ak by the handle
and leaped. The ak was sharp and
when he lit on the ground the ak was
beneath him blade up. His leg was
horribly cut, catching him in the calf
and cutting its way clear above the
knee. The capsular ligaments were
severed and if he RECEIVERS from the
wound his limb will always be stiff.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08

Mebster Made Neat RetOrt.
As Judge made law is now SO much
discussed, we may recall one Of the
neatest answers in history, as far, at
least, as our own reading goes:
Judge (interrupting Webster's argu.
ment) That Is not law.
Webster-It was law until your hon.
or spoke. Golfers Weekly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08

Generally Has That Eject.
She-I wonder why Methusaleh lived
to such great old age?
He-Perhaps some young woman
married him for his money.-Bo
Ev. Transcript. ~
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08

"A Voice Over the Phone-Is this
Mrs. Tingler's residence?
The Maid Yes.
The voice-Is Mrs. Biddle there
Mrs. Atherton Biddle?
The Maid-Yes, she's playing bridge
with her club. I'm sure she can't
come to the phone.
The Voice-Well, Just say to her
right away, please, that her residence
is. burning.
The Maid-Thank you. I'll let her
know as soon as they finish the set. /
know she wouldn't want me to disturb
her now. Good-by.-st. Paul Dispatch.