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Tie winters were spent, of course, in
Boston, where Aunt Cornelia's friends
looked up to her opinion and encour-
aged her representations that she was
going to have trouble with the girl
Their summers We're spent in LenoX,
and 1t was here. meeting Graham Win
throp. with his sweet. good nature, that
she won her first appreciation from her
relative by consenting to an announce
ment of an engagement with the young
man.
1t seemed as though great relief was
in sight, for he had many qualities
that delighted her. but it was not long
before she realized that to marry him
would be a greater mistake than to
continue her present life. The invita-
ton to spend the spring and summer
with Graham's mother gave her the
opportunity to carry out a scheme that
she had carefully and slowly evolved.
Going into Southampton early one
day, she had succeeded in getting let
ters Of Introduction to several man
dSVlS dilb At tdSt SCNuttu ih' vi
gagement which had ended so diSas-
t~rously. Her father when she made
her announcement to him had come
on from LenoX to eXpostulate. but had
finally consented. Out Of respect for
him she had asked the consent OF
Aunt Cornelia. which had been bitter
ly refused with virago-like denuncia-
ton. And now she had to go back.
Now she would have to admit that she
had failed. and failed miserably! She
had only n more talk with Graham
after his last pleadings on the train
before the day %rehearsals started. He
had come to her two days later and
said he was going abroad.
isn't this rather sudden? % she asked
Il can't help it. Dora" he said. Its
the only thing that will calm me down.
In one way feel hat | ought to stay
around in cas- you should need me;
but. on the other hand. | don't think
l will really be Of much use, and |
must get a change. am going over
FOR only a week or 30. purely to get
the sea air."
And the mex day he sailed.
While the failure Of the venture was
q bitter blow. the thing that bore most
heavily on Dora was the thought that
she. confessedly defeated. would have
to meet Aunt Cornelia. That essen
TALLY decisive type of the New Eng
land spinster had become a veritable
bette noire to the young girl. who was
all seas:;iveness. preponderately emo
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closing Of the tour had come to her In
the thought that at least In the com
pany Of Vavin she would gain the
strength with which to meet the
dreaded female relative.
Vavin was out when they arrived at
the hotel. but they met mt dinner, he
Just as blithesomc and happy over the
meeting as she was. He kissed her
hand affectionately.
my dear little Miss Dora" he said,
ut is so nice to see you again
Her father had told her during the
afternoon thai Vavin had been much
interested in her experiment with the
stage-in fact, he had written To him
mOst sorrowfully that his daughter
was about to go on the stage and that
he had been unable to control her. 1t
was in reply to this letter that Vavin
had accepted the invitation to visit
Fullerton and lecture i'm America.
You have had Il Jolly experience,
en-" he said when they were seated.
you have been III actress, eh:" Then,
noticing that through her smiles there
was a suggestion of n tear, he patted
her hand and said:
ut is very fine to be n a~ctrice, ne
c'est pas? Failure, What is that?
A great experience. Had you succeed
ed you would know little. You have
failed; you are not forgotten
Fullerton himself. however. did not
Cannn fn ryvn fn fIn tY1rt1 thu
v~ersation had taken. and during the
rest OF the dinner he carefully avoided
allowing the subject to be brought up.
1t apparently was a great humiliation
for this man that first a wife and then
a daughter should have gone into
the well ordered world.
They passed the evening at the the
alter. Vayin, much to his own amaze
ment, had found that he had an en-
gagement in the fiat west" as he call
ed it.
81 had expected" he explained to
Dora. that if | did any other lecturing
than that which Professor Fullerton
had asked me to do it would be a mat
ter that | would think over. But be-
fore l left Paris l signed an agreement
TO lecture quite frequently. arrived
today. I lecture tomorrow afternoon
In Pittsburg. Is 1t not? Wonderful
country! should not have been sur
prised at all, though | hardly contem-
plated such a thing. believe me. had /
been met halfway on the cea by a
steamship full Of people who wished
to hear Of the wondrous beauties Of
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the principal actors the next day he
expressed his belief that the good
things they all looked forward to
would Don be realized.
1t was not until the end of the week
that. while their expectations were still
at the highest, they learned the truth
The big man from New York had de
clared the play was rotten" and had
refused To give il any more time either
In New York or elsewhere. and the no
tice was posted on the call board.
Company will close on Saturday night
next"
1t was a bitter blow for Dora Full
lerton. Hardly over twenty. she had
fought out what to her was a great
resolution and d~iScouraging conditions.
Her mother she had never known.
Her father. a kindly but academic
man., had never quite seemed to under
stand her, while his sister had insisted
that all of her improper instincts were
those of her mother, who. like herself,
had longed for a stage career against
III oIl'VNllItH ~ utl buNDtlIu anu W
the disgust of her si~ster-in-law. AS far
back as she could remember Dora had
been accustomed to being told by her
aunt that everything she had liked to
do was the wrong thing. If as a child
she was rebelliOuS over a household
edict she WAS told that she had the
nasty temper Of her mother; If she
spoiled 4 frock it was a slipshod habit
of her mother that she had inherited;
If she took a mild. childlike fancy to
some boy she had her mothers friv-
olous disposition. and Aunt Corne!ia
was always With her to drive home her
belief that the girl had no individual
ity other than an inherited one. with
no good in it
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WHAT DoE HE NOW o 1T ANY.
wAY2"
it was to Holcomb. He had declared
to her that she had deserved favorable
comment.
Notwithstanding this the company's
hopes were still high. for. while they
all bought morning papers rapidly to
get the opinions of the critics, when
they had read them there was an al
most unanimous outburst, What does
he know about it anyway
The third day there was considerable
excitement, for word had gone round
that the big man from New York"
was coming up to look over the piece,
and that meant surely that they would
soon be back on Broadway" During
the performances there was no talk
about anything but how the big man
vas taking it, reports being brought
back between acts by the treasurer of
the company.
HE says 1t Is a Knockout" was the
first report that vas carried from ear
to ear. Nobody ever saw him laugh
so much" was whispered about. I'VE
will run all season on Broadway was
the third electric charge that fred their
minds and warmed their hearts and
sent them galloping on joyously to the
end Of the play.
At the little supper parties into
which members broke up that evening
there was q great content, whether 1t
was over the more liberal spread Of
the principals in the restaurants of the
main hotel or owe the beef and cheese
of the stage carpenter and the minor
actors. Once more they would be get
ting home: once more they would be
back on their beloved "thoroughfare
Of the theaters:" once more they would
be before the public to which they
loved to play, and. OF course. the lnan-
cial end Of 1.-THE fact that they could
save m~oney-that was moi forgotten.
Bleiman himself was not in evidence.
but In such short talks a. he had with
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tlonal and dominated by the gentlest

ohu Nominated ny Tue StulleSl
impulses.
Her father me- her at the train when
she arrived in New York and was
even more a1feCtionate. more gentle
ana more sympathetic than was his
wont. but underneath ii al she could
see that he was glad-that he regard
ed 1t a victory for his judgment-and
she thought If he We're unable to con
zeal his cXultation over her defeat
what would not Aunt CorneIia show.
They cot into n cab ut Forty-second
street, and he explained that they
were also in New York to meet NJ.
Nayin.
M. Nayin!' exclaimed Dora. Il did
not know he WAS to come so soon"
\ warm thrill went through her AT
the thought that once more she was to
meet the kind, distinguished gentle
MAJ who seemed always to have UNI
derStood her, even more than her own
father.
Ills resolution was rather sudden
said the professor. land, frankly, 1t
caused a little trouble, as we had I'M
dertaken to have Doumice come owe
and give The lectures, and DoumiCe
really was announced. Doumice him
self wired us that there had been
changes in his program made neces-
sary by family affairs and that he had
persuaded Navin to deliver the course
for him and take up the work. or
course it is perfectly splendid"
And he is here in town." asked
Dora.
Yes; he Is stopping 1T the hotel"
She settled back In the cab. The
first contented feeling hat she had
had since the announcement Of the
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E. C.. MILLER, M. D.-Physician and
surgeon. Hours: 8 to 1870 a. IN.
l:30 to 4:30 p. m. z to s p. N.
Phone, office, 70; residence 275.
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Ito be %continued.)
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b. T. GREEN-Physician and surgeon
Office, Binford Block. Room |. Phone
B-9. Hours 9 a. III. to IL m. / D.
m. to 5 p. n. Residence 715 9th
Ave, Phone 293. Hours 5 p. IN. to
9 a. m, 70 m. to 1 p. m. Calls
answered at all hours.
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".

CHAPTER ".
\ TT took only ii week of expert.
! nee with audiences i'm towns
- ranging from 10000 to 10000
- Inhabitants for Dora TO learn
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BIRDsEYE VIEW OF BROGKINGs.

No Saloons.
Two Banda.
One Bakery.
Three Hotels.
Three Dentists.
Six Physicians.
Two Laundries
One state Bank
Eight Churches.
TWO Osteopaths.
One Music Store.
Big FIGURING MIL
Four Restaurants.
Four Drug stores.
one Machine Shop.
Two Meat Markets.
TWO Cigar Factories,
Fine Lake Near City
Three Barber Shops.
Three Weekly Papers
Two National Banks.
Four Grain elevators.
Three Lumber Yards.
Moving Picture Theatre.
City of Beautiful Homes.
Best Schools in the State.
Good Water Near Surface.
Marble and Granite Works.
Four Thousand Inhabitants.
Glove and Mitten Factory.
Cement Block Mandatory.
10000 Brick School Building.
$4,000 Grad School Building.
Municipal Telephone Exchange.
One Bonded Abstract Company.
one Semi-Monthly Farm Journal.
County Seat OF Brookings County.
United states Experiment Station.
Seven hundred Students in College.
Municipal Sewer and Waterworks.
Finest Church Buildings in the state.
One Monthly Periodical. The Collegian.
First-class Opera House and Auditorium,
state College OF Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts.
over Nine Hundred Students In the city
Schools
Two billiard Halls and Bowling Alley as
places OF amusement
Electric Light and Heating Plant Owned
and Controlled by city.
brictson Manufacturing Company. makers
OF the Brictson Tire Tread.
surrounded by the best farming land In
the state, where crops are sure and bountlfuI.
Beautiful trees line the streets and the
city presents a fine appearance, matted as
II IL IN the midst OF a fine growth of shade
ana ornamental trees. Her citizens are will
Ing and ready to encourage and assist every
helpful Industry.
Home of the Brictson Tread.
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NHNk
IXI eHcp with audiences in towns
k@@~1~3 ranging from 10000 to 10000
C-@--9 Inhabitants for Dora to learn
the difference between a papered
house and a real audience and TO un
derstand the true significance of the
bad" house
The FIRST night the company was fun
of excitement and joy. rumors and
gossip, expectations and beliefs When
the curtain Went down on the last net
Of the play for the first time every
member Of the company was quit
sure that he or she bad made a great
hit The author. who was travelling
with II. was positive that his play was
q masterpiece The manager was pos
tive that h" would have three or four
New YOrk houses Offering him time
Everybody agreed that the play had
gone reasonably we'll Ludlow said he
never saw so much enthusiasm In an
audience.
HOlcOmb alone was calm and APP
parently unaffected by the general ex-
element.
The play is bad" he said to Dora
as he walked with her to her hotel
"atrociously bad, and | am afraid we
will all be PANIED in the morning.
a bit of theatrical slang with which
Dora had become familiar by this
time, understanding that it referred
10 an editorial rather thar to a culinary
process.
Holcomb was right. Even the de-
spised critics in this small town de-
clared the next day that the piece was
they omitted all mention of Dora her
self was not as great a blow to her as
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r. ROYS-General practitioner and
surgeon, also special attention given
lung troubles, piles and chronic dis
eases. Rooms 4 and 5 Binford block.
ONCE hours: 10 to 10; 2 to S.
Phone, 10; residence, BIOL. Resi-
dence, corner Medary avenue and
Williams street.
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INQUIRY
IN DOUBLE TRAGEDY

CUMBERLAND, MD.-Special.-The e
discovery of a new clew in the ante
nuptial tragedy, which cost the lives
OF Grace Elosser and her fiancee.
Charles Edward TwiEg, today led to
postponement Of the inquest until
this evening. II was reported that the
authorities have secured enough evil
dence to establish the theory that
Fwigg carried poison into the EIosseT
home. All the members of the Elosser
family and a number OF others have
been subpoenaed for the inquest
The belief prevails that a verdict
OF double suicide would be returned.
In the past twenty-four hours States
Attorney Robb has concentrated his
effort to learn the Identity OF a mys-
terious third person who, he is con-
vinced, must have been in the room
where the dead bodies were found
and removed the receptacle that held
the fatal draught.
The authorities have been unable
TO discover where the deadly cyanide
or potassium was obtained.
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RIOTERS CLASH
WITH SOLDIERS
High Price of Food Causes Trou-
bic in zuera,
Spain.

LISBON. Special. Several were kill
ed and fifty were wounded today in a
pitched battle between Spanish sol
diers and rioters at Zuera, Spain, ac-
cording to advices received by the
Seculo- The rioting was the result
or the high prices OF food.
-Four thousand strikers attacked
shops and the public buildings and
when the soldiers arrived a pitched
battle followed. The soldiers, with
drawn arms, attacked the mob, but
the mass was so compact that Il could
not be scattered.
Volleys were fired on both sides. and
all the windows in the houses near
the scene OF the battle were broken
by flying bullets and missiles. There
were many women among the rioters.
Men and women, gaunt and farnish-
ed, fought with desperation side BY
side.
Many OF the soldiers who were
wounded are thought to have suffered
fractured skulls from the flying clubs
ana stones Zuera is in the province
OF Sargossa, where labor troubles
have prevailed for sometime.
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discussions and meetings nave con-
sidered only the export field, with
corresponding unfortunate effect on
public opinion in Latin America and
It's attitude towards the efforts OF the
United States TO increase its com
merce with that important part OF
the world.
Another special feature will be
careful consideration. from the stand
point OF the business interests OF all
the American countries interested In
the Panama Canal OF what should be
done to get ready for greater ex-
change Of trade through that water
way and to gain practical advantages
to their commerce from the day II Is
opened Heretofore most OF the dis
cussion has been about the wonderful
good that will come from the canal
without any consideration OF what
should be done now to secure that
good. ugaE
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POSSE SEARCHES
FOR TRAIN ROBBERS

SEATTLE, WASH.-Special Armed
posses which have been securing the
country around Seattle and police who
nave been conducting a rigid search
through the city's under world since
midnight, seeking a trace OF two han
dts who held up and robbed the
North Coast Limited, the Northern
Pacifc's crack Chicago train. at Argo.
within the city limits last night, have
oeen unable to find a clew
IL Is believed the robbers vyere the
same men who robbed the Overland
express at Ogden, Utah. escaDing
with $4,000 in loot. AS in the Og-
den robbery, the robbers were ruth
less and deliberate. They shot down
Harry q. Clark, In charge OF the mail
car, and fired at Clerk Reid.
Then they looted the car while
Clark and Reid looked on from a
clothes locker in which they had
been locked.
There is little doubt that they es-
capeo with valuable plunder as the
car was carrying an unusually heavy
amount of registered mail.
Familiar With Workings.
The robbers displayed an intimate
knowledge OF the mail car and it's
workings. In fact. Clark stated that
they seemed to be as familiar with
the car, and the mail, it's routing
etc, as If they had been trained mali
clerks. --'''''
The fact that the holdup and robs
perry had been perpetrated did not
become known to the train crew or
anyone save the mailnen until the
train reached Auburn, fifteen miles
1lstant from Argo. At Auburn the
Tacoma section OF the North coast is
attached, and the full train made up.
me discovery was made by the Ia
coma Railway clerks as they boarded
the car. which they found empty as
TO clerks. but with tell-tale blood
stains on the floor and mail, regis
tered and other, scattered about They
quickly liberated the imprisoned men
and notified the train crew of the
hoidup and robbery. The bandits had
made good their escape.
Saw Two Men Swing on.
Where they left the train is not
definitely known, but doubtless at
Kent, about five miles this side of
Auburn, where the engineer recalled
seeing two men swing off as the train
slowed down. Following the report
OF the train robbery detectives OF the
city and railway company were i'm
mediately dispatched from Seattle and
Tacoma, under Sheriff Matt Starwfch.
Two men were arrested on suspicion
they turned out to be tramps.
After Clark's wounds had been
dressed In the receiving hospital he
was unable to give further particu-
lars, stating that the two swung into
the door of his mail car. which he
had not closed, about a mile south of
the Union Station as the train moved
slowly out OF the yards His head
was turned as one OF the bandits.
without uttering a word, shot him,
seemingly In the belief that Clark In
tended to offer resistance.
Reid. from whom the detectives
have had word by wire, corroborated
Clark's statements.
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Justice Davis gave her the decree.
Mrs. Hamlin had instructed her law
yer, Morris Jacobs, Of sc Pine Street.
not TO ask for alimony.
i want to be free from Arthur
forever" said she; that will be
enough to make me happy again"
Mrs. Hamlin was sixteen and called
: the prettiest girl in Illinois when
she met Hamlin ten years ago. He
was only eighteen, but an extremely
fascinating fellow. He has remained
fascinating, but not to her. He was a
dilettante at painting. She posed to
MIN IN his studio as a modest sweet
girl who is discovered by her sweet
heart when she is wading in the brook
and hides from him in the foliage.
Three days after her first sitting
Tor that picture she and Hamlin went
suburb and were married.
Arthur and i lived in a beautiful
but silly dream for a while" says
Mrs. Hamlin
She was not disillusioned even
when she learned her husband had
no money; They lived on hers. she
asserts. He found and lost a position
In Chicago He painted her in nu-
merous poses, and the pictures won
praise IL they gained little money.
They came to New York and Ham
lin found a position at better paw
SAe'h hS ever ttdu received. But lust
as all seemed to be going well with
them he disappeared. After a long
search she found him. she saws. liv-
ing in fiat on West Fifteenth Street.
this city, where there also lived a
widow. fifty-eight years old, and her
young daughter. Both women seem
ed infatuated with Hamlin. His wife
explains that state Of mind thus:
Arthur was the most entrancing
man.. All he had to do was to look
at woman with that languishing
gaze Of his and she would go to the
end of the earth for him"
The enhancing Arthur won his
wife's forgiveness. Then he went TO
the end Of the earth" on his own
account. From time to time she got
letters from him-from Alaska. from
Europe. from South America. Always
he asked for money. she says, to bring
him back to her. his only love" Al
ways he was on the verge of splen-
did success. She sent him money re-
peatedly. Then she learned Of new
infdelities; yet his opportunities for
money continued.
Mrs. Hamlin broke down through
worry For months she was In the
care OF three physicians at Palm
Beach, Fla. She was too fl to come
here to testify in her divorce action
and a commission took her testimony
in Florida.
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MAY REVOKE LICENSE.

BRISTOL, VA. Special. For remain
ing open all day December 26th, a pub
lie holiday, when all OF the other sa-
looms were closed. the Home Liquor
Company may have it's license revoked
and forfeit to the city a large amount
being the license at $500 per year
until May.
Judge Kelly today issued a rule
against the concern to show cause on
January 18th why it's license should not
be cancelled and the place closed up
The saloon did an enormous business
on account Of the fact that the otherq
were closed, having taken in, IL is said
bout S2,500. 1t sold out it's entire
stock. In the rule Judge Kelly does
not directly pass upon the legal ques-
ton as the right OF the saloon TO stay
open, but intimates that it did so un-
lawfully. He also says that 81 Is charg-
ed that II caused much disorder by re-
naming open.
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NEW YORK. Jan. IA line Of de-
senger" and a "ieadhead passenFe-''
travelling on it's lines has been estab-
lished in an order just issued by the
Long Island Railroad, whereby per-
sons trav1 aS on passes will be COM
PEELED to make known their identity
II the tr:in is crowded, and give up
their sea- 40 the fare-paying passen-
ger. Passea ISSUED for free transporta-
uon now bear this paragraphs:
This pass is issued with the dis
not permitted to occupy a seat in a
crowded train to the exclusion OF a
revenue passenger. Failure TO observe
pass"
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HEIRESS TO $4,000
FOUND PENNILESS

WASHINGTON, D. c. Special
Mamie Miller. twenty-five years old.
VIII arrive here tomorrow, almost
penniIess, to claim property worth
$4,000.
When Mrs. Fannie Miller died Of
heart disease on Christmas Eve law
yers began to seek for the daughter.
VINO three months before had taken
up her residence IN Baltimore. AGENT
were sent out through the southern
part or Pennsylvania, into the District
OF Columbia and Maryland, and ad-
Verusements were inserted in various
papers One of the advertisements
was seen by q lawyer Of Frederick.
He wired to Baltimore and before
nightfan Mrs. Miller's daughter was
located She was living in q little hall
gone.
1t is believed that a quarrel between
the girl and her mother caused the
daughter to leave Baltimore without