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as to look at me cross-eyed I'd put a
hole through every bone in his head.
-" would. too" she asseverated, with
a decided nod. Much less lay'even
a finger upon me! " = Search, indeed"
Cynthia could muster but the most
faint OF smiles. Her care for Crittenden
preoccupied her every thought and fac
| ulty. She could not rest for thinking of
him. Nothing else mattered.
In retrospect, in after days, she thought
I it strange enough that she gave the cpl
sode of Perez so little consideration, after
the first vehemence Of her anger waned.
AS for apprehension lest he resume his
advances. the possibility never occurred
to her, who held his declaration, like him
self. SO insignificant that she forgot both
altogether in the urgency of her more
pressing affairs; considering him, when
she considered him at all, in the light of
an exceptionally Objectionable and annoy
ing element in the mixture of her di-
lemma, rather than as a sentient human
being, potent for good or evil, or owning
any actual claim upon her heed.
Nothing whatever mattered but the
intolerable exigency of her need to be
with Crittenden.
Whether to spare himself the sight of
her, or vice versa, Crittenden kept away
from the beach From that moment
when he turned back from contempla-
ton OF the departing lifeboat, though all
day long Cynthia searched the island in
cessantly with her hungering gaze. she
saw nothing Of the man. She deduced
disability--he did not show himself be-
cause he could not.
She was haunted for hours by the pic
ture Of him lying helpless in the burn
ing sun glare. unable to crawl to shade
by reason Of the infirmity of his wound.
For hours at a time she walked the
deck in an agony of powerlessness. She
could do nothing. By no stratagem her
mind could hit upon could she contrive
to send him either aid or word that he,
lonely, outcast. suffering, was, at least.
not denied by the woman of his love, the
woman who loved him; that she was
eaten up with longing to be with him. to
be his comfort in his pain. the partner
of his Punishment.
That there existed a barrier to their
love she put altogether out of her
thoughts. Nothing but love mattered.
She loved him and her place was by his
side. Her pride. the censure Of the
world, the morality in whose shadow
she had been reared-these mattered moth
ing in her love-sickened understanding.
She was pertinacious in her reserve;
her secret remained her own; this thing
which had come to her was far too sa-
cred for the proclamation of confession
even to Nine. Savaran, of whom she had
grown so fond. And madame. however
profoundly she suspected. got small sat
isfaction out Of her disingenuousy cas-
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lions of railways to the community, COW
ering the substance Of various reports.
The questions which are affected by these
matters now being acutely in public view,
1T is a service to reprint, in a single vol
ume, these. Illuminating discussions of
the great transportation problem.
A PLAYTHING OF THE GODS. BY
Carl Gray. Boston,: Sherman.
French & Co.
Fate, having made him, has a right to
toss and worry him. like cat with mouse.
Mr.. Gray embodies this theme in the life
story of a young Spanish boy in whose
blood old ancestors set the battlefield
against young modern life It is merely
the old and hopeless story Of one against
the countless beings and influences that
its color and flavor from it's setting in
California when the lines between Span
lard and "Gringo" were hard and black.
1t is a stately, decorous story. more Span
ish than American, and interesting chiefly
in that it makes believable picture of
early California as a fragment of old
Spain.
A CAPTAIN UNAFRAID; the Strange
Adventures Of Dynamite johnny
Smith as Set Down by Horace Smith,
Author Of "The War Maker" IL
Illustrated. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
The fifteen papers that make up the
chapters of this volume appeared recently
in the pages of The Stars Sunday Maya
zine, forming a most interesting feature
Of historical writing. The exploits Of
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hinges. and kept closed by a long bal
stapled into the granite.
These are the covers Of bricked-ur
springs They have a well-like interior
excepting that the recess is square in.
stead of round. 1t is a pleasantly shaded
section of the park, and though asphalt
walks wind near the granite blocks and
traps they usually escape observation.
These wells, or springs. now dry OF
nearly SO. were once upon time the
springs which supplied water to uptown
Washington, to the uptown government
offices and to the White House.
Franklin Square was famous for Its
springs when Washington was young.
Before the decision of Congress to remove
the seat of government to the Potomac,
Franklin Square was low and marshy
piece of land on the farm called Port
Royal. owned by Gen. John Davidson.
In 1876 this part of Davidson's land was
subdivided into thirty lots. which. in the
division Of lots between the original land
owners and the federal government, fell
to the share of the United States In
1901 these lots were acquired by Benja-
min Stoddert. The springs began to at
tract the notice of settlers in the federal
city, and in 1916 an appropriation was
made by the corporation of Washington
for the purchase of q spring and the
necessary adjacent land. One of these
springs was chosen, and from ii was run
a pipe line of hollow logs down 18th
street to F and along to 18th. About
1920 this pipe line was extended to sup
ply the White House with drinking
water.
In 1920 the remainder of the square was
bought by the government from the men
who had become lot owners in 1t. 1t is
believed that there was no building on
the land. The sum appropriated for the
purchase Of the square and for fencing
it was $4,000.
The exact date of the discontinuance
Of the log pipe line can readily be ascer-
tanned 1t was about 1884. The springs
continued active until some time in the
eighties, when the digging of the founda-
ton pits for some of the tall hotels to the
west and northwest of the square seemed
to cut the underground watercourse, SO
that now only a trickle of water finds its
way into the almost forgotten springs.
A great deal Of filling and grading was
done in Franklin Square in 1882, when
1t was brought up to street grade. The
square was nearly covered with wooden
barracks i'm 1861 for the accommodation
of incoming troops. 1t was in 1854 that
the square really became a park. That
was the year in which the laying out of
walks and the planting Of trees was be-
gun.
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III builder has good clean foundation
dirt or cellar dirt Col. Cosby will let him
dump it here free. It's big SAVING TO
contractors. On other dumps, like those
across the Highway bridge near Arlington
Junction, they charge cents load to
let man dump his wagon, or six loads
for a quarter, at the same time he Is Nil
ing up another mans land.
Where we are standing now l used to
run sand. There was canal here The
old Chesapeake and Ohio canal used TO
| run right along B street there. The lock-
house is that stone house at the south
, west corner of 18th and B, just at the
entrance to the park. We keep our tools
in there now, and on the wall or the
| house is the date 1887. The lock was
| where that flower bed is in the middle
of B street just this side of the American
Republics building. You know the old
canal came in at Easby's point at the foot
| of 26th street, ran along B street to 6th
where the Pennsylvania railroad station
stood. turned down 9th to about half way
between Missouri avenue and Maine ave-
nue.. then ran through the park to Sd
street, to south B street, to Canal street.
| to Delaware avenue. to Virginia avenue,
/ to the Eastern branch. coming out just
where the pumping station is now.
There were bridges over the canal
at 14th, 18th. 10th. Eth, 9Th. AZ and Sd
ginia avenue, New Jersey avenue, I'd
| street and N street All these bridges
were wood except that at New Jersey
avenue, which was a big stone arch.
Zone branch of the canal ran down
| 18th street to the river, which covered
the flats where this park is, and later
they cut a canal right through where this
dump is to street, and We used it to
run sand into. When we didn't have that
kind Of work to do We used to work for
the contractor who was building the B
street sewer. which followed the line
of the old canal. You can see part of
the old canal wall over there by the Red
Cross Exhibit building.
well, here comes another load"
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Evident.
! Harper's Weekly.

From Harpers Weekly.
This car said the demonstrator, SIS
almost human. Perhaps you have no.
ticed@
,"Yes, / have" said Binks. dryly. ut
reminds me OF several men 1 know-been
smoking ever since we left the garage,
and the last hill we climbed Ii pulled like
a porpoise. Haven't you something that
is less human and more generally salts
factory"
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in the garden is perhaps a prospect that
gives them pleasure. They are quiet-seem-
ing animals, though their heads suggest
that, though pinioned in bronze as they
are, they are alert.
II
The four big concrete lions at the ends
of the Connecticut Avenue bridge are re-
markable for the hardness of their ma
ture, the erectness of their heads, the
ferocity of their expression and the
height Of their resting place.
The lions on the Sixteenth Street
bridge are also worthy of the attention
Of faunal naturalists.
There is a private residence on 9Th
street northwest the front door of which
is kept by two polished black lions-look-
ing something like Newfoundland lions.
They were born and bred in castiron.
They are watch lions, or watchdog lions,
and SO amiable is their disposition that
the tenants of that house and often
strange callers there sit on their backs.
Probably other lions are on duty In
Washington, but the Rambler has es-
capped them.
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grounds across the road from the spring
lives Col. Wright Rives. U. S. A.. re-
tired. He owns the spring and much of
the battle-ground. 1t was he who built
the brick springhouse over Barney spring
not long after the close of the civil war,
and caused the old dipper to be chained
there. Col. Rives has identified by means
of buttons and other metal parts of
trench in which the British dead were
laid by the Americans the day after the
fight. The line of this old trench is
within easy pistol shot of his house.
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When Springs Were Used.

FLUSH with the turf of Franklin Park,
and about fifteen yards north of the
fountain playing there, a person by vio-
lating the warning to keep off the grass
will come upon two square pieces OF
granite. each side of them being about
four feet long. Over these granite
squares are laid trap doors fastened
to the stone by two long and heavy iron
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The Old Canal.

COUTH Of street, north of line
- drawn west from the'John Paul Jones
statue and within hailing distance of the
beautiful building Of the international
union of the American republics. Is a
weedy wilderness. This is one Of the Sec
tons of Potomac Park which has not
been touched by the landscape architect
Yet this section of the great park is
grit on four sides by oiled roadways over
which trains of autos whirl and also by
wide saddle paths of earth and cinders.
Near the foot Of 18th street a rough half
made road Of clay leads of into the weeds.
At the far end of this road is an ex-
tensive Dump A dirt wagon had dropped
it's bottom and deposited its burden. and
a darkly tanned 1aborer. gray-haired, thin
and muscular, spat on his hands and be-
gan with a long-handled shovel to level
the bump. On all sides of this dump and
laborer rose weeds. smartweed, cow-tail
weed and annaweed, taller than a mans
head and so dense that a man could not
fight his way through them.
''This is good dirt" he said 'They
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the British commander, reported 90
killed and 1876 wounded, and because Of
close quarters and heavy ball, with low
velocity. the percentage of ,mortalities
| high. DR.. Catlett Of Gen. Winder's staff
declared that he was told by q British
surgeon that 100 men had been buried
on the field. and it is narrated that on
the day of the hurried departure of the
| British. the day following the battle, fifty
or sixty British soldiers were found dead
on the field and were buried by the
Americans. The American loss was 20
killed and 81 wounded.
The War Department was sleepy in OPP
posing the designs Of the British. In May.
1914. the brig Ida from Rochelle arrived
at Boston with tidings that the allies had
entered Paris The same intelligence was
| brought by the ship Fair American, which
reached Sandy Hook from Liverpool May
ID. 1914 American representatives abroad
advised the State Department that sew
embarked on troopships and, under con-
voy of Admiral Cochrane, had sailed for
the Chesapeake. Still the administration
slept
1t was not until July 1. 1914. that the
President called a meeting of his cabinet
to discuss plans for the defense of Wash
ington. The plan Of defense was glorious
| on paper. AS a preliminary a new mill
northern Virginia. the District of Column
| bia and Maryland. This was carved out
of Military District No. ). commanded by
| Gen. Moses Porter, soldier of merit and
experience. The officer assigned to the
command Of the new district was Gen.
Winder, recently returned. to the United
States after Imprisonment in Canada.
having been captured at the Battle of
Stony Creek, June 3, 1913. No particular
censure attached to Gen Winder by rea-
son of the Stony Creek affair. Some
writer's have alleged that the appoint
msnt Of Winder was due to political rea-
sons. He was related to Levin Winder.
Governor OF Maryland. whom Mr.. Inger-
soll in his historical sketch of the war Of
1912 says Mr.. Madison and Mr.. Monroe
deemed it expedient to favor. The oper-
atoms of the British and the Americans
after the landing of the invaders at Bene-
dict. Charles county, Nd, is long and
interesting story.
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The spring marked the second line to
which the Americans fell back after the
crossing of the Eastern branch had been
forced. The second line was formed
across the turnpike Barney and the
sailors from his fotilla held the center
and blocked the road at the spring. Right
there were killed Col. Thornton, Capt.
Hamilton and Lieut.. Codd of the British
invaders.
In a beautiful old house set in ample
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Gibbs-I admire a man who says the
right thing at the right moment.
Dibbs-So do I-particularly when ] m
thirsty.-Boston Transcript
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n the course Of q day many hundred
people pass along the Bladensburg
road between Washington, Bladens-
burg and the numerous villages and
country homes beyond. Near where
the District boundary crosses this road,
and there is a big sign at that point
which announces District Boundary"
one sees an old spring. 1t is on the east
side of the way. 1t has been bricked up
and over until it's north front, or the
drinking side, looks like an old-fashioned
fireplace. A man looks down or reaches
down into the water Of the spring
through an arch. By the side of the
spring, secured by a heavy chain hangs
an iron dipper, nearly fiat. but with con-
cavity enough in the drinking surface to
hold good drink. The dipper is extraor-
dinarily large, heavy and clumsy. and
the iron is blistered into huge scales 1t
seems to be a venerable vessel. Over
hanging the spring and shading the turf
for some distance around are two naples.
an elm and gnarled old cedar that have
marked that spring SO long that oldest
memory runs not to the contrary.
From this spring the view sweeps over
the tops of the trees that grow about 600
yards beyond along the little stream,
whose ShaQOWy banks were q DlOOQy anu
famous dueling ground in the early part
of the nineteenth century. The view also
sweeps across the Eastern branch and
over Lowndes hill and the other hills that
rise to the north and east Of Bladens-
burg.
X
Thousands of men pass this walled-up
spring, and in summer many pause to
drink ! Not many Of the pilgrims know
aught of this spring than that the shade
which overspreads it and the water It
pours forth are cooling and refreshing.
Yet this is one of the historic springs Of
the world.
1t is Barney spring, so-called for ninety
eight years, and will be so called for all
the ages that it may flow. 1t was in the
field around this spring and on the road
that Iasses it that most of the killing
in the battle of Bladensburg. preceding
the British sack of Washington, took
place on that sultry and fateful afternoon
of August "a, 1914. Any valor the Amer
lean regulars and hastily collected vol
unteers showed in their opposition to
Wellington's veteran troops, and it was
considerable, was shown at the point OF
the line marked by this spring. And the
killing was not inconsiderable. The ac-
counts of the losses at Bladensburg are.
as in most battles. conflicting. Gen. Ross,
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This is good dirt" he said. 'They
don't let rough stuff be dumped here
There's lots of filling to be done here and
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n the course of a day many hundred
people pass along the Bladensburg
road between Washington, Bladens-
burg and the numerous villages and
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The Public Library has among fits users
large number of persons who read sew
eral foreign languages. The readers or
French constitute the largest number OF
these. In response to demands the IL
brary furnishes liberal supply OF the
best current French publications. This
weeks list includes French fiction ex-
clusively.
The pioneer express., 1912-01-26
ROBERT J. CuRRIE

Robert j. Currie has been in a hospit-
al at Seattle for some time and on Thurs
dry last his daughter, Mrs. Earl Wright,
received telegram stating that an.
operation had been Performed and his
condition was SO serious that his life was
despair d Of. A reply to message stat
ed that he would probably linger for
some days and ON Friday evening Mrs.
Wright and William Currie of Tyner,
left for Seattle. Sunday morning Mr..
Wright received telegram stating that
Mr.. Currie had passed away and that
his remains would be brought here for
interment in the Tyner cemetery. where
his wife Is buried. just when the body
will arrive is not definitely known nor
the date at which the funeral will be
held. Mr.. Currie was one of the early
settlers of the Tyner section and resided
there until a few years ago when he pur-
chased the George Taylor farm, adjoin.
ing Bathgate, and removed to this place.
His health became bad and he decided
to rent hrs farm and 60 to Washington
in hopes that climatic conditions would
restore his health. For "a time the
change improved his physical condition
but for some time past he has been fail
ing. He held many positions Of honor
and trust while residing in this county
and was one of the best known and most
highly respected of our citizens. A man
of splendid moral ana Christian char
acter and of benevolent and kindly
nature. The regret at his demise is
general and heartfelt all over the county.
-Plnk Paper.
The pioneer express., 1912-01-26
A. b RoLIRNs

On Monday, January 18th. Mr.. Follens
passed away at the age of u years. For
nine years Mr. Follens has been almost
helpless from the effects of parlaytic
stroke. The funeral was conducted BY
Rev Father Melleux at st Patricks
church, Crystal, at 10 o'clock a. m. ON
Wednesday the 18th. The remains were
laid to rest in the cemetery at st. Thom-
as.
Deceased was one of the early settlers,
and pioneered here when houses were
few and far between. He was genial
companion and widely known.
Tue stroke which made an invalid Of Q
hale and hearty man of the day before,
fell upon him when driving from Edin.
burg one night in the early fall nine
years ago. He was alone and fell out OF
the buggy and lay at the roadside ill
night in the cold. Search was made for
him early in the evening hut he was not
located until early the following morn
ing. He laid at the point Of death for
long time, but finally rallied Crystal
Call.
The pioneer express., 1912-01-26
y. s. a !. Good Enough.

crookston Times:
Carl Hellstrom, accompanied by his
family, spent yesterday in the city and
left this morning for Devils Lake, near
whore he formerly resided. Mr.. He'll
strom has been farming near Odina,
Canada. for the past i've years and re-
Gently sold his farms, stock aud every.
thing he owned there, and came back to
the states.
Il never was 50 glad to get away from
9 place and get back TO Gods country
again." he said to : friend at the Great
Northern depot People who have s
farm in this section Of the northwest aro
insane to 90 to Canada. The winters
are extremely severe and the frosts ars .
menace TO the crops every year, nearly
always doing more or less damage and
often running the crops completely.
Il am glad 70 get back, and shall lo-
cate 10 Of near Moorhead Minnesota
or North Dako,a Ars good enoagh ~
mo in tho future and / would adviiss NJ
farmer very stsongly gaiiust goiina .
Canada nnless sheJ hass . IL may
y god refuge III j sssN. but I 1ant lIl3I -
|of II III mins Drain priees. ~ ll B
crops ~ nm IN ~, sailll lllsils
|tiss =, srlr j. i ~
- ohnle adyaat j Ssl T. ID -
[|s9
The pioneer express., 1912-01-26
Three Pioneers Passed Away.
1ouls RL.A1s

j il H.
Tho death Of Louis Blais, pioneer resi-
ent Of Bathgate. occurred Tuesday even-
ing. Mr.. Blais had been i'll for several
months and last week he was taken 10
the Grafton hospital to, be operated mp
on, but owing to his critical condition it
was decided that an operation would
hasten death. So the operation was NOT
performed. Mr.. Blais was we'll known
throughout this community and besides
= number Of relatives had many friends
in Neche. He leaves 81 wife, three
daughters and two sons to mourn his
death. Mrs. Josephine Resler is sister,
and Mrs. Hector LeClair daughter Of
the deceased. IN .che Chronotype.