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Getting It Straight.

From the Boston Transcript.
Shell believe you married me simply
because I had money.
He-Quite the opposite, madam. I mar
ried you because hadn't any.
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Called to Ohio by Brothers Death.

Thomas c.. Taylor Of 1924 New Hamp-
shire avenue was called to Ohio today by
news of the death OF his brother, DR..
George kennon Taylor. The deceased.
who was practicing physician, died yes
terday of pneumonia.
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Sales-Regular call, IL O'Clock noon:
Washington Railway and Electric As, $1,000
at so.
Washington Railway and Electric CON-, 10 at
s611. Is at SSH. 5 at S6H.
Commercial National Bank, 1 at 1851, at
1881
After cal-Potomac Electric %. 81 900 at 100
81 600 at 105 81 900 at 1O5. 81 600 at l0o, $1,000
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A Gutter.

From the Chicago Record Herald
at wouldn't marry the handsomest man
that ever lived" she said with unneces-
sary emphasis"
I'm sorry" he replied. i've always
liked YOU SO much
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NEW YORK CURB PRICES.
NEW YORK METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK. December 26-Duni

NEW YORK, December 26-Duns Re-
lew will say tomorrow:
Bank exchanges at the principal cities
n the United States continue in mod
crate volume. the total this week amount
ing to 81, 331 1856, TT. loss of "a per cent
as compared with last year. Clearings
at New York city are again much below
those Of a year ago"
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Reading Once More Leads in
Continuance of Upward
Movement Today.
C0PPERS MOVE BRlSKLY
ON IMPROVED PRICES
Demand for Low-Priced Securities
Shows Further Expansion of
Buying-Close Is Strong.

NEW YORK, December 26.-Trading
began today in a hesitating way. with
an even balance among the leaders of
email gains and losses.
Reading. which opened a trif1e lower,
soon began to climb under the spur of
active bidding until it showed a gain
of q point
The whole list stiffened. Lehigh VAL
ley rose 2 and Amalgamated /.
Impressive exhibition of strength by
Various shares impaired a confident tone
70 the market. and new buying out
measured professional realizing for a
while
Prices reacted later.
The varied demand OF the early mar
Let carried many stocks to new high
levels for the upward movement.
Confident Feeling Grows.
Although realizing sales later caused
the list to fall. the recession did not
undermine the confident feeling which
has grown up in the last week
European markets were still closed for
the holidays. so that there was no fur
her foreign liquidation,
Reading once more led the market,
that segregation plan was under con-
sideration as a result of negotiations with
the government
Canadian Pacific, Missouri Pacific and
Norfolk and Western showed further
heaviness, but copper shares moved up
briskly on the Improvement in metal
prices here and abroad.
Buying Causes Upward Swing.
Bonds were ARM
Speculative buying gave another up
ward swing to quotations. with the de-
nand for low-priced stocks expanding
greatly.
The local traction, Goodrich and Rune
~ shares all showed decided strength.
Publication of unfavorable November
railroad reports and heavy realizing in
Reading caused prices to sag again in
mid-afternoon. Readings advance was
cancelled and gains elsewhere were
largely cut into.
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Rex Dividend Today.

TEX Dfviden0 TO01y.
National Biscuit Company COM, IN;
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rail-
road. 6; International Harvester Com
pany of New Jersey CON-, IA; Interna-
tional Harvester Corporation CON-. Ia:
New York Mutual Gas Light Company,
A: Public Service Corporation Of New Jer-
sey, 11z; Lehigh Va ley railroad, 5; Mich
igan Central railroad, 3; Canadian South
ern railroad, 1ha.
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Various Returns.
From Judge.


what did he get for confessing?'
two cents a word from the magazines
and fits from his former friends"
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A Poser.
From Judge.

Mentor-Consider the owl. He's the
bird Of wisdom, and he sets his repu-
tation by keeping silent.
Stentor-How about the screech owl?
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ARMY-NAW.
Army Orders.

The following-named ofncers of the
organised militia are authorized by the
President to attend the special course Of
instruction for field officers at the Army
School OF the Line. Fort Leavenworth.
Kan:
Col. Dorrance Reynolds. 9th Infantry.
Pennsylvania National Guard.
Maj. Francis q. Lahdon. list Infantry,
New York National Guard.
Mai. James M. Hutchinson. list In
fantry, New York National Guard.
Naval Orders.
Capt. Hugh Rodman, to duty Isthmian
Commander C. j. Lang. to navy yard,
Norfolk, Va.
Lieut.. D. T. Selfridge. from the Ten
nessee to naval magazine, Fort Mif-
f1in, Pa.
Lieut. David Lyons, from the Culgoa to
the Tacoma
Lieut. r. L. Lowman. from the South
Dakota to the New Orleans. -.
Lieut.. Junior graae) NJ. J. Peterson.
from the South Dakota to the New Or
leans.
Lieut. Junior grade) schamyl Cochran.
to the Delaware.
Ensigns II. s.. Haislip, E. NJ. Pace, e.
G. Small and ]. B. VIII. from the South
Dakota to the New Orleans.
Passed Assistant Surgeon I. r. Cohn.
resignation accepted to take effect May
5, 1914.
Passed Assistant Surgeon M. T. Nc
Lean, from the South Dakota to the New
Orleans.
Chief Gunner Hugh Sinclair. from re-
ceiving ship navy yard. Boston. Mass, to
the Montgomery.
Paymaster's Clerk G. W. Armstrong, to
torpedo flotilla, Atlantic feet.
Marine Corps Orders.
Lieut. Col. L. H. Moses and Maj. H C.
Davis, from Philippines to Guam.
Maj. D. D. Porter, A. A. and l.. from
Philippines to Naval Hospital, Mare
Island.
Capts. Seth Williams. A. Q. NJ: j. NJ.
Salladay, J. K. Tracy and c. f. Williams
from Philippines to Guam.
Capt G. M. Kincade, from the South
Dakota to marine barracks, Puget sound.
First Lieut. H. NJ. Smith, from Philip
pines to Guam.
First Lieuts. w. F. Bevan and r. E.
Adams, from Philippines to United
States.
Second Lieut. R. E. Davis, from Philip
pines to Guam.
Second Lieut.. Richmond Bryant, from
the South Daokta to marine barracks,
Puget sound.
Naval Movements.
The Connecticut, Kansas Rhode Island,
Nereus and Solace have arrived at Vera
Cruz, the Potomac at Key West the Ohio
at Delaware breakwater the Dolphin at
Santiago de Cuba, the Jason and Brutus
at Norfolk, and the Villalobos and Ell
Cano at Shanghai.
The Louisiana and New HAMPSHIRE
have sailed from Vera Cruz for Norfolk
and the Nanshan from San Francisco for
San Diego.
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NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, December 26.-Flour-1n-
active.
The crippled wire service west and con-
tinued holidays abroad resulted in dull
and barely steady wheat market this
morning. May. 81 Gle.
Pork-Steady.
Beef-Quiet.
Lard-Quiet
Petroleum-Steady.
Enthusiastically.
Hay-Dull.
Hides-Steady.
Leather-Ffrm
Holiday in sugar today and tomorrow.
Butter-Steady; receipts, 5000 tubs;
creamery. seconds. 24a271s; held, firsts,
2Sa31: seconds, 24a27.
Cheese-Firm receipts, $50 boxes; state.
whole milk, held, specials, 1t; average
fancy. 16Aa16A; fresh. specials, 1874;
average, fancy, 16
Eggs-Firmer; receipts, $500 cases;
fresh gathered extras. 81; extra firsts,
35a36; firsts. 34a341h; refrigerator. spe
cial marks, fancy. 3O1aa31; seconds. 2S1s
a29; lower grades, o4a2s: state, Pennsyl-
vania and nearby hennery whites. 45a47;
gathered whites. 44a46; hennery browns,
36a37; mixed colors, 35a36.
Dressed poultry-Steady; fresh killed
western chickens. 13a23; fowls. 12a1S;
turkeys, 1Sa22R.
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For the District of Columbia and Mary
land. cloudy, with probably light rain or
snow this afternoon and tonight; colder
tonight. Saturday fair; high northwest
winds
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Money to Loan

Secured BY First Deed OF Trust On KesI EstAre-
Prevailing interest and commission
Joseph |. Weller, go F St NV.
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bris it wrenched out Of the solid
earth. Sound warnings of the con-
slant blasts were impossible, and
Rives, half a mile from the end OF
his journey, passed half naked,
scalm little japanese mounting guard
over searchlight battery that threw
steady white glare up the boring
until the time for the blast Then il
suddenly turned green--the monster
drill backed away and the workers
threw themselves on their faces be-
hind the danger zone until the muf-
fled roar and the white glare told
them the danger was over.
Rives made for the giant driller,
devised by Allan, and looking like a
monster steel devilflsh 1t flung long
tendons against the face of the slopi
ing rocks into which il burrowed,
and there. tipped with drills OF Allan
ite-Allan's diamond steel sank
into the finty barrier like worms
sinking into soft loan. When the
tendrils came back each left tiny
deposit Of high explosive at the end
Of the hole it made, and a connect
ing fuse. Then it backed numbering
away down the temporary track, the
fuses were lit. the explosive
wrenched off the face Of the rock
and the driher rurnbled down to
work again
The rock had just been blasted as
Rives approached the dri11er. The
searchlight sent its chalk white glare
Up to the mountainous slope at the
end Of the boring, up which half
naked men were rushing to clear
away the shattered rock. Just back
from the driller Rives paused for 4
moment to admire the picture
Then, suddenly, the entire end Of
the tunnel seemed to leap forward.
He saw two men vanish as if they
had been shifted oitt. Half dozen
threw mp their arms and turned to
run. Then if seemed to him that q
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I.heard the voice Rives supposed he
was the only one alive
Three thousand fnen-thFee thou
sand men, he kept repeating't TO him
lself as he -toiled forward a foot at a
time. The words brought him at
least to a FULL realization OF what had
happened-and still the voice called
his name Once he put his hand
down IN the half light and it rested
lin the palm of another hand, which
by some reflex of dying CONFUSION
closed over 1T. With half sob and
half scream he drew back and rose
unsteadily to his feet and lurched
forward following the voices until
The stumbled over negro laborer
This was the voice.
Z seen you, Mista Rives-I seen
You" moaned the negro. sFo'
Gawd's sake-don't leave me-don't
leave me-"
At his feet was a little cavern Of
crossed girders. out of which he had
scrawled, and which explained the
fact of his existence in that hell He
got grip on Rives' belt and chung
to it desperately.
Don't leave me--don't leave" he
moaned again and again.
Come on" said Rives,' duly,
we've got to get away from here.
Long tendrils OF pungent smoke
were curling and putting around
them and sparks were dropping and
whirling like fareflies. Rives looked
down in the direction OF the FIRE. and
then he shuddered and closed his
eyes. Over the track in which he
had come, thicker than the rocks
and broken timbers that were min
gled with them, lay the twisted.
criss-crossed and heaped up naked
bodies OF the dead
We've got to get away from
herer'
And he began toiiing forward. the
negro clinging to his belt and
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mighty whipcofd had suddenly been
drawn with deadly tightness about
his head, shutting off sound, breath
and all sensation save that OF sight.
He struck with a violent jar
against the inner wall of the sdriller.
though he was vaguely conscious Ire
had not moved. AT the same instant
dozens of distorted, whirling bodies
OF naked men, hinged with FIRE and
mingled with stones and sand, shot
past: there was a sound III his head
as if a tightly strung piano wire had
suddenly sirapped-=then a roar that
shook him to the heels, a sharp pain,
Ia binding flash of red and-oblivion
The tunnel had exploded!
The last blast had opened the way
into, probably, a chamber of highly
compressed gas of some explosive
nature. As the charge Of a she'll fol-
lows the gun barrel, SO this .explo-
sion launched IT'S full force into the
tunnel and for is miles it swept
everything before it. 1t had picked
the great dri1ler, which had scooped
Rives into its open door, and hurled
it q quarter of a mile UP the boring
like a tremendous ram, sweeping pill
ing, Orders, pillars, steel cars, de-
bris and human beings before it in
one horrible rack of ruin.
In an instant it was all over. The
roar died down in the distance like a
great ball rolling away. There fol-
lowed a terrible stiffness. There was
one hong drawn scream OF agony and
then light Ieaped up, higher and
higher
The tunnel was burning.
For SO miles that devastating roar
carried terror through the works.
The 1aborcrs dropped everything
where they stood and leaped upon
the construction trains. empty, full
or half filled. and the engineers
turned on the power for their lives
and ran for the entrance at an insane
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screaming with the pain OF a crushe.
foot.
A little farther on he heard hi
name called again and found O'Ncil
the superintendent of the drill
pinned between two girders and !
great rock From his hips down hi
was iaopelessly crushed But he wal
conscious and his eyes were calm IL
the ,ghasfly glare Of the freight.
trO BE CONTINUED
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lls MILES AN HOUR


lls MILES AN HOUR
Baermann was reading. and he
closed his book with a proud and
pleased smile when Riyes dropped
into the seat beside him, for the mas
ter OF the works was loved by every
man who worked under him.
We're pretty nearly there. Baer-
mann" observed Rives with smile,
as he glanced at his watch. Were
doing about liS miles an hour now.
eh?"
Not more than ll2, / think. Mr..
Rives,' the young man ventured to
correct him. Rives laughed. 1t was
characteristic of the German. and
BODIED well for his mission.
what have you been reading?v
he asked with a glance at the book.
One of Ibsen's plays replied the
young man, offering the volume for
his inspection.
Rives ran idly through the pages.
"Ibsen. eh5' There was a little
CLEAN in his eyes, What is your
real opinion of Ibsen. Baermann?'
The young man smiled a serious,
self-eonscious smile. Isn't that
rather like asking man what is his
opinion OF TRUTH" he replied
Are 1bsen' and truth inter-
changeable?"
We'll. hardly that conceded
Baermann. lie isn't all of the
truth. But everything he wrote was
truth
Il see," nodded Riyes, still smil-
ing, but | don't see how any of us
can pretend to so wide and exact
knowledge of workings OF so many
different minds"
DO you think there is anything
inconsistent in his characters"
NO" conceded the other. with a
little hesitation.
Il was reading something of his
life and manner of working the
other day" said the younger man,
Every character he used. he de-
veloped practically from infancy Al
though they fitted into his plays
only for a short. time of their lives
he had worked them out--their en-
yironment and heredity, from the
beginning that they couldn't do
anything inconsistent They had to
do certain things if they were true
to themselves. 1t was out Of his
hands. He made the characters and
let them work sout their own lives
in their own ways. They could only
do what they did do"
A STARTLING REMARK
Riyes almost started and looked
at the young man curiously.
Then you think that all of us
are bound in our conduct in life
by certain imfnutable lines of our
characters?"
Undoubtedly replied the young
man seriously. TO that extent am
fatalisty
Well said Rives, slowly, after a
! little pause. SO am |. Goodby.
Baermann. and-thank you I
The young man started after him,
wondering, as the train slowed to a
stop and his chief strobe down the
car and out into the uncertaip dark
ness, where the electric lights flick
cred and winked and lit up the tenn
pefary terminus OF the transatlantic
railroad
1T worked" said Rives to himself,
as he swung himself UP on car Of a
construction train that was cropping
its way into the. further reeesses Of
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the boring. 1t worked. Baermann
is right We are what we are. and
the answer IS in the hands of the
higher powers. So be it. I'll go
through with my work here and stick
to what + am given to think is right
just as long as / can. There must
be a way out
There was The next few hours
solved all for all time, but in a man
ner far from his widest inlaginings.
The construction train passed out
OF the mighty steel tribe into a great
arehed gallery OF rough stone where
men were at work with snoring
timbers strengthening weak places
against the permanent construction.
After nearly Ia miles OF this the train
slowed down to a walking pace. A
little mote than mile ahead was the
extreme end of the boring. Parallel
ing and connected with it by cross
galleries used for switching CON
struction trains was the duplicate of
the gallery through which they had
Just passed.
Leaving the last main station a
far off roar grew into l1e1lish ear
splitting clamor that shrieked and
echoed up and down the galleries as
Ne the demons under the sea were
screaming q protest against the in
sasion Of their home. The air was
allied with dust and biting, ptthgent
odors and vapors that made the eyer
lids prickle and scraped the throat
like a file. The heat was terrific
ll8 degrees Fahrenheit.
IN THE TUNNEL
Dropping off the train Riyes
walked briskiy ahead, picking his
way through the huriy-burly and tu-
multi Of an inferno. In this last mile
and quarter nearly 5000 men were
at work, and beyond them was the
monster drilling machine. in the
wake OF which they toiled frantieally
to keep from being buried BY the de-
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DOrlng OF MdCAeHuIfe Allah SUI
Being sincere and serious
minded young engineer, he would
have been UNNECESSARILY shocked if
he had known that the whirl in his
chiefs brain was due to a woman.
Pardon me, Mr.. Rives. but can
you tell me where Mr.. Allan iss"
Rives looked up with start that
was almost guilty; Baermann had
returned and was standing over him
in deferential attitude.
Mr.. Allan-oh-he is in Mon
treal,' he replied with something OF
a stamner.
Can you tell me when We will
be here again."
4 can't say" replied Rives
shortly, and sank down in his seat
to indicate that he wished to be
alone.
WHERE WAS ALLAN?
Where was Allan, indeed? he
thought, with bitterness If Allan
had been where he belonged. at the
side of his wife, he, Rives. his best
friend. would not now be writing i'll
the torment known only to the man
who had betrayed a sacred trust. As
the train dashed into the endless
1890, - - -1aaJ 81 mora ff,ar I'M
miles an hour his mind went around
and around in deadly. wearying
circle over the events OF the last few
years - events that had nearly
reached an inevitable climax that
night on the yeranda OF Mac Allan
home; or, rather, Maud Allan's
home, for the chief of the great tun-
mel project was in the house scarcely
enough TO learn his way about.
For months he had known that
he loved Maud Allan For months
he had seen her husbands neglect
forced though it was by the terrific
demands on his time in a half dozen
quarters of the world-killing the
love she had once borne him. There
had been no stain in his, Rives'
love. He loved because he could
not help it. In the days before he
had agreed TO help Allan drive the
tunnel he had been a diiettante, a
man abeut town, as we'll as world
famous architect Handsome, rich
and brilliant, he had had many ''af-
fairs" but he had never loved And
he had his code It had never been
put to the test before this night
and he had failed TO live up to it.
There was. he reflected bitterly,
mo harm done" But what would
be the end of it sll3 When he had
secretly loved Maud Allan with a
pure and chivalrous love-that was
different. Now she knew that he
loved and-the ends of his fingers
crept to his lips-he knew that she
loved him or was very near to it.
at isn't our loving each other that
makes it so bad he said to himself
its the fact of our mutual knowl-
edge
What could he do? For more
than an hour he grappled with the
problem from every angle; he could
not leave without some very ac-
ceptable excuse to Allan.
- can't go up to him." he re-
fected at least with whimsical
sense of hun1of that driving 20
miles OF tunnel under the ocean had
not obliferated. | can't 60 up to
him and say. Excuse me, Mac. !
think Id better chuck this job and
90 away. because I'm in love with
your wife And SO far as ! car
see-and I'm pretty level headed
ordinarily can't stay here and re-
main an honest man. There's Baer-
mann. He's German, and ths
Germans have made specially O
dissecting the immortal souls OF hu-
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speed, with hundreds of men cling
ling TO the cars in clusters Of living
terror. Then came a few on foot.
And then-nothing
Rives first recovered the power OF
|ssigi1t. He seemed to be surrounded
by walls of fire, and then he was
conscious uf fearful heat In the
leaping names one opening appeared.
lie craned himself to his feet and
noticed with dull interest that a
stream of blood trickled from his
|iIeft arm. He staggered out through
the .ffan1cs and discovered that he
Trad been inside the burning driller.
A voice was saying over and over
again in his ear:
"Oh, God! oh, Cod Oh, Godl'
As his mind rallied more and more
he found out it was his own voice.
He put his hand to his head and it
touched bare scalp. His hair was
gone. One of bis trouser legs was
still smoldering, and mechanically he
batted out the sparks with his bare
hand, and the shopping pitched him
forward ON his face. He got to his
hands and knees and was conscious
that voice was calling his name.
A VOICE
Mr. Rivrs! Mr.. Rivesl Mr..
Rives again and again. He held
to his reeling consciousness like a
swimmer clinging to lifeline and
he knew the voice was not his own
II came from up the tunnel, away
from the heart Of the explosion. and
he was able to recognize this fact
and crawl slowly IN that direction,
picking his way on his hands and
knees. mechanically, painfully and
surely, over broken timbers and
jagged rocks and-other things un-
printable Nearly 5000 men had
been at work in that mile and half
nearest the explosion. and until he
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s ~

~ up officers
in
whist extremely amateurih fashion
H. v judging from their frequent laughter
young German in charge of main
200 miles under the bed OF the Atlantic
pausng with greeting only
completed boring But Rives dismissed him
Baermann the subordinate
far endo O. 200 foot
be He condition
He
solitude OF whose shoulders rested
responsibility
boring of to
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from the German If Bernhard Kellermann
--German version, Copyrighted, 1913, by S
Fischer. verlag. Berlin. English translation
and compilation by
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man beings. 1t is an omen I will
go up and talk to Baermann, and d
he drops. anything that fits my case
[ r,ilf fal1n.,r ~ 2
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speed, with hundreds of men cling
ing TO the cars in clusters of living
Iterrer. Then came a few on foot.
And then-nothing. i
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gro BE CONTINUED