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"Oh, don't misunderstood me. Har-
vey. l implore you! l love you all
the more for being Just your glorious
self. You've paid me the greatest hon
or / ever had-or shall have. You
asked me to be your wife, and you are
willing to divide up your pitiful little
income with me. You'd give it all to
me- You'd run into debt till you
smothered. But it wouldn't work out.
Mother was right: People can do
without love- easier than N,yithour
money!"
Not people with hearts like yours, /"
ne ventuTed at last to put in as feeble
objection.
'Oh, Pm afraid of this heart of
mine" she answered. "If it had any
sense it wouldn't have fallen in love
with you-you of all men. l knew you
weren't really terribly rich. but I didn't
think you were so pitifully, cruelty
poor"
The epithet reiterated stung him like
whip in the face. He protested i'm
patiently:
I'm not really poor. Army officers
have many ways of saving expenses. l
might not give you princely luxuries,
Persis, but I'd make your life happy"
Has resistance gave her something
to fight, and her resentment at fate
welcomed it.
Me happy at an army post? With
nothing but poker for you and gossip
for me? No. thank you'll"
She caught twitch of anger in his
brows, and she grew harsher:
Look here! Would you give up
your career for me?"
"A woman can't ask a man to give
up his career" he answered; and she
retorted with the spirit of her time
Then why should she give up hers
for hu?"
He looked an old-fasliioned surprise
And have you career?"
'sOf course | have Every woman
has; and nowadays a woman has got
10 look ont for herself and her future.
or she'll get left at the post"
'And what career have your he
asked, amazed.
Marriage. It's the average wom-
ans main business in life. Harvey. II
she fails in that she fails IN every
thing
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VIII" ALL BETS ARE OFF,


but you've got to know some time. I'm
not rich, honey
what of Il, dear?" she said. creep
ing toward him. Il love you for your
self. never thought you were ricn
like Willie. / gave up all that gladly.
But I'm what you would GALA
pauper, / suppose. ] have only my
army pay"
Isn't that enough?"
Plenty of couples seem to be happy
on it, but they're mostly the sons and
daughters of army people. You've been
brought up so differently. Wild ex-
travagances for our people would ~ee
shabby makeshifts TO you."
Don't you think I'd be able to adapt
myself"
Would you:"
4 should hope so. How much is
asking?"
two thousand"
Two thousand week? Why, that's
not bad at all. Why did you frighten
He laughed aloud, and she corrected
herself.
"Oh, two thousand month. That's
about twenty-five thousand year. II
isn't much, is it? But we could skimp
and scrape, and we'd have each other"
She had given him his death-blow
unwittingly.
He smiled dismally, and groaned:
Two thousand year with forage.
She stared at him in unbelief. Two
thousand a year with foragei We
couldn't eat the forage. could we? They
give you pittance like that for being
an officer and a Gentleman and hero 7?
The hero business is the worst paid
of all Look at the firemen"
But, my dear, two thousand a-why
our chef gets more than that, and our
chauffeur nearly as much; and my
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thirty or forty thousand a year. And
we called IT poverty. But you and l.
two thousand year-and forageP
She put his arms away as il they
irked her and hampered her breath.
She was breathing hard. Merely to
imagine a life devoid of everything she
had always found about her was like
a sufocation. She was understanding
how a fish must feel when it is drawn
from the water and flung to stihe on
dry pebbles. She suffered such dismay
as overwhelms a rat in the bell of an
air-pump when the experimenter begins
to create vacuum. i
She was silent long while. Forbes
longingly set his arms about her; but
she did not respond; her hands were
idly rolling her riding crop up and
down the shin OF her boot, for she was
thinking hard.
Forbes felt that he chung to the mere
clothes of her soul. Herself was al
ready gone from him. Yet he loved
her so that he found her not un-
worthy nor selfish nor craven, but in
finitely precious and beautiful, difficult
to win and wear.
A great many shining throngs OF
water went down the brook, making all
the conversation there was, before Per-
sis began TO fog her boots with her rid
ing crop. She wanted to groan. but as
was her custom in torment, smiled in
stead; and. having something of tragic
solemnity to utter, put it forth with a
plucky fiippancy:
~Well, old boy, Pm afraid all bets
are off"
Forbes had been recruiting strength
to tell her that he released her; but she
anticipated him by jilting him first
and in sporting terms. He stared at
her. but he could not see the tears
raining down in her heart He heard
her, but was deaf to the immense re-
gret in the little words she added:
You're pretty poor, aren't you?
His forehead was drenched with red
shame at such comment from her. She
could see how she bad hurt his pride,
and she put on the soiemnity he ex-
pected her TO wear.
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looked al hiIp aud saw on his face the
look she has seen on her fathers that
day-the look a man wears when he
cannot buy his beloved what she pleads
for. Now. as then, Persis felt ashamed
rather than resentful, and she hastened
TO add:
If you can't afford it, old boy, say
so. You mustn't mind me. My father
says I'm a terrible, asker. just say No,
and won't mind. Promise me that,
DEAR
: Experience and common sense-for
he had them in large measure in his
ordinary ife-seemed to bend down
and say: Let your sea-gull go. She'll
die in your cage, or she'll break it
apart"
But she was in his arms. She was
leaning against him, flicking his boots
with her riding-crop, and loving him,
contented utterly. Romance elbowed
Reason aside and said: ''See how
happy she is. 1t, isn't money that makes
happiness. You're sitting on the edge
of a silly little brook in somebody s
backwoods, and you're happy as king
and queen on throne of gold"
Reason and Romance wrangled in his
head while she was babbiing something
in her el6n economy about 'We won't
have two. cars yet, Just one, nice big
IoI4 six, with my chauffeur to run it.
Father pays him fifteen hundred a
year. and that's good pay. Don't you
let him wfeedle you out of .2<penny
more"
Forbes heart cried aloud within him {:
"My Godi her very chauffeur gets
nearly as much as l dor This was the
spark of resentment that gave him his
start. He spoke bitterly, almost glad
that she was dazed. And he put her
away from him that both might be free.
And he savagely kicked rock into the
smiling little pool and watched it grow
turbid as he poured out his confession.
Listen, honey; you've got wrong
idea of my situation. I'm to blame for
il, reckon. I've been meaning TO
speak about il, but | didn't--for just
the same reason that kept you quiet
about Enslee. I'm not rich, honey. ]
didn't tell anybody l was rich, but the
idea got started from Ten EycSs fool
Joke about seeing me coming out OF a
bic bank. | told him the truth, and
now must tell you. You'll hate me,
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fathers secretary-eyerybody gets
more than that"
She put out her hand and caressed
his brow. Poor boy, it's cruel, it's
hatefull Willie EnSlee with all that
money, and you with two thousand a
,yearl And no prospects for moreP
well, hope TO be promoted captain
very Shortly-any day now / should
it tventy-four hundred a year"
She sighed. The little car wanted
would cost more than that Well, let
1t go. Walking is healthier. 1t would
save the chauffeur's wages, too. And
my maid-I don't know what Nichette
would say. But-well, let her go. lie,
everything go but you"
She clasped her arms round him, and
he clutched her tight; but his embrace
was like farewell She was infinitely
pathetic to him. She had so much
sopmstication, and was so innocent OF
SO much. She kissed him tenderly, but
her mood was an elegy.
He lifted her gauntleted hand to his
cheek and said nothing. She was silent
a long while. Then she pondered aloud
HSAhs NOhhCl hAldl SOlL VI d pOOA
mans wife I'll make. I'm afraid III be
an awful failure. You know, we were
poor once-yes. My father got
squeezed in corner, and nearly went
bankrupt Oh, but mother and l had
to skimp and scrape! had to turn my
old gowns, give up our boxoHt the
opera, sell my saddle horses. We
couldn't go to dinners or receptions be-
cause We couldn't return them. We sat
at home and received-indignant cred
itors. Oh, the bills, the bills-my God,
the bills!
"At the end of year father found a
man who was unbusinesslike enough to
put him on his feet again. 1t was Viii
lie Enslee, of course. We had money
once more; we could hold our heads
high, snub those vino snubbed us. get
even with those who had patronized
us, or-ughl insulted US with rileir
sympathy. Oh, money is great thing,
lint it? It was like coming out of a
cave again into the sunlight. | used
10 say / would face anything rather
than poverty again.
"And think OF it, Harvey, VIXEN We
were at our poorest we were spending
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underground. Forbes looked at Per-
sis. Her eyes consented. He laid his
bride hand on the left side of his
horses name and shifted his weight a
trife And his horse shouldered hers
into the jungle. Heads bent low. the
horses mounted with cautious hoofs till
the ferns were brushing their saddle
girths The prattle of a brook some
where lured them farther, and they
pressed on into fog Of leaves and
cracking boughs and flowers. Birds
cried warnings and shot through the
branches, bearing news of the invasion.
Others in sentimental oblivion did not
bulge, but sat still and went on saving
the air with silver phrases shrilly sweet.
Suddenly the brook was visible, rush
ing here and there through the woods
and making noises that were rapture
just TO hear. And with that music of
water and woods, and that multitu-
dinous beauty about them, they gazed
only into each others eyes, inclined to-
gether, and locked arms and breasts
and lips in close embrace. They chung
together till the soulless horses, nib
bling here and there, sundered them.
And then they slid from the saddles
and, slipping the brides to their elbows,
walked on with arms about each 9TH
er's bodies and eyes so mutually en-
gagged that they stumbled like blind
folk AT last she sank to the ground
at the edge of the brook. and he, in
stead of helping her up, dropped down
at her side.
He took her into his arms again and
kissed her and laughed at her
She knelt above the water-glass, and
he bent over to gaze. He saw her
looking up at him., and his own image
looking up close to hers. They smiled
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THAT'S the effect his name would
have had on our moonlight, and !
couldn't tell you then. VIII you for
give me, or do you think I'm hopeless
rotter and sneak
He smiled at her mixed vocabulary
and gathered her into his arms. My
Lowell Ny PersisI But you'll tell him
now, won't your"
oh, now, yes y she cried, ecstatic as
comforted child. you are glorious
to forgive me so easily, and not be
nasty and lecture-y And see the pool
it's all smooth and clear again.
He looked, and held,back the confes-
sion he was about to make IN his turn.
The mention of his poverty would be
pushing another rock into the pool.
And he wondered if the mirror would
clear after that. He could forgive
her 'betrothal to Enslee because that
was of the past; but the lack of money
was not matter for forgiving and for
getting; it was something to endure. II
was asking love to accept poverty as a
concubine or a mother-in-iaw.
He kept silent on that score, and they
murmured their loves and kissed and
laughed with contentedness purling
through their hearts, and the world far
away. She glanced back at the horses
blissfully tearing young leaves from
high branches.
1--WE ought to keep those horses as a
souvenir of our engagement 1t would
be a pity to let any one else ride the
dear old brutes, wouldn't it,"
1t would, indeedp she said.
Lets buy then, from Willie He
would sell them for a song"
That's fine idea" Forbes answered
with a gulp. He knew how much horses
like these were worth-and saddles,
brides, and stables.
1--WE shouldn't want TO ride in a car
all the time, should we?" she asked.
He made no answer. She turned and
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-09
STEUBENVILLE

sTEUBENvILLE. o., Jan. G-The
grand jury has returned an Indictment
OF murder in the nrst degree against
Elias Lacour. a Syrian. for the murder
OF richard Daoub at the Seminary build
ms lie Is a brother OF the supposed
actual murderer. AGA Zacour, and he has
oeen heid as an accomplice. Mrs. AGA
Zac0ur, who was stabbed. is reported
getting better.
Abraham Anis VS.. w. H. Alexander ct
al default judgment for sSsO.25.
ONO on complaint of Eula Walker Ns.
frank Gardner. appeal from docket OF
Justice Downer.
Harvey May VS.. Virginia May, suit for
uiNorce. They were married March 2s,
1917, at weston, w. Va. and there are
-FOUR offspring. Desertion on March 4,
1897. alleged also hat IL was without
cause, and she refused to return and
him.
Tony Mare va. W. N. Duncan. 70.
ceiver.
w +; Craig Lumber company vs.. the
Union Lumber company.
The case OF Frank Picking VS.. local
union No. 2lSO. L. NJ. W. A., was APP
pealed from Justice B~lackburn's docket,
The nrst hunting license for 1914 was
Issued by the clerk or court TO J. c.
lark.
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Secretary OF state 9. ri. Graves has
filed his answer In the case OF J.. q
Relkuap w. board OF elections 81 al.
Tie expressly protests that the board has
no Jurisdiction over him. He admits Re
lator was n candidate for ohlce and on
the face Of the returns received "a ma
tority 81 the votes cast. He AYERS Bel
KNAPP did not file with the election board
an itemized statement Of all things re-
qutrcd TO entitle him TO n certificate or
election: that he has not offered n true
statement OF the expenses showing ev-
erythinE In detail since the election.
that Relator was guilty 81 corrupt prac-
tees in promising q shotgun 10 Daniei
Coll; that the eNpense statement filed by
Relator was false and incomplete. as ~
failed 10 include moneys paid 10 certain
persons. that he wilfuily neglected to in
clude In his statement money and other
things OF value promised In furtherance
or his candidacy. that reiator expended
a sum greatly In excess OF what was
auth orized by law. and he stated wilfuf
falsehoods IN his expense statement.
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Georgetown university. where no a. tak-
ing his senior year.
teleu Mccoy left Monday for HoIIinq
college 90 resume her studies aftsr
ApenainE tho holidays az her home.
ulaa cooper and Miss Eunice Delaney
were quietly married Sunday az yre
home 81 The brides sister. Mrs. q. ~.
llythe Rev. G. o. Eoftofer. Of the
christian church. officiating.
Misses Julia and Helen siemaker at
tended m weekend house party al the
willie.
Miss Niarrnrct watheny. ~ So. Nfarys
Cnulcy.
tex Rogers Francis Campbell ard
Mel,.u lcgrofte left for ohio state uui-
FerrlfY. whore they are students
Miss Margaret Aidcr lrff saturday
morning Tor sharon. Pa. where ahe viii
De nc guest ~ her nun and uncle. Mr.
and Mrs. sweeney.
Mrs o. D. Bailey and daughter Sara
VIII leave Monday Tor Guifuort. Miss.
where they VIII Join Nr Bailey and re-
main Ter several months
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SISTERSYILLE

sisTEHsv1LLE W. Va. Jan &C.
host9fer pastor Of the christian
tor bethany COLLEGE to resume biz
studies.
Rev a. o. rritchard spent Monday in
wheeling b. guest OF friends.
Ralph Hrundwnter a nd Fref Mccoy
nave returned Co. MprEHntowr. where
they nre attending school
Miss Katharine Jackson pleasantly e.
~trrtuinei a. number ~ nor friends rrN-
dav afternoon 90 her home on NaIN
street Games ~ different kinds were
enjoyed tne prize winners heInF Misses
Helen MCCOY and Margaret Iuaeam.
40 = orIorN a eumutuOue dinner was
served Co the guests.
NrH Gus Eeicherter returned veefor.
nnN from Wheeling. where she has been
the guest ~ friends for "a short time
Misses Helen Slcmnker. Mary BLACK.
Helen Carney. Edln Urad er ana fu.
Gle t~lendcuuirr returned Co. SIT. dr
ChaufHl where they will rruwr fheIr
studies after spending the hoIdave 90
their homes.
Floyd Mechiins departed Monday roy
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-09

In connection with the assessors work
which will be done by 20 Instead OF "a
assessors In this county. the county
board gave out the following:
The job OF listing property will M
longer be n vacation on pay. however.
for the men doing the work. With re-
spect 20 real estate the work OF the as
SCISSORS VIII he merely one OF revision.
as that property Is on the duplicate al
approximately it's true value. The
greater part OF the assessors " ork will
be confined TO ~uncovering hidden per-
sonal property. and for this they will
receive An increase ~ one dollar per
day In salary. The close supervision 20
be kept over the men and the reports
mat are 10 be required from them OF the
progress OF theri work is expected 20
greatly facilitate the matter OF listing
property and also 20 make IL much more
complete"
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GENERAL MOVEMENT WAS UPWARD
ON NEW YORK MARKET YESTERDAY

NEW YORK. Jan. s.-Although ,,er,
were symptoms OF weakness in vn r,pu.
quarters at the outset today. the gem
eIaI movement was upward. Reading
especially was in active demand. The
market failed however. 10 maintain its
strenguh, and during the latter part ar
the day ~ slipped backward until prices
IN some instances were depressed be-
low yesterdays close.
reduction in the Bank OF EncIand's
discount rate from 5 TO az per cent ex-
erted an Important influence on sent
meht Tor "A time, assisting in the upturn.
There was evidence OF Improving ON.
a,tlons IN the domestic money market
also. The afternoon recession in STOCKS
was influenced by several Developments
Nhlcn eNerted an adverse influence. The
monthly copper statistics showed an n
crease IN stocks OF i3.bOO. 600 hounds "a
much larger falling on in cnosumption
than mad been expected. Copper stocks
Wnlch had held up well in the forenoon
sold on sharply on the appearance OF
mother disturbing feature was the
acute OF American Sugar
which sold OF over four points. New;
raven also declined abruptly owing TO
the poor showing OF the roads Novem-
Der statement.
Total sales. 800. 200 shares.
bonds were irregular with an upward
trend Total sales, par value, 81. 7bO. 900.
nnited states twos advanced y on
call' Panama threes coupon fell A.
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FINANCIAL.
The 7
CONDITIONS
PANHANDLE LINZ

me low pressure area covers the IN
Per valleys and Lake region this NOM
ole West ia o. attended by hfgber ZEN
ieiatufes, but practically no precipi-
lhtlon mas occurred. as vet Pair
and Plateau states
The temperature are m~0Iernate i1
~" n"rtheru low pressure area will
aus" increasing fIuudirnes 3D. fIIr
section tonight, probably followed tv
unsettled weather ard rain on FRIDAY
lepehl uaIa Highest temperature yes
terduy. 20 degrees. lowest 1.ef ,t-rt
at degree truce 81 rain. % will rr9h.
ANY change very slightly lu the dis
trict during tho next % hours.
~. g.. HOWE.
Section Director.
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CREDITORS or HOWE CO
ACCEPT TRUSTEES Rrponr

3 meeting of the creditors o. Tho A.
li1We Machine company. recently
tfrdav afternoon before Referee Urrry
y tolto Tho report 0f hermann a
iiN.lnL trustee iu me case. was ar.
ment 70 nl lcing against tho ~ur1rerfr
trustee Huulf reported na f4 fha
moneys collected and fhr sHla 81 Inc
plant o. John Kohm Tho ala vrs W.
prove
The matter of declaring a dividen
af not considered yesterday. but Will
urduy January &C.
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J. s. Bachs q Co.'S closing I.,,.-.

NEW YORK, Jan. s.-The market
regular list from London. Fries. Read
ing, southern Pacific were prominent In
Early trading. Union Pacific Jagged ,,s,
Tuinors OF Injunction. The market hest
lated toward the end OF first hour and
became Copper producers re-
port published was a big surprise. gen
etal expectations having been for an in
crease or something like 10000. 600
pounds. The hgures-f3.5 500. 900 was
700 much OF n load TO carry. and prices
sagged on in the afternoon. The ex-
~eeptonally strong stocks were Southern
racine. Reading and Texas OIL. rhe
mon facinc directors approved OF dis
~trihution plan recently nv
the executive committee and the OFFICIALS
are not concerned over any lawsuits that
may arse The steel news was OF "a
very favorable character n SATURDAYS
unhlled tonnage or Steel corporation
should be a favorable one. The late
break ia American Sugar Refining stock
old not unsettle the list. and closing
was firm.
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POLICE COURT.

-Four Iucee was the hand Co Do nisvsf
In police court Yesterday mnrufno
when the docket was called two drunk
lri Two fEnfere ar l~ltercafion took
place lu Nike Nrn.Ca nIf place vefres
lHN might AMI officer Neider had %
break up The fun Ue took Walter CAD.
or and AFl kuIiF fnfn custody and urs.
scented them uf che bar 0f fuaff~r Wa.
rfFrra testified that the music made
hN fhn negro uuarfefr of hauIn rfrvere
Dob fNr saloon seemed 90 got Cafcrs
goat making him extremely hFarI
Que JUDGE Jordan dismissed KufIf
and hrrH Dudfr five nrf costs
Tom bIillen and T. r. pIvctf were
Two trunks presented fo the court D.,
lrHnfE and each wna fined g. and costs
IIrrff failed to appear and the ahov,
tue Wa taken cut of HE bond
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oENERAL Drove TO sFrAW
AT LOAD or rnAnE nTnmrn

Announcement wua made r~eafarFnr
that General a. d. Hroun. secretary III
the IaueeVfiic Chamber 81 Commerce
VII Do oue ~ the penkers az the a..
uuHl MHshlugt0n Nirthday banquet a
che WheoliuE Huar1 % Trade. fn D..
held February 81 Zee will respond fa
fhD f0lHf 'pur Eastern ohio FRIENDS
General Nruwu o. well known through.
out ohio. having bssu The Republican
candidate Tor governor NJ tho last
election We Oh "a veteran Of the civil
war
Secretary william 10 RcdfeId. ~ the
department Of wfU fefI,rr
the principal address a. tho banquet
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Dope Sellers Caught.

state Deputy Oyler has nIed Rnidavr,s
IN Squire LAWYERS court against two
physicians and one druggist for selling
and giving and hlling prescriptions for
morphine.
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arocK

NEW YORK. Jan. S-The statement
Or the Copper Producers association FOR
December shows on Increase in stocks on
hand OF 43.b09,4SS pounds. a. compared
with the previous month.
stocks on hand January I aggregated
o1.f3s.s6T pounds, as against g.. q25 fqg
pounds on December ].
during December was
Us, e90.431 pounds. an Increase Of a
302T13; domestic deliveries decreased bv
2~b.F1S.2Ss: foreign deliveries showed an
Increase OF 2.4lt.sl0. and total deliveries
decreased 2~3.243g7S.
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y; NJ. Stanton post. @. A. r.. has been
made a present of an old walnut desk
by a Mr.. Bostwick, OF Pittsburgh. The
desk was once used in the law office OF
r. NJ. stanton in this city.