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GOT THE RIGHT EXPRESSION
Experiment wfs Painful to Tr.sedla"'
but He Could Not Hesitate When
Art Called Him.

Thanks" said the tragedian. set.
ting down his glass and absent-mind-
eddy pocketing my change. which lay
upon the bar between US. Many
thanks for your good opinion. al
ways study from Nature-from Ma
ture, sir. In my acting you see re-
fected Nature herself"
TRY this cigar" said an admirer OF
Nature, reverently. Nov, where did
you study that expression Of intense
surprise that you assumed in the SEQ
ond act7"
From Nature. sir: from Nature. To
secure that expression I asked an in.
mate personal friend to lend me nve
pounds. He refused. This caused me
NO surprise. tried several more
Finally, I struck one who was willing
to obligs me. and. as he handed me
the money, I studied in the glass the
expression Of my own face. saw
there surprise, but It was not what !
wanted. It was alleged with suspic-
ion that the sovereigns might be bad.
I was in despair"
"wellf" taid the other. breathlessly.
Then an idea struck me. re-
solved upon q desperate course. re-
turned the Ave pounds to my friend
the next day. and on his astoupded
oountsnance I saw the expression !
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effort to recall It. Only the intense
blue Of her eyes. the tawny sweep Of
her hair-these and the touch Of her.
the consciousness OF her warm and
vivid fragrance, remained to wrap all
his senses in mist woven of gold
and fire.
Shirley. meanwhile. had sat some
time beside her mothers bed. leaning
from a white chintz-covered chair. her
anxiety only partially allayed by reas-
surances now and then STOPPING to lay
her young cheek against the delicate
arm in its lacy sleeve or to pass her
hand lovingly up and down Its outline.
noting with recurrent passion of ten.
derness the transparency Of the skin
with its violet veining and the shad-
ows beneath the closed eyes. Emma
line, moving on soft worsted- shod feet
about the dim room. at length had
whispered.
You go tub bald. honey. stay
with Mis- Judith till she go tub sleep"
Eyes. go. Shirley" said her mother.
The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-07-10
CHAPTER XIX.
Night.

N9Ht.
A quicker breeze was stirring as
John Valiant went back along the Red
Road. He had waited in the garden
at Rosewood till Shirley. aided by
Emmaline and with Ranston's anxious
face lowering in the background. hav-
ing performed those gentle ofiices
which q woman's fainting spell re-
quires, had come to reassure him and
to say good night.
As he threw on his coat in the
bedroom he had chosen for his own.
he felt the hard corner of the Lucille"
in the pocket, and drawing 1t out. laid
It on the table by the bedside. He
seemed to feel again the tingle of
his cheek where a curling strand Of
her coppery hair had sprung against 1t
when her head had bent beside his
own to read the marked lines.
When he had undressed he sat an
hour in the candle.blaze. dressing
gown thrown over his shoulders. striv-
ing vainly to recreate that evening
call. to remember her every word and
look and movement. For q breath
her face would flush suddenly before
him. like live thing; then It would
mysteriously fade and elude him.
though he clenched his hands on the
arms OF his chair in the fierce mental
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STATECAPITAL
III NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WANTS TEST CALL REVOKED
Governor Has Already Appointed Bank
and Food Commissioners.


Denver.-Governor Ammons, after
accusing the members Of the state
civil service commission of insulting
him and attempting to weaken his ad.
ministration. made a public demand
that the commission Immediately with.
draw and revoke its order for civil
service examinations for the positions
OF state bank commissioner and state
pure food commissioner.
The governor had invited the mem
bers of the commission to his office,
but instead of receiving them In prf-
vate, as is his custom. he walked out
to his reception room where many per-
sons were waiting with the civil ser.
vice commissioners and there publicly
rebuked the commissioners.
He told them he had made appoint.
ments to the offices Of pure food com.
missioner and bank commissioner, and
those appointments had been con-
firmed by the Senate, us the civil ser
vice commission well Know, and that
he would not stand for any interfer-
ence with such executive appoint
mepts.
The civil service commission agreed
to hold special meeting to consider
the governors demands.
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To Provide 100000 for Roads.

Denver.-The initiated petition to
provide halfmill levy for the con-
struction and maintenance of good
roads In Colorado has been filed with
Secretary of State Pearce. 1t had 49,.
600 signatures, several thousand more
than necessary. The levy would give
a fund of 100000 year for better.
ment of highways. The committee In
charge OF the petition consisted Of
Robert II. Higgins of Pueblo, E. f.
Sommers of Denver and William En-
mons of Denver
The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-07-10
YEARS RECORD GOLD FIND.
Discovery Of Big Five at leadviiis
Runs from $50 to 5000 Ton.

Ieadville, Colo.-One OF the best
gold ore strikes made In Leadville this
year is reported from the Big Four
mine, operated by the Big Five Mining
Company. OF which Preston Gibsoa,
Washington. D. c.. Is president.
Details of the discovery are lacking.
but the find was made at consider
able depth. The ore body is said to
be between three and four feet wide.
eighteen inches of which will run 5000
per ton. while the balance will aver
age $50.
The Big Five company assumed
charge Of the Big Four the first OF tho
year. The mine is one of the best
known in the Leadville district and
has been producing for twenty years.
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Cost. Railroad 100000.

Washington. With the Supreme
Courts decision sustaining the Inter
state Commerce Commission's inter
mountain rate order. the way is opened
for shippers to recover sums estI
mated as great as $10,000,000 from
railroads, which have been charging
the old rates while the case was be-
ing fought through the courts. Re
paration, IL any, and the amount. will
have to be decided by the commission
in q separate action.
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sYhoPsIa

John Valiant, . rich society favorite.
suddenly discovers that the. Valiant cor.
poration, which his father founded and
wealth. has failed. liz voluntarily turn.
for the corporation. His entire remaining
possessions consist of an old motor car. .
white bull dog and Damory court. neg
lected estate In Virginia On the way to
Damory court he mests Shirley Dand-
ridge. an auburn haired beauty. and de-
cides that he 10 going to like Virginia I'M
mensely. Ehirley's mother, Mrs. Dand-
ridge, and Major Bristow exchange rem.
iniscences during which It II revealed
that the major. valiant's father. and a
man named Sasson were rivals for the
hand of Mrs.. Dandridge in her youth
6asson and Valiant fought q duel on her
account in which the former was killed
Valiant finds Damory court evergreen
with weeds and creepers and the build
tn9s in a very much neglected condition:
He decides to rehabilitate tho place and
make tina land produce a living for him
snake. which bites him. Knowing the
deadliness Of the bite: Shirley sucks the
poison from the wound and saves his lie:
Shirley tells her mother of the inctdent
and tho latter 10 strangely moved AZ
hearing that Valiant 10 again living at
Oamory court. Valiant learns for the
hrst time that his father left Virginia on
account OF a duel in which Doctor
9outhall and Major Bristow acted - his
fathers seconds. 'N
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slanted swiftly down, to climb once
more in huge spiral to its high tower
of sky. Fs
Perhaps 1t wondered. as its tele-
scopic eye looked down. That had
been its choicest covert, that dishev-
eled tangle where the birds held per
petual carnival. the weasel lurked In
the underbrush and the rabbit lined
his windfall. Now the wildness was
gone. A pergola. glistening white. now
upheld the runaway vines. making a
sickle.like path from the upper ter
race to the lake. In the barn loft the
pigeons still quarrelled over their new
cotes of fresh pine, and under a clump
Of locust trees at little distance from
the house, half-dozen dolls cabins
on stills stood waiting the honey-stor-
age Of the black and gold bees.
There were new denizens. also.
These had arrived in p dozen zinc
tanks and willow hampers. to the
amaze Of a sleepy express clerk at the
railroad station: two swans now sailed
majestically over the lily-ponds Of the
lake. along its gravel rim and pair
Of bronze-colored ducks waddled and
preened. and its placid surface rippled
and broke to the sluggish backs of
goldfish and the flirting fms OF red
Japanese carp.
The house itself wore another air.
Its look of unkemptness had largely
vanished The soft gray tone of age
remained. but the bleakness and for
lornness were gone; there was about
all now q warmth and genial bearing
that limited at mellowed beauty. ire
light and cheerful voices within.
Valiant heaved Q long sigh Of salts
faction as he stood In the sunlight gaz-
ing at the results Of his labors. He
was not now the fiippant boulevardier
to whom money was the sine qua non
of existence. He had learned sover-
eign lesson-one gained not through
the push and fight Of crowds. but in
the simple peace Of countryside. un-
vexed by the clamor Of gold and the
complex problems of competitive ex-
istence-that he had inherited need
of activity. Of achievement that he had
been born to do.
"Chum," he said, to the dog rolling
on his back In the grass. what do
you think of 1t ALL anyway He
reached down. seized . hind leg and
whirling him around Ira q teetotum.
sent him flying into the bushes.
whence Chum launched again upon
him, like a catapult He caught the
white shoulders and held him vise-like.
"Just about right. Ell? But wait till
we get those ramblers!"
"And to think" he continued. whim-
sically releasing him. that might
have gone on. one of the lIttle-neck-
clam crowd I've always trained with.
at the same old pace. till the Yer.
-Palm-Beach career got
double Nelson on me and the umpire
counted me out. At this moment l
wouldn't swap this old house and land.
ana the sunshine and that garden
and Unc' Jefferson and Aunt Daph
and the chickens and the birds and
all the rest Of It. for mile Of Nil
lionaires' Row."
He went into the house and to the
library. The breeze through the wide
flung bow-window was duttering the
papers on tho desk and the map on
the wall was tapping sidewise. He
went to straighten It. and then saw
what he had not noticed before-that
It covered something that had been lot
into the plaster. He swung 1t aside
and made an exclamation.
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Love Held the Superior Of Euaeniee
Atlantic City. N. LESS eugenics
and more old-fashioned love Is what
the race needs, said DR.. J. Richey
Homer of the Cleveland Homeopathic
Medical College, who read a paper on
sex hygiene before the bureau OF san
itary science of the American Instr
tute of Homeopathy. "Eugenics and
education go hand in hand" DR.. Hor.
ner said. Children should, however.
be given instruction before the age OF
nine, and the instruction should be
given individually rather than IN
classeS'
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No Race Suicide In Church.

Chicago.-Race suicide Is not pre-
valent among church members, &C
cordng to statistics presented at the
triennial convention Of the 1nterna-
tional Sunday School Association. In
three years since the last convention
at San Francisco 347.261 babies have
been added to the "cradle roll" bring
ing the total membership OF this de-
partment in sixty-seven states ana
provinces Of North America to 1887
s37.
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CHAPTER xvIII-contInu.d.

CHAPTER xvIII-centInusd
you are cold" he said. isn't that
gown too thin for this night air"
mo. often walk here till quite
late. Listen!"
Tho bird song had broken forth
again, to be answered this time by
rivals in . distant thicket my
nightingale il in good voice."
Il never heard nightingale before
I came to Virginia I wonder why 1t
sings only at night"
What an odd ideal Why. It sings
In the daytime. too"
Really? But suppose 1t escapes
notice in the general chorus IL 1t Q
large bird?"
mo: smaller than q thrush. Only .
little bigger than q robin. Its nest Is
over there in that hedge-a tiny loose
cup Of. dried oak-leaves. lined with
hair. and the eggs are olive color.
How pretty the hedge looks now. all
tangled with FREELY sparks!"
Doesn't It! Uncle Jefferson calls
them lightning bugs"
1.-THE name IL much more pic
turesque. But all the darby sayings
are. Do you md him and Aunt
Daphne psefulf"
"He has been . sodssnd." he said
fervently; "and her cooking has
taught me to treat her with passion
ate respect He's teaching me now
about fowers-it's surprising how
many kinds he knows. He's walking
herbarium."
Come and see mine." she said.
Roses are our specialty-we have to
live up to the Rosewood name. But
beyond the arbors, are beds and beds
Of other flowers. See-by this big
tree -spesd-well and delphinium.
The tree IL black-walnut. It's .
dreadful thing to have one as big a.
that When you want something that
costs q lot Of money you go and look
at it and wonder which you want
most, that particular luxury or the
tree. I know q girl who had two in
her yard only . little bigger than this.
and she went to Europe on them. But
10 far I've always voted for the tree.
How does your gardenscome orr
"Famously. Uncle Jefferson has
shanghaied . half.doxen negro gar
where can't imagine
and he's having the time Of his life
hectoring over them. He refers to the
upper and lower terraces A. 'up-and-
down-stairs.' I've got seeds. but It
will be long time before they
flower" ,ts.
"oh, would you like some slips!"
she cried. "Or. better still. can
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RATES FOR BIG FAIR IN 1915.
Different Railroad Lines May Be Used
to Panama-Pacific Exposition.


San Francisco.-Round trip fares
from Eastern points to San Francisco
for the Panama-Pacific exposition in
1915, as fixed by the railroads Of the
Eastern Trunk Lines Association have
been announced by the exposition traf.
fic department.
They are: New York city. $94.30:
hiladelphia. 1926: Washington. D.
c., 1920. The going and returning
trips may be made on different lines.
The fixing OF these rates concludes
the present special 1915 excursion re,
auctions, the other chief ones already
determined being Chicago. $62.50;
Pittsburg. $500; Buffalo. $3.50; De
trcit. $3.50: Cincinnati. $71.10. 1t Is
announced that further reductions arc
likely to be made later as conditions
warrant.
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He was looking at a square. uncom-
promising wall-safe, with a round fig.
ured disk of white metal on its face.
He knelt before 1t and tried its knob
After a moment 1t turned easily. But
the resolute steel door would not open.
though he tried every combination
that came into his mind. mo use"
he said disgustedly. zone must have
the right numbers"
Then he lifted his fretted frame and
smote his grimy hands together. Con
found i'll" he said with q short laugh.
Here I am. a bankrupt, with all this
outfit-clear to the very finger.bowls--.
handed to me on a silver tray. and I'm
mad as scat because l can't open the
first locked thing l hnd!"
He ran upstairs and donned a rough
corduroy jacket and high leather leg
gings. We're going to climb the hill
today. Chum." he announced. land no
more moccasins need apply"
In the lower hall, however. he sud
denly stopped stock-still. 1.-THE slip Of
paper that was in the china dog!" he
exclaimed. what a chump l am not
to have thought of I'll" He found 1t
In its pigeonhole and. kneeling down
before the safe. tried the numbers
carefully, first right. then left: II
2s-94-0. The heavy door opened.
II was right" he exulted. ITS the
plate" He drew 1t out. piece by piece.
Each was bagged in dark-red Canton
flannel. He broke the tape Of one bag
and exposed a great silver pitcher.
furnished purple-blue like q ravens
wing-then a tea-service. Each piece.
large and small, was marked with the
greyhound rampant and the motto.
"And to think" he said. that my
great-great- grandfather buried you
with his own hands under the stables
when Tarleton's raiders swept the val
ley before the surrender at Yorktown!
Only wait till Aunt Daphne gets you
polished up, and on the sideboard!
You're the one thing the place has
needed"
With the dog for comrade he ira
versed the garden and plunged across
the valley below. humming as he went.
The place was painless and over.
grown with paw-paw bushes and sassa-
fras. Great trees stood SO thickly
in places a. to make twilight and the
SUMMER spots were masses Of pink
laurel, poison-ivy. flaming purple rho
dodendron and wine-red tendrils Of In
terbraided briers. This was the for
est land Of whose possibilities he had
thought. In the heart Of the woods he
came upon a great limb that had been
wrenched OF by storm. The broken
wood was Of deep rich brown. shading
to black. He broke of his song. snap
ped a twig and smelled IT. Its sharp
acrid odor was unmistakable. He sud.
denly remembered the walnut tree at
Rosewood and what Shirley had said:
81 know girl who had two In her
yard, and she went to Europe on
them"
He looked about him: as far as he
could see the trees reared. hardy and
perfect, untouched for . generation.
He selected one of medium size and
pulling a creeper. measured It's cir
conference and gazing this measure
with his eye. made = penciled calcula-
ton on the back Of an envelope.
Great Scott" he said jubilantly to
the dog: that would cut enough to
wainscot the Damory Court library
and build twenty sideboards!"
CTo BE coNTINUEDJ
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Not There for Experiment.

Edith and Flora were passing their
summer vacation in the country.
DO you know" said Edith. that
young farmer tried to kiss me. He told
mo that he had never kissed any girl
before"
What did you tell himf" asked
Flora.
why" replied Edith, 81 told him
was no agricultural experiment sta
tion."-Harpera Bazaar.
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Denver.-The election commission
decided that thu Republican party is
emit tied to be cognized as the party
OF second rank in Colorado and as
such should name with the Democrats
the judges for the coming election.
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Tried the Numbers Carefully. First
Right, Then Left: 17-2e-e4-o
The Heavy Door Opened.

Haven't any privileges at all? Can't
I even faint when feel like It., without
calling out the hre-brigade? You'll
pamper me to death and heaven knows
don't need It."
sYou won't let me telephone for Doc!
tor southallf"
Certainly mott"
"And you are sure It was nothing
but the roses?"
why, what else should 1t BET" said
her mother almost peevishly. Il must
really have the arbors thinned out. On
heavy nights it's positively overpower-
ing. Go along now. and we'll talk
about II tomorrow. can ring II
want anything"
In her room Shirley undressed
thoughtfully. There was between her
and her mother q fine tenuous bond
of sympathy and feeling as rare. per
haps, as 1t was lovely. She could not
remember when the other had not
been a semi-invalid. and her earliest
childhood recollections were punctu-
ated with the tap of the little cane.
Tonight's sudden indisposition had
shocked and disturbed her; to faint
at a rush Of perfume seemed to sug.
gest q growing weakness that was
alarming Tomorrow. she told herself.
she would send Ranston with . wagon
load of the roses to the hospital at
Charlottesville.
She slipped on q pink shell-shaded
dressing-gown Of slinky silk with a
riot Of axaleas scattered in the weave.
and then. dragging her chair before
the open window. drew aside the light
curtain and began to brush her hair.
All at once her gaze fell upon the
floor, and she shrank backward from q
twisting thread-like thing whose bright
saffron-yellow glowed sharply against
the dark carpet She saw in an In
slant, however, that It was nothing
,love-vine from the garden, which had
chung to her skirt. She picked up
the tiny mass Of tendrils and with a
slow smile tossed 1t over her right
shoulder through the window. eff 1t
takes root" she said aloud. my sweet
heart loves me-" She leaned from the
sill to peer down into the misty gar
den, but could not follow its fall
Long ago her visitor would have
reached Damory Court. She had
vision of him wandering. candle in
hand. through the empty echoing
rooms. looking at the voiceless por-
traits on the walls. thinking perhaps
of his father. of the fatal duel Of which
he had never known. She liked the
way he had spoken of his father!
As she leaned. out Of the stiffness
there came to her ear mellow sound.
It was the bell Of the courthouse in
the village. She counted the strokes
falling clearly or family as the slug
gish breeze ebbed or swelled. It was
eleven.
She drew back. dropped the curtain
to shut out the wan glimmer, and IN
the darkness crept into the soft bed
as If into q hiding-place.
.,
A warm sun and an air mildly mel
low. A faint gold-shadowed mist over
the valley and soft lilac haze blend
ing the rounded outlines Of the hills.
Through the shrubbery at Damory
Court cardinal darted like GRIM
son shuttle, to rock impudently from
deering limb. and here and there
on the bluish.ivory sky, motionless as
q pasted wafer. hung q hawk; from
time to time one Of these wavered and
The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-07-10

Chicago.-A bull calf less than four
months old was sold at auction here
for $4,000, said to be record price
in the United States. The purchasers
were Chicagoans. The calf was born
Feb 25, is Holstein and comes from
famous pedigreed stock.
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Governor Ammons Issues Regulation
Two Water Commissioners Named.

Denver.-Two state water commits
sioners have been appointed by Cover
nor Ammons. They are James II.
Macfarlane of Yampa, who will be
commissioner for District No. So. and
A. C. Windham Of Trinidad, who will
be commissioner for District No. 10.
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Mrs. Robinson to Tour Europe.

Denver.-Senator Helen Ring Robin.
son has been signally honored by be-
ing selected as one of Americas dele
gates to the international parliament
tary union which opens in Stockholm,
Sweden, Aug. 1.
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Archduke and wife Heavily Insured.

Nrchduke and WIfe Heavily InsuTeo.
Vienna.-The news of the death OF
Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the
Duchess of Hohenberg recalls the fact
that the late archduke's life was In
sured with Dutch companies for $12.-
100000 and that of his wife for &c.
100000
The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-07-10


give you the roses already rooted
Mad Charles and Marechal Nell and
Cloth Of Gold and cabbage and ram.
blers. We have geraniums and
fuchsias. too. and the coral honey
suckls. That's different from the wild
one. you know. $780, 4
"You are too good! II you would
only advise me where to set them!
But dare say you think me presum-
ing"
y She turned her full face to him.
= .Presumingi' You're puRishing me
low for the dreadful way I talked to
you about Damory Court-before I
tmsw who you were. Oh. It was un-
rerdonablel And after the splendid
3 Aing you had dons-I read about 1t
Vat same evening-with your money,
tnsani"
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All sorts OF plaids and checks are
In great favor. especially for vests and
coates.