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laced and unlaced his fingers.
II Judged" he said, from
what / saw OF you before that
above all you were charitable. I
am sorry that I could not have
gone away still thinking 60"
Charity" she asked. do you
call that charity? l mean the
kind of charity that begins at
home. 1t mayn't have been char
liable to you or to me. but the
world wasn't made for you and
me. We might as we'll try to dam
flood as to hold back what the
world wants to think OF u.s."
And yet" the man interrupts
ed, "our happiness would have
made up for much. don't pre-
tend To be unselfish - the Lord
knows | have suffered enough to
want a little pleasure and peace
before | die"
II know" she said, 81 know all
of that. L'know that we could
have been happy, because we
could have been content with each
other and we could have gone
away. But how do we know that
those who came after US would
have the strength to take up the
burden? Do you know that they
would have been satisfied, as you
and | could have been, with only
each other-happy with the heat
of the sun over our heads and the
smell of the ground under our
feet? Do you know that those
who might follow us would not
choose to live with their kind,
and do you know that they would
be brave enough to hold up their
heads In the crowded places?"
The girl rose from her chair and,
laying her hand on Crichton's
shoulder, half turned him about,
SO that the red glare from the fire
shone fairly in his face.
81 know It doesn't make very
much difference now" she went
on, but ! have told you what my
mother will never know. Is there
anything else | can tell you be-
fore you go?"
The man and the girl stood for
moment looking into each
others eyes, and then Crichton
shrugged his shoulders very
slightly and smiled pleasantly
into her face. II was a smile such
as he might have vouchsafed a
hayward child. He took the
hand, which still rested on his
shoulder, in both of his, and gen.
tly touched the tips of her fingers
with his lips.
There is nothing else" he
said. Except to say goodbye"
Goodbye" she whispered,
"and God help you"
(The End.)
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TALK With SENATE

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. "a.
Wilson will discuss
foreign relations, especially with
Mexico, with the senate committee
Monday evening.
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PROMINENT MEN
ADDRESS Y.W.C.A

Several prominent persons of
Tacoma will speak at the annual
meeting of the Young Woman's
Christian association Tuesday
evening, to be held in the associ-
alton rooms.
w. c. Wheeler will talk on
Does the business men consider
the association an important fac
tor of the community work?'
Judge Clifford will talk on what
the Y. w. C. A. can do to cooper
ate with the juvenile court. Mayor
Seymour will tell how the associ-
alton can assist the city officials.
Miss Claribel Holt will tell what
the association can do with the
business girls. Other talks will be
made by Rev. Murdoch Mcleod,
Mrs. c. P. Balabanoff and Rev.
Frank Dyer.
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D0RR IS SENTENCED

SALEM, Mass, Jan. 24.-Wil-
liam A. Dorr, who killed George
+. Marsh, soap manufacturer,
was sentenced to be electrocuted
March 22.
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without looking up.
Crichton shook his head. 81
imagine most people would call it
bad news" he said, and | do,
too, in a way. II seemed / had
taken some sort of fever on the
trip, and that had rather compli-
Gated matters in my system. |
went to see a lot of doctors, and
all agreed about me-one of them
was quite hopeful. He said |
might live couple of months, but
the best the rest could do was
thirty days"
Her chin still resting in her
hands, the girl sliwly turned her
eyes to his. She looked at him
slowly from his head to his feet,
as II she were trying to verify his
words.
There were lots of other
things I wanted to do and see,
but, of course, couldn't run all
over the world in thirty days very
well, could 1? l worked it out
pretty well that day and | argued
and fought 1t out with myself for
long time. But gracious!
knew all the time what | wanted
to do and what was going to do,
and that was to come back and
see you and perhaps ask you to
sing for me again"
AS Crichton finished the girl
looked up at him questioningly,
but the mans face was still in
the shadow.
81 don't know Just what to say
to you, Mr.. Crichton," she said,
because | really don't know you
at all, and yet | feel that | never
knew anyone quite so well. |
didn't break with Ned on account
Of you, but ] did do II on account
of your type, or rather on account
of his. He was a good, sweet
soul, but he was Just like the rest
of them here-the men, and the
women, too, for that matter, are
pretty much all made in the same
mold. | have to go back to my
fathers ranch three months every
year to keep near the earth and
see all Of the sky at once. You
were different, and | wanted to
know you very, very much. | was
going to write you to come and
see me in town before you sailed,
and then"
And them" he asked.
Then? Well, why not? 1t
can't make any difference now"
None"
81 didn't send for you because
/ thought / cared too much"
But you knew you were not
going to marry Curtis?"
YES" she said. II knew that
from the first day."
Then there must have been
another reason?"
The girl nodded up at the dark
figure. Eyes, there was another
reason"
Not the old reason-the rea-
son of every dull fool that sits in
club window, the reason why
every debutante is told to keep
away from mel"
Miss Ferguson nodded.
Crichton, still standing with
his back to the fire, clasped his
hands behind him -and slowly
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Fell 20 Feet;
Asks $4,000

Arthur Owe, an insurance soli-
citor, was inspecting articles In
the Golden Rule Furniture COM
pany's store, 1149 South G street,
last September, with the inten-
ton of purchasing a cookstove,
when he stepped on a piece of car
pet tightly drawn over trap
door, and suddenly found HIM
self lying amid an assortment of
furniture on the Commerce street
floor of the store. He mad fallen
a distance of 20 feet, fracturing
eight ribs and his right leg. In
Judge Clifford's court yesterday
Owes suit to recover $4,000
damages for the accident was be-
gun before a jury.
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MACY

Specialist Usteopathy. Chiropractic.
Bloodless Surgery, Spinal Expert
Medicine and Surgery. All diseases
of men and women. 1219h Pacific
av.. Tacoma.
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SCHOOL FACTION
FIGHT WILL
BE BITTER

Both factions in the school
fight at Gertrude, on McNeils is
land. which burst into open revolt
Tuesday when the residents forci-
bly, elected the schoolteacher, d..
M. Wolfe, have prepared for a
keen battle, and attorneys have
been retained. Attorneys Bone
& Wright of Tacoma will repre-
sent School Directors Gus Carl
son and Ernest Richter in prose-
cutting the citizens who caused
the disturbance, and the citizens
have retained Attorney w. G..
Heinly. A change of venue to
Judge Cotterill's court, Joes bay,
was secured yesterday, and the
cases will come up for trial Janu-
airy 81.
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CANNOT DECIDE
ON SOBRIETY
OF WOMAN

After celebrating from Thurs
day afternoon until a late hour
yesterday, a jury in Judge Chap
mans court reported that 1t
could not agree on a verdict in
the damage suit of Mrs. Fannie
Gamer against the Carlton hotel
company. One woman on the
jury. who is said to have held
out against the other
~. = - 30
II, Is said to have caused the dis
agreement.
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JURY SCORES
BOTH SIDES

Refusing to give Louis Wilson
damages against G.. H. Plummer
for injuries received when his mo-
torcycle ran into a woodpile in
front of Plummer's home at 9th
and Yakima avenue, a jury in
Judge Clifford's court yesterday
scored Wilson for concNbutory
negligence and then reprimanded
both he and Plummer for negli
gence,
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lack of individual friends he made
a friend of the whole world. He
devoted himself to ideas and
places and books and races of
people. There is hardly settle
ment where any white man has
been that he doesn't know and
know well, and | think he has
read more, and more intelligent
ly, than any one | ever heard Of. :"
Crichton's stay in America was
very short. He decided quite sud
denly one day that he must return
to the Far East. A letter from
Paris ten days later to Brooke
Curtis, and then he disappeared
entirely. Summer passed and
winter and summer again, and
then one day, later in November.
Crichton turned up once more in
New York. He went to his hotel
and asked for letter which was
awaiting his arrival. Once in his
room he tore off the envelope and
re-read the short note many times.
This was all 1t said:
Dear Mr.. Criehton -
shall be glad to see you any
afternoon after five, as l am
nearly always at home then
to give my friends q cup Of
tea. 1t is good to know that
you are about starting In
this direction.
Sincerely yours,
MARGARET FERGUSON"
Late that afternoon he was
standing In front of the fire In
the wing-room OF the Fergu-
son home, and Miss Ferguson was
sitting behind the teacups, look
ing, at least so Crichton thought,
much more beautiful than she
looked that day he had first met
her almost two years before.
"But this time" she said, you
have come to stay for long Wis
it,"
Crichton looked down into his
teacup and smiled. 81 fear not, }"
he said. Il am going away very
soon."
You're so disappointing. Can't
you possibly stand us for a few
weeks? Where are you going this
timer"
II haven't an idea," he said,
mot the faintest, believe me-"
That's even less compliment
tary to us. What does Brooke say
to this plan?"
II haven't seen Brooke yet.
You know I only arrived this aft
erneon. wanted to see you
first; in fact, 1t was to see you
that l came back to this country.
Not that I don't want to see
Brooke, bless bis soul, but"
you wanted to see me?" the
girl interrupted him. '"Me?"
ut really isn't very amusing, as
a matter of fact" he said. at
happened about this way. You re-
member that very soon after
first met you two years ago I
went abroad?"
my inclination was to think
about you a great deal. but / did
my best not to do so. You see you
were engaged then to Ned, and
for that and other reasons | tried
to keep my mind on other people
and other things. And then one
day, when l was down on the
west coast of Africa. / got a let
ter from q man who writes me
sometimes and he told me you
were not engaged any more. SO
you see there was no particular
reason why should not think of
YOU all l wanted to. was there?"
And soon after that" he con-
tinued, Il booked back to civiliza-
tion, and when reached Paris
got some very important news. =
] Good news7" the girl asked
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Bonafide Testimonials
From Thankful People

Cured by the won-
derful N. Vow Chin
csc cures.
The following IL
one OF many Rrhti-
tying testimonials
which We receive:
twenty-five years
ago / contracted
blood poison and
have been troubled
with II constantly.
Since I hare doctor
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WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 23.
Wilson has promoted
William C. Gorgas, who converted
the Panama Canal zone from a
place of pestilence into a healthy
sanitary spot. He now holds the
rank of brigadier general in the
U. s. army.
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WANTS A SOCIAL
CENTER FOR TOWN

BISmarck wants a social CEN
ter for the boys.
President Goodman of the i'm
provement club was at the city
hall this morning to see what
could be done toward it.
Goodman asked Mills If they
could meet in the Bismarck Jail.
Mills said no. Then he suggest
ed the people might build a club
house If the city would let them
have stub end of a street. Mills
favored this.
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They shook hands and then
Criehton and Curtis, arm-in-arm
went out and left the girl and
Ned together.
What an unusual person your
friend Crichton u.s." she said.
How is it that l never heard you
speak of him before?"
The young man, still holding
the girls hand, sat on the broad
arm of the chair. II don't know"
he said. II rather thought pretty
much every one had at least heard
of Jim Crichton."
What would one hear" she
asked, good things?"
Ned got up and crossing to the
table slowly began to prepare
himself a drink. Eyes and-no,"
he said. "He is and always was
one of the finest men God ever
made, but Jim made one mis-
take"
What kind of a mistaken" she
asked. 1T must have been seri-
ous."
when Crichton had finished
college," Ned began, "he went
over to Paris and settled down.
One way and another he spent a
good deal Of money, at least
Jim's father thought so, although
the old man was very rich. FL
nally, Jim got in with a pretty
quick crowd and he used to play
poker and baccarat with them at
one of the clubs. Well, one morn
ing he woke up and found him
self very much in debt. He cabled
his father exactly how things
stood, and In a few hours he got
pretty rough answer, absolutely
refusing the money. OF course,
Jim needed the money, but the
old mans wire was what did the
business. I honestly believe, just
out of spite and to show his father
that he couldn't down him, he
signed a check with his fathers
name for twice the amount he had
asked for. But when the check
reached New York the old man
denied 1t. l suppose 1t was be-
cause he loved Jim better than
anything else in the world, and
because he had done everything
he could for him all his life, he
lost his head completely and de-
nounced Jim as a forger all over
his old office. Half an hour later
he tried to deny everything he
had said and insisted the check
was all right, but 1t was too late.
Every clerk in the office hurried
uptown and told the story at
some tea or dinner or club, and,
although they kept the story out
OF the papers, 1t was all over with
i'm"
And them" asked the girl.
zs'Oh, then? Well, Jim came
home and the two of them start
ed in to spend years trying to un-
do the harm they both had done
in moment of anger. II almost
killed the old man, and Jim took
him from one health resort to an
other, trying all kind OF cures
but there was no cure for that
kind of trouble. The old man
died in Jim's arms, asking the
boys forgiveness with his last
breath. guess Jim would have
been willing to quit then, too,
but he had the young machinery
the old man lacked, and so he
kept on going"
And some of him lived, but
the most Of him died." the girl
interrupted.
NO. hardly that" the young
man said. "As a matter OF fact
Jim never was any good until he
signed that check. He was q
crazy, Wild Kid before that, but
shs trouble made . man Of him
The Detroit times., 1914-06-16
ADMITS THEFT FROM
FELLOWCRAFT CLUB

John Schuster who was named In
the sensational blEamy trial OF Mrs.
Evelyn Proctor-Wigle. in Windsor as
the legal husband or the young WON
an who married Archie Wigle, despite
the protests OF his father. was ar
rested by Detectives Plies and eros
man Monday night, and is said 10 have
confessed that he stole $50 from the
safe OF the Fellowcraft club. where he
was employed as confidential clerk
The Detectives declare that Schust-
er, when accused by them OF having
pawned his iewelry, and spent all Of
lis money entertaining women, with
whom he was great favorjte he
broke down and led them 20 his room
az No. 40 Grand-Riverave east wsere
SIS was found hidden behind pthe
wainsccting
Schuster Is 34 years old He had
many clippings about the trial OF Mrs
! Wigle
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IRENE DIDN'T KNOW
1T WAS POLICE AUE0'

Irene Walker. % years old. or No
264 Fort-st west. had herself arrest
ed. Monday night.
Detective William Black and some
plain clothes officers OF the free
lance" squad were out rounding up
women OF the streets, without war
rants. in spite OF Justice Gainey's NJ
tlmatum on that subject, issued Mon
day in the trial OF Detective Michael
J. Horrigan on the charge OF roughly
handling Grace Brown.
Detective Black and his squad had
a department auto. with no sign paint
ed on H. They stopped the machine
on Monroe-aye., and Black went out
in search OF women he knew as disor-
derlies, while two officers stayed IN
the auto. A.
Irene who had been INDUCING,
stepped into the auto, sat down. and
remarked: Now. boys. we VIII all
so for nice JOY ride.
She dldnt know il was a police
auto, and that the boys" were po-
hcemen.
Just then Black appeared. stepped,
into the machine, and Irene, who,
knows him. sale, greatly embars
rassed: =
ooh, Excuse me. Mr. Black 4
didn't know this was your auto" s.
That's all right" said Black. "You
are saving time for US" aud he took,
her 20 the station. ~
Ten others were rounded up dur"
inc the evening.
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himself prone when he felt severe
blow on his right shoulder, being com
pletely Frustrated, The hospital corps
men who accompanied the firing line
applied the first-aid bandages and
sent him back TO the dressing sta
ton. Here an examination disclosed
the wound OF entrance in his, right
shoulder. and also the supposed exit
of the bullet in the form OF hole in
his right side just where his cartridge
belt had been Sent into the First
Reserve hospital in Manihr, he was
treated under the very natural sup
position that he was rid OF his bullet,
but III days after his admission one
OF the nurses in bathing the man no
ticed what appeared TO be a swelling
just above his right knee. Calling
the attention of the surgeon to the
matter that individual went after the
object with his Instruments and eX-
tracted a Mauser bullet The missile,
traversing his body lengthwise close
to the surface. had struck the tight
and unyielding belt where II would
have made its exit, but. being foiled,
and having considerable energy left.
had continued its journey through the
unfortunate mans anatomy until its
force was expended just above his
knee II is disturbing TO be shot
through the body in the orthodox man
ner, but IL Is enough TO make one
positively peevish to have hole
drilled through him lengthwise As
tonishing to relate, the man recover
ed in a short time.
We continued the advance by rush
es until within about 200 yards OF
the enemy, when the Charge sent
the two battalions over the remain.
ing ground in no time, the enemy S
weak line bolting into the woods,
The men OF Company G had bull
dog that they had brought with them
from Coffeyville. Kansas, and OF which
The Detroit times., 1914-06-16

TO close as rapidly as possible and
take chances on the depth OF the
stream So the companies on the fir
ing line now rushed down the bank,
threw themselves fiat, and fought des-
perately
AS soon as | reached the firing line
/ motioned, for no commands could
be heard, for some OF he men TO get
into the water and Try 20 cross Capt.
William j. Watson, commanding Com
pany T., and two or three men plunged
In and struggled across. the water be
ing nearly To their shoulders and
were followed by a number OF others,
the men holding their gihes over
their heads As the first OF these
men came up the bank the Filipinos
bolted, knowing IL was all over /
saw Lieut. Colin II. BAH do some good
short-range work with his revolver.
he being one OF those who had
crossed
The men Of the regiment now that
the fighting had ceased, waded the
stream at the same place. and we're
allowed to throw themselves on the
ground TO rest until further orders
should be received Copyright by
Charles Scribner's Sons
Continued
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they were exceedingly fond ] had
heard much OF tine antics OF this ami
NAL in battle and ON this occasion
mad an opportunity TO see him per
form. He was perfectly frantic with
excitement, apparently thinking that
the whole show was something for his
especial benefit, and ran UP ana down
the line of his company barking furi-
ously. At the charge he dlstenced
everybody in the race TO the enemy's
position. This dog was In every en-
gagement that the company was IN.
and went through il all without mis-
hap, but after his return he indis.
creetly bit Cofeyville's police force
in the leg and was promptly shot, an
ending for the company pet that all
but started a riot,
We resumed the advance. now over
somewhat rougher ground and through
woods that in places were rather
dense, but here and there compare
lively open We knew that some
where on our front was the Tuliajan
river, but owing TO the wretched
maps OF the country that the Span
iards had made. the distance was un.
certain.
Suddenly We heard most terrific
crashing in the woods 10 our left as
the Third artillery engaged in des-
perate close-range struggle in which
it lost about 80 men killed and wound.
ed, and in an instant the woods on
our own front added TO the pande-
monium. II was exceedingly dirticult
TO decide what TO do. To rush the
men down TO the river, which we
could now make out about 800 yards
ahead OF the line, might place the
regiment in a position where it would
be shot to pieces by the well-in-
trenched enemy on the opposite bank
in case It should be too deep to wade.
To retire was OF course out of the
question, SO the only thing to do was