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The daily Alaskan., 1914-10-27
ALLEGED FISH TRUST TO
 GO ON TRIAL IN JANUARY

Seattle, Oct. 27-TLe members Of the alleged fish trust, recently indicted in this city by the federal grand jury, plead not guilty today and their trial was set for the Jan uary term of court.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-10-27
TWO HUNDRED MINERS ARE
 ENTONIBED AT RONALTON

St Louis, Oct. 27-By a gas eX- plosion which started a fire today two hundred miners were entombed in the miness at Royalton. One hundred made their escape.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-10-27
WILSON Is
 OPPOSING CANYONS RETURN

Washington. Oct. 2T-President Wilson is strongly opposed to the return to congress Of Representa- tive Joe Cannon, of illinois, and is using every effort to procure his defeat.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-10-27
EARTHQUAKE OCCURS OVER
 WIDE SECTION IN JrALI

Florence, Oct. PA severe earthquake shock was felt today over a wide section of Italy but m reports have so far been re cpiyed of loss of life or destruc- tioH of property in the zone or The disturbance.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-10-27
AND ACCOMPLICES
 IRE CONVICTED BY COURT

Sarajeyo, oct. 27-uayrio Prinz- ip, together with his accomplices, were today convicted of murdering Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife and sentenced to death.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-10-27
ENGLISH EXPLORER SAILS
 FOR THE SOUTH POLE

Bucnos Ayres, Oct 27-The Shackelton south pole expedition sailed from this port today.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-10-27

Word reached skagway from
 Whitehorse today that q bouncing
 baby boy had been born to MT ana Mrs. Isaac Taylor oi chat place on Sunday morning.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-10-27
.ENORNOUS DAILY LOSSES
 ARE REPORTED BY GERMANS

Ceived here this morning from the frontier states that 5000 Russians had been captured near lvangorou by the Austrian arnF operating there,
The daily Alaskan., 1914-10-27

Rome, Oct. 27-Officid reports received here today from the Ger man war office places the German Iusse. at 10000 men daily.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-10-27
INDIAN TROOPS ARE
 SAID TO BE EFFECTIVE

London, Oct. 27-Anthentic "d- vices received in this city this morh- ipo state that the allies have re gained their position on the banks of the river Nser and In the heavy fighting that enSued have driven back the Germans with telrlflc losses to the latter.
 The Indian troops are said to be proving most effective in their as SiStaLce to the allies.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-10-27

EIGHT THOUSAND RUSSIANS
 ARE REPORTED CAPTURED vienna, Oct. 27-A message re-
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22

which never existed and never viii, that
bein' the difference between ninety-two
in the shade and two above zero. He
showed the money in his pocket, and
then he says, Now, throw the right
amount of vacuum overheard and you'll
glide to the harbor easy And so I
sent below for the crew to throw over
some vacuum, and the first they brought
on deck to throw over made me stare.
1t wasn't in lead bags, it was in fish
bladders. And that was how the Mate
had made balloon of the ship. He'd
unloaded the vacuum from the lead bags
into fish bladders and had throwed the
lead overheard, maxim the ship light
enough to float up into the"
I'm goin' homel" said Sim Perkins
Grossly.
And So concluded Uncle Ashdod,
81 say speculation is wrong"
You lost at it." said Sim Perkins.
We'll, l said it was wrong, didn't
~ asked Uncle Ashdod.
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
By LOUISE MERRIFIELD

he handed her his sword with honors.
I'D know YOU anywhere, and love YOU
under any circumstances. You wouldn't
have answered my letters II you hadn't
cared. Dolores, would YOU
Il have-remembered you" said Do
lores. guardedly. I'VE must go at once
to the others, I think. The clouds are
breaking"
You bet they're breaking" exclaimed
Chad with force and fervor. And after
commencement I'm going to throw up
my camping trip. and go down to San
Antonio"
''Oh, il is so very warm there in June"
laughed Dolores blushing. too. And my
mother and my sisters are coming North
for the summer. l am sorry you cannot
stay too to meet them"
Dolores" began Chad, but from the
distance came Shorty's valiant hail.
Bearing umbrellas and outer wraps he
ran over the ground from the farm
house, calling that the crowd had de-
cided to stay there for awhile until the
sun came out. Yet he vas not answered.
And when he reached the lone pilot
house. wrecked in the grove of trees. he
paused, looked and fed. The pimento
cloak was draped costly about two pair
of shoulders, and Chad motioned him
away absently. The measure OF bis Joy
was heaped to the brim.
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Vacuum" said Uncle Ashdod. Don't
YOU know what vacuum is? It's bag
full of air with the air all pumped out. >
IF you took a bag full OF air and
pumped the air OUT said Sim Perkins,
in disagreeable tone, there wouldn't
be nothin' in the bag at all. Now, you
could take copper cylinder, maybe,
and pump the. air all out, and you'd
have a copper cylinder full of vacuum
left, Blu. if you took bag and pumped
the air out like that, you wouldn't have
nothin'. Them bags would all flatten
down, and they'd be fat, empty bags.
That's what they'd be-
Well" said Uncle Ashdod
thoughtfully, you're right as far as you
go. But We didn't do it that way. We
pumped the air out OF them bags, and
when they was all fat and empty we
took tunnels and poured the vacuum
into them bags, and tied a string around
the neck of each bag, so the vacuum
couldn't get out. And then we loaded
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San Antoni-Antonio!
She hoped upon a pony.
And nan away with TONY"

''oh, cut it, ChaddIe. This is all straight
She's a mighty sweet girl, and I think
myself that color sort Of suits her. She's
got that dusky sort of hair and big dark
eyes, and ivory-tinted complexion"
He raves" said Chad. softly. "Ah.
Dolores, il the measure of thy joy be
heaped like mine"'
We'll. shake her, IL you like. I'll take
her, coat and all, and be glad to, 1 tell
you that Only il didn't seem a square
deal TO her. She's a fine girl, and de-
serves our best specimen of manly
beauty" He lodged the clothes brush
swiftly, and peered around the hall door
for last fling. TN tell her you object
ed to the coat, Chaddie."
Chad growled an inarticulate answer.
Yet somehow even after his roommate
had gone, he could not apply himself to
books. Out of doors the first day of
June fairly whooped at him to come and
join the fun of living. Great fieecy clouds
sailed lazily up from the southwest be-
yond the edge OF woodland that trimmed
the campus. Beyond the woodland were
the tall sand dunes that sloped to the
blue waters of old Michigan Along the
shore three miles up, was to be the pic
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T He PIN ENTO COAT

mic, and they were to row there in boats,
land. build fires. have one splendid feed.
and then roam farther north. seeking.
Nostensibly. rare botanical specimens for
class work. Botany had been a popular
course that year.
All unconscious of the comment she
had stirred up, Dolores hesitated be-
tween wearing h-r coat or a white
sweater
You'll need the coat coming back
when ii gets cool toward evening" Vida
advised, and when II came to general
pointers on the etiquette of wearing ap-
parel and behavior. tt girls kowtowed
to Vida in her so. h" year. BESIDES,
the boys like you to wear a coat best.
don't know why. but they do. 1t looks
sort OF swagger, don't you know, Dolly"
Dolores nodd, = her ] i'd. She flashed
one Of her quick, amused smiles at Vida.
II was all part of her college education,
she felt, and Vida was a delightful guide
and mentor.
The only boy in the lot that I don't
want you TO bother over" added Vida,
resolutely, lis Chadley Grayson. He's
only visiting here till Shorty's through.
and they're going camping together.
What is it,"
DO they ever call him Chad?" asked
Dolores, her eyes wide with interest.
You know, last year when / was coming
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from abroad every one was So very ILL.,
and 7 was not. So j walked. walked.
all the time / could on deck, and every
day ] met this big b!ue-eyed boy. He
never knew my name, for / have three
sisters. and We were all together, and
he could not find out which was which,
don't you see? Then / went back to
school at Hampton Hills. and he used
to write me such wonderful letters, just
sent TO Miss Merrill"
And there were three of your asked
Vida
Two at school, sigma and myself. but
l took them. oh, they were delightful
letters, and how he could make love
with just pen and ink! They went to the
postoffice in the village, and we girls
would take turns getting away to bring
them back They were the love letters
Of the whole class, really"
And he hasn't even seen you since you
crossed?"
Dolores shock her head.
Il think not. Why did you say i must
not bother over him?'
Bother all you like" laughed Vida.
III you can get real love letters out OF
Chad, l won't interfere. We girls have
found him absolutely the calmest, cold
est proposition that ever came up here
He's so sure Of himself, and so cynical,
I'd love to see him get a tumble"
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sure enough, she was fallin' as fast as
the ship was gQin' up, and every fall OF
the thermometer meant money out OF
my pocket. And l couldn't think how
to get the old boat down again. |
could throw Stuff overheard and make
her go up quicker, but that was all |
could think of doin' to change things"
How low did the thermometer goS
asked Sim Perkins.
Two above zero" said Uncle Ash
dod, land that's where she stood when
the air currents drifted up over Cey-
Ion. We was right above the harbor
of Colombo, Ceylon, when the Mate
come to me and says, 'Cap'n, it's time
to settle our speculation and I'm ready
Settler says; you talk of settle. I'd
like to have this old ship settle first.
Looks like we'd never get down again
Shell settle down when you settle up
says the Mate. Well, sir. l had TO pay
him ninety dollars a hundred-weight
on forty hundred-weight of dodo eggs,
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the Sally Ann with them. We loaded
her so full of bags of vacuum that she
sunk down into the, water until her rail
was Almost awash-
ut was, was it," said Sim Perkins,
sarcastically. you took them bags OF
vacuum, that was lighter than air, and
you loaded the Sally Ann with them,
did you, Why, ding it ALL that ought
to have made the old ship float up in
the air like balloon and not sink down
in the water. If you was 10 tell me
that this ship you call Sally Ann went
sky-hootin' up into the armament and
bumped against the moon, | might be-
lieve you. That would be thing any
Teller could believe, but"
"As / was sayin' when interrupted,
said Uncle Ashdod calmly, "the reason
the Sally Ann sunk into the water like
she did was because them bags into
which We poured the vacuum was made
of Iead-of sheet lead. l had EN- made
of lead a'purpose. | had 'em made OF
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AN EXAGGERATED ACCOUNT :: By MARY R BARTON

along in great shape. You are the only
girl in the world for me-"
How about Martha Wagner mis-
chievously.
'oh, Martha is a nice girl, but you're
1t. and you know it, Lily. VIII you,
dear7"
Lily puckered her brows. 81 will let
you know next Sunday. Will that do?'
''Sure?''
''Sure!"
We'll. all right; / guess I'll have to
wait"
That night much the same converse
ton took place with Dick Ingraham.
But Dick had prospects of losing a rich
uncle. He had a nice gentlemanly posi-
ton as clerk with a steel company
which netted about eighty dollars a
month. He knew he could not undertake
Lily on that, and put 1t as delicateIy as
he could about his uncle. Lily was very
kind.
You are dear boy. H'ck. but really
Pc like you as well without the MONEY
Let me see. Suppose you wait until SUM-
day."
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too and a note. Dear Miss Lillian, My
heart is crushed at the thought OF your
suffering and misfortune. Please accept
this little token OF my sympathy. There
is something of the greatest importance
that 1 would like to tell you as soon as
you are in a condition to see me. I hope
that you will soon cease TO suffer. Yours
faithfully, Stuart Sennly."
Lillian was astounded. The little token
was three dozen American beauties.
Then the nurse gave her the morn
ing paper which had an exaggerated ac-
count of her accident, adding that ampu-
tation had been necessary
Her face famed. Immediately she I'M
derstood the willing releases that had
been extended to her.
But instantly came softer flush and
the snap died out of her eyes The other!
Here was real sympathy; and he had
loved her music, too. Now that she was
facing bare facts it came to her that he
must have loved her. loved her for her
music Would he care for her now?
The next day came more flowers from
Stuart. but none from the trio. Indeed
as Lily convalesced, she saw Tom, Dick,
and Harry from her window enjoying the
society of other girls.
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They're cast up by wrecks all along
the Michigan coast line. Then the peo-
pie turn them into summer hOuses-and
and chicken cOops, you know-any-
thing. / think it's cosy myself
We should go on with the rest"
They'll never miss us, and I've got
to speak to you. Why did you make
believe you did not know me?'
DO know you. Mr.. Grayson?" Do
lores' dark eyes looked at him so Sc
riousIy and anxiously that Chad lost
his head.
do you-oh, Lord, Didn't I make
love to you for five days coming from
Cherbourg a year ago? Aren't you
Miss Merrill?'
One of them. There are three of
us, and we all look very, very much
alike to strangers"
I'm not a stranger. I've been writ
ing you letters ever since. and pouring
out my heart to you, and you've an
swered them, haven't your
Maybe my sister Reina, or my sis
ter sigma"
1T was you. Don't you suppose a man
has any intuitive sense? Didn't ] know
the instant I looked at you"
Here Chad stopped short. being cursed
with personal introspection. All that he
had said to Shorty came back to him,
as he looked down at her coat. Then
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y will not be paired off with any girl
who wears a pimento coat" said Chad
firmly. even aggrievedly. I'm willing to
go the limit on this thing. I'll put up
cash for the eats and I'll pull an oar,
and do all the camp tricks 1 know, but
if you think I'm going to have that
pimentC coat handed TO me to carry
around on my arm all the afternoon,
you've got another guess coming, Shorty.
There he limits even to our fraternal
bonds, boy"
She's a peach of a girl. honest, Chad
die. You only saw her for a minute down
at the boat landing"
1T was enough. She shone effulgent
on that boat landing. All I could see
was i splotch Of rare pimento yellow,
the glorious deep red yellow of Castilian
banners. And you want me TO attach
myself to that comet. Nay, child. nay.
Ask OF ole Uncle Peter what you will,
but no pimento coats, lad
Her names Dolores" said Shorty,
musingly. THE poor little kids Just
come up from San Antonio
Chad broke out in happy reminiscent
melody:
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But she cared not. In fact she was very
much relieved.
Then one day she came down stairs
and received Stuart, her much bandaged
arm and hand in a sling.
1t was afternoon and he appeared per-
fectly at home in a frOck coat and gray
trousers She thought instantly OF Toms
remark of buckles and feathers. It
had come true.
Then he told her that he had given up
his struggle in the world of invention.
MY older brother died in England and
I must go to take his place." he said.
TT Is my duty. Will you go with me
as my wife, Lily? I love you. I can
offer you-you will be Lady Sennly."
But my hand?"
1T breaks my heart for you, and there
will be no more music. But why should
it make a difference. I love you just
the same"
IiIy's eyes shone. Yes there viii be
music some day. The papers made q
dreadful mistake. There is nothing the
matter with my hand that cannot be
mended. And L"
You
u love you, too"
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Thus encouraged Dick promised to
wait
Then came Hurry, who also agreed to
wait until the end of the week.
Lily had four days in which to make
W her mind.
1t was time she decided on which one
of the three it was to be. She liked
them all. Did she love one of them
enough to marry him? There were times
she was sure II was each, in turn. They
were all nice boys.
But there was something-she could not
tell just what II was. In the last few
weeks 1t had seemed harder than ever
to make up her mind. Could it be one
Of the others? For there were others,
dozens, who had offered themselves rs
candidates for the position of her life
mate. She thought them all over. No.
1t must be either Tom. Dick. Harry. or
she flushed and looked into her startled
eyes in the mirror.
Then she turned out the light and
jumped into bed.
The next day Lily crushed her hand.
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She had her wish. The next day when
Chad met the girl in the pimento cloak,
his worst enemy could not have wished
for a more complete subjugation. But IL
was Shorty, CHEEKY, popular little Shorty,
who walked her away from him. He
wondered il she could have failed to
recognize him. The instant he saw her,
he remembered those days on shipboard.
the first time in his life he had ever
come a real cropper. Yet now. she ig-
nored him, Chadley Grayson! He took
Vida under his wing, and rowed modify
and haughtily northward with the glow
of the pimento coat distractingly near
in Shorty's boat.
All the afternoon she kept away from
him, while every eloquent phrase in the
letters came back to dance before Chad's
eyes, and taunt him with her indifference
Then suddenly Fate veered his way. Out
of the southeast there came up 4 pelting
thunderstorm. They had walked far along
the bluffs, and Shorty had led the re-
treat towards a distant house, when Chad
found himself next the pimento coat.
Drenched IL was now, but he well
coined 1t and its wearer. and he turned
toward what looked like a shelter in
the trees.
why, il is a pilot house." cried Do
lores. THAT is queer"
Not at ALL" plunged Chad boldly.
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1t was all very terrible and she had to
have anaesthetics and doctors and q
trained nurse. 1t was Friday before she
realized much of what had happened.
and that her room was full of flowers
The nurse presented the envelopes that
had come ip>the boxes.
One by one, Lily read the letters. a
puzzled frown gathering between her
eyes.
One was from Toni. Dear Kiddo," It
said, II sure am sorry about the hand
Tough luck. When may ! come around?
Nc hurry about the other Take your
time. Don't worry. Yours, Tom"
Another, from Dick, ran: Dear Lillian
Ny. but I am sorry about the little hand.
certainly hope it isn't so bad as the
doctors say. Don't worry about your
answer. 1t is too bad 1 bothered YOU
Take your time Sincerely, Dick"
The one from Harry was quite long and
tactful, but from what she could gather,
Harry was Withdrawing his proposal for
the present 1t had also the continued
in-our-next' tone.
Monsieur Beaucaire had sent flowers
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Lily was a peach! Not only on &C
count of her creamy complexion and
violet eyes with extremely long lashes,
but she had a way with her, a way that
made every one in the world, especially
each of her suitors, feel that he was
the only person upon the globe who
amounted to much.
The suitors just mentioned consisted
Of Tom, Dick, and Harry. One could say
Harry, Dick, and Tom just as well. for
it really happened that Harry Hampden,
Richard Ingraham, and d. Thomas Per-
rine were thesnames of the favored ones
Then there was M Beaucaire!
Probably it was the nickname by
which her intimates referred to her
frayed friend. that appealed to Liiy's
contrariness Cor PITY to the extent that
she always staunchly stood up for hirp.
They called him that because he was
a mystery. Not only was his immacu-
late linen fringed, and his one suit and
overcoat visibly mended, but he had pre-
scented a card bearing the remarkable
name Of Stuart Remark Dryton Sennly
to the family, the day he brought Lily
home after a fall on the ice.
.'some day he'll come in gold buckles
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Copyright. IsIIl
ST SEE how President Wilson, and
Congress and all. seems to be
down on these Wall street fell
lers,' said Sim Perkins. Nov accor-
din to my notion, if a man wants to
make money speculatin', that's his
business. If"
Depends on what Teller means
by speculatin'," said Uncle Ashdod. IF
it means Teller buyin' what he don't
ever expect to get, from teller that
don't ever expec. to have the stuff to
give, it reminds me of the voyage |
made on the Sally Ann-"
"ThereP' said Sim Perkins regret
fully. 81 knowed I'd ought to have
kept my mouth shut. Every time I
open 4 you start to"
''And the cargo that time" Uncle
Ashdod went on, "was vacuum. We
had"
Hold on!' said Sim Perkins. what
say that cargo was?"
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and ermine, and Zap his feathered hat
at the rest of US fellows" leased Tom
Perrine, and say, Here, you little
shrimps and tadpoles all of you must
scoot now. I'm the Knight of Ump-de-
imp, the Prince of $3.50, and also Lord
Helpus. Git! The fair Lillian is mine {"
Lily's- sister laughed. 81 don't believe
he would talk that much in a year.
When he comes Lillian has to get out
all her overtures, etudes, and nocturnes,
and play for him all evening. He lust
sits and eats her up with his eyes"
81 think you are all hateful He is
smart and well educated. and it's a
shame to make fun of him because he
is poor"
Lily, want to talk to you seriously"
It had come. The corners of her mouth
went up for an instant. Then she low
cred them hastily and looked thought
full.
Seriously"
Yes, Lily. It's time We had an under
standing. Don't put me OF any longer.
just can't stand it; you know I love
you madly. There isn't any reason that
We can't get married right away IL you
will only say Yes You know they gave
me boost at the bank, and we can get