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FIRE AT CORNING.
HGtel. Billiard Hall, Warehouse ana
 Other Buildings Burn.

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Don't prt up With unsatisfactory unreliable WashsrWo1nen service. Oui aundrv will do your Washing 1n q nanner that vii! please you. Amerl. :ap Excelsior LauD1rv CO- U
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-04-06

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Tomatoes Provide New Industry. Extracting the oil from tomato seed has become considerable lhaoS try in Italy.
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; or 6 Doses G66 will break any case of ChiIls and Fever, COLDS AND LAGRlPPE;
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP.
TIERS,
For an Idea For q Sequel to

A bitter feud exists between Colonel Ar
thur Stanley and his cousin, Judge Lamar
Stanley. wealthy Virginia aristocrats. The
feud has been engendered In family jeal-
ousy for the possession Of an heirloom
known as the diamond from the sky,
found by a noble adventurer ancestor in
fallen meteor. The feud Is further
augmented by the fact that the death OF
noble kinsman in England makes the
firstborn male of the elder branch of the
Virginia Stanleys heir to the Stanley
earldom In Warwickshre, as well as pos
SCISSOR Of the diamond from the sky,
Judge Lamar Stanley has son. the pre-
ors But child is about to be born to
When the child is born and proves to be
girl and Its mother dies Colonel Stanley
in chagrin and disappointment and aided
born gypsy male child from Its unnatural
and money greedy father In SO doing
Colonel Stanley and those assisting him
to. cheat his enemy cousins ambitious
hopes have believed the gypsy mother has
consented to the secret transaction. But
Hagar, the mother, finds her way to Stan
ley hall to denounce her greedy and bru-
tai husband and secure again her beloved
nrstborn. She arrives just as the suppose
titious heir is being verified according to
the Stanley custom by the English law
yer representing the Earl of Stanley and
Judge Lamar Stanley, the colonels enc
my and father of the boy who Is thus be-
ing deprived of title and the diamond
from the sky.
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and coz .ddant, DR.. Lee, that little E.
Their would he secretly delivered to him
and the doctor could give out the story
1t was an orphan relative that he had
adopted as his daughter. To this sup
posed daughter of his dearest friend
the colonel proposed to will as much
of his means as would have come to a
girl openly acknowledged.
Meanwhile the unhappy Hagar had
been borne far away by the brutal and
ever watchful Matt Harding
With him nephew devoted to him,
one Luke Lowell, an English gypsy,
aided Matt In keeping watch and ward
upon Hagar without knowing or ask
ing why. And then Matt Harding fell
upon evil courses In his Romany pros
perity, and drink made an end to him.
Hagar succeeded to his gypsy wealth
and gypsy power. The king was dead;
long live the queen! His henchman
transferred his allegiance from the
dead husband to the living wife.
In the grim household of Judge La
mar Stanley the shadow of cheated
hopes and blighted ambition fell heavy
upon the family. The proud and
grasping wife, the cold and taciturn
judge, had one unifying cause in com
mon; that was that death might strike
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CHAPTER II.
ri Will Cheat Lamar Stanlsy!"


I'm the preliminary correspondence
concerning this matter Lawyer
Smythe had been gratified to note
that one OF the Stanleys near OF
kin In Virginia was a judge. To Law
yer Smythes insular British under
standing being "A judge In the jungles
OF Virginia was to be an uncouth, to-
individual.
The feud and its consequent bitter
enmities between Colonel Stanley and
Judge Lamar Stanley were hardly
grasped by the testy old earl and his
timid London lawyer. But the legal
mind of Lawyer Smythe prompted him
to rely mostly upon the far off Virgin
la judge.
SO it was that to carry out his mis-
sion In what he deemed were the wilds
of America Lawyer Smythe determin-
cd to place himself in contact with the
Virginia Judge rather than what he
thought might be the more militant
head Of the American Stanleys, the ex-
soldier, Colonel Arthur Stanley.
The lawyer had written to the judge
and hard upon the heels of his letter
he had arrived at the little railroad
station Of Fairfax in the dusk of the
evening upon the day In which the
judge and the colonel had encountered
the gypsies, Matt Harding and his wife
Hagar.
All the barrister saw when he alight-
ed from the slow local train that had
brought him, and when his luggage
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The Colonel Faced the Wild intruder.
the front door was ciamoring its iron
summons through the house. Two old
servants rushed to the door and broke
the news of the tragedy to the friend
of the dead man. Hagar stole unseen
down the staircase and into the library
once more. There, cloaked and hood
ed, stood the little girl whimpering
wake up, daddy. and kiss me!' Ia
gar paused. IAN eye for an eyer she
muttered. Then, lifting the little girl
in her arms. and sitting her cries Of
fear and alarm. Hagar, with her bur
den, passed out of the low French win
dow by which she had first entered
and closed it after her.
AS the doctor with the two brighten
ed colored servants stood over the
lead man In the library, and before the
old nurse had noticed the absence OF
the child, Hagar had come around the
mansion to the front Loosening the
strap that held the horse, she entered
the doctors carriage. still holding the
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had been deposited beside him by un-
ceremonious hands, was stumbling
negro with a private mail pouch at
tached to strap over his ragged Shout
der. This negro was Joined by several
other messengers of his sort, who were
busy receiving mail from the station
agent, who was evidently also the local
postmaster.
Lawyer Smythe looked up and down
the platform, expecting to see cowboys
or prairie wagon, or some sort of
backwoods person to greet him or vehi-
Gle to convey him to Judge STAN
ley's ranch. He finally summoned up
courage to inquire of the station agent
postmaster, as that individual was
locking up for the night.
Judge Stanley?' repeated the sta
ton agent. ''Why, his niger, Zeke,
just got the judges mail and has gone.
The judge couldn't have been expect
ing anybody, or he would have sent
his carriage. But mebbe Zeke will tell
him he saw you, and you will be sent
for. You had better wait right here"
And he turned the key in the pad
lock on the station door and trudged
away, leaving the bewildered lawyer
wondering If wild beasts might be
about.
In the somber living room that was
part law office and chambers of Judge
Stanley, the judge and his equally
stern visaged spouse were awaiting the
evening mail on the last train down
from Richmond.
In few minutes Zeke, the colored
handy man of the household, entered
with the judges mail bag. The Judge
eagerly separated large, formally adj
dressed envelope bearing English
stamps and sealed at the back.
The judge opened 1t, glanced at II
hurriedly and handed 1t to his wife
1T is from the earl's lawyer, Marina
duke Smythe, you see. He says ht
may arrive at about the same time thi.
letter reaches u.s. He turned to tn,
slouchy negro. did you see strange
man get off the train looked like al
undertaker-all English lawyers doY
Eyes, sub, a strange gemman did ge
off de train" replied the negro, ''but h
didn't say muffin to me. and l didn'
say muffin to him!"
"You black scoundre!' roared tn
Judge "That gentleman has come a.
the way from England to see me O
an important matter. Get my hors
and put saddle on the black mare.
will go to the station for him myself
At Stanley hall, in the old colonif
bedroom of the mistress of the hous'
the colored nurse, Lucy, was mini
tering to her flower faced mistres
while Colonel Stanley stood by solici
ously confirming the old colored man
my's words with affirmative mods.
eyes, my honey. de doctor will /
here any minute" the old nurse WE
saving. "Ain't the colonel Jest bao
srom goin' after him? Bless my sou
honey, dere come DR.. Lee hisself dri
tn up wild dat ole red boss, Stonewa
Of his"
Tho colonies wife lifted her fair IA
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frightened little girl 20 its cries WoEo
na1nuroh and drove WAY.

frightened little girl 20 it, cE1os WsEo
silenced, and drove away.
The next moaning the news Of his
enemy's death reached Judge Stanloy.
With 1t were vague rumors and Wits
pered suspicious. Other news came.
too-news of the escape of the gypsy
mad woman and the disappearance OF
DR.. Lees horse and buggy. The judge
stayed not to rejoice at the death OF
his enemy. He refused even to tell hin
wife what strange business called him
hence, with pistol In the holster at
his saddle side.
In a narrow defile in the Blue Ridge
Judge Stanley tracked down his prey.
Hagar had abandoned the doctors ex-
hausted horse and the now broken gig
and, bearing the child on her strong
shoulder, was climbing the rocky trail
when she heard the rattle Of horse
| hoofs and heard the voice OF Judge
Stanley call upon her to halt She
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English Man OF Law.
the lives that lay between their only
child that he might possess both the
diamond from the sky and the Eng
fish earldom.
Such was the state Of affairs when
Hagar and her tribe came back to Vir-
ginia, three years after the death OF
the coloneps wife and the substitution
of Hagar's child as the heir Of Stan
ley. Leaving her people camped at
distance, Hagar journeyed to the
neighborhood of Stanley hall, and
there. hidden in the shrubbery, with
bursting heart, beheld her son ride
forth, the petted and pampered little
master of Stanley hall.
Colonel Stanley, with the boy, was
riding on his daily pilgrimage to the
cross surmounted grave Of his dead
wife. The road led him past the house
| of Judge Stanley. Looking from his
| window after his enemy and the little
heir Of the Stanleys on his pony be-
side the colonel, the judge was aware
of a gypsy woman who stalked after
the colonel and the boy as swiftly and
as furtively as an Indian tracker. Seiz-
ing his hat, the judge quietly emerged
| from his house and trailed the gypsy
| woman.
By the gate Of the graveyard Hagar
hid painting behind huge bowlder.
She watched so intently the bare head
ed figure of the colonel praying by the
grave OF his wife, and she watched still
more attentively and with such hun
eering heart the little boy upon his
| pony by the colonel, that she was not
aware of the presence OF the judge un
N his strong hand grasped her wrist
and his harsh voice Kissed In her ear
.sWhy do you spy upon them?" II
tie startled Hagar the cruel face o.
the Judge was the face Of well re
pembered enemy. Her account OF JUS
tace and retribution with Colonel Stan
, ley was between them alone. She woult
, have no confidence in or dealing witt
, Ju(lge Stanley. For she knew instinct
ively that If he hated the colonel h
, equally hated and was prepared t
, harm the colonel's supposed son. ne
r child
!, She did not struggle or attempt t
o free herself from the grasp OF ID
p Judge. But as the colonel, with tn
e little boy, rode from the grave towar
t the gate she slipped down beside tn
e Judge and hid with him from the oil
o seryation of the oncomers, as thong
she were an accomplice of the colonel
enemy.
i Neither would she speak IN answe
J. to the judges rapid fire of question
n when the colonel and little Arthur ha
passed out Of sight. She affected
!. sullen dumbness. And when the Judg
d hailed passing stockily built ma
10 driving blackboard, the constable I
70 the district, and gave her in charge
J. a wandering mad woman Hagar wou
q speak no word.
le That night, with gross disregard !
n legal procedure, the judge, alone In b
e courtroom with his creature, the co
le stable, committed the silent gypsy "
y man to the county madhouse. with I
h. structions to those in charge, throui
" the constable, that when the seemin
lg " sullen, Insane woman spoke or VI
ID ready to speak he should be sent for.
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she beheld her boy, her first born, ar
rayed in fine linen, a great jewel glow
ing on his little breast, the center Of
some strange aristocratic rite or cere-
mony.
SO silent had been the struggle in the
hall that, while the keen ears OF Judge
Stanley had heard a rustic and gasp
his attention had been so taken ur
with the anguish on the face of his
kinsman enemy, Colonel Stanley, as
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CHAPTER Ill.
The Queen of the Gypsies.

AS Colonel Stanley fell uncon-
"a scious across the library table
"a Matt Harding silently closed
the library door from the out
side. His right hand closed tightly
over the mouth of Hagar, preventing
the weak and anguished mother from
making an cutlery, as before her eyes,
The Washington times., 1915-02-20
BOLD TRAIN ROBBERS
ELUDE DETECTIVES
Scores of S|euths and County
Authorities Hunting for
Hoid.Up Men and Safe.

With few meager clues. scores of
railroad detectives and Virginia county
authorities engaged in the hunt for the
train robbers who held up the express
messenger on the Florida flyer Of the
Atlantic Coast Line near Franconia,
Va, and showed the safe off tho express
car early yesterday morning. are con-
tinuinG their search for the robbers to-
day.
The safe. or strong box as the rail-
road authorities call 1t. has not been
found. 1T Is thought that the robbers.
in their disgust when they found the
iron receptacle contained only 81, push
ed 1t off the car as the train was pass
ing over one of the numerous creeks
crossed.
A thorough search of the heavy under
brush which borders the railroad tracks
and of the water along the route is
being made.
Two suspects are held at Alexandria
in connection with the robbery. Chief
Goods. Of the police department of that
city. says he Is confident that the men
held are in no way connected with the
hold-up. but that he Is keeping them
in custody SO the railroad detectives
working on the case may examine them.
This will be done later today. after
which it is thought the prisoners will
be released,
The Washington times., 1915-02-20
OWNERS Of PRIVATE
GARAGES EXEMPT
viii Not Be Required to Pay SIS
License Fee for Storing Of
GasoIene.

Owners OF private garages hereafter
will not be required to pay an annual
license fee Of IS for the storing of gaso-
lene on their premises. according to an
opinion Of Corporation Counsel Conrad
II. Syme. which has been approved by
the Commissioners.
The question was referred to the Corr
poration Counsel following the payment
Of the license fee under protest BY
James T. Gibbs. OF the Evans building
accompanied by the statement that ne
did not consider the law OF February
8. 1905. under which the fee was col
lected. applicable to owners OF prlvate
garages. In upholding this contention
CORPORATION Counsel Syme says:
"a private citizen operating his own
automobile and keeping. gasolene upon
the premises to be used In such auto
mobile is not engaged In any business.
so far as l can see, which is subject TO
taxation under the law. nor by mere
reason Of the fact that he keeps an au-
toinobilc.. ..
imposed by law or not. the doubt IL
construed In favor of the citizen. The
best I can sav In this case is that
I Ia exceedingly doubtful whether Con.
aress intended to impose a tax upon
automobile owners because OF the fac'
that they stored upon their premises
sufficient gasolene to operate their cars
and believe II the case were taken
to the courts the decision would DC
The number Of licenses issued las,
year for storage OF gasolene was 4ls
3DO OF which. It is Stated. were issued
TO owners Of private garages.
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GOT BEST OF BARGAIN.

She had traded, she enumerated. one
pap and mamma for another papa and
mamma. She could not see that she
had lost In that deal. Besides. she had
a new vanity case that her new mamma
had given her. and In 1t were little
mirror and the tiniest Of tiny powder
puffs and u little silver comb. That
was clear gain, to be sure.
But at this point tall, formidable
looking man got up and said to an
other man. who might or might not
be tall. since he was seated behind a
table that let only the top Of him be
seen. but who certainly was formida Bile
looking:
This, may 1t please your honor, Is
an adoption proceeding. My clients. Mr..
and Mrs. Eric G.. Colson, OF Lambert
street, Glen Morris. wish to adopt the
child you see beside them. Marie Mac.
Phee''
That's mel" exclaimed Marie, who
thought she ought to say something.
But the man who sat up high laughed.
and her mother-her old mamma, that
is--the one she had traded for the now
one-made a queer noise and bit on
her handkerchief; all this being after
the inexplicable fashion Of grown-ups,
who never do anything according to
reason.
But now the big man was talking
again. He explained that Colson and
his wife. childless and chid-hungry.
had advertised for a girl for adoption.
offering to pay $50 to the parents or
guardians of one they deemed s,lita BILE !;
how James MacPhee, who lived with
his wife. Elizabeth. and their child,
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Marie. in East Fiftieth street, Manhat-
tan, had read the advertisement and
had offered Marie and accepted the $50.
But Why All This Fuss?
He went on to say that MacPhee had
been out Of work for many months. and
that the family faced actual want. The
Colsons had fallen In love with pretty
Marie at the first interview, and so
the man, who was Attorney August e.
Klages, said the child seemed perfectly
willing to go. And
AS a matter Of fact. Marie decided
fuss? Why not go home with her new
mama. and see what her new mama
had to say about dabbllng in mud pies.
for instance. or about climbing out on
the fire-escape to fly kites? These were
pressing things. and required settle
ment.
But now he was zone. and now her
old mama. who looked SO queer with
her eyes all red and a wisp of hair
and bent over her. Marie herself almost
cried as the old. familiar arms folded
her once more and she snuggled back
into the embrace that had been her
refuge for so long.
But 1t was only for an instant Then
her mother was gone, and her father
had kissed her and was shaking her
hand-what an absurd, grown-up thing
to do. she thought!
steps with her new papas middle An
ger clutched in one hand and the van
ity bag swinging gayly in the other
and her new mama. for lack Of any
thing better to do. patting her curls
and adjusting her jaunty little hat.
The Washington times., 1915-02-20
w. Bourke Cochran Sells
Sixteenth Street Residence

News dispatches from New York re-
port the sale by w. Bourke Cochran,
former member of Congress. OF the
house at Sixteenth and q streets. which
he purchased during his official career
In this city.
This property, which was later oc-
cupied by Senator Root and former
Ambassador Robert Bacon, has been
transferred By Mr.. Cochran to Irwin
Judis, president of the Hillard Con-
struction Company, of New York, In
part payment for the large apartment
house owned by the construction COM
pany at Fort Washington avenue ana
1slst street. New York city
The Cochran house stands upon 4
plot of ground 62xl2O feet. and was
valued by it's owner at $4,000. 1t was
considered one Of the finest residential
properties in this city.
The Washington times., 1915-02-20
Three Residences Sold
By Harry Wardman Firm

Mrs. Margaret HAYWARD has pur-
chased from Harry Wardman the resi-
dence property at 1929 Lanier Place for
s.. 900. The house is a Spanish front
building with eight rooms and two
baths.
Mr.. Wardman has sold to Mrs. Sarah
J. Cunningham the premises at 1917
Euclid street northwest This was the
old Harry Wilson residence and con-
tains twelve rooms and two baths. The
consideration was not disclosed.
A. F. Jorss purchased from tho same
firm a six-room house at AS Fifteenth
street northwest for $500, and Mrs
A. r. Gordon the house at 1898 Joslyn
street. Chevy Chase. D. C.. paying
S.. 900.
The Washington times., 1915-02-20
MRS. AMOS r. E. PINCHOT.

NEW YORK, Feb. 20.--Mrs. Amos r.
e. Pinchot has been elected chairman Of
the New York branch Of the Womans
Peace Party. and the organization will
open headquarters at ~ West Forty
ffth street early in April.
The only friction that developed at the
meeting In tho Hotel McAlpin yesterday.
when the State branch was organized,
came when one woman rose to inquire
II the suggestion of Ladd Briggs that
one verse OF The Star-Spangled Ban
ism.
A number OF women were on their feet
instantly protesting against such a dis
cussion and the meeting proceeded with
the work Of organization
The Washington times., 1915-02-20
Uncle Sam Refuses to Pay
$6.95 for Carpet Cleaning

The disbursing officer OF the De-
partment Of Labor is without author
ization to pay a voucher for $6.95 in
favor of w. and J. Sloane of this
city for the cleaning of two carpets,
according to a decision by Comptroller
OF the Treasury Downey today. The
Comptroller held that the contract for
cleaning carpets on the general sup
ply committee schedule is held by w.
r. Moses and Sons. 1t was explained
that the carpets were originally given
to the sloane firm to have them re-
made. but cleaning showed that they
were not worth remakinE.
The Washington times., 1915-02-20
Chief Justice Covington
To Speak Before Alumni

Chief Justice ]. Harry Covington, Of
the District Supreme Court will be
the principal speaker at the banquet Of
the alumni Of the University of Penn
eylvania Monday evening at the Uni
versity Club.
Other speake-r will be Surgeon Cen
eral william G. Gorgas. Edgar Callan-
Gar Snyder. and DR.. w. e. Lingelbach
OF the faculty Of history. whom Provost
Edgar +. Smith has sent from Philadel
phla 70 be his representative at the
The Washington times., 1915-02-20
Duck Travelled Far.

GuEYDAN. La. Feb. 2o.-Elic Guiiry.
In killing a few ducks out of a large
flock. found on one Of the dead ducks
legs an aluminium name plate about two
inches long BY one inch wide. bearing
date of the year 1919. with the following
inscription cut into this metal plate
Box AZ. kingsville. Ont, 1913. Write.''
The Washington times., 1915-02-20
Bill Introduced Allows
Chinese to Return Home

So as to permit 500 Chinese residents
of this country to return after visit
to China, q bill was introduced in the
Senate yesterday by Senator Stone.
chairman of tine Foreign Relations Com
mlttee.
A. T. Bin Chu. a Chinese merchant Of
New York. wishes to conduct such a
party to China to study conditions and
to illustrate American methods Of mu-
nlcipal government in connection with
the building OF q city in China.
The Washington times., 1915-02-20
Mrs. Charles Ray Dean
Purchases Large Tract

Mrs. Charles Ray Dean has purchased
from William j.. Lipscomb, through
Thomas J. Fisher Co. Inc. a large lot
At the southwest corner of Twelty-third
street snd Tracy place northwest, and
- haVlng plans prepared by George
OAKLEY Totten, jr. for a large residence
"fich she proposes 10 erect in The
sprlnE.
The lot Is 80 by 100 feet. and the price
paid was Sl5, 80.
The Washington times., 1915-02-20
Naval Engineers Will
Hold Banquet Tonight

The Society of Naval Engineers. hav-
ing an exclusive membership among
INC engineers of the navy and OF the
Coast Guard. will hold It's annual ban
quet at the Army and Navy Club
tonight. H. l.. Ferguson, presi-
dent OF the Newport News Shipbuild-
ing and Dry Dock Company. win be
ate and House Committees on Naval
Affairs and number of marine engi-
neers In private employ will be guests
OF the society,