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kneeiing. with her earnest face up turned to one bright, pale star.
CHAPTER VII.
Sill pIecInu Out the World.

Still Fleeing Out the World.
 The map Of the United States in Edward E Allisons library began. now. to develop little streaks, but they were boldly marked, and they hugged. with extraordinary eloseness. the pen. cil mark which Allison had drawn from New York to Chicago and from Chicago to San Francisco. There were long gaps between them, but these did not seem to worry him very much It was the little stretches. sometimes scarcely over an inch, which he drew with such evident pleasure from day to day, and now. occasionally, as he passed in and out, he stopped by the big globe and gave it a contemplatiye whirl. On the day he joined bis far western group of little marks by bridging three small gaps, he received a caller in the per son of a short, well-dressed old man, who walked with a cane and looked half asleep, by reason of the many puffs which had piled up under his eyes and nearly closed them.
 I'm ready to wind up, Tim" re- marked Allison, offering his caller 8 cigar, and lighting one himself. When can We have that Vedder Court prop erty condemned?"
 Whenever you give the word" re- ported Tim German, who spoke with an asthmatic voice, and with the quiet dignity of a man who had borne grave business responsibilities, and had borne them well.
 Allison nodded his head in satisfac- ton.
 You're sure there can't be any hitch in 'it?"
 Not if I say it's all right" and the words were Tim's only reproof. His tone was perfectly level and there was no glint in his eyes. Offended dignity had nothing to do with business. Give me one weeks notice, and the Ved- der Court property will be condemned for the city terminal of the Municipal Transportation company. Appraise- ment, thirty-one million"
 T only wanted to be treasured" :" apologized Allison. q took your word that you could swing it when l made my own gamble. but now l have to drag other people into it."
 That's right" agreed Tim. q never get offended over straight busi- ness" In other times Tim German would have said "get sore" but. as he neared the end of his years of useful activity, he was making quite a spe- cialty of refinement, and stocking a picture gallery, and becoming a con noisseur collector of rare old jewels. He dressed three times a day.
 tTo BE CoNTINUED)
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out. I'll make you another proposi- tion. I'll build the line from Pines to Nugget City myself if you'll give us track connection at Copperville and at Pines. and will give us traffic con tract for our rolling stock on req sonable basis"
 Again Wilcox looked at the map. The Silverknob and Nugget City road began nowhere and ran nowhere, so far as the larger transportation world was concerned, and it could never fig ure as competitor. The hundred miles through the precious natural pass known as the Yando chasm was not so busy a stretch of road as it was important, and the revenue from the passage of the Silverknob and Nugget City's trains would deduct considerably from the expense of maintaining that much-prized key to the golden West.
 'I'll take it up with Priestly and German" promised Wilcox.
 How soon can you let me know?"
 Monday"
 That afternoon saw Allison headed back for New York, and the next morning he popped into the offices of the Pacific Slope and Puget Sound, where he secured a rental privilege to run the trains of the Orange Valley road into San Francisco, and down to Los Angeles, over the tracks of the P. s. and P. s. The Orange Valley was a little, blind pocket of road which made juncture with the P. S. and P. s. just short haul above San Francisco. and it ran up into rich fruit country, but it's terminus was far, far away from any possible connection with northwestern competitor, and that bargain was easy.
 That night Allison, glowing with an exultation which erased his fatigue dressed to call on Gail Sargent.
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CHAPTER V-Continued.

He allowed himself four hours for sleep that night. and the next after noon headed for Denver. On the way he studied maps again, but the one to which he paid most attention was new one drawn by himself, on which the various ranges of the Rocky Noun tains were represented by scrawled, lead-penciled spirals. Right where his thin line crossed these spirals at a converging point was Yando chasm, pass created by nature, which was the proud possession of the Inland Pa cific, now the most prosperous and di- rect of all the Pacific systems; and the Inland, with an insolent pride in the natural fortune which had been found for it by the cleverest of all engineers, guarded its precious right of way as no jewel was ever protect cd. Just east of Yando chasm there crossed a little "one-horse" railroad which. starting at the important city Of Silverknob, served some good min Ing towns below the Inland's line, and on the north side curved up and around through the mountains, ram bling wherever there was freight or passengers to be carried, and ending on the other side of the range at Mug get City. only twenty miles north of the Inland's main line, and hundred miles west, into the fair country which sloped down to the Pacific This road which had it's headquarters in Denver was called the Silverknob and Nugget City; and into it's meeting walked AL hson, with control
 His course here was different from that in Jersey City. He busted every director on the board and elected men
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you have a choice, but with your ex traordinary talents and beauty, my ad- vice is just to the contrary You should delay until you have had a wider opportunity for judgment. You have not as yet shown any marked preference. ] hope"
 Calls quite unreasoning impulse was to giggle, but she clothed her voice demurely.
 No, Aunt Helen"
 You are remarkably wise," compli- mented Aunt Helen. a bit of apprecia- tion which quite checked Calls im- pulse to giggle. ''In the meantime. 1t is just as we'll to study IT opportu- mites. Of course there's Dick Rodley, whom no one considers seriously. and Willis Cunningham, whc~- one and only drawback is such astionable health that he might [ ently in- terfere with your sociaI activities. Houston Van Ploon, am frank to say, is the most eligible of all, and to have attracted his attention is distinct tri- umph. MT. Allison, while rather ad- vanced in years"
 "Please!" cried Gail You'd think l was horse"
 T know just how you feel" stated Aunt Helen. entirely unrufied; but
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of his own. Immediately after, in the directors meeting, he elected himself president, and, kindly consenting tc talk with the reporters of the Denver newspapers, hurried back to Chicago where he drove directly to the head offices of the Inland Pacific.
 Eve just secured control of the Sill verknob and Nugget City," he in. formed the general manager of the In. land.
 So I noticed" returned Wilcox, who was young man of fifty and wore picturesque velvet hats. "The papers here made quite a sensation of your going into railroading."
 They're welcome" grinned Allison. "Say Wilcox. if you'll build a branch from Pines to Nugget City, we'll give you our Nugget City freight where we cross. at Copperville. east of the range"
 Wilcox headed for the map.
 Whats the distance?" he inquired.
 ''Twenty-two miles; fairly level grade, and one bridge"
 Couldn't think of it," decided Will COX, looking at the map. Wed like to have your freight, for there's a lot of traffic between Silverknob and Mug get City, but it's not our territory. The smelters are at Silverknob, and they ship east over the White Rsnge line. Anyway, why do you want to take away the hariage from your northern branch?"
 Figure on disseminating it. The graoes are steep, the local traffic is light, and the roadbed is in rotten condition. It needs rebuilding through
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Fish Gas.

At Fray-Bentos. in the Argentine is the largest kitchen in the world. Here beef extract is made-40 pounds of beef give one pound of extract. And here. up to 1900. all the waste-au the entrails and fat and so forth-got thrown into the River Plata
 The waste of 1000 bullocks thrown daily into the Plata brought the fish up from the sea to Fray-Bentos in un- unbelievable thousands. Boats could hardly advance for the silver waves of fish. These fish could be caugh, with shovels. with scoops. with the hand
 The people Of Fray-Bentos, in the unparalleled abundance of the Argen- tine, varied their free beef with free fish, and in addition ground up daily fish enough to light the entire district with fish gas. very clear illuminant made from fish oil
 But today they utilize at Fray-Bentos every part of the bullock but the bel. low Consequently the fish millions of the past have deserted the river, and fish gas. that romantic illuminant has been supplanted by vulgar cleo, tricity.
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VAGUE AS TO CAUSES OF WAR
Anecdotes Would Seem to Reveal Confusion of tSe Average
 Irish Mind.

In many districts of Ireland there are practically no books and almost nobody reads newspapers. For months there were people in Ireland who thought England was fighting oD the same side as Germany
 Here is an illustration of popular ignorance of which l have personal knowledge.
 A group of villagers were in black smith shop, discussing the news. N- nally one asked: And how did this bloody war begin?"
 The blacksmith was the scholar of the gathering. You sec said he, it was like this. The king of the Servi- tudes took woman of the Morgans to wife, and so the Servitudes killed them both and that is the way the thing began.
 Which, after all. is much after the manner of Herodotus
 Still confning myself to incidents that l know to be true I will add another anecdote to illustrate the way the Irish mind takes hold of an inter- national situation. A man was defend ing himself for having fought with the British troops against the Boers He explained that he started to join the Boers. but that he could not get through the lines. so he joined the British
 You should not have done that" said one
 An said the narrator, T would have given me soul for fight. - Norman Hapgood In Harper's Weekly.
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SYNOPSIS.

At vestry meeting of the Market Square church Gail Sargent listens to a discussion about the sale of the church [, dement's to Edward E. Allison. local traction king. and when asked her opin- says it is apparently a lucrative business enterprise. Allison takes Gail riding in his motor car. When he suggests he is entitled to rest on the laurels of his achievements, she asks the disturbing question: Why" Gail, returning to her Uncle Jim's home from her drive with AL hson. finds cold disapproval in the eyes At a bobsled party Gail finds the world pncomfortably full of men, and Allison tells Jim Sargent that his new ambition is to conquer the world. Allison starts q campaign for consolidation and control of the entire transportation system of the
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Dec. 10. 1914.

Germans evacuated Roulers and Armentieres.
 French were victorious at Yer melles.
 serbians took many Austrlans and large stores of supplies.
 Revolution in Union of South Africa declared ended.
 British took 1,1oo Turkish pris, oners and nine guns.
 German submarine raio on Do yer was repuIsed by the forts.
 Czech regiments in Austrian army refused to fight against the Serbians,
 Military control of South Sea islands divided between Japan and Britain.
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CHAPTER VI.
Had They Spoiled Her?

Music resounded in the parlors of Jim Sargent's house; music so sweet and compelling in its harmony that Aunt Grace slipped to the head of the stairs to listen in mingled ecstasy and pride. Up through the hallway fioated clear, mellow soprano and a rich, deep baritone, blended so perfectly that they seemed twin tones. Aunt Grace, drawn by a fascination she could not resist, crept down to where she could see the source of the mel l ody. Gail. exceptionally pretty to- night in her simple doye-colored gown
 with its one pink rose. sat at the | piano, while towering above her, with his chest expanded and a look of per
 feet peace on his face, stood Rev.
 Smith Boyd.
 Enraptured, Aunt Grace stood and listened until the close of the ballad. Leafng through her music for the next l treat, Gail looked up at the young doc tor, and made some smiling remark. Her shining brown hair, waving about
 her forehead, was caught up in a simple knot at the back, and the deli cate color of her cheeks was like the fresh glow of dawn. Rev Smith Boyd bent slightly to answer, and he. too. smiled as he spoke; but as he hap pened to find himself gazing deep into the brown eyes of Gail, the smile be- gan to fade, and Aunt Grace Sargent, scared, ran back up the stairs and into her own room, where she took a book, and held 1t in her lap, upside down. The remark which Gail had made was this:
 You should have used your voice professionally"
 The reply of the rector was:
 T do."
 'I didn't mean oratorically," she laughed, then returned nervously to her search for the next selection. She had seen that change in the smile. Tt is so rare to find perfect speaking voice coupled with perfect singing voice." she rattled on. Here's that simple little May Song Just har- mony, that's all"
 Once more their voices rose in that perfect blending which is the most delicate of all exhilarations. In the melody itself there was an appealing sympathy, and, in that moment, these two were in as perfect accord as their voices. There is something in the music of the human tone which exerts a magnetic attraction like no other in the world; which breaks down the bar riers of antagonism, which sweeps away the walls of self-entrenchment which attracts and draws, which ex- plains and does away with explana- tion. This was the first hour they had spent without clash, and Rev. Smith Boyd. his eyes quite blue tonight, brought another stack of music from the rack
 The butler, an 8aggravating image with only one joint in his body. pa raded solemnly through the hall, and back again with the card tray, while Gail and the rector sang "Juanita" from an old college songbook, which the Reverend Boyd had discovered in high gleel Aunt Grace came down the stairs and out past the doors of the music salon. There were voices of animattd greeting in the hall. and Aunty returned to the door just as the rect9f was spreading open the book atttSweet and Low"
 /"Pardon me-" beamed aunty.
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Dee. f2. 1914.

Turkish fleet bon bsrdsd 6atum German aviator dropped shells or l1azebrouek bus was Kii.ed by French shells.
 British consul dfaqnej from ltai. ian consulate at HoGeida by Turks
 American Red Cross shipped great quantity of hospital supplies Rockefeller Foundation steamer sailed with s4eo.oo0 cargo.
 Allies drove Germans across the Yser canal.
 Serbians repused Austrians at Nosmai.
 Germans occupied Przaznysz. Lodz was evacuated by the Rus sians.
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Dec. ii, 1874.

Allies in France DIS, ed for. ward.
 Germans rushed hezvs oHnz to Ostend.
 Three German eof.u 8s sepuls lse i n Poland.
 Austrians were defeses& north of kesraj and Parova.xza
 Sheik Kiazin1, chief ef the Shi- ties, proclaimed holy war.
 French capital novea back from Bordeaux to Paris.
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Decg gfa

Allies in West pecan general O. fensiVe,
 Bel lgians repuised 6eeran boat attack along Yser canal
 Germans in Alsaee feil a=ek.
 Russians bombarded ceaeoW sub urbs and oesieged fortress ef Lot zen. Germans abandoned Zgier. Serbians checked Austrian ad- vance.
 British steamer Chareas sunk by German transport in Pacific, Arrow dropped by aviator killed Major General Von Meyer. ostend was set on fire by aero plane bombs. Bomb from German aeroplane killed ten in Hazebrouck. Government Of Holland lent wheat to -eIeium.
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Dec. g, 1914.


 German headquarters moved from RouIers.
 Germans renewed attack on Dix. nude.
 Turks were defeated near 5a. tun.
 British squadron under Vice-Ad- mirai Sturdee defeated German squadron under Admiral von Spec orf Falkland islands, sinking the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig and Nurnberg.
 Prince von BueioW reached Rome as German ambassador.
 Two sections of American Red Cross left Italy for Serbia.
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Dec. 6. 1914.

Belgians took German trenches on the Yser by ruse.
 Germans shelIed Ypres and Fur nes.
 Serbians recaptured Vaijevo and Ushirza from Austrians.
 Germans lost heavily in attack on LoWicz.
 Austrians defeated near Ora. cow.
 Turks at kurna surrendered to Indian troops.
 Polish-American relief commit tee formed.
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Conscience, Net conseouence.

When you are in doubt as to the course to take. consult your con science. not consequences Do right, and never mind how things are going to turn out One who steers his course so as to avoid everything un- pleasant. makes a zigzag course. and may miss the harbor at last. Follow conscience, and leave consequences to Cod.
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THE EUROPEAN WAR 4
 YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Dec. a4.

5CNs VI .s tIs
 Allies made further advances in northern France
 Germans occupied Lod% and drove a Wecge into Erssian center.
 One of the Przernysl forts fell. Russians shelied Cracov1 at long range.
 Turks occupied Ksds.
 Forty British and French war vessels arrived of the pardanellss.
 Russian aYiators attacked Eres- lau forts.
 French ayiators attacked Frsl. burg.
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Quite True.

why did you lead me to believe the astronomer l met was a flash writer?"
 Because he is a fash writer-he is an authority on meteors."
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you have your future to consider, and wish to invite your confidence" and in her voice there was the quaver of
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STRONGEST EVIDENCE
SAY AR. MURPH (.
States Tanlac Regulated Her
Stomach and now Feels Fine.

States Tanlac Regulated Her
Stomach and now Feels Fine.
The strong It evidence in the
world that medicine is all that is
claimed for it is made up Of state
ments by people who have tested
it. Mrs. Ed Murphy, residing at
1910 Sherman street, Springfield,
Mo-, says;
II have suffered from stomach
trouble, feeling nervous, dreadfully
tired and respondent at times. I
traced all of my trouble to stomach
disorder. The least little thing
around the house that went wrong
up set me, was so nervous.
II heard of Tanlac and read of
what it was doing in Springfield
and Joplin. l have taken it and
find it wonderful medicine. 1t
regulated my stomach and | now
am we'll. 1t is excellent and
want others to know about the
preparation"
A tired, overworked stomach,
produced by too much hastily eat
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ing, can cause an endless amount
of ailments, amoung them being
liver complaint, kidney trouble,
catarrhal affections. dyspepsia, ner.
vous breakdown. lost ambition,
blood troubles and even rheuma-
tism.
Tanlac is obtained in this city
at H. F. Pitts for SI.oo a bottle,
three for s2.7s or six bottles for
$500.
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Approaching . Reform.

HAS Crimson Gulch adopted pro-
hibition?' NO" replied Broncho Bob.
But it's on the way. Sos to bring it
around gradual, the Judge has made a
rule that any man who draws a gun
on another will have to quit drinking.
You'll be surprised to see how nice and
orderly the old place is gettin to be-
Washington Star.
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E.e.i u M u ows

~ sls cl hr,
den rhit brsr t
oui bti nrentri,', i
fee A 5G +uy COW IN
full flo~ rob byexpt NJ
ing A. muc eorgN - ihe ho's
prefornnug hi, abor I'D this at
ten for months at time the hard
er the horse works the more grain
and less roughagt SHOULD be fed.
This is equally true of the dairy
COW. The COW, being a ruminant,
can utilize larger amount of
bulky feed than the horse but in
these days OF high producing COWS
the limit is soon reaching as to the
amount of rough feed that can
profitably be fed.
1t is always the economical
practice TO feed good palatable
roughage up to the limit of the
cows capacity, but to this must be
added sufficient concentrates to
supply the needed nutrients for
producing a large flow OF milk.
The practice adopted by most
dairymen is to feed as much rough
age as the COW will consume and
then supply a we'll balanced grain
ration at the rate of about one
pound daily to every four pounds
of milk the COW is producing
This is a good general rule to fol-
low, but cannot be applied rigidly
to every cow in the herd
When cows go on good pasture
it is always found that the milk
flow will keep up with smaller
amount of grain than when they
were on dry feel When plenty
of good pasture is available it Of
ten is possible to get along with
out feeding much grain. The dan.
ger to the average dairyman is
that he will adopt the general
rule of feeding no grain to his
milk cows during the pasture sea-
son, without reference to whether
the pasture is supplying enough
feed or not. In the beginning of
pasture season this rule may work.
There are very few pastures that
supply enough feed for. any length
of time to keep up the production.
As the pasture begins 10 fall off
the cows likewise begin 10 fall off
in milk. The owner may wonder
why h., is not getting larger flow
of milk. If the coAs ale allowed
to fall back for some time before
the real difficulty is discovered it
is always hard TO get them up to
their normal flow even though a
grain ration is supplied.
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Answer to a CORE spo ndent.

NO, MT BosbyshelI, you must not
confound bellona with bologna. The
one belongs to the age of myths and
the other to the sausage. The bellona
Is made chiefly Of hot dogs of war,
whereas the bologna-well, never
mind what the bologna is made Of.
Shut your eyes and eat 1t, and be con.
tent with the thought that, whatever
their origin, 1t is constructed of little
pieces of something, while the other
is not. G
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How Ha Wa, lntsrs..sd

Benevolent ndividlal-"Yes, sir:
hold that when man makes little
sxtra money his first duty is to make
his wife present OF handsome
dress" Stranger-"You arc social
philosopher, presume?" mo, I'm
dry goods merchants"
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Kept Him BUSY,

MY wife made me a success" re.
marked the man. 81 am glad to hear
you say that" declared his pastor.
Eyes, she has always wanted so many
things that I've just had to HUSTLE
Topeka Journal.
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In New York Savings Banks.

Two million persons in New York
have money in the savings banks;
were they to share their savings with
the rest of the population OF the city,
each Of the 100000 would have $225
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: What Should He Take for III
Motorist skids across the street and
hits another machine. Pardon me,
but am suffering from auto-intoXica-
tion."-Judge.