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THE VALE EXPOSITOR FRIDAY, J PLY i-7, 11)0(5. STORY A FOOL FOR LOVE By FRANCIS UNDE Author 0( "Th. Graftars." Elc. (Copyright, l'.Wj. b J. I. I.lpplnooit Co.) CHAPTEK 1. It was a December morning the Missouri December of mild tempera tares and saturated skies and the Chicago & Alton's fast train, dripping from the rush through the wet night. ii;)d steamed briskly to its terminal in the Union station at Kansas City. Two men, one smoking a short pipe aud the other snapping the ash from a scented cigarette, stood aloof from the hurrying throngs on the platorm lklng on with the .measured interest of those who are in a melee but not of it. 'More delay." raid the cigarettlst. glancing at his watch. "We are over an hour late now. Jo we get any of It back on the run to Denver?" The pipe smoker shook his head. -Hardly. I should say. The Limited" i.i a pretty heavy train to pick up lost time. But it won't make nn particu lar difference. The western connec tions all wait for the, 'Limited.' and w? shall reach the seat of war to morrow night, according to the Boston itinerary." Mr. Morton P. Adams flung away the tiuburned half of his cigarette and masked a yawn behind his hand. "It's no end of a Kre, Wlnton, and that is the plain, u.iiaequered fact,' he protested. "I think the governor owes me something. I worried through the Tech because he insisted that I should have a profession;' and now I am go in.; iti for field work with you In a liv wlins winter wilderness because he insists on a practical demonstration." "liumpii! it's too bad about you," fviitl the other, ironically. He was a Jit figure t a m.in, clean-cut and vig or us, from the steadfast outlook of Ih- gray eyes and the close clip of the Van Dyck biard to ill? square finger tip of tb strung hands, and his smlie wis ;f ;, xid-natured contempt. "As y )j say, :t is an outrage on filial com 1:1 li-ancc. All the same, with ths right-ot'-wjy Ffht in prospect, Quartz Creek c.ir:y.)ii n.ay not i ro e to be such a valley of dry bor.es as Look out, th?.e!" The shifting engine had cut a car from the rear cf the lately arrived Al ton, and was sending it down the out hoend track to a coupling with the Transcontinental "Limited." Adams stepped luck and let It miss him by a hand's-brcadth. and as the car was passing Wlnton read the name on the panelling. "The ilusemary;' somebody's 20 ton private outfit. That cooks our last chance of making up any lost time be tween this an 1 to-morrow" Ho broke off abruptly. On the square r?ir observation platform of the prl vat car wen three ladies. One of tlit'P.i was small and blue-eyed, with wivy littl" pnt'I's f snowy hair peep :z out under her dainty widow's cap. Another w:ts small and blue-eyed, with wavy masses of llaxen hair caught up f r am a f u e which might have stwed a.- a model for t lie most exquisite bisque fig ire that ever came out o." France. Bat Wlnton saw only the third. iSue wa taller than either of her companions tall and straight and lithe; a (harming emtodirnent of linlth and strength and beauty; clear skinned, brown-eyeda very goddess fresh from the bath, in Wlnton's In stant summing-up of her, and her crown of red-gold hair helped out the simile. Now thus far In his thirty-year pil grimages John Wlnton. man and boy, had lived the Intense life of a work lug hermit so far as the social gods and goddesses were concerned. Ye he had a pang of disappointment or loInted jealousy, or something akin to both when Adams lifted his hat to this particular goddess, and was re wirded by a little cry of recognition. ' "She Is h frivnd of yours, then?" he said, when Adams had taken the bait ed hook open -eyed. The technologian modified the as sumption. "Not quite in four sense of the word. I fancy. I met her a number of times at the houses of mutual friends in Boston. She was studying at the con servatory." "But she Isn't a Bostonlan," said Wlnton, confidently. "Miss V irgima?-rhardly. She is n Carteret ct the Carterets; Vlrglnla born. bred, and named. Stunning girl, isn't she?" "No." said Winton, shortly, resent iug the slang tor no reason that he could have set forth In words. Adams lighted another of the scented villainies, find his clean-shaven face wrinkled Itself Into a slow smile. "Which means that she has winged you" at sight, 1 suppose, as she does most men." Then ho added, calmly: 'It's no go." "What's 'no go'?" Adams laughed unfeelingly. "You remind me of the fable aiout the head-hiding ostrich. Didn't I see you staring at her as If you were about to have a fit? But It Is Just as I tell you; it's no go. She isn't the marrying kind. If you knew her, she'd be nice to you till sha got a good chance to l!ay you alive " "Break It off!" growled Winton. "Presently. As I was saying, she would miss the chance of marrying the best, man In the world for the sake of taking a rise out of linn. More over, she comes of old cavalier stock with an English earldom at the back of it, and she is Inordinately proud of the fact; while you er you've given me to understand that you are a man of the people, haven't you?" Wlnton nodded absently. "Well, that settles it definitely," was the Bostoulan's comment. "Miss Car teret Is of the sang azure. The man who marries her will have to know his grandfather's middle name and a good bit more besides." Wlnton's laugh was mockingly good natured. "You have missed your calling by something more than a hand's-breadth. Morty. You should have been a novel ist. Give you a spike and a cross-tie and you'd Infer a wnole railroad. But you piqu my curiosity. Where are these American royalties of yours go ing In the Rosemary.?" "To California. The car belongs to Mr. Somervllle Darrah, who Is vice president and manager in fact of the Colorado & Grand Klver road; the 'Rajah,' they call him. He Is a rela tive of the Carterets, and the party Is on Its way to spend the winter on the Pacific coast." "And the little lady In the widow's cap; Is she Miss Carteret's mother?' "Miss Bessie Carteret's mother and Miss Virginia's aunt. She is the chap eron." Wlnton was silent while the "Lim ited" was roaring through a village on the Kansas side of the river. "I have heard somewhat of the Ka Jah," he said, half musingly. "In fact, I know him, by sight. He Is what the magazlnlsts are fond of calling an 'Industry colonel,' a born leader who has fought his way to the front. If the Quartz Creek row is anything more than a stiff bluff on the part of the C. & G. K. It will be quite as well for us If Mr. Somervllle Darrah Is safely at the other side of the conti nentand well out of reach of the wires." Adams came to attention with a half-hearted attempt to galvanize an interest in the business affair. fectff ySwK pl! ii 1$ WINTON TURNED "Tell me more about this mysterious Jangle we are heading for," he re joined. "Have I enlisted for a soldier when I thought I was only going into peaceful exile as an assistant engineer of construction on the Utah Short Line?" "That remains to be seen." Wln ton took a leaf from his pocket mem orandum and drew a rough outline map. "Here Is Denver, and here Is Carbonate," he explained. "At present the Utah Is running Into Carbonate this way over the rails of the C. & G. R. on a Joint track agreement which either line may terminate by giving six months' notice of Its intention to the other. Got that?" "To have and to hold," said Adams. "Go on." "Well, on the first day of September the C. & G. R. people gave the Utah management notice to quit." "They are bloated monopolists," said Adams, sententlously. "Still, I don't see why there should be any scrap ping over the line In Quartz Creek canyon." "No? You are not up In monopo listic methods. In six months from September 1st the Utah people will be shut out of Carbonate business, which Is all that keeps that part of their line alive. If they want a share of that traffic alter March 1st, they will have to have a road of their own to carry it over." "Precisely," said Adams, stifling a yawn. "They are building one, aren't they?" "Trying to," Wlnton amended. "But. unfortunaiely, the only practical route through the mountains Is up Quartz Creek canyon, and the canvon Is al- ready occupied by a branch of the Col orado & Grand Klver." "Still, I don'.t see why there should be any scrap." "Don't you? If the Rajah's road can, keep the new line out of Carbonate till the 6lx months have expired, It will have a monopoly of all the carry ing trade of the camp. By consequence It can force every shipper In the dis trict to make Iron-clad contracts, so that when the Utah line Is finally com pleted It won't be ablo to secure any freight for a year at least." "Oho! that's the game. Is It? I be gin to savvy the burro; that's the prop er phrase, Isn't It? And what are our chances?" "We have about one In a hundred, as near a3 1 could make out from Mr. Callowell's statement of the case. The C. & G. R. people are moving heaven and earth to obstruct us In the can yon. If they can delay the work a lit tle longer, the weather will do the rest. With the first heavy snow In the mountains, which usually conies long before this, the Utah will have to put up its tools and wait till next summer." Adams lighted another cigarette. "Pardon me If I am inquisitive," he said, "but for the life of nie I can" understand what these obstructionists can do. Of course, they can't use force." Winton's smile was grim. "Can't they? Walt till you get on the ground. But the first move was peaceab e enough. 1 hey jot an injunction trom the courts' restrain ng the new line from encroaching on their right of way." "Which was a thlag that nobody wanted to do," said Adams, between inha'ations. "Which was a thing the Utah had to do,' corrected Winto.'. "The canyon is a narrow grge a mere slit In parts of it. This is where they have us." "Oh, well; I sappos we took, an: appeal and asked to have the in junction set aside?" "We did, promptly; and that is the present status of the fight. The appeal decision has not yet been handed down; and In the meantime we go on building railroad, incurring all the pen alties for contempt of court with every shovelful of earth moved. Do AND WALKED aWAY. you still think you will be in danger of ossifying?" Adams let the question rest whlla he asked one of his own. "How do you come to be mixed up In it, Jack? A week ago some one told me you were going to South America to build a railroad In the Andes. What switched you?' Wlnton 6hook his head. "Fate, 1 guess; that and a wire from Presi dent Callowell, of the Utah, offering me this. Chief of Construction Evarts, In charge of the work In Quartz Creek canyon, said what you said a few minutes ago that he had not hired out for a soldier. He resigned, aud I'm taking his berth." Adams rose and buttoned his coat. "By all of which It seems that we two are in for a good bit more than the ossifying exile," he remarked. And then: "1 am going back Into the Rose mary to pay my respects to Miss Vir ginia Cartaret. Won't you come .ilon,?' "No," said Wlnton, more shortly than the Invitation warranted; and the tech nologian went his way alone. CHAPTER II. "Sense me, sah; private cah, sah." It was the porter's challenge In the vestibule of the Rosemary. Adams found a card. "Take that to Miss Carteret Miss Virginia Carteret," he directed, and waited till the roan came back with his welcome. The extension table In the open rear third of the private car was closed to Its smallest dimensions, and the movable lurnlshlngs were disposed about the compartment to make it a conif' rtable loinlng room. 'TO 117: t ONTINL'ED.) JOHN fjENISY ON AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. By HUGH McllUGII GEORGE Y, HOB ART J Sat Up as Peaches, my wife, acquired the ama teur photography bug last week, and It was really surprising how quickly she laid the foundation of a domestic rogues' gallery. She bought a camera and went after everybody and everything in the neigh borhood. She took about 8.000,000 views of our country home before she discovered that the camera wasn't loaded properly, which was tough on Peaches but good !or the bungalow. Like everything else In this world pic ture pinching from still life depends en tirely on the point of view. If your point of view Is all right it's in easy matter to make a four-dollar joghouse look like the villa of a Wall street broker at Newport. Ten minutes after my wife had brought the camera home she had me set up as a statue all over the lawn, and she was snapping at me like a spitz dog gie at a peddler. I sat for 219 pictures that forenoon, so I suppose if she snapped like a spitz I must have looked like a setter. Anyway, before I was through set ting I felt like a hen, but when sho tried to coax me to limb up on a limb of a tree and stay there till she got a slcture of me looking like an owl, I swore softly In three languages, fell over the back fence and ran for my life. When I rubbershoed It back that after noon my wife was busy developing her crimes. The proper an'd up-to-date caper In connection with taking snap shots these days is to buy a developing outfit and upset the household from pit to dome A hile you are squeezing out pictures of ?very dearly beloved friend that crosses your pathway. My wife selected a spare room on the top floor where she could await develop ments. A half hour later ghostly noises began to come from that room and mysterious A-hisperings fell out of the window and Dumped over the lawn. When I reached the front door I found that the gardener had left, the waitress A-as leaving, the baby had discharge! the nurse, and the nurse was telephon ing for a policeman. "Where is Mrs. Henry?" I asked Mary, :he nurse. "She is still developing," said Mary. "What has she developed?" I inquired. "Up to the present time fdie has de veloped the cook's temper and she has leveloped the baby's appetite, and a cou ()le of bill collectors developed a pain n the net k when they couldn't see hey; ind if things go on In this way I think ;hls will soon develop into a foolish house!" said Mary, the nurse. A half hour later while I was hiding jnder the hammock on the front porch, not daring to breathe above a whisper for fear I would get my picture taken again, my wife rushed out exclaiming: 'Oh, joy! Oh, joy! John, I have devel sped two pictures!" I wish you could have seen the expres sion on Peaches' face. in order to develop the films a pictur esque assortment of drugs and chemicals have to be used. Well, my wife had used them. A silent little Ktr?am of wood alcohol was trickling oon over her left ear 'I Have Developed Two Picturues." Into her Psyche knot, and on the end of her nose about six grains of bichloride of potash was sending out signals of distress to some spirits of turpentine which was burning on the top of her right eyebrow. Something dark and lingering like Iodine had given her chin the double tros4 and her apron looked like the remnants of a porous plaster. Her right hand had red, white, green, purple and magenta marks all over It, I a Statue and her left hand looked like the Fourth of July. "John!" she yelled; "here It Is! My goodness, I am so excited! See what a fine picture of you I took!" She handed me the picture, but all I could see was a woodshed with the door wide open. "A good picture of the woodshed," I said; "but whose woodshed is It?" "A woodshed!" exclaimed my wife; "why, that Is your face, John. And where you think the door Is open Is only your mouth!" I looked crestfallen and then I looked at the picture again, but my better na ture asserted itself and I made no at- "It's Immense." tempt to strike this defenseless woman. Then she handed me another picture and said: "John, here Is one I took of you and little Peaches!" Little Peaches Is the name of our baby. We call her little Teaches because that's what she is. I looked at the picture and then I said to big Peaches: "All I can see is Theo dore, our colored gardener, walking across lots with a sack of flour on his back!" "John, you are so stupid," said my wife. "How can you expect to see what It is when you are holding the picture upside down?" I turnel the picture around, and then I was quite agreeably surprised. "It's immense!" 1 shouted. "It's the real thing, all right! Why this is aces! I suppose It Is called 'Moonlight On Lake Champlaln? Did this one come with the camera or did you draw it from memory?" "The idea of such a thing." my wife snapped; "can't you see that you're holding the picture the wrong way. Turn it around and you will see your self and little Peaches!" I gave the thing another turn. "Gee whiz!" I said, "now I have It! Oh, the limit! You wished to surprise me with a picture of the sunset at Gouv ernor's Island. How lovely It is. See, over here in this corner there's a bunch of soldiers listening to what's cooking for supper, and over here Is the smoke from the gun that sets the sun I like it!" Then my wife grabbed the picture out of my hands and burst Into speech. When the exercises were over I In quired, casually: "Where, my dear, where are the other 21,219 pictures you snapped to-day?" "Only these two came out good be cause, don't you see, I'm an amateur yet," was her come back. - Then she looked lovingly at the result of her day's work and began to peel some bicarbonate of magnesia off her knuckles with the nut cracker. "Only two out of 21.2191 think you omrht to call It a long phot Instead of n snap shot," I whispered, after I had lodged behind a tree on the lawn. She went in the house without saying a word an 1 1 lookout my pocketbookand looked at it wistfully. (Copyright, by O. V. rminj?1iam Co.) FrugaUt7 of the French. The astonishing statement Is made that the French people have Invested In foreign securities th stupendous amount of above $13,000,000,000. and that In addition to their own public debt, the greatest of any nation, which Is an exclusively domestic loan. These gigantic savings are due to frugality and to thrift. Thrift It was a French trait at the dawn of French history, and has prevailed for centuries. No land has been harried by opposing armies more frequently or more devas tatlngly and no land ever recovered from desolation so spedlly and so com pletely. France Is stronger and richer this moment than ever before, and that too, In the fourth decade after her utter prostration and spoliation of 1871- I : 1 I i j You Must Ilustle. "HustlV Is a word that has come 'nto very general use of late, and U ised to express vigorous earnest ef 'ort to accomplish a definite purpose, .t hi not a very elegant word, but t Is very expressive. It means, ac ording to Webster, "to force one's ay." This seems to be the pplrlt nd demand of this age of fierce com jetlllon in buslnes.i and the profes sions. If you want business, a desire :o attain success in any of the learned professions, you must push for It, )r you will be left far in the rear. Vou cannot sit still and expect wealth md reputation to seek you out. Some ipparently hug the delusion that "the AOiid owes them a living." and be :ause they think they are meritorious, .hey are sure to succeed without any jreat effort on their part. Who are :he men and women who have ac juired wealth and fame? asks the Mew York Weekly. Think over their .areers, and you will come to the con tusion that In 99 cases out of 100 :hey were "the architects of their own fortunes." In other words, they had :o hustle. So has It been with all those who are known as self-made nen. They had not the advantages that come from wealth, education, or ioclal position. But they had an In spiring ambition that knew "no such ord as fail," and whether seeking luccess In business, or reputation In l profession, or distinction In states nanshlp, they labored unceasingly with that one end In view. They rested not until their ambition was ;ratlfled. So In all the ordinary walks )f life, If you expect success, you must austle for It with hand and brain. Don't expect others to supply your wants. Supply them yourself. The world Is before you, and you have the same opportunity as others have had. Znly Improve It. Opposition 1o the endless flood of Im migrants Is usually based either upon the leai that they will destroy the market for native labor or the belief that they will lower the standard of :ltlz3nship and morality. In either :ase, says Youth's Companion, the fear is directed against the immigrant him self. At the recent convention, in New Vork, of the American Social Science association, a danger less often consid ered was pointed out: that which monies from the second generation. The foreign-born population, according to tigiuea which were given, furnishes more than twice its normal proportion af Inmctes of penal, insane and chari table institutions; but the children of Immigrants are three times as criminal as the children of the native-born, and twice as criminal as the immigrants themseives. An Inquiry conducted by order of the French senate acquits white lead of being a vicious poisoner. So far from being able to find evidence of excessive mortality among journey men house painters, the committee re ports a very low death rate among men of that tiade, the average being only one in 7,000 or 8.000. The only excessive mortality was found in dis-. tricts where the painters mixed too much alcohol with their work. Which is good demonstration that solutions of white lead in alcohol are apt to deposit deadly precipitates, and is timely warning to house painters, at least, to drink spirits in moderation or not at all. A story Is told of a letter received at the post office In Paris bearing te following Inscription: "To the Great est French Poet." The letter carrier was Instructed to deliver It to Victor Hugo, w!io refused to receive It, and sent it to Lamartlne. This genius also declined to accept the letter and passed it on to Alfred de Musset. The latter, equally modest, resent It to Victor Hugo, who finally accepted It. The letter had reached its des tination. We wonder where a letter addressed "To. the Greatest American Poet" would be delivered. The English tailor who came over to design new uniforms for the mem bers of our army says American sol diers make a better military appear ance than the English, German or French warriors. If somebody will hasten to assure us that our soldiers are finer looking than the Japs ojr confidence will be fully restored. A 41-story building, which will have a height of C25 feet, is to be erected by a sewing machine company at the corner of Broadway and Liberty street, New York. Now, In order to give a proper artistic effect, somebody should get the adjoining lot and build there on a one-story bank with Ionic col umns. Two prize fighters have received fa tal Injuries In the ring within the past six months. The old claim that prize fighting Isn't as dangerous as foot ball may have to be modified If the fighters do not exercise greater care. Col. Watterson wants young men to 50 south. Another Journalist, Horace Greeley, told them to go west, but ap parently they go where they blamed please. If they will put sawdust In the breakfast food, let the consumer In sist thai It be clean sawdust. TERRIBLE TO RECALL Five Weeks in Bed with Intensely Fainful Kidney Troubla. Mrs. Mary Wagner, of 13C7 Kossuth Ave., Bridgeport, Conn., says: "I was so weakened and generally run down with kidney dis- long time I could not do my work and was fiva weeks In bed. There was con tinual bearing down pain, ter rible backaches. Wjkr- headaches and at yx?&'5&.'- times dl7?v RnelU when everything ' ' was a blur before me. The passages of the kidney secretions were Irregular and painful, and there was considerable sediment and odor. I don't know what I would have done but for Doan's Kidney Pills. I could see an Improvement from the first box, and five boxes brought a final cure." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. FIRE THE BEST FILTER. II Water BeaJly Is to Be Purified, There Is Only One Way to Do It. "All this talk about the need of fil ters, about people dying for lack of filtered water, amuses me," said a chemist. "For filtered water isn't necessarily pure water. Boiled water is 100 times better. "A filter, you see. does not free water from things dissolved In It, but only from things floating in it For instance, if you mix a quart of whisky In a gallon of water and then filter the mixture, It will come out color less, the floating color particles hav ing been left behind, but this color less fluid will be quite as capable of intoxicating you now as It was before, for none of Its dissolved alcohol will have disappeared. "So with water that Is polluted with sewage. All the undissolved portion? of the sewage are removed by filtra tion, and the water Is left clear, taste less and odorless; but the dissolved sewage Is still present, and In it may lurk billions of typhoid germs. "Let those who complain about the lack of filters just turn In and boll their water. A cent's worth of fire will purify a gallon of water better than a $10,000,000 filter plant could do it." A Balloon Incline Railroad. Consul William Bardel writes from Bambery that Engineer Balderauer, of Salzberg, has invented a balloon railroad, experiments with which are now being made In the mountains In the neighborhood of that German city. It consists of a stationary balloon, which is fastened to a slide running along a single steel rail. The rail is fastened to the side of a steep moun tain, which ordinary railroads could not climb, except through deep cuts and tunnels. The balloon Is to float about 33 feet over the ground, and a heavy steel cable connects It with the rail. The conductor can, at will, make the balloon slide up and down the side of the mountain. For going up the motive power Is furnished by hydrogen gas, while the descent is caused by pressure cf water, which is poured Into a large tank at the up per end of the read, and which serve3 as ballast. Suspended from the bal loon Is a circular car with room for ten passengers. The cable goes from the bottom of the balloon through the center of the car to a regulator of speed, which is controlled by the con ductor. The Inventor of this railroad claims that hi patent will force all incline cable roads out of existence. BACK TO PULPIT. What Food Did for a Clergyman. A minister of Ellzabethtown tells how Grape-Nuts food brought him back to his pulpit: "Some 5 years ago I had an attack of what seemed to be La Grippe which left me in a com plete state of collapse and I suffered for some time with nervous prostra tion. My appetite failed, I lost flesh till I was a mere skeleton, life was a burden to me, I lost interest in every thing and almost in everybody save my precious wife. "Then on the recommendation of some friends I began to use Grape Nuts food. At that time I was a mis erable skeleton, without appetite and hardly able to walk across the room; I had ugly dreams at night, no dlsposi ! tlon to entertain or be entertained and began to shun society. "I finally gave up the regular minis try, indeed I could not collect my thoughts on any subject, and became almost a hermit. After I had been using the Grape-Nuts food for a short time I discovered that I was taking on new life and my appetite began to improve; I began to sleep better and my weight increased steadily; I had lost some 50 pounds, but under th new food regime I have regained al most my former weight and hav greatly improved In every way. "I feel that I owe much to Grape Nuts and can truly recommend the food to all who require a powerful re building agent, delicious to taste and always welcome." Name given by Fostum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, A true natural road to regain health, or hold It, Is by use of a dish of Grape-Nuts and cream morning and night. Or have the food made Into some of the many delicious dishes given in the little recipe book found in pkgs. Ten days trial of Grape-Nuts helps many. "There's & reason." Look in pkgs. for a copy of the fa mous little book, "The Road to Well-Tille." A