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*E)OS ME! RT HUGHES Sid mon m ypr Tfli sAm 2ATED FROM. GRAPHS OK tV AS P/£Or>UOEI> W. SAVAGE-. Y>eiGrtT 15111 M.R..FL.V CCk SYNOPSIS. Lieut. Harry Mallory is ordered to the Phiipplnes. He and Marjorie New ton decide to elope, but wreck of taxi cab prevents their seeing minister on the way to the train. Transcontinental train is taking on passengers. Porter has a lively time with an Englishman and Ira Lathrop. a Yankee business man. The elopers have an exciting time getting to the train. “Little Jim mie” Wellington, bound for Reno to get a divorce, hoards train in maudlin con dition. Later Mrs. Jimmie appears. She is also hound for Reno with same ob ject. Likewise Mrs Sammy Whitcomb. Latter blames Mrs. Jimmie for her mar ital troubles. Classmates of Mallory decorate bridal berth. Rev. and Mrs. Temple start on a vacation. They de cide to cut loose and Temple removes evidence of his calling. Marjorie de cides to let Ma*iiory proceed alone, but train starts w hile they are lost in fare well. Passengers Join Malory’s class mates in giving couple wedding hazing. Marjorie is distracted. Ira Lathrop. woman-hating bachelor, discovers an old sweetheart, Annie Gattle, a fellow passenger. Mallory vainly hunts for a preacher among the passengers. Mrs. Wellington hears Little Jimmie’s voice, she meets Mrs. Whitcomb. Mal lory reports to Marjorie his failure to find a preacher. They decide to pretend a quarrel and Mallory finds a vacant berth. Mrs. Jimmie discovers Welling ton on the train. Mallory again makes an unsuccessful hunt for a preacher. Dr. Temple poses as a physician. Mrs. Temple is Induced by Mrs. Wellington to smoke a cigar. Sight of preacher on a station platform raises Mallory’s hopes, but he takes another train. Miss ing hand baggage compels the couple to borrow from passengers. Jimmie gets a cinder in his eye and Mrs. Jim mie gives first aid. Coolness is then resumed. Still no clergyman. More borrowing. Dr. Temple puzzled by be havior of different couples. Marjorie's jealousy aroused by Mallory's baseball jargon. Marjorie suggests wrecking the train in hopes that accident will produce a preacher. Also tries to Induce <-onductor to hold the train so she can shop. Marjorie’s dog is missing. She pulls the cord, stopping the train. Con ductor restores dog and lovers quarrel. Lathrop wires for a preacher to marry him and Miss Gattle. Mallory tells La throp of his predicament and arranges to borrow the preacher. Kitty Lewel lyn, former sweetheart of Mallory's, appears and arouses Marjorie’s jeal ousy. Preacher boards train. After ma.rrying Lathrop and Miss Gattle the preache) escapes Mallory by leaping ITorn moving train. Mallory's dejection tnoves Marjorie to reconciliation. The last day on the train brings Mallory the fear of missing his transport. Mal lory gets a Nevada marriage license. Marjorie refuses to be married by a divorce drummer Mr. and Mrs. Jim mie make up. Kitty Lewellyn refuses to return Mallory’s braclet. Robbers hold up the train. The passengers are relieved of their valuables. CHAPTER XXXVlll.—Continued. Mr. Baumann was making an ef fort to take his leave, with great po liteness. “Excoose, pleass. 1 vant to get by, pleass!" “Get by!” the other robber gasped. “Why, you—” “But I’m not a passenger,” Mr. Baumann urged, with a confidential smile, “I’ve been go‘ing through the train myself.” “Much obliged! Hand over!” And a nide hand rummaged his pockets. It was a heart-rending sight. “Oi oi!” he walled, “don’t you allow no courtesies to the profession?” And when the Inexorable thief continued fo pluck his money, his watch, his sscarf-pln, he grew wroth indeed. “Stop, stop, I refuse to pay. I’ll go Into bank, ruptcy foist.” But still the larceny continued; fingers even lifted three cigars from his pockets, two for him self and a good one for a customer. This loss was grievous, but his wild est protest was: ”Oh, here, ray frlent, you don’t vant ray business carts.” “Keep ’em!” growled the thief, and hen. glancing up, he saw on the ten der inwards of Mr. Baumann’s up held palms two huge gllsteners. which their owner had turned that way In a •misguided effort to conceal the stones. The robber reached up for them. Take ’em. You’re velcome!” said Mr. Baumann, with rare presence of mind. “Those Nevada nearlles looks almost like real.” “Keep ’em.” said the robber, as he passed on, and Mr. Baumann almost swooned with Joy, for, as he whis pered to Wedgewood a moment later; ‘They’re really real!” Now the eye-chain rolled the other way, for Little Jimmie Wellington was puffling with rage. The other robber, having massaged him thoroughly, but without success, for his pocketbook, noticed that Jimmie’s left heel was protruding from his left shoe, and made Jimmie perform the almost in credible feat of standing on one foot, while he unshod him and took out the hidden wealth. “There goes our honeymoon, Lu cretla,” he moaned. But she whis pered proudly: “Never mind. 1 have my rings to pawn.” ”Oh, you have, have you? Well, i’ll be your little uncle,” the kneeling rob ber laughed, as he overheard, and he continued his outrageous search till he found them, knotted in a handker chief, under her hat. She protested: “You wouldn't leave me in Reno without a diamond, would you?” “I wouldn’t, eh?” he grunted. “Do you think I’m in this business for my health?” / And he snatched off two earrings she had forgotten to remove. Fortu nately, they were affixed to her lobes with fasteners. Mrs. Jimmie war thorough bred enough not to wince She simply com mented: “You brutes are almost as bad as the customs officers at New York.” And now another touch of light re lieved the gloom. Kathleen was next in line, and she had been forcing her lips into their most attractive smile, and keeping her eyes winsomely mel low, for the jobber’s benefit. Marjorie could not see the smile; she could only see that Kathleen was next. She whispered to Mallory; “They’ll get the bracelet! They’ll et the bracelet!” And Mallory could have danced with glee. But Kathleen leaned coquet tfshlv oward the masked stranger, and threw all her art into her tone as she murmured: “I’m sure you’re too brave to take my things. I’ve always admired men with the courage of Claude Duval.” The robber was taken a trifle aback, but he growled: “I don’t know the par ty you speak of —but cough up!" /’Listen to her,” Marjorie whispered in horror; "she’s flirting with the train-robber.” “What won’t some women flirt with!” Mallory exclaimed. The robber studied Kathleen a lit tle more attentively, as he whipped off her necklace and her rings. She looked good to him, and so willing, that he muttered: “Say, lady. If you’ll give me a kiss, I’ll give you that dia mond ring you got on.” “All right!” laughed Kathleen, with triumphant compliance. “My God!” Mallory groaned, “what won’t some women do for a diamond!” The robber bent close, and was just raising his mask to collect his ran som, when his confederate glanced hla way, and knowing his susceptible na ture, foresaw his Intention, and shout ed: “Stop it, Jake. You ’ftrnd strictly to business, or I’ll blow your nose off.” “Oh, all right,” grumbled the reluc tant gallant, as he drew the ring from her finger. “Sorry, miss, but I canT make the trade,” and he added with an unwonted gentleness: “You can turn round now.” Kathleen was glad to hide the blush es of defeat, but Marjorie was still more bitterly disappointed. She whis pered to Mallory: “He didn’t get the bracelet, alter all.” CHAPTER XXXIX. Wolves in the Fold. Mallory’s heart sank to its usual depth, but Marjorie had another of her inspirations. She startled every body by suddenly beckoning and call ing; “Excuse me. Mr. Robber. Come here, please.” The curious gallant edged her way, keeping a sharp watch along the line: “What d’you want?” Marjorie leaned nearer, and spoke in a low tone with an amiable smile: “That lady who wanted to kiss you has a bracelet up her sleeve.” The robber stared across his mask, and wondered, but laughed, and grunted; “Much obliged.” Then ne went back, and tapped Kathleen on the shoulder. When she turned round, in the hope that he had reconsidered his refusal to make the trade, he In furiated her by growling; "Excuse me, miss, I overlooked a bet.” He ran his hand along her arm, and found her bracelet, and accomplished what Mallory had failed in, its re moval. “Don’t, don’t,’’ cried Kathleen, “It’s wished on.” “I wish it off,” the villain laughed, and it joined the growing heap in the feed-bag. Kathleen, doubly enraged, broke out viciously: “You’re a common, sneaking—” “Ah, turn round!” the man roared, and she obeyed in silence. Then he explored Mrs. Whitcomb, but with such small reward that he said: “Say, you’d oughter have a pocketbook somewhere. Where’s it at?” Mrs. Whitcomb blushed furiously; “None of your business, you low brute.” “Perdooce, madame,” the scoundrel snorted, "perdooce the purse, or I’ll hunt for It myself.” Mrs. Whitcomb turned away, and after some management of her skirts, slapped her handbag Into the eager palm with a wrathful; “You’re no gen tleman. sir!” “If I was, I’d be in Wall street,” ne laughed. “Now you can turn round.” And when she turned, he saw a bit of chain depending from her back hair. He tugged, and brought away the locket, and then proceeded to sound Ashton for hidden wealth. And now Mrs. Temple began to sob, as she parted with an old-fashioned brooch and two old-fashioned rings that had been her little vanities tor tho quarter of a century and more. The old clergyman could have wept with her at the vandalism. He turned on the wretch with a heartsick ap peal: “Can’t you spare those? Didn't you ever have a mother?” The robber started, his fierce ejres softened, his voice choked, and he gulped hard as he drew the back of his hand across his eyes. “Aw, hell,” he whimpered, “that ain’t fair. If you’re goin’ to remind me of me poor old mo-mo-mother —" But the one called Jake —the Claude Duval who had been prevented from a display of human sentiment, did not intend to be cheated. He thundered: “Stop it. Bill. You ’tend strictly to business, or I’ll blow your mush-bowl off. You know your Maw died before you was born.” This reminder sobered the weeping thief at once, and he went back to work ruthlessly. “Oh. all right, Jake. Sorry, ma’am, but business is?' busi ness.” And he dumped Mrs. Temple’s trinkets into the satchel. It was too much for the little old lady's little old husband. He fairly shrieked: “Young man. you’re a damned scoundrel, and the best argument 1 ever saw tor hell-fire!” Mrs. Temple’s grief changed to hor ror at such a bolt from the blue: “Walter!" she gasped, “such’ lan guage!” But her husband answered in self defense; “Even a minister has a right to swear once In his lifetime.” Mallory almost dropped m fti* tracks, and Marjorie keoled over on him. as he gasped: "Good Lord, Dr. Temple, you are a—a minister?” “Yes, my boy,” the old man con fessed, glad that the robbers had re lieved him of his guilty secret along with the rest of his private properties. Mallory looked at the collapsing Mar jorie and groaned: “And he was la the next berth ail this time!” The unmasking of the old fraud made a second sensation. Mrs. Fos dick called from far down the aisle: “Dr. Temple, you’re not a detective?” Mrs. Temple shouted back furious ly: “How dare you?” But Mrs. Fosdlck was crying to her luscious-eyed mate: “Oh, Arthur, hes not a detective. Embrace me!” And they embraced, while the rob bers looked on aghast at the sudden oblivion they had fallen* into. They focussed the attention on themselves again, however, with a ferocious: “Here, hands up!” But they did not see Mr. and Mrs. Fosdick steal a kiss behind their upraised arms, for the robber to whose lot Mallory tell was gloating over his well-filled wallet, Mallory saw it go with fortitude, but noting a piece of legal paper, he said; “Say. old man, you don’t want that marriage license, do you?” The robber handled it as if it were hot—as if he had burned Ois fingers on some such document once before, and he stuffed it back in Mallory’* pocket. “I should say not. Keep it Turn round.” Meanwhile the other felon turned up another beautiful pile of bills in Dr. Temple’s pocket. “Not so worse for a parson,” he grinned. “You must be one of them Fifth avenue sky shaffures.” And now Mrs. Temple's gentle eye* and voice filled with tears again: “Oh. don’t take that. That’s the money for his vacation—after thirty long years. Please don’t take that.” Her appeals seemed always to find the tender spot of this robber’s heart, for he hesitated, and called out: “Shall we overlook the parson's wad. podner?” “Take It, and shut up, you molly coddle!” was the answer he got. and the vacation funds joined the old gew gaw’s. And now everybody had been robbed but Marjorie. She happened to be at the center of the line, and both men reached her at the same time; “I seen her first,” the first on* shouted. “You did not,” the other roared. “I tell you I did." “I tell you I did.” They glared threateningly at each other, and their revolvers seemed to meet, like two game cocks, beak to beak. The porter voiced the general hope, when he sighed: “Oh, Law r d, if they’d only shoot each other.” This brought the rivals to their evil senses, and they swept the line with those terrifying muzzles and that heart-stopping yelp; “Hands up!” Bill said; “You take the east side of her, and I’ll take the west.” “All right.” And they began to snatcn away her side-combs, the little gold chain at her throat, the jeweled pin that Mal lory had given her as the first token of his love. The young soldier had foreseen this. He bad foreseen the wild rage that would unseat his reason when he saw the dirty hands of thieves laid rudely on the sacred body of his beloved But his soldier-schooling had drilled him to govern his impulses, to play the coward when there was no hope of successful battle, and to strike only when the moment was ripe with per fect opportunity. He had kept telling himself thai when the finger of one of these men touched so much as Marjorie’s hem he would be forced to fling hlmsell on the profane miscreant. And he kept telling himself that the moment he did this, the other man would calmly blow a hole through him, and drop him at Marjorie’s feet, while the other passengers shrank away in ter ror. He told himself that, while it might be a fine Impulse to leap to her do fense, it was a fool Impulse to leap off a precipice and leave Marjorie alone among strangers, with a dead man and a scandal, as the only re wards for his impulse. He vowed that he would hold himself in check, and let the robbers take everything, leav ing him only the name of coward provided they left him also the powei to defend Marjorie better at anothei time. And now that he saw the clumsy handed thugs rifling his sweetheart’s jewelry, he felt all that he had fore seen, and his head fought almost in vain against the white fire of his heart. Between them he trembled like a leaf, and the sweat globed on his forehead. The worst of it was the shlverins terror of Marjorie, and the pitiful eyes she turned on him. But he clenched his teeth and waited, thinking fierce ly, watching, like a hovering eagle, a chance to swoop. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Too Much. A local author, whose name we ar loath to print, was called upon by a friend one day early this week. “I am going on a long journey by train,” he said, “and I know you hav* a dandy library, and I want something to read en route What have you to lend me?” “I hate to boast, but I have an aw fully funny one Here is my latest book. I won’t make you give it back if you’ll advertise it.” “But how can I do that?” “Read it on the train where people can see you, and laugh every few min utes.” The book was accepted, but a few days later the author received thi* telegram: “Return book herewith. Don’t want it on terms quoted.” Lenten Fare. Egerton L. Winthrop, at the end of one of the meetings of the board of education in New Y'ork, said, apropos of severity in the schoolroom: “These oversevere teachers always remind me of an oversevere parson. He, at a dinner party during Lent, said to one of the guests, a famous raconteur: My dear sir, as it is Lent —and a Fri day to boot —would you mind if I asked you to confine your efforts ex clusively to fish stories?’ ” Farmers’ Educational HTI and Co-Operative Union of America ———— ny Matters & Especial Moment to Li— the Progressive Agricoltßrisl Debt is a malignant form of poverty. Common quality seeks a low level. High ideals give our lives meaning. Education should be with a view to action. Politics without education is a dan gerous thing. A pigmy can stand off and criticise what a has done. A successful farmer must have fer tile brains as well as fertile fields. An egotist is one who is willing to accept himself at his own estimation. Envy not. Ten chances to one your neighbor’s shoes would not be easy on your feet. Reputation is an invaluable asset. Do the products of your farm have a reputation? If not, why not? Foolish people begin, as soon as to day’s tasks are done, to worry about the work they will have to do tomor row. No talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a successful man unless reinforced by a reasonable amount of energy. Uplift the farm home through the education of the farmer’s daughter toward greater usefulness and attrac tiveness in the farm home. The man with a clear conscience and patches on his trousers gets more out of this old world than the man who goes beyond his means to be fashionable. A strange malady affecting many people hegin’s by an itch of the ear and breaks out in a scab on the tongue. The only sure cure is for the patient to keep quiet, avoid curios ity and apply himself close to his own business. PUT A CHECK ON SWINDLERS Every State In Union Should Emulate Example of Wisconsin in Guard ing Against Fraud. Wisconsin is making a notable cru sade against men whose business Is to swindle farmers. One of the most notorious swindles to which farmers fall victim is the sale of nursery stock. Farmers are no more gullable than other people, but no matter how shrewd the man may be he is abso lutely powerless to protect himself against this form of swindling. The owner discovers the fraud years after he has planted his trees, and by that time the swindlers are not to be found, nor could anything be recov ered from them even if they could be located. The only adequate protection for the farmer lies in an efficient depart ment of state inspection under a law that Is strong enough to back it up. Wisconsin has such a law. It for bids the concealment of any form of plant disease from the state inspector and It gives the inspector power to cause the removal of plants and trees which cannot be successfully treated. The law demands that all stock shipped into the state or from one part of the state to another shall bear a valid certificate plainly fixed on the outside of the package, showing that the contents have been inspect ed by the government officials and that it is free of disease of any kind. The farmer who buys nursery stock under this Wisconsin law will get what he pays for, for a severe punish ment is provided for the man who sells nursery stock under a false name. The law also puts a check on the dishonest dealer by requiring that every agent selling nursery stock must carry a duplicate of his princi pal’s license and this duplicate must be issued by the official inspector who gave the original license. Every state in the Union ought to get a copy of this Wisconsin law and adopt it without a change of a line or a word. Bees. There is one industry that is very much allied to the fruit industry, and that every farmer or fruit grower should add to his business of fruit growing, says the Southern Fruit Grower. While from a money produ cing standpoint, the bee industry may not be very attractive, yet as an aid to nature in the cross-fertilization of plants and orchard fruits, they have no equal. * Prof. Van Deraan recently said that bees are becoming more and more a necessity to successful orcharding. Many varieties of fruits are much im proved by cross-fertilization and to maintain proper cross-fertilization, don’t forget to provide the orchard with a few hives of bees. They, too, will more than pay for their care In the honey they produce. Foraging Becoming Difficult. Remember if you want hens to lay at this time of the year it w ill be nec essary to give them more feed than they are able to pick up, even if though they go to roost with full crops. Usually there is an insuffi ciency of insects at this particular time of the year, and the hens will suffer from lack of meat foods if some is not supplied in the form of meat meals and the like. Angora Goats. Angora goats were brought to this country about 1850. They are exceed ingly useful animals in countries where land is to be cleared of brush. The skins are used in the manufac ture of leather and for rugs. The de mand for mohair is increasing. Sheep on the Farm., Stick to the “golden hoof” and turn the *trm into mutton. STICKING TOGETHER IS BEST Building to Be Erected at Norfolk to Commemorate Efforts of Farmers In Co-Operation. The city of Norfolk is to be orna mented by or with anew monument. It is not to be a shaft pointing heav enward to commemorate the deeds of heroes; nor is It to be a monu mental pile celebrating great victo ries on the battlefield; but it is to be a memorial testifying that “peace hath her victories,’’ as well as war. It is to commemorate, and testify to the success of co-operative effort on the part of four hundred tillers of the soil in the Norfolk section of the Old Dominion, writes A. Jeffers in the Southern Planter. It is to be a building, which. # witb the site on which it stands, is to cost $125,000. It is to be six stories in height, with basement added, making seven stories. The basement for the heating apparatus, coal and other storage: the first floor for offices of the Southern Produce company, and two stores; the second, third and fourth stories for offices, and the sixth for an assembly room, with of fices for the committees. The build ing is to be of brick, white, with terracotta trimmings, is to be fire proofed, and have light, heat, gas and electric elevators; and to have all modern improvements and con veniences. The site has been pur chased and paid for in cash, just a little less than $50,000 for the site. Bids have been received and the con tract is let for the construction of the building. It will be paid for in cash: and then the Southern Produce com pany, the oldest continuous organiza tion of its kind in the United States, will have a home of its own: a home that will not only shelter the com pany, but the income from which in the shape of rentals, will pay a good round interest on the Investment. The funds to do this with have been accumulating for several years; and yet the company has paid divi dends every year from twenty to thirty per cent, on the stock held by its members. This company organized away back nearly a half century ago, and was not formed for the purpose of making money, but saving it; saving it by co-operating in selling their farm produce: co-operating in securing all proper and fair con'cessions from the transportation people; co-operating in keeping the commission men in check at the selling end of the line, in ad dition to all the other savings effect ed by the company. The funds have accumulated, without an assessment ever being made, and without missing a dividend, all the years, since the company has been working under its present charter. The building to be erected will do more to encourage the members to continue to co-oper ate, keep step, touch elbows and work together than so much money in the bank. It is tangible, positive, signifi cant evidence of the advantage of co operative effort among farmers. It shows the advantage of getting to gether. working together, pulling to gether and sticking together. It is the “sticking together” that has done the work and secured the result. The business world is compelled to recog nize in every proper manner such an organization. This is to be a monument to show the advantages of working along the lines laid down by Sir Davy Crockett, “First be sure you are right, then go ahead.” Keep on going, straight ahead, leaving out side issues, “eyes front,” “touch elbows,” “keep step.” CO-OPERATION IS SOLUTION Europe Solving Problem of High Cost of Living by Modern Methods of Buying and Selling. We as a nation are no more per plexed in regard to the high cost of living than the countries of conti nental Europe. In fact, it is a topic of discussion throughout the civilized world. During the last ten years our population increased 21 per cent., the farm land increased only 4 per cent., so that there is naturally an exces sive demand. The price of potatoes, for instance, the main article of diet, advanced in the last decade 111.9 per cent., the highest of any commodity on the list, and the other necessities have increased also. The increased population has placed a value upon all farm products before unheard of. Economists are warning us to in crease our production per acre, but the big item of cost in marketing is in our system of distribution, which rep resents 50 per cent, of the cost to the consumer, as shown by current mar ket prices. A vast saving could b* effected for the consumer and the pro ducer by a more direct distribution This is the only method by which the high cost of living can be lowered ef fectively. writes L, F. Dunstan, In the Chicago News. Europe is solving the problem through co-operative buying and sell ing. The great aim in co-operation is to increase production and get the product to the consumer as economic ally as possible. The subject is a matter for study. There is yet available land near our large cities suitable for agricultural purposes, which if developed by co operative methods would be of great benefit, at least, to those interested in furthering the plan. ___ —s Turkey Breeding. Turkey breeding stock should b changed about every three years. Na ture protests against inbreeding b> giving warning with club-footed and ill-conditioned chicks. * New Blood in Poultry. To get stock that will develop intc such birds as we want, the breeding stock must be in vigorous health. One of the most potent factors for evil in the farm flocks is failure tc introduce new blood. Horses' Teeth. It’s a safe guess that a horse thai refuse whole corn has somethin wrong with his teeth. fS CASTQRIA | Kind You Have $| ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT Alw y S AXcOelablePreparalionforAs- _ M j ggSK Bears the /yA. 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