Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 3, 1916, Page 7

! 1 | ) THE | RY OF MOUNTAIN RAILROAD LIFE g{:gz%f;figx‘::s‘f}gg FRANK H.SPEARMAN e : . | im0 i 1o sonerues wnan| H OUSECIEAMANY, wiulfi {hlvn llr;}mul dnughter of Ger | o "“:‘ st "'} ””;‘ i ‘ "I ,Iv/ I Ny fra olmes, ra d man, I8 rescusd ¥ Ay : 4 R ¥ / ) rond by George Storm, a newssoy ISR X0 BORORFISS ! b ysions £14100 910 S Grown to youn womanhoc Helen saves [ ; . : | ; ‘ : v \ s o diwn'lo YO womanfoog: Holen | Hener t Helen's side, rose (o hin|about housecleaning? 'f were hardy friend, Am Rh! anaer, finanoz ot CROIANEASEANE CIPRNER . COY Mg hrentened coliislon. Bafebrenkers o yod by Meagrue steal General }Holmen' | ¥ phas X he looked at purvey plans of the cut-off line for th | bia ANd un ned, he hed | PATVIes, And o ¥ ropes, B man Tidewntar, fatally wound the general and ] { encnps, Vor father's estate badly In o abil f ne nea. 0 that week nlved by his death, Helon goes L floor v I " pride on the 'Tidewater. Helen Tec : wurvey plans from Heagrie. n down, and ) Nk to eut ey are taken from her, find onr- dsntly made pr f the aur ‘ [ ) e b had print, Blorm {w employed by Rhineland niered # ). 1t Bpike, befriendad by Helgn, In his turn ’ anves hor and the Hght-of-way contracts Mo ® v | when Heagrun KiZnaps her. Helon and " 3 " Wtorm win for P2inelander a roce against s ! ¢ Wongrue for right-of-way, Helen, Bie ) . . ] ! und Rhinelander vescus Hplke (rom Sen to! p omely) gruo's men, Bpike stoals records to ) A tielr o teot Rhinelander, and Btorm and Heley ‘ ave Epike from desth In the blrning f L { und “0 quser court house, Vein in Huperstition mine an hidde | y a0 theilting " p and pinches out, Beagrue salta 1t and wells {t L s i g - : I ta and in Rhinelander, The mine fs relocated " porch, wers lote Tihinelander gives Halen and Georko ench alide pike 1oeAr fo. | nioe " ovring aus one-third of the Bupsratition mine stock tected 1) f I hen the a eve en n 1 Beagrus's scheme 1o prevent payment for 1 ' " 1 rpeta | the mine in spolled, Helen, restored (o " : [ or the elothe home and socinl posttion, saves her da he crie f ot them, w 4 o oin the yard mad & Desutify PAFiing giests from a threatened colll f f i In Ao our Hesrea #or a wild ride j " o ' ar " DRIVING T ANT SPIK | he drivewe | ' m P Tt was n week Inter that thers were | Helon wnd Nt ‘ ir rapldly | Pt o Av 16 find other de soolul activities again In Melen's home Sowi thet Mt Wa ¥ 5 thie Eha hedliin Leht ot woltd Rhinslundor had come down from the | ah No llght . il ! Unn'e he olemother | mountains with Storm tn antsunce 1o | some moonllg wathle to fol i thy of 1t Helen the completion of the Buper L low the murdey ¢ rooms, furniture eutoff=the caume of wo much enmi | Below the dge » nal the high / ¢ 4 and bitternass between the rival re <'w“<‘ way, tuming shr oon hs g And aht of had striven to mchie roAd. It (s a bell otk wnidl the signals | d Bair y ;‘q ng ’ : | were vinging for ¢ oannalde express or th " an cloth arvived, to join her two friends, and all | when Ward and Adar oking bahind yory dare returned to the station to take ot t Ikhts of Folke'n car, saw they | 000 Try ne , ‘ 1 4 ! p were hotly pursied ey of | "resk 1 birek-hroakin efnl train that was to ca em wi 1th thelr revolvers on the pur ‘ o ng of the 1ast spike—a responsbility that 4 on, Btorm oeping un- | o © 0 / 1 30 aniy L il der cover an hent (he ' ald no #OAD And 1o clesni Rhinelander had assigned, over all ¥ f . 1. Ald N0 gouder or gritty aubmtence that i protests, to Telen herself alacken apeed. The criminals thus preasad nt would The trafn, gayly decorated, pulled in nw there wam o rhance to put the il e girt, 1 enrly and the party—railroad men, con road crossing hetweon them ahd thel S SID NS Sae structionists and persenal friends of the purnuere, The ex wan closs upor : IMoBis, yubked: dr huflders—getting out on the piatform at them, but demper non cannol he|n newenaper m‘.'}“ hon polishod w Slgnal, gave it for a moment an alr of nmand to hin compantons. 1 will go [ €hoorers, Waurd took n chance. Crowd-!io n chamols skim'' oy Hhorih. PUTRoR clal gayety, The stop was made o the (eld over and roport in a few | IDE his machine to the mit, he tried for | ey my mother used 1o mg enough to exchange greetings and Nt (he crossing ahead of (he train, The en-| | the party, enlarged by the Bignal con Vet Neagrie oro He threah-| gineer, seetng a collisio unavoldable, | oy o nher her saying once to & witty tingent, again boarded the train to con- | d that wight, » anke feeling came | checked | In Leavily. It was too loan the ielghbors’ windows An Oceansld 1, n I n Iate The engl ! ways look after you've av almont on the | tinue the journey to the eut-off | The morning newspapers at Oceanside extond |taxicab and the next instant the pilot, | Ve junintance, was the first o] 0 “Moral Alw p had contained articles descriptive of the ™ etings, Hhe noticed the strained ex. | Striking it squarely In the middle, threw ayn keep your neighbors’ e 8h " do propective celobration, and it was in one | SR RAY RN Bt wion of his face and the ravages |the heavy limousine fifty feet in the air, | *'"90%A clean,” he observed of thess thet & headline fell under Bea- | (ieorgn, and let Yielen stort the fira’( place where they should have looked, they | —#lowly descended (hat he guve Up | made on it by hin recent dishipation. She When Helen, storm and Spike reached | After the paint and windows were grue's eye s he sat in his Mving room | train over the cut.off. puswed, Even before they wero well out |hope wns, indeed, shocked the wpot, tho engineer was backing down |9o0e and the floor serubbed the D reading his paper: Btorm walked toward the switch, some | of the way, 8 A cry outslde, o woman's volee, hardly q ; entigate the catastrophe, tures and bric-a-brae " . i | ol way, Spike had relensed lin foet Blhe would have led him Into the oph ac woro washed. The U IPERSTITION MINT, | distance away, followed & ) : oy . But th back of i hf[-g,”l;',";';"w":""f,"‘l‘fi”,"”,, Soike 1,.. ”"‘ . way, followed by Splke. Btand- | and guining the track was runuing at full [Foused him from his stupor. But (h | hrary ije stopped on the threshold and | Lanterns and searchlights were |‘.4><.um.‘““’:‘l of the pletures wers earefully Ao odny Helen Holmes, daughter | 0§ together they threw it and signalod | speed back to where Helen was walting | next moment he folt a gren hoek. L | otined to enter. He wiw, s In a vislon, [Into play where the moon left the land And the frames and the glass of the Iate rmu-mll )thinu .44-:»;:4,1‘ by that all was right, Rhinelander helped | besida the special with her friends soemed an it he' were launched pre hat others—now that the room was|8eape in shadow, Adams’ hody was found ”,”"" a8 the windows had heen, O)1 Buperintendent A FCeorke Storm, wili | Helen up on the engine and her guesta| Theso latter saw a bareheaded man ipithtaly (Antol mpage; e SHOHC . od with laughing men 'and women— |in # barrow pit. The shock had killed fm"“:“" ""“ #old frames were very e, Bpike that markw the comple- | started to board the train | dashing down the track, waving his arms, | falling around him. Overhead, a migh 110 not wee, He saw midnight within it [DIm. Ward, flung aafnst a tres, Iny |4 ¥ handled, wiped with a clean ffon of the Buperstititon cut-off U Holen, quite_ st home inside an engine | Ho might have beon a madman wo wiid|rosr erashed on his hearing—conaclous- | B0 WO B0 0 B BT B L o [ AL the foot of It, mutilated bayond recoss | ot * ;'”’ The furniture was all brushed feagrue rend with anger r"l ‘“;’1 ; eab, pulled the throttle slightly and the | Were hiw gesturos and more than gne of|Pees left him Sis #ith &n old Man, & s {F ,Jmmm out k’ doory it posstble, and the wood nk, A4 h appened wan that Helen, [Ple Wi old man. e mw that o ork on the ordered mind, now viotimized by drivers ‘began 1o revolve; the onginee| them were alarmed when, heedleas of| 'hat had happened wan that Helen, |F0 0“0 B0 GOm0 e ater on a| In Helen's conwervatory, a doctor hent ”" " the furniture was polished. o o leaping from the gangway of the en rpot hiad been beaten and hing [over Heagrue, but the wretched victim In the sun—how it semed to brighten In- it neemed as if tho celebration were In® (., poyq,q b carefully down from the | Helen's surroundings, he broke Into her lof his own criminal intent lay quite gine almost before the special, it wheels [ 0Uch, a doctor bending anxlously ov tended to mignalize his own dofeat gangway and the tral | eircle to tell her of the attack, Hhe| . uek the bell 16 train started d R S e R "®| gron ) o en, fully stopped | him Lo detect w henrt beat \d he Tn u furious mood he struck the b At the nwitch, Bpike and Btorm engagod | #tened with consternation ground by the brakes, fully stopped | him to d 8 2o g bigatepindl b 777 and froshen it, almost as much aw our to summon Adams, his servant. When b | . had pun swiftly up the switch track | the surgeon's face as he looked up nnd wtean Vi o 4| thus intently, fafled to notice tw , They've got Btorm,” exclaimed 8 T " OF vecuum cleaning does now; but the lutter appeared his master mal o two men |, | bestde the gondola (n which Btorm Iay. | €ravely sald: “Genoral Holmos {s dead | The sun rose happily after the events o), =y "0y ' , o > o' | Oreeping up behind them, re | “The carried him oft first, to throw him | i " ' the Iabor of It! Don't 1 remember curtly: “Bring Ward here at once, , ropes in hand, | e Bhe had no means of knowing whether | Despite his reckless bravado, a shud-|Of that tragle night, It rose nowher® |y, woarner jayingt m had | ¥8ken unawares, nooses wers thrown | N An ore care. They meant to throw on two people more grateful for thelr ol oor coverad with this car contained hor lover. 1t wak too |der gripped him MmNy nowspApers or perhaps with slean straw, If In the country, where straw wan abundant and newapapers scarce, Very gingerly four of us walked fnto the room with the carpet, holding the cor ners tghtly till it waw just In place and ready to lower slowly to the floor, so as and turned to the decanter that us both y've it Goares ¢ an instant again. He | witerly become his most intimate re-[#uddenly over thelr heads and befors both In. If they've thrown George encape from assassine than Helen and | e 4 late to signal the leverman, too Iate for |shook It off and braced himaelf with lanert they could make the leat defense, thay | "M% one ,{’ those ears, the minute 18| U 0 SCCR W0 unater, 1f ore Wore |angry resentment, “No.' he sajd|Porm Within the tollowing weak the The moment Ward came In with| were throttied, folled and dragged back | 1y T | impending from his metfonsthe chuto | prusquely T won't g0 in there—too |SUEste of thet night had they heen Adams, Beagrue picked up the newwpa- | from the switch, So wwiftly and expertly | oo ", Dianched. To threalen Btorm's|w . "ooming down. But at the instant Uighs il 0100 | Litiad with vision, might have seen Spike per. “Look at that” he sald, without|was the attack made that Spike TUY | it wan to touch her heart. “We must| 1A COMINE down. Bul at ihe AN | much of a crowd for me. Tl try the re- | seied, book In hand, In the garden, read- Deviiminary words, Ward read the hoad- | storm were choked aimost at once and | ¥ 4PO0rd," sho cried to thosa about | go”y CCUMCL FERFLTRT 0T “ondotn, 1‘.‘{.:1‘”. room.” Turning, he enoountered |y, o' account of a mArTiage ceremony. " v he and run the traln up to the mine elander. The two men greetod each lines hastily, ‘You mee what's &OINE | dragged down out of sight before an P % | Heolen, outalds the car, turned the dump. d In it, surrounded by her friends and ot before anyona 5 elen, oL 10 car, turnod the ] ; ; not Isturb JApers on." exclaimed Seagrus, 1aboring &DPAT- | noticed thelr dimappenrance 1¥0ua | without losing w minute, Hurry,” she |9/ DR TL 0 SO0 Toed through the | Other briefly siven’ dway by hor foster uncle, Amos|BOt (o disturt ”Um papers underneath ently under excitement. “T want you to[ myu gyl Ward "]"“‘ I"'”""""-‘ | cpened sar bottam tndsr the trestid. The hinelander wpoke with Kindliness to [ Rhinelander, Helen had become the wife |, .. I;I":M”:m’" """"l""!'l':" "llrv-' 7 # expeditiously, Ward | Rhinelander hastened the excited gue: his nephow o tried to te - ekt 7 M # than the other? D get busy tone that | "Peculated for a moment on what to do | nto iy ! tho excited RUOMA | org at the same moment was pouring in phow. He tried to tell him that he jof deorse Wlotm, aido up in winter, lght side up ey He spoke the last words in n‘ on A\M with them. . AdAms’ Dropossl to. throw ”‘ X -‘: mln w:nl;'.. the conductor, umlw the top wanted him to do differently. He assured | (THE END) iier. Ang Kow tha Nariy w:'" "“” "“ it he deube, o8, .8y m"m-\“ q|them from the bridge he negatived L o et M, gathering wpeed, | “\wy o iha young engineor returned to | Bm that neither he nor Helen cherished S oy nround, #o AN to equalize the wenr :"v’;v Ward, old in ways of |n”'xuhdl u:lx “They would find them too We'll .. ed to eatch the freight train at nm‘N,Im_,,u,,,‘,.,‘, Helen was ralning tears | Any lasting rewentment for what had | Mirror Routs Wild Mo the midale widthy Undiy He Sburd ""‘ crime, looked at him nnIvAruiFT"‘":‘ e [Put them into tho ore cars,” he i1 and kissos on his upturned face, He lay | Kone before and mnow that they two| Hantord Phillips, ir. 2 vears old. of Bl |wers put over by the door and chanked that Sesgrue had hardly need to s | cunningly When the cars are n the 'dola Into which he had been |, asr the trestle, freed from the cords | ware the winners, they meant to be gens, | Kin® W. VA owes his lite to the fear ' - Brrns : . I what he did: ““This 1s my last chance ara ar fiung, Storm, pounded and shaken over | SE'%id hows for thelr own likenoss when |about? Those were the thrifty days, when ) e v, to get Tid o |8t tho mine the ore will do tho rest” | tne rouwgh rai [ that had so nearly caused hin death, | erous to the losers and to him in especinl | raflacted from a mirror. people maved every penny and a houm he muttered, usly, L P e e e ugh rall joints, gradually recovered |pine men and the kueats of the day | 1 g illing,” declared R Wild hoga which exiat in the moun- |, ¢ A 1 Apihe. and Goorge Storm. Spike ¥ D, unconsclons, | sonselousn um willing,"" declared Rhinelander, | Wild hogs ‘which exiat In the WOU [once furnished was good for a lifetime it double-crossed me at every turn of the and carrfed him along the track, laying 5 MasohR v 1 i ik B b orowding nround. He staggered to his | «upd | think that Helen will atand with [inte the foothil's and chirged into the the housewife knew her business, and sha 1. T took that dog out of prison, 1|him beside it to awalt the coming of the | ypou1g yas in no. denger untll he |teet and grodted hin deliverer me in It to glve vou an fnterest fn tho [home of Canford Phillips ubsetting turs | generally did ro el re it train et o 1 1 ot helt the e e even then, The had Splke l nid pnk ture nd tn il hillips' 2-year-ol helped him escape when he ought to have { teht ""“J r 1 t Ing Spike | ¢ p, only uble 1o cry out, But h‘” aal “ "““” i g ke | mine—it In ik enough (0 make a dozen | gon L | What & business it was, stretohing the swung. Geor Btorm been an en- |I" nwv ashion, they were surprised and | ... i el e doulde not va Hk “" ‘\ ‘\ A . . " millionatre Make o man of yourself,| The animals bhad torn nearly ]nH the learpet Into the corners and tacking it . SR | st to. Sindi ibe RN ey n hefors he is smothere elothing cild h ) ] vmy of mine ever since 1 began my cul- [ Thact 10 B "“'1'[ #.he.had o 1. | lease his hands and feet nor t ihat | o e e Lo answer, | EATh thats all we ask. We'll do the Ly i A e o oy, |down! Mother breaking her nalls and off work. 1f it hadn't been for him 1 : ing hur y arotund they wer : \ Bvery maevement of the ts Bolka woans . too. Hinisalt At ety | T The hogs followed, but soon stopped |father pounding his thumb with the tack ould have won out In spite of the odds (able to find him and, fearing that h o - famsAl LR to A UhA: 6 naded. to | TR . Spale f0p. HilY e he Hengrve regarded him with an expres- | When they beheld ihelr ifkeneas in the (hammer. | wonder tha vers libre writer : ; s ! milia ' added to | : e ST s e akrie regarded him ) oxpros eld the I B » g a Ward, 1 want the t ght soon be ba t oy | want to do,” he sald with he hen he bl gians. Only n wecond did they hewl- | qo ool ool o SUAREL Wil s, Bt soer D9 DadK "o tlon. He underatood | 1 o . "l to gnt that | 9100 #0 terrible that It shocked Rhine- | fata, however. then turning, plunging | vivd pictures of such scenes nen. Understan o i the car under } wsed to move lander. but what was Dassing throusn | froni *h~ hntss hack up the mountain: | Now we could put the clean thing ently, catching Ward's shoulder t plke had, fn fact-—c f T o e e O . | apecial back to the bridge and get after - EamaAS passing througn | B9 i Siiid" wae only sHEntly InJured. nack 1o thelr places. hans oy ks same fime with his trembling hand. “1|ix o for him—rolled, gagged and |11 % e Wy | the guy that roped me eagriie’s mind, he could not tell | =Cinetnnati Enquirer e B o P e oth. et them. Tl make |bound as he was, along the track 10 the | rea o u! : OINE | “he nelghborhaod wan scoured for morrow,” Beagrue muttered, 1fke i s at the windows, and with & g brid | i k L J row it he 4 | of re and In the doorway and survey rieh | bridss below aining th he 1 e g et e T he algn of thelr wasallants They found | one hardly in possession of his senaes, Fis | th . Ward was quick to assen [tnied to roll over and ¢ » drop out T o isfial the onginer Lo 60MA | where the taxicab had atood in which | “not tonight~T'll talk o you tomorrow ur wite when she in. | : odly on detalls Seagrie started the Yowr pless a was, his hands | He ping 1t might et fore 1t | two had long axo made thele escape and e . p | i i posttively will not | w freah and awest it smells men out, In the street Ward and Adams | onug with which he was | ah N e ' 0 to report Lnere . Sha. momant baite produce in her an nttl rea * @ dly ite for WA e unning bad N ner tory with George [ she will almost I bt Sehees 10 | taatoti NN WAION. .58 4 \ h Georg gnntion, and i A ttuted his e ir emplo ' LT TR LTI (1T I ———————— W r And ere whirled rap y . \ 1l w AFTUS 1ho% & alep wes & f t tt f we driver And were whirled rapid 1 or b The rolled wer and slow Ho | Hantening oking « y ;i . ’ \ ar ' A o role o ol o . N Rate RIRaL oaalr, e ar, e lhrd S gt i P her. Then he stopped and turned he t-off the roadma re L Il | - 3 r g iy ! AWaY L8 e ’ 8 A ‘ . pulling sd to spot ti ast yondola Mat pprehensior thet . ors bef W married e will he Tidewate vere waiting for antime, had N s 8 S 5 gard 3 walked H will nto & } al. When it reached ) vd and " : 4 e noountered t) m | Fak A 3 anged by &t i A ] A meet, Tven the tw r . . A 1yna ' - ke Vi e . ; b \ nder which | i p .. . G t v B hos Arehle's Neok \ ¢ " e ) fod ! - v e " . wa \med " A : panted. “d w residents of Nebraska r Mele A . \ . . b Al 4 registered at Hotel ‘ : ' Astor during the past % . . year ands, ¥ . y \ . m, without bath, ™ Wawn Out of Wis ) ¥y00 10 fe00 . | with bath, ' ey d Double F400 10 froe \ Paclor, Dedioom and bath, A Jroon firqon TIMES SQUARI At Devadway, 44th 10 43th St the ceiee New ¥ s ol and 5 Iuisirrens o L close rontmity 1o N ’ Ney o) radway teninals R e