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Melia at Bost Ten y ago the Empire State express ran a mile at the rate 12.6 miles anh Tw go & train on the Plant system tn Florida ran five mites in two mn x nis, ealuivatent to 12 miles an hour, or two mites @ Thewe last tw ds, It Is to Dé observed, Wore made by remular traine on ordinary railways Both of them are considerably better than the record made in Germany on ar eclally const ucted for experiments In apecd Tt was long ago proven on the regular railways of this country that thee te no mevhantea Moulty In the way of running trains at the rate of 100 miles anh even faster But experte claim that no engineer would be able to keep up the strain Not so very m + ago It wae consid saible for engineers to to anything such speed B gineere got used to Righ speed, and the man who @rives an ex to of san hour on regular schedule is under no heavice preas at the quai than be wesw? are ago he drove it at 25 mi hour Th te “* je as the human mind It molds Itself to all conditions. It ts bigt the mechaniem it masters, and anything that machaniam can be do does not terrify or dismay It * is no ream ppose that the apecd of raliway trains Is limited There is no reason to do at trains may regularly be driven at the eank miles @ minute or better With thoroughly J tracks free from grade crossings with noth and with vibration reduced to a miftimum, it may be Ing to distort found tha strain than is caus te with loss mental e regularty run at two miles a 2 by half that speed today, ae THE PASSING OF THE SALT TRUST ‘The assets of the salt trust, which has gone into bankraptey amount to about $37,000, if all claims against it are admited and paid, says a New York @ispatch. About three years ago the assets of the concern values have apparently were estimated at over $11,000,000, These vaat anished like a drop of water disappears when It touches a pile of hot sand ‘There's something to think about. Whether this shrinkage ocurred honestly, or whether the combine was plundered, as some stockholders intimate, there ts smoething to think about If the concern was handled with due integrity the folly of attempting to build something out of nothing is exemplified in the crash. If the alt trust was scuttled the public can be thankful that the plratical fellows that made the auger holes preyed upon each other rather than the poor consumer. A thought that Is ready in either case ts What a ighty unnecessary thing 4 trust ts .after all -_e Now, at last, we know why so many Amertoan girls have married Kpgiiah noblemen. All those ancestral castles have “mysterious cham- bers” in them, and feminine curiosity could hardly be expected to resiat. —_oeooO Mrs. Roland Molinews's new husband says she will get $1,000 a week on the vaudeville stage. He seams to be a pretty good press alent, she may have married him to save paying him @ salary. —_-__ ‘There seems to be some question whether Senor Bunau-Varilla rep- . ' resents the Panama Canal Company or the Panama republic at Wash- | Now the | Natta watched me win ‘and that's the worst of It, doctor ington. But then it ts al! one, Scammed Spain's surplus this year ts $60,900,000, which goes to show that 1 pays nations as well as it does individuals to attend strictly to thelr own business, —_— nguiehed Amertcan to do it at With reference to the Panama trpublic some dist statesmen don't know what to do but are determined hasards, ‘Thase fellows who are objecting to Samuel Gompers’ bathroom need not fear to visit him because of it, It's the last room in the house he'd aak them into, __oOoo It is our sincere opinion, frankly expressed. 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Janper Regs, who tells the story, goes to Ken's Island to see his f¢ mer mistrems, Ruth i den, wh when she married Md A Ceorny, | and was taken to the island, asked | him to come to her in a year, She | unhappy, but is closely watched Jand cannot got away, Jasper, who has with him Dolly Venn, Peter Bligh and Seth Barker, sailors, ts hased by Cxerny’s men and rescued by an old Frenchman, Clalr-de-Lun on the island, kil ng ail who come th Newspaper Wnterprise Association, T ~ If Mise Ruth had things of the great good fortune the night had went to us, she would nelt atay our hands with questions ne wait for idle answers, For a mo ment I saw her, a fixure to haunt @ man, looking out from the door of her own room, but a long hour passed before I changed a word with her or knew if that which we had ne-would win he swont, Now # Huth Betlenden at the - parting of the ways, and of all tn in @ @reat stor Jaspera 1D Wl Ceerny’s house her lot muat hi Moe ena, the four on the island lbeen the hardest to bear, Mhe had and hi omar ~ PY | blotted out the page of her Old life his nen have erected false! inat night and tt my oneh poate, | lights, and live by luring ships to de-| writen None the Jens Kiunee of the year deadly vapors arise) and all that girlish gentleness which truest charm. Never or ontact with them. To avold theme) Vota She anomie oth | Gnerny has built nimscle o Wcat ane | Would she speak of her own trouble Ser ti aon, ie te cae ote Long (DUE alWwaye tightly of ourK: no that feet. The aleen tinea cee to the | Ne three—little Muth, Dr, Gray and| teland, and Begg and bie compant.|Ja8her Besw—might have been a G06 See. Gaine oieiter | friends met upon any common ad They are nearly overcome by the] yenture, and not at the crisis of that va Dut find refuge in Ruth's! (eeperate endeavor, And so I think house, which is occupied, by a|!t Will befall in afl the perilous days stranger, @ doctor |that what ts written in the story} The doctor proves to be an expert] Peeks about loud exclamat) and | taken to the taland by Caerny to In-| Dale faces and all the rest of it is the! ]Yeattgate the strange vapors. The) property of the story-teller, and the |house is truck by lightning jin plain truth you find ‘none of | "The doctor has discovered an un-| these things, but Just silent ators Jerground passage to Ceerny’s houne|®2d simple talk, and no more Junder the sea, and the five start to/of the difficulty than the common [throw themaeives on Ceerny's mer-|4ay will bring. This, at least, ts ey. In & cavern, the doctor te seized|Y memory of that never-to-be by a devil fish |forgotten night. Tomorrow might The doctor escapes but te badiy| sive us life or Meath—a grave be |hurt. ‘The party reach a door which| heath the seas or mantership of that |leads into the house under the sea, | house of mystery; though of this p | Jasper enters the house to ask) Wo od between us, but briefly] shelter of Caerny, He passes an|¥e gave cach r the news and] engine room, where a great fan) *#ked ft in return draws air down into the «reat house,| “Captain,” aaye the doctor, he be |which is built in the crater of an they tell me jextinet submarine voleano. He sees] ¥ re a great number of Cxerny’s men in| I it tree andl various rooma and finally finds} making light of it-—for I did not Ruth wish Miss Ruth to be upset—t A siqnal i# given that a ship has) named another thing been lured on the rocks, and Cxerny| "You" said 1 © shall defend and bis men runh out to thelr devil's! Our Hyon if there's need, and give « wor, leaving only a dosen men in the| #904 account, T hope. Por the rest | house. we'll take ft as we find it. 1 om Jasper calls up hia friends, ‘The! trusting that Ceemy will listen to guards are locked in thelr room, and| common sense and not risk toot Jasper prepares to close the two|rhed. If he dows, the blame be on jeates, shutting Cerny and his men| hia own head, for I shall do myx best jout of the house. He mounts the|to make {t easy for hin.” |ladder to clome the amall gate which} “I know you wilt know" you li guarded by two men. will, Jasper.” says litte Buth, clow | They are nearly « me by the! ing ber hand upon mine, fwe ogn do vapors, but they secretly enter the|no more than our duty, Gach 4p un. |house under the sea by @ forgotten! Mine is very bard. but I shail not |passage, While Crerny and his men| turn from it—never,” are away they seize the house, A “That Pm sure you Bon't Dine ed near the! Futh,” w ny anewar it ever machine gun ts pi ]main gate, | CHAPTER XIX (Continued) Me ee ye Jindiemted and switched on « lamp lit wae a palace, with great book. |racke and arm-chaire in every cor her, and Instruments and tables ar | pretty ornaments enough to furniah mansion; but for none of thene| i had I eyes that night. Yon- ¢ end of the room, @ cur opened above a door of tron, jand through that door 1 saw at « poe the way to the gun-room lay. |Trne keys-—-where lay the key: | What chan: me those? Was the key on Cuerny’s | person or here in one of the drawers about? OK, 1 WISH IT WOULD BROD MY FINGPRS ARE ITCHING. turious eyes as I went up to the Joor and drew the curtain back from i. A quick glance round the room did not show me what com- mon sense was seeking tron safe in which Czerny's keys might lie. That he would keep the key of the armory in the room, unless it were on his person, I had no doubt and argument began to tell me tha after all, a safe might not be nec- eanary. If alarm came it would come from the sea, or from the! lower doors, which w locked against his devil's crew, 1 began to say tha! drawer or bureau, and I was oing to ranaack every plece of furniture, when—and this seemed beyond ali reason—I saw something «hining bright upon a little table In the} corner, and crossing the room, I | picked up the very thing for which a man might have offered the haif| of his fortune. | “Heaven above!” maid I, “if thin in jit—4f this te it - | | And why should it not have been?! News of the wreck had « to the house like a sudden alarm leaping up tm the night; the keys, which f/ held with greedy fingers, might they not have been in © my's hands when the bell clanged loudly through the startled corridora? 1 |aaw him, forgetful in his very mreed, serving out rifles to his willing men, jrunning up at hazard to be ¢ of the truth, leaving behind him that which might open his house to th world forever And in my hand the fruit of his alarm waa lying. Ah, heaven! ft was the truth, and] the door opened at my touch and men glittered in uit me. the dim Nght ab CHAPTER XX | The First Attack Is Made by Czer- ny's Men We carried the shot “to the at alrw’ } head, each man working as though his own life were the price of though duty fustift ties y we are 4 the sake ourselvom. }ixiand har low men business against th the ship can take what's bel “Two tain.” whfte, or mircale would show | much I understand. |that the do you ati “Tie fu lasts an there are there’ are then it's « He | appeared he said ‘aptain, his foot, a And the anawer hand. Jui ame ® keep the wit!" Now, I ten: uld may. fr w |that it 90 might com: war just laugh, an what mame time began to t clean form Janper, make a general where's your you starve nothing of Mr. Bil T made was evid con! her that the to let the world know what Ken’ thin house, eap- nays the doctor, after « little and one of them shut. So Are you sure aned b he went on | “Why, no: he folly! mt that ste mor woman it jus and I this night. What ing is done as much fe of our fellow men as for We work for a good end ora and to keep our fel from euch @ place. My fe to hold thie house e devils who are piltaging yonder, The sea-gate L are of, Mixes Ruth. It's or that I fear.” vern below t# empty, or M count men in it ast neither way, anid 1 the keys would be in a| The sea's to be held while the shell perhaps afterwarda, but if men down blewo) hork men down below, *why, another matter ck upon the to think of it. fe and} Panenet & man doean'tihoot with | vom by | not waiting for me to! shoots with his *t you plant me im nd give me @ gun. door for you~by Jove, I saw that thin promise Miss Ruth more than she for it wan the first time curred to her that men| e out of the pit. But she} he one to turn It with a 4 ecrying, “What she called out for little Rosamund hink of that which I had otten. naya she, “yo will never never! 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Indep, 1240 Pai GG: These are the only Dentists in Se- HE SEATTLE STAR i thar it an hold thin piace ' i Ing. hot when t And Demonstration, Given They answer Aye, ayo!” and Day This Week From 9 to § te give “hie Ordere just f ‘ By MME. DUMBDULTON 1 left him there was @ rifle at his| World as though he wk 1 th wide and 20 roundsto go with It ship and I was but a passenger An Expert on Fuctal Treatment if the # any sound at the door We'll put Regnarte in front it show the wonderful qualities of the corridor ae = much a aj ™ he wo that an k an eye life i od me, doo-| ing I him apd went up, more] iteh, ‘ here'n the nxtous than I would have con-| «ie by and they won't fe i, to my shipmat the gate, | trout that t at I found them standing together in| lone er e them a the moonlight still it wa seh | hat ni If they and the durk fig 1 ng | Walk viene t ways | > acrom the wat and something Ly meant " vory terrible on the distant reef, 1] * like Ww might have believed myself | wee V ber i car a lonely watch in the « 3) 4! 9 of nis _t ; yo agp thet toe led PMT his hand and a pile of The best that ever hap- Teuate tavad tos nan | ed hin rifle and» to ant pened. In glass stoppered fired the 1 says b 4] % stood by the gun i, and jars, per they've done to th poor eres | Of at I boke st ecrome th tures! Did man ¢ ba xing om : foubt villainy—to fir hip in her | BOD], fear—th got in the m minforune? It be it her] utes which passed wh thes i" ht Heo the thing mory | UANKer Be p to you use EGYPTIAN COMPLEXION con : m. a ne val oan eee f yo PANUISIAN POMADE. eran that woful scene or describe its tng | an the ringing hatlli 4, narmiess and invaluable remedy 0 ence as © saw it m th A also @ mild laxe Price per be watoh-tow of the reef. w x . sia | , : 4 ing the quivering masta, how biowr his momsage might te tongue-shaped jets, the - t Spirite of Camphor nt 50. F He and what ma 1 f pin e ame-apurted from every crack and| Ahoy!” criew he. “and what may if ten Acid, pint 500 revice, leaped up from every port Glycerine per pint 506 hole of that splendid steamer, 1] Tartarte Acid, per pound....600 “aw at her mi uten nury Grain Alcohol, per pint 106 jawn broke she would ka ” hid / ’ ; anid — “1 Lord, Bligh!” erted L the Vi 1 ees tabtinetine inne cit no thing heard of? And the po Cod Liver Oil preparation ple aboard—what of th What made—pleasant to take haven may they look for $1.00 ‘They've put the mer " oe sir,” anid Dolly Venn. “I saw tw boat loads go across the bay while High w piling an tor They've sent them to die on the ts land. And we #0 helpless that we must just look on. like schoolgiria ed over our counter On! I'd give all I've got to be over een Lake and Ballard. yonder with 100 bluejackets at my OW Think of tt, sir! Just 100 1 cutiagwes tn their hands.” Aye sald 1 ‘and « tree for Th pre er din bal Ped 5: | e Well, my tad, thinking’s no good | ws <= Thelnsideo are Dolly, and we're Just plain seammen,| _ | 1013-1015 First Ave., Globe Block but we'll try and speak a word to| The inside or the action of a plano ts Edmond Crerny by and by, or Pi] om the most delicate pieces of | ever speak another. Now, help me|mechaniam constructed. Upon the} with your yo on, will you, and | auailty of the material used, together tell me if that’s a ship's gig yonder, | with t of labor necessary for Ite ZZ or if it lan"t——" constr dope a great mone 7) PLL, He sald that It wae a ship's gig,| ure the musical value of a plano. If pot seen before—a steam yatch lying | touch heavy and unresposive, it is im: aetostetad off to the east of us and walling for for « performer to execute ® some of her crew to go aboard of music to good advantage. In = ye that il tonen you at mond Caerny was on deck there, I Chickering & Sons, Kimball, Ho-|heme, If you can't atten thought, watching the hounds he| bart M. Cable Pease and New Style a for our free fancy cards, bad sent the work, and if that/and New Sea D. & Johnston Co. M A epectacle of death and destruction | pianos the highest quality of material | LAREN & THOMSON, Mid not gratify bim, then nothing|and the best workmanship obtainable | Cor, 2d @ Pike Beattie, Wa. would in ali the world Fivute to the superiority Gf tees | seen ete Now, I have told you. that little Dolly Venn had served in the naval reserve and knew more of gunnery than the most of us. To this, I bear witness, we owed much that night “You've got a skipper’s part, Dol pianos over The Outside of It others. ty, Ind,” wald 1, 4 yon gig bewins the trouble, if my eyes don't deceive ‘The canes of the tnstruments above me Why, she's coming in here, !a4,| mentioned are of the most varied de straight to thie very door, just « seription. They present for the chotoe there's more to follow—a Meet of! varied woods and colors. them, as any lubber could tell) The designe are the most elegant. you | nd the total absence of the & ¥y or ‘Tis like a fete and gala on the | namentation seen om some pianos in old Liffey,” says Peter Bligh. A} an additional recommendation. donen boats and every one of them full. Fd give something to sve Jacob, t abt, indeed, and I would. j H cantata. We ale over few for ouch OW to et t an t and bh ne” as this. It was rare to see Peter Bligh se rious, but he had the right to be Call on a and look carefully over that night, and I was the last to! our bic x You will then see the —four willing men upon « bit of| will « notice that our prices are aguinat all the riff-raff that Ken’s|ty used and second-hand pianos and island could send against us. Out on | organs. that every one of the was full of half of an hour knock at our mein, What sat-throats, In the that devil's crew wo gate and d ‘Our Small Instru- mand to ox agente so! es, Ment Department the rock against auch o until help came, when help war go f you wish to Will interest ye distant? I sey that it was not. BY] nase @ Talking Machine, Music Box, all the chances, by every right roa~| Vion, Banjo, Mandolin. Guitar, Ac non, we should have been out down Ne? rae teen eee where we stood, and our bodies | ty select from at correct prices swimming in the sea before the aun xhone again on Ken's Island and tts mysterion We are over few, Peter. ‘but over few ia better when ‘th drink « ; : erious body In the moontight. 1¢|903 Second Av., Burke Bldg. will be Dolly's place at the gun Be TE tlhe Ninsiatiiaichianaiad MEN Uncalled for I am the oldest and | most suc. | cessful npe- | clalist, 40 years’ prac j tice; 16 | years in Se- attle. stil continue to treat and cure all diseases of ons MT EB cnc The doctor cures when others fall Worth $6.00 to $9.00 Try him. Charges jow. Persons At 3 Little Tail cured at bh Call or write. Ors Face Corks ouARANTEED on| MONEY BACK 1217 First Ave State Medical Institute | 70 Firat Ave., Poot of Cherry Bt, Seattle, Wash. In P. O. Block LAROCHE (A ViNOUS BLixir.) Poyvctans. 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