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Judge Varney's Encouragement By AGNES BOOTH (Copyright, i9io, by Aatoclated Lltamry Pia.) Dexter Fairfield pushed open the door of Judge Varney's office, closed It again quickly, and scanned the signs on tne outside, his lace per plexed and, his broad shoulders ele vated doubtfully. , After a little hesitation he again cpened the door, and hurried through the outer office to the Judge's prl vate room. Within this shelter, he dropped limply Into the nearest chair. Thought Id struck the wrong trail," he gasped, "when I opened the door and saw that bunch. Your business must hare Increased amaz ingly, Varney!" "Did they gaze admiringly at you?" the Judge asked quizzically. "Great Heavens! I don't know. I didn't even dare lfcok at them. I was never so scared before! Why, the room seemed full of girls hun dreds of 'em!" Judge Varney laughed softly. "There are only six." "But can't you see that I'm weak actually fainting from the shock? Six pretty girls " "You said you didn't look at them," the Judge Interposed. "I didn't, but aftar seven years in "Wyoming any girl is pretty. Now tell me about them." The Judge's keen gray eyes spar kled humorously. "Well, I hope I've secured a year's supply of stenogra phers." I see: laying In a stock against a time of need," approved Fairfield A good scheme, Judge." I can't keep one more than the Judge can account was foolish, Justification, what's the Let the 3 I vM Scanned the Signs on the Outside. Miss Allen left last the Judge inter- when I come out ouple of months week." ' "Jimmy Drayton the lucky man?" "Yes. I've determined not to be left alone again helpless unable to write a letter." Faii-fleld nodded, with a commls ratlng glance at the empty right sleeve of his friend. "So I wrote to my sister In Kansas City to engage some stenographers for me. Bess has really a most re markable talent for analyzing char acter. I need no reference if they pass her inspection." Fairfield chuckled he had met Miss Elizabeth Varney. "But, Varney, six! How can you " "Now, Fairfield, rupted plaintively, to your ranch I don't ask embarrass ing questions about the number of borders you employ." "Oh, I beg your pardon." 'To be perfectly honest, I'm acting partly for your benefit. I've had nome nice girls here and you never once tried to win 'avor with any of them. I thought you might be less bnshful less like a petrified clam if there were several together." "I see, 'safety In number.' Is this why you spnt for roe? You're very good to encournge me in this way, Dut I'm doomed to lonely bachelor hood," Fairfield sl&hod mockingly. "You deserve to be," his friend ennr-ped testily, "but Wyoming has ten single men to one single woman nd It's not fnlr to the state. Go back east and bring a 1fe home with you." Fairfield's tanned face grew grave. There was once a girl," he began hesitatingly. ' "And there are plenty more," added the Judge unfeelingly. "Not for me. That's why I'm a bachelor." "Did she marry O.e other man?" "I don't know. She was too young then to marry anybody. I was a fool most boys are and my folly cost me my place In college and " "Suspended?" queried the older man. "I was "vacationed for three weeks when I was " "No," answered the other doggedly, "not suspended. Expelled, fired kicked out I" "No need to treasure the kick the rest of your life," the Judge tu tested kindly. "It cost me also home and and name I I was given $500 and told to go west and die!" "Part of the advice was good yon came west." 1 followed It all. That boy died. "You've lived like a maul I've known you seven years. About nl fif teen, were you, when " "When I played fool? Twenty. I've never touched a. drop of 11 juor slnoe, Judge Varney J" "And the girl." "She was the daughter of one oi the professors. Seventeen then, and I know, now that I'm older, that she cared for me. But I was an 'unde sirable' from the first, and I never had a second alone with her she was so Infernally well chaperoned! Her mother meant her to make a great match. The girl gave promise oi wonderful beauty, and for some reason the professor hated me as the devil hates holy water!" "M m," murmured thoughtfully, "I think I for your expulsion!" "I was as proud as I I made no attempt at perhaps if I had Oh, use? It's past and gone! dead past bury its dead!" 'That's right," Ihe Judge agreed heartily, "you've shown your worth here in Wyoming. You've lived white playing the game of life like a man you ve made good with the money you were told to die on. You'll be rich man before you are forty. Now If you'd only foraet that airl Fairfield raised an impatiently in terrupting hand. "You mean well varney, and I'm not wearing my heart where the daws can get at it, but there'll never be another girl for me. I knew It when I was a boy, I know it now." "Suppose," mused the Judge, in voice or unwonted gentleness, "sup pose you were to meet her again, Suppose you found you were right in believing she loved you long ago, Suppose Bhe still cares Fairfield's tanned face paled, and his strong, brown hand pulled impet uously at his collar. Don t. Judge, you only open an old wound! We won't mention it again. I don't know what possessed me to speak of it now even to you!" "But if you should meet her," the Judge persisted, "and could get chance to see her alone?" "Great Heavens, msn!" cried the other, roughly, "I'm no longer a boy, I wouldn't wait to see her alone! One look Into her eyes would tell me all I want to know and I'd take her into my arms if all the world stood staring." Checking himself . abruptly, he walked toward the window, asking in an altered tone: "Will you go to lunch with me, Varney?" If you'll wait about ten minutes; I must sign some letters first." Fairfield answered absently, look ing from the window with eyes that saw nothing of the familiar scene be fore him. He heard the door open from the outer office; he was con scious that the Judge was speaking to some one. He did not turn his thoughts were back in the past he had tried to forget. He seemed to see again the shy little girl whose eyes had answered the words he could not speak, whose sorrowful face had looked down at him from her window when he, defiant and reckless, had turned to shake a boyish fist at the college walls he was leaving in dis grace. A gentle hand touched his arm and a sweet voice said: "Dexter, I hope you haven't forgotten?" "Grace!" It was the cry of a strong man with empty arms and yearning heart a cry that was answered by clinging arms. I'm not conducting a matrimonial bureau exactly," the Judge explained later, "but when this young lady ad dressed the district Judge asking as sistance In locating a certain Dexter F. Windsor, but only In case the said Windsor is not married, my suspi cions were aroused, and I wrote to her to come on and help me identify the the chump!" be finished fondly, his hand on the young man's shoul der. GEIiL NEWS OF iliL HAPPEIIGS NO REFUSAL GIVEN. DEAD TIMBER TO BE SOLD. Witness Says Importers All Paid For Underweighing. New York As the corollary to the statement, made recently from the witness stand by George T. Lunny, al leged go-between of importers and Government Would Dispose of That Killed by Forest Fires. Washington Government timber that was killed by the recent forest fires that swept over large areas in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Mon- INSURGENCY WINS. government weighers in bribery opera- tana, is to be sold as speedy as possible tions. that he had never known a weigher who would not accept a brine, James P. Hyland, formerly an assia tant weigher, testified that he had nev er met an importer who refused to pay for underweighing. Hyland was the chief witness of the day in the trial of George E. Bedell and other ex-customs officials on charges of making fraudulent weights. He said he sometimes took off 50 per cent from the weights and sometimes did not weigh cargoes at all, but mere ly 'guessed at the weights. Hyland was assistant government weigher from 1891 to 1909. On the stand, he was asked if he had ever done any underweighing. "I underweighed the very first car" go I was assigned to weigh," was the reply of the witness. He said he con tinued underweighing trom that time on, receiving most oi tne corruption money from "Big George" Lunny, who has been described in the testimony as the "go-between" for importers and weighers in bribery operations to se cure underweights. The underweigh- ers always got ball tne amounts oi the duties out of which the govern ment was defrauded, Hyland testified. Hyland said that at one time he was not satisfied - with the amount of his "rake-off" at one dock, and offered Be dell $50 a ship if he would trans fer him to a more fruitful field. The transfer was made, the witness testi fied. Bedell was chief clerk to Deputy Surveyor Vail. He paid Bedell, on the average, just what he promised to, Hyland declared. RECOGNITION NEXT STEP. by the forest service, provided pur chasers can be found. A great deal of this timber, though killed by the fire, is entirely sound and fit for the mill, provided it is cut and removed within two or three years. It is this timber that is to be sold. The sales will be made under the di rection of the district foresters having jurisdiction over the states in which the big fires occurred; and these offi cials will be at liberty, if they so de- sire, to sell this burned timber at low er rates than have heretofore been asked for mature timber sold from forest reserves. There will be no in structions issued by the Washineto: office directing the sale of this timber at reduced prices, as the district offi cers will be permitted to exercise their best judgment. It is the desire of the forest service, however, that all tim ber killed by the fires be cut and re moved as early as possible, and it is also the belief of the Washington office that a reduction in price mierht well be made as an inducement to mill men who are so situated as to be able handle this timber. in tne main, tne lands burned over by the August fires, so far as they lay within the boundaries of the forest re serves, will be kept in reserves, and will be reforested. Some of the lands, however, that prove to be chiefly val l 1 r . . uame ,ior agricultural purposes, now that the timber is burned off, will be opened to homestead entry. It is the understanding of the officials in Wash ington that the bulk of the land is suit able principally for forest purposes, however, and this land will in time be replanted unless it naturally reforests, RESTORE VALUABLE LANDS to Satisfactory Adjustment With Nicara gua Thought Near. Washington Events are moving towards a satisfactory adjustment of the relations between -the United States and Nicaragua. It was admit ted at the State department that the Estrada government was to be recog nized immediately, as far as it was possible to do so at this stage. It is pointed out that there are var ious degrees of recognition, and as Es trada's government is, after all, a pro visional one, the recognition would be on that basis. Estrada's representative in Wash ington will be Senor David Arrellano, who achieved fame in this country and brought on his head the wrath of Zela- ya by conducting a public demonstra tion in Managua in honor of the acces sion of Taft to the presidency. SURETY COMPANY LIABLE. In a Tropical Forest. Dr. Charles H. Townsend, director of the New York aquarium, who re cently spent a month in and about the straits of Magellan, contributes to the Popular Science Monthly an account of his experience. The per petual snow line Is only 2,000 to 8,000 feet above tidewater, and yet In the summer season wonderful flowers and ripe berries are to be gathered, while hummlng-btrds, parrots and flamingoes abound. Fortunately there are no mosquitoes. "No ordinary description can convey a clear Idea of the gen erally Impenetrable character of the forests, which are more tangled and difTl cult than those of the tropics. Fallen trees and branches cover deep ly the whole forest floor, these In turn being mostly concealed with mosses and large plants, the whole always sat urated as If by a recent rainstorm. After clambering over decayed logs, heavily blanketed with mosBes, one may land waist deep in boggy vegeta tion. Progress is possible only by constant and laborious climbing over obstructions." Supreme Court Decision Protects Bank Guaranty Fund. Guthrie, Oklahoma Three surety companies, banking the funds of the Oklahoma school land office on deposit in the wrecked Columbia Banking & Trust comany, of Oklahoma City, when the institution failed, were held liable for $140,000 by a decision of the State upremc court. At the same time the bank guaranty fund was relieved of responsibility for the same amount By the same court decision a Kansas City company, which had already paid $30,000 bonds on state funds, and sure ty companies protecting the Oklahoma County deposit approximately $70,000, are prevented irom th recovering from the bank guaranty fund, which is thus $240,000 better off by the Su preme court decision. Large Areas Eliminated From Forest Reserves. wasnington under a plan of co operation outlined by Secretaries Bal linger and Wislon, and now being car ried out by the officials of the Interior department and department of agri culture, material areas of agricultural land, is to be' eliminated from foreBt reserves and restored to the public do main. Some of this land has alreadv been restored; a much greater area is expected to be restored during the coming winter, when reports on this summer's field work are collected and maps submitted to the heads of the two depatmrents. There seemingly misunderstanding in the minds of many as to iusf what Secretary Ballinger and Secretary Wilson are undertaking to do. Their purpose is simply to take from forest reserves lands that are not pronerlv in cluded in such reserves lands that are not primarily valuable for their tim ber, or as protection to water suddIv, in other words, they are seeking to meet strong objections that have been raised against forest reserves in times past, by removing one cause for com plaint. EXTENDED CONTROL URGED Archaeological Discovery. A record of very great Interest con cerning the celebrated siege of Jerusalem by Vespasian's army, under the command of Titus, has been discovered In upper Egypt, consisting of a wooden panel, with raised borders, or frame, bearing a Latin Inscription of some fifty lines, of which thirty-eeren are still perfect ly legible. Apart from its historical Importance this relic, with the excep tion of the tablets found at Pompeii, containing some accounts of a banker there. Is the most valuable specimen rer found. China's Imports Decline. Washington The growing commer cial interdependence of Oriental coun tries, as against their former depend ence on the Occident, is shown by the latest figures of China's foreign com merce, which have just reached the department of commerce and labor, In most cases China's imports from Occidental countries indicated a de cline. The largest actual gains in im ports were in merchandise coming from India, Japan, Russia, French Indo-China and Singapore. The fig ures show a larger decrease in imports from the United States than from any other of the special countries of the world. Prince Hsun is Honored. Honolulu Prince Tsai Hsun, minis ter of the Chinese navy and uncle of the young emperor of China, arrived here on board the Manchuria. The prince is on his way to the United States to make a study of naval prob lems. He was given an elaborate re ception here. Escorted by Governor Frear, the Chinese naval minister and his retinue were taken from the water front to the scene of the reception un der guard of soldiers and marines. Eastern Cities Growing. Washington The population of Springfield, 111., is 61,678, an increase of 17,519, or 61.3 per cent as compared with 34,159 in 1900. The population of Watertown, N. Y., is 26,730, an in crease of 5,034, or 23.2 per cent, as compared with 2,426 in 1900. The population of Oswego, N. Y., is 23, 368, as compared with 22,199 in 1900. The population of Cohoes, N. Y., is 24,708, compared with 23,910 in 1900. Bevendge Tells Bankers Government Should Supervise Trusts. Evansville, Ind. Urging' eovern- ment supervision of meat-packing com- jainBB, me sieei irust, the "sugar trust," the railroads and other great corporations, benator Bevendge told the delegates to the convention of the Indiana Bankers asssociation that he could see no reason why moral obli gations should have to be made leiral obligations for bankers and not for other persons in whom there is placed a puonc trust." He added, 'f spoke of packers, rail road management, steel trust and su gar trust men. And if the government controls banks, as it does, why should not it control railroads and otner pub lic corporations. The relationship to the poeple is just as great, if not greater than that of the banks." Packers Give Bail. Chicago Seven of the 10 officials of the Chicago packing companies in dicted by a Federal grand jury for violation of the Sherman anti-trust law appeared in the Federal court and gave bail for their appearance. Each defendant was obliged to furnish three bonds for $10,000 each. The three men who did not furnish bail are Louis F. Swift, president of the Swift & Co., who is in Europe; Thomas J. Connors, superintendent of Armour & Co., who is now returning irom Europe, and Francis A. Fowler, department manager of Swift & Co., who is HI. Judge Landis ordered bench warrants issued for the defend ants, but after attorneys for the ab sentees explained why they had failed to appear the order was recalled. Poindexter Carries Washington by Big Majorities. Seattle, Sept. 14. Insurgency swept the slate of Washington yester day like a tidal wave. Poindexter is believed to have carried nearly every county in the state, with the possible exception of Pierce. Late returns indicate that Warbur ton, insurgent, has carried the Second congressional district by a good plural ity over McCredie, incumbent. Humphrey has been defeated in the First district, and William La Fol lette, of Pullman, a cousin of Senator La Follette and an insurgent, has been elected to succeed Poindexter. The vote of King county, with 47, 000 voters registered, was probably only 30,000, and Poindexter's plurality in the county is estimated at 6,000. Poindexter carried Judge Burke's own preincct. Incomplete returns from 30 polling places in Pierce county and Tacoma give Burke 41, Poindexter 1,376 and Ashton 1,336. At this rate Pierce county will give Ashton a small major ity. Twenty-six precincts, city and coun ty, in Pierce county, give McCredie 339, Claypool 338 and Warburton 1, 333. Poindexter's plurality in Whatcom county is estimated at 2,000. Poindexter's plurality in Clallam county is estimated at 300. At Poindexter's headquarters, his lead is estimated as high as 30,000. AIRSHIP Zeppelin VI Destroyed By Benzine Explosion and Fire Three of Crew Hurt Balloon an tire Wreck Had Been In Passenger Service. En. STORM DAMAGES COTTON. Is Crop on 250,000 Acres in Texas Ruined By Wind and Hail. Galveston, Tex. A severe wind hail and rain storm which swept over four or hve counties did untold damage to crops, especially to the cotton crop. which was either stripped from the fields by the wind or ruined by hail of a size unprecedented in Burleson, Brazos, Houston, kGrimes and Walker counties. From reports just received it is es timated that the cotton crop was ruined on about 250,000 acres, which includes a few thousand acres of other crops. In Burleson county, along the hill sides, thousands of acres of unpicked cotton were beaten down by the haii and later washed into the swelling streams by the heavy rains. GOLD THEIVES WATCHED Detectives Suspect Alaskans and Wait for Them to Dig Up Ingots. Seattle It is settled in the minds of detectives that the $57,000 robbery of gold bullion in transit from Fairbanks to Seattle was committed on the Yu kon river steamer Tanana, and the men who are supposed to have stolen the precious ingots are under surveillance. But the gold is buried in the earth, the detectives say, and even if they ar rested the real criminals, they could not convict them and they might not recover the gold. So they purpose to starve the thieves out; to watch them until they dig up the gold and try to sell it. Any man who tries to sell Tanana gold at any market in Alaska or the United States will be held for examination. Reports of a second ex press gold robbery are false. Maine Goes Democratic. Portland, Maine Maine went Demo cratic Tuesday. It elected Frederick W. Plaisted, of Augusta, a Democrat, as governor, upset the heretofore solid Republican delegation in at least two, and possibly all four of the congres sional districts, and to the surprise of the political leaders, Democratic as well as Republican, the last returns ndicate the possibility that the next state legislature will be Democratic. The senate surely will have a Demo cratic majority. The house complex ion is in doubt. Baden Baden The latest type of Count Zeppelin's inventive genius met with disaster here when the dirigible balloon Zeppelin VI took fire after an explosion while being warped into her shed. A score or more ,of men were engaged in the task of housing the air ship when a benzine tank in the rear gondola exploded, setting fire to an ad jacent compartment. The explosion of this compartment was followed by the explosion of the 16 others. There was a gush of flames and the whole structure was destroyed in a few minutes. Three of the crew were injured. Nothing remained of Count Zeppe lin's latest model except a tangled mass of aluminum frames. The shed also caught fire, but the blaze was put out without serious dam age. Several workmen were .burned, but none fatally. The igniting of the benzine occurred while workmen were cleaning the ma chinery, during which the benzine holders were open. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained. Zeppelin VI, during the last 18 days, has made 34 passenger trips, covering about 2,000 miles, and carrying more than 300 passengers. The flights of the dirigible were made regularly, oft en in unfavorable weather. This is the fifth serious accident which has befallen the Zeppelin dirig ibles. The Zeppelin VI was under charter of the Passenger Airship company, having replaced in the passenger ser vice the recently wrecked Deutschland. It was transferred from Friedrichshaf en to this place, and after being fitted with improved propellers and new features, made a trial trip on August 19. It proved to be the speediest of its type, and it was announced that it would maintain a speed of 38 miles an hour. The dirigible was reconstructed to crry 10 passengers, and in the last few days had made several trips. Many Americans were among the excursion ists. Baron Rudolph Goldsmidt-Roth-child had chartered the airship for the use of a private party. He had agreed to pay $500 for the first two hours of the excursion, and $250 for each ad ditional hour. FALLIERES SEES DIRIGIBLES. he Conservation Must Wait. Washington Congress may attempt further conservation legislation next winter and some bills urged by the ad ministration may become laws, but there is little chance that any measure looking to the so-called "conservation of water power" can be passed in the limited three months of the closing session of the 61st congress, for there is too much diversity of opinion as to how water powers should be "conserved." Suspected Leper Found. New York A man believed to be John Kokas, the Greek leper of Salt Lake City, who broke quarantine there, evaded interception in Chicago, and es- apea eastward, was arrested here, as was about to buy a ticket for Greece. The man gave his name as Peter Coropulas, of Salt Lake City, 30 years old, and denied vigorously that he was a leper. His appearance was hideous, and the hospital authorities say they believe he is a leper. Fails to Fly Over Irish Ssa. London Aviator Astor Loraine, who recently failed by 300 yards in his at tempt to fly across the Irish sea, an nounced that he will make another try during the coming week. Loraine's failure was due to defective soldering n his petrol tank. Although he ship ped sufficient petrol for the trip, the tank developed a leak, which continued during the last three miles of the trip, and Loraine was compelled to give up. French Army Corps Use Aeroplanes In Field Maneuvers. Grandvillieres, France President Fallieres, accompaneid by the president-elect of Brazil, Marshal Hermo Fonseca, Premier Briand and foreign military attaches, witnessed the opera tion of dirigibles in the army maneu vers. Three dirigibles and six aero planes, including those manned by Latham and Paulhan, took prominent part in the operation. Thus far aeroplanes have given bet ter results than the dirigibles, which for two days were prevented from leaving their stations by high winds. Army officers are enthusiastic over the results. General Picquart, commanding the Second corps, and General Meunier, commanding the Third corps, each morning before 7 o'clock were in possession of an accurate description of the location and movements of each other's forces. Meunier outgeneraled Picquart, succeding in turning the latter's position. Walsh Estate Not Great. Denver The estate of the late Thomas F. Walsh, which had been ap proximated as high as $100,000,000, was worth only $6,500,000, according to the inventory filed by Judge S. A. OBborn, representing the etate. Of this valuation, $3,000,000 is Colorado property. Socialists Are Arrested. Salt Lake City Six members of the Socialist Labor party were arrested here, one after another, while trying to hold a street meeting at the comer of Second South and State streets, in defiance of the orders of the chief of police, Britain Told to Leave, . Geneva, Switzerland The annual meeting of the permanent committee of the Young Egypt party, the aim of which is autonomy and which has just opened here, afforded an opportunity of which several Egyptians availed themselves to attack ex-President Roosevelt because of his speeches at Khartoum and London. Among the epithets applied to the colonel were "vulgar blusterer" and "self-advertiser." The committee sent a tele gram to London demanding immediate evacuation of Egypt by the British. Man Tells of Murders. Denver Michael Siften, a Polish laborer, who came to Denver from Pueblo a few days ago, 'related to Chief Armstrong, of the Denver police, a re markable tale of a series of murders alleged to have been committed in Pueblo several years ago. Siften says he is able to account for a dozen mys terious disappearances and crimes. He did not tell of them before, be said, because of fear. The crimes were committed at a boarding house. Drug Sale to Be Stopped. Pittsburg A country-wide cam paign against the illegitimate traffic in narcotics and habit-forming drugs began here when the National Associa tion of Retail Druggists went on rec ord as favoring a national law along these lines. Portugal Exiles Monks. Lisbon The monastery of the Span ish Jesuits at Aldeira-Ponte has been closed by a government decree, and the Jesuits have been expelled from the country. They are warned that if they return to Portugal they will be arrested.