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IrankR.Spearman. ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANPRf BOWLES 3Y Cms SCtf/BUfR's &O.WS SYNOPSIS. Mttrray Sinclair and his sang of wreck­ ers were called out to clear the railroad tracks at Smoky Creek. McCloud, a young road superintendent, caught Sin­ clair and his men in the act of looting the wrecked train. Sinclair pleaded in­ nocence, declaring it only amounted to a «mall sum--a treat for the men. McCloud discharged the whole outfit and ordered the wreckage burned. McCloud became acquainted with Dicksie Dunning, a girl of the west, who came to look at the "wreck. "Whispering" Gordon Smith told President Bucks of the railroad, of Mc- Cloud's brave fight against a gang of crazed miners and that was the reason for the superintendent's appointment to his office. McCloud arranged board at the boarding house of Mrs. Sinclair, the ex-foreman's deserted wife. Dicksie Dun­ ning was the daughter of the late Rich­ ard Dunning, who had died of a broken heart shortly after hi« wife's demise, which occurred after one year of mar­ ried life. Smoky Creek bridge was mys­ teriously burned. President Bucks noti­ fied Smith that he had work ahead. A stock train was wrecked by an open switch. L,ater a passenger train was held up and the express car robbed. Two men of a posse pursuing the bandits were killed. "Whispering Smith" approached Sinclair. He tried to buy him off, but failed. He warned McCloud that his life was in danger. McCloud was carried forcibly into Lance Dunning's presence. Dunning refused the railroad a right-of- way, he had already signed for. Dicksie hiterfered to prevent a shooting afTray. Dicksie met McCloud on a lonely trail to warn him his life was in danger. On his way home a shot passed through his hat. A sudden rise of the Crawling Stone riv­ er created consternation. Dicksie and Ma­ rion appealed to McCloud for help: Whis­ pering Smith Joined the group. McCloud took his men to fight the river. Lance Dunning welcomed them cordially. Mc­ Cloud succeeded in halting the flood. Dicksie and Marion visited Sinclair at his ranch. He tried to persuade his deserted wife to return to him. She refused1; He accused Whispering Smith off having Stolen her love from him. A train was held up and robbed, the bandits escap­ ing. Smith and McCloud star!ed in pur­ suit. At Raggs ranch Du Sang killed old Baggs. Whispering Smith befriended his ten-year-old son. They came to Williams Cache. Smith was certain the bandits were there. He Importuned Rebstock. "king of the cache," to gjve up Du Sang. Rebstock refused. Smitn declared he would clean out the whole gang, inclu- . ding Rebstock. Smith came upon the bandits, Du Sang among them. Marion prayed that he should come back alive. Smith learned that Sinclair, Rebstock and an escaped bandit had joined forces. He started after them with Wickwire. Smith invaded the Williams Cache rendezvous. He dexterously pulled himself out of a tight hole. He arrested a horse-thief. Sinclair had gone, presumably to kill McCloud. Sinclair visited Dunning and was given sympathy. Dicksie knew of his presence. Sinclair started for Medi­ cine Bend. Dicksie reproved her cousin for not arresting Sinclair. She set out In the storm for Medicine Bend. She passed Sinclair on the way and was thrown bruised and bleeding, against Ma­ rion's door. Dicksie told her story. The doctor who attended her refused Sinclair admission. The murderer sought Mc­ Cloud, but the latter was 200 miles away. Then Smith came, but Sinclair had gone. Smith visited Dicksie. She admitted her engagement ,to McCloud. COPYK/C/zr bore heaviest on you. He said if he stayed in Medicine Bend the news­ papers never would cease talking and people never would stop annoying you --and you know George did say they were asking to have passenger trains held here Just so people could see Whispering Smith. And, Marion, think of it, he actually doesn't know yet that George and I are married! How could we notify him without knowing where he was? And he doesn't know that trains are running up the Crawl­ ing Stone valley. Mercy! a year goes like an hour when you're in love, doesn't it? George said he knew we should hear from him within six months--rand George has never yet been mistaken excepting when he said I should grow to like the railroad business--and now it is a year and no news from him." Dicksie sprang from her chair. "I am going to call up Mr. Rooney Lee and just demand my husband! I think Mr. Lee handles trains shockingly every time George tries to get home like this on Saturday nights--now don't you? And passen­ ger trains ought to get out of the way, anyway, when a division superinten­ dent is trying to* get home. What dif­ ference does it make to a passenger, I'd like to know, whether he is a few hours less or longer in getting to Cali­ fornia or Japan or Manila or Hong- Kong or Buzzard's Gulch, provided he is safe--and you know there has not been an accident on the division for a year, Marion. There's a Step now. I'll bet that's George!" The door opened and it was George. "Oh, honey!" cried Dicksie, softly, waving her arms as she stood an in­ stant before she ran to him. "But haven't I been a-waitin' for you!" "Too bad! and, Marion," he ex­ claimed, turning without releasing his wife from his arms, "how can I ever dear; and you, too, Marion; suit-cases are all we can take," cried Dicksie, pushing her husband toward the bed­ room. "I'll telephone Rooney Lee foi an engine myself right away. Dear me, it is kind of nice, to be able to order up a train when you want one in a hurry, isn't it, Marion? Perhaps I shall come to like it if 'they ever make George a vice-president." In half an hour they had joined Bucks in his car, and Bill Dancing was piling the baggage into the ve& tibule. Bucks was sitting down to cof­ fee. Chairs had been provided at the table, and after the greetings, Bucks, seating Marion Sinclair at his right and Barnhardt and McCloud at his left, asked Dicksie to sit opposite and pour the coffee. "You are a railroad man's wife now and you must learn to assume responsibility." McCloud looked apprehensive. "I am afraid she will be assuming the whole division if you encourage her too much. Mr. Bucks." "Marrying a railroad man," contin­ ued Bucks, pursuing his own thought, "is as bad as marrying into the army; if you have your husband half the time you are lucky. Then, too, in the lailroad business your husband may have to be set back when the traffic falls off. It's a little light at this mo­ ment, too. How should you take it if we had to put him on a freight train for a while, Mrs. McCloud?" "Oh, Mr. Bucks!" "Or suppose he should be promoted and should have to go to headquarters --some of us are getting old, you know." "Really," Dicksie looked more de­ mure as she filled the president's cjip, "real|y, 1 often say to Mr. McCloud that I cannot believe Mr. Bucks is president of this great road. He al- only two months now? Why, the set* tiers are fairly pouring into the coun­ try." "Will you give me a corner lot if we put another station on the ranch?" "I will give you two if you will give ug excursions and run some of the Overland passenger trains through the valley." Bucks threw back iiis head sad laughed in his tremendous way. "I don't know about that; I daren't prom­ ise offhand, Mrs. McCloud. But if you can get Whispering Smith to come back you might lay the matter before him. He is to take charge of all the colonist business when he returns." CHAPTER XL.--Continued. It was beyond human endurance to support the leaden death. Th£ little square of brass between the sights wavered. Seagrue stumbled, doubled- on his knees, and Btaggering plunged loosely forward on the sand. Whis­ pering Smith threw his fire toward the bowlder behind which Sinclair and Barney Rebstock had disappeared. Suddenly he realized that the bullets from the point were not codling his way. He was aware of a second rifle- duel above the bend. Wickwire, worm­ ing his way down the stream, had un­ covered Sinclair and young Rebstock from behind. A yell between the shots rang across the wash, and the cringing figure of a man ran out to­ ward Whispering Smith with his hands high in the air, and pitched headlong on the ground. It was the skulker, Barney Rebstock, driven out by Wick- wire's fire. The shooting ceased. Silence fell upon the gloom of the- tiuek. Then came a calling between Smith and Wickwire, and a signaling of pistol- shots for their companions. Kennedy and Bob Scott dashed down toward the river bed on iiieir horses. Sea­ grue lay on his face. Young Reb­ stock sat with his hands around his knees on the sand. Above him at some distance, Wickwire and Smith stood before a man who leaned against the sharp cheek of the bowlder at the point. In his hands his rifle was held across his lap just as he had dropped on his knee to fire. He had never moved after he was struck. His head, drooping a little, rested against the rock, and his hat lay on the sand; his heavy beard had sunk into his chest &nd he kneeled in the shadow, asleep. Scott and Kennedy knew him. In the mountains there was no double for Murray Sinclair. When he jumped behind the point to pick Whispering Smith off the ledge he had laid himself directly under Wickwire's fire across the wash. The first shot of the cowboy at 200 yards . had passed, as he knelt, through both temples. CHAPTER XLI. Back to the Mountains. In the cottage in Boney street, one year later, two women were waiting. It was ten o'clock at night. "Isn't it a shame to be disappointed Hko this?" complained Dicksie, push-' ing her. hair impatiently back. "Real­ ly. fioor George is worked to death. He was to be in at six o'clock, Mr. Lee said, and here it is ten, and all yoar beautiful dinner spoiled. Marion, are you keeping something from me? Look* me in the eye. Have you heard from Gordon Smith?" "No, Dicksie," "Not since he left the mountains a year ago?" "Not since he left the mountains a year ago." Dicksie, sitting forward in her chair, bent her eyes upon the fire. "It is so strange. I wonder where he is to­ night. How he loves you. Marion! He told me everything when he said good-by. He made me promise not to tell then; but I didn't promise to keep it fctrever." Marion smiled. "A year isn't for­ ever. Dicksie." "Well, it's pretty near forever when you are in love," declared Dicksie, en­ ergetically. "| know just bow he felt," she went on in a quieter tone. "Ho felt that all the disagreeable ex­ citement and talk we had here then C 1> A A fa Seagrue Stumbled to the Sand. make good for all this delay? Oh, yes, I've had dinner. Never, fof heaven's sake, wait dinner for me! But wait, both of you, till you hear the news!" Dicksie kept her hands on his shoul­ ders. "You have heard from Whisper­ ing Smith!" "I have." "I knew it!" "Wait till I get it straight. Mr. Bucks is here--I came in with him in his car. He has news of Whispering Smith. One of our freight traffic men in the Puget sound country, who has been in a hospital in Victoria, learned by the merest accident, that Gordon Smith was lying in the same hospital with typhoid fever." Marion rose swiftly. "Then the time has come, thank God. when I can dp something for him; and I am going to him to-night!" "Fine!" cried McCloud. "So am I, and that Is why I'm late" "Then 1 an going, too," exclaimed l Dicksie, solemnly. ""Do you mean it?" asked her husT band. "Shall we let her, Marion? Mr. Bucks says I am to take his car and take Barnhardt. and keep the car there till I can bring Gordon back. Mr. Bucks and his secretary will ride to- xrlght as far as Bear Dance with us, and in the morning they join Mr. Glover there." McCloud looked at his watch. "If you are both going, can you be ready by IS o'clock for the China mail?" "We can be ready in an hour," de­ clared Dicksie, throwing her aim half around Marion's neck, "can't we, Marion?" "I can be ready in 30 minutes." "Then, by heaven--" McCloud studied his watch. "What is it, George?" "Wo won't wait for the midnight train. We will take an engine, run special to Green River, overhaul the Coast Limited, and wave a whole day." "George, pack your salt-case--quick. ways looks to me to be the young»:«t man on the whole executive staff. Two lumps of sugar. Mr. Bucks?" The bachelor president rolled his eyes as he reached for his cup, "Thank you, Mrs. McCloud, only one after that." He looked toward Marion. "All I can say is that if Mrs. McCloud's husband had married her two years earlier he might have been general manager by this time. Nothing could hold a man back, even a man of his modesty, whose wife can say as nice things as that By the way, Mrs. Sin­ clair, does this man keep you supplied with transportation?" "Oh, I have my annual, Mr. Bucks!" Marion opened her bag to find it. ,Bucks held out his hand. "Let me see It a moment." He adjusted his ej^e-glasses, looked at the pass, and called for a pen; Bucks had never lost his gracious way of doing very little things. He laid the card on the table and wrote across the back of It over his name: "Good on all passenger trains." When he handed the card back to Marion he turned to Dicksie. "I understand you are laying out two or three towns on the ranch, Mrs. Mc­ Cloud r f'Two or three! Oh, no, only one as yet, Mr. Bucks! They are laying out, oh, silch a pretty town! Cousin Lance is superintending the street work--and whom do you think I am going to n^me it after? Y^a! I think 'Bucks' mpkes a dandy name for a town, don't you? And I am going to have one town named Dunning; there will be two stations on the ranch, you know, and I think, really, there ought to be three." "As many as that?" "I don't believe you can operate a line that long, Mr. Bucks, with stations 14 miles apart." Bucks opened his eyes in benevolent surprise. Dicksie, unabashed, kept right on: "Well, do yon know how traffic is increasing oVer there, with the trains running Whispering Smith, lying on his iron bed in the hospital, professed not to be able quite to understand why they had made such a fuss about it. He underwent the excitement of the ap­ pearance of Barnhardt and the first talk with McCloud and Dicksie with hardly a rise in his temperature, and, lying in the sunshine of the afternoon, he was waiting for Marion. She ran halt blinded across the room and dropped on her knee beside him. "My dear Marion, why did they drag you away out here?" "They did not drag me away out here. Did you expect me to sit with folded hands when I heard you were ill anywhere in the wide world?" He looked hungrily at her. "I didn't suppose any one in the wide world would take it very seriously." "Mr. McCloud is crushed this after- noon to think you have said you would not go back with him. You would uot believe how he misses you." "It has been pretty lonesome for th® last year. I didn't think it could be so lonesome anywhere." "Nor did I." "Have you noticed it? 1 shouldn't Imnk you could in the mountains. Was there much water last spring? Heav­ ens, I'd like to see the Crawling Stone again!" "Why don't you come back?" He folded her hands in his Own. ' Marion, it is you. I've been afraid I couldn't stand it to be near you and not tell you--" "What need you be afraid to tell i-e?" "That I have loved you so long." Her head sunk close to his. "Uon't you know you have said it to wc many times without words? I've only been waiting for a chance to tell yon how happy it makes me to think It Is true." THE END. PRESERVE CHARM OF VOICE Proper Care of Organ Which" Natlire Has Bestowed Is Essential Duty of All. sweet voice is a powerful femin- «e charm. One also admires fine masculine voices which are sonorous und full. We should, therefore, be careful of tnis organ which nature has bestowed 'tpon us, and improve it if possible. Coarse, shrill and harsh voices may be softened by care and study. A woman w4+h a peacock voice can never charm. bpeak in a low voice, but distinctly. Loud speaking denotes ill-breeding, and sometimes Bhows a domineering spirit. Many people drown the voices of others in a discussion that they may themselves attract the more at­ tention. To keep the voice at a proper tone, never call from one end of the room to another, nor from upstairs down, nor at any distance where it becomes necessary for one to shout with all his might, as this coarsens and roughens the voice and in time ruins it. There are persons who. when spoken to, pay no attention, either from abstraction or from indifference, to anything which may proceed from others. The person who speaks is tbien obliged to raise the voice and re­ peat, and thus the habit of speaking loudly is frequently formed. These things occur in families where but little politeness is observed between those who owe one another as much consideration as is due to out­ siders. One should never cry out under the Influence of anger, indignation or pain. These cries forever destroy the har­ mony of the vocal chords. Children should be prevented from screaming when at play. Women In Persia. Dr. Emmeline Stuart, niece of the veteran Bishop Stuart, tells of her ex­ periences in Persia, where, she says, there is unfailing courtesy of the of­ ficers to travelers. Upon one occasion she was offered the escort of the mili­ tary from Ispahan to Teheran and found that she had to ride on a gun carriage, horses harnessed six in hand and double stages made. The medical missions are the safest places in times of peril in Persia, she says, not only for Europeans, but for the Pernians themselves. Prolongs Life of Ties. . The tie-treating plant of the Mexi­ can Central railroad has reached an output of 3,500 ties a day, making it one of the largest concerns of its kind in the world. The plant is the first in the history of railway operation to make a success of the treatment of ties by the Ebano oil process. It is expected that the treatment will pro- iong the life of each tie 8 to 12 years. ON GIRLISH LINES' tWO SIMPLE AND PRETTY JU- VENILE COSTUMES. Designed for Young Lady Who Has Not Yet l$ade Her Formal En­ try Into Society--Some New Effects Shown. The illustration on the left shows a very pretty home dress fbr a girl of 16 to 18 years; it is a style that makes up well for morning wear, in beige, alpaca or veiling; the skirt has two tucks about the hem, all being about two inches in depth. Braid Is carried down each side front, and at top of tucks. The bodice, which fastens at the back, has a deep yoke of tucked silk muslin; It is only tucked Into the bodice so that it can be easily re­ moved for washing, and as easily re­ placed. Two tucks are made each side, and braid with buttons and simulated but­ tonholes forms the trimming. The sleeves are gathered into deep NOTHING BETTER THAN CHINA Most Effective Decoration That Can Be Devised for Walls of Dining- Room. The prettiest dining room walls are those decorated with china, instead of pictures, for this treatment gives dis­ tinction from any other room. Pieces selected for the walls must, of neces­ sity, be striking, either in color or shape, preferably both. They may be large or small, for, odd though it may seem, there is no difficulty In attach­ ing even'a heavy piece securely. Plate racks around the walls are familiar and yet they grow tiresome. But unless the reach of wooden shelf is made too long they can be most attractive. An arrangement that is useful if placed between two windows consists of a shelf 15 inches at its widest. In the middle, narrowing down to six Inches, and then one at either corner. The swell thus made gives plenty of room for holding a large salad bowl. Ten inches below is another shelf, having a serpentine front and of the same length as the upper. A brass rail two inches wide placed around the edge holds the dishes In place. For hanging plates there are light­ weight brass racks which do not show Brass hooks hold cups by the handles If plates or platters are placed upright on shelves ft is most important that they should be secured from slipping, either by narrow strips of wood tacked about two inches from the back, the plates being put behind these, or by grooves in the shelf China selected for decorative pur­ poses should have little white about It and the patterns must be large In size, as weii as bold in design. Some or the so-called "cottage" figures are particularly effective, while old blue willow is lovely. Real old Canton, and even the reproductions, are espe­ cially suited to walls, so intense and satisfactory Is the blue. Another not uncommon Chinese ware in which the china is covered with figures and landscapes, done in many1 colors, is among the best that can be selected for the purpose. French chinas, because of their deli­ cacy, must, as a rule, be sparingly used, for they fall in effectiveness Nevertheless a cup, bowl or plate of fine porcelain, if* placed to advantage, rather low, where the eye may appre­ ciate Its beauty, will rank as an orna­ ment. China, like pictures, must be chosen and placed with discretion, in order that no Inharmonious effects may be produced. It is not advisable to mix different makes any more than it is to mingle different subjects in pictures, and for the same reason, they clash. China ware and French together are bad taste, whereas China alone or delft alone or grouped MEANS WARMTH IN WINTER Dotted Challis Waist Is Just the Gar- , ment Most Needed by the Schoolgirl. The dotted challis waist is very new, very light In weight and very warm. Indeed, it is well worth a sec­ ond thought, and it invites the sensi­ ble woman or, better still, the sensi­ ble mother Daughters are not warm­ ly clsd these days, and it might be Well to take some time for the con­ sideration of the fairly warm winter waist, be It shirtwaist or blouse There is not the least objection to the non-washable blouse If It can be made of material that Is not bulky, and worn on the right occasions. It involves more care than the durable white linen waist, and should be made with the idea of an occasional bath in warm, soapy water. Almost ail chal­ lis will stand this treatment occa­ sionally. This year there is a beauti­ ful little model shown at an exclusive shop. It Is made of this pretty, aoff material, embroidered by hand o*er its entire surface; but there are tri- wrist-bands that are trimmed with braid. The bodice and skirt are bQth mounted Into the same band. Materials required: Six yards <t inches wide, about eight yards braid. 1^4 yards bodice lining, one-half 9|Mi silk muslin 40 inches wide. The other costume is for a girl of 14 to 16 years. Our model being for present wear, is in the golden brown linen; the skirt is arranged in plaits each side front; they are stitched two^thlrds the length, and are orna­ mented with buttons; a fancy cotton galloon in shades of brown forms the trimming. The unlined bodice has a small yoke of finely tucked net outlined with galloon. The sleeves are tucked in sets of threes the entire length; buttons trim the front, and a dark brown kid waist­ band is worn. Hat of burnt straw trimmed with golden brown silk. Materials required; Six yards linen 40 Inches wide, five eighths yard tucked net, 20 buttons, 4% yards gal- Idon. A Pleasant Expression. Every woman has a claim to beauty If she will only cultivate a pleasant expression that will make the people that come In contact with her feel better instead of worse. Train your­ self to see life through rosy instead of black spectacles, expect the best to happen instead of the worst, and don't worry uselessly. Here is the whole secret of how to win people's love and how to succeed In life. You are accountable to yourself for every wrinkle and every line Inter­ rupting the smoothness of your fore­ head prematurely. Think of that If you wish to preserve your youthful looks. The Long Fur Coat. Semi-precious furs in long coats will be popular, with linings of pfaid and striped silk. Violet and pink Ottoman will be in style as linings. in different parts of the room Is suc­ cessful. Ruling Adjudging Labor Lead- * ers in Contempt Afflrmsd. JOHN MITCHELL A DEFENDANT District Court of Appeals Rules 111 'Fa­ mous Buck Stove Case--Union President's Term Is Year in Jail. SHOWING THE LATEST VOGUE New and Conservative Model That Has Many Rights to Its Insured Popularity. One of the conservative models of the season is shown in the illustration. The model shown was In rjsse voile de soie embroidered in rose, goid and black. A black satin scarf was draped at the back, falling to the bottom of the skirt in long, simple lines. Noteworthy is the arrangement of the bodice, the material of which Is •A. draped from the belt across the bust and then held In with a deep band of the embroidery trimming. The drapery is caught in at one side of the belt with a small gold chou. The short sleeves are covered en­ tirely with the embroidery and the back of the bodice Is practically cov­ ered wtth It, the only plain space be­ ing a shallow square at the top, be­ tween the shoulders. A very deep band of the embroidery, in which ap­ plique of satin also enters, trims the skirt around the foot. The skirt is otherwise quite plain and of the fash­ ionable excessive length in front and oh the sides as well as In the back Two-Toned Stockings. The Imported stockings wit b one tone over another are very in :.ch In fashion. Tbey look like 'changeable silk and are slightly ribbed. dences of carelessness in Its £-.*>ce-up. The little dots have, quite 8-r-irent ly, been embroidered first, siSce the seams cut them off at certain points The Ideal way to get around this dif­ ficulty, which really amounts to a de­ fect, is to first cut out the blouse and fit It; then, with the seam line* marked, to embroider the separate pieces and remake the blouse. The email dots on the pretty sage-greer. challis were done in darker silk to bring it into harmony with its skirt. On some woolen shirtwaists a single line of dots only appears down each side of the center box plait and on the cuffs. They are larger, the size of a pea, and are worked In & quite dark shade of the co(or stpwa In the material. Buttonholes in Strips. The home dressmaker or the seam­ stress who dislikes to work button­ holes will find joy is the fact that they can be bought by the yard and in all kinds of fabrics. They come on muslin or silk strips, and can be easily attached to the edge of a bleese wMah-la to testes qador a 11'*.. • •*' Washington. Nov. 2.--The court of appeals affirmed the decree of the supreme court of the District of Columbia; adjudging President Samuel Gompers, Secretary Frank Morrison and Vice-President John Mitchell, all of the American Federation of Labor* guilty of contempt of court in the Buck Stove and Range case. Chief Justice Sheppard dissented from the opinion of the court on con­ stitutional grounds. The effect of the decision will be that Mr. Gompers and the other 48* fendants will have to go to prison. The fate of the labor leaders was fixed December 23, 1908, when Gom- •i, -.m Samuel Gompers. pers was sentenced to 12 • prisonment, Mitchell to nine months, and Morrison to six months. The case grew out of the alleged boycott of the company's products and the putting of that company's prod­ ucts on the unfair list, and the federa­ tion's alleged violation' of Judge Gould's recent mandamus has ed wide attention. * '•?" Originally a Test Case. The Bucks Company's proseeutfdil?" of the officials of the federation began * in August, 1907. The original action was a test case, wherein it was sought to enjoin the labor unions from using the "unfair" and "we don't patronize" lists In their fight against firms and in­ dividuals. Justice Gould of the supreme court of the District of Columbia issued an injunction which later was made per­ manent, forbidding the publication of the company's name in these lists. ; t President Gompers in an editorial In - the Federationlst of January, 1908, ^ made known his intention not to obey the court's order, contending that the injunction issued was In derogation of the rights of labor and an abuse of the injunctive power of the courts. Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison sub­ sequently were cited for contempt, and this phase of the case has been * before the court for many months, the proceedings taking the form of a hear­ ing of testimony before an examiner and many arguments. Judge Wright's decision last year, sentencing the three to prison, was a scathing denunciation of the defend­ ants. He recited the conditions ante- ceding the injunction and referred to the fact that for 25 years the Bucks plant had operated a ten-hour shop and always had maintained an "open •*op." Forced to Support. He also spoke of the numerical strength of the American Federation of Labor, with its 2,000,000 members, and of Its repeated Indorsement of the boycott of the Buck Stove and Range Company, through the Ameri­ can Federationlst, the federation's of­ ficial organ, speeches by the defeMr ants, letters and circulars. The court referred to the use of the "We Don't Patronize" list and "Un­ fair" list of the labor organization, and said that members of labor unions were forced and coerced into support­ ing it "whether individually willing or unwilling, approving or disapproving," by various methods. ,5^ Four Die in Flooded Mine. *V»3 London, Nov. 2.--The Tareni 'w' pit at Ystalyfera, Glamorganshire, Wales, was flooded. Four men were drowned, while about 450 others their escape or were rescued. CARDINAL FOE OF SUFFRAGE Allowing Women to Vote Would •» "Death Blow of Domestic Life and Happiness." # New York, Nov. 2.--in a letter te the National League for the Civic Ed­ ucation of Women, Cardinal Gibbons says: "1 approve most strongly your stand in opposing woman suf­ frage, which, if realized, would be the death blow of- domestic Ufe han» piaess." S ^ Take Bank Employe in Arniy. New York. Nov. 2.--Oscar F. Coch­ ran, formerly bookkeeper of the American National bank of Indianapo­ lis and wanted for the embezzlement of $7,000, was arrested at Fort Sto ctun. where he had enlisted ia the United States infantry. Cariboo Stage Is Held Up. ? Vancouver, B. (X. Nov. J.-- masked highwaymen held up the Cari­ boo stage at 150 Mile hottse in Cari­ boo and stole several sacks of reg­ istered mil. containing abont |MNi> ' 4t"'v