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THE NEWS.
fir. (iuiarf In a eltlsen of lh« Strip.
The next thine In order for Kildare
to wn tor-work •
Tkm arc sixty-four newipapfri In
I Ha Chickasaw nation.
WIm< hirml in llyiw
now entirely completed.
The recent
erablc cotton in Oklahoma
Kildare recently enjoyed a female I There la a town In Wearer eonnty
Minstrel ahow with • cake-walk at the | named Shade. Pnea It consist of a
end ' 'ree?
W. P. Campbell, formerly hUtoric.il j The Tills* fl.hH.g club I. suppo-d
custodian, haa a pillion with the «• pound
Kbbmi City New*. tUl1,
The new court house in Oklahoma A farmer!,, Clevcl.nd county haaa
eaunty la iiald to lie the largitat county volunteer llelil of oat* Marly ready
building In the territory. ,or ,,■n,c",
The name of this Territory nhould be j Hoary lain, hare resulted In the
pronounce,! a. Impelled Oaklaho, j « ••* Wackberry crop in the hlatory
mah, with accent on the Brat and thlr>, ° .vnc coun y.
Mailable*. ! *>©?eral Pfeyne eonnty cltlaona hail
' Heaver county I. thoroughly satur- hon.es unroofed or demolished
__ ate,! with water. An abundance of1 «V last week . twUter.
Inmi „,n.i.l i r,i has (allen this spring and the The wheat growers of Oklahoma
count v Ik looking prime. hare no reasons to complain thia year
„ , Some of the farmer I. the dry re- "f w~th"-
a™ Magnwan left the I ^on, ota|m th„, the chinch bugs hare Frank Nsgowsn -pent a good deal
l>nllman car which he , n c||wh ^ ^ w|)pnt A lielll|n(r „f money in Oklahoma, but It doesn't
| rain Ik the only thlug I list will knock -ecu, to have reached the fellow* he
wan owing.
The count v coinmiKKloncrit of I<ogan
chartered.
Oklahoma will never nee a man who
.pent money like Frank Maguwan of j #tUmpt (o „.(„in ,hc l„«llun
BY CLARA AUGUSTA ,
INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION.
New Jersey. territory jurisdiction over felonies In county sitting an equalisation board
.fudge flaakill of Klngflsher county in the Ft. Nmlth and l-aris courta. has resolved to make uo change iu the bk-
raises the finest blackberries In the ! failed, ami after September 1. all 1 *« * r«' report*.
territory. He irrigate*. | court business of ibc Indisu territory I After Kildare had tlx
As between Independence and grub.
nsactrd within the terri-
the Cheyenne Indians upiH-ar to have
decided In favor of grub.
Judge llurfoiil will *pend the sum-
luer on hi* claim in (iardeld county,
lie expect* to open up a law office in
the fall.
Itunners for Oklahoma hotela ad*
will be tn
tory.
Iter. II. II. Murtin of Douglas, sayt
that the country that last year fur-
nished the Ikiuglis count
ven cy-
clones in one hour it airopV sat down (
and waited for some one else to do J
better. It i* *tiil sitting.
In Itlaiue township tlurfleld county
the recent hailstoriu killed hundred*
ihuuiirr^ iot i'hihiioiiih innrm nun ,
the following to their yell: -Onr fonr w n r""-
bales of cotton, will this year furnish of chickens and dead rabbits can I*
t .(KM, hales. The cotton lit large and! picked up everywhere.
some stalks now contain three and' If the present grape crop expe
ti,lions are fully realized Oklahoma
house is the only one iu the city with
a cyclone cave attached."
The sentimental Oklahoma white , county fruit grower* will planta<iuar-
poetess who married a full blood Sioux | of a million new vine* next y
j a few yearn mgo haa tlirre copper
Monday afternoon a cyclone passed
B. I). Nix and Judge King of Noble j (>red irs of ,he ov,.nt- ,n,i her: through KingH*her counto. l hurt
county invested some time ago > n j ))rtinu |l1IKt>nn,| olupe.l with a greasy, | no ono 'or tlic good and sufticient rca-
Crippie Creek mine which has just pigFon toed heroine of the sage brush j " that everybody akedaddled to his
turneel out to be a ricli one.
it few daya ajfo.
There ia one thin# the "oldeat inhulv j
itant" In Oklahoma haa never aeen be- 1
fore and that is as much terror about ,
tornadoes as there has been thia vear.
Ok la., field and Awing-ing hi* arm he
, may be sowing a harvest of death —
that is. spreading dead infected chinch
i buffft.
ale woman has invented a pin
, cave.
. 1 When you ia man treading
I our of the insurance companies i
have settled their difficulty with iirist
Mill .lone*. whose mill burned down.
untl if the other insurance companies
A Arm a t Purcell want* wood-chop- . do not come to time they will Had
per* to cut one thousand cords of | mighty little picking In Oklahoma , wh,ch n.„, kepp shjrt skirt
wood. If a tramn visit* the vicinity i county hereafter. together. The simple expedient of a
after seeing this notice he doe* so at j A Htory la told on an Oklahoma pub- ] little button hole tab like the men *e
his own peril. , lishcr. in a town where the women | jR not in >t.
Mi** Mary I)e Zavalo of Texas, v ho | recently carried the election, that he j Although the ninety day* provision
Is in I*ogan county establi*hlng circu- I telegraplieil for an electric cut of a hen. j* knocked out there were enough
lating libraries, was the daughter of 1 *a.ving that the women had elected all | divorce case* tiled before it >vas signed
the first president of the republic of j the officers and he supposed he would j by the president to keep the courts
Texas. | have to swing out a hen Instead of a ■ busy for months.
Wild plum*, currants and mulber- «"°oeter. Oklahoma's divorce law did one
ries are growing in abundance iu Mr. Wagner of Oklahoma county. 1 thing. The example in the story of
Woodward county. arid the good | who i* a grower of fine wine grapes Frank Magowan will be worth thous-
honsewifes are busy working up the j has a vineyard of SO acres and has put | ands of dollars to the youth of Okla-
«ame into some toothsome delicacies j on the market four different kind* of j liuma as a warning.
| wine. Ilia wine is excellent and it is j Silas Richardson, the barber of
predicted that wine from Oklahoma . Arapahoe, i* a wonderful man. He ia
grape* "ill soon be selling in foreign I the only barber there and he recently
markets. ! Cut down a share to 10 cents. That is
A colored pugilist by the name of > what is called public spirit
Russell I* doing some prize lighting | They have a man in the I.ogan coun-
in Kansas. He wa* sent for by some ty ja(,' for stealing baled hay in the
Ilutler county sports who had a bully | country. Where would the
in the ring n*o they wanted squelched. ( fees t.0111(1 from if the Osage country
rom the most reliable information we | „houl(t suddenly sink into the middle
The Farmers' and Stock Orowere'
bank at Meade, which failed last week
was the Kansas bank which had t3..">00
of Bearer county's money. It very
rarely happens that a bank in another
state from a county, has the county'*
funds on deposit.
Kastern papers are making assertions
to the effect that there are "now no
divorce laws in Oklahoma since con
gross knocked out the ninety day srs sho"ld j"^e ,h<\ d'rk^' ! t,ie ™r"'
tem." This is a harmful mistake.
Congress simply prolonged the time to
wait for decree—from ninety days to
twelve months.
A suit lias been filed in the Logan
county diatrict court against the Santa
I'o railroad by tieorge Klanss who
want* the company to donate him
85,000 on account of injuries received
In lifting a heavy steel rail while
working on that road.
At 11 o'clock Thursday morning
earth with hi* pale faced brother. I .... ... - ,
1 ; Out in ttoouward county a man
A funny storm blew over southern j went into town from his ranch and on
Kansas and Oklahoma last Saturday I looking over an almanac discovered
night. It wa* the fiercest looking the naked gentleman with the irradia-
storn: Oklahoma had seen for many a | tions on the front page. He went
day. and the people were considerably ' from the fish and the scales, the gem-
frightened. The cloud looked black
and two hundred miles across, liut
it doesn't appear to have dropped nny
rain anywhere.
ini to the scorpions anil asked: "What
in thunder do you suppose those chinch
hug-s stand for?"
!.oguu county never l« oked more
The Commissioner of Indian a Hair*. | prosperous than it looks today. The
after hearing the complaint* made wheat is fully matured and a large
against ('apt. A. B Woodson, endorses ' part of it is in the shock. Oats is lie-
John IJullrose. an Italian and a mem- | hi administration in the heartiest 1 ginning to turn, and good for an aver-
ber of the Knights of Pythias, and an 1
Italian minor, Frank Ross, were found
drowned with their clothe* on in the
water pit of the Choctaw mining com-
pany. The general belief is that Bull-
rose committed suicide and Ross lost
his life while trying to save him.
A shooting with a probable fatal re-
sult is reported from Fritzlen. Woods
eonnty. Itenjamin Berry and Albert
llankins quarreled over the settlement
of a milk account and came to blows
mnnner. and assures him that the de-j age of thirty bushels. Corn is much
partment will stand by him. ('apt. of it four and five feet high nml so
Woodson lias brought more common | rank that the fields resemble tobacco
practical sense to bear npon the In- I field*. The fmit trees are making a
dian question than all his predecess- ' splendid growth, and peaches, iher-
or* put together. If he continues to I rieB, plums and grapes will be pro-
receive the encouaagement he has so|ducedin abundance.
far, in u few more years the Cheyenne i A diligent inquiry among the farm-
Indians will lie able to make a living ors elicit* the fact that Noble county
for themselves. I w; | ] ),BVe two-thirds of a crop of wheat
In response to his recent letter urg- j a splendid crop of oats, ami grass and
ing a change in the quarantine so as I corn growing splendidly. Many reap-
but were separated. Berrv was shot j to put Canadian county in the safe I ers and headers are l>eiug sold to the
CHAPTER XVI—fC"o*v,*c«a)
Bha stopped suddenly, and, rising,
irai about to loava tho room. Ha took
her hand, and cloaed the door ht had
opened, leading her lo a seat.
"My dear Miss L«e*, I do not compre-
hend you. Explain. If I hava evaf
Injured you In any way, It haa bean
the very thing farthest removed from
my Intentions. Will you not give tnc •
chance to defend myself?"
She blushed painfully; her embar-
rassment disturbed him, for he waa
generous to all, and he really felt very
kindly toward her.
"I cannot explain," she said In a •un-
due,! voice. "I am sorry you cam* Just
bow. But these slanders anger me, aa
well as wound my feelings."
• What slanders, Miss l<ee?"
Her color grew deeper. Animated by
aome sudden resolve, she lifted her head
proudly.
"I will tell you. Remember that yD'i
•ought the Information. Your coming
here has been made the aubject of re-
mark. and I have been accused of hav-
ing schemed to draw you here. You
know If It be true." „ .
HI* face flushed slowly. He recalled
the silly atoriea that had some time be-
fore reached 1,1s eara. And because of
them she had suffered. This woman
whose unremitting care had saved his
life! How thoughtless and cruel he had
been! He was a man of honor; If Miy
woman's reputation had been Injured
through his means, there was but one
course for him to pursue. He inu t
mad* reparation. And howt For a
moment his head whirled, but glanc-
ing at the pale, distressed face before
him, he made his decision.
"Alexandrine," he said quietly, "you
know Juat what my courae hss been.
You know my lowly origin—you know
how life has cheated me of happlneas.
You know how dear Margie Harrlaon
was to mo, and how I lost her. I loved
Iter with my whole soul—she will bo
the one love of my lifetime, I shall
never love another woman as I loved
her. But if my name and the position
I can glvo my wife, will be pleasant
to you, then I ask you to accept them,
aa some slight recompense for what I
have made you suffer. If you can be
satisfied with the sincere respect and
friendship I feel for you, then I offer
myself to you. You deserve my heart,
but I have none to give to any one
I have burled it «o deep that it will
never know a resurrection."
She shuddered and grew pale. To
on* of her passionate nature—loving
him as she did—It waa but a sorry
wooing. His love she could never have.
But If she married him, she should be
always near him; sometimes he would
hold her hands In his, and call her,
•s he did now. Alexandrine. Her ap-
parent struggle with herself pained
him. Perhaps he guessed something
of IU cause. He put his arm around
her walat.
"My child." he said, kindly, do you
love me? Do you Indeed care for
me? Cold and Indifferent as I have
been? Tell me truly. Alexandrine.
She did tell him truly; something
within urged her to let him see her
heart as It was. For a moment she
but aside all her pride.
"I do love you," she said, ' Qod onlj .
knows how dearly!"
He looked at her with gentle, pit} -
Inr eves but he did not touch <he red you,
lln* bo near his own. He could not be , to LlghtHeld, In New Hampshire, to
hvDocrlte "top an lndefln"e 'en«th '"m®
* ..I wlll be good to you. Alexandrine, my old nurse. Mrs. Day."
Qod helping me, you Bhall never have Castranl was visibly affected by this
cause for complaint. I will make your | proof of her confidence.
life as happy as I can. I will glv , "From me. no one shall ever know
you all that my life's shipwreck spared the place of your refuge," he said, earr.-
m* Will that content you? Will you I estly. "Your train leaves at ten. It
be my wife?" 18 now n,ne- " you woul(l on'y permit
Still ah* did not reply. 1 me to see you safely to the end of your
"Are you afraid to risk It?" he asked, | Journey!"
"That's the way they all travel. Well,
thank the lord, I hain't so gallant as
to git taken In by every decent fac* I
•e*!"
"Thunk heaven, I am not so lost la all
sense of decency si to Insult a tody!"
•aid a clear, stern voice; and a tall, die-
llngulshed-looklng man swept through
the crowd, and reached Margie's side.
"Indeed, I am not mistaken!" he said,
looking at her with amaiement. "Miss
Harrison!"
She saw, •■ h* lifted hla hat, th*
frank, handsome face of Louis Castranl,
All her troubles were over—this man
was a pillar or strength to her weak-
ness. She caught his arm eagerly, and
Leo barked with Joy, recognising a
friend.
"I am so glsd to see you, Mr. Caa-
tranll"
His countenance lighted Instantly,
lie pressed the hand on his arm.
"Thank you, my friend. What serv-
ice can I render you? Where do you
wish to go? !<*t me act for you,"
"Oh, thank you—if you only will! I
waa going further, but the train I
wished to take had been gone some
houra, and I must stay here to-night.
And on my way, somewhere, my money
has been stolen."
"Olve yourself no more uneaalness.
I am only too happy to b* of any use
lo you."
The crowd dispersed, and Castranl
called a carriage, and put Margie and
Leo Inalde,
"Have you any choice of hotels?"
"None, I am entirely unacquainted
here. You know best."
"To the House," he said to the
driver; and thither they were taken.
A warm room and u tempting supper
were provided, but Margie could not
eat. She only swallowed a little toast,
and drank a cup of tea. Castranl came
to her parlor Just after she bad finished,
but he did not sit down. He had too
much delicacy to Intrude himself upon
her when accident had thrown them to-
gether.
"I was called here on very urgent
business," be said, "and shsll be obliged
to attend to It to-night, but I shall re-
turn soon, and will see you In the morn-
ing. Meanwhile, feel perfectly at
home, 1 have engaged a chamber-mal l
to attond to you, and do not be afraid to
make your wanta known, Oood-nlght,
now, and pleasant dreams."
She was o weary, that sh* slept
soma, with Leo hugged tightly to her
breast; for she felt a sense of security
iu having this faithful friend near her.
Breakfaat was served In her room, and
by and by Castranl came up. He spok*
to her cheerfully, though he could not
fall to notice that some terrible blow
had fallen upon her sine* last h* had
■een her, gay and brilliant, at a party
In New York. But he forebore to ques-
tion her. Margie appreciated his deli-
cacy, and something Impelled her to
confide to him what she had not en-
trusted to the discretion of any other
person. She owed him this confidence,
for his disinterested kindness.
"Mi. Castranl." she said, quietly
enough, outwardly, "circumstances of
which I cannot speak, have made It
necessary for me to leave New York.
I do not desire that the place of my
destination shall be known to any one.
But to show you how much I appreciate
your kindness, and how entirely I trust
will Inform you that I am going
almost sadly.
"No, 1 am not afraid! I will risk
•verythlng!" she answered.
through the body later.
is likely to result fatally. llankins
gave himself up to the sheriff and is
nowout on bail.
The cane of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railway company against
the board of territorial railway asses-
sors was tried in the Logan county
district court Tuesday and resulted in
a decision of the court holding the ac-
tion of the board of territorial railway-
assessors in assessing the property of
railroads in this territory as illegal.
The conrt held that the territorial
board of railway assessors could not
arbitrarily fix any value on the prop-
erty they saw fit, but must assess the
property according to the evidence
before them, and found that the board
had assessed the property of the rail-
road beyond its true value. Iteing
about double the assessment on the
same property for the year 1895, and
at the rate of about <13,000 per mile.
The seventeen prisoners confined in
the Woods county jail complain that
no clergyman has visited them since
V'eb. S. 1890.
he wound | district, and thus relieve the many furraers. The farmer who put hi
ii._i.i_. I oompijc.,,tions now existing, Oovernor i wheat in well is reaping a much tlet-
Ren fro w received a letter from the I ter harvest than the farmer who
secretary of agriculture. May 5th stat- | scratched hi* wheat crop in. Thisvcr-
ing that it is now so late in the season ' iHes the statement that - anything
it would not be safe to change the line
for the present year, as the cattle may
have been driven into the county from
further south, which would dissemin-
ate contagion.
The following is the new Oklahoma
divorce law: He it enacted by the
Senate and house of Represenatives of
the United State* of America in Con-
gre** assembled. That no divorce shall
be granted in any territory for any
cause unless the party applying for
tlic divorce shall have re*lded contin-
uously in the territory for one year
next preceding the application: Pro-
vided. That this act shall not affect
any action duly commenced and pend-
ing at the date of the passage thereof,
^proved tyay 25. 1896.
Jerre Johnson draws an Oklahoma
application by saying that a man
who makes two hairs yro«v .vhere one
has grown before is a public benefac
that is worth doing, is worth doing
well."
A good looking well-to-do lmchelor
of Lincoln county, was being tersed by
the young ladies of a club for not be-
ing married. He said: "I 11 mairy
tlie girl of your clnb whom on a se-
cret vote, you elect to be my wife."
There were nine member* of the club.
Each girl went into the corner and
used great precaution in preparing hrr
ballot and disguising her handwriting.
The result of the vote wa* that there
wa* nine vote* cast, each girl receiving
one. The young man remains a bache-
lor. the clnb i* broken up and the girl*
are all mortal enemies, united in the
one determination that they will never
speak to the na*ty men again.
An Oklahoma paper say* that Kay
county i* Kansas' (iretna tirecn.
The people formerly of Marshall
county, Kansas, now In (iarfield coun-
CHAPTER XVII.
EANWHILE what
of Margie Harri-
son? Through the
dull, stormy day-
she had beeu
whirled along like
the wind. The train
CiJ* \ was an express, and
Vfc, made few stop-
pages. Margie took
llttl* note of any-
thing which oe-
| eurred. She aat in her hard seat like
one In a trance, and paid no heeil to the
lapse of time, until the piteous whining
! f Leo warned ber that night was near,
i and the poor dog waa hungry. At the
first stopping-place she purchased Bomei I not *,T8 " t0 you—I lend it to
r . ifAit Vrtii ao ** ranov rrto at vnilP MR.
Mrs. Clara Hoffman, of Missouri, _
well known W, C. T. V.. worker, j* buy that idea.
traveling and lecturing in the tcrrito- , The Choctaw road has leased a beau-
ry. i tiful grove two miles west of Calvin
Dr. Henry Hudson Bennett, a noted | which has been fitted up for picnic j
New York City physician, has been
divorced from his wife, Amelia Ben-
nett, in the Noble county district
court. Bennett alleges that his wife
deserted him for the stage.
Grist Mill Jones arranged more than
a week ago to send a carload of newj WOnien of the next generation
wheat to St. I/oni* to reach there June j come out of western Oklhoma,
1. Did he do it?
tor. The Danderine company should tv. Oklahoma, will have a grand re-
union July 4th.
A saddle and bridle, a man's clothes
and boots were found on the Washita
river near Arapahoe the other day.
purposes" be ing provided nl th | Nothing Is known of the fate of the
seatsTetc. The road will make special j "• M"-v lie Ranged In*
low rates to Sunday schools or other j clothes.
parties deriring to spend a day pleas- That Shawnee county dentist is still
antlv. explaining.
It is said that the most beautiful j At the Kildare minstrel show it de-
will ' veloped that a man had his left ear,
left arm and left leg cut off by a cy-
clone and was all right.
Thia fall O county will select a name j „ sr, ukiDg the Keeley cure,
ably be ;
It I* claimed that a half dozen Osage
, „quaws are taking the Keeley cure. ' The cyclone in Canadian county
it« county. It will probably be ; came *o close npon the St. Louis tor-
named Custer, as one of his battle ! Oklahoma is on the eve of a relig-
nado that it escaped notice.
in ther*' iouh revival. The papers are fun of 1 ... . ...
neias is tnere. V,, « .• \ : An Oklahoma exchange says jubi-
Tha government will now proceed j 1 c oin^s ° rfV va 16 lantly that most of the Oklahoma
to pay the Chickasaw Indian* 180,000. , Sibley vs. Sibley was the last di- farmers have forgotten that they
A prominent Oklahoma man says to vorce filed in Oklahoma county before j m* ie the prediction some weeks ago
him it looks just as safe or safer to be ! the president signed the law abolish- that their wheat had gone glimmer-
U a cyclone than a coronation. J ing the ninety days. ing.
Ths Pawnee county cyclone is put | Payment on homestead* has been | MiRS Kouach, a Cheyenne Indian,
down as a fake. extended for one year and there is no , has ju,t become Mrs. Redeye.
The Indian agent at Anadarko will ! doubt but that fre<" ,1omWi wln ** 8 \ Two Ka>' county editors went fishing
Mat the Comanche reservation to the ' recognized fact during this congress If j in the same party and now are telling
highest bidder. not this term. tales on each other.
Down In a ledge in the darkness of During a recent storm in Oklahoma The Oklahoma fruit men expect to
oblivion lie* the Noble county gold j county a man who hadn't any cellar j begin ?'>lp peaches to ths northern
baam middled up to the Washita coun- | got under a culvert. It Is not ':any markets in about twenty days. The
r in a storm" but "anv hole in a Amsden. Alexander am
cvclone " in Oklahoma. ' | Traveler varieties will be the first to
> ripen.
M. Good of Noble county is a fca^oy A graduate in an Oklahoma county
papa who will be expected not t>' high school called Dr. Mary Walker
growl when th* baby criea famous. She U notorious.
ty excitement.
people oat of the territory
od in-
to edncmee the
bread and meat for him. but nothing for
herself. She could not have swallowed
a mouthful.
j Still the untiring train dashed on.
Boston was reached at laat. She got
out, and stood, confused and bewil-
dered, gazing around her. It was
night and the place was atrange to her.
I The crlea of the porters and backmen—
the buatle and dire confusion, struck a
j ?hill to her heart. The crowd hurried
hither and thither, each one Intent on
his own business, and the lamps gave
I out a dismal light, dimmed as they
! were by the hanging clouds of mist and
1 fog. Alone In a great city! For the
I first time In her life she felt tue slgnlfl-
j cance of the words she had so often
! heard. She had never traveled half a
' dozen miles before, by herself, and she
' felt almost as helpless as a little child.
I "Carriage, ma'am?" Bald'a backman,
i touching ber arm.
"Yes," she Bald, mechanically, anil
put her hand In her pocket for her
porte-monnale, with a vague Idea that
the must pay him before she started.
She uttered a low cry of dismay! Her
pocket-book was missing! 9he
searched more thoroughly, but It waa
not to be found. Her pocket had been
picked. She turned a piteous face to
th* hackman.
"My money Is lo*t .sir!" she said, "but
If you will take me to a place of shelter.
[ will remunerate you some way."
"Sorry to be obliged to refuse,
ma'ain," said the man, civilly enough,
"but I'm a poor man with a family, and
can't afford to keep my horses for noth-
! ing."
j "What Is It, driver?" queried a rough
voice; and In a moment a crowd had
| gathered around poor, shrinking Mar-
; gie, and growling, Indignant Leo.
"The woman'* lost her purse—"
I "Oh. ho! the old story—eh? Beauty
I in distress. Should tblnk they'd get
i tired of playing that game!" ssld the
! coarse voice, which belonged to •
I lounger and hanger-on at the depot.
"Looks rather suspicious, ma'am, for
y* to be traveling on the train alone "
. begao th* hackman; but be was Inter-
rupted by th* lounger.
She flushed. He read a quite reproach
In her eye.
"Pardon me. I know It msy seem
like ofBcIousness, but I would try and
not be disagreeable to you. I would
not even speak to you, If you desired It
should be so. But I could travel In
the same car with you, and be there to
protect you, if you should need me."
"I thank you greatly. But I had
rather you went no farther. I shall
meet with no difficulty, I think. 1 shall
reach Nurse Day's by sunset."
"As you will. I will not press the
matter. Your pleasure shall be mine."
A little later he assisted her from
the carriage that had taken her to the
depot. Her baggage was checked—he
handed her the check, and her ticket
and then pressed Into her hand a roll
of bank-notes. She put them back
quietly, but he declined taking them
**r* heart o( th* girl. Th* bfMM, (0
fresh and «w**t, and clear, seethed
Margie Inexpressibly. Tte auMhlne
of healing; th* songs of
th* bird* carried her back to h*r happy
childhood, Wandering through th* 1
iMfy allies of th* foreet, *h* s**m*d j
brought nearer to God and his mercy, i
Only one* had Nurse Day questioned
her of th* past, and then Margl* had !
•aid!
t have done with the paat forever.
Nurse Day. I wlah It never recalled to
I have met with • great sorrow—
one of which 1 cannot speak. I came
forget II. Never aak me any- ,
thing about It. I would confide It to
you, If I could, but my word Is glrsn to |
another to keep silent. I acted for |
what I thought beat. Heaven knows
If I erred, I did not err willingly."
"Give It all Into God's bands," said i
Nur«e Day, reverently. "He knowB 1
Just what Is beet for us."
The days went on slowly, but they
brought something of peace to Margie
Harrlaon. The violence of her dis-
tress pnssed away, and now there waa
only a dull pain at her heart—a pain
that must alwaya havs Ita abode
HUMORISTS' CORNER.
JOKII AND JISBB FOR TORRID
JUNR WRATHER.
Craseeellve < esS,«,«a at totWl Cmitr
it's *■ •— Mew C i«r UN II—
8TATRLY forest
monarch
Is this huge nut-
bearing tree,
B e n o a t h whose
wide- s pread
branches
Lies the home so
dear to me;
And fairer far than
pnlaces
Of gilt, and stone,
, _ „ snil Jade.
Is the age-browued wooden cottago,
Just In the walnut shade.
On either side sn arbor
With rich gfape vines covrred o'er,
Bhe held no communication with any ! A honey-suckle trellis
Ia Buenos Ayera c«Aks get 115 y
week.
In Johannesburg there i* a • !«* '
w every 8M> of the white population.
Of the 500 student* t Vsssar col-
lege more than rido eleyele*. and
nany o* the dignified professors havs
llso become enthusiastic cycler*.
Five hundred thousand Chinese llv*
In boats.
Sulin Bull Imports MK,,000,000 eggs
The abuse heaped upon a man la
often the «Kx ho ps.vs for trying to
tdvance c^cljpg.
Kentucky haH 1
layear.
voinarf brick-
Telegraph line*
miles.
stretch 1,00'-'.'
shirt waist Is
it Is made ol
person In New York, save ber aunt, and
her business sgent, Mr. Farley, and her
letters to them were posted In a distant
, In a neighboring atate. where
Nurse Day had frlends-and so Margie's
place of refuge waa still a eeeret.
(to si coNrixoao.l
A FAMOUS SOPRANO.
M Continents ray Tribal* ta Elian
ti each Yaw, the Ureal Binger.
In this closing of the nineteenth ceo- I
tury there hss dawned a atar In tho
vocal flrmanent which ecllpaea, In bird-
like •weetness and phenomenal range,
all the voice* of the past, say* th* New ;
York World. Hlatory will writ* the
name and fame of Ellen Beach Yaw as
the greatest soprano singer the world '
has ever known—greater than Pattl— 1
greater than Nllaaon—greater than
I, The American people will Snd ,
much aatlafactlon In the thought that ,
Miss Yaw Is an American girl: she waa
born In New York atate and the great- 1
er portion of her early life was spent
In California.
Miss Yaw la a tall, stately girl, who** j
wealth of blonde hair frame* a fac*
that I* beautiful and expreaalv*. Her
bearing and manner Indicate Mlf-po*-
session and are the embodiment of all
tbat la graceful and refined. The beau-
ty and phenomenal range of her voice
became apparent some yeara ago, while
under tho tuition of Mme. BJorkaten of
New York, and under whose guidance ,
Mia* Yaw went to Pari* and studied
with the famous Delia Sedle and Baz.
It waa not until two yeara ago that ber
wonderful voice began to attract pub- >
llo attention—and In thl brief period
■h* baa sung herself Into a popularity
that haa taken otheni a lifetime to ac- !
compllah. Compared with other volcea
of world-wide fame, the scale standi
thus.
Mlia Taw alngi without the illghteit
perceptible effort, from E below ths bar
to E In the altlMlmo—a range of twen-
ty-eight tonei. Her famoua note—the
E above high E 1* five note* higher than
Pattl ever attained—and the highest
note ever voiced from a human throat.
Her ringing and her methods cannot be
likened to those of Patti or Nllnon—
there Is a distinctiveness and an Indi-
viduality that haa been created by and
belonga excluilvely to Yaw. who li now
engaging the attention of the whole
music-loving world.
Embow'ra the low front door.
The nsrrow brick edged pathway.
With aea beach pebbles ianl.
Winds Its way towards the threshold.
Across the wslnut'a ahade.
And ss from toll returning,
I wslk slowly slong the road.
Dragging wesry footsteps
To the plsce of mine sbode;
Comes running 'cross the graaa plot,
A brown-eyed amlllng maid,
Who greeto me with wlnaome grace,
Beneath the walnut'a shade.
—Percle W. Hart In To Date.
"Do you aee the man?"
"Yes. I see the man; he is in yonder
doorway."
"Ia the man dead?"
"No, the man is not dead; the man I*
asleep."
"Is not the man afraid to sleep In th*
doorway?"
"No. the man la not afraid to sleep In
th* doorway; the man knowa he la
aafer when aaleep."
"When will the man cwaken?"
"The man will awaken at 5 In the
morning."
"Will not the man take cold?"
"No, the man will not take cold."
"Why will the man not take cold?"
"Becauae the man Is used to sleep-
ng In the doorway."
"Who la the man?"
"The man Is a policeman."
The stout woman In 1
s frlgftt.
Counterfeit hard rulil*
sawdust.
The girl to " *tow.
i Mme. Paul recently *n g '
for charity, and the performance net.
letl 15,000 francs.
The salvation army has during the
past four years led annually to thi
IttVlor, 800.000 soul*. ^
The war of the last seventy years
have cost Russia #1,77\000,000 and
the lives of 04.OOP men.
A Turkish turbun of tlic grente >.
•Ixe contains from ten lo twenty yards
f the finest and softest muslin.
London's fiimous bicycle track, Hern
ilill, will next year forsake board for
cement walk.
Ilotli lo llsrih and awaei
rbs nerve, sr. olwn |. ,ntnllr acute. *bn < "•
■m lb* caae. the but thing to ba dun* I"
(be tonli and lr*nc|alll«lng ■MUlsnea of Hotlcl-
tor'i Hinmarb Hulen, s ssrerb ncrvlna. >o iw
bcnfflcml la it fur dppeplle. bllluoa. malaria,.
bowel snd kidney complaint*, t •*
A vlncglaaafttl ba-
Tha Rating Paatlon.
The reporter lay on his eiderdown
couch, slowly breathing his life away.
It was evident that the end was very
near.
Suddenly the luxuriously furnished
room waa filled with a phosphorescent
light, and a pale shade appeared, stand-
ing at the bedside, grim and Inscruta-
ble.
"I am the Messenger of Death!" he
Bald.
"One moment, please!" gasped the
reporter, reaching feebly for hi* note-
book and pencil. "How do you like
America?"
Crude Surveying.
It 1b a commonly accepted theory that
a man steps three feet and many a
tract of land has been "stepped oil"
Instead of measured with a chain. In
the weat they obviate the difficulties of
surveys by the land being divided Into
sections, but In Pennsylvania much of ;
the property, especially In the moun- |
tains, must still be described by metes
and bounds. In one of the counties In
western Pennsylvania are two brothers,
one of whom 1s tall and lank and the !
other short and fat. Many years ago
they purchased a tract of mountain '
land calling for a mile square. They
divided the labor of measuring It, one ;
stepping off one side, the other the oth- '
er side. Then they fenced It In and '
were perfectly satisfied, until recently, I man?
Jenks—If America had the May-
flower. now. we could sweep England
off the eeas.
Hanks—What makes you think so?
Jenks—Because, according to the
millions of people claiming their an-
cestors came over on the Mayflower,
tho ship must have been as big as the
state of Illinois.
Iteata Hlm to Heath.
"Did you ever see anything lie (.eeper
than the snow this winter?" the pas-
senger from Canada was saying.
The passenger from Maine toyed re-
flectively with the corkscrew in his
pocket.
"Not unless we except the oldest In-
habitant." be replied, after a thoughtful
pause.
A* I'aual.
Kind Lady (to mendicant who has
Been better days)—And how did you
come to lose all your money, my iioor
when suit was brought to recover „
considerable tract of the land. Each book
brother swore that he knew the meas-
urement to be right and told how
It had been done. Then, as the
spectators saw the short legs of
the one, scarcely long enough to
reach the floor when he aat In a chair,
and the elongated extremities of the
other, there was a general laugh, In
which the Judge and the attorney
Joined. Upon aurveylng it was found
that one line waa a mile and a halt
long and the other only a little over
halt a mile—Washington Star.
Mendicant (sadly)—Pushing my
Success and How to Attain It."
iNotCda
Song Writer—Did you receive my let-
ter containing manuscript of my latest
song?
Musical Composer—I did receive your
letter and its contents were noted.
at your con-
you. You can repay
venlence."
"On those conditions. I thank you,
also."
She put out ber hand. He took It,
resisted the Inclination to press his lips
to It, and held It lightly In his.
"If you will give me permission—to
call upon you—should I be in Llghtfleld
during your stay there—I shall be more
than happy!"
She was about to refuse, but the mute
pleading of hi eyes deterred her. He
had been kind to her, and It could do
her no harm. Probably, be would
never come to Llghtfleld. so she gave
hlm the permission he asked for.
The day passed without Incident, and
nightfall found Margie within ten miles
of her destination. She was driven
along a rough country road, to a square
farm-house—looming up white through
the dark—and a moment later, she was
lying, pale and exhausted, In the arms
of Nurse Day.
"My blessed child!" cried the old
lady; "my precious little Margie! My
old eyes will almost grow young again,
after having been cheered by the sight
of ye!" And she kissed Margie again
and again, while Leo expressed his de-
light In true canine style—by barking
vociferously, and leaping over the
chair* and tables.
CHAPTER XVIII.
URSE DAY was
pleasantly situated.
Her husband waa a
'ft grave, staid man,
who was very kind
to Margie, alwaya.
The farm was a
rambling affair-
extending over, and
embracing in It*
ample limits, hill
and dale, meadow
and woodland, and a portion of a bright,
swift river, on whose banks It was Mar-
gie's delight to sit through the purple
sunsets, snd watch the play of light
and shade on th* bare, rocky cliff oppo-
site.
Natur* proved • tru* friend to ti*
No Rlaka Taken.
St. Peter (to applicant with umbrella)
—You can come In here, but yon will
have to leave that umbrella outside.
No one In here Is permitted to bo un-
duly tempted.
Won a Srlda and m Farm.
Miss Anna, tbe daughter of J. M.
Hayes, was married at Chattanooga,
Tenn., to George Miller. Jr.. of Toledo,
O., under rather romantic clrcum- 1
stances. The groom is the son of the
Rev. George Miller, a Presbyterian min-
ister of Toledo. During the dedication
of tbe Chlckamauga park last Septem-
ber the Rev. Miller met his old boy-
hood companion, Mr. Haye*. The lat-
ter has three grown daughters. The
minister took a great fancy to Miss j
Anna and determined that bli son
should marry her, or at leer*, one of
his old friend's daughters. He took
home photographs of tbe three girls
and offered his son a farm If be would
marry one of them. The young man
liked best the picture of Miss Anna.
The couple became engaged and Mon-
day young Miller saw his fiancee for
the first time. Both were pleased, and,
after spending a week here, the couple
III go to Ohio to reside on the fsrm
thus won.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
7.ana'a Dream.
Zana ate a little stewed kidney
Which she could not digest.
And Bhe dreamed that twenty Abys-
slnlans
Were waltzing on her chest.
—J. T. J.
Judge—What's the charge, officer?
Officer—Manslaughter, your honor.
Judge--Whom did he kill?
Officer—He didn't kill nobody, be-
gorrafc; he laughed at me; sure If
that's not mans-laughter Ol'd like to
A Mlnlater on Profanity.
Profanity Is a relic of barbarism and
an evidence of a low state of living. It
Is repulsive and a gross Insult to de-
cency. It places men In the lowest so-
ciety and robs them of all self-respect, know what It Is!—To Date
It takes neither brains nor common I
Dense to swear, and, generally speak-
ing. the less tbe brain the profaner tbe j
man —Rev. C. B. Oruver.
Narrow bracelets commemorative of
/crtain wanted-to-be-reuieinbered
events are now being adopted by wo-
men who go in for all sorts of fads.
Thre* for a Dollar!
Three what? Three charmingly exe-
cuted posters in colors, drawn by W.
VV. Denslow, Kthcl Heed and Kay
Brown, will be sent free of postage to
I any address on receipt of One Dollar.
All who are afflicted with the ••poster
•raze" will immediately embrace this
rnrc opportunity, a* but a limited num-
ber "f the posters will be issued. The
scarcity of a good thing enhances Its
value. Addresa Oe . H. Heafford,
General Passenger Agent of tho Chi-
cago, Milwaukee A St. Paul Hallway,
Old Colony Building, Chicago, 111.
The robin and the wren are the only
birds that sing all the year. All the
other birds have periodical fits of si-
lencc.
I know tbat my life wss nsved by Plio'i
Cure for Consumption.--John A. Miller,
Au ^able. Michigan. April -'I, W>.
A habit of saving i* one of which no
one need feel they must break them-
wives- It rarely gets too inastcrfuj
to be troublesome.
Ball'* Catarrli Cor*
,fc taken internally. Price, 7.1c.
Thirty years ago there were only
two dozen explosive compounds known
to chemists; now there are over 4
1 housa nd.
If you arc thinking '•! studying music
,lo not fail to send l"r the l'rospectua of
the New England Conservatory uf Music
in lloslon. This will acquaint you with
I lie greates-t and mo-t iierlect School of
Music. Oratorv anil Modern banRiioge* in
America. Tlio best i alwaya the cheapest
in the end and the charges are low when
lis advantage* over other similar schools
are considered.
\ New Jersey farmer who raises veg-
■tables for the New York murliet has
spent $25,000 In electric culture and
facilities, and is said to have increased
bis production from 40 to CO per cent.
All Almot Western Farm I.awds.
The "Corn Belt'" is the name of an
illustrated monthly newspaper pub-
lished by the Chicago, Burlington *
Qulncy H. R. It alms to give informa-
tion in an interesting way about th*
farm land* of the west. Send 25 cents
in postage stomps to the Corn Belt, 209
Adams St., Chicago, and the paper will
be sent to your address for on* year
The Turkish government lias strict-
ly forbidden the cutting of timber in
the forests near Jerusalem.
Fifty bicycles were impounded oa
one day in Paris recently because they
had no plates bearing the owners
name and residence soldered to them
a* the new law requires.
Tho origin of the term "Guinea'
dates back from the reign of Charle*
11., when gold dust was brought from
the coast of Guinea, and the coin rl-
eelved its name from that country.
Won-
•liek 10 not>u • n.iri ii|'.iimia. • in } .in ««!••
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
mo One True Mood Purifier. AH <lrupqiMs. $1.
Hood's Plllt Cure all Liver Ills. 25 cent*.
There is lots of pleasure,
tatisfaction and health corked
up in a bottle of HIRES
Rootbeer. Make it. at home.
Cockroaches are never willingly alaln
by Chinamen, They conrider them
■acred InMtts, and think It portends Ill-
luck to step on them. A* they never
make any effort to exterminate them,
the Chinese quarters are usually over-
run with tbeoe peats.
NEW MANAGEMENT AT
HOTEL GEUDA,
BEST HOTEV. IN THE CITY.
liotiie. Nie . cool rooms nml gn
•oni. BOARD REASONABLE,
Letters of Inquiry promptly answered.
Oeada, Kan. Ill A1 All Kuwi, Prop'r.
PATENTS,TRADEMARKS
* Patentability of lit
A Pensioner's Town.
Stonebam, Maine, waa \ery patriotic j
during the civil war. One-fourth the '
voter* now living are pensioners. Dur- ■ Donaboo— Whin yes infoormcd yer
Ing the war the number of enlli tmenti ' wolf* about yer determination to reslnt
exceeded the number of voters. j the enroachmints av ther new woman,
. Casey, did she come to the scratch?
When there la no gospel In tha j n'"~~nM ■h"' Jlat ™ t*ke w
Largest tellers tn the wofM.
. .— prtose freei write
Lll* WAABatO.,
iiitoiier* — — —
BinderTwine:
1 i ThoMpsos's Eys Water,
preaching, what good will it do
crowd th* church 7—Bua'a Hon,
Casey—Did she? Jlat ycz take wan
look at me count*nlnce!—To Date.
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