Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1891, Page 7

: THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON D.C, SATURDAY. § TEMBER 12. i891—SIXTEEN PAGES. q eee) rules,” or notifications, or “absurd” certain decoy letter which “And it's that the omnibus THE CHINESE PIRATES. method of rob! steamsbip, boarded the CHEYENNE AND DENVER. in all tho big and little towns west of Chicag: N rT ¢ Sana whieh tas eetneg aor py he apie ent n ag g he | Mrmr hy aber gh pt mnpagie floor J ee yes 2 on at Hong Kong. It is, Sey Gey eet 4 on THE POSTMISTRESS OF LAUREL Kun. and only bothered ber and * Green's poseceston ot | ing round already coming here.” ‘The Nineteen Who Were Decapitated in One | of couree, only by going aboard in port, dis- | A Star Representative's Impressions tm the | {¢ ive tn Demect tn the best T weve head ache,” and # usually guised as coolies, that the Chinese pirates can Wide-Awake West. | saw it done anywhere else. to her admiring neighbor at Hi ‘aay, continned Mrs. Baker, with great] Day st Amoy and How They Mot Death. | 800s 45 take a foreicn steamship, for it would ‘inne eananiinnl: explanation, who het generally retu: , ea and dancing eyes, “that it would be | From the Philadeiphis Times. be impossible for their junks to overhaul or | THE QUIET OF CHETENNE conTRAsTED WiTm THE! ), fashionable in Chicago now for the rich RU to her with the brief indorsement, “Pi rs just awful if that keerful city clerk found her. When once on board, BUTLE OF DENVER—STAEET CARS AXD CEME . (OUGH THE ENGLISH FORCED THE : est Indios to take care of their children don't. bother: ; first, you | things kinder mixed up inside when he comes - ‘easy for : senate own She semawbersa cow Gat bs had aot severnad | hore nothing to fear. Even your thought to open it. I woulda’ give bim trouble for | & opium trad@ on China, they made up for t ‘a preconcerted and take] So Lanse asreus toines sean mata saenne | One of the prettiest sights im the parks and WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY | the two last. With knotted brows and a slight | ness and ignorance of rules has contributed to | the world, Charley."" the injury thus done the Chinese in opening up | the ship into their possession. fhis was, what eS LITTLE out she pat aside her private correspondence | show your own innocence. Nobody willever| ‘No, ma‘am, it ain't like « BRET HARTE. ba tore open the first’ one. It referred with | be the wiser for this; we do not advertise our| ‘So you'll be particularly careful on my ac- oficial curtness to an unanswered communica- | affairs in the department. Not a soul but your- | count. donlevans ie to see woll attired trom bry the ts of cl tion: Andee pep ee the ter ae ted ——— The de- IMPRESSIONS. trundling their An ape my rd oe ore to them the bees cri eetection of | Bet eget ile well remem Peary eee driving, holding their babies. Tam told. the 4 1 is tr be mother's asstetar - t - ¢- * mmerce, the English put down piracy in the ialenk otex te hi Dexven, Cot., September 5, 1891. | PUM! Si" tion of the previous week, and was “compelled | self knows the real cause of my visit here. I will| ‘‘Mre. Baker,” said Charley, with infinite | CO many more were wounded and, after thoroug! not she baby's, aud the baby's uother LT it ht ship, the I b lot the other day she ts so ofte y ME MAIL STAGE HAD JUST PASSED Se Ge eo aglah be sil exes the Aineman and ov: | Ror hatred ana Boa | Ronde ently in srct car aro andi did | aie cats ene in ory Sone Laurel Run so rapidly that the whirling iscattied on the route, and of | Good-bye, Mirs. Baker nasty bit of busi-| | They shook hands gravely across the window | TTF of all freebooters of the sea that ever | +0 shore and the whole of China rang with the | te Work. One-third was spent in whirling A DENVER SUNDAY cloud of dust dragged with it down the steep | which they had given Ler previons information. | ness, but it’s all in the day's work. I’ve seen | ledge. were, and has the longest history to show of | news of her capture. There was of course an | slong from the railroad station to the Capitol is Just like all the rest of the region about the grade from the summit bung over the level | For a momeut ber cleeks blazed. How dare | worse, and, thank God, you're out of it.” “And you ain't goin’ down with us, Mrs. any rovers now existing. The very first | instant demand tor the fresh suppression of building, the whirlers being two mules, and Rocki re wre hr long sfter the stage had vanished, and then, | they; what did they mean? Her waybills and} She heard his footsteps retreat into the outer | Baker?"* ockios. urches are plentiful and crowded visitors to China knew him and drended him; | Piracy and also for the immediate punishment | past that through South Cheyenne to the cem- en SOT ated nates eastern woman tu er | Sue snd ely et ie | eda on att “™Mae® Sfx) Dutch navi ata Mn dove | tc iene naa Fie [seme ise othe apt nyo. We |Pomunt Pavue rt usar amet over the hot platform of the Laurel Kan post | ‘istrict: no sich names as those borne by the | hoofs’ that seemed. to find a dull echo in ber ” their records as most bloodthirsty and cruel; EiRRt, Tare_very gonfident, however. Tho | ine tocar that the quist and penso of tho | G0. 2's curiving basioen: mane stems Maan office. mabssing letters had ever existed at Laurel Run; | own heart, and she was alone. ‘The room was| She handed him the bag through the door. | he whipped the China sea and the Yellow sea, | hiding pinces of those sea-going gentry are | Cemetery extends throughout the entire city | 2°58 Gemrted. Dust ts sonal of Gn Gut of this clond presently emerged the neat | no suck: addresses had ever been sent from | very bot and very quiet; she could hear the | He took it carefully, but in spite of hi the Indian ocean and also the Archipelago. | imnumerable, —_ bro rerhood = close and | and is probabiy the model upon which the | ture 1 hear a drum and womens volers dallas por with the mail bag | Laurel post office. It was a mean insinuation. | warping and creaking of the shingles under the | precaution fell over it twice on his Long were his voyages, and if Chinese history | CMPAct, and their facilities im this ease for | whole concern ia run. Cheyenne is wreal nice |# jinglioe bites and 1 fed at ae he ee es figure of the postmistross She would send in her resignation at once. She | relaxing of the nearly level sunbeams. ‘The | road, where, from certain excl i : ing to | ezine themsclves among the vast mass of | C100 city. with breed ronds and sean fe ‘yg + 4 Fh which bad been dexterously flung st ber feet | Souid get the “boys” ting Ict- | oltice ciock struck 7. in the breathless silence | soute, it ceemed that a like miserable mis- | 18 to be believed—indecd, there is nothing to | the yst population of China were of the wermespanidegeche a om y BA pom He | from the top of the passing vehicle. A dozen | ter to Senator Slo Murs. Baker had the | that followed a woodpecker took up his inter- | chance attended its elevation to the boot. Then | contradict it—he discovered Mexico centuries) very “best. But on the other baud it is to be | Walks, every street double lined with trees and to make np Denver, an@ loungers eagerly stretched out their hands to | feminine ides of government us » purely pet-| Yupted work on the roof and seemed to bent | Mre. Baker came ‘back into ihe ofiee, and Rs the grass is as green as it is in May time in ef 175,000 she thinks she has some ‘ast her, but the warning “Ifsagin the ruies, |*oual institution, amd sha would find ‘out | out monotonously in ber ear the lust words of | the wheels rolied away threw herself imtoa bine get per ony mae eres mens of all humanit, ‘H. Mec. ” hi it them up to this} the stranger. Stanton Green—a thief! 5 chair and inconsistently gave way for the first but not im the street cars. Im ~- a ———— Boys, for any but her to touch it” froma by-| Who it was = petting Ts Gas peob- | ton Groce, one of the “boys” John hed heiped | time to an outburst of tears. ‘Then her band ave owned the car for all the interrupt VERY MEAN BEIDEGROOMS, stander and a coquettish shake of the head from a d old wife of the post-|out of the falling tunnel. Stanton Green, | was grasped yuddenly, and she found Green on - my maiden musings received during my rides -be postmistress herself—much more effective | master of Heavy Tree Crossing, who was | whose old mother in the states still wrote let- | his knees before her. She started to her fect. ~ to and fro. fu interdict—withheld them. The of iemind her of their | ters to him at Laurel Kun, in a few hours to be | “Don't move,” he suid, with weak, lysterie 18 THE CAPrTor. oe hepa Laurel Run was too recent | previous unanswered communication,” indeed! | disgraced and ruined man forever. She re- | passion, “but listen to me. for God’ ekel T Before I did the cemeteries I wandered into | prom the hog wet eet heey 1 mach corre, | Where was that commonication, anyway? She | membered now, as a thoughtless woman re-| am ruined, I know, even though you have just Reggantabotaged agregar beeper rom Sn eh Se Penn nem ume | cecqrenbered dhe had sont ih to hes aduiver ob] members, talon af Liv astrevapencs oud fuss | ated won troun Aoteotion ack tice rine —— =F - posing pile—the Capitol building. | I eendenes, and the Teuns woman basing | Hickory Hull. 04d that be hada's anawered it, | living, of which she had taken ‘no heed end; |tesn medica fool tein ek Pins done, I 7 tae) a Only an occasional messenger running in and — es mihout dikealty, be, | Of course he knew ail about this meanness— | with useuse of shame, of presents sent know, but you do not know all—you do not ~ Foe outand the click of a typewriter showed that | Sg pie. eae adh omemnte Te mgars.d tea pier | em eong mencigihs The} that she now clearly saw must have be know why I did it—you cannot think of the the big home of legislation was occupie bind the partitioned inclosare in the office and ¢, Stan- | beyond his means. What should the boys suy? | temptation that has driven me to it. Listen, - r 3 It is commodious and handsomely fin " Seebed She daat. Has piety Shee, ecm | Oe vane What would John have said? Ab, what would | Mrs. Baker. I have been striving to get money 9 ee idk Z furnisbed. It faces is laid | MODI % and who suffer under the social tarity visible through the window, was slightly | 00" reco wr tle * and “presoomin’,” | John have done? honestl: dishonestly—any way, to look well in i 4 out in pretty flower beds and ix bounded by a | Custom which forbids a minister to perform flushed with the exertion, and the loose ents of {ill an old loyal pioneer of the camp. “Why | She started suddenly to her feet, white and | your eyes—to take myaelt worthy of you—-to } drive, where the fashionables can air them-| the service of marrying lovers st @ fixed rate Saemann bes tock tae tales mee "t he spoke u: cold as on that day that she had parted from | make myself rich und to be able to offer you a Tres layed on Parsons to Escape Paying the Marriage Fee. ow York World, ery now and then one hears of large fee paid to clergymen by rejoicing bridegrooms. One docs not so often hear of the impositions sometimes put upon thove who tie the matri- rs selves every hour of the day if they please. | stipulated for by ct John Baker before the tunnel. She put on her | home ard take you away from Laurel Run. It , ly next 5 cents incar fare gave me the rings. But the window shutter was quickly| ‘here wes the soft, muffled fall of the a "7 : z y ah — is 2 , cdc pas . _ But love and marriage do not change the cd and this momentary but charming vic. | horse = hoofs in the thick dust of the highway, | Lat and mantle, and going to that’ little iron | was all for you—it was all for love of you, -: “ a = right to enter and admire the three cemeteries, chap ‘ : safe that stood in the corner, unlocked it, aud | Betsy, my darling. Listen to me!" which, like three well-kept gardens, mark the | DAttre of men, and there are mean—very ion withdrawn from the waiting public. fread ce the plntions Mo baat one of the | 100K Out ite entire contents cf gold aud silver. | in the fury, outiaged omuatints indignation Rey PIE SE laces’ where Cheyouns’s dead sleep. their | mean—bridcgroome, who do net hesitate 6 ee aa ee | para cotemntagicr a ine cagghaeentl menaeen |S Web eomalaad Won Gear hen anather then [aud teats Glagist hat Sued ox! Gate been “ z pa 5 x ast sleep. ibe Catbolic cemetery is in the | trick and cheat the good pastors who bind make a woanae pick mail begs outer the road. Wer the tectle pretense of torgotien stamps. | #ized her, and opening her desk she collected | at that moment, she should have been large, = = center, with the Odd Fellows’ on one side and | them in the ties of mat ee ee ee one beiore and she had resented | Ber stamps to the last sheetand hurriedly rolled | iinperious, goddess-like and commanding. Lut the City cemetery on the other. } = — a wrasteclns 5 kde. wecibonouss avotin’ round,” but now she was eager to | them up under her cape. Then with a glance | God is at times ironical with suffering woman- My third investmout in railroad facilities ere 1s @ minister in Brooklyn who told the ‘em over 3 | avotin a, ioc: y < harrowing tale of deception of which - 7 bs She | #t the clock and a rapid survey of the road from | hood. She could only writhe her hand from 2A aos ae oe brought me back to the city again and one | MFHEF& «tal of a ee ws eho eaten cenecincie oat tas ceee ce tan | tee Uiatforia Gia lily pod from ic audl wormed | Nis erary sich snes Content cence = poe wr = block from the fashiouable residence quarter, | He Wat the victim. “After he lad. performed ain't guy ment; it's that — scucomr, | partition, when the stoyp.d with a new sense of | to be swallowed up in the waiting woods be- | only glare at him with eves that were prettily <5 - - Ferguson street. aan my young couple at “They this it mighty dub to go bein’ Uy, | her impaired dignity. Covid she confess this to | Yond. gd pigsty brant one could” oni at WAITING THE EXECUTIONER. =e A dace ie bralemom ped 8 ame : “ Sbeseuss | ber woeuh 5 0% —- iz detaining hand with a plump and velvet; = amt) slicsina bars bales, . a ; ope betwe jeaves . eee Sees eey teen, miter Meaty Seer neeemen | Nee Wenn ger eo er nee een, wee CHAPTER IL palm, and whon she found her voice itwashigh | before Cortes ever ect foot there and harried |remembered that in Chine nowhere | _ IT enjoyed a peep into Senator Carey's beanti- | 1 ns A omy” “Vou ve wal Foi sepa ll liprnthear peel dy Cleo fat agtlted mentee civ ined yr Jalsetto, aud aii she could say was, “Leave me | the west const of Peru ages before Pizzaro | elve in the world the emperor's will is law, {fal home. The Senator and bia brother, Dr. | Weck 1 ihe clergyman nodded thankfully. Say iselin’s for = Indy” but he stopped Mere at | built.” Asquarciy cut f lightly streaked | Once within the friendly shadows of the long | be, looney, or I'li weream.” ened ere at, Darien. Not even in| and as the mandate went out fo secure the | Carey, were summoned east Inet week by the aspen ts Poe ia with « weak, Norscland was piracy so recognized and so offenders the whole population, which on | Gag, crue i Del. Mire man's feclin’s, stranger (said Simmons | ous, yet searching: | Lut the distinctive quality | far to the right and came upon an open slope | “"“Wiersid you come riding over here for, |to deal with ft. “When the United States | this snes turned tty’ stupendous detective twenty ciht mites atdence aud ber ranch. | paper wuch ne reporters tse. And on the lack grimly. “Why, you oughter see him just Baker wae the blending of Ut! cf Burnt Ridge, where she know Jo dimmons’ | thes? Wini dia you take all this tisk for? Why |and tho Kuropean nations came knocking | force. No good Chinaman who had informa: |! curight of Wachiontos bs har quand ab pees-| Genre nena is wealth. Please See ed ead cele Mead chen toy ae coe oae | Ganda mecak wr” eed some" cHtiony wat? anne | Soasbanigs Willem Iiightalng’t’ oul’ bs Geely | ClA'you.rusbla yer’ bere toalire iy okerner af the gates uf the Drother of Heaven | tion togive ‘withheld it when questioned or | ont nd‘the two lndion teal the eecarcne orcs | Lott tua der hi our earor on it heave it to Mrs Baker ez if it wasa fv dollar | countries well. Anct while be was dressed with | feeding. She had often ridden him before and | {°F Yeu are as much mixed up with this now as} there were half a million men en-| delayed to proffer it so soon as he had the » you suppose L found sn i ment of | ihe coo. to the | winaing pay to Mra. | only to Carey from a triend at oue of the far military | posta, ° i ct ery-| Guged in freebooting. In 18104 fleet of 600 | opportunity to give it to the authorities. The | irsctise at this weason. Mrs, Vecmpowered to declare some mar- Lokas! His feclin's for her! Why, he's give | the comfortable simplicity of a Californian | when sho had detached the fifty-foot riata from | itt__if Zou didn t SRLatdis Con eaese tis | Ganka andes Togular leadership, a floating na- | coesequence wus that, wot “wale tie et hans [286 Foom is stronaty euggestive of Washington Binuself a0 dead away to her that we're looking | mounted traveler, Let, sweaperionced Dut fen | highend. stall he. periatied, Ler. tho. further | Siok eiee wath me? Wi tion in itself, infested the coasts of Kwangtung, | dred pirates directly concerned in the looting | #,a%td)'t elegant adornments you tind every ard, whom everybody in Flathash, for him to forget what he's doin’ next, and | imine eye detecied the keynote of his respecta- | recognized familiarity of twining ber fingers | °"\yhat’ did T come” here for’ working chiofly in the estuary of the Pesti! of the Namoa were tail. hold of bat helt | 22™ <a ey ye uph of a — Ned «. 1., will remember, had «similar experience. just come sailin’ down hisself at her feet.” bility in the carefully ted Low of his cravat: | in bis bluish mane und climbing on his back. | pexwe vite every drop of red blood gone from | river, whose numerous harbors and channels | hundred more were taken and brought to trial | °% Salant. In the spacious ai of {he | Hie was routed out at midmght to marry s Meanwhile, on the other side of the partition, | The sierran throat was apt to be open, free and | The tool shed of Burnt Ridge tunnel, whero | patem with ev trembling lip. “What-—did—f | forded protection and escape to their vessels moy. shape of au Indian's Gar Gonee aes, im the | couple and was compelled to arouse bis family Ee nd en eed Seek nnn | enced catalan: Wee, Widen.” bs tll dee (Ae One es tage nals, Wak. eh | ean kar Saat Walt des ee Jobn | when pursued, while the towns upon the island | ‘he prisoners have, go far, been accorded @ wt round the Lig weed ace | L2Act as witnesses. “He was given afat package padiocked bag and removed what seemed to be | | Good-morning Mrs. Baker.” be oald, pleas- | canter farther on. he reached it unperceived | iatro aero; John Baker. who stood between | Were plundered and the inhabitants killed if | regular trial, but there was no question about 5 ° by the bridegroom upon the datter's departure, a supplementary package attached to it by a > with bis ores 7 — and another trick of the old days quickly: ox | you and death at Burnt Ridge, as 1 stand be-| they resisted. The combined Chinese and Por- | their oceapation or their guilt. The courts wut hal€ an hour or se un- wire. Opening it she iound a handsome scent Tm Harry liome of San besa eat | emPorized a side saddle from Simmons’ Mexi- | iween you und damnation at’ Laurel Ran, Mr, | tuguese flects attacked and blockaded them, | are not yet through with them, but those who T paper fi that package Seen. Wiebe Sat canoes Loree ge preps tla well == wy yieap ee a horn buryand | Green! Yes, Jolin Baker, lying under half of | but would Lave been unsuccessful had not the | have been brought to the bar » have bod at last a silver quarter which bad Voted expressman. [bis she put aside with a; josure, e ly tied pa | the aid of a blanket. Then leaping to her se: idge, or ‘me thi ‘ leadera of the piratics arreled. e ndemy d exect slight smile and the murmured word “Foolish- | kept pigcou holes, the pot of flowers on her she rapidly throw off her mante, tied it by its | Burnt Ridge, but more to me this day than any the piratical forces q led. The | been only condemned and ex used as a sleeve button. One face had ground smooth and ornamented with » Johnsc collect, w . B, _¥, r ~ s h iving m awling ove ad ol % pirates broke up into two fleets, which fought | uler Chinese fasnion by beheadin, ness.” But when she had unlocked the tag | desk, her China sill mantle and killing littl | sleeves around her waist, tucked it under’ one | HYiNS_ man HOMO BERLE WEAR os] GEN CIC Ta eee ae ee should bo callea the most we en its sacred interior was also profaned by a | chip hat, 4 ribbons cage a bs Br Se. bright | kBee and let it fall over her horse's flanks. By | here for? I camo hore as Joln Baker's livin’ | made their subjection to the government. This | fashion, for there are other meth, — from the adjacent postmaster at | thence to her deilied clinging heir, and thes + | 88 time Blue Lightning wasalso struck with a] wise to carry on dead John baker's work. Yes, | Was after nearly fifty years of warfare upon | tion quite as regular, though not so gener: Hidge, containing » gold “specimen” | blue eyes, tendrilied clinging lair, and. th tash of equine recollection, and pricked up his | dirty work this time, maybe, Mr. Groen, buy | there bands by ‘the foreigners, especially the | resorted to, Tectare in frequent in the cel Resock aad some cirens tickets. 16 was laid | fell upon the leashern masil beg still lying | gars, Mrs. Baker utiered a little chirping ery | (is Fro ters ay precious. ‘That's | Poringuese. | tial kingdom, but the death sentence is ord ee ee ee ee ee eee cae ine oF the experocs or semsane | Tate ee remieMabeCed; Kad) {ES NeXt motions lense Tear’ kant font ero ee Slow as the work of exterminating the pirates | narily carried out by the ax. Our illustrator s sumably, vexation of spirit. _, | unfortunate wire of the amorous expressman | they were both careering over the bridge. that's what I'm waiting for—to be up to him | was, however, the factis that no mercy whatever | show scence at the most recent execution, | thesveel ie roll of €5 gold gieces with which to fee the There were seventeen lecters in all, of which | that yet remained banging from the [lors ‘The trail that she had taken, though precipi-| and bis work. ulwase. ‘That me — Betsy | Was shown to them and that when a pirate vil- | which took place at Amoy, and at which 2 = doctor. five were for herself, and proportion | of the lock, and e reached his band toward it. | tate, difficult and dangerous in places, was a | dog htt ss lage was destroyed it was utterly wiped out, its | teen pirates were decapitated. These final aegsect sag mae “An evening or two later,” said the clergy- wasswall that morning. Iwo of them were| But littie Mrs. Baker was before him and had | clear gain of two miles on the stage road. Sho walked up and down rapidly, tying her inhabitants being extirpated. The English, | proceedings in the grim routine of Chinese} Cbéyenne induiged in tremendous expecta- | Man. in telling the story, “he honored me with marked “official business.” end were promptly | seized it in ber arms. She had been too preoc- ‘There was less chance of her being followed or chip bat under her chin again.’ Then she | Whose trade was at stake, pursued their usual | justice took place on the sca beach in the | tionsafter the admission of the territory to |“ I. Me companied by one of the put by with ferninine discernment, but in an- | cupied and bewildered to resent his first intru-| meeting any one. ‘The greater canons were stopped, and taking her chamois purse from | method of blowing the robber junks out of the | presence of the requisite native officials and | statehood, but the few basiness people with ever saw. I performed other compartment thau that holding the pres- | sion behind the partition, but this last familier- | already in shadow; the pines on the further ook sharply on the desk. water. The Portuguese and Dutch set the| performed by the executioner under the |. », L talked tol aos Bai "e y and he insisted upon my kisang: « % Then the shutter was opened and the | ity with her sacred official property—albeit | ridges wero eeparating their masses and show, | 2 ae e Pirates to fighting cuch other. At last the pro- | formal protection of a guard of soldiers. The | Wire the allege Thee eee ee ane SX MONE | the made an ofticious display of @ sk of delivery commenced. empty—capped the climax of her wrongs. __| ing individual silhouettes against tho sky, but : “ cae had ever known. The | long thin roll well wrapped in tin foil, and as I it was acconipanied with a social peculiarity ‘itow dare you touch it?” she said indig- | the air was still warm, and the cool breath of busiest place 1 saw he railroad stat: bowed him out he sid it slyly inte my side that had in time become a habit of Laurel | nantly. ‘How dare you come in here? Who | night, as she well knew it, had not yet begun at the hours of the arrival departure of the | pocket. When I returned to my library I ex- Kun. As the young woman delivered the letters | are you, anywa® Go outside at onc tollow down the mountain. The lower range | start you iu an honest life cluomiece, Bur ugk, Say area ra petern train. | When T gotaboard | amined the roll and found” —— 4a turn to the men who were patiently drawn | ‘The stranger fell back with an amusod,depre- | of Barnt Kidge was still uncelipeed. by. tho | saree iu a2 honett life elsewhere. But light mc aout hs chs aoe oe en a up in Indian file she made that sunple act a | eatory gesture and @ long, silent laugh. “sm | creeping shadow of the mountain ahead of her. | °S4°. plied het mantle decay the wall oda T cor ported mayedlf ta keene ited, me and | | “A clothes pin surrounded with ten-penay medium of privileged but limited conversation | afraid you doi't know me, after all,” he said | Without a watch, but with this familiar opened the door. eae uborted myself in keeping with the dignity | nails! A mouth or two afterward he wrote to oh special of general topics gay oF serious. a8 | pleasantly. “I'm Harry Home, the depart- | slowly changing ‘dial spread out before her, | Piyeq Be going?” he said bitter! a | me from St. Louis suying that be bad the case might be or the temperament of the | ment agent from the San Francisco office. My | she knew the time tow minute. Heavy Treo Yes.” Fines che coma aha a esc DIFFERENT IN DENVER. | me the wedding fee {was to bave received man suggested. That it was almost always of | note of advice, No. 201, with my name on the | Hill, a lesser height in the distance. was al- ousness long in ber caprivious little fancy oe, Now, that is not the way they doin Denver. | kissing bis bride.” Sa cariny iancinsd;ibet wes Geecabty | arch ie ce test cor coum Feady wiped out by that shadowy index finger | with feminine tact, ube sought to make tit There's a push and a rustle here in every...) Mets i+ halter awaiting that knave,” con ee readiiy imagined; but it was invariably} Even in her fright and astonishment it |—half-past seven! The ge would be st! parting less dillicult f he for she broki branch of business, and if you want to lece | cluded the clergyman warmly,“‘and [never read, jhatacterized by an clement of refined re-| flashed upon Mrs. Laker that she had sent that | Hickory Hill just before-halt-past cight; abe | Paring less diuical oak Ten gota’ te can, excess gaa deletg es PAP | of @ hanging that L do not wonder if be isn't eruing and, whether from someimplied under- | notice, too, to Hickory Hill, Wat with st all the | ought io auticipate it if possible—it would stay | ius Ligkeane: ene Cheeni ee Zith the procession you must step up lively. | the victim traveling to glory under an alia.” rei OF indisidual sense of honor, it never | feminine secretive instinct within her was now | ten minutes to change horses—she must arrive | buck teLawel Rare con ane pots f rcv y is | Wey cits7man who once held « charge near passed the bounds of conventionality or a cer-} thoroughly aroused and she kept silent. before it left! It is said thut she did! Perhaps owing to th Tomorrow is Labor day. ‘That, I suppose, is | Wyandotte, Kan., was given @ borec and ear kein delicacy of respect. ‘The delivers was con-| | “{ ought to have explained,” he wenton| There was a good two-mile level before the | 4,21 4.044," pict ts tetucn Someey so the reason that they worked ¥o hard yesterday | riage by a coujle whom he had just married. eee ere oreo d raced bat hen |erailingly, “but you aro quite right, Mrs. | rise of the next range. Now, Blue Lightning! | faurel Hill weet Wor eon ead cha cala Ban Ce ee eee A Denver Saturdsy | Ihey had driven to his parsonage from fach man bad exchanged bis three or four min-) Baker, he added, nodding toward the bag. | all you know? And that was much, for the liite | L#Urel Hi Vouip: eiesuliincls caveat tothe, ae night in the section of the city where the hotels ! Wichita and they left by train. Soon after- ae conecrention with the fair postmistress | “As far as you know I had no business to go | chip hat and flattering ribbons well bent down | mic salen ty the neon eee ot st tho are scemsa Bowery or two rolled into one in-| ward the parson drove his new horse to Sconrotation af times impeded by bashful: | near it. Glad to see you know how to defend | over the biuish mane, and the etreaming gauze | Svirvesdinsy ie eeiee ine ne oe fongroous mixture. The streets are all One | Wichits. Mere mo unidity on lis part solely oF restricted | Uncle Sam's property so well. 1 wus only a bit | of her mantel almost level with tho horse's | Gui'tue nec migties in the Seacnell row, blare of light and noise, brass bandsand ped-| i didn't get back for « weck,” eaid the oiten to vague smiling he resignedly made | pazzied to know (pointing to the wise) if that | back, ewept down across the long table lund | ("83,D%, which bud to be mc ahe erlered abe 3 : es oan qlers—enongh to make # steady Washington | clergyman, shaking his bead dolefully. “The yay dor the next. it was @ formal levee, miti- | thing was on the bag wueu it was delivered to | like a skimming blue Jay. A few more bird- | [nese Hannes fomiea ae ts couch neahone ra 3 = : = head omits. ‘ Man not only stole the woman, but the horse gnied by the informality of rustic tact’ greet | test like dipe up and down ‘the undulationsend then | /t¥*% We eae a nee ona A hans es gE Ee I encircled the entire city and then cut | and wagon {coi her husband, and the rig wes good bumor, and infinite patience. and would |” Mrs. Baker saw no reason toconceal the truth. | came the long, cruel ascent of the divid Peutly On the plintoets re bes iS i ie a across it, ax you would follow the squares on # | recognized and 1 was clapped into jail ona have been amusing had it not always been ter- | After all this official was a man like the others, | Acrid with perspiration, caking with dust “You'll bate to Rsallaaisuee ami eas bs THE BODIES IN THE SAND. chess board, by using the cable and electric | charge of horse stealing. Of course every- Tibly in earnest and at times touching. For it| and it was just as well that be should under- | slithering in the slippery impalpable powder of | pons sad Gharley, gravel an it ose he care. If there ure any relics of effete civiliza- | thing was finally straightened out, but some. Was peculiar to the place and the epoch, and stand her power. “it's only the exprewman’s| the road, goggily staggering in a red dusty clutches once more is the Gast of the mon ‘or | fession seomed extinct and vigilance was a little , exportnors of the Chinese executioners ia well | tio. in the way of horse cars Lbave not seen | bow or other could never make up my mind Pe ee eee catalan ean | Se ea ee naTne Dead tomsing, boooss- | Sou'll hare to maka taew. Comes TI toy | elezods oth bY tho foruiguers cody the lar [sree Their weapou is w heavy two-handed | full of infortustion god when they ae gon wan | 12 Horeive Maat na Baker. toss of her head. ‘He thinks it smar: ing suddenly dejected, wi jouchi: jaunch | > “ ial government. The consequence was that 2% ‘d tion a eu they ni en She was the wife of Joha Baker, foreman of | some nonsense on that bag with the wire when | And limp legs on cuss elopes.or wildiy spearnonia Patek atin pny tae cto | dra pccienictniaptie ree eed Cod ord, as keen as a razor, and the head of tho | it—wel, they give it to you. “The Last Chance,” now for a year lying dead | he sling: it down.” and agile on sharp acchvities, and Blue Light- | °“iome did uot fe ly, Gas uickly dragged hig | Classes broke out again, and the sbores of the | criminal is taken off with a single blow. On INA NUTSHELL. Ender balf'a mile of crushed nnd Lesten-in | Mr. Home. with his eyes on her pretty face, | ning began to have ideas and recollections. i | ,,{ome did not etic ‘comely note ee je8© seas saw once more the well-armed, | this occasion the bloody work was done with| I got the history of Denver in three short faonel at Burnt Ridge; there Lad been a std~ | eccmod to tink it a not inbuman or unpardon- | she was a devil for a lark—this lightly clinging, | Prize, ia, the, ofice,, scarce ‘pale and breath. | threatening Junk, with its bardy and. con- | the utmost dispatch, the ‘pirates all kneeling | Sepbech (cies a Adley sail ties aie aah den outery from the depths at high hot noon- | able folly. “4s long as he doesn't meddle with Pama blurneying, cooing creature—up | jess. As the bolt of the bag was drawn, reveul- | #cienceless crew, ready to fall on their seafar- | on the sand in a row, and only one false blow | CDSP ia ithe Sal : change in the law. But the Hon. David Monro et te ae cane aa nated, trom his | the inside of the bags suppose you mast put | there! He remembered her tow. Hal very | iowits chsotic melon Ieee wena avo a little | ing countrymen and plunder their coastwise / being dealt, when the sword strack one of the | Afty words in the whole of at. I asked what it | nag tien enabiedtodomorethan Lord Galisbury cabin, his young, foolish, irting wife clin up with it,” he sa:d, laughingly: Fockeasten | we snes. Hoop Jal, And suddenly leaping | sige Homo glanced ‘quichiy at Len cinpins | vowels of ‘their loads. For ten yoars past, | pirates too low ande sccond stroke was necse. | meant to ese sonny idle men clunding around 1 has Sub pies BAS ear Sb bani id to hima, to answer that despairs eee tena ar tee ae ee oat Mee Ne Wasting, Weviling base, ee] Se hag apne’ dae eck ak sated “at ens | Gesetne, Ue cals coull. have bons airing [tay In tan bees etnias the, bein | the streets, about three to every one workin, ss ad _sassadivad rose suddenly wi io | had used the inside of the bay to convey his | bling lightly, walidug on three legs,and recreat- | f26 086 Upon ihe th mre a ‘Then ‘he | nt the hands of these rovers, and the depreda- | sven knecling ready for the exec to begin, | He told that old story about the man who | Promised to bring in a bill giving some moas- SENATOR WARREN | keeps the largest furniture house in the city | and combines undertaking with other branches ] will of cabinet making. He has a tine home, also in | ““™ De | to ex his services in tying the matr- |the fashionable section, where Mrs. Warren | monial knot apd hietet 4 makes the center of much that is attractive in ated Gut bo mao aeving whom old Brooklynites ken im” once an much the A would-be Benedict wrote to hua —oo———_—— Woman Suffrage im Australia, From the Loudon Queen. As in England, the premier is in favor of the i ¢ foolishness came across her. it would never | ing himself as only a California mustang could, “ Ap tions have gradually grown in extent, though | and in the second their bodies are seen lying | offered day to laborers, and when he had | ure of effect to the principle. The bill now be ten were frocd,batshehad waited for him ever | do tw coufess it now. Her face must have the invincible Blue Lightning at last stood tri | gected the 4 Mra Baber’ be cate arci | withont stttvcting particular’ attention, for to | on the pandas thay fall, succeeded ‘i bringing nu army of them from | fore the legiolatore te thet all women, pecacee- —_— a ite ce OP Corel or seen g rn oem eta | aaa han, the tummit. The eveuing | \tte's aafe this time,” SMaVelY. | Tong as foreign vessels were untouched the | ‘There they continue to He for a day or two, | the east he came pretty meat being “p- ten Psp Fe 4 ripen apr elhpestororeaes Pia eoMinnd frame apr 9 gy rake ere us | stat had just pricked itself through the golden : id li ld was likely to hear little of the matter. when they are thrown into the sea, Tho | when he gave $1.90 a day instead. utary vote. ‘this proposal, we after struggles of that poverty © me | enough of this. Now, Mrs. Daker, to come to | mist of the heclecs theses cone te eoen ui so glad” waid little Mrs. Baker with » | World was likely to | ‘oval, we learn, : It December last, however, that a is in such cases are exposed to public | thirty years ago, and the sume iliasive hope ° port of @ consider! fete ruined camp she bad scarcely changed. |iny business here. Brief. then, i doesn’t] do it now! ut here, suddenly, her ‘first heal- | PYOCTtieal guep. seg lend of glecten, cauntting. So Gols obbekee . ? exists in the’ minds of many who go west. —- But the men had. Although she was to gil sp- | concern you in the least, except so far as itmay healers Lee her horse, she y, sa ho took the oun’ Woriiron an new. capitol building, now in course of | Atwong the Australasian colonies South Aus arances the «ame giddy, pretty Let ker, | relieve you and some others that tho depart- | knew the trail, she knew herself, but did she | 8 : Dt 5 5 ercetion, will bea notublo example of the big will in all probability jead the van in car- Wheled heenasdustarbing tothe youagurmen”| trent knows’ exactly well from certain re-| knox the man to whom she was riding. A cold | an gif Ree eat cams ae ee oa ee Hens of the atate, |All around it are the lone | ry parliamentary entr bers, they seemed no longer to be disturbed by | sponsilility and perhaps anxiety. We are | chill erept over her, and then she shivered in a | 88 Olt P : 5 , aoe of the fashionable folks.and mansions they are, | women inte law. be it note her.” A certain subdued awe and respect, as if | preity well posted down there in ail that con- | sudden blast; it fas night at last, swooping | Busband’s, aud. ——— See eer | ae eeeneones see by rust Knows | A young man about twenty-five years old was | $0" Deuverites do not ran over thom af tn ¥ | Quecusland ie martyred spirit of Jobu Baker etil held bis | cerns Laurel Kun, aud I think (with a slight | down from the invisible Sierras und powcwsing | HO ae Mucus fora moment, clicking the coins iherrammarac any sitting in the waiting room of the Erie depot | did over the palace ox-Senator Tabor built for | lvaguo: arm around her, seemed to have come upon bowj we've known all about you and John | all it touched. Butit was only one long de- hie web quitdlawae a Duke carelessly: | Prom Golathwaite’s Geographical Magazine. the other day with a year-old baby on Lisknee, | himself a few years ago. bold alo: them all. ‘They eld their breath us this | Baker. My only business kere is to take your | scent to Hickory Hill now, and she swept down ee | eee a when western Australia bas hs had cay tring # ab, | : " = Ag "m sure I don't know what you're Many scientific men are devoting their lives and hiy alarm and helplessness when the TABOR AND HIS OPERA HOUSE. | faly wetticd int the working uf ite newly ob- pretty woman, whose brief mourning had not | place tonight in receiving the ‘omnibus way | securely on its wings. Half-past eight! Tho mx 2 y . out all that can be learned about the | «« * te is ef tained responsible government it will no doubts seemed " pss or even play- | baz,’ that you know arrives here at $280, doce | Lights of the settloient were just ahead of her, said Mrs. Baker, with “a lofty "ai to finding out all that ned al ‘young un” suddenly began to howl was so | I went to the matinee yesterday at the Tabor n x f but a somewhat’ debas “ interior of this wonderful globe of ours. One| marked as to attract attention. By and by a° ‘ iness of spirit, passed before them. Bat she | it? but so, too, were the two lamps of the waitin, A rs 2 2 Pe $4 Progress all along the line seems at no die stood by her cabin and. the camp-—the only Yes, sir,” said Mrs. Baker, hurriedly, “bat | stage before the post office und hotel. ‘ or why he should go away at ail of the interesting problems on which they are | waiting passenger walked over to him witha| play, though it was an amusing musical mix-| tant soriod imewiatle. The fone which have cot houre of} theis Torte helsing | eter, lag anything for us, except —she | | Happily the lounging crowd wero gathered | "yeu. guid Sie Hort inviog. his hand on | emeaged is the depth and geological limits of smile of pity ou lis face and queried: |__| ture and infinitely better than Washington ever | hitherto given strength tothe movement are of the darkest hours of their fortune, helping | caught herself up quickly, with easigial | ofiee froma the, And she slipped into the post | tye widdw's shoulder, “well, you see, it might | the permanently frozon soil. The Britisa As- | | “A woman gave you that baby to hold while | Peis at the early season, but entirely to see the | a permanent uature. In the public schools all fhe to wash and cook and muiuustering to | she remembered the sighing Green'soccasional | office from the rear unperceived. As she | {He * Osourred to is tiieedd tint the boise oie | edolation fied colleoted a large amount of data | *2¢ went to see about her baggage,didn't she?" | house. [have always associated it with that | over the country, which ate of avery high 1 he sancity of her cabin | oiterings—“except a notification from Hickory | stepped behind the partition, its only occu- | have occurred to hist agabh, the reason oie tie liba. Shae glieety Aobiaaicume |) cote ys sensational marriage of the then wmouth-old- | character, the girls enjoy the same advantages ye kept as inviolable as if it | Hill post office. I: leaves there,” she went on, | pant—a good-looking young "fellow with a| Msrted., That i no doubt, pete pernagiinte; Gerda tod Vacate ee, Ha! ha! ha! I tumbled to the fact as soon | senator and statesman and the golde ed | as the boys. There is, in fact, what seome to us had been bis & No one exuctly knew why, | with an affectation of precision, “at half-past | reddish mustacbe—turned toward ber with a| pu ke {heir goo Baker, you're all, right | Curious things, sach a3 the fact that excellent | as Isaw you. You expect her back, I suppose lady at 10 o'clock one night at Willard's Hotel, gland « wonderful imtermixture of the for it was only « tacit instinct, but even one eight exactly, and itsabout an hour's run—| flush of delighted surprise. But it changed sSshatever haypaie—the gov set ts ets wheat lands north of Manitoba overlies frozen | “Of course. Imay have been expected at that wedding, but | sexes, and the result is that th or two who had not scr pay court to | seven miles by road. at the sight of the white, determined face that Renee Sater ey, ” “Ha! ha! { ha! Thisisrich! Looking for her | } ceriain!: not bidden. company with | hood of Australia is remarkabl, Betsey Baker John Baker's hfe shrank | ‘Exuetly,” caid Me. Home. “Well, I will re-| had never looked once toward. lim, but was | 72! earth that never thaws, every blessed minute, ain't you?” or are SS ee preset pw Grand Opera House, not for the eake of the | Tyetve the woman's suttrage wavs ae “ ris oue other representative of the newpaper | aud that tbe maidens read the newspay from even @ suggestion of familiarity toward | ceive the bag, open it and dispatch’ it again. | fixed upon @large bag, whose yawning mouth 2 Some geologists find strata of rock that they “I think she Il come ba ‘ + 1 | Forld we saw the ceremony from & convenient | no less avidity than do the youthe, !t wen in ai the woman who bad suid that she would “wait | You can, if you choose, take a holiday.” ‘wag atil open and propped up beside his deak. | | 0, |. No. Help for Him. are able to show must have been bariod atare-| «Well, this makes me laugh—ha! ha! ba! I | Crack ina convenient docs, ising i oll up, | tho universities, except Melbourne, women and. ‘rom the Chicago Tribune. him there.” ‘But,”” said Baker, as she remembered “Where is the through money letter that Yben brighter days came and the settlement | that Laurel liun always nade a point of att came in that bag?” ehe said, quickly. with the scrio-comic and tragic elements figur- | men are absolutely equal. At the present time +~d increased by one or two families, and lag- ing her evening lovee on account of the supe-| “What—do—you—meuny" “he stammered, mote age 10,000 feet under thgsurface. ‘These | had a woman play that same trick on mo ina hd ing in the whole business, 1 doubt if the | there are 160 women graduates atthe University A man who seemed to be trying hard to buy | upturned edges of rock, which some terrible | Chicago depot once, but no one ever will agai a bureau looked through the stock on hand at A i : Youug man, you're stack. You've been played th dalle il or how eaten sovaeae: 83 4 to the air, in n play stage of the gorgeous opera house has witnessed | of New nd, seventy or eighty an Sy os rd capital had been hurried up to relieve the | rior leisure it offered, “there are the people | witha tace that had suddenly grown whiter a large furniture store on State street yesterday ores cnnlitieg of tue ae {ir some way below | 08 fF a hayseed. Better turn that thing over anything as interesting as that scene from real | many in Melbourneand thirty in Pete mead Ie. atill beleaguered and locked-up wealth of Burnt , who come for letters, you know.” | than her own. morning and said as he turned to go: the grentest depth to whieh we ean attain. ‘The | %2® Policeman and make a skip before some | {ito Ar. Tabor keeps on piling up the dollars | deed the assertion has been huzarded that they Kadge, the needs of the community aud the | “I thought you said there were no letters at| “I meau that it’s a decoy, checked at Heavy 8 eer 2d reporter gets on to you. and seems top of the heap in the financial | are outnumbering the men. In this connection 1 coms back,” replied the young i jous to note that in no country of the looked anxiously around. aa warld fo seo goof unmarried laums of the widow of John Laker were so | that time,” said Mr. Home quick! Tree Crossing, and that’ Mr. Hone of San} “I reckon I mightas well give itup. Ihavo| workmen in the deepest mines in Europe | "2G, % well told in political quarters that the post o—but—but—” (with a ol hysterical | Francisco is now waiting at my office for to | been in adozen stores already and can’t find have. never penetrated over. one-seven. | ™n, a8 he jously arou ing along on the cable cars gives you the | world is the percentage of unmarried woman office of Laurel Run was created expressly for | statamer) “the boys come all the same.” know if you have taken it.” a what I want.” thousandtir part of the distance from the sur- eo will, ch? Ha! ba! ha! Joke grows | pest idea of the high hills around which the | smaller than in Austrata, ber. Every man participated in the building ‘On !” said Mr. Home, dryly. ‘The laugh and lie that he bad at first tried to | “Is it any particular pattern you are looking | face to the ceuter of the earth, In the lower | Sicher and richer! What makes you think | city straggles. Only a small part is compactly | The mode of propaganda across the sess of the pretty yet substantial edifice—the only O Lord!” But here the spectacie of |summon to mouth and lips never reacued ‘asked the salesman. levels of some of the Comstock mines the men | “He'll come ba built. naturally differs somewhat from that with public building in Laurel Kun—that stood in sible discomfiture of Laurel Kun at | the: For, under the spell of her rigid, r replied the man, walking absent- 1 2 labor only | ,, 2ocause she’s my wife and this is our first THE cans which we cre here iamiliar. For instance, a Tae sarc the Great highway, half a mile from | meoting the bearded face, of Mr. Home in-| truthful face, he turned almost mechanically | mindedly’around an antique oak atlat and ex: | CUsetscuding water and could labor only baby ‘i run up and down steep hills and cross the rait- | mcmorandum was sent to the mest inportant the settlement. There she was installed for stead of her own smooth cheeks at the window, | to his dosk and took out a package. s it on all sides. “I’m not hunting for | tunnel pieced the wines and drew off some of | _"Oh—um—I see,” muttered the fat man, Sounied veel. Ea thy ‘ig | Telagious body in South Australia—the Wesieyan certain hours of the day, forshe could not be | combined with her uervous excitement, over-| “Good God! you've opened it already!” she | who got over feeling tickled ali at once, and in | Fad tracks on an elevated road. In ar style of bureau, but I'd know it ch had been 120 di i nity qu Ulemecnence Miguel deepeat boring ever made—that rare | his vexation he crossed. the room and kicked | cars you touch button iu the window frame, | <,Si*Tevolution hat ia the opi the vote gel re Ae dines attic Z7z feet, | 8.808 which w farmer had tied to one of the } just handy to your reach, when you want 10 | Siu, mes Warveurica’ amet say fo he gate ‘Ang thang, ent oO bull wen silt oath tine.” Tbont Pow toot deeper than the famsur erteses | seats with a piece of clothes line. Get off the cars and the couductor doesthe rest. | jocags, but by the Baptiste, Congregational [xevailed upon to abandon John’s cabin, and | came lier eo that, throwing her little’ frilled | cried, pointing to the broken weal. ere, with all the added respect due to @ public apron over her’ head, she gave way to a| The expression ou her fuco more than any- Tuuctionary, she was secure in her priva aroxysm of hysterical laughter. Mr. Home | thing she bad suid convinced him that she But the blind devotion of Laurel Kun to John | waited with amused toleration for it to stop, | knew all. He stammered under the new alarm —and a resolution thet in the opinion of the ‘Or your daughters——" well at St. Louis. The result of this imperfect Se eee LITILE THINGS, iste, bible Christians and it neea searcely bo Baker's relict did not stop here. In ite zeal <o | and. when she bad recovered, resumed: “Now, | that her despairing tone suggested. “Yes. I| “Goi seven of em!” cjuculated the man, take 0 i 1 th Narrow and Broad Gauges. Just for tho fan of it T bave enjoyed myself | ndded, the Society of Friends. The Chureh of Saure the government suthorities of the ne- | I should like to refer en instant to my first | was owing some Lill—the collector was waiting | ing off Lis hat and wigiog: Me fees tak: | Knowledge is that there are more theories and best pte abrir — of & post office and to secure i Dope jeation to you. Have you got _—— Se re | 7, and I took — jue vously. a plage the interior of the earth than about ary other] How many people remember the famous Bent competency to the postmistress there was w pecket. But I was going to make it up by | “sly dear sir,” said the salesman promptly, phy: cience. t | 4 2 i much embarrussing extravagance. During the | Mrs. Baker's face fell. “No—I sent it overto| next mail -I tenor te ql know had s iY; | Problem of physical wience. Some eminent | “battle of the gauges?” Tho victory of what disputes among scientific men with regard to | From the London Daily News. noticing the little things in the every-day de- | England has not been approached, but there likelihood of sympathy im that di- portment of the people I have met. They may | Postion, for the Episcopalian authorities in Aus: You are looking for. There tant ta, for instance like Sir William Tho * ether i " tralia Have jast passed « resolution that women first week the sale of stamps at Laurel Run | Mr. Green of Hickory Hill for information.” iow much have you taken?” a bureau of tie kind you want in this masket. | Foa"have'believed, that, the erust of, the seria | "as onee known as “the narrow gauge,” bat is en. take of 6 | communicants should have the same power ef post oftice was u: uted im the annals of | “What “Only a tritle, I—’ Chewing gum will stick to the back of any of | ig ai least 100 miles thick. ‘The majority ad- | 00W the standard or national gauge, sinee nar- there ’ ‘lection ia the synod as men. the department. Fancy prices were given for riled at the sudden seriousness of the} “How much?" *em.” duce good reasons for believing that the crust | rower ones are no: unknown, is to absolute that ators. They do the same thing here. eee the first issue. ‘Then they wore bought wild!y, oice, she, managed to gasp out how-| “A hundred dollars ——— eee is only twenty-five tofifty miles thick. ‘Allagree | this is the last year of the ecintenee of theosens | Btreet car manners in Chicago ure not generally PETER ICE ehlessly, uaprofitabiy aud on all occasions. ever, that efter her usual habit bad not She dragged the oney she had brought from Lucky NI > ithin t ti Thal Dut the women err as frequently and ss Complimentary congratulations at the Little | opgted the oficial letters, but had sent them | Lansel Hin trom b pocket, snd counting out | From the Chcaav Herald. Frag piedlang pp rietonic her weacm gen peessuremernt. ioe the — > mad ply as the men. In Cheyenne, streot car window invarmbly ended with “And a dollar's | to her more experienced colleague for advice | the eum replaced it in the open pac! age. He! The fi is 1 i Fs ‘tba : oad has been. dis- | Politeness—but I forgot, North of stamps, Sire Baker.” It was felt to | and information; that she never could under- | ran quickly to get the sealing wax’ but she mo- | ,.2¢ {Sure wine is curiously and intimately | ruto of one degree, Fahrenheit for about every | on that lino the broad gouge bet Here, r i A td be more - - ith all the great gold mining excite- | fifty-five feet of descent. All igneous rocks | appearing, and, as, announced in our ve. | °° a be supremely delicate to buy only the highest | stand them herself—they made her head ache | tioned him away us she dropped’ the puck connected with s si ing d . tial than the treatment of the weaker sex. priced stampe without reference to theis ede-| and interiored Sith Bet Other datiee bat he | Bark ec de ad ee, SSP a long as the | ments of the nineteonth century. ‘The great ba ere as Stop ha vested INe change is £2 bevcocrelete £2 ane oof ing; | The men get upand ride on the Platform when- quacy. Then mere quantity was sought; tuen | understoed them aud vent her word what to | mouey is found ia the beg the package may | Algerian gold bubble formed and broke in 1809. ture at 200 miles is 28,000 degrees Fahren! next. The disap) 4 ve Y | ever a woman wantsa place. 1 ive seen all| Editor: “What's that matter? Why, in incatragcous proportion tslakais messi bec | do. dtamemborine, alse, his usual style of in- | have been Uroken accidentally. "Now ‘burst |Next came the Mantazan mountain craze in| Witch iw Prot Teac ode OF nee eee [att tbe, disappearing gauge, orig ou | $2rts of mon do thie very thing, white men, | notice of Col. Jones’ marriage ey, in cutrageous proportion to their weight and | dorsement, she grow red again. open one or two of those other packages a lit- | 1439 when solid boulders of gold ae le sake tonpomstnre of thaann: tats sageelehie, | moter is seven fect, The weeymon | black men and China boys. And if a poor fel- | ‘The ready and waiting bride adi to eveu size. The im:becility of this and its prob-| “And what did he say?” tle”—so she took outa packet of letters and | 9 sich. tin then | ems ae ES Oe oe ee eee ee > aa oe oe itnever seems to affect | altar, hung with lilies and ruse leaves,’ and con ie effect on the reputation of Laurel Run at othing; be didn’t return them. bruised their official wrappings under her little | Hour barrels were reported. ‘The California | however, t dista vd. manay physi- | Soaily ‘our fect Sight ona shar bet, hi found you, here's the way it reads in the the general post office being pointed out by aturally.” said Mr. Home, with a peculiar | foot until the tape fasicning was loowened, “Now | 0M fever, broke out in 1840 sud raged until | trined for e great distance, and many physi | really permeates aap ieee te] “The wretched and weary Mec Mich Mampe were doy ted as local cur~| expression, “After a few moments’ silent strok- | give me something heavy." “She caught up a | SOUleracted by the Pike's Peak boom: lu 1899. | cists great depth the increase in temperature halter, hung with Mars reacy sud’ even for dece purpoves on | ing of ‘his beard he suddenly faced the fright- | brass two-pound weight, and in the same fever- | 7¢M, years later, in 1863, “Old. Virginia,” the | very great depth the increase in tex canes Pe oneianoed off in'the woods and mirrors and the walls of cabins. Everybody | ened woman. ish but collected haste wrapped it in paper, | Celebrated miner, struck the lucky lead which | ceases. | Of aslonce ie the fact that the says. Niore letters, with the result, however, | You oblige me, Mra. Baker, to speak more | sealed it, stamped it and, addressing Fito vg | made Virginia City and Nevada famous in the decid Of dnsiactnuce lata anneeiorer ‘completel that those ‘sent were ladicrousi | frankly to you than I had intended. "You have, | large priated Land to herself at Learel ming annals of the world. Eighteen hundred +4 suspiciously in excess of tho unwittingly. I believe, given information to a | dro = Iained by knowledge in itin the bag. Then she closed it and | ®24 seventy-nine came in on time with the | o partly expl y eye Io. obviate this select tan whern ihe goversissent suspects of peculs: | locked ts be wonla Lave nosineea ion bak abe peg er A tage or seesfomntner al bot eit ad were ee ele forced journeys :o Hickory Hill. tbe next post | tion. You have, without knowing again waved him away. ‘Send for the express- | Of Leke county, Cal. Eightcen hundred and faune and flora of scores of Pacific islands with letters and circulars addremel to Man and keep yourself out of the way fora mo- | clshty-nine bYoke the charm, but 1899 muy | fauna and flora of scores of Pac re- themselves at Laurel Ran. How long the ex. ment." she said curtly. take up tor lost ieee bates Swe ins te eee as re cane ht to the travacance would have continued is not known, An attitude of weak admirntion and foolish | tat da\ f Sory Bann ‘were but it not until it was ramored that. in | their pr Passion had taken the place of his former trem- continent north of them. Samemnee of tin exonive f {How of business | hare also done a > pene Lair gg a bene af note iy From Texas Sittings. ae e department bac. cune! ta powgenas y nbor and next responsible wor er . tee wotld be better ated for the place that ton In plain words, we bavo tresed. the cr td fared lps nad abok out ber aise Wal | “Doctor, how sm coming on? Do yo think Devotion to Art aba and «compromise was effected with the | appearance of money letters to # point when might ol expressman start at unex- re is any hope?” said a very man to Dr. geacral ofice by @ permanent salary to the Papers ‘two offices. Now, I have petted c 3 those and | Blister. os tr Osn. i it t des th at the little win-| 4 ee i wed sai uot the least hesitation in telling you that we Jee murely smiling mouth at ‘Your chances are the best in the world. Tho Just tnished her afternoon levee, nodded a | pected it’ Br “Mrs. Baker!” statistics show that one person in ten recovers,” ‘smiling “good-bye” to ucr last customer and | tc:, although it warned bi She put her finger quickly to her lips, and | replied the doctor. closed her siutter again. Then she took up throw & world of unuttsrabls and onigmatical | “Then there is not much hope for me?” - own ——. =. wise weating them 7 seeins into her mietblevous feb. Fae oon ®. i = the tenth case wi . yo it v ny 3 ced Pretty impatience "at the éxo . “There's a big, apciago ayoll taking my | that 1 have treated, and the other nino are dead. envelopes be bed shelved. ‘Ibey were gencrally » “lot bac atom ad siatintion ave te Se sealed care re the ma’ statistics are to be relied on.’