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The Office Boy's Successful Appeal for a Raixe In Wages.| From the Chicago Times-Herald. Several years ago, when W. F. White, the present well-known passenger traffic managir of the Santa Fe, was general passenger agent of the same road, with headquarters at Topeka, Kan., he had in his employ an office boy by the name of W. J. Young. He was an orphan lad about fourteen years old, and, with an older brother, kept house in a little room on the outskirts of the town. He was very in- dustrious. and often when his work re- quired him to stay after the other clerks had gone home at night he would sleep on his desk in the office and would be found busily at work by the first clerk who ar- rived in the morning. One day Mr. White feund a carefully written and sealed letter on his desk marked “personal.” Opening it he read the following brief communica- tien: “Mr, White—At present my salary is only $10 per month, and I can only eat two meals a day. You know this is not enough for a growing boy. I would like to have my pay ratsed to $15 a month, so I can eat three meals a day. If you cannot give me $15 a month I will work for $10 a month, “W. J. YOUNG.” “Well, I guess the boy will have to have three meals a day,” laughingly exclaimed Mr. White. Young remained in the serv- ice of the company for many years, being promoted from time to time until he oc- cupied the position of city passenger agent of the read at St. Joseph, Mo. — -2ee Cause of Red Noses. Froin the Baltimore Sun. It is stated by the Popular Health Maga- zine of this city in its June issue that “redness of the nose” is caused by indi- gestion, not intemperance. The remedy, it is stated, is to “abstain from over-indu! gence in fats and sweets.” This dictum will be appreciated by many worthy people whose noses are unduly rosy. For years they have been misjudged by irreverent scoffers who did not scruple to ascribe the nagal tint to excessive imbibitions. Now sclence comes to their relief. It is “fats and sweets” that make the trouble, causing indigestion, which produces a rush of blood to the nose. Some persons given to alco- holic stimulants do, indeed, have red noses, but the redness is stomachic, not alcoholic. re water’ may “burn out one’s cop- R and thus indirectly produce the luminous proboscis, but its power is now in @ position to assert that it is an error to say “drinking did it.” ENGLISH OF THE INDIANS. They, if Nobody Else, Have Succeeded in Simplifying Our Mother Tongue. From the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil. Lieut. Grote Hutcheson, aid-de-camp to Ger. Coppinger, is in receipt of a highly interesting letter from one of his brother officers now in camp at Fort Hall agency in Idaho, the home of the Indians who were mixed up in the recent Jackson's Hole trouble. The letter is interesting because it has nothing to say of Jackson's Hole, which is a relief. Instead, it deals largely with conditions at Fort Hall from the stand- point of a student of ethnology. “I am taken,” says the writer, whose name Lieut. Hutcheson does not fecl at Hberty to mention, “with the speech of the Indians in their communications with the whites. Having little to occupy time, I have bothered to look into the origin of the kind of language which I hear used by In- dians and traders in their talk with one an- other. It suggests the slang of the Bowery, being purely an artificial adjunct to both the Indian and the English language. It suggests, tuo, the baby talk of young mothers, who insist on placing verbs where nouns should be, and who prefer mixing up their first, second and third persons to tak- ing them straight. For instance, there is the word ‘mebbe.’ At first I thought this to he a sort of corruption of may be, mean- ing perhaps, or used in a doubting way. This is not true. The Indian and the white in conversation use ‘mebbe’ as an affirma- tive. ‘Mebbe get wagon’ is the strongest way of declaring that you will get a wagon. “You eat mebbe’ brings delight to the In- dian, for that is a promise of giving him food, a promise which may by no means be evaded. A white man, tco, in convers- ing with an Indian, when the Indian will converse, and when he knows even this patols, injects ‘mebbe’ into his talk at every fourth word, or if he gets excited he puts it in at the third. “There is no pronoun in the mixed vo- cabulary of the reservation. The words ‘white man’ and ‘Injun’ will fill in for all the persons and all the cases, too, by the Way. Somebody will write an Indian-Eng- lish grammer some day, and it will be comprised in less tran a hundred words. Simplicity takes the place of explicitness, am bound to say, and sometimes you bave to use a carefully trained ear to know whether it js a threat, a command, a promise, or a request that is being flung at yeu. Mood Is unknown in the grammar of the Bannack. “I discover that the English language of Fenimore Cooper and Oll Coomes are tion- existent. I have dug profoundly into the ‘Ugh’ and the thre2-word sentences of the novelist, and I find they are out of fashion. If you succeed in getting an Indian to talk to you at all ne will not shut off with three words ending in an exclamation point. Neither will he use the expression ‘pale face.’ No self-respecting Indian says ‘pale face’ now. “Altogether the language is a study worth attention. Seriously, I imagine a text book could be compiled which would really result in a great good for the government in bringing the Indians to something like civ- ilized habits. As it is, the instruction is based on the same conditions as prevail in the English language and with English- speaking persons. This does not fit the In- dian. His language is simplicity itself, and there are no twists of case, tense, or the like. As to tense, one illustration will show. Take the word ‘go.’ We have ft ‘go, went, gone, going, will go, while the Indian puts in two cases, ‘go’ and ‘was go.’ If he wishes to make it a future tense he simply puts in the Specific time, as ‘he go tomor- row, mebbe,’ which to my mind is quite ex- pressive of the idea. I seriously believe at- tention might be called to this situation among scholastic men and, perhaps, we would be able to get along without rascally and incompetent interpreters. One hundred words would be a good vocabulary.” - Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling’s admirers, and they are practically everybody, will be interested in the story from his pen which will appear ir tomorrow’s Star, the scene of which Is laid in the cold and darkness of the arctic regions, —_——_—_ Im the Nature of a Warning. From the Philadelphia Times. 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The hunt was stopped for the moment, as all the men had been deperding confidently on the dcgs, and they were dismayed at be- ing so unmistukably deserted. They gath- ered round the man who held tke snake, all except Martin, who had followed his dogs to the edge of the forest. He had tegretted his anger as soon as he had shot. “Poor brutes!” he thought; **’tisn't likely they'd turn tail without good cause for It. They never went back on me_ before. “That ain’t no adder.” ‘There's some meaning to it that would like- ly help us if we could only understand it.” The dogs were not in sight, so it was evident not only that he had not killed one of them, but that they kad definitely and finally abandoned the chase. As a matter of fact, they met Martin at his gate when he got home late in the evening, fawning and skulking, and in every possible canine way expressing their mortification tor their cowardice and unfaithfulness. One of them had a bullet hole in his car. Martin joined the villagers in a moment. “No, that ain't an adder,” he said, as he took the snake from the mar who held it, and examined it critically; “it kind of look- ed like one when I first canght sight of it, though. What is it, anyway?” “That's whit we'd like to know our- selves,” replied King; “I believe every- bedy’s had his say, and it’s agreed that no such snake was ever seen in this part of the woods before.” “It beats me,” remarked Martin, “but there's one thing about ft that you can set down as certain.” “What's that?” “That this snake is deadly poisonous. ‘Them critters of mine wouldn't have play- ed the sneak on us for nothing, not for no common snake, understand!” “By gum!" exclaimed the man who had killed the snake, “I guess I was lucky in deing him up without getting bit."" “What are we going to do now?" inter- posed Will, to whem the brief discussion seemed a wicked waste of time; “the dogs have backed out, but it’s pretty certain they've put us onthe right track. Shall we fcllow up the stream?" “We're not going to lose anything by thinking it over a bit,” said Martin; “de- pending on-the dogs, you see, we left Nick's house without any plan. Of course, we shall have to divide.’ s ‘It mustn’t be forgotten,’ suggested Newcomb, “that Elsie’s no stranger to the woods. She ain't a city girl who never saw a tree outside of a box before.” “And, on the other hand,” added Martin, “she ain't what you'd call lost. Elsie might lose her bearings if she got fur enough into the woods alone, but the point is that we don’t think Elsie’s alone. Some- bedy took her, and that somebody's hid- den her. So, you see, ‘tain’t for us to cale’late what Elsie’'d do and where she'd go, but what the fellow that took her would do. “That's straight enough,” commented Martin, “but there’s one more question to settle—is this fellow a stranger to the woods?” He turned to Will. None of the men had pressed him with inquiries after his straightforward narration of the facts as he knew them. His love for Elsie was one of the common topics for pleasant gossip in the village, and it had needed no ex- planation of his avowal of love to her to make his neighbors understand the nature of their relations. “You can judge of that as well as I can,”” answered the young man. “I never saw either of these men before. They looked as if they were used to outdoor life, but on general principles I wouldn't say that they were familiar with these woods.” “No; that would be saying a good deal. Well, on the theory that these fellows are at least comparative strangers, what are the places they would most likely find? Seems to me if each man of us thinks up all the dens and caves he knows we'll be likely to strike the spot they've discovered. ‘There's no use of wasting thought about any part of the wilderness except the side of Baker mountain.” Martin was the speaker, the most in- — + = veterate woodsman anf*hunter in a com munity where every m@n’Hid shot his bear ae where a deer’s arftiars over thé fire- place were as necessary"& test of comple! manhood as beard’ on thé chin. “Hin see rerior knowledge of fhe'wilderness was recognized by all, and! Hf ‘plan of opera- tions was adopted unqiestt dningly. He di- vided the party part! ording to the knowledge the searche fessed of the woods, and as far as possttile sending men over famillar ground, ard Hartly according to thetr-arms. Some bf the men had no Weapons, but-there were two or three guns and several revolvers “in the party, and Martin saw to 4t that at’ least a revolver went with each detachment. “I'd like to go-with you, John,” said Will. “All right,”” responded Mratin. “I kind of thought you would. *We'll let the others get away! first! and. {Wea Fou and ‘I ‘will .take our own course.” — The: searphing -partiesrseti oft; Bprendmig from the spot where the degs gave up like the sticks of a fan from the handie., It was understood that there was to be no shoot- ing. during the-day- except in case of an emergency or asa signal. “Of course,. if any man hears a shot,” said Martin, “he'll. make for it, and that's all there is to {ft except In leaving your own trails you ought to mark the spot where you left off, so's you can find it again if the shot should prove to be a false alarm.” ee they were all gone Martin said to “I'm dead curious about this snake. I thought I knew everything living In the weods by sight, though, of course, I could- n't pretend t> call ’em all by their right names. This does beat me! And it beat the dogs so, too, I'm going to leave. it here to get when we come back. No use lugging the pesky thing ‘round all the afternoon.” He hurg the snake over the branch of a tree where he could not possibly fail to see it at_a later time, and then, with a cheerful “come along,” he led Will across the brook. It was turbulent at this point, for they were at the beginning of the mountain slope, and just-above them it roared over a steep desceat of rocks, making almost a cataract. “It's my belief,” explained Martin, “that the fellow found he couldn’t climb that waterfall and s0 took to the bank right here. Now, everything goes to show that he’s a fellow of more cunning than an Injun. He must have known he would be followed; he must have known that in a place like this there would be dogs to set or his track. So, you see, he took to. the brook to lose the scent. But he had to go up stream, ‘cause that led into the woods, and knowing that if we followed we'd fol- low fur, he made up his mind to give us a fresh scent and chance a trick with dogs. So he gets out here on the same side he went in, and the trick worked.” “Do you mean that he deliberatély put that snake in trail?” “"Course I'm only guessing, but ain't it reasonable? It's a strange snake. Who brought it here? For that snake never crawled here from hundreds of miles dis- tant. He did, of course. That’s my guess, anyway. Didn't you notice how easily Tom killed it? It didn’t make no great try to get away. Why? Because it had heen tamed. Then p’raps ‘twas a southern snake; and in the open air of the north, Exploring the Mire. even though it’s summer, it may have been chilly and numb. You bet, Billy, the varmint that took away your girl reckoned cn all these things. Now, I'll tell you way I let the others go their ways an-l why I come thi First place, I may be all wrong; second place, if I start right, there’s no telling how scon I may lose the scent— though I ain’t going to’ be scare off like them durn dogs; third place, wets} see here!” They had been pushing through the un- aergrowth up the steep slope on the fur- ther side of the stream and had now come to a comparatively open spot at the tup of the falls. For several rods back the brook was quiet, flowing gently across level ground, drawn on by the force of the water rushirg down the incline. It was perhaps twerty feet from bank to bank, and in some places the water might have been three feet deep. A man who cared nothing for a wetting.would have had no hesitation in fording it. As Martin came to the end of his explanations he pointed to the carpet of the brown pine needles with which the ground was covered, and both he and Will got down on their knees ahd felt of it. “Damp,” said Martin. ‘Look further.” They fell over the needles and examined the bushes growing near. There could be no doubt that somebody, if not Elsie’s cap- tor, had recently crossed the stream here, for there were several moist spots where ize ground and leaves should have been dry. “Now, if we only had the dogs again!” groaned Martin; “‘no human being can fol- low such a trail as this.”” “But we seem to be right so far,” said Will, greatly encouraged by the woods- man’s cleverress. “There are other signs than water by which we may be able to track the fellow.”” “Yes, but nothing so speedy and certain as dogs.” Martin sat on the ground thinking for a moment. “Well, come along,”’ he exclaimed present- ly, springing up. ‘“‘We must try for it. I ‘was pretty certain that he'd cross here, but now that I think of it there’s several different places he might put for.” ‘Weren't they all mentioned by the other fellows?” “All but one, and I suppose we might as well let them hunt in their own ways. They'll probably explore all the places faithfully. S’pose you and I take our chances on the one spot they didn’t men- tion?” He was prowling around the edge of the little open space as he spoke, seeking for signs of the course followed by Elsie’s captor. “Where is it?” asked Will. “You know the old Wilkins iron mine? It hasn’t been worked since you was.born, I “Yes, King mentioned that.”” “Exactly, and Jim King can be trusted to go there and explore it, but Jim don’t know, and I don’t think that anybody in the county, except me, knows that there's a cave connected with the mine by a natural tunnel.” “You think Wanga went there?” “Wanga? What's that?” “I forgot to tell you. That's the name of the negro we saw last evening.” “Huh! don’t sound like a southern ne- gro’s name, does it? No, I don’t think he took Elsie there, but there’s a chance of it and we must take it. It would be odd that a stranger in the woods should stumble on a hiding place that only one man who lives round here knows about, but it’s possible. Here we are!" He pointed to the Indications of recent tramping through the brush, Excited and hopeful, Will followed him. The young man was himself sufficiently versed in “They found a shred of cloth.” woodcraft to recognize the trail, and it seemed, so promptly hed the hunt been undertaken, as if they must presently come upon Elsie and her captor. All at once they heard a voice in the dis- tance, and they stopped to listen. It came again in a moment: 1 muttered Martin, pressing on again, “I didn’t s’pose I needed to teil ‘em not to do that.” “Why shouldn't they?” asked Will thoughtfully. “Cause,” replied Martin, impatiently, “the girl isn't lost, don’t you understand? If she was she'd holler, wouldn’t she? and then there'd be no need of our shouting. She’s kidnaped, and all this hollering is just a neat warning to her kidnapers to lay low. Durn it!” Will saw the force of this reasoning, but there was no comfort in it. They came after a time to an open space at least an acre in extent that was almost unbroken rock. Hardly a spear of grass marked the entire surface. Martin dashed directly across it, looked eagerly along the edge of the forest at the further side, and then turned back disappointed. “Unless my cale’lations are all wrong,” he said, “Jim King’s party crossed this ledge. So it’s no use trying to find our trail again, for we might be simply tagging after Jim. But we'll remember that we got this fur all right. I guess now the best thing we can do is to strike straight for the cave I spoke of. We'll take the short- est possible cut and let the trails go to thunder.” So they broke into the forest at the end of the ledge and pushed their way along the side of the mountain, tending slightly upward. It was considerably farther from their starting point to the cave than ‘o the opening of the mine, for the cave lay on the further side of a ridge, inte which the tunnel had been driven. It so happened, therefore, that King and his companion were exploring the mine with improvised torches for fifteen minutes cr more before Martin and Will found the well-concealed opening to the cave on the other side of the ridge. King's party, too, had been more fortu- nate in one sense than any of the others. About half a mile from the mine they had found a shred of cloth upon the low-reach- ing limb of a tree. It was but a shred, evidently torn from a dress, and it seemed to indicate that Elsie had passed that wa: although none of the men could say f certain that they recognized it as a part of any dress they had ever seen her wear. They pressed on eagerly, for it did seem as if this indicated that the Wilkins mine was the hiding place. Arrived at the mine, they lost no time in exploring it, but there they found no trace whatever of the miss- ing girl. The tunnel came to an end in a narrow shaft half full of ice-cold water, that extended perhaps forty feet further into the ridge. King himself took a torch and performed what seemed to be the ut- terly uncalled-for task of wading so near to the end of the shaft that he could sec the dead wall of rock ahead of him that told how far the miners bad carried their work. Then he bad returned, terribly chilled, to the open air, end when ‘some one suggested a ca a mile further on, he gladly gave the word to hurry there, believing that con- stant exercise was necessary to his health. Martin and Will noted before entering the cave, to which they had come, thar there were signs of a campfire a little way from its mouth. That might indicate muck or nothing, for hunters might have spent the night there. No one but Martin haa ever observed the cave. They lit torches and entered. It was a narrow, uneye, irregular passage,with on- ly here and there space enough between the walls to admit of a man lying down, had he chosen so chilly and damp a place ot shelter. To Will the passage seemed in- terminable, but their progress was neces- sarily very slow, for Martin himself was not over familiar with it, and they stopped at every expansion to throw the searching light of their torches into possible crannies and chambers. “We're at the end of the mine,” said Martin at last; “now for a cold bath.” A pace or two forward and he edged through a narrow cleft in the rock and stepped into the shaft that King supposed ke had explored thoroughly. He had miss- ed the opening through which Martin ana Will waded because it turned sharply off at one side before the end of the shaft was reached. Like the others, these two explored the mine thoroughly, and, like the others, they set forth on new quests. It was not till sundown that they sadly turned about and startec for Granite village. As they drew near Martin said: “I suppose the other fellows are at the house by this time. You go along and tell our story. I'll join you soon enough, but I want to get that snake and take it home with me.” Will assented silently to this suggestion, and Martin hurried to the place in the edge of the forest where he had left the dead reptile hanging over the limb of a tree. It was not there. He exhausted all the matches in his pockets examining the ground about the tree. Somebody had taken the snake away, and full of wonder and not a little startled, the woodsman made rapid- ly for Mr. Warren's house. (fo be continued tomorrow.) Wilmarth & Edmonston, ry, &c., 1205 Pa. ave. Wedding and Anniversary GIFTS! Extra preparations enable us to show the richest and most beautiful varlety of ap- propriate Wedding and Anniversary Gitts yet displayed by us, embracing Brilliant Cut Glass. Artistic Lamps. > Rare Imported Pric-a-brac. Royal Sevres Vases. Handsome Brittany Blue Delft Vases and Ornaments. Beautiful Sevres Plates. Useful Sterling Silver Goods, &c. 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They're _ graceful: pet Shoes—made to conform to the latest principles of Dress Reform. ought to be $6 instead of $5. iChildren’s Shoes. 4l0 per cent Discount *For Saturday. —From our stock of ay. son's, Dalton Co.'s and J. F. Swain's you're bound to select some- thing serviceable and satisfactory for the ‘children. 10 per cent discount Saturday. ‘crocker’s, 3939 Pa. Ave. 1t Open till 8 p.m. Saturdays, 10:30 p.m. ee OO So $e 0% 30-06 000 Reeves, Poole & Co., Cash Grocers, 1209 Pa. Ave. N. Y. Burbank Potatoes, 40c. bu. ——fine and mealy. We'll unload two car lvads of them tomorrow—shippad to us direct from New York stat them as you're passing. “California” flour, $4.80 bbl., $1.30 qr. bbl. ——ard the finest flour you ever used— Notice or your money. back. eeves, ceves, Pooie & 1209 F Street. it 0.. eee =—- ——-—---0 Family Shoe. Store ives are Lawes! omorrow’s | A Holiday For the woLgay Sat- urday“is always “Children’s Day” at the Family Shoe Store. Bring the little folks, and let us shoe them—our Shoes will be comfortable to their feet—and the price willbe comfortable to your purse. 500.—T Comfortabh Our Edith Shoes for ladics are after our own designs—the leather is of our own ; $1.00—$1.25 and up—for Solid, Durable Shoes. ME PCDODO OOD OE ME, POPU OOOY 4 seston ROAR Aen Anan. Ft te I i se Kf th made and we know they are equal in ‘style, fit and) wear to the best Shoes sold in any other store at $4.00 a pair; broad,| medium or razor toe—kid) or cloth tops—in butgon)s = OTE | or laced, - Complete line of Bicycle Shoes for Ladies. 12 STYLES $2.98 FOR CHOICE. FAMILY HOE TORE, 310-312 SEVENTH ST., tt 313 EIGHTH ST. Sees etter bette EAR DUPONT CIRCLE. Cai “s shop. 1920 N st. nw. rienced and reliable men. JOHN T. WALKER, Builder. 03-3m° Jobbing by ex- Residence, 2021 N. 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