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i - L 7 Dl i oo THE OMAHA DAILY BEE MO*?MY JANUARY- TVRRTISEMENTS FOR THESE COLUMNS will be taken untll 1210 p.m. for the evening wtil §:80 . m. for the morning and SuwaRy editions. AGvertiners by sequesting & numbered check. 8D Lave their knewers RGGreRned 10 & num bered Jetter 4o care of THE BEE.Answers 80 podressed Wil be Geidversd npon preseniation of the chock WeNTED-MALE HE. Reaton,] e & word first naersion. e & word ¢ ing tuken Tor 1nme than 26 B BOLICTTORS. TEAMS FURNISHED. wtaliment goods. American Wringer Co. Howurd st ¥ AGENTS e rewtent inve Onemicn Tx. 1006 60 SALARY OR COMMISSION. THE tion of the age. The New Paten Ink Brasing Pencil. Sells on sight Works ilke mnpie. Apents are muking $25.00 10 #125.00 por week. For further particulnes write the Monroe Eruser Mig. C0., X 86, La Crosue. Wi, LY 17 GRANTTE BLK + ponan Tnlon Couch P [ MEGHANICS EAT QUAKER OATS WANTED—TO BUY FOR SALE—-REAL E!TATE Rates, 10c 5 1 month Lan Q Qe 10 nooin, Re n word first Nothing taken for iews than o FING HENS. 1240TS PER #i., Gouncl Biufts, FOR SALE, L. Ib. &t 1104 E. Pi line, or ke then 3 Only one mar Investigate, Addrows B WANTED. 1o carTy uh i wide thiine whien wil m 10 82,000.00 o wun 10,00 16 room DU WANTED, A FIRST-CL wilking Do WAINTED FLMALE hELP. Touron, 1 e i word firat Inwertion. ¢ & word thore nfier Nothing ken for lews thun 25c ! F Boges & 5 i wes XD EMPLO e Buths, 20¢. 3402 Parnim, buw > i St Bl e the HOG DISEASES certity thut Henry Omulia. operated on ioe the Operation my heve $t 10 be & £000 Pres Ino helieve 3 would CONt 18 Ko small, W hork hoge huve entive 1 ¥ any u Gilieng) st Augus aone w dimeanon M1K] 18 f-" A NEAT YOUNG GIRL WHO WANTS TO work 10 0 ttind sehoo can find & ber board £000 bome w1 116 8. 20th 8, Call this week ;. WANTED, GIRL 14 YEARS OLD TO ASSIST in housework. Inguire Lunge grocery Siore 606 5. 13t 80 28 (- WANTED. HOUSEKERPER IN WIDOW! tamily. Box 878, Ke ey . Nob, Mdid 2 PLIVATE INSTRUCTIONS IN AGGrens B 1. Bee (5 WAXTED Fuglish by 1805 eacher D, A GIRL TO DO e noii. ckpable. expor 14 Omiabia National btk by 3 ENTLEMEN, WE WILL P. D0 10 E15.00 per Week 16 G0 Wir )ri 10T Uk: 110 CALVRRINE Und Promip Send self-uddrenwed env Co.. Boston, Buss, !‘Dl BE!\(T HOUSEE howe v ment ates, 106 6 line mouth. Fothing 1) BOUSES IX ALL PARTS OF THE The 0. F. Duvie company AGE, MODERN, CHOIC -1 C. 8. Bigutter, 204 Bee bid Do e i) HOUS )5 ROON HOUSE, MODERN FORNISHED nfuraished. Apply 1112 8. 10tk fifxt;u" MODERN §-BEOOM HO OM HOUSE, 51 & MASO DINO one five-room house. hear business 16,00, $20.00 and €25.00. I. D. Zittle, Bioek. 16tk and Douglus sireets. FOR RENT, THE SOUTH ELBGANT EIGHT- 2Bt and 1zurd, Dioek from Walnut 0. Inguire compiroller's omee. F. K. DARLING, S AND nter, u Brown Md12 GOOD SEVEN-BOOM HOUS R pa Firnt Nu month Siiibie buataoss me FOR RENT. FOE CASH, FAEM tral Nebraska. 600 acres oultivs st fo Good hutidines. W H ul bunk bullding, Omaba. CLALBVDYAN’L> Rutes, 100 & ine each_insertion. & Nothing tuken for ows than MES. DR CLATRVOYANT, Rai- 4k year wt 116 K. 16t N CE: Corey, 807 N HWARRE m I.A§SAOL BATHS. £TC. ine ung sea outs. s MADAME SNITH, 502 S 13TH, 2ND FLOOR, Room 5. Mawsige, VEpor, Blookol. stenm e 3 MNME. STC mun house IWE, MME_ BROW: 4. wecond tioor Iphur and wea § PERSONAL. Mussage the. tes, 100 8 line ench inmertion. $1.5 taken for lews than U in ¢ Cure guar Masd 26 —ILLUSTRATED MARRIAGE contaluing pholo_ enETEVInEs 0f per corespondents, mlled free. Brow ons Gesir- Pub. ¢ Mitgd 1° GE O & Farn: Ik, 15 "LASS FAMILY, A modern house. renta A SMALL. FIRST- + destrabie uibe room oL, reasonuble TTd R-ROOM HOUSES IN CITY Hondo street. ) MODEKN ¢ & 5., 19005 N. 25 8T AND with stable. 2aNrile P BOGM COTTAGE, COMPLETELY FUL- juistied, Soutl 16tk near Jackson. Jnawire at Gtk COTTAGES. modern smprovements, ' & wodern, sightly, worth $80.00 $15.00. Pidelity Trust Oo I 7-ROOM, EAST FEONT, ALL B0 K-room. new. por month, only pany, 1702 Farnam st T);(ORNER FLAT AT 10TH AND X rooms; runge und all_other hetter flal in the clty: §35.00 yoom ¢, Patterson block, 10: MiGH D FoB WENT. FIVE _ROOM COTTAGE. city “water, barn. Apply 1888 8. 3rd street no arnum. MiGs FOR RENT, 5-B00N HQUSE, INQUIER 1615 Dorcus st. 411 24 A 10-ROOM HOUSE IN GOOD CONDITION. with water, gns and furnnce; ulno burn: 4425 Farnhm rent. $25.00 10 go0d party, L. N. nell, Withmell blook. FURNISHED BOUSE, § ROONS 009 CALI- Mag7 12 316 | T—IF YOU WANT T0 GET MARRIED SEND s for wutrimontil puper “ FMONEY TO first_inwertion ken for loss thin 2 LOAN AT LO Farnum st ces N INPROVED AND UNIMPEOVED city property. £5.000 aud upwards. b 10 G per nt; no deliys. W Farnam Smith&Co. 1320Fary 7 ANTHONY LOAN AND TRUST CO. Life. ends at low rates 10r choice sae d Jowa furms or Omahi City prope 1 NEY TO LOAN AT LOWES sved und animproved Ol real cxtuie, 100 yenrs. Fidelity Trust Co., 1702 Parnan 623 W HOBTGAGE LOANS, A MOORE, 4 X ¥ Life, 5 MI75 14 LOANS ON IMPROVED REAL ESTATE. Garvin Bos., 210 N. Y. Life. M84 711 bunk Bidg —MONEY TO LOAN ON IMPROVED REAL estute in Omaha &nd_Counctl Blufte ut from § peroeut. Apply W. B. Melkle, Pirst Nationa) 0 W —WE WANT CHOICE LOANS ON IMPROVED city property. Oentral Loun Trust Co.. room )6, Boa building M MONEY TO LOAN—CHATTLLS. 1), FOR RENT, (-ROOM BOUSE, 180 oot Tates, 10¢ u line each isertion, §1.5 m )u line per nth. Nothing taken 10r less than 25e. T); 7oK BENT, IDENCE, 1818 Aoupitol Ave. How Masg 51 ), DESIRALLE HODSES IN ALL PARTS OF 2 eu. —d. B Parrotie, Douglts block, 20 CLOWRY 4-BOOM FRONT FLAT, NEW fiat, §11.00, Roverts, 1614 Chicago. FOR T D et Chicugo. 3013 Lesvenworth FOR RENT-FURNISHED ROOMS. Rt 1 afior. Not e u word firmt insernion. 1e & Word there- g taken for lose than RENT. DRESILABL] Inguire 1619 Podge * ROOMS: STEAN HEAT. FI NC I.T'fl cukant rooms DOLAN BOU W e F ROOMS FOR L1 ) oubekenplag Tor gentiemun sud wite T TOGGS BrIe BOWSS OB D oy Burl siroet )R RENT. FURNISHED ""nl.uf M le uw word 1 takon Tor Joss L HONE UNDER 02 ubsoclution, 11181 ARD. I quickest possible time. 10 m for WAREHC THE OLDEST. LARGEST AND MONEY TO LOAN— We will joan you any sum which you wirh, ] or lorge. ut the lowast Dossible rates, i the and for any Jengih of t n puy it back i such it nip a8 You wish. when you wish, and only puy T 1t 8 10ng as you keep it You can BOrrow oo HOUSEHOLD FURKITURE ANT) P HORSES. WAGONS A LR KECIIPTS NI CHAN OR ANY OTHER SBOURITY properts sult you. You ¢ SE, Without publieity or removal OMAHA MORTGAGE LOA 800 SOUTH 16TH STREET. First tioor above th INCOR- PORATED LOAN COMPANY IN OMAHA. i Wikl Toaton, month. 70T SALE nae JARGA SALE PERTY IN Park. Jm houss with moders Address X. 003 First INS_HOI _F.K STORY AND HALF | som and_bith; clty henr Hanscom par nenr swation. H Hoers & H block ‘*F R SALB— 40 ucrow Who w more NTY ¥ 1 10-ACKE_TRACTS Plirty farms with Nelsor EASTERN LADY. SAYS SE DeSotw Tor $1.000 room, "ARMS IN NEBI i 0w Dricon And easy lerm, oW 0000 & b = Andover 00 AN mitia st plan bullding » e biock bounded nd_Masor urrangement clinner of Hix number of it 10 be undl offer vom ot Skoted ns CHEAP, FOR_CASH 0 @i biock Omata R SAL] payments. 1 10 the city 0f I EAUTIFCL § CD.H DON HOUSE BARN Price, £1.500.00 5 ACRES. i ichinuon, 1021 Fi price. T Brown & AIN IN ACRE ¥ ond. ¢lose 10 motor r Monday und Tuesds suliding. 16k and 10 me Call s DG 3ot onst frou house 1 Hanscom plaoe Omuba, 8 F. HOUSE AND )0 South and it corner 1ot and & hulf, With £0od S-room eir Hauseom park, $4,000 t front Jot, 2,000, Ten' o ar For: D. Weatl, 16th and Douglus, 445-20 DRESSMAKING. Rate month. 10c a line each in Nothing taken {0 Ttion. $1.60 & line por less than 2 Press ES, $4; WRAPPERS, 82. 906 N, ¢ Mrs. Hel DRESSMAKE] 1TS: asonubie. Wik, 415 X, 15th side entrutics 1o th, 10c a lne each insertion. §1 Nothing tuken for iess than 27 0 uliue per 1L ORDERS FOR THE RE! e, of vaul e of aed to Jum Sam vt OVAL OF GAR munure, ushes, rofuse and closning and censpools sent to this office or tothe the Bourd of Bealth will be jrompily ai- T in my employ s Fu Lorengen, John Nelson Overgnard. A. MacDonald, ¢ity garbuge or, rooms ¢ Tel DANCING ACADEMY. month. 10c a line each lunertion, $1.50 u Line par Nothing taken or less than 2be. ORA New classes now 1o Suturday 10 . m. or m. and Thus the new ND'S DANCING SCHOOL, 1510 HARNEY 1 The midwinter tarm begins this wesk ming. Children Tuesday 4 p m. Aduite Tuesday > lessons daily erms; 2 halls ¢ raday 8 . m dances. Call for UNDLKTAEKERSANDEMBALM RS Ratos montl 10c u Line each insertion, Nothing 2 for less 4 tineper KER (FORMERLY WITH JONN G, sed: later with M. 0. Maul,) under . 16t 8t Tel 896, i ERAL DIRECTOR AND ago Bt Tel H0 ~ PAWNBROKERS, Rates, month 1 iusersion, $L.50 4 Lus par for less than 25e 10c 3 lne ea Nothiug tuke J . SoxN o .Tioug: oh NENHE TIAMOND BROKER, 1805 st Louns money on diamonds, 0ld goid and silver bought ®el. 1068 36 oy wle { ~WILL LOAN MONEY coufidentiul. J. B. Hudock,» MONEY, in any amormt is Cor ON ANY EIND OF ‘1- mhdouiil, A, L. Hurmis ON HOR! e of Bl Ik om 42 socurity; strictly. m 1, Continental THE PLACE TO BO! ox ON HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, HORSES AND MULES. WAGONS AND CARRIAGES, PIANOS AND ORGANS WAREBOUSE LECEIPTS. MERCHANDISE. ANY CHATTEL SEC s POSST JUICK EST POSSIBLE OU Y Py baek { ROOM & WITHNELL biock, inth und Harney Sts. . THE FIDELITY LOAN GUARANTEE 00 TIM any thne MONEY LOANED ( FUR! 1ok 0f value = Frod BUSINESS CEANCES. GANTLY FOR ] “WITH rIthout boArd, Bt the Webster, HIK N 1 ROONS AN ARD. 2308 DODG- s Y- NICELY “FURNISH] board. 018 N ROUMS b wtront N “WITH LARGE Clins bonn FArRIvAT AF MO10 boRrders: £00d neeommodit) ronmonndie. Aduress L 24, Teor ¥OR RENT UNFURNISH'D ROOMS ” Ratew Towe n Word firwt uwerts Nothing taken Tor iows TR OF TENISHED BOONS, - OF UN H0 Norih 1l wtre M O WENT, THIEE UNFULNISHE Dodge u W BOOM WITH nw: termn L1c 1 word there RO 458 30 tou. Je & word ar lows thitl i on fee of The b AGENTS WaNTED ten. 10 B 1ine oach i ih g tkon § ) _FOLICITGES. CITY AND KV, FOR AN o o dvertiniug wip. - Cull betore 1odn o drvn 414 Hoe vulidiug Moo T FAMILY WOULD LIKE THREE | Lock box b Y o line lue per ack nuerion. §1.00 & SHORTHAND AND TYP-WRITING Ruton, T0c VM SANT'S SCHOOL OF SHORT ¥, Life J EW AND SECC Aday 3 F.GE 'Ank for cire SCALES. ND HA Omuba. s Horder LLENEBOK, BANJOIST 4 1510 Cullforuin S{ K 46 i 5 s Omubis 10 5um 1010 am 4.50 pm TURLINGTON & G| & Xn«} ot L0th and M i Chicugh B ~ Ol Pacific et g 'ON & MO, RIVER b and Muson Ss. Deuvor Exproa- Dewdwood Expross _Depver Express. :| €30pm oot & .50 pan 2pt_8 Locu .50 pm BURL Arrives Depo RIGHTS, Wiy UNTY STATE ol neil DEUG Co FOR SALE anka L0Wn 1 inierest for Neb, ER TO GO INTO BUSI- | T hwve the trade, und_business and lepitimute. Business wiil 00 @ otk net; man 1ot atrald of 1.00. Aadress I 26, Be Hosn Wb e clew 511 28 A KARE OPPORTUNITY TO who tnderst Property is sl in i exeoTlont ey e cun be 5 nuliew. Mol buliding in_good vepair. Orig- | Duvis & Rankin, Ohiengo. 10 in connection.” Thie properiy will be 1d 101 Bl on the dollur of fiswt cont: 4t will bear TROBA! InApeCtion. 5B terms will be mude satis ry. Address J. W. Perry, Ord, Nob M5 & 80 FOR EXCHANGE. Z Address § - 30c & e ouch nsertion, §1.5 Nothing tuk F for lows thi EXCHANGES, ALEX. MOORE.504 § STOCK_OF Wit o MILLINEEY ROTION AND and cutile F Tox 21 TOWN 100 FARNS TN N wd Dakots. Will sel: ok dse. horses wud o Ad a vox — TWENTY EOOM BRICK hotél for land o sl Ewing x 413, Dunlap, J0wa (I WMX&D—TG RENT. T 1436 4 WOR! firat Inkartlon, 168 WOrd tere: Notling takon (01 loas thin 25¢, ™ PRATT AND fr Ghicaro prop WM WILL FXCHANGE MY HOUSE 211 (modery improvements improvod or unimprove xion block. {—~WANTED, FURNISHED COTTAGE, NOT over U roomn, close 1, gas wud buth Addross PO, Box 814, ity J WANTED. 00 KENT: UNFUKNISHED rovin. Oeutrully lecated tand gan. Addross B STORAGE, WILLIAMS & CLOSS, 1214 HAR [ir STORAGE FOR HOUSEHOLD _GOODS. Gl du clioap raie. & Wella, 1141 Parua It Z Irwin Z cant 10; Z ) EXCHANGE. SOUTH DAKOTA for wiock of merchandise or live ek Hiuoe, § D N ACLES BLEGANT HIGH GRADE ORANGE 1and in Fiorida’ free and cloar; vers cheap for or will irade: uvestigate 3 10 5. 2Pth wtreot, Omuhia. STOCK OF ADDING MACHINES AND EX. clusive wgenes Tor Kunsas und Nebraska. Wil LAND el cheap Or exchunge 107 Wpright plano. Address B 25, Hoe NGO 22+ Z, STOCK CENTS FULNISHINGS POK OMAHA properiy. F. 1. Wead, 2088 a0d Dougiae. - + 00 B.00pm O Omul 2715 pu .45 pm G40 pru _6.30 p Toaves s £330 .30 uves Omilia 1220 pw 3000 pu Spm S et 510, [ Oth and Mason Sts 5 Duy Exprens 'J‘mng« Night Expross vz Vention e Oklahoma Exp. (10 Whet GO & Texus Bxp. Colorado Limitad NTON PACIRIC. . ex. Suii Thot verdix e Overlund P Beairioe & Stromsb's Pucitic Exj Denver Fun. Mt 0230 pr 50 pm 05 wm Arriven _Omaha W40 am 5.30 i Ouwnhi ipu 10 pm hum Websior Sts Doadwood Exp Ex Sui) Wro. Bxp. (Bx. Mo, Norfolk Exprows (Bx. Siuduy’. 10 AGO& N depot. 106k & Arrivin unhs 1bule Limiing Ex st N MISSOORT Depot 15th ub; 8t Louls Webaiy Sxprona ST P. M40 “Sioux Gty Accommodution x Oity Express (B 8 Wy Expn 40pm wn To.50m 1000 wm F & PACLFL _Depot, 104b unc Wbsier Sis vou 1uhs A WIZARD OF THE~SIERRAS. Barton Alien in_Romanoe. It was in Calif Stregone. al progress i He had gone's ol whether supernatu able t own mind It was su alone, sur of reserve, polisbed was one, rough w come uy making A nnmbe was, the Indian panionshi be puessed wi reading w shadow m, and, it 10 be th time to wond and fou known was manifest althov rs, and encumupme fornia thet 1 firet met 1 saw him Bef three times in it impossible to mak n his confidep Confiden nobe, save in, himsell. St nfidence in Jis own that power were natural ral—and 1 hav pow never ~was not that of masts He & sable w and ich me and 3 rounded by an impa 00l 8 BN ice Even the name by wh ussum agh rn re it was ac; sgion w arrange of miles ver were fa BNOW-C! penks the smoke of the my b nts an © p. My surprise theref ns 1 sa1 door of one eve the my hut, between me and the sett raising my eyes, | discove atof aman. 1 had - at the sight Sean any ce? re- er, or been o settle the point absolutely in my wetty vanity all us he m re ng 8 ng d of s gentle man in black broadclothand immaculate linen at that how polite remn rupting | have the large among the foothills before he apo woval of his silk ¥ ""V‘J' N nuu kin nt me him n by the sho was no soft I set h talian—which thing conc anywhe ing came Concen! him that miles away and cated, rc tainly be the d added: tanc and pec im down on is probubly r him in wk Ar guessiy my astonishmer the town was the road in 1gh, and that he 1ld o overtaken by nigh should be ac the at 1 8 di- “The best thing yon can do will be to accept m, Your horse tired, and have ev solitude. of the rough You are w “I than cept your the hut. “Your horse,” “My b horse wi tone that I cuse for asking him how ke miles away from civilizat hors had just Daring eating our simple supper, in ation of w 1 examined m o one night's and vet looked as Iresh y hospitality for as well @8 yourself it will give me pleas companionship My shelter un , but. such as me to share them he said at once: ‘I And the nig re they elc o offer gladly." " T hinted. se? Pardon sme; b me,"” said ' he could find no 1 I have 50 i as if tepped out ef & bandbox the process of ¢ bich I at once e vt o Iy ht be | t0 in food are are, he entered no inal a ausible ex- got twenty u without a | he king and the prepar- aged myself, His age might have been anywhere between 20 and 50. wrinkled, | baldness shaped head, alihough His face was smooth and but there was un un- incipient about the crown of his well his black h air had no touch of grays «¥orthe rest, his geaer | appearance was of the Mephis- tophelian cast aflected by prestidigita- tenrs. small pointed beard and a moustac the straight waxed ends upward. His air of dignified court He was slim and tall, and wore a f which ran o5y sat as easily on him as bis black clothes, bétrayed neither curiosity nor surprise at any of the arrangements of my primitive dwelli and he After supper we drew fire blazing with _ in he rolled an subjec long time, listening fact duwned upon m. 1 was I with my pipe and numerable , cigarettes as he smoked. He talked w of general interest 1o attentively until 10 my grest s up before the he that ell r a8 and 1 had an impression that the ur- prise, that the conversation had lapsed into my h 10 this stry anxieties brother. “You were saying.’ soft, distinct voice, of your solitary life distance yi The smoke from the c | fingers flosted up between me and his dark, politely attentive features, riously o ands and that 1 was anger upon v as freely as if he was 1 came to an swkward stop. be said, in here is the lo 0 20 10 water?" arette in ou hav in omplicated curls and rin K larging sions plans and my his that one hardship g his on- which interlinked aud twisted for & long time with: Yes, "1 mined 1o spesk as little could mot out a gusk “Why do yc spring ne be in‘uir iere arely he replie small hea; your door, ‘There mile.” **As the out fading. returned, det ae possible | my lips witho rsonal confidences not use the water of r xlu corner of your sd. ‘Is it unfit o drink is no spring there,” 1 said 1 cannot have beenm vd. “There is wate: p of stones & do is there not? is no spring within laconicall apen h Of hal: distance is so0 n yards frc er- gl letting she im fa short, suppose | we step out, that I may see how I hap- pened 1o melce said my g door. Wondering at his persistence, u blazing followed X | night was torch sent over Lis fi heap of pped o abouts. ¥ “This is *‘There 80 ri absurd a ng snd mistuk iest, I 1 pine knot from the fire iim into the open air, dark, odd flicker P us he lea cks, one of of the thi "wusing hefore the spring bf which is no water | there,” 1 the way many s0il the: The pine knot cast & dull shadow the boulde his whit largest rocks. rs and ou my'guest, e hund ‘ou one of going to the ok and The being moonless, and the of lightand shade 10 & that re- replied on as he laid he With Ao apparent effort he sent it toppling over. and from the middle of | there glittered out into the toreh thin threi the had occu igh that cuvity it ad of limpid.water ied ta in- creased in volume as 1 dpeked at it, and rickled a he spa som crystal way to find pcourse for its ree gruss. Hastooped, > in his pulm and dpagk t seems 10 be good,” ke It was delicious ig astonis) ild sud pure Ny ment was %, RELIEVES PROMPTLY snd CURES QUICKEST. .-p ell caught remarked. as | un- | i Pail Mcagc OMAHA & 67 Sam \U. P. Depoi opashy: SUES & C). SOLIOIT. ONARA NEB. Adv.oe FHREL 5 Boy | | treasu | etranger | well b } e | with his hat still @ | desp | th { litile. | suspended priva ; | the 1 had ook at first glunce ghtening my had repaid my hospitality and s we retu thanked him warmly is noth he said, dism the bject with a wave of 1 “Let us spenk no more of it.’ topic was perfc dropped and sumed our pl be re think we talk Isay I think we talied 1 s boecause I wust have falle: ina sing! sudden and unexj manner netly remember seei ruest's urned toward arabesgu The ne broad boun ove at m had we visitor, by thus norance, thousand 1 but 1 pCos and 1 am vel smoke was daylig ashe: breath mornir that blew dow ) WS but when h probubly made g1 tho dream tuins n into 1 can the fir ght of At fir \ave nds sh d moreover, w he new spri , and day when wa, only o € dawn st wak Leen a it runs, sc BT, ma first s where I ng business in place was also t shop and gamblin, ned pal g ishment, and s were of nt occurrence. 1 was sitting in the barroom one Sunday even- ing, trying 10 read a stale newspaper hy s Tight when 1 gam- oft heard, a the bling. nized, two ve: the mar obtain acc He stood th when 1 had although 1 had He was bet the ation for the ast scen him foothills, his breadcloth as inen as white, t fasim rhabl and phelian as ever. while the landlord said that the house was ful night, turned to leave the room, when he was ac by & man who starte up re the door. This fellow, wh was recognized as & even the where nearly stoneblind He had been gu! g with his compan- ions and had nad bad ltuck. which had put him in an ugly temper. “What's your name, tenderfos growled. “My name,” replied pausing, ‘‘is Stregone.” “Well f\]irlt-y- Str “you ain't goin' g agoin’ to set down and have u little gume 0’ cards first. I do not care you,” responded against the bar and wal Sludge 1o get out of the door. (,),,“ rested on the counter and his left ‘unu _carelessly held his glossy hat by the brim. Isaw the nume of a well known London mal in the crown, I was 50 near him. “But I care, d—n bound to0 cace, ¥ Sludge. “D'ye see hibite porous plasters out care. Stregone looked at him pleasantly and did not stir. ‘“Where are the cards?” he asked. ludge pointed to a greasy pile on the table. Something in the stranger’s self-possessed manner cowed him & moda Me rate > moral sense he the stranger. about playing, 1 thank egone. leaning you: and so you're anncunced and he ex- hooter: *1 of fellers that Ah. yes. May I trouble you for a few moments?” looking at me for the first time, with & bow of recognition. 1 took up the cards mechanical le the roomful of roughs, who had looked on cards with this gentle- ‘perhaps hooting ore 1 play ma; turning toward be wonld like to =1 explained Stregone blandly. ‘1 notiee that no one is sitting behind the gentle man who holds the curds. 1T he wiil pull out a card and toss it edgewise in the cun be used-es & turget without dangering human life. The back of card toward the company, if you please,” he added to me. 1 spun a card in theair as he di it left my bund, “Will you he asked Slndge, politely. 1 don’t want to shoot,” Sludge grum- bled uneasily. ‘Pardon me. sion that you su gentleman will card.” He little shoot T was under the im ggested it. Now kindly toss up f the nothe had from the ~ling from As 1tossed the card he c ached into the crown of his hat with his right hand and drew out a six- shoote I Sludge’'s. A shot rang through the close room and the card fell on_its face on the floor, pierced through the center. The nine of hearts,” said he. One of the gaping crowd slowly picked up the card and turned the face toward the company. 1t was the nine of hearts The marksman nodded and 1 sent another spinni vertically up. He shot ugain The knave of clubs,” he said 1t fell back upward and sbot through the middle as before, and was again found to be the card he announced After this had occurred hulf a dozen times he said: “That will do. ow. since the gentleman is so urgent, I will play a game with him." He put the ORI Riaal e ks fins iy i spoke. When he passed me a mument later his hat was dangl om his left hand, expty It soon bocame evident that Sludge was booked to lose that night, while the stranger had phenowenal luck. It due him 10 say that he wonfairly and by no mysterious means. They g with pieces, ang Sludge voluminously every time he lost and his opponent raked the pot. Suddenly he dashed down his cards with & string of oaths. Blast you!" he this before I blow You're a swindle You're a card-ct ing devil! Get out 1 say. or— “Gently!" admonished the Stregone. "hese good friends will bear witness that my pl and the game not of my own have been fortunate enough 1o win as it would probubly aunoy you to se pockel my gains, 1 'will spare you unpleasant sight.” He was standin door, but back to i 10K up one lying on the and lightly the solid wall tered in the struck the not fall or ret the wa a1 u tim money unt Then back agrecs uround the tuble Good night vani stood, a8 ne hand rssly gold cursed out o' meat 4t roared. ‘‘Get you into cat's unrufed of yours was fair seeking. T but me the he spoke he before hir it against table rougt pound nic al The third Blregone was iu a hall-civilized Ar stepped | that it had ¢ { 1 'lowed 1'd come town. 1 had ridder and found preparat hanging. The eviden gather, soe an ex n from the country s making for o from what 1 Do means 0 but human kit of the case were as follows A stranger had come into town on foot | o in and stopped for the night at the Thomas of a “‘prominent citizen,” whohad & mas- | whe terful wife and a remarkably f In the morning the any nd 'y borse were gone, and way had also vanis} whose name was being on the be ud been stomed 1 to obscure could justify ives w and har when by e platf stanoe f house wheth fuct had my uld not have b I heard of the pr ying m be the tle w abar « mhov « N - 1HE SINOKE EVIL Injurions £Mcets of » Binck in London, that Pall Obwrved walking o m what we Pall 1o MO 1e next day taken, leisurely ¢ on Buu ht back re tha i earest d; enjoys even approach thut faces u notice that are of imposing pro- and elaborate architecture, originally have been stately undsome thers wtmos- on ite the fu- from many If we row iune w reluctan usos 1 und pay nto the 1 the stable ut dawn anc the tions use 10 leaving White in | Wishing 10 begin his jour- the hewt of the day he arose rode awuy on his pure host being on the deposit m atmosphere And so it is wh WHF We 1 improveme of the last fe WO years conirasts sus; but loous by all he aving firet On the ott ever arch vowed e as t have terms the sold the borse he would ¢ money in ber hands, as she charge of financial affairs. was gone ly. With | huste the sir was | the 1ght o trial for horse theft and mur- | Wha and "mx“ guilty on hoth vou th e execution wasto oocur ut 12 rap, town thr I hundsome me or present 1 the former roundod 3 transient than a West Indian be melancholy spectace the swift ‘and effectual facen all 100 soon reduces th few bri ¥ 1o t level of piat- | Andif the ext 1 disfigurement 1, | our houses is & grave question, {ar more 80 is the ceaseless deterioration of our house fixings and decorations. It has veen estimated that in the fashionable nes, I found mysell in the midst of | Guarters of London the annual deprecia- crowd, & short distance from the | tion in the value of the property due o The new wood ‘shone in the | smoOke alone, I ive of wrdinary ght, and there was a plensant smell | Wear and tear, averages not less than chite in the air. Attheap- | £100 per house. In the cuse of re ted nour the juil gate <hops, flats, clubs and hotels the loss is, group of officials appeared of course, considerably ter. The t justice. ¢ milliners and drapers through the victim of froutier drew near | saw with a sud the i rment fabrics of delicate exture itself enormous. beats that the prism iint ar then, fairly estimate that the He passc We may. s and mol amount of the sunusl damage caused 1o by smoke alone is as culn p rty in London in walking th rey several million pounds great theater where e ster benefit 1o a si aurly nou, unless his marvelons s*he ipon the platform 1saw that his vations keep pace with the damuge: hands were bound behind him—those | und u glance at any street in London flexible, clever, white hands. The rough | will assure us most emphatically they cord had been drawn so brutally tight | domnot. 1In fact, 1 almost iture dif t the flesh.of his wrists | demily to advance the paradoxicsl postu- und the starting blood had stained his | late that the advantage accruing to snowy cufis. Otherwise his attire was | decorators i in inverse ratio 1o the as immuculate as ev ravages of the smoke. Cortain it is The officials busied themselves in the | that if the atr osphere of London were final preparations, und the throng 1 t0 be permanently purified from smoke came hushed as the shadow of death fell | tomorrow the immediate stimulus given chill upon it in the clear noonlight to the rade would be im- Suddenly the doomed man stepped for- | meuse me hasten to explain. ward 1o the efre of the platform. Many Londoners have long since given “My friends,” he said in a low | up as hopeless any attempt to beautily wonderfu stinct voice—and every | their houses either inside or out. word reached the confines of the crowd; What we have chiefly to contend I understand that you are under the | against is the astounding lack of int impression that 1 murdered Mr. White 1 the matter displayed by the bulk and stole his horse.” Londoners. This 1attribute in & An undefined murmur responded great usure 10 our insular ignorance “Will any gentleman kindly wateh | of what might be. It has been my the tu of the road?” he continaed. at one time or another, 10 visit most of There was a moment of dead silence. | the chiel cities of Burope. My latest Then a faint of galloping baofs | stay has been in Berlin, Where for thre was peard, which grew louder and | months 1 realized thatit was possible louder. until a man on a horse dashed | Tor a town of nearly 2,000,000 inhabitants arovnd the bend and drew up on the out= | 10 enjoy a pure, taintless stmosphe: skirts of the crowd bright, clean bLouses, with untarnishe *What in thunder are you doin fittings and decorstions, and public that man?” yelled Bandy Whit P und gardens of sylvan freshness voice. “Heain't done nothin'! 1 | and verdure, and1 confess that the him the hoss and 1 out between two | blush of shame mantied my Britannio duys with the cash. But when 1 heard | brow when, o home, 1 was aset o d—n fools had jailed him for it | routed with tl back by o md capita fastened had ch t0 hud 1 Finally Wk stionable more cun de- b der. Th o'clock, | ached ronged he ho dusty be 5 all the inhabitants of tk about the rough gallow form of which was raised five or six fe all might have a fuir view of the ragedy enacted there. Drawn by the hateful fascination that a ¢ h e of of n-,-.y, lu poir opene sur re the is in resented by Docs any one extent? ( about lar the ren skil | | | sound to s0l ow men see ud yet few Englis that the state of Lonc proach, and that the fog and dirt metropolis have become a byw and langhing-stock throughout Euro Loundon is far the richest tows worl London is also incompa metropolis in Christend and yet we, who pride on our i fustidions clenuliness ran | passively content to exist iu utmos- hither and th and searc ry | phere that no other civi nook und corner about the gallows, but | would tolerate for a year in vuin. Stregone, bound and bleeding et surrounded by @& thousand eyes, had +Hood's Pills are d and e vauished as completely as if the eurth | Jie pud porform tholr work per had opened and swallowed him. ] s S (2000, A never seen or heard of him sin THE LIMIT WAS REACHED, have 1 been able to form any conc eoncerning this man, who chose He Cowld Bear n Great Deal fro power in the obscurity of his strange He Drew the L frontier life. Perhaps he has returned | Chicago Tribune: *1 10 civilizatso and is now astonishing | friendship ly, Mr. S blase metropolitan audie Perhups | the g woman said his bones scattered wong | compaseon her voice the bharsh rocks of 1tk Sierras. but 1 have exaw or lie bleact on the plair ves me 1 There the mystery stax an solve 1t who can X -~ A Lupse 0f Memors. Free Press I'd like to usk >an in 8 whisper a8 he slipped ) 8 Randolph stre son, +if | five long weeks constantly wios .\|w~4l 1 bosrt, sudglest have ceused to tuke .‘munf‘n:n.fi Liy wou ted Dr on the new tators ha agaivst him. § under the been forgotten. Now somebody ra'sed the cry, *‘Loose the prisoner,” and the crowd rolled toward the scaffold. The piatform vacant There was a ance, then g is a national arrival, surged and up and by of man's loop had the dirtiest m, ourselves of astoni as & nation, an Men moment babel of voices. ne nor 10 bury Her, but vrize your namore th profoun and manne my own heart have 10 s ) us is nees. ye never ses yon!" know of p Asleen our What do yo! Listen! Detroit you."he be woftly i this is » saloon.” Certainly.” “Sell dr “l—I—it slipped Ginnis! or nwake, image hus boen me You have my nks here®" | filled my What do you want?* 1 my mind just ns I r eame in. Let's see! 1've had it before, e mit but it's gone from my memory." 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