The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 11, 1898, Page 24

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1898. B Wl PRESENTLY THE PORTIERE WAS PUSHED ASIDE AND HE ENTERED. A man’s past will catch him sooner or later."” » days over the » Atlantic or the sea tha m. Now, on the must walk with me,” she 2l punishment.” ment. aid, st , are ng rather too f: k about it."” about it, for I have 's laug! " he s we shall at Sand ¢ Ho! long breath, and h! He had forgotten whether this nd talking somewhat in this w * he said, looking down at conversation it was an as low. “This is the fifth day of our acquain- voice was earnest. New sea, the young ing the two. it sweeps the SSVIE fifth day, with tha called from he i irl would all men infinitely am would suppose she w vertons—oh, miling. those that pre- ast for me,” he clever woman c ‘Wolverton money i And now the many men to think about Van Bru she does with that Mary Winfield w: hter rolled out, nown t she would with a cat 50 out of it; o busy DIPLOMATIC CONTEST For the GOVERNORSHIP OF HAWdIL. Specfal to The Sunday Call. ONOLULU, Sept. 3.—The rela- tio are strained between Pres- ident Dole and ex-Minister Har- old Sewall. For both have as- pirations as to the governorship of Haw: and each has a co- terie sufficiently large to keep the other on a nerve-shattering tension. When Mr. Dole was President and Mr. 1 wa Minister from the U 1 States, when anne ion seemed in the dim future and each man’'s po- all his own, everything was serene an and Sewalls were calm in their stability, but now that knows where he is at, so to sition w neith speak, each is determined to find out, and their regard for one another is tinged with a owing suspicion. been politic. He has If to drift along in “sufficient until the ms His public receptio: his open-handed hospitality of every description have not all been given to the people for love of a good time alone. The cool forethought of this man from Maine has given to Honolulu many an entertainment born of a steady look d. . Sewall is a young man, an am- bitious man and a Very nervous man. i cordial, pleasant and cul- is made characteristic by his q nervous gestures and impetuous way of speaking. In the first stages of tion Mr. Sewall leans back ax he throws back his coat until at s one wonders if the garment is in anger of being utterly discarded. To the mind of many an irreverent listener has come the well-known, hackneyed words, “Puil down your vest! His impetuosity is unique in a land that sees so much repose of gesture and attitude. Mr. Sewall is a small man, slender, quick and full of nervous activity; in every way the opposite of Mr. Dole, whose tall, stately form, benign face, imposing, quiet manner and gentle speech makes him a model of strength, a type of dignity and a figure apart to | attract the stranger’s eye and impress | him with a conviction of nobility. Mrs. Sewall, who was Miss Millie | Ashe of San Francisco, is a tall, hand- | gome woman of fine physique, in whom seems concentrated all the tranquillity and composure lacking in her husband, while Mrs. Dole, though extrémely gra- clous, is decisive., at times abrupt, and as much the opposite of her placid hys- band as is Mrs. Sewall of her excitable one. | If a difference in temperament is conducive to matrimonial bliss, these two couples 0 prominent in Hawali | should have enough happiness in their‘ lives to be able to regard with indif- | ference any political issue. | ‘When the flag was to be raised there | was great excitement in Honolulu over the question of governorship, as it was thought that the future Govemorf would be named at the ceremonials. | It was, however, learned that President McKinley had determined to leave Mr. Dole as acting President; so the excite- | ment over the question still continues. Those in faver of Mr. Dole are not necessarily against Mr. Sewall person- ally, but the large majority think that as Mr. Dole has brought the country through trials and perils to 2 haven of | rest and sectirity, he now deserves the | position of first man In the land as a | reward for his courageous attitude lnl days of peril, and as a recognition of ‘ on this gigantic traffic exceeds m.mwu. = his earnest and conscientious efforts for the country’s good. Mr. Sewall’s influence in Washington makes him a powerful rival, and he has undoubtedly won for himself the fa-| vor of a small element of the Annexa- | tion Club which is composed of men of | | the jingo variety. Mr. Dole has done | | nothing to curry favor. Mr. Sewall has. | He has also lain himself open to criti- cism in_consenting to have his name | sent to Washington while yet acting in | the capacity of Minister from the United States, These two men have their friends and | | their enemies. But neither friend nor | foe can hurry or influence Congress, {and Mr. Dole's presidency may be pro- longed and indefinite. In the meantime Honolulu questions, and wonders, and speculates—and waits. MADGE VAN HORN. HOW LONG CAN YOU KEEP AWAKE? | How long can a man work without | sleep, and how long can he endure days in which twenty hours are given to | wakefulness, if not to work? I have | always been anxious to know the true | answer to these questions, and have asked many experfenced people for an | opinion. | _One learned doctor solemnly stated | that no healthy man cculd overwork; | | after a certain time he would fall| | asleep at his task. The general cpinion |is not in agreement with this theory, | doctors being generally agreed that | man’s inclination is prone to forget all | natural limitations. | During the past week two journalists of the hard-working species have given me their views. One claims to have | worked for seventy-two hours, with | three intervals of two hours for repose; the other claims to be content with four or five hours’ sleep out of the twenty- | four. The only statistics as to limits of en- | durance comes from China, where a ! form of torture is to keep the victims from sleeping. They die on or before the fifth day.—London Sketch. | —_——— HARDON CALIFORNIA’S CLIMATE | | ERE is the hardest thing yet said | in the East about California’s climate: “In the year 1573 a man from Massachusetts came to California with a chronic liver complaint. He searched all over the coast for a mineral spring to cure the disease, and finally he found down in the San Joaquin Valley a spring the watérs of which almost in- stantly cured him. He thereupon started a sanitarium, and people all over tha world came and were cured quickly. “‘Last year this man died, and so power- ful had been the action of the waters that they had to take his liver out and kill it with a club.” —_——— An old lady from Oxford, Mich, who, with her husband. had spent the winter in California, was asked b+ one of her neighbors if she had heard an earth- quake while in California. “Yes, 1 heard one,” she answered, “and rather enjoyed it, for it was the first thing that happened since John and 1 have been married that he did not think 1 was to blame for.”—San Francisco Argonaut. —_———— The trade of the British empire is estimated to amount to about $5,200,- 000,000 per annum, which is nearly equal to the combined trade of France, Ger- many, Austria, Russia and the United States, and the shipping required to York, and work, and to see her no more. Two eiderly persons wrapped to their ears were watch- If Nell were Nell, she was proving it with a vengeance. She was making Melville tell her of himself, and she wa$ glving him rothing of herself in return. They were seated now, looking out of the frothing white and green in the ship’s wake. She was glancing at him again and again with mild, interested eyes. He was forgetting himself,and was telling how his father had left him only money enough for school and college, which he had increased by some iutoring; of how he had worked and won a position in a machine shop of the Winfield Company; of how he had progressed farther, and now was near the head of his department, and he had been sent to London on an im- portant mission, and— A young man came lightly across the deck, and bowed, and exchanged some remarks with Miss Wolverton, and nodded at Melville with a ‘‘who-the-devil-are-you?” air, and passed on after a moment. Melville's confidences suddenly chilled. This youngster represented what he had never ¥nown. The girl by his side understood. “Don’t mind Bertie; he's just Bertie.” "'jOh. you know,” Melville began, “I'm so out of that se! “It's the Far Weschester set, you mean.” she said gra- clously, as if she would imply politely that there were many others which he doubtless frequented. ‘‘The men are very siupid in it. It Is all very stuptd. It's just s and gossip. 'or my vart give me men that do things “I think,” said oung-man-making-his-way, I prefer other men ¢ (o things, and leave 'em to me al- ready done. Now, my father—'" e paused. wondering whether he had better tell her, and then it seemed to him, now that he rememberd it, that this put Lim on a sort of equality with Miss Wolverton, though the inequality that stood between them was denly swept away by the thought of this story. But had he a vight to tell her? No, she wouldn’t, couldn’t know; that was so long ago, and forgotten. ‘And your father? Go on, I am interested.” “He might have had the things, the money to have put me in your friend Bertie's position, if luck had been his way, and if he hadn’t been cheated—" “I nevar can think of vou as a man like Bertie,” Miss Wolverton said, decisively, with that calm confidence in her eyes; the eyes may have been rather more expressive because this was the last day of all, and he would slip out of her life 56 soon. She was fair to look upon, clever, ac- complished, charming; this fence of the sexes was her de- light: she cculd no more avoid it than she could breathing. Our unsopbisticated young man failed to understand her. Later, common_ sense was to reach out from the grim, matter-of-fact depths of his nature, and grasp his senti= mentality until it hurt him. “‘Oh, it's a little story of what might have been years ago in Red Nugget Gulch, California. My father was out there after gold, like the rest, and he fell in with a man with whom he made a partnership In a general store. Sometimes, in exchange for goods, they took claims. At first they made a lot of money, and then they lost nearly every penny in trying to develop a claim that failed. Wel, each blamed the other, and they decided to separate. They could dzcide on no other way than to cut the cards. So they sat dowr. one day and cut, and some things feil to my father, and some to his partner. And the papers were drawn up, and the division made. A week after that a claim which had gone to my father's partner began to develop. It proved a find: my father's partner made the beginning of a great fortune that way."” “Well?” sald the girl. “Now, the shanty that served for the store had fallen to my father, not the stock, which went to pAy the firm's ‘Three weeks after this my father sat talking with we will let it remain Smith. Everything Smith touched became mo: ey; he was accused of dishonesty many times in the course of his career; but nothing ever was proven; he sudceeded, and s to-day one of the powerful men of the COuR ilent, the girl grave. ey were silent, e Tl grave. “And tiat's the Teason you think you are not in the class of Bertie Townley. Well, I don’t want you to be in halt f you viv(luld care that much?” said he, half lightly, alf earnestly. “Oh, 1 like you,” she sald, cheerily, as she might have said she liked a fox terrier. = /" “And the man's dishonesty was really your blessing; t made you do things. Oh, I know a lot of men, and the men of the Far Westchester set are so tiresome. “Oh, thanks!” said he, lamely. “But_you mustn’t be tiresome. Do you see that line there? That's Sandy Hook; I know it. I have seen it that way a dozen times.. And—I must be going below. Oh, I have heen so much interested.” And she went away brightly smiling, and he felt sud- denly the least like a fool. his feeling was increased when he found in the bustle of landing that she had only a cool hand and a distant “‘So glad to have met you,” and no ackaowledgment of the fact that he had asked to call, which she plainly had evaded. He felt revengeful and a bit like an anarchist. And the next morning when he was reporting to Mr. Winfield his success in London, and bein; complimented by the company’s head. his success seem cheap; he had a picture before him of a bright, high-bred looking, evquisitely gowned young woman, surrounded by flippantly gay persons whose world was not his. and never could or when one is making his way ploddingly, with no particular capital, he can’t reasonably expect that way to be made before he may be gray and all the desire for pleasure, life’s good things, quite gone. It may be supposed that Miss Wolverton put the young man of the Atlantic out of her mind. Perhaps she had some thonghts of him or else she would never have re- peated the story he had teld her at a dinner where her father was, most unusually, her escort. At a dinner one owes i1t as a duty to do his part. Nell did not care to be lacking, and wanted her bon mot to be as natty as an- other’s, and her story as spirited. For she waged a little strife to make the world she knew hold her clever. Now she coulda’t, try as she would, think of another story than the one Melville had told her. “Mary Winfield introduced me to a very entertaining man on the Lucania—a man who does things, you know—" “What does he do, horses or vachts?” sald Bertie Townley. “Oh, I say, Nell, you don’t mean that serious- faced chan you were mooning about with so much?” “The v man,” Miss Wolverton sald, without turn- InE C0W Ehe told Melvillers story. nd she told Melv V. “How extraordinary!” gasped Mrs. Pemberton. “You meet such strapge people at sea.’ “Busigess methods lare o{le'nlimes dishonest,” said Judge Torpid, pompously. “Yet—" EY’)ur ls’tl}ryp lshr"t funny enough,” criticized Bertie Townlay. % Samuel Wolverton—I should say ‘“‘Sam,” the great Sam —held his ncse in his port; he's a thl arp-featured, si- lent man. and looking at him, one alw: wonders how he succeeded in possessing such'a daughter. Driving home, he said to Nell: “If T were you I don’t think I'd try to tell stories at papa?’ It’s undignified.” “What 4 remarkable girl Nell Wolverton is!” one was he's certainly carrying on a remarkable flirtation show his Who is h n gaine r in the employ of the Winfield uced him to Nell.” ) d the Imposing one. “She was an extraordinarily ambitious woman. With pluck and ten milions and a daughter like that an ambi- n have begun, you should say to tiou n do anything in New York. The had aid_to be indefinite millions instead. belong in Far Westchester. ve been after that girl! quis di Rodird, and the lit % and—she flirts voung man didn't understand indeed. it was abominable of Nell fornia p she had introduced them; she little mon play with any man as h, dear; this Melville was after I was born.” able, and such an efficient ser- But Neil was Nell, and t Nell v vant of the Winfleld Company. Mary ought to have known better. g expert, who spoke partn But the Wol- abandoa~d store. On the table were the two packs of s, just as they had been left on the day of the dirty car hadn’t been disturbed since. My father picked up these instrum-nts of his bad luck, and he saw that the pack Smith had used had been marked.” the listenes “How awful oaey, if it hadn’t bee 0of. Who'd believe o, 110t the ¢ as able to Melviile hesitated. N important publication has just been issued by V. K. Chesnut, a Californian associated with the Department of Agriculture, describing the poisonous plants of the United States. The bulletin con- tains much information as to the poisonous plants of California that will be of value to farmers, stock growers, tourists and all who are likely to come in contact with these objectionable vegetable growths. Mr. Chesnut cites numerous incidents of fatalities Tresulting from plant poison. One species of water hemlock (cicuta) is estimated as killing scores of cattle every year. To rid itself of this pest the State of Colorado paid out nearly $200,000 in bounties between 1881 and 1885. The number of cases of individual distress due to poison oak and poison ivy could not easily be - counted. Toadstool peisoning is not un- common; especial interest was aroused in it by the death at Washington in November of last year of Count de Vecchi, who thought that he was par- taking of mushrooms at his dinner. There are twenty-five to thirty species of the mushroom and very few Tof them edible. The most common of the poisonous species are popularly known as the fly amanita and the death cup. The first named is free of larval pests and highly attractive in appearance, taste and smell. It is dis- tinguishable from the edible mushroom by its having white instead of purple gills and spores, and by its warty cap and bulbous stem. The death cup may be distinguished from the edible mushroom by its cup, its white gills and white spores, and by its growth in woods instead of in meadows. It acts on the blood corp- uscles, which it dissolves, and thus de- vitalizes. The effects usually are not apparent until nine to fourteen hours after eating. Treatment is exceedingly difficult and precarious because there is no known antidote to phallin. ¥ Poison oak has many names, accord- ing to the locality in which it is found. Its bright red leaves add to its at- tractive appearance and increase the probability of persons who are not ac- quajnted with the plant endangering themselves by handling it. In 1895 Dr. Franz Pfaff of Harvard University showed that the poison is in reality a non-volatile oil. It is found in all parts of the plant, even in the wood after long drying. Like all oils, it is insolu- ble in water, and cannot therefore be washed off the skin with water alone. Numerous experiments prosecuted by Mr. Chesnut show that the poison oak oil produces the same effect as the plant itself. . Remedies for poison oak are without end, embracing everything from hot soapsuds to patent medicine. Mr. Chesnut deems the sugar of lead treat- ment adequate to all cases. An alco- holle solution of from 50 to 75 per cent known in this State, is the hemlock, is recommended; powdered sugar lead to be added until no more wiil dis- the operation repeated several times parts are the most pofsonous. Childrene S lucky claim; and he stated boastfully, to lue as an expert probably, that he had told he?" said the other with my father's partner—we will call him Smith—that the extremely valuable. This set my father to Smith had believed the claim to be valuable. .ther could but acknowledge that the man had She seems to find given him a chance, even if he handsome? Now you notion (f thc claim.’ That day s somebody or other. " quoth the other lady. was one of the imost/pushing women I division. They had cut in ented her companion. f it hedn't been for Smith’s dishones ©Oh, dear; how Wolverf)n. But to return to the story. M There was the Mar- to Smith, vhom he accused Duke of Sussex, and Freddy face and laughed. ‘You are and laughs at ‘em all, just as young m s watching the two with much the bts. This poor i young wome he was sorry . but Smith looked him in the Vas that the end of it? d of it. My went from bad to worse. He left Cali- ater, in.the East, he accumulated the “And Smith? that's not the name.” No, that's not the name. It's a well-known name, but of the famous plant of of the big find on my father's he had dishonestly hidden his “Did ¢ father happened in the “I hav the bare inner room, which d. ““And you might have don’t be yes, Miss father went e the'girl asked, gently. fer could prove nothing, o hot': leave me. But it was always And then bad debt the further spread of the eruption. The abundant pink family furnishes the poison corn cockle, sometimes known as the rose campion, a whitish, woolly annual, one to three feet high, with an erect stem, showy, violet-red flowers and numerous rough, black, ir- regularly rounded seeds. The poison- ous constituent is saponin, which is found in nearly all parts of the plant, but mainly in the kernel of the seed. Machinery is used by millers to sepa- rate the cockle, but it is not always successful. The symptoms of the poison are in- tense irritation of the whole digestive tract, vomiting, headavhe, nausea, ver- tigo, ‘diarrhea, hot skin, sharp pains in the spine, difficult locomotion and de- pressed breathing. The action is an- tagonized by the use of digitalis, a dan- gerous poison, which should be admin- istered only by a physician. The aconite plant occurs in California only as far south as Lake County. It is an erect, smooth, single-stemmed plant, two to six feet high, with a leafy base and an elongated terminal cluster of showy blue flowers. All parts of the plant are poisonous, but the seeds and roots are most dangerous. No specific antidote is recognized, but physicians have used atropine or digitalis and nitrate of amyl. Another very common poison, espe- cially on the coast of this State, ig the larkspur. It exists in several varieties. Along the coast northward from this city is a variety which is somewhat hairy, tuberous-rooted, about a foot high, with a basal cluster of finely di- vided, long stemmed leaves. with a single column of showy blue flowers, which appear between April and July. Its effects are fatal to sheep, often re- sultine in the death of 50 per cent of the animals partaking of it. The poisonous action of larkspur re- sembles that of aconite or monkshood, the plants themselves resembling aconite. Aconite antidotes therefore are recommended, namely atropine. Loco weed has long been an affliction, especially to tz: livestock of the south- ern part of the State. It also subsists in several varieties, under the popular names of “woolly loco weed,” “stemless loco weed,” and ‘“rattlebox.” Its pea- pod formation is familiar to all Califor- nians. The effect is not acute, but in its slow progress simulates diseases caused by bacteria, worms, or other parasites or such as are caused in man by the continued use of alcohol, to- bacco or morphine. No effectual antidotes -have as yet been published, so the only positive remedy for the evil is to remove the animals from the vicinity of the plants as earlv as possible. The so-called spurga family (euphor- bia) is less well known popularly, but is widely distributed on this coast. Its characteristic is a milky juice and in- complete and inconspicuous flowers. Contact of the milky juice inflames and poisons the skin. An overdose of thes herb for medicine results in serious if not fatal injury. A somewhat common plant in West- ern States, although it is not so well tes’ undoing. 0 Vol e “Yes, what of it? rou ever hear a story like that?” heard a lot of stories; California is full of ’em. Read Bret Harte. As for your acquaintance, he was prob- ably varning.” “No, no, he wasn't.” at makes you think that?" she? He was fond of But now a sudden fear possessed her. stalrs to a little room which she used for her writing table and her books. and eagerly she looked for a paper . Englis ¢ a hard siruegle for him and my mother, who died Shortly Moo X Lumuer S viasa d. vou were in California?’ think you can tak vou can judge men.” ‘‘Oh, trust me for that.’ she said. airily; and at the moment she was trying to judege no less a person that her father. She had thought that she understood him. Had | 1 her; he denied her nothing. and she ,man. And you haven't Joved him. But—there were depths she could not fathom; and she knew no movre of his real life, even less, than an ne edible roots. Cattle sometimes eat the tubers and in marshes are poisoned by drinking water contaminated by the juices of the roots. No chemical anti- dote is known. Jimson weed is a common and pestif- erous plant introduced from Europe and tropical America. Its poisonous ele- ments are alkaloids, atropine and hyos- cyamine and the active constituents of belladonna. The seeds are especially poisonous. The symptoms are headache, ver- tigo, nausea, extreme thirst, dry, burn- ing skin and general nervous confu- sion, with dilated pupils, loss of sight and of voluntary motion, and some- times mania and convulsions. In small amounts the effects of the poison are similar tg those of narcotics. Black ' nightshade, a plant with drooping clusters of small white flow- ers and black globose, juicy berries, grows chiefly in wet or damp places on this coast. Its poisonous element is solanine, which is present,in all parts of the plant. Symptoms are about the same in man as in animals—stupefaction, staggering, loss of speech, feeling and consciousness, cramps and sometimes convulsions. False sunflower, or sneezeweed, in- fests much of the Pacific Coast. The whole plant, especially the flower, is bitter and more or less acrid and pun- gent. The nature of the poison has not been definitely determined. The symp- toms, as determined by experiment upon calves, are accelerated pulse, dif- ficult breathing, staggering and ex- treme sensitiveness to the touch. In fatal cases death is preceded by spasms and convulsions. Mr. Chesnut has just returned to ‘Washington after a summer of investi- gation on this coast. Further informa- tion as to the inherent nature of pois- onous plants and the most efficient remedies may be expected from him from time to time. Meanwhile the De- partment of Agriculture asks that all interested persons convey their experi- ences or observations on poisonous plants to Mr. Chestnut in order that the beneficial results of his work may be amplified accordingly. Strict legal repressive measures are suggested by the bulletin for the con- trol or extermination of polisonous plants. The common law of England holds a person responsible for damage acecruing from the possession and culti- vation of poisonous plants. In one case, § for example, a jury rendered judgment in favor of a plaintiff whose horse was. poisoned from eating branches of a yew which hung over a fence from an ad- joining yard. A similar judgment for | $3500 has recently been rendered by a New York court against the directors of a cemetery in a case of poisoning due to poison ivy which had been al- lowed to grow within the grounds. —_——— The custom of army officers not wear- lnfi uniform exce’pt when on duty prob. ably originated in the long European' peace of 1815-54, for before that time it was usual for officers to wear The American water hemlock is one &b: solve. The milky fluld should then be of the most poisonous plants native to well rubbed Into the affected skin, and the United States. The underground during the course of a few days. This mistake them for horse: 8¢ once relieves the ltching and checks nips, artichokes, sweet cicely never omitted taking their uni: them, as it was a sort of informal pass- port to the best soclety, and with it they ‘could claim the hospitality of the mess of iment they ed to come vou think so?” she said, petulantly. She usually m well in hand. What did you say that man’s name is?” he asked, after = moment. “Burke Melville.” Suidenly she turne care of yourself, but I She rushed up- ¢ ._“American Millionaires. X, Samuel Wolverton.” Had she been mistaken? she read: “The beginning of this extraordinary fortune was in ’66. in Red Gulch, California. Melville and Wolverton were storekeepers who exchanged a supposedly for the now famed Bullfinch mine. Wolverton 33:;!.!3523;:&885952385?)!‘&82828238388938833238!3523‘223?,3&238m3338888383&8&889338232s%8883398382&888383338859898823288522&3388835385828383838989398Si58588Sfififi&&fififi&&fifigfisflfififififififi835282399222 o) bought out his partner.” - 2 seemed to swim. Eora minute e X ve only here!” the girl sald, moan- nel: ine, ever: STt . This is all his, and not mine, every pem{;gofnl-rfi:‘iehe knew when he told me; he knew. . to her father. S‘l:‘éx @qgfils%g:uggm‘;m?thlo malgnflnfi];r:} 1:1«1;:2;' :S:inh;‘;g m. Wolverton started. He ha seexi b 1t before him. W O iiior frightened him. And then he saw d. 7S L e Do fle told me true? what {Was the story l‘g’ yhat I It Were 2 she said, mockingly. “You can't ‘whe it were.’ ” % By R ohe Father said quietly, with a mastery of himselt: It it were true, that Melville couldn't have succeeded, He hadn’t it in him. He would have failed at anything. e m 5 " cu““l!;gteyforl?'):q\}‘]t"n'( told me whether the story is true." T won't acknowledge or deny it.- he said at last “What of it? You ought not to find fault. My money has made you a position as fine as any of 'em. “Good-right.” said the Elrl. t the dGoor he called to : o Vell, ycu haven't kissed me good-night. L eayt—to-night.” nd she was gone. 4 : “A'women can't understand business. She'll get over it.” “But he failed to sleep well that night. She was not at breakfast. He went to her room. She was sleeping with a look that frightened him. On his way down town he stopped at his doctor's. “I am troubled with that in- somnia.” - ! “Mr. Wolverton,” said the practitioner, “I have told you agzin and again that you must let up on work and worry. "3 know, T know,” said the great man. “By the way, I wish you would see Nell, I am worried about her. He kept himself busied down town until about 3, and then drove through the park in the parade, a tired-faced man people pointed out. s he entered the house he heard Nell's voice. He paused in the hall and listened. % T am glad to see you, Mr. Melville,” she was saying. “I had your note, and came here promptly, I think. “Yes, promptly."” 2 “T have passed you several times, but T don't believe yon saw me,” Melville sald, rather bitterly. He wus thinking how charming she appeared here in her own house. He was blaming himself for all that he had thought of her; when her world, of which he had that brief glimpse, had been shut out. “I sent for you,” Nell went on, “to ask you why you told me that story when—when vou knew that your fa- ther’s partner then was—my—father?” The listener started, and moved toward the door, and drew back. he heard: Welverton—yes, it was so, it 1s so, and I was a rd to tell you.” “I am glad you told me,” Nell sald humbly, for this was no longer the proud Miss Wolverton; she wondered at herself, tears were in her eyes, and self-control was far away. “I 1on't know what made me tell you, and vet I do know. T have lied; I do know now. You seemed so far out s reach, and I wanted you to be in my reach. Do you understand 7’ “T don't know that I understand,” the girl sald. “I can’t seem to understand.” “And—oh, you are crying. I have hurt you. I wouldn't hurt you for the world.” “Don’t.” she said, “please don’t.” But he was saying: X “I know the reason now. It was—don’t you see—didn't you sea?"” After a moment the listener heard Nell's voice: “It's best so. If you do it rights itself. And—I see it —clearly. T know now why I didn’t want you to be of Bertle Townley’s class. You are a man who does things —and will—a man for a woman to be proud of, and—yes— it's all clear to me—I thought I was just flirting with you. But since that night I know it was more.” Presently the portiere was pushed aside. inervolverton was possessed of a gertain grim humor, and nstinet for the management of quick crises w. 3 ure of his success in affairs. . e e I am Samuel Wolverton, and you are Burke Melville,” he said. “I listened to your conversation.®I won’t apolo- gize, I am glad I did it. "It seems to me, Mr. Melville, that your father’s son has it back at me now. It seems fo me that you hold the marked cards.” He stopped and looked at the two, and then went on: “Mr. Melville, what's it the minister v? I am not much at going to church. But don’t they say that when a man has wronged another the best amends he can make is a_confession of his fault?" But although a moment after the young man extended his hand, Wolverton was conscious that his daughtes whom he held his dearest Jossession, never would be the game 10 him, that distrust lay between them: that, at the eight of his success, Melville' 5 marked cards against him. 7ee souiTud tumed the Copyrighted, 1598. co’ w"uNNy Dead Indian DRAGGED Behind His Horse. OU, gentlemen, who have served in Southwestern Texas,” began a Jolly West Point captain, while sitting before the campfire with the volunteers recently, “have xseen the Seminole negro-Indian scouts, | In the early eighties, when I was a lieutenant, my regiment was stationed at old Fort Clark, and was assigned to command these same scouts. “Southwestern Texas at that time was a pretty wild stretch of country, Civilization stopped at San Antone, and DE | the duty of these negro Indians was to ‘keep that border free from smugglers, marauding parties and hostile Indians, Once every four months they came to (j{ark for their money, and then, you will pardon the expression, gentlemen, there was hell to pay. “The men hal had a r-od many sharp brushes with the redskins and when | they were warmed up with liquor they liked to tell of these affairs. The com- mander at Fort Clark was a little skep- tical about these Indian stories and one day' he said to me in a joking way: ‘I don’t believe there is an Indian in West Texas, and I'll give $50 to any man in your command who will bring in a dead redskin.’ “There was on Mexican in the com- mand, Julian Longonio by name, and he was one of the best trailers * the Southwest ever saw. Longonio heard the colonel’s remark and his beadlike eyes snapped as he turned away. For myself I thought no more of it until it was forcibly recalled to my mind some time later. “The next day we left Fort Clark for & scouting trip. At Newtown, wher> the Las Moras empties into the Rio Grande, Longonio rode up and asked rmission to cross the river. Fancy- ing that he wanted to visit some friends, and knowing that there was no immediate need of his services, I read- ily gave my consent. The greaser swam his pony across the river and disap- peared in the chapparal. “The next I saw of him was two days later, when I rode into Fort Clark for my mail. In the afternoon Longonio rode .down to the officers’ line and stopped in front of the adjutant’s office, Several officers were standing around and gazed in open-mouthed astonish- ment at sight of the Mexican with a dead Indian behind him. He refused to answer any of their queries and asked for ‘El Colonel.” Hearing the commo- tion, the colonel came out, and before he could say anything Julian cut the rope that bound the Indian to his sad- dle, threw the corvse on the porch at the colonel’s feet, and in that soft, drawling voice so peculiar to the Mex- . Jeans, said: “ ‘Cincuenta pesos, senor el colonel.’ ““Well, gentlemen, the colonel was so thunderstruck at first that he was speechless, but recovering Limself*pres- ently he gave Longorio such a cussing out as I never heard before or since. The Mexican sat like a sphinx on his horse, pretend!na not to understand English, and when the colonel was through he simply pointed to the dead Indian and again said: * ‘Cincuenta pesos, senor el colonel.” He got his ‘cincuenta pesos’ finally, but the colonel intimated that if he ever caught him around there again he’'d have him shot. Longorio pocketed the money and rode away with a broad grin on his face, to rejoin the scouts. It seems he had lassoed the Indian first and started to briug him in alive, but after dragzing him a miie over the cactus plain, poor Lo's spiri* fled and another bad Indian was made a good one via the Paradise Valley route.” R S S Divers in the Roya! Navy are pald ac- cording to the depth they go down. Thus, for working in six fathoms of water they 4s for the first half hour; twelve 4s 64, and beyond this s,