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who! t landa the ranch- an demande an exorbitant price for the land, and saya It will be sold over the ranche: ade form « league ary Magnus Derrick for Pi ¢ road whom the joner to ton, tov of the local paper governed a4, Mackmatie Magnus by threaten- * thet Magnus secured oy, wher most of the |, the railroad at- @) ranches. ers hold back at the eenainder prepate roadve agen the, unhurt. An indignation meeting of the League I jareos who je called, meeting. jagnus | tag the ral K. 8, Mehrman stood on ale transport achooner watching the long Swanhilda, stream of wheat flowing from the grain swn the chute into her hold. well aatinfed with to his machinations { had won the long fight wheat gTowerr. the Infmical ranchmen were killed or driven away. Thoee who re- matned d’d so on high-prged aufferance froma the ratiroad (as represented by 8. Beblrman) Magnus Derrick, broken {n mind and body, was an imbecile pauper. 8. Behrman‘s reward from road for his distinguished servic been. the land and crops of the ranchers. Some Indien had bought a cargo of his wheat to ship to India's famine auf- ferers. After watching the flow of grain into the Hold for awhile 8. Behrman walked aft and found the mate on the quarter- deck. 8. Behrman Introduced himself. “Well,” he added, “how are you get- ting on? “Very fairly, sir,! returned the mate, who was an Englishman. "We'll have her all snugged down tight by this time day after to-morrow. It's a great sav- ing of time shunting the stuff in her ike that, and three men can do the work of seven. “Pll have a look ‘round, I bellev: turned 8, Behrman. “Right—oh," answered the mate with a nol. 8. Behrman sent forward to the hatch at opened down Into the vast hold of ¢ ship. A great iron chute connected this hatch with the elevator, and througa ft was rushing a veritable cataract of elevator the rail- had teted re- wheat. It came from come gigantic bin within the elevator itself, rushing down the hute to plunge Into the merlor of the huld with conflnes inevitable. in The place was deserted. seemed tobe back whe steady, ht. n agency movement of tho of the Rather, the with a force of its huge force, eager, Rehrman «| Ing, his ears med with he hard grains agalnes ing of the once into the the ° t orasped WOE an uns and after {tin its ims He put and hia his dertow dre petuous das. Cautiously howd, trils, the raw ‘ce nothing ening he peered down Into the odor rose to his nos- pungent, aroma of tho s dark, He could see all about and over the hateh the alr wae full of Just that blinded the H nd nostri s. wet on 4 He turned upward toward { er the caune, His sunt Ini of rope, and he adforemoat in) the hold. ne fall was a long one and he struck the surface of the wheat with the sod- den impact ofa bundle of damp clothes. For the moment he wag stunned. Ali the breath war driven from his Body. He her move nor cry out. But, by’ his wite steadied them: Wes an reath returned to him He got upon hie f he sunk ankle deep In the loose packed mass underfoot. Directly underneath chute, th wheat, as ii poured In, ratsed Itaelf in @ conical mound, but from the of this mound it shunied away incessantly in thick Jayers, flowing H@ all dfrections at $n’ vol sting his ¢ ttor to disco CONDEWSEO FOR TE EVENING. WORLD. BY PERMISSION OF DOCBLEDAT, PAGE & CO. fremat ise We Deans, Fee 8 PPE DOROPS OOOO OSLELOGIDOPO SOOT ISD eet only to find that] & 4 CLSODLO> DADe with the nimbleness of water, Even as 3. Hehrman arose, a wave of grain poured around his legs and rose rapidly to the level of his kn: He stepped quickly back. To stay near the chute Would soon bury him to the walst. No doubt, there was some other exit from the hold, some companion ladder: t led up to the deck. He scuffled amt ded across the wheat, grbping In the dark with outstretched’ hands. With every {nhalation he choked, filling his month and nostrils more with dust than with air, He uttered a great shout. “Hello, on lek there, somebody! For God's sake!” The steady. metallic roar of the pour- ing wheat drowned out his voice. He sould scarcely hear it himself above the rush of che cataract. Bawliea this, he found It impossible to stay under’ the hatch. The flying grains of wheat, si a!- toring as they fell, stung his face like wind-driven particles of ice, It was veritable torture: his hands smarted with It. Once he was all but blinded, Furthermore, the succeeding waves of wheat, rolling from the mound under the chute, beat him back, swirdng and dashing againat his legs and knees, mounting swiftly higher, carrying nim off his feet. Once more he retreated, drawing back from beneath the hatch. He stood atill for a moment and shouted again. It was in vain. His votce returned upon shim, unable to penetrate the thunder of the chute, and horrified. he discov- ered that 0 soon ag he stood motion- Jers upon the wheat he sank Into It. Bofore he knew It he was knee-deep Ing outward ever-reforming poured around im, from the ever-breaking, ramid below the chute js thighs, immobolisins A fronzy of terror suddenly leaped to Ife within him. The horror of death, the Fear of The Trap whook him like a dry reed. Shouting, he tore himaclf {ree of the wheat and once more acram- bled and struggled toward the hatchway. Ho stumbled as he reached {t and fell directly beneath the pour. Like a storm of nmall shot. mercilessly. pitilesaly the unnumbered multitude of hurtling grains Nagellated and beat and tore his flesh. ut even as he thought about this the cone under the chute broke again and fAntn ereat laver of grain rippling and tumbling toward hir’, Tt renchej him where he sat and burted his hand and ong foot, ‘He aprang up trembling and made for another corner. Purloue and with bleeding hands and broken nails, he dug his way out to fall backward, all but exhaueted, gaping for breath In the dust-thickened air. Housed again by the slow advance of the tide, “he leaped up, and stumbied away, blinded with the agony tn his exes, only to,crash against the metal hull‘of the verre!, Guided. ‘by the ‘sound of the falling wheat. S. Behrman crawled on hands and knees toward the hatchway. more he rained his voice in a help. His bieeding throat and raw. parched Ips refveed to utter but a wheesing moan. Once more he tried to look toward the one patch of faint light above him. His eyeHis, clogged with chaff, could no longer open. The wheat oured about a he raised elf upon his knees Deafened with the roar of the grain, blinded and made dumb with its chaff, he threw himself forward with clutching fingers, rolling upon his feably, hi back and there, moving 8 head rol from mide to aide. The whent leaping continuously from the chute poured around him. It filled tho pockets of the coat, It erept up the sleeves and trouser legs, jt covered the reat, protuberant stomach, St ran at ast In rivuleta into the dintened, Kasp- ing mouth. It covered the face. Upon the surface of the wheat, under the chute, nothing moved but the wheat Iteelf. There wan no align of Ilfe, Then, for an Instant, the surface atirred. A hand, fat, with short fingers and swollen veins. reached up, clutching, then fell limp and prone. In another in- stant it was covered. Tn the bold of the Swanhiléa there was no movement but the widening ripples that spread flow'=z from the ever-break- Ing. ever-reforming cone: no sound hut the rushing of the wheat that continued to plunge incessantly from the fron chute in a prolonged roar, persistent, steady, Inevitable, Men—motes In the sunshine—perished, wore shot down in the very noon of life hearts were broken, | Itttle children started in life Iamentably: handicanped. In that little, {solated group of human Insects, minery, death and anguish spun like a wheel af fire, z Tut the Wheat remained. Untouched, junasrailable, undefiled, “that mighty: | world-foree, that nourlwher of nationa. | wrapped tn ‘anic calm, indifferent to the human rm. gigantic, resistloss, | movet onward tn tts appointed grooves | Through the welter of bloo! at the irrt- mation ditch, throveh the sham char! {and shallow philanthropy of famine re- j Met committees, the great harvest of | Lox Muerton rotied Ike a flood from the {Slerms to the Himalayas to feed thou. i sands of atarving scarecrows on the barren plaine of India. Falsenens dies; injustice and opprea- end of everything fade and Greed, manity aro short |wuffers, but the race goes on, dice, but In a far Aistare corner of + relfishneas, and inhu- ed: the Individual Annixt cruelty, world a thousand lives are raved. Re Iarger view always and through all shams, all wickeiness, discovers the ‘Truth that will, in the end. prevail, and all things, surely, inevitably, resist- lesely work toxethor for good. (The End.) BITTER KILLS GIRL AFTER © QUARREL. Cenductor Stabbed Her as Climax of All-Night Arthur C, Edmanster, a conductor on the Belt Line, twenty-three years old, I under airest at the West Thirtieth street police station, charged with the murder of Loulse Jones, a young mu- latto woman, with whom he had been lving since last April. Edmanster and the woman occupied a room at No, 496 Seventh avenue, kept by a family named McKinney. Tho Mc- Kinneys aro cclcred, as are all the other lodgers in the housc, Edmanster being tho orly white man in the plac He and the woman frequently had qua relz, but had never had any serious trouble until Jast night. ‘They began quarreling early In the night and kept ft up until this morning. At 4 o'clock this morning the McKin- noy's were aroured by some one knock- ing at thelr door, and they heard Loutre Jones's voice moaning in pal: =, "What do you want?" they asked. “Arthur has stabbed me, and ' am Gying,”’ the woman sald. ~~ Row in Boarding-House. the door The woman had dropped to her knees, and she fell into the room as the door was opened. Blood was flowing from a gash in her right cheek and a wound under her left shoulder, Policeman Pickhart had been found, | after some delay, and he summoned an ambulance from Roosevelt Hospital. Dr. Geyer accompanied the ambulance, and after an examination he pronounced the woman dead, The stab wound under her left arm had pentrated her heart, and it was remarkable that she had lived long enough to get downstairs and call for help. Edmanater made a desperate effort to escape, but was captured after Pollce- man Pickhart had fired a shot at him, Edmanster was taken to the West Thirtieth street station and locked up. He aald thet he had accidentally stabbed the woman while defending himself from her attack. ‘the McKinneys, their daughter, Emma Phelps, and several other inmates of the house were arscsted and acld as witnesea, in, and a long swirl of grain sweep | THE WORLD ia DAN wa BWEONE EVENING, AUGU 14, 1901; Fair Olive May's Heart Thumps at Her Stirring Ride in ‘' Arizona.”’ To neon troop of highly blooded horses daeh across the stage of a theatre, turn quiskly, st and there w nishes stirring entertainment for the jpudlic, but gives no hint of the drill |that has taught them the movements. ‘The military drama “Arizona,” which opens at th Academy of Music on Mon night, in which forty well- trained horses are used to carry out the effect fe at Fort Grant. Ariz., 1s an Mlustration of the schooling to which an equine can be subjected. It also demonstrates the ease with which blooded horses are controlled in the face of excitement and turmoll that would eoan render an ordinary met! some beast q unsafo, | ‘There is also an element of danger jin the vartoux scenes in which these horses are employed that renders the |play Interesting, Those who alt before jof the heroine as she dashes across the |stage upon the back of her tempered {steed see only the smiling face and firm jseat he rider. ‘They do: not hear the heart that is thumping In her little breast, nor note the rellef whe experiences once she 1s placed lightly upon the boards. Clever strong of arm and rol of her hoi certain moment when not bexin some antic ult in a mishap, xciting. an ears nate, ask modest little Olive May, reared mn the Western plains and ht up In the saddle, and she will i you. that she prefert a clear road viwhen riding, ‘A Race on the Stage. ‘The, Introduction of Bonita (Miss May) ‘and ‘Vony (Rdgar Selwyn) isa race Across the stage that requires the moet careful -horsemunshia, Even the supers who play Uncle Sam's cavalrymen must be able to manage a norse and retain a firm seat. A reporter for The Evening World wan present yesterday at a rehearsal which Kirke La Shelle personal! ducted at the Academy of Mu and was given an opportunity to study the horses that play such an important pari in this drama. They are all finely de- veloped beasts, full of fire and there ts not a minute when they do not feel their oats. “Dor White, “Master of Theatrical Horse," who has traincd all of the stage quadrupeds since the Introduction of the till Alarm,” has a stable of his own, and most of the “Arizona” fect [which may rr Tt ix truty but 3 she was » sharply, charge here | h celerity and order, fur- | footlights and witness the arrival! con-{ HORSEMANSHIP TRIED IN A STAGE CAVALRY DASH. | f | | i OLIVE MAY. ee footers are from his barn. Upon the stage of the Academy, however, they have been In charge of “Big Slim” Carr and “Doe Potter. “Bly Slim" 1s any ex-cow boy. dered over the face of the civilized uncivilized parte when he secs one. globe and In| some and knows a “hoas Potter and “siim’ have had the “Arie zona’ horses in charge and "Silm’ tells an interesting story of how they are ou sec, It's this way,” sald “Sitm’ confidentaliy, ‘a hoss is a hose and don't ferwet’ It. Why, when some of these wild ones get on the stage they has wan- trained. TOODDOGOHGEODDOOSOPOOS OEODHODOOSS COOOIDSGTOS SO The doctors attached to The Evening World Sick Bables' Fund are working day and night In the tenement districts, Koilng from house to house, from fam- lly to family, treating sick and ailing bables whose parents are tug busy fighting the grim battle with poverty to provide paid medical attendance. The fund provides these luckless tots with the best procurable medical skill, medicines and, when necessary, nourlah-; ing foods, The fumi's Influence in greatly In- SICK BABIES KEEP FUND DOCTORS BUSY. ODN) IIAISTGOOOUGOQOODIOOOS THIS TRIO RAISED $6.50 FOR THE FUND. COCEE TOOOOOOCK | 8 Co OCGGIODOOOSGOOODOESDS) creased by the generous contributions from big-hearted “grown ups’ as well an by the boys and girls who work #0 untiringly in this noble cause. But contributions are still needed, for there are many more aick ebildren dur. ing this summer, whivh has been # merciless on the children of the p00! Every gift, be the sum large or small, 1s of help in carrying on this splendid ene ‘ors. ‘All contributions to this popular sum- mor charity, should be sent to “Rick Babies’ Fund, hier of World, Pullt- zer Building, New York City,’ FOUR-DAY SHIPS FROM IRELAND. FOR NEW OCEAN LINE. to Ne Ena- t) Marbor at Rerehaven laraed tor Steamer: Run to t a LONDON, MW, Lords took an unusunl suspending the sexnl Aus, obJect otipassing sch! the Dill granting special powers to large the harbor and build a pier and other works at Berehayen, In Bantry Bay, Ireland. ‘ This { in connection with the proponed fast steamship Ine from Berehaven to the United Sta:es, by which tt I» hoped the yoyage will be accomplished tn four and one-half days. The bill iad Already passed the House of Commons, Lord James of Hereford remarked that auch great public interests wore con- corned that the Government desired to pase tho bill at the present session. HOUSE OF LORDS PUSHES PLAN | SUICIDE. BOAT ~ PREY TO FIRE |CRAFT WHERE LOVERS WENT | To DIE IS DESTROYED. acl Shunned ince ‘man | Treetz nnd Idan Dupuy Shot Themaciyes on It. ‘The fishing sioop John K. Polk, owned by Austin Dupuy, an oyaterman, of Green Rt Richmond Borough, on whieh Herman Treetz and Ida Dupuy the wan tn attempted suicide on rl dving later from her tajuries, eatroyed by fire at her mooring: Richmond Creek, this morning. en news had spread about the nd that the sloop had been burned f th nion that the vea- duly 21 jae, BOY JUMPS | TO DEATH WHILE ILL 6 Years a ‘Big Slim,'’ ex-Cowboy, Tells How Horses Are Trained at the Academy. want to kick the ing. Then “Doe Won hand wt the atutln’ out of every: and me nave & ses are so kind and Fink" with yale Wutocserasht moon’ Vacob Levy, | that startles em. Way, wien the wid, * Old, Springs from tin here first th n Of the «tag n't use any harsh measures, | Just _xot to coax ‘Biv’ and | o will just applaud watm an HAD BEEN OPERATED 7 ON FOR APPENDICITIS. yd Mike ax not | Hospital Window. out in front will Just _ay much as Eddie Selwyn, and he to git a lot of tt “Then they don't ke the band. The hear the musle and want to run. My tat moulin’ i: he a funny troop. ot e je onemt ‘act If. Inetead of | 1 2 doing thelr stunts kind of decent ike, | DiC! Seun After They Found Him they Wall mix un and take a run foi CUI a? LACES Mt, This le what we've Kot to gure on, of Mount Sinal. Takes Weeka of Dri Cn il There in woe tn the family of Wolf * on reeks to git! Levy. of No. 237 Cherry street. some of ‘um ready for . And know Meo La faelie wit here w| Sixteen-year-o'd Jaco Levy, the pride of the neighborhood und the apple of conniption ft ull” the blamed talne’ over. We've been a workin’ weeks now, | his fatters eye, Hen dead In the taflor’s home. and I guenw they're ’ be-all right, all rlent. Some ite ane | RUM horacs get a’ couple of weeks’ care and| The news of dis death came at a time then we find we can't ure them at| when the reports from Mount Sinal Hos- pital. where Jacob had undergone an operation for appendicitis, were most encouraging. It wna a whock to the “It taken weeks “The way we come on the stage with a whoop and a hurrah would make a ood newspaper Btory, ICs the critters; 90) Into thelr durned heads not to) = Mop when they Kot to the foot-ights...| AmHy. and they made no effort fo con. depends on the men, ton. I¢/ cea! thelr grief when Jacob'e body was ey: re mean to the hoases the hosses'll| brought home this morning. pe mean to them. We argue with the! hospital physicians aay that the Bie tlon Was succesrful and there w: thet the mu ve that the boy would re- He was doing well when a high around to knowin’ | the nolse won't hurt make noine, that’s| don't Ket enough of m? Weill, cover. fever attacked him and Jacob became they welll th ty, frightened at movin’| delirious, He appeared to be sleeping cause We «! ‘em when the nurse ‘woked at him. change to seo that the flags and thing: woth her ferns “Then they hev got to start mighty quick when Tony “makes ‘a- jump. for Cochise and ts off tke the wind. The soldiers of the pursuin’ party have got to make 4 move, too, to make It speclar. “We make the hoases start Jump, kind of urge them with a the slats, and then the cavalrymen hav t to atop ‘em before th come to the rick wall, Mr. La Shelle won't have enything that ain't natural, and we gin {t\to him all right—all right “We use g trong girths and Sex! can bits, no the hosses come to time right quick “But If any one you know thinks it's a Government Job to come up here and handle them forty hoses on an: ht and the fust in particular, why Just ‘em a card and send ‘em aloni and I will be here to entertain ‘em. Most of the horses come from the West and are well broken. They do not stand over 15 hands and some of them are as small as 13. The selection of these horses Is what requires ca The animal Mies May io “Cochive,” « magnificently formed ba of 14% hands, who can run a bit who fm full of mettle. {| When her back wan turned Jacob ran | to the window and the next moment he had plunged from the third-story to the yatd pelow. The grass helped to break the full, ex did a projecting ledge. Picked up unconscious, the dostors did everything to save the boy's fife, but their efforta were useleas. Strangely, the body was not mangled Thera was a dark spot on the head and a blue bruise or two of a trifling nature The doctors say the boy would doubtleos heve recovered had hia ayatem not beon wrakened by the operation, Levy fas three boys, and Jacob was m4 ine Rowpital ‘t a the hospital :t way said that the fall had not caused the boy's d th {t was due entirely to the operation. Young Man’s Bedy jeeovered, ‘The nude tody of Christopher Chris- tofides, nineteen years old, of No. 232 Ninth avenue, was found in the Hudeon River to-day at the foot of Two Hun- dred and Third street. 2 95th YEAR. COWPERTHWAIT Chatham Square: 12 193 to 205 Park Row, 2226 to Chatham Square. EVERYTHING RELI MIDSUMMER BARGAINS: 0% OFF CARPETS, to close out the last few rooms of many patterns. 5% OFF FURNITURE on all designs not to be continu Furniture for Every Room i Low Price Clearance Sale. Whole Stock of Manufacturers’ Samples, Consisting of Rockers, Morris Chairs and Odd Pieces. Cash or Liberal Credit. Custgmers may add to their accounts in either store suiting their own convenience. m set afire by some of ‘Treeiz'n friends for the purpose of de- sroying ovidence, but this ts denied, na Photographe of ‘the Vessel had heen taken, Treetz, who had been confined to the Smith Infirmary until lately, ta now in the county. jail’ at Richmond. His amination will te held next Monday, He still says Mies Dupuy shot herself. GCOWPERTHWAIT. Corner 12st St. EVERYTHING FOR HOUSEKEEPING. No extra charges of any kind Amusements. Ce ITAMMERSTEIN'S,4324,B' way, ave ‘PARADISE’ GARDENS. bined Recta [Glass Inelosed Republic Theas.|Fully Protected. ‘T 7a SVENGALIS, Dn the cor of the Victoria TO-NIGH MANHATTAN BEACH itv. *p SOUSA ‘iis BAND 27,0 CHINA & PAIN'S FIREWORKS JQcontinuces | TH 0 SHOW. STRERT. 20 AND 30 CENTS. i TONY PASTOR SINGS TO-NIGHT. Willtame and Adame, Vidceq and Perry, Joe end Nelile Done, Anete Norton, Jona 0, BERGEN BEACH SR ee at (TENE EANN cinud Sidlse « CASINO ng; Res Ta. Sate and Hair of Infants Purified | Werese2 188 and Beautified by ! KNICKERBOC AL. 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