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■he last chapter. Kp Dun-ant 1\ xeent eii In Nan H fluent in rritton. Cal., .Tan. 8. — When Henry Theodore Dnrrant died Friday morning for the lilanehe Lament, he gave an of coolness and nerve as has seen under similar circuin ■ Hopeful almost to the hist or some one would in vito save him, he walked to the morning and made his lit- protesting his innocence as with as distinct eliuncia- B, !,e had been addressing an as ■, df friends upon some ordinary the day. His face was pale, ■ eyes were red, but his voico ■ , and he stood as solid as a he proclaim'd his innocence forgiveness to those who, had hounded him to death.. was not a hitch or accident to ■ plans of Warden Hale incur ■ the sentence of the law. Tho adjusted, the trap was stout rope held and Dur- K:i l body dangled at the end. was broken by the fall of ■ feet and 15 minutes later the body was cut down and the coffin. of the exciting event of ■t, when Dnrrant was beseiged reporters and talked to till 11:30 P. M., he rested the night and shortly he awoke and bade his morning. Warden Halo a neat suit of dark ma the occasion and those clothes quickly donned. lie noticed of collar and necktie, how knowing full well tho reason he asked for them, that a turndown collar would with the noose. Then lie to an excellent breakfast and During the early 1110111- K, Dnrrant did not have much expressing a desire that men should be allowed This request was com- to the last, Durrant died Hiu religion. Hut lie died, ac- Hit the last moment the com Catholic church, instead of church, in which he was lie v. Mr. Kailer, a Protestant had arranged to ascend the Durrant, but tile minister say that he thought Durrant and the condemned man de- services until Rader professed his innocence. Then it was ardent Baptist turned to church for consolation, and Father Lagan, the priest frequently visited him in attend him. Father Lagan promptly and performed the ■1111 rites of the church. Dur- in close consultation priest and seemed to bo deeply in the impressive ceremony. He hour of the lie prisoner llis father and mother were ■ to bid him a last farewell. Durrant clasped his son by and the young man turned to mother, who cried hyster- said: "The hour has ■ 11s to part," and put her gently grief-stricken mother was private 100111 where she re- after the execution. The ver, went to the execution supported by two friends, meet his death. ■11 liale did not attempt to but allowed all possible supreme court at Washing- some action. Finally, was flashed across the conti ■t the supreme court hail de ■ interfere, the warden ordered of the day carried out. o'clock, Durrant, accom ■v Father Lagan, appeared at of the execution room. He by his father, a friend, and the guards. The his friend walked around to the front, while Dnrrant climbed to the gallows Instantly on arriving at tho his legs and arms were pin- the rope was placed upon lonian was about to adjust the when Durrant announced liis speak. Permission was given oomed murderer spoke us fol re to say that although I am cut man, innocent of every at has been charged against ttr no animosity toward those > persecuted me, not even the an Francisco, which hounded grave. If any man thinks I to spring a sensation, I am pt it is the sensation that I inocent man brought to the ny pei secutors, but I forgive They will get their justice ;reat God who is master of us icre I also expect to get the lit is the justice of an inno- Whether or not the perpe the crime of which I am re discovered, it will make no to me now, but I say this >e a shame to the great state irnia. 1 forgive everybody persecuted me, an innocent se hands have never been lilli blood, and I go to meet r ith forgiveness for all men." rds were delivered slowly and and without emphasis. The iwd of spectators grouped the wooden framework that it not lose a word of what said. Durrant finished and r ceased when the black cap 1 over bis face. same instant. Hangman Lunt hand, the trap was sprung, a rattle, Durrant's body shot the opening. There was a if a stout rope drawn taut, ken-necked criminal swayed for a moment. Then the amo motionless. Durrant in just 11 minutes and 28 U signs of life had vanished most noted criminal of the iry was officially dead. The allowed to hang for 15 min ii it was cut down and placed coffin provided by an under i Sail Franciscj. iiMuvre In French Congo. , Jan. 10.—» A rumor was cur today of the massacre of the ,rrison at Yakoled, in French pet Africa, by the natives. A kpatch from Paris says noth |wu of auoli a massacre there. COTTON FOR THE NORTHWEST. New Crop to IV Trh'il Kant. <>r rnnrndm Oilier I lan I* Will IV Tried. Oregon and Washington will laise cotton next se .son. Their cotton crop will probably not "heai" the market the lirst year, but there is no telling what effect cotton will have on the in dustrial conditions of tho future. The cotton production of tlii.i year will bl under the fostering care of the Oregon Kail road & Navigation Company, which has just opened an industrial depart ment that will experiment with various things to develop the country reached by its transportation lines. This is a far-sighted scheme of President Mohler. H. Judson.who has had considerable experience in such matters in the East, lias been put at the head of the depart ment. lie will be guided to a gro it extent in his operations by the agricul tural colleges of Oregon and Washing ton. Cotton is successfully grown iu the pan-handle of Texas, at altitudes rang ing from 1,000 to 1.500 feet above the sea, where (rests occur in April. In some parts of Eastern Oregon frost has been absent through the entire year. Portions of Umatilla county are espe cially favored in this inspect. The ex periments with cotton will bo made in the arid and semi-arid sections of East ern Oregon and Eastern Washington— in Wasco, Slieiman, Morrow and Uma tilla counties, of Oregon, and Whitman anil Adams counties, of Washington. While the cotton plant will stand a great deal of moisture, it can also en dure drought. It sends roots deep into the ground. In many places where wheat is not a reliable crop, or cannot be grown at all on account of the lack of moisture, it is believed cotton will flourish. If so. it will solve the irriga tion problem for those sections. A thorough test will be made the coining season. Among the other things in view by the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Com pany's industrial department is the intioiloctiou of tobacco raising. A considerable colony of Cubans in Florida are negotiating to come out to the Pa cific Noithwest to raise and manu facture tobacco, and the parts of Ore gon and Washington lying east of the Cascade mountains are believed to pos sess all of the conditions suited to tho business. 'ITie destruction of the trade in Cuba has turned the attention of these people tooMier fields of operation, and they have sent agents here to look tho matter up. Martinez, tho great cigar man of Key West, examined tho country east of the mountains recently, and he did not doubt that tobacco of a superior quality could be produced in the vicinity of Blalock, in Gilliam county. The production of forage plants in the Indland Empire will also engage the attention of this move for industrial development. Incidental to this will come a thorough investigation of the possibilities of dairying and raising under different conditions than now prevail—conditions that will admit of a fuller development of the country. A number of new trees will also bo experimented with, to see if they will not have the effect of precipi tating moisture, so as to make arable areas now arid. Among the exotics is a tree that is said to have redeemed a portion of Franco from desert conditions ages ago—a gum tree that is a native of Assyria. It is reasonable to suppose that the tree would be valuable in the dry seotions of the Inland Empire, and it will be given a trial there. The mechanical device of a Boise 111:111 for raising water from streams for irrigating purposes will also be thor oughly tested. It consists of a cylin der, on the outside of which are buck ets that fold automatically, and the contrivance is said to work well in a current so slow even as two miles an hour. The excitement over gold in Alaska will bring thousands and thousands of men, many of whom will for the lirst time see the great natural advantages of the farming country and not go to the Yukon at all, stopping to plant their own vines and fig trees, under which they will repose in comfort and happiness, while the goldhunters suffer the hardships and uncertainties of the chase for sudden affluence. In speaking of the proposed enter prise a prominent business man said recently: "Many will go up the Alaska coast and return to Oregon and Washington to make their homes. Still others will go to the gold fields and then return to engage in more sober pursuits. Prac tically all will have to pass through the Northwest country, and the trip will educate them. A new «ra is open ing for these states, and the far-seeing and energetic ones are preparing to meet tho new conditions. Prosperity and progress are not in the dim dis tance, but are at the door, and it is common sense and business sagacity to take these steps for opening and devel oping the resources of the country." Northwest Notes. A Coos county paper says that there are a number of Chinese pheasants in the vicinity of Remote, in that county. The close of 1897 witnessed an im provement in Olympia trade of at least 25 per cent over the corresponding period of 1890. Garfield has shipped more than 20 carloads of apples to the mining camps this season, besides largo quantities of pears and other fruits. Professor F. L. Washburn, biologist at the university of Oregon, has for some time been in correspondence with the commissioner of fish and fisheries at Washington, D. C., to secure an ad ditional lot of Kastern oysters for Yaquina bay, and has just received word from Commissioner Brice to the effect that no more oysters can be sup plied until further developments are made in the plant already located. Professor Washburn is of the opinion that the oysters already planted will thrive, and feels in no way discouraged. Collector of Customs Muestis has ap pointed Gilbert G. Chapin, of New York, tea inspector for Puget sound. The office pays $1,800 a year. The war department has formally accepted the proffered title papers to the land for the army post at Magnolia bluff, near Seattle. Two minor objec tions were made. They, however, can be overcome. At the marriage of G. L. Brightwell ami Mrs. 3. J. Hodges, both residents of Platte county, Mo., a son of the groom acted as best man a son of the bride stood up with her. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. rr >:?ieo nf Powrlntr, llot'Hvs Co., Chlritc«> 1 % ri <», Tr»wlc Hrokt'i -, 711 Til Chamber of Colli- » —tc ltu.ldiiig, i'ortinrifl, Oregon.] l'.xpoi ts of flour and wliont from both '»«•( week were 4,595,000 bush els. or 700,000 bushels more than tho picvio:.* week, and double tin; same week last year. Recoipts aru expected to fall off. We liave now reached the time where the exports generally de crease; at least they have in tho past years, as the lirst six months of the crop year generally marks the largest export business. There is every indi cation, however, of a good export move ment from now on, as liberal engage ments have lteen for wheat, corn and oats. Foreigners continue to buy mod erately when the market gets weak, so that the outward movement will grad ually cut into the wheat stocks, which are none too heavy if the exports are to keep up large. Argentine news favors an exportable surplus of about 35,000,- 000 bushels, but some good authorities make it only 15,000,000 bushels. This is used as a club by the bears and con sumers to prevent an advance here. There will be no Argentine wheat avail able in Kuropean markets before the latter part of March. In the meantime their light stocks will bo reduced, and they will have to como in as buyers. The American visible supply of wheat incroasid this week 47,000 bushels, and now totals 38,803,000 bushels against 53,872,000 bushels for tho correspond ing peril d a year ago. Although the movement of corn for 1897 was 110,- 747.000 bushels, and the shipments 97,427,000 bushels an increase in tho receipts of 24,000,000 bushels ami in 10,000,000 bushels in the shipments, they worn less than the arrivals of oats, receipts of the latter being 1,338,000 bushels in excess of corn, while the shipments were 7,000,000 bushels greater, aggregating 104,606,000 bush els. Tho feeling in corn and oats is bullish. There is a strong disposition on the part of many local traders to keep on the long side. The Trego- Smith people have accumulated a big line, and they are getting quite a fol lowing. Exports of corn for the week were heavv. r«»i'tliin«l Murket. Wheat—Walla Walla, 72@73c; Val ley and Bluestem, 70(a) 77c per bushel. Four—Best grades, $4.25; graham, $3.40; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats—Choice white, 35@36c; choice gray, 33(334c per bushel. Barley—Feed barley, $I9(<I20; brew ing, $20 per ton. Millstiffs—Bran, $17 per ton; mid dlings, $21; shorts, $18. Hay—Timothy, $12.50@13; clover, $10@11; California wheat, $10; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $S)(ail0 per ton. Eggs—lß (it 20c per dozen. Butter- —Fancy creamery, 55@00c; fair to good, 45@50e; dairy, 40((£50c per roll. Cheese—Oregon. 12 1 c; Young America, 13 a c; California, 9@loc per pound. Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $2.50@ 3.25 per dozen; broilers, $2.00(32.50; geese, $5.50@0.50: ducks, $5.00@6.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 10(3lie per pound. Potatoes—Oregon Burhanks, 40@50c per sack; sweets, $1.25 per cental. Onions—Oregon, $1.75@2.00 ptr sack. Hops—s(3 160 per pound for new crop; 1890 crop, 4 ('flic. Wool—Valley, 14@16c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 7sjßo; mohair, 20 @22<: per pound. Mutton—Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, $3.50; dressed mutton, 6 1 a c; spring lambs, s'.jc per pound. Ilogs—Gross, choice heavy, $4.00; light ami feeders, $3.00(34.00; dressed, $4.50@5.00 per 100 pounds. Beef —Gross, top steers, $2.75(33.00; cows. $2.50; dressed beef, 4)j@6c per pound. Veal—Large, 4 1 a (350; small, sa(f»5 a (f» 6c per pound. Seattle* Market. Butter — Fancy native creamery, briek, 30c; ranch, 10@18c. Cheese—Native Washington, 13c; California, 9 1 .jc. E'.'gs—Fresh ranch, 23c. Poultry—Chickens, live, per pound, hens, 10c; spring chickens, $2.50@ 3 00; ducks. $3.50(a 3. 75. Wheat —Feed wheat, $22 per ton. Oats—Choice, per ton, $19@20. Corn—Whole, $23; cracked, per ton, $23; feed meal. $23 per ton. Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton, $22; whole, $22. Fresh Meats—Choice dressed beef, steers, 6c; cows, 5' 2 c; mutton sheep, 8c; pork, 6c; veal, small, 7. Fresh Fish—Halibut, 5(36c; salmon, 3c; salmon trout, 7@loc; flounders and sole, 3(<J4; ling cod, 4@5; rock cod, sc; smelt, 2!^@4c. Fresh Fruit—Apples, 40(390o per box; pears, 25 @ 75c per box; oranges navels, $2.75 per box. San rrniiciMco Market. Wool—Nevada ll@13c; Oregon, 12 @ 14c; Northern 7®Bc per pound Hops—l2'n @ Itie per pound. Millstnffs—Middlings, $22®24; Cal ifornia bran, $18.50® 19.50 per ton. Onions—New red. 70®80c; do new •ilverskin, $2.25@2.50 percental. Eggs—Store, 22 @21c; ranch, 25 @ 28c; Kastern, 15® 19; duck, l(io per dozen. Cheese—Fancy mild, new, 12,' ac; fair to good, 7® 8c per pound.. Citrus Fruit — Oranges, navels, 11.50®2.50; Mexican limes, #4.00® 4.50; California lemons, choice, $1.50 @2.00; do common,7sc®s 1.25 per box. Hay—Wheat, $18.50® 15; wheat and oat, $18® 14.50; oat, $11®13.50; best barley, $11 @13; alfalfa, $11®11.50; clover, $10.50® 12. Fresh Fruit—Apples, 50c® $1.25 per large box; grapes, 25®40c; Isabella, (50®75c; peaches, 50e(o$l; pears, 75c $1 per box; plums, 20® 35c. Butter—Fancy creamery, 28c; do seconds, 26@27c; fancy dairy, 26c; good to choice, 24® 25c per pound. Potatoes—New, in boxes, 45c@$l. The city of Rah way will soon possess the largest dome in the East. It is to be erected over the New Jersey state reformatory. The famous Louis XV drawing-room suite, composed of a sofa and six arm chairs, with old Beauvais tapestry, has been sold in Paris to a Loudon dealer for $70,000. Peru balsam with nine times its weight of collouion is advised by Pro fessor Klein for an elastic and water* proof coating for small wound*. wmm THE LIE JOE SAVAGE TOLD. : the time when the Indians were in the country, although that time is by 110 means so far distant as to be beyond the memory of living man; nor does It imply anything especially wild and fe rocious about tlie character of the men In question. It merely goes back to tlie tirst half of the 'Wis, when two brothers of that name were among the promi nent inhabitants of that sparsely set tled district. In some countries events of tii.it period would be considered comparatively modern, but in Western Texas they arc ranked as strictly an dent history. It seems, from a careful survey of the facts in the case, that neither of the brothers was really a bad man at heart, notwithstanding the fact that a great many people who ought to know are strongly Inclined to think otherwise. It is certain that one of tlieni is as tiue a man as ever trod the soil of Texas, or any other State, for that matter. All who knew him agree that the linal year of Ills life, at any rate, was a year of such courage and self-sacriticing hero ism as one reads of in books, but sel dom looks for In real life. The people of West Texas are not much prone to hero worship, and whenever they agree that a man of their acquaintance Is above the average of mortality there Is very likely to be some basis for the be lief. Judging merely from physical ap pearances, one would have had little trouble in deciding which of the two men would be more likely to prove of heroic mold. Bill, the younger, was a 1111111 of magnificent physique, not un duly large, but with muscles of such hereulean strength as perfect air and the free life of a Western cowboy are apt to impart, lie was light-complox loiied and Is said to have possessed a vigorous, manly countenance, such as ought to have made him more success ful in iiis love affairs than lie really was. Joe, on the other hand, was as much a picture of weakness and de formity as his brother was of health anil strength. He was not only a peak ed faced, slender slip of a man, but ho was a cripple as well. When lie was 5 years old and I>lll was only I!, a cyclone had struck the log house in which the boys and their parents were living. The mother and father were killed, but when the neighbors came to look through the ruins of the cabin they found Joe crouched on the bed with Ills limits spread out In such a manner as to protect liis baby brother. A heavy log had fallen across Ills right foot and right wrist, crushing them both very badly, but Bill was still sleeping in ab- "ItEI.t.O! Altn V«IU I.OST ?" solute unconsciousness of the existence of Miiy such disturbing affairs as cy clones. As a result of his injuries at the time, Joe was "club-footed" through the whole of his life, and his right forearm had a big knot on it, and a crook that made ills right hand turn out when it should have turned in. It Is said that .loe was proud of his de formities rather than otherwise, pre sumably because they had been incur red in the defense of his baby brother, and that Hill was, for the most part, tenderly regardful of the brother who had sacrlliccd health and almost life for him. Naturally enough. Bill was the more prosperous of the two. Before he was 30 he owned a considerable "bunch" of cattle, and leased quite a body of land In the eastern part of Baylor County as a ranch. Joe was his line rider, and In that capacity was able to do a great deal of such work as did not require any very great amount of mere muscu lar strength. Everything worked smoothly with them until May Conley came to live with a married brother of hers who lived only a few miles from the Savage ranch. She was not a high ly educated girl, by any means, and it is doubtful If she was more than fairly Intelligent; but she was pretty, and she was tickle—and that tells the whole story. In this case Joe was the first victim. He met May at one of the big camp meetings that are common in that country lu the fall of the year, and after that he was very pronounced In his attentions to her for several months. Then his attentions ceased as suddenly anil abruptly as they had be gun. I'eople noticed tlds and they also noticed that just about that time Bill began going to see her. "Bill took It up Just where Joe laid It down," remarked one cowboy to an other during one of the Intervals in a dance 011 one occasion. "Naw, that aiu't It," responded his friend. "I think Joe laid It down Just where Bill took it up." One day as the two brothers and one or two others were engaged in brand ing some of Bill's yearlings the subject was brought up. "Sure enough, Joe, whatever made you quit goin' to see that Conley gal so suddent?" asked Jim Smith, one of the helpers, in a jocose way. Ll> settlers In the southern part of Baylor County, I Texas, si ill make occasional refer ence to the Sav •»;es, or the Sav age brothers, as they sonic times call them. Tills does not refer to "I stopped so's to give Bill iv chance," said Joe, with what was evidently a forced attempt at gayety. "Shucks!" ejaculated his brother. "You needn't a stopped for that. If 1 couldn't beat you I'd better quit." There was just the least bit of con temptuous emphasis on that word "you," and Joe noticed it. A slightly shamed, pained look came over his poor, thin face as lie faltered: "W—well, 1 didn't keer much for her, no way. 1 was just a fooliu' from the llrst." My very deliberate opinion is that this statement was a lie. It is my opiu ion, furthermore, that in .this single, ungrammatical, mispronounced, muti lated lie there was a loftiness of thought and purity of purpose such as an angel In heaven might well aspire to. Hill did not take any such view of the matter, though, for lit; only look ed up and retorted angrily: "My opinion of anybody that would go foolin' 'round a woman when he didn't care nothing for her Is tint he ain't much man." "lie's pretty small potatoes—ho shore is," put in Tom Jackson, the fourth man at the branding. Nobody noticed tiie remark particularly at the time, lint subsequent events caused tliem to think a great deal about It later on. 'Till surprised at you, Joe," said Hill. The ghost of a forced smile hovered pitcously on Joe's lips for a moment, but lie merely rubbed his forehead with the knob on his wrist in the nervous way peculiar to him on such occasions, and said nothing. Aside from one or two little incidents like this—which are hardly worth counting as exceptions—Hill's coutrship was an illustration of the fact that, notwithstanding a certain very e-ni nent authority to the contrary, the course of true love does occasionally run smooth—for awhile. In this case it ran smooth down to the very day set for the wedding. The ceremony was to lie performed at what was known as I'l tun Creek school house, and early in the morning Bill went with a number of Ills friends to get ready for the fes tivities. In some countries It might not lie considered as a part of the groom's duties to make these prepara tions, but in Texas it is etiquette for anybody to do anything provided there was not some one else to do it. The ceremony was to take place at 10 o'clock. Perhaps half an hour before that time Joe and liis friend Jim Smith were riding through the timber which always abounds around creek bottoms in Texas, and were much astonished when, at a sudden bend In the trail, they came across the supposed prospec tive bride. She was 011 horseback and unaccompanied. "Hello!" exclaimed Joe in surprise. "Are you lost?" "Yes," answered May. with a nervous laugh. "I never was so glad to see anybody in my life. This here creek bottom timber's so thick a wildcat would mighty nigh get lost In It—let alone a woman." "1 should think you and Bill had been to Plum Creek schoolhouse often enough to know the way by this time?" "I ain't goin' to Plum Creek," said May, with a foolish giggle. "What! Ain't you goin' to get mar ried?" "Yes." "Well. Bill's at the schoolhouse now, a will tin' for ye." May tossed her head and then giggled again. "I ain't waltin' for hlni none," she said. "I might as well tell you now as any time. I'm goin' to be married to Tom Jackson this morning at Round Timbers. I've lost my way there and I want you to tell me how to go." At the mention of Jackson's name Joe's face hardened for a moment, lie was tiie man who had been so quick to take Bill's part In the quarrel with his brother. Then Joe began to reason with Mary as to her conduct, but a very few moments sullieed to show him the futility of the attempt. Promptly changing ills plans, lie gave her a de tailed account of the way to Round Timbers. "Say!" interrupted Jim Smith, who hail listened in profound astonishment to the whole conversation, "you're mis taken about " "No, 1 ain't," retorted Joe. "The trail's been changed lately. That's all right, May. Come on, Jim." "I still think you were mistaken about that trail," said Jim, as the two men rode on together. "No, I wasn't mistaken," said Joe. "I just lied—that was all. 1 did it for Bill's sake. If May goes the way I sent her she'll not get to Bound Timbers this morning." After they had ridden a few moments in silence, Joe began again: "Jim, old follow, for God's sake don't let 011 that you've seen or heard noth ing this morning. It'll be plenty tough 011 Bill, anyway." "I shore won't," said Jim. There was quite a crowd assembled around the door of the little log school house when these two men rode up. The groom was there and so was the preacher; so also were the people. The house was decorated within and with out with (lowers and leaves and other ornaments more or less appropriate to the occasion. However, there was one ornament generally considered neces sary 011 wedding occasions which was still missing—namely, the bride. "See anything of May lately?" asked Bill, stepping to the front as the new comers rode up. There was Just a trace of anxiety in his voice as he spoke. "Naw," answered Joe promptly. His face looked perfectly unconcerned as he spoke, but In a very few moments a cloud began to rest upon It. I suspect, though, that Instead of grieving over the lie he had told—as of course he should have been —he was merely won dering how he might spare Bill the mortification which a public discover/ of the real facts in regard to Mny might occasion. Me was now sitting with one leg thrown over the horn of Lis saddle. Suddenly his face lighted up with its old sickly smile, and in a voice that trembled a little in spite of the bravado lie tried to throw into it, he began: "Say, Bill, that was the devil of a lie 1 told you about May just now. I saw ner not over half an hour ago." "Yon did, did you? When will she lie here?" "She won't be here at all." Bill's face grew stern and white. "Why won't she?" he demanded. "Because I directed her in the wrong road. Jim tried to tell her right and 1 wouldn't let him. Ain't that so, Jim?" Jim nodded grimly. With faces that now began to grow drawn and anxious, the spectators glanced from one speak er to the other In turn. Bill's face was fairly livid with rage, and his voice trembled with the awfuiness of re pressed fury as he asked the next question: "What did you do it for?" The expectant silence that followed was deathlike, but even then Joe's voice was hardly audible as he an swered with the same sickly smile hovering about his white lips: "Because I useter court her myself and you cut me out!" Before the words were fairly out of his mouth Bill sprang at him with the fury of a wild beast. With all the force of his mighty arm he struck and the blow descended upon the arm—the crip pled, knotted arm—which Joe had inter posed to ward It off. Some say It de scended upon the very knot itself, lie fell from his pony as if he had been shot, and lay for several moments on the turf where he had fallen. "Which way did you send her?" asked Bill, in the same awful tones lie had used before. "I won't tell," gasped Joe. "Then get off that ground!" Joe meekly obeyed. "(Jet on your pony—no, I see It's got away from you. Then saddle up mine yonder and go after May and bring her back at. once, sir! Do you hear?" Joe meekly took the huge Texas sad dle iu his left hand and carried it to where the pony was grazing, tied by a long rope to a tree. Ills right arm hung limp by his side. After some Ineffect ual efforts to throw on the saddle with his left arm he gave up the attempt. "I can't get the thing on." he said. "I'se your right arm, sir!" called Ills brother. "I think you've broke his game arm. Bill," said Jim Smith. "It's a lie!" shouted Joe, "that arm's as good as ever it was." To prove the truth of this assertion lie made a mighty effort and managed to lift Ills arm to his shoulder, though the wrist still dangled loosely from his elbow. Kven then he could not restrain ids face from wincing and his teeth from clinching with the pain. Drop ping tiie saddle he turned abruptly and limped off into the woods without a word. Jim Smith afterward said that only liis solemn promise to Joe kept him from telling the whole truth at this Juncture Just as he knew it to l>e, and that he hud to grit his teeth hard and say cuss words under his breath to do it then. As to tlie rest of the crowd, it must lie remembered that they knew nothing but Joe's own statement about the matter, and consequently they all sympathized with Hill. After some moments of condolence and consulta tion with the crowd, Hill, with some four or five others, started out to lind Joe. "Get that rope off your saddle there and bring it along," he said to one of the men. "You ain't goin' to string him up. are you, Bill?" was the rather anxious re ply. "No; Just want to skeer him a little. Come 011." In a very short time they found the man they were looking for. "Are you ready to tell where May is, or to go after her?" Bill demanded. "X-no," faltered Joe, with a distrust ful glance at the little group of attend ants. Again his brother sprang at him. This time he threw him to the ground and held him there with his grasp firm upon his throat. "I>on't, I*lll, old fellow, for God's sake," gasped Joe, as his brother some what relaxed the grip on his throat. "1 didn't mean 110 harm by it—honest, I didn't. I won't do it no more. What are you going to do with that rope, Bill? You're not going to kill your poor, no-account brother, are you, old boy?" Without a word Bill and his attend ants continued wrapping the rope around Joe. Then they stood him up THE BLOW DESCENDED UPON THE ARM* beside a tree aiul tied him to it, so that his club foot touched the ground, while the other, the strong one, was doubled back in the coil of rope. "Now, you ungrateful whelp," said Bill, as he started to leave, "I'll be back in thirty minutes to see if you're ready to tell me." "Didn't he kiss your hand as you was tying him?" asked some one as they walked away. "Dogged if I know," said Bill. "Did he?" Hardly had they left when .Jim Smith came up and at once began to untie the ropes. "Don't!" said Joe. "Rill will be back in a few minutes. Just unslip this loop here. Thank you! The strain was on my right arm, and it hurt, because it was sore. Jim, this is hard—but I guess I can stand it, for Bill's sake. I ain't hurtin' so much now, thoujih, as I was. It's mostly all a joke. Bill was always a powerful fellow to joke. 1 wisht you'd go tell him when he comes back please not to bring anybody else with him." At the appointed time. Bill saddled his pony and rode off to where Joe was. "I'll take tiie hoss, so that if Joe's raady by now lie can start off after Km'ssl'l'v n'idy by r n bSf ' k - 1 Mthpr ;n- . y 11 l,ttle 'ate, of course." e,a r . a " d lie place where lie had left ■' • ' ere il, e poor fellow was, mill 7 , lree - l ">t dead! The thirty 1 "rin. r? 1 ." hiU3 ' ,Pen ,0 ° 11 . 1 ■ 1( ' K ,0 b(>! » r ' »nd It had !- . ' u.i \ given way, and this had al "/; poor fe »i™ to choke to ' course - J "n lost no time In ii tpllhi n q,, " S WeddiDff S'lests, and " t< IliiiK the real facts about Slav. It is not the first instance In the history of "'e world where a man has had the ""'h told about him too late to do htm ""; V KO "' 1 / 1 A I'tti-sulng party was out """ oU( ' e . hut all was to no ax.nl Some say he committed suicide short y afterward In San Antonio; oth eis i hat lie is still alive in New Mexico; still others, that he Is to-day in the in sane asylum at Terrell. Ido not know what the I ruth about It is. Mr. and Mrs. Tom .lackson still live in Cottle TU I' TTKD TO THE TREK, 1H T I)EAI>. i oil illy, Icxrs. Jim Smith is the man who first told me this story. Joe Sav age is buried on the banks of Plum Creek, and on his wooden headboard you can still decipher the Inscription: "lie Loved Mutch." The Scripture bad to bo misquoted lo suit I lie (render of the pronoun nud the spelling is slightly peculiar, but I enn not help thinking the Inseriptlon a good one. Many people consider love a very good thing, and I'rof. Drum liioud has written a book to prove that it is The Greatest Thing in the World. If these estimates are correct .Toe Sav age was certainly n great and good man; for greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend.-T'tlca Olobo. SUBSTITUTES FOR PRAYING. I'arrots anil Prayer Wheels Among the Kalmuck Tartars, Finally, if you spend most of your time, as I did, among tlie natives on the hurricane deck, your attention will be attracted by a third class of worship ers, namely, the Kalmuck Tartars, who live in felt tents or kibitkas (kee-lieet kas) along the lower Volga, and who wander, with great herds of cattle and camels, over the steppes of Kastern ICurope and Western Asia. These flat faced. ill-looking nomails are all Bud dhists; and not only do they pray, but they may fairly claim the credit of hav ing reduced devotion to a science. Pray ing five times a day, as the Mohamme dans do, or even twice a day, after the custom of the lire worshipers, seems to have been too severe n tax upon the energies of the original Buddhists, and they set their ingenuity at work to de vise some means of lessening the labor. The first expedient that occurred to them was teaching parrots to pray and then claiming the credit of the prayers thus said by proxy. This answered the purpose very well al first; but teaching parrots was troublesome, and besides that, the parrots, In spite of all precau tions, would occasionally pick up scraps of profane learning, which they intermingled with their devotions in a manner not at all edifying. So the Buddhists finally abandoned the in struction of parrots and calling in the aid of applied science invented the prayer wheel. Nobody, it seems to nie, but* the laziest of Asiatics would ever have thought of introducing labor-sav ing machinery into the realm of the spiritual; but the Buddhists not only thought of it. but put the idea promptly Into execution. The prayer wheel used by the Kalmuck Tartars on the Lower Volga is a small wooden cylinder six or eight inches in length and about two Inches in diameter, turning upon a ver tical axis, the lower end of which is ex tended and thickened to form a han dle. This cylinder Is stuffed full of short, written prayers, and every time it is turned upon its axis all the prayers that it contains are regarded as duly said. Could anything lie more simple or satisfactory? There is no shutting of the eyes, no getting dowil on the knees in uncomfortable positions, no facing in any particular direction. All that the prayer has to do is to give his wheel a twirl and It grinds out prayers with a rapidity and fluency which leaves nothing to lie desired. But from an Occidental point of view the whole performance is, of course, an absurdi ty. I could feel some respect for the prayers of the Mohammedans and of the fire worshipers, but the wooden wheels of the Kalmuck Tartars excited only contemptuous amusement.—lnde pendent, __ Borrowing Trouble. Borrowing is poor business at the best; but of all the unsatisfactory "uu return-for-your-pains"' occupations, th« very worst In the world Is borrowing trouble. To begin with, it is based on fancy, crankiness, undue nervousness, or the mental or moral idiosyncrasies that should have been trained out of the individual lone before the years of childhood were passed. There are few people in the world more depressing and disheartening then those who are always seeing some shadow of coming evil The world is sombre enough even at the best, and it is scarcely worth while to go out seeking for shadows or to conjure up purely Imaginary ones. Belief of the Cnrlisles. Willie Pa, what do the Indians mean by 'happy hunting grounds?'" ra—They are the grounds on which they take the scalps f the other foot ball players. People sometimes weep witnessing a death scene upon the stage, but it Is usually because they realize that It Is only a sham and that the actors »liJJ U»e. k