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Elbert County Tribune,
J. B. KINO, Publisher.
ELBERT, - - . COLORADO
Kansas has sent iwenly cars of <*orn
to famine sufferers In India. Some
southern state should contribute a staff
of black mammies to make It into corn
dodgers
After all. It seems only natural that |
the Are fiend, raging upon the grounds
of the Paris exposition, sbou.d select
the water palace as the one plow
which It was his business to destroy.
Kansas City hotel men are prepar
ing to give every convention delegate
a bed by putting five beds in each
room. At $5 a day for each of these
beds this seems to be a game of high
five.
Trades unions hitherto have been
but little known In Paris, it now Is
announced that the 3,000 assistants
employed In the three great shops, th?
Bon Marche. Louvre and Samarltalne.
are meditating the organisation of an
association of this kind.
Too much business pressure seems
to be responsible for the fact that Chi
cago's gang of porch-climbers succeeds
In evading apture. The police, accord
ing to a recent victim of the burglars,
are always too busy to attend to such
cases and the porch-nllmbern ar» en
gaged In so flourishing a trade that
they have no time to bother with po
licemen.
James J. Corbett Is anxious to be
come a congressman from New York
city, and his friends declare that he
will be elected. Mr. Corbett might not
shine In legislative halla, tut It should
be a difficult affair to tear him from
his seat If once In the chair. He Is a
larger man than either Bcnaior Clark
or Mat Quay, and hla science should
enable him to whip any sergeant-at
arms that ever trod ihe pisles.
There has been provided a machli."
for automatically cleaning shoes. Tho
foot is Inserted Into a prope/lv arrnng
ed opening and the railing of the ma
chine Is firmly grasped. A unaU
motor actuates rotary brushes that re
move the mud. The foot Is next placed
In the blacking arrangement propei
which acts as the dauber, nnd the third
set of brushes is devoted to polishing
A needle on a machine indicates the
various stages In tho operation.
The members of the International
Commercial Congress held In Phila
delphia wore told by Mr. W. C. Barker,
as the result of his observations among
European manufactories, that time
seems to bo regarded as of compara
tively little value abroad, whllo In Am
erica the maxim that "time Is money’
Is practically applied. Mr. Barkei
found that In a large agricultural ma
chinery manufactory In Europe the
only trip hammer In use was worked
by hand, the weight being drawn up
with ropes and pulley, nnd allowed tc
drop. Tho American power-hammer
strikes 100 and more blows In a min
ute.
Recent observations tending to show
that ants possoss n sense of hearing
have been described In this column
Professor Metcalf of the Woman's Col
lege. Baltimore, adds some intending
testimony on the subject in n letter tc
Science. One of his students discover
ed that a colony of black ants war
thrown Into » state of great excitemcnl
by sounds of ono particular pitch
Other sounds did not affect them.bui
when the peculiar note was struck
either on a violin or with a whistle
the ants would become excited, and II
the sounds were continued would grow
frantic, some of them falling into n
water moat surrounding their nest
Ants of other species paid no attentior:
to the sounds.
Although the inhabitants of th«
earth are not perceptibly affected by
the wandering motion of the North
Pole, yet It is a phenomenon of un
ceasing Interest to astronomers, and or
January Ist a new plan for lnvestlgat
lng It went into effect. The motion
which Is suggestive of the wabbling
of a top. Is extremely slight when the
vast size of tho earth is taken Intc
account. Since 1890 the North Pol*
has never been more than 35 feet away
from the place it should occupy If tht
earth's axis of revolution never varied
In direction. But the motion Is er
ratlc. and Its cause Is obscure. Th«
new plan of observation provides foui
observing stations, all close to the 39tb
degree of north latitude, and all within
500 feet of the same parallel. Thesf
are at Midzusawa, Japan; Carloforte
Sardinia! Gaithersburg. Maryland.and
Uklah. California. Precisely simllai
observations with exactly the sam*
kind of zenith telescopes will be made
at each station on carefully selected
stars. Any change in the direction ol
the pole reveals Itself by a shift of the
stars.
Secretary Wilson proposes that the
postman's wagon In the rural free de
livery service, which is now rapidly
extending, shall carry the dally weath
er forecast, with cold wave and frost
warnings, for the benefit of farmers.
With universal rural free delivery,
every householder may receive a
dally visit from a representative of the
United Statea government. The sug
gestion is a reasonable one that the
mall carrier should attend to other
government matters, of which a distri
bution of the weather forecasts may
be the first upon an extending list.
Congress Is often criticised on ac
count of the speed with which the pas
sage of pension bills is rußhed. Eighty
four bills in forty-five minutes Is a
recent record of the senate. But It
should be remembered that every one
of the hills had been carefully exam
ined by a committee, and was accom
panied by a printed report setting
forth the facts thus ascertained, if
Congress were to devote to every pen
sion bill the time necessary to discuss
a tariff hill. It would havo time left
for nothing else.
Students of the University of Ne
braska mobbed tbe Lincoln police the
other night, breaking the leg of one
officer and wounding another. One of
these days, when the world awakes to
ths fact that a college tough Is the
meanest kind of tough, the occupation
of these fellows may be gone.
Lake Michigan herring and perch
have been caught In the Illinois river
When the lake perch meets the 8t
Louis catfish it will be sorry it ever
left the pellucid Chicago river for the
muddy MissittZiopt,
ONLY AN OPPOSITION PARTY.
The vote of the House of Representa
tives Isst week upon the question of
submitting a constitutional amend
ment for the regulation of trusts again
demonstrated the fact that the Demo
cratic party has no policy, but Is sim
ply n party of opposition and retro
gression.
Its leader, William J. Bryan, last
year announced that the proper way
to regulate trusts would be by an
! niuendinent to be submitted to the vot
ers of the various states, nnd tbe Dem
ocratic party, true to Its traditions. Im
mediately arrayed Itself In opposition
to It, although In every state conven
tion they have had a plank in their
platform denouncing trusts. The vote
In the House was on strict party lines,
only two Republicans voting against
tin* incnstire. nnd only five Democrats
voting for It The vote not only dem
onstrated the Insincerity of the Dem
ocratic party on the question of prop
erly regulating trusts, hut It gives the
!>eople of the nation another object les
son to the effect that the Democratic
party is Incapable of regulating or car
rying out any reforms, Is simply a
party of negation nnd opiKisitlou.
It Is this lack of ability that Is being
constantly demonstrated, that Is caus
ing so many Democrats lu tills and
other states to leave tlielr party nnd
to affiliate with the Republican party.
No matter how beneficial the meas
ure, no matter how great the reform,
even If It has been proposed by their
own lender, when It lias been adopted
by the Republican party and It Is pre
pared to enact It Into n luw, the Demo
cratic party Immediately arrays Itself
iu opposition.
One can readily understand why the
mule is used In the cartoons of the
public prints ns tho emblem of the
Democratic party. Its reputation for
obstinacy nnd general foolishness
mnkes It the proper type of the party.
The regulation of trusts In a proper
way has Im*oii defeated by Democratic
obstinacy and Insincerity, nnd hereaf
ter the Democratic party cannot es
cape being known ns having by Its
representatives in Congress decided lu
favor of trusts.
Democratic Praise of Lincoln.
A cartoon in a Democratic paper rep
resents President McKinley helping to
push a statue of Lincoln from its ped
estal. It is a pity that Abrahm Lin
coln could not have known during his
life that the storm of Democratic bit
terness and abuse directed ugolnst him
was superficial and to Ik* regarded ns
merely n latent form of admiration
with that remarkable party. It would
he unkind to reproduce the Democratic
epithets hurled nt the great war presi
dent, the Democratic Insistence that he
was a failure, and the ocean of Demo
cratic writing intended to discourage
him and defeat Ills plans. Lincoln died
at Ills |xist without supposing that the
time would come when the Democratic
party, which assnllcd him when alive
with every conceivable kind of opiiosl
tlon, and never acknowledged that lie
wiis right in anything, would attempt
to boyrow his name to cover Its pur
poses. Lincoln never chungcd. He
died, ns lie had lived, the target of
Democratic slander, lint red nnd ob
struction. But the Democratic party
secniH to have changed in its estimate
of his character nnd deeds.
President McKinley mny, therefore,
pursue the even tenor of his way, so
far as Democratic encomiums nre con
cerned. Forty or fifty years lienee the
Democratic party may claim that they
are following In Ids footsteps and pre
serving his precedents. They may even
start a branch of the Democratic party
to he called "McKinley Republican*,"
and to meet as n side show to a Demo
cratic national convention. But lu the
carrying forward of human affairs it Is
sad that the Democrats arc always a
generation too late. To pelt a man
with hard words nnd set pit fulls In his
pntb, while alive, nnd canonize him a
third of a century after his death Is not
lu accordance with the soundest qual
ity of reason or the soundest Impulses
of the heart. A few drops of the dew
of appreciation should fn 11 elsewhere
thnn on Ihe moss-grown monumeut of
n patriot nnd statesman. But then the
Democratic party Is a law unto Itself.
There Is nothing else Just like It. A
contemporary poet seems to have had
Its epitaph iu mind when lie wrote:
The lightning hug is brilliant.
But It hasu’t any mind;
It stumbles through existence
With Its headlight on behind.
—St. Ixmls Globe-Democrat.
The Boer Envoys.
It is no surprise that the President
declined to grant the request of the
Boer envoys to Intervene In their be
half. Indeed, wo cannot understand
why these envoys went to Washington
to seek an Interview with the Presi
dent. We cannot see the sense of their
coming to this country at nil. From
their published statements it Is to be
gathered that they understood that
there was no hope of Influencing the
administration to take sides with the
Boer republics against England, but
they seem to have It In mind to appeal
to the American people to take Issue
with their government. Tlitwe gentle
men must have a very poor opinion of
tbe Intelligence of the American people
to hope for anything of this sort. The
American people will differ among
themselves upon questions of policy,
but when their constituted authorities
declare to them that the laws of na
tions Impose certuin obligations upon
this country ns a nation the good sense
of our people excludes the possibility ,
of any new division ninong them upon
a question of whether we Rhouhl or
should not measure up to our obliga
tions under those laws.—Richmond
(Vn.) Times (Deni.)
President McKinley nnd Secretary
Hay hvo boon exactly nnd magnani
mously right in this matter, and have
done their duty to tlielr country and to
their offieiul oaths. Any dissent from
tlielr action will l»e found to aurlse
either from a 100 blunt zeal for ore of 1
the combatants In Mouth Africa or 1
from a too sharp attempt to Influence :
the polltIenl«-nmpalgii at home. The
Just mind will say that the official rep
resentatives of America in diplomatic
action hare lieen wise and faithful rep
resentatives.—Troy (N.Y.I Times (flop.) j
Whar they really hoped and hop* to 1
accomplish Is to excite the sympathy or
our people-sympathy Which may he
utilized as a moral force In softening
the terms of peace with England. More
than that they will not obtain. In the
meantime they will act moat unwisely
If they carry out their reported pur
pose to apjienl to the people of this
country to force tin* administration
to Interfere. The people will give no
such orders. The administration
would not oliey them were they given.
—Chicago (III.) Chronicle (I)ein.)
The envoys must have known liefore
they went to Washington that In ask
ing the government of the United
States to Intervene in behalf of their
co-patriots they would bo asking for
what could not he granted. What, then,
could hare been their motive in coining
here? We nre afraid that the mission
to Washington wns only their ostensl
bleVrraud, nnd that their real purpose
In or wns to Inject the Boer question
Into our home polities nnd to take ad
vantage of the occurrence of a presi
dential year to secure from one or oth
er of the great parties, or possibly from
both, assurances of sympathy nnd
pledges of support, so that the Presi
dent to be elected next Novemlier
would bo under some greater or less
weight qf obligation to take their pnrL
—Philadelphia (Pa.) Inquirer (Rep.)
The Boers In this Instance nre treated
precisely as our government would
have been liound to treat them hnd %
they been among the greatest powers
on the glolie, ns they are among the
least. To have taken any other stand
thnn he lias would have been for the
President to make waste paper of every
Important diplomatic dispatch written
by our secretaries of state from Jeffer
son down to Mr. liny, 'nils the Boers
now understand. If they did not appre
ciate It before, and it Is to he hoped
that the lesson has been so clearly giv
en tlint our domestic enthusiasts, who
are never quite so happy ns when
pressing Quixotic enterprises upon our
government, will subside for another
generation.—Brooklyn (N. Y.) Citizen
(Deni.)
Washington, June I.—" There Is no
liotter Index to business prosperity or
depression in tiie United States than
tho condition of railroads.'' said Sen
ator Clark of Wyoinlug, chairman of
the Senate committee on railroads.
"When railroads nre carrying lots of
(MiHsengers we know .people have mon
ey to spend traveling, or that business
compels them to travel. As the move
ment of freight grows, tho volume of
business transacted Is on the increase.
"The larger the earnings of railroads
the more satisfactory are not only
their own balance sheets hut also those
of the merchants and manufacturers
who arc shipping and receiving goods.
Between the years lfio.'l nnd 1805 there
was a loss of sllsO per mile In the pas
senger earnings of the rullronds iu the
United States. In 1805 the freight
enrnings of all the roads were $77(1 per
mile less thnn In 1803; adding this to
the loss In passenger earnings gives a
total loss of $1,12(1 per mile lu 1805 ns
compared with the freight and passen
ger earnings for all the roads In 18011.
"Apply this to 180,000 miles of road
In oiterntlon thnt year and we have a
total loss of $202,080,000 for nil roads.
Now, look at the other side of the pic
ture. In 1898 both passenger nnd
freight enrnings had begun to pick up
ngAln, passenger earnings thnt year
being S4O per mile more than In 1805,
fnright enrnings being s(l4 more per
mile than iu 1805.
"I-nst year the showing wns even
better, the gain in passenger earnings
being slßl per mile over 1805 ami tho
freight enrnings SBOI per mile over
1805. This gives a gain of SOB 2 jM*r
mile in 1880 over the earnings of the
roads In 1805, or a total of $170,700;000
more earnings from these two sources
last year thnn in 1805. Summarize
these figures and wo have in 1883 totnl
gross enrnings of $7,000 per mile; in
1805, totnl gross earnings of only $0,050
per mile, a loss of $1,040 per mile with
in two years.
"In 1808 the total gross enrnings
were $0,775 per mile, an Increase of
$705 over 1805, but last year the total
enrnings were $7,007 per mile, nil In
crease of $1,007 over 1805. Naturally
enough, when the railroads were car
rying few passengers ami less freight
in 1805 and their earnings were falling
nwny, they began to economize ami
more thnn 100,000 men were dis
charged."
Southern Baptists for Expansion.
The Baptists are the leading denom
ination In the South and their conven
tion Just held In Little Rock, Arkansas,
wns evidence thnt they are expansion
ists in nntlonal policy ns well ns In re
ligion. References to expansion were
cheered to the echo. Said Dr. Gnmbrell
of Texns:
"We have never had such opportuni
ties as we now have, nud we should
prepare for the spreading of the gospel
In all the dark places of the world. I
am nn expansionist all the way
through. This nation has expanded
and wont coutrnct. The South is on
the eve of a grent future, and we are
to have the Nicaragua cnnal. Wo will
b* put In touch with millions who are
in darkness. Now is the opportunity *
for religious conquest.”—The Independ
ent.
Senator McLaurin on Expansion.
To oppose national expnnslon Is for
the Southern people to oppose further
Industrial development, to oppose tho
opening of new markets for their sur
plus products, and to Invite the loss of
millions of dollars to tbe producers and
manufacturers of raw staple materials.
The South Is capable of lutlnite expan
sion from the fertility nnd versatility
of her soil and her undeveloped re
sources and manufacturing industries
in tho production of what the entire
world needs. This expansion can only
be hindered or prevented by an unwise
opposition to the policy of natlonul
expansion. The Mouth has everything
to gain and nothing to lose by favor
ing IL—Leslie’s Weekly.
Indications are that onr total for
eign trade for the fiscal year ending
June 30th next will he S3OO,OOO,OtKJ
larger than in the year ending June 30,
1800.—Denver Times.
We have imported $70,000,000 worth
more free goods this fiscal year, up ti<
April 30th. thnn In tb«» corresponding
ten months of the last fiscal year.—
Denver Tiroes.
AGUINALDO MAY BE DEAD.
In m ClflM Rare * Man la Shot Tho la
Hnp|Nwrd lo Ho tha Filipino * - Irr.
Vlgan. Luzon. June 2 (via Manila,
June 3).- Major March, with his de
tachment of the Thlrty-tlilrd regiment,
overtook what Is believed to have been
Agtiiualilo's party on May 10th at La
(!nt, about 100 miles northeast of Vl
gan.
The Americans killed or wounded an
officer, supposed to Ik* Agulnaldo,
whose Issiy wns removed by his fol
lowers. Agulnaldo had 100 inen, Major
March 125.
The American commander reached
La Boagnn. where Agulnaldo had
made his headquarters since March
Otli. on May 7th. Agulnaldo had fled
seven hours liefore. leaving the beaten
trails nnd traveling through the for- !
est along tin* beds of streams. Toward
evening. May 19th, Major March
struck Agulnnldo's outpost, about a
mile outside of La Gat, killing four
Filipinos nnd capturing two. From the j
latter he learned thnt Agulnaldo had
cumped there for the night. Although i
exhausted nud half starved. Major ;
March's men entered Idi Gat on the 1
run. They saw the insurgents scatter- j
lng into the hushes, or over the pla- }
teau. A thousand yards lieyond the '
town, on the mountainside, the figures
of twenty-five Filipinos, dressed In
white, with tlielr leader on a gray
horse, were flllhouttcd against the sun
set. The America ns fired a vqttttr and
saw the officer drop from hWnorae.
Ills followers fled, carrying the hotly.
The Americans, on reaching the spot, 1
caught the horse, which wns richly
1 saddle*]. Bliss! from a badly wounded
man was on the animal and on the
ground. The saddle-1 mgs contained
Agulnnldo's diary nnd some private 1
papers. Including proclamations. One |
of these was nddn*HHcd to "The Civil- ;
Ized Nations." It protested against tho ’
American occupation of the Philip- !
pines. There were also found copies of ,
Senator Beveridge's speech, translated I
Into Mpnnlsh nnd entitled "The Death j
Knell of the Filipino People.”
Major March, believing thnt the Fill- |
plnos had taken to n river which Is a !
tributary to the Chico, followed It for i
two days, reaching Tlao. where ho i
leaned that a party of Filipinos had
descended the river Mny -20th on a
raft, with the body of a dead or j
wounded mnn upon a Utter, covered 1
with palm leaves.
There Major March reviewed his
command, shoeless nnd exhausted, and
picked out twenty-four of the freshest
men. with whom he heat the sur
rounding country for six days longer, j
hut without finding any trace of the j
Insurgents. The Americium pushed on ,
arid arrived at Apnrrl Mny 20th.
BOERS STILL AT PRETORIA.
I'rntUlonn llelng Krmnvol From the Cltj ,
—Reports of m ltwttle.
London, June 4, 4 n. in.—There is no j
direct news from Pretoria of n later |
date tlinu Thursday evening. General !
French's cavalry were then nt Irene, j
eight miles south of Pretoria, nnd fir- !
lng was heard there.
Lord Roberts' message* about sec
ondary operations else where nud the |
situation at Johannesburg, dated nt
Orange Grove, a farm four miles north- |
east of Johannesburg, shows thnt on
Saturday nt 0:10 p. m. lie was tweuty- '
five miles from Pretoria.
The correspondents with I-ord Rob- !
erts have not got through a line about !
the operations after the occupation of
Johannesburg, official messages eon- j
tinue to come through; hut press tele- j
grams are held up, probably to aviod i
tlielr giving even a hint as to wlint may j
Im* the pending operations. From tbe
other side there filters through iAiurgp
zo Marques a mass of statements, some
contradictory, others obviously Improb
able, hut all purporting to be facts.
Passengers arriving nt Lourcnzo
Marques Saturday, direct from Pre
toria. say that the capital was prepnr
• lag to surrender when they left Thurs
day. The forts were dismantled. The
Boer guard nt Komatipoort searched
all trains nud turned hack most of the
fugitives, ninong them deserting for
eigners who were trying to reach neu
tral soil.
Immense Boor convoys of provisions
are between Pretoria nnd Mlddlcburg.
Fifteen trains are sent dally to Mncha
dnsdornn with supplies for Lydenburg.
Pretoria is pictured by the refugees ns
hi a s late of indescribable confusion
and chaos. The populnce nre dlsmnyed
nnd tho British nre expeeted hourly.
Some foreign attaches have arrived
at Lourcnzo Marques to communicate
with their governments for orders to
leave, ns they consider that organized
war, on the Transvaal side, is nt nn
end. Flying ninong the Boers are rc
iiorts that tlie British have been beaten
hack nt Llndloy, with heavy loss, that
the main attack on Elnndsfontein fail
ed nnd I-ord Roberts was forced to re
tire to Klipsrlverhnrg; that the rail
way had been cut behind him south
of Vereoniglng nnd thnt a provision
train had lieen captured.
Without crediting any of the Boer
bulletins, everything from the field of
war behind Lord Roberts poiuts to a
great effort last weekTo paralyse his
advnee by a hold stroke from the east
ward at the railway north of Bloemfon
tein. Four Boer columns were In n
movement seemingly with tills object
ive. There was a commando in front
of General Brabant near Flekshurg;
another faced General Bundle near
Serin kill; n third occupied Llndley, and
pressed townrd the railway, and u
fourth seized Hellbron nud pushed to
wnrd Kroonstad. These operations,
assuming them to have been Independ
ent, nil appear to have failed.
Wholesale Stage Robbing.
Raymond, Cal., June 2.—One of the
boldest rohlierles ever committed In
California occurred to-day, when three
of the Yosemlte singes, a private con
veyance nnd two soldiers were held
up by two highwaymen, who were ev
idently not aware thnt Major ltucker
and Captain Wilcox, in command of
sixty-seven men of the Sixth cavalry,
from the Presidio, were close behind,
on route to the Yosemlte national
park.
The hold-up occurred nt a point two
miles tills side of Grub guleli, which
country Is thickly covered with chap
parel. Sergeant Buchanan nnd anoth
er troop laid gone uhend of the caval
ry to make arrangements for selecting
a camping place. The highwaymen
suddenly appeared, masked, and* get
ting the drop on tin* troopers, took
away their guns uml held the troopers
till the stage arrived. The robbers
handed the drivers of each stage a
card reading “Black Kid." nnd said:
"They fooled me on the Big Oak flat
road, but you can't tills time."
A robber then took ii iuit belonging
to T. 11. Griffiths, a passenger on the
stage and collected $l5O from the pas
sengers. after which lie ordered the
driver to drive on.
Knell stage was successively held up
up. the robbers getting about $350.
The mail and express matter was un
molested.
Will Fight the Paper Combine.
nm riKiu ine I H|ier ( omldnc.
Appleton. Wls., June 3.—A1l the mills
of Wisconsin and Minnesota manufac
turing print. Manila and Mine papers
have united iu the General Paper Com
pany of \Ylseonslu. Incorporated with
II capital or $15,000. It i* the admitted
purpose of tin* new company to fight
the liitcruiitlonnl Paper Company, or
so-called paper trust of the East, for
ilu* control of the western market. The
company will bogiu operations about
July Ist.
GUILTY or
INNOCENT?
By AMY BRAZIER.
CHAPTER I.
Mrs. Savllle of the Court Is not a
pleasant woman. People are general
ly rather afraid of her, and. like many
unpleasant people, she usually gets her
own way. Her present Idea is to mar
ry her only son, Sebastian, to her
niece, Barbara Savllle, an arrangement
perfectly agreeable to every one ex
cept Barbara herself—Barbara, with
he* rare, witching Irish beauty, the
beauty of a fair skin and blue eyes,
with very dark lashes and dark hair,
a face at once charming and provok
ing.
But Barbara's sweet-cut mouth Is a
little bit too firm for her aunt, and Se
bastian has felt his cold blood grow
; warm beneath the disdainful smile of
I his cousin.
Sebastian is not a pleasant looking
; man —tall and dark, with a heavy,
' cynical face and eyes that look cruel.
* In the whole of Leinster there is not
such a pretty girl as Barbara Savllle.
She lives at the Court with her aunt,
and has done so for several years, Lat-
I terly Mrs. Savllle has put on the screw
i a little, for Barbara Is twenty, and it
i is time Sebastian married and settled
j down; but Barbara tip-tilts her pretty
' chin and tosses her dusky head, and
! says that to live at the Court all her
life would kill her.
It Is. indeed, a gloomy spot, falling
Into decay, surrounded by dark, neg
lected woods, and a dark, sullen river
running through the park.
Mrs Savllle's husband has lived hard
In his day, driven a coach with eight
horses, and generally made havoc of
his patrimony. Card playing ended
I what his eight horses had begun, and
! his only son, Sebastian, Is a poor man.
( Barbara Is an only child, too. Her
father has an appointment in Tasma
nia, and Barbara Is supposed to have
a fortune. Mr. Savllle had sent her
home to be educated in England, and
then to live at tho Court, where the
charming family arrangement of a
marriage between the cousins was an
open secret.
The time is November, when all day
long the trees drip moisture, and the
fields are soaking and sodden, while
the long struggling street of Portraven
is one sea of mud.
It Is worse than usual today, for a
cattle fair Is going on. and the fair
takes place In the street The foot
paths are crowded with cattle, and
j droves of panting, terrified sheep are
1 huddled Into groups. Young horses led
i by halters are being paraded up and
I down, and the footpaths being un
-1 available, pedestrians are forced to
: fight their way In the middle of the
1 street, ankle deep in mud, amidst the
: confusion of carts and horses, and
animals of all sorts and kinds.
Walking briskly through the crowd
with an air of being thoroughly used
to it, comes Barbara Savllle, dressed
In a Bhort skirt of Donegal tweed, with
a Norfolk jacket and a tweed cap on
her dark hair. Bho carrion a walking
stick, and her bright face wcarß a half
amused, half-contemptuous expression
as she looks at the hurrying crowd.
She has reached the market square,
and here the fair Is at its height, and
bargains are going on briskly. Bar
bara looks pityingly at the scared, tim
id cattle driven to and fro with such
roughness. And strange contrast, just
beside the drove of cattle, heedless of
the turmoil around, stand a little
group, a preacher, with uncovered
head, preaching the Gospel of Christ
to the heedless multitude. It Is a
strange scene, and Barbara's face
grows thoughtful. The rough faces of
toll-hardened men and women, the pa
tient cattle standing by, and those
most humble creatures the subdued
donkeys, more used to blows than
kindness.
Then through the crowd comes a
young man, and he Is head and shoul
ders over every one. His hair is gold
—real gold—and waves in short, crisp
waves. His fair moustache covers a
sweet, firm mouth, and the eyes that
look at Barbara’s are purple as pan
sies, and full of light now as they meet
the sudden, glad recognition in hers.
“Barbara,” says the young giant,
"what are you doing in this crowd?”
Barbara's face Is a study of pleased
surprise.
"I only walked In from the Court
to post my letter to father," she re
plies. And her dark eyes smile bright
ly as she holds out her hand to him.
*TII take care of you.” returns
George Bouverle; "these fellows are
so rough you might get hurt.”
And Barbara has no objection.
Her eyes dance. What does It mat
ter that the November sky Is heavy
and gray? There Is sunshine in the
two glad young hearts, and they laugh
and they talk together, and make fun
over their little adventures in the fair,
like the pair of children they are.
They leave the town and walk to
gether along the country road. Sod
den leaves, brown and decaying, lie in
little heaps. It Is a day calculated to
make any one depressed; but Bar
bara’s cheeks are softly flushed; her
eyes are like stars.
“Barbara, when may I speak to your
aunt?”
George Bouverle's tone has grown
serious suddenly, his face takes a ten
der expression.
Hers flushes crimson.
“Walt till I hear from father.
George,” she whispers. “You don’t
know Aunt Julia —she would freeze me
with a look; but if father says yes.
then she can’t say anything.”
"But, my darling, how can I wait?"
urges the young man.
Barbara sighs.
“Aunt Julia would write out horrid
things to father,” she says. And her
fingers Just touch the rough tweed
sleeve beside her.
He laughs.
“Oh, yes; she could say a lot against
me, 1 know. I am in debt, and of
course that's against a fellow; and I
did run a couple of horses at the Cur
ragh, and lost a lot, too; and my dear
old mother will go about pouring out
her woes to Mrs. Savllle, and making
me out to be a black sheep; but I'm
not that, Barbara. I've you to work
for now, and I’ll chuck the whole thing
up. I’ll have one more plunge, and
then, if I win, and the luck's bound to
come my way now. I’ll pay up all
round and marry you, my darling,
with a clean page.”
So hopefully he speaks, who could
doubt him? Certainly not Barbara.
"You are my good angel, sweet
heart.” goes on the man. bending his
fair head. "I know I’ve made a mess
v;.
of my life; but It will be all different
now. You won’t mind being a poor
man’s life, will you, darling?”
“I shouldn't mind anything with
you, George,” she whispers, her beau
tiful face aglow with feeling.
"That’s my brave little woman! I’ve
not got much, you know, Barbara. The
Grange comes m me at the mother’s
death, and she allows me two hundred
a year. I wish now I had got a pro
fession"—a wistful expression of re
gret softening his eyes as he speaks.
The only son of his mother, and she
was a widow.
Ah, what a story those simple words
contain! George Bouverle Is his moth
er’s Idol, and sorely she moans over
her darling's shortcomings. Her views
are not his views, and she regards with
horror his Increasing Infatuation for
horse racing, a taste that is a crime in
the eyes of Mrs. Bouverle.
To please her, George sold his race
horse, but took to betting, a fact that
need not be known to any one but
himself.
Only to Barbara he has poured out
his remorse and regrets over himself
and his backslldlngs. To please her be
will give up everything, and Barbara
Is content.
"I wish I could ask you in to lunch,”
she says naively, as they reach the
gloomy entrance gates of the Court,
heavily shadowed with giant cypress
trees, and dank moss grows on the
pillars and the stone griffins sur
mounting them.
George smiles.
"Aunt Julia wouldn’t be rpleased to
see me, I fancy," he says, looking
down at her. "I know she wants that
sour Sebastian to marry you—she told
my mother so.”
Their hands meet in a lingering
pressure when Sebastian himself ap
pears upon the scene, his face dark
as night, his eyes furious.
“Morning, Bouverle.” he begins,
with a curt nod; and turns to Bar
bara. “My mother Is looking for you.
Barbara. Have you forgotten we have
an engagement this afternoon?”
Barbara lifts her lovely eyes with
unconcealed scorn.
"My dear Sebastian, you know I told
your mother I could not stand a 10-
mile drive to drink tepid tea at Lady
Barry's. Not even your company. Se
bastian, could compensate for such an
infliction."
Sebastian Savllle may and does hate
young Bouverle; but the instincts of
hospitality cannot be ignored.
"Won’t you come In and have a bit
of lunch, Bouverle?” he says. And
George, who realizes that it moans an
other hour of Barbara’s society, ac
cepts.
. iogether the three walk up the long
avenue, where gnarled oaks meet over
head, and in the woods at either side
the moss grows deep and soft.
George swings along with his
springy step, and Sebastian looks with
envy at the young man's splendid fig
ure. He Is tall himself, too, but awk
ward, and his face is forbidding.
Bnrbara walks between the two
men. and Sebastian notices the height
ened color In her cheeks, the radiant
light In her eyes. She does not know
that he can read her secret In her face,
and the knowledge fills him with ang
er. Barbara Is to be his wife; no Idle
flirtation must come between them;
she is to be all his. Her beauty pleases
him, and he knows what Barbara is
ignorant of—that she will be an
heiress.
Barbara's father wished her to be
brought up simply, with no knowledge
of the world's goods to fall to her lot.
So whatever George Bouverle may pos
sess In the way of faults, he Is no for
tune hunter—he loves Barbara for her
own self.
CHAPTER 11.
Mrs. Savllle is a peculiar looking
woman. She Is seated In the long
drawing room when Barbara enters
with her two cavaliers, and she greets
George rather coldly, turning Immedi
ately to Barbara.
“You are late, dear. You must dress
Immediately after luncheon; it is such
a long drive to Barrystown."
"Need I go?” asks Barbara, looking
bored.
"My dear. I wish It,” Mrs. Savllle
says decidedly, and turns to George.
"How Is your dear mother? She looked
but poorly, latterly.”
"I think she is all right,” George re
plies, standing on the faded hearthrug
In his careless grace.
Altogether the Court and Its In
mates are gloomy—all except Barbara,
whose clear young voice rings through
the rooms.
Luncheon Is announced, and Mrs. Sa
vllle rises and puts her Jewelled hand
on the arm of George Bouverle.
“You and I will lead the way.” she
says, with a slow, unpleasant smile.
"Those two young people like to take
care of each other.”
As they pass across the great vault
ed stone hall Mrs Savllle looks up at
the golden-haired young man at her
side and whispers:
"You must not covet forbidden fruit.
Mr. Bouverle; and I think, for your
own sake. It would be well not to
come too often to the Court. Your
mother knows my wishes for Bar
bara."
The blood surges to the very roots
of his hair.
"I understand you, Mrs. Savllle.” he
says, in a very low voice; "but has not
Barbara a right to choose?” There is
a passionate pride in the whispered
• words.
"Barbara must be kept out of temp
tation," Mrs. Savllle rejoins as they
enter the dining room.
But George Bouverle's eyes are full
of triumph, for has not Barbara made
her choice already? He flashes a glance
at her as they take their places, and
Barbara's shy, lovely eyes meet his for
a brief second.
Everything at the Court is damp and
mouldy. The great dining room has
the atmosphere of a vault. A very
small fire burns In the grate, and a
seedy-looking butler shambles round
the table with his satellite, a beardless
youth Imported from the stables,
breathing hard and walking round on
tiptoe with awful and elaborate care
fulness.
The dining table Is large; but the e
Is very little on it —an alarming ex
panse of tablecloth and not much else.
Sebastian, fixing his eyeglass firmly,
gravely carves a minute portion off a
joint, so small it will hardly go round.
The tjutler very carefully pours out u
very minute portion of sherry Into
George Bouverle’s glass, while the
scared lad from the stables travels la
boriously round with vegetables.
George does not care about luncheon,
so the scantiness of the repast does not
affect him. Barbara is sitting oppo
site. and he can feast his eyes on the
beauty of her face; while Sebastian’s
unfriendly expression affects him not
at all.
Luncheon over, Mrs. Savllle make?
an apology for deserting her guest, for
the carriage has been ordered early,
the drive to Barrystown is long.
"It will only be au revolr,” George
says gaily. "I promised my mother to
take her to the Barry’s affair this af
ternoon. A chrysanthemum show, I
believe.”
It is distinctly annoying, for this
very handsome young man will com
pletely monopolize Barbara.
"You will be rather late, Mr. Bou
verle.’’ responds Mrs. Savllle Icily.
“Oh, not at all.” George says pleas
antly; while, with a nod and smile.
Barbara runs off to dress for the party.
"I’ll Just hop across country and be at
the Grange in half an hour.” George
says gaily. “I wouldn’t disappoint the
mother for the world.”
(To be continued.)
MAKING BOER “REIMS."
Skins Turned Into Thongi for South
African 01-W»*nni.
One of the strangest things which
strikes the eye on a casual visit to a
Boer farm is a curious structure, not
far from the homestead, standing up
against the sky-line like a gigantic
gallows, says the London Mail. There
Is a stout, roughly hewn tree plant
ed fair and square in the ground.
From this is a crossbeam, in the cen
ter of which Is a large Iron hook. Di
rectly underneath this, on the ground.
Is a huge square stone about eighteen
inches to two feet in height But It
is not a gallows. It Is simply the
farm "brlepaal,” or braying poles,
whereon the oxhides are treated and
turned into those remarkably service
able “reims” or strips of leather thong,
which form an Indispensable staple of
the outfit of every South African ox
wagon. This Is the method of prepar
ing the "reims.” After the dead oxen
have been skinned the pelts are spread
on the bare ground and allowed to dry
with the under side uppermost to the
scorching hot sun. After some days'
preparation of this kind they are
brought by the Kaffir “boys” to the
braying poles. Having been soaked
In water, or preferably brine and
water, for some little while, and the
hair being still on them, the pelts are
somewhat limp and extraordinarily
elastic. The skin is roughly trimmed
into an oval shape.
The Boer then pulls out a sharp
knife, and from the outward edge In
ward commences to cut the skin into
a circular strip of about an Inch and
a hnlf in width.
As a rule a full-sized oxhide yields
one long continuous strip one and one
half inches In width and seventy yards j
in length. A second hide is treated in
exactly the same way. and the two
ends are knotted together with the I
particular form of knot known to
sailors, which the more you pull the
tighter It becomes.
The whole length of 140 yards of raw
hide ribbon Is then stretched to Its
fullest length. When it Is fully
stretched It Is looped Into a large
hank, which Is of the greatest weight.
A Third Eye.
In ancient times a short-sighted sol
dier or hunter was almost an Impos
sibility; today a whole nation Is af
flicted with defective vision. It Is al
most certain that man once possessed
a third eye. by means of which he was
enabled to see above his head. The
human eyes formerly regarded the
world from tho two sides of the head.
They are even now gradually shifting
to a more forward position. In the
dim past the ear flap was of great
service in ascertaining the direction of
sounds, and operated largely In the
play of the features. But the muscles
of the ear have fallen into disuse, for
the fear of surprise by enemies no
longer exists. Again, our sense of
smell is markedly inferior to that of
savages. That It is still decreasing
Is evidenced by observations of the
olfactory organs. But the nose still
Indicates a tendency to become more
prominent.
The Ice Cream Burned.
ti»n vrmiu iidruvii.
A few years ago a famous actor was
asked what was the most amusing
thing—not down on tho bill—which he
had ever met with in his long theatri
cal experience. He replied that once
In a play in which he appeared nn ice
cream freezer, presumably filled with
cream, was among the properties dis
played to the audience. It was not
.practicable to equip the freezer with
real Ice cream, so Its place was sup
plied with cotton. One of the actors
had occasion to cross the stage with a
flaming torch, and a spark from the
torch must have fallen Into the freezer,
for, to the joy of the audience, which
greeted the casualty with enthusiastic
applause, the ice cream was inconsis
tent enough to burn up then and there,
thus Inflicting a serious blow upon the
, "realism” of the performance.—New
York Mall and Express.
English Pronunciation.
An English journal recently won
dered whether tho pronunciation of
some of the Ignorant classes or cf
some of the cultivated classes Is the
worse. For Instance, the groom says:
'“Arry, ’old my ’oss.” But the curate
' says: "He that hath yaws to yaw. let
him yaw.” And the doctor’s wife says:
“Jawge, please go to Awthah and aw
dah the hawse, and don’t forget to look
1 at the flah." And the vicar says: “If
owah gracious severing lady wur-ah to
die.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.
First Class in Optics.
“In looking out of doers, do you no
tice how bright is the green of the
grass and the leaves?" asked an el
derly gentleman of a little girl, whose
I home he was visiting. "Yes. sir."
■ "Why does it appear so mlgk brighter
, at this time?” he next asked, looking
I down upon the bright, sweet face w'.th
tender Interest. ‘ Because ma In
cleaned the window, and you can s*
I out better,” she said.—Stray Stories.
i
Want Favored Stations.
i Army officers stationed in this coun-
I try are all anxious to receive details
» to the military schools In the different
- states. Several of these details have
1 been recently made. As they are all
under the control of the president, it
generally takes some little influence tc
' obtain one.
Tommy's Only Wish.
"What would you like best tomor
i row. Tommy, on your birthday?” ’Tfl
like to see the school burnt down," re
i piled the lad.
TELEGRAPHS TO ALSKA.
D * W -°” And Other T„.„.
Connected.
Tt-lerrapli nor k [,
lively in Alaakn. which whl'T** 1 . *
communication with the w„ r |7" , k
through It. telegraph., .a,wU7
way early next .print. ! t \ ! Sk ‘
to tme the Edison Ph0n,,,,!,, 1
laying a cable from Junita to £
way. a distance of i«m» m tul
which the phonoplex will work’ .HI
'XyS'y- , A ", ttpproprlatlon of £
000 |,aa also 1a.,.,, made by ..
dlan government for the ' mm.-
.trlnglng a wire from ijm,,?.*
the Lrnaor river, -no „ill«
Ashcroft, B. C„ to A,11,i 52
wood are now piled up , h , “
and two gangs are soon t.> u it
work from one end of en,.|,
AN hen they meet anti join win*
may be in the fall. Kkngwav iZZ:
and Dawson will cease t<. be’u.uT
and 1m- practically as .-lo*. t „
York anti London as Taming and l
Francisco. 'Hie most lute retains t,
of the new installation is that it Hk
will use several hundreds <»r mile,
the ohl telegraph trail and « B m
which was Jay Gould's Western r»
scheme to put an overland 3
through Siberia to St. Petembut*■
Europe. Moat of the obi telemJ
remember that this road wns bral
to a sudden stop by the receipt oM
news in this country that Cyrus VI
Imd completed a cable across th*
lantlc. Many tons of wire were left
the ground and It is there yet
Automatic Foghorns.
Automatic foghorns operated hr t
motion of the sen have recently h
installed off the coast of Spain. 1
rise and fall of the buoy sets a pui
it work which at every stroke fort
a supply of air Into au air chamber
«mall engine liberates the air in i
ulnr quantities and allows it to p
upward to the foghorn which prodnt
the blast. Tlie number nud length!
the blasts may be regulated .jesin
Each blast contains one or mart not<
a long nnd a short one or anr otl
combination to make It distinctive «
easily recognizable. Supposing n stor
rage, tho foghorn will still sound t!
sumo steady blast that It produces,
a calm sea. for the extra power a
talned from the waves Is allowed :
run to waste by means of an esciij
valve.—Pearson’s Magazine.
Electricity in Capsules
Is made from cheap chemicals, a
when added to a certain quantity
water will furnish electricity enough
light a bouse or drive au automob
But this Is nothing compared to
strengthening power contained in
liottlc of Hostel tor’s Stomach Rltti
It cures Indigestion, dyspepsia, blllo
ness, liver and kidney trouble*.
Belated Enterprise.
“Hotel rates won’t he high nt
Philadelphia convention, but you’d!
ter not go near Philadelphia for
months afterward." "What do ;
mean?” “Why, the town won’t
awake to Its commercial opportunt
until the thing Is over.”
Ladies Can Wear Shoes.
One size smaller after usingA lien’s F«
Ease, a powder. It makes tight orn
shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot.sweat!
aching feet, ingrowing nails, cornsi
bunions. All di u 'gists nnd shce stoi
I 25c. Trial package FREE by maU2 j
dress Allen S Olmsted. Le Ilov, X.Y.
A Responsibility Assumed.
Pa—Jimmy, I told you that
would get punished If you stopped
play with Bobby after school." J
my—Well, pa. Bobby said for m<
stop, an’ he’d come over some day
let you whip him.”
One Kind of Married Life.
AMIf mini
She —“Your mother Is awfully *t
Clous".
He—" How does she show It?
Rhe—"Why. because we don't go ou
get her evenings any more -die thinks
we don't get nlong well."
Cheap Excursions East.
The Burlington will on June Htb
12th put on snle tickets from Del}**
Chicago. St. I.ouls. Peoria nnd all
sour! river points at rate of one fare
$2 for the round trip. Tickets Rood
return till October 3lst. This rata t
to everybody. G. w. \ Al-.uhKi
General Ag«
Won't Have Pictures Taken.
The commissioners at the Paris 8j
sitlon have encountered a rather uni
seen difficulty In connection wo*h tne
entrance tickets accorded to a.l **xn
ors. The regulations proscribe that
papers of Identity which the bearer
these tickets must present at tne
trance to the grounds must hear a
■ tograph of the owner. Now. a cons
able part of the big Algerian exhUi
owned by wealthy Arabs, who navi
most unanimously refused to have i
photographs taken for the free entr
tickets, this constituting an InfractW
one of the laws of the koran. forOW
all Mohammedans to have ,
nesses reproduced. The officials are
nt work seeking a solution of thia
plexlng problem.
A Chance for a Cheap Trip East.
On June 11th. 12th. 23d. July _ 12th., !
and August 4th. the L nlon Pacine
Bell round-trip tickets to t nlrago,
Louis. St. Paul. Duluth. Kansas 1
Omaha and Intermediate points at
of one fare plus S 2 for the roune
Limit October 31st. Ticket Office.
17th street.
In a More Prosperous Class.
Leoturer—"ar. the broth erhood-ofH
iplrit should prompt you to attana my
lertalnment.”
Humble Citizen—"Huh’ Your advjj
ment says that you travel In a P*»
car; you’re no brother of mine.
Keep looking young and »*re Tour half- * B 1
and beauty with I'aks**'• llaib Hal***-
IIIXDSBCOBK*. the beat cure for corn*. **=*■■
Necessary Preliminary Steps
"Julius, we must begin to talk si
our summer trip." __ a
"That's so. Julia: the sooner <*
talking about It the sooner l can
convinced that we can t afTora to a
where.”
Hint to Housekeepers.
To preserve summer skirts
use “Faultless Starch.” All grocer*, m
A Comfortable Arrangement.
. -Amelia—Edgar. Mrs. Montgomery J
asked ma why we hadn t called,
blamed It all on you.
Edgar—You deceitful thing-
Amelia—Oh. well! next time you
her you can blame It all on me.
Falling of the Hai r
I*, rnnsod by dandruff. Coke BandrogC
will (top It or money refunded. **
Your daughter Arabella doeen** *
*ny more poetry.” "No;
| put only once h month, you kno »
has gone In for society now and * ‘
. name in all our village paper*
a«y.” _____
Hall’s Catarrh Cure
Mall * V-aiarrn
Is a constitutional enra Pric«.
"Are Mayme's new photograph* P
ty?" "Oh. I should **>' *£■ ~,juat
them taken In her white *Hk *e
, frock, with her eyes rolled up
rings on."
Mr*. Wlnalow'* Soothing
Rot children teething, •often* theg*® , £c»M
• animation, allay* pain, cure* wlndcotio
"In this country we »lva up
lps to various persons than"
uurglars." "Yes: and we can tn*
-onsolutlon of firing pistols on
IS they get away."
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