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Elbert Goilnty Tribune
J. E. POPE. Editor *nd PublUhor.
■LBERT, - • - COLORADO.
Let un hop© Mr. Wn may ne able to
■pend bis vacations In the United
BUtea.
Did any woman over speak of her
husband's pipe wltnout pro-fixing the
words "that old"?
Europe is again discussing disarma
ment. But the Krupp gun works are
running right along.
Tho old feeling against foreigners
la said to be rising again in China.
ItocH anybody wonder?
The new Anglo-American club of
London has not yet been absorbed by
iny of Mr. Morgan's mergers.
Mount Pelco must be trying to sus
tain itself on a diet of roasting ears,
watermelons and green peaches.
The now sultan of Zanzibar has one
excellent qualification for the place.
He is a feroclouj football player.
The Santo Stefauo tower In Venice
Jn threatening to tumble. It seems
to bo high time for Venice to brace
up.
Gout is said to be on the Increase In
America. This is one trouble the
common people do not have to worry
over.
King Alfonso wants to have it dis
tinctly understood that some of the
children are going to be heard as well
as seen.
Uncle Russell Sage denies that he
was trying to steal a ride when he
was dragged fifteen feet by a car th’
other day.
If a fathers’ congress should ever
convene probably the proceedings
would be limited to a motion for an
adjournment.
They all say that Mackay. the bo
nanza king, was a "genuine Ameri
can." Is it because ho had so much
wealth that he could not coimt It?
•In presenting a claim ngalnst the
estate of Lord Francis Hope for $40.-
000 May Yohe has demonstrated that
ahe Is In no pressing need of a nerve
tonic.
Tho fact that Australia alone of
tho six continents was not visited by
earthquakes this year will not cauße
an overwhelming rush for the Anti
podes.
Secretary Wilson, who is trying to
encourage to cultivate silk
Worms, evidently does not know that
the rustling petticoat fashion has
passed.
Carrlo Chapman Catt says nine
tenths of the criminals are men. This
la letting us down easy. Shu might
have said nine-tenths of the men are
criminals.
Gen. Kitchener should desire no
greater honor than to he referred to
by his countrymen as "tho gentleman
In khaki." It beats any of the garters
or rosettes.
London bridge still stands, In spite
of the children's doggerel, but the
latest dispatches seem to show that
a good part of Venice is in danger
of falling down.
The scientist who declares that the
akull dug up near Kan., is
$5,000 years old appear to have n
grudge against poor Adam's reputa
tion for prevlousness.
Tho Missouri man who admitted in
court that he had spent $70,000 on
liquor during the past seven years
ought to be a good Judge of such stim
ulants, if of nothing else.
While lovely woman is supposed to
go almost any length In her beauty
doctoring, not many of them can make
the decision to talk less because
wrinkles are cause 1 by too much talk
ing.
The rlngle man should not forget to
put an engagement ring In his pocket
before starting on his vacation. He
may not have occasion to use it. yet
it is better to h; ve one handy in case
of emergency.
For improving the Mississippi river
$43,572,693 has been spent. In the past
twenty years. Farmers with sub
merged lands adjoining that Interest
ing stream aro wondering what was
done with the money.
It was to ho expected that the mil
lionaire laborer who woro his working
clothes when he went In search of a
wife would find a girl with imagine
tlon enough to guess how ho would
look in a dress suit or golfing togs.
The English papers aro saying that
wherover golf goes there is an In
creased demand for Scotch whisky.
I,et us hope, since tho championship
has been won by an American boy
that home-made goods may now sup
plant. the Scotch product.
John Bull promises to make the
Boers so happy under his rule that
they will be as named oi themselver
for not having begged him to takt
hold at tho beginning. It is to b<
hoped that John isn't merely talking
Id order to hear the applause.
A WARRIOR BOLD.
Bv ST. G ROUGE RATIIBOHNE,
Author of "IMU* Mitt JfilUont. - "TKt Binder's
Wsb." -Dr. Jack's Widow," -Min Caprice," tic.
Cepjrlcfat imm. Street and Smith. New York.
CUAirTKR VII.
"Take Care. Captain Brand!”
Artemus looked into his companion's
face as the other made this strange
and unexpected announcement.
Himself something of a practical
joker, It was natural that the dramatic
student of human nature should be
suspicious lest he fall a victim to some
deep-laid plot to bring down upon his
head the laugh that cuts so keenly.
But Charlie looked ub grave os a
deacon. Had he been attending the
obsequies of the man who was hung,
he could not have appeared more sol
emn.
Matters of this character always pos
sessed for him a peculiarly strong In
terest. and he was eager to glean the
particulars.
"Weil, It Isn't given to most of us
to see a man hung, and then meet him
afterward alive und well. Tell me
about it, Charlie, my boy.”
There Isn't a great deal to narrate.
At the time an insurrection in Chill
was causing the most Intense excite
ment, and some very bloody battles
were fought about Santiago.
"I chanced to be, as I said, In Val
paraiso. One day I found myself In a
crowd of excited citizens and soldiers,
in the midst of whom stood a prisoner
—a spy, caught red-handed, upon
whom they were about to execute sum
mary Judgment.
“That wab Captain Nathaniel.
“The word was given, and I heard
a roar from five hundred throats as
the wretch was jerked off his feet
"One moment I saw him as he
dangled In Bpaeo. hands and feet strik
ing out wildly—a spectacle I shall nev
er forget to my dying day.
“There came a sudden shot, and
Hedge fell to the ground in a heap—
Home ono had cut the rope with a well
nlmed bullet.
“Immediately the deuce of a row
broke out, but bless you, the affair
died away as speedily as It began, and
then, gradually, it dawned upon the
minds of the crowd that u great hoax
had been successfully carried out.
“For when they looked for Kedge.
In order to complete their artistic lit
tle Job, behold! the man who had al
ready been partially hung had disap
peared. nor were they able to discover
him, though Valparaiso was thorough
ly searched.
"That is my little story, and I am
almost ready to swear that our Capt.
Brand in yonder is the identical
Kedge, grown a little gray in the ser
vice of heating tho world, but Just
the same old sixpence.”
Artemus nodded, and they separated
for a time.
But their meeting had not been un
observed.
Tho übiquitous harm had his eye on
them, and possibly figured out some
wonderful game as connected with
his mysterious conversation.
Charlie went hack to Arilne apd
Capt Brand, and the three chatted for
a while.
Then Arilne graciously consented to
play several favorite pieces, while
Charlie idly glanced through a book
made up of fugitive Bongs and music.
It was while doing this he suddenly
came upon an opportunity to make
another test of the man's Identity. So
Charlie handed the well-worn book of
mußic to the fair girl.
"Play that for me—an old favorite —
always revives pleasant recollections."
Charlie was so situated that a side
glance into a massive pier glass gave
him an excellent view of the mnu who
had arisen from the dead.
Wlint Stuart had so accidentally, yet
fortunately, come across was the Chi
lian National Hymn. He watched the
efTect upon Capt. Brand.
When tho first rather weird notes of
this Spanish-Americnn music throbbed
upon the air. Brand Hat bolt upright
upon the divan.
Involuntarily he seemed to gasp Tor
breath; his tongue partly protruded
from his mouth, as though he were
being choked, while his hand crept up
to his throat and clutched hlg loose
collar, as if to tear it away.
Charlie exulted in the sight. It con
firmed his suspicions.
There was no longer the faintest
doubt remaining In his mind.
This was the man!
Finally they said good-night.
Charlie managed to whisper a few
sentences in Arline’s ear while the
captain waited at the door, so that
he was assured of seeing her again
on the morrow.
Capt. Brand led her away.
One smiling glance she sent back
over her plump shoulder- gods! what
a thrill It gave the bachelor who re
ceived It!
Here was a miracle.
He felt dazed —felt as though he
walked in a dream. He who had scoff
ed at such a ridiculous thing as love
at first sleht. who had always declared
tho holy pnsslon a flower of slow
growth, founded upon mutual friend
ship and esteem, now discovered his
theory In utter ruin, and not only that,
but himself engulfed in tne chaotic
debris. .
Finally ho aroused himself to n
realization of the fact that there were
a few more people In the world besides
Arilne Brand.
How about the baron? Had he learn
ed of his mistake by this time with re
gard to the idontity of the Countess
Isolde?
The idea of taking Arilne for the i
fascinating countess was absurd. How
could so shrewd a man have been dc- j
coived? Why did an occasional lin
gering doubt still find lodgment in
Charlie's heart. No woman could
play such a game. Arilne must be
what she seemed. Hank Peterho* and
his miserable warnings!
So he trusted blindly.
If there was a pit, be would fall into
It, headlong, for Idve had already
blinded him.
Or was the Russian bear still on
guard ?
Could the hotel be surrounded by
his emissaries, ready to entrap the
wonderful adventuress?
Having decided to smoke a weed and
Lake a look around ere retiring to his
bunk, Charlie lighted up and saunter
ed toward the open door leading to the
street.
When he stepped out of the hotel
door, he was astonished to discover
little knots of men, dressed in the
well-known uniform of the Antwerp
gendarmes, standing near the Hotel de
la Palx.
Then It burst upon him that he had
not placed efiough significance upon
what the naron had confided to him.
This did not mean the mere arrest of
n clever adventuress, charged with no
specific crime save that of enslaving
men of rank, and compelling them,
through her witchery, to contribute
from their wealth toward her regal
support. It stood for something
grander, something that might yet
shake a greater part of Europe with a
mighty convulsion, slnre the conspir
acy In which the Countess Isolde was
connected concerned more than one
imperial throne.
Charlie forgot that he had been
sleepy.
His eyes were never brighter than
now.
It seemed that the countesß had fin
ally made a stupendous blunder, and
Peterhoff's hour of triumph was at
hand.
It would mark an epoch in the lives
of many prominent men in Europe
when Isolde Brabant vanished behind
the walla of a military fortress.
Some who had been in the tolls
would breathe easy for the first time
in many moons, nnd drink a bumper
to her long residence in her new and
exclusive pnlace.
So Charlie watched and waited, deep
in reflection.
When hla cigar was about half con
sumed. he thought he would saunter
down the street a short distance, to
see what effect, if any, his appearance
might have upon the officers on guard.
The result was really more than he
had anticipated.
He had not gone more than a dozen
paces before, without the least warn
ing, he felt n rough hand laid roughly
upon his arm.
As he turned to see what was want
ed, a second hand gripped his other
arm.
A bended face looked Into his own.
"Messieurs, 1 am afraid you—” he
began.
"Silence!”
“Have mnde a little mistake.”
“Silence on your life!" was hissed.
He saw frowning pistols.
It was evident that the officers
meant business.
Charlie began to grow a little Indig
nant.
“See here! send for the baron!” he
Insisted.
"He Is engaged.”
“But he Is my friend—he will be
angry with you for making so ridicu
lous a blunder.”
“So. But we carry out his orders.
Now, not a word more, mynherr.”
"Confound—”
"Do you hear? Not one word, on
your life!”
Charlie shrugged his shoulders.
Ah! a whistle! —evidently a signal.
Tho game was about to be called.
Even as he stood there, held fast by
his captors, he saw a man enter the
door of tho hostelry.
It was Peierhoff.
Another and another followed, until
Charlie had counted a round dozen.
At the same time there was a
stretching of lines in the street. Sig
nals passed from mouth to moutn.
and Charlie understood that the well
known Hotel de la Paix was in the
center of a strong cordon of officers,
through which escape was Impossible.
Alas! for tho countess! It was her
hour of doom!
He listened, swayed by contending
emotions.
Somehow Arline was in his mind.
Perhaps there might be a fight
Some of those who would be found
in the society of Isolde Brabant were
desperate men. connected with an
archists and nihilists, sworn to re
duce society in Europe to one dead
level.
They might take their lives In their
hands and endeavor to give battle.
Still, the awful influence of Peter
hoff’s dreaded name was sufficient,
under ordinary conditions, to freeze
the fighting blood In the veins of
most men, however lirave they might
be.
To his surprise, he heard no shot,
not even a shout or a scream.
The baron’s sudden appearance in
their mldßt must have paralyzed the
conspirators.
Presently they would be trooping
forth under escort, to be hurried away
to gloomy prison cells.
And ns for himself.
Charlie smoked calmly on.
This was another experience, that
was all.
He seemed bound to suffer !r. the
cause of Arline Brand. Because she
chanced to resemble the notorious
Countess Isolde in possessing an en
trancing figure, and also golden hair
and eye* that rivaled the summer skies
of Italy, forsooth, tho baron must fall
Into error nnd bring about this en
tanglement.
Well, perhaps all things would work
together for good. If he but put his
shoulder to the wheel.
And the cause was one in which he
could stand considerable knocking
about with complacency.
He watched the hotel door.
The baron would be sorry on ac
count of his blunder. Naturally, he
would want to make amends, aad
Charlie had already concluded to en
list his valuable services in the work
of unmasking Captain Brand.
If anybody could accomplish thla
matter, surely it was Peterhoff, whose
long experience and facilities for se
curing information would stand him
in good stead.
Ah! there were signs of life.
A number of sombre closed vehicles
came dashing down the gassen.
They drew up before the hotel.
A few loungers gathered in the door
way out of idle curiosity. Heads ap
peared at the windows across the way.
as though some spirit of Intuition,
passing through space, gave warning
that strange events were occurring.
Charlie’s captors began to move
along toward the hotel door, and of
course, he was forced to accompany
them.
He was still twenty paces away
when the baron came out.bearlng upon
his arm a lady with a sylpbllke form,
but who was heavily veiled.
Charlie's traitor heart leaped at
sight of her. The graceful carriage
was so like that cf Arline, bo queenly
and perfect
Yet ho knew beyond peradventure
that this was the countess who had
finally fallen into the toils of the
fowler.
Charlie was inclined to rush and
seize upon bis friend, the baron; but
those two guards held his arms in a
grip of steel.
Attract the attention of Peterhoff
he could not, since the other had eyes
only for the woman at his Bide, know
ing his men were capable of executing
the orders previously given.
So he assisted her into a vehicle and
swept one last glance around.
Charlie cried ouL
Other sounds there were in the
street just then. At any rate, the
baron never vouchsafed a single look
in his quarter, but waved an arm.
jumped into the vehicle and was gone.
By this time the gendarmes were
issuing from the hotel, each with a
companion, most of the prisoners be
ing gentlemen.
As fast as the vehicles were filled
with guards and captives they dashed
away.
Charlie’s turn came. He attempted a
protest, but was roughly shoved along
and thrust Into one of the closed ve
hicles. which presently lumbered
down the street.
And so the Innocent suffered with
the guilty.
(To be continued.)
A MIDNIGHT CALL UPON METHUEN
Boldltr'i B*n«e of Human Not Destroyed
by Hard Work.
The recent capture and release of
Lord Methuen by the Boers has given
rise to a number of stories relating
to this unlucky commander's career in
the army, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. Ixmg before the Boer war
begau Lord Methuen was campaign
ing In South Africa at the head of the
famous band of rough riders known as
Methuen's Horse. A member of the
regiment. G. L. Chesterton, has since
made a reputation as a worker in the
field of Ixmdon journalism, and he It
is who tells this anecdote of cam
paigning on the borders of Bechuana
land:
"When we were encamped on the
big hill overlooking the Setlagoli Riv
er, not very far from Mafeking, Ixird
Methuen used to occupy a common
btell tent, near to which slept a couple
of his orderlies and myself, his field
trumpeter. Ono dark night the Hon.
‘Dick’ Cotton came stumbling Into
camp and, endeavoring to discover the
whereabouts of the commander, ap
proached us, shouting in a high voice:
'Paul, I say, Paul, where are you?’
Presently from the Inside of the tent
came a more sonorous sound: ‘ls that
you, Dick? What do you want?’ The
jaded wayfarer remarked: ‘Do you
know. Paul, that I asked one of you.
men where I could find you. and he
told me to go to !'• Without u
moment's hesitation Lord Methuen re
plied: ‘Come inside, Dick, come in
side.' ”
The Successful Wooer.
Men would have a great deal more
chance of success in their wooing if
they understood better how girls like
to bo wooed. As it is, they have no
idea on the subject that is at all use
ful. and many a lover's suit is unsuc
cessful just because he is Ignorant of
a girl's tastes in that direction.
Now, if girls had the matter in their
own hands they would manage very
differently. To begin with, they would
never play the bashful lover. There is
nothing less calculated to make a girl
say "yes” to the important question
than the wooing of a lover who Ib shy.
She despises a man who can't have
courage enough to ask her boldly, and
when he stammers and hesitates over
it. instead of walking up boldly to the
lion’s mouth, he reduces his chances to
a minimum, says the Philadelphia In
quirer.
Above all things, woman delights in
feeling the superior strength of man.
When he comes and asks her to be his
wife with a fine, bold front and manly
bearing, the battle is half won.
She respects and admires him for
pressing his suit with decision, and
when she begins to admire a man love
does not lag far behind. The trem
bling. timorous lover never commands
her respect.
The fool who buries his head in the
dust has usually the Impudence to e«.
clare that there can he nothin?
vine.
BITS OF INTEREST
Germany has 90,000 more women thnn men.
The United States now has 3.546 millionaires.
A single plant of red poppy produces 50.000 seeds
The world now sends 1,250,000 telegrams every day.
There are in Ixmdon 52.000 people over years old.
Turkey now exports £600,000 worth of opium a year.
Italy makes eight millions a year out of foreign visitors.
The eleven million Inhabitants of Siam use only American flour.
The demand for American goods is increasing throughout Canada.
All the Mormons do not live in Utah. There are 2,000 in Germany.
Every one of the large automobile factories is far behind its orders.
There are about 114.500 telegraph offices now open in the whole world.
Methodism has gained in New York city nearly 47 per cent since 1875.
The youngest bride in Berlin last year was sixteen, the oldest seventy-five.
Since 1872 4,000 miles of railroads have been laid in the Japanese empire.
Berlin uses every year nearly half a million tons of English and Welsh
coal.
An acre of sago-palm will yield as much nourishment as 163 acres of
wheat.
One of the burroughs of London. England, has a motor street-cleaning
nuMhine.
From a 20-year-oid mulberry tree 218 poundß of leaves have been picked
in a year.
Prance has four classes of roads. They are respectively 50, 40. 33. and 25
feet wide.
The crusade against the billboard nuisance Is making headway in Buf
falo. N. Y.
Tea-pills are now sold. They run 14 to the ounce, and each makes a large
cup of tea.
Rosewood is so called because it exhales the fragrance of roses when
freshly cut.
New England makes nearly 60 per cent of the boots and shoes made in
thiß country.
Springfield, Mass., has Just celebrated her fiftieth anniversary as a
municipality.
Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Walsh of Brooklyn has given nearly SBOO,OOO to Catb*
ollc charities.
New Britain. Conn., was the first city in the Nutmeg state to put wires
under ground.
The N»w York Board of Health has established a department for Pasteur
treatment free.
A new railway is to be built from Southern to Western Australia. It will
cost £4,400,000.
The newest schooner is 480 feet long and has seven masts. She is being
built in Boston.
The Brazilian roast city of Bahia has about 200,000 inhabitants, who live
in 17.000 houses.
The golden tiara presented to the Pope from English Roman Catholics
will cost £40,000.
Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Walsh, of Brooklyn, has given nearly SBOO,OOO to
Catholic charities.
Baltimore holds the world's record for negro population. It has 80,000
black inhabitants.
Of the 21,273 people who ascended Mount Pilatus by rail last summer
0,200 were British.
Over 1,000 bunches of grapes have appeared on a vine now growing near
Boren in the Tyrol.
The United States received from Germany during the nineteenth century
5,079.362 immigrants.
Not a pound of all the coal burned in Switzerland is dug within the bor
ders of that country.
No interviews with Count Ix;o Tolstoy or Maxim Gorki may now appear
in the Russian press.
Two hundred and forty-nine European missionary societies keep 13,607
missionaries at work.
A two-thirds majority of the cardinals' conclave is necessary for tho
election of a new Pope.
Prismatic Lake, in the Yellowstone National park, is the largest body of
hot water In the world.
Horses, giraffes, and ostriches have the largest eyes of land animals;
cuttle-fish of sea creatures.
What wns probably the first public library in the United States was started
in Charleston. S. C., in 1749.
The French government has asked two officials to investigate the benefits
and detriments of the trustß.
The father of M. Santos Dumont has an estate on which 9,000 laborers cul
tivate 40.000,000 coffee plants.
The Juneau-Skagway cable has not been used for two months owing to a
break which cannot be located.
Eight million bottles of absinthe are yearly consumed in Paris. This is
double the consumption of 1895.
For breadmaking purposes seven pounds of American flour are said to be
equal to eight pounds of English.
The biggest average fnrm In the world is in South Australia, where the
average squatter holds 78.000 acres.
The most expensive and roomiest railway station In the world is that of
the Peninsular Railroad at Bombay.
The number of ants In a nest varies from 12.293 to 93.694. These figures
are from a recent count of five nests.
There Is a mountain of salt near Carona. In Spain, which contains 500
million tons of almost pure rock-salt.
Modern inks only date from 1798. at which date the researches of Dr.
Lewis in the chemistry of ink began.
Modern inks only date from 1708, at which date the researches of Dr.
Lewis in the chemistry of ink began.
The entire population of Malagn island, off the mouth of the New Meadow
river, Maine, is suffering from measles.
Wakes time Is a fair which occurs every year in each of the groups of
English towns which form the Potteries.
Mme. Isacescu. the Viennese lady swimmer. Is training for another attempt
to swim the English channel this summer.
A banker, who Is a grand-nephew of Mendelssohn, has just paid the record
price of £4.000 for a Straduarius violoncello.
There are no less than 3.262 different species of fish Inhabiting the waters
of America north of the Isthmuß of Panama.
The United States now own nineteen battleships, and comes next to
England in this reßpect. Russia has sixteen.
Denmark’s agricultural capital Is now £l4O for each inhabitant. This is
more than double that In the United Kingdom.
An Eastern city boasts of a man who spent $186.65 for cigars, and by
saving the wrappers secured a sls suit of clothes.
Sweden and Denmark have no soldiers who cannot read and write. In
Russia's army 70 per cent of the men are illiterate.
Seventy thousand cochineal insects go to n single pound of dried cochineal.
The world's crop of cochineal is from 300 to 500 tons.
There are now only about 87.000,000 sheep In Australia. Drought has
reduced the number by a quarter in the past few years.
New York has 250 hotels. London over 500. But New York's hotels will
hold nearly as many people as London’s greater number.
The amount of merchandise transported by rail in «the United States is
double that of all the other nations of the earth together.
In 1889 an Australian stockmen, knngaroo-hunting. picked up an opal.
Since then Australia has exported £420.000 worth of opals.
It Is proposed nt Duluth. Minn., that the local branch of the Salvation
army shall add street cleaning to its many other activities.
Indianapolis now holds the record in rapid hog killing; 3.298 hogs were
recently turned into pork. sausageß. etc., within five hours.
Connecticut pays a bounty of $1 for each fox killed within its borders,
liast year the payments on this account amounted to $1,272.
Salmon-traps are forbidden by law in Canada. Therefore, salmon costs
15 cents apiece In Canada, but only one cent over the border.
The oldest known petroleum-well is that at Zante, one of the lonian
Islands. Oil has been obtained from It for nearly 3,000 years.
While a square dance represents only half a mile of walking or moving,
an average waltz takes dancers over three-quarters of a mile.
A white badger, which Is almost as great a rarity as a white blackbird,
was killed recently by the Axe Vale (England) badger hounds.
In the palm of the hand there are 2.500 pores to the square inch. If these
pores were united end to end they would measure about five miles.
Greenland glaciers average 1,000 feet In thickness, move 50 feet a day, and
discharge into the sea four square miles df ice yearly 1.000 feet thick.
Four thousand foreigners were expelled by the police from France list
year; 1,500 of these were Spaniards, 1,300 Belgians, and 500 Germans.
It will probably be a surprise to learn that Mary is the most popular
name among actresses. Next in number are contractions of Eleanor.
The total number of farms In Alabama is given at 223.220. of which
129.137 are operated by white farmers and 94.083 by colored farmers.
The biggest casting ever ordered was recently made at Chester, Pennsyl
vania. It was for the propeller-Bhaft of n steamer, nrul weighed over 0u
Four railway lines now connect Mexico with the United States. In 1880
there was only one railroad ia Mexico, leading from the capital to Vera Crvz.