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HIGHLAND
RECORDER
VOL. XXIV.
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA.. JUNE 20. 1902,
NO. 21
THE-nYSTERT- Of TME
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Florence Warden,
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(Copyright, ISM. bf Bsbert Bonner's Sons.]
CHArTER VI.
f Continued.
The young man had been much dis
appointed that the first night of hi
stay under the roof of the Blue Liol
had passed off uneventfully. The sec
ond, however, fully mr.dc up for thi
lack of excitement. So fearful was h
of missing a possible vicltor by ovei
sleeping himself, that he never closet
lils eyes at all; and he was rewardei
for his vigilance when, between twi
and three o'clock, he heard a 6ligti
noise at his door, and a moment late
saw dimly that there was a flgun
moving in his room.
He held his breath while the intmd
er went softly toward the head of tin
bed, making no noise, feeling about
stooping, searching. At last, when thi
?san, which could now be discemet
as that of a woman, reached his
clothes and begau hunting In them, thi
amateur detective, allowing his ex
citemeut to get the better of him, sa
up In bed, making, In doing so, jus
noise to arouse the attention of tin
watchful thief. The next moment sh<
had darted across the room, and eu
at the door. But the young man, be
lng prepared for such a contingency at
this, sprang out of bed half-dressed
and dashed out on to the landing li
pursuit The woman had got the star
of him, and was by this time half-waj
up the attic staircase. He followet
her, saw her open the door of tin
room on the right and close lt. Ht
heard the key turn in the lock. With
out a second's hesitation, he flung him
self with all his strength against th'
door. It shook, lt creaked; anothe
such blow and the rickety old frame
work would give way. Just as h
hurled his weight against the door fo
the second time, however, he hean
the unmistakable sound of the throw
lng open of the window of the room.
The next Instant the door gave wa;
under the force of his blows, and h
dashed into the room just In time t
see a head disappear behind the sill o
the open wjndow.
Hashing through the room wlthou
a moment's hesitation, the young fe!
low reached the window, and lookei
out. There was the sloping roof o
an outhouse underneath, and althougl
he could see no one, he flung himsel
out, slid down the tiles and foum
himself precipitated quickly If no
very gently to the ground. Then h
saw a dim something moving ty iron
of him, under the trees, and he fol
lowed.
The shadowy something paused. 1
cry escaped him, a low cry of triumpL
as he found that he was gaining 01
the creature he was pursuing. Bu
the next moment he uttered a cry of i
different sort, and a much louder ont
as he found himself precipitated wit!
great suddenness into a bath of ice
cold water.
Not being acquainted with the geog
raphy of the place he had walke
straight into the little river. Cries am
shouts quickly brought him assistance
for the landlord, who had been al
ready awakened by the hammering ii
of the upstairs door, came out in hi
night-shirt and rescued him with t
boat-hook.
"The thief!" sputtered the amateu
detective with chattering teeth. "Thi
thief; I've found her out! I've fount
her!"
"What thief?" said Claris, surlily
as he dragged the shivering man to
wards the back-door of the Inn wit!
no gentle hand. "Who do you meal
by thief, you addle-Dated rascal?"
"You'll see, you'll see to-morrow,'
replied the other, undaunted, not heed
lng his own pitiful plight In his ex
citemeut. "Whose is the bedroom up
stairs at the back on the right?"
"That's my niece's roo .," said Clar
ls, sullenly, "and If you dare to saj
that she had anything to do with youl
fool's outing; to-night, I'll shake sud
brains as you've got out of yer!"
"Well, you may, and welcome, il
you don't find that she's left her roon:
and got away by the window. Ah!'
he stopped short suddenly in the mid
die of the cabbage garden, through
which they were walking, and pointed
to a white figure which was stealing
Its way Into the house: "Is that your
niece, or is lt not?" roared the young
man excitedly, as he pointed with a
shaking finger in the direction of the
disappearing woman.
For answer George Claris sprang
forward, and seized the girl's wrist
Just as she reached the shelter of the
doorway.
"Nell!" cried the man, in tones so
hoarse, so terrible that they sounded
like those oi a stranger. "Tell me,
lass, what were you doing out there?"
But the girl only stammered and
shook, and he waited in vain for au
answer.
CHAPTER VII.
If ever guilt was written on a hu?
man face surely it was written on that
of Nell Claris when, seized roughly by
her uncle, she stood shaking and stam?
mering in his grasp, just inside the
back door of the inn.
So thought Jack Lowndes, the friend
whom Otto Conybeare had seut down
In tiie capacity of amateur detective,
as he stood shivering, dripping, with
chattering teeth and starting eyes, be?
fore her.
"What were you doing out there,
lass? What were you dolug out there
at this time o' night?" roared her un?
cle, with an earnestness which con?
vinced Lowndes of his Innocence of
the attempt at theft.
"I?came out?to see?what was the
matter!" stammered the girl, whose
voice was weak and tremulous. "I
I-?"
Her uncle stared fixedly at her, as
If a doubt of her had begun to darkeju
even his mind. It was in a different
tone, almost apologetically, that he
turned to the stranger. "Well, and
that's i reasonable answer enough,
surely! For I'm sure by the noise you
made, lt might ha' been tho parish
church afire!"
But the shivering man was begin?
ning to feel that dry clothes and a fir*
outweighed everything else in his
mind.
"Let me get inside," stammered lie,
"aud when I'm dry again, I'll talk to
you.M
But this speech caused Claris to look
at him with more attention, and he
then perceived that Lowndes was
dressed.
"There's something to be explained
here!" he exclaimed, with sudden sus?
picion "You haven't been to bed.
Who are you?" he asked, In a different
tone, barring the entrance to the house
with his burly person. "Who are
you? And what did you come here
for? Now, out with it! Were you
sent he*"* to lay traps for honest folks?
Speak out. man, or back you shall go
Into the river again!"
And Claris seized the unfortunate
Lowndes in his powerful grasp and
forced him backward in the direction
of the little river.
By tjals time Nell had partly recov?
ered her composure. She now spoke
to her uncle In a calmer voice.
"Let him come in, Uncle George,"
Bhe said. "Let him come in and
change his wet clothes. And then
make him give an accouut of himself,
If he can."
With apparent reluctance the Inn?
keeper took his niece's advice, led
Lowndes up to his room as if he had
been a prisoner, locked him in, and
kept watch outside the door until he
was ready.
Jack Lowndes could hear the uucle
and niece In whispered conversation
on the landing, and murmured some
Imprecations against the "artful little
hussy," as he detected by tho rising
anger in George Claris's tones the fact
that the girl was "working him up."
A thundering knock at his door,
which threatened to bring it down as
easily as Lowndes himself had brought
down the door of the upstairs room,
warned him that it was time for him
to come out and face the Indignant
pair.
"Now, sir," roared Claris, barely
leaving Lowndes the time to get down
stairs before beginning his attack,
"what ljpve you to say for yourself?
It seems you had the - impudence
to batter In the door of my niece's
room, and that you went flying out
through the window like a madman.
Now, what have you to say for your?
self? Do you remember anything
about lt, or not?"
And George Claris, who had lit a
candle, the pale rays of which looked
sickly In the struggling light of the
dawn, peered curiously into the hag?
gard face of Jack Lowndes.
"Remember? Of course I remember.
How should I kuow it was your
niece's room? I only came into the
house last night for the first time. I
followed the woman and she went tn
there. She turned the key in the
lock, so I had to burst lt open."
As he mentioned the word "woman"
a cry burst from Nell's lips, a cry so
piteous that Lowndes turned to look
at her, and was struck with bewilder?
ment. Believing thoroughly In her
guilt as he did, having come down as
he had come to unmask her, he was
at that moment converted to an abso
iute_bellef in her innocence. And yet
he could "not have explained now lt
was that the sight of her face, the
sound of her voice as she uttered the
cry, had this instantaneous and de?
cided effect upon him. So deeply ab?
sorbed Was he in contemplation of this
new aspect of the matter that at first
he did not hear, or did not heed, the
Innkeeper's next words.
"Woman! What woman You said
nothing about a woman."
"I don't know myself what woman
lt was," answered Lownde*, in a tone
in which a change to doubt and hesi?
tancy could be detected. "But some
woman came into my room in the
night"?George Claris moved impa
tiently. "I don't say I was unpre?
pared f!>r this, but I can swear that
she came, and when she took up my
clothes and I heard the chink of the
loose money in my pockets I started
up, and she ran out of the room. I
was not unprepared, as I say, and I
ran after her, saw her go into the
back room at the top, heard her lock
lt, burst it in, and saw her getting out
of the window just as I got into the
room. I got out after her, saw her
once more wheu I got to the ground,
aud the next thing I knew was that I
was in the water."
"Well, it sobered you, at any rate,"
said George Claris, shortly. "And
now there's nothing left to do but to
tell us how much money she took,
Don't be bashful; make it a hundred,
or say two. We've been bled before;
no doubt we can stand bleeding
again."
There soemed to Lowndes to ito
something pathetic in the rough ironj
of the man's tone; he began to feel
heartily sorry and ashamed that he
had allowed himself to be persuaded
into this adventure. The pretty, pale
girl, standing mute behind her uncle:
the uncle himself with the dull per?
plexity in his eyes, seemed to him Id
the ghostly light of the early Morning
so utterly broken down, so bewildered,
so miserable, that he wanted to slink
away without exchanging a further
word with them. But this, of course,
was out of the question.
"I have had nothing taken," he said,
hurriedly. "Nothing whatever."
"You think thc woman was maybe
ouly taking a look round by way ol
passing the time?" suggested Claris,
still in the same grim tone.
Lowndes was silent.
"And, pray, if I may make so bold,"
went on the lukeeper, in a threatening
.tone, after a few minutes' pause.
"what was she like, this woman?"
"I couldn't see. It was dark, you
know."
"But you're sure it was a woman, ol
course?"
There was, perhaps, a note of Inter?
est in Claris's irony this time.
"Yes," answered Lowndes, with a
little more decision, "I am sure of that.
She moved like a woman, and had a^
woman's head and n woman's skirts
I saw her head as she got out of the
window. I saw her skirts moving
about before me when I got down to
the ground."
"And that's all you've got to say?
Now, Nell, tell us what you saw."
And he turned triumphantly to his
niece.
Nell was standing opposite the win?
dow, and the gray light of the morn?
ing came over the top of the shutters
full on her face. It was white, weary,
and there were dark lines under the
eyes, which were heavy and lusterless.
Every word she uttered bore?so the
young man thought?an odd stamp as
of trut.li and sincerity.
"I woke up suddeuly, hearing a loud
noise. I saw the door fall in and
some one rush through and get out of
Lhe window. I sprang up and looked
out, and saw this gentlemau sliding
down from the roof of the outhouse on
to the ground."
"I didn't see you," interrupted
Lowndes, sharply, with another doubt.
"You did not look up," replied the
girl, with composure. "You ran away
through the garden to the right. I
dressed quickly, and ran downstairs
and out by the back door to seo what
was the matter. When I got out you
had scrambled up the bauk and were
talking to my uncle."
Lowndes said nothing; there was
nothing to say. But, although it ls
true that he had not given much at?
tention wheu ho burst into the upper
room to anything but the window and
tiie escaping figure, he felt convinced
that if there had been a person in bed
in the room he should have seen her,
or heard some cry, some word, to indi?
cate her presence.
"Now, you've heard another story.
And, begging your pardon, I'd sooner
take her -word than yours."
"But," suggested Lowndes in a con?
ciliatory tone, "do the two stories con?
tradict each other? All this young
lady says is that she did not see the
woman pass through her room."
* "No, nor any one else, either," burst
out George Claris, as if his patience
was at last exhausted. "An' look here
?I won't stand no man coming down
here to spy about, aud taking fancies
mto his head, and breaking into the
rooms of my house?not for nobody,
and so, sir, you can just go up stairs
and pack your portmanteau and clear
out between this and breakfast time. )
Not an rt thor bit, nor drop.will you be
served with under my roof. And you
may just tell the three young scoun?
drels that sent you that whatever they
likes to call themselves they're no
gentlemen. I?I know them, you see.
I know you were put up to this by
Jordan, King and Co."
"Uncle! uncle! No; Mr. King never
sent him. I will answer for that!"
And Nell's face became suddenly
crimson with a blush that betrayed
her secret.
Lowndes was touched.
"You're right," he said to her, very
simply. "Mr. King knew nothing
about my coming." He turned to
Claris. "Let me have my bill," he
said, "I will go at once."
And the young maD, ashamed of his
0A\?n action, but more perplexed every
moment, as he considered, frqro every
ooint of view, his singular adventure,
left the Blue Lion within tbeTBeil
twenty minutes, and returned to town
to relate his experience to Otto Cony*
beare and Willie Jordan.
To be Continued. I
Wita Old Goat. - ?" '
Farmer Wainwright of Cascade hai
a pet goat and a pet puppy that ara
great friends. Together they ramble
through the neighborhood during tua
goat's spare moments, when there aro
no oyster cans, door scrapers and
other edibles for lt to nibble.
The singular behavior of the goat
Sunday afternoon attracted the atten?
tion of the farmers. It ran to and
fro, bleating piteously and seemed
half distracted. Some ono suggested
that the animal should be followed.
The goat seemed to appreciate the
fact that lt was understood, and led
the way to the rear of the yard where
the puppy was found in a pit ten feet
deep, almost In its last Btruggles.
The puppy was rescued and resTored
to the goat, which greeted lt with
fond caresses and bleated Its thanks to
the rescuers.?Susquehanna, Pa. Cor?
respondence New York Sun.
DEWEY TO COMMAND
NAVAL EVOLUTIONS
He Will Go to Sea at the iiead of
Great Fleet.
FOUR REAR.ADMIRALS UNDER HIM.
President Roosevelt Will Ile tbe First Presi?
dent to Qo So Far Beyond thc Geographical
Boundaries of the Country and Also the Only
President Who Ever Has Visited Foreign
Waters While in Office for Any Purpose.
Washington, D. C., (Special).?Ad?
miral Dewey is to go to sea again, flying
his flag with the four stars, in command
of thc greatest fleet in numbers the
United States has gotten together since
the days of the Civil War, and far more
powerful in offense and defense even
than any of those war fleets. Secretary
Moody has conceived the idea, and after
consulting the pleasure of Admiral Dew?
ey, it has been arranged that he shall be
placed in supreme command of the fleet
(comprising the North Atlantic, thc
European and the South Atlantic squad?
rons), which is to assemble near Cule
bra Island in the West Indies, next De?
cember for the winter maneuvers.
Secretary Moody himself desires to
witness these maneuvers, and it is even
possible that the President may find
time to make a voyage to the South to
see the big ironclads in war movements.
Admiral Dewey goes gladly to his work.
It is settled that Secretary Moody will
witness the summer movements of the
North Atlantic Squadron, involving
combined naval and army attack on and
defense of the eastern approaches to
New York city. It is expected that he
will board thc Dolphin for the purpose,
and he has invited as his guests Sena?
tor Hale, chairman of the Senate Naval
Committee; Representative Cannon,
chairman of the House Appropriations
Committee, and Representative Toss,
chairman of the House Naval Commit?
tee. There will be other guests than
these, but Secretary Moody has not yet
announced their names.
GIRLS JUMPED TO SAFETY.
Nearly Four Hundred Employes of Factory
Driven to the Windows.
Philadelphia, (Special).?Fire de?
stroyed the novelty leather factory of
II. M. Rosenblatt & Co., a four-story
brick structure at Second and Oxford
streets, and resulted in severe injuries to
a dozen persons. The John Moffet Pub?
lic School, opposite the leather works,
was damaged, three dwelling houses ad?
joining the factory were destroyed, and
nine others were slightly damaged. Thc
rapid spread of the flames gave rise to
rumors that a number of the employes
had met death in the burning factory, but
these reports proved to be erroneous.
There were many sensational and nar?
row escapes, most of the 400 men and
women employed in the factory saving
their lives by leaping from the windows
into nets held by firemen.
The fire originated in a small annex
known as the celluloid room. It is be?
lieved a spark from crossed electric wires
fell into a quantity of celluloid. The fire
caused a panic among the employes, es?
pecially those on the upper floors, and
for a time the wildest excitement pre?
vailed. Firemen and policemen, how?
ever, prevented the panic-stricken work?
ers from leaping until nets had been
spread to receive them.
Mr. Rosenblatt estimates his loss at
$150,000, partly covered by insurance, and
the loss on the other properties is esti?
mated at $15,000.
STRANGLED HERSELF WITH HER GARTER
A Woman's Suicide Under Singular Circum?
stances at a Sanitarium.
Galesburg, 111., (Special).?Miss Han?
nah Hall, aged 45 years, of Bradford,
III., committed suicide at the Galesburg
Sanitarium under singular circum?
stances. When she came here for treat?
ment she brooded over the mental con?
dition of her mother, who had been sent
to an asylum, and feared she herself
would become demented. This so prayed
on her that she made an attempt at sui?
cide.
The attendants then removed every?
thing which they thought she could in?
jure herself with. In the afternoon,
while they were gone, Miss Hall re?
moved one of her garters. This she
fastened around her neck; one end she
tied to the bedstead; she then threw
herself, face downward, toVard the
floor, causing speedy strangulation.
When discovered she was dead.
The physicians w$re amazed that she
could have held herself in such a posi?
tion and endured the agony.
Suffering In Siberia.
St. Petersburg (By Cable).?The
famine in Siberia is spreading with in?
creasing intensity. Reports from Irkutsk
show that an enormous number of
famine-stricken people are flocking to
that city. They are camped in thc open,
without shelter of any kind, and clad in
rags, and arc dependent entirely on pri?
vate charity, which is quite inadequate
to cope with the distress. Cattle plague
also prevails in the stricken district.-..
Surrenders Continue.
London, (By Cable).?It was an?
nounced here that 864 Transvaal Boers
surrendered yesterday, bringing thc total
of surrenders for all the Colonies up to
about 12,000.
Kilauea ls Active.
Honolulu, (By Cable).?The volcano
Kilauea, on Hawaii, has broken loose
again, according to a report received by
steamer. Flames and smoke are rising
ahove thc crater. The outbreak took
place June 3, and up to the time of thc
last reports from Hawaii, it was still con?
tinuing. Thc outbreak has been fore?
shadowed for many days by an increase
over the normal volume of smoke com?
ing from thc crater. There also have
been slight earthquakes. No eruptions
of lava or ashes have taken place.
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic
A memorial arch was dedicated at
Camp Chase, near Columbus, erected in
honor of 2,500 Confederate dead buried
there. Thc speakers were Governor
Nash and General Gordon.
Oliver Williams, the gypsy whe
eloped from Nansemoncl, Va., with Fan?
ny Smith, was arrested in Emporia, Va
A conversation between two. colored
flagmen was the cause of thc wreck
on the Seaboard at Macon, N. C.
William Collins, colored, aged 5c
years, was nearly cut to pieces with ar
ax by William Dixon, aged 70 years.
Joseph A. Swain, president of Indiana
State University, has accepted thc pres
idencyof Swarthmore.
Blenheim, the home of Dr. B. L. Win?
ston, in Hanover county, Virginia, wa:
destroyed by fire.
The combine plate-glass works of th<
country have agreed to shut down for a
month.
The city of New York will prosecute
corporations to force them to stop using
soft coal.
Counsel for Charles L. Raymond, ol
Boston, asked permission of Vice-Chan
cellor Emery at Newark, N. J., to file
a bill for a preliminary injunction tc
restrain the United States Steel Corpora
tion from retiring $200,000,000 of pre
ferred stock and issuing bonds instead.
The Imperial Glucose and Starch Cum
patty, recently formed to compete wit!
the Glucose Trust, or the Corn Product:
Company, will construct a $3,ooo,cxx
plant near Chicago with a daily capacit)
of 25,000 bushels of corn.
John Wanamaker is reported to Ix
back of a deal in progress in Chicago
for the purchase of the Palmer House
block for thc erection of a gigantic de?
partment store.
The wholesale milliners of Chicago
upon notice of the Audubon Society
agreed to stop thc importation as wei
as the sale of thc plumage of singing
birds.
Lieut. R. C. Croxton. Twenty-third
United States Infantry, attempted to kil!
himself by shooting in Richmond, Va.
where he had gone on sick leave.
Thosvald Hansen, who murdered a
boy in Montreal to get 17 cents, wa;
hanged, tickets of admission being sold
to see the hanging.
Charles W. Reynolds, a pioneer citi?
zen of Newport News, Va., died .there
of a complication of diseases.
Ed Franks, a moonshiner, living in the
mountains of Virginia, shot and killed
Samuel Engle. ?
John Fox, a farmer, of Elbow Lane
Minn., killed his brother, his mother
and himself.
The centennial celebration of the Mili?
tary Academy at West Point closed with
thc presentation of diplomas to the one
hundredth graduating class. The pro?
gram included the presentation of di?
plomas by President Roosevelt and re?
marks by General Miles.
Capt. R. F. Kolb, Henry B. Gray,
George A. Blinn, Jr.. and W. L. Dodd
prominent citizens of Alabama, were in?
dicted by the grand jury of Birming?
ham on charges of embezzlement.
Former Governor General Wood, of
Cuba, in an interview in New York, justi?
fied his course in contributing to a fund
for the distribution of literature favoring
Cuban reciprocity.
Judge Robinson, in the Superior Court
of Waterbury, Ct., decided that the ex?
ecutors of the Plant will might remove
the $17,000,000 trust fund to New York
for distribution.
The United States transport Warren
arrived at San Francisco with a detach?
ment of soldiers, including some of the
fighting Ninth.
* Rhode Island State troops were 'or?
dered to Pawtucket to check the riotous
demonstration growing out of the street
car men's strike.
The Steel Trust filed its answer to the
suit brought to prevent the conversion of
the $200,000,000 of preferred stock into
bonds.
Foreign.
Emperor William favors old-age pen?
sion legislation. He is determined to
make employers in Germany contribute
to the support of their work people
when the latter are old and invalided.
The speech of Sir Frederick Pollock,
of thc University of Oxford, commend?
ing the Monroe Doctine, has caused
widespread comment in England.
Col. Arthur T. Lynch was arraigned
in Bow Street Police Court, in London,
on the charge of high treason, and re?
manded until June SI.
The United States Minister at Pekin
opposes the terms proposed for thc
restoration of Tientsin to the Chinese
government.
Lord Kitchener reports thc surrender
of 1,817 more Boers.
Mail advices from Honolulu state that
the volcano Kilauea. Hawaii, has broken
out. Flame and smoke were issuing
from the crater June 5. There have
been slight earthquake shocks on thc
island.
Fleet Surgeon Anderson, of the Brit?
ish Navy, and a commission of British
scientists arrived at the Island of St.
Vincent to investigate the volcanic out?
break.
King Edward held a special court at
Buckingham Palace to receive addresses
from the Lord Mayor of London and thc
London County Council.
Thc total number of Boers who have
surrendered to date is about 12,000.
George Renwick. a shipowner, testi?
fying before the British Parliamentary
Subsidies Committee, objected to the
government subsidizing the great liners
instead of subsidizing cargoes, and said
the foreign competition he most feared
was the American.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
M. Bussicre, Radical, moved an inter?
pellation of the new government as to
its general policy, and said he hoped it
would introduce measures tending to the
separation of church and state.
The Norwegian bark Atbara, thc Swed?
ish bark Aurora and the German bark
Elisa I-inck were wrecked off East Lon?
don, Cape Colony.
Financial.
Thc American Surety Company has
declared a quarterly dividend of 2 per
cent., payable June 30.
The New York Subtreasury state?
ment shows that the banks have lost
$1,717,000 during thc week.
President Hargrove, of the Indiana
Miners' 1'nion, says there is little chance
of an Indiana coal strike.
A dividend of i]4 per cent, has been
declared on the preferred stock of the
American Iron & Steel Manufacturing
Company, payable July I.
FAR HARWFCQ nivlPaddlo Bora Mexican Mustang Llul
run RH Fl ll COO mont ia just what you new!, lt takes effect
at once, aud you wdl bo astonished to seo how quickly it heals sores.
Ifs this way:
You can burn yourself with Fire, with
Powder, etc, or you can scald yourself
with Steam or J lot Water, but there is
only one proper way to cure a burn or
scald and that is by using
Mexican
Mustang Liniment.
It gives immediate relief. Get a piece of soft old
I linen cloth, saturate it with this liniment and bind
loosely upon the wound* You cnn have no adequate
idea what an excellent remedy this is for a burn uutil
you have tried it.
A Ff!WI TIP If you hnvo a bird afflicted with Rou* or any
rUIII* I l*Tn other poultry disease use Mexican Mustung
Liniment. It iy called a standard remedy by poultry breeders.
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HEROES OP THE RAIL
Sublime Bravery of Two Western Trainmen Savea a
Passenger Train, and Many Lives.
*?0<
From Victor, Col., comes a story of
such a remarkable combination of
heroism, coolness and judgment that
lt is a matter of regret that there does
not exist a national board of award
to decorate the central figures in recog?
nition of their worth as men of nerve
and grit. At Eclipse, ow the Florence
and Cripple Creek Railroad, away up
in the dangerous part of the moun?
tains, where tracks seem to cling by
some miraculous means to the steep,
rugged slopes, a loaded freight car
broke from a train, with Brakeman
Lund on top. He applied the brake,
but the chain broke and down the In?
cline ho went at a frightful speed,
yet bravely staying at his post, with
almost certain death ahead. A sub?
urban passenger train was due to
leave Anaconda at about the same
time. Conductor Dlondy, on an engine,
sped In pursuit of the runaway ear.
As he passed Eclipse station like a
streak of lightning he hurled a mes?
sage, wrapped around a piece of coal,
through the window to the operator.
It was caught and flashed to Anacon?
da just in time to stop the passenger
train, and the engine, with the fear?
less conductor In the cab, whirled on
In the pursuit of life and death.
Those who have traveled in the
mountains of Colorado can imagine
Mexican* Take to English.
The progress that the English lan?
guage has made in Mexico in the last
few years is remarkable, says Modern
Mexico. It has not been long since
French was eaaily the second language
of the country, but today it is effect?
ually replaced by English. Where a
half-dozen years ago only the larger
establishments of those catering par?
ticularly to foreign trade employed
English-speaking clerks, today it is
possible for an American to make his
wants known in his own language in
e^ery store of any importance. The
demand for English newspapers, mag?
azines and books among the better
cleeeef throughout the country has in
oreaaed to a notable extent. So mucb
of the Important business transactions
in Mexico today has an international
Character, and so many English-speak?
ing foreigners are interested in busi?
ness concerns of the country that pro?
fessional men find the language al?
most a necessity in order to secure
I their share of a very profitable part ol
rifee tmalaeti. In the City of Mexlcc
the deadly peril as tho freight car and
engine rounded treacherous curves
with speed undiminished, riding on
one track at times, now apparently go?
ing over the side into some canyon,
now rearing and threatening to bound
up the hillside at some sharp change
in the roadbed. The serpentine track
was followed with a fierce determina?
tion. Just four seconds before Ana?
conda would have been reached the
freight car was overtaken. Leaping
through the window and climbing
around to the pilot, Conductor Blondy
made a hazardous coupling at full
speed. The air brakes were applied.
The runaway was brought to a stop.
The brakeman remained at his post.
The conductor resumed his engine.
The car was taken back up the hill.
Those who sat in the passenger coaches
at Anaconda probably never knew how
near they were to death. The conduc
tor and brakeman? Well, they knew
?yes, but it was a part of their daily
existence. They recognized a duty,
they had the nerve to perform lt, they
had the presence of mind and the grit
and the brawn to make it a suc?
cess.
It was a thrilling incident. It should
be handed down to posterity as an
example of what is possible with a
man who ls equal to the occasion.
the great preparatory school has re?
placed Ijatln by English. It is to bu
taught In a thorough four-years'
course, and will be obligatory.
How to Make a Venetian mimi.
Senator Platt of Connecticut waa
building a house. He had occasion to
hire a carpenter, who was a plain, un?
varnished son of New England.
"You know all about carpenter
work?" asked Senator Platt.
"Yes, slr," was the reply.
"You can make windows, doors, and
blinds?"
"Oh, yes, sir."
"How would you make a Venetian
blind?"
The man thought steadily for sev?
eral minutes. "I think," ho remark*? I
finally, "that I would punch him in tho
eye."
The man who works with only pay?
day in sight is apt to lose even that
A smiling countenance is not always
an evidence of satisfaction.