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A AILROAD TO FALL CITY I
It is needed.'
We
We can build it.
Who will make a start?
Thf lia. f gn at men all remind us
We can make our lives ublimcr
And parting leave, behind us
Vt (ttpriiits on the sands of titne,
Get in and Swim!
Water is not very
nor deep.
Don't stand on the bank
and shiver. You will
never learn to swim
in that way.
Let us have the survey within four weeks.
The grading done within tour months
and trains running by December
1st, 1891.
lontr Pull!
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i The Great Composite Novel,
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Tha Joint Work of V. T. IIAltNUM,
JOHN U BUM-IVAN, MM. NVK,
KIXA WHKKI.KII WIUOX. Maj.
AIKKI) V, (lAMIOt'N, HOW 10
MUMMKl INSIMXTOH UVHNICH,
PAtl.INK HAI.UMIiw RAHTI.AKK,
W. It. ItAUiOU, NUM. NKUiON
and A LAN ItAI.K.
XI. LENA MAKES A DIHCX)VERY.
B; P. T. BaBNTTV. Iiluitrau4
a coultaus.
by E
(Ooryrlalil All rlxhu rwwmd )
There ooinna a orlaia in tha liroa of
init people when aurrowi cruwd ao thick
and faat that thers U a dreary eatUfao
Hon la the thought that tliintn cannot
be mch woraa."
Bo felt Kdna Crawford, aitting with
bowed head and iliaknn nervra, on the
train that ia lnsirliiu hr onward to the
bedaiile of her dying father. Bhe bitter
ly regreta ever havinK left him, aud tor
tun beraelf with wild piuturee of the
ituTerlnga he may have endured at the
anacrnpnlona hauthi of Dr. Wataon.
So fell Kami rmtrfimt. titling with
wiml Afoif.
For thl man, ao Inextricably enttui
fled with the aormw ami dinKrare thai
araoonneeted with her pant life, alie feela
a deep and rwleutltw loathing. It was
tliroOKh lil ixTeocutloim ahe waa forced
to wave her futhcr'a aide, and renifin
bering tliia, her yonng face wear an ex
ion of inch intrna hatml that i-
attraotathe attrition of theladyoccti
pying the opinwlte chair.
Tula lady hail quietly entered the car
by one door aa Henry Heiiihall, power
lea In the group of Detective Burn, war
ajected thniugh the other.
Hhe waa dreimed In an olalxirato liuht
allk gown, totally inappropriate for trav
eling, and over a dainty little theatre
bnannt waa pinned a heavy dark veil
that completely covered her faoe,
Beneath the veil waa the Uar alalned
oooiiteuaure of Lena Ilnuahull, who had
bean arooaed by the tragic expreaaion of
K-laa Crawford face into thinking there
waa perhapa aoma one elae aa unhappy
aa beraelr.
Two hour before, when Henry IIin-
ahaii ien bia young wire for the punfuit
of hi faat-inatlng ideal, Lena had waii
dered aimleaaly up and down her little
parlor, a prey to bitter meditation. Hick
at heart from brooding over her bus
band' neglect and the thoturht of
lonely and loveleM future, ahe called
Mr. Hinlth and amiounced her inton
Won of paaalng th evening at the thea
tre. At the night of the girl' tear
Italned fac. Mr. Smith wiaely held her
tongue, but the cynical smile that played
atiout her tlnn lip cauaed young Mr.
Henahall to feel for her truated com
panion a audden hot dislike,
When Mr. Hmith left to make ome
preparation for atxMimpanying her Lena
threw herself on th bed in a paroxysm
of bitter weeping. Her thought turned
longingly toward her father, to whom
be bad alwaya gono for advice and yra
pathy, and with the, thought came
the audden determination to go to him
without dejay. She knew that Banker
B Altaian waa then In Chicago on an im
portant financial misaion, and umtnon
tng a bell boy he procured a time table
awl found that with haste she could catch
the 8:80 Chicago express.
Sli thrust a few artiolea into a valise,
and leaving a brief meeange for Mrs.
Smith, to tlie effoct "that ahe had de
cided to- go out alone and not to wait np
for her; the stopped Into a cab and was
oon at tne v nlon depot. Hhe purchased
: her ticket, securing the only remaining
action on the train, and before she had
time to realize the importance of the
step aha liad taken she waa whirling
away en route for Chicago.
Lena waa suddenly brought back to
the oonaeiimtmeaiof her position by the
porter, who waa collecting the compart
ment ttokttt preparatory to making up
the bertha for the night,
Edna, who in the hiwte of her depar
ture had neglected to secure any sleep
ing section, now found that everything
bad been previously engaged and that
the only alternative ti Bitting np all
pight waa an uninviting looking loungo
at the end of tlie car. Mrs, Henahall,
who had been attracted by the girl' de
spairing fuee, stepped forward and of
fered her tlie other berth in her own
compartment.
Edna accepted gratefully and warmly
thanked her unknown companion for
her courtesy.
As she moved from the scat her foot
touched a small, dark object lying on
the floor close to her chair. It was a
leather enrd oaso, stamped with initials
,"H. R. II."
With a view to discovering the owner
Edna opened it, and extracting oue of
the bits of pasteboard read aloud, "Mr,
Henry Rowan Henshall, Now York
city."
"Why, this ninit have been dropped
by the gentleman who spoke to me just
as the train was leaving Sun Francisco,"
she said.
Lena had grown deadly pale. "The
gentleman who spoke to you'r" she ques
tioned faintly.
"Yes," replied Edna hesitatingly, "a.
.11. wn,i. Lti,,.n i,nh..,5i;Ui
tull, blonde gentleman who has followed
me on several previous occasions. This
evening he spoke to ins and I resented
it. A stranger present at the time cam
to my assistance, and in the disturbance
that followed thia card case was proba
bly lost".
Lena Henshall remained silent Crush
ed and humiliated by this proof of bor
husband's duplicity she hud not the
courage to further question her com
panion. Her rove for her husband was the first
grand emotion of her life, and the dis
covery she had just made filled her with
a mad, wild jealousy. When she finally
retired for th night it waa with the
r
knowledge tqat in the berth
Above ner, tiy iu own invitatum, lay
the girl who waa the cauie ul her hua
band'a IndlfTtiretice and probably tha
poawanor of hor huaband'a love.
How limp; ahe toHm about in her
narrow berth, wakeful and mlaerable.
Lena never knew.
Jut aa meniiful altitp wiu cloaing bar
weary eyvllua there cauie a audden jar,
tlion a horrid cranh, a ahriek tliat rent
the air, a blow upon her bead that
made a hldmma glare of light, and then
darknoM atwoltite and blmaed nnoon
tdonimeaa.
Tlie paper of ilia following day wen
fllli-d with the ghaatly dutoila of the
awful railway aH.'idmt near U .
The imnun of the aurviving t)!iiwm
gin. tiiRotln-r with a lit of the killed
and wouudud, were pnliliiihed, but the
name of Edna Crawford, aliue Luulat-
Neville, diil not apw-ar in any of theat
uroiiTiti. nor did the atrictcet and mOMt
diligent inquiriea thrnw nnv light on th
oninpli'te and uiyHterioui uiaappeafaaor
or inu young woman.
(C nitlnnvd next week.)
AN OLD TIME INDIAN TERROR.
A Ael India Wha far Tea Vaar Ta
rvrlaad the Settler, af Arlaaaa.
They were talking about Indian out
break when ona of the party, who had
been for many year a resident of All'
ton territory, remarked:
I tell you, gentlemen, that thia Indian
businea ia pretty aerion. . Why, down
in Ariaona w. lived for ftfte n year in a
state of terror on account of a maraud
ing band of Apache that had thing
pretty much their own way all thia time.
in kplto of all tlie government troop.
conld do to keep them In check.
1 call to mind particularly Old Vic
torto. There waa a warrior for yon. He
commanded a band of aoma SOU backs.
They were the Chiracahna Apaches, and
the murdera, rubberiea and depredation!
committed by that band during thoae
ten year In which they were on 1
warpath are almost Incredible.
Old Victorio wa nearly 90 year, of
age when tha trouble began. II mled
thoae mlakin with a rod of iron m
pile of hi year. And he was para-
lyted, too, completely paralysed. He
was only able to use hi left arm a little,
just enough to lift a cigaretU to hi
month.
Ue wa constantly in tha aaddla, and
bad to be strapped on like a bale of
good. Ilia band bad the finest ponie
to be found anywhere. They would
sometime appear at one plaoa, and in
less than twenty-four hour yon would
hear of them ome place 100 mile dis
tant. All throughout southern Arixona
aud northern Mexico old Victorio con
tinued bis raids until th settler finally
gave up in despair. The government
troop appeared to b. utterly Mwnrk
in uic matter.
Why, that band of redekina would
sometime plunder a wagon train right
under the noara of th. trooper, and by
the time th. latter were mounted and
ready to start in pursuit they would be
out of Right The next day, perhapa, the
wire would tell of lorn fresh depred.
uon committed oy toe am. band in a
section of tlie country over 100 mile
away.
i ma old war aog, However, wa
Anally rounded np and shot H. died in
the saddle, fighting to th last, and hi
band, what wa left of it, diaperaed. Of
course the settler beard of it and were
delighted. Dismay followed, however,
when Cochise took the field, Thi In
dian ran thing pretty much the same
way for five year, and then oame old
Oeronimo. New York Herald.
Ska Bad to Waah tha rite,
A curioua case of special interest to
elderly apiuatera and levers of bona pets
I shortly to come befor the Berlin
court. A yonng woman was engagad a
companion to an old lady at stated wag,
but ran away from her place two day.
after entering aervice.
Her mistress procured her arreat under
the law that a servant must give du. no
vice before leaving her situation, bnt th
police, afur hearing the girl' statement,
told tlie lady that she conld not compel
the girl to return, and could only claim
dumagea in the civil court.
For the girl stated, and her statement
hava been proved true, that on entering
the lady' flat four immense dog jump
ed at her, although they did not do her
any harm. In the next room another
big dog, with a litter of pups, met her
gaze, while the third room wa tenanted
by at lvaet three dozen different varieties
of birds.
The kitchen of the old lady wa given
over to cats, and the girl a deeping room
was converted into a temporary hospital
for invalid meipber of the animal world.
"Tlie old lady," said th. girl, "wa
very kind to me, but as my duties con
sisted In waehlng all the dogs daily, and
1 had to share my bed with half a doaen
dogs and cats, I was obliged to ran away
to avoid sicknees," London Telegraph.
An Immanea Shark.
While native fishermen were out Ash
ing with nets at Waialua, on th. othe,
side of Otthu, a mouster shark got en
tniigled in one of the nets and wa
hauled ashore on the beach. Almost the
whole village went down and killed the
monster with axe. The shark meas
ured eighteen feet in length, When cut
tip into piece tw. good sised turtles,
one of which was still living, wen fonnd
in the stomach. The turtle measured
eighteen inches across. Other thing of
a varied nature were also found in the
stomach. The jawbones were brought
to Honolulu by tlie steamer C. R. Bishop
and placed on exhibition. The jaw
have seven rows of teeth and measure
r.wAnt.r-r.wn inc-hps a-han fnllc ATTAtirlMV
The natives Btated that th. mate of the '
dead shark managed to escape. Hono
lulu Times.
Tha Alaskan Turkl.h Bath.
The Alaskans, as a rule, are not par
ticularly found of bathing, but some of
thorn like occasionally to indulge in a
sort of Turkish bath of a primitive char
acter. For thi purpose a number of
long sticks are driven into the ground in
a circle four feet in diameter, being
iLmamhm, .1 . .1 1 . : .l
nXTtZ n A.n
P"1"' 8,x twit f mm the bottom. Aitnall
fir. of wood, with stones, is lighted in
the middle, and the heat is kept in with
blankets spread over the framework.
When only the cinders are left, and the
(tones are well heated, the bather take
a seat inside and proceed to perspire,-
Washington Star,
A Dry aerator..
"Bring your umbrella," called Mrs.
Brinkley to her husband, the other Sun
day, as she waited at the door for hint
to go to church. '
"Who's going to preachf" he oalled
back from upstairs.
"Our regular preacher.
"latnataoi' weiiv i gues we won t i
need an umbrella. Texaa Sifting.
UUUNO FOR LIFE.
titt
SHIPWRECKED CREW'S VAIN
FORTS TO REACH LAND.
EC-
The Mas Prawaid aa the aVaaky Bhaae
island Wllhla Tea feat af Terra
Virata A Vivid Yxaerlatlaa af aa
Awfal asaim.
William H. Bum, an ey witness of
th wracking of the thro masted schoo
ner A. H. Horrtmrt, of Olciooartsr, tells
a thrilling tory of the battle of th ves
)' crew for Ufa. She wa trying to
make Newport for a' harbor, bnt, being
nnabUto accomplish this, dropped an
chor at noon shout a quarter of a mil.
off sh or. 8b. dragged her anchor and
struck Black Foist (boot 4 o'clock, and
In twenty minute was kindling wood.
Th crew consisted of six man. Three
war drowned, including th. captain,
and three were aved. Every man of
then wa on th rocks at oa. time, and
th. captain and steward war. swept
away whan but flv. fast from shore. It
was an awful strnggl. for lif. between
the aii men and th. merciless water.
Burns tell the story thai;
Black Point, wher th. vessel struck, is
thre mile south of th Casino, if is a
mat of rock which jute boldly from th
hor. but descend into a sharp pointed
reef with jagged protruding edge at it
farther point It i not one solid body,
for th action of tb ware ha worn
wid and deep crevice in it where the
watar frifTiia in rvvili On fm nnrll, mi Am I
it form a ort of cova, where th. sea in
a gal ha full weep,
I hav. charge of th. cottage of & a
Rogers, of Buffalo, when I liv. with
my family, and which is about a quarter
of a mile from black Foiat on th. bluff.
I wa informed about twenty minute to
t by Ham Kiaaouth, who live near bv
that a schooner was going on the point
H immediately rushed out and wa on
th bluff about fifty yard from the rock
when th. acbooMr, drifting broadside
on, struck. Tha wind wa. blowing
sixty mile an hour and the sleet and
bail cut into th. face like needle.
wftacKKo ar waves.
I wa quickly on the shore. Th. ves
sel waa scarcely 100 feet away, and waa
right on top of th sharp rock, which
were exposed by each receding wave.
Tb men were plainly visible, huddled
together, banging on to the houae at the
(torn of tb. schooner. At five minutes
to 1 fifteen minute after ah. struck.
u. miuentnaat toppled over with
crash that was beard above the other
noises, and th. mainmast and th. fore
mast quickly followed. As the fore
mast Went over tb aid. th. vessel snlit
in u middle, and the cake of to with
which h was loaded cam. pouring .ut
A tn vessel parted th. mm jumped
for th rocks. They all landed. Young
Lawrence, a mere boy, only 18 years
old, wa tb. last to jump. H. never
reached th. (hor. Th. mate. John
Rooney, a quickly a h. could, threw
off hi boot and overcoat Hi fore
thought aaved hi Ufa. Th. captain, the
mate and th. steward, Frank Ham
mond, kept together. While Bernard
Weber and another seaman named
Kan tried to work their way over to
ward th. sooth end of th. reef, the
others went straight ahead and more
toward th. north aide, wher. th. tea had
fall sweep.
I had run down to th. chore while
Kistouth had gem after another man
named Rowley. When they got to the
seen. th. vessel was In piece and the
men trugglfog for their lives. 1 sta
tioned myself toward the south tide, and
beckoned and gesticulated for the men
to com that way. I yelled also, bnt J
could hardly hear my own voice. The
group of thre. and the yonng tailor,
however, kept right on. The ea wa
dashing over th. rock with terrific
force, every wave completely submerg
ing them. Th. hole, and crevice were
filled with water, and through thee the
men waded or swam, clinging to tb
roexweed or th. slippery rocks as each
Wvt struck them.
WABHKD AWAT.
Young Lawrence had arareely covered
twenty-fir. feet of tae distance when a
wav. (truck him and h. disappeared.
He was th. last to leave th. vessel and
the first to drown. Kissouth and Row
lay bad now arrived, and Weber and
Lund, who had crawled and swam in,
were hauled ashore, while I ran over to
the other side, toward which the cap
tain, mate and steward were struggling.
Tb mat. had caught hold of a cake of
ice and waa endeavoring to keep afloat
on it but soon let go.
It was only flv. minute nnoe they
had left th. abip, but it seemed an aire
to th. men on ahore who were watching
the brave struggles of the unfortunate'
sailor. Inch by inch they fought their!
way along the treacherous, slippery i
rock, holding on for their live in the
crevices and by the weeds when the big
breaker dashed over them. As the
waves receded 1 would rush down the
slippery rock on which I stood in the
rain hope that they would get near
nough for me to seise them. Th. min
utes seemed like hours, but still the men
held on.
Now they are within ten fori, bnt an
other wav. breaks over them. If 1 had
had a ten foot rope I would Lav. saved
them all. The suspense waa awful as
th men, with their drawn faces and
shut teeth, held on and looked toward
th. refuge ao near them. v Now the wave
uoat tuom. nu. .uo were
A strong effort and they
goes back.
are safe. They press forward; are al
most there, only five feet more, when a
monster roller bigger than the others
strike them. It tear their weak grasp
from the rooks and buries' them out of
1 but. ' He, divested
of his coat and boots, has a better chance
than th. others, and aa the waves go
back he lies straggling almost at my
bet It ia bnt th. work of a moment to
seize him and drag him safely on the
rock.
Th. others were washed' up on the
shingle amid the driftwood of the vessel
the next day. The steward' body wa
entirely (tripped of clothing, hi skull
smashed in and hi calp torn off.
Providehoe Journal.
A Startling CompaHsan.
Recent statistics show that French
railways annually kill one person out of
each 8,000,000 carried, while in England
81,000,000 are carried before one meets a
violent death in a railway accident
French railways' annually wound one
passenger out of each 600,000 carried;
English, one in each 750,000; Belgium,
an in each 1,850,000, and Prussia only
one in each 4,000,000. St Louis Repub
lic Warn Ttaiin That '
Dollcy Did she say you hay, old man f
Uoslin She wasn't so considerate as
that. She used a "plain aud emphatio
"no," Jiuneey's weekly,
.
I . ' aaaad ia Oeeaa Trael. "
"The great drawback," said Mr. Rich
ard, one of the agents of tbs Hamburg
American Packet company, "to crossing
the ocean quicker than we do at present
is th ajrpense of coal. More powerful
engine conld be built which would in
crease the speed, but these engines would
require so much more coal, Th. (team
r of the Hamburg-American Packet
company now consume about 210 to 2S0
ton of coal a day; if 850 ton were
needed daily, these steamers would be
run at a lorn, for, betide th cost of and
th. valuable space required for the addi
tional 100 or so tons of coal, mora en
gineers, more stokers, etc, would be
needed. Bnt if w. went to aa unlimited
expense for the moat powerful engine
in th. world the gain of time in crossing
tlie ocean would not be more than eight
or ten hour, o long a coal is used. -
"I hav. great faith, however, in elec
tricity some day or other taking the
place of coal for the propulsion of ocean '
steamers, and when that ia brought
about they will be run much cheaper.
The weight of the coal doe not make
the steamer ilower; that ha nothing to
do with it Sometime a weighted
ttoamer goe faster than on. that 1 not
weighted, all depending upon the wind
and weather.
"Steamers can never go a quick a
locomotive, because they hav. to con
tend against water and air, whereas th.
railroad car have only air aa a resist
ance. Assuming tha maximum speed of
a locomotive to be about sixty mile an
hour over short distances, it may be said
I that it goes three time as rapidly as a
Kiur, aiuougn we average time maue
by th. faateet limited express train is
only twice the average time mad. by a
fast steamer." Epoch.
The KUUa Will Touch for Thia. .
One th. seventh floor of the St Cathe
rine flats, at Fifty-third street and Madi
on avenue, a particularly pretty Mal
tose kitten has the good fortune to live. -
Her favorite snoozing place i on the
eat of one of the window overlooking
the court yard. Thi window happened
to be open for a few minute the other
morning, and the kitten, quite carried
away by the novelty of the idea, stepped
out upon the window ledge to take a
cat' eye view of the yard below and the
curronnding country generally.
An instant later her paws lippi
from under her upon a piece of ice and
over she went She fell a trifle of some
six (tories and then landed feet fore
mart just upon the extreme edge of the
roof of one of the outbuilding. But so
terrific was the force with which she
landed there that she bounced from off
the roof like a rubber ball, and after
this instant's respite continued on her
headlong journey toward the ground.
Sbe landed on her feet again, shook
herself for a moment just to see that
she was all there, and then giving vent
to a faint yowl of triumph, as one would '"'
ay, "How' that for highr picked her
way toward the houae again with a de
lightful air of nonchalance and totally
oblivions to the fact that she has only
eight live left to her credit New York
Evening Sun.
Maehlna far Shaping and Boring Post Arm
An ingenious machine is used in Ens-
land for preparing telegraph post arms.
These arms are usually made from the
beet selected English oak, and vary in
length from two feet to four feet They
are in the first case planed on the four,
aides by mean of a special planing ma
chine, and then sawed to the exact
length required by mean of a double
cross cnt sawing machine made specially
tor the purpose. The arms are then
passed on to the shaping machine, which
rapidly and effectively doe its work.
The machine is quite self contained, and
has the driving shaft placed overhead and
supported upon standards fixed to the
main bed. The arrangement for deal
ing with the various length of anus
have been carefully worked out At tha
official test of the machine the wooden '
arms were finished at the rate of three
per minute. New York Commercial Ad
vertiser, Enoch'a Claaataeatlon.
Dr. Van Dykes told this story: I am
reminded of a preacher who preached
from the text "And Enoch was not"
He went on to explain that this text was
incomplete. "Now, brethren," said be,
"yon may not know in what way Enoch
was not To find this out, we must ex
amine the text carefully in the light of
the context Firstly, Enoch was not an
Episcopalian, because he 'walked' with
God and did not danoe. He was not a
Baptist because be 'walked' with God
and did not swim. He was not a Pres-
ovtenan. oecause tne context tell ns
that he walked with Ood at all. juid ha
was not a Methodist, because we are
plainly told that God took him." New
York Sun.
Are tha Eyei Ever Safe
Beware of the electric light This ia
I a warning sonnded by a correspondent,
; and a warning that should be heeded.,
I The use of the incandescent lamp is apt
I to be highly injurious to the eyes if pre-
cautions are not taken with regard to
I shade or globes. Plain or cnt glass is
particularly noxious. In all cases the
little illuminator should be sbsded with
a green or thick white shade, and the
glass should be frosted. It is said that a
number of men in the clubs are suffer- '
ing with sore eyes, entirely due to the '
, , ,.- ... ,,,,,,
SSSTt ,n toe cWh Uhto-
Jaet like Hla Bnaelan Brother.
The sultan very rarely or never leave
the ground of Yildis Kiosk, except to
go once a week to a mosque just outside,
when the very striking ceremony knpwn
aa the Selamlick takes place. Once a
year, also, he pay a visit to Stamboul, ;
but the route there and returning is .
never known in advance. He is in con
stent fear of assassination. Some grand
duchess whom he received at his court,
on his complaining that his health was
indifferent advised him to take more
exercise and change of air, and to drive
about the country. On her departure he
is reported to have said: "What harm
have I done th&t this woman should de
sire my death? Why does Bhe advise me
to run into Mich dangers?" Nineteenth
Century. '
A Wedding Cake Deflected.
"I had some wedding cake today ui
der Very distressing circumstances," Baid '
a postal clerk. "At the poatofbee a pack
age had been received containing a heavy ,
invoice of this style of fancy goods. It
was nearly six inches square and had
sixteen cents in postage stamps, but not
a ign of an address. There was no help
for it. The owner couldn't be found,
and rather than let the cake go to waste
it waa distributed judiciously among a .
few friends. Of course everybody was
sorry, bat the state of things might have
been worse." Buffalo Express.