EUGENE CITY GUARD.
Praprletar.
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
lilt Lat Concert.
One of the most pathetic ot tighia
was that seen in the lJoston musio hall
at the last concert given by Mario, the
once famous tenor. Ho was poor, and
the hall was llllod with persons who
bod been ardent admirers or ;hta won
derful art, and now that he had lost
his art were willing to put money in
Lis nurse.
The tenor tried one of his great
ongs, but his decayed voice refused
to bid the notes. Again he tried, and
strain he failed. Then, with sad
smile, and a slow, mournful move
ment of his head, ho sulTercd the or
r.hAxtra to nlrfv throutrh the air. and
retired from the sin go amid the silence
of the Pitying audience.
Another pathetics story is told of
Bottesini, a famous violinist, concern
in? his last concert at I'urnia:
It was a rain v evening and the man
agers had forgotten to send a carriage
for the veteran, who set out on foot,
and had gono somo distance before a
passing friend perceived him aud made
Lim enter his carriage.
Arrived at the concert room, Bot-
tesini tuned his instrument and began
to rub his bow with rosin. The rosin
crumbled in his hands, and, turning
to his friends Willi a sau null smile,
ho said, "Beo, it is so that Bottesini,
too, will break up."
Then he cra.HDcd his loved instru
ment and drew tlio bow across the
strings, but iiiNtantly stopped with a
wondering look, for ho felt something
strange in ine tone; ihs toucii was au
swered leas readily and certainly than
of old.
Once more he tried, and once more
stopped, this time with a smile, saying
only, "It answers no more." His au
dience perceived nothing unusual in
the performance, which they applaud;
ed as warmly as ever, but Bottesini
aoftmed to feel tho shadow of death.
On the following dujrhe was stricken
with illness, and soon after the won
derful hand was stilled forever.
Youth's Companion.
How Gold King Arc Mad.
Gold rings are made from bars nine
to llfteon inches long. One of these
bars, Ufteen inches long, two inches
wide and 3-16 of an inch thick, is
worth $1,000, and will make 400 four
pennyweight rings. A dozen processes
aud twenty minutes' time are required
to convert this bar into merchantable
rings. First a pair of shears cuts the
bar into strips. Then by the turn of a
wheel a guillotine like blade attached
to the machine cuts the bar into slices,
one, two or three sixteenths of an inch
wide. A rolling machine next presses
out the slices aud makes them either
flat or grooved. Each strip is then
put under a blow pipo aud annealed.
Tho oxide of copper comes to the sur
face and is put into a pickle of sul
phurio acid, after which tho gold is
stamped "11 k," "1(5 k" or "18 k," ac
cording to quality. Next it is put
through a iiiucliine which bends it
into the shnpo of a ring of the size re
quired. The ends are then Boldored
with an alloy of inferior Oneness to
the quality of tho ring. Many people
think that rinirs are molded because
they can't seo whore they are soldered.
The ring spins through the turning
lathe, is rounded, pared and polished,'
first with steel tilings, then with tripoli
aud rouge. Kehobotu Herald.
OLD MAN GILBERT
By ELIZABETH W. BELLAMY,
("EAfcTBA THORPE,")
Author of "Four Oak; "LUtU Joan
na," Kto.
(OofrrtfhtW. All Hithu rsewrol ryUshecl 7
ap-cial amHifsmsutallli lb BaliW Oeniuir.
"Dear! Dear!" dialled Mini Elvira, as
she'shut up Bishop Ken; "I neverwill be
away from home with that clillu again,
unless 1 have (Jlory-Aim."
When supier was over and Missy did
not appeur Mrs. Ilerry demanded, with
visible annotation:
"Why does not Winifred come In?"
Then Lottie told w hat hud happened.
"Except for cutting off her hair, this
behnvior Is nothing out of the way for
Winifred," said Jlins Elvira, placidly. "I
never know what to do with i uch a child,
so I let her alone. I hope she'll grow
wiser as she grows older. I wouldn't
worry about her, Cousin Myrtilla; she
won't come until she chooses."
But Mis. Ilerry could nut reslt a grave
unessiness; she suspected a deeper pur
pose in Miiwy's (light thun mere child's
play, aud she hastened to send her coach
man and her dining room boy to explore
the premises, while two of the women
were dispatched to inquire among the
neighbor.
All this made Miss Elvira suddenly
very nervous, and she liciTon to walk the
floor. wrincin; lier nanus.
It was drawing near to 8 o'clock, and
Mrs. Ilerry was sure, she heard the stage
horn. "I trust Missy may not l run
over," she said to herself, for this seemed
tho most formidable danger that could
threaten the child.
This thought hud not long occurred to
her w hen there was heard a shullling of
liiunv feet on the buck piazza, a murmur
of many voices In suixlucd lament, aim
Larkln, the carriage driver, followed by
every negro on the place, came hurry
ing in, to announce solemnly:
'Soiuetliln' is happened, iniaiis; pro-
par' yo' niln'."
Then tho front gate was heard tosiara;
some one ran up the front steps, rushed
in at the own door, and Mrs. Ilerry was
clasped in her beloved grandson s strong
vouinr arms. He. at least, was safel No
harm had befallen Paul, this glorious
boy of 17, on whom her fond old eyes
rested with proud delight.
Hut this was no moment for rejoicing.
'Something Is happened, dear grand
mother." ctuiit Paul., gravely, before he
stooped to kiss his clamorous brother
and sisters. "Something has happened
to Winifred Tliorne; they are bringing
her in here." '
CHAPTER XX.
WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
Bow She rolled tha Thief.
Borne years ago one of the present
congressman from Now York state and
his brother were examining the stock
of a pawnshop in London with the
hope of picking up some curiosities.
They camo across a necklace of grain
glass beads, which tho Now York man
purchased for (1C0, intending to bring
- it homo to his little daughter. The bro
ther was surprised to tind in the shop
a counterpart of this necklace, which
he brought homo to his little girl.
Two mouths later tho lulter showed
bar gift to a jeweler, who pronounced
the glass beads to bo emeralds, aud
who sold them afterwards for several
thousand dollars. Tho member of con
gress, upon hearing . this, took his
necklace to the sumo dealer, who pro
nounced it to bo composed of glass
beads. The London pawn dealer had
purchased them of a thief, who had
stolen them from a wealthy woman.
The latter kept tho emeralds in a safe,
and wore their glass counterpart. Of
course no one could tell tho ditl'eronce
whou tho necklace encircled her
throat. Exchange.
I Uobslla Tapestry,
"When you hear people talk about
gelling Uobelin tapestry, says U. It
Clifford, of The Upholsterer, "they
usually don't know what tlicy are
talking about The Gobelin works are
iu Frauce, aud are subsidized bv the
government They turu out goods do
signed for state gifts, and the some
goods are not made in Philadelphia,
although as tho manufacturer of tapea
trioa she is tho metropolis of the
world. It is not thut we cannot make
tupestrios as valuable as tho Gobelin,
but who would buy themt No one
could make them without immense
subsidy. Chovreul, tho great ceute
nariau chemist used 1 bo the chemist
of the Gobelin works. They spend a
year in turning out as much of the
article aa could be made in a day or
two at our rute of working. People
frequently talk about Gobelin tapes
try, but they apply the word to some
faucy work done by the women. There
is no manufacturer of it here." Phila
delphia Inquirer.
erlaus Wj of Ilookkeeplng,
The bakers here have a rather orig
inal way of keening accounts which
may be called a kind of bookkeeping
by double entry. When the carrier
deliver! a loaf of bread, which, by the
way, is about live or six feel long, he
is handed a wooden lath about a foot
long by the party to whom he delivers
the bread. From a collection of laths
of the same size one for each customer,
be picks out this particular customer's
one, and placing the two parallel, he
cuts a groove across the face of both.
In the final adjustment of account!
DoUi lallia have to have the same num
ber of notches. Cheap, but ingenious.
--Prollet (Franco) Cor. Bt Louis Post-Dispatch.
Mr. Ppurgeon wss only 10 when he
preached his brut sermon. Even then
bis eloquence was remark at le, and
within a lew years he had gathered
ahout him a large ongriration. At that
H me be wss s pale snd slender stripling,
with a notit)ly Urge head. Hit ro
tundity ol body csuie msny years Ister,
Tinme seer he shrieked. "Fur de
lovo o' heben. tnawsters, dat chile
Mawse Jasper thorne's darter, little Mis
Winifred Thome.
There was a murmur of Incredulity
hut Larkln Insisted, apologetically
"Tubbe sho, hit doan look lak hit, but
bit's so. Hukkom she's in sich a rig; sh
t.jMn nlttvlfi aiirarilsa. Lewd! Lawd! It
r.-j ... .
ha killnd. mawstersr
They lifted Missy from the ground
and carried her into a neighboring drug
atira. where she recovered consciousness,
"I'm Winifred Thome," she said, aud
eaaaved to move, but fainted again
"Any bones brukr Larkln asked anx-
louslv of the doctor bending over nor,
The doctor thought not; but there was
probably serious Injury somewhere; and
Larkln was ordered to return and inform
Mrs. Ilerrv.
PbbI Ilerry had hardly told his grand
mother what he knew of the accident
when Missy was brought In on a litter,
where she Isy, deadly pule, with her eyei
climeil. and moaning piteously
Miss Elvira came and looked at her.
"Oh. Winifred." she lamented, "what
will vour father sav'f"
Hush!" Mrs. Ilerry warned her; but
Missy heard and oiened her eyes.
"I was try in' to find Brer Nicholas,
she nanted.
"Poor child!" Mrs. Herry sighed, with
tears falling over her cheeks like rain.
Miits Elvira staggered back to tho sofa
In the parlor and wept and wrung her
hands.
"Some one must go for the colonel,"
Mrs. Ilirrv said
One of Puul's young friends, who had
helped to bear the litter, offered to ride
to Thome IIill, and some time past mid
night Col. Thome alighted at Mrs. Hur
ry's gate.
He had ridden hard and he had ridden
alone, for he would not allow the breath
less messenger who brought the tidings
of Missy's full to return with him; nor
wss it so much the instinct of hospitality
thut made, him insist upon the young
fellow remaining the night at Thome aa
the dcHire to escape all witness of the
anguish he could not hide. Ho had or
dered Uriffen Jim to make ready the
double buggy aud follow immediately
with Glory-Ann, but he himself rode out
in the night as furiously as his sou had
ridden away just one year before. Tho
colonel remembered this and groaned
aloud; he remembered, too, with a shud
der his declaration that he would never
again cross Mrs. Herry'a threshold save
in cu.se of somo calamity; and the calam
ity had come, but not to Mrs. Ilerry.
The lights were still burning in the
parlor and in the hall, and there was a
light also in one of the rooms upstairs.
The colonel, as he dismounted, scanned
the wiudows of that room with a fevered
effort to read there some sign of his
child's condition, before he strode up the
path.
His violent ride had not subdued his
excitement, though to the physician who
met him at tho door he presented the
impenetrable, distant demeanor that hud
always characterized him; the only sign
of feeling he showed was his utter in
ability to frame in words the questions
that burned In his eyes.
I am of the opinion that the injuries
will not necessarily prove fatal," the
doctor saiil, and paused.
The colonel bowed.
"Out lameness may be the result."
An angry flush darkened the colonel's
face, but lie heard all the doctor said in
silence, and then, turning abruptly away,
went upstairs.
At the door of the room where Missy
lay Mrs. Herry met him.
"What is the matter."' he demanded,
"lias not Dr. Lane told you?" Mrs.
Ilerry said, glancing at the child on the
bed.
"One doctor!" exclaimed the colonel,
wrathf ully. "I will have all the doctors
In the state! I don't behove the injury
will result in lameness; I won't believe
anything of tho kind."
"My dear cousin, said Mrs. Herry,
"we must hope for tho best. Let me
give you some collee after your long
night ride? Or a glass of wine?"
The colonel refused; he wanted noth
ing, he said; but be would see the child
now.
He stood by the bedside and looked
long at Missy, The doctor hud given an
anodyne, and she lay asleep, with her
hands crossed .on her breast; and her
father, overpowered by the sight, turned
awuy and left tho room.
In the morning he camo again. Missy
had uut stirred. "When will she wake
agsin?" he asked, despairingly. But
when Missy awokehia distress increased.
She had been so little caressed by him,
so seldom noticed except to be repri
manded for some childish fault, that he
was the last person she wished now to
see.
"Take him away!" she entreated.
"Don't let him touch mel It hurts me
to touch me; and it wou't do a mite of
good to scold me."
"Winifred, 1 will not touch you; I will
not scold you," tho colonel assured her.
For answer Missy covered her face
with her hands and screamed and sob
bed, so that it became necessary to take
the colonel away.
But remain away the colonel could not
aud would not When she was quieted
he came again and sat down with his
hands liehlud him, in order to show that
he did not mean to touch her. If she
would only smile! But the troubled look
he wore was not calculated to win smiles.
"Where hurts you, Winifred?" he asked.
"Don't you feel better?"
"Nowhere hurts," answered Missy.
"And I don't feel better." .
The colonel sighed. "Is there anything
you would like to have?" He struggled
for some term of endearment, but his
lips, long unused to affectionate utter
anco, refused to frame the words he
sought. "You shall have anything you
ask, Winifred." he declared, pathetically.
Missy closed her eyes and did not an
swer. She woe silent so long thut her
father thought her asleep, and he was
growing uneasy at what he fancied might
be a fatal symptom, when she suddenly
opened her eyes, and looked at him with
greut earnestness, "No, you won't," she
said, "no, you won't"
Mrs. Herry had just come into the
room to say that the doctors were down
stairs, but the colonel signed to her not
to speak.
"iou said it once before," continued
it. -rrzrz-zrzz. ,i iild mm to do. And
I inu ";"
T-l . I.it.rrr fnranVUIIDK J lumi.
The colonel covered his ft ith W
hands and stifled a groan. In his judg
ment, it was Nicholas alone who was re
.ponsible for Missy's hurt; but. he was
ready now to make any concession
"Do you know where Nicholas- is?" he
asked, desperately, of Mrs. Herry, to the
utter .astonishment of that lady and of
MissyTlt was the first time he had named
his son since the night he had repudiated
blMrs. Ilerrv shook her head. "Unhap-
I Hr. nnt know." she answered, sadly.
The colonel was wholly unprepared for
such an answer. Knowing that airs.
Uerrv had always taken Nicholas' part,
ha hn',1 f..li inro that she was In corre
spondence with him; and angry as he
had been In this ueiiei, no
more angry now to find himself mis
taken.
? nptpr racelved a reply to any of
my letters," Mrs. Herry explained; "and
at last I wrote to the postmaster at
Tampa; from him I learned that Nicholas
was gone, no one knew where."
She forgot Missy, and Missy forgot
herself. "If you don't find him, I shall
die!" cried the child In her vehemence
she had raised herself in the bed, but in
stantly fell back with a scream.
CHAPTER XXL
a NEW PLAN.
"Vat chiU it ilawtt Janttr Thorn t't ditr
tr." The impulse that directed Missy's flight
was but the culmination, undor a favor
ing suggestion, of that agony of longing
and regret which hud possessed her soul
for a yenr post. The mention of Paul
Herry's return hud been like a match to
a train of oviler; Missy's resolve was
fired instantly; time, opportunity, hvr
disguising dress all invited. It was
but the work of a fow seconds to cut oil
her hair. Desperation lent wings to her
feet, and soen sho was out of riht and
out of breath, behind tho quince hushes,
where she paused an instant, striving to
devise noma plan by which to eludo the
children; for hero iu Tallahassee, Missy
felt herself nine miles on tho road to
Tampa, and her fear of the great, un
known world that lay outside the familiar
limits of her lifo was proportionately
abated.
Fortune favored her; the children gave
up the pursuit, and Missy, havingcliiubed
over the fence, ran down n back street,
as laughable a little figure as ever ap
eured in unacciiHtouied clothes four
sizes too large for her; but in the gather
ing dusk sho passed unseen. Her aim
was to overtake the stage in which Paul
Herry was expected and by some means
to hide herself therein. Once away
from Tallahassee, Missy felt sure of her
route, for with her all roads led to
Tain )a.
By uint of wandering she camo at lust
to the postolllce, in front of which the
stage hud just stopped. The sight of it
thrilled her with exultation. She felt
herself at last on the way to rejoin her
brother. There could be no hindrance
now, ulie felt sure, to her journey. She
daubed across the street and reached the
stage couch unobserved, for all the. by
standers were gathered around the potit
oflice, expectant of the mail. A quartet
of young lads were drsgglug another
lad from the coach with hilarious greet
ing as Missy climbed up by the hind
wheel on t he opposite side and established
herself on top.
There a terrible sense of isolation pos
essed her. She stretched herself out,
face downward, and to keep from wail
ing aloud, stuffed the skirt of her nan
keen blouse In her mouth, loathing her
cowardice. But her purpose gave way
at lust After all, she was only pretend
ing to be a boy; how could she, a poor.
quaking little girl, ever hope to find Brer
Nicholas unaided and alone?
In despair and self contempt she began
to climb down with perilous haste; the
driver cracked his whip, the coach gave
a lurch, Missy lost her hold and fell, with
wild scream, between the wheels. '
The horses were checked instantlv, and
i...-. i. .i . i . .
.:,pnw . i -Youdon-tstick uptoyow word
k. u li i "7 , T,) hw" wch a charge brought against
Ev hn. fln l , iTw h.'ven by a ..ld. waa an imlignitv
by his young friends, turned back to join I , i.. i .. , ...
the little crowd assembled .round Missy. I 11 " i. " "m
lying unconscious in the sund. t u"J7tJ 'f""
No one recognized the child, and a'Sl1 '"l"'"" '""u u'-
looker on had just hazarded the coniect-! .. j . ...
ur. Wt the outlandish Ullle cTa.ure' SZKuTZ tV"
n,i,iii,.v..,.,...i.,.i. . , Mcholas, she asserted, demintlv. "And
must hive arrived on the stage, unknown t ...... it- , n ,
.1.... , . ,, . I st out to flnd hun because Daddv Gd-
thescVne. 1 Miss ,ol7 White brought word
m iycni'iss was :mJJt'eUrvur; aud
"It teemM that what you tay it bound at-
ways to come true, juum are.
The din-tors summoned to Winifred
Thorne's bedide were unanimous in the
opinion that she should not be moved for
some time to come; so, for two months
or more, Col. Thome and Miss Elvira took
up their abode with Mrs. Horry.
Missy s case excited universal sym
pathy, though Missy herself did not make
an attractive invalid; she was exacting
aud salf willed to a degree that taxed the
utmost patience of all who waited upon
her, the colonel alone excepted, who, of
all her attendants, was to Missy the least
acceptable. Misinterpreting his anxious
countenance, bIio resented his watchful
ness as though it were intended to rebuke
her rash escapade, and again and again
she repeated thut she was not sorry she
had tried to go to her brother, let at
times a strange, dull anguish, to which
she would give no utterance, weighed
upon this ardent young spirit, when for
hours she would lie in silent, hopeless
contemplation of the changed life that
awaited her. For by dint of Glory-Ann's
oft repeated admonition, that if she did
not keep very still she would never walk
again, Missy had come at lost to under
stand what was her doom.
"It seems that what you say is bound al
ways to come true, Mom Bee,," she sighed.
"Don't you remember the night my
father drove Brer Nicholas away, and I
ran out in the rain, you said then I was
goin' to be all crippled up, so I could
never dance."
Mom Bee's heart smote her. "Dullaw,
now, honey, hukkom you 'members all
sich ez dat? Don't you know yo' ole
mammy jes' sesso ter mek you obey?
Doctors is got a heap mo' sense den mos'
on us; en' you jes' min' what de say, you
gwun hop ofTcn dat bed spry ez a cricket,
come bombye."
But in this prophecy Missy put no
faith. Lying weary and helpless upon
her bed, she pondered many things in
her small bruin with a seriousness beyond
her years. Striving to picture to herself
what life would be on crutches, she had
begun to find a sort of pleasure in making
plana for such a life. It seemed now to
Missy that, since sho could no longer run
about at will, and climb trees, and wade
in the "brunch," sho might as well take
kindly to quiet, young ludy ways, aud
submit to be educated. Therefore, when
at lust she was allowed to return to
Thorne Hill, she astonished her father
and her aunt Elvira by the announce
ment that she would like to have a gov
erness "right away."
The colonel, anxious to gratify her
every whim, and greatly rejoiced that
her desires had taken so commendable a
direction, wrote to his aunt in New
York, begging her good offices in the
selection of a governess much as he
would have written for any bale of mer
chandise. The colonel's aunt, Mrs. Lorrimer, was
as fixed in her opinions as the colonel
was iu his, and sTie positively declined
the responsibility ot selecting a governess
for Winifred Tliorne. The colonel, she
argued, was not yet past the prime of
lifo wherefore should she send a woman
to Tliorne Hill at the risk of bringing
about a matrimonial crisis? But, as she
felt an interest in the child that bore her
name, she earnestly entreated her nephew
to let her have charge of Winifred in
New York, where she could have the
benefit of treatment by specialists and at
the same time receive the best instruc
tion. The colonel acknowledged the wisdom
of this plan, but he was loath to send
Winifred away from him just yet; and
while he was still pondering this neces
sary step Christmas came round again.
To Missy this Christmas was a grievous
disappointment. She had cherished the
hope that Nicholas would return at this
season, and when the day came and
passed without him she was In a state of
almost frenzied distress.
"Father! Futher! Where is Brer Nich
olas?" she cried, pushing away the gifts
that ha 1 been lavished upon her.
It was a question the colonel could not
answer.
"Don't you ever think of him?" pleaded
the little sister, with her slender hands
pressed against her aching heart
think of him all the time. I don't ever
forget him. Oh, father, suppose he is
hungry this 1 hrixtuias dayr
Her father turned upon her a face
stony in its despair. "We must forget
him," he said, hoarsely. "He is not to
be found lor any search of mine. To
forget is all that is left us.'
"Oh, what does this mean?" cried
ML-y, wringing her hands.
Pro PR co.vn.TKD.i
AFTER TWENTY YEAR8.
My wife's a wlnsoms wee thing,
Wed twenty yesri or mslr,
lad re th boomer jrowlnf ,
As baltb mine eye doctors.
Tls love tnst made her bonnla,
And love tht keep hr
Id spit o' time snd fortune,
On life's uncannle wsy.
Lots scwt wa" Uie wrinkles
From off her smooUi. whits brow.
And duty done tbrouKh good an
Aye kesp her oonsclenoe true
And yield her happy pesos of mind,
If e'er the world got wrong,
And turns the murmur of IsuieoS
into a cheerful song.
The klwe gather on her Hps
Like blossom on tb rose,
And kindly thoughts reflect the Ufa
That in her bosom glow
As wavelet In a running stream
Reflect the noontide ray,
And sparkle with the light of heavea
When rippling on their way-
Bhe ts a winsome wee tiling.
And more than twenty year
BhS'a twined herself about my heart
By all that can endear;
By all that can endear on earth (
Foreshadowing things above.
And lead my happy soul to heavea.
Rejoicing in her love I
-Charles Slacker.
A PERILOUS RLDR
Along in the early forties some of the
best farms of today in western Ontario
were still covered with virgin forest, and
the few scattered settlement gave little
promise of ever growing Into the flour
ishing towns which now dot the country.
Over the rough roads fanners had hard
work to get produce to market Game
was plentiful in the dense woods, but so
were bears, panthers and wolves alto
gether too plentiful at times, and very
little traveling was done after dark.
Among the first settlers of what is now
called the garden of Canada were two
cousins, named Tom Shepton aud Hugh
Mallet. Their farms adjoined and thoy
were the best of friends. But it so hap
pened that they both fell in love with
protty Mary Huston, and Tom won her.
Hugh was passionate by nature, and he
vowed ho" would never speak to either of
them again.
Tom and Mary were married one fine
July day and went to keeping house at
once; but though the houses of the cous
ins stood not a hundred yards apart, and
the nearest neighbors were miles away,
Hugh would not look at his successful
rival and wife.
Everything went well with the young
couple until one evening when Mary waa
taken suddenly alarmingly ilL It was
in the latter part of January; snow
drifts blpcked the road to the settlement
where the doctor lived; a blizzard had
been blowing for some days, and it waa
intensely cold.
The farms of the cousins were about
seven miles from the settlement, and the
most of the way lay through the forest
It meant at least two, and perhaps three,
hours of hard work for the best team to
reach it, and Tom dared not leave his
wife. Far from the necessaries of ordi
nary civilized life, hardy pioneers who
lead the van of progress in the wilds
have to depend much on the good will of
each other.
Tom saw himself forced to ask a favor
of Hugh, and much as he disliked to ac
cept one from a man who would not take
a kind word from him, he stepped into
his cousin's house and told him of his
distress.
Hugh heard him in silence, and then
went out and hitched his team to a cut
ter. He piled in a heap of buffalo robes
and put a six shooter in his pocket
Then, without a word, he drove off, fol
lowed by the grateful thanks of his
cousin.
The sun had set an hour ago, and the
stars were sparkling And glittering in
the deep blue black sky, but later on the
moon would rise and light the way home.
It was bitterly cold, and the frigid
gusts of wind stung Hugh's face like
cuts from whip lashes. He knew he bad
a risky journey before him in going to
the settlement by night
The winter had been a hard one, and
at such times wild beasts begin to hang
around the houses and to prowl about
the roads.
He kept a sharp eye on the horses, for
when it comes to sniffing danger a horse
can give a man points. .
They floundered through innumerable
drifts and over many a stump and fallen
tree, but yet made such good time that
in an hour they reached a better piece of
road about two miles from the settle
ment Urging the team to a trot, Hugh set
tled back among the robes, congratulat
ing himself on the safe and quick trip
they had made.
For a few hundred yards his medita
tions flowed along uninterrupted, but
when a certain low growth of bushes
was reached, the horses snorted loudly
and reared back on their haunches.
Hugh was nearly thrown cut by the
sudden stop.
"Get up!" he cried.
And as he had no whip, he lashed them
with a rope halter he had in the cutter,
one end of which was tied to the seat to
keep it from being lost
Crack! crack 1 went the rope, but the
horses would not move forwari Their
ears pointed right ahead, and they stood
shivering with fright
Drawing his revolver, Hugh peered be
yond them iu a vain attempt to discover
the source of their scared appearance.
"Go along!" he yelled again, smacking
the bnes on tho horses' back "go along!"
Just then they swerved sharply, and a
great, dark body sprang out of the bushes
and landed right in the cutter.
It was a panther, and so sudden and
unexpected was its leap that Hugh had
no time to fire. Its great fore paws came
against his breast and arm, knocking the
revolver out of his grasp and tearing half
his clothes off. Its foul, steaming breath
poured into his face, and the great, glis
tening fangs were not six inches from his
throat
The horses had bolted, and before the
panther could do any further damage the
violent jolting of the cutter threw it off
bis chest
Hugh grabbed tha only weapon at
hand the rope halter and struck wildly
at the big brute. By a lucky chance the
noose slipped over its head, and as Hugh
tried to strike again the halter tightened
around its neck.
A fearful struggle began. Gathering
op the buffalo robes, Hugh sought to
protect himself from the wildly clutch
ing claws of the infuriated panther and
to push it off the cutter.
As the frightened horses galloped along
at full speed over the rough road, the
cutter swung from side to aide, bump
ing and smashing against the treea
Every minute threatened to bring about
1 collision which would dash it to pieces,
thrown over and
rue comouuMU" ----- ,
over, the robes were soon in tatters and
Hugh was Weeding ituuj" -
and getting weaker every minute.
The panther got his left arm In Its
jaws and crunched it savagely, making
blood spurt out in streams. Then Hugh,
for the first time, saw the rope around
its neck. Grasping it despe&itely with
his free hupd, he pulled on the noose
with all his might
The suffocating pressure caused the
beast to let go his left ann, but in i ts
agony it tore pieces of flesh off his right
and threw him to the bottom of the cut
ter With a frightful roar it crouched over
him, and its great paws tore at his breast.
All seemed lost, when the runaway team
turned a sharp comer. The cutter
swung too short and waa overturned.
Out pitched Hugh, and the panther on
top of him. But they did not remain to
gether a second, for while Hugh lay still,
exhausted, bruised and bleeding, the
panther waa whisked off his feet and
jerked head over hoels after the cutter.
The rojie was tied to the seat, as men
tioned before, and the furious gallop of
the scared team tightened its hold round
the panther's neck and gave the beast no
chance to regain its foot
Choked, battered and torn. It was rolled
and dragged and yanked after the cutter
until every bono in Its body was broken.
When within a hundred yards of the
village the cutter collided with a tree
and was dashed to pieces.
The arrival of two runaway horses
alarmed the people, and they set out to
search the road a piece. They soon
found the broken cutter and the dead
body of the panther, and not long after
ward they met Hugh, limping along in
the snow.
His wounds were dressed, and a fow
hours later the doctor reached Tom's
wife.
For a week Hugh had to stay in the
settlement, but as soon as his wounds
would allow it he went back to his house,
Tom's wife had in the meantime wholly
recovered, and under hor loving care
Hugh's wounds were speedily healed
not only those of his body, but bIso
those of his mind and the three neigh
bors have remained the best of friends
ever since.
Hugh has still the torn skin of the
panther, and entertains a high regard
for the trophy of that perilous sleigh
ride. Zu Befehl in Saturday Night
All Get tha Same Pay.
Denman Thompson, the "Old Home
stead" genius, makes it a rule to pay the
same amount of salary to each member
of his company. "I tried the old way,"
says he, "but I lost faith in it. The fel
low who got only $20 a week couldn't
help envying the other fellow who, on a
salary of $10 a week, could gratify tastes
which were beyond the reach of his as
sociate. This feeling begot jealousies
and discontent, and I made up my mind
to do away with all cause for envy by
instituting a one price system. I find
that this system pays in my company. I
don't pretend to say that in other com
panies it would be practicable, but so
far as my experience goes actors get
along amicably so long aa they share
equally at the box office." Chicago
News.
A Medical Consultation.
At the time when Josephine Wessely,
the great singer, excited so much enthu
siasm at Leipzic, a student called on the
famous Dr. Thiersch, complaining of a
severe pain in his right arm. On exam
ination Thiersch found that one of the
sinews of the arm was displaced, and
asked the student how it huppened. The
young man stated that be, with several
companions, had taken the horses out of
the carnage of tho fair artiste and had
dragged it from the theatre to her hotel.
The doctor, who had no kind of sympa
thy with such doings, dryly replied:
"My good friend, in that case 1 can do
nothing for you; you will really have to
consult a veterinary surgeon, who un
derstands the treatment of horses and
asses!" Pinturicchio.
A Bono In a Forty Foot Well.
A curious accident occurred to a rider
at Westminster, N. C. While seated on
his horse at the depot, a train rolled up,
at which the horse becume so frightened
that he backed upon the rotten plank
covering of an old well, which broke and
let both horse and rider throw n. An
old tail was sticking in the muddy bot
tom, on which the horse was impaled.
His struggles were fearful, and his rider,
who, strange to say, did not get unseat
ed, had a narrow escape from being
crushed to death. As it was, he was
severely hurt before being rescued. The
well was forty feet deep, aud the horse
died before he could be pulled out
Philadelphia Ledger.
In tb Language of Love.
"Chewing pickets" is the term now In
vogue by those who express themselves
In slang as applied to young lovers who
linger long over their good nights, and
has supplanted the well worn one of
"holding up the front gate." A reporter
heard the new slang for the first time
from the lips of a young man whom he
met on the street, and whose teeth were
chattering as if he was suffering from a
fit of ague. When asked what was the
matter with him, the young man replied
in a shaky voice: "fve been chewing
pickets with my best girl for an hour.
I'm nearly frozen to death, but I hadn't
the heart to tear myself away." Middle
town Mercury.
Silver Collar, Cuffs and Belt.
Who In New York can boast of a real
silver belt collar and cuffs? And yet
there is such a set and a most remark
able one. It belongs to May Yohe, the
girl with the beautiful eyes and the deep
contralto voice, and waa made for her in
California. Of course it is solid silver.
The design is open, and shows here and
there a four leaf clover surrounded by a
floriated pattern. The girdle is a deep
point in the back and front reaching far
up on the bodice and the same distance
below the waist line in front At the
sides it is about two inches wide, and
the fastening, on one side, is almost in
visible. The collar and cuffs are pointed,
and will fit right over the cuff of the
sleeve or the collar of the gown. It la
specially effective when worn, aa it fre
quently is, over a Grecian costume of
white wooL New York Sun.
i .. Ml.
uwaauiamanfw..
fas was first struck In T'S
totrkt.andhewa.Mi'Wl
about it as we w.itJi k
Columbus. m C
"Wall, you know..,. '
onBillwa.a.rreatCSv
r1n ha 1,. .1 u . . tw
reading and My to me l
urn, l vebeeDrea,ij
Is and I'm goin' to fJ?N
nere on onr fann
" 'Shoo. Bilf ... i
strike nothinir nti.u '.. J
and worms.' 141
"Uut he went at it i w
nd bow aud fool .round.!?? '
toboethecorn.unaon.r
snnthin'. Th - "M ty&i
Ahere cam B,i
smell that both of twM j 1
hous". then tbsr',
that we was drove to.nl?'.
wehadtoHtl,ehog,ourfri
they would have keeled ov h
. .run i i .....
could breathe again tiW.
wasted three months' time JL H
I1" CalnSf J
about a thousand torn cu Zl
all been driv off the farm j, J? "f
It's my turn now t .tt,. Ji
.... . 'HlIltiH t
youKiugitreoUyfurth,.
in' a boy ever got'
"I give it to him. irrrti I
I went spookin' around toS?"
Who'd buy the farm t .bum .
the barn, A feller ui,n J'
catarrh and didn't mind thei,
up a oeai with ine, and i y "'
I walked off with his mosn T1
arm. I kept on grinnia'h,r
week, but then I heard
stopiied me, and I guess it't
since I've opened mymottiiu'
Them dead cats was wom, , C
thousund dol wrs to me i
for $S00 and walked aronnJ
self on the back fur beinW'
tuic. now lorn BUD.
Miss Braddoa as "a. Uh
Among the new knightsanthtV,
era ui vwo novelists, aius
Miss Olive Schreiner. It bu
curred to me that it would b ;
found an order for women whw,.
give those possessing it tber$t;
nx iatiy to tneir nan,
make the people's soma ml!
era them with ease," said
And if any minister had tit p.)
create "Ladies" my impress
would remain minister forirjv
sideruble time. What pew J
Jones, M. P., have if Mrs. fasti
that it only depended on hiinter'
ness for her to blossom (urtiiit 2
Jones?
Putting, however, aside thiiji-.,
advantage, why should distkji.
men be mode knights and Jkkv.
women not be made ladies? II ;
to have knights with ribbcti'4
their necks and across their tet
umnlil lui nnlv fiiir i IIima mvil
were also conferred on their m
am entirely agiunst woman strar
I see no objection to women tr
ail this sort of decorative air
and assuredly, if they merit ifiii
absurd that the only way for tk!
obtain it is to give one to tier
bands. Mr. Brad Jon, I nukentq
is deserving of the prefii of "Sii.'i
his sister, Miss Braduon, ha ills,
equal right to the prefix of "U
Exchange.'
A Successful lukoowl St
1 u-ftii tolkimr with a aubscripaa
lisher.uudiu tho course of ocrcii
..Hnn Im rpiu'hed in his likvi
pulled out a book the title of 4
never heard. It was called "Golii
and Heuven," a book aa prttoM'
sizo as in title. "What is then
about tho book? Well, I will M
Of that work there have beenii;
one million copies," said the
"and yet I'll wager that there sr4
men iu the biggest New YorkcM
never heard of the book, iadj.
you there is no such work printer )
This struck me us rather odd.,
tennined to make the test I'
six of the largest book statist
York that day and asked fatf
"God, Home and Heaven." F.
exactly as my friend predicted.
countered only one man whoei,
of the book, and he said he Hid'
where I could get a copy. "W
out of print for years," he sddH
yet within two blocks of that nm
there was at that time prWj
tionof 5(1,000 copies of vhe W" .
pressesl-Edwin W. Buk.Ma
Mary AodeiWs PhstapH
The reason thut actrtssa i' j
cessfully photogruphed u Uui'f
derstand the laws of photj
conform to them. Theyos.
the direction of the pl
themselves, and thephotugnp"" ;
ing to let them. Mary Ander
rv detail Of
lion that puts her features.
: Lonuon puouHjrar-uv. ,
of her face, except
was ever iuuo " "
live changed so as to
the cheek a mue u" . a ;
is. Miss Aacwsw - t
contour of tier iun '""tr
enough,andso she eJ
photograph of her shall: reuW
prfection.-NewJorkEv
The first B" J
The Bank of Engl" j
in IBM, and is older than sT ,
stitutionsof the class uisnv '
great nations. I' "Ls
the important financial hos.
The Bank of Venice
that of Genoa in 1MUW ,.
1619 and thatoi
Her
ure
of
urally
ana iui " rt ,
1803 the Bank o ""1
Of the newly endowed sees in Eng
land, Liverpool is the richest, the grosa
yearly income, derived entirely from
dividends on invested capita, being
$18,225.' The average annual Income
of the other live new sees Newcastle,
8t Albans, Southwell, Truro and
Wakfleld-la $12,225.
in
All low ni.w -
lished.-St Louis Olot
Orlfln of a Com"'-
"Barking up the 5
common expression lntae -.
inated from the fact that ,;.
at the foot of a' part; f
cate to his master tt
located. While endeavon,
animal he discovers l ;
and it finally escsres.--- ,r
its application it den f,
. !! nhieCtOT" I
it in the wrong P'
Rev. James W. fKt'
half a century a
and founder of the first ft
in that country, ssys: 4
the Chinese ln?T1! VS
toanslatedthewTr religious work "
way immeoja'j jrc .
i but though I have stndi
I I do not yet think that
i the Chinese language-