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TUn CZZZQU CUNDAY JOUTJIAU FOHfLAKD. -SUNDAY T'Tv; ' I;. . ' Author o "Tho PoUr low," ."Jim Widnwri'ht't , .. - v , anf Other Stonea. . - YvAv ' la III " N 1 V Y XTTk U JJk . IW a i s - J '-1 ' - II . . , - -,- .11- , ' ,. 4". tOoprrlgst by S. , ateO-re 4k fc.V "; OMS Urn towarft tb ctoM of h war ttiar u a brl(ht-(o4 mj - Sm In-wr CM Mm1! of flea, known as "Cy. Ha waa, parhapa, 1 or ' 14 yara old; moatlj laga ana rracklea. aa Haw BnUn! bora at that aa axa prona to ba, bat bright, sharp and attaa tlTa ta boalnaaa. Jia waa a boy you'd Ilka la a mlnuta; but ha had tha andna fovar woraa than moat of them ha-ra It ' anil area aymptoma ara bad aooafh. Ba koundad ma. or two ;yaara about rttlnc hta pn to-flra ha atruefc-tha Old Uaa rarUarlr twlc a waak far aa opportunity to f Ira or wlpa, and ha apaat ail nla leiaura Uma at tha rouadhouaa. , Ona Bornlnc, aoma tlma latar, I want down to taka tha "EaTnaraiaa" out; and notload aa tha fcullatla thla laarandi Train It, antfaa TT: anainaar, Alaxaodar; Tlramaa, Thompson." 7 "TbompaonT Thompooar eaid Z, half to rayaalf. v "What fireman la that?" . Cy Thompson, aaad ta ba oallboy," aid tha foramaa, h7, yw know Cy Thompaoa." 8a you aaa at laat Cy atartad out' on hla oaraar under tha g-uldaaee of tha B-reataat water boiler and train Jarker oa earth tayeelf. Ha waa eooa chant-ad off ta a reg-olar frelfht. and became ona . of our beat firemen. The people of tha towa bad a great far Cy. Hla father- iltwriN- ltad been killed at Shlloh. and Cy aup. ported hla widowed mother until her death, which eoourred shortly after ha went firing". He waa cleanly, orderly, atttdloaa and av pleasant fellow ta have around. Ha used to go out la society soma, and when ha went It waa always in the best circles. First ha took one artrt. then another, once la a while being weaa with tha daughter -of ur general laanaeTer - hue ha aeemed to hart no reg ular "steed y company.' Aa near aa I eaa remember. It waa tn 1171 or 1ITI that Cy waa promoted. Ha attended strictly ta business, and In side of sU months he had tha reputation of being tha beet freight man on. the road. Tha officers ware pleased,' hla companions n tha, road liked-,elin, and he ought to hara been mora or leas satisfied with himself, but ha wa'n'f. All at once there- oama a great change la him. ' I noticed It first when ha bagaa to run hla engine 'n town without talcing- off hla overclothea. . Than ha got to loafing around the roundhouse half the time, pottering over hla engine, telllng at arise or reeding. Ha would oome In and stay at . the house for. hours before ha would wash up; and tha water Una adTaaoed steadily from hla shoulders to hla ears, and finally ha washed only around hla mouth, except on Sundeya.' Ha bought cheap, 111-flUlng clothes that : ware always ripped or had buttons off or wrinkled across tha back. Ha ate ais lunoh up the road one day without washing hla hands, and the fireman aald he wafe aa bad aa a pig; he did ao again, aad some one else said he was a hog; and f ever knew how It all same aboat, hut tt wasn't long before we were all aUlng him "Hosskln" Thompson, and I do not kpow but what be deserved It.' Hogskla Thompson nerer lost his reputation, aa a good runner e -mad hla angina hla home and his Idol; aha waa the cleanest and the beat In the eerrtae. But ha waa kept off a passen ger ran when his turn came, ea account' f bis personal habits. He saved money: .hut. pshaw, any ona aaa ear money thai gets a man's wagea and lives like a hog. Daring the Centennial Hogakln's only latar aun home from the west, bring ing a little son three or four years old. Hogskln laid off three or four weeks to entertain her, washed clear down to the ekla and bought himself a decent suit of clothes. ! but I don't believe he took hla atster anywhere; he urwrerKhn aaix lev taai our oougni mm eiotnea, whole s-alta, took htm everywhere a boy weold want to go. and loaded him dowa with pUythlbga. ' Hut Just aa eoon as tha bister went homo ha relapsed Into bla Id feahtta. - - I saw . that the defenseless side of flegakia-i fortress- waa tha children's aide: if ta waa ta ba recalled from aaso- ' ruling; jtlfti fclmuH M W jreuu h 'A ' v .- .'A t'( ? ,l. i'" .' . . t V . t ''.V 1 e, 'i 1". ' "vjK'.!. Hfhen H Got , "tq Loafing - :i About tht . RoundhouM, through hla lore for HtOe ehUdrea. Women he had absolutely Ignored since he had changed hla name from Cy ta Hogskln. I invited him up to my house onco, and! ha came and played ail even ing on tha floor with tha children, aad seemed to enjoy tt; but he wouldn't oome again. When Fred had tha scarlet xever, Hogskln aaked after him ovary day. aad sent him fruit and flowara and sweet meats; and years afterward I found oat that ha had done the same when any child waa sick that he knew of. He bought many a pair of little shoes, filled many a little stomach, aad many a poor mother had causa ta feel sorry when Hogskln Thompson waa banished from New England. But, alesa you, I never hoard of his good daeda untU after A had gone, t. ( The strlks of 18TT Mat a good many of u out west, bat Hogahia "Thompson waa one of the first to leave for "parts unknown." He cams up to bid ma good bye, and I walked dowa'ta tha depot with him, and going dowa User ha told me the cause of tha great change. H had loved the daughter at our Old Man the general manager and, whaa he waa promoted and proved hUnaelf a goad engineer, had eonaldared be waa worthy of her, aa good as aha, aa clean aad pure, aa web educated, and aa wail bora, aad had told her so. asking her to merry ainv BhSLthoughtwall of him t but her father, who had become rich, pooh poohed the whole We, aad talked tha foolish girt Into tha belief that aha waa made of a Superior aort of brick dust, and aha declined him. If be had tried the- bold-ltnlghtoMo-ba-trtflad-or-folld-wlth plan, the girt would have broken bar father's law, and, I doubt not, her own neck, to have got him; but ha want off la a half -morose, half -mad pat, and kept -up- his don't-care mleak and failed to wash his nook aad answered ta tha name of Hogskln. till I rather guess the girt was glad aha didn't get him, Hogskln- Thompson passed out of sight and out of mind. Our hoy ware scattered far and near, and, of course, the fellows that . took our mills did not know Hogsain. Aa for me, I thought of him onoe In a while for a year or two. and Inquired for him when I met some of tha old'arig: but I don't believe I had thought of him for IB straight years when one day I met him face ta face In tha- atreets of , Beaton. Ha didn't look much like the Hogakla Thompson who waa exiled after, tha strike, but I knew him Just the.aame. He wore a plug hat and a good u!t of clothes, had, a clean - stsnd-up collar,, patent leather shoes, aide whiskers, and that same old emlle he wore when ha waa Cy and before he became Hogskln I knew him by that emlle. I stepped p, etuek out my hand, and satdt This U Mr. Thompson. I bUlovsMr. Cyrua Thowp. Ha wrapped my hand ap lav Is1. looked me fai . the , eye, aad said! "Hogskln Thompson, sure enough; but buss ma if you don't stick ma But keep atUl, let me aee", can't be Alexander old John Alexander , Well. weUl .. How are you. old manf" v . He pulled my hand through J1 elbow, and we started of f down the streei like a pair pf boyo. Ha r.sked me about eleven hundred queation.B. and I had got In a little over a thousand oa him. h brmurht .ua at ' the door of YounaJa.hotaLNothlng -would do but that X must go In and lunch with him; so 1" I.wsot. ; . ' ' we went up to tha parlor, and be fore my eyea had got need to the light. In rushed about aa handsome a young lady as you'd wish ta look at, threw her arms - around . Thompson's : neck, and called him a dear old papa, and wanted to knew where In the world he had been. That girt waTora n before 1ITT, If I waa any judge, and I waa Just trying to get It straight, when In came another, in age perhaps seven, a little dream of loveliness, and she, had hug for "papa," too. Cy. saw my perplexity, and, wink ing at me gravely, ha formally Intro duced each aa his daughter, and we want to lunch- ' . i - Thompson- and his girls wnt home with me that afternoon. The glrla atp. ;"'..' - . . ,. - . . A J toyed the heart of my wife oa sight, and Inaida of II minutes owned tha place and had taken possession. ' . .. . That right, anting In tha room I oall my 'Mao." Thompson and I mingled the smoke of our cheroots and went over our lives alnee till. -After tha young people had prona to "bed and tha house waa stilt lira. A woman fashion, came la with her crochet work and aat dowa ta listen, until there waa a lull la the conversation, when aha. put In her oar. e n felt so aorry for' your little girl tonight. Mr. Thompson." aald aha. "She and our Beaa were playing with their Oolla. and ha. said: 'i just wisn i had a mamma Ilka rou has I ain't got no mamma at all, and I do want one ao bad, Papa says my mamma got lost, but aha will turn up all right aa at these daya: but I do want ana Just aw fully awfuL so X do.'" . . . . - Thompson laid hia cigar aa tha win dow alll, crossed hla legs, clasped hla hands over hla knee, and aaldt "I guess ril have to tall you where and how I got those glrla. but aay nothing to then they are happy aa they are. When left here la 1ITT, I went to New. York, where I looked around for a few daya, and than took steamer xor New Orltana, X hunted work around (here for aoroa time, but gradually worked my vast to Texas, where I finally struck a Job, ' It waa aat much af a road than, but It ta now. I kept tha Job, however, as I bad learned from experience that Jobs ware far from be ing plentiful, They gave ma aa eld engine that waa In pretty had shape, and, aa there was aa shop on tha road worth tha name, t concluded t put the old scrap In aa good repair aa poasihle myself. n worked atgbta and gundaya. feeing valves, opening out the packing, filing bras sea, eta, until the old Roger waa the beet engine oa tha road, Xa order ta do thla I spent much of my time la my overclothea and at tha angina and am afraid -that X waa about as untidy as even for It wasn't long before they war calling ma Hogskln' Thompson agala X don't know where they got tha nam; suppose I must have given it away myself. ; . "My rua waa over a flesolata part of tha country, good enough for graaing, perhaps, but pot much else, Houaaa were few and far between and towns till oarcor. Away out on tha middle of tha division there waa a family living ta a hut. originally built by tha graders oa tha road. Thla family had ap parently squatted her and occupied the os bin, and they had attempted In a half-hearted way to cultivate a Uttls strip of land along a oreek bottom. There waa aa old wagon, with tha bowa for tha aover atljl up, standing Bear; ona horse usually ambled around with hla forefeet hobbled and a aalf-etarved cow waa often seen tied to a' wheel of tha wagon. Everything la tha surround ings betokened abject poverty. - 'The man waa a typical mover' from the southern stetee. He could be seen, aa a usual thin. Bitting on tha sod banking on tha shady aide of tha house. Idly whipping the ground with a stick or smoking his cob pipe and gaslng at tha horlion, with his brala absolutely at rest He was laslness personified. . The woman's form waa often to ba aeon in tha little garden, but her baok was al ways turned and a sunbonnet forever covered up her head. The liveliest orea. ture around there was a little girl B or I years old. Bhe always Stood bareheaded and open-eyed beside the track when we went by- X noticed that aha had made little houaaa and yards by stick ing ' tap twigs la the ground and had made animal of cobs, with legs of twlga. Ona day X bought a nice draaeed doll; nut It In a bog and threw It to her. When X went back aha had It In her arms and smiled at me we were ac quainted. - I got her shoea, stockings, hatg and many other things and threw them to her and aha wora them. -1 used to whlstls for hsr as we' came In light and rain or shine shs waa out ta see me, and the doll waa always clasped to her little breast dirtier each Uma, but always there. The woman waa wet - to tie an tha next spring for some time. Ho ona day I slowed down and aaked the little lady where her ma waa; she answered Imply, Wick.' Coming back the next day X stole a largo piece of loo from an empty refrigerator car and threw It off, and did ao every trip for a week er two. But one day 'my little friend stood In tha door of tha hut weeping as If her heart would break and tha Cracker stood outside with his hat off, la an awed manner, that told ma at once that the mother had gone to her long home. I stopped, consulted my watch and found tht we could stay- there an hour, if necessary; then I went over to the Csaokar. Tha little girl cam running to me, laid her little head oa my ahhulder, and, after sobbing a long time, tola ma that her dear mamma waa dead and wil gold.' . Tha Cracker moved up and said: Tea, air, aha la deaOi " How long agor I asked. ''.."yesterday.' . "'Any nelghborar. ':. "Ne.V- : " ' " What can we do for your "'She left some writln", sir.' -I took off my greasy cap and stepped inaiae tne cabin, it was oare anougn. but clean. On tha poor bed lay the wasted form of a once beautiful woman -onoe the ploture of Lottie aha had evidently died of conaumptlaa. The Cracker took up a eony of the Book of Mormon, turned to the flyleaf ta the back and handed It to me, ' saying : 1 don tTeaV -" - VI took It and in faint pencil tinea, but In handsome script I read: "Bury ma under the cottonwood by- tha brook. I am It years of age. . Lome waa bora at Salt Lake, Utah. vJune 4, lira. I was tha third wife. Her true name ta Lottie M "That waa alii even tha name waa carried away by the' dead: tha writing bora, evidence of having been dona a little at a time, probably after tha ufferer got too weak to bold tha pencil. -uur crew aug a grave ay the tree near the cabin and wrapping tha aheet around tha waa ted form,, we, laid tt In tha shallow opening '. and' covered ft over, tha little girl weeping, aad tha rather standing idly by with a trou bled look on hla face. He aald that they had- plenty In tha hduse and that ha would pick vp hla traps and move into town at onoe, where I promised ta Had him and help him get work gad put tha little one la aohool. -. "Our tlma waa abort now. ao wa har ried away; and I shall never forget tha weeping little figure that stood outside the cabin, holding her doll aad watching ua out of sight. The aest day, going back. I noted that tha cabin waa de serted, and - tha wagoa gone, and ten milea farther on I passed tha outfit tha one old horse hitched to tha double wagon, tha pole strapped up ta hla aide, the weather-beaten, cow limping along behind and tha Cracker sitting oa the, corner of the wagon bow, his feet on tha whimietree and his cob pipe between his teeth. He did not look up. as we passed perhaps ha was thinking. -.Wa did not see ths llttla girl "X went out the next night en a coal train, atid 1 miles tha other side of the deserted cabin I saw something ahead, between tha rati, that looked like a coyote or a dog going from aa. . .When we get within a, hundred feat or ao, it tapped out .of the 'way and turned and looked toward , the engine it was my little girl. Clasped la her arm a wag her precious dolt and In a little paper sack aha bad soma bora bread and a few childish trifles, aa I afterward found, t called for brakee, left tha angina with the fireman, and Jumped off opposite her. She was overjoyed to aee me, and aald aha waa going home to my house to stay. I took her Into tha cab. aad at tha nrat atop turned her loose m my luneh pal) aha waa ravenous, . . . , "I learned from her that aba had fol lowed my train away from tha house two daya before. She said that man wasn't her own papa, and aha waa afraid of him, and -ha waaa't good to her. When we got to the . other and of the road, the Cracker waa there, and saw Lottie, aad said ha "knowed aha would go on the track' till she met me, and that he didn't spend any tlma hunting for ner. "Ua aoU his outfit got half drunk the neat day, and came and wanted ma to give mm ids ror nia snare in tne gin. I told him I would give him the money If ha would get sober and tell ma all he knew about Lottie and her mother. He aid ho would do It but that X would find It a greater and wickeder story than X had ever read of la a book... I ar ranged that ha ahould meet ma the nest morning and tall ma the story. T ' "That evening I made arrangements with twa sisters who kspt a boarding aohool to taka tha girt until aha was II years of age. Coming through tho yard, 1 oa my way baok to my boardlng-aouae, I saw a lot of lanterne and a erewd around ana of the switch engines. X want ever ta see what waa tha matter, and found that they had run wvwr aad mangled o man. X held a lantern down to tha upturned face tt was my Cracker. Lotties story waa sealed up, aad tha key waa oast Into the unknewa ooeaa af eternity. "X at ansa adopted her legally, ruled oat tha name her mother had written la the book to Lottie M. Thompson, and aha haa bow for got tea that aha aver wag anything else. Her influence made a maa of me again. X braced np, changed THE GHOST THAT DIDN'T SCARE 1 ' at.st.it . l.. By HOI Xtowaa, IT was u a'alock on a dreary night Throagh a hundred chinks In tha old walls of Bleaklalgh Towers tha wind shrieked dismally. And tha young duke of fneaklalgh aat walUng for It With a lO-BhlUlng elgar between W Angers, a 10-guinea dressing gown wrapped loosely round him, ha lounged on the goo-guinea sofa and waited. Not that ha wa frightened. Ha wag too much preoccupied for that For thla waa the laat night of hi ownership af BlaekMlga Towers, ah was w-i. . n. mMMMft viiin heA eat In the nuke had offered to break off hla engagement with, tne young wr w.iii. -wa a gentleman of honor and could not bring a helpless, delicate girl to share tha privation of a narrow inooma. And she for she had become engaged to him for his money wobly and frankly released him from hia engagement What was tnair . . v iii. vtatna. e.i iii and tha haa Una of tha rain a . sound Of ' footsteps oould be heard in tho corridor. The family ghosti . - owa accord and closed again, but not t i eiimltted a silent. Shs daw. thin white figure, which right through It body goowea tne peiiera or in wallpapar. . y,' j, ' . t i' : ...;'.'.- It moaned. : - . Khu eU4unated man of the world like the Duke f Bleaklalgh, trained . i . . - f hie Ufa tn reueas hla feel- Jngs. oould JraiX. bo. jaxpected to how excitement. . He laid down the lleaor glass, rose po. Mtslr and. adjusting hlg cravat ob served i 4 "I Imagine! presume that you're tha faev-the-grtoet-lt'a-your-nltb.t. isn't in- ' . Hare the apparition nnaked ana waved Ita i right arm. . .. nr.. ahun da that don't Tout" said tt.. Juki "nkl tha ohleet af It la I never oould Bee; till, X suppose you've got to go tnrougn it T , Tha spirit howiea again. "I don't want to eem Inhospitable," re marked his grace, "but I'm rather busy tonight I'm giving tne- piaoe up ana all that aort of thing: o ir. you oouia 'Soul!" spoke the apparition, aolamnly, k.. a maaaaaa for thee. On thla night In tha year it la my Uak to leave the tomb and aome", ' know what you mean.-. saia nis grace, looking slightly no re a. in oute of his polite efforts not to show tt "I rati It up la tha (anil reoordg soave i it:, tt J -tefi m ? x a a i w. r. t ' in ini nmm aw i jm 11 m 1 1 j 1 took it. and in Flnt Ptncl - - . A V W in ninaaorng ecnpr, a eaa- my appearance and came hack' from, Hogakla to Cy, and was happy, devoting my tlma and attention between rung ta my new daughter." . - Thompson picked up hla cigar, lit tt. aad leaned back In his chair to watch the smoke curl toward the celling. Mrs. A.' wiped her aye on -a corner of her ajpron, and 1 kept tilV - -wnaiever oecame oi oiu uiau mugea, JohnT' aaked Thompson, by way - of changing tha subject. Hodges waa our old general manager. ' . "Dead, theaa five years.-' said I. Xletprtty. poor, tooL spoke up Mrs. A. ."Lost money every -move he made lata years; lost hla wife, then hla old homeatead. and men hla position ha waa keoDlng books before he died. His daughter Clara supported him 'toward the laat" , V " "Whom did 'she marry?" asked Thompson. . ...''' ' ' - "Nobody; aever married; and It's a shame, too (that sounds Just like - a womanjr Clara would have -made aoma man a good wife; ehe'e Juat aa nice as aba can ba. She sews; why, aha made thla dress I have on; Uvea over at New ton, Just opposite the depot But . Mr. Thompson, you never told na where you got your little girl tha ona you call, Dolor that's a curious name." . , . -I forgot that Mrs. Alexander. Her etory-1 shorter and more mysterious than Lottie's." aald he. "8hortIy after X found Lottie mv rare of my Roger at tracted the old man's attention and he made me maater mechanic. I held this Job for a couple of yeara or more and waa then made superintendent--I held thla position until six yeara ago thla month, when our general manager died, adLirechosen to aucceea nun, quired control of some other lines, which time ago, though' Tve forgotten It since, don't you know; It was so awfully dull)" Apparently In surprise tha ghost let fail his dead white cloak , and revealed a remarkably . handsome young man clad la armor.1 . . "Why. you are not frightened P ha ax claimed. - u ...., - "Why should X ha, asked the duke. Inking back oa the sofa and relighting bis elgar. "Ton thaven't don anything yet A for waving your arms about and shrieking, you can do that a much aa you like." "All the others fainted or went out of their minds." argued the ghost; "and the family gave out that I had told them some horrid secret" - "Probably to Improve their position in society," added the duke. "Nothing like a secret of some sort for that However, sit down, won't youT By-the-bye, X don't know who you are' . -- "Tour great-great-grandfather. I've been waiting for a chance ilk thla for a aentury." : ' j "A chancer ' '- ' ' '- ----- '" "Tea; I've been trying to aee one of the family about something and I can't get near them." "What, la Jt you want to see ' them about f- -t- .'..- . . - "I wanted to show you where those Bleaklalgh deeds are hidden. If you find them you have an Income again at once.'' "The Bleaklelgh deeds X should think so? Put me on to them .at once look allval" '" ' ' .- " - -' "I can hardly do that" pot In the ghost; "but I'll show you where they are. Five hundred thousand a year! you had ome pretty low I" "Where are theyf " "Here," aald the apparition, touching a hidden spring In a painting on the wall. Hive them to your solicitor jn the morn- tng and the thing la" done" - - "But why didn't you tell this before" "I tried to, as I said; hut ona man want Insane with fear, and the other turned mauve and dlad shortly after ward. Hardly a compliment te one's ap pearance whatf I. : "Wait If too lata!" xclalmed the duke. 'It's no use I've let tha estate tor years; the lease Is signed." "Boon manage that I'll haunt the ?lac for a week or two. do nm groan ng, wave my arm over a few of the beds, and the new tenant will be only too gmd to give the estate up and pay you a lump sum down for breach of contract A he's a,' rich man ha s sure to have aa ueaay conscience." "Saved 1" exclaimed his great -great-grandchild,' springing np.-,Xu aro a XUnaa, bat , k. . in mil,, m . pmcetf In ourhands drlta a system, and X went over all tha lines to Inspect and report on them. - I - muat be - back at headquarters within a glvea time, snd that called for my traveling all High and the ant day. My engineer . waa worn out aad there waa no one avail able to relieve him; so l agreed to run tha engine over one divlslen . myself, letting tho engineer sleep In the car. It was a dark night but In aloe weather, and we made, very fast time; and I am ready to swear- that I never took my eyes off the track. for an In stant and did not aee aa obstruction. After running tt miles we stopped for water, and I started out to oil a little, remarking to tha fireman that it seemed like old times. la going around the pilot I was horrified to find blood ton tha flagataff aa wy-aldo-and - a. place of torn black lace in a aliver on the pilot la going back to the cab, my attention waa caught by something white lying on the running hoard, be tween the cab and the air pump It waa a large wicker basket, with a cover. I took It down carefully and opened It. and there. Bleeping peacefully, with her rMtiuwaaa gin pap rlrl bapy, II neatly I or I months old. Bhe wa THE FREAKS .''-.'' . . . . (Continued from Tlrst Page of this . . Section.) ' . "It went round the. yard, entered a barn by an open door, climbed the wall opposite, and reaching the edge of the roof, burst with such tsrrlflo nolsa that the woman fainted."; Th-barn waa burned.-' ' -''.' "The petrifying action of the eloctrto fluid is so rapid that horsemen, who have been struck have remained on horse back and been carried a long way fpm tha place of the accident without being unoaddledV : "Often lightning rivals tha more aklll ful eablnatmakera, - Iron or copper nail ara pulled out of a piece of furniture without doing any harm to the material they kept In place. Ordinarily, they are thrown far away. ' "September II. 1SI4.-lightning pene trated a house at . CampbeUtown. Cop per nails, in the chairs were pulled out very precisely without.' the stuff being spoiled. Some were conveyed to a cor ner of a box standing- at the opposite aide, of the room; others were so solid ly fixed tn the partition that It waa onjy with great - difficulty, that they were pulled out : " ' ' f - "At another time., close to Marseilles, lightning slipped Into a drawing room and pilfered all the nails out of a couch covered with" satin. Thsn it departed by the- chimney, through which It had entered. A for the nails, they were found two years afterward under a tile. "In one Instance a hat wire was melted Into nothing, though the paper In which it was wrapped wa not burnt .. Knives and forks, have been melted without the least Injury to tha linen whioh en veloped them. A sleeping man . wa killed-tn hi bed. His wife- by hi id and their little girt felt nothing, but a pillow on" which on-of -them- had her head waa thrown to a distance." Sometimes pictures have been printed on human, flesh by lightning. Upon the body of Tbseph Bllsson of Porting, Franca, were mad tha picture of a pine tree, of a popular and . of the stem of hla watch. A number of similar la stances aro recorded. Madam Morose Bleaklalgh I TTisy always stood by each other." . . - . . ' "Hushl" said his ancestor. ' Ths church dock struck on. "My time I up," he said; "business hours, you know aee you agaln-v-thl dsy next year." . He moved away s cross tha fot-gulnsa carpet and vanished. , ii tin ibi i i m , a in. f ' ii- i dressed, and on a button af her llttl I allp waa a bit of paper oa which wai wrlttea the single call her 'Dolor.'. word Dolores "I aldetracked my special . till day light and stopped all trains. Thaa md went sack over that It miles of traok but there waa nowhere any alga af aocident, and none haa even been re ported. Whether wa killed the child mother that night or whether the child was -put -on the running board and luti to ita fata. I aever knew. The presence of tha paper with the child's name wouM indicate the latter. Certainly, it mus have been there a long time when found for the meehea of the basket were ful of-eiadera. I adopted her at once, and she Is a llttla Jewel, too. , Romantic! wasn t ltr concluded Thompson, knock ing tna asnea ow nia-veau Then Mrs, A. wiped her eyes, and went up to bed. saying goodnight Ths next morning Thompson asked Mrs. A. to keep nis girls for a day o two which ahe waa mora thaa read to da. j- . . . . .- , ... . - "Going to town with me, Thompson Tl sai a i. "No," aald he. Tm going to Hew ton." OF LIGHTNING of Lugano had tha Picture of a Howe perfectly drawn upon her leg by elec trio current In 1117, a peasant womaa of Seise ei-narne. while milking a cow, wa struck, . Those who went to her relle round a picture of the cow burnt upo her breaat- . -The roost remarkable . thing , ahou lightning g the tremendous power oon tainea in a single do it. sometime lightning flashes are five miles lona. German aclentlat . haa eetlmated tha such a stroke contains enough power t run the entire train service of the NeH Tork subway system during the rus hour for a period of O minutes;' Latest researches Indicate that th speed of lightning Is greater than tha of light, which I Ite.ltO miles a seel ond. .With such speed and such Iml mense power, there la little wonder tha an electrical display In tha heaven beautiful and - awe-inspiring as It li anouiq n so area aaa py mankind. . The Water Sriaksr. ' By Edward - Johnson, O, water for mel Bright water for me Give wine to the tremulous debauchee It eeoleth th brow. It oooleth the bralrl It maketh the faint one. strong agaiH It comes o er the sense like a breesl from th All . f reshnees, like Infant purity. O, water, bright water, for tne, for av Qive wine, give win to th debauehe Wll to the brimt ml," fill to the brirr Let the flowing crystal kiss the rim! My hand is steady, my eye Is true. Tor I, like the flower, drink naugH O, - whter, - bright watarg a mine t wealth,' ' - Aad the ore 4t yteldeth- aro vigor an health. Rn water, nitre "wafer, fnrnt: , And wine for the tremuloua debaunhei Fill again to th prim! again to trl nnmi - . Per water atrengtheneth life and lim To the' day of the aged It addet length! - . To the might of the gtrong It addet strengtnr , . It freshens the heart It brighten tn aleht! . Tta ilk quaffing; a goblet of mornlri . ngnt, do, water, I will drink naught but the Thou parent of health and energyl Because 4 girl runs away front a be ! is no ign that she dneg rot like to i; htif(d, under . fuitabi conditions I r: V
