GAZETTE: HEPPNER, OREGON.
THE PACIFIC CABLE.
The Bill for iu Establishment Recom
mended to Congress for Passag-a.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 2 Senator
M.tchell's bill to incorporate a company
(or the establishment of cable communi
cation between San FranciBco, the Ha
waiian islands and New Zealand and
Jf pan, has received some consideration
by the committee on foreign affairs and
ti e committee lias decided to report a
substitute for the bill to the Senate with
a recommendation that it be passed.
Mr. Mitchell is very certain the bill will
become a law and lie has received assur
ances that a number of Senators will
vole for it. The foreign affairs com
mittee, recognizing the importance ol
ti e measure, will endeavor to have a
substitute proposed and reported to the
Somite witnout any aetay.
The bill as introduced by Mitchell
provides for the incorporation of a com
pany to consist of certain persons, whose
iMiies are given but the committee's
BUDStitute will recommend that the Sec
retary of the Treasury shall be author
iz?d to make arrangements with reliable
persons, having a capital of $3,00.),UOO at
their command, to open the proposed
line-". Senator Mitchell's bill provides
that $200 000 shall be paid annually to
the company out of the lederal treasury,
the payment of raonev being conditional
on the ma ntenance of the lines in good
working order.
The United States is to have prefer
ence in respect to all messages tiled with
the company, and in case of war or other
emergencies the government may take
possession of the lineB ami all its sta
tions and appa.atus. Every convenience
must be placed by the emu puny at the
disposition of the goeri merit, and the
secretary of the fnavy is to be provided
with every means necessary tor tun con
venience in communicating with officers
of foreign stations on the line.
HE FLED FROM CANADA.
A Bank Robber of the Dominion Ar
rested in Mexico.
New York, Feb. 2-ri e Daily Con
tinent this morning says the I'.nkerton
Detective agency wai no Tie I hy their
agency at the City of Mxi.- that the
Mexican police had ane-ted James N.
Henry, who is wanted in i 'anada. He
is accused of robbery of the Bank of
Montreal of cash and securities amount
ing to $150,000. His big haul was made
December 13, last. He wa an exchange
broker at Chatham, Out., and usually
carried about a large amount of the
bank's securities. On the above date he
disappeared.
An investigation showed that the
thi;:t was one of the largest that was
ever ma le in Canada. He was k'lown
to have crossed the American border,
bat by the time Pinkerton's men were
nasi lied lie was probably in Mexican ter
ritory, n the early part of January the
Mt xfcan minister of foreign aftVirs re
coved news of the robbery and a full
description of the stolen securities. All
banks in that republic were notified im
mediately. The City of Mexico police also received
a circular from the I'inkerton agency
giving a description of Henry and oK -i
ill ; a reward ol $10t)0 for his arrest, tn
the meantime a stranger came to the
city and attempted to negotiate securities
wish an agent of London. They knew
tin) securities were part of the stolen
oil 's and later the institution was ad
vised of ilenry's whereabouts.
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.
Ill line Thinks Recent Bogu Telegrams
Were Work of Politicians.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 2 Secetary
Blaine's letter to Representative Baker
on reciprocity with Canada was written
an! published with a purpose. Both
correspondents knew beforehand what
wa to he done on either side. It would
seem that Blaine was surprised recently
by sundry fictitious paragraphs in the
press of Canada and the United States
asserting that this government had made
proposals for the reciprocity to that of
Canada and had otfered to include the
Bhring sea fisheries question in the
arrangements.
lie suspected at the time that the
rumors were a piece of electioneering
work, devised either by the government
of Sir John Macdonald or by some of its
supporters, tie was not willing tnat the
.government of the United States should
be made a catspaw by the Canadian
politicians engaged in playirg games of
domestic politics. Hence, as soon as
his suspicions were continued and Sir
John Macdonald had shown his hand, it
would he found a convenient way of ex
posing the deceit of the Macdonald
Tupper party.
With the recent clear statement of
Sir John as to the limited measures oi
reciprocity he was willing to contem
plate and his own letter to Representa
tive Baker saying there must be a broad
measure or none, Blaine considers that
the Canadian people have means of de
termining for theni'elves where their
interests lie and in which direction their
votes should be thrown, and he for one
is quite contented that they shall
settle their election as hey judge
best.
I am privately assurred that Mr.
Blaine expects to see the next general
election in Canada go against Sir John
Macdonald by a good majority, so that
his only immediate concern in the mat
ter is to expose and defeat the unseemly
attempt to drag the government of the
United States into Canadian politics, as
an attack to make weighty an offense
aggravated by the deception accompany
ing the attempt.
Palmer Is the Alan.
Ft, I.oi'is, Feb, 2 It is understood
that the Illinois Senatorial contest will
be settled Monday or Tuesday, Felix
Cockerell, brother of one of the big three
farmer members of the legislature who
hold the balance of power, lives in East
St, Louie. He was with his brother at
Springfield Saturday and after an inter
view is reported to have said that it had
been arranged to vote for Streeter 50
times, and that on the fifty-first ballot
all three of the Alliance members would
go to Palmer. The fifty-first ballot will
bo reached on Tuesday, and if this be
IruePalnier will be elected on that day.
Felix Corkerell would neither affirm nor
deny the report when questioned.
Very Impressive Ceremonies.
Snw York, Feb. 2 He, who was Wong
Win I an, secretary of the Chinese six
companies in San Francisco, has become
Wong Fooch Ting (Yellow Comfortable
and Clean) mayor of Chinatown in Sew
York Citvand'of so exalted dignity that
he, of all Chinese in the city besides the
(omul, may enter in the serene trans
parent presence of a maradin. "Va
Kin.' Hoop La j" this is what comes of
electing a new mayor. AH Mott street
said it yesterday and when it is trans
lated it means Wong Fooch Ting is a
parti-colored dragon with a diversified
tail. Wong was invited to come here
about three week Wio by the local Chi
nese merchants. Joe Shing Poen,
mayor at that time, had aroused the in
dignation of the community in some
way, so Wong was elected on January
29th and early Saturday a coach stopped
before the door of his home at 6 Mott
street and receiving him drove with
dignity over to 16 Mott street, the Chung
Wa Gong Shau as the temple and May
or's office is called. There every lamp
and lantern, candle and Joes stick was
lighted and the 24 great merchants of
Chinatown sat in a row around the
walls. Joe Shing Poen, when Wong
Fooch Ting entered, came forward to
meet him and made a huge salaam to
which the new mayor responded with
the most elegant obe sance known in all
San Francisco. Then the out-going
mayor and the new one went to the foot
of the altar and each taking a great per
fumed candle in hand knelt before the
almighty Joss and declared that they re
spectively had done and would do
all in their power to make the empire of
i enow Dragon grow greater.
SHORT OP MONEY.
The Chicago World's Fair Consl lerlng
the Financial Problem.
Chicago, Feb. 2 The local directors
of the World's fair are confronted wilh a
problem that is anything but easy of
solution. According to the estimate
made by the financial committee the ex-
position will require $15,OJO,000, while
there is but $7,280,OJO in sight. Of thi.
$5,003,000 is in city honds that will not
be available until the local directors liavi
realized $3,00J,00 on the $5,00J,0JO
pledged by subscriptions. Of thit-
amount the directors acknowledge thai
fully 12 per cent, is not collectable.
A' trifle of more than $1150,000 is now
in the banks of Chicago to the credit ol
the directors. When the actual mill
ing is begun it cannot be long till tlu
siini is used up, but the board of archi
tects have estimated the 10 structures to
be erected between the r supervtson will
cost not less than If 700,000. Between t' e
$15,000,000 necessary therefore and the
$0,20,000 in sight there is adiecrepanej
of 5,003,000. It is suggested that the capi
tal stock of the exposition be increased
to $10,000,0,K) without delay, and it is
probably that tn s will be done.
EYRAUD EXECUTED.
He Met Ills Death on the Guillotine at
Paris This Morning.
Paris, Feb. 3 Michael Eyraud, the
stringier, who in July, 18j9, murdered
Notary Gouffe in Paris, was executed by
the guillotine this morning.
The crime for which Michael Eyraud
today suffered death by the guillotine
consisted in his having, in Paris in July,
1889, with the assistance of his mistress,
Gabrielle Bomprird, strangled to
leath a notary of Paris, named
Gonlfe. After the commission Oi the
act the dead body of the victim was con
veyed in a trunk to the Milles railway
in the department of the Khtneatid de
posited in a thicket, where, on August
13th, 1889, it was discovered in a state
of decomposition.
In January of the following year Ga
brielle Bompard made a confession to
the Parisian police, which led to her ar
rest and imprisonment and finally alter
the most exciting chase, to the capture
of the strangler Eyraud, in Havana,
who was brought back to rune lot
trial.
The remarkable feature in the sensa-
t:onal legal proceeding which culminated
in the sentencing to death of Hyraud
and to the 20 years' imprisonment at
hard labor of Gabrielle, was the unsuc
cessful attempt of counsel for the Bom
pard woman to prove that in the murder
she acted her part while under the con
trol of hypnotic influence, exercised by
Eyraud.
Owing to the stern rules ot tneirencn
administration of justice in such cases,
only the most meager details of the man
ner in which the strangler laced death
are obtainable. It is certain, however,
that he died with fortitude.
When the governor of La Kaquette
prison accompanied by a chaplain en
tered the cell of the condemned man,
he was found to be already completely
and nea ly dressed. When invited to
drink a glass of cognac, Eyraud shook his
head in decimal ion. . All efforts by
chaplain, Abbe fan re, to administer re
ligious consolation were declined, and
at the last moment, . when the grim
frame ol the guillotine was all that
stood between Eyraud and death, the
murderer's nerves ot steel and his iron
purpose served him in a final refusal to
submit to religious rites.
When he had been pinioned to the
plank, Abbe Faure bent over him to
ia.ee upon nis loreneaa a last kiss,
iVith so much of a contemptuous move
ment as the bond would allow and with
an air of sullen resentment the Strangler
repelled the priest, and then straighten-
ng nimsefl out iwraua awaiteu tne
kniie.
A moment later the great knife dashed
down and the murderer's head fell away
from t.hn hodv and drnnneil into the
sawdust filled basket beneath the plat
form. The body oi i,yrauu has oeen
handed over to his relatives.
STEWART RILED.
He Kicks Over the Traces Again and
Scores HArrlson.
New York, Feb. 2 The Sun contains
a brief interview with Senator Stewart,
in which very pointed language is used,
brought out, the Sun says, by the sena
tor's profound antipathy to the presi
dent and his silver policy. Mr. Stewart
said :
'I think the pre-ident will undoubt
edly appoint some goldbng to fill the
place made vacant, nyineueainoi sec
retary Windom, but I hope that, who
ever is appointed, Harrison will not kill
him by forcing him to make speeches
against free coinage. I am confident
that Mr. Window's death was due to the
fact that he spoke at the Board of Trade
dinner in .New York. He appeared there
at the urgent request ot the President
who knew that Mr. Windom was suffer
ing from heart disease. The President
was aware that the o cation was a great
opportunity to present the views of tl e
administration, and that no one could
irive them as much force and effect as
the secretary of the treasury. Mr. Win-
dotp was a full blooded man. and the
trouble with hie heart was, of course
airiravated bv anv unusual exertion, I
do hope the President will not kill his
successor hy making him uphold the
views of the administration in an unoi
ficial way.
A Free Kiectlnn.
London, Feb. 3--The moral effect of
the Spanish elections would lie greater
but for the pressure brought to bear by
the government in favor of conserva
tions, The pressure was not so great at
Madrid and large cities aa in the prov
inces where the peasantry are said to
have been dragooned by the united
power of the church and State into the
support of the government candidates.
Returns from the Spanish elections give
the opposition, including all shades, 13)
deputies out of a total of 427. The min
isters and all the chief party leaders
were re-elected.
AN ELECTRIC DINNER.
A Pleasing Reproduction of the Infernal
Regions.
New York, Feb. 1 The first annual
dinner of the Franklin Experimental
Club of Newark, N. J., took place in the
laboratory of the association in Bloom
field avenue, just off Broad street, laBt
evening. It was the weirdest aflair of
the kind ever given. There were fish
and fowl and fruits in plenty, to be sure
But these were only incidentals, strange
as it may seem. The piece de resistance
of the banquet was cooked by electricity
before the eyes of the thirty-five guests.
There were phosphorescent entrees,
blue-light entremets, a magical dessert
and electrical hors d'oeuvres.
It wasn't precisely a Barmecide feat.
for there was enough to eat and drink
everywhere. But there were people
present whose mouths were watering
alter a tempting-looking viana just with
in reach of their hands, and who, when
thev ntlenmtpd tn tnkp A liitp nf it. fnnntl
it stiot up into vellow, green or scarlet
flames, bite their fingers with a smart
ing blaze, or melt away into thin air of
tinted smoke.
The dinner was partly a joke, partly a
genuine least an I partly a Hcientih
demonstration. The Franklin Exneri
mental Club is now only in its swadilline
clothes, but it is growing fast and is
working away in earnest to popularize
me eiectnc exerimentation.
William J. Hammond who was Edi
son's representative at the Paris Expo
sition, was the prune spirit in the enter
prise, COOKED BY WIRE.
The guests sat down and were served
with the first course. There was no chef
employed. It was cooked bv electricity.
and in fact so was everything, down to
:he coffee, which was made over the
wires.
The diners had no sooner got their
eeth into the samples of a deliciouslv
stewed dish of oysters when bang, out
went the incandescent lights and dark
ness reigned. Then there appeared out
of the shadows a couple of hideous, grin
ning skulls. Their eyes shone fire, their
mouths shot forth flames, and from their
invisible throats there came lortli two
sepulchral voices in unison: "As ye are
now so once were we j as we are now so
shall ye be."
Mr. Hammer had, by the subtle use of
1 battery and a phonograph, made the
eyes gleam, where in reality only sockets
were, and their fleehless jaws move as il
alive. Of course, after the mechanism
of the thing was explained every man
had a good laugh on his neighbor, but
the apparition of the grinning skulls
speaking, one of which in life had been
detached from the body by a guillotine,
was ghastly in the extreme.
It was a sort of reminiscence of old
Kgypiian "Skeleton of the Feast," and
so the dinner went on. The guests lis
tened to songs from the Grand Opera
House in Paris, the booming of cannon,
and speeches, all by means of the pho
nograph. ELECTRIC FISH.
In the place that sorbet would natur
ally occupy in an ordinary dinner the
lights suddenly went out again and a
strange thing happened. Near the mid
dle of the table there had been through
out the dinner a great globe of gold
hsh, throng'i which flashed the varied
colored lignts that had been turned on
from time to time. All of a sudden, as
if a magician had waved his wand, the
globe became illuminated with a mono
chrome. In the globes of glass were
seen swimming about the little live
fishes of gold or silver. All the anatdmv
of the tiny fishes was plainly discern-
ahle. bach one of these fishes had in
serted down his throat, down into his
stomach a miniature electric light about
the size of a big pea ami was sailing
about with a thin, hnir-like wire in iis
gullet that was almost invisible to the
naked eve.
Of course it was attached to a dvnamo
which supplied the light that transfigur
ed their little bodies, and the effect that
the display produced was wonderlul.
A FAMILY TROUBLE
Leads to a Fractured Skull and a Bullet
Wound In the Leg.
New York, Feb. 4 Josiah G. Willetts,
an Englishman having an office at 111
Broadway, this city, entered the office
of the South Brooklyn steam engine
works in Brooklyn this morning and
asked L). M. Cobb, the president of the
company, to step out on the sidewalk,
as he wished to have a few words with
him. Cobb complied an 1 the clerks
soon heard the men talking in loud and
excited tones. A moment later blows
were exchanged and the men clinched.
W lletts, who is 50 years old, while
Cobb is but 35, was apparently getting
mil It the worse ot tne encounter, when
he i rjw a revolver and fired two shots
at I it opponent. The first shot struck
Cobb in the right leg, but the other
went wide. Willetts was about to fire
again when Patrick Quinn, a laborer
employed by Cobb, rushed upon Will
etts, wrenched the revolver from his
grasp and struck willetts a heavy blow
upon the head. Officers then appeared
upon the scene and the three men were
arrested. An ambul ince was summoned
and the surgeon examined the wounded
man.
Cobb's injuries were not dangerous
and he was removed to his home. Wil
letts was found to be suffering from a
fractured skull and was taken to the
city hospital. The doctors say he will
die. Both Willetts and Cobb refuse to
make known the cause of the affray
further than to say it was caused by fam
ily troubles.
The police authorities, however, have
ascertained that Cobb boarded with Wil
letts for a long time, but recently left
the place because of some disagreement
with Millets, it is also stated Willetts'
only child, a young woman of 25. had
recently visited Cobb on several occas
ions at his otnee. it is not known what
her errands were.
Mexico to Get a Big Loan.
Denver, Colo., Feb. 2 Viscount De
Chenip, of the City of Mexico, who he
claims was for several years theconfi.
dential agent for Doin Pedro in London,
wa in this city yesterday on his way to
Mexico, where a large land deal in which
he is the principal owner, is to be closed.
He says the Mexican government has
completed arrangements with lxndon
hankers to get a loan of IIOO.OOI.OM for
the conversion nf all debts. Steps must
not ne taken lor tne issue ot the loan
until the condition of the London money
markets is cousuiereu iavoraoie.
The Accusation Killed Her.
SrMNGF!F.i.D, Ohio, Feb. 3 Minnie
Meekley, the girl who was charged with
sett ng fire to the McGowen house here
some time ago and who was thrown into
convulsions bv the accusation at the
time, and has lain in a romatose state
eversince the accusation, died latnlght.
She ilid not recover conscionsness and
phvsicians are much puzzled at her
case.
There is a hitch in the Irish negotia
tions, according to the rumor, owing to
Parnell and Healy.
A LOST SOUL
"How now, Horattot you tremble and look
pale :
Is not tltts sornethine more than fantasy?
What fiiukyouou't?" Hamlet.
It was a chance remark, and one that
is often made concerning an intelligent
animal, but its effect upon my friend
Sidney Darrow was singular.
His shoulders twitched nervously, and
his hand went up to his throat as tiiough
something choked him.
I have a large English mastiff that I
call Wodan. A moment bsfore he had
left his accustomed place on the rug in
one corner of my room, and had come
to my side to receive the caress which,
at intervals through the day, he seems
to find necessary to his happiness. As I
smoothed hie wrinkled forehead anil
patted his soft, large ears, I observed
with what trustful affection his great
eyes beamed upon me.
" It was then that I remarked to Sidney
Darrow, who eat near at hand, care
lessly watching us through the smoke
of his pipe :
"Does it not seem to you, sometimes,
that Wodan has a very human look?"
And my friend made answer witli the
peculiar motions which I have de
scribed. Wodan left my side and walked slowly
back to his rug. Darrow watched his
movements with half-closed eyes, his
hand still clutching his throat. When
i he dog had lain down, my friend turned
his gaze upon me.
"Don't don't ever say that about
Wodan again I it will make me hate
him."
He was plainly much stirred, and the
seriousness of his appeal was not to lie
doubted.
Presently, before I was ready to make
any reply, he separated the heavy beard
that covered his chin and neck, disclos
ing a deep zig-zaj scar.
"See here," he said, "I never showed
von this."
" What made it a burn ?"
"No. Let me tell you the story."
There was a period of my life, some
years ago, that I spent on my uncle's
ranch near San Juan Capistrano. At
that time the raising of sneep was one
of the chief industries of Southern Cal
ifornia, and much of the land in our
vicinity was devoted to pasturage.
About half a mile from my uncle's bouse,
in a lonely canon, stood the hut of a
herder built of adobe, repulsive with
out, cheerless within, grim and squalid,
yet in every way so well suited to its sol
itary inhabitant, that one might think
lie had constructed it himself, as the
nautilus does his shell. He was a tall
hani-visaged Basque, with a great
shaggy, black beard, haggard features,
and eyes that you could not look into
without a shudder. Do you understand
what I mean? He was one of those
wild beasts of men, wlioae face, seen
but once, live always in your memory.
and when sleep will not come, they show
themselves bodile-is masks as they are
through your tightly closed eyelids,
The trail of the canyon passed 1th in
a few yards of the hut, and my duties 1
assisted my uncle in the management of
tne ranch lrequently led me in that di
rection. When not away on the hillside
witn his buck ot sheep, the herder usu
ally stood or squatted motionless in front
of his hovel, A few feet away jrom him
Jrouchcd his dog. The pair, man and
beast stared at me from the moment 1
Mine in sight, until I-passed among the
nve-oaks beyond, myjiiojnoveineni
save a slow turning 6l the Tieaii, and ot
tering no response to my salutation. At
last 1 came to pass them in silence, but
never without a vague sense ot dread.
I learned from the men on my uncle's
ranch that the Basque was considered
queer, or, as they expressed it, "locoed."
t hey said he was til the habit ot talkine
io his dog, as though it were a man ; and
that even his fellow countrymen feared
and avoided him.
Crazy he may have been : a drunkard
he certainly was. Atfrequent intervals
he appeared in the town with a large,
black demijohn, winch lie carried away
filled with the liquor of the sort that
makes maniacs
One afternoon as I came down the
canon I heard the yelping of a dog, and,
pproaching the hut of the Basque. 1
lieheld a sight that filled me with anver
and distress.
The fellow had hung up the dog
against the side of the house, and was
heating nun with a large knotted stick.
i did not stop to think much of con
equences. I did as vou. or any man
who has ever known a dog, would have
lone. 1 jumped from the saddle, and
Irawing my knife as I ran. I cut the
animal down. Then I turned and faced
the Basque.
1 suppose he thought 1 was armed
f was not for he did not take up the
age of battle .but stared at me fiercely
out of blood-shot eyes. The dog hobbled
away to a short distance, shook off the
riata which which its legs were en-
narled, and, crouching low, watched us.
"Come," I said in Spanish: "why
should you kill your clog? You have
irunk too much ajuarhente. Tomor
row you will be glad that I saved his
I He."
He emitted a strange sound throuih
his teeth and lips. It was very like the
snarl ot a wolt.
"If you do not care for the dog. will
you sell him?" I asked.
jNo," he replied with an oath ; I will
not sell him; I mean to Hill him."
Very well," 1 said; "it you wish to
take the animal's life, shoot him: but
you shall not beat him to death."
1 he Basque turned toward the hut,
muttering imprecations alternately
a.-ainst the dog and myself. When he
came to the door he called to the dog :
Memoniol Uomehere!'
The animal eved him, but did not
move. Then the herder disappeared
from view in the dark interior of the
hovel.
I remounted and continued on my
way down the trail. I had gone about
a hundred yards, when suddenly there
w as a crashing in the chaparral nehind,
and I wheeled hastily around to discover
the dog. lie had followed, evidently,
for the purpose of making my acquaint
ance, and to thank me for the rescue.
I called to him and patted the side of
my eaddle, meaning that he should
come where 1 might touch him. He
started to obey, but as he approached
nearer, my horse gave a violent snort,
and benan to shy awav from him. The
act surprised me not a little, for the
animal was a solid old bronco ttiat rare
ly started at anything, least of all at a
dog. The dog stopped his advance and
waiched us, while I struggled io bring
the horse nearer to him and to calm his
yeiy evident terror. But my effort
were unavailing, though I used whip
and spur and threw all my strength on
the bride. The horse would not allow
the dog to touch him. For some strange
cause lie even trembled in his presence.
At last I gave np the undertaking ami
examined the Basque's companion from
a Utile distance.
He a considerably larger than the av
erage collie. 1 imagine that he must
have some Newfoundland, or, perhaps,
S'. Bernird blood the sheep dogs ol
California are rarely of pure breed. His
hair was short, curlr, and black as night.
He squatted on his Launches and looked
steadily at tne during all the time that I
was occupied in making this survey:
and when, at last, I spoke to him, he
lifted his ears a little, but made no other
movement.
"Demon !" I said ; "is that your name
Demonio?"
At first I thought that the name had
been given him because he was dark in
color, as the popular belief paints an evil
spirit. But a moment later, when my
eyes rested upon his, I saw or, perhaps
1 should say I felt that there might be
some further leason. I scarcely know
how to describe the effect that his steady
gaze produced upon me. It was at first
merely an impression that this dog was
different from any of his species that I
had ever known before then a convict
ion that something was wrong and,
lastly, an uncontrollable terror. Thr3
sensations followed one another in quick
succession almost in a flash; and with
out stopping to ask myself any questions
I gave my horse free rein, and we went
plunging headlong down the trail.
Once aain in the open plain, I tried
to deceive myself into thinking that my
terror had been only apprehension lest
the Basque should come upon tne from
behind. The rapid descent of the twi
light and the peculiar behavior of the
horse hail, I assured myself, served to
heighten the effect of this dread.
A few days later, when I passed the
hut, the herder and his dog, in their
usual attitudes, stared at me, sullen and
silent. I looked closely at the dog's
face, but could see nothing beyond keen
animal intelligence.
Several months passed.
One morning, as I went out toward
the corral, one of the men employed on
the ranch came to me and said :
"1 believe that something has hap
pened to that crazy Basque sheep-herder.
His dog came here last night and
would not go awav."
"What, Demon?" I said, and as I
spoke the animal came running up. I
patted his head and talked to him, but
he jumped uneasily about, as though he
were anxious to be gone.
I euggested to the man that we should
ride to the canon, and mounting, we fol
lowed the dog out into the road. He ran
along several rods in advance of us, look
ing back occasionally to make sure that
we were coming. When the canon was
reached, his pace slackened, and some
distance from the hut he stopped and
leu in Deninu us.
"He dreads a beating," said I.
From the trail we called to the hut.
and receiving no answer, we rode to the
door and looked in.
There lav the Basaue in the middle
ot tne noor, his arms outstretched, and
his head thrown back dead.
An uncared-for corpse is always a dis
agreeable object to look upon, but some
thing had happened to this one that ren
dered it impossible for me to give more
than one quick glance. I hastily turned
my horse's head away, and rode over
toward the spot where the dog was
crouching. The man, more resolute
than I, dismounted and went into the
hut. When he came out again, he said:
"I covered it over wilh one of those
sheep-skins, so it wouldn't scare any
one else. His bottle was lying near
him, and I guess he must have drunk
himself to death. That was probably
done by coyotes, or maybe a mountain
lion."
We rode to town, where we gave no
tice totheauthoritiesof the nian'sdeath,
and also to several of his countrymen.
In talking with one of the latter, I asked
what disposition would be made of the
dead man's sheep and of his dog.
"The sheen," answered the man,
"were not his ; he had jold them. As to
the dog, nobody wants the brute, I im
agine." "Why not?"
The man shrugged his shoulders and
looked askance at Demon, who had fol
lowed me.
"Very well," I said, "then I will take
him."
No objection was made, and Demon
passed into my possession.
Mv uncle had several hundred sheep,
which were tended by a native Califor
nian and his son. I took Demon to them
and offered his services in the care of the
flock. To my surprise thev refused. I
urged the matter, and finally demanded
the ground of their opposition. At last
the old man said :
"He looks like a sheep-killer."
This accounted for the refusal of the
Basque shepherds to take the dog; they,
too, suspected him. Knowing how Drone
such men were to superstitious preju
dices, I would not allow the animal to be
condemned without cause.
"Do you know that he kills sheen?" I
asked the old man.
He shook his head. Then I asked i."
anyone had ever seen the dog prowling
around at night or behaving in a suspic
ions manner. Again ne snook his head.
"It is all nonsense," I said, finding
myself forced into the position of the
dog's defender.
"Now, I tell you," said the old shep
herd ; "I know that dog. I think hiin a
bad dog. I will show you something."
He went into his hut and brought out
two half-grown puppies lively, wrig
gling little fellows and put them down
on the ground before Demon.
"You see," he said, "puppies always
try to play with strange dogs never
ai'raid of them. Look I I told you he is a
bad dog."
The infants waddled up to Demon,
who approached them, wagging his tail
good-huinoredly. The instant they got
a good view of his face, they whirled
about and went off ki-yi-ing at a great
rate of speed.
The performance struck me as amus
ing, and I laughed, but the old shepherd
looked very grave.
"A bad dog," he reiterated slowly;
"very bad."
"Well," I said, "I will take him my
self, since you will not. But if I ever
learn" here 1 instinctively looked down
into the dog's face, as though speaking
to him "if I ever learn that he has
killed a sheep, I shall have him shot."
The dog's eyes looked up into mine
with a keen, intelligent gaze; and I
could not resist the belief that he had
understood.
It is not impossible that my prejudice
against the animal was even stronger
than that of the shepherds; but, as I
was an educated, reasoning man, proud
of my freedom from every form of super
stition, how could I bring myself to
countenance such irrational fancies? On
the contrary, my duty seemed to lie in
the opposite course to defy this pre
judice and to protect and defend the
object at which it was leveled. Besides,
1 had come to feel a powerful curiosity
with regard to this creature which,
though apparently inoffensive, was so
generally hated and feared. What was
it that inspired all other animals with
such distrust of him? Not my horse
alone, but every quadruped on the place
mani'ested a very evident unwillingness
to have him about, lhe other dogs
would not associate with him. Yet he
was never Quarrelsome nor ill-tempered.
One thing he did which, though not a
serious fault, was often annoying. He
hail a habit of watching elo.-ly every
motion ol tne person nearest Mm usu
ally myself. Sometimes I almost imag
ined that I could feel his eyes, when 1
did not see them his gaze was so con
stant and intense. This habit, 1 thought
to myself, was acquired during his life
with the brutal Basque, who might be
expected at any moment to inflict some
j undeserved blow upon him. Despite
; thie explanation, there were times, wnen
, we were alone together, and I looked up
i to find him watching me, that I felt the
I chill of an unreasoning dread.
i'emon had been in my possession
several weeks, when all at once I began
to hear the complaints about the killing
of sheep. Every morning a fresh victim
was found dead now of one flock and
now of another, yet all within a limited
range. They were all mutilated in the
same way, and the work was plainly
that of a dog practiced in sheep killing.
as i nau expected., suspicion lmmedi
ately fell upon Demon : and one morn
ing, when I came out of the house, I
found a couple of herders waiting to see
me.
They had no evidence against the dog,
yet they demanded that he should be
put to death. The injustice of it roused
my indignation, and calling Demon to
me i said :
"I want you to look at him. You say
that a sheep was killed last night.
Where is there any sign of blood about
his jaws?"
One of them examined Demon's
mouth, but found no mark of the
slaughter. The other said :
"That docs not prove anything. A
regular sheep-killer does not spill much
blood, and sometimes he learns to wash
it all off."
This sounded improbable to ine, but I
did not argue the matter.
"Very well." I said: "tonight Demon
shall be Bhut up in the corral, and if a
sheep is killed we will know that he is
not the guilty dog."
They shook their heads. "He will
find some way to get out of the corral,"
said one of them.
"Then he shall sleep in my room with
me," I said ; "and the door and blinds
shall be closed. Does that suit you ?"
This arrangement seemed to satisfy
them, and they went away.
That night I took Demon to my room,
and gave him a mat in the corner for a
bed. His only possible means of escape
was bv the door or by the window. I
locked the door, and drew the blind of
the window and hooked it in place.
Then I went to bed, and almost immedi
ately fell asleep.
In the morning when I woke. Demon
lay upon his mat apparently in sound
slumber.
I began to dress. When I was
nearly done, my uncle rapped on the
door.
"Have you Demon in there?" he called
out.
"Yes," I answered, Opening the door.
He exhibited much surprise. "An
other sheep was killed last night," said
he.
"Well," I replied, "that merely proveB
what I have said: that Demon is inno
cent." "Yes, of course," said my uncle, look
ing doubtfully at the dog. He went over
to the window and inspected the fasten
ing. "Impossible I" he said.
"For him to open it?" I asked; "of
course."
My uncle threw the blind back and
pointed significantly at the flower-bed
below. The plants had been crushed
down and the earth displaced, and round
about were numerous dog tracks.
"That was not there yesterday," said
he.
My room was on the ground floor, and
from the window to the earth was only
two or three feet. Had the blind been
open, the dog might easily have climbed
out and in again, but it had been locked
all night.
1 turned and looked at Demon. He
was watching us stealthily, with the ex
pression in his eyes that I knew and
dreaded.
Mv uncle made another examination
of the fastening of the blind. At last
lie said: "I am convinced that the
sheep killer is not Demon. There is no
dog in existence that could manipulate
that crooked hook to open the blind.
Those footprints were left there by some
stray animal."
The conviction seemed inevitable, and
agreed with him. At the same time I
was resolved to try the experiment
again and watch the dog more carefully.
That night I shut Demon in as before,
and closed and fastened both door ana
blind. There was a full moon, which
made the landscape bright as day with
out, and it occurred to tne, just as I was
about to put out my lamp, that 1 could
throw open the upper section of the
blind and admit the light. It fell in a
broad, white square directly across the
mat where the dog lay, and after I got
into bed I found that 1 could watch him
easily without turning my head upon
the pillow.
Then I discovered that he was watch
ing me. There was nothing unusual
about that only hie eyes were strangely
bright.
1 tossed about in the bed for a time,
but he never moved.
At last I determined to deceive him
into the belief that I was asleep, I
closed my eyes and presontlv, by a care
less movement, urew too lace euge oi
the pillow-slip across my face. Thus I
could watch him and yet conceal the
fact that my eyes were open.
When 1 had lain in this position mo
tionless for, perhaps, 10 minutes, De
mon suddenly lilted his bead and turned
it on one side. Plainly he was listening
for what, I could not imagine. He
put his head down, and for another 10
minutes did not move. Then gradually
and noiselessly he rose to his feet and
came toward the bed. A little distance
away he stopped and listened again.
Evidently he did not hear what he had
expected, for after standing a moment,
he returned to hie cornor and lay down.
Suddenly 1 founil the explanation of
his strange conduct. He had listened
to my breathing, that he might determ
ine if I slept.
Resolved to deceive hiin if possible, I
began to slowly lengthen my respiration
and to expel it with more sound and
force.
At the end of a few minutes, I saw
that I was succeeding in my design. A
second time he rose with perfect still
ness and came to the bed. His face
wore an expression of devilish cunning,
so utterly foreign to his customary mein,
that under other circumstances 1 should
have failed to recognize him. A swift
Hash of satisfaction in his eye showed
that he thought me asleep, and he turn
ed to the window to make his escapo.
His motions were slow and cautious,
reminding me of a rat rather than a dog.
I had expected him to make some slight
noise in unhooking the blind, fori doubt
if I myself, with my life in hazard,
could have accomplished it inaudibly.
But there was no sound in the room, ex
cept that of my own slow, steady respir
ation. I think it must have taken him five
minutes to draw the hook. Then the
blind was swung back quietly inch by
inch, and his way was clear.
Ho stood for a moment with his fore
paws upon the window-sill and looked
back at me. As he did so, 1 felt again
the same strange impression of terror
that had overwhelmed me the first time
mv eyes had met his in that lonely can
yon. For an instant I held my breath,
and had he continued to look, he must
have discovered that 1 was not asleep.
But now with a sudden yet noiseless
leap he went out of the window gone
on hlk murderous nneat.
' It was several minutes before I vent
ured to move. At last I rose and went
to the window. Far away, where the
bright moonlight fell upon the side of
the hill, I could eee a small piece of
darkness scudding swiftly along. It was
Demon on his way to the sheep pas
tures. I scarcely know what impulse sent me,
but I went to the closet in my room,
took down a large navy revolver, and,
when I got back in bed, slipped it under
neath my pillow. I did not then, and I
will not now. confess to nnv mal U. rt
the doc t.hflt ia to aav nhi-.;Ml
There was dread a vague, indistinct
horror at something unexplainable that
I seemed to see in his eyes. But had I
really feared him, I should have closed
the blind, rendering his return impos
sible. I lay still and watched for an hour.
The nearest flocks, I knew, could be
reached in a few minutes, and his re
turn might be expected at any time. I
drew the lace over mv eyes again, and
listened for the sound" that should indi
cate his approach.
Suddenly a great black head appeared
in the window without the warning of
a footfall materialized, as it seemed,
out of the darkness of the night, in it
two round, red lights gleamed like coals
of fire. The moon shone clear and full
on his face, and I could plainly see the
U1UOU I1U K
were covered
us jaws
He climhert olnnrt., o.-
- ... w.v mm 1UO IUOU1.
lnen, with an ingenuity that was even
more than human, he drew the blind
shut noiselessly and fastened it in
place.
He gave one quick glance nt me, and
went over to his corner. Through the
net-work of the lace I watched him,
while he licked the blood-stains from his
feet and washed his face and neck, with
the motions and attitude of a cat.
I grew faint with the horror of it all,
and at last forgot the part that I was
playing, and ceased to counterfeit the
respiration of one that sleeps. Even
when Demon siwhtonltr aia-in,i i i.
- Dw,,.cu Uy, lour
ed at me and listened, I did not notice
my mistake.
Then he came nearer to the bed a
few feet away and glared at me out of
those terrible eyes.
That was the moment in which I saw
the thing and understood it all. You
will not believe it I don't ask that you
should but I saw through thatcreatu're's
eyes down into the lost human soul that
occupied its body.
It was the soul of a murderer the de
stroyer of the drunken Basque in his
lonely hovel, the slayer of the sheep,
now at last throwing oifall disguise.
With a strange half-animal and half
human cry, the thing sprang at my
throat. I threw up my hand and it
missed its aim, the teeth closing only on
the skin. The next instant I fired the
revolver, and it rolled over dead.
The wound was not serious, but it left
that ugly looking scar. There is another
scar which the experience left left, pro
bably much larger if one could see it.
I mean on my memory. Charles Dwight
Willard in 8. F. Argonaut.
SHORN Ill'MOU.
"WhAt ridlcnloilR names vmi linua fni.
your towns! Conshnhocken, Weekaw
ken, Hoboken they are all perfectly
luugimoie, earn ioru Boouieuy. "les,
our nomenclature is queer." returned
nicks, - t suppose," he added, "3'our
lordship lives most of the tirnn in Lon
don?" "Ob. nn itldeerl I'm nlmnal
always at my cnstle at Pokestogy-on-the-
rtiKB. new loi'Koun.
IN THE SOUP.
Thcoystor Is a nnblo flh,
Hut ennnot swim a inito;
lie has no tin, lie hug no tail,
Ho has no teeth to bite;
But still he swirna wilh perfect eano.
And yet, 'tis strange to Buy,
He never kHiIoh aliout Lhe sen,
But tn the consomme.
Bronlclyn Life.
Mamma My dears, you should not
talk about students on Sunday ; it is not
right." Ella and Carrie (in chorus)
"But mamma, we're talking about theo
logical students. " Mamma (with sigh
of relief) "Oh!" Kate Field's Wash
ington.
"Gentlemen," said the governor, who
had been petitioned to extend executive
clemency to a prisoner convicted of
poisoning her husband, "I will pardon
this woman, but only on one condition."
"And that is " "That she shall not
go on the stage." Life.
VANISHED JOYS.
Champafrnc, clKars, the play anil such
V llh these he 11 no more carry on
A thousand dollars Isn't much,
He lluus, to yo and marry on.
She "You must come and see us.
Come any time." Ho -"When do you
dine?" She "Always at six, and we
are through by eight. We shall be de
lighted to see you at eight. Don't for
get the hour." Texas Sittings.
Eminent Specialist "Yes. madam.
your husband is suffering from tempo
rary uuerrauon, quo to overwork, lhe
form of his mania is quito common."
Wife "Yes; he insists that he is a mil
lionaire." Eminent Kpecirlist "And
wants to pay me $1000 for my advice.
We'll have to humor him, you know."
Life.
TUB HI DOW Klt'S LAMENT.
I'm sorry my daughter's a Rirl;
Her sex only adUs to my woes;
For tlioiiKh she's as fair nn a pearl,
8lie cun't wear her daddy's old clo's.
Harper's Hazar.
Jeames "The doctor can't bo hero,
sir, 'e says, for 'arf an hour, eir." Iras
cible old gentleman (eotto voce) "CurHe
him I" Jeames 'Yes, sir. Dod gast
his blankety blank blank" Irascible
old gentleman (in a violent ruge)
"What do you mean, you rascal, speak
in that way about my old friend before
my very face?" Jeames "You ordered
me to curse 'im, sir, didn't you ?" Tor
onto Grip.
Very Polito She A woman, you
know, is only as old as she looks. He
I know ; but I'm sure it can't be true in
your case.
CIltCIIMSTANCKS ALT Kit CASKS.
There was a Klrl named Mary Carty,
A huxom lassie, hale and hearty.
Hlie used to wear n Kinxhaiu Kowit
Whenever she came into town.
Hut now she's makiiiK ipiiie a stir
With half a million left to tier,
And seems to think tl mi te au fait
To spell her name Marie Carte.
Munsey's Weekly.
Sanso "1 Bee by the papers that a
?:reat many poor Italians make their
ortunes in America. 1 wonder how
they manage it?" Rodd "It is quite
simple. They come here and work as
latiorers until they save four or five
hundred dollars, then they go hack to
Italy and buy a title, and return to
America and marry an heireBS." Har
per's Bazar.
THE PROBLEMS OF LIKR.
"There's many a problem in this world
That none ean answer rlKht ;
How is It a tun ot eoal so dark
(;an yet turn out so IIkM?"
I'hiladeplhia Times.
MINKOItTl.NK ANO ITS OITOHITK.
There's "lis about Misfortune,
It tells the truth mol plain,
While Fortune does her best to trlek
Us time and time aKSiu.
Philadelphia Press.