Bohemia Nugget ' Ll 1 r.i: w. Itl'.NItV, K.lllur nmt IVop'r. COTTAGE GROVB. . . .OREGON. Guam has a new Governor. Trio nu ture. of hlg offense li not ntntcil. Perhaps King Itdwnrd merely turned over ono of ensiles In order to dodge tlio taxes. General De Wet la writing a book. Ono by ono tho htroes rnirrf?mV3Jialf pcjlcstals. a '-The elrl's mother win that story about tlio prince's Infatuation Isn' true But do girls mothers alvtay know? Tlio fortune teller who said Edward would reign but never bo crowned lias decided not to ue that prediction for advertising purposes. More than 800 seventh daughten of seventh daughters who Jumped In and predicted that Edward would never Iks crowned are now claiming mat tncy ndded "In June," Tho story that the Egyptian Sphinx Is disintegrating on account of climatic changes Is Interesting but not uecc sarllr alarming. The disintegration be gan long ago. Look at the poor thing's nose. Germany has been sxperlmentlng with tho American system of checklug baggage, and likes It so well that Ic Is to bo more gcuerally used on the rail ways. Under the old (Scrman system every man had to look after aud Iden tify his own baggage, as Is the custom hero on country stage-coaches. When the new ships now building or contracted for are completed, twenty- eight States will be represented In the new navy by namesakes. The armored cruiser I'cnnsylvanla, which Is soon to bo launched, will be the third naval vessel to bear the name of the Key stone State. The first was a wooden three-decker of 3,400 tons, built in 1837. The latest Is a steel lighting ma chlncipf 14,000 tons. Stop laughing at the people of-Jamaica for holding coronation festivals whereat they expressed nearly unani mous desire to bo annexed to the Uni ted States. Their conduct and their conversation reflected credit upon their good Judgment. Their destiny Is either to continue to be subjects of Great Urltaln or to come under the American flag. Therefore they do well to culti vate a feeling of cordiality In both quarters. The sailor who In a storm offered up prayers to each of two In visible deities who are understood to be antagonistic to each other, because he did not know whose hands be would fall Into If anything should happen, was not more discreet than were those festive citizens of Jamaica, Sixteen million dollars was tho ag gregate of money given to American public libraries during the past year, and more than two thousand new li braries were opened. It would be well if in each of them were placed a tab let engraved with tlio words of the late Lord Acton, recommending great books to an English youth: "To perfect bis mind and open windows in every di rection; to raise him to the level of his age so that be may know the forces that have made our world what It Is and still reign over It; to guard him against surprises and the constant sources of errors within; to supply him both with the strongest stimulants and the surest g J Ides; to give force and fulness and clearness and sincerity and independence and elevation and gener osity and serenity to his mind, that he may know the law of process by which error is conquered and truth won, dis cerning knowledge from probability and prejudice from belief; that he may learn to master what he rejects as fully as what he adopts; to steel him against the charm of literary beauty and talent, so that each book thorough ly taken In shall be the beginning of a new life, and shall make a new man of him." James A. Bailey, the millionaire cir cus owner, has been ylsltlng In Detroit recently. Bailey was struck with the circus fever when be was but 11 years old. lie began as a lemonade and pea nut vendor. Finally he got to be ad vance agent of a show. "I remember that I used to possess a great many suits of clothes, and I owned a large cluster diamond that cost about fid." Mr. Bailey looked down at himself as If mentally comparing his suit of to-day with that of the time be was advance agent The suit be wore to-day could not have cost more than $15, while not a slnglo article of Jewelry adorned bis , person. Every young man passes ' through what may be denominated "the clothes era," a time In the process of his evolution when bis serious purposes In life run largely to clothes. In these callow days a solitary hair out of place V disturbs his esthetic equilibrium, to be seen sans patent leather polish as to bis shoes Is equivalent to conviction as ac cessory after the fact, and the nicety expended upon his necktie would suf. flee for the consummation of an exceed lngly delicate diplomatic mission. The youth knows nothing respecting Car lylo's philosophy of clothes. Neither Is It to bo argued that be Is in love. It Is Bimply a desire to ornament his per son In an attempt to support a new found dignity, Don't call a young man a dudo because he Is overparticular as to his dress. lie will overcome that weakness sooner or later. It Is as nec essary to .bis development as that he Should bare the whooping cough and the measles at an earlier age. When fit. Bailey wanted flno clothes he had little money to buy them. Now that he has plenty of money be doesn't care for clothes. Mostly In this world wo want "whatiwe can't get. In her new book, "A Pasteboard Crown," Clara Morris, who writes as beautifully as she once acted, says; 'Vot It Is the almost sterile soil of poverty that ofteneat produces that cactus-llko. plant of Ambition whoso splendid and .dazzling flowers are, alas bo often without perfume." The aimllo U well selected. The desert fa Na- ture's poverty. The desert has been denied water. Thereforo everything It crows, cactus, mesnult, yucca, bwir grass, shows marks of the struggle with hard conditions, and, owing notb Ing, It presents n prickly Independence. In Its armed suspicion It says "Hands off." And so of the human cactus grown on the plains of poverty. It has thrived In spUo of tho lack of nour ishment and culture. It Is beautiful to took upon. Hut It has thorns as you will discover If you try to pluck It And It Is without perfume. There Is nothing of tho rose smell about theso hardyhuuian plants. They haven't badnxr advantages of tho rose. Abre- ham Lincoln was a cactus. Kind at heart, he was rough and prickly out side. Douglas found tboso thorns, Ulysses S. Grant was another of this type. A kindly nature was hedged about by nn Indurated growth that produced keen points of defense. And so of all "self made ' men. Hrll- llant to tho look, and like the cactus, which the desert dweller knows Is one of the most useful and generous of all plants when you know Its uses, these human tlowers are wondrous kind, but rugged, strong, unbending to outside Influences, keen as needles Ambition grown In the Desert of Life. What nn amount of sorrow there M bound up In tho word Ingratitude! Twenty years ago a "puddler" In "New York lost his wife. He mourned and gave to his child, a girl, a double quan tity of love. He tolled and saved. All tho tenderness of his nature was poured out on his baby, it was almost wor ship. The feel of her arms about his neck took the tired from his bones. drovo sadness from his heart and made him rcaltxe that God hnd Indeed been good to him. He wnuted her to have more iHliientlon. croater adv&ntaees. than he bad. That Is the way of par-' ents. Some of them are too good to i their children. They carry kindness beyond the bounds of appreciation. ' Twelve years ago he sold his property and sent his girl to Europe to study i music. She did study. She gained fame, and ber beauty appealed to the artists of the Old World. One day the , camo back to New York a polished woman, worldly, proud and heartless. She didn't go to the old man and throw I her arms about his neck. He was starv ing for a kind word, for one kiss, even look and She disowned him. She would have been kinder bad she killed him. He sluuk away to a hovel on the East Side and there lives on a pit tance In order that be can each week send to her 20. She accepts It and pends It He is proud and sad and miserable and happy by turns the most wretched man In New York who has left only a great love that fills his good heart and the memory of the little girl who kissed blm In those old days and was not ashamed of her father. And there Is Maurice Bernhardt son of the greatest actress In the world. How did he repay the woman who gave him life? He has changed his name and disowned bis mother. He would not forget what the world has forgiven. He was less charitable than strangers. Love for children! It la the best thing that life contains. It Is the happiness that no words can tell. Bring them up to honor and respect as well as love their parents, to the end that the sor row of the puddler and the actress shall never be yours. BRYAN'S DAUGHTER POPULAR. Miss Ilutb Bryan, who has grown Into a young woman, attracted a great deal of attention while In the East with her father on his recent New England trip. In New York she kept up a run ning fire of conversation with her fath er's visitors. Iu face Miss Bryan Is not beautiful, yet she compels even the most blase woman scorner to gaze at her with much more than fleeting glance. Dark dark In hair and eyes and complex ionand muscularly formed, she shows the Ideal American girl, the type from the' West, nurtured In Nebraska breezes and taught no fear of even cyclones. She has her father's broad mouth and firm Jaws, ber mother's low forehead. with rippling brown hair, dressed low, but has ber own eyes. Miss Bryan Is now 18. Merely a Detail. The new society reporter bad Just re turned from the first wedding cere mony she had attended In a profession al capacity. 'Did you get all the facts?" asked the editor. "AH that are of any Importance," ro- nlled thn vnilni wnmAn. "f hnva n 1a. serlotlon of thn bridal irnwn. anil th yw MISS HUTU miTAN. trousseau, and the flowers, nnd the anyming unsoimeiy viciuus or wrong, wedding presents, nnd the objective but 1 was "Imply a tough kid, at the point of the wedding tour, and tho ,hea(1 of " tuo boyish deviltry going on names of the bridesmaids and the ofll-'and nover out of miscblef. elating clergyman, and the reception' "That fellow was a marvel of all that days '" i was goody-goody In a boy. Ho nover "Who Is the bridegroom?" Interrupted sot lnt0 mischief. Ho never got In the editor. "His namo has been print- trouble with his folks. He was the eJ four different ways In the prcllml. wuo19 tblD8 08 to tidiness, punctuality nary announcements." I t school, lesson learning and all that "Tho grooml" faltered the young Bort of tb'n' So' ot course, ho was woman, "Why-why, I forgot to nsk 'ovn at my bead constantly. My him. and nobody else appeared tn fiiinu mother and all of my sisters every tlrao of him. But they bad all the Important details ready for me." i , ' ', i Time wakes all things eyenexcept In a poker game. j SENATOR JAME3 M'MIU-AN. Vluio Death Heiuoved n Kliiiire l'row hunt In Nut limn t Affair. A man of commanding Influence In many Important fields of legislation and who occupies n notable place In national affairs passed nway In the death of United Slates Senator James McMillan of Michigan. James McMillan was horn In ITalnll ton, Out, of Scotch parentage. May 12. 1S33. He attended the best schools of the province, but, rather than at tend college, ho determined to leuru the hardware business and, pf tor a lit tle experience In his home town, went to Detroit, where ho passed two years In a wholesale house. Then, through his father's solicitation, ho forsook tho hardware business to begin ntllrond- lug and was made purchasing agent of the Detroit and Milwaukee ltatlroad. In ISO I he began his career as nu em ployer and, with three other men, or ganised the Michigan Car Company, out of which have sprung three other big concerns employing 3,000 men. This Ventura was most successful aud paved the way to fortune. In 1SS0 he. with several others, built the Detroit, Mackinac and Marquctto H.illroail, which led to the development Into a flourishing country of n district that had hitherto boeu comparatively unproductive. Later ho became Inter ested In a number of Industrial con cerns and In all of the enterprises ho achieved success. In politics, as In business, ho was energetic and successful. In 1STT he entered Michigan politics as a member of tho Itepubllcan State Central Com- SENATOIl JAMES M'MILLAN. inlttee, and did excellent service for his party. Mr. McMillan retained the office of State Itepubllcan chalnuan until 1600. His Interest In Michigan's affairs did not seem to flag at all by reason of his elevation to the Senate, and all the time bis home In Detroit, as well as one In the country near by, was maintained continuously, although he had a fine residence In Washington and a summer place on the Massachu setts coast He was chosen to the United States Senate threo times, and the last term would have ended In 1007 In the Senate be was particularly well known for his Interest In the affairs of the District of Columbia. He bad serv ed on several Important committees and was on the naval committee dur ing the war with Spain. Senator McMillan was possessed of creat wealth, being several time n millionaire, and he was free to bestow his money upon worthy causes. His home life was Ideal and he took the greatest pleasure at his magnificent residence in Detroit with his wife f.nd children three sons and a daughter. REFUSED TO GRANT A LOAN. Huslnean Man's Reason for Hating a Former Model Hoy. A well-known business man was standing at an h street corner talking with a friend the other afternoon, when a seedy looking chap, with a bloated countenance and a whining voice up- proached and tackled the business man for the loan of a dollar, ilie business man gruffly declined the shabby chap's appeal and told him to be on his way In a canter. This rather puzzled the companion of the business man, who knew that the bitter was of an extremely charita ble disposition a man who rarely ie slated the appeal of the commonest street beggar and who rondo It a point never to turn down an appeal for finan cial aid from unfortunate friends of former days. Tho business man chewed In sllenco on the end of his cigar for a while and then he said:. "You no doubt think it odd that I sent that fellow, whom you could see knew me by my first name, on his way with such suddenness aud asperity. So I might as well put you right In tho matter. That fellow Is the only man In the world that I actually hato and despise and I marvel at bis gall for bracing me for as much as a shoo string. And I'll tell you why I despise him. We two are of exactly the same age and we were brought up together in this town In the samo neighborhood. He was the model of the neighborhood. I was the hoodlum of the neighborhood. And that boy was thrown up to mo morning, noou uuu iiigiu, I never did I x laia. opert bt n scrape that required a whaling would wind It all up by asking me why I couldn't ba-ilko uu, So-and-B6; namlni that fellow. N,tnraUy l Brew t0 hato umt j couian't help hating him. I longed to kick the daylights out of htm, but I wai solemn ly assured that If I overdid so V would bo put In a reform school and that scar ed me. Hut I woke up and went to bed hating that model boy. "Well, now he's a booio bum and he braces mo on the public street for a dollar. .Time Is a pretty hot old boy, Isn't hot Hut I'd rather give nil tho money I havo on earth to build a Mor mon church than ever hand tlint ex model boy ono cent." Washington Post. HIS HOME IS ON THE OCEAN. Ancient Mnrlner Who llnCried the Atlantic Over UOO Time.. The distinction of being tho champion ocean traveler belongs to Captain Pe tors, who commands a vessel of the Dutch-Amrrli-nn Oil Company. On his latest arrival on this side tho other day Captnlu Peters completed his one hun dred and first round trip from Now York to Itottcrdam. Holland. Ho 1ms never been wrecked or Injured by stranding or collision, and of tho sev eral crews ho has commanded In tho Chester, the Chariots and the Rotter dam, tho vessels ho has successively steered abroad since 1SST In tho Interest ! of the Standard Oil Company, ho has never lost n man or had ono laid up with serious Illness. The seafaring man scnrcely.less than the landlubber himself tights shy of tho "oil tanker." Tho prospect df n voyage tn ono has too much of Scylla nnd Charybdls In It-of death by tiro or water. Yet Captain Peters, seated comfortably In his cabin nboard tho Itotterdam. while the liquid cargo of nearly 2,000,000 gallons of refined pe troleum was squirting luto sixteen compartments below us. said plachlly: "There Is no danger whatever. You can see .for yourself. I nm a pioneer captain In this trade; have soeii the oil shipped by sailing vessel and by the tanker. I have made four voyage by the Chester, ninety-three by the Charlpls nnd four by tho steamer Itot terdam. Ily tho Chester and Charlols I took over an average of nbout 1,-iXJ,-000 gallons each trip, nine to the year; by the Itotterdam about 1,800,000 gal lons, eleven to the year. Multiply all that by 100 aud you can seo tho mill ions of dollars' worth of oil 1 havo taken to Hollandwithout losing a llfo or a cent." Old niorrn. In the Clifford family there still cxUta a pair of gloves worn by Queen Elizabeth. Theso she dropped, and Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, one of their ancestors, picked them up aud had them adorned with Jewels. A fur-llned glove worn by Henry VI. Is still to be seen In tho house where bo took shelter nftcr tho battle of Hexham, In the family of tho Pudseys, Bolton Hall, Yorkshire, 1-fGi, and Is la company with a boot and a spoon which the monarch left at tho same time. In New College, Oxford. William Wykehpm's gloves still exist, nnd In a private collection there Is another pair of the samo date. Collectors know their actual date by the form of tho glove. The earlier ones were quite short, and merely covered the hand. When, In Cbarlen II.s time sleeves became shorter, gloves grew longer; they reached alinout to tho el bow, nnd never were moro magnificent, 1 tho leather being scented, embroidered i nnd studded with Jewels, and set oft stant, of Holmes' triumphant otpres wlth lnco ribbons and fringes. Elnb- slon and tho ring of his voice, of the orato trimmings took the nlnco of nr. -cahman'a dazed, savage faco, na ho fl.tle iiMillwoork Nell Gwvntm u-. ;.. 1" Z J" ?.," .U...U... ...v ..v..M .U.tlUU- Hho wore, and some are still In exist-, ItefuHal r$-BO,00O lor a Hoso Hush. In tho town of Hlldcrshelm, In Ger many, Is a rosebush said to be 1,000 years old, nnd sprouts from Its hi-nnnlinu lintra rnnllvn.l f a Itnlm j Biim, Bomo vears aeo a rich Encll-hmJn ni. fered 50,000 for the entlio tree, but tne sum wns indignantly refused. This woiiiicrnu piani enngs amm illicitly grown moss against the sldo of tho, famous old Church of St, Michael. It Is claimed that It has bloomed percn-! nlally slnco tho days of King Alfred, and this statement has never been , disputed, for Its record has been us 1 carefully kept as the bluest blooded ; luiiiu iii uiu ninguuiu. n in supposiHi to hnvo been discovered through tho I medium of King Louis of Hlldershclm as far back as 1022. , Not Ills Hlze. "Just think of ltl Tlmt fellow camo In and actually stole the clock off the mantelpiece." "And you say your dog wns In tho very snn)e room?" "Yes, but ho couldn't do anything. Kldo Is only a watch-dog you know." The woman whoso husband goos with her to prayer meeting has some thing to be proud enough or to tube to tho very front sent XMQAAAAAAiinAAAAAAAiAAiMiAAAAAAAininin 3 A STUDY BY A. CONAN DOYLE. C1IAPTKU Vll-Coutlnubd, Mr. GrvgBon, who had listened to mis address with considerable impa tience, could contain himself no longor, "Look hero. Mr. Sherlock Holmes.' ho said, "wo nro nil ready to ncknuwl edgu that you aro a smart man, and that you havo your own methods working. Wo want something inoro than mero theory and preaching now (bough. It Is n enso of taking tho man. I havo mado my enso out anil It Reams I was wrong. Young Char- pentlor could not havo been engaged In this second affair. Lcstrndo went attor his man, 8tnngorson, nnd It appears that ho was wrong, too. You havo thrown out hints hero nnd hints thore, nnd scorn to know more than wo do, but tho time has come when wo feel that wo havo n right to nsk you straight how much you do know of tho business. Can you namo tho man who did It! "I cannot help fooling that Grcgson is right, sir, remarked Lostrailo. "w bnvo both tried, and wo havo both failed. You havo romnrked moro than unco slnco I havo been In tho room that you had all the evidence which you require. Suroly you will not with noij it nn). onRCrr ... , . Bm ." I obsorved""r arresting tho assas might Klvo him tlmo lo porpctrnto samo fresh atrocity." Thus pressed by us all, Holmes snnweii signs or irresolution Ho continued to walk up and down tho room with his hend sunk on hi chest nnd his brows drawn down, na wna his habit when lost In thought. "Thoro will bo no moro murdors," ho oalil, at last, stopping abruptly anil fac ing us. "ou can put that conshlern tlnn out ot tho-question. You havo asked mo If I know thn nnmo ot th assassin. I do. Tho mero knowing o his namo Is n nmnll thing, however, compared with tho power of laying our hnnds upon him. This I expect very shortly to do. I hnvo good hopes of managing It through my own arrange ments; but It Is n thing which need dcllcnto handling, for wo hnvo shrowd and despcrnto jnan to deal with, who is supported, as I havo hail occasion to prove, by another who Is as clever as himself. As long as this man has no Idea that any ono can havo clow, there Is somn chanco ot securing him: but If ho hnd tho slightest sus picion, ho would chango his namo, nnd vnnlsh In nn Instnnt among tho four million Inhabitants of this great city Without meaning to hurt either of your feelings, I nm bound to say that I con aider theso men to bo moro than match for thn official force, and that Is whv I havo not asked your assistance, If I fall I shall, ot courso. Incur nil tho bl a mo dun to this omission: but that nm prepared for. At present I nm ready to prom I so that tho Instant I ran communlcato with you without cndnngorlng my own combinations shall dn so." Qregson and Lostrndo seemed to bo far from satisfied by this assurance or by tho deprecating allusion to the dc- tectlvo police. Tho former had flushed up to tho mots of his flaxen hair, whllo tho other's beady eyes glistened, with curl ot tr nnd resentment Neither of them had tlrao to speak, however, boforo thcro was a tap at tho door and tho spokesman of tho street nrab, young Wiggins, Introduced his lnslcnlflcant nnd unsavory person. rloaso. air. ho saw. touching his forelock. "I hnvo tho cnb down -stairs. Good boy," said Holmes, blandly. "Why don't you Introduco this pattern tit Scotland Yard?" ho continued, tax Inc a pair of steel handcuffs from drawer. "Seo how beautifully tho spring works. They fasten In an In i,tnnt." The old pattern Is good enough," remarked Lostrailo, "If wo can find tho man to nut them on." 'Very good, very good." said Holmes nmlllng. "Tho cabman may as well help me with my boxes. Just ask him to step up. Wiggins." I wns surprised to find my compan ion speaking as though wo wero about tu start out on a journey, since no nan not said nothing to mo about It There was a small portmanteau In tho room, nnd this ho pulled out and becan to strap. Ho was busily engaged at it wncn tho cabman entered tho room. Just Klvo mo a help with this bucklo. cabman," ho said, kneeling over his task, and never turning hlj bead. Tho fellow camo forward with a somewhat sullen defiant air, and put down his hands to assist At that Instant thcro wns a sharp click, tho Jangling of motal, nnd Sher lock Holmes sprang to his feet again. "Gentlemen," ho cried, with flashing fives, "lot mo Introduco to you Mr Jer- forson Hopo, the murderer of Enoch Drooler and josepn Hiangorson. The wholo thine occurred In a mo- mont so quickly that I had no tlmo to renllzn it I havo a vivid recollection of that In glared at tho glistening handcuffs, which had appeared as If by magic n 1,1- Wf g.g pr BOcond or two wo might havo been a group of statues. Then, with nn Inart culato roar of fury, tho prls nnnr wronchod himself free from Holmes grasp, and hurled himself through tho window. Woodwork nnd glass gave way be- fOrO hlmf but boforo he got quito through Qregson, Lpstrado and Holmes upon wm "K0 80 m0ny 'WB ito was dragged back into tho room, nnd then-commenced a torrinc conllict, Bo powerful and so fierce was he that tho four of ua wero shaken off again and again. Ho nppoarcd to havo tno c?.nv"IB, BtrcnB,u 01 mBn Bnn7s"fT00and hands wero terribly " i ., ,, .v, - ihrnnch thn Bia8s but loss of blood had no effect m dLmlnlsmng ins resistance. It woh not until Lostrailo succeellc'il in getting his hand insido his nock- cloth and half strangling mm inni we mauo mm rennzu mui nm biiubbiob woro of no avnll; and oven then wo folt no socurlty ufitll wo had pinioned bis feet as well as. Ills hands, That done, wo roso to our foot, breathless and panting. "Wo havo hie cab," said Shorlock Holmes "It will servo to take him to Bcotland Yard. And now, gentlemen," ho continued, with a pleasant smile, "wo havo reached tho end of our llttlo mystery. You nro vory wolcome to put any questions that you like to mo now, pnd thoro Is no danuor that I will rofuso to answor thorn," IN SCARLET PAUT II. Tho Country of tho Biitnt. ClIAl'TUll I. In tho central portion of tho great North American Continent thoro lies nn arid and rcpulslvo desert, which for many n long year served as a barrior ngainoi tno nuvanco or clvlllintiun. I-rom tho Blerra Novada to No braaka, and from tho Ynllnwstnnn rlv or In tho north to tho Colorado upon tnu south, is a region ot desolation and llonco. Nor Is nnturo always In ono tnuod mrougnoui tins grim district. It com prises snow-capped and lofty moun tains and dark gloomy valleys. Thoro nro swiftly-flowing rivers which dnsh through Jagged canyons nnd thoro aro enormous plains, whlcl In winter nro whlto with snow, and In sunimnr aro gray with tho saline alkali dust. They all prosorto, however, thn common characteristic- of bnrronness Inhospltnllty and misery. Thoro nro no Inhabitants nf this land or dospnlr. A band of Pnwnoos or of lllnckfeet may occasionally trnvorso It In order tn reach othor hunting-grounds, hut tho hardiest of tho braves aro glad to losn sight of those awosomn plains and tn find themselves onco moro upon thol Prairies. Tho coyoto skulks among thn scrub tho buiiard flaps heavily through tho air. nnd tho clumsy grlztly bear lum bers through thn dnrk ravines, and picks up such iiistennncfl as It can among tho rocks. These nro thu sole dwellers In the wilderness. In tho wholo world thorn ran bo no moro dreary vlow than that from tho northern slopo or tho tilorrn ninnco. As far as tho oye can reach stretch oa tho great Hat plalnlnnd, nil dusted over with patches or alkali, ami inter sected by clumps of tho dwnrflsh ctiii; arral hushes. On thu uxtromo verge ot tho Imrlio; llo n long chain of mountain peaks with their rugged summits decked with snow. In this great strelvh oLcoun try thcro Is no sign of llfo, nor of any thing appertaining tu llfo. Thcro Is no bird In the steel-blue hoaven, no movement upon tho dull, gray earth abovo all thoro Is abso lute sllenco, Listen as ono may, thuru U no shadow of a souud In all that mighty wilderness; nothing but sllenco coraploto and heart-suuilulug d llonco. It baa been said thoro Is nothing up pertaining to life upon tho b'uul plain inni is uaruiy true. Looking down from tho Sierra Blan co, una sees a pathway traced uut across thu desort, which winds away and It lost In tho eitremo distance. It Is ruttod with wheels and trudden dewn by the feet of many adventurers, Hero and thero aro scattered whlto objects which glisten In tho sun mid stand out against thu dull deposit Of alkali. Approach and uxamluu tbeitii They aru bones; sonio largo and coarse other smaller and moro dellcnto. Thu former havu belonged to uicn, the latter to men. For fifteen hundred miles onu may tracu this ghastly caravan routu by theso scattered remains ot those who had fallen by tho wayside. Looking down on this vory scene, thoru stood upon thu 4th of .May. 1817 a solitary traveler. His appearance was such that ho might havo been the vory genius or demon uf thu region. An observer would havo found it difficult to say whothor ho was nearer to forty or to Blxty. His faco was loan and hnggard, and tho brown, parchment-llko skin was drawn tightly over tho projecting bones; his long, brown hair and beard wero all flecked and dashed with whlto: his oyos wcru sunken In his head, and burned with an unnatural luster, whllo tho hand which grasped his rlilo was hardly moro fleshy than that ot a skoloton. As ho stood, bo leaned upon his wcanon for support and yot his tall flguro and tho masslvo framework of his bonos suggested a wiry and vigor ous constitution. His gaunt faco, however, and his clothes, which hung so bagglly over his shriveled limbs, proclaimed what It was that gavo him that sonllo and docreplt appcaranco. Tho man was dying dying from hunger and from thirst He had tolled painfully down the ra vino, and on to this llttlo elovatlon, In tho vain hopo of seeing somo signs of water. Now the great salt plain stretched beforo bis oyes, and tho distant belt of savaco mountains, without a sign nnywhero ot plant or treo which might Indicate the prcsoncfi or moisture. In all that broad landscape tttoro was no gloam or hopo. North, and cast, and west ho looked with wild, questioning eyes, and then ho realized that his wanderings had camo to an end, and that thoro, on that barron crag, no was auoui to uio. "Why not hero, at well as In a feath er bod, twenty years hence," ho mut tered, as ho scatod himself In tho shel ter of a bowlder. Beforo sitting down, ho hnd dopos Ited upon tho ground nls useless rifle, and also a largo bundlo tied up In a gray shawl, which ho had carried slung ovor his right shoulder. It appeared to be uomowhat too heavy for his itrongth. for, In lowering It, It camo down on tho ground with somo llttlo violence. Instantly thoro broko from tho gray parcel a llttlo moaning cry, and from It thero protruded n small, scared faco, with vory orignt, urown oyos, ana iwo llttlo spocklcd, dimpled fists. "You'vo hurt mol" said a childish volco, reproachfully. "Havo I. though?" tho man an- swored, penitently; "I didn't go for to do It." As ho spoko, ho unwrapped the gray shawl and extricated a pretty llttlo girl of about flvo years of age, whoso dainty shoes ana smart pinx irocK, with lto llttlo llnon apron, nil bespoke mmhnr'a caro. Thn child was nale and wan. but nor healthy arms and legs snowed mat ano had suffered loss than hor companion. "How la It now7" ho answorod, anx iously, for ulio was still rubbing tno towiiy-golden curls which coverod tho back of her head, "Klsa It and mako It well," sho salil, with Derfect gravity, shoving tho In jured part up to him. "That'll what mother used to do. Whoro'e mother?" "Mothor's gono, I guess you'll aee her beforo long." . "Gono, eh7 sam tno nmo Bin, ifnnnv. she dldnt say good-byo: sho 'mnnt nlwnvrf did If she WttH Just gain' over to auntio'a for tea, and now nho's beon away for three flays. Sny, It's awful dry, ain't It? Ain't thoro no water nor nothing to oat?" "No, there nln't nothing, tirt3. You'll Just lien dto ho patient awhile-, nml thou you'll ho nil right. I'"t y'"f bond up ngln mo, lllco thiit; nnd imm you'lt fuel hotter. It nln't r nsy to lull; when your Hps nro llko leather, hut 1 HtiosB I'd best let you know how thn cards llo. Whnt'M that you'vo Hot?" "Pretty tlilnitnl flno Oilnimt" rrloil (ho llttlo girl, othulsimtlcnlly, holding up two KlItti'ilHK fniHinentH of inlca, "When wo goes Imck to homo I'll glvn them to brother Hub." "You'll Ben prettier IIiIiikh than Ilium soon," said tho man, cnnfldmilly. "m Just wait a bit. I wan going to toll you, though you remember when wo left tint river?" "Woll, wo reckoned wo strlkn an other river Boon, il'yo bio, Hut them was BOtnothln' wrong; roiiipasiies or viap, or boiiicUiIii'. nnd It didn't turn nil Water ran out. Just except n H tto drop for tho Hkos of you nnd """And you couldn't wnsli yourself." In turruptod his companion, gravely, star ing up nt his grimy visage. "No. nor drink. And Mr. llr-nder, hn wns tlio first to go, and then liiillnii Peto, and limn Mrs, McGregor, and then Johnny Unites, and thun, iloailu. yo-ir nto'hor." iiti, ,llinpa n ilemlnr too." Cr I'd thn llttlo girl, dropping her faro In her plnnroro nnd milling iniu'nr. "Yes: they nil went oreit you and me. Thou I thought thorn wns somn chanco of water In this illnctlon. so 1 heaved you on my idioiililor and w trnnuiod It togothor. It don't set'in as though wo'vo Improve! iiiiiII'th. There'll nn almighty amnn cnniico mr us now!" ..ii i.mnn Hint vn nil CnllllT tO die, too?" nskPd tho ehlhl, checking her sobs, ami raising nor lunr-pui i 'avo. . . ., "I riiosiI Hint's about the slio of It. vviiv didn't von nv bo beforo?" sho said, laiuhlng rlrr-fully "You gavo nm such a fright, wiiy. or courpn, now na lone ns wo dlo we'll I o with mother again." . . "Yes, you will, dearie." An, i vim inn I'll tell her how nwful good you'vo beon. I'll bl '" meets ua at the door of hnnvon with a big pltrher of water, and n lot of buckwheat cakes, hot. and losslfl m both sides, likn Hob and tun wn fond of How long will It lo first?" "I don't know nut vrry long." Tim mnn'M iyi worn fixod on tho northern horizon. In Iho bine vault of tho honvnn there appearel tnrew nine ppecka which Incren'ed In sire every moment, so rapidly did they npprnsrh. Thny speedily rolved thmndves Into threo largo brown birds, which clr ri.i rivni- tlm linndu nf the two wan derer, nnd then Bctt'od upon omo rocks which overlooked them. They wern billiards, the vulture or tho Wost. whoso coming la tho fore runner of death. (To li rontinurd.) WllNT HIM SOMI! llinTlltt. (llrl Improved on lUcue Offered by Her Little llrothcr. Annln wns Into, and like a nunidhlo child, rhn reconlml thn fact ami Hop ped running. ?pt mi Jnhnnlu. lie belonged to tho clan that never kno when it Iiiib enough of either Joy or trouble, io ha kept up Ills laWlomi trot until thu hcliool door was toadied. There ho leaned dejectedly and breath od heavily. Aiiulii eyed ti I tit with a fcorn that grew as she looked. I-atcr on they stood In tho olllco looking llko a nst of llluntrntlons fur u new vcrilim of tho "Lives ol tho Hunted," and Jolinnv was talking, "I couldn't menu It," ho nohlx-d. It win mo hlg ulster Kntlu' limit. Hho mado mo cat threo eggs, an' me muilder ays I can't hold that much till I'm nine years old, and" llo would havo babbled on Indefinitely, tho tears rolling off his fat, fool lull llttlo (aro, but the principal handed lilm his ndminlnn slip and turned to Annln. That young lady bad a pamlnn fur acquisition, w with. out further ado alio acquired JoIiiiiiIo'h exnifo. "I alo too many eirgti, too, and It mado mo Into," sho explained. "Imleod," nalil tho principal, "and how many did you eat?" Annie's lips curled scornfully as nho remembered Johnny and his lulnorablo llttlo threo eygs. "I ntu revonty.four." she replied, blandly. New York Evening Sun. The Origin of "Windfall." Did you ever havo a "windfall," and did you ovorwondei why you on Hod It so, when the wind had nothing nt all to do with your gd fortune? It was to the peasants in William tho Conqueror's timu that an actual wind fall meant good luck, They woro for bidden, under sovoro ponnlty, to cut a forest treo, but whatovor thu wind blow down was their own: hencu their greatest fortuno was a heavy wind storm and Its consequent "fall," Ami hence tho name wo glvu our modern good luck. What Alligators flat. More than onco curious things hnvo been found in tho ttomnch of n nhark, bot nevor lias such an extraordinary collection been found ns was discovered recently In thu stomach of an alligator. This alligator wan killed In tlio Hoiulan, and was moro than 12 foot In length. In Its stcmach wero discovered eighty- flvo stones, several birds' clawe, two human flngor nails nnd tlnco hoofs of a donkey, to ono of which a piece of ropo was auicnuu. Medals for Plrst Volunteers, Governor Crane, nf MumuM,,,.,,,!!. has signed tho bill awurdlinr n flll-il ll tn every man from his ntnte who went out i.. , ti i.i . , i. . in renpuiino iu t retinoin Lincoln -h nrst call for troops. Tlio pen with which ho signed tlio bill lias beon prcsuiitod to I'totlilont Ploroo, of thu "mluuto mon ot 'Ol." Baltimore to Honor Schley. Ilaltlmoro Is rniitlilnrlni. n ,!,.. of changing tho namo of Its North avonuu io jcnioy iiveiiue. in nonor ol t in rem- admiral. Tho present namo In no lonuor unnroiirlatu. thn norllmr'n 1,,,. durv nf the cltv linvlnir ovl,m,l,.,l In. beyond that avonuu. Praises American Scenery. Paul Llmlau do.dnros In a rnront magazine article t lint tlm ileepent Im pression he had over recolvod on bin trnvola In the new or old world wH given by tlio Grand canyon of tlio Colo rado river, In Arizona, A Chinese Clarionet. Tho Bonn, n'Ghinuco clnrlorot. la thn fnvorito imtrument nmoniMlio. common people, especially. at marrlnco and fun. oral ont(ittulumon(e, - iu fifulu is from F to U abovo,