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li -à I ne Contrabandist; OR ♦» ii ♦ss A TRUE : STORY OF Î THE SOUTH OF tv FRANCE have clasped y-u In my arms with an emotion of tenderness which, even had you felt, you could uot have comprehend ed! For my child—my Marguerite—my pearl—resembled her mother—her sweet mother, my wife, ami you were the im age of both mother and child. Ami now listen. Rose. It Is within these two last months, Rose, that I have discovered what became of my little Marguerite. She was stolen from me by my own brother, Henri. You start. Rose, and turn pale. It was so; it w*as his revenge. He would have taken Helen, the child of her whom he had loved so madly; but he knew that I loved tny youngest darling the best—that I idolized the (laughter of my lost Marguerite; and he took the youngest. He reared her as his own. He brought her into this neighborhood, after an absence of two years, during which time she had grown and altered beyon I recognition, though, when 1 met her, I saw a likeness to my wife. Yet I never suspected. He dwelt, a solitary man. with this little orphan child, whose moth er—bis wife—they said was dead. He' lived not more than half a league from this very dwelling. There my child, un recognized. expanded into a lovely wom anhood. She was----- ” He was interrupted in his hurried and agitated recital by a faint cry from Rose. She sprang up with clasped hands and quivering lips. “O, tell me—tell me who it was!” cried. "Speak—It was-----” “My chil<l my daughter!” uttered the marquis, extending his arms to embrace her; "behold her—for they called her— Rose Lamonte!" "Ah, my father!” And with the soft utterance of that dear name, she fainted upon his breast. LET US ALL LAUGIl. JOKES FROM THE PENS OF VA- RIOUa HUMORISTS. I’leaaant Inculcate Occurring the W arid Over buyinga that Are cheer ful to Old or Youug — i iniuy belac- tiuua that You Will Enjoy, “Although I have granted you this interview,’ said Hie pompous new of- iireholder, "1 don't want people to think I’m in the habit of talking for publication.” “They won’t.” replied the reporter, “when they see these remarks in print.”—Philadelphia Press. High Church. WEALTH IS USELESS. Mrs. Itocker—I think we'd better at tend that new church. It is ultra fashionable. Mr. Itocker—Think so? MILLIONAIRES OF ARIZONA WHO Mrs. Rocker—Yes, the pews rent for LIVE IN SQUALOR. as uAicb as grand-opera boxes. Saving Money. Copper Kina Who Steep, on a Blanket “You told him to diet himself,” said on the Floor of lit. Cabin—Another the young doctor. Millionaire. Whoa. Chief Laiury la “Well, yes,” refilled the old one. “I Plus Tobacco. told him to eat only the plainest food and as little as possible.” There are several rich men In Ari “Do you think that will help him?” “It will help him to pay my bill.”— zona. some of whom far exceed the million mark, who live lives as plain Philadelphia Press. as th« half-breed Advertising the Milt. Mexicans among “There.” said Miss Swellman. who whom their lot is was showing her guest around New- cast. One of these port, "Is the old mill upon which Long is James A. Robin fellow wrote his poem.” son, whose home is "The idea!” exclaimed Miss Pork in the little Mexi ham: “I didn't know lie wrote adver- i can hamlet of Oro tlsing poetry at all.”—Catholic Stand I Blanco, close upon ard and Times. the boundary be tween the United Her Modest With. States and Mexico, “Sometimes,” said the poet, “I al- and who is worth most get to thinking I would rather JAMLtì M. WAT8UN. $1,81)0.000, his pos have been born rich than a genius.” sessions consisting in copper mines, “Oh, dear,” his wife replied, “I don’t cattle aid lands. go to such extravagant extremes. If Oro Blanco Is about the last com- you’d only been born with a longing munity in the country where one to go out and get a Job somewhere I’d would look for the residence of a be satisfied.” millionaire. It is a mere huddle of By tlie Keil halt Gio. one-story frame and adobe structures They were sitting by the old flir dignified by the name of houses. They place. ' are built on the sunbaked earth and "Our • kisses are like velvet,” he whis- there is not a wooden floor In the pered; “ ‘ so soft.” hamlet, Two little stores, each with Velvet?” she sakl sweetly. “I think a saloon adjunct, and a blacksmith they are all felt.”—Chicago News. -hop, make up the business section of the town, The sparse population Perhaps He Was. Who was that young man hugging is four-fifths Mexican, and the com you last night?” asked the girl in the munlty is not at all American in any of its ways, Yet Black Jim Robln- new fall hat. “Oh, he is a book agent,” responded son, as he Is known all over the re gion because of his marked swarthi her chum. ness, has made his home in Oro Blan “Looked to me more like a press co for thirty years and probably will agent” never live anywhere else. He Is from Wag She Really? Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and was on his Clara—Was Maud then so angry? way with an ox-team wagon to the Kittle—Well, she told me that she Pacific coast by the Santa Fe trail was up In arms the moment he at tempt to hug her.—Butte Inter Moun tain. ' was nothing more profitable In mining. A New York syndicate gave Watson $45.00») for a half inti-rest In hi« Dur ham mine, which he would have sold tn 1803 for $2,000, and then went ahead with the development of the property. At 47 he was poor, and at 50 he waa easily worth $300,000. Such are the marvelous transformations lu some men’s fortunes In the mining re- glons the world over. To see him one would never sna pect that the Goddess Fortune had so much aa glanced at him. He rides about Globe on a scraggy old bay horse, with a bunch of greasy, tat- tered blankets for a saddle. A short, black clay pipe is generally between his lips, He sleeps In a blanket on his cabin floor, He never reads, never goes anywhere except to a saloon. He dresses like a ranch laborer, but wears an elaborate Mexican sombrero with a gold and silver threaded band about It That Is the sole personal Indication of his rise in the mining world. CHAPTER XXL I “It appears to me,1 he said, with four It t was evening; and, in the chamber of ful deliberation, “I th»! tJici e is something the young girl so lately reclaimed from here »vi!l do our little invalid no the i very portals of death, the deepest still good. I will remove it, if you please, ness reigned. Softly burned the shaded madam»», and bring something different.” lamps, casting a subdued glow about the And following the stealthy figure of apartment, yet so disposed as to leave in Mademoiselle Montauban, as it glided Vrry Likely. shadow the curtained couch and its slum from the apartment, he closed the door "I notice the bellboys at the hotel bering occupant. For Rose was sleeping behind him. .-re invariably called Buttons.’ Won calmly, so calmly, so quietly, that you They were alone together in the gallery, der why that Is?" might almost have thought her dea l. The lighted only by a single lamp, which but "Probably because they’re off when breath that floated from those pale lips i faintly revealed that ghostly form, mov was scarcely perceptible, though regular, ing swiftly towards the opposite cham you need ’em most.”—Philadelphia so much had illness reduced her strength. ber. But, quicker than lightning, his Lei Igor. Never Entered a Church. She slept, nor dreamed of danger. grasp was upon her arm. Her weird, Still another man to whom wealth <>ur Confusing Gei.gr.nhv, For the first time to-day the invalid white face gleamed awfully upon him has not brought corresponding com was left alone. But suddenly the door through the dim twilight. But she spoke forts Is William Soggs, a Texan and near the head of the couch was opened no word. noiselessly, and with slow and stealthy a cattle king In Yavapai County. He “Come with me.” caution, from without. A tall, light- It was all he said. There was no pow is worth half a million. He cannot robed. ghost-like form glided in without er of resistance in the form beside him. read or write; Indeed, he cannot do a sound < MC-like, except for the large, Rapidly those two descended the stair any sum In arithmetic that Involves brilliant: dark eyes that gleamed more case. He entered the library, with her more than plain addition or subtrac wildly than ever to-night, and the crim arm locked in his; then he closed ami tion. His success is an Illustration son spot of excitement burning on either locked the door. He stood before her. of what ceaseless devotion to one pur cheek, while all the rest of that fact» was She was very still—very white. Only pose may accomplish. There is prob ashy white. It was Helen Montauban! those terrible eyes burned like live coals ♦ • • e a a a ably no one who knows cattle rang What more fitting time was there for her amid lifeless ashes. He held the cup in As a matter of course, Rose—no, Mar work of evil to be accomplished? None his hand; he made her look at it. ing In Arizona better than Boggs. He guerite—and I.otiis were united. And could witness her now; n<»ne were near “You know what this is?” he said. has a wonderful memory, an Iron though Marguerite mourned still, with a this place. And the tiny flask gleamed There was no answer. constitution, and quick compreten- chilli's affection, the loss of him whom in the softened light, as she drew it from “You do know. You placed it there, I she had hitherto regarded as a parent, '4on of buslness propositions in the was a witness of the deed. Unhappy yet her heart turned, with natural love, her bosom. line of cattle growing and profitable One hand, holding the vial, was stretch to her true father; and the regard which ranges, Since he became a cowboy ed forth to the silver cup set upon the 1 she had ever felt for him. while her re on the Texas Panhandle, when less stand by the bedside. Courage, and the lationship to him was yet unknown, ex than 15 years old, he has given every work is done. Yet that guilty hand shook panded ami deepened now into that holi day of his life to cattle raising, It with fear, as. drop by drop, the poison est and ti'iiderest of sentiments—a daugh was poured into the cup. And Helen is said he knows at sight more than ter’s affection. Montauban glanced fearfully towards the 4,000 cattle brands, and there are Helen Montauban, ns soon as her health door by which she had entered; for it al Citizen I don't know your brouier. some he does not see once in fl ve or became re-established, entered a convent, most seemed, to her miserable, horror- to enter upon her novitiate; and when it What pin t of the town does he live in six years. struck fancy, that some one must be was expired, assumed the veil, that shut north, south, northeast or southeast? He was reared on the border of civ- watching her. her from a world grown hateful to her. Bibulous Jack—Nor'east by a point llizatlon. His mother was a Creek A shadow had startled her. With a The frustration of her evil design upon cast, sir!—Minneapolis Journal. squaw. He never had even one lesson ghastly smile at her own nervousness, she her sister was too much for her to bear; In school. Had he had a common ailently mingled the poison with the night, and though, thanks to the mercy of M. 1 Rones and Strings. school education, the Arizona cattle drink of Rose; then, as noiselessly as she Mery, her guilt remained a secret from ' He seems to think lie's a winner Quite Another Matter. had entered, returned to her own room men say, he would have been the all save himself, yet she could not endure with the girls.” Wife—How foolish men are to gam across the gallery. It was done! What greatest cattleman in the whole West, to meet daily with those whose happiness "Yes, he thinks he knows the ble on the stock exchange and in buck had she to fear now? Who would ever lie has a wife and live children. The continually reminded her of the fate alike ropes.” et shops. dream, when the hour of death came, of her love and her revenge. None knew family live in a log cabin forty-flve "1 guess that's why it's so easy for Husband—But they don't gamble on that such agency as this had been em w hy she entered the convent, save M. I miles east from Jerome, with no neigh ployed? Closing the door, she paced her Mery. Persuasion had availed nothing, them to get him on a string,”.—Phila the stock exchange, my dear. bors nearer than six miles. Every day chamber restlessly, with both hands delphia Ledger. Wife—Then what do they do? anil a nun she became. Is like every other in the Soggs home. clasped tightly against her heart, whose Francis Kgerton returned to Paris, Husband—Why, they operate. The wife works like a poor settler’s Bargain.. violent throbbings seemed to fill with where, in a year or two, he married hap Wife (home from a shopping tour)— wtife, the boys are out on the range clamorous Nound this awful midnight si Proof Conclusive. pily. Jacques Leroux, shortly after the with the cattle and the girls help at lence. Listening in almost intolerable HELEN MONTAUBAN “Why do you charge him with dis death of ills former leader, returned to Well, I'm tired out, and 1 had such an FATAL POTION. suspense, and pacing her apartment, she times at branding the cattle, and at HOME OF JAMES A. ROBINSON. the neighborhood of the Chateau Montan annoying experience to-day 1 feel posi turbing the peace?” asked the Justice. waited for some signal from the opposite woman! What evil has that sweet child ban, anj entered in the service of Louis tively cheap. other times work about the home. Sun “He htis a phonograph with a mega chamber. Husband—Well, you certainly look phone attachment,” was the reply.— when tiie possibilities of making days. holidays and all the work goes done to you? Would you murder your d'Artois, whom he served faithfully mid A who!»* hour passed. Then there was own sister Marguerite Montauban?” who rewarded him well for his many ser- as If you should be cheap. money in cattle came to him. Forth on steadily. Chicago Post. a sound—a light step—in the gallery. It One moment the guilty woman gazed vices. with he abandoned the emigrant train Neither he nor any of his family Wife—How do you mean? was the Countess de Clairvllle, return at him wildly, A gasp, a struggle, a Puttinc Him on Ills Mettle (The end.) to California, and has been living in ever has seen a drama, ever heard a Husband—Shopworn.—Philadelphia ing to the b«»dside of Rose. Helen Mon faint cry, and she sank in awful eon- Arizona ever since, He was blessed concert or been in a church. Some Public Ledger. tauban could endure this suspense no viilsions at his feet. INNOCENT LITTLE BOY. with a wonderful constitution and years ago the Soggs family went to a longer. She must see, with her own eyes, Why They Parted. That was a fearful ____ night which fol nerves of iron. He has been through circus In Prescott and to this day the Ile I*ai<l His Lawyer witli the Finn* the conclusion of this tragedy. Emerg lowed, but it was only the He — Their engagement Is broken off. co tnmonce- der He Stole. Indian campaigns that would have events of that visit are related as en ing from her apartment, therefore, she ment of n season fraught with agony. She—-For what reason? A colony of young lawyers whose joined the countess, as she entered the The marquis returned to the chateau killed most men, and has had fights thusiastically as if the family had “ Why, he told her one night that opposite door. for his life and property with Mexi peered into the open gates of heaven. from the deathbed of his brother, to find quarters are In the Ashland Block have “Ah, my dear, is that you? Then you Helen struggling between life and death. been smoking expensive cigars of late when he was at bls work her face can vacqueros and with outlaws that have been asleep also?” said the countess, I' or weeks she lay unconscious of every with all the abandon of millionaires. was ever before him. would make hair-raising narratives. THREATENED WITH BLINDNESS. "Well?” smiling. “But St Is rather chilly to-night thing about her; only coming out of the The story of how they came Into pos Kll the financial ups and downs of "Why, he's a cartoonist! ” — Yonkers —do you not think so? > ’ ’» dull stupor that wrapt her, to fall, ever session of the colony Is just going the Little Chinee for Jnstlce Brown to frontier life have been his. Statesman. “Yea—it is cohl,” uttered Helen Mon and anon, into those terrible convulsions, Kicnpe Thia Affliction. Chief Lnxurjr Is Plug Tobacco. tanbaR, hoarsely—“it is cold!" and she in which it seemed that nature must rounds of the legal fraternity Physicians who have given his case Attorney L. .1. McElroy recently re Busy Not Looking to Bee Anything. shivered. For twenty years Robinson has been consideration declare sink, worn out with the contest. Th,» Ex plained. “Well, what did you see in New- that Justice She drew noir the fire and crouched agitation produced by this circumstance, ceived a call from a middle-aged wom having an average net annual Income Henry B. Brown, of the United States “Why did he marry her?” shlidilf'tingly oVer the broad blaze. The strange and sudden as it was, and the an in great distress of mind. Her son. York ?” "Because she could beat him at golf of $45,000, while he and bis family Supreme Court, cannot escape blind “Not much. Spent most of my time Countess de Clairvllle went to the couch death of his brother, would have been Tummy, had been arresU‘,1 for stealing and he wanted to fix it so that he have been living on less than $500 of of Ros»» and bent over it for an instant. beyond his power to bear had it not been a package containing 500 cigars from trying to let on I'd been there before.” could keep her off the links.”—Chicago it each year. He has a Mexican wife, ness. It is not likely, however, that “The dear child is asleep, I think, she for the inexpressible happiness which it the delivery wagon of a supply house —Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. the country will be deprived of his ser- whom he married thirty years ago. Post. said, presently, returning to the hearth. was permit led him to enjoy in th,* dis and was confined In a cell in a police Not Favorably Impressed. There are four young men and five “How refreshing how delightful it is for covery of his long lost child. How would Resemblance. “Yes,” said the tall tramp, “after I one to see her once more enjoying so gen he have shuddered had he known the station, with bright prospects for a I.a Montt—Made a terrible blunder girls in the family, but only three of tle a slumber! Poor little Rose! she must tearful fate which that sweet child had term in the bide well. The only hope had eaten dinner de lady come out an’ them remain at home. All the others to-day. Saw a man in a rubber suit of the mother rested In the probability spoke on de evils of idleness.” be well nigh worn out with this fatigu ho narrowly escaped! nave married Into Mexican families and cap and asked him If he was a that a lawyer might find some loophole ing illness. I wonder,” th»» lady contin “Did you enjoy it?” asked the short But the scenes enacted within the walls and gone out to live in shanties and sewer cleaner. ued, seating herself by the hearth, oppo of the chateau that night were mercifully of escape, anil she produced enough tramp. mudhouses among the cattle along the I ji Moyne — Who was he? site Mademoiselle Montauban—“1 won concealed from him. money to Interest the lawyer In the Fortunately for "No, I never did like after-dinner .»order, just like the sons and daugh der how her father is down nt the vil Helen Montauban, in the illness which case. La Montt — Millionaire chauffeur. ■peakers.” ters of the poorest cowpunchers and lage? They thought he was »lying this succeeded th,» overwhelming denouement Attorney McElroy called upon the sheep herders In the region. The home Easily Explained. morning when the martinis went down. I of the dark tragedy wherein she had tak Narrow K.cnpe. prisoner in his cell. He found him to be The teacher called the bright boy up of this millionaire from New York What a satl thing it would have been if en so terrible a part, there was no de “What have you been doing in that a hard looking street urchin about 14 the father and daughter had both died!” lirium, or her wretched secret would in woodshed?” demanded the stem par to her desk. “Now, Homer,” she said, would be dear at $250. All the furni years old, with sharp features, and She spoke in subdued whispers. “can you tell the class why Paul Re ture and household effects in it could evitably have been ............... betrayed; and M. ent. Mndetnoiselle Montauban bent lower Mery, who tended her constantly, had de ket'n, shrewd eyes. vere was so successful in his ride?” be replaced for $300. The floors are of "S smoking, sir,” replied the boy. over the blaze, warming her hands. “Did you steal those cigars, Tom stroyed ull evidence of her guilt, of which, "Because he didn’t start in an auto hard-packed adobe, the windows and "Smoking eignrt'ttes, oh? ” “And peculiar, too," she returned, in on that night he had so providentially my?” inquired the lawyer. doors are of the cheapest, crudest pat "No. smoking glass. I'm interested mobile,” responded the bright boy. n low tone. "But w»» cannot I m * too care been mad,* aware by returning, unan “Cert, 1 stole de cigars,” replied in sun spots, pop. tern. and a drop of paint was never ful of her, even now; for M. Mery says nouneed, and entering the apartment of Tommy, with a swagger. One Proof. applied Inside or out The old couple that, in her present feebl»» state, the least the invalid just before the stealthy ap “Eskimos are not too much addicted “ Tommy, I don ’ t believe you stole dress in the same coarse, rude garb as excitement or alarm might b»» fatal to proach of the murderess. Her illness he to cleanliness,” remarked tile man who of old. The old man wears overalls her. 1 drend that. 1 think, suppose any allowed all to attribute to the agitation, those cigars; 1 didn’t see you steal Jt STICK HENRY B. BBOWS. reads so much. and a “hickory” shirt all the time, ex- thing should happen, after all our re anxiety and excitement attendant on the them,” said (he attorney, looking hard "1 don ’ t know about that, ” said the juicing? We must b»» so cautious! The late danger of Rose, trusting that, if she at the youthful criminal. • «»pt occasionally when a buyer for a vices, for with his profound knowledge friend. “I am sure they ail sleep in The shrewd eyes contracted, and an least thing, you know th»» least thing recovered, she would bitterly repent, in hicago or a Kansas City packing of law. his hearing and his alert fac snowy beds.” might kill her!” expression of comprehension came into house journeys from Nogales railroad ulties the essential equipment for his secret, her sinful attempt on her sister's Siu» shook as sin* uttered these wonls; lift», and unwilling |O add to the shame the sharp feature. Classing Him. station, thirty miles across the hot, position remains intact. her eyes were wild and strange. Tims»» and agony which she would feel by be “Naw, 1 didn’t steal them cigars, Sharpe—There goes Heeler. lie wa s ■ lusty plain, to talk over a $30,000 or Justice Brown is a native of Massa delicate, slender hands touched the trnyIng her guilt. II......mill giles: nt the replied promptly. big gun in the election. $40.000 cattle transaction In the kitch chusetts and is nearing his <18 tb birth U hiiich , ns she livid them out. but she rmuse of her enmity towards Rose; "Tommy, how old are you?” inquired Whealton—Yes, I understand he was en of the old house, Then Mr. Robin- day. lie is a graduate of Yale and of never knew it. A species of insanity was M. Mery- was a shrewd man; and he the attorney. repeater. son may put on a threadbare and its law school and also that of Har upon her. The protracted con cmplatioii solved to expedite the union of the loi faded coat that he bought twenty vard. In 1800 he located in Michigan "Fourteen." replied Tommy, with evi of this terrible need, strong a-, were her as much us was possible, that, in < Left Over from Last Year. nerves, hail begun almost to tell rpon the hatred of Helen should be still un dent pride. Larry—Bedad. Rafferty won thot years ago in Tucson. There Is not a and soon after was admitted to the her reason. “I don’t believe you are 1 I. Tommy. satisfied. th*» young girl might hr safe turkey in the raffle down at Mahoole’s. ’»ook In the house but a Cattleman’s bar. He was an assistant district at "I wonder if Hugh Lamonte is still liv from her reach, under the protection of You don’t look that old.” continued the Guide and a volume of recipes for cur torney for the United Stntes, subse Thot’s pliwat Oi call luck. ing?” continued th»» countess. "It is a her husband. dress for my debut, papa? ing horse and cattle diseases. This quently became a State judge and was lawyer. Denny—Yis, tough luck. pity that he could not be brought lu re; l’apa Ahem! Well. I guess It'll do Meanwhile the burial of Henri took millionaire’s family never takes a appointed by President Grant a Fed “No’p; I’m only 10 years old,” re but Jean Morel said they had deelnr«»»! place It was quirt, unostentatious. He for your coming-out dress all right! Jn.t a Way They Have. newspaper, buys no furniture, never eral judge. In 1RU1 he went upon the it impossible to move him with safety. was laid in the family vault, to rest at spomled Tommy. Edyth—George Is neither handsome -sates such things as ice cream, candy, Supreme Court bench. “Tommy, do you over cry?” Besides, it would be dangerous to Rose, last, after a weary life of sorrow, of At Hnbbr'a Expense. “Cry? Naw." said Tommy in evident perhaps, if he wen» in her vicinity, for desperation and of crime, “Just look at Mrs. Destyle," said the nor wealthy, but I accepted him be fish c* fancy groceries. The old man crime. Only the mar miw ’ a banana for the first time a year Wild Range of the Moose. she would I m * more likely to gain s»uue quis and the immediate i tn. nibers or hH disgust. old bachelor at tile reception. ’She's cause 1 consider him a real hero. Mayme—And the fact that he pro ago, when he was in Nogales, Ills knowledge of his situation Yet what a family were made acquainted with the The range of the moose in North "I think you had better cry a little got up regardless of ex penjie.” only luxury Is plug tobacco. sorrowful thing it Is that they cannot bid history ol f the unhappy man, in the rec- when you come before the Judge to America Is of enormous extent, from "Huh!" growled his ex-bachelor posed to you proves that he is, dear. each other adieu!” ords which hr left bciiind. Louis I Nova Scotia in the extreme east, return- morrow, Tommy." said the lawyer. Bleeps on the Floor, friend. "I never saw a married worn* At that moment the »loor near th»* head rd from Paris in time for this burial, Strength Necessary, Another millionaire who 1 lives in throughout Canada and certain of the "All right," responded Tommy cheer an that u asn't." of the couch whs op<»ne«l Both til.« < »>un- Returned, in anticipation of his ap- New Boarder—That butter disli what may be termed squalor ' is John Northern United States, to the limits tess and Helen turned to ► who en preaching marriage day, to find his ln- fully. looks rather fragile. M. Watson, of Globe. In Gila . County. of tree growth in the west nnd north Candid Admission. The next day when Tommy’s rase tere,1. It was th,» physician. M. Mery. tended bride but just re Igtudlady—Oh. It's ever so much He owns a half Interest in the reeovoriiig fioni a "Yes." Mid the elder Snlfklns, “the Durham of Alaska. Throughout this vast ex He pause,1 by the bedside an instant, bent dangerous illness, a Helen Montauban, was called his lawyer asked for a Jury happiest hours of my life were those I stronger than it looks. mine along with a syndicate of New tent of territory but two species are over Rose and listened. Iler respiration as many believed, trial. The Jury waa selected and the he gates of death; New Boarder — Undoubtedly. Other Yorkers, and his dividends from the recognized, the common moose, Alees was calm nnd regular, though almost im to learn the st or* f th»» strangely evidence was somewhat damaging. passed in school.” perceptible. After regur,Ung her a mo chequered life of property come from the company's americanus. and the Alaskan moose. "Well, father." rejoined Snlfkins, wise It couldn't hold the butter. deceased relative, Then Tommy was put on the stand. ment, he advance,! silently rowards the und recognize, in office In New York every ninety days. Alces gigaA of the Kenai peninsula; Jr., "I cannot tell a lie. My happiest beloved Ros»», a "Did you steal thus,» cigars. Tommy hearth. A chill struck through tin* guilty’ cousin, and the chi Robber Bees Despoil Hives. They vary from $17.000 to $3'3.000 four but it is probable that further explora- i> long mourned as asked the lawyer. hours begin when school Is dismissed.” Helen. She ha,I not expert,»,1 him so lost by his uncle, To the person who knows nothing rimes a year. Besides, he owns a t.oa will bring to light another species tint au astounding “ No, I didn ’ t," replied Tommy in a soon, and the deed was yet unaccomplish rev,»Lition was this, Bhe Was Unworthy. about bees they represent the supreme smaller mine In Yuma County, for mar the bead waters of the I-aird voice loaded with tears. ed! She (after being proposed to)—But type of industry, says the London which he has at present a standing In the evening River and the Casslar Mountains of “ How old are you. Tommy? ” “Ah, M. Mery, is that you?” said th,* day th,» marquis <• do you really mean to say you've Chronicle. But even the bee communi ffer of $2i»>.<XM). which yields (everal British Columbia, and still another countess; and she bent eagerly forward. the library, and after sonv “I I I’m 10 to today. It’s me never kissed a girl? ties are disturbed by those ow their thousand dollars profit every month. further north in the neighborhood of “How is *’ birthday," sobbed ’Toi iituy. ami the rest less and insignificant rti Augustus Yes. really nnd truly. own kind who break through an«I The rise of Watson to wealth was the Colville River. Th,» physician placed a warning finger selves, but accompanied of his answers wer e given between She isadlyi Then farewell forever. steal. Bobber bees are always a sourc, as unusual as It was sudden. Five upon bis lip. that betrayed the emotioi bursts of affecting sobs, The Jun did I am not worthy of you.—St Ixmis Ancient Proofreading. “N,»t too loud, my dear madnme,” h. hr ss id. »11*1.11* of anxiety to beekeepers. years ago he would gladly have sold not waste much time. They found Post Dispatch. Whispered. "It is all over!” The editions of books printed two Having gathered no honey, or. at •'ll bis mining Interests In Arizona for "Rose nij cl Tommy "not guilty. ” “Ah. how sad!” The tears came into father?’ any rate, an insufficient supply for i few thousand dollars an*! have for- or three hundred years ago are almost For Good» Th,* next morning Attorney M her eyes. ever quit work. He entirely free from typographical er "(>, v Maud—I understand yon are about themselves, they will descend upon n M. Mery sat down, leaning his h<*a I « was sitting In his „tiler when lie used to go about rors. which may be attributed to the to lose the young pastor that has been hive, kill its industrious occupants and upon his hand. He was very g the patter of ft»«»t In the hull Phoenix and Tuc- fact that early publishers were gener preaching tor you the Uiat year or carry off th»' golden treasure in an as night. Softly spoke a scarcely udible and a rap at the door. When lit ion tonishingly short space of time. W, t wo. im portuni ng ally eminent scholars, and themselves voicv from the couch. The conn It then» was no one in sigh’ Mabel— Yes; lie's going to be mar- know of a recent instance in which everyone who had gave much attention to the revision of and went thither. age was placed against the l>l>ell ried next week. Chicago Tribune. “You are awoke, my dear?’ $ c said any interest the attack was developed and the home In their proofs. After reading the proofs Ing It. the lawyer found 4. A gently. “Ah. you have slept s< nicely bees killed in a couple of hours. Some mining to give him they frequently turned them over to y note was slipped under tl I.ivina on the Freceeds. ing. It And now, you are thirsty. \\ a a tuo- an offer for his other scholars with the request to re times hive will attack neighboring “He’s simply living on his automo read as follows: inent, dear Rose.” hive. In such cast's the old atra* popper, and let him vise nnd correct, and as the printer’s at.-.« hl If iH'sido her. bile thia winter.” "Mr. Lawyer: I brings She turne,I and took up th»» si “skip” was better than the modern a little money time was then deemed a matter of Ml»•«•(. in child. to hear you aay gars ’cause yousc got me on the stand. A mingling of joy “Why. 1 thought he couldn’t afford arrangement, for a knife thrust which to take small consequence, a perfection was you do n ,»t know how sw, I‘t to ror the most iut»us»», seized tl to run the thing.* ’ Judge. I would bring dr of his invalid attained which is seldom equaled by se. did I not tell you on«*r t h a t through the top would break the coml deress by the h«^»rth. "That ’ s Just it. He sold it. ” — Phil» mirtreli r fifteen years a :o, a but de gang smoked ’em , • nd a crip- modem printers. and art the honey free, at which the "One moment, my dear madam dolphin Public I ah ! ger. WILLIAM SVOOS ntle Infant. who* r I”». I), son. A little M. Mery, haatily. rising and g thieves would instantly return to seal At the age of 21 a man is convinced have « wn in the saloon a I wards her. “lx*t me give it to h. up their own store. It is not primarily later copper began to appreciate and j that all other men are fools; at 30 At a Itlen.lvantage. stolen from me?” He took the cup from the han I of th,* "Time and tide wait for no (nan.” in their industry that bees are human. id developed copper mine« began to The Riviera. monsiei ii r.” countess, glan»*lng bark ns h»» did so. at reopen all over the Territory. Pres he begins to realize that he ia on a quoted the first dear girl. It ia calculated that the num of £1 of the other«. fold you that you ore Mademoiselle .Montauban. Her bri Umt The average woman loves to look ently all the old copper mine« were "Yea." sighed dear girl the second, OOO.OHO is spent annually by the 27O,( would be now if shv wer*1 eyes, fixed npotr him with an awful fas penstvs, and .peak in a mysterious itootuing. am! with the price of copper I "and that’s where they get the bulge The hard-working clerk Is usually It is why you have ever I m *11 SO visitors who frequent the Riviera ,h cinatiou, were instantly avert,*,!. He way of what has come into her life. | at Id. 1“ and 18 cents a pound, there working tor a raise. on us." me. Ah, many a time. Rose, 1 ing the winter season of 150 days. •tirred the contents .( the cup slowly. UH ma Kt ifrhi cf llfir if a . *
