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A . C O N A N D O YLE
C H A P T E R X X I I I . — (Continued.)
The voicei and the footstepe sounded
louder and louder, until they were just at
the other aide o f the boundary.
They
seemed to come from several people walk
ing slowly and heavily. There was the
shrill rasping o f a key and the wooden
door swung hack on its rusty
hinges,
while three dark figures passed out who
appeared to bear some burden between
them. The party in the shadow crouched
closer still, and peered through the dark
ness with eager anxious eyes. They could
discern little save the vague outlines of
the moving men, and yet as they gazed at
them an unaccountable and overpowering
horror crept into the hearts o f every one
o f them. They breathed an atmosphere
o f death.
The newcomers tramped
across the
road, and pushing through the thin hedge,
ascended the railway embankment upon
the other side. It was evident that their
burden was a heavy one, fo r they stopped
more than once while ascending the steeji
grassy slope, and once, when near the top.
one o f the party slipped, and there was
a sound as though he had fallen upon his
knees, together with a stifled oath. They
r* ached the top, however, and their fig
ures, which had disappeared from view,
came into sight again standing out dimly
against the murky aky. They bent down
over the railway line, and placed the in
distinguishable mass which they bore care
fully upon it.
" W e must have the light,” said a voice.
“ No, n o ; there’s no need,” another ex
postulated.
“ W e can’t work in the dark,” said the
third, loudly and harshly. “ W here’s the
lantern, guv'nor? I ’ve got a lucifer.”
“ We must manage that the train passes
over right,” the first voice remarked.
“ Here. Burt, you light it.”
There was the sharp sound of the strik
ing o f a match, and a feeble glimmer ap-
ptared in the darkness. It flickered and
waned, as though the wind would extin
guish it, but next instant the wick o f tha
lantern had caught, and threw a strong
yellow glare upon the scene. The light
fell upon the major and his comrades, who
had sprung into the road, and it lit up
the group on the railway line. Yet it was
not upon the rescuing party that murder
ers fixed their terror-stricken eyes, and the
major and his friends had lost all thought
o f the miscreants above them— for there
standing in the center o f the roadway,
there with the light flickering over pale
aweet face, like a spirit from the tomb,
stood no other than the much-enduring,
cruelly-treated girl for whom Burt's mur
derous blow had been intended.
F or a few seconds she stood there with
out either party moving a foot or uttering
a sound. Then there came from the rail
way a cry so wild that it w iiLrin g forever
in the ears o f those who heard it. Burt
dropped upon bis knees and put his hands
over his eyes to keep out the sight. John
Girdlestone caught his son by the wrist
and dashed'away in the darkness, flying
wildly, madly, with white face and staring
- «yea, as men who have looked upon that
which is not o f this world. In the mean
time, Tom had sprung down from his
perch, and had clasped K ate in his arms,
and there she lay. sobbiug and laughing,
with many pretty feminine ejaculations
and exclamations and questions, saved at
last from the net o f death, which had been
'dosing upon her so long.
C H A P T E R X X IV .
The ruffian Burt was so horror-stricken
at the sight o f the girl whom he imagined
that he had murdered, that he lay grovel
ing on the railway line by the aide o f bis
victim, moaning with terror, and incapa
ble o f any resistance. H e was promptly
seized by the major’s party, and the N i
hilist secured his hands with a handker
chief so quickly and effectively that it
was clearly not the first time that he had
performed the feat. H e then calmly drew
a very long and bright knife from the
recesses o f his frock coat, and haring
pressed it against B a rt’s nose to insure
his attention, he brandished it in front o f
him in a menacing way, aa a hint that an
attempt at escape might be dangerous.
“ And who Is d isT ’ asked Baumser. lift
ing up the dead woman's head, and rest
ing it upon his knee.
“ Poor g ir l!
She w ill
never
speak
again, whoever she may have been.” the
major said, holding the lantern to her
cold, pale face. "H e re ’s where the cow
ards struck her. Death must have been
instantaneous and painless. I could bars
sworn it was the young lady we came
after, if it were not that we have her
safe down there, thank the L o r d !”
“ W here are those oders?” asked Von
Paumser, peering about through the dark
ness. " I f there is justice in the country,
'h ey w ill hing fo r the work o f dis night.”
"T h e y are off,” the major answered,
laying the g irl’s head reverently down
again. " I t ’s hopeless to follow them, as
we know nothing o f the countbry, nor
which direction they took. They ran like
madmen. H u llo ! W hat can this be?”
The tight whach had attracted the vet
eran’s attention was nothing leas than the
appearance at tha end o f the lane o f three
brilliant inmlnona discs moving along
abreast o f ooe another. They came rap
idly nearer, increasing in brilliancy as
they approached. Then a voice rang out
o f the darkness, "T h ere they are, officers!
d o s e with them !
Don’t let ’em get
a w a y !” and before the major and his
party could quits grasp the situation they
were valiantly charged by three o f those
much-enduring,
stout-hearted
mortals
known aa tha British police force.
These three burly Hampshire police
men, having baee placed upon our friends’
track by tbs optler o f tha H y in g Bull, sad
t observed
which could only be characterised aa sus
picious, charged dowu with such sche
me ice that in less time than it takes to
tell |t, both Tom and the major and Von
Baumser were In safe custody. The N ih il
ist, who had an Inextinguishable«hatred
o f the law, and who could never be
brought to understand that it might un
der any circumstances be on his side, pull
ed himself very straight and held his
knife down at his hip aa though he meant
to use it, while Buiow, o f Kiel, likewise
assumed an aggressive attitude.
Fortu
nately, however, the appearance o f their
prisoners and a few hurried words o f the
major made the inspector in charge un
derstand how the land lay, and he trans
ferred -bis attentions to Burt, on whose
wrists he placed the handcuffs. H e then
listened to a more detailed account o f the
circumstances from the lips o f the major.
"W h o ia this young lady?” he asked,
{minting to Kate.
“ Th is is the Miss Harston whom ws
came to rescue, and fo r whom no doubt
the blow was intended which killed thia
unhappy girl.’*
“ Perhaps, sir,” said the inspector to
Tom, “ you had better take her up to the
bouse.”
“ Thank you,” said Tom, and went off
through the wood w ith ' K ate upon hia
arm. On their way she told him how, be
ing unable to find her bonnet and cloak,
which Rebecca had abstracted, she had de
termined to keep her appointment without
thorn.
H er delay rendered her a little
late, however; but on reaching the with
ered oak she heard voices and steps in
fion t o f her, which she had followed.
These had led her to the open gate, and
the lighting o f the lantern had revealed
bet to friends and foes.
Ere she con
cluded her story Tom noticed that she
leaned more and more heavily upon him,
until by the time that they reached the
Priory he was obliged to lift her up and
carry her to prevent her from falling. The
hardships o f the last few weeks, and this
final terrible and yet more joyful incident
o f ail, had broken down her strength. He
bore her into the house, and laying her
by the fire in the dining room, watched
tenderly over her, and exhausted hia hum-
bit stock o f medical knowledge in devising
remedies for her condition.
In the meantime the inspector having
thoroughly grasped the major’s Iuctd nar
rative, was taking prompt and energetic
measures.
"Y ou go down to the station, Constable
Jones,” he ordered.
“ W ire to London,
John Girdlestone, aged sixty-one, and his
son, aged twenty-eight, wanted for mur
der. Address, Eccleston square and Fen-
church street, City. Send • description
o f them.
Father, six feet one inch in
height, hatchet-faced, grey hair and whis
kers, deep-set eyes, heavy brows, round
shoulders. Son, five feet ten, dark faced,
black eyes, black curly
hair, strongly
made, well dressed.”
“ Yes, that’s near enough,” observed the
major.
“ W ire to every station along the line
to be on the lookout. Send a description
to the chief constable o f Portsmouth, and
have a watch kept on the shipping. That
should catch them. L et us carry the poor
ncul up to the house,” the inspector con
tinued, after making careful examination
o f the ground all round the body. The
party assisted in raising the girl np, and
in carrying her back along the path by
which she had been brought.
Burt tramped stolidly along behind
v ith the remaining policeman beside him.
The Nihilist brought up the rear with his
keen eyes fixed upon the navvy, and hia
knife still ready for use.
When they
reached the P riory the prisoner was safe
ly locked away in one o f the numerous
empty rooms, while Rebecca was carried
uiwtairs and laid upon the very bed which
had been hers.
“ W e must search the house,” the in
spector said, and Mrs. Jorrocks having
been brought out of her room, and having
forthwith fainted and been revived again,
was ordered to accompany the police in
their investigation, which she did in a
very dazed and siupeftetT manner. Indeed,
not a word could be got from her' until,
entering the dining room, she perceived
her bottle- o f Hollands upon the table, on
which she raised up her voice and cursed
the whole company, from the inspector
downwards, with the shrillest volubility
o f invective.
H aving satisfied her soul
in this manner, she wound up by a per
fect shriek o f profanity, and breaking
away from her guardians, she regained
tjie shelter o f her room and locked herself
up there, after which they could hear by
the drumming o f her heels that she went
Into a violent hysterical attack upon the
floor.
K ate had, however, recovered sufficient
ly to be able to show the police the differ
ent rooms, and to explain to them which
was which. The inspector examined the
acanty furniture o f K a te’s apartment with
gieat interest.
"Y o u say you have been living here for
three weeks,” he said.
"N ea rly a month,” K ate answered.
" N o wonder you look pale and ill. You
have a fine prospect from the window."
H e drew the blind aside and looked out
into the darkness. A gleam o f moonlight
lay upon the heaving ocean, and in the
rio te r o f this silver streak was a single
brown-sailed fishing boat running to the
eastward before the wind. The inspector's
keen eye rested upon it for an instant,
and then he dropped the blind and turned
away. It never flashed across his mind
that the men whom he was hunting down
could have chosen this means o f escape,
and were already beyond his reach.
CH APTER XXV.
Ezra Girdlestone had given many indi
cations during his life, both in A frica and
elsewhere, o f being possessed o f the power
o f grasping a situation and o f acting for
I be best at the shortest notice. H e never
showed this quality more conclusively
than at that terrible moment, when be
realized not only that the crime in which
he had participated had failed, but that
all was discovered, and that his father
and he were hunted criminals. W ith the
same intuitive quickness which made him
a brilliant man o f business, be saw in
stantly what were the only
available
naans o f escape, and proceeded at once to
adopt them. I f they could but reach the
vessel o f Captain Ham ilton Miggs they
might defy the pursuit o f the law. He
had hired a boat near Claxton.
The Black Eagle had dropped down the
Thames on the very Saturday which was
so fruitful o f eventful episodes.
Miggs
would lie nt Gravesend, and Intended af
terwards to beat round to the Downs,
there to aw ait the final Instructions o f
the firm. I f they could catch h ia before
‘TIG H Tm O BOB*’ IV AN S.
h« left, there was very little chance that
he would know anything of what had oc
curred. It was a fortunate chance that
the next day was Suuday, and there
would be no morning paper to enlighten
him as to the doings in Hampshire. They
had only to invent some plausible excuse
for their wish to accompany him. and get
him to drop them upon the Spanish coast.
Once out o f sight o f England, and on the
bioad ocean, what detective could follow
their track?
They reached the ship. The early pan.
o f the voyage o f the Black Eagle was
extremely fortunate.
The wind came
round to the eastward and wafted them
steadily down channel, until on the third
day they saw the Isle o f Ushant lying
low upon the skyline. N o inquisitive gun
boat, or lurking police launch came w ith
in sight o f them, though whenever any
vessrl’s course brought ber in their direc-.
tion the heart o f Exra Girdlestone sunk
within him. On one occasion a small brig
signalled to them, and the wretched fugi
tives, when they saw the flags run ap,
thought that all was lost.
It proved,
however, to be merely some trivial mes
sage, and the two owners breathed again.
The wind fell away on the day that
they cleared the channel, and the whole
surface o f the sea was like a great ex
panse o f quicksilver which shimmered in
the rays o f the wintry sun. There was
still a considerable swell after the recent
gale, and the Black Eagle lay rolling
about as though she had learned habits o f
inebriation from her skipper.
The sky
was very clear above, but all round the
horizon a low haze lay upon the water. Bo
silent Mas it that the creaking o f the
boats as they swung at the davits, and
the straining o f the shrouds as the ship
rolled, sounded loud and clear, as did
thè raucous cries o f a couple o f gulls who
“ F ig h tin g B o b " E vans relinquished command Of the Am erican fleet and
hovered round the poop. Every now and
w ill go on the retired list. I t w as hoped the b rave old sea dog would be able
then a rumbling noise ending in a thud
to accom pany the fleet around the w orld, but ill health com pelled him to haul
down below showed that the swing o f the
dow n his flag.
ship had caused something to come down
with a run. Underlying all other sounds,
R ob ley D ungilnson E vans w as born in 1846 and is a gradu ate o f the
however, was a muffled clank, clank,
N a v a l Academ y. H e received his first baptism o f fire at F o rt Fish er In 18*15;
which might almost make one forget that
was in command o f tb e Y ork tow n In 1891, when th ere waa trouble w ith Chile,
this was a sailing ship, it sounded so like
and led the battleship Io w a at tbe b attle o f Santiago. H is sobriquet, “ F ig h t
the chipping o f a propellar.
ing Bob,” was honestly acquired, fo r he w as a lw a y s in the thickest o f the
W hat is that noise, Captain M iggs?”
fra y . A lth ou gh a s trict disciplinarian, he had a w a y o f g iv in g commands and
asked John Girdlestone, as he stood lean
en fo rcin g obedience that won fo r him the love and respect o f his men.
ing over the quarter rail, while thg old
I t w as a fittin g clim a x to the noble old a d m ira l’s career th at be w as
sea-dog, sextant in hand, was taking his
th e ranking officer o f the com bined fleets a t the Golden G ate, the most fo r
midday observations.
The captain had
been on his good behavior since the unex
m idable a rra y o f battleships ev e r assembled. I l l s success in sa ilin g the six
pected advent o f bis employers, and he
teen A m erican battleships fro m H am pton R oads to M agdalena Bay, the end
was now in a wonderful and unprecedent o f the voyage finding the ships in better condition than when th ey shipped
ed state o f sobriety.
anchor, won the w o rld ’s commendation. Those tw o events furnish a glorious
Them’s the pumps agoin’,” Miggs an
dlnnlo to “ F ig h tin g Bob’s” naval career, w hich A m ericans w ill hope Is but a
swered, packing his sextant away in its
prelude to m any years o f peaceful retirem ent.
ease.
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“ The pumps !
I thought they were
only used when a ship was in danger?"
(la r d ; and then fo r some reason this
Ezra came along the deck at this moment,
special lo t o f eggs was le ft on the
and listened with interest to the conver-
m an u factu rer’s h an d s
But they w ere
I ion.
not wasted.
“ Th is ship is in danger,” M iggs remark
In the course o f tim e there cam e la
ed calmly.
a hatpin m anu factu rer w ho w anted to
In danger !” cried Ezra, looking round
lea ve an o rd er fo r a fe w thousand hat
at the clear sky and placid sea. “ Where
ia the danger? 1 did not think you were
Messrs. H. P. C ady and D. F . Me- pin knobs, to be m ade In specified shape
such sn old woman, Miggs.
F a rla n d have found th e ra re elem ent and dimensions. Besides m aking regu
W e w ill see about that,” the
**a<aan n#on toegth er w lfll helium In natural
la rly a grea t v a rie ty o f
things
the
answered angrily
I f a sh.ps got no
southeastern Kansas.
T h ey turned goods m akers also tu rn wood
bottom In her shea bound to be in dan- , »
.....
.
.. _f|1An(r
In any shape th a t m ay be requ ired to *
gtr, be the weether fa ir or foul.”
|r*Port that in addition to al the »tron g-
order.
D o you mean to tell me this ship has er spectroscopic lines o f helium, which
A n d then the salesman recalled that
no bottom?”
(th ey have c a refu lly Identified, they find
I mean to tell yon that there are 15 fa ir ly strong lines w hich cannot be little lo t o f undersized handleless darn-
places where you could put ’your fingers identified w ith those o f any o f the fa- lo g eggs, w hich proved to be ex a ctly
through her seams. I t ’s only the pumpin'«! m |||a r gases.
T h ese line# h avin g pre- w h at the hatpin man wanted, and he
that keeps her afloat.”
( vlously been found by D ew a r In the took the lot. A n d so fin ally th ey cam e
"T h is is a pretty state o f things,” said gpectnlm o f gaa from t he B ath Spring, to be m ade up, not as d a rn in g eggs.
G iu r a to n e
“ H ow i s j t that
have not
^
^
lu ts o f
llnea w ith fan cy handle, but the k n o b T o f
. .
t*t’n informed o f it before? It is mo«t
y
irnneii from . hatpins.
-
dangerous”
.abow n by the m ore v o la tile gases rrom
“ Informed !” cried Miggs.
“ Informed the atm osphere, th ey suggest th at they
o f it ! Has there been a v’yage yet tliat m ay represent a new elem entary gas.
I haven’t come to you. Muster Girdle- j
m . E. Pennington o f the Bureau o f
stone, and told ye I was surprised ever to C hem istry, D epartm ent o f A gricu ltu re,
find myself back in Lunnon !
A year
th at experim ents on m ilk kept
agone I told ye how this ship was, and ye
about the freezin g point showed a
laughed at me, ye did. It's onl.v when ys
continuous increase o f organism s fo r
find yourselves on her in the middle o' the
broad *ea that ye understan’ what it is five o r six weeks. A t th eir m axim um
they numbered hundreds o f m illions
that- sailor folk have to put up wi’.”
” 1 presume,” Girdlestone said, in a con per cubic centim eter, and occasion
they
passed the billion mark.
ciliatory voice, “ that there would bo no a lly
real danger as long as the weather was ' Although
the
m ilk
experim ented
W hen a fem a le person doesn’t w an t
fine.”
w ith w as’ n ever solid ly
frozen, yet
" I t won’t be fine long.” the captain an- ! a f tcr ten days to tw o weeks it wns to get m arried, she is already.
swered gruffly. "T h e glass was well un- I & m aM o f graaU lce cry 8 tals. N o odor
A man can cut down bis sm oking I f
der thirty when I c o m o u p an.l . t la
tg g te |nd,cated the high bacterial
fnHin fast. I ’ve been about here before t
,
, he's sick abed and thinks he’s dying.
a, this time o’ year in a calm, with a content, and even on heating no curd
T h e w a y a w om an m anages a man
ground swell and a sinkin’ glass. No good w as produced until the v e ry end o f the is by m aking him think he m anages
e x p e rim e n t
ever came o f it.”
her.
(T o be continued.)
It has often been asserted th at R o g
Th«r first essential to being a great
er Bacon, appreciation o f whose scien
man is fo r him to h ave no doubt about
W h e r e C r im e B e n in *.
tific acquirem ents Is continually gro w
“ O f course It w as w rong,” exclaim ed ing, knew bow to m ake gunpowder in It him self.
T h e reason a w om an says the baby
the plain citizen.
“ He
accepted
a the thirteenth century, although more
bribe.”
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or less doubt
on tbe subject has alw ays never cries at night Is she believes it
“ I don’t k n o w ,’ replied the politician, g jjjjg d . Confirm ation o f Bacon's knowl- is n ever goin g to do It again.
M t Y D-EVAJ§
“ there’s nothing w ron g about------”
,n t h li re.p ect Is regarded as bav-
“ W h a M W h y, they caught him w ith (
found In s m anuscript contaln-
tbe goods and he admits-
”*
* ed In the N ation al L ib ra ry in Paris,
“Oh ! I f he was caught at It, o f course, which has recently been studied by
It's w ron g.” — Ph ilad elp h ia Press.
Mona. P. Duhem. M onsieur Duhem be
lieves th at this m anuscript Is a part
G e ttin g N * r v « s i .
o f Bacon’s Opus T ertlu m , and It clear
Mr. Stuhb (r e a d in g )— Burglars en
ly indicates a know ledge c ' the com
tered the Van S w ell mansion lust night
position, as w ell ns o f tbe explosive
and stole the plate.
,
M rs Stuhb— W e ll, do be careful and ,cn ergy’ o f * nnpow<ler’
lock all the doors to-night, H enry. | O f a curious double rainbow an ob-
T h ere is an old blue china plate In the * * r v e r says In a letter to the London
kitchen that I w ou ldn 't have stolen fo r T im e s : “ On M arch 14 last, w h ile on
the vo ya ge between Jam aica and tbe
the w orld.
Isthm us o f Panam a at 11 a. in., tbe
H ia h F i r * r * .
(H-n being then n early In the zenith, a
A sker So this Is a oluh, eh? A re ,]0llhie rainbow o f b rillia n t colorin g ap-
the members conservatives?
I pfnred, form in g a com plete circle round
T e lle r No, h a lf the tim e they a re the gun> the |nnpr bow being some die-
THE WEEKLY
1281— London
founded.
Fishmongers*
company
11W— Spanish Arm ada sailed from rite
Tagus for England.
194” - Royalists
Stratton.
victorloua at
battle o f
1702— Commencement o f hostilities in
Queen Anne's war, that o f tbs Span
ish succession.
1703— F ort Sandusky, Ohio, taken by In
dians.
1703— One-fourth o f tbe city o f Montreal
destroyed by fire.
1774— Charter o f Massachusetts annulled
and people declared rebels by Par-
'
liament.
1775— Declaration o f Independence adopt
ed at Mecklenburg, N . G.
1797— An extra session o f Congress con
vened to consider the strained rela
tions between-the United States and
France.
1802— Napoleon I. instituted the Legion
o f Honor.
1803— England
Bonaparte.
declared
w ar
against
1801— Napoleon I. proclaimed Emperor o f
the French.
1800— England took possession
Island o f Anholt, Denmark.
of
the
1825— Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
first woman ordained as a minister,
born near Rochester, N. Y .
1829— Second cotton factory in South
Carolina established at Pendleton.
1832— Election riots in Montreal.
1841— Tw enty-five lives lost by a fall o f
rock from Cape Diamond, Quebec.
1843— The Free church o f Scotland es
tablished.
1847— Daniel O ’Connell, the Liberator,
died in Genoa, Italy. Born in Coun
ty K erry, Ireland, Ang. 8, 1775.
1849-^Smltb O 'B rien expelled from tbs
British House o f Commons.
1858— Capture o f the Peibo forts.
1859— French and Sardinians defeated
the Austrians st Montebello.
1862— Fast day in Richmond, Va.
1864— First express trains run between
New York and Buffalo.
1803— Jefferson Davis
imprisoned
la
Fortress Montoe.
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1 ^ 1 - ' « ‘>o,ne Coiumn, erected by Na
vic-
|K)leon I., to commemorate hia vie
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tories, pulled down by the Commun
ists in Paris.
1875— Donald
A.
Macdonald
entered
office o f lieutenant governor o f On
tario.
1879— St. Patrick’» cathedral. New York
City, dedicated.
1882— The British expedition arrived at
Alexandria, Egypt.
1885— Surrender o f Louis Riel, leader o f
"R ie l's Rebellion.”
1880—
British evacuation o f Suakim com
p le te .
1889— Great loss o f property by fire in
Quebec.
1893— United States Supreme Court sus
tained the Chinese Exclusion act.
1894—
The Manchester ship canal opened.
1900— British force under Gen. Butler
occupied Dundee, South A frica.
1904— Pool rooms in New York C ity shut
off from telegraphic service.
1908— Four towns in northern Michigan
destroyed by forest fires.
O jiO O L S
I t m akes a wom an ve ry proud to
think bow sm art the children w ould be
I f the school teachers on ly knew how
to teach them.
W h a t satisfaction a w om an gets o u t,
o f her husband’s garden is how o f t e n ' .A
ot 8 t- p * ul Aldermen ha*
she can catch him pretending to know I
“ iter •cho° l building» in the city »hall be
things about it
af fireproof construction.
8 t. O laf College o f Northfield defeated
A M e m o r y T ee«.
A professor o f mnemonics had gone Gnstavus Adolphus College o f St. Peter
to lecture a t or near Canterbury. A f t in debate. St. O la f had the negative o f
er the lectu re w as finished he had to the municipal ownership question.
Edwin A. Schnell o f La Porte,
w a it fo r his London train.
I t w as a , Rev.
,
most com fortless day. and he r e t ir e d ! nd ” h* *
eleci ed f " * ident o f the
to an Inn fo r sh elter and refreshm ent.
T o pass the tim e he began to exh ib it
his fe a ts o f m em ory to the yokels In
the inn parlor, end one and all w ere
thunderstruck except the w aiter. T h e re
Is a lw a y s one skeptic In e v e ry com
munion, w h eth er o f sain ts o r sinners.
Do w h at he w ould he could not m iti
gate the acrid sm ile o f acid Incredulity
, IMeagant, Iowa, and has accepted the po-
’ ,ition.
| James A. Bull, for many years an ac-
tive supporter o f the Minnesota Stats
agricultural school, died suddenly at hia
up In the air.
Stance fro m the enn, the outer bow being
home in Edina Mills, a suburb o f Min
A sk er— G reat J u p ite r . Wha t kind o f ¿bout an equal distance from the in-
neapolis.
a club Is It?
ner. A clear horizon showed no signs
The Nebraska State University Senate
T e lle r — Balloonist.
lias requested the resignations o f D r.
o f rain. N eith er the captalti nor any
J. T . Lees an<| Dr. T . L. Bolton, faculty
oth er soul on board had ev e r seen a
H e a d in g H im OIT.
o f that glo rified p o tm a n ! (n the m id s t ' „e m b e r, o f the university stkletic board,
sim ila r phenomenon. T h e other bow
o f one o f his most difficult fea ts the . Dr. Lees took a prominent part In re-
B lo x — I w ant to g iv e you a piece o f
fad ed gra d u a lly a w a y and then tbe In
w h lstle sounded o f ttTe “ O nly tra in to j vising foot ball rules at the conferences
good advice, old man.
ner bow.”
London to -n ig h t!” and he nished o ff to i held-In New York. Students objected to
K n o x — A ll r ig h t ; but before you do,
catch i t
H e caught it at the s ta tio n ,' the method o f holding tbe athletic board
let me g iv e you a piece.
N o v e l U s e fo r W o o d en K g g s .
and his reputation caught It In tbe inn election and th » two member» were ousted.
B lo x — W h a t Is it?
One o f the Innumerable things that
parlor, fo r the w aiter, com ing in w ith
The seminary building at Wemington
K n o t — F o llo w the advice you a r t the m anufacturers o f turned
wood
some ordered refreshm ents and finding Springs, S. D., burned last winter, is to
goin g to g iv e me.
goods m ake Is the d arn in g egg, fo r use
him gone, pointed to tbe corner where be replaced by a new granite and pressed
C o m fo r t.
In d arn in g stockings.
Wee-
be had been sittin g and
exclaim ed, brick structure, costing $20,840.
F irs t T ra m p — G e e ! but I ’d like to
T b ess eggs a re com m only provided
sington has also let tbe contract for a
" S illy ’umbug,
he’s
fo rg o t bis um
lir e In Alaska.
public school building to cost $25,934.
each w ith a handle o f th? same kind o f
brella !” — You ng Man.
.Second T ra m p — W h y?
wood, which screw s Into one end, says
In th » legal contest to decide whether
F irs t T ram p — Jnst think o f sleeping tb e N ew Y ork Bun. A w h ile ago there
o r not the Minpeapolis board o f educa
D U a p p o la tr a e a t.
six months on one stretch I
tras received a t the N ew Y o rk office o f
A m ateu r Sportsman ( a ft e r shooting tion can suspend a pupil who Is backward
Sis studies Llndsley Pllkey won his
a turned goods m anu factu ring concern heat fr ie n d )— T o o bad, too b a d ; hot I , In
.
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O ao T h i n g C ertain ,
an ord er fo r a couple o f cases, some thought yon w ere a dser. T b e V ictim 1
p0,nt lV h)*
J ° d?
gaplelgb— I ’v e got a cold or some
i thousands In number, o f darn in g eggs - D o n t f r e t
A m ateu r S p o r t s m a n - 1 ,
^
gchool
t0 „ m . u t e young
thing In my heed, doncher know. .
I to be supplied w ithou t handle and o f a Don’t fr s t I W h y man, I prom ised my
oatU final argument on the point
M ies G utting— W e ll, I f there’s
size som ew hat m a i l e r than the stan- w ife a p a ir o f borna.— Illu s tra te d Bits. ^ ^ » ^ « 1 i. completed.
th in g
It must be a cold.