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CHAPTKn XVI. fContlnurd.i
Imaginative boya of fifteen have re
peatedly precipitated a panic by dashing
down the OvrcoAt road with certain
aews of th rapid approach of the enemy,
how that everybody knows that Sand
Ipwn la In the lawful and peaceful pos-
nton of the 8andtown Circuit Court
re Jim Skllltt upon the bench for the
purpose of hearing motion In Injunction
proceeding, In a vast number of caaea
i 01 eaies 10 use piace oa vu i
I t atnlrae enjoined.
Bqaacs oi rinemen marcoing id no par
ticular order so far at the keeping of
Up and alignments are concerned but
not a whit the lei formidable, be It uu
dtrstood marched or atraggled out along
(fee Overcoat road put the field of half
grown corn on the one aide and the haicl
fringed edge of "Wlckly's Woods" aa
the timbered hill upon the left had been
christened a yesr ago.
Away to the east along thl Junction of
bottom prairie and wooded hilt there
fere unwonted inoTezuent of men acroa
little patchr of corn, or (landing long
and steadily behind a "airing" of north
and eolith fence from which the occa
tonal scintillation of the aun upon a
rifle barrel gave omlnou electric warn
ing of the presence of Imminent war In
the land.
All manner of report came thronging
Into the Hodden mansion, and directly
up to the ledroom where Llxty Wlckly
and ber mother Mt at an east window,
ami watched and thought, but spoke lit
tle mt In anawcr to the frequent re
port and comment that tome one or
another of the numrroua visitors brought
up at frequent Intervals.
Kow It wa that Mr. Maaon had been
captured by the sheriffs re-enforced
poese; and the Dig Rattlesnake Creek
were upon the point of "hosun him up,"
(J dire vengeance. Thl frequently recur-
H ring form of the report alway had It
effect upon I.lxxy. Always atartled her
ont of a pleasant rererle In which she
wa going orer some part of last night'
final colloquy with variations of her own
Invention In the line of her after thoughts
and wishes.
Again there were martial stories of
sanguinary encounter somewhere In the
depths of "Wlckly' Wood," or upon the
netgbtorlng batik of nig Rattlesnake,
where, according to all accounts, the
warlike dan were encamped and forti
fied. One man brought In a new and unheard-of
story to the effect that Coonrod
Itedden and the sheriff were not In the
liands of Mason and hi men; but were
captive in the camp of an opposing arm
ed body of railroaders belonging to an
other and opposition company. lie said,
loo, that the whole difficulty wa really
and in fact a sharp, keen trial of shrewd
overreaching between two rival railroad
companies. That Mason, representing
one of these, had secured a legal advan
tage over the other In the purchase of
come mortgage note upon some very
valuable mining property somewhere.
And the other company discovering this,
had aent down a force of armed opera
tive to prevent the making of a track
upon the mining land. He also said that
Coonrod Itedden and the sheriff posse
had not been held prisoner by anybody.
According to hi story there had been
a sharp and determined encounter be
tween the men of the two contending in
terest, in which a number had .been
seriously or (lightly wounded, and sev
eral killed outright. And that op to the
present time Mason had the best of the
fight, and his men were working like
beaver, protected by two line of rifle
men. II himself had seen a few of
these men on picket guard In some open
ing of the wood; and the hill fairly
rang with the echoing blow of hundred
of axes, and the craih of falling tree.
This (tory, not at all suited to the no
tions and preconceived opinion of the
rople at Coonrod Itedden', wa gen
erally discredited especially a no one
seemed to be "acquainted" with the man
who told It. And hence, he wa with
out a voucher, and hi story wa without
corroboration.
However, word wa brought down di
rectly from Judge Jim 8ilket that five
hundred armed men had been iworn In
aa deputy sheriff for the purpose of ar
resting a targe number of railroad em
ployes who had been fighting one party
gainst another. That these deputy sher
iff in column of fours bad ridden out
of town and would be heard from before
night.
This news was brought by Columbus
Redden, who had prudently refrained
from Joining hi four brother in the
morning bunt for their fattier, but who
now had hi colt hitched In the front
yard, where he wouldn't be In danger
from the teeth or heela of the rapacious
curves of Redden township that were
making day hideous with their squealing
and trampling in perpetual combat. Im
mediately after dinner Columbus wa
to take the road In person; and every
body believed that be, too, would be
beard from.
In this state of active siege, with so
many sortie In progress or contempla
tion; with hundred or rumor coming
and going, and the tight of little squad
of men riding thl way and that, becom
tog of less and less moment to Llxsy and
her mother, the day went by.
Long before It had passed the hungry
Iloosler mothers of Reelfoot Pond and
vicinity had filled their good, strong, re-
Msble stomachs to repletion; bad amok
) comfortable pipe of twist tobacco,
and bad talked In load, atrong voice all
at once on the aouth porch, and the north
porch, and the back porch, from all of
which quarters a roar of "''" and
"'sJV bad gone up about the four cor
ners of til Redden mansion unreatralned
ay any of the modern tricks of courtesy
that throw plentiful dashes of cold water
poa general conversation, wtta numer
ous "excuse me's" and teg pardon
rrinterruptinx.M etc., etc And having
performed all these neighborly and pat
riotic oMcea. by far the larger number
fcad led their refractory mars np beside
convenient fences; had seated themselves
n saddles of women's and saddle of
men's, and even upon tanned sheepskins
and folded horse blankets elngls, double
Md oaattimesi treble to rid era; had
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ridden away In various directions to "see
to the hou" or "milk." or "feed" or
-git auppur fur" "Jim" or MI1., or
"Jawn," according to the wording of the
varloua apologies for not remaining
longer.
Then, with the coming of night, there
fell down upon all the length and breadth
of the Overcoat road and lte tributaries
and purlieu, a supplanting of all the
sound of human life by the strange,
lonely, Incessant, strldulons discord of
the multitudinous and multifarious Insect
life of the new country. The (harp,
clear grating of the myriad of bUck
and gray cricket, the loud humming of
thousand of hug black beetle, ta
higher and finer chrllllug of smaller un
known winged file of the outer night,
all welded together with the thin, reso
nant hum of the little creatures of the
mosquito tribe" these, with the soft flut
ter of bat' kings and the frequent loud,
hoarse, rubbing sound made by the half
closed wings of the bull-bat, falling from
unseen heights of night air with mouth
wide open In order to sweep myriads of
flying Insects Into his rapacious maw, In
this long and lightning-like dive through
the thin lake of transparent, star-lit air
all these small, shrill, unceasing sound
of the night took oppressive possession of
the world of sound, leaving the human
sense of sound upon tip-toe, and In
breathless suspense.
chapter xvii.
Far In the night the mother and daugh
ter again lay down to sleep that came
readily to the elder woman, and far more
tardily to the younger. In I.Itiy'a cen
tral thought two opposite and Irreconcila
ble solutions of one problem contended
for sole recognition. Had Mr. Mason
played parts In everything he had done,
at ahe had charged him yesterday even
ing, and which he had not denied In so
many words? She had charged him with
this, and much more! She had charged
him with studied and persistent eulogluu
of au unknown man for the purpose of
piquing her womanly curiosity, and there
by amusing himself. He had gone on
with it day after day, week after week,
and month upon month, until he had
fully eucceeded In bringing her to love
him and to yearn for him.
How many and many anxlou hour
she had passed In doubt and fears for
his safetyl How eagerly she had pored
orer chance newspapers from the great
city, and from remote part of the coun
try, hoping and fearing that (he might
see some mention of the beloved name.
And how she bad beamed with gladness
at each return of the abseut man. an
nounced always by his assistant, and by
no one elsel
What a fool she had been! Even he
said, lsst night, something about her sus
picion reaching Its xenlth weeks ago In
stead of beginning to dawn only the day
before, when ahe had seen him driving
through the streets of Sandtown, and
without his principal!
Ills principal. Indeed! She had thrown
that fraud at him bard enough, ahe hop
ed. She had given him to understand
that there was no longer the slightest
chsne to continue that Imposition upon
her.
Mr. Huntley, the man of straw! The
myth! The creation of the man who had
nalmed himself off on her as the assist
ant of hi man of straw! A noble and
a worthy work for a man of hi attain
ments! AU this merely to amuse him
self, while be waa living In an enforced
exile from the city! She had hoped she
had thrown that at him hard enough.
Rut again, there were many, many sin
cere looking and earnest-sounding thing
thst he bad done and said, all along. He
had sought her company from the firwt
day, and persistently and continuously
kept it. Ills manner wa not that of
the languid and Impatient man of the
world, tired of hi enforced seclusion.
No. He bad set himself about a labori
ous task of bringing ber to cee some
glaring deficiencies In what the had
thought wa her all-ufflclent self. He
had gone further. He had ahown hi
great liking for ber. He bad, In effect,
ought to tell her what everybody had
long before said again and again that
It was the plainest of all plain proposi
tions, that he loved ber! She had laugh
ed at that! She had even confessed her
love for his principal Huntley, the man
of straw; the myth; the creation of an
Idle fancy! Not only so, but she bad
told him plainly that ahe could not then
tell whether she were not Irrevocably
bound, by a strangely romantic passion,
to what she at last recognized as the
mere creature of another man's Idle
fancy. That had gone borne to blm! That
had hurt if be could be hurt.
And here, upon this very point, were
a few thing that she could not help go
ing over and over. And never did she,
la reminiscence, approach the chief of
these episodes that ber heart did not leap
and her ultimate fibrils tingle, with some
thing closely akin to happiness.
First, that sudden and unexpected ap
pearance In that cone of light that aeem
ed to hare been photographed upon her
retina, so constant wa the picture. How
well he looked! now fittingly that half
military engineer's drcs became blm!
And what a startling transformation was
there In everything that had made the
assistant geologist tarn and common
place. Even to the black, close-cut hair.
Bho had forgotten that among ber
charge of duplicity. Ferhape the fact
that ibe idmlred black hair had been
taken a a silent condonation of the of
fense to having concealed It under a
brwn wig. Had he really loved her
when he waa playing bla many parts on
the little Bandtown etaget If ahe had
been (ure of that would she have ar
raigned him so bitterly T
Had aha been shrewish ? nad ahe
ahown an ugly temper T She didn't be
lieve ahe had an ugly temper. But what
bad he thought of It? Certainly he had
seen no display of it in ail his former
acquaintance with her. And in that in
timate relation that must exist among
people who gather in the same room ev
ery venlng, and eat at the same table
three times every day not forgetting the
Sundays la which he had hardly left her
side half an hour for the whole day; if
ahe had known this, what a splendid op
portunity to hare appeared at bar very
I best. For really, ahe had not tried tot
appear well. Bhc had teased him un
mercifully. Sho lind taunted h m with
remaining contented with a subordinate
place and n scant salary. She could
seo now how It was that ho could bear
such teasing aa that with a smiling stoi
cism. Rut, nh! the very last word h had
, said to her! And tbo very laat thing he
did I Her face crimsoned at the recol
lection, but nlwaya wreathed with her
sweetest, softest smites, too. He had
looked even In that dim starlight, so
eager, so earnest, so handsome, lie had
said almost In the manner of giving hla
iuvlslble pledge that he would see her
soon again! Remember that, l.lny! He
would see her soon If It lay within hi
power. If It lay within hi power!
And then he atarted away, up the dark
mad. tnd before he had gone ten steps,
he turned and saw her still standing
there and looking after him. Maybe that
was how It came that he thought of run
ning back. Very well! If she had done
anything to bring him back for that sup
plements! parting, ahe was glad ef It.
lie had held her a moment to his breast.
His strong arms had been about her.
Even now, at the reminiscence, she felt
the tingling that had rippled along every
little nerve from her crown to her eote.
and to her finger ends. And then the
pressure of his warm lips upon her own.
Actually upon her Up! Thl bold, auda
cious ternl-soldler that he wast Jibe
would punish him for that. How? Ry
having him klsa her again? Well, the
unusual and startling surrounding must
be hi good excuse. Only let him come
soon!
CHAPTER XVIII.
In spite of the prediction that Judge
Jim Kilkcts extraordinary posse coml
tat us would "be heard from! and that
soon," it wan no sooner enveloped In the
dim and leaf-arched aisle of Wlckly'
Woods, than It passed a far beyond the
ken of the Sandtown people as If It had
freighted a Spanish galleon and sailed
away down the Wabash with current and
wind both favoring the voyage.
'irue, that certain adventurous spirits
came back at Intervals, riding down the
already drying sands of the Overcoat
road as If they brought tiding of stir
ring things. Rut they rode etralght to
the court room, where the Judge at In
the midst of hi bar and four strange,
city gentlemen, who were the client of
Hilly llller, our Congressman, and who
represented the Interests of the new
Sandtown and Northwestern Railroad.
Having ridden straight to the door and
dismounted, these messengers would run
Into the court room, adrance straight to
the Judge, who, seeing them coming,
would 1 upon his feet In an Instant, and
would lead the way to the grand Jury
room, where they would remain for some
minutes free from Intrusion or Interrup
tion of any sort.
Then they would all come out. wearing
grave and determined faces, the Judge
coming back to his chair, and the couriers
going bsck to their saddles, and away,
up in the Oyercoat road and Into the
mysterious fastness of Wlckly'a Wood.
To those who were bold enough to ask
Judge Jim what It meant, he replied uni
formly, that negotiations were In pro
gress, but that he wa by no mean at
liberty to ssy of what nature, or with
what prospect of success.
Rut white thl simple declaration waa
quite sufficient to persuade the Iloosler
people of Bandtown and vicinity that
the very best waa being done for ail con
cerned, It did not satisfy the four pol
ished and well-dn-ssed, easy-mannered
gentlemen who represented the new S,
fc N. W. And they manifested their
dissatisfaction through their attorney.
Congressman Uiler, In many motion
with which he attempted to move the
court to proceed then and there with the
sales of land under mortgage, and as
slgued t the nforvsatd S. Sc N. W. by
the Farmers' Rank of Sandtown. To
all of these motions Judge Jim, true to
the long training he had received under
the tioted old Judge Rarks, had repeat
edly said:
"I am In some measure the custodian
of the private Interest of the parties to
all the proceedings in my court. In these
mortgage sales it ha come to my knowl
edge that the property will bring a
greatly enhanced price through another
bidder, who will certainly be In town,
as I am Informed, before 5 In the after
noon." And although the sales bad been
lawfully advertised for that day at 10
a. m., he had advised the sheriff not to
proceed with the sale until further no
tice. No question of the legality of the
sale could I entertained In hi court.
And, happily, at that day It could be
entertained nowhere else uutil It bad first
been entertained there.
CTo tx eoaManed.'
Depth or tltn Ocean.
Contrary to former opinion, recent
rest-arch baa clenrly proved that tho
greater depths do not lie in the middle
of the ocean, but In the neljchlwrhood
of the dry land. The latent ascertained
depth of the water covering the earth
Is thu Utcd by Frince Albert of
Monaco, following Prof. Krommel, to
b the average In fathoms: Altlantlr,
2,012; Indian, 128; Pacific. 2.12S;
Antarctic. l,SOi; Arctic, Wl; Mediter
ranean, 732.
The greatest depth yet sounded lu
tho Atlantic was originally discovered
by the hlp Gettysburg, ntnety-flvo
uilles north of St Thomas, latitude
10 degrees 41 minute, longitude OS
dcKTeca 7 minutes. It is 3,873 fathoms
below aea level.
Prof. Agasslx, in the Albntroei
expedition of 1000, made n sounding
in the Pacific of 6,840 fathoms off the
Tonga Islands, and there are believed
to exist still deeper basins near Japan.
Hut four miles and a bnlf may be
taken to be the greatest depth of Uie
Atlantic. The average depth of tho
whole ocean may be taken as about
two English miles.
An Old Htory.
Dlx I'm afraid that now roomer is
lightly demented. She aaya the rea
son she left ber last boarding place
wss because they bad turkey so often
he couldn't stand it
Mix Perhaps ahe isn't as far oK,
Maybe it -waa the same turkey.
Good qualities are the substantial
riches of the mind; but It la good
breeding that seta them off to advan
tage. Locke.
The average depth of the Atlantic U
estimated to be about 10,000 feet.
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The antiquity of California I reprv
Rented by her mission, say the IMc
torlal American of Io Angeles, Re
fore their time there wa naught of
elvlllxntlon she had no history; the
aborigines of this summrrland Were n
wild and untaught a the npo of
Africa or the Simian of Central and
South America, The future inny yet
uncover an ancient civilisation upon
the Pacific coat It I mimIiU hut
today It 1 coumled Hint the advent
of tho Spanish frinis mure than n cvii
tury ago mark the beginning of a e!v
Miration that ha at tho present time
culminated (n M period tint lll for
al! time be recalled a the brightest
In the sclentnic achlmetneiits of the
tiucaslaii race.
llrtiilslietl from Mexico In 17rt7. the
Jesuit received royal commands from
Spain to proceed to Fpper California
for tho purpose of establishing ml.
tcn And converting and educating the
Indian of thl otberwlae uninhabited
country.
The tlrt of these missions, at San
Diego, wa established July 1(1. I7tt).
Mid to Padre Jiinlpero Serra I given
the honor of having been Its founder.
notwithstanding the historical fail
that Padre Juan Crespt, accompanied
by a little hand of soldier nnd ser
vnnts, preceded Serrn to the sMt so:ne
six week and commenced the labor of
denting the adobe structure ulilih is
the first and oldest of a chain of tweii
ty-oiio similar building from tli.it
point on the south to Kouoina on th
north. For more than half a century
Uil work wa In progress, or until
April '-.., I8'.1. when the laat and ex
treme northern mission, San Francisco
de Solano at Sonoma, wo constructed
These temple of worship, construct
ed mainly of tun-dried brick of adobe
earth and straw, were responsible for
the creation of a thoroughfare connect
Ing each with the others, constituting
oue continuous roadway from the mis
sion on the south to the one at the ex
treme north; tills wa called Kl Catuliio
Real, the King' Highway.
Through trie secuta fixation of these
missions, luhvrrtlng the object for
which they were created, and the can
tankeroii tooth of time, there remain
to-day for the most part little evidence
of their former upremacy they are
naught but mini, except where In n
few Instance some of tliem have been
partially restored mainly a land
mark and historic relic of the earlier
civilization of California, while some
few ctlll serve the purpose of religious
rrremonUt.
In their palmy days these lnstltu
Hon were prosperous and amassed
much wealth and the pridre enjoyed
many luxuries. In a quiet way, avail
able in those primitive time of mej
ger facilities and product of art and
husbandry. Settled a they nere In
the midst of Kpulou tribes of peace
able and simple Indians, they availed
thetnselvtn of their ability to utilize
their labor to profit. I'poii the author
Ity of Major Hen. ('. Truman, It may
be stated that "the mission were In
their host condition In 1HH. although
In 1820 they had -lOO.Ooo cattle, 'JUO.dufl
sheen and 20.000 hone. Ther nisi
kept at work 15,000 Indian and bar
vested nearly 100,000 bushels of gra.n
of vartou kind."
The mission system of Alta Callfor
nla, founded by the mlsslonarlca of the
ardor of St. Francis, consisted of tweti
ty-one establishment, extending from
Kan Diego on Ui south to Sonoma on
the north. The most extensive and
important of thee, Monterey excepted.
were In Southern California, nnd the
three best preserved In the cordon nro
Santa Harbara, San Hiiena Ventur.i
and San 1. tils Rey.
San Carlo de Horremeo, at Mon
terey, wa partially restored In 1S8I,
on the one hundredth anniversary of
Padre Junlpero Serra'a death, through
the efforts of the resident priest, Fath
trCasanova,and the late Don Antonli,
Caronel of IO Angeles, Minion Santa
Clara ba been built ovor with a large
Catholic college .Santa Cms and San
.Rafael, which were
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San Luis Obispo has been rebuilt The
others are standing in various stage
of decay.
After the act of secularisation was
paed by the SpnnUh gnvrrnmetit In
IKt.t, the million began to decline,
and after It conformation by Mexico
In 18.1t, they rapidly went to ruin, tho
churches being only maintained a
places of worship In charge of parish
priest, Ry permission of the Pope,
glen to Diego, the first bishop of Cali
fornia, In IHoO, Mantn Rarhara wa
permitted to remain In the toscloii
of tho FranclsrAii order, consequently
(Ike church and cloister are Intact and
the gnrdeiu nre beautifully kept.
Han 1. tils Re.v wa restored to tlu
FrancUcAiis In INC oven pled a a cob
lege for the training of priests of the
order, under the iiiperluteudency of
Father O'lCcefo, formerly of Kan Rar
hara. The mission I to he entirely
rebuilt aa It wa originally, the work
PI.A.A AND MISSION
to be done mainly by tb studruU. it
will be a picture of the past.
The road leading from mission to
mission lu the early days was called
In the Spanish tongue, el en ml no real,
the royal road, or broadly Interpreted,
Ibe "king's highway " It was so deslg
tinted, nut that the road belonged to
the king, hut that It was a main high
way through the country. Later, when
missions expanded Into pueblos and
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large land grants became extensive
cattle ranches, there were two high'
way, el camlno real do la cueata and
el camlno real dr la tejon, the road of
the coast and the road of tile mountain
paas. Over the latter vast herd of
cattle and sheep from the southern
ranches were driven to the San Fran
cisco markets.
Klgtit years ago certain Individual
of Southern California came together
for the purpose of preserving what re
mains of the missions. They hare suc
ceeded partially In restoring San Fer
nando, San Juan Captitrano, Han
Diego and the auxiliary mission at
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humlroit year. Thuy are also einleav
orlng to AitniHo an Interest aiiioiik the
peoplo fr tli ri'coiialructlou of His
King's highway. From a praetlrAl
stniulpolnt "' movement has the en
ilurtiiieiit of tit" NaIIoiiaI (lood Roads
AMOClntloii. U ! considered by those
who have the history of California, at
heart that It will be an honor nnd
credit to the State to restore old el
minimi real, not n a speedway for the
nilllloiinlm tourist' automobiles, hut to
niAkn It a highway for all the Hoopla,
by the people, to enjoy as they may
elect. It would give to California a
tine road through scenery iiniirpd
on the continent and a unique In ori
gin aa the missions were unparalleled
In extent and character anywhere on
the globe.
VBNUS ON CIIAU 8HCLU
Old Traveler Vows TV HMn OsMHh
Are Kouint on CrawfUk,
Krery crab aliell contain the form
of a woman, At least so maintains
Samuel O. Trudell, o. .? Olh atrnue,
linguist, traveler and author and now
owner of a tobacco tore, ya the New
York Pre, and he la prepared to
pror his assertion, not only from In
shell he baa In hi possession, but
from any that may be laitrii to mm.
Not only Is the female form divine
outlined In native grace and detail, but
In many Inatancr It Is attired In the
conventional hnbtllmrnti of the pre
mt time, for the drawing room or the
street or draped In clinging garment
a f for the tage. Home, too, have
headdresses of the lowering style or
the women of certain provinces of
France.
The two apeclea of shellfish which
bear the outlines most clearly are the
ordinary tab's rrsb and tho rock crab,
but the decoration are not conn tied to
those of auy one part of the world.
They may be found even on ahelta
CIIAl'tCl l.OH ANtlUI.KS.
f ' ;
picked up In New York bay, although , .
I the finest ipeclmen wnlcn Trudell has "'
are rrom tli Oulf of Mexico and the
Kmrllsh rami.
It was hack In 1H70. Trudell said,
that be discovered the strange decora
tion, part drawing and part ha re
lief, which tho crab bear on It bark
He wa taking luncheon In a rrdau
rant In Pascagouta, near New Orleans,
when he recognised the form. Since
that time he lias examined hundred
of shells, and never ha he failed to
find the tracing Often, he sys, It
require careful tudy to pick them
out, and otiiellmr a magnifying glass
I needed to discover the Hues of dot
which fill In the plcturr. hut they are
alway there. A a general thing the
faro and the breast appear aa If em
bossed In the abell, the Inside being
hollowed where the undulation are
found on the outer aide. In others the
arm Are ahown In relief, and In some
Pie legs,
One thing which the old man point
ed out particularly was (he- perfect
balance between the opposite sides of
the figure, each feature or marking or
trace of embroidery or larework which
Is Indicated on the left being Indicated
equally clear on the right.
One shell ha the form of a woman
who' appear a If she were holding
her aklrta above her angle, which
Trudell say should cause no wonder
lnce she wa In the water at one
lime. The hand seem to he hurled In
the fold of the draperlr and the
shell show (he wrinkle where one
might suppose the cloth hid fallen In
curves between the hand, Another
show a form wearing a coat extend
ing halfway to the knrc And a iklrt
with flounce At knee and hem.
At the Uaptaln'e'Tahl.
Ae the liner cleared the heads and
the heavy wl of the open Atlantic
became noticeable dinner waa erred.
The 2(1 place at the captain's table
were filled and as the soup appeared
the captain addressed his table com
panion. "1 trust that all 25 of you will have
a pleasant trip," he said, "and that
this little assemblage of 2 will reach
port much benefited by the voyage. I
look upon the 22 smiling faces as a
father upon his family, for I am re
sponsible for the lives of this group
of 10, I bop all 1 of you will Join
me later in drinking to a merry trip. I
believe we 7 fellow passenger are
admirably suited to each other and I
applaud the Judgment which cboaa
from the passenger Hit these 8 per
sons for my table. You and I, my dear
sir, are"
The captain chuckled. "Here, tw
ard, bring on my fish and clear away
these dishes." Indianapolis Journal.
Millions Htarvlng.
Prof. Reusiiier, of Horlln, a rcog
nlted authority on Husdan affaire, in
a recent interview said that 100,000,000
Inhabitants of the Russian empire ara
literally starring.