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CHAPTER XXL (Continued.)
Mr. Hilly Illter. talking very earnest
ly, nnil mumbling IiU words n llttlo by
prying among I1I1 white, even tooth with
room; quill toothpick, nnil constantly
turning IiU wblto looking eye out of
their corner no a to see what Mr. ami
Mm. Wlckly arc doing, pauses a minute
aftor hnrliiR falrlr stated his case, bo
fort) he goes on to argue It.
"So now you're tho heaviest taxpayer
In thU county, by n long way, Ml
Lizzy. Vn If you Imrcn't no rote you're
gut Influouce plenty of It! You are the
very person tit bring Coon Redden round
II right. And I hope you'll do that fur
mo."
What else he Mild In tho Innumerable
repetition of rvery statement which ho
happened to think, as a lawyer, needed
repenting, she could not remember, lie
staid long after her own somewhat af
fecting meeting with her father. In fact,
so far from bavins the delicacy to with
draw, ho assumed an nlr of legal ad
viser and supervisor of tho whole affair,
making remark upon the various phase
or the unhappy portion of this episode
that were Intended to be humorous nnd
light, but which were, In fact, coarse and
brutal.
Again, tho good-natured people of
Bandtown who "neighbored" with the
Wlcklys, or th Weekly, a they were
Indifferently called, dropped In to see the
"Squar." It was plain that they still had
apprehensions ncrlous apprehension
of the mental condition and stability of
the returned patelnt.
"Hello. 'Squar!" said Conrad Redden,
when he came In some time after 11
o'clock at night. "Hits mighty late fur
urse farmers to be up, but I've gut to
shake han's. Ilowre yuh feelun. Squar,
ny way? Tar'd, halnt yuh? Rid all the
way over h-yur without ronton? Better
lay down, purty soon, hadn't yuh? Wont
do to tot up all night, yuh know."
There was the deprecating solicitude In
every word and look of Coonrod Red
den's, that showed very plainly that he
could not divest himself of tho precon
ceived notion that the "Squar" still need
ed medical advice and supervision, and
In his opinion, and that of the public of
Bandtown, he might always need It.
"Well, I gut to go home now, Squar.
Lizzy, yon didn't come down to ar house
this erenun? They was lokun fur yuh!
I thenk Huntley wawnted to see yuh
bad, 'fore he left."
"Is he gone?" she asked, with an un
availing effort to keep back the hot rush
of blood to her face.
"Yes," said Conrad Redden, looking at
her curiously and contemplatively, "he's
gone. He had to light ont on that train
that went at 8:30. I thought ho druv up
li-yur before he went. I'm shore he did.
Didn't you see Mm?" He was looking
at her rather scrutinUlngly.
"Yes, he drove up h-yur JUt ahead of
tne," put In Mr. Dller, "but he couldn't
top a minute and he couldn't find where
Lizzy was at. He said he'd write In
reference to the payments on the land
end the signing of deeds, and so on.
Well, if yon're ready, Coonrod, I'll go
down with you a piece."
CHAPTER XXII.
- Congressman Hilly Oiler having been
John Wickly's attorney In the prosecu
tion of 'his claim against the English
crown for his thirteen hundred and twenty-fourth
of the Wlckllf estate, naturally
retained his employment In the manage
ment of the much greater estate that had
suddenly and fortuitously fallen to John
Wicklya' pretty and accomplished daugh
ter as she was termed by the very first
Issue of the Sand town Gazette, after tha
fabulous purchase of the Wlckly Woods
bj the munificent S. u. 8. W.
In this capacity of attorney and coun
selor, Mr. Hilly Hller found It Indispen
sable to the proper conduct of the busi
ness that be should put In an appear
ance at the Wlckly house at least once
a day. when be was not In company with
John Wlckly, Journeying to and from the
great city of the takes that was faster
ami faster reaching out across the prai
ries and drawing unto itself all the am
bition and all the enterprise of the Wa
bash country.
The question of the proper, safe and
profitable investment of such large sums
of money being one in which Miss Lizzy
Wlckly herself must actually be consult
ed in direct reference to her opinion
achieved upon a personal Inspection of
the property or securities. It also became
Indispensable that she should be a mem
ber of the traveling party on many of
these expeditions to that grasping and
reaching, and hauling 'city that seemed
to be seriously attempting the feat of
spreading Itself all over the great yellow
and purple-flowered prairies outlying and
contiguous to It.
She bad been to the city once before
her first trip In the character of heiress.
That was on a rainy afternoon when the
great flat prairie looked like a mighty
pool, wnste ana nounuiess, ana bleak and
chlU. Then she had seen the little, new,
Bitmber-hued cottages, dripping with rain,
and the great smoke-blackened psrallelo
grama of brick, looking so Illimitable In
their Interlacing reduplications as the
cara flew along them that It had been
days before she recovered from the sense
cf loneliness aniVdepresslon that the in
evitable contrasting of her own little fa
miliar Bandtown with this mighty block
browed, pulling, roaring, steaming, ring
ing, reaching and grabbing city had caus
ed her.
Not at all the less had she remembered
the very different sense of quiet Sabbath
loneliness that bad displaced the other,
on her return to Bandtown. How still
and oppressively alow and quiet, and de
liberate this little old Bandtown was, to
be sure!
Now, howorer, It was as a well-known
rich and unmarried young woman that
he went. And how differently every
thing appeared to her. Surely wealth
does something!
It was the president's own car that
took ber. And how many gallant and
accomplished gentlemen were introduced
to her by Congressman Hilly Dller, and
by the president himself I
She had never dreamt that here could
be In all the world one-half ao many pres
idents' as she met ou every trip. There
W. TAYLOR
were presidents of banks, nnd presidents
of railroads, and presidents of tniirnnco
companies, and presidents of mining,
stock, real estate nnd newspaper com
panles, andtheso were only a foretaste.
What agreeable nnd accomplished gen
tlemen they wore, too! How they woro
perpetunlly putting this and that, and tho
other, at her disposal. What bale of
invitation she received to every Imagln
able kind of an entertainment, public nnd
private. And how was she aatoulshed to
find that her very first visit deslgued orig
inally to occupy but throe days, drew It
self Irresistibly nnd Inexorably Into four
weeks. In which time she had gone with
each and every president In thn known
world, she believed, to some fascinating
entertainment of some sort or other al
ways chaperoned by her happy nnd buoy
ant father nnd Congressman Hilly Idler
of course.
The newspapers had annoyed her A lit
tle by publishing apparently well million-
titrated statements, always from reliable
source, and conveying tho detailed In
formation of her approaching marriage
with a certain brilliant youug Congress
man nnd four or five young nnd fascinat
ing presidents of banks nndt railroads.
Hut her natural buoyant organization
soon enabled her to so far overcome her
annoyance ns to permit her to laugh a
heartily a could her jubilant father.
And how quickly she learned nine of
tho ways of tho city! For Instance, she
had not completed thesecond week of her
first stny, until sho had acquired tho
remarkable art, utterly unknown to
Hooslcrdom of having n headache Inst
at the time when, had It not been for
tho timely Interposition of tho said head
ache, she would have tveen compelled to
entertain Congressman Hilly Hller, or one
of the five young and fascinating presi
dents above mentioned.
About that time, too, that Is to say
about the beginning of the era of the
headaches, she fell Into the habit of tak
ing her father's left arm and slipping out
of the side entrance of tho hotel, and
then walking him all up and dawn State
street and Wabash atenne. and goodness
only knows where she didn't walk him,
according to hts own asservatlonst
On one of these walk. she had acted
In such an unaccountably strange and
reckless way aa to seriously disconcert
her father, and even begin to make him
think that the city was entirely too ex
citing for her; although nobody could
deny that It was Just the thing for him.
They had been talking about Mr. Ma
son Huntley. Or, to speak more accu
rately, he had been talking about that
mysterious and secluslre gentleman who
had not shown himself or signified In any
way whether he yet held residence on
any part of this planet, when all at once
Lizzy stopped, dropped his ami, ran a
little way down the sldekalk, and Just
as he was starting to run after, she turn
ed and ran back In great and eager agi
tation. "Call that cab, father! Quick, or he
won't hear you! There! Cab! Cab!
Cab!" She had screamed out in such a
shrill, resonant, penetrating Hoosler,
Reelfoot Prairie voice, that two or three
cab came dashing up that way. Then
she bad literally broken Into one of them
before the driver could open the door,
and pulling her father in by the collar
had stood up where she could see and
tell the driver where to go.
And my! but she did tell him. She
nearly drove the felow wlldeliug him
to go first this way and then that, and
now to gallop hts horses faster am fast
er! And now to pull short up and turn
round and dodge down a cross street
some here! What a lot of wagon driv
ers stopped and shook their whips at that
cabman! lint he waa a conscientious
fellow, and obeyed orders with a single-
ne of purpose and an energy that would
have Insured success If success had been
one of the attainable thing.
Rut It wasn't. Tho young lady showed
after awhile a wavering and a hesitancy
In her directions that discovered an irres
olution not Incompatible with the stern
and peremptory decision of her earlier
manner. At the end of the half-hour she
gave It up, and told the cabman to drive
back to the hotel.
As Mr. John Wlckly handed her out
at the side entrance and hunted the cab
man's fare out of his vest pocket, be
said:
"Lizzy, If you take me such another
chase I'll start right back to Bandtown
with you on the spot."
"Bandtown!" cried the cabman in smil
ing surprise and evident gratification.
"Bandtown, Indyanny?"
"Yes."
."Well, br Rum! I used to live right
down there at the lower end ur Reelfoot
Pon myself. Know everybody from
there up to the Overcoat road. Anything
else I kin do fur yuh!" There was no
much of that remarkable I loonier trait of
"being acquainted with you" as Boonrod
Redden would have put It, In the words
and manner of the cabman, that Lizzy
Instantly beckoued him to her and held
a low-toned conversation with him, In
which her father only heard this:
"Whut? The yuller'n? Tho ynller
wheeled buggy? Why, I'd a kotch that
yaller-wbeeled buggy way up h-yonder
at Madison street ef I'd known! hit was
the one."
Then there was more of this conversa
tion In an undertone, ending with this,
that Mr. Wlckly heard:
"I'll be right h-yur to the minute.
H-yur'a toy number. You k'nowed old
Cappen Joe Kllet up awn Hlg Rattle
suake Crick? Well. I'm little Joe Ellet's
son I Hud Kllet! You've h-yearu urn talk
about Rud Kllet? Clabber-eyed Hud,
they usen to call me! My eyes Is all
right now. Va I'll do anything I kin fur
you folks! Jlst leuiiny know." And the
cabman was up and off.
On the next day there were more pres
idents to take them to pew places of
Interest, and Rud was cent away empty
as to his cab, but with his fare in his
pocket, against his earnest protest. In
fact, It was not during that visit that
Lizzy Wlckly found an opportunity to
rido as far as she wished In Dud Ellet's
cab.
Dut on the second or third, perhaps,
they had slipped, away again between
periods of possible new presidents, aud
had howled along thoio delightful, long,
broad streets on tho north sldo almost a
wholo afternoon, Agiiln had John Wlck
ly made Mr. W, Mason Huntley tho sub
Ject of their conversation. Ho had boon
to tho vlty offlco of tho 8. os 8. W. to
maka Inquiries ns to hi whereabouts.
There ho had found that Mr, Huntley
was only n special agent of tho com
pntiy, and nobody could toll him anything
nlitut where ho was nt present.
They did not know whether ho was
In tho employ of tho company, oven. And
na to knowing where ho lived, and such
like minutiae, that was too much fur
the red bended young man who was writ
Ing at n desk all tho time ho was mnklug
short nnd pointed answers to these quos.
tlon. Tho president might know, but
ho was out of the city, Ah! where was
he? Mr. lekly had tcutured to ask,
Where? And thero was astonishment
for you, on that clerk's face I. Ho had
snld out of tho city! And thero were only
two geographical points to him sine of
which was In tho city, and that was of
vast Import, while the other was out of
tho city, and that was of no Import nt
all!
Mr. Wlckly, with his gront exhilara
tion, and hi fair nverago sense of till
nlor, was making this conversation In
the repetition, ns ludicrous as possible
tor tho purpose of amusing his daughter
n little. 1-itr when they were mono aha
waa utterly unlike -her nld self--boln
dull, nhscut-mlnded nnd brooding, or sur
prisingly excited nnd anxious.
For tills putposu, too, ho hnd told her
how every man and boy n)mg tho Il'ii
Itnttlosnnko Crook had procured long Iron
rods fur drilling In the ground, ami vtero
spending their Sunday nnd rainy days,
when they couldn't "pliw for win at."
in rambling cyor hi hjlbj north nf tho
Oiercont road, drilling down Into nnd. bo
low tin .tellnw clay, niter cool, And
many of them had found good veins, too!
Aud tho wholo country una wild about
It! And companies-wore being formed to
work those mine. And the Bandtown
Farmer' Hank had resumed business.
with Columbus Redden a cashier and
president. And money was plenty again.
And
Lizzy, springing straight up off her
seni, nnu isiriy screaming 10 111111 iiuei,
through the little aperture In the roof
of the cab, back nf hi seat!
"I seed nt!" Rud answers, swinging
hts whip. "Dlamo tl don't run the theng
to ut hole this time."
And nway they go at a terrific pace
up the street with a yellow-wheeled, top
buggy, with the top laid back, loading
them about a square, and fairly hum
ming along "after n mighty good step
per." as Rud turned tu Inform Lizzy,
Nor was It a very dIOIcult task this
time, for Hud Kllet to "run the theng to
ut hole." The "theng" made a com
paratively short run of alx or eight
squares up the thoronghfnre, and then
turned upon a little, short, quiet street
to the left, and stopped before a small,
plain two-story cottage.
Directing Hud to wait and watch the
horse that had been tied to a hatching
ring Lizzy, preceding her father, ran up
the front step, nnd finding no door bell.
turned tho knob, puslied the door open
and walked Into a llttlo hallway. Through
an open doorway on her left she saw
a man standing beside a llttlo table, and
removing hi gloves slowly nnd abstract
oily, as he looked down nt some plan
and diagrams drawn In broad roil and
black lino upon a wide sheet of paper.
"At last I've chased you to your lair."
Lizzy said, as she threw the door wide
open and almost ran Into the room, with
her right hand nuttarrtched In good,
hearty Hoosler fashion, nnd her pretty
face beaming. "How do you do. Mr.
Huntley? And haven't you treated ins
wretchedly! Positively wretchedly!"
(To lw continued.)
RAILWAY 8AFETY.
Standards on Iletter Amerlcnn Ititads
u llliib us In 1'nizuind,
American railways havo recently
conn In for considerable unfavorable
criticism on account of tho number of
serious nccldcnts lu ho mo of tho lost
tlih kly poputnted district nf tho Unit
ed States, wlillo ut the muno tlino Kng
Ititli roads have boon praised na having
attained n combination nf speed mid
surety unknown In this country. A
n ninttor of fact, ninny Mnorlcnn rail
roads nro gradually being brought to
n standard of safety which Is fully as
high ns the Kngllsh, whllo tho comfort
of passenger is given far more atten
tion bore than 011 tho other side of tho
witter.
From the American standpoint sofa
railroading Is primarily dependent ou
a system of signals which aro prac
tically Infallible. This Is attained by
a combination of automatic machinery
nnd human Intelligence, each of which
supplement the other and each of
which Is iKiwcrless to do anything
without tho consent of tho other. In
tho operation of such n system tho
salient feature Is tha division of tho
road Into short sections or "blocks" by
menus of signals worked primarily by
nn eloctrlcnl connection with tho mils.
On the Now Haven Hyatcm, for In
stance, which has built up n lino of 233
tulles from Roiton to New York that
complies with nil tho -requirement!!
found necessary In American expert
onco for safety, those blocks nre from
hnlf n inllo to four miles lu length.
A train cannot enter 0110 of them un
til tho preceding train has left It, a
fact Indicated by tho rising of an au
tomatic ftomnphora at Its further end,
which protects the next block ahead,
Tho system Is so arranged Hint tho
normal position of nil semaphores Is
at danger and wore the towermnn a
maniac ho could do no burin boyond
neglecting to lower u slxiiul ut tho
proper time to lot approaching trains
through. He might tlo up all traffic
on the road In this way, but ho could
cause no nccldents.
Whllo kiicwil systems, roadbeds nnd
bridges havo been brought as near per
fection as Ingenuity enn bring them,
the safety of others than their passeu
gers Is not neglected by the well-man
nged railroads. Retween Now York
aud Now Haven, for examplo, a dis
tune of seventy-three miles, therp ure
no grade crossings at nil and between
New Huven and Now London there
aro only Ave, none of which Is consid
ered dangerous.
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King Christian IX of IMmiitrk, who recently celebrated his eighty v
nth birthday, has been allied tho grandfather nf Kurtipo. ills eldest ilaiigh
tor la Queen Alexandra of England. HI soiiuid oldest Is tho Dowager
Ductless of Russia, mother of tho Cinr HI third daughter I tho Diii'lieis
of Cumberland, her husband being a sou nf tho ox King of Hanover Ills
oldest son will succeed to tho Danish throne, while tho noroiiit son Is King
fleorge I. of tho Hellenes. The reiiinliilng sou. Prince WaldoiiMr, was offered
the principality of Hulgarla, but wisely declined.
King Christian la duo nf tho most beloved monarch In Ktiropo and Is
extremely popular In Denmark. Despite his ago ho retain tho elasticity aud
bearing of n young man. Ho has boon rolulug since IWKl -a period of forty
two years. Our Illustration Is taken from the Illustrated tiiulou Nowa and
hows the King, with tho Castlo of Rosenborg, 0110 of tho royal palaces, In
the background.
Conquest 'HE Great
American Desert
Tho otlUinls of tho reclamation de
partment of tho. United States geolog
ical survey have taken tho field for
tho most nctlvo campaign thus far
undertaken for tho benefit of the peo
ple's heritage tho public lands of
America, estimated to measure 811,
87.!,377 acres, of which 17:!.K73.07.
acres have boon reserved by law for
forest culture, Indians and other pur
poses, leaving 7.U,7.U.ltKI acres open
to reclamation and ultimate settle
ment Colorado contains a&,H3l,ulM)
ncros of this heritage, of which 4,008,-
IVI3 havo not yot been surveyed.
In connection with Irrlgntlnn enter
prises, and to enlighten tho tnrgo
number of settlers who know practic
ally nothing about tho application of
wnter to the soil and to growing crops,
the San Francisco Call discusses the
"qua'ntlty of water allotted to n given
area of Irrigable land." Taking tho
States ns a wholo, the quantity per
acre used In California Is atwut CO per
cent of tho Colorado average. This
would appear to convict Colorado of
needless waste, but as the nature of
the soil and the kind nf crop Irrigated,
together with rainfall, nro fartnrs In
the problem, It Is not safo to conclude
without careful comparison. This Is
now going forward at Fort Collins nnd
at other experiment stations under the
general control of tho Agricultural
Department. Kxperts connected with
pump and machinery houses In this
city aro also collecting dntn, this lie-
Ing the natural result of the Installa
tion of plants In different portions of
tho State, on different soils and for tho
.'are of different crops.
It has been stated by one of tho en
gineers In charge of Federal work In
Nevada that a minor's Inch of wntor
would Irrlgnto WX) ncros of land. This
Is not tho Colorado experience. Kveu
California rejects It, tho San Francisco
Call alleging thnt tho estimate Is un
sound and Is not supported by Califor
nia experience, dating back to tho tlmn
of the missions, when tho Franciscans
brought with them tho exporlonco of
Egypt nnd tho Orient.
In support of his liberal Nevada es
timate MX) acres to one minor's Inch
Expert I.lpplncott quotes conditions
at Yuma and In tho Klamath district
of California. Ills allowance for
Yuma, If wo understand him correct
ly, Is 080 cubic foot of wntor per aero,
which Is not quite three-sixteenths of
an Inch por ncro. That Is a very thin
sheet of wntor to spread upon land In
a region where the evaporation Is
twelvo or fifteen feet per year, "Wo
doubt very much," says the Call,
"whether It will sustain growing crops.
If he means thnt a miners Inch How
Ing constantly for ninety days will suf
fice for an acre and n half, wo havo
this result: In an aero and n half nro
05.S10 square feet, which a minor's
Inch In ninety days would cover nbout
fifteen Inches. He allows eighteen
Inches at Klamath for the crop sea
son, against Ufteen indies nt Yuma.
Rut the record of thirty-six years'
rainfall at Yiimn shows an nverago an
uual precipitation of three and four
tenths Inches only, while nt Klamath
It Is thirty-sir to fifty Inches."
Hxportmoiits the world over show
that laud requires about throe fret of
water during tho growing season to
produce n crop. This I averaging nil
absorptive conditions of tho soil and all
rates of evaporation. Italy, lu tho
I alley of tho Po, has long established
II scientific Irrigation, and tho nver
ago duty of water Is one ruble foot
poc second to nbout sixty six ncros. In
continuous flow. Hut Italy on tho
same land has a rainfall nf between
Ihlrty-nro and forty Indies, of which
twenty-two Inches falls In tho season
,.Rrlnif crops. So the Irrlgntod
laud of Italy got nlxnit 1.10 Inches of
Irrigation wot or and twenty-two Inch
es of rain, or a llttlo over twelve feet
Pn tho season of crop growth.
This feature of tho Irrigation prob
lem deserves close attention, because
It Is basic lu tho matter nf dividing up
lands. The settlers should know In
advance what the chnuces for success
really aro, and. In estimating those
chances, tho government exnoris
should lean to tho conservative rather
than the hopeful side. A season of re
action would materially Injure tho re
clamation project. Denver News.
LiiteiutiurKors Aro Con lent.
All tourists who have spent any
length of tlino lu tho (Jrnnd Duchy of
Luxemburg ngree that tho I.uxeni
burgers aro the most contented people
on tho fnco of the earth, writes Henri
Chovnller lu tho Cincinnati Enquirer.
Though of very small area tho popula
tion represents many nationalities, It
appears to form part of Helglum and
one has to penetrate toward the eapl
tal from tho bonier qtilto a bit before
tho llotglan dialects cease to be heard.
Then there Is quite a Dutch element.
Hnlf of the people speak French nnd
thero nro many Germans, as Is shown
by tho two Gorman papers printed lu
tho llttlo capital of 22,000 Inhabitants.
That the people aro happy is ho
causo tho Orand Duchy Is Independ
ent, nt peace Willi nil Its nelglilmrs, has
hut a small army to support and Im
poses llttlo tax on tho Inhabitants,
most of whom nro neither rich nor
poor.
Of Ornnil Duke Wllholm, the regent,
It cannot bo said that "uneasy lies tho
head that wears tho crown," for no
ruler Is better beloved by his subjects.
He was married In iHO.t to the Infanta
Maria Anna, of Portugal, who Is tho
mother of Princesses Mnrle, Charlotte,
Hilda, Antoula, Elizabeth and Sophie.
Tho family Is fairly worshiped by
tho Liixeinburgers, Tho old (I rami
Duke Adolf of Luxemburg, the real
ruler, Is still alive. He Is a nonagena
rian and, though ho abdicated lu favor
of Wllholm In HXtt, ho still tnkes n
deep Interest lu all thn statu nnd court
affnlrs,
Touiinr Learns.
Tommy Flggjnm Pnw, what Is
meant by tho newspaper expression
'bleeding Kansas'?"
Paw Flggjam That Is what John
D. Rockefeller has boon accused of.
Tommy Flggjam Of whnt?
Pnw Flggjam Hleedlng Knnsas and
Kansas objects to being bled any fur
ther. Rnltlmnro Amorlcun,
Hill Rowers, who bus boon sick, snld
this afternoon: "Well, as I can't rcu
sounuiy expect nny more strangers to
toll mo how thlu I look, I will go homo
aud tuko my medicine"
DARINd TRIP UY WHIG.
.in
Journey of nil Adventurous Hwls Down
n Hleap Mountain,
A (hiring font, In which death Is do
lleil, Is dully performed nt (loiiovn,
HivUkoiIiiihI, by M. Clmpuls, a profo.
sur In tint university of thnt place,
The niiifesKiir lives 111 11 llttlo Vllliiuo
In tho viillov below tho ellv mid when
Ills dny's Instruction Is ended hualliles
down 11 stool wire cable, hourly half n
inllo long, toward his 101110. Tho cnblo
was originally erected to convoy blocks
of limestone from quarries above tho
city to tho valley, At some points It
Is SUM) feet above tho surface of tint
ground.
Tho cable Is three-quarters of an
Inch thick and front tint vnllnv tint
highest part of It can hardly bo seen
with tho naked eye, the dining per
former having tho appearance of limit
lug In space when inoliiitod upon -It,
At one point lu the distance covered
there Is a span of ntmiit PNO feet bo-
tweou the supports, at n height of 1(10
feet Tho nuulo varies from 10 to no
degree mid tho grimiest dllllcutty M,
Clmpuls experiences Is to prevent him
self from sibling down too quickly.
During his Initial trip dgwu tho sleep
Imiliio ho burned his hands terribly
a iuiiimo Tiur 11 r vi iii-
trylng to hold himself back, and oven
then tho speed of his descent was
such ss to tear hts clothing to shred.
Since that first trip ho has gone duwit
astride a saddle of stout leather.
Perhaps tho greatest dlltlculty ho ex
perlenecd, houetcr, was that nf keep
ing hts balance on thn swaying wire,
t'utll set oral trips hnd accustomed him
to It, tho tendency was to turn oter
head downward during the descent.
Realizing that this would mean Inabil
ity to maintain his hold of tho wire
aud denth on tho rock several bun
dred feet below, tho Intrepid man
fought bravely against It and finally
succeeded In mastering the secret of
keeping his balance.
lUIMIreeds Dying Off.
"Therv will bo full-blooded liidhns
In the Canadian Northwest when
there are no half-breed." These noru
the words of a veteran trailer Just
from tho far north llrnry A. Ca bier
a stalwart Natty Huinppo lu cordu
roys, snys the St. Paul Dispatch.
"Consumption." this observant leather
stockings says, "l tho blight which Is
fast wiping tho half breed out of ex
Istencc. "Nino out of ton half b roods die nf
consumption," he continued. "So
swift nro the ravage of tbl disease
among these people that the lire In
tho cemetery Is always kept biirnliu
to thaw out tho ground Hint the grates
may bo dug.
"Tho Indian docs not seem to suffer
like hi half-brother. After watching
these people for a number of ear. It
seems to .me that they are bom with
tho disease In them. Then their care
less, slovenly life helps It along. In
the spring the half-brood wades out In
the sloughs and (Hinds nnd catches n
cold and, unlike the Indian, Is iinalitu
to throw It off. Tho half-breed mor
ally Is also weaker than the Indian.
Ho has all thu vices of both tho red
man and the white man aud few of
tholr virtues."
An I'.inmpln to Follow.
"What were tho last figures on the
bulletin for Drown?" demanded Mr.
Harris, when ho and his son had been
at homo half 1111 hour, ami his vexation
nt tho wny tho election scorned to bo
going had cootcd n trlllo.
"I don't remember," snld John,
whoso Interest lu the election was hut
lukewarm, and who was then with
Nnuseu lu tho "Farthest North."
"Don't remember!" thundered his
father. "Don't remember, sir! If you
nro so stupid you can't remember 11
few Important figures for ton minutes
at a time, why don't you write them
down, ns I do?"
Those Government Heeds,
Ilncon Did you get any seeds from
your Congressman this year?
Egbert Sure.
"Plant nny?"
"No, Pm not going to. Last year I
planted noma beautiful American
Heauty rosebush seed and It come un
onions," Yonkors Statesman,
No Lack nf Variety,
A traveling salesman Just back from
Mnlno snys, In the Roston Record, thnt
ha recently asked nu old fisherman In
a snow-bound hamlut what ho did with
hlmiulf evenings,
"Oh," snld tho old man, easily,
"sometimes I sot nnd think, and thon
again I Just sot."
Ever know of n man who ndmttted
eating strawberries with skim milk?
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