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LORD OF THE DESERT By PAUL de LANEY. ' (Copyright, 1902.) - CHAPTER XXIV. "Dunder and Blijen." It was after midnight before the troops arrived. It wag also tbi hour before the Indians had quieted down to sleep. The afternoon's war dance over their captive victims, the wild excitement of the torture and the ar rival of the Follett party with the two captives had aroused the blood of the savages and .many tales of former-acts of bravery, and deeds of daring were told beneath the willow and the tepees In Hell's Trap, that night. Hammersley had decided to go on his mission of rescue alone. It was decided first to station the troops at every point at which the Indians could poisibly escape and then for the trapper to attempt , the rescue. Should he fail or fall in the attempt .It was the purpose to force the best terms possible with the, savagea, but should he. succeed, it was the determination to wreak that mer ciless revenge upon the Indians that the occasion seemed to justify. The men had all been informed of the torture and death of the four white men and of the arrival of the two new captives, and this stirred the soldiers to a revengeful spirit that caused them to forget their tired and hungry condition -and loss of sleep. They now felt that they had at last encompassed the enemy and they were eager to strike the blow. Ten well armed and equipped sol diers accompanied by five cowboys were placed in each gap in the rim rocks and 100 men, Including cow boys and soldiers under General Crook, guarded the neck of the pen insula. It was half way between midnight and dawn when the trapper started on his perilous mission. Armed suitably for the occasion he entered the chan-j nel of the stream and hugged the banks with the silence of a beaver, always keeping in the shadows of the willows and never risking his weight upon his feet until he knew they were firmly placed. While his task did not prove a dif ficult one, it was a tedious one. His bearings had been so well taken that he recognized the very clump of bushes in which Bertha's tepee was pitched without trouble. Farther away from the stream he saw the dis mal thicket to which Oscar Metzger, the other captive, had been taken, and from which the four cowboys on the previous evening had been taken for their last walk. Like a snake he crawled up the embankment through the dense un dergrowth, moving inch by inch, un til be reached the rear of Bertha's tepee, and while the guards dozed near the front he ripped a hole In the rear wall of the tent and soon gave Bertha an assuring touch that told her a friend was with her. In a few moments time they had retraced the trapper's steps to the bed of the stream, in the same man ner as he had approached, and Ber tha hiding in a dark nook under the willows wBlch hung over the em bankment, Hammersley went to at tempt the release of the other prisoner. He found Metzger so securely tied that even the Indians did not fuar his escape. Bound hand and foot and stretched full length-between two sapplinga, his body barely touching the ground, he was enduring a tor ture that would have killed an ordi nary man. But his was one of those iron constitutions of the desert. The trapper was a welcome visitor and his knife furnished immediate re lief. When released from his cramped position the cowboy stood erect and exercising his limbs noiselessly for a moment he Indicated that he waa ready to go. The trapper handed him a revolver pnd a knife and the two walked silently away ready to defend themselves, even unto death. When they reached the place where Bertha was concealed the trapper was struck with awe. He saw twigs . of willows and tops of sage brush and chunks of wood floating down the stream. These Increasing at every moment Seizing the woman he drew her after him and Metzger followed at a rapid pace. - It was two hundred yards to a shal low place In the stream and when this wna reached the river was already ris ing at a rapid rate. The trapper seized Bertha in his arms as If she were a mere child and plunged into the foaming rapids, followed by the cowboy. Against the heavy current, whlch-almost swept their feet from under them, they made the farther shore, and as they ascended the bank, the trapper exclaimed: "Great luck! A head rise!" Ham mersley and his companions ran acioss the open meadow for the near est opening in the rimrocks. The light of breaking morn made them recognizable to their friends on guard in the rimrocks who could scarcely restrain applause. But the drilling of a soldiers life prevented this out break. The water came with a rush down the mountain stream. The sound changed from a murmur over the peb bles to a ripple over the rocks; and then, to a roar over the boulders and against the angular banks. So loud followed the growing roar that the savages were wakened. Ban Follett rushed to the tepee of hit fair cap tive and finding that she was gone, he kicked the drowsy guards in their aide and Rave the alarm. The whole camp was astir Instantly. Discovering the fleeing fugitives. Fol lett plunged into the stream, follow ed by some of the most daring war riors, and gave pursuit But when within 50 yards of the opening in the rimrocks where the fugitives had passed safely through, a cloud of smoke rose, report of ft dozen rifles rang upon the morning air and a half dozen Indians sank down In the meadow. Another volley and the ranks were thinned to a remnant. Follette remained untouched. He turned and tried to rally the men who had been following in the rear and were now panic-stricken. At least one-fourth of the entire war party had rushed across the stream un armed in pursuit of the fugitives. When they returned they found the river in these few minutes a seething foam, made black by the earth gathered by the flood as it came. To cross the stream was a task no warrior would attempt They turned for other open ings In the rimrocks. But here they met with disappointment When ap proaching these point, and safety aeemed Just in tight, they were met vttb volleys from the soldiers' rifles that mowed them down like grass be fore a scythe. Another opening and another was tried with like results, until terror-stricken they ran about the meadow, hiding here and there in the tall grasi soon to be spied out by the revengeful soldiers and shot like sage hens. But the daring Follett would not give up. He saw old Egan organizing the men on the other side of the river, and plunged into the mad stream to join him, and made the other shore. Mounting their horses, the chief and half-breed led the men to the "neck" where the water was rapidly rising to the danger point. But here the real slaughter began. General Crook led his men in per son, and when the savages were in easy range he gave the command to fire. It was a deadly fire. Every shot found iti mark. The savages fell from their horses like hail. Some of them tried to dash through the lines while others turned back toward the raping torrent. "Charge," came the command from Crook. It was not technically a hu mane warfare, though It was con ducted according to human tactics, svorw ahnt that wna fired was fired by a man mad for revenge. They charged upon tne savages, epai-iug nnA ami tnblnfr nn nrisonfirs. for they refused to surrender and did not ask for mercy. To the brink of the stream they ran, many falling pierced with lead before they reached this point. Some plunged Into the flood movar in Hso nrnin: others made it across to fall before the- rifles In the hands of the. guards at tne openings in tne rimrocKs. Follett rushed to the tepee of his fair captive. ' But the story is better told in the history of the eountry and the Indian wars. There you will find that only a few escaped, and the battle ground was made famous in history. It was made so by a German soldier in Gen eral .Crook's command, whose dialect gave it the name it still bears. After the battle was over, as the German wiped the perspiration and powder stains from his face, he said: "Dey call dis 'Hell's Drap, but I name It 'Dunder and Blixen.' " Since that time1 the battle ground and the river have borne the name the Ger man gave the place, and history has adopted the name as the proper one. Among the few who escaped were Chief Egan and Dan Follett. At the last moment they plunged into the raging stream and swam with the current for a long distance, reached the distant shore and .then ascended a precipice of rimrocks, and as they passed over the summit they waved their hands in defiance at their pur suers. CHAPTER XXV. Wages of Sin and Alcohol. It is several days after the battle of "Dunder and Blixen." General Crook has sent all of his men, except his stall, to the fort and he has stop ped at the Stone House to straighten out the matters reported by the trap per. Bertha and Hammersley are at the Stone House. James Lyle is there. Al. Beach has returned. All of the cowboys who escaped the Indian ar rows are there. There are many remlnlsences to relate. Bertha has long ago told the story of how she and Metzger fell into the hands of Follett He had come to the trapper's abode late in the afternoon and left a message to the effect that the trap per desired their presence at the Stone House, and that the half-breed would call about dark for the.m They had held a conference before the return of Follett, and while they were suspicious of him, it seemed so probable that his story was true, that tliey decided to accompany him Metzger arming himself snd claiming that he was a match for the Canadian Follett came at the appointed time, bringing two horses with him, and Bertha leaving Julian Byrd to look after her father, she and Metzger started out with the Canadian toward the Stone House. They had not gone far, however, until they were sur rounded by the four braves, who had accompanied Follett, and were in their power. Follett took immediate command and hurried them away to ward "Hell's Trap, at which place the reader Is familiar with what fol lowed. It is early in the afternoon. General-Crook is seated at the bedside of a very sick man in the main room of the Stone House. He is delirious for long periods and conscious for short ones. His conscious mcnents are moments of agony. It Is the Lord of the Desert He had remained sober during the siege of the Stone House and had taken an oath at the time that he would never drink intoxicants again. As soon as the siege was over and the soldiers and cowboys had gone and the excite ment died out he had collapsed. For more than a week he had neither eat en nor slept. The collapse of his years of dissipation had come. His bloated form was rapidly assuming In natural Btate. He was but ft sponge, dry decaying sponge with all of the substance gone. He was a human wreck, made so by sin and al cohol. His was not an isolated cue; it was the same old story. Written and unwritten history abound with such stories. "It Is too late, general, it is too late, said the unfortunate man in a moment of consciousness. "I have taken the oath, I will never drink again, but it was taken too late. It might stimulate me now for a few hours, but It would make death the i more agonizing.' It is hue. Mr. Lyl," replied th' general, "its effects are always tem porary, except the injury It fives. This is permanent A man may feel good for a moment; his life may even be prolonged by it for a brief spell, but he muat suffer the consequences In the end." After a more exhausting delirium, the dying man spoke again. "It is here that I hurt worse, gen eral, it is here," he said, placing his hand over his heart, "If you knew what lies there, general, you would pity me though I'm the most wicked man living." "It is not too late to repent and Co Justice," suggested the warrior. 'Not too late to repent, I know, for I am doing that as fast as a guilty soul can confess Itself, but it is too late to do Justice; they are dead, general, they are dead, my brother and his child are dead!" This confession seemed to ease the man for a moment. Then he con tinued: "If I could give them back their lives, general, and this mockery called wealth the half-breed only took a small portion of what I pos sess death would lose many of Its terrors. I do not fear it, general, but to meet my God with this load here. General, for many years I have kept my heart, my conscience, my soul, benumbed with strong drink; now, general, It ail falls upon me like a mountain. Oh, that it would cruBh me, dissolve me like vapor, extermi nate me that I should not have to meet my Maker." "I am able to give you Borne relief, said the veteran soldier, "you are not as guilty as you think." "Oh. but they are dead, general. No power on earth can give me relief now It is too late. I will tell you how it happened," continued Lyle, eaanlng. "I hired Follett to kill one and old Egan to kill the other.." "I know you think it happened," re- piled General Crook, "but it is not that bad. Suppose I should tell you that they both live?" "You would mock me, general, you would mock me." "No, I speak truthfully, when I tell you that they still live, and are here at this moment," said the general. "Do not torture me, general, but If they are here let me see them. Let them tell me that they still live." Jim Lyle was brought in in a chair and seated by the bedside, and Ber tha came and stood by her father's side. "This Is Jim, Brother Jim," n!d the dying man. "Speak Jim, and tell me that you live and that this Is your child by your side." The cripple's spirit of revenge had left him. With tears In his eyes he hurriedly related the circumstanced with which the Lord of the Desert was not familiar, and then called Hammersley to his side, "This, brother," said the cripple "la the rightful heir to all of the prop erty. He is the only child of the de ceased brother, William. Here Is a certified copy of father's will, and Al. Beach, whom you long since thought was dead, brines the Instru ments to show that William Ham mersley, the trapper, is no more nor no less than William Llye, sole heir to all of the wealth of the House of Lyle." "Justice has been done," said the dying man. "Thanks to the failure of Dan Follett in carrying out our mur derous plans. Thanks to the treach ery of old Egan in not slaying the child. Thanks to God, who, I must now acknowledge, guided it all. Death ,is not near so bitter, now. I believe there is hope, even for me." And the Lord of the Desert passed Into a sleep never to waken again in the mortal body. CHAPTER XXVI. Conclusion. Pressing as was the military duties of General Crook he decided to re main at the Stone House another day and night A cowboy was sent to the fort with a message to announce this fact. The following morning was decided upon for the burial of all that . re- "They sro here at this moment," said the general. , j mained of the late Martin Lyle. With military precision General Crook had designated sunrise as the hour and arrangements were made accordingly. A grave was dug in a small table land high up on the mountain side overlooking the place and promptly at sunrise the general and his staff and the relatives of the deceased and the employes about the place were as sembled at the grave. Before the body was lowered the army chaplain conducted a short ser vice and the veteran general, con trary to his custom and experience delivered a short address, but like all things tha.t be did, he was practical and commonsense and spoke to the point "This is the last tribute," he said, "that man can pay to man give him a decent burial in the earth. A man, ambitious for wealth and power ruined his life and shortened his days trying to obtain it wrongfully. It is not meet and proper to speak re proachfully of the dead, but bis dying words condemned such a life and it is well that we should profit by the les son. "His life is now familiar to you all. It do is no good to repeat it here. But t lere is yet one lesson to draw from it "He was known far and wide as the Lord of the Desert.' He prided in this. This comes from the difference in classes In the European countries where loids and ladies are created by kings and monarchg and by heredity. "There is no such custom here. The title Is an empty one. Every man here may be a lord according to the American idea, if he wishes. An honorable, well spent life makes a man a lord, ft sovereign, ft king here better than the highest sounding names of the old world. It is not the title, it is the man. "With all of the high-sounding name of 'Lord of the Desert he was Lot nearly so great as his humble successor, the honest trapper, who has made himself a lord in deed by laboring and battling for the right. The assumed lord died Jeath of gony from a remoraefu' conscience. The real lord the true American lord came to his inheritance honestly and through merit Let us hope that the dead lord baa mad peace wita his maker and that the American lord will never disgrace the honorable title which he has won." With a song by those present and a prayer by the chaplain the cere mony over the remains of the "Lord of the Desert" was closed. ' General Crook was now ready to take his departure. Hla friends had assembled about him in the Stone House to render him thanks for bis services. "I will Bend that money to you by an escort upon my arrival at the fort, friend Hammersley-Lyle," said the general. "No, send it to some safe bank in the east and deposit it to Miss Lyle's credit, so that she may draw npon it for the use of herself and her father," replied the trapper. "Not one cent," spoke the father and daughter together. "Only convey us to civilization," said Bertha, '"and I will support father. Mr. Hammersley is the right ful owner of the money and the prop erty and I would not consent to ac cept one cent of It." "You shall have the money and property, too," replied the trapper. "I will return to my traps. Your father may manage the ranch and you may travel, or do as you like." "What a pity you are cousins," said General Crook. "You should be lov ersyou should be husband and wife." "It makes no difference in Scot land," said the cripple. "But it is against the law here," re plied the general, "He has never asked me, anyway," said Bertha embarrassed. "I didn't think It was any use," re plied the trapper with a husky voice. General Crook at once detected the real sentiment of the two for each other. "It'a a bad law," he said, "but it is best." "I think I can relieve all of this embarrassment," said Al. Beach, com ing forward. "Read the will more carefully." The will was handed to General Crook, who read: "In the name of God, Amen. I be queath to my adopted son, William Lyle all ." "Adopted son,' repeated General Crook. "So this William Lyle was not the real son of the testator." "That is true," said Leondidas Lig gett the former cook of the Lord of the Desert, who had stood by in si lence. "I have long known the whole story. I learned It from William Lyle's wife in Boston, after his death. I have kept silent all of these years because I did not think an adopted son ought to inherit over the real ones." ' A further examination of the pa pers which Al. Beach had secured dis covered a written acknowledgment of William Lyle that he was an adopted son and that this had been kept a Becret from the other - children who were all born after his adoption. "I see nothing in the way now," Bald General Crook, glancing at Ber tha and Hammersley. "Bertha is it any use to ask?" in quired the trapper. "There is nothing lost by trying!" replied the girl as she took him by the hand. 1 "Glad you remained, chaplain," said General Crook. "Ypu have burled one lord and now you may bind another for life before we go." Within ten days old Egan came in with his fragment of warriors and the squaws and children of his tribe and surrendered to General Crook. Fort Warner was abandoned and the great Indian fighter was sent to other fields. Dan Follett was never heard of again. Bertha Lyle preferred to change her name and she and the trapper agreed that Hammersley was good enough. They lived at the Stone House and gave the cripple a home the remainder of his days. They retained in their employ all of the former employe? at the Stone House who desired to remain, and the names of the Hammersleys. the Beaches, the Byrds, the Hopes, the Metzgers and the LIggetts are still familiar and honored ones in the great Inland Empire belt of Oregon. THE END. ("The Lord of the Desert" may be had in book form for 25 cents from the publisher of this paper, or by address ing the Metropolitan Printing Co., 162 Second street, Portland, Oregon.) ELIZABETH, MOTHER OF KINGS. Princess of Bohemia Known as the Queen of Hearts On Aug. 10, in 1500, waa born a little princess, Elizabeth, whom Fate des tined to be the foundress of our reign ing dynasty, as her younger brother, the ill-starred Charles I.', was to be the ancestor of the elder branch of Stuart writes the Loudon Dally News. From either the brother or the sister every living member of every reign ing family Is descended., It is a little remarkable that James I., the only child of an only child of an only child, is the ancestor of every princely per sonage In Europe, as well as of mauy others. Elizabeth, who was named after oui queen of "spacious times," was divplj attached to Henry, the eldest son ol James I., who died In bis father's life time. She married in 1613 the Tal grave of the Rhine, who afterward be came the winter king of Bohemia, and, after much suffering, died in 103.!, Just as Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, who bad been a claimant for Elizabeth's hand, was triumphing. The widowed queen lived on poor allowances from Eugland, Holland or the Rhine states until she returned to England after the restoration of her nephew, Charles II. She then resided a Lord Craven's bouse in Drury lane, where alie died In 1002. We canot now measure what the charms and wit were which gained for her the name of "Queen of Hearts" and the admiration of all who knew her. She waa not clever. She was not on the best of terms with all of her numerous children, many of whom be came Roman Catholics. It was owing to this fact that It was her youngest but one, Sophie of Hanover, who gave us our preaent reigning family, forth Due d'Orlean. now living, la the senior of our king even as descendant of Elis abeth. Her favorite child was Prlnca Rupert of the Rhine, the royalist cav alry leader, whose name is renewed to-day In the second belr to the throne of Bavaria, to whoa house he be longed. W are aTwaf 1 TJTITeTlsTTclous of the man who wears silk mitten on bis vale, DENMARK'S GREAT CATHEDRAL. Historic Sanctuary with the Remain of Rulers Is at Roskllde. The great cathedral of Denmark is situated about eighteen miles west of Copenhagen In the L'ttle town of Roa kllde, where In former days was a royal residence. Roskllde Is on the main railway line running across Zea land to Kursour, the little port on the Great Belt from whence the boats sail for Kiel and Nyborg. It is a very quiet little town of 6,000 Inhabitants, the picturesque houses looking very humble beneath the towering mass of the cathedral standing on the edge of the hill which drops precipitously down to the fiord at its foot It seems strange to see so grand a pile built en tirely of red brick, but the cathedral of Roskllde is of this material within and without The original building, erected by King Ilarald Blaatand In the tenth century, was of wood. This was fol lowed In the next century by a build ing consisting of a nave and two aisles, constructed of limestone. The present building is believed to have been commenced in 1210, when Peter Suneson was bishop of Roskllde. All the Danish royal family are laid to rest In Roskllde; the word "burled" Is scarcely applicable, for the royal re mains merely stand in great coffins In the various chapels on the north and south sides of the cathedral. One of the chapels is dedicated to Christian IV.-one of Denmark's most famous kings, who lived in the latter part of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. The chapel was built party after the king's own design between 1615 and 1620, but the mural paintings were added later by Christian VIII. In the naval battle of Femarn the king lost an eye, and fell fainting from loss of blood. Christian IVY coffin Is of oak, cov ered with black velvet, and ornament ed with silver plates on the sides, and a crucifix and the king's sword on the top. The coffin nearest his is that of Queen Anna Catherlna, the first con sort of Christian IV., and another be longs to the Prince Christian, who was elected successor, but died before his father. During Queen Alexandra's recent visit to Denmark most of the mem bers of the royal party at Bernstoff visited Roskllde Cathedral on the an nlversary day of the death of the late Queen of Denmark. The coffin is cov ered with wreaths, and the one sent by Queen Victoria a few years ago, though withered, is still kept with the others which cover the coffin. The German emperor stands twenty fourth in the list of succession to the British crown. " In an ironclad of ten thousand tons tlie' hull weighs 3,400 tons and the machinery 1,400 tons. Thibet Is larger than France, Ger many and Spain combined, but has only six million people. Divers' boots weigh twenty pounds apiece. The helmet weighs forty pounds, and the diver carries also eighty pounds of lead to enable him to keep bis balance at the bottom of the sea. The Japanese rip their garments apart for every washing, and they Iron their clothes by spreading them on a flat board and leaning this up against the house to dry. The sun takes the wrinkles out of the clothes and some of them have quite a lustre. The Japanese woman does her wash ing out of doors. Her washtub Is not more than six inches high. The ancients did not have lightning rods constructed as ours are, but they hnd lightning conductors, which shows that they knew how to protect them selves from the danger that lies In a thunderstorm. Even so long ago as the tenth century lightning was divert ed from fields by planting in them long sticks or poles, on top of which were lance heads. . It is said that the Celtic soldiers used to try to make themselves safe from the stroke during a storm by lying on the ground with their nnked swords planted point up ward beside them. HE PAINTED "LOVE AND LIFE," George Frederick Watts, Creator of the Much-Dlacussed Picture, The picture. Lore and Life, which President Roosevelt Intends to keep on the walls of the White House In spite of the pro tests of the Worn- a n ' a Christian Temperance Un ion, is a character istic work o George Frederick Watts, the noted English painter. It represents two hu man figures a young and timid ufc.otM.iii if. watts, gin wno is strug gling along the rocky uphill path of life, while love personified by a man angel tenderly bends over her hesitat ing figure as she places her hand in hla for guidance up the rocky path, Without the protectlou of love sh dare not venture. The picture was presented to the United States by Mr. Watts at the time of the World's Fair In Chicago. President Cleveland sub sequently hung It In the White House, but took It down and sent It to the Corcoran Art Gallery, when the W. C. T. U. protested agnlnst it President Roosevelt thinks the White House Its proper place. Watts Is 82 year old. ne first achieved success as a portrait and his torical painter. Later lie turned to representation of the great things of life which are the common thing to love, death and Judgment His pic tures appeal to the masses. Some of his paintings are In the House of Par lia merit, other In the Tate gallery In London, and four of h!s best In St. Jude' Church, Whitecbapel, the poor est district In London. He I a tire less worker, arising at 4 o'clock In the morning and working until late. Real old fashioned peupie never look at the picture of a girl taken profit without wondering If she had it tjik.i that way because she is cross-eyed. I (7; v -A IIJI' m .'i n To Hake Better Rural Roads. The Postofflee Department has a scheme uuder consideration wnlch, if adopted, will help to do away with the bad roads to be found in many parts of the country. The plan is to have inspector appointed in the rural free delivery part of the service whose duty it shall be to determine whether the road over which it is proposed rural carriers shall travel are fit At present the department is swamp ed with the complaints of the rural car riers about the condition of the roads over which they are expected to carry the mall. The department lias bad no way of making the road supervisors better the condition of the roi'ds. Now it 1 proposed to ask Congress for au thority to abolish the rurnl routes that Include part of bad roads and not to re-establish them until they have been so repaired as to make it possible for an ordinary horse to drag an ordinary vehicle over the roadbed In the full and spring month. The duty of the proposed inspectors shall be to examine all the roads about which complaint is made. If they find tho allegation to be true, it shall be their duty to notify the supervisor of the roads for the township through which the road passes that unless it is put into condition -within tho fixed time, the carrier service will be discon tinued. There are about-14,000 rural freo delivery route and on three fourths of them the roads are in a bad condition for about half the year. Better Roads vs. Better Schools. One of the most beneficial result of road improvement ia the facility it give to consolidate country schools and thus concentrate our children into central buildings, o- making graded schools possible in our country dis tricts. In traveling around the State we have noticed that where improved roads exist the children, by menus of bicycles, easily go long distances to central schools; thus graded roads make possible graded schools, the im proved roads working in harmony v.'ith the State education law, giving the children of the rural districts the same advantages as those residing in cities. In one year forty-four Connecticut towns, by means of improved roads, were enabled to give free transporta tion to a large number of their pupils. Eighty-four small schools were closed and fcU9 children rode to the central schools. The cost of transportation was about 12,000, but a gross amount of some 20,000 was saved, leaving a net saving of some $8,000. This saving was only a small part of the benefit derived, for it resulted in a better at tendance and better Bchools. This close co-ordination between Improved road and education cannot be too strongly Impressed upon the public at tention. New York Tribune Farmer. CHEAP HANDY MAN. In New Tork There Is a Youth Who Works for a Fenny. No woman, no matter how poor she may be, who lives within the confines of a' certain territory on the upper West Bide, In New York City, need be without help In her household duties any more that is, provided the pres ent state of thing In the section con tinues. She can call to her aid a man of -all-work who will perform any serv ice she requires, and all she will have to pay I one penny. There is a youth Just verging on manhood who patrol the section every morning regularly, going Into the yards and calling out at the top of bis voice that he will "do any kind of work for one cent." The territory covered by this strange character extends from 72d street to 110th street and from Central Park West to the North River. Sometimes he goes a little above or below this sec tion, but usually be confines himself to these limits. He was first noticed a little more than a mouth ago, and since that time he has not failed to appear on any day except Sunday. He goes Into the yards of flat houses, the Janitors seldom making any objec tion, and loudly bawls a list of things he will do for a cent. Here are a few of them: Take the clothes on the roof. Blacken stoves. Carry coal from cellar. Beat carpet. Clean rugs. Wash window. Make the beds. Wash the dlshea. Wash the dog. Clean the beds of bugs. Scrub the floor. Chop wood. ' VI will do anything at all," he goes on, "for one penny." The youth ia apparently In earnest and when any one, taking compassion on him, throws out a coin b will in variably ask; "Do you want any work doner He seem loath to take the money without giving it equivalent In work, thus exploding the theory that some formed at first that he was merely playing upon their sympathies. Some availed themselves of bla services out of compassion at first but tbey have found that he doe bis work well, and now they do not see how they could get along without him. Many housewives in fiats who do not keep a servant find this youth ex ceedingly useful Tbey get the hardest part of their work done quickly and cheaply and do not bave to contend With many annoyances consequent on keeping a girl in a small flat. Most person who employ the youth give him more than a penny, but he does lot aeem to expect any more. New York Time. Glaciers ia Montana. But few people are aware thai there are In Montana some of the flueit gla cier in the world. There 1 entirely too much future U soma people. GEO. P. CROWELL, fIU'ee!ifnr to E. L. Bmlth, Oldtst tslublUhtd House iu His valley. DEALER IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes. Hardware, Flour and Feed, etc. This old-established house will con tinue to pay cash lor all its goods; it pave no rent; it employ a clerk, but does not have to divide with a partner. All dividends are made with customer in the way of reasonable prices. Lumber Wood, Posts, Etc. ar-. j - i unvennort tsros. Lumber Co. Have opened an office in Hood River. Call and get prices and leave orders, which will be promptly filled. Regulator Line STEAMERS Regulator and Dalles City Between The Dalles and Portland Daily Except Sunday. Leave Dalles 7 A. M. Arrive Portland 4 P. M. Leave Portland 7 A. M. Arrive Dalle 6 P. M. Leave Hood River (down) at 8:30 A. M. Arrive Hood River (up) at 8:30 P.M. A. W. ZIMMERMAN, General Agent. White Collar Line Portland -Astoria Route Str. "BAILEY GATZERT." Dally round tripi except Sunday. TIME CAKD. Leaves Portland . t..7:00 A. M Leave! Astoria..... 7:00 P. U Through Portland connection with Steamer Kancotta from llwaco and Long Beach points. White Collar Line tickets interchangeable with O. K. A N. Co. and V. T. Co. tickets. TheDalles-Portland Route STEAMERS "TAHOMA" and "METLAKO" Dally trips except Bunday. " Str. "TAHOMA." Leavel Portland, Hon., Wed., Frl 7:00 A. M Leaves The Dalles, Tuea., Thurs. Bak,7:U0 A. M Str. "METLAKO.w Leaves Portland, Tries., Thu., Sat 7:00 A. M. Leaves The Dalles Hon., Wed., Frl 7 :00 A. M. Landing and office: Foot Alder Street. Both phones Maiu iiuL Portland, Oregon. AGENTS. J. W. CRTC11TON The Dalles, Ore. A. K. Fl'LLKR Hood Kiver, Ore. WOLFOKD & WYERS, . . .White Salmon, Wanh. HENRY OLMSTEAD Carson, Wash. JOHN T. TOTTEN Stevenson, Wash. J.C. WYATT Vancouver, Wash. A.J. TAYLOR Astoria, Ore. E. V. CRICHTON, Portland, Oregon Oregon Siioir Line and union Pacific ido LivSo Mo ... TlBE SCHEDULE! PEFT v Peruana, Or. A"'T1 Chicago Salt Lake, Denver, 4:80 p.m. Portland Ft. Worth, Omaha, Special Kansas City, at. 1:20a. m. Louis,Chice(oaud via Last. Huntington. At'antle Walla Walla fowls- 10:30s. m. Express ton, Spokane. Min 8:15 p.m. neapolis.M. Paul, via Duluth, Mllwati- HnnUngton. kee,Cblcago4ilasl Pt. Paul Salt take, Denver, 7.85a. m. Fast Wail Ft. Worth.Omaha, t:00 p. m. Kansas City, St. via - Lonis,Cakagoaud Spokane - Last. OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE iiOH POIITLANU. IMp.m. All sailing dates 6:00 p. m subject to chauge For San Francisco tail every s daya Dally Cslnmtls River 5 on p. ro. Ex. Bunday llaassert. Ex. Bunday SUHO. m. Saturday To Astoria and Way Ui.W p. m. Lauding. I lii m. WlllaaieHe tlrar. About Uon., Wed. Water permitting. t:uip m. audfrL Ornou Cliy, Ne-; Tues., Thu., berg, ttalein, 1 mle-; bat. pendence, Corval-' Iisaud May iud-l Inxs. I 7.00 a.m. WlllaawtH an Vast- l:p. m. toes., Thsr. kill ls. Won., Wed. sod Bat. Witter permitting. and frl. Oreton t llv iy ton, A Hay Laud toga Lv. Rtparla tnakf tit. I.v Lewis ton 4 ( a. m. i . Daily except R I par la to LewistonDailv except beturday J Friday A. U CRAIQ, GeBetal Passenger Agent, Portland. O a. H. BOAR, Agent, lie Slver.