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iWliitellaiid; A Tale of the Early Settlers f of LGuisjana. BY AUSTIN C. BURDICK 5 CHAPTER XXI. Slowly and painfully dragged away the hours and the daya to the poor aick wife In New Orleans. Old Loppa waa very kind, and ao was the physician. Vet Louise had a very serere sickness, and a part of the time ahe was out of her head. But gradually the delirium passed away, and sha waa at length able to ait up. Threa weeka had she lain thua ere lie could rise from her bed; but on tha fourth week she was able to walk about the room. It was at the close of tha Xonrth week that her husband returned. "Have I been away longer tlian you expected?" he asked. 'No," was the quiet reply, "for I'va expected nothing about it." "Ah!' uttered Simon, with show of chagrin. "I have been too sick to expect any thing," explained Louise. ' "O!" uttered the husband, more mild ly. "Yes I have been very si 'It. I even feared at one time I should never see you again." There was something so piquant in this that Simon was sure there waa sarcasm In it, but he chose not to expose his doubts. "I, too, have been laid up," ha said, after guzing into her face for soma mo ments. "Ah how? I noticed your hand waa rolled in raga. What has happened? Have you been fighting the wicked In dians?" Again Simon bit his lip, but he kept calm. "I have had a duel on your account." "Is it possible? How was It?" "I heard you Insulted most grossly, and I would not bear it." "You should not have borne It, at least, If you loved your wife. But who waa It?" "Goupart St. Denis." Louise started. "Explain," she said, earnestly and eag erly. "Ha! the name movea you, doea It?" "Why .should it not? You know he was once a lover of mine." This open avowal, so frank and hon est, seemed to please Lobois, and he went on to explain: "No matter what was said, but St. Denis struck me. Of course I challenged him. We chose swords. Your father waa present. He would have atopped it if ha could, for he feared I should got hurtt" "As you did." "Listen. We lanced awhile, and 1 found that the boy' was at my mercy. Twice I refused to press my point upon his open bosom. Finally, when I saw that 'twould be downright murder for me to kill him, I bade him put up bit aword. He asked me for what for he knew not that I only toyed with him. This is only boy's play,' said I. 'Then put up your sword,' said he. I did so, and Just as my point touched the ground he brought me a blow across the hand. What do you think Of that?" "Perhaps I ought not to apeak my thoughts." "Surely you ought. What do you think of It?" "Well, then, I think you have told me very flue atory." "Eh? Do you doubt my word?" "Doubt you? Doubt the word of Si mon Lobois? Believe that my own hus band could speak falsehood? Never, Si monnever!" Sharply the scamp looked into Louise's face, but he could detect nothing there, save a calm, cool expression of utter sim plicity; yet he knew she was quizzing him. "But you did not teil me how this all came out," she said. "What did you do after Uoupart had struck you on the hand?" "What could I do? My hand was pow erless. I might have knocked him down with my left hand, but I spared him. lie was beneath all notice, save that of mere cewteuipt." "Poor Uoupart! Did he know bow deep waa your contempt for him?" "What mean you?" "Why, simply that yon could have in flicted uo worse punishment upon h'm than to have let him know that you held him In contempt, it must have nearly killed him!" "Look ye, my fine girl, you are ventur ing on dangerous ground. You may ssy too much!" uttered Lobois, now showing his anger. Louise bowed, her head a moment, and ahe seemed to think that her companion apoke the truth, for she quickly replied, after she looked np: "Excuse me pardon me. I have but just recovered from a severe sickness, and my first feelings were naturally those of joy and gladness, and you know how often you and I have Joked and pestered each other. We have often aald very hard things In jest, and I have even pull ad your hair till you fairly cried with pain, and yet you never got provoked be fore." This was spoken so earnestly, and with ao much apparent feeling, that Simon waa mollified In a moment. "Let it pass," be said; "only in future choose a light occasion for light conver sation. And now to something of more Importance. When can you be ready to go np the river?" "At any time," answered Louise. "Very well. I will aee the physician this evening, snd be governed somewhat by hia advice." Shortly after this Lobois went out, and when he returned he reported that tha doctor would come in the morning. So that night Iuise waa left with Loppa, and on the next morning tha do. tor cama, and with him came the anxloua husband. The former examined his patient care fully, aud he expressed the opinion tbst the wife should not undertake the jour ney under a week at least. "Then I believe I shall go to Blloxl. There is a ship ready to aail, and I have aome buslnesa to do there." Louise expressed her entire willingness, ao Simon resolved to go. In truth he was now expecting soon to be master of n Immense fortune, and ha waa prepar ing the way to put it to immediate use, his main object being to obtain profita ble cargo to return to France, whither he meant to take hla wife aa soon aa ha could dispose of tha few remaining ob stacles that stood in his way. He start ed that very night for Biloxl, and hia wife was once more left to tha kind care f her sable attendant A week passed away, and her husband rame not. She had now so far regained her health that sha could walk out In company with Loppa, and tha roeo waa all bark to her cheek. Another week passed, and ahe waa ' well and just as sha began to wonder If j uy accident had happened to her bus- J band he made his appearance. That very day theft was a barge to start up the river. New Orleans was all alarm and excitement The garrison at Natchea had been surprised by the Indians, an) nearly every soul murdered! Only six had escaped, and four of those bad this very morniug reached the town. Gov. Perier had sent messengers up to the plantations along on the river to put the French on their guard; and now th I barge, full of soldiers, was about to start up to see if any assistance was required anywhere on the way, and In the mean time a council of officers was to be held to determine what further should la done. Lobois gained passage for himself nnl wife, but they were forced to put up with such accommodations as the others had, save that a sheltered place was fix ed for Louise, near the stern., In consid eration of her recent illness. Of course the passage up, against the current, waa slow, the heavy barge not making a headway of over three miles an hour, and stopping sometimes at the few plantations on the way, so that it was not until the morning of the fifth day that they reached the establishment of Brlon St. Julien. But the captain of the boat concluded not to go up to the cha teau, so Simon and his wife were land ed at the mouth of Walnut river, and from thence they made their way up on foot. They had gained about half the dis tance when they were startled, on mak ing a ttrru upon the river's bank, by see ing a snrall canoe ahead with two In dians In it. "Why!" uttered Lobois, after gazing upon the strange scene a few moments, "they are Natchea Indians. Do the vil lains mean harm here?" "Kather a small party for that," aaid Louise, upon whose mind the sight of a Ntachea had not that peculiar effect that it had upon her companion's. "But we'll watch them. Here let us keep further away from the bank, and then we can follow them, and nut be aeen. They surely mean to approach the house. Come, let's hasten, and we'll have them captured.' Of course they had a hand in the dreadful massacre." Louise made no objection to this, and accordingly they took the cross path, and ere long they reached the garden. Half way up the wide path they walked, and here they came to the closed gate of the barricade; but a few loud calls from Si mon brought old Tony forth, and they were soon within the enclosure. The faithful negro could at first hardly believe hia eyes. He gazed upon the "appera shun," as ha afterwards called it, and finally a big tear rolled down his sable cheek. "Mam'aelle Louise!" he gasped, extend ing his broad hands. "Bless heaven!" With glistening eyes ahe returned the faithful fellow's grasp and salutation, and then bounded away towards the house, for she saw her father upon the piazza; she waited not for her husband now. "Father!" The frantic parent caught his child to his bosom, and with streaming eyea he murmured his thanks, for in that mo ment of reunion he forgot the dark cloud that hung over hia loved one. Before the old man had found his tongue Simon had reached the piazza. "My father," he uttered, "forgive me If I am abrupt but you have heard of the dreadful massacre at Fort Rosalie?" "Yes." "Well, there are two Natchez Indians making their way up here in a canoe. Perhapa they know not of our habitation. Let men be sent out at once to capture them, and we will interrogate them, at least. That was enough for Tony, for he had followed Simon to the house, and heard this remark. Ever since the abduction of his young "mas'r and missus," he had longed to get Sold of an Indian, and here waa a chance. "Only two ob 'urn, d'ye Bay, Mas'r Si mon?" "That's all, Tony." "I'll hab "urn!" And with this the stout Afric disappeared, and In a few moments more he had four stout companions at his heels on his way to the river. In the meantime, Simon followed the marquis and his child into the house, anil when they reached the sitting room, they found St. Denis there. He looked up and saw the marquis; then he saw Simon lobois, and then his eye rested upon that female form. He started to his feet and turned pale as death. That loved face was turned upon him; those soft eyes, now swimming in tears, were bent upon his own, and her name dwelt upon his lips. "My wife, Monsieur St. Denis," said Lobois, in malignant triumph. "O, my aoul!" burst from the wretch ed man's lips, and covering bis face with bis hands, he sank back upon his chair. Leuise seemed upon the point of speak ing, but at thit moment the tramp of feet aud the sound of voices were., heard in the hall, and in a moment more the door was thrown unceremoniously open. CHAPTER XXII. "Bless heaven!" cried old Tony, boun I Ing into the hall at a wild hop and plant ing himself directly in the middle of the floor. "We's cotehed 'um, mas'r we'a cotched 'um, an' here dey am!" At this White Hand and Coqualla came forward. Simon Lobois was tha first to recognize, beneath the Natchez garb and the walnut stain, the youth whom he had hoped k destroy, an,! a stilled cry broke from bia lips, while ha turned pala and trembled like an aspen. The next to recognize the living truth was Louise, and with one bound the broAher and sister were in each other's arms. Their stifled exclamations of joy awoka tha parent to hia senses, and in a moment more he held them both upon his bosom. "My children," ha cried, raising hia streaming eyes to heaven, "0, how bleat la this moment! Almost it makes me feel to bow In humble resignation to tha dreadful blow that haa been inflicted up on me." "Louis, my dear boy," at this juncture exclaimed Simon, having now recovered hia presence of mind sufficiently to hide his real emotions of fear and chagrin. "Dear Louis, let me welcome you back to our home." And aa ha apoke ha advanced and ex tended hia hand. Tha youth gazed upon him a moment In stern silence. "Sinion Lobois," he uttered, drawing preudly op, "I did not think you would offer me that hand!" "How a eh?" gasped the wretch, turning pale again. "You abould not thua reject the hand of your brother-in-law." White Hand started. "Brother-in-law!" he repeated. "Are you mad?" "No I am a husband." White Hand crossed over to where Louisa stood and took her by the hand. They whispered together a moment, and then the youth turned towards Simon. "Villain," ha exclaimed, "you forced her to thle!" - "Sha consented to the marriage," re turned Simon, triumphantly. St. Denla sprang to hia feet He mov ed to Louise's aide, and (rasped her hand. "Louise," ha aald, In a broken vote, "tell me all; tell aia if yon gave thia auan your heart; for la tha yeara of dark ness thU shall follow thia Mow, it will afford a glimmer of light to know X am not all forgotten by my soul's Idol." "Goupart, he forced me to the mar riage " "Silence!" thundered Lobois, starting towards where the speaker stood. "Lou Ice, remember you are my wife, and as such I claim obedience. Breathe another word of calumny on my head and I'll make you wish your tongue had been torn out by the roots ere you used it so." "Simon, yon know you did force me to become your wife." At this moment St. Denis started up, and his dark eyes burning with fire, he 6a id: v "Stand back, villain! You are ber hus band, but dare to interfere now and I'll smite you as I would a venomous rep tile." "And I am with you, Goupart," added White Iluud, starting forward, and clenching his fists. "Go on, sister." Simon Lobois gazed first upon St. Den Is, and then upon the dark-skinned youth, and be feu red them. Then he looked to wards the aged parent, who stood with his handa to his eyes sobbing as though his poor heart would break; and the vil lain evidently felt uncomfortable. "I refused him at first," continued the unfortunate one, "aud told him I loved Goupart St. Denis. Then he told me ha had seen my father's wealth accumulate under bis care, and had looked on a part of it as belonging to him, and he would not now see another come in and snatch that wealth away. He determined to have his share. I told bim if he forced me to become hia wife I would beg of my father to give me not a aou. Then ha swore if t such a thing were done, he would make my life such a scene of tor ture I should pray for deatb to coma and relieve me." "Liar!" hissed Simon. "No no," calmly replied Louise; "I apeak but truth." Then turning to her listeners: "But I refused to marry him, and on the very next night, after mid night, two stout men came and carried me away. I waa weak and faint then, for I had but just recovered from sick ness. Yet they carried me away anil locked me in a dark prisou house. They refused me both food and drink. There I came nigh famishing with hunger and thirst. At length the villain came to me; and when I begged for a drop of water he swore I should have none till I had promised to be his wife! My mind was fluttering, and thirst made me frantic. I promised to be hia wife! Then he brought me bread and milk; he took me from the prison, and soon arrangements were made for the wedding. He had ob taineS the consent of the colonial gov ernor, and we were married in tha church, the governor himself being pres ent. When the priest put his questions to me, I was burning with fever, and a dreadful sickness was upon me. Yet my mind was not shaken. I promised to the best of my abilities to do ail he had ask ed of me. Then we were pronounced man and wife, and I begged of him to hurry away, for I was faiut and sick. 1 reached our home; the fever seized me, and raged for many weeks. Health cama at last, and I reached my father's bouse." (To be continued.) When the Roosters Crow, The feelings of some honest folk from the country when they visit a large city have been very accurately described by a Chicago paper, and as this old farmer says, there's very little difference be tween city and country If you only look for the things which they have In com mon. "I'm all right in Chicago if I can hear the roosters crow once In a while," said John, "but when I don't hear them I get pretty homesick, and want to hurry back to the old farm In Ford County. That's why I always pick out lodgings as close as I can get to South Water street "I come up here once In a while on business of my own, and I feel at home well enough down at the stock-yards In the daytime, where the hogs grunt and the cattle bellow, but I'm lonesome at night when I can't hear the roosters. "I reckon If you was down on my farm a night or two, you'd be mighty glad to bear a street-car gong, or a steamboat whistle, or a wagon clatter ing over the stones. When a fellow has heard a rooster crow about sunup every morning for forty years, he doesn't feel Just right when he gets where there are no roosters. "Von can talk all you please about your clean city and your 'city beauti ful,' as the newspapers call it, but I'd rather smell a clover field in this town when I'm lonesome than the sweetest flowers you've got on State street. "I recollect Parson Cross saylug once. In a sermon, that a touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Somehow when I hear a rooster crow up here, or a sheep bloat, or get the smell of a stable, It makes me feel that Chicago people alu't so much different from us on the farm, after all." One of Woman's Ways, "Most women hate to spend new money," says an observant salesman. "I haven't the faintest idea why this should be so, but I've noticed It often right here In the store. A woman will make a purchase and pull out her nurse to pay the bill, but If she happens to have to part with a clean, crisp note In making up the amount she looks great-! ly annoyed. I've seen women with fat wads of bright brand-new bills fluster- j ed when they came to pay for pur-j chases, because they hadn't sufficient old money to meet the charges. Tbey would dig out the contents of their purses aud stow the crisp notes to one side, and. If they couldn't scrape up the sum In a few cases I've known them to go out without buying. Oth er will give utterance to little feminine exclamations of dismay, and will hast ily pay for the articles selected In the new money. Then they will march off with quite a show of Indignation, Just aa If they had been Inveigled Into spending the money. I know one man who always takes his salary home Id beautiful, clean certificates. He haa caught on to this peculiarity of the sex and he says It saves him all kinds of money. Philadelphia Record. Iiff-rence Pnre'jr Fnhln-H. "How far?" asked the woodcock, "do yon call It from here to Thompson's Grove?" i "Well," answered the crow, "the die tance, aa I fly, la four miles, but aa yon fly it's about nine miles and a half." Chicago Tribune. Monuments In Berlin. -The recently unveiled Bismarck statue makea the seventy-second monu ment of Its kind In Berlin. Anions the men commemorated are twelve of princely rank, eleven generals, nine architects, nine scholar, ten poets, three physicians, three statesmen. AUTHOR OF "LITTLE DROPS OF WATER," try f d'.vr-r' NVsjr B Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And tha pleasant land. So tha little moments, Humble though they be,' Make the mighty ages - Of eternity. Mrs. Julia A. Fletcher Carney, Things," recently celebrated Jier eightieth birthday at her home In Galesburg, III. She wrote the poem In 1S45, When she was a school teacher In Boston, and her object In writing It was to help ber pupils understand the value of little things. A few years later the poem had been translated luto many languages, and generations have recited and sung It In all the civilized countries of the world. Mrs. Carney's husband, who was a Universalis! minister, died at Galesburg In 1871. POORHOUSE TO PARLIAMENT. Labor Candidate Who Won a Notable Victory In London, Political preferment awaits the man of ability In England as well as In this country. This Is shown by the recent election In '. the Woolwich divl r'h lou of London, ('. ' va where William Viwiks, muut vim didate for Parlia ment, defeated his opponent, Geoffrey Drage, Unionist by a majority ol over 3,000 although the constituency has for many years William cbooks. been regarded safe ly Unionist by a majority of nearly 3,000. The election of Mr. roos is a victory for the labor vote, which has caused the London Times to say: "The election means that the specter that has hypnotized the continental governments has shown Itself at last among ourselves." Crooks was born in 1852 and spent Dortlon of the early years of his life In the poorhouse at Poplar. After leaving this Institution he wowed at odd Jobs until he was 14, when he was annrentleed to a cooper. As late is 1878 he tramped from London to Livemool In search of work. He was then In the greatest poverty, but be fore that had be engaged actively in trade agitations. He worked hard for the dockers in the great London dock strike and became chairman of the Poplar Board of Gardlans and other local bodies. Subsequently he was elected mayor of Poplar the first labor mayor ever elected In England, lie then became a member of the London County Council and has since been supported by hla fellow workmen. Mr. Crooks Is a man of the John Burns type. He Is a ready speaker, a skilled politician and a well-posted soclnl economist Ha neither drinks nor smokes, but devotes all bis time to his duties and to self Improvement. Ills selection has greatly strengthened the labor party In England, Impress ing upon It the value and necessity of solidarity. During the South Afri can war Mr. Crooks -was an advocate of the Boer side and strongly denounc ed the action of the British govern ment RANK OF THE WHITE HOUSE. In Point of Architecture It la In a Claea by Itself. One moonlight night In June, 1902, while strolling through the grounds with Charles F. McKim, one of the members of the Park Commission, we seated ourselves on one of those mounds which tradition ascribes to John Quln cy Adams's taste In landscape architec ture. That afternoon crowda of people arrayed in joyous costumes befitting the seml-troplcs had come from the hot city to rest under the trees and listen to the Saturday concert of the Marine Band. The musicians, clad in white duck, were located In a little depression, so that the sound of the music, rolled up the slopes to the attentive audience. A year before we had observed the same effect at Versailles; and both the similarities and the differences of the two pictures were being discussed aa we sat In the quiet night, behind the locked gates, where not a sound from the city streets broke th grateful noise of water splashing In the fountains. On the high portico the President sat amid a group of dinner guests, and the light! of their cigars were "echoed" by the drowsy fireflies flitting about the grounds, only the brilliantly lighted windows of the secretary's office even auggeatlng the workaday world. The moonlight, shining full on th White House, revealed the harmonious lines of Its graceful shape, "Tell me," I asked the architect, "among the great houses that have been built during recent years In the A A- if- CELEBRATES EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY So our little errors Lead the roul away From the path of virtus, Far in ain to atay. Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Help to make earth happy Like the heaven above. author of tne famous poem. "Little general style of the White - House many of tbem lurger and much more costly Is there any that, in point of architecture, surpasses it?" "No; there Is not one In the same class with It," he replied deliberately a judgment confirmed later under the noonday sun. Century. Zestful Frank nnsa. Unexpected frankness now and then gives a special zest to the humor of a situation In Congress. When "Gahe1 Bouck was the representative from the usuicosh district of Wisconsin, a nen slon bill came before the House, to his great vexation of spirit; for, while nis personal convictions were directly opposed to It, his political Interests were strong enough to whip him into line. On the day the bill came up for final disposal a fellow-member met Bouck In the space behind the last row of seats, wulkiug back and forth and gesticulating excitedly, briaglng his clenched right first down into the hollow of his left hand, to the aooom paniment of expletives which would naraiy look well in print "What's the trouble, Gabe?" Inquired his friend. "Why all this excitement?" "Trouble?" snorted the Irate law maker. "Trouble enough! That pen sion bill Is up, and all the cowardly nincompoops In the House are -olne to vote for It It's sure to pass sure to pass." "But why don't you get the floor and speak against It try to stop It" sug gested the other. "Try to stop It?" echoed Bouck. "Trv to stop It? Why, I'm one of the cowardly nincompoops myself!" Cen tury. Sudden Death Forbidden. The sultan of Turkey Insists that every ruler or person of high political Importance should die a natural death The Stampa, of Turin, says that other manners of death are not officially rec ognlzed by Nlschan Effendl. the censor. When King Humbert was assassl natcd at Monza, the Turkish news papers announced ..ie sad event In this way: "King Humbert left the hall amid the frenetic cheers of the people. The king, much affected, bowed several times, aud to all appearances was Im mediately dead." When the Shab of Persia was assas sinated, the Turkish papers said: "In the afternoon the shah drove to his summer palace, and there complained of Illness. His corpse waa sent to Teheran." One paper excelled all others by this absurd piece euphemistic simplifi cation: '"ihe shah felt a little 111, but finally bis corpse returned to the palace." This was too much even for the Turks, - ho keep tbj phrase as one cf their proverbs. Hon a Snake Moves. Now any one who has looked at the skeleton of a snake and It la really a very beautiful object will have been struck by the great number of ribs, which may be as many as ten hundred and fifty pairs. In these lies the secret of the ability of the serpent to do some of these wonderful things. The lower j end of each rib Is connected with one of the broad scales that run along the under side of a snake, and when a rib is twisted slowly backward. It pushes on the scale, the edge of the scale catches on the ground or what ever object his snakeshlp may be rest ing on. and the body of the snake la pushed Just a 'little bit forward. Of course, each rlli moves the body bol a mere trifle; but where the ribs are ao many, and tbey are moved one after. another, the result la that the anakt movea slowly but steadily ahead. St Nicholas. V When a woman goes shopping, and takes along some of ber kin and a few friends to help her select, the clerki soon acaulre the harassed look a rabbit baa when the dogs arroud It. I SOME 8TORIES OF RUSKIN. Ha Still Feared Hla Parents When He Was Forty k'aara Old. One gets the Impnesslon from reading of Ruskln'a early years that he missed many of the privileges of healthy boy hood. When he was a man, he and a companion were out one day upon the mountafnstde. They patted a group of men, says a writer in the Strand Mag azine, who were engaged In rough work with pickaxes. "How I wish," said Ruskin, "I could do what those men are doing! I was never allowed to do any work which would have strengthened my back. I wasn't allowed to ride, for fear of being thrown off; nor to row, for fear of being drowned; nor to box, because It Was vulgar. I was allowed to fence, because that was genteel." Sometimes, when be was living with bis parents at Denmark HUI, he would enjoy a surreptitious row on the river. "I used to be told," says the same com panion, "not to let his father and moth er know where he had gone." Buskin was then In the forties. It Is easy to read here a woman's fears and prejudice aud domination. Ruskin was always, quite properly, under his mother's control; but It Is possible that if he bad had the outlet of reasonable athletics bis destructive moods would have been less marked. It was during bis residence at Den mark IIW1 that he was anathematizing something or somebody most unrea sonably. "John," aald his mother, "you talk too much and you talk nonsense." "Tea, mother," Ruskin replied, as bumble as a little boy, and changed the subject Ruskin wss not afraid to admit to others besides bis mother that he was wrong. In a lecture at Oxford when be waa a Slade professor, Sir William Richmond defended the fame which the world had accorded to Michelan gelo and Rafael. Formely Ruskin bad denounced Michelangelo and was not very well pleased with Sir William for presenting the other side.' When Ruskin recovered from the Illness which bad cause him to give up the Slade professorship, Sir William re tired, that be might fill It again. Touched by this, Ruskin sent, asking If he might come down and dine with his former pupil, who was delighted to have him. At the close of a pleas ant evening, Ruskin said: "Willy, why did you make that vio lent attack upon me about Michelan gelo?" "Mr. Ruskin, because you talked nonsense," replied Sir William. Meanwhile Mr. Ruskin rose to go. "You are quite right, Willy," he said, In Ills candid way. "It was nonsense." Sweden is said to have the lowest death rate of any civilized nation. Dur ing the last ten years the annual aver age has been only 10.49 per thousand. A fence nearly two hundred feet long at Livingston, Mont., Is made entirely of horns of the elk more properly call ed, wapiti. These animals, like the oth ers of the d.'er family, shed their horns once a year and grow new ones. The old horns are found In large numbers In the forests, and are used for various com mercial purposes. The old notions of phrenology have been dispelled and a new system of lo calization has been established. The localities In certain parts of the brain mean leg, arm, speech, aud so definite are they that a skillful expert can often times get at, and by trepanning, remove the cause of paralysis of one or another of the muscles or faculties. There Is an extraordinary old man at present living In Russia, In the vil lage of Marewka, In the government of Smolensk, known as "Swet" Sinlp. He was born In May, 1775, and Is, there fore, 127 years old. He has never been 111, and Is able to walk each Sunday two versts to the village church. He also does work at the Schloos, -knits stock lugs and weaves sunduls. American tourists abroad often com ment upon the literal translation Into English of notices In foreign languages. The well-meant efforts of landlords and others to convey, In the language of the visitor, the meaning of the native, often produce laughable results. A Washing ton citizen found this notice posted In his room In an Alpine hotel: "Misters, the venerable voyagers are earnestly re quested not to take clothes of the bed to see the sun rise for the color changes." The fifteen principal causes of death. with the rate per one thousand, as made public by the census bureuu, Is as fol lows: Pneumonia, 191.0; consumption. 191.5; heart disease, 134; diarrheal dis eases, 85.1; kidney diseases, 88.7; apo plexy, 6(1.6; cancer, 60; old age, 51; bron chitis, 48.3; cholera Infantum, 47.8; de bility, 45.5; Inflammation of brain and menlnge, 41.8; diphtheria, 34.4; typhoid. 33.8, and premnture birth, 33.7. Deatb from all principal causes shows a de crease since 1890, the most notable being consumption, which shows a decrease of 54.9 per one hundred thousand. Much Interest has been awakened by the alleged discovery of small squids, miniature representatives of the terri ble devil-fish of the ocean, In Onondaga Lake, near Syracuse, N. Y. Prof. John D. Wilson and others have pronouueed the specimens to be genuine squids, and the discovery has brought out accounts of previous finds of the same kind in the lake. Prof. John M. Clarke suggests that the animals may be descended from ancestors which entered the lake when It was In communication with the sea by way of the St Lawrence valley, and that their kind haa been enabled to survive amid such strange surround ings on account of the salinity of the bottom waters of the lake, which are in contact with the rocka from which the Syracuse salt works derive their upplf- When a man returns from a visit an the Information hla women folks can get out or lilm is by applying ques tiena that are answered with a "yes" or "uo." In no Vila tue hero sometimes marries money, but In real life a man marrl.a kin. GEO. P. GROWELL, isuermor to E. L. Smith, iaubltahed Houh la the valley ) DEALER IN Dry Goods, Groceries, j Boots and Shoes, ! Hardware, Flour and Feed, etc. This old-established house will con tinue to pay cash lor all its goods; it pays no rent; it employs a clerk, but does not have to divide with a partuer. All dividends are made with customers in the way of reasonable prices. Lumber Wood, Posts, Etc. Davenport Bros. Lumber Co. Have opened an office in Hood River. Call and get prices and leave rders, which w ill be promptly filled. THE GLACIER Published Every Thursday $1.50 A YEAR. Advertising, 50 cents per inch, single column, per month ; one-half inch or less, 25 rents. Heading notices, 5 cents a line each insertion. THE GLACIER prints all the local news fit to print. When you see it in THE GLACIER you may know that others see it. STEAMERS REGULATOR and DALLES CITY Between Portland and The Dalles daily except Sunday, Leaves The Dalles 7 a. m. ; arrive at Portland 4 p. m. Ieave Portland 7 a. m. j arrive at The Dalles 6 t. in. Ieave Hood River, down, 8:30 a. m. Arrive Hood Hiver, up, 3:30 p. m. 11. C. CAMPBELL, General Manager, Oregon and union Pacific I"t I ?" I Aaatv. Chicago Tortlsud Special t:Ait. m. vis Huntington. Fait take, Denver, Kt. Worth.Omaht, Kansas City, 81. Louii.Chicagoaad Kant. 4:30 p.m. At'antto Express S:15 p.m. vis Huntington. 8t. Faul Fast Mall. 10:99 a. m. 8t. Paul Fust Mall :3u p. m. vt Spokane Atlantic Kxpresa. 7:S5a.L 70 HOURS PORTLAND TO CHICAGO No Change of Cars. Lowest Rates. Quickest Time. OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE rUOK PORTLAND. m) LJtyyO Mo sttiB.m. All Mlllnf dttet t:Ma.av uujtcl to chenga For Ban Franclieo bail every a days Dtllv Cele-Ma Mer (-Ma.ia. Ex. Similar itnawrs. Ix.Suud. tetiirdtr To A itorla and War 10. uo p. m. Laudiug S a m Wlllawette titer. t sop. m. Hon., Wed. Tue.: Tha andFri. Selem, Indepen- Bat. dence, Correlll. and war landings. roDe -i. Ve-kM flier. 4 ).. Tu.. Thar. Moo., Wed. aud Sal. Oregon City, Peyton aad Fn. aud war landings. Lv.Rlp.rla Snake liter. v.Lewi.tea :(.. 00 . B Daily except RIparia to Lewlatoa Daily eiceat fcatnroay j Friday A. L. CRM (3, General Pease tget Agent, rarUaao, Or . aV. . BMK, if. at, SUvas-.