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Percy Carlton she first met there, who, being uiueli Interested In her history, Till th* fainting "oul in the weary form. lifter a few months of marked atten There’» a world of the puroat bliss, tion, married her. ¡That 1» linked as that soul and form are They went immediately abroad. linked. Beatrix said before she went that upon I By a covered bridge, with this. their return Chauncey could go abroad STet, to reach that realm on the other to study art. Two years liad flown by and not a shore. We must pa»» through a transient line had she written him. At length, gloom, poor and careworn, he took a room In And must walk unseen, unhelped and the slums of the city. What little alone, sketches he made for a paper barely- 1 Through tliut covered bridge—the tomb. kept him alive. Edythe bail tried faithfully to find But wr all pass over on equal terms. him, but had failed. For the universal toil One day as she was passing through Js the- outer garb, which the Land of God Has thing around the soul. the slums on an errand of charity, she happened to glance up at a window and tTliongh the eve is dim, and the bridge saw Chauncey Selford. is dark. She started back as If struck n> a And the river it spans is wide. Yet faith points through to a shining thunderbolt. “He In this place of a!! others, the mount proud Chauncey, come to thia,” » ¡e That looms on the other side. said. To enab! • our feet In the next day’s She knocked at the door. An obi march woman opened It. Edythe asked to see To climb up the golden ridge. Mr. Selford. After much Imutering We must all lie down for a one night's with the woman she galued admit rest, tance. Inside of tlint covered bridge. Chauncey still sat at the open win “-Washington Star. dow. He did not move ns «lie ap proached him. She touched bls baud, but sprung back, as she felt the cold touch of his hand ns it came in contact with hers. Beatrix’s picture was In the other hand. He left this world with the one thought that had always been In his c»T was a hot. sultry tiny towards the life, that was his sister, for whom lie Jilaal of July, tn the front room of had sacrificed nil —Boston Post. **a fashionable boat ding-house sat u young girl of IK COLD AIR HEALTH. A few moments later the door swung Winter About the Best Stiiniilaiit Peo ojien and her brother, a young artist, ple Can Have, entered. He greeted her pleasantly as Many persons regard the winter sea lie prepared to refresh himself. ‘'Weil, Trix, how have you been to son ns an unfortunate visitation. It it considered both uncomfortable to the day ?” "O, as uncomfortable ns ever,” she body and harmful to health. This Is an error. Cold Is a most potent agent for replied, peevishly. "Nover mind, dear; perhaps we will the restoration and preservation of nor mal activity on the part of the organs have more money another summer.” "Always patience,” she replied cross of the human body. It Is n wise plau ly. “It’s well enough for people to talk of providence which gives us a change when they have money, but then, of seasons. The winter cold comes ns a tonic to ,what’s the use fussing; I never have had anything since we came to New repair the injuries done by the ener- vatit.g heat of summer. Summer, It Is ¡York.” “My dear Trlx, I think you are a little true, has many wise uses in the matter unkind. You know 1 have tried to give of health. It Induces outdoor life, rids you everything I could possibly afford. the system of poisons through copious perspiration and through the scorching <1, Trlx, you mustn't talk so.” "Forgive me, ('liauncey. I will try to rays of son destroys germ life. Winter Is the great bracer of the sys do without it.” tem. It stimulates activity III every “That’s the girl,” and bo smoothed orguu. When cold attacks the surfiu-e the pretty hair from the white forehead of the body the blood Is set into mole and sighed, lie wished to see Ills sis free circulation ns a means of bodily ter as well dressed as other girls, but warmth. It Is through the circulation clri-umslanees forbade; his pictures did of the blood that the human anatomy ‘ not sell, ami he felt the time was fast Is kept In n state of repnlr. approaching when they would have to »»hen the food has been digested and leave their pleasant rooms uud go to converted Into liquid form, it Is taken some other part of the city. up by the blood and curried the rounds One evening, about three months of the waste places. M lieu tlie cold later, Chauncey Sellord came home, causes Increased circulation It also looking III. brings about more perfect nutrition. Trlx was there, lint she did not notice Man's face and hands Illustrate how her brother’s careworn face. because weather proof the body becomes when ■he was engaged In making a dress to exposed to air. Continued activity in lie worn a week later at the grand ball circulation on the surface caused by glveu by Mrs. t'lmrles Carlton, sister of the air coining in contact with the skin, Lord Percy Carlton. tends to uourish and thicken the skin As be entered the room Trlx looked Thus man's skill grows thicker In win up ter Just ns animals are supplied with a “Here Is something Mrs Bradbury's double coat of fur. The »mages who footman gave me 1 have not opened dwell bareheaded in the open air are It yet.” He tossed It oi, r to her as he seldom. If ever, known to be sffiicted ■poke. with bald heads, while, with the civil “O, Chauncey, nn Invitation to Guasle Ian wlto shields Ids scalp from air, bald Bradbury's reception a week from to Uess is prevalent. day Yon will go,” she added, looking The Indians who. If not now. In for up Into Ills face, mer days roamed our Western border- “1 cannot,” he replied. "But If yon practically without clothing to shelter really wish to go.” as her face fell, "I their bodies, became, through long i x can hire a carriage." posiile, so Inured to cold that It gave "What shall I wear?” she said a mo them but little discomfort. St. Louis ment later Globe. "Why, the dress you are making ” “1 can’t wear that; It's for the ball.” Hunting Osiricli Xests. " I lien you can stay nt home,” lie re Although llie skin of an ostrich Is plied, hutlily, as lie left the room. worth from forty to one hundred dol "What can be the matter with him,” lars on t-lie spot, the limiter of the des she thought. “Why. lie never spoke ii ert usually prefers to search for the cross word Io me before. O, If I could eggs when he Ims discovered an j>s nuicry some rich old man, then Chaun trick In flight. Ati English traveler In cey would have time and money to the Sahara. Mr. II. It. Tristram, de study art.” scribes this search. Meanwhile Chauncey had gone to his Once, anil ouce only. 1 hail the good little studio, and after shut I lug the door fortune to take an ostrich's nest, al threw himself Into the ariiieauir and though fresh eggs were not infrequent ly brought In by the Arabs. We oh burled bls face In Ills hands That night In * had meant to tel! served with our telescopes two birds Beatrix that they would have to leave standing for some time in the »nine their rooms anil go where they could spot, and were Induced to ride toward live cheaper. Then the luvitutlon to them. They rapidly scudded off. but on the reception. He could uot go am! Intersecting their track we turned back could uot well let her go. ami retransl It instead of continuing a “it Is of no use to light against pov vain pursuit. Au ostrich s track Is by no means erty," be said, bitterly. "We will al ways be poor, aud we might ns well easy either to follow or to retrace, for bve as our means will allow, without III» stride measure«, when be Is at full speed, from twenty-two to twenty this pretension." Just then a knock at the door aud a eight feet; mid the oblong Impression ol two toes nt so wide Intervals affords young lady entered. “Miss Fairfax,” lie exclaimed In sur no very evident track to any eyes less expert tliau those of a Bedouin hunts prise. “Ah! I have taken you quite una man. Wo retraced the Impression to the wares, have 1 not?” with a sweet sutlle on her face. "But you Will certainly spot w here we bad seeu the birds stand pardon that when I tell you I bring Ing together, and where the sand was you work. Mrs. Carlton wishes these well trodden down. Two Arabs at pictures," and she Landed him a list. once dismounted and began to dig with tlielr hauils, and presently they brought “That will help you, will It not?" "You are my good angel. Edythe. If up four frish eggs from a depth of I could only have a chance to sItaly ait aliout a foot under tin- warm sand. Ostrich egg omelet we always found I could make a living." “It Is too bad. Chauncey, but If you a most welcome addition to our desert bill of faie. and a convenient and por would let me help." “No, Bdythe. I miwt tight my owe i table provision, for from the thickness of the shell the eggs keep perfectly tgrttles without help.” “Well," after a few moments * silence. ! sweet and fresh for a fortnight or three w eeks. “1 must go How Is Beatilx?" THE COVERED BRIDGE. "Pretty well,” hr said with a s'gh i A l>ur«blc Structure. And seeing he was In no mood for talk ' Over 300 years ago Sir Francis Brake leg she left him. built an open aqueduct twenty uuies Ch a nn ’ey Solford had given up every long to conduct water from the hills of thing for hl» sister. She held the firs’ Dartmoor to Plymouth, England. The place In hie heart. His love for Edythe town has lu«t outgrown thia »upply an,! Fairfax was great, but lie had put nt! a large reservoir Is to be built. thoughts of her he loved away. Hi Everything may come to the man was poor and likely to rcmaiu poor all who waits except another man wot' * life. bl * i» him money. Beatrix went to the reception I-.rd j u lu this same portion are three GALVESTON AS IT WAS I : bouse«, grulu elevators with au aggregate »tor- BEAUTIFUL AND PROGRESSIVE SOUTHERN CITY. The Greatest Cotton Port and the Fifth Commercial City lu the United Blates—Has Ki»eu Before from the Fury of Ftorm, Fire uud Flood, Galveston, previous to tho devasta ting storm, was one of the most beuutl- ful and progressive cities of the sunny South. Its history indicates that It ha» been one of the most unfortunate, lu 1872 the entire eastern portion of the city was »wept away by a tidal wave which followed a terrific storm that raged along the Gulf coast for three OHPHANS’ HOMI-'. days. When the city had recovered from this calamity and was built up lu more beautiful and substantial style than ever, a devastating tire nearly de stroyed It in November, 1885. Its en terprising citizens were not dismayed, however, and the city was soon rebuilt, lu August, 1899, It was Injured com mercially to a great extent by the Bra zos flood In which rich farming lauds having an area of 1,380.000 acres were submerged for eight days to a depth of two to twenty feet. The loss as esti mated by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture was $7.414.00(1. The city has triumphed over all these adversities and will doubtless arise witu Increased strength from the pres ent appalling disaster, for it Is the greatest seaport of the South, being connected with the entire railway sys tem of tlie United States and Mexico aud having direct lines of steamship communication with all the great ports of the world. It is tiie largest cotton exporting point In the United States ami among the 127 foreign exporting points lu the country It holds fifth place. 1 luring tlie year 1898 its exports Increased $10,500,000 and Its export and Import trade Is now fully $100,000,000 a year. Harbor Improvements. I age capacity of 3,250,000 bushels. The 1 Islaud from the uortb side Is connected with the maiulaud by railroad bridges aud the longest wagou bridge In the world, uearly two miles in length. On the south side of the city, beginning within fifty yards of the medium gulf tide, the wealthy resldeut portion of the city is located aud this was the first part to lie struck by tile full force of the recent storm aud flood. All of the easteru eud of the city was washed away and some of the handsomest and most expensive residences were here located. There was oue home which aloue cost the owuer over $ 1 ,900,000. Among tlie principal buildings of the city are. or were, the new custom house and postoffice, the cotton exchiiuge, the Court House, the Ball free school, the free public library, tlie Roman Catholic University of St. Mary, the Jobu Sealey Hospital aud the School of Medicine of the State University. All the build ings of the city were constructed oil substantial and modern lines. Tlie city had gas and electric light plants, a water works system valued at $450.000 ami supplied from artesian wells and a number of first-class hotels. In 1893 the gross city valuations were $25,000,- 000. Tlie city debt was $1,750.000 and the officials bad authority to issue $1,- 300,000 in bonds to raise money for permanent Improvements, ami it owned property to the value of $L955,5iiO. The population, according to the figures giv en by tlie census bureau for 1900, is 37,- 789. mal college Is to be established at th« old fort, and the reservation lauds ar« Noted Spot in Kanna * Where 'Ihrill- about to be turned Into a public park. iug Incident» v.ccurred. The pictures of the armory and offi Oue of the noted military posts of the cers’ quarters that accompany this ar country was Fort Hays, Kun. lu 18(56 ticle are from photographs takeif • Fort Fletcher was built at the Junction short time ago. of the North Fork aud Big Creek. In 1867 a flood destroyed it, drowned sev THE JUNGFRAU RAILWAY. eral soldiers, aud swept away mules, uugou», lints uud barracks. Then Gen. The Highest Kailwuy Station in Es 1 hil Sheridan chose a higher site, a ad tops tut out of u Kock. Major Gills of tlie Seventh United We have only goue about half a mile Stales Cavalry directed the building of when the train stops. We are at Roth- the new fort, which was begun at once. stock Statiou. the temporary termiatia It was mimed Hays lu honor of Gen. of the line. detacher Statiou wus open Alexander Hays, who commanded a di ed in the summer of 1898, ltothstock vision under Hancock ill tlie Civil only in August, 1899. It is the highest War. and was killed lu the Wilderness railway station iu Europe, 7,950 feet tampaigu. above tlie sea, aud l,t>00 feet higher Many noted officers have been sta thau the mountain statiou of Pllatus. tioned at Fort Hays. Geu. Phil Sheri- But what a statiou it is! From the tun Jan was in comma lid in 18(58, and pre nel two cave like openings are cut out to vious to that date Gen. Hancock direct the face of the precipice. Oue of these ed military affairs in that department. leads to a rocky platform on tlie side Gen. Custer made many of his remark of the bold, tower like crag of the Eiger able Indlau campaigns from there. Rotlistock, which here Juts out from From 18G7 to 1871 his command was tlie mountain wall. A small box with there. Custer was succeeded In 1871 glazed windows is the only building. It by Col. Oakes with the Sixth Cavalry. stauds iu tlie archway of rock, aud 1 tie last officer In command at the post serves as tlie statiou master’s office, for before its abandonment was Major there is a station master in blue uni John It. Yard of the Eighteenth Infan form ami bright red cap, witli a staff of try. Many years before he had been one boy to assist him. When the line there with the Tenth (colored, cavalry. has progressed further tlie station will In connection with Custer, it may be be larger aud better equlpi»>d. with din HISTORIC OLD FORT HAYS. History of the City. The Island of Galveston was occupied by the famous pirate Lafitte In 1817 and continued to be his headquarters until Ills settlement was broken up In 1821. It Is believed by many that somewhere on the Island are burled treasures of the pirate and many stories of romance have been woven about the lairing rover and his island home. The city of Galveston was founded in 1837. It was the sceue of stirring events during the Civil War. The Federal force« occupied the city Oct. 8. 1802, but it was retaken by the Confislerates on Jan. 1. 18(53. During J THE AHMOUY AT COKT HAYS. noted that the last survivor of the memorable massacre on the Little Big Hom in 187(5 died last April in Chey enne. Wyo.. when "Billy," the Gener al's old war horse, died. "Biily” was found wandering about on the battle field, passed into the possession of Mr. Thomas F. Talbot, of Cheyenne, was kindly eared for, and hii body lies buried in the garden of tlie Talbot resi dence. the place being marked by a stone slab. After the fort had been built. Hays City sprang up around it. and in early years It was an open question whether Hays City or Dodge City was the tougher" place. In 1879 the little place bad thirty-seven saloons, every one a gambling place, most of them dance halls. The cowboy and the bluecoat made things lively iu these resorts, for there was no love lost Itetween them, (me night the cowboys lynched three •olored soldiers. They were hung from UOVKKNMKXT Kl II.DINO, OAI.VICSroN. the railroad bridge west of town, and their dead bodies were found dangling the past few years the United States there the next day. lias spent $932,090 lu the construction For years the place was the cowboys' and equipment of coast fortifications rading point. The surrounding coun- near the city. ing mid waiting rooms cut out of the rock ami a number of bed-rooms for travelers who ilo not care to go iu on« journey up to the rarefied air of ths higher regions. The tunnel is now being driven beyond ltothstock. The work of excavation is done by six boring ma chines. driven by electricity. These cut out a number of horizontal bore holes, and wlieii they have gone e di * p enough cartridges of dyxumite are fixed lu them, tlie borers and the workmen ar« withdrawn to a safe distance, and th« fuses are fired by means of an electric switchboard. T hen the debris is cleared away, the sides and roof of the tunnel are roughly trimmed to shape with pick and eliisel. and tlie borers are brought up for another attack. The rock is so hard that even with the best worker« ami tlie best appliances the advance Is slow. There are over six miles of tun nel yet to be made, besides the excava tion work at the stations and tlie bor ing of the great vertical shaft for tha elevator nt the top. a shaft about 250 feet deep. Ten years will see it all fin ished. says Herr Gobat. From the Rotlistock arches oue has n glorious view down the valley of Grindelwald. The permanent station about half a mile further on. to be known as “The Grindelwald Gallery," will command even a better prospect. The line will then curve through and round the mountain to Eiger Statiou -10,(530 feet high. This station will look out-upon the fields of ice and suow between the Eiger and the Sehrei-khorn. The rail way will then run under the summit of the Moneh to the Aletscb Guggl Glacier Station. In the rocks above the Jung A leading cause of the city's great commercial progress during the past few years Is the harbor Improvements made by the national government, in volving an expenditure of over $8.000,- 1)00. In 1895 the depth of the channel over the liar was only twenty-one feet. By the construction of jetties and other Improvements which were finished lu January, 1898, the depth was Increased Bay of Galveston, to twenty-eight feet and is still increas The bay of Galveston, the mouth of ing at the rale of six inches each year which Is guarded bj- the island on owing to the action of the wind aud which the city stands as a sentiuel, is tide. This depth of water permits the a body of water with an area of about largest steamers to load and unload at 450 square miles. It lias au irregular the wharves. In addition to being the coast line aud brandies out luto various country's greatest cotton port, immense arms. It receives the San Jacinto and quantities of grain, lumber, live stock Trinity rivers and Buffalo Bayou. Ow and dairy products are sent through ing to the islaud being but little higher Galveston. Much of the grain from than the bay, inundations have often Kansas. Nebraska. Iowa and the Da been threatened. The bay Is quite shal kotas. which formerly went to Eastern low In most parts. Eentrance to It is ports for shipment now goes to Galves through tlie recently constructed deep ton because tlie shippers can save lu water clmnnel and flanking It on either charges by loading nt tliat port. The side are the stone jetties five miles long. UFFICERS' ROW. FORT HAYS. lumber exports In 1898-9 amounted to * Bad Case of Lockjuw. $1.247.914 and in 1899, the port handled try was a vast cattle range. On Aug. frau Jocb. This statiou will look down $200,000 worth of eggs. Its trade In ¿3. 18(59, Wild Bill (William Hickockl on the great Aletscli Glacier, the largest live stock, dairy products and poultry was elected marshal, and while lie was in Europe; and (lie giant pyramid of th« lias developed rapidly since the harbor u command he killed four men. Oue of Jungfrau will rise close in front of it. Improvements. them was a soldier of (luster’s Seventh Beyond tlie station tlie line will pass Location «p-1 Description, Regiment, and Mr. llickock deemed it through the sharp, narrow ridge of Galveston Is situated on the northeast judicious to leave town before the ex rock tliat supports the ice of the Jung extremity of Galveston Island nt the piration of Ills term of office, he saying frau Jocli. It will ascend by a steep mouth of Galveston Bay. the entrance that he had no contract to whip the grade in tlie heart of tlie great rocky to which is through the channel be rib that juts out eastward from the whole army. tween the city and the southwest point In August, 1872, Tony Donovan was summit; and it will then curve and zig of the peninsula of Bolivar. The island trrested on a charge of horse-stealing, zag around the cone, always deep In tlie Is twenty-seven tulles long, runs north mil was confined in the Jail iu the base live rock, ending at last in a large east and southwest, and is from one t will l>e ment of the court house. One night chamber, from which ' «nd one-half to three and one-half miles •some one shot him dead there, and worked which will cat., traveler wide. Where the city is built It is one tired the court house. It burned down, up the last 250 feet, nnd from which he ■nd one-half miles wide. It is Inter mil all the county records were de will step out upon the summit platform. sected with many small bayous and stroyed. The new court house likewise —Cassell. bordered through Its whole length on '.turned down. Then another was built the gulf side by a smooth, bard beach, that yet stands. Precious Htones. forming a splendid drive and unsur A "place with a history” is a small Many of tlie precious stones now passed bathing. On this beach Is the tract of land northwest of Hays City. owned by Queen Victoria formerly be magnificent Sea Beach Hotel. The It contains the graves of forty-live per- longed to Indian princes. The famou« streets of the city are but a few feet mns. many of them unknown, who met Kob-i-Noor came Into her possession on above the level of the bay. They are violent deaths in various affrays or by the annexation of the Punjab In 1849. issasslnatlon. "Boot Hill is the name One of the rarest gems iu Queen Vic >f tills neglected place, chosen because toria's collection is a green diamond of most of tlie corpses were buried with marvelous beauty. It has never been lheir boots on. set. She owns thrve crowns. The roost In May. 18(57, Ixiokout stage station, artistic one, which was made ovar A Whistling People. The natives of Gomera. one of th« six nilles west of Hays, was raided by forty years ago, is of gold, literally cov Canary Isles, converse with one an Indians, and four men were killed and ered with diamonds. It is composed of other by whistling on their fingers. It *calped. Later the same year six rail 2,078 white diamonds and 523 rubles^ Is possible to understand a message n road section hands met a like fate near besides many smaller stones. Before mile off. Each syllable of a word lias Victoria, fifteen miles ea«t of Hays. this crown was made the Queen wor« Its own peculiar souud. Gomera is cut Another railroad latmrer was killed by a gold band studded with preclou« up by a number of deep glens, which Indians, dying with his shovel in his stone«. This band Is to be seen in moot are not bridged over, and as It would hands. A contractor living near town of her earlier portraits. The great I otherwise be Impossible for the Inhale was shot dead by an arrow which crown, which rests in the Tower, 1« liants on separate sides of a glen to wbixzeil through a knothole In the side over 100 years old. I talk with one another without going jf his shanty. His widow became crazy The Queen is sentimentally attached : a long way round to meet, they have in consequence, and rode about the to pearls, as is the German Empress, j lilt upon the whistling device as the ,-ountry, seeking revenge, a terror to who has fine specimens in her jewel last means of communication. he siipenitltlous redskins. She got Into cases; but as she did not wear them print as the "Wild Huntress of tlie etiongh they lost their color, and had to Thought He Was Having Money. Plain«.' be Immersed In s»-a water for several «ASOXIC TKMI'LK. Hlratn—Hurry up. Mandy, au' git But in 187« Hays City began to im months liefore they regained their beau prove. Indians occasionally came to ty. Tills process is not often resorted wide aud straight aud the resldeuee away from this bulldlu'. Mandy—What's yer hurry. Hi? town, got drunk, and engaged iu rows to. but it was entirely successful in this quarters are beautiful, abounding in Hiram (chuckling»— The feller In the with citizen« or soldiers, but nothing luxuriant gardens shaded with mag esse. : elevator forgot ter collect our fares.— serious resulted. In 1889 the old fort nolias and oleander . * During the slim was abandoned, and Hays City has de Peculiar Graves in Znlnland. mer months tlioii ands * of pleasure ■ Truth. The most curiously decorated grave« seekers from all parts of the South go Almost every girl of sixteen has her veloped Into one of the most thriving to Galveston to enjoy the many attrac mind made up that some day she will little towns of the WesL surrounded tn the world are the natives' graves Is tions of th« city and It« surround ng . * have a son named De Mountville, or a by vast wheat fields, the tenantles« Zululand. Some of these mounds an building» of the fort alone reminding garnished with the bottles of medicin« On the bay. or north side of the city, is daughter named Geraldine. (lie visitor of the stormy days of the used by the departed in their final IB the commercial section, with wbarv « thont all some men are willing to do pS't. And even they will soon be but ne»s. nnd the duration of the lllneaa la stretching along for nearly two mil»— « memory, for an agricultural and nor guessed by the number of bottles. Uaed with sheds and large storage for a Uv'JAg is to breathe regularly