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Who drives the horses of the sun Shall lord it but a day; Better the lowly deed were done, And kept the humble way. t The rust will find the sword of fame. The dust will hide the crown; Ay, none shall nail so high bis name Time will not tear it down. The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to heaven the rest. —John Vance Cheney. Th« original letter, telling Mr. Cudahy where to "deposit" the $25,000 in gold to insure the return of bis son, wax written in the same style us the one here shown. This fuc simile of the writing is identi cal iu all the let ters thus far re ceived by Mr. ¡f V a C aa . Cudahy from the supposed kidnap Tri'cc. ers, and, strange to suy, these let V \ pXA (Ct ters were all mailed in Omaha W I b h except the first, which was left r on the lawn in front of the mill ionaire's r e s i- if CnAv dence. A letter print ed with a lead pencil was re ceived by M r. C u <1 a h y last week, demanding the withdrawal ' iC . of the offer of a m ih AYyy reward for the kidnapers. The fact that the ad Araste P ev«. r dress was print ed in similar f W V- - style to the oth er ones gave rise >ic^tK. to the suspicion w111 t h i w K , °^ t’kiS before it was op ened that it was from the same source, but Mr. Cudahy pronounced it an imitation, and did not attach the slight est significance to it. It was mailed in the Omaha postotfice. Tin* letter demanded withdrawal of the Cudahy offer of reward and of the city’s offer as well under penalty not only of trouble for the children, but the destruction of the entire "Cudahy family.” The epistle closed with an injunction to ‘ head this warning.” Ç. £oys Aye the Same. <» .. ♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦ HEY were two happy ghost lov ers. and they had slipped dowu to earth again to see how it fared with earth-bound lovers now. "Does It not seem strange, dearest,” asked the girl ghost soltly, as they floated along, hand in hand, just altove the busy, material city of Chicago, "that we were once bound to this nar row earth, and had to depend upon mere words for exchanging thoughts and opinions?” "Doyon retnemlicr, my darling.” was the counter quest Ion of the man ghost, "how we onee quarreled ami were es tranged and unhappy for many months liecause w e depended tqion mere words for communication and misunderstood tile rtieauing of the tricky things?” ."Poor children! How ally we were, and yet how helpless,” sighed the girl ghost, pityingly; "things are easier for us In the Land of Shades.” "I wonder do other mere earth lovers have the same troubles now?” she mused, a little later. "Yes. dearest, always,” was the man ghost’s smiling answer. “We may lie sure of It. Love's ways are aye the same.” "If we find anv of them in trouble T 1 AC'TKD AS voll AKK DOING.” Jet us help them,” said the girl ghost, eagerly. “I could be unhappy and sor rowful now If I had not forgotten how — to think of what and how we stiffer cd during that terrible estrangement. Dearest! What should we have done flow should we have bo"ne It. had not some one helped us to understand each other? I could not have waited until we came up here!" “There was no need." said the num ghost, tenderly, "our love was loo strong to let us stay apart." Ami for a iiiomcut tile shadowy lips ami arms met and were mingled, Just ns though tin* earth still bound them, while the shadowy hearts bent near together. For love's ways nre aye the same for ghosts and human*. They were floating over a pretty sills urb the suburb where slit- had live I, and where they had made love tog, th er. On the same veranda where this had hap|>ened ah, lion long ago! oth er lovers earth lovers were silting, silently and a little apart. The ghost lovers rend the unuttensl thoughts which kept the girl's eyes stern and yet | tearful and the man’» lips tense. "If he really loved me lie would see that I am not cross, but only troubled, ami he would comfort me with loving words and caresses." So ran the troubled meditation of the girl "If she really loved me she would see that 1 am Worried to death over business matters, and that I need Just a little soothing mid comforting my seif." So the man was thinking, moodily. "I think I will sa.v good night." he said aloud, a moment Inter, and his voice win cold ns the heart of winter. “Must you go so early?" and her voice was Just ns cold. lie rose Immediately and had gone half way down the steps, without ut tering any farther farewell, Indore the ghost lovers fully realize« I all that was happening. Wrapped In the varied rec ollections called up by the little seen«* amt the surroundings they were stand ing. motionless but hand In hand, still. Just behind the earth couple, thinking, thinking. Now they started forward, simultaneously, and whispered In the i cars of the unhappy, misguided earth lovers. "time, a long time ago I acted as you are doing and my heart nearly broke In consequence." Thus the ghost man to his earth brother. “Once, a long time ago. I let my lov er go lightly, as you are doing, ami I was sad for many months." This from the glipst girl to her earth stater. "Think! What If you should never come together, really, truly. In heart ami soul, again!" So whispered both ghosts, earneatly. The earth lovers turned suddenly and gated u|s»n each other. "Dear heart! What la th« matter At fife. th J r At “ onci : SPORT IN CHINA. ONE OF THE CUDAHY LETTERS. THE HAPPIEST HEART. . ¿V yovk wi-îC AH6/ A C o Do r k » > we JoB w i i wifh B/vvieX A / : is - P A 8 ßoYs ¿fo** with us both this evening”* they cried. aloud. Next moment lioth had taken a step toward the other. Another instant and their hands were clasped, the ghost lovers gently lifting and pushing the half-reluctant fingers into place. When tlie girl's head went down on the man's shoulder and the man’s arm went ten derly around the girl’s waist, the ghost lovers lookisl nt each other and smiled happily. For love’s ways are aye the same, In all times ami places. "Kiss her. kiss her!” murmured the man ghost to the masculine earth lov er. “Say something kind and loving.” whispered the girl ghost to the other maiden. Then, when their soft commands had been olieyed, all unknowingly, and all was well lietween the earth lovers, they joined hands onee more and float ed off sweetly, their shadowy hearts beating close together. “They are happy.” said the girl ghost, half wistfully, as they soared upward. “So are we.” said the man ghost, softly, and they drew even more close ly together. Then they looked back and the lovers were embracing. “Love's ways are aye the same," said both ghosts, smiling. WIDOW LOVED THE BANDMASTER Wedding Note« that Will Buy Wo. e than Those of a Cornet’s silver Throat. No more will Thomas C. Bent, who was wont to play in Gilmore’s band, be compelled to blow notes from the sil ver throat of a cornet. The new Mrs. Bent will supply all the notes neces sary in tlie family, for It is said Mr. Bent’s marriage portion is $15,000 a year. A good many men could love for less than that— Six years ago Bent, who was leader of the Old Guard band, eloped with Isabelle Nixon, the datlgli ter of a Presbyterian clergyman of MKS. KENT, NK* WYCKOFF. note. Seven months ago she died. Then he met Mrs. Albert Wyckoff, a widow of a year, and worth several million dollars. She Is 50 years old, and a score of years his senior, but they loved and wore married at the Wal dorf-Astoria. Iu New York, and have gone abroad for the winter. Before they left the groom declared: "I ought to have waited it year before marrying, but Mrs. Wyckoff couldn't arrange to get away then." NEW LOCOMOTIVE. Klectric I nuinr I xpecteil to Kun 130 Miles nil Hour. to one-twelfth of its tension by the commutator placed upon the locomo tive. Water power is used to generate the required electricity. The greatest practical spoeti of steam locomotives is about sixty mile* an hour, while with El.KCrKIC 1.1. CO MOTIVE. the new electrical locomotive, it is ex pected to reach a velocity of 120 miles. The cost of running a locomotive with steam power is estimated at $7 a day, while the cost of running one of the new electrical railroad motors is only $4.25 a day. Similar experiments have been made on other lines In Germany j and in Italy. Washington Relies. One of the most Interesting relics In the National Museum at Washington is the camp chest used by Washington throughout the revolution. It is a com pact affair about the size of a tourist’s wicker chest for cooking of the present day, two and one-half feet long, two feetwide.one foot high, and it contains an outfit consisting of tinder box. pep per and salt boxes, bottles, knives, forks, glrdlron and plates. Every bit of the outfit save one bottle, which is broken at the shoulder, looks strong enough to stand another campaign. Nearby are the tents used by Wash ington. three tn number. One is a sleeping tent, twenty-eight feet long, with walls six feet high and a roof with a six-foot pitch. It is made of linen. Tile other two are Marquee tents of smaller size, one with walls, the other a shelter tent. open on the sides. That the tenting material of revolutionary days was good stuff Is proved by the excellent condition of these tents, which sheltered the great commander through all his severe campaigns. Here also is Washington’s uniform, worn by him when he gave up his com mission as commander-ln-chief of the army, at Annapolis, In 1783. It consists of a big shad-belly coat of blue broad cloth. lined and trimmed with soft buckskin and ornamented with broad, Hat brass buttons; buckskin waistcoat and breeches. The size of the gar ments (which are in a state of excel lent preservation» testify to the big stature of the "Father of His Country" and siftgest that he had an eye to a tine appearance in ills dress.—Wash ington Post. Most of the Celestials’ Guns Are Traps -Hunting Tigers. The Chinese shotgun or glngal has never reached high enough develop ment to be of much service iu hunting. The barrels are cast, and many of the cheaper ones look as If made of pot metal. They are mounted on stocks that look like exaggerated pistol han dles. But the Chinese have never in vented anything like the percussion cap. Their guns have no triggers or hammers; instead, there is at the base of the barrel u small vent aiyl flush pan. Over the stock is a holder shaped like our hammers, made of soft steel and split so as to hold between the two Angers a piece of lighted incense or punk. Iu order to use this weapon, the Chinaman must till the Hash pan with fresh powder, blow the ashes off ills punk, take aim, and then with his thumb push the holder forward until the lighted end of the ¡»link touches the powder in the flash pan. So un certain is the weapon that the Chinese rarely use it, except In pot-hunting for ricebirds, blackbirds and that class of game. Most of the Chinese hunting is done with traps, says Forest and Stream. The moors and plains abound in par tridge, grouse and rabbits, and the Chinese take immense quantities of them by means of nets and running nooses. For large game they resort to [»its and deadfalls. It Is not generally known that the mountains of north China abound with bear, both black and brown, and that leopards and tigers are by no means uncommon. The so-called Siberian tiger, which is the most magnificent specimen of tlie cat family, far surpass ing even tlie royal tiger of India, is really a native of the mountain ranges that lie between the plains of Mon golia and Manchuria and the plains about Pekin. In early days the hunting of leopards and tigers was a feature of the royal hunt, which sport reached Its greatest popularity in the reign of the Mongol dynasty during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Mflig dynasty, which followed them, also found many devotees of the chase, but they confined their limiting to the les!» dangerous pursuit of the deer, and es tablished the magnificent deer parks which nre now to be found near Pekin. The famous decoration of the peacock feather, which lias been the subject of so maly International jokes in connec tion with Li-Hung-Chang’s yellow jacket, was originally awarded to those members of the royal suite who suc ceeded in killing a stag. The early em perors of the present Manchu dynasty were also gqeat sportsmen, but for the last forty years the throne has been occupied by minors, and the manly pastime has fallen Into disuse. QUEEN WILHELMINA AND HER FIANCE. Pa Explains a Treaty to Ma. This picture of Queen Wilhelm.ua and her betrothed is from the first photo graph of the royal pair which has been taken. Queen Wilhelmina’s wedding gown will be a thing of beauty and splendor, as the marriage costume of a young queen should be. Woven espe cially in Lyons and cut In Paris, it has been sent to Amsterdam to be embroi dered by the pupils of the art school there. Then it will be returned to Paris to be made. The front of the gown will lie of lace flounce«. The train and bodice are of silver brocade, and will be embroidered richly in silver threads and spangles. The pattern of the em broidery represents oranges and orange flow.ers. SHAFT TO HEROES OF 1776. Monument to the Revolutionary Dead at Euptiratn, Pa. The Euphrata Monument Association of Euphrata. Pa., has petitioned the State Legislature for an appropriation with which to complete the unfinished memorial shaft in Mount Zion ceme tery. The association was organized on the Fourth of July. 1843. for the pur pose of erecting a suitable memorial on Mount Zion, where nearly 200 revolu tionary soldiers are buried. They died in the Cloister Hospital at Euphrata, where they were taken after the battle of Brandywine, Sept. 11. 1777. Work on a monument was begun soon after the organization and the corner stone was laid Sept. 11, 1845. Gov. Francis R. Shunk was present and the ceremo nies were conducted on an elaborate scale. The only surviving member of the RECENT INVENTIONS. In a new computing scale the fulcrum of the price-indicating beam Is movable and can be set at the price of one pound of the material being weighed, the slid ing weight being then moved until the beam balances, indicating the total price. A Westerner has patented a bandy tool for cleaning pneumatic tires, con sisting of a flat casing containing a crescent-shaped blade on one side and a pointed blade on the other, both be ing locked open or shut by an internal spring. To prevent stock watering troughs from freezing up an Illinois inventor has designed a trough which has a flanged edge to rest on the top of a wooden casing, the walls of the casing allowing the passage of heat from a lamp set un der the trough. To change eve-glasses into spectacles a new attachment hns a semi-circular rim with a l>ow extending from Its cen ter and spring clamps at the ends which engage the rims of the glass and hold the bow in position to extend back to the side of the head. The spindles for blind slats are made of metal in a Western man’s patent, being formed of a flat piece of tin bent Into a toothed clamp, with a rounded projection at the end. allowing the slat to be cut from a shorter strip of wood and making It less liable to split. In a new automatic regulator for electric motors a ball-governor is re volved by a portion of the current de rived front the generator, moving a sys Long Necks. tem of levers as the speed increases One of Philadelphia's most distin and decreases to shift the brush car guished portrait painters asserts that rier of the auxiliary exciting generator. the necks of American women are be coming longer ami more slender year Tea Service Cost $05,030. by year. The high collar, he declares, is At a sale In London a service of old responsible for It. All the life studies Sevres ware was sold for $5.000. The and portraits of women seen at stu genuineness of this set was proved by dents' exhibits demonstrate this. “I certificates Issued to the owners by the know a man." he said the other day. French government. But by far the "who took a tape measure to the last most valuable service turned out at the exhibit at the academy of tine arts ami Sevres Pottery (in 17781 was made for succeeded In getting data for a compari the Czarina Catherine II. of Russia, and son of women’s necks painted ten years consisted of 745 pieces, which cost ago. five years ago ami at the present $65.630. The Sevres ware, old or modern. Is time. He claims that the average fem inine neck has liecome elongated to the usually light in color and daintily dec extent of nearly an Inch during the last orated with flowers or figure subjects tastefully' arranged. Although the Sev tlve years. res works are still in operation, they The Tseftil Atheist. are kept busy in copying ancient Chi James Balfour, member of the legis nese and Japanese models, instead of lative council of Victoria, Is said to l»e Increasing their reputation in the a man without a single redeeming vice. manufacture of the wares which made When a discussion arose In Melbourne them famous. The Princes« of Wales lias a tea ser about the Iniquity of cooking dinner« on the Sabbath he publicly announced vice of sixty pieces, each one of which that, though he had hot potatoes for Is decorated with a different photo the principal meal on that day. they graph w hich »lie herself took w hile in were cooked by an atheist who lived Scotland. next door Sydney Bulletin. We have known lots of good men who talked of bearing the voice of God Orange Ix-af. A single leaf of the orange tree, care In the tempest and In the summer’s fully planted, will often take root and breeze, who didn’t act as if they heard It when the baby cried. grow._____________________ ♦ Geòrgie9 s Gab. THE VNFINI'llED MONUMENT. association who participated in the ceremonies in 1845 is Jeremiah Mohler, who Is now president and at the age of four-score years an untiring worker in behalf of the project. STONE JUNK IN PEKIN LAKE. Striking Feature of a Pool in the Chi nese Holy City. One of the most remarkable natural features of the capital of China Is the holy city of l’ekln—the mysteries of which were very little known to tlie STONE JUNK IN PEKIN. outside world liefore Its occupation by the allied forces—was a stoue building rising out of an encircling lake in the form of a Chinese Junk. A correspond ent says this stone junk Is now a fa vorite place for luncheon with the for eign officers. The Chinese regarded it with superstitious awe. and noue but the priests of high rank was permitted to set foot upon it. His Skin Acted Well. A young English actor who had im pressed his manager favorably was cast for a difficult role In a new produc tion aud his success or failure in its was a matter of vital Importance to his fu ture reputation. After the second act on the opeulng night his friend William Gilbert, the popular dramatist and li brettist. went behind the scenes fully realizing that In a kindly word or a sympathetic criticism he would bring hope or despair to the actor. How ever, on seeing that his friend was in a profuse perspiration he could not re sist his own cleverness and contented himself with merely remarking: "How well your skin acts.” The development of electrotecbnlcs, | particularly that part dealing with the application of electricity as motiveI |H»wer for railroad trains, has made re ! markable progress iu Germany recent- | The Ruling language. ly. In April a series of tests with elec- | At a congress In India, where nine trical locomotives was begun on the languages were spoken by delegates, branch line between Gesundbrnnneu the discussions were carried on In Eng and laigerhof. Prussia. which have lish. A proposition has been brought proved so successful that they promise forward to make English the mission a complete revolution in the transpor-I ary language of the world. tatlon system of Germany and of the world in general. That line was cho Shoes for Dogs. sen because It offered the greatest num The latest whim for the owners of tier of difficulties In the form of curves, I dogs 1« to make them wear shoes in crosHings. and steep- grad«'«. An alter- j Don't regard your friends as personal the bouse for the purpose of protect nating current of 12.060 volts Is sup- i The more you crumple paper money ing the polished floor«. property. plied by overhead wires and Is reduced th« more you will tlnd It In crease*. After maw Got thru reading How to take out rinkelz and Remove black beds without the aid of a Buzz saw, the Other nite she turned over to the news from Washington and pritty soon you could see that they was Sumthing she didn’t understand. "Paw,” she says, "I wish you’d tell me what all the fuss Is about this Clin ton Bullyer’s treaty, euny way. It does seem as tlio this Country was getting in more trubble lately Than 1 ever herd of Before. First we haft to go and rite For Cuba and then we Get all tangled up with the Fillopeans and the I next thing we no up Come the Chinese to keep us all iu a Stew and now this Bullyer has to go and Start everybuddy scolding at Oneanuther. and I can’t make beads nor Tails out of it." "Great heavens.” paw told Her, "are vou Living in this Centchery or Away back in the Dark ages? That’s the treaty about the Canal. We can’t Go thed and Bild the Canal till we nock <ut this treaty.” "But I tliot the canal was all Dug and the water turned on and St. Louis per- tlckly satisfied." maw says. "Maw.” paw nnsered, ’’I’m gjad they ire no Strangers present. Of corse I i-ould live down the Disgrace, but it would be a sad thing for the children if It ever Got found out Their mother didn’t no enny better Than that. This Is no Canal that's to clean out a Sewer «¡stum. This trubble is about a Canal across Central Americky so Ships can get Vhrue without Going away around below Since atiaiti and Using up more than a Hundred and Fifty tons of extry coal. You see we Can’t bild it unless England will give up the Treaty.” "How did England get it?” maw ast. "She didn't get It.” paw sed. “We Don’t want to be Held to It. that’s all.” "Oh, 1 see,” maw says. "England wants to make us use as much extry Coal as they Haft to. How mean.” “No,” paw told her, "that’s not It. England wants to keep us from Bild- ing the Canal becoz we mite put up Some forts along it. England's boats could go thru Just the Same as ours If it got Blit." "Then I don't believe in it," maw sed. “The idea of us going and Bilding a Canal and then Letting England come along and Use it! I’m glad this Bullyer or whatever his name is Got up bls treaty, aud I hope he’ll stick to It till his sides Gets elected. What is he, a Rippublican or a Demmuckrat?" l’aw looked kind of sad for a Mlnlt or so and then he says: “You see we got bound by this treaty so we Can’t own the Canal after we Bild it. That’s why they are Trying to bust the Thing. If it wasn’t for that----- ” ‘Who would own it then?” maw ast. "Well, it would kind of belong to ev erybuddy.” paw told her. ’’Then’ why don’t the rest of Them come iu and Help to dig the Thing?" maw ast. "Becoz they don’t teem to care whether it gets dug or not,” paw an- sered. "and----- " "But you just told me England was making trubble about it.” maw told him "Say.” paw says, "do you want to Hear about this Canal or not? We wouldn’t let England or enuybuddy else blld It, even if they Wanted to. It would be a Fine thing to Let,a lot of forreners come over here and Dig a Canal thru our Back yard, wouldn’t It? There, you see, is where the treaty Comes in.” “Where?" maw ast. "Why we can’t go abed on the Canal and put up forts to protect It till we get It----- ” “Oh, yes.” maw says, "I see It all now. This Bullyer wants to get the Contract to put up the forts, doesn't he? What a terrible Lot of corrupsheu there Is in This world. I should Think he would be ashamed of Himself. Where Is he from, paw?” Paw was Going to say sumthing else, but after be Got to thinking about It a While he went over to play Ifilyerda with Uncle Wesley.—Chicago Tlmes- Herald. How Herve Began His Career. Herve, the celebrated French com poser, began his itnifaleal career as a« organist When a boy be strolled into a church one day and persuaded the blower to let hljn try the organ after service. He then improvised some thing wonderfully sweet and strange. The priest bappeued to come in. heard It and was amazed. “Where did you learn to play tlie organ?” he asked, and the boy truthfully replied that he had never played it before. “Well.” said the priest, in amazement "there Is a vacancy In the post of organist here and you had better apply for It. We do not want any one more skillful than you." The boy applied and was accept ed. His success was immediate. The little church was crowded, and strang ers became frequent visitors, and b« soon received offers to complete bls musical education. Rats as Hair Restorer». Tsin Ching Chung, a Chinese gentle man who was a Yale student a few years ago has undertaken the defense of the rat as an article of diet. ¡1« says: "What the carrot is to a horse's coat a rat is to the human hair. Neither fact can be explained, but every horse man knows that a regitnen of carrot« will make his stud as smooth and Inat- rous as velvet, and the Chinese, espe cially the women, know that rata used as food stop the falling out of the hair aud make the locks soft, silky and b«antifnl. 1 have seen It tried many times and every time it succeeded" ,