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iMt AKPLt-tJARREL. It stood in th«* cellar low and dim, Where the cobweb» awept and swayed. Holding the store from bough and limb At the feet of autumn laid. And oft, when the day» were short and drear, And the north wind shrieked and roared. We children sought in the corner, here. And drew ou the toothsome hoard. For thus through the long, long winter time It answered our every call With wine of the summer's golden prime Sealed by the hand of fall. The best there was of the earth and air. Of rain and sun and breeze, Changed to a pippin sweet and rare By the art of the faithful trees. A wonderful barrel was this, had we Its message but rightly heard, Filled with the tales of wind and bee, Of cricket and moth and bird; Rife with the bliss of the fragrant June When skies were soft anil blue; Thronged with the dreams of a harvest moon O’er fields drenched deep with dew. Oh, homely barrel, I'd fain essay Your marvelous skill again; Take me back to the past, I pray, As willingly now as then; Back to the tender morns and eves. The noontides warm and still. The fleecy clouds and the spangled leaves Of the orchard over the hill. —"New" Lippincott. AM sure we do love each other, and will be very happy togeth er.” she said, laying her hand on his arm and looking straight into his eyes. “Of course we will, little trembler,” he exclaimed in reply, playfully drop ping Ills hand over those guileless blue orbs, for their searching gaze made him uneasy. "Miss Hargrave need not fret or fume, for we will show her yet what a cosy couple we will make.” And Kitty felt perfectly satisfied with her handsome lover, ami wondered how she had ever been so foolish as to doubt the genuineness of her attach ment for him. When she saw Edward Wyndham, a little later, and lie had asked In his earnest, sincere way if the “matter was all settled and she was to marry Hal Burton," she had replied with con siderable warmth that she was, and that ended it tietween the former lov ers. And so the days sped on, much faster than Kitty liked, though they were even hastening on her wedding day. One night Hal had been to visit Kitty, and had remained Inter than usual. When the girl saw how late It was get ting she told him he must go, but they Stood In the passageway some mo ments afterward, Kitty swinging the night key carelessly In her hand. Hal suddenly caught it away from her, darting through the back door and care fully locking it behind him; he then called out playfully: “floodnight, pretty Miss Kitty! I am locked out, tint you are locked in. Nobody will run away with you before morning. I'll be bound." For a reply Kitty had only laughing ly entreated him to restore the key and go home, nt which he had thrown a mocking defiance at her ami darted down the street. On his next visit Kitty asked once more for the key, but lie now declared that I k * had lost It, probably on return ing home that night, and had not the remotest Idea where to look for It. And so the unsuspecting girl was compeled to report to her mistress though sin* was very careful to conceal who the loser had been—and another key was purchased. And so the time spisl on until It was within one week of the time appointed for the wedding. Kitty was sewing on some of the wed ding finery and Miss Hargrave relaxed gradually from the usual severity of her manuer to such a degree that she had finally taken up n needle to assist her maid In the work. They sat rather late over their work, and Kitty fiually retired, feeling very much flattered and pleased over Miss Hargrave's grnelousness. And so she gradually sank Into an uneasy slum ber. She could not tell how long she had slept, but she finally woke with a sud den start ami a suppressed cry. She had been troubled with an unpleasant dream and awoke restless amt III nt ease. A presentiment of coming evil mmol to weigh upon her mind, so that sleep was entirely banished, and she could not clam* her eyes again. The rain waa over and the moon Just struggling feebly through the breaking clouds. She did not light the lamp, for It was not dnrk enough to require It, but crept out upon the landing and down the stairs with only the moon to guide her way. The Imek door opened luto a passage way leading to the kitch en, and Into this she glided, pausing for a moment, her heart beating fast, for she suddenly thought she heard a step just outside. In another moment a key was pushed Into the lock, and the l>olt »napped cautiously ami almost noiselessly back. Suppressing a scream of surprise and alarm at this confirma tion of her worst fears, Kitty turned to arous«* the house when a voice from tile outside fell upon her ear, whisper ing the wonts: “All right," In another moment the back door waa carefully opened. Two men en tered the passage, an Kitty knew at once, for her hearing see met I awfully •cute Just then. “A woman, by all that'a lovelyf ex claimed one, springing forward. E “Quick, my pal. stop her mouth, or she will alarm the house." She quickly exclaimed: "You here, ' Hal Burton?” "Be quiet, IJlck,” said the young man. ARE NO LONGER NEEDED IN ALASKAN TRAVEL. for It was ludeed he, suppressing an oath, as she pulled at his companion'* sleeve. The Locomotive Ba» : upereeded the "Yet, I am here, Kitty. But what Dog Team, Though Many Old-timer» are you doing up at this time of night?" Still Kefuae to Putroniss the More “Let me report the question to you. Modern Mean» of Trau»portation. Hal?” was the reply, apoken with some bitterness “I find that I have need to A big, strapping, broad-shouldered lie up, If I would not see my mistress man strolled into the lobby of the But robbed and murdered in her own bed!” ler hotel yesterday afternoon leading “Don't be squeamish, my dear,” re a thoroughbred Malamoot dog by the turned the man, with a gesture of Im patience. “You are altogether too se chain. The man was a picturesque tig vere upon us. You know, Kitty”—here ure. His type was frequently Beeu ou his tone became rather more tender— the streets of Seattle at this season of "that I would not harm a hair of your tlie year in 1898 and 1899 and even as head for the whole world. I love you late as last winter. The man and the dog, however, belong to an era which too well for that.” “Then why are you here to-night "i is practically a part of the history of Alaska. Answer me that question?” Few people in the lobby looked at "Believe me, Kitty, it Is for your sake the man. who was a Klondike miner of alone that I have come,” said Hal, ear nestly. “I am a poor man, you know, the conventional type. The dog. how and I could not bear to have my bride ever, attracted all eyes. He was a endure the miseries of poverty with me beauty. Of more than ordinary size, broad-chested and broad-backed, the Miss Hargrave Is a stupid old maid, and could spare money enough to makt Malamoot tugged restlessly at his us both happy and never miss It. We chain, panting the while as if in pain mean no harm to anybody, only we from the warmth of the steam-heated room. must have the money.” “He's worth $100 of any man's “And to think, Hal,” she broke out money, ” said the miner, answering an again, “that I should have let you have that key by which you have broken in Interrogatory. “Of course, 1 can't get to tlie house! You said you had lost that for him outside, but it's his true it. How could you have deceived me value. I would take $60 for him and no less.” so ?” He only laughed. But his compan “Three years ago a dog like this ion, who had been a quiet witness of would have sold for from $250 to $500 in Skaguay,” continued the miner. this scene, now stepped forward. “This foolishness lias gone quite far “That was before the day of the rail enough, Hal,” he said, resolutely. "We roads and when roadhouses on the did not come here to parley all night, Upper Yukon were mighty few and but for business. What shall we do far between. In those «lays a winter's with this girl, while we search the trip over the river from Skaguay to Dawson earned many a fortune of from house?” $50,000 to $100,000. Then claims were “O, Kitty will be quiet. She will never peach on us. Go ahead, and sold on the outside in the form of op tions, while the miners on tlie inside never mind her, Dick.” “But I shall mind her,” Dick return were digging the gold out of the cre ed, drawing a pistol from tlie breast vices of tin* bedrock by tlie tablespoon pocket of his coat. “The least sign of ful and dumping it in coal oil cans “There was only one way of quick treachery or attempt to betray us, and communication between Seattle and I will not answer for the consequence. So show us the way to your mistress' Dawson possible In the winter three years ago. This was by means of dog room.” He placed the muzzle of the pistol teams and the Malamoot, of all ani close to her temple, and she dared do mals in the frozen north, was most nothing else but obey. They paused on valuable. Shepherds, Newfoundlands and St. Bernards, fullbloods and the landing Just outside the door. scrubs, brought good prices, but the “Miss Hargrave received five bun dred dollars one day last week, and it thoroughbred Malamoot carried tlie is still in the house,” said the man, banner for money value. I have seen Dick, in a hoarse whisper. “Tell us them sold readily for $500 each in Dawson when a party was made up to where It Is to be found.” come out over the ice in the early days Kitty hesitated. “How can I?” she returned. “You of the camp. “But this is all changed now. It is must think m.v mistress lias abundant true that the old-timers scorn tlie steam confidence In me. Gf course she would not entrust such a secret to a servant.” locomotives and the trains in winter time and go over the trail in little “Not another subterfuge,” interrupt ed the man; “we are bound to have this groups with dog sleds to this city. They have made better time than the information.” “It Is In a safe which Is kept in the trains, too, during the late snow block ade. But where a miner used to have cellar,” said Kitty, reluctantly. his team of four or eight dogs he only "And where is the key?” "My mistress always sleeps with It has two now and prices have dropped accordingly. under her pillow." “It is easy now for a man to travel “You must get it for us, and bring us her watch and purse. But attempt to by dog team from Skaguay to Dawson play u.s false, and your life and hers with light sled, a fly and 200 pounds shall pay the forfeit.” d of food for himself and his animals. Miss Hargrave was still sleeping This is because tlie roadhouses are fre soundly, as she knew by her deep and quent and new supplies can l>e obtain regular breathing, therefore she per ed at any point. In the old days the formed her errand as soon as possible, miner had no roadhouse to depend on securing the purse, watch and key, and —lie started with a full outfit of from then hastened out again, weak and 1.000 to 2,000 pounds. One Malamoot to 250 pounds of freight was the ordi trembling from emotion. nary reckoning. As the necessity for Dick took them without a word. Kitty longed unutterably to cry out, ot the dogs has grown less and less every make some noise that would alarm the year their value has decreased.” The Malamoot lay panting and whin house, but she dared not. She could only perform their bidding In silence, ing while his master talked, as if be hating Hal with an intense hatred fol wailing the fate of his kind. The dog all this shame and mortification that he was a tine specimen of Ills breed, with was lunging upon her. O, if Edward a thick undercoating of soft downy wool and a rough outer coat of gray were only there! After whispering a moment apart, hair, almost spiky, with the ends tip they gave her the lantern and made her ped with black. The Malamoot was bred In the Mac descend tlie cellar stairs first, lighting the way for them to follow. The safe kenzie river country originally and was stood against the wall, and the two started from the mating of Scotch col robbers linstened eagerly forward to lies with native wolves. “The Malamoot pups take as kindly unlock It and secure their prize, for the moment utterly forgetful of the girl's to the collar and traces on n dog sled as a duck does to water,” concluded tlie presence. A sudden thought flashed like light ' miner. "Some breeders of Malnmoots nlng on Kitty's brain a thought that have made fortunes from them. 1 God himself must have sent. The Iron know of one of these who has a native door ou the safe was furnished with a Siberian she-wolf which is the mother spring lock a snr**, careful movement, of a tribe of Malnmoots that have net and she might yet save them all! She ted the owner ii fortune of $10,060.”— was still carrying the lantern, and. lift Seattle Post-Intelligencer. DOGS OUT OF A JOB. Ing It higher In her hands, as If to af ford them liettcr light, she suddenly dashed It at Dick's head, who was near est to her, ami sprang through the door, closing it with a loud clang and a snap, as the Isvlt shoved Into Its socket lie hind her! Tlie lantern must have been extin guished when It fell, for Kitty heard them groping for the door, at first curs lug and threatening. But Kitty only remained long enough to recover from her giddiness, and then aped up stairs, and had soon succeeded In alarming the house. The police were called In and the would-be robbers se cured, Hal Burton entreating the young girl to save him to the very last. Edward Wyndham heard the news early the next morning, and came Im mediately to the house. At first he seemed at a loss how to address Kitty, and she. observing his embarrassment, went straight to him and laid her little hand in his broad palm. “1 can read my own heart as It Is to day,” she said, earnestly, "ami. Ed ward, I am very glail that all this has happened, for It has saved me from a lifetime of misery. I honestly believe that your little finger Is more precious to me than all Hal Burton's pretended love!" Thus It came about that a wedding really did take place on the day first appointed, though Edward, and not Hal. was the bridegroom. ROMANCE OF A NEW STATE. Oklahoma's History 1» One of the Marvel» of This Great Nation. The story of the coming State of Ok lahoma promises to atTord an example of rapidity of growth unmatched In the history of any other commonwealth iu any age or country. Hitherto, when an Instance of unparalleled progress has been wanted by way of lllustrntiou, the City of Chicago has been cited with full confidence that It could not Is* match ed. That confidence and the stupen dous facts on which It rests will still remain, but Oklahoma will occupy In the list of states the position held by the western metropolis In the list of municipalities. Both are giants In In fancy. with unlimited facilities of growth and an assured prospect of in creasing greatness. Just ns Chicago has grown in area by annexation of the adjacent towns, villages and farm ing lands. Oklahoma Is destined to ex pand by taking in the Indian territory. Governor Barnes' annual report upon the condition of Oklahoma reads more like a tale from "The Arabian Nights" than the sober reality which we know It to lx*. On June 1. 191»*, the census enumerators found 396,060 Inhabitants In the territory and the 406.000 mark has liven passed since that count was made That Is about equal to ten Ne vada» and more than 33 per cent ahead of the District of Columbia. The Gov- LE RNINU TO BE A TELEPHONE Q1RL. MONEY TO FEED THE BIRDS. Gov. Flower Gave a Stable Boy a Tip and He 1» Now W eattby. L. Schreiber &. Sons have filed suit in the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, Ya., against Leia Moore Newman and ber husband, Walter G. , Newman, to collect $4,006, alleged to 1 be due them by the Newmans. I The story back of the suit concerns the desire of a man who left a town iu Virginia a penniless, friendless boy and returned having money with which to feed the robins. The Newmans live near Somerset, Orange County, and are now building a magnificent country estate. Mr. New man was the poor boy, and he is now spending money in a way that has sur- prised all Orange County out of three | years’ growth. i The story of Mr. Newman's success reads like a romance. It was told by one of the lawyers representing the complainants in the suit. It is said that when be left Orange County Wal ter Newman was an humble stable boy. | He made his way to New York and i found a friend in the late Goveruoi I Flower. It is a well-known fact that when Flower was a potent factor in the business of making great fortunes in Wail street lie would take any friend of his who desired it along with him ou a great money-making venture and I turn him from a poor man into a rich one. This was Newman’s luck, says the story told by the lawyer. He was “put onto a sure thing” in the market by Mr. Flower and gathered in $18,000. With this as a starter he was soon very wealthy. A good part of his money was invested in copper mines In North Car olina, and it has paid well. Then the stable boy went back to Orange Coun ty and bought up a 1,500-acre piece of land, had lakes constructed in it, streams gurgling music to him, trees ami flowers and Hills and little dales to delight him. T.lie old-timers gazed and stretched their necks and declared him a wonder and gathered around his wonderful place and watched the mansion and the handsome stables and servants’ quar ters grow under the workmen’s ham mers. It is also said of Newman that he always kept a special train waiting for him and that he never bothered to write letters in the usual way: he tele graphed them. Schreiber & Sons were contracted with to build an Iron fence with ornamental gates around the prop erty. They now claim that after pre paring the material their contract was broken. There had been some delay, which the complainants claim was not on their part, and the Newmans de clined to have the work completed. The claim against them Is for $4.006, and a lien against the property near Somer set is asked. j TELEPHONE GIRLS AT WORK. Each year finds the new recruits who step into the ranks of the telephone brigade representative of a higher training. With every large telephone exchange there is now a regular school for employes. The school rooms are fitted with dummy switchboards and imitation apparatus corresponding to all the other par aphernalia of a regular exchange; and so the beginner in the field is given an opptfrtunity to try her hand at the practical work of the vocation as well as being afforded an insight into the technical terms and theory. Following the plan now in force in many of the best schools of all kinds, a girl, if she does not learn readily under one teacher, is transferred to the care of another instructor, bo that an aspirant is never dismissed as unfitted for the work until she has had a very fair trial. After her period of probation in the s -bool room proper the newcomer is de tailed day after day to sit beside an ex >ert, watch her work, and hear her expla nations under all circumstances, until sh * gets a good idea of the system. It is weeks before she is intrusted with any de finite responsibility, and even then she is usually on duty only during the slack hours, when one of the old employes can keep an eye on all she does. Und *r the new system, whereby a tiny elec tric light Hashes up when a subscriber <1 -sires to communicate with some one, there is far less strain upon the operator’s nerves than under the old plan, wherein the blare of the bells was constantly in her ears. Inasmuch as the light is extinguished the moment the subscrib *r has finished talking and hung up the receiver, the telephone girl need not continually bother to inquire: "Are you through?” and inasmuch as she is required to make few motions and ask fewer questions, she naturally accomplishes more in any given space of time.—Ledger Monthly. ernor states that the assessed valua tion of her property in 1909 is, in round figures. $49,060,000, an increase of $6,- ikhi . ooo over 1899. and within her limits there are still almost 6,000,000 acres of public lands subject to entry. The $49,- 000,000 of taxable valuation represents $135,000,000 of actual value of proper ty. The products of her farms, mines and factories In the fiscal year aggreg ated $75,000,000. She has 100,000 child ren enrolled in her public schools, with 2,000 in the higher educational institu tions. Her public school enrollment Is double that of this district. And there Is something marvelous in a 2,000 en rollment in institutions for liberal edu cation in a region that was a wilder ness eleven years ago. At 11:59 a. m. on April 22, 1889, there was not an inhabitant in Oklahoma, all the squatters having been expelled by the United States troops. At sun- Bet of that memorable day Oklahoma contained 50,000 inhabitants. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the opening day a bank with $50.000 capital was es tablished in a tent at Guthrie, a town born a few minutes earlier. The sow ing of 100,000 acres of wheat began that day and towns by the score were staked out before sunset. The next day schools were established and churches were in process of erection— not very stately structures, but mag nificent attestations of the spirit of the pioneers. On May 22, 1889, Just a month after the opening day, a conven tion assembled In Guthrie to form a provisional government. One year aft er the opening President Harrison signed the bill which created the terri tory of Oklahoma. The census of 1890 showed a population of 61,000. In ten years those figures have expanded to 400.1X10. Who will venture to fix a limit to the progress and prosperity of Oklahoma when, with the suiterb lands of the In dian territory annexed, she takes her place in tlie family of states?—Wash ington Post. DRAWING THE WATER OFF. Ancient Mexican Mine» Are Systematically Drain? I. Being In the richest mining district of Mexi co, that of Guanjuato, an interesting operation Is approaching completion, the opening by a company of New York capitalists of an ancient gold mine which has not been worked for nearly a century. This mine is known as the Slrena. and from it probably came some of the gold which went to make up the treasure of the Montezu- tnus. There are authentic records of its having been worked ns far back as 1559, when the Spaniards dug from It a part of that gold which glided the vast empire of Charles V. In the war which resulted In the Independence of Mexico the ancient mine was abandoned and flooded. It was known from the old re cords that the wealth of the mine had not been exhausted entirely, and il was believed that with modern meth ods of mining it would pay well to open it again. But it was an engineer Ing work of great magnitude, for the rather crude chart of the old mine showed nine miles of workings. Finally an American company was formed to undertake the Job. It has taken two years of constant labor with powerful electric pumps to remove the water already in the workings and fight the incoming flow. The water was 1.000 feet deep when the work was first begun—now it Is less than 400 feet. Just how much of the work ings remains to be uncovered and what there is beyond no one knows. Record keeping and chartmaking wen* done In primitive fashion by the ear ly Mexican miners. As the clearing of ths mine has ad vanced curious relics have come to light In one place, far below the surface, the workmen found a stable half filled with the skeletons of men and mules. They had been caught there by some neglect or by deliberate design when the mine was flooded and drowned in their dark prison house. The Slrena Is the first of the old flood ed mines of the district to be drained. The success which has attended the at tempt to reopen this mine has been such that work has been begun upon the reclamation of several other of the rich mines of tlie neighborhood. A German syndicate is at work upon the PERSIA'S FUTURE SHAH. famous Valenclana mine, out of which Prince Mohammed All Mlrzi Paid to many years ago great treasure was Be Under Kusalan Influence, taken by the Mexicans. Another mine .England will hardly be pleased at the in the Veta Madre vein, which runs news that the future Shah of Persia, through the district, once yielded the King of Spain $17,000,000 in royalties. Prince Mohammed All Mirza, has ap plied to the Czar of An attempt will be made to clear this Russia for a tutor, mine. The feasibility of removing the and that a Russian water from these abandoned mines scholar, S. M. Shap- lias been under discussion since the sal, has been seat time of Humboldt, who had a scheme from St. Petersburg for draining them by means of a giant to Teheran, the Per tunnel. sian capital, to under A Timely Hiss. take the instruction At Cape Town, Just prior to the out of the Prince for the ALt MIRZA. break of the present war, a lion tamer next three years, was going through a performance in a The placing of the future Shah under cage with a full-grown lion lately- Russian influence is especially signifi caught Suddenly It was seen that the cant in view of the fact that the present brute was rather putting the trainer Shah is not expected to live many through his paces than being put I years, even if he does not abdicate his through itself. Softly crouching and throne within the next few months. creeping, the big cat edged Itself be Several times it has been reported that tween the now thoroughly unnerved the Shah had become insane, but he has man ajid the door of the den. fixing Its so far been able to hold his power w ith victim with two rolling orbs of flaming out serious difficulty. The Crown ferocity, and sawing the empty air Prince has sixteen brothers of royal with its tufted tall, as it crouched pre descent, besides others whose mothers paratory to springing. are not of the royal clan, and as the Many men among the audience, used law of primogeniture does not neces to the ways of wild beasts, saw, and sarily hold in Persia, It is possible that comprehended; but only one man pos he may need some strong outside influ sessed the knowledge and the presence ence to aid him in securing possession of mind to avert the apparently inevi of the throne at the death or abdication table. Pursing up his lips ns though of his father. In addition to holding lie were going to whistle, he emitted n the key to British India, on which Rus hoarse, low, rasping hiss. sia is supposed to have designs, the The beast heard and understood—or Shah is the possessor of a private for thought it did—for the sound was an tune of more than $200,000,000, most exact Imitation of the noise made by of it in the shape of precious stones, tlie giant constrictor when its huge which are kept in glass jars so that he body is coiled for the throw that never may keep close track of It and cut off misses, that never relaxes, and that no a few heads If the jars lose too much beast of the field is strong enough to of their contents at any time. withstand. Again, and yet again, the Be Like Papa. raucous sound rasped the stillness, and A local gentleman of prominence has the angry brute drew back Its head, its great eyes grew,small and dull, the become famous for his wonderful self- hackles rose and stiffened on Its back, conceit. He thinks Mr. — is a little bit and it cowered whining on the floor of nicer and brighter and more moral than any other man in the city. His the cage. wife has circulated a story about him How Snake Poison Kill». that almost breaks his heart The action of poisous upon the sys He was teaching his little boy to tem is and always has been one of the pray, and the little fellow, pursuant to most Interesting of subjects. Just how his father’s words, had requested the and why it kills has but just been de blessing for everyone. termim'd through a series of experi “Pray for little boys like yourself," ments made by scientists. The follow said the parent. “Ask that they may ing description is unquestionably the grow up like your papa.” And the little boy prayed that all boys best and most lucid of any that have been given to the public: “The venom should grow up to be great men like may be roughly separated into two his father.—Louisville Commercial. parts—one acting upon the blood, and "Mistress of HerselT.'• the other upon the nerves. When in A man has no moral right to sit on the jected it Immediately begins to create edge of a tiled hearth and balance a terrible destruction in the blood vessels, Sevres plate (not to be matched for love the walls of the veins are eaten away or money) on his knees, yet this was and an internal hemorrhage takes what a famous Illustrator did—till be place. When this is going on a portion dropped it. of the venom is attacking the nerves. "What have I done?” he asked, al Particularly susceptible to its ravages though the proverbial “thousand is the 'vasomotor' system, a nerve cen pieces" were plainly visible at bis feet. ter which controls the muscles of res “Merely destroyed a plate—which is piration. Paralysis takes place In these quite In a great artist's line.” returned organs, and the victim generally dies his hostess, with a smile that even her from an inability to breathe.”—New husband afterward admitted was far York Ledger. too fine for every-day use. Fortune is usually seen in the com A man dislikes attention until It la pany of industry and charity. , about to be taken away from him.