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KUUUTH FAILS REPUBUGAN KLAMATH FALLS ... OREGON so far that the prevailing haldt In Amerli-a among the millionaires of car rylng around with them a whole jewel ry shop and of la-lug robbed of their wares continually will fall Into desue tude. Agitation rea|>ectlng the enfon-euient Guard well your thoughts, Thought* of the aocalh-d poison laws regulating make the man. the sale of deadly drugs Inevitably re calls the familiar but truthful otaerva Tennessee has luatltut«! a new pro- lion respecting the futility of attempt radure In lyn«-hlng a man out of a uew ing to make i-eople virtuous by act of trial. parliament It Is certain that the sale or use of |>olsons cannot be appreela Home la the place where we can bly diminished by any law that can wear the old allppera and slipshod l-e frame-!. The reason Is evident manners enough. Two classes of people-other The Andrew- Carnegie has come out for than physicians—buy polaona. spelling reform, but not bard enough first and most numerous class Is com posed of victims of drug addictions, to write It Karnagt. . such as the morphine habit and the More than 5,000,000 persons are at chloral habit These people "know the sea dally, exclusive of those who are ropes" In the matter of procuring the guessing when work will begin on the poisons which they use. They either have a physician's prescription or they Panama canal. can write prescriptions for themselves Only these w h,« an« l»hlnd the «-en««* ■clenttata say there la no such thing and there Is no law najulrlng an afli have any nd«iuat<* Idea of ttw> extent as an equinoctial storm. Oh, well, that davit or a notary's certificate with each to w hich canl playing la Injuriously af- The kind of a storm by any other name Is prescription calling for poison. f«-ting Inrg»« section* of society. Men drug users are shrewd and acute and just as disagreeable. I they can and do find means to get the and women wtxiae lives are spent In noble work and servira would firn! It After all, Esperanto^ whtvh has been powerful na root Ira that have become difficult to believe that there Is a huge adopted as a "language" by the Lon nci-cssary to them. No law wtll reach army of human beings wh«>ae days as don Chalutier of Commerce, looks as these unfortunates. The other class of well as nights art* given up to gam l>eople who waut to purchase deadly well as any cable coda. bling over tlie game of "bridge;" but drugs Is made up of would be suicides the fact 1» so. How- widespread the American automobilista contemplat The Impossibility of keeping the means erase is mry 1» judged from the fact ing a trip to Italy ahould secure a com of self-destruction out of their bands that tlie Blabop of Simla has preache«! plete outfit of armor-plate touring suits, must be evident to anybody who reads and publisli««d a sermon on the evil, the dally newspapers. The man who Is with rapid fire batterlee. and that a current English monthly bent upon suicide will accomplish his review devotes space to an Investiga The new Rockefeller baby is said end m spite of any preventive measures tion of the eff«'ts of bridge-playing that can be devised. What is more to to be worth »100,000,000 for every up«m the brain. Our land Is In the pound he weighs. I«ota of us would be the purpose Is the circumstance that the midst of strenuous times, and It Is ¡»laona most commonly employed by willing to undertake a load like that pitiable to think that In these days suicides are sold with little or no re of historic omen there are thousand* Olga Netheraole is going to study striction. A man may not buy arsenic, of grown up p««ple who can fin«! noth medicine and try to find a cure for for example, but he can buy rat poison ing better to «io with their time than tuberculosis. This should make her containing enormous quantities of that to devote It- afternoon an«! evening press ageut's work comparatively easy. drug. He cannot purchase a grain of alike -to gambling over a pack of strychnine, but be can buy a pint or a cards. A man who secured a marriage 11- quart of somebody's "elixir” containing A contemporary twonls that two la cense five years ago has Juat led the enough strychnine to kill a reglmeut. Of dies, whose names are given, have ar- girl to the altar. Her father must wuat avail are the "¡»¡son laws” un ranged to spend from to I-Rl.OOO have t-eeu patient about settling gas der such circumstances? And even if each upon "a London season of notable the sale of poisons were absolutely stop bills. splendor amt lavish ex|«endlture.” An ped bow would the situation be Improv A New York lawyer who admitted ed when cheap revolvers are easily ob estimate of the Items of the outlay Is that he charged a client »115 for col tained with which half the population given, and It Is noteworthy that In one lecting a AW bill was told by the could make Its quietus If suicidally dis of these two cases "actual entertain Judge that be was a disgrace to the posed? There Is no restriction upon the ing" Is set down as «»sting from fS.Otk' bar. The protw fee. of course, was J3U. sale of pistols and lakes and rivers fur to £10,000. Amidst su«-h a vision of sinful luxury as these figures call up. nish lethal facilities for people who It must not be forgotten that It was have not money with which to buy one It Is lmf««Mslble not to be haunted by absolutely Impossible for the man who of the cheap pistols. The whole matter tbe pallid fa«-e of Ioixarus at the gate, declared that fine words butter no may be summed up with tbe statement or to push aside the refl«-tlon that psranlps to have any adequate under that while It Is unquestionably proper there will ultimately be a solemn audit standing of the comprehensive scope of to restrict the sale of poisons the pres of this abuse of wealth In a city which has Its huge army of tlie famishing.— the modern jolly. ent laws are not likely to have much London Christian. effect In that direction. In this as In A prominent lawyer asserts that wom similar matters the work of reform The Boll«Hag Power ot Confldra«*«. en are to blame for 80 per cent of the must begin with tbe Individual. If We cannot help one In wbom we divorce cases. However, It will cer there are no drug "fiends” or would- have no confidence. Therefore we must tainly not be denied that the women are be suicides there will t-e no necessity have confidence In many a one who to blame for an even greater percent for poison laws. So long as there are gives little evidence of being worthy age of the marriages. such persons tbe laws will be of little >t our confidence. And It la always avalL possible to find something to build upon, It may freely be admitted that the and to build with. In the moot unprom majority of drugs—perhaps all drugs— TOO CAREFUL OF THE HAIR. ising of our fellow-creatures. It takew have a psychical as well as a physical Made l-rematarelr power, of course, to discern the glimmer value. Cures by suggestion, conscious Cwlleate Girls of worth in that which Is debas«l ami Gray by Eseesalve Shampoos. or unconscious, aloue or in association The non-colleglate woman who hnd unworthy. Campbell Morgan, when ex with drugs, are uudeulably brought just returned from a three days' visit pressing bls ci>nfi«!en«e In the r«!etnp- about - — to her sister at a woman's college bad tire pisslbllltles of men. Interrupted Olga Netheraole Is suing a paper for not got over marveling at tbe ways of himself with the question, 'Then you flOU.OUU because It said all her plays college girls. "But wbat Impressed and don't believe In total depravity T' “left nasty tastes In the memory." I^t shocked me most." she said, "was tbe “Yra." was the answer, "but I believe os hope that It may be decided, when unusual number of gray-balred girls. that the thing depraved Is a great the case comes to trial, whether the Of course. I don't mean entirely gray, thing." What was made In God's Im memory Is or Is not provided with a but no streaked with It that It was age can. by tlie Savior’s miracle, be noticeable. It made no difference rest««r«l to God's Image. >There la tbe tongue and a palate. whether the tresses were brown or yel ground of our confidence. So long as the newspapers merely al low. tltlan or black, there were the The 9eer«t Working» of the Heart. leged that members of Congress franked gray streaks Just the same. Of course, "The outward character and conduct pianos, beds, dining room furniture and there were beautiful beads of hair that —the whole moral life with all Its In rarrlagea through tlie malla there was looked as young ami fresh as they ward exi>eriences ami outwanl mani no protest, but when one said that a should, but In a group of twenty girls festations—Its Inward spirit and Its row had been sent In that way the I actually counted thirteen whose hair outwnrd Influence, Is but the outflowing House committee on postotflces called was turning gray rapidly. Their hair or development of tlie silent thoughts, It was well the editor up to explain that there are did not look neglected. the secret feelings, nml the hidden prin kept and glossy, but there were more limits. gray hairs than a girl of 30 should ciples the heart lias cherished and With almost no preliminary blare of l ave. It did not seem as If tliey could quickened from the germ Into matur trumpets Mexico, after an expenditure be caused by worry, for college girls Ity, and bloseomlng and fruitage. A of $35,000,1100. baa opened an Interocean are not given to worrying, so I thought ¡-erson's characteristic, and their con railroad line acroea the Isthmus of Te maybe the strenuous life of work and sequence to himself and to society, all have their ts-glnnlng In tlie sentiments, huantepec and Is reaching out on both ¡-lay was resjionslble. rides for International trade. Mr. Wal “The matron of tbe dormitory had thoughts, feelings, ns tlie flowing stream lace the other day advised Americana a different theory. 'It's because the and Hilling river Isnue from tlie high to keep an eye on thia railway, and It girls never leave tlielr hair alone,' she land spring. Hen«» tlie extreme n«-ea- certainly will be a rival to the Panama said. They wash their tresses once a slty of a careful, constant vigilance eanal, with the advantage of perbai>s week and sometimes twice a week over the secret workings of the heart and the silent musings of the soul. right or ten years the start. Come with me and I'll show you.’ Tbe habit of keeping bunches of J100 bills In shoe boxes In bedroom closets up to 122.000 1* not to be commended It la unsafe to keep over *20,000 In the house, though doubtless many Kansas farmers grow careless through handling their Increasing wealth and do not real ise b«>w large a *um they have on hand. It la a g«x«d plan for fanner* to count their money every week or two and depoatt all abov* *20,000 In some good bank. Much of tbe feeling against motor cars In the country U due to a dlsre- gard. or an apparent disregard, of the rights of others. The feeling would melt rapidly If all automoblllats under stood human nature as well as one man In Missouri. On the back of his ma chine Is a large sign, “Thank you!” When a farmer has pulled out at one aide of a narrow road to let the auto mobile get by, and then, looking after It a little crossly, perhaps, sees that sign, ho smiles and feels better. Other motorists In tlie same region have adopt ed the plan, and now. It Is said, the fanners will even pull an automobile out of a bole without making aarcastlc remarks about the superiority of horse Sash to gasoline. Sensible Americans are disposed to laugh when they read that King Ed ward of England has thrown the world of extreme fashion—those who live for tailors and dressmakers—Into a turmoil by changing the crease In his tniusern, but they will be dlsi-osed to applaud Queen Alexandra If her latest example prove the vogue. The vulgarity of the display of diamonds and other gewgaws has become outrageous In England. Therefore the Queen Is frowning upon the barbarous display and is setting the example and the fashion by wearing studiously simple ornaments, such as a little brooch or small collar. These modest ornaments shine conspicuously by coutrast with the coronets, ropes, sunbursts and "tararas." I«et us hope that tbs fashion of simplicity will go “She took me around to tbe back of tbe building, and there banging out of a number of windows, In tlie sun shine, were several beads of hair. The sight was as grewaome as a Blue beard's chamber. The matron said It could be seen every day In the week, and was tbe end of tbe shampoo—tbe drying process. "Those girls simply wear their hair out, and that’s all there la to it,' she Insisted, and It really seems as If It were tlie only practical solution of the mystery."—New York Press. Asrtrultural Politics. A young farmer who had been elect ed to a western state legislature, and Instructed to follow the lead of the state central committee of hla party, was recently taken to task by some of hla constituents for voting against • "party” measure. “My friends,” he replied, "when I was a tioy one of our neighbors got a new hired man—a chap from the city. One day he took hhn out to a pasture lot and set him to turning the sod un der. "'You start in here.’ he said, ‘and plow right to that old red cow.’ "Then be went off about bls work. Toward noon be came back to nee how the fellow was getting along, and found be had plowed a rambling furrow all over the field, and was still at It "'Here!’ be shouted. ‘What do you mean by that sort of work?’ " ’Why,’ said the man, ’you told me to plow to that red cow, and I've been plowing toward her all morning, but she keeps walking at? over the field.’ "Now, I’ll admit, gentlemen, that you told me to plow to a red cow, and I should like to have you, as farmers, compare my furrows with that cow's trail.” What baa become of tbe old-faablon- ed woman who described having lost her temper by saying, ”1 Just rar'd around?" There la a sea sickness on land, too; people are sick to go to sea. I la Christ. In Christ I feel the heart of God Throbbing from heaven through earth; Life stirs again within the clod: Renewed in beauteous birth. The soul springs up, a flower of prayer, Breathing his breath out on the air. In Christ I touch the hand of God, From hie pure height reached down, By blessed way. before untrod. To lift us to our crown;— Victory that only perfect Is Through loving sacrifice, like his. Holding his hand, my steadied feet May walk the air, the seas; On life and death his smile fall, sweet— Lights up all mysteries: Stranger nor evil can I be In new world, where he leadatb me. —Lucy Larcom. • Hsnallltg. We In our pride are apt to think that to humble ourselves la to lie forced to an unwilling surrender, a bard nacea- slty of submission. But with our gra cious Father, to bumble Is not to hu miliate. The true nnd ta-st humanity la that which love wins from us ns the sunshine nnd soft breath of spring woo the flowers from the lie-lgcrow. Of old, when <exl would humble Israel, He fed them with angel's food, or. as It Is rendered In the margin, "Every one did eat the bread of tlie mighty.”—Psalm Ixxvllf: 25.—Mark G. Pearse. Purpose of Life Fulfilled. If there la a special form and an un seen purjaise to every life, then there Is always tlie ho|»e, that though the form may t>e broken, the purpose of the Iff«- may yet fulfil Itself In some other day, even in spite of—nay, through the breaking of tlie form.— Phillips Brooks. Art In the Living Preaent. Opportunity la a ally creature, and does not wait long for any hesitant aouI to make up Its mind to follow its leading. "Come with me and I will do you good!” says Opportunity, "and al ways adds Immediately, "Come now!” There Is no optsirtunfty for tomorrow, but only for today. Tbe fragments of ability and favorable o>vwelon 11. all al-out as did tin- bits of broken bread which fell on the gn-em-wanl above tlul live when the Master had multiplied tlie loaves, but If they are not at once gathered up tliey will do-ay and ¡»rlali, and we shall go hungry and unaatlafiol Act now In the living present, ami the future shnll take can- of Itself. HeiMtiubtr the Ihluf. --------------------------------------- p For The Term of Kis Natural Life ' By MAWCUH Cl.ARKB up bodily. As he <11.1 ao. Harker, «he had rel.iaded bl* uiuaket, fired <l»wu Into tbe cabin. Th* ball paeae«! through the atatervom door, a «id, epllulerlug th* wo « k 1, burled Iteelf close to the golden curie of poor little Hylvla. It we* their halr-bres.lth eeeape which drew from th* agouls«l mother that shriek which, peal- lug through the open etsru window*. ha«l roused th* soldier* lu th* boat. Hex. who by tbe virtu* of hl* dandy lam* yet poaa*ss*l ««me abliorrom-e of useleea crime, Imeglii«! that tlie cry was one of pelu, and that Barker'* bullet ha«l taken deadly eff«-t. "You've killed the child, you vlllalu!" he cried. "What'a the <>«IJ*F* asked Barker, sulkily. "Hhs must die auywey, sterner or later." Ilex put hl* head down the skylight, amt call«l on Bates to surrender. but | Batea ouly drew hie other pistol "Would you commit mur«ler?" he *sk«'«l. I«*>klng . rouml with desperation lu hie glance. "No, mi," erletl some of the men, will Ing to blink the death of puor Jouea, : "It'a no use making things worse than they are. Bbl him come up ami we'll do him no harm.” "('««me up, Mr. Batea," aaya lies, "and I give you my wortl you ahau'l be Injured.” "Will you eet the major'* lady and rhlhl ashore, then?" ask«! Bates, sturd ily facing ths «-owllng brows b I hivs him. ' Yes." Batea, hoping agttliial hope for the r« turn of th«« boat, endeavor«! to galu time. "Shut down the skylight, theu.” aald he. with the ghost of an authority lu hie voice, "until I ask the lady." This, howevvr, John Ilex rofuee«l to do. "You can ask well enough where you are," he said. But there wae no m«cl for Mr. Batee to put a queelhm The d«s«r of the etate- room open«!, ami Mrs Y'lchers appear*«!, trembling, with Hylvla by her aide. “A« cept, Mr. llatee." ehe eald. "since It must l«e so We ehould salt« nothing by refusing We are at their mercy—God help ua!” “Amen to that," enjs Hsfee under tile breath; *ml then, aloud, "We agree!" 'Tut your plat««!* on th* table and com* up. then," aaya Itex, covering tbe table* with hie musket a. he spoke. “Nobody shall hurt you." Mr*. Vickers, pal* ami sick with iw- ror, p*e«l rapidly under th. opeu sky- light, am! proper«! to aacend Hylvla clung to her mother with on* ban«!, am! with the other press«! riaee to bar Ilttl* lo.sotn the "English History " "Get * shawl, ma'am, or ««methlng.” aaya Bates, "amt a hat for missy." “Who's to conimamt the brig I h«wF' • sk«l undsunte«! Batea, a* th./ caute up. “! am." eaye John Ilex: "ami with these brave fellows I'll lake her round the world." "What are you going to do with us?” ask«! llatee "Leave you behind. Come, l««ofc stive there! Ixiwer away th* Jolly boat. Mrs. Vickers, go down t«> your cabin, ami get anything you want. I am compell«! to put you ashore, but t have no wish to leave you without cloth*«." Hates listen«!. In a aort of dismal admiration, at thle «»urtly con vict. II* «>ul<! not have *|e>k*n Ilk* that ha.l Ilf* depend«! on It. "Now, my Utile lady." «>ntlnu«l Iles, “run down with your mamma, ami d«*u't be fright- sued.” (To be rotillnn«!.) Botue of the roses that we gather CH AFTER Xll.—B'outluusd 1 luflusues of ths hour, snd lulled Into a along life's i-athway should be placed Ry and by. having eaten of thle udr esue* of false s«.-urlty, bail gons below In the hands of those who are yet aeuloue proven«!»M*. the poor creature be to 1*1) tils littl* playiuat* that she woul«l to understand what had taken place. soon b* OU hsr way to the Hobart Town walking with us. and we should not wait to strew all our flowers on their The real worhinge were abandoned, the « of which ahe Lad beard so much, and. new cixumaudant bad probably other taking advantage of hla at«eon«-o, the *ul- graves. work for hla beaete of burdeu to as. dler uot on guard went to the forwaatle cute, aud an abaevnder would be safe i to hear the prisoner* singing, lie found WOMAN’S LUMBER CAMP. here for a few hour» at least. llut ha the teu together, In high go«n! humor. tuuet not etay. For him there was ___ no While he llateiie.1 Janie* l.esly, William Orpaalaed I ears la Wilds of met r ’ _ If * bo thought to _______ escape« It bo- < heehire, William lluaavn. John Fair Mlssoarl—Has Hr*» I'roaiable. hooved hliu to commence hie jouruey at an«! Jamea Barker slipped to th* hatch "I met a woman away back In the once. Here waa provlelou for hla ueede. (Hark mountains of Arkansas a feu The food before him repreaented the way am! g««t upon deck Barker r*a«-h*d the aft hatchway aa the soldier who wae days ago who organised the first lum redone of all men. Waa It not poaalble on guard turned to complete hla walk, ts-r ramp In that section nml wh«> has to croea the deaert that lay between him and passing hla arm rouml hie nock. logged all the pine timber out of that and freedom on auch fare? The very pull*«l him down before ho ««ul«l utter territory,” said W. G. Archer, of auppoeltlon ma«!a hla heart beat faater • cry. In th«* «»nfuol«»n *»f the moment Owensboro, In the loulsvllle Courier It aurely waa poaalble. Twenty mile« a the man looae.1 hla grasp of the musket day waa very eaay walking. Taking a to grapple with hla unaoen antagonist, Journal. "She Is one of the moat ¡» piece of atick from the ground, he made ami hair, snatching up the weapon, culler characters of the State and Is the calculation In the aand. Klghtesn swore to blow out hla brains If ho raised now nearly 100 years of age. Not da ye. and twenty milea a day -Ihre. a finger. Seeing the sentry thus a* only baa she logged off the timber and hundrexl and ality milea. M--r. than cure«!, t heehire !eape,| down the after amassed a small fortune, but she still enough to take him to freedom. It could hatchway am! passe«! up the muskets lives In an old log cabin, far from any l*e done! With prudence. It eould be from the arm racks to L«»sly and Russen. human habitation, and she allows no done.' He must I»«* careful ami abat mu 1 hero were three muskets In addition attendant or servant to live about her loua. to the one taken from the sentry, ami Having come to this resolution, th. Barker, leaving hla prisoner In charge boue*. neit thing waa to disencumber himself of ! air. »else.I one of them an«! ran to "During Grant's first administration of hla Irene, This was more easily don. thia woman waa the wife of a German than he eapected. He found In the ahed the companion ladder. Rumen, left un arm«! by this maneuver, appear«! to diplomat living at 8t Louis. She was an Iren gad. and with that and a atone know hie own duty. Ila camo back to among the most prominent of the Ger he dreve out the rlveta. the forecastle, an.l passing behind the Before dawn the next morning he had listening soldier, touch«! the singer on man families of the city, but some serl ous chargee were made against her traveled ten milea. a ml by huabandlng the shouhler. This was the appoint«! husband's honesty, an«! they were hla ftwx! he aucceeded. by the night of signal, ami John Ilex, smldonly termln the fourth day. In aecompUahlng forty atlng his song with a laugh, present«! fore«! to flee the country. Taking more Foot-core and weary, he lay In a tie Ast In the face of ths gaping Grime* refuge In the mountains, tlie Iiusl«an«! thicket, and felt at laat that he waa be No noise!" ho crlo«!; "the brig's oura." soon died. yond pursuit. The next day he ad an,I ere Grimes could reply he was seise,I “Left to her own resources and with vanced more alowly. The path termln by Lyon and Riley and bound eecurely. out friends or money, tbe woman, tied In a glade, and at the bottom of “< omo on. lads!" eaye Ilex, "am! pass whose name Is Massie, was force«! to thle glade waa a miethlng that fluttered. the prisoner down hero. We've got her secure some meth«»! of llvellboix! Kufua Hawee preeaed forward, and time time, I II g,, ball!*' In ob«llem-e Io thio or*lsr. ths now gagg«! sentry wae learning that there waa a g>»x! de ■tumble»! over a rerpee! He recognised the number Imprinted flung down ths fore hatchway, and the mand for fine lumber In Missouri, she on the coaree cloth at that which bad hatch aecured. "»land on the hatch prepare«! to organise a logging camp dealgnited the younger of the two mon and amveede«l In taking the pine tlm who had escaped with Gabbett. He waa way. Porter." cries ltox again; "an.! If th.'ae fellows come up knock 'em down her from the mountain aide and haul ■tending on the place where a murder with a handspike. I*ely an«! Russen, Ing It to Kansas City and St. Ixiula. had been cxMntnltted! A murder! -and forward to the companion ladder! Lyon, Thia wna long before railroads were what else? Thank <;>«! the |gg| he keep a lookout for th* boat, am! If she constructed In the netghborbox!. an«! carried waa not yet exhausted! He comes t<w near. Are!" A* he spoke th* report of the Aral every log bail to l«e moved by mules or turned and fled, looking back fearfully aa ho went. musket rang out. Harker had apparent oxen. Craahing through scrub and brake, "Force,! to work with the roughest torn, blooding and wild with terror, ho ly fired up the companion-hatchway. When Mr. llatee had gone below, he men !n the West, the woman became reached a spur of the range, and lookosl found 8/lvla curled up on the <-us>.l..ns little less than a man herself and around him. Ho reload hla eyoe, and of tbe stateroom, reading. “Well, learn«! to govern her employee with right against him, like a long dull eword, missy ? ho oak!, "we'll «»*n be on our an Iron hand. Not a whisper concern lay the narrow atoel-blue roach of the way to papa." Ing tier Integrity ever escaped the harbor from which ho had ooeaped. Ono Sylvia answered by asking a queetlon darker apeck moved on the dark water altogether foreign to the subject. "Mr. mountains but once, and tbe bearer of It waa the (•«, « v making f«»r the Batea,” said ahe. puahlng the hair out the tale waa killed by her own hands Gate*. Lt teemed that ho reuld throw a "When she first went to the moun • tone upon her deck. A faint cry of rage of her blue ayes, “what'a a roracleF' "A which V ssk*l Mr. Ilaaea tains Mrs. Massie knew nothing but ooeaped hhn. I>uring the last throe days "A coracle. C-o-r a-c I *," said ahe. German. Foroed to learn English, she in the buah ho tnuat have retraces! hla spelling It slowly. "I want to know." ■tope, and returned upon hla own track picks«! up her knowle«!ge of the Ian The bewlldere.1 llatee ehook hla head. guage from the employes In the logging to the oettloment! More than half hla "Never heard of one, nitaay,1 said he. allottes! time had paaaod* and he was not camp. And what English It was! She bending over tbe book. “What doe* It yet thirty miles from hla prison. aayr was conscientious In her studl««s and For four days ho wandered aimleeoly soon learned the use of each word she through the buah. At laat. <»n the twelfth " Th* Ancient Britons.' " said Rylvla, heard. As large, expressive oaths aro day from hla departure from the Coal reeding gravely, “ ‘»•re little better than barbarian« ~ _ ______ ___ They painted ___ th.lr ____ belles the moat Important adjunct of logging Heed, ho found himself at the foot of CZ '31 ramp language, she naturally learn«! Mount Direction, at the head of the with woad'—that's blue stuff, you know. AN 1XECUTION BY QUILLOTINK. these In addition, not from choice but peninsula which makes the western aldo Mr Batee -'sn.l seat«! In their light ror aria* of skin stretch«! upon slender from circumstances, and to this day of the harbor. Hla terrible wandering wooden frame*, must have present«! a < ari Irhara l>»«rrlhe« a ■perfarle He she la unnble to talk half a doaen had but le«! him to make a complete wild end savage appearance.' " Witaeasud Whea a Hur. circuit of the settlement, and the next words without swearing profusely, "Well.'' cold Batee. "t think H'a a car A young mnn In Cologne liad mus night brought him round the ahnroe of her oaths are noticed she be riag*. mlasy. A sort of pheayton. as "If Birches Inlet to the landing place oppo- I dered tits sweetheart, nnd had I »en they call It." i-o me* much embarrassed nml will apol site Rsrah Island Hie stock of pro condemned to death The exi-cullon, Hylvla. hardly satisfied, return«! to >«!«• with tlie statement that she visions hsd hren exhsusts«! for two «lays. by the guillotine for the left bank the book. It was a little, mean-looking knows no other English and caunot sn<1 he was sava*. with hnnxer III no of the Rhine wna atlll uuder the ('«»Is longer thought of snlcl«le. Ills lorn- volume—a “Child's History of England” help IL” Napoleon waa to take ¡«lace at dawn Inant Iflea waa now to get foo«L Hi —and after perusing It * while with knitted brow*, eh* buret Into a childish of day In a public square between AS TO THOSE FLYING FISH. would do as many others ha<! dons be laugh. the cathixlral am! the Rhine, nod l«a- fore him—give himself up to he fl.>gge«t Aeatrlee and Knallsh Asfborltlen "Why, my dear Mr Bataa!" ahe cried, fore the eyre of all who might chooaa and f*I. When ho reached the landing Talas Entirely Oppnalln Views. place, however, ths guan! house was waving the history above her head In to witness IL The trial hnd excited are! Two papers on the eternal flying fish empty. He looked scr«>sa at ths Island triumph, “what a pair of g*«s. the whole ¡«opulntlon to n high degree; problem have appeared almost alniultn prl*«n. and saw no sign of Ufa. Ths A carriage! Oh. you *111/ man! It's * now the people lookul forwnnl to the boat!" neously and express widely diverse settlement was deserted! final catastrophe with almost morbid "la Itr aald Mr. Bate*, tn admiration The ehock of thle dlsrovery almrat de views. Interest My locksmith guardian was that of th* Intelligence of hla companion. In tlie one published In tlie Jabrbuch prlv*! him of reason. For days, ___ "Who'd ha’ thought that nowY' ami he of the opinion that neither he nor I ha<! seemed centuries, ho had kept Ilfs of the Austrian geological survey Dr. In hla jaded an«l lacerated body solely waa about to laugh al««, when, raising should miss the opportunity of be Abel, after describing tlie various kinds by the strength of his florc* determina his eyes, h* saw In the open doorway holding so rare a spectacle. of fossil flying flab. concludaa that tion to reach the eettlenient; and now th* flgure of James Barker, with a mns I zing before sunrise ho awoke me, neither the typical flying fish nor the that he had reached It, after a journey ket In hie hand. am! together wo wont to the place of "Hallo! What's thle? What do you flying gurnards ever use tlielr pectoral of unparalleled horror, he found It de execution In the gray morning light fins us active organs of flight. On th«- serted. He struck hlmaelf to see If ho do here, air?” We foun«t there a dense crowd,’ num "Horry to disturb yer," aaya the ron contrary, tlie Initial lni|»tus by means was not dreaming. He reftisad to be tiering thonanndn of men, women nnd of which these fishes are launched Into lieve hie eye-elghL Ho shouted, scream«! vlct, with a grin, "but you must come children. Above them loomed the and waved hlo tattered garments In the along o' mo, Mr. Beto*." the air is due entirely to powerful, air. Batea, at once romprehsndlng that black scaffold of the death machine. screw like movements of the tall fin. anti At last the dreadful truth forced Itself ««me terrible misfortune had occurred, Heep silence reign«!; only a low buna this lnq>etua fa sufficient to carry them upon him. He retired a few paces, and did not loee his praoenc* of mind. On* floated over the multitude when ths to the end of their Journey, tlie "wings" then, with a horrible cry of furious de. of the cushions of the eonch wee under condemned man appear«! on the scaf acting merely as ¡«arachutes. In other pair, stumbled forward toward th. e-lg. his right hand, and snatching It up. he fold. nnd then nil was silence again. words, tlie fight Is precisely similar to of the little reef that fringed ths shore. flung It acroea the little cabin full In The sturdy locksmith hriil me up tn that of a fist stone when thrown so as Just as he was about to fling himself th* far* of th* *er*p«l prisoner. The hla arms, so that I might look over to ricocliet from the points where It for the swoon«! time Into the dark water, soft mae* struck the man with force the beads of the crowds In front. his eyes, sweeping In a last long look eufllclent to blind him for an Instant touches the water uutll It finally falls. around the hay. caught eight of a strange Th* musket exploded harmlessly In the The condemned culprit steppe«! for In tlie second paper, published In tin- appearance on the left horn of the are air; and. sr* th* astonished Barker coul<! ward; the assistant of the execution Annals and Magaxlne of Natural His beach. A thin blue streak, uprising recover hl* footing. Bate* had burled er strapped him to a board which ex tory, the author, Lieutenant Colonel ('. from behind the western arm of the little him ont of th* cabin, and. crying "Mati tended from hla fest to his shoulders, 1». Duniford, takes precisely the op|«> Inlet, hung In ths etlll air. It was the ng!" locked th* caMn-door on th* Ineld* free; the victim Th a noise brought out Mrs. Vickers from leaving hla neck site view, maintaining, on mechanical smoke of a fire. The dying wretch felt Inspired with her berth, snd th* poor Ilttl* student of glanced at the ax, annpcndc<l from a grounds, that the aeroplane theory, as English history ran Into hsr arm*. crossbeam; the next Instant lie was the atiore may lie calks!, la an absolute new hops. God had sent him a direct "It's a mutiny, ma'am,” said Bats*. push«! down no hla neck lay under sign from heaven. The tiny column of physical Impossibility owing to tlie fn«1 bluish vapor seemed to him aa glorious “Go back to your cabin and lock the the gleaming blade; tlie ax fell like that the wing surface Is far too small a* ths pillar of firs that led the Israel door. Those bloody vllllan* have risen a flash of lightning, severing the In proportion to the si»- and weight of ite*. There were yet human beings near on aa! Maybe It ain't *o bad aa It hem! from the shoulders at a whisk. tlie body to sustain the fish during Its him! And turning hi* face from the looks; I've got my pistol* with me, and A stream of blood spurtti! Into Ilia hungry ssa, he tottered, with the last Mr. Frers’ll hear the shot anyway long flight air, but the hideous sight was quickly This being admitted, the only altema effort of his falling strength, toward ths Mutiny! On deck thers!" h* crle«! at the full pitch of hl* voice, and his brow concealed from th«« gave of the |>irb- tire Is to supi-ose that tlie "wings’’ are blessed token of thslr presane*. grsw damp with dismay whan a mocking lie by a dark cloth, Tlie whole <l«*ed moved with an exceedingly rapid vi laugh from abov* waa th* only response CHAPTER XIII. wna done with the rapidity of bratory motion throughout tlie whole Thrusting th* woman and chll>! Into Frers had gons on a brief Ashing si <»ne scarcely became con- flight and are thus, after the first Ini pedltlon. At last a peremptory elgnal the etste berth, the bewilder«! pilot thought. tial Impetus, the pro|ielllng power. The warned him. It was the sound of a mus cocked a pistol, and snatching a cutlass aclotis of the terrible ahock before author further maintain* that tlie wing ket fired on board ths brig. Mr. Batea from th* arm-stand flxsd to th* butt of It waa over. A dull murmur nrose movements which many observers have was getting Impatient, and with a scowl th* mast which psnstratsd th* cabin, from the onlooklng throngs, after dispersisi; the noticed when a flying fish touches a Frere drew op hla lines, and ordered the h* burst open the <!oor with hie foot, ami which they silently rushed to the companion-ladder. Barker scaffold wna taken down nnd the wave are not movementa de novo, but two soldiers to pull for the vessel. The Osprey yet sat motlonleae on the had retreated to th* deck, and for an blood on the ground cover«-«! with aaml merely such a slowing down of the water, and her bare masts gave no sign Instant he thought th* way waa clear, before the first rays of th«« morning continuous rapid vibrations as to ren of making salL To the soldiers, pulling hut Lealy and Russen thrust him back der them visible to the eye. If Colo with their backs to her, the mueket-ehot with the miisslM of the loaded muskets. sun shone brightly upon the cnth<«dnil nel Ilurnford's mechanical data are seemed the moat ordinary occurrence In He etruck at Russen with the cutlass, towers. I remember walking home shudder trustworthy—as they seem to be—hie the world. Suddenly, however, they no missed him, and, seeing the hopelessness ing and trembling, and finding It Im ticed a change of expression In the sullen of tbs attack, waa fain to retreat. case option ra to tie proved. In th* meanwhile, Grlmee and th* oth possible to eat my breakfast. Nothing The next point, however, to ascertain face of their commander. Frere, sitting er soldlsr had loosed thsmaslvsa from coul<! have Induced me to witness an Is whether the muscles which work the In the stern-sheets, with hla face to the Osprey, had observed a peculiar appear their bonds, and encouraged by the fir other execution.—McClure's Mngnxlne. pectoral tins of flying fish are really ance on her decks. The bulwarks were ing which seemed to them a sign that capable of Imparting to them tlie power every now and then topped by strange all wae not yet lost, mads shift to force DlfTerenf. of maintaining these rapid nnd contin figures, who disappeared as suddenly as up th* fore-hstrii. Porter, whose cour Rhe had said "yes" and he wna tak uous vibrations which are the essential they cams, and a faint murmur of voices age was none of the flerceet, and who had been for ysar* given over to that ing the measure for the solitaire. part of the new theory.—London Field. floated across the Intervening sea. I’res "Darling,” he aald, “you are th* ently tbe report of another mueket-ehot terror of discipline which servitude In He find listelllsenee. schoed among the hills, and Somsthing duces, mad* but a feeble attempt at r« only woman I ever propoaed to.” A gentleman who happened to la* dark fell from the aids of ths veesel •latance, and forcing the handspike from "I'm afraid you have a ¡mor mem- Frere, with mingled him, th* sentry, Jon**, rushed aft to help ory, dear,” she needing a resourceful boy, says a writer Into the water. in 11 u rejoined. *u I» »In Aft ® ® "You MZ , » • • f I f 11 ’ th* pilot. As Jons* reach«! th* waist, alarm and Indignation, aprung to hla In the New York Tribune, was In n told me you had b««n engaged to ■ feet, and, shading hla eyes with hla hand, Cheshire, a cold blooded, blue-eyed man. drug atore one day when a shabby Grime* fell over th* widow." looksd towaril the brig. The soldiers, shot him dead. urchin entered. "True,” he refilled, "but th't win resting on their oars, Imitate«! hla ges corpse, am! (Iheahlr* clubbing the mns The boy advanced boldly to the clerk, ture, and the whaleboat, thus thrown ket coolly batters«! hla he*«! as h* lay, during leap year.” took a small carnal'a-halr brush from out of trim, rocked from aide to side and then sailing th* body of the unfor »k. Supplied Them. dangerously. A moment'» anxious pause, tunate Jones In hla arma, toaaed It Into his pocket, and said: Tragedian I hear Hint Rowland "Here, smell this an’ gimme ten and then another musket shot, followed the sea. "Porter, you lubber!” he cried, cents' worth. I've forgotten the name.” by a woman's shrill scream, explains«! exhauated with the effort to lift the Rantts went out on a tour thnnigh the all. The prisoners had arise«! the brig! body, "come am! bear a hand with thle West. Tbe clerk smiled, smelled, snd took Porter advanc«! aghaat; "Give way!” cried Frere. pale with rage other one!” Comedian—Yea, lecture tour, I lie- down the lodln bottle. The bystander and apprehension, and the soldiers, real hut just then another occurrence claimed llcvs. hired the hoy on the spot ised at once the full terror of their po- the villain's attention, ami poor Grimes' Tragedian—I thought It was trag sotlon, force«! the heavy whale boat life waa apar«l for that time. A woman's Idea of a model husband through the water as fast as the one Rex. Inwardly raging at thle unexpect- edy. How did It happen to lie a leo- la one who takes bouse cleaning phll* I Arable'pair of oar. c.mi’i take hZr. «! reelatanee on the part of the pilot. ture tour?” sopblcally. > Mr. But«», affected by th« Inaidluua Hung himself uu lb* skylight, and lure II Comedian— Ills wife went along.