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Woman The Mystery
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By HENRY
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GHAPTJHt I.
IC wn Jn Paris, ax the last of thoae
ticttn fatnt dam In Jw, ISIS, and the
Xqd 8t. Jacqilert was a pandanwnirtm.
Th whole street wan oae long lino of
Wsdcndea made f atonea, timber, aver
tarncd wagona and handcarts, barrel,
fsrnlturc mythJasr, lu fact, deaporate
mmx could lay UheJc hauda ra and pile
V high a a breimtTrork.
Overhead die fierce June mm blaeed
a a cloudless aky, and the oldier pant
4 with the parching heart, their faces
fckek with powdw, their uniforms torn
ttvahredfl. Shirt-alcered and bareheaded,
Any fought ou, leaving no man alive
adhere the had panned.
Wihlle the satanic din roared and
waited In the Btrcwt below, an old man
at on ilia top floor of a nmnll, tumble
aown building at the back of one of the
wanwt ihouaes. lie wna tall nud thin.
A. girl of some sixteen or aoventeen sum
Bern, aa frail In figure aa the mnn, with
face wblch aa yot Rare but little np
tarent pxomiae of a beauty to come but
for a curious glitter in a pair of big,
4eap-bluo eyes, crouched In a corner of
4fae room, holding her handa to her earn.
Tho tnan rose ajt last Ilia right leg
was paralyzed, and he dragged It along
EJnfulIy nnd awkwardly aa he walked,
a limped slowly to the cloned door, and
Utttcned.
"Thoy are coming nearer," he gasped,
wbile Ida fiace grew whiter and hia eyes
flittered feverishly. "They are coming
roT. Tliey will Id 11 me like a dog,
Mkn -a to, Hke a sanke!"
The giul rose and went to hlra and
tkrmt her white arms around Ida neck
aad clung to him.
"Thoro may bo an eacane," he whla.
PTd, tioaraely. "Surely they will not
UN an old man' Uko you, who ia unarmed
tm can do no harm."
"t know better," foe growled. "They
fcav not forgotten that my 'Song of the
treeto' wna sung in every wine whop.
9Sey will kill me, nnd there, I do not
dnd. One or two bayonet thruats, and
hero will bo an end. I have lived long
auh in tlrta world; I am tired of be
ing hunted and of dragging myHelf from
cellar to roof, and from roof to cellar."
She clung to him again and kiaaed hia
cold Hp. An Instinctive whudder crept
twough him at tho touch, and ho panted,
a wit1' ono convulsive and ncnrly agon
tied clutch he gripped her by tho Hhoul
ec and loolcod into her big eyoa.
I nm not bo very terrible?" he ques
tioned, with a foveriah tremor. "Aju I
wolf or a tiger?"
"No, father, denr," she aald; "you are
ha best nnd the kindest of num. If you
would only confide lu me, If you would
idy tell me why you nro always ho trou
ed, why audi a load aeonis always to
be crushing you down? And now. in this
terrible hour, who known? 'Inhere may
fca hope for you still."
"There la somebody coming up tho
lairs," ho cried, with gaunt terror iu
very feature. "Go and see who It in."
"It is I Henri," said a youthful male
voice, husky with excitement. "Let me
In quick, there la not a moment to bu
tot."
line girl hastily unlocked and unbolted
9io door, and n young mnn, rathor short
nd Htoutly built, entered tho room. He
was a good-lookiug young fellow, with
he careless dash of the French revolu
tionist written lnrge ou his handsome,
dark-boarded features.
"I have seen him!" ho cried, the mo
ment he crossed tho threshold. "That
Englishman whom you pointed out to mo.
He is with the Natioimls."
Tho old mnn staggered back to his
chair, and hold on to it, shaking na In
ati ague.
"How do you know? How do you
know it is he?" he gaspod.
"I know it is he," retorted the young
man. excitedly. "He was not ten puces
rom me nt the barriendo by Dumont's
butchery, nnd ho glared nt me as 1 fired
my pistol at him. I missed him; I wish
I had killed him. L have come to tell
you, to warn you!"
There was a pause of a fow heart
beats' space, during which tho old man
cocked himself to and fro on Ids chair,
tapping his thin leg with his open
palms.
"How long will it bo before he will be
here?" he naked nt last, In a guttural
whisper.
"Fifteen minutes, perhaps," wns the
answer; "perhaps twenty, perhaps half
an hour, lint ho may bo here in live, if
things go badly."
"Very well," exclaimed the old mnw.
Ml nm ready. Thank you for having
warned me,"
Tho young man gave a glance around
Che room, nnd looked at tho girl with
burning eyes.
"And Ilekme?" he anid, slowly, nnd
with an nmnzing tenderness; "what alout
her? Had sho not hotter come with
me?" Hia voice was broken by emo
tion. "No!" nearly screamed the old man.
'Are you mad? Go with you, to bo
killed in the street! Why should sho go
with you? Go away! Leavo us! You
re wasting your time and mine!"
The young man shrugged hu shoulders,
aad titeu held out a hand.
"We may never we one another
gnln," ho Bald; "thore good-by."
The old man paused again for a mo
ment or two, and then gripped the out
stretched band nervously.
"You are right." ho said. "Henri, T
ad forgotten. You are n good lad
you always wore. Wo may never moot
again. Good-br for tftild world!"
Tho girl had bowi standing in a corner
of die room uiletrtly, nnd a the young
bhd turned rvand dfoe, looked at him with
a werta af timMi ia iiar Mk tya. Jj
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HERMAN
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(rteppod to her and kiaaed Bar ou the fore
head without another werd.
"God-by, Holone," ho whispered.
"When I tmx dead you -will perhaps think
of nve now aivd tiiim. Go9d-yJ"
With tliat 1m rnahed oret, au4 th girl
lnatinctively ctoaei the daar again aad
bolted t-
OHAPTMU II.
Th old man ant ailently for half a
mhnrte'a pace after Hnri had left tho
room and hia eyea wandered hither and
thither round the place, aa if aearchlng
for a solution of a puU whida worried
bint,
"I have Itl" he exclaimed at laat, ris
ing excitedly. "Yon tmiat not remain
here. I know a way."
The room was a tiny one, Ivaroly ten
feet aqnare, and even part of that epace
waa rendered twelons by the alautlng of
the garret roof. Thcro was but one lit
tle window high up lu the wall, and It
could only be roachod by ataudlag on a
chair. Even that wna shuttered, and tho
llelit entered but Rparaoiy.
"Open the abutter there," aoid the old
man quietly so quietly now that the
difference of tone sounded remarkable
even to Helene, who wat habituated to
hia changes of moods. "Look out cau
tiously. Bee if you notice smoke across
the unfinished building bppoalte, or signs
of fighting."
Helraie brought a otool and stepped on
it, and peered ont between the partly
opend shutters.
"They have pawed the house In tho
other street, father," ahe fluid. "They
are fiipbting perhaps fifty yarda away."
"Thank hoaren for thatl" exclaimed
the old man. "There la time to cav you
yet."
He limped toward the trunk that stood
in tho corner, and took from it a coil of
rope.
"Taiw tlds, my girl," he aaid. "You
must get into tfte store closet. The lit
tle window thero ia at tho aide and shel
tered from view by the projection of the
main building. You can got out that
way tuiolmervcd. You aro light and lithe
and can lower yourself with thia to tho
roof of the ahud below. Ia there any
body in tho yard?"
"Nobody," nid the girl; "not a woul."
"I cannot do it mysolf," he went on,
calmly. "I am too old, and I am a crip
ple; but you can got awuy in that man
ner. When you aro on tho roof of the
abed you can let yourself down from
that into tho yard. After that you can
make your way out into tho street aB
Hoon aa it is safe. They won't hurt a
girl liko you, but they would kill me
like a dog."
"But, father," pleaded the girl, "I do
not want to go away. I do not want to
leave you. I want to stay hero with
you."
"Nonsense!" be answered. "That
would be winful. Thnt would bo horrible.
You will huve to got away, and when
you nro safe in tho strewt, go straight to
Mr. Adams. You have only to tell him
that I seut you, and he will tnko care
of you."
".Air. Adams?" asked the girl. "That
American who came hero lat week?"
"The same. You know where he lives.
You took a message from me to him.
Now run, my child," nnd he colled the
rope round her waist. "There," he said;
"you will be able to use it more easily
in this way. You will got awny all
right."
Sho clung to him still and klssod his
white face.
"I do not want to go," she begged.
"1 really do not want to go."
"Yon he retorted, "you Hhall "
And he pushed the gently
resisting -ward tho wtorc closit. On
n sudden, in-. over, u quiver or anguish
convulsed !.. foatures, his eyoa stared
wildly, and he gasped as his IijKs ojM?nd
and closed in mute, feverish agitation.
Ho staggered forward and reached out n
wildly fumbling hand, crying:
"Stay! I cannot let you go like that.
There Is not a moment to be Jost, nnd I
inust tell you before I die."
She turned to him with n blank dis
mny iu her eyos, while his voice became
hoarser, and his breathing more painful.
"You are very ill, father, dear," she
cried.
"That's Just it," he said, "that's why I
called you back. You will nw father. Let
me confess it it is hotter thus 1 am not
your father. Do not look at me so ac
cusingly," The girl rotroated fttep by step to tho
wall, and stood thore with an outstretch
ed arm on either side of hor, Htaring at
the old man iu an awe-atruck amaze
ment. "Yea," ho said more quietly, "I nm not
your father. I have even beu accused
of having murdered your father."
Helene gave a hriek and gripped her
hair in both hands.
"Do not think so ill of me," hiy went
on. "Do not think that tho ehargo wus
true. I did not murder him. Ho had
wrougod me ho had bitterly wronged
me ho had robbed mo of tho woman
whom I loved hotter than myself. Ho
had robbed me of all eart'vlv hnpninoss,
of all hope, of all light ot life, but I did
not kill him. Wo had quarrel. It wa
on the cliff lde, and he stumbled and
fell over into the Hea and wns drowitod,
and they aaid I had murdcml him, but
I did not. They hunted mo from town
to town, from hoiwe to houHe, from for
est to wki, but I dcptl thorn; and
more than chut. I broivxht you with ma,
j-ou, his child, fch child of tha woman I
adored; tiaior nud daintier, but eo oilta,
tlwit aa & was bat to m, I detormkea
to koup yvn by wy bM a MafcAf r
mriulirnc f )ov iW wu Hi-
Tim hade dawn aad dragged bftaaelf
to fer, tati olocg t her garments.
"I have fceea a tether to yan, liars I
not?" ha want an, with hot frvr. "Hats
I sat gJran you broad of my bread, meat
of my met? Hare I oaten a crust with
ut sharing it with yaa? Tell ma, tbat
I may d4s in peace."
The tflrl stood there with a face aa
whk as the man'n, (her eyes saarly atart
ing from their nockota, her lips blanched.
Finally sho oame to him quietly, took
his bead between her twa hand ud
kiaaed bin ou the forehead.
"I da mst know what to do," she said,
softly aad tenderly. "I do aot know
what t think, but that you have been
Uka a father to me I can swoar. Host
I tears you now? Muot I go awny from
you naw, wh-ca you nro in such dreadful
danger? Why ahould I not irtiare it as
you elm red it with me?"
He looked at her aa if hia heart were
bursting with a accret still concealed. A
flash of yearning despair gleamed in his
eyea, and in another moment he might
hare spokea again. Hut the crashes
and the roar in the street outnlde in
creafled on a midden, anil from the yard
ca-me the hoarse shouts nnd crios and
piercing yells nnd muffled groniw, the
fury of tho vidtor and tfie anguitfb of
the dying.
"Awayl" he cried, madly; "awayl
They will be here In another moment.
Away!"
Helene ntood looking nt him for two
or three seconds' apace, but ha clutched
her by the shoulder and pushed her Into
the atore closet. He nlainmed the Uttlo
door, and immediately pushed a heavy
trunk against it, piling another one on
that, and throwing a rug over the whole,
so aa to hide tho door aa much as poa
table. He listened for awhile, aud even amid
the din ho thought he could hear the
girl's movements as she unfastened the
tiny whidow and crept out on to tho roof.
Then all was kmt to him amid the awful
noise in the yard below.
ne Htood for a second or two, as if un
decided what to do; then, with a sudden
impulse, ha lifted up one sf the planks
of aba floor, and loofcad down into tho
dark apace below. By kneeling and
stretcluug ot an arm he reached a
square paclret, weighing some three or
four pounds.
Ho cut the string with bis knife and
apened the paper. It contained gunpow
der. That done, he stretched out hia
arm again, nnd touched three or four
other packets, and thus assured himsolf
of their plnco simply inserting hia kuifo
tu eacii, ami ripping them partly opeu.
Then he replaced tho packet which lie
had taken out, aud scattered part of the
loose gunpowder near it and around It
botwecu tiie rafters close to the other
packets. After that he rose, and, limp
ing to n little chest of drawers iu tho
corner, took from it a cotton fuse, about
three or four yarda in length. He cut
a pieco from tlds, and inserted it well
among tho loose gunpowder, pulled tho
end of tho fuse through a hole in the
floor close to his own chair, nnd taking
a handful of mutches from Ids iocket,
sat himself down and waited, while a
calm amilo aottled' ou his face.
"I ahall die," he said, "as I had hoped,
in harness, and with my secret locked
in my heart. Ho has discovered me at
last, then. He can come ns soon as ho
hkos, Mr. Walter Giaydws tho Honora
blo Walter Glnydes; the golden bird has
tlown away, and ho will bo able to re
commence -the hunt that is to say. If ho
bo alive."
He feebly clapped his hands, nnd list
ened, with body forward, bent for tho
sounds on the staircase. Tho roar below
continued, and he drew himsolf up,
breathing a heavy sigh.
"Her brother's son!" he muttered;
"Lord Yorlcy'a son, Agatha's nephew,
and Helene's cousin. Another of tho
brood who sold my love away from mo
and afterward hunted me over tho faco
of the earth. So he is intent on finding
her," he sneered; "so noble-minded, so
disinterested! Helene's millions, neleno's
lauds they offer no attraction. Of
course not! Master Walter is only im
pelled by pur love for his fair, his
wronged cousin! Ha! ha! He will not
And hor. She shall not bo contaminated
by the gold which broke my life in two,
which wrecked nil my hopes. For gold
her mothor was bartered awny from mo.
She shall he untouched by the curse. Ho
knol3 her not, has never seen her sinco
she was a baby. Now she is free, and
I can trust tho man to whom sho goea
to guard her against that crew for all th
world."
CIIAL'TElt III.
The face of the tenth barricade in the
Hue St. Jacques wns silent; no more
flashes of musketry, no more puffs of
smoko. Every ono of the defenders lay
behind the barrier of stones, dead or
dying. A Uttlo further up tho street
another crowd of desperate men stub
bornly awaited tho charge of tho Na
tional Guards, who swarmed over the
barricades with hard-set lips, and bayo
nets red with humnn blood.
"On!" cried the captain. "Down with
thorn! Kill the dogs!"
And they wwept on, smashing away at
the door of housw, bursting In shut
tors with tho butt-cuds of their muskets,
rushing upward aud onward, and pinning
tho unfortunate wretches whom they
found ngaiust tho wnlla like no many
lllos.
Two men charged among that furious
crowd, both of them eager to reach the
heart of tho fight, both of them rushing
onward, sword and pistol In hand, but
neither of tliom really bloodthirsty at
heart nor cruelly disposed to thoir fel
low creatMrea.
One of them was a broad-chested,
straight-limbed young fellow of about
four and twenty, falr-liairH aikd blue
eyM; a set of wlilto teeth shone beneath
a Htuhby reddish mustache. Its color bare
ly distiniruWhable amid the gcima of pow
dnr and dirt wfth wMoh the whol to
was bcasteared.
(Ts bt coatluued.)
Mauy a mm wlit Is willing t 4
gvatL ia u-saW t mmk jpoaC
The game of choaa Is included ia tho
curriculum of Russian schools.
Women havo bee doing some ot tha
iceno palntlaff at the imperial Thea
ter, London, lately.
By Ltd Kttcuettcr's orders aaldlers
(vhe fall. vIcUhib Is pkthlsla to n an
ient home from Ladle.
Gee so aro drives to the great
Prague? fair with tknir feet Incused ia
tr boots ta prercat lajury.
The cost af living has doubled la
Spain in the lat few yearn, and ewl-
grutlou Is Increasing rapidly.
Automobllo trains arc to bo run
wugon roada In German ICaat Africa
as feeders to the railway Hues.
On tho night of Sept 27 a tea-foot
Bhork chased 30,000 herrings into tho
nets of a Dublin trawler and was
caught hlnmelf.
Tho progresalrft policy of the Ameer
Includes the nppolntment of women
doctors at Cnbul and the uso of elec
tric power In hia gun factory.
The engines of tho first steamer that
ever crossed tho Atlantic havo bean
recovered off the coast of Crk, after
more than flfty yearn immersion.
Thorverton Church; Devon, Eng
land, was recently used na a store-
uouso for whisky which had been
taken from the Yllluge Inn during a
lire.
A London newaboy, 12 years old,
attempted suicide by cutting his
throat with a pocket knife becausa he
had sold only 4 cents.' worth of pa
pers and did not dare go home to his
father with lesfl than 25 centa.
In Englnnd tho best remedy for
farm depopulation Is held to be small
farm holdings. It Is stated that when
ever a large farm is divided Into
nmnll holdings the demand for the
land usually far exceeds tho supply.
The greatest possible number of leap
years will occur In the twentieth cen
tury, tho year 190-1 being the first one.
and every fourtu year following up lo
liml including 2000. In the same cen
tury February three tiroes will have
live Sundays In 1020, 11M8 and 1970.
The custom of marrying girls wheri
Ihey nro mere children of nine or ten
yours Is Increasing rather tlmu d
creasing In Bengal nnd other parts of
India. The resulting racial degencra
lion Is becoming so obvious that laws
have been passed In several regions
Torblddlng the marriage of girls under
fourteen.
Louis Tns, one of the best known
diamond brokers, estimates the output
of the De Iteers mines annually at
FIO.000,000, and of other mines at
p4,r.00,000. Add to this the cost of
'nbor, the profits of the syndicates,
ftc, and he thinks that the annual
lutput of diamonds ia worth about
f;tr,ooo,ooo.
A Monroe County man who invested
r29 in sheep Inst fall has sold $227
orth of wool, has 113 lambs that wHI
veruge eighty pounds wh'-u ready for
mrket, which- at 4 cents a pound
lakes them worth $572. Total Income
vom his flock of sheep, ?709, nnd he
Jtlll has the sheep.. Not one of thrMn
)hs got away firom him. Kansas City
lournal. '
Probably the first treaty of peace to
)e typewritten Is the South African
jeace document. The signatures of the
ftoer leaders form an Interesting part
f It They ure all In different styles.
Louis Botha's Is described as being In
line hand, and though the others are
lomewhut rougher, Delaroy's Is the
ougliest of all. He has spelled his
:iio split Into three syllables, de hi
:toy. Christian tie Wet Is also spoiled
frith a small d.
The English Church Missionary Siv
lety calls attention to the fearful rav
iges of pestilence In several countries
ai which its agents are at work, lu
Uganda tho sleeping sickness has des
ilnted Ihisogii and the northern shores
f the Victoria Lake, and Is fast de
populating the Sese Islands. The
Ingue In the Punjab has been chaini
ng as many as 20.000 vlcllnw In a
nonth. while cholera, which has laid
liousnnds low in Palestine, is now
-aging In lers!n.
DUR WONDERFUL FRUIT CROP
It Now Amounts to Over One lluudred
Millldini Annually.
Tho census statistics of 1900 show
fhat the frait crop of the United States
low ranJc6 an ono of the eight most
nuportant agricultural products of the
ouutry, thus: Corn, $828,238,320; hay,
l84,2n(l,810; ooku (including cattou
reed), $870,708,740; wheat $309,945,
120; oats, $217,00S,5&1; potatoes, $118,
1(53,814; vegetable, $113,871,842; fruk,
92.301,701. As 1809 produced a lljrtit
;rop of apploa ami patches, the uoiiaal
ralue of Wie fruit crop certainly ex
ceeds $100,000,JOO.
Tho etrtiauA renorfca aaow a number
tf interesting Ublngs eoivor.nl u,s r
fruit rrop. TftiNra arv over B,70,tliU
utm n arcJiurd frultf, aad no fennuvik
t HudcultaAra laaa utadi the cates HiAt
Cntit jcrawlaf Jaaa Jn Khe laat immiu.
Tho aeroago and percewtage of gate,
far tho different varieties of deciduous
fruit nre: Applets, 2,000,000 and GSi
peaches, 1.000,000 and 217; prune mxta
plums, 307,800 and 334; pears, 117,000'
and 240; cherries, 119,400 and 112; aprS
eota, 50,000 and 217.
Twenty-four of tho States report
a fruit crop, oxecodbag $1,000,000 ia
anuuul valuo, OaJlfernia leading with
521,700,000. Now York la second wit.
$10,500,000. Illinois fifth with $3,800y
000, and Florida tweuty-flrat with $ly
10,000. Maine, wlfc Its apples, Ja o
the list In normal years, and Oclawara
with Its peach cj. Qoorgla will noon b
added to tho lint, aa lta poacfii InduMzr
Is rapidly growls. Tko low rank o4
Florida Is duo to repeatod freezings
its arango trees.
Ia apples Miasourl leaaa all tha
States with an acreago of 300,000. New
York Li second with 150,009 acres, and.
Illinois third with 134,000 acrea. Sev
eral of the States show a trememlou
par cent of lncroascv aa Arkansas an.
Nebraska, 800 each; Washington, BOOj.
Alabama, 250; Oalorado and Wyomtaa.
2,500; Idaho, 1,000; Montana, 5,OO0t
Minnesota, COO; Utah, TOO, and Naw
Mexico, 1,200.
Michigan leads la peaohea, aad 1
third in cherries and peara. ICanaiu,
wbldi is slxrb In applca, leads In chcr
rlea, with Ponnsylvanla second. CalW
foruia leads In pears, with New Yarh
second. Illinois ranks nineteenth la
peadhos, sixth In cherries, and tie
wiUb. Pennaylranlt fsr seventh placa
lu pears.
California loads in prunes and
plums, with 08,000 acres. Oregon la ait
easy second, Illinois is seventeenth,
with 5,700 acros, California has a prac
tical monopoly of apricots, 42,001
acros; olives, 15,000 acrea, and Uga,
1,900, acres.
California also dwarfs its only com
petitor In the orango and lemon in
dufftry, Florida. Tho figurca uro 66
500 acrea of oranges and. 15,000 a&
lemons, as against 25,000 acrea of or
anges in Florida and 225 acrea cti
lesKms.
Oalifornla thus boars off the palra
as a f cult-producing Stato, laadlng la
oranges, lemons, flgs, olives, apricots,
poors, prunes and plums, and ranking
high In peaches and apples. As oran-gs
growing In Florida la tho only CruLI
production that showB n decreaso, and
as all other orchard crops ahow a tra-nv"-idous
Increase In ten years, It la
likely that on the showing of tho nexl
census fruit will no longer bo at tha
bottom of the list of eight principal
agricultural products.
WHAT MADE THE SCRATCHES.
The summer visitor had driven in t
the New Hampshire villuge with one ol
tho selectmen of the town and his wifa
The better hulf was a plump, good
hearted soul, until recently quite cor
tented In her rural prosperity; but late
ly, stirred up by tho Influence of a
woman's club which hold weekly rend
lugs of papers on subjects rnnglnj
from "The Contribution of Charles It
to Itellgion" to "Tho Married Womai
In Political Reform," she had becomt
ambitious for "culture." Her las)
plunge had been into geology.
"John," said she, "you seo that flat
ledge of rock that lies bare on tin
road?"
"I suppose you'ro going to tell nu
that It's an extinct volcano," Interrupt
ed her husband, who had become fa
miliar with his wife's latest Interest
"Of course I ain't" said sho, snitllna
at his sarcasm. "I wanted you to se
those grooves and scratches, but li
knowledge ain't acceptable to you, yo
are welcome to remain in Ignorance 1
sha'n't interfere."
"Well, I see the scratches on thi
rock what of 'em? Aro they tho foot
prints of a prehistoric rattlesnake?"
"There! 1 knew you wouldn't knowi
Those are glacial scratches. When tin
glaciers came down over New England
tliey moved slowly and ground tin
loose rocks across the nut surface
making those scratches and grooves
Once right here there was a sheet oi
Ice two hundred feet thick "
"See here, Marthy," snld her hu
band, "1 don't care how much you
think things like that, but don't yofl
go telling 'em to the folks hero. Thos
who happen to believe It would be mi
informed, and It. would bo your fault,
Those who had any sense, would know
wo never had a winter such as yon
speak of not In a thousand yeurs."
Ills wife sat up straight iu indlgna
tlon. "John Stubbs," auld she, "you
just turn your buck on learning I 3
believe you'd rather not know any ed
ucatlon. I want you to understand
I don't speuk ubont a thousand year
It was a million years ago, I guess
that those scratches wero mado."
"No, it wa'n't," replied her huaband,
quietly. "Thosw scratches was made
when we moved the Baptist meotlnj)
house In elghty-sevonl" Youth's Com
pa uion,
CouifuriltK Kximrioiiwn.
"Ye ' iwld the giraffe, "I've got r
nore u.roat LVu you Uuuglue any
UilKg wortfe than that?"
WU," replied tho centipede, "I had
nay Vi-et,frjtllttwi ouce." fUJUdo-