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SIR GILBERT PARKER
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CHAPTER IV Continued
A tent was set up provisions were
-put in it a spirit lamp and matches
were added and the simple menage
was complete Not quite Jaspar
Hume looked round There was not
a tree in sight He stooped and cut
away a pole that was used for
strengthening the runners of the
sleds- fastened it firmly in the ground
and tied to it a red woollen scarf
which he had used for tightening his
white blankets round him Then he
-said Be sure and keep that flying
men
Jeff Hydes face was turned toward
the north The blind mans instinct
was coming to hiin Far off white
eddying drifts were rising over long
hillocks of snow When Jeff turned
round again his face was slightly trou
bled It grew more troubled then it
brightened up again and he said to
Jaspar Hume Captain would you
leave that book with me till you
come back that about infirmities
dangers and necessities I knew a
river boss who used to carry an old
spelling book round with him for luck
It had belonged to a schoolmaster
who took him in and did for him
when his father and mother went into
Kingdom Come It seems to me as if
that book of yours Captain would
bring luck to this part of the White
Guard that bein out at the heels
like has to stay behind
Jaspar Hume had borne the suffer
ings of his life with courage he had
led this terrible tramp with no tremor
at his heart for himself he was seek
ing to perform a perilous act without
any inward shrinking but Jeffs re
quest was the greatest trial of this
momentous period in his life This
book had not left his breast save
when he slept for twenty years To
give it up was like throwing open the
doors of his nature to such weak
nesses that assail and ronquer most
men at some time or other hi their
lives
Jeff Hyde felt if he could not see
the hesitation of his chief His rough
but kind instincts told him something
was wrong in his request and he has
tened to add Beg your pardon sir it
aint no matter I oughtnt to have
asked you for it But its just like
i me Ive been a chain on the leg of
the White Guard this whole tramp
The moment of hesitation had
passed before Jeff Hyde had said half
a dozen words and Jaspar Hume put
ithe book in his hands with the words
No Jeff Hyde take it It will bring
lluck to the White Guard Put it
where I have carried it and keep it
safe until I come back
Jeff Hyde placed the book in his
sbosom but hearing a guttural Ugh
behind him he turned round defiantly
The Indian touched his arm and said
Good Strong back book good
Jeff was satisfied
At this point they parted Jeff Hyde
and Gaspe Toujours remaining and
JJaspar Hume and his two followers
going on toward Manitou Mountain
There seenied little probability that
iVarre Lepage would be found In
their progress eastward and north
iward they had covered wide areas of
country dividing and meeting again
aSter stated hours of travel but not
ia sign had been seen neither cairn
nor staff nor any mark of human pres
ence
Jaspar Hume had noticed Jeff Hydes
face when it was turned to the eddy
ing drifts of the north and he under
stood what was in the experienced
huntsmans mind He knew that se
vere weather was before them and
that the greatest difficulty of the jour
ney was to be encountered Yet
somehow the fear that possessed him
when the book was taken from his
breast had left him and he reaped
in hfs act of self sacrifice a larger
courage and rarer strength than that
which had heretofore stayed him on
this cheerless journey
That night they saw Manitou Moun
tain cold colossal harshly calm and
jointly with that sight there arose a
shrieking biting fearful north wind
It blew upon them in cruel menace of
conquest in piercing inclemency It
struck a freezing terror to their
hearts and grew in violent attack un
til as if repenting that it had fore
gone its power to save the sun sud
denly grew red and angry end spread
out a shield of blood along the bas
tions of the west The wind shrunk
hack and grew less murderous and
ere the last red arrows shot up be
hind the lonely western wall of white
the three knew that the worst of the
storm had passed and that death had
drawn back for a time What Jaspar
Hume thought we shall gather from
his diary for ere he crawled in among
the dogs and stretched himself out
beside Jacques he wrote these words
with aching fingers
January 10th Camp 39 A bitter
MARCH OF THE WHITE GUARD
W35jeSr
day We are facing three fears now
the fate of those we left behind his
fate and the going back We are
thirty miles from Manitou Mountain
If he is found I should not fear at all
the return journey success gives
hope We trust in God
Another day passes and at night
after a hard march they camp five
miles from Manitou Mountain And
not a sign But Jaspar Hume knows
that there Is a faint chance of Varre
Lepage being found at this mountain
His iron frame has borne the hard
ships of this journey well his val
iant heart better But this night an
unaccountable weakness possesses
him Mind and body are on the verge
of helplessness and faintness Jacques
seems to understand that and when
he is unhitched from the team of dogs
now dwindled to seven he goes to his
master and leaps upon his breast It
was as if some instinct of sympathy
of prescience was passing between
the man and the dog Jaspar Hume
bent his head down to Jacques for an
instant and rubbed his side kindly
then he said with a tired accent Its
all right dog its all right
Jaspar Hume did not sleep well at
first that night but at length oblivion
came He waked to feel Jacques tug
ging at his blankets It was noon
Late Carscallen and Cloud-in-the-Sky
were still sleeping inanimate bundles
among the dogs In an hour they
were on their way again and toward
sunset they had readied the foot of
Manitou Mountain Abruptly from the
plain rode this mighty mound blue
and white upon a black base A few
struggling pines grew near its foot
defying latitude as the mountain it
self defied the calculations of geogra
phers and geologists A halt was
called Late Carscallen and Cloud-in-
in-the-Sky and the stalwart but emaci
ated Indian who had beckoned to
them speak to each other in the Chi
nook language the jargon common
to all Indians of the West
Jaspar Hume saw a form reclining on
a great bundle of pine branches and
he knew what Rose Lepage had
prayed for had come to pass By the
flickering light of a handful of fire he
saw Varre Lepage rather what was
left of him a shadow of energy a
heap of nerveless bones His eyes
were shut but as Jaspar Hume with
a quiver of memory and sympathy at
his heart stoctd for an instant and
looked at the man whom he had cher
ished as a friend and found an enemy
the pale lips of Varre Lepage moved
and a weak voice said Who is
there
A friend
A friend Come near me
friend
Jaspar Hume made a motion to Late
Carscallen who was heating some
liquor at the fire and he came near
and stooped and lifted up the sick
mans head and took his hand
You have come to save me to
save me said the weak voice again
Yes I have come to save you
This voice was strong and clear and
true
I seem to have heard your
voice before somewhere before I
seem to have But he had fainted
Jaspar Hume poured a little liquor
down the sick mans throat and Late
Carscallen chafed the delicate hand
delicate in health it was like that of
a little child now When breath came
again Jaspar Hume whispered to his
helper Take Cloud-in-the-Sky and
get wood bring fresh branches
clear one of the sleds and we will
You You Are Jaspar Hume
the Sky looked at the chief His eyes
were scanning the mountain closery
Suddenly he paused Five hundred
feet up there is a great round hole
in the solid rock and jrom this hole
there comes a feeble cloud of smoke
Jaspar Humes hand points where his
eyes are fixed The other two see
Cloud-in-the-Sky gives a wild whoop
such a whoop as only an Indian can
give and from the mountain there
comes a moment after a faint replica
of the sound It is not an echo for
there appears at the mouth of the
cave an Indian who sees them and
makes feeble signs for them to come
In a few moments they are at the
cave xVs Jaspar Hume enters Cloud-
Medical Science Makes Light of Grand
mothers Cures
A distinguished inventor has applied
for a patent for a very superior lini
ment which he has compounded and
wiiich he honestly believes did him
good Many intelligent people think
liniment should be applied to aches
and bruises Modern doctors do not
believe in it and oppose the authority
of our grandmothers not only upon this
point but upon a multitude of others
with respect to sovereign remedies
L K Hirshberg M D says in the
cm rent American Magazine that saw
dust poultices would cure boils bee
stings and mumps as well as flaxseed
or other poultices that sage saxifrage
and beef tea never relieved a bodily
disorder that mustard footbaths hot
lemonade hot Scotches whisky and
quinine and powders are all alike hope
less for colds that faulty logic stops a
nosebleed by pinching the patients
upper lip and that boils will no more
purify the blood than electric belts
will ward off ghastly maladies
A boil is an exaggerated pimple
caused by the incursion of noxious
cerms from without upon slight abra
sions of the skin That is why men
who wear stiff collars are more sub
ject to this affliction than women The
healing agent if any in poultices and
in the various effusions of herbs and
other concoctions for internal appli
1NSTALLMENT c
start back with him in the early moan
ing
Late Carscallen looking at the skeleton-like
figure said He will never
get there
Yes said Jaspar Hume he will
get there
But he is dying
He goes with me to Fort Provi
dence
Ay to Providence he goes but
not with you said Late Carscallen
sadly but doggedly
Anger flashed in Jaspar Humes
eye but he said quietly I shall take
him to his wife get the wood Car
scallen
TO BE CONTINUED
O
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cations is the hot water But colds
must run their course and stop of
themselves Hot water olive oil or
Worcestershire sauce would do as well
as any other preparation for bruises
and stiff muscles it is the rubbing
that heals not the liniment Porous
plasters and other counter irritants
are as a rule useless Nosebleeds rare
ly last more than a few minutes Na
ture aids quickly and the specific gets
the credit
Some very serious diseases such as
pneumonia typhoid and consumption
that used to be drugged in all mannner
of ways are now let alone by the best
practitioners after the patient has
been made clean and comfortable
while a greater percentage of cases
than formerly make recoveries The
crisis of a particular disease is not
necessarily on an odd day as the third
the seventh or the ninth Obesity is
not caused by overmuch drinking of
water or cured by its abstention Sleep
ing after meals is not unheajthful
Dyes in stockings are not poisonous
and taking lime water will not cure
warts
Grandees of Spain
Spain has 600000 titled persons or
about one to every- 3S inhabitants
Such titles are held of no esteem to
the original peerage of the country
however These original peers are
known as grandees and Tform an aris
tocracy entirely of birth some of
them having no handle at all to their
names yet they refuse to mix with
even dukes of new creation
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Famous Nebraskan and Wife
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Recent Portrait of Man Who May Again Lead Democratic Hosts
TO INCREASE OUTPUT
COSTLY MINE IMPROVEMENTS
PLANNED FOR KLONDIKE
Indications Are That Dawson Will Be
Center of Worlds Largest Gold
Dredging Fields Value of
This Years Product
Dawson Yukon The gold output of
of the Klondike for the season of
190G reaches the total of 5697942
This figure is based on the average
valuation of 16 to the ounce By
the Klondike is meant that asrea of
placer producing streams within a ra
dius of 50 miles of the city of Daw
son
The total output of the Klondike
since the discovery of the camp in
1896 is 112786572
These figures are based on the
collections by the Canadian gov
ernment which controls all the big
camp The figures are from the office
of J T Lithgow comptroller of
finances in the Yukon
If anything the amounts here given
are very conservative They are well
under the mark particularly for the
earlier years because it is believed
that many then evaded the payment
of the royalty exacted by the govern
ment Now evasion is impossible be
cause all dust attempted to be taken
across the boundary before it has re
ceived the stamp and certificate show
ing that the royalty is paid is con
fiscated
The indication is that the output for
the future will be greatly -increased as
soon as the many big streams now be
ing acquired by the Guggenheims of
New York Sigmund Rothschilds and
associates of Detroit Colonel Wil
liams of Paris Tex and associates
Dr A S Grant of Toronto and N A
Attacked by Indians in Early Days
They Buried the Treasure
Topeka Kan We have heard of
buried treasures but did you ever
know of a case in which one was
found Well Joe Prentice of Heb
ron Neb formerly of Sabetha some
time ago found a buried treasure
Prentice formerly operated a hard
ware store in Sabetha Prentice
traded the store to John M Evans
now a resident of Ohio and got
among other things a farm near Heb
ron Neb People laughed at Pren
tice a good deal because of the farm
That country was not considered
much of a- farming country then
When Prentice got hold of the farm
Evans told him the following story
A party of immigrants were traveling
over the country in the early days to
seek their fortunes in the far west
One night near the present site of
Hebron the party was attacked by
El Paso Tex Some of the accounts
of ostrich farming in this country have
been so glowing that the reader was
left much in doubt as to their accur
acy The ostrich business is fairly
prosperous especially in the Salt
River valley Arizona where 1500 of
the 2200 ostriches in the country are
now owned This is a new line of
animal industry for Americans and
there is much to learn
We have not thus far produced
such fancy birds as have some of the
more experienced breeders in South
Africa but the size seems to be in
creasing and the health ot the birds
Is all that could be desired So far
serious ostrich diseases have not trou
bled the American raiser even the
so called barring of the feathers has
not been observed Ostriches need a
hot dry climate such as is found in
the southwest The rainy portion of
the south is far less desirable al-
Fuller of Michigan are fully equipped
with dredges hydraulic and other
means for working of low grade as
well as high grade grounds at a profit
The Guggenheims alone have se
cured hundreds of claims and are
spending millions in improvements in
the Klondike It Is Believed that with
all the improvements that these big
companies will make a heavy pay roll
will be maintained here every sum
mer and that Dawson will always be
an active mining town and the center
of one of the largest hydraulic and
dredging fields in the world
MURDERER HAS PRIVATE JAIL
His Precautions Will Cost Him Double
Term of Imprisonment
Rome A wealthy laud owner Rai
mondo Pace was in 1898 condemned
by the criminal courts of Roggia in
Italy to ten years imprisonment for
having murdered a servant of his
Judgment was passed in default and
it was surmised at the time- that the
man had escaped to some distant
land under an assumed name Quite
recently the police heard that he was
in Foggia and raided his house They
were very much amused in finding him
safely locked up in i cell which he had
built for himself in the basement of
his house One of his servants was
paid by him to act as jailer and by
order of his master supplied him once
a day with bread and a jug of water
During eight years Pace never stirred
from his cell and he told the police
that after completing the full term of
ten years to which he was condemned
he intended petitioning the king for a
royal pardon As it is the unfor
tunate man has to start his punish
ment afresh and in the end will have
served almost twice his time
OOOSOSOOOSCQCCOSOQCOOGCOSOSOOOCCC06COOSCCCOSCCCOSC09
GOLD LEFT BY EMIGRANTS
Indians A man named Wilcox or
Wilson was wounded The Indians
were routed The wounded man was
taken to Fort Kearny and his brother
was sent for When the brother ar
rived the wounded man told him as
nearly as possible where he had
buried more than 2000 during the
night of the Indian attack The
wounded man died but the brother
could not unearth the gold Later
the land where the money was sup
posed to be buried passed into the
hands of Evans
Evans tried but could not locate the
gold Prentice paid no attention to
the story Some time ago while he
was grading down the road near his
house he uncovered on a steep incline
a rusty can such as tomatoes and
apples are put up in Opening the
can Prentice counted out 213650 in
gold and silver In addition to this
the farm which people joked Prentice
so much about is now a very valuable
property
OSTRICH FARMS PROFITABLE
Dry Climate of the Southwest Favor
able to the Industry
though this is sometimes mentioned as
suitable for ostrich raising
Alfulfn nactnro ic nlen occonfiil
acre of alfalfa will carry four os
triches and whicn is of far more
importance will keep them in good
health Our American ostriches are
now worth 800 a pair at four years of
age No one should imagine that os
trich farming is a get-rich-quick
scheme for the birds are not ready for
mating until they become four vears
old
Their Lives Were Parallel
Battle Creek Mich A remarkable
parallel has come to light in the death
of General William R Shafter and
Thomas Ford a farmer of Lacey town
ship They were born on the same
day in Galesburg attended school to
gether enlisted for service on the
same day in the civil war were mus
tered out on the same day died on the
same day November 12 within a few
hours of each other and were burled
on the same day- and at the same
hour
i
ILL BREED ZEEfflDS
NEW YORKER TO EXPERIMENT
ON A LARGE SCALE
Financier Claims Cross Between Horso
and Zebra Greatly Superior to Ani
mal Now in Domestic Use
His Purpose Explained
New York From zebras which he
has Imported at great expense Warner
M Van Norden president of the Vnn
Norden Trust company of this city
entertains great hopes that the ze
broid as the hybrid offspring of the
horse and zebra is called will come toj
be generally and favorably known In
this country
The zobroid explained Mr Van
Norden the other day makes an ex
cellent ail around animal for domes
tic use and I hope to introduce it in
this country It is already used in
South Africa where it has given sat-
isfaction I cannot say just how
speedy the zebroid will be but those
I shall raise will be from the finest
stock especially suited for driving
purposes These animals aro much
more strong and vigorous than the
horse and live about twice as long
They will rank witli any of the horses
in gener use to day and in value will
range from S00 to 1000 They will
bo very tough and able to endure
twice the hardship the average horse
can stand
The parents perhaps of genera
tions of American zebroids yet un-
born are now contentedly munching
hay in the barn at Mr Van Nordens
country phfee at Rye N Y all un-
conscious of the weight of the re
sponsibility resting upon their care
fully groomed backs
In temporary quarters in one barn1
are three zebras said to be among
the finest of their specios ever brought
to this country One of them is de-
clared to be a genunie Grevys zebra
from Abyssinia and this animal alone
is valued by Mr Van Norden at 5000i
The othor two zebras belong to what
is Known as the Bohimii class Two
more equally as valuable as those
now in Rye have been captured for
Mr Van Norden and will be shipped
to tills country early next spring
These animals are about six years oldl
and inasmuch as the life of the aver
age zebra is about 50 years they are
as yet mere babies and are full of
more life and tricks than young colts
So much for the zebra parents of
the zebroids Their parents on the
other side will range from a full
blooded Arabian mare down to little
burro jennies through a list of horse
flesh including piebald hackney and
mustang
The zebroids will owe their appear
ance in this country however not so
much to Mr Van Nordens desire to
raise them for themselves alone as to
his determination to solve the problem
of telegony
He is determined to demonstrate
whether it is real as breeders of
blood stock assert or whether it Is a
vagary of the breeders mind as
scientists declare Explaining the ob
ject of his undertaking Mr Van
Norden said
All breeders believe in telegony
It has always been their claim that
if a female animal is bred to one of
a different species but of the same
family and is afterward bred to one of
her own species the second offspring
will show resemblance to the first
sire Opposed to the claim of the
breeders is that of the scientists who
say there Is no such thing as telegony
aid that the breeders are mistaken
in their diagnosis
A man who stands near the head
of the scientists in their contention
that there is nothing in the breeders
fear of telegony is Prof W Ewart of
Edinburgh university and for years
he has conducted experiments to sup
port the correctness of his theories
Prof Ewart is now experimenting
with pigeons and rabbits He asserts
that no one has ever gone into the
subject of telegony in such a manner
as clearly to demonstrate the truth
or falsity of the many claims made
concerning it The experiments of
Prof Ewart and others have thrown
some light on the subject but there
is still much to be learned
Pays for Hole in Carpet
Jefferson City Mo The state su
preme court affirmed the decision of
the trial court in awarding Mrs Sallie
Nephler of Kansas City- 5000 for
injuries received in a fa caused by
catching her foot in a hoie in a Kan
sas City theater carpet The de
cision says This is a somewhat un
usual case A hole in a carpet is not
ordinarily such a menace to either life
or limb as would justify the court in
assuming it to be dangerous to per
sons passing over it- The question of
whether it was in this instance of
such character that the proprietors of
the theater ought to have recognized
it as a danger to their patrons and
have guarded against it was a ques
tion of fact for the jury
Order Girls from Matrimonial Club
Sterling 111 Please send us 20
marriageable girls from your club
We can place them to their advan
tage While these are not the exact
words they express the spirit of a
proposition received by the Girls
Matrimonial club of Rock Falls from
the Mens Want to Marry club of Net
tinger Idaho The girls club was or
ganized to vote on whom each mem
ber should marry They maintain
they did not form the club with a
view to furnishing wives by the whole
sale and to ship them out of the state
Similar propositions have been re
ceived from other western states al-
though this is the first job lot order
spnt to the club
