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ALONG old persons that frowned
down from tbe walls as though
resenting the modern innovations be
low a soft thick carpet under foot so
old that its colors had all faded to a
dull uniform red a low window with
tiny diamond shaped panes letting in
more gloom than light a small iron
bound chest in a dark corner heavy
smothering hangings these were the
belongings of this long dark hall
A door opened softly and a modern
innovation entered in the shape of a
girl about sixteen years old A soft
light seemed to dispel the gloom It
could not have been her dress that
was dark gray Her brown hair curled
waywardly around a sweet roguish
looking face Her straight eyebrows
were drawn down into a dark frown
She seemed rather ashamed of wnat
she was going to do
She moved toward a door hesitated
a moment and bending her head
looked in at the keyhole She sees a
library with books and more books
piled up to the ceiling At a table sits
an old man energetically pointing out
some spot on a man before him to an
other man who is bending over it
You have two courses before you
said Master Hathaway You may go
to Concord capture our stores con
found us we are bright men but a lit
tle setback like that takes the wit out
of our heads then while we are in
dire confusion you can fall upon us
and win the day Or you can act like
gentlemen and fight as face to face like
men Take your choice
I will see what General Gage says
returned the visitor By night of
course
You ass returned Master Hath
away contemptuously I should like
to see you get out of Boston without a
row by daylight and he began rolling
up the maps
Miss Dorothea promptly fled to her
own room and locked herself in
What shall I do she asked of the
pretty maiden she saw in the mirror
Are you going to stand up and scream
My Uncle Gaspar is a British spy
Well my dear that is all the sense I
gave you credit for What would
Priscilla say Why need I say any
thing about Uncle Gaspar Why cant
I go and tell John Farden to tell
Joseph Warren Ah Ive got it now
and she proceeded to act upon it
First she opened her door Then she
drew down the curtains Then she
groaned Then iossed from side to
side and groaned again
Dorothea said a quiet voice at the
door is thee in pain r
A groan U r
Master Hathaway came in and laid
his cool hand on his nieces forehead
Poor child he said tenderly thee
has one of thy headaches I will go
away and let thee sleep and he went
away closing the door softly after
him
No sooner had his soft step died away
than Dorothea sprang off the bed
slipped off her shoes and shot the bolt
in the door She listened and then
pulled up her curtains and looked out
It was toward dusk and in a quarter
of an hour she could leave the house in
safety to see John Farden
Dorotheas bosom friend was a red
hot rebel who had inspired Dorothea
with a love for everything that was not
British As Master Hathaway never
expressed an opinion upon the war his
niece supposed he was neutral or too
much engrossed in his beloved library
to trouble himself concerning it But
Hannah her old nurse and Master
Hatha ways housekeeper had confided
to our heroine that the gentleman up
stairs was a Briton Dorothea had in
dignantly denied it and gone to see
When it was sufficiently dark Mis
tress Hathaway opened her window
and looked out A large cherrjT tree
grew close by it and often had she
climbed up and down with Triscilla
She could descend with her eyes shut
she knew yet a feeling of some sort
deterred her She felt that she was
betraying her uncle and the thought
was odious But she strengthened her
mind with the remembrance of other
Hathaways dead and gone who had
sacrificed their homes and everything
they held dear to their king who after
ward hung them for treason
This seemed to give her great cour
age for she sat upon the window sill
with her feet outside seized hold of a
branch with both hands gave a little
spring and immediately she was stand
ing in a crotch of the tree Getting
down was an easy matter and she was
on the ground in a twinkling and off
at a run for Priscilla Fardens She
would see John Farden in the garden
and tell him that she had heard that
the British were coming to seize the
stores
As she slowly skirted the house she
saw to her great delight a light in
Priseillas room She flung a pebble
against the window and waited A
shadow crossed the white curtain and
a short interval passed -during which
Dorothea danced with impatience
Then the front door opened silently and
a girl rushed out
I knew it was you you dear old
thing she cried as she kissed our
heroine Wliat does possess you to
come here at this tiaje of night
I want to see Leruenant Farden
said Dorothea quietly
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He has gone out to dinner replied
Priscilla with kindly impetuositj
Come in and see me theres a dear
He will be back in an hour or two
But Dorothea had been making her
plans she must disguise herself and go
to see Joseph Warren
Has John worn his uniform
Priscilla looked at her with surprise
No it is upstairs Dorothea you
arent going to dressing What for
Oh do tell me Where are you going
I cant tell you said Dorothea
calinly It is a secret Yes I will
dress up in Johns uniform
Priscilla was too much astonished tu
speak so she led the way upstairs with
out a word Silently she laid the uni
form out upon the bed Silently she
tied her friends hair as a queue and
showered powder upon it And then
her admiration broke out as Dorothea
stood before the glass outlining a shad
owy mustache upon her pretty lips with
burnt cork
Dorothea Hathaway exclaimed
Priscilla you are perfectly superb
Wont you tell ue where you are go
in o V
iro said the young soldier with a
stiff bow Good night Mistress Far
den
When Dorothea arrived at Joseph
Warrens house she was horrified at
beholding it brillantly lighted She re
mebered Priseillas remark that her
brother had gone out to dine Oh what
an idiot she had been not to know that
he had come here for Warren was his
best friend Why didnt she write him
Why didnt she with ordinary sense
leave a letter for him with Priscilla
All that was too late now and she
desperately went up the steps and
knocked The door was thrown open
and a servant appeared
Tell Mr Warren that I would like
to speak with him said Dorothea
majestically and the servant vanished
very much impressed
Mr Warren says will you please step
into the dining room
Poor Dorothea What pen can de
scribe her sensations at being sudden
ly conducted into a large room with
twenty gentlemen some drinking wifie
and all looking at lier She knew al
most every one by sight and many of
them intimately
Well said Warren inquiringly
I would like to see you alone she
replied grandly
Speak out We are all friends here
saiS John Farden
So the girl spoke The British are
going to Concord to capture our stores
I dont know when but they are go-
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a torrent of questions poured out up
on her in the midst of which she made
her escape The result of her work
was soon evident The Americans be
gan removing their stores and the bat
tle of Lexington was fought on April
19 1775
If John Farden recognized Dorothea
in her disguise he kept his own coun
sel After the Avar was over and he
had a wife of his own he said to her
one day
Dorothea do you remember that
soldier who came to us one night at
Joseph Warrens
And sweet Mistress Farden looked up
and then down turning red and then
white and murmured
O John Who told you New York
Mail and Express
A Household Worl Forgotten
The Washington correspondent of tne
Chicago Times relates a laughable inci
dent in the career of Mr Tarsney of
Missouri who was until lately a mem
ber of Congress from that State but
was unseated by the House The oc
currence it should be explained took
place years ago when Mr Tars
ney was not so well known as he is at
present
It was in the midst of a political cam
paign and Mr Tarsney who had gone
to New York State in the service of his
party was announced to speak in a
country town The chairman of the
meeting a local celebrity was properly
minded to give the gentleman from Mis
souri a handsome reception
Ladies and gentlemen he said we
have with us to night one of the great
est statesmen of the great West an
orator famed throughout the Mississip
pi Valley a gentleman whose name is
to you a household word Permit me
to introduce to you Mr Mr
Here the flow of his eloquence was
cheeked and leaning toward the ora
tor of the evening he whispered
What did you say your name was
Tarsney of Missouri whispered
the orator
Fellow citizens resumed the Chau
man It is my proud pleasure to intro
duce to you Mr Larceny of Missouri
Bijr Business in Squirrel Tailsc
Twenty farmers brought the tails of
9171 ground squirrels to the commis
sioners of Spokane Count3 Washing
ton on one day last week to collect the
bounty of 1 cent per tail One man
brought in L334 squirrel tails and an
other LOGO All the squirrels were
killed in one not large district where
they are so thick as to almost make the
farmers despair of making any profit
by their crops
The mills of the gods which grind
so slow would grind fast enough if
they were run by wind mills
A NEW DISCOVERER OF AMERICA
Bid His Work About the Year Colum
bus Was Born
To sum up briefly The shortest
route from the old world to the new is
from Cape Verde to Brazil Winds
and currents tend to carry a ship
across There is therefore an inher
ent probability that a Portuguese ves
sel should have been dri n on to the
Brazilian coasfc This actually hap
pened to Cabral in 1500 It might have
happened at any time after ships began
to round Cape Verde That cape was
first rounded in 1445 In 1448 a re
markable map was made by Bianco
showing the most recent Portuguese
discoveries On it a long stretch of
coastline is shown southwest from
Cape Verde with an inscription say
ing that it is authentic and 1500 miles
to the west The only land in such a
position is South America The dis
covery must have been made between
1445 and 144S
It is recorded that an unknown
island was found far to the west in
1447 On the first map dealing with
the Atlantic Ocean after Biancos map
a large island is found in the position
indicated by Bianco The Portuguese
had good reason for not troubling much
about such an island until the papal
bull of 1493 with its line of demarca
tion when their conduct leading to the
Tordesillas treaty of 1494 by which the
line was shifted so far that they se
cured Brazil seems to have been based
on knowledge of the existence of land
in the position of that country More
over there is evidence to show that
they publicly claimed the possession of
such knowledge If the views here
set forth are tenable the interesting
and important result is obtained tint
America was discovered by the Portu
guese in or about the very year in
which Columbus is believed to have
been born Without removing one iota
from the real merit of Columbus it
would add the crowning laurel to the
already great glory of that marvelous
man Prince Henry the Navigator
Avho it is pardonable to remember
was half an Englishman Geograph
ical Journal
A POOR MANS GOOD LUCK
A Disheartened Prospector Finds a
Bowlder Worth a Million Dollars
A romantic good luck story comes
from Spokane Wash Martin Neilly
was returning home disheartened from
an unsuccessful prospecting tour in the
Salmon River district and sat down
on the bank of the Colombia River to
eat his dinner As he did so he noticed
a huge bowlder half buried in the sand
in a dry portion of the river not far
NEIIXYS BOWLDER
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from where he sat When he vus
through with his repast he shouldered
his pick and sauntered over toward tbe
huge bowlder He struck lis pick into
it several times and dislodged a piece
of the decomposed rock Great was
his surprise when upon picking up the
fragment he saw traces of gold and
copper Chipping a few more pieces he
carried them to the nearest town and
had them examined by assayers who
found that they would average 50
worth of gold and copper to the ton
Neilly has established a claim and is
now holding off for a syudicae offer
The bowlder is estimated to weigh
20000 tons and its value is considered
to he a million dollars
In speaking of the discovery Neilly
says It was some time before I
fully realized what a fortune I had dis
covered but when it dawned upon me
that at last I was a rich man I am
afraid I made such demonstrations as
would justify anyone who might have
seen me in believing that I had Ijst my
senses For several years I have been
grubstaked in prospecting these moun
tains without success and many is the
time I have gone hungry for lie want
of the price to get something to eat
and can you blame me for going nearly
crazy when I realized that I was no
longer poor
Mohammeds Only Male Descendant
The only male descendant of Moham
med is Elsaid Ahmed Effendi Abdel
Khalek Sheik-el-Sadat who lives in
Egypt and is a prominent Arab gentle
man in the Khedives country The
shieks house in Cairo is an ancient
affair and Iris ancestors have occupied
it for eight centuries He is typically
oriental except that he is of an enor
mous stature His face is very red his
hair short and curly and sprinkled with
gray his eyes small beady and black
with heavy lids His face Is sensual
with thick lips and heavy jowl stolid
and expressionless except when moved
by anger or pleasure
A Kerosene Oil Drunk
Kerosene oil would hardly be deemed
a desirable beverage by an epicure but
it is used in large quantities as a stim
ulant by Russian immigrants in this
country The habit is one that they ac
quire in itMiv native land and strange
as it may seem they adhere to this
form of intoxication even when other
liquors are within reach of their purse
An oil drunk produces intense drow
siness and the tippler of this odd drink
goes to sleep as soon as he has become
saturated with the liquid
The man who originated serials must
have been an author who was looking
for some way to keep women from read
ing the lat chapter of his novel
Life
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The First National Battle
On the outbreak of the civil war there
were 1601 State banks in existence in
this country with an aggregate cap
ital of 429000000 and over 10000 dif
ferent kinds of notes in circulation
The condition of the hanks was gener
ally sound but the inconvenience to the
people of so many different kinds of
notes and the danger ignorant and
unsuspicious people constantly incurred
of being imposed upon with worthless
notes together with other considera
tions induced the Government to take
up the matter and a uniform system of
currency and banking laws was devised
for the country by Secretary Chase
The banking act was passed Feb 25
1SG3 the State banks were induced by
privileges or compelled by taxation to
surrender their charters and become
national banks and thus the change
one of the greatest in the history of
financial operations was brought about
without the slightest interruption to
the business of the country
Rome Wasnt Built in a Dny
Neither are the obstinate maladies to the
removal of which the great corrective Hos
tetters Stomach Biters is adapted curable
hi an hour To persist in the use of this
standard remedy is no more than just Bil
iousness constipation malaria rheumatism
kidney complaints and nervousness are
among the complaints which it eradicates
In a magazine article just published
Andrew Carnegie says We should
be quite willing to abolish luxury but
to abolish poverty would be to destroy
the only soil upon which mankind can
depend to produce the virtues which
alone can enable the race to reach a
still higher civilization than it now pos-
sesses
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A Simmos Caloma Mich
Mrs Christian Fisher of Steuben
ville Ohio who celebrated her 100th
birthday recently is a remarkably
well preserved woman She reads the
Bible and the newspapers every day
and is strongly opposed to what are
called womans lights
Half Fare Excursion to Hot Springs
South Dakota
une 12th Julv M and 24th
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Sioux City Iowa
ft is said that Nicholas II Czar of
all the Russias will abolish all forms
of corporal punishment in his domains
Halls Catarrh Cure
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A clergyman usually takes prece
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Tisos Cure for Consumption has saved
me large doctor bills C L Baker 422S
Regent Sq Philadelphia Pa Dec 8 95
The First Lord of the British Admir
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it tries to give each passenger value
received for his uionev and
Its General Passenger Agent asks every
man woman anil child to buy tickets over
the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Rail
wayfor it is A Great Railway
The Princess of Wales has lately had
her picture painted It is remarkable
in that it is the first time she has con
sented to be represented wearing tho
large sleeves of fashion
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