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Pa. , * " * " " * " * - i t- ti i No Need of Interference. 1 The two neighbors who were passing ' ( the little cottage heard sounds as of a I' terrific conflict inside and stopped to listen. t Presently they heard a loud thump , It' t 'tLS If somebody had fallen to the floor. "Grogan is beating his wife again ! " I they said. rI I ' Bursting the door open they rushed I into the house. I "Wkat's the trouble here ? " they de manded. I "Ther ain't no trouble , gentleman , " calmly answered Mrs. Grogan who bad her husband down and was sIt- ttnsr on his head. "GwanM ! - - Chicago Tribune. _ WOMEN'S KIDNEYS " . /Are tbe Source of Most of Women's Sickness. Mrs. Rebecca Mock , 1796 E. Rich , i Street ! ( Columbus , Ohio , writes : "I , 'believe ' I would still be a victim of kid- ney troubles but for Doan's Kidney Pills , for when I started using them I was in constant pain with my back , and no other remedy had been of any use. The kidney secretions were irreg- ular , and I was nerv- ous and lacked energy. But Doan /Kidney / Pills gave me prompt relief Jand continued use cured me. " . Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a DOK. ' Toster-Milburn Co. , Buffalo , N. Y. Why Bread Is Dear. The demand Is greater than the { Supply , says James J. Hill in Gating. fiWe have reached the end of our vir ! gin wheat land and our yielts ) are ( shrinking while our populatioa is in f ' creasing. . That is where conservation ' { ; touches udfT practically ; but we need not worry. Nature is going to take care of things. Necessity will punish us -and remedy matters in her owra stern ' way If we do not mend our methods. lwhen : wheat does not average so much an acre it is not worth raising- : Now I consider a moment where this trend of things is landing us. DO"ft know Ihow long it took England to mend feer methods - to raise her averages from ' /twelve / ' and fifteen to twenty-five apd 'thirty ! ' and forty bushels an acre ? It took : her almost fifty years. Ia fifty jyears what population will we have . , to feed ? And we have not even be- , gun to mend our methods. It is the supremely big question of the day. -Shall we act now and save ourselves national disaster , or wait till neces sity compels us-and then act ? Com . pare agricultural interests ! ! to any other national interests to-day ! What iwere the total returns from thefarms of the United States last year ? Seven Million ' dollars ! Compare that to the ( returns from the forests ? 1,250,000 ; : 4nd our farm averages are not a third of ) what they ought to be , of what they could : be , made by simple rational methods. Other countries have trebled and quadrupled their yield. So could we. _ _ Et PRESSED HARD. th ] Coffee's Weight on Old Age. c When prominent men realize the in do j , Jurious . / effects of coffee and the change d j in ; health that Postum can bring , they sic ] thi jare glad to lend their testimony for " thi the benefit of others. / A superintendent : of public schools : me a , i in North Carolina says : trc "My mother , since her early child- lio I hood , was an inveterate coffee drinker and : had been troubled with her heart as ! .for a number of years , and complained hu r of that 'weak all over' feeling and sick dia ] stomach. the : , "Some time ago , I was making an pei official visit to distant a part of the nei . . ; .country ' and took dinner with .one of y- I khe , merchants of the place. I noticed . ja somewhat peculiar flavour of tho cofcr ! fee , and asked him concerning It. He + replied that it was Postum. I tur , " E "I was so pleased with it , that after As the ! meal was over , I bought a pack- sa"\ ' , age to carry home with me , and had wife prepare some for the next meal. I The whole family liked It so weH , that t-t .we discontinued coffee and used tal : jPostum entirely. got , , "I had really been at times very g-g . janxious : concerning my mother's oon- vin jdition , but we noticed that after using . cro ' JPostum 'for a short time , she felt so laun Imuch : better than she did prior to its { use , and had little trouble with her the heart [ ! and no sick stomach ; that the " lieadaches : not 'bout ' were so frequent , and " her general condition much improved. " This : continued until she was as well - trol find hearty as the rest of us. " : "I know Postum has benefited my tor " self and the other members of the fam- " f ily , but not in so marked a degree as asked in the case of mother she ' loud my , as was a victim of long standing. " frig BO Read "The Road to Wellville , " IB a p : pkgs. " "There's a Reason. " "bu Ever read the above letter ? A " new one appears from time to time.or ; ( They are genuine , true , and full of stlfl Jiuman interest. fer . . ' ; , . , ' - , " : ' . 'c ' . . _ a . ' * : . > , _ . . - _ _ _ . . . . u - - - - - - _ ' - " , . . , ; J ( " . iY.- : - . . . . . . - . - - - - - - - - - - ' " ' 1 . ; 0 & } , 'i'1 _ . - , 0 , . _ " ' , { " . . _ F - r- V The ftedemption rl EL t ) . vid ears on By CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS I Copyrlffht 1900 , by The Bowen-Merrlll Company. All Riffhts Reserved . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - g CHAPTER II. At the moment when Stephen was Bounding the horn to summon the young mystic to his supper , a promis- cuous crowd of loafers with chairs tilt- ed against the wall of the village tav- ern received a shock. They heard tho tinkle of bells in the distance , and looking in the direction of this unus- ual sound , saw a team of splendid coal- black horses dash round a corner and whirl a strange vehicle to the door of the Inn. There were two" extraordinary fig- ures on the front seat of the wagon. The driver was a sturdy , thick-set man whose enormous moustache suggested a crow with outstretched wings. As If to emphasize the ferocious aspect lent him by this hairy canopy which com- pletely concealed his mouth Nature had duplicated It In miniature by brows meeting above his nose and spreading themselves , plume-like over a pair of eyes which gleamed so brightly that they could be felt al- though they were so deep-set that they could scarcely be seen. This fierce and buccaneerish person i summoned the dozing hostler In a coarse , imperative voice , flung him the reins , sprang from his seat , and assIst- ed his companion to alight. She gave him her hand with an air of utter In- difference , bestowed upon him neither smile nor thanks , and dropped to tho ground with a light flutter like a bird. Turning instantly toward tho tavern , she ascended the steps of the porch under a fusillade of glances of aston- ishment and admiration. Young and beautiful dressed in a picturesque and brilliant Spanish costume she carried herself with the ease and dignity of a princess , and looked straight past the staring crowd. Her great , dreamy eyes did not seem to note them. When she and her companion had entered the hall and closed the door behind them every tilted chair came down to the floor with a bang , and many voices exclaimed in concert , "Who is she ? " Curiosity was satisfied at 8 o'clock in the evening , for at that hour Doctor Paracelsus Aesculapius , as he fantastically called himself , opened the doors of his traveling apothecary shop and exposed his "uni- versal panecea" for sale while at the same time , "Pepeeta , the Queen of Fortune Tellers , " entered her booth and spread out upon a table the parapher- nalia by which she undertook to.dis . - cover the secrets of the future. COP When the evening's work was ended , Pepeeta ( at once retired ; but the doctor entered the bar-room followed by a curious and admiring crowd. He was In a happy and expansive frame of mind ! , for heA had done a "land office" business in this frontier village which ' he ! was now for the first time visiting. He looked over the crowd with an ' inclusive : . superiority and waved his hand with an inclusive gesture. The motley throng of loafers sidled up to the ; bar with a deprecatory and auto- matic ; movement. They took their glasses , clinked them , nodded to their entertainer , muttered incoherent toasts and drank his health. The delighted landlord feeling it Incumbent upon him to break the silence , offered the friendly observation : "S-s-see you B-s-tutter. S-s-stutter a little Blm m-m- my : own self. "Shake ! " responded the doctor , who was in too complacent a mood to take 1 : offense , and the worthies grasped t hands. a . " ' "Don't know any w-w-way to s-s- : stop it , do you ? " asked the landlord. 11 "No , I d-d-don't t-t-tried ; - - every- thing. ) Even my 'universal p-p-pana- g cea' won't do It , and what that ' can't t o can't be d-d-done. Incurable d-d- disease. Get along all right when I go s slow [ like this ; but when I open the 0 throttle , get all b-b-balled up. Bad s thing for my business. Give any man Ba thousand d-d-dollars that'll cure be Ie , " the quack replied , slapping his he trousers pocket as if there were mil- lions in it. yo a : " ' 'Co-co-oouldn't go q-q-quite as high th : ; that ; but wouldn't mind a hu-hu- thw hundred , " responded the landlord , cor- dially. fi "Tell you : what It Is " , b-b-boys , said iz Ie quack , "if it wasn't for this im- pediment In my s-s-speech , I wouldn't sy. need to work more'n about another . : r-year ! " her "How's that ? * * asked someone In the her crowd. tl : "C-c-cause If I could talk as well 03 ice. o-c-can think , I could make a for- tune 'side of which old John Jacob Aster's : would look like a - p-p-penny the savings b-b-bank ! " \ - - fin "You could ? " em " If I can find a man that can do the thi t-talking ; ( I mean real talk , you know ; ne lk a crowd blind as b-b-bats ; I've new t something better'n a California g- g-gold mine. hai "Better get Dave Corson " : ! : said the aw village [ wag from the rear of the doc crowd : , and up went a wild shout of bac laughter. bea "Who's D-D-Dave Corson " r asked we doctor. wh "Quaker preacher. Young : feller they mt 20 years old. " she , "Can he t-t-talk ? " and "Talk ! He kin talk a mule into a that trottin boss in less'n three minutes. " 1 "He's my man ! " exclaimed the docIn at which the crowd laughed , , again. cruel "What ' are you laughing at ? " he gen ( ed , turning upon them savagely , his out d voice and threatening manner little frightening those ) who stood nearest came that they instinctively stepped back con pace or two. little "No ] offense , Joe , " said one of them ; ion It you couldn't get him. He's pious. " " "Pious ] ! What do I care ? " be "Well , these here pious Quakers are the r In their notions. But you kin jedge could yourself 'bout his talkin , fer there's , cnay " " , : , 'i , ' . . , _ _ ' . " " . - . - - - - - - - - - . . . . . - - - - , --r.-\'I - - - - - - " " - ; " " . i " "it { : PE ; . . . . SS. ; ( 6 J\J.- ' ; _ - - I goIn' ter be an appinted Quaker meetr in' to-morfaw night , and he'll spas k. You kin an' listen if " go , you want to. "I'll be there , boys , and d-d-don't you forget It. I'll hook him ! Never saw anything I couldn't buy if I had a little of the p-p-proper stuff about me. " "I say , Doc , that daughter of yours knows her biz when It comes to telling fortunes , " ventured a young dandy , whose head had been turned by Pog peeta's beauty. "D-d-daughter ! " snapped the quack , turning sharply upon him ; "she's not my daughter , she's my wife ! " In order to comprehend the relatione ship of this strangely mated pair , wo must go back five or six years to a certain day when this same Doctor Aesculapius rode slowly down the main street of a small city in Western Pennsylvania , and then out along a rugged country highway. A couple of miles brounght him to the camp of a band of gypsies. Around a campfire was a picturesque i group of persons , all of whom , with a single exception , vanished at the ap- proach of the stranger. The man Wiio stood his ground was a truly sinister being. He was tall thin and angular ; his clothing was scant and ragged , his face bronzed with exposure to the sun. sun."Good "Good morning , Baltasar , " said the visitor. The gypsy acknowledged his J saluta- tion with a frown. "I wish to sell this horse , " the trav- eler added , without appearing to notice his cold reception. The gypsy swept his eye over the animal and shook his head. "If you will not buy , perhaps you will trade , " tho traveler said . "Come , " was the laconic response , and so saying the gypsy turned to- wards the forest which lay Just beyond the camp. The "doctor" obeyed. A moment later he found himself in a se- questered spot where there was an improvised stable ; and a dozen or more horses glancing up from their feed whinnied a welcome. . A little rivulet lay across their path , and up from the margin of It where she had been gathering water cresses there sprang a young girl , who cast a startled glance at him then bounded swiftly toward a tent and vanished through the opening. This keen ad- mirer of horses was equally suscepti- ble to the charms of female beauty. So swift an apparition would have be- wildered rather than illumined the mind of an ordinary man. But the quack was not an ordinary man. He was endowed with a certain rude pow- er of divination which enabled him to see in a single instant , by swift intui- tion , more than the average man dis- covers by an hour of reasoning. By this natural clairvoyance he saw at a glance that this face of exquisite delI- cacy could no more have been coined in a gypsy camp than a fine cameo could be cut in an Indian wigwam. Ho knew : that all gypsies were thieves , and that these were Spanish gypsies. What was more natural than that he should conclude with Inevitable logic that ; this child had been stolen from E people of good If not of noble blood ! ] "Baltasar ! " he said. The gypsy turned. 1 "You are a girl-thief as well as a horse-thief. You stole this girl from C the family of a Spanish nobleman. I lJ am the representative of this family c and have followed your trail for years. You thought I had come to get the e horse. You were mistaken ; it was tho girl : ! " "Perdita ! " exclaimed the gypsy , c taken completely off his guard. h "Lost Indeed , " responded the quack , a scarcely " able to conceal his pride in his r. own astuteness. And then he added e' slowly : "She must be a burden to you , v. Baltasar. : You evidently never have 0 been able or never have dared to take 0' her back and claim the ransom which you expected. I will pay you for her and take her from your hands. It is e 1 the < child I want and not vengeance. What : will you take for her ? " zl The doctor drew a leather wallet w from his pocket and held it up tantal- F Izingly. : Its Influence was decisive. Sl "Pepeeta ! Pepeeta ! " called the gyp sy.Out . ing Out of the door of the tent she came , r eyes fixed upon the ground , and g ] r fingers picking nervously at the w tinsel strings which fastened her bod- e. e."Gl " "Gif me ze money and take her. " The doctor counted out the gold , and ci then approached the child. For the VE first time in his life he experienced an pr emotion of reverence. There was some- a thing about her beauty , her helpless- first ness and his responsibility that made a : w \ appeal to his heart. Yielding to the gentle pressure of his Tom ' hand ta 1 , she permitted herself to be led away. Not a good-bye was said. The doctor lifted the child upon the .orse's tron. back and climbed into the saddle. The told beautiful child trembled ; she also wept She was parting from those fra 1 whose lives were base and cruel ; but , J' were the only human beings that , e knew. She was leaving a wagon d a tent , but It was the only home sO ] it she could remember. the To have a fellow-being completely our power makes us either utterly Iel or utterly kind , and all that was _ ] f gentle in that great rough nature went offi t in a rush of tenderness toward the exe :1e : creature who thus suddenly betra ne absolutely dependent upon his latl compassion. After they had ridden a to ' .Ie : way , he began in his rough fash- " to try to comfort her. . said "Don't cry , Pepeeta ! You ought to " thankful that you have got out of clutches of those villains. You -I- l1d not have been worse off , and you " ; y be a great deal better ! They [ than , , ' , , . ' . . . . - _ : - , , - . , . . . . - - - - - - - - . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - " - - - - - 1 - N were not always kind to you , were they ? I shouldn't wonder If they beat you sometimes ! But you will never be beaten any more. You shall Lave a nice little pony , and a cart , and flow- ers , and pretty clothes , and everything that little girls like. I don't know what they are , but whatever they are you shall have them. So don't cry any more ! What a pretty name Pepeeta is ! It sounds like music when I say It. I have got the toughest name In the world myself. It's a regular jaw- breaker-Doctor Paracelsus Aescula- pius ! What do you think of that , Pe - peeta ! But then you reed not call me by the whole of it ! You can just call me Doctor , for short. Now look : at me just once , and give me a pretty smile. Let me see those big black eyes ! No ? You don't want to ? Well , that's all right I won't bother you. But I want you to know that I love you , and that you are never goIng to have any more trouble as long as you live. " These were the kindest words the J , child had ever had spoken to her , cr at least < the kindest she could remember. They fell on her ears like music and awakened gratitude and love in her . heart She ceased to sigh , and before ' the rida to town was endpd had be- gun to feel a vague sense of happi- ness. ness.The Tho next few years were full of strange adventures for these singular , . companions. The quack had discov- ered certain clues to the past history | of the child whom he had thus adopt- ed , and was firmly persuaded that she1 belonged to a noble family. He had made all his plans to take her to Spain and establish her identity in trie hope of securing a great reward. But just as he was about to execut ; this scheme , he was seized by a disease which prostrated him for many months , and threw him into a nervous condition in which he contracted the habit of stammering. On his recovery from his long sickness he . found him- self stripped of everything he had ac- cumulated ; but his shrewdness and in- domitable will remained , and he soon began to rebuild his shattered fortune. During all these ups and d" wns , Pe- peeta was his inseparable and devoted companion. The admiration which her childish beauty excited im his heart had deepened into affection and finally into love. When she reached the age of 16 or 17 years , he proposed to her I the idea of marriage. She knew noth- ing of her own heart , and little about life , but had been accustomed to'y ield implicit obedience to hi3 will. She conI I sented and the ceremony was perform- ed by a Justice of the Peace In the city of Cincinnati , a year or so before their appearance in the Quaker village. , An experience so abnormal would have perverted , if not destroyed her nature , had it not contained the germs but"T beauty and virtue implanted at her birth. They were still dormant , but not dead ; they only awaited the sun and rain of love to quicken them into . life. } lite.The The quack had coarsened with the passing years , but Pepeeta , withdraw- ing Into the sanctuary of her soul , liv- ing a life of vagnue dreams and halt- conscious ! aspirations after something , she know not what , had grown even more gentle and submissive. As she did not yet comprehend life , she did not protest against its injustice or its incongruity. The vulgar people among whom she lived , the vulgar scenes she saw , passed across the mirror of her soul without leaving permanent im pression. She performed the coarse ; duties of her life in a perfunctory manner. It was her body and not her or soul , her will and not her heart which were concerned with them. What that " soul and that heart really were , re ' | " mained to be seen. of ( To be continued. ) t ] ed A Moral Lesson. as : Mike Powers , the Athletics' catcher , ne , said ; at a recent baseball banquet in CJ Philadelphia : ? ' "All the talk there has been In New is York about crooked foot races and w crooked : umpires and crooked fights- SE all this vague , formless talk about the crookedness makes me think of a not South ; Carolina meeting I once attend h < ed. At the end of this meeting it was w decided to take up a collection for , iharity. The chairman passed the hat w , himself. He dropped a dime in It for of nest . Well gentlemen t egg. , , every right hand there entered that hat- did every right hand-and yet : , at tfhe end , ill : when the chairman turned the hat ch over and shook it , not so much as his to own contribution dropped out. th " 'Fo' de lan's sake ! ' he cried. 'Ah's ing ; eben ! los' de { dime Ah stabled wiv ! ' woi "All the rows of faces looked puz the , zled. Who was the lucky man ? That fani was the question which tormented all.ca : Finally the venerable Calhoun White add summed up the situation. that " 'Breddern , ' he said , solemnly , risho 19 from his seat. 'dar 'pears ter be a enc great moral lesson roun' heah some con whar. ' " go pro1 A Case for Sympathy. add Two matrons of a certain western ers city whose respective matrimonial est ventures did not in the first instance per prove altogether satisfactory , met at vgje woman's club one day , when the 5t matron remarked : "Hattie , I met your 'ex , ' dear old 1m , the day before yesterday. We they talked much of you. : ' "Is that so ? " asked the other ma- W m. "Did he seem sorry when you Frej : d him" of my second marriage ? " sale "Indeed , he did ; and said so most 1 land frankly ! " yeai "Honest ? " ster "Honest ! Hp said he was extremely luml sorry , though , he said , he didn't know to : t man personally. " - Lippincott's. that : nately Proof lIe Wo "Dazed. " ; 20 ( He had pleaded the "detained at the nade office" ( and the "balancing the books"gtur gtur excuses : so often that they had become > raves transparent , so when he arrived home plaIJ e on a recent evening he determined . ) iece to'lean on the truth. hat "Theodore , you've been drinking ! " t he d his indignant wife. : , vhich "Selina , m' dear , I cannot tell a lie luired. - " stammered the delinquent. and "Then you're even more intoxicate J6T [ > a n ] I thought. Go to bed. " ' . , , - - ± lT " . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - : ; : . : I . - , - " ' . . ' 1) t + 'T..m6 M' . f i 1 Profanity f * 3i 52 frB { at the ! _ - ? , , I Telephone I I l rr/rrArAr/rrA rb tat a" 1n"N a : > ' t < So ArIC.A.A ! a t t,1ta 1eat ! rA laN rAr/r labt . = ' : J The Court of Appeals of Iowa is i ; reported to have decided that a tele phone company cannot refuse to provide service for a nouseholder be cause he swears at the operator , or , apparently , because he is in the ha b - it of eavesdropping on party lines , says the New - ; York Sun. Tne text of the decision is not at hand and its full effect therefore cannot be stated , but evidently the company is declared tobe without power as a censor of the language and manners of its customers. What recourse a telephone operator assailed with in decent , violent or profane language would hare the newspaper despatches do not set forth. It might be in a prosecution for disorderly conduct , threats and even assault. For the creature wiho listens to conversations over the line he uses , boiling in mush is not too severe a punishment. . The temptation to profane and violent . language over the telephone is felt and acknowledged even by those ' strong men who resist it. Why is the number busy at the moment when we want to arrange for to morrow's < picnic ' ? Probably it isn't at all ; that lazy girl is simply neg- lecting us and flirting with some clerk over the wire. Then comes strong language ; a relief for the feelings , it may be. , but we have been inform- ed that it reaches the ears not of the operator for whom it is intended but of a callous person whose sole duty it is to listen to the abusive outbursts of irate customers. There was once a , popular series of stories of "flirtatious operators. " What ( basis had these yarns ' ? We never encountered an operator who was other than coldly businesslike Our instinctive "Thank you ! " is cut in [ halves 'by the pulling of a plug or lifting of a jack , or whatever me- .hanical action disconnects the wire. "Will ! you please" - we begin when our watch has run down. "Ask in- formation" comes over the wire with a decorousness that is anytning but J enticing. : "I am much obliged" is j I cut off in the flower of its polite j youth hy ' the ' final click. It may be I I hat : our voice is not attractive to | he : young woman at the central of- , . 1 ic e. , As for swearing at a telephone op- J I erator ! , it belongs in the same class with kicking the door on which a night l groping householder has bang- , ed his head. The instinct to such useless < acts goes deep into human history. Professor THISAvDTHATic asserts that it is a survival from that stage of development in which ach rock , tree , river , pool and moun ain had its spirit to be propitiated r punished as the victim of its good will or malice believed discreet. But ' who has not longed "to take it out" f the transmitter and receiver when the essential guest blandly inform- d him from twelve miles away , just s the butler was announcing din ner , that , "he had been forced to change his plans and couldn't get . . over tonight" ? Of course profanity tr never defensible , but men are weak. Let the man of the house te send his wife to the telephone when s Le guests are arriving. She does fo ) t swear , though only Heaven knows pl how she restrains herself from hot tr words a thousand times a day. a There are , of course . , timid . souls th who are valorous at the other end 'I seven miles of wire. These are r4 they who , having got a number they tl d not want , arrogantly tell the man who has risen from his easy fill : chair to answer the' jingling bell I l th "ring off" in a tone that conveys iI their conviction that he is disturb- j pa : g them on purpose , and that they i would punch his head gladly could j pai e' ? reach him ; but to such pro- ' ing fanity is of no avail. Answer them . his calmly ; give your full name , Dusiness i 1 has : address and home address ; remark ! hai 1t you will be at any spot at any ! j Ch ] ur that may suit their conveni ce ; declare t&iat you are out of condition , but still willing to have a with any per.son110 boasts his to prowess from a safe distance ; and I that the extermination of muck- ship , is a subject : of the deepest inter- cas to the man who keeps his tem era : . and his decent manners when pro , telephoning. and anJ J INDIANS' i SUDDEN WEALTH. . ' whi fine y Wanted Their Money in Green me backs for Display. over Wealth has suddenly come to the on PYench River Indians through the ' tim of the valuable timber on their thln . , J . the ' ' ' u.S 'I near Lake : ( : Nipissing. For many ed rs the late chief of the Ojibways edB sternly : repulsed the advances of the the . e umbermen , but < his son has yielded ed their solicitations , and it Is stated cases t altogether the band will ulti- por .ely ( be entitled to something like pean 200,000. > The distribution is being pose Ie by - -Indian Agent Cockburn at rgeonFalls. < . The assembled ; -es listened stolidly to the ex'I lanations of the agent that the the e of paper each received meant roads : a large sum of money was in iwhe Quebec -bank to their credit , ' imp : ill could be obtained : when re- away. J ed. A short lecture on banking the convenience of the savings -Xo epartment followed , after which the IB < ' . ' " . ' > - - - = :0 < . . _ - - - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - . . . . , - - - : : = - - - - - - " - - - - - a i I . . t 1. the f f soLemnlY to 4 \ < 1 ' J marched . reelPcents : of the " . bankand drew the face value ; \ I checks. . . ' f. urdened with wealth , t'bey ' return I , ; eack I ed to the agent's office , where , , the ta- Indian piled his money upon . ! , : I , ble and joyfully regarded the stacks ; ' 1 Q + 4 Veenbacks silled ease and ! o f greenbacks which , ! , t comfort for some time to coine One- i. U ; cI bills of onhaving - Indian ] insisted on [ loaded ination and was , , ' small denomination I 'f' su greenfb'lcl t' 1 of up with a mountain greenbacks _ ill i into the of- With a grin he staggered I Inonej.bulging out of every , fi ee , money ! \\1 \ o himself , t pocket Slowly unpacking ; he piled his treasure on the table , , ' : \ / making -bigger display than any ot J 1'1' I ' him : " afforded which J his red brothers , i the greatest satisfaction. \ I " were dis- S. ! ' the men With difficulty : , suaded from carrying off their money j J , j . to the reserve , twenty miles across. , ! : J'I ' but , finally , after ! Lake + iNipissing ; ( I j making generous purchases and pay- i - - : q ing l their bills , nearly : all deposited , i ' ) their wealth in the bank. It is stat ' . ed that the sale will mean an in J i come to some families of ; E 600 a year. A not unnatural result of this \ \ ' wealth has- r , sudden acquisition of J been the frequent and prolonged vis its of young bucks from other , r. tribe , -who are finding new attrac , M of the Dokis tions among the maidens + matrimonial market 1 i families. The nl has shown quite aboom. One i wedding has already taken place and ' ' and indications are favorable for ! many more in the near future , as ev- 1 , ery Dokis maiden represents an im- mediately cash value of , about a r 200 ( ) ( I and a prospective yearly income at : E 60. - London Telegraph. . I I TORRENT FROZE IN NIGHT I Mountain Stream Turned to Ice Irv I 4 ) Remarkably Short Time. . j The phenomenon was one tnat 1 , + have never before experienced-a run- ning river frozen solid in a night. When we arrived the waters of this , stream , tumbling over the great bowld - " ers and rushing through the tortuous. channels , made a deafening roar. Gradually , but almost imperceptibly . the tumult decreased , while , worn- ' out after a hard day , we fell asleep. . A few hours later , when we- awoke , a deathly silence prevailed , . and on looking out , to my intense- I sarprise , I found that the rushing tor ' rent of the previous night had 'been- . transformed Into a solid mass of ice. : : ) , In , this region of extreme tempera- . \ tures I had on other occasions seen lH 1 rrents frozen , but never under such- " startling conditions. On looking. , round we 'found ' that everything we-- possessed was alsp frozen solid , in cluding our saddle of mutton , which was : merely a block of ice. We were- ravenous , but we got no satisfaction' from gnawing at lumps , of rock , which ought to have been a succulent Joint , and so , despite our hunger , we- had to content ourselves with a lit ! tle tea-to make which we melted ice - and a few biscuits.-J. Claulg . White , in Wide World. Cubical Cantaloupes. C. E. Parrish on North Yakim& . .1 . . Wash. , marketed cantaloupes here ' this : week that are perfect cubes.,1 Parrish has been doing novel ] . / things with fruit and vegetables for several ; years , but says that iiis idea ; of growing cantaloupes in the shape of cubes is tbe most practical of any thing he has undertaken. He had troughs made from heavy lumber and ? these are partitioned to make an in 1t 1 t terior size of 4 inches each way. As : soon as new cantaloupes are seen to- form on the vines each fruit ia- placed in one of the partitions in a' trough. The fruit continues to grow' and gradually assumes the shape ol : the cubical < house in which it ' lives. - } To prevent the top from becoming- r , round Parrish places a heavy top oir , the trough in time to avoid it. As soon as the cantaloupes have t filled up the cubic shape allotted tcr them , they are taken out by remov ing the bottom of the trough and packed < away to ripen. ; 1 Parrish already has larger ' troughs t partitioned off ' , in which he is grow. ! .g square watermelons , and all over ' ' : s apple , - pear and peach trees he , 1.s 'hundreds ' of cubical shaped boxes- hanging , each filling with fruit. : " l Charleston News. , . , , ' ' - 1'- t Chinese Perk Not Wanted. The first shipment of Chinese hogv j England bids fair to be the last. The Peninsular and Orient Steam. , iop Company believed . that the car casses could be imported in refrig . ; erating ships and that the trade mignY { prove a competitor with frozen beet : i. . d mutton. I ; The carcasses sold well in the- nvholesale market , but ( the retailers d that the public will not ha' have the , , meat. ! ; Some 5,000 hogs were brought er om a trial shipment and placed : sale at the shops for the first- me Saturday at 25 per cent. below- - prices charged for other import hogs. But the public prejudice , even in- poorer classes , was so pronounc- * t that the butchers , the. had In most , es < to raise the . price of othe- , 'k , such as American . and Euro Ln , , before ' . they were able . to Is.- - : 'e , of their stock. ' , Good Roads Mean Money. The : : people need to foe educated tc fact that ds money spent for -oo2 Is not money thrown away : . whereas money spent . . for makeshift improvements , is worse than . . . thrown- . . . . - Louisville Courier-Journal. > , ' 0 race-Is safe fT ' 'm _ ' \ cholera. I * : . . deadliest to negroes * , , , ; . , , " ; , ' , : . " - - . ' - - - - - . . - ' - - " - - . : - - , - - : : : - . - - - ' ' ' . -