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THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. 1 I K I Vt 9K XV' M 11 I to JlBLV3VLcjR.M and wi'iit along the drlrd river banl look for Monsieur k Cnpltniue, love him?" asked ft t-7 MTIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS RAYlVALTERS GUI TAIATFAIDS Woman Guides Must Answer Foolish Questions ASHIKGTON "Why Guides Go Mad" might bo an appropriate title foi a comedy, which could ho collaborated on by the nine women employed SYNOPSIS. 10 ly Comto de Haliron, captain of French .cnvnlry, tiikns to Ills qunrlers to rnlup by Imnd a motherless Irish terrier pup. and names It l'ltcliouno. Ho dlno.i with the Marqulur) ri'Ksrllgnuc nntl meets MIkh Ju lia Itoumonil, American lielreM. Ho Is or dircil to AIbIcth but Is not allowed to tako servants or dogs. Miss Heclmoml takes corn of ntcliounc, who, longing for Ills muster, runs nivny from her. The marqulso plans to mnrry Julia to the JVuc dt Trcmont. I'ltrliouno follows Hohron to AlKlurti, dog and muster meet, and Sabron kHb permission to keep his dog with him. Tho Due de Tremont finds tho Amcrlcnn heircs capricious. Sabron, wounded In nn engagement, falls Into tho dry bed of a river and Is watched over by Pltclioune. After a horrlblo night and day PHcliouno leaves him. Tvcmont takes Julia and tho marquise to AIrIith In his yacht but has doubts about Julia's Itcd Cross mission. CHAPTER XVII Continued. She had dono this for ooveral days, hut now she was restless. Sabron was not In Algiers. No news had been brought of him. HIS regiment had been ordered out farther Into tho desert that soomed to stretch away Into Infinity, and tho vast cruel sands knew, and tho stnrn knew where Sabron had fallen and what was his history, and they kept tho secret. Tho marqulso made hersolf as much at homo as posslblo in Algiers, put up with tho Inofncicncy of native uervants, and hor duty was done. Her first romantic olan was over. Sabron had recalled to hor tho Idyl of a love affair of a quarter of a century bo forc, but bIio had been for too long Marqulso d'Escllgnac to go back to an Ideal. She pined to have her nlcco a duchess, and novcr spoko the unfortunato Sabron'u name. Thoy wore surrounded y fashion able life. As Boon as their arrival had boon made known thoro 1iad been a flutter of card and a passing of carriages and automobiles, and this worldly life added to the unhnppl noaa nnd restlessness of Julia. Among tho guests had beon ono woman whom fiho found sympathetic; tho woman's eyes had drawn Julia to hor. It was ComtcsBo j la Maino, a widow, young as herself aftd, an Julia said, vastly bettor-looking. Turning to Tromont on tho balcony, when ho told her she was beautiful, she said: "Madamo do la Maino is my Ideal of loveliness." Tho young man wrinkled his fair brow. ''Do you think so, Mademoiselle? Why?" "Sho has character as woll as per fect lines) Her oyes look as though they could woop and laugh. Her mouth looks as though it- could say ndorablo things." Tromont laughed softly and said: "Go on, you amuso mo." "And her hands look as though thoy could caress and comfort. I llko hor awfully. I wish sho wero my friend."" Tromont said nothing, and sho glanced at him suddenly. "Sho says ouch lovely things about you, Monsieur." "Itcally! Sho is too indulgent." "Don't bo worldly," Bttid Miss Itod- mond gravely, "bo human. I llko you bost so. Don't you ngroo with mo?" ' "Madamo do la Maino Is a very charming woman," said tho young man, and tho girl saw a change come over his features. 1 At this moment, as thoy stood so togothor, Tromont pulling his mus tache and looking out through tho bouguinvllloa vinos, a dark flguro niado its way through tho garden to tho villa, came and took its position under tho balcony whore tho duko and Miss Redmond loaned. It was a na tive, a man In filthy rags. Ho turned Ills faco to Tromont and bowod low o the lady. "Excellency," ho said in broken French, "my namo Is Hammet Abou. I was tho ordonnanco of Monsieur lo Capltalno do Sabron." "What!" oxclaimqd Tromont, "what did you say?" "Abk him to como up here," said -...It . T" . .1 .1 it t . j una ucuuiuuu, or, no let us go down to tho gardon. "It 1b damp," said Trcmont, "lot me got you a shawl. " "No, no, I nood nothing." Sho had hurried boforo him down tho Uttlo stairs leading into tho gar den from tho balcony, and sho had ho gun to speak to tho natlvo before Tre mont appeared. In this recital ho ad dressed hta words to Julia alone. "I am a very poor man, Excellency," ho said in a mellifluous tone, "and very alck." "Have you any monoy, Monsieur?" "Pray do not suggest it," said tho duko Bharply. "Lot him toll what ho "will; wo will pay him later." "I havo been very sick," said the mun. "I havo loft tho army, I do not like tho French army," Bald tho natlvo simply. "You aro very frank," Bald Tromont brutally. "Why do you como hero at any rato?" "Hush," said Julia Rodmond Im ploringly, "Do not anger him, Mon sieur, ho may havo news." Sho asked: "Havo ycu news?" nnd thoro was a noto la her votco that made Tromont glauce at hor. "I havo scon tho excellency and or grandmother," said tho natlvo, "many times going Into the garrison." "What nows havo you of Captain do Sabron?" asked tho girl directly. Without replying, tho man said In a melancholy voice: "I was his ordonnnnce, I saw him fall In tho battle of Dlrbnl. I saw him Bliot in tho side. I was shot, too. Soo?" He stnrtod to pull away his rags. Tremont clutched him. " "You boast," ho mutlered, and pushod him back. "If you havo any thing to Bay, say It." Looking nt Julia Itcdmond's color less face, tho native asked meaningly: "Docs the excellency wish any news?" "Yes," said Tromont, shaking him. "And If you do not givo It, it will be tho worse for you." "Monsieur lo' Capltalno fell, and I foil, too; I saw no more." Tremont said: "You boo tho follow Is half lunatic and probably knows nothing about Sabron. I shall put him out of tho garden." Hut Miss Redmond paid no atten tion to hor companion. She controlled hor voice and asked tho man: "Was tho Capltalno do Sabron alono?" "Except," said tho nntlvo steadily, with a glanco of disgust at tho duke, "oxcopt for his little dog." "Ah!" exclaimed Julia Redmond, with a catch in her voice, "do you hear that? Ho must huvo been his servant. What was tho dog's namo?" "My namo," said the native, "Is Hammot Abou." To her at this moment Hammot Abou was tho most Important person In North Africa. wnat was tho llttlo dogs namo, Hammet Abou?" Tho man raised his oyes and looked at tho white woman with admiration, ' THchouno," ho said, and saw the effect. Tromont saw tho effect upon her, too. "r havo a wifo and ten children," said tho man, "and I livo far away." "Heavens! I haven't my purse," said Julia Redmond. "Will you not givo 'him something, Monsieur?" "Wait," said Tremont, "wait. What olso do you know? If your informa- building. It is .Air '"l Trs- j ilk wwtrmgr NOW rHOW US WHERE TH REM MONEY U MADE and I found Hi f n "Do you I Redmond. "Hum," said Trcmont. Ho did not wish to tell hor ho thought the man capable of robbing the dead body of his master. He asked tho native: lave you no other news?" The man was silent. He clutched tho rags at his breast and looked at Julia Redmond. "Please give him some money, Mon sieur." "Tho dog!" Tremont shook hlro again. "Not yet." And ho said to tho man: "If this Is all you have to toll we will givo you ono hundred francs for this parcel. You can go nnd don't return hero ngaln." "Rut It Is not nil," said the native quietly, looking nt Julia. Hor heart began to beat like mad and she looked at the man. His keen dark eyes seemed to pierce her. "Monsieur," said the American girl boldly, "would you leave me a mo ment with him? I think he wants to speak with mo alone." But tho Duo de Tromont exclaimed in surprise: "To speak with you alone, Mademoi selle! Why should he? Such a thing is not possible!" 'Don't go Atr," she begged, "but leave us a moment, I pray." When Tremont, with great hesita tion, took a few stops away from them nnd sho stood fnco to faco with tho creature who had been with Sab ron and seen him fall, she said earnestly: "Now speak without reserve. Tell mo everything." The face, of the man was tran3 formed. He became human, devoted, ardent. "Excellency," ho said swiftly In his halting French, "I lovo Monsieur le Capltalno. Ho was bo kind and such a bravo soldier. I want to yo to find Monsieur lo Capltalno, but 1 am 111 and too weak to walk. I believe I know where ho Is hid I want to go." The girl breathed: "Oh, can It bo posslblo that what you say Is true, Hammet Abou? Would you really go if you could?" 'Tho mnn mnln w!Mi n frrnf-nfltl ...v.. B. u. . . gesture of his hand, a map m tho Development ot tngine bhown in the museum kuuauly no museum collection in tno world uetier illustrates tho de velopment of tho steam engine, particularly tho locomotive, than the exhibit of the United States Nationnl museum, which includes two of tho (n the bureau 'f engraving and printing to escort visitors through tkt hard to believe thai tho foolish questions put to those guides come from tho Hps of appar ently sane adults. Can you picture s dignified, middle-aged gentleman, ap parontly In possession of all his facul ties, turning to tho young woman at his side and asking seriously: "Why are those notes green on one side?" Or a scnsiblc-appear'op matron putting this one: "What happens to all this money?" No querulous Infant, witt an abnormal thirst for knowledge, could do worse than that. Some of th most amusing Incidents In connection with escorting visitors through th( bureau arc related by a woman who has beon In tho employ of the govern mcnt over twenty years. "So many of tho visitors labor under the delusion that this is a big exhibition hall and that the money is being made in a sham Bort of way with merely the idea in view of enlightening them as to the process," she said "So thoj ask: " 'Now show us, please, where they mako the real money?' " 'Surely this Isn't tho money that wo use?' " 'What do thoy do with all this paper after we aro through looking at it?' " 'You don't mean to toll us this is real money?' "It is amazing how few persons know that the face of a bill is printed In black ink and the back in green, until they visit the bureau. "Some time ago, when tho buffalo notes wore being printed, 1 was escort ing a banker through the place, when ho suddenly paused before one of the machines and asked whether we wero printing a now note. I replied in the negative, but he contradicted me. " 'My dear madam,' ho said, 'I have been in the banking business In New York for over forty years, and I have never yet seen a bill which was greer on ono Bide.' "I told him that, on tho contrary, ho had never seen any other kind. He promptly offered to givo mo every bill in his pocket which happened to be green on ono side. When ho brought to view a large roll of bills and dls covered that I was right ho would have turned the money over to mo had I been willing to accept it. But it was too easy a way to make so much money." PI 1 1 1 1 1 vjmF.wn ihr m in i 1 cts,:. muz S A eg? was llko this?" he said; "I think ho drow himself up tho bank. I followed tho track of his blood. I was too weak to go any fnrther, Excellency." "And how could you go now?" sho naked. "By caravan, llko a merchant, se cretly. I would find him." Julia Redmond put out a slim hand, white as a gardenln. Tho native lift ed it and touched his forehead with it. "tiammot adou, sno said, go away for tonight nnd como tomorrow -wo will see you." And without waiting to speak again to Monsieur do Tremont, the nativo slid away out of tho garden like a ahadow, as though his limbs wero not weak with dlscaso and his breast shattered by shot. When Monsieur do Tremont had walked once around tho garden, keep ing his oyes nevertheless on tho Eroun. ho camo hack tnwnrd Julia Redmond, but no quickly enough, for sho ran up tho stairs and into tho houso with Sabron's packet in hor hand. (TriET were" . PlIRTY WIPl VjjlJYS J ry Jin n i ii a, rw "Now Speak Without Reserve." Uon is worth anything to us we will pay you, don't be afraid." "Perhaps tho excellency's grand mother would llko to hear, too," said tho man naively. Julia Redmond smiled: the youth tul Mnrquiso d Escllgnac! Once more Tremont seized the man by the arm and shook him a little "If you don't tell what you havo to say and bo quick about It, my dear fellow, I Bhall hand you ovei to tho police." "What for?" said tho man, "what havo I done?" "woll, what havo you got to tell, and how much do you want for It?" I want ono hundred francs for this," and ho pulled out from hla dirty rags a llttlo packet and held it .up cautiously. It looked like a package of letters and a man's pocketbook. "You tako It," said tho Due do Tro mont to Julia Rodmond, "you tako it, MadomolBolle." Sho did so without hesitation; It was ovldently Snbron's pockotbook, n lenthor ono with his Initials upon it, together with a llttlo package of letters. On tho top buo saw hor lotter to him. Her hand trembled bo that sho could scarcely hold tho package. It seemed to bo all that was loft to her. Sho heard Tro mont ask: "Whoro did you get this, you mlser- ablo dog?" Auor tuo oatiio, saiu tno man coolly, with evident truthfulness, "I wns vory Blok. Wo wero in camp sev eral days at s Then I cot bettor CHAPTER XVIII. Two Lovely Women. Thero wns music at tho Villa des Bougainvlllcas. Miss Redmond sang: not "Good-night, God Keep You Safe," hut other things. Ever slnco hor talk with Hammot Abou sho had boon, if not gay, in good spirits, mote llko her old solf, and tho Marquise d'Escllg nac began to think that tho Imago of Charles do Sabron had not been cut too dooply upon hor mind. Tho mar qulso, from tho loungo In tho shadow of tho room, enjoyed tho plcturo (Sabron would not hnvo addod it to his collection) of hor niece at tho piano nnd tho Due do Tremont by hor sido. Tho Comtcsso de la Maine sat In a llttlo shadow of hor own, musing nnd enjoying tho plcturo of tho Due do Tromont nnd Miss Rodmond vory Indifferently. She did not ;Ing; sho had no parlor accomplishments. Sho wns poor, a widow, and had a child. Sho was not a brilliant match. (TO I1H CONTINUKD.) earliest original locomotives and numerous models and accessories. Tho history of tho steam engine Is a materialistic romance without parallel In the record of human achievements. It covers tho stu pendous and persistent efforts ot many early philosophers and me chanics, who found steam a mysteri ous, uncontrollable force, and left It a comprehensible, controllable factor of public service. Tho steam englno has boon termed tho most successful invention over brought into use for converting the potential energy of coa) into mechanical work. As tho result of a wafer made by a resident of Merthyr-Ty'dvll, an 1m portant Iron town of South Wales, that he could convey a load of iron nine miles by tho power ot steam alone, Richard Trevlthlck made the first engine to run on rails in 1803, and won tho wager for his employer the next year A model of Trevithlck's engine is to be seen In the National museum, as 13 also tho model of tho engine employed by John Stevens in 1825, and hi? original tubular boiler. 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By his work as a collector of garbage and other refuse which Is not ordinarily classed as garbage he contributes to tho hoalth ot the communities which ho honors with his pres ence. Ho Is a scavenger bird, nnd he plies his-trade only In those communi ties which aro sadly In need of scavengers. If everything were kept clean In a community thoro would be no buzzard or" flies in that place, and as the buzzard helps to keep down and to put down the output of garbage and bo forth, ho thus diminishes tho output of flies. Keen Rivalry. "All tho farmers hereabouts tscem to own motor cars. I don't suppose an automobile salesman could do much business in this community." "Oh, yes, he could. Thw farmers about hero havo quit trying to seo who can ralso tho finest cattle and the big gest crops. Every ono of them la try ing to get hold of a car with improve ments the other fellows' cars don't have." The Big Idea. "Why do you want mo to remain engaged to him another year? 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