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r ifW. fi ll 4 t- THE MOUHiifllHEB'S DREAM. IV 'MATT CtllM, Arnior. or Tin: Apvr.N rfiti:s or a Faiii Ui:iii:i,. Copyright, 1PDI. by Unchrllcr, Johnson & UnchclW "S'manthy, S'manthy, wake up. Eddy's mighty sick an' I want you to run down to the 'stU'ry an' tell Eph." Samantha rubbed her sleepy eyes op.n. staring up at her sister-in-law quite vaeantly for it moment. "Wlia fd yo'u say, Lizzy V" "Hildy's sick, an' I can't icavo him. lie has n high fever, an' is callin' for his pa. Hun, S'manthy, quick as you can. Here's your clothes, an' wrap my shawl 'round you." Samantha sat up on the side of the. bed still half dazed, but reaching me chanically for her dress. She occupied n little shed room opening out of the main room of the cabin, and the cold wind crept up through Uie cracks in the bare board iloor. "1 wants my pa, whero's my pa?" fretted a child's voice. "There, there, honey, he'll come in a minute," soothed his mother. Samantha was about in an instant. the last vapor of sleep blown away by the breath of that childish treble. Her teeth chattered a little as she dressed, groping around with no other light to aid her than the one shining through the doorway from the lireplaeo in the outer room. "Put on anuther light 'ood knot, Lizzy,'' she called. "Why don't you come out here where It's warmer?" was Lizzy's reply, but bhc thrust the rich pine under the logs and stirred up it brilliant blaze. She was a tall, sallow-faced young woman, with stooping shoulders and melan choly eyes, a direct contrast to her sister-in-law, who was short and rosy and laughter-loving. "Now don't you be pestered, Lizzy. Eddy ain'tgoin' to be bad sick, I know," Raid Samantha, hopefully, as she came out of her little room Hinging a shawl over her head, "lie's just a little crampyan' feverish. He al'ays is when lie takes cold. Kph'll come right up, nnd then Hddy'll be all right. Won't you, honey?" glancing over her shoul der to the bed. The little boy turned restlessly on his pillow, moaning softly. "I tell you, S'manthy, he ain't tuk like he 1suall3' is," whispered Lizzy. "It 'pears to me we orter have a doctor .right now. I know I'm al'ays scared W&3 finger ii mis Till". MOONSHIN'EU'S II0M3. plum to death nearly when anything gets the matter with Eddy; but you'd lie, too, if he was the only one you had." She turned away, wiping her eyes on her dress sleeve. "I ain't blamin' you, Lizzy." She went to tho bed and bent over the sleeping child for an instant, listen ing to his breathing and laying a light finger on his pulse. The doctor lived five miles away down in tho town, so it "behooved tho people of the mountains to know something about sickness and to exercise judgment. Samantha stepped out into the icy stillness of the night, with a. feeling of anxiety tug ging at her own heart. Sho debated whether it would not be wiser to sad dle the mule and ride down to '.ho dis tillery, as Eph could then go direct to the doctor; but she decided to let her brother see the child himself first. "Wo air all plum fools 'bout Eddy, nn' I reckon git sheered at mighty nigh nothin'. I'll let Eph judge for hisself." She stepped out briskly and fearlessly, gatheiing the shawl closely about her head and shoulders, for tho night was bitter cold with a light powdering of Biiow upon the ground. Icicles snapped noisily under her feet, her breath made a frosty cloud about her face. Tho wind had risen, for high above that frozen bilenco of tho earth tho rnirrrod clouds ilew stormilv. Now and then tho moon bhono down through a rent, illuminating mountain peak and ravine with its cold white light, but only momentarily. The little cabin was perched away up on tho side of Urandrcth's peak in u sheltering cove, and Saman tha'a way led her ncross the clearing where the naked corn stalks of last year's crop yet stood in blackened rows, and half down a ravine half choked with laurel. Half way down tho side of tho declivity a woll defined path had boon beaten out, and to this tho girl kept, treading carefully along Its blippcry surface for four pf falliug. The trickling murmur of a little stream came up from the depths of the hol low, now and then a bird scared from its roost ilew through the naked brandies of the trees, or some small four-footed beast ran across the path way. Of these sights or sounds Sn uiantha had no fear. It was not the first time she had been to thu distillery after nightfall. Hut her ears were keen to distinguish sound, and the ele ment of danger always lurking in the air for the moonshiner and all those connected with him had sharpened Samantlm's wits beyond the ordinary. Still, she did not fear danger that night until she came to a turn in the path where it shelved down very rap idly toward the bottom of the ravine, and found herself, without warning, within it few feet of a group of men. They were standing us motionless and noiseless as the trees, and after draw ing one sharp breath of surprise and tremor, she also came to a standstill, trying to shield herself behind a shrub of laurel. The moon was hidden by the clouds, and she couldn't tell whether they were friends or foes, but instinct warned herthut they were the dreaded revenue oflicers. The distil lery was not fifty yards away, hidden in the ilenths of that hollow, and she could easily picture the careless se curity of her brother and her lover, Al llishop, for they were partners. Iter lips felt parched. The cold seemed to strike suddenly to her heart. For an instant she felt blind and dizzy with the thought of their being entrapped and taken. She clutched at a bush, loosening a shower of icicles. They fell to the ground with a loud, clinking sound. "I heard something," muttered a cautious voice. "Hush, it was only the ice falling," said another. And then to the girl's straining ears came the soft punch, punch of foot steps behind her. She turneu her head and saw a man looming up almost di rectly over her. She dared not. movo or breathe scarcely for fear of dis covery. "Straight ahead," whispered the new comer to his comrades. "You are sure?" "Yes, I know it," Impatiently. The group broke into single flic, moving down the pathway like black shadows. Samantha lost all sense of her own danger in the desperate desiro to warn thoso below. She leaped to her feet, giving utterance to a wild and piercing cry. It splintered the bilenco of the night with a thousand echoes, and died away in weird whispers against the hillsides and in the hol lows. There was a shout from thu oflicers. Sonio plunged down the path way, while others wheeled to find out if an ambush had been sprung upon them. Samantha heard a bullet whiz by her ear, and tho next moment bho had dropped over tho edge of tho bluff. Sho crashed down through tho under brush, bumping and rolling over stones and shrubs, her clothes torn, her face and hands scratched. The thick folds of the shawl wound about her saved sin: wi:nt CItSJIINU mjsiir.s. Tuitouoir tiih her somewhat, but not altogether. It seemed an ago before sho found a stopping place, and the.n she lay bruised and breathless, unable to move. Hut dreadful sounds still pierced her stunned bous.es, flerco cries, pibtol liP L j -, w euxxt www &!k shots and trampling feet. Some one ran through the laurel thicket on tho opposite side of the stream, an olllcer in swift pursuit, Hut he wasted both his strength and his ammunition, for he returned empty hnnded. She could hear his hoarse breathing, and now and then a profane exclamation, as ho picked his way through the under brush. Then gradually tho furv of conflict and of destruction died out, and silence reigned again tho silence of midnight. Samantha had lost all ac count of time, for she couldn't tell whether she had fainted or had slept. When she came fully and clearly to herself again tho stillness of death seemed to prevail around her. Only the little stream rippled on softly, musically, undisturbed by human con flicts. Samantha found herself lying across some laurel boughs directly over it, and through the tree tops towering above she saw a patch of sky. It widened while she gazed; tho clouds grew silvery, and then tho moon appeared, sending a clear beam right down into her eyes. Her slug gish thoughts were quickened; she re membered her errand with a groan. Hut when she tried to move, to sit up, her numbed limbs refused to obey her; she felt as though pinned to the earth. "I mus' be plum' freezed, or I'm par alyzed, one or t'other. Did they git Eph an' Al? What will Li.zy do?" Hoforo sho knew it tears were filling her eyes, trickling over her face. "Lai What am I eryln' like a baby for? If I've got to die, the Almighty '11 take keer of mo. I done what I could to bitve 'em." She tried to wipe away tho tears, but her stiffened arm refused to be moved. It lay like a leaden weight across her chest. It was no use. She might as well trivo up. The drowsy numbness seemed to be creeping up even to her heart. Only her brain was stiU active, preternaturally active. All her life from childhood on crowded upon her thoughts. Sho and Al were to have been married in this spring. Poor Al how sorry he would feel. And Lizzy, and Eph and Eddy. She was again moved to tears, though scarcely conscious of them. 1 1 seemed a long time that she lay thinking, thinking, then her thoughts became only dreams. She lay snug and warm in her own bed, with a stream of Tvater flowing through the room, and a bird singing upon her rafter. What a shrill and piercing note. The voice of the running water was ten times sweeter, softer. Suddenly she was wide awake again, and listening in tently. The shrill bird-like whistle sounded vory near. It thrilled her with reviv ing hope; sho uttered a little cry of re lief and joy. A man crashed through the underbrush at the opposite of the stream and leaped over very close to her. "S'manthy, oh, S'manthy!" "I'm here, Al; I'm right close." Tho moon came out again, revealing her hiding place. Al bent over her and gathered her into his arms. "Honey, I 'lowed I'd never find you. I've been huntin' an' huntin'. What's the matter?" "I fell down the bluff an'" "You're freezin' to death." "Yes; I s'pose so, an' I feel all broko to pieces." "I knowed it was your voice the min ute I heard you scream, an' wo all knowed what it meant, too." "Eph where is Eph?" "They tuk him, S'manthy. " She gasped with horror. "Tuk Eph! Oh, oh!" "I been up to the houso an' found Lizzy might' nigh distracted. She's takin' it hard, an' Eddy bein' sick, too. I had to como an' hunt for you, an' I think I'm just hero in time!" All the time ho had been talking ho was busy rubbing Ins face and Hands, and now he lifted her first into a sit ting position and then to her feet. Hut ho had to carrv her in his arm. 'lO UK C'OM'INUKD.J A SINGULAR PHENOMENON. Queer Sounds IhhiiIiiit from Ciidcrgroiiiul (in td 11 .Shores uf tilt) JCml Son, A singular phenomenon occurs on the borders of the Hod sea at a placo called Nakous, where the intermittent underground sounds havo been heard for an unknown number of centuries. It is situated at about half a mile's dis tance from tho shore, whence a long reach of sand ascends rapidly to a height of almost three hundred feet. This reach is eighty feet wide and re sembles an amphitheater, being railed iu by low rocks. Tho sounds coining up from tho ground at this place occur at intervals of about an hour. They at first resomblo a low murmur, but beforo long there is heard a loud knocking, somewhat like tho strokes of a bell, and which, at the end of five minutes, become so strong as to agitato the sand. Tho explanation of this curious phenomenon given by the Arabs is that there is a convent under the ground, and these are the sounds of tho bell which tho monies ring for prayers. So thny call it Nakous, which means a bell. Tho Arabs afllrm that tho noise so frightens their camels when they hear it as to render them furious. Scientists attribute tho sounds to suppressed volcanic action prob ably to tho bubbling of gas or vapors underground. Pi'T tills restriction on your pleas ures; be cautious that they iniuro :io beiiifr that livos. Xiinmorman. Tin: wake in Ireland isu survival the undent funeral feast, ol THE "OLD K03IAN" DEAD. Sudclon Doiith of Hon. Allou O. Thurmun. Mo Ouli'tly Pusm's A vn. v nt UN Homo Columbus, (), Kestitt of 11 I'iiII l.mt November llrlof Sketch of 111 Career. In Coi.tTMiifs, O., Doc. in. Ex-Senator Allen U. Thurmun died very suddenly at 1:15 o'clock yesterday. llo had long been in bad health, but his Illness had not been regarded as dangerous for some time. Mr. Thurnian was 8'J years old November 13. but his health was such at that time that for the first time in years there was no public celebration hero in honor of the "Old Homan." His death is directly trace able to an accident November 1. In walking from ills room to thu libra ry he tripped in some unaccountable manner and fell heavily to the Iloor. "Tho Old Homan," as Mr. Thurman will ever be reverently and ulVootlon ately remembered by his political ad mirers, came of 11 proud old Virginia family. He was born November 111, 1S13, in Lynchburg, his father being a minister of tho Methodist church. Mr. Thurman entered politics in 131 1 when ,v Til U KM AN. he was nominated for congress by the democratic convention of his dis trict and was elected, entering tho house of representatives December 1, 1815, as its youngest member. He was afterwards elected to the supremo court of his state, serving as su premo justice towards the end. After ward Mr. Thurman was chosen United States senator to take tho place of Uenjamiii F. Wado and lie took his seat March 1, lmVX During his sena torial labors Judge Thurnian served on the judiciary committee, of which ho was for a time chairman, and on the committee on private land claims, and did splendid work on both. In 18S0 .lodge Thurman was a candi date for president before the demo cratic national convention at Cincin nati and but for a division in the dele gation of his state would have received the nomination. A t the close of h is service in the senate Judge Thurman returned to his homo in Columbus and resumed tho practice of law. In ISss came the red bandanna campaign. Cleveland and Thurman were nominated at St. Louis amid great rejoicings by the democrats. Tho ticket was defeated and Judge Thur man retired from active politics, re spected and admired by his immediate) neighbors and honored by the whole people of the country without regard to party. There was one peculiarity about Judgo Thurman. To visitors ho was always at home at night never during the day. His custom was to chat with callers and the family after the six o'clock dinner, and then, after ten o'clock, take up his reading. Very often he read all night, and the sun shone in his window before lie lay down tho book. Daring tho day tie slept He had no hour for retiring and none for awakening. SANTA FE INCORPORATED. Tho Unorganized Compiiny llui 1 llmi Uh ArtlrlfH Ciiiltnl Murk, tsVMl, IHO.OOO. Toi'KKA, Kan., Dec. 13. Tho new Atchison, Topoka it Santa Fe Hallway Co. yesterday filed articles of incor poration with the secretary of state. Tho capital stock of tho company is 8233,-i6(l,0()0, of which Si:il,o:n,h(iO is preferred stock and SHKVl.ll.MO is com mon stock. The charter is for till years. Tho directors of tho now company ar rived hero shortly beforo noon and re paired to the olllce of (Jeneral Manager J. J. Frey, where a meeting was held. Tho work was simply to ratify busi ness transacted in tho east several days ago. The board of directors is now com posed of Henjamin P. Cheney, lioston; Edward N Uibbs, New York; Charles S. (ileed, Topoka; tJeorgo (!. Havons, New York; H. Somers Hayes, New York; Cyrus K. Holiday, Topoka; Vic tor Morawetz, New York; T. A. Os born, Topoka; E. P. Hiplev, Chicago; W. M. Hutch, I Jos ton; Alda'co F. Walk er, Chicago; T. P. Fowler, Now York; 11. H. Duval, New York; E. J. Her wynd, New Y.rk, and (J. II. Nickerson, lioston, Tho board of directors formally elected E. P. Hlpley president of the company; D. 1!, Hobinson, first vice president; Paul Morton, third vice president; Edward Wilder, treasurer: Victor Morawetz, genoral counsel; E. 1). Kouua, general solicitors Aldace F. Walker, chairman of tho board, and Edward Wilder, secretary of thu board ii' V t . V AI.I.KX O. CONGRESSIONAL. Thn WonltVt Proriirillnn IIvmi In I'oit IiihimI I'orni. Tm:ftittiri'nf the prwplrilni; hi tlm moipiIu on llio Dili win it snticoli liv Sena tor Mortrun (Alii ) on tho llolirltih' son inicstloii In which lm Miorelv erltli'lsoil tho HrltNli ntatmsiiulr. Sir ,liill:iii Ptiiuiccfiilii A resolution ly Min uter Moixkn referring the question to the for clltn relations eoiuuiltteo with ou'or to report by bill or otherwise, was iiuanlinouslv mlopt'nl. Allium: the bills liitroiUiceil was 0110 bv Wen ntor Horry (Aril ) oruaullinr tho Inillun terri tory mill one bv Senator l'ultnor (III.) glvln t n uniform pension uf A) per month loiiUulut lost a hiitnl aiul foot tu tho late war ami id' to those who hut mi entire limb Also a Mil bv Senator Vootho's (Iiul ) tfr.tiitini? pen sions to Holillci'H mill sailors who were iiiptureil mill contlncil In eonteilrato prlinin i'.iii'Iiik Hi" nr Tho sonato. In exerullvu is slou. eoullrineil tho following lioiutntMleiw I'liuer II. Ail. mm, of Missouri, to bo JuiIko of tho eastorn illstrlot of Missouri. Kufus V. l'o-lt-liain. of Now YorU, to boasso'lato Justice of tho supremo court ...Tho houso helil a brief session. Hesolullous wore prosoutoil civil itirr for tho eonesponileneo of tho Waller ease, and for lists of jiettsloiiers who have boon strlol.en fionilho mils since Match I, lklH. or loiluceil. but both were objected to anil wont over. A few bills were Introilucml Tin: senate helil a brief session on tho tilth. About liH) bills were Introduced mid Mr. Cul Inni addressed tho somite In favor of upholding thn Monroe doctrine Tho resolution of Sena tor .lones (ArU ) to suspend tho removal of In trudeis In tho t'herolieu country until thoro shall bo an appraisement of tho valuu of Im provements iiiadu bv them, was adopted. Mr. Call presented several memorials pravltig for the recognition of tho Cuban Insurgents. Mr. Poller's bill in regard to tho olvll service was fiiNorablv reported and the senate adjourned ... Tho houso hud a long debate 011 a resolu tion offered by Mr llarrett (Mass ) Impeaching lion, Thomas F. 1) lyard for uttoMiicos dellv rreil by hint In a speech before tho Kdluhiirgli Philosophical Institute In November. Tho tie bate was very llsely and tho resolution was llnally referred to tho Judiciary committee, nfter being toned down by an amendment. Very little other business was transacted. Tin: senate was In session ono hour on tho I Ith ami that hour was mainly occupied In ills riisslng tho proposition to amend the rules so is to distribute tho appropriation bills among iho various committees Mr Allen (N'ob.) ad iliessed the seuato 011 his resolution to recug nl.e the Cuban (evolutionists and In favor of the Monroo doctrine . No business was trans acted la tho house, that botlv not having any thing to do ponding tho appointment of com uiittcim. Tin: proceedings of the somite on tho I'Jth wore characterized by inoro llfo than had been for several days. The bill nMeudllig tho Chi cago post olllco entry over tho state of Illinois passed. It had previously passed tho house. Mr Stewart Introduced a resolution Instruct ing the tlu.iuco coiumitlou to lixiiilro Into tho rales of exchange between gold statutiril ami sliver standard countries, elo. Mr Call spoke In favor of his resolution In regard to tho Ar menian imissaeies and Mr 1 'offer spolio on his congressional funeral bill. In executive ses sion the Minute continued thu nominations of C. II. Kllgoro, Yniirev Lewis and W. M. Spring eras Juiigus In OUl.ihoinu; Audio w C. Critro and William .1. llorton. (fulled Slates district attorneys, and Samuel M. Huthorford anil Samuel M. Stowo United Status Marshals for Oklahoma, and the seualo adjourned until Monday In tho houso ox-Spoalior (Irow (Pa.) spoke fur about 0110 hour oil that portion of tho picslileni's message In regard to tho tariff. Thu houso then adjourned until Monday. NATIONAL DEMOCRACY. Cliiilriiinii llairlly Insiich 11 Cull for (tin Committee to Meet .liuiiiiiry 10. I'lill.ADiii.i'iiiA, Dec. II. W. F. Har rity, chairman of tho democratic na tional committee, yesterday afternoon requested the secretary of tho com mittee to notify the members there to assemble in Washington on January 10 next for the purpose of select ing tho time and place for hold ing the next democratic national convention. Chairman Murrity has received letters from commer cial bodies in BO cities urg ing the national committee to select it late date for tho convention. IJusiness people contend that a long campaign unsettles trade and they therefore want tlio political battle made as short as possible. It is believed that a date not later than tho middle of July will be selected. CUT A CHILD'S THUMB OFF. Hiiicklntr Crime tif Clnirles Mmon, it Wort Mens Youth of Kiiiihiim t'Hy. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 1 1. A vicious brute, V.0 years of age. deliberately cut oil' the thumb of a little nine-year-old girl's right hand, because she teased him by shaking a skipping rope at him. The dastardly trick was done in a meat and grocery store at Twenty third and Agnes avenue. Tho poor little victim was Clara Sprugue, not yet ten years of age, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Sprague, a widow living at !i!)l.r East Twenty-first street. Tho vile scoundrel who did tho deed was Charles Simpson, a worthless youth of !i0, who now occupies a cell at police headquarters. There was ugly talk about the neighborhood of 11 tarring and feathering party. Simpson's ar rest was probably all that saved him. REVOLT AGAINST SPAIN. CoiiMilraey for t ho Ovnrl lirow of NpHiiIsh Authority In I'orlo Klco Discovered, Ni:v Youic, Dec. It. (ireat excite ment has been caused among nil classes by tho discovery of a conspiracy to overthrow the Spanish rnlo 111 Porto Hico. Many persons who form a. branch of the Marti Hevolutlonary club, of Now York, havo been arrested and are now in prison at San Juan, awaiting trial. Tho present affair is the outcome of the threatened revolution a year ago, when (ion. Oainir, tho Spanish governor-general attempted to demonetize Mexican money, which is the principal curren cy of the island. Slotting Championship Curnlv.il. St. Paul, Minn., Dec. II. Thu Win ter Carnival association has named January 'J7, '-'S and 'VI as tho dates for tho championship skating races of tho National Amateur Skating association. Hesides the regular events, quarter mile, one. flvo and toti'tiiilo races, thoro will be a 'JO-milo event. Tho great curling bonspiel will bogin on thu opouiug duy of the curulvaL