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BOB HAMPTON j °f PLACER; Sy JMUMIl PAMMSKAlTfWR OF mmmmm/M' '/ti/wnmn nism/um'm ^ COPWXWr fXKBY/LCffSCtU/K *CC SYNOPSIS. A AAtAehBieot of tp. Eighteenth in fantry from Fort Bethune trapj>ed by mdbuttt in a narrow gorgt. Among them i* m, stranger who introduces himself br ant name "of Hampton, also Giliis, the *ok; trader, and his daughter. Giliis _»il n majority of the soldiers art Killed Awing » three days CHAPTER It. Old Giliis’ Girl. Guided by the unerring instinct of * m oid Indian lighter, Giliis, during ; •obi. first, mad retreat, had discovered lamfairarv shelter behind one of the j largest bowlders. It was a trifle In advance of those later rolled into posi- j Uun ay the soldiers, but was of a size ABb shape which should have afforded »►- _ -—oteetion for two, and doubt- j P*’ »•- -* bad It not loss would kfl.Tr done *» _ neon lor the firing trom the cliff op woalte. Even then was a deflected ballet, glancing from off the polished surface of the rock, which found lodg ment: tn the sturdy old fighter's brain. The gir! had caught him as he fell, had "wa.-ii.rji5 all her treasured store1 of wa ter it! it vain effort to cleanse the blood ^ ruth his features, and now sat there.’ ^blowing his head upon her knee, al-■ iuough the old man was stone dean j with the first touch of the ball. That' Had occurred fully an hour before, but j sue continued in the same posture, s .rrave, pathetic figure her face sobered I .tad careworn byyond her years, her ! wyes dry and 3taring one brown hand grasping unconsciously the old man's i^eiese rifle She would scarcely have ween esteemed attractive even under nftffSi happier circUKitheces awtf *«;- ’ sisted by dress, yet there tras some-1 thing in the independent poise of her ] Head, the steady fixedness of her nos I ’*re, which served to interest Hamp wms he now watched her curiously. - • '‘Fighting blood." he muttered ad miringly to himself. "Might fall to iteveiop into very much of a society •ell. but likely to prove valuable out • She was rather a slender slip of a 'bias a trifle too tall for her years, "wfeffctps. yet with uo lack of develop ment apparent in the slim, rounded figure Her coarse homemade dress *f dark calico fitted her sadly, while ner rumpled hair, from which the broad-brimnied hat had fallen, pos sessed a reddish copper tinge where it was touched by the sun. Mr. Hamp Mm’s survey did not increase his de sire for more intimate acquaintance ship, yet he recognized anew her un doubted claim upon him. “Suppose I might just as well drop out that way as any other," he reflect ed. thoughtfully. “It’s all in the' game." | Lying fiat upon his stomach, both arms extended, he slowly forced him •elf beyond his bowlder into the open. There was no great distance to be traversed, and a considerable xjortion «f the way was somewhat protected hf iow bushes Hampton took few ahancee of those spying eyes above, sever uplifting his head the smallest fraction of an ineh. but reaching for ward with blindly groping hands, caught hold uiiou any projecting root ur atone which enabled him to drag ais iiody an inch farther. Twice they tired directly down at him from the I opposite summit, and once a fleck of sharp rock, chipped by a glancing bui i«t. embedded itself in his cheek, dye ing the whole side of his fact' crimson But not once did he pause or glance aside; nor did the girl look up from the imploring face of‘her dead. As he crept silently in, sheltering himself next to the body of the dead man, she perceived his presence for the first time, and shrank back as if in dread. “What are you doing? Why—why did you come here?" she questioned, a falter .in her voic<?: and he noticed that her eyes were daTk and large, yielding a marked impress of beauty to her face “f was unwilling to leave you here •lone." he answered, quietly, “and hox>e to discover some means for getting you safely back beside the others" “But I didn’t want you.’’ and there was u look of i)08itive dislike in her j widely opened eyes. Didn’t want me? He echoed these J unexpected words in a tone of com plete surprise. “Surely yon could not dw-iire to be left here alone? Why #m’t you want me?” * ‘Because 1 know who you are!” Her voice seemed to catch in her throat. “He told me. You’re the man who shot Jim Eberly." Mr. Hampton was never of a pro nounced emotional nature, nor was he a person easily disconcerted, yet he flushed at the sound of these impul sive words, aud the confident smile de serted his lips. For a moment they sat fims, the dead body lying between, and looked at each other. When the man finally broke the constrained si lence a deeper intonation had crept into his voice. “My girl.” he said gravely, and not without a suspicion of pleading, “this is tu) place for me to attempt any de- 1 tense of a shooting affray in a gambling ; house, although I might plead with some justice that Eberly enjoyed the honor of shooting first. 1 was not aware of your personal feeling in the matter, or I might have permitted some one else to come here in my stead. Now it is too late. I have j never spoken to you before, and do so at this time merely from a sincere de sire to be of some assistance.” There was that In his manner of grave courtesy which served to steady the girl. Probably never before in all har rough frontier experience had she •nan addressed thus formally. Her owely compressed lips twitched ner vously. hut her questioning eyes re mained nnlowered. “Son may stay,” she asserted,- so Sorty. “Only don't touch use" S No one could ever realize how much those words hurt him. Not until he had completely conquered his first un wise impulse to retort angrily, did he venture again to speak. “I hope to aid you in getting back beside the others, where you will be less exposed." ‘Will you take him?’ “He is dead," Hampton said, sober ly, ‘ and 1 can do nothing to aid him. But there remains a chance tor you ! to escape." } “Then I won’t go." sift dwiarw* positively. Hampton’s gray eye# lookefi* for a long moment fixedly into her darker I ones, while the two took mental atock of each other. He realised this uti— ‘ futility of anv furls*-? ITT »’31"T|«d1 while she felt ittSHneitvelv the cool, domi nating strength o:! the man. Neither i was composed of Unit poor fiber which t : bends “Very wdi, my young lady." lie said, easilj, stretching himself out more comfortably in the rock shadow. “Then I will remain here with you; if makes small odds.” Excepting for one hasty, puzzled ' glance, she did not deign to look again j toward him. and the man rested mo-1 tailless upon his back, staring up at i j the sky. Finally, curiuatty overmas- * iered the- actor in him, and he turned j partially upon one side, so as to bring ! her profile within his range of vision. f Her dark, glowing eyes were lowered j upon the white face oi the dead map, i yet Hampton noteH hnr cr6ar it * fiT sun-tan. were those tints of health' upon the rounded cheek, and how soft j and gibsst shone her wealth of rum-! pled hair. Even the tinge of color, so I distasteful in the lull glare of the sun, appeared to' have darkened under the shadow, its shade framing the ; i r~ ■ ■ — .. .- — - - claimed good naturediy, “but you are certainly laying It on thick, young lady! Howevei I believe we might become good friends tf we ever have ! sufficient luck to get out from this : hole alive. Dam .if 1 don’t sort of coi ton to you. little girl—yon've got some sand." For a brief space her truthful, augry eyes rested scornfully upon his face, her lips parted as though trembling with a sharp retort. Then she delib erately turned bet back upon him without uttering a word For what may have been the first and only occasion in Mr. Hampton’s audacious career, he realized his utter helplessness. This mere slip of a red-headed girl, this Little nameless waif of the frontier condemned him ; so completely, and without waste of 1 words, as to leave nun weaponless. Mr. Hampton was a thorough-going sport, and no quality was quite so apt to appeal to him as dijad gameness. He glanced surreptitiously aside at her once more, but there was no sign of relenting in the averted face He rested lower against tht ror*v. his fare ! upturned toward tht si'", and thought, j It was no spirit, o* 'p^vado that gave ; rise to his ree" iess speech of an hour previous »" tv.af sinipty a spontaneous QUtptjur* ng of hlf. rea! nature. an un P*^iedltated expression of that su preme carelessness with which he re garded the future, the small value he ! aet on life He truly felt as utterly in -+ toward fate as ait words differs^ —* of a life signified Deeply con,._ j?1* wrecked, every thing behind a chaos, everything be fore worthless, for years he had been actually seeking death; a hundred times he ad gtadiy marked its ap parent approach, a smile of welcome upon his lips. Yet it had never quite succeeded in reaching him. and noth ing had been ga^d beyond a reputa tion for ^co3, reckless daring which aw did not in the least covet. Bat now, miracle of all miracles, fast as the end seemed actually attainted-' seemed beyond any possibility of Be ing turned aside, he began to experi ence a desire to live—he wanted to save this girl. His keenly observant eyes, trained | by the exigencies of his trade to take note of small things, and rendered ! eager by this newly awakened ambi- j tion, scanned the cjif! towering above ; them. lie perceived the extreme ir-1 regularity of its front, and numerous ; peculiarities of format ion which bad | escaped him hitherto. Suddenly his ■ puzzled face brightened to the birth of an idea. By heavens* - it might be done! Surely it might be done! Inch by inch he traced the obscure passage "I Can’t Help Him, But There Remains a Chance for Your Escape.'’ downcast face into a pensive fairness. Then he observed how dry and parched her lips were. "Take a drink of this," he insisted heartily, holding out toward her as ne spoke his partially filled canteen She started at the unexpected sound of his voice, yet uplifted the welcome water to her mouth, while Hampton, observing it all closely, could but re mark the delicate shapeliness of hoi hand. "If that old fellow was her fatheT.” he reflected soberly, “I should like so , have seen her mother.’'’ "Thank you,” she said simply, hand ing back the canteen, tiut without lilt ing her eyes again to his face. “I was so thirsty.” Her low tone, endeavor ing to be polite enough, contained no note of encouragement. "Was Gillis your father?" the man questioned, determined to make her recognize his presence. "1 suppose so: I don't know." “You don't know? Am I to urnle:'- ; stand you are actually uncertain1 whether this man was your father or ' not?" “That is about what I said, wasn't it? Not that it is any of your busi ness, so far as I know. Mr. Bob Hamp ton, but I answered you all Tight. He brought me up, and I called him ‘dad’ about as far back as I can remember. | but 1 don’t reckon as he ever told me : he was my father. So you can under - i stand Just what you please." “His name was Gillis. wasn’t ItT’ The girl nodded wearily. “Post-trader at Port Bethune?" Again the rumpled haul silently ac quiesced. “What is your name?’ “He always called me Irid,’” she admitted unwillingly, “bat I reckon if yon have any further occasion for ad dressing me, you’d better say ‘Mias* Gillis.’ ” “Heaven preeenre see!” be -mi f seeking to impress each faint detail upon his memory—that narrow ledge within easy reach of an upstretched arm, the sharp outcropping of rook edges here and there, the deep gash i as though some giant as had cleaved j the stone, those sturdy cedant growing straight out over the chasm like the bowsprits of ships, while all along the way, irregular am) ragged, varied rifts ; i not entirely unlike the stepE of a crazy staircase. ' j i The very conception of such an es- I ploit caused his flesh to creep. But he ' was not of that class of men who fall j back dazed before the face of danger.! i Again and again, led by an impulse i hr was unable to resist be studied that precipitous rock, every nerve ttngHns. to tbe newborn hope. God helping them, even so desperate a deed might hi accomplished, although h would test the foot and nerve of a Swiss mountaineer He glanced again .uneasily toward his companion, and saw the same motionless figure. the same Bor'ber face turned deliberately away. Hampton did not smiie, but his square jaw set, and he clinched his hands. He had no fear that she might fail him, bat for the first time in all his life he questioned his own courage ' HAFTER III. Between Life and Death. The remainder of that day. as well ass nyici: of the gloomy night follow ing. composed a silent, lingering hor ror. The fierce pangs of hunger no longer gnawed, but a dull apathy now held the helpless defenders. One of the wounded died, a mere lad. sobbing pitifully for his mother; an infantry man, peering forth from his covert, had been shot in the face, and his I scream echoed among the rocks in i multiplied accents of agony; while | Wyman lay tossing and moaning, met i cifully unconscious. The others rested ! in their places, scarcely venturing to j stir a linil, their roving, wolfish eyes ! the only visible evidence of remaining life, every hoi'e vanished, yet each man clinging to his assigned post of duty fn desperation. There was but little firing—the defenders nursing theiT slender stock, the savages bi ding their time. When night shut down — bolder, and taunted —"» so the latter becam® - cruelly those TUft*® soon their hapi«» vic^ln‘"„cl,leaab' &t maddened tnei i fir*® r •— thope dancing « evils, and one p.__ forward, emlttia g a howl of pain that caused his comrades to cower once again behind their covers. One and all these frontiersmen recognised the inevitable—before dawn the end must ; come. No useless words were spoken j the men merely clinched their teeth and waited, > Hatflpton Crept closer-in-beside the girl while the shadows deepened, and i ventured to touch her hand. Perhaps , the severe strain of their situation, the intense loneliness of that Indian haunted twilight, had somewhat soft ened her resentment, for she made no effort now to repulse him “Kid,” he said at last, “are you game j for a try at getting out of this?” She appeared tg hesitate over her , an'’ *e C0UJ£ jggj j,«»r umntilii ous breathing. Some portion of her ■ aversion had vanished. “Come, Kid,” he ventured finally, yet with new assurance vibrating in his low voice; “this is surely a poor time and place for any Indulgence in tantrums, and you've got more sense I’m going to try to climb up the face of that ciiff yonder,—it’s the only pos sible way out from here,—and I pro pose to take you along with me.” She snatched her hand roughly away, yet remained facing him. “Who gave you any right to decide what I should do?” The man clasped his fingers tightly about her slender arm, advancing his face until he could look squarely into here. She read in the lines of that de termined countenance a inflexible re solve which overmastered her. “The right given by Almighty God to protect any one of your sex in peril.” he replied. "Before dawn those savage fiends will be upon us. We are utterly helpless. There remains only one possible path for escape, and I be lieve I have discovered it. Now, my girl, you either climb those rocks with me, or I shall kill you where you are. It is that, or the Sioux torture. I have two shots left in this gun,—one for you, the other for myself. The time has eome for deciding which of these alternatives you prefer." If 1 select your bullet rather than I the rocks, what then?” “You will get. it, but in that case you will dk* like a fool.” “You have believed me to be one, all this afternoon.” “Possibly,” he admitted; “your words and actions certainly jus tilled some such conclusion, but the opportunity has arrived for causing me to revise that suspicion.” “I don’t care to have you revise It. Never Once Did the Man Lessen His Grasping Grip of His Companion. Mr. Bob Hampton. If 1 go, 1 shall hate you just the same.” Hampton’s teeth clicked like those of an angry dog. “Hate and be damned,” he exclaimed roughly. “All I care about now is to drag you out of here alive.” “Well, if you put It that way.” she said. “I’ll go.” “Come on. then,” he whispered, his fingers grasping her sleeve. (TO BE CONTINUED.) • Norwegian Leper Asylums. There are in Norway no fewer than 20 leper asylums, but each contains only ten to 15 beds. They are situ ated in country places, and the style of living followed in .them is Bimllar to that of an ordinary family in mod erate circumstances. No Monopoly in Vanity. There is just as much man vanity in the world as there is womar. vanity, only it hasn't been so well advertised American Slang in Rome. , Youngster's Expression Touched the Hearts of Wanderers. _ The universal spread of American slang is amazing and the globe trot ter meets with it in the most unex pected places Last October two .kmericans wandering about the Plaza I d'Espagna in Rome were accosted by j j one Df the numerous small boys who ! stell postal card pictures of the Holy i city. He held out a sheaf at postal cards and offered them for $ale, stat ing the price in Italian. The Amer icans did not care to buy, and, like his guild the continent over, he fol lowed them and became a bit of a nuisance. But he was such *i merry eyed little chap they bad not the heart to speak harshly to him. At hut, how ever, they felt obliged to any “no” iiecldedly. It was then that 'be sur prised them and ’gave them a queer t-ttle pun at their American heart strings, by saying, his blank torn. of the achievement: ‘‘Skeedoo’ Skee doo! Twanta-thr-T-r-ree!” Then he vaniahed with a. burst of laughter. But the sequel was equally interest ing. Late that same afternoon the same eouple fame from the Cata combs into the white glare of the Appian way, five miles from the Piazza d’Espagna. They bad hardly stepped into the street before the same urchin -was at them again, and when he recognized them he was as amused as they. This time he did not offer them any cards, but simply said: “Skeedoo! Skeedco! Twauty-thr-r-r-ree!" And be got his generous soldi, as he knew quite well he would. Women Workers in Japan. Four-flf'bs of the operatives in Jap anese mills are women, probably due to the fact that thny will work for teas than the men. tUan are only employ ILLINOIS RIVER, ABOVE ALTON, ILL. For a considerable distance along • uiinois river the scenery compares favorable with the famous Grand Ca ' n COuntry. the rocks rising in stately grandeur for many miles along ttv j!iter>s edge. The route of the proposed deep waterway from the great I- ' ^ the gu|f is alona this river. INDIAN PRINCE LANDS I TAK' i "** *oom on top pi , «°T«A« HOTEL OB I -.-. .« Mountains for Health, Packs His Wife and Baggage on Steamship for U. 8. A. N'ow York—Mehander Perdah Sin ha. a Hindoo prince from Urindadia. -ndia, and his princess were passen gers the other day on the St. Louis from Southampton. His highness is -a\eling for his heaith. and had been o-dered by his physicians to go to the mountains. Instead of obeying orders he lumped as quickly as he couid upon a steamship and started out to round the globe Ab there are no mountains in New \ork city except those artificial masses of steel, stone and brick, called skyscrapers, the prince wanted to find a VeTT high hotel. He was directed to the Hotel Belmont, which is a proper ty mountain. He found the atmosphere sufficient ly rarefied in the top story. The prince also found, to his surprise, that the higher he went the cheapei were the rooms but it would have made no dif ference to him if the rooms had been high-priced, for he said money to him was no object. • He is the owner of 10.000 acres of land in India, and he and his princess are traveling incog. He looks to be still in the 20s. His princess is a charming little woman, dressed ac cording to the eternal edicts of Hin doo fashion. He wore an American frock suit and a turban, bis only concession to his native garb. The princess, although dark-skinned, has delicately molded features and an intellectual face. She wore a sari, the Hindoo robe that envelops both head and body The sari was pink and green, the waist of deep sea color, showing her shapely arms, adorned with filigree ornaments. In one ear the princess wore six rings and seven in the other. The upper portion of her ear is pierced, instead of the lobe. In her nose the princess wears the deeli, the ornament which iE like the head of a gold stick pin. In the center of her forehead was the tiny black dot bespeaking her roy al rank, and in the center of her hair a flaming ruby. Oi. one aryi was a heavy gold bracelet, with a watch set within the circlet. “I have been a syident at the Mo hammedan college at Aligarh,” said the prince, “but I became ill and was ordered by m; physicians to the mountains. Instead of that I went to ! sea. I left Bombay on August 13 and 1 jumped through Europe in 20 days.” Princess Sinha is a Buddhist. It is i against her religious principles to bo ‘ • ~'Taphed. and ahe would not con •*" her scruples had ---—"ts of / Pu. sent to pose been overcome by UM» ar*T»~_ the photographers. ' VARIETIES OF'VsiLA'NTl. I _ Nearly Four Hundred Ways 4f Spell, ing ft Found. Detroit. Aliclj—CarkPUs postal offi cers in m '*ehigan and Washington have been kt ^Phig for ywirs past a record of the di^’fereilt ways Ypsilanti has been spelled o'*1 mail matter, and by comparing the not *,s they have pre served a list of verltab.fo orthographic wonders has been conipii "d This list easily establishes the claim ihat more different ways for snelling Ypsilanti have been devised than for spelling any other geographical name in America. In all no leas than 372 dwtiuct ways j of spelling the name havebeeri count j ed, and it is probable that the greater number, perhaps all. have been used in good faith by iteraons who actually believed that the orthographic combi nations reproduced were the correct combinations for representing Ypsi ianti on the written or printed page. Every letter in the alphabet except “R" has been used as the initial letter of the name, though why so obvious a combination as Kypsilanti should be neglected when others much less ob vious have been employed is difficult to explain. As a matter of fact, the vacations in the spelling are chiefly : confined to the first syllable, **Y" be ing a letter lacking or having only an indifferent standing in many foreign - languages. Tipsy Lanti and Zyp Siianti are met with, and among the spellings farthest away from the accepted and official i standard are Whypsorlanter and Hip asalandder. Routed Burglar With Chair. New 1'ork.—Frank M. Franklin, a lawyer, who lives in an old fashioned house at 205 2d avenue, had an en- i counter with a burglar and came oS victorious. He was aroused from his i sleep by oue ef hi8 children, who j heard a noise in the dining room and started to cry. Mr. Franklin got out j of bed and ran into the dining room in time to see a man with a revolver climbing through a window. The bur glar aimed the revolver at the lawyer, but before he had a chance u> fire Franklin seized a chair and threw it ! at him. The burglar, bewildered by the at tack. dropped to the ytfrd, a distance of twelve feet, and, although he was Injured, he managed to climb over the ; fence and escape. Mr. Franklin often has large sums of money in the house, and he believes the burglar knew it. Since July bur glars have paid him three visits. CANADA BUYS BUFFALO HERD Taken from Flathead Reservation in Montana, Where They Ranged. Helena, Mont.—Residents at this city were given an opportunity during the week to witness the partial ship ment of the largest herd of buffalo in the world, which was transierred from the Northern Pacific to the Great Northern en route to its future home in Canada. The bison were be ing shipped by special train, and were detained here long enough to repair several cars which vicious bulls had damaged in their efforts to regain freedom. The herd was recently pur chased at Ravalli, on the Flathead res ervation, by the Canadian govern ment, and will be placed in a park near Edmonton. It is not known how many there are : in the herd, but it is estimated there | are about 400. It is thought that ' there may possibly be 5(H). with the calves. The Canadian government paid $150,000 lor the herd, and will place it in the Government park near Lamont. | which is aboutt-40 miles east of Ed monton. This park contains 10,000 acres, and the buffalo will be al lowed to run free in it. The govern ment has 80 buffalo in the park al ready. The purpose of the Canadian gov ernment buying the animals was to put them in this park and protect them, so as to prevent them from be ing entirely exterminated. The ani mals are all thoroughbreds. Charred Money Run Commenced1 Treasury Trace* Frost Line’s Advance fay Burned Saving*. Washington.—“This is the time of the year when we have no difficulty in tracing the frost line,” said an of ilcial of the treasury the other day. “You see, it’* this way. Late in the spring and early in the summer farm ers and other frugal people put away thetr savings in stove*, which, with rising atmospheric temperature are temporarily put out of commission. Now you would think that men of that type before starting up the fires in the fall would first think of the wad, but they don’t. The fire is started, and up goes the paper money in smoke. Then charred money begins to pom in on the treasury for redemption. “if we bad no other way Of it-oat we would know from the burnt a—ppy that is went in tar redemption in Maine in we traee - A day or » it mmtar, i* diana, a little early for that region at this season. The claims for redemp tion are now coming in Quite regularly, but as October advances and parlor stoves are lighted Cor the winter they will come in in ever-increasing num bers." Bulldog Kills Bear. New Yc«*k.—While two itinerant showmen, accompanied by two large performing bears, were passing through the J-*rag island village of Amagansett a email bulldog owned by William Bennett rushed at the™ n^rt caught one of the bears by the leg. A fierce battle ensued and the dog got a fatal grip or> the throat of the bear. No one dared go to the rescue of poor bruin. The thowman, even with their poles, were unable to the dog's grip, and toe hear was within 30 minutes. There te a man in N*w York who 7,162 makes in bis room. He win aeon Bare the undertake: in fife -dob, If he doesn’t few* Hwaam- rnlmmm THE NIITES ON Til MARRIAGE QUHwTtOR SUCCESS FULLY SOLVED GY EBitHO _ ' _ ! Explorer on Return trur® rar North Says Tribesmen Are Wedded Two or Three Times twl Family Di.scord is Unkaown. ■ Wx&auFtor.—Trial marriage atueeg the Eskimos ci * It* ~• tel and in uits re gion of the Math -12114 river *s a com yirte -.»*eoeis tr.' the fffir and nwrals of U:ec- ',-mpk1 .excel those of tsr eiviiiaeh country, in the or m ox cf V. Stefanjson, ethuoio"is« oi the l-0-.r*r weiWffik-e*ier pota- expea Ltton, 'Wi- - j lias just. • ituauf- tn;ai the ter north. I Acccrthns Ui Mr. Sects hwn the j tire prohleci r.f eenjuga'. relations u-.** j been solr- d by there penile aad <1i voroe and.Tamil: trotiiie are ansnc* a to then, except in some localise* whore rnissionaric . have instilled ideas ci Christie If and civilization in* a the Ksitimei:. Where Chrirt.smity i has invaded the country there is con i sirterable disccrt and family troubles. In every ur’-anoe, declares Mr. Stef ansson, those farthest away troni re ligion and civilization as exemplified !>y the white man have a much higher moral and physical standard than those who have been Christianised I and civilized. This conviction, he says, is borne our. by the almost unanimous testi nionv of the traders and the Canadian rZ ^pUflSSTSr* **-* he asserts is superb. > --^»r reaches the a?e °f fanu^, - a girl of about | “When a Uw. —unger." | 0r 16 years he mamt. , the same age. or a year sayp Mr. Stelawson. 'There is n„ i ceremony in this union, and it is ael ilcim a permanent one. Cases are rare where couples first united have re mained together It is sometimes the second, and generally the third union i which proven lasting. 'This last marriage usually takes place when the couple reach young manhood and womanhood, and its ties are rarely, if ever, broken. IX a couple, upon first mating, for any reason proved unccmgenial. the one wi thin to do so simply marries some one “There are nv ill feelings and their ' is no complaint, as it is considers* that neither party has cause for corn ' pialut. “A pKHliar feature of these matches is the fact that young couples are, at) a rule, not very affectionate, which is a peculiar contrast, as when perma nently settled and reaching the age or from 25 to 35, they become affection ate and loving m the extreme and never unnecessarfiy leave one anoth er's side. “Naturally one asks what becomes of the children springing from the trial marriages, but this is also easily disposed of and in a most satisfactory way. “Children are few in this region from various physiological reasons. In some instances they remain with the mother, in others with the father, but a majority are adopted by other and settled couples. i neir care is no burden or expense, as these people are communists in every sense of the word and even should a mother be crippled or un able to keep her own children, they would never want, as food and cloth tng of every need of life is held in common by the community. “The Christianized Eskimos com pare unfavorably with the so-called savage brothers, for where civilization has tamed them they are selfish and unwilling; to share. “On the other hand, ff a family liv ing in the remote regions .has food enough to keep it only one day, and starvation is staring it in the face. It would no more think of refusing to share its food with anyone who came along than a Washingtonian would have to refusing a stranger a drink ol water at the public pump. This com munistir idea is absent only where traders and missionaries, innocently enough, have taught them white men’s methods and manners.’' Farmer’s Lucky Gloves. Iona, N. J.—Reaching down to clear a clog of dirt from his plow, J. Hamp ton Leonard picked up an adder three feet long. Mr. Leonard is a gentleman farmer and always wears gloves when working in the fields. This probably saved his life, as the gloves kept the deadly fangs of the snake from enter ing his hands. Mr. Leonard is the secretary of the Prohibition party of Gloucester coua ty, is not afraid of snakes, and quick ly dispatched the reptile. Blame Flies for Death Rate. London.—-The remarkably high death rate in Liverpool recently is at tributed by the health committee of that city To the large number of Alee which made their appearance during the warm weather. The large in crease in infantile mortality is an cribed to the contamination Of milk and other foods by the insects. Fourth Bet of Twins. Little 'Falls, N. Y.—Mrs. Lyman Bil lings, of this city, has given birth to twins, a boy and girl, the combined weight of whom was 25 pounds. This is the fourth set of twins born to this couple in 12 years. They have been the parents of 12 children, eight of whom are living. Mrs. Billings is 43 years old, and has never beerf 111 in her life. Her father is a papermaker, and is an ardent admirer of President Roosevelt. The twin boy will be named Theodore, in honor of the pres ident. Bees Confirmed Topers. Hammonton, N. J.—Honey front dahlias which grow in rich profusion in tills vicinity has been found to have a peculiar effect upon bumble bees. After they have filled themselves with the sweet stuff febey appear dazed, and when brushed off the flow ere fall to the ground and act like in toxicateri men. The honey seems to act like opium upon the insects, and those who have observed declave that one “drunk” hi nut enough for them, but that they return and fcacome con firmed topers