HAREOR FRONT, MONTREAL, QUEBE^^
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about^the'year^642 SeC°nd city in Lower Canada; 't was built by the French
A SKELETON MYSTERY.
BONES OF INDIAN CHIEF UN
EARTHED IN TEXAS.
Is Clothed in Uniform of a Brigadier
General of United States Army
Remains in Almost Perfect
State of Preservation.
Brownwood. Tex.—The skeleton of
what was probably once a famous In
dian chief has been taken from a lone
ly and unmarked grave at the top of
one of the Twin mountains, ten miles
east of the spot where once stood the
historic old fort of Camp Colorado.
“Jim” Byrd, a farmer, who discov
ered the skeleton, has lived near the
Twin mountains for nearly 50 years,
and has no recollection of any human
body ever having been buried there.
His 12-year-old son was on a hunting
expedition recently and strolled to the
top of the West Twin mountain when
he suddenly (nine upon two big brass
rings lying half embedded in the yel
low clay of the hillside. The rings had
a most antiquated appearance and at
once excited the curiosity of the youth
ful Nimrod and he took them to his
father, who decided to make a further
Investigation.
With pick and shovel the father and
son began digging at the spot where
the rings had been found, and had
hardly scratched the surface of the
earth when they uncovered the bones
of a human being. By careful work the
clay was removed from all sides of
the bones and the sight that greeted
the eyes of the explorers was most
strange and fascinating. Tattered
remnants of what was once a United
States army uniform clung in moulded
dampness to the frame of a ^stalwart
Indian chief. The bones of the savage
GEORGIA GETS HONOR
FIRST TO NAME CITY AFTER
FATHER OF COUNTRY,
Town of Washington Christened in
1779—History Proving Contention
of Resident Brought to Light
and Fixed by Records.
Washington. Ga.—After much and
long protracted discussion it has been
settled when, where and how this
town was named in honor of George
Washington. These are the facts as
they have been ascertained:
The name Washington was chosen
by the people of Wilkes county for
their new town in the year 1779, and
confirmed by the general assembly in
January, 1780.
Historians have been prone to doubt ■
and question these dates, claiming
that in 1780 was the “dark year” in
Georgia and that no session of the
general assembly was held in that
year. Augusta had fallen. Savannah
had fallen and the whole state was in
the hands of the enemy. This is very
nearly true, but not quite so.
The “ceded lands,” which seven
years previous had been bought from
the Indians and called Wilkes, for
John Wilkes, our friend in the Brit
ish parliament, was one spot in the
state not under British rule. This
was due to our victory at the battle
of Kettle Creek.
Stephen Heard, president of the as
sembly, was acting governor, because
George "Walton, the governor, was in
Philadelphia attending the council
there. And Wilkes county being the
only spot free from British rule,
Stephen Heard moved the state papers
and records to the courthouse at
Heard’s Port Heard’s Fort, there
fore, became the capital of Georgia
for the time being. And it was here
that the only session of the state leg
islature or assembly was held in the
year 1780. It was at this session that
the act was passed confirming the
name Washington chosen for the little
town to be laid out around the site of
Heard’s Fort.
In Watkin’s Digest, the oldest com
pilation of the legislative acts of
Georgia, will be found the proofs of
this statement, as follows:
“Section 19. And whereas it is es
sentially necessary for the conven
ience of suitors and ministers of pub
lic justice that the building of a small
town in the county of Wilkes should
be encouraged, be it therefore enact
ed by the authority aforesaid, that five
commissioners be appointed by this
house, and said commissioners so to
be appointed, or any three of them, be
empowered to lay out 100 acres of
land circumjacent to the said place
into a town and common, and the
same be sold and granted in the man
HUNTING FOR MOOSE
A camp on the Montreal river in the Canadian forest where the gam*
abounds.
ner pointed out in this act—and be it
further enacted by the authority
aforesaid that William * Downs, Barn
ard Heard, John Gorham, Daniel Cole
man and John Dooley, Esquires, be a
board of commissioners for acting un
der this act., representing the town
at the courthouse, in Wilkes county,
which shall be called Washington.”
There you have the proof that the
general assembly confirmed the name
in the year 1780, for “Watkin’s Di
gest," printed in 1880, is indisputable
authority.
Now for the proof that the people of
Wilkes had selected the name for
their town in the year 1779. John
Dooley, one of the commissioners
mentioned in the act, was killed soon
after the battle of Kettle Creek, in
1779; therefore the act appointing
him commissioner and naming the
town must of necessity been determin
ed upon before his death, February,
1779.
The original plot of the 100 acres as
laid out by the commissioners is still
in existence, and is among the treas
ures of the Mary Willis library, in
Washington.
Capital in Meat is Immense.
Washington.—A capital of $10,625,
000,000 is directly concerned in the
raising of . meat animals and their
slaughtering and packing, according to
a report on meat supply issued by the
department of agriculture.
This amount is five-sixths as large as
all capital Invested in manufacturing
in 1904. Seven-eighths of the meat and
meat products was consumed within
this country. The stock of meat ani
mals has increased since 1840, but has
not kept pace with the increase in the
population. The report asserts that
the welfare of the raisers of meat ani
mals and of the slaughterers and pack
ers is dependent upon finding foreign
markets for the surplus of the produc
tion of meat above the home consump
tion.
There was a total of 93,502,000 meat
animals slaughtered and exported in
1900, of which the exported live ani
mals numbered 276.000.
The dressed weight of the 93,502,000
meat animals constituting the meat
supply of 1900 was 16,549,921,000
pounds, of which 14,116,886,000 pounds
entered into domestic consumption,
lard being included with the dressed
weight of pork.
The report adds: “That meat con
sumption per capita has declined in
this country since 1840 is plainly indi
cated. There is some ground for be
lieving that at -that time meat consti
tuted about one-half of the national
dietary in terms of total nutritive
units consumed, whereas now it con
stitutes about one-third.”
How important meat is in the diet
of different countries is shown in the
following meat consumption per capi
ta in 1904 in dressed weight: United
States, 185 pounds; United Kingdom,
121; Australia, 263; New Zealand, 212;
Cuba, 124; France, 79; Belgium, 70;
| Denmark, 76; Sweden, 62; Italy, 46.
Park Road’s Champion Cat.
The hound kept his hold of the cat’s
neck and shook her viciously until,
feeling that it was time to brag a lit
tle, he released his grip long enough
to emit a boastful bark. This was the
cat’s opportunity, and she sprang up
on the houi;i(f s side. After a brief but
bitter combat the hound managed to
scramble to his feet and started pain
fully down the street. The cat watched
the bulldog for a minute, and then,
casting a g aace of contemptuous pity
at the hound, smoothed her fur and
started off at a dignified pace for
home.
Equalization.
Prof. Bnmder Matthews, who la at
least as good a wit as he la a reformer,
was over hi aid once talking with Mr.
Carnegie.
“I notice, Mr. Caridglc/* he said,
“that you don't limn.**
“had why should 1 risked the phii
anthitfnist.
“Well.” slowly answered the pto
feeaor. “mayhe they pall them elte»
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Bachelors’ Marry-AII Pact.
South Bethlehem, Pa.—Members of
the Emmett Social club have organ
ized the queerest bachelor’s club.
Every two months the bachelors will
be lined up, lots will be cast, and the
one who draws the fateful nuinber
will be expected to marry within the
year.
If at the end of the twelvemonth
he has not succeeded in coaxing a
“yes” from a blushing sweetheart he
will be banished from the clubrooms.
Holds Salary Is Immune.
Washington.—The war department
has taken the position that the sal
ary of a retired army officer is not
subject to income tax, but that his
other property is not exempt. The
question arose la Massachusetts,
where the state sought to levy the in
come tax upon a retired officer.
.
Byren’a Last Friend Dead.
The last friend of Byron, the poet,
hae just died at DarHnghurat, New
South Wales. She wee Mrs. Catherine
Cruder, the widow eg y Waterloo
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Wins Neighborhood Medal by Whip
ping Two Belligerent Dogs.
Washington.—Somewhere up on
Park road there lives a mangy, undis
tinguished looking black cat which
could win championship honors
against any of the creatures of the
nature fakers. That cat may not look
like a winner, but a dozen reputable
citisens can vouch for the fact that,
single pawed and alone, she did up
two of the neighborhood dogs so badly
that they have both been obliged to
taka treatment in a canine sanitarium.
la the wea sms' hours the other
morulas the eat, having been out late
at some function la feline society, was
pseaefwl'y homeward when
two dagt a large white bulldog and a
•lack aad yellow bound, sighted ber.
■Acktag leyeasly, they started for the
eat. AN (l. asse the bulldog broke
pmr • yelp of Altar sea and
Ba wetakifi the rest of the fight trem
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were in a state of almost perfect pres
ervation, "and the long black hair still
clang to the scalp in sinuous plaits. .
But the strangest and most peculiar
feature of the'find is the fact that the
coat of the uniform bore epaulets
which have been pronounced by army
men who have examined them to des
ignate the rank of a brigadier general
of the United States army.
In the grave were also found steely
bridle bits, saddle buckles and the old
fashioned small steel spur which was
once in vogue in the United States
cavairy. A small dirk and a big
butchef knife were also among the
many articles which filled the grave.
Ola army men here are highly inter
ested in the find and declare that the
savage had at seme time killed a brig
adier general and took his uniform,
which, in -true Indian style, was buried
with the aborigine when he started on
his journey for the happy hunting
grounds.
The Twin mountains, where the
skeleton was exhumed, stand ten miles
east to north of the old Camp Colora
do* which once formed the only protec
tion for the pioneers of this section,
and where wa3 once stationed the
afterward famous southern general,
Robert E. Lee, then a young lieutenj>
ant. The fort was abandoned more
than 30 years ago, and the oldest set
tlers have no memory of anyone hav
ing been buried on this mountain. The
grave was nearly at the top of the
mountain and on the east side, facing
the sun.
The good state of preservation in
which the bones and the uniform were,
found is accounted for by the fact that
the impervious qualities of the clay in
which they were buried excluded all
moisture from the grave.
New Island In Discovered.
Washington. —^Anti - expansionists
will grieve to hear that the domain of
the United States has been increased
by a new island )Kipping up out of
Alaskan waters in the Bogaston group
of islands of the Alaskan peninsula.
The new island is 400 feet high and
over 1,700 feet in diameter at the base.
A year ago it was not in existence.
It was discovered by the crew of the
revenue cutter McCullough and has
been named in honor of the McCul
lough.
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LEPER COLONY
iiK HAWAII *
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THE LEPER'S OF HAWAII .* THE BALDWIN HONE FOP
Hen and boycs in the village of kalawao
The United States Is not slack con
cerning the fulfillment of its obliga
tions, and wherever the Stars and
Stripes have gone, there has gone
with it a beneficent hand which bhs
encouraged commercial and industrial
advancement, has smoothed the rough
road for the weak, and has lifted up
and cared for the sick and afflicted.
Since the Hawaiian group of islands
came under the control of this coun
try there has been new interest in
and effort for the leper colony estab
lished on ''the Island of Molokai, 60
miles from Honolulu, until now it is
safe to say that it is the most wonder
ful leper settlement of the world. Mol
okai ranks fifth in size of the Hawaiian
group. Its northern coast consists
chiefly of high precipices, where it is
extremely difficult to effect landings.
There are several valleys lined with
dense vegetation and rare flowering
plants, Tourists may visit any part
of the island except that set apart for
the leper, for which special permission
must be obtained from the board of
health.
Leprosy was first brought to Hawaii
.from China in the year 1853, and was
called by the natives “Chinese sick
ness.” From that time to 1864 its in
crease was so rapid that it became im
portant to isolate the victims, and
laws were passed setting aside a tract
of land (6,000 acres) for that purpose.
From the time that the lepers became
the wards of the Hawaiian nation,
most generously haVe they been
cared for. In her treatment of the
leper Hawaii has set an example to
the world.
The settlement consists of two vil
lages—Kalaupapa and Kalawao—sit
uated on a grassy plain, on a penin
sula, ten miles in length and two in
breadth, bounded by the ocean on
three sides, and by high precipices on
the o:her. The cliffs rise from 2,500
to 4,000 feet. The air is balmy and
the soil fertile, with pasture land
for cattle and horses. One steamer a
week gives communication with Molo
kai. The government physicians in
every district are very vigilant, and
as soon as any evidence of the dis
ease is discovered the person is
termed a “suspect.” and is conveyed
to the Kalihi receiving station in Hon
olulu. The greatest kindness is shown
to the afflicted ones, and none is con
demned without the most careful ex
amination. The examining .physicians
(five in number) are appointed by the
board of health, and two are bacteri
ologists. The opinion of four of the
exam iners must agrdfe to declare a per
son a leper. If the suspect desires
medical counsel outside of the board
it is allowed and furnished free of
charge. Every comfort is supplied at
the receiving station for those held
for examination, and all rights of the
patient are guarded carefully.
At last report there were confined
at Molokai 840 lepers, nearly all of
Hawaiian birth, or partly so; of
orientals and Portuguese only seven,
and there were but nine Americans.
The Hawaiians, because of their man
ner of living, are especially suscepti
ble to the disease. Few foreigners
contract leprosy. At the settlement
everything possible is done to make
the lepers contented in homes of their
own. The disease is usually slow in
its progress, and many' are physically
vigorous and able to labor. Employ
ment at fair wages is furnished, but
ndne is forced to accept it. Many cul
tivate trees, flowers and vegetables
for themselves. Fresh and salt beef,
fresh and salt fish, poi, rice, bread,
milk, tea, oil and soap, and all bed
ding and clothing required are pro
vided.. The cottages are comfortable,
and many outside modern improve
ments have been supplied lately,
among them a steam poi factory, a
steam laundry and an ice plant.
The settlement has a gymnasium
dom become lepers. The nurses re
ceive $20 a month and sustenance.
The Bay View Home, close to the
sea, cares for the helpless. Only 28
are registered in 1907. About 70 em
ployes, including helpers, clergymen,
officials and physicians, live at the
settlement. All receive fair remuner
ation for service rendered. All lepers
outside of the homes have dwellings
of their own.
The Kapiolani Girls’ Home, in Hon
olulu, takes care of all female children
of leprous parents. In its experience
of 21 years, out of 105 received only
six had to be returned to the settle
ment. There is now under construc
tion a nursery for the special care of
the infants until such time as they
are old enough to be removed 1c the
outside homes. A home for the boys
is in contemplation, on Hawaii, where
training in agricultural pursuits will
be given, as well as a common school
education. The expense of the leper
settlement with all its various
branches, for the year 1906, exceeded
the sum of $165,000.
With the annexation of Hawaii to
the United States our government was
brought face to face with the problem
of the leper, and, as a result, there
will soon be established at Molokai a
United States leprosy Investigation
station, with a skilled staff of physi
cians who, with the aid of other dis
tinguished men of science, will make
every effort to solve the mystery of
the dread disease. Plans for the new
hospital have been under considera
tion, and the enterprise is in charge of
an able young German physician sent
from Washington to superintend the
work.
To Double the Life of Umbrellas.
The usual way of coming in out of
rain is to place the umbrella in the
rack or corner with the handle up
ward. This allows the water to run
down and remain a long time in the
metal that holds the ribs together,
which will rust the joints and rot the
fabric. If the handle is placed down
ward instead of upward the water will
run away from this point first, and the
whole top will dry quicker.—Popular
Mechanics.
THE MAN ON THE FARM.
Fine Tribute to Agriculturists Made
by Gov. Hughes.
Gov. Hughes, of New York, makes
this appeal for the country:
“When you get out where a man
has a little elbow room and a chance
to develop, he bas thoughts of his
own. His thinking is not supplied to
him every. night and every morning,
and he Is less of a machine and more
of a man, so that I do not think that
the farmers need to be looked upon
or want to be looked upon as depend
ents of the state. They do not come
to the state government asking alms.
They are self-reliant, they are intelli
gent. What we want in connection
with agriculture la what we want in
connection with every other field of
noble' effort
“We want training, we want intelli
gence, we want scientific method, we
warn: direction, we want tee way
shovm, and then the man can walk ta
it mere Is ne re-o. w* tee sum.
voted to agriculture as to Industry and
the technical trades.
“The men who are running away
from the farms too frequently make a
mistake, and some day in New York
—and the day is rapidly approaching
—our young men in larger numbers
will wake up to the fact that they
have a pretty good chance on the
farm, and that they may be to a great
i er degree independent {and happy in
life if they stay where their happy
lots were cast in connection with
their father's farm or another which
they may be able to procure."—Les
lie's Weekly.
Eagles in Switzerland.
Eagle* have in recent years In
creased in numbers at such a rate In
Switzerland that the peasants are be
ginning to complain of the
they do to the game, and also, Ut many
cases, to the goats and lsmfcfjta the
farmyards. One of the ]on(p| on
the other hand, prints a anMnunlca
tion front a lover of nature who d*
elares that the beautiful sight of an
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and a library and reading-room for
which magazines and books are free
ly given. There are musical instru
ments of all kinds. The Hawallans
are a music loving race, and Molokai
has two fine bands and several glee
clubs. Chess Is a favorite game.
Some years ago a blind lep^r was re
puted to be one of the most remark
able chess players in the world. Out
door sports are popular. There are
baseball, races and shooting matches.
An enthusiastic athletic club has been
formed.
The lepers have the franchise and .
many take interest in politics. Po
litical speakers address meetings
from the visitors’ enclosure. Rela
tives from outside may visit their
friends, but all communication is be
tween glass doors, so great is the cau
tion to prevent contagion. The relig
ious life of the leper is not neglected.
There are six churches—Catholic,
Protestant and Mormon. The pastor
of the Mormon church is a leper. The
larger number of the lepers are Cath
olics. A Young Men's Christian asso
ciation does good work in both educa
tional and moral lines.
The Baldwin Home for Men and
Boys has at present 188 inmates. It Is
In charge of the Catholic Brothers of
the Sacred Heart. The Bishop Home
for Women and Girls, of which the Sis
ters of St. Francis have control, shel
ters 79. The devotion of the mother
superior and the sisters is marvelous.
All the nurses In the settlement are
Catholics, and in no other denomina
tion could be found the consecration
needed for such a mission. They sel
BLESSED BLINDNESS {
By JUDITH SPENCER T
(Copyright.)
"The condition of our streets is pos
itively disgraceful,” thought Miss Ag
new, as she gathered up her gown and
proceeded to pick her way over unsta
ble boards and loose paving stones,
where the crossing once had beon. It
was then that she saw him first.
He was a tall and well-made man,
walking somewhat slowly ahead of
her. Suddenly he stumbled and al
most fell. In recovering himself he
turned and paused irresolute, as if
uncertain which way to go. He was
now facing her and she saw his ex
pression of helpless bewilderment,
and saw, too, that he was blind.
With a sudden pity for bis misfor
tune and predicament she advanced
toward him. “Our streets are in such
a chaotic condition.” she said. “Will
you allow me to pilot you to the op
posite side?”
“I should be most grateful to you,”
he replied, lifting his hat. “I have not
been in New York for some time and
confess that I find myself decidedly
at sea.”
It seemed the Btrangest thing in the
world to Mary Agnew to be walking
thus familiarly by the side of an un
known man. And she felt that luck
had favored her when she had run the
gauntlet of that half mile without
meeting any of her friends. But the
man was a gentleman, and something
in his helplessness had appealed most
strangely to her.
This unconventional episode haunted
Mary Agnew all that day. She caught
herself wondering again and again
who her stranger was and why he had
ventured out alone. Sometimes it
seemed as if she had done something
inexcusably bold and unwomanly; yet
at the same time she felt that she
would never have forgiven herself had
she acted otherwise. His tall, straight
figure and fine face were still present
with her when, late that evening, she
entered a crowded ballroom on her
father’s arm.
Half an hour perhaps had passed
when she saw her old friend Jack
Beverton approaching with—could it
be possible?—her stranger of the
morning!
“Miss Agnew, allow me to Introduce
my cousin, Anthony Gordon, once of
New York, lately of the far west and
now of New York again.” Jack's
words seemed buzzing in her ears.
“I am glad to meet Mr. Gordon,”
she said quietly, though her heart was
fluttering strangely, as it had not done
since she was a young, young girl.
She saw him start and turn eagerly
toward her. Jack had now passed on,
and among the crowd these two
seemed quite alone.
“It is you! I was hoping I might
meet you again,” Gordon said gladly.
“The world is a small place, after
all!”
“Yes,” she assented; “yet I confess
this is a great surprise—”
‘'You probably think that a blind
man is even more out of place in a
ballroom than in the city’s crowded
streets, and I agree with you; but
Jack overpersuaded me and now I am
glad I came! He promised to keep me
in tow and to introduce me to a few
of his friends with whom I could sit
out an occasional dance.”
She regarded him curiously. It was
a novelty to meet a man who was ap
parently no more sensitive about such
a terrible affliction than if it had been
but a broken bone and he was about
with his arm in a sling.
“I hope you did not think me—for
ward this morning,” she said im
pulsively.
“I thought you did a most gracious
and beautiful action and I blessed you
for it!”
“You have not been—in this condi
tion—long?” she asked.
“Eight months—an age! And I am
a ‘remarkable casft’ for I have baffled
every specialist in the west and now
have come to New York to baffle these
fellows here. I intend going to each
one of them separately, at first. Then
I shall have them meet and hold a con
sultation; then I suppose they'll want
to examine me again; and after that
—the verdict”
She saw Gordon again just as she
was leaving. “I hope you will come
to—call on me,” she said. She had
been going to say “to see me,” but
quickly changed the word, adding: “I
shall be interested to hear what all
the oculists say.”
“I wanted to ask you if I might,” he
said eagerly. “If I had not seen you
again to-night” (and she noticed that
the old habit of speech clung to
him), “I should have sent Jack to you
to ask if I might come.”
Within a few days Anthony Gordon
called, and his calls were repeated
with increasing frequency. The first
time he came with Jack, but after
wards with his man Brown, who wait
ed for him below.
His conversation was always full
or interest, ms ten years experi-1
ences in the west; his struggles, his
successes, his defeats—he told her all
—with an eager and almost boyish
confidence. He made no secret of his
admiration for her, and the deference
and reverence he showed her seemed
something strangely beautiful.
Her father liked him, too. “Gordon’s
a fine fellow,” he said. "And so hope
ful. It will be a hard blow to him If
he shouldn’t recover his sight.”
Finally there came a pause. Ten
lays, two weeks passed by, daring
which time Gordon had. not been to
see her and had made no sign.
She could not bring herself to
write to him, to have even a letter of
mere friendly lnqnlfy read aloud to
him by that man Brown. She was too
proud to write for news of him to
Jack. And it so chanced that during
all that time she saw-no one of whom
she could inquire.
At last one night, when she was
sitting quite alone, he came. -.She
looked up, hushing at his approach,
M# Ms changed face startled her.
“Too hdvo been iar she cried. "
“1CM ram body,” bo answered
rendered their verdict—perpetual
darkness—and I’m off again to the
west. I tried to go without seeing
you—but I am a coward! I have come
now to say good-by.”
There was a conflict of wild emo
tions in Mary Agnew’s breast. For a
moment she could not speak. He had
come to say good-bv!
“I said I couldn’t go without seeing
you,” he repeated, "and I've come to
ask a blind man’s last favor—before I
go, may I pass my hand over your
face?”
“What if I say no?” There was
something strained and unnatural in
her tone.
“Don’t refuse me! You don’t know
what that would mean!” he cried.
"Can you realize that all this time
you have been but a beautiful unseen
spirit to me—a heavenly voice? I
thought I should see you some day
with my eyes and I forced myself to
wait—but that is not to be—and you
won’t refuse to let me carry away
your true image into the night of my
exile?”
“I am not beautiful,” she said.
have told you that before. And if in
spite of that you have deceived your
seli—why need you undeceive your
Belf now? And why need you go into
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“I Have Come Now to Say Goodbye.”'
‘exile?’ You led us to believe that you.
would stay among us—why are youi
going back to the west?”
“Because—I am a coward,” he re
peated miserably.
“I don’t understand,” she said.
"However, since you seem to wish to
dispel your illusion about me—perhaps
it is better so.”
She took his hand and placed it
upon her face, but at its touch the
self-control for which she had been
struggling gave way; hot tears welled
up against her will and fell in burning
drups upon his hand.
“Mary—Miss Agnew! Tears—they
are not for—me?”
“No,” she cried passionately, “they
are for myself, for I thought you
prized this—friendship—just a little:
and it was a—a shock to find that you
could say good-by so lightly when—
after such a verdict—even so slight u
thing as a woman's friendship might
have been something to you.”
Oh, you do not understand,” he
said quickly. “It is harder than death
to part from you like this! Since the
first night I met you my only thought
and hope have been to recover my
sight, that I might see you and win
your love and ask you to be my wife.
That was my vision of heaven, and
you—its angel; and I never doubted,
I thought that light would surely
come. And when they said ‘Darkness
forever,’ I was stunned. I tried to go
away without this last interview, but
I could not. I had to come once
more. I never meant to tell yon thin,
but when, you think I do not prize
your friendship I cannot bear it! It
is more to me than all the world; It
was my hope that one day I might
be able to win your love.”
“But if—it is already—won?” she
murmured tremulously.
He started. “I—I do not under
stand—”
"Nor I," said she. “But I have loved
you—from that first day, I think! Now,
Anthony Gordon, have you the cour
age—will you dare go away?”
He caught her hands. “My God,
what shall I do!”.he said, helplessly.
“Let me try to make the awful
darkness less dark,” she said
quickly.
“But I cannot lev you sacrifice your
self so. Oh, my love, I never dreamed
of this!”
He caught her in his arms, and
while her head rested on his breast
he passed his hand tenderly across her
upturned face and bent,to kiss away
her tears.
“My angel—you are more beautiful
than I had ever dreamed!’’ he said.
“And now I bless the darkness, which
has crowned me with such love!”
HAS ANCIENT PAINT SECRET.
Indian Mound Explorer Discovers Pig
ment Said to Be Indestructible.
Bakersfield, Cal.—The long-sought
secret of the composition of inde
structible paint, used by the Egyp
tians and North American Indians, :is
believed to have been discovered liy
the finding of a heretofore unknown
mineral substance in the Kern river
oil field by F. H. Austin, who has been'
pursuing scientific investigation for
two years.
Austin found this substance, which
he named "Diatine,” while digging in
ancient Indian mounds. He sent sam
ples tp the United Statens government
geologists tor examination and has re
ceived their report, which nolselthw
with his own.
A string of beads of this ssetertuft
and one of asphaltnm worn fond
around the neck of an Indian ske>«
toa. Theoe beads stood the test «t
Cktoretorm and the heat ef a end fed
eteve withes* tnjsry. . , ,.^f