IRQftWAT A TALE OF THE BUILDERS OF THE WEST. C4jpjs. SYNOPSIS. The story opens during: a trip «*f the -Ove-land M id” through the Rocky mountains. while efforts are being maue to build up tin* country. * l'n« 1»- Hilly” Hodge, stag.* driver. Alfred Vincent, a young man. and Phineas i'adwallader. in x rod ii red. They come across tin* re mains of a massacre. Hater at Anthony's station they find the redskins have car ried their dcstrui live work there also. Stella Arn : my. daughter «*f Anthony, keeper of s; *tion. is introduced. The trav elers find that Anthony i.: < been killed. Vincent with letter of introduction to ui things whenever I could git i ie time—rough o’ course; 1 can't draw none—but sort of one-liue things she'd see the mean in of. Binte-by they got so many it loon a t cnp o' time to hunt 'em over, a.i' ' t 'he idee of mutin' numbers | on 'em. She larned the numbers: an' I now when we want to tell her any thing we just call off ‘.he figgers on our fingers. One wave of both hands is ten. two waves is 20. an' so on; an' the one, two. threes we do with out fingers." "How astonishing! May 1 see your picture alphabet?" Stella asked. ••Certain." Sally li. brought out the crude drawing. "Of course, all the easy tilings, sech as eatin'. sleepin’. laughin', cryin , we just act out." The lightning panorama on Sally B.'s face showed that her mother had some things to be thankful for. "Stella, you make Viola read them kind o' books you have read, an’ under stand 'em. too, if ye have to break her head a-doin' it. Think o' maw just a settin' there, piecin' risin' sun have been her father! Yet this was the next best thing. She loved him! She had kissed him! Stella drew him into the hall, looked him up and down, patted his hand, took off his hat and peered into his face, trying to see if he was quite well, the same I'ncle Billy she had known so long, ever since that won derful journey across the mountains, when she had sat by his side, in black sandals, white stockings, panta lettes and a leghorn hat with a bridle. What pride she had taken in that bridle’ At last he found his voice. "Well, durn my eyes, if you haven't grown tall, you pretty little snipe, you! Here! 1 got a bonnet for ye." He went to the door, picked up a small bandbox and brought it to her. Stella opened it. Within was a scrap of scarlet silk and lace for which some milliner had swindled I'ncle Billy out of $40. Stella's best gown was bright magenta. Gideon's gift. She would have to wear them both, and together. CHAPTER VII. A Peep Into Paradise. In San Francisco after three years of exile Alfred found a home. Judge Harmon made him welcome as a son; and Alfred did not stay long enough to discover that other young men shared with him the judge's fatherly attitude. Mrs. Harmon was a child-hungry woman, no longer young in years, though her heart would never forget 25. A favorite, a social authority and leader, she launched Alfred immediate ly and successfully among the people he most needed to meet. Posing as a Itoston sightseer, he was accepted with a hospitality known only in Ken tucky and in old San Francisco; and he found no lack of alluring eyes and smiles, albeit every woman was a belle. Society, fast and feverish, curious, fascinating, opulent, was the speediest vehicle by which he could arrive at his purpose; for society in San Fran cisco was still too new to divorce itself from the golden enterprises that made it. His success astonished him self. Men whose intentions he ex pected to learn through patient acumen talked openly of their affairs with the railroad men. Even women made of the Central Pacific railroad and its projectors a continuous joke. Alfred wondered. He could not then, as afterwards, realize that, to every thorough-going San Franciscan. Cali fornia was but a storehouse, a kitchen garden, at most a tribute-bringing suburb of the gay city by the Golden Gate. Nothing outside mattered. To them the sand-duned cusp, straggled over with its flimsy, gibbous house*, was as truly the whole world as ever was the Eternal City to old Roman. So secrets fell unearned into Al freds keeping. Red lips told him tales between their smiles, every word a prize. Itusiness men, talking glibly of inland transportation, dismissed the transmontane railroad with a yawn, yet went wild over the delusion of San Joaquin valley petroleum. And Alfred drove, sang, dined, danced merrily to his goai; and bade good-bye to his entertainers the very day he read Phineas Cadwallader’s name on the Lick house register. He reported in Sacramento, received instructions, and incidentally com mendation. Hastily he made the changes called for by the step from jasmine-hung San Francisco to ice bound Carson City. And the second day after leaving salt water he swung into Sally Ik's to find Stella away, acruss the gulch, watching in a house of mourning. All the way from Sacramento, while the little steam bantam bumped over the unsettled roadbed. Alfred had re hearsed his expected interview with Stella. He did not admit his love; he had no right to it. Friendly interest, the duty of courtesy to one so forlorn and so placed in his cate—those were all. His own eyes must prove the truth of her letters, which told scantly of her good health and fine situation. He would sit by her side the short hour before the stage left, hear in de tail her life in California. (TO BE CONTIXl'EI >. > TteivoFMuis Jim OimmJmvnx WHAT A VISIT TO MARS WOULD RETVETAi- — PERHAPS 2 m MARTIAN nlxmhCTWNI ''■ANIMAL ON j la swampy ^ground; to When one speak3 of Martians one is apt to think only of those canal builders, those beings who, if we are to accept Mr. Lowell's remarkably well-sustained conclusions, now irri gate with melting polar snows and cultivate what were once the ocean beds of their drying planet. Rut, after all, they cannot live there alone; they can be but a part of the natural history of Mars in just the same way that man is but a part of the natural history of the earth. They must have been evolved from other related types: and so we must neces sarily give our attention to the general fauna and flora of this other world we are invading in imagination before we can hope to deal at all reasonably with the ruling species. It is plausible, at any rate, to sup pose that on Mars also, if there is life, green chlorophyl will lie at the base of the edifice; in other words, that there will be a vegetable kingdom. The great danger for a plant in a dry air is desiccation, we may expect Martian leaves to have thick cuticles, just as the cactus has. Moreover, since moisture will -come to the Mar tian plant, as Mr. Lowell shows, main ly from below, and not-as rain from above, coming in seasonal floods from the melting of the snow-cap. the typical Martian plant will probably be ; tall, and have its bunches and clus | ters of spiky blue-green leaves upon uplifting reedy stalks. Of course, there will be an infinite i variety of species of plants upon Mars i as upon the earth, but these will be | the general characteristics of the I vegetation. Now, this conception of the Martian ! vegetation as mainly of big. slender, stalky, lax textured. flood-fed plants, with great shocks of fleshy, needle shaped or formless leaves above, and no doubt with as various a display of flowers and fruits as our earthly flora, prepares the ground for the consideration of the Martian animals. Everyone nowadays knows how' ctasely related, is the structure of every animal to the food it consumes. Different food, different animals, has almost axiomatic value; and the very peculiar nature of the Martian flora is in itself suflicient to dispel the idea of our meeting beasts with any close I analogy to terrestrial species. We shall find no flies nor sparrows, nor dogs nor. .cats on Mars. The Martian air is thinner and drier than ours, and we conclude, therefore, that there is still more need than on earth for well-protected, capacious lungs. It follows that the Martian fauna will run to large chests. Here. then, is one indication for a picture of a Martian animal—it must be built with more lung space than the corresponding terrestrial form. And the same reason that will make the vegetation laxer and flimsier will make the forms of the Martian animal kingdom laxer and flimsier, and either larger or else slenderer than earthly types. Since the Martian vegetation has | become adapted to seasoned flood con ditions. there will lie not only fliers and climbers, but waders—long-legged forms. Well, here we get something —fliers, climbers, and waders, with a sort of backbone. Now let us bring in another fact, the fact that the Mar tian year is just twice the length of ours, and alternates between hot sum mer sunshine—like the sunshine we experience on high mountains—and a long, frost-bitten winter. The day, too. has the length of a terrestrial day, and because of the thin air will have just the quick changes from heat to cold we find on this planet upon the higher mountains. This means that all these birds and beasts must be adapted to great changes of temperature. To meet that they must be covered by some thick, air-holding, non-conducting cov ering. something analogous to fur or feathers, which they can thin out in summer and renew for the winter’s bitterness. And now as to the ruling inhabitants who made the gigantic canal system of Mars, those creatures of human or superhuman intelligence who. unless Mr. Lowell is no more than a fantas tic visionary, have taken Mars in hand to rule and order and cultivate sys tematically and completely, as I be lieve some day man will take this earth. How far are these ruling beings likely to resemble terrestrial human ity? “Well, there are certain features in which they are likely to resemble us. The quasi-mammalian origins we have supposed for them imply a quasi human appearance. They will prob ably have heads and eyes and back boned bodies; and since they must have big brains because of their high intelligence, and since almost all crea tures with big brains tend to have them forward in their heads near their eyes, these Martians will prob ably have big, shapely skulls. But their bodies will in all likelihood be larger in size than humanity, two and two-third times, perhaps, the mass of a man. That does not mean, how ever. that they will be two and two thirds as tall; but allowing for the laxer texture of things on Mars, it may be that they will be half as tall again when standing up. And as like ly as not they will be covered with feathers or fur. There can be no doubt of the im mense part the development of the hand has played in the education of the human intelligence. So that it would be quite natural to imagine the Martians as big-headed, deep-chested bipeds, grotesquely caricaturing hu manity with arms and hands. But that is only one of several al most equally plausible possibilities. One thing we may rely upon; that the Martians must have some pre hensile organ, primarily because the development of intelligence is almost unthinkable without it; and secondly, because in no other wmy could they get their engineering done. It is stranger to our imaginations, but no less reasonable, to suppose, instead of a hand, an elephant-like proboscis, or a group of tentacles or proboscis like organs. Finally, here is a thought that may be reassuring to any reader who finds these Martians alarming; If a man was transferred suddenly to the sur face of Mars, he would find himself immensely exhilarated—so soon as he had got over a slight mountain-sick ness. He would weigh not a half what he does upon earth. He would prance and leap; he would lift twice his utmost earthly burden with ease. But if a Martian came to earth his weight would bear hint down like a cope of lead. He would weigh two and two-thirds of his Martian weight, and probably he would find existence in sufferable. His limbs would not sup port him. Perhaps he would die. self crushed, at once. H. G. WELLS. But They Seldom Come. No man ever betrayed a trust with out intending to fix it up if things ever came his way. SMALLPOX FESTIVAL IN JAPAN Treatment of Disease Seems Ludicrous in Western Eyes. There is an epidemic of smallpox in some sections of Tokyo and an ancient smallpox festival is being very gen erally revived by those who fear the disease, it is thus described by the Japan Times: "Those infected with or apprehensive of smallpox make a sort of table, four feet by two feet, which, covering it with red cloth, they deposit in the parlor. Upon it they heap large bags of rice, on top of which red gohei—peculiarly cut pa per, considered by the vulgar to be sacred—is placed. 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