" uv LfX f I ' i S THE RED CLOUD CHIEF. v ? - "nn f n n s .itj-!' .."vitaumi ismzm l(mii AMtyj INTERNATIONAL FSIS3 ASSOCIATION. CHAPTER XIII. I X III O 11 t It had gone by six glori oils and blissfully happy months, dur ing which Mr. ami Mm. Harris kept their secret well, anil Pick was all the world to' his wife Doiothy. During two of those months they remained abroad, living In the smaller towns on the Riviera, seeking no in terests heyond themselves, but leading a quiet, peaceful life of love, of which neither had become the least weary when Dick's leave was up and It was time for him to go back to his duly. Now, as the 13d were still quartered r.t Colchester, It became a (mention of mjdic Importance for them to decide whore Dorothy should take up her abode after this. Colchester or Its Im mediate neighborhood was, of course, nn Impossibility, ns her whereabouts might nt any moment be discovered, ttaud also Dick's real name. Dick sug gested that she might go to Chelms ford and take rooms there for the time: but Dorothy had stayed more than oneo In that sleepy little town, nml It was therefore almost as im possible as Colchester Itself. So final ly they agreed that there was no place in the world like London In which to hide oneself and have a good time all the same, and therefore they came back to town dnrlng the last week of Dick's leave, and they took a little Hat in Kensington, Just where Dorothy and Barbara could get on very comfortably without any servant, and yet could be near to good shop and a tolerably lively street. "I'm afraid you'll be awfully dull, darling," ho said to her when they Lad takon possession, and his last evening had come, "because, of course, you won't know any one, and you arc not at all likely to get to know people." "I shall have Darbara," said Doro thy, smiling bravely. "Yes, you'll have Darbara, but Bar bara won't be much company for you," he answered. "I do hate all this con cealment. I hate leaving you at all, and I hate having to live, as it were, on the sly, and I'm afraid always that Home one you know or one of the fel lows will be seeing you, and that they may get hold of a wrong Idea alto gether, and and I sometimes feel as if I should Ilka to kill that old savage at Aylmcr's Field." "Hut, Dick dear, nobody will see mo, and If they do they will think I am Dorothy Strode still. -Remember. I don't know many people In all the world, and none of your officers know me at all, and If they happened to sec me with you they wouldn't think any thing of it. Really, I wouldn't worry nbout that if I were you, dearest, and ns for my being dull why, I am never dull. I never have been used to hav ing moro than one person nt a time Auntie nil my life, and now you. I Hhall get on splendidly with Darbara, and I shall always be able to look for ward to the days when you will bo coming homo." "And I shall csmc like a bird when ever I got the ghost of a chance," he cried, tendorly. "And I," cried Dorothy, "am going to mnke n study of gowns. I have al ways boon used to making my ordinary gowns, and I shall have lots of time, and I nm going to begin as soon as you aro Kone. I nm going to make myself somo beautiful tea-gowns; they will mako mo look married and dig nified they will mako you respect me, sir," "But you don't want to look married and dignified," he cried, half nlarmed. "Suppose you meet some one you know, and" "I shall not bo wearing a tea. gown, Dick," cried Dorothy, with a gay laugh. "Ah! no, no, of course not." he an fiwered, relieved. "All tho same, though, did -you not tell me tho other day that you had a cousin somewhero or other?" "Oh, Esther! Yes, but she," care lessly, "she Is in Egypt." "But, my dear child, she won't bo In Egypt always," he rejoined; "and if sho comes back to London, which sho is suro to do " "By no means, Dick," interrupted Dorothy, quietly. "Esther is Just ns llkoly to go off for tho summer to Now Zealand or Finland as to come to Lon don. And oho would not specially amnt mo up If sho did come here. She is beautiful and rich and very Inde pendent in her mind, but she is six years older than I nm and thinks very little of family ties. In any case, sup posing that I met hor In London to morrow, sho would certainly not try to pry Into my affairs, and even If I had your leave to toll her part of tho truth sho Is perfectly safo. I assure you that you need nover worry yonr HOlf for a single moment about my cousin Esther." So Dick was pacified, and tho fol lowing day went to Colchester not In a very happy frame of mind, all tho amo. "I hato leaving you, Dolly," ho oald voxedly, "I hate it. I'vo a good mind to throw up my commission and trust to Fat and tho old savage." "Dick, Dlciv!" she cried, "how can srj3 v r ??' j rt u wcyj a Jr you bo so foolish? Supposing that tho 'old ravage' did turn round on you and stopped your allowance, where would you be then? If you aro In the army you have always tho chance of going to India, and I don't know that I would not rather be In Indlt. as Mrs. Aimer than have these dreadful part ings here." "No, no!" he cried hastily, "l couldn't take you out there. I've nl waya had a sort of horror of tho east, and 1 would do anything to avoid run ning any such risk." So he went away with a lump In his throat which made him glad that he was safe In a cab, leaving Dorothy to face the next week by heself that Is to say, except for Barbara, who was Jubilant at having got her long holi day over and delighted to be at work again. To Dorothy Barbara at this time was a wonderful study of which she was inner tired. For Barbara had been born and bred In the country, nnd had lived more years at Ciravoleigh Hall than Doiothy could remember, and her comments on town people and town ways were something more than amus ing. "Ah! they did things In a queer son of fashion at llalloway. My cousin .toe lives nt llalloway- yo.. know, Miss Dorothy bo's a plumber In quite a largo way of business and has money In tho bank and two children at board ing school learning French anil music and Heaven knows what besides. Mrs. Joe used to go out every Saturday night to get her stores in for the week, as she always mild for Sunday, I used to think. Never did I see such mar ketings! A quarter of a pouud of but ter and four fresh eggs. She regular prided herself on those fresh crrs. My dear,' said 1 one night to her, 'them eggs have been laid at least a week, and I doubt If 1 should bo far out If I went as far as ten days.' " 'You sec, Barbara,' says she, 'you've been used to a country life, with now laid eggs, and gallons of milk and but ter by the stone, nnd I dare say you feel a bit plnchod-llke here. But If I'd let myself go In butter and live on now-lald eggs at twopence-ha'penny each well all I can say Is, I should have had to rest content without any boarding schools or anything put by in the bank.' "I don't say, Miss Dorothy Mrs. Harris, ma'am, I should say," Bar- I DRAW THE LINE, barn went on, In her wisest tones "that 1 should wish to go ngnlnst my cousin Joe's wife 1 i that respect a thrifty wife is a crown of gold to a man that has to work for a living; but at eggs that have never seen n hen for nearly a fortnight I go draw tho lino to call 'em fresh, that Is." Bui although on most evenings Do rothy used to tell the old servant to bring her sewing and come nnd sit witli her in tho pretty little drawing room, It must bo confessed that at this time she found her llfo dreadfully dull, and as each day went by sho seemed to miss Dick In her dally llfo moro and more. For though she hnd been used to a quiet country home and a quiet country exlstenco, them hnd always been plenty to Interest her. Ml.u DInndnle, If somowhat old fashioned, In hor ideas nnd strict In her notions, hail been both tender and Indulgent to hor little orphan niece, and hnd, more over, always been a clever and enpa blo woman with whom to nssoclate. Then, about a country house there aro nlways so mnny different points of In terest. Either tho moles havo worked at last from tho meadow under the hedge and bolow tho very best bit of the velvet lawn which is the very pride and dollght of your eyes, or the rats havo suddenly acquired a pert measure of audacity and have scraped and bit ten a now hole in tho corn-bin or iho newly filled potato bags, or havo gone further and found their way Into the prlnclpnl pantry and created a regular stampodo among your servants. Or porhaps you catch one of the slnnors In a new trap which cost flvo nnd six pence, and when you go to see its wicked, hoary old occupant you feel that If it never catches another, this one Is well worth tho money. Or If train nnd other means, consisting of horribly smelling poisons suggestlvo of the ir.fcrnal regions, fall you, perhaps you have tho professional rat-catcher up from tho vlllago with his box of sinuous, red-eyed ferrets, and then yu have your revnso on the rats. CHAPTER XIV. HERE in no end to the Intel est which hourly crops up out of the unexpected fu a country life Perhaps the speck led hen starts lay ing, or she sho.vs unmistakable signs of a stronger la fetlnct of maternity than usual. Or one of the cobs easts n shoe, or a wind gel up In the night and tears a large branch off tho grent weeping willow which shelters the most easterly cor ner of your garden, where the wind sweeps up the keenest, straight from tho great North Sea. Or maybe the corner of the shiubbery, where Hi" mushrooms have always grown, no body ever knew why, has suddenly bloomed out with broad, pinkish fun gi, and you feel as If you had found a fortune, although you know perfect ly well that the market value of what you have discovered Is not, at fhe out side, more than threepence. Still, that does not lessen your pleasure In the least, and you carry them Indoors and present them to every member of your household, your visitors If you iuivo any, your family, and, finally, to your cook, as If well, as If you were a second Columbus and bad discovered a new America. Then In the country you are a neigh bor of everybody! If you llo as Dor-1 othy Strode had been used to live all I our life, you know why Janet Wen-1 ham was not at church on Sunday, and I why Elizabeth Mlddleham's girl left that nice place at Whlttlngton, and how Elisabeth Mlddlehani cried for days over It. and her girl's Intention to take service In London and see life. And you know all nbout It when Mri. Jones has her mauve dinner gown dyed chestnut brown, and how It Is that tho rectory curtains keep clean year after year, although white .?llk with a delicately tinted stripe would be ruined In three months In some houses. Yes, you know everything about everybody In the country, al most without knowing why you know It. But In town, In London town, It Is all so different. It Is true when you get known In ixnidon, the gossiping Is nearly as bad as If you were the center of a small village set; but to u girl sltuntcd as Dorothy was, London Is a social blank. She knew nobody, and nobody knew her. She did not want to know any one, and apparently the Inhabitants of the metropolis re turned tho compliment. Yet, never theless, It was terribly dull. Her pret ty little fiat was on the ground lloor of the block of buildings which was dig nified with the name of Palace Mai slons, so she had people above and people below her. But Dorothy knew them not. There was a sweet-fared lady on the first lloor Immediately above her, a lady who dressed well and had a sweet-faerd little child with her sometimes, and Dorothy fairly yearned over her and longed to say "Good morning" when they met in tho com mon hall of tho Mansion. But tho sweet-faced lady did not know the exact standing of Mrs. Harris, w.id lived at No. 1, and in her dread of even rubbing elbows with "a person" she resolutely mndo her eyes shone and her lips steol whenever she saw tho slight, girlish figure approaching her. Then thoro was a lady at No. 2 that was the basement, u sort of Wel beck Abbey In mlnature. She, being a stout and buxom widow, whose grandchildren came running In at all tlmea from a house on tho other side of the High street, might have ven tured a kindly word oven to "a per son," but she nover did. No, on tho contrary, whenever she came across poor Dorothy she Invariably sniffed, which was rude, to say the least of It. (To bo continued.) WON'T FOLLOW HIS ORDERS, Anuuiulc nml Dynpepllo Cilrli Sluko tin riiyolrliitu Angry. "When anaemic girls, sleepless wo men nnd dyspeptic children arc brought to me, I feel like going out of busi ness," declared a bluff, brusque, well known physician, in a burst of lndlg nation over n enso that ho had just been called to attend, says the Now York Commercial Advertiser. "I havo one patient, n girl of 18, who might is well go to n fortune teller for advice for all the benefit sho will ever get from n doctor. I give her a Hcoldlng and draw up a set of rules for her to live by, pro scribing certain things to eat, certain times to sleep, eertuln hours for exer cise, glvo hor a tonic and dismiss her. Do you think that girl Improvos? Not she. In a fortnight sho trails Into my office, pallid and melancholy. I haven't the heart to scold hor, but I antlclpato her answers to my questions. "Una sho taken tho tonic? Oh. yes, nlio hasn't missed a dose. Has she eatwi pastry or lobsters or drank Ice water or Ice cream soda? Well er onco or twlco. Has alio eaten the oatmeal and raw beef and drank the hot water and beo'! tea? Yes. She doesn't add 'onco o twice,' but her pale face adds It. And has she gono to bod early, got up early and slept after lunch? Well, not every day. And yot this girl of Intelligence and npparent common sense wonders why alio doesn't get well. Why does she think 1 glvo her Bpeclal Instructions? To amuse myself? To havo them dis obeyed? I nm going to try onco more. If she doesn't oboy mo then I shall pos itively refuse to attend her further," and tho doctor banged the big paper weight that Bomo fair "hysteria case" had given him for Christmas nnd look ed so good-naturedly ferocious that one could not blame the girl for being in d'fferont to bla wrath. NEGROES RANK JIOII. C.EADEPS AT THE CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES. Unity Aro In I'uhlW. oilier . , Client hum, I.'. I!. Cooper, .lolin It, l.jiuli, .Inhn I'. 1mmi, I), t(, r.rucn nml (JrorRo II. Wliltit. If In each city u loll hould be made j? eminent colored men who have at tained to national prominence, Wash ington would ptesent a larger ll.ct than any other city In the Culoii. says the Odd-Fellows' Journal. All of those distinguished citizens formerly losld ed in varloiM state, and with but a few exceptions began their residence here In the capacity of government of ficials. Some have abandoned their former abodes and have become a, part of the capital's permanent popu lation; others still retain a residence in the states and when their tonus of office esplie will ictiirii to their homes again and. take up the labor they left In the cities or towns whence they came. If you want to meet some of the men who are known through out the nation we can readily find them In a morning's stroll. If we .step down the street we will be at the city ball. Right this way and in here. The gentleman writing at that huge desk is II. P. Che.ithau. lie is affixing his signature to the recorded deeds. Twice member of eoiigioss. he bt now iccord er of deeds by President McKlnley'n appointment. Now we will go one square south of bete on Foiir-aud-a- tfC-Cfr t&&E&ffC-E-fCrtC-SfrtV&-&ttffftfrCtS-f C-E-333333 33-20-3 3333 3 333 33533 33-3333333 2333J SQTMk'ixTr: quip pnfvmr.u apttkh I Mi 7fSeC-fffE5efrJS&C-&SrfcS-iJeeffrSefrSe sa433 - 9fl33 Painters have time and again pic- was sinking. She was noticeably down lured the sinking of a ship at sea. by the head. The scenes have usually been the crca- When twenty-two feet win reported '.Ion of the artist's imagination and tho everybody was oidercd Into the boats, reproduction of an Impression carried Mr. Llghtfoot not forgetting his cum in the memory. An accurate photo- era In the oxeltoinont. It was early graphic presentation of a vessel In the morning, and the boats lingered around several stages of foundering Is boiiio- the ship. Three hours elapsed between thing quite novel, and that is why the taking the pictures entitled "Deserted" series of nicttirtM takon with a camera and "Down by the Head." A little by Mr. Cecil Llghtfoot, who was a pas senger on the Tal-lloku. an Ill-fated Japanese steamer, and who watched her from a lifeboat while she went down In the Atlantic off the Portu- gueso cosat last July, pos sess so much Interest. The photographs were reproduc Ed in tho Strand, which con tains an account of the dis aster. The sinking of the Tal Hoku was occasioned by a collision with another vos ccl lu a thick fog. An hour later there was five feet of water In tho hold. The cap ' " ' m ' "' ' lJCSfl ril!fvJP"l CX-H J I'M Ti u final f'lunqp tain hoped to reach Malta, but when two feet more of water was taken In another hour ho decided to mnke nt once for Lisbon. Fifteen hours later sixteen feet of water was reported, and It was then realized that tho ship Half street. This Is tho Colored Amer ican building. This first lloor leads to the press and composing rooms, this next one to the office. Tho mnn at that farthest desk is E. E. Cooper, the first negro In tho history of the race to publish an Ulustratlvo Journal. For four years he was proprietor of tho Indianapolis Freedman, and at the head of that sheet commanded nation al attention. Ho organized nnd has for more than four years controlled and edited tho Colored American. With this paper, which roaches tho race all over tho country, he has demonstrated tho possibilities of negro Journalism, and has risen in tho rank of editors until ho Btnnds among tho lenders of the foremost few. Iet us walk around on F street. This largo yellow-brick building is the Capital Savings Bank. Come upstairs In tho front room on tho second floor. This Is tho office of Lynch & Terrell, attorneys-at-law. This man seated at tho desk, with nuistncho and hair two-thirds gray, Is John R. Lynch. For many years he has been before the public eye, at tracting attontlon by his successful ventures In politics. Ho was speaker of the houso of representatives In Mississippi, a mombor of congress, chairman of tho national Republican convention In 1888, and fourth nudltor of tho treasury under President Hnr rison's administration. IIo Is now n practicing nttorney and j resident of tno Capital Savings Bank, the wealth- Icat banning institution of the rare. Out we go-and up the street threo sq'tarcj. Now, a portion of this build ing Is uu annex to the government postolllce. Ivook In the rooms nc wo go by all are white faces, eh? Well, step In here and nolle r that colored man dictating letters lo that while stenographer, that Is John P. (1 recti of CIe eland, (). He was state senator for three terms lu Ohio, lie Is now chief of the Mump agency and the head of Ihlh oillcc. Eve.;.- stamp Issued and distributed by the g.n eminent passes through his bureau. Tluce squares and a half tnul we tdmll be at the otllce of another pionilnctit man. ThU large stone building In the Ohio National Bank. We'll t ike the elevator, slop at this lloor, this way; step In here. This Is the office of B. K. Bruce, ox icgister of the ticnmiry. and ex-recorder of deeds. There he sits making out a check. He Is now a real estate agent and broker, lie Is said to be pros pering. Last month lie loaned to the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church $10,000 at fi per cent Interest. Let us walk to the west. This Is the White House and the man leaving Is Oeorge II. White, the only colored represen tative In the LVth congiess. He lias pi nimbly been to the President urging the appointment of a constituent. A (Juror I'oiirt nil l. Dick Harris (that was not Ills nul iiiinu but It will do for our piesent purpose), the rag and bone gatherer, was a familiar figure In certain par ishes of Noith Devon some forty or fifty years ago. The periodical vIslM of Dick, his donkey and his cart, were T1IK LAST MOMKNTS OK A later n displacement of the vessel's engines occurred which materially hastened the end. Presently t h o T7 fell forward, Jerking the cords bridge communicating with tho slrcns.cnusing them to utter a wolrd screaming fare well. The next moment tho Tnl-Hoku as Bhown lu the pictures "The list Few Moments" and "Tho Final hailed with pleasure by thrifty house wives, anxious to get the accumulated rags out of the way, And as ho gave "tuppence" a pound for white rags, and a "lin'ponny" a pound for colored, and paid In caBh, the money thoy receive I for them was not by any means de spised. One morning, while on his l omuls, Dick called at a certain farm house. His knock wan answered by Sally, the farm servant, a girl that ho had Been on former visits to the farm, but with whom ho hnd no further ac quaintance. She told him that tho "missus" was away, and that sho didn't know what there was to soil. Now Sally was not a tidy girl at any time, nnd on this particular morning her dress nnd apron looked bb though they rightly belonged to Dick's stock-in-trade. She was a lanky, angular girl, and most people would have thought her vory unattractive. But Dick evi dently thought otherwise, for his next question wnB, "What would'st tha zay, If I was to offer to take thee rags an' bones an' all, an marry thee." Just what answer Sally made to this queer way of "popping the question" Is not recorded, but Ita purport may bo guess ed from the fnct that tholr marrlngo bnniiB wero called shortly after, and in duo time they were married In the vil lage church, If the sun had nothing to do but ehlno on the truly good it wouldn't have to get up ho early. Mill ' -m.r.----ji1yi1mjp - i MANY NOW niDE ASTRIDR.. i;itirii Women Now .lolnlng with Nan hrn ii f Tlintr Chlcnc" Blitur. New York Is ascribing to the blcycle'a InHuence the practice of riding astrldo, but Chicago horseback riders of both sexes have become so accustomed to the "rational" method that It no lon ger excites comment when seen on the boulevaids on pleuniiit diys. Last tall a number of New York's smart set ladles of modest and retiring habits, as well as of high social position tin dertook lo introduce the cutom ut the cross-country hunts on Long Island and up the state. A special ildlng cos tume was ordered from Paris, and this was adopted by all the lady menihuin of one fashionable club, which meets at their country clubhouse not fifty miles from the city. This costume was a modified bicycle bloomer suit, or. rather, a divided skirt, with the bloom era underneath. When dismounted the suit had the appearance of an ordinary skirt and coat, and when ttstrldo of the hoi so the uklrt concealed all except the tips of the boots. It was far moro modest in appearance than the old faahloued tight-fitting riding habit, anil ccitalnly more artistic. The lead ers In the crusade enjoyed their cross country rides so thoroughly that they determined to Improve their opportu nities tills winter. Any morning now, before most of New York'n population Is astir, one can see young and middle aged ladles of wealthy families riding mil ride In Central or Riverside park, accompanied either by their male rel atives or a solitary footman. They f KOUNDKKINO STICAMKK. - 3M333 - 333333S - M3 - - M Plunge"- dived deliberately head fore most Into three hundred feet of wa ter and was never seen again. "As the sea rushed Into the, furn aces," adds Mr. Llghtfoot, "steam and water gas were generated, and these, lushing up through the smokestack, caused a kind of explosion which Is very plainly seen In the last photograph I took. Just as the ship was disappear ing. The upward rush of steam car- ried n greni quantity of soot from the fines, and thla caused a dark cloud to hovei over tho pluco where the Tnl-Hoku sank. There wan no whirlpool of any kind. When this grent vessel of 11,100 tons took her last dive tho little flotilla of boats could not have been more than 150 yards dlstnnt. vrB?; -. '-''u0'" Stnnillnir bv after her dis appearance, we saw pathetic bits of wreckage coming slowly to the top." A physician says that cigarette smok ing causes softening of the brain; but he doesn't say how ho found it out. take their exercise at this unseemly hour bcenu8o of the publicity that their riding mnn-fashlon would crento when the park Ib full of people. But all of this secrecy will not bo ouEcrvcd much longer. An attempt will be mndo to Introdueo the custom so generally that by another season no more will be thought of riding a liorso astrldo than of a woman riding n bicycle. Tho La dles' club of Horseback Rldora has been orgnnized in Now York to popu larize riding astrldo. From a hygienic point of view tho now method of riding la of great advantago to equestriennes. Nulvo l'urontnl Orthography, English board school teachers can all produce charming examples of naive parental orthography. Hero are two scraps from the correspondence of cer tain Australian mothers. The first Is nn excuse: "Plese, sur, ml kids kant go to skule, as there close is wore aout, an thoy knnt git more till tho wheeta sould." Tho next refers to clothing: "Dear Mr. : Pleaso send one pat of aoks to fit a boy of 10 years old ont par to fit ono 9 years Old ono par to fit ono 7 yenrs I want the threo pars all cast Iron stoklngs," London Globe. Ilnrenln Fllture. Madgo Tho man she Is going, to marry is n millionaire. Marjorio Yes, and sho says he Is a bargulu. You know he ia Gl). IS ! A .) 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