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CHAPTER XVII (Continued )
Shu had a pretty little brass stand,
a tray, spirit lamp ami kettle, und wlMi
this apparatus she uhv.i.H m:th tin
tea herself with much prlile. iititl sonic
help from Dick. It Ketierally tell to
Dick's lot to light the lamp, hut to
lay sho watt all iond for him, ami
had but to turn up the light a little
to have thu water boiling.
"There," she said, after ahotit live
minutes," and handing him a cup of
lea. Now tell me all--every thing."
"Well," Bald nick, llnding himself
litis faltly up In a corner, ami unable
in put off the evil moment any longer,
I went"
"Yes?" eagerly.
"And I Haw her ladyship."
"Oh! and Is bIio up?"
"Up! My dear child, Lady Aylmer
4s as well ns 1 am," he answered.
Dorothy looked at lilm In wonder.
' Oh! Dick," she cried, "but what a
wicked old man?"
"Ah! I fancy It runs In the blood,"
nulil Dick, easily. "One man couldn't
have so much original sin of his own
is the old savage has; It must be he
redity." "Then do you think you will tell
horribly wicked stories when you aie
1-ord Aylmer, Dick?" she askid, ro
guishly. "Perhaps who knous? All the same
thero Is one story I shall never tell
you," drawing her tenderly toward
hltn. "I shall always bo true as the
Cospcls when I tell you that I love
you better than any other woman in
all the world."
Something in his voice touched the
tenderest chords of her heart, and set
throbbing ami beating with a sicken
ing sensation of fear. "Dick." she
wild in a whisper, "Is it very bad news
that you arc trying to break to me
does it mean India, after all?"
Dick looked straight into her clear
eyes. ".My dear little love." he said,
"I am afraid It docs mean India, after
all; but If it does, it shall mean India
for us both."
Ho told her everything then how
Lady Aylmer had received lilm. bow
she had openly declared that her hus
band had some scheme of his own to
get rid of them both, how the old sav
age had received him, and what end
their Interview had coino to. Hut, of
course," ho wound up, "although I
took time to consider It, my mind was
made, up In a moment. 1 shall refuse
the appointment."
There was a moment's silence.
"Dick, dearest," said Dorothy, In a
quivering voice, "Is it u very good
thing to bo a military secretary to a
governor-general?"
"Oh, well yes it Is, dear," he ad
mitted. "I mean, would you have refused It
If you had not been married, if you
had never seen me?"
"No, I don't suppose I .should. I daro
say 1 should never havo bothered to
get such an appointment, because, as
you know, I hate the very Idea of go
ing to India, but, at the same time,
to bu quite honest, I don't suppose I
should havo refused. 1 don't suppose
any man In his senses would."
Dorothy drow her breath sharply,
and for a minute or two did not speak.
"Dick, darling," she said at length, "It
is truo that you are married, but I
don't seo that that Is any reason why
you should not be in your senses, too."
"What do you mean, Dorothy?" ho
isked quickly.
"Well, just this. Supposing that
Lord Aylmer had let you refuse this
appointment, and had not made himself
disagreeable about your allowance, wo
should havo to go on just as we are
doing now. And, of course, Dick dear.
1 should like to be Mrs. Aylmer Instead
of Mrs. Harris, and to live with the
regiment rather than In Palaco Man
sions; but but, nt the same time, since
thero Is no much to bo gained by It.
I would just as soon bo Mrs. Harris n
one placo ns In another, If I must be
Mrs. Harris nt nil."
Dick caught her close to him. "Do
rothy, you mean " ho began.
"I mean," sho ended firmly, "that I
would sooner go to India as Mrs. Har
rin than drag you down In your pro
fession, and put you at loggerheads
with your uncle; hecauso he Is your
uncle, and the head of your family,
oven though ho la such an old savage
us ho is."
"Hut, my dear, my dear, do you
know that In that case I should havo
to go at onco" ho cried.
"Yes, I know that, Dick," she an
owcred. "Hut I can't lenvo you alone, jut
now I can't, Dorolhj," ho exclaimed.
"It's Impossible; It would be Inhuman.
Why, I should bo out of my mind with
anxiety and distress."
"No, no you would know that I was
proud and happy to bo ablo to do
something to holp you," she replied.
"I would rather that you wero hero;
but, then, I would always rather that
you wero here. That la not a now feel
ing for mo. And I shall not bo alone.
I shall havo Harbara, you know. Har
bar.i will tako caro of mo, and let you
Know exactly how I got on."
"No; I cannot let you do It," he
said, when sho paused.
"Yes, yea, you can, dear, Healdea, It
is not only ourselves that wo have to
think of. Thero la llio child; and al
thougudf wo go to India together, wo
might be able to got along pretty w-Ml
by ourselves, wo should not bo able
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to afford to send the child home, if
th climate was bad for it Why, Dick
dear, we should not be abb' to afford
to come home ourselves, If we could
not stand the heat."
"That Is true," he admitted.
"And don't you think." she went on
eagerly, "that I would rather live a
I ant doing now for a year or two
longer than 'I would run the risk of see
lug you die, perhaps, hroauho we had
not money to bring us home? .lust
think what I should feel like If we were
In such a case as that."
"Hut. darling, you don't know you
don't ic.illzc how very different life
would be out there," ho urged. "Here,
very few people take the trouble to
notice us, one way or another, and If
they do, It does not much matter. Hut
out there, as military secretin'., I
should have a lot to do. I should
scarcely have n moment to myself. I
should not be able to go anywhere
with you, and probably very seldom be
able to rome nnd seo you."
Hut you would be able to come some
times," she answered, with a brave
Mnlle. "Every one knows that half a
loaf Is better than no bread, and if
one cannot get even half a loaf, It Is
foolish to quarrel with the slice which
keeps one from starving."
Dick's heart felt like to break, "Doro
thy, Dorothy." ho raid, "my dear little
brave, unselfish wife, every word you
say makes me love you a thousand
times more than 1 did before. My dear
est, I give In to anythlns that you
wish; you shall decide everything, and
I I will give all the rest of my life
to trying to make you feel that .oti
did not throw away your love and con
fidence when you gave them to me."
So they arranged that Dick should
accept the appointment of military sec
retary to Lord Skevversleigh, nnd that
two days later he should go and sec
his uncle again, and tell him the de
elsion to which he had conic. Doro
thy had begged lilm to go ami see him
the following day, but Dick held out
firmly there. No, ho would have one
more day of liberty before he went
over to the enemy and gave himself
up.
"Wo will have a real happy day.
darling," he said, when Dorothy had
given way about Imparting the news
to the savage. "Hy-and-by we shall
have more money than opportunity or
spending It togetherlet us make hay
wlille wo can. Klrst, we will go and
havo a look at the shops together, and
I will buy you something you can al-
"DOROTHY! DOROTHY!"
ways wear till wo meet again; then
wo will go to some good placo and get
a llttlo lunch; and afterwards havo
a drive, come back here, dress, dine
somewhere, and do a theater after It.
There, what do you say to that for a
real happy day?"
Doiothy said that It would bo de
lightful, and thought well, with some
thing liko dismay, that sho should
never get through It all. Yot the fear
of once giving way and breaking down
altogether kept her up, and sho went
bravely through with that happy day,
which afterwards lived In her mind
as being ono long spell of agony.
And after that sh woro upon her
wrist Dick's trust gift to her a golden
bangle, with two words Inscribed upon
It In little diamonds, which caught the
light and Hashed their messago at her
a hundred times a day- two simple
words, "Dlnna Korget."
CHAPTER XVIII.
ORD Aylmer was
.( sitting alono In his
y1" library, smoking a
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f& w uiliwuuu, uiiii wiur
gsj UerlnR what answer
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fifrl. lilm when ho
'(( thought proper to
come again to givo
In his decision.
."fC&S " " !fc HUll"-
Sr ' Bomo old man, not
so very old In years, but aged In wlck
e'dncEs. A lmndsomo man still, with
nqulllno features, a flushed face, and a
goodly crop of whlto curly hair. Your
first thought on looking ut him was,
"What a charming old gentleman!"
your second, "What a pair of steely
eyen!" your third, "What a Mephisto
phelean Yes, without tho shadow of
a doubt. Lord Aylmer was a wicked
man, v.ith ti bad henrt filled to tho
brim, anil running over with all man
ner of ovll,
They fc'.iy, you know, that women
novelists always make their heroes all
good, till they nro ns Insipid as tho
dummlca In n tailor's window; or else
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that they go to the olier esM'Pinc, and
make tholr vllllnns such unmitigated
vidians that it Is Impossible to Hud
one single ray of virtue wherewith to
redeem tlulr character from Us Inky
pall of utter hl.i-'.tic. Hut let nu1
tell you that if all the women noel
Ists who write stories in the English
language were to concentrate their ef
forts upon the task of trying to de
pict i he villainy of Lord Aylmer's mi
tural depravity. 1 am nftald that In
the end they would have to call In
the aid of their masculine eonf teres
to adequately complete the portrait.
Tor the noble lord was all bad, thor
oughly bad what up In tho north
country they call "bad, core through."
Yet he had a delightful manner when
he chose, and In early middle age Lad
made a genuine love-match with a
beautiful young woman at least six
teen years younger than hlmsell-a
pennllohH as wt I as a beautiful young
woman, upon whom he had lavished
so much love and attention that with
in three months of his marriage his
love had burned Itself out, and was
as dead as any dead volcano. A few
weeks later Lord Aylmer practically
separated himself from his wife, -il-though
they continued to share the
same house, and he appeared before
the world as much as possible as If
no breach had eer been opened be
tween them.
Not by Ixinl Aylmer's desire, this
oh! no, but because her ladyship had
never been so genuinely In love with
lilm as lie had been with her, and was,
moreover, perfectly allvo to the solid
worldly advantages of being Lord Ayl
mer's wife, the mistress of Aylmer's
Field and of the handsome town house
In Hclgrave Square.
"Of course 1 know that there nre
others," she said In reply to a dear
friend who thought It her duty to open
this young wife's eyes, "and, of course,
1 know that Aylmer wants to get rid
of me; but 1 don't mean to be got rid
of, and I put up with the others be
cause I think doing so the lesser or
two evils. There Is only one Lady
Aylmer, und she la a strong and
healthy young woman, who means to
bo Iady Aylmer for at least fifty yeais
longer. Yea, I know, my dear, all
that you feel about it. I quite appre
ciate your feelings toward me. Oh, ye3,
It was your duty to tell me, but I am
not going to cut myself out of all that
makes life worth living just to oblige
a husband who has got tired of mo
in threo months."
To this deelhlon Lady Aylmer had
from that time forward kept mo-it
rigidly. As far as her husband wan
concerned, nothing seemed to annoy
her, and whenever she wished to do
so und condescended to try to get her
own way by means of a little llattery,
she generally succeeded; and now that
Lord Aylmer had got Into tho "sixties"
she was simply a stately, oven-tempered,
iron-willed and exceedingly healthy
woman, who looked ns If she meant
to llvo to bo ninety.
It wjir partly on the subject of his
wife's extreme healthiness that Lord
Aylmer was thinking thnt morning an
ho smoked his cigarette and tried to
assure himself that the twiugo In his
left foot wero merely a sign of a com
ing shower and nothing in the world
to do with gout nt all. And Just us a
worse twinge than usual made lilm
wince and shiver, Ui3 door opened gent
ly und u man-servant made his uy
pearance.
(To bo Continued.)
AS WE SEE OURSELVES.
ll Nutrr f i k Oltirr lViilo Srn 1,'h
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(riiHii'il with (Mir Oun AITalrx.
"Don't you dread people who meand
er on In long-drawn-out detail about
their own concerns?" exclnlnied Mra.
I-'go. "I sat next to Mr. Lungwelllg at
tho Ii.'s dinner last night und I never
was to bored! A clever mineralogist
Is bad enough, but a stuptd one Is un
endurable. Ills wliolo conversation con
sisted of elaborate explanations of the
why and the wherefore of unimport
ant events and happenings in his own
family. Her listener laughed to him
self, for ho had just como from his
club, whero ho had happened to see Mr.
Laugwelllg, says tho Now York Tri
bune. "I am just going to Mrs. Kgo's,"
he had said to Miss , "won't you
come nlong?" "Mercy!" was tho 'an
swer. "I Bat next to that lady nt a
dinner nt H.'a last evening and I am
euro sho must bo talked out na far as
I am concerned; It was ono steady
stream about herself and her family,
from soup to coffee. I assuro you that
I could not get In a word edgeways!"
"Did you hear that Jack W. married
again?" nnld ono of his friends, n frall
looklng llttlo man, who, from tinder
the shadow of his Btout wife's ele
phantine proportions, looked Hko a
pigmy. "Tho lady fair is a widow,
I nm told," ho continued, unconscious
of tho parallollsm, "who Is aB tall as a
grenadier and weighs considerably
over 200, and contrasts with Jnck, who
Ib a small man, they suy, irresistibly
funny." "How comical it must be!"
Bald his companion, grinning, "Yes,"
tittered tho little man, "and tho amus
ing part of It la that Jack la Borcnely
unconscious of the comparison that
people cannot fall to mako, nnd struU
abont as proud as a peacock."
Sin lug CliiM't Hpiiro In I'lmn,
New York Evening Post: In flats
and apartmonln whero Bpaco is at a
promlum, an nrrangoinont nuggeatod by
which additional hanging Bpaco Is
gained, la to lit wooden poles In tho
unused apace of closots and wardrobes
Into sockets made for tho purpose.
Hooka may then bo attached to thero
poles, and tho hanging spacea bo
doubled or trebled. Tho samo Idea Is
useful In a small hall bedroom, whero,
perhaps, It la linpostlblo to nail tho
necsaoary hook piece closo to tho wall
YOTIW WW IIMYI'VI1
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OHIO MAN MAS A STHAIOIIT
FOHWAUD MACHINE
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Iti'iiilrr-t I'mml I tiiiiHili' Will
Hie l.i kWI iIiiii lit MnlMllllle
llif XiiMriilinti MMi'in lit lliitlut-
'I' IS ton houcr.t to
be popular," was
the rather caustic
observation of a
gentleman who was
cMtin I u I n g the
good qualities of
N II. Hows' ucv.iy
patented voting
machine.
The inventor of
the machine Is th
present lepicmutativo of Putnam coun
ty, Ohio, In the house of loprcsontn
lives. Mr. Ross Is an old minister of
the gospel, and has had ample oppor
tunity to sec the necessity of some au
tomatic and Incorruptible voting ma
chine that would register the vote of
tho people. ,. started In about eight
years ago to perfect a machine for that
purpose, ami has succeeded far beyond
his original hopes or anticipations. If
the Itoxs voting machines were used
the result of any election would be
made known within a few moments
after the polls are closed, or as soon as
the dlffeient sum totals of the pre
cincts could be added together. The
machine Is a box about three feet wide
by three feet high. It Is shaped on the
top much like the keyboard of the
ordinary typewriter, with keys similar
to the key of the typewriter, In lows
at stated distances apart. Tho surface
ROSS VOT1NC MACIIINi:.
Is Inclined. Over the top of the ma
elilim fits down close a sheet of platin
um around the keys. Under this plat
inum is pasted between tho rows of
keys the various tickets to bo voted.
Thero Is room for half a dozen dif
ferent ones, and If thero were moie
tickets placed in the Held then more
space might easily be provided. It Is
so arranged thnt the minute n man
teps Into a booth his weight upon the
llonr throws the triggers of the ma
chine open and It Is ready to be man
ipulated. Hcfore this Is done, how
ever, the representative of every party
who hns a ticket in the field has to be
present, und, by turning a certain com
bination, admits the voter to tho booth.
He cannot enter if one lie absent. So
soon as the combination of the machine
Is thrown open and ready for action
tho voAor may see the ticket he desires
to vote. The row of keys at the top
are for a straight ticket. I'or exam
ple, If he desires to cast a straight
Democratic ticket, lie presses the key
opposite the name on that ticket, and
at tho same time every other key on
the board Is locked. Say lie wanted
to vote for a certain mnn for governor
one one ticket, lie pres.ses the key op
posite his name. At the same tlmo tho
keys nre all locked opposlto the names
of the other candidates for governor on
other tickets, and nlso tho key Just
used, so that a vote for two men on the
same ticket or for ono man twice can
not be cast. This la tho case with all
the rest. If lie neglected to press tho
key opposite any name for a certain
ofllco no vote for any man would bo
marked.
On the samo principle ns fares are
rung tip and kept account of In street,
cars automatically, tho number of
votes for each man la kept track of and
the sum total noted nt tho bottom of tho
column. Aa soon as tho sheet la taken
from tho machine a glanco tells how
many votes each man has received. The
machine, na arranged at present will
count aa many aa U.GOO votes. Mr. Ross
will tako tho maehlno beforo tho pres
ent n&sembly of Ohio and endeavor to
have It adopted Instead of thu Austral
ian ballot system.
nUI'llllIKH- Nllt Ullllll-4,
Thero aro thousunds of places In
which people dwell, and which, for lack
of a more Biiltablo name, are called
homes, to which tho sweet, soul sooth
ing Saxon monosyllable word homo can
not bo truthfully applied. Is tho bru
tal drunkard's den a home? Is tho tiro
less, bcdless, foodless room, tenanted
by a wlfo and children, mndo gaunt
with famishing, a home? Is the splen
did mansion, wheio Jealousy ia and
faith Is not, or tho pretty villa, whero
tho victim of man's prollflgacy plnea,
heart broken, or nny other dwelling,
high or low, whero moral degradation,
Hko Poo'a room, caata Its harrowing
Bhndow on tho floor, a homo? No; not
ono of theso places deserves tho ster
ling nnme, coined In tho heart, by
which tho happy deslgnato their
homos. --
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TEMPERANCE ANOMALY,
'I 'u- I mill itf Hie Ine
Oho. I'n.lilMllmi
I'nliili.
The avernge tonilst In Southern Cali
fornia In stii'i'i'l'dl ut the Mimug putiUr
M-ntlineiii against the liquor tratlle In
the laud of the vine mid wiuepiess.
and. pui Ocularly, to llnd the ery
uiiite high llieime laws In fone lu
diiaeiiM of the towns for the legulallon
of saloons and bat looms, says the Hoi
ton Transcript. The Temperance
league of Cre.it Hiitaln has sent to
southern Cnlifornla this season a committee-
of Ihe solel.x to study the sue
i imh or the measures devised In this
region for temperance purposes. There
is a wide ocean of dllleience lu tem
perance sentiment in northern or cen
tral California the land of Hret
Hallo's stories and the free anil easy
mining ways nnd southern California.
The dlffeience lias been caused by the
Immigration of thousands of New ldig
laudeis and Iowa people Into the
southern pan of the state In the last
two decades The newcomeiii have
brought with them stanch Ideas con
corning temperance leforin anil reli
gion, and the old-time Callfoiiiiau o(
song and story, with his vineyard and
winepress, has fast become the minor
ity lu this region, lu Pomona valley,
for instance, whore New Ihiglanders
predominate, but one small winery ie
mains. All the other wineries of ten
yeais ago have gone out of business.
In the San (labrlel valley, where the
Immigration of Iowa and Maine peo
ple has been heavy, less than one-llf-teeiith
the area of vineyards of ten
years ago leinalns. Hundreds of acres
formerly devoted to tl growing of
wino grapes are now c led by the
orange nnd lemon gro i the Yan
kees and lowaus.
RAHE AND EXPENSIVE DRUOS.
I'.xtnuM from 70,00(1 rtuwer I'oiiliiliiiil
In One I'miml of S.ilTion.
Saffron would strike nn ordinal y ob
server as decidedly expensive ut fil!
shillings a pound until told that It Is
composed of the central small portions
only of the lloweis of a crocus, 70,000
of which It takes to yield the material
for one pound, says Chambers' Jour
mil. Otto of loses yells at 2S odd
per pound, und It takes 10,000 pounds
- or nearly live tons--of roses to ob
tain one pound of the oil. Acoiiltlue,
extracted fiom the root of monkshood,
Is said to be the very strongest poison
exlant, the dose being 1-iJOOth of a
grain. It Is sold at the rate of .U.-
per ounce. Turning from the vegetable
to the anltnal world in searcli of rare
drugs, the writer refeis to the musk of
the Asiatic deer, which at 0 to 7
an ounce must be a prize to the wily
hunter. In some of the tioplcal seas
a floating sweut-Biuelllng mass of am
bergris Is met with, worth at present
.il't IDs per ounce, or .CSS per pound,
lu the market. This ambergris Is said
lo bo the "diseased biliary product" ol
the whale. Another peculiar animal
product lu use as a drug Is a solution
of the pure enom of the rattlesnake,
given occasionally lu malignant scar
let fever; while less strong, If perhaps
hardly less repulsive, Is powdered cock
roach, which lu six-grain doses has
been prescribed, with good effect. It
Is said, for dropsy.
SHE KEEPS YOUNC.
Here Is a marvelous woman. 13 very
one bus heard of Mrs. Keeloy, thu vet
eran aetrehs of Kngland, who was so
famous In her day and now enjoys the
friendship of all the prominent people
on tVo stage hecauso of her wit und
charm, which has not deserted her,
though sho has enteied upon her 03d
year. Her good humor and optimism
havo kept her bright and young and
alio does not look a day over GO. She
takes a keen Interest In dramatic af-
MRS. KI3ELKY AND MR.
CALMOUR.
ALFRED
falr.i nml ono of her youngor friends
is Alfrcr. Calmour, tho dramatist, who
Is shown In tho picture with her!
for I'lirenU How to Kiiln u Son.
I,ot him havo his own way allow
lilm free use of money suffer him to
rovo where ho pleaaca on the Sabbath
day glvo him freo access to wicked
companions call him to no ncount for
hbi ovenlngs furnish him with no
stntod cmploymont. Pursue any of
theso ways, and you will experience
a most marvelous deliverance, If you
havo not to mourn over a dobased and
ruined child. Thousands havo realized
tho sad result, and have gone mourn.
Ing to their graves. Ex.
Dog Cuuxe I.mi of 83,00(1,
A big dog upset a lamp In a Topekn,
Kan., limiBo, and tho tiro which ensued
consumed tho house and contents, In
flicting a loss t $5,000.
l W yhSX ay?
I JMi. liwyTil ., fyinrin
PCNNY VISE, POUND FOOLISH,
.Si'Uriil i Mnn ,Nnit HI unit l.nc" SS34
Worth nf Cultle'lliiTi-liy.
Prom the Sioux City Journal: W,
Hailei, it well-to-do farmer nnd fecdcl
near llulibaid. Neb., saved $1 In
bridge tnliu yestc iilo. afternoon nnd
lost J.V.0 worth of cattle for being ol
at: I'cniioiuli-.tl turn of mind. Utirlni
the day he had been to the stock yards
nnd purchased forty-live head of feed
fin from R. Hecker & Degen, and ear
ly lu the nfternoon he started to drive
them to his home. Hefore leaving he
wns cautioned not lo drlvo them ncros
the too, as the Ico was considered tin
safe because of the thaw of the past
few days, which made It rotten. Cattle
drivers at the yards offered to help him
to the bridge for a paltry Bum, but he
knew a thing or two himself nnd re
jected nil offers nnd assistance and
good advice, and started out with hla
cattle. They were turned In toward
the river near Jones street, nnd Inntead
of stringing them out he let them go
on the Ice In a hunch, and beforo hr
had time to realize that a catastrophe
was Imminent the leader of tho cattle
felt tho Ice giving way and they slack
ened their pace and soon all worf
huddled together In u bunch. Tho ire
gave way under the combined weight
of the herd nnd all but two wore pre
cipitated Into the murky nnd chill wa
ters of the Missouri river. Mr. nnrtel
threw up Ms hands In horror when he
saw so many good, hnnl-earned dol
lars, represented In cattle, go under
neath the water, nnd sat down on the
river bank and began to cry. For
tunately a number of cowboys from the
yards had followed along at a respect
ful distance, anticipating just audi an
nt'chlcut. and (hey wero soon on the
Ice rendering all the assistance ponnlble
to savo the cattle. "Arizona Hill," a
typical cowboy, and ono of the charac
ters about the stock yards, put spurs to
his homo and was soon on the lec
showing the boys bow they do things
In tho wild and woolly west. With
nothing but long ropes for larlntB he
cast the lariat with as much precision
ns though on tho plains. As tho rope
settled around the head of a "critter"
he would give It lo the other hoyn,
who would all pull together and got the
"critter" on sound Ice, nnd while they
were engaged In this Arizona Illll
would havo another "critter" ropped
and ready to be dragged out. It took
quick and hard work and they were
successful In saving thirty-two out of
tho foity-flvo that went down. The
saving of so many In such a short
space of time was due to the expert
ness with a lasso of Arizona Hill, who
never missed a throw out of the thirty-two.
Thirteen cattle wero drowned
and their carcasses wero strewn along
the river clear to the stock yards. The
cattle which were saved wero booh
rounded up nnd driven back to the
stock yards and after a short rest thoy
were again started for Nebraska, but
this tlmu Mr. Hnrtcl concluded thnt
It was much more economical to cross
on the bridge.
PITTSBURC WRITER
HONORED.
Meilul from u London
HiK'Irljr for I.er-
turi'H mi VIiIiiHii'h llni.
Miss Sarah H. Kllllkolly, well known
In literary nnd educational circles of
Pittsburg, Pa., haa just received a sil
ver medal from tho Incorporated Soci
ety of Science, Letters nnd Arts, Lon
don, for her contributions to the litera
ture of thu Queen's Jubilee period. Tho
society ia ono of the great organiza
tions for which foreign cities aro more
especially noted than our own, nnd la
composed of men nnd women who have
distinguished themselves In ono or
moro of tho threo divisions of Intel
lectual activity, and Its list of mem
bers includes many celebrated nnmes.
The hcadquartcra of tho society nro In
Kensington, London, nnd when sho wa
In England two years ago n reception
was given to Mlas Kllllkelly, attended
by a large number of members. She
has been n member of the organization
for Borne time. A year ago Miss KIlll-
i kelly gave a course of six lectures on
tho "Victorian Era" ,beforo tho Pitts
burg Twentieth Century club, and af
terward repeated them In many Bchools
and clubs In PlttBburg nnd vicinity. In
nccordanco with a requirement of tho
society they wero sent to London nnd
thero examined by a committee, whose
opinion was expressed In most flatter
ing terms. Another honor In tho form
of an honorary university degree nlso
iwalta Miss Kllllkelly's ploasuro should
3ho deslro to accept It. Tho medal la
l valuablo memento of tho queen's Ju
bilee, only presented to men and wo
men who had written nrtltiea on sub
jects connected with tho alxty yeara
reign of Victoria, articles which be
sides historical significance nnd laud
atory spirit possessed the higher valuo
of literary merit.
Tho Illizziint Uowlml.
The bllzzirrd howled fitfully, varying
,ts performances with shrloks, while
tho patient herd of cattle huddled to
gether aa closely aa possible. From
tho very center of tho bovine pacJc
iroso tho volco of tho youngest calf:
"I," he said, with much satisfaction,
"am the warmest baby in tho bunch."
Cincinnati Enquirer.
IVutrh Marie nf 1'upiir,
A papor watch has beon exhlbltoa
ny a Dresden watchmaker. Tho paper
Is prcparpd In such a mannc thnt tho
watch ia said to bo a3 sorvkoablo an
thoso In ordinary uso.
KSO Centurion In 1807.
John II, George, of Philadelphia, Is
the oldest blcyclo mileage champion of
1897. Ho rodo 32,479 miles, Including
22G centuries.
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