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KILLED IN A WRECK
Scoro of Persons Loso Their Lives
In a Collision.
TWO TRAINS MEET AT HIGH SPEED
Accident nit Mexican Out nit Itnatl
Nrur illintilro Trainmen I'.Ncupu
From Wrvrk nnil Flcti for Their
I.liei Front Autliorltlci.
A San Antonio Tex., dispatch says:
A terrible wreck In which n score of
persons were killed and about sixty
liurt occurred on the. Mexican Central
railroad between Tamanuhha anil Si
mun, fifty miles south of Minuleo.
Kdwnrd Hlsuhe, a citizen of San An
tonio, was at the scene twenty min
utes after the engines crashed together.
The place where the wreck occurred is
In in a valley at the foot of two Im
mense hills.
At the time both trains were running
thirty miles an hour. One of the trains
had oti board a construction crew
numbering 1.10 men. The other was a
freight of fifty-five empty cars. Three
engines ami about forty ears weie
piled up thirty feet high.
Two Americans, train employes,
were forced to lice to avoid being
lynched.
The names of the killed and injured
tre not obtainable. This is said to he
the most serious wreck that has ever
occurred In Mex'co.
Jlmulco is a division point on the
Mexican Central, Wing headquarters
of the third division.
In Mexico employes of a train must
suffer death if fatalities attach to a
train wreck. The survivors attempted
to lynch the Americans, but they es
caped over the hill and are supposed to
have reached the United States, where
theyare safe.
An Kl Paso, Tex., dispatch gives the
following version: Details of the col
lision on tiie Mexican Central are
meagre. Engineer Ross and Firemen
lleevcs nnd Ilaverson of the freight
train were killed. Most of the dead
and wounded were Mexicans who were
riding hi the car next to the engine.
It is now said the collision was on the
Mexican Central line near ,1111111100 be
tween a freight and a passenger train,
tmd that it caused the death of eleven
persons and Injury of twenty. The
freight was a double header.
CLOSE OF BEAUTY CONTEST
Commute- at New York Anuouucei Iti
AMurtl.
The famous pan-American beauty
tontest has closed ami the awards
made. This was a competition held
for the purpose of selecting the two
aiost beautiful women in America,
blonde and brunette, to typify North
ind South America on the ollieial
emblem of the pau-Amerlcau exposi
tion in Uuffnlo in Uui. A committee
of ten, of which Senator Chauncy M.
Depew wns chairiiMiii, selected from
thousands of photographs sent to New
York, Miss Maude Coleman Wood of
Charlottesville, Va., to represent
N'orth America and Miss Mnxinu Elliot
Mrs. N. C. Goodwin.) brunette, to
represent South America.
OXLEY SOLD CATTLE.
DUpod of I.lvettwk Week of roll
liurl'a Death.
Sheriff Armstrong has arrived at
llrokeu How with William Oxley. the
lupposed murderer of W. II. Fiillhart,
whom he arrested at Louisville, Neb.
It has been learned that Oxley sold
four head of cattle to the T. L. V.
ranch the week of Fiijlhtirt's fieath.
He declines to talk about the matter,
other than to deny knowing anything
about the murder. Circuuii. Unices look
irery unfavorable for Oxley. All of
Fullhurt's cuttle have been found but
about twenty head.
Hoy Drowned ut AriipntioA.
Will Murphy, a boy about seventeen
ears old was drowned in Muddy creek
near Arapahoe. He was a sou of Wil
liam Murphy a well known resident of
that place. The boy started to drive
(he cow to pasture taking his sUutes
ivith him. The family became un
asy about his delay In returning and
als fnther in searching for him found
his cap under the ice and the place
when) he broke through. He summoned
help and the body was recovered, but
life was extinct.
Young IIojh Drowmxl.
A special from Avenue City, Mo.,
ays that two sons of Dade Ethinson,
m engineer, wore drowned in Ono
llundred and Two river. The lads
rvere uged six and nine years. Tho
lder boy was drowned whilo attempt
ing to save lus brother, who had fallen
,'nto the stream.
Rough Itlilcr a Hitlrhle.
Frank C. Itobjrton, troop L,, First
regiment national cavalry volunteers,
mmmilted suleido in Witchlta, Ivan,
ills home is in Hancock county, 111.
lie was forty-three vears old and was
me of Roosevelt's rough riders.
OftVrn HcnulillciniH the Toga.
A dispatch from Minneapolis states
that Governor Lind of Minnesota has
iendcied the sonntorshlp made vacant
by tho death of Senator Davis to Loron
(V. Collins, republican, assistant jus
tice of tho statu supremo court, but
that he had not yet accepted.
Jtotly of I.Uciim Arrlrei.
A San Francisco dispatch says: Tho
tody of Colonel Llscum was taken
!rora tho transport Thomas and car
ried, under military escort, to the Pro
lidio, where it will lie until convoyed
to Washington.
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CHICAGO DRAINAGE CANALj
Cliluf KiiRlneer nt Washington KcreUci
Itrpiirt.
The chief engineer at the war de
partment, Washington, General .1. M.
Wilson, has reccWed from the board ol
engineers, recently convened in Chi
cago', two reports authorised by the
last congress on the conversion of the
Chicago drainage eanal Into a ship ca
nal connecting hake Michigan with
the Mississippi. The llrst of these re
ports deals with the cost of engineer
ing problems of a seven and eight foot
channel through the drainage canal,
striking the Mississippi by way of the
Illinois and Des I'luiiirfl rivers. The
second Is siinllnr, except that It pro
vides estimates for a ten, twelve and
fourteen foot channel over the same
route. These reports will go to the
secretary of war, and 'be submitted to
congress as soon as possible after It
convenes. Sixty-seven reports of similar
nature, covering river and harbor Im
provements nil over the country, will
be submitted to eonirress about till)
same time. It is hoped to get consid
eration for them during the 'piesent
session,
DEBTS OF THREE MILLIONS
llnnkriiptry I.nr ltelhm-4 n riilluilelplilii
Man.
Ardt K. Housekeeper of Nnrbeth,
Pa., was discharged as a voluntary
bankrupt in the United States district
court with liabilities of S:,9!il,tU0.U
ami assets of S-Ti. It was statc.l that
thirteen years ago some friends in
duced Housekeeper to goon their bond
In n gigantic real estate operation.
This involved the erection of 800 houses
in Philadelphia and nearby cities. He
signed the papers without knowing
what he was doing. After a while
matters changed so that the burden of
the mortgage of nenrly S'i.oiM.OOM fell
on him. The judgments against him
are held by trust companies and es
tates iu various parts of tho United
States.
KILLS A MAN AND ESCAPES
I' till Affray nt n Colored Church
Kf
tlwil.
Says a Wellston, O., dispatch of No
vember 2'J: Oscar Cussel shot and
killed Ilert Leach at a festival iu the
colored Methodist church at lterliu
Cross Itoads. Cussel 'fell against a
horn Robert Thompson was playing.
The latter remonstrated tmd was at
tacked by Cassel. Icach tried to stop
the beligerents, when Cassel pulled a
gun and llred, the first shot penetrat
ing Leach's heart. As Leach fell dead
Cassel held the crowd at bay and made
his escape to the woods. The affair
created intense excitement in the
church. The colored people threaten
ed violence if Cassel is'captured, as
Leach was prominent -and well-to-do.
Cannot Accept Uio "Chair.
Prof. Frank Iv. Sanders of the chair
of biblical literature at Yale, who was
elected early in the fall by the trus
tees of Iowa college to the presidency
of the institution to succeed Dr. Georgo
A. Gates, and who since then has had
the matter under consideration, has
Written the trustees, saying thnt ou
account of his duties and obligations
tit Yale it will be impossible for him to
accept. No other candidate is in sight,
Kntul Wreck ou Klkliorn.
A special engine which had b'len or
dered west on the Fremont, F.lkhoru
fc Missouri Valley railroad dashed into
an east bound spccUl freight, threo
miles west of Nickersou, Neb. Itoth
engines were badly demolished and
Knglneer James Zuver of the special
engine was so badly injured that la
dled .shortly afterwards.
Tried to Kill IIU "Wife.
AtMltuilngton, la.. Vinoont IDodge,
while drunk, shot his wife, stabbed
and knocked her down, thriiHt a re
volver into her mouth and pulled the
trigger several timet., but failed ito dis
charge the weapon. Dodge then tied
and is still at large. The woman will
recover.
Cnim-rriitril an IIIkIioi.
Iter. Herman Alerdiug, late of St.
Joseph's parish, Indianapolis, has been
consecrated fourth bishop of the
Cathollu diocese of Fort Wuyue, Ind.
The ceremonies drew a distinguished
company of prelates anil lorgy from
every diocese in the central w-est.
Idle Men l'ut to Work.
After an idleness of rive months the
five furnaces of the Lebanon valley
operated by the Lackawauua Iron and
Steel company of Seranton, l'a., will
resume operation, giving employment
to ubout 1,100 mun.
Notlllcil of AilMinrr.
The American Sheet Steel company
at Pittsburg, Pa., has announced au
advancu of 82 per ton on black sheets,
with corresponding advance iu gal
vanised. Two llurneil to Oeiith.
Mrs. II. K. Crossman, aged forty-live
years, and her daughter tithe!, aged
ten, were burned to death in a lire ut
their homo la Portland, Me.
Klntuy 1'ettr limine. Ill,
Finlay Peter Dunne, author of the
"Dooley" papers, and for many years
au active newspaper man of Chicago,
is dangerously ill with pneumonia.
I'ortn Klco'n KeprcHcntiitlve.
Mr. Fred de detail, first commis
sioner from Porto Rico, elected by tho
republican party, was a passenger on
the steamer San Juan, which has just
nrrived In Now York. Mr. de Gutuu iu
ou his way to Washington.
Wo mu u Kent to rmiltenlliiry.
At Vun Wert, O., Mrs. Van LIow,
who was under indictment for murder
ing Alleo Hummel by throwing vitrol
in her face, pleaded guilty to man
slaughter and was sentenced to' tho
penitentiary for ton years.
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HONORS FOR DEAD SENANOR
Itcitiuln of C. K. I)ul Mo In Stale at
t'upUol.
S'or five hours Friday, Nor. 31, the
stream of people of all ages and con
ditions slowly illed through tho gover
nor's rooms in the state enpltol to take
a last look on the silent and lifeless
body which has for sixty-two years
housed tho spirit and chir brain of
Cushninn Kellogg Davis, former gover
nor of Minnesota .and thirteen lye'tus
In the senate of the United States.
The occasion was an impressive
one, and even the smallest of the
many children who were in the long
line seemed to realle the loss that hart
come to the state of Minnesota and
the nation. Nearly 20,000 people passed
the silent form, paying their last tri
bute of respect with a look of regret
and In some cases with a sob as if of
a personal loss. Not alone the people
of his home city, but from till parts of
the state emtio cltlens of all creeds
and politics, of all colors and condi
tions in life to show their esteem for
the honored dead.
The military escort, which, con
sisted of Company I) of the First regi
ment, Minnesota national guard, under
Captain M. L. Merrill, most of whom
were veterans of the Philippine cam
paign as members of the famous Thir
teenth Minnesota volunteers, and a de
tachment of Halt cry A, Minnesota na
tional guard, utider Lieutenant Allen,
acted as body bearers. Leaving
the house the funeral procession head
ed by mounted and foot detachments
of police, marched slowly to the enpltol.
Thoeotlln was carried between lines
of mourning eltieus Into the build
ing, where It was placed on rt catafal
que in the governor's south chamber.
The main eorrlder of the building was
dinp-d simply In somber crape. In
the center of the chamber lay the body,
underneath a chandelier, hung with
crepe mid snillax.
The escort formed in double column
nt once, and the waiting assemblage
of people, representing all classes of
society, passejl slowly by the open cof
Iln to take a last look at the man who
had houoied his slate whilo sering it.
HAS A TASK ON HIS HANDS
Dr. Tow ne IntvHtlgiitlng Hmiitlpoi In
Northern Nelininku.
A special of Nov. 30 from Sioux City,
Iowa, says: With 130 cases of small
pox in Decatur. Neb., nntl towns in
that vicinity Dr. H. R. Townc. of
Omaha, bpeclal representative of the
Nebraska state board of health, on
his arrival in the midst of the epide
mic had a big task on his hands, but
It Is believed that the disease In north
western Nebiaskn is now well In hand.
On the Omaha mid Winnebago reser
vations Dr. Towue will have more dif
Acuity. It is reported that there are
hundreds of eases among the Indians,
this again is denied, it being asserted
that Cuban itch is the worst of their
atllietioub. A few have died.
RECOGNIZES HER ASSAILANT
One Victim of Ilurllngtoii Footpad Ktllt
Alive.
Mrs. Llnter, of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, whose husband was killed and
who herself was fatally shot by a foot
pad Nov. 30, is still 1 iving. Todny
she recognized d'eorge Anderson
as the man who assaulted her husband
and herself. The coroner's jury recom
mended that he be held without baiL
I'leuiU nullfjr to 1-nrceny.
Julius Thandel, charged with bur
glary and petit larceny at Columbus,
Neb., on whose ease a jury was out
twenty-six hours, mid was then dis
charged for want of any probability
that an agreement as to a verdict could
he reached, appeared before Judge
(irimison and pleaded guilty to petit
larceny, receiving tins maximum pen
alty for the offense under the old law
of 1873, thirty days iu the county jail.
Nteul Cuttle by Wholcmiln.
Says a Logan iport, Ind, dispatch:
The boldest cattle steal ever perpe
trated in Indiana, occurred six miles
from Rennsiihier, when rustlers visited
the ranches of A If ted McCoy, drove
.them to the various points where cars
were In waiting and shipped them to
Chicago. McCoy, who has just heard
of the steal.estlmates his loss at 88,000.
There is no clue.
llen Four Ycurs Sentence.
William Nntlon, who was convicted
ou the chargo of burglary by a jury in
district court at Plattsiuouth, was
sentenced to four years at haul labor
iu tho penitentiary by Judge .lessen.
Nntion burglarised a store at Union.
The prisoner's attorney made a motion
for a new trial, but this was refused
by the court.
Mayhrlck Cimp HI 111 Pending.
The olllcials of tho United States
embassjiy ut London say they havo not
received any instructions in regard to
taking further steps for the release
from Working pribon of Mrs. Florence
Maybrlck, who is under sentence of
imprisonment for life ou conviction of
poisoning her husband.
A new company has been formed to
operate tho Independence cotton mill.
Cattle in tho vicinity of Callaway are
reported as dying in great numbers
from tlie effects of eating cornstalks.
A ranchman a few miles east of thcro,
hauled (wo loads of shock fodder to
his cattle and in less thnn an hour
twenty-five of them were lying dead In
his corral. Paul Seyerson, a prosper
ous farmer a tew miles west of the
city, lost fourteen head in ono day by
turning them iu a stalk field. Others
report tho loss of from threo to seven
head from tho same cause. A few
horses havo died. There appears to bo
nothing that will cure them when they
arc onto taken with the dlbuuse.
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Dlnna, who feared him with un In- '
tensity that Increased as time sped by. '
viia mil more it ii ii inuie .iiuiii' m '
little set of rooms nt Montreal, until
life became a dull and liopi'lostt bur
den for her. There was no ray of In
terest In her heavy face toulkia as she
asked for her husband's new. Paul
on the other hand, was quivering with
iinrcpreused excitement.
"I havo got n fortuuu In my ftnr.i'M.
Dlann a fortuno. I tell you!" he told
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Juhllantly, as he tliew up his chair to
the little round siippiir table, from
which Diana had risen to meet him
Paul had bo often brought home
fortunes that seemed at his nng-M'
ends fortunes that crumpled into dust
ere they were graHped- that alio felt
little or no interest In them now. Shu
was growing tired of the whole thing,
particularly as she was now cut off
from all participation Iu her huab.iud's
more Intellectual Venturis.
"I can't, see whnt uood It's uolnc to
do you," she. said at last, when he had
explained. "I guess this girl ain't i;o
ing to die off to milt you, Paul, and yon
can't live on that bit of paper."
"What fools women are!" Riivngely
broke In Paul. And his dark fare took
on an uejy look as he remembered that
men, likewise, could be fools, when
they saddled themselves with such
burdens as that of the heavy, dejected
woman opposite him.
"I'm going to Europe tomorrow
to England." he said shortly.
Diana looked up from her pie. "Shall
you he gone long this time, Paul?"
"1 can't quite say," slowly said the
selentlst. "It will depend on many
things. Hut I promise you. Diana, that
1 shan't come back until I've got this
in my clutch In hard cash." Paul's
lingers jilayed with the sheet of paper
outspread before him.
Diana Andsell shivered, nnd her
while, full- face grew still more pallid
In hue. That thlu man, her husband,
was capable of the vilest scheming to
win his way she already knew. Noth
ing was sacred from such an arch-
plotter. And as hIio furtively watched
IiIb frowning, dnrk face while ho pored
over the handwriting beforo him, Di
ana told herself half fearfully that
Paul Andsell would keop IiIh promise.
He would return to her with tho for
tuno, or he would never come back at
all.
CHAPTER VII.
It wan ChrlBtmas Eve, and true old
fashioned Christmas weather.
Tho country round Tcmple-Dcno
was glittering with hoar-frost, every
tree untiling and sparkling In the sun,
every pond nnd at! cum and pool fast
bound in Ice.
The low, red sun of the afternoon
wns Bhlnlng full on the old house, sur
rounded by tho frost-silvered pines,
aTid Its many windows twinkled u
brllliunt welcome to the expected heir
and his bride.
Thero hart been a great stir, n sim
mer of wild excitement, under the old
roof during the weeks preceding
Christmas.
Iady Jano had done wonders in
freshening up tho tarnished and faded
glories of the home. She had a free
hnnd, to be sure, In her wholesale Im
provements; for could not Oervls af
ford to pay any amount of bills that
might ensue?
"If I could only rouse up poor dear
Francis, beforo tlioy come homo," the
busy lady said, energetically.
Uut the master of Temple-Dene was
tho solo member of tho house Indiffer
ent to the advent of the heir and his
bride. Amid the turmoil of prepara
tion he sat listless and silent In his
library, "tho world forgetting, by the
world forgot."
If It had not been for Leila Des
mond, It would have fared 111 for tho
stricken man. Tho gentle-naturod
girl, with heart full of womanly In
stincts, felt IneslHtthly drawn to tho
lonely, silent man. He nnd she had a
grief in common, nnd It hound them
together. Jt was only ut the sound of
Leila's sweet voice, and the touch of
l)lla's tender hand, that Francis Tem
pleton over stirred from his trance of
misery.
Uut even 1iln rouhl not mako tho
unhappy man comprehend that Tom-ple-IX'nn
was snved, nor could he tako
In the meaning of the light-hearted
preparations going on around.
"Pin glad, glad, that Uncle Francis
doesn't care, that ho won't rare!" said
little Syb almost viciously to her elder
slBter.
The misshapen girl looked on nlrnost
in gloomily at the hurry and fuss as
did the master of tho liouso. She
clenched her thin little fingers every
time the bland, self-satisfied tones, so
new In Lady Juiiq'b voice, fell on her
ear.
"Little Syb" Ix-lla turned her wist
ful eyes on the girl "It hurts me when
you speak so!"
"Hurts you? Oh. I could heat you,
Lolhi, If I didn't love you so dreadful
ly that I should kill anyone who struck
you! Hurt you? Oh, why were you
made so good and I made ho had? All
tho time I am wishing that some ac
cident will happen to those two a
shipwreck or a railway collision nnd
that they will never, no for reach Tom-ple-Denol"
"Syb!" ngaln cried Leila. And this
time fiho gathered the distorted little
flguro on her hip, nnd laid hor own
soft round cheeks ngnlnet the pitHsIon
whlte lips. "What hus come to you,
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that 'Love worketh no 111 to this
neighbor, therefovo lovo Is tho fulfill-
Ing of the law'? How can you 'put
on tho Lord Jesus Christ,' who died
for you and me, mid for those who are
coming home to tin, If you lei yourself
say such things? I know It Is only
saying them -I cannot bellevu you
think them." Leila's fresh inuutli
kissed the angry eyes.
"Hut 1 do think them! I feel what
1 say. I'lla, what right has that Amer
ican girl to take your tlervls from you?
Everybody knows It was you he want
ed all the time, not any other. And
everybody about the place Is saying
so!" hotly said Hubs Syb.
"Hush!" Lnlla winced at Syh'a Inst
words. "As for her right, wo mint ie
member every minute In the d.ty that
Cod has given her that right us us
tlervls wife."
Hravely the words came, hut they
wrung the heart of the gentlu speaker.
"And, Syb, can't you take It In, oncu
and for all, that wo are not sent Into
the world to snatch at as much Imp-
plncss and sclf-pte.iuing us we can? In
order to copy our dear Lord, even
faintly, we must each give up some
thing, and go on giving up until the
end comes. If tlervls had not given
up his his wishes, the old home would
have been wrecked, his parents would
hate been beggars. 1 I think It a
great thing to sacrlllro all yourself for
those dear and near. Syb, 1 could give
up nnythlng for you."
"Foru me? Could you, lella? Such
a miserable, humpy, crooked little
thing us I?"
Syb's lips quivered.
"What mutters It whether our bodies
are straight or crooked? It Is our
souls that will live by and by In Para
dise, If they arc straight and true, the
homes of pure thoughts and gentle
deeds Oh, Syb, try and cast out that
paislouato nature of yoius. And when
(iervls brings home his bride, let us
he loving nnd kind to her, a stranger
amid us nil think or It!"
"Hut shall you, U'lla?" Syb stared,
"Shall you really welcome her nnd ho
nice to her you?" she demanded,
wonderstruck ut such a possibility.
"God helping me, I shall," gravely
snid Leila, and she meant It.
It was not that her old lovo for
Oervls had died a sudden death; but
because he was now tho husband of
another woman, bound to love and
caro for her "until death them did
part," that lcll.i could put him out
of Iter life, save au tho man who had
saved his old home nnd his parents
fiom earthly ruin.
If Oervls could attain to such a sac
rifice us he had made, could she her
self not Imitate his self-abnegation In
her life? And the passion-distraught
llttln Bister must bo brought round
somehow, and taught to welcome the
new comer Into tho family.
It was a cl 1 111 cult tusk to persundo tho
untamable spirit. Though Syb was but
thirteen years of age, sho had a grown
up mind and one as distorted. us her
poor little body.
"I should like to see hor lying dend
that American girl!" said tho deformed
girl when lila's persuasive voice
ceaBPil. "You seo," went on Syb, "if
she were dead, Gorvls would hnvo nil
her money, of course, and he could
marry you."
Uila groaned. This horrible, In
human wish was the only result of her
efforts to soften thn ungovorned heart.
"That's why I keep on wishing
something would happen to thorn!"
ehementJy Insisted Syb.
"Happen to whom?" Lady Jane's
voice startled tho sltterB, and Syb slip
ped oh Leila's knee. "I've Just had a
wire from Gervls. They ure in london
and will bo hero tcdny," she wont on
hurriedly. "And they aro bringing a
friend with thuui, a Mr. Ausdcll. I
fancy It Is the samo man who saved
the whole train, you remember, from
a terrible fire In the midst of tho prai
ries." "Yes, 'AnsdoH' wub that man's name,
dear aunty," snld Leila, "a well-known
scientist, Gervls said ho was."
Uillu spoke the name, of her lover
she had lost In a controlled, calm voice
The help she had sought was vouch
safed her abundantly.
"Well, we must bo good to him In
that case. Hut our house has been
filling up this week until there's hard
ly a decent room left for this strnnger.
And, Lelln, my dear, I wont your help
again. Our arrangements are not
quite finished."
Lady Jane rushed off as rapidly as
she had romo.
Thero wns to ho a large party of old
and young on Christmas night nt Tcm-plo-I)pne.
For yearB there hnd been
ulmoHt no entertaining In tho partially
ruined home. Tho Christmas gather
ing wns, therefore, looked forward to
by tho neighborhood with keen expec
tation. "It Is to be quite nn old-fashioned
Christmas party, with n trco nnd bllnd
rnan's huff and romps neither moro
nor less," Iady Jane warned them,
"It should havo boon, proporly speak
ing, on Christmas eve; but our dear
young people will not nrrlvo until that
day, so our merry-making must be on
tho twenty-fifth."
It waB late afternoon when tho fam
ily cnrrlugo, nowly furnished, came up
tho steeps from tho roadside station,
and reached the Tcmplo-Deno avonuo
of tall firs, whoso stately trunks were
redding In the sun's dying glare.
"We're at home now (llnddy! Wo'ra
on our own html nt last. Wolcomo,
dear wife, to 'Jemple-Denol"
(KmvIh bent forward and lifted In hla
the little bunds lying listlessly on
('kiddy's lap. Peihaps, if they two
had been nlone, lie would hnvn kissed
his welcome as well as said It, hut they
were not alone. Fiom n corner of th
roomy old carriage u p.ilr of d.irk rest
less eyes roved over the suow-eoveroil
liimlsc.ipo.
Gladdy, at her husband's words, lift
ed her head to look out also, nnd it
was startling to note how shu hud al
tered. There was a peculiarly Misted
appearance and nn unutterable list Inn
ness not lint lira I In one so young. II
needed u distinct effoit for her to sur
vey her new home; to Hpeak Hho m ul
no attempt. Gervls drew back dhnp
poluted. "Haven't you a word of prulo, my
dear, for your own homo?" ho naked.
"It's nil very nice, but It Is so cold,
aud I never liked pine trees," (Untidy
forced herself to Hiiy. Aud she shlv-,
ei ed under her Parisian wraps and hor
costly furs. "They always make me
shudder, they arc so gloomy," she add
ed plteously,
"Shu's fearfully nervous," thought
Gervls. ,
Hut there wns no sign of It when
Ghtddy stepped out of the carrt.igo and
Into lttly Jane's widely welcoming
arms.
A self-possessed, wistful-eyed llttln
bride It was who lifted her cod cheek:
for her mother-in-law's klsn; a dainty
flgme, Iu truth, In Its eoAtly I'um
Hut the face under tho gronn velvet
toque, with Its diamond buckle ami
nodding feathers, was not tho f.uo of
a shy, happy bride, ami for a moment)
Lilly Jano stared, hall pii.zlt d
Then Gervls was clasped in hln
mother's urms nntl held tight. If her
ladyship hail n soft corner In her
worldly, ambitious heart It wns for hor
boy, the son who had done so much,
for herself and the old homo.
The bride stood apart, a pathetic
little, figure In her momeutury louull
ncss. lollu, who lint) been shrinking.
behind the person of littly Jane, uulek
ly noticed It, forced herself to go for
ward. "May I bid yon wele.omo? I am
Lelln. Perhaps Get vis has told you
that his cousins, Sybil and I, liuvo tvetl
hero slnco we weie almost hal..tu
Syb, at least, was a b'iby."
Leila's wlnsomu, tender face was
bent close to Gladdy, who wiih sllghtlj
shorter In stnture than she. Hor low.
rich voice, with Its cnresslng nolo,
stlrretl sometnlng In Gladdy'H ho.trt.
nnd sho moved eagerly forward so
eagerly that their lips met In a cling
ing kiss before llla had quite madn
up her mind to greet the Initio with
anything warmer thnn a stiff hantl
'shako. "I didn't, know there was any Leila,"
said Gladdy, In her sweet, childish
tones. "Gervls did not tell mo. Hut
I nm so glad! Please take ma away
somewhere. Let us go together, you
unci I, I nm so weury!"
Leila was startled. Go away to
gether, the bride and she I It sounded
bewlldeiingly strango.
Anil nnd had Gervls forgotten her
so utterly that her name had never
heon uttered to his newly made wlfo?
The thought wrung her guntlo hturt,
(To be continued.)
FRUIT FLIES.
Ninnll IuecU Among Cftiihnii Fruit o0
thn Hhelvo.
Often housekeepers who do not tako
sufllclent pains with tho sealing of tho
cans or fruit they put away In titer fall,
find on the surface of the contents lit
tle, slender maggots, feetllug on tho
contents. These larvae aro ptooahly
of tho species called fruit files. They
belong to a cinus of Insects contiilnliirt
some thirty kinds. The flics uro llghl
brown In color. Thny uro so small
that thoy are commonly thought of as
ordinary gnats. They are attracted by
tho acrid odor of vinegar us Well an
fruit. Stone Jars simply covered with
a cloth to allow the fermentation tt
vinegar are easily Invaded by the In
sects, which lay their eggs on tlia
pieces of fruit that aro projecting;
ubovo the surface of tho fluid. Tlia
hatehlng of the lurvnu Is soon follow
ed by the formation of tho pup.io,
which aro found on the Hides or tho
cans, usually. Somo four days laler
the flies Issue and begin the round nt
production agnlu, multiplying with
great rapidity, it is n cuuractorlstle oC
tho larvae or those flics to llvo only
In upper layers of the fruit mid thin
fact makes it possible to havo nt least
a portion of tho contents or tho Jars.
Fruit put Iu cans nntl geulc.il up air
tight Is safe. Eggs laid iipqn eJotk.
tops or near slight openings between
lid nnd can often hatch into worms
that find a way Inside. Pyrothrum.
powder used In thn fruit room or col
lar will have a good effect In elmrlna
out tho flies nnd this, with tho pre
cautions mentioned in connection with
cnnnlng, should rid a plaeo or tho In
sects. George Edwin Bluck In Italian
upolls News.
Veterinary Hurzeou'a IlnrU I.Uck.
Veterinary surgeons aro complaining,
of hard luck. With the cabin eurs tk
trolley cars and now the automobiles,
their business has gone to the doits.
metaphorically spcuklng. Soon tber
will bo us many surgeons as thero are
norsos. It Is nearly aa bad as that
now, and, as automobiles becom
cheaper und tho JlkeJIhood of alrsulpa
coming In to supplement them grows
tho prospect Iu not a bright ono. Lot,
or Now York veterlnarles ur0 glvlu
up tho nttempt to make a HvIuk uai
arts' coming west.
There nro nt presont thirteen incoiv.
porated automobile clubs in tho Units
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