1 M
f
Ji
VKs
IfcJrV
I
r
HP
T1
3SHS
morning orj
Did the woman seuu u -that
Pierre Lafitte was dying asked
the wounded man
Jean started to his feet
c f rh a thing my Pierre
If she did it was but the silly thought
and I cannot with patience
of a woman
tience hear thee repeat it
He seemed cheered by his on
Tvords and bis voice had its usual ring
of confidence and decision n
have thee out of this
I will soon
he resumed as he stood beside the
bed and down to Shell Island where
every comfort shall be thine But
first of a J let me take a look at thy
apartment and its surroundings
He glanced about the cell taking in
everv detail of its shape and con
struction then going to the window
1
Tr rii r f T rniTiT nrilafwiTrwiTMi
AEITTB
w
TiOinsaAN4
BY 0ARY gEVEREUX
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DON C VYIL50N
CCcpynfit C3 by t rvtn sn Company
CHAPTER XXVI lie was looking out when Pierre said
Night in New Orleans where the in a voice so solemn as to sound
former gay life of the streets had for
many weeks been hushed by the
threatened calamity of an attack or
possible siege
The air of the city muggy and life
less as the thunder showers of the
day had left it was still more un
bearable inside the walls of the gaol
where on the upper foor in a cell
whose one narrow iron barred win
dow faced the east lay Pierre Lafltte
The gaolers wife came in with a
jug of water and filling a cup held
it to the stricken mans lips while
sently raising his head
Msieur Pierre I trust you will not
be angry with me that I sent this
afternoon to Father Philipe and ask
ed that a priest be sent here for your
comforting
Is it Father Philipe of the Coeur
de St Jean he asked
Surely msieur and a saint him
self she answered quickly
Very well then madame you may
send the priest to me said Pierre
wearily and wondering if by any
chance he might here find -a channel
through which to communicate with
Jean for he had recalled the name
as that of one of the latters friends
The woman soon returned bringing
a lighted lamp which she placed upon
the floor near the foot of the bed
and Pierre closing his eyes to shut
away the glare did not see the tall
black robed form that entered with
ber and then motioned her to leave
the room
As she did so the priest walked to
the window and stood looking out his
back turned to the bed until the last
echo of the womans footsteps died
away Then striding hastily to the
door he closed it softly and throw
ing back his cowl revealed the pale
lace of Jean Lafitte
Pierre my brother he said tak
ing care to lower his passionate voice
to almost a whisper as he dropped
upon his knees beside the bed My
poor Pierre tell me who has brought
this upon- thee
Pierre smiled as his hot fingers
clasped the cool ones that seemed
throbbing with passion and revenge
KSiiy uiiiinu ins uwu vumv wv
Jean come and sit on the bed beside
me as thou didst when we were boys
together in Languedoc i am crying
and thank God that I can die with
thee near me Having this I ask for
nothing more The surgeon told me
that if the blood came again from
my side I must reckon my life by min
utes and the blood is coining now
my brother Nay never mind as
Jean started impulsively for thou
canst do nothing Let me talk to
thee that is all
He stopped for a few moments as
If to gather strength and when he
spoke again his tone was more in
cisive
Jean I can see it all as it will be
if thou wilt do as I say Go to the
governor in person or better still
go to Jackson when he shall come
Renew the offer and show the origi
nal papers sent to thee by the Eng
lish 9 heard that Claiborne would
have accepted thy proposition but
was over ruled by the others I beg
as the last thing I can ask of thee on
earth to show the papers to Jackson
Promise me to do this and all will
be well with thee and thine
Another brief silence and then Jean
answered with a passion he tried vain
ly td repress I would not to save
my life give this promise to another
But my Pierre as thou hast asked it
from me yes
The moons rays had stolen up until
the shadows of the window bars lay
across the clasped hands and strug
gled faintly along the whitewashed
wall untouched by the light from the
dimly burning lamp
Then can I go in peace had come
like a sigh from the paling lips as
Jeans head was laid against Pierres
shoulder
Put out the lamp added the dying
man let us have only the moon
light
This done Jean resumed his place
by the bed and again took the hand
lying so white in the moon rays
A deep struggling sigh stirred the
silence
Truly had Pierres premonition been verified
Nay he murmured and his voice
although weak held yet a note of old
time humor Nay Jean that would
be a puzzle whose answer is beyond
me The bullets that found me were
meant for any one of us and the
knife thrust in my side was given by
saw before And he
a man I never
added grimlv after a moments pause
no other on earth will ever receive
a thrust from him
Then thou didst not leave him for
me to deal with
No for I left the blade of my knife
in his heart But ah my Jean what
tron onerous wbrk it was what a base
return for thy frankness and
itv
Jean tossed his head impatiently
let us not waste time in talking
of that There is now but one thing
brother and that is
to consider my
the setting of thee from this place
I have come and as
It is for that
thou wert hurt Father
soon as I knew
to help me
Snipe has every reason
o T went to him deling that a priest
V
not be denied tuCC
o still more when a
Derr 7m th gaolers wife to
er came i - -
Father Philipe saymj
that his minis
by thee His
needed
trations were
conscience troubled him but he let
W tor to night and
have my
Sl Wmself come to see thee in the
What is it my Pierre art thou in
pain
There was no reply
Pierre my brother tell me art
thou in pain Jean repeated con
scious that the hand he held lay
heavy and was growing cooler -
He laid it tenderly on the coverlet
and rising pulled the bed out so that
it was bathed in a flood of moonlight
The whitening radiance touched the
half parted lips and wide open eyes
of a face whose cold pallor would
show even whiter iu the mornings
sun
Truly had Pierres premonition
ben verified never would those
sightless eyes behold the France he
had longed to see once more
The morning of Sepusiiaber 14 was
clear and cloudless with ve brisk
wind distending th canvas oir b
M brig Sophia as she made 1 r
wav toward the little island off tht
East Pass known as The Turtle
There had been little doubt among
the English as- to Lafittes decision
and their opinion had been strengthen
ed to1 acertainty by reason of the
recent affafclfupon Barataria the de
tails of which had been reported to
Capt Percy
It was therefore with a very com
placent mind that Capt Lockyer look
ed ahead on the little island lying on
the heaving water with the noonday
heat shimmering in a dazzle of pris
matic coloring over its green growths
He was noon ashore and glanced
around expectantly but no one was to
be
a large piece of white paper- out
spread upon the impaling tnorns oi a
bush only a few yards off He wnt
toward it and soon read what wrojght
a decided change in his express of
complacency besides bringing an
oath from his lips
Then plucking the paper frm the
bush he crushed it in his hard and
turning about went back to lis boat
where with a look of disapnintment
and rage that told his crewof some
thing having gone wrong h ordered
them to push off
The paper he was carrying back to
thG Sophia as the result of his
mission contained only these words
Sept 14 1814
I will accept no favor from and
conclude no terms with those who
make allies of Indians who incite
slaves to insurrection and whose own
cruelty matches well that of their sav
age associates
JEAN LAFITTE
Prison doors were not so easily
opened as in the past Beluche and
Lopez were still under confinement
together with their crew and the re
cently captured Baratarians
The days at Shell Island passed
monotonously Once in October La
fitte made a trip to La Tete des Eaux
where he found only Lazalie and Mad
ame Riefet Gen La Roches sister
who had for the present closed her
New Orleans house and was stopping
in what her brother considered a
safer locality
The general himself spent much of
his time in the city and Mademoi
selle de Cazeneau was now at Kanau
hana where her grandfather was
dying
After hearing from Lazalie of Rose
and her loneliness picturing her be
side her grandfathers deathbed and
recalling the look upon her upraised
face when he left her and the words
she had uttered Lafitte longed to see
her if only to extend his sympathy
That she would have heard erf his
disaster there was little doubt for
Lazalie had met him with both hands
extended and a dimness of tears in
her eyes as she said Captain Jean
I am so glad to see you again and
that you were not forced to accept
tho mrpmnrs hosnitalitv And we
were all so sorry for your brothers
She hesitated and Lafitte said
quietly but with unmistakable firm
ness I thank you truly Lazalie I
understand what you would say and
thank you for it But please let us
talk of something else
Mindful of Roses love for marsh
lilies he had brought a large bunch of
them from Shell Island where they
grew in great luxuriance and beauty
and now handing them to Lazalie he
requested that she give them to Made
moiselle de Cazeneau witn ms cum
pliments
Then you will not go over to Ka
nauhana to day she asked while in
haling the fragrance of the flowers
Before he could reply Madame Rie
fet who had entered the room and
overheard Lazalies question exclaim
ed volubly Is it not pitiful to think
of that poor child over there with
only the negroes about her and that
snappy old Barbe Mercy When I
was her age the very idea of seeing
any one diewould make me fly from
the house
She spoke theatrically with uplifted
brows and raised hands for the er
ratic fashionable Madame was in per
son and manner more decidedly
French than was her brother
Madame Riefets frivolous remark
brought before Jean the picture of
that little island where he had first
seen the figure scarcely more than a
childs clad in a gayly fringed buck
skin dress with beaded leggings and
moccasins and clinging to a still form
from which the breath had but just
departed
Speak once more to jour mue
Rose she had wailed And he hard
ened by frequent contact with death
could not until row realize the full
depth of such sorrow
He realized it now when he had
that moonlit cell to remember the
dead face lying in the silver radiance
the unseeing eyes the parted lips
forever mute but which a moment
before were murmuring words that
in all the years agone were for him
and his welfare
This it was that made Jean La
fittes face look pale and his manner
seem stern as after forcing himself
to listen for awhile to Madame Rie
fets volatile chatter he took his de
parture
To be continued
Prof Bownes Drachm
Prof Borden P Bowne of Boston
university is not only a great wit but
an inveterate punster One morning
in the philosophy class a student who
was not willing to accept anything
until he saw it raised a great many
objections
The professor answered them as
best he could then looking around
the class remarked Has any one
else any scruples and proceeded to
make a bad pun by adding If we
could get scruples enough together
we might raise a drachm among us
To which the student replied Pro
fessor a good many people take that
kind of a drachm without any
scruples - -
A raise Alarm
The z c with which the souvenir
postal fiands pursue their friends In
their endeavors to add to their collec
tions may sometimes prove embar
rassing He was telling her of his va
catici plans which it seems hovered
between a trip to Europe or a visit to
Jamica
Either place will suit me she
cemented He looked startled gazed
Midi at the door and wondered how
he coild make his escape
Yes she went on reflectively I
seen His eyes were attracted by need soae cards from the West In
dies and lien xnere is mai uew stri
just issued in England khe Ledhuy
serieswhichl positively must have
President Elidf and the Small Boy
President Eliot f Harvard college
always enjoys the quick retorts of
small boys in the sttset On one oc
casion a little urchin looked up cur
iously at him and President Eliot
said Hello boy what tittfi is it by
your nose
9
Dunno came the retort
aint ruunin is yours
liine
OYAMA TALKS OF THE WAR
Lcoks to Navy of Japan to Safeguard
His Victories
This Is an unusual and extraordi
nary picture of Oyama field marshal
of Japan It was taken in 1804 just
after the great Japanese general had
made his first capture of Port Arthur
an event he doubtless little thought
ne would be called upon to repeat ten
jcars later
Oyama is quite a philosopher about
the manner in which his pictures get
into the public press and the many
curious stories printed of his life Of
this he recently said to an American
writer who was visiting him in Japan
Variety of Stories
I have been accused of naving
been born in almost every nation of
the earth
Let me see in 1894 when we were
having our war with China and I was
learning a great many things that
ccme valuable now a London news
paper represented over here by a gen
tleman whom I knew seriously pub
lished several columns of matter show
ing that I had been born in Switzer
land of a German mother and French
father
I could hardly complain of such a
tMstinguished honor except that it de
prived Japan of any credit there may
lave been in my birth but in Japan
it so Improbable story were set afloat
I am afraid the gentleman who gave
publicity to it would never write
sgain
Would he be sentenced to death
Now I cant say as to that there are
punishments worse than death I be
lieve
One of the funniest things though
that I ever saw about myself in print
made me Chinese by birth and stated
with much show of seeming facts that
in my early days I had become a ban
dit in the interior of China and that I
was so desperate and famed for my
deeds that the Japanese government
in search for a military genius induc
ed me to abandon my evil ways and
mecome a patriot
I suppose if one were able to col
Ipct all that is printed about him in
the press into one book he would have
grave doubts in his mind as to just
where he was born or who his parents
were
About Future Wars
At the time of this conversation
Oyama not yet having fought the
second battle of Port Arthur and the
VJ IP
Field Marshal Oyama
As He Looked in 1004 When Fighting
China
Manchurian campaign made some re
marks about future wars that read
very entertainingly now He said
No matter what the outcome of the
struggle just beginning between my
country and Russia the great offen
sive and defensive of the Orient of the
future will lie in navies Once the
land rights of the different govern
ments here afe settled the armies in
my opinion will sink back to small
proportions and be maintained on just
about the same basis as is that of the
Thiited States
But there will be a great advance
in naval work and the construction of
ships It will soon be possible for
shipyards to be in operation here and
the navies be built here rather than
abroad We Lave all the raw ma
terials close at hand and we have the
engineers and mechanics developing
who will equal I feel the best found
in the West
The coming naval power of the
Orient will extend from the Red Sea
to Bering Sea and will have an enor
mous cast line to cover and protect
as we as a great commerce to en
courate I do not look for many fu
ture great wars but such as are I am
inclined to think will be fought out on
the high seas and be of short dura
tion
Japan does not wish for more war
Japan profoundly desirest peace
The commercial and industrial in
stinct is awake in Japan and our peo
ple would rather work than fight so
long as we can do the former with
honor
Oyama has grown thick set and
chunky since 1S94 but is said to be
active on his feet and of great physi
cal strength and powers of endurance
Mr Dolbys Bad Break
Nobody but Doioy would have asked
such a question in the first place
Miss Fairley he said if you
could make yourself over what kind
of hair and eyes would you have
If I could make myself over said
Miss Fairley I would look just exact
lyas I look now
You ould exclaimed Dolby in
honest surprise and to this day he is
sc stupid that he cant understand
why Miss Fairley thinks him a man of
1 hYJe taste and less tac
H
BLOWN FROM RIVER BOTTOM
New York Tunnel Workers Marvelous
Escape from Death
To be blown upward through eight
een feet of the mud and clay of the
East river bottom though twenty
eight feet of water and twenty five
ieet into the air to survive the ex
perience and be virtually uninjured
was the experience of Richard Cree
don says a New York dispatch
Creedon is one of the sand hogs
digging the East river tunnel He was
caught in a blow out of compressed
air in a tunnel compartment and went
cut over the surface of the river like
1
u
e
8
3
D I -
p i In I -
L J I I li U If r
Ira if Vi3 i
i -v io
I IA
hep
l In -
- i
A if
1 fi
w
WATER
I i
Diagram shows how one of the men
woi king in the tunn l was blown
through the roof and wuer above il
bv foice of explosion and his resulting
fall
a flying fish A boat picked him up
perfectly conscious if frightened
I dont want another such experl
eice said Creedon I did not lose
consciousness at all and you can im
agine my sensations when I found my
self being hurled up and up through
the daylight from the dark tunnel
When I felt myself being drawn up
through the mud my arms were
stretched up above my head to which
tact I owe my life You see I had been
I lacing hair and sawdust bags up
there to stop the leak when all of a
sudden I was sucked up like the water
through a squirtgun I was powerless
to resist the force and realized that
my only hope was to go clear through
One time I became stuck in the
rrud and I began pawing the dirt above
my head I thought I was gone then
and then seconds seemed to me min
utes Then of a sudden there seemed
an extra force and I felt my body
shooting up through the water and
into the air like a rocket I guess that
I can thank the good Lord that I am
on earth to tell the story
RUSSELL SAGE VERY ILL
Visited Daily by a Physician Who
Says He Will Recover
The condition of Russell Sage who
has been confined to his home for
some time was much more serious
than reported His physician visited
him daily He is now able to sit up
Russell Sage
but Mrs Sage was obliged to take to
her bed being worn out nursing the
aged financier
What the Senators Needed
Among the recent cranks who have
been driven from the capitol by Capt
Megrew and his force of policemen
was a lank lean hungry looking speci
men of humanity who made repeated
efforts to interview prominent sena
tors It was discovered that the man
was an agent and that he had a magic
liquid for sale which he called Rob
insons Restorer What does your
liquid restore he was asked Ev
erything pretty near Except wast
ed fortunes suggested a policeman
It restores health intellect memory
good looks and youthfulness retort
ed the man and is just exactly what
our senators need
Irrigation
Nowhere is irrigation practiced so
extensively- as in India where about
25000000 acres are irrigated Egypt
is next The Assouan dam in the Nile
is considered one of the greatest en
gineering feats in the history of the
human race Irrigation is new in Aus
Of Interest to Brain Workers
A medical man who gave evidenco
in a London chancery division case
testified as to the connection between
brain work and longevity In a way
that charmed the lawyers nnd will
charm other brain workers One third
of the laborers in rural districts he is
reported as saying die of brain soften
ing and the average vegetative rural
laborer much earlier than the hard
thinking lawyer simply because his
brain rusts from lack of exercise
Self reliance
There is a time in every mans edu
cation when1 he arrives at the con
viction that envy is Ignorance that
Imitation is suicide that he must
take himself for better for worse as
his portion that though the wide uni
verse is full of good no kerne of
nourishing corn can come to him but
through his toil bestowed on that plot
of ground which is given to him to
till Ralph Waldo Emerson
Indian Matrimonial Ad
Babu matrimonial advertisement
Wanted A match for an independ
ent beautiful young widower of St
years of respectable and very rich
family Possesses handsome amount
of thousands and numerous golden or
naments of his previous wife La
hore Tribune
What Everybody Says
Jamboree Ky April 3rd Spe
cial I suffered for years with mv
back says Mr J M Coleman a well
known resident of this place Then
I used Dodds Kidney Pills and I havo
not felt a pain since My little girl
complained of her back She used
about one half box of Dodds Kidney
Pills and she is sound and well
It is thousands of statements like
the above that show Dodds Kidney
Pills to be the one cure for Backache
or any other symptom of deranged
kidneys For Backache is simply a
sign that the Kidneys need help
Dodds Kidney Pills always cure
Backache They also always cure
Brights Disease Diabetes Dropsy
Rheumatism Bladder and Urinary
Troubles and Heart Disease These
are more advanced stages of kidney
lisease Cure your Backache with
Dodds Kidney Pills and you need
aever fear them
New Use for Whisky
A butler newly engaged requested
his master to allow him some whisky
Theres nothing like it to clean the
windows said he However a few
minutes later his master chanced to
pass through the room and to his sur
prise found the glass empty Why
James he asked wheres the whis
ky Well you see sir said James
its this way I drank the whisky and
then I breathe on the glass
To Keep Weight Down
If you wish to keep your weight
down dont drink water at meals
Take tea and coffee Rise early walk
at least five miles every day and dont
take a nap after exercising Sleep
eight hours only and on a moderately
hard bed Shun fresh or hot bread
Flee from potatoes peas macaroni
olive oil cream alcoholic drinks
sweets and pastry
Seek Bones of Primitive Man
Paleontologists are hoping to find
any day the hones of primitive man in
some part of the West where the
deeply eroded canyons have revealed
so many wonders of the animal world
in the shape of ancestors of the horse
and the dinosaur
Pays Dearly for Stamp
For using on envelopes two stamps
which had already been through the
post an Irish schoolmaster has just
been fined 100 Some of womens
little daily economics often prove in
the end expensive London Globe
CHILDREN AFFECTED
By Mothers Food and Drink
Many babies have been launched into
life with constitutions weakened by
disease taken in with their mothers
milk Mothers cannot be too careful
as to the food they use while nursing
their babes The experience of a
Kansas City mother is a case in
point
I was a great coffee drinker from
a child and thought I could not eat a
meal without it But I found at last It
was doing me harm For years I had
been troubled with dizziness spots be
fore my eyes and pain in my heart
to which was added two years ago a
chronic sour stomach The baby was
born 7 months ago and almost from
the beginning it too suffered from
sour stomach She was taking It
from me
In my distress I consulted a friend
of more experience than mine and
she told me to quit coffee that coffee
did not make good milk I have since
ascertained that it really dries up the
milk
So I quit coffee and tried tea and
at last cocoa But they did not agree
with me Then I turned to Postum
Coffee with the happiest results It
proved to be the very thing I needed
It not only agreed perfectly with baby
and myself but it increased the flow
of my milk My husband then quit
coffee and used Postum quickly got
well of the dyspepsia with which he
had been troubled I no longer suffer
from the dizziness blind spells paln
in my heart or sour stomach Post
um has cured them
Now we all drink Postum from my
husband to my seven months old
baby It has proved to be the best
hot drink we have ever used We
tralia but is spreading rapidly there i coffee we ever drank
and -the same is more or less true of
South Africa The practice of irriga
tion has declined or entirely disap
peared in many regions where it pre-
I vailed Id remote antiquity
I would not give up Postum for the best
iarae given
by Postum Co Battle Creeic Mich
Theres a reason
Get the little book Tho Road to
Wellvllle in each pkg
ti
u