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H E N Elliott
R a y m o n d
bought a farm
In Flint valley
it was not be
cause he intend
ed going into ag
riculture or be
cause he want
ed to be quoted
as gentleman farmer it was because
lie had money he didnt know what to
do with
Hurrying down to the station one
morning to catch the train in order to
join the first meet of the Flint Valley
Hunt Club he ran against his broker
who stopped him long enough to say
Great Northeastern went up any
umber of points yesterday We sold
Ill send you a check for 4000 to day
On the train Elliott had time to think
over several business matters among
them the rise in Northeastern Four
thousand was a small sum to Elliott
ilaymond but still he didnt know
what to do with it Banks were pay
lug only 3 General Metallic was away
down Real estate was low and it was
still a problem when the train stopped
and he climbed onto Tom Harveys
-coach beside Miss Carruth In her so
ciety he forgot all about Northeastern
General Metallic and banks that pay
only 3
The hunt starts at 1 she said
smiling at him with frank level eyes
We have luncheon at the Birches
and so the conversation drifted fol
lowed by a swift run across country
fter the hounds a fiash through
Patchins woods and gulley and the
meadows beyond where Miss Carruth
-came in first and won the brush
Shall we go home by the Willow
xoad she said to Elliott It is the
longest way and he said of course
for Elliott always agreed with Miss
Carruth
It was riding home by the Willow
road that Elliott chanced to see a sign
tacked to a tree near a farm gale
This Farm for Sale at a Sacrifice
Suddenly he remembered the 4000
The house was away back from the
road there was a neat hedge on one
side and a grape arbor and a few giant
elms Quite a handsome country place
Why shouldnt he put his money in this
farm He would if it was a good in
vestment He would notify Brooks
That was how Elliott Raymond came
-to buy a farm A distant cousin was
brought from the west somewhere and
installed thereon while the former
owners well Elliott didnt know what
became of the former owners Cousin
John wrote Elliott that the farm was
an an excellent state of cultivation He
was going to sow such and such fields
with wheat and reserve others for
-white oats and would Elliott kindly
have the florist send a lot of bulbs for
fall planting Elliott carefully attend
ed to every request and he used to
tell Miss Carruth all about it as they
drove out to the foot ball game on his
-drag
Brooks has sent enough plants and
things for Cousin Margaret to plant the
Wntire farm he said laughingly Miss
Carruth was such a sensible girl she
liked to hear about his farm he knew
4ind always seemed so interested
Truth to tell Gertrude Carruth had
hoped she acknowledged it to herself
boldly that Elliott Raymond would
some day ask her to share his fortunes
Ills interests wherever they might be
She did not care about the fortune in
itself She looked straight in her mir
ror one night and told herself so I
wouldnt care if he hadnt a penny
he said he is the best man I know
At Mrs Westerleighs dinner Miss
Carruth was sure Elliott had some
thing in particular to say to her They
-were in the conservatory she sitting
on a rustic seat and he leaning on the
edge of a marble basin watching the
rold fishes swimming about Neither
iiad spoken for some time and she felt
-when he did speak it would be some
thing she would wish to hear She
pulled a red rose from a branch near
lier
It is beautiful isnt it he said
taking it from her lingers It is a
crimson rambler I am going to have
si lot of them sent down to the farm in
the spring He threw away the fra
grant white flower from his buttonhole
aind put the rose in its place The spell
was broken the farm had done 5t
Miss Carruth thought bitterly and
they walked back to the drawing room
Spring came summer passed and the
Flint Valley hunts were once more
calendared Elliott sent Black Bess
down to the farm and he followed by
train one October night when it was
ust chilly enough for a small blaze in
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his own farm
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The hunt was at S oclock with the
hunt breakfast four miles away and
as Elliott rode Black Bess through the
lane he noticed how beautifully the
lawns were kept A few chrysanthe
mums were beginning to show their
colors and a bed of pink and white cos
mos that flower that never blooms
until touched by frost flaunted fairy
faces at him in the sharp wind
I will come down here and stay all
next summer Elliott said to himself
as Black Bess took the front gate and
dashed away toward the Laurels
Again Miss Carruth was the lender
of the chase and again Elliott rode by
her side on the slow return
You are coming to luncheon with
us she said as they paced along the
willow road
Yes and he looked at his watch
We are early Will you stop at the
farm and meet Cousin Margaret Id
like you to see the place
The girl was pleased that he wanted
to show her his farm They entered
the house unannounced and as they
passed through the wide old hall they
heard some one singing a low quaint
old air to the music of the piano They
paused at the door of the parlor A
young girl was seated at the piano her
back toward them She was singing a
song which Elliott had heard a well
known Irish tenor sing many tames
Give me a word of love Douglas Gor
don
Just a word of pity Oh my love said
she
For the bells will ring to morrow Doug
las Gordon
My wedding bells my love but not for
j ou and me
Miss Carruths eyes grew tender as
she listened to the words She looked
at Elliott He touched her arm and
they walked softly through the hall to
the room beyond where Cousin Marga
ret was busy
You have company Cousin Marga
ret Elliott said after introducing
Miss Carruth
Cousin Margaret flushed You dont
mind do you You see the piano be
longed to her and they had to sell it
with all the other things Shes such a
sweet girl I told her to come in and
use the piano whenever she liked It
will keep it in tune you know
Cousin Margarets explanation was
not very lucid but Elliott understood
that the girl was the daughter of the
man who had owned the farm While
they were still speaking they heard the
hall door close and the girl crossed the
lawn Miss Carruth standing by the
window looked after her and with the
quick intuition some women have she
felt that this girl was to have some
influence over Elliotts life
Elliott was to remain at the farm for
the entire hunting season and now and
then he caught a glimpse of the girl
but she did not come to the house again
when he was likely to be home One
day however Black Bess went lame
and he returned from the first ditch
He heard the sound of the piano as he
crossed the lawn and just as he reach
ed the door it opened and the girl stood
before him
Although he had not seen her face
he had known she was beautiful and
when she blushed her face was like
some sweet delicate flower
Excuse me she said I didnt
know
Elliott smiled You are Miss
Thompson Cousin Margaret told me
you came in to awaken the echoes
sometimes I am glad you do His
tone was so pleasant that the girl
smiled as she again bowed and passed
on
He did not go to hunt the next day
and when the girl came across the lawn
he went to meet her and asked if he
might come in and listen to the music
It has been a long time since I have
heard a really good voice he said
Do you like my voice she asked
frankly
I do I came in the other day when
you were singing Douglas Gordon It
is my favorite song Will you sing it
for me now
She sang it and many others and so
it came about that she promised to
come every morning while he sent to
the city for his violin and he hunted
no more mornings or afternoons Miss
Carruth noted day after day that he
was absent from the chase and though
she at first wondered she was not long
in discovering the reason
One morning the girl did not come
and Elliott paced uneasily up and down
the hall drew the bow across the
strings of his violin went to the win
dow and at last wondered at his im
patience I never knew I cared so
much about music he said to himself
Just then the girl came through the
sate Sio had pulled a few of the pink
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cosmos and svuTe them In her belt and
as she saw Elliott at the window he
looked up and smiled
If a thunderbolt had fallen out of
the autumn sky Elliott Raymond
could not have been more astonished
than he was at the throb his heart gave
when he saw her His sunwise at
his feelings was so great that he lean
ed against the window to steady him
self for a moment
Thirty five years old he said to
himself and I have never and then
she came in
You are waiting she said
Yes I was waiting
She looked up in surprise at his tone
When she saw his face she flushed He
held out his hands Alice he said
I want you always Will you come
I want you to be my wife
He was surprised that he could not
express himself better She looked up
at him her eyes moist and glad
Do you she asked
I do Will you Alice
She held out her hands and met his
I will she said softly You are
very sure
Quite sure Alice
And so It comes about that Elliott
Raymond will undoubtedly carry out
his promise to himself to spend all next
summer in Flint valley because Mrs
Raymond will want to go back to her
old home on the farm after the winter
of gayety in the city
And Miss Carruths gift to the bride
and groom is a water color sketch of
a slender dark haired girl seated at a
piano with autumn sunlight streaming
in at the window and the card accom
panying it has a most informal line
With the best love of Gertrude Car
ruth Buffalo Evening News
HOW A SHARK CAME ABOARD
British Tramp Wilderapool Comes in
from Java with a Fish Story
When the British tramp steamer
Wilderspool from Java sugar laden
arrived here yesterday Capt Japp had
a fish story to tell Last Sunday night
was dark very dark In latitude 3550
N longitude 7055 W the wind was
coming in a gale out of the northeast
The seas ran high and seemed to be
getting higher and higher as Capt
Japp stood on the bridge and watched
his craft plunge through them heavily
The decks were frequently awash
When Capt Japp was peering out into
the exceeding darkness and keeping
himself all ears for any sound that
boded ill he heard now and again as
the forward deck was swept by the
waves a flapping and swashing which
lie thought indicated that some sail
had broken loose and was beating
about the deck He ordered the crew
forward to take care of it and when
they had gone there their exclama
tions which reached his ears through
the darkness brought him down to find
out just what had happened
Flopping about on the deck he saw
an eleven foot shark which the seas
had cast there a the steamer plunged
and pitched and rolled among them
The fishs great jaws opened and
closed as it was thrown by its own
struggles and the vessels motion from
point to point of the deck and the
crew watching attentively these forci
ble reminders that life is short exe
cuted some admirable quicksteps on
the briny boards One of them stood
as if charmed or dazed unable appar
ently to move a muscle
Why dont you take hold of it
Capt Japp shouted at this one You
look as if you were afraid
The sailorman roused himself and
pulling himself together made an ef
fort to grab the shark but he was
thrown to the deck The enormous
jaws snapped again and again and the
men fell back loath to help them to a
mouthful Eight of the crew finally
set about a siege and made at the
shark in earnest After a severe bat
tle the shai k was beaten and captured
and on the following day it was cut
up New York Sun
A pound of phosphorus heads 1000
000 matches
A ton of oil has been obtained from
the tongue of a single whale
Over 600000 pounds of tea are con
sumed in England daily
The volcanoes of Vesuvius and Etna
are never both active at the same time
Web to the length of two and a quar
ter miles has been drawn from the body
of a single spider
A newly discovered spot on the sun
which is visible just now is said to be
30000 miles in diameter
A complete electric plowing plant has
been installed on an estate in France
in the department of the Tarn
Engineers in Germany receive from
the Government a gold medal and 500
for every ten years of service without
accident
Telegraph wires will last for forty
years near the seashore In the manu
facturing districts the same wires last
only ten years and sometimes less
To cool a hot room wet thoroughly a
large sheet and hang it up in the mid
dle The temperature will go down
ten or twelve degrees almost immedi
ately
Bicycles are now being made with
one of the tubes in the frame plugged
at each end to be filled with oil through
an inlet at the top and drawn off be
low so that a cycler need not run out
of fuel for his lamp
The oldest building in the world that
has been uninterruptedly used for
church purposes is St Martins Cathe
dral at Canterbury The building was
originally erected for a church and has
been regularly used as a place for re
ligious gatherings for more than 1500
years
The upper ten is composed of the win-
ning nine and the umpire
WHERE DEER DRINK
NIGHTLY VISITS TO A SPRING IN
ARIZONA TERRITORY
Strange March Witnessed by a Pros
pector in the Iava Beds Herd Ap
proaches the Water When the Digni
fied Buck Scout Signals
Canyon of Tres Alamos
No region In the world possesses as
much of weird grandeur as the lava
beds of Arizona No portion of this
wild district is so weird so fantastical
ly wild as the narrow canyon of Tres
Alamos Securely hidden In the moun
tain fastnesses it is the most forbid
ding of all the many gulches with
which the region abounds Vegetation
is almost absent But three evidences
of what more favorable ground might
do are present These are the three
cottonwood trees which give the can
yon its name The rocks which com
pose the sides and floor of this strange
canyon are what are known as con
glomerate among prospectors They
contain a badly mingled mass of mate
rials including the precious metals
but they are so fearfully mixed that
they are useless for any scientific pur
pose Few men have ventured into
the canyon still fewer would care to
remain longer than necessary to drink
of the spring which gushes out of the
rocks at the roots of the trees
No man who has prowled about Ari
zona has seen wilder sights than L J
Court He is a prospector who has
passed ma 113 years Avandering about
the Territories in search of pay dirt
He is known all over the Pacific coast
and has been in every nook of the
dreary region where the earth vomited
out Its floods of lava rock He put in
several days and nights in Tres Ala
mos and Avitnessed the wild animals
on their nightly visits to the spring for
water He recently made a visit to
Phoenix after having remained in the
canyon for a time He relates an in
teresting story of his observations
while out iu the lava beds He de
scribes the canyon and then continues
as follows
A Wonderful Country
A cold spring pours out of the solid
rock and chatters its way noisily down
the narrow canyon Here at the dead
of night come the beasts of the barren
mountains for miles around to drink of
outlined against the sky In a moment
his snort was answered by the patter
of many feet and he was surrounded
by a pack of deer I counted eighteen
in all The big buck ventured cautious
ly down the lava slope and when half
way down he halted tossed his antlers
about as he sniffed the air and then
gave another musical snort At this
signal on came the rest of the pack
They halted just behind him Then he
ventured further down and presently
stood so close to me that I could have
hit him with a pistol shot Here he halt
ed again again tossed his head up and
down right and left then gave another
snort and the rest of the pack came up
Three times in this way they halted
Always the buck acted as scout and no
one advanced till he gave the signal
Arrived at the water the buck waded
in a few steps then signaled for the
others to advance and drink And
while they drank he fell back of them
several yards and stood there as guard
j until they had finished Such an alert
scout no human being ever made And
there was a world of pride and dignity
in him as he stood there and watched
and waited Surely he realized that
the fate of the entire pack depended
upon him and his honors and responsi
bilities sat heavily upon him It took
the pack perhaps ten or fifteen minutes
i to satisfy its thirst Then it moved
back from the water and stood near the
buck Now it was the bucks turn to
drink He strode forth bent his head
and drew in great draughts of the cool
water But he drank with his dignity
still upon him The pack waited for
him and when he was once more at Its
head there was a wild scramble up the
jagged sides of the bluff
Other Animals Seen
I was fascinated by the spectacle
and resolved to witness it again So
I stayed another night The perform
ance was repeated exactly Again on
the third night they came to drink in
the same and the next night and
the next and so on till it dawned upon
me that I must quit loafing and get
back to work Of course the deer
scented me at once and knew all along
just where I lay but I kept very still
and they did not seem to mind me
The smaller animals came at all
times of the night and the smaller they
were the more noise they made The
foxes were the slyest of all and the
most timid They go on a dead run all
the time with their heads always wrig
gling from side to side The first time
they sniffed my presence at camp they
THE BIG BUCK ACTED AS SCOUT
the running waters And here lying
quietly in the moonlight I have been a
silent spectator of some of the queerest
sights that mans eyes ever beheld I
have seen the deer and the wildcat and
the coyotes and the tufted lynx and
even a lumbering cinnamon bear or
two come here to drink I have lain
quite still in the moonlight and watch
ed them for hours and there is no more
fascinating spectacle to be seen in the
open
It is a wonderful country and no
man ever set foot into a wilder region
There are three cottonwood trees
where the spring pours out of the rock
and along the banks of the creek are
many willows Near the spring is a
level spot of ten acres The first night
I camped there I was tired But aftr
that I stayed on for two weeks because
of the wonderfully weird charm of the
place The Avails of the canyon are
marvels of conglomerate malpais or
lava Theres gold iron copper cob
blestone granite marble sandstone
and silver ore all ground up in a moun
tainous mass that is as bare of vegeta
tion as the day it poured from the heart
of the earth It was A omited forth in
the most hideous shapes imaginable
and seen in the moonlight these shapes
take on all kinds of horrible and won
derful aspects Its a region Avortfc
traveling miles to see and you oan
reach it in a days lope from Congress
Buck Acts as Scout
But the average man who goes there
will not see what I saw in the moon
light Ill tell you how the deer come
to drin
world
its the prettiest sight in the
The first night I was on the
point 0 going to sleep when I heard
a snort from the top of the bluff above
me 1 1 oked and there was a big buck
with njagnlficent antlers standing on
the tx r brink bis dusky figure abarply
j made a wild scamper back to cover be-
hind the rocks but presently they ven
tured out again and after three or four
essays they finally came down and
drank
I siiAv only one bear He Avas a pret
ty big fellow but I have seen lots big
ger He came down the bluff like a big
pig his nose rooting in the ground at
every step No I wasnt afraid of him
There isnt an animal in America I be
lieve that will touch man unless man
makes the attack He came within a
few yards of me stood still and stared
at me I met his gaze calmly and I
believe fearlessly Then he went on
to the water Avaded boldly in and
drank his fill Of all the animals that
came to drink there only this gruff and
daring old cinnamon bear went about
his business fearlessly Even the coy
otes and bob cats moved cautiously
and Avould have turned tail and scam
pered off if I had stirred about But
Bruin was not that kind of an animal
I prospected in the region a little
but in a day or so I saw there could be
nothing located there The lava is of
too recent a date and the conglomerate
altogether too conglomerated to be of
any use whatever In the early days
there Avas a picket post at Tres Alamos
and the larger bluff back of the spring
V the famous Signal butte that you
have read about in Capt Kings novel
by that name You cant imagine what
a weird and uncanny sight it is in the
moonlight nor what entrancing sights
I have witnessed there when the deer
the bear the lynx the coyote and the
fox come out of their hiding places in
the dead of night and drink at the
springs
There are as many chumps to the
block in Chicago as In any country
town In the West
WIFES NOBuE SELF SACRIFICE
3
Gave Up Honor and Reputation to Save
Her Husbands Ilfe
Five 3ears ago two continents were
shocked by the perpetration of a cold
blooded murder in Paris France Aa
angry American husband shot a prom
inent Frenchman for being in his
wifes apartments The participant
in this tragedy were EdAvard Parker
Deacon of New York his Avife former
ly Miss Florence Baldwin daughter of
the late Admiral Charles H Baldwin
TJ S N and Mr Abeille of Paris
Deacon was arrested and tried for
murder Under French law the only
ground on which a husband could ba
ims vexcox
acquitted of murder under such cir
cumstances AA ould be that of the guilt
of the Avife and Mr Deacon was prac
tically acquitted for his origina sen
tence was for only a years imprison
inent and President Garaot pardoned
him after he had served only a few
months When he was liberated he
returned to this country and shortly
afterward was placed in an insane asy
lum Mrs Deacon divorced from her
husband remained In France until a
few months ago when she also return
ed to America to take charge of her
four children Since her arrival friend
have effected a reconciliation between
her and her husband
Mrs Deacon to prevent the finding
of her husband guilty of murder and
to do everything possible to secure his
aetnal acquittal did not put In any
testimony exposing the perjury of tho
hotel clerk Nor did she offer testimony
as to her husbands excessive use or
liquor and drugs Such testimony
would only endanger her husband If
she had told the truth her husband
might have been conAicted of murder
She contented herself Avith merely de
nying that there had been anything
wrong in the relations between Mr
Abeille and herself
UNIVERSAL CLOCK
It Shows the Time at Any Point of tha
Earths Surface
wnrivuvtmcm v -
schoolroom in which electricity sup
plies the poAver has recently been pat
ented It shoAvs the days of the Aveek
and the hours at all points of the
t
earths surface The question Jof inter
national time is a puzzling one to school
children but by having this model con
stantly before them it is believed they
will gradually obtain without effort
definite and accurate ideas on the sub
ject A round globe whose surface
represents a map of the earths surface
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is revolved inside a stationary ring
graduated for hours of the day An
other disk graduated for the days ot
the week is also revolved so as to
show through an opening two days ot
the week at a time and a line of de
markatlon carried by the map disk
indicates the dividing line between th
days of the week
The Worlds Telegraph Lines
The actual length of the telegraph
lines of the world is 7900000 kilome
tersnot including nearly 300000 kilo
meters of submarine cable This total
is divided as follows America 4030
000 kilometers Europe 2840000 Asia
500000 Australia 350000 Africa 1G0
000 The entire length of all tbes
wires joined together would permit of
the establishment of twenty lines of
telegraph between the earth and the
moon
Lteprosy in France
At the international congress of lep
rosy which has just been brought to a
conclusion at Berlin the startling fact
Avas elicited that the disease is very
prevalent in France especially in th
northern districts thereof and that it U
on the Increase This discovery and
the data furnished by the French medi
cal authorities contributed in no smai
measure to the resolution voted by th6
Congress to the effect that leprosy ia
contagious
To Fasten Keys
A Massachusetts man has invented a
key fastener which consists of a H
shaped piece of metal which slips over
the knob spindle and carries a plate at
either end with a screw to draw them
together and clamp the key so it cat
not be turned from the outside
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