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I had knocked around In Australia
for live 3ears put In a years service
u India and had a whack at the
Transvaal insurrectionists as a volun
teer only to settle down at last as a
Telegraph operator at Rocky Forks a
telegraph station between Omaha and
Sioux City It was y business to
transfer messages between the two
places and to connect with points fur
ther along
The next station fifteen miles fur
ther up the road -was Dismal Point
and here Tom Brown my oldest and
truest friend operated Tom and I had
roughed it all over the world together
and when we settled down here it was
to be near each other
One day Tom telegraphed down to
me that he would meet me at Rocky
forks next Tuesday for a days shoot
ing He said he would come down on
the 5 oclock train in the morning and
wait for me to get off at noon After
that we would go up into the hills and
shoot along the points of the ravine
I liked nothing better than a days
DUtmg with Tom and I quickly ticked
back Avord that he could reljr on me
next Tuesday as that was my day off
The following day there came a mes
sage through Omaha that the United
Express would ship 12000000 in bul
lion over the road to Sioux City the
next Monday night and that the train
would pass through my station Rocky
Forks at S15 in the evening I tele
graphed back that I understood it and
then I opened up the instrument and
asked Tom if he had received his mes
sage yet He said that he had and
would look for the train seventeen min
utes earlier at Dismal Point
That day and the next I passed in
my usual way Sunday was unevent
ful and would have seemetl long ex
cept for the constant ticking of the in
strument which was kept busy send
ing messages about the important ship
ment to be made the next day Mon
day evening at 730 I looked at my
watch The train will soon be along
X said I guess I will call up Tom
and see if he knows where it is
my old friend a dagger sticking
through him and fairly pinning him to
the table I grasped the wooden han
dle and pulled it out with all my
strength only to receive his cold body
in my arms
Well they never found out the rob
bers of the train The engineer had
been struck from behind and could re
member nothing and after waiting
only long enough to see my old friend
buried I resigned my position at Rocky
Forks and struck out again But on
Toms grave back in the woods at Dis
mal Point I put a shaft of wood and
on it I carved these words Living I
will pursue you to the end of the world
Dead I will come back to you
Below it I put Toms name and age
and vowed aloud the oath that I had
there written to find the murderer of
poor Tom Brown
Three years later I found myself
stationed at New Elsworth a suburb
of New York I was in charge of a pri
vate wire connecting with the New
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Com
pany which communicated with all
parts of the world It was one of the
richest organizations of the new world
and I was proud to be an operator in
its employ
My duty here was to transmit the
private messages of the company for
here the president had his summer
home and here also were the trustees
and those who manipulated the road
Many confidential messages passed
through my hands and I treated them
with becoming confidence
I never liked the president of the
company though he lived in the handsomest-house
in the place and treated
me with uniform courtesy He had a
cold uncertain manner that did not
seem to be worthy of trust Certainly
I should not have put my millions into
his hands
One night when he did not reach
home his wife came down to the tele
graph office and asked me if I had
heard from him I was forced to tell
her no This happened frequently and
one evening when he had been late
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A DAGGER STICKING THROUGH HIM PINNING HIM TO THE DESK
I called up Dismal Point and Tom
answered
The express train is one station up
the road said he and is ahead of
time It will wait here five minutes
111 let you know as soon as it leaves
here Tomorrow
There was a sudden pause in the
ticking and then a strange hand sent
the message That is all
I called up Tom again but he did not
answer I kept calling but no re
sponse came and I thought that the
wires had become entangled
I waited for the express with its
12000000 in bullion until 815 but it
did not arrive Then I telegraphed up
road to Tom but there was no answer
I waited five minutes longer and tele
graphed again but still no response
The wires must be down I said
I walked out upon the platform and
looked up the road To my surprise I
saw in the distance an engine coming
toward me slowly swinging down the
track As it came nearer I saw it was
empty and as it passed me I board
ed it
Reversing the engine I started back
up the road I went with such fire as I
could get up back to Dismal Point
Here in frontof the station stood the
express car rifled of its contents
Across one of the trunks the express
messenger lay dead The engineer and
fireman were so badly stunned that at
first I thought they too were kTlled
but after some time I brought breath
back into the life of the former He
poor fellow was too dazed to speak
and I lifted him into the car thankful
that he was alive
When I stepped into the little station
where Tom always sat an awful aight
met my eyes There sitting at the In-
jstrumeiit with his back to the door was
j and she had made three trips in her
carriage to the telegraph office he said
to me To morrow I will have a pri
vate wire put in my office in Pine street
and when I am detained I will tele
graph you and you can send a mes
sage to my wife
The next day the wire was put in
but as the president came nome
promptly that night It was not used
But on the following day at 5 oclock
I got a telegram from him telling me
that he would not be home until 8
oclock and ordering me to send word
to his wife I did so by the station
messenger
An hour later there came another
message from the presidents office It
was that he would be detained still
later and telling me to send word
home to that effect
Is that all I asked
The message came back in sharp
staccato notes
That Is all I leaned back In my
chair cold and faint for the hand was
the same that had sent me the message
on the night poor Tom Brown was
killed
The next day I came to the city on a
leave of absence to investigate the life
of Anson Tryson president of the At
lantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
I found that three years before he had
been a laborer on the Sioux City Rail
road with not a dollar to his name and
that his sudden rise had been the talk
of Wall street
Well I did not let it drop there but I
hunted down the case until I proved
that Anson Tryson with a gang of
accomplices had robbed the express
train that night and killed my old
friend Tom Brown And one day I
took a trip up country to see him swing
for it Milwaukee Wisconsin
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TETJL5T A COMPOSITE
RIG
OF THE AMERICAN GIRL
THIS SPRING
New License in Tailor Millinery
Hats Are Now Very Elaborately
Trimmed Three Tailor Dresses Got
ten Up in Varying Shades of Brown
Surprises of the Spring
New York correspondence
T once dainty and
saucy in the same
breath tailor made
and frivolous Eng
lish French and
American all at
once and in one rig
that is what the
fashionable dress
er is accomplishing
this season The
severe fit of the
strictly tailor made
style has returned
for the street cloth
dress The figure
is blocked out in a
square fashion that
gives value to ev
ery curve and yet
seems to deny cor
sets and squeezing The skirt falls so
close and smooth that femininity is not
a bit insisted on in suggestion though
it is not likely to be forgotten in effect
Then the severity of fit and simplicity
of outline are relieved by a little dash
as if all of a sudden the demurest pair
of eyes twinkled with a little wink in
one of them of braiding more or less
elaborately applied to bodice and skirt
The petticoat underneath Is a dazzle
and splash of brilliant color and a
maze of audacious frills
The hair there again is the flip of
contrast It is a riot of half-held-back
waves and curls Time was you re
member when the tailor made dress im
plied hair austerely smooth wound in
tight and shiny flat braids in the Eng
lish fashion and any other coiffure
would be dicountenanced as ruining
the effect of the tailor gown It is not
a bit so now Now the effect of the
gown is heightened and the face set
between the strictly mannish collar and
tie and the romping girlishness of
crinkly hair is simply irresistable Yet
she does not stop there On top of the
American hair and saucy Yankee tilted
chin and you-cant-catch-me eyes she
sets a French hat or something of
tJ2irt
tSAJfl
is attired product for how welcome
usually are specifications as to the
latest styles For the original of the
initial picture these were mode colored
cloth glove fit and trimming of fancy
steel passementerie In the two jackets
of the second sketch are two distinct
types of cut The blazer was dark red
cheviot trimmed with bias folds of
black cloth and was worn over an im
maculate waistcoat of white broad
cloth The other was the newest box
front shape in bluet cloth 1 rimmed
with black soutache that was hardly
larger than coarse thread
The question of hats for such rigs is
a serious one Of these two models
the left hand one was a black straw
shepherdess trimmed with cerise silk
and a fine bunch of white hydrangeas
The other wras turquoise blue straw
trimmed with blue and white gauze
cocks feathers and a most assertively
fanciful buckle Tailormades have
changed toward severity but what is
lost in dainty suggestion by tabooing
highly wrought trimming is more than
made up by the new license in tailor
millinery Very early this season one
of our best known mens hatters as
tounded his women followers by dis
playing a window full of sailors
trimmed out of all severity and of
walking hats as gay as a Turks turban
With Winding scarfa up rising aigrettes
and flashes of jewels and buckles As
a last flirting kick at severity behold
a tilt is given to the brim of the walking
hat that is even more startling than the
gaiety of its composition The artistic
effect of this contrast between hat and
gown is excelled by new fancies It is
one of those few complete changes that
captivate the observer from the start
rather than filling her with doubts as
to whether it can ever be accepted
One of the best of the latest color de-
THE LATEST BLAZER AND BOX FRONT
velopments consists of combinations of
browns from chocolate through bronze
into nasturtium gold and three rigs that
carried out this scheme attractively
are presented in the concluding sketch
Right here it may be said that many of
the women who respond to changes of
style in hair coloring have dyed their
locks bronze The first gown of this
trio was a dull tobacco brown braided
with tiny threads of red bronze It was
made on a drop skirt of orange taffeta
finished with lemon and tea color frills
and a chocolate brown belt clasped
with a copper buckle The cut was as
severe as that of a riding habit so were
the linen collar and the swagger of
plaided yellow and brown tie but over
all this as yet not seriously broken
austerity was a hat of golden grass
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THREE TAILOR RIGS WITH A SURPRISE TO EACH
American make so suggestive of the
French milliners taste and skill as to
prove that there is no longer excuse for
buying headgear In Paris
Dress after the manner of the women
pictured here and few of you will have
an excuse to blame Nature very much
for her outfitting let from the girl
dressed to the details of her dress is
a descent That fact alone speaks vol
umes for the glory of the finished that
woven into great soft curves and fin
ished by a sunset riot of goiuen bloom
In the second costume though
square toed shoes English gloves and
military shoulders conveyed the idea of
most strict tailormade austerity there
escaped right under the chin a frill of
golden chiffon that matched the dash of
softness and color that constituted the
stock over which a pretty chin will lift
Copyright 1888
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ROMANGE OF ROOM 77
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Parted Iovers Accidentally 31eetialt
and Bencw Their Vows
The house must have been crowded
that day or the room clerk would not
have sent a drummer to 77 the
bridal chamber says a Chicago paper
The smell of tobacco is an evil vhing
in bridal chambers and there never was
but one drummer who did not smoke
This smart New Yorker elevated his
ayebrows when he saw the rich hang
ings and gave Buttons 4 a quarter
which it may be remarked was mucn
more eloquent of his astonishment
Mrs Parks the head housekeeper
was filled with indignation at the sac
rilege to -the bridal chamber She sent
Susy the second floor maid to change
some of the furnishings of the room to
a less elaborate kind Buttons G who
was passing through the hall heard a
slight feminine scream from 77 soon
after Susy entered
After about an hour Mrs Parks no
ticed that Susy had not returned She
sent the hall man to investigate Come
in answered his knock and he
stepped on the velvet rug and paused
in astonishment Susy was sitting on
the sofa and the arm of the drummer
was around her She was blushing fu
riously but seemed otherwise uncon
oGrnwL I was sent for you miss
began the hall man Well you can
tell Mrs Parks that I am not coming
that I have quit the hotel She point
ed to the table where her cap and
apron her emblems of office lay dis
carded The hall man had npt the gift
of speech he retreated Presently
came the head housekeeper the head
clerk and the head porter The clerk
after the manner of his kind was
smooth May we ask what the mean
ing of this is he said
The drummer spoke Susy here
and I were engaged back in Connecti
cut four years ago had a quarrel and
separated I went to New York and
she came here to Chicago We lost
sight of each other until just now I
think I am paying only 150 for this
room you had better charge it up at
the bridal rate Therell be a wedding
to night
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