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THE O IAtlA PATkY J3EEt SUNDAY , FEBRUARY 20 , 1898. TONY'S SKATES. OH THE MYSTERIOUS PURSUER OF THE ICE. nv Kv. . MAYO , I. 7t wan theproudoet day of Tony'a life. 'After a struggle of weeks lie had at last mastered the multiplication table clear up to 12 timed 12 , nml nticn school was over the teacher hail cnllod him Up and handed to him a pair of bright now nickeled skates. Tony's greatest longing , as It would have been of any other hey who lived on the shore of a sparkling little lake far up In northern Minnesota , was to go railing acrofs the glistening Held of Ice that lay always before lilm In the winter as ho hid seen tlie swal lows skim through the air In June. When Tony got up on Saturday morning Jio found that tha lake had been especially prepared over night for trying a pair of new skates. The weather hail turned cold and the water that had been on top of the Ice wan frozen so solid and BO smooth ttiat It dazzled ctio's eyes to look at It when the nun was shining. Hut Tony's father put an end to the hopes that filled the boy's mind by siylng an soon as breakfast was over : "This 14 the best Ice we are likely to have this winter.Vo must work hard today ind try to nil our Ice house , for we may not .have another chance. " So Tony spent the day In cutting and haulIng - Ing Ice from one caul of the lake Instead of fklnimlng acrnps It ns tic had dreamed. At night , when the moon had come out bright nnd clear , he begged to go out on the lake for < i llltlo while , but hln father tolil him "no" very shortly , and Tony crept away up italrs to bed. II. Nobody but n hey with a pair of ncv skates knows how hard It Is to wait especially when there Is a beautiful ntrctcl of Ice right before one. Prom the llttli window close to his bed Tony could sec Ifn lake glistening In the moonlight and wltl that sight before him ho could not go t < Bleep. My and by when thu lights In the DJornsci liouso had all gone out a small hey flllppot out of the tack door. Ho scarcely though what ho was doing , but ho held a skate It eacli hand and hurried down to the edge o ! the lake. Almost before ho knew It thi skates were on his feet and he was glldlnt over the Ice as he hall dreamed of doing. Tcmy had never felt as he did on this night , To disobey his parents was a how thing for 111 in and kept him excited. The pleasure ol the easy motion ( for Tony was a good skater ] gave him a thrilling sensation , too , that tic l.ad never felt when using borrowed skates at school. So Tony swept on and on , forgetting - getting that ho was alone , forgetting liLi fear of the forest and reveling in the de light of motion as easy nnd frco as the flight of a bird , It was not until the op posite shore of the lake came In sight that ho remembered that tie was three mllca from tonu > _ and had better return , r It llappened that when Tony turned about to start homo ho know notbtag of a figure that had been following him over alnco ho left his father's house , but just as ho passed the wooded point ho heard n crackling nmeug the bushes on the bank and , looking back , saw something big and black jump out ( TONY WAS TOO FIUGHTENCD EVEN TO YELL. en the Ice and come galloping after him. Tony was too frightened even to cry out. In on Instant all the stories ho had over heard of the bears and panthers came rush ing into his mind end EO well-nigh froze Ms limbs with terror. Only for an Instant , however , and then , gathering himself for the effort , ho speJ away toward homo at a rate that seemed Indeed almost like that of ttio express tiam. I Only once be looked back , The thing waj Just emerging from the shadow then ; It was coming faster and was gaining on him. Tiie l > oy bent his bead and rt'doublecriua efforts. Though ho did not look , back he knew that ( ho black object waa still clcao behind and till gaining on liltn , for ho could hear the eouod of ite feet on the ice and after a. tlmo the panting of Its breath , 'Though bo wan draining every muscle , Tony found tlmo to wonder what the thing really was. Ho did not bcltevo a bear could run * o tittl ; it must bo a wolf or a panther. Proba- lily it waa a panther. Tony had heard that they were the fiercest of wild animals , and bad 110 doubt as to what bis fate would tie It tbltv one should overtake him , Per- fc&pa hU father would come out to look for tire la the morning , cud would find hit nd the now Bkatos iylnit oa the ice. Tony'a brow , and the new skates cut acrona the Ice even faster than before , III. Presently ho began to hope. Ho could BCO the chimney of the Hjornscn house only n llttlo way ahead , and his pursuer was not gaining on him any more , though ho could still hear Its heavy breathing. Ho would skate straight for the shore of the llttlo cove near the liouso and make a dash for the woodshed door. The thing would Ijudly doro to follow him right up to the ho uso. It was nn excellent plan except for one thing. Tony hod forgotten In his terror that ho had spent all day In cutting the Ice from this llttlo cove , and that only a thin scale now covered the freezing water , 'As ho flew on , trying to keep up his speed , In spite of his falling breath , now that the shore was only a , few feet away , the ICQ all about him seemed to sink down and ho found himself struggling In the water. Nobody could swim In such a place , and Tony went under before ho realized what had happened. As he came up there was a rptash beside him , and he felt a pair of teeth selzo him by the shoulder. The thing had followed him oven hero ! If ho were now drowned ho would 1 > o devoured 1 The strain of thlo terrible thought was too much for Tony and he fainted away. When ho recovered ho was lying on the sofa In the kitchen , with his father and mother standing over lilm and Pete's rough tongue licking his cold hands. He won dered faintly how ho came ( hero and where , " SHE SAID , "I OUGHT TO SWIT CH YE , BUT I HAVEN'T THE HEART. " the thing was , but his mother's voice ex plained It all. "Sure , " she said , "I ought to switch ye , tout I haven't the heart to do It , for If It hadn't been for the dog yo'd have- been drowned entirely. Maybe thlo will bo a lus- bon to ye to do as yo are told. " And It was. A FACTOHY nilll.'S OIFT. Xevr Hertford' * IMihllc Sclio'ol it .Mcm- oi'lnl ( n a Mill nirl. At a tlmo when so much Is being cald and written about the hard and hopeless lot of the New England cottcn mill workers It Is Interesting to note that the principal public building of the city of Fall Hlver , which makes half the cotton cloth manufactured In all New England , is a memorial to a mill girl. The building Is ttio public high school of the city and Is one of the finest struc tures of the kind to be found anywhere In the country. It was a free gift to the town from a woman who as a girl worked In one of the great mills which form the blood and sinews of the place. More than sixty years ago , when Fall nlvor wan only a country village , and before any of the great granlto mills that now dot the hills above the town had been erected , and less cloth was spun thcro in a year than Is now turned out In a week , there nas no factory population as there Is today. The mills were operated by young men and women , natives of the town or the surround- Ing forms , some of whom walked three or four miles to their dally work. Among the latter was a young girl named Mary Ilray- ton , whoso parents , poor New England farm ers , lived across the river , seVbml miles from town. The mill hand of the present day would scarcely cr.vy the lot of the worker of that time. Wages wcro low , 10 cents per cut ; hours were longer than they nro now , and holidays wcro fewer. I3ut ttio Now England maid had plenty of pluck. She worked un complainingly nnd twice a day took the long and weary tramp between the town and her home. As opportunity offered she picked up a llttlo schooling In addition to the elementary Instruction which she had received before eho began her work In the mill. After a tlmo slio left , the loom to become < i school mistress. Her wages In her now occupation were scarcely higher than she had earned In the mill , but she stuck to it until her marriage , when she bccnmo Mrs. Diirtce. The mill girl's husband nnd her brother , John nroyton , were both pocr men , but by hard work and sivleig they got a start In the cotton spinning business and became two of the pioneer mill men of the growing town. With ycara their fortune grow apace in the business which at Kin eatno tlmo trans formed Fall River from a straggling hamlet to a wealthy and busy manufacturing town. Llko many other New England cities , the public Improvements of the town had not kept pace with Its growth In size. With the coming of thousands of factory workers thcro was a great school population , for which thcro was no adequate school pro vision , In 1SS7 the Now England mill girl , then nn old lady , who had lost both her husband and a son that wcro dear to her , decided to supply this want. She built a beautiful public high school building at a cost of about $300 , . COO , supplied It with the best of scientific equipment , Including an astronomical ob servatory , and gave it outright to the city ns a memorial of her eon , It Is known as ( do n , M. 0 , Durfeo high school and la looked upon as ono of tbo best equipped and most successful schools in tbo state. CHANGES FOR MFI3. ( { \inii\t FonInfos at Criminal I.nw In ( lie Mlilille AKOH. In Franco In tbo middle agea a criminal condemned to death had two lawful chances for his life besldca the pardon of bis sov ereign. Ono was in accidentally meeting a cardinal when on bis way to execution , tlio other was lu an offer of marriage from a member of the opposite ecx after sentence waa pronounced. The last scorns very un fair , inasmuch as criminals already married were at a .bad disadvantage , but law In the middle ages often seemed , more concerned wltl ) the picturesque than with Justice , arid theio arrangements for earing dead men , tote to speak , have left mauy good utorles in the old chronicle * . man condemned to too hanged In Paris. The two met on the street of Aubry lo Boucher , and the cardinal swore before the authorities that the mcelng was accidental , and the man was sot free. In 1282 Charles VI. granted n pardon which turned into English reads thus : "Henrcquln Doutart was condemned by the Judges of our court in Peronno to bo drawn to execution on a 'hurdle , and then to ( be hung by the neck till dead. In accordance with which do- crco ho was drawn and carried by the hang man to the gibbet , and -when ho had the rope n round his neck , then ono Jcannctte Mourchon , a maiden of the town of Hawanl- court , presented 'herself before the provost and hs ! lieutenant and supplicated and re quested of the aforesaid provost nnd his lieutenant to deliver over to her the said Doutart , to be her husband. Wherefore the execution was Interrupted and ho was led back to prison , nnd , by the tenor of these .litters It Is our will that the sold Doutart shall too pardoned nnd released. Another story Is not so well authenticated , but Is very popular In Normnndy'o traditions. A mm Blood at the foct of the gibbet -with the rope around his neck when a "shrewish , sharp-faced woman pressed through the crowd and demanded his life that she might marry him ; the condemned man took ono good look at her , then turned to the hang man and said : "A painted nose , n ibltter tongue. Pro ceed , I'd rather far bo hung. " JAMI3S CIIADISO.VS UUM.OMA. A Vcnornlili * Itccnril of n Future Prcul- ilcul'N SclioIiirNlilp. A valuable relic came to light In the re cent transfer of the treasures of the ccn- gresslonal library to Its beautiful new build ing. Far down In the chaotic mass of en gravings , maps , old newspapers and various productions of the brains and pencils of long ago , was found a piece of parchment , yellow with age , which every American will bo Interested to read about , and every con of Princeton anxious to sec. It Is a his toric document the college diploma of James Madison , the fourth president of the United States. In spite of Its great age 126 years this memento of pro-revolutionary time la as perfect no It was on the 7th day of October , 1771 , when It was proudly received by the young patriot from the hands of the famous Dr. WItherspcon , then president of the college - I lego of New Jersey soon to be a olgner of 1 the declaration of Independence of whom John Adanw eald. "He Is ns high a son of liberty as any man In America , " Every letter of the quaint lat'u In which j the diploma was engraved stands out In the old parchment as clearly as the noble deeds of Its signers upon the war records at their country. Dark clouds were gatherIng - Ing around their heads. "The crash of re sounding arms" was eoon to be brought to the ears of tutors and students whoso names make dear to us the tnnals of the revolution. James Madison was already deeply moved by the controversies between the colonies ind the mother country. In the patriotic excitement of the time "The American Whig Society" waa formed In Nacsau hall , and Madison , at the ago of IS , was one of Its principal founders. With other students , Irossed In black , he burned , while the col- cge bell tolled , a letter from the mcrchanto ) f Philadelphia announcing the breaking of in agreement not to Import English goods. In his zeal to win his diploma the youth- 'ul ' patriot nearly ruined his health. He en- .ercd In 17CS the college of Now Jersey .he name Princeton bears la Its charter of .740 and by allowing himself for a long icrlod only three hours' sleep out of the .wenty-four , completed the course In three . cars. Dr. Wltherspoon remarked to Jeffer- ; cci of his laborious otuilent that ho never new him to do or say an Indiscreet th'tig. ' foung Madison was ono of the best oratoro n the college. He was so broken down by jvcrstudy that the program for "Commence- nent Day , September 23 , 1771 , " ends with his line : "Mr. James Madison was excused from aklng part In the exercises. " The future president stood very high ta ils studies. The bit of parchment which ho io gallantly wciii and which has Just como o light read < 3 freely translated as follows : 'resident and Curators of the College of Now Jersey , 'to all and every one who may read these letters : GREETING TN THE LORTX Be It known that It pleases uswith diploma , by regal authority committed to adorn JAiMEd MA'DISON ' , competing candidate In the first degree of arts , approved 'by ' previous examinations , with 'tho title and degree or bachelor of the liberal arts , of which the seal of the college of Now Jersey aflixed to this , parehment and our names subscribed bear witness. Dated Nassau Hall , 7th Day of October. Year of Our Lotd , 1771. The signers ait- President Joannes Wlther spoon , curators Gullelmus 'Franklin ' , Richard Stockton , Georgelus Bryan , Gullelmus P. Smith , Joannes Rodgers , Gullelmus Livings ton , Jacobus Cnldwell and Jcremlas Halsey. Gullelmus , or William , Franklin , was the son of rare 'Ben ' Franklin , and all the others were more or less famous. Suspended from the diploma by a foot of green ribbon , only slightly faded , Is the great round seal of the ccllege. impressed on a paper star. This was made by placing two B.quaro pieces of paper together , the ribbon passing between them. The seal was then sown to the ribbon by silk thread , which is Btlll white , strong and glossy. There Is a faint trace of red on the rim of the seal ; the Ink has faded out ; the letters and design arc perfectly distinct after more than a century and a quarter. There wcro onlv.twclvo . graduates in Madison's class , but several attained emi nence. Madison's great talents , lofty patriotism , thorough scholarship and Intense zeal to | GREAT REMOVAL SALE 8 i i > * * { * i * 1 WILL SOON END i ! > * it * 49 Delay in making Hie necessary improvements prevent us from occupying our now building as goon as expected. In if 11 the meantime wo will hammer the prices clown lower than ever before , as there are only a few clays left in which to 8 * 11 do business at the old locatibn and each day will be a i * RGAINS fr * i * it- - We will not dollar's worth of it must all Farnam streets formerly move a goods be sold. Wo move to 16th and , building i * merly occupied by S. P. Morse Dry Goods Co. , as soon as alterations are completed. it- * ? it- Furniture Furniture Carpets Draperies Stoves Crockery & it- - 49 Folding Hcil Iron Ucd All Wool Ingrain Nottingham Lace Cook Stove Dinner Settee - I'rrttlly ( IrMKnol < W It 1 t Guoil vi'onve pretty Curtain- ( iiioil , smooth too plccon uiider- nlcM-ly lliilxhcMl oil u li. 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RIDER HAGGARD ' "Ellssa" Is deferred until next Sunday , when It will appear Owing to a failure of copy tlio publication of this week's Installment of > the story together with the chapters to which It leads. . - most celnnrated diamonds la the world , has uopn much 'written ' about , and Ita ad ventures among eastern potentates am. thieves traced with much research , 'but ' ono of the queerest things that ever happened to It befell after It came into English hands and Is very llttlo known. The Punjau'b ' waa annexed In 1849 , and the- East Indian company took possession of the Lahore treasury , as the Lahore govern ment was deep in their dobt. The Koh-i- noor waa the great treasure of the treasury , and it was stipulated in the agreements signed by both parties that It should bo pre sented to Queen Victoria. At a meeting of the East Indian board the "mountain ol light"was given into the care of John , afterward Lord Lawrence. Mr. Lawrence must have been In a singular frame of mind at the tlmo , for ho put the jem In his waistcoat pocket , and , In his owu phrase , "thought no moro about It. " This Is unaccountable , but true , for ho went home , changed his clothes for dinner , and did not wear nor handle that waistcoat again for a day or two. Then came a message from Lord Dallioualo to the board asking for iho diamond , that it might bo forwarded to the queen , "Well. " said John Lawrence to hl brother , Henry , " end it at once. " "Why. you have It. " i l < l Henry. T.nrri ! j > wrencn all bll lite WOUld tfill Of | the terror that then seized him. "This i ; the worst trouble I over got into , " ho said to himself , as the cold sweat started on hla forehead , nut when he got out his discarded waistcoat , there , undisturbed , was the great Koh-1-noor that Turk and Persian and Hindoo conquerors had shed rivers of blood to possess. iMi.vrri.is OK THI : YOUNGSTERS. A llttlo girl , 4 years old , says she knows what drawing la : "You Just think some thing and then run a line around your think. " "Tommy , " said his mamma ono day , "slip up-stalrs quietly and aeo If papa is asleep. " Tommy soon returned and said : "Yea mamma , ho's all asleep but his noso. " Jlmmlo's essay on hearts : llcarts is located in youro Insldcs rejun of yuro atum- mlcks. The llzzoology says they works llko pumps , which Is the milkman's best friend. Tlio heart Is a very Importunt organ , but it don't make no muslck. 'My ' brother , which Is a polck , says : "What harmny when , two hearrts beets llko one. " I wish pa wood take a leasing from two hearts. Ho beats llko sixty. I'a tolo mo once his heart was back In the old .vlllggo where ho waa born ; but I am afrado ho Is a lyrre. bcois when Kate was married ho said ; "My heart Is 2 full 2 much. " and lie didn't get no tlcgraft from his birthplace. Bymeby ho full under the tabul , and some wun sarkastlcally remarked that it waa very full. King Ulchord had a lying heart ; but ! have got a broken heart , which is worse. Oero reader , ain't a girl heartless to glvo mo the cold stare becoa my hare is red ? Can I avert the dckrccs of the Fates , which baa got a hold ! on mortals ? I am a cynlck now , which means every one is a fool butt me. JIMMIR The boy was inclined to bo skeptical. "Does God BCD everyone ? " he asked. ' 'Yes ' , Harry , " hla mother replied. "Can Ho see 'em no matter where they arc ? " "Of course , " "Can Ho see me now ? " "Yes. dear. " The boy looked long and earnestly at the celling. "Aw. go on , " ho said at last. "Where's the peep-hole that Ho looks through ? " Ethel Is small , but extremley sober-minded and therefore to bo trusted to run MI house hold errands , The other day her mother called her from her play and said : "Ethel , I want you to run over to the grocer's and get me a quart of vinegar. " Ethel looked thoughtful and hesitated , "I'd rather get a pint , mamma , " she an swered , "Why. Ktlial dear ? " exclaimed her as tonished parent. "I need a quart , which you nius ( get. " Again the little girl paused , "fJo , " she said , "I'll set you a pint. " "I'm surprised at you ! Why should you buy a pint , when I with a quart ? " insisted the mother , \Uccautc. \ " answered Elbe ] , the tears be ginning to como , "I can say pint , and 1 can't say krort ! " COXXUIIIAMTIKS. Ocorgo Ford of Louisville , Ky. , 77 yean old , has just married his seventh wife , a glr of 17. Mayor William T. Malster of Daltlmorc was married to Mrs , Hardcastlo of Chesa peake City , Md. , on Tuesday. tn\a marquis of Huto offers to give $00 to any young women of the town of Hothcsay who are anxious to marry but are too poor to do PO. John Damm , a Vest Virginian , was mar ried at a distance from homo and received this telegram from the old folks : "Accept congratulations from the whole Damm family. " Alfred Belt , the South African millionaire , who Is to marry May Moore , Charles Wynd- ham'o leading woman , Is ono of Cecil Hhodcs' right-hand men. Ho has been ono of the great matrimonial prlzca of London for two or threa yeara. An old woman In Mexico , wlicne ago Is nald to bo 115 years , was recently married to a man , of 98. She has been married sev eral tlmct1 , and each tlmo u husband has died eho has picked out as his successor the oldest man In the neighborhood , The Countess Marie do la Conception do la Cantcsa y Clark Do Gobcl y Franandej ! has Euccccdcd in getting a divorce from Juan C. Gobcl y Fernandez , All this happened In Fargo , N. D. , and Hue Dakota divorce courts arc entitled to a month's vacation , for thlo wan no ordinary Job , J. U. Ishco and Mrs. M. J. Hastings of Eastabuchlo , La. , liavo just been married at the residence of tbo brldc\ * son , II. V. UdatilngB. The groom Is 85 years of age , wbllo the < brldo lias passed her three score nnd ten. The ceremony was solemnized In the presence of a number of friends and relatives , many ofwhom wcro great Brand- children of the contracting forties. Tiio Ohio legislator who fathers a bill com pelling nil applicants for marriage licenses to submit to a physical and mental examina tion lu gelling letters from all over the coun try commending the Idea. Hut Ohio seems to bo divided on the subject. The minis ters would oppose It In fear that it would Bend young couples out of the state to get married , v/hllo 4he railroads favor It for this very reason , OVo Tonawjnda ( N. Y. ) fathers are ad vertising for hudbands for their daugh ters. Ono , by name of Hull , will glvo to the winner of bla daughter Emily , aged 35 , (5,000. ( She already baa (30,000 and a prospective one-third share of her father's JICO.OOO , James I'lngrco will glvo to the man who marries hUi daughter , Lillian , (10- 000 In cash and an established business , Moreover ulio la ono of two heirs to her father's (76,000. Leonard Sedgwick of Wyoming and < MUs Lou Keller of San Francisco arrived In Seat tle on the lait steamer from the Klondike , after having made the trip out over the snow for the purpose of getting married , Slio la the second woman to come out over the Ice. Sedgwick came out (170,000 strong , while Wlss. Keller brought out (25,000 , tbo result of her three tncmthi' life In the min ing camp. They made the trip out to got married , not that there nro no ministers In Dawson , but because that was the only way Sedgwick could win his brldo , who had fifteen or twenty fully as wealthy Klcn- dlkcrs dangling at the end of her numer ous strings. Sedgwick tried to tempt her by heaping up gold before her , but eho only , laughed at him. Ho was desperate , and finally lilt on the plan that secured tha promise ho dcslrod. At Kellcy's Island , O. , Joseph Folk sold his two daughters far (100 , giving ithcin la lieu of money , each to satisfy a debt of (50 which ho could not otherwise meet. LVycar ago Folk left his homo and family In Po land to seek his fortune In America , making his way to Kcllcy's Island , where ho worked and prospered. Then his wife died , and the sad news came lo him that his young daughters were In want. Ho had not enough money to send for them , but he borrowed $50 each from Peter Mlllo and Joseph Hi- dock , who weio earning moro than he , to pay their passage across the ocean. A couple of weeks ago they arrived and were warmly received. Hut the money loaned by Mlllo and Htdock was duo , and Folk could not pay It. They preiscd him , ami finally the old man said ho uas afraid 1iq could never pay it , but to satisfy the debts ho would give ono of his daughters to each for a wife , and 'this proposition was accepted. tMary Folk , aged 10 and beautiful , wa chosen by Hldock , and -Anno Folk , tb younger nnd moro beautiful , by Mlllo. AX OI.I ) r.\VOIUTK. Horntlun Jionar. 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