"BUSTED" BLAKE. Sow a Fortune Foil to Bis Do erted Widow. Htrken to the tide of how fortune oil to the widow of "Busted" Blake. The outcome has shown that "Dustod" was not radically bad. But he was wretchedly weak of will to reject an opportunity of having another drink with the boys or with the (firls or with anybody or nobody. In the days of bis ascendency, when he was a young and newly-married architect, he was a buyer ot drinks for others. Walters in cafes Tied with each other in showing readiness to take his orders. Ilo was rated a jolly good fel low then. No one would hare supposed it destined t'.int sorao fine nljfht a leer ing bar-room wit should reply to his whispered application for a small loan by pouring a half-glass of whisky upon his head and saying: "I hereby christen thee 'Busted.' " The title stuck. Ulake, through con tinued impecuniosity, lost all shame of it in time; lost, too, his self-respect, and his wife. Mrs. Blake, a gentle and pretty little bruneite, had wedded him against the will of her parent. She had trusted, for his safety, to the allure ments of his future, which everybody said was bright, and to his love for her. The years of tearful nights, the plead ings, the reproaches, the seesaw of hope and despair, need not here be dwelt upon. They would make an old story and some of the details might be shock ing to the young person. They reached a culmination one day when she said to him: "You love drink better than you love me. I have done with you." She was a woman and took a woman'! view of the case. When he came back to their rooms that night, neither she nor his twe weeks' old baby girl were there. Then he knew how much he loved them and how much he had underestimated his love. She did not go to her parents. Then was a very musty proverb that she knew would meet her on their thresh old: "You made your bod; now lie on it" Her father was a man of no orig inality, hence he would have put it ia that way. 1 . She got employment In a photograph gallery, where she made herself useful by being ornamental, sitting behind a desk in the ante-room. I know not what duties devolve upon the woman who occupies that post in the average photographer's service! whatever they are, she performed them, and with the wages received managed to care for herself and child. The next day he made a Herculean ef fort to pull himself together. Be ob tained a position as draughtsman from one who had known him in his re spectable period, and he went trem blingly and sheepishly to call upon his wife and child. The consequence of his visit was a re union, which endured for two wholo weeks. At the end of that time she cast him off ia utter scorn. How he lived for the next two years can be known only to those who are fa miliar through experience with the ex- W . JJi. w.'ii-. ii" uon ' hi . I ' 'Jul on the street for a few cents toward the price of a night's lodging. I!y those who knew him he was taid to be "no (rood to himself or anyone else." He acquired the raggedncbs, the impu dence, the phraseology of the vagabond class. He would hang on the edge of a party of men drinking together in front of a bar on the slim chance of being "counted in" when the question went round, "what'll you have?" He was perpetually being impelled out of sa loons at foot race speed by the officials whose function it is in barrooms to substitute an objectionable person's room for his company. One winter Sunday morning he slept late upon a bench lb a public square, wakened by an officer, he, rose to go. Qazy In head and stiff In joints he slightly staggered. He heard behind hint the cooing laugh of a child. He looked around. It wu himself that had awakened the infant's mirth or that strange something which precedes the dawn of a sense of humor in chil dren. The smiling babe was In a child's carriage, which a plainly dressed wom an was pushing. He looked at the woman. It wu his wife, and the pret ty child was hi own. : He walked rapidly from the place, and on the same day he decided to leave the city. He had herded with vagrant ot the touring class. The methods of free transportation by means of freight trains and free living by means of beggary and small thiev - ery in country towns were no secret to him. He walked to the suburbs and at nightfall he scrambled up the side of a coal car in a train slowly moving west ward. Mrs. Blake and the child lived in a fair degree of comfort upon the moth er's wages, but often the mother shud dered at thought of what might happen shonld sbe ever lose her situation at the photographer's. Consumption had its hold on "Busted" Blake when he arrived in the mining town called Get-there City, in Kansas, one evening. Qet-there City had not gotten there beyond a single straggling street of shanties, but it had acquired a saloon, although liquor selling had al ready been forbidden in Kansas. "Busted'' Blake, with ten cents in hla clothes, entered the saloon and asked in an asthmatic voice for as much whisky ai thats uin was good for. While awaiting a response his eyes turned toward the only other persons in the saloon three burly, heurded miners of the conventional big-hatted, big-booted and big-voiced type. Above thuir head and against the wall was this sign, lettered roughly with char coal under a crudely drawn death's head: "Five thousand I dollars will be paid by the undersined to the wido w of the sneaking hound that informs on thli saloon. This is no meer bluff. P. Olbbs." Blake, after a brief coughing fit, looked up at the man behind the bar a i WsVfiV olrafl JattH. wtke aftita of authority and yet with a certain bluff honesty expressed about his eyes and lips. This man, whose air Of pro prietorship convinced Blake that he could be none other than P. Uibbs. had first looked anaerlngly at the tea cents, but had shown" some small sign of pity upon hearing the ominous cough of the attenuated vagrant. He set forth a bottle and glass. "Help yerself." said P. Olbba, AVhtl Blake was doing so, Mr. Glbba went on: '-Bad cough o' yourn. Y mightn't guess it, but that same cough runs in my fam'ly. It took off a brother, but it skipped me." ' llere was a bond of sympathy be tween the big law-defying saloonkeep er and the frail toper from the east. "Busted" Blake drained his glass and presently coughod again. P. Uibbs again set forth the bottle and this time lie drank with Blake. Before lvng, by dint of repeated fits of coughing, on the part of Blake, the sympathy of P. Gibba was so worked upon that he Invited tho three miners in the saloon to join him and the stranger. Blake slept in a corner of the saloon that night. He left there the next morning, a curious expression of reso lution on his face. During the next three weeks he was now and then alluded to In P. Oibba saloon as the "coughing stranger." In the middle of the third week, at nine o'clock in the evening, when the lamps in P. Glbbs' saloon were exert ing their smallest degree of dimness, and the bar was doing a good business, the door opened and in staggered "Busted" Blake. His staggering on this occasion was manifestly not due to drink. Ills face had the hideous con cavities of a starved man and the un certainty of his gait was the token of a mortal feebleness. His emaciation was painful to behold. Ills eyes glowed like huge gems. The crowd of miners looked at him with surprise as he entered. "The coughing stranger!" cried one. "The coffin stranger, you mean," said another. "Busted" Blake lurched over to the bar. His eyes met those of P. Gibbs on the other side, and tho latter reached for a whisky bottle. Jllake fumbled in his pocket and brought forth a piece of soiled paper, which he laid on the bar under tho glance of P. Gibbs. "Keep that!" said Blake, in a husky voice, whose service lia compelled with much effort. "And keep your word, too. That's where you'll find her." P. Gibbs picked up the paper. " "What do you mean?" he asked. "That woman's name there! It's th name of my widow; the address, too, of a photograph man who will tell you where she is. Get the money to her quick, before the governor comes down on you with the troops to close yon up. And don't let her know how it comes about. Pick out a man to take It to her, let him pay his expenses out of it a man you can trust and make him tell her I made it somehow, mining or something, so she'll take It Yov know." P. Gibbs, who had listened with in creasing amazement, opened wide his eyes and drew his revolver. Ho spoke in a strangely low, repressed voice: "Stranger, do you mean to say " "Yes, that's it," shrieked "Busted" Blake, turning toward the crowd of in tensely interested on-lookers, "And I call on all of you here to witness, and to hold him to his word. That s no mere bluff, he says, in his notice there, and I'm the sneaking hound that in formed. My widow's entitled to his fivo thousand dollars. I did it in To peka, and for proof see this newspa per!" P. Gibbs fired a shot from his revol ver through the newspaper that Blake pulled from beneath his shirt Then the saloon-keeper brought his weapon on a level with Blake's face, "It'B good your boots is our eeU P. Gibbs, ironicaJJj, But he did hot fire. Blake stood perfectly still, awaiting the shot, and feebly laughing. 1 ' ' 80 the two nemained for some mo menta, until Blake suddenly sank to the floor, .quite exhausted. He died within a half-hour, on the saloon floor, his head resting In the palm of P. Gibbs, who knelt by his side and tried to revive him. " Ji ' ' ; j At the next dawn a man whom they called Big Andy started east and the piece of paper that Blake had handed to P. Gibbs was not all that he took with him. The United States marshal ar rived and duly closed Olbbs' saloon, which reopened very shortly afterward, minus the five thousand dollar offer. ,' And Big Andy found the widow of "Busted" Blake. to whom he told a bit of fiction, in accounting for the legacy conveyed by him to her, that would have imposed upon the most insredulous legatee. When ahe had recovered from the surprise of finding herself and her child provided with the means of sur viving the possible loss of her 'situation, she forgave the late "Busted," and there was a flow of tears unusual to a board ing house parlor and unnerving to Big Andy. Presently she asked Andy whether he knew what her husband's last words had been. "Yep," said Andy, "I heard 'm plain and clear. Pete Glbbs, the other ex ecutor of the will, you know Pete says: 'It's all right, partner; me an' Andy will see to it,' and then your husband says: 'Thank Gawd, I've been some good to her an' the child, at last'" Which account was entirely correct When . Big Andy had returned to Get there City and related how he had per formed bis tnistdon, he added: "I'd been such a lovely liar all through, it's a shame I had to go an' spoil the story by puttin' in some truth at the finish." They put up a wooden grave mark where Blake was buried, and after his immo they cut in the wood this testimo nial: "A tenderfoot that was some good to his folks at last" R. N. Stephens, in Philadelphia Press. A great deal of meanness masque rades in all parts of the land under the name of prudence. Barn's Horn. CBOWDg AT CATS MAT. The Attraction Was Addres hf ' vy rr.aldaat Harrison. Cxr Mat, July 5. Independence daf was bbMrtsd here with unusual vim, the presence otpx-PresklsnttCbirrison adding vim to the occasion. The announcement BX-PHESIDKNT BARHISOif, that ha would deliver an address brought In many viiitors. The ex-Trosldent made a patriotic; address upon the rights and duties of citizenship. Iho ex-President a eloquent words were attentively listened to by a large crowd ot rple, snd hs was loudly applauded whan concluded. After the delivery of his address, Gen, Harrison held an impromptu reception. and shook hands with most cf his audi tors. rni'B HRKMEN HURT. Thar War. Celebrating, Ilowavar, and Mot Tnttlng Out tb. Fire. Asm Annon, Mich., July 5. At fire de partment headquarters about midnight last night a catmon burst and seriously Injured four firemen. Tbey had been celebrating and were loading the cannon preparatory to firing the last charge. Fred Kapp was holding the canuon on his leg snd Charles Carroll was ranting the charge home. The csnnon was hot and exploded prematurely. in butt was blown through Kapp s right leg cutting it off nearly to the thigh so that it bnng nuly by a shred ot flesh. Carroll hud both hands blown off. Henry McLaren and William Bettich, who were standing near, were struck by pieces of tbe canuon and severely but not latally injured. Interesting Celebration at Woodstock. Woodstock, Conn., July 9. Tbs usual Fourth ot July exercises were observed at H. C. Bowen's residence, Roseland Park. The Hon. Charles A. Bussell, of Connecti cut, delivered an address of welcome, and prayer was offered up by tbe Rev. William Hsyes Ward, ot ew York. The other speakers were Hon. Seth Low, Justice D. J. Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court; Hon. A. R. SpofTord, Librarian of Congress; K. 8. MacArthur, D. D., New York elty; Hon. S. B. Elkins, ex-Secre- ta ry of War, and T. K. Murphy, of New York. Poems were read by Maurice Thompson, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and Miss Edith M. ' Thomas. The exercises were interspersed with vocal and instru mental music Firecrackers Crazed Him. New Yoiik, July 0. Augustus Wolf, junior member of tbe firm of Henry A. Wolf s Co., cane manufacturers, com mitted suicide by shooting himaely at his office. His brother, Henry, was in tbe front office at the time. Mr. Wolf said that his brother being of an irrltublo tem perament, seemed to be annoyed by ths shooting off of firecrackers by street fakirs, and complained of it. Ho could not ac count for his act. Uolet Pay In St. Louie, St. Louis, July 5. The 117th anniver sary of the birthday of American freedom was celebrated in ruther a quiet manner here. The weather was intensely hot and the streets of the city were nearly deserted, all who could get away having gone into the surroundlngacouutry on picnics and excursions. Several accidents were re ported from careless use of fireworks. MAY LEAD TO BLOODSHED Western. Coal Miners' Strike Becoming Serious. "Strlppen" Who are Kot Allowed la tbe Vnlon Refute to Quit Work Operator I Threaten to Import Nagro.a, , J , Topbka, Kan., July 5. The strike of the coal miners ia Kansas and Missouri is fast assuming a dangerous condition. The strikers are determined that no outside miners shall be permitted to work, and they are especially determined that ne groes shall not be Imported for . that pur pose. They declare that If the operators carry out their expressed Intentions and employ negro miners, there will be vio lence. There is a class ot labor engaged in re moving the earth from tbe mors shallow veins who are known as "strippers.'' These men are not miners, nor are they recognized as such by tbe Miners' Union, The coal they uncover supplies a large portion of tbe eommercial coal used in the state, and Its production interferes very largely with ths ruocass of tbe strike, n , Ths union men have declared that these st tippers must quit work, making serious threats in case tbey do not Tbe atrip, pers ssy that as the miners have denied them tbe right to join their union, tbey are under no obligation to aid in any man ner those who have gone out Besides this they have no grievances, as their work simply consists in removing tbe earth, and they are in nowise a fleeted by the scale of wages for mining coal. Stripped of all verbiage the statements of the two contending parties are con tained in those two brief sentences. Of tbe 10,003 or more miners now out on strike the majority quit work out of arm psthy, in order to reduce the pro duction of commercial coal. Tbe latter class assert that their wages are fulr and that they have no personal grievances. Of those who struck in Crawford and Cherokee comities, where tbe trouble bogan, tbe married men are all idle, while the single men have sought fields and have gone to work. There are fully 8,000 negro miners in the district who while working in the union mines, have never been permitted to become members of tbe miners organi sation, ibey were Induced to quit work with the rest but they are becoming rest less and uneasy, and declare it to be their intention to resume work. The miners have been considering this possibility and say there will be bloodshed In case tbey do. Tbe leading operators have Inclosed tbeir mines with fences, and have given notice that they will, neat week, import miners. UL . T&S, f IWhat shall stay 3 'say Scott's Emulsion of pure Norwegian cod liver oil and hypophosphites of lime and soda has cured us of consumption in its first stages. 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