6 "GIDDAP, PETE!" They's a man 'at drives a team Down by our house ev'ry day Haulin' stones so big It seems Like you can't guess what they weigh. An' this man 'at drives "em, he Hollers while he goes down street \\ here it's rough as rough can be lie ist hollers: "Giddap, Pete!" "V.iddap, Pete!" 'At's all he says, Nen he gives his whip a crack An' th' horse name' Pete obeys. Other horse's name is Jack. 'Cause one time he stop to rest An' he dumb down off th' seat An' 1 ast. He says: "Pete's best. That one's Jack. Well, giddap. Pete!" But til' horse name' Pete, why he Pulls th' mostest, anyhow. An' it's hard for me to see Why th' man makes such a row Uollerin' at him like that; Jack don't hardly move his feet An' he's lazy, too, an' fat— But th' man yells: "Giddap, Pete!" My pa laugh when I ast why 'At man yells at Pete, an' nen Says: "You'll tind out by an' by Horscs is a lot like men— Those 'at can 's th' ones 'at's got To pull on th' lazy chaps. He might yell 'Jack!' but he'll not, 'Cause he knows 'at Pete gitfdaps!" —YV. D. N , in Chicago Daily Tribune. The Delinquent By FRANK H. SWEET (Copyright, 1904, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) \7 OU will remain in and study the lesson two hours," said the white-haired schoolmaster, grimly. "If you do not get it in that time I shall punish you, as I would any of the other boys. I shall make no exception." The "boy" was a stalwart, finely formed man of 30, with clear eyes and good-natured face. There was a humor ous appreciation of the situation in his eyes as he raised them to the old man, who was scarcely more than half his own weight. Hut all he said was, "That's right, schoolmaster; you musn't show partiality. But I've done the best I could." The schoolmaster regarded him for some moments with unqualified disap proval, then turned and walked to ward his desk. But half way there he paused suddenly, a cloud coming to his face. After a little hesitation he re turned to the man. "I do not want to fall in my duty to any of the boys, Calvin Hepstead," he said, "and if I have misjudged you in any way, in jot or tittle, I wish to rec tify it. You have been with me three months now, and have learned the let ters and a few figures. But there you suddenly stop, through obstinacy or in difference or inability, I do not know which, though I judge the former. Since the Indian summer brought you something three days ago you have done little but look through the win dow. I never expel any of my schol ars; I prefer to punish. Sometimes that measure succeeds where others fail. Can you advance any reason whatever, Calvin Hepstead. why you should not be punished?" "None whatever, Mr. Peters," the man answered, quietly. "I've suc ceeded in about every undertakin' I've tried, an' some of 'em were pretty big ones. If I don't learn the lesson I should be punished, of course." The schoolmaster looked at the strong, self-contained face with some thing very like wistfulness mingling with the disapproval of his eyes. "Yes, it is obstinacy," he said at last slowly, more to himself than the other. "Any one can learn if he tries. A fail ure to do so should be corrected." He went to his desk and examined exercises for half an hour, then walked back and forth across the small room, finally stopping again beside Hepstead. "I am going out to supper now, but will be back in an hour and hear your lefson," he said. The man nodded without looking up from a slate which lay on the desk before him. He was trying to form figures from a copy across the top of the slate, and to combine them in a simple sum of addition; but the great fingers were better fitted for the stock of a rifle or the helve of an axe or a paddle handle than for a slate pencil, and the brain behind the wrinkling brows, which was keen to read the mysteries and wiles of primitive na ture, grew dull and vacuous before a problem that would have been easy for an ordinary boy of seven. Presently the fixed stare left the slate and went to the window and beyond to the great forest, whose edge showed in the dis tance, and then the eyes began to warm and glow. When Mr. Peters' steps were heard returning the slate was pushed aside quietly and the man's arms were folded across bis chest. The schoolmaster's inquiring look was an swered by one of absolute content. "So you have done it,"the school master said, with an accent of relief in his voice. The affirmation seemed plain in the man's eyes. "No, sir, I ain't done it." "What!" The relief became sur prise, and the surprise wrath. "Not done it, and sitting there looking through the window. Come to my desk, sir!" Hepstead followed him smilingly. The schoolmaster selected the heaviest of his rulers. "Hold out your hand." Hepstead did so, and the ruler de scended upon its palm with all the force of the old man's arm, making a long, livid line upon which the skin began to rise. A half dozen more linos rained alongside it in quick succes sion, aud thon the ruler fell as though the punishment were over. But Hep stead was still smiling. "'Hold out your other hand." ordered ! 'the schoolmaster, grimly. Then, as tli man complied and that, hand was also ! crossed with livid lines, "Now, go. To-morrow we will commence over j Again." "We'll say good-by to-night, school master," Hepstead answered. "I'm goln' away—back into my woods." There was no anger in the voice, no trace of resentment —nothing, indeed, but friendliness and exultation. The schoolmaster stared. "Why did you submit to this pun ishment, then?" he demanded. "Oh. it was comin' to me, I guess. I didn't learn the lesson, an' I don't want any partiality. I always give what I owe an' take what's due me. Y'e may tell the boys good-by to-mor row, an' say I'd liked to have seen more of 'cm. Generally I've been kept in recesses an' at noon an' night, so we ain't had much chance to git ac quainted. Likely I shall never be out this way any more." "And you are going away," said the schoolmaster, with strong condemna tion in his voice. "I have not had much faith in you, Calvin Hepstead, but I thought better than this. You came here for an education, and have been with me only three months. I have never had a scholar quite so weak as you, and," throwing out his hands with a sudden gesture of renunciation, "I do not wish to remember that you have been with me. My life is teach ing. and I do not like failures. Now you may go." "I want a few words with ye, first," insisted Hepstead. "We musn't part in misunderstand In'." "I do not wish to hear. Go!" He was turning away when Hepstead caught him suddenly in his arms, as he might a child, and then seated him self upon a chair with the wrathful schoolmaster struggling upon his knees. "Easy, easy, Mr. Peters," he said, soothingly. "I jest want to say a few words an' then ye can go. Mebbe ye did git a little ahead in that, lickin' an' this'll sort o' even up. Now ye say I'm the weakest scholar ye're ever had, an' I guess likely ye're right. But It's this way. You've been brung up In learnin', an' I've heered say your pa an' grandpa was schoolmasters. Let ters an' figgers are mixed up thick in your blood. With me it's dif'runt. My pa an' grandpa didn't know their let ters, like me. We belonged to the woods." "Why didn't you stay there?" snapped the schoolmaster, still strug gling to release himself. "Well, ye see I'd done some good sized things that brought me friends an' a pretty big pile o' money, an* I s'pose I got to feelin' mighty friendly toward myself. When my friends said the only thing I needed was education, an' kept on sayin' it, I got to thinkin* mebb" they was right, an' come here." "Il'm!" The schoolmaster ceased to struggle against the impossible and sat quietly upon the knee. "And now you are going back to show your friends that they were mistaken in their good opinion." Hepstead laughed with the gleeful ness of a boy at the approaching holi day. "No," he answered. "I've jest thought some more aa' found 't would f>e a mistake to keep on makin' a mis take. I'm meant for the woods. I've done good work there, an' can do more, an' it's a strong, hearty life. I could study an' git an education, I know, for I've never yet set out for a thing that I didn't git; but't would take the best part o' my life. I'm slow at such things, an' would have to dig out every letter an' flgger with a pickaxe, one at a time. An' in the end would it be wuth the trouble? All my int'rust is back yonder in the woods, an' we don't need much learnin' there Then I've got this." He allowed one hand to slip down over the schoolmaster's shoulder until it reached the other hand, which had drawn a small package from his pocket. This was carefully untied and opened and then held before the schoolmas ter's face. "Know what 't is?" he asked. "Why, I think—yes, it is a faded rose bud, a wild variety that grows among the rocks." "That's right," with a rapturous chuckle. "The Indian summer brought it. There's a girl back where I come from, the prettiest an' best one in all the world, but she's like me in not knowin' a letter or flgger. When I come here she bid me Godspeed, for even though she believed the learnin' would draw me away from her, she thought 't would be for my good. That rose bud was picked at our first under standin', an' her sendin' it means she ain't so strong as she thought an' can't give me up; an' I, schoolmaster," with a sudden boyish laugh that shook his huge frame, "made up my mind ten days ago that I was payin' too big a price for the learnin'. I'm goin' back to her, straight. That's all. Now ye can go. I only wanted ye to under stand the reason. Mebbe there's been a girl somewhere an' at some time that you used to know." He released the prisoner and rose to his full height, stretching himself finally from the thralldom of the schoolroom. The schoolmaster stood for a moment gazing at the floor. Then he held out his hand. "I wish you well, Hepstead," he said, in a low voice. "It may be you are right." The Ruling Powers. Kor love men labor and are wise, For love men have been won from ci lrae; For love men have the wish to rise, I'or love men have become sublime. 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Che Foo, Aug. 11. —A Russian tor pedo boat destroyer entered Che Foo harbor this morning and re ported that six Russian battleships, four cruisers and half of the torpedo boats escaped from Port Arthur Tues day morning. The torpedo boat de stroyer left Port Arthur Wednesday night, bringing in five passengers who stated that the Japanese fleet is pur suing the Russians and that a battle on the open sea is expected. St. Petersburg, Aug. 11. —Again the chance of a decisive battle between Gen. Kuropatkin's forces and the Jap anese armies seems to be disappear ing. According to a statement issued by the general staff last night, rains are again falling over a wide area in Manchuria, with the prospect of im peding operations, but even more im portant is the information reaching the Associated Press from an excep tional source that the Japanese once more have delayed too long. Gen. Kuropatkin has now withdrawn the bulk of his army safely north of Liao Yang, leaving only a strong rear guard line southeast of Liao Yang to contest the advance when it comes. London, Aug. 11. —The Tien Tsin correspondent of the Standard saya says that 3,000 Chinese bandits at tacked the Russian camp in the Tieh pass on August 2. The Russians were taken unawares and had many killed. They also lost a quantity of ammu nition and supplies. JAPS CAPTURED A BOAT. Che Foo, Aug. 12.—The Russian cruisers Askold and Novik and one torpedo boat destroyer entered Kiau Chau bay Thursday night and ex changed salutes with German vessels. The torpedo boat destroyer Ryes hitelni had been dismantled by the re moval of the breeches of her guns. A boarding party from two Japanese torpedo destroyers boarded the dis mantled Russian torpedo boat de stroyer Ryeshitelni this morning at 3:30 o'clock. The Japanese discharg ed their small arms and during the firing a Russian was wounded in one of his legs. Daybreak showed a third Japanese destroyer towing the Ryes hitelni out of the harbor and all disap peared. The Japanese consul claims that the Japanese ships were ignorant of the dismantling of the Ryeshitelni. An Associated Press representative, however, informed the Japanese naval officers of the fact when he visited the two Japanese destroyers. It is reported that the Japanese cruiser Kasagi was sunk off Round Island in the recent engagement. Takushan Mountain, near Port Ar thur, which was taken by the Japa nese Monday night, was recaptured by the Russians the next day. Advices from the fortress say that the Japanese bombarded the town, placing their batteries in dense kaolin fields, where they were effectually masked. The shells dropped mainly In the western basin, where the squad ron was anchored. Many of the shells fell upon the battleship Retvizan, but no serious damage was done either to the town or the fleet. Later the forts got the range of the Japanese field batteries and drove them out from their shelter in the kaolin. RUSSIANS SHIPS SCATTERED. Dispatches from various points in dicate that the attempt of the Russian Port Arthur squadron to reach Vladi vostok failed and that the vessels have become widely scattered. One torpedo boat destro>%r put into Che Foo, where she was boarded and cap tured by the Japanese. The battle ship Czarevitch, the cruiser Novik and a torpedo boat have arrived at Tsing chou, at the entrance of Kiao Chou bay, the German concession on the southern shore of the Shantung penin sula. Another Russian cruiser and a tor pedo boat destroyer are reported as near Shanghai and four battleships are off the Saddle Islands, about 20 miles southeast of that port. Che Foo ' reports say that one Russian torpedo boat was captured off the Chinese coast and Tokio hears that a number of the vessels of the squadron have re turned to Port Arthur. The German foreign office has given instructions that the uninjured Rus sian warships at Tsingchou must leave port within 24 hours. Shanghai, Aug. 13.—The Russian cruiser Askold arrived at Woosung yesterday with her fifth funnel gone close to the deck, all the funnels riddled with shell holes, one gun on the port side dismounted and several large shell holes above the water line. One lieutenant and 11 men had been killed and 50 men wounded. London, Aug. 13.—According to the correspondent of the Morning Post at Shanghai, the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Grosovoy has reached there. An Expensive Legal Document. St. Louis. Aug. 12. —A transcript containing 1,084,300 words and costing the state for stenographers' work more, than SI,OOO has been made of the evidence in the case of Seymour Harrington, the alleged English lord who was convicted at Clayton several j months ago 011 a charge of murdering ; James I'. McCann, the horseman, and sentenced to bo hanged. 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