THE YEARS.
By Alice Katherine Fallows,
MAthwart the silence of our dreams
Their memories fall like fitful dreams
From some dim flickering star
That hangs afar
Aud then the present's
Shut swiftly in between, but yet
Hid in its transient skies,
The tireless eyes
®F endless
glare and fret,
, “
nor forget
Magazine
Yeas look,
\inslee's
THE RETURN OF THE
DISINHERITED.
Miss tab
iu the
hand, 9
cave Nhe
ing, out
Surely some one
A
library
ton stood by the center
with a mateh In he
big room was as dark as a
contld see
whit
he
absolutely noth
thu
moving
+
was it it she beard?
Wis solid
ever the heavy carpet,
“Who's there?" ori
The
scurrying of feet,
d the
CRHY answer was a
Some one wis hares
eating
Instantly
toward
with the «
knob clicked sharply, bint the
ked,
mg commun
tion
not open because it fon as Mi
Acton well knew,
The girl had an
and another to run
sirongest
impulse
away,
far Xi
feared darkupess more than the
that it hid.
It required less time th
& lock
the
shat
Was
Ress,
desire was
for her to turn on the
Hight strike the
was ready in her hand. The gas
gnited with stidden
All that was in the room seamed
leap into being
shadows,
With
tery door and his outstretched hands
upon the wall f to steady him,
stood a young man, tall, lean and pale.
but it
garb
nas
drop and imateh
explosive
t of vanishing
to ne
Ou
his back against the conserva
a8 1
He wore a long black overcoat,
was hung open and revedled the
ef a convict,
“Do not be
know who you are,
said, 1
he
and we will decide
alarmed,” she
and 1 will not
tray vou, Nit wn,
what is best to do
“i read in
eH wend.” ahe
pose
Yet 1 believe 1]
fA newspaper that you had
I did not
to
father
You snd went away to avoid the
meeting
said, “but sup
thot would dare hore.
come
vor expected
=k of
You
The convi
feusity iis CXPression was
distinget tio io
Ton,
“You
girl,
am 1 me tell vou thie
tielt iu =
Yuur
the conversa
tha
nid
you don’t know who |
whole situa.
few words knew of
father's second
“Certainly.
and 1
by
married
fo 1
ie
here
ers
kad a
be ent
neither my an
slightest
estrapgement betwe
was only by ae
where you were
came
ye wi
3 fath
knew that he
name
kindness,
great
that his
could
Dist
had the
of the cause of the
son and
not ioned In this house,
nt por myself
Knowledge
un you and him. It
cident that I found out
be asked,
him Iasi
eturaed snopened
Sing postmark on
Of course, 1 did not
but
etter to
spring
I noticed the
it when it came.
then know it
wrote the return direction upon
eRY eRe He sat at this table, and
afterward I saw upon the blotter a part
of the address reversed, of course, but
legible, “The State Prison,” and
middle name, ‘Irving.
“Arthur Irving Vane,
“Then I kuew that
viet, and {t
crime and disgrace bad caused your
father to rescunce But let me
tell you of a secret: he loves you vet,
I know it; [ am of it; and that is
why | going to help you to-night,
though he would never forgive me if
ke kuew it”
“And you read of wy escape?”
“Yes: I read a few days ago
convict named Irving had escaped with
two others. | knew, of course, that
You had dropped your last name for
Your family's sake when you were ar.
rested.”
There was a moment's silence,
the young man
his face close to hers, and asked in a
low, litense voice, “What are you go
ing to do for me?”
“Nhat do you need?’
*Fowd? A hiding place?”
Sing
was from you
i
f
ti
your
Well 7
You were 1 «oun
YOu.
Sire
am
it}
Then
she asked
the girl was frightened almost to the
point of crying.
“Money, money!” whispered
“That's what I need. With
1 ean get out of this country and
begin a new life on the other side of
the world, If I go back to prison it
will kill all the good that's in me, If
1 dow't—if 1 get clean away-—-who
knows what I can make of myself?’
“f belleve there is much truth
what you say,” she replied.
he
in
broke out of prison I would have ad.
vised you to serve out your sentence
and then begin life anew. But | know
that if you are captured now you will
have to serve years and years in ad
dition to your original sentence. 1 can-
not ask you to do that, It js very
wrong of me, but I shall help you to es.
cape. How much money do you need 7
“More than you can get, I'm afraid,”
said be gloomily., “I must make Aus
tralian somehow.”
of the library. Miss Acton walked up
| to it, turned the knob of the combina
{tion lock and swung open the
Within was a second door of thin metal
iron door,
key that she took from her pocket
There were Be
within, and
wee little drawers,
helow
hooks of outits on
side of the safe bar
them tl
above
roll
each
tween
and
money
pigeonholes
Acton took a of from the
the convict, who counted it papldiy
“Four hundred.” he
never do it with this.”
all that
“Or
sald 1 ean
Iw belongs to mu
said, COUrse, we cannot
your father's money,’
\n
young man's slendes
‘Whi he
sald that he still loves me”
"h
“11
this do?’
“Australia is a long way off
“1 think my father ought
| something,”
“No.
consent
I'm
wild the
anvils
strugele cony
frame
at L
inward
not 7 wit ied isd
would not be honest,” she
would be theft, Can't vou
f ' Pht
i on Inte
1
sinid she, firmly
“I will not
ask me
and vou should not
afraid i's all up with me
sinking into a chair
$
ef «de eply
turned she
hi:
aways
standing with
while his
sive sobs
“It's
iy
yon
the little zomd there is
Miss Acton took
safe door from
upon ite t thie
“You soe
sa id
hank vou,
he
HOOK
ae Lot
fe
difere
tion
sbhand's son
~d Knew tha
fees ned
the «
RT tol 1g
Lilia is 02
The Ii
another
hall.
kKed in
back again io the re
“pr,
thie!
instant
eption !
Vane
in the librars
and the
t he was you.’
all my wones
Key
I thougi
we was |!
axtondmd
“Yes: 1 the
and that
ight you wor
Ning
sing. you had escaped,
Waa
was i
and I have «
But
Fie
DUT
“Thought 1 in
“Ro |
Ning Sing!
crim! nm assistat
the prison physician
edd
thief!
locked
dywn.”
“No, no aimed
iron to the window
that
days
atch him
Then I)
for a of
We
the
couple
frist
LIO0T
Mildred
He will oxcap
Anntie, call the sop
doo tra
eX run
way ints!
She flew
Vane after her,
racing around
had run through the hall t
fo the outer
moment «|
Mrs,
collect
Inn
the house
oH
Mildred, left
library and listened
the door was opened and the convict
sprang out into the hall,
“I'm much obliged to yon for sending
the others away.” he called ont
fled by her. “You're a pretty
girl-1 don’t think.”
Mildred sat down on the stairs and
burst into tears of rage. She paid no
attention when her aunt, with the
servants in her wake, roshed (o join
in the pursuit. Not till she heard the
alone, hastened to the
door Instantly
as he
biright
Lier head. ’
“You will beg the voung lady's par-
don for all that you have done,” was
what Mildred heard.
Looking up she saw Vane
! the culprit by the collar,
“1 recoginize this fellow,” the young
physician continued. “Hix
Irving,
from bere, and it is not strange that he
should have selected this house for a
robbery that should help him in his
flight.”
“He need not apologize to we,
Mildred, “I don't deserve 1," » #
When the elder Mr. Vane returned
or
-“
holdix
sald
.
heard the story of ils son's adventure,
It lost nothing by Mildred's telling,
The young man appesred as
ate brigand, ‘
It tragspired that the quarrel be
i
i
i
father and turned
of marriage, Va
fwoeen san
upon a
question ne, Jr. a
for life to|
him when both |
of fact
had somewhat alter. |
wa |
himsclf
for
AR 1
Views
ing to uniting
bit tde selected
were children matter
the father
in the course of years, amd he
ready to sleze upon the adventure here
narrated ns pretext for the beginning
Hint
Ww
i
which becaimd 1
later, when
Mildred's
her ax an
POCO com
thi
ful
«11h
of on Hi
plete a fo months
voung physician, with
authorization, suggested
in-law that the |
1
daughter
originally chosen,
GOVERNMENT OPERATES RAILROAD.
Philippine Line Passes Into Our Posscs |
sion 25 Miles of New Road.
I
charge of a tral
ed Steward, of Ind. is now
on the Manila &
This railroad is
States
Butler
in fl
Dagupan Railway
by the 1
and is
OwWitend (zovern
nited
nent the first one to pass under
w
control The line bd
the
of
{ i ¢
nite Nia not
ROovernment as
and t
the abso
cured along with
the 1
ute owner, buat
Philippines,
only is
ix bailding branch Hoes
of |
goliiiers, as
Ove usefulness
America
ON
mn he
of
ninted
i din
ila to Dhagupn
i
invention of the Sled.
an
ariginal
from
slide down the
in Maderia, for
TT any
“ie il
mounts
instance, where ther
snow, slvle draw nh
nx they are in the
oxen INE 0
a development fron
are used ju
it
man
Philippines
of a dragging buries
ground it
Lim to lift up and carry it
He at first hitehied his dog to the dees
that he had just Killed, and botl
dragged it toward the cave hut ir
which they When hs
jogs slide down the mountain side the
idea of longs that woul
slide over the ground easily whet
drawn by himself one of his ani
mals was the next step in the develop
ment of the sled,
Primitive peoples like the Malays of |
idea
along the
heave for
the a
when was tow
1
Tived, he saw
eing smooth
or
peasants of Maderin still use the sleds |
Invented by their ancestors thousand: |
of years ago. Washington Post,
A Tree Benefited by Fire.
In the savannahs of Sonth America |
there grows 8 tree ealled by the na
tives chaparro, which ix not only noi |
but actually benefited by |
prairie fires, The thick bark resists
the action of the flames, and the har
ol
wings, owing to which they are seat
hy the strong wing
which aceompanivs a fire,
Over a thousand houses in London
are untenanted becanse they are sup
posed to be hannted,
The wan who sings his own praise
is always a soloist,
BOER FIGHTING TACTICS. |
OUR OFFICERS THINK THE BRITISH
ARMY IS OBSOLETE,
Eeliet that American Soldiers Would
Have Done Better Than the English
Have—Secret of Boer Value
of Artillery.
Success
All officers of the United States army
watching the war in
t In
10
in Washington are
Southh Africa
much
with
nore
great interes
teed, attention paid
it than to the fighting in Luzon. whieh
which they regard as having reached
a guerilla The attention
our officers give to the
stugoe, which
Transvanl
ig d {
rectidd to the general
thetics, they
commands
and speculate
would have
circumstances,
our
sin ar fin
bin has been quoted as saving
American soldiers would
edd than the Engll
better &
thelr ext Tu
on the
This
- fn
generaily
hostile Indian tribes
oYer wu fio!
rriors
(‘ancy
the ar
The
have
tillers
at
irresd
CAD ire
aj i
tit
ought io 00
hours 1 SOmMe Oontesls
difference lwtween de
that 1
that
officer
wo hour
and
¢
fact the
ts’ ral
n infantry
work instead of
officer in
the artillers
But 1]
i}
Ins at
experience
a grea
war sh
-
Rantiago helped we artillery
deal. for in
off core
egw ndent
the Philippine
have been given practically
ommands, with aston
ing results, In one campaign the hat
tery was taken up to a position onl
thirty yards from the
$1 y
ining
enemy--a
bn
fore
illiant
achieve
and a
vietory That
ment attracted the attention of
tire military world One
errs wie questioned concerning
the War Office in London when he caln
Inst summer The inciden:
shows what can be done by giving
artillerymen the direction of their own |
work, an opportunity they ought
have had jong ago, Of course, we ar
tillery men are prone to exaggerate the
never heard of ix
was the result
the en
it hx
of ou
{hore
he
in
but you must remember that no other |
arm has made such astonishing devel. |
opment in Inte years, and the new ma. |
chines can be directed and operated
only by trained men,
“One great defect in our army sys:
tom I that a man i= Kept in a subordl- |
nate position all bis life, and when the |
chance comes for distinction hes ie of.
ton too old. 1 know of first Heuten.
ants who are grandfathers. That cond
be remedied by more thorough inspec.
tion of the individual men, and their
promotion regardless of time of service
or any other consideration except abil
ity and industry. Another respect in
which we are backward Is in new in.
ventions, Our orduance officers have
been too conservative, Take the mat
ter of smokeless powder, an old iilus.
tration. We had none when the Span.
ish war broke out, and why? Not be
ind not invented it,
orilinance officers were
CAUKe OUE exports
but beentise on
not satisfiod nnd
Xf
with sxmokeles
hefore,
three ve
were #till experiment
GGOTIIALY her
hind equipped
Xx powder fourteen
di liad
the
and adent Bpain
it tre befor and
powder was that which did not
officers Wi
fo f I recognition
8 FTE §
our send our
abroad Hi
eapons and fmmunition
“Another defect
have referred incidentally
of the officer
service exeent that
and one to which
the Ignm
ance AYerags of any
nrm
of thi n which he
ax trained infantry
Knows nothing
and vice sa
died by Institut
temporary afialy
inn whi
gerd lend fi
This,
learn
and the eos
eral staff, both of
i Wen iz § Lewy
FURNITURE OF A BUNCO MAN,
that was a Wonderful
Work.
flad a Cerk Safe
Piece of
The Greedy Sca
land Oregon
Largest Theatre iz America.
distinetion
rest excinkively the
3 fin ftinent Ten
ISG and,
is not en
tirely completed, snimnme ELOOGO00 have
0
arperstone was isla na al
thongh at the present day it
in (1s sonstroction it
fNTOrs an
in Whey
the greai
he boxes wing
been expended
ix four stories in heloht and
area of 11.127
plan is modeled
Parisian pla
arianged in Hers about three sides of
the auditorium, while the fourth ix on
which has
n depth
A Remarkable Centenarian.
Are. Elizabeth Wilmot! of Kirkby,
Laytharpe, Bleaford, Lincolnshire, cole
brated her 100th birthday on Monday.
She has living two children, ton grand
children and ihirteen great grandehil
dren, and four generations dwell under
one roof. During the winier of 188
Mrs. Wilmot had congestion of the
lungs, amd war not expected to recor.
er, She has almost (he sprightliness
of a girl; she rises at 4 retires at 10,
knits, sews, reads, and does household
work. including carrying buckets, Her
complexion is rosy and unwrinkled,
and she looks ready for another con.
tury of wear and tear. London Chiron.
icin,
“ry
for falter
Ione,
tlie
a length of 155 feet hy O00
Cairo, Egypt. hae a citizen who is
sald 19 weigh 370 pounds, I
!
RICHES IN CUBAN SCRAP IRON,
Sent to this Country im Vast! Quantitics
A Great Supply on the Island,
Th
Ritnte
iron production of e United
mateyial-
war ox
thie nite
ineresnsed
iy this VOR y th {el of
rte from
Wt
af «
several thousand
tons uban have already be
iron
shipped here,
the
ikely
nos!
{
Ong
bie
INOST GF whi
war.
fey
ided
as
proy
fw intended to he
of war that
and shell
accumulated in
of
intion
shot
Of the
na
of the
t find {tx way
§ vs i TT 2
nio plough
mplen
the Roman
‘3
fnis :
sisite of
sorted from
hag been a
+ vid
counle of
withont foun
wile Con
1
Dutch Streets,
i ¢ § Is AT Eh Th OE iR
i us io {Oe everdiranguil
freets with a
their mellow
me houses These mosily foliow
ny
cles, ox is
place But
found evervwlhere
a
ted in a fortif
typical Du'ch
is the line of houses
in
red brick
10 vw
CX Iw
the iro
cans oil trees
shading
by 1} FARE ©
front the Indian
behind with its bright white window
sashes, as bright as moch-polished
brass, Nothing ig more suggestive of
tranagnil repose and old fashion, They
the biroad canal before
thei. where bhridees crose and barges
lie together alongside. Even in very
populous capitals we come in the sub
arbe on some delightful, retired bis
of canal. leaving much the same effect
ac does Chareh Row at Hampstead
Old-fashioned well-to-do folk live here
in retirement, There is one such at the
entrance of The Hague on the Schev.
eningen she, where the charming
woods begin: anything more old world
and solemnly attractive cannot he
imagined, We might well fancy our
solves Back to the days of Sir William
Temple and of Willlam of Orange,
who may have strolled along these
banks ~The Gentleman's Magazioe,
Hard fo Beat This Record.
Ann Mason has worked for Mrs, M.
E. Holland for twenty-one years, She
cooked the first meal Dr. Holland and
his bride ate when they went to honse.
keeping, and has cooked every one
since. Mrs Holland insists that hes
sorvant girl story beats the record.
Atchison (Ran) Globe, Ras
streteh along