AT THE WAR OFFICE.
A woman poor and a peeress proud,
A dingy room and a crushing crowd,
The gloom of death aml grave
shroud,
A stifled ery and a sob aloud,
A lieart has heard and an eye has read.
A soul has writhed and a
head
1s bowed, and
sald:
“My God! My
a trembling tongue has
(od! And He is dead!”
A wall, a sob, and a bitter ery.
An anguished tear in a woman's
A peergss’s race where agouy
1s carved, and a mutely murmured
“Why?
eve,
A woman stares and a peeress starts
Without the in of traffic’s mnarts
Thyrobs in the Lie
Their Lives, hut close,
Hearts!
Foley,
sireets,
close, S50
James Jr.. in Bismarck Trl
bhune,
EYES OF FIRE.
The Taming of a Bad Man.
By a New York Ul
were making the preliminary
survey of the Colorado Midland road
when I first met Big Sam Gardner. Ie
was i who = six feel
high. and weighed about 180 pounds.
He pever used whiskey or tobaceo, and
,
an tood over
ham
He
cowboy
it almost required a blow from a
mer to bruise or dent his tlesh,
Wis scout, a prospector, a
a
and a temmster. He was a good-natul
od man, and yet he had one grievous
fault, About ence six weeks he
would loose and half kill
re ready to start
ilk
sO ae
break
one. When we we out
the survey Big Sam wade applica
an axeman, Col, Kyle,
f called him up and said
+» for
Oo as
vou, Sam, but
breakin
start
have
ity
any
ui
you shot
pla
colonel would keep his word
Nim took the ce knowin
orders all dowa the line to of
him If he broke
erally believed that he wot i
and get
As to his
afraid of anything
mal or reptile,
loose, and |
to himself
rouble,
City, SO
dertook
With a:
Rig Sam laid out
Silver Hill
man, he
by a hundred
sunimoned him te
whee hie Bb
surrounded
Wis
wrmed wen
nt § # % g iin ¥
oil among ith 4 gun in
Hind
3
wel
hand and
a shot beer
riddled in
in contempt
hu
instant,
would have
» pulled
Over bevond San Quentin a
if 1 I
iL 0 OE
an
#4 Nigger
Balf-breed
camp outtit
jumped Sam's broncho and
and
before the trail up.
He was followed into a camp of “bad”
indians and white outls fifty
men in all-and Sam got every piece of
his belongi
Was twenty miles
away wns taken
WHgVer
wes back without a shot be
He simply rode into camp,
and his demeanor
fellows dared
ing fired.
stating his
was such
begin a row,
“Perhaps the feat which brought Big
Sam the greatest
Ofie
errand,
that the
i
notoriety took place
of Powder
was boss
evening the edge
Valley, while
Buckley's wagon train. The train was
just golng into camp for the night, be-
ing on its way to a military supply
post, when & mountain lon which was
hiding in the bushes leaped out and
seized a boy about fourteen years old
named Clark, Asx many as six men
saw the animal seize his prey, but de
spite their shouts and gestures
on
Le of
the bushes, His teeth were fixed into
the victim's right shoulder, and with a
burden at all
“Big Sam was twenty rods away,
the trouble was. When told that
young Clark had been carried off
hie ran straight for the spot where the
jion had entered the bushes, The beast
was a monstrons big one, and he was
also In a defiant wood, After enter.
ing the bushes a few rods and finding
iimself followed he dropped the boy
and turned and made ready for Sam,
When the man came ruaning up
fon sprang at him, but Sam leaped to
the right and at the same time kicked
to make him bowl with pain. He was
about to skulk away when he was seiz
‘round till his head struck a tree and
his peck was broken,
saw it all as he lay there on
ground, and there were seventy
who saw the dead lion,
“One more incident: As a govern
ment scout, Big Sam had ‘gathered in’
as be called it, over 8 dozen Indian
warriors, and for npward of three
yeara the Cheyenne tribe had a stand
ing reward of a dowen ponies for his
scalp,
wanted to get even with him, and one
day at the agency it was planned to
do him up. Some military officer had
presented the Indians with a rubber
football, aud Big Sam was invited to
help do some high kicking, There was
a crowd of about a hundred bucks, and
the plan was to create a jam at a cer
tain point and stick a knife into the
big fellow. Everything worked all
right up to the last, when Sam scented
danger and cut loose. With his fists
the
men
and feet he opened a lane through the
crowd, and when struck at with a
knife he picked the would-be assassin
up and flung him twenty feet away.
“Big Sam Gardner had a hundred
but at the
no man wanted to chum |
When his pecnliar woods |
was dangerous to friend |
and foe alike. While we were glad to
have him swith us on the survey, we |
| were all the time a little anxious, He |
had been with us about twenty days, |
{and we had a camp in Red Stone val |
| ley, when we noticed that the big fel
} ‘ow was growing sulky and obstinate,
We watched him closely for three]
days, and it was the general opinion |
that one of his ‘spells’ was coming on.
| About 4 o'clock one afternoon, just as |
{ the chain and axe gangs had come in,
Big Sam went over 0 Col, Kyle's tent
and sald:
| “Look vere, Kurnel, we had a fair
| understandin’ about my breakin’ loose.” |
“yes we did, replied the colonel.
“But. I've got to do It, Kurnell
can't help myself, If I don't chew
{ up somebody 'll be no more good. 1
! ain't after any of our boys, but I want
u with some of the in the
| camp across the creek.’
“wo
i game time
i with him,
[enue on he
row fellers
hand of
this a
{ half a dozen prospectors or land look
{ ors had made cawp opposite us and
sits had
argued
walked
r and get hold
un
upon
hours hefore
no vi
Kyle
Sam
{ only forty rods away, but
| been exchanged yet, !
and threatened, and
off into the thicket to
{of himself, Every man
lerstond ‘the feeling’
a
re posi dd to wateh
in camp
that was
he was in danugerons
Sentinels wy
iin, and that
mood
ro the
for his return, and tl rs f
colonel were
“If he
sry man
comes back on the whoop let
fire on hi and K
Wing
growing ds
Own im
{8 empty."
su the
We
were all hoping that his mood had
but hi
thant he was still
f He sat
tried
©
it up unt hester
It
big fellow came gu
' {
i LIES
+
i
wis just whi
hn
etly into camp
passed away, one glance into his
showed hanging
himsed
and
face
beside a
the food
down
campfire but
tO eit,
he furned
aud
ile with
away
hizx head in
Kyle took notice of hin
, and by and by
and cheerfully queried
Well, my
“w tine ¢ 3s
wanting wo Os
there Catue
boy, have you
aw somebody
‘Kurnel, it's bound
plied Sam. with a wail in h
to break loose, and
S100 Hs if I ct
, got t
“The gian
ingl shook 1
wis really
ke
Pp
}
hig features
Frise
heart
“11%
i bw
your
and
YOUr carcass on
the wolves
“Wit}
'
smile on his face
to strip.
a long breath of
. Big Sam tarned
walked del
across to the stranger's camp to
The first man he can
sitting down and smoking
was picked up and
fire, and the others came
know what it was ail about
the colonel and iberately
ick a
toh!
ugh to
was
He
ha
Lad
fis pipe
heaved over
toward us to
Naim was
looking around to see what destruction
he could e“fTeet man had
s0 roughly confronted him and said
‘You are Big Sam Gardoer,
a fight'
savagely sh
when
the be
and you
are looking for
“ ‘Yes, that's
Sam in reply
“Well, I'l accommodate you
‘ heard about you and Foul
loose at times.’
“You'll-youll fight me? asked
Ram, as he rubbed his hands together
and siniledd,
“1 will, and If I don’t Kill you my
| name is not to be put ohh my gravestone
when 1 die. A shootin’ mate don't |
count, but here is what does!’
i “He drew from Its sheath as fine a |
bowileknife as was ever turned out by |
a cutler, and Big Sam nodded aud
i smiled and whispered
«Stranger, 1'mn in dead luck to meet i
yon! Let it be with knives, and if you
kin bleed me a little, mebbe I'll feel
| better,’
“Col, Kyle pressed forward to speak
to all the campers in general. There
was no occasion for a quarrel, and he |
{ hoped there would be none. Big Ham
must obey orders and quiet down or |
! be driven from the camps. © 1 think this
{ course would have been taken but for |
the man who had been flung about,
Smarting under his ill-usage, and hav. |
| ing agreed to fight, he said:
“This thing Is to go on! No man cin
toss we around except for blood!”
“That «ettled it, and we fell back. 1
don’t think Big Sam had taken & sec
ond look into the stranger's face. He
was of medium height and weight, |
| springy on his feet and all muscle, but |
| his face was a study, 1t showed a set |
purpose to kill Big Sam. It was a|
wicked face, though perhaps not be.
longing to a wicked man, Youn saw
the purpose of the iron jaw -the com
pressed lips-—the glint of the steel blue |
eyes, Sam smiled and chuckled as he |
oti tem
I've
how break
3
stool with his left foot thrown for
word and his knite raised that he!
looked squarely, into the stranger's
face, Then we saw him give n sodden |
start, Those eyes looking lute his had
the shine of a wild beast’'s eyes at
night. The lips parted a little to show
the tightly clenched teeth, and there
was a lurking smile at the corners of
the mouth, and, with the beginning of
i
his catlike motions, the eyes seemed
to turn to coals of tre,
“ '(jood God, but what a face!” whisp
voile will kill 8am out of hand! 1
whispered back, as my heart choked
me,
“For about
Lis
a minute Big Sam
attitude of attack
fense hen he Way a pace ot
two, and the other followed him up
and hissed between his clenched teeth
Ram Gardner, you have met & wan
who is going to kill yon!
“And how his eyes glinted and glis
toned and seemed to burn holes on
Sam's face, The of a wounded
tiger never showed half the fire. 1
nin
tained and de
Save
eyes
opening, and we heard our man whisp
ering to himself:
“" but he
eyes! 1 can't
t him?!
Sam,’
Good God,
with his
can't figl
“Look
is knifing me
fight
out,
seconds,
of his Knees,
and of a sudden he flung his knit
rock.
0
vopon't kill him! erled the colonel
us
i 1 iF
with Knii
1
ih
° uplifted to strike,
let
we noticed that
¢ man his arm slowly fall,
and then
3
Sam shivered like one with the ague as
i! and Inld his
the colonel walked over 1
hand on his shoulder and whispered
Come. Sam: it's all over. Let's go
» camp
What happened? asked Sar
y and
Never mind, now
But I's cold and
"mm afraid’
around in a vi
i 1 § pee
ionRg 11]
hee men led hin
oncluded the
ink and
An
"SUP
in low
cRginecy,
1
ie
hour Liter
aid t
naigig
Livy those
ROSES AND THEIR USES
Properties the Beautiful Blos:
soms Possess.
The Restful
a Were
break
protecilion
informaiiol
Ft trast 4 134
reumsiances
the expression “sub rosa’
:
1
ts
Ww
} ividuals precede
h many in
nny information
wach fi
is not to repeat
is als be om
the nn
these depending on the colot
best owesd The
love, the white
the vellow jealousy.
legend to
't the extra
wi §
gi
0
HnDoEad
Uy }
of certain sentiments,
blossom
inbolizes Tse
uth and
A prety ascribes an an
ne i's
by
tle
the
1 $v
iv nuly
the moss rose, velled swith its man
of The
of a
Fenny
wreen
angel,
nrotection
i rose bnsh,
rose Want in
The the angel
another grace upon it,
flower in fo Woment was
LOSS,
Cae of
to
flee
gift it desired re
ix
and the
covered with
turn. rose desived
bestow
the most extensive industries
which the thse
making of perfumes. The centre of {he
perfume lodustres
rose contributes is
is sald to be
which i= iu the southern part
of France Women and girls gather
flowers daily between the hours of
and 11 o'clock a, m. and on thelr re
turn to the houses pluck the leaves
from the blossoms. The rest of each
day Is passed in preparing the leaves
for the process of extracting the oils
containing the perfumes, The season
for plucking roses lasts from the be
and during that lime roses are
numbers to
vol
make
The perfame known
It requires two
hundred thousand roses to obtain $300
The Boers of the Transvaal ave fond
of roses, and in Pretoria the streets
are bounded by rose hedges, which for
all but three months of each year are
fragrant aod beautiful with blossoms,
All the public places display a pro.
fusion of roses of many varieties. The
Burgher's Park has a beautiful col
fection, This flower has been chosey
the forall emblem of several
states, including New York, Towa and
North Dakota, the last two mentioned
paving chosen the wild rose,
in oa litle village of Alsace several
thousand dollars Is made annually by
fattening geese, which are bought for
$1 or $1.26, and sold for from $1.50 to
$1.76. The livers sometimes
pounds,
“A DEADLY SNAKE DUEL.
METHODS OF RATTLER AND KING
SNAKE IN A COMBAL,
Dramatic Story by a Naturalist Describ-
Witnessed in the Florida Everglades
tier.
If the ratilesnake is justiy ealled (he
king of America’s woods and rocks, yet
since he is hunted diligently and suc
cessfully. His fangs are, indeed, deadly
and he wears a fine suit of armor, but
attack him, and he has an enemy of his
own kind still more dangerous to him,
Snakes may be divided into three
Those which are venomous,
the constrictors and those which
peitner, Unless the second of these
wonderful for glze, they
little our und
they are generally
graceful in action,
best friends,
writes a naturalist,
thelr He
0! attention, yet
often
and
Ian Florida in the
expecially noticeable
of twelve fect and makes a business of
warring on rots and other small deer
the
whose
farmer and the king snake,
to be the ¢X
hotles;
mission secins
rattler,
One day 1 vas from a day's
hunt, at peace w
If. when |
wel
wel 1
returning
ith the world and my
heard a squirrel scolding
hie ward politician the
tion he i
so loud and
out of my
matier
I found the little
of a ploe about
ground, ji
He
befor Cian [Re
insistent that
tu
made was
way wee
fellow on Lhe
Rng al
sions would flourish hi
threaten an assault
run back a 111} vay up the trunk, and
then return an
I looked «
i
SURE Was Gu
that lay voll
1% compressed
from the middie of
sounded conlinuousls
fixed
those of the
The buzz, buz
mer
Ba
aquirrel
‘ 1 Le
gid =
1ir i
Bey
eyes |
: "
tier iis
narking
eonkil
Offs
his surrounding
Boise Wis
well as {oo wm
on the
which be Indy
isfy
siran
iI ha
Ing
animal,
fea wens ry
JUDGE
and painful emot
ways dey 1
I knew
the
that b
tumble
by one
Be
ve often
ty %
ae 5
squirrel
jaw 5 ©
walt
‘4
iitie
stag
coat of
spots; it sh
lace of pre
king snaks
The new
rattler, iis
gray,
sunlight
goene
shone |
and I
fpr
wat Hi
sruniler }
than
At the first rustie of
jost all interest
its appr
in To
which ran back into the tree
The king snake held his bead high
+d raced round the rattler in a wide
he rattler tried slink
The king darted forward as if
and the rattler threw him
enil., The King was again
¥
itt
while i 10
AWRY
into a
The rattler
ferent appearance from the golf -confl
dent arbiter of the woods which hie had
seemed when 1 first saw him, 1 could
surprised in the sct of torturing his
helpless victim, and suddenly com.
his strength. The king snake seemed
eruel dallying with a mouse,
Round and ronnd went the king
snake, and the rattler followed the
movement till its neck was twisted,
Whenever it attempted to turn the
evident that the first fallure of the rat.
tler in swiftness would be the sigual
for muscle to clinch with venom, The
king would race from left to right aud
then reverse, and if the rattler failed
to follow that would be the end o. him.
This happened, and 1 saw the king in
the air, but could not eatch the strike,
fo instantaneous was it,
There wis a confusion of fiying pine
peedles In a cloud of white dust, and 1
saw that two Inches of the king's coll
was about the throat of the rattier,
Over and over they went, the king's
head above that of his enemy, and a
curve of his body acting as a buffer to
keep up the motion which enabled him
to take another turn and still another.
. And so the struggle continued, till
the rattier could not writhe freely, and
he was held as a vine wraps a tree,
en be lay still the king snake be
wnasit htmsal? slowle aud er
strictor's folds contracted and crushed
with killing effect. Even when there
wis only a quiver of the tail, the king
still gripped the thromt, It was plain
iad a wholesome for the
fangs, that were still terrivie
A% a last precaution the King applied
his nostrils delicately of the
WETS
and repented
faintest
if to
Satisfied released
respect
to those
thint
detect ie
last, it
us
al
restine its hold at the slightest sign of
There | left him, keeping grim guord
the of the
broke
it ul
with
yoloe
the tv
defiant as
longer filled
as at first,
turned away
in
and
of
again,
wWnys but no
agony and terror,
#UnCy
is,
IN THE HEART OF BRAZIL.
fhe U. S. S. Wilmington Cruises Up the
Amazon River,
the 2,500
“Wil
Amazon is t
The crul ngton”
mi
he subject
of a readable article in Alnslee’s:
“he dreary solitude and
of the
banks and
yoery
monoiony
interminable stretch
the know leddg
these shores lay bun
unexplored, almost
es! KWampY
stRguny
fd pestiieni, gave the J
i
per devoted
# 3 « Tyr * =1sel £3 1 * »
CIRRE ANECNET gud the owe
fend
travelling
and Try
io [Ise we
ght ar
deck, |
i As cartle, mules
arried
inderstood that this location
There
hammocks
Hes
siso « uit the latte
easily be 1
entirely desirable are
wis on board,
Ihe
of the great
ers forming the Amazon system
being invariably used ge steamers
ply to all
of riv
amd are
network
utilized in transporting rud
ber
Spanish Traditions in aly.
Spanish traditions still reign In 8
eral of the southern provinces of ital:
There are many tle in the
Neapolitan district, fustance,
the
fowns
for
where women &f the
middie
by
age
Hpper
no mailer what thei
Falling a male escort
or friend--they are
a duenna! These Castil
lian customs are dying out but
the great of the south,
the habits aud manners of
worm well established, they
jeft their traces, and where even
themselves,
be,
brother
may
centres
object the equality of the sexes? The
remembers that ber mother dared not
——————" nH AA A
|“ Newer Do Things
by Halves.”
Sometimes the condition of
your health could be de-
scribed as half-sick and half-
well. You may not be ill
enough fo go lo bed but too dl to be havpy
or ef ficient in your home or your business.
Why not be wholly well ? Your dragged-
out, tired feeling is due to poor blood and!
| nothing else. Make your blood rich by us-|
ing Hoods Sarsaparilla. BI works fo
perfection; there is nothing lke 4,
Tired Feeling — “My husband
awould come home from work s0 lired he
could hardly move. He began taking
Hood's Sarsaparilla and i cured him. I
cured my girl's headaches.” Mrs. A. Fk
Sprague, 57 Oak St., Fall River, Mass.
Hoods S
Never EF YE
Hood's Pillsrare liver ills: the pon irritating and
‘only cathartic to take with Hood's harsspariila.
Danger In the Lily.
From the New York Times
knew as much about the illy of the val-
l do not put that
in your mouth,” politely remark
ed the florist to one of his customers
as he plated a spray of the fragrant
and graceful blossoms between bis
teath It's not a very slegant habit
responded the customer, a
“put it's an old one, and |
can't readily break myself of it.” “Par
me, but it is not the habit of
which 1 was speaking, but of the flow-
self. The lly is a dangerous flow-
to chew, differing from most
those one LUYs the stores, for
while this one stem may do you Do
harm, it is a fact that the lily is pois-
onous to man and beast alike, and as
very few people know it, I always like
to my know the fact
they can them if they
“If you
ley as | you would
tem
I confess
Yui
Wil
toatl!
testily,
aon
er i
er
of
at
let customers
Then
dige On
{ke
il .
Woman 's
Kidney
Troubles
Why trifle with health
when the easiest and
surest help Is the best
known medicine in the
world ?
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
is known everywhere and
thousands of women have
been cured of serious kid-
ment of the mayor, the
posimaster and others of
her own city.
Her medicine has the
grateful wonren whose
letters are constantly
printed in this paper.
Every woman should read
these letters.
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8 mid and efeotive laxstive hey sre stn WC
bad.
derful. My daogbter and | were
siek stomach and out ih was very Afuer
taking a fow doses of Cascarets we Lave im
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NO-TO-BAC Sane ol ne
| Mont wiked of potato on sarth * €
SE
e's
rm
of a vote, and her dreams are not trou
jn the cap and gown of Portia. ~The
Contemporary.
I SS OH
Newgate Prison Doomed. *
The last execution at Newgaie 1'ris
on. the wost famous in the workl, the
theme of Thackeray and Dickens, is to
pew Contial Criminal Court,
gate has a right to be famous,
New
It was
London, After
death iL was rebuilt for the second
time and an effigy of Whittington and
fis eat placed on top. It has since
been many ties rebullt, but never He
came a desirable home,
i
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eign KILLER
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