fHE cONGQU EROR.
looked at me with pleading
jis ardent suit he pressed;
E.gentle "No" he would not hes
Nor let the subject
eyes,
AT,
rest.
p asked me once
esought me o'er and o'er,
Nor yet despalred, although
Was firmer than before.
again and then
my "No"
dnd still he pleaded urgently,
With Hsien of one who wins;
“4 sighed and answered Yes,’
Is book of safety pins,
Ward,
When
and bought
~JRunice in Puck.
Failed.
By SNOWDEN KING.
“Come out and tell a fellow good-by,
won't you Ken?”
Daw Simpleton drew his horse
before the door of a small mountain
cabin one of the many nestling among
the foothills of the Cumberlands
There the glint of browne blue
and Kentucky Garrettson brown
head, and
she in the door-way.
“Howdy, Daw. in.”
The man glanced down at
hand ly and shook
head.
“What's
been
She
was
pink-
biue dress, pink apron, and
stood
Come
his right
his
ing on his Knee,
up? Have and daddy
scrapping?”
came out
gate, evidently
“I am going
a good long look at
“You really and
never thought you would.
you the de
much as [ do 1 ‘
can leave them-——I int. 1
try, for I know the h
you
and leaned on the
undisturbed,
Ken, and I want
lI go.”
away,
before
truly going? I
Why, Daw
old mountains as
how you
you
are
love ar
could wouldn't
gven
to see again
Daw
changed
figure
black
close
eves
TUE:
came
“Yes,
but
else
to hit
1 would
man
even
life.”
Oh
ing
Doct
would
you hat
“Ker
taineer's
too de
marie
ed in
far er
an vain
would
left. 1
mount
ties
books
time
thing
as 1
used
‘thar’
You
for yo
Your mu Jthe
you cam
better than
wild over vou,
tle tiffs o
member the
ed ms
with
Hng a
Eo? i
asked
me ye
being
ook
myself
kill Ben
saved him
cause he |
could have
eowardly sneak of ¢
“Stop!” The
with tears could
resentment,
state who
tor Hearst, and you know it
here went practicing his profes
sion the mountain guns
hissing like rattlesnakes, and when tho
feuds are on thelr threats fail
bim caring for both
He doesn’t back his bravery
whiskey and pistols, either, for every.
body Breathitt county knows that
he never even carries a pocket knife
It's the man in him that goes quietly
where others have to shoot their way
shrough™
The good and the bad—the two ele.
nents that were forever waging war
n Daw Simpleton's heart ~-suddenly
fought to a finish,
“Ken, are you quite sure you
going to marry him? I may not be
much of a fortune teller, but I predict
that instead of marrying him vou will
kill him before the sun goes down.”
The girl laughed a low, happy laugh.
“Why not say
leveled Into valleys In the same length
of time, while you are about it? One
is quite as likely to happen as the
other.”
“Well,
of the mountain spirit you've got. It
“as been Ben Garrettson's boast for
years that his daughter is the bost
thot in the country, and that she stood
them won
Simplet
in a
ooped, and
Mm 8
moment
YOu
althou
asionally
¥
{
because [ 3
=
won
eyes t) fil
also flash with quick
There isn't a man
in the
deserves that less than Doe.
He came
and
when Wore
to keep
from sides alike
with
in
fll the man who injured her father.”
She nodded her head. “It is true.
When my mother died, daddy quit the
feuds, destroyed hig stills, and has
tried to live right ever since. He is
old now, and not able to defend him
self, but his daughter is both able
willing, and the man who raises his
hand against him must answer to her
for it.”
“No one, looking into the earnest
young face, could have doubted the
genuine grit that backed her assertion
“He doesn't like Hearst?"
“No: that is my one sorrow. I have
often seen Harry's face go white at
the jeering things daddy sometimes
says to him, but he has promised me
he will never quarrel with my father.”
Daw Simpleton’'s supreme hour had
his promise
for he
more
can break
other men,
dead not
Your idol
same
Ben QGarrettson
twenty minutes ago.”
A sharp pain made [ts way
the depths of the man's degradation
brown hands grasp
over the
shot
than
as
through
snowy whiteness steal
face
Garrettson, a delicate
who had crept into the
his arm,
face with quick apprehension
He stted the hand on for a
moment with his own than
went back house with a
and a th
nat spells
blue.
en-
up
Charlie
boy
of
wil0 her
+
brace sister's looked
pe the gate
Wee ones,
to the hop,
skip jump boy the
over
3 at 1
quite eady
and
Kentu volce
when
for?”
It was ch
she wha
aracteristic of the man that
d his
word than she
of
no more doubts
bted
His
she
the evidence
any,
Daw
induce
would have dou
her faults
but
Pimpleton t
him to lie,
“At Qontier's
Hearst a coward.”
Own
it had always
eyes were ms
been sald of
hat nothing would
saw-mill—he called
Daw. You must
to kili,
“Good
I've got
to bi
EO Dow,
my
for
by
and father
quite one
woman
ft gentlene
en
1wugh work
small in one day is it not?”
#8 seemed to have
from firm
erect
jer
Care
people
r Hearst
men
the
moment
Kentucky
naing with
that
death
afraid :
afraid look nis
can
the
face
very few face
The figure 1
a grizzled head and chuckled
“Didn't I allers say she'd do 1t? and
by gum, she has. But yer had the
wrong target this time, little gal. Daw
Simpleton has goin round payin
his debts ‘fore he left the country, and,
touching his wounded breast, ‘this is
one of them, but | aint dead y¥it by a
sight, and Hearst says I'l pull
through—guess I'll be more perlite to
him after this. Just think, Kentuek,
what yer might hev' done ef it hadn't
bin fur Charlie's blanks." Farm and
Ranch.
men
on
with
raised
stretcher
1.
oan
Ad Intmitem.,
D. B. Rundle of Rock Port, Atchison
county, tells of the success his broth.
or had several years ago fishing in the
Missouri river near thelr father's
farm. He set a trot line one night
baited with minnows. On examining
the line next morning, they found the
catch Included a 140-pound catfish,
the hook. When
the hook was pulled from its mouth ft
ing five or six pounds, which had ne
minnow. Kansas City Star.
Turbine propellers are steadily grow.
ing in favor, both in the British navy
and the merchant marine,
NEWS
of
BAER
ENTERTAINS FARMERS,
Millionaire Agriculturists Dine With
Reading's President,
Reading (Speclal).—The
of the Club, of
phia, i by President
Baer, the Reading Railway, at his
country place, Bruin's Choice, along
the Schuylkill River. above Reading.
The party came in a special train
composed of Mr. Baer's private car,
Philadelphia; the private
of the Jersey Central Railroad, and
two Pullmans. The party returned
this evening.
In the party were
J. Donald Cameron, T
ler, Rudulph Ellis
er, Clement A. Griscom, Wayne Mac-
Veagh, James McCrea, E. T. Stotes-
bury, W. N. Appel, Judges J. Hay
Brown, Frank lL. Connard, William
G. Coxe, Judge Vernon W Davi
Robert W. de Forest, Samu
son, Charles Gould, Judge Ge
W. U. Hensel, i
Judge George C. Holt
Jones, Chief {eo |
i Heber
Lson
members
Farmers’ Philadel
entertained
were
Of
car,
Baer,
Cuy-
I.. Fish-
George F.
DeWitt
James
or
IE
Gray
DOG SAVES HIS MISTRESS.
That Was
Woman To Death,
Attacks Cow
Young
Harrisburg
SANDWICH NOT A MEAL.
‘annot
Ice
Desert On Sunday.
Consequently Cream (
Sold As A
Insane Hospital,
Whistle Fatal To irl
Strikes
Birdsboro (Special
1 thundaes form
2 brakemar on an
nm the
Raliway,
killed
Schmock
box car and
The hair
iad face,
Tho Seconnad ins a
adelphia, startin
mond hare,
Lightning
Reading
Hghtuing and
main ine of th,
wa
was on top
was struck
burned
the car
of a
on
off his
was 1
moving
the head
was
Lut
ot dam-
resident of Phil
out from the Rich-
By
{ Special).
Rescued Her Pet.
Allenvown Attacked
by a bull while walking slong a road
er was rescued by the
of a pet bulldog. A battle between
the two animals resulted in severe
injuries 10 the bull and the death of
the dog.
interference
Drowned In Jar Of Water,
Lititz (Special) Ruth, the 2.
year-old daughter of Grayhill Min-
nich, fell into a huge mone jar part-
ly filléd with water and was drowa-
ed. The jar was on the kitchen floor,
legacy Will Not Stop Work.
Moadville (Special). Aleck Wal-
ton, a hostler at the Major A. C.
Huldekoper Stock Farm, Conneaut
Lake, deposited in a Meadville bank
o draft for $10,000, his share, with
six other children, of the estate of
his father, a London butcher. Wal-
ton's bride. Maggie Barr, arrived
married that afternoon.
Walton will continue to work on the
nok farm.
The Bodies Torn and Clothing Burned
Off,
(Special)
outright and
injured in two ex-
plosions of mine gas in the Johnson
No. 1 Mine, at Priceburg, The first
explosion, which occurred about 3
o'clock, was caused by the careless-
ness of a door tender who, by leaving
a door open, allowed gas to accumu-
late In the workings One man was
Injured as a result of this explosion.
Thé second explosion, which resulted
in the death of seven men and the
injury of another, occurred about 5
o'clock and resulted from the igni-
of the deadly firedamp which
accumulated after the first explosion.
the eight men who were work-
in the main gangway at the time
the second explosion, seven were
instantly
runner, was near the
i haft when the second
occurred, quickly ga
and a arty hurried
ne of explos All
hn irned,
off most
Pa,
killed
seriously
Scranton,
men
- Seven
were two
others
tion
who foot
CX
the
to
the
the
of
ve
rescue p
the hon
were
Inthineg
i iin
1
exXpiosion
the vill
pread rap-
age of Price-
nining hamlet just north
and hundreds of wives,
and other relatives of those
empolyed in hur-
the bre dis-
were
those
of
nine
adly
remains yf
tha
imp
nker
the
Killed ation
Wa
Fraternize,
Historians
. ™%
Young Bather Drowner,
Pittshurg Needs More Workmen.
i Owing 1
heap labor
the United
hag sent
ende
Corporation
Island in an
and has been
‘RYO
fairl
Church Struck By
Reading { Special), A
Lightning.
terrific
the south
alect storm swept
part of ‘the county The
iilding damaged was the
Church, of QGouglers
which was struck by leghtning
roof was torn up. The
tric over
western
only bu
ville
ter:
alter
To Kill Every Dog In Town.
Hazleton (Special) A mad
havoc at
and before he was shot ever:
in the two towns, as well as
2 man and girl were bitten, The
dog
to the towns to kill every dog.
Buried In Bridal Robes.
Chester (Special). — Mrs. Kathryse
bar of Trinity Methodist
Church, died at her home on Par-
ker Street after a few minutes’ {ll
ness,
only three months ago.
buried in her bridal robes.
ITEMS IN BRIEF,
A ——— A
Judge Johnson has approved the
contract for the erection of a new
bridge over Darby Creek, comnecting
the township of Tinlcum to Prospect
Park, at a cost of $68,000,
James F. Dougherty, aged 054
years, a well-known hotel man of
Danville, and a Democratic poli.
ticlan, who has served a number
of terms as member of Council, died
at his home, following an illness of
#ix weaks.
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Mathew
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0 if they finish
Pastorius,
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OTK,
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ne 1g-inni ng game.
A,
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ball privileges on denounc-
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Jack Kleinow doesn't make any
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Dan McGann, of the New York
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Two men, being convalescent, were
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“I'm better to-day.” The other sald:
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When it rains one may says
will make mud.” Another
will lay the dust.”
Two boys examined a bush.
observed that it had a thorn;
“This
“This
One
the
Two children, looking through a
colored glass, one said: “The world
is blue.” The other sald: “It is
Two boys having a bee, one got
called it a honey bee, the other a
stinging bee.
“1 am glad I live,” says one man.
“I am sorry I must die,” says an-
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“I am glad,” says one, "that it fe
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