VOL.* xxxvi SICK6I3'S! The time of the year is here when you want to purchase your winter footwear. Our stock of BOOTS, SHOES, RUBBER and FELT GOODS in complete. AH our orders were placed early before the advance so we are prepared to offer BIG BARGAINS. •»i||||. November Price LiHt.i|||i"- Men's double sole and tap working shoes 5H»e Men's high cut heavy sole box toe shoes #l.l •"> Men's heavy sole good kip box toe boots $2.2;> Ladies' waterproof oil grain shoes 90c Misses' waterproof oil grain shoes 80c Children's heavy shoes i) o c Ladies' fine dongola patent tip shoes 90c Misses' fine dongola patent tip shoes • y »oc_ Ladies' fur trimmed Juliet slippers Old ladies' warm lined lace shoes Men's tine calf latest style shoes iV™ ' Boy's tine calf latest style dress shoes *I.OO Ladies' fine dongola turn sole slippers '-> c Old ladies'fine dongola shoes ¥' 110 GOODS^- Men's Storm King rabber boots 1- Men's rubber boots (regular height* Men's buckle arctics fl.-o Ladies Croquet rnbbbers & >c Misses' Croquet rubbers '- , c j Men's self acting rubbers ~-,c Boy's self acting rubbers ; XX FELT GOODS. X X. Men's felt boots and overs $1.75 Men s knit boots and overs Boy's felt boots and overs ***, I Youth's felt boots and overs... fl—> Men's German socks and high cut overs Boy's German socks and high cut overs i. Ladies' felt boots and overs $»•-«» Complete stock of Oak and Hemlock sole leather Shoemakers' supplies of all kinds. High iron stand for repairing, and a complete stock of Lames , Uent s. Misses'and Children's overgaiters and leggins; also a full line of lambs wool, insoles for making slippers. JOHN BICKEL, 128 SOUTH MAIN STREET, - -- BUTLER, PA. j HUSELTOIN'S! Shoving of FALL and WINTER Foolwear ! The biggest, most carefully selected stock of BOOTS and SllO KS we ever of fered now assembled ready for the showing. Crowds are here all the time because th? best shoes for the money are here all the time. We please everybxly, no one disappointed, ask the thousands of people whom we shoe and see. The newest styles from the WORLD'S BEST MANUFACTORIES. Women's Shoes. Men's Fine Shoes- We show all the newest shapes aud Come here if you v, aut 11 e b.st for fashionable manish shoes, heavy *soles in >° ur ™"fy> a t rc ht ' r v e ln^ r , t^ S ki l skin and box calf AA to Eal $2, 2.50, calf, cordovan, wax calf, English. 3.00 and 3.50. These shoes are the most grain, vici kid, lie vy . comfortable shoe a women ever wore. 1 shapes at f 1.50, 2 ( », .5 ,3- 3-5 In McKay sewed 75 CU. to #1.50. Satin calf SI.OO and 1.25. u q. Heavy Working Shoes Women S neavy onoes. j n o jj Kra j n 2 soles and tap, high cut Our celebrated calf kip and veal un- box toe at $1.50, i.oo, 2.50 and 3.00. lined at 85c, $1.25 and 1.50, then the oil Heavy yeal and oil grain Creedmore's at grain, kangaroo kip and grain at sl, 1 25 #I.OO, 1.25 and 1.50. and 1.50, you can't duplicate in Butler Heavy Boots at 200 an Tliat the dread house cleaning is over the next ( ) i ► and more important work is picking a new carpet < > { \ To pick a carpet in our well stocked carpet rooms \ I ) is a pleasure, so say the many who have done so. J L ( We have the famous Hartford Axminister, Wilton . . I I Velvets, Body and Tapestry Brussels and Ingrains . in all the up-to-date patterns, only, and prices I Ithat will astonish you. Then our China Mattings, | Floor and Table Oil Cloths, Linoleums, Rugs and | Art Squares, deserve a passing notice. Ask to * * see our i ► SI.OO Axminister Rugs, < > Neatest thing for the money ever shown in Butler at x DUFFy'S STORE j| PAPE'S, JEWELERS. Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelery, etc. We large and well selected stock. We Repair,all Kinds of Watches. If you have broken jewelery that you think l eyond repairs bring it to us and we will make it as good as new. We take old gold and silver the same .as cash allowing the highest market price. 122 S. Main St., Butler, l'a e ~ THE BUTLER CITIZEN. HEARTY EXPRESSION. Hundreds tell of the Charge Which they Have Feit. The Time Comes for Butler Peo ple to Tell What Has Been Done for Them. The time has come when people in | Butler feel the change. Many people in this city have given voluntary endors ! ment of the great change they have felt j after using Morrow's Kid-ne-o fls. Kid-ne-oids will cure a lame back, kid ! ne y backache, urinary and kidney dior ' ders, sleeplessness, restlessness ami ner ! vousness We always like to give refer ence as to the merits of Morrow's Kid-ne. oids, and t' is time refer you to Mr. D. A, Heck, Clothier 121 North Main street. I who says:- For abcut a year I have had symptoms of disordered kidneys. I had a ' dull heavy pain in the small of my ! back just over ihe kidneys, which wculd j exend up my spine to my shoulders aud sides. I was so nervous I could net sleep I took different kinds of kidney remedies, but they did not prove effectual as Mor row's Kid-ne-oids. After taking Kid ne oids for a few days I noticed a decided change for the better, I will continue to take Kid-ne-oids, for I believe they will j effect a permanent cure. Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not pills but ! Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty cents a ; box at all drug stores and at Redick & j Grohman's drug store. Mailed on receipt of price. 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THi;RSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, THEY THAT Ml IN DARKNESS 1 A 3TORY OF # ITHE AUSTRALIAN NEVER-NEVER Wm&ll V «r V W&f/ yeHK f-\ACKIE AUTHOR OF THE DEVILS PLAYGRO'JNO AfJO*3INNER3TWAJN." C_/£•/r/?fi>SMCK A.jroitfi COMPANY. Then Savile, pointing to Daniel Smythe, asked the lialf casto: "Yon know him that one fellflw?" The indescribable horror deepened on Smythe's face. "Youi. me saveyhim that one fellow —Danny Smythe," answered the half caste significantly and in a tone of con tempt. "How and which way, you been fiavey that one?" "Me look ont yaraman—hossos, be longing to him, alonga Bowen downs j seben fellow moon ago" (he held np seven fingers) "all a same time when that fellow Mista Mackenzie bin send mn bullocky from Tarragong alonga Gibson corno up here. " "Yonr worship,' interpreted Savile, "he says—as 1 dare say you'vt*already twigged— that in March Inst, on the ninth day of March, when Farquliarson in said to have started ont with Sexton, Freddy here was with this man ■Smythe at Bo wen downs, some hundreds of miles from the Cloncnrry where Smythe says he saw the prisoner.'' Savile looked significantly at Scythe, who seemed simply bereft cf speech. A murmur was heard in court, and the magistrate looked grave. The half caste stood with the erect, princely car riage of an aboriginal. "And now yon tell if that one Danny Smythe I budgerie—good master, alonga yon t" Savile asked the half casta Here the sergeant rose and said. "Yonr worship, 1 protest against the time of 11.' i(.li t was., d by this irrelevant evidence. In fact, i protest against thi; black felloe's evidence be ing taken at all It ; erhaps matters lit tle what he says anvh..w.'' Aud now the magistrate, who had all throngho'.it the ca.-.e heard 1.-.th eides impartially, remarked s .I.ewh.it dryly: "I think, sergeant, that if I consider it proper to take this black fellow's, as you call him. evidence your protest is ill timed. I don't see why yon should object to i'. I myself feel rather carious in regard to Mr. Smythe's antecedents." "Hear, hear!" again interjected the gentleman < f sporting proclivities, who, after having been forcibly ejected for a like offense, had once more ; tulen into the tent, only to i'orget himself in a weak moment. "Corporal." cried the magistrate, "have that man arrested!" But as the offender happened to be a personal friend of the magistrate's he was doubtless released later on and fined tho drinks. Order had to be main tained in court, particularly when tho man's credit was good. "Well. Freddy," Savile repeated, "that one Danny Smythe been good master alonga you?" Till- t<. m-ttfti t*» , Tr - Sniythe with his great eyes as he an swered : "That fellow plenty coolali. alonga me—plenty killuni me—baal that fel low gif' him shirt, nor tobac, baal that fellow gif' him thixithpence. That fel low bad, bad, man. One time that fel low" — Here the half caste paused, raised one hand fearfully to his head as if touching the mark of an old scar, and as if overpowered by some terrible recollection. Smythe began to shake in every limb. I began to fear that he would have another fit. The same thing seem ed to have struck Savile. "That will do, Fseddy," I said hur riedly to tho boy. "But perhaps the sergeant might like to ask yon some questions." The sergeant, thinking that he would have an easy time with this untutored son of the bush, straightway began to qu> stion him. He hud not asked many questions before ho discovered, much to bis astonishment, that he had unac countably succeeded in damaging bis own case. He sat down in a bewildered fashi •. and muttered something about "the c vil being in the boy." When the half caste came to put his mark to his evidence ho again excited the amusement of the appreciative au dience, for 110 nearly upset the ink pot. Then dabbling his fingers in tho ink he drew them across his face. When I looked for him again in the crowd, he had vanished as completely as if ho had only been a passing shadow. I asked permission to cross examine Smythe, and tho magistrate granted my request. I had got my clew. "And, now, Mr. Smythe," I asked as Savile sat down, "1 want you to think a minute, and to be careful of what you say. Don't yon think you made a mis take when you said you were at the Cloncnrry on or about the 9th of March last?" "I suppose I must have been mis took," was the cowed and whining re ply, his eyes wandering around as if looking for some one; "it must have been later than that." The sergeant threw down the papers he had been holding, and crossed one leg over the other with the air of a man who says "the game is up." "And now, look at the prisoner again," I continued. "You see, one is liable to make mistakes. Looking at him closely, isn't it possible that when this morning you spoke of seeing him at tho Cloncnrry you were deceived by some chance resemblance, and that it is more than likely you never saw him before?" 1 looked around as if for the half caste. He interpreted my glance, and in a tuicu that quivered with trepidation whined: "D —d—don't—begosh! I reckon I 1 did make a mistake—yup—011, yes, i j yup, yup—l jist cal'clate I was fooled I by a resemblance he is not the John ; Farquliarson I meant at all I reclroi: I never seed that fellow before." "If you ever knew any John Farqu harson," I sneered. "I have done with you—in the meantime." As he sat down he was evidently vastly relieved. If guilt was not clearly written on the debauched face, then I lever saw it on any. I made known to tho magistrate that all my witnesses and boon called. Tho sergeant rose to his feet, but what he said had little weight. He mew hi* c.'.se was hopeless. When he •at down it was my turn. I merely said that as tho bench had heard my case it was needless for me to comment upon it. I was not quite suro but that the injured man who sat there as a prisoner had a perfect right to tako proceedings against the parties who had placed him in such a false po sition. Moreover, it appeared to me that the charge of murder against the real and unfortunate John Farquliarson was a very shadowy and incomplete one indeed. I would take care that his friends should yet clear up the mystery r.- -iociatcd with his n; ;n> ry and bring tho mnrder hoi:; s to tfc ■ guilty man. At this point tho magi-irate slightly raised his hand, and my heart beat wildly u I interpret! d the actios. Now that victory was near at hand, I f• -It a itnmge sicStneas and a buzzing in mj ears. I felt that tli««?ever had not quite left me. and tho strain of the past sev eral hours had almost 1 «.n too trying. As in a dream I caught 11 s.■ magistrate s words "Prisoner at the bar. yon are dis charged. I regret that in tho exercise of justice you have been placed in such a position. The facts of this case have been of such an extraordinary nature that in tho whole course of my experi ence I havo not met with anything like them. I feel that there is yet much to be cleared np. I am not quite sure but that the conduct of one of the witn.vses for the prosecution justifies criminal proceedings being taken against him. I have no proof that the prisoner is John Farqnharson or tho murderer of Sexton. Neither has there been anything said & f) - V "TTTii/, man, that half caste toast Miss Mackenzie!" that would associate rtie real John Far qnharson with the mnrder. I congratu late your comrade on his able defense." Then a cheer arose in that com£ which spoke volumes for the hearts and lungs of tho rough but justice loving little mob of Britons. We went over to the police quarters and rolled up Jack's swag. The ser geant- who, of course, had only d< >ne his duty and was indeed a good fellow —and the other troopers were one and, all glad of Jack's release. We touched glasses with them, and bid them goodby. Wo had not walked far txTorc .incir "tnrrw ntm- ms swag, nun I saw he was going to make a speech. I knew that he meant to thank me, and I cut him short. Then we walked over to the camp. "By the way," I said after a pause, "I forgot to ask Savile about that yel low boy and what he has done with him. What fine eyes the beggar had—a ro markably good looking chap, altogether. I've been cudgeling my brains as to which of my friends he bears a certain resemblance to, but can't for the lifo of me remember. However, I can't say I'd exactly a good square look at him; he seemed always getting behind Savile." Jack took his pipe from his mouth, and stared at me with a look of broad astonishment on his face. "Why, what do you find so wonder ful in what I say, to make you stare in that fashion?" I asked, somewhat puz zled and not a little nettled. "You dear old humbug," replied my mate, with an exasperating slowness of speech. "Can it be possible that you don't know? Why, man, that half caste was Miss Mackenzie!" CHAPTER XII. THE BLACKS SHOW UP. Next morning Gordon hired a China man cook, no white man being found in a sufficient state of sobriety to tako the billet. We recrossed the river, load ed up the teams with the most perish able goods, and prepared to start for the station. Gordon's intention was to leave man in charge of the remain ing stores, stacked on the bank, until we could send for them. After dinner we were ready to start back again to the station. Gordon told me that ho had li::J£ a mind to discharge Daly, but that individual gave him no excuse for summary dismissal. Mr. Mackenzie was always averse to parting with good hands, because fliey were scarce "out back." Although I agreed with Gordon that it would be a mistake to dismiss him, I knew well enough that Daly had endeavored to make him self useful to Gordon for the sake of his sister. But I also had a vague idea that by keeping sight of Daly wo might, in course of time, get some clew to tho murderer of Sexton. And now we were all jogging along at an easy pace in the bright sunshine, but had not as yet left the track. I was strangely glad to think that we were leaving the scene of so much trou ble behind us. But perhaps the fact that Ncrah Mackenzie had not been left behind on the Macarthur under the wing of the police magistrate's wife had something to do with that. I should at least have another fortnight, which would give me an opportunity of mak ing myself better known to her, perhaps winning such a share in her regard as would encourage me to hope for a cer tain happy consummation. But she was i to utterly unlike any other woman I t had ever met that I hardly knew what |o make of her. Was she simply a iriglit. excitement loving and impul eive creature, wl t -> ways might |be ascribed rath- v to . craving for ; change and novel exp< ; .''n.'is than to any sterling individuality? Sometimes it seemed to me that she only adopted those erratic ways in order to disguise i her warm, sympathetic nature. At oth : er times I thought they were merely the outcome of a want <>f heart. Then the questions would sugg' t themselves: i Would she have done for me what she had done for my mate? Would she have masqueraded in tho outre character of a half caste boy and have braved that I strange rough throng i • my > ike'.' Bnt was I jealous of Jack. acddi#alw i not show a decided pi' f» r< nee fur him? J Here her conduct baffled me Sometimes | the evil one made me wish my friend a , thousand miles away, and I was not i quite so civil to him as on.- mate ought j to be to another. But Jack either .lid | not or would not see these signs. So far . as his relations with the squatter's j daughter were concerned I e %:ld take I no exception to them, ltis manner to ward her had changed since the trial. He no long- rtr ,it essary to split up the herd on account i of the pasturage; to take about a : | thousand head of cattle up the valley 1 some 30 or 40 miles, and, fencing off the ) entrance to some good grassy pocket in the ranges, leave them there. Keeping the cattle in hand had begun to bo very I troublesome on account of the advanced season of the year. Gordon therefore said that Savile, Daly, Jack and I i should go with him and drive the cattle before us up the valley. Moreover, Miss Mackenzie had been asking him for the * last few days to make a trip of the } kind, and he thought he might as well i take her and his sister also. They had 5 lots of pack horses, and could pack a tent for them and all they might want. Besides, they would be safer with us than if left at the station. On this point I had my doubts. Everything had been arranged and 1 we were to start on the morrow. Daly, 5 Mooney and a couplo of blacks went - out and, mustering the cattle, drove - them some 15 miles up the that r we could conveniently pick them up j next day. Gordon, Jack and I got the pack saddles out and made up the ra -1 tions with such things as we would re quire for a six days' trip. In the after t noon Norah Mackenzie came owr to the 1 store. She was evidently in high spirits. She wanted some cartridges for her small sporting rifle and some for a small Smith & Wesson revolver. After I had served her sho tripped off, and I realized how near I had been to telling her what she had become to me. But the time was not yet. "All things come round to him who will but wait," 1 said to myself. Next morning after breakfast we made a start, leaving Mooney and two other hands at the station. Our party consisted of the two women, Gordon, Savile, Daly, Jack, myself and a couple of black boys. With us we had eight pack horses. Gordon and Daly, with the blacks, rode on ahead to drive up the cattle. I found myself with Jack leading the way, Norah Mackenzie and t Elsie Gordon following close upon us. t For several miles the creek was 5 straight as an arrow—a succession of 3 long, deep water holes, on which the 1 purple and white water lilies bloomed 1 and on which hundreds of wild fowl rested, while on the banks the pelican, 3 the snow white ibis and other gaudy 3 and long legged birds enlivened tho scene. 3 It was significant that all along the [ banks of tho creek were piles of emptv mussel shells, which showed that * it was a veritable mine of wealth to the foraging black fellow. At times we ' came to places where the blacks had " camped. It was rather startling to count J the number of their fires. In some 3 camps alone there must have been at 1 least 500 or 000 Where were those 9 blacks now ? Toward evening we camo to a beau -7 tifully grassed, lightly timbered mead- I ow. Here Gordon said it would be as : well to leave tho cattle until we ex -0 plored tho country farther up the river. We chose a little ironstone ridge, where ' we could guard against surprise from * the blacks, and camped for the night. Next morning by daybreak we were all up and stirring. Savile boiled the ? billy, tho black boys rounded up the s horses, while Jack and I went down to II tho creek and had a swim It was Gor ' don's intention to push through the * gap which we taw to tho south and '1 explore tho country which lay beyond r and to the west. He thought it was not s unlikely that tho squatter, on his way 0 back from tho table- land, might pass in J" that direction. In fact, he said, it waa probable that we might meet him with in the iifxt ftir.'«- days. We had saddled up the horses and i gone on again. as we were leaving ' camp Snowball checked his horse, and, i pointing to a distant rocky height | some three or fonr miles off. he cried: "My word, black fellow sit down 1 alonga mountain. That fellow make in firi-. tell him 'nother fellow look out white fellow 1" And there, surely enough, rose a i tall, thin, white column of smoke. which broke into a series of rings as it ! a>< . tided into that pale blue sky. It was j one of those signal tin-s by which black | fellows communicate to one another at a distance the fact that something nn ! usual is approaching, i But wo were all too carelessly happy j to trouble about such things. Thanks to ' the light cool breeze, which argued that i we were getting into somewhat higher latitudes, we felt an exhilaration and buoyancy of spirits that made us think but little of such a contingency as our party being attacked by blacks. We came to a place where tho river ran through a rather awkward gorge, ! but as the cliffs on either side were very : high and overhanging we bad little to ; fear from any hostile savages throwing j their spears down upon us. Suddenly, however, it took a turn. Then, as if wo had passed through a ' gateway, it stopped abruptly, and we 1 passed, as it were, into another world We were in a great valley. We stood i j in the arena of a vast natural amphi- | theater At first it seemed to me that if j some great landlocked ami of the sea could have been, by any possibility, dried up and its he'd grassed and tim bered it would have presented a some what similar appearance, only it would have wanted tho many curious basaltic and sandstone figures which were scat tered an *:nd everywhere, crowning its rugged h< ights. We had passed, as it were, through Sydney heads and in deed stood in the deep bed of what once was a great natural harbor, in which the blue w.ivcs of old ocean had danced and shimmered in the sunlight, far above our heads, in the misty bygone ages CHAPTER XIV A WOMAN'S PLUCK. After traveling some few miles we began to explore the numerous caverns and gullies of this ancient seabeach, where, at the foot of the cliff on the strip of yellow sand, we gathered shells the like of which none of us had ever seen before. On some of the terraces were long rows of extinct fires, indicat ing that large mobs of savages had fre quently camp<-d there. When I express ed surprise that the blacks should fol low the example of the cliff dwellers of the North American continent, it was the squatter's daughter who showed it was a matter of necessity, not of choice, aud she pointed to the forked limbs of a tree several feet from the He checked hi* horse and pointed to a distant rocky height. ground, where rested a bunch of drift wood. "In the wet season," she explained, "this valley must all be flooded. The gorge, being so narrow, can't carry off all the water that pours into it, and so tho blacks have to take to the cliffs for safety. Pleasant, isn't it?" I saw many signs of the truth of what she said. She read the face of na ture as if it were an open book* For instance, in one cave there were some rude drawings in colored clays or chalks upon the smooth walls, and I heard her remark to some one how they represent ed the elementary efforts of the savage to express himself by means of symbols —primitive man writing before he had attained to the dignity of pothooks and hangers. It was a strange instinct that made men anxious to perpetuate them selves, even in this fashion, and to dread being utterly forgotten. On that rough surface there was a most impor tant event recorded in the history of those savages—the comifig of tho whites. And then to our surprise she inter preted the hieroglyphics, the black boys nodding their heads with approval as if indorsing what she said. I looked wonderingly at the girl. She had interpreted the rnde sketches of those savages as easily as if she had been reading out of a book. Though at first sight the figures to us were dis jointed and entirely without meaning, under her they assumed a natural order and transparency. With a ludicrous representation of the manner of a show man she pointed to figure after figure with her riding whip, at the same time garnishing her remarks with a running commentary regarding the artistic qualities of the pictures, which indeed violated every canon of art. At length we came to where there were some fresh tracks of blacks. At first we paid little attention to the fact, but soon they became so numerous that Gordon became anxious. Even the black boys showed surprise. "My word," declared Snowball, "big fellow mob black fellow bin yan this way yestiday." Neither of the black boys seemed to like the aspect of affairs. Notwithstanding, we sought out a large cool cavern, into which we ascend ed from one of the terraces, some 15 feet from the gronnd, and began to pre pare dinner. We left tho pack saddles with what provisions we did not re quire just then at the foot of the cliff. Onr horses we turned loose without even hobbling, as the grass there was good, and we knew they would not stray far. A spring bubbled out from the face of the cliff in a narrow gully to our right, which was connected with the cave by a narrow passage. Aft r dinner 1 converted my saddle [ into a pillow and lolled lazily back with my pipe between my lips. I must have been fast relapsing into that condition when sleep overtakes a man, for I was ! but vaguely conscious of Savile talking to Samson, as that intelligent quad ruped stood upon its hind legs and ( gravely regarded its master. I could hear the voice of Norah Mackenzie as she talked to Gordon, telling him some thing about the horses being uneasy. I say there was only a vague conscious ness of this in my brain at the time, for I must have been half asleep. These things passed before me much as a dream might have done and without [ any awakening of my reasoning facul | ties or volition in regard to action on my part. Then suddenly there came a hollow drumming sound, as of horses galloping, and it seemed to me that I could distinguish Gordon among the bowlders aud trees some hundred yards away j*'nug uil about And tin ii a coo •>' was shrilled out. making me jnmp t- • i y («>l and bring ing mi' to uiy h uxn i u awciunl It was Xorali Mackenzie. wHo had called as aha st ■«wl by my side She wa< evidently n.'t a little < xcit"l Yarry uttered exclama t ions i f surprise and consternation. "My word!" they chorused "Bii{ , niob black fellow!" And now, as if it were the stage of a puppet show and a string had been pulled, a semicircle of dusky figur. s > sprang from the grass, from behind ; trees and from behind rocks. How such I a large number of human beinifs could have sneaked ujion us without being , seen, and how they managed to conceal ! themselves, only those who have had some experience of savage life can un dt r-tand. In another second a shower of spears was sent after the astonished Gordon, making him face about. Pick ing up my Winchester —which, luckily. I never kept far from me—and without a thought. I sprang from the ledge. A thick golden wattle bush broke my rash leap; otherwise it might have gone bad ly with me. In another minute I was alongside Gordon. The blacks made nn ugly rush upon us. but I stopped short the onward career of two of them, and Gordon stopped another. We had a few minutes' respite, in which we backed slowly toward the cave. I never saw a man take anything so coolly as that highlander. "Dash them!" he cried, relapsing in to his native Doric. "Are we to be boatcn back by a parcel of blackamoors? Come on. Parker, and scatter the loons! The de'il tak sic onganns!" And. suiting his actions to his words, he did charge. Of course 1 followed him. but we reckoned without our hosts, for the savages stood firm, send ing such a shower of spears and boom erangs at us that Gordon got a spear in his left arm and I received a blow on the cheek from a spent boomerang that drew blood and mad*- me feel sick and dizzy. In another minute Savile, Jack and Daly were alongside. Susely now that there were five of us we could turn the blacks. But. no; they were not the blacks of Victoria. New South Wales or even of southern Queensland They were as different from the puny specimen that is generally accepted as typical of n*"Australian black fellow as a Bengal tiger is from a cat. They wen- the aboriginal highlanders of the Carpentarian gulf, resembling the stal She firccl in the face of the savage, ufio fell backward head first. wart inhabitants of Arnheim's Land— savages pure and simple, uncontami nated by civilization, perhaj>s with a tinge of Malay or Papuan blood in their veins, for one could see that some of them were not black but copper colored We fired together and attempted an other rush, but the effect was disas trous. Gordon dropped with a spear protruding from his right side. "Stand them off, boys, until I pick him up I" I cried. In another second I had him fairly balanced over my right shoulder and was running with him to ward the cave. The others covered my retreat, but I saw something that gave me a bad scare before getting there, for clambering up the terrace toward the two women were a couple of black fel lows. One of them had just gained the ledge, carrying a spear in his teeth, when I saw Nor ah Mackenzie rise as if from the floor of the terrace. In her right hand she held a revolver. In an other second she had fired right in the face of the savage, who stagjOired for a moment, then fell backward %ead first The other savage was so much taken aback at the "white Mary's" summary action that he changed his mind about entering the cave and dropped to the ground again. "This way I" the girl cried to me "Don't hurry, but make sure of your footing. You've lots of time." The very sound of her voice gave me that courage which I had been far from feeling the minute before. "Mr. Parker," she said, "carry Gor don back into the cave. He has only fainted, and we'll see what damage the spearhead has done. Elsie, my dear, your crying can only make matters worse. Go back into the cave and lie down. We will look after your brother.' I carried Gordon into t-he cave and ripped open his shirt with my knife. In another minute, with the help of the girl, I had made a cut in the flesh over the ribs, forced through the barbed spearhead and withdrawn it Having completed the operation and given Gor don « drink of water, I noticed that now, womanlike, the girl had tnrned deadly pale beneath her sun browned skin. But she declared it was only the fresh air that she wanted when I hand ed her a pannikin of water, and with a sigh, as if of relief, she went to the mouth of the cavern. We had now time to realize our posi tion. There were live of us—one laid off, however —and all well armed, but my heart sank within me when I saw the mob of blacks. There must have been 200 of them swarming round the cave, forming a half circle and dodging i behind the rocks and trees. They had evidently made a great muster; probably a couple of friendly tribes had joined to make a last vigorous effort to wipe out the white man For a few minutes there was a lull in the hostilities, during which the blacks carried on an excited di cussion among themselves. Jack and Daly knelt with their ritles ready so as to offer a smaller front to the enemy's spears. Savile's black eyes roamed curiously from side [ to side trying to pierce the scrub, as if , that bloodthirsty mob rather amused i him than otherwise. If Gordon showed No. A 4 the daintier stubimrn pltuk "f hi* countrymen. Savile showtd a rapretM indiffer> nee and owdnese that l> rUml ou the sabhuie Every tbing had come About so quickly that the whole affair resembled more a s»-ries of scenes from a dream than any thing else. And what ga\e them all the uior~the incongruous ctuiract* r of a tiblance to a mnan tic ape Mi -t of the warriors were smeared with white and red clays in a grotesque and hideous fashion We n«> tic. .Ith ,t th you suppose for a second they'd give you fair play? Stay where you are!" My mate 1. Miked at the girl, mrprisy and some other emotion I could not fathom showing on his face "Do you really c:ire?" he asked "What a question to ask' But If my senses did not deceive me then* was a hint of resentment in h«*r voice "Anyhow you're too late, fiT here they come again. The bail has begun. Duck your heads! They're going to throw siH .irs "* | iro ta covnxcxa.l Married Conplr'a Walls With l.lferary Palrlwirk A young married eon pic who recently went housekeeping on Clybourn ave nue had Just enocgh money to buy the necessary furnitsre. They had not sufficient cash Invest !n mottoes and pictures. The young wife la handy with a brush, but has considerable ye< to lcaru In Isioks. She made an effort to supply the deficiency tn mottoes for the wall by working at odd times on pittm rjrPTTwwrrr etrw w nt p»'r • niue* Here are some of the mottoes that now adorn the Clyboorn avenue home; "A Stitch In Time Is the Noblest Work of Cod." '"What Is Home Without a Fool and Ills Money?" "People Who Live In Glass Houses Flock Together." "Birds of a Feather Gather No Moss." "Honesty Is the Thief of Time." "He Who Fights and Runs Away Gets the Worm." "If In Union There Is Strength, Then Tis Folly to Be Wise." "Procrastination Is but Skin Deep.** "The Sword Ain't In It With the Pen." "llow Sharper Than a Serpent's Child It Is to Have a Thankless Tooth!" "Early to Bed and Early to Rise Is as Bad as a Fire." "He That floes A-borrowlng Makes t Man Healthy. Wealthy and Wise." "Great Oaks Should Keep Near Bhore." "Economy Never Did Run Smooth." "t'se the Rod and Save the Jam."— Chicago Inter Ocean. In Old Niirli The proud don and the hearty Ameri can met In the «-afe. "After all, we Americans"— began the hitter. "It would sound better the other way. seuor," Interrupted the don. "Why not say. "We Amerl.-ans are after all; are after everything; are after the whole, whole world T " And there was a tinge of MftRMW that even the sweet wine could not veil.—Chicago News. Modrrn li»prnT««f»H. "Were you annoyed by that resigna tion rumor?" inquired the friend. "Not In the leant." answered Oub Paul, turning for a moment from the telephone in the brewery. "If we are goliiK to show that the Transvaal re public Is a first class article, with all modern Improvements, it's time we were having a few resignation ru mors."—Washington Star. A (liotrr of Two Evils. "Mamma." said the slatternly daugh ter, "we ought to have a screen door to keep the mosquitoes out." "My child," answered the woman at i the sewing machine, "we can't ke«>p out tioth the wolf and the mosquitoes." —Chicago Tribune. Ilia Life Saved fcr Mia Jlrr»*«. X "I'm tired of life, and I believe I'll ' blow my bralus out!" ' "Just my idea, only the re|*>rt of UrcariiiH always i,.ak. s me so ner > —Heltere Welt. i —— * l>ream lllaprllrd. i He saw Vr standing by the s with a dreamy l«H>k in her ey« ■ i "She is composing a poeui." I. -a t>l ! "perhaps a sonnet ou the sea." But suddenly she turned and said I "Mister, how fur docs tills here it. II 1 * pond go';"— Atlauta Constitut .u