THE CONQUEROR. He looked at me with pleading is ardent suit he pressed; My. gentle ‘No’ he would not hear, or let the subject rest, eyes, He asked me once again and then each me o'er and o'er Nor yet despaired, although Was firmer than before. And still he pleaded ¢ With mien of one who Vv I sighed and answered ‘Yes His book of safety pins. —Eunice Ward, my No” "and bought in Puck. When Breathitt’s Best Shot Failed. By SNOWDEN KING. Pea I Na Ir Nl NT lel “Come out and tell a fellow .good-by, won’t you Ken?” “Paw Simpleton drew his horse up pefore the door of a small mountain cabin, cne of the many nestling among the foot-hills of the Cumberlands. There was the glint of brown, and pink—Kentucky Garrettson brown head, blue dress, and pink apron, and she stood in the door-way. “Howdy, Daw. Come in.” The man glanced down at his right hand lying on his knee, and shook his head. “What's up? Have been scrapping?’ She came out and leaned gate, evidently undisturbed. “] am going away, Ken, and 1 want a good long look at you before I go.” “You are really and truly going? 1 pever thought you would. Why. Daw, you love the dear old mountains much as I do 1 don't see how can leave them—I couldn't. I wouldn't even try, for I know the homesickness to see them i me.” Daw Simpieten’s attitude changed in a moment. upright figure drooped, and black mustache, that close set and resolute, trembled. eyes gazed w rugged came quickly *Yes, Ken, but you are dearer else in the world, to hit back when 1 have hurt. I would do anything to the man who dared to ma vou love him, even if the doing spoiled life.” Oh, Daw, that ing away. You Doctor Hearst would break you hate me?” “Ken, don’t you know that a moun- taineer’s hate and love are always too deep to be put aside? My love has made me do many things,” he continu- ed in a musing tone. “When your father sent you away ta school I took an oath that when you came back you would not find the untaught lout ‘you left. 1 quit chewing tebacco, drinking mountain dew, and-buying loud neck- ties in order to get money to buy books. I quit fighting so as to have time to study them. 1 read every- thing 1 could lay my hands on. “As fast as I learned how words should be used I dropped the mountain dialect— ‘thar’ was the word that clung longest. You cannot know how hard this was, for you nevar had the mountain tongue. Your mother taught you better. When you came back you seemed to like me better than the other boys that went wild over you, although we had our lit- blue vou and daddy on the aS you kil whole His the lips under the usually His were stfullly the scenery for a back over moment the gir much to everything the to It’s are tan except they desire been injure your whole is why are don’t-> want to hurt because you know it my heart. Why don’t you £0- tle tiffs occasionally. Ken, do you re- | member the night your after thrash- ed me because I would not go home with you from Caleb West's candy pul- ling after you had told rie 1 couldn't go? That night was the first time 1 asked you to marry me, and you told me you never could Lear the idea of being called Kentucky Simpleton. 1 took another oath that night—I told myself and God that I would one day kill Ben Garrettson, and all that has saved him from that day to this is be- cause he is your father. 1 believe 1 could have won in time if that cowardly sneak of a Doctor hadn't—" “Stop!” The eyes that could fill with tears could also flash with quick resentment. ‘There isn’t a man in the state who deserves that less than Doc- tor Hearst, and you know it. He came here and went practicing sion when the mountain guns hissing like rattlesnakes, and when the feuds are on their threats fail to keep him from caring for hoth sides alike. He doesn’t back his bravery with whiskey and pistols, either, for every- body in 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 through.” The good and the bad—the two ele- you ments that were forever waging war | in Daw Simpleton's fought to a finish. “Ken, are you quite sure you are going to..marry him? 1 may not be much of a fortune teller, but I predict that instead of marrying him you will kill him before the sun goes down.” The girl laughed a low, happy laugh. “Why not say the mountains will be leveled into valleys in the same length of time, while you 2re abeout it? One is quite as likely to happen as the other.” heart—suddenly “Well, it all depends on how much of the mountain spirit you've got. It has been Ben Garrettsen’s boast for years that his daughter is the. best shot in the country, and that she stood —as-ready- as a son to defend him—to i kill the man-who injured her father.” She nodded her head. “It is true. When my mother died, daddy quit the feuds, destroyed his stills, and has his profes- | Were | tried to live right ever since. He is old now, and not able to defend him- gelf, but his daughter is both able and 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 come. his for more promise he shot than can break other men, Your idol the same as Ben Garrettson dead not twenty minutes ago.” ! A sharp pain made its way through | the depths of the man’s degradation as he saw the small brown hands grasp 2 snowy whiteness steal over the pretty face. Charlie Garrcttson, a delicate blwe- leved boy who had crept into the em- brace of his arm, looked up | into her face with quick apprehension. | He pe:ted the hand on the gate for a | momen( with his own wee ones, than "went back to the house with a hop, skip and a jump that spells boy the | world over. Kentuck she sister’s was quite steady “Where and what voice aded: | \ when I for? It was characteristic of the man that she no more doubted his word than she | would have doubted the evidence of | her own eyes. His faults were many, | but it had always been said of Daw i Simpleton that nothing would induce | him to lie. | “At (Yontier’'s saw-mill—he Hearst a coward.” “Good by Daw. You must g0 now, I've got a man to kil, and my father to bury—quite enough work for one small woman in one day, is it not?” |" All the soft gentleness seemed to have | fallen from her. Her step was firm and her head thrown proudly erect as she walked back to the house. Charlie watched her with anxious { eyes as she picked up a pistol lying on the table and examined it. “Why, Charlie, my pistol is not lead- ed. I didn't think you ever failed to { keep it in trim. 7 2Must ‘1 load it now, sis?’ There was a note of agony in the boy's voice, “No, my Winchester will do as well, i maybe better—it's sure.” Charlie tok as tender care sister’s gun as many people do of their children. Doctor Hearst often i tcok him for a hunt, but could not | persuade him to shoot at the game. “I just can't,” Charlie once said, “I | love the feel of the gun—to squint my eve down the barrel, and hear the noise it makes, but 1 just can’t kill any- thing.” The next time Doctor Hearst came | he put a box of cartridges in the lads hands and sair: ‘They only make a noise, Charlie.” called of his | | * * * * i Gontier's saw-mill was only a mile | from the Garrettson cabin, and Ken- | tucky was not long in reaching it. | The mill was quiet and a number of | men were standing near a stretcher on which Ben Garrettson was lying. i Doctor Hearst knelt beside him, put- | ting the last touch to some bandages. { The men started when they saw Ken- | tucky, and one of them ejaculated, | “Fine thing fur him he lit out fore | she got here!” But the girl neither | saw nor heard them. She saw noth- | ing but the helpless object on the {| ground, ‘and the man who rose to meet her. “lI am so sorry, Kentucky,” and Doc- | tor Hearst's veice was deep with ten- { derness, “1 was just coming to you. He will—" “Not another word. Stand still if you please. You haven't a chance. it’s | a life for a life.” Doctor Hearst had never heard the | voice of the woman he loved sound like that. The Winchester that was | never known to miss its mark covered his heart. {It took the group of men that one | tense moment to realize the situation | and in that moment Kentucky Gar- | rettson fired. | But when the smoke cleared away | Doctor Hearst was still standing with that unafraid look on his face that enly a very few men can face death with. The figure on the stretcher raised a grizzled head and chuckled: “Didn't I allers say she'd do it? and { by gum, she has. But yer had the | wrong target this time, little gal. Daw | Simpleton has bin goin round payin | his debts ’fore he left the country, and, | touching his wounded breast, ‘this is { one of them, but I aint dead yit by a | long sight, and Hearst says I'll pull | through—guess I'll be more perlite to { him after this. Just think, Kentuck, what yer might hev’ done ef it hadn't ! bin fur Charlie's blanks.”—Farm and Ranch. Ad Infinitum. D. B. Rundle of Rock Port, Atchison county, tells of the success his broth- jer had several years ago fishing in the Missouri river near their 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, | which had swallowed the hook. When the hook was puiled from its mouth it | brought with it a white perch weigh- ing five or six pounds, which had pre- { viously swallowed the hook, and, in | removing the hook from the perch, was found a chub weighing one | two pounds that had swallowed minnow.—Kansas City Star. | | | Or the | | Turbine propellers are steadily ETOW- | ing in favor, both in the British navy | and the merchant marine. ‘Prominent KEYSTONE STATE CULLING GRAFTERS WILL BE TRIED Special Dauphin County Grand Jury Will Be Requested by State. Trials of the: capitol graft cases will begin in the Dauphin County Court by Sept. 1. The report of the probers will be in the hands of Gov. Stuart by Aug. 1. He and Attorney General Todd have been furnished with daily reports of the evidence taken in the investigation. The result will be prompt action on the report. It is zenerally understood, although not officially announced, that David T. Watson of Pittsburg, James Scar- let of Danville, Assistant Deputy At- torney General J. E. B. Cunningham of Greensburg and Senator John E. Fox of Harrisburg will assist At- torney General Todd in the trial of the criminal and civil cases which are considered certain. The cases will be tried by Judge Geo. kunkel of Harrisburg. It is probable that his first official notice of the suits will come when the state asks for a special grand jury to hear the evidence upon which indictments will be asked. The purpose would be to expedite the trial of the cases. The regular grand jury called in Septem- ber will have the Dauphin county business tc dispose of, and it is thought that a special jury could give more careful consideration. If this plan is followed the jury will likely be summoned about the middle of Au- gust. The defense will fight for delay in the trials, but the state will insist upon speedy action. SUE PENNSY FOR $140,000 Men Injured in Mineral Point Wreck Ask Big Damages. Three damage suits, aggregating $140,000, have been filed in the United States Circuit Court, in Cambria county, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. by persons injured in the wreck of the Pennsylvania Spe- cial, (he crack 18-hour train between Chicago and New York, at Mineral Point, February. 22. The plaintiffs are John T. Clyde, postniaster at Joliet, Tl.: Everett J. Murphy, warden of the Joliet peniten- tiary, and Henry. F.. Pipenbrink, a business man of Joliet. Mr. Clyde and Mr. Murphy each demand $50,000, while Mp. Pipenbrink asks $40,000. Carnegie Donates 600 Acres. By the letter received by the commissioners of Cambria county from Andrew Carnegie; ~*the county comes into possession of £4 terms of a x00-acre tract of land located at Cres:, son and valued at $350,000. The gift is made by Mr. Carnegie as site for the county home for the insane, and it relieves a situation that has Dbieen puzzling the commissioners for some time. Machine Plant Is Scld. The plant of the Robinson Machine Co. at Monongahela, was sold at re- ceiver's sale for $52,000 to S. R. Wil- son of Pittsburg. It is rumored that the buyer acted for the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. The plant has been idle for some time. but it is said that it soon will be started in full. It wil employ more than 100 men. Coal Lands Assessed Higher. The county commissioners for the triennial assessment have valued the Connellsville vein of coal at $750 an acre: Greensburg vein, $500; Irwin, Pittsburg and Ligonier, each $400, and Freeport from $20 to $40. Last vear the average was $200 and acre. This year it is over $500, and has been increased from $76,000,000 to $125,000,000. Prof. McClelland Dies. Prof. . Jas. B. MeClelland, a mem- ber of the Grove City College faculty for 29 vears, died at his home from tuberculosis. Prof. McClelland was instructor in Greek. He was born in Mercer County in 1853, and was mar- ried in 1880. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church. Heavy Engine to Be Built. Preparations are being made at the South Sharon blooming mill of the Carnegie Steel Co. for dismantling the big stationary engine which is to Le replaced by the largest of its kind aver constructed. It will weigh more than 1,000,000 pounds and will cost $125,000. James P. Weaver of Canonsburg is under $700 bail to await grand jury action on a charge of embezzlement. Weaver is charged with the theft of $263.65 from the Canonsburg Aerie of Eagles, of which he was formerly sec- retary. He waived preliminary hear- ing. Weaver denied the charge. The dead body of Angelo Creazzl an Italian quarryman, has been found at the bottom of an abandoned stone quarry on the Beaver river, north of teaver Italls. The head was in. a crevice in the rocks. It is thought that in walking along the edge of the quarry he fell over. A large herd of valuable milch cows cn the J. J. Shanor dairy farm, north of Butler, were fed an arsenic com- pound by unknown persons, and four have died. Mr. Shanor is president and manager of the Butler Pure Milk Co.. which controls the Butler milk supply. Waits 82 Years for Conversion. “Grandfather” Clark Conner, vears old, and totally blind, was bap- tized by immersion in the Allegheny river: at Catfish, Elder A. D. Wirtz officiating. The aged man was con 82 verted at a religious meeting at the 1 home of his son. has been Baltimore granted and Chic An restraining injunction the Railrcad Co. from interfering with the and new construction of the Meyersdale Salisbury Street Railway Co.'s line near Meyersdale. "POPULAR SCIENCE Successful experiments have been made in Toulon to use gulls in place of carrier pigeons. They have this advantage-—that, unlike pigeons, they are always ready to fly, even in the fiercest storm. Many other substances possess sweetness, some to a much greater degree than cane sugar. Among these may be mentioned saccharine and dulein. It is computed that sac- charine is 500 times as sweet as su- Zar, and that one part of it will im- part sweetness to 70,000 times its weight of water. The use of special steels for rivets was the subject of a communication to the Paris Academy of Sciences lately by M. G. Charpy. A syste- matic study of the thermal and me- chanical properties of various alloys of steel has led tothe use of a chrome nickel steel for rivets, the strength of which is 2.5 times that of the metal usually employed for this pur- pose, and this without the need of any special precautions in practical use.— Engineer. Consul-General W. R. Halloway, of Halifax, says that the Canadian commercial + agent at Manchester, England, reports an invention at that place for depriving soft coal of its most objectionable feature by ab- stracting the oils said to produce the smoke, and calling the resulting arti- cle ‘‘coalite,’”” which is something like coke in appearance, and which can be furnished at one-third the present cost of coal. Five acres of land near Manchester have been purchased, and large works will be erected for its production. M. Baylae, a French physiologist, has just reported on an exhaustive study of oysters both from the ocean and inclosed seas, undertaken to de- termine whether there was any foun- dation for the idea that the bivalves were infected by the typhoid and oth- er poisonous germs and were the means of causing serious illness in pecple who eat them. He concluded that the typhoid microbe by nq means infected: the oyster. In the rare cases where the oyster absorbed the germ through pollution of the oyster beds it eliminated it again in a day or two when transferred to pure sea water or when removed from the water altogether. FOR COAST DEFENSE. Plans For New Fourteen-Inch Calibre Gun Now Completed. The War Department has com- pleted plans for a new type of four- teen-inch-calibre gun, which will be added to the existing ccast defense system. Work on the new weapons will be commenced at the Watervliet Arsenal at an early date. It has not vet been determined, however, says Harper's Weekly, whether the guns will be of the ordinary built-up forged steel type or of the more mod- ern wire-wound construction. This new gun, while fully two inches larger in calibre than the reg- ulation coast defense gun of the first grade, will be smaller in every other measurement and of lighter weight. The intention is toconstruct a weapon with a range and striking force equal to the present standard twelve-inch gun, but which will greatly exceed the limited life of that gun. The expensive twelve-inch gun now in use will not be displaced by the new fourteen-inch gun, but the new type will be supplied whenever there. are additions to the defenses. It is insisted by the department that the first cost of the new gun will be con- siderably less than that of the twelve- inch gun, while the addition to the life of the weapon will result in still further increased economy. Aeronautic Schools in Europe. A livelier interest in aerial naviga- tion, both for diversion and for mili- tary purposes, has been felt in France than in any other country. Many people there own balloons of the old fashioned type (mere drifting gas bags), with various modern improve- ments, and a few possess pelled airships of onc kind or anoth- er. Owing to the increasing interest in this pursuit a school was started in Paris more than a year ago to give instruction in the construction and use of airships. .From a consular re- port received in Washington a few weeks ago, it appears that a similar institution is to be opened in Chem- nitz, Germany, ncit May. A course extending through a single year is contemplated. At first it will relate only to balloons, but it is to be ex- tended to aeroplanes also when cnough useful models of the second class have been supplied. The successive divisions of instruec- tion during the year’s course are as follows: Calculation of volume of bal- loons, methods of cutting the mate- rial, methods of rendering the mate- rial impermeable, construction of nets, gases used for inflation, the general theory of balloonconstruction and use, scientific instruments used in balloon azcensions, meteorological observations, ascents alone, ascents with passengers, methods of landing znd the application of airships. The tuition for a year's course is 600 marks, or $143. The sca-level canal from Marseills to the Rhone River is to bec seven years hence at cost of $15,703,000. self-pro- | REMARXABLE SAVAGES. From Cupzirulism to Citizenship in Gaiy Fifty Years. The Maoris are in many respects the most remarkable savages with whom the white man has come in contact. Fifty years ago cannibalistic feasts, at which the flesh of their fallen en- emies was served, were not uncom- mon. To-day several members of their race are members of the New Zealand Parliament an« Maori wom- en, as well as the white women of New Zealand, exercise the right ta vote. When the English first occupied the islands, in the early part of the nineteenth century, it is estimated that there were about 100,000 Ma- oris in New Zealand. They were di+ vided into tribes, each having its own unwritten laws regarding land, culti- vation and other social matters. The English found that they had a genius for war, showing unusual ability in building, fortifying and de: fending stockades, and they experi: enced considerable difficulty in sub- duing them. The Maoris were also skilled in several arts. They tilled the soil with great care; as carvers and dec- orators they were unrivalled in the execution of rock paintings and in carving the ornamental figures of their dwellings, their boats and sacred enclosures. But the Maoris were also noted for their remarkable tattooing, which was designed to clothe as well as decorate the body. The Maori artist knew how to give endless variety to the curves of his drawings; the nat- upal furrows, the movements of the countenance, the play of muscles— everything was made to enhance the charm of the design; and a hale young man certainly presented a fine sight, draped only in this delicate network of blue lines on the ruddy brown of his skin. Whoever refused to protracted tortures of tattooing re- quired at every important event of his life was regarded as a person by his own consent foredoomed to slav- ery, The men were actually depilat- ed in order to increase the surface to be covered with ornamental tat- tooingz, while for young women the operation was limited to the lips, whence the term blue lips applied to them by the English. There are about 35,000 Maoris left. ‘They have retired to the north- ern provinces of New Zealand, where certain reservations have been set apart as their exclusive property. Schools have been established which the Maori children attend reg- ularly. It is said that such of them as continue into the higher branches of learning are worthy rivals of white students. Some of the Maoris have become large landed proprietors; they are proud of their right to vote; and especially of the fact that their women obtained this privilege at the same time that it was given to the white women of New Zealand, in 1893.—National Gecgraphic Maga- zine. undergo tha A Man of Many Moods. To get a subscription from Stephen Girard, founder of Girard College in Philadelphia, was not an easy mat- ter. It required tact and the right introduction, and many failed while few succeeded. It is told, by the author of *‘‘The French Blood in America,” that Samuel Coates, a genial Quaker, was one of the few men who knew how to approach the eccentric millionaire. He was a manager of the Pennsyl- vania Hospital, and called on Girard for the purpose of raising money for the support of that institution. “Well, how much do you want, Coates?” asked Girard, in his usual brusque tones. ‘“Just what thee pleases to give, Stephen,” replied the Quaker. Gi- rard wrote out 2 check for two thou- sand dollars, and handing it to Mr. Coates, was surprised to see that gentlemah pocket it without looking at the amount. “What! You don’t look to see how much I give you?” cried Girard incredulously. “Beggars must not be choosers, Stephen,” replied the Quaker... . ‘Give me back my check and 1 will change it,” said Girard, after a moment's pause. * “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, thee knows, Stephen,” mildly replied the Quaker. Without another word Girard sat down and wrote him out a second check for five thousand dollars. His farm on the outskirts of Phila- deiphia was one of the best in the country, and while living in town he often drove out before breakfast to zee that all was going well. He was very cxacting with his hired hands, and never trusted the management of his farm to any one else, but ran it himself, as he did all his affairs. Arriving one morning a little earlier than usual, he was greatly annoyed at not finding his man at work on a fence that he was building. The man’s wife, noticing Girard ap- proaching the house, hurriedly awoke her husband and sent him to his duties by way of the back door. After visiting the house Gi- rard returned to the fence, and see- ing the man at his post, reprimanded him for being late. “1'd been here, sir, but went back for a spade,” said the workman. “No, you hadn't. I went and pu my hand in your bed and found it warm,” replied Girard, and he dis- charged the man on the spot. has miles, The Brilish Empire of 12,000,000 square line of+:43;000 miies tion of 400,060,000. an area a coast and a popula- Requiescat. “You've a bullfrog in your ‘sophagus,™ "Twas thus the doctor joked. y The jest's on him, for Fred. from fear Turned up his toes and croaked. —The Medical News, Very Frequently. “What makes grass widows?” “Wild oats.”’—Cleveland Leader. 4 t Still in Danger. “Is he out of danger?” “No, the doctor still attends him.’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Admission Fifty Cents. Dude—*“Will you let me in on my looks?” Ticketseller—‘ ‘And twenty cents.” ~—Judge. Their Way. Fred—*“Are you terms with Maud?” Bella—‘‘No. lustrated Bits. on speaking kiss.""—Il« x7 ye Point of Resemblance. Stella—‘""Does her auto match her gown?” Bella—‘‘Yes, they are neither them paid for.”—New York Sun. of No Delay. : “So they were married in haste. Repented at leisure, I suppose?” “Gracious no... They did that in & hurry, too.’’—Philadelphia Ledger. Are We Downhearted? No. LA The M gagement of ours?” © The Maid—' should like you to time! "—Pick-Mc-Up. course marry mie some The Hand to Give. ‘“He asked for hand riage.” **Well, why didn’t sae him the one that is always in her father’s pocket?’’—Harper's Weekly, Considerate. “Wasn't her in give Paterfamilias the down very low?” Daughter—‘Yes, father, had noticed that the eighty cent gas law wasn’t upheld.”—New York Sun. gas we Speaking Belligerently. “Have you heard rumors of tense’s enagement to Clarence? “Oh, dear, that's not an cngage- ment. That's : only a skirmish” Chicago Journal. Hor= Advice They Heed. “Yes, I'm going abroad at once. I gotta go.” “Oh, you mustn't scare you.” “1. -got this from a Washington Herald. let the doctors lawyer.” — Suspicions. ‘“‘She has postponed her marriage date until late in January.” “Why? “She wants to make Christmas present from Cleveland Plain Dealer. sure of a him." — Not a Minute to Spare. do you nie .the ” Guest—'‘Waiter, what mean by this? _. You bring fish first and the soup after. Waiter (confidentially)-—"To tell the truth; sir, the fish would not keep any longer.”’—Tales. : A re Qur “onscience. Little Wilhehnina— ‘My teacher says our conscience is what tells us when we do wrong.” Liitle Sylvest:r— ‘Well, = T don’t care—just so i¢ don’t go and tell mamma.’ —Chicago Daily News. Buying Everything. “Wealth won't buy everything,’ said the philosopher. “That's what I tell mother and the zirls,”” answered Mr. Cumrox. ‘‘Buf it looks as if they ware going to keep on trying as long as the check book holds out.’—Washington Star. A Curious Fact. “I have some very strorg letters o introduction,” said the caller. “My friend,” answered Senato Sorghum, “1 don't rely too far eo communications of that kind. A miaj will give you a letter of introductio describing you as possessed of ever noble quality in human nature, ang in the next breath refuse to indor your note for twenty dollars.” { Washington Star.
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