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of the Pen he finished addressing his
letter, Theh be saddled bis pony, and
leading it before Captaln Crews’ tent,
| saluted and-saia:
_ “Captaln, I'd {ike a leave of absence
all midnight
{op to, bet I dew’t mind tolling pou that
| Orews eyed bim furtively Crom the
| cortlera of Lis bright, gray ayes, saw
tated and then drawled: “40 right,
Holliday. I won't ask you wimt you're
tie boys are sayiog ugly thinge——
1 know It, alr. 1 hope pou don't
t, Wolliday! Poul bo
joareful whmt you say snd @, won't
er. | American town. Tomkins, riding out
[mo im”
Cotimhpgul VT
| anticipated the bowlegged bully.
| “If 1t turns ont that Holl
8] “Io has leave til midnight. So bare
like a stealthy shadow Tombine stalked
| 8 dourway Tomkins saw the “dude” |
Tjvome out of Wah Lees rewtsurant,
«| MOEnt his pony and lope leisurely
| AWAY toward tie west. A mffe from
J town be turned townrd the river, and
jriding in the shallow water mo as 10
{108Ye Do trail, went pacing dowly down |
Tistream towarnt the low wooden bridge |
{| which spanned fhe shallow river be
tween old Paso del Norto and the
: 0 his quarry, saw Helllday stop lke a
1 | Placker shadow in the shelter of the
L{ this Pete DMmitrl. There gre seven |
fife if this trop could
| #talked away with the Hight of 8 lover
{in his binck eyes and the wpring of |
But when lie had ridden wesy, the | -
Captain summoned Tomkios antl said: | of
"Tommy, 1 don't like (he iden of | me
| Spotting ons of my own men, but...” |
“UN wateh him like n hawk, sir”
“You, Captain.”
got on bis pony and trailed awny |
toward the river. And all fmt dur
bis oan.
ALS d'clock from bis hiding place 10 |
of sight and hearing. in a parallel with
ters through the divorce court in Englacd. Social success fe what they sim at,
Harold Baynes, Gg
FALL is a blank page from the nofehook of Natore, and |
upon it her chiliren write the rteiles of thelr Vives, vseh in hig
own way. When we begin to read and transiste them the win.
or woods no lmiger present 8 elieerious appearanen: they no
Jopiger seen a dreary waste of gnaw covered ground and bare,
frees. Wo find that they are peopled by a assy sen
whose Tives are as full of problems as GUT OR,
Here, you see, the frst note we come across bas Been writ
; Lo ten by a mink-.g uniform teall, which might be imitated by
dragging a narrow hoard throngh the snow. The legs of the nink are ory
{ short, mo that his body sinks in the snow. often covering up the prints of bis
i Webbed feet, and the tral] fa simply a gutter In the snow. with deeper Bpota
j at intervals marking the poitits at which the feet bave sunk. The trail of an
| otter through deep stiow lx sirollar, but very much larger. a4 a full-grown otter
ia sometimes veanrly four fest in length. In moving throngh the snow an
Cotter leaps forward, and slides for 6 considerable Alatance. plowing up the
| Bnow with his chest, then lsaping aguin, end sildiog, as before. The distinet-
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tess of the footprints depends upon the depth of the kiow; when there (5 |
only a thin covering they are us pinin se the tracks of g hare.
Here in {git Hn different trafl leo ined ug to he water, it Wan made dt The TeRAnn fpTears 0 be that the :
ir 8 muskrat, apd In one Important particuiar differy from nearly ail other
trade there Is a sharp and Almost continceus Hne connocting the tracks
That line was ent Into the snow by the sharp-aliged and almocat hairtese tadl, |
which drags on the ground ss the animal moves —~ Woman's Moms Com pasion.
By Henry Laborchere.
IB HE American woman has onquestionstly been 8 success Bn
e Europe. Khe ix generally predty. he a clever. Hie taken pein
that instinct for the class above which only they have win be
long to the cians below, and. to use Taine's expression, she ab
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ways "stands with shouldered arms and foela Dersel? on parade”
kometimes acquires by marriage,
With those advantages is it 16 be wondered af that American women
HIOAy 1a 811 pave sicoeded socially in Europe? But are they also a stoeess as wires?
At Is true that comparatively few American women have trailed thelr charac
and the exposure entalled by divorce court Pprocesditgs might endanger file
Fuccess. They are tolerant and expect thelr bushands to be tolerant. Rovlety
Is the end-all of the lite of such an Ameriean woman snd since she las obe
tained a foothold In Kugland, society has degetersted from a polite plessare
ito a profession.
Hae the American woman come to May? If the women of this country
Beir beauty, thelr homemaking qualities and ther
: 0 thrust themselves under the limelight will be Appreciated
when men of the Old World ceane to go the Dew to procure money mn when
the American woman end ber ways are no longes popular novelties io Europe.
~dondon Truth,
For the Study of
From William FH. Pickering’s » . Lookout Into
Space,” in the Century.
"RONOMICAL science is divided aturaily Into two parts, that
Bd | and tied It among the willows, Then
BE 0 The ew a ne ee ak ar
Hh
EF sea se hs ants
» vi i
FOU scheme up a way
8s the river? I've sein
jhe crept into the yellow shallows til}
le was opposite Holliday., raised Mm-
| #elf lato the low timbers of the bridge, |
yt | 100 peered up and down the viadust
| in search of the woman, or Was it Pan.
S117 rendesvons? Even as fhe watched
proach, turned his back upon the little
| mule car which passed, snd then, with
| & Light spring. sat upon the top ral of
thi fence-lke guard and began to make
and the bulky body of the outlaw fell
| Bacicwnrd into the water, The watcher
{under a street lamp |}
Baudle Pete bd should see ar this lone.
be gaw the outlaw skulking alodg the
stern sidewalk of the bridge. He
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a cigarette. He was lighting It when
suddenly from the opposite Kida Tom.
kins heard the whistle of a lariat. A
Woman seroamid, “Run, Pete, ran
dropped down Into the sand, got out
bis revolvér. mounted hs pony and
scrambled out of the black shadows
toward the shore. As he reiched the
level fhe mw a horseman streaking
eastward in a Jong cloud of dust that
rose high into the mooulight, and as
he galued the bridge approach Ty
Ring Raw the scared woman sanding
king wildly
Captain Revere Tan suokhug tn the,
moonlight bifore his tent when he
beard the clatter of horses’ ots com:
ng loud 55 fia vocke and Au op the
sand, “0G Trask Bgais’ he
baits, but he won't
him a letter trom his galt!
m't expect him to bite at that
e.” paid Tomkins, |
®, “but every time we! Tomkine all betuddlod wih his vain .
d-gasted woman puts
1 does she know
from one to the
ask Holliday,” sneered
Been Bim in the Plasma
ht, and I bet six |
letter frum her
ke that dude
u't never done noth.
and au’ look purty.
never shot nothin’ 'r no-
8 peach with a lariat, lst
in’ he is. He #1n't roped
cept this her gal o* Panhandle
mind sayin’ right out}
be's a tippin’ off Pete fur
ut, but he looked
“he paw that his
1 little.*—Chleago Record Feral
gHiEaRed, as Ud talked toward the cor |
Tal. But there he found Holliday Ass
7 Je
fiountte. The men chime gnlog, but
the “dude” Jaughed in thelr faces apd
said:
“I've got him, fellows. There at the
eid of my rope”
stalking, galloped up as they stooped
over the boved outlaw. They carried
the limp prisoner Into a tent and
searched bin, and in bis greasy pocket
thoy found a Jetter which reads
FERN R SFL AT FN RAE NCE ARTE WR.
: SWEETHEART: «1 Yound
Me flowers on my table after
supper. 1 know tliey came
from you. Meet me st the
middle post of the brides at
8 o'dock tonight. I lave
something "to tell vou. Your
own FLORENCE.
CREA RE RE RE WE eR ew eR ee
$B ER WE es we HE Sh aw AA ea wf
FRAAREIB IRN TET Fea 4 FO BR SF FA nt wna
They looked up at Holliday.
M1 didn’t forge the letter” te sald
blushing. “8he sent it to me ull right
‘But l-ar—jus fixed up the envelope a
Spanish Hunchbowle.
~~ Bpaln has more hunchbecks than
any other country. In somw of the
villages of the Slerra Modena seven
per cedt. of the people are Qaformed in
this way.
| _Golden eagles are increasing In the
| Case
pertaining to the stellar vuiverse and that Pertaining to our
mediate famfly of planets. The latter are tha only bodies In
the heavens of which we sre aware that st all resemble our
arth, and they are all, comparatively speaking. our near nied
relative motions waa virtuslly completed during the Mast ron
tury, #0 that at the present time the sstronomy of the planets is confined
chiefly to a study of thelr dimensions and #urfacs conditions
For this stody there is ove paramount requisite, aud that is a steady at
mosphere. With a good stowsphers, fmportant vaults may bee obtsined even
With a small telescope of euly five or six inches diameter: bur without such
& thet defer ents of astronomy: for many kinds of observations on
the stellar universe the quality of the atmosphere it of litle account, provided
ouly that it ts cloudless and transparent: but for planetary and Jonar astron.
omy a steady stmosphere 1s the fundamental requisite. To understand what
B® meant by a steady atmosphere. we have only to look at some obdect serosa
® bet stove, or along the line of a rallrosd reck upon a summer day. There
Is a shimmer in the air, 3 wavering motion, with which we are sil more of less
farhiliar. This wavering 1s always present in ohr atmosphere. although we
‘usually cannot sew it; but when we magnify the {mage of 3 planet in a tele
soepe one thousand thes, we magnify the sunospheric tremors in the, same
proportion, and they are thes pot enly consplouous, but they futerfere very
seriously with our obwervationg
In some pars of the world the atmospheres Is much more steady than in
others, and It is evidently a matter af the highest Importance for the kstron.
omer interested in planetary redearch to find where these pisces are situated
To Hiustrate the Importance of this matter may say that a year ago, situsted
In ons of these favored spots, 1 saw night after night with a fivelnch and
even with a fourdnch lens planetary markings and detalls that 1 bave Dever
scen even with the largest telescope In Cambridge,
Desire is Weak
By Margaret Stowe.
my ANY times in this column Fou have been told that you are what
8 you will to be.
i It is such an important truth that 1 do not think it can te
repeated tio often
along those lines and carefully guiding to the point where
thay have the naderstanding to choos for themseives the sturay
qualities of mind
Teach then that It is will-forve pf Pry
man 10 do ated 0 be whnteter he seta Lis wind on dolng or being
It Is not a new saving that “Whatever your wish, that youn aro for good
ously, and with a true Intention hit we bed Jia
No one ardently wishes to he spbmbieive,
does not Bacome what he wishes
served one day planing a magistrate’s bench which be was reps
than usual csrefuilbess: and when asked th edison, be ended, Ulecanse 1
wish to make {t vasy aguinst the time when 1 come to sit goon it mrselt”
This samo carpenter actually Heed to si upon the beth as & wagisimie
The strong deslre for that position that the man bad could secomplish nothing
without resolve, or force of purpose,
Each one of us feels that he 1s free to choose between good and evib-1hat
he 18 not Lere to be Blown tu any or every diredtion by the wind, but that he
pushing along on the path of his cholee no matter how strongly the wind may
blow or how often It may changy.
This will, or force, of purpose is the only thing that fx wholly yours apd #2
rests with you individually whether you give It the right or the wrong
direction,
Your habits or your temptations gre ne: Four asters, but you of them.
Tha advice that Lamennals once gave to a gry youth la something that
each one of us might read and take home to ourselves with some benefit,
He sald: “Yon are now at the age at which a deelslon must be formed hy
you, a iitle later you may have to groan within the tomb you yoursel
have dug, without the power of rolling away the stone
“That which the easlest bacomes & habit In us ts the will Learn then to
will strongly and deelsively: thas fix your foating life god leave it po longer
to be canryled hither and thither, Hie a withered ical, by every wind (hat
| blows,"~New York Journal
ish bighlands through th efforts
to please those whos she considers worth plessing Khe bua
be of Bo avall. This is pot tim |
Without Resolve,
i
Pay could do eo neh for thelr children by tminiag them
thir enahlon 8
EARLY TOMATOEXR
The earliest tomatoes are those (hat
fre rather small in size, especially the
| varieties that grow in clusters. The
best varietios sre the ats ores fhoueh
t
{ tien that are somewhay ently, ax weil
Her affectations and the sina whieh she commit ags inet the commandments |
Rac ; 4 of European good minnners sre overlooked Beciuse of her American ovighs,
“Dut mot a word to anyone, Tom! End the favor accorded to her by royal personages and the exalted position she
can matntain their higier and more womanly Moals and profit by €he eoduen. |
experience of modern surroundings, they may await a resections with |
as being mach improved in quality
Every garden should have a few or
ato plants,
RILLING A TREE.
/The surest way to kill any kind of
tree Is to pile & beap of stones aronnd
stories obstruct the Hght and act 82 a
male to the soll causing the tree
rots to fesd meir the surfaces. Put
the stones are tio obstruction to from,
2 that the soll anddr thew ia usually
geen froven, snd ths roots, being en:
Canad in frozen 038 tans supply sop
to the tree, as all roots should do to
| some extent, sven ty winter,
PLANT SOMY; SWERT PEAS,
If only one flowering plant fa zrown
the one 10 choose Is the sweet fren. ft
In easily grown. gives plent y of Sowers
for a long time and fx an gay and
cheerful as a dock of humming birds
Bow as early as common Deets mri trang
in the same way, eXoopt that wire per.
Hag 8 more neat and an tinfactory thas
brevet. If brush be gred. sow fhe send
in small clamps and ser the broek
aronnd It, growing haif a dozen plasitn
to the clump. With mited varieties
this plan gives a beautifal ofact,
BAVING FRUIT TREES,
In some parts of ee West box frets
gation ls practical as a cheap nwthad
of saving froft toes, sinew and gncdens
from drought. The bores are minde of
rough pisnke usually abent sit inebes
In length, and frserted ia Boles a Lows?
oy more In depth. ’ few Inches from
the tree or plants to be fevisated Wa.
ter In filled in the boxes and Jeff to find
Its way to the roots. This fineae fhe
water where will do the ninsr good,
preciodes the possibility of wast and
; mes the objections to surface
irrigation
POWDERY MILDEW,
Powdery miidew ordinartly affects
young cherry and apple trees. It £1
pears In white spote on the lsaver: the
fungus thresds send 1ittle smckesw
down 15 the plants’ cells and ai
sorb the juices therv. Diack spors are
formal later. and these, with their
thick walls, lve safely throng the
winter and germinate in the spring.
The Slrease defoliates Young freep spd
robe older ones of much nonrishinesnt,
: | Burning the leaves tn the spring is an
fnterest than the stellar nntrerse of jarge. The study of thelr
affective preventive. Finely porveiteragd
ralphur dusted aver the divensed Barts
of a tree kills the fungus. and pots.
dum suiphife solaton—ane halt aunes
t: 2 gallon of watar—ls pearly as eof
fective ~The Cuitirator,
AN ENEMY OF THE CHERRY.
Frequently the black cherry tres Hoe
& completely cover, dlatort and sigenr
with excrement the cherry leaves that
they are disgusting to helold: they
Bit enly stop the growth of the tree
but take moeh of the Boarialusgent tha
sheold go to the fruit while maturing,
{af With all plant Ile, they winter in
tae emg stage, hatching early In the
season info females whirh sean vom.
ence to produce yonog, snd by the
tine cherries are ripe we have sever
generations, each of whieh is Fre
Sucing yosug each day. About duty
the Hew disappesr th the roots or to
other plants. In the fall winged males
and females are peodused aod the fa
depositing thelr exes around the buds.
Remedy —If Kerosene emulddon fa
used on the Hoe before they poll and
Eunt the leaves sround theinselvos,
they can be very easily killed hut
when protected by the leaves It ig dif.
Henlt to reach them with any remaly—
Natenal Frult Grower,
A NEW ANNUAL
One of the newest nnonals that nay
be started from send In the spring with
PYOTY assurance of encowss belongs to
Petunia is vne of the most curtons of
{ the season's novelties because of a
AR A AA ES Po i fi ns a rm A
Ean Ep...
aA
5 ie a sor Lak By oy Pa Ruel
the force of our wil olned to the divive, tht whatever wa wish to ba ser '
has within him the power to Alrect his own movements, and is capable of |
ent, modest, or Hbersl wlio!
Rl ) eBay ; 4 1
You have possibly heard the giry of a working carpenter, who wis ob ;
AE with tore |
KEW STAR FRTUNIA,
distinctly outlined and vartegated star
opel Bower The petils, which secrve
28 @ baekgroued, are of ried and varied
shades of velvety erlmsen and rich
niaroon, while the fiverayed star,
broadening hallway up, then narrow
ng to & polnt pear the margia of the
flower, is of pure snowy white or tint
ings of blush or plok.--Phitadelpiia
Record,
seedemen are pow offering new varios |
ales return to the cherry trees, tls |
the Petunia family. The pew star |
that appears in the centre of every |
It is estimated that the
timber of the Imminion of Cs
sguals that of the whole soul
Europe, aud it is doubic tint of the
Vuited Riates, 3
— oe
The turbize plants that Karce heey 2
operation dnring the last few yeass
bare shown high coennomy and call for
practically no repairs. Compara 1
passenger steamers of ahmiiae 8
having reciproeatiny sagines. the fe
staliation of tarbiare has showy o gale
| Por judieated horse power in favor of
the turbine stesiser of tvouly peg
cent.
i 4 EE #50
Lord Kelvin haw soggested that living
eves fron olher planets iy
tirovwn off into sPuca by the 5% ee
| hurricane of thelr upper sheneshene
and come within the earth's sphere of
ateraciion, be dinwn to if, and thea be
of Nita unon the coms is as plansible
a8 the “fortulione concourse of Stet
| theory of [Ho's aripin, pe. La
Eicotrielty te making rapid toesresy
thronzbont Spain. At the end of iasg
towns and villages In Soaln vith an
slectrie powbe station, sud thers were
only 430) towns with a posulatpn of
mare than 4000 souls where elertricity
had not an yot mads its sppesrapes, Ta
te diatriet of Bareelons nde (Seve are
| Bow aver SOO torbices In nie, Ypres
senting 5.000 bores power. 2
In order to determin: the Jeneity of
the earth, Preshlent F. W, McNair of
the Michigan College of Miter and
Major John F. Hagtord, of the United
Biates Coast and Guodetle Survey will
conduct experiments at the Tomaraek
mine, which fa particularly well fitted
for this purpose. alnes ie $8al* is one
of the deepest io the world, penetrating
to a Gupte of 4350 feet In strata of unde
forms desatty. The denatty of the earth
in largely a matter of sclentife cone
Ircture, It has heosn computed hy
formmlae based on Newtsn's ws of
graviiation. It Is true tha: Rie George
iddel Alry, ths Britich Astronogey
: Royal, eomputed the enrth's density
from experiments which he carried om
at a Welsh colliery. but the figures
which he obtained varied so much fonoy
those based on the formulas thas they
Bye sot been genveally accepted.
The substitation of working on 8
large seals, with heavy cavital for
the individual operatives which elapse
acterize a pew placer mining conniry,
is quietly but rapidly going forward
in the Yukon region, says the Exzinesr.
Hg and Mintag Journal While soe
bydemulie work has Deen done. the
conditions are such that i will probe
ALLY Bever be an Important elenient x
the region. Dredgfog in the rivers sud
erdeks was tried this sessen with sock
success that next year tf probaide
8 large number of drodges will Ie at
work, despite the short workioe sege
son. Already much machinery fap
dredge work 1s on the ground ready
for pext year, Over $000 quartz ime
were filed during the Inst season, and
wile the majority of they will amoung
to noting a large amount of Friar.
tion and development bn coves LS
A Deze In Divistan Lobby,
I once saw Mr. Gladstopge Cast Flee
In one of the division lobbies. wile a
division was retuslly gnine on It
showed how utterly tired on: bo must
have been. for naually whes he wae
swing thooush og divides Le mushod
to Bnd a tm and starced 1 write
wither a Jetter of the dispatch to the
Quien In which Be nigitly recounted
the e¥oats of the Pastianien [TY Ake
ting On this ecemslon there was oe
donde of his being asleep. Members
Paustd Tor a moment as they passed.
It was a dark hour tn the fortunes of
the Libera! leader, for Ris Government
was breaking up, sod Be Limoelf was
Within a few wreaks of ls everlasting
fereweil to pubite Hf. His followers
wire ftoocled ws they saw {8 the
strabgely pallid face, in the dmwy
Hines and fo the slumber of utter fa
tigue the signs of coming disaster and
fisal fall-lendon M.A I.
De vm
Fiah Ate Their Young.
A pair of catfish that were sontings
ously watched fnoa Gourergiiog? Sapna
riom made a pe hy pemavitee the
grave! from o commer. Durie the fet
Irw days alter hatchine tie fry,
banked In the coruers of ie tink wore
ar prregenior rervais gotly
by the hurbele of he nay
Lhe mate
WR he ep Rito thelp
us and then extrude thew with
farve, The predacecas feeding
baad of the old fish gradually oven
cing the parental Instinet: the tends
ney to saek the fry Inte thelr swnthe
emtiened sud the foclination to spit
them ont diminished, er ue he sam.
ber of younr dwindled daily sod the
Bor that bad been 18% with their 1
rents had comyistsly Sh 5
six weeks, slthouzh other food was
liberally supplied
The Spectroveops's Tentulnens,
In the eld of astronomy the sree.
troscope is often more serviceable tian
F the telescope, for by Bs means have
| been discovered dark, planet. like bodies
Which revolve shout the sla=s and
| which a telescope thousasds of tires
mare powerfel than aUy We Bow Dose
sess could ever reveal
Germany's Maritime Position,
Oerwmany has built the fuest fastest
Vessels advat, githotgh she is not gees
graphically a maritime eountry, and
Bo other country Is so largely depend-
ent on others for the raw materials
Which enter inte the making of a ship.
ceviloped, This theery of the orighy
year thers wore to less than 020 a .