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Tribune J'rinting Company, Limited. A bank clerk cannot always be judged by hi. appearance. Possibly the most correct way to judge him is by his disappearance. The German Emperor has increased the pay of his military commanders fivefold during their service in China— the money to come out of the Chinese treasury. The French Senate has passed a bill allowing women to practise law. France ought to be a good country for women lawyers. The law of evidence is very elastic, and counsel may say pretty well what they like. King Leopold of Belgium admires American writers for the reason that they are "not monotonously immoral, like the French. " Immorality is really the most monotonous thing in the world, as more than preachers will tell you. Immigration is increasing at such a rate that the total figures for the cur rent fiscal year promise to exceed 450,000, and beat all the records since 1892. The main stream of it is reported to be coming from Italy and going to the west. Vermont has awakened to the neces sity for good roads, and has decided to issue bonds to the extent of SIOO,OOO And invest the whole amount in high ways and byways. Vermont will get her money back in the enhancement of the real estate throughout the state. The disturbances in China have struck a severe blow to the silk indus try in Europe, and, according to Con sul Hughe, at Coburg, in a communi cation to the state d partment, that industry is suffering greatly in Ger many, Italy, France and Switzerland. A large falling off in the yield, as com pared with last year, is shown, and it is feared that deliveries may be sus pended. The situation is made more serious by the fact that China silk is the essential material for cheap fab rics. "What is known as the rural free de livery system is likely to he of untold benefit to the agricultural districts oi the country in the near future. Al ready the system has been put into active operation in many of the states and territories of the Union, but in no section of the country as yet has the system become generally operative. In other words, it is being tried on a limited scale in different localities scattered about over the country, but such has been the success of the ex periment up to date that it will un doubtedly meet with universal adop tion. Count Zeppelin seems to take his ah : hip seriously as a machine that in considerable measure has solved the aerial navigation problem." It certainly worked better at its recent performances than it has worked be fore. When there is not too much wind it can go up and make a circle in the air and come down gently. So much it has done. But it is clumsy, and the believers in the aero plane think little of it. In appear ance it is like a steamship in the air, for it is a long, narrow balloon, made in compartments,-with propellers to drive it and rudders to steer it by. Its projector has now got to the point where he con make his trial and ex periments in the air instead of on land, and that is undeniably an ad vantage, thinks Harper's Weekly. Tn Scotland a twentieth of the area forest land. The greater portion cf the country is mountain heath and lake. The cultivated land is comparatively very limited in i*t? area. Tt is planned to establish in Boston a day nursery for blind babies who arc not received in other nurseries because they require more care than the ma trons can five IF I HAD GIFTS TO BRINC. If T wore King of Fairyland And had the right to say How blessings should be passed around Down here, from day to day— If r might give to each and all Whatever gifts I chose— V. hat should I give, my little boy, To you, do you suppose? Not heaps of gold nor mighty ships To sail the ocean bine. Not wealth to make of other boys The hired slaves of you— But ruddy cheeks and sparkling eyes, A laugh that had the ring Of honest pleasure in it. and A heart for everything! |HGW IT Wf\§> — By J\. J\. Beck With. M IN the Far West, particularly in 1 the Far Southwest, the newly .ar rived settler often finds that he has strange neighbors—not only Indians, but white desperadoes, who are more to be feared than even Utes i and Apaches. Two young friends of mine—good, steady, New England born young men —were so unfortunate as to buy land In the vicinity of an especially ugly member of this outlaw fraternity. They had been brought up to obey the law, and respect the property and rights of their neighbors. They could bo brave enough In the defense of any just cause, yet they dreaded and shrank from the use of deadly weapons against a fellow-being. Plain, farmer-bred boys, Gilbert and Charles Small had, by steady labor and economy, saved up a capital of [>l7oo. With this they emigrated to Colorado and started a small stock farm, fifteen miles from Alamosa. By availing themselves of the Homestead ace and the pre-emption law, they se cured a tract of 320 acres of land lying upon a creek, with a range extending back over the hills which was not likely to be taken by other settlers. At a point a short distance below, where a mining trail passed them and where they judged there would in time be a railroad, tliey built a frame house, which they opened as a hotel, and In which they also kept a stock of grocer ies. Some eight or ten miles from them lived a man named Peter Hergit, who professedly worked a mine, but whose place was really a rendezvous for ren egade cowboys and other desperate characters of the Jesse James type. It was intimated that several dar ing robberies had been planned, and also that Clate Walker made it one of his stopping places. Walker was a notorious gambler and dead shot. He was supposed to be the leader of a band of train robbers, and was said to have killed not less than ten men in various affrays. It was said, too, that occasionally, when times became too monotonous because of the lack of excitement, he would kill a man "for fun," just to keep his hand In. He had a pleasing habit of riding through small towns and camps, shoot ing promiscuously at everybody he saw, to keep up the terror of his name —a matter he appears to have been vain of. It will seem well nigh incredible that such a man should be allowed to es cape justice and to run at large. Such is the ugly fact, however, in scores of similar cases, owing, probably to the circumstances that no officer likes to attempt the arrest of these despera does, who generally carry two, and sometimes, three, heavy revolvers, and are marvellously quick and sure of aim. As an example of the wonderfully rapid and accurate shooting of some of those frontier men the writer re members seeing a cowboy at Raton, New Mexico, ride his horse at full gnl lop past a telegraph post to which was pinned the round white cover of a paper collar box, and lodge four balls from his Colt's pistol in this small mark while passing. Afterward he entertained us by throwing into the air, one after another, a handful of peanuts, ami craking each as it fell with a single bullet. Then lie did the same thing again, tossing the nuts up rapidly, and twirl ing the revolver round his forefinger after every shot. Finally, throwing the nuts up more slowly, he replaced his pistol in its sheath at his hip after every shot, drawing It for each suc ceeding nut, and did not miss one out of six. This shows the accuracy and quickness of aim of inaiC of these lawless fellows; and sucli a marksman was Clate Walker, who added to his reputation, moreover, the more mur derous one of being a "killer," which, In the phrase of this section, means a desperado who will shoot a man upon the least provocation. Our two young stockmen had heard of this border molester, but their first actual ac quaintance with him began the first week after putting up their sign, "Small Bros., Hotel a .d Grocery." Walker chanced to pass one morn ing, and seeing the new sign, and by nay of calling attention to himself, reined in his liorsc, drew his revolver, and opened fire on the sign, shooting the first letter, "S," to pieces. Then, dismounting, lie kicked the door open, and walking in, demanded n "cock tail." Gilbert, who chanced to be inside at the time, told him civilly that there' was no bar in connection with the house, for, true to their home princi ples, the young men had determined to keep a "temperance house"— -a greater If I were King of Fairyland, With none to say me nay, O. little girl, what think you I Should bring to you to-day? Nay, I should bring across the sea rrom some knight-ridden strand No mincing little "nobleman," To ask you for your hand! I would not raise up castle walls W here you should be the Queen, But I would let you play with dolls, •Still artless and serene. And I would put within your heart Ike everlasting grace That lifts a woman out and leaves angel in her place. —S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald, anomaly in the West than many may at first suppose. "A temperance house!" shouted Walker, and he vented his astonish ment and disgust in a burst of oaths and revilings. "No'man shall keep a hotel with nothing to drink in it in these parts!" he said. "If you don't have liquor, and good liquor, too, the next time I call, I won't lenve a whole dish or a whole bone here!" And as a foretaste of what he would do ho kicked over the table and smashed three or four chairs byway of leave taking. With such a customer on their hands it is little wonder that our young friends felt very ill at ease. Still they were bold men, and were determined not to be bullied into keeping rum; so tliey went übout their business as usual. Nothing further was seen of Walker for two weeks, when one morning, while Charles was getting breakfast, Gilbert having gone out to look after the cattle. The first hint that Charles had of his visitor's presence was an other volley of shots at their sign board. This time Clate had shot the second letter to pieces. It was apparently his way of knocking. Immediately af ter ho kicked the door open. Under these circumstances it is not very strange that Charles stepped out of a back door . t about this time, and went behind t lie corral, from whence he heard Walker firing repeatedly and a great smashing Inside. When at length the desperado had taken ids de parture it was found that he had made a complete wreck of the crockery and furniture, and in the grocery room he had helped himself to tobacco and emptied his revolver at the kerosene barrel, which, tapped in half a dozen places, was deluging the floor. I shall not undertake to say what the duty of my young friends was; whether they should have resisted the outrage anil defended their property at the risk of their lives or moved away from so dangerous a neighbor hood. What they did was to get out of sight whenever they saw Walker coining, and lot him do his worst. It chanced that after a time a second cousin of my young friends came West to see them. li s name was Forney, and he was then a student at the military academy at West Point. He dropped in upon the Small broth ers quite unexpectedly one afternoon, and it is needless to say that they were very glad to see him, and that they passed a very pleasant evening. Nothing was said about Walker, for Gilbert and Charles, having an hon est pride in their ranch, were loth to let Lieutenant Forney know how bad ly they were off In respect to neigh bors. The di sperado happened to come along, however, thy very next morning. Charles and Forney were sitting in the dining-room wlun Gilbert came rushing in, having seen the gambler coming up the road. "Old Clate Walker's coining!" he ex claimed. "Put out at the back door!" Charles leaped to liis feet, but oil' young West Pointer rose more leisure 17. "Who in the dickens is old Clate Walker?" he asked. "A regular border terror! A desper ado! A killer!" exclaimed Gilbert. "He's likely to shoot any one of us at sight! Come on!" "What! Run from your own house?" said Forney, surprised. "Why, what hold has this fellow on you?" "No hold whatever; but he's a dead j shot and a double-dyed murderer!" ' cried Charles. "You don't know hhu as we do. Come along with us and get out of his way." "Not I!" exclaimed Forney, who per haps felt that his military reputation was at stake. "Take your two guns and stand ready in the kitchen, t'l. stop here auil see Mr. Walker." He hurriedly took his revolver from his overcoat pocket, then stepped U the window behind the desk on tilt counter. With his customary oath, the gamb let - and dead shot kicked open the door anil strode in. The young lieutenant ■sat on the high stool behind the desk apparently reading the newspaper. He (lid not look tip. "Hello, you sneak!" shouted Walk er. "Where are the tender kids that keeps this temperance hotel?" "I think they've gone out to hide,' said Forney, carelessly turning hit paper. "They said there was a man enter, a regular anthropophagus', com •ing, and they were going to hide some where." Walker stared, i "Well, well!" he ripped out. "If you ■ ain't the freshest kid I've struck in ten years! Right fresh from the East, aren't you, young feller?" "Yes," said Forney, moving the pa- ' per. "I'm from the East, and I'm pretty fresh, I suppose. I'm a young , fellow, but I'm a pretty nice one." "Don't you give me any of your lip!" thundered Walker. "Do you know who I am?" "How should I?" said Forney. "It's I none of my business. I'm only here I on a visit. I don't care who you are." The bully flushed, stung by the care I less contempt in Forney's tone. "Suppose," he muttered, taking a step toward the counter, while amur- I dermis gleam crept Into his eye, "sup- j pose I were to tickle your Adam's up- | pie, with my dirk; what then?" "Then I'd shoot you dead for the scoundrelly hound you are!" exclaimed the youug cadet, sudden presenting his cocked revolver full in Walker's face "Move—stir a. hand—and I'll shoot you like a dog!" "The first man that ever got the best ' of me!" gasped Walker; "and you n little whipper-snapper from the East!" "No mutter what I am," said Forney, sternly. "If you mpve a hand, I'll shoot you! Gilbert! 6hnriie!" The two 1 co! hers, who from tilt ! kitchen had heard the above dialogue, ' and were several times on the point of ! taking to their heels out at the hack , door, now entered guns in hand. "Cover him, Gilbert," said Forney "If lie stirs a hand, put a load of buck shot through him. Now, Charles come and take his pistols and his knife." Having disarmed Walker, they marched him out of the door and around the house into the cattle cor ral in the rear of it. This corral was built of adobe bricks, the wall being from seven to eight feet high, and in closed a space about eighty feet square. They gave him no chance to get the start, but kept him covered with gun and pistol. They gave him a chair to sit on, however, and there he sat all day, watching the cadet and Gilbert, and they him, while Charles rode post haste to Alamosa to swear out a war rant for his arrest, and summon the sheriff and liis posse to take him. The officers, hearing so dangerous a ruf fian was really waiting their disposal, were not slow in responding to Charles Small's summons, and by three o'clock that afternoon the young lieutenant had the satisfaction of seeing the "bor der terror" taken into legal custody and marched oil to Jail. I But, as is too often the ense in the Far West, the prisoner was lynched instead of being tried and convicted of his crimes. He was taken forcibly from jail by a masked party from one of the mining camps, the third night after being lodged there, and hanged, without any form of trial, to the near est tree. Lieutenant Forney had proven him self a hero, and was greatly respected for what he had done in bringing Walker to justice.—Waverley Maga zine. Must Put the Blame on Somebody. The young man had returned from hie wedding trip, and was again at his desk in the office. ' j It was the day after his return that the junior partner called him to his desk and said: "Now that you're married, Mr. Quills, I trust you will lie considerate in your ■ treatment of me." "I don't quite understand you, sir!" exclaimed the young man, in surprise. "Oh, It's a little early, I know," ad mitted the Junior partner, "but there's uothing like taking time by the fore lock. I suppose you haven't been out late at night yet?" "Certainly not, sir." "And it's none of my business if you have. But when you do stay out some night, be considerate. Remember that I have a reputation for fairness and humane treatment of everybody in this office that I would like to retain. Don't tell your wife that you're sorry you're late, but that that slave-driver at the office piled work upon you to such an extent that you had to work right into the night; don't tell her that the tyrant you work under gave you one-and-slx pence for dinner, and told you that you would have to post all the books in the office before leaving for the night. Just invent some other excuse, you know." The young man thought the matter | over for a minute or two, and then asked, anxiously; "Well, If I should be late, what shall ' I say?" I "Oh, put is on the senior partner, as I do. He can stand it."—Tit-Bits. , 31 icrnbes on Donrknolig. The latest lair to which scientists j have traced the merry microbe is the doorknob. The organisms thrive on these innutritions substances, it ap- j pears, and in a round of calls one may j collect, a variety of germs from the I doors of cabs, houses and trolley cars, j The danger may be obviated by anti-1 septic gloves, it Is said, but, consid ering the unconcern with which wo men now gather up the bacteria of the streets with their sweeping draperies, one does not expect them to be Inor dinary nervous about the few orgnn isnis that may attach themselves to their fingers. Colors Htitl Children's Moods. According to a writer in tlfe Nursery, I matrons of infant asylums say that u young infant will be cross all day if dressed In u gray frock, but contented and happy if dressed In a bright red frock. Children from two to four an j much less affected by the color of their dresses. It is commonly observed ill kindergartens that the younger chil dren prefer the red playthings, while j the older children prefer the blue. i ; ESCAPED MOM SIBERIA REMARKABLE STORY AND THRILL INC ADVENTURES OF AN EXILE. riio Sufferings of Frank Grygiaszewskl, Who Was Sent to the Mines For Par ticipating In the Rebellion of the Kus j siait Poles. i Here is the remarkable story of the exile of Frank Gryglaszewskl, who was sent to Siberia 011 account of his I participation in the rebellion of the ; Russian Poles against the Imperial j Government In 1803-65, who are five times wounded by Russian bullets, j who walked seven thousand miles through Arctic Russia and Siberia in I chains, who escaped his captors by a method almost miraculous, and re traced his steps for seven thousand miles along the great Siberian road. "During the two years 1803 1804," I said Mr. Grygla, as lie is now known, j "sixteen hundred political prisoners were executed in the prisons at War saw. My two brothers, who were cap ; tured, had been too prominent in the revolutionary movement to remain long unidentified. At their trial they : were sentenced to (lie together, and I stood among the Polish prisoners and looked 011 while they were being shot to death. My own trial came soon after. When I was led out by the guards I was informed that I had been sentenced to a life of banishment in Lublin—one of the uttermost provinces of Siberia. "Late In August the transport left St. Petersburg, and at the end of three months we arrived at Tobolsk, just ov er the Siberian boundary line. Our line of march was along the great Siberian road, of which much has been told and of which so much more can never be told. The prisoners walked in chains, and were tied to one anoth er to prevent any one escaping. In front, to either side and behind the guards marched, with loaded muskets unslung. Their orders were to shoot any who attempted to escape, "Following the main line of march came the 'telegas.' These were rough wooden wagons without springs. If n man fainted or dropped in the lino from sickness he was loaded on one of these until the next 'etnp.' or sta tion, was reached. Here a stop was made for the night. "Even during the journey of three months in Russia there was much dis ease and death in the transport on ac count of overcrowding in the prlson j era* rooms. But it was the hospitals that we feared the most. Time after time I have seen men drag 011 un til they dropped dead in their tracks rather than enter one of these hos pitals. "Long before we reached Tobolsk the horrors of what was to come had dawned upon us. The pittance which the Government granted us for support was qmall enough, and permitted our buying only the coarsest kind of meat and flour. But for many days before our arrival at that city the officers in charge had withheld the greater part of the allowance, and no one received more than three or four kopecks a day. After we had talked among ourselves I was selected' to present the griev ances of the transport to the Governor of Tobolsk. This I did when occasion offered. He immediately flew into a most violent rage, and roundly abused the officer in charge of our party. "I was stripped to the waist, and two soldiers were detailed to give me a hundred lashes with the knout. I was beaten accordingly until 1 fell In a faint from pain and loss of blood. At the conclusion of my punishment salt was rubbed into my wounds and I was thrown 011 a 'telega,' where 1 was left to recover my senses. That the ex ample might prove even more efficient the officer ordered that I receive on my bare back twenty lashes with the knout before the transport entered every great town. "In the 'etaps' the vigilance of the guards increased, if anything, .and uuder no conditions were the prisoners ever allowed to leave their room. No water was allowed, except for pur poses of cooking and for drinking. The penalty for the infraction of the rules was death. "The women and the children num bered at first about two hundred. The children died first, then the women. As long as any of these unfortunates could hold up they stayed afoot; thou they look to the wagons. "We pushed 011 through the winter, spring ami summer of 1805. The pris oners had dropped off from to 1000, and with the coming of the win ter of 1805 only about eight hundred were left alive. One day the prisoner next to me procured a small knife—a mere play thing, fashioned for wearing as a watchcharm. With this he managed to sever the arteries of both wrists. As he held it in his hand for a moment while the blood began to How, I reached for it and quickly concealed it by sticking the blade in the bark thong which bound me to the prisoner opposite the dying man. "When the guards stopped the trans port to drag the suicide away my pockets were searched. No pointed instrument was found about me ami the incident was soon forgotten. But with the knife I managed to slowly saw away the thongs which bound me to my neighbors on either side. Oil the morning of December 5, ISOS--1 have always celebrated the day as my Fourth of July—having severed my bonds and awaited a favorable oppor tunity, I broke from the transport and ran. "I was muffled up in the same great coat that I had worn from the hospital, and my feet and Rands were heavily covered, as was my head. The guards were also encumbered, and I bad run perhaps a hundred and fifty feet before three or four shots rang out almost simultaneously, and I fell; My fall was due rather to chance than to intention on my part, for as it hap* pened the bullet which struck me could not have knocked me down. For some time I lay in the snow motion* less. 'I "I had learned while with the trans* port that it would be useless to at* tempt to escape by going East. Aci cordingly I turned back upon the road over which I had come. "If I had been supplied with weap ons of any kind I might have been comparatively safe from the attacks of the wolves. As it was I was forced to sleep at night tying myself In trees along the roadside. Living in this fashion I followed the trail for six weeks, growing weaker day by day. Finally a blinding snow storm came on. Feverish and confused, I wan dered from the trail and lost my way. That night I ascended a tree with dif ficulty, tied myself to the trunk and went to sleep—rather, J should say, I must have waxed into Insensibility. "The fever must have seized strong ly upon me, for when consciousness returned to me in the morning—if I may call it consciousness—l was dim j ly aware that my hand was almost frozen, while I thought that I had! heard the sound of rifle shots. Some one came under the tree and spoke to me, I felt myself btFing untied, and for six weeks 1 know no more. "I was in the exile home of two Rus sian university students, who were serving out a term of some years for having been suspected of plotting against the Government. They had been hunting 011 the morning that they had found me. "I followed the road a year, and came in the spring of ISO7 once more to the city of Tobolsk. Here 1 ob tained, through the agency of frieiuls* a