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I have preinised to go 'with them; It is thescTitxcusett and was reedy to telco Yell-
en: only hope and prayer to help them geanee, but the Rendre melded shrewdly
end saye their souls by harvest living in nt Weymouth, as if they two kept an un -
new untr." (1
She was wild. ttnd piteous now with her \r\s'etyll'auntitutali sprang to his feet and throw
a coy
kissea Std (enmities, "Oh, my man, I the ceptain't letter anti his receipt for the
menet
ba your theme 1" she (Tied like ono inenoe en the table.
wtreesosaa maws Nam , anima nee \those Us- "1 have put aside the thought a Ono
WAS more than multi, bo borne, chewer to me than lite," ho said, "to
"You do not huow—you do not keow; bring you. these. To venture heck alone
'twits 'worse with them while I had gone or in company fnight hove bewe my end,
away !"
I have done your orraucl; ash lay follow -
"Then I must follow yen," said the messenger, if you like, whot he will
trouhlea num, trying to comfort her. ;lover dare to answer,"
"You are more than over the wife for Ho turned on his heel and left the
room. "This is very strouge," sold the
Her hive Shona in tho dark with white- old men, looking at the squire. "Yes,
nes; she stood before hint and pushieg hero aro the papere, the motley is on the
Mut inUES:wu h a Lila imaa atl.. mama. Shin ho Was there on Bala. Dia you mind
til follow's
, what a look th
ege was
t . i wholly changed, t
le : ' - - 1 ' liliii if -al Iiialiiiig for 'bre-fah; they had "1 int'nI VI me" Ow tthrned a mmneut face when I d nbted him?" But tho
thow-sill, and lollterea W ' atnin it" • come nearly a ulile at a fine, steady pace while they both 11 nrd a horse's tread Squire was hurry g after Weymouth and
lik•4 a 9°11(1111nm alPiu° neap of his pat . h to the other shoulder; the inn you must be vady to take it and win:toyer pay went into Woymeuth's
Pa
rt thli.tnnstvolre.ft Balvoindeentityo
stretaing loops ond tangles, butnisina
a a' - --- -- -7 for the most p rt. There WAS a singing coming along the ighway. "Whatever the senior
and swinging a - -a In Weymouth's ears as be shifted the that horse may be, i the rider stops at wonder more
the stouts walls Mita ho came to the .pocket would he to him only the price of
ground. to see her ag u was worth whatever rick+ on,"
It was a breathless beginning of a 3a0St i
i might befall. 1 She rapidly told int to find his way 'much happiness a d peace a mind 1
"'Twas a ha day's ride," he said, whore the road diva 4d 3 tut beyoud, mud. The squire was a toyer of adventure,
said, and he went
sat for a moment on the narrow ledge of ' Iant el° 11 an 1° r°11 d logoll r up tho 1(($t shoat as has been ahem
uncertain iourne51 Yob while Weymouth boyishly," h • I'i ' tl d they hurrie
;reeky ground the freedom, and freshness i ignoilliellat rise of ground. The torso was coming et hurrying down to street like a boy to
tyhom ho had. a great
of tho winter nightteemed sweet enough, s a mere, , then!" said the woman, i a, galop, overtake the man r
a, but t 0 mother that is in every • "Good bongoes I I 1 aieve it's my own," liking.
roughl "Tea =more, 1 oymooth," he urged,
has Met for the boy that is in said Wth reit y to- au. sh 'tint fit Ilia
, "you're fagged to eath with this affair,
middle of the road. anhe low building of bottom of it. Como
; the inu was opposite and Moro wore lights
in tho window. They stood under the
' eaves of a busby hedge as tho rider came
up and, stopping his horse, gave a call.
1
Tho quick-witted woman pushed Wey-
mouth under the ivy tad and ran out and
caught the bridle.
"Ho Camo by the fields! Look in the
inn kitchen 1" she said aloud, trium-
phantly.
"I'll mind yo r horse. Quiok now!"
she insisted, and he rider leaped to tho
ground, pleased a an ally, and had hard-
ly opened tho inn oor when Weymouth,
safe in his own sat l' . rode away free as
a bird down the B stol road.
OII4.1l.
I 4 There was no th
all the way the
figure behind him
sword in Woymou
broke bo rodeint
: not hopeless man.
I and business of the
1 ono of such a: nig
I mind, full of unrea ty, like tho remem-
; branee of a bad d ten. In spite of Ins
promise he must z o that such horrid
• business was site n•d. This thought
possessed him at Om moment, and at the
1 neat he only desired 'o rescue the woman,
whom ho now loved zoos than ove'r, from
such surroundings' nd front the sense
which so preyed up
after *lie damp (al chill of the room he t ajaa
had left. Such is ihninuu nature, the el- I
ternate prey of feint anti careless pleasure.
i
We,emouth cool hoar no footsteps, he 1
could. se? but diml the stoop road above
at his right; bell the hill Was steeper
still, and looked p /Botts as ho started to
find his way down._ Even a Matt who is
bold at heart feels all the instinots of
stealthiness when he is a hunted man, the
prey Wowed of the pursuer. At this in-
stant there ease a faint sound from the
roadway- c :use by. There was something
movirg, There was the least sound like
Ib hits, and thou one pebble was tapped
against. another as Ile, still crept down-
ward. His heart swiped to stop—a gust
of wind_ caught the light net and swished
it to azul fro against tho house, He flat -
toned himself against the ground and
clutched the sod with his fingers, then
he dropped one foot slowly over the edge
to fled the shelf below. The burden of
the wallet hindered him. so that be long-
ed to get rid of it Suddenly he heard tut
eager whisper:
"This way! Come this way! Wet -
mouth 1"
The dint shape showed itself plainer
now above him. A woman knelt at the
wall above, reaching down to give him a
hand whose touch ho well knew. He
quickly- found his feting now Mad was
helped up tho steep set -amble and stood .
with her in the road. ,.
"Come, eome, " she urged in a -whisper,
"they will be keen after us! 'tis for
r life!"
She started off instantly down the hill
toward the water and.' he followed. They
were running on turf, not on gravel, and
made no sound. As he ran by her side
she pushed him back impatiently. "Keep
away, don't come „near!" she said.
"Hurry,tor heaven'asake 1"
As they reached the low ground the
light figure that flittekl before Weymouth
led him into a path that ran low down
on the landward side of the dyke, which
must have beeit made:partly by cattle and
partly by mon who shielded thwnselves
from the fierce north winds of winter
tvhich blew across the water. Two figures
could easily have been seen in tho smooth
path that ran along the dyke top, but
:here they were sheltered and the silent
guide took a slower itace as they passed
'some thickets of osiers: Once she stopped
and _motioned to him and crept up the
dyke side. \Yet -mount dollowed, and they
saw that they wore nearly abreast of the
SIM LEFT 111:',1 naee Ins.
Beery husband, an she and Weymouth
were lovers, and so ;he began to pity him.
whatever is at tit
and weal have something together mad
see what eau be clone! I always expect-
ed tho like of this of Rogers—"
"I had to ma irtnniqc sir,'' said
Weymouth, "but toll you. all I can
and bo grateful or the chance. Some-
times a man who Is alone must trust his
friend, and I mak. bold to call you mine.
'Twill end an borrowing your sorrel
mare aud beggin you to mount the roan
if I could have in wish.'
"We'll start at awn," said the squire
eagerly wheti 110 lad beard the story.
"No, no constabl till you've got her
safe away.—then 1' manage tho gnaw. I
know the phwo, al 1 that upper inn 'tis n
low lodging with but tun evil name, but
'twill do for a makeshift ' and so they
tint felt every hour to
that they might bo
ng ride and was glad,
iobetly would wait tut
who was also a sit iglu
; good time next 'lay
owe the waterside, to
10 door stood open to
its tenants had iled.
'ER IV,
for farewells, but
ought of the lonely
n the road was like a
i's heart. As day
Bristol a weary but
trough all the hurry
turning the experi-
t shimmered in his
parted and Weton
-• •
he a day and kno
setting out on a
to remember that .
home for the squir
Man, They wone
to the old house 0
find it deserted. T
the winter wind an
At the other inn where Weymouth had
ported from his love, they got news that
those whom they sought were «ailing for
America and 11131. • bo hiding in Brittol,
if innoed they wer 1 not already at sett.
The • landlord, .nd his hustlers mid
n hor of xesponaibin 'boldly, and with tu air of great inno-
"I brought a bit iof bread and cheese, ity. It was necessary, to act with tiiscre- ; °once and concern I that the country was
dear, here in my but don't stop to eat it withdrawal from herpromise made when country folk but 1 te comera, and their
now. !Twits poor housing for you, God they 'were together • at a distant part of room im England was bettor than their
pity me!" England, and while -whilcjjshe for seine reason Company. Of Bogota nothing could bo
He had left her stern and cold two days had felt free and ligh -hearted, 'Why had hotted.
before, /led the wistful love she now be- she come backto the ld shame, or to neW Tho disappointed riders called for sup-
- tl no thin ev and 'undo the most of the Itoor Wm-
trayed was more to 'Wet-inouth than any carnality of shame.
• • it f ex. la
denger, past. preseht in te come. It must must n a or it
/
be theft s le, la o gotten ,her unkind de- part, 110 could not w
oision. tut at the f rst word of an eager deliverer attain. It as a wonder that he ont alone and a
bow; befrientled, and it was Weymouth's
question she left ls side and hurried up was not under the eejvern like the. rest. the dootpath elawn toward the aevern. .
vistaed and lamed; ias carrier's side, but , Elizabeth Brent, might iMleed be t I wife bad bowl fort n1 to mato in 1.er ea -
delight to pay tht: poor &las that h1s both of them lay perfectly. still. Both
were dead when we got to them, old 1
the long slope. Tho heavy leather pouch But for the woman e loved best. bat for Ho was at heart i . a • - • dog that had
ation, but, /or his • forts of tho road ide tovere, but it being
it long to MO his then after nigh alt Wep»outh supped
ssing tin' road followed
sauged aiilsilitai(1 to be putting t
their driver in danger. Elizabeth Brent I
wane *0 tend in door with great ells-
tress Paid discovered Weymouth its his
face turned- toward her jut as the frisky
tel ogTitu, naywete tenni teen tlqi tileutvetsos tag ett Quer
tiltetl'egytoql3r elr0112. hardly stop to. give
(Medians or to care for his Rom prop-
erty; ho telt like a cloud mom with his
mina in sucha whirl of sudden delight
end strange timidity, and without listen-
ing to the questions of 21 group of tavern
or he wont hurrying beide down the
3?021The houses wore ter apart, and the foot-
path was 010.7 IL worn track in the mop-
ped grass; it might have been the Rom
path tthove, the Severn. it was a misty
night and the sky was gray and heavy,
tuna there, beside o wild, thicket, they met
twain as they bad parted, on a dark
night, but neither thought of anything
except of mooting; certainly not of pert -
Ing any more while the world stood,
There wore sad_ tales to toll of poverty
and shame, and there was need of all the
protection and exanfort that Weymouth
owed give, most of all because some let-
ters which_ had been written had all m113 -
tarried or never found him in his wander -
Ing way of life. This was the bitterest of
all, to think one's self forgotten and per-
haps disdained, but hope was stronger
and now at last provaijed. As for tho
keepers of the aslant hill, they had failed
to prosper oven after their own fashion,
and the \vellum 1340.1 (110(1 not long before,
after to long mat wretched illness, while
her husband was in jail for theft and
then. companions, who had nod with.
them, had long ago forsaken them. In
her last clays the miserable woman had,
been haunted by thoughts of the help sho
had given to the awful (100(15, done at
night inthat dark low romn, from which
Weymouth had so 111Oldly;OSCap0a. But
as for Rogers, tho accomplice, be had
gone with them to Bristol, much hurt by
his fall, and sick from the deadly drug
' whit:ha/ace was cruelly said to have doue
no harm., to those who wore also put to
sleep by tho deep water of the Severn.
! From Bristol., refusing to go to Anierioa,
let bad been pet ou board a brig that was
sailing for Prance, and no ono know any
i more of Rogers frimi that day—the swat*
! partuer who missed las clerk front the
'bank, or the thieves into whose bands he
tried to play. He had setved them, and
1 they had seeved lam in years before. in
other parts of the country—and but foe
this Chock upon their Mclennan -the bane
itself had but n short race to run without
robbery. The week before, after long
! waiting, Rogow; had aa last been trusted
with a koy -to the sate, and the theft of
- the money which Weymouth was earri, tea
I to Bristol was a bit of by-play, ;dotal the
larger robbery was to be tra-4:r.wi that
1 very night, and to be achieve* tee next.
1
Bnt a poorer emptily hose away goet
seafaring than these who moan: 111 start
with potacei .Lill. allu eyni011t LI'S MiZit, •
hall had 1131111 earned the money that sup-
!, Ported herself and the' old dying woman,
who suffered every torture that illness
can give in her late weary tisoutho. In
this farotway the two women had
BATTLE BETWEEN FOREST KITW,"
Two XIII: South Allaelicall Pumas
PIORNIO is a Poath Straggle,
4'02t, our return trip to the must,"
traveler returned front the foothills of the
Andes Said to a Globa-DSMOCrat Mall, °L.
saw a thrilling incident of lite lathe Seals,
tna.s. Those great beasts IP
Ataerican West, a fight to the death bo-
tween two big puotee fierce, bard fighters atall thnes against
a common enemy, but it is only daring
the mating season that the melee floe
among themselves, and when they do con,
test means death to one or both of them,
"For strength and courage they aro the
equals of the African lion or the tigers of
the Indian jungles. We were making our
way down a narrow WOOded ravine in the
footbille of the .Ades, and had stopped for
our midday meal on the bank of a small
mountaiii stream of clear water. After
We had finished the nisei I laid down 100 31
short rest, . but in less than five minutes I a
Was aroused by the most terrific roaring, r
snapping and snarling of wild beasts
had ever heard.
"Vanuts, .and therels going to he a
fight,' fetid our guide in a whisper.
"It was not difficult to locate the ani -
meta. They were not more than 100 yards
away, taut by Meephlp through the brush
as quietly us possible we were able to get
rear enough to tee the fight without dis-
turbing theta.
"When we caught sight of the two ani-
mals they were crouching close to the
ground, facing each other, in asnual space
under some largo trees. They were the
finest specimens of the puma I over saw.
'"They wore probably thirty feet emote
and as they crouched there glaring at each
other they looked like &out cats about to
spring on their prey. Pugilists never
sparred with greater caution than did those
big brutes. Their tails wore switching
back and forth, and their eyes were late
balls of fire. Slowly they moved around
• in a circle all the time eautiously getting
eloter and closer together. It was evident
that each was Waiting for the other to
make the first lead, For more than t�u
minutes they watched and waited. The
roaring and snarling we hefted when, they
first net had ceased. They made no sound
now as they watched for a Chance to
sP•1`40111gu.• own nerves were trembling under
the strain, when at last the two great
brutes rose in the air at the same lustant
and, like Cdtaplata, C111110 together with
a thud that meld have been heard.
200 yards away. They dropped to
th e gro oral and for almost ten
ruinutee all we could make out was two
great brown bodies rolling over and over
in a death struggle. They made no
outcry of any kind, but every few sec-
onds we ecatid hear their powerful jaws
came together with a snap like the clos-4
ing of a well-oiled steel trap. Finally
they began to weaken, and as their strug-
gles grew less violent we could see that
both of them were covered with blood,
while their flesh was torn to shreds. . In
five minutes more the fight was over and
the two giants of the forest were stretched
out at full length On this ground, clasped
III each other's limbs, just as two playful
kittens sometimes lie down together. They
strnggled feebly a little longer and thea
1 tremity„ and to sat sfy hor generous heart
with tt now power I f being bountiful to
ft
those who had 5a((1 her front distress.
: Then they went aw ty together man mei
wife, and lived ate 'loved each ether for.
1 many penal and say old England ,again
before Oleg died.
I •
I Once 'Weymouth, who seldom reminded
I his wife of what could only bring shame
i and sorrow to her heart. as ho eau think-
; ing at night before:it:he fire, said boldly:
I "Whore was the inaster of the inn that
4 night, and what- was his part of the
1 game? Why Imainit ho wit • enough to
1 keep wants and fbilow us?" Then his
' wife answered, ch .erfully, looking at him
with a smile. ,
. "Bemuse he tea. the old Welsh -woman
I in the curtain bed."
"And that 110W Dot?"
I "It was I who pet it there, lay dear."
"And saved my life?" said Weymouth.
1 "Yet I did not know that it was for
; you," silo said. "'d only feared for twine
. I poor soul in danger. I was going for
I help next momenti when you came into
• the kitchen and I . aw your face."
laWn A P0015 31(1(1 '03 1X1' I i — ., *jet' rot totsgen I "It was a dark night, indeed," said
lost its master end by the hedge where ! .Weyniouth, puffin 111 11113 pipe, "but the
they had rested . mil stood. talking Ito shed • money got safe to Bristol, and here wo
many tears. It was again a dark and I aro now together."
misty night, an darkest nod saddest of ' 'ME 11311). •
all teen( the tore] otlings of las own beeet. I
never saw animals so torn to *dee. The
worse than that, unhappy forebodings ; drifting apd Swayli under the tide, the
1
took the spirit it of his . heart. The ; treasure stolen au he himself charged
whole adventure nettled unreal, danger ! with the robbery. 4a he rode he made
and assistance w4to both alike strauge 1 the whole *let clot to himself with its
avents, a piny whteli developed itself be- I clever undoing; he c aid not -or forgot the
fore his °yea. Weymouth nous light -head- i look of horror on th lace in the shadow
ad for the mental% mid neither his own ; of the mum, when -to man whose rob-
edety nor the gold's appeared to be Ian- I bery was planned 14 1. proved to bo him -
portant, while the whole happiness of his t self. What pity gr'r in his heart. for
i - • '
- an angel as she
fishing smack or snatsglor if such she f" yids it ,' 4 'e• 1 5 , •• '
-wore. There WEIS a bodt just leaving her, 4 A mile or two away the old inns stood seemed to him, lost tianong thieves!
!a lautorn was held for tin lustant over the up against tho dark shy like a elistual The first thing to 11 done was to make
glom way. prison. There were Boasts about it now, , his report to those wh 1111(1 sent him out.
side 2111(3 then was hidden a
mouth looked hack at the house on the as if there were aome stir anti excite- I on the errend, and, then 1.0 take tho
height; they were now perhaps half a went The escaped man drew a long I quickest of journees t find her again an(1
mile ti -Way. There weie no lights itt the lweath tuna hastentel forward to overtake 3 make slue that should never he
windows, oven in thatothicli he hacl left, Ilia companion. . 1
but by this time the wretched guttering ! "What shall I dot" he asked. "I have I
.eandle would have melted and sucked it.- 110 horse, tied I; must reach Bristol by 1
seelf into extinction, Without a word they ;11/121-11. 1 have sp4M; my lif•c, with horses, t
,both stepped beet to the path again, and but this one was !like a brother. Well, 1 li
gan. on until tho leatier turned from tho anust leave hill to their mercy_ We 1
.dyke across a wide ditch which wee ridg- ', should have been in Bristol now, for the ,
ee� by some unsteady planks. The ince- 3 sailing of a Flap. 4
tlow Was wet underfoot, they lost and I "You. were led rtatray." Bahl slu,'. speak-
1
I
tan .,Ing ova' her shoulder , as he wraked. siese !
1 behind. C i
"By whom, then'?" .
1 "By Rogers; thny have trust d too long 1
at the hank; he i has been waiting his I
4 chance, an(3 luta been in league with— i
with these people," she faltered- "Lot I
1 us make baste." I
i "I thought ta i meant to hail the ves- 1
Fel," said. IVevin sena "They could have I
net round into lirlstol."
"Do you not spa that the wind has Ad.
! lent" answered this companion. "Yolks 1
' havo Leen 3lrot4c1 °vete:era from that
' t•raft before now The Severn is (102'31 and 1
wide enough to -hide many entail with a I
stone fast to his: neck."
i Again they walked on for is07130 'dad,. 1
WithOlit open:kit:1g, but at the foot of a I
p, Ate stopaedlouce more and whispered
long ridge et land with a hedge at the
to
in his ear. . 4
i
''SSe mast (lo emnothing bold nowt" :
She toad; "that s the road ,have, us."
e • 4 Weymouth stood.like as soldier waiting I
' for his orders. , 1
"There is an "inn close by tut at, tbe i
rette's end. 'Tia no enlace, yet not tu den 1
of thieves like labia," and she pointed. ;
: hock to the nano. "To let, you emapo '
imay bring Cheep the ltwv on their heads, 1
If they hate nottitent some one here al-
I rawly, they till do it soon. They will I
not let you got eevity so vanity," slut taid,
4 falterieg tugalta "No one has tamped 1
; them eet onto (amid tell talea " 4173(14173(1 -tee i
noosed 111 -tele.: if herself amilet him take I
her Into hie VMS. Mr strength had
htoken at hat. i'Prominame sweet lang't 1
the and, 1331(1l o promised in love 45)1(1
plat (ITT 1.1' '11311, (;,,,p.,; .A.M) tier itittseen i
21•„, w o : pt y. •
"It is my sin me and (loom," alto Kati, 1.
Aid again -narrow causeway that led ,
t
thAttig the I land fields and presently' . "1'3:1' '4"."2"111 • s,„11,1!"1'' "1 01"""11; Illa73* !t
. pea, to 113,1442 1,1031111 1,e.Aeto cal over, , o stalest, mast , wavy aro lay 03111 1(01310,
1
11t
, a 0,• tunevat It n thew aturderera and
oWn hedge. t10oing to m
Aerica, •
• tBe Estill," laid the woman, anxiousle, ,4 „1.,i'avt,',it I,!'ot' 1,
y• 13201 g
e :dandy mama Next week
• ' Weymouth lament everything eXcept . ' ,1*! a ,'"'"'' • '!' 1'
1 end. 'Let them ger free;
taitit tine' eaanio- ' - 'l -4'i1 tta oft !'4L11(1 ; '''' .""''' 1." "t "
.,;-:,:,tfcl: „ma: 3 orphan and bred 1110 1113‘
30 moved away a •Iti1e, ;ad Mill le ft her ' it 3 !Pled 41:3 tqy istitishineLt,
in his. "A voiee tarries far in this 1 ;:"''':." '''''-' '
115.1A: VW 31313 1201. tint ar dattger yet.'
MI, 02,, • A. . I,
parted. i40 he rode . in imia time from
Bristol, grudgieg cute i minute, but plan-
ning his retuen with angerness.
When be reaohed th bank tuna told his
story Alla 1144154 tot I kap, he Was IIMMI(4
to with surprise 111it almost with ha
credulity. Rogers htta not returned end
the tale of his craft arbil his honor seemed
to be -questioned. Tbt wrong road t a sus •
pielous den towards tahleh Woymotah lee
lieved himself to bot enticed (end which
for purpose:3 of his own he roamed for the
moment to deser1e4; the strange liquor
with its deadly drui4 meant for him, all
which Rotten had got by nastalte; all ties
toutiden EI1,011 id the days of greater law -
hasten( like a very strange story. Tho
Nenior partner ao- 1 again heard to
grumble that Roger 13834 the best clerk
111(7 eVe2 had, and g tiv more iald mots,
lariat Hu. .
"Wore you rohlwa t tent" lie &mandato
arreenntly. OA 11 11(2 elieved the worst of ,
They made hat Ind Hasten.
ed there, but tot
I so you eroect to get
word of their
harbor side, it I eli grow up
f tourse. Everybody
won't say 'no' like
na be an old maid—
e to Bristol and search• 1 . Sh44-4V"
late, for when, gettlug . Old lad3'—"A1
ip, they hurried to the !
i rattrried when y
es only to too the fat Littlegirl—"
white fleet of a soil. ! gets married,
The rest of the 01017 mighta
be a long .,
unt Lucy (11(1,
tale by itself.
"ruder flOods that aro deepest, 1 i 04necilleadv.;
'y'oe. won't like those who
()vel' reeks that ow steepest ;
IMS'e will find out the way," , ask YOU?'
i "Oh, yes I will, I guess. I feel sure
But Weymouth's way wag a long otto, : that when a real nice grown-up boy
Ile lost, no time in tainting on his quest (tomes to ask me to get married PR be
*341, his 1 t •in • e f. 1 • • It wait to run down
1. I'll just slide down
and pligrimago,
(it 1,11)3g made an .xeellent, exense for rid-
ing hit1344r and et through Ito newly sot- !
tied put of the enuary, finding what
faint tracasa he eau 1 of the wail grante, from
the day of th r landing, but utast
many monthhat pitted Itt•pt what pati-
ence and hope be multi in the midst of
diteouragetneut, and believed at last
that fate would lead hint whore plots and
plaits had failed.
a
Ono spring evening, the seoonel year
---
that 110 had beeii 211 America, Weymouth
was (letting into Mat of the older vil.
Lows, where ho had onto or twice boon
before, and titer saw it 31,0111 alIa WiStfla
faVe at n win ow, and know that the
search was cliche it townea tho simplest
thing in the wo4tL to look up and 80e
her there oft(all the mystetw and
:ileum; foe a )r3)112011t he couia not take
in the teuth and4ft:it straegely wad and
dull—thou a trittendetts wave (>11 joy
twelek lath las •ery heart. There were
we
ino young )10?SCS gentling behind his
wit!vfl and he As ts driving an excitable
pair of volts f r whom the sight ole.
bundle of straw on a wheelbarrow wait
too much altogether, so that they reared
so happy 1 wo
stairs to Met
the bannisters."
Popov Gloves to raper Stookings.
Paper gloves , la paper stockings are
the latest departures. They are i!ot, it
is alleged thin, rotten things either,
like some of wool, cotton or silk, but
quite tough. Paper twine, which has
long been known, is roughea by ma-
chinery so as to seem fuzzy, like wool,
and it is then knitted to shape just as
if it were yar.n. As paper stockings
will, we are informed,. be retailed at
about it cents a pair, it will cost no
more to buy new ones than to have tin
Old ones waShod.
Cause
"X don't thin!
Mrs, Chtigw ater,
her sprained 1112111
and wrapped ban
the one that nlWay
insuratme nollees
always getting hti
complain.
it's fair, Josiah," said
the attendants bath&
With soothing lotion
gee about it, "You'ri
tarries' the necklet.
d I'M the one that'i
entrais of both were torn out and scatter-
ed over the ground where they had foughtd,l
and in their new
cks ere great raggl
holes, from which the blood had flowed litoa
streams while they were still fighting.
They each had tu score of wounds that
would have allied any animal with lose
tenacite of life."
NEWSY NOTES.
A spring of gotta water on a claim in
Oklahoma, adds $500 to the value of the
claim.
Thomas ,Jefferson Luironis. who died at
Lynn., llama recently, witnessed from
it rock at lanthant the sea fight between
the Chesapeake and tho Shannon in the
war of ma.
Captain Paul Boynton, who was cor-
respondent in a recent divorce suit in
Loudon, was fantail, guilt:)" and orde
to pay e750 to the injured husband.
Homw 13. Hyde is president of a Ne
York life imetrance company which can
afford to pay 111211 to salary of ((100,000 a
year. This 18 the biggest salary known to,
the American business world.
On the field of 'Waterloo a topaz seal,
set in gold Was recently found, bearing
the arme and motto 02 Viseouut tatting -
ton. It belonged to Ensign Barrington,
who was 1111133(1 1113 Quatro 13ras, June 10,
1815, and had lain undiscovered for nearly
eighty years.
Every year Worth sent to the Emptess
Eugenio a largo bouquet of Parma violete
tied with a matron ribblon 031 Which was •
his mune embroidered in gold, This aves
in memory of her pateonage at the time
when lter whim could make or ruin a
Paris triudesnate:
NATURAL HISTORY,
All birds that live on seeds aro furnish-
ed with strong gizzards.
The eggs of the Ikthama cuckoo are
held at $100 per sob by dealers in birds
eggs.
The oyes of birds that fly by night aro
generally about double the size of thcso
of day birds.
The peadook is found in a wild stat
India, Ceylon, lYitalegasear and niati
other parts of Asia and Africa.
It, is said that tho frigate bird eon ity
at the tato of 100 miles an heflr and live
in the air week at a time without
touching a roost.
.A. traveler who has been as far south as
Patagonia, and as fiftr north as Iceland
says that mosquitoes aro to bo mot with
everywhere,
At Block Island.
ner istet going fishing. Why, he doe..n't
May—I detiare if that little dude
gSofx.
leak strong enough to pull in. a 13s11. 110
is awftilly puny.
Clara—Oh, he's safe enough, Ile ‘inly
" The weakfish.
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