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n . , . re of St. Cecilia. giving it yorY Itio, bosora."
I' � I I . y as we know it. He only enla"NO", . Thus 'speaking, the duke speedily
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turn to the duke foi- his generouo,p4, � He had huquired for his brother be -
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. picture as he should have done, li�- had Informed that he had not axisert. At
"' .pimply put a few outlines on his, canvas the office of the prison he found the
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� -should he call to see how he W44 pro- ed all that ha,d been done in the coun-
� , I greasing, and had then bent aJ1 his Aix- cil on the previou4 evening,; and when
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. I.., orgies to the winning of the princess's be had heard, he groamed in bitterness
I , . love. She was young and unsuspecting of spirit. It was wonderful what a
. : ,4-. and entirely inexperienced, and ignor- hold this painter had taken on his
. -ant of the wiles of the world, and she feelings. Never was a heart torn by
� , I I had so far fallen a victim to his dia- more widely v&ied and conflicting
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f I bolical art% as to become completely un- feelings.
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1 , nerved in body and her reason unbal- Towards two principal points did Via
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, "I came at length to know that some- Points his feelings foughtl fierce bat-
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t , � give his story the more particularly First, his great affection for Zanoni
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� '1� . tpstipiony" that should prove conolu- come to esteem him highly, to take de-
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r ( , .olve at the coming trial. light in his conversation, and he had
�I l�- I "I asked the aged duenna--a faith- gained from his rich stores of know-
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1, ful old woman, who always accompani- ledge much aad valuable information.
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�, j � , -quis continued. "what was the matter beautiful works he haA hoped to ob-
1� I with her mistress? She could tell me tain from his brush. EveA the "St.
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� �:, , -only that the painter spent his time in Cecilia" could not be finished -the pie-
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11, � � talking instead of painting; and that ture upon which he had based so much
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v ;i" her mistress was often in tears; and of his joy and happiness in the coming
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� w, . wheta I asked her what was said, it time. Alas I he must give that up;
i', � I � , , -came out that she -the faithful old give up all, in short, he had expect-
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�, 11 the girl from the possibi:ity of sca.ndal matchless skill. .
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.,C,�, -was always sent out from the room, But there was another side. If Zan-
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�-, artist pretended to paint. -what of the Princess Isabel ? She
.1 '6': . "At length I asked the princess her- Waa lost to him, as sure as fate I He
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i, �t� ,, -stand here, noble signors, she told me that he was well assured if the paint-
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� � .her words were a thousand times more would take the beautiful girl to him-
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'!":�� terrible than I can picture them. self; she would flee: with him far
I "Finally, the poor count, heart-brok- away and become his wife I Could
g �1� � � Ion and racked with agony, came to me, hei endure this?
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,�,,, death of the girl he so fondly loved, or ifty undivided love, the light and joy
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1! S � " In her flight with the paix�ter, for we of My life, the sunshine and blessing
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�.,� v", were assured, the wr ,h had boldly cif my home-cain I see her torn from
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�,'.'. , ". - . planned to steal her away from guar- me. and that, too, by a plebeian who
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,,�Plt, than and friends a,nd bear her to a inust flee with her a criminal? Aye,
,�, ;`*� -distant clime I I advised him- the criminals, both I Shall it be T No I A
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�k . -oount-to seek an interview with this thousand times nol"
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� I � alan-Zanoill is his name --and expos- Such were the feelings-suoh the
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L�, ,, that If he did not at once desist com- ter fight in the duke's breast as he
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, , . For, signors, you will understand, thus wonder, remembering birth, the
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1;r't, � far my noble brother had been kept in an�ient lineage of his ancestry, and
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, Count Denaro
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ill, � I the river's bank, just beyond the city gether with the great love of his
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'4 , .most unexpectedly, to c(Tine upon the Was it fate that had coMe to his aid
,�, painter, Zanoni-to meet him face to at this Momentous period? At all ev-
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�!;,4 facel We stopped him and Denaro ents, this event, terrible though It was,
,� 7'�z,,, Apoke. NCO capri could have, spokeft -had cut the gordian knot. All com-
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10 I more kindly, or more touchiiigly. He plications arising from Count Donaro's
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,J:,� , begged and he besought.,, persistent suit were at an end; and
j,,:,!,,�� But why go on. From this begin- no mowe had he to fear or dread his
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V��,., � I a the ward's love for the painter. It was
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X -,� phn, we can imagine, the closing of horrible; if he c6uld have prevented
the romance as he gave it. Never had it he would have done so with all his
1�1;,,: 01 those grave and reverend fathers heard heart; but, since it had coine to pass,
11.1 11�� . I anything more horrible, more contum- he would accept it as a fortunate re-
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.�il the members of his council there pre- UIPOn him.
�� " -sent to order, and declared the tribun- The keeper from the prison had a
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t, , -�4, Sufficient of Steffano's narrative for no one under any pretext whatever
�i� , �;,,�.:, ". , a formal complaint was entered on without permit from the president,
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., Zanoni. But the duke
,! �� , .for service; an officer was kramoned thelgrisoner,
It, � . and directed to proceed to the prison, 00,11 not be affected by that. His
,�,t� , . -only a few steps away, and to give.to right could not be denied. When the
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f..., the keeper the order for the safe -keep- C�ouncil. of Twenty was in, secret sea -
11 � - �, ng Oft Juan Zinoni, "der ,6harga ., of, Alon.,with the black
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: the willful murder of a noble of Par. door, tha duke mijbi not t
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,z � not another department In the
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"�.�', morrow at ten of the clock, in the fore- vate, which he might .not enter at will.
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ment with much legal verbiage, ht�t don- me," the keeper said, as they mov-
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.�. self- that his dreaded onemy was safe such a charge, But, on his arrival,
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1�1 under look and key, and having seen there was in existence no legal order
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P went home to rest. . � ther, I felt sympathy for him. At all
I �, I But the chaaces are that the prison- events, you will find him, not in a
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1�. ha,nging over his head will rest more family apartments." I
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,,, peacefully than will he. Maraccini would have explained fur-
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, "I am glad you did it, signor; very
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''I rise, and the June day was notian hour
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';r� brow with the first reflections of his With this the keeper tuTned the key
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,�� , waking hour grew darker and more in the simple look in the door, and
� r glocimsome as he approached the break- opene,d the way, and in a moment more
�-, fast table. Ordinarily his dear ward the duke stood in Zanoni's presence.
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.1 had Imen as early up as himself, and He foubd him p4cing; to and fro, with
I I , , r. his (-hief delight and blessing of the his head bent, and his arms folded over
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:� . 1 � :r., day Irid been his hour of sweet com- his bosom. The room was light and airy,
�, munion with her at the morning meal, with nothing in sight that could re-
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,., � Ing in her place at the head of the . Zanoni looked up quickly on hear-
"." board, with her warm and loving smile Lng his door move on its hinges, and
r ' I - 4 . to give him cheerful greeting as he when he behold the duke his first
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r vacant. Instead of h2!r happy, beam- but it was the sight of a friend, and
.�, Ing welcome he met the servile salute the thought that he might bear from
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I:- of a servant, and he sank wearily into his loved one. As soon as the keeper
), , his seat; to eat alone. He had partak- had closed and relmkod the door, the
. en of all the food he could bear -and prisoner, with a faint smile of welcome,
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� thrLt but slight in quantity -and bad moved out a chair, and waited for hif
1�1- called for wine In place of the rich visitor to be soated. .
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''. � chocolate, which was his usual break- But the duke would not sit until he
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� . and alarm. of esteem, yet he was not inclined tc
.14 , " Well, boy, what Is the-Ahl What Make too mu�rh of it."
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1;, I allel you? What has happened V And "Signor Zationi, I am more deepls
, the, duke turned quickly in his seat, grieved than I can tell in thus find.
: � wi(h an unnama,ble dread striking to Ing, you in such a situation." This An.
� . bis heart. tonlo said wbilo holding the paintor'f
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I the, painter, Zanoni, had been arrested " Albr lord Duke, I know you woul�
1, - ,� and was then in prison for killing be grieved; and I tiny pity to you I
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11 "Nol Nol You have blundered, Loyl know all the circumstances, that yot
! . I I There, is a mi9take in this. 'Donaro, would deeply sympathize with me
I (lead I Z%noni his slayer I Oh, it can Have you seen your brother, the Mar
I I not be III quis Steffdno?"
— . But the lad was confident. He had "No; I left the palace before,he wal
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: the arrest, Sergeant Batista. "And," " Then you have heard nothing o
� he added, "the old sergean the affair which brought mfi hither.'
� � to be very sorry; and he asked me it t 11 Only what the keeper told me. H4
", ,. ,, I would 'Inform youto excellency ail old me I think all he knew."
'A' , soon as I'could. Thab is why I made " Douhless; Gt that could have bee]
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. . . bold to seek you horo." very little. I wish you would listei
I : "Oil I" exclaimed the duke, with ang. to the story from my lips."
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�, "VN9, stre, be was." " W lord," he said, In Opening, "wil
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the Whole 5074dllA, Here the X110,1114, I'
who kqew Me atory well-" The duke
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has held sway 14 � barbeirlo Splendor,
U9 glad a�mwment, an though to Put t
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It has been the most diasioluto 0ourt
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of modern times. The Khalifa holito
3 e, had hesitated. and Oven stammered,
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TAO ROAS 1por"111114111 BArhalric oblortalu of
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the power of life and death over every
subject In hls-viiait realm, extep djult
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jpo; bu;t he wad resolved that he would
we Tinies$& to 100 raulohtd-lute'r-
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for' 1,800 miles aIgm X the upper Nile.
tteoltetto no more. He would be frank
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PAULB OF BARBARL9M.
ind Outspoken, and speak 'without fur-
Lher rose than common propriety
Th, uIr from the London Daily
mail e read with interest, in
This rule of barbarism has been car-
1,miand,d. In his heart he believed
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the man before him to be one in whose
4ew O e .recent stirring events In
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ried on in defiance of the civilized
world for over a decade. It was re-
lionor and good faitU he might safety
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step In and put an end to th i
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"Signor Zanoul," he added, after a
little hesitation -'his manner having
the N1 11 in the Present C41,MPalgil
the death of British soldiers slain by
plainly showed that he intended to
against the Dervishes Is unique in
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the Mandi.
spea kfurther-"I will be entirely
modern warfare. Keeping step Wtth
The ablest of the Khalita's fighting
generals, Mahmud Wad Ahmud, is
frank with yom. It was the Princess
the vanguard of troopers is the steady
now a prisoner in an English camp,
Isabel who told mo the story, So you
can judge whether I heard correctly
clang of the traoklayers' gangs as the
captured at Atbara. Osman Digna,
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railroad is being built day by day.
who for years has led the Dervish
" You hear4 the simple truth, air a;
Over the newly Wd rails rolls t he
bordes with the fury of the Mandt, was
compelled to retreat at AtlYara He
and if sho told you all, then you will
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pioneer train loaded with armyr equip-
is now the greatest fighter whom the
be, in a measure prepared for the story
I shall now tedl. I beg that you will
Ments. Along the great silent river
British have to contend against. No
be patient and listen attentively."
float the gumboats, sweeping thebanks
one knows how in -any thousands or
tons of thousands of howling Der -
The prisoner changed his position
clear of ambushed foes. Ahead of the
vishes he cam summon under his
Slightly in his seat, and, having given
army isthe desert of desolation, whit-
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green banner.
a little time to reflection, he turned 'oned
by the bones of myriads of its
At his word they seem to rise out
his earnest, truthful gaze full upon his
hearer's face, and commenced his nar-
former people.
of -the ground and pour forth from
the caverns like the fabled hosts of
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He, told how, as 'he stood ini front of
Behind this mighty procession fol-
Iowa the long glistening line Of rails-
the Moors. Like a sirocco from the
d .... t he falls upon an enemy. Never
his studio, on turning his eores in the
At every fewiniles towns are springing
till now has he met his match. but the
direction he had proposed to go, it -
had seen the knaxqnis and the ,,'It
up andtholife,giving waters areagain
crafty British generals are now out-
witting himat every poin t. It has now
standing in his way; he told how he
diverted over the fertile plains. It is
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had resolved to avoid them, and how
truly a. march of progress'.
b&rio force and fanaticism, With these
he had chainged the direction of his
walk for that puTpose. So he went on
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WAR FOR HUMANITY.
elements at odds the end is assured.
to the point, joax the orange grove,
The seasoned troops of the British
wheTe the twain he had hoped to es-
cape came upoha him andstopped him.
a rmy plod onward stolidly in the glar-
FLASHES OF FUN.
From this he told slowly, carefully
Ing heat of the desert. The black na-
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and critically, repeating the exact lan-
tive allies, the Berbers, revel like liz-
Sympathetic Maiden -Why, Jimmy,
gdage, used, alad picturing with dram-
force the various situations. He
ards in the heat. With these two
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gave exactly the part Steffano had
elements combined -the native thirst-
ling? Jimmy--No-I've been fought.
taken in the affair, hesitating not at
ing for quick revenge, the Britisher
He --I know how to manage -my wife.
all in placing the chief blame on his
doggedly waiting his time-theonward
She -Why don't you, then V Be -She's
shoulders, and so he went on to the
-movement is like the march of fate.
so obstinate she won't let me."
point where Danalro had'drawn his ra-
pier, Here he told how he had done all
England now has upon her hands a
Clara -Are you engaged to Douglas
in his power to get away from them
"war for humanity." Her campaign
for good? Gertruile-It looks so. I
without #urthor troulde. He had beg-
against the Dervishes of the Upper
don't think he'll ever be able to marry
ged of them to remember that the
deed on the couint's part would be
Nile is not unlike the war which the
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You remind me so much of my poor,
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downright Murder, lot the result be
United States has just brought to a
dear first husband I You remind me
what it might, if they fought.
"I bade him remember, if he should
close.
With wonderful peroision this march
of him altogether to much my dear.
Mnnie-At any rate, Mr. Shore is
fall by my hand, the law would sure-
ly kill me. And then the marquis in-
has been .going on for the past two
every inch a gentleman. Mamie-
terposed again, solemnly swearing that
3`611,rs from Assuan, 700 miles down
That's why it is such a pity there is
if I should kill the ,,Wunt I he would
to
the river. To Americans itseems un-
endurably
not more of him. I
Mr. Johnsin, does know do
himself aid me escape."
slow, but the English, re-
you whar
Then followed an account of the con -
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I tell the simp 0
manibering the terrible defeat of
sailors got dot name 'tars' applied to
fliet ," My lord, you
truth when I tell you that I risked my
Khartoum In '85, are determined to
dem? Sure; in some pitched battle, of
course, aub I'
own, life in sparinV my antagonist, for
have no reverse this time. They are
A Tangled Web-Tomnly-Pa., why
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a long time. In the use of the rapi
he was no more to me than a very
civilizing and fortifying as they go.
are single women called spinsters? Pa
child might have been. I held his life
At each now Egyptian city taken its
-1 expect it's because they are always
at my point from the beginning. Be-
People are conciliated and native re-
spinning a web to catch a man.
sides his lack of true skill, his mad
exalts ,taken into the army to
How do you manage to keep so
passion unnerved him, In the end,
when I Vad rezolved to wrest his wea-
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fight against the common foe, the Der-
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friendly with Mrs. Tiff? asked Mrs.
pon from his grasp, or to break It at
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Teeters of Miss Twitters. I never use
the guard, I suddenly and unexpeot-
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her telephone, replied the astute YOU119
edly fonud myself half Way over the
odgo of the breast wall that shuts in
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-With the British -commander is
la,dy.
I suppose your wife misses you a
the river at that point." '
Slatin Pasha,; who -was for twolve years
great deal? inquired a lady of a com-
And he told how, in his struggle to
from the he had
a captive of the dreaded Khalifa. As a
marcial traveler. Well, no. For a
save himself water.
sprang forward at the very moment �
British ruler of one ofthe provinces of
v�oman. she has a remarkably straight
alm, was the reply.
while the ooant was making a furious
lunge. The fatal result no human be-
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the Nile, Slatin Pasha wascapturedin
1884. Under the threat of death the
When a man is angry he tells you
ing could have foreseen nor prevented.
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Kandi, then -the ruler of the Dervishes,
what he thinks of you. Yes, and when
" My lord, the feelings, I experienced
when I know that my weapon had I
compelled Slatin to write the demand
for General Gordon's
a woman is angry she tells you what
she thinks of you and what everybody
found the count's life -when I saw the
death -damp on hismar-
surrender. After
the Mhhdi's death his twelve years of
else thinks of you.
ti-draistakable
ble brow -I will,nQt attempt to tell,
The first event that awoke me to sense
servitude tinder the cruel Kha.lifa
taught him everyruse and wickedness
I
Sho--I will consent to be your wife
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on one condition. He--Na,me it. She
of my surroundings was the callini;
of the marquis upon a number of SOL-
Of ,the Dervish heart. He escaped two
years
� ago, and is now giving the I-
-That you will stop smoking. He—
All right; but let's make the engage -
diers who chanced to stand near to,
I vading army all his knowledge of the
secrets Of state of the Moslem faria-
merit very short.
arrest me -to arrest me and bear me
told
ties. .
A Self Estimate -What do you think
away at once to Prison. And he
them I bad willfully and wickedly
While the British forces have been
of Puffington T Oh, he is the kind of
murdered the noble count.,
slowly working their way up the Nile
season after s6ason, their arch enouly,
a man who thinks that when he'steps
on one end of the country the other
To Be Continued. .
the Khalifa,Abdullahi has held his
and bounds up into the air.
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barbaric away at Omdurman. This is
the Moslem city erected across the
Peasant -Five dollars for entering
BUDDHISTS ON SUICIDE.
river from Mho toum. For its enrich-
this estate. Tourist -But by is no
w
. -
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Msnt Xh'artOttm was despoiled until
warning sign put up, then? Peasant
2, �
"They eon'stdev'Lff,6 a 3j1Sr0V;i1111e,kln4 Are
""'e'r.
the . Row.'I'es a mass Of ruins-
*-We had one, but took it down agatif
"
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Ever Ready to End Itp
A BARBARIC CHIEFTAIN.
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for' w"hile it'was up no one� came in.
The Buddhists took the'same Pessi-
The Khalifa Abdullahi isknown the
You told me, said thecandidate who
mistic view Of life as the Brahmins;
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world over as the most ferocious bar-
l bario chieftain of the age. As the suc-
had put up and lost, that a nomina-
tion
life, was a misfortune. and the faithful:
to it. The
cessor of the Mahill, Mohammed Ali-
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was equivalent to an election. Er
-why-yes, answered the politicalman-
were always ready abandon
Buddhist, however, Stood to gain more!
mod, he rules the fanatical Moslem
Dervishes with a despotism more ab-
ager. I guess you meant equivalent
,
by death even than the Brahmin, and,
1 sOlut6 than that of Turkey's Sultan.
The strange empire which the Mandi
to a collection.
When I hyahs a man sayin' he would-
&a his estimate of the value of life
rearled by binding together the desert
n't steal a pin, said Uncle Eben, I
was no higher, suicide w,as still more
tribes Under a religious impulse fell
sometimes takes it as an evidence of
common among the followers of Bud-
dha than it had, lbeen prior t,u the pro-
to Khalifa's lot to continue. Like the
Mandi, he retained his hold on his
great honesty. An' den, agin, it sim-
Ply calls 'tention to de fack dat the
.
mulgation of the new religion.
murderous-oubjects by inciting them
to kill and plunder in the name of
mahket price foh pins ain'very big, no-
By the Buddhists, suicide is looked
justifiable un-
Allah. To those who die in battle is
I Promis8d glory and riotous pleasure
how.
Father, sternly -What is this I hear
upon, even to -day, as
dex almost any circumstances. In China
1 ever after.
It was a hu.ndxed thousand of these
about you gambling? Son, hastily -I
a,dm1t I play cards, father, but it is
it is true, some suicides,-espe cially
those by -ambling -are regard-
crazed fanatics that surrounded Gen-
only for small stakes. FaLher-Ob, as
caused g
ed as dishonorable, but'everywhere that
eral Gordon and his little garrison at
Khartoum in 1885 and massacred them
long as it is for something to eat I
Buddhism bas penetrated human life
all.
don't mind. But don't let me hear
is held as of little or no value, and
1
But since the present British cam -
of your playing for money.
suicide is commit�ed on the slightest
paign began to move a gainst the Der-
War still On -I'd like to know what
provocation Imaginable. or without any
provocation at all. With Buddhists life
vishes their spirit has begun to wane.
In the Dervish army intrigues
you would ever have been if I hadn't
. ad deatli is the doorway
is a penance a
i are
breakipig out. The Moslem tribes are
married you, John Henry I I should
Ot
to eternal * y It is therefore, I ,
t1r.t'they are always ready
i
I becoming arrayed against one another.
The
probably bavet been the unhappiest man
on earth. If he bad there,
surprising
to commit suicide on the very plight-
I desert is dotted with grave�ards
I of those killed in battles between rival
stopped
there might have been a protocol, but
eat pretext. Among the Chinese atri-
0 hiefs. The Khalifa no longer wields
he went on: People never know when
. I i suit is frequently followed by
the religious sway over them of the
they are well off I After which there
death, not of .the 'aggressor, but of the
his life,
former Mandi, whom theylooked upon
was nothing to do but to go on with
the
offended individual, who ends
as a saint. !
quarrel.
and, in his opinion, casts infamy upon
PASSION, FOR DE SOLATION.
Red-Ifti.nded-All I said his mother, ae
his assailant. .
.
Khalifa Abdullabi sometimes goes
she found h1m. in the preserved cher-
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SOME PROPHECIES FILED.
forth at the head of his army, but for
the Most part be spends his time at
.ries, I have caught you red-handed. I
think by the time I get through ,witb
Long before his name was known out-
his luxurious court in dalliance with
you you will know beLter. Yes'm
side his native country Oliver Crom-
his dancing girls. Weakened by de-
balichery, he cannot exert his oldtims
said the little boy, I will. I'll use a
spoon next time.
well was making one of his rambling
Influence. But ifhis power haslessen-
Old Fogy -f am pained to hear that
speeches in the house of commons. Lord
Ijigby asked Hampton who he was, and
ed his crueltyllas increased. The mes-
senger who brought him the news of
you axe addicted to playing poker, and
Hampton replied: "if ever we should
the defeat of his armyat Ferkeh was
that last night you lost $25. Young
come to a �roach with the kink that
Put to death by crucifixion. The Kha�
Fogy -The idea I Why I don't evein
sloven will be the greatest man in
lifa then announced thatwhoever after
know how to play the game. Old
England * " Never was any prophecy
mentioned Fexkeh would meet the
Fogy -So I am Informed by the parts
more completely fulfilled than this. Al-
same fate. The news of the battle of
who won the, money.
most equally remarkable in its way
Atbara last April, which occurred on
was Disraeli's prophecy: " But a time
a Mohammedan holy day, was consider -
I
will come ,wh1aa you will bear me,"
ed such an Insult that the bdarer of
JOKING. WITH THID QUEEN.
made when nothing appeared more un-
it was not only,,orucified. but his body
There is said to be only one mau
likely than the brilliant series of tri-
umphs which fulfilled it. Another in-
afterward burned.
Wherever the Dervishes have ruled
who has ever dared to make a joke i loll
the presence of the Queen. This tE
stance of a quickly fulfilled prophecy
was furnished by Pope Pius VII., when
they have murdered andpillaged. They
have devastated the whole 8 uthern
Canon Teignmouth-Shore, at one time
glovernor to the ohildr�,n of the Prince
he was told of Napoleon escape from
Elba. " Don't worry about it," be Said,
valley of the Nile and killedo three-
fourths of its . people. There is no spot
It
of Wales, and a splendid type of Irial
humorist. He was discussing with Hei
"it is a storm thal 'will be over in
'
three months." The story of the Hun-
to cOmpar th
'o 'W" I except Cuba. The
desert Ar, s.haveruled with the un-
Nhjesty the question why it was that
shoemakers were supposed to be so ad.
Days proved his holiness to be
bridled tyr tiny of murderous, avar-
'r�dred
vanced in their heterodoxy and in th(
, right to a few hours.
icious barbarians. The passion of the
Dervishes for desolating the Nile val-
want of faith in futurity "Why
ihe
DON'T RIDE IN A THUNDER STORM.
ley and its beautiful cities is due to a
religious whim. It is to wipe outevery
ma'am," quietly remarked auda.
cious Canon, "one could hardly expeel
immor.
A, great deal of nonsense has recent_
recollection of the former Christian
& shoemaker to beliove in the
tality of the sole (soul)l" Her Majes,
i ly been Published to the effect that
0. man mounted on a bicycle is perfect-
Egyptian Government. Only those
Places consecrated to the god of thO
ty S,n oyed the joke and laiighed vers
hearNly over It. I
! ly safe in a thunder storm, because
Koran Is sacred to them.
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I he is supposed to be insulated from the
, LAID IN RUINS.
tires of his ma-
This is why Khartoum, the finest
COAL BURNE D BY STE AUSHIPS.
chine, As a matter of fact, the tires
city in tropical East Africa, was laid
The amount of coal conounied. by c
� are usually covered with a film Of W1-
in ruins. When the Xhalifa had been
vessel during a voyage depends ver3
, tor from the rainfall land they are not
in power less than a year, In 1886,
largely upon the speed, f6r the con.
to be rolled upon as adequate protec-
be ordered the Inhabitants of Khar..
sumption of coal increases almost in t
i tion against the lightning stroke. The
toum to leave the city within three
geometrical ratio to the speed. Then
I fallacy of this reaeoning is shown by
days. On the fourth day the work of
axe many ships which burn from 100 ti
� the fact that more, than one cam has
destruction began. The houses were
Wo tong of coal per day, the lowest con.
happenod. in which a bicyclist has been
pulled down, the carved woodwork and
sumption being when the vessel Is 96
. instanfly, killed while hurrying home
everything of valug carried across the
& Mod6rate rate. Mon-of-wai
I oft his machine. In one instance, the
river. 80on the town was only fit an
:11 in`61tt eonAumo so mooh in propor.
I cap, Shirt a,nd ooeit of the rider were
a hor46 for the desert wolves.
Lion as swift PM88611"r stonniors whiol
torn to shriads, and his oliest Wad mv-
The building m&torfal Was used In
ply Dot 0ea E-Wope &14d orim, for
Tty
I orely burnt. Th6 Okftist thing a Hoye-
the rearing of the holy 61ty of 0M.
.
uftl6gji rn an gmdgm-03 - afti 110i
I list, nit well as a Pedestrian, ban do
duratan, and It Quickly b6oame the
drivort at the highest attaitabld Speed
� during a thUnd e atom, Is to seek the
doofs
metropolis of thoi u Pet 14110, with 6,
The 'Mean PaSseftFter steani6rs oftef
; Shelter o - I: building with
population of 150,201, and the capital
burn from 9 500 to a 600 tons during I
and windows 014096d. ( .
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Of thO S009,08t 61ftDird in the world.
passage 10,6ting siX &i 86v6n dAyo.
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tma,04 eyery 04% WZWe sorgooma
WONDER Orl'� Tull WORM rlumd;bill my](1110 flit; from tires to
p4*4 I � . Too like #o Out,
, ppy butterflies.
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'*0104 RA14- 091111ag 41tita0e of 7,5M feet in ;resah- . .1
IT is THE GREAT 1) I ba. 444 so tb0i train 0'rowda along the
WAY OF INDMI
... . 'J-- ',* �' , of a preoipica the first glimpse
�mo '' . I M, 04 I d Himalayas is obtainedd I
Its Warty Tgn Trolq Rai I A, � r 1004 I , W' '74, I I ro`4 'winds about like asaRke
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Tr,sckp and Ilosov"ger " #K Mu I - I t1ire.p. miles more. and while the �
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'IWO Itt4u , - ., , 00 is being traversed the snow
0:4 " - ,
at filialugolrowl Points 0, sun" 4�dq
orsend . Ing the Care ever a Pro."vicet qp�.eors, disappears and reappears, un,4
I tit the last curvei is reaphed and the �
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is little 'train enters ttio Spur on which . I
one of tND modern wonders of the st"o'Daxj"ling, the "Queen of the I
world, both no regardstho a Hinia. I
tupendous ,,layaa." I
From the slope above the railway
nature of its puterprise and the on- statioa a magnificent view of the tow4
.
blime grandeur of Its environments. A WIQ,W
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trip over this linei from the hot plains far, 404y on thWhortzon IS obtained. ,
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of Darjeeling, whence Is seen the migh- Oars is seen the longest line of,snow, 111.
povered peaks In ttia world, being 15Q I
ty Himalayas in one magnificent sweep miles in length. Mt. Kunchinjung% I
across the horizon, is like a dreamy BOB- 28,4500 feet is seen, and several other
tatio transformation Iscene in some peaks, all more than 25,000 feet high, ... 11
. By. ascending % neighboring hill call- �
Magic kaleidoscope. Owing to the ride ed Santakph,u the highest peak in the �
of eight hours, which is required to world, Mt. Everest, is in plain view, .�
rewh- the end oll the journey, the'raosit The most beautiful sight in all na- . .
wonderful panorama of changing scen- ture is to witness a sunrise on this
ery, climate, vegetation and people is line of eternal anow-oapped mountains.
As the f irst dawo appea.rs there is A
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presianted. I I glimmering light like a -halo hovering 1�
This railway bas only a two -foot over the jinow-y peaks, as the sun .
gauge, and the cars Jook like toys, (be- mounts higher and higher astiocession l-
ing no larger than an ordinary din- of gorgeous colors burst forth' aroun4
ei,bove and beneath the (Snow and glide .. 11
Ing table. The 50 miles from Silligurl impercAptibly into one another as tit I
to Darjeeling Is traversed in about a transformation scene. As the sun a �
eight hours. The entire train weighs last rises a,bove� the torizon the color - .
about 40 tons, inob more tha,u the ca- recie.de into the baIckground and thi �;
snow staInds out in one long line of I "I
paoity of one of our largest freight dazzling white. �
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cars, aad necessarily, as on several I � .1
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parts of the line it has to igo:up a gra- . I
dient bf one In twenty-three, here I
(or*ping along narrow ledges out in PLAYING WITH SNAKIERS. .
Ithe solid rock, with yawning chasms — , �..
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on one side and perpendicular walls CHILDREN HAVE GREAT FUN WITH .1
on the other, and then leaping from COPPERHEADS. 1:
crag to crag, like a,graountain goat. -- : 1��,
The various Iway AnIneldent'WhIch$hows That Venomous
�0 Reptile In a LeAs Dangerong Light- '.-
LINES OB1 INDIA , , Toyed With by Children. ..I
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Discharge passengers at Silliguri, the "I was up in " zinc mine region I 1�
first station of the Himalayan- Rail- of Sussex county, New,Jersey, last �
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way. daily at 9 a.m., and the aamnit week," "and read in one of the local %;
begins at 9.30 a.m. On leaving the plain papers up there an a.ccount of an inci.. ,
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the train goes along at fair speed. Vile dent which seemed to go a good way, %
teountry is flat, laub the road bed is towards confirming the truth of a ..
raised above the Isurrounding plains startling belief that has provalle(i ,�,
in4h, by inch, for leeven miles, or �until from time out of ,mind among' the na- .
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foot of the first Lives of the, mountains in LancastorA I
ran -go of 'hills. . York and adjacent counties of Penn- �
Now the actual ascent commences. ,, '. I
The road has been, laid just where it 81yva.nia, where the copperhead snake I I
was possible to lay it—in anarrow dwells in unpleasant abundance, thati .. 1.
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ledgel cut out of ithe solid, racki tDiat the this venomous snake will not bite (,hit -
side of a hill with 'the to," out bffj like
a truncated cone, and so on until an dren. There are many wonderful stor- I
a,djacent hill is reached, where a path I- told over there, especially in the �-
is cut on thei side of the latter on line famous Welsh Mountain country, about
with the former, and the train passes this strange lenity of the copperhead
on to the second hill, .,I
In this munner the train ascends from towards children, I never heard of -
hill to hill, win -ding around several this belief being indulged anywhere :
times on oaAh hill, climbing higher at else �han in that part of PennsYlvanial ,�
each turn until &suitable junction is but this New Jersey incident rather �
ll. Some, of the �
curves are very sharp, with a radius inclines me to think that, unaccount- .:
of not more than 60 feet, andht sAch able as it may ,seem, there must be I
points the train creeps along the side more than fancy or superstition in it,
of the cone at,asnall's pace, there �not f"One day a week or so ago, &word -
being room for aprotecting railing. Ing to the New Jersey newspaper, Flor- �
AT AGONY POINT 1�
Situated at an altitude of 3,000 feet, ence, the 6-yea,r-old daughter of Gen. : � ,
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there is an extraordinary loop, and an Wilson, of Woodburn, found much en- I .1.
immense amount of work was neces- joyment � I !
sary in constructing it. r
The top of the hill was out away IN STAMPING HER FOOT 1�
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until a radius of 59 1-2 feet was ob- on = object she saw protruding I rom A
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tained, and the track& are laid aq the the foundation of the house. The sport �11`
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extreme edge of the surfeice, with no t;
margin to spare at any point. The curve went on until it attracted the at- ".�Z
tention of her elder sister, who, when �V,
is so sharp that the passengers in o3ach j �
she saw thegamio., �wm scared and t-1-1 oi-
car can see the occupants of the car I
ahead or behind the one he occupies. to call her mother. The object t he 1
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walk child had stamped proved to be a 1 ig 11
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The speed here is reduced to a pilot. 'Such reptilas,' added the ne,.N.,i- "
both on account� .of the sharp curve pa,per, 'although amusing are danger- I'!
and the gradient. � 1�
When this point is reached asharp ous playmates for children.' "'
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whistle from the engine announces the "I can't see wherein these rei)ti!(,s %.1
. fact, and is a warning to the passeng- axe amusing, but 'id the light oZ this "t�
ers to keep their seats, as a sudden incident and other of which I ha ie, t�4,
movement of the passengers to the hoar,d, I-beiin tq have my doubts t It it :,;.
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the yare dangerous playm%tes for Chll- --.'
side of the ,Lyain- might upset -the cars, . V I ,,�.
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that are actdally hanging over' the dren. I recall now one instance in Par- is�� . - ; � .. -11�
ledge to the valley beneath. The pas- tioulax that occur'red a season or t%N0 . 11,
sengers aJI give a sigh, of reliof when .ago on the York County silde of t Ile
the appropriately named Agony Point Susquehanna river, where copperhaads
—or pilots, as they are called in New .1
is passed. I � ' I —,
From this point to the summit there JersA.y—are uncomfortably cominion. 0it �
are no more loopis, the method of ascent the farm of which I am,going to j.. (,��k �
the haying hands have killed as tri-irly I
being by . I .
. as ten in one day this season '111DWITIg �
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REVERSING THE TRAIN over one field. �
Alternately on the side of the hill. "The farm is the 'Loan farm. At I ho
To accomplish this anumber of ledg- time Irefer to one of Loan's chit -l- .
es Eire out A)a the side off the hill one ren, a little girl ot,three, Avas playi,ng
above the oth4r, so that the, top,OA the in the front yard, and her inother no- �
lowermost is joined to the bottom of ticed her sitting in the grasti near Am .
the one above it, and-tho topf of this gate. Every now and then the child
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again to the bottoma of thei next, and was heard to laugh gleefully, atill Mrs. ..
so on, the whole forming acomplete Loan at last
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zig-zag. This reversing station is at WALKED OUT TO SEE
an attitude of about a,500 feet, and is ,
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26 miles from Silliguri, thd starting what it was that ;iraused thei child 90 1
point. . . much. When the child saw her mother �
ominfg, she sbou,ted:
At some of the steepest points the �G —Hurry mamma, and see the live I
train occasionally slips back, in which learpot rags I' 11
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case ashort whistle from the engine "At (he Same time she held up to I'll, .
brings to its assistance an extra engine --"I
which acts as a pusher until the, criti- her mother's gaze, a snake she had
cal point is passed. If it rains and Igra;sped in her hand., NvIlich twisted and .
the rails get wet, and slippery, coolies squirmed in the gar. Mrs. Loan saw .
sprinkle sa.nd on tb6 rails in front of at once that the snake was acopper- I
the train, so that the wheels can got head. Although she almost swooned �
a bold. The line is �a single track, ex- with terror, she aoted with rare ljre�- I�A
cept at points where there are spur sen m, of mind. It ,occurred to her 'that
tracks to allow the up and down trains if she showed her alarm:hy crying out
suddenly to her, the child would ua-
tor pass each other. , frightened, and the
doubtadly become �
At about I p,m., an altitude of 4,- phange that wouf(I naturally follow in
500 feet has been reached, and tin hour ,her handling of the deadly reptile
is given for dinner at the hotel to -give ight anger the snake and cause it Xo I
'in �
the passengers an opportunity to .
change their clothes. The light clothes sink its venomous fangs into her hand ,
of the plain have been sufficient so or face. With agreat effort, Mrs. Loan
far as the ;sun has been pretty hot, controlled herself sufficiently to say '.
but� now -the (.rain will, in ita, ascent 0�oaxlngly :
� soon ,get into a climate where some ex- " 'Fetch it to niamina, dear. Don't "I
hurt it.'
tra clothing will be, necessary, even a "'But there's two of 'em, niarntna,' I - --�*J
ligh ving an uncom- replied the little girl. 'I'll fetch 'em 'N I ,
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fortable addition. ,�
As the train olimhq higher and high- bot h.' � ..i
"She reached down and picked up ��
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er the scenery is the grandest mortal another copperhead that lay in the "
eye ever saw; Alpine meadows mantle grass which Mrs. Loan had not seen, 1, I
the mountain side, oaks, pines and rho- il�,
dodendrous dot the ground, and two and came toddling along the path to- :"
ward her mother 4,
swift streams, the Ruageet and Toesta, .
rush down the mountain and join in WITH A WRIGGLING SNAKE � 1,
one broad river. in each hand. Mrs. Loan, although at- .; ''
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At an altitude of 5,00() feet banks most paralyzed with terror over the I ;' ;1
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of white clouds arck seen on all sides. plight her little one was in, for one .�,
At one moment the sun is stroke of the copperhes,d's fang would --4W
SHINING BRIGHTIjY have. been her swift and sure death, �.,
Above, then comes acloud and sudden retained her composure, and when the- 1 , . ,�, I
darkness. child was within it couple of yards of � .1,
A little higher and the train is en- ,her spoke to her gontly, and said: . **i
veloped In clouds, still alittle higher "'Put them or, thil ground darling,. � .. .
and let me, see them walk,'
and the train is beyond the clouds and "This seemed to please the child, and 1,
again in tM bright, sunshine, and Ile- I
low, covering the mountain side like a she placed the copperheads in the path I
bundle of fleece is �Lbe cloud the train They then Saw Mrs. Loan for the first .� . L
I ttime,,ya.nd their manner changed in -
recently passed through. 'Sudden y . an The copperhead, unlike the I I I
. there is a break in the range of *noun- rattlesnake, is aggressive, and these I ,,�.,�
. tains, and down, down, 40 miles away, two, showing &It the fierceness of their I I
a glimpse is caught of the plain below, I
looking like agreat green cloth, with nature, at once moved toward thel , �
child's mother, plainly with hostile ill- .
the united stream, ,,the junction of .11
whose tributaries have just 'been pass- tent. The child clapped her hands and �111
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ad, meandering through it like agreat started to catch the snakes. Ilev I I ".,� 1��
silver snake. mother rushed around the anakesand' I
A dark oloud now obscures the sun snatching the child up in her arms, "N . .L .
I and Its huge shadow 'rushes along fh� 'flew to the house, closed the door -be- r A
. plain with frightful velocity, sweeping hind her, and fell fainting to the floor. i I .N
in one gigantic embrabe over mountain, The copperheada were killed later, ani . . 14
I valley and Stream. the little girl mourned for her deadlyj . .
I The magnificence of the playthings for days. I
I Iftnoo= I"' "That is only one( of mores of inci-d
I beyond compare. The,eye ad dents one raV Vear over in, fbab parld I I
with, the $1 1
of Pennsylvania about th'a immunity, "
. 1. BEAUTY AND GRANDEUR from danger t1to copperhead anaka 1�
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of the surroundings a.ftill the mind so grants to dhildren, andi the New Jer. I .11,
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lopt 11) ap, eostaAy of delight that one Siay ome, is also Due In' point. Still, al- I .1
scarcely kno*a whIch way to turn to though 'it looks to Inge lia It 1the) sts rt- �� �
took so thut ;nOm of the b4eauti6s of ling Welsh, 4ountain beflof had good I I I I
th-6 sceft6ry uiay.b6 lost. Primeval for- grounds, Idon't believe I wmild takd , , . . I I i.
oats cover the valleys. orchids, ferns a, copperhead home as a Plaything for ., .11 ,�
: &ft(I ore6pera Uang in the gayest fes- My children, just the attrue." 0, . . ;
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