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Exeter Times, 1897-8-19, Page 6THE .EXETER TIMES WINNING HER WAY. CHAPTER XII. The you ing gixl started. lost the scene of th•a preceding night reoccurred to her. She passett her hand over ber brow; wane it reality? As if to eon - Nance hetetelf, she rose, glided past tlae sleapitag Frau von Ratenow Oat° the next room. Tb.e windows were open, and over that whichlay upon the be& had beexi spread a white sheet. he gazed at ; her laeart felt °billed anil avoluntarily she clasped her hands. "Our Father, who are in Heaven!" - the window. "See the buds upon the appleth -tree and e blue sky 1 One shouldpay proper respeet to the dead, ebild, but one amid not forget the living! You have duties to perform. Take couxage I." The gist did not raise her eyes—if possible she grew paler. "I am going downstairs, Elsie, I have something to say to Frieda.. I will send Hegebach to you. When you re- turn from the cemetery, you must take eup of coffee in my room. Farewell, Ste left the room. In her anguish the girl beat her brow and tore her lateir. Was there no escape? Almost she glanced about the room. She was to fulfill a. promise against xesoutaded ;within her, for she felt im pelted. to pray; yet she had not the whith her heart -rebelled. Ala, o e free once more infeelaanically she pet powe-r to put her anguish her suppli- on her cloak and hat. eke she was in eatioas into words—"forgive us our the; act of tying the stripgs, her_ hands trespass as we foagive time who tree -them he stood upon pas against us." Then at louj blast re-eohoed through the room; aelow in the street a trum- peter was eoutatliag the reveille. "Come. Elsie, ekild, that will awaken 4141 no more," eaid Frau, vim Ratenow, drawing the girl to her bootone. "He is at rest, my, dear, and we would not recall Wan—would we?" — CHAPTER KUL Tae interment was over. On leaving the cemetery, Teleatenant von Rost [strolled aerose the road in order to greet his tetrothea and her mother who were taking a walk, probably not solely for the sake a obtaining fresh air. but rather to see something of the funeral. procession. Frau Cram= had a weakness for small things, and so had Annie; a large fire, a wedding or a C...ral always attraetted them to tbe Cousm !" she stammered. He approached her and took both of her hands be his; then he raised them to his lips. • "My dear Elsie," said he tenderly, "Lt was a sad hour in which we plighted aux troth hut at tae semi time it was serious and sacred, it was the eledge of a future life spent together In af- fection and faith." He spoke earneastly, but what he said sounded almost pedantic. Elsie heav- ed a. sigh. a relief, but she did not speak. togetber, Elsie?" "Shall we visit year father's grave She nodded. He took her parasol front the tahle, handed it, to her and offered her his arm; she laid ber head lightly upon ; they left the room, deeeeteled the stairs and passed througla the hall to the carriage. He helped her into the elegantly upholstered vebiele and care- fully spread the. costly robe over her. As they -drove off, she raised her eyes for the first time. Frau von Ratenow was at the windoev and waved her vicinity. band. • An infinitely. eeiserable sensation Tb lieutenaut bowed, and walked by stole over the gal as site rolled, along Anntets side wititout offering her his ! fibelY appointed carriage; she felt as if she bad been sold, as if she arra. t kali no self-respeet, left, and with a "Dear von Roast," said. her mother. i; hasty movement she drew her crape "have- you heard how Eraulien von t veld over ter face, for she felt ashaineti Ilegeiaele is? Annie told xne she was I ta, have the baght, clear spring sun- ; shine In her eyes. aineat etuuried by grief." ; She dial not. notice Etegebach's prof - The yeunger lady wedded. fered arm at the entrance to the tame - Mane. Lee, I was there enly a short tery ; she walked quickty on ahead. t "Where are ytn. gozug. Elsie ?" he while ago—she did not speak a word, asked. "Tire -grave m on this side." aria looked so pititul; he was riot so But she hail already sunk upon an - very dee.oted to the old man and there othea motile'. her hands olasped iu dee sunieng, a -aver. If slbe. were_ only is really no °meant for such desporid- aiie:e, theriLd mother would. not force envy ! alevertheleee she seems crus.bed t chibi into a loveless marriage! .--tan you understand that ?" I Hegel:auk stood to one side, waiting arol•Ped his etteglaes. "It might illetiently. It was some time liefore rose, turned and followed him to. be actesilile,'" he replied, "after Laving the new mound upon ethieh tbe clods two eurh phoeks at mate." I were still uneven. She stood. there too, eihwtht. mother „ha oaughte„ „el without a word, with not e teer; be i seized her hand whieh she gently drew claimed siniattaneousay, away. eautted a moment and then said: ; "Shall we go?" he [thked after a sit - of fifteen minutes. . ante aronesed to marry Ilegebach at. • eye' , Site assented, again preceding him ter father's death -ted." aleng the narrow .path 'between the A ere- of astenthamett reached his , graves. At the carriage, elle hesitated; ; she retread niuell rather hate walked. ear. :Silently he offered her his hand hi or - "Haw lucky the. gal is!" said Frau der ti assiae hare and seate.I himself Cramm. ; silently beside her. Ele knew what It "It le suaarising, is it not ?" asked " was to return home from a newly -made grave; he ceuld sympathize with her. Lieutenant von Reat, in a. tone whieh Her brown. ehild-Iike eyes sheuld lean left We bearer in doubt us to whether senile oilm more when they did not he waits iremicat or serious. • need to look Imam want and care. ;Sae repeated wouial smile again when they traxeled. "ne great piece of luelel" He would take her to Parle firet : she nrett Cremate, ; was tally mortal, and Paris—well Paris "Beautiful Bennewitz and that is an indefinab1e. alluring word to the feminbee ear. Elsie's veil was over eagieficent carriage ! Last year Prince i her face; elm looked neigher to the 13,--- welt there t Mira, t !" her face; she. lettical neither to the Au!:' did not speak 7 elle was think- regitt nor left. lag hew Elsie bad pored aver her Looks tin the way home, they paesed Leu -. 4 and had studied for her ex- len ant 'tont Rost and taptain von P. , hey Lowe, Icre eat! aookeil after the andeatione, how simply she had always carreage and the bidet: whieb tor dreeeed. 'les, truly. that was luck! a nuauent fluttered out a tho window. Who wotail have theught. it! "Sae has not ,yet learned," said Rest, t "how a 'grande dame' reclines engine,- neive. on en engagement between the eeshioce ; slit: sat there as a scold - tat, rk: ph:al 4nd 1.1.egeeaah flew through ; the village on the wing.s of the wind! Ensie eat in Ler tiny room, riteen- ettele in her mourning gown : aiene tL.- [smelter erate raehe li the net ner aress, nee her pale, spirituelle face, watt the ltafinitely melancholy expres- sion alout the mouth. She had spoken very little since that morning. nhe had net wept, but he. went ationt with a troubled air, sat in one place, then in another, her hands in her lap. looking gloomily at the ground; food scarcely passed her lips; sleep did not visit her eyelids. She raw her tiering father's ehanged face constantly ; she felt him clasp her liand: she. felt the shain she was to wear through life, that invisible, re- guisive chain. Was it not wrong to make nee of the sacred power of the hour of death to render a human heart miserable forever ? 'Tether, you did not love me I" she moaned. S.he saw the haemy smile light up leis face, when he joined their bands; lee, heard the last deep, sigh af relief escape his breast; he died contented— she muet live! It was insupport- able. 1 She had net again seen him in whose band her father had laid hersnor had Frau von Ratenow urged her. Such deep, silent sorrow, WaS not consistent with the happiness a a prospective bride. But upon returning from the funeral the lover wished to speak to he.r who had been, intrusted to him in that sacred hour. Frau. vote Ratenow, dressed in deep mounaing, mounted the stairs to tell Elsie. at the important visit she was ale:at to receive. In her hand she held a couple of sprigs of cypress which Blegebac1t had taken from the coffin before it was lowered. "The stately woman knocked le,ss resolutely than us- ual a.t the dome and entered. Elsie was seated. at the table; be- fore her lay writing-paner and a pen; she put the letter she had commenced Lo her portfolio and rose. Frau. von Ratenow laid. tbe sprig of oypress in bee small hand and patted her pale cheek. "IIegebaeh sends his compliments; he thought you would like to visit the, grave with him; th,e carriage is wait- ing, Elsie. Will you get ready? He will come up to fetch you." At the words "with him" she started, and for an instant her pale face was suffused with a belgat blush. She did not reply, but she slowly shook her fa ir "Why have you lowered a),I tha, siba,des," ttaked the t,dd lady, "as if God's fanishlne, were objectionable?" And he. raised tbe,m, letting ie the daz- aitear sunlight, eviiiel was SD bright TIM"Litie was forced, to close her eyes. -• e'tka Nate I" Frau von Rate- • teea- hand and drew her to el alai does upon the school -form. Elewever. It will net take her long to learn ; women are wonderfully apt in atieh. thinge." "Do you, believe that she loves lam?" asked von P. "Pshaw 1" replied Rost; glancing at his horse which the groom was .ealling toward CHAPTER XIV. Frau von Ratenow, had, in the mean- time, been a all Frieda; the lat tees mood had not chengei for the better. he had scarcely a word of sympathy for the orphan. Lai had gone upstairs once with the intention of condoling very colilly, Int in the presence of the grieving, sorrowful girl, her kind, little heart had been touched, her eyes were swollen from weeping when she returned to Frieda. nWbat are you crying for?" asked Frieda, irritably; "she has wade her fortune. Do not imitate Meritz; lie speaks of that engagement as if it were a dire misfortune." "Rut, Frieda, in spite of sorrow, if one is the least bit happy, one dues not look like thatl No, Frieda, you are cross and want someona upop wboin to vent your anger. I know you, little sister. She took away one of your ad- mirers once, Friedeben, did she not? Of 'Moritz you cannot be seriously jeal- ous; he has never in his life cared for anyone but you." But neither raillery nor exhortation had the power to banish Frieda's ill - nature. Respect was being paid to P1 - i's sorrow; she was no longer an in- significant person, she Was the be- trotbed of a men who moved in the be,st circles of sodety in the provinces. Frieda, therefore, put a coral brooda upon tier dark blue dress, for she did not wear mourning like the rest; what did she care for the old man who had closed his weary eyes for- ever? Frau von Ratenow entered. ber room with such an ea -pression of satisfaction upon her full faee that her black crepe cap was a great tiottrast to it. AL1 that she had hoped for the girl ha6 come to pass; she had really drawn a big prize. How well she deported her- self—so gravely, so calmly, and yet so proudly; and how pretty she looked in her black drs, Net once had she at- tempted to evade her good fortune, as sbe had before her father's death. Elsie had no doubt gladly grasped the hand held out to her just at the Moment when bar bark was beginning to riae rudderiese upon the wild !sea of life. "Elsie is; a good sensible girl, God biess her." Grief for the departed was not very deeply rooted as far as the old lady was coneerned. Of course one thing she regretted: tbet. he could not have lived to enjoy a, few -weeks of peace, but the Almiglity knew best; he and tbe owner of Bennewitz had never agreed very well, possibly be might have dis- turbed the perfect harmony. Then, too, he had always been sickly—yes, yes, he was released—xi:Liget he rest in. Reece. With a. pleasant "Good morning!" Frau von Ratenow sank upon one of Frieda's fragile chairs and inquired so particularly for her grandcbildren that Frieda stared at her in estonish- ment. "Friedeben,a she continued, " what hfl.vGfled."you against Elsie? Your foolish fancies of a few days ago, have, I hope, She took her daughter-in-law's hand. "Listen, pet,. a great burden is lifted from my maul; you can probably see that—and—when I am pleased, you know, I like to have others pleased too You mity select something unusually nice for your birthday, Friedchen. hWelapathtevredld you like? Out with ill ;Lila Still Frieda, did not look amiable, although the last words sounded tempt- ing to her, for MaTIIIMa Ratenow was always very generous in her gifts. "You are very kind, mamma," came hesitatingly frora her full, rosy lips, "Well, take time enough to think it over. Do not decide hastily: How would you like to take a trip with Moritz to Ettelen-13aden, Switzerland and the Italian lakes? I would take care or the children. Think it aver, my deer, Good morning. I must. go in search of Moritz. Good morning, cbil- dren." Ah, the old lady. Indeed knew how to strike the tuna to whieh am% one gladly danced. The two sisters, when the door dos- ed upon Fran von Ratenow, seated themselves upon the couch and turned over the pages of the latest fashion journal; there was a pretty traveling eostume. Ob, delightful words—travel- ing! Baden-Baden! aforitz was the one who had opposed the scheme. "'What 'ails you, boy?" asked his mother. " How can you take that stupid jealousy so to heart ? Frieda is mbt aeth .l,:oh high -road to becoming t raet- u are mistaken, mother. I have steeply ignored Frieda's caprice, but r must confess that her conduct wound- ed me. It may be, too, that she was right in a. way. I was, perhaps, over- anxious as to Elsie's future." During that conversation they cross- ed the court -together. A carriage roll- ed through the gate and drew up at the steps. "rite betrothed, Moritz," said Frau von Ratenow, quickening her pace. "Shall we join them?" Her son raised his cap from his fair locks, and with a bow, turned. toward the stables. "I must see to Sultana; the veterin- ary surgeon is coating to -day to attend to her foot." "It is strange," muttered the old lade', hurrying on; she met the couple at the dour, and pressed Elsiea small hand. The latter looked so odd so stiff and resolute. She had cause enough in her father's death, had she only wept. Sae maintained that same st uny man- ner when seated in the easy -'hair in her aunt's cosy room:, the doors lead- ing into the conservatory were open, and e soft. balmy breeze blew in upon her. Elsie turned her head and looked at the flowers; she did not utter a word; she did not take the leasL part in the conversation Way should she? She seemed to herself like' one who bad been ejected from te blooming para- dise, and transplanted in a snowy. icy desert. Front the other side, budding roses nodded to her and asked: "'Why did you lei. them force your' The swallows flew by and twittered: "Was that your courage ? are you not ashamed?" Site was aehtuned; shame, genuine, maidenly shame possessed her; she rose and hastened out onto the ter- race and from thence into the gar- den. "Dear Frau von Ratenow," asked Hegeba.ch, as Elsie left the room so suddenly, "16 my betrothed ill? I must honestly confess that this mute de- spair makes me enxious; cata it really be the shock of the sudden death alone which has so entirely changed lieVh"e old lady sbook her head. "illy dear Ilegebaclal The girls of to- day are different from those of our thne. And, moreover, you know it is the day of the funeral, and notwith- standing Ins treatment of her, she tesr.41evotedly attached to her fa- ies that your opinion, inadame?" he asked slowly. "I a.m not so sure. A short while ago she seemed like a child; it. was the expression of ber eyes prin- cipally which made me think of her as such. When I went upstairs to -day to fetch her, she glanced at me so re- proachfully --ah, you may call mesen- timental, madame—but I cannot for- get that glance. A pair of eyes looked at inc that way once before and I shall never forget them; it was in Russia; a Young gypsy girl stood by the, way- side begging. My coa-ohanan, a rough fellow, cracked his whip about her head; she did not flinch but she turn- ed her dark eyes toward me, and a world of sadness lay in them. Elsie bad the same expression in her eyes. the same painfully compressed lips, as I approached her to -day. And -1 can- not help it, I must give utterance to it, there is more in it than, grief for ber father." "Hegebacb," cried Frau von Rate - now in a tone of the deepest reproof. A strange sensation possessed the old lady at his words.. She shook her head and looked searchingly at her vis- a-vis, but she did not know what to reply. In her perplexity she took up the coffee -can and filled her cup; then she rose, gave tier guest a cigar, ; and asked, "'Where can Elsie be? Shall we walk through the garden?" They strolled along the paths, but they did not find .Elsie. Frau von Ratenow said, "I do not know where Elsie can be; she is e strange girl." And she cried: "'Elsie! Elsie!' in her full, strong voice, but she received tte re - Ply. "I beseecb you, dearest madame, let her go," said Hegebach; "she is pro- bably not inclined to talk; I can sym- pathize with her." They walked on in silence. OCea- stormily Hegeba,ch paused -examined the. budding shrubs and gave her their bot- anical names. Frau von Ratenow did not answer him. "I must lea.ve early to -day." Hege- bach drew out his watch. "Pray re- member me to Elsie." al will 'send someone to look for her, dear Hegebaoh." "No, I beg of you, do not. She has probably found relief in tears; do not disturb her, xnadame; I will come again to -morrow." alle bade a. gaxdener, who passed them, see that his earriage was brought around, then he smoked calm- ly on, and made a few triflint re- marks." ; • 'Apropos, deer Hegebach," said the old lady, "what did you say was the name of the firm of whom you. ordered the engagement rings?" "Haller & Cb.," be replied. " They will not be finisbed for a eveek." "Of ceurse not," said she, " such houses are always so busy. Thomas, here on the 1VIerke-platz, would have made them just as well and much soon- er, But in that you are like all the rest, alegebada." He smiled, but did pot reply. believe the carriage is already at the door," he said at length. "Good-bye, madame, until to -morrow —my love to my sad, little Elsie." He kissed her hand, ascended the steps of the terrace, and disappear- ed within the house. In a few, mo- ments his carriage rolled over the pay- ed court. "Of eourse, Hegebach is vexed," said Frau von Ratenow, who was still stand- ing et the foot of the steps; "sucb con- duct is inc,omprehensible. Oh, Lord, what trouble one has with young peo- ple! She should have been my father's daughter." She turned and hastily walked along the path. Very well. That day she would say nothing—but to -morrow she should have a talk with her. It was exceedingly rude to run away like that, and it was dangerous. "What can have come over Hege- bath that at hi age he slaould look into the child's eyes like a. schoolboy, that is certainly not necessary; it does not suit him to be so Ianguisicang, so soft-hearted; be was not always that way," To be Continued, HOW THE GOLD IS WORKED OUT. *cenes and conditions at the nioniine Diggings, An interesting letter telling of the ream( trip of the steamer Excelsior to Alaska has been written by Capt. tla aaHisgagisnis, of the steamer,. to a He. yfriend. "The word Klondyke meaas deer river, and is called Reinader river on the chart. It empties int e the Yukon, fifty miles above the big river. Bon- anza creek dumps 111t0 Klontlyke about two miles above the Yukon. Eldora- do is a tributary of the Bonanza. Tbere are muuerous creeks and trileitaries, the main river 'being 30 miles long. TO gold so fax has been taken from Bananza and. Eldorado both well nam- ed, for the ric.briess of the placers is truly marvellous. Eldorado, thirty miles long is staked the whole length, and as far as worked has timid. As eacb canine is 5J0 feet along the ereek bed, there is 500,000 to the claim. So uanforna has the output beer). that one miner who has an interest, in one elaims told me that if offered his choice he would toes up to decide. Olio of our passengers wile is taking $1,e00 teita him, has worked 100 feet of his around and refused $200.0,30 for the remainder, and chafidentiy expecte to clear up $4t10,000 ;tad more. Lie has in a tottle 1:1 from caie pan of dirt. 'ens pay dirt, while being washed, everagea $250 an hear to tuni man shoveling, in. Two others ot our ruiners eho worked their own claims cleared up .50,1100 from the day's wash - mg. there is about fifteen teet of dirt above bedrock, the pay streak k.iv- ertiging from four to six feet. which is funneled out while the ground Is frozen. Of course the ground token out is thawed by building fires, and when the thaw oozes and water rushes in they set their sluices and wash the. dirt. Two of our fellows tbeught a small bird in the Land worth a large one in the buela, and sold their (deltas. for $45,000. getting al,50j down, the remainder to be paid in monthly installments of 810,000 each. The pur- chasers had no more than $5,000 paid. They were twenty days thawing and getting out dirt. 'linen there was no water to sluice with, but one fellow made a rotker and in ten days i ook out the $10,000 for the firet install- ment. So, tunneling and rocking, they took out $40,000 before there wasava- ter to sluice with. "Of course- these things read like etor • of Aladdin but fiction is not in it with facts at Kim -dyke. The greund located and prepared can -be werked out in a few years, but there is still an immense territory tunoueh- ed, and the laboring man who can get there with one year's peovisions will bave a better chance to, make a stake than in any other part of the world. RUSSIA'S PICKPOCKETS. -- Sample of Their Swi tmess Min Cleverness Sneressi oily ill uStrated. One. day while &nine togetker, the French ambassador and grand duke of Russia were discussing the cleverness of the pickpockets of their respective countries. The grand duke claimed that the Ruesianteickpoeket was the atore skill- ful. Seeing the ambassador incredu- lous, he told him he would, without knowing it be relievecl of bis watela be- fore leaving the table. He then teleaborted to the bead of the police to send at once the clever - east pickeocket be could lay his hands on. The mall came and ‘N as pee a pto liv- ery, and was told to wait at table with the other servants. He was th give the grand duke a sign directly he had dare the trick. But this was not given very Loon, for tlae ambassador was; very wary, and al- ways kept on the alert, and held ;bis band on his fob, • even when convers- ing with the most distinguished guests. At last the grand duke received.the preconcerted signal He at once re- quested. the aanbassador to t ell bim the tires. Me -latter triumphantly put his han.d to his pocket and pulled out a potato instead. of his watch. To conceal his feelings he would take a pinch of enuff— hts snut box was gone Tthen he missed his ring from his finger, ana his gold toothpick, wine& he had been holding in his hand to its little case. Araid the bilaritjr of the guests the sham lackey was requested £0 restore the articles; but the grand duke's neer- riro.ent was changed Intel alarm and surprise when the thief peodueed two watches, two rings, two snuff boxes, eta His imperial laithhesa then limas the disotwerry Mit he himself had teen rob: - bed at tha same time that the French arnbaase,dor diad been despoiled so crania. • HEROES OF 11101 BATTLES 1.1111.1•1, INTERESTING READING ABOUT THE FAMOUS BLACK WATCH. lltow It Get Its Name Away Back in the Eighteenth Coutury—Story or Its Many Victories. T,he "Black Watob" finds an admir- ble historian in Arebibald. Forbes, who ells the tale of its fighting and its many wonderful adventures. The 'Black Watch" (Laths its beginning ram 1730 ,when six Highland com- panies were raised to keep the peace n the region aorth of the Highland ine. Tribesmen from the Whigelans were set to watch their Jacobite kins- men. "Black" was an epithet given to thean because their tartans—each com- pany had, of course its mart—showed a sombre contrast to the "red sol- liers" of the regular army, for the regulars at that time were clad. ha scarlet from top to toe. In 1740 the Companies were formed late a regi- ment winch was numbered the 43rd, the rival tartans being araalgamated ha a novel pattern, lie March, 1743, the 43rd was sent to England, and a few weeks later embarked to the Ne- therlands: Tthe removal from Scotland was fax from welcome, and the order or foreign service provoked actual mu- tiny. Two hundred, men deserted in a body and marched northward. They were overtaken 'at Candle, and sur- rounded. by a force to winch they, af- ter some parley,- surrendered. A court martial sentenced the whole number to death, but only three ring -leaders suffered this penalty; the rank and file were puaisbed by being sent in de - was still 900 strong, The raain body of the regiment, which tachmeats to various foreign stations. just missednaettin- gen and came in fax Fontenoy, Tise "Black Watch" greatly distinguisbed itself. The "Highland. Furies," was the complimentary descriptionwhich a Frencla eye -witness gave of their de- meanour. Their celonel, Sir Robert Munro, went everywhere with them, though he was so corpulent that be had to be hauled out of the tenches by the legs and arms. Tbe total loss of the regiment wee 153. During, the '45 the. Ord were in England, 'being told off to wateh the south coast, where a French descent was daily expected. They were thus happily exempted from thepainful duty of saaring in the Cul- loden campaign. Some shrewd ob- servers at the time doubted whether the rising would have taken place if this organized force of loyal clansmen alaftlecbteedenraelglioownesd. to remaie in the die - The regiment's next service was in the expedition against Fort Tieonder oga in 1757. Me assault, which was made on most imperfect information of the strength of the fortifications, was a disastrous failure. Me "Black NN etch," w.hich could hard/y be called from the attack, lost six hundred and forty-seven men, of whom nearly abalf three hundred and fourteen, were kill- ed. The ,proportion of the killed to the total strength was not less than one n tbree. At Waterloo, whieh wasnot all affair ca rosewater, nape one in seventeen. The regimnet was not pre- sent. at Quebec, but it took part in Ida campaign of 1760, a series of sucetes- Ail and inexpensive operations, NS ilia resulted ba adding Canada to the Em- pire. Its second battalion had been !serving meanwhile in the.- West. Indies. To that region the whole regiment was !again transferred in 1751, seleeted, as lwas stated in the despatch .1..rom !flume, "for their sobriety amd abstemious habits, great activity and capability for bearing the extremes of heat and cold." The canipaign resulted in the ettnquest -of the Windward Islands and of Hav- ana- From the West Indies the "Black \natal" was sent back to New Male and had three years of eamraignuig :against the Indian tribes. At last. atter eleven years, what was left of tbe regiment—it had lost nine hundred and sevelaty officers and men inkilled mad wounded—was sent home. T.he surviv- ors were not without the solace of iivats turned to the. "Blaek Wateh," trona:. cowurnottene al% aei dxep-rdees-cs eadm .s at Henrysfac- Harding% afterward Lord Hardinge, "when I told .hina that the regiment was advaneing," A few Higbiandsol- diers helped the officers of his staff to bury him a few hours later ou one of the bastions of tbe eiteiel. In the Peninsular War the most act- ive service of the regimeet was ren- dered at the sanguinary battles fought at or within the French frontier. At Quatre Bras it suffered severely, los- ing 298 officers and men in killed a,nd wounded. It was present at Watreloo but was not hotly engaged. It ought to be noted that five officers returned as wou.nded, at Waterloo had all been on the same list at Quetta Bras. After thirty-nine years ofpeace in the battle of the Alma, when be Wirntois "Black Watch" was brigaded with two other Highland regiments the Sev- enty -Ninth and the Ninety -Third. un - bell, "Men"' said. Sir Colin, "you are etohinogeve ametroiounnded—,Rneme o off o No soldiers must go carryingromhatet er r as his rank—must lia where he falls until the bandsmen came tattend to him. wounded comrades. If any man does such a thing his name will be atuck up in bis parisb churob." Sir Colin was entineraly practical, but he also anew the. value of sentiment; for he won the hearts of the men by getting leave to wear the Highland bonnet. When soon sactftuearre,thvicvavrilantgoryth, ebebornogeet iinntowiltibehe the heckles of the three regiments had been combined, be was greeted with melt volumes of cheering that both tbe English and French armies were start- led witb wonderment as to what was going on. T.be "Black Wateh" has other -names —among them Cawnpore and. Tel-el- Inebir—on tbe roll of its achievements, PATHETIC %ACE WITH DEATH. But little John Harrington's Strength Wail. ed Before He Reached His Horne. Loving hearth lavisted worlds of care upon little John Harrington. Willing hands worked themselves to a shadow itt the apparently hopeless effort to make the boy's life happier. The ]ad. was a cripple. Hip disease had. afflicted him when a little, child. 'lam inactivity of his life,. the absolute la,ck of exercise, the inability to occupy his wheal with the pleasures and pur- suits of the average fifteen -year-old boy, dragged hixn slowly down, cut him all from the rest of the world. and made Itis little world a circurnstance bound- ed by the four walls of the /tome at No. 237 West 323rd St., New York. The dtoctors said that eerhaps a sea veyage would xnake his life bappier. Certainly xnedicines had nothing to of- fer to ease the pain; it was but a ques- tion of making existence bearable. So John Harrington. accompanied by his two sisters, three neintbs ago, sailed for Europe. They were in England and saw London, and then passed through the beautiful north country and. touch- ed. Southend. From there the little party went to Ireland. But nothing stemmed the ebbing tide of life, and the boy expressed a wish to be taken home. On tbe Campania, which a-eacbed New York last Friday evening, were the boy and. his two sisters. The big Cun- ceder had witnessed the boy's last etruggie against death. He fought bravely, asking but that he be allowed to clie at home. The Bishop of New Orleans, a pa,ssen,ger on the boat, was with him. almost constantly. So, too, was Father Cunmangs. The staterooin on. the la,d was filled with all things good that the ship could provide. The ram with death was ended when the Campania. tout -lied her dock, and human energy had won a temporary The boy begged to be taken home, but. the physic:lane absolutely forbade saying that the frail body was "utterly u.nable to stand the ste-ain of the long carriage ride, so it big rubiter-tired, pillow-fillea carriage took him to at. ViInnttetanet'sprE:6sel.i4clia- tit'f his rnother and the two sisters who had guarded over and guided Wm his phantom chas.e after death, the boy died late Saturday af- ternoon. Arid perhaps that was the reason why the Bishop at New Orleans showed just a sign of a tear in his eye as he siepped. an the Washington express Saturday night en route for his Southern home. Perbaps, too, it is the reason why the stateroom on the big Carupania had in Sunday a little bouquet of he. - prize money won in the coneuesi of mortelles and forget-me-nots. Havana. Eada private hadthe ruagni- ficent sum of £4 ls. 81-21, while Lord zA112b2e,anma7r.le, wbo commanded, received The regiment remainel aebome for eight years, of which Gaily two were spent in Scotland, left in 1743andnot revisited until 1775. In 1776 it was ordered to America, where hostilities were in active progress. It is interest- ing to be told that out pf the thousand and twelve rank and file whoembark- ed, all but seven were Scots and all but 83 Highlanders. One of the trans- ports was captured on its voyage by an Arn,ericaa privateer; but ,the soldiers overpowered the prize crow and nava gated the ship into the James River. Unluckily Jamestown was then in pos- session of tke colonial forces. The regi- ment had its share of whatever glory WaS won in the War of Independence. At the conclusion of peace it remained. in North America, returning to Eng- land in 1788, and six months' Dater to Scotland, where it had the distasteful edviute5t•i<yn, ofsquelliegthe disturbance caus- ed in the Highlands by the wholesale The next campaign was in Flanders, and with this is connected the tfaanous episode of the "Red Feather." Late on January 3rd the English pickets near the Waal were compelled to retreat. A cavalry regiment was ordered to cover th,e movement and protect the guns, but broke and fled. Sir David Dundee called out "Forty-second, for God's sake and the honour of your country retake Mose guns." They did retake Mena, a,nd they wear the red feather to tthis day, having vindicated some seven- ty years ago their, special right, tamer otitnivilighland regiments, to this dis- After other less celebratecl services came the famous victory of Alexa.naria, witich Mr. Forbes describes with more than usual fulness, and after Alexan- dria, with an interval of four years at home and three years at Gtbraltar, Cartenna, *Imre the brigade, which was made up of like forty-second, the Fourth area Fiftieth, bore the brupt ef the attack. The last look that4ir John Moore east on the struggle of that day. 1,V,IILL BE NO MARTYR. Russia's Government has decided to take no further steps iu commotion witb the trial of Theodore Ko.valeff, the Tisaspol fanatic, who, in obedience to th,e commands of Ms fellow sectarians, immuredand buried 15 of them alive. The authorities feel that the punish- ment of a man stuc,h as this by the ordinary legal methods would merely have tbe effeet of endowing hien with th,e halo of a. martyr. Consequently, instead of either being condemned to penal servitude, or to death as a murderer, be will be kept for tbe remainder of his days in a mon- astery in a, remote part of the em- pire. CLUSTER, OF MARRIAGE BELLS. A CLUSTER OF MARRIAGE BELLS. Among the floral decorations at a recent' English wedding, instead of a marriage bell, a number of smaller bells on various sizes were hung togeth- er. The bells were made of while blos- soms with a small orange suspended by a white satin ribbon for the clapper. These bells were hung from an arch inane of green foliage plants. IFIE COULDN'T FURNISH IT. Yes, be said, with sorn.e show of tem- per, you're just the kind' of aware= to spend $10,000 a year on 'dress alone. Oh, no, rm not, she repliedasweetly If I were I would have married a dif- ferent kind of a man. And the more he taought of it the more satisfied he became that it was a hot one. BAD LUCK FOLLOWED HIM Ad Stumpy make much of a success aas a, singer? , No; the same old story. All hie notes were protested. 111 I Mai 811Iii lit ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. Neighborly Interest la His Dotega—metters etaloment and Furth amiLdred from Ws Dant Record. At Niles, Mich., there is a Chinese bi- cyclist. He is Poo Lee, a laundryman. An old possum., with fifteen young Franklin, caught in a henhause at In The flight of a meteor over Kansas waseiaty kept there. to death an elk that v Zena King, of Fairland, Mich., kicked aletgaazhoaginsta edmos. npissted it, and broke las Boys of FILM, Mich., got $400 from the County Treasurer during June in bounties on sparrow heads. Three girls and one boy, eacloweigh bag 4 1-2 pounds, were born to Mrs. J. June 20, W. K 1107 near Latab, Wash., on a_u Down in Florida the veracious cram- iciers report a mare that ba,s develop- ed an appetite for genuine spring chick- ens. An ambitious youngster in Marion county, Or., tried to ride on a cow's bbraockanoidatvviae-slethrown and suffered a ken Nearly a ton of hay has been mowed and put away this season by Augustus Brown of Bangor, wbo is 84 years To allow the workmen to do their haying, the building of a Quaker's church at St. Alban's Vt., Sas been stop- ped temporarily. One of the big fish caugat in Ore- gon last month -was a four -foot salm- on, weighing fifty-five pounds, tvehich was taken at The Belies. Because, waen he proposed marriage, her lover did uot tell her that he was subject to fits, a nedgwiek County, Kan., wife has brouglat. suit for divorce. Fax his work in maintaining perfect order in the streets at Titusville, Fla., on July 4, Marshal Rod Smith, of that plium has receivetl a gift oi a New York police hell:net from an admiring busi- ness mare One man lost in Lwerity-four years at sea is the record of Capt. George W, Alley of Ellsworth, Me., who after a. career during 'which he commanded twelvevasbueealsin"s , bas. retired from tbe sea toenter A horse, which up to the last was call- ed a pony, died at Burlington, Kart., recently at the age of 41. The owner Dr. Manson, had bad it in his posses- sion for thirty-nine years, ever since hneeanlusght it. from the Sac and Fox Idia An orchard of seventy-five trees, which have been bearing for more than sixty years, on the farm of Henry Daw- kison, near Whitesville, Ind., Las for the last five years yielded a better quality of fruit and. more of it than it did a score of yeers ago. Under a Wisner, Mo., drug store four small skunks have established them- selves, and they are said to be as gen- tle as kittens, Frequenters of the stare are content to admire without being tempted to the familiarity whicb house cats are apt to engender. Suit for breach of promise was brough against Frank Robinson, of Anderson, Ind., the day after hie mar- riage to alalinda Personet, by Isis I ;let wife, from whom he had been diteeeed a year before. She sued fax $5,005, al- legiag that after the divorce he had wooed and won her again. The lucky man of Arizona who found that some of his sheep which used a certain salt -lick yielded on slaughter four ounces of gold should surely ;ex- tend felicitations to a farmer living near Portland, Or., who raised a geese in the gizzard of which the cook found a dollar's worth of the yellow metal. At the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Nelson Swaggart, 80 years old, and his wile, fit years oat, at Athena, Ore ' there were present. three married daughters, five married sons, and a dozen grandchildren. At the end al the reunion all went to the cemetery,wbere four of the old couple's children are burled. People get up early in the morning out in Newbraska., and. from this habit some enterprising social leader has ev- dyed an idea which has become a fad in the neighbourhood of Grand island, where " breakfast picnics" are in vogue. The guests start out at 4 oa cheek, breakfast in the woods, and come home before the sun makes things too hot for comfort. The father of eleven children living near Birmingham, inlich., was so angry at a daughter's decision to marry ag- ainst his wishes that, enter a family row, he made his will, took laudanum, and lay down in his room. The family had seen him try to fool them before, and thought that he was shamming again, but! he had taken too xnucb of the opiate to recover. Thomas Harrison, 60 years old, for- merly of Crittenden county, Ark., found himself without a home, after the Mississippi floods in the early staling, and Look a steamer to 1VIemphis, where be beca,me imbued with the idea that he must see the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. He set out to walk the. 300 miles toNashville, and a few days ago he arrived there. Of the whole distante he had rielde.a only fifteen miles. The librarian of the public library at Kansas City says that fax a year there has been a greater call fax works on Alaska than fax books on any other country or section of the globe. She has supplied .the library, she says, with everything trustworthy she could pro- cure on the country during this time, wondering all' the while what bad aroused so much interest in that coun- try in Kansas City. Readers, she says, have studied writings on the titbits of, the people in Alaska, read. the Govern - given etspeoial attention to routes to ment reports on the Territory, and the Yukon. country, IVIIGHT BE iivcen. But I thought your husband eves such an aetive roan? Active! If it weren't for me, I don't believe be'd. get up in time to go to bed. Ala, well, that's better that; some husbands, you know, war seareda go to bed in time to get.*-ee