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AM determined."
Fv? 7 f-:l 1 'Major Nesbitt,
iTiraTJ L* • I ' r ' twinkling eyes
f sweeping around the
W h semi-circle formed
|k,'' sib >ut him by his six
friends, “that the
t®hs Iwoby prize in this
’V I series of story tell-
<»n«n=z ing shall not come
to mo.
“In my younger days before i was old
enough to know better. F suppose. 1 re
garded myself as the raw material of a
great novelist. To my nay of thinking
1 was to write, not the great American,
but the great southern novel. Il would
not lie an extravagant estimate if 1 said 1
have written no i.ss than fifty times the
first two o! three chapters of a book that was
to make Mrs. Stowe ashamed of her Tn
cle loin’s Cabin.' fortunately my book
was never completed. The chief value of
my early literary efforts was the experi
ence 1 gained and if 1 get a trifle novelistie
in tiie recital of my story you must at
df tribute it to my youthful indis.-ret io-n.
■ “With the ease and rapidity of the nov.-I-
1 ist who carries his readers' on the swift
wings of fancy wherever he wants them
to go. 1 shall ask you to Ily away with me
to smith Georgia. Just imagine yourse.f
standing in the midst of a wide dirt road
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F.<s .. ~ .. ... , t.nvaro In r "Hl* -t
Tn leak a. ea; h other
. ■ ■ ■ : ■is th* first to sp '.io. ,
~ vo.t * . Ihma rd < dinreh,
\d]v. •Ar.-n't yotiV .
e: • ’ iv J am/ he repiit-. astonished,
at each other with that interest we till feel >
in one we have not met for years and who |
was a very great friend of our y.mlh. |
"’How big you have grown.' she says,
’it is positively shocking- I halt expected j
to find you just the same.’ |
“ ‘We did not expect you until tomorrow, i
he ventures abashed, not knowing what, j
she bad said. ’You had Io walk from tl’.e
station.’
“‘lt; was nothing.' she says. ‘I liked it >
because 1 could stop at all the old places, j
I intended to spend a. day in Atlanta, but.
the Turners were out of town, so 1 came on '
a dav earlier. There is not miedi change.' i
she a.lds.
" ‘No.' he admits, ‘the house is still right |
over there,' gesturing toward it as if hi - j
exjx'i-ted her to go to it immediately.
“ ‘Yes,’ she answers, ‘and surely yon are I
going to walk over with me and carry my
satchel?' Smiling she throws th<> strap over ’
I her head and holds if out to him. He looks i
at his neglige costume in an < mbtirrass- |
cd way. 'I am hardly a til escort for a
lady,' lie remarks. Sim laughs at hint ami I
de< lares: ‘You ically look handsomer now' i
than you used to. Come along.’
, “Ami he walks to the house with her. i
Presently you lose sight of them as they
enter the ponderous gate. The young lady
is perfectly self-possessed and at ease, but
Church is no*. The woman by his side Ims
changed in away that he does not like.
She has grown handsome ami graceful,
but he famies that her life in New > >rk
hits i'aused her to forget tin l old friends.
They talk together of old times, even of I
the times when ho kissed her and she
slapped him for his offense. 'lluy laugh
together over tlx l memory, she hoartil.x. he
consiraiueilly, as if it were all a thing of
the past that could never be r<-peated.
“Miss Church ami Miss Berry tell into |
each other's arms with cries of joy. ami
for a full minute there was the sound of I
kissing. Howard stood by smiling. 'I hen I
the two ran off together to talk about <w
entiling and get a<<|iiaitited again after leu
years' sopuralion. Howard took nilvantago
id’ the opportunity to get himself into more
pri sontaide shape.
“Elaborate preparations hail been made
to cnfortaiti Miss Berry. Several friends
[ had been invited to be the guests of the
| Church home while she was there, among
I them two lollin' men from .Atl.tiita and it
.Y..IIOJL' bul.v. iroiu Savaimah. Il wtts a J
i itiiwas hlio said ul- »ut i..* obi *t ’
ncv. tn Miss Berry, Church saw an oh
mini of dampr to himself and ho avoid'd
her guardedly as well ns be muld consist
ent with bospit.ility . He i' io. :w d to I;
self that it would b.- lint a short i r
him to fall desperately in |o\>. w ith' h'-r.
which could haxo but ope result die
would laugh .al him. A young ladv ' ho r
gued. -who hid been courted bv Society
in ,\.-w York and has had scores’of lovers
would scarcely come here to find a Ims
band.'
“Miss Berry treat.,! him a< she might
Ile.it a brother, which be attributed |.. th.,
old friendship that hud existed between
the. Il she showed him marked ]>rcf. ronc ( . s
and drove young fellows into a
frenzy of jealousy, lie believ. d it was bo
cause they had known each other so well
in their schooldays; the others thought dis
fereiitly.
“Otic day they went on tin cxcttrsi hi to
tile Id .■ choolhoilse where both had been
students together. It elmneed that Church
| wtts her escort, and long after the others
. had grown tired of the old place ami wan-
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“TTIE NORTHERNER DH> NOT FLINCH.''•
dered .aw t.v, these two stood critically
< ■ nparitig it to its old time glory. She
, sat down u here she once sat as ;t student
j ami fancied that she could see the ink- 1
' Siaitis she bet'.-elf h id made.
"'I >o yon remember littl-- freckled-faced I
j .liminie Branham, and uiiat a (error he •
■ wa- !-• its girl-?' .-le- asked: ‘girls were his •
p.-irtiett’ar pr.-y . lie was always smeared
with ink ami dirt ..nd took a k.-cii del- |
l:.-i:' i piiiiimr ink on us. Ih. you ri-m'-.'u-
’ I ’np;.‘ - asked with a smile and a look at. I
I .ip'ron'when h • ft i-bed in!< on my white
ii li,. rtddied him in the dirt for |
' pc'.’ i-',' Ci ' llil whip- I
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. th' . she ha. , . : '■ ,h
: anwsered ' - -"■ i -
I wo’ ; ' 1 Hbbon ]
,in n torn- of grief ■ !. ‘ ''■ " 11 ‘ ’ I
It lie. or Wolll,! ‘ ‘ • j
bean.’ sh< sigh,.,l -t ‘I""’
I sl-e w.-i-f . ' ‘ a n remember, too.
I 1.0 i|- soil / : ’te-e|l 11. nine. y,,n jumped I
! v '.., " 1 anti told Ihe tea.-h.-t- i
' 7 ’ ■ nmn. because !. - ;-op,-,.
‘1 would?
o, (( t.‘ ' ' '•'’‘ashing to make sure
•-•HtsVj' "CC •ii'/t 11 i ni ° that!’ she
A O' -md he remembered very
ATLANTA. GA., TUES, OCTOBER 17, 1593.
well why he did not. He would have|
rather suffered a score of floggings ihami
have her know of his getting a single one.'i
"She sprang tip suddenly to meet a young
man who had just entered the room. He;
was a ’handsome fellow of about, thirty',j
with a short brown beard, dressed, in 'lie
faultless style of the New York young i
man. She gave a cry of surprise: ‘Why.:
Mr. Ctishiiig!' she said, 'how did you get
“Cushing explained that he had come all 1
the way from New York just to see her and
was stopping with the merchant at the st t
ti,m. He seemed highly deliguted with him- ■
self and Miss Berry, and beam- 1
~,[ upon her most. charmingly.
She introdm-ed the two young'
m,m Mr Cushing, as a friend ol hers
from Now York, and Mr. Church, as her
old schoolmate and a brother of I.er dearest
j. he first, the rela
tween the two young men were strained.
Ctishiiig hated Chttr 'i b.-eatise he had been
alone with Miss Berry, at: i
Chttreii hated Cushing because lie prize I
Miss Berry highly enough to follow her
(here I’ld because he might be her apt
b/ver. But it was that masked hatred j
that men often feel without ,
showing Church asked the xew (
Y,.rker to be his guest while he r< mtlined |
bm < ’tishing refused sontew hat coldly . ay .
iu- be had made arrangements to stop a .
the station. Mi's Berry walked htiei 1> ( f
i Ween the tw o mon, both of whom were rag '
ing with jealously . !
■‘To Cushing, it se.'tned that Miss t.err, ;
: ong lil ing for the ;■ ottng sontl ■ n
pr and to Church, it was plain that th/'
voting Imlv favored her New’ York 1
When Cushing left them tit the gate. I'
damper had fallen upon Church's feelitMl j
and he did not talk. Miss Berry was di t
( ] to copy ersation, however, and to in f
lively questioning received only curt I‘‘ ’
plies. 8
•• ‘Mr. Cushing is such an elegant genii ‘
man.' she told him. ‘and pana thinks he .j
such a model young ma n.' 1 'hiirch grii:it» I
lie w as mt in ai 1 inmor to hear the prai
es of the Nov. York man sung. The a
rival of Miss Berry's Now York lover co
tirmed Church in his previous views th;
flu- less he saw of Miss Berry the less cam
ho would have for regret when she returnt
to her home.
“Cushing came over from the static
on the following morning and rcumiiK
during the day. Hi appearance had th
effect >d' routing till the young lover.-;, v-h
viewed it jusj as Chu’"h did. All believ
cd that Cushing' must be an accepted lox
er and he had Miss Berry to himsidl. ex
ci pi nt those limes w hen she chose io de
vote her-.elf to some one else in the party
Tim eoidness that sprung up bet ween Cush"
g and Chi eii first meeting grew,
more and more pronounced with time, i
it. amounted to a freezing regard, whii-ly
scareely admitted of a eouteous gremiug.
'Pin bowed to each otht rat meeting, but
scarcely spoke during the day.
“Miss Berry seemed delightfully uncon
scious of the feelings of the two young
men, and treated both as she had always
“The culmination/of the armed hostility
he two ygimg men camo in very
short lime. It. wai about a week after/
b-rwai I. ' '••••>< >.
“‘Will you let ni" see those letters
■ ! Berry s. please,’ he eotisl.l
inedtng on 1 his hand, t'hurcll looked :|
him for a moment. ’No.' he said. ’I will
not. I know of no right of yours t,, Sl .1
them.’ Cushing (lushed hotly. ‘There a r.l
■ i great many things you don't know tlml
yon will soon learn.' he said. ’<'omtesyl
is one of the things you ought to be taught. 3
' ■ who saw fhi lit Ile sei 1
me a ft.erw ards that they felt sure Chur'l
was going io pound the life out of him oJ
the spot, lie was perfectly livid "ita
anger, he laid the bundle of mail on
if preparing to strike Cush
lu£. I I"' northerner did md flinch, but
ng f r him to move. With an
etiort. Church controlled himself and pielt
e>| up his mail again. Ib- brushed Ciishin#
aside ami started out. ‘l’m sorry he sa 1
'' l! ' came so near forgetting myself sc
mierlv as to lax hands upon sm-h a eon
icmptible thmg.' Cushing was . alm. ‘lde
maud. I:., sank ‘that y.n. give im that sat <
ls ‘ :l< li°n that is customary among so it I
i ntlemeti. I guess yen will nut Ifuse
I that.’
i < inm-ri turned and iacod him son mo
. lixil i . A 'I 11: 11 light y.»! a dll<? he
’* refuse t> <l« it.
* ,lr peoj ie in tip l )>< .stofliee whiknew
' 111 'it "; re astounded ihat he shrld re
j ' fight, and indignant thatlio, a
i southern man. should refuse to ee* a
■ northerner. But with their own eat they
hao’, >id him r< rise, and now s.v him
| warning lov.ard his home with Ids nil un
der his arm.
I , “The next morning Church im Miss
i « s s hc "as coming downstairs.
Sac looped at him . itrioiisly. ’Mr. (lurch. ’
I 'he lid Ven quietly, ‘what is thi-J hear
‘f'i dug to fight a duel vth Mi.
I • i: m'::,: lie -danced at her <[tiis!y. 'lt
■ is true, lie said an.] stood fm-it ./,?r. She
I looked surprised. ‘True. - she s.nv ‘I did
I t'"’ beliei c it- 1 toJ.i them it teas fate, and
I nor. you tell me that j t j.. u .,.’ y,, u
’I art .’t.o jokim ’ he sal. wait
. 1 - J 111 In ar wliat she would -y next.
! 'then, why did you do it? ThO* must
I have been some reason—you \ere. not
i afraid? I always thought you s< brave. 1
’1 refused.’ hi' said, ‘because I iid good
nelsons lor doing so - I am opposes to duel
ing. And, then, I was afraid of he* conse
quences.’
“.She was now looking at him with con
tempt clearly conveyed by the exircssion of
’ S p'.'h q?t T duel ’ " si/Jeft him. I
Hie
t curious things wonu n . ■ (bis
licit she wanted me to tight him
fter that Church s:l "' 'm>'y |
Berry and nothing or flushing. >di .
ed To avoid him quite -■ ;
1 as he did her. and as
Cushing. his Visits elitlf'dy ! -
nd church considered that m* l.ad » x
nt reasons for not lighting. I irsl '
, Berrv’s name would be dragged mb
And then nothing but evil results eoubl ._
Y of it Either himself or (.msmm
id be killed. If he should be kuled his | --
ler and sister would have no t'
e ,-t them, and if Cmdirnc was I. .led V
cmseqiietiecs would be almost as bad.
L n drove Miss B-rry to the u -
| e da' oi her departure for New ■■■•'•.
v talked, but th" conversation was < ti
nt from that between them on the day ,‘-
arrival. A certain constraint xya>
by both, and both were glad X\hi n t.ie
dhureh noted with sow.- surprise that
hing was at the depot in a traveang
industriously looking after Iris trunks.
aently he was going back to New i
h Miss Berry. He bowed to her without
tearing Io se>-Church. They stood <m the ;
ti"!-. that form a few minutes waiting for :
i train and watching t ushing.
i£lov. ard put heron the sleeper, arranged i
!' packages on the seat . tin :
o d km- a moment. talking j
: ) I( . r He was trying desperately I
’-d to f.peak an 1 act as if notni.ig had i
Opened sin e her arrival to estrange .
*‘l ha ve enjoyed your visit ever so niu ii. ! s
» .sain’. ‘You miiet come back again ; d
ot>.' . . , !
“ ■ Ynd you and Nannie must visit its ,
ifNew York.’ she said. '\Ve would be so .
ad to have you.' . I *
pp, v shook hands, although it yas a . -
-inuto befor- tlm train would leave. ,
b , n h hft thi car. H.- often refers to -
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“‘YOI NI'A'ER TOI.D ME ABOUT IHA I.
that as the most unhappy momen' <d his i
life He was boiling inwardly with his
! .,wn emotions'. His only thought was that,
me was parting with her forever ami that
\b' despise i him. 11<* walked out btnidh
.a. started home.
l\T. -ide the ear just underneath Miss
’ llrv's window he ran violently against
' li >' one. Il was Citshhig who an I, b'-eii
j tehit for <
r > y e .-if the - >llision shot
, ’n «. rw-.r.i several f.Jrt ind lam linn
« W /-»..■ i'U.i-v 11,.. t.-niti !*«•'■ -ill llint
: ' •* s ngai hsi wet oct ..trikir.g
IM tishing squarely :n iho eye and driving
■ im liilly six feet away. Cushing arose
Idindi'l from the blow ami the blood that
Idiot from a ent on his < beck and, with .a
■ •owl, rushed toward Church. The latter
naught him as he came and with his right
,|irm thrown about his neck ho strwk him
’’l q.zzen swift blows in the eyes and face.
1 "Ciisliing staggered blindly wh 01 Church
jfreed him ani caught to the platform for
■su[ij>ort. THs face was purple from the
ilpounding and Idoo] -tn-amod fr on it.
1 is a srt'l sight to bidiohl attJ the peo
,-ple .around the station lamrin I.
t “Church glance! up. Miss Berry had
ibeen a sib-i.t witness to the whole affair
1 was m>w 1 ><iking at
jCuslring with a half .amused, half anxious
.exjiression. She caught Church's eye
:aml could not repress a faint smile. ‘What
1 a pity,’ she said .
“As she spoke the train began to move.
■CI-r.ch w.-itcheil it vanish, lookin-.- at M;ss
Berry's face still in the window. The
engine made a pretty curve ami after it the
eoaehets traib-l graeefully out of sight.
The sleeper was the last to disappear. At
Miss Berre's window Church saw a faint
white speck flutter for an instant and dis
appear with her into the ear. He looked
a-min Io sec if site were not waving her
’mndkerchief. but the train wa- g-uu;.
He listened to the rambling n f the tram
now out of s-ghf. Presently he stirred like
•i man waking from a dream. < nslttng was
still -lin-.'ing to the platform for support.
Church laid a hand gently upon the New' j
Yorker's arm. •, , <• 1
“‘Cushing.’ he said with a return or ,
his old time hospitality and in a tone that 1
had a touch of regret in it. ‘lean on _my 1
.arm -that's right, hold' steady. Mell just ;
walk across to the drug store and have
this repaired.' .
“Tb.o train w'.as nothing but a faint and
distant echo.” >
Kathleen Avurra.
Kathleen Avarr.a.
yV'uat diamond tiara.
'fl.at gwoth the brow of a queen
Willi thi‘ golden dark hair
On your brow' can compare
Or rival its wonder of sheen.
Kathleen Avarra.
No angel's cithara.
Inbient with a murmur divine,
I'otml make me forget
Nor a world's coronet
The rich, ringing laughter of thine.
Kathleen Avarra.
Wliai supple zingara
That trips through the gay taraute!
Hath smh sylph-glinting grace
or the joy of a trace
of tin- faults that become you so well?
Kathleen Avarra,
That dame of b’err.'tra,
Whose pri.ie was a pride most supreme,
Had not such a tread.
Or so regal a head.
Or eyes of such arrogant gleam.
Kathleen Avarra,
The old harp of Tara,
Hangs silent today on the wall:
Hut a minstrel could make
All its sighs for your sake
With the music at memory's call.
Kathleen Avarra,
Sure life's a Sahara.
With m>t an oasis in sight;
Could it otherwise bo.
Since you deign not to see
That vou are tile star of my niglit .'
JOHN .MYERS O'IEYRA.
F.diior Cooper’s Opinion.
I'rom T he Rome. Ba., Tribune.
The Atlanta Constitution of Sunday was a
snbperb number. Its staff is doing brilliant
work. The Constitution is a great newspa
per.
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VI'I-'ING. pant ug, throb- I. >!ra'
i.'-w Mill tins', pounding. . hid
HtW vbv th*' "Empress" and j I:
W!| V-n :-\o ir.n.T thos. two ! hor
?. i W ni-omitieeni triumph-; of 1 the
I I modern mechanism. sp.-d , m-a
the ten- | s;m
n I? mile course. I 1
t -j rhe til's' five miles had , .111
A been run in two luinutes
/ I and a m,!f | ’!?
Thr vas! conrourst* or '- '
spi „., :lt(l! . „ ;i , R -ich ami ! au
tight as the iron - J f) h( .
them like two huge turns, t.- .
discover which led. r,■, T)
Inside the Hi.- Empress two ft.< n- .1 (f
shoveled coal into the hungry fnrmiee.
torn it was haif it was vonutco <». i
of the vibrating smokestack liigii into ihe •in - yj
The engineer, unable to keep ins >-a . ■- to
prone upon his box. n ", *’ w t‘
was clutched in liis iiand: with the otlnr m,
motioned for more coal. tl
••Twenty <''ven." he screamed six miles had g
uuule ip three see.,mis b-s than thru- n
minutes. "
Jiardlv ten feet away, swaying, roiling. y<t t
bounding forward with ever im-r-a i- - sp.-ed
was "No. tr.r.i." Hie pride of Anu- •" ■ in- <
cab was tilled with smoke that bad bc-n ; >■
jerked down bv the mighty- vacuum from tin- I ( -
i co-il impregnated roll or vapor that poured. I
I from tin- bowels of the monster, and on: •■( :
! the red-tit t"-d throat. The engineer iooled ,
lat his steam indicator ISti pounds. He give .
i the throttle a j.-rk. 'mt it had readied us
I limit, tiras'diig a third shovel he jo.ned .1.3
I riremeu; more coal, nmro steam, 'he three
men. looking like three red-wnisted devl.s
ill their 11-innel shirt.-, worked like fiends of
sat in replenishing tie tires of heli. Ihe ar
row <»H Hip indicator moved up.
The seventh mile was i>!oil<‘d out in twenl}'-
; five se<‘onds!
I .‘i*s and firemen were » n h.-.ued . I lie
; 1 irti ■•• •-. '•• <• » • ’hrink ft >m hh» |
Inere.'idng: m.-k had the Iron hra>ts reached |
the Ihnh? I
ItiiHi-iii'kc iiiul t 1
■ JONES’S YARN. i
Z I . s i-' -iking." said .la. kson ITt -rs. “,.f the
ingenuity of man | j„., t s(l ., k , ()f j( Jn ,
f | 7' ,! ’ expl.-iitied hastily, us I R . C yed
t , Jones. ‘ Speaking of ‘
r ; "Pardon me, Jm-kson, l( . moment I
t j Please, before lie listen to yon,- tas.-im,ting '
' i ". ;irr;lI,r<>ke iu Joti-s, ivtth great
| sutiiily . It (ic.-ttrs to nic tlml you jnav
i | be a. descendant, of that historic man who
1 I had out one story, a long gun story. You
j remember he used to bring iris (is*t <l.wtt I
o! i Hie talde atter dinner wilt, a terrible
bang and then remark : 'I ,I, ciarc, sounds
| like a gun, and then he would reel oil bis
J l gnu .-.tot-y for (he next thirty minutes, i-'a-
I trier's or mother's side. Jackson?"
“Y’oti tire in uneommoniv high spirits,
; - Jones," replied Jackson I'ei-.-ts. "I'erk ip.- i
‘ | we are to lie favored tonight with the exact ■
(acts in reg-ard to your encounter with tile ;
blue racer, having- taken a month sim-e you ■
; jiromised it to constri,or them. My refer
I i m e to the ingenuity of inaa was legitimate |
I and was prompted by the subtlety of tlw I
I waiter in whisking away .-tn imaginary ily .
I with his napkin in the hope o aiigmeui-
' ing his tip. I-’rom tb it I was about to tell '
■ of :t Texas horse thief 1 had just read of. '
j who ten years ago had the opt-raiion of-
- tracheotomy performed on himself, ami a ;
j silver tube inserted tiiroiigii winch he ;
could breathe. He has been lym-hetl riven- i
I hues sim-e that, inn as tie- rope always j
comes abi H e l he t tlb<
The yotitig man was interrupted o\ a .'
i cheery laugh from Jones. "Really," broke ’
in this individual, “that was tin ittgenmous ; ■
j idea. I>o yon know. Jack-on. 1 believe you j
come of a ,-lever family ?" i .
"Thank you. Jones."
I ‘'Extraord.hiarily clever family. I knew - ;
: as soon as 1 gathered that' the fellow was ; .
another uncle of yours that lie’] do some- ; j
tiling bright, but 1 was hardly jiri'-pared for i ,
this. I’riends have in the past been so ■ ;
kind as to say that I am mys If itigeirioits i
in getting out of diliieulty. bitt i never rose ! .
to anything like that. I remember a lit
tie brush I had with wolves in northern . j
Wisconsin before the war. Th-- w.-k-s . s
there were of the large timber variety, i t
and it lining a hard winter they were < on- ! ,
staidly hungry." . ■
"But. Jones." intcrpos.-J Robinson, “s -nie-
body mentioned the blue racer story." ' r
“Not tonight. Robinson; not tonight. I I (
have got to look up certain facts and tig
tiles wliich I noted in my diary at th •
tim<> before 1 e in trust myself with that.
I would not di • iv ■ you about ih it blue
racer for anyth!:.g in th-' v.-nld. There
are always t:-mj-tations in :t blue , racer 1 j
story which 1 must guard aganm! . Those 1
wolves, I repeat, eeeme-1 always to have a : ,
gnawing -ensat mt in tin- s t onia --It. t' -..-y ;
were tierce and dan a-roi's an I would i ,
rea lily ail.tek .a man even when, there I r
were ’m> more than two or thr o of themj
together, tine day in January I was g■- |
ing from < Fjibwtiy t ’ity to I'o.iime de Terr ■ :
rii'er on foot, aeeoitman.' 1• a by my d *g. :
which was n,aim'd Bones, from In - t-• .■■!- • 11
m-ss for this a.'ii'le of lief. i 1-- was a I
good dog. Inn he had rettd somewhere that B
discretion is the bitter |-ar: o; vaior.
“B-mes was not a <log that would ever - li
go about the country asking folks in I.is . o
poor dumb way v. in-re he could probably • t
find a large ptn-k of w-dvew It a woif ; •
ever sticei-i-ded in meet ng Bones lie h i-1
to bring good letters of introduction from [ j
mutual friends. M hen .about tijn-mi ma-s . ?l
from Pontine de Terre 1 noth ed timt j, t
Bones was becoming nm-.i w. I ive m.ai:i"s
later 1 observed that Im was w-aric. th--
' hair on bis back pompa lour. I misp,-.--.-J . ,
; wolves, and i was right. The soon .
up not lift ’.' a f'H behind. Th- u.- at ‘
least on ■ hundred ot im ni I:- c--. i -i.iih. . ~
hungry, savage wolves. Their tierce howls
r .. v , viler 11.-d through ihe startle ' forests ’ '
kke the diabolical Mtrieks of frenzied, d m m ; | t>
i in torment, i saw that a hand-to-hard
eoniest with them was out -of the question. | a
ITight, was my only hope. 1’ .•■ling no
Bones by the nape of the neck, 1 tucked him i a
under my arm and started.
“Tor forty minutes, gentlemen, J ran like | li
a eat in a dog show. 1 supfio.se I covered <!
PRICE 5 CENTS
wn along ’n.v the vortex of t.w f-'o -A.'•».
them from tin- sight- "f k'’,"' “'
nto the ninth mile jumped ’ ’ , ‘ „
•mW. The crossties sprang rnv--w-'.:-o •’•■
rose in waves and 6-li harn i.- .v umh •-
Hh tin wheels. hunureds al '•••' ''"'•
u-ned l.v the proud creator, s. lar amyl
• end of the race the goal, designated t'.V
archway -wao in sight.
■No fV.V.I" poked its steel-bound no“<- asp.-c e
vond ihe .-wifi-wh-cled "Ewp'."- -" H'*’
jglish engineer f-lt it; it fright.-a-l him. He
aneed ni his sb am. and with >i groan <>r
iguish looked about him. t'atcliiug up ’he
■aw oil can. without stoyidne i-> remove t e
,vcr. he opened I lie fiirmi and threw it in.
h. was a faint explosion, f ire blaz 1 "nt
‘ tin- smokestack.
Tin- steam increased. The ponm-rons >'.m
rcss" once more tier.- abreast her opponent i
lie firciiieu on the "Empress'' were ..ringing
> the tender, terror <1;-r.i--t.-d on their <*ollll
- pale despite Hie h>t work . F>r t’ •
.rsi time they saw at what an awful spe<-1
h--y were moving, ".'- a'!" siv't- d the en
'ineer witn a wave of his- hand. Neither
ireman moved. They stood spellbound
.vatehing the world, the pc -,■ <•: -■• ary ■bi g
iivned about them, over them, around them.
Their dizzy brains were un-ible to bear tlm
strain longer. Together, in He fi.-nzy of *
fear never before experienced, they -;.ra
from t lie engine. • nor. ••
.me struck against the steps <-f "N"
and Hie body was iiiirlei fu
riously to tlie ground, dragged
along for a moment tio >
engine.-: the other was impab ■! on the mue
mile post. r
"Twentv-tbree,” howled the engineer ot th«
"limpr. -s," His lir-meil w. r- gone tl-'.M;
Ihe r.-iei- yet to bo won. I>:i-!ai:g m- ’--ai.-a
Io the floor of til.' cab. letting lus . ’igim- rim
as ii might, lie lay weeping aicl ciying n.•• n .
"No. ‘.l.t'.i" stopped three I-.ib'lid
goal, winner of 1 lie Gr -it !' 1 n.-amnn . 1 •’
a ri.-itli >ll speet .-i i ors. Ihe 1 nip*' - uneoii
trotied, ran until it- dashed r- i-iesdy into <1
freight train.
’rh<* ten miles Unfl I” •» run in s '>H' mr.ul l ’®
ami 1 \\Tillseconds.
I t<*n miles, notwithstanding tb 't lb. sh
i was deep in soiin- plrnes. ani in
| the underbrush iuteri. The wolves
< kepi close behind. M’hen I turned me
| li- a1 I cou.d ;<■<■! 'heir . ice m b ■ .
• «" my fill'd;. Tnev 1.-ipe! up uipp. 1
, -it Hie tail of poor Boms, which was n.iv
! ‘"'"T--: 0.-ii I. , on th : ■ -1
I iiim-h my tbght eng.-mlered like a ii.um..
of a knight of old g<> ng into battle. Their
howl, w-irri and Imlcou.- a- ihe sinking
l, ' l ‘ tbiillsaild loot souls, i-’l.u.k Iho
pule needles from ihe ire.-.- and :o r , th .
mii.-s of trie no 1 ->rr'inat<- Bouets in a u.iy
" Inch w.-is painfid to J
At fib' end of ten inFles I began to
-1 spru-'e tree stop] in m>-
•nto 1 climbed it. Rer-dring mv-'i'f
oil a lower limb some fifty feet I t-om’ rhe
ground and tying Rones in pl.n-e on a :-. tiier
<>.t of string. I looked devn on the
angry, singing sea of wolv. s below. J f.- t
safe and hi my pipe and gave mv d->g a bam
bone which I lia.l in my p.,ck.-:.‘ Bip -..0n,
to mv surprise., the wolv.-s in'.:.in im'si extra
ordinary ta.-ties m.thing |e.-. imini. m.m,
th.'in gnawing -..own the tree. (>n ■ hundre.i
se-- of ravenous f.t: l g< tore and hit the
H'tiljk. ly-rw sh.-H ib,. rr ,„, ~ ]
an. , i knock- .1 ihe .-xhes .Hit
rny rjin! n. pt (i.p •< ?:’-
s- r;t.i]sly, J !: ()jl j •>,->
I
I'l’ll'tl t:;i • t, ( | ]'• ;<» «v, f hc'oW
’ f,; mtapn" I his ja .- - 1 |.,.. 1i it with fami.-he i
Hf n ( .p,jj.- l lip-ii) hl,; :n. ihg
"A-" '
Hie jaws < : every wolf v , I, .] tog, e, -
i’Ust ;iil libnb tii >|i<‘iin:.r. F ib - <’ii j- -I
With Bones, who now burke i .-.-iv.-i-e’e m i
the w. Ives with great q.irit.
iiilli ms asssi ame 1 drove i b -tb. ]
helpless b> T’omtnc de Terre like
a tlo.-k ~f sheep. Th.-;-.- -ms at trial time
■-•in ...mu yon wolves. Mo rounded them
mt m trie coiirtboit-e yard and 1 row
•Sl.fMO from ;h,. tr-a-n-.-r .‘'o'
which I repaired to the T.<- Grand Mon
tirque hotel a id ordered sup
getting Io besp.-a]; tiie larg-<t soup b n--
in town for my dog. 1 returned to (Uib
way City the next day. bin san no ivolvcr
that is all. gentlemen. Pardon the rame
uess of my nnrrative. J ioubt not' our
time might have been better employed."
".foiies. ' said J:i<-k.'->ti Peters, "v.>tt re
fused to tell the blue ra.-er story be
cause yon had nor yo< looked tip the ex
act facts, on} yoti not ?"
"Yes. Jackson. Wh.,: of it?”
“Nothing.”
1 igbts In flic House of Represent.utivro.
I’ ! '>*!i ! 110 F’uf.;l’t> (/"Eirior.
’lit-re w.-'< a cnp Hiritpr n n
floor of the hop representatb.M Kebrn-;-v
1 “ ,s ' : "‘ f "'ceii ri.ger Griswoi-I. ~t < ~n.
ueeHfUt. a::d Ma- aew I.yon. of Verm-w.:
editor of T-i- S ourge .f \t.H-r.-i•• v an I It-’,
pu-trory of Itni.c.i-t.Mi 1 • >iiif-i-....■ j, .... >
-
yneh -an serv I.t term in tail m. t p ;iill a
tine of .'■l.Oo:'.
An 01. l ran-' .nt rej.resents she two con
gressmen n.iinim ■ , ;,,•) .cp, -i, ;J
gel and :-mg-. Cn icr -_-r .ss provocation I.ven
had -pi' in Griswold’s fa.-e but at rhe time
of l.te fracas the .house h. s .,| n d ca ;ind
to order, tlmngii prayer had 1. o ff„red t.v
the i-ii.m ain .
In l.tmotis spc.-ik -r-Jitj. .-ontes: of
F’oEef. "■ V. j--. .. ; TUrksdale. Os
Mi.-;si -s p:v, i.y tl i.a:.- w,th the intention ot
Ir.igging him frem id-- - -i- ano p-undiig htia.
in 1 :•.' eti' .''i wa- t'riisl r. io ) t.y f.,.
Ilia: Birk-t i e wore a wig. which yielded to
!• raer's gra-;>. lea ving Bat k-d;-.!c‘s baht pate
1- '.is ..i-.viys ! i'.-i- asserted that Crow, of
-'••nn-yli.kn.e-. - I uavra K- , / f-.'utli
‘ir -I:;.- az li.- ca;i.-s-- of the same vin
es-. though a v.-r-mn of the altalr given to
i, r--p; - seated ’lie t,v.. men a- w -i-.y c.i
ng eacii ..‘her "a bi-wi; : .■piml’c.in pup:'."
md "a ne.. : • d~i■ .-. ’ ivtiite John Colada
hood w:-th au iron spittoon poi- : "<! tibove lus
i-ad ri-aii,.’ t” p.-i ,i.c.- m au affray that
li I tic: anlually co;iw off.