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____ _ ?' ? ' ?- : ~ ; ; ; : :?? **"-?"? ~~~~ ~~^?~~~?' ^ ^ ISSUED SIMI'WIEBI,^ ^ l m geist & sons, Publishers. I % #mitg Uewspaper: Jfor the promotion of the political, Jhoriat, Sjricutfurat, and <romuicr.ctaI Jnteresls of the people. ' established 1855. t YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1900. NO. 35. " " " " a - THE HOUSE ?M By Sir D'Artagan Isstens, Cadet of a Order of Wassmark and On Court of Charles MADE INTO A ROMANCE 1 Copyright, 1S99, by American Press Assc CHAPTER IX THE LOVE OF A WOMAN. I grew steadily stronger, and soon moved from my bed to a big chair drawn np to the window It was the heat of so miner now Harry was more dashing and poetic than ever before All the household, from the baron and baroness down to the boy who twirled the spits in the kitchen, was gay. and yet. deep nnder my slowly brightening face and ontward improvement, lay a black devil eating at my heart It was the devil of donbt. for Marion, whose eyes I had so often seen kind and soft, came to me seldom now. and when she did it was always with my mother or Harry Never a word of my paesionate note nnder the verses I think Harry noticed it. too. for he was kinder than ever to me Likewise Captain Castletree. who would come and read aloud from his bocks for hours at a time One day 1 was sitting alone at my open window It was early evening My mother bad just left my side, and I was in a half dream It was not a glad dream to cheer the heart.' nor a mad dream of battle to set my pulses leaping My gray meditations were broken by the clatter cf hoofs in the courtyard below and the sound of greetings I stood as best 1 could for my weakness, and looked out A big roan horse was there, and a gentleman bad just dismounted and was leaning over my mother's band The whole family seem ed to be at the dining ball door to greet him Marion and the captain greeted him with the fervor of old friends. I heard my father say "Welcome to my house. Sir WillisI' I sank back in my chair. "Who the devil is this?" I said. "He bows like a sword scabbard and has a face like a bishop.' Presently Harry came op and told me that the newcomer was Sir Willis Howard. who had come on from England posthaste with brave news for the captain "What is the news?" I asked huskily "That the estate in Devon will be Castletree's again on Christmas day, and that the real political offender has been discovered." For some time I said nothing. The light had gone out at the window How young I was! Then, "Who is Sir Willis?" I asked. "An old friend of the Castletrees and the captain's godson," he replied, "and a famous swordsman, too. I have heard." All this, which should have cheered me vastly, only threw me into a deeper gloom. When Harry presented me to the newcomer, I looked at him narrowly, measuring him as one fencer does another before the saluting. He was not overtall. but square shouldered and long armed His face was lung and grave, his eyes steely, his smile slow and sinister He said very little, but bis shifting eyes saw everything With the family he was quite a favorite at first, and. as the Castletrees were persuaded to stay in Wnssmark until after Christmas, Sir Willis postponed his own departure I think we all saw his reason for doing so before three days bad past He walked, rude and sat on the south terrace with Mistress Marion, and she accented all his attentions with gayety His manner toward Harry was always considerate and pleasant, bnt toward me that of a lord to a footman One day. when he had come np with the captain to borrow my spurs, he told my mother, who was reading aloud, how in England the younger sons were always packed off to the ends of the earth to find their own fortunes. The captain flushed crimson, the baroness stared, but I only remembered it and made no sign In a few days I could move about the house, and even take short walks on the terrace. At meals I threw off my lately' acquired reserve and talked freely, laying myself open to his cutting sarcasm I enjoyed this because it made my rival anything but lovely in the eyes of the family and lengthened my -score against him Marion, however, seemed to find his company as fuscinating as ever, and the rest had to put up with their guest Where was the open hearted boy now. once so fond of clapping hand to hilt and then begging forgiveness for the same? Even the Princess Barbara would now find me grown old enough I often thought of her The polished and learned viscount showed more feeling then I. and was i often barely polite to the Englishman, and Captain Castletree, in spite of his return of fortune, looked anxious and surprised at my change of spirit I was standing under the three shields one day looking down the avenue and thinking of that first time Marion had come tripping up toward the house of Isstens. when a boy suddenly appeared with a bunch of late meadow roses. He belonged in the stables and eyed me nervously before plucking up courage to say. "Your honor, the English lord and Mistress Castletree picked thoee for you." I took them from his hands, and the old hot blood would not be held down. With an oath I flung them across the hedge and. turning on my heel, went into the hall. There stood my mother, facing me OFISSTENS. G d f i Great House, Knight of the Royal 8 e Time Embassador to the 8 > I of England. ? - I c ? nnnnnmfi 5\ THKUUUKU RUdLKLa. c v nation. L with sad eyea T cooled mightily at ^ eight of her e "One more delicate littlo inealt, "1 said, and tonched my rapier hilt eignifi- 6 caDtly She followed roe and threw her arme c abont my neck. "Dart, dear Dart, do not forget that be is onr gnest." ahe begged 1 "He will not always be, *' I answered. As the date which Sir Willis Howard f set for his departure drew near I noticed a decided change in both Marion's v manner and hie own As he grew warm- ? er, ahe became cooler This tonched him more deeply than he would have us see. v He was to start for Blatenburg very early in the morning On the preceding t evening Mistress Castletree would not r come down from her room At 4 o'clock bis horse was at the door c ard the whole household, even the Eng- 6 / stood, as best I could for my weakness, k and looked out. v lieb maid, were there to bid him "godspeed ' I think my poor mother did s this with pleasure, and was mncb v sweeter to bim during the last ten seconds of bis visit than ever before n "1 will see you to the road, sir, "Jo said in bis ear, and went down the av t enue at his stirrup r: I carried a sword under my arm?not s: my favorite rapier, but a heavier weapon with an ingenious notch on the t! guafd against the flat of the blade. li He talked to me with feigned light- ii ness as we went down between the a beeches 1 wanted to go slowly I counted every etep, for I was not sure p of returning?that is. without the assistance of pallbearera The score my le sword blade most wipe out was a long a: nno unit rpf sin T nnt mv hand nn the fellow's bridle when we reached the c] highway, I wondered if she were worth a it all. We had both seen the kind lights G in her eyes and had both watched them fading to indifference, as thongb cov- tl ered by the ashes of some memory But tl this did not soften me one jot. tl "What would yon have of me?" he B asked. . F "I would have you dismount, sir," I g aid quietly, "and give me some sort of n satisfaction for the insuits I have re- fi ceived from you in my father's house.' "What nonsense is this?" he cried, d, snarling down at me. b For answer I struck him smartly on the face with my bare hand. a: "A peasant's insult, by heaven I" r< He ripped out his long German sword E and charged me. I leaped aside He X whistled his blade up for a cut It 1? enapped mine, and I felt it jar against r< the guard, just where the smith had b made the deep notch With a sudden ei fierce twist I broke the Damascus ehort g off, and before he had realized defeat B1 he was fiat on his back, unhorsed and o unarmed. n "Give me the hilt," I demanded, and I he sullenly handed it over. n "Now get into your saddlel" I cried, n He mounted silently "By the way. baby face, here are Bi some of your rhymes, which Mistress ^ Castletree once gave me. " And. flipping n a bit of paper in my face, he spurred b away b I lifted the paper. It was the copy of a Harry's verses which had caused such si a confusion of blushes that day on the c: south terrace So she had given it to t< him?to the fool Englishman ! No doubt li they had laughed und snickered over it o and he had made one of his favorite re- s< marks about the position of the cadet tl My pride was eat to the quick I did ii not think of my heart u I wandered away through the white d mist that lay on the fields, cursing ray- o self for not killing him when I had the chance But why blame and curse at 1 the man altogether? Like a wounded wolf, tny anger turned on the memory v of Marion The tire of love and respect P which I had kept so high on the hearth of ray heart in spite of all she had done 6' now blew away?a handful of gray d ashes But it left the mark where it had burned tl I walked with bent head across the y wet grass?ray sword under ray arm. A the paper crushed in ray fingers Only 1 a faint gray line along the enstern hills 1 showed where the morning was lying v behind the world when I turned back h toward the house I met Harry at the avenue e' "What in heaven's name have you ^ been doing?" he gasped. v "Bidding Sir YTillfs godspeed." 1 aid. He toncbed my sbonJder. "Have yon :illed bim, Dart?" he asked. I shook head "No; I let him go in bis way. which is straight to the levil." I answered. We went np to the open door, and larry reassured the family with a mile Then they went back to their leep, and I poured myself a glass of irandy and asked Garry to lend me ome money "How much will you have, dear boy ? can give you anything under 200 rowns." he said. I sipped the liquor slowly, staring arefully around the old room I.was pondering if it would be very bara to ive away from these familiar things iVith a start 1 caine back to my brothr's qnestion "Ten crowns will be enough," I anwered He went out and returned almost imnediately with a leather bag of gold. He did not ask any questions, but ollowed me to the etables and helped ue saddle Hagart We embraced silently before I mountd "Be hack for Christmas." he said, 'and do not think that the love of a voman is sweeter because it is easily ;ot." "What do yon mean by that?" 1 vhispered. bending from the saddle. "That the heart of a woman is not a took cf ballads to be understood at one eading," he answered I gathered up the reins and rode lown the uvenue with all the beeches ighing wonderment above my head )n the highroad I turned in my sadlie and tossed a ktss and a prayer back o the great uneven pile that stood now igainst a lightening sky CHAPTER X. THE FLIGHT TO THE MOUNTAINS. Mv ride into Blatenburg was oniventfnl I verily believe that if saints ind devils had been placed alternately or the whole way at every milepost I vould not have seen them On reacting the city 1 made my way through be crowds to the inn we had staid at >efore and handed Hagart over to a redleaded hostler 1 noticed his bead beause Sir Willis was of the same color Without eating breakfast I went up be hill toward the royal palace and ent in my name to his majesty He was in bis dressing chamber?not teing an early riser, except on hunting Qornings?and told the footman to end me in 1 bowed low. and be returned my alute gracionsly After inquiring after the health of II connected with the honse of Isstens ie asked my reason for honoring him ritb a visit "Yon did not seem at all anxious to pend your time with me when you rere here before.' he said "Your mujesty. I have come to offer ay sword, and if you have something ut of the common that a humble genleman who is not afraid to fight and ide can do for you I beg the commisioD." I answered "By heavens. sir, you have come in be nick of time! Here is a letter and a ittle package I would like to have de- i ivered at the court of Cloburg as soon ! b horses can get you there. " "1 will start in half an hoar." I relied He handed me the package and the itter and a eignet ring with the royal rms. "Show that whenever you want a aange of horse." he said, "and here is i purse which will cover expenses, ood morning, sir!" I bowed myselF out and returned to i ie inn, where I ate a scanty meal and len ordered my horse. I went out of i ie western gate of the city and started way on a good road of solid red earth ruit trees?pears, apples and plums? rew here in great quantities. The leadows were high with grass, and in elds the haymakers were at work. The people ran to the cottage winows to see me dash past on my big lack fcorse. At tbd end of 80 miles I drew rein at inn door and, dismounting, gave diections for the feeding and care of [agart, until I should return for him hen I showed the royal seal to the indlord and asked to have a good horse eady for me in 15 minutes. A jack of eer and a few slices of cold fowl fresh ed me wonderfully. With a long leged brown mare under me and the sun till high in the heavens I started off n my second stage of 80 miles. I will ot describe the country through which rode, for I took little heed of it. Old jemories filled my mind, which I could ot dispel. It was dusk when I made my next top, but in 20 minutes I was off again, nth a round barreled black between iy knees. Frogs fluted in the swamps, ats whirled and circled and dogs arked in the farmyards. Hard riding, bove all tbinge, is an exercise I can tand The glory of the canter, the exitement of the gallop?it was all tonic 5 my moody spirits. I drew rein at a ttle wayside inn and etruck sharply n the door with my sword From the jddle 1 could lay my hand on the batch of the roof A stout old fellow a a nightcap and little else answered iy summons. He held a candle at a angerous slant The tallow dripped ver his hand. "Have you a bed for me, my man?' asked and showed him the signet. He screwed up his eyes at me. "The ery best, milord, and the sheets all ut away with lavender." "Good! I will see to the horse myelf." said I. "while you get the bed ? _r it.. illg Oill ui Hie invcuuci. He brought me a lantern and I led he nag away, and after some tronble anked open the door of the stable ifter fixing the good beast for the night looked into the neighboring stall 'here stood a little cheatnnt mare, the ery model of grace, speed and inteligenca "She belongs to a man of taste, " 1 oliloquized and went back to the inn ifter a mug of beer mine host led the ray to a draughts chamber containing fwo beda One was occupied. Against the post stood a sword in its scabbard, 8 and articles of apparel in rich material 1 lay on the floor. 8 "You have another gnest?" I said, 8 taking the candle from the old fellow's 1 hand. * "Yes, a gentleman of the court of ' Clobnrg," he answered. 8 It did not take me long to get out of 8 my clothes and into the bed, which, in c spite of discolored curtains, was spread with white, fragrant sheets. * I was awakened by some one moving c about the room. Opening my eyes, I * found it nearly daylight and my fellow * traveler half dressed. He was wonder- S fully small, with light hair and bine r eyes, and as finely built for a man as 1 the little mare for a saddle beast 8 "Good morning, sir!" I said. * He returned my ealute with a bow v and smile. 8 Just then the landlord thrust bis 8 bead around the door to tell us that the i horses were at their corn and breakfast 8 ready on the table. ^ Upon finding while at our meal that ' the stranger was bound in the same di- * rection, I told him my name r "I think I heard of you not long x ago," be said. 1 I looked at him vastly puzzled. c "And a ride you took with a lady,' ^ be continued "Ah. exactly I" said L "Well, after t the first ten miles it was a pleasant f ride." His name was Tom Fleverley. a "My father is a cleigyman in Eng- t land, rector of a parish in Devon," he t said. c This did not eurprise me, as I had I beard of the custom in England for I priests to marry But 1 asked him if e he had ever known Sir Willis Howard, i The blood rose under bis fair skin, t "Yes, and fought with him," he an- c swered. t Here was a bond of fellowship at the very beginning, so I shook him warmly c by the band. b A boy led the horses up, and we swung to the saddles and started away.1 r The road w<>8 good and led us through a a beautiful farming land. My new v A stout old 1 cllow in a nightcap and little I else answered my summons. friend eang blithe English songs and at last one of Marion 'b favorites, i Straightway my new found content- c ment was bitter as gall. I I asked him why he bad left bis na- B tive land and chosen the court of Clo- g burg for his home. c He laughed softly and said: "When f I was at Oxford, a doctor of divinity & called me a young fool, and I kicked him t down stairs. So they told me to go t home, and instead I wrote down the ( name of every country in Europe, each t on a separate slip of paper, shook them g around in a basket and drew one. It ], Bkid 'Cloburg.' So over I came, and * 4-V*a vaoqI rrnoi?/1 n;Jioro LIU W I UUJUiJC Ui buu a \j j u a 6uui<4, Y every trooper mast ehow five quarter- h ings." "It was a game of chance." I com- ? mented. "Yes, much like the dice. That is j why I did it." he anwsered. We rode on until noon, when we dismounted?I f for a change of horses and wine, he for f nothing but the wine. <3 "This is the only beast I will throw fl leg over, "be said. I was supplied with a hugo white y brute, who shied at every hedgerow j: and galloped like a hound They were b always careful to give me big horses The west was red and the east black I when we entered the capital city of the Dukedom of Clobnrg We rode straight a up to the palace and delivered our messages?his to the duke, mine to the r Princess Barbara e She looked ut me with such laughter in her eyes that I was overcome with f confusion, for all the maids of honor <3 were in the room ogling uie too. Then _ she took me aside aud said that her own messenger would return with a a letter to Wassmark. for she wanted me ? in attendance for awhile, which was p very flattering, and I retreated us soon e as possible ti Beverley was waiting for me in the a passage and took me off to his own e quarters, which were very richly hung 8 in tapestry and ornamented with arms t and rare pictures along the walls. Upon the ringing of a bell up came b two servants, bearing dishes of meats k and game and bottles of wine. In G'loburg i uvea wen enougn. nav- Bl ing money from the king and rooms in n the palace, bnt life went slow for my q blood. The princess tried to make a h courtier of me. but in a few days gave k it up as hopeless. But Hagart bad come r back One night, after a canter along h the road that leads to the Naiad's lake. I entered my room and without rernov- D ing my boots flung myself down near p the window This is how I came to no- a tice a piece of paper pinned to the cur- b taiu. Upon taking it down, I found it a note from Beverley, requesting me to h be at the Unicorn's Head at 8 o'clock ii There was a queer brevity about it that b smacked to me of adventure, so I re- n placed my hat and went out My watch t ?a present fiom Beverley?marked it p 20 minutes after 7. and..aa the tavern ? above named stands at the northern 8; limit of the city I broke into a fast walk. My way took me through crooked itreets. between leaning bouses and loisy wineshops The night was chill ind foggy for the time of year A1 ome of the doorways torches and nassive lamps glowed dimly I entered he Unicorn's Head, and upon making nquiries for the Cavalier Tom Beverlej tnd hearing that he had not arrived 1 eated myself at an obscure table in tht orner of the room. Men of all classes were drinking and gaming around me. Some were talking if the war, which still fizzled along the joundaries, and some of trade, and a ew oi me court, a casual giauce at u ;roup of cavaliers in the center of the oom caused the blood to throb up ovei ay face. Howard, the English knave ind baronet, sat there, with his face urned toward me. He was flushed with vine and talking fluently for so morose md caustic a fool. While I sat there taring, wondering if a sudden rush al lim would prove wise, the door opened, md in strutted my little fair comrade, Tom Beverley. I knew that he saw me, hough his face showed no recognition, le had scarcely come six paces into the oom when up sprang the baronet, vith a curse, and made as if to snatch oose a pistol. Tom paused and looked ip at him with a fine air of bored inlifference. "If you wish to dispatch me, why lot use your sword, or has it been taker: rom you?" he drawled. The other men in the room turned bout in their seats?some grinning, he more peaceful puckering their irows. The men at Howard's table ried for him to chastise the young cub. sat still, but under the folds of my ong cloak my rapier lay bare. Beverley miled. and Howard hesitated. I renembered Tom having told me that hey had fought before. Perhaps the ilder man bore painful memories ol hat fight Tom broke the silence. "Didn't the adet of Isstens give back your sword ?" le asked, looking interested. That started it all, and the baronet, ed with fury, went stabbing at him cross the room My friend could not vitbstand the onset of bis fellow counryman at first, and so I followed close, vith my fingers itching on the hilt "'o hioa mora nninrnod on/1 trino PTOTlt ver the floor The men, especially hose deep in liquor, swore and laughed, was pressed close to Beverley. "Be ready to help me break to the loor," he mnttered. Then, six inches from the wall, he tood firm and played at his antagonist's yes. The men yelled in admiration. ?he landlord wept at the spilling of hie vine. I thrilled with a fine pride at my lear comrade's skill. In a minute the rowd saw that Beverley was playing vith the baronet, but they did not eem to realize that so little a fellow rould take a life. The hardening of hie ace, however, revealed to me a fateful inrposa There was a scraping, clangng parry, a lunge, a cry, and the >aronet reeled back, grabbing with iloody fingers at his side I rushed at he door, smashed it down and dragged ieverley out after me into the street Fben we ran at the top of our speed. The palace of the royal house of Cloturg stands near the outskirts of the ity in a level park, unlike that of listen burg, which is approached by a teep hill When we reached the park ;ates, we paused to draw breath. Bevrley leaned against me, faint from the ight and the flight. All was quiet, as 10 fierce death had occurred in the own's heart. For a moment we lisened; then Beverley cried. "Great }od! I have left my sword there, and he king's arms and mine on the ;uardl" I did not speak at first, but x>ked down at his batless head on my boulder. Ruin for my friend?the vbole national importance of the duel ad come to me?stared me in the face. "We will have to go away?ride for ho mnnntniriH!" I naid nresentlv. "We? Why we?" he groaned, lookng up. "Man, do yon think I care no more or my friends than a wine merchant or his clerks? I am glad of the rogue's eath?I will not deny it?and I will lee with you. "Isstens," he said in his English ray. "I believe yon are the best fellow o God's world. But have I done right a killing the brute?" "I would have done it myself else.' answered. Just then a bell rang out in the town ngrily "Calling out the royal guard to areet one of their own men." said Bevrley. smiling faintly We made all speed to the stables and ound part of the guard saddling. I orered Hagart to be got ready The men -all fine fellows?spoke to me. "Are you coming with us?" they sked. and I nodded. Little they thought hat the man they were after was the et of their squad and at that moment eeing to his girth in the very midst of hem. Twelve of us rode out of the yard, nd at the corner of the park wall Bevrley and 1 gave them the slip. We purred hotfoot to the gates and found UClli L1UOCU "No one may pase. An English noleman has been killed, "said the old eeper Beverley had a fresh sword in his cabbard He wore his guardsman's niform "We are after him. " he said nietly I rode up to the fellow and told lim to let us through or beware of the :ing's anger, and 1 showed him the oyal arms on a ring Princess Barbara iad given me. "1 crave your pardon, my lords, " he auttered. and unbarred the gates. We assed through without looking back, nd once on the easy country road roke into a swinging gallop. Trees and hedges slid by like mockug onlookers. Cottage windows blinked the night and disappeared. The wind lew raw from the east, and there were o stars nor moon. But 1 heard only be thudding of our horses' hoofs in flyug companionship, and knew only that be mountains ahead of us held a brief afety TO BE CONTINUED. ptettUanrouis grading. J ' t EXECUTION OF AN ELEPHANT. How a Man-Killer Was Fat to Death In f New York Last Sunday. ] Dick, the man-killing elephant of * the Adam Forcpaugh & Sells Bros.' c circus herd, was executed by strangu- 1 lation in the basement of Madison I Square Garden Sunday morning. Two f hundred meu pulled ropes looped ( about the great elephant's neck and he 1 was choked to death. The sight was "1 an unusual one and even the herd of t elephants that witnessed the execution [ exhibited signs ot' horror at the work, t Dick was known as a bad elephant. He killed several meu in his time and j was ferocious in disposition. He would not even allow his keeper to f aDoroacb him. and made reneated ef- a forts to kill anyone who went near i him. When the show was ready to f leave the garden Saturday night, Dick f could not be moved, as he would not t ( permit anyone to unchain him, aud it whs decided to put him to death. ' ^ Chief Keeper Starr, of the elephant \ I herd, wns instructed to have the ( beast killed, and he secured great ropes aud 200 men to do the work. ( "Bill" Campbell, the keeper of Dick, pleaded for the life of his charge ; hut , 1 to no avail, as the circus people had determined to kill the dungerous elephant. s Starr, very joyful, went about his preparations for the execution. He employed all the circus men who could t , he spared from moving the show ; he t , called on men from the streets, picking I out sturdy ones, who were glad euough 1 . to work to see au elephant die. He ( | rigged, between rings iu the floor aud ( i iron pillars, two blocks and tackles, I one on either side of Dick, who, sway < tug his body aud pulliug bis chuins, I 1 looked on suspiciously. I "Shall we take away the herd, sir?" s asked a keeper. . I "Leave 'em alone; it'll do 'em good," unswered Starr, bluntly. S Then Starr got an inch hawser, of s sufficient length for his safety, aud f with a keeper at the other end of the * rope, tossed it. over Dick's head. It i , was easy then to tie the rope at the n ends in a loop until it was tight around c Dick's neck with the twist in the rope I | under his throat. Just as a man 1 makes the first loop in a cravat he is c , tying and pulls it taut. I The ends of Dick's cravat were fas- \ tened to the tackle. Two hundred i men. grasped each tackle. c "Are you all ready?" asked Starr, f , "Bill" Campbell walked around the 1 . end of the wall to the other side, so t | that the bricks und mortar hid Dick t > rrom niin. i "All ready," chorused the men on t the tackles. < "Pull away, then I" yelled Starr, s i and he cheerfully cursed them. t i Grunting in unisou, some crying ( ; "Heave ho!" the 400 pulled together i | on the tackles; poor, murderous Dick's t cravat tightened uncomfortably. I He raised his trunk and emitted a loud, angry roar. If he knew be was \ i about to die, there was no note of i ' repentance in it. i At the sound a remarkable thing i happened. All the other elephants 1 turned their beads away from Dick, t i To look away from him, of course, the s i elephants on his right had *to turn c tbeir heads to the right, and the ele- ? phants on his left had to turn their s beads to the left. And that is just a what they did. And all the elephants t pulled as hard as they could at the l creaking chains that held them to the f rings in the floor; some of the beasts t swung their trunks here and there, t some trumpeted shrilly, in a very dif- c ferent note from Dick's, a note of fear, t It was terrifying to the men on the k ropes; it seemed to them that the I herd would stampede. But the keep- d ers ran among them, shouting at them, e prodding them with goads, reassuring t them, quieting them, i "Pull away," yelled Starr. The hawser around Dick's neck grew tighter, tighter. He trumpeted j again, even more loudly. He kept ^ flapping his ears, his body swayed more and more. While he could not ^ change the position of his legs, he ^ must have been exerting every ounce of his tremendous power, for one of t his chains?no one could tell which? q snapped loudly. The feelings of the men on the tackles were almost as tense as the ropes themselves. When the chain snapped, half the g men jumped, scared; the ropes were perceptibly relaxed. "Pull!" yelled Starr, and the air was blue with bis oaths. ? And pull they did. Dick emitted ^ one more fiighlful blast?a defiance? ^ his last. Then he pitched forward. ^ His chains held him tottering for an instaut. He rolled over on his right |4 side. ,| "Pull!" shouted Starr yet once more. The big rope was almost hidden in the:^ folds of Dick's thick hide. It was rj tight around his windpipe; it was q choking him to death. His ears flop- g( ped more and more feebly, his legs . lit Ml ? ? WOlinien ||KC Jllliuia III nil cnillivjuanv, his side heaved slower, slower, more ^ slowly as he hreulhcd more and more laboriously, then was si til. Tim 4Q0 stood holding taut the strangling rope for perhaps a minute J more. ^ "Slacken up there," Starr ordered. ^ Murderous, man-killing Dick was e dead ? prior brute. He had paid the penalty of his crimes, and bis execu- ^ tion will surely have, what all sacri- ? fices to the law are intended to have, a K deterrent effect. For as he lay there dead when Starr ordered the herd taken from the gulden, not an elephant would pass ti Dick's body. When one got near it be a halted nud would not budge. He would not even look at the body; " again, us at Dick's first trumpeting, lie c turned bis bead away. n The keepers quickly saw they could I not force the herd by Dick and stopped !< ,rying. The elephants near Twentylixth street was taken up the incline to .hat street, and the elephants uearer rwenty-seventh street, up that incline. Sorrowing "Bill" Campbell came rom behind the wall, walked up to Dick and patted bis corrugated, dusty lide. Then silently Campbell took the :hains from the beast he bad tried so tard to save. Men who have long >een with the circus went to Dick and jatled his side. One said : "Good bye, Did Dick." Another "We're going to Baltimore, Dick, but you're not going, ifou were bad, you beggar, but"?and ie said no more. All tbese men sympathized with Campbell, who only -emarked, and with much feeling: "I want a drink and I'm going to .?< w H iu In about 25 minutes Dick's body i;rew cold, first around the ankles?if in elephant has ankles. Some unfeelng men, who had been brought iu rom the street, cut notches of flesh rora Dick's ears and carried them off is souvenirs. With the block and tackle on the Twenty-seventh street side Dick's body vas dragged near the foot of that inline. MEAT ENGINEERING WORK OF THE AGE licit RemiurcoM Which Will lie Opened Up by the Tranii-Slberlan Railroad. Scientific American. . In point of magnitude and cost, the Trans-Siberian railroad is certainly he greatest engineering work of the ige. According to figures furnished )y the Russian Imperial Ministry of IVays of Communication, the total :ost of the railway will be $500,000,)00, of which about $295,000,000 has >een already expended. It is consid?red that this lavish outlay is justified >y the fact that the work, wbeu corndeled, will make available the resources of the couulry whose wealth ias never been told. According to the official statistics,' Siberia has a total area of 5,333,333 iquare miles. It is liberally watered >y some of the finest rivers in the vorld. The total area of land that is :apable of agricultural development is ihoul 20,000 square miles, and the soil >f these sections consists of a deep ayer of black loam. A total of about 6,500 acres of laud has already been lolonized, and the government is now larceiling out the prairies through iltn ItnA mm no lliA dAnfi/lanf VIJIULI IUC JIUC IUIIO, Yf I V Li l/IIV wuuuuuv xpectation that Siberia will become me of the most powerful com)etitors in tbe world's supply of wheat. Tor the immediate future it is expeced that the new settlers will devote hemselves chiefly to cattle raising, vhicb, so far, has proved to be profitihle. It seems that the virgin forests >f Siberia have been cut down in the tame ruthless and wasteful manner hat characterized the denudation of >ur own forest lands; nevertheless, it 8 estimated that there still remains ibout 80,000 square miles of valuable fine and fir timber. Tbe official estimate of tbe mineral vealtb of Siberia is remarkable readng, for it would indicate that this nysterious country is, minerally speakng, one of tbe richest in the world, ."forth of the Aral sea and mountains he land is rich in lead, silver, copper ind gold. Several ranges of the Altai nountains are known to be rich in ;old, cOpper ore, and minor precious tones, while tbe varieties of porphyry md jaspers, known by the name of his range, have an established reputaion. Extensive deposits of coal are ound in the Kusnetz region. It seems bat in far eastern Siberia the mounain ranges are equally rich in silver, opper, iron, coal and graphite, while he gold fields of eastern Siberia are mown to be particularly promising. Elsewhere, coal and naphtha have been I ?I A flio /lAuof linn rtf AAQK ICVCIU^CU, WUI1C VUU wwot uuv V* ru Siberia has yielded good results to be gold wushers. Where Is Cape Nome??Five men rere discussing the Alaskan gold Gelds n t he Hoffman House corridor yesterlay, and they all began to talk learndly about Cape Nome. Four of them new all about the cape. Two of them lad invested small amounts in mining chemes there. The fifth startled hem all by asking, "Just where is 'ape Nome ?" "Why, it's in Alaska," said one. "It's in Alaska," echoed the others. "Where is Alaska?" demanded the fth. "Well I'm dummed !" exclaimed one f the men with money invested. "Thought so," said the fifth man. Everybody is talking about Cape fume, and I don't believe one out of jii people know where it is. They liiuk its in the Klondike region. They ven put their money in it without Hiking it up. I've looked it up. Ou lie west, coast of Alaska, a little north f the center, there is a peninsula ihich ends with Cape Prince of Wales, 'hut cape is the nearest point to East !ape in Siberia. Cape Nome is on the juthern part of this peninsula, and is etween Golofuin bay and Cape Rodey. It's nowhere near the Klonike." WdF Mayor "Golden Rule" Jones, of 'oledo, O., has just made a singular iscovery. He is a manufacturer, ometirae ago he instituted a sick ben ni iuud ior liis wui'mjucii, |iciuiihiuh liem to manage it as they pleased. Ir. Jones says he has found that some f the men have been in the habit of ettiug drunk, laying off aud drawing tie sick benefits while sobering up. $3T "You must feel a certain satisfacion in being in the United States sente," said the admiring young woman. "Yes,"'answered Senator Sorghum, it's all right, so far as glory is conerned ; but do you know from a busess point of view, I sometimes think 'd rather be a member of the Montana jgislature!"