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A MANT, HERO:NE. Some girls are extolled for their beauty And some for their knowledge and wit, And others for doing a duty, Of hardship and courage and grit, And some for composing a sonnet Or acting and filling a hall, But the girl who can trim her o wn bounet &nd makes her own dress beats all. Miss Patti more music may warbie, Rose Benheur excel her with paint, Miss Hosmer carve better on marble, She may not be half of a saint But if she can make her own dres;e And trim her own bonnet we hold She is-for the husband she blesses Worth more than the others, all told. A girl who can make her head pretty And, also, her figure look sweet, Is, either in country or city, A prize which no genius can beat; And when In addition she's able To care for the babies and cook We set her right up on the table And call on creation to look. Hurrah for this girl and no othev We shout her unlimited praise, To win her away from her mother And wed her we're trying alway.: She makes a man happy forever By helping-as Nature ordains While those who, alas, are too elever, But add to his troubles and pains. :: A STORY OF WESTERN LIFE -BY THOMAS P. MANFOLIT. CHAPTER MONEY To LOAN. *.',ASTERN MON EY to loan in large or small amounts. Long time and eary terms. A p p ly M to Solomon Scraggs, ag't." > John Green ead and reread t this advertise ment over and over as he sat one summer \ evening in front - ' of his little sod cabin in west ern Kansas. it was short, plain and pointed, and evidently anyone ought to hdre understood it at a glance. Yet John Green read it and studied it as though it was somo deep problem with mysterious meaning. At last he put down the local paper in which the ad vertisement appeared and arising paced to and fro across the yard with his head bowed and a look of deep trouble on his face. "1 don't know," he mused, as he came ,back and resumed his seat near the cabin door. "Something must be done, 'and done at once: for, as matters stand, starvation stares us in the face. We must have food, and we must have money in order to get it; and there is. but one way, s6 far as I can see, to get money-but one way. And yet I dis like to think of mortgaging the farm. I have had experiences with mortgages, and I dread them. They are the bane of a poor man's life, the cancer that gats in deeper and deeper until he is left destitute and homeless." John Green shuddered as he drew this picture, for it brought back to him in all its ghastly vividness that time, *but a few years before, when that vam pire, the mortgage, had eaten up his last dollar and1 turned himself and fain *ily- from their loved little home in the east. For a long time he sat in moody silence, now with his face buried in his han~ds, and now-lookin;g with a sad, far away gaze out aeross the endless stretch of bare, brown prairie to where the sun, like a great round ball of fire, wasslwl sinking behind the edge of the arth Fo an ouralmost he re mained thus, the shadow on his face deepening with those of evening, his eyes dimming. while ever and anon a tear stole down his rough, weather stained cheek. "Yes, we must have food," he re sumed at last, "and we must have mon ey, and we must mortgage the 'claim' to get it. It is a hard thing to do, but *to- suffer from hunger is worse. We cannot starve, that's certain.". Just then a woman appeared in the doorway. She was a wan, sad-faced ereature, plainly a victim to overwork .gmI worry. Hecr once beautiful face awas furrowed with eep lines of care, aind her waving brown locks were pre maturely streaked wv~ith gray. The fire "EABE, YOU- ARE woRRYING Y~OURESELF sICK." of life was gone from her eyes, leaving a pair of listless orbs that told all too plainly their story of misery and suffer ing. There was no trace of a smile lurking about the thin, compressed lips that had once been rosy with health and happiness. She was a perfect example of mental and physical debility-a liv ing result of hard times and "man's in humanity to man." She was dying, inch by inch. of worry, want and work. John Green glanced up when his wife appeared in the dc:>rway, and motion ing her to a seat beside him attempted to assume a less melancholy air as he said: --Mary, youare'worrying yourself sick again, and you ought not do it. You must look on the brighter side of things, wife, and never lose hope." "John, it is useless for us to, try to disguise our feelings any longer," Mary replied. "We know and understand each other too well for that, and we know that there is nothing on earth for us to hope for. I have all along af fected a cheerfulness I did not feel, be cause I thought it helped to lighten your burdens a little, but now we per fectly understand each other, and to dissemble longer is folly. I know what you suffer, John, for I have seen it from the first, and I know that there is no hope in your heart." "Mary, don't talk so," John pleaded. "The future does look dark and blank, but it may not be so bad as it seems. We must keep up courage." Mary shook her head despondently, andl the tears she had wvith so much ef fort restrained broke loose and tiowed thick and fast. John placed his arm about her and drawing her to him laid her head on his shoulder. "Mary," he said. "I know the pros h~pect is discouraging, but there will be a~ ~ ~~e psy and hpti- i tyar we -shall raise gcod :;rops and ha7e plenty, and only a few short -onths of privation lie betwveea now and then." "Yes. it may be as vou say, John," Mary renlied; "but how are we to live through those few moniths? You know we have no provisions, not enough to supply our wants for another week, and no money to buy more. There is not a particle of flour or meal in the houe. and Louise has gone now to try to getsomel f rom the store. Markham ha, refused us credit, but surely he won't deny her when he knows that we must have it or starve." For a litte while a perfect silence rirned. 31ary sobbed on her husband's breast like a heart-broken child, while Jlolin gazed vacantly out into the giathering darkness, now and then drawing his rough, soiled sleeve across his eves. A minute or two passed so, and then John spoke. "We must have money, Mary," he said, "to tide us over this spell. It won't tako a great deal, and we must get it." "flow c."n we gct it?" Mary asked. "We can get it in but one way. Mary, :nd thlat is a way, that l do not like. It is a wzay that I have fought against tnd honed never to have to resort to. We must borrow the money, Mary, and ,ive a mortgage on the- farm." "Oh. John! Johu:" Mary cried, start ing up. "Don't speak of such a thing. ulrely you have not forgotten what we passed through back there at the old ( hIome?" "No, wife, I have not forgotten, and [ never shall." "Then do not talk of mortgaging the 0aim, for it is all we have left to us, tnd to mortgage it is to lose it." "But, 'Mary, we must live, and that v s the only thing we can do to get pro ,-isions. We cannot starve." "No, we cannot starve; but it is hard e x lose our home and again go into the f, orld Penniless." John pretended to take a more cheer- a ul view of the situation, and it is a >robable that he managed to delude I ilmself to some extent. Anyhow, his a -oice resumed a little of its old-time a -ing and his eyes grew brighter as he r aid: t "We will not need muen money, wife, f Lnd with a good crop next year we can , epay it easily. Now here is an adver- s, isement in tLis paper of money to loan )n long time and easy terms. Three ( iundred dollars would tide us over t! iiely, and as the claim is worth a f, ,housand, we can no doubt get all the 0 ie we want on so small an amount, 9 )nly so we keep the interest paid. I've ; een thinking the matter over, and it i eems to me that if we gave a mortgage or two or three hundred dollars we s ouldn't have anything to worry over." it was some time before Mary made a my reply to this, and when she did, she s ;aid: "I wish I could think your statement v :orrect, John, and could believe that t< ,he debt would be so easily paid off; ti >ut no matter about that, for the mort- 1( age will have to be given, and perhaps v e ought to feel thankful that we have hat means of prolonging our lives. t< ho has the money to loan?" Y "Seraggs." cl "Then you will go down to-morrow Ld see about getting it?" t "Yes, it had as well be done at once. ir f we are to borrow it, there is no use tl o delay. I will drive over and take ei ~ou with me. so that the papers can be tV nade out and the business all complet- n d to-morrow."o Soon Louise returned empty-handed P *rom thme store, Markham having again a efused to let any goods go without f: nony. Louise had been crying and v ,here ~were still tears in her eyes when as he reached her parents. hi "What is the matter?" the mother t< isked. "What did Markham say?" s Louise hesitated, hung her head and a ingered her dress nervously. It was a lain she did not want to relate what v 1arkham had said. The mother repeat d her question, and Louise, having no B her alternative, replied: c "He went on dreadfully, mother, and s ie made me cry." "W~hat was it he said?" h "Oh, lots of things. He said he a vouldn't sell us any more goods with- s >ut money, and that lie was not so rich h hat he could feed paupers, and he b' asn't going to try. We would have to j< ay money or go hungry and he didn't v :are which. I didn't cry while I was t: hre, but I felt so hurt that I could i ardly keep back the tears, and when I a ;ot out of sight I broke down and had a e ong cry. Oh, how I wish old Mr. Mark 3am was like--like-"a "Like who?" John Green asked. C "Like-like you, pa," said the girl, c ;mny too plainly terminating her speech tl .n a way totally different from what v he had originally intended. i Young as Louise was she was in love I vith Paul Markham, and she blushed C Lt the mention of his name, and for t] tear of betraying herself avoided it as e nuch as possible. She did not tell her parents how Paul, 3 iaving overheard her interview with 1a is father, had followed her away from 'I he store, and came to her out on the p rairie where she stopped to cry; nor v tow he had spoken such consoling and 3 :heering words, and, betterstill, offered v to loan her a portion of his small sum :f money. She had acceted his kinmd words san.adr My and doo.~ed his prof- I ered loan 'wesa egnal grate.ruiness, and ~ she felt thmat she had done perfectly right, so there was no harm in keeping ~ her own counsel. "Well," said John, breaking a long pause. "Markham has shown what sort af man he is. It was bad enough to .leny us a little favor after all the money we have spent with him, and he might bave spared himself the trouble of 1 adding insult to injury. Because we have had misfortunes and are poor it loes not follow that every one has. a 1 right to speak of us as paupers. To-mor- 1 row we shall have money with whicih to buy goods, and not a dollar of it goes to Markham-not one cent of it." Having delivered himself thus Johnr reen hastened to drop the subject and take up one more pleasant, and for an hour he and hiis wife talked about the future, drawing pictures of prosper ous days and happy situations, as though good times and prosperity were assured facts. No doubt the full inten tion of each was to delude the other, and, however well they succeeded, each retired to bed that night feeling that the game had been productive of much good, since both made a pretense of be ing greatly relieved. It was a long time, though, before either John or his wife slept, though they both affected to have fallen asleep directly. In the quiet of the night the thought of that mortgage came back in full force and ther were troubled on acc'ounft of it. Though they tried t deceive e'ach other they could not de eive themselves, and, look at it as they wvould, tihe future was (lark and unpromising. Johnl~f and MNary G;reen had marriec aainst the w,..s' . their pamrnts. Mar's father obiected. t . the' matcoh he cause Joh~n was no(t a- hi.h in thc~ sae of lire as he thought his daughtter' migat aspire, for she was a hanker's daughter and JTohn was but a coammonl clerk. Then, to even up matters, John's father retaliated by declaring that no. s.n @f hi shoud ever marry into a . '.NOT A lDOLLAR OF IT OES TO 4MARK n1 A " uniy hehertof whien presumied k,2 own on the Greens. llavn~r ameto thlis kind of termns an Oth > the elder Blatchford, the au1k,-, andt the elder Green, the- farmi r, struttedt about with as mnuch Ipomi osity as they Could commaudl, Cceh Oing everything in his power to shmv owv vastly superior he was to the ther, and each succeeding to p~erfee ion in miak-ing( himnself ridieulous In the yes (if ever-ybody but himself. Thus it went on for a year, the two Id men passing1 and repassing and nevv r spe2aking-, or deigning to look at ec ther. Ia the mecantime the two lover% iet elandestinely, and enjoyeodthm C-lves fully as well if not hektte-r tha~n li.,y would if their parents had acted -it~h more sense. They met, courted nd marriedl-married two or thre ears sooner than they w~ould have done thery had not been iterfered with,. uit badM been allowed to continue their >uirtship uninterruptedly. So muiich >r ti!- wisdlom of their parents. Johln held a position at a fair salary, adI had saved up mnoney enoughl to buy ad furnish a neat little cottagt-,e home. tere the couple settled down as happy : tw-o 1 wers could be. and 'Ma-ry laid side her richi ature and easy life, and a :d!!v trauisformned the bakrsd angh r into tim poor clerk's wife: and wie .It nione the worse by the change. Shie wek up the duties of housekeeping and >)on b-eame quite proficient. Itankcer Blatc-h ford and Farmner roonr, as soon as they learned that aeir children were married, proceed led >rthwvith to disown them. M1ary ma.de ne aLttempt to win her father's for iveness, but he refused her petit~oni. yxing she need no longer consider hir the( light of a father, nor, indeed, in ny other light save that of a total rxanger. "You have married as you wished, 2d not as I wvould have had you.'' hie tid, "so go your way and I'l go mine. Iou have chosen to disregardl mn*y adl ice and desires, and have tied youirself ) a penniless wretch, and from this me forth I know you not. You must )ok to John Green for everything, and -hen poverty a-ad want overtake yu, as they certainly will, don't come > me for assistance, for I swear that >u shall never have a penny or a -umb from me." Thatquit settfled mtte+rs bet+.ween terc, ru, l ake n-hslv gtne-ere(agtradfo >orMary couled sofwic presuandde .o iceWI enog then seeasie ther'sipesteeludn eeer knliote hat tears the sed arn. whthefart :he sted suffere wihe as h was at >meit asoe the olved herfaher nexth m eonvaethn afte his powre topeech e wouly haveradl throw her torms >othisec and plucedn oi :perfe onl inepulse hrifmse rdi.ou n John's fternot o year othoe twy latcmord pasngtifid rhis singa nev-t ther bac thomeantime t coidersm fe cdstinelyte and disowned. This elice fuldaidli not quittterh Jhnsn hme woud nfevre paretculal pleds ih amorre blowe ashy methergt ve suppoedmarried to bein disin ertd swell, thanthe wld shrt dofe -erea eemel alimted consting thir ~te maisnof thr ares.oor otgage-riddenitin ad a dozen saarm, naim a upn onewic ee~o it very Sdsidherite and eswne, aon adt Mar Gren eht work ohne the wn responsibqlite androraietim sc er tlthomeuprt apon Far rlous sofeton, and thd larnedtthum te~ canhiowhchen were idproeularl taingt adion Them. wery contet n, adeven topy win sper fthe for iatnehey butre sraes ther par-~ Buayinh aned no loger conmier First arv tookhtith a fatver andor eesz y inthe ligeta of a ttadow hen fersercvrd onls i -hic hae arcoedctedo filing. as no buiecashiulthae ad undh :nplomentou way ad ol oaine.it nu amy cosuenydiscard ma ices andeind the tet oreer >w andcillage wr erchn fo work. The ttl tohGreein foherytnkbgandt et povey, a to anst oerkeo ona they certaily will, don come ->r foth astne fo lseave tht That. qIte ttlcodito mates betwen t ee rih, peuets old banker and haing no teerheatof aghtoe and lireon, iay time fortgae wer traei oe Iother:cns and oghefr tisoyrtns ic rliedse the sebtonsh, and ftn ien paen the treta eno in epogiteolac was sownbyethr oorear onlad hwaride with thei hild enouha when born was ine he ogtherteml prscebunossneionewha 'hatetears hem shed aoned wtheart-o ase sfeedh wen shei way omes aone he re wesern pahrext Thn, anwen aayeoutinere speh oud agvernmenlytrownd hr a ot hiseeckgand" plea fome rilroad :orginessr onlerh copranew tha had ol enulesed eoi soe id. kng oh's fahent to be fortone ofpb ie ack hmst but consider himpr eed nevater benhatibcuarly pleas >or an ho ereeated fro itewars not Atcat aftrrberbowa drivin fatr aysgan ave acrosed s toegen behrigris in eted well th atwaltle, r ofd are ke orh the staer Grenf posessnso xratremelyoh limien, coisting wifn mh l aindo forty sacresn old poore opedagoidnl, ad on-then fandy >la non of wn casa andereept dcliinhee andalidsertnd John ed downtoee wenbt towo donghthir vndrsposlt and forlatimisu. Whdenoh headl elcte They broughtn er lbea he ucotrucint of ar-o boserio, and shadt niet sum ibakse whichready wrerualy l vaki ditonted inthe wresl cofent r, and vehp in pte ofr the falso haough ih ha fever bad o weks otion o maccn t theus wih and ti poiwerful hard ts acaie people away *from !:ere, but it won't work. . We'vc. got the soil, and we've got the seasons, and so long as we can produce such stuff as you see there. we're all right. I tell you, sir, there ain't a more j productive spot nowhere on earth than you find right here in this county. And yet land's cheap here. Away down cheap. I can sell you as good land as ever lay out door for i fteen dollars an acre. It's the farm, too, that that corn b gre w on." John listened to this speech in won der. Was it possible. he thlought. that the country could be such as ':cragrg said, and yet he not know it? Seraggs 1 was a very honest, earnest-looking man, n andl he spoke in such a free. nImtter-of- t fact way that it seemed impossible that t he was not speaking the truth. After a b short silence John said: -( "Do you say that these samples of grain grew in this country, Mr. n Scraggs?" . b "I do, certainly, and there is nothing 1) remarkable in it to us who know the s country and know what the land is. I e daresay you have heard wild stories y about this section and are ill prepared 5 to believe what I tell you. However, e ask our farmers and they will tell you t< the same story. As I said, I can sell p you the best farm in the county for 1( fifteen dollars per acre, and it's worth t more than that to-day, and in a year a from now it will be worth twenty if s not twenty-five. I will drive you out to look at it if you think it would suit you. b What you say?" t "Why, I don't want to buy land, but t just came in to see about getting a loan s on a claim I have out east." [To be continued.] 1 Destructive Forest Fires. CU3mERLAND, Wis., Sept. 18.-Forest fires are raging in the country imnedi ately south and in plain sight of the o city, and a strong south wind prevails, tl Several farnm houses and barns, two 11 woad yards and a large amount of other property has teen burned. Men are ow lighting the latnes, and there is 0 :much apprnt-usiou in this city. The village of Perley was almost s wiped out of existence by flire yesterday. r At Toiaha a miost disastrous fire is b raging in the eranberry marshes be- ti tween Valley Junction and Norway. a Between twenty-live and thirty square h iles of marsh have been consumed, n and the lire shows no signs of abate ment. Thousands of dollars worth of d property have already been sacrificed. PIRATIRIE FIRES IN NORTH DAKOTA. BIsMAcK, N. D., Sept. 18.-A disas- h trous prairie fire has burned over a large portion of Emmons County, sixty miles t south of here. Driven by a strong west g wind, a sheet of flame as high as the s house-tops swept over the country from v the Missouri Rixver past Willaisport, v which place narrowly escaped, and into h the southeastern partion of the county. n Details are mr-agre. No mail was re eived from Wiiliamsport last evening, a The loss will be heavy, as a large area of range lnnds was burned over. Many farmers lost their entire crops and buildings. It is reported that one man 1 p was fatally burned. t1 Our Deplet-d cotton Crop. Following is the report of the weath v er bureau for the week ending Satur- 1 dny: C "The rainfall has been below the nor- a nal: temperature abou", the average , mount; sunshine has been above thee verage. The heavy rains wiuch com e pletely saturated the soil, and in many t: laces ponded, and together with the a ot sunshine for the past week scalded ad rusted most of the cotton crop, and t aused many of the Immature holls to >pent, and has thereby greatly decreasedb he yield. From reports received from. orrespondents, and from other reliable " iformation, my last report of 25 per s ent. decrease is fully sustained, and at Ii everal places the decrease inl prod uc- o tion is placed at a much higher esti- n mate." "I1 give a few of the sev'eral state- h ments of reliable and intelligent far- fi rers, giving the condition of the cot- 1 on crop: "'in Richland, Sumter, Dar- t ington. Florence and Chesterfield I ounties, fully 25 per cent. below the verage. Some places one-half picked ut. I have traveled over nearly the entire State within the last two weeks t and I1 am satisfied that the cotton crop ti is injured more than 25 per cent. I e ave been planting for eighteen years o nd have never failed in that time to iy average one hale of cotton to the acre. I f I get a half bale to the acre this year ti shall do well." i1 South Carolina Postal Service. C A convention of the postmasters of d this State was held in Columbia on " Tuesday last, the object being to discuss Li the conditioni of the service, and sug- n gest plans for it's improvement. A mong h other thingrs the following suggestions iu were made, addressed to the Postmaster a General. - a 1. Make a condition precedent to I1 mailing, that every piece of mailing a meter shall bear the return card ad resses. 2. Let the regulations be so changed that the unpaid matter can be forward ed to points of destination and double rate be collected for it upon delivery. 0 3. Have postal rates and classification t printed ott the flap of all envelopes by 0 the gc vernmwent, unless otherwise or- y dered by the purchaser. u 4. That an elastic band bearmne name o of mailing ollice be placed on all fourth- t class parcels. 5. That the postal note be abolished t andt a three entt fee be charged for Ii money order-i for less than live dollars. ;. T1hat postmasters lhe allowed to open, in the presence of witnesses, all~ letters dropped into the ollice without 1~ direction, ini order that the name of the C writer muay be ascertaiued arnd the let- t ter returned for address, so that the la- a bor and delay of sending the same to r the dead letter oflice may be avoided. t. A Terribie Fat.. CL EVETL.A NI, 0., Se pt. I.d;---]ohn M ec CaTerty, a lineman for the Western Unioin Telegraph company, met with a. terrible death in front of the court hose in the presenice of one hundred 0i spectators yesterday. Mct3afferty was ~ talking to some friends, and then began V to climb a telegraph pole to adjust a 1 wire. lle had xeached a point bey and l the first cross-arm, whlen, with a shriek, t he fell backward. Ihis spurs caught in the iron steps of the pole. and his head hung downwaird. ..\ telephone wire hail fallen across an electric light wire, nd McCalferty had received a terrible voltage in his body. lis face and arms turned black, and he hung tully three minutes beforeCaladder could be secured and the unfortunate man brought to the ground. ile died on the way to the hoa-1 pital. Want an lint i--ei~ation. 1 Cm.u:LEsTrON, S. (1, Sept. I.-A meeting of the policy holders of the New York Life Inisurance: Company was held here to-day. .Sveral prour net gentlemen spoke on the subject and resolutions were offered and ac cepteid asking that ai thorough examin ation o1 the coimpaniy's affairs b9 itade, and iuvitinmg the coz-opreratica? (f policy nolders 01 oiher places. Tm-:i Alliance farmers of Kansas have not taken the advieiw that was given I them to repudliale thetir miortgage in debtedneS, bitt are paying it up as fast as they get thei mnoney for their crops. T1he st autaies recently collecti-'l on the subject are encou raing to all hohlers of f'artm mortgages, and pleanotg toI every t.ody who believes in the honesty and hionor of the farmers of thme coun- 1 try. It is a sound policy tha-t the Kani sas farmers are pursuimg im ims res pect, and it wiil redound to their ad ..utae at onea nti hereafter- .I' Bat i.t wa5 don, and aince '-o t was imnossible, he resolved to go on and make the bes-t of it. So le plowed the sod and planted the crops, and in time the seed sprouted and came up. iThen he eItivated the eds ear-ly and late, and as the growing -orn sprang up higher and higher and IC wFTW.AriI) 110! aILe field became a sea of waving green, John's courage returned and hope rode tugh in his breast. "We shall come out all right yet, Mary," lie remarked one evening as they -walked out to look at the crops. "We shall come out all right, and soon have a nice home; and it will all be ours. It will only take a little time and a little patience." "Who cares for the time, John?" Mary replied. "I'm sure that I don't mind the waiting and the work, only so we get a home at last." And thus contented to work and wait, these brave pioneers, like thousands of others, submitted cheerfully to every hardship and inconvenience, and bore uncomplainingly on against adversity and misfortune. For three years they kept steadily to their purpose, contending against drought and hot winds, which every year destroyed their growing crops and left their fields parched and brown. Then John took down with malaria, and all the spring and all the summer was unable to work, and want pressed upon them, and the wolf of hunger drew near the door of the sod house, placing them in the condition where the opening of this story found them, driven to the necessity of'mortgaging the claim for food. CHAPTER III. GIVING TER MOnTGAGE. As has been stated, neither Johm. nor Mary slept znuch that night after they had concluded to mortgage the farm, and so, worn out with a restless night, John was astir in the morning at an uncommonly early hour. Upon dress ing and going out the first object that met his eyes when he opened the door was a small bag of corn meal sitting on the door step. He and Mary wondered a great deal at this, and many suggestions as to how it came there were offered by one and the other, but after due consideration they were all dismissed as untenable, and eventually they decided that old Markham had become convinced of having acted wrongfully and had in the. night stolen over with the meal, being ashamed to let his presence be known. Louise had another and more correct opinion regarding the matter. but as in all other eases where Paul was con cerned she resolved to keep quiet. However the meal came there, it proved a very acceptable gift, in fact a perfect Godsend to the Greens, for otherwise their breakfast would have been a very meager attair. As it was, they had some corn cakes and some parched meal coffee, and these were rare delicacies in those days and had a salutary effect on John. since with a full stomach some of his old-time pride, independence and courage returned, and after partaking of that breakfast " THOSE ARE NoT So BAD, ARE THEY?" he felt that lie could face a great deal more trouble than he then had, and come off victorious. Breakfast over, John harnessed up the two horses to the ol wagon. and lie and Mary drove off to the little town where Scraggs kept his office. 'The day was warm and clear and the roads dry, and the trip, though embracing ten miles each way, was not a disagree able one. The two talked a great deal as the:y went diown, about one thing and another, but neither of them hinted at the matter about which they were making the trip. They grew quite cheerful after they had been out awhile, owing, no doubot, to the fresh air and change of scenery. Arriving at the town, which, by the way, was called Paradise Park. though there was nothing reemnbling a park within a hundred miles of it. andl it is safe to presume that it bore little enough resemblance to paradise, with its one street andl four or five shackling old board buildings half buried in the sand and alkali dr-i fs-arriving at thiis young metropolis of the west. Jlohn Green and his wife had little diflieulty in finding Soloinon Seraggs' otiic, for it wa's the most prominuent bunildinig ini the place, being post ice, printing oflice and real estate and loan office all in one and all under the control and guidance of Seraggs. Mr. Seraggs was in his otlice whien the Greens entered, but being deeply engaged at theL time in writing an edi torial fori his paper, the Western lreeze, on the mnu;ufarious advantages in coming to westerni Kansas to live and inve'st capital. Joim had to wait some time before he had un olppor-tuni tv of stating his business. In the mean time lie ha-d a chaouce to' take a survey of the 'tliee and to observe the wo'nder ful ears of corn and stalks of millet ando wheat and oats that hunmg against the walls as samples of the products of thet surrundinig country. Ihe was still gazing upon these mnagnificenit speel, mencs when 31r. Seraggs hbrought hais "~able editorial"' to a finish andl whirl ing ahout in his chair caught .John in the act. Instantly a smile lighted up the agent's face, and rubhbiig his handls together, lie said: "Those are' not so bad, are they?"~ John recalled his gaze from the sam pes and, fixing it upon Mir. Scraggs, re plied: "No, they are not bad." "I should say not." Seraggs wvent on; "not bad for a newv counitry cursed with drought, hot winds, grasshiopper% and all that sort nf thing. Ila! ha! They ell te.i.l a o a bont this country, THE RUSH FOR HOMES. 'HREE TIMES AS MANY PEOPLE AS THERE ARE HOMESTEADS. Uiteen Hundred Negroes in the #ad C Stanpede--A Party of Young Ladies Ride in on Ponies-Lively Boom Scenes. GUTHRE, 0. T., Sept 22.-"The ( md is yours." That is what every e ne it'ce on the border of the lands e henl its iimtnds ioined ti the hour of 0011. Iimultaneous with that lour the cme-sekeri ,athered on the border, 1 inde a headiou- rush over the line into le coveted country and on to the quar- s r sections upon which their eyes had f Ben teasting, some lor days and others 9 )r weeks aid months. The rush was a mad one and was iade so by the fact that the number of ome-seekers greatly exceeded the num er of quarter sections available for 'j sttlement. "First there, lirst served," e as the muotto of every racer. There a ,as room in the new lands for about i: ,(100 seekers, allowin; 160 acres for c ach. There were on the border waiting t > claim the available land fully 15,000 1 eople, so that there were three persons r each section. It was no wonder that ie rush was a mad one, for in this case t least the race was invariably to the wft. 1, Like scenes have never been witnessed etore except when Oklahoma became ie people's two Nears aLo. Some of s ie more desperate cowboys mounted f Leers, and the latter. joining in the t ampede, carried their riders to the t iterior while others were unceremo- 1 iously unhorsed or unsteered not far t -om the border. The boomers had e athered for the race most at Toiee on ie Iowa reservation border directly east f rauthrie; Langston. at the mi'ddle of t ie N ,rthern Iowa reservation border. wide the houndary of the Kickapoo re- 0 rvation (which was not included in the a pened iaads) and at a point on the Pot Iwatomie horder directly east of Pur The most desirab'e of the lands is I tuted in the Iowa, Saek and Fox setrvations, and the greater number of r omers naturally conareated around em. The boomers were distributed inong variou starting points about as lows, at Tohee 3000, Langston 1500 groes, and 500 whites, on the Kickapoo )rder 8000, and on Pottawatamie bor- t -r 2000. The allotments to the Pottawa- v ie Indians nearly exhausted the lands I i their reservation, so the home seekers t ad little chance ot locating a claim s pe. At Langston negroes had been J %thered by the negro Colonization - ciety to the number of 1500, and they t ere to move en masse to Cimarron t alley, a :oost fertile regioa, and locate L a bunch. Five hundred whites. iosly cowboys, also had their eyes on iat sectien, and each party had made i; 1 sorts of threats of taking the land by f >rce. A force of deputy marsha:s and r eputy sherills under the slieriff of this 8 >unty had been despatched there to y reserve order, and it is believed that c iev will be able to maictain peace. f One of the unique sights at Tohee t as a company of young ladies from uthrie, who had formed a colonization mpany to proceed to the new lands1 ad settle on adjoining claims. They1 cere mo'unted on Texas ponies and were1 ttired as near as might be in cow boy 1 stuefl, armed with revolvers and 1 uipped for camping out. They made 1 i race in a body. So far as has been 1 certained, up to the present time no :rious conflict has taken place between i rival -laimants, and the country has een peacefully occupied.r Govrment superviin of the mn igs of the lands seem A to have been e idly delicient. The entire government f aree was composed of two companies t I United States troops, or twvo hundred t en, and the forces of three United t tates marshals, numbering about two t undred and fifty men. Of these latter, e fty were sent to Lanuston to preserve eace between the cow boys and negroes; fteen were requmred ateach of the three nd offices, and twenty-five at Tohee. ~ i the regular troops, a squad of men t 'ere stationed at each of the two coun- i !seats. This left only some 300 men patrol borders of about 200 miles int tent, or one man to every two-thirds I a mile of border. The men, however, ere not stationed at regular intervals. 2 some places there wi re ten and fif en men to the mile, while at others iere were stretches of five or ten miles itirely unguarded. Under these con itions it might have been expected that umbers of' boomers would enter before 2 ie appomnted time, and they did. Two uiles north of Tohee about 200 boomers ad igathered on a secluded spot, know ig that the government force would be assed at the border towns. They had l set their watches three hours ahead1 it night so that *.hetr testimony would J aree if ever their claims should be con ated on the ground of their being sooners." A t 9 o'clock their watches all indica d the hour of noon, and they rushed 'er the border and began the fray for choIce sections. The "soonlers" at ther uniguarted portomns of the bordi r rer also very numerous, and it is esti ated from all reports that the number [settlers who entered the land before e leg di tinie was fully 3000. Tohee this morning was an Indian wn just over the iowa border, dueecast 'om this place; toni-ght it is a white ian's city of 1500 inhabitants. It tell ito the hands of the TIowni Site corn 'ay, organizedl here by the president a i the Board of' Trade, tihe president of i First National bank, James McNedl, ud the citty marshal ot Gunthrie. A rep sentative of the company returned to ls place this afterucon and filed at the md ollice a plat 1)1 a town and county alams. lie reports that an election was eld this afternoon, at which McNeil 'as chosen miavor. At a point live miles below Tohee ite a number of boomers were ga:h red to make the race. Among them 'as one woman whose uame has not een lcairned,. whose impatience got the etter of heir discretion. She crossed e line before the appointed time and ie f tihe dleputy marshals guarding the arty armested( her and forced her back ( vcr the fine. Soon afterwards she gain eros.sed the iine prematurely and 'en thle de'puty a second timo ordered er back she drew a revolver from hecr res pocket and opened lire upon him. 'le marshal returnedi the lire. andl shot er in the left leg just below the knee, hiattering the limb. She was unable to ake the race when noon1 arrived. The ooer was left this side of' the border tretend under a tree unable to move. humaue hack dnrver broughit the uin irtunate woimaa to this place, where he is beinig cared for. The story of every arrival from Lang t'n agiees that there has been rioting et4wee negro' settlers and cowhoys. % h fii:ties are ieptrtedl as resulting. All on B~oard P'erIihed. SA FRANCISCO, Sept. 1i.-The myVS ry surrouninrg the schoonier Paii 1:, so long overdue at this port from larha l lIslands, is at last cleared up. lie vessel sailed for San F"rancisco on ay 1, laden with a general cargo, and ii aditioni to at cre w of seven,1 had on >oard Capt. Lovedale's wvife a'id three :idrel. It is also stated tha~t several nissionaies had taken passage on the ~annoia to come to this city. The chooner was wrecked on a reel to the iorthwest of the Hi awaiian Islands, and ~ omul on board was drowned. WbAT FOULSvfHES. MORTALS BE.. La AAttound'ng swirndio Fcls 3z an7 Dujoem in Vi-gin!a. Cuanu:sroN, W. Va., Sept21.-One f the most astounding swindles in the istory of the country has just been rought to light here iy federal dttect ves, who have arr' sted Henry Ash and -orge W. Rose. two of tbre" ringlead rs. Robert F. Lively, the m:in who I rigioatt- 1.: seh-nu.-, elS('pedI t-, t'ce lonuitaill:, butl a psei ahn oi.i- wesago thetse iiree i ow r -aized t. Albans. this county a ranen of wh-it was alegrit to be the I Natioiral Ats, ino.y," atd by the con-I pirators to be a patriotie orct'r, having or its object the relief of the national overnment. It was proposed to put ito the po!; esior of the government he gold coin hoarded up by the people,to he end that the government mignt be nabled to ijeet its oblirations otid be aved froma national repUdiation. The 'reasuary Departnient. it was explain d, had plenty of paper money and had gree-d that tor all tiht gold coitis paid I ito the -assenbly" and certitied by the flicers, there would be paid jive times e sum in paper currency. Nothing ss than $200 would he accepted from ny one. Tne thing took in a surprising way. 'he country was scoured for gold. Oue ian paid $1.200, another $800, and ores gave $200 to $500 for the worth ?ss "certificates" of the swindlers. The hesapeak and Ohio Railroad Company aid its employes in gold, and a large um of this money went into the cof rs of Lively and his pals. Poor me-n orrowed, begged and mortgaged, that hey might raise gold, and many a dol ir of hard-earnea savings went into e 'assembly for the relief of the gov rnment." The postoflice authorities got wind of he t':iag about a week ago, and today he arrest were maie. The excitement ver the swindle is great. It is tstiinat d that the s w indlers obtained over 850, 00 from their dupes, many of whom re left penniless. Mturder and Suicide. WOODLANrD, Cal., Sept. 17.-The life ass bodies of Mi.,s May Adams and J. V. Montgomery were discovtred this iorsing lying in the rear yard of a Iall unoccupied resience. A vial -belt d "poison" and a Smith & Wesson evolver we-re founid beside them. In- t tstigation showed I hat Montgomery rst oiut Miss Adams in the left LIemple n then turned and fired a shot rough his own brain. Miss Adams ,as the daughter of L. 1B. Adams, who epresented this County two terms in he Legislature. Montgotnery was a on of Judge Montgomery of Stockton. he supposition is that the murder and uicide were the result of a ref u.al on he part of the lady's parents to 1Irmit heir marriage. "The Old Reitahie." From the otfice of the railroad coi lission it is asMertained that the total acome of the South Carolina Railway or the year ending June -30, 1891. sitn iarizcd Irom its monthly reports, was 1,681,502. an increase over the previous ear of $260,740. The percentage of in rease is 18.35 per cent. The follo wing N gures show the total earnings of this ranch for the past ten years: 382 ....................... $1,229,876.06 383 ....................... 1,356,936.50 t 384....................... 1,271,077.36 s (u6.... ............... 1.-39,861.34 WiteMnngGenle's Bar hc . er ian is the ro~ rietor, was closd to-day ner amtan ent ov a.s sueriTr r r of J. B. Brown & Co, of Baltimore. :>r $419; There is also a mortgage on de saloon which was a gorgeously fit d-up alfair, and the fixtures are said have cost more than anyI saloon in I le State. The s dloon is the third one I losedl by the sheriff in a week. Senator Butler's' Dauehter i)-ad.1 WALIALLA, S. 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