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r . r- ' > MM MMB BMMB i Eom BI86EB RiLFH;: . - t oa i ? Re M ?f tie Western Prairies. BY WELDON J. COBB. CHAPTER XXm-Coatbnwd. Darrel seized the bandit's afm and forced him through the doorway. Das% Oard made no resistance as Brown snatched his revolver from his belt v Standing in the darkness near the door * was a queer-looking vehicle with a rear grated door. Get in," ordered the Sheriff, sternly. "What am I arrested for?" demanded Despard. Wauft* mini)' if irnn don't want to be lynched you obey ordera " This la an o'd treasure wagon, and tout and secure," said Brown to Barrel. "There Is a driver?" "Yea." a "And fair has orders to proceed to Miners' Gulch?" "Exactly. Here is the key* to the ve' hide. Get in with your prisoner, and leave before the miners know of the capture." "There was an accomplice of this man. " "Where Is he?" "Escaped." "I'll try and find him. Drive ahead. Barrel sprang into the vehicle and ? ;; dosed the door. It shut with a spring lock. Barrel held his revolver ready for use. Bespard, sullen and silent, sat glaring N fiercely at him. The vehlde left the place and started for the mountain roads The capture of the bandit had been accomplished most expeditiously. Barrel well knew, however, that he must be very watchful of so wily a foe. I For over an hour not a word was poken, and the vehicle proceeded on its way. There wa? a small shelf In the forward part of the wagon. Here a little lamp cast dim rays of. ?'.ght over the Interior. "I think I know yon at lasfc* remarked Despard, finally, .in a sullen, sneering tone of voice. Indeed!* "Yea. Yon are the friend of Banger Balph." "And his avenger." Yon expect to prove me to be his assassin?" "And that of the others?yes. ."Where ate yon taking me?" / "To Miners' Gnlch." ? -? J mis seemed w tuarm ?uu suwus Despard, for he relapsed into silence. A casual glance from the rear barred window showed that the vehicle was lowly treading a dangerous road on the very edge of the mountains. - x Suddenly he started. ' He was positive that a figure on horseback had flitted by the vehicle. A minute later there was a shot It was succeeded by ? cry for help and then a fall "Whoal" The hQrsea came to a halt The 1 voice was that of Dan ton. A revolver was thrust through the bars. Its possessor was sheltered by the darkness beyond. "Hove, and you are a dead man," poke Danton's voice "Whoever you re, you are in deadly peril I can see T.fafan fn vKat {UUi CTCi/ UUTOlUOUft MIOVVM WW * ? ?? say." < These words were directed to Darrel. Be clutched his revolver and w?a silent.. "Your driver I have disposed of," poke Dantou. "You are in my power. Despard, who Is this man?* The scout's friend. Grey?" Yea" "Mr. Grey, yon will first hand out the revolver yon have in your hand." Darrel moved as If to obey Danton's request- Instead, he raised it suddenly 1 and fired. * Danton drew back. The horses, alarmed at the shot, started off. With tremendous velocity the vehicle was dragged down a steep grade. Without a driver they daphed madly forward. One glauce showed Darrel their awful ' peril. They were so near the edge of tbe precipice that it seemed as if it would go over the edge of the declivity. Despard himself, terrified, sprang ex dtedly to his feet A yawning aoyss Showed as the wagon struck a tree. The horses broke loo-e and dashed away. The vehicle tottered, crashed, sod fell over the steep monntain road. CHAPTER XXIV. / ' _ ji. TEPJIXIHO IDVMlDlUL y It'wassome minutes before the two vV toeu in the locked wagon bo\ could fully - realize what had occurred-' They knew that the horses had rue away, and, the wagon colliding with' a tree, they had dashed madly onwartjP, deserting the vehicle. The watron ^tiari tnttpreri nn'thA to*0* ?* tbo and then, turning, y >Xe|l downward y tJarrel-Grey taught one glimpse of the gloomy dept^8 0f the valley below, and gave hlms^'f up for lost To his amazevent, thg wagon whirled downward only ? t Then it came to an abrupt Itt^chJen stoppage brought him and - Despard together with a shock. v Amid the excitement and peril of the occasion, Darr*?l thought not of treachery on the part of his companion. The latter seemed paralyzed with terror, and his face was white and craven. "We are doomed!" he muttered, In a frightened tone. Not at all," replied Darrel "We are enemies, Dyke Despard, but for once we had better act in unison. * tn Aano.no a fall In In that aUjDWiUQ WW VWVM^W w M... _ ? dark abyss." Despard shuddered as he pointed to the yawning depths below. t The lamp In the wagon had been extinguished Dy the shock cf tbe fail, but the moonlight outside revealed their surroundings plainly. Darrel soon learned - their feat situation. TLo wagon lay on ". its side, about ten feet below the edge of the road. It had fallen partly on a shelf of rock, partly across a tree, and these supported ft temporarily. The hold was a frail one, however, and the least dislodement might send tbem whirling to death a hundred feet below. Darrel groped his way to the door and unlocked it "If I allow you to follow me, will you '??? +-<-? m air? no resistance?* he asked 'of Despard . fl promise," replied the ontlav eagerly. "Very well; by clinging to the shrubs and rocks we can reach the cliff. * Darrel stepped out the door ana '* Wambered over the shelving roclc. By careful o Imbing he reached the qllff In Mfetv. He aided Despard, who hid followed him, to reach the same frlace. Both breathed rellevedly at their mar* trolous escape from death. Darrel was once more on his kuard, and the relentless captor, as he clasped his revolver In hts hand. / "March on," he said, aently, "vfo have ,, lost^me." / ^^^ tfanced up and down the deserted k n? Ru road. There was so ?^^^^fonton horsc^^^^^B from tho * ' W '? '. y\! I "You Intend to Ulte me to Miners' Gulch?" 1 -Yes.* "What for?" "Can yon ask? Your many crimes!"It will be poor satisfaction to you." "Why?" "You are losing time." "In wh^t way?" asked Darrel. "In seeKing "revenue on me, you are leaving your friends in danger." "What friends?" "Ranger Balph and the girl, Inez Tracey?" "Banger Ralph Is dead." "No; he escaped at the old hermit's cava I saw htm. " "Allowing that, he can take care of himself." "But the girL She is a prisoner with the Modocs. See here: I'm willing to help you find her, if you will allow me my liberty." "No; I shall place yoa in safe hands. Then I shall find the girl alone and unaided. March on!" Bespard obeyed the mandate, and started down the road with a sullen face. The menace of Darrel's revolver was sufficient to make him an abject and unresisting captive Not a word was spoken as the journey was resumed. Darrel resolved to convey his prisoner to the next mininjr.settlement, and there make known his crimes, and return to search for the driver of the wagon, who had been shot by Danton. Later; ne learned that the driver had escaped with a slight wound. For over an hour the lonely tramp continued Several times, as tbey came to where the road wai more tortuous, Darrel paused. He Imagined he could hear horses' hoofs in the distance, but finally attributed the sound to some ravine waterway or cataract He was not aware that a wily foe was upon his trail, that Despard's accomplice, Danton, bad followed them, intent on rescuing the former. As they rounded a point of rocks, Grey started quickly. Too late to avoid a catastrophe, Darrel essayed to fire at an advancing foe suddenly revealed behind them. It was Dan ton, and he was on horseback. With a deft movement a lasso shot out from the saddle bow. The rope enclosed his form, pinioning his arms tightly. The revolver fell to the ground. With a cry of fierce delight Despard seized it Dan ton'gave the lasso a tightening jerk, secured the other end round his waist, and faced his captive with malignant joy depicted on his evil face. "The tables are turned, my friend," he jeered. Darrel was silent with discomfiture and chagrin. Despard proceeded to see that the lasso was firmly tied around the prisoner. "We won't delay here," remarked Danton. "Some of this man's friends may be on our trail. Come along, Cap lain. Danton urtjed forward his horse. Despard walked hy his side conversing with him. Darrel was compelled to keep pace with them, secured to the other end of the rope. He could hear enough of the conversation of his captors to knew that they were discussing { his fate. 1 He made every effort possible to release his hands, and had almost suoceeded in getting one arm loose, when Danton suddenly halted. What is it?" asked Despard. "Look ahead." ?A fire!" "Yes." Perhaps a camp-fire of the Indians. "That you must learn. Beconnoiter and see who it Is. Despard left them and went in the di> rection of a glow of light In a thicket a short distance away. Danton sat carelessly regardlhg Darrel, until Despard returned. The leader reappeared finally sreatly excited. "We're in luck, Dantonl" he cried.. "What do you mean?" "It is a camp yonder in the thicket" "Redskins?" "No." "Vigilantes?" "!Na" t "What then?" "A dozen of one of onr old ba^Sar* Danton uttered a satisfied^iculatlon. He started the horse fo:-ward so suddenly that Parrel "^ijAhrown from his ThM'at^ii/as at that moment near theijrage of the cliff and fell precinitately.'over it. With, a yell of fright Danton -**as dragged from his horse. The astounded Despard saw the two men aisI innaao fvnm alrrVif vMt.h ft. OPV ftf alarm. The lasso, attached to both, whipped around a tree that grew near the edge of tbe road. Glancing over, Despard saw the Jwo. m$n come together with a^ahock. ?Thefr weight eveflly fcafancpa, ttrey were unable to a9cend. - Darrel bad managed to get one arm free. With this be clutched tbe lasso. For a moment Danton was terrified. Then he discerned a means of escape. If he could lower Darrel and raise himself, he could reach a place of safety. He seized tbe side of tbe lasso supporting Darrel and shot up several feet Then seizing some twigs growing out of tbe cliffs, he endeavored to ascend still higher. In a flash Darrel comprehended his peril. He discerned that when Danton reached tbe tree across which they were swung, be would cut the rope and send him to his death below. With a free hand he seized the foot of Danton. "Let go!" yelled the bandit "I will not You will let me ascend first or I will hold on to you all night" "Shoot Mm!" snoutea uanton to ue?pardf, wild with rage. The outlaw leader leaned over the edge of the cliff and leveled a revolver at Darrel. There was a fla?h and a report Darrel withdrew his hand from the lasso as a hot, searing sensation coursed his fingers. Despard began to poll at the rope. Darrel shot downward and Danton reached the tree. There was a flash of a gleaming blade and the lasso was sev? erod. Darrel fell with terrific velocity. He must nave ralien some twenty feet when he stopped abruptly. He had fallen into a tree which swayed and gavo way with a slight crash. Darrel found that its branching top had split and held him a prisoner in tho ball-severed cleft, fur the prosent ne was 6afe at least. lie gianced upward. All view of the cop of the cliff was shot out from his vision. Below, far as he could look tnto the cavernous depths, was darkness ana gloom. Evidently his enemleB supposed lie had been dashed to pieces on the rocks below. His position w?s certainly a most unenviable and perilous one. To extricate himself from his dilemma he know that he must exert unusal caution land ingenuity. Without much difficulty h.e released himself from the folds of the lasso ana then from the crotch of the tree. A thick furze or underbrush covered the side of the declivity and Darrel determined to descend. He made a loop of the lasso a:id descended its length clinging to the shrubs. His descent In this way was a laborious one and It was several hours before he reached the ravine below. |^^Ie regarded his escape as miraculous, was so exhausted thai he Hung for ' - - > ' ' | ' He aroused himself at last and traversed the banks of the little stream that ran through the ravine. As he rounded a projecting ledge of rocks, Darrel Grey paused in some surprise. There was a deep indentation in the solid rock. Here a light showed. It proceeded from a small hand lamp set on a rock. T *?tta cWawa/I fmA n?'flnnq On A fif mo iojo ouvnuu ?nw ? tbem was a man fancifully attired, whom he had never seen before. His companion at a glance Darrel recognized. It was White Fawn, the Modoo princess. CHAPTER XXV. THE OLD BBBXXT. Barrel Grey did not at once manifest himself at'hls discovery of his friend ihe Indian glrL Instead, he stood silently regarding the two persons he had happened to find so strangely. He was, too, somewhat puzzled at the actions of White Fawn's companion. The whole dress and manner of the latter were strangely peculiar and grotesque. He possessed a patriarchial appearance and wore a white beard coming nearly to his waist. He wore dark spectacles and a strange cone-like hat on his head. His dress was a mixture of civilized and savage, and was ornamented with shells and war-paint. On the rock before him lay a small oblong ?oxi from which ho. had lust . taken' a lone reed, which" was eVfdefitly ! ? musical Instrument 80 fully was ; barrel's curiosity aroused at all be saw j that he strained his hearing to catch the first words spoken by the old man. 1 "You are all ready?" asked the Indian maiden. | "Yes," replied her companion. "We ( will see what the science of the old herI mit can do toward baffling our enemies." I Darrel started. "The strange old man must be the recluse, Walford," he murmured, as he recalled Banger Ralph's reference to the hermit I "Am I to wait here?" asked White Fawn. I "Yes. If I succeed at all, it will b? unaided. I will bring the girl here, If I rescue her.9 I "But how can you hope to do so against bo many foes?" I The old man significantly tapped the box which he had tied over his shoulder. I "Leave that to mfe and my science," he replied, confidently. "The outlaws' , camp Is Just Beyond the valley, you say?" I "Yes.? Walford, for it was he, left the place. I Darrel was aboht to reveal himself and address the hermit, but hesitated from doing so until Walford had departed. fTO BE CONTINUED. 1 __ TEMPEMNCE. EVILS OF ALCOHOL. The following lines attempt to portraythe evils arising end that have arisen from the nse of alcohol as a beverage: Could we with Ink the ocean fill. Were every blade of crass n quill, Wore the whole world of parohment made, And every man a scribe by trade. To write the horrors of those v.oes Would drain the oc^an dry. Nor would the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky. TESTIMONI AGAINST ALCOHOLIC BEVEHAGES. The British Registrar-General has published a table of comparative mortality of men, twenty-five to twenty-six years of age, In different occupations, the inquiry cover * _ ^ _ a >1 IDg a penoa ox iur?w yonra, wixjuu uwuo significant and emphatic testimony against alcoholic beverages as related to health and longevity. The standard of 100 was taken bb the lowest or most healthful. Inn-keepers and liquor dealers represent a mortality of 274: inn or hotel sevice, 897: and brewers, 245; while farmers are put down at 114, gardeners at 108, and ministers m 100.?No lional Temperance Advocate. XT BAPS THE BEPUBLIC'S LIFE. The New England Home forcibly says: "The thing that is sapping the life of the Republic and creating more stagnation and ruin in business than all the silver In the world, is the legalized rati traffic, which cuokn not less than 81,200,000,000 worth of mbstnnoo directly from the channels of wholesale trade, and saddles upon honest industry not less than as much more of personal hardens to bear the result of the traffic. The Nation does not ?>x!??t which can on nnnnnl Hrnin T 9tf) HOH ftftfl Aftft tr\* vjce ihe.pbypicftl r*> baiting. KABTKK OF SZJ.T. Ttaft bfBt medical authorities, and those not committed to any total abstinence theories unite in saying that one of the principal effects of alcohol is to loosen the delicate and firm grasp of the will upon the passions. It gives a slack vein to tbe lower nature. It Is only through holding the forces of the lower nature in absolute subordination to reason nnd conscience that ir is possible to , turn life into truth, into pure affection for | the excellent, into the service of man and ' tbe worship of Ood. In most of us the control of the lower i nature by spiritual forces is too fitful and unsteady; we do not sit on the throne of our own souls, masters of ourselves, and any indiligence of any kind that gives the foroes of the low6r life a freer rein assails the mas! tery through which alone there is the possibility of changing earthly life into the values I of eternity.?Sacred Heart Review. TOTJ AND 70UH wipe: I A certain little tract, addressed to drinkers, contains no sentimental appeal to th" , emotions, but is full of praotio.il common sense. Let every one addicted to the use of ; llqnor read It, says an exchange, and pronoonoe judgment upon the advice it con| tains. One gallon of whisky costs abont I three dollars, and contains, on the average, aixty-flve ten-cent drink9. Now, if you must drink whisky, buy a gallon and make your wife the barkeeper; then when you nr<thirsty, give her ten cents for a drink. When the whisky is gone she will have Jelt, after I paying for it, three dollars and a half, nn every gallon will yield the same profit. Thl* money she should put away in the savings bank, so that when you have become it drunkard unable to support yourself, an 1 shunned and despised by every respoctabl" person, your wife may have money enough to keep you until your time comes to Ml a drunkard's grave. TEMPERANCE NEW8 AND NOTES. It is s:iid that Cleveland, Ohio, has one saloon to every 175 inhabitants. The Austrian Legislature is considering a bill for the prevention of drunkenness. The Boston Trade Unions, fortv thousand ! strong, have decided to vote no license. I For every dollar spent in England on ' drink only a cent is spant on education. I Whisky preserves corpses. It makes corpses, also. Don't let it make a corpse of you. A workingman that aids in the support of the saloon-keeper's family eventually degrades his own family. A convict in the Northern Indiana prison diank alcohol which was being used in painting He is now blind. An insurance authority states that prohibitionist policy holders average from four to five years' longer life than any other class. Mrs. Masenberg, ProsMent of the Pioneer Cluo, London's "New Woman" organization, is a blue ribboner, and has forbidden alcohol in any of its alluring lorins. The Supreme Court of Indiana has rendered a decision that it is unlawful for a wo . man 111 tnat acute 10 aoiu ? duivuu uvoubo, and no debt contracted by a woman in that business is valid. The annual Parliamentary returns show the revenue from the liquor traffic in England for the year ending March 31st last, to have been $170,078,495, an increase over the previous year.' The American National Congress, ot Friendly Societies, which makes life insurance its main business, has declared agidnst admitting to membership men engaged in retailing intoxicating liquors. A Louisville lawyer, one of the ablest men at her bar, who served on the bench and is ' a brothero^ne ot the United States Supred^l^Vjustices, went to the city almaLCU!MBl?y* &K? ;IS a la8t ^ope ?' curthe liquor habit. "* RULER OF'JAPA? I CIVILIZATION HAS CREPT llffTC HIS SUMPTUOUS HOME. He Owns Acres of Palaces anl t i Enormously Wealthy ? His Daily Life ? Empress and Crown Prince. THERE iB no ruler in |fch< world, excepting, perhaps, the Czar, 60 interesting to-day a the Emperor of Japan, write Frank 6. Carpenter. He has more( from' the capital, Tokio, 400 mile westward, to his naval station aP Hiroshima, where he has praoticallj taken charge of his army. Parliament and his cabinet are with him, and h i is directing the naval and militarj ; forces by telegraph- No monarch in the world is less understeod. The wnrld knows littlfi abont him. Tor hear little said about him in Japan and the information which I gotJ^al to be -worked for. Even then 71^. comes only in response to maky questions. .. ' j; ; The present Emperor of Japan was kept in a sort of glass cage, figuratdy speaking, daring the first of his (life. He is forty-six years old, and was ]Jut on the throne at the age of fiftetn. This was when the Shogun was still commander-in-chief of^ the army, and was practically the ruler of Japan. At this time the Mikado was so holy tlafc no one mentioned his name. Whet it was necessary to write it a letter was left out from reverence. He was, like the Emperor of China, a sort of a Son NOBLE JAPANESE GIRLS FROM! A i of Heaven. He wad sept in nis pig palace, surrounded by a lot of servants. Whenever he went out it Was in a closed cart, consequently he knew nothing whatever of what was going on in Japan. His throne looked zn >re like a four-poster bedstead than a aything else. It was covered with i ine white silk, but the Empetor sat or< isslegged on the floor, with a oonple of words beside him. I had to take off my shoes before I was admitted * i lto the palace, and 1 walked for a|Xi ile over soft matted floors. The rial ice is altogether Japanese in structure. Tt. Via* alidimr vulk ?nw?red with, fffflld leaf, and it is decorated with paintings by the old Japanese masters. It was in this pala6$ tlie Emperor received the foreigners for the first time about twenty-Bix yeari ago. The tome of the Mikado at Tokio is far different from these old Japan ese palaces in Kioto. He has a vast estate right in the center of the oilty, made up of hill and valley, containing lakes and woods and vast one-st >ry palaces. It is surrounded by three moats, some of which are crossed by marble bridges, and at all of winch yon find soldiers in modern uniforms. These moats are in places irom nut.' 10 200 feet wide. They are filled/ with water, and magnificent lotuB flowers float tipon them on sheets of green leaves. . His palaces are now a combination of Europe and Japan. They cost 33,000,000. The wulls of many of ,tttese rooms are made of immense Ipjate gloss doors in lacquered frames, 60 arranged that a great nnmber of rooms can be thrown into one. Some are celled with the most magnificent (embroideries. The Emperor^'keeps his eye on everything. He rises early and br jakfaetB at about 7 o'clock. He us< is a knife and fork whenever he takes foreign food, but he prefers the cpopsticks at his Japanese dinners. He! eat s both kinds of food and is very fond of J-2 EMPEROR OF JAPAN. rice, taking it with every meal. He likes meats and is by no means av erse to sweets. He usually eata hie breakfast alone and also his lunch. Hib dinner is serve:! in table d'hote style, with all the European accompanim nte. Contrary to the regular praction ir Japanese families, his wife oftei. sits at the table with him, and alsc > the Crown Prince. His work begins as soon as his breakfast is over. Fi om 5; until 12 he receives his Ministers After this he takes his lunch, and l^ei speuds a little time in reading hvwspapers. He wdtohes closely anese press, kqfeps traok of cu^^w public opinionAnd, I venture t<^^^ changes his actpns somewhat to^^L it. All the papip. are looke^gfl^B him, and the are marked*.. or criticisms he passes over, bat if a newspaper becomes at all dangerotXB, he gives an order to his oensors and the newspaper is stopped, while its editors are liable to be throwrt into prison. THB CBOWK PRINCB. The Mikado is by no means a poor OTinn TTa nnaivHD ahnni #2 KOO flflfl A year to keep tip his palace and his household establishment, and he baa besides a large private fortune. Mr. Sannomiya, his Grand Master of Ceremonies, told me tliat he was a good -business man. He has a great deal of money in publio land. The Emperor of Japan is entitled to be considered the most aristocratic ruler on earth. The royal family of Japan has a genealogical tree -which reaches .to heaven, and their tradi SCHOOL POUNDED BY THE, EMPRESS. ? I tions state that the Emperor comes .from the gods. There have been 121 Emperors of Japan, and they all belong to this family. The first one governed Japan jast about 2500 years TT.^ 4V?a Innrr Via. tigUa JUL(3 WOO V/il HUC VU1VUO AVUg WW- | fore Julius Caesar aspired to be the Emperor of Borne and 300 years be THE EMPRESS OF JAPAN. fore Alexander the Great thought he had conquered the world. The Japanese will assure jou that the Mikado - !- 1 j j 4 _f A. fl_?* -cw IS U iiueui UtSBUUiiUUlib ui HUB mot JJUJperor, Jimmu Tenno. Any other royal family would have run ont in less than this time, espe cially in an isolated country libJapan, but the Japanese have a la^ by which the Emperor cannot marry one of his own family. He has marry the daughter of one of tlie court nobles. The Empress, thex'e" fore, is not of royal blood. She is the daughter of Ichijo Takada. She i^ a very bright woman, and was but eig hteen years old at the time she was mfar- j f t rm I V. 1?6S. nea. XillS wua tiwnjr uaun. in xw when foreign ways had not yet lobtained in the empire. Her Majfsty wore at that time Japanese clotPes? and she followed, lam told, the/?118" torn of shaving off her eyebrows I blackening her teeth. Later I on? however, her Majesty changed/ her ideas about this matter, and heil eyebrows have again grown out ai.Jd her j teeth are as white as those ol an J^merican girl. She is at the front I of all movements for the introduction |of the Western civilization, especially any innovation that promises to bettf er the Tnnonooft Tvnm pnl. She uuuui nun?m?ii has hospitals and schools, for she is one ofthemost charitable ofmc^archs. She is not fond of society, and! 8he ie almost a9 busy as the Empero?r. Shj has her own secretaries, and Mier tinJ istaken np with reading, studWi recejl tions and charitable work, M She M very fond of riding. >< B M There are a Dumber of lawies ccH nected with the palaces alt TojH who, like many wild flowfler^^H "born to blush unseen,"M jflB they do not "waste thoir swwjj^HK i the desert air." I refer tctt^^HHj 1 ondary wives of the Empefl^^H^I hear nothing about these l for they are kept as much in the background. But HgJBBHMnlthe Em neror^MH^BB n ??c ? iithem, his mot ber's name b* The doolis 1b Gotham's "400.w jv jflfl" Yanagiwara. JOeorge J# Gould, eldest eon of the 11 The Crown 1 >rince was an Tattle Wizard of Wall street," has ,vl old last Septe imber. He W(in ^^5^^ a fieid which baffled his; B ; $ bright boy, dark faced a%amoU8 f^er." Not only has he. eyed, of the 1 oost pronouD|prove^ a t0Trer in financial circles e?e type. _ He has an esta C0nfcj,0?e(3 ^ith prudence and sa- : his own insidle the Pa^acLgj^jity the\ast millions left under his 1 1 with hia own RPrvants. *1 -i:? - attendants. v $De, *** become a leader, MB ? J Ythe 800181 ^orld. He and his wife, A Tnbe-Fe d Iacabatorl eri7 Mws Edith Kingdon, The addition to the tl pital, in Ne^ York, wjl ' ..? The hospital, as well as , J j contains thrje wards if. | ( M B fl nursery. Thi| was the ^ j ^ John Hone, Mrs. Joeedl 1 B. O. Chism and Mrs. Efe ' ^ \ J third floor contains o? I / playrc om fnrLished by|. ?1" ? ^ onMMrfJ i- | ?- at distinct social success, and H ^ v lupon their return to New York th^J| ijujfl i the rscrbatb jlpreBtige acquired across the water i A^olmade them rank as leaders in Goth- flj Kg (Jon. An incubator* ^wB "Four Hundred." At the recent M It isfed by a rubberMp j utriarcbs' Ball, the swellest sooi|kkM V j|B stomach. _B f uncti on of the season, Mr. -and MrfljSj , I HowBojCUoUw 1 ll The boy-choir onni millionaire being compliment? . -'l-W ered from families i*3. ~H$&' on/1 +Via VinH II. b(^ffPron"81?fnitted w msm I p) BB iDtTfth/Sy' ^Choi* , I MRS, OEOBOB J. GOULD. VyHJfSuH 6C|) P 9 ftl)' - . i I hHHK| Tl^f no-p^e^B^^t J. the simplicity and good taste of S .J|K fiv"kents* n^Hrvjce^ hler costume by being termed the sitff in the b^K 0C(J'. 'Jjewelless queen of society." ftaio'is, and. HV?n. i thi'i re?al^u:^Bnfl J The ^on-^e Game. mace 'P0^?iM;0yetJ<i English paper has given a prize positions j in the funkiest competition you erer a regalaJR occp. heard of. The idea is to draw a face j pie . an e?vi^B^g CQX_ inside a circle, making only four ^ rades. Ha J>ft ?fc?ral muic (^Ba -x"*"-"""^v , '^rb^Sj future WL .strokes, exclusive o' the circle itself. . |T0 there, Some of ogitted were very A.t prese cM funny indeed. Now, Pathfinder read-' H deeolatic, ' H era, draw some circles, take a pencil, fl B and see what laughable countenances 1 you can make with just four strode. So Ion" H I Here is a game that offers no er^ of ^9H humaniti?^^^^^^^B amusement. We have reproduced ^V.' iV^BS light be (HH9H four of the best faces, to suggest how . Merrima<H M| the thing is done. ?Washington Path-^ 3 miral Joil Ifinder, ^ 8 -IB I? Wliite Deer. I | White deer, which' probably are al binos, and which figure so often in ? I Western superstition and ro- M manoe, are not unknown in Maine forI ests. There, however, no mysterious -MH and supernatural attributes are -1 ascribed to them. Many a Western , > '// W* hunter fears to shoot a -white cUer lest p I it bring him misfortune, but when two . > 1 ^HhI hunters in the wildg of Tiscataquis I ' SB9 County came in from the woods 1 other day one of the two fine deer they 1 brought with them as trophies of their J marksmanship was a white one.?New 1 Y?rk ***- * 1A curious partnership often exists <>{. J between the sea annemone and the hermit crab. The latter always haei/^r* an anemone fastened to his shell, and when he changes his quarters he take* "v. his anemone along, provided he candetach it from the old shell. The blood flows almost a^reeliT^^^i^BB through the bones, u& I bones are almost filled with matter. me for Pliny mentiops oatmeal as a H|^H;nough-~ ? the high^J^B^HMHflHfl^^HgHHfl HI are simply toajfl|^^^^H|^HH^^BHH^^R|