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THE SPENDERS A Tale dF AeTfcard GoMntioi By HARRY LEON WILSON 1 ^ 1 Copyright. Iff Lothrop PnMithtng Company. CHAPTER V.--CoirrnnTMK , She turned and smiled into his eyes "*. %rith utter frankness. 4 > * "At least you must be sure that I like you; that I am very friendly; that f t want to know you better, and I want < " ^ou to know me better. You don't f. know me &t all, you know. You west- toners have another way, erf accepting .. people too readily. it may work no - fiarm among yourselves, but perhaps Easterners are a bit more perilous. Sometimes, now, a very eastern per- " «on doesn't even accept herself--him­ self--very trustingly; she--he--finds it C,4 $o hard to get acquainted with hlm- V *«lf." • - \ T h e y o u n g m * c p r o v i d e d o n e o f . those silences of which a few discern- > * Ins men are instinctively capable and for which women thank them. a I "This road," she said, after a little ' time of rapid walking, "leads right up / * to tie end of the world, doesn't it? f ie, it ends squarely in the sun." bey stopped where the turn had* . ' . <jpened to the west a long vista of gray ^ ..•'fend purple hills far and high. They ^tood on a ridge of broken quartz and jgneiss, thrown up in a bygone age. To % ' their left a few dwarf Scotch firs hrew shadows back toward the town, he ball of red fire in the west was alf below the rim of the distant peak. "I shall look forward to seeing you --and your mother and sister?--in New York," she said, when they part­ ed, "and I am sure I shall have more to say when we're better known to each other." "If you were the one woman before, if the thought of you was more than the substance of any other to me--you must know how it will be now, when the dream has come true. It's no small thing for your best dream to come true." "Deaf me! haven't we been senti­ mental and philosophic? I'm never Bike this at home, I assure you. I've really been thoughtful." From up the canyon came the sound of a puffing locomotive that presently steamed by them with its three dingy little coaches, and, after a stop for .water and the throwing of a switch, pushed back to connect with the Shep­ ler car. The others of the party crowded out on to the* rear platform as Perclval helped Miss Milbrey up the steps. Uncle Peter had evidently been chat­ ting with Shepler, for as they came out the old man was saying: " 'Get action' *is my motto. Do things. Don't frit­ ter. Be something and be it good and tiard. Get action early and often." Shepler nodded. "But men like as are apt to be unreasonable with the young. We expect them to have their town vigor and our wisdom, and the (infirmities of neither." The good-bys were hastily said, and the little train rattled down the can­ yon. Miss Milbrey stood in the door of the car, and Percival watchei her •while the glistening rails that seemed to be pushing her away narrowed in •perspective. Sne stood motiodiess and Snserutaole to the last, but still look- ug steadily toward him--almost wist­ fully, it seemed to him once. "Well," he said, cheerfully, to Uncle Peter. "You know, son, I don't like to cuss, tout except one or two of them folks i d sooner live in the middle kittle of liell than in the place that turns 'em out They rile me--that talk about "people in the humbler walks of life.' Of course I am humble, but then, SOD, if you come right- down to it, as the feller said, I ain't so damned humble: CHAPTER VI. THE ARGONAUT'S RETURN TO THE RISING SUN. It was mid-October. The two saddle horses and a team for carriage use had been shipped ahead. In the private car the Bines party was beginning its own journey eastward. Prom the rear plat­ form they had watched the tall figure of Uncle Peter Bines standing in the bright autumn sun, aloof from the band of kerchief-waving friends, the droop of his head and shoulders show­ ing the dejection he felt at seeing them go. He had resisted all entreaties to accompany them. His last injunction to Percival had been to marry early. "I know your stock and I know you," tie said; "and you got no call to be rangin' them pastures without a brand. You never was meant fur a maverick. Only don't let the first woman that coves ridln' herd get her iron on you. No man knows much about the crit­ ters, of course, but I've noticed a few things in my time. You pick one that's full-chested, that's got ft fairish- sized nose, and that lines cats. The full chest means she's healthy, the uoee means she ain't finicky, and llkin' cats means she's kind and honest and unselfish. Ever notice some women when a cat's around? They pretend to like 'em and say 'Nice kitty!' but you can see they're viewin' "em with bitter hate and suspicion. If they have to stroke 'em they do it plenty gingerly and you can see 'em shudderin' inside like. It means they're catty them­ selves. But when one grabs a- cat up as if she was^oin' to eat it and cud­ dles it in her neck and talks baby-talk to it, you play her fur bein' sound and true. Pass up the others, son." As the train started he swung him­ self off with jt sad little "Be good to yourself!" "Th^nk the Lord we're under way at last!" cried Percival, fervently, when the group at the station had been shut from view. "Isn't it just heavenly!" exclaimed his sister. "Thin* of having all of New York you want--being at home there--and not having to look forward to this desolation of a place." Mrs. Bines was neither depressed nor elated. She, was maintaining that calm level of submission to fate which had been her lifelong habit. The jour­ ney and the new life were to be under­ taken because they formed f or fcer the Use of least resistance along which all energy must flow. Had her children elected to camp for the remainder of their days in the center of the desert of Gobi, she would have faced that life with as little sense of personal con­ cern and with no more misgivings. Down oat of the mase of hills thtb train wound; and then by easy grades after two days of travel down off the great plateau to where the plains of Nebraska lay away to a far horizon in blown billows of withered grass. Then came the crossing of the sullen, sluggish Missouri, that highway of an, earlier day to the great northwest; and' after that the better wooded and bet­ ter settled lands of Iowa and Illinois. "Now we're getting where Christians live," said Percival, with warm appre­ ciation. "Why, Percival," exclaimed his moth­ er, reprovingly, "do you mean to say there aren't any Christians in Mon­ tana City? How you talk! There are lots of good Christian people there." And even Mrs. Bines was not with­ out a sense of quiet and rest induced by the gentler Contours of the land­ scape through which they now aped. "The country here does seem a lot cozier," she admitted. The i hills rolled away amiably and reassuringly; the wooded slopes In their gay coloring of autumn invited confidence. Here were no forbidding stretches of the gray alkali desert, no grim bare mountains, no solitude of desolation.. It was a kind land, fat with riches. The shorn yellow fields, the capacious red barns, the well-con­ ditioned homes, all told eloquently of peace and plenty. So, too, did the vil­ lages--those lively little clearing houses for immense farming districts. To the adventurer from New York they seem always new and crude. To our travelers from a newer, cruder region they were actually aesthetic in their suggestions of an old fcnd well-estab­ lished civilization. In due time they were rattling over a tangled maze of switches, dodging interminable processions of freight cars, barely missing crowded passen­ ger trains whose bells struck clear and then flatted as the trains flew by; de­ filing by narrow waterways, crowded with small shipping; winding through streets lined with high, gloomy ware­ houses, amid the clang and clatter, the strangely sounding bells and whistles of a thousand industries, each sending up its just contribution of black smoke to the pall that lay always spread above; and steaming at last into a great roomy shed where all was sys­ tem, and where the big engine trem bled and panted as if in relief at hav­ ing run in safety a gantlet so hazard­ ous. "Anyway, I'd rather live In Montana City than Chicago/* . ventured Mrs. Bines. "Whatever pride you may feel in your, discernment is amply justified, replied her son, performing before the amazed lady a bow that indicated the lowest depths of slavish deference. "I am now," he continued, "going out to pace the floor of this locomotive boudoir for a few exhilarating breaths of smoke, and pretend to myself that I've got to live in Chicago forever. A little discipline like that is salutary to keep one from forgetting the great blessing which a merciful Providence has conferred upon one." "I'll wafk a bit with you," said his sister, donning her jacket and a cap. "Lest my remarks have seemed in­ determinate. madam," sternly contin­ ued Percival at the door of the car, "permit me to add that if Chicago were Heaven I should at once enter upon a life of crime. Do not a^ect to misun­ derstand me, I beg of you. I should leave no avenue of salvation open to my precious soul. I should incur no risk of being numbered among the saved. I should be b-a-d, and I should sit up nights to invent new ways of evil. If I had any leisure left from being as wicked as I could be, I should devote it to teaching those I loved how to become abandoned. I should doubt­ less issue a' pamphlet. 'How to Merit Perdition Without a Master. Learn to Be Wicked in Your Own Home in Ten Lessons. Instructions Sent Securely Sealed from Observation. Thousands of Testimonials front the Most Acpom- plished Reprobates of the Day.' I trust that you will never again so far forget yourself as to utter that word "Chi­ cago' in my presence. If you feel that you must give way to the evil Impulse, go off by yourself and utter the name behind the protection of closed doors --where this Innocent girl c&nnot hear you. Come, sister. Otherwise I may behave in a manner to be regretted in my calmer moments. Let us leave the woman alone, now. Besides, I've got to go out and help the hands make up that New York train. You never can tell. Some horrible accident might happen to delay us here 30 minutes. Cheer up, ma; it's always darkest just before leaving Chicago, you know." Thus flippantly do some of the younger sons of men blaspheme this metropolis of the mid-west--a city the creation of which is, by many persons of discrimination, held to be the chief romance and abiding miracle of the nineteenth century. Let us rejoice that one such partisan was now at hand to stem the torrent of abuse. As Percival held back the door for his sister to pass out, a stout little ruddy-faced man with trim gray sidewhiskers came quickly Up the steps and barred their way with cheery ag­ gressiveness. "Ah! Mr. Higbee-^well, well!" ex­ claimed Percival, cordially. "Thought it might be some of you folks when I saw the* car," said Hig- bee, shaking hands all around. • "And Mrs. Bines, too! and the girl, looking like a Delaware peach when the crop's 'failed^ How's everybody, and how long you going to be in the good old town?" "Ah! we were Just speaking of Chi­ cago as you came in," Mid Percival, blandly. "Isn't she a great old town, though--a wonder!" "My boy," said Hlgbee, in low, sol­ emn tones that came straight from his heart, "she gets greater every day you live. You can see her at it, fairly. How long since you been here?" "I came „ through last June, you know, after I left yonr yacht at New­ port." "Yes, yes; to be sure; so you did-- poor Daniel J.--but say, you wouldn't know the town now If you haven't dogmatic tone. a«m it sine* then. Why, 1 tin - <ro be ooirnmjwpa from New York every M days or so and she grows out of my ken every time, like a five-year-old boy. Say, rve got Mrs. Higbee up in the New York sleeper, but if you're "going to be here a spell we'll stop a few days longer and I'll drive you around--what say? packing houses--Lake Shore drive- Lincoln park--" He waited, glowing confidently, as one submitting irresistible temptations. Percival beamed upon him with moist eyes. "By Jove, Mr. Higbee! that's clever of you--it's royal! Sis and I would like nothing better--but you see my poor mother here is almost down with nervous prostration and we've got to hurry her to New York without an hour's delay to consult a specialist. We're afraid"--he glanced anxiously at the astounded Mrs. Bines, and lowered his voice--"we're afraid she may not be with us long." Why, Percival," began Mrs. Bines, dazedly, "you was just saying--" Now don't fly all to pieces, ma!-- take it easy--you're with friends, be sure of that. You needn't beg us to go on. You know we wouldn't think of stop­ ping when it may mean life or death to you. You see just the way she is," he continued to the sympathetic Hig­ bee--"we're afraid, she may collapse any moment. So we must wait for an­ other time; but I'll tell you what you do; go get. Mrs. Higbee and your traps and come let us put you up to New York. We've got lots of room--run along now--and we'll have some of that ham, 'the kind you have always bought,' for lunch. A. L. Jackson is a miserable cook, too, if I don't know the truth." * Gently urging Higbee through the door, he stifled a systematic inquiry into the details of Mrs. Bines' afflio- tion. "Come along quick! I'll go help you and we'll have Mrs. Higbee back be­ fore the train starts." "Do you know," Mrs. Bines thought­ fully observed to her daughter, "I sometimes mistrust Percival ain't just right In his head; you remember he did have a bad fall on it when he was two years and five months old--two years, five months and 18 days. The way he carries on right before folks' faces! That time I went through the asylum at Butte there was a young man kept going on with the same outlandish rig­ marole just like Percival. The idea of Percival telling me to eat a lemon- ice with an ice pick, and 4Oh, why don't the flesh brushes wear nice, prop­ er clothes brushes!' and 'sure and hammer my nails good and hard after I get them manicured.' And back home he was always wanting to know where the n^eat augers were, saying he'd just bought 900 new ones and he'd have to order a ton more if they were all lost. I don't believe there Is such a thing as a meat auger. I don't know what on earth a body could do with one. And that other young man." she con­ cluded, significantly, "they had him in a little bit of a room with an iron- barred tloor to it like a prison-cell." 4 CHAPTER VIL„>f'. COMMUNICATEE SOME VALUABLE INFORMATION, v The Higbees were presently at home in the Bines car. Mrs. Higbee was a pleasant, bustling, plump little wom­ an, sparkling-eyed and sprightly. Prominent in her manner was a help­ less little confession of inadequacy to her ambitions that made her personal­ ity engaging. To be energetic and friendly, and deeply absorbed in peo­ ple who were bold and confident, was her attitude. She#began bubbling at once to Mrs. Bines and Psyche of the latest fash­ ions for mourners. Crepe was more swagger than ever before, both as trimming and for entire costumes. "House gowns, my dear, and dinner gowns, made entirely of crepe in the Princesse style, will exactly Buit your daughter--and on the dinner gowns she can wear a trimming of that dull jet passementerie." From gowns she went naturally to the difficulty of knowing whom to meet in a city like New York--and how to meet them--and the watchful­ ness required to keep daughter Millie from becoming entangled with leading theatrical gentlemen. Amid Percival's lamentations that he must so soon leave Chicago, the train moved slowly out of the big shed to search in the interwoven puzzle of tracks for one that led to the east. As they left the center of the city Higbee drew Percival to one pt the broad side windows, "Pull up your chair and sit here a minute." he said, with a mysterious little atjr of importance. "There's a thing this train's going to pass right along here that I want you to look At. Maybe you've seen better ones, of course--and then again--" It proved to be a sign some 20 feet high and a whole block long. Em­ blazoned upon its broad surface was "Higbee's Hams." At one end, and towering another ten feet or so above ,the mammoth letters was a white- capped and aproned chef abandoning his mercurial French temperament to an utter frenzy of delight over a "Hig­ bee's Ham" which had apparently just been vouchsafed to him by an invisible benefactor. "There, now!" exclaimed Higbee; "what do you call that--I want to know--hey?" "Great! Magnificent!" cried Perci­ val, with the automatic and ready hypocrisy of a sympathetic nature^ "That certainly is great." "Notice the size of it?" queried Hig­ bee, when they had flitted by. "Did I!" exclaimed the young man, reproachfully. "We went by pretty fast--you couldn't see it welL 1 tell you the way they're allowed to run trains so fast right here in this crowded city is an outrage. I'm blamed if I don't have my lawyer take it up with the board of aldermen--slaughtering people on their tracks right and left--you'd think these railroad companies owned the earth. But that sign, now. Did you notice you could read every letter in the label on that ham?" You wouldn't think it was a hundred yards back from the track, jyould you? Why, that label by actual measure is six feet four inches across---and yet it looks as small--and everything all in the right, proportion, it's wonderful. It's what I call art," he concluded, In a slightly TO SAVE INDIAN CAPCTOLS PLAN TO HAKE HISTORIC BUILD­ INGS MUSEUM REPOSITORIES. When Statehood Wipes Out Indian Territory Effort Will Be Hade to Preserve Official Mansions of "*• Old Capitals. Now that Oklahoma and Indian Ter­ ritory are to take their place among the si jterhood of states, and will have but one capital where heretofore there has been two, some concern is felt for the old capital towns of the two ter­ ritories, and the question is being asked what will become of the old state buildings? Sentiment is reluc­ tant to let the historic buildings pass into oblivion. Especially is this true Ih the Indian Territory, where it is said a movement will be Inaugurated to preserve the historic capitol buildings of the five civilized tribes. In line with this movement it has been suggested, and the plan seems to have met with general approval, Is that cach building be made the na­ tional museum of the nation wherein it is located. In this manner they would become objects of Interest and attract visitors from all parts of the world. The Creek Indian capitol building at Okmulgee was erected in 1867, and has been the center of all that was Im­ portant In the Creek nation during al­ most a half century. Okmulgee means "springing water." Around the council house and the trees which surround it are memories of a proud but vanishing tribal gov­ ernment, once warlike and warring, but whose sun is now netting, and whose existence Is now merging into that of general government. Cluster­ ing al»out the council house are recol­ lections tinged with pathos of former splendid gatherings of "the great coun­ cil composed of two bodies--the house of kings and the houses of warriors-- now only empty names. It was here the Rentences of the Creek oourts were executed The prisoner was tried, con­ victed and sentenced to be shot to death at a'given date, and then re­ leased with the admonition to return and receive his penalty on the day of execution. History or tradition does not record an instance in which the condemned man failed to appear and take hlr punishment manfully. After bidding his friends farewell he took his station under the old maple tree and the unerring aim of his dearest friend sent his soul to his Maker. In the history and chronicles of the Creek tribe there Is no more interest­ ing etory than that of the Red Stick yrar. This happened many, many years ago, at a time when the wily Chief Tecumaeh, Of the Shawnees, was at CHEEK INDIAN CAPITOL AT OKMUL­ GEE. outs with both the English and the Spaniards, and he was determined to have revenge and lift a few scalps. He hati visited nearly all the Indian tribes for the purpose of organizing a federation and destroying the white people. Among the tribes that were favorable to a war of extermination was the Muscogees^or Creeks, and, al­ though many of the leading men of the tribe advised against the war, yet the advice of the sages; was not heed­ ed, and Tecumseh's Cause was es­ poused by a majority of the Creeks. They flocked to this wily chieftain's camp, ready to follow him. The med­ icine men of the Creek recruits or­ dered a long pole to be painted blood- red from top to bottom. This was planted, and around it the warriors danced night and day, when not listen­ ing to war speeches.' Tecumseh joined in all these proceedings. A few miles from the town of Sapul- pa, in the Creek nation, is a high cliff, Known to all the people for miles around as "Moccasin Track" cliff. This name is derived from three moc­ casin tracks on top of this cliff of stone. The tracks are of different sizes, and the legend is as follows: "Years ago, during the formative pe­ riod of this cliff, there lived near a beautiful Indian maiden, who loved' and was loved by a young white man. who had found her in her home while on a hunting trip In the Indian coun­ try. He Wooed her and she was to be his bride, but the laws of the tribe prohibited the match. The white lover also - incurred the dislike of the girl's parents. Often the lovers would steal away to this cliff, and on one occasion the girl's little sister was sent to find her. They crossed this cliff together, making the three different sized moc­ casin tracks. The sun hardened the ctone and the tracks have endured to tell the tale. The legend further re­ cites the fact that the young white lover fell asleep on the cliff and fell to his death on the rocks below. • t , U! • a>,W£, WHITE Sir Thomas Lipton*s New Cup MAGNIFICENT TROPHY , FOR MASSACHUSETTS RACES. s .• The vision which will not fsMe from the eyes of Sir Thomas Lipton is that of the America's cup reposing among the trophies of the English Yachting club ir. London. Three times the Englishman has tried desperately to wrest the coveted prize from his.. American cousins, and each time failed. It has been intimated from time to time of late that Sir Thomas was plan­ ning to build a new boat and to send THE NEW LIPTON CUP. (Prise Which Has Been Offered tor Yacht Races on Massachusetts Bay. another challenge to this country for a series of races in 1907, but nothing tangible has been done. This, how­ ever, need not lead Americans to sup­ pose tnat the matter is to be dropped, nor should American yachtsmen be so short-sighted as to be led to believe past victories make certain the results of possible future races. Sir Thomas has a long vision this time, and he is going to learn some­ thing about American yachting before he again tries to lift the must-be-won cup. With this ultimate object in view the persistent Englishman has appeared in Massachusetts as a cham­ pion of the rating rule of the New York Yacht club, and under which rule he seek3 for another race for the America's cup, for he believes that he would stand a better chance of win­ ning under that rule than he did un­ der the length and Bail area rules, un­ der which his three previous matches for the trophy have been sailed. He is making a study of this new rating rule, and is going to try and bring out the good and bad points of the rule by practical tests in racing. As a step to the accomplishment of his purpose, Sir Thomas last winter had as nis guest in London, Wlnfield M. Thompson, a Boston yachtsman, through whom he offered to the yachtsmen of Massachusetts bay a handsome cup, to be raced for under the now rules. The cup stands three feet six inches in height, and is valued at $1,000. It was designed by a well-known firm of London silversmith. On one side of the cup is a shield, surmounted by the British and Amer­ ican flags, bearing the words: "The Sir Thomas J. Lipton Championship Cup for Massachusetts Bay, 1906." Un­ der this shield are the private signal of Sir Thomas Lipton, a shamrock on a yellow ground, within a green border, aud the flag of the Yacht club. On the reverse side is the official In­ signia of the Yacht Racing association of Massachusetts, showing a yacht un­ der tail, and a head of Aeolus. This is decorated with the same arrange­ ment of flags as the shield on the obverse aid*. The base is of ebony, to which are attached shields In sil­ ver, cn which the names of yachts winning the cup will be inscribed. The cup bceomes this property of the own­ er first winning'two class Q champion­ ships, and, once won, cannot be raced for afain unless put up by the owner. QUEER PLACE FOR. WELL • ' K-; r-fc •v . . . » ••• Cherryvale, Kan.--One of the biggest water wells ever drilled in this part of the country is in the vicinity of the smelter here. The location was pure­ ly an accident. The smelter owners were looking for a supply of water for the horses, and decided that it would be better to go to the top of a hill and run a gravity line down to the works than to drill on the flat and install pumps. The drill had not been work­ ing more than three hours when the water came with a great rush and nearly blew the tools out of the hole. A six-inch pipe was put in and this is barely sufficient to contain the vol­ ume. The pressure la so great that the tank over the fire engine house is filled without pumping, and then the well is not working more than one-fourth of the time. If it were to work all the time it would not only supply all of the departments of the smelter, but the entire town of Cherryvale. The capacity of the well Is a mat­ ter .of guess,.because it has never been Allowed to run all day. but it is said to be at least 4,000,000 gallons a day. The drilling of the well has been the talk of the farmers In the neighbor­ hood, and more wells will be drilled in the hope of finding the same vein. The big well is another of the freaks which have been the bane of geologists since the discovery of oil and gas in this part of the state. If there was any other range of hills around here the presence of the water so near the surface of the ground on top of the hill to the northwest might be ex­ plained, but how it happens that the water is within 12 feet of the highest hill in the whole country and with no other hill at all within reach, is some­ thing the people who think they know something of geology have been un­ able to explain. v: Not to Blame; "Now, sir," said Willie's father, "don't be a little jackass." "I can't help bein' little pa." re­ plied the bright boy, "an" it ain't my fault that I'm your son. "--Philadel­ phia Press; «' Horses rarely forget either a benefit or an unklndness. Mr. Shurtleff had a beautiful mare, White Lady, a high- spirited and sensitive creature. Ben, her rroom, had never treated her roughly or given her a cross word, and White Lady knew his step and would whinny with delight when she heard It Mr. Shurtleff sent Ben one day to ! Crsygie, a lonely little railway station ! in the midst of the moors. When Ben came out of the office he was amazed not to find White Lady where he had left her. Gipsy Tim, a rough, dark- looking fellow, had mounted her to try her speed over the moors. White Lady had never been handled so roughly be­ fore. She reared and Plunged with fright. "Get off," said Ben, turning white with rnger. He was not more than 15 and small for his age. Tim answered sneeringly: "You be quiet. I'm just trying her a bit. I'll tame her for you." Ben seized him by the arm, though he wis twice as big as himself, and again told him to get off. Fortunately, seemed, had a way of his own to tack The blaze. But while there much talk there was little action. At any rate nobody showed any intention of plunging into the barn. This was the sanation that Ben, despite the ex­ citement, immediately grasped. One sound tore Ben's heart. It was Lady's piercing neigh, heard above all the din. He knew that she was calling him. But how could he reach her? It was impossible to get through the sul- fQcaUng smoke. At this moment he caught a glimpse of one or two lurking forrns in the background, and recognized them as gipsies. He instantly suspected a plait to rob the stables. "Where thieves can get in, I can," he thought, and calling to Robert, the boy who had the care of Pilot, to bring him. an ax, be ran to the back of the stables. ( He got in without difficulty. ISvf- dently the old door had been already broken open. To his amazement he found White Lady plunging, kicking and striking with teeth and hoofs at Gipsy Tim, who was trying to catch •H-A i, \ Mm WHITE LADY WAS PLUNGING AT GYPSY TIM. a farmer, a stout, muscular man, rode up and. recognizing Gipsy Tim, made him £.ive up the mare, which ha uid. With reluctance. White Lady gave him a savage little snip PS he passed her, and from that day, if she happened to see him, even in the distance, she would put back her ears in displeasure and snort. There happened to be a country fair held at the little town of Cralgie, one or two miles from the station, a few months later. Mr. Shurtleff drove some of his friends over to see it. The inn, though small, was comfortable, and they had made their plans to spend the night there. One of the men had a noble black horse called Black Pilot, and Ben and the boy that took charge of this horse had become great friends. When they left the stable at night It was pretty to see Pilot and White Lady rub their heads against their friends. Ben slept soundly, but when he awoke it was with a fearful start. That red glare through the window was not the light of morning, and what meant those trampling feet and the dreadful cry of "Fire?" Rushing out, he found a crowd In front of the stable, and a cloud of smoke and flame pouring from window and door. There was a confusion of voices, as everybody In the throng outside, it her. The flames bad iot yet reached the rear of the building. At the sight of Ben the gipsy fie^ but it was no easy matter to get Lady out of the stable. Pilot followed him readily enough, and so would Lady until she reached a spot near the back door--where Ben conjectured that Tim had made the first spring at her to seize her--and here she would tremble and snort with terror, crouch almost to the ground and refuse to move. Fortunately it occurred to him to tie his handkerchief over her eyes, and by doing this, he coaxed her almost to the door. Just at that moment Robert caught sight of Pilot's black head over Ben's shoulder, and wild with excite­ ment, began to shout: "Steady, Pilot! Ho, boy! Ho, boy!" Heaving this well-known stable- call, Pilot answered with a cheerful lit­ tle v.'hinny, and Lady took a step for­ ward, and finally both were across the threshold anl saved from the fire. If the mare had not retained so vivid a remembrance of her old foe, Gipsy Tim would have had her out of the burning stable and far away over the moors before Ben got in, and would never have been suspected of the theft. As long as White Lady lived she disliked and feared Gipsies, and would not let one come near her.--Chicago Daily News. . f i A Chance for Reform. If there is any truth in the state­ ment of the small boy whose speech is reported in the Washington Star, the political situation in some parts of our country needs looking into. The his­ tory class In one of the public schools of the city had just concluded a reci­ tation the other day, when the teach­ er took advantage of a few spare min­ utes to test the knowledge of her pu­ pils concerning the form of the dis­ trict government. la whom is the governing power of this city vested?" was the first ques­ tion. Silence reigned for a moment Then little Tommy's hand went up, and to the teacher's "Well, Tommy?" the fol­ lowing answer was vouchsafed: "The governors of the district are three missionaries, two from civilized life, and one from the Injun corpse." Vaken at Hia Word. A young motorist was endeavoring to convince a country innkeeper that the decay of coaching was more com­ pensated by the spread of motoring as a pastime, says a writer in the St James' Gazette. As a final argu­ ment, he stated that his car was of 40 horsepower, "the equal, sir, of tea relays of coach horses." The next morning he read In hia bill: "To feeding and stabling, 80a shillings." He asked the landlord for and explanation. "The charge for 'osses, sir, Is two shillings a head, sir," was the reply. "And I've your word, sir, that that machine is the same as 40 'OX^^, so it comes to 80 shillings."* ** Horses Come High, k A good carriage horse in Australia costs |200 or four times as much as the coet 15 years ago. THE MODESTY OP. 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