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Jtsl v #* \ H ». ~ - ; " • •*•:; W s J " * * *»,» ,, •» * i»'$ WK< fli By REX BEACH Author of "The Iron Trail," "Th« Spoilers." "Hurt of tb« Sunset. ~ Eta. COopyr<«*i,VH^««w» BroUar^ . . O'REILLY BACK IN CUBA AT LAST, HEARS BAD NEWS ABOUT ROSA AND ESTEBAR jJL * Synopsis.--Don Esteban Varona, rich Cuban planter, hides his money and jewels and the secret of the hiding place Is lost when he and the only other person who knows it are killed. Donna Isabel, step­ mother of the Varona twins--Esteban and Rosa--searches vainly for, years for the hidden treasure. Johnny O'Reilly, an American, loves and is loved by Rosa. Donna Isabel falls to her death in an old well while walking in her sleep. Ksteban's connection with the Cuban tasurrectos is discovered and he and Rosa are forced to flee. O'Reilly,< in jigw York on business, gets a letter from Rosa telling of her peril and he starts for Cuba. Pancho Cueto, faithless manager of the Varona estates, betrays Estebun and Rosa, leading Colonel Cobo, notorious Spanish guerrilla, to their hiding place, Esteban, who is absent, returns just in time to rescue Rosa. O'Reilly's efforts to reach Rosa are fruit­ less and he is compelled by the Spanish authorities to leave Cuba. Esteban wreaks a terrible vengeance on Pancho Cueto. A fierce fight with Spanish soldiers ensues. Esteban escapes, but, badly wounded and half conscious, he is unable to find his way back to his camp. Rosa, with the faithful servants who had remained with her, is forced to obey the concentration order of General Weyler, the Spanish com­ mander, and seek refuge in Matanzas. O'Reilly returns to Cuba with a band of filibusters, wMch Includes Norine Evans, an American girl who has dedicated tier-fortune and services as nurse to the Cuban i |cY; CHAPTER XII--Continued. ... ---- tO---- J&vening came, then, night, and still ftfite party was jerked along at the tail ;Of the train without a hint as to its •destination. About midnight those 'who were not dozing noted that they iltad stopped at an obscure pine-woods Junction, and that when the train got "under way once more their own car •did not more. The ruse was now ap- ;parent; owing to the lateness of the Ihour, It was doubtful if anyone in the Iforward coaches was aware that the train was lighter by one car. There was a brief delay; then a lo­ comotive crept out from a riding, •Coupled up to the standing car, and •drew It off upon another track. Soon the "excursion party" was being rushed swiftly toward the coast, some twenty miles away. Major Ramos came down the aisle, laughing, and spoke to his American JpNltigVH. "Weil, what do you think of that, eh? Imagine the feelings of those good •deputy marshals when they wake up. S bet they'll rub their eyes." Wss Evans bounded excitedly In her •eat; she clapped her hands. "You must have friends In high Hpiaces," O'Reilly grinned, and the Cu­ ba* agreed. "Yes, I purposely drew att£ntlo«i to us In Charleston, while our ship was (loading. She's ready and waiting for ns now; and by daylight we ought to be safely out to sea. Meanwhile the Dauntless has weighed anehor and is •teaming north, followed, I hope, by *11 the revenue cutters hereabouts." It was the darkest time of the night when the special train came to a stop tat a bridge spanning one of the deep Southern rivers. In the stream below, dimly outlined In the gloom, lay the ifair Play, a small tramp steamer; her crew were up and awake. The new ar­ rivals were hurried aboard, and within a half-hour she was feeling her way •pwwd. With daylight, caution gave way to haste, and the rusty little tramp be­ gan to drive forward for all she was worth. She cleared the three-mile limit safely and then turned south. Not a craft was In sight; not a smudge of smoke discolored the skyline. It had been a trying night for the filibusters, and when the low coastline was dropped astern they began to think of sleep. Breakfast of a sort days had grown into weeks; the weeks had aged into month's. Well, he had done his best; he had never rested from the moment of Rosa's first ap­ peal. Her enemies had foiled him once, but there wauld be no turning back this time--rather a firing squad or a dungeon in Cabanas than that .i HAPTER XIII. #1 mmmm The City Among the Leaves and the City of Beggars. The night was moonless and warm. An impalpable haze dimmed the star- glow, only the diffused illumination of the open sea enabled the passengers of the Fair Play to identify that blacker darkness on the horizon ahead of them as land. Major Ramos was on the bridge with the captain. Two men were taking soundings in a 'blind search for that steep waH which forms the side of the old Rahama channel. When the lead finally gave them warn­ ing, the Fair Play lost her headway and came to a stop, rolling lazily. Major Ramos spoke in a low tone from the darkness above, calling for a volunteer boat's crew to reconnoiter and to look for an opening through the reef. Before the words were out of his month O'Reilly had offered him­ self. Ten mlnates later he found himself at the steering oar of one of the ship's lifeboats, heading shoreward. There was a long night's work ahead; time passed, and-so O'Reilly altered his course and cruised along outside the white water, urging his crew to lustier strokes. A mile--two miles--It seemed like ten to the taut oarsmen, and then a black hiatus of still water showed In phosphorescent foam. O'Reilly ex­ plored it briefly; then he turned back toward the ship. Soon he and his crew were aboard and the ship was gropin her way toward the break in the Meanwhile, her deck became of feverish activity; out from came cases of ammunition and supplies; the fleldpiece on hurriedly dismounted; the of which there was an were swung out, with when the Pair Play as close as she dai in readiness. O'Reilly took and discharged^ Every man waded ashore wit dropped this la the "Isn't it likely to rain on naff* "It's almost sure to," Miss Evans pondered this prospect; then she laughed. "It Amst feel fun­ ny," she said. There were three* other members of the traveling party, men who knew something of the country round about; they were good fighters, doubtless, but in spite of their shiny new weapons they resembled soldiers even less than did their major. All were dressed as they had been when they left New York; one even wore a derby hat and pointed patent-leather shoes. Never­ theless Norine Evans thought the little cavalcade presented quite a martial appearap.ee as it filed away Into the jungle. The first few miles were trying, for the coast was swampy and thickly grown up to underbrush; but In time the jungle gave place to higher timber and to open savannas deep in guinea grass. Soon after noon the travelers came to a farm, the owner of which was known to one of the guides, and here a stop wa» made in order to.se­ cure horses and food. Johnnie, who was badly fagged from the previous night's work, found a shady spot and stretched himself out for a nap. The shade -was grateful. O'Reilly enjoyed his sleep. The party had penetrated to the foot­ hills of the Sierra de Cubltas, and as they ascended, the scenery changed. Rarely is the Cuban landscape any­ thing but pleasing. It is a smiling Island. It has been said, too, that ev­ erything in it is friendly to man: the people are amiable, warm-hearted; the very animals and insects are harmless. But here In the Cubltas range all was different. The land was stern and for­ bidding: canyons deep and damp raised dripping walls to the sky; bridle paths skirted ledges that were bold and fearsome, or lost themselves in gloomy jungles as noisome as Spanish dungeons. Hidden away in these fast­ nesses, the rebel government had es­ tablished Its capital. Here, safe from surprise, the soldiers of Gomez and Maceo and Garcia rested -between at­ tacks, nursing their wounded and re­ cruiting their strength for further sal­ lies. ' . ' It was a strange seat of govern? ment--no nation ever had a stranger-- for the state buildings were huts of bark and leaves, the army was uni­ formed in rags. Cook fires smoldered In the open glades; cavalry hor^a grazed in the grassy streets, and wood smoke drifted over them. The second evening bright O'Reilly and Miss Evans safely through, and at news 4>t the expedition's success a gave way to a jtrown and hi* brow darkened. "So! Ton are that O'Reilly from Matanzas," said he. "I know you now, but--I never expected we would meet." "Esteban Varona told you about me, did he notf' ' The colonel Inclined his head "I'm here at last* after the devil's own time. Tve been trying every way to get through. The Spaniards stopped me at Puerto Principe--they sent me back home, you know. I've been per­ fectly crazy. I-- You--" O'Reilly swallowed hard. "You know where Esteban Is? Tell me--" "Have you heard nothing?" "Nothing whatever. That la, noth­ ing since Rosa, his sister-- You un­ derstand, she and I are--engaged--" "Yes, yes; Esteban told me all about you." Something in the Cuban's gravity of manner gave O'Reilly warning. A sud­ den fear assailed him. His voice shook as he asked: . . "What is it? Not bad news?" There was no need for the officer to answer. In his averted gase - , " > #1, > "ft • pack train its assistai New young One of made ready to go to 's letter from the is read, and the rartnly welcomed, its was vacated for officers of the pro- called to pay their ^through, idy beach, rboard and ;ing case; he above hlgh- , by-' ! . ~ ""s-i'-S, (fefvw A C M,nute» i-ater He Found Himself at the 8teering Oar. Was served on deck, after which those favored ones who had berths sought I' them, while their less fortunate com- |V ^anions stretched out wherever they ^ «ould find a place. * I? ; * Johnnie O'Reilly-4 was elated. AV- jlready he could see the hills of Cuba ;*lozIng^behind their purple veils; ih JfUkCy he felt the fierce white heat from &|ose-walled streets, and scented the jOdms of "mangly" swamps. He heard the ceaseless- sighing of the royal jpalms. How he had hungered for ijf fall; how he had raged at his delays! It had seemed so small a matter to Iteturn; It had seemed so easy to seek 1st the .' "V . »:"< • } I :•£*? >1 .a, yv,? V tide mark, and then ran back for an other. It was swift, hot work. From the dffrkness on each side came the sounds of other boat crews similarly engaged. Daylight was coming when the-last boat cast off and the Fair Play, with a hoarse, triumphant blast of her whistle, faded into the north, her part In the expedition at an end. Dawn showed the voyagers that they were indeed fortunate, for they were upon the mainland of Cuba, and as far as they could see, both east and west, the reef was ^unbroken. Men were lolling about, exhausted, but Major Ra­ mos allowed them no time for rest; he roused them, and kept them on the go yntil the priceless supplies had been collected ivithln the shelter of the brush. Then he broke open certain packages and distributed arms among his followers. The three Americans, who were munching a tasteless breakfast of pilot bread, were Joined by Major Ba- mos. "I am dispatching a message to General Gomez' headquarters, ask­ ing him to send a pack train and an escort for these supplies. There is danger here; perhaps you would like to go on wfth the couriers." 5 O'Reilly accepted eagerly; theil thinking of the girl, he said doubt* fully: "I'm afraid Miss Evans isn't equal to the trip." "Nonsense! I'm equal to anything," Norine declared. And Indeed she looked capable enough as she stood there In' her short walking suit and stout boots. Branch alone declined the Invitation, vowing that he was too weak to budge. If there was the faintest prospect of riding to the interior he Infinitely pre­ ferred to await the opportunity, he> said; even at the risk of an attack by Spanish soldiers in the meantime. . It took O'Reilly but a short time to collect the few * articles necessary for the trip; indeed, his bundle was so small that Norine was dismayed. ' "Can't I take any clothes?" she Uw quired in a->pantfe "I can* live with­ out a change." "It is something you'll have to learn," he told her. "An Insurrecto with two shirts is wealthy. Some of haven'tatyr.? T , _ ' . » < « * X other Americans In Cu- Reilly soon discovered. Dur- rst inspection of the village himself hailed in his own lan- and a young man in dirty trousers and jacket strode ward him. "Welcome to our city!" tfce stranger cried. "I'm Judson, captain of artil­ lery, departmento del Orlente; and you're the fellow who came with the quinine lady, aren't you?" O'Reilly acknowledged his Identity, and Judson grinned. "Have you met the old man," he Inquired--"General Gomez?" "No; I'd like to meet him." "Come along, then; Fll introduce you." Gen. Maximo Gomez, father of pa­ triots, bulwark of the Cuban cause, was seated in a hammock, reading some letters; O'Reilly recognized him instantly from the many pictures he had seen. He looked up at Judson's salute and then turned a pair of bril­ liant eyes, as hard si glass, upon O'Reilly. His was an irascible, brood- iug luOe j ii uttu lu It aOiuctliiug vi I lie pternness, the exalted detachment, of the eagle, and O'Reilly gained a hint of the personality behind it. Maximo Gomez was counted one of the world's ablest guerrilla leaders; and indeed it had required the quenchless enthu­ siasm of a i*eal military genius to fuse fttto a homogeneous fighting force the Ill-assorted rabble of nondescripts whom Gomes led, to school them to privation and to render them sufficient­ ly mobile to defy successfully ten times their number of trained troops. This, however, was precisely what the old Porto Rlcan had done, and in doing it he had won the admiration of mili­ tary students. ' With a bluntness not Unkind he asked O'Reilly what had brought him to Cuba. When O'Reilly explained tha reason for his presence the old fighter nodi ded. "So? You wish to go wejit, eh?" "Yes, sir. I want to fii^L Cplonel Lopez." "Lopes?" Miguel Lopez V the gen: eral inquired quickly. "Well, you won't have to look far for him." General Gomez' leathery countenance lightened into a smile. "He happens to be right* here In Cubltas." Calling Judson to him, he said: "Amlgo, take Mr. O'Reilly to Colonel Lopez; you will find him somewhere about. I am sorry we are not to have this young fellow for a soldier; he looks like a real man and-~- qulte equal to five qulntos, eh?" ' It was the habit of the Cubans to refer to their enemies as qulntos-- the fifth pan «f a man! With a wave of his band Gomez returned. <to his reading. - Col. Miguel Lopez, a handsome, ani­ mated fellow, took O'Reilly's hand in a hearty clasp when they were intro­ duced; b«£ a Moment later his smile negroiSfr--thet her fttfcer, I th^ J^h p^ilHipilas. raid ai _ t maiQ'.^pdKns few (lie h%h ravines, but Miss not one 6t them. Out o: Esteban I made careful sea could find no trace of her/' * . "And yet you dost know what hap ̂ pened?" O'Reilly ventured. "You're not sure?" » "No, but I tell j*>u again Cobo*s men take iio prisoners. When llheaigj§ about that raid I gave up looking pr her." "This--Cobo,"--the Araericajs's voice shook in spite of his effort to hold it steady--"I shall hope to meet Mm some time." The sudden fury that filled Colonel Lopez* face was almost hiddeh by the £loott). "Yes. Oh, yes!" he crie^, quickly, "and you are but one of f h#i- dred; I am another. In my* command there is a standing order to spare nei­ ther Cobo nor any of his assassins; they neither expect nor receive quar­ ter from us. Now, compansro"--the Cuban dropped a "hand on O'Reilly's bowed head--"I am sorry that I had to bring you such evil tidings, but we are men--and this is war." ••No, no! It isn't war--It's merciless savagery ! To murder children and to outrage women--why, that violates all' the ethics of warfare." ••Ethics!" the colonel cried harshly. "Ethics? Hell is without ethics. Why look for ethics in war? Violence- Injustice -- Insanity -- Chaos -- that If war. It Is roan's agony--woman's de­ spair. It is a defiance of God. War Is without mercy, without law; it is well, it is the absence ot all law, all good." It was some 'time before O'Reilly spoke'; then he said, quietly: "I am not going back. I atn going to stay here and look for Rosa." "So!" exclaimed the colottdt "Well, why not? So long as we do not know^; precisely what has happened to her/ we can at least hope. But, if I were you, I would rather think of her as; dead than as a prisoner in some con^ centratlon camp. You don't know*, what those camps are like, my friend, but I do. Now I shall leave you. One needs to be alone at suc|i an hot#-- eh?" With a pressure of his hand, Colonel Lopes walked away Into the^ darkness. ' f Judson and his aftvinturonk aountrjp- man did not see O'Reilly that nlcfeti nor, in fact, did anyone, But the next morning he appeared before Genera^ Gomez. He was haggard, sick, list­ less. The old Porto Rican had heard from Lopes In the meantime; ho was sympathetic. » "I am sorry yon came all the way to hear such bad news," he said. "War is a sad, hopeless business.** "But I haven't given up hope," O'Reilly said, want to stay here and--and fight." e"""-VsV tiUte for Etfilcs In War?" O'Reilly read confirmation of his sick­ est apprehensions. "Tell me! Which oner lie Whis­ pered. "Both!" O'Reilly recoiled; a spasm distorted his chalky face. He begap to shako weakly, and his fingers plucked aim* lessly at each other. Lopez took him by the arm. "Try to control yourself," sajd he. "Sit here while I try to tell you what little I know. Or would It not be better to wait awhile, until you are calmer?" As the young man made no answer, ex­ cept to stare at him in a white agony of suspense, he sighed: "I will tell you all I know--which isn't much. Esteban Varona came to me soon after he and his sister had fled from their home; he wanted to Join my forces, but we were harassed on every side, and I didn't dare take the girl--no woman could have en­ dured the hardships we suffered. So I convinced him that his first duty was to her, rather than to his country, and he agreed. He was a fine boy! He had spirit. He bought some stolen rifles and armed a band of his own-- which wasn't a bad idea. 1 used to bear about him. Nobody cared to molest him, I can tell you, until finally he killed some of the regular troops. Then of course they went after him. Meanwhile he managed to destroy his own plantations, which Cueto had robbed him of. You know Cueto 7" Yes." Well, Esteban put an and to him after a while; rode right up to La Joya one night, broke In the door, and macheted the scoundrel In his bed. But there was a mistake of some sort. It seems that a body of Cobo's volun­ teers were somewhere close by, and the two parties met. I have never learned all the details of the affair, and the stories of that fight which came to me are too preposterous for belief. Still, Esteban and his men must have fought like demons, for they killed some incredible number. But. they were human--they could not defeat a regiment. It seems that only one Or two of them escaped." "Esteban? pid he--" Colonel Lopez nodded; then he said gravely: "Cobo takes no prisoners. I was in the Rubi hills at the time, fight­ ing hard, and it was six weeks before I got back Into Matanzas. Naturally, when I heard what happened, I tried to find the girl, but Weyler was con­ centrating the pacificos by the time, and there was nobody left In the Yu- murl; it was a desert." "Then you don't know positively that she . . . that sh$--" "Walt. There is no doubt that the boy was killed, but of Rosa's fate I can only form my owa opinion. How­ ever, one of Esteban's men joined my troops later, and I not only learned something about the girl, but also why Esteban had been so relentlessly pur­ sued. It was all Cobo's doings. You have heard of the-fellow? No? Well, you will." The speaker's tone was elo­ quent of hatred. "He is worse than the worst of them--a monster! He had seen Miss Varona. • She beautiful girl, . . . "Go on I" whispered the lover. Rosa and her two negro com­ panions, In Matanzas, face death from starvation or from the epi­ demics that rage unchecked among the reconeentrados. The next installment tells of their plight and their efforts to keep body and soul together. ! <TO BE CONTINUED.) BLIND MAN ENJOYS FLIGHT Appreciated the Thrill of Intricate ̂ Aerial Maneuvers Performed iiy Experienced Pilot. : Thomas D. Schall, the blind con­ gressman from the Tenth Minnesota^ district, made flights with Col. Charles Lee of the British royal flying corps in Washington recently. It was the first time he had bean up in an air­ plane. Congressman Schall was not satis- fled with the plain "Joy ride" Colonel Lee had given him. When they re­ turned to earth after circling over the city at an altitude of about two thou­ sand feet, the blind representative asked for more thrills. "Fine! Fine!" he exclaimed, as the machine came to a halt. "But, Colonel Lee, If you wouldn't think me a nui­ sance, I would like to go back up and turn over." The biplane was wheeled Into posi­ tion again, and off tt shot on a trip ol real sensations. Climbing rapidly to about two thousand feet. Colonel Lee started the machine into a series of dips and dives, spirals and other aerlar antics calculated to make one's halt, stand on edge. To complete the thrills* the airplane was made to roll ove? sideways and then drop Into a beauti­ ful nose spin. The passenger's sightless eyes wer* blinking with delight when his wife ran onto the field to assist him from the machine. The 8ap of Spring, When the sap of spring is.bursting the fetters of winter the general hu*> man heart beats high. A few of ut philosophers receive amid the rich but sober tints of autumn a happiness thali we would i\ot exchange for any other season, but we are a minority, an4 small. The head of one of the moa Important departments at Washington who thinks about the processes of mari kind, has a theory that makes a regur lar curve of the relation of the season l to the appetite for war. As the budji .open, every nation thinks It Is on th< edge of victory. This curve rises for i while, begins to decline In the summei and gets well down in the auturnry The period therefore, when statesmen If they had decided to make pesc«» could do#lt most easily, is from th* days erf goldenrod and autumn brownJ to Just Vfthre the greening of tM buds. The story of Coal, a tragi4 story to the'poor, helps this curve, but there is in it much of sheer poetry. In dependent of more solid things^--Noi» man Hapgood in Leslie's. , - Some Financier. "The fair defendant hai quitted." ? "So I hear." .>„• "Is she thinking of jplng stage?" » "Not yet She's too smart for thai She's going to marry her lawyer,' an< save s corking big fea." :. . y* tfci *1 discovered 4hat aha didn't at Ant i 2U Mtm The Chines* alphabet M A 1 nit s-- ' *'.*• •Father^ Discovered by V In California. "; f^tflSlfego, Cal.--Always oh the ft _ _ _ for dt*& evaders, the shejjgaome time ago found on the the aarnes of three votersj af dlaft sifc who bad failed to r^lst#f Further Investigation shswed that In the Pin Hills district lived a small family by the name of Smalley. Three names appeared--John, William and Harrie. Armed with - the proper paperg the sheriff immediately hied hlptfelf into the mountains to arrest the sugpected ^irae 3lj3,t;li^'s. . . 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And lo and be­ hold! up stepped three beautiful dark- haired young ladles, each with a mil­ lion-dollar smile which caused the of­ ficer to gasp, blink and then wipe off his brow. . ..* As soon as the sheriff could recover he asked for an explanation and learned that "Daddy" Smalley was some stubborn individual and years ago had his heart set on having a family of boys. He toras so sure that before his first-born had arrived he named It John. His disappointment was great when he was blessed~with a daughter, hnt he stood pat and vdwed the name John would stand. His sec­ ond child proved to be another girl, but the father had already named It William, and of course that name had to Stand for all time. When the third babe was born "Daddy" was not quite so sure, but he had the nerve left to compromise and declared in advance the name would be "Harrie"--and it was another girl. Not until the drafting for the army came about did the old man weaken and allow "John, William and Harrie" to become regular girls by a change of garb. SWIPES TWIN FOR PLAYMATE Foui^Year-Old Wanted Baby in Fanv : <i|y and Took Shortest -Way , , i ;: Wooster, O.--Billy Whlttler, aged four, wanted a baby In the family and he took the shortest way to get one. He understood that Dr. A. C. Smith supplied the neighborhood with chil­ dren and so he simply visited the Smith home when no one was watching the doctor's twin babies and picked out the otae he liked best. Shortly afterward the alarm- spread that kidnapers had stolen a baby. Mrs. Whittler In the meantime had discovered Billy's new brother and hastened to return it to Mrs. Smith. Billy's only reply to expostulations was "Gee whiz; he's a doctor. He could order another for his own use." MOW CAU. HER "LOST" DAVIS Seattle Tot Has Been Picked Up by , Pelioe T*en Times In Paw ' Weeks. ' '^'5 Seattle, Wash.--"Lost" Efcvls Is |h? name the police have given Lois Davis, aged four years. The police have picked her UP ten times in the last few weeks after the girl's parents had reported her lost. The last time she was lost she had been given five cents to purchase milk at a grocery store. She spent the money on a street car ride tq a bathing beach. When asked by a policeman how she expected to get back, she said: ,,, "Oh, the police always take me home in an auto," ̂ Lightning Spatree QTrf. *' * Des Moines. Ia.--A bolt of lightning ruined the home of J. B. Tbarow end played havoc with the bedroom where Natalie Tharow, six years old, -was ^sleeping, but never harmed the little girl. The ceiling and walls of the roorq where the child was sleeping were completely destroyed. ^ ^ r. . Hungry Diner Forced to Strenuous Action to 8ecure the Only • Relief in Sight. Speaking at a political meeting Con­ gressman Allan T. Tread way of Massa­ chusetts referred to wartime economy and fittingly related this little anec­ dote: One afternoon a man, went into a restaurant and selected an Irish stew from the bill of fare. Soon the dish was placed before him, and after giv­ ing it a critical glance he removed hls coat, then his vest and then his col­ lar and necktie. "What In the world are you trying to do, mister?" demanded the wonder­ ing waiter as the patron reached down to untie his shoes. "This Isn't bed­ time." . . "A casual glance, young man,"^iN»> sporided the patron, "should suffice to show you that I am removing my clothes." "But--but," objected the waiter, "you can't remove your clothes An here." "I can't swim with them on." an» swered the patron, polntlnjg to Hie stew, "and swim this ocean of water I must In order to reach yonder tiny Island of mutton."--Philadelphia Tele* N nv'sy'::.' • . . , m « Overheard. "Margaret irritates me dreadfully.**" "Why?" ^ **Sh» to so effeminate." " 1 , -r .. • •- 1 -nr, , .; The Trouble. 7 . . "What's the matter with that fellow who got swindled In the shell game?" "I think it Is shell sho<;k." IT* ALONG TALE mnrrucuT IT a Kjr* Prefer Candy and OW. Kokomo, Ind.--Enamored of ciga­ rettes. .chewing gum and chocolate, burglars entered the Paul Wlckersham grocery and carried away 3,000 ciga­ rettes, 60 packages of chewing gum and 20 cakes of chocolate. ^ Tries to Fix Hat--Drawn* Kankakee, HI.--It cost Miss Sorenson her life for attempting to fix her hat while rowing In the Kankakee river here. The boat capsized and sne was drowned. Three companions nar- rowl^escaped the same fate. Fiend Brands Bojf. , ̂ Vlsalla, Cal.--The little son Of C. W. King of Strathmore, near here, will he disfigured for life, the figure 10 being branded on his face with acid. 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