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t:.#- 3S* THAT GIRL # JOHNSON'S "By JEA L/* JC.A TB LVDLVM, Anther of "At a Girl's Mercy, '* £tc. Entered AcconHn* to Act of Concr<---* ill the Year1 lfMO by Street 4 Smith, la the Offic* of the Librarian 01 Congress, at Washington, D! C. CHAPTER III--Continued. J That night his comrades at the tav­ ern had told him of this; they taunt­ ed him with it; they laughed at the iglrl. They did not like her--not one of them. Narrow natures dislike and distrust'that which they cannot under­ hand. Young Green also had aroused tiis fears. Green had an education; •he had asked where the girl obtained •her education, therefore she must have an education. To-night he was assured of this. .,V1>,... He kicked the book contemptuous- 3y, and muttered, under4 his breath, an oath against young Green., If ever he . '.frame there again it would be a sorry ^.•Sv Iday for him. • Dolores said nothing. A sudden frenzy seized him. He stooped and snatched the book from the ground. It was an old astronomy. She had been reading the book, for ehe preferred it to any of her moth­ er's books, and whea young Green saw it the day he was there he was much surprised, and promised to take a volume on the subject the next .time he went that way. She thanked him, and it was the first time she had thanked any one since Betsy Glenn died. That was two weeks before, and he had not come again as he said he would,, but she watched for him, feeling sure that he would keep his promise to her, feel­ ing strangely glad when she thought of him. She had perfect faith in him. Her father's face was lurid as he snatched the book from the ground. His small eyes, close set, were full of brute cruelty; the veins of his forehead were swollen. In his hands, used to wielding the heavy hammer, the book was a toy; his fingers <:loqed over it, and in an instant it lay in shreds at her feet For a moment she did not compre­ hend what had been done; she looked from the book to him and back again, i ^ • Then she arose; her face was white, , ,*nd her eyes flashed. She looked at * film, and he cowered before her. She - '|jras tall and stately; he had never be- S' v fore appreciated her dignity. Now he •f£, Appreciated it to the full. The book f' •ras the dearest thing in the world to tier; he could have wounded her in Ho other way. „ Mechanically he gathere! np the f Scattered fragments and as she held ^,.\/®ut her hand for them he gave them •%/. to her without a word, without even Y glancing at her. For the time she awas more than his daughter; her •yes were on his face, and her spirit (ruled his. Then they strayed away jf^i© the mountain top veiled in haze, v The fire died out of her eyes; her \ hands, mecnanically holding the torn i leaves of her book, fell listlessly at lier side; her shadow lay long and fer .' dark behind her. ||h•.*. There was a sense of mystery about " tier which her father could not under- pt* -Stand; he shrank from it and from Iff. her, and passed away up the dark 'jbank heavy with the shadows of the pines that swayed in the faint breeze, jj&c tuid again silence fell around her. IS. CHAPTER IV. said young PC; , The Mare. kve come a&ain, ^ \ < fireen, laughing. He stood in the doorway of the ,.#hop, holding the black mare by the „ bridle. Johnson had been sitting on a bench outside of the shop, smoking a : clay pipe. As the young man spoke . be arose and advanced toward the I', an are. "Another shoe so soon?" he -queried, shortly. f " • " Y e s , " s a i d t h e y o u n g m a n , l i g h t l y . ^ 'v""Her right shoe this time. Come, • .-pess; come, my girl!" There was a sudden, sullen glow on h "Johnson's face as he took the bellows '|ind blew the fire into a fierce blaze, fe.. ;.:jpe laid the iron on the fire and rals- 1*;: ed the hammer. Young Green began to talk. He ' ?fcpoke of the dry weather and the hard i roads; he told the news of the town More Listless Than Usuual. f jaad of the trial that was to come off of a notorious horse thief who had "ijbeen caught attempting to steal Bess. .The blacksmith listened in sullen (Silence between tha blows of the ham- liner. By and by young Green left him * aad went up to the house for a drink. ; Johnson was not the only silent one ; ^ that day. His daughter listened mute­ ly to the young man's conversation. If anything she was even more list­ less than usual, though a strange color tinged her cheeks as he talked. He left the promised book with her; : . he had not forgotten it, he said, but - had been unable to take it before. For a moment her face glowed with pleas- . ure, and the silken lashes lifted swift­ ly, but fell ere their eyes could meet. ^ She thanked him in a few simple ...JRprfl* iu her low, sweet voice; then KM'.' her gaze wandered away to the hazy mountain top in the distance. He left in a few minutes, deeply disap­ pointed in her, and yet strangely in­ terested and puzzled. Had he mis­ taken her? Was she.incapable of the thought he beljeved she possessed? Had she not, after ajl, the ambition to be more than an untaught village girl? Did her thought end with the blue line of the mountains and the hamlets scattered along their sides? Dolores disappointed him; he thought her so much better than she had proved herself, and yet under it all there was a sting in the thought which he did not understand, student of character as he was. "She was positively stupid," he said Regretfully. "Yet her face shows such possibilities." He was walking slowly down the narrow path to the shop, his hands Dolores Watched Him. clasped behind him, his fair head bent slightly forward. Dolores was watching him, but he did not know it. He never guessed of the wistful brown eyes following him down the stubbly path. Bess whinnied shrilly when he came in sight. She was restless and snappish, but when he mounted and rode out of the shop she grew gentle again. As he rode away Johnson called after him that she must have gone some distance without her shoe, for her foot was tender. Dolores watched him with her far seeing eyes as he rode up the moun­ tain, then her gaze went down to the shop. Her father was standing in the doorway also watching the rider. He had forgotten his pipe; his face in the hazy sunlight was full of- sullen hatred, and he looked capable of committing almost any act. His mut­ tered threat of the previous evening returned to her clearly and distinctly. Her eyes widened with nameless fear. She looked up the mountain again to where the black mare was bearing her rider proudly along the yellow thread of road; she was no longer listless; her face was white, her lips quivering with excitement CHAPTER V. WKose Was the Deed? Dolores was waiting for something to happen. A vague terror possessed her; she could not have defined it had she tried; Bhe did not try. Young Green's face seemed to haunt her. She watched her father continually while he was in the house, for a sort of fascination was upon her, and she could not keep her eyes from his face. She could not explain the terror that possessed her, but her whole listless nature was aroused. She was different, and her life was somehow different, she knew not how. The slow days passed, it seemed to her, with even more slowness than was their wont. Every morning the red sun arose out of a veil of haze from the mountain beyond the val­ ley; every evening he sank behind the gray peaks in the west. Nothing happened after all; life was stagnant; the sun arose and set; the haze hung more dense 6nd thick over the mountain peaks. No rain fell; nothing happened. Nothing hap­ pened until-- One day the rumor floated across the mountain that young Green's mare, one of the choicest breed in the country, valued at what seemed to the simple villagers a fabulous sum, had gone lame. And this was discov­ ered the morning after £he was shod by Johnson. To most of the villagers this fact meant nothing. That the one had anything to do with the other never entered their heads. They had no cause for suspicion. But to Dolores the rumor came like a blow. It seem­ ed to her in a strange, far-aw^ fash­ ion that this was what she had been expecting. This was why the kindly blue eyes were always looking into hers, and the pleasant face was for­ ever in her thoughts. Her eyes were on her father when the news was told by one of the neighbors. A nail was driven into the mare's hoof and she was dead lame. The hostler had found it when he examined her hoof, which was not until the morning following the day Green was at the settlement. It was a hard blow to the young man, the speaker said, for he had thought as much of her as though she were a woman. Conjecture was rife as to who had done the deed. Suspicion rested particularly in one direction, and the suspicion was pretty well founded, but the young man would wait until there could be no doubt. And here the story ended. Dolores had listened silently, as was her habit, no one noticing her. The memory of her father's words the other day returned to her with a force she could not account for. , Over and over, mingled with the memory" of the black mare and fear rider, the words were driven in dully, aa though by the strokes of a ham­ mer--even, distinct, deafening, most terrible to the girl in the darkness. "Ef ever thet • young feller kerns hyar agen et'llbe a sorry 4ay fer hem!" 'v CHAPTER VI. A Neighborly Gift. "Et hev'been so dry I 'lowed mebby tlier gyardlng hyar dedn't 'mOunt ter much, bein' as ye air up so high, so I bringed ye some strawb'rles outen our gyarding, Dolores." "Thank you; our garden didn't amount to much," Dolores said, gravely. .She looked at her neighbor without a sign of-interest in her face; she spoke in her usual listless man­ ner; but under the listnessness and apparent carelessness was the con­ sciousness like a sharp sword, that the gift was the forerunner of some­ thing to follow else than her pleasure. She emptied the berries out of the basket into a dish and stood regard­ ing them. Mrs. Smith said afterward she looked as though she were trying to discover If they might be "fetch­ ed." In reality the girl did not even see them. She was wondering vaguely what the woman would say about the mare. That she had come for some purpose outside of bringing the fruit was clear to her. She waited with a sink­ ing heart and strained ears for what the woman would 6ay. She knew well that something must follow. That it was in regard to the mare of young Green she *-ad not a doubt. Perhaps the' suspicion in regard to the guilty party had become a fact Perhaps this woman had come to, tell her-- perhaps-- (To be continued.) HABIT IN READING PAPERS. Almost Every Person Has One Part He Turns to First. "Very old persons," said an observ­ er, "nearly always, on unfolding their newspaper, turn to the column of 'Deaths.' This is. because, in the first place, they are most likely to find news of their friends there than in the column of 'Marriages,' or any other part of the paper, and because, in the second place, they are interest­ ed in death--they have it much in their minds. "Young girls turn first to the soci­ ety news and weddings, and after that to the fashions. Young men of the healthy, open-air sort, turn first to the sporting news, while boys universally turn to this page flrstT The actor, of course, reads the dramatic columns, and the writer the book reviews, but neither of these departments, I fancy does any part of the disinterested public consult first of all. "The elderly gentleman of a pom­ pous appearance reads the editorials first, while his corpulent, cheerful wife reads the recipes on the 'house­ hold' page. Some clergymen read the wills of the dead, to see what charities have been remembered with bequests. There are many people who read the crimes, the scandals and the shocking accidents first. Poets, as a rule, will not read the Lewspapers at all."--Philadelphia Record. Advantages of Early Christians. Bishop Potter is telling a story of a dear old lady who recently asked him how it was that Solomon was allowed to have so many wives--not to mention the other ladies. He explained that the manners and customs of Solomon's days were dif­ ferent to those of the present era, whereupon she replied earnestly, "Oh, don't you think those early Christians enjoyed great privileges?"--New York Times. Admitted His Guilt. "Do -you not at times have soulful yearnings which you long to express in words but cannot?" asked the fair maid who had a leaning toward the sentimental. "Yes, I was up against something like that once," admitted the youth with the noisy tie. "I wanted to tel­ egraph home for money and didn't have the price of a Marconi." Athletics Are Ineffectual. The London Lancet says that ath­ letics la England have developed too much into gladitorlal displays by pick­ ed competitors struggling to win prizes or to earn wages before huge crowds of spectators, and can hardly be regarded as effective agents in the development of the physical strength and physical activity of the people. Elements Have Common Origin. Dr. S. M. Babcock, of the chair of agricultural chemistry of the Univer­ sity of Wisconsin for twenty-five years, has been at work upon experiments to prove that the elements all have a common origin, and that their differ­ ence in atomic weight is due to a dif­ ference in the amount and kind of energy they possess. Slavery in Central Africa. Ninety per cent of the inhabitants of Western and Central Africa are Mo­ hammedans, and every man of note in Central Africa owns slaves, his station in life being rated by the number of slaves he owns and the wives he pos­ sesses. When the girls reach the age of thirteen, they are, as a rule, wed­ ded. Ignorant Fathervin-Law. "Didn't they Btart at once on their wedding journey?" "No. There was a mistake about the railway tickets." "What sort of a mistake?" "Why, it seems that her father didn't under­ stand that the bridegroom expected him to pay for them."--Cleveland Plain Dealer. Strategy. "It's lucky I'm a dentist," chuckled the tall student. "Why so?" asked the friend. "Well, last night every time I kissed Clara she screamed. When the old man came down 1 told him I was mere­ ly trying to pull a tooth." Offers Himself as Reward. As a means of obtaining money for his church, a clergyman of Jefferson, Penn., announced that he will wed the most successful solicitor of funds in his congregation. MOTH KILLERS A LOTTERY. ' Our Grandmothers^ Cedar Chests -the Only Rea*-Preventive. "Long experience has taught me never to recommend a preventive for moths," said a Lexington avenue druggist who has a window full o'f all sorts of them. "I have grown gray from women coming around to me in the fall and berating m6 because moths had eaten their furs in spite of a moth killer that I had assured-them was all right. I once took home to my wife a moth bag which I had rea­ son to believe was proof against the pests. She put some treasured ap­ parel a Way in it, and when. she' took the thing out it had more holes than a sieve. I had tio domestic peace for a month. Now I keep all sorts of moth killers for sale, but I never recommend one.- A woman may buy camphor, moth balls, sulphur, moth paper or anything else she pleases, for all I care. As Capt. Cuttle says, it depends on the application of it But let me tell you, my boy, when you want a dead-sure thing for moths Just think of grandmother's old cedar chest Where to get them now? Aye, there's the rub!"--New York Press. THe Question Answered. Estill Springs, Tenn., Aug. 24th.-- Many questions are being asked of Mr. C. D. Holt of this place in regard to his wonderful recovery. For over two years he hag been down with his back. He was so very ba^„that he could not even laoe his shc?es, and from this condition he suddenly ap­ peared well and strong as ever. It is no wonder therefore that his friends are asking him "How did you do it?" He-tells them all: "Dodd's Kidney Pills did it;" and adds "This remedy is a genuine good medicine and one that I can heartily recommend to everybody. "Everyone around here knows how very bad I was. I was so weak In my back that I couldn't do anything that needed stooping or bending over, and three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills madte me as you see, as well as ever I was." "They certainly had a wonderful effect on my case." Lorenz Is Snubbed. A correspondent ,of the Vienna Zeit writes that, notwithstanding the hon­ ors heaped upon. Prof. Adolf Lorenz in the United States, hardly any atten­ tion was paid to him in Mexico. He was not invited to demonstrate his method, and the local German as well as Mexican doctors kept aloof from him. The Austrian ambassador, Count Hohenwart, however, gave a dinner in his honor. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any CMS of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Cattarh Cure. F. J. CHRNEY & CO.. Props.,Toledo. O. We, the undi'rslfmed, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe blm perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their Arm. WEST & TBUAX, Wholesale Drupelsti, Toledo, O. WALDINO, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Drue* gists, Toledo, O. Hall's' Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 750 per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Puis are the best. Undoubtedly. "The chronic kicker," mused the west side philosopher, "is a great benefactor." "What's the answer?" queried the man who had wandered over from the north shore. "He makes a man appreciate peo­ ple who are good natured," explained the philosophy dispenser. The Summer Bath. Nothing is more refreshing or In­ vigorating In summer than a daily bath. Use soft, tepid water and good soap. Ivory Soap is ideal for the bath; it is pure, lathers quickly and leaves the skin soft and white. The bath should be taken early in the morjiing or just before retiring at uight ELEANOR R. PARKER. 8oldiers' Requirements. The requirements of the authorities from any man wishing to enter the United States army are severe. A man must be between 20 and 25 years old, 5 feet 8 inches or more in height, able to run seven miles in an hour, and aule to lift 100 pounds to a level with his chest. MANY CHILDREN ARE SICKLY. * Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, cure Summer Complaint, Feverishness,Headache,Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At all Druggists', 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Then He Got Busy. She--"No, I certainly will not com­ ply with your request for a kiss. That is something you should not ask for." He--"Then how am I to get it?" She--"Well, if you don't know, get over on the side track and give some other chap the right of way." All Up to Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, N^nuse it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for "TI money. Of the 16,000 Islands scattered be­ tween Madagascar and India, only about 600 are at present Inhabited. Only the winged Insects are found to have suffered from the rain of vol­ canic dust in the Barbadoes. I do not believe Pise's Cure for Conxumptloa has an equal for coughs and colds.--JOHN F BOTBR, Trinity Springs, lad.. Feb. 6,190A Things that interest some people are those that were better left unsaid. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Rtarch. it will keep (hem white--16 o*. for 10 cents. One can not always be a hero, but one can always be a man.--Goethe. DO YOU KEEP POULTRY, PIGEONS or BEES? Write W. J. Gibson & Co., Union Stock Yards, Chicago, for list of supplies. Revenge is sweet, but alas, it Is gen­ erally ior the other fellow. To Care a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AD druggists ref und moi^ey if it fails to cure. 25<x The whisky of to-day is the head­ ache of to-morrow. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup.' For children ti etlilng, softeD* the gums, reduces la- (UmmaUoR. allays pain, cures wind co'lc. 35c s'jottl* Occupation is the scythe of time.-- Napoleon. LORD SALISBURY, DISTINGUISHED . BRITISH STATESMAN, IS DEAD V, m I LQED SALISBURY- Marquis of Salisbury, distinguished statesman and former premier of the British Empire, who has just passed away. FORMER BRITISH PREMIER DEAD. Lord Salisbury Passea Away at His Home, Hatfield, England. Lord Salisbury, former British pre­ mier, died Aug. 22 at his home in Hatfield. When news came of his fatal ill­ ness, the once all-powerful tory states­ man had disappeared as completely from public life as if he were already a tenant of the grave. A few short months out of office sufficed for that, and the fact Is interesting evidence of the immense Influence of official notoriety upon the popular imagina­ tion. The indispensable statesman was reduced to a cipher, as most in­ dispensable statesmen are when they retire voluntarily or involuntarily to make room for their indispensable successors. It Is true, nevertheless, that the fortune, the career and the abilities of the ex-premier were all very much out of the common. He came of one of the most illustrious houses of Eng­ land, and the most uncompromising democrat must be affected to a certain extent by his family traditions. The Cecils certainly had reason to feel that they were born to rule, that the glories of their country were in a peculiar degree an inheritance of their own. Lord Salisbury himself was duly impressed by thiB feeling, and though he Incurred the displeasure of his father by his marriage and was forced to writing for the periodicals as a consequence, he remained an aristo- orat throughout his life. He was dis­ tinctly a governor from the classes with a contempt for the masses, and it is perhaps doubtful if another man of his type will ever succeed to his authority. Whether he himself could have wielded that authority as he did ex­ cept for a remarkably favorable com­ bination of circumstances is also doubtful. He owed much to the radi­ calism of Mr. Gladstone on the Irish question, which made the British peo­ ple turn instinctively to an ultra con­ servative. It is highly Improbable that his service as premier would have been longer than that of any other Victorian statesman but for this fact. He owed much also to the favor of the queen, and though he fought Disraeli at one time be ended by courting him. His ability was first manifested in the savage satire of his writings, which appeared again in his speeches in parliament. All ' the biographical notices that have been written of him abound in examples of this satire. His later fame depended chiefly on his reputation as foreign secretary, but it is too early as yet to say that It is firmly established. While he had an unusually comprehensive knowl­ edge of international politics, his conduct of foreign affairs has led Englishmen themselves to turn against him the sneer of Bismarck that he was a lath pointed to look like iron. It will be remembered in this connection that he drew back in the Venezuelan dispute after a consid­ erable show of resolution, and though the step was wise this can hardly be said of the diplomacy that led up to it. Paris Loses Art School. The scheme formulated by Corne­ lius Vanderbilt for the establishment of an American art school in Paris has fallen through owing to the pro­ crastination on the part of the owners of the Chateau de la Muette, who had been offered 15,000,000 francs for the property. The chateau was once the home of Marie Antoinette. The own­ ers demanded 20,000,000 francs for the property. Boer Colonization Scheme. Gen. Botha and several boer lead­ ers are said to be interested in a gigantic south African colonization scheme. A company with a capital of $10,000,000 is to be organized for the purchase of 800,000 acres of land. The British authorities look upon the scheme with disfavor, owing to the presence of the Boer finger in the colonization pie. Murder Statistics. The number of murders per million population is 5.13 In England, 6.45 in Germany, 11.55 in France, 15.42 in Austria, 76.11 in Italy and 44.70 in Spain. HEART DROPS FOUR INCHES. Peculiar Case of a New Jersey Boy Baffles the Physicians. With his heart out of place and ap­ pearing at times to be twice its nor­ mal size, nine-year-old James De Groot is furnishing a case that is baffling half a dozen leading surgeons in Mor- ristown, N. J. He is the son of George De Groot an inventor. The surgeons think young De Groot's heart dropped from its original position down back of the stomach and was carried over to the right side in the region of the liver. The boy is now In the Memori­ al hospital. About two weeks ago his parents noticed that he had great difficulty in breathing. When the first physician was called the apex of the boy's heart was found to be'about an Inch and a half lower than It should be. It contin­ ued to sink until It was four inches out of place. Then he was taken to the hospital. It was only by constant­ ly administering stimulants that he was kept alive. The pulse was inter­ mittent, the beats sometimes regis­ tering only fifty to the minute. But the lad is getting better. The apex of the heart is moving upward again until it is only about an inch and a half below the normal plane. Venerable Hermit Dead. John Viles, known to thousands of White mountain visitors as 'English Jack," is dying in his lone cabin on the mountains near Crawford, where he has lived as a recluse for twenty- nine years. Soured on the world by the death of his fiancee, Jack enlist­ ed in the English navy and served in the Crimean and Chinese wars and many other events of Importance. Tired of this life, he came to America and settled down at Crawford, mak­ ing his living selling birch-bark ca­ noes, canes, etc., to hotel people who visited his cabin in the summer. Millionaire Marries Nurse. Otis Coxe of Philadelphia is the latest millionaire to fall in love with and marry a pretty trained nurse. When Mr. Coxe was ill of typhoid fever some time ago Miss Gertrude Jones of Knoxville, Tenn., watched over him. Her beauty and gentle man­ ner won the rich patient, who pro­ posed and was accepted while yet a comparative invalid. They were mar­ ried quietly in Knoxville, only the bride's mother and one or two friends being witnesses of the ceremony. The couple have gone to California on a wedding tour. Impertinence Rebuked. The London Mail recalls a supper party given two or three years ago in honor of the birthday of Mme. Amy Sherwin, on whose menu card the late Phil May made an exquisite little drawing. This was seen by a wealthy woman present, who sent the waiter with a £10 note to the artist, asking him to do a similar drawing for her. Mr. May, disgusted at the woman's impertinence, took a good look at her and then made an appallingly truth­ ful caricature of her features on the back of the bank note, which he re­ turned. Family of Patriotic Citizens. John Waterman „of Ithaca, Mich., is proud of the fact that five genera­ tions of the Waterman family have fought for their country in live dif­ ferent ways. Waterman's great­ grandfather served In the war of the revolution, his grandfather in the war of 1812, his father fought in Mexico, he himself took a hand in the civil war and his son Louis Is just complet­ ing a three years' enlistment, most of which has been spent in the Phillip- pines. Position Will Be Left Vaeaitft. It is understood that the place of Prof. W. J. McGee, who has resigned as ethnologist in charge of the bureau of American ethnology, Washington, will not be filled. Prof. Hofcnes, the chief of the bureau, will look after the work. Left Pleasure for Business. So few men remained in Newport during the worst of the Wall street flurry that the fashionable resort named came to be called "Adamless Eden." One evening there were not enough men to form a single cotillloa. BREAKS ALL fiEGORDS IBQX ATLANTIC TO PACIF1Q J* THREE DAtS' TIME, of Most RenrarltsUs Distance Bun in Histoid mt Railroading, All previous record* foe railroad tdme from' Atlantic to Pacific coast. were broken on Friday, August 7, when the H. P. Lowe special rolled Into Los Angeles over th% Santa Fa at 1:06 p. m. _r ;-L Henry P. Lowe, o£ the Engineering Company of America, left New York- Tuesday afternpon, August 4, at £:4Gj immediately upon hearing of hit daughter's fatal illness in the distant California city of Loa Angeles. Catch* ing the Twentieth Century Limited over the New York Central and Lake. Shore Railroads, he raced westward to Chicago at an average speed of 48.8 miles per hour, arriving in Chicago on Wednesday forenoon. Hurrying from the Lake Shore to the Santa Fe depot in a cab which was being held in waiting for him, the anxious father boarded the special and was outward bound twenty-three minutes after reaching the "Windy City." Compos­ ed of coach and hotel-car "Rocket" and drawn by a powerful iron grey­ hound, with Engineer Duggan at the throttle, the Santa Fe special leaped into the raee, with orders to make no stops except those to take water and coal and to change engines and crews* Leaving Dearborn station, Chi­ cago, the train struck out toward the Southwest, with a whirl and a rush. Swiftly rising to the level of the elevated roadbed, it was off on. Its way toward Joliet before the grief- stricken passenger had had time to settle down for his long ride. Indeed, It cannot be said that he settled dowa at all, for, in his anxiety to cover the ground in the shortest possible time, Mr. Lowe repeatedly urged that the speed be Increased, and for a great share of the distance he rode in the engine cab, the rumble and roar of the mighty locomotive soothing, in a measure, his troubled mind. Faster and faster the giant ten* wheeler flew. Faster and faster the local way stations whizzed by the windows in an indistinct blurr. Cross­ ing the State of Illinois in a space of time heretofore unequaled, the special rolled across the Mississippi at Fort Madison, clipped off a section of Iowa, traversed the northern part of the State of Missouri, bridged the broad Missouri river and steamed into Kan­ sas City Union depot. With scarcely a halt in its wild flight it was off over the rowing prai­ rie land of Kansas and.on toward Colorado, climbing the ever-increasing grade as the Rockies were approach­ ed. On and on it sped, not only main­ taining the schedule laid out, but gaining with every mile it flew. La Junta was reached at 9:10 a. m., August 6, and veering toward the southwest the special spht the soli­ tude of the Colorado and New Mexloo wilderness, plunging into Albuquerque at 6:37 p. m. From Albuquerque straight west, crossing the desert of New Mexico and Arizona, surmount­ ing the range of the Giorieta moun­ tains, the train reached Seligman In western Arizona at 4 a. m., Aug. 7.' Leaving here it climbed the William* . range and entered the Golden Stat*' across the Colorado river. At 1:06 p. m. on Friday. August 7, the train rolled into Ixis Angeles ten hours ahead of the schedule as origi- na)ly planned, the distance from Chi­ cago to the Pacific coast (2,265 miles) having been covered at an average of 42.8 miles per hour, beating the time of the Santa Fe's California Limited by fifteen hours and sixteen ininutes. While he was still this side of the Rocky mountains, it was known that Mr. Lowe's daughter had passed away. Messages were hurried ahead of the special. As the wires were down, th« sad word was not received by Mr. Lowe until he had reached Las Vegas, New Mexico. In spite £>l his disappointment, how- evor, Mr. Lowe expressed his grati­ tude to the Santa Fe officials who had tried to the utmost to assist him in his trouble. 'The time made by the Lowe special Is an achievement of which we are justly proud," said Passenger Traffle Manager Nicholson of the Santa Fe. "Our only regret is that the extra­ ordinary speed could not avail Mr. Lowe as he hoped It might." This crossing of the American con­ tinent in seventy-three hours and twenty-one minutes establishes a rec ord for the trans-continental trip that will not be surpassed for many days to come. When it is considered that the time was brought down to this remarkably low figure only by extra­ ordinary speed on the level prairies and the broad table-lands, some idea of the tremendous strain may be' gathered. For long distances a spee* of considerably ov«r a mile a minute was maintained. The route from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide is up-grade, with much steep moun­ tain climbing in places. In 1900 a remarkable run was made by the Peacock special from West to East, its average speed being 41.7 miles an hour between Los Angeles and Chicago. This train, however, had the advantage of the down-grade from the Rockies to the Mississippi valley. The famous Nellie Bly special made the trip from San Francisco to Chi­ cago In sixty-nine hours at an average speed of 37 1-3 miles an hour. By a comparison of these schedule* a fair idea may be gathered of the remarkable record of the Lowe spe» cial. This achievement will go dowa in red letters in the annals of railroad­ ing. Postal Card Traveled Far. A postal card has just arrived in Vienna which took nearly six years to travel from Lemberg, a distance of about 500 miles. The postal rates on Inland cards having in the mean­ time been raised, the postoffice actual­ ly fined the receiver double the de­ ficiency in the postage. Veteran Minister. The Rev. A. J. Marple of Norris- town, Pa., has begun the fifty eighth year of his service in the Episcopal Ministry. ifrliiili/il'Mil