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v-vm-'YYW Y••YFC-TV'IY^•^••^M.»-V.Y^-:-,• •»*^.-- ^:Y '••• ^ THE GIRL i H A L F W A Y A T T H E H O U S E CHAPTER XXIV--Continued. "Ned," said the tall Irishman, rising and laying a hand upon his shoulder, '"don't ye belave I'll. be lavin' yc. I've seen the worrld, an' I must see it again, but wance in a while I'll be comin' around here to see the best man's country on the globe, an' to meet ftgin the best man I ivver knew. I'll not till why I belave it, for that I can rot do, but shure I do brlave it, this is the land for you. Don't be rest­ less, but abide, an' take ye root here. For Batty, it's no odds. He's seen the worrld." Battenrteigb's words caused Frank­ lin's face to grow still more grave, and •f his friea^ f?aw and suspected the reaK^well wishes. Curly rause. "Tnt, tat! me boy." he said, "I well kioow bow your wishes lie. It's a noble gywrl ye've chosen, as a noble man should do. She may change hgir thought to-morrow. It's change is the wan thing sbure about a woman." Franklin shook bis bead mutely, but Battersleigh showed only impatience with him. "Go on with your plans, man," saW be, "an' pay no attintion to the gyurL! Make ready the house and prepare the bridal gyarmenls. Talk with her raysonable, an' thin try un- raysonahJe, and if she'll folly ye thin, to the ind of the earth, an* love ye like a lamb. It's Batty has studied the sex. Now wance there was a gyuri-- but no; I'll not yet thrust mesiif to spake e' tbat. God rist her asy iver- more!" "Yes," said Franklin sadly, "that is It. That ie what my own answer has been. She tells me that there was once another, who no longer lives-- that no one else " Battersleigh's face grew grave ia turn. '"Rhere's no style of assault more difficult than that same." said he. ' Yet aho'e young; she must have been very young. With all respect, It's the natwe •' the race o' women to yield to the HYIH\ breathin' man above the dead ao' honored." complishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress. Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed there­ to, and the eyes of all were set for­ ward. To Franklin the aays and months and years went by unpunctu­ ated, his life settling gradually into the routine of an unhappy calm. He neglected too much the social side of life, and rather held to his old friends than busied himself with the search for new. Battersleigh was gone, swiftly and mysteriously gone, though with the promise to return and with the reiteration of his advice and his was gone--gone Ahe Trail into a far and mysterious country, though h^ too. promised to remember Rllisville, and had gi\en hostage for I11-; promise. His friends of the Halfway House were gone, for though he heard of them and knew them to be prosperous, he felt him­ self, by reason of Mary Ellen's deci­ sion. in propriety practically with­ drawn f|pm their personal acquain­ tance. I Because of his level common sense, which is tl ' ie main ingredient in the success-portion, he went easily into the first councils of the community. He made more and more money, since at that time one of his position and opportunities could hardly avoid doing so. His place in the business world was assurt 'd. He had no occasion for concern. For most men this would have been prosperity sufficient; yet never did Ed­ ward Franklin lie down with the long breath of the man content; and ever in his dreams there came the vague beckoning of a hand still naif unseen. Haunting him with the sense of the unfulfilled, the face of Mary Ellen was ever in the shadow; of Mary Ellen, who had sent him away forever; of Mary Ellen, who was wasting her life on a prairie ranch, with naught to W : M m k "The Consate o' you! "I had my hopes," said Franklin, "but they're gone. Let it go that way. I'll sot wear my heart on my sleeve--not for any woman in the world." "Spoken like a man," said Batters- leigh, "an" if ye'll stick to that ye're the more like to win. Nivver chance follyln' too close in a campaign ag'inst a woman. Parallel an' mine, but don't unoov«r your forces. If ye advance, do so by rushes, an not feelin' o' the way. But tin to wan, if ye lie still under cover, she'll be sendin' out skir­ mishers to see where ye are an' what ye are dom'. Now, ye love the gyurl, I know, an' so do I, an' so does ivery man that iwer saw her, for she's the sort min can't help adorin'. But, mind pie, kape away. 'Go 'w^y.' she says to yon, an' you go. 'Come back,' she whispers to herself, an' you don't hear It. Yet all the time she's wonderin' pfwhy yoa don't! ' Ftanklin smiled in spite of himself. "Batterslelgh'e Tactics and Manual of Strategy," he murmured. "All right, pld man. I thank you just the same, t presume FU live, at the worst And there's a bit in life besides what we want for ••rselvee, you know." "There's naught in life but what we're ready to take for oursilves!" cried Batteraleieh. "I'll talk no fable of other fishes tu the say for ye. Take what ye want, if ye'll have it- An' bearken; there's more to Ned Franklin itban beki' a land agent and a petty lawyer. Itfs not for ye yersilf to sit an' mope, aeyther to spind your life diggln' in a musty desk. Ye're to grow, man; ye're to grow! Git your jxose up, Ned, or you'll be unwittin' classifyln' y«eilf with the great slave class which we lift behind not long •go, but wfciob is follyin' us hard and ifar. GBt your nose up, fer it's Batty been tiunkin' ye've Destiny inside your skin. Listen to Batty the Fool, and search your sowl. IH tell ye this: Pre the feelin' that I'll be hearln'<«f ye. in all the marrches o' the worrld. Don't disappoint me, Ned, ifor the ouid man has belaved In ye-- more than ye've belaved in yersilf. As to the gyurl--bah!--go marry her some day, am ye've nothln' more impor­ tant on yer hands. "But, me dear boy, spakin' o' lmpor- thant things, I ralely mu3t be goin' now. I've certain importhant prepara­ tions that are essintlal before I get dhrunk thVe avenin'--- "O Batterslei^t, do be sensible," said Franklki, "and do give np this talk of getting drunk. Come over here this evening and talk with me. It's mnch better than getting drunk." Battersleigh's hand was on the door knob. "The consate o' you!" he said. Thrue, ye're a fine boy, Ned, an' I know of no conversayshun more en- tertainin' than yer own, but I fale that if I didn't get dhrunlptike a gintle- WI#TI this aveoln', I'd be violatin' me Jnty to me own conscience, as well as Mttin' at naught the thraditions o' the Rile Irish. An' so, if ye'll Just excuse me, I'll say good-bye till, say, to-mor­ row noon." hither their wives and children--little children, sometimes babes, tender, needful of warmth and care. For these stood guardian the gaunt coal chutes of the town, with the demands of a population Of twenty-five hundred, to say nothing pf the settlers round about, a hundred tons for a thousand families, scattered, dwelling out along breaks and coulees, add oil worn hill­ sides, and at the ends of long, faint, wandering trails, which the first whirl of snow would softly and cruelly wipe away. Yet there was no snow. There had been none the winter before. The trappers and skin-hunters said that the winter was rarely severe. The rail­ road men had ranged west all the win­ ter, throats exposed and coats left at the wagons. It was a mild country, a gentle, tender country. In this laugh­ ing sky who could see any cynicism? One morning the sun rose with a swift bound into a cloudless field. The air was mild, dead absolutely silent and motionless. The wires along the railway alone sang loudly, as though in warning--a warning unfounded and without apparent cause. Yet the sigh­ ing in the short grass was gone. In the still air the smokes of the town rose directly upright; and answering to them faint, thin spires rose here and there far out over the prairies, all straight, unswerving, ominous, ter­ rible. There wfis a great hush, a calm, a pause upon all things. The sky was blue and cloudless, but at last it could not conceal the niock'ery it bore upon .its face, so that when men looked at it *.nd listened to the singing of the wires they stopped, and without conscious plan hurried on, silent, to the nearest company. Somewhere, high up in the air, un­ heralded, invisible, there were pass­ ing some thin inarticulate sounds, far above the tops of the tallest smoke spires, as though some Titan blew a far jest across the continent to an­ other near the sea, who answered with a gusty laugh, sardonic grim, forckcowing. Every horse free on the range came into the coulees that morn­ ing, and those which were fenced in ran up and down excitedly. Men ate and smoked, and women darned, and babes played. In a thousand homes there was content with this new land, so wild at one time, but now so quick­ ly tamed, so calm, so gentle, so thor­ oughly subdued. (To be continued.) f CHICAGO MAN CHIEF OF PANAMA CANAL ENGINEERS 1 i I ] i jaw /: mxiAa: inspire and none to witness the flower ing of her soul. So much for the half-morbid frame of mind due for the most part to the reflex of a body made sick by an ir­ regular and irrational life. This much, too. Franklin could have established of his own philosophy. Yet this yras not all, nor was the total so easily to be explained away. Steadily, and with an insistence somewhat horrible, there came to Franklin's mind a feeling that this career which he saw before him would not always serve to satisfy him. Losing no touch of the democratic loyalty to his fellow-men, he none the less clear­ ly saw himself in certain ways be­ coming inexorably separated from his average fellow-man. The executive instinct was still as strong within him, but he felt it more creative, and he longed for finer material than the seamy side of man's petty strifes with man, made possible under those artifi­ cial laws which marked man's com­ promise with Nature. Longing for the satisfying, for the noble things, he found himself irresistibly facing to­ ward the past, and irresistibly con­ vinced that in that past, as in the swiftly marching present, there might be some lesson, not Ignoble and not un- coinforting. Horrified that he could not rest in the way that he had chosen, distracted at these intangible desires, he doubted at times his perfect sanity; for though it seemed there was within him the impulse to teach and to create, he could not say to himself what or how was to be the form, whether men­ tal or material, of the thing created, the thing typified, the thing which he would teach. Of such travail, of such mould, have come great architects, great engineers, great writers, musicians, painters, in­ deed great me of affairs, beings who stand by the head and shoulders above other men as leaders. The nature of such men is not always at the first as­ sured, the imprinitive seal not always surely set on, so that of one thus tor­ mented to his inner self it may be mere accident which shall determine whether it is to be great artist or great artisan that is to be born again. To Franklin, dreaming a&he woke or slept, there sometimes •wared hand, there sometimes sounded Voice, as that which of old summoned the prophet in the watches of the night. Neither in his waking nor his sleeping hours could he call this spirit into materialization, however much he longed to wrestle with it finally. It remained only to haunt him vaguely to Join with the shade of Mary Ellen the Cruel to set misery on a life which he had thought happily assured. Faithful Dogs. The faithfulness of the dog is well known, though not appreciated as it should be. Perhaps most faithful of all the species is the Eskimo dog. We learn the following about this animal from the writings of Frederick Schwatka, who made a wonderful trip on a sledge from Hudson Bay to the Arctic Ocean. The sledges were drawn by the dogs, and he started out vlth sixty of them, returning with only nineteen, all the rest dying of starva­ tion en route. Says Schwatka: "They were, through all this terri­ ble time, perfect respecters of their human allies, and the little children used to go \ among them and play with them by pelting them with toy whips; yet the same dogs were starv­ ing, and should one of tliern die, his comrades would eat him. I notice this particularly, as some sensational writ­ ers have tried to make their readers believe that the Eskimo dogs are li­ able to becoirte dangerous fellows, even to a powerfully built man, when simply hungry, and to be worae than wild beasts when ravenous. Any on­ slaught of Eskimo dogs is unknown among the natives where I traveled. "It was pitiable in the extreme to see their sufferings, as they devotedly helped us along--many of them up to the very minute they had to be taken from the harness and abandoned along the road. As they dropped out along the way, we harnessed ourselves In their places to the sledge traces, an4, it was thus we were not compelled to leave certain parts of our load." John Findley Wallace of Chicago, general manager of the Illinois Cen­ tral railroad, has notified the Pana­ ma canal commission at Washington of his acceptance of the post of chief engineer in charge of the construc­ tion of the isthmian waterway. Mr. Wallace will take up his work on June 1, at an annual salary of $25,- 000. His headquarters for some time will be at the national capital. It probably will take two years for pre­ liminary work, and then the engineer will go to the isthmus, to remain until the canal is completed. Nearly $200,- 000,000 will be expended, and 50,000 men will be employed, besides skilled labor. CARDINAL FOND OF WALKING. CHAPTER XXV. |v And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West. The rings, the ac-n|U changes. the stri > The Great Cold. The land lay trusting and defence­ less under a cynical sky, which was unthreatening but mocking. Dotting a stretch of country thirty miles oh either side of the railway, and extend ing as far to the east and west along its line, there were scattered hundreds of homes, though often these were separated one from the other by many miles of open prairie. Most of them contained families. Men had brought A Chinese Baby's Christening. When a Chinese baby is a month old it is given its first public reception and all its relatives and friends are expected to send presents. The mother holds it in her arms, kicking and screaming, while its head is shaved. It is then given its first or "milk name," which is supposed to last only till It enters school. These names are often fanciful and poetic. Girls are called "Lovely Au­ tumn," "Pure Flower," "Lucky Pearl," 'Golden Harp," and "Jade Transpar­ ent." The boys may I'ecelve names meaning "Dog," "Flea," or "Hog," or they may be merely numbered in rota­ tion of birth, "One," "Two," "Three." Some are luckier, receiving such lofty appellations as Wu Ting-fang, the name of the Chinese Minister at Wash­ ington, which means "Fragrant Pal­ ace." or Li Hung Chang, "Illustrious Bird." Often the "milk name" sticks to its owner throughout life. The Weather Glass. Take a flat, broad pint flask, fill It one-third with water, and close it with a cork, through which a small bent glass tube is Inserted- The glass tube should be cut so that the outer leg is as long as the bottle is high, while the inner leg (that is, the end In­ serted through the cork) stands ont a trifle inside the neck ol the bottle. make the cork water tight use sealing wax. The illustration shows how to hang the bottlo upside down by a cord. Hang in a protected place, where the sun will not penetrate. This weather glass, similar to the barometer, indicates the pressure of the air. If the pressure of the air relaxes the water will rise in the out­ side tube, Bhowing the approach of rain; if the water in the tube sinks dry weather is to be expected. Head of Roman Catholic See of Balti­ more a Pedestrian. Though far from being a robust man Cardinal Gibbons is a great talk­ er. Not only is he known as such in his home city of Baltimore, but he has acquired that reputation among his fel­ low prelates at Rome. The cardinals and archbiships there with whom he has made friends say laughingly that to start out on a morning's walk with their American brother is like doing a severe stunt of penance. The cardi­ nal is too delicate in frame and health to make anything of a show as a pul­ pit orator. Knowing his physical limi­ tations, he is very retiring In manner, and when he does appear before a congregation he is quiet and unassum­ ing in his delivery, not trying to be impressive. He wisely husbands all his strength for his administrative labors. The appointee was born at Fall R'r- er, Mass.,/'find graduated as a civil en­ gineer at Monmouth university, Mon­ mouth, 111., of which his father was the founder. He entered railway ser­ vice in 1869 as rodman and ten years later became chief enginer of the Peoria and Farmington railway, the construction of which he supervised. In 1887 he became bridge engineer for the Santa Fe, and in 1892 was ap­ pointed chief engineer of the Illinois Central. During seven years he held this position, in 1898 became assistant second vice president, in 1901 assist­ ant general manager, and in Septem­ ber, 1902, general manager of the system. TRAGEDY OF WENTZ'S DEATH. Queer Customs In China. A feature in the life of the Celestial when at home, says the author of "So­ ciety in China," Is the number of iti­ nerant craftsmen who earn their live­ lihood on the street. Almost every­ thing from the mending of a broken rice bowl to the most elaborate quelle dressing may be obtained of one br another of these street travelers. Blacksmiths carry the implements of their trade about with them, the bel­ lows so constructed as to serve also the purpose of a toolbox, and a seat when "off duty." If a man's jacket or shoes need repairing he may hail a passing tailor or cobbler, and possibly employ the time while waiting with the services of an itinerant barber. HI8 LABORS AT AN END. Perfectly True. "He says he is in business for him­ self now manufacturing automobiles." "Yes." "And he claims not one of his ma­ chines has ever been known to break down on the road." "That's right; he hasn't sold any yet." 8eason for Beggars. Even beggars have their "season" In Constantinople. During the winter months the city harbors a much larger number of them than in the summer, when many migrate to the country. Bishop J. H. Vincent, founder of the Chautauqua society, who will be re­ tired for age by the Methodist confer­ ence at Los Angeles. Long East Indian Names. Mercantile clerks with many letters to write to India tradesfolk are to be pitied. The following, picked at ran­ dom from the books of a London firm doing business in India, are not at all a bad specimen of the general run of names throughout the empire: Joga- vajala Seethasamachendrudu; Manthri Pragada Suryanarayana, Vangar Pa- thangy Vijayaraghavacharriar, Con- Jeeveram Muttukumaraswamy Mud- liar, Poonamalie Shunmugasuadaram Mudliar, Keduramangalam Subraman- ist Chidembera Iyer, Peruvayel Coo- m alecs waxen pettah Rajaruthna Mood- liar. Gov. Jelks Recovering Health. Gov. W. D. Jelks of Alabama has written within a few days past to his private secretary in Montgomery that his progress toward the complete re­ covery of his health is very satisfac­ tory, as he is improving at a rate he had not hoped for. He is at I*as Vegas, N. M., and will probably be compelled to stay there several months. His physicians have advised him not to write letters for the pres­ ent, and he accordingly asked Secre­ tary Jackson to give the substance of his letter publicity to satisfy the in­ quiries of his friends at home. Dvorak's Humble Beginning. The Czech composer, Antonin Dvorak, pronounced his name air though it were spelled "Dwoschark," the first syllable slightly accented. He was the son of a butcher and innkeep­ er of Muehlbausen, in Bohemia, and would have been sixty-three In Sep­ tember. His father meant to make a butcher out of him, but his bent toward music was so great that at six­ teen he was allowed to go to Prague to study. His Murder a Blot on Our Present Day Civilization. With all the associations that sling around the name of Virginia, that state eeems to furnish a strange set­ ting for such a tragedy as that of Ed­ ward L. Wentz, whose body has just been found near Big Stone Gap in Wise county. And yet the mountain country in the western part of Vir­ ginia is as full of the mystery of moonshiners and feuds and other law­ lessness as the adjacent districts of Kentucky and Tennessee. Wentz had inherited an interest in a great estate of mountain lands that had never been subdivided for sale. There were many squatter inhabitants, and all of them raged against the young man who came in to develop the country, as if he were some usurp­ er or tyrant. Oct. 14 last year he dis­ appeared, and though his death has long been assumed not till now has his fate really been known. For seven months his body has been lying on open ground, undiscov­ ered. Searchers by the' thousands had sought for weeks to find him, and some of them must have passed with­ in a very short space of his body. Now the place of his death is found by ac- clSent within a mile of where he was last seen alive. He had evidently been killed by his squatter enemies. This is a tale of wilderness and desolation, fitter for the early days of colonization than for the prime of the greatest of nations, fitter for the far West than for the hoary East. It gives us at least a sense of the long, long time it will yet take before the growing people will have occupied the whole land for its own--before the whole land will be really "settled." PLAY TO SPITE KUSBANDS. Bayonne Women in Euchre Clubs Be­ cause Hubbies Dislike Them. Some time ago a number of men In Bayonne, N. J., formed an anti-e.jchre society, declaring that their wives were devoting altogether too nuch much attention to tbe gaine named. Appropriately enough, Jo'tuh Kicks was elected president. The organiza­ tion has struck a nasty snag in the shape of an anti-lodge club started by the wives, who declare that if they may judge from the midnight stories told by their husbands Bayonne must have a remarkably large number of sick lodge members. 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