fx - ""ST" V -- - - THE PRQVO tfERAtD 1 .., , ..... .11 row ef the boat grated Npn the beach "The tnea- - jerked m oat of and Tour men st epped out I had only boat with small ceremony when counted on Iwo. In my hurried ride reached the shore. I moaned plteoas ., -- AFFAIRDFiPHE PANAMA HAT 2s. ft. T117- 1., - e nadjlanheffouOay icourse"Sf aIWK fy4Bd Uy;nfflpadaeft.-tratchii-thhat a with, somewhere bad read soldier of hand, the I, T my--lef- wrhV capturing a company of the enfefhy Ing underneath. As they packed sa singlehaoded, and 1 intended to follow up the bank' I dropped the bat la th his plan. shadow of a bush. - After this I "As the four men advanced up the came unconscious from the paia c L8)ifJjmSjWSJ I"ve a Jemjecommand ni'ounds." to n,JiBaglBrjf poase.AM baclLiaqhjJJJjtqi.e lQ.lnA small room With ;;.;,, "BY" AW itCttST ERVJCS shadows and. with my revolver leveled single whidow up near the ceiling. was heavtij. barred with Iron, betwtea I stepped ut late the moonlight, which I coolsee a' single star, so I the nearest of the men. knew, that itVas still night . I lay with "This have trick worked may CAPTAIN DICKSON TELLS for a hanV there soldlersr but .it certainly," didn't go' OF ACQUIRING AN UGLY was and I conscious resigned. utterly; with "border outlaws. No sooner I had SCAR EARLY IN HIS CAREER too weak was too much and. suffering stepped from the-- shadows 4haa the 1 four men reached for their guns, at from loss of blood to iare whether I prethe same Instant dropping fiat upon lived or died, in fact, 1 "think--die. The smugglers had ttoi to ferred "Where were 4i& the I almost to tell ground, ES, they you staggered into the room, A few promise dressed my wounds and "t felt that now I got this woun3." re-- brinks put him on his feet, and then Invisible." I when hurried took us told "I aim at he piled Capt Dickson, that the rangers Were not recalled his mention. In- - a at their headquarters but had gone man and ' pulled the trigger. The beyond my strength ' to make any "ef former reminiscence, of he ugly scar in pursuit of a band of cattle "thieves. hammer "fell wllh a metallic click, fort to ecp8. on the back of his neck. "I had dflMsen off again, I suppose. "".'Well, we can go after them our- which rang sharprand distinct in the the report of shots awakened a air. still Then;with sickening 'It happened when 1 was young in selves,' I said. 'There will only be the service, and it was due to my am- two against two and we will have the sinking of the heart, I remembered me. a cattle teemed to be in progress V that in my hasty departurej had. about the building, but I was toe bition and foolhardiness, a combina- advantage by surprising them.': tion that Is dangerous in any one'a 'Jarrall looked at m4u blank sur- failed to load the evolver I was weak to more than, raise. myself upon unarmed and at the mercy of the out- my good elbow for tf moment; then The adventure came near prise. ystem. . I fell back panting and exhausted, , laws. me life. I have my "'You always costing must be crazy, man.'to sugconnectedthat affair with .a Panama gest aucha-Xhln- g These Innldenla Jtad happened with The asrattle of firearm grew less die- Lam. if - the shots' trtra. coming hat. A Panama hat got me into trouble a cpward, but I wouldn't undertake marvelous swiftness. Instantly there tlnct.-- a fromdistance and great, and got me out agaiaK in .the end the job without at least half a dosien was a flare of light,, a loud reportr and slept " i again. men let to close a but at saving 'my llfe.4.- sang uncomfortably my hack, for all the gold good -- The Chinese exclusion-ac- t has giv- in the world. It would mean certain my ear.-"" It waB the first time I was - -- 'The next I knew Jarrall was bend-lo- g over me. I was Ja bed and very , . en a lot of trouble to the government 4eath for both--o- f us. -- No, I am not a ever under flru- - There was a second v ay In and another, but the con- candidate for the undertaker just yet.' flash, and my right arm, droned limp- weak. It was the room ".where; I had I felt that it '.'With' that I buckled on my revolver ly to my .side. I sprang for the shad- stopped In. Presidio. sequence 1 am most familiar with is the smuggling of coolies into this and started for the door. ows" of the cottonwoods just "as" the was a hallucination ""of my feverigh - country . through Mexico and Canada. "'J wouldn't 4o that, old man,' Jar third revolver cracked. '. The bullet braln. Coolie labor is cheap, and it is & profit- rail breathed a. look pf real concern cut across the back of my neck and I "If was little that I did towards my' able job to slip a bevy--pt th,era across displacing the amused expression that fell unconscious. recovery.. J arrall did it all. By force the frontier. "When I came tomysilf. I was' is of his personality he nursed me back . . had so nettled God, man, you "Things began to take a lively turn as soon as I reached Presidio, my. tov-erin- J g -- 1 ( Y iliStelllllL. - -7 - - ' , V " T 1 t" L?l A"f l1.0 at ,c - X-wh- . - or WOMEN 'A . not-count- ed town. Girls begin this work at 14. One man in Belgrade buys up all that they produce. .In a year, a familyjnay make 12 large carpets They work The only when they have leisure. women" carpet "weavers are divided Into two Bocleffe,and"' commercial company then pays them by the day. In this way they are sure of a living, and of purchasers, instead of working for a pastime, a formerly: " Occasionally an exposition of the carpet output Is held at Belgrade. The annual out-pu- t of the carpets hej-- is jeBtimated aOWJO!nrrinicAFour or Jl ve women work on acarpek and a big one iiiay take ten months to ' weaveand will cost"$80 to $100. The"more complicated the pattern, of course, the greater the expense. A woman begins working sometimes at the age of ten. ' She will clear an average of six cents a day! Servian families are poor, but they are averse to working: out" for strangers. They raise their own food, and usually make their own clothes. Suddenly there Is an interruption to our pleasant talk. The local commissioner of police is entering the house. He has been informed that a stranger has come" 16 town and he wishes to know who this stranger might be. The stranger had been seen by two of their fecTIves., engage"d"rJn!TtaTtlng ZTL'oin" photographs and iotes In thia . town. which is one of the strongholds of Berviar and the general had .been notified, And the stranger was being watched; Of course the stranger in question was myself. A friend explained that the stranger was simply aa American Journalist, who had traveled all. over been at Europe safely; had, the coronation of the Servian king. The chief of police, hearing the explanation, sent a hack to the depot police and ordered them not to trouble usrehould'weijjq that" way. ' To return to the wedding. It was celebrated, first of all, in the chi;rch. Friends had gone to the home of the bridegroom, accompanying him to that of the bride, where the parents gave her away. Thence all went to chuich, after which there would be dancing and feasting.. Next morning friends would call and.be hospitblyntert talned at the new home e mere- - pawn oa z?z Spuak'y .little Ser.via.-- a - the checkerboard of Europe, ha dared to raise her (voice against the greed of the Austrian. While the newspaper dispatches have teen chronicling how trflfSps were being put abroad at Zara and elsewhere, down in SSrvia the king militant has not oeen slow to marshal his. forces as well. : Fortunately, the war cloud has passed over for the present an.d , the danger of a clash in the Balkans is averted. -- - Cat-VA- ; ), Serb - peasant-lifla as picturesque as any In all the world. Nowhere does one get the charm o( this so well as in the little .towns, such, as Plrot saya Felix J. Koch in Christian Herald. Plrot has ten thousand population. A taw .are Turks; the majofUyafj pure Serb. - It iaa courtrtown; ana The c&fnet Industry la the Tjrevailinir one, small houses but few of a second tivfjr wjth red roofs, and with a church one end, form a tempting prospect Behind the the lover of folk-lifUr other houses arise farms, too. .can be seen tn the mountains. --- r: Girls, in the dress of continental Kurope, save for red or blue stockings, rising from clogs, stand out, eyeing any stranger who may visit the place. At the double windows of the houses, close up to the square, red Toofs, still e -- i e. other grlsstt1foeavyro8arles.a.ba:ut their necks. - Some of them are seated at work In the doorway. One with a baby in a blanket, air lined in white, Is at play. Some soldiers dance m a xlrclfi.arQund-abou- t bagpiper, At another doorstep some women sit in a row, each with-- a round red cap, ba ring- -a triangle of black on the id, these caps resting lightly in the hiiF; -- The-prefe- et- Gay Many houses have lemons ripening in the windows. Fruit stores are numerous. Old men. come out of them CONDEMNS THE NASAL TWANG. cloth on with bags of the goats'-hai- r their shoulders. We are lucky in our Training of the Ear Too Much Neg- Tected. According" to Thia New sislttairQtorftreajE!-wed4in- g. Yorker. celebration is in progress. Out in the 1 ibbone-flyin-the-breere. BtreetrheToTheTidegrooffi1r1iome"r a garland of white satin is hung at the door for the occasion. In the garden stand two or three tables,' each with white tablecT6ths7'aisterand decanters of wine. Here the parents and are seatedla the-- gaN slderTy-inestden is the bride', arrayed in white, with white flowers on her breast and n her hair, while a veil hangs down over all. B Beside Isbs. She is & her, resting on her arm, appears the Out in the street, in bridegroom. fint of the house, is gathered In one the" whole village. group well-nigThrough", this" cf 6Wd"therewlndBr almost imperceptibly,-a long chain of young people, dancing the kola, the na-. Four tlonal dance of the Balkans. rosy-cbeeke- d n a,.-- . t h .dj." :h of th gipsies,- - with jlolln Dish the music. and-'cello- s, fur - On questioning many who have acquired, the exasperating nasal twang, I have Invariably received the same answer. ""Why, I 'did not know it! "and what is the cause? 'They have ears andiiear not" The training tf the ear is one of the most',, neglected duties. Is the sensitiveness of the" ear drum r dying out in this noiseful age? ;Tt la the dutyj) every parentand every teacher to make the child, aware of the quality "of tone in which it speaks. T 'flspecially . should "every teacher lay stress on the importance ir 6rthe"pupiri speaking and not hanging on the consonants of ds wordsfUhis would-hel- p the destructionof the" nasal hablf'l which 1s also one of the causes of so manbeaulHul singing volcesTlieThg destroyed in this country." We have singing teachers who develop nasal "on"the-vowe- much-towar- . -- -- one-w- .. -- . -- of mudhntaJ e rambling- - shanties on he-filo Grande I left the Southern Pacific at Nopal and rode many weary miles across country Over the : river, in Mexico,. was the dirty, village of Presidio del Norte. It is impossible ta imagine a more forsaken looking place. The Rio Conchos, a river of uncertain habits,- - flowed into the Rio Grande here. It was by means of this river that coolies were brought to Presidio del Norte. '.'I had arrived In Presidio wearing ... a heavy Scotch hat. It had been cool when I left Washington and this was my first .trip, to the ..Texas, border... I saw at once that my hat was a back- number. Jarrall, the customs officer, suggested lhat I geL&Janama. .tellln; me that I could secure a smuggled one at "a reasonable pjlce trom a dealer In the village. "He said he knew they were" smug gled, but that there was no remedy for it as the government didn't think it of sufficient importance to put its agents on the case, and he was pow. erless Without them.t "! loot his "advice and bought a Panama the largest and whitest and most conspicuous one. "The next morning after my arrival I crossed over to the Mexican village, to look around a bit and see If I and - -t- I was wandering wbt ------- W4r XffMVl -- M'm-MfmMW - showed only-p-h- le marks of hard usage. i 'Hello!' he said, 'when did '" you get ' In?' . "I was on the point of telling him that- - he "had made "a" mistake, ""but something "prompted "me to play him along and see what he was up to. I . merely replied: " 'Yesterday.' " 'Where Is Munson?' he queried, ToSRihg" me over carefully. "THe.wilf be here later,' ! replied at " 'All Hght." I replied. '"We have 300 coming down 'r "-- rd,. - , . . a venture, "Now let's get down to business,' ' he began. r00fff(I??D0lf .to- night,' he said, 'and 200 more in three days. ." The Boats are ready and Man so there I. nel is in charge isn't a chance for anything to go wrong at that end of the paused a -- moment to - mix - another, highball which" he' swallowed at a:guip. , . " 'You know where to meet us , i been too '"The instructions haven't - k'. . "' .. Andlthe-iQii-r men ( taJlfa - aadLbealth. I and, when X got I what haven't lived on the border ten years were paddling with might and main strong enough to talk and tried to for nothing.- - You will be killed. I for the Mexican shore, - Here was. .a apologize to him and,, ask his , - - pfaln,' I replied. pTettytmcBffTny-TaBhneBB-tait. "T?" TJlame tharmuUbnEeaded Indian,' "can't "I turned on him and snarled in me into. I realized he swore.' 1 might, have known that - ront anything ... 1 don't- - know -- d d. h -- " " - " dragged that the men would would jot permit It, He was a maa "r llz: showjjhniljmercythat. death jrolf and a gentlemanLat alljimfa. "One day he told me how he had not big enoiigh to hold ably" awaited me at the landing. ' But ma nan't been, ma nv other I was mistaken in this. Theydidnoi coma ta reRrna m- "He had followed after me when I recovered conscious- from the house, only stopping i .. said ness r nn could what hear and Iher think you want to' commit murder. IhelfTurious" row- Iong'eriough" to get his gun...c.This de-- a "I poured out a volume of vilejbuse when thejrpaused In " 7 i itl 7ay"Tiad allowed me' . tol'mount" "the ...... for which'-I- - was .Afterwards heartily ing to catchthelF"breath . horse and secure a startlie good ' .'.over excited seemed ashamed. - - : highly "They knew it was useless to follow on foot, am going,-- ! concluded and with Ijny attempt to capture and he had lost .further time catching wanted set of house One them. of out the and I Mexican, themes that sprang a and itr pony eaddling to kill me at once, but the American wnJtojMhejiorthra 'Before he Tre-- ad vised that wouldnVeartoIt I "rWalt until i guB aad giatitcactus where I had hobbled my wttl go with you, Jarrall shouted after .1 be revivs&'and made, ta telljust what horse, he heard the 'firing at the land--" ThlB I knew.met apwith to him. general me, but I paid no attention tag.-- : He had arrived at the river la ten, and I knew it proval, and it was decided that I time to see the boat. landing at the "It was half-pa" "" would be a tight race to be at the ap- should be- taken' to? the house ihat I farther shore., . " had visited that morning in company messen-ger'- s on time. The pelated place teftr gohorse, was standing. Jef ore the he swam his horse across the stream ' me there a hold until to prisoner ing a at out set and door. I mounted it found my hat.. His pony struck it the information they and a hoof and knocked it out into with rapid rate for the trail. It was a Wild theyhalgafne4 to they were going ride through the chaparral that night, wanted, and then meHe had picked It up the moonlight of . -; make an end.. ... ...... : and found the my heart beating time to the pounding message upon the brim. - -was use- of the horse's hoofsf At ..the.-giastopped uuaing ana resumed that Appreciating pursuit was in ie heavy. -- iegg ne had hastened back to Presidio cactus I hobbled the pony and hasl shadows .at the bottom of "the hoa xa'aecure aseistance.rTHe .met Capt tened,: na. foot, ; down- the cattle-trai: and when I noticed that, my big Psna- 'Davis and ten rangers on the way. towards the river.1: "j. .v ; was resting on my chest an j jhey-haAs came In alghtlof returned to camp sooner ' b shining white and silvery through the jdea : tame to me. : I fished a pencil than was - expectedand-seeln- g from a pocket and, with mr left.1 rgij-- note had pushed on to Preaiila " bushes, I ould make out the bulk of - ' bbat approaching.tl gripped niy revol-Ve- naaavscrawieaa niessage to jarraii without rest. nervously and waited" lor it to on the' brim of the big hat. It was "The rangeria , then committed a land. -- The cottonwood - trees cast miserable effort", jind I feared it would breach of inteinational . Jaw, WUa I told him of my Jarralf for guide, they had Invai. heavy shadows where I crouched, and be' unintelligible. this gave me the advantage of the capture, that I was wounded, and be- Mexico and rescued me." , (CopyriKlit,-1908by- W. G. 'ChRpniia l smugglers, fortbe moonlight was al- ing taken to- the house with the broken (Copyright tn Great BtlVMa.) ' most as brilliant as sunlight.' TLe column. straight his lace:.'.""' Well,-- ! mwiWwwry.Uw, or-fo- ur rW )w : -- icate -- of -- my ss ..J v"'v about, star- lapel;-other-v- 1 " ing at the crude hats and the naked babies, when I encountered an American wearing a hat that was a. dupl- : I , -- me.--'M-y .- .headquarJtfirs-a-.villag- the-nort- :t" . t -- will have to tell you all over - The people stand about talking, and You and Munson be at the again. verv eav. thanks to the great iQwJjeaflUlwQ miles above le.. all i amrjuntnrcoloTBThe-risraTerhat4to check up the town at 11:30 in lessk with hair combed, back f ronuthe else. b and cattle overihe money. "Take pay me Here again, let say that pupils forehead, and some flowers In the :ht from "and turn Presidio trail " not taught ' io"Z- - hear . their v own to" the left at the giant cactusr You ni" tresses."' Over The waist Ihey" wear a are " The; wedding voices. Could they- hear them they, can't miss the way. It is about tw6 ad , vest .of many color. guests are known from the rest by would refuseto make these horrible milesr- - The cattle-pat- h at the cactus nss nasal tones. The. nasal resonance will lead you" out sprigs of -- leaveaBd on the landlngjitjthe tojthe thrDle-Tiltahrherev-aseems' to be"yr tow neaa.---- - Andrews .ana i -- wui -- come and" it Is mostly owlnir "to'care-lessnethey mingle in the" crowd. Later" the over first .boA4ad ..we ean "of Bearing. Letter in New check..wlthijtae "in. The bride bridal pair venture up as they land. I suppose you - -: :. r. 11.. . " vuuo York Sun." , iwuuui appearB buy, aun . , have the papers, he concluded. ! m&a him proudly on. Little girls, with Munson I No; harthem,' Tentured, iz Before and Afterj tn their hair in braids' and tied by tiny feeling sure that If Vnninn' XtA't -colored strings, dance together oc have"them7 where they a. from the refreshment table. Many of of the table d'hote dinners, says the were. went She a . on Press. the Into off, the girls wear golden "dowries" New York ' " 'Well, be sure than Munson breast. ... They havea good tlmr one clean little place . on Third avenue them along,1 he admonished.. brings ry; 'rrr.t IV and alL Their faces "are "quite" sweet, where the dinner "was" eiceUentand "This concluded the interview and "Ah?" she as reasonable. cut of most the type. said, peasant ; though clearly no time la getting back across and I lost my Some of the tlcher women wear Jack- - she buttered the delicious roll to tell Jarrall of my advenriver the I k'l- 8ets ot black satin, edged with gold.- - the- - potatoes, ."I shall dine here the ture. He was delighted at mr iupK s " " We are invited ta a private home. rest of tny iiie. iveiy "At five minutes after ten I heard the1, waitress. -, to failed she are tip framea But Here three large horses' hoofs poundlng-the-sa- nd. to The next time she went the roast the ret up against the outBide wall, under I could almost have, shout-- , south. . iinderdoner--thepotatoes is i,were t , j projecting roof. On the ground vat hurnt. The ed, for I was sure that it was Davis a tiny basin, with three" shreds of rd- - j soggy and msi his rangers. It was tjnly the mesof as" she viewed ored wool. Several women are at impecunious' glrlelghed &T- from the first, senger whom we had dispatched in work here with the threads, red,- white the array, so different He was covered with lant to afford she could tip," said, "I the morning to I "If and black. It takes them a month, and bis ' throat was so dust ties gray, make a little rug; such a small orje would go to anexpensive place; but H choked he couldnlt speak. He literally costs about $2.40. Four women make 6ems you just can't live anywhere in fell from lis horse before Jarrall's ' the wn.iVii thrraJs. thcmrolvc3," and New York wltut tipping. That. Is, door, and we had to f subpart him as he col.r t;.fht buying tte dj-- s la (V? you can hardly .ill it living." ae V -- - C&OUP en - You are anil vmi . - - . -- -- single-hande- d . -- lffa managed-toreadr-tf- csr get-m- y - . st 4 " . . . -- v- .. nt ..... - iney eir-paddling.-1- - -- -. - . , ,4he-wa- ter, ma-h- at d Jar-stu- r t- - . : - :kv-- ,- ;