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Show mmmit I i '9VJ tbe main facts, but ho insists on minor alteraiiono with great urgency, beNUMBER 8 ing apparently under the impression that this one act well dune at the last will be recognized as a conspicuous viri The Ions dim, dUInfecunt-sevute- d to all the tue and a sufficient set-o- ff are ward, lighted by gw lets that only mistaken acts of his life. lust awake, ahowa rtgna this evening "Never said never said seen him 9f a kind of muffled excitement The afore. Said seen him once or twico Numbers who ran alt up in the scarlet afore. And how've you spelt nlme?" .'ounterpaaed beda do ait up, and when Name accordingly spelled aloud. Is the young nurses reprove them sharply that right? they go hack for a moment only and at 1 dont know, whispers Twenty-thre- e ance resume the attitude of Interest Ain't spelt It Tot helplessly. All thla la hecauae here, behind the When I was a boy, now screen at twenty-thre- e, a concerned, years. Twenty-thre- e stops. He shakes his considerate-lookin- g, overcoated man ! head and half The ruddy-haire- d sighs. teated. Beside him a spectacled youth, nurse once more offers the glass, and white-capped, writing, a doctor, and three rewarded a is time this by which, grunt white-apronnurses, one of correctly interpreted, no doubt means to is close with the whom, ruddy hair, thanks. head of Twenty-thre- e with a medicine Why don't why dont some one find glass. At the foot of the bed a long, my " dazed, earringed, foreign-lookin- g man, The ruddy-haire- d nurse bends down who, with his wrists together and a to catch because the oththe last word, police Inspector at his side, is staring ers have risen from their seats and are 's over Twenty-threecard at the flxedly coats and finding umbrellas. head. Twenty-thre- e himself Is not buttoning in a Missus, repeats Twenty-thre- e looking his best. Never perhaps a vicious whisper. Cant y'ear? handsome. 'mn, Twenty-threwith a Twenty-three- 's missus, it appears, bandage around hia foreheed and anhas been sent for; but the address is other over the top of his head, and a indeed, no more definite r.ruise or two on his damp, yellow face, vague, being, ono than on of the public-housany is not pleasant to look upon. d the side of a rather long is surly, too, taking this pres--: street. She has not yet been found, ace of visitors, whom he personally and this is explained with infinite genlias not invited, as an infraction of the tleness to Twenty-thre- e. rules of etiquette and a too broad and "Want see old geTl. Want giv her Twenty-thredefinite hint that he. is give her a mit vice about 'hour not long for thiB world. up that boy of ourn. "And then, you say, the fight be- bringing You hare heard the statement? gan?" (Very quietly and encouraging- This distinctly to the man at the foot of ly). "Very well, then; the next point the bed. (Listen to this, my lad, advises the Inspector to his charge warn-ingly- .) "Want want ask questing, Twenty-thre- e Do you wish to ask any quesinterrupts in his hoarse whisper tions of this man? The foreigner of of two Which which you slowly. shakes his brass and says earrings you two is beak?" "I am the magistrate. This gentle- something under his breath, and the inman who is taking down your answers spector reports that his charge has ncthing to say. is my clerk. Knows be'r, whispers Twenty-thre- e, "Mind he takes down takes down confidently. e, Twenty-threthickright, whispers Now a candlestick is brought and ly. "Don't want no don't want no with curved palm shading the held, business. blankey perjury randle from the slight draft, by lighted so! Quite Quite sol Now let us go the doctor. The clerk crosses his t'a on. Where were we, Mr. Parry?" The clerk answers, glancing at the and touches up his work finally with a sheet of foolscap, that "We had had a comma or two. Now even the man takes some interest in the glass or so together, and when we came out we had a word or two outside the scene, and watches the document nervously as Twenty-thre- e is gently liftpub, and, one thing leading to an- ed a little a very little on his couch, other. we took off our coats and the others formed a bit of a ring round us, and the long blue foolscap is placed nd we went nt each other with our on a board, as the pen ia dipped in ink and Twenty-three- 's trembling, knotted, Sets. And the fight lasted how long? A unwashed fingers hold it. with assistance from the nurse, unsteadily. 'ov.ple of minutes?" A slight affirmative Is this Is this goo' nib? lerk of the head. "Very well! And The nib Is good enough for the pursee when did you first the knife? Against the name which the Interval here. Interval for Twenty-:hre- e pose. to whisper hoarsely under his clerk has written at the end of the makes blunbreath all the curses be knows at the statement Twenty-thre- e a cross. He is more contented foreign gentleman at the foot of the deringly when this is done, and he. closes his Led and at the foregn gentleman's as the magistrate Indorses the eyes ruddy-haired r:nife. The nurse holding :he glass crimsons and keeps her eyes document, Taken and sworn to bewith signature. lown. The dortor steps forward, and fore me Lemme see't." Twenty-thre- e stops. The question is Document shown again to Twenty-threarefully repeated. He nods approval, and the "See some'ing glitter. And in a mo- aired nurse wipes the swollen face ment as Mr. Stop again. A nod from the doctor mans Inspector, taking the foreign arm. leads him to the great inlirects a sip from the glass, Twenty-hree- 'l head being for this purpose very terest of the other Numbers, sharply down the polished floor to the silent, nurse, rrntiy lifted by the ruddy-haire- d dimly lighted ward. The young clerk r. horn Twenty-thre- e promptly calls, the effort hurts him, a clumsy takes off his spectacles and discusses with the sister of the ward the best, noun. wisest, sanest, and And then you felt the stab? Anroute from here to Lower swer in the affirmative, "And you fell lovn at once? Answered again in the Tooting. Good night, my man! The magaffirmative, with remark, added laistrate says this to Twenty-thre- e, and boriously, Like log wood." turns to ask the doctor, In an under"Did he say anything as he did it? Answer: Something foreign. Might tone, a question; and the doctor answers, similarly in an undertone, "Cernave been anything. Twenty-thre- e hours. jives brief answers to all further ques- - tainly not more than twenty-foO. dear, no. Probably less. Goo -- by!" whispers Twenty-thre- e. W. Pett Ridge, in St. James' Budget. 23. ( ed e, es Twen-y-thre- e left-han- e, ear-ring- TO WAR WRITERS. Sp- ed." SOME llicd. ur NOBILITY SHOWN BY BUTTONS Important Part la the Cfalaeaa Mamlarla's lrr Buttons play aa Important part in the dress of the Chinese mandarins, says an exchange. Those of the flr and second class wear a button of coral red, suggested, perhaps, by a cock's comb, since the cock is the bird that adorns their breast. The third class is gorgeous with a robe on which a peacock is emblazoned, while from the center of the red fringe of silk upon "SEE SOME'ING GUTTER. the hat ridea a sapphire button. The ions; gives them all very slowly, and purple button of the fourth class is an las to wait now and again to close his opaque, dark purple stone, and the bird yes and rest and think. Admits that depicted on the robe Is the pelican. A te gave the max at the foot of the bed. silver pheasant on the robe and a clear who is still staring at the card over button on the hat are the rank Twenty-three- 's head, the first blow; all crystal of fifth class. The sixth class is the .he same (this with a clumsy effort entitled to wear an embroidered stork o look at his hopes he'll get and a jade stone button; the seventh wung for It. "If the lor don't swing a partridge and an embossed gold butbursts in a loud aim (Twenty-thre- e ton. In the eighth the partridge is revhisper), "then the lor ought to be duced to a quail and the gold button wung. The ruddy-aaire- d becomea plain, while the ninth class And putt this dawn. nurse fans the deplorable, excit- mandarin has to be content with a common spnrrow for his emblem and ed face gently. "Say he's well-knois knlfer. Say he's got bad kerrlc-:e- r with silver for his button. for it" (The earrings at the foot the Inspector sf the bed tremble; ! the Lord'll Army. bakes his head reprovingly.) "Say Willie la a sma)l boy whose father Is all in is as there man ,'m peaceable officer and he went down to The doctor speaks sGarply, and a militia see him. While standing In Twenty-thre- e obediently calms him-;el- f. camp to There are only a few more ques-.lon- s, front of a tent a visitor stopped to Well, my little man," and It is all down at last; but speak to him. he inquired, "what army do you belong :hre is work to do when Twenty-thre- e he is much exhausted and breathes to?" I belong to the army of the Lord, ihortly revises for the press his last but my papa la only in the district jubUc deliverance. He does not change militia." New York Tribune. They Play i he child, bnt she had hardly grasped HEEDS.: hold of him when the train struck her. 6. The horrified people who witnessed the tragedy saw the aged heroine ewtn the child clear of the locomotive, while her own frail body waa broken and crushed. The boy lay beside the track, apparently dead, not fhr from the mangled body of the grandma thsi when picked up. It waa soon discovered that there waa still life In tha hoy and he was taken to the general hospital In Paterson. A fractured akull waa tbe only Injury, and tha doctors said tha boy would live. s Child from the Flames. brave fireman, William J. Schuster, crawled on his bands and kneel through flamea and siboke In a burning hallway at New York last week, and rescued a child which waa strapped in a chair. The fire waa all about tbs child when Schuster reached it, and so near that its clothing waa scorched. Three little boys left alona in J. W. Harmea' house had set It on fire. Neighbors rescued them, but they forgot the baby, and the house was full of fire Xoscaos A ot W. J. SCHUSLER. and smoke when the mother returned and by her screams gave notice of the oversight. All Halt tha Fighting Woman. We, your neighbors, congratulate you over your victory and triumph over the Burgomeister of Locust street, and we assure you of our high regard because you are a woman who knows how to take care of yourself. This was a testimonial given by admiring friends to a Brooklyn new woman who thrashed an unwelcome lover who persisted in annoying her with bis attentions and calling her names for not llrrolna Uurnvd to Death. Bessie Osborne, aged 13, saved the accepting them. The testimonial was lives of her younger brother and accompanied with flowers. The new sister, but In doing so she lost her own. woman In the case is Mrs. Lisxle Felton. but her prowess ia somewhat dimHer mother had been called to tbe residence of Attorney D. F. Patterson, 219 med by the admission she weighs 229 pounds, while William Letter, whom North avenue. Allegheny, Fa., to transshe thrashed, only weighs about 119 was so act some business. It late when she got through that she was prevailed and Is a tailor at that upon to remain over night and. having Iron I larrod by HalUtonas. I confidence in the ability of Bessie to One la justified in many cases in givmanage the house In her absence, retired with no thought of impending ing only a tentative belief to many of danger for her little onea When the the big hailstone tales over which three children retired at night the some travelers delight to spread themgas in the cooking stove was turned selves, says the St. James' Budget A out and a coal fire in the dining-roocorrespondent in Dholi, Behar, India, adjoining allowed to burn. At 4 o'clock however, sends the indutiable proof In the morning Bessie waa awakened of photographs to quite convince us by the odor of the gas. 8he hastened nd our readers of the terrible nature of to the kitchen and found that the rub- the hailstorm which occurred in his disber tube connecting the stove with the trict recently. The storm passed over pipe had been forced off by a strong the greater part of the districts of pressure, allowing the gas to eseape. and Durbungah, but It apBessie's first thought was to get her pears to have concentrated itself with sister, aged 4. and her brother, aged G? special fury over tbe indigo factory out of the building. She opened the called Dholi. Here tbe storm waa ter-- , door of the dining-rooto hasten to rifle, even for tropical regions, the hailthem. The gas from the kitchen stones weighing aa much as five ounces. rushed In and a terrific explosion fol- On &n average they were aa large. If lowed. Bessies clothing took fire, but, not larger, than cricket balls. It can endeavoring to keep the flames down be easily understood that the damage with her hands, she rushed to the bed- dona waa great Not a whole tile was room and, wrapping tbe two children to be found in the roofs, trees were upIn a blanket, carried them together rooted, birds were killed and general through the burning building to a place destruction wrought all round. What-imore astounding, the corrugated iron roofing over many of the factory buildings was riddled as If it had been shelled by a battery. We can quite imagine, aa our correspondent Informs us, that no storm like it has ever occurred In the district Hailstones have however, had the same terrific force In Africa, a sample of corrugated Iron pierced in a like manner having been recently shown in London. . . THE MONUMENT. e. be-'au- se HEROIC The tower rises un the north side HONOR TO THE MEN WHO to the height of flfiy feci, or ten feet BRAVE ACTS DONE BY MEN above the square of the structures, WROTE ITS DAILY HISTORY. AND WOMEN which Is near forty feet in height and width. A pier or gable on the south Tha Only On. In tha World It I. side is some forty-si- x feet high, and An I'nkaowD Blan Jump from Forty Krarlad In Viaw of AnUetnm and carries a gold vane of a quill passing Foot Hrtdga to Sara a Drowning FelllulU by through a broken sword. Upon the Urtlynburg Hattla-Flald- s low Ralug -- A Flramaa. Brava Act tower is a flagstaff, which reaches Papular Subarrlptluu. Af ad Harolua K LI led. feet from the the height of seventy-on- e ground. Dowels of galvanized Iron as(Gettysburg Letter.) N UNKNOWN man Y HE handsome mon- -' cend (he tower from tha rear. The Mcdived from of or thickness the center curtain it I L . ument erected as a Combs' dam bridge of flanks from eight feet memorial to the three feet, the to aix feel, tapering upward. The batthe other afternoon war correspondents tlements are strong and rude, and give and rescued Henry the great civil who was Muller, was a look of early antiquity to tha profile, which war while the color of tha body of tha In the drowning dedicated recently atone is a light gray, with lichens, Harlem river. New at Gapland., Md., York city. Muller irons, etc., lending it the variety of age. Is unique in more well up the tower, The corner-ston- e, was out rowing ways than one. It contains the date of tbe local battla with several comis the only monuthe monument 14, and September panions. When s world ment In the 1863-9them the rowboat rocked tugboat passed to the memory erected has been (hat Before the facade the road has been so violently that Muller lost his balof war correspondents and alsd the into a circular area of above ance and fell overboard, lie could opened only monument upon South Mountain a hundred feet diameter, with urned swim only a few strokes, and his comin sight of Antietam and Gettysburg of Gapland breaking the posts gate battle-field- s. panions not at all. They cried for help, of close I a 1884, at the of stone walls, which are on all while the man In the water struggled the republican partys long period in roads, and of the material of the desperately and made a feeble outcry. possess I un of the government, George the monument. The gap is only about one The crowd on tbe bridge took up the corAlfred Townsend, one of the army hundred and fifty yards wide, and In shouts for help, and just then an unand McClellan, with Pope respondents of three acres are five stone known man came scorching along tbe Grant, bought the land in Crumpton's the space one frame and residence, with numerbridge on his bicycle. He saw the Gap for a retreat and built extensive stone residences and literary offices ous adjunct buildings, the whole giving crowd, stopped and elbowed his way there and built up aleo a railroad sta- the impression of a village, convent or to the rail from where he saw the man struggling In the water. He threw off tion one mile below to the west and collegiate institution. In the rear of the monument, which his coat, seised the iron rail with both macadamized tbe entrances to the gap, hands, contracted every muscle and which became a busy hauling and shows a stern, gray castle, looking down the descent, are tablets of the then drew himself over like a frog. The .Tossing place. The villages of Burkdiver wai doubled up. but it was only etts ville, Brownsville and Rohrersville, correspondents and artists and of livnumbering 1,000 Inhabitants, are be- ing persoiis railed to the directory who for an Instant. He threw his hands in neath the gap. The monument was put were selected to represent the guild or before his head touched the water, and then kicked hia lege out straight. It up of the rude, hard mountain stone corporation. dive. Young Muller At the south end of the monument is ass a forty-fowith dressed archways and belts, tbe had gone under twice and disappeared for the third time just as tbe brave unknown was within a mans length of him. The rescuer disappeared beneath the surface and appeared again, with the drowning man supported on his left arm. The crowd cheered and yelled. The men in the boat were pulling the oars, but to no avail. Another boat finally put out and rescued both t(ie stranger and Muller. It was an hour before Muller recovered, and he was taken to Manhattan hospital and then home. Dripping wet, the rescuer jumped on his bicycle end rode at breakneck speed down Seventh avenue. He refused to give his name, apparently from reasons of modesty. ruddy-h- vis-a-vi- NO. 6. AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, SATURDAY. JANUARY 10, KBIT. VOL IV. a genesis or biography or army 'chronstanding on iclers. from Thucydides to 8tanley and :hree feet of concrete and seven feet McGaban. At the north end la a stateaf underground masonry. Tbe summent of the motive of the monument mit width of the mountain at that and a part of a stanza from the Army point is hardly 200 feet, and the plat- Correspondents' ballad below, beginform of the mountain had to be filled ning: put with 500 cubic yards of stone and O wondrous ruth. garth filling, revetted by dry walla. The structure stands upon an artifiand Four roads ascend into the gap cial and is surrounded with mite in one short road across the sum- Iron terrace, and chain. The contract posts mit. Between two of these roads the was $1,400. all the material supmonument stands, the gap ravelling price The hauling of by the plied lown for a quarter of a mile and open- materials cost society. The dressed stone $j0u. woods to the between out east, and tablets and the ing of lettera carving woods whole laid in cement and ind between these promontory :he valley of Middletown or Catoctln, sight miles wide and eighteen miles long, hangs like a veil, its mountain boundary making a wavy zone through the large arch of the monument and upon its flanks. The towns of Middle-tow- n and Jefferson, the National or Cumberland Road and the Iotomac Gap at Point of Rocks are also seen through the aerial arch. The memorial of the army correspondents Is a section of a wall like a portal with a tower and pier, resembling one of the gatee of the Alhambra. It has a horseshoe arch on the ground of sixteen feet height and span, made of brownish red Uummelstown stone. The shape of the arch gives the otherwise solid structure an Instep or bow peculiarly light and graceful. Three Raman-Gotharches above give a hearler Romanesque trinity of expression and are of gray limestone. All tha four arches reveal the scene and sky, as the edifice has no interior, being a facade, like the front of some cathedral altered from the Arabian and left standing like an admired fragment. The great arch typifies the horseshoe on which the correspondent sited to his work; the upper arches express' narration, picture and photograph. Abreast of the upper arches In an alcove is a white figure of Orpheus playing s pipe of Pan and idling with a sword. In the flanking spaces of the arch are heads of Poetry and Mercury in terra cotta, paneled In carved brick, with Acanthus borders. Two heads of horses In similar panels are above the upper arches. A panel of rose brick runs across the the monument, with the carved letters War Correspondents, executed by the decorative sculptor, James T. Earley. Below the C symbolic heads are stone shields, the gold letters on their bands of ic car-rrtt- cost near $14,00. Materials cost $800, besides freight, grading, fares, professional services, printing, engraving, ar- tisans, etc. On the north end of .the monument the tablet: To the Army Corre Whose spondents sod Artists. 1861-6Tolls Cheered the ('amps. Thrilled the Flreelde, Educated Provinces of Rustics Into s Bright Nation of Readers and Cave Incentive to Narrate Distant Wars and Explore Dark Iands. Erected by subscription, 1896. 5, He JsMtrnrd HorarihlNfa m re m s What did my little boy learn at asked Mrs. Bir8unday school mingham of Benny, when he came In with bis lesson paper and reward card. I learned that in the olden timea replied Benthey had stone few-es- , ny. How did you learn that? Because in the lesson there was a ? verse about a stone of stumbling and BESSIE OSBORNE. a rock of a fence. Pittsburg Chroniof aafety on the sidewalk. Then she cle. dropped from exhaustion, and was carried to tbe home of s neighbor, Mountains of Iran Ora. The world contains at Icaat four where she died. Tbe other rhiidren esmountains composed of almost solid caped with a few slight burns. The Iron ore. One is the Iron Mountain of for ei of the explosion was so great that Missouri, another Is in Mexico, another the walls of the building were bulged In India, and a fourth In that region nut and it almost collapsed. The buildof Africa explored by Stanley, and ing took fire, but the flames were soon there have been reports of such a moun- extinguished. Mrs. Osborne is prostrated by the awful happening. tain existing in Siberia. A I'mtllile Indian Army. A writer In the Fortnightly Review says that if the Prussian conscription were applied in India we should have 2,500,000 regular soldiers actually in barracks, with 800,000 recruits coming up every year a force with which not only Asia, but the world, might be Killed While Raving Life. At Hawthorne, N. J., the other day, Mrs. Emma Peterman, 60 years old, lest her life in an attempt to save that of her baby grandson. The lad waa on the trarks of the Susquehanna road sod the aged woman saw the train inundating down on him. She rushed to Alligators Tarcaty root Long. Alligators were formerly one of the chief animal life tenants of Red river and the bayous of Louisiana, where, before steamboat navigation came to interrupt them, they could be seen by hundreds huddled together on the banks, or massed on the floating or logs especially of Red stationary river-waki- ng the solitudes of tha forest with their bull-lik- e bellowlngs. Their length was generally between eight and twelve feet, although they sometimes grew to be twenty feet long. Their hides were ones used extensively fur the making of shoes, but the leather, not proving of sufficiently dose texture to keep water out, sboemaklng from this material was abandoned.: New Orleans Picayune. The most utterly lost of all daya la In which you have not once laughed. Chamfort that The number of patent medicine It not so great as might be supposed, them being only 1,332 in the reports. |