Show 'EMERY STEAMER county progress EC BAIWEE riMUn - CABTLE DALE UTAH UTAH STATE NEWS Edi-nto- n A water famine Is feared In Sail Lake City if the present cold weather continues A number of sportsmen of Lehl were last week arrested and lined for shooting quaiL The Black Hash war veterans hare twenty-tw- o organized a post at Ia-h-l members being enrolled Mrs Elizabeth Treaeder of Salt Lake City last week roughed so hard that she broke one of her ribs Frank J Cannon who it wu feared would not sunrire an operation for appendicitis is rapidly recovering The report comes from Deseret that sheep are dying by the hundreds on the desert from the severe cold weather The Pleasant Grove meeting house was destroyed by lire last week The building had just been finished at a cost of 15000 A plan is on foot to tear down the Kenyon hotel building in Salt lake City and erect a million dollar build-lu-g os the site The Arizona legislature has denied the request of Utah's delegation relative to the proposed cession of a atrip of northern Arizona to Utah Hay Is very scarce in toe southern portion of Sevelr county nud In Piute and Wayne counties and the price per ton is rapidly soaring upward The Atlas and Central blocks in Salt Lake City which were destroyed by Are last veek entailing a toes of about ftSOOuO will be rebuilt Quite a number of farmers of Charleston bare signed contracts to raise beets and about 1)0 acres will be planted In that vicinity next season A picked ten from Mt Pleasant's crack gun club was defeated last week In a rabbit bunt by ten sports from Falrvlew the score being 217 to 232 William Burdlstal of Price who hit Wallace Naylor over the head with a hammer Inflicting fatal Injuries las been convicted of Involuntary man slaughter Salt Lake County Is to have Its first canning factory within the present it will be located at Draper year s and will be a large plant throughout The overland flyer struck a broken rail near Echo on the 3th and was (Itched the entire train of seven cars being derailed but strange to say a soul was hurt A number of the farmers of Santa u!n have derided to raise sugar beets This branch of farming has never been tried In that vicinity as yet but It Is believed the scheme will prove a winaF-imce flrst-clas- ter Fhlneas Ilowe Young the youngest son of the late lirlgham Young died In Salt Lake City Sunday night Mr Young was 41 years of age and was the eon of Brigham and Harriet Ran ney Young Annie Peterson tgrd 11 was so badly frostbitten while walking to school In Salt Lake City on morning last week that she fell fainting when she reached the school house and is now under the doctor s care The report of the city sexton id Is Interesting In that it shows that the death rate In that town for the past year was less Ihsu nine per thou sand The principal can of death were old age and pneumonia The officials of the Mormon church have received the news from the Society Islands that two niixlouarips from Salt lake had arrived there from Tuamatu where they had w narrow escape from the recent terribb flood ia which a thousand people weie drowned J 4 j The election to Isind Kprlngvllle for (30000 to put In an electric light plant reiulted in a vkfory for the electric light people by a vote of Itt for to (7 against The plant will b put In next summer The bonds will be issued Immediately Charles and Joseph Hill half breed Indians became Involved In a over a woman Khrali:i when Joe used a porkt knife upon bis brother Inflicting a number of wound none of which hnui-vr fatal Both are now In Jail at Maitl and Eva Curt! Minerva tap old gifls lmai' of the re r ll-i- -il form huol bee lviud have over the dfrtiht court to sisoir to a charge of arson for hang ma le an attempt to burn the state I1 ju1nsl school on the night of libiuer 2 Thomas M McCone a piomliint sheepman of Nepii - ipiied to havs met with foul play n New Mexico and bis family and arc i u uno-- l (n rns-teiusing every Mr M'Tiine has 11 been heard from slma the litn 01 Jm'iaiy and all efforts to I'sat" him pi oven futile n the of It la claimed a plm to n flcls's ef !' Wat In! iial i bool at ftg'b-has been It seems Sonin of the gills g"t hold of a quantity of (orrmdve sublimate and had Intend'd placing it in tha coffee but the p'au a divovcitd In time to prevetd If a tv-ai- t ion The gross esrrlngx of the lienvsr k Rio Uraude for tho six liMU'lhs (ruling Iwceinber 31 IV'2 were iIxo Shf as against '1 1 125 fur the phiihi piulbs In lie'l showing an im-rof $131 172 The kll inofi'hft In rt H4 y( 1 frl'-nd- s cil-ir- Vesael Gees to tha Bottom and Sev teen Uvea Are Lest A dispatch from Norfolk Ya says: A tornado struck the passenger steamer Olive which plies between Franklin Ya and N C y 1 t'W-- l 1 Tuesday night and sent her to the bottom of the Chowan river oft Wood-ley'- s Pleasant pier- - between Mouut and Oliver's wharf Seventeen per sons are known to have been drowned and others who were rescued are In a serious condition The storm when tt struck the Olive mused her to go over on her beam ends and when she righted it was only to nink on acronnt of the water ha had taken A majority of the passenger and crew were below at the time and had no opporl unity to reach the pilot house of the vessel This point was the (inly portion left above water and in it standing waist deep from the time of the accident until t o'clock inthe morning Captain Georgs Wlthey and Are others were saved The vessel bad almost reached Its destination when the tornado struck It THE PANAMA Republicans TREATY CANAL Will Havs Ssnats elder Document Ik-ar- — MAY RESIGN MOODY si II peculiar B'lldcnt ii'rr-hom tf f "Hi gs 11 os '1 g in iirit' t last week The tne wa'r d 111 Jack! ItU p'4 LiU ssrli IriipiiF froxtn ftnd tk mux til th ti n ' 11 tfmn ivifitj Is it ii ir iiitilii u it asplomoa tui'iwel toeass of ta he In w r ( king iii) in three The German newspapers generally hare little to aay about the Venezuelan settlement Those which reflect the government's views affirm that Germany cornea out of tha affair measurably well Inasmuch aa she obtains at the end of the negotiations all she asked for at the beginning The papers which are Important of official Influence notably the exponents and certain papers of reaction ary tendencies aay that the only power which has come out of the affair with heightened prestige la the United States that none of theEuropean pow era ha strengthened lu position and that the two great powers have been standing In the eyes ot the world for two months In a deferential attitude toward the United States practically asking permission to coerce an Impotent state n Currency ef Islands Passes the Senate The Philippine currency hill paaaed by the aenate prescribe that the unit of value In the Philippines dhall be the gold peso of 123 grains of gold line said gold peso to become the unit of vsine when the gov eminent In the Philippines ehall have coined and ready for circulation not leas than 5300000 of the silver perns provided for In the bill The gold coins of the United 8tates at tha rata of one dollar for two peso shall be legal tender In the Islands The bill also provides fur an addltonal coinage of 75000000 silver coins of the denomloa tlon of 1 peso which shall be legal tender except where provided by contract Coins of tha denomination of 50 centavos 20 centavos and of 10 cen tavoa also are provided for all inch mins to be under tbs authority of the government of the Philippine Islands In such amounts ns It may determine with tha approval of tha secretary of war Tha bill also provides for ths laaue of certiorates of Indebtedness to maintain the parity of the silver and gold pesos such certiorates at any time to be limited to $10000300 or 20000000 peso The Mexican dollar and tha Hpnnlsh coins heretofore used shall be receivable for public dues at a rat to bn flxed from time to time by the civil governor of the Islands preference however being given to the Philippine The option in coins and certiorates given for the coinage of the nilv pesos either In Manila or any mint In the United Staten which coins shall bear Inacrtptlona or devices expressing the sovereignty of tha United Staten Bill Regulating nine-tent- ra throe-fourth- dla-lan- l f VI I 4 Ike lioiisc Inet $351 Wabaih Causing Trouble for Inhabit ants ef Vincennes Dispatches to the lndins’lls News aay that a serious flood Is threatened In DHilhcrii and western Indiana The foir iliys pievii'is I" ltd I an al'ena iu-- i A I '4 n iii h'4 labln' ! I wi'j heavy rains of Saturday and Sunday n: lie laiiiis that he have started the M'shanti river on a n: ! E't'-'Vl "I lie WM t I J l k"il liefer'rampage and there Is fear that one of d a he did why io- - had worst floods lu year will occur In the 11 (ore i'vlig himself up he said Pint ii :1 Al (he Wl'Hthei Was Hi ti" deS'l the vicinity of Vincennes The terrl mao Wniil keep lilitil he hi' f Ifliv tvl lory known a the Kmberraa bottoma was a slc p me to (own covered Tayloravlile a town of 2w In liihahltani ha been hooded and aev hi wu uni Mi'l-lai14 I for Ike I’ ll ISlilil'g evgl famltlea hate had lo move out I illo'itieS This Dog Has a Oold Tooth for Chinese Rebels A feat wan accomplished at Foil and p'iiu-- l ibiim were Kit never before at 'i icilsy on riosteamer Vtlle Pi rue fitly n'K-- r Iii dentistry the operation tempted -I i t will a tier Sulciidivy is 'I w'ip of a bulldog's of the shaving ronalktlng but Pie (ifp-ii- t tii'Ci Sin K’ 01 is1 11 ths stump lindh hroLea and capping a p tap rcii- of Ann ii an msnu with gold The owner of tho dog Is W it Pu y icil'd ni ? lie sejeil The II Mycra of Philadelphia who la Ihe ' of In in v niu ' I lo lie i i" In '1 il 'i giir-- i of John Boiii b a banker Heveral f I III la I 11 rl lay ago the dug while gnawing a P " of Ike iiie i p hmkt off one of his king ee(b Ihiih I wi iv hint' "In Itoii l f'kljes Mr Pu- sleear I Myers iet la the only dug in tha ( inleUd-eworld that has a guld lith of lle Jhiiie llnipu-- l lln-jfor a rnu In su a Cenfcsstd to Killing a Man W It Maiklmm lame (treat Kails Ml tit Tiiesdsv and rive trim l Msaid that vi'l op to tie iii - sh'-rif- I I - I"! nd:-i"o- 1 v - i iir in 1 'If I ltv 11 1 i States Secretary of the Navy Suffering From Injuries Received In Runaway The physlrlan who has been attending Secretary Moody aver since he was Injured In the runaway accident at Annapolis has told Mr Moody that ha will have to do one of two things If He ha wants to regain his health must have romplcte physical and mental rest for several months If he cannot do that he must get out of the cabinet While the accident seemed of no consequence at the time ever since then Mr Moody has had a bad case of "nervea" The shock affected him au much that be has almost lost South Is StormswspL control of his nervous system The snow and nlaet combined In Rain secretary hojies to taku the long rest many places with high winds are tha as soon as congress adjourns prevailing rondltlona throughout ths Smoke Plus Thrse-quartsof a Mile south Railroad traffic la delayed while In a tuunlmr of cities tha street Long Work has been commenced by tha railway travel Is almost at a standstill WnihiMi Copper cominy at Anaconda Reports from Tennessee Arkansas Alabama Muut on the construction of a smoke Mississippi northern Texas nil parts of Kentucky tell and Georgia of a mile In of s flue to be damage done by the blizzard of swollen stream and Differing on tha length and which will be the meau of conveying the smoke from the tart of man and beast of traffic of all delayed and In noma Instances smeller to t slack which will stand kinds hiss of life is' reported Suo feet above the highest peak on the rauge of mountains Just south cf Bulgaria Warned by Sublime Ports the smellers The flue and smokestack In a recent note to Bulgarin Turkey will unit the Washoe company about declined to accept the Bulgarian gov $500000 and will be the largest went ernmenfs declaration to the of the Mississippi river The construe-- I of revolutionary band In Maceion of this alack is the result of the donia and warn Bulgaria that explicit in met ion have bnca sent to tha claim mads by the Ivor laidge farmtha dis-tu- r ers that the smelter smoke baa been Turkish authorities to prevent note I regarded ax Thl hence ilaiuaglug their land and Injuring the being intended to justify Turkey’s milfeed itary Dtivily Drank Carbolic Acid FH Dawn a Well H A Allen met death In a deep well While suffciing from an attack of on tha T A Wright place near Woodtemporary insanity occasioned by fre quest and prolonged flti of melas land park Seattle He fell from the holla M Theresa Beebe agnd 53 top to the bottom uf the well a feet and M he fell of sixty-nin- e of Seattle committed suicide years by swallow lug the content of a bottle his head struck obstructions causing of artsdli a id To accomplish her Injuries which resulted in death two woman lett the horns of hours later He was going beneath purpose il her daughter in thla city Monday this surface to leara the nature of tbo evening aud went to the entrance of earth ns he had the digging of a well Her tsaly In prospect on his own place not far the lAschl park pavilion was found lying pome on th“ steps of away He had but started on tha de the pavilion ly anxious relatives to scent when tha nips broke and ha fell the morning downward Defective Flue Starts Colorado Miner a Strike Ftre in tne National Capital The miners employed at tha Little Some cxiticment wns mused In the Mattie mine and the Big Fire tunnel at house ef lepreseMntiVc Jut before Idaho Springs Colo have been railed Pin lsly r niiir'ic-- Tucday by the out These with the 175 from tha I Sun and Moon mine who went out a sioveiy of a l!ghl Ida" in the flooring of the reserved galierv The floor couple of weeks ago make nearly 400 I" The bad lioi'i H'l Ige - from a llefec-ti- e uun on atrtke In thla district I 1 fl'ie !i P 1::4 !iru- - cloak union officials declare that the Shatter alsiuf flf mine employees will be called out at irid w I i'll 'll ' ii- and that before tha and of tha ! fl'4l 4 I Ihe it all's' Tha once I'd week 1 mm men In Clear Creek county and Ihe hicill-- will lie out The men are lighting for evlini(ii:i'-01II: led lio 1111 1'UVrliieiire wlltlh a minimum male of $275 Instead of - A Ballavs That tha Only Powsr Which Cams Out of tha Affair With Haight snad Prestige la tha Unitad MONEY FOR FILIPINOS -- m THEY GOT WHAT THEY WANTED FROM VENE ZUELA Con The Republican senators held a cau-cs- s Tuesday and derided to have tha senate continue consideration of ths Panama canal treaty in future until the treaty shall be disposed of This result was reached after an hour and a hair discussion of the legislative situation In the senate The conclusion reached was unanimous Tha un demanding la that the statehood bill does not lose Its advantageous position In the order of business when the sonata Is not In executive session Ths Republican supporters of the statehood bill agree not to antagonize a motion for an executive aesslon to conalder the canal treaty nor to make any objection to the prolongation of such sessions to any extent uecemaiy to secure rat I t in 0 FEEL THAT - f i wi-i- d luck tha stream of water drearitq them both so that their garment! DEATH ENDS SLEIGH RIDE GERMANY SLTISFIED STRUCK BY TORNADO rMMSSS®SSSMSSS®S5S5SS9 Train Crashes Into Sleigh Occupied by Tan Salt Laknra Tan young Salt Lakers warn out alelghridlng Snnday night when ths sleigh wns struck by a Rio Grand train one of the occupants of tha aleigh being killed and all the rest of tha party Injured while one at least of tha Injured llee at death's door Psarl Qualls 17 years old wan ths one to meet death She waa sitting on the driver’! aeat with A Holm and the pilot of the heavy engine struck the elelgh precisely at the plats when ha wan Bitting She died within a few minutes after having been picked u) and placed on tha train Holm who wu also on the driver's seat hand Ung the relne wan the moat severely Injured of the party it la thought h la Internally injured aud bln condition la serious The eight who were leas seriously Injured wen sitting in the rear portion of the elelgh and had covered them selves with robes and qulltn In order to keep warm 'The merry crowd wu bowling along at a lively rata when they cama to the railway rroaslng Tha driver saw the approaching train and attempted to stop his team The team berime frightened however and dashed forward tha engine striking the aleigh throwing the occupants In all directions and completely demolish tag the sleigh The train waa stopped and the dead and Injured placed on board a quick run being made bark to town and tha injured taken to the hoa pltaL Wreck on Southern Pacific Southern Paclflc train waa wrecked near Wlnnnnucra Nv Sun day tho train striking a broken rail on a curve while running at the rate of sixty miles an hour The engine baggage and mall ran passed the dangerous spot In safety hut every other car of th train diner three sleepers and observation car— left tho track Tbo last two did not drop from tha embankment on which the tracks run at the point of the accident The others tore down the steep Incline ploughed through tha deep anuw and were scattered promiscuously along the track for a distance of several hundred feet Tho heavy sleeper were only partly turned over but the composite car and diner which were Aral to leave tho track were thrown on their aides at tight angles with the track and separated from each other by nearly fifty feet Two people were seriously Injured and several others sustained slight Injuries Macedonians Want Autonomy A rumor that had been current in Vienne for aeverM days to tha effect that owing to the difficulty of obtain Ing the consent of tha other powers or n for other reasons tha damnnJa of reforms In Macedonia havs been greatly attenuated since Count Lamsdorff drafted them Is practically confirmed by the official Frcmdenblatt which statea the demand! art earn fully framed no aa not to overstep the limits prescribed by respect of the sul ten’s snxeraln rights and that being confined to relatively modest bounds they nr most likely to attain ths and than If they went more pretentious They will no however soya the official organ succeed If Macedonia In made tha theatre of a guerrilla war It ia regarded an certain that then half reforms will not satisfy the Mace donlan revolutionary party which complete autonomy A six-fo- Austro-Hungaria- de-sir- EARTHQUAKE A IN MEXICO Number cf Cities and Towns Destroyed The state of Guerrero Mexico eon tlnuex to report many and somewhat alarming earthquakes Chllpanclngo which two yean ago waa almost da strayed by aa earthquake now reports another which threw down houses as alao happened In the towns of CJiHapa Agues Blancas San Diego and MexL cals Underground roarings and rum-bllnwere heard generally frighten Ing the people TURKISH MISRULE Meeting Held In Pari In Cennsctlxn With Macedonian Revolution A meeting of 4004 persons presided over by Baron Constant D'Katournellci and supported by the presence of ot letter of sympathy from numerous prominent men wsh held Sunday In Paris In eonnsctlnn wltn the Macednn Inn situation A resolution was adopt od calling on the government to work energetically to procure tbs enforce moot of ths Iterlln treaty and to put an and to Turkish misrule In Mac donla Venezuelans Rejoice Over Raising al Blockade Thera Is great rejoicing among at classes at Wlllrmatxd Venezuela al thn and of the htnrkad Many sailing vessels that are lying In Ihln port with mrfn wlp cargoes for YenezueJan leava at once A great amount of coffee Is awaiting transportation from Venezuela to the United Staten No on apparently is mori glad at th thsn those on raising of the bloeks-lboard the blockading squadron Regard America as a Rival Tbs German mlnlidcr of commerra Moeller In the enure (if an address to ths Hanover chamber of commerce said “Th Unit'd Stale will be (ter many's chief mmpetltnr In th sorld's markets Int h future We must them fore learn from th Americana and adopt their business niethids the most marked fixture f wlli h I the cuncen trstlon of capital and trade Into trusts The strong grawe of istdlsi In 1 i ihii li rondilnatlon Oerniexy sxl-- it will certainly lie rep! rd In lime hy a v after the evils better xlc nd! ate hat of the been reunited Murdsrsd His Wife md Thsn Attempt ad Suicide Samuel Keeli-- r of Hamlliim O killed his alfe aged 3‘t and then cut hln own Ihroal When Mb daughtei arose to build the tin he sent hei bark lo bed then bil ked Ihe dour if bin bed h a taunnet osiin ai d 11 Killed In site ! :sil imiUlntlng II- - th her body nh a a' cut his throat lie uia li OUT tl Keeler lu visit her sister expressed lbs U Vsrmvbi which misi'd Keeler 11 V dli the gallant membera of tb Parisian fire department who hi4 dragged their hoae np the etairs is order to light the fire demon In bla lair were doubtless amazed to suddenly see a dripping figure without a coal and Carrying a muffled burden la hi arms come staggering out of the flames toward them At least they were now safe or The Witch of Monte Curio A ROMANCE OF THE RIVIERA lly st Ceorye Rathltorue ' “!'" Author ef “Dr Jerk" "Mut Wine Xafarr’’ ‘‘Mix t’npniV" "Tkt Hpitltr MVS" Smith Sew York Copyrshl tsu by Street sad ill Ale nf Down below Merrick found n great crowd gathered— It was about settled that tbe hotel would be saved so that men who had been frantic with frigat tion that bad been weighing him above began to laugh and joke ever demanded down— when necessity their unbecorainp attire and tell of lh prompt movrment he would be found numberlraa lives they had saved by In the van shouting the alarm so bravely— it He snatched the door open astonishing how many unrecognized Some smoke drifted in promptly— heroes there are In thla world Merrick at least there was good evidence to quits exhausted handed bin burden to n large man who bustled prove the presence of lire InAll the while pandemonium was around an though he were a physician creasing shrieks and shrill French The indy hail quietly tainted during with gruffer that taut rush Into the Are exclamations joining male voices In a mad chorus He did not think tt even worth hi "Come ” said Merrick "this looks while to look nt her face hut thl serious 1 shall have to take a hand In could be excused when fain condition the game” wu taken Into consideration He was very cool perhaps because "Kindly bring me my coat again" be wu brave and sensible and bad wu all he uld he fell Into a chair fought for hla very life with the lire By degrees h recovered hie breath demon ere now and began to feel something like himThe holocaust of a previous year self when thn phynldan once more apwhen score of Parisian society leadpeared with ble coat which became Baer perished In the awful Charity necessary In the frosty night air zaar conflagration wu fresh lu the Merrick went outside to obserrt minds of these frightened people and the ncene from that quarter where added to their terror excitement still reigned Merrick ealmly locked Jones' apartAnd at thla very moment In ths ment and put ths key In his pocket room where the refugee! were quarThe smoke wu becoming thicker tered Little Mixs Million seated upun and figure after figure went lurching the floor like an rutern princess aland plunging toward the stain where beit n udly bedraggled one wu pcarlble ufety lay looking eagerly at a knotted cambric Merrick could euily have made hla handkerchief she held and preulng to escape but somehow thla thought did her Ups that portion where In a delinot seem to have presented Itself to cate red scroll enuld be plainly traced him while there were still others In ths name of Mark Merrick! (To be continued) danger Some heroic souls at such times always think for thou whom fright UAINT AND CURIOUS HAPPENINGS!) hu rendered Incapable of using their own bslrns— a fact that does human Odd Tblag Xotsd la Yarloas Farts al nature credit th World He entered upon a systematic exSoutherners who do not live in ths amination of each room and managed long-lepine country like to havn ths to atari several upon the road to scent of the pines about their person therefore they wear n piece of pins ufoty It wu a work that just suited hln root In their pocketn Once In n whits nature— he delighted In chesting the they bite off a cliew and masticate It fire demon out of his contemplated they do tobacco Many regard It victims for he and the monster were n panacea To sleep on a bed of dried old enemies pine needles Is better than nil mediRapidly then he made the tour of cine for rheumatism and kindred ailments room un the floor and left not In tha lut twenty years the hotel searched This had taken time and tha smoko buslueu In tbe south has drifted Into had gathered In almost suffocating northern hands Reference la had clouds so that Merrick on his way to particularly to resort hotels having n the stairs ran xlgxng across the hall come under ths management of tourihtn demanded Northern ths In order that ha might bark and forth not nilu any unfortunate ona who change Petrified tropical fruits have been should have sunk down overpowered found In coal from Spitsbergen ths thn fumes by choking That wu a happy thought au In- island group In the Arctic ocean midspiration burn of genius and all hla way between Greenland and Nova life Mark Merrick found cause to Zambia The German law forblda teachers bleu the moment In which he had In the school to pull the urn of their conceived such a muter stroke For he had not covered more than pupils Many cues of deafness havs half the dlstnnra when he came upon resulted from such punishment The Boston Journal reports Its disone such unfortunate lying In a hup covery of 818 couples In New England and almost helpless It wu Impussiblbe to see but Mer- still enjoying married life after fifty years or more of IL rick put down his hands and ImmediBrasilian carbon which la worth ately felt the face and long hair of about $45 per karat or about four a woman She Immediately caught hold of times the value of ordinary diamond la used In drilling some of tha gold him and endeavored to gain her feet mines In South Africa but wu too weak 'Tan yon walk?” he shouted In French HAD FUN WITH AUTOGRAPH FIENDS "Alas! 1 have sprained my ankle I fear” came the reply close to his Mialatar Wa VanpIlM with Kaqiut af ear Club Maabart Lab Merrick did not hesitate The Iitoa club of New York hu He knew there was only one way to get her to a place of ufery and long had ths custom of giving dinners In honor of distinguished man At that wa by carrying her alSo without a word of apology he such gathering ths menu card Is elaborate and characteristic It suddenly swept her up in his arms ways and wu thankful to discover that she usually contains drawings Illustrative eventurned out to be rather dlmluullve In of ths career of the guest of ths ing and form a souvenir which most size--a woman of perhaps a hundred of ths company treasure To enhance pounds "Put your arras around my neek" their value many uf the members ask the man whom ihe club Is entertainbe said ing to write his name on thslr cards The noise below was still fearful but she heard him evidently fur she says the New Yoik Tribune Such requests are naturally granted obeyed without hesitation It chanced that after tbs slags of Thus he proceeded toward the stairPekin the laitoa club gave a dinner way for ths (Jhluese mlnls-tr- i Apparently they were the last one st Washington Of course the auon that floor all the others having made good their escape tograph seekers kept him busy betwees An unpleasant surprise They were unanimous is awaited courses SevMerrick for upon reaching the stair- asking him to write In Chinese way he found that th Are wu there eral of them later In the evening were comparing his signatures ss they head of him Roms men would have been demoraappeared on their menu cards Unlized hut with him opposition only familiar as they were with tbe Chiserved to arouse new thoughts and nese script they could sea that ths Plans characters were not the same Just He remembered there was a second then Chow Tx Chi tho Chinese run-scams up and ha was at ones asked p stairway used hy Ihe domestics this might offer him ths safety what the writing meant the first refused Mr Chow hesitated a moment and to he turned and mod for it as then gravely read thcae “autographs" ss foilows only a desperate man could do "Save yourself monsieur” cried the ‘‘What a funny red nosed man!" one whom h clasped In his arms no "How short aud tat you are!'' douht fearing lent In endeavoring to “An amusing bald headed fellow!" rescue her he would be lost hilt Merrick never dreamed of au has an acAs Bapraaslva lMufl pitas tion -- since fortune had thus thrown Is the Isle of bulls It If them together on would not (wane alipi tbs home uf happy phrases Ia Without the other ' So down the narrow stairway they no other country have the uneducated In went ho'ie gaining new ground In his such an ability to express much words-a- ml ibis notwithstanding soul though Ihe smoke wsh Just as few that other gift uf fluency that makes dense her a elsewhere He could hrar Ihe flemen now an 1 them voluminous as well as picturwith their coming a rhan e arose that esque In Miii'li Canon Siavclcy Iii a recent artlcli the building in glit yet e saved Without warning tie found further chiefly dev oied to the sayings fit Irish has given Dims quotation progresM rut off hy a midden burst of clerk from the comment of thslr parishionflamra below ers lie r laic that two old wnmes Ts retreat wa to Invite disaster and Mcrrb k a man who knew wms ovchKirri n'liin king on Csnoa what It waa to tiikr tirroh- lili'UN'irex Ikigot a ulgnlfled gentleman of lu prcMsive perron a ha descended lb when mu rounded bv peril Releasing I 4 b'lfitin fur g uioinenl steps of ths Synod hall ' lliildy” queried one "who's that tetlida h in lseii be (UHf month then n'ltped n:f hi mil and fastened big glhlli'iiiali " !l "Arrah Molly” a a tbs reply “S'lr ":l her head as ha could IKi'l r 11" iImi'h non other than 1'annn BagL n I w hand ini lo do do i'll duly mm-- eye and Iwn't lie the inlghly folns glnPe-11- 1 a entolrely Ivery button OB hi mailing Willi the lfoke were uf no SVHI cost doing its July?" II" d d not I gn the ilmti without "I"" I'v-r- i - hi dgim-n- l In the prem Mbv flit ItlUN'l lalMfer the nun j had started Mrs June -- “Just think of It! t(l : ttit" water 'uw and it wa hi fellow cams In and actually sir ' y this b"p" to piolll I'M V right off Ilia manileplere If ) Il4 Ag II 4llll tilllden Ml Mi lirowii "Aad yoir dog in k Min'iii'i I lb very same ronin" plunge It W44 all i 0 t Mi June - Yes hut Inal In running e he had louiit Kidy i onlv a iib il il ge g know" j i S9SSSSS$S$S5$SSSSS9SSSMS$ (HAPTKK III— (Caallaaad) Merrick merely raised his eyebrows "I havs heard all men are when Of they find themselves under the gate : the Princess Olgavitcb" She frowned and than laughed “Ah! surely not you monsieur not you But the danger of which I speak la genuine It springs from countryman of mine and his friend the great and bold Count Leon Yillebois They have a trap of some sort set for you should you threaten to win In the They are mrn game you are playing without any regard for the law or right Stromboloff Is a Cossack of the Don whose peculiar habits ding to him even In Parla while the other has lived so long amid wild border Denes in Africa that be has learned to take what ha wants when the mood eomes on So you will see that they make a dangerous combination and they seem to hate your friend espe- u cially" for 'A thousand thanks princess your warning and on your part pray believe that we era not ungrateful for your kindness because we have already been placed on our guard ' Ha showed s desire to break away Though evidently piqued more or less by her Inability to fascinate him ths clever woman knew how to play her cards too well to think ot precipi- tating matters "I hope we shall meet again monsieur when perhaps you will be able to give ms a little more time" she aid archly holding out her hand to him "That will be a pleasure I shall look forward to" he replied gallantly aa he pressed her hand nor did tha princess fall to return the squeeze Yet when he passed from her sight Mark Merrick gave ths beautiful woman no further thought nor did he dream that their Interview had been Intently observed by a demurs little figure seated In a window at the for end of the parlor a figure that bore' more or less resemblance to the South African heiress who had attracted his attention and caused memories to throng his mind as he surveyed her through thn glass that same morning in tha Boll de Boulogne Merrick went straight to ths room which hln companion occupied No sooner had ha entered however than ha saw there was something wrong for Jones had a look of disgust upon his foes "More trouble my dear boy” he said with a poor excuse of a grin "tha Joneses ain't used to much I'll admit but this Is pretty rough treatment even for them After all our work this Is thn barren result" Ho held up the open packet 10 that Mark could tee what It contained— a sheet of paper well crumpled and soiled yet a sheet of paper upon which not a single stroke or pen or pencil could bn discovered That wu all! Somehow the comical side of the matter presented Itself to Merrick an I for th life of him he could not racist smiling Are ths best And "But— there Is no system— at least died with the man who broke ths bank" said Merrick Mixing ths paper and examining It carefully Then ha was struck with tha been expression of his companion's face "What! you still havs faith?" ha demanded "Well It dies hard with me I am about to order a rah and go back" ' "To the monastery 7" "To Father Anseisio” "Ah! you suspect him?' “Not of having intentionally deceived me but of having mad a mistake See here on the outside of the packet Is a rough cross Some one put that there In order to remember a trua from a fole Perhaps the dummy was arranged in order to meet soma possible emergency such as theft" "Unless you object I should like you to occupy my chair and amok my cigars until I take the turn around of an hour and Given 1 snail be tuc k unless I am detained unusually long at the other end” Merrick thought h noticed a meaning back of hie word and was quick to say so "You expect company here?" "Well It Is always possible Those fellows ar not built on ths order of quitters We shall sea morn of them sooner or Isn-- r perhaps the former" Merrick dropped into an easy chair with hi fare toward the door he opened ths cigar box and selected weed which h lighted then from Mi pocket he drew a little piece of itee mechanism which h laid upon thtable hesld him Merrick sat and smoked and pondered Perhaps a panorama of th stirring events that had marked his career In South Africa floaied I for his mental vision for lie smiled several times though his face finally clouded over end s long sigh forced I (self from hln three-quarte- - lips The last seen might have been a trsgedv that bronghl twin rather thin pleasure At any rate Merrick jumped up and begun to walk the floor Tiring 0f tramping back and forward he again dropped Into a chair So visitors yr and sluiort half an hour had claps d why J"ii mur be on took sod wool I Min show up either rxullsrit or dcapoudcnl Ills cogitation wey lina" ruptsd hy loud slid ex itwl Void-from th I'oiiMor Could till have aught ( tbs sntli ipstfii coming of n for Whoin Jones looked' If the muni Slid his islible bad Invad'd the hotel Li were sesritlng for him ihy r would no doubt him lu tune Just When he bad Oiufd f 11 some one ponndei vig iv on h ) I door an I a) mt" t t u ( "Th" hou-"miiii hi" " oiiai' i' e :rn hls-wa- cni-nii-- dts-ove- I - 1 1 tt - af u u ynn-kee- ul per-ha- In-lan- : - 1 I N"r t 11 I 1 '' ('niii : o'f I eina |