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Show V Wn filing, I at the second line, had wheeled and now came thrusting thoir lances freely into. Cossack back. These last, thus taken In the rear, turned and fled. Hey, Weiner, good lad, do not slay t total, with ,J S R? CROCKETT 198, (Copyright, kind sirs, she said, have pity who have no work b poor girls Think we are orphans and far lame! aill have this one she is bo cried solemn Boris, seizing pappenhelm about the waist,mel-- y She pretendeth a i this! a mon-Val- d yet has tricks like following Jorian, quickly them kmple. The girls fended desired as they mayhap tly, yet, :ase was hopeless. 1,1a prosperous estate was then and Plassen-whehip of Franconia some lnftnct drew the to the door of the Df Jorian room, which Anna had carefully to ,cn at her entrance, in order i r cet co,J lbut V the Rjvq Director! 'Hty to tojj J00 Iseatj be install, 11 permit,, Is 125 it, Be thlckji, tins 50 1;, the fo mine t, eaned gp , the earij erty for j; their retreat. Duchess Joan stood there silent gardant. next moment both the late en-i- f piassenburg were saluting as as If they had still been Anna and Martha, blush-Ivlnelwere busy with their work in the corner, as demure s caught sipping cream, looked at the four a while men-at-wbil- e with-icakiD- ul looking retains h tains Boris and Jorian, 8he lernly, a messenger has come Prince Conrad to say that the vltes press him hard. He asks There is stant reinforcements. ) llscoverla what i It using m. a ( So t :en out ire quite j making e tpment ol Witch la eafter be aft of the thee tum-e- t A w; churn rdlng r: hois water. t is d being i the rlnce. at this her voice broke and she out, Cowards! cowards! cow-Co- d preserve me from & looked i at Jorian. coward-!- " Jorian look-Bori- s. whid roots dt tis is tie! bees foe. ime an lr Peak Cn tit mill it I of the na: ind it it o be toec 0 men large for he mlue . im-;cl- Werner von Orseln fights side. Maurice and my Kerns-- s are already on their way. lady, it is heartbreaking, but Our not," said Boris dolefully. Jr!nce Hugo bade us keep the he should arrive! cried Joan, I will go lards! The cripples, the halt, and Thora of ind shall follow me. im and these maidens there aall follow me to the rescue of KooeL ver ore within the city Will you take assistance 1 Witch h i man fit for duty iour command. to the Princes said Boris gravely; madam, jervants are no cowards. It Is at we were commanded by our to keep his Palace Guard with-cit- y walls, and these must stay, two are In some sense still Extraordinary, and not strictly Jrlnce's Palace Guard. As charged with a free islon In the interests of peace, without wrongdoing accom-ffo- u whither you will. Eh, we are at her quoth Jorian; ss's service till ten o' the why till to go out. ten? asked Joan, returned Jorian, there is hanging and other matters to But there is time for a wealth iing before ten. Lead on, ma-IV-e follow your Highness! is a strange, uncouth band that ad got together In a handful Jtes in order to accompany her field upon which, sullenly re- store the vastly more numer-mConrad and his little army y, t bay. two captains turned away In They walked to and fro a part, and Boris, who loved all i. kicked a dog that came his Boris was unhappy. Ho avoid-in- s eye. At last he broke out: cannot let our Lady Joan Bet ur field with such a following as these! ipers and . tun-barrc- it wrre, to the ra Jorian apparently did not confided this, as iuftor of Tfte R3(dcfi?.(x, 1900. by S. It. Crockett.) Continued. Chapter XXX. going a step hands, her clasped in appeal, If as Boris , nearer force , ,ePre- - (.dlltT"1;118 wen i Mt?lly' eno,,Bh. answer- bUt Wl11 U 8land you- - when Hugo fr0m under hls brows? wVm therIS li' B8al1 Jrian at eventaUS 1111 our Helene. - I think we may risk it." niedltated Boris, "you say 7ihi I,hPre is aIway8 Helene. The Playmate will not let our necks be stretched! Not at least for succouring a Princess In distress." In a short quarter of an hour the drums of the Piassenburg Palace Guard nad beaten to arms. From gate to gate the light had borne the cheerful trumpet call, and when Joan returned, heartless and downcast, with half a dozen more mouldy rascals, muck-rakes of smelling and stable straw, she found beforedamp her more than half the horsemen of Piassenburg armed in burnished steel. Whereat she could only look at Boris in astonishment. Your Highness, said that captain, saluting gravely, we are only able to accompany you as Envoys Extraordinary of the Prince and Princess of Piassenburg. But as such we feel it our duty in order properly to support ouf State to take with us a suitable attend-anee- ! sea-win- cap-a-pi- e Before Joan could reply a messenger came spurring up the long, narrow streets. Joan took the letter and opened It with a jerk. "From High Captain von Orseln to the Princess Joan. "Come with all speed, If you would be In time. We are hard beset. The enemy are all about us. Prince Conrad has ordered a charge! The face of the woman whitened as she read, but at the same moment the fingers of Joan of the Sword Ilapd tightened upon the hilt. She read the letter aloud. There was no comment. Boris cried an order, Jorian dropped to the rear, and the retinue of the s Extraordinary swung out on the road towards the great battle. s As Joan and the of Flassenburg. came nearer they heard a low growling roar like the distant sound of the breakers on the outer shore at Isle Rugen. It rose and fell as the fitful wind bore It towards them, but It never entirely ceased. They dashed through the fords of the Alla, the three hundred lances of the Piassenburg Guard clattering eagerly behind them. Joan led, on a black horse which Conrad had given her. The two with one mind set their steel caps more firmly on their heads. They came nearer. A few wreaths of smoke, hanging over the yet distant field, told where Russ and Teuton met in battle array. A solemn, slumberous reverberation heard at intervals split the dull general roar apart. It was the new cannon which had come from the Margraf George to help beat back the common foe. Then they bfgan to pass limping men hasting city war, wretchwith fleeing and es who looked over their shoulders as if they saw steel flashing at their backs. cried Joan, her sword "Kernsbcrg! high in the air, as ehe set spurs In her black stallion and swept onward a good twenty yards before the rush of the horsemen of Piassenburg. Joans quick glance about her for Conrad told her nothing of hls whereBut the two abouts. more experienced, perceived that the Muscovites were already everywhere victorious. Their wings outflanked and overlapped the slender array of Courtland. Only about the cannon and on the far right did any seem to be making a stand. There!" cried Jorian. couching hls lance, "there by the cannon Is where we will get our bellyful of fighting." He pointed where, amid a confusion of fighting men, wounded and struggling horses, and the great black tubes of the Margrafs cannon, they saw the sturdy form of Werner von Orseln, grown larger through the smoke and dusty smother, bestriding the body of a fallen knight. He fought as one fights a swarm of angry bees, striking every way with a desperate courage. The charging squadrons of Piassenleft of burg divided to pass right and with the cannon. Joan first of all, Kerns-l.ernot snd lifted crying her sword Conrad! Conrad! now, hut the hi art of the Into drove strnlght Cossack swarm. At the trampling of the horses feet the Muscovites lifted their eyes. They had been too Intent to kill to waste a thought on any possible succor. Joan felt herself strike right and left. Her heart was crazed within her and so that she set spurs In her steed furl-ourode Mm forward, plunging and Then a blowing wisp of white and through a plume was swept aside, helmet (broken as a nut Is cracked nnd falls apart) Joan saw the fair A trickle of head of her Prince. curl on bis a clinging wetted Mood his pale down stole forehead snd cheek. Werner von Orseln, begrimed the and drunken with battle, bestrode In Foaming Conrad. Trinco of body bis battlo anger, the ancient would have struck down bis En-voy- war-captai- panic-stricke- n g urdi! Cowards! Cowards! Ho was clicking his dagger heath, but from his next word evident that his mind bad not uctlve, it excuse could we make to ir Prince? ho said at last, if did he brllevo us the last on this occasion we have orders." W was bluer" within him. fnd not still Envoys? queried and hls heart her as Envoys of a great With all the power that was in her hUty like lliissenburg repro-I- "' right and left Joan smote to clear I that of the moat noble Princo way to Mm, rnlng dla In this Empire, should we not save him ahe might at least with retinue due and fitting? Borla and hot taking the Palace Guard But by this time Captains to ride horsemen their It Is only affording pro- Jorian, leaving :S!i your comrades! Down blade, old Thirsty. Hast thou not drunken enough blood this morning? So cried the as Werner dashed the blood and tears out of his eyes. "Back! back! he cried, as soon aa he knew with whom he had to do. "Go back! Conrad is slain or hath a broken head. They were thrusting at him as he lay to kill him outright. The beaten curs of Courtland broke at the first attack. Get him to horse! Quick, I say. My Lady Joan! what do you in this place? For even while he spoke Joan had dismounted and was holding Conrads head on her lap. With the soft white kerchief which she wore on her helm as a favor she wiped the wound on hls head. It was long, hut did not appear to be very deep. Werner stood astonished, gazing at his mistress. "He Is not dead! Lift him up, you two! Joan cried suddenly. No, I will take him on my steed. It is the strongest, and I the lightest. I alone will bear him in." And before any could speak she sprang Into the saddle without assist-arc- e with all her old lightuess of ac-- . .:V v war-captai- Sa,"vo,..,telr probSlon Statue to Kosciuszko NOTES Mrs. Eliza F. Routt, wife of forme Governor John L. Routt, of Colorado, is dead at the age of 62. Robert Hughes, a veteran of the Crimean war, aged 74 years, was found dead at Tacoma as the result of a stroke of apoplexy. A local option bill, with an emergency clause, was finally passed by the legislature of Colorado and approved by Governor Buchtel. Edwarda Slack, receiver of the Land newspaperman and office, a pioneer of Wyoming, died at Cheyenne on the Str3d aged 64 years. Michael Schwenther, a miner, was Instantly killed and Patrick Lynch was seriously Injured by the explosion of a missed hole In a mine In Butte. Harry Hansen, formerly a merenant of Laramie, Wyo., and a prominent loHe was a cal musician, is dead. Christian Scientist, and was ' under treatment for Bright's disease at tho time of hls death. The differences between the newspaper publishers of Butte and Anaconda and the members of the Typographical union, were definitely settled by the printers voting to return to work at the publishers' terms. Jeremiah Mahoney, president of tha unloa, Butte Stationary Engineers has been nominated for mayor by the Democrats of Butte. Aleck McGowan, former assistant attorney general ol Nevada, was named for police Judge. Letters from Ernest Leffingwell and Einer Melkclscn, containing the flrsi Polar exnews of the since the expedition left pedition Alaska were received In Portland Iasi week by II. A. Andree of the weather bureau. Goldfield labor organizations hither to affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World and now deserter from that body, are tho cooks and waiters, laborers, bartenders, team sters, retail clerks, plumbers, sheet metal workers. Richard W. Hoard, who used a genuine check for 910 as a sample to work from and who forged a check for 959, with the name of C. E. Jackson, ol Laramie, Wyo., last December, has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced well-know- ? J V y . 4'' j Model of memorial I4' , r .. 4 to Polish patriot which Is to bo erected at Washington. HAS HOUSE LIKE A SHIP. OLD SALT BUILDS HOME TO RE MIND HIM OF SEA. "Back! Back! Go back! tlon, most like that of a lithe lad who chases the colts In his fathers croft that he may ride them bareback. So Werner von Orseln lifted the head and Boris the feet, hearing him tenderly that they might set him upon Joans horse. On either side walked tall Boris and sturdy Werner, who steadied the unconscious Princo with the palms of their hands. Meanwhile the Palace Guard, with Jorian at its head, defended the slow retreat, while on the flanks Maurice and his staunch Kemshergers checked the victorious advance of the Muscovites. Yet the disaster was complete. They left the dead, they left the camp, they left the munitions of war. They abandoned the Margrafs cannon and all hls great store of powder. Only the Kernbergers bit their lips and watched the eye of Maurice, by whose side a slim page in chain-mai- l had ridden all day with visor down. And the men of the Palace Guard prayed for Prince Hugo to coitie. As for Joan, she cared nothing for victory or defeat, loss or gain, because the man she loved lay on her breast, bleeding and very still. Yet with great gentleness she gave him down Into loving hands and after beside the ward stood marble-pal- e couch while Theresa von Lynar washarmor and hls unlaced nerv Then. wounds. hls ed Ing herself to see him suffer, shs murmured over to herself, once, twice, and a hundred times, "God help me to do so and more also to those who have wrought this specially to Louis of Courtland and Ivan of Muscovy. Abide ye, little one be patient Vengeance will come to both!" said Theresa. I, who do not promise llgbt-ly- , promise it you! (To be continued.) NORTHWEST Novel Dwelling With Hatchways Constructed by Bowtbuildere In New Orleans Overlooking Mississippi Known as the Wreck. The eaves and cornices are also built after a Japanese pattern. The entire house Is ceiled with pressed steel and finished as elaborately as the saloon of a Bhlp. The cupola is constructed like a pilot-houswith windows all around. If a breeze is blowing the captain is sure to catch it there. The circular gallery enables the owner to so swing hls hammock as to be in the shade at any time. Electric lights are used for illuminating. There is an entrance to the yard on Eganla street, but from North Peters Btreet It Is necessary to climb to the top of the levee and then walk over a to reach the house. Capgang-plantain Doullut gladly welcomes visitors. New York. In a set of plans received by a member of the New York Yacht club from Captain M. P, Doullut, president of the Louisiana Navigation and Fisheries company, la shown one of the most originally constructed houses in the United States. The interior is an exact reproduction of a ship. Captain Doullut built the peculiar house at Eganla and North Peters EGG A CONCEALED WEAPON. streets. New Orleans, in which to end He likes to imagine he Is Decision of a New Jersey Justice aboard a vessel even when he Is at Seems to Convey That Impression. home, and the interior is so constructed as to suggest this at all times. The Newark. N. J. Prof. William Rieghouse overlooks the Mississippi river er, Instructor for a colony of physical and the captains vessels land directly culturlsts at Spotswood, N. J., whose in front when they are in that porL rational dress vagaries have caused From the cupola the captain can see much comment, was held for the the lights of Canal street to the right grand jury by Justice Bowne for roa and those of Chalmette to the left. llclous mischief. The plan of the house was originAt a minstrel show given in Odd ated by Captain Doullut Twice he Fellows' hall the physical culturlsts tore up drawings, and he was not sat- were ridiculed and some of them isfied until he had made them entirely thereupon threw lemons and Aggs at different from anything he had ever the performers, breaking up the show. seen on land, and he has traveled Justice Bowne was standing at the When finally satisfied door of the hall when an egg wnlch considerably. with the designs he set to work with had seen better days changed the his crew of boat builders and con- color of hls brand new hat. Professor structed the house himself. It took Kleger was arrested as being the lead about one year to complete It, and cr of the disturbers. the cost was about 98,000. At the hearing a Mr. Schenck proThe "wreck," for so the house has duced an egg which he swore he took been named by the neighbors, who say from Klegers hand. It was made exthe Interior reminds them of a ves- hibit A. The quality of the egg was sel cast high and dry on shore, is 54 not ascertained. feet square and Is surrounded by an Arthur Clark, counsel for Professor iron fence, with cement pavements Kleger, argued that hls client could outside of that. not be held for the grand Jury. It Every room resembles some part Isn't nialiclouB mischief to carry an of a ship. There are portholes, egg. he said, and It Isn't concealed instead of stairs, and the weapons, either." lower floor, on which is located the Justice Bowne, however, considered Her Mother Wanted the News. storeroom, bears a striking resem- that Rieger's egg was calculated to The habit of moving tho lips when blance to the hold of an ocean-goinstir up mischief and responsible for the disturbance which broke up the reading Is a good deal more common vessel. The lower story is of brick, the spirit of peace which had always hovthan pMple suppose. But speaking of that habit, a queer thing happened re- upper of frame, and the roof, modeled ered over the village of Spotswood cently on a train on which I was rid- after the Japanese style, is of slate. until the physical culturlsts appeared. ing. I was sluing by a man who moved Ms lips when he read. While he taoooooooooocooooooooooooooooooooosoGOGosooooooocoeoqy apparently made no sound he really shaped hls lips for each word. He was reading a newspaper and so was I. I was seated next to tho aisle After we had been rending a little Remains of Prehistoric obsidian idols, knives, snakes and while I felt some one touch my arm Interesting polished stone masks representing In Mexico, Man Exhumed Looking around I raw a little glri heroes who lived 3,000 years ago seated by a woman across the aisle Many spiral sheila were also encoun Mexico City. For the last two was smiling at me. which had holes drilled through tered excabeen has weeks Ilatres Leopold "Please, sir, she Raid, would you them vating one of the small artificial hills used asshowing that they had been hold your rPfr lower? beads. They were beautiful of of the to the the southeast Pyramid Of course I was surprised at the re ly polished. tumuli Is one that Sun. of the This quest and nsked her why. Many copper, bronze, chlchehuKe of the 8treet of tho "Because, she replied, my mamms form the rowhave and perlte objects were also found discovered been Dead. Here here, who Is deaf, wants to be able to among the others, showing that the watch your friends lips so she cat rooms which are apparently a part of dead man must have been of great and rooms with an ancient temple, get the news. She can tell what he it importance In bis day. Many of these lead these Below her hurts stairways It patios. that way. eyei reading to a large room some 30 feet in were beautifully polished and of ex to read print on a moving train." size. length. Apparently there are other traordlnary Kansas City Times. rooms on this level connected with one another. Slightly 8ardonlc. Consumption Effectually Routed. How did that university yon found These are thn first subterranean An extraordinary man Is Galen It Is doing great Clark, the discoverer of the Msrlposs houses that have so far been found in ed turn out? In this work," anawered Mr. Dustin Stax. show and that the He California. in they trees valley It of big grove was threatened with conrumptlon in burled city the houses were(two or Is devoting especial attention toward San Francisco in 1853 and rent to the three stories high. The upper stories economic studies In the hope of find Sierra by a physlrlnn, where he went had been destroyed by lire, but the Ing a way to prevent all tho wealth Into the bareheaded and drank only water fot lower remained untouched, and upon and power from drifting more than thirty years. During the thorn there rtill remains the red paint hands of grapalng persons like my past three weeks, at the age of 91, which was the characteristic color of self." he has visited the General Grant Teotlhuncan. Sneeze Costs Man Hla Nose. Among the Interesting things found grove and the Sequoia grovo In FresLondon. While a man was being no and Tulare eountlcs, riding 294 Is the skeleton of a man supposed to miles in stage eoachea, forty In the hnve been one of thn ancient Tolteo shaved in a Nottingham barbers thor addle, and one day walking twelve ; kings. Beside the human skeleton he sneezed suddenly and violently and miles, returning to the Yoremlte val- was thst of a tiger, and both were the mor cut the end of hla nose clean In addition to these off. A doctor was summoned and the ley last week none the worse from painted red. there were also found large quantities unlucky victim's face bandaged. He hls travels. of lea shells, obsidian beads, jade and will be disfigured for life. k hls-days- . g SKELETON OF TOLTEC KING. t , Anglo-America- n to the penitentiary. At a meeting of and cattlemen Bheepmen at Laramie, Wyo., a compromise was effected as to grazing on the Medicine Bow forest reserve. A dividing line was marked out, which There both eldes agree to observe. had been danger of a clash. The first death as a result of the floods at Reno, Nevada, was reportod laBt week, when Willie Phillips, one citizens oi of the most prominent Reno, attempted to rescue John Kelly, who had been marooned on an island In the Truckeo, and was drowned. Postmaster George . R. Irwin ot Butte died suddenly on the 18th of heart trouble, aged 65. He was one of the picturesque pioneers of Mon- tana, a former vigilante, and has held ' many offices, state and federal. lie was postmaster in Butte six years. The state board of sheep commissioners of Wyoming has revoked the order of April 2, 1906, that sheep entering the state from other states or , any other territory shall be quarantined for a period of thirty days after dipping, and brdered that all sheep in the state shall, before entering the shearing pens for shearing, he inspected. Charles Anderson, a mining expert, was instantly killed in the mines ot t the Brldger Coal company in Carbon county, Montana, through a singular accident. The handle ot the electric machine became charged, and in touching it Anderson received a shock which threw him on a chain and he was carried to hls death between the vein and machinery. According to advices from Seattle, before any order will be Issued by the contractors for the resumption ot work on buildings and contracts Involving more than 95,000,000, a satisfactory agreement must bo reached with the representatives of organized labor In the Budding Trades Assembly which will in effect be a guarantee of peace until after the completion of the buildings for the exposition in 1909. Nlghtwatchman W. D. Clark of Ban-doOre., shot and killed C. F. Allen of San Francisco, a well known tlioW buyer and black sand export lue shooting occurred In the1 office of the Tupper hotel, where Allen shot twice at the officer before the latter killed him. A merger of the interests of the Northwestern Steamship company and the Alaska Steamship company is reported to have taken placo. The Morgan and Guggenheim interests, who control the Northwestern companies, are believed to be back of U understanding. The gaa franchise of the Helens (Mont) Light & Railway company was revoked by the city council lust week because ot the alleged poo quality of gaa seryed consumers during the past winter, teals made by tbe city showing only 10 to 50 per coat ol . Alaska-Yukon-Pacifl- o the required strength. Incorporation of the Electric Railway company will bo filed within a few days. The line will cost f d.OOO.OOO. Power will come from tho recently completed dam across the Missouri river near Helena, anld to be the seo-onlargest In the world. Article of Helena and Butto d . , |