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Show SSTORY MARCH THE OF WHITE GUARD SIR GILBERT PARKER icop: ljftlt, 1K Jj u r. Ccr.tinued CHAPTER The cups were passed round. The Sub-factmeasured out a very small not wet They portion to each. their men of uncommon sentiment; lives were rigid and isolated and severe. Fireside comforts under fortunate .conditions they saw but seldom, and they were not given to expressing their feelings demonstraBut each h.an 'then, save tively. had some memory worth a resurrection, and hearts are hearts even under all uncouthness. Jasper Hume raised his cup; the "To rest followed his example. absent friends and the day when we see them again!'' he said; and they all drank. Gaspe Toujours solemnly, and as if no one was near, made the sign of the cross; for his mem, ory was with a of the parish of peasant girl Saint Gabrielle. whom he had left behind five years before, and had never seen since. Word had come from the parish priest that she was dying, and though he wrote back in his homely patois of his grief, and begged that the good father would write again, no word had ever come, and he thought of her now as one of whom the candles had been lighted and masses had been said. But Jeff Hyde's eyes were bright, and suffering as he was. the heart in He him was brave and hopeful. was thinking of a glorious Christmas river day upon the Madawaska three years agone; of Adam Henry, the blind fiddler; of bright, warmhearted Patfie Chown, the belle of the ball, and the long drive home in .lie frosty night. Late Carscallen was thinking of a brother whom he had heard preach his first sermon in Edinburgh ten years before. And Late Carscallen, slow of speech and thought, had been full of pride and love of that But they, in the brilliant brother. natural course of things, drifted apart, the slow and uncouth one to make his home at last not far from the arctic circle, and to be this night on his way to the Barren Grounds. Hut as he stood with the nip to his iips he recalled the words of a newspaper paragraph of a few It made reference months before. to the fact that "the Rev. James before Carscallen, D. I)., preached her majesty on Whitsunday, and had the honor of lunching with her And l.ate Carmajesty afterward." scallen rubbed his left hand joyfully Hgainst his blanketed leg and drank. were thoughts with the present, and his "Ugh!" of approval was one of th" senses pureInstead of drinking to absent ly. r Triends he looked at the He drank to the and said: "How!" Cloud-in-the-Sk- follows himself, a poor dispensing clerk in a doctor's office, working for that dream of achievement in which his mother believed; for which she hoped. And following further the hoy that was himself, he saw a friendless first year man at college, soon, however, to make a Iriend of Varre Lepage, and to see always the best of that friend, being himself so true. And the day come when they both graduated together in science, a bright and happy day. succeeded by one still brighter, when they both entered a greal firm as Then came the junior partners. and he meeting with Rose Varcoe; thought of how he praised his friend Varre Lepage to her. and brought that friend to be introduced to her. He recalled all those visions that came to him when, his professional triumphs achieved, he should have a happy home, and a happy face, and And the face faces by his fireside. was to be that of Rose Varcoe, and the others, faces of those who should He lie like her and like himself. saw. or rather felt, that face clouded and anxious when he went away ill and blind for health's sake. He did not write. The doctors forbade him He did not ask her to write. that. for his was so strong and steadfast a nature that he did not need letters to keep him true; and he thought if she tared for him she must be the a He did not understand same woman's heart, how it needs remembrances, and needs to give remembrances. Looking at Jasper Hume's face in the light of this fire it seems calm and cold, yet behind it is an agony of memory, the memory of the day when he discovered that Varre Lepage was married to Rose Varcoe, and that the trusted friend had on the grown famous and well-to-d- cifully look upon the infirmities of men, and to stetch forth His hand to keep and defend them In all dangers Late Carscallen. necessities. and after a long pause, said Amen." and Jeff Hyde said in a whisper to Gaspe Toujours, "That's to the point. Infirmities and dangers and necessities is what troubles us." Immediately after, at a sign from bethe gan to transfer the burning vood from one tire to the other until only hot ashes were left where a gieat Over these ashes blaze had been. pine i wigs and branches were spread, The and over them again blankets. word was then given to turn in. and Jeff Hyde. Gaspe Toujours. and Late Carscallen lay down in this comfortable bed Bach wished to give way to their captain, but he would not con sent, and he and wrapped themselves in their blankets like1 mummies, covering their heads completely, and under the arctic sky they slept alone In an austere and tenant less world. They never know how loftily sardonic Nature can be who have not seen that land where the mercury freezes in the tubes, and there is light but no warmth in the smile of the sun. Not Sturt in the heart of Australia with the mercury bursting the fevered tubes, with the finger-nailbreaking like brittle glass. with the ink drying Instantly on the pen, with the hair falling off and fad ing, would, if he could, have exchanged his lot for that of the White Guard. They are in a frozen endlessness that stretches eway to a world where never voice of man or clip of It wing or tread of animal is heard. is the threshold to the undiscovered country, to that untouched north whose fields of white are only furrowed by the giant forces of the ele- ments; on whose frigid hearthstone Cloud-in-the-Sk- Sub-factor- . Cloud-in-the-Sk- s Sub-facto- And Jasper Hume, the what were his thoughts? His was a memory of childhood; nf a house besides a widowed a where gentle river, braced her heart against mother misfortune and denied herself and slaved that her son might be edu cated. He had said to her that some day he would be a great man. and she would be paid back a hundredfold. And he worked hard at school, But one cold day of very hard. spring a message came to the school, and he sped homeward to the hovse beside the dark river down which the Ice was floating he would remember that floating ice to his dying day and entered a quiet roorn where woman was breathing a white-faceaway her life. And he fell at her side and kissed her band and called to her; and she waked for a moment only and smiled on him. and said: "Be good, my boy. and God will And then she make you great." And some one said she was cold. felt her feet a kind old soul who shook her head sadly at the mother and looked pityingly at him; and a voice rising out of a strange smiling "IT. away, languor murmured; Promised Landto the the to away It is cold so cold Promised Land! And the God keep my boy!" voice ceased, and the kind old soul who had looked at him pityingly folded her arms about him. and drew his brown head to her breast and kissed him. with flowing eyes and "Come away, dear, come whispered; away." Hut he came back in the nicht and sat beside her. and would not go away, but remained there till the un grew bright, and then through another day and niht until they bore her out of the little house by the river to the frozen hillside. And the world was empty and the Icy river seemed warmer than his heart And sitting here in this winter desolation, Jasper Hume beholds these and scenes of 2o years before Sub-facto- swift-flowin- 11 NOVEL REFORM Heavy Fire of Warships at Casablancj Too Much fo- - Tribesmen. Line of Battle Extended Over Two Miles way. The French loss was fifteen killed or wounded. The cruisers Gloire and Guardo later bombarded the beach beyond Casablanca, where the force of Moorish cavalry gathered, but it was soon dispersed by the warships' fire. MEN SEVENTY-FIV- PERISHED. in of Horrible Bridge Disaster Result Canada. Quebec, Canada. The toll of death caused by the collapse of the great cantilever bridge numbers at least seventy-five and may roach eight The terrific height of the great steel structure, from 180 feet above the surface of the river, crushed the bodies of many of the workmen in a frightful manner, and it is feared many will never be found. Many of the dead were Americans brought here by the Phoenix Bridge company of Phoenix la., which had the contract for the iron work on the bridge. A locomotive and several freight cars loaded with steel girders weie moving out on the bridge just before the structure collapsed. Engineer Jess went into the river with his engine, but was picked up 300 feet below the bridge.' Fireman Davis perished. CAUGHT ' A LUCKY i FeTI BY FLAMES. AERONAUT. Two Thousand Feet and Is Stil, Alive. He Read the First Four V offspring of his brain. His first thought had been one of fierce anger and determination to expose this man who had falsified all trust. Put then came the thought of the girl, and. most of all there came the words of his dying mother, "Be good, my boy, and God will make you great," and for his mother's sake he had com- passion on the girl, and sought no re venge upon her husband. Rare type of man. in a sordid, unchivalric world! And now, ten years later, he did not regret that he had stayed his hand. The world had coased to call Varre Lenatre a genius. He hud not tiiltlllel the hope that was held of him. This Jaspar Hume knew from occasional references in scientific journals. And he was making this journey to save, if he could. Varre Lepage's life. And he has no regret. Though jusi on the verge of a new eia in his careerto give to the world the fruit of ten years' thought and labor, he had set all behind him that he might be tine to the friendship of his youth, that he might be loyal to his manhood, that he might be clear of the strokes of conscience to the last hour of his life. Looking around him now. the debat ing look conies again Into his eyes. He places his hand In his breast and lets it rest there for a moment. The look becomes certain and steady, the hand is drawn out. and In it is a Hook of Common 'raver. I'pon the flyleaf is written. "Jane Hume, to her dear son Jaspar. on his twelfth birthday. These men of the White Guard are not used to religious practices, whatever their past has been In that regard, and at any other Mine they might have been surprised at this action of Jaspar Hume. Under some circumstances it might have lessened their opinion of him, but his Influence ,jver them now was complete. They knew they were getting nearer to him than they hnd ever done; even Cloud y In appreciated that. He spoke no word to them, but looKod at them and stood up They all did the same, Jeff Hyde leaning on the shoulders He read first of Gaspe Toujours. Psalm, four verses of the Thirty-firs, then followed the prayer of St. and the beautiful collect whkh appeals to the Almighty to mcr 1 the-Sk- t Chry-sofltom- Ferris-Haggert- Moral Suasion and Fruit Diet in Model Country Town Advocated for Criminals of Amiable Disposition. Casablanca. -- During the fighting be tween the French forces and the Moors on Friday, near the French camp, the Moors at first retreated, and it was was believed that the engagement over, when suddenly the enemy reap peared in great force it: two directions. The Saphis irregular Algerian cavalry found themselves almost surrounded but formed a square and slowly feil back until reinforced Meanwhile the shells French warships showered among the hills, scattering the enemy. The engagement lasted three hours. The line of battle extended over two miles and it is estimated that about The loss 12,000 Moors were engaged. of the latter Is believed to have been heavy, as the French officers counted the bodies of twenty Moors in one road- Chicago. A garden colony for amiable criminals where they will learn to be good by growing peaches and roses is the latest idea to be advanced in criminal reformatory methods. The author of the Arcadian principle is John F. Geeting, editor of the American Criminal Records, and a Chicago criminal lawyer. Mr. Geeting does not refe to criminals of a dark and bloody turn of mind, but to those kindly souls who practice the gentle art of selling gold bricks to the unsophisticated rustic. These men. with their wist army of brothers, who earn a precarious living through various forms of swindling. Mr. Geeting declares, aside from their irritating propensity to put their hands In other people's pockets, are pleasant companions and not Infrequently blithe and witty souls The present method by which the rude law casts these men into the common jail with murderers and anarchists is, according to Mr. Geeting the destruction of many of them, who are only suffering from a slight moral wist which might be straightened out by the application of much milder methods. T' scheme which Mr. Geetinj in tends to urge on the governor and legislature of Illinois is the formation of :i little town along novel lines. The town will be situated in the center of i little garden, where peaches and roses may grow. For fear the rural simplicity "f th" place might pall on the city bred inhabitants and tempt them to return to wicked places like Chicago, a stoul wall will be erected nil about the town, whose ugliness can be concealed with trailing vines and gooseberry bushes All criminals who have not homicidal tendencies or have not been in the habit of beating their wives over the head with a poker will hi' eligible to citizenship upon the order of the judge. I'aeh will have a little cottage and will grow pure and at least moralin the peaceful pursuit ly beautiful of botany. If he should try to filch his neighbor's tools or sell him a pot lor a peach, he will be argued with gently and brought back to the narrow path by moral suasion and a fruit diet. Mr. Geeting is satisfied that his scheme would prove the salvation of many criminals, who are only con firmed in their courses by the present He purposes to punitive methods. and have in his writing embody plan it submitted to the legislature. i OUR GUNNERS GOOD AS ANY. Recent Practice on British Ship calls American Performances. Re. For several years the' Washington. court-martiale- d e , (TO HE CONTINUED.) The Superior American Workman. Notwithstanding that he has fo pay more for his clothes than the English workman, the American dresses him self and his family fat better and more tastefully than his English coiiFin The American also spendH more money on luxuries and legitimate pleasure, arid the food he eats is mote varied and of better quality. Wt1's Work. Mur Former Magistrate Kentucky dered in Cincinnati. Cincinnati, O. R. F Singleton, j former magistrate of Covington,' Ky. who was found terrll ly beaten in a Klehmond treet hous- - In this city last Wednesday, died si the City hos pltal on Friday night Singleton was indeed to the house hy a woman known to the police Mrs Waltei West. Arriving tlieri ' was set upon and robbed by twn the pollct have no trace of Ibe men or th woman. I n- $265,000. navy department has not regarded it as good policy to acquaint foreign na lions with the performances of the American naval gunners. It was felt that the publication of a good record made by our men would only serve tc stimulate the gunners of other na Hons to better their own perform Rarnstable. MassNearly n.OOO per ses of the Thirty-Firs- t Psalm, sons at the Barnstable county fair saw Professor Maloney. a balloonist, droj ances. no fire is ever lit; a place where the Hut the publication recently of the 2,000 feet to earth, strike on top of i electric phantoms of a nightleBS land and escape with his fact that during target practice on the cedar fence-pos- t pass and repass, and are never still; life. For in the presence fully two minutes Maloney British channel fleet where the magic needle points not floated along, with the gas rapidh of King Edward one gun made nine toward the north but darklv down shots. thereb leaking. Mahoney and the balloon teen hits in twenty-on- e ward, downward! where the sun came down rapidly. He struck in j earning a decoration from the king never stretches warm hands to him half standing position on top of a bis has naturally touched the pride ol who dares confront the terrors ol cedar post. His back was terribly torn some of the American naval officers eternal snow. He waf but they find no reason to fear a com and his left arm injured s condi parlson with the gunners ol any othei The White Guard sleeps! picked up in a tion and hurried in an automobile tc navy. a hotel. The physicians said he wa some of the six Inch guns CHAPTFR IV. not internally Injured and that he wih in Taking the Atlantic fleet, one gunner on "No, Captain; leave me here an recover. the armored cruiser Maryland mad( push on to the Manitou Mountain eleven shots and eleven hits in on BECAME HOMESICK. You ought to make it in two days minute. A gun on the battleship Ohli I'm just as safe here as on the ';lcb was tired with a perfect score at th ana Home Reterns Russian Mutineer and less trouble; a blind mar. s n rate of 10. SI a minute. A six inch gun is Executed. I'll have a good rest while good. on the battleship Maine has a record Odessa Matushanko, the Russian you're gone, and then perhaps mj if a perfect score at the rate of 10.41 office' who led the eyes will come out right. My fool if Missouri'! ;i minute, and the battleship well Potem now." Kniaz on the battleship nearly mutiny 10.30 shots a minute was best record Yes, Jeff Hyde was snow-blinThis line and was in command of the vessel each lodged in a target. the giant of the party, had suffered during the sensational eiuise about the Hut In the way of small guns these Black sea In the summet of 1!0:!, whs most. inch records become insignificant. six r.t Sebastopol Hut Jaspar Hume Raid, "1 won't hanged Friday night ii After abandoning the vessel he fled A three pounder on the battleship leave you alone, my man. The dogt to New York, worked there two years ginia made CO shuts and hits in 7f sec can carry you, as they've done for tie in an iron factory, became homesick onds. and another gun made in shots last ten days." returned here, was detected, arrested, and 10 hits in 22 seconds, a remark and semi need to death able average of 26.67 shots and iiits a Hut Jeff replied, I'm as safe her as inarching, and safer. When tie minute Great Actor Dead. dogs are not carrying me, nor any oik New London, Conn. Richard Man Edelweiss Now Pans Flower. leading me, you can get on faster: and that means everything to us: field, the best known actor on th Paris Edelweiss, which this year American stage, passed away Friday is more fashionable than ever. Is now don't it?" Jaspar Hume met the eyes of Gasp' morning at his summer residence, mostly grown near Copenhagen and Seven Oaks, Ocean avenue. Heath was He read them. Then h Toujours. exported to Switzerland where the said to Jeff Hyde. "It shall be as you due to disease of the liver, aggravated flower is so rare now that gathering Dr A. H. Allen, a cif it Is forbidden. Not to be by complications. Late Carscallen. Cloud-in-thwish outdone, local physician, who ba. been in charge Paris gardeners are cultivating edelSky, and myself will puRh on to Man since Mr. Mansfield's from here I ton Mountain. You and Gaspe Tou Saranac Lake. N. Y states that death weiss in the suburbs and recently jours will remain here." Large specimens. was not. entirely unexpected, although have exhibited Jeff Hyde's blind eyes turned to- the fact had not been made public quantities will appear at the next ward Gaspe Toujours, and Gaspe Tou- Mansfield's wife, son and his brothe; greenhouse exhibition and soon the Swiss gardeners will sell only Paris jours said. "Yes. We have plenty of were with him at the end. tabac." Ian yroducts. ENTICED TO H!3 DOOM. ' NOTES Frank O. McCormiek was crushed to death In the copper mine at Battle Lake. Wyoming. Two sons of R. R. Cordon, while driving in Cottonwood canyon, near Oxford, Wyo., were struck by lightning and badly hurt. Their horse wa killed. While on a dove hunting expedition near Golden, Colo., Lawrence Willad of Denver, acliams, a friend Royce Alhis shot cidentally len, of Golden, aged 11 In tho Spontaneous combustion mountain of coal stored at Pilling-- . Mont, caused a fire that has deflel all efforts to subdue. The coal belonged to the Hillings Sugar factory. The story conies from Cheyenne that a draft horse, when he saw an automobile for the first time, dropped dead from fright, and that a coyoto also dropped dead when he met the automobile on the road. William Naughton, a brakeman on the Union Pacific, living at Laramie, dislocated his left shoulder by sneer ing. This is the first time on record that a similar accident has occurred. Years ago Naughton injured the shoulder. Sympathy for Hishee miners who are striking, denunciation of a Federal judge who Issued an injunction against union men, and an offer of financial support are embodied in tho resolutions adopted by the Butte Miners' union. 1'matilla county. Oregon, has been hail storm visited by a severe wide and a which cut long fields, the causing grain through path a loss on the reservation of ) to 25 per cent on account of the straw being beaten down. James McCarrick, a miner, fell from staging into a shaft about eight feet, wa deep, at Manhattan, Nevada, and so badly Injured that he died in a few moments. He struck on his head In the bottom of the shaft and his skull was fractured. of Following closely the advance from 20 to 40 per cent in wag"? granted the coal miners of the state of Wyoming comes the announcement thai the barbers of Sheridan have agreed to advance the price of shav ing from 15 cents to 25 cents. A party of engineers running a line between Uinta, Fremont and Sweetwater counties, Wyoming, have discovered that a strip of land two mile;; wide, heretofore regarded as lying in Uinta county, in reality belongs to Sweetwater and Fremont counties. soCaptain Cough, state humane attsnd will of officer Wyoming, ciety the county fair at Cody, Big Horn county, to witnwp the endurance horse race. The riders will travel see: fifty miles, and he will he there to that the horses are not abused or rid den after they show signs of exhatu tion. The largest single transaction in iu ranch lands ever consummated Montana, so far as the acreage is concerned, has just been closed in Lewis rail ton. The Hillings & Northern way purchased from the Sage Creek holdings ol Sheep company Its entire or at $10 an acre, 2J5 0QO acres LAWYER PROPOSES GARDEN COL ONY FOR MILD CRIMINALS. Writers on Louisville Courier-Journa- l Rescued From Burning Building. Louisville, Ky. The Courier-Journa- l building at Fourth and Green streets, in Khich are located the plants of the 'tMirfer-.lournal and Evening Times was destroyed by fire early Friday The structure was five stories high and occupied half a block. The fire started at the top of an elevator shaft, sup posedly from detective insulation of electric wires, and spread with greal rapidity. The editorial and reportorial forces stuck to th of the Courier-Journa- l building in the hope that the blaze (vould he subdued and that they could Issue the paper. They were caught napping with fire at all exits and had to be taken out on ladders. "" PLAN 8! FRENCH DEFEATED ALMOST s Sub-facto- thousand moors - dark-eyed- NORTHWEST : rwELVE Plas City Engineer W, S. Collins ol Basin, Wyo , Is suffering from serious injuries as the result of an accident at the new city reservoir, which is in A Umbel course of construction. broke under his weight and he fell a distance of eighteen feet, alighting on his head and shoulders on a pile ol loose rock. A. L. Ham, a resident of Gillette, IVyo., was instantly killed near Hunt Bur'ey, Mont by falling under the lington train, on which he was a pas senger, en route for his home in Wyoming. The body of the unfortunate man was not found for several nours afterward. The body was gathered up In a basket. Three men were killed and one injured by a premature explosion of blasting powder at the Milwaukee railroad camp m ar Butte. One of the men, Pero Janik, aged 22, died from he whs being bis injuries when brought ti town. The men who res-liehim ni'er the blast were obliged io dig him mil of the d hi is. Tho lnn distance office of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone com pany at Butte opened last week with at the switch lady lie ""office The windows of board So far as can ho have been frosted lenrned the unions have paid no at tention in tin action of the company In resuming the longdistance service Again the steer roping supremacy of the great west is to he contested for in Cheyenne. The two contestants will be Angus McPhee of Cheyenne, champion of the world under the award of the judges at the Inst Froti tier day celebration, and Pete Dickof erson of Douglas. Ariz the peer the ropers of the southwest. A peculiar tnngle In the naturallza Hon laws arose at Laramie last week, when three Norwegians, who lander, in New York early in May, applied bo registered for naturalization. None of them had a certificate from the Immigration officers at the port of en try. The slate fair commission has ar ranged for a hand of forty Sioux from the Pine Ridge agency to attend fair at Douglas. Wyo The dele gation will include several noted Eagle, chiefs, among them Sitting Jack Red Cloud, Bed Eagle and Iron , strike-breake- j ' l tin-stat- Monument to Chicken. Kloomlogton, HI. A monument Is planned for a chicken belonging to it. L. McCord of Vermilion County. Bull. It It has Just died, aged 12 years. There was sold at auction In Chi was claimed to be the champion ol one day last week the first crop won at first cago prize champions, having eight successive state fairs and also of assorted Northwestern plums. Th at the Exposition. The car was from the famous BlalocK fowl was valued at a high liuure and fruit farm at Walla Walla and the gross sale was $1,870. The Bradshaw was considered to be one of the finest in the plums sold for from $1.8'1 to $2, averchickens blooded country. aging $1.91. |