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Show Mgnal, no tent, no sign of human life: have acquired new s.renfrrh Through of Gaspe Toujours or of Jeff Hyde days if dreadful cold, through nights His strong heart quails. Has he lost of appalling fierceness, through storm iiis way? Ht. iuoks at the sun. He is upon the plains that made for them not sure. He consults his compass, paralyzing coverlets, they marched. but ii quivers hesitatingly, and then And ii Varre Lepage did not grow points downward' For a while wild stronger, life at least was kept in him. bewilderment which seizes upon the and he had once more the desire to minds of the strongest, when lost, live. masters him. in spite of his struggles Ther e was little speech among them, against it. He moves in a maze of but once in a while Gasiie Toujours He is snatches of the songs of the lost in it. is swayed by it. He begins sang of the great rivers; and the to wander about; and there grow upon hearts of all were strong. Between his senses strange delights and reeling and his master there was Jacques agonies. He hears church bells, he occasional demonstration. catches at butterfles, he tumbles iu seemed to know that a load wasJacques being he hay. wanders in a tropic lifted from the heart of Hume, Jaspar garden. But in the hay a wasp slings and Jaspar Hume, on the twentieth him. and the butterflj changes to a day homeward, said with his hand on curling black snake that strikes at the dog's head, "It had to be done, him and glides to a dark flowing river even a dog could see that!" full of floating ice, and up from the Jacques;so And it was "all right" for the river a white hand is thrust, and it White Guard. Oire when the sun beckons him beckons him! He shins was warmer than day usual over Fort his eyes and moves toward ii. but a Providence, and just sixty-fiv- e days voice stops him. and it says, Come since that cheer had gone up from apcome two arms fold prehensive hearts for brave men away! away!' and him round, and as he goes back from out into the Barren Grounds, Serthe shore he stumbles and falls, and geant Gosse. who every day and of . . What is this? A yielding late had swept the many times a mass tit his feet' A mass that stirs! northeast with a day, field glass, rushed He clutches at it. lie tears awa the into the Chief Factor's oflice, and with snow, he calls aloud - and his voice! a broken voice cried, "The White has a unnatural sound Guard! The White Guard!" r.f.i "Gaspe Toujours! Gaspe Toujours!" jpoiutcd toward the northeast. And Yes. it is Gaspe Toujours! And bethen he leant d his arm and head side him lies Jeff Hyde, ami alive! ay, against the wall anil sobbed. And the alive! Thank Cod! old Factor rose from his chair trem-- ; Jaspar Hume's mind is itself again. blingly. and said. "Thank God," and It has but suffered for a moment what went hurriedly into Ihe square. But conies to most men when the.' rec he did not su steadily the joyous ognize first that they are being shall- I news had shaken him, sturdy old owed by the awful ban of "Lost." pioneer as he was. As he passes out Gaspe Toujours and Jeff Hyde had one can see that a fringe of white has lain down in the tent the nisrht of the grown about his temples irr the last great wind and had gone to sleep at two months The people of the Fort once. The s iff had been blown down, had said, they hail never seen him so the tent had fallen over them, the irascible, yet so gentle; so uneasy, yet drift had covered them, and for three so reserved; so stern about the mouth. I OUTLOOK MONEY IMPROVED. j 1 jSTORY MARCH OF THE. WHITE GUARD By SIR GIL3E3T PARKER 10 CHAPTER A Co.) Distinct Change in Sentiment Notice-abl- e in Eastern Centers. New York. There was a distinct improvement in sentiment over the financial outlook last week, which was traceable to an important extent to the failure of some of the prognostications of trouble which had been enviited. In several instances where the event justhe market tified the apprehensions showed that the bear patty had morn than sufficiently anticipated the bad news and the buying to cover shorts helped on the recovery in prices. Thes conditions in the market must be taken accordingly in the estimating of the extent of the improvement indicated by tiro, near recovery in prices. That there was a marked subsidence in the pressure of selling and a de crease in the feeling of apprehension could be inferred from this as much were not as anything else. There lacking some positive developments of a favorable character as well. A principal item in the brightening prospect was the easier money market. The st rain of the September 1st settlements, which were unusually large, proved much less severe than was ex pected. The call money mar ket did not get above 4 per lent at any time and promptly relaxed, while in the ratios for time loans there was nothing like a collapse. This was considered as the widening effect of the relief measures f the united States treasury, the announcement of which led to an almost Immediate relaxation in foreign money markets and in foreign exchange rates here. half-deliriu- voy-age- new-mow- go-in- Continued. And Jaspar Hume was left alone with the starving Indian, who sat be side the fire eating voraciously, and the sufferer, who now mechanically was taking a little biscuit sopped in For a few moments thus, brandy. and his sunken eyes opened and li' looked dazedly at the man bending fibove him. Suddenly there came into them a look of terror. "You yon are Jaspar Hume," the voice said in an awed whisper. r "Yes." and the hands of the chafed those of the other. Hut you said you were a friend, and come to save me." "T am come to save you." There was a shiver of the sufferer's body. This discovery would either make him stronger or kill him altogether. Jaspar Hume knew this, and said: "Varre Lepage, the past is past and dead to me; let it be so to you." There was a pause. "How did you know about me?" "I was at Fort Providence; there came letters from the Hudson Bay Company, and from your wile, saying that you were making this journey, and were six months behind " "My wile, my wife! Hose!" "Yes, 1 have a letter for you from her. She is on her way to Canada. We are to take you to her." "To take me to her!" He shook his head sadly, but he pressed the letter that Jaspar Hume had just given him to his lips. "To take you to her, Varre Lepage." "No, I shall never see her again." "I tell you, you shall. You can live if you will. You owe that to her. to me to God!" n to God. But I "To her to have been true to none. To win her 1 wronged you doubly and wronged her too; and wronging both of you, 1 have wronged That Other One. been punished. I shall die here." "You shall go lo Fort Providence. Do that in payment of your debt to me, Varre Lepage. I demand that." In this sinning man there was a latent spark of honor, a sense of justice that might have been developed to gn at causes, to noble ends, if some strong nature, seeing his weaknesses, had not condoned them, but had appealed to the natural chivalry of an impressionable, vain, and weak character. He struggled to meet the eyes of Jaspar Hume, and doing so he gained confidence and said. "I will try to live. I will do you justice yet. But, oh, my wife!" "Your first duty is to eat and drink. We start lor Fort Providence morning." The sick man stretched out his He Moves in a Maze of hand: "Food! Food, he said. In little bits food and drink were days they had slept beneath the snow; given to him. and his strength sen- never waking. The cave was soon sibly increased. Jeff Hyde's sight was come again aglow with the fire that was kindled to him. "You've come back for the by Late Carscallen and book," he said: "you couldn't go on There was little speaking, for without it. You ought to have taken the sick man soon fell asleep. Varre it and he drew it from yesterday;" Lepage's Indian (old his bosom. the tale of their march how the "No, Jeff, I've not come back for other Indian and the dogs died; how that; and did not leave you yesterhis master became ill as they were day; it is three days and more since Etarting toward Fort Providence from we parted. The book has brought us Manitou .Mountain in the summer luck, and the best! We have found weather: how they turned back and him; and they'll be heYe h with took refuge in this cave; how month him. I came on ahead to see how you by month they had lived on what fared." would hardly keep a rabbit alive; and In that world Jeff Hyde how at last his master urged him to uncovered his head for a moment. press on with his papers: but he "Gaspe Toujours is a Papist," he said; would not, and stayed until this day, "but he read me some of that book when the last bit of food had been the day you left, and one thing we eaten, and they were found! went to sleep on: it was that about Lightenin' the darkness, and defend-in- ' CHAPTER V. us from all the perils and dangers The next morning Varre Lepage of this night.' " Here Gaspe Toujours was placed upon a sled and they made the sign of the cross. Jeff Hyde started back, Jacques barking joyfully continued half apologetically for his as he led off, with comrade, "It comes natural to Gaspe beside him. There was light In the Toujours I guess it always does to face's of all. though the light could not Papists. But I never had any tralnin' be t.een by reason of their being muf- that way, and I had to turn the thing fled so. All day they traveled, scarceover and over, anil I fell asleep on it. ly halting, Varre Lepage's Indian bewake up three days after, And when ing strong again and marching well. here's my eyes as fresh as daisies, Often the corpselike bundle on the and you back, Captain, and the thing sled was disturbed and biscuits wet done that we come to do!" in brandy and bits of preserved veni-EoHe put the book Into the hands of were given. Hume, and Gaspe Toujours at Jaspar That night Jaspar Hume said to that moment said, "See!" And far Late Carscallen: "1 ant going to start off. against the eastern horizon, apat the first light of the morning to get a group of moving figures! peared to Gaspe Toujours and JefT Hyde as That night the broken segments of soon as possible. Follow as fast as the White Guard were reunited, and you can. He will be safe if yon give Varre Lepage slept by the side of him food and drink often. I shall gel Hume. to the place where we left them about Jaspar noon; you should reach their ai night CHAPTER VI. or ear ly the next morning." To conquer is to gain courage and Hadn't yon better take JUicquos unusual Napowers of endurance. with vou?" said Ijite Carscallen poleon might have marched back from The Suhfactor thought a moment, Moscow with undeclmated legions and then said. "No, he is needed most sately enough, if the heart of those where he Is." The legions had not been crushed At noon the r.ext day Jaspar Hume White Guard, with their faces turned looks round neon a billowy plain of homeward and th" man they had un and hut he srtu no staff, no sought for in their rare, seemed to j IV . ELOPING tar-awa- Sub-facto- ti. Trick of Cloud-in-the-Sk- I I frost-bitte- Cloud-ln-the-Sk- y 1 . SIGNS. ni h French and Spanish Forces Make Successful Move. FrancoCasablanca.- - The allied Spanish army on Wednesday made a sudden and successful move on Taddert, where the Moors were massed in force. The camp of the latter was destroyed by bombardment and the enemy was pttt. to flight. leaving many dead on the field. The French lost one man killed and six wounded. The attack was carefully planned and was based largely on the observations of the Moors' position from a military balloon. After the bombardment of Taddert by the French artillery, as well as by the guns of the French cruiser Gloire, which tired seventy five shells, the allied infantry advanced on the Moorislt camp, where the enemy was making a last desperate stand. A short engagement followed and the Moors fled in wild disorder, pursued for several miles by the (regular Algerian cavalry In the French service. The Moorish camp was completely destroyed. The exact loss of the Moors is not known, as ihey carried away many of their Allied the Trade. in the world did you make such a sttccess in this town?" asked the first beauty doctor. "Why. I came here two years ago and couldn't nrake my salt." "Oh. you didn't go about it the same way that I did." replied the second beauty doctor with a wink. "How was that?" "Why, as soon as I arrived I told all the girls in town that they were too pretty to need a beauty doctor and then started for the train. Then they held me in town by force." Chicago Dailv News. BEFORE AND AFTER. "Has she ever shown any sign as to whether she cares for you or not?" "She's making It now, I think." A V Half-Deliriu- (Ti i BE CONTINUED.) Lombard Would Put Him Up. Harding Lombard, of Wales. Me., was a quaint character. He had a ready wit. but was slow to express it, on account, of an impediment in his speech On stormy night in winter a big tramp called, and Mr. Lombard, going i" the door in his stockings, the tramp asked if he would put him She Before you married me, you used to say there wasn't another woman like me in the world. He Yee, and now shouldn't like to think there was! Chicago Persia." (after a Her Own span Oh, exactlyIf CLERK STEALS $1C0C00. Dailv News. HE KNEW SOMETHING. The Champion Busy Thing hath a way The honey l lie To his employer's Me works all day And never Hunks Washington Star. liking; nor talks of of striking. Third Defalcation Within Six Months in Louisiana Tax Department. New Orleans. A $100,000 shortage was discovered on Wednesday iu tin accounts of (he slate tax commissioners of this cilv, and the police an searching lor Charles K. I.elten, c;iie( clerk to Stale Tax Collector John of Ihe Firsl district, who is charged with Ihe defalcation. Thii Is the third defalcation In six months In the Louisiana tax department. Tim ho previous shortages totalled nearlv His Favorite Section. "Pawson Dewberry am powahful fond eb de Ink's ob de fowl. Isn't he, . Bruddah Jaspeh?" said the old your doa-con- Customer to-da- Where Is your ? Assistant- - oh, he's gone to shave "Deed he am, deacon," replied Brud-aJasper, with a grin. "Why, last Sunday et dlnneh he sed he wished a det chicken lied been a centipede." Chicago l)all News. master get $100,000. France Advised to Send Troops to Fez Homo. a number of Ihe newspapers of Italy advise France troublesome Moroc an i.a Trlbima, I.a marching on Roma and others refer precarious situation," rt ought to clear horse) my Pot iilo llomano, th ru F Triple alliance, advli in arch straight to Fe and V-- It Wasn't Necessary. "Well." said the doctor, "I'm glad to see thai you're able to be up and that you look so well, but really you should have obeyed my instructions. I told you to remain in bed for three days." "Oh, thai wasn't necessary. The baby upset the medicine you left, so I only got one dose of It." Chicago Record Herald. Way. Standing for a Good Deal. "What, my friends," dramatical!; demanded Thomas Bott, "docs the oh patty stand for?" "Well, yon, for one thing," replle' a pessimistic voice from the ba k ot the hall. Puck. s Kit.-Patric- I you had LONG WAY TO SPREAD. Kill-Joy- sometimes think you women court domestic quai rels. She We do not If we had our way there'd be none He way. Vast Amount of Coal Required for Trip of Battleships to Pacific Coast. Washington. Two hundred and fifty, three thousand tons of coal, exclusive of that to be shipped in government colliers, will he required lo get the At lantlc battleship fleet to the Mare is land, according to the estimates mad by the equipment bureau of the navy department, which has called for proposals for supplying the necessary fuel. Of this aggregate, 133,000 tons are and the remainder Welsh coal. . Leader a Mr. Hippo And while "Did you enjoy the band concert?" was speak"No. The leader had had his hair ing to her a smile started to spread cut and he didn't turn a handspring o'er my countenance. Mr. Monk -- How long did she have De- .luring the entire performance." to wait to see the finish ? Chicago roit Free Press. pu-pu- t Everything Blue Milk for Blue People. Patience When the women of Arazia go into mourning, they abstain from milk for eight days, as its white color does not accord with the gloom of their minds. Patrice I suppose It would be all right for them to drink it if it was as blue as the milk we get over here! Yonkers Statesman. Puck. yes. sir." replied Mr L Voir wait till I get my boo boo boot will on, and you up so high you never'll get down again." Ib Powers. Lexington, Ky. Circuit Judge Stout has suspended warrants issued against W. S. Taylor, former governor of Ken tucky, who is charged with complicity In the murder of William Qoebel, and who is iu Indiana. The action is for the purpose of allowing Taylor to re turn to Kentucky and testify in beha'l of Caleb Powers, who Is soon to bu tried the fourth time for the Goebel murder. The prosecution desires to get Taylor to make a statement in court, even though he comes as a defense witness. Requisitions made on the Governor of Indiana were refused. Restricted. "There are only seven miles of railroad In operation irr the whole of Persia." "Too bad!" commented the Hon. Thomas Hott. "It must he mighty liard for a politician to make a living in GO? Warrant Suspended So He Can Return to Kentucky and Testify For The Dominant Sex. Vain men are like roosters who crow and wlio shirk While the hens lay the eizcs and do of the work; And, like roosters, men think they must govern the rest, That their sisters are only lay members, at best. Puck. sir; I WILL TAYLOR a Workingman. "How many worklngmen are there in this house?" asked the census enumerator at tin; door. "Bar's no workin'man In dls 'ere house, boss," replied the ebony gentleman who answered the knock. "But, don't you live here, and" "Jus' 'sense me, sah! My wife is de lady., of dis 'ere house, and she does in take washin', sah!" Yonkers Statesman. up. Yes. dead. Ht X V 1 yet so kind about the eyes as he had been since Jaspar Hume had gone with his brave companions on this desperate errand. Already the handful of people at the Fort had gathered. Indians left the store and joined the rest; the Factor and Sergeant Gosse set out to meet the little army of relief. God knows what was in the hearts of the Chief Factor and Jaspar Hume when they shook hands. To the Factor's "In the name of the Hudson Bay Company, Mr. Hume," there came "By the help of Cod. sir," and he pointed to the sled whereon Varre Lepage lay. A Feeble hand was clasped in the burly hand of ihe Factor, and then they fell into line again. Cloud in t he Sky running ahead of the dogs. Snow had fallen on them, ami as they entered tin1 siocKaue, man and dogs were while from head to foot. Difference. She promised to love and ohy. But ere a month had flown Her husband didn't even dure To call his soul his own. Chicago Dally News. K I M CHASED BACK TO HILLS. MOORS - "How 1 Cloud-ln-the-Sk- Hopeless Case. "This," said the asylum attendant, pointing to the patient in a padded cell who was dodging back and forth, "is what we consider a hopeless case." "What's the trouble with him?" inquired the visitor. "He thinks he is continually dodging automobiles and roller skates." Milwaukee Sentinel. The on ess man p. its a careless arm 'Round ttie waist ,,f hatless girl. While over the dust less, mudicss reads In a horseless wagon they whirl. Like a leadless bullet from hanimerlesa eun. By smokeless powder driven. They fly to taste the speechless joy By endless union given. The only luncheon liis coinleai purse Affords to them the means Is a tasteless meal of boneless cod. With a dish of Btringlest) beans. He smokes his tobaeeoless pipe, And laughs a mirthless laugh Vhen papa tries to coax her hack By wireless telegraph. Maurice Rutherford, In Lipptncott'a. ' this Senator Sn-o- ot i ni.. ; nihil Interested Enterprise itiiai in Railway . Denver. -- David II Moffat, builder ol the Denver. Northwestern & PacKi railroad, now in course o' construction who returned Tuesday from Salt lAk City, an nou uc. d thai he had made n'rangeiiientp wl'h i syndicate of Ctni ra pit all Sis, headed hj Jesse Knight and United Stales Senntot Reed Smoot to build a line of railroad from Sslf hake to Vernal tali, to connect with Ihe line which Mr Moffat Is building fc'.t from Donvei I |