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Show J JSERIA STORYi P MARCH OF THE. WHITE GUARD SIR GILBERT PARKER (Cop iUt, by K. K. Feaao & Co.) - j By i away and meit Mrs Lepage, lie said. as furnisbed with a treat horse He and lie left, bearing a message to the loal life from Varre Lepage. ,'aspar Hume derided to leave Fort Edmonton at once, and to take all the "White Guard back with him; and gav" CHAPTER VIII. February and March and April were orders to that effect. He entered pu.st and May was comeVarre Le- room where Varre Lepage :a: .'ae, Lime page had had a hard struggle for life, and said: "Varre Lepage, but he had survived. For weeks every has come for us to say gov if. I am night there was a repetition of that starting at once for Fori t idenee." first night after the return; delirious U But the other replied; Bjtfc ' entreaty, and love wait until my it- - ..in.-.of his wife, and Jaspar Hume's name There was pain in his voice. "I must not." mentioned now and again in shudder--i Varre Lepage braced himself for a ing remorse. With the help of the Indian who had shared the sick man's heavy task and said: "Jaspar Hume, sufferings in the Barren Grounds, the if the time has come to say good-by- , Factor and Jaspar Hume nursed him it has also come when we should back to life. Between the two watch- speak together for once openly; to ers, no word had passed after the first settle, in so far as can be done, a long You have not let my wife night regarding the substance of account Varre Lepage's delirium. But one know who saved me. That appears evening the Factor was watching from her letters. She asks the name alone and the repentant man from his of my rescuer. I have not yet told feverish sleep cried out, "Hush, hush; her. But she will know that don't let them know I stole them when I tell her all." both from him and the baby died be-- , "When you tell her all?" cause of that; God took it and Rose "When tell her all." did not know! She did not know!" "But you shall hot do that." "I will. It will be the beginning of Tie' Factor rose and walked away. The dog was watching him. He said the confession which shall afterward to Jacques: "You have a good master, make to the world." By Heaven you shall not do it Jacques too good and great for the Jl. B. C." Coward! Would you wreck her life?" Jaspar Hume's face was wrathful, and CHAPTER IX. remained so till the other sank back It is the 10th of May. In an armin the chair with his forehead in his chair made of hickory and blrchbark hands: but it softened as he saw this, sits Varre Lepage remorse and shame He began to see by reading a letter from his wife. She is that Varre Lepage had not clearly at Winnipeg, and is coming west as grasped the whole situation. He said far as Regina to meet him on his way in quieter, but still firm tones. "No, down. He looks a wreck; but a hand Lepage, that matte: Is between us some wreck! His refined features. two, and us alone. She must never his soft black beard and blue eyes. know - the world therefore must never You did an unmanly thing; his graceful hand and gentle manners. know. one would scarcely think belonged to you are suffering a manly remorse. man. He sits in the Now let it end here but I swear it an sunlight at the door, wrapped about in shall." he said in fierce tones as the moose and beaver skins. This, world other shook his heaci negatively; "I regular, and the tortured inln.1 found a short peace. With the old I'.ebating look in his eyes. Jaspar Hume sat until the Factor relieved blm. moii- 6 CHAPTER VI Continued. The White Guard had come back! They were met with cries of praise, broken by an occasional choking sound from men like Sergeant Gosse. .las-paHume has simply acknowledged his welcome as he had done the Godspeed two months and more ago. He with the Factor bore the sick man in, and laid him on his own bed. Then he came outside, and when they cheered him again, he said. "We have come safely through and I am thankful. But remember that my comrades in this march deserve your cheers in th's as much as I. Without them I could have done nothing in the perils that lay between here and the Barren Grounds." In our infirmities and in all our dangers and necessities." added Jeff Hyde, "the luck of the world was in the book!" In another half hour the White Guard was at ease, and four of them were gathered about the great stove . in the store, Cloud-ismoking of full and placidly, guttural emphasis; Late Car seal len moving his animal-likjaws with a sense of satisfaction; Gaspe Toujours talking in Chinook to the Indians, in patois to the French clerk, and In broken English to them all; and Jeff Hyde exclaiming on the wonders of the march, the finding of Varre Lepage at Mani-toMountain, and of himself and Gaspe Toujours buried in the snow. to-da- 1 r Cloud-in-the-Sk- j mid- 1 bed. Again the voice said, "Ten years 1 have repented ten years My wife JasI dare not speak Don't, don't! par forgives me, oh, Rose!" The Factor touched Jaspar Hume's 1 MINERS .tfiAfruJ P TO DEATH 1 HAS DOUBLE Low DASHED NORTHWEST WORK; Heavily Loaded Cage Drops 700 Feet in Shaft of Michigan Mine and Bodies of Victims Are Mashed to a Pulp. CAPACITY. Down Barrow Just Which Is What Farmer Needs. The drawing shows a low down barrow in sufficient detail to enable an one to make a similar one. We thim that next to the low down cart It is the handiest thing around the buildings and garden that we have, say-- , a writer in Farm and Fireside. Its rapacity is more than double that of the ordinary kind, and the load is much more easily put aboard. It has the advantage of getting into close quarters where the cart would not go. and lor use about the feeding alleys, the stable, the lawn and the garden thert- is hardly anything that will take its place. For the framework get two pieces of hard wood 2 by 2 inches which will project to form handles on one end aud for the wheel frame on the other. At front end of box in rear of wheel a piece of the same dimensions is mortised into the frame to hold it rigidly and to make the from end of (he box frame. Pieces Vi by inches are also mortised into the bottom of the legs, both front and back. These form the foundation for the door, 1 1 Negaunei Mich. By a cage plunging 700 feet down the shaft of the Jones & Laughllu Steel mine, eleven men were killed and seven fatally injured. The cage with its human freight was being lowered on its first trip of the day, when the brake suddenly failed to hold. The other men sprang to the assistance of the one at the brake wheel, but their efforts did not avail, and the wire cable continued to unreel from the drum like a thread from a bobbin. The cage shot down a couple of hundred feet before a kink in the too rapidly paying out cable caused it to part and from that point the cage had a sheer drop to the bottom of the shaft. 'Bhe safety catches with which is was equipped failed lo operate. The surging of the cable in its mad flight tore out a pan of the side of the engine house and ripped out several of the sheaves in and about the shaft house. Workmen at the bottom of the mine immediately set about the task of removing the dead. The bodies lay in one pile, a mass of lifeless flesh and blood. The bones of the bodies were so shattered that the nu n when they fell were piled on top of each other like so many pelts ol leather. Seven were found still alive. . CHINA -- BREAKING CHAINS. mperial Edict as to Establishmant of Parliament. r which should be of inch An Peking. imperial edict was isboards. The legs are mortised into the shaft or handle pieces, the front ones sued Friday authorizing Prince Pu Lun who was Chinese envoy at the resting about three inches from the St. Louis exposition, and Sun Chi Anai, ones rear and the securely ground in with the grand council, braced, as shown in the cut. If desired the sides may be built to frame resolutions for the establishfrom the floor solid and straight up. ment of a council of deliberation to but we find it better to have a per- aid the government "so that the founmanent bed from floor to top of han- dation may be laid for a parliament." The dowager empress says that, in dles, with removable side boards to slip on for use in handling bulky the establishment, of a representative government lor China the opinions of stuff. Heavy material, such as bags of ill must be considered, and though the founda-ionfertilizer, large stones, etc... are easily ipper and lower houses are is of the throne administration, handled with this type of harrow, as the unable to establish them in China at they may be loaded between present. handles directly from th-- ground. Both Chang Chi Tung and Yuan Shi Kai, since coming to Peking on MANURE SCIENCE. their appointment as grand councilors, nave urged the establishment of a conHow Different Feeds Influence Value stitutional reform of government, of the Fertilizer. calling the fact that this reform has been promised and that China and all The Maine station has recently is the rest of the world expect to see it sueu a bulletin describing a feeding carried out. Memorials to the throne experiment. One part of the expert from the blghesi officials throughout luent, at least, is very interesting. It China continue to reach Peking in deais with the influence feed has on large numbers, urging the throne to China a constitutional governthe fertilizing value of manure. Figur grant ment. ing the elements at what they would cost on the market, it was found that CANNERS WANT MORE TIME. a ton of hay contains $4.40 worth ol plant food elements. It is not stated Object to Enforcement of Food and what kind of hay was used, but tin Drug Act on October 1. supposition is that it was mixed hay Canners of food were Washington $11.81 before the board of food and drug inSpring wheat bran contains worth; fall wheat bran, $9.ti0 worth; spection on Wednesday, protesting and cotton seed meal. $2.'!. 60 worth ol against the regulation for the enforcefertilizing elements to the ton. In this ment of the food and drug act which experiment no consideration was tak provides that the rules in regard to en of the value the manure would labels shall go in effect after Oct. 1 possess as an improver of the humut naxt. content of the soil, which will he very The regulation provides that after considerable indeed. that date the principal label or can This shows the reader that if shall state the substance of the profeeds for his cattle and at the duct and the name of the place of has This regulation same time it Is necessary to pay some manufacture. attention to the fertility of his soil, hi been extended from time to time and should purchase those feeds which art canners now want a further extension. most valuable as improvers of the ma Canners represented at the hearing that they had a half a nure voided by the stock. It was found asserted million dollars' worth of labels on that hay was richer in potash than hand, which will be worthless If the any other element, containing mort regulation becomes effective at this potash than both nitrogen and phos lime. These concerns declared the phoric acid. Spring wheat bran had law to be confiscatory. The board will nearly as much phosphoric acid as submit Its recommendations to the secboth nitrogen and potash. Cotton seed retary of agriculture. meal contained almost twice as much Auto and Electric Car Collide. nitrogen as both phosphoric acid and Denver. Colo. Seven persons were potash. Hence, if the soil needs hu mus and perhaps potash, feed liberally injured, three perhaps fatally, as a re of hay; if It needs phosphoric acid, suit of a collision between an automo bile and an electric car on the outlet bran enter largely into the ration if it needs nitrogen, a great dial of skirts of this city Friday night. The cm ten seed meal should be fed. party, which included several Chicago tour people, had been on a and was returning to the city. Tin FARM ITEMS. car was running along at a good speed, when an electric car loomed up. com Do not wait for the wagon to ing directly across the path of the for grease before pulling it on. The chauffeur expected automobile. We are told that In building the car to slow up. and evidently the dam which holds back the wa motorman depended on the automobile ters id' the Nile for Irrigation, tlocks of to slacken its speed. sheep and goats were iiriven back and Two-Cen- t Fare Law Knocked Out. forth to pack down the earth. A roller fare law with teeth like a sheep's hoof has now Harrisburg, Pa. The enacted at the recent session of the been invented for packing oiled roads The Connecticut experiment station Pennsylvania legislature was adjudged Invalid, unconstitutional and void in Its stati s that 5.000 tons of cotton-seemeal are annually used as fertilizer by application to the Susquehanna River tobacco growers In that state at a cost At Western Railway company in an of $155,000. In 1899 the acreage cost opinion rendered Friday at RIoomfleld by Judge Shiill, of the Perry county was $22.80 per ton. making nitrogen in his cost 12.9 cents a pound Last year court. The law, he declared is in derogation of the Pennsy! the pi ice hm risen to $ ;i per ton of decree, constitution. He quotes figures vnnia meal or 19.4 a pound for nitrogen of the earnings to show that the enNo soli that will produce a variety forcement of the rate ordained by the of crops should he farmed continually act would be confiscatory. with one crop. One writer has estimated that ten crops of one kind of Police and Passengers Fight. grain will exhaust the best soli in the San Francisco There were numerI'nit. d Htates. ous riots in the southern and mission It hag been shown that rowpeas madistricts Friday night as a result of ture In about 80 days. This proves an attempt by the police to enforce that the seed can he sown after an the ordinance designed lo prevent the early crop of oats has been removed overcrowding of street cars. When and a heavy growth will eptilt by the the police tiled to carry out orders the time the farmer Is ready to fall plow passengers were not aware of the The farmer who practices a rotation and those who were perched on of corn, small grain, corn, small grain, lop of the cms refused to vacate their clover two years and pasture two positions. In several caseii the police vears and then repeats, will never be were required to use force anil fightThese disturbances oc conf touted with a worn out farm. ing resulted. 'utred at a dozen places Low Ddwii Barrow. s night Varre Lepage lay asleep with his wife's letters received through the Factor clasped to his breast. The firelight played upon a face prematurely old a dark, disappointed fact; a doomed face, as it seemed to the Factor. "You knew him, then." the Factor said, after a long silence. Yes; I knew him well, years ago," replied Jaspar Hume. .lust then the sick man otirred in his sleep, and said disjointedly. "I'll make it all right to you, Jaspar." Then came a pause and a quicker utterance, love you "Rose Forgive forgive!" The Factor rose and turned to go, and Jaspar Hume, with a despairing, sorrowful gestu'-e- , went over to the arm. "This is delirium," he said. "He has fever. You and must nurse him, Hume. You can trust me you understand.'' "Yes, ! can trust you." was the reply. "But I can tell you nothing." i do not want to know anything. If you can watch till two o'clock I will relieve you. I'll send the medicine chest over. You know how to treat him." The Factor passed out and the other was left alone with the man who had wronged him. The feeling most active in his mind was pity, and as he prepared a draught from his own stock of medicines, he thought the He past and the present all over. knew that however much he had suffered, this man had suffered more And in this silent night there was broken down any slight barrier that ma;, have stood between Varre Lepage and his complete compassion. Having effaced himself from the calculation, justice became forgiveness. He moistened the sick man's lips and bathed his forehead, and roused him once to take a quieting powder. Then he sat down and wrote to Hose But he tore the letter up Lepage. again and said to the dog: "No, cannot; the Factor must Jacques. do it. She needn't know yet that ft was I with the White Guard who saved him. It doesn't make any burden of gratitude for her. if my name And the Factor is kept out of it. mustn't mention me, Jacques not yet. And when he Is well we will go to Iondon with It, Jacques, and we needn't meet her; and it will be all light, Jacques; all right!" And the dog seemed to understand; for he went over to the box that held It; and looked at his master. And Jaspar Hume rose and broke the seal aud unlocked the box and opened It. but he heard the sick man moan and he closed it again and went over to the bed. The feeble voice Hald. "I must speak 1 cannot die sonot so Jaspar." And Jaspar Hume murmured. "God help Mm." A 1 he moistened the lips once again, at a put a cold cloth on the fevered hi t.l. and then sat down And Varre Lepage by the Are again slept. As if some charm ho ' been In that 'Gold help hira." the rentier hands grew quiet, tilt breath became FARM TO REFUSED three-quarte- CHAPTER VII. Jaspar Hume's house at - BRAKE d the-Sk- In ! He Moistened the Sick Man's Lips. and wood is glad. .Not so would have let you die at Manitob Varre Lepage. He sat and thought of Mountain, if had thought you would what was to come. He had hoped at dare to take away your wife's peace times that he would die, but twice your children's respect." have no children: our baby died " Jaspar Hume had said, "I demand your life; you owe it to your wife to Jaspar Hume again softened. "Can me to God!" And he had pulled his you not see. Lepage? The thing canheart up to this demand and had not he mended." Just then his hand lived. But what lay before him'' He touched the hook that he still carried saw a stony track, and he shuddered. in his bosom, and as if his mother had The Bar of Justice and Restitution whispered to him. he continued: "I raised its cold barriers before him: bury it all. and so must you. You and he was not strong! will begin the world again old friend As he sat there facing his future and so shall I. Keep your wife's Jaspar llunie came to him and said. love and respect. Henceforth you "If you feel up to it. Lepage, we will will deserve it." start for Edmonton and Shovanne on Varre Lepage raised moist eyes to Monday. I think it will be quite safe, the other and said: "But you will take acshall and your wife is anxious. back the money I gol for that!" company you as far as Edmonton; you There was a pause, then Jaspar can then proceed to Shovanne by easy Hume replied: "Yes. upon such terms, Stages, and so on east in the pleasant times and conditions as shall hereweather. Are you ready to go?" after fix. And you have no child, Le"Yes! I am ready." page?" he gently added. "We have no child: it died with my CHAPTER X. fa me." On a beautiful May evening Varre (TO HE CONTINUED.) Lepage, Jaspar Hume, and the White Guard are welcomed at Fort EdmonBarnes Explained Why. ton by the officer in command of the Many to people in this section rememMounted Police. They are enjoy the hospitality of the Fort for a couple ber Augustus Barnes, who lor years of days, before they pass on. Jaspar drove the stage between Tilton and Franklin, before the railroad was built. Hume Is to go back with Dr. Tucker, president of Dartmouth and Late Carscallen, and a numacross tells ol from college, is a riding this for ber of Indian carriers, one day. Just out of Tilton. on the journey of business too. Gaspe and Jeff Hyde are to press on sandy bank of Wimlplseogee river, with Varre Lepage, who is now much Is located the Tilton cemetery. Dr. Tuncker was occupying a seat stronger and better. One day passes, beside the venerable driver, and as on the following morning Jaspar and Hume gives Instructions to Gaspe they passed the city of the dead, he Is a queer place for a Toujours and Jeff Hyde, and makes said: "ThatI wonder why such a spot preparations for his going back. He cemetery. was selected?" Is standing In the Barracks Square, Barnes explanation wa.i short and when a horseman rides in and inquires of a sergeant standing near. If to the point, his answer being: "F.asy Varre Lepage has arrived at the Fort. 'tigging." Ronton Herald A few words bring out the fact that Had the Same Result. Rose Lepage is Hearing the Fort from the south, being determined to come in a Georgia town where prohibion from Shovanne to meet her hustion prevails a man was arrested three band, The trooper thinks she Is now times in one day. charged with being alKut eight or ten miles away; but is drunk on the streets. not sure. He had been sent on ahead "Where did you get the whisky the day before, hut his horse having asked the mayor. met with a slight accident, he had 'I didn't drink no whisky." was the He had seen the party, reply "Nuthn' in the wort', yer honor, been delayed however, a long distance back In the 'cept cane Juice, liver regulator, hair IBmust now ride tonic, an' red Ink!" Pittsburg Pies sarll morning of plain I Cloud-ln-the-Sk- y Til-to- Ton-Jour- s ' f 1 : sight-seein- t d pur-pos- NOTES In a collision between a freight ant passenger train near Whlteflsb, Mont , ci. v. ti passengers were injured, but cone seriously. William McClaln, an expressman of Reno, Nevada, took a dose of carbolic acid, during a lit of despondency, and was dead before medical aid arrived. Believed to be the victim of the Black Hand, or of a Sicilian vendette, Cerardo Carnival!, a market gardener, was shot through the head aud killed when returning to his truck farm in the outskirts of Denver. Representatives of certain corporations in Seattle are cited to appear before the Central Labor council on complaint of the striking telegraphers to show cause why they should not be placed on the unfair list by the la! "r council. Socialism in the Pacific northwest will build its Utopia at Adrian, near the Grand Coulee, west of Spokane if the plans formulated by the Adrian Irrigation company. Just Incorporated under the laws of Washington, with $300,000 capital, are worked out Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Fail Steeu and others, prominent stockmen in the Wallowa section of eastern Oregon, charged with the theft of a large number of cattle belonging to the Madden brothers and F. W". Kettenbach, of Lewlston, Idaho. Charles A. Reynolds, proprietor of in Port land, has been a acquitted of the charge of murdering George Hibbln, or Herbert, a musician, who came there recently from Walla Walla Reynolds set up the idea that he was justified in h(3 act because Hibbln had despoiled Reynold's home. Taking advantage of a session law of 1905, Latah county. Idaho, is about to begin organization of n county agricultural fair. Judge S. S. Denning, in looking through a copy of the session laws of the state legislature of 1905, finds that an act permits counties to use one-hal- f mill of the county assessment for fair purposes. Grace Gidley, the daughter and heir of William .1. Gidley, an old stage line driver, who died in Montana in 1896, has been located in Kansas City alter a search of eleven years. Gidley left an estate, composed principally of Billings, Mont., realty, to his daughter, and the lawyers have been searching for her all this time. Joe Passha, an Assyrian, was shot and instanly killed by Robert Mulkey In a saloon at Thermopolls, Wyo. Mulkey fired four bullets into Passha's body without apparent provocation. He lied, but was captured and turned over to the authorities, but esraped a sec-ntime while being taken to Lander, Feeling against him is high. It is learned here on reliable that the Union Pacific has with the Rock Island railroad for 50,000 carloads of Sherman hill gravel, to he delivered to that company at Denver for the ballasting of the entire line from Denver to Chicago. The delivery will begin the of the season next year. A shipment of 12,000 sheep, most of the animals being consigned to Swiff & Co., at Chicago, was held In quarantine at the slock yards at Laramie, and dipped before being moved. A federal inspector found one hunch of sheep affected with scabies, and as the others had been exposed, it was decided to order the whole lot dipped. Laurel. Mont., was practically wiped out on tlie 18th by fire which destroyed the business center and which would have destroyed the entire city had not The loss is dynamite been used. piaced at between $150,000 and $250.-00- 0 inand the buildings destroyed clude the bank, postofftce aud two large general merchandise stores. which for boldness and A hold-up- , nerve has never been equalled, occurred In Butte one night last week. A lone masked man walked into a saloon, gun In hand, and in the presence of some twenty customers robbed the till of about $.15. At the time there were dozens of people on the street and less than half a block away a policeman was on duty. The Ely, Nevada, police, postal au thorities and officials of the Giroux Consolidated Mining company, are trying to explain the mysterious disappearance of pay checks aggregating e $1,600, which were sent, to the for shipment. The letters were sent by a drayman to he posted, who in turn entrusted them to a stranger Neither the letters or the stranger have since been seen. When about to board the overlan limited, bound for Philadelphia, and ultimately destined for Oxford university, Kngland. Arthur St. Clair of Deeth, a student of the state university, the only Rhodes scholarship man ever sent from Nevada,, was made the victim of the theft of a suitcase containing his clothing, credentials and personal belongings. Fly, Nevada, papers are rather proud o! the license collections for the quarter ending September I. This is interesting the tenderfoot population because of $10,400 collected $6,510 was collected from gambling houses, $90) from saloons and $1,550 from dance halls. flock of mallard ducks flew against high tension electric wires fifteen miles from Vancouver, B. C. The current was short circuited and $2,000 dam age was done in the Vancouver power house. Street cars and electric lights were put out of commission for twenty minutes. The eighteen months old son of Mr. nnd Mrs. Thomas Lynch, of Virginia I'lty, Mont, fell headforemost into a keg and was drowned in six Inches of water. The father had left the child hut a few minutes before and whea the mother found the baby life & extinct. bath-hous- e d intor-matio- n con-racte- g post-offic- I five-gallo- |