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Show I BEACON-FIEL- AT MEJV'S SECTldjV. flJEAB it I!Y J. PERCY BARNITZ. This Is a picture of Lord Beacons 1301, l:y Daily Story Full. Co.) (Copinsli, field at the age of 22. He was the! Section Four was the long at section proprietor of "The Ranger's Heat," waa plain Benjamin Disraeli, aud had jus the Third Division of the C. and J. at the bottom of It. on famous Vlvia. bis novel, published The Injured man was taken to the It was so long and so many Railroad. litGrey," which won high favor In l occurred on ihst stretch hospital at Templeton, where he was ha fatalities simwas The London. picture erary decided Interviewed by Ilinry Fortune. the author of of road, that the iiouia'? ment ply published as , thinki"Yes, Mr. Fortune,' raid the brake-man-, M.dlie It call the (n Vivian Grey,' and fur a time was 1 did have a drink at Carlos' ng thereby to ( 'a; e tl. o'.i '.is name which It was place Just 1,'tis1. (. pulled out o' uf Dead Mr:. i', ni-- n the country Grcgr on-- U. . wln.le rew had a called by ruilics! tu y would, the drink, fur l!:at ii:.tter. llut I don't uer. But call it. think it w : iiu whNky that affected tlr.it parmanaBeoieut cot Id m-line from the me Itii twa; 3 !; n vir di I oher tlin.'S. ticular purl ion of Jt was j:.--l l:iwe tlxltf u.ar as I j.'iutMiire ai .''!!: can re;,;! ui'.i.:-- . 1 are J. C. u:i'! 01 The seel '(mis t'" walking along 'f the in', n u Lit o' box iars towards f !: .1: nut eight or , lln"-the front o tbr- train, when all at trj'k, as Is the iss-- ia once everyth:!; ix--: :iu J to shine like n liuuil v-- r.i.l fl.'iy-m- . hut on lire :obl. Then it lii.'iigid to white, anil Itp'lih is the I f'dt that I nri.--t run run as fast as Important link in the I touM. Felt like. And lio:ii"," ui.d v, biiU the Lm v .' i' r t ,J from the then 1 couMnt l. ip wy-vjany mare, mid ran IGl i f ;! from the train. ji il B:v r lo t': l'.'-- GiuJ.de. Ei:t a - . ..i.le division In, time w;i.s nl.dionte in ll;.nry Fi 111 I .rn: In ns belief th..t tl.ii s::iist(rr-lookin- g 1 t lie at it j: '',.1, mute was to l:!::nic for the mortality i f Th.m, n:. 1 lb- li the fact lining his lji;ii,. :::vii, for the ir'.v M.I i' I : v I lou. And 'bo said c.'w.') , t L t it w.m anything that hu hld ::.;t tain rcir.lilla of proof u he vn pro- - to ihnt and employed a private hut good f ii'iMu1 H for until liis (IrtivtiYo aye in y In Chicago to work al td to p..i never on the case. ho f pl.riintuioJiJ 11L ebr.'ifnl col- l- linn niii.sk of IVpsi Unit Mcnl In that The den! i Tin tivn sent by the ngoncy to he could life uf the that l.i.own ojy -- ) l.y Law ition noun Kinley, taken oon niter l nth fit BufDivir-io'-i Middle the the role trouble. of full 1 Id bill tut w of Nl loll falo has been pent to Washlngi-mN' k. Ill tli of a freight hiukniucm. For two weeks brukt-incfew with only Freight where it will lit of Cromwell, Na- the talk of the town. Lord Beacous among the. am the death ilia; ixcep'lons were the ones whom Death he reported "no progress, and then which an kt-- t inoat wu-mpoleon, George Viiiti!ugtun, Lincoln, field was burn la 104 aud died u MM to single out as his victims. ono night fco, too, fell a victim to the Itlcti-ard fu thu capital city. A duplicate of the Edwin nouth, I.uwieniv Barrett, Dead Meua Section," much to the And the majority of those who were mask will be made un1 scut to Print-e-(ullrluslcy Slniiiluii, aud many other bedeaths met their falling killed by . University, to be added to the ccl- famous ALASKA IS FERTILE neath the cars while the trains were running eastward between Gregson's Two Gentlemen of Verona," where Alaska Is not as barren a land w and Warm Springs. which rail: Because of the "hoodoo, Julia gives Proteus a ring, saying: people generally 1HE WEDDING RING regard It. The Mens "Dead on was men said road Keep you this remembrance for thy received opinion Is that It Is (, Julia's sake, and he replies: Why, region of snow and Ice, of chilly blasts flection, It was almost Impossible to for the Attached to the use of the ring in then, well make exchange. Here, take and utter devolution. Governor Brady, secure reputable employee deof the service wedding and other rercinontea from you this." operating freight however, thinks there is much to enAs Division. the curlicKt times there have been mysMiddle of the The fourth finger of the left hand If one may judge by hi partment of the tic meanings. Whether the plain hand has from long usage been consecrated joy there. the a personnel consequence proclamation, in which d on that division was or the article which to the wedding ring, from an ancient Thanksgiving he seta forth many reasons for gratis freight trainmen fashInto the changing time brought belief that from this finger a nerve tudd. Here are some of them: "We lq composed literally of the scum of the earth. And, therefore, it Is not to be ion, the ring has retained the slgnlfl-canc- e went direct to the heart. Bo completeAlaska In comparing our blessings with wondered at that the life of Henry attached to It as a sacred em- ly was this fanciful piece of physiology those which In our friends enjoy othef blem or an emblem typifying sacred confided In by the Greeks and Romans Fortune, superintendent, waa not a find that we have much for one. The difficulties he expericeremonies. To the devoutly religious that their physicians term this the places happy which to be We have an enced In or the careless scoffer at religion the medical or healing finger and used It abundance of thankful.and where handling the polygenous meq grass, little circlet has Its charm. to utlr their mixtures, from a notion have attempted to till the earth It hal freight crews were legion; but they were ae nothing compared to the deFrom the earliest period myaile sig- that nothing noxious could communiyielded many fold and those who have pressing fact that in aplte of all prenificance has been associated with the cate with It without lie giving Imme- tried It are satisfied that greater things Diviring. In Its circular continuity It was diate warning by a palpitation of the are in store for them. The sea has not cautions Death held the Middle sion In a firmer grasp than ever. a of and of type eternity accepted Is retained in failed to yield of Its abundance heart This and Although the Middle Division passed the stability of affection. The Jews full force in superstition some country places, not- our fishermen have been handsomely a land of weary desolation, through It an Important feature of the ably in Europe, where all the fingers of rewarded fur their toll. The mineral which, with Its fllnt-lik- e Kake soil; Its in the marriage ceremony. the hsnd are to lie injurious wealth of Alaska la more promising to- boundless, unbroken monotony of thought The rings used In the Jewish marriage except the ring finger, which is 1 couldnt help myself, and ran. day than in the past. It Is here, and plains, was enough In itself to depress rite were sometimes of large size and to have the power of curing anythought sore or when othsined will represent human the the almost of mortification man, and disappointyet any disgust, spirits elaboration of workinanahlp. It wound which la stroked effort We have not been visited by superintendent never for a moment ment of Henry Fortune. by It Cuch to Jewish the according destructive disturbances of the at- supposed that any of bis men comWhen the detective agency was Inlaw, that me rings be of a certain valformed of the death of their operative, mosphere, earth or sea. While we re- mitted suicide. Pstslass la Washlaaloa. ue. It la esiniincd and certified by our There were but few men In his em- and learned that he had met the peAn Immense potato crop has been count our manifold blesalngi the officiating rabbi and chief officer! cahe will the that did not use liquor. But culiar and mysterious fate of so many thoughts tempered by season In ploy raised this the by Irrigation the synagogue when It la received lamity which overwhelmed so many liquor could hardly be held iccount-Ibl- e brakemen, they became more deterEf Yakima Indian in the reservation the bridegroom, whose absolute for the strange fatalities on "Dead mined than ever to sift the occurrence people on the ateamehlp Islander and state of Washington. The property It must he, and not obtained for export la 2,000 carloads, quantity we In the feel which humiliation the Men's Other trainmen em- to the bottom, and sent several of their Section. by one by credit or gift. When this Is prop- farmer will clear (10,000. It and manner of the death of President Mc- ployed on the division besides freight best men to the section of the country estila erly certified the ring Is returned to brakemen drank, just as hard, and yet between Gregson's and Warm Springs. Kinley. him and he places It on the brides mated that (he crop will be 40,000 In the latter part of February a there were no more accidents among worth (1,000,000. tone, finger, calling attention to the fact that occur on the ordi- man claiming to be a buyer of cattle them than usually fur Apparatuses Making Coin phe Is, by means of this ring, consefor a Chicago packing house, put up Thousands of apparatuses for 'mak- nary railroad. crated to him. and so completely bindAlfohiil Product la (Isrmsay. One night in early January the at "The Ranger's Rest, and, on the coffee have been Invented. The ing e ing Is this action that, should tlie The production of alcohol In Ger"Mexican Flyer" was wrecked between pretext of awaiting the arrival of Imnot be further consecrated, no many In the year 1897 was 95,532,300 Patent Office la packed with pots, etc., Warm The portant letters remained for several Springs and Gregsons. some of which cost (25 apiece. Some other could be contracted by cither gallons, two-thirof which was dethe days at the little hotel. He saw that accompanied superintendent boll some the coffee; say say parly without a legal divorce. to the scene of the disrived from potatoes of domestic origin. expertsboll train whenever a crew of freight trainmen wrecking It. Some foreigner! prefer don't Solemn A patronized the bar, Carlos would Inaster. It was a wretched night by means of the It was produced in country distilleries, to make a In It and they storm of sleet and rain heat variably place two bottles cf liquor ring often preceded matrimony In the which number almut 12,600, of which have it ae clearsaucepan, as crystal and as heavy middle ages and w.m sometimes adoptdown with chilling force on that bar6,220 produce only from 204 to 2,042 upon the counter, pushing a square strong as alcohol. While I was In Su- ren waits of land, and ed between lovers who were almut to gallons. Fortune bottle In front of where one or more Henry matra, several years ago, I drank cof- made It hie first Separate for long periods. Shakespeare duty to see that the brakemen stood. fee made of the dried leaves of the cofhoe more than once alluded to the cusWords may shake a mans convicOne day when the opportunity ofpassengers wers taken to Gregson's, fee tree Instead of the beans. At first and there comfortable fered, the pseudo-stockmmade as tom, which Is absolutely enacted In his tions but seldom shatter them. filled sevI supposed they were brewing tea. But as possible In the miserable adobe eral flasks from the bottles of liquor revvvivvifkvriftivvvvsvvvvevvvvvkfvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvxk waa as I fine coffee as It have ever building bearing the name of "The standing on the shelves beneath the tasied. bar. These were sent to Chicago for Ranger's Rest. I I CLEPTOSCOPE FOR SUBMARINE VESSELS. The proprietor of this squalid hosanalysis, and a few weeks later Dumtelry of the Texas plalna was a singumy Carloa was awaiting trial In the BXTELLED MO.TiiOI lar Individual. Ha was a tall, lank, jail at Templeton on a charge of poisinister-lookin- g whose soning, and the mystery of Dead beady eyee seamed to glow with a Mens Section had been solved. M. Edouard Ilerve, the Preach proseml-muts, ho A curious story was brought out at malignant passion. A fessor who has been dismisses from was liable to articulate Intelligibly, the trial of the vindictive hie chair In Paris for writing but aeuld understand perfectly all that a story too long to hers tall in detail, articles, la one of the most dis- was said to him. There was something but which was substantially as foltinguished scholars In France, and has about the man that fascinated Henry lows: been an eminent figure la the educa-186-4, Pertnne, as he watched hie shifty, catThe analysis of the liquor In the when he won the first prise la like movements, while dispensing the several flasks showed that It was all tlonal and literary life of Paris since vile, yellow-lookin- g wklaky over his of the aame cheap brand of wblaky, philosophy at the Normal College. He bar to the motley crowd of cowboys but the contents of one flask was la a member of the French Academy, a gathered in the earth- - found to have been heavily steeped with knight of the Legion of Honor and has the woolly loco weed, commonly called been several times honored by many craxy weed, a plant native to the of the learned societies of Europe. M, Great Plains reglon,and which causes Ilerve was professor of mathematics at much damage to the stock of ranchthe University of the City of Paris. Ei' men. The action of this poison on man In small doses Is to cause a short period of hallucination or mania, accompanied by defective eyesight, during which the affected person Is seised with an irresistible desire to run. It was tlie administration of this decoction to the brakemen of the Middle Division that hud caused them to run along the cars of their train and, being unable to sou where they were their stepping, invariably fall to deaths. Carlos admitted the fact that eight years back, when the C. and J. was first built through that region, he was beating his way on a freight train fo:n - Gregsons to Warm Springs, when he was discovered by two brake-me- n who threw him from the train. Until that time he had been possessed r his full powers of speech, but hu was so severely injured about the head that the portion of the brain controllTV floored barroom. by it waa the suing the vocal cords became in time afperintendent could never tell, but in- fected. and he finally lost the power tuitively the conviction was suddenly to articulate plainly. The Indian In forced upon him, that In some way his nature became aroused, and after this evidently treacherous man was lie opened The Ranger's Rest near connected with the mystery of "Dead the railway station at Gregson's, he offense was alleged to Incite Insubordetermined to become revenged on all dination in the army and to prejudice Men's Section." This opinion, once formed, grew freight brakemen running eastward cltlzbns against military service. in the mind of the superinfrom thst point His devilish, savage M. Hcrve Is 65 years old, but age stronger time passed, and when, cunning led him to use the loco weed as tendent A Roman engineer, M. Trlulil, has successful, and photography of obdoes not seem to have dampened the weeks after the wieck of the as the best means to securt that reInvented a tube with crystal prlsths, jects on the water Is possible thereby fires of his youth, which was mashed some Mexican as hs was familiar with Its efFlyer, a brake:i.,.n tumbled submarine boat from a vessel beneath. whereby those In a by that almost defiant spirit with between the cars of hB ti.na a few venge, fect the rattle and horses which upon can see what Is going on at the surface Tbs experiments were made on which he opposes his enemies In kta miles east of Gregson's. and by good roamed tbs plains of Texas. He was at the water. The Instrument Is called board ths submarine II Delphlno, tnd present severe trouble. Hie article and luck hu .he vet abiut declared Insane by the Jury which was t n the presence of Slg. Morin, the Its results are the foremost topic la the clepto scope. to Investigate the accident, on the tried him, and he waa sent to the atate Minister of Marine. , The experiments hive been entirely political circles In the Ft !.-- wpiUL assumption Gummy Carlos," the asylum for Insane criminals for life. LIv'.-.iou- t . , - Eu-t.-- m - In.-teu- iv-hi- ur-u- "G-vi- Trans-("oi.Jluent- al l tu-ter.-- cs ( i lii-nr- tup-rlu'- i - u -- t p-- li-- .d i , TA0 FLAOS UNDER The man without a country" Is generally regarded as an anomaly, hut there is something far stianger a postofflee that docs business under two flags It la located at Beebe Plain,, a town that Is half in the state of Vermont and half In the pi o vines of Quebec. The building was erected some seventy-fiv- e years sgo exactly on the line between the United States and Canada, so that it stands in two countries and selves the postal service of two nations. The cellar of the building connects the two and some yeui ago .when the po tofi'.cv was u general store, wliisk was known to be sold la ono cuui.iry and delivered In another without liiiviiu P.one out from snder the roof of the old structure. This combination posterities la now being run by laic-n- t and il.ild, the father b. lug pos;i,:i!ri t for Canadian Quclii'c the daughter postmistress for Vermont. Biunillug In fruut or this stiui.ge posloflice is a hiri po.-- t which marks the boundary 1'iih, and it lx s.dd that at one time a man wlo wauled lo get a roadway to h!s premisra moved this post, aud many ihou:unis of dullurs in esand no little time was tablishing the cxait line again. r l mi-1)- SINGERS HONORED Mins Mary McFarland and Miss Marie McFarland, twin sisters of Den- - ceea-raonl- motto-lnscrlbe- u mu Mary ScVarland. Ter, Colo., who are well known as much for their heauty as for their talent aa songsters, have been chosen to lng at the coronation ceremonies of King Edward VII. to be held next summer. The Misses McFarland have been great travelers and It was upon one of their 'journeys through Europe that they met the present king of England, mar-plag- an half-bree- d, half-bree- anti-milita- ry foul-smelli- b-i- d; Mlu Maria MaFarlaad. at that timo prince of Wales. R Iq stated that the royal command to sing at the ceremonies proceeds directly from the king and Is not the outcome uf the plans of the committee which has this matter In hand. THE SUCCESSFUL EYE There are two classes of human eyes, says Professor J. M. Simon, the em--' lnent occulist. First, the cold and Indifferent eye, which falls upon you with the same Interest that it would fall upon some large building or anything else. Then there Is the warm flattering eye that indicates human in teres t. The gray is the strong one. I have, observed in the majority uf ruses oft people who have risen to eminence; that the eye has been gray, altlioughi I am inclined to believe that-thgrayj eye Is weaker than any other. A gray; rye can charm, and in every Instance! I give a man with that color of eyei more consideration than if his eyes, are 'of another color. e Likad tlie frock. An English soldier's wife once tonkj her little girl to see her father, who, was on sentry duty. The soldier, who! was In a Scottish regiment, wore the orthodox tartan and kilt. The little, girl, not having seen her father before In such a garb, could not understand; It, and looking up at her mother, ex- -, claimed: "Mother, when father ha found the man who stole his trousers, may 1 have that little frock? otee Carries Elsht Nile. Eighteen miles Is said to be the longest distance on record at which, a man's voice hu been heard. This; occurred In the grand canyon of the Colorado, where one man shouting the name "Bob, at one end, hla voice wu plainly heard at the other end. which Is eighteen miles away. |