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Show HE RIV AT ftRIN VAfflELS X Thrilling Story of Herculean Effort and the Master Passion That Inspired It B y BBADFO-R- D Jt. w (CwTKkt tin lees 1M. by B. K. Doaklel n SLEIGH tli hula country station, and a fwwt. prisoner, heavily fcudc lilted and 4uM the with thow-t- n slushy moor e etop-th- a Mod day. g platforau eloaoly foltoned by BhartS jktcrMa Ha drop padtoodown pin tha baggage track in tba iMtalUbt ky tha trooa and dully out aeroaa tha whitened tba rivar, where wet ca gitoiaasd la tha aaa. Tha offloer aloud law tort fcahlnd him, watching hla slightest movewsuL A Brack! Gaa! They'va caught acoro at collarlaaa loafers cams pouring at af tha watting mom from about tha leprous at ora and stared In open mouth-a- d wander at tha man an tha truck. Had tba redoubtable sheriff appeared with a chained linn they could not have been mors fascinated, more awed. It was them bloodhounds that dona It. They tracked him forty mile through t))t woods. They ventured a Utile nearer. : en a Ho woa In aur ham for week and lived on milk and pulped turn ripe, but wa didn't hnaw nothing about R tin afterward, doe! The figure on tha truck stirred, and tha rrewd fell back. Coma on up nearer. He'a handcuffed. He can't hurt you." Not much! lie amashed Joe Porter to a jelly with the handcuffs on tha last time they took him. A wh lulls screeched somewhere behind an orchard, the escaping steam shot up above the trees and as the station master hurried nut with a mail sack and n rad flag the primmer roe stiffly, and tha abend led him down the platform. The train wheesad and clanked to a standstill, and the twe men climbed on at the rear, Then, like a flask, Al Brock jerked hla narrowed left hand (twe Angara and a atrip of the hand bud been blown awny by the explosion of a gun) from Ito manacle and dealt tba sheriff a terrific blow upon (he head with tha dangling Iron, felling him to the floor, and before tha roar platform moved up In sight of tha loafers leaped with tha aanaeleaa man down tba embankment at tha farther aids of the track. da the train moved away Al looked cautiously about him. Tba station master had removed the flag from the edge of tha platform and waa'snlaring tha waiting room. The loafers were hurrying sway toward the corner grocery to spread tha nawn Halfway up tha bank tha ahsriff lay sprawling upon hla face. At tha aiding three men wore loading ly lumber upon a flat car. Ha crept along until screened by Inter-rsnibox ran, than vaulted the fence and ran toward tha river. On tha ether Mde lay tha Culted Utah and freedom his confederate smugglers fall-a- d him. Reaching the river, he sprang out upon the Ice, splashing straight on, with head down, through tha puddles that the sun had mailed upon lie surface Suddenly he stopped short, arrested by the rhythmic crunch of kw under the feet of a sharp calked horse, and. looking up, ha saw a sirtgh heading straight toward him. Al Brat he thought It was a reveuue officer and il mi ng A All DEALT TmVBHERirP A TERRIFIC BLO W IrUN THE HEAD. ts fight till ha diad rather be recaptured. Then ha aaw a black plume past the horae'a head and a moment later recognised Hlterlff Peterson's wife. For n moment ho stared, stood ready I has dumfdundod, then looked dasiierately about him for a hiding place, Why, of all tha women in tha world, muat ha meet hi-- r and havs her look upon hla kerne? Suddenly he laughed an ugly laugh, and moved on with head down straight toward the approaching horse, and as tha animal came oppoelie sprang and caught It by tha bridle. "Al Brock!" For a long moment the short ITs wife eat motionless, paralysed with aatonlehment'and fear. Then ahe snatched the whip and struck the boras amass tlie flank. It leaped forward with a anurt, but with ona hand gripAl threw it back upon ping Its nostrils Its haum-hea- . flat out!" flhe locked at hla faro and ped out upon tha lea without R OU N D WITH than stepa ward. s THE t. Patrick's Day birthday of lTlaa Eileen a teacher in the sellout, nuns on fit. Celebration In honor of the day. Ulna O'Connor lived with her grand uncle and sum, Mr. and Mm Quinlan, a flue ogndwtehes raks candles cream, rhocolatc and lemonade, with aotno Irish ataw besides which Mm Quinlan herself made for thorn. After that Mr. and Mrs Quinlan danced a real Irish Jig. to the Immense delight of the young KiddvtlUans hardly any of wham had ever seen such n denes And tho spiraeas of the smart old couple emased them alL By mother couldn't do that!" "Ns nor mins" they whispered during ths performance, which fairly took away tha breath of fat Einma Lana and buy Clarence Paterson. After tha dance was over and aha had rested a little lire. Quinlan told ths Klddvllle children fairy stories till their eyes grew big and round with yonder. Ph said that In Ireland when she waa a little girl all tha children believed In fairies sure enough and sometimes actually thought they saw them stepping out of flower cups or hiding among tho grass blades and laughing at tha human people. And, Indeed, the children were not at all certain from what Mrs Quinlan aald that aha her self did ant still believe In fairies grown woman though aha was. Then Mr. Quinlan, who waa learned on the subject of mints told them thnl Ireland has three patron saints instead of ons Besides fit Patrick there la Mother mas fit. Columbs whom fit. Patrick himself biassed, and a beauti Ice DANCIWO $ orated with ths Intertwined flags of ths United States and ancient Ireland. Many of the children never knew before that the ancient flag of Ireland was groin and had upon It Uio omblam of a gol.len harp, tho harp of Erls Tha green of ths flag waa slightly bluish. Ilka the Irish aliaimw) or clover sprigs which era sent each PL Fat-forday by people In the old country to relatives and friends here. Tha shamrock la a plant sacred to fit Patrick. The children had tha usual party Patrick's day, March IT. Mias O Conner's pupils, honored both the food saint and the lady by having a A JIO. Id couple who thomaelvos had come rom Ireland, when they were young. !be party waa held at their hours and hey Just gave themselves up to ace-- V that the young people had a good lass Their dialog room waa dec NEAR AND Last year nearly I.SOS.OOO barrels of pplcrn were exported from the United Rates to England. After prolonged experiments la ths llstlllatlon with the electric kre of vart-metal" and metalloids, Henri Moisten. aa eminent French chamiau has hj FAR. , h-- e LEAPED UPON THE CAKE IT ANK UNDER HIM. and fell with n dull thud, lying a atrip of swirling water sUU by Into which ahe had nearly plunged. Al snatched her up and leaped across tha widening channel looked it the falls and thou St the shore, etlU s guar-t- er of n mile sway. Could ha make It? Reason and hla battered body aald ns Hut the white, still face al hia shoulder with the ugly cut across the forehead cried out above reason, and ha reeled on. waa upon hands and knees now, dragging her painfully from eaka to tilting cake. The ene across which he eras squirming collided with another, pinning font the handcuff dangling at hla wrist. He wrenched at tha Iron until It cut Intp hla flesh, but could not free hlmaclf. Ha alerted to his knees p - - AN ANCIENT TREE. Tha distinction of being the sldwt living thing undoubtedly belongs ig one iff tho giant trass sad many to locate it and determine Its A century in age have been mads Da Candolle found two yawoona at ForttngaL - la Perthshire, and sm at Hedsor, In- Bucks that wart estimated to be respectively 1,600 and I.SM yen old. Both are still flourishing, and tin older tree bks a trunk twanty-ssvfeet 'In circumference. A gigantic baobab In Central America with s trunk twenty-nin- e feat through, m thought by Humboldt to ho not kn than 1,610 years old. Mexican botanists believe that they have now discovered a Ufa span oven greater tins this and from tha annual rings a cypress of Chepultepec, whoso trunk b HI feat In circumferenca Is Mslgiud an ago of shout I, ZOO years m UNKING, EJCHAVBTED, TRAPPING A BEGGAR. John Burns teila the following story of his travels about London: A proton atonal beggar approached him with t pitiful tals Aa the man waa un knows to tho president of the local government board, hla tala waa listened ts with attention. After heating the man's atory, that ha had bean without tod for twenty-fohours and had no money for hla lodging. Hr. Burns produced g florin and. saying he could not afford to give It all, asked the mendicant If he could supply him with change. In an Instant tha fellow drew from hla pocket a handful of small change. The altered demeanor of Ur. Burns waa evidently enough, aa tha man fled without waiting for further comment. WITH HI BURDEN UPON THE BANK. Yonder waa tha p reel pics All ha had to do has to alt still and let tha swift current have ito way. To allow her to drift over with him before her husbands very eye would be a crowning revenge upon tho man who had hunted him so mercilessly. Ah, It waa Juat peat that headland there where aha had cried to him In her childish voice (ran tha drifting boat For a moment ha listened again to that cry aa It rang In hia ears aeroaa tho years Then, with act face, ha snatched her up and hurried on, at length sinking, exhausted, with hia burden upon tho bank not ton rods above tho brink of tha falls ur - ToFUVIn ful women, EL Bridget The Mine Bridget means bright and shining, and this woman nslnt wnn no good and lovely that many Irish glrla are named for her. Bo many miracles and wonders are aid to havs been performed by the strong and bravo fit Patrick that tha story of thorn would fill a large book. Tho saint used to treed from oun part of Ireland to another,' taking setae faithful disciples with hits At every place ho stopped he would hold meetings and preach and explain the Scriptures te tha people, who were not yet all converted to Christianity. One legend Mr. Quinlan told the chil8t. Bridget dren was very curious. herself was a frtand and disciple of fit. Patrick and often attended hta meetings. On these occasions ahe sometimes went to alcop, and fit Patrick would never permit her to be waked up, because during tha alum her spells alia had strange vlalona which aba described whan ahe waked on her own accord. One day whan 8L Bridget waked up after ilaeplng la meeting, and fit. Patrick. aa usual, bade her tell ths audience what aha had dreamed she said BT ON THE TRAIN. . FUN WITH THE SCISSORS. I alt beside the window aa tha train to moving fast And watch the trees and houses aa they all go swinging past. Sometimes it seems as though they'd crash right through he window pane. No aooaer do I spy them than they're whining off aauln. I used to walk about wnd bother people while they read; Wherever I wee silting I preferred some seat Instead, But now I play a sort of game with all the things outside: It only twms a little while before we Hare la Something nice and easy ts amuse tho Httlo ones with Things required: Borne old visiting cards, u pair of scissors and some small brads or paper fasteners. Cut the cards up Into various shapes to resemble tho parts of certain anl-- end tho ride, PATBOV SAnm aha had aeon In her vision a boat of persons all dressed In wblto. About thorn wore fields af wheat, and these were white, too. And white plows and beautiful white oxen worn la tha fields with tha white dressed people. No sooner had the woman saint aeon all this bMuyful whits vision, however, than suddenly everything, fields, ossa, plows and people turned from white to spotted and then immediately all bora ms dead black. Next, tho whole vision changed and people, plows oxfin and fields became a horde of animals, dnga, swine, wolves and sheep, all fighting together. The dogs and wolves howled, clawed and bit savagely, the ugly pigs squealed and grunted and the sheep the poor sheep could only bleat piteously as they were attacked. fit. Patrick always Interpreted fit Bridget's visions, and he said the white fields, white oaen and white robed people meant the world In Its purity, when true religion wee preached and prleats and people believed it and practiced It. After that would come the spotted time, when people hollered true doctrines, but did not accompany them with good works. Last came the black animals fighting, and fit. Patrick aald this meant a later generation when there would bo both good and had teachers of religion and the had would fight with tho good. - I see n boy's kite break away and sen up la the sky; I never see him eatch It tba train goes hurrying by. Boys ring a hell, thea run away; n girl come to the doori Soma men are rowing on a atresia, and ons has lost his oar. I fancy how H all eomes out as we fly round tha bond. It's Just like reading stories when you knew tha ond. OP IBELA5D. Nino tailors ware merrily stitching when a poof beggar passed their shop, Imploring charity of tha busy workers. Straightway those kind tailors opened a subscription list Each contributed something, and tha money thus collected, which amounted to a very respectable sum, was handed ever to the beg-Ra- r. The poor fellow, full of gratitude, tell upon hie knees, "You nine tailors," ho exclaimed, "have made a man of me!" This atory dererpas to ba known, for It certainly redounds to tho credit of THE HEIGHT OF A HAT. Very few people have any Man of tho real height of a gentleman's high hat, as you will easily discover If you show one to tho company. After they have viewed tho hat put It out of tho room and ask those preeent to mark what they think to be tha height of It on the wall. When this haa been done bring In the hat again and you will find that nearly every one to absurdly far from correct In their estimate. tailors TAKE NOTICE. This diamond has not boon sold. On the southern coast of ths Inland of Disco, In Danish GreenlnL a scientific station la to ho established for the study of the life of the arctic regions Windmill for generating electric current have given favorable results in 000,000. made at Askow by Professor La Cour. The four wing wheel proves to be the beet form. 'With such a Wheel, having fifteen square yards to the surface, he obtained ten horsepower from a wind of thlrty-flv- w feet per second. The blackbird and the thrush are two welt known and highly appreciated the testa for tba Danish government ong birds. All there blrda constitute . , A PAPER. COW. and than fasten these parts together with tba paper fasteners. In course of a few hours you caa fit out a fklrly complete Noah's ark, aad tha little ones will have much fun with the animals. mala, BON VOYAGE GIFTS. For a young boy who was gotnf 10 Europe' for ala months a girl friend made this charming gift, wherebf many aa hour waa happily spent It provided amusement not onlp him, hut tho grownups In the enjoyed It quite ae much. It blank book, the tint pages containing ninety cleverly Illustrated hook "titles Tho "key" to tho hooka waa give his mother: then there were a numb1 of pagee ruled off Into a diary. cer Ing the months of the Journey. After this came snapshots of his ff house, the street on which he and tho children who were hia most to' tlmats friends. Thera were valentto from there chums, also Easter card April fool jokea and Fourth of souvenirs. Tho apodal pages tied together, with "Not to ho opens till the data written on tho pace P" ceding, and tho boy's birthday PM1 were concealed In the same manner. P? " M Jv FAS DEFINITION. Tommy Pa. what are the ties of wedlock they talk about to to THE NINE TAILORS.' Perhaps you have sometimes heard people say, Nino tailors make a man. PATRICK HOLDING A SPRIG OF This anctont adage Is said to have had IU origin a followa: SHAMROCK, by hand with tha bast writing Ink. While soma German ribbons have to the conclusion that there la no good, those of American manuknown substance In rxlatonco which proved facture show a higher goners) average cannot bo distilled. In quality. Typewritten documents have been Ths biggest diamond yqf found la tho found to display great variation In New Gera Premier. 6.064 carats (equal durability, but w ik Trum the best rib- to twenty ounces Troy weight!, three bons seems aa lasting as that written Inches a diameter and Talusd at .ll,- coma Aff HE "Thank God!" exclaimed the ihM fervently, aa ha bent abeve hla atiu wife. Then hia eyes tered those of tha man who had Kacua, her. "Well, put on tho irons. There's K more fight left in me," gasped the (rate man defiantly, balding eut w lacerated hands For answer tha sheriff produced long blue envelope. "Pity I didn't m It yesterday. It would 'a' saved me M ugly bat over tho head." with g dn smile, handing the envelope to hit com pan Ion. s Al, with ever Increasing a mutism written upon hta haggard face, Ined tha document till he comprthtts od that It was his pardon, duly by the lieutenant governor of the pn. ince, then slowly folded it like a ana In a dream, Whoso work la this, Bob! at length, with shaky voles "Hera," replied tha sheriff, noddin toward hla wife. She wouldn't its night or day till aha got It." For a' time Al sat quits still, the n else af bio face working painfully. Tlw ha rose slowly to his battered knew and. bending over the sheriff s Vt. sobbed aa can only a strong man bn. ken upon tho whack of remoras A lane of water tan rods wide opened before him, ond hs could go no farther unless hs swam. Drawing her arm about hia neck, he took ker sleeve between hia teeth and plunged to. Tha sleeve gave way, and ha closed hia teeth upon her wrist The Ice they at loot reached proved rousn. breaking under his weight again and again. Finally hs rolled out like a log and, hooking hia manacled wrist about a hub, drew her after him. Shaking from his try bath- like one In an ague fit, he was stooping to pick up his burdon for tho Anal dash, when suddenly ho paused and looked across tha clashing, grinding blocks to the shore. fTca, It was Bob Fe tenon running along the headland to meet him. He looked about him like a hunted animal brought to hay Bob Peterson woull have no mercy on him. oven if ha had saved hia wife's life. To go on meant ball and chain and that horrible atone trap. and circled round and round In sudden panic, still dinging to the unconscious woman Then the mass on which they floated struck something with a force that threw him aver hia fetter and the pinioned arm front parly wreuchud its socket A glance about him revealed the truth. They were stranded upon a submerged ledge, and the Ice was rapidly piling up about them. A Junk of ice as large as a half barrel crushed dawn within n yard of his companion's head, and ho tugged al hia manacla until h!s wrist bled In another desperate attempt to free himself. Then he crouched and 'waited. Behind him the Jogged white wall rose steadily higher, now ominously still, now groaning loudly as the whole mass dipped forwsid a few foot upon the ledge. They might lie there In Ihle sheltering half circle which screened them from view and perish from tha co)d that would out la with the night Tho mass might topple over and crush them at any moment Ha put hla true arm under her head and raised It from the wet ice. Tho low aun Illumined tha tumbled mass of reddish brown hair and revealed with startling clearness the premature linn shout her eyes and mouth. Ha knew that he had helped to put them there: that tf ha had gone straight and married her five years ago aha would have been a different woman. And yet he had begun smuggling in order to raise money enough to start a homo as good aa Bob could give her! . A prolonged growl came from tho wall of ire, something snapped, and then the entire mass moved shuddering I y forward. Tho cake on which they lay began to settle. Tho water crept steadily up tha aides, ran Into ths etwv Ices about tha adge and reached his shackled hand Hs drew her closer to him and, with Inflnlto difficulty, placed her upon his hack. Ona dainty ear, curled like tho petals of a roe, waa within a few Inches of hla mouth, and ha rotnamboiwd aa from another world tho first Urns ha had kissed It Tha chilly water waa covering hia cheat now, and he rose upon hla elbow. It reached hla shoulder, hla neck, hla tor: then falling cake sploshed tha water Into hla face. For a few momenta ha struggled blindly, frantically, Ilka a trapped animal, neatly losing hla bold upon her wrist. When hla death struggle cams, would he abandon her then like a aelflah coward? Hla Angora tightened upon her wrist with a grip of steel, and as a Wave broke over his head ha closed hla eyes In anticipation of tho end. . Fop! lie instinctively clutched at tha adge of the leaping. cake with hla manacled hand. They wore out of wator now, moving swiftly away on a detached plena of p(. Tha cakes had thinned until tha Mark wator ah wed everywhere between them, and tha danger waa greater than ever before, but hs gathered her Into hla anna and staggered on., A MENU OF FACT. FUN AND INFORMATION Celebration at mi ....Kiddville i, Al!" He looked hungrily at hla "premised land," not ten rode away now, then swung the horse about and galloped hack toward the woman. Tha ridge of heaving, splitting Ice drew nearer, pons- -, ed under him and left the horse floundering la the swift current among crunching Ice rakes He leaped from tha sleigh and dashed on, leaving the brute te Its fats Out there where the was pounding, grinding, writhing, aha was crouching upon a rocking cake, and be sped straight an aver the Waving maos toward her with n almblenese and soreness that had saved him a arors of times from pursuing revenue officers Quick, Al!" And as ha onstrhed her from her perilous position aha clung ts him aa though ha were Al Brack of flva years before litntead of tha moat dangerous outlaw In the province. The Ice was now thoroughly broken up. It was aa though tha river were full af wallowing white monsters fighting each other to tha death. Even with nothing to Impodo hla flight hla chances of roachlng land would bo romots Ho knew that, Ua had eean three different men of hla gang try to make the American aide at such a time, and all three had tone aver the falls Aa ha leaped upon It n cake sank under him till the water rear bed hla knees, and aha gripped him convulsively. He looked at her aa ho had not looked at any human being for years and hounded on to the next cake. It TABLE & 3-- devil-may-c- turned over undfer hie foot, and ho sank to hia armpits in eater, scrambling eut only a moment before the ice closed together with a gi lading crunch. The Jogged ice cut through hut rotten bouts and he left blood at every step He eiipped to his hneea again and again, clinging by his butieied elbows over the edge of some tilted block, straining to keep hia charge out of immediate danger. At last ha stumbled and fell with a crash across a blue blaqb slab whose adhering gravel cut like the teeth of a saw. "Let me help myaelf, AL You're killing yourself!" And. scrambling to her feet, she started away, but soon slipped e ! eau-tlsua- Ha leaped Into the sleigh. and. whirling the hoise about, stalled at a gallop toward the Americas Isde. Tsu'd belter trot along home and patch up Bob's bead. It need it!" he called over his shoulder Then, as escape became almost certain, he laughed hie eld laugh and began to sooth the flne black roadster that, under happier circumstances, hag once been bin Fifty rods mars, and ha would be on American soil, and within a half hour's drive of Ned Fie Ichor a. Then Uuk Frierson and tha extradition treaty ha hanged! Fop, pop, pop, pop! Al gave ana kwh upstream at tha long white ridge that was moving swiftly dawn upon him. then seised tha whip and lashed the horse lute a furious run. The freshet from the melting snow In tha hills was sweeping down the river, heaving up tba rotten h-- in a jagged ridge aa It mum. "Help! Help!" The fleeing outlaw leaked hack at tha woman, and then, as tha commotion draw nearer, stood up In tha sleigh and drove tha haras to the utmost limit af tta speed. "Al! Ob, Al!" rams aver the lea In pi l sous appeal. Al started, and the hard lines about hia mouth softened ae they had not softened for years Die had called him juat like that when they were children playing tnget her and the boat In which she had hidden had gone adrift above tha-- falls book? Tommy's Pa Tho tire of anodic are tha kind a mans wtfa baF for him for a Now Tsar's present my son. pleasant and welcome inmates to our gardens. Their appearance In winter le cheering, their song In spring delight fUL With regard to the recent Movement to procure a regular use of the tooth-bruby tho school children of London, it Is Interesting to recall that In 1M an examination of over 1.6H primary rh the pupils showed that 0 per cent ot hoy had decayed teeth and that 76 per cent the decay waa serious. At the end of April last there ZS.S16 miles of railway open In and since then l.lff miles of line heme built nr sanctioned have been , Seventeen distinct languages English are spoken In India. Ip" |