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Show AT HANKS at him, then her eyes fell nervously. Thinking that this waa a decided point In her favor, he roused himself and HOTEL' V. TAINT YELLOW light 1111 lingered la the west, al.the moon though was - shining. It a hot alght; not a breath of air atlrred the stiff limb of the yocce-tree- a or the fiery cactus-blooThe stifling heat atlll seemed to radiate from the baked eldee of the amall adobe house, and the sandy toll wa uncomfortable to walk upon, although the un had been down ' an hour. The town waa Just beginning to ahow sign a of life. Any one arriving there between the hour of 10 In the morning and at Bight would feel aaeured " that the piece wee deserted. Door and shatters worn closed, and the fierce ray - of the un beat down from the blue Arliona skies with malignant glee, holding undisputed sway. At eundown, howevar. humanity began to tu bur-nleh- aaert Itself. Not that H waa much cooled, but the terrible, blinding glare waa gone. Men appeared on the one long, atraggling street, clad In cotton shirts and trouaera. ths former turned back from the throat aa far at possible, I'onles came loping across the trails from the nearest campa with their swarthy riders, and lights began to Bars in tbs saloons and gambling . tent. 8ounds of voices were beard, too true, mostly in oaths and eoarie Jokes, but they were human end on this partlcu-Ma- r night cama.i'he wbeesy wall of a fiddle and tbs livelier rattle of a banjo y from tbs upper floor of the single building In ths place, n rough etructure of nnpalnted pine board, with the words "Hank's Hotel" In large black letters over the door. A dance was evidently In progress, for several ponlea were tethered to ths yucca trees In front, and out on ths still night air cams tbs sounds of n mans voles, shouting orders. Insldt the room It was hot and uncomfortable, mads mors so by ths light of half a doien lamps. 'Thera were aa d perhaps thirty men and many women, the former cowboys In high boots and tucked-l- n trousers, or miners from tbs camps twenty mllee sway In ths mountains, and all had ptatols or knives gleaming In their belts. Tbs women were brawn, painted thing, who had drifted her when they were "down on tbeir luck. and stayed because their sea was such rarity that they were tolerated. "A hard crowd, thought Jack Devore, aa h leaned agalnet the door. Idly nil of them watching the dancer; toughened with crime, and alt of them show It, unless It's that one over there, - and hie cyea rested on a young girl who had Just finished dancing, and stood leaning against the wall panting and exhausted. Jack Devore, la aplte of hie travel and dangerous life, did not show his 42 yearn Looking at him, on would take him for a gentleman of quiet and He was remarkably retiring tastes. handsome, of ths blonds type, and dressed In excellent tastn He spoke good 8panlah and purest English, had n knowledge of Shakespeare that many a scholar might wall envy, possessed a tenor voice that would have mad his fortune nn the operatic stage, and a pair of eyes that would win one's heart, they were so Innocent and honest Tet Jack Devore had been put down by more than one as in unmitigated villain. Ha was a professional gambler, two-stor- one-thir- red-thlrt- ed CfcV.'WiSv crossed the room to where ahe stood. "Will you dancer he said, la his musical vole. She gave him her hand and he led her out on tbe floor. "What la your namer he asked. I I am not Inca," ahe answered. like the rest," and she looked at him half proudly, half apologetically, .j, -"It la easy to see that, be replied; "but not o easy to see why you are here." jH did not ask the question, ' - ' hut ehe answered 1L I bale the town, she said, bitterly "but I can't get away. My mother died here; ah used to say her heart was broke. 1 wish I could leave It. He looked down Into her beautiful eyes, half smiling. "Would you go with me, sweetheart?" he asked. Idly. She looked up startled and hesitating; but before she had time to anawer the banjo muslo stopped with a discordant crash and a rude hand thrust them apart Jack, turning sharply, found himself confronted by one of the musicians, whom be recognised as the superintendent of the Eagle Bird mine. "Cures you! the young fellow said, savagely, "what do you want with her? She Is the one pure thing In this cursed hole, and you shall not touch her." Devore did not answer him. but turned to Ines. "You have not answered me." he eald; will you go?" She looked lnlo hie eyes, half hesitating. He had taken a powerful hold on her, that he could eee. and felt sure of victory; but eh wa flung to one aid and hi assailants knife gleamed In tbe air. For moment the two glered at each other, whtTb the other men crowded around, silent and loth to Interfere, but bound to eee fair play. Ioe sprang between them. Don't. ' Max, dont! ahe cried. Tbe young man turned to her fierce-JZChoose! he commanded. "You know I love you and would give my life for you, hut I'd rather eee you dead than have him touch you, and he shan't!" She looked from on to the other, afraid and doubting. Ths violence of one terrified her, and the other was different from any man ahe had ever new life known. The chances of opened before her and daxsled her, yet Max had always been kind and gentle. Both were welting for her answer Impatiently, and Devore's hand waa on hla revolver hs wee not accustomed to defeat She could not choooae, and, woman-ilkburat Into teara. At this Juncture, Big Jim," proprietor of ths "Jack-Pot- " saloon, saw fit to Interfere. "Quit your bawlin' now, Inez, b ordered, You've raised devil enough. You'd better square yourselves, boys, at 20 paces; a little cold lead ll soon settle the difficulty." And he laughed pleasantly as ha marked off the distance with long strides and the men took their places. A duel was tbe surest 4rsy, after alL Jack Devore took hla aim with his customary coolness. In reality hs cared little for the girl, but he was not used He could easily to being thwarted. kill ths young fellow who stood opposite him, but the girl, where would It lead herf His face took on a mors serious look than anyon had ever seen there, When he had tired of her, as hs surely must, what then? She waa so different, could ah ever sink to be ono of those painted creatures? A curious Impulse stirred him, and when Big Jim gave the word to fire, he raised his arm and fired tn the air, receiving at the earn time a sever shock tn hts right asm.' 1 paaa," waa all b said. When Jack Devore recovered hie senses, ho waa lying on a rude couch, and a woman sat beside him. Aa he opened hla eye, eh leaned forward, and la the dim light he recognised her Jack," ahe eald, softly, "you know me, and I know you, and I reckon there aint much love lost, but I'm glad you didn't shoot You remember Lola, your BUTCHERIES OF. HOW SPAIN TREATED HER LIBERTY-LOVING SUBJECTS. Tbo Story of tta Ylrttala Told I LMlItt H E , 1 " to offend. , He wee well aware of the furtive glances which were cast In his direction 'ns he lounged against tbs door. It pleased him to hear the respectful to dance, which he received, but he felt no desire to Join them Jack Devore was rather fastidious la hla tastes, and touching one of the painted women was out of ths question; but tbe girl at whose face hit eyes had stopped waa different You might look from the City of Mexico to San Francisco," he mused, "and not find another face like hers and Jack was an excellent judge of . beauty. She stoodf leaning against ths wall In a posture' which brought out every line of her rounded figure, from the small foot tapping ths floor In time to the groaning fiddle, to the top of her She were a Short cotton saucy head. aklrt of aome coarse dark material, while a large whlte handkerchlef, leaving her throat and arm bare, served for a bodice. Her hair, which fell In long black curia below her waist, was caught up at ths left slds of her bead with a few brilliant cactua flowers, her . teeth shone white through her parted Up and her eyebrows met in a straight level line over a pair of glorious dark eyes. As If aware that, some on wa watching her. she stirred uncomfortably. and then looking up, met Jack Devores gaze; for s moment ahe glared ' ' on rom He, reproduction paB Frank D3' 1 OFF OF ything's,waJaek? the quiet reply Tm going; get m my pony. Rose, Ilk a good Yea," gtrl" Halt an hour later the sound of galloping hoofa waa beard growing fainter end fainter out on the moonlight mesa. Beatrice Bellidu de Luna, in Argonaut. It coa XtlawruMf , ! Will not the Baconians make an excellent case for Lord Bacon and hla profound knowledge of modern science? May It not almost b proved that Bacon la reincarnated In the person of Baron Else how shall Roentgen Roentgen? get the credit for hla discovery? ; For was It not Lord Bacon who made Hamlet lay to hla mother lt you Sows; yow bsU not Com. Mni. ' buds: 1 You to not till I yon P of flit. W you iuuy im ih tnrooft ul Z Boston Transcript The Cat Cam Back. mas near Newkirk, Ok., took hla neighbors cat, saturated It talt with kerosene, and set It ob fire, thinking It would run home and burn the neighbor out lnsead it turned and jumped Into tbs torturers own barn and burned A I ' al t ' , ' - . V-- Y- . i No apology, however abject, could to life again tbe poor mutilated form In tbe trench at Santiago de Cuba; none could ever atone for the hideous cruelty of Governor Juan Nepomuceno Burrlel, their butcher! Is it any wonder that the people of the United States, with this ghastly tragedy staring them in the face, refuse to believe the Spanish protestation that they are conducting their present war agalnet the Cubans upon humane principle el?- - V. Cribayedoff La Lealtee Weekly. bring PENSIONERS Colonie IN THE SOUTH. of VeUram Settling In n Mild-- r The time may not be distant when a third, and perhaps half, of the pension money paid out by the government will be distributed In the south, says the Savannah (Ga.) News. Tbe movement of members of the Grand Army of the Republic, particularly of those a ho receive pensions, to the soiKhern states Ms now so large as to attract general attention, and It Is steadily growing In volume. The reason of this Is that the old soldiers of the north suffer from the effects of wounds received or diseases contracted in the war, and are anxious to pass their declining years In a milder climate. Tbe long and severe northern winters are thinning their ranks rapidly.4' They believe they would live longer and have better health in the south. That Is why so many of them are settling In North Garolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. In a dispatch published recently, giving an account of the movements of immigrants from tbe west to Alabama, it waa stated that at present about of federal pension money la paid out in tbe south annually and that It is estimated that $15,000,000 will be paid out next year. If this estimate should not prove erroneous It affords good ground for saying that the time Is not distant when half the money disbursed by tbe government for pensions will be paid to northern veterans living in the south. THE PARIS CABBY. far Wsjrt Thai F Arm lmrk H w Kqaala Hn Vry Should an accident befall thq vehicle cabman during your .occupancy hs will abandon himself to a paroxysm of grief, compute the loss end tell In moving accent of his wife and children, whose bread sill be taken from their mouths by this mishap, says the Pittsburgh Dispatch. But Jf your.Jingers thereupon make Instinctively for your' pocket, restrain theta;- - he la insured. He pay a amall monthly premium to a cab Insurance company, and In ths case of a smashup only the company suffers. A playful Intimation that yeu are aware of this circumstance will do wonder to consol him. There waa. In daye-go- n by, a cabman who made such a good thing out of acclden that he ended by adopting them aa a specialty. He confined hie labors to those quarters of the town chiefly affected by the English, and his system wa to pick up a benevolent English tourist (by preference a lady) and break a shaft He knew a method of turning a corner which no shaft could resist. Then he would beat his breast end shake his fist et heaven, call upon the universe to witness that he was a poor man, who would be ruined by the sum It must coat to get hla cab repaired, bring in hie wife and children, though the unprincipled creature was a bachelor and what could a benevolent-lookin- g English tourist do but help him out? of a Paris Lovt'i Toanf Drum. There waa a love-sic- k couple from the backwoods at the Baltimore & Ohio depot one day last week and they didnt care who knew It They were evidently In town for the day and were waiting for their home train. He waa about 20; she 18 and both were evidently engaged not only to be married lu the future but to make love to each other for the present In spite of the fact that It was the busiest part of the lay for the depot they made love as happily aa though they were nestling beneath the sunny smiles of a hay-rac- k In their provincial Gold Coin In Drawer home. The depot might have been as Several days ago Henry Rodewald, a deserted as the garden of Eden for all grocer, died, leaving a small stock of. for they proceeded with were The sold for the they cared, goods goods. and cooing In the most their billing benefit of the family and appraisers blrdllke until all the spectators fashion, were called in to fix the value of each turned away In disgust The seats are piece. The task was all but finished separated by a aide rail but that was when a rickety old table was dragged no obstacle to the devoted Romeo, for a fixed have to out upon It With he price calmly alld Into the same seat ahe much misgiving as to whether it was until both were compressed occupied, not an overvaluation, the table was into a eighteen Inches wide. apace 10 cents. Herman Hartman, marked at Then hie arms etole around her waist tbe appraiser, was about to put the ta- and she leaned her head on hie manly ble back In the corner when it occurred shoulder. He softly chirruped hie little to him to look Into its drawer. He of love and she blushed and looked lay pulled out a heavy package, which, aa though ahe would like to have him when opened, waa found to contain $1,-7say It again. Then they became so dein gold coin. The heirs are greatly voted that a stout policeman who la on stirred up over thl unexpected addi- duty at the depot gave It up and contion to the assets and all the furniture cluded not to break up their business. Is being searched for more money. In- For three solid hours before the passdianapolis News. ing crowd of people the ticket agent eat performand watched this love-sic- k AmnrlemnUm. ance and at the close the young man To be an American Is to believe In and his girl looked et every one as America and tbe American people. To bravely as though no one had seen be an American la to bare an abiding them. Washington Post faith In the future and in the destiny of America. To be an American is to have Consoling to Fmrant. a high conception of what this great The disposition of the typical young country should be, and following out lady to have a good cry seems to that Ideal loyally. Rev. John H. have been found physiologically proper. , Medical authorities assert that crying Prugh. la the best exercise for young children. ImbM golUcUnt. One hospital superintendent says that Mrs. Tono So youre going to send a healthy baby should cry three or four your daughter to Wesleyan, Why not times a day at least, and from ten to V&asar? fifteen minutes at the time. Mrs, Update The Vassar colors dont become her. Philadelphia Record. How Many, Net? Mrs. Van Cott has been In the evanTb Whol nr Kona year!, gelist business for thirty-thre- e and in that time claims to have saved Jones Black la a liberal fellow, 70,000 souls, gross. never doea things by halves. Smith Thats a fact He never borLABOR NOTES. rowed less than a dollar from me yet. Typograhplcal unions have recently STRANGE ACCIDENTS TO BIRDS been organized at Kingston and HudAn Irish naturalist once observed a son, N. Y., and Calgary, Ct Tbe striking bricklayers of Cincindumlin acting In a very curious manner on the seashore. T.b bird would alight nati to the number of 300. are atlll then fly a short distance, then alight holding out for $4.50 a day of eight again, violently shaking lta head. A hours. The socialistic labor party has decidround lump appeared fastened to Its beak. It turned out that the bird had ed to place a national ticket In the field, In St. Innocently attempted to Investigate a and will hold lta convention cockle which It had found open. The Louis. Chicago citizens must pay five cents shell had closed on its bill. car fare, but under the ordinance they A poor little ebaffln was found dead near Epsom with its lower mandible so need not pay unless furnished a seat The striking miners of East Peoria, firmly Imbedded In the shell of a.beech-n111., were obliged to submit to. an eight-cethat It had been unable to extrireduction after a strike of two cate It and had died of starvation. months. A hen pheasant was observed by a The coming Indiana state federation sportsman to be flying around , and convention will be held at Anderson, around in a wild manner. On being and will be the largest In the history of shot it waa discovered to have a large tbe state. oak leaf Impaled upon It beak in sueh The printing tradea of Chicago are a way as to totally obscure its vision. now thoroughly united with a new Herons sometimes choke themselves council of their own, and. tbe memberby attempting to swallow large trouL ship Is about 6.000. , An elder duck has been killed by atJust twenty years ago last week a tempting to swallow a toad.- A king- number of shoemakers In New York fisher was once found which could not city, who attempted to form a union, fly on account of having a young pike were arrested on a charge of conspirstuck In Its throat Some hunters re- acy. moved the fish and the bird flew away National Organizer Maas of the Inunhurt ternational Typographical union, is at Birds that employ hair In the build- werk In Indiana, and has organized ing of their nests come to grief In unions at Elwood, Dunkirk and Vinstrange ways. A gentleman who pos- cennes. L. P. McCormick, R. K. Hudnall and sessed several colts noticed s small bird entangled In the tall of one of hie Frank k. Park, who have just finished colts. It had evidently been on a search auditing the books of the International for hair and had become ensnared. Typographical union, found a round $50,000 in the treasury. Cases of birds getttng thelr feet enTbe strikes of the clothing cutter are well wool or In string tangled known and death usually ensues it hu- and trimmers at Chicago and Cincinnati have assumed large proportions man help is not forthcoming. : In ths spring ot ths year ths dead during tha past week. 1.000 workmen In the former leaves ot pampas grass dry. fall ter ths quitting work city In one day. like curl from up sharings ground and a carpenters bench." A correspondent . The window glass workers associaof an English paper mentions a robin tion of Pittsburg is torn with Internal which had accidentally gotteq one of dissensions. President Simon Burns these pieces curled so tightly around has been deposed, end the once splendid Its neck that It could not feed and so organization is threatened with etanred to death. . 00 i "V7 k MrSWdT te'-!-' :r' 9$SrP JtSA . heanswered, shortly. "Because." the woman went on, 1 knew her. She died here; she loved you. Jack Devore, and Ines la her daughter, . here and yours. There was alienee for a long time; then, at It began to grow oppressive. Jack said. In a strangely softened ' votcer ehe "Does doc Ines know it?" "No, the other answered. "DonTt tell her, then," he said. "And he reached into hla pocket say, Robs and painfully produced $GOO in' bills give her this, and tell her to marry that teller, and get out. YouU do it?" "Yea." answered the woman. "An- It down. al illustrate 8PANISH SOLDIERS BLOWING THE HEADS OF MEMBERS THE "VJRGINIU3I CREW been-ms- d la British water, Tornado towed her prize to Santiago de Cuba, arriving there the following day, Nov. 1. The ordinary procedure under similar circumstances, when evidence of wrong-doin- g was as alight as In the present case, would have been to undertake a thorough and painstaking Judicial examination. Governor Bur-lie- l, of Santiago, thought otherwise, and ao did hts adherents, the Spanish Volunteers, OjjiNoV, t a drum-hea- d court-martiwas convened on board tbo Tornado, and the four leaders of the expedition, Generals W. 'A. C, Ryan, of New York, Jesus del Sol, Born ahe Verona and Pedro Cespedes, brother of the president of the Cuban republic, were condemned to death on the charge of piracy. The sentence was carried Into effect the following morning. Hardly had the smoke cleared from above the corpses of these four lovers of liberty when a second court-martiassembled to try the vank and file of the expedition. Includs. ing the captain and crew of the Here again the charge waa piracy on the high seas, and again the same awful sentence was pronounced. It being impracticable to execute the entire body of prl3cners at one time, the unfortunates were dtvided Into batches, and on tbe morning pf Nov 4th the first one, consisting of Captain Fry and thirty-si- x of his crew, many of them being boys in their teens, marched 4n solemn procession from tbe Jail to the slaughter-hous- e half a mile away, to fall victims to the vindictive hate of the Spanish tyrant. Here I quote an description: "The sad procession halts when' it has arrived at the place of doom, and forms a hollow square with the victims In the midst. The line of soldters next the slaugnter-hous- e then opens and the prisoners are placed on the edge of the trench or moat, kneeling and bound, but not blindfolded, and having their faces turned to the wall. The clergy, after having conveyed to the miserable sinners their Masters message of Peace on earth and good will towards men, and having recommended their souls to that mercy In another world denied to them In this one, retire to the center of the square, where they take their place beside tbe colonel and the regimental staff. The commanding officer gives tbe fatal signal by waving his sword, the men fire, and tbe wretched object of Spanish bate and vengeance fall headlong Into tbe shallow trench, aome dead, some dying, and other wounded, but alive. Then come tbe crowning barbarity a company pi artillery, till npw kept In reserve, gallops forward and crushes, with the broad and heavy wheels of the gun, dying, dead, and , this a, Yea, . It1 Newspaper of the year 1873, illustrating the horrible massacre of the crew of the Amert-can steamer Vlr-- 1 h will glnlus, viewed with a sad interest by the majority of reader The pictures will bring home to them at a glance the extreme barbarity of Spains method of warfare, and will launched Justify the denunciations against that retrograde nation, In the highest legislative council of this country; for It Is hardly to be tup-- 1 posed that the bloodthirsty hidalgo baa undergone any change of heart In the past twenty y ars. In fact, there are reaeona tn believe that. If anything, the practices of the present authorities In Cuba even surpass for refinement of cruelty the dark deed of their predecessor of the seventies! The story .of thy Vlrglnlus, briefly Jack did, and he atlrred uneasily. It had been hard to leave her, when he was forced to leave 8acramento, ah was so pretty, and did not speak much English, and she had followed him all the way from Mexico, Poor Lola! tour of Ooly Stopped Wbea Our Began to Betti Sot -- MiiH Nlrar ! wife. CURSE and bad broken mors hearts and ruined more lives (ban any other man In California and Arizona. He was said to be utterly without pity, although tome swore to the contrary. At any rate, he waa relentless In his pursuit of an object. and a dead shot two things which made a man whom It would b unwise had 1873. tore the AFTER THE SHOOTING OF THE,tREW OF THE VIRGINIUS" -- NEGROES OF THE CHAIN-GANTUMBLING THE DEAD BODIES OF VICTIMS INTO MULE-CARTFrank Leslies Illuestrated Newspaper. December 20, 1873, . S. summed up. Is a follows: The vessel Iron steamer, was pura chased In New York tn 1870 by the Cuban revolutionary juuta, and was used lor the transport ot men and munitions to the coast of Cuba. She was entered as an American vessel, however, and continued to fly the stars and stripes on her various cruises. Her last trip was in tbe autumn of 1873, when ahe left Kingston, Jamaica, with one hundred and seventy-fiv- e volunteers and a complete armament, and turned her-he- lm toward the Cuban coast Iler captain, Joseph Fry, wai a native pt Louisiana, and had been specially engaged for the occasion. Her s, crew for the most part were and were unaware of the object ot the expedition. Unfortunately a damage to her machinery obliged the Vlrgtnlua to seek temporary shelter in the harbor ot Kingston, Jamaica, a delay which aufficed '.o put the Spanish authorities oa her track, and when ahe made her second start the Spanish Tornado swooped down tpon her, and after a long' chase succeeded In forcing her. to surrender It should be said, however, that before thla every object that might In7 the least excite suspicion, such as horses, arms and munitions had been thrown Into the sea, so that when the hoarding party stepped on her deck they found themselves on board an ordinary merchantman carrytng the stars end stripes and cleared for Colon with a clean bill of health! In spite of this, and of tho apparent fact that the eap- side-whe- el New-Yorker- man-of-w- ar wounded Into one Indistinguishable mass. And these horrors tbe Spanish governor proposed to repeat day by day until the last man of tbe two hundred odd prisoners of the Vlrglnlus had been done to death! But on Nov. 5, a few hours before the time fixed for the third orgy of blood, a British war-shithe Nlobe, appeared la Ihe harbor, and her captain promptly Informed the governor that he would tolerate no further bloodshed until the matter had been referred to the home authorities, who were then engaged In a similar bualnesa In Ireland. The Spanish governor ' referred to current events la Ireland and Was about In carry out his awful work when a United States cruiser steamed Into port with decks cleared for action. The guns were at once trained on the city and a request sent to the governor that the remainder ot the Vlrglnlus prisoners be surrendered within half an hour. The request was promptly complied with. The American vice admiral then sent word to the officers of the Tornado ' that they should fire a salute of apology a. - the American war ship steamed out of port ordered This they refused to by superior authority. They were thea shown the American flag, which was floated from the main mast This la superior authority," said our officer, referring to tbe stars and stripes; "salute It or I shall open fire." The Spanish captain did so. Then the government ot Spain was compelled to apologize. - But apologies are useless. p, o-until ut nt |