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Show X v. i J : ) . t. THE WOMAN WHO WALKED AT NIGHT Pan-Americ- Conference, at Rio Janeiro, Brazil an BY M. E. M. DAVIS. As SlruiStr drew near Mrs. Law- eou s house, he slacken'd his some-- j what nervous pace, and hailed with hd of indet lsiuii. Hut Mrs lawson had caught sight oi mui from the porch where she sat, with a huge hand bell on her knee waning for her boarders to lone home supper. There was a shade of Yuiuatt asa--. on his hand onu fait- "Mrs Lawson, j.ii stun tli with visible effort, If o i.itoe hj to Would take Katharine ami . f, t the stair mslf board In the JiatUr Of fh- - a trim; at ejaculated aits lbiwsou lint over the gne pi, m - whoever has happened o ,ni w uit to i i t ,he for go anywnere and j l.awsnii." he detuandeil ab- ruptl), laying his hand on her sh is there anything has anyhing ever been said about the room on the Mrs ul-d- roof Alltk," she ln- whisper ( , ,n Hee It in your fate She hisnt Cat a pas w ilked before not that I know of, It Is a wrtnili to me to have tne mu e tnv mother saw her. an thai Old plate," Simlur munuptel ami my father will h ,i loin lv now that l.nt Ka ha, i m my mother Is deti has set her heari on n " v lake as I havent a sign ett of t loom Alick, Mrs Lawson luol e in rX ept the room on the usd she a,ld"d dubiously. tAell, what Is the inattei wi,n the room on the roof den anded Simian, whimsii ally He threw bat k his head as he spoke, and screwed hts eyes up at the boxlike structure planted on the roof of the low cottage returned Mrs Lawson, N'othing, hastily, "nothing at all. exiept that it is so small. Besides, the stair Is like a ladder Katharine would never " "Ail rlgBT, HIT Take it at your own price, Mrs. Lawson " She was very beautiful, the golden-haire- d girl whom Alltk Sinclair had brought, a bride, to his fathers house less than two years before. The mysterious malady whit h developed shprt-l- y d after her marriage, and which to baffle her physician, had robbed her cheeks of their color and bloom But it added an Indescribable HE STRUCK OUT SAVAGELY-A- T charm to her delicate face and fragile NOTHING. An figure unearthly expression was befoie you were born. Ive never dawned into her large blue eyes a I never dreamed seeu her myself. prescient gaze, as if vier vision, like was what she that Lord, yet. walking abher sense of hearing, had become have I done? I didnt want to put you normally ucute Something almost there Poor- Katharine akin to awe filled those around this he "Dont worry, Mrs. Lawson, exquisite young creature at sight of seen has "Katharine said, kindly. her strange and inexplicable sufferHa as yet; but I have. ings She' had, apparently, so bodily nothing a certain with smiled yet grimly, aliment. .But the slightest irregular sound thrilled her with nervous alarm; sense of relief. At least, he thought, What does madness. it is not herattetjuated frame shook with con- It meant quite hd asked aloud. Who waa vulsions'll any unexpected appeare? ance; she paled" at a whiff of unaccusThey say, :returned Mrs. Lawson, tomed perfume. She ateAbqt little, still stfemed speaking In a whisper, that old to have lost thetf&culty of and Lawson' my husband's grand-fatterSquire sleep! Latterly, a morbid distaste for had that room built as a sort the eld Sinclair homestead had posfor his young wixe., who went sess tfe. bpr wittr breathe! t her mlnl, poor thing, and no within its lofty wails; she was for er, uiqf Squire was a terrible oppressed by the atmosphere of its an! Ha took her baby from her efiAdowy garden. hut her up;ln that room and kept i The same night gaw-theInstalled her there by hiraelf until ahe pined in Mrs. Lawsons roorif on the roof. and died. That waa before you were The room was small. A born. Mrs. Lawson was sobbing and mahogany bedstead. with baiduchin and side steps, occupied at least one-- P wringing her hands. You must take Katharine Sinclair away before ahe quarter of the floor jjhace. sees her. It would kUl her. But dont binclalr, seated owthe side of the bed, smiled as he" compared this say anything bout it outside, Alick. aU leave me. cramped rookery with his wifes ample My boarders would be would ruined' dressing-rooat the Catalpas. But Sinclair aoothed the excited old he felt an unwonted lightness of spirit. He could see the reflection of woman Into quiet. Then he remountKatharines face fn the mirror oppo- ed the stair. Katharine, in her white site. She stood with her back to him, dressing gown, met him on the land brushing out her long hair. There lag- I missed you when I awoke, Alick, waa a look of content on her white Where were you? brow; he even fancied a touch of color dear, ahe said. Katharine, he began with studied . in her lips, her golden hair seemed to 1 find this room very i have regained somewhat of ita lost carelessness, don't small; you? And Mra. Lawson luster. but she la tiresome, She was right, he thought; the is I think I will look up tout! good change has already helped her. more comfortable quarters during the He watched with delight the rhythmic motion of her slender arms. day. Can you be ready to leave her Meanwhile he chatted gayly of hit this afternoon?. She plac'd her hands upon hia boyhood days, and the recollections aroused by Mrs. Lawsons motherly shoulder and held him at arma gossip. Katharine listened, turning length for a moment without speakfrom time to time with a nod or a ing. Her eyes were orlmmlng with mlBchlef; a smile danced about her smile. He stopped abruptly, staring con- . 'd Ups. Alick, she laid, I know why you He passed u.3 fusedly! Into space wish to go away. You are afraid of hand Across his forehead and continued his story. But the words were ut- the wq&ian who walked here last 1 tered mechanically. Was there he night Did you think had not seen was asking himself was there some- her? Sinclair's Jaw dropped. He stared thing moving between Kathiwtne and himself? Sometthog faint and shad- at Jier with an amazement whiwh was owy ? cloudllke? misty? Yes! No almost ludicrous. But before he had He shut his eyelids tightly and opened recovered himself sufficiently to speak them again Yes! He tould Bee It Mrs. Lawson came panting up the stair and thrust a pallid face In a. the gray-cla- d plainly now-t- he figure of a woman wtfh head drooped to her door. The house was on fire! In an ln breast and arms hanging at her side. time the short old wooden credibly he "MyGod' groaned, inwar(Jy, now Katharine will turn around! building was laid in asnes Sinclair and his wife returned t the She, Vill see It! The shock wilt kill It was Katharine Inher! She will die' She will drop Catalpas sisted, with a sort of gay perve'rseness, dead before my eyes'" Hut even as they .passed Katharine' the words burst invo- upon thi the arched under gateway the mystefrom his He lips luntarily sprang forrious gloom ted la k upon her Sinward with outstreuhtql arms now almost as morbid as Did you speak, Alick herself, asked his clair, could have sworn that he saw Its her tver shoulder wife, looking descent in visible form. Her hair on Yes no that is, he stamthe Instant be jine dull and Lifeless-he- r mered, a cold sweat beading his forecheeks fell hollow, the red on her head. changed to a gray pallor. lips The visitor haij resumed her ghostly A moth fluttered against her bosom. - waHf Dear Alick said Katharine, ca- She fled, palpitating with terror! across the old garden. ressingly, I know you must be tired. I will be ready for bed In one moSinclair stood, hardly a month later ment down on his wifes looking sees She nothing! She hears nothuptuwd face. Once more she slept profoundly, ing! Oh, thank God!, thought Sin- A d whistled In a clair, turning his hot eyes from the treemocking-biran open window. The catalpas white-robe- d figm-atricken kneeliig in prayer man byfrowned and lifted Instinctively shadow by the bedside to the gray-cla- d a warnlngv hand, but dropped It, removing up and down the room. Katharine nestled like a tired cMld membering. "What did It all mean? he quesamong the pillows and fell instantly tioned, stooping to the face on Ita Her over husband ! her hung asleep coffln-pllloan agony of amazement and tncredul- The dead lty. Could it really be that aba was the response.lips amtleu. bu , withheld Waa she not dead? Cither sleeping? (Copyright. by Joseph B. Bowlea, , Her regular breathing, the smila on A Denver dispatch tell of the death her slightly' parled Ups, the soft aban-donment of her Umha, reassured him. of the original Deadwood Dick, and How long since certainly no one la going to Yet. how strange! question she had slept thus! Thank God! ha the Intrepid Richards originality. Don l say a word terriipted iu au v , lu V lk-sh- t ty four-poste- d, i m g, . - -- - f k -- com-tinue- Ctffl-cul- awe-struc- I 4 The' directors of the Utah mine at Fish Springs last week declared a wmi dividend of 2 per cent per share. The plan Is being seriously considered of building an electric line from Murraj to the Alta mining district. Little Willie's Philosophy. During the month of July tbe Little When the fish Is Hirin' wums, stick to Bell Mining company of Hark City unis Playin scout is hard on the little marketed eight lota of ore, which netfellers ted the rompanv 4S,ihmi Boys will lie boys but girls ant Gold bearing ore Iu palng quantinever be Mi gurls lafter is th sweetest ties has icientl.v been found In a mine of the (inoitcnough Mmiug and Milling niuostc goln. Laf afortpyer clean happy er e iii.i) ctunpanv ,ii Maishal l.ake, Idaho. not laf a'Rill There a,e ten members of the New Most folks awtr. luf more It s York slot k txehange who were admittheapern pajln dot lor bills. Of ted to that body prior to 1804 This laffln blzness ain t no laffln in at enthis are five still number actively ter ef you dont get no encore Th alius th' first man t gaged in business luf at the Jokes of his customers One furnace in the new (Javfleld. When laf haid, hold yer sides Utah, plunt of the A 8 & R Co has je Then they ain't no danger of bustln been brought Into successful opera Id ruther be IT than president an and rhe re nr of thetatrery win -tlon, Id ruther be honest than vhe presihe brought around as quickly as posdent It ain't alius th' bfij that spits on sible s hla bait that ketches two Four Utah mining companies, dejto onct clared dlv blends for pament during I lost my taste fer strawberries the present month on Friday last. Thejr; They alius have to be weeded In sucker are all Tlntlc companies, and the agflshin' season amount ordered disbursed waa gregate When a kid plays ' he mus spect to git mistook fer th 155,006 " duck occasionally. The recently organized Lakes'de Ma sez honesty is the best policy, Copper Mining company, which has a but pa sez most folks dont seem to big group of claims on tbe Promontory be carryln Insurance within a few miles of the t.nctn cutCarryln bet' by their wings when Is hauling steadily to the railroad off, is lookin' they aint dangerous blzness from surface workings. If the bee gits fraeshus. There never wuz a game of Indian Myers & Murphy, the pioneer firm started that tna didn't want a pall of of Goldfield prospectors, now counted water right this minute. among the most fortunate operators of Lafter makes ml pa d better the d region, are down 240 feet on the quit It. He ways 208 arredy an he Combination Fraction, and they are halnt half done laffln yit. getting intq some very fine ore. Shakespeare sez hes stabbed with The Carrie Leonard mines, lying at lafter, but he aint never goln' t git no the southwest base of Dollarhlde life Insurance on that joke. A anglewum that comes outen his mountain and adjoining the Dollarhlde hole lively when a klda got holt o' properties near Halley, Idaho, have been taken under bond and lease by hla other end, knows his blzness. Karlyle sez we kin tell what kind tbe company operating th Utter. of a man a feller la from his lafter. It Is stated that Judge J, T. McConThis may be, but Id ruther listen to nell of Idaho Is about to consummate him Jawln hla wife! the sale of a 250,000 property In the Bum peepul think It'e a weakness to northwestern corner of that state. If laf at little things, keep wattln fer U said dedeal the It goes through elefanta atandln on their heads an velopment will be Inaugurated upon s don gK' no laf a tall! Urge scale. What doth It prophet a feller to have Lovejoy and Russell of Pittsburg, nook away from school ylataday and owner of the Sunnyslde mine, In Thunhookle mawhen played hie ketches him at It Moral It paye to der Mountain district, have taken a be kerfuL short tints working bond on the gold Theres a place t laf and a place t 'properties belonging to Dan Cotter and bottle It up wld a hsndkercher V. A, Way land adjoining the present INdrUY nt 1 1 ore tthei again, drawiug the lace net ting over her. Then it came nearer, steadily near-ai- r er He saw behind the veil a pair of A cLill sensation dirk, sad eyes. He struik quivered along his veins. uiit savagely at nothing ffe iTakaned by hearing Mrs in the hall Mwwm imn tng-ablow He arose softly and desieuded MINES AND MINING bar-keep- 's hull-head- The third session of the Pan American conference, at which Secretary i representing this country, met at Rio Janeiro, Brazil. The sessions are held in the Brazilian pavilion at the St. Louie exposition which was removed to Brazil after the close of th great fair. Aside from Secretary Root tho members of the delegation from this country aro Edmund J. James, presk dent of tho University of Illinois! Lee S. Rowe, professor of political economy In tho University of Pennsylvania! Julio Larrlnaga, resident commissioner of Porto Rico to the United States, end Jamee 8. Harlan, a lawyer, of Chicago, and eon of Associate Justice John M. Harlan, of tho United States supremo court. They were officially received on their arrival. Root CHINA READY FOR WAR. Reign of Terror Predicted for Celes- tial Empire Only One Good Army In Country Serious Flaws of Soldiers, k. fat-an- would become pattly anti foreign and In any .case would mean anarchy There1 are a great many armies la China, but the only one that counts i Yuan Shi Kal's northern army. The Chinese are raising big horses somewhere in Mongolia for the ultimate use of the army, and hope to remount their cavalry In about four yean. Of the other rms.th&mec are smart and the recent 'taring. maneuvers were most creditable. There are serious flaws In the army? Tbt Chinese soldiers will blase away blank cartridges In fine style, but they are not trained to shoot Target practice is rare. It la doubtful If the men would follow their offleera except to the rear, and It la doubtful If the officer would go anywhere else The American boycott never affected the Interior, A few China is a volcano. Close In Peking, because Peking Is not the place to get the real news concerning China, but foreigners long resident In the Interior, In Shantung and Chill, put' the explosion nine years hence. Educated Chinese bring it nearer. For the present, however, the American in China Is as secure as he would be In his home in the United States. It Is well understood In official and other circles that It la useless to kill There la a general runforeigners. ning after foreign, things andtorig - Oae of United-B- f eeme Kaawar "wneadrnr tar vedTf Men having foreign training Into the Interior In smaller waya. quantities many a kid frm satin hie meal The January claim of th Goldfield are in demand. The same men had pro tem. It was a question for '.the Mining company has disclosed a fine to run for their lives In Boxer times porta, particularly those In the south. tonnage of rich ore, the extent of At the same time there is anxiety to The Shanghai riots were purely local Sonnet shake off foreign control of . every- and magnified by Shanghai hysteria. A sonnet 1 made which no one knows positively. It is up of fourteen lines thing partly from a new feeling of A serious question Is the educational One ghakeapeere loved In sonnet form understood, however, that fourteen national pride and partly from n de- one, which gives rise to the young Inches of the vein recently struck will i to rhyme. sire to keep the good things for the China movement. This Is founded Let Bacchus sup his ancient nectared run as high as f 8,000 to the ton. wines. on conceit, the basis of Chinese stuChinese. Prospectors from the Uintah Indian Our Bill would rather scribble any time! Misgivings for the future are based dent character. They are about one tn Utah ara bringing In reservation on fear of an antldynastlc rising, prob- quarter educated and think their edu- And I, tho' not a Bhakespeare or a "Bsc", some delight In whittling out my ample proof that the former Indian Take ably on the part of the radicals. This cation is complete. verse! lands are full of mineral, and It la 'Tls true my halting stansas sometimes thought that the old reservation toon lack will be glTlng birth to copper camps Of inspiration but they might bo worso! which will astonish the uninformed. No quiet nook In shaded vale la mine, I work where cinders fill the air, and Ramsey Is the most accessible of smoke the new Nevada mining camps, being Just filters by along the penciled Une, thirty-fiv- e miles from Carson City, Cleveland, O. Oelrid Troy, 1 from his home to the nearest railAnd funny smells waft In and begging but road on and of his started still Carroll twenty-fivstation, miles from Virginia City, year age, county, Virginia, bloke' miles from Dayton. and twenty-tw- o long and lean and as Innocent as tall, longer Journey to hla couslna home I write to fill this hole and not for fan la Ohio. And now 1 guess, by heck, this sonnet's The nearest la railroad station spent the other night at the Central As near as Oelrid could remember, done' ft Colorado. Carson the on Churchill, station. police that cousin lived In a place called Until a recent morning Oelrid bad Rich The output of the eighteen Lake SuMians Friends. Hill, somewhere In Ohio; but never seen a railroad train. All of he lost the card Hicks was back from the muskal-longperior copper producing mines for July bearing the address was the T8 years of hla life had been ud Is not now aure wherfi hla cousin 17,998,000 pounds, a falling off as flushed with success. country Ip spent on a farm in the back part of Uvea. The police gave Oelrid a bed a box on the way to the club rested, as compared with the months ImmediateCarroll county; but, after Oelrid's fa- at the station. Oelrid had spent his be believed, four fine musklee that ly preceding. June production was pounds. ther died and hia mother became Ul, test cent on street car fare, and was tipped tbe scales at an average of 22 119,213,000 and May 19,922,600 was greater four years ago, things began to break wandering aimlessly about the streets, pounds each. At the club tbe scoffers Last July the production at 19,387,800 pounds. bad at the farm and toon there u Us baggage under his arm, when waited, incited to bantering and doubtTh Gemini Mining company haa d a heavy mortgage In sight cltlxen'a attention was ing remarks by Bings, who had accomA chance seemed to offer itself la attracted to hia forlorn on to deliver Its ores for sevHicks the contracted and who panied trip appearance the way of a job, proffered to Oelrid The man brought the boy to the stat- seemed, at times, to illy conceal some eral years to come to the furnaces of by his cousin In Ohio, and it was then ion, and Oelrid waa glad to stay great secret that had a laugh cracker the mining company at Bingham Juncon its tall. When the boy arrived, the tion. The output of this mine Is from that Oelrid made the long Journey theie all night club men gathered 1200 to 1500 tons s month, and tbe about, while Hicks ordered the por- or Is very desirable for the use of the United States company. ter to bring tbe oiler members of tbe medical associDOG KEEPS SMILING NOW. I tell you. exclaimed Hicks, with Coalmines Nos. 9 and 10 at Coal- -' ation. It Is explained that the perone of those muskal-long- e pride, gate, 1 T., owned by the Missouri, Scranton Beagle Has a Gold Tooth, centage or alkali id the water la high gives a fellow a pretty tough Kansas ft Texas railway, were flooded asd when It Into the human la systgets add Proud of It fight In deep water. I know I worked em causes a scaly formation In the over 40 minutes a creek backing up, the pn the gamiest one of last week by recent of result the arteries. heavy rain. PropThe ' scale becomes S Pa. brittle, Dr Fred this lot Wllke8barre, valued at two million dollars Is Just then the lid came up with a erty Birchard, of Scranton, has a dog with breaks off and the little particles are badlv damaged and six hundred men a solid gold tooth The dog Is proud carried In the blood to the brain, rip The gang rubbered to catch are out of employment. to the caSSTng causiliver, paralysis; of it. The animal Is a valuable Engsight of the big fins to ng and the Lafayette Hanehett, manager of the gall stones, A few days ago, noticappendix. lish beagle Instead of tho 20 pound imukies A water commission will sevNewhotise Interests, has returned to spend wu In one of that its front teeth there reposed Innocently the mid ing eral hundred thousand dollars, If die of the box on top of some rocks Salt Lake from a business trip to Colovery much decayed, Dr Birchard took Mr the dog to a dentist friend Hanehett visited Idaho The necessary, on a new supply Temper-loc- and moss four dried herniig. rado acfvocates are aghast at the way dentist suggested that the best thing Hicks. bought, but to thlsalsy Blugs Springs before bis return and reports beer drinking has Increased for bygt to do was to insert a gold tooth insists he doesnt know anything that the New house tunnel Is now enTil do it now, said the dentist, enlc reasons. about who changed those fish or what tering upon Its fourth mile, and that one more mile w ill finish this great who is a great lover of animals The became of the big catdi. Uses Sea Faces Fine. work. operation took a little more than half Boulogne. AWater; woman who took two ' an hour. AH that time the intelligent Journalism Ramsey district, Nevada, made its backets of water from the sea to animal laid back in hla masters arms, how April 16 of this year when word Newpapering In a yarht. bzthe her child, accordance with In wbb h many are ceHe4f but few went fnrrtr thst a g trtke h a d b oea"-madsubmitting with aa occasional wions tie doctors' orders, was astonished of pain. chosen. are The Clark claim, on hpre to receive an official warning from the Now It sports about with Its fine Not the newspaper idea, bbt a superwhich the fame of the district now custom officers threatening to fine fluous word In the dictionaries. Rare rests, was not located until April 14 gold tooth, a curiosity for all the bef for breach of the law. There baa email boys of the community. of the real thing may occaSince then other strikes haTS helped samples been discovered an unrepealed law of be seen in the great cltlec. to draw the attention of tbe mining Loafs XIV! forbidding the taking of sionally An excuse for publishing a yellow world in this d'rectiou. TOWN IS TAKING TO BEER. tea water lest those taking It extract newspaper. the salt, and thus defraud the govern-nes- t Every possible effort Is being Something for the preachers to brought into play by the Nevada Water 8upply Blamed for Increase of of the salt tax. The woman has criticise! ,J - Appendicitis and Perelyeie, - written a declaration of the purpose A subject on which company to connect Ely by newspaper men Northern rail with the outside world, and at the tot which, the water waa obtained la little are posted. rate the road Is beiug established Corning, N. Y. This citys water order to secure an official permit to A bluff that sometimes gets free steel will be on Elys streets by the 1st apply Is responsible for much of the use sea water. ' theater tickets. of September, when mining operations appendicitis prevalent here, Is th That state from which a magazine will receive a decided boom. , U. 8. Naval 8how Planned great declaration of Dr. F, S. 9waln, secrewriter has graduated wlthout recelving Washington. Plans have been perf, Eminent Alnlng men have visited tbd tary of the City Medical society. V. . a diploma. Not only does it cause appendicitis ected for th grand naval pageant Greenwater district In Nevada, - and to Its w be a hopSd When boy which Acting Secretary of the Navy but It Is also responsible for they pronounce it a wonderful district. Now we know better, . Automobiles and rigs rush and crush of the paralysis case as well Newberry baa announced will occur to get In first, prospectors with pack to the sound off Oyster Bay Septemas heart disease and gall stones. l tbe same mission, all bending every This Indictment of tbe drinking wa- ber I- - The president will receive the nerve to be recognized In the mineral ter of Corning is concurred In by AXlaStic fleet : empire Jmlldlng in thla state, Peking obsfvers not 44nsr4 to-da- y? -- fira , "A -- twrwmwTTTsvTTOTWSVTmwTrprTnpTTnT -- Never Saw A Railroad e e nail-pull- er o 1 e 1 -- nine-tenth- s -, |