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Show Here be is! Dont let him away. Shoot him! "My first thought was to reach my tTILL WYATT, the bicycle, and as the'reporU of the fire- trc-rn- , TJ II "11 known t. arm rang out with unusual sharpness talJ the fol- on the still night air, I darted around lowing story to a the corner of the building in seaaon to so all party of Ts escape their bullet. The next moment one evening after I was beside my bicycle In the (bed. build"It was quite dark losido-t- he adays sp.n through hand to I rcmy but managed get the mouotam ing, V? gion of the Granite upon the machine Just as my pursuer 6tat- "Coaming came around the council, of Oie nwln, lyy JJM.se- Franconia house. 1 was in decidedly close quar-in hills remind roe of ters, but I still believed that, onqe t I could t4rtll!;g experience 1 had last year In the saddle of my silent steed, the heart of the Mohave district Id bid defiance to my enemy, so I igrtoretT Wirt, "and Uielr hoarse cries to surrfndcr. Western Arizona, to not pleaseven Then, as 1 pulled the machine out of memory though lu ant, 1 shall not mind (pinning you the the shed and prepared to mount, I made a discovery that for & moment yarn to Wp while away the evening. A it i put-- , with me to do dashed my hopes to the earth. The haudie of my bicycle had been the cotanlry, but at Mohave City he fcjl 111, and I wae obliged to continue alone. removed' "You may Imagine that I bad no time Wishing to remain with him a long as possible. I did not eiart out until nearly for reflection aa to the reason of thl noon the first day, but before auneet 1 condition of the machine. Shouting waa glad to begin to loot foraorae aort furiously, ope to anothef, the outlaw of a shelter for the night. were rushing forward to Intercept my I had ken 'climbing and coasting flight. hills mountains, more correctly speak-lnge."Disabled as it was, Helt that my bisince starting, and at auuset cycle was my only means of escape, 1 w no Indications of reaching a hu- 'and I vaulted Into the seat without man habitation for milt. 1 had been stopping to consider what might follow. told of a small town In ono of the val- The next Instant I was wheeling away leys to the east, but before this time 1 for dear life. , - had a consciousness of having missed "In the exrltement ortho occasion, the haven-bgetting on the wrong with the shots of my enemies whizzing road. about my head, I simply steered for the Still I I was on a road traveled road, guiding the machine as best I by n srmbweekly stage, and 1 pedaled could by the action of my feet, without ahead wi'h better spirits than I should stopping to think that It mattered to have felt had I realised the truth, and me whether I kept on down the road at last tiporrthe summit of one of the ahead or returned by the way I had long upgrades fjwas gladdened by the come. t " 'Onto yer bosses sight f a dwelling. hlmchase!' anglve "It did not matter to mo that the I heard the leader of the gang about. building was little better than a shanty Don't l"t him get away alive! as long as it was Inhabited and prom"Glanrlng back, I saw three horses ised me protection duilng the night. to the rear of the house, and as bitched "I wag met at the door by a couple of of the outlaws rushing toward many rough-kokin- g In to and answer men, them. Then the clatter of hoofs rang my request to a,op over night, was told out wi'h the report of firearms as I to wa-tIn. "I left my bicycle In ft sort of rude turned toe find myself speeding with velocity down the ahqrp lean to. but regretted it the moment 1 lightning-likhad entered the dwelling. I found a descent leading on fiutlicr than I could third mayt getting the evening meal, sec, "It was fortunate for me that the 'and IfT had thought his companions moon rode high In the clear sky, lighthidehe repulsive, appeared absolutely ous. I fdt, too, that he would think no ing my pathway to almost midday for by that time I had begun to more of rutting man's throat than he realise that my only danger did not lie a ,would"oJ (hooting mountain sheep. He eyed me closely, but did not offer to behind me. Under the furious Impetus 1 had given it at the outset, and gaining speak. thrown open fa controversy by this Its rea-m- gs on Syriac manus.rlpt. T CHRISTS OWSWOBDS. ON A BROKEN. WHEEL. I J blcy-e'!s.- tjC extraordinary uicoyfry OF ANCIENT SYRIAC MANUCCRIFT. WrVloiM tor Krr,l Tr,or Man ll llelsitt. Wr.il Scholars aad ((dying This fieiuarkahls the )ul jur.ti- - -- ' i ta un-'t.- cr y- lu-e- MANTfecpurT of the Four Go.il ln the native er us tongue of has .at lad beta found the greatest Biblical tres-tha- t has been du PuvrjrLJu uries. This Is probably the oldest authentic recta a of the doings and sayings of the Saviour. It was written wlthm fifty year of tha death of the laat of the Apostles ns near to the time of Christ as we today ore to the time of Washing- ton. The Gospels of the Bible ar from ti e Greek manuscripts. Christ, how- ever, addressed the multitude and talked with his disciples In Syriac, the native tougue He learned st His mother's knee. And here, for the drst time, the Christian world has the history of the Saviour told In the very words We used the inflection, the spelling, the precise shades of moaning. Written In th native language of Palestine, th's ag"d manuscript is more valuable than the Greek translations," w hich are the accepted Gospels of Christianity. Is It not strange, therefore, that students tff the Bible, Greek andSjriae ntholars and historians h.ve turned greater speed at every revelation the wheels, my bicycle wa already sociable, however, and asked me all aorta of ques- cently, and that they bad brought with them the plunder. The talk grew v more anlgnated aa they continued, and three times one of my hosts Jerked bis thumb over bis shoulder In the direction of my apartment. Finally, w hen I overheard them planning to over- power and murder me, I thought it waa time for. me to look after my safety.-At the farther end of the long room was a small aperture doing the service of a window, and I quickly made up my mind that the best thing tor me to do waa to escape by that way aa soon as convenient MisdQ't come to that conclusion any too soon, either, for at that - very moment the men were replacing the ladder so a to reach m- eAs swiftly and silently as possible I sped the length of the old building, gaining the openin ust aa the head of the foremost robber appeared above the level of the floor. "A full moon made it nearly at light as day w lthout, and.lt must have shown my figure with great dearness In the opening, for I heard my pursuer say to those behind him lies climbing but of the winder! Quick outside, and catch him as he cornea down? "I waa already swinging myseir outward, and, regardless of the distance to the ground, let go my hold on the board Ing to drop to the earth in a heap. While I waa regaining my - feet, somewhat stunned by my fall, but not - Injured seriously, the door opened f within less than a dozen feet of me, and the men rushed out pell-m, dl of course. Twice I found myself being born around precipitous curves down still sharper descents still on tho whole the course must have been remarkably straight and smooth. Two or three times I fancied I saw the outlines of a team approaching, when my heart fairly came Into my mouth, but each time I was happily deceived. Then there loqftied qp In the narrow road the figure of a horseman, which prowei 'o be no Illusion of my Imagination. Fortunately the rider was hugging the inside of the way, while his animal to this totally was wearlly cllmbing the tedious as- with feverish excitement of sacred history. treasure unexpected cent, steeper here it possible than at ns remarkable as the disany ptace I had found before, 1 waa But almost of the manuscript Is the extraorcovery of In middle xoad. On the the following dinary story of how It was nnearthed. my right band yawned a deep gully. Tho details of the visit of two English "I have Often wondered what that women to the lonely monastery of St. aa I man thought aped past him like a Catherine on the summit of Mount Stnal flash, my leg actually brushing against and the accident which revealed the his horse, which gave a snort of terror Gospels are told below. and barely missed leaping against me, Syriac To return to the manuscript After that I had a clear course, CbriaL ah we know, was master of though continually descending, until it soMral languages, but it Is certain that seemed to me It wah without end. I was the ete He leaned as an felt weak and, dizzy and liable to fall Byrlae infant. moment Then seat at a from my any - In moments of great mental exclto- darkness began to settle over the scone. u- w,a ' tbla '''sustn-Sy- rlae niLat i llghted arlntervala ty hara ct ltVery tbat leaped and naturally to Hit light, across which I sped like a specter when He cried out In anguish lips, the upon more a . I was entering heavily timbered In Syriac words which Cross He district, and where the gloom hung our Greekspoke has to translate, but Gospel me I myfound over suddenly deepest In which discovered this newly Gospel a self being carried up sharp ascent, and I knew that the worst of my wild stand In thelf proper place with no need of translation. race wan over. These Gospels give, for Instance, an At the very top of this long rise, carried hither by the momentum It had entirely new reading of proper names. From this It appears that there previously gained, the bicycle came to was no such person as JuJos Iscariot, but that he who betrayed hli Master to bear unable s swoon, In up ground with a kiss was Judtv Suimta, that longer, name was Cepha, andjbat the - "When 1 recovered my consciousness Peters I found that I had barely escaped being correct name for the Mount of Oilvea borne down n second descent of more was Betb Zalta. But above and beyond such technithan a mile In extent - I was to weak differences as these are the new cal to rest was under the Obliged that I shadow of the forest for half an hour or t and unexpected reading of tho Gospels ibis ancient manusertpi-dis-streng- th more before I could muster sufficient closes upon dogmatic questions of the I resume to my flight. fir8t importance Written, a, it to "I could hear nothing of my pursuers. . B1M.r t0,h, Judging that they had abandoned m,t,ted blcfl ,tbe, the chase, I moved leisurely away on ,n old- this, the fwa to wheel. remount not my foot, caring of eat of records W authentic Hto Toward morning I cam. to a small la the 4 ,must ta' lta P! town, wher I told tb tory of my ad-avery fronl amons hlstorlf venture. A party was at once organized ments. " to visit the old bout oa the heights. And right here. It might be said that which bad long kr.owa an unsavory ancient this document, which has been surinmates were reputation, and Its found In the very plac whw Moses prised and captured, ta I afterward learned, for I had no desire to return received the commane.ments, while It over the course which bad been the coincides with the translations of the ' scene of a rlde that yet haunts my Gospels aeeepted np to the present day, mind. One of the men found my blcy-e- yet differs from It -The difference is of Itself regarded handle ani brought It safely back as proof of its originality and (coutne- to me. ness. In doctrinal matters there ire differMrs. Fogg: But how in the world did the come to marry him? Mr. ences that have already aroused the Fogg. "Ha asked her, 1 believe. Bos- theologians. Thu la the entire Qnes- tloa of the Immaculate exception ton Transcript 1 i Ilemarlcab a Ilirw.nn.'nn t.i OoMcr s LITERARY SUCCESS HAS NOT CHANGED OLIVE SCHREINER. A tl,c I.tf- - of the '111, hrory of mb Afrltan Farm J'omt S'io snout Her V tjrljr Ufa l,i f apr Tuan. ilitmalug Sarli Xouiij Author -- ad-an- d. :nJ w nd -- ye i OF-- . Olnerved at. remarkable i)bj..cal change ta has been guir g on in Mlnuso'd Mthin tho la t ten Tb, ir the t'tfnt of signifi-eani- c of wlldi Rv. ptop'e are aware. Mir.neHottfTuTlong lx n known as "the Lake state It w aa famous as containing a gnatcr numpei an.1 caety of bt a itlf 1 la1. s than anj o.htr section of tbo Loantri In sc cffi.ul report of J. l! Baker, published tonic seven aSJ ,n In of Pioneer Press, was s'ated that there d sere over T.bOU Ulur, within the dniUo of the state. But the last ten . jeacs has wrought wcnJerful changes in this characteristic feature of of our landscapes. A large propoitiou of these lakeshue dried up entirely, and In many cases cultivated fields now ocvupv their rich bottoms, formeily covered by fiom ten to twenty feet of water Nt arly all the rest have greatly shrunken In volume and are slowly These are a few exceptions, but this Is the general ru e. In reply to Inquiries, a large number of correspondents bear startling testimony to the melancholy fact that as a rule the lakes of Minnesota are gradually drj'lng up. There seems to be no Instance In which even the largest and deepest lakes, though nourished by apiing-fe- d streams, have not consideraThe same bly diminished In volume. story comes from every section of the state trom Nicollets undine region, which embraces the counties of Lo Sueur, Blue Earth, and the adjacent districts, and which was so called from the multitude of lakes which dotted It like a constellation, to the far more pronounced lake region, which has Its seat chiefly In the counties of Becker, Otter Tail and Douglas. There is hardly to be found in tne world in the same area a more numerous or more extensive Cluster of lakes than is comprised in these counties They form the natural reservoirs that supply the headwateis of the Red river and of the northwestern affluents of the Mississippi. These lakes seem To have felt the causes which have operated to reduce their old volume less severely than elsewhere. But our reports from that district are as yet t0 Pai tlal t5 be able t0 name the list of exceptions, if there be any, to the gen-th- e sur-veje- place Tasma and Rolf Boldr-'wcoby her side. The way In which she Is regarded is the more curious, when we consider that her fame has been entirely won by one ..tue glttry of qn African Faina, wriiun when the authoress was only 17, and a tale do strangely simple in its language that the outh of the aritef seems 'o sh'ne out fiom every sentence. Olive Fchrelner, aj moot peop c would guess from her name, la of German extraction; but her mother was Miss Lin-dal- l. the daughter of aa English clergyman. The future novelist spent her childhood in Cape Town, and in the wild Karoo those sandy plains surrounded by mountains where she laid the seere of her book. Although she was one of several children, Including a much loved elder-siste- j, and a brother, now a distinguished South African barrister. Miss Schreiner seems to have lived a singularly abt orbed life, conmumng with herself and nature, and noting all that went ou In the Dutch farmhouses round her home vvitn a child's pitiless, though often (orrect Judgment. The .story of hfr adventure, cs a jet unpublished writer, is a veritable romance. She came to England with the manuscript of "TheAfriean Farm in her trunk, with na literary friends to help her with advice. Some happy Inspiration led ber to send her novt to Metsr?. Chapman & Hul'.TTie" publisher. la j due cource the MS found its way Into hands of one of their then readers, orj Meredith, an I he, himself in Oatwit'lng an Indian. many people's ettin atlon the greatest Fighters of Indians need to be men of English novelist of modern times, un- wit and a steady hand. Such a hesitatingly declared his high apprecia quick, was man John Hawks, one of the setof the work. Nay', more, he sent tion An exploit" of for "Ralph Iron, as the young la ly tlers of Hadley, Mass. then styled herself, and discussed the this pioneer. In 1676. is narrated by the Deerfield. The Indians story with her, giving her the benefit ot historian of hi3 long experience and knowledge. The had made an attack upon Hitfleld, and other towns hed gone to book, although only consisting of one "Tfoops from the men from Hadrescue. the Among short volume, created an immediate imley was John Hawks. In few a Miss weeks and O.tve pression, Soon after the Hadley men got ashore Schreiner became famous. But success a tree, did not spoil her. Bbe refused to be John Hawks, who was behind some one call hint by name. A heard was seen to be lionized, and only among who had taken a poher small circle of friends, where her Pocumtuek Indian, sition behind nnother tree, had recogmind much was appresolid, thoughtful nized Hawks ss aa old acquaintance.. ciated, for, unlike many authors, she Hawks returned the compliment, and can speak as well as she can write, and each man began taunting the other, and she is even more admirable as a woman his enemy to come into the open than as a writer Then folloved some daring and fight the thing out. years of comparative Inaction. Miss The Indian had the best of it, and Schreiner wrote constantly, but pub- was aware of his advantage. lished nothing and her known and At perfectly moment some of the gatnertng any countless unknown friends and admirIndians were likely to come up behind ers had the Uisappo'ntment of 'seeing Hawks and force him cut of his cover. her go back to the Cape without having Under these circumstances, of course, published a second book. expose the Indian was in no Quietly and unostentatiously she then lumsclf. set up her household gods at Matjesfon-t?:.However, the white man was not a small village s'.tuatPd nearly blind to the danger of his own situation. 200 miles from Cape Town. Her life Something must be done, and that was simple In the extreme, and entirely He knew what his adspeedily. spent In reading, writing, and riding, versary counted upon, and that gave thousand eargr and sheets of papyrus forms is always Thease wHh a woman lilnThis clue7 written over and rewritten over are brought up In the colonies, she Is a All at once he sprang from behind his placed before them in the ancient li- splendid horsewoman, and Is never so tree, and leveled his gun as if to repel brary, where the sunlight is hardly happy as when In the sadd.e. A slight an attack from another direction The strong enough to enable them to take description oT her home as seen In those Pocumtuek took the bait, and sprang their photographs. With the latest uow distant 'daysT before she became forward. He would capture Hawks the productions of this nineteenth century Mrs. Schreiner Cronw right, ghss, aa moment his gun was empty. era, kodaks, sensitive films, and de- nothing else can do, a glimpse of her Quick as thought the white man velopers," these two new women from character and manifold Interests. Ftne wheeled, and before the Indian could Cambridge university worked hour by photographs and mezzotints of Dores raise his gun or reach his cover gave hour on Mount Sinai among parchmenta paintings and of Watts "Love and him a fatal shot It was all the work written during the first century. Death, hang In her of a few seconds, and Hawks, though It waa thus that they discovered the an apartment utterly devoid of ail liter- wounded in the ensuing fight, lived to palimpsest of the Gospels,- A palimp- ary apparatus aad paraphernalia. She fight other battles. sest to an ancient parchment or other wrote at a large square table, and alKh list s Good Argument. document whose original writing had though In some ways a recluse, was al seems to have f. a Mrs.. BaiUngton- Booth pretty argumeht on her side ot the recerd. Generally a good deal of the who made his way from Cape Town In reformed woman question, when she original writing can be deciphered in order to pay his respect to the author- would take the balloon sleeves of modof ess African Farm. of "An which have documents, many speh ern- Btyle garments with which to make Miss two over or Dreams. second Sihreiner's more written been time dresses for scant clad ehlldrefi of want. In this manner. book, a collection of short stories and Albany Journal. The Syriac Gospes which have now allegories, was published , after her re- and it So has not turn bad been written over. LAUGHS WITH THE FUNNY MEN. turned up although iq Africa, In order to make use of the original in any way added to her great reputaClerical Tourist: "1 ace you have two sheets a second time some monk who tion, It cannot be said To have detracted In your little town. When I churches It. from attached little importance to the was here four years ago there was only erased- - vAth knlfa or pumice Shortly after the publication ot this, Villager: "Yes; they had a big stone the first writing. He then wrote her second book, her friends were sur- one. over it the live of some of the saints. prised to hear of her marriage to a fight summer before- - last, and half the The Gospel writing was that which was young South African gentleman farmer congregation got out and started an- Puck. whom she had known for some time, other church. underneath. Miss Nurvs: 1 am so afraid, doctor, Upon a second Journey made to the and who bad taken a great Interest In will happen and that I monastery by These two new women, all her literary work. Mrs. Schreiner that something Dr: Py Us: "Nonbe alive. burled now she as is may Cronw lives hercalled, right, one of them, Mrs. Lewis, armed la a charming Dutch homestead, an sense! You need not fear anything like self with four bottles of a the medicine 1 gave llquid. with whlch she wABhed the idealized AfricanJarnL- - She write, by thaLYoutake need and you you -, lD, ,tn jno longer be afrald, sacred leaves, thun. as she claims. re- ,t3 workr shegopi Tor a short of being burled alive. That is someTervalabf all in the its original writing viving brisk wa.k la the broad, silent Karoo, thing that never 'happens to my paclearness. back with her thotrgh'a fresh tients. Harpers Bazar. When the original snap-shpictures coming She: "Well, if I cant live on my in- or the document were taken the two and collected. come, and you cant live on yours, women were unaware of the Importance Look where would be the advantage in our ! t Me, ot their work. A professor of Oriental The German emperor haa one very marrying? He (thoughtfully): Well, language at Cambridge university, to singular peculiarity. He cannot bear to by our Incomes together one of ' putting whom they showed the developed pho- have anyone look at him when he is us would be able to live, It any rate. tographs, read the SjtUc writing and saying hto prayers in church, and la Harlem Life. was much excited by bis discovery. order that the curiosity of his subject "I nebbah could aee, Bald Uncle shall not disturb his religious devotions Eben, de sense In some folks wifhold-l- n ' A lioprtM Fmmx he' has Issued the fortewing unparal- de crust er bread um de needy, ter , save up foh banquets for people dat'll Dont you think It would be possl- - leled order: Aa soon as I enter church everyone lea go way an talk erbout 'em, an aln ble to bring about a reconciliation be- tween Thompson and Johnson? asked to on the qul vive to look at pie. a thing hongry, nohow. Washington Star. j which annoys me extremely. I there- am very much obliged to you, the first mutual friend. I fear not, sighed the second mu- - fore desire that all shall abstain from madam said the tramp to the farmers tual friend. Those fellows hate each this eurlosity when I go on Sunday to wUe after te had eaten a hearty meal. I hear divine service. Those who desire "The dinner waa most excellent, and I othef like two labor leaders. From whlph comparison it Waa easy to have a good view of me can do so shall take pleasure In recommending this place to my friends. Harper a to deduce tne utter hopelessness of the when I take my walk in the Thier i den or drive In mjr carriage." - Baxar. j be- "I had boasted of swift riding before that eventful evening, but all palod before that startling experience. I seemed to be flying! I dont know bow I kept my teat, how the machine kept on Its &vtr LAKES DRYING ru'G-Georg- yond my controls "I no longer paid any heed to my noisy pursuers, but gave all of my to that wild flight of which I had Imrely begun to get a foretaste. The descent was growing sharper every moment, and, expecting to be flung headlong from my seat at any Instant, I waatarrlej on and faster, until I seemed to lose my breath, and I saw only a whir and glitter before my eyes. , tions, until, completely tired out, I suggested that I would like a chance to sleep. - I was then escorted to the loft, making the ascent by a laooer, which was pulled away immediately after the men returned below. I had resolved not to sleep, and throwing myself on a pile of sklns in one corner of my cramped apartment, I lay and listened to the sounds underneath, until In my drowsiness I felt like calling myself a fool for agatnst-th- e men, who might te more honest than they appeared. "I had about come to that conclusion, when my attention was eal.ed back to the scene below by the opening of tho door and the entrance of three new- - SUED PAST HIM LIKE A FLASH, comers, as I quickly aaw. These last were fit associates of the others, and upon entering the room they deposited a heavy bundle on the floor, saying anmet htr.r In aa mndcrtone that l tHd not hear. "From the consultation that followed 1 caught enough 10 know that a robbery had been committed by the men re- -- fu lILlx JltJIll.. lit Hull IfflMP 1 bril-lanc- y, "The eihera proved more It is here U'stinctly gtfited that Jesus was the natural sou Of Joseph. Tha n found manuscript which has qow is alone la this new reading. N'o other j histoileal document of the kind makes any suh aiimion " The exact words used are these: "Jo ph (.o whom was betrothed the Virgin Mary ) b dut Jesu ,, w ho Is called Chriot " Her 1, a distinct affirmation that Joseph was the natural father of the Savior. This. Syriac uuniuacnpi,lhe old-- J cat authentic mortl of the Gospels, here males a statement contained in none-o- f the other and later documents. The story of the finding of this ancient munuscrlpt by two women with a. kodak J dun of Lhe mutd.. .marvelous In the history of BibUeal literature. Nowhere has It a counterpart. In the remote and almost inaccessible monastery hf St. Catherine, which the Umperor Justinian caused to be erected in the sixth century upon the, site of some of the most astounding miracles, two nineteenth century women with a snapshot camera ask for a look at the musty documents with which the cellar la stored. The monks can scarcely believe their senses when they learn that there two women made the hazardous Journey across the desert on dromedaries ta inspect their musty tomes. They arc loath to disturb their parchments and papyri In their sleep of centuries for two such casual tourists until the latter present credentials from the authorities of the Greek church, which at once opens the vaults, the hidden cells and the ancient chests. Then an almost endless array of parchments Is unearthed fer their Inspection. Ancient scrolls, leaves of parchments tyhlth no Human eye had seen for a J I ' Cwtari-.fs,b- (tDipi AkluA n, sitting-room-stud- docu-men- y, ta foul-smelli- ot f -- .I gar-situati- 1 H - 1 1 i |