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Show Quw&Vs 'beauty was matuni tad GIRLS BATTLE WITH ALLIGATORS She, earned more heightened by waa far more lovely than before. Aft- -. r the first moment's shock of 'Uprts prid assumed control, and placed ssch other on the guard. They longed to break the ic. bet an end to the existence to the two terrors. Her brother's gun wsa hanging against the wall on the opposite 3id of the room. She determined to take, edvantage of the first opportunity and get hold of the weapon. Her mother tried to dissuade her from euch a desperate venture, but the moment that the big saurian left the room she sprang out on the carpet and ran after! from the Jaws of one of the saurian. the gun. The alligator heard her tep Mother and daughter were now and he pursued her to the bed, snapstanding up on the bed, but they were ping bis hideous jaw and making a not sure that they occupied a position noise that would have paralysed a less beyond the reach of their hungry as- courageous girl. Mlsa Savanah say that she had sailants. The noise awoke the little negro, and the women saw him run- never shot a gun before In her life, ning towards them They shouted to but she had often seen her brother him warning him of the danger, and handle a rifle and she had some telling him to run outside of the yard. knowledge of the way the liner waa Evidently he did not know what was worked In order to load and eject the Her heart the trouble, for he ran toward the shells from the barrel. bounded for joy when she found the bed, stumbling over one of the and failing with his head right magaxine ot the gun full of cartridges. into the mouth of the other. Aiming well at one eye of the big The women were helples to defend bull she fired and had the satisfaction the unfortunate little African. The of seeing him cavort about over the monster crushed the little negros carpet as If there waa something hot Rescues Her Baby Sister from Saurians Jaws. neither wanted to make Jhe adnac. After the feasting was over Us happy group assembled In the frset parlor to talk over pleasant remlai. cencee or Indulge in a quiet tste-a- . tete. Savanah Walston, a pretty Texas Then someone, may hi jtrfbe Increase, said : girl, la the heroine of the little town I I brought my violin. yly of Tunis, on the Bayou Sarah, an arm She made herself faand call off, let us have a da0 to- of the Bracoe ' y mous a few days ago by killing two night. The suggestion was greeted with monster alligator that had entered a hearty shout, and the young fellows her mother cottage during the night Few men would have been capable ot rushed to find their partners, performing the feat that this brave their, Right quickly they all took Bested by the glowing ember In the riders were wanted, and he had learned girl accomplished. The house occufound; they when on the floor, places gloomy old flrellt hall, watching the to mount the wildest broncho. by Mrs. Walston Btands within pied coople one am retreat, advance, flare up In He enlisted, and hurried off to the that they wnu i Just twenty feet of a large Irrigating ditch, more across which there la a small foot splendor, and then die Into a dull front At Santiago he landed, and In "Come, come. Soldier Jack, seou Thirty-fiv- e glow, was Jack the march to the city was In the first Long bridge. The yard gate opens at this a partner, cried ie voluntary year had elapsed since Jack first saw skirmish. little bridge, and a wire fence extends the light of day, and his life had been some twenty feet either way along Then came that noble charge on San uncontrollable Moved by some a full of Joy and misery, of light and Juan hm. He led the charge amid the bank of the ditch and then turns whw Jack arose and went to at a sharp right angle and joint the shadows, as the ordinary life of mandust and heat fighting like a mad man bending and, Graham aat, kind. until struck down, faint and bleeding, Queenie low, whispered: g glow he lay on mother earth to die. Typical of the to "Will you come and dance was a love within I. a heart which ten long-lo"Queenie, Queenie. oh, my I ' the Wedding with me? years had not smothered loved one, shall I never see you more? She assented, and all were at their Like the fire flame leaping high and he was heard to murmur, as borne places sinking low, was the hope in his away from the field Somehow there Then someone on the piano Sra-pante- d was something In this piteous cry breast the ilulln in that . sweet eld As Jack sat there amne, gazing into which touched the hearts of those who Haste to the Wedding. the fire, thoughts of bygone days came heard It A newspaper man who was melody, is always an opportunity iia There over him, trooping at his memory s near sent with ms report the following quadrille for a sly word now and then brief sentence call between partners. and dying, wounded "A soldier, Mingled with those memories was a "AH Join hands and circle to tha the field, from fair and radiant maiden, with hair oi while being carried right was heard to exclaim with his last suasnine and eyts of azure This lin "I want to ask jou something." be my oh, and lifelike breath so Queenie, vivid Queenie, age conjured up when they were at thlr whispereu, No doubt this long-loloveh one was his loving, laughing sweetheart, ' places again. Queen, e Graham, as she looked on that piteous appeal wrung from a noble is It? What heart was to some faithless sweet- Thanksgiving night so long ago, first four forward and back again." It would be ten yearfc on the morAnd away they went. row since he had last gazed upon the When next they ha an opportunity s- -e dimpled, smiling roguish face which thrust Into his hand an Item he loved so well clipped from a newspaper, They were then betrothed, and s.,e it waa of a young soldier earrled wore the betrothal ring which he had bleeding and dying from San Juan hill, placed upon her finger only a few murmuring: weeks before Queenie, Queenie, oh, my long-lo- d loved one, shall I never see you more? How vivid that picture came before she asked. Was that you kis eyes. Ten years seemed to have - roilu backward, and he sas jouth Yes, be answered. ef 25 again, and Queeme Graham, his Thenhe took her uand. It 'trembled, adored one, a blushing ma.den of 18. and her azure eyes grew dim... "Balance all. The farmhouse, with It was several minutes before either white, oaken floor, and the boys with could speak their sweethearts, and the jolly old The sweet-tune- d violin, accompanied fiddler who played half asleep, only stentor-loo- s In the piano, poured forth such soulto out call by deep, awaking tones: stirring music as can be found only in that precious old air, Haste to the "Swing partners to place The lamps swinging from the ceiling Wedding WILL YOU DANCE WITH ME? He was about to speak when the looded the scene with the most brilhim years be- musician deserted had who heart liant light. "calling off shouted: fore. Gents to place all promenade Gay laughter and jest told of light had This simple little paragraph him an opportunity to reIt hearts, and happy faces glowed to the and dis- covergave and when next- - they music of the "Irish Wash- been copied and. recopied, for himself, counttheme the made anJ cussed, room he .Whiskered; across the off fiddler. glided erwoman, sawed by the less stories and ballad. Jack's love, like all true love, did 4. But Jack,' who uttered It, didn i die. Say, Queenie, will you kep'thaAl4 ' , you made long ago? eot run smooth. In fact, love beget He lived to return to America, was promise She looked up at him, smUtag It own misery. . e was madly jealand resolved to her tears. ous when she smiled on Sam Brown, honorably discharged, another Thanksgiving in the old through Ten years of misery snd suffering and in swinging partners Sam held pass his where young days had her hand too long and squeezed It too neighborhood passed since he held that bail had been spent. So he returned, after it was reward tor all that suiterOh, ardently to suit the jealojs lover. ten years, and an absence of f' he de- was at the housenearly Queenie, youre a flirt, of his lather on this ing! "Queenie, 1 have it yet." hs whisclared, "1 saw you wink at Sam evening, gazing sadly Into the fire pered, taking from his vest pocket the Brown. which seemed to reflect his own achbetrothal ring which he had carried She turned on him with proud, ing heart. all these ears. said: and eyes, Bashing What was life to him now? "It has never left me, for 1 always Dont be aurprle-- d if I call you aSr chief that That charm, only light had that a time might come other. You kissed Susie Bell. to his soul, had gone out, leaving all whenmoped 1 could restore It to the finger "Thats not true. gloom and darkness. where it belonged, ft was with me "Yes, you did, for I heard her tell He was like an old man. on that dark, gloomy day at San Juan Mary Courtwrlght His hair, once dark aa the ravens "It Is false, Queenie he- - erled, in wing, showed trace of Bllver tntt, htl where 1 saw so many noblemen his Indignation. Susie Bell was a and his face, so handsome, clear and die. "I . carried It over my heart and round-faceugly country girl with no fresh, now had the lines of care npon prayed that If I fell some Spbanlsh attractions, and tongue given to mis- It. bullet might pass through the band of chief making. Though he sometimes smiled and as- love to reach a heart that beat for corners of the house. This makes a The dance went on, and the lovera sumed an appearance of gayety, hi but one you. Oh, Queenie, did you know that small front yard which has quarrel with It As Jack and Queenie mother knew that his heart was sad. gate. you have never whirled In the giddy mazes of the But that mother had a hope that It ia supposed that the two monster Swing partners to place. dance 'hat silly, childish quarrel on would son. dawn her yet were prowling along the happiness old an alligators was that abomination her What waxed hot, entrancing beauty with She had a piece of Intelligence she fiddler and the dance to Jack. Irrigating ditch In search of food every angry word she uttered. to him. Queenie Gra- when they encountered the foot bridge, When he next got an opportunity At last, as the "set was over, she had not broken of ten an absence after years, and In crossing over it they may have ham, he whispered: uddcnly Jerked the betrothal emblem had returned to visit an aunt. puehed the little gate open. Miss "Never been out of my mind." Walston was sleeping on a There was to be a great Thanksglv-in- g little porch in front of the at cot the cke oh tbp grandmother's, party ClANeytt RAFFLE. open door of her mother's room, and oldest lady in the nflghborhood, at a little negro boy 6 years of age waa which she was to Invite all the young Goodwin Grandma for took lying under a china tree In the yard. folks, who waa sick at the great pleasure In young people. bed In the parlor of a no would doubt be time, occupied there, Queenie her little baby waa and the determined should that Jack cottage, and she lying In a cradle within easy reach ot meet her. The mother knew that her hand. She says that she heard the son's pride would keep him away if he knew Queenie was to be there, so alligators for some moments before she called her daughter. The moon she kept that surprise a secret from waa shining almost as bright as day, him. and when Mias Savanah was aroused She little knew how love had humbled Jacks pride. by her mother she raised up on her cot and put one of her hands on the In the vest pocket of the veteran, he head ot one of the monsters. At that carried the self same ring which Instant a little dog that had ran out Queenie had thrust back on him ten of Mrs. Walston's room was snapped years before. It was next his heart between the Jaws of another alligator when be stormed San Juan hill, and at the young girls side. he hoped If he was slain the bullet In her fright she sprang over one would pass within the golden circle QUEENIE, OH, MY LONG-LOS- T LOVE." of his youthful love, and that he might of the monsters In order to reach her mother's bed. Both of the alligators die with her name on his lips. from her finger, and thrusting it Into to Jack destined her across the floor and one But fate He lire. pursued bis hand said: Izrned the .cradle over. The of them more once was friends home, among Theres a raffle down at Clancr "Here Is your ring; you can marry to hear him fell out on the carpet. Mias crowded had about little who are tor a "turk. boy They throwing Sue." Miss dances By the way the dice-bo- x wild reached the bed in safety, and had Savanah of storm the tell the charge Jack You can eee It'a hard at work. With a heavy heart the angry heard the cries of her When she of death. but Long donned hia topcoat and winding Whew! the air Is close and smoky) to she Would he next sprang hack on the sister go baby the grandmothers neca to his about keep muffler hla There's a crowd about the beer; the child almost reecued to the and dinner: Yes, Thanksgiving stalwart day carpet hi throat Every thirsty blokey chill November air from Downs his pint without a (ear. went out Into the night never to look he woitld. The mother waa happy. called Jerry Clancy "Twlnty-wan,- " QUEER FACTS1 upon the face of that adored being And he pounded on the bar. The old carriage was loaded- - with Again. tha game, la.faihs tBhure, middle-age- d peoAbotl Aulwata TtrtA by - Isp Lucky divll that ye are! He neard from Queenie occasionally, jolly young'foIksAhJ them the and veteran among of to ple, east had she Philadelphia School. gone and at last that ' "Come. OBrien, tak' the A teacher in one of the public Then said Clancy, with a wink: d live. How far east or what part ot San Juan. Grandmas table groaned with plen- "Whlrra. boya. an havent ye heaf-r-schools of the Quaker City who has s the east be did not know, and waa OBrien aahk yes abl to dhrlnkf and canand pies turkey, goose sense ty; to ask. of humor, has culled some too proud were twenty-seve- n husky tn bits of Information from her She was lost to him forever, snd he dles, ctaer, nuts and apples In abun- There Gathered there about the bar. dance. to went He west examination then. here! shouted each papers. Questions bearmelancholy. grew But what waa far more precious to "Whiskey Clancy answered: "Here yes arc! ing upon the habits of animals were ip as far from her aa possible, and enrider was a radiant face "Tin clnts alch, ye the found to be particularly amusing One lucky sinner1 gaged In business at a frontier town,before. O'Brien said, ."thots sstsi loved bad to he as"Falx' long his ranchmen for and small with cowboys boy declared. In a fit of poesy, a molghty coshtly dinner He thought she had suffered as well Tls that "the lion is the queen of beasts. years old, (our puunds la weight! Eight From another more practical "the lion Then cams the mutteripge of war as he. They were too much surprised A day lor toil, an hour for sport, but has a great big mouth, and roars at meeting that neither would tell with Spain, In for a friend, a life Is too, short One evident ad- Hs had always loved the weak, and what emotions were being stirred something fearful. 5 sprang to the first call to arms. Rough the others heart, n. e, alll-gato- r, ever-burnin- st st 4 soul-stirri- - d, Sa-an- Mis.-Walsto- n, -- -- '" head between its jaws, and the women could plainly see the childs blood streaming over the carpet "To add to the terror of the scene," says Mrs. Walston, "the other alligator seized the little negro's tegs and they tore the childs body to fragments before our eye. We did not know what to do. At one moment we thought of springing out on the floor and trying to escape and run to the house of a neighbor. While the women were hesitating In their fright a curious thing happened. On the previous day Mrs. Walston had ordered a large mirror which she had set on the floor against one of the walls of the parlor. The male alliga-h- er tor caught the reflection ot his own Image In this glass and with a furious bellow he plunged at It and shivered This the costly mirror to fragments. seemed to enrage the creature and he began to bellow and run about over the house, overturning everything that came In hla way. Miss Savanah saya that she threw pitchers, wash bowls, glass tumblers, and boxes ot matches Into tb monster's, mouth and he would crush and swallow such things as If they were delicacies that tickled hia palate. While the smaller of the two creatures was overturning the stove and destroying the kitchen furniture the other remained In the parlor terrorising the two women. He would doubtless finally have succeeded In overturning the bed if Miss Savanah bad not adopted a plan of battle which pnt -- Inslde of hia head, She pumped a few more shots Jnto hla body behind hla forelegs and It was not long before he rolled over .lifeless. The female came crawling into the room. Savanah sent a hot ballet lnttTTtS body. The furious animal turned and ran straight toward the bed with wide open jaws, snd, furious with pain and rage, the got her forefeet on the bed, and the women were now worse frightened than before.-T- he horrible Jaws of the maddened creature were close to (heir bodies. Savanah pushed the barrel of the gun Into the alligators mouth and fired. It was a fortunate shot The big ball tore through the full length of the creatures backbone, and it fell, quivering and lifeless, on the carpet. The smoke had 'hardly cleared and the women had not yet dared to venture from the bed when A. Nelson, a neighbor, entered the gate and asked if they were having a battle with burglars. The man could hardly credit hla own eyesight when he saw the carcasses of the two big alligators lying on the carpet. Other citizens of the little town were soon gazing In wonder at the dead alligators and the wrecked furniture. They proved to he two ot the largest alligators ever killed in tbs country. The people of the little ferwft have voted Miss Savanah the bravest girl in Texas, and the young men of the place gave a ball In her honor and crowned her mascot of tbelr military company and the queen of the hunting dub, Jects the answers were equally as enlightening. The miner, we learn, al- saya had a donkey to pullhlm out .fit the mine, which is full of gas and One future citizen inchokes him. plays and dances Aa soon as he hears form! us that "the chief occupation of Is taking ferry boats music." Another brilliant one gives Philadelphia the somewhat startling information across the river. that the rhinoceros has a atone nose, HieblsM Displace Farm Baida snd that "dogs Is a domestic animal, In England during the past tew which chews bones. We art also told: The llama is a beast of burden and years. It is claimed, 140,320 farm laborAnother ers have been displaced by machinery, we get clothes off Its back. while the making of the latter, it is animal evidently in the clothing business Is the seal, which, we are Inform- asserted, required only the labor ot Upon other sub- - 4.600 men for one year. ed, "makes coats.! mlrer of the world-renown- hero. "the buffalo ia the one Animal af tha temperate son which belongs to the Wild Man, and adds: The horse la an animal what Colonel Cody, tells us v . |