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Show day morning He then thrust his head beneath the wheels of a moving freight train and his head was completely severed from his body. Two gien were w th him at the but THE RELIANCE WINS ouQMi$&ay; A STORYfbm, TAKES THE FIRST RACE FROM SHAMROCK. time, they disappeared short y afterward have not been On the Anniversary of gad their teamed ly of! (.s Siortiv before Winning the Cup, America Again I was hilled - tdd a o uheman that Proves Victor Shamrock Wil AS suflfrins k I) linn booze. Left Away Behind. gpd his (oupa-nnt- , s'ured that ho had & of th'i'iin.i tremens The first race of the series between had he ari,ved it whan Saturday the Reliance and Shamrock III rw for the American night suited In a Fifty-secon- d li- 0Y A. CONAN DOYLE Hid watthel from behind the curtains. Fur a lunst tun- ill wa- - s" ! within the house The lifc'.t MIM n ,1 ni t im 'u;t re though M mained rU--i il in the one p.intl n. while from t.me in time a pi"---fi 'H of It to Mi iv that er mi in ;ht - i -- 1 viaitir JNTtRNAmnt r ASSOCIATION. CHAPTF.R XVI. MIDNK-II- S?1 vim roil. Off all tills time, y while the w a b being played In thesl three suburban vil- las while on a com- mnnplace stage luve and humor and lights and shadows were so swiftly succeeding each other, and while these tragl-cini-ed- three families, drifted together by late, were shaping each others destinies and working out In their own fashion the strange. Intricate ends of human life, there were human eyes which watched over every tage of the performance, and which were keenly critical of every actor on It. Across the road beyond the green lawn, bepalings and the hind the curtains of their creeper-frame- d windows, sat two old ladies, Miss Bertha and Miss Monica Williams, looking out as from a private box at all that was being enacted before them. The growing friendship of the three families, the engagement of Harold Denver with Clara Walker, the engagement of Charles Westrr.acott with her later, the dangerous fascination which the widow exercised over the Doctor, the preposterous behavior of the Walker girls and the unhappiness which they had caused their father, not one of these Incidents escaped the aotlcebf the two maiden ladies. Bertha the younger had a smile or a sigh for the lovers, Monica the elder a frown or A shrug for the elders. Every night they talked over what they had seen, And their own dull, uneventful life took A warmth and a coloring from their neighbors as a blank wall reflects beacon fire. And now It, was destined that they should experience the' one keen sensation of their later years, the one memorable Incident from which all future should be dated. It was on the very night which succeeded the events which have Just been narrated, when suddenly Into Monica WWUma she tpssed upon her sleepless bed, there shot - A thought which made her alt up with a thrill And close-cropp- . was 1 nn d up .in piling In fiont of her, Ori.'i tbev saw I, is outline with his hands imi-l- r, ol as if in appeal or entre.it Tt i n su lerly t re was a dull luinl, .( et the noise of a fill, the taper whs extinguished, and a dark figure dal in the mo uillght, rushed at ross the garden, and vimshed amid the shrubs at the faither side. Then only did the two old ladies understand that the had .oked on whil-- t a tragedy had bfen enaeled "Help! they cried, and "Help1" in their high, thin voices, timidly at first but gathering volume as they went on. until the Wilderness rang with their shrieks Lights shone In all the windows oppot, site, chains rattled, bars were doors opened, and out rushed friends to the rescue. Harold, with a stick; the Admiral, with his sword, his grey head and bare feet protruding from either end of a long brown ulster; finally. Doctor Walker, with a poker, all ran to the help of the Westmaootts. Their door had been already opened, and they crowded tumultuously Into the front r, 1 . v . un-ho- room. Cbarleaestmaeott, white to his lips, was kneeling on the floor, supporting his aunts head upon his knee. She lay outstretched, dressed In her ordinary clothes, the extinguished taper still grasped In her hand, no mark or wound upon her pale, placid and senseless. "Thank God you are come, Doctor, said Charles, looking up. Do tell me how she Is, and what I should do. Doctor Walker kneeled beside her, and passed his left hand over her head, while he grasped her pulse with the right She has had a terrible blow, said he. It must have been with some blunt weapon. Here Is the place behind the ear. But she is a woman of extraordinary physical powers. Her pulse la full and slow. There is no stertor. It Is my belief that she Is merely stunned, and that she Is In no danger at alL Thank God for that! We must get her to bed. We shall Carry her upstairs, and then I shall send my girls In to her. But who haa done victory vessel, the cup defender beating Up" ton's third challenger by 9 minutes a fust time, or 7 minutes 3 seconds, s after deducting the 1 minute 65 which the defender concedes to the (halleuger. It was a roal water fight for the ancient trophy which carries with it the yachting supremacy of the world, and by a strange coincidence the first ocvictory In the cup series of 1903 curred on the anniversary pf the day on which the old schooner America captured It In her famous race around the Isle of Wight. The Reliance beat the British boat 3 minutes 24 seconds in the thresh to Jgjnd-war- d and 5 minutes 36 seconds in the run down the wind. Inside of half an hour all the eupa tors Rt Wircna lake have notthat upward of fifty mineral at the different springs had holea la their botoms. Now no one has any springs there foim drinking fountains use for a cup than to drink on the mote than t.OUO acres of the further from it and then to place the vessel At each fountain mo iced CONGRESS ADJOURNS. TranamlstlsEippians f Rcsolut ons at aeo-imd- .The Pass a Numbei Sratte Meeting. 1 ranxmlsislhslB of D pi Congress l.eid nt S ntY came h close Fridn af r ng the fol ,n lowing Statehood for Oklahoma and Indlai sexMon i i. -- Territory cninbuml, Territorial gov ernnient for Alu.-k- a a memorial (a vortng an Amenean merchant nia rino; international lbh hatcher) to Ik established on the Fr.uer river, close trade relations with Canada; plactn the consular sen ice under civil sei vice; also resolutions relating to taf esjjy. Irrigation, public hinds and thi Improvement of river- - and harbor' favoring an approp- - stem of $l,000,00t for the Lewis and Clark exposition a1. roads and bridges fol Portland; Alaska; recommending a trartsmls stssippt man for the bureau of manufactures; recommending a man from the same district for a place on the Interstate Commerce commission; approving a plan for a canal connecting Puget sound and lake Washington at Seattla; more string, nt pure food exposilaws; , favoring the St. tion; differential of 4 per cent In favor of Pacific coast bidders on battleships; protesting against further extension of forest reserves in Washington; recommending the construction of an isthmian canal; making The Hague tribunal the court of last resort, and discountenancing the sale of larga tracts of Philippine lands and the introduction of coolie labor Into those Islands. fifty-secon- HUMBERTS FOUND GUILTY. Swell re1 Parisians Convicted of Falsifica- tion and Swindling. The H&mbert trial, which has-beet Ihe topic of the day In Paris, ha last ended. The foreman of thf? jury announced that the verdict wa affirmative concerning the question of falsification and swindling, and negative on the subsidiary question. The Verdict considers extenuating conditions. The court sentenced Mma Humbert and her husband each to five years Imprisonment and to 100 francs fine. Emllle DAurignac was sentenced to Romaln two years Imprisonment was sentenced to three DAurignac years Imprisonment Mms. and M. Humbert will undergo solitary confinement during their term of Impris- onment Butte Man Thrusts His Head Under Moving Train. Good-byI am going to heaven," said a man supposed to have been John Shehan, a Butte miner at Apex, ten miles north of Dillon, Mont., Sun-e, assembly grourda. is provided a tin cup. A year or more ago it was discovered that the frequent disappearance of the cups from the springs caused much care and tro.uble. People wop Id carry off the cups, ftHed with water, and would forgot to return them. Every expedient was tried to put a slop to this practice. The cups were chained to the rocks, but they were detached and carried off, much to the annoyance of who afterward thirsty Individual looked about in vain for the vessel. The trouble found its way to Dr. Dickey, the genius who runs the place. He got a chisel and a bit a quarter of an inch wide, set a cup on a block and cut A slit In the bottom of it. Then he took the cup to a spring, Jeft it there and sat down on a neighboring bench to watch developments. Presently a cottager came along, topped at the spring to take a drink, filled the cup and startmLto walk off with 1L In less time than It takes to tell it he discovered that the water was escaping and had coursed down bis trousers legs and dimmed the luster of bis shoes. Then he threw the cup back to Its place and tried another spring with a Uke result From a Russian official source at Belgrade It la asserted that King Peter twice within ten days baa threatened to abdicate, not only personally, but on behalf of the dynasty. If the present distracting situation at the Servian capital continues. h this?" see Some robber," said Charles, that the window with all sail "Tou la open. She must have heard him and come down, for she was always perfectly fearless. I wish to goodness she had called me." "But she was dressed." "Sometimes she sits up very late. I did s!t up very late, said a voice. She had opened her Syes.and was blinking at them In the lamplight. "A villain came In through the window and struck A rasp, me with a life preserver. Tou can tell "Bertha, said she. plucking at the the police so when come. Also that shoulder of her sister, "I have left the It was a little fat they man. Now, Charles, front window open. and I shall go upgive me your arm "No, Monica, surely not. Bertha sat stairs." njp also, and thrilled in sympathy. But her spirit was greater than her "I am sure of It Tou remember I had to her for, as she strength, forgotten to water the pots, and then I feet, her head swam staggeredand she opened the window, and Jane called me would have fallen again round, had her nephew . About the Jam, and I have never been not thrown his arms around her. 'They la the room since. carried her upstairs among them and "Good gracious, Monica, It te a mercy laid her upon the bed, where the Doctor In our we not murdered been have that watched beside Charles went beds. There was a house broken into oft to the police-statio-her, while and the Denwe Hill Shall At Forest last week. go vers mounted over the guard frightened down and shut ItT" , maids. "I dare not go down alone, dear, but If you will come with me. Put on your CHAPTER XVIL slippers and dressing gown. We do not need a candle. Now, Bertha, we will IN PORT ST isST. go down together. AT had broken beTwo little white patches moved fore the several den-lsevaguely through the darkness, the of the Wildertalrs creaked, the door whined, and ness had all rethey were at the front room window. turned to Monica closed it gently down, and their homes, the police fastened the snlb. finished their In"What a beautiful moon! said she, and all quiries, looking out "We can see as clearly as come back to its If It were day. How peaceful and quiet normal quiet. Mrs. the three houses are over yonder! It Westmacott aeems quite sad to see that 'To Let' card had been left deeping mpoa number one. I wonder how numFor will like their going. my ber two peacefully with a part I could better spare that dreadful small chloral draught to steady her woman at number three with her short nerves and a handkerchief soaked In skirts and her snake. But, oh, Bertha, arnica bound round her head. It waa Her voice had fal- with some surprise, therefore, that the look! look!! look!!! len suddenly to a quivering whisper and Admiral received a note from her about she was pointing to the Westmacotta ten oclock, asking5- - him to be good bouse. Her sister gave a gasp of bor-ro- r, enough to step In to her. 'He hurried In, and stood with a clutch at Monicas fearing that she might have taken some - arm, turn for the worse, but he was reassured staring In the same direction. There was a lights the front room, to find her sitting up In bed, with Clara A slight, wavering light such as would and Ida Walker in attendance upon be given by a small candle or taper. The blind was down, but the light chief, and had put on a little cap with shone dimly through. Outside in the pink ribbons, and a maroon dressing-jacke- t, daintily fulled at the neck and garden, with his figure outlined against the luminous square, there stood a man, sleeves. his back to the road, his two hands upon My dear friend, said she as he enthe window ledge, and his bpdy rather tered, "I rich to make a last few rebent as though he were trying to peep marks to you. No, no, she continued, in past the blind. So absolutely still laughing, as she saw a look of dismay and motionless was he that In spite of upon his face. "I shall not dream of the moon they might well have over- dying for at least another thirty years. A woman should be ashamed to die belooked him were it not for that tell-tafore she Is seventy. I wish, Clara, that light behind. "Good heaven! gasped Bertha, It Is you would ask your father to step up. '' And you, Ida, just pass me my cigara burglar." But her sister set her mouth grimly ettes, and open me a bottle of stout, Now- - then, she continued. as . th and shook her head. "We shall see." she whispered. "It may be something Doctor joined their party. "I dont quite know what I ought to say to you. Adworst." Swiftly and furtively the man stood mired. Ton want some very plain mddealy erect, and began to push the speaking to." " 'Pon my word, maam, I dont know window slowly up. Then he put one knee upon the sash, glanced round to what you are talking about "The Idea of you at your age talking see that all waa safe, and climbed' over Into the room. As be did so he had to of going to sea, and leaving that dear, push the blind aside. Then the two patient little wife of yours si home, who spectators saw where the light came haa seen nothing of you all her life! Its from. Mrs. Westmacott was stand it. g. all very well for you. Tou have the life, as rigid as a statue, In the center of and the change, and the excitement, the room, with a lighted taper In her but you dont think of her eating her right band. For an Instant they caught heart out in a dreary London lodging. A glimpse pf her stern face and her Ton men are all the same. white collar. Then .the blind fell hack (TO SB COXTIXOED.) Into position, and the two figures disappeared from their view, . ' r Wo mss and Cowa "Oh, that dreadful woman! cried Monica. "That dreadful, dreadful womMr. Grumps Why In creation do an! She was waiting for blm. Ton saw women always call cow he? Mr It with your own eyes, sister Bertha! I presume its because cow Grumps said listen! "and hush dear, "Hush, get so cross .and ugly with her more charitable companion. They always women. once more. own window up pushed their bet. le - '' The two small boya who put tn an appearance at the back door and requested a bite of suthtn to eat were certilnly rather grimy, but they looked tolerably well fed and their clothes did not suggest destitution "Are you really hungry, you poor asked the chlldrent .kind-hearte- d housekeeper. The boya looked at each other and then the one she had especially addressed answered ."Yesm" and the other backed him up with an emphatic Sure!" Dear me! exclaimed the woman. "Well, I must see what I can do for you.- - conveyed It to hts mouth, When do you llveT she continued. The first hoy hesitated, Th other named a street and a number. The housekeeper hesitated for a few moments and then went back Into the kitchen.-"Wheshe returned to tho back porch a moment later the boys were down to th gate. She called them hack and held out a quarter. Here, she said, take this and buy your mother eomethlng to eat, too. Were you going to take those sandwiches to her?" The first boy hung his head. Th confident boy with one hand on his bulging jacket pocket held oat the other for the ooin. Yesm" he sald. "Thats good boys. But you can eat them yourselves and get mother eome. thlng nice at the bakery. She went back to her work and the boys hurried to the gate. As It closed behind them the confident boy said: half-wa- y . She went back into the kitchen and cut generous slices of bread. These she buttered and laid upon each slices of cold meat To the sandwiches she added cookies and took th lunch out -to th boys. all right Now, all we want is "Has your mother anything to sit?" "8hes some worms Aint this bully? food to aa banded she the she asked,8ay, said the other, I aint coin them. , fishtn. Gimme that quarter. "Nom" answered the first, and th Whatcher goin to do with ft? other added; ' Nothin but bread Im goto to give It back to her. 8ho and coffee. She's sick. was too easy. Gimme that quarter or Why dont you eat? asked th wo- Ill scrap you." man. Thereupon each boy gingerly "Youre a chump, said the confident broke off a morsel of bis sandwich and boy, but be handed over the money. Good-by- n, ' where it belongs. The education of Winona people Into the use of the leaky cupa caused as much effort as do some of the many other things that are taught on the ground.. It some drinkers did not say . things that would not look' well In print their countenances betokened what they thought The posture that some of them assume to prevent the water from dripping on their raiment would furnish rare studies In attitudes. They Incline forward to awful angle and they look as If they wished they possessed necks as long aa a giraffe's, The women are obliged to hitch back their akirt and the men set their polished shoes aa far to th rear that they must hold on to some friendly object to keep from pitching forward Into the spring. These, however, are the experiences of drinkers only during the first few days they spend at Winona lake. 8oon they learn how to take the Winona drink wntbout allowing the water to trickle over them. It's just as easy as falling off a log, say Dr, Dickey. He place hla forefinger over the hole In the bottom and, standing erect, quaffs the cooling draught at his case. 4 - - Hew the Yachts Appear Daring the Contest Lord Salisbury Dead. Lord Salisbury, the former English premier, passed to the great beyond ht 9:06 oclock Saturday night The end came peacefully. The retired though from active life, was an important figure In many public ways. He was srwarden of the Clinque ports, high steward of Westminster and chancellor of Oxford university. His death places an order of Knight of the Garter at the disposal of King Edward. Balt Lake Man Accidentally George D. Ohl waa killed Instantly near Kimberly Killed. almost Saturday night presumably by the accidental discharge of a rifle. He was well known In Salt Lake, hla home, where he haa a family; belonged to the Harmod club.andia an employee of the' Ptnwoodey furniture house For two months Ohl and hla partner, named Smith, also from Salt Lake and both from Germany, have been roughing It - on Gold mountain, and prospecting. hunting, fishing Prove Boys Head Blown Off. A moat horrible accident happened fn Provo, Sunday afternoon, by which Evan, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Jones, hadone side of hi head blown off by a Winchester rifle In the band of playmate, Geofge Harding, who 1 13 ears of age, and the Bon of Mr. and Mre. Edward Harding of the Second ward. The boy were playing with the gun when It was accidentally discharged with the result stated. ld Italys Idol Dead. The body of Menettl Garibaldi, th eldest son of the Italian poet, who died Saturday, attired in evening has been laid on a catafalque in the largest room of bis apartment which, with sable hangings, baa bees transformed into a mortuary chapel During the whole of Sunday a stream of people pasRed reverently before th( body of the dead man, which Is now surrounded with fresh cut flower and the lag of the volunteers who fougia dress, under hla command. Excursion Train Wrecked. excursion train on the Northers Pacific, consisting of an engine nf seven coaches, en route to the Elkrf clan hake at Olympia, wan wrecked about 11 oclock Saturday morning two mile south of Chehalls, Wash, Two people --were killedrfonr fttiilj Injured and about thirty seriously hurt. Nearly every one In the first coach was injured, moet of them having their legs or arms broken. It 1 believed the engine waa defective, and as a result It blew up. An Boiled In Wreck. man waa scalded to death, sevwere severely burned by eral escaping steam and six trick ponies were killed in the wreck of a clrcns train at Brunswick, Mo. Th engine and car containing the men And ponies, were a total wreck, and the escaping steam scalded five of th men, who were asleep in bunke over, the ponies. One man had hla eyes burned out and - Inhaled - the - On thrs steam, causing brrTieirtb. The other were scalded on the arm, body but will recover. and ! Mr. Haugiss wa quite shocked by the Intelligence that the bank in which she kept her. reserve of pin money had failed, but atter the first gasp Mr. Haugiss was glad to observe that he was not seriously grieved. he exclaimed. Isnt It dreadful! "I suppose there will be lota of poor people who will actually suffer." Lota of em,, said Haugiss. And through no fault of their own. Just because they put confidence In it Poor thing! I am awfully sorry for - them." . - Decidedly. though Haugiss, my wife Is an angel. Doesnt think of herself for a moment All of her sympathy centered In others. How few there Then he said aloud: are like her! Tt' pretty tough on them. Of course they may get something out of the wreck, but it wont amount to much not 10 cenis on the dollar. Im afraid ! How awful! said Mrs. IWuglkT-to be taken think a subscription ought op for them. I know Id be willing to (rive something. Its a shame thats . what it - And you. my dear, said Haugiss.. It's pretty tough on you, I kjndly. should say. Of course, youve got a 1' -- husband who wosee you taken to the poorhouse wUiio.a struggle, but. all the aamejts tough. How much J Why, It wont hurt me at all It wont? No, certainly not. You didnt think I had lost anything, did you? Mrs. Haugiss laughed quite heartily. Not lost anything? Then you draw out your balance?" Did . tdon'tunderstsnd, What do you mean by balance? "Your money. Did your money T But you bad some money is that bank. Something like 1300, wasnt It?" "Yes, but oh, how silljreyoa are, that Henry, WTit difference doe make? Ive got my Checkbook alF rlghtHere! , She crossed over to her escritoire and produced a little morocco hound book with an Mr of triumph. There," she said, I knew I had It! ' There ar .fifteen or twenty checks loft In It, too. Im sorry for the others, of course, but Im all right as far as that la con-- cerned, : . u Harness ays that her grief and an- guish when he explained were tom thing terrible to witness. |