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Show A shudder crept over me sad tin rushed back on my heart M I theta reach for their Waving them slmultaneoualy, tfcly raised the gleaming blade aloft Ul bore swiftly dowa on me like d net charge. Springing to my fewt. I to drew my sword, and, swinging a lrcle around my head, I ratted among the skeJton warrior and forred a passage, though wbM I reached It I held in my right hand nothing but the hilt of my tmty weapon. With n flying leap I cleared the stairs and hurried from the building. Hastening to ths camp, I awoke niy tent-mat-e and related my harreeing experience; but he calmly remarked that It served me right for not lieten-l- i g to hla advice, aud then rolled ever aud resumed his Interrupted siuekera. "However, there was no farther sleep for me that night, and I sst np. bhtverlng from cold and from the horrible experience I had keen through, until morning. "As soon as daylight appeared a party of us visited the deserted college, and found the broken blade of teat my sword near a badly-denteIn the room where the strange svente had ta'.en plate. My blankets were found on the floor where I had abandoned them in my hurried flight from the building, but when we examined the door through which I Jbad seen the skeleton band enter, much to my surprise It was found locked and bolted; furthermore, there was no key in the rusty lock, and after careful scrutiny we found no visible evidence that the door had been recently opened. Neither had the accumulated dust of weeks on the heavy marble-toppetable been disturbed ; yet noth Ing on earth can ever convince m that the scenes which I saw were sot COOES USED ByVuLERS blood ' Tbu art, O O t alt thl Ood, th Ufa and Mfht wondroua world wa aea; Ita flow br rtay. tu raii by night, Ar but raltaclloua caufht from Thee, Where ar turn, thy glories shine. And all thlnfa lair and bright ara this. Whan Day. with farw.U beam, delays Among IB op'BUif ciouda of Kven, Aud we ran almost think wa fa Through golden vlataa Into Thuee hu that maka toe auti a decline b aoft, o radiant, Lord' ara thine When Night, with wlnfs of alarry gloom, O mhadowa alt tha earth and akira Like some dark, beauteous bird whoaa plume. la sparkling with unnumbered eves That sacred (loom, thus Urea divine, Bo grand, ao counlleax, i.ord ihlne. When youthful Spring around u briathaa Thy Hplrii warma her frafmnt algh. And vry flower tha Summer wreathe la born beneath that kindling ay Whereer turn, thy giorlea ahlne And ell thing fair and bright ar thine Thomaa Moore. ll.-.ve- fH sca-ye- d 1 FrnPj.N r & THE HAUNTED COLLEGE. BT WILl B. OIDLKT. Copyrighttii, KM, bp Tha Author! PubUMnp Company Thla U the tale told me by Hal Burton, soldier, Bohemian, globe-trottenod good fellow generally, one gloomy winter night when we sat, Jnug and warn by the blaring hearth of a roadside inn, sipping our ale, puffing our pipes and listening to the howling of the fierce blasts without "It was during the FranrePrussian war thirty year ago," began Burton, "that the atrange adventure which 1 am about to relate took place. "When that memorable struggle began the United State was in n state of profound pence, both at home and abroad. After the campaigns we had paaaed through, life in the army was Insufferably dull. Tiring of enforced Idleness, I and some hslf docen others of the younger offleera threw np our commissions and set out together for Europe in search of adventure. "We offered our services to the French. They were Immediately accepted aad we were sent to Join the army at the front, "We were encamped la ' a lonely pot in Alsace. Within our lines, near 'tha camp, waa situated a large building, formerly sed at a medical college. At the opening of the war the services of the students had been brought into requisition, either as soldiers or surgeons, and the forsaken building had been left to cart for r, f. . "Being o near the French camp. It teemed strange that lbs cfiief officers did not use the deserted college for their headquarters. But tha place had a gloomy, fo bidding look, and I presume none of them cared to occupy It "I belonged to the skeptical majority. One night when it was rain-lu-g and the ground was soaking Wet, 1 proposed to my tent-matn oung American officer like myselfthat we should move Into the college for the Bight to shelter ouraejfee from the storm. Nob thank yotti be replied; Td father sleep oq ibe wet ground under leaky tent than In a building tenanted by ghosts.' "Ghosts? Fiddlesticks!' I ex- elalmed. 'Do you mean to say yon belle that nonsense? "'Why shouldn't It be demanded I have heard asy that nil quickly. the medical students who have been killed In the war com back there at midnight to bold high revet, and I fully believe it. Why, I came past there late the other' night and the building fairly shook with their ghostly carousals.' " 'Ebook with the wind, more like-- ly. 'All right; Ive told you what 1 beard; If you think you can Sleep there, go abeaC 1 prefer the tent So saying, - rolled over on the damp ground and was soon snoring like one of the fabled Seven Sleeph- ers "The rain was streaming into the tent and was standing la pools on ths rrr ,! i , ft A., European Monarch Monoy on Spend Much Messages No European ruler ues the tnlegraph so much aa the Emperor of Russia. He uses a secret code both for his private and his ufficLtk-me- s - ages, and he spends 320.000 a year in this kind of Em-correspondence llliam spends $15 000 a year In the same way, and he uses a code Which he has invented himself and which be finds very useful whenever he desires to communicate with the Cabinet Ministers or other prominent officials. The telegraph is not used to any extent either by the King of Italy the Emperor of Austria or the King of Greece, but, on the other hand, King Edward and Queen Alexandra of England use It constantly. King Edward signs his private despatches Albert Edward or Bertie, and the Queen, who always signs hers "Alex-andrwrites quite as many In German as in English During 1902 the amount expended by the royal couple In this manner was between $11,000 and $12,000. New York Times Bsachy Head Falla Away. Beachy Head, with Its seven whits Cliffs of varying height, called tbs Seven Sisters, says the Times, 1 n prominent and we'l known headland on the south avast, the highest point being 550 feet stove the level of high water. Unfortunately, the dlff In front of the lighthouse of late years has shown signs of insecurity, which in 1893 culminated In a heavy fall, amounting, it ts estimated, to no less than 85,000 tons of chalk. Again to 1898 another dlslodgement occurred of an estimated quantity of 89,000 tons. seriBy these ous downfalls the distance between the lighthouse towfer and the cliff edge was reducejETrom 100 to 70 feet, and there arehot wanting signs an open door a ay, I found myself in s room, with an large, oblong-shapeunusually high celling, fitted with sev eral large skyllgfla, evidently Intended to aupplement the light afforded reaV by the somewhat narrow windows, loHIS SECOND BAD "BREAK." cated at regular Intervals along two sides of the room, "In the center of the room stood a Departing VIltor Meant Well, But Waa Unfortunate. long table, with a marble Blab tor a De Jinks always wanted to say ths top, and ranged about it were a number Of straight-backechairs and right thing, but somehow h never benches, from which 1 Judged that could. He had been spending a ample of weeks in a Wisconsin town, and on the evening set for bis departure met Miss De Vercy, a very pretty lady, to whom he had been in when first be arrived in "And are yon going t, Mr. De Jinks? she said. "I'm So sorry ve havent seen more of ydu during your stay." Pray, dont Mention it," he turned with afi excess of gallantry. "Indeed it has been all my fault, Mlta CLOT De Vercyc .. A few momenta later he saw hla miptkke, but could find no chanoe to that further disintegration of the ellfl stone for It. until, as he wae about may sooner or later take place. Thu to leave for the depot, one of his has arisen the necessity for a new lighthouse, on a more stable and enfriends suggested: You havent said 'Good-by- s to during site. Miss De Vercy, have you? A Silkworm of tho Soa. Here was a chance that was sot to 811k is obtained from the shellfish be lost." Turning to the fair damssi, with tho sweetest aadraost grfHpag known as the pinna which is found V ' - In' Ihe'MotntorrSnean. This shellfish smile, he said: 1 "Indeed, I have, old boy. I has the has the power of spinning a viscid Turned hie eyelets sockets In my pleasure of saying Good-byto Miss silk, which Jn Sicily is made into a regular and very handsome fabric. direction. De Vercy first of all, , The silk is spun by the shellfish to th And he then went his the apartment had been used aa a disfay, believ- first Instance for the purpose of athad he "done ing himself room proud. the medical by secting students taching itself to th roCks. It is able "All this I discerned by the lurid Brooklyn Eagle. to guide the delicate filaments to the flashes of lightning, which occasionproper place, and there glue them fast, Old of Coinage room overfrom Englmd. ally lighted up the and if they are cut away it can reto According high authority the silhead. them. The material, when produce "After a hasty survey, I wrapped ver penny of King Alfred it the earl(which is done at low tide) gathered iest Saxon authentic can coin be tlat myself in my blankets keeping on Is washed in soap and water, dried, with certainty to the London my uniform and sword, and, lying traced and carded. One pound of down on the floor, was soon In the mint. Athelstan, about 92$ was the straightened coarse filament the yielding about first to British enact regulations king land of dreams three ounces of fine thread, which, "1 had looked at my watch Just for the government of the mint, bat when spun, is a lovely burnished golbefore lying dowa. It was then exact- tho coinage was debased by the mint-erbrown color. den during the several reigns followly eleven oclock. How long I slept I know not. I suddenly awoke with ing. To such an extent was this fraud A Wonderful Carpet a strange feeling of dread. My heart carried on that in the reign of Henry In the ethnographic museum of RotI. dealer In the markets refused to was thumping violently, and 1 could now be seen n beautiful feel my hair standing on end from accept current money and when tho terdam may which the Shah of Persia recarpet king summoned the mlnters to appear fright. presented to Queen Wllhelmlna "Raising myself on my elbow, I at Winchester only three men out of cently aa a souvenir of his visit to Holland ninety-fou- r escaped mutilation and glanced searcblngly around the room. The air was filled with a peculiar, banishment Henry 1. is said to have some months ago. Woven Into the carpet is the folphosphorescent light, by which I waa instituted a mint at Winchester in lowingInscription in Persian: "Prethe hut 1125, Bnblmh do not soon) enabled to clearly discern even the to have been proficient in the art of sented by His Majesty Mossaffer ed smallest objects. Emperor of Persia, to Her "Presently, at the further end of coining, for Stow relates that In the Din, Shah,Wllhelmlna Queen of HolMajesty the apartment, a door which I had reign of Edward I. the mint kept not before seen, ijwung open, and by Italians. In Henry IH.g time Deg-ils- land. In the year of the Hedjlra, four uniformed men entered carrying money greatly Improved in ap- 1320" The carpet measures sixtyalx a nudsbodyon a streteher, followed pearance and In his reign took place and In each square yard square yards, the first a gold of in about thirty. by that country. coinage procession "Three times they marched. sol- In the following reigns money was there are 250,000 stitches. emnly and alowly, around the room. again debased and it became so bad Easily Recognized. As they passed me I perceived that that Queen Elizabeth called In all corthe corpse was stained and bloody, rupted coins and new ones were for the first time having tho as If recently slain In battle. 1 also discovered, to my horror, that the edges milled. forma which at first 1 had mistaken for men, were skeletons. They were Dummies and Dummies dressed in ,the regular French uniFrancis A. March, Jr Professor of form; but beneath each visor, Instead English at Lafayette College and of the bronzed face of a soldier, there Chairman of the Alumni Athletic comwas a grinning skull. mittee, spent a few minutes recrea"After the third circle of the room tion one day on the football field, had been completed they deposited where some of his numerous charges their ghastly burden on the table pre- were playing the game. Several of viously mentioned. 'horn had been making graceful dives at tackling the dummy, whi Thenone of the ghostly throng g(0O(j uniform which. ...was., strapped at one corner of ihaileliLaod the to hla knapsack, and, with the aswas much interested in th dissistance- of dressed play of gymnastics, the body tn It ,, "I used to play football myself," "When this operation waa complet- said to a student, and I know that I ed, the leader of the spectral crew tackled better than that. Mr. Hill Have you been enjoying "Wont you show us how it ought to stepped to the table, and, bending over race. Miss Dale the he made a number of mystic signs; be done?" was asked. It f Mias Dele Oh, yes. Immensely. 1 then, whirling slowly aronnd three "No, thank you. was hla qufcfc times, he stamped hla right foot and ply. "I have been tackling dummies have not seen the Shamrock Jet. bnt I have been watching the Reliance turned away. Immediately the form exclusively all morning over in y very closely, I can tell her by her arose from the table, gravely saluted office, and I came out here tr a hit-leabig red smokestack. lhenpaasedalowly down change.' the line of his comrades, and took a Figs and Horse. place at the foot of the ranka Wise Shoemakers I usually kept in every staA pig The shadowy throng took up the The shoemakers at Madrid recently ble in Persia, as it is thought ths line of march toward the open door combined to encourage dancing, with presence of th porker is beneficial by which they had entered the room. the object of wearing out a mneh to the health of the horses. At the threshold the leader paused shoe leather as possible. and turned bla eyelese sockets In my several dancing halls and They hired Borne Vital Statistics. direction, and from them seemed to pence admission. Each admltston Bach year ia Philadelphia seee emanate a baleful gleam that froze ticket bears a coupon, twenty of some 30.000 children bora. Of chilmy very marrow. Silently he motioned entitle the owner to a new dren under I yean 7,500 die each to hla followers, and in obedience to shoe free of charge at the ton year. . - the signal thsy turned and faced me store. d " Jill f if?? THERES NO DELAY. thnys lotd your teims procnpGy. Load them with COAL, of course, for thafB our stock In trade. "'YSrTWasatch Mine You Wta find ts COAL, and . . . constantly the best for prices, note the LUMP STOVE 02- - 1. Pxtrda a Ecse tslsstry. WEBER COAL CO O Do You Wa.n 1 Some? Twee era DRY GOODS fl e O (Ha CASH BARGAIN STORE COALVILLE, UTAH e' Good Job Work..... 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