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JO TjiE WEEKLY GAZETTE PORT WORTH TEXAS THURSDAY AUGUST 21
rifle faltered in his purpose Ho had lowered while ils tail Is disproportionately slim and dred strong and before the scouts of Col sening vigor The bullets of the sharpshooters
the gun and seemed to be debating with himself long It is impossible to watch the cuckoos Shepherd could learn their real designs they in the block houses sent by the powder provided
as to what course he should pursue while his actions and not feel that he is a mysterious swarmed around Fort Henry Their approach by Elizabeth Lace laid many dosky warriors 4f
twoaids a row near and stood irresolute await- bird nor is it quite possible to fairly tell just had been heralded the night before by the blaze low andwhen at dawn a small reinforcement
ing his orders what it is that makes this impression In the of a burning blockhouse twelvo miles below for the garrison appeared and cut its way
No one but those in his immediate vicinity first place it form is nnnsnal so attenuated The families of the hamlet and neighborhoodso through the line of the besiegers the latter 7m
had recognized the speaker His voice raised and lengthened in appearance and then its forewarned took refuge in the fort alarmed and disheartened fled from the scene
EDITED BT FliAXCIS ftODGSOX BUBXETT from the ordinary conversational tone was eyes are very gloomy and sadlooking and its At dawn a white man and a negro sent out to Elizabeth Lanes bold and patriotic feat in-
deep and sonorous qualities emphasized by the flight is as odd as its voice is peculiar get some horses were assailed by Indians hidden spired the young men of the garrison with ad-
echoing crags above I have seen a yellowbilled cuckoo going in a corn field The white man was slain by a miration that was almost reverent devotion
He spoke again and his hearers observed a about with one of its eggs In its mouth searching bullet The negro escaped and arocsed the gar- One of the young men named McLaughlin
TEE rillZC SERIAL all of the conventions that had been called in haskiness and broken utterance like one who ing for the nest of some other bird So soon as rison Fourteen men were sent out to dislodge who coveted the opportunity to perform that
their midst had been but a sham fight gener battles against a growing physical weakness it found one it dropped the egg in it and left it the barbarians They fell into an ambuscade service wooed and won her heart and hand
alled by unscrupulous men who had sought Why McCrary are you so blind to all to be hatched by the owner of the nest Still and all but two perished When tidings of the They were married at Wheeling within a year
THE ABANDONED dAIM thereby to get a better price from the water principles ot right that I must appeal as man notwithstanding this parasitic habit the American attack reached the fort another party sallied after the occurrence of the events above re-
company for their riparian rights Korea ot to man Do you think I would join such a ican cuckoo builds a nest of its own and hatches forth to assist them and shared a similar fate corded They lived happily together for about
Flora Ualnrs Author ot Was these men had sold their privileges outright movement if I didnt know it was in the interests a brood of young every spring The English The garrison was now reduced to twelve fighting ten years blessed with sons and daughters
By Longhead
others had compromised for a liberal allowance terests of justice Dont let us have any more cuckoo often deposits its eggs in the nest of a ing men including boys when the husband died Two years later the REDDING C0
Ho Guilty Etc of water bloody work tonight McCrary you said once bird much smaller than itself so that when Girty having posted his followers near the widow married a Mr Clarke and for many
CHXI1EB XXIV CONTINUED The poorer farmers whose prosperity or ruin youd do anything for me Dont fire again they are hatched along with the eggs of the fort now apDeared with a white flag and demanded years they lived on the Ohio Side o the beau- B0S70H
was largely dependent on the security of their on unarmed men Let me be the first and the smaller bird they crowd ont the weaker brood manded its surrender In the name of his tiful river above Bridgeport There the noble for Sore Eyes Fitsh Wosris Bur
pte ji SlniR i what Martin saw water rights and upon whom the loss of water last victim and usurp the nest It is also stated on good Britanlc majesty Col Shepherd well knew Heroine of the Frontier died at the age of four-
KiK Dr John caught In the very for a single month entailed serious privation He was sinking in the arms of one who stood authority that this bird has the power of color- the character of the miscreant and was satisfied score years surrounded by her children and her riles Fetes it Is magical 5 da
> < fti5r act of edging toward the and loss found the courts deaf to their appeals beside him Blood was drenching his garments ing its eggs so as to closely resemble those of that only a victory over the assailants would insure grandchildren
for and forming a pool the ground at his feet the bird in whose neet they are deposited
USCrl door Dr John looking like immediate protection upon sure the lives of the garrison and the loved ones
> J a detected culprit aa his The Austins with difficulty watered their cat- At his last words Mike McCrary flung his rifle The black witch a bird closely allied to the in their charge mothers wives sisters and FAMILY ICE MACHINE ° Pm >
old comrade laid hold 01 tle from their spring which was beginning to backwards Into the deep pool and they heard a cuckoos inhabits the Atlantic coast from Geor- children huddled within the stockade and he SECOND PRIZE POEH Sl > toSi5 Derwigny 128 W J operation 25th St N V
him and brought him back show the effect of two successive dry I seasons by splash a3 it struck the water and sank gia to Florida From four to six of these birds determined to fight so long as there shonld be a THE DOTS CKTJsADE
reproaching and cheering adimished flow of water and saved sufficient He leaped down from the dam and forced his build one nest in common fill it with their eggs man left to fire a rifle or a musket or a charge ALARY
him in a breath Dr John for household purposes The bed of the brook way to the side of the injured man None who and sit upon it in a closely huddled group to of ammunition to load one remained He By KldrldceS Brooks Author of Historic to S75 locally to
called upon for a speech was dry and the hydraulic ram which they had heard him ever forgot his bitter cry hatch their young promptly replied to Girty Boys Etc mm mm s si represent a N V Company Incor-
and started out brarely put in the strram to water some small fruits Oh my God Ive killed the doctor They The ground cuckoo builds anest for itself but Tills garrison will never surrender to yoa porated to supply Dry Goods Clothing Sho Jew
not to say defiantly then they had planted on the bottom land was a use- made quick work of the dam after that Long it lives a most eccentric life running on the and you can obtain possession of the fort only Marseilles and the Mediterranean A D 1213 dry etc to consumers at cewt AUoaXndyoftact
faltering and breaking less incumbrance Their figs were withering before morning the Brook was lipplingdown ground in preference to flying and living chiefly when there shall no longer remain an American O manv a mothers tears flow fast alfiry ftlO to enroll meinbera OU OI now
and from the the canon its old glad self distributing its reptiles that it kills in a adroit manner UedBlUO UOOpaldlnj References Kmplra
down as old associations dropping boughs green raspber- upon very soldier to defend it A fathers bronzed cheek pales Cooperative Ass u well rated Lock Box
flooded his memory Dr ries shriveled and turned brown upon the bounty tnroughout the valley aud cheering the ner by repeated strokes of its bill on the back of Girty was about to renew his demand when a From Norman shore 16I0wN Y
John protested that he was bushes Even Hopes rosea began to look face of all the country its victims neck It has a very long tail and lad in a blockhouse fired at him but missed his To banks of Loire JOUX KILLllD iiL rr s OiU EUXIst wt tt as ist kw4 ft
no speechmaker but ris- sickly while garden vegetables parched in the CHAPTER XXVI THE DOCTORS STORY ahsuidly short wings which it holds comically aim Tho miscreant iustantly disappeared and From Paris to Marseilles > r a > s > fMT taM4 U
ing to the occasion nevertheless and giving sun Why Mike I understand You thought it akimbo as it runs a few minutes afterward the Indians began a For childish feet are crowding close tLiofir4raJ > WT ffc sw ttasaa
utterance to patriotic sentiments in a way that was your dnty You dont know me Dont siege by a general discharge of rifles Ths was And childish hopes are high Mi MsUn4ysauaak > < rptwl iB4 Buindac u K baUlhXrdCo laliUMIU
and made take on so Mike If anyone had to go it is better six And homes left
stirred the loyalty of the old veterans kept up fully hours from snnrisingon a are
cheers Dr John ter it should be me I haveno one to miss beautiful And hearts bereft
with in
the hall again resound morning early autumn The little AS PT
the hero of the evening whose name and praise m remnant of the garrison was composed almost While rings the childrens cry of our
were on every tongue Noone tomiss him What a murmur of wholly of sharpshooters who from the blockhouses Gods will Gods will JPATE ST-
Ifow small and mean Martin felt What a contradiction arose Who would bo so sorely houses sent bullets with unfailing deadly aim Press forward still AFFS
had been And missed by all the country the Indians Win Palestine or die Size23x13x13inches 35retail AUaizesv
goose and sneak and lunatic he among Many of them fell At a
low
New iock
Its nothing serious insisted the doctor styles new patterns new ei w
when the doctor his beltpossession a little restored little past noon the assailants dispirited by
factory Xot jroverned by bafe Tool Kvery ar
stored though still protesting against the ex weakly Itll be all right in a week or so their losses and observing no abatement of the Now twice ten thousand restless hearts warranted Hare chance Permanent buslnv
Now take the head where the heaviest
catching sight of place at of the defenders of the
travacant honors done him energy fort withdrew to In restless longings beat 0urterm3a4ilcataloffuewlllconvlncejou Acer
Martin said pleasantly weight comes Mike Youll do penance enough the base of the hills In childish clear 300 to fXW per month Write for exclusive
eyes
I think I see a young friend of mine over over this rough road It was now discovered by Col Shepherd that DeeD trust there lies territory Almnk Safe Co Cincinnati u
lad to his side how When thei got him home those who knew the the stock of
there and he called the gunpowder wa3 nearly exhausted To see the waves retreat
Martin felt uuder the distinction doctors radical precers were still surprised In Ebenezer Lanes cabin
proud and unworthy sixty yards from the Dryshod they wait to cross the sea
that he should decline their to telegraph
tinction proposal gate of the fort was a keg or powder now a But still the waves run high COTTOM
But it was a great event for the young fellow graph for another physician priceless commodity and it was determined to Hopes rise and fall
none the less one to be treasured and remem- 1 understand my case best he insisted make an effort to secure it It would be a most But over all ELEVATOR
bered all his life to be told over and over again Ned is to be my chief nurse and McCrary will perilous undertaking tor the Indians were undoubtedly Loud rings the childish cry
assist him Now friends do not be offended if
to listeners at home to be dwelt upon doubtedly concealed not lar away It was resolved
eager Gods will Gods will
when the dark tragedy already impending de- I thank you all and ask you to leave me I solved to take advantage of the absence of the Presaiorward still Marhet VIue ° btcii
scended upon the little colony beside the lirook must prescribe rest and quiet for my patient barbarians to make the effort The colonel cx Win Palestine or die Eproves
CHAPTER XXV TnoUBLE IN THE VALLEY He lay still with closed eyes for some min-
The Orand army disbanded and the old sol- utes after the men had goneaway The sleeping
diers went their separate ways Before Col room to which they bad carried him was fur-
Marshall and his nephew returned to their east- nished with the utmost simplicity On the gray
ern home they made a long call at Home ranch tinted walls was a single picture a painting of a
They walked down Into the rose garden for a tU woman evidently copied from a miniature The
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parting look at Hopes black rose After a 2 serious beauty of the highbred face arrested
short period of rest the plant was again putting Neds attention He had never seen a face that
forth of buds could com pare with it yet there was something SENTON
a profusion
How it Miss asked the colonel in the expression of the mournful eyes that was The genuine Americas cuckoos lav greenish
comes Hope colored eggs usually but the colqris said to TRIAL ES iil USST
onel that while you have so many roses peculiarly saddening A N DA R D
of the standard kinds are not here and A look of fearful longing mingled with terror He was relieved when the doctor finally spoke vary through many thades of green bine and SCALES
many and he brown sometimes mottled In various This
Did could withdraw his gaze from the fair way
have noneof the get
you tired of planting them new ones you Ono still night late in September as the boys face with its sad wistful eyes may account f tr tho story of their ability to 3 Ton S35
Ned Marshall didnt tell the whole truth suit the color of their eggs to that of those in
Tired of roses Oh no no no I cried were returning from their chores about the Frclzntlald Folly Warranted Other properuo
Hope stable Martin caught Neds arm in excitement that night at the campfirc He glossed over the nest where they are to be deposited The aielT low II tf HlBRARDGeBAKtAt M G fD I >
HopeBut vou felt that you had enough sug pointing to the open stretch of road on the op- facts I came out of the army suffering with a yellowbilled cuckoo often drops an egg in the Jti > Enffloea Boiler Corn mh J Feed Grind Inr 11 III
gested the colonel posite side of the brook painful neuralgic trouble the result of a gunshot nest of a mocking bird but the queen of song-
No Col Marshall replied Hope looking The bridge and Its approaches shone white in shot wound I took opium to ease the pain sters is not to be duped so easily She flings the
aown while her cheeks vied in color with the the moonlight The ground beyond was dark When I got the better of the disease I was a offending egg out of her nest as soon as she sees confining himself solely to one form of atbtp
most brilliant of her crimson roses Some- with moving figures Men on hois3back were slave to the drug it In the Zoologist for 1S73 it is stated that for exercise At every outdoor athletic meetinc
thing happened that spoiled the pleasure for crossing the bridge which rang with a muffled I had a wife and afterward a little daugh- eight or nine successive years a pair ot wagtails see runners with poorly developed aruaa wh e
me I used money that ought not to be used I response to the clattering hoofs Then the body ter They were dearer to me than my own soul built in the same spot and each year they in the gymnasium we see athletes with under-
felt as if I could never buy another rose Ned seemed to pause as if for deliberation A mo- but a man who once becomes enslaved by that reared a young cuckoo sized Icrs It may be safely stated howm
wanted to but I wouldnt let him ment later two mounted figu s dashed np to accursed habit would pledge his own soul for a The voice of the cuckoo is singularly harsh that in no case are men of such physique first
My dear said the colonel breaklngthe Home Kanch single grain or the drug My child fell sick with an intonation quite indescribable Its call class performers while on the other nand I ea
awkward silence you do not need to pay out The boys ran down to meet them The horsemen We thought she would not get well I took is said to foretell rain In time of drought and it recall no champion runner who has not in au-
money for the plants you want You have men drew rein larger and larger doses It helped me not to is a fact that the bird is more noisy just preced- dition to his strong legs a stout pair of arm
something as good as gold with any Eastern Mr Willets exclaimed Martin wonder- care I sank lower and lower I had no money ing a change from a dry to a damp atmosphere Before a man can make a success as a speciahv
florist ingly ss he recognized a steady young ranchman My credit was gone I was mad for The mangrove cuckoo found in the Ever- in athletics he rauit like the specialist in med
The black rose asked Hope man who with his wife and child lived a couple the drug Ned I did a dastardly glades of Florida will light on the back of an cine hare a general basis for his future war
No my dear That is a much more im- of miles lurther down the stream thing I robbed the little savings alligator as it lies sunning itself and feed upon The first thing therefore that the bo
portant matter and I shap not make you an Boys said the farmer we have business bank that belonged to our dying child 8he the insects that gather upon its slimy scales shonld do in whatever branch < > f
offer regarding it until I can consult with my up the Canon tonight Do yon want to my wife saw me She pointed to the door I Indeed as a whole the cuckoo family is a very athletics he may desire to excel m
head gardener 1 mean your California wildflowers join us went out into the night an abashed Godfor- odd one and worthy of careful study to build himself up by general athletic work
flowers seeds and plants I wouldnt ask for No need of further explanation Ned an- saken creature I slept under the trees in the There are two specimens of pelican in America and so insure the most perfpet development if
better currency swered like a soldier to the roll call public park that night I thought the child was one the white and the other the brownthe the whole system Let him take part fn fooi
any
Then the colonel reverted to the subject of the I will come dead but then and there I swore to free myseir latter is exclusively a sea bird the latter is ball and baseball let him row and swim an > t
black rose Then seeing Martins eager movement he rrom that pernicions habit or die in the attempt oficn found inland Beneath the lower mandi- not imagine that if he wants to become a runnr
Which would you like best a specified sum laid his hand on his brothers shoulder I started out into the country I cant tell you ble or all the species is an elastic membrane putting a big pair of arms and shoulders on
outright or a royalty on all plants that are Only one Martin If anything should hap- the horrors I went through I walked walked ous sac which is used as a dip net with which ts himself will make him slower by giving his Tee
sold pen they must have you to depend upon walked I worked in the field It was seed time catch fish The white pelican fishes while just so much extra weight to carry in a ran
when I started out and harvest time when I was swimming by opening its mouth and suddenly These sports for summer Then in winter he
through I was cured But I couldnt go back scooping the prey from the water but the brown can go into thegynastum and wrestle and ppa
Ned Im not in the best bodily condition species flies around above the water until the jump and vault turn and swing and use I nth in
and this injiyy is going to bring back that old fish is seen when it strikes down like a hawk clubs and dumbbells My oth experience ha
trouble Im afraid of myseir Theres a bot- and plunging into the water bags its prey and satisfied me that this is the best course ano i
tle of arsenic and a bottle of morphine side by instantly takes wing again The fishcaught by am as regular an attendant at the gym m
side on the shelf in my cabinet in the next it are usually much larger than those taken by winter as I am the track in spring and faK
room the white species As one flew past me on the And even while training for the Eastern cham-
roomIll go and empty out the morphine burn it shore of a Florida island I shot it with an arrow pionship at Travers island I used almost dai y
bury it and it fell close by on the sand Upon examina- to row four or five miles
A contemptuous expression flitted over the tion I found in its enormous sac six fish whose So much for the all round work which < s
doctors face combined weight must have been at least two to give us general strength In addition to this
The principle on which they are trying to pounds This was the only time I ever found we are of course to take a certain amount
run threefourths of the reformatory institutions more than one flsh in the pouch of this species practice in running itself To begin with vw
in the country he said dryly As if any will want what is by courtesy termed a suit Th
lasting good could ever be accomplished without running suit consists of a cotton or knit woolen
strengthening a mans moral nature No Ned quartersleeve jersey and a pair of muslin or
Let the bottles stand there only il worst comes Ik running drawers reachingto the knees he
to worst if I am soweakas to begforthe ODiatc whole weighing about four and onchaif oun < s
promise me youll give me the quicker poison my suit weighs a quarter ounce less Then
firstThe with a pair of running shoes the most impor-
The hero of many battles had one more to tant part of your dress your outfit is complete
fight and it was a battle unto the death The shoes should be the regular spiked article
He spoke once more to Ned in a weak failing worn by all athletes and it will be a good idea
voice for you to get accustomed to them after which
If I should get pretty low Ned so far gone they will be found a wonderful Improvemcn
that there seems to be no other hope I suppose over slippers preventing yoa from slipping
Dr Thompson had better be called in Just at keeping you on your toes and lengthening your
the last for decencys sake Idont want to go stride You can get a good pair ready made for
out of the world and leave a reputation for Sgg or Made to order they will cost or i
pigheaded obstinacy behind me But mind A pair should last you at levst four mouths but
no opiates even if he prescribes them when you once begin racing you will want a new
Idont believe you would take them if ho pair for nearly every race My bill for running
gave them to you You underrate your own und jumping shoes In the course cf a year usu
moral courage Dr John said Ned earn- allyamounts to about
estly If you can practico on a regular running
You dont know Ned said tho doctor track where you will have the benefit of dress-
TEE SENTINEL UA1SED THE RlfLE TO HIS SHOULDER AND LEVELED IT AT TnE CROWD weakly Only a physician knows what cow- ing rooms baths etc so much better but
ardly tyrannic forces these bodies of ours are plained the matter to his men He was unwill- Come Hugh and William or Marseilles these aro not absolutely necessary I h > ve
how they buffet and cow the soul Stronger ing to order one of them to undertake the fearful With crarty words and rair trained in a level field where there wasnt any-
A royalty repeated Hope inquiringly men than I have given up thing like a running track and I have also
rMake haste Austin said Willetts Bring Stronger men ful adventure He inquired if any one would All gain is loss
A certain per centage on all sales just as an an ax hatchet crowbar anything you have than I volunteer to perform it Four young men For Holv Cross taken my practico barefoot on fhp beach along
author has a royalty on a book Only in this handy No firearms mind I dont believe a human body ever held a promptly stepped forward Our ships with share the seashore While this training affords sutli
case if you preferred tho royalty we should of As the horsemen took their way up the canon stronger soul cried Ned in a burst of enthu- THE PELICAN The garrison is so weak said the colonel Veni creator you we spiritus cient preparation for distance running it is
course pay you a small sum outright for there any stranger who might have seen them would siasm that onty one man can be spared from it The childish chont swells likely to make one a trifle slow adding strength
is no question as to the value of your rose and have been puzzled to make out their character Thus the doctor glided into tho heat of the Buffon tells us that some pelicans have a You must decide which of you it shall be The home shores lade high at the expense of speed For sprinting that
there always is a serious question as to whether aud purpose Surely this was no gay cavalcade awful conflict that disease was about to wage pouch that will contain twenty pints of liquid Each volunteer was so anxious to go on this But undismayed is rapid shortdistance running a firm
anew book is ivorth the paper it is printed on bound on sport or pleasure noryet could it have with the spirit for the possession of its abused that a man could put his foot into it and even important mission that they coultd not fradily Clear rings the childrens springy track must be used
I think I should like the royalty said been mistaken for a martial company riding and worn out tenement thrust his arm into it np to the elbow Ellis make a decision Precious time was passing Gods will Gods will cry Natural inclination will determ ne for you
Hope forth to open contest where honor and renown After all it was Ned whose courage weakened relates that he saw a man put his head Inside While the young men were contending for the Press rorward still whether you are likely to do best sprint
The licutcnantllngered a little after his uncle were to be achieved No light jests passed not the doctor one and Sanctius says that a pelican was seen privilege of performing a great public service Win Palestine or die running which includes all distances up to 0
Although he was a genuine West Point boywho There was no laughter on the grim faces no enthusiasm One day there came upon the sufferer a fright- to let fall a negro child that it had stowed away or to win the crown of martyrdom the Indians yards middle distance running which m
had passed unscathed through a hundred flirta- thusiasm in tlie downcast eyes It was more ful paroxysm of pain in its enormous pouch might return renew tho siege gain a victory The tempest shrieks tho eludes the quarier and half mile runs or at the
tions something about this little maid touched liko a funeral party for in his heart each loyal Ned forgot his promise forgot evervthlng A pelican is said to have followed the army of and annihilate the garrison St Peters Isles ilce cordage creaks longer distances a mile and over Hemember
him as no other girl or woman had ever done man rebelled against the position into which he save that before him was ying his best friend the Emperor Maximilian flying above it when Among the women who had taken refuge in All torn and tosted that if vou elect sprinting yon must contiuo
Miss Hone hesaid in a low voice May had been forced that of an opponent to the suffering as it seemed no mortal could long suf- on the march sometimes rising so high that it the fort was a handsome slender girl less thin Two ships are lost yourself to that form of running exclusively
I shall I come back next year peaceful administration of the laws of tho fer and live while near at hand was a remedy looked no larger than a swallow The bird twenty years of age with mild brown eyes dark The rest outride the heavy work that is running on heavy
sea
The sixteenyearold girl caught her breath state that would silence the pain and bring him relief reaches a great age the one above mentioned hair a fair complexion and apparently unmoved But treachery steers and baseness ground or running long distances having ths
with a little gasp of surprise and terror He lief lived to be eighty years old and was pensioned guides same effect on a sprinter that handling heavy
They came to a point where they could see abroad liefHe moved by the fearful danger and great excite- Where greed and gain are high
was so handsome so amiable such a thorough broad aud glistening wall of stou crossing the He rushed into the next room seized the bot- by the emperor ment around her She had recently returned Where slave marts wait dumb bells would have on an acrobat musclo
gentleman She did not want to hurt him and gorge above them Along this three armed men tle and returned to Dr Johns bedside with it in In some countries pelicans havo been domesticated from school at Philadelphia and had never en- O cruel late would be cultivat ei at the expense of speed and
his blue eyes seemed wistfully pleading with were pacing like sentinels on a rampart The his hand Had he known the proper dose he mesticated and trained to fish for their mas- dured the experience of witnessing any of the There ends the childrens activity You will find sprinting the easiest
her Then the budding woman in her arose and ripple ot imprisoned water could be heard would have measured it out but he could only ters and it is said that they are very faithful in terrible scenes then ocenring on the frontiers Gods will Gods cry will kind of running but you should not attempt
strengthened her to be true to herself and to above hold it out to Dr John and beg him to take it their work going far out to sea and returning The young maiden was Elizabeth Lane a sister Press rorward still more than forty or fifty yards at first and
him A look of fearful longinir mingled with terror heavily loaded with game Along the Atlantic should never even after considerable training
himNot The sound maddened the ranchers This was ot Ebenezer and Silas Lane who were in the Win Palestine or die
Not on my account Lieut Marshall she the precious fluid for want of which their slock ror shone in the sick mans eyes as they fell on and gulf coasts the brown pelicans are often fort Their aged mother and their eldest sister attempt more than 120 or 130 yards Few of our
saidWhy was dying their gardens and small fruits parch- the drug 1 hen he raised his clinched fist and seen marshaled on the sandy islands in such were also there Whilst the young men were All in the days ot Long Ago best athletes even after years of practice can
Why was it that at that moment the memory ing their wells running dry trembling smote the bottle from tho young regular lines that at adistance they look like debating the question of which should have the Failed thus the Boys Crus de- ru n a 220 y ards dash through at top speed
of another scene bore in upon her and she saw Halt Who are you mans hand armies of men on parade In the shallow sounds honor of imperiling his life for his countrys But hope still starts For long distance running endurance Is of
La his place a tearstained boys face and It was one of the sentinels on the dam who Back fell the sufferer on the pillow A deadly off the coast ot Alabama and Uississiopi I have good at that time Elizabeth Lane stepped for- In youthful hearts course the allimportant factor speed alone
heard the cry challenged them torpor stole over body and minu His muscles seen thousands or pelicans fishing at the same ward and modestly asked permission to go on By old tales nndismayed not being sufficient to win a mile race But in
Whatever I am if I ever amount to any- Loud and clear came the reply We are relaxed his limbs grew limp and motionless time It was a beautiful sight to watch them the urgent errand nerself At first her request Yet if to valor forethought joins the middle distances both staying power and
thing Hope Ioeitall to need of Neds tumbling against the sky like a teathery cloud swiftness are required and it is the unusual
you seventy men from the valley We want water No opiates now frantic de- was peremptorily refused She renewed it with Young souls deeds
Two weeks later they could hardly believe I am here to protect this dam Dont mands for some token that the doctor still recognized and presently Tailing like a rain or birds upon increased earnestness The commandant remonstrated And great may try combination of these qualities which is required
you victory sweet
that the grand had and with the darkgreen water which they churned into quired to half mile that makes
army come gone come nearer or Ill tire ognized him brought no response Tho boys monstrated saying Will duty meet run a quarter or
all its train of exciting circumstances ended a roam with their plunging this form of running more difficult than either
task was
The sentinel raised bis rifle to his shoulder ana Either ot the youncr men will likely be more To crown the childrens
Dr John seemed just the same as ever It leveled it at the crowd Ned found Mike waiting below They stared Off North Beach near St Augustine Fla I successful than you fo r they are familiar with Gods will Gods cry will of the others
was noticeable that lie looked thin and worn One of the men on horseback pressed toward at each other trying to find words for what saw a large flshhawt perform a very savage danger and can run much faster than you Press forward still While as I have before stated training for
but this was easily accounted for by the pre- they felt and conrage to pronounce them and yet very graceful act in robbing a brown Her mother and brothers implored Elizabeth Win Palestine die the sprint should exclude heavy work
valence of a dangerous malarial fever throughout Is is it that blundered Mike at last pelican of its prey The hawk hovered high in not to think of such a rash act but she per- or we must bear in mind that in a distance race
out the valley and the demands made upon Yes Mike I amTafraid the air above the pelican and when the latter sisted in pressing her suit with more and more when runners of equal endurance and pluck
him night and day mi ht well have taxed a Any man but him If it had been any man struck down and caught a fish the bold robber earnestness UOVF TO BUN meet the better sprinter of the two will win It
stronger constitution than his but him Mike finally broke out Whatll swooped upon him and seizing him by the I have but one object she 3sid in seek- is an excellent idea therefore to cultivate your
Of course the McCrarys came down wi h it the valley do without him Who is there to take head forced him to drop it Ihe hawk then let ing thislservice Every man is required in de- Track Athletics for lioys By Walter C speed however ordinary it may bo to as high a
just when the disease had abated a little and his place go the pelicans head and dashing down after fense or the tort My lire is of no account here- Dohm point as is consistent with your distance work
the doctor most needed rest That reminds me Mike said Ned hastily the railing fish caught it before it reached the in comparison with that of either of these I have seen more than one race won in the last
young
Matters had somewhat changed at the mount- I was to send for old Dr Thompson in case water and triumphantly bore it away in its men You cannot spare one of them Let me Amateur Champion Middle Distance Running twenty yards by an athlete who though not as
ain ranch since Mike McCrary started out to this In case the worst happened Will you talons go I beseech you I am sure the God ot heaven The increased Interest in track athletics mani- strong as his opponent had just a sufiicieut
prove himself a nun carty word now Although the beaks of pelicans are very large will shield me from harm fested by boys throughout the country in general turn of speea to winat the finish
The house was in better repsir the children When Ned had taken up post in the sick room they are not exceedingly strong and the birds A striking confirmation of these two facts that
went to school and Sam at nineteen years of Hope had hastily packed in a valise such articles although they fight savagely rarely hurt one eral and at the large preparatory schools and practice in sprinting enables one to do a better
age shamed by Mikes example bad planted a as she thought he would nesd and carried it to another I have seen them wage long and fierce academies more of particularly is one of tho performance in the distance while too much
considerable acreage in vines to which he was him herself As she handed it to him she had battles in midair with no other result than marked features the advanced position which heavy work detracts from ones speedIs afforded
giving Indifferent care given him four folded silk handkerchiefs presents some hoarse cries a great flapping of wings this torm of sport has taken in amateur ath- by the series of races which I have run with V
One of the children little Mattie as she was ents from Ah Wtng on as many successive Chi- and a few detached feathers letics Four interscholastic athletic leagues f Downs of Harvard Last year Downs won
called was a gentle lovable girl with modest nese New Years now hold annual meetings at which youthful the intercollegiate championship In the half
ladylike ways in contrast to the rough man- Ned she had said we shall all want to A HEROINE OF THE rKONTIEH athletes measure speed strength or agility mile and the championship of the Eastern
ners of the others Hemmed in by oveiy disad- know how the doctor is getting along oftener against each other for championship laurels United btales it the same event while at tho
vantage she had exerted all her alight strength than send while nearly all the individual members ot these same meeting 1 took the quartermile runs
we can or come Keep one of these By Benson J Losslnc the Famous
to bring order and decency to the dirty un- handkerchiefs hanging out ot the upper window leagues have their field days as well It is When the present season opened Downs whose
kempt hOHsehold but had succeeded only In that looks towards the brook The blue one if Historian in the vicinity of the large athletic clubs and weak point in quartermile runnings had been
bringing down upon herself the open disfavor of he is worse the white one if he is better the redone At the time of Dunmores war 1774 justbe colleges that the these directors sports create most in- his inability to make a fast finish developed his
the rest Uike alone humiliated by the con- one it he will surely surely get well And oh fore the beginning of the Revolutionary terest and of the great New speed by continuous sprinting And 1 who
trast between his home and the orderly house- Ned the black one if there is no hope strug York clubs keep a watchful lookout for thought that I could run fast enough but lacked
hold ot the valley was little Matties devoted In the early dawn after Mike had gone on his glea stockade fort in parallelogram form was the discovery of athletic talent that may only my rivals staying power developed endurance
of
champion errand Ned went to the place where he had laid bnilt about a quarter of a Talle above Wheeling in the course associations a few years carry th emblems durance by long distance work Imagine the
When the fever had its with the of their to the front in some great result When met at the
run race rest the handkerchiefs and untying the blue one Creek for the protection aud defense of we intercollegiate
settler5 championship meeting At the athletic
of the Mattie the faithful great and Eastern Downs defeated
family nurse fell hung the dark messenger ot sorrow in its place in that neighborhood It covered threefourths Harvard Princeton championships again
sick and Dr John saw that It was to be a sharp Time dragged wearily in the sick room It had colleges Yale and Columbia feated me in the quarter taking the very
The of of ground a
an acre blockhouse interest
at bia even deeper is manifested in the
struggle if he would save her white bands championships which I had won the year before
sufferers no longer roved several
rest each corner and log cabins within it Tor work ot the prep schools for it is the
Distracted by the danger that threatened his the but fore while I turned the ta bles on him by taking
lessly over counterpane lay still families The
and the use of gate was on the
side embryo sprinter Jumper and hurdler of these
sister MikeJdcCrary left his work in the both his halfmilers
young his
almost pulseless on breast His face village of
was toward a straggling about who
twenty log institutions are to the teams
and her bedside compose Tho amount of work to do the track
valley came to where he took wan and colorless and his features sharpened by cabins the seed ot the present yon are on
flourishing later will
city which on do battle the intercollegiate
np his quarters as a tireless watcher Together his long and wasting illness His breath came ot Wheeling or nearly o000 inhabitants or should be small running being one of the most
the doctor and he fought for the childs life Miss Hope may I shall I come back next rear in long flutteringgasps and his eyes were fort was built under the superintendence The collegiate the championship honors While in arduous forms of exercise Twice or three
of cases champion of interscholastic
many an
and one night the crisis passed aud they knew glazed and sightless Ebenezer Lane and John Caldwell will times a week on the outside is sufficient And
they had won the fight the front and if in each or league develope into an inter- then sprint only short distances run the quarter
as response to this movement Even as Ned watched him he saw a look of whom occuDied one of the cabins of the hamlet collegiate
or national
even a it
with bis fingers on his lips Dr John arose ment the whole company surged forward perfect peace the look that the dying It was at first named Fort Fincastle ELIZABETH champion and half only at a moderate pace and if yon attempt
wear and afterward LANE sometimes that
happens there is
and tiptoed out of the house He felt flash no improvement tempt as much as a mile make the gait so slow
strangely There was a a puff of smoke and a lond spread over the doctors face ward Fort Henry in honor of the zealous In athlectic
worn and tired now that the sharp strain was report awoke the echoes of the canon The man The sound of carriage wheels patriot ment ability and the bright hopes that there can bo no possible chance of overexertion
Droke the triot PatrickHenry Her
npoa entreaty prevailed Divesting herself of of athlectic ssccesses entertained at
over A footfall sounded on the turf and Miko who first school fail exertion If find yourself tiring and the
had moved forward you
reeled in his saddle silence The front door opened and Fort
closed In the 1777 Henry that be
was outer materialize
year garrisoned garments might an encumbrance to This
by arrested is
stood behind him his face development finish is distance off dont let
haggard dignified by dle and fell into the yet a pride or
hall
Ned and all
look of stepped looked down only fortytwo men told some of them mere and putting on a night robe she passed out of usually due either to improper training or what
its solemn thanksgiving but and next
In the glamor of the moonlight no one Two ladies were standing there At the Their commander was Col with pluck keep you running stop
sound the firm and
boys Shepherd a gate a step walked briskly to is only another form of the same thing too
Its work Vt John he said time it let it be at easier
attempt an
your seemed to him isearly even
recognize There was wild cries of steps above one of themlirted her face resolute and skillful officer At that time an her brothers cabin unmolested The Indians early specialization in athletic work you
Youve saved her There isnt anything in of He is killed Who is he Ho heis Ned clung to the balustrade his head in British officer CoL Hamilton had pace
observed the whole
a energetic was in movement and watched The most common asdat the same time the
the world I wouldnt do for Id
Dietetics Tho question of what shall eat
you lay all He is
my right See np again awhirl command of the garrison at Detroit you
her cabin but
frem fort
He sent steps to seemed to have mistake most fatal to athletic success which is
life down for time vou They had not dared close in around him lest In the halls dim light he saw a pale oval face out bands of Tories and Indians to desolate the been restrained by An invisible power from made in training not by boys alone but by four and what you shall drink is one nith which you
About this the occupants ot Home need not for
Ranch the horses terrified concern yourself some to
already and prancing with pathetic dark eyes Years of sorrow had homes of the American settlers on the shooting defenseless girl in of five yeart
frontier a so angelic appearance out every beginners is doing too much
became involved in a difficulty almost without should him down come Any kind of well cooked healthful food
a trample Those near to him dimmed the radiance of
youth but had and distress them asmuch as in her white robe She
possible His wort In the
no favorite pearance quickly emp case of boys many of them follow
precedent be eaten and all need avoid Is such
instinctively drew off while one or two quickly powerto quench its imperishable beauty vorite and most cruel instrument in this business tied the powder in the teg into a table cloth a system of training designed only for maturer may you
A great corporation which earned a princely dismounted and to his side but rubbish as candy pastry and the like
ran before the face of the
they It was portiait was Simon Girty the offspring of crime born of which sue bound around her waist and was athletes or preparing lor
a race on a track
revenue by supplying a large city with water I do not at all of a running In
could reach him he was on his feet holding by TO BE CONTINUED of wedlock approve boy a
Irish out He back towards the where older
parents was adopted soon seen walking swiftly athletes are trainine thev
adhere
found the in its reservoirs unless he is
supply becoming inadequate the pommel ot his saddle t steady himself race at least sixteen o seventeen
the Seneca Indians and be fort The Indians the
by came the fiercest vigilant to
now suspecting too cord7 the system which th
adequate for the growing citys and made I ese men old He is to look bis work
uses only wanted a word with you McCrary For years upon now
in the tribe discharged
nature of her errand and her burthen
CUCIOUS HABITS OF savage twenty years he was follow
haste to it with the waters CUCKOOS AND
supplement of the he said simply as a preparation for running later
the sentinel on
addressing Listen
SB rook tome the terror of the women and children of the charged a volley of rifle bullets at her but not Now between the ages of H and 18 the greatest and not consider it of his
me now These men are honest farmers KELICANS a part career as an
men Ohio region one touched her though four pierced her flowing est amount ot
f They began their operations a couple of miles you know and respect Most of themsettiedin physical development ordinarily athlete any more than he looks upon his work
At the time we are considering Girtv and his ing robes as she quickened her into a run takes place In He
pace a boy does not know that
the canon where the cliffs this the at school of his business
Maurice
up steep nearly approached valley along the line or this stream before Bt Thompson as part or professional
followers were hovering aronnd Fort Henry and She reentered tne gate of the stockade with matured athlete having already attained his
proached each other only needing a heavy wall the water company was incorporated This No stranger bird files in our woods than the Wheeling hamletxin the cultivated between her precious treasurein safety and triumph matured has life
the plain growth only to replace the tissue
of stone across the entrance to complete a vast water is life and subsistence to our A word more and I have finished Dont get
people cuckoo of which there is at least tween the wooded hills and the river In May The men cheered her and the women especially lost through severe muscular exertion while he
natural reservoir Bythe 1st of September their Their crops are failing cattle dying The stag three species discouraged If you are not successful in winning
and Jnne they made some distressing cially her relatives wept for joy and audibly himself has in addition
forays on to
work was completed and just as the farmers nant pools along the bed of the brook are breed in North America The yellowbilled species lathe the settlements As summer advanced these thanked theAlmighty for her protection from of his this to meet the wants prizes and breaking records Remember that
to the of the when growing system The two havenothing the and aim of is
came season water end athletics not to 100
was ing pestilence throdghout the Be run
most essential to them the year brook valley more the most interesting and at the same time the became more frequent and alarming The settlers harm and the promise of deliverance which she in common and the result is that instead of the yards or a half mile fractional
imprisoned than the faithful servant of a rich corporation a part of a sec-
in an iron pipe coursed past them on its way to Be a cian and respect the rights of your fellowmen most common It is a very long slender bird of tlers were compelled and snatch to drop the their implem ents had brought and Guardian angels had shielded benefit which was to have been derived from ond faster than some one else but to insure
industry np weapons of war the inspired lntreped girl the exercise even permanent injury be
1 may health and recreation
the city and this oblect
men with narrow wings and a long curved bill the Finally in September the savage hosts of Girty The Indians renewed the siege and continued inflicted yoa can
The people of the valley awoke to the fact that They could that the under is attain though you may not bs able to become
ot
see man who fired the part which of a bright yellow color assembled on the Sandusky river several hun it until lata at night butnlth continually lei As for speciaHiinjr no boy should thiniof evn j thirdclass performer on tho track
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