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Archer! Dispatch.
The Cotton Ginners’ Report
Decidedly Bearish In that the Crop Is Estab*
lished 9,459,793 Bates.
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Dallas, Nov. 20.—The ootton reports
the National Ginners Association
as made public yesterday, one day
sooner than was intended. The rea-
son, Secretary Blackwell said, was be-
cause a portion o( the report had
’leaked.’’ He did not know how this
had happened, he said. The report is
as follows:
follows:
i Oar summary of reports shows that
**\ luls hten tdiuie,l to Nov. 14, 1905,
* toS.J of 7.411,350.^ The dop Is 84.7•
picked and 78 per beat ginned, indi-j
CjAng a crop this year of 9,459, 793. '
jAoOowlng the report hy elates:
Aiafcama ginned 938,030 bales and is
87.7 per cent plpked. Toiai crop
1,1*1,854.
Arkansas ginned 264,120 and is 67.2
per cent picked, indicating a crop of
446,880.
Florida ginned 54,180 and is 92.1
per cent picked. Total crop 78,140.
Georgia ginned 1,487,750 and is 94.3
per cent picked, indicating a crop of
1,577,379.
Indian Territory ginned 167,340 and
is 68.4 per cent picked, Indicating a
total crop of 262,911.
Kentucky ginned 822 and Is 67.8 per
cent picked. Total crop of 1,660.
Loulsianr ginned 313,302, 75.4 pick-
ed. Total crop af 530,868.
Mississippi ginned 706,914, 74.3 per
BAPTIST MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION.
Meeting of this shrdlu thrdluC IH...
Meeting of This Great Body Takes
Place In Dallas.
Dallas, Nov. 20.—The great Baptist
Missionary Association of Texas will
meed in its fifth annual session at the
Fair Grounds in Dallas on, Tuesday,
*<»v,-tuber 21 The board, composed
oC forty-elx men from ovei the state,
will meet in the First Baptist Churoh
of Oak Cliff, Monday at 2 p. m. This
association met at the same place
last year and enrolled 563 churches
in its fourth annual meeting, which
was the largest number of churches
in any Baptist body in .the state. A
large number of impassengers will be
present cm this occasion and a larger
number of visitors.
This is the body to which the Tex-
as Baptist university belongs, located
in Dallas. Rev. S. II. Slaughter,
financial secretary of the Texas Bap-
tist university, will preach the intro-
ductory sermon Tuesday at 11 a. m.
It is expected that the committee ap-
pointed last year to take into consid-
eration he founding of a university
will make their report on Tuesday
night. The committee will be able
ARCHER, TEXAS, FRIDA]
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IOVEMBER 24, 1905.
LOOKS AWFULLY CROOKED
THE TALLY 8HEET8 EXAMINED.
cent ntekea, -Total awva .J. IMUUhhk Utt.JMBfllEt .UMLO'* of property and ft
'? XT' r -Mrooiwi efti.iCd 20410,1 68.i pet
cent picked. (Total “rop of 37,190.
North Carolina ginned 507,580, 93.7
per cent picked. Total crop of 563,
307. s
Oklahoma ginned 161,480, 70.2 per
cent picked Total crop of 266,460,
South Carolina ginned 892,780, 94.3
per cent picked. Total crop of 999,-
367.
Tennessee ginned 146.250, 74.2 per
cent picked. Total crop of 243,070.
Texas ginned 1,788,144, 84.4 per cent
picked. Total crop of 2.205,424.
Virginia ginned 10,724, 74.2 per cent
picked.- Total crop of 15,320.
ONE HUNDRED DROWNED.
"T-T guv nip- «yi «
rpr-cn-
Achooi Trif iviiieli more than two hun-
dred pupils have matriculated. Con-
sidering tiho fact that the school la
only two months old, this is consid-
ered a remarkable record.
Besides this Institution of learning,
Jacksonville College, at Jacitsonvilla,
Texas, has been under the fosterling
care of this body for two or three
years. It is also 4n a high state of
prosperity.
Tho mission work will show up re-
markably considering the unfavorable
season. There have been seventy
missionaries in the field. They have
organized scores of churches and made
Sunday schools and baptized hun-
dreds of converts.
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• Channel Vessel Goes Down o
Coast of France.
«tdon( Nov. 20.—The Southwest-
Railway's cross-channel steamei
Hilda was wrecked yesterday off St.
Malo, on the North Coast of France,
and it is believed that 100 or more ol
her passengers and crew were drown
ed.
The Hilda left Southampton Friday
night for St. Malo with considerably
more than 100 persons on board. Her
passage was greatly delayed by a fog
in the Channel, and when nearing St.
Malo she ran into a severe snowstorm
Vtc-mL—_^my.raqtly missed her course and
If wF foundered on the rocks off .Tardiu
Lighthouse, three miles from St. Malo.
The exact number of lives lost on
the Hilda is unknown. It is under-
stood there were about twenty first-
class passengers, Including several
English people. Among the latter
were the Hon. Mrs. Butler, sister of
Lord Lanesborough, and Col. Felt. A1
though it Is not known they were ac
tualiy on board, it was expected they
were traveling today and all the first-
class passengers were drovyned. Thees
passengers were English officers and
■others who were coming to rejoin
their families or to spend the season
at St. Malo and Dinnard, opposite St
Malo.
It appears to be certain that only
six were saved, these being five onion
sellers and an English seiinjan nam-
ed Grlnter, and that the toiai on
board, including the crew, numbered
105.
\
Interest has recently been revived
in the matter of seeking lubricatIng
otl over a considerable strip, of the
western central portion of Bell Coun-
Short Course in Agriculture.
College Station: The Agricultural
ipartment Is preparing for the short
course in general agriculture, which
is to be held from Jan. 4 to Feb. 28.
The course is shortened to eight
weeks, so that those desiring to take
it may do so at a time when other
work ia not pressing on the farm or
ranch. The course Is intensely practi-
cal and does not require much eduea
ion on the part of those taking It to
secure full benefit of the course.
New View of Perjury.
the case of Emmerson
1 with perjury, his at-
atft J. Moore, presented and
had sustained by the Court an entirely
new question so far as the Texas au-
thorities disclose. The defendant was
318 own behalf In the
wherein he was charged with
. a pistol, and In which he tes-
he did not have the pistol
by the Jury. -
til hTiu-rsday afternoon.
A
North Texas Conference Meeting,
Sulphur Springs, Tex., Nov. 19.—
The thirty-eighth annual session of the
North Texas annua! conference will
convene iu Sulphur Springs Wednes-
day morning at 9 o’clock, Bishop Hoss
presiding.
The official board of the church at
this place has completed arrange-
ments for caring for the visiting mem-
bers and delegates, each of whom has
been assigned homes.
This session will be of particular In-
terest historically. This conference
was organized in Sulphur Springs in
1867, and five of the members at its
organization are now living and will
be in attendance.
Hearet Will go to 8upremo Court for
Pormiaaion to RecounL
New York, Nor. 18,—Alderman Tim-
othy P. Sullivan, Tammany leader of
the SinCh Assembly District, appeared
before the Board of Canvassers when
it came rime to examine the tally
shet-u of bis district He said that
he felt sure that no errors would be
found, and that he would fight an
protests.
The first sheet examined ehowed
that Hearst had not been credited with
thirty-three voted which had been oast
for him. In tihe Third Election Dis-
trict the returns showed no vote for
ileorst ot.d 'Oft 'y-rhre" for Crew-
ford, the prohibition candidate, but
the .tally sheet showed that these
vateo were cast for Hearst, while
Crawford received none.
Minor errors, apparently clerical,
resulting from the blunders of the
election officers, were found in a large
number of additional election districts.
In one instance no return was made
by the ballot clerk. The examination
•will be oontlnued Monday.
The Grand Jury yesterday handed
down six more indictments in the elec-
tion fraud cases, which it has been
Investigating for the last week.
It was announced today by coun-
sel tor William R. Hearst that an ap-
plication would be made to the Su-
preme Court either Monday or Tues-
day of next week for an order to have
the 'ballot-boxes opened nr, d counted.
Health Officers Arraigned.
Jackson, Miss.: At its session Fri-
day morning the State Board of
Health adopted a resolution charging
neglect and incompetency on the part
of the Louisiana and New Orleans
health authorities, and expressing the
earnest hope that Dr. Souchon and
Dr. Kohnke will bo relieved of their
positions. The board expressed its
faith in the mosquito doctrine and ask-
ed for the removal of health officers
when they transcend authority or fail
to perform their duties.
An Immense
New Orleans, La.:
four large lumber
bama, Louisiana and
capita! of $i,000,000
quarters in New Orle
ed. The new compa
F. I_ Creeiman Lun
factoring Company,
largest hardwood coi
ted States, with an
010 feet a year. The i
ed file the Florida La
of Montgomery, withj
21.000 acres of land iq
F. fi. Creeiman Luml
Cairo, 111., with millj
Rouge; T. K. Rota I
Company of Melville,„
acres of land and tiif
sawmill, stave aur-
and shingle mills’^
Box and Lumber Con.|
acres of land and tii)
mill recently erected
owns 40,000 acres ofj
dry Parish.
Hearst Spends Free!
Albany, N. .Y.: Wi
oidate for mayor of
municipal ownership
to the secretary of sti
rampanlgn expenses
This breaks tho recoj
penses which was fi
Gov. Higgins, who s
last state .campaign:
Hearst says he contij
$17,488 of $80,206, w
__jg
Ala-
I1 With
head-
nnouac-
(be the
Maaa-
be the
he Uni-
140,009,-
mc-g
npany
and
jtte; m
jpany
Baton
tincturing
'Iff) 30,000
a new
J igtW
iewih
10,000
saw-
Impany
it. Lan<
M)M
S • R; CR.OCKE7TT, sh/l/tar o/ IfieA&tfdbtedo
(Copyright, 1898, 19«0. by S. R. Crockett.) #
CHAPTER XVII.
Long Distance Wireless Record.
Washington: The battleship Ken-
tucky bolds the record for American
the" longest "mstap caliy 'fwi V A leas HP
to r</i
A New Picker *Jg
Shreveport, La.';
counted, the most su
cotton picking macn
ed in this section t
day, thirty-five mil
port, before a repn
ing of cotton men.
ing machine recorde
91 of cotton, increas
cent on the repeai-l
chanlcal fingers do|
picker.
—-—--
Personally Conduct^
Chicago: Tho CaL
put a stop to tijo P« ts<j
tourists’ exous
flourishing :
apalgn,
^t. can-
jon the
ertifled
(is total
$65,M3.
ex-
eld by
|g the
Mr.
m t
vt»s pro-
St of a
\,WUness-
! Thurs-
Shreve-
Igather-
pick-
|tage of
7 per
. Mo-
ot the
|r» Cut Out.
have
^conducted
‘ ’ pen
a
Wife and Priest.
"I have a right to call myself the
sridow of the Duke Henry of Kerns-
berg and Hohenstein.” said Theresa
von Lynar, in reply to Conrad's ques-
tion as to whom he might thank for
rescue and shelter.
And therefore the mother of the
Duchess Joan?’’1 he continued.
Theresa shook her head.
|JWtv '1 aIia. *■*■*. i _vl .,
mother, but—and even that only in
a sense—her stepmother. A promise
to a dead man has kept me from
claiming any privileges save that of
living unknown on mis desolate Isle
of sand and mist. My son Is an of-
ficer In the service of the Duchess
Joan.
The face of the Prince-Bishop light-
ed up Instantaneously.
Most surely, then, i know him. Did
he not come to Courtland with my
Lord Dessauer, the Ambassador of
Plasenburg?"
The lady of Isle Rugen nodded in-
differently.
Yes,” she said: "I believe he went
Courtland with the embassy from
Plassenburg.”
'Indeed, I was much drawn to him.”
said the Prince eagerly; "I remember
him most vividly. He was of au olive
complexion, his features without
color, but graven even as the-Greeks
cut those Of a young god on a gem.”
"Yes," said Theresa von Lynar se-
renely, “he has his father’s face and
carriage, which are those also of the
Duchess Joan.”
In the morning Joan catne to bid
the patient good morrow, while Wer-
ner von Orseln stood in the doorway
with his steel cap doffed in his hami.
add Boris and Jorian bent the knee
a priestly blessing. But Theresa
did not again appear till night and
darkness had wrapped the earth, and
being all alone he listened to the
heavy plunge of the breakers on the
beach among which his life had been
so nearly sped. The sound grew slow-
er and slower after the storm, until
at last the wavelets of that sheltered
sea lapsed on the shingle in a sort of
breathing whisper.
egraph, according to reports receiv-
ed at the bureau of equipment of the
Navy Department. The Kentucky
while off Hampton Roads sent a com-
munication to the wireless station at
Beaufort, S. C., a distance of 50'
miles.
jurist/
Passed and came again t
i£nWf TUrTflWl'i ami lift ■ in sin. I
conducted
e driveq out!
PP
Negro Preacher Shoots Wife and Self.
Greenville, Tex.: About six o’clock
Saturday evening Rev. J. W. Wade, a
negro Baptist preacher, shot and
killed his wife, and then 3hot and kill-
ed himself. It was the culmination
of previous quarrels. He had beaten
his wife and she had placed him under
bond, which he gave. On reaching
home the shooting occurred as above.
J. N. Trapp, formerly iu the saloon
business at Paris, died Sunday morn-
ing from the jeffects of an overdose of
morphine. He leaves a family.
After Delinquent Corporations.
Austin: State Revenue Agent Bell is
now devoting his attention to delin-
quent foreign and domestic corpora^
tions in the state which have forfeited
their rights to do business in Texas
by a failure to pay franchise tax. He
has been furnished a list of these de-
linquent corporations, which embraces
forty-one foreign and 630 domestic
concerns, which are liable to heavy
penalties.
Sherman is to have another impos-
ing church edlfllc. At the quarter-
ly conference of the Travis Street
Methodist parish it was decided to
build, at a probable cost of $30,000.'
Saturday night the Killeen Hunting
Club captured the largest fox ever
seen in that section. For three years
he had fooled every one. but a fox-
hound recently added to the pock was
too much for the old fellow.
Recognising the great necessity of
employing labor that thoroughly un-
derstands operating the cotton mill,
plana are being considered by which
experienced men esn h* dtrort
from the cotton mill districts of Eng-
land to operate at mill at Jefferson.
The Progressive Club has about per-
fected arrangements with a local con-
cern for the Immediate InstaHaton of
a fifteen-ton ice plant at Ootarndo,
will fill a long-felt want.
The Coming Session of Congress.
Washington: It has been decided
that the President’s forthcoming an-
nual message to Congress will be sub-
mitted to the Senate and House of
Representatives on Tuesday, Dec. 5.
The first day’s session will be occu-
pied by routine business of the two
branches of Congress. The Senate
will take an adjournment soon after
meeting on account of the death of
Senator Platt of Connectiout.
Friday In the State Penitentiary at
Carson. Nev., A1 Tinder of Stockton,
and J. P. Sease-nor, marine engineer,
were hanged for complicity in the
murder of Jack Welsh in Humboldt
County In August, 1903. Both confess-
ed. __
W. C. Lee., president and general
manager of the Pioneer Mill and Ele-
vator Company at Stamford died Fri-
day. He was a leading business man
and took great Interest In everything
that pertained to the welfare of Stam-
ford and that oountTy.
In a fight with officers at Diggers,
Ark., John Shipley and a man named
Dennis were killed and Lee Joaus, a
deputy sheriff, Jim Rinser and Cft?
Marshal Johnston were seriously
wounded.
Count of Flanders, brother of King
Leopold, and heir to the throne, died
Friday morning. His death was due
to inflammation of the respiratory or-
gans. The count was born In 1887,
Harrison Finting a n employe of A.
B. Martind&le'g mill at Cushing, was
instantly killed while trying to catch
the log train out from the mill Fri-
day morning.
Th* Peso Worn.
■#§shington: An
Ing association, wh%;h
xness in the Phili;
cablegram today fi
that because of the
in the price of sil
Government had be
the export of that
fo largely in use thj
lion value of about
ltu coinage value i;
Several surveyoi
interurban road
Palestine reached
and on Monday a
twenty men began
The year-old infa
a farmer near Jenn
ty, died Thursday
a spider bite.
Work is to be be|
vllle, Whltesboro al
way before the ends
those in a position|
they speak say tha|
progress by Dec. l.J
Capt. Ed. W. Sml|
Smith county, who
pointed special agi
States Apr! ----
this district, annou:
perlmental farms
near that place.
s.
:• I »■« f
«*«• * *"
re*"* a
gq* stating
i advance
Philippine
to forbid
The peso
$as a Dul-
whoreas
n after that first watch, though his
ul longed for her, that he might
gain tell her that she was his broth-
ifer’s wife, and urge her to do her duty
by him who was her wedded husband.
Bo Conrad contented himself and
salved his conscience by thinking
austere thoughts of his mission and
high place in. the hierarchy of the only
Catholic and Apostolic Church. So
that presently he would rise up and
seek Werner von Orseln In order to
persuade him to let him go. that he
might proceed to Rome at the com-
mand of the Holy Father, whose ser-
vant he was.
But Werner only laughed and put
him off.
“When we have sure word of what
your brother does at Kerushorg, tlieu
we Wld ta}k of this matter; Till then
it cannot be Jild from you that no
hostage half so valuable can we keep
in hold.”
So after many days It was permitted
The storehouse and general stock
merchandise of M. J. Gill Ait Hogans-
port, twelve miles north ot ML Ver-
non, was destroyed by fire on the night
of the 16th. Mr. Gill says his loss is
between $4,000 and $6,000, insurance,
$2,000.
An Old Slave-Tins Juryman.
Paris; Among the members of the
Grand Jury now sitting la Wilson Ma-
yo, a negro man 89 years old. The
darkey come to this county In 1853
from Cumberland County, Virginia,
as the slave of R. P. Mayo, a promin-
ent farmer, living seven miles north-
east of town. Mr. Mayo carried hto
oW slave home with him and the two
•at up half the night tanking of old
times book In Virgin* daring slavery
Ex-Governor Hog:
his son and daughtej
Friday for Austin,
short stay, he will
ton. It is his lnteni
winter in Galveston
tatlon In Brazoria
Mrs. Edna Mulli
Mullins, who was
while In the emp!
Ardmore, I. T„ has
that city for $20,000,
The County Com:
called an election ft
9, to dpc'-d* whether
shall continue under
law.
Last Thursday mo
Tadlock, a young lai
father, J. P. Tadlock,
Izen and farmer wl
mtt«« north ot Willi
with a revolver, Th
near the heart, and
It. o'clock.
Fire destroyed one
lngs at Sudgen, I. T„
consisting of a ge:
stock belonging to
entailing a ''
14,000.
Glanced this way and that, looking
for meana of eacape.
to the Prince to walk abroad wiihln
the narrow bounds of the Isle Rugen,
the WordlesB Man guarding him at
fifty paces’ distance, impassive and
inevitable as an ambulant rock of the
seaboard.
As he went Prince Conrad’s eyes
glanced this way and that, looking for
a means of escape. Yet they saw
none, for Werner von Orseln with his
ten men of Kernsberg and the two
captains of Pfassenburg were not sol-
’ diers to make mistakes. It chanced,
dh«* <eon.a.warm and gra-
aftoruou*. when the krone*
played wanderingly among the garden
trees before losing themselves in the
solemn aisles of the pices as in a pil-
lared temple, that Conrad, stepping
painfully westwards along the beach
arrived at the place of his rescue, and,
descending the steep bank of shingle
to look for any traces of the disaster,
came suddenly upon the Duchess
Joan gazing thoughtfully out to sea.
She turned quickly, hearing the
sound of footsteps, and at sight of the
T-i-liicMStstiap giancCT) cast six) west
along the shore as If meditating re-
treat.
But the proximity of Max Ulrich and
the encompassing banks of water-worn
pebbles convinced her of the awk-
wardness, If not Impossibility, of es-
cape.
Conrad the prisoner greeted Joan
with the aweet gravity which had been
characteristic of hl-n as Conrad the
prince, and his eyes shone upon her
with the same affecUorate kindliness
that had dwelt in them as he looked
upon his sister in the pavilion of the
rose-garden. But after ono glance
Joan looked steadily away across the
steel-grey sea. Her feet turned in
stinctively to walk back towards the
house and the Prince turned with her.
“If we are two fellow-prisoners,
said Conrad, “we ought to see more of
each other. Is it not so?”
“That, we may concert plans of es-
cape?” said Joan. “You desire to con-
tinue your pilgrimage, I to return to
my people, who. alas, think them-
selves better off without me!"
They paced along together with their
eyes on the ground, the Wordless Man
keeping a uniform distance behind
them. Then the Prince laughed a
strange, grating laugh, like one who
mocks at himself.
"The world is ill arranged,” he said
slowly: “my brother Louis would have
made a far better Churchman than I.
And strange It is to think that but a
year ago the knights and chief coun-
cillors of Courtland came to me to
propose that, because of his bodily
weakness, my brother should be de-
posed and that I should take over the
government and direction of affairs.”
He went on without noticing the
color rlsin
a little to
in Joan’s cheek
himself ami
smiling
talkjjMgwith
flSelwffleT
tonsured head by your side, while T
Would doublies have been knocking at
the gates of Kernsberg, seeking at the
spear’s point for a runaway bride."
“Nay!” cried Joan> with sudden
vehemence; ‘‘that would you not—"
And as suddenly she stopped, strick-
en dumb by the sound of her own
words.
The Prince* turned his head full
Upon her. He saw a face ail suffused
with hot blushes, haughtiest pride
struggling with angry tears In eyes
that fairly blazed upon him, and a
slender figure drawn up Into an atti-
tude of defiance, at sight of which
something took him instantly by the
throat.
"You m'-'in—you mean- " he stam-
mered, nmi' tor a moment was silent:
“For God's sake, tell mo what you
mean!”
“1 mean nothing at all!” said Joan,
stamping her foot In anger.
And turning upon her heel she left
him standing fixed in wonder and
doubt upon the margin of the sea.
Then the wito of Louis, Prince of
Courtland, walked eastward to the
house upon the Isle Rugen with her
face set as sternly as for battle, but
her nethfcr lip qtfivering. while Con-
rad. Cardinal and Prince of Holy
Church,- paced slowly to the west with
a bitter and downcast look upon his
ordinarily so sunny countenance.
For Fate had been exceeding cruel
to these two.
«••***
And meanwhile right haughtily flew
the red lion upon the citadel of Kerns-
berg. Never had the I-ady Duchess,
Joan of the Sword Hand, approven
herself so brave and determined. In
her forest-rs' dress of green velvet,
with the links of chain body-armor
glinting beneath its frogs and tkches,
she went everywhere on foot. At all
times of the day she was to be, seen
at the half-moons wherein the cannon
were fixed, or on horaeback scouring
the defenced posts along the city wail.
She Reemed to know neither fear nor
fatigue, and the noise of cheering fol-
lowed her about the little hill city like
her shadow.
Three there were who knew the
truth—Peter Balta, Alt Pikker, and
George the Hussite. And when the
guards were set. the lamps lit, and’
the bars drawn, a stupid Hohensteiner
set on watch at the turnpike foot with
command to let none pass upon his
life—then at last the lithe young Spar-
hawk would undo hi* belt with huge
refreshful gusting of air into his lungs,-
amid the scarcely Bubdued laughter of
the captains of the host.
NavacUiAlt*;. In the face of brave
words and braver deeds, provisions
waxed scarce and dear in Castle
Kernsberg, end In the town below
women grew gaunt and hollow-
cheeked. Then the children acquired
eyes that seemed to stand out of hoH
low purple sockets. Last of all, the
stout burghers grew thin. And all
three began to dream of the days
when the good farmfolk of the black-
ened country down below them, where
now stood the leafy lodges of the Mus-
covite and the white tents of the
Court landers, used ko come into
Kernsberg to marke$, the great sol-
emn-eyed oxen drawing carts full of
country sausages/ and brown meal
fresh from the njlll to bake the whole-
some bread-^ji-'iwhen the stout mar-
ket-women fbroujfct in the Iappered
millc and 'the bt%»er and cu^ds. F
the starving for. ) **
dreamed ajjd woke
curses on them that had waked them.
About this time the Sparhawk be-
gan to take counsel with himself, and
the issue of his meditations the his-
torian must now relate.
It was in the outer chamber of the
Duchess Joan, which looks to tho
north, that the three captains usually
sat—burly Peter Balta, stiff-haired,
dry faced, keen-eyed—Alt Pikker, lean
and leathery, the life humor within
him all gone to fighting Juice, his
limbs mere bone and muscle, a cer-
tain acrid and caustic wit keeping the
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u
Joan looked steadily away across the
•teeI-grey sea.
his lips on the wicker, and,
little back from these two, George
the Husfite, a smaller man, ver> sol*
mgr nuaiuo, u, smaller man, very^oi*
■B MB
To them entered the Sparhawk, a
settled frown of gloom upon his brow,
and the hunger which he shared equal-
ly with tlje others already sharpening
the falcofi hook on his nose and whit-
ening his thin nostrils.
aL bight of him the three heads drew
apart, and Alt Pinker began to speak
of the stars that were rising iu the
eastern dusk.
“The dog-star is white,” he said di-
dactically. "In my schooldays T used
to read in the Latin tongue that -It
wns rod!
“What is this?” cried the Sparhawk.
“Do not deceive me. You were none
of you talking of stars when I cam.
up the stairs. For I heard Peter Bsl-
ta\-i voice say. ‘By God’ it must coir.):
to it, and soon!’ And you. Hussitj
George, answered him, ‘Six days will
settle it.' What do you keep from me?
Out vfith it! Speak up, like three
little men!”
It was Alt Pikker who first found
words to answer.
“We spoke Indeed of the stars, and
said it was bIx days till the moon
should be gone, and that the time
would then be ripe for a sally by the
—by the—Plassenburg gate!”
“Pshaw!" cried the Sparhawk. “Lie
to your father confessor, not to me.
I am not a purblind tool. I have ears,
long enough, it is true, but at least
they answer to hear withal. You
spoke of the wells, I toil you, I saw
your heads move apart as i entered,
and then, forsooth, that dotard Alt
Pikker (who ran away Is his youth
from a monk's cloister school with
the nun that taught them stocking-
mending) must needs furbish up some
scraps of Latin end begin to prgtfl
about dog-stars red and dog-stanf
white. Faugh! Open, your mouths
like men, ret truthful hearts behind
them, and let,me hear the worst!”
The three captains of, Kernsberg
were silent a while, for heaviness wait
upon their souls. Then Peter Balia
blurted out. “God help us! There la
but ten days’ more provender In the
city, the river Is turned, and the wella
are almost dried up!”
After this the Sparhawk sat awhile
on the low window seat, watching the
twinkling fires of the Muscovites and
listening to the hum of the town bw
neath the Castle.
(To be Continued.)
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Wits From Experience.
Meeks—The nan who tries *
change a woman’s views Is a fool.
Weeks—How do you know?
Meeks—My wife told me eo.—Si
Stories.
Will Sue Stoe»»el for Libel.
Gen. Stoessel is about to be sued for
libel by M. E. K. Nozhin, war corre-
rpoaSertt of the Not? Krai, the famous
newspaper printed at Port Arthur dur-
ing the siege, the offense consisting In
Don. Stoesset’s description of M. Nox-
htn as a spy.
Christian Endeavor Growth.
The Christian. Endeavor has now
>,003 societies. This is an Increase
f 231 since the convention held in
naitimore in July.
Deposed Queen VieRe Parle.
Queen Aanavalo of Madagascar has
Just realized her long-cherished ambi-
tion by nnvtne a visit to Paris. While
there she enjoyed the additional felic-
ity of having her annual allowance in-
creased from $6,000 to $10,000.
May Add to New York Lawyer*.
Congressman Littlefield of Maine
has dissolved his law partnership with
his brother, and it is said he will short-
ly move to New York city to practice
taw.
Mak* City Beautiful. ;
At Ashland, Ohio, the most oarefali
attention has been given to the plant-
ing of trees, of which the city mav
well be proud. Cement sidewalks
and ditches are being constructed !m
every part of the city, and are help-;
Ing to add to the city beautiful.
-
*
Will Support Missionary.
The Kpworth League of Springfield;
(IU.) district will support a mission-*
ary In Borneo, and la raising
for that purpose. J
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