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The Wind In tho Crass. ,
Thosonp of the wind in tho grass!
Come Mo mi the ground mid listen
When tln white clouds drift ami pnss
Ami tho ilexvilropH cease to glisten.
It comes with Hip perfume nf flower,
It dulses the cures (lint hnrnvs,
Ami fraught with magical poxvrr
In the song of the wind in the grass.
Come lie w illi your lien) I to Hip clover
Out under the orchard trees
And listen the sweet liine over
A-eliime with the lay of the boos.
Tho tiled liriiiu n throb und a iiiiver
Wnxosipiiel nud clciir as a glnss,
Till cool thoughts Hon like n river
To the son;; of the wind in Hid grass.
AreHt that is sweeter than mirth
Through the soul is soothing stenl
ing, Eur tin! touch of Hip dear brown earth
Hath a hulm i t In nxeiily healing;
And iiinler the warm blue sky,
Ah soft as a whispered mass
Or a dreamland lullaby,
Is the song nf the wind in the prasrt.
- Samm l M. Feck in Ynnth's Coiii
f anion.
For Katyjeianey.
DV l:MA A, OcTKU.
Thvight Hnpkius vaiilti'd the hedge
between tlieli' law :i and the Winsluws,
iiinl went and joined Irene, who was
(liidiii;r her histc i v on the veranda.
"I'm going to give u patty next
Week," he announced.
Irene tin lied dow ii a leaf and shut
Iht hook w ith an excited snap. "M hy!
Not with yi in i ii t it 1 1 1 r and Madeline
gone?" said :die, hut Dwight lioddeil.
"Ves, I am. They're going to be
r.oue a month. It will he hot weather
by the time tin y i;i-t hii'-k, ami you
can't d.ini e 1 1 i-ii it's hot. I think
they'll It : I. id to l.c ii. I of Hie bother
of it. for that mat ti l'. Fat In i thinks I
e in inaiM);e it. and lie's given me .".
!m I'. I -dull h.r.e III hotel de
si i e tin- i i fi i sh meiits, and I'M Int'.e
t hi ee or four pieces from the opera
hou ic ofche: Ii ;. And if you and
your mother." said Dwight, "will
hi li me about it
If colli': e we will!' Ilelifl prom-I.i-
I. delightedly, and she joined llilll
in an enthusiastic di en sion of do
t: Ms. She forgot In I studying, "!ld
tin y made out a list of the guests, a id
i f Hi" dan. i s, on a Myh af of her his
t. r.x.
When Dwight went home, ho went
dimn to the l ie k entiv, to clean his
I i.'.vele.
Katv Dchiiu v ennie through the
putty from the kitelieii. w lit re she had
lieen calling on the en ik. Sln was a
di -taut i o'nieetio'i i if (lie cook's tlie
look's eou-in had imiriiod Katie Do
lanev'i, innde.
Ka'y I'l'lamy xwnt tnjjthe high
seh 1. 1. She. was in this year's gradu
ating class. "Ilnw do you do?"
Dwighl :aid. He lad considerable
rcsieel for her. Sh- was u pleasant
girl, and the was a bright scholar,
too.
Katy Dolanoy murmured "How do
you do?" and went out hatily, her
fiiep aeit"d. DwigM . mkeil sharply
after her. "What's Hie matter with
Katy?" If iiiciiiied of Hie i L, who
was hi lit):; put aloes in Hie kitchen.
"What have you been saying to her'.'
She's been cryiiiL.:, ha: n't she?"
" 'Th.iii'I ; i i i v 1 1 i i t i I said to her."
the cook aiiswei ed. "It's what she's
1m en say inp In me." She pared an
(ther I'otato before she went on.
"She's feelini: tei riblo I ad beeause
slip can't graduate," said s he. "She
liain't got any ihcss to wear, nud she
inn't prt any. She'd have to hav a
white dri ss like the nut of the pills,
nnd all Hie other I'iuiius; and slip
inn't have 'em, ami she's pot to piveit
nil ii)'. She's pot pi ide and she w on't
w ear n dress that ain't suitable. Her
father died lu-t w inter, you know, and
they've had an anful hard time to pet
nloiip. There ain't any money for any
prndiiatiiip dress for Katy, and Katy
know s it. She ain't making any fuss
about it, but she feels terribly bad.
She'll pet her diploiiiay, I s'poso, same
as the rest, but she'll miss all the fun
nud all the part Hint's worth having.
I offered to let her have the money,
but she wouldn't take it. T don't
s'poso I would in her place. Well,
it 'h a pity. J'nor folks do have it aw
ful hard." said the cook, turning the
cold water on Hie potatoes.
"A pity! I should say it was," said
lwight. He bent a sober face over
liis w'.ieel.
A nil he continued to think of it.
"Knty 1 lelauey's a tirst-rate girl. It's
j.retty tough if she's got to miss cum
nifiieeuicnt. She's one of the best
scholars in that class. Margaret Cary
end (iraee Hidden, and all those pirls,
ill be on hand, dressed up like any
thing, and some of them liave only just
squeaked through on their examina
tions." He (hashed with li if bicycle and
wont out on the pia..a with a maga
zine. It iiiude no difference. He
could not get Katy Helauey out of his
mind. "It wouldn't be so bad for a
fellow," he thought, "but girls are
different about such things. She'll
feel nw fill."
He sat and stared hard at a syrinpa
bush, in full white bloom. He did not
sit there long. He jumped up, with
sudden impetuosity.
"I don't cure," he said, aloud, "it's
a shame! And if I can't turn my hand
over for somebody once in awhile
I'm ptdiig In do it !"
He ran upstairs, ami found his poc
ket book, and took from it n little roll
of bills- the his father had giveu
him. He folded tUeni in a sheet of
h Iter paper, and on the paper scrib
bled, "I'lcni a friend; for your grad
uating dress. " And he scaled it in 'in
nveliipe, directed it to Kiity Dehiiiey,
mid ui'i out with it to the letter box.
And live minutes latu he startled
li alio Wmslow by i sec ;ud appeur-
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anro lieforo ler. Hp planled himself
with hitt feet npiirt nud his arms fold
ed.
"I can't have any parly, Irene," lis
said.
"Dwight Hopkins!" said I rene, w ith
n Rtruppling suspicion that Mwighl
had lost some portion of his senses.
"It's so," said )wight. "I suppose
father would give mo some more
money, if I teased him, but I shan't.''
He told Irene all about it. "Ymi
see," he explained, "it was a plagued
shame, ami I couldn't stand it think
ing about it. She's always stood
higher in her rlass than Mnrgaiet
Cary or any of those girls; and the
idea of her having to miss commence
ment, nml nil the Inn, becausit she
hasn't ii dress-
"Iknow!" said Irene. Her voice
had a little tremble in it. And tln-re
was such n look in her eyea that
Dwight turned red and coughed.
"I'shaw! "J'wasn't anything," .'-aid
he, and he begun to talk about l.vnii
Trumbull':', new shotgun.
When he started lor school the next
morning, Irene was w.iilinp for him
at her gate.
"I've had nu idea," she said, "an
inspiration. You can have your party
just ihe Rinne, if you w ill. It won't
be the kind you were poing to have,
but wait till' I tell mi! I thought
it up lust night."
They were still talking no earnestly
when they iiioiiute l the schoiilhoiise
steps that Hiey humped .sipiuiely into
liob IiOgan. "What are yu two
chinning about?" he demanded, "that
you can't see a fellow of my sic?"
He found out the next day. lie and
the ri st of the S. T. C. club, and a
few chosen outsiders, received inita
tious from l iglit I lopkius to a ai ly.
They came in yellow envelopes, and
they were written on neatly cut ships
if brown wrapping' paper. "Hard
times I'arty" tt.ic. penned in one cor
ner, und " Please wear your olde.-t
clotlii s" in another.
Curiosity mil e veitemt nt ra;;ed
among the S. T. ( '. Iwi;ht was he
siege. I with in piii i.-s. So was Irene,
whose i-i tin pi ii-i I v in the matter was
more than sitspeeli d. lint they had
nothing to say. "It's ell mi the in
itatiniis," tiny avi in d. "It't a banl
tiines parly, and you're to wear your
wiirse clothe'.; that's all."
An atmospheie of fascination snr
roiindi ilthe a ll'a i i fiom (lie liisl. It
was not too much t : ay that the S.
T. C. had never ma le preparation I' r
a parly with more eagerness. Kvelyn
liiiriis' gerniaiis even had never caused
more discussion and cont'almlal ion and
general excitement.
" Kveryhody's accepting; I haviii't
had it regret. ' Is'ol, hole!" w ig'nt
sail to Irene, villi glee, .'ind lie
pulled out of his pod ct sex era 1 baud
fills of strange looking missives. They
w ere w rittcii on all soi l-i of cheap and
outlandish papers, ft. mi foolscap to
the buck of an a lvei ti.- ing cu d and
the torn oil' margin of a new paper.
"ilooil! They're getting into the
spirit of it already. We'll have no
end of fun. "said Irene.
Ihvight's father had ' nine hit. dm ss
out of town that day, and it v. a i .:!
when lie got home. Mwight had in
formed him that his party came nil'
Hint evening; ami In- saw the lighted
windows with a pleasant Hi" ill of ex
pectation.
Soiii"bodv cime forward, when he
entered, with a hearty, " I low are you,
father? Clad you've come" hut he
did tint for it moment reeogni.e the
person.
"What's this?" he gasped. "Hi?
w hat's this?"
lwight was receiving his guests,
nnd Irene was assi itiug htm. I'wight
was attired in a coat he had outgrown
two years ago, and whose sh eves did
not reach much below his elbows; and
n puir of trousers in which he had
helped to paint the back porch; ihty
were not old v ragged at the knees, hut
daubed freely w ith paint ; and an old
red handkerchief i om caled his lack
of n collar. Irene Winslow whip n
faded old shirt waist, a hieyc lingskirt
with two large rents in it and the hem
partly ripped, and some old shoes
with their toes stubbed out.
"What is it?" said Dwight. "It's
a hard tinus party, father."
Flora Osborne and (ieorge Clement
were, coining dow ustairs. They shook
hands w ith their host cordially. Flora
was nrrnyed in an old cotton frock, in
which she had picked berries and
helped her mother can them, until its
original color was lost in a solid mass
of stnins; und ( ieorge w ore n jacket
whose buttons were mis.-ing, trousers
wrinkled and mud stained and flayed
round the bottoms, and some tennis
shoes which were burst out at the
udes.
Irene's mother was there, and
Dw ight's father took a seat beside her,
nud there they sat and watched the ar
riving guests, and laughed until they
were fairly tired.
Certainly it was a remarkable oe
rnsioii. The parlors tilled rapidly w ith,
apparently, a disreputable crowd of
young tramps a,-.l beggars. It looked
lis if all the rag bags in town had heeu
emptied. Every fresh arrival was
greeted with hilarious shouts, and
surrounded by a loudly gay mob.
Their mirth swelled to a deafening
clamor.
Sheridan Kider wira t he Inst comer,
in a costume any respectable hoot
black would have scorned. When the
merriment he excited bad subsided,
the host made an announcement :
"Ladies and gentlemen," he said,
"we will now begin to dance. The
orchestra will coii-d-lof Miss Winslow
nnd myself, who will play a selection
after a new method." And Irene
struck up a wait on a comb covered
with paper, and Dwinht twanged a
jewshaipin accompaniment. And the
motley Ihrmig w alt i d. "
They da 1 f ir t " o In. ill s. The
guests tonk turns providing the mil ie.
The hi ys whittled, tie- gnl- played
tho piuuo, bill the comb and paper
ITITSUORO, CHATHAM
flood high in fnvor, nnd sonto ofthl
performers produced surprising re
sults with it. Hob Fopmi said it beat
'he opera house orchesl rn nil hollow.
Supper was served at 11. It wai
served on small tables in the dining
loom, each of them ornamented hy ik
tin candlestick holding a tallow cm
die. The l'efreshiueiitn wore ham
sandwiches and doughnuts and lem
onade. "Hard time sandw iehes and povcity
lemonade," Dw ighl explained, "not
to he served more than four times hi
any one pel son. " Hut some of Ihein
went beyond the limit and all of them
ate hungrily.
Then they danced ail hour longer.
Nohoily wanted to go home then, they
wore liming ton pood n time. And
Hob liogiin voiced tho emphatic
opinion ( f cveiybody ilia neat speech,
which ho made from a ehnir, n strik
ing liguri' in a coat split up the buck
mid a hat of which nothing remained
hut a ragged hi tin.
"I desire to thank our host," ho
said, "for the most iiuiipte entertain
ment - "
"And the bullion!," said Lynn
Ti it in I nt 1 1 .
"In the history of our club," said
liob.
"Or any other." said the chorus.
"And if laughing is pood for tho
health ns the doctors Bay it is," Hub
concluded, "We've all laughed
enough to-night to keep us alive und
well for the next twenty-live, years."
And thorn followed a volley of
cheers, and a reluctant breaking up
"1 thotild like to know what these
young rascals of ours will think up
next?" I 'wight's father said, when
evctvbody had gone i-ave Irene and
her mother.
Irene tliutik this up," said Dwight.
"We cannot complain," said Irene'
mother, "if all their projects are as
economical as t his and as successful."
"It cost ('".,'' said Dwight, "ex
actly." "Well, now that you've had your
fun," said his father, "you'd better
take your money and give them the
i parly you expected to give hadn't
! vimi?"
Dwight and Irene exchanged looks.
I Wouldn't foranything!" said Dwight,
j hastily, "I'm sh k to dt ath of pink
t ilk di esses and long gloves, and or
j rlie. t;a : behind palms, and chicken
i . alad ami ice cream, and the rest of it
Aren't volt. Irene?"
I ' i M coin so lam. We all tire. It
v. as
An.
a hit smmI relief." Iieiie answered,
ihealded sofllv, with innocent
i yes on the chandelier.
' I heard Katy Dclaney talking to
Maugic Long IIih morning. She was
telling hot all about her graduation
die-:;. It's going to he a white barred
uiiisliii, with white ribbon trimmings.
She's got slippers and gloves and a
fan nnd eveiything. and she's had
enough money left t get her niothci
something to wear, so she can com,
and see Katy graduate. She won
doled and wondered who sent her the
money, and she was so glad and happy
about it that she was crying."
"Pshaw !" said Dwight, nud ho be
gan to w histle.
"What's all this!" said his father.
"Ireue Winslow!" said Dwight
w nrniiigly.
Hut his father refused to be left ill
the dark. Ho smiled in a peculiar
and thoughtful way when Irene had
finished the explanation, and hi
looked Dwight over. He did tint say
much; ho remarked, niei ely, that he'd
just as lief have Dwight for n son as
any ether boy he could think of just
that minute.
The hard limes party became cele
hlalcd. The local paper printed ado
tailed account of it, and the S. T. C.'s
talked about it for four weeks, and
w cut in groups and had their photo
graphs taken in the costumes they had
worn.
Hut for Dwight and Irene the best
of it came later, when Katy Delaiu y
read an essay at the high school coiu
meiiccniclit, ami received her diploma.
She looked well in her white dress
triiniued with bows of white ribbon,
and she was a radiant picture of pride
and bliss. And for Dwight ami Irene
the best of the hard times party was
then and there. St. Louis Star.
A Novel Skv-Scraping Kite,
A new kind of kite was tlow it in the
air at a height of 1,000 foot from the
roof of the stock exchange building all
day yesterday Its inventor. Silas
Conyue, Sill N. Whipple street, says
it combines all the perfect points of
other kites.
lieing different in shape from most
other kites, ninny people on the streets
who saw it hailed it as an nir-liip. It
consists (if two triangles, connected
by a light framework, and having
wings on each side alter the Malay
pattern. It is n combination, in fact,
of the Hargrave and Malay kites, it
weighs seven and one-half pounds
nnd has ninesipiare feet of surface. It
loaves the hand at an angle of . de
grees. The inventor says he can send
it out and luako it return to hint with
out its nnoe touching the ground, pro
vided the xx itid is us favorable in it
was yesterday. He says he has tested
its carrying powers, and that it will
bef a load of four pounds in the an
Cotiyno says he has a kite frnti
times the si.e which ho Hew vcte
day, nnd that ho will experiment wit1,
that next week from a down tnwi
point In see whether it will raiiv .
weight of twenty puiinds. It ii
inches high and measures ti f ( lee
inches frnm tip to tip of the wings
Chicago Tribune.
A Pigeon Pot.
Tho syntoill of pigeon po-t is stab
lihiug itself as a branch of li.e nilel
ligeiico department ( the H iiedi navy.
In the naval tnaiioeiivres now in pn:
gross, cm I icr pigeons are despatched
to cotes recently established at I'mts
mouth, D.ivctipol t aud Sheet luss nt n
,,,st of ." into
COUNTY, N. C., Til l
GOLD DUST WITH L0VK.
NUCCETS AND ROMANCE IN THE
PLACERS OF THE KLONDIKE
Clarofiro ,t. i;'ri-.v. Only lieei'iilly a I'imii
J''ai'inci', Ni,v tho Itariii'v Itarinito of
llio I Ic I.U VVi il.llNK Trip of I llh . ii
Month Was Wmlli a Million Month.
Clarence J. Horry is the Harney liar
lialn of the Klondike. Ho took ;?hiO,.
(I'll) frnm the top dirt of mie of his
claims in live months, lie kept it all
but ."..'.llll't, which he paid to Ids min
ers, lie did not liavo to give his
w ife oven so much as pin iimm-v. She
had a pan of her own. She v,.iuld oc
casionally got lime from her rowing
and mending to drop mound to the
dump. She sifted out jjii,tii or so
in her spare luoineuts. Thisw.vi her
amusement in th" strangest year's
honeymoon that ii recorded. The I wo
slurted lifteeii months ngn us hrideaud
prnnin. She was the devoted sweet
heart of a poor Fresno farmer. Tin y
have returned to San Francisco w ith
all kinds nf gold dust, nuggets and
coin. They have millions in sight, and
behind the millions is a prelly romance.
Horry was a fruit raiser in the south
ern part of California. He did not
have any money. There was tin par
ticular prospect that he wnitl l ever
have any. lie saw a life of hard plod
ding for a bare Ihiug. There was no
opporl unit v at homo for getting ahead,
and, like i.tln rim it oflho Far We t, he
only dreamed of the day when he Would
make a strike and get his million. Thi.-,
w.n thro t years a ;.i. There ha 1 tiieu
euinc d'jwn f I out the frozen laud; el
'.ti; . i r . t ; i : m
( si,., appeat'i .t ": I'"!' W'sl'ln. '
Ahv-k l wonderful st'-ri".-. of rewards
for mcu lo-ave ciinitgh to rii.i a tierce '
fide with ihath from stm-withm an I
enlil. He had liothing to ,,.-e aud it!l
to gain. lie concluded to lace the
ihtugei.:. Hi, capital wa i ;!lo. lie
pt'o ii.- 1 to i i-k it all- no very mneh :
to him in.'.-,, hut a mighty .-.ighl three '
years a-o. It took r.ll hut g.l j
him to .liui.v.u. Ilehadtwiihigjtr.il.!,
the physi.pn nf u giant audth urago
of an explorer. Presenting all these
as his only eullaterals, he managed tn
sipteoo a loan of $0 from a man xvlu.
was afraid to go with him, but w as j
willing to risk n little in return f.-r a I
prnmise tn p;iv ha-k the advance ut a !
fabulous rate of interest. j
Junea'l was alive with men three j
years ago who had heard from the In
4 Jl..,--'. t
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, l " " i liil u ni l Linn- r v, li
! 1 1 ui." in I le K '.'in! it,"
e!
(V . '(', l l4.'JW & ,x X X.W. X I
t,.. th" tale lo In- '.Ml'e. She s:,i,l she
diitii'i the x.ti it : nf gold x ith, nit limit, would tay at ti." p.t while he xvent
I'he IndlaiiH hroiielit '-ii:iijies nf the j to the tiont. 'I'lo'iew.ts no rest in
lock and i'id and did well in trading ' the , imp that ingot. Men were rush
I ln-iii paity of t'olty men hiiuded ing ; pi II mi II, bent ml nothing but get
to go ha'k villi (he Indians. Hon y ! ting iir-t i nlo t lie x al ley i f tho Ixloii
was olio of tlto foi ty. Each had an ' dike and i t.iblihing claims. Mrs
out tit a year's tnss of frozen unit H.-t v v.-u ked xxith her husbaiiil with
ami fu.-. It was tn.lv spring when mi '"t a "! main, mi I before daylight
this til st batch or p'o . n . tors start" I h" x. : the ma 1 oxer the pass,
.ut oxer t'ie m, cm: tins and tlto snow : Tii.-m v.ei'o lilty long miles between
xviih us ih'ol' ai the cut i in the I ides nf lulu and lot t inc. and he w oi ked xx it li
the hills. The teilivis packed the nut sleep i t n.-t to heat the gloat
stuff tn tho tnp of Ihe Chilcoot Pass. 1 In Id which siaite.l with him. He
It, win life :;ud death every day. The j made the track in two days. He was
liSDA V, SEITKMBKIt
men were b it one by una uluug tho
el ills.
The timid turned back. The whole
out tit of supplies went down ill Lake
Dennett. The f.uly men had dwin
dled tn three Horry and two others.
The others chose to make t he ret in u
trip for more fool. Horry wanted
gold. Ho borrow ed a chunk of bacon
and pushed on. He reached Forty
Mile Creek within a mouth. There
was not a cent in his pocket. The
single chance for him was work with
those nu. re prosperous. His pay was
.Iihi a month. It was not enough,
ami, I. inking for better pay, he drifted
from mie end of the gulch to the other,
always keeping his shrewd eye upon
for a chance to li: a claim of his own.
There was u slum in th-' prospects nf
the ili.stticl and he eone!udi:d In go
hack hi the world.
'I in: slump was nut the only reason.
I In re was a young woman back in
I'lesiio w ho had promised to bo his
wife. Ilei'iy eainn frnm the hidden
world wilhoiit injury and Missl'.tlul
D. Hush kept her pledge. They were
mat l ied.
Horry hild his I i ide about the possi
bilities of Alaska. She was a gil l of
the mountains. She said she had not
man i" l him to be a drawback, but a
cimpuui'iii. It h " intended or wanted
t i go hack to the Eldorado, she pro-p.iM-d
hi ci w iih hil l. She reasoned
I nt li" Willi i .'in heller to have her at
hi- side. His pictures of the dangers
and the haid-hip. had no effect upon
her. It tin, her duty to face as much
a he was willing to face. They hnih
decided it was worth the try --success
at a hound lather than Years of com-
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.,.i:t ti.il. H"i i v di ela'l h" knew e
no: ly . i . . r he .etld find a he iuiie.
Mi". I) ri v ."-i . iue I him Hint she
would ho'x.orih :eh. him in hi".
vent ui i lie; any m.fi th. it ewr lived,
I'm I !i,-,ni..i ,. i' . in;, would he a
hi i l.il t mi hi, I, would eerl.iinlx he
m-v. and la- I e. .: the hia'ou tr.'ies ,,
: i:: liin-.; I-.-, , i .-.
Mr. and Mr.-. t'..i ! v r. ache I .luiiean
fifteen m ..itln a ; . Th. y h.i 1 hut lit
tie capi-.u!. but th.y ha i t.vn heart',
that were lull of d. ieneinal i..u. They
t , ., ii,., I.;.t I. Dxei. the head i'f
i,,tvi.. .n j. "I'll i, s; nf thedilanee
and distune, in Al.i-ka are long
w-t.-. m t le b; hind a t-:im of dogs. Tin y
-l, pt und, i a h-nt on bed-; of boughs.
Mi I'.'i v v. ." e g irinents which re
.-eml.led wry much ili.-s,. of her htis-
ba-nl. They came ever her feet like
old fashioned ,-aui!as. and did Hot
.-top at hi r kinv .-. They were ma 1"
of sc. il fin'. xil!t the fur in-ide. She
plllled elUH hoot I ,e,el' these. Hel'
skirls wire x.iy hort Her fei I wore
in in .'.' i s i t : an 1 ox. r h"r sM,u!ders
w a , a I ui- he. The li.md w as of
h' a i !. i'i. This ::l ma le a no. t heax y
ga-.u. ii'. hiii ,, heroically trudged
rJ.'iig with ler hiishand, averaging'
ii'ioilt lilt-'i u miles each day. They
le.t. hel Foilv Mil" Creek a vear ago
in -lulu-, tin i e months afier they wore
inarrie.l. Tin y called it their w c T
due trip.
Klondike w is : lill a good way nil',
aud it w.i - thoiudit at first that the
claims cloM'l' at hand would pay. One
day a liiim r came t. ai ing into the set
tlemeiit with most woinlcrl'iil tiles ,.f
the region fiP'lhi r on. liis de-erip
lion- were like I'aily tales from "Arab
ian Night ." accounts titling actually
t'ue ' ceues in : p( ctacillar plays, whore
the iiyieph "I ipieeii of fairy land bids
l ei' si, l',e- to ,. !, lip eilllliks nf gold
as hig :i , tie. or.e.i n of a hat. Pel ry
Hi, IM7
no, :.
niuong the lirst in. He staked claim
forty, above tho liscuvory, which
menus that his property was the forti
eth mm above the lirst Aladdin. It
xviei ngleed that each claim should
i i - '
.Or
Yi KoN M i s i'l; I w im i:i; li xiui.
have.iilil feet on the river - the Hoii
aua. This was the beginning of
Horry's fortune He then began to
trade for interest in other sites. He
sociired a share in three of the best on
Eldorado Creek. There is no one
living who can tell how in1!"!, this
property is worth. II has mily been
xvorked ill the cril le-t way. Yet live '
mouths netted him clmuidi hi make
him a l it h man the rest i f his life.
There arc untold ami inestimable mill
ions where the .small sum from the top
was taken.
lierry wanted t i bring hi-bride hi
him from the sell leiii. iit and ho pro
cce.le.l to built himself a house. It
was nf logs. He built it solid aud then
sawed holes for the door and windows.
This was late last summer. The ther
mometer was getting accustomed to
standing at foi l y dee i cos bchev cm
lay in and out. Mis. Horry tiudged
through the nineteen miles of hard
snow and took lu r pim-o in the hut
with her husband. There was uu llunr,
hut the snow hank. It est the couple
.eolIU a thnil-alid I'e. I to get firewood
hauled, and there washitt little chance
to use f.i. 1 sav'e to thaw out the moo-e
and caribou which the Indians
pe Idled
Thi new gold king and ipieeii made
the lil' .t . tiil.e of ' Vi ago ill Novell!
h r. They were w ing along El
dorado t'li ck. a branch of the P.oiian
.i. whi'-h empties into the Klondike
I'lout two miles above Dawson City.
Tln-ir '-ilo W".s the tifihoiio above
where t'l" first diseovc-.V hi 1 been
in i I" in this pari i. 'ilia- l egion. It
took neai ly a uioiih (..gel into paving:
I il l. bill w hen t he vein w as opt ue l it :
v. as : iiiij.i v a . I'ul. The lirst prospect I
,:a'iii.'d S'J aud.-i". to the pan. It grow !
suddenly to SJo and .-t'iii a pan, und
kept increasing. It seemed they had
tapped it mint, an I one day Me. and
Mrs. Heriy gathered Im le-s than ."'.""i J
from a single pan of earth. This tin y i
haw saved ill a rack hv itself, and the j
people w ho h-ivo listened hi the strange
stoiie-; of tile y.uing man and his I
voting wit" have no fear that they have j
been mi taken. Tiny haw h-lt no
I t" think they ale lei telling the
truth tiill'.i which se. ins prnbuble in ;
the fa.'o of sh, ks and lumps of gold
w hi. h tin y have lint yet had time t ;
sell 111 III ti'kot. Tin V II I'"' it piled !
up in their looim in the hotel in San ,
Fraiei-eo.
IV ail !ti.- Peg Wol ked lixe '
ni-'lit'i- a diis chili" Tin X thawed '
and w.i-i.e I i!,:;i .' b,. l-iiulh ' of : oil. j
This f i ii r! . l.im .- t :;n.'.t. t! of
w hi. h hi paid :-JJ.i'"o to,- hi Ip. lie
then put lilti e i miit.'i' . at work in hi :
Lev die . in g - and - I'll ted leg.,.- t" L-et ;
some coin. II" ha, ic iiiic I lixe '
claims, id I nf whi"ii are hi ilsg worked.
He ha- not th- ' b. '.'" I 1 ha l..w j
mueh h" i : v oi i'i. II" guof-i - that
iieha-athst s-l .uiiu.ilon t , r.a ly I
for him by this tit.i-. It may ho twice
or ihiee limes tiist amoiiui. Ilo ha- i
a good X',a;on load el the lh-x. stiltl
ill t!i" Mil'ely ilep o-i! xaiilt. Mr. and .
Mrs. Heriy 'have one of the best rooms '
at the hi -t hotel on the cog ,t Tl.e.V .
have leapt, I from poverty to wealth in
a si ngle t ", 'I x o lie "Ut h -. ;
Mr. I'.errx i- guino tv leave in a few ,
dax with his wile I i si,, the farm
when- he ii-eu to laise plum i and ,
peaches, lie is gning to lmy the place.
jit i for mciniirx'', t-ake. Mis. Picmv
wants it. Sh" will live there the rest :
ef In I 111". T'he pin I me.V she panned
out Shl.uo'i i to i' n a new hoiiso ;
She has If. I imiigh of the Kloiii-lke
THE LARCES. WOODEN
.xf'rri, , g.- .Vi7 v
my.
The chief fi at it re ni eh iteetut al ly of the Swedish National Exposition nl
Stockholm is the Industrial Hull, shown above, which is said to bo tho largest
i w nndeu building ill the w oi Id. It i-, constructed of wood because liimbel ing is
ihe greatest industry of Sweden and Norway. The ball is built in t'c middle
i of the exhibition grounds, ad. irncd with u largo cupola arising to ii height of
I about I00 meters. 'I'he cupola itself is surrounded by turrets resembling;
minarets, in which lilts ascend to the uppermost pUtforni, from where mi cx
j teiisixe view is tn be had of the exhibition grounds, tho cimitul uud it 3 tu-
xirous, so much renowned for their, beauty,
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L'jrri
Her new king and the nexv gold king;
of tho cnust will go hack in the spring.
There is no chance that his property
will be jumped or robbed. He has
left it in trusted hands. Berry talks
in immense figures. It is possible to
deduct half as a tribute to blinded en
thusiasm, and lie will then have enough
to rate him anion;,' tho very richest
men of the world.
Horry gives nil the credit nf his for
tune to his ruling wife. It wa". possi
ble for her in have kept him at homo
after the first trip. She told him to
return nnd she returned with him.
It was tin exhibition of rare murage,
but rare oourngo rarely fails. Tho
wedding trip lasted fifteen iiiuiiths.
Horry says it was xvorth 1,0011,11110 a
mniith. This estimate is mi.) meas
ured in cold cash -not Hciitiineut.
Chicago Times-Herald,
WORLD'S YOUNCEST CYCLIST.
A .Hetellti'l'll-MntllllH-Olil ( III. in.il Itn.V YVIn
III, l.i ii YVIli'i'l.
This is the picture of Harry W. Sibl
ing, the tiniest cyclist in the world.
Ilo is only seventeen months old and
I ides what is probably the smallest,
wheel ever built for practical riding.
His mount weighs !H pounds, has u
flame 1 inches high, and the diame
ter of the wheel is tell inches. It is
pel feet ill cpiipniolit, nil the pal'hl
Inning been ma le especially for tho
diminutive machine. Ilveu the lamp
is n midget.
Fil ler the guidance of his father or
suiue li i.nd of the family the lit 1 1 fol
low pedals along Chicago boulevards
with a solemn and iligniiied air, tak
ing no heed of tho attention he is at-
ll XllliV sl.tvtSU, Yut'NUKSr XX UEF.I.MAV.
tiaeting. Occasionally observing a
scorcher Ihch by crouching over tho
handlebars, Hurry tries to do likewise,
to tho huge delight of the spectators,
lie is learning tho pedal mount nnd pi
already making feeble tries at simple,
tricks. .
I in t. lent nf 'I rinel liroa.l.
Chauneey M. Depew tells this char
acteristic incident of the difference of
travel uii railroad iu Europe nml
America: "It was at the station nf
Hingeii on tho llhiiio. I said to thu
station master, 'Why is your train u
half hour late?' Tlni station master
said. T don't knoxv.' 'Well,' I said
to him, '1 am the President of tho
New York Central Railroad, mil if
you were a station master at Peekskil',
on our huo, I would discharge you in
twenty minutes if you did not know
why the train was n half hour la;c.'
'Veil.' said the station waster, '1 dell
you vat is do matter wit your i nil r- u.l
men oxer dele; you are always going
ch'.u'.., chook, olmok : over here ve lot
.ling- take care of Joiuselves nnd vo
li.e forever.' "
He.i Mr. Depew alls thnl, so I'm at
the handling oi trains, tafety and
.peed are concerned, the American
rail x. .'.v.- ai " far superior to those of
Europe. --Now YVrk Herald.
t..int;-lUtiiiii'e l.lei irii il v.
It i piepi -e.l to deliver electrical
energy , ptivalcUt to 4Ut ltolse powir
in the ear house at l.os Angeles, Cal.,
fiom Santa Ana, a distance of ci'.hty
miles, under a pl'i ssuro of Mil, 000 volts.
Til" power station is in Santa Ann
Canyon, twelve miles from Kciilan.ls.
I'he current will be generated at loml
xolts mid transformed up to :','!, onu.
The Santa Ana ltiver furnishes tint
pnwir. The wutr is la be directed
from the stream by a camd lluine mid
tunnel wntk along tho side of the eau
yoii to a point where suddenly it falls
'('.rough --'0'1 feet of pipe a distance of
7"i" f"ot to the water wheels. 1
PUILUINC IN THE V0!UC.
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