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CHAPTER /.

IN CHILDHOOD'S TENDER YEARS.
So we settled it all when the storm was done,
AS comfy as comfy could be;
And was to wait in the barn, my dears
Because was only three,
And Teddy would run to the rainbow's foot
Because he was five and man;
And that's how it all began, my dears,
Aud that's how it all began.
Big Barn Stories
"What do you think she'd do if she
caught us? We oughtn't to have it, you
know" said Maisie.
"Beat me, and lock you up in your bed
room," Dick answered, without hesitation.
"Have you got the cartridges?"
Eyes; they're in my pocket, but they are
jogging horribly. Do pin-fre cartridges
go off of their own accord?'
'sDon't know. Take the revolver, if you
are afraid, and let me carry them"
"I'm not afraid" Maisie strobe forward
swiftly, hand in her pocket and her chin
in the air. Dick followed with small pin
fire revolver.
The children had discovered that their
lives would be unendurable without pistol
practice. After much forethought and self
denial, Dick had saved shillings and 6
pence, the price of a badly-constructed Bel
gian revolver. Maisie could only con-
tribute half crown to the syndicate for the
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in after times; and vet these men VIII
are stretched lszily upon the sward do not
appear to give it the slightest attention.
They well know that it is to be looked for
regularly, and have become Injured to it as
they would be to any other condition of the
weather.
In a short time, however, the chief gives
the word of command and in a twinkling
the great dogs are unleashed and the whole
party enters the forest. This was indeed
forest that might well have inspired the OBJ
server with awe. Here were the willows,
naples, poplars, hickory beech and syca-
more known to us, mingled with palm and
cypress that we do not know. But most
wonderful of all was the luxuriance of the
various growths; q condition which was no
doubt caused by the great heat of the
earth's surface at that time and the tremen-
dous rains that fell upon it. The brilliance
of the foliage and flowers, and the heavy
aroma which they exhaled was overpower-
ing to both the sense Of sight and smell,
while the hearing was greeted by number
less crawling and creeping sounds as the
various kinds of animal life crept away
through the matted growth at the approach
Of the invaders.
STRANGE LIFE OF THE FOREST.
Well for the latter that hunting path
had heen cut through, for progress would
hav,. cen slow indeed, and there were also
many GIANTS to touch which meant to be
pois,% 4. Gigantic spiders hung from the
overha;sing branches; their devilish eyes
flashing as they were cut to earth by the
spears of the forest men. The scales of
great. bright-hued lizards scintillated in the
half light as they fed away. Birds of
brightest plumage, insects that seemed to be
lets of flame, and many other living things
met the eve; in fact, the woods fairly
syarmed with life. The ground is soft and
soggy now, and they have not gone far be-
fore they find themselves on the edge Of a
swamp over which Fifth avenue now runs.
Parting the interlacing branches a sight
meets their eyes that would make the stout
est heart beat with lear.
Knee-deep in water is a huge animal, the
like of which modern men have never seen.
It's great head is thrown back in the attitude
of listening.
1t is the wondrous mastodon of prehis-
toric ages.
So enormous is this mountain OF flesh that
it is remarkable that these people with their
rude weapons have the hardihood to attack
it, and vet this was their very purpose here.
Thew scatter in all directions, and soon can
be seen advancing toward the animal over
fallen trees, logs, etc.
In the meantime, the mastodon made no
attempt to escape, for it was dumb animal
at most, and did not realize Its danger. As
the first man reaches position close enough
be drives an arrow deep into the great Great
ure's flank. Instantly 1t wheels about,
uttering ear-piercing shrieks and roars.
Another and another arrow, together with
innumerable spears, are launched at it,
while it jumps and stamps about tearing up
the trees by the roots or drawing in great
draughts of water and throwing it in air.
THE MAMMOTH IN FLIGHT.
Suddenly an arrow driven deeper than
any heretofore, touches vulnerable spot.
and the splendid animal, maddened BY pain
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TALMAGE's FIRST CIGAR.


The Great Preachers Description of What
Happens to Nearly Every Boy.
The time had come in our boyhood which
we thought demanded of us a capacity to
smoke, writes DR.. Talmage in the Ladies'
Home Journal. By some rare good fortune
which put in our hands cents, we found
access to tobacco store. AS the lid of the
long, narrow, fragrant box opened, and for
the first time we owned cigar, our feelings
of elstion, manliness, superiority and an
tlcipation can scarcely be imagined, save by
those who have had the same sensation.
The cigar did not burn we'll; it required
an amount of suction that tasked our de-
termination to the utmost You see that
our worldly means had limited us to quail
ity that cost only cents. But we had been
taught that nothing great was accomplished
without effort, and so we puffed away. In
deed, we had heard our older brothers in
their Latin lessons say, omnia vincet labor;
which translated means, if you want to
make anything 60, you must scratch for it.
With these sentiments we passed down
the village street and out toward our coun-
try home. Our head did not feel exactly
right, and the street began to rock from
side to side, SO that it was uncertain to us
which side of the street we were on. So we
crossed over, but found ourself on the same
side that we were on before we crossed over.
Indeed, we imagined that we were on both
sides at the same time, and
several fast teams driving -. be-
tween. We met another boy who asked us
why we looked so pale, and we told MIN we
did not look pale, but that he was pale him
self. We sat down under the bridge and
began to reflect on the prospect of early
decease, and on the uncertainty of all earth
" expectations. We had determined to
smoke the cigar all up and thus get the
worth of our money, but were obliged to
throw three fourths of it away, yet knew
just where we threw it in case we felt better
the next day.
Getting home. the old people were fright
cred, and demanded that we state what kept
us so late, and what was the matter with us.
Not feeling that we were called 10 go into
particulars, and not wishing to increase our
parents apprehension that we were going to
turn out badly, we summed up the case with
the statement that we felt miserable at the
pit of the stomach. We had mustard plas-
ters administered, and careful watching for
some hours, when we fell asleep and forgot
our disappointment and humiliation in
being obliged to throw away three-fourths
of our first cigar.
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BY RUDYARD KIPLING,
Being the First Serial Story From the Pen Gifted Young
of "Soldiers Three,v Many Popular
Sketches of Arny Experiences 10 India.
ING WITH LIFE IN LONDON AND EGYPT,
rwR1rTEN THE p1sPATcHl

to play into each others hands as they pre-
pared lies tor Mrs. Jennett's use. When
Dick returned to school Maisie whispered,
Now 1 shall be all alone to take care of
myself; but" and she nodded her head
brayely, 81 can do it. You promised TO
send Amomma a grass collar. Send 1t
soOn." A week later she asked for that col.
lar by return of post and was not pleased
when she learned that it took time to make.
When at last Dick forwarded the gift she
forgot to thank him for it.
Many holidays had come and gone since
that day, and Dick had grown into lanky
hobbledehoy more than ever conscious OF
his badsclOthes Not for a moment had
Mrs. Jennett relaxed her tender care of him,
but the average canings of public school
DICK tell under punishment about three
times month-flled him with contempt
for her powers. "She doesn't hurt, he ex-
planned to Maisie, who urged him to re-
bellion, ''and she is kinder to you after she
has whacked me-" Dick shambled through
the days unkept In body and savage in soul,
as the smaller boys of the school learned to
know, for when the spirit moved him he
would hit them, eunnIngly and with science.
The same spirit made him more than once
try to tease Maisie, but the girl refused to be
made unhappy. "We are both miserable as
it is" said she. "What is the use Of trying
to make things worse? Let's find things to
do, and forget things"
The pistol was the outcome of that search.
1t could only be used on the muddiest fore
shore of the beach, far away from bathing
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In the center. He addresses the new corners
IN tone o. authority and they repeat their
story, while the villagers stand about eyeing
the man who is evidently chief of the tribe
with eager curiosity.
Great shaggy, wolflike dogs seem to
share IN the general exhilarstlon. They
gallop back and forth along the crowded
avenues, or about the dwellings of their
masters, waiting their coming with the
weapons which they well know means a
hunt or expedition of some kind out OF the
ordinary. In this case the excitement mani
tested by the people and the care that is
being taken In the preparations indicate
that the matter In hand is one of unusual
importance.
On the river bank q number of men have
unioosed from their moorings several large
"dug-outs" that seem capable Of holding at
least score of men each, and these are
quickly hlled ready Tor departure. No
movement is made, however, until the chief
tain arrives. In a few moments be comes
stalking down to the shore and boarding the
largest canoe the party pushes off to the
sound of e1ultant shouts of men and the
deep barking OF the dogs, of which each boat
contains a number.
UP THE PREHISTORIC OHIO.
The feet makes its way directly across
the stream; float down to the mouth and
then begins toilOome journey up the great
Ohio. They keep close in and assist them
selves materially by means of the reeds
which grow thickly along the banks, but
their progress is nevertheless very slow.
As they ascend the river the scent Of in
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NOISE IN THE CITIES.
A Good Chance For Some Politician Who Is
Out of a Job.

A Good Chance For Some Politician Who Is
Out of a Job.
We believe that the defect in our civiliza
tion which will appear most striking to the
social historian of future generations, re-
marks the London Truth, is our tolerance
of noise in our great cities. The Salvation
Army band, the Italian organ-grinder, the
newsboy, who bawls his chief piece of intel
ligence within halt yard Of the helpless
passer-by; the gangs of roughs who are per-
mitted, without interference from the police,
to shout and yell as they perambulate the
streets when decent people are in bed.
All these are nuisances, which q small
amount OF care might repress, and the re-
preston of which, while it would increase
the comfort of vast numbers, would leave
every important liberty of the citizen un-
curtailed. Is there no politician out of work
who will undertake to enter upon a crusade
against noise? To find London Babel of
discords, and to leave it city in which the
possessor of sensitive ears need no longer re-
gret having been born, would be an achieve
ment which would both deserve and earn
Immortality.
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south. On the lower bank of the latter and
right in the shadow of hill, probably 15O
feet in height, was a clearing in which a
large and populous village of primitive be-
ings had been located.
1t is the hour of sunrise and the tired
children of men are still slumberlng. AS
the great red-golden orb leaps above the
eastern hills. it throws a warm bright glare
down the valley, and lights up the rude
wooden habitatlons, which are of strange
and peculiar construction. Here and there
along the shore are posts from which hang
long lines of fishing nets, and in the vicin-
ity are scattered fishing spears, stone-axes,
pieces of pottery, quantity woven baskets
and many other objects of rude, but service
able workmanship.
In the eddy caused by the sharply rounded
curve of the shore are floating a little feet
of canoes of very rough pattern; mere
logs. in fact, that have been followed out by
axe or fire. Hardly has the sun risen
wholly to view when the villagers begin to
issue from their dwellings, and in short
time the scene is full Of life. Both men and
women are clothed IN the skins of beasts,
BIRDS and reptiles, and in some cases even
the bark of trees has been utilized. The
women busy themselves in the preparation
Of the morning meal, which is soon
dispatched, and the men make ready for the
DAVIS hunting or fishing expedition In search
OF food for the community.
At this iuncture a wild shout Is heard
from the dense woods on the other side of
the stream. Immediately all attention is
given that point, and shortly two men,
evidently of the same race, appear, and,
boarding a canoe, which they find close at
hand. are in few moments IN the midst Of
a group Of villagers, to whom they proceed
20 relate the details of some strange and
startling adventure in which they have
been participants.
A WILD ADVENTURE AHEAD.
That they are the bearers of interesting
tidings is. apparent from the manner In
which their information is received. Every
tew moments the crowd breaks in upon the
story with loud shouts and wild gesticula-
lions of delight. Suddenly the enclosing
circle OF men is thrust aside and man OF
commanding presence makes his appearance
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COUNTERFEITING STAMPS,
1t is a Regular Business in Germany and the
Collectors Suffer.

1t Is Regular Business in Germany and the
Collectors Suffer.
st. Louis Globe-Democratl
Stamps are not counterfeited for the pur-
pose of being used to transmit letters through
the mails, but to be sold to collectors. Ger
many is the headquarters for this business,
as in that country at least score of men
make their living by manufacturing and
selling spurious stamps. Some are sold as
unused stamps, but probably the majority
are cancelled, the inexperienced believing
that the cancellation marks are infallible
indications of genuineness.
The rarer stamps are not often counter
feited, as those who buy them generally pos
sess enough knowledge to detect ANYTHING
but the best executed imitation. The coun-
terfeits are usually printed from cheap wood
cuts, and are used to make up packages to
be sold to boys. Among collectors there
are certain men who have high reputation
as deteetors of counterfeits, and anyone who
obtains rare stamp Of the authenticity of
which he is doubtful sends it to one of them
for examination
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Vulnerable wild blossoms is waited from the
forest, for this is the age of flowers. Oc-
cssionally huge turtles, six and eight feet
across, are observed dropping from the
sunny banks into the water at the approach
of the boats, and once a number of animals,
resembling in shape and size the ass OF the
present day, having a head something like
that of dog, and long thick tail, almost
as long as the body, were seen for moment
before they plunged into the river and swan
swiftly in the direction of the other bank.
This is the Anoplotherium communes
HUGE FLYING REPTILES.
Enormous birds, with wings like bats,
stretching out 30 feet from tip to tip, hover
in the air above the river, uttering discord-
ant sounds as they hunt for prey. These
the hunters watch very closely,a as the gigan-
tic flying reptile, named by science OF the
present the Pterosaur was known to brave
the proves of men when the humor seized
it. Many other birds, some of them fully
as large as the ostrich. swan about, but
usually at a distance from the boats
The sun is high in the heavens when they
reach a point where the stream divides.
During all this time the two men who had
incited the expedition kept up continuous
run of conversation in the boat of the chief,
and are now pointing e1citedly In the dl-
rection of the point of land separating the
two rivers. This was heavily wooded and
fat for short distance back-say a half
mile-aud then rose up into lofty hills. 1t
was prehistoric Pittsburg.
The hills opposite, some portions of which
are rough, rugged crags without sign Of
yerdure, are shimmering in what seems to
be green fame OF reflected heat No log
or mist of any kind is overhead to moderate
the temperature, but away down in the
southwest heavy line OF clouds is slowly
rearing up behind an advanced guard of
fluffy white pillows of cumuli. This is the
rising storm that came every day, as certain
as that day came in that age.
And such storms as they were, too. Moth
ing that could be compared to them is known
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rushes directly at the path by which It's
tormentors had reached it, and goes LUMBER
ing along that passage with men and dogs
after it in iull cry. For some distance the
mastoGon gains on its pursuers, but the last
deadly wound begins to tell, and, although
it continues on, the hunters gradually over
haul it. At one place it plunges blindiy
against tree, one of its tremendous tusks
breaking in the contact and falling to
earth.
On, on it goes. The cries of the men and
dogs grow more exultant as they perceive
the tagging footsteps. At last it reaches the
edge OF the forest-an instant more and 1t is
breast deep in water-it faces about-lt can
go no further. Out from the depths OF the
forest come the hunters. They range them
selves along the shore, debating how to at
tack the great mammal before them. The
sight now presented is thrilling one.
The sky has clouded over. A heavy
booming, omInous roar fills the air. Awful
lightnings are flashing in the black mantle
of cloud that is rushing up the valley. One
OF the great storms of the Miocenic age Is
upon them.
DEATH OF THE CHIEF.
Then the chief leaps to the edge of the
water facing the mastodon. He poises his
big lance in air for a moment as If taking
his aim and calculating the distance, and
then hurls it from him with all the force at
his command. But an instant it is in air
and then it is buried deep in the eye OF the
monster.
Giving forth one awful cry of agony it
plunges toward the shore and before the
chieftain can recover from his effort in cast
ing his lance, he is in the grasp of the great
trunk. High into the air he is uplifted and
whirled round and round as if on the outer
edge of tremendous wheel, while his awe
stricken followers recoil from the terrible
sight with loud cries of horror. Then in q
moment the body is dashed to earth, a piece
OF lifeless, quivering clay, and the dying
animal again makes wild rush far out
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into the water and sinks out of sight to rise

into the water and sinks out of sight to rise
no more.
RAGE OF THE ELEMENTS.
Al the same instant the storm breaks and
the rain pours down in an almost i'm
penetrable sheet. With loud lamentations
the men tenderly lift the remains of their
dead chieftain and retire to the shelter OF
the forest.
The last actl
Night has fallen. The storm is at last
ended, but away off to the eastward the
glare of lightning and the distant rumble of
thunder shows the direction the tempest has
taken.
On the hill which to the people Of modern
Pittsburg to-day is known as McKee's Rocks,
is mound of earth, with fiat surface about
three feet above the surrounding level. On
this has been raised heap of logs, on top
of wish the body of the dead chief of the
tribe has been laid. At his side lie his
weapons of war and the chase, handy to
his grasp when he awakes from his sleep of
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death; also the tusk of the mastodon that
had been broken off in the chase through
the forest This was to indicate that he
had companion in his journey to the Great
Beyond.
PEACE TO HIS ASHES.
Around this funeral pyre the entire tribe
gathers, and to the sad, doleful chant of the
death song the torch is applied, and in q
short time the body of their beloved leader
is reduced to ashes. When this has been
completed the lamentations cease, and the
ceremony is concluded with solemn feast.
These were the scenes this wondrous val
ley of the Monongahela has witnessed in
long past ages.
y Axk
Long, long afterward. while digging at
the foundations of one of the piers that were
to support the great Point bridge, several
enormous teeth of the mastodon were up
turned, one of which weighed more than
nine pounds, and they wondered how they
came there. At McKee's Rocks there are to-
day remains of a historic village. Among
them have been found charred bits of hu-
man bone, indicating many funeral pyre
in ages gone, W, 6. KAUFMANNs
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An Atrican Cyyptogram. heard OF, says the
Pail Mall Budget. As vein of romance it
is inexhaustible. In "Salammbo," in the
Last Days of Pompeii," in Mr.. Rider Hag-
CARDS subterranean creations, it is the same
old spell which arrests the fancy. Relics of
the power and pride of immemorial peoples
whom the earth knows no more have an
equal charm for the antiquarian and the
man in the street.
To this, we suspect, almost equally with
more substantial attractions, is due the gen
eral interest in the work of the British South
Africa Company. Mashonaland is a vast
and rich possession; the Matabele are
fierce and interesting race of savages. and
the name of gold is now as ever talisman
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MAY vINDICATE HAGGARD,

1t may be that he will come upon such
relics among the abandoned workings as
will throw a new light upon the story Of his
predecessors, and re-write a page of the
worlds history. 1t may be even that he will
stumble into chambers of subterranean
wealth such as Mr.. Haggard has imagined,
secured with labyrinths like those Of the
Pyramids, with sliding stones, and all the
appropriate witchcraft OF an age when
human lie and human labor were of no ac-
count.
At least, before many years are out we
may expect to see the image of Queen Vic
toria stamped on the gold with which King
Solomon overlaid his ivory throne and
wreathed the cedar pillars of his Temple.