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OVER A PRECiPIcE.

Fearful Death Of citizen OF custer Coun-
ty, Idaho
BOISE, Idaho, Aug 29.-AleSauder
NsI4eod, a vcIl-lzuovu citizen of Custer
county, met terrible death in % pecu-
liar manner on Monday afternoon the
particulars Of which have just reached
here Mcleod left salmon City Gor the
mountains, following the LecsJurg
trail He rode "a horse and led a pack
mule. Something frightened the aui-
mails and they ran away. Mcleod could
not stop the maddened bruteS and
they careened along the dangerous
trail at "a tremendous pace Coming to
an abrupt turn in the trail, NcLeod's
horse stopped so suddenly that he was
pitched out OF his saddle and over the
brink of a precipice 400 feet high. His
body was crushed as fiat as a board and
every bone was broken Tom FiEue-
gan and Harry Norfolk, the men who
found the disfgured corpse, built a sig
nal fire, which is the mountain peoples
mode of communication, and men went
from Salmon City and secured the body.
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great singer appeared, conducted by the
host himself her beautiful face
wreathed in smiles. Nearly all the
women crowded about her with cries of
graduation and welcome Amid the
genial clamor kathleen ILennaird took
the chance of saying to her lover;
you have been doing another wild
thing"
What do you mean?" he queried, with
infantile innocence.
''Oh, last night at the Gramercoy
club. You'll not deny, surely, that You
blacllened your face and went In at des-
sert to the large dinner Harry Madison
was giving, as Il negro banjo player,
and that nobody found you out until a
wisp Of your light hair happened to
show under your wig"
That's really delicious.'' AIonzo said.
My face was no more blaclzened than
yours is now-and Heaven knows there
are roses and lilies enough there! I'd
promised to be at the dinner, and
reached the Gramercey shamefu1Iy late
! So sent from the club for my banjo
I (Which, by the way, detest as an in
struInent and play horribly merely for
/ the purpose
! Kathleen shook her head in q depIor-
/ ing way as he paused. For the pur-
| pose of doing something horribly odd, ~
/ she said. Confess it. You may as
we'll"
''But the blacl,ening OF the face is all
/ nonsense. Johnny Chadwick got me q
/ black mask from one Of the walters.
1 dare say it had been worn at some serv-
ants mask bah, and happened TO be
I lying about somewhere in the club. 1
1 put it on after sending for the banjo.
| It was all Johnny's idea-not the banjo.
I but the mask. merely wanted to go
in to the dinner with little music, as
! I'd got there so scandsiously late Every
thing else that you've heard is the sheer
est rubbish"
kathleen laid slim, gloved hand on
his arm ''Wel1, yveli,' she faItered,
ALLOW that you were malignod that
| time AlOn1o. But your taking OF
your coat q lew minutes before
mamma and I appeared Oh, I
heard OF it, never mind who told
I sae- And these dreadful escapadas of
yours get into the newspapers They
| must stop-Out Of respect to me, Alonzo-
{ they should stopl You cheaper yourself
] by indulging in theml No one likes you
( the better for them. and things are said
behind your back which you don't rea-
/ hzo, because you trust your friends 50
implicitly
Il don't trust many friends, Kath-
leen," came the lOw-voieed answer
But trust sou, and you're the only
. real friend have in the world Now
Z believe me, there shaT be a rsforrna-
/ ton From this moment I promise one.
| When yoa marry me next April you
I shah marry q man who hasn't Kicked tlp
his heels Tor weeks
] The music burst forth again as AIouzo
finished speaking. When the reveEers
were invited 20 reenter the two front
| dreyving-rOosnss chairs had been an
ranged Cor a cStiHon- Philip IesiBg-
I ton led the dance with Mrs. Van SAINT
/ VooEds II Ai9szo's request Through
the Htss figures the participants i'm
! 9slned that it was only an inpromptu
dance But suddenly they were called
] 1Po1 % take IL more seriously, since b.
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CHAPTER IL
Mr.. Lispenurd sank into one of the
rich chairs. It Glanced to be q Vene-
tian piece OF furniture, and his gaunt
frame-and elderly visage, both so clear
ly touched by modern meanings, made
an odd contrast with the velvet and
carvings Of this archaic seat.
''YOu said-horribls uews-Uncie
Crawford"
Alonzo dragged forth the words while
his gaze wandered among the tumultu-
Gus beauties of the room, though il
possibly did so without seeing one OF
them.
Yes, my boy. The firm has gone.
It's been Chichester's work. No one
knew. I think some woman has been
dragging him into the whole horror
middle-aged man like thatl Hes drawn
enormous sums and gambled them
away. It must have been going on for
a good while. You see, was careless
about the books. ! left all that TO
Chichester, my confidence in him was
so perfect. I might, OF course, have
suspected. knew that he lived high,
belonged to fashionable clubs, enter
tanned troops Of friends But there was
SO much money for his share that /
never dreamed he could even spend his
own income from year to year. And all
the while he was Plunging into your
money into your sisters, into mine
There's one Wall street operation alone
by which ne must have lost two mill
lions. And he's been so Internally
crafty with it all Even in dying he
showed a certain devilish shrewdness,
waiting till the very last enjoyable mo-
ment before he killed himself"
KILLED himself echoed AlOnzo.
Haven't you seen the evening
p0pers2" replied his uncle. ''Chiches-
ter was found in his bedroom at two
O'Clock to-day. shot through the head,
and evidently by his own hand"
There was now a silence, during
which AlonzO stole up to his Uncle's
side and began to stroke that gentle
mans grayish locks and pat one of his
shoulders with affectionats fervor.
Uncle Crawford" he said, you
mustn't let this awful thing affect You
too much Now that / look at you
closer I see inst how jaded and upset
you are. I'm so sorry for yOu-indeed,
indeed I am"
Crawford EisPenard's eyes SLED with
tears He was called by the world
rather frigid old ceEbate. and he was
known to live a lonely and ioreless life
Perhaps in thirty years he had never
really yvept until now
You're sorry for me, Lone" be muir
INJURED. And you don't think of your
self? you don't think"
''Oh, yes, I do" the nephew broke in
He went and touched a bell, coming
back to his uncle's side, with a faint,
fiuttersd laugh leaving his lips That
is, Pm beginning to think OF myself
But it's all 50 strange 50 daziEg, don't
you known
when his 1beIl-touch was answered he
said a few words to the servant, who pres
emily brought q goblet OF champagne,
which he insisted on having his uncle sip.
Then, when Mr. LfspeauFd had evident
Iy felt the aiding effects Of the stimu-
liant, Afonzo went Downstairs with him
to his carriage II must turn up
among my guests" he explained, ''oa
thAy'u think this one OF my rgnloest
capsrs, and I'm always cutting up CO.
pers. at least rybodY tells me Sd
Thers-go hSuas. and IN join you Be-
tween now aud ten O'Clock. surely Don't
worry too much Things EasE not be
so frightfuIly bad for as after ans
no 81 Coffin 3D.
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MAKINa sMALL eRlDaEs.

iron Rods Far Cheaper Than the ProvsrJ-
iat Timber sticks.
Our farmers no longer split "a COW IS
tail and insert salt and pepper as "a sure
cure for the hollow-horn. Few go 90
the moon to make soap, or plant Pota-
toes in the dark of the moon. The
country school director does not deem
it economy to get the lowest priced
teacher as in years gone byi and the
highway commissioner no longer thinks
that any kind of soft rock is good
enough for bridge work; but why does
he still persist in placing two long
sticks of pine timber from abutmeut TO
Hbutment in the bridges that span our
small streams? Six to eight years is
the length of time a sappy pine stick
viii last in q bridge, and as the only
use TO which the long sticks can be
Put is to hold the truss braces from
spreading, the same can be done
cheaper and better with iron rods
The accom- anyiug sketches are OF the
old style ana the style nOyv-in use by
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of each sheet at a right angle, making
a wing an inch high. Serve the right
side ia the same way, only have it two
inches high and turn back half of it to
form an inverted V. After dipping
these in crude petroleum the first
course is begun at the right lower
corner of the roof Each sheet is
Tapped half an inch over the one below
it and firmly held in place by two
shinEic nails driven. not at the sides or
ends, but in the center of the sheet and
two inches apart the nail heads being
puttied over. This gives the expansion
and contraction OF the metal no chance
to cut off the nails nor make holes in
the roof, as It would do were they wide
apart. No snow nor rain can enter,
and it VIII last indefinitely if kept
painted or oiled with crude oil This
roof is recon mended Tor all farm build
ings-
Close behind the barn the stacks OF
hay and corn fodder are built out of
sight from the house When the
provender in the barn Is exhausted a
stack is opened and entirely pitched
under cover, so no part of IL is dam
aged by storms II d stack should be
too large to admit of this the portion
left out is fed first, A perspective
view of this barn is seen in Fig. j and
a cross section of the finished roof is
shown in Fig. as. HoIlister, in Amer
lean Agriculturist
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ing scream OF mirth- She forgavs
him, just as everybody else did-just as
he had been forgiven last week at very
select cotiliOn fOr pretending drunken
ness and tuEnbIing fat on his back in
the middle OF the ballroom And now,
while he was re-clOthing himself, a
number OF people pressed about him,
principally ladies' inquiriEg what his
last madness had meant, and prepared
to roar with laughter at it before they
had heard it explained
But a little group remained apart,
and in this was young man who de
tested him, though glad enough to ap-
pear at his festal summons.
'Ohi it's only some new eaddish
prank" said the young man Hes al
ways behaving like that"
But he wakes people uP So" said a
girl who was not n belle and TO whom
he had been kind
You wouldn't say that Of me-" re-
piled the young man, If / were 20
carry on so outragepusly."
The girl gave POut and toss OF the
head You're not AlonzO Lispenards -
she retorted.
you mean that haven't got two
millions OF dollars whispered the
young man, in her ear. and that
can't throw away fifty thousand every
year Of my life IN dinners and dances
and frOHcs for my friends"
The girl chose TO ignore this burst of
bitterness. Look" she said. There's
Miss Kennaird, just coming in with her
mother How sober he gets as he goes
to greet her They say she doesn't ap-
prove of his IarlEing style"
''Wel1 she may not. How beautiful
she isl"
'sDo You think SOP" shrugged the
girI she's too tail for my taste, and
],
Ice"
blue ice-or green, il you please
with a blaze OF sun on it. BESIDES, the
long curls Of their black lashes help
them so. And she has q face as deli
cate as an orchid"
'How can she wear that black velvet
trimmed with sables," pursued the
girl. They say these Kennairds
haven't but four thousand a year to
( live on"
''Ohl make it FIVE"
Nobody really knows just how
much. But still they're poor. Do you
suppose it's possible thnt'-aud here the
girl lowered her voice, which a sweet
clash of hidden violins would in any
I case have drowned an instant later.
Kathleen Kennaird smiled right and
left, but it seemed to certain Observers
that her manner toward her accepted
sutton was peculiarly cold. This little
afternoon tea, as he chose to call it,
was given in her honor. Not more than
thirty people had been asked, and these
were the ones that Kathleen had spe-
cially desired. Tea, it is true, was
| served in the most exquisite porcelain
cups; but this potion proved, as it We're,
only an excuse for other refreshments
Almost before they knew it the guests
found themselves seated at little tables,
eating terrapin and slipping frozen
champagne. Then, in little while, a
soprano voice was heard, singing from
Tristan. That's Lii Lehman, or I'll
be shot, " presently muttcred Lexington,
who knew nothing of this surprise, so
characteristic Of AIonzo; and soon the
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"a sABY-ONLY."

We passed II In . busy street.
Where hurried footsteps come and GO
4 long white s9rcamcr which the wind
Caught UP and waited 20 and Eroi
Ny friend looked back then Lightly said;
o 'Tis only some ones baby, dead"
g a baby, onIyi' At the words,
Swift from the city's ccGseles5 din
NY thoughts stole TO that saddencd home
And 10 the silent guest within:
The little child then passing BY
Thought twas DO pity thus TO die
seemed 10 see the darkened ROOM
The little waXen form so lair,
The little dimpicd hands 80 still
The soft, Right rings Of sunny hair
The tender mouth that met the kiss
OF Death With such q smile Of blissi
Twas only ''sorne ones baby but
An, mel tho empty, empty nesti
All. mel the longing arms outstretchcdt
All mel the lonely mothers breast,
The faded hopes, the Joys now ned
Because Of some ones baby deadl"
For TO s'sone ono knew the world
Was brighter for the baby's birth;
And for stsoulc one" the light went ont
When fed the stainless soul from earth
Yet these, the careless words, he said;
81 It's only some ones baby, dead"
But 70 that baby soul Itself,
II ffsome one" knew what bliss Is given,
To take but one sweet sip OF earth
Then fan asleep 70 wake In Heaven:
To come and go, like summer breath
And smile alike on Life and Dsathi
Adelaide Preston. IN Good Housekeeping.
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clasPed both hands together with
4ervor that in almost anyone else would
have been solely comic. And kathleen
Kennaird is one Of the lastI'
Il wonder" said Lexington, dryIy,
and yet with polite air OF venture,
whether You have any feelings of this
sort about Mrs KcRnaird, her mother"
Alonzo broke into high and hearty
q laugh. shes yvorIdlinsss itself!'' he
cried ''Who doubts it? But she's a verE
picturesque figure. like to look At
her. she sweeps through life so. Her
chief idea Of being happy Is to don
new gown and meet people She's
tremendous rs an incarnate idea.
should like to paint her as that. If I
only could! It would be n great picture.
Her eyeglasses would be half lifted. and
hcr-head would be . good deal thrown
back, and there would be pillows Of
silk OF satin below her waist, and she
would have her arms and neck barred,
for they're really superb, and-wen,
Fletcher" These two last words were
addressed to his valet, who had just ap-
Pcnred ut the open doorway. CHESTS
had begun to arrive, and AIonzO hast
ene2 downstairs to receive them Al
most the first greeting nc received was
ono from his sister Mrs. Van SantvooFd.
''Loaz," she said, what on earth do
you mean by turning up in that scan
dalous coat?"
1T isn't seandalous, Kitty; it's repre-
sentative" He appealed, in his least re
poseful style, TO n great lady Of fashion
who stood at his sisters side. I'm is
suing ar ediet," he went on, with that
Lind Of infiszzu4, a,zld hsFahesI-ie louuacity
by which he had contrived to shocI. and
yet aInuse many associates, Il intend
saying; Let there he velvet coats at at
ternoon teaa,' and there shall be velvet
coats
The lady, a handsome brunette,
grRnde dame to her fnger-tips, gave an
obstinate shake of her neat-bonneted
head.
NO" she declared. Il, for one, shan.t
agree 70 any Ftlle SO roWdy." s.Rowdyii
shouted Alonzo- He caught one Of her
giovcd hands and peered into her face
with his eyes quizzicaliy tyyinl1ling.
Lily, you're a. horrid thing, and III
never be friends with You any more.
You don't love nae, Lily, you know you
.dont!"
It was the madness of Stiffness and
1rnPertinence as well. Lillian POUCH
1zecPsie was one OF the leaders of the
most exclusive set. People rarely ad-
dressed her except in terms Of the
atrictest courtesy, and her social nod
was potent enough to unbar for a strusr-
gler the gilded AID 6ligreed gates OF
the -Four Hundred.
Mrs Van SantvOord, who rezered Mrs..
PoughieeePsis's position, drew back
with a gasp %; oh, Alonzo, how can
yoR2H
Mrs POughleepsie remained speech
less. with hardening face. But Aionzo
didn't mind that You see" he ez-
claimed, appealing TO his sister, Lily
doesn't love me, and I'm going to re
ceivs everybody else In my silirt-sieeves-
He took OF the velvet coat and bundled
It under one arm This he con
tinued. rs 20 be my dsspaIriEsy posture
for tie rest oE the afternoon He
struck so ridiculous an attitude that
EEEs. Ppughissepsts bust tnte an ANVIL
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In April, my boy. You remember,
Phil, how hated the thought of mar
riage till I met her. Then some
thing changed I felt like a trans
formation scene in a pantomime. That
big solid lump of prejudice in me gave
a sort of q click, and there it was, a
church altar, with a Clergyman or two
behind it, looking round to see whom
they could marry. And do you know
why that lovely girl has SO captured
me? Because I believe she's without
one speclS of sham. It isn't her beauty
or her brains or her power of charming
You, for she's got all three. It's her
mighty genuineness, Phil She often
seems to me, beside the women meet
her with, like live flower that's lost its
way among basket of false ones. Her
petals (the darling) were not purchased
at 4 fancy shop. They came fresh from
the loom of Nature, who spun them with
her heart in her work. I find there's
50 much in that, by the bye. Natures
made such crowds and crowds of rs
while not caring whether Brown was to
be poet or a politician, Jones a deacon
or dentist. It's only when she goes to
work in dead earnest that she turns out
her magnificent men and women" He
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PYrHIAN PRiZEs.
sranaas takes the mig Prizes at ti4o EzuIzhts
Of UrthEza Drills

Kansas Takes ths mtg Prizes at tizo EZ1ishts
OF FythIza Drills
EArsAs CITY, 40, Aug 29-Camp
Shaw of the uniform rank Of the
Knights of FgtIlias was broken Saturday
morning in a most fitting manner
Promptly at 10 o'clock the U United States
army Officers who had charge OF the
inspection o. the competitive drills de-
livered their formal report to Maj--Geu-
Carnahan and the awards of prizes We're
made as follows:
First prize Gi,5-0-2fy stic division NO -
Gfrard. Kan Capt n W. HuHsg.t
second prize 81. so GulaZy division No So
E'itIsburr- kan Capt r. z l. IN MlnEte-
Third prize 81 ,COl-E2rie division no rs, Erie
kan Capt o. C. Fletcher
Fourth priae1 tsl9-eSev- Albany division No
Fff1h prize, Bl0-Lou- svlle division No .,
Louisville, Ky, Capt J. W. Ileeetuz-
Sixth prize, S5l0-FL0ncer division No D. Kit
Ls Rock Ark Capt b ". Bartlett
Seventh prize ssC0-JGhn Barr Glenn divts-
iou 30 Dc, Eau Claire. wis, Capt John
EsighJn prize, ssoO-Red Cross division no. q,
ST Louis, Capt j f. Shiclz.
Ninth Prize E-0J-Terre Euute division No. 81
Terre Hauie, lad Capt A. O. DuddIestou-
Tenth prize. 500 MANY division no. Is, In
diuuapoI.s, Ina. Capt C. j. Many.
Eleventh place-iuCiaul division no. So, In
diaunpoils, ND. Capt Ed j. StotL
gzIfth-EoElu division no 27- LoEausp port
Ind Capt George S. Shueder.
E7hirteeuth- Excelsior division No So Indian
apoiis, Ind, Capt H c. Castor
EULEEDeul l--luEA A-AB AIhl1LlI
bash, mo, Capt H O. Petit
F5fteeuth-G Grand Rapids division no. @,
Grand RAPIDS Mich, Capt James BIyue-
xtecuth-Abbott division No - Fan River.
Mass Capt David Fuller.
SeVcuteCuth-SpT iuEdeld division. Spring
I beld, SIC, Capt j. T.. CoclsreI
E1iFntsCnth-O EIethorpe d. vision 40. g. Bruins
ClS Ca, Capt Tobias Newalu.
Mystic division, of Girard, Kan, the
winner of the first prize, is practically
new division, having been reorgan-
lied In June last with Capt. NJ. vs.. Bus
sell in command; lieutenant, i. II.
Brown; sir knight herald, II. O.. Hcrt-
ner; right guide, G. r. Cummings, and
left guide, o. W. Crawford The division
was first organized in 1883 and took
seven prizes IN competitive drills held in
Kansas. The division was reorEauized
in June and has only engaged in one
competitive drill since that time that
being an exhibition driu against Galaxy
division No. SIS, OF Pittsburg, which won
second prize, and was only beaten out
by one point
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BAD FOR LIZZIE BORDEN.

servant Bridget sullivan Describes the
Scenes Ia the House OF Death.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug. 29.-The
principal witness in the Borden
case Saturday afternoon was Bridget
Sullivan, the family servant. She
told in detail all the doiugs of the
household on August and up to the
murder even to the taking in OF the
milk can in the morning and Mr.. Bor-
den's coming to breakfast without any
collar. The evidence was very dam
aging to the defendant.
John Cunningham, a uewsdealer, gave
unimportant testimony and Reporters
Manning and stephens, of two local pa
pers, testified that they could find no
footprints in the grass, about the house
or ON the fence.
Counsel for the defense was stirred
up last night over the story That Ma
iron Regain had heard a quarrel be
tween the Borden sisters and Att0r-
uey Jennings, at the solicitation OF
the reporter who wrote the article,
seconded by "a number OF prominent cit
liens, drew up d form of affidavit,
denying the statements attributed
to her and submitted it to Mrs.
Regau for her signature She refused
to sign it unless the marshal said so,
and the marshal positively refused to
allow her to do anything of the kind
unless she was placed ON the witness
stand
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FARM AND GARDEN.
A BEGiNNER's Sam.
ats ConstructI1n Required Oaly rv
TEousand Feet or Boards

Its CONSTRUCTION Required Oaiy Two
THuusaud Feet or Boards
Thousands begin farming Tor them
selves every year ON "a few acres. in
creasing their area by purchases as
they lay up money Frequently the
land has no buildings, and, after erect
ing a modest cottage. there IS little left
to build a barn or other shelter fox
stock and implements. It does not pay
to leave these things 20 the mercy of
the elements Eude, unsightly st-uct-
ures dctract from the appearance of a
home, if not from its intrinsic value.
BY the properly directed expenditure OF
a like amount OF money and muscle
neat barn may be built, which, with
additions as needed, VIII prove service
able for years, until largers better
buildings can be afforded
A beginner, with whom j ana ac-
quainted, built, with his own hands, a
small barn on sidehill, requiring only
2, 600 feet Of boards. The farming TIM
bers were cut in the woods and hewed
on one or more sides, as required
Some of the partitions, standards and
joists are made of slabs bought at a
neighboring sawmil at two dollars per
cord. Fifty dollars covered the entire
money cost of the completed building,
although, of course. the labor was not
estimated with the material Ii is
twenty feet square with ten foot posts,
and the roof projecting two feet on all
sides gives it "a cumforta bic, permanent
appearance. The basement Is for stab
ling and the upper part for hay,
wagons and tools. The hay is thrown
in at the top doors, and the mower and
wagons run in on board tracks at the
open door This passage is only six
feet wide. The tracks guide the wheels