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saw her shaken from her hold, then
hid my eyes from the catastrophe
which felt certain would follow
How long thus remained / was I'M
able to remember, but as stood there
at the entrance to the bridge, bowed
down and trcm bling, my name was
family called out looked, but for an
instant refused to believe the evidence
OF my senses; for just below me. pale
and CHASTITY, was Alice.
1t was no illusion. She had dropped
into one of the iron cradles, which one
on either side ran upon pulleys Just be-
meath the outer edges of the bridge
floor. These are used when it is neces-
sary to tighten nuts and for the other
repairing purposes under the flooring.
The shock of her fall had loosencd the
cradle from its slight mornings, and
under the unusual EARRING it had been
driven along the gently-dcclining wire
rope to the shorcward towers.
Thus, when felt most sure that she
had met n horrible death. she was
almost miraculously waited to my feet.
AS helped her over the railing, her
unusual nerve was shown in her first
remark:
My sketch is tramplcd out of rccog.
nition," said she, with n vain attempt
at smile. ~ fear that ! shall lack
courage to make another one"
81 most certainly hope So" said t.
William Perry Brown, in Yankee
Bladc
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us from destruction until 1 myself
drew back, fairly dizzy under a tantal-
izing curiosity to lean farther over.
Alice" 1 said, II don't suppose
there is really any danger, yet should
feel safer to know that you had gone
back"
But, as we have seen, Alice had
made up her mind to stay. BY hurry.
ing over, thought could return in
half an hour. Nothing could happen
to her in that time. and yet was
vaguely uneasy. 1t was ridiculous to
suppose that the bridge was not safe.
1t had stood several months, and was
surely good for another hour. But fear
and reason do not always go together,
and l should have laughed at myself.
Alice. however, was serene as the sun
rise that had just taken place. Artistic
fervor had numbed her womanly
qualms, and as / looked back after
leaving her she was bending absorb
eddy over her work.
lives detained upon business longer
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hours elapsed before my return. AS !
reached tho summit of gentle eleva-
eion that brought the bridge into view
loud hallooing near by attracted my
attention. l glanced in that direction
nnd perceived that drove Of cattle
had just passed in between the towers
close by, and were jostling each other
IN wild confusion rs they rushed upon
the bridge.
At this time of tho year many droves
OK cattle. sheep and hogs were driven
over the route, Us ut this period rail-
road transportation was still in it's in-
fancy. Tho confused trampling of
such herds always caused the airy
structure to sway and shiver in n way
which to unaccustomcd nerves was, at
times, absolutely appalling.
became at once alarmed for the
safety of Alice, as could see her still
seated near the center of the bridge,
bending over her sketch. | started
forward to let her know of possible
danger. But, to my horror, | saw
another drove of cattle entering from
the opposite end, q condition of things
resulting from tho absence of the toll
keeper
BY this time Alice, whose attention
had been attracted by the noise and
the shaking of the bridge, became
aware of her peril. Each drove, having
already entered the narrow opposing
portals. seemed to DO beyond the con-
troll of the herders The headstrong
confusion of animals hardly driven
upon strange roads was. under these
circumstances, uncomfortable.
saw her cast an alarmed look either
way. She apparently recognized that
both avenues were hopelessly blocked.
Then. probably, the idea came to her,
that She was liable to be gored or
crushed between the opposing herds.
l myself was helpless to aid her, other
wise than by shouting; yet what advice
could give?
With nerve hardly expected, I
saw her climb over tho wire cables.
with view of clinging to them upon
the outside, in the hope of avoiding a
certain trampling to death. She sue
cceded in gaining the outer narrow
ledge of the flooring and thus hung by
hands and feet, over gulf more than
two hundred feet deep, with a roaring
river at the bottom.
Then came the crash between tho
opposing herds. The collision was
terrific, for the animals appeared to be
ungovcrnable, either through fright or
confusion. To render it yet more ap-
palling, it was accompanied with dread
full bellowings. For few moments
the struggle among the animals was
indcscribably awful; to me it was
especially SO, knowing as did that my
cousins life hung, as it were, by
hair, which a momcntary loss of CON-
posture might sever.
The bridge swaycd frightfully. Alice
might have withstood the shock, how
ever, had not some of the cattle been
dashed violently against the wires. 7
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They soy I'm foolish thus to weep,
But tears will force their way:
must transform my baby boy
INTO u lad to-day.
His aunts declare II must be done,
And even grandma, too,
Says: "Ycs. the boy has grown so tall.
lis what you ought to DO"
Ishould not cali him Johnnie" now.
Nor "Johniliin," they say;
lie Is so large. should begin
To CAL him John" straightway.
Take OF his killed petticoat, :
Put lsuiclScrbockcrs on,
Cut OH his silkcn girlish curls,
Cut on his namo to "John."
Tney say thatI should not attempt
To finish up" his hair,
but send him TO the barber shop
And have IL "shinSled" there.
I'm foolish, yes, must admit
I'm foolish, but dread
To have the barber's scissors come
Upon that little head
When he no more wears petticoats
Nor floating curls of gold,
Oil shall feel my baby boy
Has passed beyond my hold.
or course shall be proud Of him
My sturdy lad, called John"
But then, my little "Johnilxin,"
My baby, will be gone.
Martha Gion SpcrbeclS, in Good Housekec
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were still upon the river bluff. 81
want to sketch and am tired of the
hotel" This with n nod toward the
C house. great summer caravan
sary near by. 1.-The view here is
simply superb. What more would
you have?"
held my hat on my head while she
was speaking, and felt the wonderful
structure beneath our feet shivcr and
sway like some living being under the
strength of the strong wind then blow
ing.
rarity and wonder forty years ago.
Cautious people ventured upon it with
much the feeling of one who enters a
balloon for the first time. Men rode
over it, divided between desire to be
across and the fear of driving too fast,
lest they should shake the thing down.
The sober opinions of many ordinarily
intelligent people concerning it would
be laughed at by q schoolboy now.
Upon this particular morning / was
obliged to cross over early to the other
side upon business that could not be
delayed My cousin said she would go
with me as far as the tolllsceper's gate
and sketch the bridge. But on arriv-
ing there we found that the toll
keepers booth was closed and himself
absent It afterward appeared that
the man was Steering off the effects of
q nights cnrouse. Had he been at his
post as he should have been, the state
of affairs which resulted later on
and the mad agony of fear through
which we both passed would have been
nvcrted.
When Alice saw that there was no
convenient point of view at hand from
the shore she went with me upon the
bridge.
Just little further; only little
further" she kept repeating, "before
/ go back. Why, Jack, the view is too
lovely for anything out ere! don't
believe there is bit of danger"
And so she accompanied me out upon
the structure to the middle. There the
raging river bounded far beneath us,
and the mist from tho falls above rose
before us like the white smoke Of an
unseen confiagration. We leaned over
the iron railway that alone separated
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OVER THE TORRENT.
An Adventure on the Suspension
Bridge.

OU re b c n t
upon S tay in e
here until 1 get
baclS?" 1 asked,
as ] reluctantly
ar r n n ged her
easel in S t
the rail facing
the falls, an d
placed n camp
chair handy.
why not ?"
said my cousin
Allie C, seating
herself and talk
ing out S o IN c
crayons as care
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MY BABY BOY.

They soy I'm foolish thus to weep,
But tears will force their way:
must transform my baby boy
Into n lad to-day.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-12-06

'No, you need not be afraid of that,
and it is different"
IF you do shall hate Him." she said
warningly. But as it is now, like
him ever so much wish could do
something for him."
81 do not see what we can do now
but wait. But | shall make lots of
money for him and have it ready when
he comes. Yet he has never cared much
for that"
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1906. Cherubini's Faniska,
opera, produced at Vienna.
1911, Spohr's first symphony
performed, when the composer
was 81.
1872. Spohr's Das Jungste
Gericht, Oratorio, brought out at
Erfurt..
1918. Rossini's Tanc redi sung
in Venice. Most popular Italian
opera for a generation.
1918. Spohr's Faust sung with
great success. Held the stage till.
Gounod's came
1918. The metronome invented
by Gottfried Weber. Perfected
by Winkel ia 1916.
1913. Schubert's series ofsym.
phOnies begun when he was 16
years old. ...-
1914 The harmonium invented
by Eschenbach, a Bavarian.
1914. Debut of La Blanche, great
basso. A voice of wonderful
strength and compass.
1916. The Handel and Haydn
Society of Boston, the oldest
society in this country.
1916. Rossini's Barber of Sew.
lille, followed in 1929 by William
Tell.
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English Men-of-War.
From the London Times. I

lAiohi thS l<ohtiou
On Saturday, in the yard of
Messers. Laird Brothers, Birken-
head, the firm which, sixty.fOur
years ago, built the first iron ship
that was ever constructed in Eng.
land, the last of the ten first-class
battle ships the building of which
was authorized by the navel de
Tense act of 1889, was put into
the water. She is one Of seven
sisters, the others being the Royal
Sovereign, Empress of India, Re-
pulse, Resolution, Families, and
Revenge. One of these is already
in commission by about the be.
ginning of the financial year 1893
"a, and three of the remaining
four will, it is now tolerably, GER
tain, be completed by March 81,
1894, being the day ON which, I'M
der the provisions of the act, the
programme ought to be exhausted.
The other battle-ships of the cur.
rent programme are the Hood,
which is of the same size as the
seven vessels ofthe Royal SOve-
reign class, but which differs
from them in the arrangement of
armament, and the two smaller
barbette ships Centurion and Bar.
tieur. All these are now in pro-
cess of completion. The ROyel
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built or building by the Laird firm
for the British Government, and
by far the largest craft that has
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With some notifications, the sh p
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, and Is feet broad, and at a dis.
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The machinery, made by Messers.
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indicated horse power with natur-
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the estimated speed being in the
one case sixteen and the other
seventeen and a half knots. The
armament will include four I3 ~
inch sixty seventeen guns of 30
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halfton 1OO.poun1er quick.fring
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two 9.pour der field guns, and sew
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The New Theatre Bonnet.

One of the prettiests of the
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comes just in front. Here is
placed white satin ribbon ros-
settle, out of which spring two tiny
white wings. With the usual
French thought for the complex.
ion, the ties are Of black velvet
ribbon,
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Woman's Turn-doWn Collar.

The turn down collar, with cuffs
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December Ladies' Home Journal.
1t lis especially effective with the
pretty black wool dresses, and if
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RAIL ROAD TIME TABLE.
I. g. G. N. Railroad.

!. & G. N. Railroad.
DEPARTURES.
For St. Louis via Iron Noun
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For St. Louis via Iron Mountoin 600 p m
For Laredo. e:sS m
ARRIVALS.
From st. Louis via Iron Noun.
tain and M, K. and r. ..e:3s m
From ST. Louis via Iron Noun
tain and M. K. and T Io:ss D N
From Laredo /. .. s:35 m
Southern Pacific Railroad.
THROUGH EXPRESS EAST.
Leaves for New Orleans, Houston
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ARRIVES FROM THE EAST.
Arrives from New Orleans, Houston
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THROUGH WEST.
Leaves for San Francisco, Ell Paso
4.3O % m
Leaves for Eagle Pass and Mex 1870. m
Ar. from San Francisco, ElPaso I2:5s m
Ar. from Eagle Pass. .. ..4:3o m
). A, g. A. p. Railroad.
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Leaves for Galveston, Houston and
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Leaves for Corpus Christi, Rockport
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Leave for Kerrville, daily except
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CHAPTER VII,

Almost a half score of years of the
lockstep and other little matters of pris,
on discipline had left their impress on
Ogden Chalmers. There were deep
lines in his face and gray threads in his
hair when at last the state was satisfied
and had declared him again free man.
10 COLT M olation OF tho fact that no
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GREAT DATES IN MUSIC.

| bOot cpCih' pcIlOIlucu dL TiOIcuCo.
1850. The Weiugarten organ
built; eighty stops, 6666 pipes,
four manuals and pedals.
1852. Clemente's piano compo.
sitiOn begun at the age of IA. He
was a rival of Mozart.
1856. Bach's Der Tod Jesu ora.
tOriO first sung in the Cathedral
at Berlin.
1859. Haydn's first symphony
written. A new field for music
discovered.
1854 Mozart's first symphony
written in London, when he was
s years old.
It'll. Mara's debut at %. Her
last appearance was in 1919.
1774. Gluck's Iphigeni in Paris,
under the patronage of Marie An.
tOinette.
1916. Burney's "Histoiy of
Music" published in London.
-Four quartO volumes.
1776. The Gluck and Picciui
feuds at Paris. Riots between
their partisans.
1776. The first grand piano
made by Backe s, the inventor, in
London.
1881. Montezuma, Zingarelli's
first opera, sung at San Carlo,
Naples. /
1881. The overture to MOzart's
IdOmeneO creates a new field for
music.
1856 Mozart's Figaro performed
in the Imperial Theater in Vienna.
1857. Don Giovanni, Mozart's
greatest opera, performed in
Vienna.
1887. Steibelt's piano compo-
sitiOns begun. In his own time
rival of Beethoven.
1889. Mozart's Jupiter Symph.
ony first performed. In all he
wrote fOrty.nine.
1890. Haydn's great symptom.
les begun. In all he wrote over
100.
1871. Mozart's Zauberfote,
his last opera, produced and put
on the stage.
1871 Mozart's "Requiem Massn
left unfinished at the death of the
composer.
1891. Cherubini's Lodoiska
first performed in Paris. A great
success.
1895. Cimarosa's II Matrimonio
Segreto at Vienna under patron
age of Leopold II.
1893. Woelf began his brilliant
career as pianist and composer.
1893. Paganini's first appear.
ance as viOlinist at the age of 9;
died in l740.
1895. Der Kopf ohne Mann,
| Woelti's greatest opera, perform
ed in Vienna.
1892. The Conservative de
Musique established at Paris by
the republic.
1895. Catalani, soprano, made
her debut in Venice as Lodoiska.
1895. Haydn's last symphony
written and performed in Vienna.
1895. Erard's improved harps,
with stops, first patented in France
and England.
1896. Spotini's first opera,
Puntigli, performed at Rome with
great success.
1898. The Creation performed
in the presence of Haydn in Wen.
ma.
1899. The Abby Vogler brought
out "Choral SYSTEM" one of the
earliest comprehensive works on
harmony.
| 1900. Upright pianos first sug-
gested by Isaac Hawkins. Patent
ed 1907.
| 1900. Beethoven's first symph.
oDy produced in public amid i'm.
mense enthusiasm.
| 1900. Boieldieu's Caliph of
Bagdad performed at the Theater
Favart, Paris.
1900 The ophicleide invented
| by Frichot, a French musician
living in London.
1901. The Seasons, Haydn's
| lost otnrin narformad Tho lob
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