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lean and old, and my merry fellows
made short work with him, and he lay
in the moonlight as they left him, pale
and bloody across his threshold, all the
evening.
Then we shut the gates 10 keep the
screaming women in and lit stack or
two to give us light and 30 fell on. But
why should try to tell you all we did
that evening? Why should I try to
picture the wild, fierce hell OF lust and
cruelty and rapine that ragged within
those grassy shambles under the mild
white Starlight And If I aad hundred
pens could not tell each incident as it
to listen. If I had a hundred pens !
could scarce recount how, one by one,
we first dragged the men from their
hiding places, and how some OF them
fought desperately, while some sub
mitted sullenly, but whichever way it
was we killed them. Or how the women
screamed and struggled in the arms OF
tho sea rovers and cried for mercy and
tore the yellow boards Of their new,
grimly laughing masters, and were sent
down to hades, the old and lean ones,
and how the others-the pale, fair girls,
with fear-bright eyes and long, loose
hair and hare feet, all in their torn, di-
shevelled night gear-were bound hand
and foot and lashed to the pillars in the
dining-hall, or how the little ones
moaned and walled, and hid behind the
heaps Of dead and strovc to wake with
timid petulance those who would never
wake again, Or often, with their cher
ished playthings locked tightly within
their arms, crept into wondrous corners
and hid from us-ask me no smaller de-
tail, for could surfeit you with horrors
until compassion dimmed your eyes and
stayed your reading!
For an hour nc place was full OF the
cultural shouts OF men and the shrieks
Of women, the scream Of the maiden and
cry CT the mother losing her little one:
the vail of the captive and the moan OF
the dying down in the shadows; and
men ran here and there struggling with
white -shroudcd forms, or dragging by
heel or ha:r strange shapes into dusky
corners, and the fires blazcd and tho
sparks fell-and then, presently. be-
cause there were no more to Kill, the
noise died down until presently silence
relgned, broken only by the laughing
and shouting of my men. and thus we
gathered in the hall, rclit the lamps,
brushed of the remnants OF the earlier
evening supper and laid oat for our
selves all tho best we cc9ld put our
hands on. And fierce, wild reVelry my
fellows made of it Tbe hot blood of
rapire an6 pilaGe had got into their
veins and they heated it higher with the
strong, abundant drink from that Brit
ish chieftain's hiding places, until they
were more like tawny, handsome band
OF furies than mortal men-gods! !
think I never brought such crew OF
devils TO that shore before. They made
the rafters ring with their Wild pagan
hymns; they danced and shouted and
ate and drank, while the pale captive
girls stood budding in the shadows or
waited trembling Oh them, and the wine
4nd ale WelI etreapipG down the a0or
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,oticinp TINT they fell to ashes as !

noticing that they fell to ashes as /
passed-and In another moment, IN
moment of wildly mingled FEELINGS. i!
was out upon the burning parapet, and
there upon her knees. leaning against
the outer walls, and seeming asleep was
the white maid whose fair face had
haunted my forest path and shone upon
me through tho drift and reck OF ten
years storm and battle.
Down I went upon one knee and,
deep, strong love and gentle compunc-
ton yelling up In my heart, took the
maiden's head upon my shoulder and
her hand in mine. and in minute she
gave a great, shiverlng gasp Of pain and
fear and opened her eyes and looked up.
By sweet Skulla herself, it was nearly
worth the interval Of pain to ste the
glad light Of pleasure that was lit with
in them as they met mine, to feel the
warm clasp OF her hand and to
know unspoken that our hearts
were one and our troth unbroken. 1t
was happy moment, but all too brief,
for I knelt and framed the hot words
Of love and courage AMI drew her
sweet, yielding form to my bosom,
and rained my long garnered kisses on
her dear, pale face. I felt the oaken
platform whereon we stood heave and
tremble, and, with q gasp, l looked
about and saw the cruel flame had
gnawed through every joist upon that
turret, and the whole platform was
cracking and blistered and hanging By
a thread, while down below, hungry
for it's fall, was the great roaring,
seething funeral Of the inner tower.
aGunna!" I cried, my own2 there
is but one way. Look! look! The
stairs are gone, the platform rocks, and
down below the courtyard is cruel hard.
Gunna, my lifei come-quick!-there-
so-and hide your face deep down to
m ' wolf skin folds!" And as che fled to
ME and leapt into my arms hid her
face in my cloak and stepped off on to
the narrow rim of cracked and ragged
parapet just as the platform fell into
ruins and went laundering down into
the yellow and crimson caldron under
meath.
For one grim minute I poised myself
upon that narrow, giddy shell of black
ened wall with the bowling flame roar
ing behind and the dark vortex Of the
sea laundering in dim dreadfulness two
hundred feet below upon the other, then
wrapping my sweet burden still clo- or
to my bosom and muttering between my
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CHAPTER VI.

It was just at dusk that evening: the
western sky was streaked with crimson
and black; the white mist was lying in
thin wreaths along the purple river
meadows; the landrails were croaking
In the fern and the night jars churning
on the oak; the little stars were twink
ling In the smooth heaven, and the pale
crescent Of the moon was adip upon the
sea when thin curl Of smoke rose from
the thatch Of hut in the fishing village
below the burgh. A minute after q
bright tongue Of flame shot up and a
cry OF alarm rose from inside the stock
AIDES. Surely some careless housewife
had let an ember fall among the thatch,
they thought, and the great oak gates
creaked upon their hinges and out to
the extinguishing rushed in their loose
sheepskin cloaks two luckless herds:
Az they paesed the portal an arrow sped
across the grass, and, plunging deep
into the chest Of the foremost, he
bounded half his height into the air,
then fell with heavy thud into the
fern and went rolling and kicking and
screaming down the hillside. At the
same minute an unseen hand from be-
hind, with single sweep Of a good
Norway ak, severed the head OF ti~e
other from his body as he stood glaring
after his comrade. and now the starlight
~as twinkling on the weapons and mail
of hurrying Norsemen, and while the
fierce cry of "Odin! Udin!" went up to
the black sky, and the dusky crows,
startled from their roosting places,
tapped dismally about between the
stars, long, low wall Of fear and terror
rose from the hundred corners Of that
doomed citadel.
1 And the game was ours from the be-
ginning. Numerous and strong, fierce
and bloodthire,y as bloodhounds on the
trail, we raced for the open gates, and
carried the first one and swept round
the way between under the unguarded
palisades, where q dozen men might
have held us at bay, and SO to the inner
portal, where we stabbed q brave old
crone who tried to shut it in our face,
and there the place had fallen-the
wolves were in the fold.
And wild work we made Of it! AS we
gained the entrance the English chief
tain rushed out Of the mid-door OF his
hall in his nightwear (for he had al
ready gone to bed), a naked sword In
his hand and by his side fair young
boy with curly yellow hair. By Thor, l
WOULD not have been the wild fowl on
lhe neighboring marsh when that comely
lad was hungry. He shot 30 close and
straight, although the light was poor for
shooting. that had there been dozen
such it would have gone badly indeed
with us. At the first shaft he pierced
Kolbiorn through the wrist, and the sec
ond wounded stalwart Sveinke in the
thigh; then he shot one in the throat
and another in the stomach, and kept
rs all at bay until his last arrow was
spent, and then died far down on the
haft of bloody Dagson's bear spear like
the fierce young cub he was. AS for
the other - although he was stout
enough Of heart, yet his limbs were
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tus and one for outdoor or
greenhouse culture. For sprouting
seeds it is necessary to have
some scrt of an apparatus in which
all of the different factors governing
germination, such as light, tempera-
ture and moisture, can be controlled,
and this requires artificial heat which
can be readily regulated. Various
forms of equipments are used; one OF
them consists of square chamber
made with double walls which are
filed with water to preserve low
temperature. The lower part OF the
chamber is made of sheet iron and
contains Bunsen gas burner con-
nected with an automatic heat regu.
lator. which is used to control the
temperature. The upper chamber is
provided with holes for the insertion
of thermometers and for the admission
of oxygen. The chamber is provided
with shelves made of galvanized iron,
and on these shelves are copper pans,
in which the seed may be germinated
in various ways. Before the seed is
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Time to time to permit fresh air to
reach the seed. With this apparatus,
AMI o strong magnifying glass to aid
in separating the impurities from the
sample to be tested, any farmer cen
ascertain the practical value OF his
seed. The sample should be a fair
average of the whole and it should be
weighed AMI the seeds counted 50 that
the proper percentage OF purity and
terminating value con be asccrtalned
accurately.
For cleaning large quantities Of seed
from which to secure test sample a
seed cleaning machine is required.
One used in an experimental station IS
like o tanning mill. This machine not
only separates tine chat and dirt from
the seed, but divides the clean seed
into light and heavy seeds.
All that this machine does can be
done by a farmer with a number OF
sieves. varying in the number oi
mesher to the inch. With number
Of such sieves the seels caa bs cleaned
and separated quickly anl cheaplE.
Chicago Record.
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4 PM With Rabbits Ears and Paws,

4 Newfoundland dog, owned b.
Alvin Case, of Montgomery Heights
BelleviIle, gave birth on Sunday to !
litter OF ten pups, one of which was 81
peculiar that its mother killed it with
out delay. 1t has two front feet
shaped like the hand of IL human being
and devoid of claws. In tho rear ar
one rabbits foot and two dogs paws
The pups head strongly resembles
rabbits, and has long ears like radl
bit, and the peculiar split oose ce thoa
animals. The monstrosity has beeI
reserved i'll spirits, and Will be place
"A czh!bit;on.-New York Mercury
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,Jutficial Press Censor.

Judge Ong suspended the trial at Cleve
land. Ohio ofsBushrod Kelch, charged Will:
wife murder. because OF complaint ny the
prisoners attorney that reports OF the trial
published by the newspapers were Prejuol.
dial TO the interssts of his client ''The time
Is at hand said Judge Ong,r when newspa-.
pers must discontinue these practices.
propose to ascertain what power lies III the
sourt, not inherent, but statutory. Twill en-
deavor to hold consultation with the other
Judges at once and ascertain what should be
done. II they disagree with ne, will ac'
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proud owner of the longest mustacht
in the world has ever been printed.
Better for the Boys.

The Judge of the Maysville (ky.)
Police Court summoned into court the
parents of.some incorrigible boys, and
offered them the option of giving Their
sons sound whipping or having them
sent to the workhouse for thirty daEs1
They chose the former, and officers
stood by to see that the paddle wad
we'll applied.
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:. The Heavy Butter Plate"

One of the tricks OF the groccrS'
trade is "the heavy butter plate"
Some grocers have habit of putting
the wooden plates npon which they
sell their butter away in damp place
to absorb moisture and gain in weight.
In this way the grocer gains about M
ounce to the pound, which, III .
months sales, reaches pretty total
Chicago Record.
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CONVICTED BY THE RAYS.
Professor Roentgen's Discovery Provei
Malpractice Against Surgeon.

Professor Roentgen's Discovery Provei
Malpractice Against Surgeon.
The Yale Medical Journal contains an inter
esting picture made by cathode rays OF
badly broken arm, which had been improp-
srly set The picture was made by Profess
sor Roentgen on January rs OF his laboratory
in Hamburg, DR.. q. G. Child, formerly OF
the Yale Medical School. secured the plate,
and sent it to DR.. Carmalt, OF the Medical
School. The photograph is very dim. but ac-
cording to msdical experts would convict
the surgeon Of malpractice.
Its success has led the physicians OF the
Medical School to decide to try cathode rays
on broken arm which has been giving some
local surgeons great deal Of trouble. The
article accompanying the picture by Profes-
sor Roentgen suggests that the day may, be
near when every surgeon Will nave 10 pno'
tocraph his setting of broken bones in order
to be certain that he is not guilty OF NAL
practice.
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TorprdO Boats for Japan.

Japan is going to build at once I
less than ninety torpedo boats. Gre
Britain, on the other hand, has d
cided to build no more of them, b
to substitute for them what are know
as torpedo boat aestroyers. These a
larger than torpedo boats, and carl
half dozen quick-iring guns apiec
in addition to torpedoes and torpet
tubes.
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Man Whom All Delighted to Honor.

Professor Theodore Mommsen, the emil
nent German jurist and historian, has been
decorated by the Kaiser with the Order Of
the Crown Of the first class. The veteran
scholar has had honors showered upon him
by educational institutions and royalty from
all lands. He will soon celebrate the
eightieth anniversary Of his birthday and the
golden jubilee Of his irst appointment rs
university Professor.
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raysees of the "white scale, an insect
which threatened the orange industry
of California with destruction. 1t cost
$4,000 to introduce the lady birds
into California, but as they fed Ho}
raciously upon the white scales ting
latter were nearly wiped out, and th3
orange groves were saved.
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A Northern Southern Exposition.

A Southern States exposition is to be held
tn Chicago the current year. the Stntcs OF
Als5amae Florida. Georgia. Kentucky. Louis.
ana, Mississippi Maryland. North Carolina,
South Carolina Tennessee and Texas to de-.
liver the exhibits AZ that city and Chicago to
furnish the building and pay the expenses OF
maintaining the exhibition no: more than
three months. 9'he opening is set for
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MUSEUM IN THE "WHITE HOUSE. y
Confederate Memorial Collection Es-
tabIished in Richmond.

The building in which the Confede-
rate museum has just been established,
says Leslie's Weekly, is the old White
House of the Confederacy. The build
ing was purchased by the city OF Rich
mond for $45, 1000 and presented to
President Davis when the seat of the
Confederate Government was moved
from Montgomery, Ala. Jefferson
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TESTING SEEDS.
INTERESTING OPERATIONS AT
AN EXPERIMENT STATION.
Seed Adulteration Has Been Re-
duced to a Science-Test for I'M
purities-Eome-Made Germ
mating Apparatus.

VXeTITH the coming of spring,
M herslded by the alluring
Y Y and highly colored adver-
tisements of seed deale,s
and florists. the farmer, housewife and
amateur gardener are flooding the
mails with the seed orders they are
sending to the dealers. The little paper
packages, full OF promises of lovely
blooms and plump vegetables, will be
sent by return mail, and then will
come the planting. waiting, anxiety
and triumph or disappointment.
Those who bought their seeds of re-
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1t is estimated that $4,000, 900
worth of corn was destroyed i'll the
River valley, Missouri, by the recent
heavy storms md 0Teraow.
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A Twenty Thousand Dollar Bug.

The picture given herewith shows 9
"lady bird beetle" small bug
brought from Australia by the United
States Government to head of tn
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). a5,sIEs.FooT xUsTACHE,

An Idaho BIan is the Possessor snu ssllsl
Has No Rival In the World.
James q. Brown, Issue Clerk at the
Fort Hall Indian Agency, Ross FORE ;,i
Bingham County, Idaho, has the longs gs
est mustache Of any man living. ~ y
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Indian oak, one Of the hardest
woods. will sink in water.
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bicycles in Mexico.

Over 1000 bicycles arc in Ese in the City o.
Mexico. - -y-"~r|' 49, ~-----
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Canada Invites the AnnenianE.

C2naus TWICE tHe NTH1Hf"HF'
Canadian clergymen are discussing a
scheme for inducing Armenians to immt'
CRATE.
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the Popnlist Chairman Makes surrinr
APP al 70 Bia Fellows

The Pupniiat Chairman Makes surrtne
Aep al To tiis Fellows.
Following is the sorech ia ful OF
Chairman Leo Vincent ia welcoming
the delegates to the territorial Pop
ulist convention.
LADIES AND GrNrt F,iES or rHR Con
yENToN--In In returning to vou the Of.
iice of Chairman uf your territorial cen.
tral committee. feel that il is but just
and proper that I render an account of
the trust which has for two years past
rested in my hands.
On dulv 10th. 1884. there assembled
i'm the city of El Reno, % convention of
Populists, numbering something over
100 delegates the result of which was
To place Hon. Ralph Beaumont in nom.
ination for yonr congressional stand
ard bearer with myself as the chair
man OF your executive committee. Up
To- this time owing 20 the fact that in
the previous campaigns there had been
more or less mixing Of tickets, there
was not scrap Of data, as TO votes
cast, from which 10 begin the work OF
organization. II was fortunate, in
deed, that your committee empowered
your chairman to fiji vacancies until a
complete working committee was Sc
cured i'm every county. Using this au-
thority, and by frequent visits TO the
statistics in the office of the Territorial
Secretary, ! finally succeeded in estab.
fishing base Of operation. At this
time little or no Organization existed
in the new strip aud western counties
they having only just been settled
and had not registered a vote. BY the
untiriug assistance 0! numerous com
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and the occasion now confronting our
people demands that the highest spirit
OF patriotism govern. that al selfish
ambition be swept TO one side. to the
end that. when November dawns ok
lahoma may b. found In the column
supporting the nomination and cleo
ton OF Bryan and Watson aud directl Y
In time with the new administration.
Looking back over the past 20 years
Of our national life see stains which
never should have blotted the history
of our fair republic | have seen the
concerted action OF foreign soulcss
greed a blood-sucking vampire, slowly
fastening It's fangs into our institu-
tions, and attaching To our people
those numerous avenues through which
they levy and collect tribute All this
has been done by uonpartisan means
vet by the aid and through the assist
ancc OF goth of the old parties, These
evils have grown and the burdens have
increased till the patience Of our people
has ceased tc be virtue. All of society
has, for the last seven years. been in
that strained, oppressed volcanic con-
ditiou that endangered life aud liberty.
This sad condition had progressed until
Gold Smiths dit am of the deserted viii
lg &c seemed soon to he literally vcri-
gcd where he said.
IN fares the land. Go hastcuiug MS a prey
Where wealth accumuiates and men decay .
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade
breath can make them, as breath has
made,
But bold peasautry-t their country's pride.
When once destroyed. can never he sup
plyed.
Less tnan a month ago the whole
political sky seemed overcast; the for
eign gold power had firmly entrenched
itself behind. and possessed itself Of
the machinery Of the great republican
party Ihc same baleful cloud over
east aud settled in gloom over demo
cratic hopes but quietly az Chicago e
few determined patriot, tirclcssly flew
from delegation to delegation. carrying
with them the one electric phrase Of
Bryan and liberty The opposition To
him was determined. but these patriots
continued their work tin at the proper
moment the peerless statesman of the
Platte hurled from the rnstrum "a def
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on Gre with the OF their country.
intensified by real knowledge OF
THEN social and economic conditions.
Again there are others of our colored
brothers whose natural eloquenre. In
spired bv a deep patriotism, bursts
forth in splendid platform effort for
the peoples cause. The better educa-
ted and more capable of these people
have already espoused our cause. and
often before their masterlv efforts. the
charmed hearers forget the dusSy face
and darker blood OF the orator whose
eloquencc is holding them o...sahcr,i.
1t is not sympathy these people need.
IL is Justice. But so long as they allow
themselves TO Zoe duped and voted like
So many cattle so long will they uei-
thcr command the respect of them
selves or of right thinking people.
POLITICAL INNOVATION.
Up TO this time. as the advocates of
the peoples cause have sought TO
spread the merits of our platform and
purposes. they have been frequently
met by the retort from the unthinking
that your party will be just as bad as
any other when they get into power
While such an answer is of itself an ac-
lSnowl edgement Of the depravity of the
OlO parties IT. Is AT inc ehiuf llUlt an
admission. by the one who uses such an
excuse. that he has lost faith both in
himself and humanity. This is an unfor-
tunate condition for persons mind TO
get into. for when one surrenders hope
for a better condition, his effort to-
wards bringing about that condition,
ceases. Bnt upon consideration IL viii
be seen that the statement in itself is
an error as il is only, and not until
political parties come into power. and
have accomplished the purpose for
which they were created that they di-
press from the line of principle and
fall into the hands of the uLscrupu-
louS
A caromi examination of the con-
stituent parts OF the Peoples party.
discloses the fact that the nnthinking
portion Of the business class, that
large per cent Of the population known
as "hoaters. another important factor,
that element which follows i'm the
train of Township and Ward hcclerS,
and again. the entire class of Shuddy
aristociacy. which have no principle.
but follow fawninglF in the wake of
the place holders and socially inlluen-
tial. are mostly members of thc oppo-