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such a stake. But Thy friends, was superb! Of the five which l had to make to win I gained three on the hrss hand. The Bart bit his mustache and drummed his hands, while l already felt myself at the head of my dear little ras- calls. On the second I turned the king, but lost two tricks, and my score was four to his two. When 1 saw my next hand could not but give cry of de- light. If cannot gain my freedom on this, thought I, I deserve to remain for ever in chains.
 Give me the the cards, landlord, and I will lay them on the table for you. Here was my hand-lznave and ace ot clubs, queen and knave of diamonds and king of hearts. Clubs are trumps, mark you, and I had but one point be- tween me and freedom. As you may think. I declined his proposal. He knew that it was the crisis, and he un- did his tunic. threw my dolman on ground. He led the ten of spades. l took it with my ace of trumps One point in my favor. The correct play was to clear the trumps, and led the
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continneaA


 Now wish to be very clear with you on this point, my friends. for I would not ha~e gon think tsna sos iis dishonorab ply or ungra elly t8 the man who had helped me away from the brigmds You must remember that of all duties the strongest is thas which a commanding officer owes to his men. You must also bear in mind that war is a game which is played under fixed rules, and when these rules are broken one must at once claim the forfeit. If, for example, had given parole, then I should have been an infamous wretch had l dreamed of escaping. But no parole had been asked of me. Out of overconfdence and the chance of the lame horse dropping behind, the Bart had permitted me to get upon equal terms with him. Had it been I who had taken him 1 should have used him as courteously as he had me, but at the same time 1 should have respected his enterprise so far as to have deprived him of his sword, and seen that 1 had at least one guard besides myself. refined up my horse and explained this to him, asking him at the same whether he saw any breach of honor in my leav- ing him.
 He thought about it, and several times repeated that which the English say when they mean ''Mon Dieu. 9 You
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rY, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, JULY B. 1897.

knave. Down came the queen upon it, and the game was equal He led the eight of spades, and I could only dis card my ace of diamonds. Then came the seven of spades, and the hair fairly stood straight up on my head. We each threw down king at the finale. He had won two points, and my beautiful hand had been mastered by his inferior one. I could have rolled on the ground as I thought of it. They used to play very sgood ecarte at Walters in the year 10. I say it-I, Brigadier Gerard.
 The last game was now for all This next hand must settle it one way or the other. He undid his sash and put away my sword belt He was cool this Engiishman, and tried to be also, but the precipitation would trickle into nv eyes The deal lay with him and may confess ta gan, my friends, that my hand shock D that l could hardly pick pT ea5sss from the rock. Bat when raised thcm what was lie first thinF that my eyes rested upon? 1t was the king the king, the glorious king of trumps My mouth was open to de- elarc It when the words were frozen to my lips by the appearance of my com rade.
 He held his cards in his hand, but his jaw had fallen and his eyes were staring over my shoulder with the most dreadful expression of con sternation and surprise. I whisked round, and myself was amazed at what 1 saw.
 Three men were standing quite close to us-ffteen meters at the farthest. The middle one was of good height,
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reason say that you are mine. We arc alone here, and though have nodoubt that you are an excellent swordsman, you would hardly hope to hold your own against the best blade in the six light cavalry brigades.n
 His answer was a cut ct my head. l parried and shore off half of his white plume. He thrust at my breast. I turned his point and cut away the other half of his cockade
 Curse your monkey tricksln he cried, as wheeled my horse away from him.
 'Why should you strike at me" said l. You see that will not strike back"
 "That's all very well," said he. "But you've got to come along with me to the camp"
 ''I shall never see the camp" said I.
 'Ill lay you nine to four you do, he cried, as he made at me, sword in hand.
 But those words of his put something new into my head. Could we not de- eide the matter in some better way than by fighting? The Bart was placing me in such a position that should have to hurt him, or he would certainly hurt me. avoided his rush, though his sword point was within an inch of my neck.
 q have a proposal, I cried. "Wt shall throw dice as to which is the pris oner of the other"
 He smiled at this. It appealed to hi love of sport.
 "Where are your diceq7 he cried.
 q have none" Nor I, but have cards"
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none to his. My voice broke and I could say no more.
 What weight do you put on your mules, sir, in the French service?n he asked. Yes, that was all this phlegmatic Englishman had to answer to these burning words of mine. That was his reply to what would have made a Frenchman weep upon my shoulder.
 What weight on mule?' asked the man with the red coat
 Two hundred and ten pounds" said I.
 ''Then you load them deucedly bad ly," said Lord Wellington. Remove the prisoner to the rear.''
 His lancers closed in upon me, and T was driven mad, as thought that the game had been in my hands and 1 ought at that moment to be free man. I held the cards up in front of the general.
 See, my lordr' I cried, 1T played
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REMOVE ran PRISONER TO THE REAR. B.n IoI my ifoeuoiIi anu won, IoI, as you pecceive, hold the king"
 For the first time slight smile soft ened his gaunt face.
 ''On the contrary" said he, as he mounted his horse, it was I who won, for, as you perceive, my king holds you"
 THE END.
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New Mexico & Arizona By.

Daily except Sunday. Pacific time.
 J. J. FREY, General Manager.
 T. A. NAUGLE, L. H. ALBRIGHT, Assistant General Manager. Train Master.
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Train No. connects with Southern Pacific le, passing Marieopa at 10 :0S p. m. Train No. connects with Southern Pacific 11, passing haricopa at } :15 q. m. Connections made at Phoenix with s. F.. P. tS r. k. k. for Prescott and Congress Connections made at Mesa with stage for Goldheld, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at l2:S0. for Florence and Globe, Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays at o'clock a. m, Trains stop on signal.
 Pullman Palace Sleeping Car on trains Nos. 1 and between Phoenix and Maricopa Tickets sold to all principal point4 and bag
 gage checked 10 destination.
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N. is would give me the slip, would you97 said he.
 If you can give noreason against it."
 ''The only reason that I can think of," said the Bart, is that I should in- stantly cut your head off if you should attempt it."
 Two can play at that game, my dear Bart, said I.
 "Then we'll see who can play it best, he cried, pulling out his sword.
 1 had drawn mine also, but I was quite determined not to hurt this ad- mirable young man who had been my benefactor.
 "Considerl" said I. ''You say that I am your prisoner. I might with equal
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and yet not too tall-about the same height in fact that I am myself He was clad in dark uniform with small cooked hat and some sort of white plume upon the side. But had little thought for his dress. 1t was his face, his gaunt cheeks, his beak of nose, his masterful blue eyes, his thin firm slit of a mouth which made one feel 1hat this vas q wonderful mnn man of million. His brous were tied into knot and ile cast sNeh a glance at my poor Bort from under lhla that one llv one the cards came futtaring down from his nerveless fingers. 0f the tva other men, one, who had lace as oros, Il and as hard as though it had been carved out of old oak, wore a bright red coat, while the other, a fine portly man with bushy side whiskers, was in a blue jacket with gold facings. Some little distance behind three orderlies were holding as many horses, while an escort of 1ancers were waiting in the rear.
 "Heh, Crawford, what the devils this?" asked the thin man.
 ''D' you hear, sir, cried the man with the red coat. Lord Wellington wants to know what this means"
 My poor Bart broke into an account of all that had occurred, but that rock face never softened for an instant.
 Pretty fine, 'pon my word, Gen. Crawford" he broke in. 1.-The dis cipline of this force must be main tained, sirl Report yourself at head quarters as prisoner"
 It was dreadful to me to see the Bart mount his horse and ride off with hang ing head. I could not endure it. I threw myself before this English gen eral. I pleaded with him for my friend. told hlm how I, Col Gerard, would witness what dashing young officer he was. An, my elcquence might have melted the hardest heart; I brought tears to my own eyes, but
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Dogs Need Iron.

According to Prof Schmiederberg, of Strasburg, dogs need iron in their food. He relates the case of strong dog that was nearly starved by being fed for a long time with pure milk. Just as he seemed on the point of death a grain of ferratin was added to his daily allow ance of milk; when, instead of refusing as heretofore, he devoured it ravenous- ly, and in the space of two weeks re- covered his normal health and strength. Albany Argus.
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CHAPTER VI

The first game Iwon right off, though must confess that the cards were with me, and that my adversary could have done no more. In the second l never played better and saved Q trick by a finesse. but the Bart voled me once, marked the king, and ran out in the second hand. My faith, we were so excited that he laid his helmet down beside him, and my busby.
 "I1l lay my roan mare against your black horse, said he.
 Done" said I.
 Saddle, bridle and stirrupsl" he cried.
 ''Done!' I shouted.
 had caught this spirit of sport from him. I would have laid my hussars against his dragons, had they been ours to pledge.
 And then began the game of games. Oh, he played, this Englishman; he played in way that was worthy of
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Bouvet, of the hussars, who won sev- enty-six out of one hundred and fifty games of me, have always had the best of series.
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s.ssss4 iNt44 tt le you.
 then -tlle bess af taree
 l could not help smiling as I agreed Tor ! do not suppose that there were three men in France who were Huv mas ters at the game, ! told the Bart as much as we dismounted. He smiled also as he listened.
 q was counted the best player at Watietis," said he. "With even luck you deserve to get off if you beat me. ]"
 So we tethered our two horses and sat down, one on either side of the great fiat rock. The Bart took pack of cards out Of his tunic and 1 had only to see him shuifle them to convince me that had no novice to deal with. We cut and the deal fell to him.
 My faith, it was a stake worth playing for. He wished to add hundred gold pieces a game, but what was money when the fate of Col. Etienne Gerard hung upon the cards? felt as though all those who had reason to be inter- ested ill the game, my mother, my hussars, the Sixth corps d'armee, Ney, Messena, even the emperor himself, were forming ring around us in that desolate valley. Heavens, what a blow to one and all of them should the cards go against me. But 1 was confident. for my ecarte play was as famous as my swordsmanship, and, save old
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Southern Pacific Railway.

MaricOpa & Phoenix & Salt River By Time Table No. 4. Pacific Time. To take effect Wednesday. December s0th.
 1896, at o'clock p. m.
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-15
FRUIT YIELD THIS YEAR.

There is to be no such food Of apples
this season as glutted the markets of
the United States last fall, but the
predictions that 1897 would prove a
very bad year for fruit are coming to
nothing, like other prophecies of evil.
Pears are very abundant SO are
plumS Grapes will yield profusely in
the great vineyard districts of the
country. Peaches are comparatively
scarce, and yet in some Of the principal
peach growing sections of the United
States the yield of that fruit is very
large. As for apples, the contrast with
the enormous crop of last year will
make the conditions this season seem
less favorable than they really are. The
yield of the orchards will be moderate.
and in several great producing districts
very light, but there will be some nOta-
bic exceptions TO this rule, and the coun-
try as whole will have a very fair sup
ply Of the most important winter fruit
of the north. As for oranges, the Florida
groves will furnish many thousands of
boxes more than they have in any year
since the great freeze of 1894 Califor-
MIA will have more oranges than ever
these states promise well, and they have
a growing Importance as a national in
duStry and source of wealth.
All things considered, il will be seen
that this year is not at all a bad one
for fruit. 1t is pretty satisfactory in
most lines of business.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-15
Outlines of Oklahoma.

The A-apahoe Bee says that new settlers
ara crowding into Custer county.
A man al Cushing wants 10 sell span
of mules for half N money and half IN
hogs.
II is almost dead sure thing that Pres
ident Mckinley Is going 10 demand New
advisers in Oklahoma.
In some parts of Texas it is so dry that
it viii take SIX and seven acres 10 make
a single bale of cotton.
immigration to Oklahoma has already
set in. One man Is even coming from New
Mexico to settle in Guthrie
EarIboro. Shawnee and Tecumseh are IN
a three-cornered fight over which town
gives the most for cotton.
Miss Ona Small Of Saltwater. who has
been completing her musical education In
Europe, has returned home.
Frank Greer Gays that there Is only one
thing 10 make Oklahoma perfect now-to
raise large crop OF turnips.
L; is believed that this week President
Mckinley will look into the DeFord chars-
es. ThsIe may be more trouble.
The Guthrie Leader says that many local
business men there are sadly lacking n
large deposits Of human nature.
Guthrie is TO have a new and modern
system OF electric Fights e. D. Nix and
c. r Brooks want the franchise
A man a, Gushing IS advertising for
fourteen feet OF log chain which he lost
Probably some little boy carried 1t off,
1t is said tLat DeFord burst into tears
when he made his charges against Gov
m
Kenna.
II IS expected that at least three door
keepers n the White House will drop dead
when they see B. T. Hainer's new Prince
Albert coat
Those who are supposed 10 know say that
Orput ia sure OF the marshalship. The
chances are that ne vii have TO make an
other fight
Dr. Wildjack. who lives near Cushing.
has been bitten six times by rattlesnakes.
and eight times by cendpedes. He used
Indian remedies
Some one is telling the story around over
the territory that the last time Givernor
Barnes was IN Washington the president
refused TO see him
A correspondent ~ the Greer County
are no longer under the banner OF the
Lone Star safe. but CEder The narrow
contracted laws of Oklahoma" etc
Anderson Martin of Waco. Texas. who
is putting In a compress at Tecumseh,
says the farmers OF Oklahoma will make
a mistake IL they do not hold their cot
ton. He says it is bound TO go up.
Henry E. Sharpe was once prominent
citizen in eastern Oklahoma Four months
after his death his wife married. She IS
now in a Kansas poor house, while her
second husband is in the penitent.ary.
A Kansas City Newspaper publishes as
Oklahoma news in its first column, first
page, the startling announcement that
Washington Irving once Travelled in Ok
Iahoma. The subject was thoroughly ven
tiIated in Captain Payue's time
Oklahoma City Times-JournaI: The
Times-Journai voices the feelings OF the
Republican party OF southern Oklahoma
in extending a warm welcome 10 Cousin
Mckinley. not because southern Oklahoma
favors carpet-bagism, but because there
was no available material in the district
TO fill the place. and the people of this
part Of the territory would sooner have
an Importation from abroad. than from an
other district
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Southern Kansas Business Men

". J. Puett, books at Newton uses for
a motto this: There may be others but
they're not in town
Bretch Brothers. grocers at Newton, say:
''FretfuI husbands can be made as arniabIe
as saints by feeding them properly"
Every great advertising has had for IT'S
motif the claim that one particular thin &
would do one thing and do that well
The Newman Dry Goods company OF
Arkansas CITY, says: Fine as silk L,
is silk" They are advertising silks
sparr & Dean shoe men Of Wellington
say: you can't get style and finish in a
cheap store and the goods will only last
half as long as well made shoe"
VIII Stotler. formerly OF Empor.a and
Wellington, now a reporter Of Kansas City,
licked a doctor in a court room in Kansas
City the other day for calling him Lar
The difference between men and women
is just now patent in the advertisements.
Cloaks are extensively advertised. but 10
one says anything about oyercoats tbs
early.
A boycott against the Kansas City papers
is threatened at Emporia. Emporia has
she should declare herself independent OF
Kansas City.
Z. 3. Hldinger, groceries at Newton.
in bringing out the beauty o; small saw
ings says: The earth saves her oceans by
dew-drops." This is a beautiful itea and
makes a telling advertisement.
Salisbury & Co, are making a GU: price
on P certain brand OF shoes. They SCI
them az s1-76 and with this figure Gl-I9
line the entire outer edge OF their adysr-
tisement. II makes Il resemble a meal
ticket but the eye can no; pass IL
It should never be forgotten tha; &c ar
rangenent OF type. beauty Of design or
extent Of space csn make an advertisement
without some idea in is valuable People
want 10 look at more names; they pick up
families IN LeviticUs.
Many people have 70 be advised ot their
necessities by he man who wouil supply
;hem. This : the SOFT OF man who
VII plough around IL TIE mud in leaking
shoes. He Is merely thouzhIess- II you
can attract MS attention and pO-nt out 70
him tAat Re Is eldanger:ng as health Re !
VII buy shoes al once
4 Y. Toeves. grocer az Newton. after I
having remained quiet for spen Is now 4
doing some clever advertising He SAYS
VIVA, would you think. Il you had TO eat /
chop feed for breakfast. shorts FOR dinner 4
and b7an for supper Pretty. cough 4
= ouIda'; Il be? Wei. you won; have % I
60 anything of TIE kind 50 .ong as Henry /
Toevs IS = business
II. 2. Toevs in Advertising house f1.-
2 sings a. Newton says. Better tzaa
X londLke. Reads Ike novel Bat there's
-1iil.o1s II T. Homes, In3sn. nov. coas-l-
e-ing the fsc; taaI We "a a. human.
wouldn't you Ike % strike Z r.ca u Kioa-
slke7 Get something for nothing. "a z;
ve-e OF course yos void Is h8ns1 (
nature But IS TIRE wrong SEASON 70 20
70 Kl0at.ke- You EoGid freeze . eezis
u there and yos would rstz-a 4 a var
aishea box WA; matters Z y Il - -
= rong sssson ~ s-sre. z Z Is .As r.sA;
SEASON - home
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Along the Kansas Nile.

The Prohibtionists OF Topeka have made
such a rasping demand for water that II
is feared there that il will rain during the
entire festival
The newspapers kindly attempted the Job
of convicting the station agent for the
Emporia wreck. The coroner's jury turned
the newspapers down.
The FL Dorado Republican says that even
jack-rabbits have gone up three cents
head and defies the Popul.sts 10 say that
Mckinley is not entitled 10 the credit.
About the only campaign document FOR
the Populists this fail is wild frenzied
charge that as soon as the election is over
Mckinley Will issue bonds 70 keep up The
gold reserve.
Port Arthur has just been knocked gal
ley-west by a cyclone Last spring Kan
sas was flooded with advertising c!rcu-
lars for Port Arthur reading: NO more
cyclones. no more droughts, no more crop
failures.
Il IS estimated that at least ten people
threy themselves on the ground at the
Emporia wreck feigning injury and got
their names printed among the injured. 70
be used as evidence in damage suits
against the railroad company.
Just say" declared Tire irritable mem
Der OF the Popul!s, committee O. resolu-
tens Tia; grea; indignation fills the pub
lie breast because Mckinley IN order 70
spite the Populis;s have refused 70 issue
airy bonds since his inauguration
..Does this train meet the Fas; MALI
ssei a mar at Newton yesterday Yes.
said the conductor. Then the nan went
70 The back OF the tTa.n. into he last ca1
and took the last seat back and wrote a
note 10 his wife telling Ter where he had
put MS VIII
Bryan viii be a witness II damage s!s.1
aza-ns, the Santa Fe. Near E-nPor.s. &
.naz .y.ng prone prone upon -hs ground
zskes Bryan % give hin drink CT water.
bryan Cd 7. = TOW suspected "a; t1s
nan vas not hurt: but was collecting wiz
nesses for q case against the Ealiros3 com
Qaay.
TA.s : q Popaiist couventiol n Kan
szs Who are these smiling men jus;
returning from The committee rooms
That e re committee o. Rules z1t Or
der OF business: Azd these pleasant Es--
tle-aea7 Committee Of permanent organ /
.zst.oz Ard tais squad. re- Il re fzo. /
gentlemen ar The committee o. resolutions |
II Ter lack OF reference .o- TIE oI1 ne /
q fAs state .. Kansas = brutal l1e 1
states heroes change as ofss5 "a t,s H5co2 F!
and 10 nan can hold The hG--za of IL 4
Peop.s sf;sr BE las fsa@a . u al active 4
fzcsor That 3 xAy TIE cd rs-n 4 k@z
sas are ksckers They have 70 kzocE 1
a f-x Of the lT-eveT-at yo1nstsrs 1cSr
= order - maintain themselves