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quarters, all haggard and wild eyed,
fourishing the pine knot and crying,
"Loup- -garou, Loup-garou!" and hefell
down and died in awful agony.
That cry, "Loup- garou, Loup-garou"
took firm hold on the hearts Of the plan
tation negroes. Quickly enough a dark
superstition formed itself, and the story
of Loup-garou, the fiend of the swamp,
began to be told. Out Of one fend
grew many, and so the swamp got the
name of Terre aux Loups-garous. No
negro would enter that haunted region
if he could help it, especially De Blieu
negro, for fear of meeting the terrible
being that had cruelty beaten and man.
gled poor Toussant. 1t might have been
very different if Toussant had been able
to explain, but he was crazed beyond
any power Of connected speech. He could
do no more than glare with his wild,
bloodshot eyes and cry aloud, "Loup-
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white sand bluffs or anon under the
gloomy shadow Of the Terre aux Loups-
garous, as free and careless as the white
caps and the breeze.
One day he saw another sloop, almost
exactly like his own, running close to
the wind not far ahead Of him. He bore
down upon it for race, thinking it a
fisherman, but as he ran alongside near
enough to have tossed an orange into it
be saw a beautiful young girl at the
helm. For a space the two little sloops
sped side by side, their sails slanting in
parallel lines, the white wisps Of foam
shining above their dipping gunwales,
while just ahead of their bows wing and
wing flew pair of snowy sea birds.
Yonder on one hand was the dreary old
swamp; on the other lay the beautiful
bosom Of the gulf, rising and falling
like that of a sleeper.
Toulme de Blieu felt a great exhilara-
ton thrill through his heart. Those
large, sof, eyes warmed his blood like
wine and those half parted lips seemed
to send their pure sweetness into the
most sacred hooks of his consciousness.
So side by side sped the boats and
wing by wing led on the snowy birds
OF course this could not last. The beau
tiful girl adroitly put her boat about
and started on the other tack. Toulme
could not honorably follow, so he kept
on, but he watched the little sail as
child watches a star until it passed be-
hind the headland beyond Terre aux
Loups. garous. Then he sighed and
smiled as one who feels rare new joy
tingling through every nerve.
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ing and receiving. When Toussant's g
broad back resounded under Loup-ga-
rou's pine knot, the very next moment
the shoulder of Loup-garou gave forth
the echo of the noise. The combatants
leaped nimbly about at first, but soon
they began to fail. Toussant forced
Loup- -garou back and finally hit him on
the head just as he got tangled between
the prongs of a many forked little tree.
Poor Loup- p-garou! That was the last Of
him. Toussant deliberately pounded
him to death there and then. But Tous-
SAINT had not escaped unhurt. He must
have suffered lesion of the spinal
cord, or it may have been but the reflex
action of his terrible deed upon his al
ready superstition tainted imagination.
At all events, when he saw that Loup-
garou was dead he stood as if rooted to
the spot, glariug horribly. How still
the swamp was, how lonely, how
gloomy and strange!
Some days later Toussant came rush
ing out of the swamp into the negro
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Coupcourts and the De Blieus, two old
and mighty families, was at its highest
pitch of bitterness and deadliness. Since
the close of the war many Of the old
plantations in that great swamp region
have been wholly deserted and nothing
remains to tell where they once were
save a young growth Of close set trees
and the scattered ruins Of mansions and
negro quarters. The De Blieu and Coup
court feud ended in the year 1865. just
as the great storm of war had at last
ceased in the up country. 1t ended very
strangely and, as befitted the predica-
ment, with a singularly dramatic coup
de main in the very heart Of the swamp
known as the Terre aux Loups- -garous.
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That very day Jacques Coupcourt held

That very day jacques Coupcour1 neio
a long, bitter conference with his sister
Anais She pleaded with him eloquent
", tenderly, earnestly, for some promise
Of safety for her lover, but in vain.
Jacques was inexorable. He denounced
her as a traitor to her family, a dis
grace to the Coupcourt name, and left
her In hitter despair
About this time great excitement arose
among the negroes on both estates on
account Of certain sights and sounds in
the swamp attributed to a revival Of ao-
tivities by the spirit of the original
Loup-garou. Indeed the ghost Of the
slave murdered 20 long ago was seen,
pine knot in hand, and strange cries
had been heard.
Tete-chauve was exceedingly disturb
Cd and begged Toulme to cease going
into the swamp to hunt deer and tur-
key, but Of course the young man gave
no heed to the negro's fears.
: Possibly Tete-chauve, knowing that
Jacques Coupcourt was also shooting in
the swamp, had more dread Of the hunts
men meeting than of any danger to his
young master from Loup-garou. Still
superstition was ingrained so deep in
his nature that nothing short of serving
Toulme could have induced him to cross
the limit of Terre aux Loups- garous,
and he was doubly alive to the great
risk his master was taking. The many
tragedies in which the De Blieus and
the Coupcourts had been chief actors
were not so far in the past that Tete-
chauve's memory was not full Of them.
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CHAPTER ".

WnaG picture young mau neart
can make Of two boats and two birds,
with himself in one boat and maiden
sweet and beautiful in the otherl The
whole of all lovely and fascinating ro-
nance is crowded into the sketch. All,
youth and love, sea breeze, blue sky,
a cool, foam touched reach Of salt wa
ter, an exchange Of eye beams-and then
follows world Of bliss crowded into a
dream!
After that day Toulme cruised for
that lovely prize, and, shy as the maiden
was, somehow her stanch little craft
fell often in his way.
All love stories are alike, and they are
all delicious. Hearts are blown together
BY all sorts Of winds, but the contact is
ecstatic in every instance. The older
grows the story, the deeper becomes its
passionate hold upon the great heart of
the world.
Toulme and Anais became lovers be-
fore they knew that it was renewal Of
the Shakespearean story-before she
dreamed that he was Romeo or he sus-
pected that she was Juliet-yet so it
was, the children Of the rival house
holds had exchanged hearts.
Old Tete-chauve shook his big bald
head and looked gloomy when by chance
he discovered how matters stood. He
felt at once how terrible might be the
end, and, although his kind heart warm
ed toward the sweet young girl, he
could not help wishing that his master
had never seen her.
When at length Toulme found out
who his sweetheart was, it was too late
for him to turn about. She held him
fast in her lovely net, lost beyond hope
of escape AS for Anais Coupcourt, she
scarcely was startled by the discovery
that she loved Toulme de Blieu. 1t was
enough for her happiness that she loved
him and that he loved her. There was
no room for any other passion, senti-
ment or experience; her heart was full
Day after day they met out on the
water and. lashing their little sloops to-
gether, drifted side by side, rocking on
the gentle waves and conversing in the
low, soft tones Of love. Always some
where between them and the horizon
futtered the white wings of the two
birds. Itwas a good omen. they argued,
this apparition of pair Of birds, pure
white and inseparable as the hearts of
true lovers, always fitting around or
before them. Thus the time went by
sweetly enough for these furtively happy
lovers until at last they were betrothed.
Then Jacques Coupcourt came home
when least expected, and indeed when
least needed He had had hard time
of it after his shipwreck, and he was
but the mere shadow of himself, scarce
ly recognizable by his mother and Who'll
ly stranger to Anais, when he stood
upon the threshold Of the old house by
the blue gulf sea. But Jacques Coup
court had lost none of the spirit Of his
fathers. He rubbed up the rusty old pis-
tolls and put the Coupcourt knives in
shining order. The feud must go on to
the end.
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How LONG A PERSON CAN Re-
MAIN UNDER WATER.-The length of
time a person can remain under water
depends upon how the feat is accom-
plished, whether as swimmer, or as
a professional diver. In the first way
four minutes fifty seconds is the long.
est period any swimmer has succeeded
in remaining under water. This was
accomplished by the celebrated Eng
lsh swimmer, J. B. Johnson, in 1882.
Johnson has frequently, at various
places in this country, remained un-
der water for over four minutes. Mr..
T. Finney, a "champion swimmer"
stayed under water in tank, four
minutes twenty-nine seconds and a
half in 1886. The longest case re-
corded, with any claim to authenti-
city, of person surviving after being
along time under water, is one in
which woman is stated to have re-
covered after submersion of twenty
minutes. In the records only two
cases of recovery after five minutes
submersion are recorded. A boy re-
covered after q submersion Of from
five to ten minutes. Another is re-
ported of a girl, aged two years, after
ten minutes submersion. These facts
lead to the conclusion that in drown
ing, life is very rapidly destroyed, that
the time within which person may
be resuscitated is subject to variation,
but that after five minutes complete
submersion, there can be little hope of
recovery. In diving dress, if the
water is not of very great depth,
divers can remain under water for
several hours without harm. The
usual spell of work for the Thames
divers under water is four hours. The
length of time diver can remain un-
der water depends on the depth of
water and the personal physique of
the diver, who must be of sound con-
s,itution and muscular build to remain
under water for hours together. One
hundred and fifty feet is usually con-
sidered the limit for safe work.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-05-29

APPRECIATION TURNS MEMS HEADS.

AFFECTATlON TURNS MEMS HEADS.
The trouble with the great world of
affectionate women is that they insist
upon endowing the men whom they
love with qualities that they do not
and never will possess, and then, when
they find them to be only clay Of
very inferior quality, there comes dis
appointment and grief.
Men may say what they please
their role in life is to be made much of
rather than to give great wealth of
unstinted affection, such as woman
layishes without reason and without
reserve. The engaged man, or the one
who is endesvoring to secure some
attractive woman for his wife, thinks
be is in love. He imagines that he Is
willing to 60 on forever lavishing his
hearts best affection in return for q
meager smile or a simple glance, and
oftentimes he is clever enough to make
the woman think that he really means
what he says and that he will continue
to be the lover and suitor always.
Marriage too often dispels this illu-
sion, and then comes the sad realiza-
ton that an ideal is shattered, that the
man is very, very human, and that his
humanity assumes selfish form, which
shows itself in a desire to have the
woman do all the loving, while he,
sultanlike, beams upon her and thinks
that she has every excuse in the world
for showering her affection upon such
an altogether adorable creature.
1t requires the wisdom of Solomon
and the craftiness of serpent to pre-
vent men from breaking the incrusted
glory with which women persist in
surrounding them. Do not be demon
strative do not let them see that you
think they are about right in your
eyes. 1t does them good to let them
know there are others in the world
quite as charming as they. Very,
very few men can stand lavish affec-
tion. 1t turns their heads, and then
they care more for that which is out of
reach. Be wise and never let them be
quite certain Of you, for until then you
will never be entirely and wholly Ger
tain of them.-Philadelphia Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-05-29

COLLECTING WIsHBONEs.-Strange
what fads possess some people. The
delegate the other evening, calling up
on one of the sweet girl graduates,
was surprised to have her make of
him this peculiar request: "Won't
you," asked she, "help me in my col.
lection? "What, postage stamps ?"
he asked. "No, indeed that's only
for school children. You know collec-
tions are present day fad. I am 60
ing to be just bit eccentric and have
started an original collection. You
may think it an odd fancy, but I'm
collecting wishbones." So saying she
displayed those already gathered. She
has a vast assortment strung about
her own room and any number put
away in boxes. "Now, then," she
poutingly said, II think you might
help me in my collection: If you
can't get wishbone when you dine
on game at the club or at the hotel,
you can do another thing. Save all
your empty cigar boxes for me to put
my gems away in, won't you p OF
course, the promise was made. Then
she showed more and more Of her
wishbones. Among them were those
of particularly large and small birds.
She even had the wishbone of hum
ming bird. Asked if any others were
interested in this fad, she said that all
the girls of cher set" were vying one
with another as to who could collect
the rarest birds. AS she moves with
very swell circle, and a large one at
that, the wishbone collection fad will
probably soon be the rage.-Cincin-
natl Times-Star.
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he stood as If rooted to the spot.

he 8tOOU u8 y TUUttU 70 t7te eP0t'
garou, Loup-garouP' Such death as he
died could not fail to leave deep i'm.
preston in the minds Of Toussant's COM
panions. Ever afterward it was men,
toned with bated breath and with awe
inspired gestures.
The Terre aux Loups-garous became,
in the imagination Of the negroes, a
demon land in which had congregated
all the goblins and devils of earth and
of the neither regions.
So things were when Toulme de
Blieu, a mere youth of 90, returned
from France to the old De Blieu place.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-05-29

Gag Some men have a gallon of words
to every spoonful of thoughts.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-17
HEAT KILLS HUNDREDS
FOURTEEN DAYS OF TORRID HEAT
SWEEPS THROUGH THE EAST.
Two Thousand PrOstrations-Prom
Uses of Relief From weather
bureau Came to Naught.

Chicago, July 1.-THE fierce heat I'M
der which the greater portion of the
country has sweltered since the first OF
July, moderated in many localities yes
terday and predictions from the weather
bureau at Washington indicate that low
er temperature will bring general relief.
The records of prostrations and deaths
resulting from the long heated term APP
proaches in magnitude that of a general
epidemic. Reports from ali sections OF
the country reached by the Associated
Press Saturday afternoon show prostra-
lions numbering in the neighborhood of
1000, with fatalities close to $50. In ad-
dition to this there were scores of deaths
resulting directly from the intolerable
heat, the death rate in many of the large
cities showing a fearful increase over pre-
viOus years. The central states suffered
more severely than other sections, the
heat being most deadly in Chicago Gin
cinnati and St. Louis In the NUMBER of
fatalities, this city leads the list with 81
deaths, Cincinnati and suburban points
reporting SO, and st. Louis AZ.
Throughout the south the heat was in
tense, but the death rate much lower than
in the north.
Eighty-seven people died from the eff
fects of heat in this city July |. In addi-
ton six were drowned while bathing to
escape the sizzling rays of the sun, six
have been driven insane, and a like num-
Der have committed suicide, while 34i
prostrations, more OF less serious, have oc-
Cured.
The health department reports a great
increase in mortality in children and sui
ferers from chronic diseases. The average
number of deaths for the past three OF
four days has almost doubled.
Late this afternoon the excessive heat
was broken by a thunder shower. The
mercury in five hours fell 20 degrees, and
life is once more worth living.
The heat in the early part of the day
caused eight deaths and 2l prostrations,
ii of them being serious.
The dead are: James ID. Varoll,
Thomas Kirk, Thomas Walsh. Felix Choy-
inski, John Fein, Michael Mclaughlin,
Mrs. Mary Krawser and James Janga.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-17
DETERMINED STRIKERS
NO LAwLEssNEss BUT 500 DEPU-
TIES ARE SWORN IN.
The Price of ConI Jumped over One
Hundred Per Cent During the
Past Week.

Pittsburg, July l2.-The week closes
with the forces engaged in the miners
strike as determined as ever and alert
to secure the slightest advantage. NO
openly aggressive work was done Satur-
day bv either side, but the miners Oh
fcials had secret meeting at which 1T
is believed vigorous campaign against
the New York and Cleveland gas coal
miners, to be inaugurated Sunday, was
decided upon. The operators, apparently
are doing little and are saying less. How
ever. their confidence in defeating the
miners has not abated in the least Inc
expected trouble in the Wheeling division
of the Baltimore and Ohio did not come
to the surface today. The miners were
paid off. as announced, but no trouble
whatever followed.
The effect of the strike is being mani
tested in the price of coal. An increase
of so cents ton was shown today when
application was made for contracts, and
a number of Pittsburg operators not be-
ing able to work their mines, are seeking
to buy coal i'm the West Virginia fields III
order to reap the advantage OF the adj
vance There has been no intimation OF
lawlessness yet in the region, but the
sheriff of Allegheny county has anticipat-
ed any trouble by swearing in 800 depu-
ties. who are in readiness for the field at
Il moments notice. At this time such
precautions look like overzealousness.
President Ratchford left the city Sat
urday night but will return i'll time to
accompany the men in their demonstra-
ton against the New York & Cleveland
Company's miners.
The miners of the Wheeling division
were paid off today for the two weeks
ending July /, and contrary to eXpecta-
tions, there was no disorder at any of the
companys offices. Nearly 100000 was
paid at the various mines on the Monon-
gahela river and vicinity. The men paid
their visits to the cashiers in quiet and
undemonstrative manner. Finleyville
which is practically the center of the
mines in this division, was as quiet as
country village on Sunday.
At majority of the mines it is said
the men will be required to pay then
months rent in advance, and where this
is impossible they will be required to va
cate the company's houses. There was
furry in the coal market today. Before
the strike coal was quoted at 20 cents pei
ton. This afternoon it was difficult t'
buy at $3.50 a ton. A few of the opera
tors who were ON the inside made consid
cradle money.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-17
ENDEAVORERS' PARTING
DAY
Thousands Participated in Prais
md Song.

San Francisco, July l3.-The last open
session of the Christian Endeavor con-
vention was held yesterday. The at
tendance at the morning and afternoon
MEETINGS was large, and at night those
who managed to obtain entrance to eth
er of the main meeting places were fortu-
nate, as only 10000 could be accommo-
dated, and 10000 more sought admission.
Estimates made by leading business men
are that the people brought here by this
great gathering will leave no less than
$lO0O,OOO in the city. All the leaders of
the movement are pleased WIN the sue
cess of their efforts and with the outlook
of the future of the society.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-17
G BEND WHEAT
BELT.
BIG
Central Washington Road Expect
to Handle 100000 Bushels.

Spokane, July l3-According to re-
port rendered c. p Chamberlin, receiver
of the Central Washington railway, by
Fred r. Hanke, general freight and pas
senger agent, that road will handle dur
ing the coming season 2,462,0O0 bushels of
wheat The estimates are based on con-
sentative crop reports gathered from ev-
cry station along the line of the road. Mr..
HanIe, in making the estimates, has not
trusted entirely to the reports given him,
but has checked them up by personal in
vestigation. Where they seemed eXces-
sive they have been cut down.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-17
MARKET REPORT.
London Grain.

London, July 12-According to the Mark
Lane Express it is said the English
wheat crop will show an average of IS
bushels to the acre, which is about two
bushels below the normal. The same au-
thority comments on the report that the
Russian crops have been so seriously
damaged during the last fortnight that
the government is preparing TO take ex-
ceptional measures for the relief of the
agricultural distress and says: This is
a strange rumor to reach us in July and
we advise the public to be chary about
accepting it"
Portland Wheat.
Portland. July 12.-Wheat-Walla Walla,
65d66c Valley. SIC.
snn Francisco Grain.
San Francisco, July 12.-Wheat-Ship-
ping, $l.2213q1.25; milling wheat, $1.2T1sgg
Barley-Feed, 7O@721kc; choice bright,
7S94a75c; brewing, S5G95c for new.
Oats-Common white, 95cMS1 OH; good
to choice, $1.1Oq12O; fancy feed, $l.25q1.3O.
Chicago Grain.
Chicago, July 12.-Of wheat it may be
said that the market has now fairly got
ten into the usual rut. The opening price
for September today was from 65Ac to
657sc a shade under Saturdays closing
price and up to u o'clock the range had
only extended from 65Ac to 657sc. The
news was rather contradictory.
Close: September wheat 655sc; corn
26Ssc; oats, 1S1sc. Receipts: Wheat 400O
corn 2IS,O0O, oats $4,000.
Metal Quotations.
New York July 12.-Bar silver, 601sc
Copper-Easy: Lake, brokers, $n.12h;
exchange. S10SO611. %.
Lead-Strong; 1886.
Live stock.
Chicago July -Cattle-Sales were
largely at S420Q4.75 for native dressed
beef and spring cattle. sales az So. 75d4 for
the poorest to S5d515 for strictly prime
beeves. The stockers and feeders trade
was fairly active at former prices, while
butchers and Gamers STUFF sold rather
freely, prices ruling largely 10c lower.
! Calves We're unchanged.
/ Hogs-Sales were at an extreme range
/ of $9.10G355 for the poorest to best hogs,
with the bulk of sales at S4.300i4.45.
Sheep-Sold at S2G3.55 for natives. with
| fed westerns adapted to the export trade
saleable at IS. 55d530. and common west
| ems wanted at S3.25G3.65. Lambs sold
at S3G5.50 for culls to spring lambs, prime
Receipts: Cattle 1000, hogs $1,000, sheer
1900.
miscellaneous.
Chicago. July 12.-Hops-S
CoffeeIClosed steady; August. S. %
September. $3.50; spot Rio. DUH; No. Z, in
voice, 74c; mild, quieter; CordOva, la
lie.
Sugar-Raw, strong; fair refining, SIC
/ centrifugal. SO test, sac.