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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13

which l dare you to match in corrobo-
ration Of this new theory"
You have had advantages" he COM
menced.
And disadvantages I finished, de-
termined that he should award me my
full need Of praise. You are probably
not afraid Of dogs. You could visit the
stables
And did, madam. but I saw moth
ing
Il thought not" I could not help
the interruption. 1t is so seldom one
can really triumph over this man. mot
having the cue, you would not be apt
to see what gives this whole thing
away I would never have thought of
it again If we had not had this talk Is
Mr.. Simsbury neat MANI"
"a neat man, Madam, what do you
mean?"
Something important, Mr.. Gryce.
If Mr.. Simsbury is a neat man he will
have thrown away the old rags which,
I dare promise you, numbered his stable
floor the morning after the riding in
here Of the phantom carriage. If he is
not, you may still find them there. One
of them I know, you will not find. He
pulled it off his wheel with his whip
the afternoon he drove me down from
the station. I can see the sly look he
gave me as he did 1t. 1t made no i'm
Madam, you have got it. That car
riage was the old coach to be found
now in the Knollys stable, and it's
phantom appearance was due to its
noiselessness, which you have now in
a measure explained; but, Miss But
terworth, if they went to the length CT
winding rags around the carriage
wheels to make them noiseless. even
tying up the horses feet for the same
purpose, perhaps, they must have had
motive dark enough to warrant your
deepest suspicious. And William was
not the only one involved. Simsbury,
at least, had hand in it, not does it
look as if the girls were entirely inno-
cent of a foreknowledge of what was
likely to occur"
II cannot consider the girls" I de-
clared. II can no longer consider the
girls"
mo" said he, 1--WE must do our duty.
We must find If any child alighted
from the cars at the mountain station
that night or, what is more probable
if sinister results were expected, from
the little station at c., five miles far
Their up the mountains"
"And"-I urged, seeing that he had
still something to say.
1--WE must make sure who lies buried
under the floor of the room you call
the flower parlor. You may expect
me at the Knollys house some time to-
day. l shall come quietly, but in my
own proper person. You are not to
know me and unless you desire it need
not appear in the matter"
II do not desire IT.
Then good morning, Miss Butter
worth My respects for your abilities
has risen even higher than before. We
part in like mind for once"
And this he expected me to regard
as a compliment.
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AT which she turned and to my great
relief hurried down the corridor to-
ward Williams room, from which she
presently returned, bringing the very
volume l was anxious to consult
Meanwhile I had laid aside my hat.
l felt Hurried and unhappy and showed
1t. Lucetta's pitfful face had strange
sweetness in it this morning, and I felt
sure as 1 took the sacred book from her
hand that her thoughts were all with
the lover she had sent from her side
and not at all with me or what at the
moment occupied me. Yet nv
thoughts at this moment involved,
without doubt, the very deepest inter-
ests Of her life, If not that very lover
she was brooding over in her darkened
and resigned mind. AS I realized this
L heaved an involuntary sigh, which
seemed to startle her. for she turned
and gave me a quick look as she was
slipping away to join her sister, who
was busy at the other end of the hall.
The Bible I held was an old one of
medium size and most excellent print.
I had no difficulty in finding the text
and settling the question which had
been my oStensible reason for wanting
the book, but it took me longer to dis
cover the indentation which l had
made in one of its pages; but when L
did you may imagine my awe and the
turmoil into which my mind was cast
when l found that it marked those
great verses in Corinthians which are
so universally read at funerals:
Behold, I shew you a mystery We
shall not all sleep. but we shall all be
changed.
In a moment. in the twinkling of
Go Be Continued)
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would be treason to Mr.. Gryce and re-
Trained, saying simply, as he looked
sideways at me for word
Lucetta needs a new dress. That no
one can deny But you had better let
me get it for her, or perhaps that is
what you meant"
The grunt which was my only an
swer might be interpreted in any way.
1 took it, however, for. assent.
AS soon as I was relieved of his pres
ence and in that Of the girls again al
tered my whole manner and cried out
in querulous tones:
Mrs. Garter and have had a differ
ence." (This was true. We did have
difference over our cup Of tea. 1 did not
think it necessary to say this difference
was q forced one. Some things we are
perfectly justified in keeping to our
selveS.) "She remembers a certain verse
in the New Testament one way and In
another. We had not time to settle 1t
by consultation with the sacred word,
but cannot rest. till it Is settled, so
will you bring your Bible to me, my
dear, that 1 may look that verse up?"
We were in the upper hall, where l
had taken seat on the old fashioned
sofa there. Lucetta, who was standing
before me, started Immediately to do
my bidding, without stopping to think,
poor child, that it was very strange l
did not go to my own room and consult
my own Bible as any good Presbyterian
would be expected to do. AS she was
turning toward the large front room
where 1 knew the one Bible I wanted
could not be I stopped her with the
quiet injunction:
Get me one with good print, Lucet-
ia. My eyes won't bear much strain
ing"
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From the Denver Times.


Like man, the mosquito is hungrier
the further north she goes. When she
reaches Alaska she is hungry indeed
more voracious than is credible I'M
less one with his own eyes sees her at
work
"She" is used advisedly, for it is the
female that does the biting. The male
behaves himself and feeds on plants,
as mosquito should do. Blood stains
are never found upon his person, nor
does he carry pump or other con-
cealed weapons about with him. He
is always a gentleman.
But the female mosquito, alas! es-
pecially in Alaska, is lost to shame.
A Jersey lady mosquito will hang her
head, but she of the Yukon has no con-
science whatever, nothing but an ap-
petite-a thirst for gore. This is the
more reprehensible because scientists
declare that for her blood is an ac-
qured taste, as much as olives are for
man. She ought to be a vegetarian,
like her husband. Her natural susie
nance is the sap of leaves, but, in her
perversity, she prefers man.
This fOnQneSS IS not reclprOcdleQ, LOT
she is held to be the bright particular
curse Of far north gold fields. After
her comes her cousin, the gnat, and
her great-uncle, the horsefly. These
three pests make the Alaska summer
one long day of misery for the miner
on the Yukon.
The horsef1y is larger in Alaska than
in the states, in fact. nearly twice as
large. He can fly faster and bite
harder in proportion. He leaves a
mark that looks like an incipient boil
and feels like the toothache. A few
of these flies would wear the life out of
a jan if he could not protect himself
against their attacks.
AS it is, they more than double the
difficulty Of travelling through the
country they infest, for the prospector
step he takes, swinging and beating
at them with branches of fir trees I'M
til he regrets that he did not put in a
year with Indian clubs before ventur-
ing north to hunt for gold.
As Thick as Smoke.
The gnats are smaller IN in the
states, because the smaller the gnat the
more mischief it can do, and going
north always develops pest along the
line Of efficiency in sinfulness.
The Yukon gnat is vile wretch.
Mosquito nets and bars do rot prison
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make for him, but for his victim rath-
er. He sails in and out through the
meshes gleefully, playing tag with his
associates in crime and biting a. some
tender spot about once every fifteen
seconds. Nothing short of the finest
yelling will keep him out, and that
keeps the air out, too, which is I'M
pleasant when the thermometer is 100
degrees in the shade
Prof. William Beutenmuller. Of the
Museum Of Natural History, has in
vestigated the mosquito, and recognizes
some thirty kinds of North America,
of which the variety found along the
Yukon is the most pestiferous. Those
swarm in long columns resembling the
smoke rising from camp fire. Ore
can hear their buZZing a hundred feet
away. 1t is not sweet music The
SOUND 1S run-n-n-n, run-n-n-n, run-n-
nm, and that is just what the pros
pector does the second time he hears
tiff there is any second time.
The first concert is his last, some
times, for nervous temperament can
not endure an attack of the pests, and
though a miner should not have nerves,
some miners do have them and find
them sadly in the way in time If
trouble. The mosquito posters such n
man until he sinks from exhaustion,
never to rise again
Not only do the Yukon mosquitoes
attack men and overwheIm them. but
they drive the moose deer and caribou
up the mountains to the snow line.
where these animals would prefer not
to be in berry time. They kill dogs,
and even the big brown bear, that is
often miscalled a grizzly. has sue
cumbed to them. Bears come down
to the river from the hillsides in early
fall to get some of the salmon that are
often thrown upon the banks when the
run" is heavy
If bruin runs foul of a swarm of
mosquitoes and has not his wits about
him, his day has come. The insects
will alight all over him. His fur pro-
tects his body, but his eyes, ears and
nose will soon be swollen up and bleed
ing, and, unless he gets into the river
or a strong wind, he will be driven
mad and blind, to wander about hope
lessly until he starves to death.
Although the Alaskan summer is
short, two broods of mosquitoes hatcn
out each year, and are ready for bust
ness from one to ten seconds after
they leave the water. 1t rains a good
deal along the Yukon, and rain is well
coined, for it drives the mosquitoes to
cover. They hide under leaves and
branches until the shower is over; then
they come out boiling with rage at the
time they have been forced to spend
in idleness, and the miner has a harder
time than ever after his respite.
Mosquitoes and snowflakes are not
contemporaries in the states, but in
Alaska 1t is different. Snow does not
bother them so much as rain, and an
early snow may fall while they are
still on the wing. Fog does not choke
them, either. They appear to like it.
They float about in it as in ambush
and take the unwary prospector by
surprise.
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CHAPTER XXIV.
The Enigma of Numbers.

when l told you that Mother Jane
was out of the question in this matter.
1 meant out of the question for you.
She was a subject to be handled by the
police, and we have handled her. Yes
terday afternoon 1 made a search of her
cabin" Here Mr.. Gryce paused and
eyed me quizzically. He sometimes does
eye me. which same 1 am not bound
to take as a compliment, considering
how fond he is of concentrating all his
wisdom upon small and insignificant
objects.
Il wonder" said he, what you
would have done in such search as
that. It was no common one. L assure
you. There are not many hiding places
between Mother James four walls"
l felt myself begin to tremhle, with
eagerness, of course.
Il wish 1 had been given the oppor
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Observation-Disclosures ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This was worst job than the other,
and it took me an hour to rip apart
the block / settled upon as the suspic-
ious one, but it all came to nothing
also. There was no hidden treasure in
the quilt. Then I searched the walls,
using the measurements 20 by 2S, but
no result followed these endeavors, and
what do you think 1 did then?"
You will tell me-" 1 said, IF 1 give
you one more minute to do it in"
Very WELL" said he. II see you do
not know, madam. Having searched
below and around me, l next turned
my attention overhead. Do you re-
member the strings and strings of dried
vegetables that decorate the beams
above"
II do" I said, not stinting any of
the astonishemnt l really felt.
well, l began to count them next,
and when | reached the SEVENTEEN on
ion from the open doorway | crushed
it between my fingers and-this fell out,
madam-worthless trinklets, as you will
Immediately see but
well, WELL" | urged.
They have been identified as belong
ing to the pedlar who was one of the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13
CHAPTER XVI.
A Discovery.


I have a grim will when I choose to
exert it. After Mr.. Gryce left the hotel
I took q cup Of tea with the landlady
and then made a round of the stores.
I bought dimity, sewing silk and what
not, as I said 1 would, but this did not
occupy me long Ito the regret prob
ably Of the country merchants, who
expected to make a fool of me and
found it a by no means easy task and
was quite ready for William when he
finally drove up.
The ride home was a more or less
silent one. I had conceived such a
horror of the man beside me that talk
ing for talks sake was impossible,
while he was in mood which it would
be charity to call non communicative.
1t may be that my own reticence was
at the bottom of this. but I rather
think not The remark he made in
passing Deacon Spears house showed
that something more than spite was
working in his slow but indicative
brain.
There Is a man of your own sort
he cried. "You won't ind him doing
anything out of the way; oh, no. Pity
your visit wasn't paid there. You'd
have got better impression Of the
lane"
To this made no reply.
At Mr.. Throm's he spoke again.
Il suppose" said he, that you and
Trohm had the devil Of a say about
Lucetta and the rest of US. 1 don't
know why, but the whole neighborhood
seems to feel they've right to use our
name as they choose. But it isn't going
to be so long. We have played poor
and pinched ana starved all I'm going
70 a horse
Lucetta shall have a dress, and that
mighty quick too. I'm tired of all this
shabbiness and mean to have a
change"
I wanted to say. mo change yet;
change under the present circum-
stances would be the worse thing pos
sible for you all" but l felt that this
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Free to Bald Heads.

We viii mail on application free informal
ton how TO grow hair upon a bad head.
stop falling hair and remove scalp diseases.
Address Altenheim Medical Dspensary.
Dept. l. W., Box 779. Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13
THE YUKON MOSQUITO
BRIGHT PARTICULAR CURSE OF
THE KLONDIKE

Miners Driven Insane-Bears
and Deer Driven High Up Into the
MOuntains-The HOrse-FIy and
the Gnat of Alaska.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-21
1T IS TO BE A GO.
to act

The promoters of the enterprise for
constructing q trolley-car railway from
Kansas City to Topeka announce that
their plans are nearly completed, and
that the road will be built and be in
operation before the expiration of the
present year. The company has been
organized under the charter, editor
tally referred to a week or two ago by
the Eagle. The proposition is TO use
the water power of the Lawrence dam
to operate the dynamos and the road
viii carry both freight and passengers,
the right-of-way for which is being Sc
cured. The Eagle, in the article refer
red to, ventured the opinion that in
the event of the movement ever mater
ializing that like road would be ex
tended to Leavenworth, to its fort and
to its coal fields. 1t was given out yes
terday that the same company, backed
by additional interests, would now
build such line in connection with the
coal mine owners at Leavenworth. the
scheme being the building of an i'm
mense power-house at the mouth Of the
Leavenworth mines, which should not
only supply operating power for the
trolley line, but for transmission to
the two Kansas Cities. The company
announce a capital of 100000, and
Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio as being
interested in the project.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-21
KANSAS AND REPUBLICAN1sM.

The Cincinnati Times-Star, in giving
2 tabulated statement of the agricul-
tural condition of Kansas, as compiled
by the state board, goes on to say that
"the board is not a partisan organlza-
ton, its political complexion scarcely
being known beyond the states Dor
ders. and yet the report is one of the
strongest Republican arguments ever
circulated. 1t shows that under Re
publican protective tariff and Repub-
Iican national administration, the ag
gregate yield in dollars and cents to
the farmers of Kansas was more than a
hundred millions in excess of the ag-
gregate when a Popocratic free trade
instrument was in force and a Demo-
cratic power in charge of national af
fairs.
So much has been said and written
of the extraordinary crops and pros
perity of Kansas in the last six months
that one is led to believe that 1897 was
the banner year for Kansas. Such is
not the case, however. In fact the
prosperity enjoyed by Kansas in 1897
was only extraordinary when compared
with the four years of President Cleve-
lands administration. Only one year of
President Harrison's administration,
viz, 1890, does 1897 exceed, while it is %
per cent less than 1892
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Along the Kansas Nile

A Kansas newspaper man describes
Fred Funston's Wild trip 10 Cuba as Big
pluck, less luck and no Judgment"
II is lamentable. bat Ingalls, non-orator-
tcal influence in Kansas is best represent
ed by the numerical contour Of a l--.s-
nut.
Owing to the inclemency Of his tongue.
Mr.. ingalls, win not be on John Seat0n' $
delegation 10 the state convention from
Atchison county.
The Populists are losing their hold ~
Barber county. Il was always surprise
that the party Of PETER could b. so strong
in county named Barber
There are now only four Popuiist on
GERS in Barber county and the Index. the
Popuiist organ. says that unless The Pop
ulists quit qEarrelius, there VIII not De
any.
The onlyRepubHcan aEpirant for COVER
nor in Kansas who can turn the people
into a jury. ard make TIE election. the
consideration q q u1oDted case, Is " +
Stanley Of wichita
A Lyons poetess says; 7 stand n the
twilight. Tn kissed by the dew" This is
eucoura gfnE. A good many Kansas poet
esses have stood 81 the twilight and ben
kissed BY the bot Uynd.
Taking both Ona Belton'a experience
and Fred Funston's exper&suce 50 SENS
plain that the EpanisF6s treat Kan
San IN Caba out - prison worse than
they d = Eansaa 81 prison-
Il Is said a. Topeka that n . Toisr
q wichita hal the pole IN the governor
ship race. when I>eedY dropped a pe,loe
comm issionaTEaip on tae track and Toler
sl7ied over tie fence into the paftock
i IS announced a. Medicine IarsEs that
J. y. Titus % thai city Vsat 30 Dhle %
help Marx Hama get elected ard that
a. conssqisesce Re expects the pot
0fnce IA the toEn % Congressional tlE1-
Der.
County Clerk Hzmil.or's aeqElt.al n
Harper county r. asif 20 - shs loud ciaag
q a bel. when Incidentally s. tnlilzz
while TIA poliSsca1 hsarse aBozlv wlass
scrozs me Isa, W5sA JUICE &cEaT ca
the Inside.
SINE - tie western papers are box
ing a. they uHsd 20 look F-gr iaztzrcs
orse NAB advsr-faes Tor the fe1oxiuF
EtrsyE- Vt anywhere % anima1s
isft nip - side = lsfi hlp - zs4s flEfsf
szw. Il behssd rizat she1issr. tzr nz4rk
split n rtKht ear TEo s-Tear-old O.
horDsd steers bTzo6es. G o. SER ae1k ass
az
IN EazzsF eDgnty 81 ~ ts.sre zsrs z.
les r-sorzxaEss alsf THAR ln lE tAsre
saed taan there xers Sled b. sssG Ghe
azssgDf = real estate toorEs4xea recessed
Il - ever TIE <zzozzL @le4 E21 Izs..zs.
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The amount Of real estate mortgages re-
leased in 1907 over the amount filed IN
1891 was izs1.Iis. Ia 1877 alone 81 real 80
tate mortgages were released "a this cotn-
y alone
II 81 said that ons Of the before uen~
toned troubles accom- pc nytnR the dtrso-
luton OF prohibition is that The violation
~ the Law IS more aagraBt and indecent
lu the smaller towns than fn the larger
ones. In the small weekly papers fire.
.;tfenf reference - seen 70 drunken
brnwis." u ths larger cities Kansas
drunken bragls are unknown. Tbs
chances are THAI Kansa. wiu have 20 take
NJ local option. when - makes a change
on ire liquor matter.
Winneid Courier. one % the STUDENTS
II the Methodist college r. feeling sizhiy
honoTo4 these DAYS. g =. Gould. Who
spent q good part n the sumner wish
Dr. Wara ia the western part 81 tas
state. there made Houle discoveries % con
siderable ReoigFicai importance On hfs
return he wrote an article on the subject
FOR the American Journal of Ecisnos 81
Yale college. and bssa been nofiaed tast
y Wil - published shortly. This = re
leading nctenfiac 5ourHsl n ths oeBntry.
j. y ss1U made fhe drawing Wsich ~tn
accompany tns artlcie-
\ Gan eay article zn the WiHfsif Coss-
rier, "shakespearr or Eorzs other Efsa:
man once salt that history repeated ifssf
ard that e true ~ fhis weafheT. fsna
year aao g showed sH are afrsrDeor snf
night. and t1e next FuoruiaE TIE psepis
Of southern EhrsaE cav as pretty slxht
~ ever tlckisa a. artistic eye BiE. soft
FAX ~ Faaw had covered eTergtslng
during fhe night. ard fae limits = 80
trees si=5ort touched ne NroEHf. SslEhs-
- 6osra WISE t5e white Gzssi fn0is;ars-
To add 80 tHs bezBfT - ths scsns darfrz
the flseIt tae elggfs eaEDerazz and = biE
round aaoon looked soEn 80 the earth
ard gniies. arf fhs elect Wss a ph~-
rseme-ag gte<ur- u heastT. sr~as "a
~ - he snoss thssfzatfssl ones haa thssr
homes pbotoETa pasf ard ths pictures a.
kiznlT pzizs1 as sgsssezirN Prom a. ar
tlsf's zteHsiyoinf last years storm nay
s1cse5 fhss. bat CONSIDERED n tha ed
Gear Urhs - 6elszrH asd eszssz. tkis 60
- ssvrraI cniacn hsssz atezd
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no reform if it were desired, for no
body pretends to believe that any OF
the measures suggested can pass the
senate as it is now constituted.
Then what is the use of the Repub-
Leans getting up a big hullabaloo in
the house, and, as Mr.. Cannon said,
Quitting their heads against the wall?
Let the senate take up the currency
question first If it can pass any sort
of bill then it will be time for the house
fo act
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Iener~nn-Ten RuIes.

Never put Of until tomorrow what yo1
can do today.
Never trouble another for what you car
Do yourself.
Never spend your money before you
have earned IL
Never buy what you don't want because
Il Is cheap
PRIDE costs more than hunger. thirst
ard cold
We seldom repent Of having eaten too
little
Nothing IS troublesome that we % W.T.
bngiy.
How much pain the evils have cost Is
that have never happened
Take things always by tne smooth han
de
When angry. count ten before yoE
speak; Il veEy angry. count = hundred
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-21

Hutchinson News: \ bin has been In
troduced in the Virginia legislature 10 Is
sue coloneI's commissions 70 all who vii
nav a 81 Zee. This viii provide al easy
way 10 be a colonel but Il IS not 50
simple as IN kansas where q good cigar
10 a reporter viii get the title conferred.
and the cigar does not have 10 be 50
very good. either.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-21

TIE t=siss days after Christmas as
s8ppose1 20 la6iezss ths z~ssaer fa- -
yezr. Ezeh Day r. sr1rr shaws - w.a-
fser far ere north
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-21

a wholly new thing. and it's going 70
make a hl, We have II In black and
white and Il colors.-G5c a yard. 2"