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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-27

q thank you Senor Labor. As for me, have no fear. When I die. it will be here. And unborn men will fear to finger alone among the sierra, where the great chief of the sequestradores lies asleep.
 On the third day reports circulated that Pablo Gomez, the brigand of the sierra, had eXpiated his many crimes.
 Robledo was free to return to the noun tains, but one little half hour must still be snatched to further his own affairs. Perhaps those who read may remember a certain Isabellla with a fine ankle and lustrous eyes. also those dark eyes were lit with lovelight for the ragged. brave and picturesque Robledo. The thought of her tempted him to delay. It was night fall when he strolled into a narrow lane to sing a serenade of passion and farewell under barred window, but a sound of hurrying footsteps coming down the street Robledo and his guitar were at once swal- lowed up in the darkness of a neighbor- ing doorway.
 Two men appeared striding swiftly along the line of shadow, but as they drew near Robledos hiding place, shaft of moon- light through break in the house roofs caught the lhalf-muffled profile of one of them. Robledo first started and crossed himself, then with a quick, monkey ges- tuse he put out his hand and touched the cloak of this person as he passed. It felt rough and real enough to thrust all mo- tions of ghosts out of the brigand's mind.
 This was no apparition, but Fable Co., meg very much in the flesh.
 Robedo comprehended that this portend- ed serious trouble against the whole band of the sequestradores in the sierra. He himself could not guess what it might be- but he would hasten back with the news to Don e.. who knew everything who could defeat every strategem.
 Robledo inserted one lean brown hand behind u bar and drew himself up to the window until q comedy. powdered face and his own sun drowned one were close together. and a brief whispering ensued Two minutes later he dropped down. wiped some powder from his lips, and slid away through the shadows. On the second day he was urging his mule at a speed il had never before attained through the Boca de Jabili.
 Well. my child.' said Don O.. gently when Robledo once more stood before him. you have fulfilled my commands or you would not be here"
 ''Yes. lord"
 And the vile Pablo has been garrot- ted?"
 NO, lord.
 The chiefs livid eyes fiickered ominous- ly at the young man.
 Corpse of a sculion! You have dared
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climbing the path. In front Of them walked d handsome girl Of, perhaps, 2o years of age. She had the graceful gait ot her nation. and the droop of her shape ly figure, her extreme pallor and the ap- peal in her beautiful eyes seemed to touch the long -ehilled heart of the chief.
 He rose. and with conspicuous ele- gance of movement, swept his hat to the ground.
 "Senorta, I kiss your feet
 The girl grew whiter as she gazed at the baldbrowed yulture aspect of Don Q. She turned to Labor, and, reading pity in his glance, she begged him to plead for her.
 "There will be no need, senorita,' re- piled I.alor, in halting Spanish, Don Q. Is your best friend.'
 'I beg you, senorita to accept my most humble apologies for the indignity with which this miscreant has treated you" The chief pointed to Pablo. T have written to the governor of the prison of Castelleno to deal with him to the utmost severity of the law, while you shall be conducted with all care and tenderness to your family
 You are about to set me free?" cried the girl.
 ''Doubtless. you have heard many things of me Donna Inez,' replied Don Q. sadly. Have those stories ever included one  a woman?'
 No, no, senor. You are good, you de- prive me of words" she faltered. How can I thank you?"
 ''very easily. most beautiful flower Be good enough to make it well known in the plains that in whatever manner I may deal with men, my bearing toward ladies is above reproach. Cruel false hoods have been spread about me down below here You will more than repay any small service l may have been for tunate enough to render you. if you will clear my reputation of the slurS certain unworthy creatures have thrown upon it.''
 'I will tell them. l thank you with all my heart senor.
 Don .. turned to Labor,
 Amigo he said softly. you will go with this lady 10 the lower pass. You can reassure her as these rough ones never can"
 On Lalors return a few hours later to the cave, he found Don Q. in unusually good spirits.
 By this time the guardias civiles have charge of our good Pablo he remarked. "Robledo will him enter the gates of the prison and in a day or two will bring to us news of the execution, Per haps. dear friend, you think have shown weakness in allowing that rascal to get
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-27
How Dom o Stood at Bay

INTER was breaking and the \AI plains were already gay with
 w flowers. when Garth Labor re- turned to the Coca de Lobo as Don e s guest An invitation from so uncommon a source might not have been accepted iby every one with the eagerness shown by . Garth Labor. Don e. wrote that he had need of a friend. and Labor responded by setting out at once, for he had long ago grown to like Don Q. for many of the remarkable points In his strange char acter.
 Labor. as will doubtless be remembered. had accompanied Don .. on that eccen- tric tour of justice, during which sum- mary vengeance was dealt out to cer- tain Gen. Don Basilio, and the brigand' s conduct had inspired Labor with unmiti- gated respect for him and faith in his promises.
 He had already spent nearly a month with the famous sequestrador, but dur ing the last couple of weeks his host of the Sierra had remained plunged in a mood of melancholy, shot and illumi- , mated by flashes of cold rage.
 One morning as Labor sat on the ter race summing himself in the brilliant air. Don 0. joined him. Chilly usual, the chief, wrapped in his cloak his sombrero pulled low over his brows, sat for few moments in silence, then he disengaged one meager hand, and pointing down ward at the men gathered in groups in the valley below he told story in his sibilant voice. It the first break in his silence of several days.
 "One of these wolves, these mountain apes" he began sourly has dared to play a little part in imitation of a man of me. in short-with the grotesque result . one would expect from such a travesty As regards the animal him self, it matters not at all. But he has injured me in degree so monstrous that his blood alone cannot wash out his crime,'
 "One Pablo has captured and held to ransom a lady of wealthy though not noble family It came to my knowledge as all events ultimately come, and I descended the mountains and caught the fellow red-handed," the chief went en. Perhaps. senor. you did the honor
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around. because the wind is in the wrong direction" Every morning the sun rolls up in silvery splendor and surveys the same old parched land scape, with the strip of irrigated green, and after leisurely and mo- notonous day sinks through a golden glow into the far stretching desert. No one is looking for rain or hoping for it. When it comes it is regarded as a calamity It washes down the mud huts, collects in pools and makes breeding spots for microbes and leaks through hotel roofs, so that tourists have to carry umbrellas in going to the dining room. In March of this year there was heavy rainfall around Assouan, extending as far north as Luxor, and when we came along, a few weeks later, the natives were still bewailing the visitation of Allah's Writ-.4.
 The extreme dryness of the air in Egypt causes the visiting microbe to feel like an alien. It becomes eneryated and discouraged, incapable of initiat- ing any new and fashionable epidemics. This same air, however, seems to have a tonic effect on the flea. In no other cnme is he so enterprising, so full of restless energy, so given to unexpected achievements. During dull season, if there is a short supply of tourists, he associates with the natives. He prefers the tourist; but. come what may, he is never idle. The bacillus, on the other hand, has circumscribed opportunities. Inasmuch as the entire population of the country lives along the river, one would suppose that harmful germs would be bred and disseminated by the billion. Yet both natives and visitors drink from the river with impunity. ''The sweet water of the Nile" 1t is called and even the most anprehen-
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tions. If any of them finished under the wire it was by mere chance and not because of any guiding intelligence. One demented water buffalo turned and ran at right angles to the course. The last we saw Of him he was dis appearing over hill tow trd the set ting sun, with the native jockey .iding on all parts of the upper deck, from the horns back to the tail.
 The gymkhana is intended to provide an afternoon of undiluted nonsense, and for the benefit of those who fiud reason tottering on her throne and who don't care what they do as long as they enjoy themselves, I shall ap- pend a few sample competitions from an Egyptian and suggest that they be tried in America:
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off so cheaply. considering his crime Tn causing distress to the senortta. Wh0 is indeed as beautiful as rumor declared her to be. But what will you? l, of all persons, cannot afford to lose my good name"
 You have never thought of retiring from the serra-from your professions? inquired Lalor.
 Don @, who had been huddled by the fire, sat up. The glancing flames played over him, and never had the contrast between his fragile body and fierce heart been so apparent.
 But, senor, you appear not to com prehend this matter!' he exclaimed. his thin voice taking on the sibilant sound of anger Your question Is ill-considered It proves that you have failed to under stand the motives which led me to adopt my present profession. In business per haps as in that of the wineseller or the dealer in vegetables, which has as It's object the amassing of a competence, one hears of persons retiring. But have you ever heard of a poet an author, an ar lists retiring?"
 Labor hastened to acknowledge that he had not.
 "The same rule applies to me-" pur- sued the chief haughtily "The excite ments of my life and the greatness of my career are as dear to me as ever, and the idea of leaving them is in- toerable,
 "A man of my eminence cannot dis appear. No. senor. the feud between the law and myself will never be ended until am dead And when the names which today appear notable in the land, are forgotten, men will still speak of Don Q, My fame and my doings have enriched the Spanish language"
 'Senor have you no fear of capture ?? Labor could not withhold the question.
 "Ah. mo- my dear friend. none,' the thin claw-like fingers were spread to the blaze, none whatever. shall die at my own time and in my own fashion
 The young author sighed He had grown almost attached 70 the strange inhuman outlaw whose nature. as he now knew. could be touched to such fine issues.
 HWhy do you sigh?" Don e. asked in his courteous way.
 Pardon me" exclaimed the young man impetuously. but who of lis can say that luck will forever be on his. side? You are here alone Those about you are wolves-you have called them so. And wolves will drink each others blood. Lis- ten to me: England offers safe re- treat Come there-'
 The delicate yellow hand went up to deprecate further urging.
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nance there always sems to be lurking crafty and elusive sense of humor. The names are marvellous. At the various stops on our way up the Nile became personally acquainted with Rameses the Great, Rameses Tele- graph, Rameses Telephone, Jim Cor bett Whiskey Straight, Lovely Sweet, Roosevelt, Sleeping Car, Lydia Pink ham and others equally appropriate which I cannot now recall.
 As have indicated above, our wan derings have carried us as far as Luxor Luxor (the ancient Thebes) is the su- perlative of all that is old and amazing in Egypt, and therefore it calls for at least one separate chapter. I can only say Continued in our next" For sale at all news stands
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and buzz into his ears, Welcome tc our city" Then when he begins spar ring with them and using sulphuroU5 language they gather about him in augmented numbers and dodge when he strikes and sidesteps when he slaps himself and seem to think that he is trying to teach them some new kind of "tag" game. The Mohammedan fly cannot by any effort of the imag- ination bring himself to believe that human being would wilfully injure him. This feeling of overconf1dence in man. kind breeds carelessness, and during the open season for tourists many ot them are laid low. MT. Peasley said that if there was anything in the trans migration theory he figured that he had massacred a regiment of soldiers, several boards of directors, a high school and an insane asylum. The mortalities during the tourist season do not seem to lower the visible SUD- ply or in any way discourage the sur viving millions.
 When we started up the river a ped dler came to the boat and offered us i some small fly brooms. They are very much like the brush used by the ap- prentice in a blacksmith shop to pro tect the horse that Is being shod. The brush part is made of split palm leaves or horse hair and the handle Is dec orated with bead work. The idea of person sitting about and whisking himself with this ornamental dnster struck us as being most unusual, not to say idiotic. Before we had travelled far up the Nile we had joined the grand army of whiskers. The fly broom is essential It is needed every eight sec onds. At Luxor we went out to see a gymkhana under the auspices of the Luxor Sporting Club, and every one of 1 the two hundred spectatOrs sat there
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siye travellers learn to take 1t in after putting in about twenty drops of Scotch, so as to benumb the bacilli, if any should be present. There is an explanation of the micro-organism's s failure to do very much harm in Egypt. If bacillus living anywhere along the shore starts for a ramble along the shore he is sunstruck, and falls help less in the sand. If he sticks to the water, the monontony of travel begins to wear upon him, and after about seven miles he dies of ennui.
 If Egypt is happy hunting ground for the flea, it is likewise paradise for the fly. If I had to be something in Egypt, I should prefer to be Mo- hammedan fly. This little creature, which in most countries is bounded
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over to unmolested enjoyment. The older children have learned their les son and seldom make any effort 10 brush away the flies which loiter all over their bright young features. This is not a pleasant thing to talk about, but. inasmuch, as the fly is omnipres- ent during a trip up the Nile and this friendy understanding between the fly and the native is. constantly under the travellers observation, a description of Egypt would be sadly incomplete with out a chapter on the fly.
 Having been a privileged class for many generation, the flies are impu- dent and familiar to a degree. When the white unbeliever, with no consci. entious scruples against murder, comes up the river, they swarm about him
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seen them improved during my boy
 hood days in Indiana. In other words
 they were scooping dirt out of the ditch on either side and dumping it in tall, unsurmountable hillocks right ] in the middle of the roadway. The most hydrocephalous township super visor in the whole middle west could not have done a more imbecilic job.
 In Indiana every voter is required to work the roads" or pay a road tax. Of late years, under intelligent direction, the highways have been vastly improved. but there was time twhen working the roads" was large joke. To avoid paying the tax the farmer would have to go out with a team and do something to a public
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begin pronouncing funeral orations over the corn crop. Fourteen days without rain and the whole country Is on the toboggan, headed straight for bankruptcy. Yet here in Egypt, where they haven't experienced really wet rain for twenty centuries, the people go about cheerfully, and there is no complaint regarding providence.
 But what an unsatifactory hang-out for the weather shark! In Egypt the oldest inhabitant never gets up in the morning and says, "I'm satitied we're going to have rain today, because my rheumatiz bothered me all night" There is no need of looking for rings around the moon. You never hear any one say. Tt looks little black in the north, but I think it'll blow
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The intelligent reader may have mo- ticed that now and then l have re- ferred to the dust in Egypt. Egypt makes all the other dusty spots OH
 earth seem dank and water logged. We asked truthful Hassim, our guide at Assiut, if there had been any rain fall lately. He said that about five years ago there had been light show CT, and during one of the Ptolemy ad- ministrations there had been rather old drencher The Ptolemy family oc- cupied the throne about two thousand years ago. At home, take it in the dog days, If we have no rain for two weeks and the crick dries up, all the local apostles of gloom and advance agents of diversity clot themselves together in front of the postoffice and
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By K. and Hesketh Pritchard.


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The Virginia enterprise., 1906-03-02

public opinion yet has shown sign Of deterioration
Whenever the stirred by practices dragged
light other evils their verdict may be depended upon and
impartial There nothing earth sauary the purifying
breath Of public opinion ""< :**::. -.
Occasionally expresses itself slowly and tard:
and startling revelations required action
aroused the verdict of the people emphasizes the that voice
Of the people is the voice Of Cod =: -: 49, : -,
AS coolary this the conscience the peo
pie has been profoundly agaed by lax business Standards There
no IFS and and about either the the effect simple
statement OF fact that the integrity Of national character is
trial.
What the root Of the evil? What the fundamental
lnlquous much sheer neglect which becomes
occasion? So far casually Observed the great fault
that good have their
intending guard them by close the
their names given They have been depoab deec
merous but Of them have been snnd against
SHINING, so far criminal intention is concerned.
But has been needed lesson and greater
financial institutions will have difficulty future
fore in getting respectable capable gentlemen
csr and, not infrequenty as decoy ducks: .'.:
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-03-02
]polt&p Of @obermn>ent
&oao @utlotnQ
By HON. W. P. BROWNLOW,
Member Of Con6ress from Tennessee.

have for been turned other The aid ex
tended the Pacific railroads. covering hundreds money
and public and and the hundreds millions spent and
its good when appropriatng increase improve
the transportation facilities of the country That
on adhered by the lead
aid the states road improvement govern
naen rests the loyalty of its people, The people
times of and defend times The are the
Whatever policy will benefit the people national
obligation be observed by those entrusted build
ing recognized function Of
but No country has witnessed road construction
except by aid Our national experience
ty the declaration that the of the have
tematized road building until the general way
cooperation with the states If the congress had authority under the
constitution take the peoples from the treasury aid such
special interests railroad construction and hbor inn
surely of credtabe will contend that
authorized by the constitution take peoples monev and
devote their direct and immediate necessities M
agriculture has figured from carefully gathered that bad roads
the farmers of the United States evrv time the sn
down. That is fearful showing Refusal relieve this cond
ton the the farmers the should annually
along and conate that much of their products or if
gess should order destroyed by other good
legislation than need lot of other things contended for
We need good roads legislation anv special
thing just and we hope the congress will do Justice to
the people either enact the proposed Brownoa BILL or
into ;S%i 'a~ S"''''' '@'''' z>/E?zZoz<<z<~
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-03-02
A New Game Of Authors.

This is a new version OF the old
game Of authors, and will delight those
who are we'll acquainted with books.
All the questions must be answered by
the name of an author.
l. A kind of linen-Holland.
z. name that means such fiery
things, one can't describe it's pains and
stings.-Burns
3. Kind of a bonnet.-Hood,
4. "A high church cfficial.-Pope.
5. Part of hospital-Ward.
6. What host said when the meat
was tough.-Chaucer
Z. Something hard to bear.-Payne.
8. A kind OF bread and proposition.
-Ruskin.
9. An artisan.-Either Goldsmith or
Cooper.
10. What Oliver Twist called for
Moore.
II. A breakfast dish.-Bacoa.
IL. A domestic animal and q con-
tented noise.-Cowper.
13. A dress lining.-Wiggin.
IA. An obstruction to navigation
f;arr.
Is. Something on a foot-Bunyan.
16. A Observation-Disclosures
II. A game and proposition. Ten
nyson.
Is. An adjective.-Grand.
19. A fraction of currency and a
heavy weight.-Milton.
20. Badly wounded.-Alcott
21. What the fox dreads-Hunt.
%. That which is more than a sandy
shore.-Shelley.
%. The name of r:ver.-Poe
"a. The way we will look after this
mental strain.-Haggard.
The prize for this contest should be
a framed photograph Of some author.
Candy boxes may be had to represent
books, and could be used as favors.
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-03-02
PAIR OF WARM TIGHTS:
This a Very, Nice Present to a Child
and Does Not Soon Wear
Out.

This useful little garment may be
worked in almost any kind of wool,
but Andalusian or three-ply vest wool
will usually be of sufficient thickness,
and OF which about three ounces and
No. bone hook will be needed.
Work a chain of eight inches, turn
and work double crochet in each
stitch, turn with one chain.
Second row: A double crochet in
the back thread of each stitch, turn
with one chain, and work back again
\oack thread only to be used through
QUIT, turn with one chain.
Third row: A double crochet in
each stitch of previous row, then work
three chain, turn and pass the nearest,
a double crochet in each of the other
TWO, and finish the row as before.
Fourth row: A double crochet in
each double crochet of previous row,
and one into the turning chain. three
chain, turn, and work back as before
Fifth to eleventh rows: Same as
last. (Another row or two may be
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-03-02
NICE PRESENT FOR BABY.

l. L.
added here should a longer leg be re-
quired.)
Twelfth to twenty-fourth rows:
Same length as II.
'Twenty-fifth row: Decrease by 1eav-
ing the last two stitches unworked
and passing over the last made double
crochet when turning, instead Of maxi
ing chain, thus decreasing three
stitches. Continue decreasing each
row until the row is of the same
length as the first one. Work another
row same as last. and repeat from
row g. Join the last row to the foun-
dation chain with single crochet, place
the sides of the legs together, and join
with single crochet.
Commence from the seam and work
one double crochet with one chain be-
tween into each rib Tor row. round
the ankle.
Second row: Ono double crochet
into each stitch all round.
Third row: One double crochet in
each stitch half way round, II chain,
turn and work a double crochet, in
each chain, and then work round the
other half the. leg like the first: work
a double crochet in each stitch (back
thread) all round for ten times, pass
ing over one stitch at heel and toe in
each OF the last two rows; join on
wrong side with single crochet
Tie round the ankle with chain and
tassels of the wool.
For the Top.-A double treble with
one chain between in each row all
round; a single crochet through both
threads of each stitch all round:
thread the double trebles with a chain
Of wool and tie at one side.