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:.* The Frenchman hid never been lucky Tsrith his goats. He lost them all the same way., One line day they would break their rope and run "up the mountain side, where the wolf killed them. Nothing held them back, neither the kindness o£ their master, nor' the fear of the wolf.

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ng him. Ah, madcap! She was a creature, that little goat of the {Frenchman! How pretty she was with iier soft eyes, her funny chin whiskers, her sHining black hoofs, her litue striped horns and with her silky overcoat of whlt6 fur! She was almost as beautiful, tny madcap,

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asked: -is this, Daisy? You don't Wish to leave me, do you?" "Yes, sir.'1. answered. Daisy. "Isn't thece gnass.enough?" vh, ye.Si sjr." "Perhaps -you|r~ r.ope is too tight. Snail lengthen ii a'little'?" 'Tisn't worth while, sir." "Well, then. What is the trouble? What do you want?" "I want to run up the mountain side." "My poor love, don't you know that there is.-. a.,,iwol£-.up in the mountains? What wiH-you do when he comes?". "I can butt him with my horns, sir." "The wolf .wU"-laugh at your horns. He has killed ray other, goats, who had longer horn'sT thdn yours. You have heard of that, old RuSset, who was here last year? An old- mother goat, strong and ugly like a buck. She fought all night long with thfe wolf, then in the morning the wolf- .killed hen" "That doesn't make any difference, master. Let me go up to the mountains." "Greatikea^ens!" said-the Frenchman. "What on earth have they done to ail tny goats?,. Ano,thgr. one, which the wolf will take"from me! j*6.' no I will save you in spite of yourself, haughty thing and leSt'ybti 'break your" rope, I will lock you up. in'th^stable,"and you shall stay there fot»w®0'd.y.'''

So the' Frehchmatt1: put. the goat into a dark stable, --a«n$irJteked and bolted the floor behind ^ibr --Unluckily he had forgotten.^e, y-'indojy. ~an£ his back was ecarceiy.-tum£dc.-fcejfora the little one jumped out. When the white goat had climbe41tfi.S"n%6'fl(tUih .there was joy and happiness. Never had the old pines seen

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pretty a"crcatuVe. She was welcomed like & little" qiieen. The chestnut trees stooped-down-to. the- very earth to pel. her with the ends of their branches. The golden jennets opened to make a passage for her, and smelled-as sweet as they could. All-the mountain side bade her welcome.t You can fancy, madcap mine, how happy our little goat was. No more rope, no more stakes for her,

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from frisking about and grazing where she liked, .fhe^e Ayas grass there up to her horns "and higher. Grass that was fresh, tender, tufted, and with it thousands of plaftt'$,and herbs—very different, Indeed, from the turf in the Frenchman's Vard. And flowers, too! There were large bluebells tfttft tinkled in the wind and purple foxgloves with slender, drooping pecks in. short, whole meadows of wild Sowers smelling so good they turned her head. Half tipsy with delight the white toat tumbled around in it all, kicking her Four legs up in the air and rolling down the hills all in a heap with the fallen leaves and the chestnut burrs. Then, Ruick as a flash, she would jump to her Jeet .and oft she went, with her head between her knees, over the stumps and through the bushes, now on a high rock, jiow again to the bottom of a gorge, up ^nd down and everywhere. You would have thought that there were a dozen fcoats on the mountain. Ah. no, Daisy Wasn't afraid of anything. In a single bound she jumped over torrents, where her fur was splashed with spray and •white foam. Dripping and out of breath then, she stretched herself out on some flat rock and let the sun dry her. Once, when she went to the edge of the cliff with a clover blossom in her mouth, she paw below, far below her in the valley, the house of the Frenchman with the pasture behind it. The sight made her laugh till her sides ached. "How small it is!" she cried, "how could it ever have held me?"

Poor little thing! Finding herself perched up so high she thought she was at least as big as the world. Suddenly the wind freshened the mountain turned purple it was evening. "Already," said the little goat, as she stood still with wonder.

Below the meadows were drowned in mist. The Frenchman's pasture was lost In the hase, and of

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only the roof and a thin wream of smoke could be seen. She listened to the bells of the cattle going home, and felt sick at heart. A hatVk, that was flying back to his nest, touched her with his wings as he shot by. She shivered. Then there came a deep, long howl from the mountain side. "Hoo! Hoar?

She thought of the wolf. All day long the little runaway had not given him a thought. In the same moment the sound of a distant horn came from the valley. It was the good Frenchman calling her back for the last time. "Hoo! Hoo!" howled the wolf. "Come home! Come home!" blew the horn.

Daigy^wanted to go back, but when she remembered the stake, the rope and the lied^.r a^6und the pasture she thought

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ed, who longed for freedom and fresh air at any price. The good Frenchman, who did not understand the nature of his jmimals in the least, was bewildered. He would say: "It is all over my goats don't like to stay' with me I shan't keep any more." All the same, he did not get discouraged, for after having lost six goats, one after the other, he bought, a seventh only this time he was careful to take it while it was still young, so that it might get used the better to stay-

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Esmeralda, and, with all that, good and affectionate,-allowing her self to be milkqd without stirring, without ever putting ner foot into the bucket. A darling little goat! Behind his house the Frenchman had a lot with a .hawthorn hedge around «t. This is.where he put his new boarder. Sle tie'd her to a stake on the most beautiful spot in the meadow, taking care to give her a good deal of rope, and from time' to time he came out to see whether Ehe were doing*well. The little goat was very happy, and cropped the grass so Semurely that .the Frenchman was delighted. "At last," thought the poor man, "at last th ^e, is one who won't grow tired here.'.'

The Frenchman was mistaken. The goat found it tiresome. One day she said, looking at the mountains: "HoW happy one must be up there! What fuiv to frisk over the rocks without that horrid rope to make the neck Bore It may-be^good enough for a donkey or for a' calf to be shut up in a pasture/ Goats need the open country."

From that -moment the grass of the meadow tasted flat. Life became a burden. She grew thin and her milk gave out. It was a pity to see her

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all day, with hfer eyes turned toward the mountairj. §nd h,er nostras extended, bleating pit^ouW a1}f '"the while. The Frenchrfianv"SUW v^ry well that something was the .frtaltteyWttt-his- goat, only Ae did not kMiaWi.wJaat.itlwaS^-One morning, when he* -fiadh ^finished milking her, the goat .turned.,her head and said in her Dwn.speech ,,. "Listen, master. I am very miserable here. BP 'the mountain." "Gracious,, hie,','! She' too," cried the Frenchman"'in .dismay, and the bucket fell' from 'TffifS Windy "Sitting down then in the gfass 'at" Qfe

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she could not stand it any more and that she had rather stay. Suddenly she heard a rustling of leaves behind her. She looked back and saw two burning eyes in the dusk, with two short ears standing up straight above them. It was the wolf. Monstrous and horrible there $ie sat on his haunclies, glaring at the little white goat and licking his chops. As he knew for sure that he would devour her, the wolf was in no hurry only when she turned her head he laughed wickedly. "Ha, ha, the Frenchman's little goat!" and his long red tongue licked along the row of sharp white teeth. Daisy knew she was lost. For a moment, as she remembered the story of old Russet, who had fought all night, to be killed in the morning, she thought it were better perhaps to let herself be devoured right away. Then, having changed her mind, she fell back a step, with her head low and her horns in advance, like the brave little goat she was—not because she hoped to kill the wolf—goats don't kill wolves— but merely to try whether she could not hold' out as long as old Russet. Then the wolf made a leap, and the little horns came in play. Brave little goat! How she threw her heart into it! More than ten times—I tell the truth, madcap—she made the wolf fall back and pant for breath. During these rests of a minute the

GREEDY LITTLE THING

wotild quickly crop one more tuft of her dear grass and come back to the fight with, her mouth full. It lasted all night. From time to time the Frenchman's goat glanced up at the stars, spinning through the clear night overhead, and said to herself: "Oh if I can only hold out till dawn!"

One after another the stars went out. Daisy's horns uutted faster and harder the wolf snapped and bit more savagely. A faint light appeared in the east. Far away, among the farms, a rooster crowed hoarsely. "At last," said the poor animal, who only wished for the day so as to die and. she lay down in the grass, wun her silky white fur all flecked with blood.

Then the wolf fell upon the little goat and devoured ner. a

Good-bye, my madcap. The story you have heard is not a tale of my making. If ever you go to France, the Frenchmen will often speak to you of "the pretty goat of the Provence, who fought all night with the wolf, and then, in the morning,, the wolf ate her up."

You understand me, madcap? "And then, in the mornifig, the wolf ate her up.",

PROTECTION AGAINST SUNSTROKE.

Glass Helmets Declared by a French Professor to be the Proper Thing. JProf. Lannelongue, a famous Freneh scientist and a eollaborator of Prof., Cookes, has invented a helmet made of, strontium glass, for the purpose of ward?, ing off the sun's rays. Although most people do not realize it, sunlight contains, a certain proportion of what are called rays If these are deflected at a certain angle they will blister human flesh. The causes of this deflection are trivial in themselves, but Prof. Lannelongue claims that they are none the less powerful because of the results they bring about. He believes that it is these rays in the sunlight that bring about, whatt^. known as sunstroke, and that if the proper means were taken to deflect them again such a thing as sunstroke would become almost unknown. The attention of this distinguished surgeon was first .called to the peculiar effects of the sun's rays by an incident that he witnessed. He was watching a number of children who were playing in a court yard in the shadow of a wall, the top of which was in strong sunlight, Sudderfl-y several of the children began to act in a most peculiar manner, dancing around, each with l\ls hand on his head, crying out, "My atf burns!" Prof. Lannelongue at once went to the place wheife the children were at play',' and, examining their heads, found blisters on the scalp of every one. Trt trying to account" to himself for the phenomenon he wondered if the blisters had been produced by rays projected from the top of the walh -Ho'instituted in his, laboratory a series of experiments on sev-, eral persons. Some of these, when exposed to the,action of the rays, were, protected by Stronlum glass,, and these were' not at all' injured. Other persons experimented upon who were not similarly protected were burned"iri the same manner as the children had been. After carefully studying this problem the professor came to the conclusion that his accidental observation of the children at play was likely to result in a revelation as to sunstroke, its cause, effect and remedy. He called to mind, the-fact that among the ancient Greeks sunstroke or anything corresponding thereto was unknown. He also remembered that these same ancients covered their heads with brass helmets and their chests and backs with cuirasses of metal that is known to have been, of a nature that is impervious to rays. It A-as plain, however, that people could never be induced to wear a helmet made of metal of sufficient density to prove opaque to the rays, and then the thought came to him that perhaps strontiuih glass would solve the problem. Therefore he has determined to begin the manufacture of glass helmets as an absolute protection from the deleterious effects of the rays of the sun on very warm days. To this end he is organizing a company and hopes before long to place quantities of its product upon the market.

What He Wanted to Tell the Doctor. "Doctor, just an instant, please," exclaimed a caller at the office of a man of physic, as he caught sight of the physi* cian disappearing in his private office. "I'll see you shortly, sir," was the curt reply. "But a second is all I want," persisted the caller. "I'll see you directly, sir," with sternness.

The visitor took a seat in the general reception room, read the afternoon paper through, looked at the pictures, played with the dog, and took a nap. After thirty minutes or more had passed, the medicine man came out of his den, and with an air of condescension, said to the visitor: "Well, now, my man, I am at your service. Your turn has come. What can I do for you?'' "Oh, nothing in particular," was the reply. "1 just dropped in to tell you that your neighbor's three cows have escaped from the barn and are having a picnic in your garden and flower beds."

Couldn't Kill Thin Cat.

This is the sort of story some people tell. The insurance agent was removed up the country to a higher berth everything was arranged for the removal except the cat. His wife, not wishing to take the animal with them, was quite at a loss what to do she would not give her away, being afraid the animal would not have a good home. At last she decided to have her destroyed. When the good lady's husband returned in the evening he fastened a brick round the cat's neck and put her into a bucket of water. When he went to take her out next mornng to bury her, much to his surprise the cat was still alive ?he had drunk all the water and was sitting on the brick!

Knew What She Was About. Mrs. Grubb—Have ye any more sugar like the last ye sent me?

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Grocer (briskly)—Yes, madam, of it. How much do you want? Mrs. Grubb—Don't want nona. |j|

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TBHRE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 29, 1897.

AnJ, to! in Her New Shirt waist, sfJEfcera Sat the Red-Headed Irish l«d|i ji"Yer Wok awful blue, Sinkers?'^ sriJd Sarsaparilla Reilly as he entered the" little saloon ^-"what's the matter?" "Matter? 'Tls no matter," remarked. Sinkers "only me und my vife h^d, such a fight togedder dot since yesterday night I live mit xny sister's husband's brothers-in-law. I buy me a photograph carneron for a little pleasure. Der mans sljpw me all vhat I must did to take a picfure oof somebody, und vhen I bring de* frhfctograph cameron home my vife says 1 be crazier as before. Den tell her -I lake her picture. She vould not perimBSion it asfore she gets a new silk shirtwaist, und I buy one for five dollar. Deo 5&e v^nt her picture took right away und me^be before. She said dot I must get dot shirtwaist in better as anyting else in der picture. Veil, I get a. plate in der cameron und go out in der yard while my vif6 put der shirtwaist on. She vere so long dot I decisioned I vould try a vhilei some'experinations, und take a picture oof der big tree fft der yard. So I set off der cameron by polling der vindow shutterDen I schut it off. My vife come© out mit der shirtvaist and I sit her on a. butter tub vhot vere dere. Den I snap der cameron shutter. some more,- und gay 'birdie, birdie," like der photograph, mans said to der childrens, und I tell my vife to hold her face still a vhile. She asked me if der shirtvaist vould be in it und I said 'keep qiiiet vhile der shutters open.' Den She tuVhed her head to der fence und said: 'Chris, knock a stone at McA'Nally's bat he's bitin' der canary's cage.* I yelled, 'Lena, please don move or your face vill crack der development 1' Den I shut der shutter und tole her it vere all over. Pooty soon I go. down der cellar in der dark mit der development medicine, und I develppmented der plate. Vhen I come upstairs und ve looked at der picture, vhat do you suppositioned we saw?" "I don't know," said Reilly, "but it must have been funny."

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"No," answered Sinkers, "it vere a picture for a ISovyery museum voman sitting up a tree mit three heads und more

^T^lee,"*' said Reilly, "yer forgot to change the plate, an' yer wolfe 'moved her head ter luk at McNally's cat "Dat's vhat," continued Sinkers.^ "but my vife vere vild. She tought & did. dpt on purpose for fair, und she said yere. no yentleman. I explanationed it^a.11,. und she said she vould not sit agaipjjt der yard. Den I sitted her.oop on der^vash tubs in our kitchen und ve decisibrfed dot ve could take half of her first undrlialf aftervard, as ve could use yet oiie' plate twice—first get der shirtvaist" p&tt *und. den get her head. Veil, ve tied a 8fceet across der -room to der mantelpiece,, so dot it covered my vife's head, und l#i der Shirtvaist show good. Den I -pgot der drop on her mit a new plate, und I pjilled der cameron shutter. I expositigne^ der case for half an hour. My vife kept saying she vere tired, but she did riot, Jbaove yet even a little. Den I snapped der shutter. Den I tried der sheet slower- so only, her head showed over dp sheet. PoOty soon I shot the shutter a#Si1ft, und den I devfelopmented dot one, dawn der dark cellar. Vhat do you supposition ve s'aw on dot one?" "A shirtwaist," said Reilly. "No," said Sinkers, "it vere a vomans mit no head on her head, only a head on her lap."f

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"An* what did Lena say?" remarked Reilly. ,c "She tole me dot mebbe der mans what I bought der cameron from vere a. Irish, fool, und dot it vere a Irish earner90/' "But. thim were Dutch .pictures," "said Reilly "how cud an Irish camera take 'Dutch pictures?" "Now you're commencin' again, 'said the sinker man "why don't you let me finish afore you commence?'" "Well, go on," said Reilly. "W. ''After We got dot picture mit Lena holding lier head in her lap," remarked Sinkers, "I tought mebbe ,dor. kitchen room vere too small und I preparationed her once more now against der "house,, sitting on a high box suust under McA'Nally's vindow. Veil, vheii I shust shot der shutter oof der cameron I yelled loud as fire, 'Look out! Look out Mrs McA'Nally looked her window out- to see vhot it vere about, und she poked her red-headed head right in front oqf my" Lena's head, und by der time I shut off der photography cameron shutter^it vas done I vent into der cellar uncf developmented dot picture, vhile my yife fight a little mit der lirish lady. Pooty soon I come up mit der picture, und^vji^t do. you suppositioned I had on dot, phe?" "Well," said Reilly, "I suppoSie it was' a, red-headed Irish woman dressed in a yellow Dutch shirtwaist." "Ach, Reilly, dot vere aw fulj" said Sinkers. "My vife charged me^ft takin' Mrs. McA'Nally's picture in ijjy vife's new. clothes, und she cry like vere married."

Den ve fight all night, und I* tole her -I vere sorry for buying der shirtwaist. Und in der morning I eat not Prtfe bit oof breakfast, but vent away, undi'stttp mit my sister's husband's brothers^n-law. Now I shust writteded a letter to any vife like dis:

Dear Lena: Shop up der da^nn shirt: vaist und tear der cameron. Vhctt,.^ care. Mebbe if you like I come hom6 't^-night, und if not—not. Your loving husband, "C|I,RIS. "Ye'd betther go home anS 'reil her yerself," said Reilly. "Good 'night r.

BOGUS GIFT TO THE DIVINE SARAH.

Massive Parure Presented to the Tragedienne Turns Out to be Plated Copper. During Sarah Bernhardt's tour in this country she received many solid as well as complimentary recoffliitions of her dramatic talent. Besides the gigantic bouquets and costly wreaths lavished upon, her before, during and after every performance, articles of jewelry, not infrequently of considerable value, wore presented to her, sometimes anonymously, sometimes by wealthy admirers anxious to secure a place in her memory. Upon one occasion an enthusiast of this Sass successfully besought her to accept a parure of massive gold, somewhat clumsy in fashion, but of a weight which, from a practical point of view, more than atoned for its lack of artistic elOgance. Upon examining it closely Sarah discovered that the donor had forgotten to detach the tiny pricc ticket, and was not a little gratified to observe that Individual appreciation of her merits had fouad expression in a tribute worth $5,000. Shortly afterward, in conformity with the practice adopted by her of periodically lightening her luggage by turning superfluous gifts into money, she offered the parure in Question for sale to a jeweler, who, after examining It carefully and applying the usual tests, informed her that its intrinsic value wasf$60. "How can that be?" she exclaimed. "Simply because it is compose^ 6f copper with a very thin coating of gold," was the reply.

WHERE SHELLS ARE STMX MONET.

Cowries' Used in Asia and Afrfcii^IO? Being Worth a cent. Persoas -who have .traveleoUinrpriental countries have frequently encountered shell money. Many Americans have brought specimens of it home with them as souvenirs. Investigations tby«s.the director of the United States mint show that in many parts of Asia *a»di' Africa cowries, or small shells, are •StHI*sfas©d as a medium of exchange for

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The cowrie in Siam is the smallest unit of value. It would take about* 107 'cowries to make on American cent. At tfie mint in Bangkok the range of values is as follows: Eight hundred cowries equal 1 fuang, 2 fuangs equal 1 salung. 4 salungs equal 1 bat or tical. and 1 bat' or tical equals about 60 cents of United States moncv. in Siam 219 or .'20 cowries are reckcifc":: equal to 1» penny sterling.

Preparing the Way.

He—Would you scream if I should kiss you? She—And if I were to allow you to, wpuld you saueal?

S1I WEEKS AS AN OUTUW

IN EXPERIENCE THAT TURNED A HAN'S HAIR WHITE.

YOUNG

LIFE WITH THE DiLTON GANG

While Serving jt# a Detective—Constant Fear in Which the Bandits Lived 1? .—Their Petty Robberies.

Six weeks as an outlaw, scouting with the Dallas gang in the Indian territory, proved sufficiently fexcitlrtg to turn Jack Dodsworth's -hair gray. That is why there may be seen in Joplin, Mo., a man just past 30 whose snowy locks would indicate: old age but for the youthful face beneath them. Three years ago, while the Dalton gang were at large in Oklahoma and the Indian territory, robbing banks, express companies, post offices, and individuals, efforts were made by the government and the express companies to wipe out the band regardless of cost. Rewards aggregating $35,000 were offered for the bodies of Bill Dalton, the leader, and Bill Doo44A", his lieutenant, dead or alive. The post office department finally took a hand, in the pursuit of the desperadoes, and sevei^.1 inspectors were sent our to help the-deputy marshals. A few months prior to that time oije of the post ofiice Inspectors, had occasion to visit Joplin on special bustnfess and found Dodsworth working" in the post office here. Dodsworth had displayed much skill as a dettective in assisting to capture a gang of mail robbers, and the inspector thought of him in laying plans to capture the Dalton gang. Accordingly an agreement-was made by which Dodsworth was to turn outlaw and spy on the bandits. The. first step Dodsworth took was to go to Perry, Oklahomo, as clerk in the post office. After remaining there for several weeks he went to Guthrie and worked -in the post office there until he got acquainted with friends of the Dalton gang. Tfie postmaster at Guthrie was apprised' 6£ the scheme, and so was United Statef ltfarshal Nix of Oklahoma, who issued a deputy marshal's commission to Dodsworth and supplied him

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Winchester, horse, saddle, ana ouifit. Dodsworth's next st€ip was to gain the good will o'f the desperadoes. In order to avert suspicion- and make himself acceptable to the Dalton gang, Dodsworth had postal cards printed giving a description of himself and offering a reward of $300 for his capture "for breaking into the post office at Mulhall." The cards were nailed up in conspicuous places. A few days afterward Dodsworth walked into the pbst office at Ingalls, Oklahoma, and, upon seeing one of the postal cards conspicuously displayed and a crowd reading it, remarked that he did not consider the card ornamental and did not care to be advertised in that way. At the same time he drew one of his six-shooters and proceeded to shoot the card full of holes. The crowd quickly scattered, and the frightened postmaster beat a hasty retreat. Dpdsworth mounted his horse and rode leisurely out of town. A deputy marshal was soon in puf-suit. He found Dodsworth before he expected to, for the latter was hidden a,mbush near the trail in the woods* and berfdre the deputy could draw a 'fe-Utt Dodsworth had him covered with a^Winchestfer and compelled him to throw up his-hands: The officer was disarmed-and sent back to town. These two incidents soon got abroad, and exaggerated- stories of Dodsworth's exploits were told. Friends of the Dalton gang, advised, hini to join..the outlaws,, and he expressed a willingness to do so. A ranchman arranged a meeting between •the new outlaw and the old ones, and Dodsworth was accepted by the* gang. Dodsworth tells an interesting story of his wanderings with these hunted men, Who were being pursued by scores of deputy marshals, defectives and others,, tempted by the rewards. He remained with them

FOR SIX WEEKS

and was all the time between two fires— being watched by the outlaws, who were suspicious of every stranger and even of one another. The shooting that ended Jesse James's career seemed to be constantly in the minds of Bill Dalton and Bill Doolan, both ef whom were in constant dread of treachery on the part .of some member of their gang.' During these six weeks the outlaws never spent more than one night at one place. They were constantly changing their camp, and scarcely ever slept in a house. The woods, prairies, and hills were their only homes, and they slept wherever nlgljt overtook them. One of the gang would^ always act as sentinel while the others^ slept. They never permitted Dodsworth to act sentinel. They were not absolutely certain of his fidelity and could not afford to take chances Where it was a game of life and death, ana to be off thelf guard for a single moment might mean assassination. WThile oh the march, also, they watched their new companion with a certain degree of suspicion. He was never allowed to ride ahead or behind, but was always kept in the middle of the gang. So uneasy and suspicious of treachery had they bccome that Dalton and Doolan were even afraid to trust each other. It was a life of constant fear and dread, with officers and blood-money hunters trailing them frbm place to place and constant danger of betrayal. They ate their meals very irregularly—whenever they got hungry and were safe from pursuit. They would cut sticks with their bowie knives and impale a bird or squirrel or rabbit on them, and cook it over a hastily made fire in the woods or prairie. Sometime^ they would shoot a calf or a pig, use "What meat they wanted, and leave the rest for the buzzards or covotes. Frequently their meal would consist of but a loaf of bread or a few crackers. Although-one of their gang was always on guard, these outlaws slept with their arms close at hand. Their pistols were under their heads and their Winchesters were at their sides, and even in sleep they kept their hands jpon tlieir rifles. Frequently

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in the woods a bird or animal would break a small twig or cause the leaves to rattle. These light sleepers were awake In an instant, their Winchesters grasped, ready for danger. So accustomed were they to be on the alert for officers that they seemed to sleep with one eye open. The bandits often got hard up and resorted to robbery and petty theft, but this was only when they were short of means. On one occasion, when they had been in hard lucJ for several days, they met a lone traveler near Ingalls, who was going to town to buy supplies. He was ordered to tlrow up his hands, which he did, and, upon searching him, they found $35 in his pockets. After taking his money Dalton asked him what he was going to Ingalls for. The man said he was going to buy a Winchester,' a pistol, sOme cartridges, and a sack of flour, and to have his horse shod. Dalton asked him what each item would cost. The man answered promptly. Dalton marked down the figures on an envelope, added them up, and found tftey aggregated $24.50. /Then he counted out $25 of the money he had takep and hand* ed it back to the man, saying: "We don't want to leave you strapped. We will give you the $21.50 for the things you need and add 50 cents to it for your dinner and dinner for your horse."

The other $10 the outlaws kept for their own needs. On' another occasion, while going from Ingalls to Stillwater they met a drummer, made him throw up his hands, and took*from him $300. The drummer was a jovial fclldw and took the situation philosophically. He laughed and talked with the gang for quite a while. Doolan was acting as leader that day and asked the drummer where he was going, and was 4nformed that his trip would cover Stillwater and P^rry, and then ho was going to his homo in Kansas. Do». Ian asked him what his expenses wouid be to Perry, and what his railroad fare would be from Perry to his home. The drummer told him. Whereupon Doolan counted out the money, gave it back to

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and put in a feW dollars extra to be sure the drummer would not get strapped on the road, as hi said." These instances were only two of many similar ones which illustrate the character of these outlaws. On many occasions Dodsworth visited Perry, Pawnee and Stillwater with some of the outlaws. Two or three of the gang would always go together, and .would always watch one another closely and alBo every person they met. Dodsworth says he lived twenty years during the six weeks he spent with the Dalton gang. He coaimltted many acts of lawlessness during that tlmo and there were more thai a dozen warrants out for his arrest. He had to play his part well to avert sasplcion of the outlaws and was in constant danger of being killed by government officers who were in pursuit of the gang. He soon discovered that the life of an outlaw is anything but pleasant, and that constant scouting from place to placer'to escape the scores of reward hunters is wearisome as well as hazardous. He says the outlaws were extremely tired of this way of living and sick of their life of lawlessness, and would willingly surrender if they could get oft with only a few years in the penitentiary, but since surrender meant hanging or life imprisonment they were determined never to give up. The gang consisted of Bill Dalton, Bill Doolan, "Bitter Creek,'? "Tulsa Jack." and a negro named Israel Carr. .While they they were always, called the .Dalton gang Bill Doolan was really ihe leader, and was the nerviest man of them all, but the negro Carr was said to have killed more men than all of the rest of the gang put together. Dodsworth found it more difficult to get away from the Dalton garig than to joiri'th'em. He had come to the conclusion that it would be folly to attempt to get the drop on anjijeof' them, so he abandoned all such ictea«4 soon after joining the gang. At last, ber, ing unable to endure the life any longerr and unwilling to incur further risk, he devised a plan to escape. Wrhilo campins near the edge of a prairie ono night he tied his horse in such a way that the animal could easily get loose. Just as day was breaking the next morning he went to look for his horse, and, as he expected, the horse was gone. He borrowed the horse of "Bitter Creek," which was the best in the bunch, put his saddle on it and' rode leisurely away over the hill in the direction his horse was supposed to have taken. As soon as he was out of sight of the gang

HE PUT SPURS

to the horse and never stopped to eat or drink until he had reached Perry, ninety miles away. Upon arriving at Perry, tired and thirsty, Dodsworth went into a saloon to get a drink. He took several, and soon began to fefl pretty good. By this time a deputy marshal had been apprised of his presence, and while the exoutlaw stood at the bar taking another drink a Winchester rifle was put up to his breast and he was ordered to throw up his hands. He grabbed the. marshal's Winchester ahd would have disarmed him had not tne bartender covered him with a six-shooter and ordered him to surrender. Dodswox-th gave up and was taken to jail. He had been in jail only a few hours when he was released by order. of United States Marshal Nix. He made his report in full to Marshal Nix, who supplied him with money and arranged for him to get his portion of the-reward as soon as Doolan and Dalton were captured. The gang has been completely wiped out. Bill Daltoji was killed at Gidding's ranch, near Elk, I. T., in April, 1S94, by Deputy Marshal Lds Hart and a posse. He'was stopping over flight at the ranch and the officers, being informed of his whereabouts, surrounded the house. Dalton' would not surrender, and when they started to burn the house he jumped out of the door and began firing and tried to fight his way through, There were too. many of them and he was riddled with bullets and fell dead just outside the door. Bill Doolan .wag taken unawares in a barber shop a't Eureka Springs, Ark., a year later,' by Deputy Marshal Bfell Tilghman, and, having no chance whatever, surrendered. He was taken to Guthrie and put in jail, but escaped on July 4, 1S95. He was pursued by a score of officers for a year and was finally overtaken by a party under Deputy Marshal Heck Thomas last summer at a blacksmith shop in the northeastern part of Oklahoma: It was just at daybreak when Thomas and his party rode up. Doolan was having his mules shod, preparatory to fleeing with his family down into Mexico. Doolan saw his pursuers as soon as they saw him and prepared to defend himself, but they gave him pp. show. All opened fire upon him at once and Bill Doolan died with his boots on. "Tulsa ifack" had already met the same fate at the hands of deputy marshals, Twenty-seven bullets pierced his body without ordering him to surrender, and "Bitter Creek," too, was killed by a posse in the Creek Nation while resisting arrest. Israel Carr succeeded in dodging deputy marshals until a few days ago, when he, too, was overtaken and killed by his pursuers in the Creek Nation.

STILL SEEKING THE IMPOSSIBLE.

Numerous Unpractical Inventor* Hope to Find Perpetual motion. Any one who regards the idea of accomplishing perpetual motion by means of mechanical devices as a thing of the past would be undeceived by an inspection of the applications for patents being made at the rate of 600 a week. Every now and then an inventor applies to the United States patent office for a patent oh a perpetual motion machine., Drawings most elaborate and. specifications thoroughly complicated" are always filed with these applications, but the examiner of the section to which such matters are referred spends no time poring over drawings and specifications, Il6 proceeds on the plan that demonstration hy a practical operation is better than a long drawn out argument to show that the thing can be done, and accordingly asks the inventor to submit a model. The model never comes, the ingenuity of the inventor: beflig exhausted in showing how the motor can be constructed and not being equal to actually constructing it. Every reputable patent attorney is expected to dis'courage clients from dissipating their money on worthless ideas, and, as a rule, the hopeful inventor of perpotual motion is advised by his attorney not to waste money 011 an impossibility. He is" shown that friction and resistanco of the air are in the way a1 perpetual motion, and that even if these elements of trouole could be overcome it would be impossible to get power from a machine unless the power was constantly being put in it. In other words, that any, scheme to get something from nothing must fail, and, of course, the idea of perpetually supplying power to a perpetual motor is r.o part of the scheme of those who dream of this fancy of mechanics. Whenever an attorney sees that an inventor of perpetual motion has been so innocula.cd with the fancy that the disease must take its course and his friendly advice rolls off the back of the gepiue likr. water off a duck, he proceeds in all seriousness to make application for a parent, extracts several fees from tho pocket of the client, who becomes a wiser if poorer man when "he'i* brought.face to face with the demand of tho patent office for a '•working model." ,t.

Another Fancy Nailed.

Flowery Fields—I see Chauncey Depew says dat de happiest moments uv his life wuz when he wuz a barefooted boy, gatherin' chestnuts in de grand old woods.

Clogged Clancy—Wa-al, I don't wish ter cast no aspersions on Chauncey, but nobody ever lived dat could walk over chestnut burs barefooted, an* chestnuts don't fall till after a heavy frost, anyway, an' I never seer, a kid barefoot at dat time uv do year.

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The Things They Say.

WEI Br IMSffl ffiWER

FLASH OF LIGHTNING BURNED HER IMAGE UPON HIS BREAST.

STRABGE MARRIAGE 18 TEXAS

A Story From the Cotton Fields of tb» Southwest Which is Very la Rider Haggard*., a

A phenomenon, regarded for throe yearw past by the good peopla of Nor.Uv Texas as a "ireak of nature," has been by the tireless energies of one of tho victims o^ the strange affair, fathomed at last Th* honor of ia virtuous woman lias been restored, and a wife and child returned to a man who had lost a brido wh6m he had tenderly lovcti, but to whom was wedded by no earthly priest. Three y«ors ago Anson Kcllar owned 400 4Cros of the bedt black-waxy land of this section, not far from Grayson county. Twenty-five or thirty years of age, tall, muscular, an American by the blood of several generations, a westerner by birth, he was a splendid type of liis race, and held his honor ia higher esteem than his worldly wealth, ever mindful of the rights of his neighbors and jealously guarding Ma own. Cotton picking was over and Anson had raised a good crop. Joe Boyd was taking a load of cotton from Jin to raarkot, and Anson was with him that afternoon. The morning bad been sultry and banks of dark clouds were now rolling tliomselves together from the prairies of the southwest and forming a dark, massive, front air-if. the Sierra. Madre had torn

:from~

ih'glc^ niporings and were crowding itheir suitihilts, all their streams turned ito streaks bit flame," dbrting in fiery twist4h£§:f?qrS ^summit to base pr hiding thtm•seifir&r 4?ithln the blackncss of that dark bosom. But neither Anson nor Boyd took any notice of cloud or flam*. Blccept to remark almost in unison as they entered the strip of woodland bordering

RED RIVER

near HlnkJey's Ford that it was "get* ting mighty, dark." The crack of Boyd's whip, as ho .called the mules to "git," seemed sharp .and concentrated, as if the air was too thick for the sbund to penetrate. "Was it the reverberation of that sound that tore a ragged hole* fringed with Uving fire, in the very centre of the black mass now directly overhead, not more than sixty yards above them? The mules reared bade,-turned to the right to make for the river bank, stood still one sccond and then dropped as if the mountain of cloud had fallen upon them. J3oyd half rosje,. toward across the mules, but Anson had not stirred since that writhing, twisting, blue streak had darted toward them, winding first around' the neck and shoulders of Anson, then scorching a brown brand on each of Boyd's arms as it passed across him, .aad, striking both Unties on back and'headrleftjthe sickening odor of burning flesh as it entered the ground near the.head Of «n,e of the animals. The mules were dead. Boyd was only stunned, S£UL4}?5pn seemed perfectly nat,uraf| *sUtmg o|L the wagon &e£t, when, .posSi'fefF&n' ffiMites later, Sid -Perryman catafe-afcWig1aml^atv what had happened.

But it was two hours before Anson regatfied^tfon^KHisttfess, and looking around asked in a perfectly natural tone of voice "WherePeople in the county said the lightning had affected his mind. wJ*ft!fc/AR§pn Kellar sold his stock •and^m^nd wfiPt on what they termed "a- wild, goose, xhase" to find the Madene of his vision, of the spirit of his dream, or whatever ^else it was that held hiniuncohpcioiiTfOr two hours near Hinkley's

Ford

Joh

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Edith—He told me I was so interesting and so beautiful. Julia—And yet you wtU trust yourself for life with a man who begin* deceiving you even at tku» «wataeac9meni( fit, his courtship I

"^p|v

the-' Red River that September

afternoOtf^^Th'e'impressron the lightning had hurnedvupon bis breast, the picture •of'

A BJ5AUTIFUL WOMAN',

her 'bosom,hsrtf.exposed, her head thrown back hep-flip#.ready to kiss, her whole jittttude that of passionate^ .love. They styledvjfct freak of nature/'., but Kellar did not think it a freak. I talked seriously- witJti himj.before he left, trying to dissuade him from his rash undertaking, although I'realised that he was in a perfectfy^aAfe Edition of mind. But it was all too real to him. He said he could not sleep- fortf-the^lingering passion of that one embrace that his mind was ever tortured wtth^ithe beseeching,- appealing expreSaion-voftthe girl he knew to be hi» wifei-br ftHHtiefJaws of God, as she called him,'4Kg ^tea$,e. her, He admitted that it was^.aU^np^tural and that he could offer u» theory that would explain the matter,' IbjiTttiatf yet he knew'her honor •was now ^sF. keeping," and he doubted not that th%~ woSild recognize' eabh other if ""ever ttVSugWt together. -He declared that his heart ached for the mother and the t(Mldf»"Jtenson Kellar is jtow. back in

Te»sts 5igtffh,."Mippy in the possession of lilsrtMedsoe' of whom the picture on his bcea£t irue likeness, and the child is-.ascmucii U^his. father a.va little elephant is like a big one. It Is not necessary tprtell here the difficulties that An* ,^. son overcjtrtje*, before finding his lost bride in her Cabool home, or of the joyous Vecbgfiition. In fact, asS Mr. Kipling would say, "That's another story." How do r'account- for the phenomenon? How do you account for the Impression of trees or of the mountains and rivers the lightning sometimes burns on the bodies of cattle it slays? Possibly there is nqme truth in thp, $heory that the. spirit of man is an electric spark, capable of being separated by electrical moans from the earthly bodtr and

thRt

eVeI-y

electrical

spirit h'as a kindred spirit. If so, and An-# son and" Made he were both shocked by aa electric befit at precisely the samo time as I learn was tho case, they happei._d to be kindred spirits, and both realign" that their release was but tempor-rj, may their,.spirits not have mingled and loved together, and then returned to their earthly bodies, each a part of the other? In any .case, the fact remains. Anson, Ri-u-dene and the child witness the truth

GREAT UMBRELLA AT OMAHA*

Novel Mechanical Device Which Will He Seen at Trans-Misalssippl Exposition. The last Paris exposition had it& Eiffel tower, Chicago had its Ferris wheel, Nashville has lt3 gigantic seesav.v- Thflr^ department of concessions of the Omaha trans-Mississippi exposition oi lS93t has also received application, for space for tli* erection of a novel mechanical device. It re«c-mbles the 'framework -o£ a gigantic umbrella more than any thine else wl.ich might be mentioned. Tho par« corresponding to tho stick ,of the umbreila is an immense cylinder,' thirty feet ifi diameter, constructed of steel piateR finnly riveted, making a standpipe which tears its head 250 feet above i*? lave.1 of the ground. At tho extreme top of this cy« lindcr are fastened twelve lont,' crms. resembling the ribs of an uaibrtf.th. Thes*. are steel trussos, reachhijr almost to tne ground. At the lower oud of each o| these ribs is suspended

3

car for carry­

ing passengers, aucii car having at-pac-ity for twenty peveoiifc. Th*ae monster ribs are raised by hydraulic pow*r, acting by means cf steei cablo* operating through the cylinder, aided by ir.«»cbanism greatly resembling that portion ot an umbrella which come* into aer.ion. when the umbrella is opond. By moans of this mechanism the gigantic arms ^re raised until they are horizontal, ihe tars in the meanwhile being carried o^tvnrd and upward until they reonh a point 250 feet above the ground. The diameter of the huge circle formed by tho &uspQ."rted cars is also 260 feet. When the highest point been reached anther sneqhanism comes into play ard :!»e »u--pended cars are swung sicwly r.reum! ir. circle, after which they are .lowered to tin ground. The sides oi the cars oi glass, so that the passenger* usa." secure an exionsivo view of the .•j'.'roui.Oii'S country.

Reasonable. m?*

"Bridget, there'? a napkin "Tea. mum. I've tali#* it to feci. t:.o pua. dii.g i*i." "7o bo1! the peddirtj: "Well, mum, it »afc only the dirty cn