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AS FORTUNE SMILES. CHAPTER IL If there was ever © man who represented 1m a worthy and stalwart fashion the bone, hs died an elder brother claimed possession of the farm. ‘There was an aged mother to pport, and Dick Ashand shared that duty with his brother, though he did not share g 3 z & z 3 z 3 ig F land, sick at heart and despairing of success less iron-hearted country. Fortune did not smile very broadly on Ashland, even when ke reached the vast prairies, He w hard, but year after Nie! passed on, Sethe was not much ae oe was hard witted and \d, in days gone by, he Hee ubbied sie in coal and ironstone mining. When, therefore, he ‘built « hut far up the mountain, and lived George Maslano, like eR one yet tad been able to fin ‘He was a burly, broad-shouldered, broad- chested, British bulldog, was Dick Ash- land, who, even in the Rockies, aflected the dress, and, as faras he could, the habits but for a pair of small, on that evening, a sat with ae \is primitive hut, vw the English gentleman could hardly have been found. ‘Herbert was a younger—the youngest hearted father, but. six marriageable and h of them failing re- result was that Lord Cleve looked with a, less lenient eye than he might otherwise have done, upon the escapades of his mother, who had been supremely beantifuls while his two elder brothers, and all the plains, wh _ manly and ‘Tnunguisbed race won him many frien the Platte River, where at that time they him to come to the mountain hi “1 have something to tell Herbert,” Dick fo, hat wih ae gorse while Been eae eee yon r head both.” Herbert, ia the vigor of his youthfal ia. ulse, had saddled his in all her naturai and the latter's inheritance. ~ Dick tried a littie | ed, but which no an “beamed with honest: good-nature, aud, 8] Sbron’ pine children, which included six then bh rf road 8 daughters. His Icrdship was not a hard-| 4° a Pa: . A TALE OF THE OLD AND NEW WORLD. just yet. My of the canyons. «: What de yon mean t the young fen Ebr shland look if, even in that atraid of being overheard by a prying It was Dick. was mistook,” stneer's nobody heer. some us.’ | better wait seule we man | beyond, ht er seemed so becaaiatacarly palpable; avi two furtive pe ap ee thro loom wi | ho Kept hia hande inthe pockets of his back- with a vacant gaze, lead he gro roand Uatpeaket fe i taens bad tapped bm oo sha shale: . I think we'd night for all le, that, befe era “Not it |ar my a iat we climb dows and hav. eut,not x The pale hazy light uf che young mcon find to | had tue il Lose’ ost at tha bostets ot one| wea Tacs to ie Vinee chee af ue rit rock that siete dit. Among =e cedars he lifted his rifle and fired. crack men = must ioe bcd “IE theer’s anybody following rap ” said Dick “he'll know that we don’t mean stand any Bontoase, and what ell have to ‘expect if we catch him. The rosd lay straight ap hill now, along where they had to to | climb now and then like cats, In i‘ : min- a jast one or jut ear. | tue light to penetrate. What ean?” he asked, with i Ashland and Chauncey were still puffing tense bate 3 “Tmean that i Wat thelr pipes, tatklog of ce nae whisost gos abroad thav P'd made this |at home, of those cheery times in the ol fied—that if a finger could point out | counts n they hoth uid have iecapecm bere fe id, ee lives wouldn't be | thought one aalf the hardshij y no ‘st home, went to seek fortune in a freer and | we get ab aria cinerea: = and ceed its hypocricies, eré they were upon witeld treasures. They wel hi : It @ all the scoundrels of the plains | happier in being thus freed from the tram- ineteenth century civilization, its the brink ale we both to as rushing in melodious turmoil. os cic" cy TWO DESPERATE ROBBERS. ;| THEY TRY TO LOOT A BANK AND SHOOT SIX CITIZENS. eae. are at a Bank Cashier in a Indiana—When the Bank We Fled, Closely ene Wilkins and Charles W. Crawford, drove into town, hitched their team in front of the bank, and entered. The on! aM SES of the bank was Cashier S. M. On of the men carried a sack and with ce want- od fore-finger to the botto sajiThora’s where it lies thick as as peas,” hi Now you know it as fier « moment's panse they made their down, At tom among tl cy Pines, the Poet re dripped in ‘and blotches into & m in winter ti to a railing, when o pped a rifle from under his coat and point- icked in Leach, who, although shot, struggled to the vault and closed it, after throwing in Ba gi raias Tisakefton ator thecesia pa os we'll do a A , Mr q from the size ota m s he a dozen on us for life, and we mustn't loose | ‘Ashland said, at last, whe me of pebbles, free ¢ ote Sheriff Payno heard the shots, and, Sol A ioe ka = they had locked the rough cabin door, and | in the pale sheen. " Dick up one un- ered Se Renn rape to do?” Chaun- | with rifles slang acrosa their shoulders, and |evenly rounded fragment, and advanced gel sh y asked. i ith Ienife “and pistol, | with tt to the water's edge, where thelight Our only chance is to get Government | were preparing themselves for their moun-| fell clear ni se iieiciprbeaecttyaciner te provection, and they woulda give us that dll havea look along the Look tai, pointing to ayel- (aitag shee aps tk : ; i z : much afraid of anybody else finding the nes D ectieuerge |econe: hares Eat might ra fefanatd hatter elie 4 Be, nn nutes ei Banter half te en | et tytley eterna Bc ae seat miele fo awhile, and | somebody prying about my, ine seid find a a of that ing it while I was away. ‘see, seman aU Pee OL Rasa eS It pact (nee nays as alone, [had nobody to peed pam Lei secd pepledaras to show that the stuff is theer ll right, and ws are mean enough jed unders brush heap. He was dragge ¥ of soldiers here. All dl fight shy of Uncle Se salle have no Tae trouble Herbert “No “diel,” Ashland replied, we only keep oni lent and our ner a. But mere be! He again tious), y- sect thought. mong them cedars, tale any notice of it. followed. ’ll go by- we oat Tess d peatediy and decisively, are apt to sour the tempers among elderly gentlemen, and the rs Geoi younger son. Herbert had the misfortune of resembling, in a marked degree, his, °™' pe hast ing ts balfslo on | ‘ont to ae and left him a sighing, love-lorn swain. ‘The two men were f grgr in a tones, taki taking a short pufis of their ssc Ashland said, accentuating each word by a is anion’s knee, “to pave the _ street at the Theer’s tons ion ily, and vo gtns job to get at it a cay wonder is that it hasn’t “Bue with alle ie uatold wealth around ™ Herbert interrupted, “why haven't kaos to know exactly what I was about.” “Well teh best cen we can = now, I send to hely Ee reilly nei of it, Mr. Herbert,” Dick | an hea neither Nana theed obit ” turned and looked ‘round cau- hese something move |of ex "be s Dost the tt wind aed “rt rth are quiet in sleep, and e: po dh it, too. Th thin’ that’s got an a4 | busi — cs ti wlohe Se al t jough | With that _- costed his rifle to the full even then!’ and strode, with culty in all this?” miedy avit payer el there, uiotly resting hia eage scanning That stood ° miles we = cnte Shae some of the uneven= down, how far it wos to your pl rock line was not stationary. ‘uat was ” said Ashland. ieee nop upon his knees 0 a8 to “That girl was Lucy Maclane, Kreckled he dense shadow, and George's daughter, ea the man of all the top of the rock. others that I’m most afraid of, He’s always n mistaken. as great a an faites plaiua ps Tuaskiling of Diek Me. properly, explained. ‘done. in fair | But ever that the. sii Pe tatooviag tos ure was eal believe it. and there disa wilhoke to the [Plerees end of it, heving slowed hime vm m | was repeat to call for esto coe aegent Ho cocked his ride, nevert ed kneeling there for with his eyes glued tic is ear as we "heer aint nobody withit ” | quiet as mice. which to apprise ‘Ashland ube nt ots that rock a " ‘Whe young Englishman looked about him Tgtes our pipes now, ME i i] sober green, and ose in all theie drooping gr the hut the por Drary Lane the piotare before his ey “Begad, and sensational wy. gold— | bet bushels of it, tons of it—lying somewhere | trifle abot ot i ap and down. is ie said to himself, “this beats i,” he murmured | in! joll the two set out mountain’ manner of @ couple o! ords were upon Her! of at oe A snything, at jeceived. himself a fool afterward, theless, and re- pon the was eal when Asbland’s rented footfall turned, that rien in miles of us,” said the Yeoman quit, “Everything's as berv’s lips by hi ion y oF something was alive at|j but he the thing leisurely.” He imitated his | Th aio le jay almost motionless, bell-hidden | noo 4 macs of cobweb corallines, Through ae Poachers who igh- ned the glittering a in his hand over and over ag: and Herbert Snanony 's were stand- ing out, dark and sharp, against the hazy, moonlit, further side of the ravine. Crack | Orack ! Two shots rang through the sir in quick Stakes abs ok Ash flint from his outstret foremost with his hands toward the ¢ Chauncey fe ting be- low aH -eererets the rife i adtcon l arm. ed round ague nt, tl blood trickled ove m, The noise of footste tion and es be looked up he saw at the top, 2 and Dic lescended, two , wl own, shading their Se ema tts ust eceecne en evidentl) to ly preparing (70 BE CONTINUED.) SRE Sadie Bs ADVENTURE WITH A SHARK. Hel, pearl Diver Mad an Exelting Exper ‘The life of the pearl diver in Australian raters is the most exciting of all, I shall never forget the dreadful feeling that came over me when, for the first time, I found felt, instinctively, a etran: fore [ saw anything, thuugh I night have Saal fish, ee ay found in hom numbers among disappear Tho absence of these oe Loe com- panions, when one te them, produces the pia aan Hn corals, had en! the forest monste bramble, wild currant, an and | ac snaring i progress ful “ You mustn’t mind this, Dick exclaimed, ‘I'll save a half this way. we suio ick and thin and|had from time to time ae to pee it out, te the devil | unwarranted noises him. Dick | on consultation they agreed mistaken. Once Dick imagined friend to imitate bis two won’t do us any harm.” he thought he had noticed Poefood mere & the keepers are known to be | j than 600 confusion, it and now and then pain- Mr. Herbert,” pee good mi ed. ti h many a thorn-bush to-dsy, Dick,” he said, “and » lnele joes not. upset it They ae, climbing op hl “fast then. in | The vege and lf. more stented, the rocks bigger sad more brighter and wher ita silvery light did shadow was bisck as listened | Herbert ble and be pulled both | possible and be pulled up. a stapeless figure he could not al eae “We're not very far now and # pall on |W exe alee eeu shapeless somethi to Toticed appeared | contractors some curiosity, and after a few moments i¢ ‘that, flexible tail, it was} me. came the leviathan, up my arms. of water, « si awadaad ot on "The ool thing to do, says Lieut a nelps Witmarsh, R. N., is cloze all openings in Japan's” ‘Proposed Eiffel Tower. Japan 1s to have its own Eiffel Tower. ‘The astern World published in Yokohama, announces that a number of Japanese pat- to riots in Tokio have conceived the idea of so ting their victories. The tower or 1ferous stone Both hi kc | myself in close quarters Rie hae. I | England, aa ahigoe abol he bi Wilkins Roald aor shock Ee partner in ori ‘Wilkins held out until hia rhiskers wore nd mé sin, for liber ineteen rifles rang fell tothe sound a dea cee il nntiary for robbing a Jew. jg0, and is only a ° hav been instigated by Wilki While on the ins, nk end during their retreat the robber rs fred repeatedly citizens who were after i PUZZLE IN ANCESTRY. A Mat atic! hi ‘Tries to Clear up 4a Difficulty. It goes without saying that a man has two parents,four grandparents, gr See ‘and s0 on, so that if we go y 10 generations, doubli 048 ancestors, This sort we must each be descended from omer Englishman of that day,includ- in ea) mortal illiam himsel benrdity of this sort of fessoning has been pointed out by Prof. Brooks. His famosas Eject ab cotablisinn. pall in, the theory of evolution, bat he confutes all sill; ws rents, they need not dd atsenoe persons. i grandparents; it tey are reoaily Soueine. Seay have but two, Soin the tenth se paeeiee one’s 2,048 ancestorsare nevei separate Persons, They abound in “duplicate,” 80 to spanks ovecy one knows who has tried perhaps only one or two—of the ietiianes a te Cageaiacsh en they vats So of having all 1009 FLO GGING IN RUSSIA. its orto = to the Use of the t, and Not the Knut. ‘The = Parra dei to the effect edict been issaed see Sone abolishing the flogging SE ane apparently refers to the use of the plet or pleti, and not to the knout, as a prepared toa metallic hardness, and ofte: intertwined with wire. A sentence of from 100 to 120 blows was considered equivalent to death, When the knout was done with, the plet, a simple was substi- tuted for it, This was considered a much to send estimates. mi of national ici a flogging, if the rey Peers aintose an gain for the Bassian | peasant and 4 TH DESTRUCTIVE MANIA ot pm fe AT THE BOTTOM OF CRIMES AND fat acount e STRANGE PASTIMES. nassos, panei wien ohainsa, tothe post ean Andalusian tavern, a chain and o pet of local celebrity. He could waltz on his hind | Pom and was some- the requestof his admirers, | jexst 3,000. Khaled, e legs for minutes together, times released a\ who pitied his constant coli Sr maionet ste = ade ‘te. white man furnishes 700 women ani i 10,000 chil December 23, 1790. been initiated he- might jus baie leceasstive facy.ot & g r TEARING A CRIPPLED WOLF. ot Port Arthur might re Tuasaus, ‘whoue sovereign the victor ‘stil hoped. t0 conciliate. Jean Jacques Rousseau in bis comments remarks that ‘destruction isso much easier than construction, and children, like animals p aatarlly prefer the least difficult mode ing resull Tephot ace argues our black b ‘ut I can do more : I can undo it”—‘the man-knocks them out,” a8 that Seminole Chieftain expremsed it That passion for havoc has ieft its marks Allah,” = cate tse rae left no unruined lock of the landlady used to ae a real extra, not prevent the | lig or oe as if it had been crumbled away by the ao- | Wear ® 40 7 only to work the cee asd ies oe se ry | tion of the elements. Of course, everybody |hehind. peal a Under pretext of seme the caresses of | Europe were 1 hae heard all about the rocky galleries that | been watching each other for nearly two] | The etiam etal te snttled now, oF bis visitors, he managed to abstract. their | heaps. Clemens ‘Alerandrinve mentions; | nave been burrowed in the rock, with oe- tN ot nN fate ro oxeaeea opt who as @ een 20 noua ia) ae buttons, upset a flower pot or two, oF in-| Magistrates who made it a point of honor| ossionsl to the Be mat ita wif saasreaka the work, will be ae | terrupt his performances to make a grab at| to clean their cities from every OPENINGS FOR CANNON, upper end, a | from th ‘ fa litter of poodle puppies on the veranda, His scar-covered skull proved that the lot or of the trangremor in hard, but ne dpi | ent from haut to Dose, amaaing dois | comes Nachle sense ~ + lg Sea aghtiors orem the world. “i ated condition of his neck was owing to peculiar trick of his as the posadera.explain-| The, me He woul under the veranda, an‘ post near his couch neck to and fro as if in the AGONIES OF STRANGULATION. During the temporary absence of But they had forgotten the poultry house, and when setting the house on fire by drenching th al ‘with the contenta of large coal oil| Roman Empire had only a slender chance re to flesh food of any kin tae lee of devilt completely at their mercy. a utriklogiy sanlogoas story come afew eye farmer mamas airly danced with delight when w his arrow stick i NECK OF THE LIVING TARGET. you crazy kid, eilog ‘Rbout ?” he iu of a fanatic as his pious mother. them drop,” a tery of canister guns, and the hunt al hold o eee alate | favorite. eports Ei Cid, Spain, depopala ed whole districts of ha: Masbate bode ‘conducting the campaigns on the princip of letting no man escape, and taking it at. every unbeliever was for granted guilty of the unpardonsble & In —— life he appears to av siagetetow; and probably, did not find 1é| down there mesndering’ along. over aly se theological arguments in| street. manslaughter i ich tretching his head ate woighta li in ten-dollar banknotes, an back and his tongue out, would twist his| the to the lady returned in the even ice kn © Near! scholars, and between coy ed zealots ir amaller fellow captives for | paign of Ki 0 from Cape Town, where the son coke otecgy mn intrusted to) it, and easier to burn a book than to refate ut the untoward fate of the but the fasorite pasti his guardians to treat him wide s great deal of ‘indulgence, ts, what are you! i “i hen nee Non GsRescusd 8,000 wild animals were alain in ted a bat Phe pre der arranged a similar orale nd the ps nnfortunately VESTIGE OF PAGAN ART, and encouraged mobs of expurgators who | burning pictures and whitewashing frescoes i el the cally improbal wala, the ietireicn ‘bigots of escape, about 95 per ce so-called immortal comtants being now lost a less as those of Northern Africa, t | consequent droughts threats DEFY THE PRAYER-OURE. It is easter to fell a tree than to replant mains the — P| ers of on ire one day. ewes of those brates ag) hi the brainsand the red | 2° n Br ta | the Rock. Well, she wil wait'8 good while jacen of Spain | ried of oasting at the fest of Robert Burns, | ne Be isto be a statue of Highland Mary| tion rected on the Firth of Clyde, on the rocks ‘n front of the ruins of the ancient aver water batteries, ardens, rich in bloom, the, credo tial streets, rar the olage th lack muzzles a Over {idoue Tick their feverich lips in the Yo r the town Indy was abs BRITAIN’S IMPREGNABLE FORTRESS | stones, and it wei IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. pound, Sir.” Be alee by the French, writes mt. I wonder how the Spaclsh feat tne pout aes — they see the red cross of St, George mp flying over the ramparts of the rock. And is Sone epirit enough left in the lazy Algerines, do you suppose, to resent the Frenebifying of theielbsclend stronghold? th Probably it is better for the world that the| well look up and | an isthmus, a the mainland. only preyed on the commerce of the world, but upon each other, ‘The Rock lies very near north and peels be its east face overlookingihe Mediterranean, between it and the Spanish Set ines Rock is about a mile long, an: le over 1,400 feet high mt its sirash: staan —a knife-like ridge, where the edge looks son can be trained apon any it joint of the sertaat, a a and of be er aele goaded 7 ‘an exibrasure here |% webb | aspeallin A over it were that of for that sights There is Rea tnd nobody knowe what will, happen after the boy King shall have been gathered , as it is nd farmhouse of Auchem: manding p artist less rubbish, and the vast works would be STRIFFED FOR BATT 1. frowning sea-wall around the te base ae the Rocke cae, of thie are pil pe. | without o military pass; and if you do not ates before evening. gunfire 4 mounoed yousrs ieee beens ing e is a wonderful exhibition nition are antiquated. illery on the few. hundred-ton ‘gune—do ai of enginee of war ; but in the anos Fe no but ORDINANCE OF OBSOLETE PATTERN. ot an army 5 16E Eng! to the times in al the second and third coutary the | matte we a whee seit heads buried in their hands or send- though eitaa beens ea frou, mood till] WAT Gibraltar is not. ‘The. word ‘ail to the unknown go ight about be or ed Fa gone ont, A fleet of is nothing for the police officer but often for 1 the finest modern whose ee a8 its render- to release the captives and entist the aid of returned from vous here, Thos i is ay it be a friendly trike for rebuilding the village. Ifaresur: a long, long day sha’l again Sold sculptor, Mr. D. ¥ Stevenson, |The dead must be forgotten, ngeance Spe vse each swale, times could seo the enthusiasm of a Spanish |Feeort to the "bleton of ‘the longest | R.S.A., Kedinburgh, whoae design we te-| mast stand over until: Government ote mob in @ one-horse bull ring, he would, in- | C2200. a rin settle: ails of the costume hav ae a military expedition inte these hill = dorse Leigh Hunt’s| ent of ved dispates. ching ae ‘from the works of ‘David tracts to settle the account of sev: of the exterior of the Pp! pagan is world and left us the wretched just now is the Jriting of wharf rats ina Je | 15-by-20-feet wire cage. nze Rook ia rcened by the herbage that cov apes Althougl ch the ail ie ioe an ee Wines, and along some of the terraces there) srolitle groups of wild olive, peppes lees Ebina whith the Frenet | f One orthe Other. mer—Just see that covered cal immer—Hum! The driver must be either a drunken man or a sober woman. What a Baby Can Do. Friend--I don’t understand why you s| and your husband => <4 have separated 36 $008 rs, Afi feces tb was all owing to the baby’s tempe: Mercy o1 Peers How eould that be ? We contd agree as to which one of us a Sonu ‘one of the Spening galleries of the | ach6 of rock, the red-coated coatg 4 eee kindled in the most is Hosband-Hom ! perhaps his watei the baby tool Tis fissures Istge asa boy of tenor twelve years, and “« Are sou one of the ‘advane- a form to t with the There lives are insured ; i "ta pe, and (he. soldiecs- place food es can find it. But they only gut up t0 re sometimes as, for they THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR, espe eencc Ue tha miles nok Atkins, vy one ae ot esata] ighed at least fourteen The cies ot Gifralar is ‘Phe swarthy a through the orowd. ELEVEN CENTURIES AGO. It} rent equivalent to 7 uneasy aed arntenes ene paid for isa undertaking, hes and the d its immovable admire the art hary ail plan snd, something like | ecoording to the resins mado to She Ben ioh con- |of Trade, 038. geria i bet neots the vast fortress and its ‘ith igures, the British end of the | behind nearly every great city ines 08 and the so-called neutral ground which lies | Ground. eet onil po the northward, is a line of reteset fied | na ,d tops, stretching | metropolis by iy lat eae ined hat ie in aur 2 bein The os ‘This t aticeertenea al color,ant iption. This is ne gould see in eer if the flag | co ond descri BURNS’ HIGHLAND MARY. Chat eome ike A.atue to mo Erected 1m Mer Honor on wales the ely of tr mie Obanall ae pave e Firth of Clyde. ‘To crown a other crowns of honor and Tramway act whi the m appropriate that could - A Picture of the Barburities of the Indian | dis' ihe BILL Tribes. Campbell was eek ak will afford a com-| total failure in the expedition, since the , ion for the statue, so that it| wary foes, in full flight to their own strong: caning? fail to be seen from the river. i hold, can well outstrip a pursuers.’ Are to execute the wark is ae igh: secs outrages. the 8 where path aeatiday, Taly 21, Queer Things in Surnames. not consider. Burns who was azed | heart that ever killed a poet. curiously\ up th cipi Tn- pi an quired of concerning his solitude, he said : Greek Met Greek. “1 was | any ua ieee gig retells: aga wo failed tn bonieeet and oar cal But | i wi At —A aes after} the tami rancid 0, rows, | coping a skin oieetae r toe ad. prepared, nothing d e dannt pentaee ae operation. to first blood. an end ; let us shake hands.” LONDON TRAMWAYS. letropolis is Behind Nearly jeans of of willing to lease the liaes, that cor ere. a the end to be the most profitable to The tion, for rcs thas lately acquired its tramways and leased spa to accompany at cent, on the at 4 per cent. S108 los of tra tramway ia ‘otal capital expende and heraes, hes bee sis wh le Nothwithtanding farther congestion of pena central Giebiots ts 10 yun b} yuncil o! auth . and if each of those authorities is to have the like power of working, muck reflection that pigs a stead tires b intervenes and rewriter on lines whichwill encourage 1% FIGHTING THE HILL TRIBES. be a few minutes too late is to incur be | they ia time, an ambush is formed, and the wild men, bloody and ue eek along their captives, approach, received with the fire of rifles, followed by ‘a rapid rush ; the kookri or curved knife is at was but none of the savages will stand to fight. Most get away into the dense ) ene some fall dead, and the captives, mostly women and children, are left trem- bling end crouching on the field. ‘The sun 1s now shooting his gilded rays upon ne trees that crown the mountain summit 3 the white mist is rising out of the o ‘lood bere and there redden the ed 1 Ee trickling veins of es even few of the te themselves ‘A young soldier in the French army,wha lately volunteered in the service, rejoices in the distinction of having what would ap» ar to be one of the oldest names on reco! 3 ‘The unlucky lad is named Adolph Maxi. — milian E.F.G., these three letters of the see e paper about | nam ‘the name of @’0, wich the title of marquis; A member’ of was superintend ae of finance under He: ae of Francy, One- tel re not 80 ‘There sce this al feoelated ty type,