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the wol i th herd by hjalmaft hjorth boyesen is s yjudbaij chapter i seimke the old grandmother wrinkled and moky brown was sitting cross legged in a corner of the tent telling stories about stallo the terrible steel clad man the an cient enemy ot the lapps four children were lying or squatting on the reindeer skin about her listening with delicious shudders the old womans voice was deep and harsh except when at a particularly exoiting passage it ly prohibitory the lapp as is well known is not civilized enough to expect to be paid for the privilege of marrying a lovely girl on the contrary he expects to pay for it and the more desirable the girl is the more he ex pects to pv among zillas suitors there was one how ever who would in time be rich enough to win her viz rasmus the son of mathis who camped about the great lake gjendin in the heart of the highlands zula had wnou an m paiuoiuariy 8 a m me heart oi tne nignianaa zitua naa broke into falsetto ells her son and ztua i j m marrv r when her father l ui jj wav uafwl rtlnair i y n a a her oldest granddaughter were seated closer to the fire bending over their handiwork he was whittling a spoon out of a reindeer horn she was stitching a kind of moccasin called komagei every now and then she silently passed the moccasin to her father who looked at it critically and made some brief observation cut the leather a little narrower still he would say and make cross stltohes or ho komag will not bend upward at the toe ells garmo was the richest lapp in all the mountains he had a herd of two thousand heads and silver and provisions enough to feed his whole people in times of famine like all welltodo lspps he hated thenorweglons and not only as a race colleotively but every individual norseman who came in his way there was a time however when elis had cherished different feelingi toward the blond haired race it had been his ambition to rtie out of the bondage cf contempt whoh oppressed his tiibe to hold his head high and take his place boldly among the best he had loved s girl among the blond people and been loved by her but her brothors said that he bad gained her affection by soroery and swore to shoot him if he ventur ed to speak to her then elis stopped speaking to her but one night in the early autumn while the snow was fresh upon the mountains he found raenhild straying in the white wilderness and he took her to his tent and made her hia wife she had fled from home to find him the sorcery had drawn her toward him twioe her brothers had attempted to kill elis until the cattle began to die upon their farms and manifold disaster overtook them this they ascribed to the witchcraft of the lapp and oat of fear forsook their venge- jkbmj but in giving birth to zilla the blonde wife died and was buried according to lap pish rite upon the mountains elis grieved bitterly at her death in whioh he recognized vaguely the vengeance of the brothers and of their god whose help they had invoked from that time forth he hated the white people with a still bitter hatred and held no intercourse with them except once a year when he went to the coast for a change of pastures if as often happened he saw his chance to oheat or outwit them he re joiced stronger than the strong mans strength is the weak mans cunning said the grandmother when ho told her of his buooesslul oheating when the great lipp king returns our people shall conquer its conquerors some years after his blonde wifes death elis married woman of his own tribe and rose to be a great man among his people it was his wealth and hia cunning which commanded respect and above all his hatred cf the oppressors his mothers repute for knowledge ot occult arts also tended to in crease bis authority the lapps are a su perstitious people and find evidence of witch craft in all unfamiliar occurrences as father and daughter were seated before the fire which chased a flickering glow across their countenances the mark of race in the features of both were strong enough to more than hint at the above history zilla had no suspicion that the blood of the hated conquerors ran in her veins she had never rejected npon the fact that her high bridged nose and her pretty mouth and ohln seemed an implied criticism upon the vat noses the broad thin lipped mouths and the compressed chins of the rest of the fam ily if her hair had been yellow she might perhaps have suspected some mystery but happily it had chosen a noncommittal tint which made no ethnological revelations only her dark deep set eyia were an un questioned heritage from the race in which the wild repressed passions slumber like caged beasts of prey the little frown npon her brow as she pored over the stitches jwas merely one of preoccupation but hinted yet at an inten sity of nature whioh whether it broke forth in hato or love would burn fiercely but pretty she was in spite ot all sinister hints nay in spite of the skin trousers whioh covered her ihapely limbs but half conceal ed by a short wadmal skirt and the grotes quely pointed forward bending hood whleh disguised the outline of her dilnty head around her neok she wore a chain ef silver coins and an embroidered belt confined her kin jaoket about her waist her moccasins showed some rude attempts at decoration ohafxer ii the grandmothers story grew more and tnore exciting as it progressed and her pipe went out every five minutes every now and then she orawled forward and stretch ing out a long mummy arm seized a glow ing ooal with her fingers and dropped it into the bowl of her pipe the pnegent odor of plus tobacco prevaded the tent while she smoked away audibly and sent glowering glances toward the unconsolous zula who was patiently stitching for the grandmother had had a grudge against zilla from the moment she was born and it was nothing but the tear of her con whioh made her refrain from doing her harm zilla was in her estimation an in terloper she bad pale blood in her veins she was not a right lapp the fact too that she was her fathers favorite and the apple of his eye did not tend to abate selmkes ill will thus in the tent of this roving nomad which was pitched here to day and tomorrow twenty miles away all the complex domestic relations of civilization had found a dwelling place nor were the rivalries of society unknown in the eternal desert among the clonds and glaciers zillas wealth and beauty- were famed over all the wide mountain plains and there was scarcely a flat nosed youth in all lapmatk who has not exhibited hia skill in shooting and skee running in the hope of winning her heart ells however was ap parently not anxious to part with her for e pat price npon her which was practical- should say the word 8be was in no wise anxious about it but was willing to acquiesce in the authority of her father and the custom of her people chapter hi the spirits of the storm were abroad they were blowing with sad and terrible voices down the smokehole and sending the ashes whirling through the tent in the intervals of stillness the snowflakes came slowly descending melted and fell with a little hiss among the hot cinders suddenly a wail was heard a cry of wila despair which was not the storms the dogs who had been dozing about the fire started up growling and with bristling necks one broke into a howl and instantly the whole pack rushed toward the door elis darted into the corner where his rifle stood and zilla tore open the flaps of the tent and re leased the barking and whining dogs then she seized her skees and followed her father out into the storm oumpe lo botsuin j the wolf is in the herd croaked the grand mother and stopped her story while the children tumbled helterskelter to ward the door there they btood pn h- ing and punching eaoh other and staring over the ridge of snow whioh nearly out off their view into the black and stormy night elis with his finger on the trigger ctood peering through the dark zilla a few steps in advance of him was listening intently the dogs to her surprise had not started for the herd but in a directly opposite di rection perhaps they had scented the wolf in time and were trying to head him off we must double the watoh at the herd father she shouted ill watch half the night with peter and abram in the same instant a gust of wind came and swept her on her light skees several hundred feet away over the surface of the snow a shot rang out and a second it was her father who was trying to frighten the wolves he must have hit 1 but hark that was not the voice of a wolf it was more like a human cry for help a piteous pleading for meroy her blood ran cold she knew the legends of guileful mountain sprites who allure young maidens to destruc tion she stepped off her skees for fear of being blown into the very jaws of death tnd sinking down in the snow to her waist began to oall with all the might of her lungs to her father then again through the wild uproar of tho sky bhe heard the same piteous groan and it sounded this time quite near who is there bhe oried tremblingly help me i am shot answered a voice in the dark through the furious barking ef the dogs the thought flashed through her head that one ot her fathers random shots must have hit soma harmless traveller there was something earthly and reassuring in the voice whioh nut her fears to flight and appealed to her instinct of meroy here muste shame on you she oall- ed to her dogs tschalmo you fool be still ronne and girjes come here and stop your yelping against the dark flapped about and threatened to fly away from the wood at every fresh gush of wind suddenly as his blood was beginning to boil the thought flashed through ellis soul that an evil spirit was taking possession of him he violently collected himself released his daughter arm aid trembling from head to foot tottered away in the direction of the tents no sooner was he gone than zilla halt lifted the wounded man by the shoulders and began to drag him through the snow when she reached te door of the tent ah was ready to drop from exhaustion bu she yet managed to undo the flap and put her burden inside bat as the light of th fire fell npon the white mans face there came a hoarse angry croak from the grand mothers corner the old woman rose with difficulty and nobbled forward uttering threats and malediotiona bat elis stepped forward pale and tremulous took her by the arm and led her back to her corner chapter a keeping watoh over something shielding it from threatening harm implies that it must be precious the stranger while he hovered between life and death raised a barrier between zilla and her father she dared scarcely sleep for tear that she might wake np and find him dead the blood of the half savage race did not ran in her veins unmingled the instinct of compassion was stronger in her than resentment of national wrongs how oould this youth with the smile larking about his mild blue eyes and the frank and genial face and the beautiful yellow hair help that his fathers had wrong ed her fathers he would himself have wronged no one that she conld read in the gentle grateful glonoa that rested up on her in the intervals of consciousness between his fits of delirium it was her father who had brought this calamity npon him and it seemed but right that she should endeavorto relieve his sufferings proud as she had felt and magnificent in her rela tion to her own people toward him she felt humble even while he lay there weak and depen dent npon her she could not help thinking how miserable this smoky fire lighted tent ata moo of the creditors of lord of skin must appear to him and how rude mandevill e latel y declared a bankrupt it and wretched her way of living he did waa revealed that he had borrowed mnn not roam like a wild beast over the monn fobeigh hotes the fastest of british cruisers the shel drake tweniyoae kaora jac launched is a steel twin acrw all devicea for french pi tying cards must now be umicced c- the officials since the face of gen riutuijt r ha appeared among he court cards thereporc i piyllis broughton suit gainst l rd d rgu for breacn of promise ad been settled tor 10 000 was not time the suit will go on considerable commotion has arisen in ptrtsover the plan to run a railway through b jis de boulogne the municipal council a against it bat the prefect of the seine is obstinate ard still active in its favor a dr richardson has achieved some in structive experiment in the use of the graphophone for recording physical symp toms suoh as coughs and pulses a ooagh of today can always be recorded and com pared readily with naof days before some one asked for an explanation of the feeling against jews in vienna a response evidently highly satisfactory to tho author came in this form taere are in vienna 402 bureaux de change of whioh only two are in the- hands of christians greek drapery is driving out the empire style for dresses the dress is allowed to fall from the neok to the instep with only the interference of a loose girdle and it is caught up at the side to show a silk pettlooat with the regular greek pattern thefrench chamber has decided upon two million francs for a monument in com memoration of the first revolution to be erected on the site of the tnilerles instead of the twelve millions desired they have also appropriated fifty thousand franos for a design the fashionable dog for 1889 is to be the aohipperke or little skipper he comes from the low countries and is the old time companion of the flemish bargee he is black with next to no tail and a hard coat inclined to be rough and does not weigh over twelve pounds chapter iv by the bound of their voices she groped her way through the densely falling snow dragging her skees after her zilla where art thonj oame a shout faintly from the direction of the tents but with a great angry swoop the wind whirled it skyward and it seemed as if it had never been father she called back come and help me she had scarcely apokon when she stum- bled over something outstretched in the snow and felt in her one eavor to rise the touch of human hands and limbs the dogs were all the while waltzing about her bark ing at the tops ot their voices hush ye sllllbubs hush or i cannot hoar i she commanded impatiently then stooping down to the wounded man she said if you will rise up i will lead you to the tent i cannot rise i am bleeding to death replied the man in a broken shivering voice and he sank into a swoon from whioh she oould not rouse him she sat for a moment peering through the dark in order to determine from what direction she had come but as the wind bad swept her thither it was plain that she must return against the wind she rose and resolutely put her hands under the mans arms trying to lift him just then a dim waving light appeared at some distance bjfore her and she knew that her father was coming she sank down again in the snow and struggled to make her voice heard above the wind evil spirits have possessed thee zilla cried elis sternly as he lifted his flaring pitch toroh over her head showing her face in swift illumination but as the same rays fell npon the head of the prostrate man in her lap he started back with a wild fear in hia features what hast thou done ho gasped what hast thou dont thoudidstit not i father she answer- ed hia blood is on thy hands the storm tossed his voice about so that it was hord to hear what he replied but these were the words that seemed to reach zillae ears the redder my hands are with such blood the whiter shall thej be in sight of the spirit his voice whirled through space had neither wrath nor fear ir it nor any human emotion it was a if the air had spoken or the storm he seized zilla roughly by the arm and tried to dragher away but she straggled desperately with him and thedogambgling in the fray barked and whined and leaped in the air thrusting their cold noses into her face the sparks from the torch which he held in his hand flew about their heads and the flame flattering its red tongue tain wildernesses but lived in a large and sunny house whenoe the smoke rose through a tall masoned chimney she had never in her life been inside of suoh a house and it seemed a wild dream to think that she ever should all the torments which ells had suffered in the days when he had been ashamed of his race his daughter buffered now at the bedside of the wounded norse man all her pride of race waa changed into humility and selfcontempt and shy hopes began to be enkindled and to danoe fantastically like will o the wisps in her mind rousing by their flickering light a world of slumbering fancies a week passed before the fever left him and then he was so weak that he conld hardly speak above e whisper in his de lirium he had spoken a language which zilla did not understand now he surprised her by addressing ber in her own language i thought i was aead were the first intelligible words he uttered and i could not tell from the looks of this place where i had gone to he smiled faintly and fell into a long doza during which zilla she knew not why bat and wept an anxious feeling had tak en possession of her a forboding of calam ity when he awoke again she gave him some reindeer milk to drink and he declar ed that he felt stronger and grew talkative he told her how the snow btorm bad sur prised him while he was hunting how he lost his way and would have lost his life too if bhe had not saved him after her fathers bullet had laid him low his name was ivar evenson and he was the son of a peasant down in the valley he had seen muoh of the lapps on his hunting trips and had some friends among them whether it was from vexation or grief at his estrangement from his daughter elis was ill at ease and complained of pains in his head and back one day about a month after ivar evenson a arrival he took to his bed with the conviction that he was never again to leave it the white man jthe stallo had stolen his strength he said as his ancestors had done to the lapps ancestors in ancient times just in tho same degree as the stallo gained health he lost and on the day when the guest was able to sit up the host had to take to his bed his old mother sat cross legged at his side and stared at him day by day and sang magic songs which as it seemed to ivar wonld have made him 111 even if he had been ever so robust they were a mere rhythmic wail with sudden crescendota and long crooning plaints whioh made the world seem doubly sorrowful to be continued waa revealed that he had borrowed money through allegations that at the death of his father he would become possessed of over 60090 per annnm and that hia debts amounted to 2200 only london has become reoognized as the great clearing house for all european thieves who operate on a large scale the proceeds for any great robbery committed in europe whioh it is intended to restore through nego tiations are always sent to be delivered in london and there is as yet no legal way to put a stop to the traffic a new invention to prevent collisions at sea consisting of a small plate fixed at the aide of the vessel has been very successfully tried on the thames electricity is the active agent the approaoh of another ves sel within two miles causes a bell to sound and an indicating arrow shows the direction whence it comes afrenoh missionary gives a serious ac count of the btate of slavery in ecuador though it is not alegal institution yet the law permits an indian to sell himself as a slave when he is enable to pay bis debts and once a slave he is rarely able to free himself he may he bequeathed by will tho major ity of the interior indians have been reduc ed to this condition the paris matin gives an aocount of still anothr wonderful cartridgo with all the modem improvements and four distinct ad vantages first it is without the metallic sooket which costs considerable andincreas- es the burden of the soldier second it can be adapted to all guns and particularly to the gros sun third it does not grease the barrel fourth it oosts 70 per oent less than any other cartridge it is also said to be the most powerful ot all the inventor so it is alleged offered it to gen boul- anger when he was war minister and the general wrote in reply that he hadnt time to consider the matter information verified henpecked husband reading the paper and rocking the cradle ahem the bustle is going out x see vixenish wife who had just finished dressing you bet it is and i am going with it yon take core of that baby till i get baok evolution of a husband mra plentypop well have yon suc ceeded in getting rid of the attentions of mr neverskip mrs widowfait hardly mrs plentypop did you hove him ar rested and fined for malicious persecution as i advised you mrs widowfair yes mrs plentypop with what result mrs widowfair he paid the fino and came immediately to my house to renew his sub mrs plentypop well mrs widowfair i hod the footman kick him down the steps mrs plentypop what then mrr widowfair he apologized to james for wearing thick trousers and said that he would call again mrs plentypop did he mrs widowfair yer in ten minutes i bad to see him of course airs pentyjjop and you upbraided him for his nngentlemanly conduct mrs widowfair no i began to sus- pect that the poor man really did love me and love is such a rare quality in a man with an income of 100000 a year that i mr plentypop yon what mrs widowiair i told him if he conld wait till my sorrow was six week old i would put him in a position fox discharging jams it was bale john jamieson white the timehonoured janitor of the dablin mansion house says a weekly con temporary is a remarkable man in his way and tells some wonderful stories about the good old times when daniel oconneu was the host of dawson street and bofore the oivio sanctity of the mansion house was invaded by butchers bakers and pnblicians a member of the latter trade mr ocon nor a whiskey- merchant was lord mayor some years ago and a captain in a regiment stationed in dublin called to see his lord ship in connection with some charitable in stitution the door as nsual was opened by white good morrow white was the salute of the captain good day to ye snrr greeted white is the lord mayor inl well surr if ye want to see him at wonst he ont but if ye can wait a quarther of an hour he in the captain consented to wait say cap tain continued white wonld ye be after havm a drop of whiskey with me i really cannot answered the captain oh sure make your moind aisy 1 its none of the lord mayors fusiloil that id be after givin ye it rale john jamieson and i bought it at francis falkners opposite and paid my solid twlntyone shillina a gallon for it 1 ye can drink with safety captain whlstheres his lordship 1 soul stirring eloquence old colonel z ill at the time when grant was np for the american presidency and when the democratic watchword was any thing to beat grant 1 was addressing an en thusiastic meeting of the republicans when a demoorat who was hanging on to the verge of the crowd sang ont its easy talkin colonel bat well show yon some thing next fall the colonel was a southern union man of the ultra school and a great admirer of grant he at onco wheeled about and with uplifted hands hair bristling and eyes fl ishlng fire cried out build a wire fence round a winter supply of summer weather skim the cloud from the sky with a teaspoon catch a thunderbolt in a bladder break a hurricane to harness ground- sluice an earthquake lasso an avalanche fix a olout on the crater of an active volcand hive all the tar in a nan keg hang ont the ocean on a grapevine to dry put the sky to soak- in a gourd and paste to let on the sun and moon bnt never air never for a moment delude yourself with the idea that i can beat grant through a sea of flames a train face to face with the prairie flrt dashes ahead and eacape chambzblaix d t the passenger train from tho east on the st paul road had a terrible experiences two miles east of mount vernon d t the other day the terrible prairie fire was raging at that point and the dusk and smoke made the surround ings as dark as night the engineer plung ed the train into tho darkness and the first thing he knsw he found the tie on fire for nearly a mile away he checked the train fearing to advanoe lest he should find no track ahead of him and there in the suffocating smoke and scorching heat with blazing tie underneath the train stood with the flame raging on each aide of the track the crew sought to extinguish the fir and save the train the paaunzera be came excited and pleaded to bevleased from the death by fire or suffocation that seemed so near at hand children cried from pain and gasped for breath and strong men beoame desperate and left the train to fight the flames only to return exhausted for a time escape looked impossible and several of the passengers gave up all hope several ladies prayed aloud and some of the male passengers swore at the obtuseneas of the engineer for going into that blazing furnace so far that he could not retreat the train crew and passengers worked heroi cally it was dangerous to move either way behind the read was on fire as far as they could see while ahead all was darkness and mystery but it was death to linger in that i cauldron of fire and when the surroundings i either meant moving or death the effort was worth the attempt and a ttart was at last made the suspense and horror of the few moments required to pass over the burning track and through the terrible heat and smoke can better be imagined than describ ed no one know but that they were rush ing on to certain death or that the train would not tumble into the ditch and beoome a mass of flames in a moment bat fortun ately it ran safely throngh a mile of this eea oi fire without any mishap several passengers were burned seriously while fighting the flames but none of them fatally a fanot in a boarding house a very garrulous parrot is owned by a wo man who keeps a boarding house daring meal hours the talkative bird is not allowed to stay in the dining room for it makes si much noise that theboarders canthearthem selves think muoh less what one boarder triei to say to the others so jast before the bel is rung polls cage is hung out in the kitchen and after the table has been oleared off it put back again not long ago one of th young men boarders was unusually late to his dinner his absenoe at the regular meat had not been noticed and the mistress oi the house supposing that all of her boarders had dined ordered the girl to hang the par rot in the dining room the girl did so ant pretty soon the belated boarder came in ancf told the waiter girl that he wan uncommonly hungry he duplicated his first order ami took plenty of time to eat it the girl staying in the kitcnen when she wasnt waiting ox him for twenty minutes the parrot kept ay still as a mouse then it began to screed and yell at a great rate and when it hoc got its voice in good working order it sanf out john come h8re 1 john come here fannie come on up i fannie come on np i john and fannie are members of th household and the parrot after having yell ed their names for a while changed the tonj of its voice a little stuok its bill out of thi cage looked down on the solitary feeder and went on in this way say let up i say let np i stop stop stop stop stop stop i let np let up le up lot up i say let up 1 say let up i stop stop stop stop stop stop i let up there let up there 1 stop stop stop 1 poll kept this up for two or three minutes and then changed its tone again and son out go it go it go it go it go it 1 ior twj minutes more when it gave another series soreeohes and yelled da let up do let up do let np 1 sto stop stop stop atop stop 1 until it go out of wind by this time the boarder waa mad called the girl out of the kitchen and asked l wheres tho mistress down stairs i guess well gon tell her i want to see her the girl hurried down stairs and present ly the landlady appeared and asked tb boarder what he wanted to see her for how much do i owo you he inquire why you dont owe me for a week ye ita in no hurry for the money well im in a hurry to pay you and gi out of hero i wont stay in any botu where they pnt a noisy parrot in the roq to see how much i eat and then yell aft to btop i wont stand it 1 why my dear sir nobody thought suoh a thing and i hope yon dont thll they did i had the parrot hung here b cause i thought everybody had been to dii ner 1 i know better shes been yelling at n to let up and to stop for the last ten minutt its too thin and 111 nevor eat another me in your house again the lady aid all she conld to pacify t angry and hotheade d boarder bnt i couldnt make mm belive that the parr had not been plaoed there to watch bii and so bhe took what he owed her and 1 him go unpronounceable a russian resident of the united stat entered a savings bank in one of our east cities and said he wished to make a fl deposit what ia yonr name asked t clerk dimitri ssolikamavicoh whatk said the clerk dropping pen and looking up in openmouthed ama ment dimitri ssolikamavitcb was the qc reply of the solidlooking russian i i er how do you spell it d i mit ri sao1 ikamavitc1 replied the man in one breath i guess youll have to spell it a yard two at a time said the clerk laughing when the name waa finally written i clerk asked where were yon bom 1 in tohernocholunitzkoi where r in tchernocholunitzkol walt i wait i aid the clerk si it one letter at a time it was easy enough to fill out the ot blank bat when the man had gone clerk said one mora russian depositor day sad i shall go homo with bralnfevt f