Alpine Avalanche. (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1900 Page: 3 of 8
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THREE WORDS.
For three words that you said to me,
1 go through life full cheerily:
They shield me like some holy charin
That wardeth -off distress and harm,
End bar from earth’s Iniquity.
O happy heart, that knows not douM
nor ache. ,
For three words' sake.
For three words that you said, I know
Hew rich the poorest^ hind may *o,
And how a very prince may be
Draped In the deepest poverty:
And how l^>ve laughs to have It so.
Such Is the tender knowledge 1 may
take.
For three words’ sake.
Ibr three words that you said. I stand
With strength unfailing In my hand.
Knowing no thing 1 would not dare.
Bent by no burden I must bear;
Armored to meet a world’s demand:
My heart- may never fall, my spirit
break;
Vo' three words’ sake.
k Personal.
BY LOUISE HOLLAND.
<Copyr1ghted. 1900: Dally Story Pub. Co.)
“I Bay, boys, there’s more than one
way of getting married nowadays.
Listen to this,” exclaimed Laurence
Meredith from the coxy corner of the
club amoker, where hia tall, graceful
form and handsome blonde head were
almost lost from view under the num-
erous sheets of a Sunday morning pa-
per and the smoke from hia cigar.
“A young man, thirty yeara c*
age. of exemplary habits and good
business position, desires acquaint -
ante of young lady about twenty-
live. good looking, educated, refin-
ed; object, matrimony. Address
K. 290.” -
“Doesn’t it beat all what fools some
men are?”
“Yes, and women, too; for I’ll be
some antiquated female will answer
that personal before night,” declared
Charlie Norris.
“Oh. I don’t believe It,” returned
Laurence. "No woman would sell her-
self that cheap.”
“How much do you want to bet?”
Inquired Laurence.
“Well, you write the personal to be
addressed to yourself (some fictitious
name, of course), at the Club, and you
agree to show the answer to the rest
of us. so that we can be sure It’s no
bogus billet doux; and I’ll bet an even
hundred to your ten that you'll get an
answer inside of two days.”
“It's a go. Now come and help me
out with the Personal, It makes a fel-
low feel like a fool to try and write a
description of himself!”
“How would this suit you?” asked
Charlie. ’A young, rich, handsome, In-
telligent, Interesting, affectionate and
loving young gentleman, desires ac-
quaintance of a lovely young girl;
aylpb-llke type preferred; object-”
"Ring off, you cad!” cried Laurence
angrily, “what do you take me for?”
“Why, it’s a perfect photograph of
yourself, and the other Is Just the kind
of a girl you like,” said Charlie with
a sly look at the others.
“I have it!’ cried Charlie. 'A young
man with a glass eye, cork leg, and
tin ear wishes to make the acquaint-
ance of a young lady likewise endow-
ed; no Imposition; even trade; object,
matrimony.’ ”
“Now, Charlie, shut up. Laurence,
listen to this,” and John Strong read
what he had Just scribbled on the fly
leaf of his book; ‘A young, honest,
intelligent man desires acquaintance
of young lady possessing similar at-
tributes; object, friendship; possibly
matrimony. Address L, 425 Nlposlnk
Club.’ You see that qualifying opens
to you an honorable road for retreat;
will that do?”
“Just the ticket.’ said Laurence.
“Heavens, Jack, but you’i-e a deep
one.” said Charlie.
“He uses hia head to think with as
well as to eat and drink and talk with;
you’d do well to cultivate him, my
boy.” put in Laurence, glad to give
Charlie a hit tor hia too accurate des-
cription of a girl ho admired.
“Well, boys, I must be moving,” de-
lanorlna Laurence's
Strong?” inquired Mllllcent Dean, n
girl whose baby face and innocent blue
eyes almost belled the meaning look
she gave the others aa she asked the
question. : "
Margaret fluked, and replied: “He
was here, but Charlie Norris came
with him and. girls, he was ao Infatu-
ated with Kate he hardly addressed
three words to me during the enttre
evening. What will we do with this
Northerner, If she comes among na
and carries off the handsomest man In
‘ town?"
“Oh. Margaret! Why, girls, be and
Margaret got Into such a heated dis-
cussion ou ’Modern Woman.’
could almost spe^the sparks fly,” re-
turned Kate, r
"Did Margaret » agree with him;
what did Charlie say?” asked Maude,
trying hard not to look too Interested
In that young gentleman’s views of
the “weaker veasel.”
“Of course she didn’t agree with
him. Why, he says the modern wo-
man la as bold and Independent as a
man, and aB for the restraints of cus-
tom and things conventional, she ut-
terly ignores them.”
“Yes,” interposed Margaret, “he
grew so much in earnest that he said,
‘why, ladies, to show you how convinc-
ed I am that I’m right. I’ve got a bet
of a hundred dollars with a certain
fellow who shares your antiquated
ideas, and tomorrow evening I’ll blow
that hundred on a swell dinner at the
Club; ladles, consider yourselves en-
gaged for Tuesday evening. May 20,
and we’ll toast woman, old and new.”
“How lovely! 1 wonder what the
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"Here It Is.
bet’B about?” And Mllllcent clasped
her white hands above her head and
gazed up at the blue and silver ceiling
as If its Intricacies could unravel the
mystery.
“Girls. I have It!” cried Kate, who
had been Idly fluttering the leaves of
book which John Strong had the
evening before brought Margaret;
don’t you remember, Margie, how John
said, ‘don’t get too personal. Charlie,’
and Charlie laughed and said, ’what do
you know about personals?’ and John
answered, ’Nothing, only I don’t think
it safe to bet an even hundred to ten
on them;’ and girls, look here on the
fly-leaf of this book, ’A young, honest.
Intelligent man desires acquaintance
of young lady of similar attributes;
object, friendship; possibly matri-
mony. Address L. 425 Nlposlnk
Club.’ Hand me that paper, Maude;
Charlie must have written this and bet
on a girl’s answering it. And here It
Is,” she exclaimed, as she ran her eye
over the Ad. sheet; "and, girls, I’ve
a great mind to answer it.”
“So that Charlie can win his bet?”
queried Maude, who was dying to
know if his Interest in the fair North-
erner was returned by her.
“No! Just for the fun of the thing;
and then we won’t go to the Club din-
ner If he loses.”
“Would you dare?” asked Mllllcent,
who longed, yet dared not.
“Of course I dare,” and In less time
than it takes to tell It. a dainty per-
fumed missive was sent to L, 425 Nlpo-
slnk Club, with an Invitation to meet
Charlie pleasantly hat. as she *ave her
hand to Laurence, she blushed visibly,
end his embarrassment waa hardly
leas than her own. In fact, on Kate’s
paisThgoil and tnlngTTng Wlfh The
other guests. Charlie had to put the
question three times. “Wasn’t she the
prettiest girl he ever saw?” before he
had sufficiently recovered to reply in
the afllrmative.
Dinner being announced, it was Lau-
renco’8 good or bad fortune, as the
case might be. to take out Kate who
supported him at the lower end of the
table. At the upper end, with Maude
on his right, sat Charlie.
The affair progressed - merrily,
tbOWh Charlie and Kate were the re-
dplCTits of many an Inquiring glance.
At last toasts were In order, and
Charlin rose to hla feet. ’’Ladles,” he
said, “to you alone is due this festive
scene. Two days :*go I made a bet
with ray unsophisticated friend, wl
graces the lower end of this groanin'
bourd. an even hundred to his ten that,
should he send a Personal to the paper
he would receive an answer inside of
two days—my admiration und obser-
vation of the fair sex leading me to be-
lieve that you always have an eye to
the main chance—In fact, you are like
that early bird who always gets the
worm,—but, pardon these digressions.
In proof that it was sent, listen.” and
he read from a paper he drew from his
pocket. “A young, honest, intelligent
man desires acquaintance of young
lady possessing similar attributes; ob-
ject. friendship; possibly matrimony.
Address L. 425 Niposink Club.” fur-
ther than that the Personal was an-
swered. behold!” and he flashed ten
crisp tens before their eyes, “which I
blow on this dinner, and now, ladies,
congratulate the winner.’’
With an audacious look on his face,
Laurence sprang to his feet, “Ladies
and gentlemen," he cried, "my contest-
ant speaks truly, but,” and taking
Kate's hand he forced her to stand by
his side, “do you think 1 am altogether
the loser?”
V
YAQUIS AS TRAILERS.
Iiu-Ment* llln»lrwUna Tlielr skill hi
Cam* of Seoul In*.
-The Yaqui Indians are wonderful
natural trailers," said a former Mexi-
can trader, relates ihe Now Orleans
Tlmes-Democrat. They ought to make
the best scouts In the world. Some
years ago I was stopping at a place
called Yaletl, near the east coast ol
Yucatan, when my cabin was robbed
one night of several hundred dollars
in gold. I hired a very intelligent Ya-
qnl named Pedro to help me chase the
thief, and we started at once. The
thief who did the Job had fled on
horseback,.striking northwest, and be-
fore long my guide had a pretty .ac-
curate idea of his personal appearance
He picked up his information a scrap
at a time, beginning with the discov-
ery that he was undersized. When I
asked how he knew, he oointed to a
willow tree from which one of the
lower branches had been recently
broken. The rascal had dismounted
there for a rest, and several flat
stones were piled on the ground limit r
the broken branch. Pedro surmised
that he wanted a whin and had to
stand on the stones to reach the limb,
which was really not very hig.h.
mention this Incident because it seem-
ed to me at the time to be very far
fetched guessing, hut it turned out
afterward to be absolutely correct. He
knew the colors of the man's saddle
blanket from a few shreds caught on
a thorn bush, and learned that he car-
ried a native water bottle by Its print
In the soft dirt near a spring. What
astonished me especially, however,was
the ease with which he followed the
train of the horse over flinty, sun
caked stretches, where not the faintest
sign of Its passage was visible to my
blunter vision. We caught up with
the thief on the second day. and all of
Pedro's predictions were verified to the
letter. He was a prowling half-breed
and when hard pressed had hidden the
money under a log In a dense thicket.
My Indian located it In almost lees
time than it takes to tell the story, and
laughed contemptuously at the other's
lack of finesse. Yet he was not an
exceptional trailer. I have met dozens
of the tribe who were equally clever.
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
LONE STAR LINES.
The French cabinet has decided to
hULTOkfi the chambers for Nov. 6.
Gen. Wlndom has gone to Vlcks-
Durg, Miss., to Inspect the National
.•emetery there. _ 1/
Dr. James Carlisle, nephew of Thom-
as Carlisle, the great author, and one
jf the beet known educationalists of
Ontario, is dead.
Gen. MacArthur notified the war de-
partment that the transports Slam and
Athenian have sailed for the United
States and that the transport Frederica
arrived at Manila.
Sir Alfred Milner, who, it la an-
nounced, will be appointed governor of
the conquered republics, has arrived
at Pretoria. He was '* met by Lord
Roberts.
The St. Pierre schooner Fiona drift-
ashore In Fortune hay, off New-
undland. during the recent gile and
her entire crew of twenty men was
drowned.
In an interview telling of his hopes
Thomas l.ipton says: ”1 would give
every penny 1 have, and begin again
at the bottom of the ladder, to lift the
America’s cup.”
A high official of the foreign office
declares that the statement that Ger-
many has leased the island of Uruan
in the Red Sea as a coaling station Is
euntirelv unfounded.
It is officially announced that Lord
Averstone, better known as Sir Rich-
ard Webster, has been appointed Ixml
Chief Justice of England in succession
to the late Baron Russell of Kilowen.
A New York special Bays Yu Lu,
Viceroy of fhinu. the Immediate prede-
cessor of Li Hung Chang, sent false re-
ports to Pekin, telling of glorious Chi-
nese victories and a few minor de-
feats.
Senor Don Lul3 F. Corea, the Nica-
raguan minister at Washington, him
been accredited by his government to
Mexico also. He was already minister
to Chile, so that he now holds three
missions simultaneously.
The United States supreme court
granted motions advancing the Neely
case and the cases Involving the ques-
tion of the extension of the constitu-
tion over the Philippines and Porto
Rico to the second week In November.
Mrs. Daniel Manning, while leaving
her hotel at Paris, lost a diamond sun-
burst valued at $2500. As a strange
coincidence both the lady commission-
ers to the Fnlted States at the ParlH
exposition sustained a loss of jewels.
Taken from Texas, where he had
died from a broken heart, the body of
Dr. John Paul JoneH, who, in Janu-
ary last, was arrested upon suspicion
of having killed his colored coachman
at Pine Hush. N. Y., was interred at
New York.
Bishop Galloway of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, has called on
his people to hold un old watch meet-
ing on the night of Dec. 31, as a flitting
climax to the twentieth century fund
movement. The fund amounts to $1,-
000.000.
Germany’s Chinese policy, according
to a Berlin dispatch, is growing un-
popular among the great manufactur-
ers In west Germany, on account of the
severe reaction In business, the ab-
sence of orders and heavy fall In dus-
t'rlal shares.
Gov. Gen. Wood of Cuba Is consider-
ing the advisability of appointing a
railroad commission to fix rates and
regulate construction, his la due to
regulate construction. This is due to
freight charges. Instances being reli-
ably reported where the rates for less
than 100 miles are higher than those
from New York to Havana, with the
Corsicana
llgh plant.
wants a larger electric
Dan V. Edwards of Beaumont died
Of a spider bite.
Will Thomas, colored. 24 years old,
dropped dead at Dallas.
The Sour Lake'fell field Is to be de-
veloped by Corsicana parties.
The Mexican cable that was damaged
at Galveston will soon be repaired.
.Footpads beat up a man named Lind-
say at Austin and relieved him of $4.60
The racket store of H. L Bond, En-
nis. was totally destroyed by Are. Loss ,
$9,000. * .
After finding 130 Indictments the La-
mar county grand Jury adjourned un-
til Nov. 10.
Mrs. M. A. Bushick, proprietress of
the hotel of that name at New Boston
died very suddenly.
Greenville is taking active steps to
have the proposed Girls’ Industrie
school located there.
The twentieth century educational
fund being raised by the Methodists In
Sherman is nearing $1300.
Judge Green of Fort Wo/th was elect-
ed moderator of the Presbyterian
church synod of Texas at San An-
tonio.
A negress named Maria Moore was
found foaming at the mouth on a va-
cant lot ut Dallas and died shortly
after.
The body 6f A1 Abernathy waa
found In u seed house at Honey Grove
with u bullet hole through the head
and u pistol lying ou the breast.
Two deputy sheriffs arrested fifteen
gamblers fourteen miles southeast of
McKinney. When arrested they were
in the midst of n game with |fi00 at
stake. ™
W. J. Hunt, foreman of car Inspec-
tors of the Texas and Pacific railway,
was run over and killed at Marshall.
Deceased waa over twenty years in the
service.
The controller received from the
San Antonio and Gulf Railroad com-
pany $22.53 tax on $2,253.25 of passen-
ger earnings for the quarter ending-
Sept. 30.
The Carl Winfrey murder case was
settled at New Boston by defendant
pleading guilty and getting two yours
On first trial he was sentenced for life.
He killed John Miller.
Charles lloGrace of llonhum, brlga-
died general of the northeastern divis-
ion of Ihe I'nlted Confederate veter-
ans of Texas, him appointed J. M. Lon.
Esq., of Paris, general.
It la officially reported ut El Paso
thut a Wells-Fargo agent in Texas ab-
sconded with $18,000 of the company’s
cash. Division Superintendent Davis
of that city left for the place.
The remulns of T. L. Fuller, the state
ranger killed ut Orange, were shipped
to Fulshear, in Brazoria county, for
Interment. He was a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Chuirmun Moller of the labor com-
mittee, in charge of removing debris
and disposing of the dead bodies found
at Galveston, estimates the cost of the
enttre work ut a little less than $75,-
000.
Mayor Johnuon of Corsicana Issued
strict orders to Marshal Cole to arrest
all parties In that city who had com*
In within the last twenty-four hours
and who could not give a good account
of themselves.
In the pocket of a coat sent to Gal-
veston from Sharon. Penn., was a
peach seed with the request that the
recipient of same plant It. The wish
waa also expressed that a
•hot. thinking it well to retire before
he got another, and he was off, to be
followed soon after by his comtmnlons.
• • • • •
In a girl's dhlhty blue and silver
room were gathered a knot of South-
ern detyitantps to talk over the details
of the next ball.'the experience ^pf the
last one. and to become more Inti-
mately acquainted with Margaret De-
land’s Ely young cousin, a pretty
brown-eyed, brown-haired girl from
the North, who. with her alert, viva-
cious and Independent ways, formed
quite a contrast to her quiet, demure
and more conservative sisters of the
8outh.
Kate Irving was but eighteen, and
this visit to her Southern cousin
witnessed not only the first flight from
the home nest, but her initial entry
into the social whirl as well; and, to
her it seemed a veritable peep into
fairyland. Yet ska carried herself
Wall, and her head waa not turned by
the -many flattering attentions she re-
ceived from the Southern gallants
whom she mqL -• ,^>-
. la h momentary, lull of the details of
HSMES&
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coeldnt wars
K Tuesday 2 p. m.. In the alcove of the
North room of the Art Gallery.
• e • * • •
Tuesday, May 20, at five p. m. The
Club smoker presented an unusually
gala appearance; flowers abounded,
chairs and tables were disposed in
social, yet convenient form, not bunch-
ed, as waa usually the case; magazines
and papers were placed, not scattered
about, and not a cuspidor or cigar stub
was visible.
In the dining room covers were laid
for twenty, and at the door, waiting
to receive the guests, stood winner and
loeer of the bet; the former exultant
and smiling; the latter. tVough not de-
pressed, strongly preoccupied.
“I say. old fellow.” this from Char-
lie. “It’s a burning shame; you’re no*
telling me a word about her. What
was she like? I^ady of uncertain age,
or an airy, fairy Lillian?”
“Neither.” was the short rejoinder.
"Well. I’ll have it out of you when 1
give my toast." Charlie replied.
Laurence smiled, but made no an-
swer. as hs turned to greet the first
comers.
Among the last to arrive were Mar-
garet and Kate. Margaret with a pas-
sled. mystified look on her face, and
Kata strangely excited. She greeted
A Social Formality.
“What do you propose to do with
this man?” said the stranger in Crlm
son Gulch. “We ain’t goin’ to do noth
in’ to him,” said Rattlesnake Pete,
"only jes’ show him that we don't feel
under no obligations whatsoever.
We’re going to take him out an’ stand
him up in a wagon under a tree with
a rope around his neck. An’ then we’re
goin' to drive off an' not have any
more sociability with him.”—Wash
ington Htar.
MImiiu’i MhoiciiIo* of Toon.
Christine NllBson cherishes lu
unique way momentos of her triumphs
on the concert stage. One of her
rooms IS papered with leaves of music
taken from the various oparss in
which she has appeared. Another
decorated with receipted hotel Mils
made out In her name daring her
tours.
duty added.
The intercession of the Princess of
Wales, says a dispatch from Copen-
hagen to the Telegraph, has secured
the liberation of some Danes who were
compelled by the Boers to fight against
the British and had been Imprisoned ai
StmooBtown. Cape Colony.
A remarkable series of experiments
was conducted at St. Paul. Minn., by
Henry F. Loring of New York, who
successfully accomplished the feat of
carrying 30,200 volts of electricity
through an underground cable three
miles long.
From ocean to ocean and from the
gieat lakes to the gulf. In every city,
tewn and village of the country, Dem-
ocratic meetings will be held Oct. 27.
and will be addressed by the. ablest
speakers that this gigantic plan will
permit.
The Dowietle deacon. Homer Keealer,
of Chicago, made another unsucdnaaful
attempt to hold services at Mansfield,
O. He was taken In charge by the po-
lice whilfilnirdlng services at the home
of F. D. Calver and was sent out of the
city.
tree would grow therefrom.
A negro pauper, who had been liv-
ing its a cabin by himself, waa found
in thev trinity of Navasota
dead by some of his white neighbors.
He had been seen walking around In
hla yard the previous evening.
The engine at J. P. Odom's at Byron,
twelve miles south of Ennis, blew up.
A boy npmed Williford, 12 years old.
was struck In the face and head by
flying debris and badly hurt. The
steam chest burst and the engine was
very badly wrecked.
Arthur Carter, charged with the mur-
der of Ix>gun Walters at Bryan, had an
examining trial before Justice Mlnker,
and wns allowed bond In the sum of
$1,000. Nelson C. Dow, arrested In
connection with the case, waa released
after the examining trial.
In a suit at El Paso of Frank Hovay
vs. the Southern Pacific Railway com-
pany the federal Jury awarded plain-
tiff $10,000 damages for personal lnjqr-
las. Hovay lost an eye while In the
employ or the railway company In Near
Mexico.
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