The Kansas State Register from Wichita, Kansas • 6

THE KANSAS STATE REGISTER, FEBRUARY 9, 1900. A Colonial Free-Lance. Forest Reserve In North Carolina, A movement 1ms been started in North Carolina to induce the national government to establish a great forest reserve of 500,000 acres in the mountains of that state and it ia probable it will successful. By Chauncey C. Hotchkiss Copyrighted GRAPHOPHONES OR TALKING MACHINES.

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W. KEOHANE CO. REAL ESTATE I I 128 North Main I Wichita, Kan. A program of twenty-six pieceswill be given at the opera house Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening. Admission 10 cents.

You cant afford to miss it. Among the pieces presented will be: A High Old Time; Capture Santiago, Fncle Joshs Husking Bee Dance, 'Rastus on Paradise, Happy Days in Dixie, and twenty-one other popnlur productions. i Meats Inside prices oil Peoples Dye and Hat Works. 11 Month Lawrence. Gents Soft, Silk and Stiff Hats Cleaned Blocked and Retrimmed.

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DE MAR dents nothin leaned, Dyed and Repaired. needle, thougn i found cne steel was through and through the flesh. Plucking it out, I ran forward with the determination of taking the status of the remaining hand, but I could not find him at first, for both galley and forecastle were bare of everything human. As I came up from the latter I saw him astride the starboard spreader of the foremast with a pistol in his hand. I doubted not that lie would have shot at me as 1 passed under him on my way forward, only that the holm being relieved of pressure the vessel had gone into the wind, and the violent motion of the headsailsand tremor of the mast under the thunderous thrashing of the foresail made an aim impossible.

His attitude and the pistol told the story of the part he was expected to play in the mutiny which had probably been hatched before leaving Norfolk. But the cowardly cur had either skulked at the last moment or I had been too rapid for him, and he had swarmed up the shrouds to be out of reach, am! there sat looking down at me. I passed no words with him, but. running back on the larboard side, fetched my rifle from the cabin, and, standing by the break of the poop, drew a bead on him and commanded him to drop his pistol and come down. At first he demurred, then whimpered, and, finally dropping the pistol, swung himself to the halyards, down which lie slid to the deck, here, falling his knees, lie began begging for his life, Ins black face turned to sickly green through abject terror.

The blood I was losing from my arm (and it was a sight) took it from my head, and mi temper was a trifle less murderous by the time the fellow had come within ray power. I had tiaded on his ignorance, as, had he but known gun was uncharged, matters might have taken a different complexion. Sternh ordering him below, I drew the slide over the hatch, and then, feeling my lib was safe from him, fetched a deep breath and to- a look about me. The ships were in fair night by thi, the ne eastward doubtless a troop ship bound New York with reenfon etnent for Sir 1 1 it up ministration The ship to the west looked to be a in of war. judging by her s.e nnd r-g.

but tii rd thit cau 1 mo the unenv nof-s a tine, large s. hnercoin vn be it th- mi, and about four miles away. 1 I doubt i To pass myxelf asu royalist bound I i S. mi i New 1 1 li It ad f. majesty (that being the gist of mv forged paper would hardly do in the fare of onr i rn lv 111 tipp I i.u 1.

hand driven a But I nothing ing danger, but at a glance saw that escape by flight was useless, as the oncoming vessels were spreading out from east to south and rapidly sailing down on a fresh wind, which they were evidently bringing with them. To pass through them unnoticed was unhoped for; to be chased was to proclaim my character. Lounsbury was no coward, I knew; but that he Svas a traitor to me, or mad, I had small doubt. IJis manner and words heated my temper, but now that I must have recourse to deception, I let him bide the while, and turned attention toward getting out of the danger bearing down from windward. Putting a curb on my temoer, 1 said: You will get up the British ensign and hold the course.

Ve will clear them yet." And with this 1 turned toward the companion. Now, whether he feared I was about to arm myself, and preferring to take me as 1 stood (which was more than most men dare attempt), or whether his plans were ripe for action, I know not; but ho Interposed his square figure betwixt me and (lie door, and with a mighty patronizing air, spake tints: Faith, captain, I had no call to harrow ye, seeing the game is in my own two hands; but list' a bit, and we may yet be comrades again. No matter how 1 know, but I do know ye look to cozen yonder ships by false papers, seeing bis impossible to dodge them a they have the weather gauge of ye an' are in the bight of the land. Now what u-e might be yer papers should 1 see lit to damn ye as a rebel with a cargo of rebel had consigned to rebels? About as much survice as a rabbit's tail to a cow in fly time. Ye he a man o' sense an have little liking, take it.

for a taste o' cither Cunningham British provost marshal at New Yorl 1 one the prison hulks, an' ye can ape them both it standing by ye will help, ver the bit I ye 1 i snugged away below." Tiie sho of this demand with the knowledge of what might lay in store for me caused me to lose thought of all else save how the fellow had gotten so familiar wit It this I nJ it lure I was clutched by fear nt the danger bearing down on me, for lcstdaid ans i by I had too i trust. I 1 fad being plain enough), and had in some waj com the fact 1 it I I ossessed treasure which, by ncarh. he discovered hidden somewhere lyrnd reach. Be this as it may. I saw that fairly well-to-do peasant, owning a piece of land in the village of Zcerski, not far from Warsaw.

He was hetman of his tribe, and lived in peace with his neighbors and the government, too. Old age beginning to make itself Felix ceded his property to his son and was about to retire from active life altogether when a St. Petersburg decree ordered him to embrace the Greek faith and thus set an example to the village. The villagers appealed. The commissioner ordered them to return home and afterward again ap- pear before him.

They did as they were told, only to find that the cossack had in the meantime destroyed half their property, breaking the furniture, eating the poultry and slaughtering part of the domestic animals. This was done at the commissioners orders. The men and women returned to the village hall with complaints and tears. Our work has only begun, said the commissioner, We will give you some more time to think. Meanwhile the destruction will goon.

Then he ordered the Cossacks to fall upon the people and tear off their clothes. Naked they were driven out in the snow. Dont come back until you are willing to embrace the faith of holy Russia. Felix dared not remonstrate against this unheard of barbarity. Off with his sheepskin ami boots, cried the commissioner.

After the hetman had been stripped, he was carried outside and seated on the window sill, two men holding him. Now bring in his son and granddaughter, rang out the command. The son was treated like the father, then thrown on a platform aud knout -ed. There was a pause after every second stroke. Forswear, dog of a Pole.

No. So every third stroke was the harder. Finally the captain of the Cossack went up and buried his spurs in the poor fellow's back. Wilt th now abjure? No, cried the dying man with all the power at his command. Turn him round.

The cruel whip was applied to his face and bare breast. Acknowledge that thou art a Russian -cry long live the Holy Mother or I will kill you I want to die as 1 havr lived, a Fo and alholic! The inhuman officer commanded his nu to give the headstrong peasant some Kufcin punch They oj. ned h. i tick a funnel in throat snd poured In foul water Then they danced on b.s stomach. 1 nder their kick and spurring, poor Igi at expired Kr.iX was brought in.

He was blue with fr Inn ha stood -u ends but spirit was unbroken Will thu now renounce thy Roman he res; 1 ux shook hi bend. CHAPTER I. TWIXT THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA. 1 thank God I am no cuwaci, that tvhich 1 am about to write would be unwritten for loss of subject matter. Nor do 1 make boast of my bravery, seeing it is a thing born in man and not of his own making.

For, as it ill becomes a woman to take to herself the credit of her beauty (for the reason that it is fashioned by a power not her own), so it would appear vainglorious in me to laud myself for not playing the part of a child when necessity demanded the action of a man. And, furthermore, if in the following 1 seem to make much of my quickness of brain and power of arm, let me here disclaim all unjust pride in the matter, for my size and strength are things 1 owe to a cause higher than myself, and as for my wits, why, they are but those God gave me, and they worked as lie saw lit to hav them. These things 1 say in sell-justification for what follows. I have known fear, but, thank God! not the fear that paralyzes action. In a measure 1 felt it when I first openly lifted my voice against the king, and, later, the very day on which my story opens.

Wo were then somewhere northward of the Delaware capes, with as fair a sea under and above us and as fair though hot a sky as ever fell to my lot to sec. I say wo, meaning the schooner Phantom, short-handed with two blacks and a mate, and myself, Donald Thorndykc, master, bound from Norfolk to New London with a cargo of scrap lead to be turned into bullets, and five hundred pounds in good British gold secretly built into the bulkhead of the (akin. This latter, with the schooner, being the sole property I possessed, wore fun her protected by a double set of clearan pa pers, the false especially forged by my own hands to deceive such of the slops of gracious majesty George 111 as by chance might be encountered betwixt the two ports. And there was no small chance of such an encounter, as one may well know glancing at the history of the unit! cnies in the year of grace 177s 1 had been held long in rf tor the lack of a mate with a know tion, being myself by no a water sailor, only dodging al in years past on the i lasting the kings custom a had been r- 1 at by tin- to he one he breaking out tilities And this injured nor character, for snob th r. commercial lav with winch p.r Lad compassed us that the term pier" bore no opprobrium in More was it a title of virtue of e.i' good oion: and to 1 1 I bred my In s', stanch a ml lod Uv.i a ah' ve a i.

ever given everyone who trades i here. Our stock is of su-perior kind and uniformly 5 good. Quality the best prices the lowest. Chas. DeMar.

5 J. C. WILSON, First class tirk nt reasonable prir.H All den tal work guaranteed. Office 118 E. Douglas.

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Hi be; it' convert if the And there wen TH TV 7v vv 71! Tf 71 7 7i 7 life spar re i of vodkl and i and all the peasant sterously drunk and kissed the 's of the commissioner who had ved them bodv and mu li I I jZ, )L 14 14 TV M. J. SHIELDS, Prop. Ik- Fret I NO tis at (iehr.ngs. id, ben Ik- hi.

1 Fn I 1 I cf tli t. i.i Ins i. And thus is that 01 In 177'. i wet I of tin- I i- if due and tin- lan-1 a 1- blue cloud os la lira hopelcssncs come over me of tlu ir w.i reed on in A hasty glance opened my Open Day and INight jt 410 East Douglas. 14 ally in'n h.

I qu kly dud left hand and tru up the weapon, thru I I mv rip lit ti-t in The tv fell far too short to bring him down, only knocking his pipe from hi mouth, but, an if surprised, Ins little eyes opened wide as he will mv power 1 struck him fairly beneath hi a lei ear. Though it njay he unbecoming in me to chronicle my own 'trengih, the blow was a I clean off the and glass went spinning into the larboard scupper, where he followed them, tailing with a crash, the blood quilting from lus ears, nose and month. I had little doubt that I ha 1 killi I him, and a i little care, but with a natural instinct I followed and bent over him. At that instant the fresh wind from the south stunk us. Possibly we had lain in a ealm for a space while the breeze veered from the oast, hut of that I have no knowledge, only, as vve presented a full beam to the blast, it lurched us to larboard, and caused me to straighten myself to get a balance.

It was well I did, and 1 have since looked upon that gust as an interposition of the Almighty to save me from the knife of an assassin, for as I lifted myself I caught a glimpse of the bare feet of a negro making toward me. He was on me in a brea'h. 1 I tel of tie c. i In tore me, and uisod tiv to come -addon determi a regarding my future action. Twaa a -p rate resolve, hut, ng some tin t.

rd circumstance, it insured liberty, or, nt hast, immunity from present imprison nlth'uuh it uld put my fortune in It was time look far bovond th. presort; freedom was worth more than 't-tuim. and even that might not, in the end, I 1 -t so, throw the It overboard I pi the papers atefully in my pocki and went forward. 'I lie pistol dropped from aloft I found on the deck, and with it in my hand 1 slid back the hat cover of the forecastle and called to I he black to come up. This he did, blink mi: mightily as he struck the strong light, when, clapping the weapon to his ear.

I swore 1 would Mow hi brains out, and, if la nry, follow to the e.als of the world to do it, if he breathed a word of my ver having been master of the Phantom. TO m-J CONTINUED. 1 7x Hunter Tulr. i in i North Pvnnsyh i li. is 1 artl one of pii around lie out' 1 Hit us thouph somethin was -1 1 from my bed of 1 i I 1 (I I -av two wolves lias irp do arou: 1 the us.

as last a- they It- it. but the liuind was iw of and moi ed to i. fi ar alu-ad nt each turn. I had two ailed pui in lit bouse, and I ot. tli in the corner by tin do i 1.

1 the other, and op r.cd the doM- a inches to pet a shot at the wolves as they came past. The fright 1 und the crack in the door, (I into it. threw the door ide oj" ai.d knock 1 tin off my t. Both Ives nmhed in. arid the dog leaped upon the bed that stood in a recess.

I shut the door in a hurry, banged away at lie of the wolves, killing it instantly Flint 1 grabbl'd the other musket, nnd the second wolf made a spring at the window, breaking three panes of glass. Hut it didn't break the sash, und as it fell backward, I bored a hole through its heart. The hound hadn't been hurt it all, but it was so seared that it never was worth copper for hunting after that night. Golden Days. I 1 HOW RUSSIA MAKES CONVERTS.

It was smothering h-it it; thi I hail lut just finished ttj. tin- The clock had barely gone three htiiled me Iron) the ih ta a fashion r.ut to bo borne, lu ng ta her re fip-ttfnl nor manlike, anti tit vat. are with his usual custom. Below there! Thorndyke! I.ay np here! Kotv, I made no profession of being a pa tient man, rsjeria in the fu-v of it, pis lice or bold disobedience; and, as disrespect on tny own qua, let -deck hits a savor ot each, 1 was not far behind his worths when I stopped out of the cimipanionway. A negro was at the wheel, and the mate was striding the weather side of the deck with a spyglass under his arm, a pipe in M.i teeth, and a very easy, self-satisfied set 10 his eountcnace.

Uc was a short, burly man, bearing a heavy, bronzed face, and having a smile the meaning of which might he anything. Ills light bint- eyes were always half closed, in a manner to be called a squint in another man, but his net-ons had been bluff, good-natured and open, and the fellow had hitherto always shown a sense of respectful humor in our intercourse. As I strode up to him, I marked him slew his little eyes nround to take me in front their corners, but he made no move to factor give me particular notice. 1 guessed then that something untoward was in the wind, arttl took the shortest way to arrive at the bottom of it. Mr.

Lounsbury, Id have you find it convenient to address me us captain on my own vessel, and bear yourself with decent respect in so doing. l-or an answ.r he turned his back to me, anil spat over the rail, then facing about again, burst into a loud laugh. I looked nt him as though he had suddenly been bereft of wit, at which he sobered down, and then broke out with a scowl: Faith, tis a fine farce finely ployed. What the devil has come to you? I vociferated. Well, well belay all an drop the curtain, he continued, setting his back against the rail and jerking his thumb over his Bhoulder.

Ye may be captain, but twill soon be captain nothing dye eel-savin, of course, ye come to tarms with Jack Lounsbury. Do ye mark that, an that, an that? he went on easily, turning nnd pointing to three sails that were well up on the horizon. Then something of the matter came to me nt once. That they were British ships I well knew, for the French were not yet due to arrive, and American privateers moved iiot in flocks. In wonder at my mates nc-tM and KftnU.Ifeinqt marl Y0U uever lKlve had the opportunity of getting photos enlarged in crayon for what I he Register is now doing the work.

There is no better work anywhere and yon get the 1 State Relief One Tear aid a 16x20 Portrait tor 85c 3 City subscribers can get both the State and Sunday Registers for three months, delivered at their residence and a portrait for $L00. Do you want one? If so, now is the accepted time. VVTARSAW, Poland. Two peasants, a man in the eighties amt a younff woman about seventeen years old, were found dead in a snowdrift by a Cossack putrol some ten or eleven miles from the city the other day. The corpses sat upright in a ravine, frozen through anti through.

The girl had her arms around the old mans neck und iced tears hunjr like dewdrops on her eyelashes. The eyes of both the unfortunates were wide open, and in sitting down the man had covered the girls knees with the frock of li'is sheepskin, like a rustic lover eajrer to comfort his sweetheart. The pitiless police report registers them as victims of the hard winter, Felix Zemowski, eighty-four years old, a convert of the Holy Greek church, and Mariska, his granddaughter of the same faith, both deported settlers of the village of Wicprz, government of Lublin but all Poland honors the pair as martyrs, who died for love of country and of the Catholic religion. In the early eighties Felix was a YU-rNO. t'roe of Cliirgc.

Any adult suffering from a cold settled on the breast, bronchitis, throat or lung troubles of any nature, who will eull on G. Gchring, 400 East Douglas avenue, will be presented with a sample bottle of Boschees German Syrup, free of charge. Only one bottle given to one person, and none to children without order from parents. No throat or lung remedy ever liad such a sale us Boschees German Syrnp in all parts of the civilized world. Twenty years ago millions of bottles were given away, aud our druggists will tell you its success was marvelous.

It is really the only Throat and Lung Remedy generally endorsed by physicians. One 75 cent bottle will cure or prove its value. Sold by dealers in all civilized countries. 4 88 I swore 1 would blow his brains out." saw the glitter of his knife, and wheeled in time to catch the descending blade in my left arm just above the elbow. With a mighty wrench I twisted about, breaking the steel in my flesh, and, catching the fellow by the throat, held him for one instant, then, lifting him, flung him clean over the rail into the sea.

From first to last he uttered no sound, and if ever he came to the surface I saw him not. In the maddeped fury possessing me my wound Mt BQ. ore than the prick of a 323 Crawfor i Opera House Building. YU-NO it will preserve your teeth..