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12. THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1893. ture next time. He varied his lectnre by means of interesting experiments and stereopticon views.

WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE MEMORIES OF THE WA1 OF THE RIVER. A SEQUEL TO SHOD WITH SILENCE. (( By EDWARD S. ELLIS, AUTHOR OF SHOD WITH SILENCE, YOUNG PIONEER SERIES, DEERFOOT SERIES, ETC, ETC. goes again into retirement, nevertobe seen again till the death of the woman in whose behalf it has been wrought.

At that time it is brought out and, covering: her face as she lies in her coffin, it is buned with her. HOW SHE LANDED HIM. It was a hot night in Lqndon, too hot to go to bed, and we were sitting and talking of all things under the sun and of some other things. Suddenly Teddy Bowles, the owner of the rooms, who had not 6poken for about half an honr, rose, and leaning against the mantelpiece, remarked that he wasen gaged. There was a general straightening of backs, and one man said Bosh 1 I have reason to believe, persisted Teddv.

solemnly, that 1 am engaged to Miss Florrie Sinclair. What, of the Arcadia theater? I ex claimed. The same, said Teddy. But I thought you loathed her? said one of the other men. There was a few moments silence.

Then Teddy looked round upon us, and. dropping his voice to a confidential undertone, said: bo I do. And this is what he said Really it was all the fault of this con-founded photograph, combined with the river. It was the photograph of a nun with eyes turned up as if in prayer. It seemed somehow familiar to me, though I could not remember where I had seen it.

I havent the least idea how I came by it. I dont even remember when I first saw it. But one day I noticed that it was beginning to establish itself as an inmate of my rooms. It began. I think, as a bookmarker.

The face had a sort of fascination forme. It looked sa innocent and appealing, and it was so friendless. I made several efforts to get rid of it. But you know how impossible it is to get rid of a thing like that when it has made up its mind to btay. I tried to lose her among my unpaid bills and invitations on the mantelpiece.

But she always turned up on the ton every morning, and was the first thing lcaught hold of when I wanted a paperknife. One evening a man came in when I was cutting a new book with her. and saw me holding her in my hand, lie laughed and I threw her across the room. The next day a note of my piano stuck. I found her wedged in between the hammers.

I hardened my heart. It was in the morning, and I was impervious to sentiment. Looking the other way to avoid her plaintive eyes, I dropped her into the waste-paper basket. After breakfast the next morning I had lighted a cigarette and was trying to think of an' excuse for not when I wanted an ash-tray. I looked round, and there she was lying calmly on my writing table.

The housemaid, her womans heart ever ready to rescue a fallen sister, had picked her out from the fallen rubbish and reinstated her. I couldnt turn her out after that. Ever since then she has lived in my pocket. You men have no idea of the influence of a pure affection. Mine was pure enough.

She was a nun, you understand, and nothing but a spiritual union was possible between us. The girls Madonna face just curled its influence round my life and colored all my actions, bhe was my ideal woman. I was all the more willing to cultivate an affection for the ideal, as I thought it would protect me against assaults from the real. My idea was to coagulate my sentimentality, sp to speak, and put it a cool place where it couldnt explode. One would imagine that, haying concentrated my tender emotions on a bit of pasteboard, I conld move about the world with some security.

And so I did. until yesterday. I went up the river to spend the day with some people I know who are staying at Marlow. Florrie Sinclair was with them. There were some rather nice girls among the part but I make it a rule never to go on the nver with a girl I like.

There is something about the river which induces confidences, and I prefer not to be overconfident. So i got Florrie Sinclair to take me in her Canadian canoe, thinking that as 1 rather disliked her I should be moderatelv safe, especially if I could get an occasional glance at my talisman. What little I did sav was about lunch. It was not till about 4 oclock that the real danger tiegan. t'p to then the party had kept together.

But at about 4 Florrie Sinclair began paddling around among the backwaters. I could not object, for she was paddling her own canoe. After a bit the nose of the canoe dug itself gently into a bank; we swung ronnd with the stream aud lay hidden from the rest of the world under a tree. It was so quiet that the water rats came out to look at us and the fish began jumping under our very gunwale. For a long time we scarcely spoke, but the magic of the summer eveniug was sliding into my soul.

For the influence of the river is quite irresistible. You have got to talk sentiment. Even if you are with a girl you hate, it makes no difference. You talk sentiment all the same and keep your eyes shut to cheat yourself into the belief tnat you are talking to some one else. By 6 oclock Florrie was holding my hand and telling me my fortune.

She found out that I was in love with some one who returned mv affection, which at the time struck me as absurd. Then I told her fortune. I said there was one young man very much in love with her, which seemed at the time more than likely to be tme. Then we both lay back, and she told me In confidence several things which had happened to her, and which she had never told to any one else, and I told her several things that had not happened to me. And then I began to think how pleasant it would be' if I were with a girl I really liked.

If only I were alone with my girl! I took her carefully out of my pocket in my hand kerchief and took a look at her. What a guileless face. And yet how noble. How commonplace Florrie Sinclair seemed beside her. Whose photo is that? said Florrie Sinclair.

She had detected me. I concluded it was better to tell the truth. could then talk settiment freely and Without prejudice, for Florrie Sinclair would know it was all meant for a third party. That. I answered, is the guiding star of mv existence, the girl I love.

I have never told her so. She probably wouldnt care to hear it. But. her face is always present with me, and I shall never love another. Let me look, paid she.

I handed it across to her. She looked at it for a moment, and smiled gently. Til I dont think its much like me now, she said. It was taken some years ago, just before I went on the stage, at some amateur theatricals. I will give you a better one to morrow.

And and I dont think any girl ever had a prettier proposal, Teddy. My heart jumped so that it nearly turned the cqnoe over. Nobody spoke for a few moments. Then one of the men took the photo from the table where Teddy had laid it, and examined it, front and back. I know where you got this from, he said.

It came off one of those boxes of cigarettes; here is the gum still on the back. Thats not the point now, said Teddy. The question is. am I in love, aud if so, with whom? And, furthermore, am I engaged to her? Of coarse you are engaged, I replied. RECEPTION TO MME LINEFF.

Many Members of Back Bay Society and Musicians Present. Mine Eugenie Lineff. the director of the Russian choir, which is at present singing in this city, was tendered a reception by her Boston friends last evening. Many representatives of Back Bay society and musicians of prominence visited the parlors of the hotel Thorndike between 5 and 6 pm, and were presented to the distinguished foreigner by Prof John H. Paine of Harvard university.

Among the invited guests were Col Arnold A. Rand, Charles T. Howard, George 1 Vk i kk A k. 4 Vk l.M Li 4 I kk 1 Ik k. Reed.

John N. Dan-Lang of the Apollo club, II. C. Lagresse, Oswald Firdler, Carl Zer-rabn, Solomon Eaton, Edward Kakas, J. B.

Hauck, Louis Prang. J. S. Seitoh, C. F.

IV. Smith. Alexander Steinert and others of the Orpheus musical society, George O. Coale, Arthur Reed, A. K.

iJebaul, E. C. Burrage, Edward P. Dodge of the Cecilia club, W. J.

Homans, Charles S. iSliumier. J. B. Clous, Louis Hecht and Isador Eich-berg.

Orchestral club. Also the following well-known ladiesand rentlemen Messrs L. E. Brown, Jewell Flower, Georges Beniakoff, A. L.

Pope, Ralph Parker and Howard Brown; Mrs A. A. Pope, Mrs Edward C. Taft, Mrs Rosa Deutcher, Mrs J. Howard Brown, Mrs William Porter, Miss Cora Taft.

Miss Julia Gilman, Miss Dora Clark, Miss Bessie Man-full. Settlement Agreed Upon. Portland, Me, Oct 30 A settlement has been agreed upon by the Portland creditors of Levi Leighton Son, general traders, of Columbia Falls. The liabilities are about $30,000 and the assets $22,000. Of the indebtedness $15,000 is for money borrowed of persons at Columbia Falls.

About $3000 of the notes of the firm are held in Boston and $9000 in Portland. The Portland creditors, represented by H. and W. J. Knowlton, have decided to accept 40 percent of their claims, part in cash and part in notes.

Best remedy forcoughs-AdamsousBalsam SHE IS A SAINTLY WOMAN. Miss Moulton was 40 Years Among the Blind. As Matron of Perkins Institntion She Was Loved by the lonng. An Interestina; Chat with Her on Bright Boys and Girls She Taught. A charming honr was spent a few days ago by a Globe woman with Miss Maria C.

Moulton, for 40 years matron in the Perkins institute for the blind, South Boston, She is 75 years of age, and entered upon her duties in 1353, not many years after the establishment of the school by Drs Ilowe and Fisher. About a year ago she felt that she lacked the strength to carry on her work, and she expressed a wish to resign. The trustees considered her request, but instead of accepting her resignation unanimously voted to grant her a leave of absence for one year, with a continuance of salary. Owing to her continual feebleness the leave of absence has been extended indefinitely, and she is now with her brother, Mr Jesse Moulton, in Harrison Square. Her pleasant apartments in the institn tion are religiously kept as she left them, aud dusted by willing hands prompted by loving hearts.

I consider Miss Moulton one of the noblest women of the present century. Mr Anagnos has said, and director Howe before him often spoke of her as Saint Moulton. To many of her intimate friends she is still known by that name. Yes, said Miss Moulton, in answer to a question, "had 1 stayed till next January I should have been matron in the institnte 40 years. I began my work there in 1853 I left the school, however, a year ago last summer.

MISS MARIA C. MOULTON. "The institution had been founded for some tune before I began my work there. You know Mr Perkius had already given the splendid estate on Pearl st to be used as a school for the blind. O.

no, there were not a great many blind children in the school when I entered. Dr Howe was then in his prime, and his spirit was felt in all parts of the Institution. My recollections of these 40 years! There are many beautiful things to remember, and important ones, too: but I should not care to talk at any length, lest I make mistakes. During the conversation she spoke of Laura Bridgman. Laura entered the institute when she was only 7 years of age, said she.

8he was always surprising us by her wonderful mental development and original methods of expression. Helen Kellar is the most remarkable child I have ever seen, but Helen has bad advantages that Laura had not. Laura was the first to come to us with a soul so very much shut in, and our work with her was all experimental and untried. In Helens case this has not been so; we knew how to get results very rapidly. Laura bad a remarkable keenness in discovering the peculiarities of her friends.

One day she was sitting between Mrs Howe and MrsMailliard. She made some witty re- mark which amused both, and then put her hand on Mrs Mailliards cheek and ex claimed, O. what a beautiful smile you have! Odd as it may seem, Mrs Mailliard was noted for the exquisite beauty of her smile. Why, Laura! said Mrs Howe to her, havent 1 also a beautiful smile? She put her hand to the face of Mrs Howe, who, in a spirit of mischief made a grimace, at which Laura laughed, quite realizing that Mrs Howe had made a grimace for fun, and hadnt smiled at all. In speaking of Miss Bridgman, Miss Moulton displayed the same kind of tender ride that a mother displays when speak-ng of a well-beloved child.

O. yes, I love my boys and my girls, too. 6he said. "Borne of my boys nave developed into splendid men. I have in my mind one boy.

however, who did not. One day Dr Howe was out riding. A tinv boy. yet in skirts, held out Iris hand petitioning him for alms. The doctor saw that he was blind, and felt a great pity for him.

He never rested till he got the child into the school. His mother was opposed to his coming, because through his begging he had added materially to her income. This boy developed a remarkable talent for music. A noted musical director, Herr Werner, took much interest in him, and ave him lessons. People often came long istances to hear him play on the piano or organ.

He had a charming personality, and everybody who saw him liked him. When he became a man he left the school and went south with a concert company. After that he became very intera-lerate, and neglected all his opportunities. .1 made me very sad when 1 learned of this. One of our boys.

W. Perry, recently was graduated from Amherst. We are verv roud of him. He is a fine scholar and will believe make a specialty of teaching lan-uages, especially Latin. "Oliver Caswell was in many ways a remarkable boy.

Without possessing wonderful mental brilliancy, he had a great deal of good common sense. He and Laura were boy and girl together and were very good friends. lie, like her, was deaf, dumb and blind. She was. very helpful to him.

I remember how astonished we were one afternoon when she taught him in a few hours the connection between a word and an idea. It had taken ns three months to teach her the same thing. Names for Public Library Vacancies. To the Editor of The Globe: The article in The Sunday Globe on the new public library building and the names inscribed on the outer walls, is most interesting and instructive. It seems certainly strange that so small a proportion of the persons thus honored should be Americans, and of them comparatively few from Massachusetts and Boston.

In this connection I can say that at the time it was proposed to place on one of the buildings of the Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia medallions of those persons most identified with American history loo from each state. The idea was not carried out. hut the late Hon George B. Boring was requested to make a selection of loo names from Massachusetts, which he did, and 1 saw them at the time. If this list is still in existence it would be valuable to help fill up the vacancies on the walls of the public library.

Nathan Appleton. Boston, Oct 29. Adame Academy Alumni Dinner. The annual dinner of the Adams academy atumni association took place last night at the Parker house. It was expected that Congressman Everett would be present but his duties at Washington prevented.

Mr T. C. Thatcher presided and speeches were made by Mr W. R. Tyler, present master of the academy.

Mr Charles Warren of Dedham, Mr Walter .1. Badger, Yale 82 Mr F. Warren. Harvard 82: Mr Louis Frothing-ham, Harvard 93 and Mr Carlton Loud. Ball of the Pleasure Club.

The first annual ball given under the auspices of the Young Mens pleasure club was held in Knights of Honor hall, Washington Bt, last evening and was attended by 200 couples. The grand march was started shortly after 8 oclock, led by Mr B. Cohen and partner. The floor was under the direction of S. Cohen, assisted by P.

Farley and aids. Prof Cross on "Electricity. The first ot the series of lectures on Electricity, which is to be given by Prof Charles Cross of the institute of Technology, under the auspices of the Lowell institnte, was given last evening in Hunting-ton hall to an audience of 600. Prof Cross discussed the tendencies of the magnetic lines of force and led up to the principles of the electric motor, on which he will iec- 1 I was accepted, and a vote of thanks passed for his faithful services. Hon Rufus h.

Frost was elected a director for three years, to fill a vacancy. Messrs Geo. F. Fabyan, Clement S. Houghton, Arnold Rand, John E.

Hudson, Mrs Margaret Wade and eight others were approved as members of the society. UNDER THE ROSE. How much of the histrionic spirit is developed in you? You are an actor, but how fascinating? Mr William E. Bryant of the Journal enlarges upon Shakespeare in the following entertaining manner: There are few natures entirely devoid of the dramatic instinct. It is the one element in mankind that is almost universal.

It finds expression in myriad forms. All are not actors in the usual acceptance of that term, but there is an inherent desire to give expression to thought by more than the voice. The hands, the eyes, a toss of the head, every part of the body does duty at times in giving expression to thought. Saints and sinners alike are actors. Children, long before they have ever been taken inside the theater, manifest an irrepressible desire to become actors.

The little girl early displays not only the maternal instinct, but the dramatic instinct as well, when she plays with her dolls, or when she plays mama, by dressing up in her mothers clothes, and posing before her little friends, apes the movements and speaks the words she has heard dropped from her mother, who, unconscious that the child was listening, gave expression to sentiments, perhaps, that she would not care to hear repeated by the little one in almost the exact tone and with the same inflection. The fact we are all mimics, from the time we are bom.nntil we die, and those in whom the dramatic instinct is strongest become act ors by profession unless the current of their lives happens to be turned into a different channel. James Gordon Bennett has left Paris for an extended cruise in Indian waters. Dear Lord, said an Atchison man the other morning at grace, I would ask thy blessing on this food, but I realize it is cooked too miserably for thee to waste thy valuable time in blessing, so instead I urge it upon thee that thou instil into mv wifes heart that it is better to cook steak accept ably for one man than to raise $10 by work ing two weeks for a church social. The indignant woman has gone to her mothers.

Patti is on the high seas, bound for America. Foster Coates helps Col Cockerill run the Commercial Advertiser. The other day some one climbed the Advertiser stairs and found the colonel in the sanctum. "Is this Mr Foster Coates? he asked. No, said the colonel, I am the Mr over Coates.

(Marshal Cushings Capital. There are just as many English actors here as there are American actors In Lon don. says Mrs Kendal. Theres C. P.

Flock ton, with Mr Sothem Flockie. as we all call him. Hes known me since was a young girl. Theres Mr Stephen Fiske, a gentleman and a writer, who knew me before I was married. These gentlemen would kuow if I was a humbug.

They would discover that my hair was dyed, that my cheeks were painted, my face enameled. I think I am safe in saying that I am not a humbug. The writer ventured to suggest that surely no such imputation had been made against Mrs Kendal. Well, then. I wish one paid gentleman of the press, the said one who exposes his undershirt in particular, would not be grossly familiar.

I do not object to being called by my Christian name among my friends, my intimates, but to get under my skin, as it were, with a polluted pen is vulgar; thats all I can say vulgar. I wish they would leave me alone, excepting those hoars whea I am on the stage from 8 to 11 in the evening. Warble I kissed a girl last night and she treated it jnst like an editor treats my poems. Fiddleback Declined it? Warble No. Returned it with thanks.

New York Herald. The Earl of Mt Cashel has married the daughter of a neighboring farmer. The earl is 67, and his bride is 26. Everybody In Brattleboro knows Kipling, by sight at least, and though some think him churlish, he is generally respected, and has a fair degree of popularity. He is said to be living most quietly, and in domestic peace in his house behind the hills, and he passes most of his leisure time in cultivating flowers.

The novelist wrote to Mrs W. S. Dana, in regard to her book on New England wild flowers, that he disliked to transplant flowers, as in digging them np it made the roots of the poor little things squeak! Ouidas mother isdead. She is described as a very charming, aristocratic old lady, with a particularly sweet voice. Katherine Conway does not believe in woman suffrage and woold not vote if she could.

Its not generally known that Duncan Elliot, who married the beautiful Sallie Hargous a couple of years ago, is after a foreign mission. He is a big. handsome fellow, popular with the chappies and business men alike, and no one would begrudge him if he landed the plum. Venerable Patrick Donahoe is the glad grandfather of a bright baby boy born to Dr and Mrs Nicholas D. Drummey, Shaw-mut av, Wednesday.

Mrs Drummey is Mr Donahoes daughter. Bud Brikr. TOOK ALL HE HAD. Provldenca Kuaine Man Robbed by Chicago Highwaymen. Providence, Oc- :,0 Perry G-Sweet, one of the best-known Providence business men, returned today from the World3 fair relieved of about $500 and all his valuables.

He was very adroitly robbed by two highwaymen while a passenger on an electric car. His experience was somewhat startling. He was in company with Maj Barber, a friend of his, and the two were on their way from a private residence to the fair grounds. At 63d st, where the Illinois Central tracks crossed the street car lines, there was a jostling crowd, and Sweet had no sooner entered the throng than be was pounced upon by two highwaymen, one of whom got all ills effects, including nil ilia threO tickets Irom Chicago to Boston. Maj Barber, who saw the robbery, leaped from the car platform and pursued the thieves, who dashed into a passenger train and ran through the cars.

F'inallv the highwaymen evaded Barber by jumping off the train while it was going at high speed. Milford Man Drops Dead. Milford, Oct 30 This afternoon Leroy S. Wakefield, while at work near his residence, 37 Pine st, cutting down a tree, fell dead from heart failure. He was an old resident of Milford, and was a shoemaker by trade.

He was 50 years of age, and leaves a family. Institute of Technology Notes. H. E. Hewitt 94 has been elected an editor of the Tech.

He will be the glee and banjo club reporter for that paper. A fencing class has been started at the gymnasium, and will be under the charge of Mr Herman Boos, the instructor in athletics. The athletes are also beginning to train for the winters indoor field day. The varsity football eleven will play Trinity at Hartford tomorrow. Manahan, the center rush, and Andrews, the fullback, were both severely hurt in the game with Fitchburg A.

A. last Saturday, and will be unable to play tomorrow. Capt Thomas will probably take Andrews place behind the line, aud Schmitz will play center. The freshman eleven will play Groton at Groton tomorrow afternoon. The first three of the series of lectures in the Lowell free course are to bo as follows; Rise and Development of Prose Fiction in France, 12 lectures in French by Prof A.

N. Van Daell on Fridays at 8 pm, beginning Nov 3, in room 11, Rogers building; Plane Analytic Geometry, 12 lectures by Prof Webster Wells, on Mondays and Wednesdays at 7.30 rn. be ginning Nov 26, room 21, Rogers building; Descriptive Geometry," 12 lecturesby ing rtescriptive Asst Prof Linus Faunce on Tuesdays anu Fridays at 7.45 room 22, Rogers building, beginning Not 7. PEW AND PULPIT. There is only one Talmage.

Boston Globe. I shall be in heaven before morning. Helen Marsh, suicide. The ladies of the Harvard church, Dorchester, held their annual fair last week. Rev Dr Philip S.

Moxom will preach in the chapel of Wellesley college, Sunday. Nov 5. The word Christian means a Christ-man, therefore a Christ-woman. Lady Henry Somerset. A church with a poor foundation never gains anything by having a tall steeple.

liams Horn. Every man and woman has comedies and tragedies in their lives. IRev T. De Witt Talmage. St Johns church.

Jamaica Plain, looks beautiful these bright October days, in its rare mantel of ivy. Rev Edward J. Chaffee of Galesboro. Ill, is now pastor of the Universalist church at Middletown, Conn. Bishop Joyce (M.

has transferred Rev Dr C. E. Hall Irom the Wisconsin to the New Hampshire conference. If Christ is anything, Hinduism, Buddhism, Braliminism are little more than nothing. Religious Herald.

The Treinont temple church is not running for the benefit of lunatics. Rev Dr Geo. C. Lorimer to a ij lobe reporter. Civilization hear! the stamp of Christianity, and Christianity bears the stamp of civilization.

Christian Register. 'Christianity calls upon men to verify Christian doctrine by experience and exper-" Edgar. iment. Rev Dr R. Me Rev Henry L.

Vandyke of New York has been appointed Lyman Beecher lecturer for the year at the Yale divinity school Panlist fathers have been holding special services at -St Josephs Catholic church Auiesbury, every evening during last week The Baptist church of Conway is to receive $500 by the will of Cordelia R. Foster, late of Greenfield, for general expenses. Pres Storrs has declared his hearty con curreuce with the action of the American board in regard to missionary Noyes ap pointment At the meeting of ministers in Channing hall today an address will be delivered by Protap Chunder Mozoomdar, on the Brahmo Soinaj. There is no verse in the Sermon on the Mount that reads: Blessed ere the churches that get up public entertainments. Rams Horn.

Rev William H. Crockett, pastor of Zions Hill See.ond Advent church of Hingham, who died last Wednesday, was a member of Reynolds post, 58, G. A. R. A Methodist lantern union has been formed, for the purpose of loaning slides and lanterns for missionary and evangelistic use iu church gatherings.

C.T. Sampson, the shoe manufacturer who first imported Chinese labor into his shops at North Adams, left bis entire property, $500 OOO, to churches and missions. The Hanover st First Congregational church society of Manchester, H. has voted to extend a call to Rev B. W.

Lockhart of Chicopee at a salary of $3000. The question is being discussed in certain church circles whether performances by amateur dramatic companies for the benefit of religious work is quite the proper thing. Rev Dr T. M. Shame (M.

has been transferred from the central New York to the New England conference, and is now stationed at bt Andrews church, Jamaica Plain. Union Congregational church has se-cured an assistant pastor, Frederick II. Page, formerly a newspaper man and a recent graduate from Andover theological seminary. A voice from a pew 6ays; I do hate to listen to a preacher who affects the ministerial drawl if theres one place more than another where a dude should not be its in the pulpit. Rev Charles Parkhnrst.

writing in Zions Herald of Methodist Journalism. 6ays: It lacks thespiritof Independent criticism which is necessary to its healthiest development and growth Today, at noon, James Logan Gordon, general secretanr of the Y. M. C. will speak for the Evangelical associations of New England to the young people of Boston in Bromtield st M.

E. church. Miss Harriet J. Cook, formerly professor of history in Cornel! college, and recently engaged in evangelistic work in England, is now in Boston, in the employ of the M. E.

missionary and church extension society. The conferences on behalf of organized charity have served to bring out considerable united effort on the part of people belonging to various churches. Unsectarian cooperation in this direction is greatly needed. In a general talk at the Tremont st M. E.

church last week, Bister Dora Stephenson u-i 11- Methodist deaconesses" among less children of the poor. Protap Chunder Mozoomdar earned his $100 fee for his Lowell institute lecture the other night, easily. This learned leader of the Brahmo Somaj spoke entirely without notes, and his statement of the religious life of India was a brilliant flow of oratory. Mrs Louise Ormiston Chant, the Englishwoman, who has been speaking in various New England churches recently, thinks that the charitable methods pursued in America are not likely to result in the best good of the community in the future. By the death of Rt Rev Dr Knox, archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland.

on Monday last. Bishop Williams of Connecticut has become the senior bishop in order of consecration, having jurisdiction in the Anglican communion throughout the world. We are going in for the esthetic, said a member of the People's church, the auditorium is to be beautifully illuminated bv electric lights, and flowers are to be placed all round the outside of the building, and we have got lots of other elegant improvements in view. It is a marvelous thing to have Intel! lectual possession of the world, to see things for ourselves, to hear and handle, to take the world first hand, as it were, even if tlie creative power is impossible. -HTiev Dr William J.

Tucker, president of Dart mouth college, at Peoples church. You havent heard the inside facts yet as to Rev M.Fullertons resignation of the pastorate of the Trinitarian Congregational church of Waltham, said a prominent Boston Congregationalist the other day; theres more in it than appears upon the surface; some of the pews will have some- fiflv latAP An thing to say later on.1 Members of the Central Congregational church at Jamaica Plain say that the choice of the church business meeting of Rev Edward M. Noves of Duluth, Minn, to be their new pastor, meets with the hearty approval of the church. The call is a unanimous one, and was made after hearing Mr Noyes, who supplied the Central pulpit for a time. Three Protestant clergvmen of Cambridge have reached their 2oth anni versa; irv as pastors of their respective churches, ana they represent three different shades of belief.

They are Rev Geo. W. Briggs of the Austin st Unitarian church. Rev Alexander McKenzie of the Shepard memorial Congregational church and Rev W. S.

Apsey of the North av Baptist church. Rev J. M. English of the Newton theological seminary spoke to a meeting of Congregational ministers last week: and denounced the neglect of instruction as one of the greatest sins in theology. Baid he, Our tongues are our stock in trade.

We have to make our delivery agreeable, and to do this we must have a good knowledge of elocution as well as a goodly amount of brains. The report that Rev Dr Philip S. Moxom was about to resign the pastorate of the First Baptist church lias created quite a stir among the pews. It is whispered that there is some friction between the pastor and some of the prominent members, but the general opinion is that everything will turn out right, and that there will be no resignation on the part of the pastor. Ad cording to Mrs Moxom, the story of Dr Moxoms resignation is entirely sensational and unfounded.

The Interlor.writing of the church sneak, says: He is usually a specialist and invariably a swindler. He has an office where he may be found on week days, unctuous, effusive, efficient. If possible he secures a room in the Y. M. C.

A. building, but by preference in a W. C. T. U.

temple, or best of all, in a bible house, and his business cards give great prominence to the fact. In many of our smaller cities the nuisance is becoming intolerable, and churches owe it to the community as to themselves to give, if need fie, the professional church sneak the grand bounce and the more publicly it is done the better. Gave Bonds fop Appearance. Plymouth, Oct 30 The five employes of the New York, New Haven Hartford railroad indicted by the grand jury for alleged complicity in the Abington riot appeared before the superior court this morning and recognized in the sum of $500 each for their appearance at trial. School Notes.

Dr H. Walcott of Cambridge has been appointed the representative of the society at the 75th anniversary of the medical society of the district of Columbia. The councilors of the Massachusetts medical society have appointed the following delegates to outside state medical societies: Vermont, I)rs W. B. Flirge of lrovincetown and O.

J. Brown of North Adams; New York. Drs W. H. Pierce of Greenfield andCharles F.Withington, York state medical association, Drs J.

M. Harlow of Woburn and George B. Shattuck of Boston, editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. The Horrors of Libby Pris0a Revived. An Event Which Will Surprise Erci Oli Soldiers.

The Most Wonderful Experience of ft, Army Ever Eecorded. One never tires of hearing of thethHiiu adventures of the war and the wonS escapes from Libby prison. The recent moval of this famous jail to ChwT renders any facts about it at this ticularly interesting. epw- A most fascinating story has just com. us of a man who passed five month.

.5 agony in this prison. The experience 2 nifl rtPriinn minno end vl this person during and since the the most remarkable that have ever brought to public notice. This man other than the well-known Mr L. of West Berlin. Vt.

He writes the folio? ing interesting letter; Since ray return from the warmyhwhk has been growing poorer from exposure. hard service and the horrors of a months imprisonment in Libby prison. 1 came home a complete wreck and was sick for a whole year, during which timsiau no work at all, being confined to m. for about half the time, 1 064 After I got up I was so weak that 1 could not walk but a short distance and then was obliged to stop and rest. About two years ago I found myself In a very bad condition with nervous prostration, tbs results of my long time poor heath.

I took most every kind of me medicine MR L. W. PORTER. that I could hear of, with no good resulte until I commenced on Dr Greene't Net-vura blood and nerve remedy, which relieved me of nervousness and gave me strength so that I was able to walk end work. I consider Dr Greenes Kenren blood and nerve remedy the best medteioa there is for nervousness and to girt strength to any weak person.

Then personally appeared be fork ms W. Porter of West Berlin, Vt, to me pet-sonally known, and subscribed and swore to the tnith of the foregoing statement. Carlos L. Smith, Notary Public. Well may Mr Porter be called here, well may every Inhabitant of the civilized world read of his experience and well mav all mankind rejoice at its termination.

The horrible sufferings which he experienced from disease were even worse tbu those of the war and prison. But hetei well man at last, and cannot say enonxh in praise of this remarkable remedy. Ufi restoration to health after so many yeanof suffering is indeed most wonderful. If you are suffering from any tormtfw voua or chronic diseaso, indigestion, vetic-ness, kidney or liver complaint, talubt Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remsdi. It will cure you.

Dr Greene, the noted specialist in tbs cure of all nervous and cbroulo disease, can be consulted at his office, 34 Temple pi, Boston, Mass, free, personally or by letter. KXDAN3KI INJURED. XHectrio and Express Wagon Mix-Up Only Hurt the Old Man. Abram Kidanski, aged 60, a pedler, living at 6 Noyes st, was seriously Injured in an electric car accident at the corner of Beverly and Travers stsat 9.40 yesterday morning. A rapidly moving car came into collision with a heavy wagon, the impact forcing the vehicle over to the sidewalk just as Kidanski stepped into the street.

Car 97 of the West Lenox st and Charlestown line, in charge of motorman Patrick Mitchell and conductor Thomas Fay, was coming up Beverly st, bound tor the Soutb end. The car was proceeding rapidly, witnesses say, as it is the habit of south-bound cars to make time there in anticipatios of a delay on Tremont st. Just as the car reached Travers st, heavy express wagon owned by M. D. Creasy and driven bp Edward Feeler, started across the tracks in front of the approaching car.

The driver had miscalculated. the motorman could not chock hi car in time and they came together. The heavy car was the more powerful, and with the blow of the collision sent tbs express wagon bounding ovea toward the sidewalk, the rear wheels rushing along the crossing flagstones. Several people were crossing Beverly at the time, among others Kidanski. With the collision all rushed backtothe sidewalk, but the aged victim was too feeble and not active enough to avoid tus danger.

Impelled by the blow from the car tne express wagon struck him, threw nim forcibly on the crossing stones and tbs tew wheels passed over his neck. When assistance reached him the om man was unconscious and thought to An "ambulance was procured in a fe moments from statiou 1 and Dr hastily called to make an examination. The nedlers head was somewhat bruiseu and the wheels had made gashes on in throat and neck of the old man, whue me doctor feared that there were also sever internal injuries. He was removed to the Massachusett general hospital. After read revived, and after dressed, improved so covery is assured.

reaching the hospital Kidanski Iter having his wound muc LUCY STONES WILL PROBATED Henry B. Blackwell. Her Husband rli Her Daughter Are the Heir The will of the late Mis Lucy Stoed woman suffrage advocate, was tooJ in the Suffolk probate court. j. It gives all her property Z.

ns- scription to Henry B. Blacktalh band, and Miss Alice Stone, ber dang In equal shares. She requests them to hold and dlspo at their discretion for the ns J. rlvil 1W IU It sha npfll of the woman suffrage cause dsvise pended portions of any 01 given her by will or othenrtw. n(i The will appoints the husbands cB.

W. Blackwell of East Orange. tors of the will, which is dated WP last. Haverhills New Theater. Haverhill, Oct 30-Haverhlll vaudeville theater was opened lie this evening and was doors.

The new amusement house the old Brittain hall on Main st. been thoroughly renovated ana and is provided with a spacious rtag. excellent scenic fixtures, and has capacity of 800. Oxford County Notea William Douglass of East kiiiMil lliursday. 1 instantly killed Thursday.

hiiel his team and theeavijj logefa 4qW his team and passed over his skull The Oxford county teacheij m. met at Bethel, Friday. Jfrot of new of Bethel was Judg T. Barnes of Norway secretary. Woodbury of Bethel 'fPgAlslus ers.

State superintendent ol scuow was present. Noble Mission of the Girls Friendly Society. Members Bound Together in Bonds True Christian Charity. Annual Convention of the Order will he Opened Today at Trinity. It is a very noble service which leads one woman to befriend another who is weaker than herself, and this is the raison detre of that unique and very excellent organ ization known all over America and in England as the Girls Friendly society "Bear ye one anothers burdens is the motto that binds together the members of this society, which in Massachusetts alone numbers nearly 3000, including ladies as associates and girls as members.

The associates of the society direct its workings and must be communicants of the Episcopal church, while the members are welcomed from any religious body. The Girls Friendly society originated in England in 1874 and its aim was to provide a friend for every working girl in England by enlisting the aid of one or more associates in each parish to search out girls just at the time when they often want a start in the right direction. And especially, as was the case in England, when so man young women and girls emigrated to a loreign country in order to earn their own livelihood, to recommend them to the care of some associate that tiiey might find friends of the right sort and be spared some of the loneliness inseparable to life in a strange country. In November, 1877. the Girls Friendly society was first started in America, beginning somewhat differently from the English one.

At first it was a local society, growing out of the needs of the parish of St Anns, Lowell, where it was formed by Miss Ed-son. the daughter of the rector. Rev Theo. Ed son. The Lowell society soon communicated with similar enterprises in Brooklyn, Haiti more, Syracuse aud '1 aunton and it be' came expedient to link the several local societies by a few common rules aud regulations.

adopting the plan of the English society as far as having three central rules and a central organization. Impressed with the idea that the time had come for an elastic and extensive organization the three branch organizations met in Boston on April 5, 1879, and formed a diocesan association for the purpose of working in the towns and parishes of Massachusetts. The machinery of the society is simple. Each lady who joins it receives an associate card and each member is provided with a membership-cam aud members guide-book. The admission of girls as members rests with the associates, who are very careful as to the character of the girls whom they admits in order that the society may do its work trying to rais the standard of morals among the young women of this land and in providing an association of girls of good character, to which it may be a recommendation in itself to belong.

I-adies who approve the objects of the society and who wish to give it their support. may become honorary associates and may send their names to the general or diocesan secretary, to whom also the annual subscription, not less than $1, should be paid. When a member leaves town to live elsewhere associates are supposed, if possible, to transfer her at once to the associate to whom she shall in future pay her subscription a mere trifle three ceuts a quarter. Members belonging to a branch association pay six cents, half being received for the branch fund and half to the central. Members cease to belong after marriage, and after leaving the society from whatever cause return their card and guide The efficiency of the society is promoted in various ways, as in holdingclasses, religious and secular, for instruction of members, assisting members in sickness or special need, establishinj ig offices and training schools to tit them for service, encouraging and helping them to place their money in the savings bank, establishing lending libraries for the members; also by promoting the spread of good reading among them and by providing for wholesome and innocent recreation, and arranging for local and half yearly and annual festivals for them.

The main idea is the gathering of young women and girls into a large association for mutual sympathy and help. The society is in its scope not local, but national. Their membership card and guide book is a passport of good character everywhere. As a general rule the younger girls form the more hopeful material and although it is thought best not to admit them under 12 years of age, there are in some branches a class of probationers, comprising girls under 12, to whom the being admitted is held oat as a result of good behavior. The annual convention of the Girls Friendly society will open today, and will be continued Wednesday and Thursday at Trinity church.

The central council will meet at 7.30 this evening in the parish room of Trinity church. at 9 a there will communion and Bishop Lawrence will pieach. This will be lollowed by a conference in the chapel, at which several hundred dele- ates from all over the United States will present. Lunch will be taken at the Thorndike, and another conference is appointed for the afternoon. Rev W.

B. King of Christ church, Cambridge, will preach at the service in St Pauls church Wednesday evening, at which fully lOOO associates and members are expected to be present. Each branch has been requested to bring its banner. The central council will meet in the parish room of Trinity church Thursday at .0 a and 2.30 m. An informal reception will he given for the central council on Thursday evening at the hotel Brunswick, to which the clergy and all associated have been invited.

Thepresent officersof the association are; Miss E. Mackintosh, St Stephen society, Boston, pres; Mrs E. L. Norton, 209 Beacon Bt, Boston, vies pres Miss E. M.

Hoppln, 469 Broadway, Cambridge, sec. OBJECTORS WIN. Commission Declares Against Running Cars on Brattle and Cragie Sts. On the 10th of last August the board of aldermen of Cambridge granted to the West End railway permission to lay tracks on Concord av and Huron st. The board also granted the company leave to use the overhead trolley system on these streets, and also on Garden, Craigle, Brattle and Mt Auburn sts.

There was considerable ill-feeling caused by the action of the aldermen, and there was a protest filed by many citizens against the putting through of a road on Brattle st. The matter finally went to the board of railway commissioners for decision, com missionors sa No objection lias been offered or reason shown why this board should not approve or concur in the action of the Cambridge board of aldermen with respect to all the streets which have been named, excepting Brattle and Craigie sts. For the purposes of this cose, Craigie st is to bo regarded as one with Brattle st. Much evidence lias been received and argument heard on the one side and on the other in relation to the last-named street. The board is therefore constrained to decline to grant so much of the praver of the petition as relates to Brattle andGraigie sts.

The rest of the petition is granted. The decision is signed by John Sanford, Everett A Stevens and William Dale Jr, commissioners. DEDHAM. A creditors petition asking that a warrant in insolvency be issued against H. and William P.

Gallagher of Milton, doing business as H. Gallagher Son, was filed in the Norfolk registry at Dedham yesterday afternoon by Luther S. Lord and James B. Webster, doing business in Boston as A bearing in the case Dedham, Wednesday, Lord will be Nov 15. in the Norfolk superior civil court at ldge Dedham.

be fore Judge Blodgett, in the case of William E. Fox, per pro ami, vs Edward FI. Piper and others, all of Randolph, an action of tort to recover $10,000 damages for loss of three fingers in a machine in the defendants shoe factory on Sept 2, 1892, the court ordered a verdict for the defendant at 3.40 yesterday. The case will now be reported to the supreme court. Directors Meeting, Theological Library.

A quarterly meeting of the directors of the general theological library occurred yesterday at its building, 6 Mt Vernon st, the president, ex Gov Win. Claflin in the chair. Rev Luther Farnham, the secretary, read the records of the last meeting, which were approved. A letter was read from Samuel R- Payson, treasurer of the society for 17 years, tendering his resignation on account of the state of his health, which 99 ty Edward 8. Ellla.

the redskins. remarked Weber Hastings with flashing eyes. BrYon must start on agin. said Kenton addressing Hastings, as the leader of the party in the absence of himself and Boone; dont hurry, for as it is youve got too much time now on your hands. If vou find you're getting too near Rattlesnake gulch afore sundown, yon must have some sort of accident thatll give you an excuse for stopping for a time.

Thatll keep the varmints from specting anything. We ought to be able to arrange some accident. remarked George Ashbridge with a smile, slyly pressing the hand of Agnes standing beside him. Ill fall over a Tog if necessary and break a leg. Abetter plan will be for Jethro to get shot accidently like.

Gorrvnation. dat wont work! exclaimed tlie negro, who did not let a word i escape him; tie bestest way to tix dat i will be to stuff me so full of victuals dat I I wont be able to walk alone, and de rest ob yo will hab to carry me slow like. "Wal, time is passing: it wont do to stay here any longer; I leave you in charge of Weber; he can do as well as me or Boone. The scout turned to move away, when Jethro Juggens laid his liaud on his arm. bee yar, Mr Kenton, Is worried bout yo, said the colored youth, with an anxious look on his countenance.

What's the cause of that? asked the ranger, who, as already stated, held a kindly feeling toward the good-natured fellow. I feard sumfin will happen to yo feels it in mv bones; I tmk yo oughter hab some one to look after yo while yo's Would you like to do it? I tinks a good deal ob yo. Mr Kenton, and I's willin to take keer ob yo, and see dat yo gets hack all right. Yielding to that waggish disposition which was a marked characteristic of Simon Kenton, sometimes under the most trvnig circumstances, the ranger said: Come on, yonker, you shall take care of me. And to the astonishment of the pnrtv the two walked off side by side and disappeared among the trees to the westward.

We'll make this bargain. remarked Kenton, a few minutes after they were beyond sight of their friends; you'll take care of ine, and 1 11 do my best to take care of you. Hat hits me bout right. Youll do just what I tell you to do, and wont speak or move without my first tell-inSLyou to do so. Dats it, and yo wont speak or move without fust askin me; Ill be easy with yo, Mr Kenton.

But. gravely remarked the scout, if each of us should happen to forbid tother to stir or speak, wed have to stand still forever. I'll act as boss at first, and then when Im ready Ill give you your turn. Dat don't strike me ozactl righ but as I jist obsarved Ill be easy wid yo, Mr Kenton, and let yo start in, replied Jethro, somewhat puzzled at the offhand manner in which the ranger took hold of the reins. But the ranger never laid aside his caution and vigilance.

He kept Jethro Juggens at his heels, forbiddinglhim to speak a word, but to watch and listen to the utmost. The sun was in the horizon, when, without any special incident, they arrived at the clearing, which all had left earlier in the day. The first view brought a disappointment to Kenton. Nothing in the appearance of the settlers cabin intimated that it had suffered any disturbance since the departure of tne pioneers, and the unladen flatboat rested against the bank, just where it lay when the ranger cast a backward glauce at it some hours before. The canoe, however, which was the magnet that drew him thither, was missing.

It was in las plain sight as the larger craft upon the departure of the party, but the keen vision was nnable to discover the first outline of bow or stern. Since it conld not have removed itself it followed that its disappearance was due to human agency. The varmints seem to be everywhere today, muttered the impatient ranger: theyve been there since we left, and moren likely some of em are there now, but Ive come after that canoe, and Im going to have it or my name isn't Sime Kenton." Shall I go wid yo to 6ee yo dont get hurt? inquired Jethro Juggens. No; stay where you be and keep out of sight, and dont speak nor stir nor breathe I come back, replied the ranger, mak ing ready to set out on one of the most perilous ventures of his eventful career. CHAPTER V.

DARING AND DELICATE WOKE. It will be borne in mind that Kenton had approached the clearing from the east, or up the river, so that it was necessary to cross the open space to reach the spot where the silent flatboat rested against the bank, and near which he expected to find the canoe so necessary in the plan he formed fer saving the settlers and their families. To start across this cleared space was too (led a woods- riskv a proceeding for so guarded man asne. If any of his enemies were on the other side, where he meant to look for the smaller boat, the ranger was certain to be detected. His plac, therefore, was to pass around the clearing by entering the woods and moving to the rear.

This he set out to do upon parting from Jethro Juggens. Ha had not yet passed from sight among the trees when Ins steps were arrested by a vigorous St 1 st! Well aware of the point whence it came he turned impatiently around, took a couple of steps toward his dusky companion and demanded in an undertone: What do you want? Yo tole me not to speak or move or breve; if I don't speak or move cant yo let up on de breving busness? Im afraid its (gwine to bodder me to shet off brev- All right, so you dont forget to stay right where you are till I come back." enton resumed his advance, keeping out of sight in the woods, until he had skirted three sides of the clearing and approached the river again, opposite the point where he had first halted with his companion aud failed to see the cauoe. As yet it was an absolute mystery as to what had become of the lesser boat. A half dozen causes might account for its disappearance. It might have been set adnft by one of the Khawanoes.

or captured and paddled across the river, or destroyed or At that moment the figure of a sinewy Shawanoe shot up to view, as if from a jumping box. He was near the canoe, but between it and Kenton, and so close indeed that but for the fact that his face was turned toward the river, he must have discovered the white man. Kentons heart gave a quick throb, for something in the shoulders, the hack of the head and contour of the body suggested that the Indian was his old enemy. aon-mon. The Panther.

If its the varmint himself, thought Kenton, him and me can just as well have it now, even if there are others of his people not fur off. continued tomorrow. Begun Oct 28 and 29. HER FIRST PARTY GOWN. three Times in Her Life.

A curious custom prevails in some parts of Austria. The mother to whom a daughter is bom makes during the first year of its iife a beautiful lace handkerchief. When it is done it is put away, to be produced on the young girls wedding day, and arranged on her head as a bridal veil. When this use is served the bit of lace Copyright X893 CHAPTER III. Continued.

The call did not sound hal so'far away as in any one of the former instances, and it came from a throat which essayed it for the first time in the hearing of Boone and Now we know there's three of em. remarked the latter. Theyre wondering why me and the rest of em arent pushing faster through the woods, but off with you, Simon we're losing time. With out another word these two great Jnoneers separated, the elder moving silently among the trees to the eastward, that is up the Ohioand toward Rattlesnake gulch, now a place of the first importance to all concerned. He did not look around to note what was done by the ather.

But Keuton had taken only a lew steps when he stopped aud looked tack. Jethro Juggins was standing by the tree with his pin on his shoulder ind glancing inquiringly from the disao-'peanng figure of Boone to that of Kenton only a few yards aw ay. What's the matter? asked the latter. What are you waiting for? i Which ob yo folks wants me, Mr Ken- ton? i I dont think either one of us will die with a broken heart if we lose you, but come along with me. Sure, Mr Booue wont feel bad if I dont go wid him? "Come along, keep close to me and dont make any noise, for the woods is full the varmints.

Enough has been told for the reader to understand the situation. The Altman and Ashbridge families were threading way through the Kentucky wilderness. from the clearing whore a cabin had been erected" 6ome weeks before, to the Blockhouse, lo miles distant and ou the epDosite side of the river. They were escorted by a number of rangers and scouts Srom the blockhouse, under the charge of Daniel Boone and sent thither by Capfc who discovered the imminent ipprii-of the families, after they had de-j dined the invitation to tarry at the blockhouse and had passed-beyond and down 'thlSio in The flat ooat. Kenton was not mistaken in his theory about the ret urn journey of himself and cora-, paid-jo.

the slightestsign of danger ap-1 peared, and in a comparatively short time they came upon their friends, who, from their a 1 taken in ineir own. Yrhaf more inviting opening could the enriching Shawanees ask than was there pres tinted to them? From their lurking places among the surrounding trees they could pour in a frightfully destructive voTIhy" that would stretch many of the helpless party lifeless on the ground. Andiwhy did they not ao so? Because 'they-knew the cost to them. Those hunt- era and rangers were used to the Indian 'method of fighting. If the redskins could 1 approach nigh enough to tire before detee- tion there would be enough white men left to make many of them bite the dust ere they could get beyond reach of the deadjr rifles.

No; in the estimation of the Shawanees i there was a plan open to them that was a i thousandfold more preferable. Rattlesnake gulch was the beau Ideal place for an ambuscade, for it not only offered acertain chance for the destruction of the entire party of whites, but afforded a perfect protection against any unpleasant consequences to the ambuscaders. CHAPTER IV. ON THE EDGE OF THE CLEARING. i The arrival of Kenton naturally caused a stir on the part of all the members of the party that had halted on their way through i the Kentucky wilderness to the block house, somewhat less than ten miles dis-i tant and on the other side of the Ohio 5 river.

Notonly Hastings and hisbrotherrangers. I but the Ashbridges and Altmans gathered around the pioneer to hear what he had to eay and the directions as to their own proceedings. Mr Ashbridge and his friend Altman were roused by the murmur of voices and the subdudd excitement, and joined the group that surrounded the tall athletic figure all excepting little Mabel Ashbridge. who was just getting her tiny dam In shape, and deemed that of more importance than listening to the conversation of the elders. The words 'of Weber Hastings proved that be wasas quick as Boone aud Kenton to comprehend the peculiar peril which confronted the party.

it isn't, far to the blockhouse, he re plied to. the-question of Kenton, and we can do it in. two or three hours if the redskins 'wmiklgive ns the chance. Wbatcaoced you to make this stop, WVb? -j Gulch. was the response.

matter with that? -XhetTowhece the Shawanoes mean to 'aipbUsfr $. i replied Kenton, nodding his head and cbmpresMng his lips. Thats just what the varmints have fixed things to do, and if they can do it theyll wipe out one of this party. Boone and me party. made tiour minds that that was their trick.

Hes gone ahead to watch em. Ive come back to help you folks. From what Mr Hastings said, remarked elder Ashbridge, who, like his friend, I Altman, was thoroughly roused, the woods are so matted and choked with dense undergrowth on both sides of the gulch tnat it is impossible for us to pick our wa rough it at night without being hear-Dy the Indians." Hes was the emphatic comment of Kenton the thing cant be done. That being admitted. said Altman, why would it not be wise to cross the river this point, or make the rest of the jour- at iney through the Ohio woods? We 'who how to swim can take over those who cannot." or better, perhaps, construct a raft Tpon which to float to the other side.

That would be the idee exactly if it could be hid from the varmints, but theyre watehing us aud have been doing so ever since we left the clearing. They know everything you do. Afore you could get alf way cross the river with the raft they rould open on you from the woods on both ides and pick off each woman and gal and them as was pushing the raft. 1 do not doubt what you say, observed FAltman. with a shudder, at the graphic picture drawn by the scout, but it seems strange to.

me, he added with a glance sight of hat they while lre here In camp" as may be said. What Tietter chance could they ask? They could pick off a number of you, ibut WeDer here and the rest of the poys would make them dance to lively music 'if they tried it. Thats what holds em ack, for these chaps. remarked Kenton, proudly around upon his companions, have fout the varmints afore to- fT hen we are doing the only thing possible by remaining here until it becomes so late in the day that we shall not reach Rattlesnake Gulch until after dark, and then, instead of attempting to go through we will cross the river I presume, though am not aware of the decision that has been reached by Mr Hastings. What will they suspect then if we stop here? asked George Ashbridge.

Now, youve hit the trouble. When they find you dont arrive at some pint where theyve looking for you, theyll know you're stopped, borne of their spies Will sneak back through the woods to Iam wbat it means moren likely they've already done so. added Kenton, with another glance around him, and then when they see you setting or standingand lolling round, without any particlar reason for youre doing so, theyll, understand the Teal cause powerful quick. As soon as Jhev diskiver you dont mean to try the lurtlesnake Gulch route theyll fix things to-opefi onto you and send as many as they can under. "Then the problem as I understand it, sa'iil'the older to act so as to convince the Indians that we intend to follow the path tiirougb thegulch where they mean to ambuscade us, and to keep UP this impression until nightfall.

'Ybuve hit it precisely, Mr Ashbridge. Rut how is that to be done? I know of np'hne beside you to answer the question. -Boone and me have been thinking pow-Bft uJ hard over the matter, and the best trine to be done, as I see it, is this: You now we left a canoe down by the clearing longside the boat. I'll go back there and get it, that is if it is still there. Ill try to keep so elose in under the bank that the varmints won't know wbat Im driving at.

I'il manage to reach a pint just this side of Rattlesnake Gulch early in the evening and wiLwait for you. Then Ill hurry the women" folks 'cross to the other side and make the rest of the joumeyjto the block house on the Ohio bank. You will have to make two trips with the canoe. I can find another, one, that was hid under the bushes on this side not fur from the gulch. If thats there 1 11 take one party over, and Boone, or some one else the rest of us will bare it cut with.

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