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on counters and salt barrels and Inter DOG IS HIGHLY HONORED, FRANCE AND PAPACY. favor. Will you do me the kindness to louk tit what I bring la my them. They (wung their feet from tall benches and whispered behind their books whilo Peggy fiercely studied. When the Testament class rogated him nliout his night's rido.

He Joked, as any man among them would have done about tho hard serv ice taken out of borrowed hor3cs, instead of dwelling on the Indian's affairs and tho labors of tho night Lincoln had the strength of three ordinary men. "I allow," said one of the Carolina settlers, "that it was an ornary trick of one of them Grove lioys." I guess you are wrong there." put In a Massachusetts man. "The Grove boys know better than to pick the runt out of a litter. If one of them wanted to steal a girl ho wouldn't go so nigh the tavern and stop on tho outside." Tho outrage was resented as a mu nicipal indignity, whoever had attempted it; but it stirred less resentment than it would have stirred had any other young maid in New Salem been the sufferer. It was talked about a fortnight with zest and much repetition.

Ey tho end of a month It was still good material, when women took their knitting and visited one another of afternoons. But by muster day other happenings had covered It. If Sally lyiew more about It than any one. else, Bho kept the secret. The Sac, brave often fixed his eyes on her with speculation In them.

'In my tribe," he said once to Lin coln, "a warrior can take a tent-pole and heat his squaw, or he can give her plenty goods and drive her out of his wigwam. But me marry white woman; me have to stand her like white man." Ho was at iirst concerned, and ques tioned Peggy about the loss of her wooden leg. "I will not wear It," she repeated stubbornly. "It hurt, and I throw it away." She hopped about tho street on her crutch, which Ann Rullodpe had found by the hand-mill tho night the alarm was given, her injured leg hanging straight beneath the deerskin garment. Some change- in her was no- iced, even by her schoolmates.

"Who cut Peggy Shlckshack's hair, Viano Rut lodge?" inquired Nancy (Irecn, when the gills sat outdoors with their dinner reticules the 1 r.3 1 warm day. The budding woods were then alive with bees. 'Ann," responded Ann's younger sis ter, with asperity. "We have her tagging to our house all tho time, now. I allow tho Indians might as well move in with us." 'Shlckshack's wife doesn't visit the neighbors, does she?" "No.

She stays at home and heats water to scald the boys with." "Peggy looks nicer with her hair cut straight around below the ears and combed smooth. And I am glad she lost her wooden leg when Satan or something tried to carry her off." 'My brother Red," exclaimed Mar tha Bell Clary, "told me tho horso blanket that was throwed over Peggy Shlckshack that night smelt of brimstone!" "Your brother Red," retorted Nancy Green with Impatience, "gots threat ened with brimstone so much In meet ing that he smells it on everything!" "Well, how do you suppose tho boat Antywine La Chance went down tho river in, got back to tho mill by morning, when lio rode home on horse back?" "Antywine brought it back himself. Part of tho way he pulled the boat, and part of tho way he rode horseback You get such stories in the said Mahala Cameron. Martha Bell wagged her head and loolted at Peggy, sitting apart, eating corn bread in solitude. Sho was glad to be Martha Bell Clary Instead of Peggy Shlckshack.

None of the girls meant to be cruel. They wished Peggy well, but made her understand sho was not as other daughters of New Salem. "We all thought sho was queer be fore we found out she was a said Martha Bell. "You'd he queer, too," exclaimed Nancy Green, "if you'd been born a Spaniard and raised among the Sacs, and dressed always like a "But I wasn't." "Peggy can talk tho Sae language just like Shlckshack," remarked Ma hala. "Let's get her do it for "Shlckshack won't let her," objected Ann Itutlerige's sister.

"Ho wants her to learn English. He says she learned to speak English In a year." "Humph!" commented another of the group, resentfully; "tho master shows partiality to Peggy Shlckshack, so he but I wouldn't bo heri If she Is tho best reader in school," Tho fir3t really warm noon of the budding year, while Peggy's Bchool mates were looking at and talking about her, Antywine stood at the open tavern door waiting to Bpeak to Ann Rutledge. Too bashful to knock, he shifted from one moccasin to the other, hoping that some 'kind saint would send Ann to tho door to Inquire what he wanted. He had a parcel In his loft hand, ar.d sometlmos held It before him and somo'Jnies hid It behind his back keeping his right hand ready to uncap himself if she appeared. There was not anything In the woods or on the prairie which Antywine feared.

Bu Ann Uutledge represented to his mind the power of society; and he was com iug to sue that power. She entered singing, from an Inner room, and paused, throwing her long braids behind her back when she saw the Can adian at the door. He snatched off his cap, standing erect, narrow of hips and shoulders and full In chest, an elegant lightness of make and grace of carriage setting him apart from English-Americans, and fixed his wistful blue eyes upon ner. "Come In, Antywine La Chance. "No, maiu'selle.

I will stand here." "Did you want to see any "I want to see you." "Here aiu." The girl dimpled at his embarrassment. His Success as a Collector for Charity Led Citizens to Present Him a Testimonial. London (Eng.) Special. Probably no dog has ever been distinguished In as odd a way as the one shown In this picture, who has been mode the recipient ot an illuminated address for his services on behalf ot charity. And he is much more deserving of this typically English honor than many a titled bigwig who has merely lent his name to some benevolent undertaking.

During 1903 the Intelllfcnt little animal collected no fewer than 2,000 coins, ranging from pounds to pennies, for the Victoria Infirmary, at HIGHLY HONORED DOG. (Presented with Illuminated AUdrc-as by an English City.) Northwich, Cheshire, England. At the end of the year the box in which he ie-pcits his receipts was found to contain far more money than was obtained by any other sinple collector. So he has fairly earned his cittiuction. His name i3 "Prince," he is five years old, and a fox terrier.

He does not go about with a box slung around his r.c.clt with a sign on it, like most money-collecting cogs who play the part of mere earriers. He is a genuine collector. When he encounters an botly whose appearance leads him to infer that he has money to spare, "Prince" Immediately bees -of him by sitting up on his hind legs. As it Is well known in Northwich what he wants, and what use he makes of the money given him, his appeals are seldom unsuccessful. The coins he collects he deposits himself in a box kept for that purpose.

He did not have to be taught to beg for money either. ''About three years ago," writes his-owner, Arthur Holland, of the Sportsman's inn, Northwich, "he developed a mania for waiting about in the hope, ap'-parently, of picking up a dropped coin. Whenever customers placed money on the table 'Prince' would Immediately prick up his ears, run from whatever part of the house he happened to be, and Bit up patiently as If waiting for something. One day, a gontleman accidentally knocked a two-shilling piece from the table and although a thorough search was made for it It could not bo found. Some time afterwards it waa found that Prince had It in his mouth." After this episode Prince's coin-collecting talents were utilized, and from an ordinary, irresponsible dog, who did nothing for his keep, he speedily developed into a vuluable member of society who does far more than pay his own way in the world.

HISTORY OF AN OLD OAK. Builder of Frigate Constitution Offered Seventy Dollars for It, But Didn't Get It. Boston (Mass.) Special. Standing on East street, Dedham, not far from the railroad, Its majestic hight and massive trunk euggestfvo of its centuries of life, its gnarled twisted limbs silently speaking of the countless storms it has survived, is the Avery oak, the most famous tree within the town, if not for miles around. Older than the town itself, it has witnessed the passage cf the red man and the coming of the white, the fading away of the primeval forest before the on-march of civilization, tho turning THE DEDHAM OAK.

(One of the Most Famous Trees In the New England States.) crooked footworn paths into rolled reads and of wigwams Into modern houses. To-day the tree Is the property of Hie town, iii ttarie of the Decham historical society. Jonathan Avery, its owner in the latter years of the eighteenth century, kept It from forming a part of the famous American frigate Constitution, for an offer of $70 for the tree was rejected by him. Its successive owners jealously guarded it until 18SG, when Joseph W. Clark conveyed it to the town to be under the care of the Dedham Historical society.

At the base the circumference Is 25 feet and at a point five feet from, the ground it measures 16 feet. Big Floating Electric Crane. A floating electric crane'ls used for ihe loading and unloading of ships in the harbor of Kiel, Prussia. It can easily lift SO tons a time. CHAPTER IV.

From the back yard of more than one New Salem home, where soap-making and gardening were going forward, szure smoke rose over pink coals of wood and old vines. Tho whole world was getting ready to be-new. Ann's cwn winter llnsey was laid aside. She wore something which made, her look like a blossom to the eyes of the boy. Antywine gave her the parcel and stood abashed while It was unrolled, evealing yards of dark red and yellow calico, the colors alternating In tiny flecks which globed themselves to pomegranates.

Ann had noticed It In the store as a most daring attempt in cotton printing. Some balls of thread fell out and Antywine picked them up. "It's for Peggy, Isn't It?" "Yes, mam'Belle." "Did you buy It yourself, Anty wine?" "I have some money that I make In Belleville," he apologized. "Shlck shack and the woman have not got tome tas'e In clothes for young girls. You.

main'selle, have that tas'e." "If you think I really have, Anty wine, you must let me help Peggy make this dress." 'Oh. maiu'selle! It Is what would ask, but dare not!" 'I would love to do It, and Peggy will be so glad to have a new dress." Peggy was glad when Ann waylaid her In the evening. Her face quivered and she said, She talked tho great event quite out with Antywine, standing beside their cabin, be cause they seldom spoke to each other the presence cf Shlckshack's wife. Then there was the joy of going to the avern nnd learning neat stitches while Ann cut and basted nnd fitted. The THEY SAT AND HKLD THE BOOK TOUETUER.

slow process of hand sewing went on a part of every day, as the two girls had time, until Peggy, by accident ol Antywine's choice, stood at last un consciously arrayed In the colors ot Spain. The garment was gathered to her slim figure under the bust, whence escaping fullness hung as low as her ankle-3. This short-walsted look, and tho gorgeous setting of colors for her palo ollvo skin, and her hair cut in the fashion ot the middle ages, suddenly developed in her a charm Peoplo noticed her, and said that she was not exactly growing pretty, but there was something to her. Tho con Ildence of knowing how to do things appeared In her face. For, having begun with tho needle, Ann Rutlodge went on to knitting and spinning.

Ann had pretty clothes, for her father never rode to Springfield without bringing her a gift, and her mothe even indulged her with a pelisse modeled after one worn by the doctor's wife, who came a bride to New Salem. Ylnne saw with some resentment her elder sister take thing" which had usually fallen to her ami cut them over for the Indian's adopted daughter. Thus Peggy became trans formed in every garment except her moccasins. To these heelless, quill- embroidered shoes she clung with the instinct of a wilderness lover. They were light nnd soft and small, hamper ing ber no more than her own rnuscle3.

Antywine made them for her when he made his own. In return she knitted woolen stockings to keep him and her foster father warm in winter. When Peggy first learned to Unit sho pulled the yarn so tight that the stocking log stood above the needles as stiff as a board triangle nnd had to be raveled and done over. "You're not building stake-and- rldered fences for your men folks laughed Ann. Shlckshack's wife gave Peggy many tasks to do, but In a house where there was no home-making, strewn with th" appointments of a dirty camp, th tasks were sordid nd often useless.

Sally let pots and kettles litter the hearth, her cob pipe dropped asbe into a dinner hanging on the crane; joists were grimy, and dust stood thlc' on tho pewter Bhe got wjth her flrf husband and was too stingy to use. But her splint-bottomed chairs had to bo scoured with soap and sand every week, and she made the lamo girl, In deerskin dress, creep inch by inch over the puncheon floor, cleaning it by the f-ame hard process. When the woather was bad Peggy's tasks were doubled, and her struggle with marks of New Salem clay became hopeless. Shlckshack's ife never seemed to look up; plodding along the street, her sullen eyes fixed on the ground, she exchanged no word with a neighbor. Shlckshack's disgust was extreme with sordid housekeeping he had nowhere encountered In an Indian village.

The changes In PcKgy Shickshack, were not without Influence on her Echoolmaies, but tho Spaniard, witfc pride of 'icr own, held aloof from ENGAGED IN -QUARREL THAT MAY STIR UP EUROPE. Trouble Began Five Years Ago and Came to a Head When Papal Secretary of State Criticised President Loubet. Pari, (France) Special. Frarv.e has recalled her ambassador to the Vatican because of the papal protest to the powers on President Loubet's recent visit to Italy. The pre3ent quarrel between the government of France and the Vatican dates from the republican-socialist coalition which in June, 1899, placed the Waldeck-Rousseau ministry in potter.

That coalition still exists un der the ministry of Premier Combes. When Waldeck-Rousseau became premier of France in 1899, the militant order of tho Roman Catholic clergy, m-'ludlng the Jesuits and the As- sumptionists, were believed to have been conspiring with the royalists and Bonapartists against the republic. The socialists and republicans, who were power, demanded legislation to curb the secretly growing power of the clergy. Waldeciv-Rousseau, in the face of the protests of Pope Leo, framed the now famous "law of associations." The bill became a law on July 1, 1901. Tho association's bill was in no way directed against the parish clergy.

They were left undisturbed. The per sons aimed at were the members of eligious corporations, auxiliary asso ciations of the church add responsible only to the pope. Headed by the Jesuits, the Dominicans, the Assuinption- i and the Passionists, these so cieties, with their enormous member ship and wealth, had for their objects nothing connected with French na tional aims. These associations, under the Wal deck-Rousseau law, were required 'o report to the French government their rules, names of their officers and member, and their places of meeting. If they failed to do sc within six months their association was to be dissolved and their property confiscated.

The law further prohibited the re ligious associations from conducting CARDINAL MERRY DEL VAL. (Papal Secretary of Slate Whose Note Offended France.) private schools unless authorized to do BO. The law ot associations naturally provoked strenuous opposition from the Vatican, and under from Rome the Catholic bishops in France resisted its enforcement. Only a few of the religious associations applied for authorizations which would permit them to exist. There were in France when the law went into effect on July 1, 1901, 1C.4G3 religious asso ciations.

Of this number 11,327 re fused to obey the law. The law was vigorously and the Roman Catholic orders were compelled to leave France. The As- stimptionists, Je3uits and Passionists placed their property outside of French jurisdiction, and sought homes in Eng land, the United States and elsewhere The Carmelites and Benedictine nuns found a refugo In England, Switzer land, Spain and Italy. The Jesuits stnt their novices, to Holland, and themselves went to Jersey, Syria, Egypt and other countries. Belgium received a great number of refugees.

M. Combe3, who succeeded Waldeck-Rousseau, enforced the law as vigorously. All religious schools which refused to recognize the laws of France were closed. Six thousand monastic schools had refused to apply for authorization. CombS3 closed 4,900 of them, leaving 1,110 unmolested because he was convinced they were acting in good faith.

ine uatiioiics resisted the government so strenuously that frequently troops had to be called upon to close some of the schools. Priests headed the resistance to the law. School buildings were barricaded, ttate officials were assaulted and the mobs led by priests threw filth and burning oil soaked faggots at the soldiers who enforced tho lav. Several times efforts have been made In the chamber of deputies to abolish the concordat, or treaty, between Franco and the Vatican. So far every attempt has been blocked by tho Combes ministry, which does not wish to come to so open a warfare with the Vatican as the abrogation of the concordat would require.

Publish Military Doings. Under the new British army regulations colonels commanding regiments are to send to the editors of the newspapers In the dlstriat in which are the regiment's recruiting depots paragraphs concerning regimental successes and distinction for the enconragementof the rank and file. Chicago Chronicle. jr I rp 1 tood up she was at the head. Her progress through the simple course was so rapid that inter Grayham calcu lated she would know In a year all that he was able to teach her.

Antywine, whose stepmother had never Bent him to school, was nineteen years old, and could not read. Peggy began to teach him dnnn long spring twilights. There was a large Btone halfway across the valley, sheltered as tho sun slipped north of afternoons, under which Peggy hid her outgrown lesson book for Antywine. Whatever direction his day's hunt led him, he made a detour to arrive at the stone, and if he arrived first, sat down to study. If Peggy, carrying her dinner reticule home from school, reached It first, she waited.

They sat and held their book to gether. English spelling provoked Canadian exclamations; but he had to spur him not only Peggy, but tho powerful example- of Sleur Abe Lin coln, studying every spare minute. Antywine knew where the best swim ming places were In tho Sangamon. Sometimes he came to his lesson, hla blond hair separated Into dark clinging tendrils, which, as they dried, became a powder of gold-dust curls around his face and temples. If Peggy could not keep her fingers from touching this fleece, Antywine pretended he did not know it.

His hands and shoulders worked as hard as his mind. With shrugs and gesticulating fingers he flung English spelling all around. When he encountered a terrific word he would throw down his book and jump on it. But Antywine's moccasins were light; he did not damage the learning under his feet. His rage3 wcro ragej of laughter.

Whatever he did so delighted Peggy thnt she said: 'It makes me nimost laugh out in school to think how you dance on your speller!" As month followed month and Pe dro Lorimer neither showed himself again In New Salem nor made any other attempt to kidnap the Indian's adopted daughter, her guardian's anx iety relaxed to ease. He thought: "These white men in this vilalge are. my friends; they will take my part. The young chief Abe Is as strong as three Pedro Lorlmcr3, and his hand is with me." t't'o Be Continued. Anc-lent Millionaires.

In this connection it is interesting to take the monetary measures of some of tho rich ancients, says the New Yorker. It Is known that Tiberias at his death left the equivalent of $118,125,000. Caligula squandered it all in less than ten months. Julius Caesar was a good deal of a money-getter. He was worth nearly $11,000,000 before he got office-and a good deal more afterwards.

'Yet Brutus says he was ambitious." Croesus is held up even to this day a3 a fabulously rich man, and yet would cover his fortune in landed property. In addition to this, how ever, he had a large sum of money and many elaves. Antony was a high oiler, nnd no doubt would have made lis mark in Wall street. He owed 500,000 in the middle of March, hustled and got enough money to pay off all his debts by the last of April. He squandered more than $73,000,000 of tho public money.

The sum of 000,000 was paid for his house. Sen eca, the philosopher, turned his phil osophy Into cash at a rapid rate. His fortune was upward of $12,000,000. Not a bad philosophy. Then there was the soothsayer, Lentulus.

Soothsaying was a profitable business in those days. At least he managed to accumu late a fortune of $10,500,000. Tho big raters of early times made tho money fly when they got their legs under a well-laden table. For example: Apl- clus expended in gluttony Esopis paid for a single dish Caligula spent for one supper 000; Heliogabalus spent for one meal Liicullus usually paid $100 000 for a repast. If many of us ate like this wo "wouldn't know where the next meal was coming from" or how the check was to be settled.

On ShrewHlinry Bnttloflelil. But one of the interesting things connected with the whole 'epi sode is the existence of the church which was erected four years afterward on the site of the pit3 where the mass of undistinguished dead upon both sides were buried after the bat tle. Though its patron was Henry whose battered elfigy still looks out from above the east window toward Haughmond Ridge, It was actually built and endowed by the then rector of Albright Hussey, the parish in which the battle was fought. Thi3 was Roger Ive, priest of Leaton, a strong Lancastrian and of an old burgher family in Shrewsbury. The sito was given by Richard Hussey, squire, to use a modern word, of Albright Hussey.

A college of prle3ts was also erected and endowed to serve the "hurch, which wa3 in no way a parish church, but erectod distinctly and emphatically as a commemoration and thanksgiving offering by grateful and plus Lancastrians for the victory of H03. Macmillan'3 Magazine. Story C'orlyle. A recently published volume by the late Anthony Froude, the historian, tells this story of Carlyle and his wife, who lived on notoriously bad term3. the latter dying "Carlyle found a remembrance In tar Ilary of the blue marks which in a nt ot passton had inflicted on her arms.

As soon as he could collect himself he put together a memoir of her, in which with deliberate courage he inerted the incriminating passages of her diary, the note of the blue marks anion? them, and ho added an injunction ot his own that, however ctern and tragic that record might be, it waa never tc bo destroyed-" THE PARTING WAYS. I'd Uke to soft thnt old cltlT pnth Which lov ts' feet have made, Just where 1t leaves the traveled road And dips down in the shnde Cf the wlduppreadlnff overhang Of mnples nnd nf birch; The where the hidden thrush once Banff, And peeked out from hii perth. I'd like to wander nl! alone Down tn the pnrtlng wr. All, all, alone with thoughts of you. As once In other days I wandered where the old road lies My thoughts dear, you were fair! Wy thoiiKhis were all of your true eye And of your truant hair! And, where the cliff path dipped and branched Away from the old trail, I heard the catbird call, and rail, And watched a bJwn leaf nail From off a toHHlng w-nd blown limb.

Straight down the It Hew, I watched Us dwindling flight and dim. And sweetheart! there was you! You sat beside the dipping way, And watched the fading gleam Of dying flay down In the vale, Rellected In the stream That wound Its crooked way along; My day had been sad But then It bubbled Into song, And, sweetheart, I was glnri! J. M. Lewis, In Houston Tost. SPANISH PEGGY I A STORY OF YOUNO ILLINOIS Mary Hartwcll Cathcrwood I Copyrlslit, lt'JU, hr Herberts.

Stone ACo. CHAPTER III. Continued. "No, Antywliit', I will not take It from yen." it," lio insisted. "1 feel better when I am out hunting if you have that around your neck.

She bring evil into the house. She is worse than Chasse Galerie." "What is the Chasse Galerie?" "Have you never heard of the Chasse Galerie that fly serosa the sky at night?" "How could I hear about such things in the Sac village or at Bellevlllo?" Antywine proceeded at once to tell the story of the wild huntsman and his dogs, and their chase above the clouds. This led on to feux toilets, or balls of Are, into which bad spirits turned themselves to lure sinners into Then loup-garous, or man-wolves made darkness flame with their eyes, to Peggy's imagination. "Are your feet or hands cold?" Anty-wino inquired once in a wtillo. Peggy answered "No," forgetting she had hands and feet, her large, excited gaze fixed on the wonder-world of folk-etwy.

His voice abounded in sympa thetic tones. It was full and golden, reaching into distance or shilling to monotones as he half told and half eung his people's legends. So hour after hour passed; rain con tinued to pour down the shingles and visit them in gusts of spray through the broken chimney. It was a delicious experience to re member a lifetime. But as Peggy's responses became few, Antywine utretched out his legs and made pillow of his lap with a rJnrner of the blanket, to which her drowsy head came readily down.

He watched and she slept until darkness faded to the pallor of dawn. The noise of horses' feet in the heavy road, for which he had waited so long could at last be heard approaching. He withdrew carefully from the head of the sleeper, and went out to intercept the riders. They were splashed with mud and Jaded, moving Bide by side, their tired horses snorting flakes of foam. Thus more than once the men of New Salem had come back from chasing horso-thlevcs, less ready, perhaps, to give the details of the exploit than were Ehickshack and his companion.

Both drew rein when they saw Antywine, nnd he told them directly Peggy was. Shlckshack asked where he found her. He pointed to the road beyond the cabin, and in his brief Canadian- English repeated what had happened. "Your squaw boy doesn't put up many flzzleglgs and fireworks, but he seems to bo worth two men," observed Lincoln. His lank hair dripped moisture.

He was haggard with hard riding. "You catch the man?" inquired Antywine. "No," Bhlckshack answered in dis pist. "You know him?" "No. Mo not care now." "He winked out," said Lincoln, "We lost him this side of Beardstown The closest view we had was when wo nearly ran him down back here, We intended to raise a party and hunt, I reckon you better bring the little girl tiow, so we can get home to break- last." Shlckshack's red face revealed Itself through growing daylight polished like fopper.

He gave a strong grunt of satisfaction when Antywine set Peggy behind him on the horse. The Cana dian boy mounted lightly to a seat behind Lincoln, and as they rode toward New Salem a clear whiteness like the promise of fair weather appeared in the east. Water hung beaded on the etems of trees, but a great commotion of robins came out of the woods. It was the general opinion In the vll lage that Don Pedro Lorimer had "done It." Why he should put him self to the Inconvenience of trying to carry off sum a poor little thing many declared they could not understand All day Lincoln was visited at the turo by inauiilng friends, who sat "llam'sello, I have to ask of you a.