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E.‘F, Beadle,
William Adams,
DaVld Adams.

COPYRIGHT, 1883, at BEADLE AND ADAMS.

 

 

NEW YORK, APRIL 7, 1883.

One copy, four months, $1.00
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THE MAGIC SHIP;

03,

THE PREEBOOTERS OF SANDY HOOK.

A Tale of Fiction, Pounded upon Pact, in the History of the earlier
days of New York and its adjacent waters.

BY COL.

PRENTISS INGRAHA M,

AUTHOR or “ THE LEAGUE or THREE," “ BUFFALO BILL's GRIP, " “MERLE, THE MUTINEER,” ETC.

0 CHAPTER V.

THE WEIRD PILOT.

THE bold act of Midshipman Park Pelham, to
quell the mutinous spirit engendered by the super-
stitious fears of the crew, against the vessel which
the asserted was towing the brig to destruction
an them to death, was a thrilling surprise to one
and all, from Lieutenant Lonsdale to the smallest
cabin-b0 on board the wreck.

The m dd y was a natural-born sailor, as fearless as
a lion, and one whose presence of mind did not de-
sert him in the direst dan rer.

When washed overboan with the wreck, his pierc-
ing cry, that had been heard and heeded by his cap-
tain, had been more a warning to show what had
happened to him than a call for aid, or an utterance
of fear.

Had he not been entangled in the riggin , he
might have regained the bug without aid. an had
he for an instant felt that Captain Sherwood would
not reach the wreck with him, he would rather have
died than see him carried off before his eyes.

It was a fearful blow to him, and only in busiest
action could he keep from before his vision the tall
form of his commander and friend, borne away
11 n the wreckage, and drown the farewell words
olxthe brave man, which kept continually ringing in
his ears.

When the men came aft, after the brig was in t0w ,

 

of the craft, which they asserted was the Magic 1

Ship, the young midshipman felt th‘llfi- there would
be trouble, and remembering that the stern pivot-
gun was double—loaded with grape. and seeing that
its muzzle was )oiuted so as to fully command the
length of the br g, he uickly secured a port fire and
lantern and calmly waited, without even attracting

the attention of the officer who stood nearest to t

him.

held the power, and he saw that Lieutenant Lons-
dale must yield to the crew, as the only course open

face, and all read there that Midshipman Park Pel~
ham would keep his word.

The lantern, held above his head, revealed set de-
termination to carry out his threat, and, as though
intending to give no other warning, he thrust t 1e
port-fire in dangerous fproximity to the priming-
tube, as with one accor , every man of the three-
score drop ed 11 on his face, flat upon the deck.'.

As thong dis aiming to follow up the advantage
which his courage an promptness had gained, t e
middy turned to his superior ofllcer, and said polite-
ly, and with an air of one who had just executed an
order given him:

“ The mutiny is quelled, sir.

d ‘1‘ Shall I put the men in irons, Lieutenant Lons—

a c? ‘

“No, thank you, Mr. Pelham; but they must go
below decks, and have the hatches closet on them
until we reach port," and Lucas Lonsdan spoke to
the midshipman with a respect which he would have
shown to a superior.

“ A , ay, sir," and then in his clarion-like tones he
calle out:

“ Ho, there, lads, a dozen of you get below decks,
and do not stop to let the barnacles grow upon your
feet while oingi"

Silently t 0 men furthest forward arose and hast-
ened to the forecastlc. down which they disappearcd
w ith commendable rapidity.

“ 110. there! the next squad start on the same
cruisel“ sung out the middy, cheerily, and in obedi—
ence a dozen more made all basic to get below decks.

Then followed another group, and another, until I

Boatswain Rntlin and these immediately aft were
ordered down below, and as promptly obeyed as had
their messmales.

“ All down, sir!" and the middy saluted, and then
running forward with several other young ofiicers,

; quickly secured the hatches.
Then, at the moment when the mutinous spirit 3

to him, his ringing words and fearful throat fell upon I
- wild waters, plunging, rolling, riding a miuhty wave

their ears.
For one instant of horror the men gazed upon him,

and the Omcel‘q. Slil‘in'zing aside from near the ,
threatening muzzle of the pivot-gun, also looked ‘

g ed.
fire l“

Again his voice rung above the roar of wind and
waters, and the port-fire was thrust nearer the prim-
ingiube.

Jvery eye. was now upon that pale, resolute young

  

uoon him in amazement and admiration connnin- '
l 2 her upon her course.

“Down upon your faves, every man of you, or I 5

And thus. in the darkness and storm, with her crew
imprisoned below decks, her officers, and the two
men at the wheel, grouped together on the quarter-
dccl'. thc dismastcd brig was dragged through the

one instant, to forge through another the next,
and the vessel which led her. if not the same craft
which twice before had crossed her path that night,
was certainly a weird pilot, forging silent and som-

Bclow decks the. crew waits] in silence, dreading
the worst, and in total darkness, only knowing by
the movement of the vemel that she was still being
dragged onward.

Upon the quarter-deck the group of officers stood,
watching, waiting, and talking in low, earnest tones,

 

 

 

 

 

until once more the middy‘s voice was heard, and in '

the cheerful cry:

“ Li ht, ho!"

“W ereaway, Pelham.’" asked Lieutenant Lons-
dale, quickly.

“ Just off our port bow, sir.“

“Ay, a , I see it!

“ It is t e light on Sandy Hook Point, and we are
saved."

And on still the wreck was dragged, until the light
loomed up brightly through the intense darkness
which was so dense that the strange craft ahead
could only be traced in the dimmest outline.

At length the light shone off the port beam, then
was seen on the stern quarter, and half an hour af-
ter the dismantled brig ceased to plunge throu h the
wild waters, but glided along under the lee of andy
Hook, until suddenly her forward motion seemed to
cease.

“ Holy Ne tune! the crew have escaped!" sud~
denly cried ark Pelham, and he again sprung to
the gun, and seizing the port-fire thrust the end into
the lantern to ignite it.

“ Back to your den you sea-dogs!" he shouted.

But all was silent forward, and no moving form
was seen.

“Did you see any one forward, Pelham ?“ asked
Lieutenant Lonsdale, peering into the gloom ahead.

“ I certainly did, sir.

“ I saw two forms distinctly, and they were mov-
ing in a crouching attitude, one to starboard, the
other to port.

“ I will go forward and see if I eouldbemistaken,“
said the plucky middy.

“And will accompany you," answered Lieuten-
ant Lonsdale. and. the two went forward together.
their swords drawn, and pistols held ready for
use.

But the hatches were found as the ' had left them,
and certainly none of the crew 001111, have come on

eck.

“ You were mistaken, Pelham," said Lucas Lons-
da e.

“No, sir, I was not!

“See here!"

The mit‘dy, as he spoke, pointed at the. deck,

" Well?“

“ The cables, by which the craft ahead was towing
us have—”

“Been cut, as I live!" exclaimed thelieutenant.

“ No, sir, they were not cut, or the ends made fast
to us would still be here.

“ They have been let go.“

“ By Heaven! you are right.

“ And who has done this?"

“Those two f1 .rms I saw, and they came from the
three-master. sir."

“You are right, for We are now not moving, and
the water here is as placid as a lake.

“ hit where is the three-master?"

The words had scarcely lett the lips of the lieuten-
ant when a “'t‘ll‘tl light was visible off on the, star-
board bow, and there. not two cablcs‘ length away.
was visible thc tl-reemnsted schooner.

It certainly looked like their strange pilot, and yet,
her hull was now white, her masts and spars of the
same hue, and her solitary helmsman was at the
wheel, and clad in the same ghostly-looking apparel
in which he had before been seen.

“ The Magic Ship ."’ exclaimed Lucas Lonsdale
through his shut teeth.

“ Yes, sir, and old Ratlin, the boatswnin, was right,
for she has towed us into port.

“See, sir! she heads in toward us."

The same. weird light, before seen, revealed the
vessel as she came forward under a tremendous
pressure of canvas, and her course lay directly for
the dismantled brig.

 

“Can she mean torun us down?" cried Lieutenant
Lonsdale, and he added:

“ We are powerless to prevent."

“ No, sir, for that ghostly-looking helmsman is
utting his wheel to starboard now,“ and as the
ows of the schooner fell off from their course, for

she had been sailing almost into the winds eye, a
“bite-clad form once more a peered in the mizzen
shrouds, and there followed tlle pitiful hail:

“ Wrev-k 1L0!

“ For God’x sake trllus how to teach pnrthfor we sold
our craft to Satan, and (we 10st .’ 1031‘. .’ [mt 

“Starboard your helm hard-down and hold due
north for the New York Narrows!“ shouted Lucas
Lonsdale, springing upon a gun, and steadying him-
self with his sword u on the bulwarks.

“Ha! ha! ha!“ ant a chorusof demonincal laugh-
ter broke forth from on board the Weird craft, as she
sped on, laying her course east by north, which
would carry her out to sea, to again face the fury of
the winds and waves without the Hook.

“Turn out the men, Mr. Pclham, and we'll let fall
the anchors, and lie here until morning." said Lin-as
Lonsdale. not knowing what to say or think of what
he had Seen and heard.

“ Av, ay, sir!"

“ All hands on dock!" called out the middy, open-
ing the batches, and the crew came up sullen and
Si Ont.

Instantly they cast their eyes about th in; but the
weird pilot had already disappeared, and deter-
mined not to give them time to plan mischief Lieu-
tenant Lonsdale said:

“Well, lads. we are safe inside, of Sandy Hook, so
let fall the anchors and we'll ride here until morn-
ing. ‘ ,

“Ay, ay, sir: and I begs ardon for myself and
the men, sir, for whnt rsc id: but the craft tlr‘t
towed us in did look oncommon like the Magic
Ship,“ said Boa tsvvain Ratlin.

“I grant that. she did, boatswain, but we are safe
here now, and will go up to the city in the morning,
so I'll say no more about it, lads.“

A chocr burst forth for the lieutenant , who walked
lift with the middy, who remarked:

“lam glad. sir, that Illl‘V did not know that our
pilot was really the Magic Chip.“

" The secret, will s0ou leak out, Pelham, and when
I make my report, I am goiizg to ask leave to go on
a cruise forthat craft, wrird as she appeals."

"And ask that I may be ordcretl to accompany
you, sir.“

“I will. Pelham. for you are one among a thou-
sand," was the complimentary reply, as thi- two rc-
joined those they had left upon the. quarter-deck,
and who had scen with horror that their pilot lile
been indeed the Magic Ship.

CHAPTER VI.
'rnr. us.an or Till-2 monuxns.

A FEW of the " oldest inhabitant-.- " of what is now
known as the Highlands of Nevvrsink" still remem-
ber an old Hermit, who dwelt in a half-log, half—
cavcrn abode upon the bold point of land which
overlooks the beautiful lower bay of New York, and
Commands a View to seaward of many leagues, and
up and down the coast for miles.

To those unacqnainted with the locality, I will S"y
that the hill juts out into New York‘s lowcr lmv. is
bold and rugged, and was then, at the time of which
I write, C(wered with a dense growth of timber.

Inland its view sweeps ovm' a vast expanse of
land and water, including Staten Island, and it is

*Also called Navesink: but doubtless named
from the fact that the lofty hills were so long seen
by outward bound vessels, as to be said to “Never
sink—THE AUTHOR.

 

 

scpara ted from the narrow. sandy neck of land
which runs down from Long Branch, New Jersey.
and terminates in Sandy Hook, by the Shrewsbury
river, which is formed by the two streams, or inlets,
known as the North and South Shrewsbury.

For scenes of romance in the past, for deeds of
piracy, smuggling, and as a haunt of free rovers, no
spot on the American coast, a century ago was
more noted than Sandy Hook and its surroundings,
and many a. thrilling tale of the sea and shore has
been written of that locality, with more truth than
fiction for its foundation.

The Hermit who made his abode upon the High-
lands came from none knew where, and was an ob-
ject of dread to the few farmers dwelling inland a
league or so, and to the hamlet of fishermen situ-
fitcd in a sheltered nook on the shores of the lower

ay.

With h’s fellow-mortals, ‘twas said, the Hermit
had naught to do, unless I except the family of the
light-house keeper on Sandy Hook.

In that lonely abode dwelt a widow and her dau h-
ter, who, since the death of her husband, years c-
fore, had faithfully attended to the lantern through
nights of storm and calm.

Alone the mother and daughter dwelt there, and
over the. n atcrs of the bay the young girl was daily
seen gliding in her tiny sail-boat, or, armed with a
small gun, scouring the woods of the Highlands for
game.

Fear she seemed not to know, and one day she had
come upon the old Hermit, lying at the foot of a
precipice with a broken leg.

She had aided him to his humble home, and made
him most comfortable, and then had gone miles am: y
for a doctor.

The surgeon had set the 1 , and had then been
paid most libcrally in gold 13* the Hermit, who
promptly told him his services were not again
needed.

But from that day the young girl became a fre-
quent visitor at the Ilermit‘s homo, and cared for
blilm as tenderly as though he had been her own fa-
t or.

The doctor told his stor ' of his visit to the Hermit,
and that Lighthouse Lily, as the young girl was
called, had saved his life, and the humble fishermen
wondered, when they saw the maiden scudding
across the bay on her daily visits to the strange man,
that she did not fear him. for it was whisperrd
around among the supclstilious dwellers of that
lonely region that he, wasa w‘zard. and leagued with
Satan, and they shook their heads when they
thought that he might use his black art upon the
poorgirl to darken her future life.

The morning after the storm which made a wreck
of the hrig—of-war Quickstep, the. old Hermit came.
out of his cabin and planet-d around him over the
waters of the lovwr buy.

chas :1 man of majestic. appearance, over si't
feet in liighi, with :1. form crcci and strong, “'Illlt h ’i
hairand board were whitc as snow, the former tall»
ing to his waist, and the lattcrreaching far below
his belt.

l{:- was tll‘(*s>(’,tl in a suit of black, wore boots, into
the tops of which his pants were stuck. and his head
was sheltered by n broad-brim med sombrero that had
evidently come from Mexico.

His eyes were black as ninht, full of fire. and floraL
looking, and his cot’nplcxion was bronzed, as though
l[\_\'ll(mg exposure to the elements, to the hue of an
in mn.

in his belt he wore. two large pistols and along
knife, and in his hand he carried a crook, around
the upper end of whit-h was coiled a large snake,
alive and vicious-looking.

.Aftera glance over the bay, the Hermit wendcd
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ocean. and up and down the coast.

and in a (lee voice, he muttered:
was swept of her masts.
upon them.

“ A vessel of- war, too, 1 sec!
have been hardly worth th
shall one ay have them.
her from the wreck.

night, when he ran in and landed.
“Strange that he did not \‘lf5lt me-

bay shore, so I will meet her.
‘ Come. Satan!”

self around the crook, was taken u )
ward the Shrcwsbury river.

CHAPTER VII.
8 surf-skiff.

had row-locks for four blades.

was a maiden of seventeen.

curls that fell far down her back.

dwelt in her dark eyes, whic

the Highlands.

masts and sails, with which to go up
anchorage, and unconsciously stcere
ward the Quickstep, unmindful tha
glances were turned upon her.

 

Park Pelham the middy:
“ Hail her, in

feeling.

politely lifting his hat, he
:: Surf-skiff, ahoyl”
voice full of music.

the mid y wholly doffed his cap.

Lonsdale stepped to the side and said
there was that in the air of the girl the
ed respect, although they believed her
flsherman‘s daughter:

brinw it to the city.

“'fu

find the body.”

Lou sdale:

loveliest face I ever beheld."

crimson at the com limcnt =.
Instead -of heading for the fishing-h
leagues up the bay shore, the maiden hel

stood the

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house trembling under the fury of the
swered, with feeling.

worst of the battle,” the Hermit said.

the brig, a lea ue distant, and with a 100
face that hel
her crew.

83 I came by.

asked, uicl:ly.l
“ The rig-of-war Quickstep."

a young and dashing
cruiscrin the navy.

0d , for which he offered to pay liberally.

but warn them, my child, not to remain
upon the b
shore as his own after nightfall.”

their village, leaving my boat here
against you now.

“ But what message have you for me?"
“ None, sir.”

“ From the captain, I mean."

“ I have none, sir."

look of surprise.

let.”

the Ill,

know that it was in t
seemed greatly surprised.

fierce storm awoke
HOOk I saw the craft distinctly.

house anchorage, and was h
the maiden, with increased surprise.
burning brightly, and was under her w
“ It is strange, sir.

and a cloud passed over the lovely face.
down at sea.

storm that ever swept th

awed the young
shock her, and she said, uickly:

shore to t e path over the hills.
mother sent you.”

are you, for I do not deserve it,
and the man’s face seemed m
sadness.

you have given me

would have died
fell and broke my

as I was powerless to move.

to let sunset catch them
home,” and so saying
while the maiden we
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CHAPTER VIII.
HOPE AND DESPAIR.

 

 
 

 

 

 

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soon stopped at a large rock, his favorite resting- a , “(est NiCk extePdf‘d-n
place, and from whence he had a grand view of the said about the mine— ‘
“Ifl can be of anyservnce, command me."
may ask your help, but not now.
0 gang was oil! before he dared make
'tigate the affair to-day,

-by, my lovier, good-by !' \Vhar’s
enlleman o‘ my size to crawl
y low ontel t is spell o' onhealthy weather

Once more the fat claimant had effected a valuable
and as the unstable crowd once more
us of indecision, Dan Brown struck swift

to the sea, and spend a  choc! ‘Good

but the coming of the
caused them to prefer
, rather than risk meet-
n going over the hills.

use
ling untsman from the
‘ and occasionally Lily had
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, ing, would carry them over

; day in fishing in deep water

2 Hermit to the, Highlands had

i to pl I their calling in the bav
t

as the path had lo
now and then a air

“You heard what Toplift th“ Don’t tnomp too hard cubs-woman‘s corns,
en.”
What did it all mean?
What had broug
close companions!
To what peril Were the

Laying down his crook, the snake crawled
ovor the soft grass, apparently enjoying its fre

ht these fierce rivals into such
while his master‘s eye roved up and down the s

y making such frequent al-

ucrics which flashed alhwart the
Arthur chlman as h

and see what is but to lo.’
Thc clasped hands parted, and N
seeing that Dan Brown prefc
of his foreman alone, turnc
strolling leisure]
the lane which
for him, a careless
tenance, showing not the
though only a brief 8
thirst ing for his blood.
It was asuperb exhibition of nerve, as all admitted.

CHAPTER XV.

TWO GOOD ennua'mrs.

IT was neithtr from fright at h
whistling of load, as Dan Brow
gcs‘tcd, nor from a desire to esc
of the storm he had called up
Ovelman to fling up 1:
his frail pedestal. For the time be
dead man. Tzue to a lad
the bullet discharged by Nor' West N'
along the top of his skull, cutting l
scalp, and knocking him senseless,
wound itself was not a dangerous one.
How long an interval passe

“ No wrec s that I can see, though yonder vessel
gone that way to the vi .
As she ascended the hills do she turned and
on the sea, when suddenly h
object upon the waters.
For a moment she watched i

“ You hear that, gentlemen! And remember it is
the evidence given by one who can have neither love
toward this gentleman, who so
e ba e pretenders, only last eve-
Arthur Ovelman is not dead
re, there is not an unprejudiccd j
and who would not pronounce it
cide on the part of Nor’ West Nicki ’

Mark Davis uttered an
turning faint and sick
blood from his w
never drew the breath of life,
all the light out of him.
10 first mud rush of a mob is checked,
y pause for deliberation induced thereto
worst of l ie dangcris wast,
er than Dan Brown.
lust for blood that is most to ho
et remains, it is true, but only
witth man can master if he but

“ But how did she get into the Hook haven, for she

rred to hear the
has no jury-masts rigged, for they are now at work

(1 away from the
down the street, parsing lhro
o slowly dissolving crowd mane
smile upon his handsome
slightest trace of fear,
pace before, these men were

confused brtun' o
bqlund and helplcm, fearing

" You know what kind 0' deal that l’c
boys, when you sot ‘cm
ols, speaking rapidly,
manner which he and N ickcrson had ust-d 1
en (10f) irg each other to mcrl.
-kon you kin ’Im nibcr nmch
that knocked you off 0' that

he scarcely knew

nor friendly let-ling

fully unmasked thos

t closmely. aidtthen

asm poc ’e s y-
wblcb the wihd

"Well, had she gone ashore, her bones would
0 licking. for it is gold

glass, she tu‘ no it upon tn: 0
and silver not iron and woo that I want—21y, and

and the tide were slowly bri

Quickly closing the glass and
tarted rapidly down t
a river, ran fieetly along

but in the same
ustifiable homi-

n hookiu it to ugly growl. but he was
from the excwswo loss of
ound, and though a braver man
growing weakness was

Ahl there comes the girl and they are hailing  fired the shot
“Now she comes on, and will soon be here, and

direction of her b
then I will know what word the boy left for me last

Springing into it, she lowere
the wind was against her, and s
the light skiff flying across the
grounded upon the noc

 

lied Ovelman, as the speaker
(I the little sail, for

for that purpose.

“ You missed a heap, but I reckon it’s
unpleasant laugh. “
one the sweeter, I don‘t reckon.
feel sorter tender ’round the

caring the angry
n maliciously sug-
ape the conmequi nces
, that caused Arthur
ll headlong from
ing he was little

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he was after some game that hastened him away.
“The girl comes up the river, instead of by tho

 

k of land that forms Sandy ral‘gumcnt, the
and none knew this belt

blind, unreasoning

you did," withadry,
make your dreamsn

t hcr light anchor, to keep her boat Fer instunce, you

away with the incomin
young girl hastily ran over the neck 0
)on the broad beach of
10 breakers fell with thu
lling landward with f

The last call was to the snake, who ca

such as a bold, Coo
crawling out of the bushes near by, and coilin'r hizn-

plays his hand for all it is worth.

“ “f it‘s dead men you‘re axin’
three pore boys which w
in’!" cried one of the c
an' squar‘ they was, too,
rounded them up an‘ sent ‘cm
“ 1 did!” cried Nor‘ West N
ing fire, as he showed signs
time since uttering that bold
of Arthur Orelman.
sorry that I hav
back to life ago.
“ You cain‘t beg off that-a-way—"
“Beg off nothing!“ into
with a hard, ugly laugh
them back to life again, so that I could ki
once more, and in (loin
lithe the torture they in
what I meant—make the
Dan Brown frowned, for he saw that a
his good work had bcen und
passioncd speech of the man
at the risk of his own life.
forced to withdraw, reelin
cowbo 's were pressing to t
men w 10 meant b
“ Why does he wish that?"
detective, earnestl '.
men who are now I
I’ll make it as sho
“A stranger, a travel
seeking to reach Rocky
I am proud to call In
camp of those three men
way. They promised to
the way, smce they w
ept their promise—but ho
ithout a word of warnin
the slightest chance to defend
him from behind, bound him
wild bull, and then chased him
lashing him likea hound until h
cut to ribbons,

cs—but go on!” imia

tiently returned Ovel-
man, ready to grant any!

ing, so as to learn the
fer, tbar’s the

e planted only this morn-
owboys, sharply.
as ever you’ll find. Who
over the range i"
ick, his blue eyes flash-
of anger for the first
ouse to the query
“I killed t 10111, and I am only
cit not in my power to bring them

mit, who slowly dCSceudcd the s eep hillside to- for huge waves were re
elIect of the storm of the ni ht before.
There, not a cable‘s lengt I
object which had attracted h
waves must soon dash it u
Now, by the naked eye i
mass of wreckage, masts,
and clinging to it was a human being.
The rude waves tossed
seemingly malicious del
loose the hold upon it
for life; but he held on with a gr
shake oil', and when once or twi
get a clutch once more ere strength

“ Most men do, after boin‘ hanged, I reckon—"

rc left to stretch thar necks too
“ But we cut ye down

a monstrous close call

d thusllc had no means
ousnees returned he
other different situation.
ack, confuse? blur Refine
agnc y won 0

ht succeeded sinlz-g
e stunning shock

eet, but in vain. There
red feeling about his limbs as
ot unlike that peculiar sensa-
imes experiences in a night-

distant, was the dark

, but when his consci
er attention, and the

found himself in an alto

At first there was only a b
his eyes, and he caught hi
if the day had passed and the n

that moment of terror and t
which so swiftly followed.

He tiiod to rise to his f
was a curiously hampc
he tried to use them, 11
tion which one some!

lon ,"lnterpose
in t me, boss, though it was
for us all, bet yer lifel"

“Hung—who did it? What for?" gasped Ovel-

“ The very gang that
he giant, griml

THE LILY or THE LIGHT-HOUSE.
Tm; little craft which had attracted the eye of the
Hermit of the Highlands, was of a model known as

 

 

was plainly seen to bc a
spars, sails and ri

 

 

It was light, deep and long, sharp at both ends,
and had a short mast with a leg-of-mutton sail,
while it could be urged forward easily with cars, and

the (ltbl'iS about with
ht in the attempt to break
the one who clun

u sot on to hang another,"
“ Thar was a red-hot
n‘ Ihun two cusses Dan Bro“ u an‘
, as ye called him, in!
to start a dozen graveyards 0‘ thar
was took an’ strung up—"

“ Not bung—they were not killed .9“
capitalist, with an

out enough stifl’s

ted Nor’ West Nick, own, afore they

Its occupant had come from the light-house, and 06 broken, he soon
She wore a jaunty suit of sailor-blue, the skirt .
falling to the top of her gaiters, which were fine
enough for a lady of fashion, and small and shapely
enough to make a New York belle envious.
A glazed tarpaulin sheltered a mass

so, make them suffer one

came a husky whisper
tiictcd upon moi

" Fer the love 0’
ye make sound enough to wake a we
perul it in its very cars! Ef
glory together, jest a-whoopi
Like some grim phantom of
deeper shadows resolved itse
human creature, ban
a horrible grimace.
of a cat in the darkn
'r of mustaches twirled and twisted
le feelers of a huge catfish.

“It‘s the gospel truth h
man," supplemented a h
equally guarded in its to
straight as a string; but ef it hain’
clean 03 0' his thrapple then I knuc
don’t-know-a-durn. ”

“Who are you? Where am I?" ped h

“ What has happened? I don’t

“ The comick bu struck the airth
Bar west-eend-an’-crooked l"
“ We‘re jest a-hangin’ on to t
ation by the grip 0’ our e
give the word, an' you ta e a
ag‘iu in a holy minnit!"
boss," uttered the second
widered capitalist could

earnestness that amazed his
ge neared the beach, the ,

anced shoreward long and ' wasn't that What
time?” growled the
“No- that is—" h

ascl, of ye whis- ye was workin' fer all the
giant, suspiciously.
ated Ovelman, when N icker—

har‘s the use in beatin’ ’
mate? Tell the sto
Slyboots dashed i
they was clean gone over the ra
the chaince to git in our work—
“Wasn‘t I comin‘ to that?"

o ashore with t
tosse about by the b
he knew, and he fel
leave that to which he had cl
the beach at another point b
But he hesitated, for his st
“ Leave the wreckage and
The man started as the clear voice fe
ears, and gazed earnestl
But his eyes were too immed b
him to see the one who thus calle
sick! or it will be too late. ,
age and swim ashore at another

The voice sounded
stern command, and b

hat mass of timber, and he
meant certain death,
9 only course was to
ung, and try and gain

Her form was willowy, and her eve
graceful, while her face was beautiful, ful
and spirit, and a wonderful Bower of fascination

were dreamyin re-
pose and burned like diamonds in excitement.

She had hoisted her little sail, seated herself in the
stern, and with her small, nut-brown hand resting
upon the tiller, had headed her craft for the foot of

the night, one of the
1f into the face of a
ging over Arthur Ovelman with
The little eyes glowed like those

round the bresh,
rough. How Cap’n
coves down afore
rage, which give us

0 went, the few
e front, with the air of

demanded the Denver
“Why does his hatred follow
n the grave? Let me

rength was almost gone.

wied the surly fel-
him that afore it
’t the gang git b‘ilin’ over with
y looked 'round an' counted noses
e hangiu’obee bed
‘t some dirty whelp holler out
is gent, here, an’ to finish
ndin‘him with the other

’ chimed in Nickerson.
’n Siyboots an' his Anti-mono
an’ scattered the gun

boldl cut in an’ take hi
t cut an’ stabbed
7 Was], I should
first at one, then at the
istened to these am

growing suspicion. He believ
lug—but for what purpose!

we jest did ."' added Nichols.
c lcken hev a closer call
through in the squamble while it was th
an' run onder kiver here.
for us yit, but of they do find Ina/boss, they‘ve got to
ll" muttered the

d—bea good, in that. “311 I
p our doctor bi is fer
l" growled Nichols.

last sickness!" returned
“ Reckon I‘ll kick
an’ I hnin‘t got ary
y fer the doctor n

rink from solid gold, to
a auper‘s grave!
p be gent hes said thank ye

pay us for gittln‘ slash

rd you well, as soon as I
d Ovelman, choking down
ones of the giant.
not mean thanks alone."

“Mighty glad to hear it!"

'the salts ra for
'p y er who had lost his way in
entleman, whom
nced upon the
, and paused to inquire his
direct him—to show him
grhere themselves.

She gazed wonderingly upon the dismasted brig

hotness when the
as she lay at anchor, the crew busy in rig

a price that littl

 

 

kle under fer a
that it was all owin

An didn't the '
“Sartin they did!

sweet in spite of its almost
uoyed up With hope he obeyed.
e mass of wreckage he struck
y up the beach, anxious to get clear of the
pars when they should be dra
breakers and buried upon the beach.

as not a moment too soon, for
tten wholly clear of the déln’s
y the surf and dragged
that snapped stout spars,
nd snapped strong ropes

As she drew near, Lieutenant Lonsdale said to . 'thout giving him
mself, they lassoed
on the back of a
e full ten miles,
is garments were
until there was scarcely a s t on
as a silver dollar but what it
red welt raised by their wh I
helped to dress his wounds.
“You know, better than I
came into Rocky Bar.

witnesses, and those who
no doubt and given all the
owed. There was a. fight, and
rry for their fate, I
eservcd—indeed, they were
crime deserved.

ed Roe
croaked the first voice.
he ragged aidge o’ cre-

ing‘ tzip i. never-

ham, and ask if she will run over to
the fishing-hamlet and send a part to search the
coast below for or Sherwood‘s bo y, and say that
I will pay a ban some sum for its recovery.
“ Ay, ay, sir; and so will I, for it would be a. great
comfort to his mother to be able to bury him in the
amily tomb, and know that he was not at the bot-
tom of the sea,” answered the middy, with deep

In this act ho w
hardly had he go
when the mass w
upon the beach with a fury
tore sails into fragments, a
as though they had been th
Had he been in that writhino
have been crushed out of allh

But, free of it, he .wam up the beach for a short
tance, and then his stren
seemed dazed, for
“Ho! this way!"

The voice reassured h
ward; but it w

m in out o' the storm?
an' shot clean to pieces

speaker, and the be
manage to make out the dim she
peering down into his own.
to talk common sense, it
'd make your head swim to look on!"
swiftly came the retort.
grim death an‘ massacreen-

“ Who but mc—Nor' West Nick—"

“ Look-a-yer—I licked you once fer takin‘ m
in vain, an‘ dumed ef I don't do it a
out angle—worm o‘
closctcr to the c
hear me preach!"
“ You couldn‘t whi
less you ketched it
ye— No ya don’t!"
There came the sharp click of a
cocked, and after a moment‘s sile
ke, in a. conciliatory tone:
usiness store to
thar ain’t nothin’ of

of a human face

wreckage he would 10 critter should

can tell you, how he
uman semblance in

Then raising his voicefifilrég at the same time

gth failed him, and he

You know what fol
he turned seaward.

three men were kill
can't say that it was und
treated better than their
“They treated an innocent man wor
felon should be treated. He
and then dared them to in
Fair it was on his side, as all of
less said about his antagonists t
have gone to their last account.

“Now, men of Rocky

“ Who saved him from
y, ay, sir,” was the prompt response, in a

“ Will C(on kindly steer nearer the brig, miss?" and im, and he set his face shore-

as evident that human nature had
n taxed beyond endurance, for the waves tossed
m about at will, when within hail of sa
2‘ arms could no longer battle for 1
God i I must die, after all the
e, and life within my grasp!"
The words came from his lips
arms sunk helplessly to his s :l
“ Hare cow-a 76 .’
The wave-deafened ears

The re nest was obeyed, and as the little skiff

g‘in. ye rawed-
was lulf up only a short distance away, Lieutenant

-line 0' truthfuln

one side of a sick kitten on-
eep, an‘ hed somebody to help

proved his innoeence,
t him in a fair fight.
on can testify—the
9 better, since they

Bar! Since when has it
a capital crime for one man to kill
air, regularly-conducted duel! Since

'izen critter, Cap‘n

 

so long hours of

 

“Your ardon, miss, for hailing you; but we
were caug t in the storm last night, and lost our
masts, as you see while our captain went adrift in
the wreckage, an; I beg that you will ask the fisher-
men in yonder l'mlet to search for his body and

with a gasp, and his

heard the ringing words,
es tried to see who it was

“ Great God, it is a woman!
“ Go back! go back!

He fairly shrieked th
y gone from him, f
him, crushing him far

afore the sun sets—
“The boys tuck him to be that
Slyboots, who robbed them of t
erty,” doggedly interposed the c
know’d him to be th
them, that night—"
“On that night he was in Denver as I am
0 holds a commission, 5'

n, pnrd. We kin fight when
more ’portance on hand. How

more 0' that cussed foolishin‘,

ponse.
-play, the wits of Arthur
ing to his aid, and

e them to come to the brig-of-war Quickstep,

chucked away in
and they shall be most liberally rewarded, if they

and leave me to my fate!"
hen his strength
or a huge wave

down beneath its
(2b be continued—oommmced in No. 20.)

e head man of those who ju “ Don’t come no
then,“ was the surl
During this bit of
Ovelman were rapidly
h the whole affair was still
began to realize that he w

s and feet were fast bound.
h, he strove to burst
that action seemed to
fellows to their senses.
ts the inemy to come
warnineg muttered one

demanded Ovelman.
p after this fashion!

for jest a. minnit, an'
the tangle. I'll strike a
how to talk without gittin’ all

of a match, and then
le, and fishing a small
his pocket, Dave Nichols

as light as the
to sarve us fer
as he stuck the candle-
his into a. crack in the

to us for savin
“I will tell them, sir, and if the bod

ashore they will doubtless find it," and wit a smile
and a bow the maiden held on her way past the
brig, while her ears caught the remark of Lucas

to take oath. H
Governor Tabor,
another one from—”

“ All the same, it don
the boys said. Mebbe th
in' the one as run off th
kin turn out Ca ’n S] '

't prove that he ain’t what
ey was wrong about his be-
eir stock, but fer all that he

 

 

Summoning all his
“ y Neptune’s beard, Peihaml but that is the his bonds, but in vain.
recall the growlin
“Keep quiet, on ess you wan
down onto you in a heap!"

the men, while a heavy h
‘ What do you meant"

DRIFTIN G.

BY JOEIE C. MALO'I'I‘.

said Nichols, with a
gang that’s huntin’ fer
ey picks us up aforo we kin git tharf

“Sharks!” exclaimed Ovelm
doubt the truth of his

“ And she has the loveliest voice I ever heard, sir,"
was the res once of the middv, and which was mo
overheard y the young girl, whose face became

 

West Nick, until nowa care-
ttle interested observer of the
life hinged, but now 5
as the rapid clatter
d a horseman came dashing
ng at speed toward the ofllce.
my flue fellow—"
ried Dan Brown,
Jealous Girl in

less and seemingly li
— dispute on which his
alone on the sea. of life, into life and action
hing with maddening strife
me; no loved ones no
Is it strange I long into port to steer?

Drifting away from the dream
ondly and sacred as
Leaving behind me the gladsome
To walk in the shadows while life

I, who the sunshin

an, no longer able to

at a word until t en!"

s!’ exclaimed Nickerson, with a
by didn't ye say so afore? Them
y, an’ we didn’t hev

otice— Thar! that feels bet-

y do you want?" asked Ovel-
bed “m u the bonds wefe

Round and about around the corner, ridi

“ Keep your distance,
“ He‘s a friend!" c
foreman of the
“ What‘s up now, Tim r"

ry devil to pay!" hastil
rcath coming short and
(I he had ridden. “Captain

Shrewsbuliy river, and ran in to a landing where
ermit of the Highlands awaiting her.

“ Well, how is the Lily of the Light-house to-dayi"
asked the Hermit Wizard, with a smile whi

“Take it 0001 an'
recognizing the mebbe you kin see t trussed ye up that-a-wa
the wild rider. timeto cut ye loose then. It

. here that we didn’t n
his dark, stern face, unmellowcd by the w

_ _ ere came a spu

and heard, like sunhcrht upon a storm-cloud. a dim light made itself
“ I am well, sir; bu? it was a fearful night for fragment of a candle from

seamen, and I can never sleep when I feel the I lit- it with a match.

“ ’Tain’t as big

sun, but I reckon it'll hev

roken, showing
Slyboots and his
:1 rlri‘ght, and just knocked things

demanded Dan
listening crowd, and
in his desire to
“A man can’t be
I can swear that Nor' West
after-midnight. You
is situated fromRocky

e mad-agents make

ere or thereabouts!" was
thout the slightest hesitation.
was a ring of triumph

e longed to hold,

pass through the waters dark and cold
rrow and loss and grief and
No rest for soul, or body,

Drifting alone? Ah, nol His Hand
Is mighty still on th
With His form at t
And secure I rest, I

‘ How much mbcéne

83118

west—end-and-crook
“You hear that, gentlemen?"
Brown, turning to the greedil

as the moon our “The rice of a life won‘t he
know how many ships are battlnig with it,” she an— ' We‘re bolth hurt so bad that it’s b
never git over it. An‘ all them
u. Reckon the price at whi on

e won‘t be none too much. \\

‘ Ohz I ain't no hog!”
‘ Ef I kick the bu
afore long, that ’1]
oor-house ontel
some rich widdtlari; igh fl
you’re mg y n

, with an ugly grin.
Shouldn‘t wonder of
suddent afore long.
ou’re kivered dee

none too much.
“There lies one that seems to have gotten the end on aspnnter,
wall ab0ve the head of the capti

Arth elman used his eyes, his heart
wer within him as he re
held him who yin their
had first told him,
0 had played such 8
events of the past n'

serve one whom he called friend.
in two places at once.

Nick was with me until
know how far the Jealous Gir
Now, Tim, when did th

e prow my fears subside
at what will betide.

“~—

Nor’ West Nick,

THE BORDER DETECTIVE ;

valie your own
no sympathy for the brave craft or

two men who a paren
“Yes, sir, and she lost her captain, they told me p “y
’ ’ afiéaltfilaimants wh
e strange
ichols and Norton
to have become

 

be enough to keep

our sweet mug
“ Indeed! do you know the name of the craft?" he

" Nigh two o'clock—th

enough!” and there
in the tones of the Denver (I
and come in, Toplift. I
Just now—gentlemen I”
the crowd. “ There’s n
I have proven Nor' W
which have been brou
“ \ hat ’bout the talk the ol
sisted the cowbo . ‘
lady that-a-way!’

“Ha! she was commanded by Robin Sherwood.

allies and pooled their
officer, and she was the fieetest

this occasion. It could scarcely be

uiipose.
p e was not left ion
closer, one on each si

’!I listen to your report later.
and he once more addressed
0 use in wasting more words.
3 innocence of all the
ht against him."

t give us?” per-
ter that‘ll treat a

’t you go to throwing stones too reckl
uncan, or some of them ma
your own head.
much more healthful one t
a darned lie!” growled

About the climate?"

came from that region.‘

There was a hidden st
from the manner in whi
slunk away, and f
itself without a lea
“ Whatever may ha
States, we have nothing
is any diflculty between Nor’
Ovelman, let them settle it
best they can. I have only
“ Nor' West Nick is my friend
strikes a blow at him, a1.
resent it even more quic

y‘bu dropped 03'
p enough to keep the coyotes
Nickerson may have contem-

“ 50 her captain was lost, you say, my child?"
“So one of her officers said, and he asked me to
et a party from the fishing-village to scare

to his thoughts.
e, the fellows touched

l lance-s around them.
footstep creepin’, mate!”
deran’ cold lead, with a taste
ed up with itl”muttered the

“ We mought git cl’ar by stealin’
our legs mighty peart, mate, but we
will we’"

“ An’ leave him abind fe‘r
indignantly hissed the 0th
but this chicken sticks it out ontel the
I knowed that it'd be m
ack on a fellcr bein’ in '
you ‘est tell me of it, won't yo?"
“ hat's the ticket!
we’ll pull him through,
the same sort 0' 1'

Whatever retort
plated to this cold

s land into his

“You scoundrels!
have stolen my pocketbook

hand of the giant descended upon his
ng short his angry d
voice hissed into his ear:
you p‘izen fool!

“ ’Pears 'ke I'hearn a
“ An' I kin smell pow
o‘ twisted hemp mix

Dan Brown’s Fight for Life.

BY J 08. E. BADGER, J'R.
AUTHOR or “ SWEET WILLIAM,”
“ REVOLVER non,” ETC., E

CHAPTER XIV.

PBOVING AN ALIBI.

swayed crowd turned from their con-
uzzard as the angry
arned them of how they
r a brief space it seemed
t to dash after the two
by the more weight of

“ oubtless, for the Sherwoods are a rich family.

“Well, on had better go to the hamlet and tell
some of t ose fellows to make search for the body:
after sunset
each, as the Hermit Wizard cl

roast pocket in search of
away an’usin‘ havenbeen robbed! You

that th 3 climate is a

 

them to strin u ’in?”
“I will tell them, sir, and I will go over the hill to g 9 8g
. . -" D’ y’ want to fetch the
“It wdl be the easrer way, as the tide would be down onto us, that you squeal out like

been robbed !" he mam ed to utter.
‘e crowd, then, 0 course,” volun-

and Dan Brown

f the cut-throat b Iyou should know, for you

cries of Arthur 0
were being outwitted, and f0
as though they were abou
men and overpower them
numbers. But as the border
tol, every man in the crowd faltered
back as the weapon exploded, for th
had so recently witnessed told them
d the lives of a full dozen

in his word 'ud
ch the cowboy tinged {2:5
or a third time the crowd found

ned back in the old
0 with here. If there
West Nick and Arthur
between themselves as

We saved him this fur, an'
right eend up, or we
alongside the old gent
ev got to make a die 0
sfaction o' crossin’ t
comp‘ny, of I do say it which

scanned the speakers as well as
dim light of the candle. He saw
uflied and banda

teered Nickerson.
cuts like us, who risked thar li
you, d do each a dirty trick 1""

Had Arthur Ovelman
self, cool and clear-wit
hint which was but thi
alizing his helpless condition. have
%oftha bad bargain. But  braili;m
set y e unexpected encoun er wit
he had believed dead long
severe shock of lh
skull, and he a

know on now. for what you

“ You saw him last night?" said_the Hermit, with 8.
you’ll hev the sati

“ No, sir, not since his vessel last ran into this in-

shot which they

“Why, my child, the craft was in the Hook haven

last night, and I certainly thought he had gone to

r t-house and left some word for me.”
“ No. sir, I did not see Captain Gray, nor did I

Arthur Ovelman
he was able by the
hat they were in
faces, that blood-stained bits of clofii
around their arms, while their clothin
have been half torn ofl them.

A half laugh brok

“ They did it—th

men at his fingers' end.
The fall of Arthur 0v

curse from the lip

the act fatal in mo

elman drew a low,
s of Dan Brown, for he bell
re senses than one.

“ That settles it l” he muttered, clinching
but still threatening the irresolute mob wi
volvcrs as he retreated a little more hast
might have bluired th
been killed, but now that faint c

. "ed about the
so strikes at me, and I will

kly. Put that in your pipe

West Nick, ak u .
. Brown twill? thiggtrofi-
I hardly think it
le to hoe my own
ways expect to. You
you got hurt as was to be
are any one, two or three
men among you who think that l
manner, I will take all the

em their mistake, w
elect. Put up or shut
ug y muttering among the crowd at
ce, which told plain-
had not bettered his
forward to accept the
seentoo much of his
t meeting him on any-

. 0, added to the

he haven,” and the maiden e bullet which g
ve full vent to his an ssions.

I came out of my cabin about midnight, for the as fargg Iylbu can. I

are—villainous thieves

“ Gentlemen,” said Nor’
“While very grateful to M
ble he is taking on my ac
necessary. I have always been a
row, through life, and I 8.1

e from the 1i 8 of Nickerson.
me, and looking over toward the p

em cusses as turned

2 you fer gittin’ 'em into th
tter which goes aroun
’ the good names of honest gents

nuther, that suflered,"

holes enough in m

longas no one had
hance is gone. Well,

West Nick as they

“She seemed to have jusl'éalgln outtof the light- brought me here to rob me

mg ou to sea.” ,m w tch,m ewels—and ot tisfiedwi
“Are. you sure that it was the ship, sir?” asked aveyoorfcoctcd {his vile sto n 88’
gme still furIJer. But ’
Not another dollar do

You have ta en in
A care ess laugh
reached the door of the little
stood at bay, facing the mob with t
two men against a hundred, with the ra
enemies being continually reinforced.
“You mean that 01
He had so much 1i
to lay him on the shelf for a. i
a chance. You‘ll see him pop
livelier than ever. I only creas
hastily demanded Dan Brown.
make mistakes with a re-
e,” was the confident re-

d as I feared—hold,

which had apparently recovered fro
and was once more
For my sake, as we
ause and reflect upon w a

ore it is forever too late—’
"Which it‘s that alreadyl”
Mark Davis, unsteady on his 1
blood from his bullet-broken
the good book says, an‘ though I don
none too ious ourselves,
as to go ack on that I”
“ I see some scratch

wild bulls, an’ takin

“ Most certainly, for I cannot be mistaken in the
vessel, especially when she had her spectral light
lute rig."

“I hope she did not go down in the fierce blow,”

ain’t only our clothes
chols, with a su
an’ slashes an’ bullet-
to sarve fer a rijim
without ketchin’ my last

1] foil you there!
on get-anal swear that I’ll
outrage, the very moment

ch. mater” asked Nichols,
‘ Savage, ain‘t he? Sounds

life in prov ng to th
and how he or the

this bold almos

d white-headed coon? sickn k
that I thought it best egg. rec on
t, Just to give the rest , the dim light show-
n which was ra
rtainty in his mind.
, or am [going mad?”

ed w which, of either, or mebbe all
returned Nickerson, Scratchin

‘ You hear him prea
with a short, bard laugh.
like he meant it, tool"

“ He‘s gone clean crazy—that's itl”
d response, and N
tear from one come
ak sech Cruel wo

t msolent defian
that Nor’ West Nick
, but no one stepped
pointed challenge. They had
personal prowess to care abou
thin, like even terms.
hem too far, my friend,” said Dan
“They are simmering
set the pot to boiling
a fair prospect for

eek and modest as a maiden with
ughed the border detective, light-

. “ Look here!” cried Ovelman
“No danger, Child, for that craft will never go mg the uncomfo
' . growing to a ce
“No, no; Satan holds her in his keeping, and no

0 seas can wreck her."
The Hermit spoke with an impressiveness that

girl. although his words seemed to

ickerson wiped

rds, ef he wasin hissober senses.
too, fer you know what is our sworn
rs o’ the Anti Loonatick Club!"

only wish’t I could forget it!" groaned the

to he did," gloomily.
would talk that-a-wa
est got cut- all to ribbons in tryin
he rope. The wust of it is that we cain’t
no time for seein' ef the fit wouldn‘t
come back to his sober
what the law says:
tunable disease spreads furderl

“ Reckon we mough
him, of I kin shove th
muttered Nichols.

Dim though the l

volver of my own choic two both on ‘em!"
his head, with a d

sence I come into this
turned eend fer eend, on
when I feel like blowin‘ my nose I t

' fl. , I reckon, or I wouldn‘
shade}:- hand whenHI see th

t e ' n- t—
Ovehnghg: inpgesas
what you mean in one word. St
you} mean that that demon in
me 9

" said Nichols, with a snort
ongue tangles thin
wyer couldn‘t stra

"Then it may not be as ha.

Brown in a whis
gentlemen!" the last word bein ’

now, but a breath too
over again, and then there'll
scalged fingers all “round the boa

For first beau,” la

y“ Keep out of their sight for a
will all come (right.

“Thanks,” said Nor’ W
so that the crowd co
ciate the kindness of

old to begin (now. I
what I have seen of
until I have concluded
into these parts.”

“You hear gentlemen?
me away from town,j
done, I will return, and
falls this gentleman, my
I solemnly swear that
strict account for his action. You

’t rove it b me! E
“I will 0 to the ham et now, sir, and follow the durPned old tgwn I’ve his;
_ _ _ _ “Only a plum
“ There is a basket in my boat, 811', of things my showmg a threat- to men what hed
save him from

“ Your mother is too good to me, my child, and so
I do not deserve it.”

omentariiy swept by doggedly retorted

little while, and it
egs through loss of

I’ll see you out of
“ You are so kind to me, sir, and to mother, for

so many pretty things to wear.”
“ You deserve all you receive atm hands, forI
onder under the 0 'fl’, the day I
eg, but for you, as the tide was
rlsing rapidly, and I would soon have been drowned,

senses ag‘m. You kn
short. fer fear the
Shell we toss up,

t as well. I don‘t want to stick
e job 03 onto your han‘s,"

ight was, it was yet sufficient to
r Ovelman the terrible c
come over the faces of the two men.
sign of hatred or resentment for his
, there was an ex

’1: reckon we‘re

_ . raising his voice
we ain’t sech p’izen heathen

your offer, but I ca
ay from danger
like the looks 0 Rocky Bar—

es among you, but no dead

“ Mebbe you ain't overly anxiou
with a short, dry laugh. “Didn’t

“ Can you blame him for tha
his shot was fatal—which I
this row? Who h
der? Who offer ,
blood of an innoce

that a Philadelphv la
out in a month 0’
u lit onto that p

“ Which ain’t his name no

5 fer to see ’em,"

“No, no, air], you saved my life, and all I ask is he jest keel over

that you will let me be kind to you in my own way.

“Now go after the fishermen, but warn them not
upon the beach, or near m
the Hermit strode up the hi
at her way along the shore at

y
the work which brought me

Pressing business 'calls
ust now, but when that is
if any unmerlted harm be-
uring my absence,
ll every man to a.
know me, by this

1:, even granting that
deny? Who started all
as urged you on to commit mur-
pay for the heart‘s
nt man—of one whom he knew
innocent? That same old gentleman, w
more dead than you or I—unless, ind
fright at hearing a bullet

more‘n it be yours—"
fist down your throat

wanered a elephant!" ression of gravity which

ey felt sincere regret at a
rust upon them.
reveri” said Nickerson, as the com was

spun.
“Tails it is!” growled Nichols. “Wa
did an’ sence the lot falls to me,

you t ink you‘ve s
growled Nichols.

“ A-b—u-l, bull—able! whi
do, the best day

put up his fists.

'ch is more then
you ever see, old wiggle-come twist l"
dancing nimbly back
ant, seemingly spoiling

 

 

 

 

eed, he has died

whistle about his ears !” Dan Brown spoke slow]

Anna 9. wall: of half a mile along the bank of the

Shrcwsbur
path that l

y and with an emphasis
Instead of being offend-
arose from the crowd,

to renew the fight which

Crumple me up fer a dish-rag to wi terrupted on the

ain‘t the gospel truth!"
voice of Norton Weston Nickerson.

been so strangely in-
fer that." said'Ni

that could not be mistaken.
e l b ' his plain talk, a cheer
for t ey could appreciate fid

y, the Lily of the. Light-house came to a

nose with ef it
ed up over the hills, and which she knew

, kin report how I done the part

Drawing a long knife from his

 

 

 

chols slowly, with

Would lead her to the village of the fishermen.
Long I» fore. it had been ‘the way the fishermen i
came to the river. where their boats were, and cross-

 

. it the iant
elitytoa friend through _ an ugly glitter in be ' g
‘ difficult the words were for h
now we cain’t a‘ford to fight

us, an‘ it’d be good

in the middle by a bullet, straighter t
could do it- when 'specting a visit f
; Burn such a lead-sliuger as that!

his snake~like eyes, which told how

. Let them critters hear

‘ thick and thin. like this.
at I must. leave you now," added the
ve, clasping the hand which Nor‘ l

 

moved close to the side of the capi
rom her lOVier!

V _ I ., , _k to check the blow, but in v
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SALLIE STREETEB.

BY EMILIE CLARE.

“ Ah, doctor! I‘m about to die;
‘ I‘m glad you came so soon; . 0
Your skill may soothe my latest Sigh—
Jemima, get a spoon!

“ You‘ve ’tended me for many a year,
Through storm and heat and cold;
You’ve stayed my orphan’s falling tear
By cheating Death his hold.

" My thanks, dear doctor, ’tis in vain
This sad hour to express, .
13 it those who after me remain
Shall live your name to bless.

“ I could not ass from earth away
Unczrel or and alone.
Vi'nv silent, doctor? Speak, I pray!
The! e‘s healing in your tone.”

 

“ l scarce can speak, for, Mrs. S.,
My mind is troubled quite
By visions all too plain to guess
And set me in a fright.”

“ Priy, doctor, what may be your dream?
And does it me concern?
Di l heaven in beauty o‘er you beam?
l’m anxious now to learn."

“ Ah, no!” said honest Doctor Mack,
In a most solemn tone:

“ I dreamed I visited St. Nick,
On busti and alone.

“ As usual some were playing games,
.\ nd some were drinking vane,
While many soiled their neighbors‘ names
When they went out to dine.

“ 01/! Nick seemed jovial and free,
Enjoying all ’twas said,
Till in a voice as loud as three,
H; shouted—‘ Go to bed .’

“ ‘ For Sallie Streeter‘s coming here,
A home with us to seek,
And by my grand domain I swear
You‘ll sleep not for a week!‘ "

This message brought the color back
To Sallie‘s cheek and eye.
“ You base, insulting, worthless quack,
Begone, and instantly!“

Dame Streeter left that couch of tears,

7 As he had willed she should,
A living witness that men’s jeers
: Ofttimes do wondrous good.

 

The Islam! Prisoner;

THE KIDNAPPERS OF THE LAKES.

BY C. B. LEWIS,
(or rm: DETROIT rm PRESS.)

CHAPTER XI.
ms ISLAND TERROR.

Mum knew then at last, that she had been right
in herthoughts an suspicious, and that her guar-
dian and Captain Wayne had planned and plotted to
leave her where she was. She ran up and down,
wringing her hands and screaming for the boat to
return, but when she saw the schooner swing off and
disappear in the darkness, a. new feeling came over
her—that feeling which is exhibited by murderers as
they walk unsupported to the gallows. Men call it
bravery. but it. is not; it is the calmness of despair,
13. scrt of stupor which bcnumbs the senses of fright
or fear and makes one seem what he is not.

Maud dil not know anything as to the extent of

 

although the thought soon came to her that if the
island were inhabited, Captain We no would not
harm left her there. S'ie stood on t e rock, where
he had left her, azing in the.direction where she
had seen the vesse last and she no longer felt any
fear. The wind sighed and moaned throu h the
trees behind her, but she had no thought 0 wild
beasts and cared not for the gloom. .

Suddenly the girl’s ear heard a splash in the water,
and without knowing why she did so, she step :1 off
the rock and ranswiftly across the beach un i1 she
had gained the shelter of the trees. She did not
stop there, but pushed into the woods until a mass
of glues stopped further regress and then she
sunk down and crept into t em until, even by day-
light, a )ssser-by could not have detected her hiding-
place p‘ifteen or twenty minutes passed, and then
she heard a voice calling:

“Girl! girl! where are you?”

She I: new that the voice belonged to one of the sail-
ors and she crouched closer in her hiding-place.

“ Girl: girl! where are you, I say?“ called Harris
again. “ he captain has come back to take you
ofl—he was only joking!"

Maud would sooner have revealed her presence to
a wolf. Gettin no response, the fellow raised his
voice until it ec oed farand near, uni then left the
woods for the purpose of scouting along the beach.

Maud reasoned correctly that he had in some way

left the vessel, and had wicked des‘
and her heart fellas she tho ht o the comin of
daylight, when he would in e a. search for or.
Site was almost ready to creep down to the beach
and in herself into the lake, when she caught the
sound 0 a faint “ boo-hoe!“ It was on] the cry of
the mysterious night-bind, but she beloved it the
voice of a human being, and her heart took new
co'irage.
It was a. terribly long night to the poor girl cower~
ing in the vines. Five or six times during the night
Harris came to the edge of the woods and called
out, threatening the most dreadful things if she did
not come out, and not once did she close her eyes in
nice . Daylight found her cold, hungry and thirsty,
and earful at she would bepounced on by the hu-
man tiger on the beach.

Rising u as soon as it was light, Maud saw the
man stretc ed out and fast asleep about fifteen rods
from her hiding-place. Softly pulling: at the vines
she made her way throu h them an then hurried
further into the woods. e on not which way she
went, only so that it led her further away from him.
Walking and  and keepin always to the
north, she. reached t 9 head of t e island in the
course of an hour.
and knew that it was not inhabited She could see
the Canada coast twenty or thirty miles away, and
she realized that Weeks might pass before the island
was Visited.

Satisfyin her thirst, she looked about for some-
thin to ca . The small bushes were covered with
her es, and not caring much whether they were
poisonous or not, she broke off some branches and
tlzen crept into a thicket wing u on a mound at
the extreme head of the slan’l, an was careful to
obliterate as much as possible all traces of her in-

ress.

8 Harris did not awaken until two hours after day-
light- and then he was so stifl and lame that he
could hardly move. His first thought was of break-
fast, and this thought brought him to a realizing
sense of his situation. Maud had been left on the
islnn l to perish of starvation, and what would pre-
l vent him from sharing her fate? He had not re-
fle‘cte‘l on this before. and now it gave him anything;
but pleasant sensations. He had no food, no means

him to secure food.

The villain gunshed his teeth in r e, and called
(1 mm curses on his head for his stup dity. Before
setting out on the search for the girl, he looked
around for something which would make a break-
fast. He looked for clams, but there were none; be
hunted for roots or berries. but found none which
he dared eat. At last be fastened his sheath-knife
to a stick and speared a fish, but threw it away be-
cause he had no means of cooking it, and was not
so starved that he would bite into the raw flesh.

Perfectly furious now, he started off on his search.
Believing that the girl would kip out of the woods
as much as possible, he walk along the beach
looking for her footprints, and hoping every moment
to overtake her. He at length gained the head of
the island, and it was now noon, and he felt his hun~
ger verykeenly. He soon found the berry bushvs
which had supplied Maud, but he was too stupid to
discover her traces, though the bushes were yet
bleeding where she had broken her branches. Up~
rooting some of the largest bushes, he haulcd them
down to the beach and made such a meal as he
could. Then climbing one of the outermost trees,
he took a long look over the island and the lake; tl-u.
latter was clear of nail as far as he could see, and
Maud was not to be seen on the cast or west bench.

“ Curse the girl! Curse inc—curse everybody!"
growled the villain as he descended.

He came across a number of pieces of very dry
bored how the Indians kindle their fires. Sclcc‘ing
hand, he set to work. It was a hard task, and be
stopped now and then to utter fearful oaths, but
spurts came after an hour‘s labor, and the sailor
soon kindled a fire.

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for four that he would discover signs of her pres—
ence. She knew that he would hunt for her sooner
or later, and that he could make a search which
must (llSCOVCl‘ her within a few hours, if not at
once.

“ Now for a. dinner, and then for the girl !” growled
Harris, as he got his fire well to going. He fastened

 

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3 against her; ,

She had traveled its full length I

to start a fire, and no weapon but a knife to enable '

wood at the foot of the tree, and at one» rclnem- ‘

two pieces, and having a bundle of dry lent-c; at :

his knife to a stick and sought for a fish, but after I

an hour’s watchin , was unable to catch one. There

he could (iscover. and he realized that he might
Starve to death for all the good that the fire would

0.

.Looking about him in a vacant way, he cauzht
sight of the thicket in which Maud was hidden, and
he further saw that some of the bushes had been
bent over as if some one had forced a passage
through. Hunger was instantly forgotten, and the
sailor sunk down on hands and knees and crawled
toward the thicket. He reached its edge at length,
moving as softly as a wolf, and he was now
Sure of his prey. He found a bit of the girl’s dress
clinging to a thorn bush, and knew that she was in
there. He could not see her, but he rose up, ave a.
shout, and plunged into the thicket, pulling, reak-
in: and tramping the bushes until he had explored
the whole place.

The girl was not there!

She had been there, and he believed she had
heard him and crept away. He took the course
which
along the west side of the island at his best speed,
shouting to her and uttering fearful oaths. He
passd thickets, glides, ledges of rocks and open
beach, but be reached the foot of the island without
having even found a sign. She had not come down
the beach, but had sought the shelter of the woods.
Inn space three miles long by two broad, COvered
tinckly with trees and undergrowth, she might es-
cafie him for a day or two.

ut he was determined that she should not. He
ran into the woods, beat up every thicket which he
found, and changed his course so as to drive her
back to the head of the island; but it came sun-
down and he had not caught a limpse of her;
there was something strange in the act that a weak
and helpless girl could thus elude him, and he ot
the idea that she had thrown herself into the la e.
While believing that such was the case, he did not
reproach himself, but felt a nervous chill at the
itéhlouarht that he was the only human being upon the

an .

As night came down, he started two more fires,
one u n the west side and the other upon the east,
inten ing. them as signals to fishermen or to any
vessel which might pass during the night. He had
had nothing but the berries during the day, but his
fears drove his hunger away. He had seen no wild
animals, but for fear of them he clambered into a
shady tree and lashed himself to a limb with his
neck~handkerchief. Sleep refused to come to him
for a moment during the night. A thousand times
he cursed himself for leaving the vessel, and, con-
science-stricken, he pledged himself not to hunt for
the girl again, and not to harm her if she came
in his way.

_At midnight, when everything about him had been
still for 8. ion time, he got a fright which would have

reci itated ‘m from the tree but for his lashin s.

be oud cry of bird or beast, suddenly broke t e
stillness, and it was almost instantly renewed by a
long, loud shriek which he knew was the voice of a
woman. It- seemed to come from the depths of the
forest, and was so full of fear and terror that it
mgdte the villain tremble in spite of his place of
as. e y.

“ me wild beast has got the girl!” he whispered,
and he unfastened himself and climbed up higher.

 

CHAPTER XII.
A LUCKY Aocmm.

MAUI) had been concealed in the thicket up to the
time that Harris ascended the tree; she caught sight
of him as he climbed u , though he did not see her,
l and, suspecting that e would soon discover her

hiding-place, she made preparations to leave it.

While Harris was busy with his fire she crept

, through the bushes on her hands and knees and was

; soon a safe distance away. Then she rose up and

i ran down the beach, expecting every moment to
hear his shouts in ursuit.

Half-way down t re island she came to a ledge of
rocks, standing uBflfen or fifteen feet high on the
very shore of the ’e, and entirely bare of v Geta-

f tion. Without knowing why she did so, Iaud
lclambered up the rocks. but lost her foothold as
r she gained the top and fell a distance of eight or ten

 

tll ‘ island DOX‘ 8’3 10 Whether 1"! W518 populated, 3 feet, almost striking in the water. As soon as she

could recover herself she looked around and found

that she had fallen down a rag ed 0 ning through
the rocks onto a bit of smoot sun , waded in on

; every side, but loose enough on the lake side to al~
low the water to flow in. -

The rocks were jagged and splintered at the sides,
enabling her to peep out on the beach for quite a.
distance each way. She had found a retreat at last
—one which the villainous sailor would not discover
except by accident. She had shelled 0E a uantity
of the berries and (Placed them in her 121;, but

; had not yet suffcre from hunger, owing to her ex-
‘ citement. When driven to leave her retreat by the
l angs of starvation, she saw that she could make
er way out by climbing the rough points of rocks,

if not too weak.

Thinking that Harris would follow down the
beach, she took her post to watch. He made his a -
pearance at last, but kept right on without a halt,

v an i then she felt more secure; it was not her cry

I which the frightened villain heard in the night. She

heard it as well, and shrunk closer to the rocks and
away from the sand, feari that some wild host
was at the opening ub0ve. eep came to her at in-
: tervals, but she dreamed of warm fires, loving
! friends and race food, and nature was not any
lrestored. She was awake when the first Ens of
dawn crept into her den. and awake at bros day,
and at the crevice to see Harris as he came along.
Theman looked haggard and he was cursing as
usual as he passed her hiding-place. He had a
brand of fire with him, and after goin down the
1 beach abouts quarter of a mile he go hered fuel
1 and lighted a large fine. He then shouted a dozen
times looking 0!! into the woods, and seemed to
have opes that the girl‘s hunger and des ir would
make her come out. Waiting awhile an receiving

no answer, he tied his knife to a stick and after a
I few minutes succeeded in spearing a fish. He did

not stop at one, but secured a dozen, and then made

preparations for his breakfast.

Maud now felt hungry for the first time, but the
r berries furnished her omething of a meal, and she
sat down and rested for a while. thn she looked
out again, Harris was examining a lot of boards and
timbers which had been driven on the beach. He
1 pushed the timbers off, pulled the boards around,
land finally started for the woods. He was us
_about an hour, and came back with many ng
l stri of bark over his shoulder.
T e girl saw his object now; he was going to build

I a raft. The follow perhaps believed that she had
drowned herself, and he was determined to leave
the island as Soon as possible. Without seeming to
have her in his mind further, the sailor ried the
a timbers afloat, and then covered them wi h board.
: He worked without intcnnission all the afternoon,
, and at sunset had a very considerable float moored
| to the shore. Maud could see that it rode buov-
; antlv and had no doubt that if the weather held
good he might reach the mainland with it.

1 Night came on, and gnawing hunger came with it.
The girl drank frtxprcntly, but the sensation soon
i came back, and she could fasten her mind on noth-
iing but food. She was rich, but she would have
‘ cheerfully given every dollar of licr wealth for a
loaf of bread—for halt? c. loaf. Out from a crevice
wasgrowing a small bush, and this she broke off
and chewed. The juice was very; sweet, and served
to take away the kccnest of her ungcr. Brand by
shc crc 7. close to tho roc‘:~: again. and at length she
slept. greams of food and fire came as bcf rc, but
She slept on until some uoisc sudrlcnlv started her to
her feet. She bumped her head against the rocks,
thinkin at first that she was in her own room, and
, had on y recovered herself when the sound came
arcin:

'“ IIoo-ooo—n-o 0-0!"

It was a, wild cry. one to make a chill crccp over
the listener, and cans" lxim to wonder if ShlnC
woman were not. suffering mortal agony. The
,sailors who hear it Sly that i; is tl:c vnicc of n
, drowned captain calling out {orbit slip, v. hich \vciit
, to her deep grave long: ago, and that t‘ :c cr;: is u vrr
aboard except when a stcrn is brewing —c storm
' which shall Send other saifors down i) keep “10
| restless ghost compan ', and marry a slip to kccp

the company of the ship rocking and rot ting on the

dr": >170 tom.
l 3 and was badly frightened, but the cry was not
i repv‘ctel. Not that cry, tut,- tl-oro. canto arioihcr,
3 and one which frigl‘tcrzcd 11-well still more. It was
; the voice of Harris cryiu-r out for in 1p. He shouted,
; screamed. raved and curecl P .
hour. The girl could not 1"" if" ( lit hr; words, ov‘rzig
l to the dis! unco but she bclfvaved that Some accid nt
3 bar! lmppwcd him.
1 Th re was no more sleep fOZ‘l‘f!‘ that nivht, and
6 the four (.1‘ five l‘ouvs ian rvrnirc bo‘oro daylight
seemed like days in her. Wit/)1: m wcs light cuouch
for her to loot: down 1! '3 beach, she raw Harris
I crawling (Town on l'uurls and taro. 2‘, to get a drink
farm the him. I?! fill over (if? (.1' t Lit‘t‘, and was
l cvid .. ,V VU‘L‘ “Y r k. l“o~ rvr'riar‘cd to throw 8. fr w
,eticlrs (an the fir. , 1".‘1; tbvr' rircichwd out n“. if he
! cou‘d do no more. An (‘l-‘pll.l.!).il0‘.l was needed, and
lrc soon mm: i3.
' “ For God‘s sake ccmc how!
i shall die!“ to shorted.
Maul wnilcl or. .1 he had Ell’li‘lCl smeral times
2 mm“, null their site we."  vin: I‘d that he was Lot

playing a ,"rm: to trap l r‘i. However, to l-1

l:n‘_‘!'!ll;".‘ly sale. she rail "u Lo.- voicc and shouted us
i lt‘ull as she could.

'I‘lJ. I'lilll triud to min. up In t ft." down rnd rc-
ncrvwd 112-; spiral: for luv to come and assist him.
' Hungur. ts ‘r1‘72l’. "s u ijvtnir.,.‘ “m, frirrtfrl her (:11. n,

the cave. Sh“ climbed up ' a lard strugtle,
and he had no soouerc rugbt sight of berthun he
Shouit .l:

“ Come hm“, girl—T vror’: hm i you! I fell from a
. tree last night. and have mashed my thigh so that I
can‘t at up!”

There Was no need for him to prac‘icc Creep: ion,

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he believed she would pursue, and ran'

curl kentit up for-an -

! as he could now see her and easily overtake her if be

. every moment: and at last she was near enough to
see that he was really badly hurt. His face was
1 very pale and contorted with pain, and he had evi-
dently suffered much.
i “ I‘m so glad!" he exclaimed, as she came up. “I
thought I must die here alone!"
“ You sought my life. and the Lord has put a. just
punishment upon you!” replied Maud.
" Have it any way you please, only don‘t leave me!"
i he pleaded, his spirit all gone. “ You must be hun-
; gry; get yourself some breakfast, and then get me
‘ some.’
t He pointed to the fish, and hunger was a stronger
; tempter than any fear of him. So long as he could
not clutch hcr, Maud would feel safe. He tossed
her his knife, and she soon prepared a couple of
fish and roasted them in the flame. No bread, no
3 salt—nothing to go with them or season them. but
Maud thought she had never tasted such delicious
I red. The sailor was also very hungry, and his lain
: did not prevent him from devouring the fish w ich
she handed him.
“Are you a Christian girl?” he asked, speaking in
a serious tone.
M“Not as good a one as I wish I were,” answered

and.

“ You know all about how your guardian trapped
you, and how Captain Wayne was hired to bring
you off here, and let you die?” pursued the man.

“Yes,” replied Maud, ‘,‘ and you assisted him all
you could."

“I know it—I know it!" exclaimed the sailor,
“ but I want you to forgive me. I believe I’m going
to die here, and I want to get rid of as many of my
bad deeds as I can.”

She replied that her Bible taught her to forgive,
and then obe ed his request to fill his sou‘wcster
with water an pour it over his aching head and hip.
Cowardly in the darkness, he had climbed a tree, as
on the previous night, but had not lashed himself se-
curely. Soon after midnight, when the strange cry
floated over the island, he gave a start and fell to the
ground, striking a rock and mashing his bi so badly
that a surgeon would have called it a terri 16 case.

Maud‘s com-3%? came back as she drove hunger
away, and she d what she could to alleviate the
man’s sufferings, almost forgetting what a villain he
was. He was profuse in his thanks, and continually
re tted the part he had taken.

‘ What are you going to do?" he asked to the girl,
after a long silence.

“ I can’t tell,” _replied Maud, looking,
brtfizd lake, devord of all signs of life
gu .

“ You must get awe or you will starve," be con-
tinued. “ When the s are gone our food is gone.
You ht live for a week, perha , on roots and
berries, ut you would have to die a ter all. I think
it can be managed so that we can both get away.”

She asked him to explain, and he po uted to the
raft. He felt that he could drag himself down upon
it, and if the girl could manage it as he directed, he
had hopes that it might be blown to the mainland.

“ No ship ever passes here," he added, “ and it may
be months before the fishermen come. You can cut
down bushes and fasten them so that they will act as
sails; then get 8. ion 1e, and together we can kee
the raft clear of the and until it swings around i .
Eben 'the wind will blow us to the coast in four

ours."

Maud looked at the lake at the forest, at the white
face of the man, who might become a corpse before
night, and she determined to go.

CHAPTER XHI.
PLAYING FOR HIGH STAKES.

Mn. TURNER had promised Jay that he would leave
no stone unturned at home, and he was as good as
his word. Finding that the police were doing noth-
ing, he forced them into to egra hing all over the
country, and he cut out Richard owles’s advertise-
ment and sent it to journals in other cities.

No one in B— believed that Maud Elsington had
been murdered, as claimed, but there were people
who, dared hint that her guardian had made away
with her in hopes to secure her money. N 0 one
spoke these words above a whisper, and the hypo-
critical villain imagined that the public pitied him
and believed his statements.

The second day after Jay started in search, law-

cr Turner, passing alon the street, observed
owles enterin a. bank, an divining his object, fol-
lowed him in. re greater share of Maud’s money
was deposited there, and he was after it. He was
filling out a check when Mr. Turner approached him.

" Any news of the 'rl vet?“ inquired the lawyer.

“Not a word " rep red Dowles, trying to look sor-
rowful. “ We ave almost ‘ven up a! hope."

“ I have not,” replied the wyer! “ In fact, I think
we shall soon strike a. clew. There is reason to be-
lieve that she was taken to New York!"

He looked Dowles s uarein the eyes and he saw
them brighten and pu on a gleam of triumph. He
was going to make some remark, when the lawyer
intcri'uptcd him:

“ You will of course be glad of a little advice in
the case. You have enemies, as well as tho rest of
us, and they will connect your name with this in an
unpleasant manner. You must be very prudent;
for instance, if you should draw any of her money
from the bank, t might lead people to talk, if noth-
ing more!”

Richard Dowles turned a shade ler and some-
thing in the lawyer’s tones must ave ed him to
susnect that his actions were being closely noted.
Instead of filling out the check, he took a. sum of
money from his pocket and handed it to the cashier
to be deposited to his credit.

“ It is a geculiar as well as a very painful position
for me to e placed in," he said, as the two walked
out. “The young man feels a. deep interest, of
course, and you, as his friend, must be more or less
interested. am thankful for your advice, and
hope you will be free to speak your mind on all oc-
casions.”

“I certainly will," replied the lawyer, in a deter-
mined tone. “ My interest in the case is very great,
and I shall not cease m efforts until I ascertain
what has become of Man Elsington!"

The two parted, Dowles fearful that the lawyer
would uncover his secret, and the lawyer feehng
more certai r than ever that the man was guilty. He
felt that, when the pro )er time came, he would dare
charge him with Maud sdisa ance, and that the
man would not fail tobetray mself. He would wait
until Jay returned, and then the news, good or bed,
would decide him.

Two or three days passed before the two men met
again, and then Richard Dowles had turned lawyer
and was going to t a sharp game. He began by
stating that he had card it whis red around that
he was using Maud‘s money. 0 wanted to em-
phatically deny every such assertion. Moreover, he
:ad come to place a part of the girl‘s fortune in the
law ycr‘s hands.

out upon the
ut the erratic

he said. “\Vhen it is known that lawyer Turner
has charge, with me, of the lost girl’s fortune, no
one will dare hint that our motives are not honest
and true.”

The lawyer had looked the man straight in the
face while 0 spoke, and he rcad the word " hy
crite” as plain as day. Dowles wanted to bribe
him. He had thought the matter over and conclud-

, ed that if he could bribe or buy the lawyer, no one
‘ else would take such an interest, and his plot would

pr ohably never be diSCOvered.
” How much did you want to turn over to me?" in-
quircd Mr. Turner.
“ Fifty thousand dollars,“ replied the guardian.
“ And you retain a hundred and seventy-five thou-
l sex-n Y"
“ IIow—what—I do not understand !” said Dowles.
“Simply this. Maud had a. fortune of 8:50,“)0.
Give _\ ou $25,000 and fifteen years' interest for your
trouble, and there is 8225,00010ft. Every dollar of
this must be accounted for!"
“ Ger—certainly,“ faltcrcd the rascal, sccin that
T he vmsin a tight- corncr. “I shall settle wi h her
: relatives whenever ( tilled upon.“
“But with me first i“ said the lawyer. “Here is a
l paper giving me power of attorney and requesting
3 me to srttlc with you. We will wait two or three
f days ,to hear from Maud, and then I shall call on
' ‘oul'
) “ Perfectly satisfactoryi’Weplicd Dowles, “.fter a
lon'rtime, and he turnedand went down-stairs.
Even before he answered, he had made up his
: mind that lawyer Turner must be put out of the way.
l H) knew too much, and was tOo troublesome, and
= tTJcsoozicralnzifo let out his life-bleod the better.
How was ho to be finished oil“? Dowles went to his
office. Incl'cd the. doc-r, and sat down to think.

 

the haunts of thv‘low f‘."(l v'le, and his moncy would
hir-e an assassin. lie would do so.
second thought, and lo concluded that his hired vil-
lain might betray l‘ivn.
' on his hands, as: well as a‘l the crew cf the South
Wiztd. and l'c (law-l run no further risk.

“ II“, has r.-':* out to hunt l“'f‘ r own!" he muttered,
thinking of the luv‘yv'r'.
Wealth, nnv perhaps send in" to prison.
Dowlewdrmgwi of!‘ to u'iconl"

He was new piavir'g er a bi”?! sicko, end he could
take some ri:-l.s.
cn‘l t..cr:-. would be no mic to lit-tray him. All he
wantml was to settlc on some programme of action,
and this lm. quicl-dv rill.

llc, rcnwmher‘crl a case of mysterious murder
which (marrrmi u year before, and in which inw-
yur Turner was deeply interested, and this was his
groundwork. Going Over to his desk lir- penned the

Richard

 

'— l folio‘vim: letter. using great care to (liFguise his chi-

! rcrrapliy:
' “ LAW’YYTR Tunmm:—-I knmv who murdercd Amos
‘ Roo‘. I am dvingr, and I wish to rid myself of the
I burden of guilt. Come a" soon (‘1: you car: to N0. 7,
' Guilford street, up three flights of stairs.

“J. Svnoso.
- “(By (he priest)“

“ Your name will silence these calumnies at once.” V

110 could disguise himsvlt‘. and go out among,

were plent of hi 3 in the trees, but no game that ‘ was not injured as he said. She moved down toward ,
. him in a cautious manner, he begging and pleading ’

 

I

No—ltc took a ;

Iic Lad Captain Wayne now _

!

“He will strip me of my -
1 would have to go.

He would Hii'ikt‘ the blow himsvli‘, ‘

“That will bring him!" whispered the guardian,
as he read the letter over. “He shall never bother
me further!"

_Mr. Turner boarded at one of the hotels, and at
nine o’clock that cvcnin he received the note at the
hands of a boy, who pro essed to have come directly
from Guilford street.

.Richard Dowles had not given his wife a hint of
111s intended crime, merely saying that he would be
gilt until a late hour and that she need not sit up for

m.

Just before evening he wandered down on the Lake
street until he came to a smoke-stained building,
which had a sign of “ Blacksmithing ” over the door.
ho one was in but the smith and making an excuse
that his gardener wanted t e article, Dowles pur~
chased a bar of iron about two feet long, two inches
wrde, and an inch thick.

Concealing it under his coat, he carried it to his
office.

He intended to murder lawyer Turner, and the
bar was to be the wee. on.

He had dated the etter at No. 7Guilford street
because he knew the building. The owncr had en-
deavored to mortgage it to him, and Dowles had
130911 all through the tenement—house the day be«

ore.

It had formerly been occupied by vile pco .19, but
was new empty, although the nerghborhoo about
it was given up to wickedness.

He was sure that the lawyer would answer the
notle in person, and he made preparations to be there
our y.

Exchanging his silk hat for a low felt one, and
wrth the bar of iron concealed as before, he reached
the house just before nine o’clock; and, after a brief
gurgviey, he engaged the boy to take the note to the

o e .

. The main door of the old house stood open, creak-
mg dismally 1n the wind. After the boy had left,
Dowles purchased a candle at a grocery. and as-
cending to the top of the third flight, he lighted it
and fastened it so that one at the bottom of the
first flight could see that some one lived above, or
would so_imagine. Then descending to the landing
of the third stairs, he waited for his victim. A ball
ran across the landing, and Dowles was lost in the
darkness when he stepped back two or three feet.

With the creaking of the rusty hinges, the slum-
rmng of loose blinds, and the lonesome sighing of
the winds throu h the broken panes and up and
down the dark ha is, most any man would have been
nervous, even though there for an honest object.
Perhaps Richard Dowles felt nervous and afraid,
but if so he would not let the feeling drive him
from his object.

About half-past nine, the villain waiti and
watchmgm the gloomy old house heard a step elow,
an in another moment a bold foot mounted the
stairs. Up it came to the second stairs, and then
halted. Lawyer Turner ma have suspected a plot,
but he was not deterred. He mounted the stairs,
reached the landing, and was looking up at the light,
when a dark fi re sprung out from the hall, the
iron bar fell, an the la. er sunk down with a groan.
Dowles halted just an nstant to look down at his
victim, and then he drop his bar and ran down
stairs as if pursued by a end. He dashed into the
street, down it, through alleys, and at length reach-
ed hrs house. Chang ng his clothes as quick as pos-
sible. he secreted those he had worn and believed
that he had committed murder and left no trace.

He was ready to pass up-stairs, when the fire—bells
clanged, and looking out, he saw a fire in the direc—
tion of the old house. “ The candle fell down and all
evidences will perish b fire,“ he thought.

(To be continua —commcnced in No. 17.)

 

 

Midget Philosophers.

“ OH, aunt,“ cried little Amy, in her nursery the
other day, “make Freddie behave himself; every
time I happen to hit him on the head with a mallet
he bursts out crying.”

ALI’I‘I’LE ‘rl was walking on the stree' the other
day when 6 0 saw a very bow-legged man with a.
short coat on. “Oh, ma!" she cried, “there’s a. man
with a. tunnel under him!”

“WHY,” asked a governess of her little charge,
“(10 we pray to God to give us our daily bread?
Why don’t we ask for four or five du ':~', or a week?”
“ Because we want it fresh,“ replie the ingenious
child.

A TEACHER  :ed a little girl who was the first
man. She said she did not know. He then asked
an Irish child, who, looking very proud at being
able to give the answer, said: “Adam, sir.” “You
need not look so grand about it,” said the first
scholar; “ he wasn‘t an Irishman."

A er'an boy, when pickng the drum-sticks of a
chicken, swallowed one of the tendons, and was very
nearly choked. The tendon was, however, extracted
with great difficulty from the. little fellow’s throat,
when he exclaimed: “Oh, mamma, it wasn’t the
chickabiddy's fault; it was because cook forgot to
take 011’ its garters.”

THE grandma of a little four—year-old had been
telling er one day not to say people lie but rather
that they were mistaken. Her randmother, to
amuse her, told her a bear stor , w ich was a tough
one to believe. After she had nished, the little girl
looked up into her face and exclaimed: “ Grandma,
that is the biggest mistaken I have ever heard.”

A er'ru: girl recently went to visit her grandfather
in the count '. She is fond of milk, but firmly re-
fused to drin ' any while there, without giving any
reason. When she returned, she was asked: “ You
had nice milk to drink while there, hadn’t you i" “ I
guess I didn't drink any of that milk," she indig-
nantly replied. “ Do you know where grandfather
got it? I saw him squeeze it out of an old cow!"

“ My mother says your father has gone into bank-
ruptcy,” said one little girl to another. “ What is
bankruptcy, Nellie?” “ I don’t know exactly,” re-

lied Nellie, “ but I ‘5 ts it’s something awful nice.

a used to work 11wa hard, and used to go around
in his old clothes; but since he has gone into bank-
ruptcy he dresses up every day and doesn‘t do any-
thmg but walk about just like a. perfect gentleman."

To'ro is crying very hard. “ What is the matter?"
asks one of her father's friends. ' “I have lost two
cents that mamma gave me.” “ That is not a. diffi-
cult loss to repair,” replied the friend; “here are
two cents.” An instant afterward Toto was crying
harder than ever. “ What are you still cryin for?
asked the gentleman. “I am crying,” said i e art-
ful baby, ‘because if I had not lost two cents I
should now have four.”

HARRY BLOODGOOD, the well-known comedian re-
sides at North Conway, N. H. His wife is an pis-
copalian, and is bringing up their two little daugh-
tors in the same faith. The children have been in
the habit of sacrificing some favorite dainty—cake
or candy—during Lent. The other day Mrs. Blood-
good asked the youngest child, aged six 'ears:
“Well, Sally, what are you oing to give up during
Lent?" Sa y—“Give up not in . Staying up here
is give up enough for me i” Wit the snow five feet
deep on a level, the extent of the sacrifice becomes
apparent.

A FRIEND tells us this about a little girl four years
old. She had been got ready for bed, and when her
aunt went in the room to say good-night she found ,
her;i little one saying her prayers. This is what she
sat :

 

 

 

“ Now I lay me down to sleep,
I ray the Lord my soul to kee ;
I should die before I wake- '

Here a. thought struck her, and after pausing a
moment, she added: “ What a rumpus there would
be in this house!" She then repeated the conclud-
ing line of the prayer, and scrambled into bed.

“On " said Daisy to her mammn, “I was in the
parlor ast night, behind the sofa, when the preacher I
came in to see sister Kate and they did set u ) too ,
close for anythi g; an' the preacher said, ‘ ntic, ‘
dear, I luv you,‘ an‘ Kate said, ‘00, oo;‘ an’ then ‘
the preacher kissed her right smack in the mout’, l
an‘ said, ‘Dear Katie, how good the Lord is to us

or sinners;‘ an” Katie said, ‘ 00, oo;’ an‘ then—an’ '
hcn—‘

“Well,” said her mamma, “you wicked child,
you wicked child, what did you do?”

“ W‘y, mamma. I felt so good, I blurted right out, -
‘Let us pray,‘ an’ you ought to have seen ’em‘
jump.”

Mas. BROWN and her little daughter, Edith, were _
sitting in the parlor, when a. visitor—Mrs. Spriggins '
a freckle-faced lady—entered. During the usual
salutations and for some time afterward Edith kept
liercyes on the visitor. “ Why, Edith," exclaimed 5
her mother at last, “it isn’t polite to stare at a lady
m.“ “Oh, don’t mention it. Mrs. Brown," said Mrs. 
Spriggim, adding to Edith, “ You like to look at me,
don’t you, dear?“ Edith (lid not answer this ques~ ‘l
tion dircctlv. She did not turn her eyes. however ~
and finall ' came the question: “ Be you the tattooer r
lady?" l’S. Sprifrmns smiled as though she was
biting somebody‘s head off, and said really she
Mrs. Brown declares that she
was m?va 3 \ mortified in all her born days.

” ALWAYS," said inpn, as he, drank his coffce and
enjo'r‘d ! is morn 11;: beefstcak, “always, childrf‘n.
change the subject when anything unpleasant has
been said. It is both wise and polite.“ That even-

3 ing on his return from business, he found his carna-

 

tion bed .lespoilcd and the tiny imprint of sli‘ppered
feet silently bearing witness to the small thie .
“ Mabel," he said to her, “ did you pick my flow-
ers?“
“Papa,” said Mabel, “did you see a. monkey in
town 3’"
“ Never mind that. Did you pick my flowers?"
“P-lp‘l. what did gran‘mn send me?"

“Mabel, what do you mran'.’ Did you pick my
flowcr'L? Answer me yes or no." |
“ Yr s, papa, I did: but I font I‘d change the sub-

jeet."

Poiular Poems.

—_.‘.>_._s__

A “’ELCOME.
BY J. n. ELTON.
Far in the sunny South she lingers,
Yet slowly comes along,
With fairy garlands in her fingers,
With snatches of sweet song.
Her eyes with promise bright ire beaming,
Her smiles wrll rapture bring,
The sunlight from her hair is streaming~
Thrice welcome, lovely Spring.

She brings us gifts, the royal maiden,
If‘nir flowers to deck the hills;

“'ith primrcws her arms are laden,
Bin-shells and daffodils.

Pal" crocuscs have come before her,
IVild birds her welcome sing;

Ten thousand longing hearts adore her—
The gray world’s darling, Spring.

 

 

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LOVE AT THE GATE.

 

Love came a beggar to her gate,

The night was drear, the hour was late.
And through the gloom she heard his moan
\Vherc at the gate he stood alone.

His rounded form in rags was clad,
HIS wce ing eyes were wan and sad;
But hid neath his garb of woe

He bore his arrows and his bow.

She wcéit to see the beggar weep,

She be e him on her bosom sleep,

His wretched plight allayed her ears,
She kissed and bathed him with her tears.

The mer eyes began to glow,

The rosy and essayed the bow,
The rough disguise was cast aside,
And laughing, Love for mercy cried.

Love came a beggar to her gate,
More Wisely than with pomp and state.
For who hath woman’s pig: won
May count love‘s siege an battle won.

 

202
THE PIONEER.

Fill n your lass, oh comrade true,
Wit spark ing wine that cheers,

And let us drink a bumper to
The sturdy pioneers—

The honest men, the women fair,
Who, years and years ago,

Had steady hearts and heads to dare
Deeds we may never know,
Nor page in history show.

They had thcir uses then, and now
The have their uses too—

Fl r, 0 they live to tell us how,
In eighteen sixty-two.

The summer was the hottest time
That ever scorched our State,

And then, with earnestness sublime,
They hasten to relate
Tales vast to contemplate!

 

 

And speak of bitter wintry woe!
Why, mere ' sakes alive!

Tl‘erc fell a ftcen foot of snow
In eighteen sixty-five!

Three foot of water in the Platte
\Vas frozen ten feet thick!

And, seeming not content with that,
Iiach man and wife and chick
With rheumatiz took sick!

An I should we smile? The years gone by
)‘v‘ith martyr lives are strewn;

Yr v‘rc gziyly treading—you and I —
'Ihe path which they rave hewn-

l'Icwn from th:- desert and the mine,
l‘ostcrity to cheer;

I: t‘s toast them in the sparkling wine—
Ilrink to the mem‘ries dear!
Drink to the pioneer! —De1wer Tribune.

 

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THE PAUPER’S DEATHBED.

HY CAROLINE BOWLES SOUTH“.

 

Trcnd softly; bow the head—
In reverent silence bow;
No 1 assing bell doth toll,
Yet an immortal soul
Is passing now.

Stranger, however great,

Wit holy reverence bow;

There‘s one in that poor shed,

One by that paltry ed,
Greater than thou.

Beneath that beggar’s roof,

Lo! Death doth keep his state;
Entcr— no crowds attend;
Enter—no guards defend

This palace gate.

That pavement damp and cold
No smiling courtiers tread;
One silent woman stands
Lifting with meager hands
A dying head.

No mingling voices sound,
An infant wail alone;

A sob sup ressed~again

That sho , deep gasp, and then
The parting groan.

Oh, change! Oh, wondrous change!
Burst are the prison bars;

This moment, there, so low,

80 agonized, and now
Beyond the stars!

Oh change! stupendous change!

one lies the soulless clod;

The Sun. eternal breaks,

The new immortal wakes—
Wakes with his God!

 

20:

 

A CAMP IDYL.

BY EDWARD L. KEYES, LATE LIEUTENANT m'rn CAY-
ALRY.

 

’Twas soon after I joined, and the place the fron-
tier——
Unessential the corps and the time;
We were still-hunting red-skins, a task quite severe,
On the alkaline plains of that clime.
’Twas my first night in camp, and I heard a loud
it

p9 ,
Like thunder the heavens n-tearing;
And I cried: “ What is that?” and was answered by
Steele,
“ ’Tis only the colonel n-swearing."

And indeed so it was: the rush ackers had camped
Their mules near the tent of t e colonel,
And the chorus they brayed, and the tune that they
stamped,
Suggested the region infernal.
And 'twas then my friend Steele from his blankets
remarked,
“ When you rear sounds beyond all comparing,
If you would not imply t rat your Senses are
‘ snarked,‘
Confess ’tis the colonel n-swearing.”

This was said by the fellows of “ours ” every time
“ What is that i“ would be asked in their hearing;
And tho‘ fresh, I concluded it could be no crime
To sail in the course they were steering.
So thlc (day that they blasted the Cornstock‘s new
0 e,
And my wife in a frenzy came tearing,
And exclaimed, “ What is that?" I replied a la mode,
“ ’Tis only the colonel a-swearing.‘

But she aid me in full, for the very next night
Some end fired the magazine's portal:

The report that ensued woke me up with affright,
As real as ere fcl by mortal.

I was tl‘oroughl ' startled; i felt my flesh creep;
And cried: “ ’hat is that?“ quite despairing,

When my wife slowly nuswr-red, as if from her

sleep. .
“ 'Tis only the colonel a-swearing.”

Turns on Sunday in servico the chaplain begin
To illustrate a sentcncc he'd quoted:
“ What is that?“—hcrc he paused the assembly to

scan,
But alas! his inquiry was noted.
By my threeyear-old Mai, who wrth voice raised to
‘l (I ’9

, s I
Unconmious of all he was airing,
Replied, while all eyes seemed to center in me,
‘ 'Tis only do turnel a swearwing."

It was at the request of our much-abused chief
We next morn in the other assembled;
Here he read us the law, stern, decisive and brief,
And I‘m certain the bravest one trembled.
But little thought those who across the parade
Our storm in a. measure were. sharing,
That indeed ‘twas the truth their pet answcr con«
veyed,
For it was our old hero n-swearing.
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BULLY BILL FILES ANEW PARD.

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Jist hump erself ont‘n ther way, stranger;
I’m a be one when I glts nl ;

Bot yer back, ef er takes me fer a. tenderfoot,
Er ary lost 0 in child!

I hes w1ped out nsid’r’ble humans,
I snaps like a ’gator gar;

An’ {or can’t lay yer paw on me nowhars
'1‘ out kiverin’ a hefty ole scar.

M handle’s “ Bully Bill 0’ ther Brazos ”;
Inever war know’d ter wilt;

I‘m gin‘rally round, red-hot fer fun,
An’ right thar when bug-juice are spilt.

Wa-al, yer better bet, stranger, don’t car’ ’f I do;
Ye’re touchin’ me whar I’m thin—

I kin chamber es much es four fingers,
’Thout any more waggin’ o’ chin.

Thet air rime ole Mernongerheler,
Sneez out in ole Kentuck’;

Ef yer didn’t w’ar a b’iled shirt now—
But I pass—here’s ther best 0 luck!

Dog—goned ef thet didn’t go for ther spotl—
I war feelin’ a trifle blue——

Hed a hefty ole load ter tote las’ night—
Stranger, how war it wi' you?

Warn’t on it? Wa-al, I reckoned es much-
Yer bat an' shirt’s on ther shine—

Come ter gaze, thar ’pears a differ’
Atween your togs an’ mine.

I reckon I war some sassy
When fust I struck yer trail:

But Bill air a pard yer kin tie to,
An’ never war known ter f ‘ .

An’, seein’ yer hes shoved ther liquids,
I s’pose we’d better shake:

Time ’bout air ther uar’ thing ’mong us—
Say, what yer goin ter take?

Quick, stranger swaller yer p‘ison!
I smells a stud-horse row:

Take a gaze et thet fiuffer a-fing’rin' his “ six "—
Yer bet he’s my meat an how.

He thinks, bmer style, an ther clo‘s yer w’ar,
An’ fiesh thet b’iled shirt,

Ter bl yer o , an’ outen ther bar——
mg-goned ef he don’t claw dirt!
uat, stran er! His “ six ” air ’bout ter spit;

ow, watc me clean ther shebang—

I’m hankerin’ ter start a graveyard—

Bully Bill, git up an’ ger-lang!

Hoop-la! I‘m a-comin’ a-kitin’:
Stan’ squar’, yer white-livered galoots,
Ef yer got any sand in yer gizzard,
Don’t wilt down inter yer boots!
O O t O t C O
Jist help me out‘n ther crib stranger—-
Times war right lively, 1’ ’low—
But I’d gamble on cleamn‘ out ther crowd,
I An’ I’m boss when it comes ter a row.
Kinder corkscrew thet bullet out’n my leg;
My boots is full 0’ bleed;
Thet Greaser, what slashed my arm jist now,
War game es I ever see‘d.

Prospect roun’ ther floor fer my shooter—
Hoo-rah fer Bully Bill!

Reckon ther cuss what skedaddled
Will chalk me down a bad pill.

But I’d hed ter pass my chips, stranger;
Thet Greaser’d ’a’ sp’ilt m ame,

Ef er hedn’t done some tal s ootln’—

at makes yer walk so lame?

Shot in ther leg, an’ job‘d in ther side?
Didn’t reckon yer c’u’d be hurt—

Yer ther gamest pilgrim I ever see‘d
Inside ov a new b’iled shirt!

Them wounds won’t sot yer back, stranger.
’Cept losin’ a leetle bleed;

Yer stood squar’ up ter ther biz in hand,
An’ war quick et drawin’ bead.

Hoo-rah fer ther ban’box shooter
What w’ars a stovepipe hat!

An’ ary man what don’ like yer style,
Jist watch me lay him fiat.

Shake! An’ we’ll emigrate et Caile’s,
Fer I’m dryl, yer jist '1: bet;

But Bully Bi an‘ his b‘iled-shirt pard
Don’t pass thar chips jist yet!

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03.
One Man a Good as Another
In America.
A Story of How a Carpenter Made His Way in
the World.

BY CAPTAIN FRED. WHITTAKER,

AUTHOR or “man anus'rmxo, nonaruo.
CHAPTER vu.
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JASPER RAY trembled all over as he opened the
letter. He knew well enough from whom it came.
Who could send it but one? The boy had worn the
company’s uniform and had said that a lady had
sent it. What lady but one would write to Jasper?
She who had al dared to be kind to him, who

had returned his ute before a crowd of haughty
:ph people, and who had dared to say before t em

“ Hyfatlter wa: onc- a carpenter."

He opened the letter and kissed the signature;
for there it lay before him—“ Enrm WALLIS."

But his face flushed as he saw and felt something
else in the letter between the two sheets—a bank-bi! .
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as she?

For a moment he crushed the note in his hand,
and und his teeth, muttering:

“ t? Is she, too, like 8 rest? Does she
think that a poor man wants nothing but money?
I‘ll not take it! I’ll—”

In his haughty and rather unreasonable mood of
angry independence he felt as if he would tear up
the note and throw it away, but better thoughts
prevailed.

“ No,” he said, “ I'll read it over. I don’t think a
woman with a face like hers could be so ignorant as
that. She means something I don’t understand."

Then he read the note, which contained only these
words:

“ Dm Mn. Ru:—

"My father insists on my paying on for your
beaut ful carvin and I hope you w accept the
little trifle I inc ose, if not as payment then as a
loan till ha pier times. , orrn WALLIS."

P. S. “ on’t think too hardly of my father. He
is influenced by others. I shall never forget I owe
you my life."

Then he turned to the bill inclosed and found to
his amazement that the generous girl had put a
fift dollar note in the letter.

e delicate way in which the offer was made
brought the tears to his eyes as he folded up letter
andkmoney together, and placed them in his breast-

)00 et.

! “ If I touch that money,” he thought, it will only
be in my sorest need; but if ever I see her again
and am able to give it back to her, how proud I
shall be.”

He walked along more quietl now, thinking what
he should do, for his sudden lsmissal from a job
on which he had hardly entered left him adrift on
the world.

He was one of those bri ht, confident oun fel-
lows, however, not easily scouraged, an he new
how to go to work, having been in strange places be
fore. He left the main streets of the city, and he-
took himself to the outskirts of Chicago, where he
had noticed, as he came into the city by rail, that
numbers of small wooden buildings were going up,
for it was not very man years after the fire.

He went systematics. y from house to house, ask-
in for work, refused often, but never discouraged,
til he came to' a large, handsome house, of which
the outside was finished, while the noise of tools in-
side told him that finer work was being done. Into
this he walked just as a gentleman in black was
coming out.

The gentleman in black stopped and looked at him
closely, while Jasper returne the gaze with inter-
est; for it seemed to him he knew the face.

The gentleman in black was tall and stout, with a
fat face and alarge head. He had little side-whiskers
and long hair, while his heavy jaw gave his face a
leonine aspect, and his voice was deep as that of a
tragic actor, as he said:

“ I’ve seen ye somewhere. What's your name, me
friend?“

There was quite a strong brogue in his speech,
though his words were those of a person of educa-
tion, and the way he was dressed showed that he
was well to do in the world.

“My name is Ray,” returned Jasper, “and I‘ve
seen you somewhere; but where I could not say.
Your fac I is familiar, yet you must be altered some-
what, I think."

The big man smiled and nodded.

“Ay, cry. I mind it now. Ray, Ray. Yes; ye're
the country boy that once put a question to me

that’s staggered a good many men. Your name‘s
J r. isn t it?"

“ es,” said our carpenter, mystified; “but where
and how ?—I don‘t recollect—”

fiYe don‘t, don‘t ye? Well, I’ll bring it to your
mind by the associative rocess. Ye asked me once,
and you a slip of a boyo twelve, why some men suc-
ceeded in life and others failed; and I told ye, in me
ignorance, for l was but twent at the time, that I
knew. Bedad, Jasper, I take it ack. I’ve not found
out. It depends on a number of circumstances over
which we have no control. Now, d’ye know me?”

Jas r grasped his hand joyfully.

"V by, it is Mr. O‘Rour‘e," he cried.

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“I think I’ll go without dinner to—day,” he said.
“ I don’t board near here, and I should lose too much
time if I went out to get anything. My name’s Ray.
I suppose we shall work together for some time.”

“ es,” returned Large, doubtfully, “if we don’t
ggt through afore you do. Say, Ray, you ain‘t a

estern man, are ye?"

“ No, I came from Pennsylvania."

“ Aha, good! They’re the boys to make the bosses
come to terms. Do you mind the strike last year
and the riots at Pittsburg? I was there, I was. an
helped to kill some of them fine Philadelfy sojers,

“ My old E I did. Tell ye what it is, you ought to join our club,

master! How glad I am to see you! And where LRay.”

have,you been all this time, and what are you do-

O’Ronrke shook his hand warmly and looked
kindly at him as he replied:

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with his raver, as he spoke.

“The 'm‘on Workman‘s Club. “'e meet every
Monday, and we’re gettin’ up a. strike, we are.

“I’ve been in a good many places, and I’m not , We’ve been trod down too long by the bosses, and
sure but I’d be better ofi’ if I hadn’t. I’m a lawyer we want fifty cents a day more than we’re a- ettin’.
now, and ye know lawyers are like cats; they know ! Now’s the time to strike. Buildin’s is goin up all
how to find a warm place. And what are ye doing Over, and we kin force our own terms. We’ve got

here, JaSper?”

Jasper colored slightly.

“ I’ve come out to see my fortune and follow your
advice, Mr. O’Rourke. I’m looking for carpenter
work to do.”

“Are ye now? That’s strange. And d’ye know
what I was going out for?”

“ No, sir.’

“ To look for another carpenter bedad. Ye see
that was something we neither of us looked for an
had no agency in procurirg or preventing. That
answers the definition of In . Jasper, me boy, ye
shall have all the work ye want. This IS my house,

and I want a dale of work done for meself and ever -

so many clients. Come in.”

_He took him into the unfinished house, and showed
him everything that had been done and wanted do-
ing. There were two men already at work; but it
seemed that O’Rourke wanted things hurried up, so
that he might get into the house soon.

“ And what with my wife quarreling with the land-
lady, and the beefsteaks coming from Texas,” he
told Jasper, “ boarding is a snare and a delusion;
and that thief of a plumber hasn’t finished the bath-
room as he said he would, and the mantels are all in
the rough. There’s plenty of work for ye, Jasper;
and if ye oily knew how to carve wood, ’d give ye
a job, bed , would gladden the cockles of your
heart, so it would.”

J :1. r laug

“ ell, now, do you know, Mr. O’Rourke I’ve
learned carving in wood since I saw you last. 'What
do you want carved?”

O‘Rourke clapped him on the back.

“ Bedad, boy, your fortune’s made! Don’t ye
know every one‘s craz for the carved work what
they call aesthetic stu , bad luck to ’em! It’s little
I care for it meself; but one’s got to be in the fash-
ion so here goes. Come with me!”

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made of oak, had been left in rough wood, with ,

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the bosses where we want ’em. At least we car-
penters have.”

“Well, I’ll see,” returned Jasper, quietly. “I’ve
not been long enough here to know much about the
subject. Besides, I think that one man’s as good as
another, and I don’t believe in forcing men to pay
more than they can afiord to, just because they need
your services.”

Steve Large stared.

“ They’d do the same by us. They beat us down
whenever they get a chance. I don’t see why we
shouldn’t give ’em what they give us. The working-
man‘s just as d as the boss.”

“ And so is t e boss just as good as the working-
man,” returned Jasper. “ One man has no right to
fiyrannize over fifty, but it’s just as bad for by to

omineer over one. We carpenters get the best
wages of any workmen. Why do we get it? Be-
cause we do what other men can't do. Because we
know more.”

“ Yes; that’s so," returned Large, heartily. “ We
carpenters is better‘n all the rest.”
“ You mistake," interrupted Jasper. “ One man

is {Just as good as another, and has the same rights.
If e knows more than his fellow-men, it is his duty
to help them to learn as much as he knows. That’s
'ustice. No set of men have a right to combine to
orce anything more than justice out of any other
set of men, be they bOSSes or be they workmen.”

Steve Large scratched his head.

“ I don’t right! understand you. If you had your
way there woul be no strikes."

“ That‘s just it. Boss and workmen would talk
reason to each other instead of fighting. When we
can‘t do anything better it‘s time to fight. At pres-
ent I’ve got work to do and there goes the one o’clock
whistle, Mr. Large."

And Jasper resumed his work as Stephen Large
walked away looking as if some new ideas were be-
ing knocked into his head.

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e know, on paper, with all sorts of leaves, and
wits, and birds, and the divil knows what on it.
Can ye do it?"

He showed Jasper a large and elaborate drawing,
pro rly shaded, and added:

“ he architect drew that, and divil a man have I
been able to find in Chicago could follow it, so I'll
have to send East for a workman, if you can’t do

“I think I can,“ said Jasper slowly. “It is a
pretty intricate design: but, as I see the first rough
work has been done, I’ll attempt it. What wages do
you ay?"

“ es?" echoed O‘Rourke. “ Me dear boy, I‘ll
think it cheap at five dollars a day, and ten if ye
insist on it. Sure, I‘m not aVanderbilt or Sammy
Tilden, or I‘d do better by ye. But you do that nice,
asit ought to be done, and if the city don‘t hear of
it,  pame‘s not Matthew O’Rourke. Have ye any
too s.‘

“ Yes," said Jasper. “ I brought them along with
me, because they don’t weigh much, and one can
carry them in the pocket. I have them here."

And he took from his pocket a leathern case full
of small Chisels, gouges and gravers, at which
O'Rourke looked approvingly, saying:

“ I see ye know your business. Now when can ye
go to work?"

J asper‘s only repl was to take off his coat lay
out the drawing on t 1e floor, and begin to sketc on
one of the bosses of the design that the architect
had made, which he did with rapidity and precision.

“ I‘ll have these grapes and leaves laid out rough
by to—morrow," he said, in a. few momonts after.
“ If on choose to trust me, I’ll begin today."

0‘ ourke nodded.

“Go ahead, me boy! If ye make a good job of it,
e’ll be taking in as much as I do, in a year or two.
'11 l'ave ye now, but I‘ll be back to-night.”

Then he went away, and Jasper began his first

eat task of wood-carving since he had worked at
t for pleasure.

He had picked it up, partly from looking at carved
work done by others, in a Visit he had once paid to
Philadelphia at the Centennial, partly from poring
over blocks of wood and experimenting.

He had the advantage of being a goodca nter
to start with, and had not ventured out in o the
world before he knew what he could do.

The task set before him was a difilcult one to
him; for it comprehended forms he had never carved
before; but the drawing was before him to remind
him of what was reqpired, and he began cautiously,
his hand at first rat er timid and slow, but after a
little while, gaining confidence from the fact that he
was alone, with no one to criticise him, working
more and more rapidly, till he had entirely forgot-
ten himself in his labors, and was gouging away
deep into the boss of oak, when he heard a voice
behind him say:

“ Hello. young feller, you‘re green, seems to me,
ain‘t you?"

Jasper looked round and saw a man in his shirt-
sleeves, smoking a wooden pipe, and looking at him
with a dry. amused sort of smile.

“Green? What makes you say that?" he asked,
puzzled. “ Are you a carver?”

“ No, I ain‘t no carver,” returned the other, ” but
I reckon I know what‘s workin‘-hours as wcll as any
man. and I don‘t work for no boss in dinner-hours. ’

“ Oh, I see,“ snld Jasper, “it’s dinner-time. I de-
clare I was so much interested in my work I didn’t
hear the whistle or bells. Which is it you have
here?”

“The pen-factory blows Whistle, and there’s a
church with a strikin’ clock round the corner. \Vhy,
I‘ve had my dinner, and 80's Bill Everts. We‘re
doin‘ the parlor doors up-stairs. M name’s Large,
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ing with two people as he came in, and he heard
him say:

“Of course it’s the cheapest way in the end, to
pay by the day. These artist fellows have no know-

edge of the world, or they’d see it—”

Then he stopped suddenly as Jasper came in, and
said in his most cordial manner:

“ Good-morning, Mr. Ray. M friend Senator
Wallis has come in to see our si eboard. I’m tell-
ing him he can’t beat it in this country unless he
gets on, and I’m not going to let you go. Senator,
Mr. y, the gentleman I told you of. Miss Wallis,
this is the wonderful wood-carver.”

And then Jasper found himself bowin with as
much dignity as he could to the man who ad turn-
ed him out of his factory only a few months before,
but who now did not appear to recognize him, for it
was in perfect] bland tones that he said:

“ I am very appy to make your acquaintance,
sir. I’ve heard a good deal of you latelly. ’

Jasper bowed again, but more cold y, and made
no answer.

There was something in the old man’s face now as
insincere in its bland smoothness as it had been dis-
agreeable whcn he had last seen it in anger.

Then it wore the hard, pitiless selfishness of the
millionaire; the look of a man who keeps a score-
tary to open his mail every morning and pick out
the begging letters; the look of a man whose one
idea is to buy cheap and sell dear.

Now it was covered with the mask of courtesy a
smile on the close-shaven lips, stretching out to the
mutton-chop whiskers, a wheedling kind of smile,
over which the cold gray eyes looked like wells of
selfishness, reflecting everything, but keeping the
real design hidden in dark depths.

In short, Jasper could see that the old senator
wanted something, or he would not have been so 0-
lite; and his thoughts gave a jump at once to w at
it might be.

He hardly dared look at Edith Wallis, though he
noted in one swift glance that she was more beauti-
ful than ever, and that her soft brown eyes had a
sari look in them.

Then Shaw observed, rubbing his hands:

“ Well, senator, do you think you’ve got any one
in all your factory could do such a sideboard in oak?
Come, own up.”

“ It‘s pretty, very pretty,” assented Wallis, with a
 glance. “Edith, my dear, what do you think
0 1 . ’

“ It’s the best thing I ever saw,” said she, in a low
tone, when her father hastily interrupted:

“Oh, dear, no; don’t be so sweeping. It is very
good, indeed, of course, Shaw, very good; but then
you must go to Europe to see first-class work of this
sort. It is good for Chicago, very good; but I’ve
a man can beat it at the factory.”

" Bet you a thousand you haven’t,” the grain
speculator retorted. “ Come, now, come down, or
take water. A thousand that you haven’t as good a
man."

“ Well, not now,” admitted the senator, “ for he’s
sick and not expected to live. Come, Shaw, you
know what I was telling you I‘d do with you, if you’ll
give up your contract with this gentleman. Let me
speak to him openly."

“Oh, I don’t mind," returned Shaw. “Say what

carve that!" asked the lawyer, with a. twinkle of his eye.

same course he had marked out for himself when he
left home to seek his fortune. The words of O’Rourke.
years before, that “ Perseverance and knowledge "
were the secrets of success, had never left his mind;
though O‘Rourke himself now disclaimed being cer-
tain of any such thing;V

The words of Edith allis: “ My other was ant-e a
ca'penler" were even more powe 111 in their influ-
ence over him. They had roused up in the mind of a
young man, who had hitherto on y thought of the
present, an ambition to make a future for himself,
and he thought of nothing else, day and night,
whether he worked at his carvin or dived into
O’Rourke‘s books, hungry for know edge as ever.

He made a success of the carved mantle-piece, and
O'Rourke kept his promise to make it known
throughout the city. Jasper found. before he had
been many weeks in Chicago, that a man who can do
one thin better than any one else is better ofi! than
a man w 0 can do many things well. He had all the
work he wanted, and t e richest people in the city
competed with each other to offer him high prices,
so as to secure the best wood-carver to be found in
the West.

And so matters went on till the Winter arrived.
and Jasper Ra found himself with money saved
and an assured uturc before him as long as he was
able to work, in a position where in said to himself:

“It is time I rose to something higher. If Senator
Wallis could make a fortune, so can I. How shall I
do it? How did he do it?”

It was while his f .ioughts were taken up with this
theme that, one day, going to his work in the gor-
geous house of a great Western millionaire, who
had made a fortune in grain speculating, and had
ordered a uantity of carving from Jasper to be
done under is own eye, he saw a handsome sleigh
pass up the avenue on which he was. driven by a

lack coachman and containing the very man of
whom he had been thinking, with a la dy beside

m.

His heart throbbed violently as be marked the
graceful outlines of the figure of Edith Wallis; for
he knew it well, though her face was covered bya
veil and she was muffled in costly furs.

She did not see him, however. and be marked the
sleigh pass on, while he went to the house of Mr.
Shaw, dreaming all the way of what he could say
to her if he met her.

When he got to the house itself, what was his sur-
prise to find the very equipage which he had noticed
standing em tv in front of it, the black driver,
wrapped in l’llS buffalo overcoat, sitting patiently at
his post, with a groom in livery on the sidewalk,
stamping to and fro to keep himself warm.

He went up the ste s, rung the bell, and was
ushered in as usual byt e servant, who had learned
that Jas cr Ray, the best wood-carver at the Weso,
was to 6 treated with respect, or the servants
would “ catch it “ from their employers.

In fact, Jasper, with peo )le offering him ten and
fifteen dollars a day, and g ad to get him, Jasper, in
fine raiment, and looking more like a gentleman
than ever, was a very different man from the tramp
who had once been put off the train by Percy’s
ordexs, and at every house he went to, was treated
as an artist, insides being invited out to parties,
though he never attended any.

The servant closed the door and told him:

“ Mr. Shaw has visitors sir. I believe they’ve
come to see your sideboard. They’re in the work-
room now."

This was a common ex rience to Ray, for Visitors
were always coming to t e houses where he worked
to see what he was doing and give orders ahead, so
that he was used to them.

On this occasion, however, his color came and
went, and he felt a degree of confusion he had
never experienced before, as he went to his work-
room, where his millionaire friend Shaw was stand-

 

tyou want to say. I won't hinder you, but you‘ve got
0 name high figures, or he won‘t come."

Jasper looked from one to the other and then at
Edith, whose face, now he dared to aze at it, had a
sad expression that puzzled him. S 1e met his eyes
one moment, and t en dropped her own, coloring
,slightly, as old Wallis began:

“Ahem! Mr. Ray, are you willing to enter into
negotiations for permanent work?"

Jusoer looked at him keenly.

“T lat depends on its nature and y, sir.”

“ Exactly, of course! You’re rig t to be prudent.
I would not have got on in the worldif I had not
been rudent. “fell, the fact is—"

Am here he seemed to stick fast.

“ What is it, sir?" asked Jasper. “ Do you want
{0 91:58.39 me permanently as a carver in your fac-

o .

“ Exactly, exactly. You see it‘s not as if I couldn’t
do better for myself with a lower- riced man; for
our carvings are not like this, an you might not
suit at all: but—”

He stopped again.

“ But at the same you think I would, or you
wouldn’t make the offer,“ said Jasper, with a faint
snccr.

The old gentleman colored slightly, but he was too
old a bargaincr to lose temper.

“Very well put. But it‘s not exactly as a carver
I want you.”

“Indeed? What then ?"

“ Well, a sort of general superintendent of the
carving-room, a designer, a—in short, a man who
can tell them what to do.“

“Then why don’t you take one of the men you
have already?” asked Ray, coldl .

“ Truc, true, so I might, but t 19 fact is, between
you and me, Mr. Ray, you have—"

He hesitated again, and Ray laughed.

“ Something they have not."

“ Exactly, or I shouldn‘t be here. Now, I want to
know what figures you’ll take to come to my factory
as carver-inchicf, on a contract for ten years?"

Then he looked at Jasper keenly through his half-
shut eyes, and J nsper turned to Mr. Shaw, saying:

“Will you 1011 Mr. Wallis what are my terms with
you, sir? I can‘t sign a contract with him without
your consant.”

Shaw rubbed his hands.

“ Certainly, certainly. Wallis, my dear fellow, if
you want Ray, you‘ve got to pay for him. He has
made a contract with me to finish a bookcase and
mantle after this piece here, and I’m paying him fif-
teen dollars a day for his time.”

The old millionaire‘s face remained as hard as
marble. It was impossible to tell how the price af-
fected him, for he said nothing: and Shaw went on:

“I shall certainly sue him if he breaks his con-
tract with me, so he‘ll have to pay me damages. I’d
like to oblige you, of course, but, by Jove, you
know, I’ve as much pride as you have in getting up
the finest house in Chicago."

Wallis turned to Jasper.

“Will you call on me this evening? I think I can
come to your terms. As for Shaw, I can fix him."

He spoke in a slightly contemptuous way of his
brother millionaire, and, a little to Jaspcr‘s surprise,
the other did not in the least rcscut it, but said:

“ All right. I don‘t want to stand in Ray’s light,
if he wants to better himself. Go and see him, Ray,
whenever he says.” .

Jasper bowed coldly.

“ I’ll call on you if you desire, sir; but I don’t care
to break any contract, even to oblige you.”

Wallis nodded and screwed up his face into a. virtu-
ous cxprcssxon.

“Very ropnr spirit. very proper, Mr. Ray. Bay
at seven t is evening, if you like.”

“Very good, sir."

Then they went out of the room, and the young

 

carver set to work to ut the last touches on the
carved sideboard, of w ich Mr. Shaw was so proud.

As he worked he recalled the fact that Edith had
not said a word till she was appealed to, that she
had pronounced his work the “best she had ever
seen,” that her father had snubbed her, and that
she looked pale and sad.

What made her sad? What was the matter with
her? _What reason would there be for an heiress,
enjoying an income of so many thousands every
year, to be sorrowful?

A year before Jasper would have deemed such a
thing impossxble. A poor man, finding it difficult to
earn his subsistence is apt to imagine that money
must bring happiness.

Now when he was earnin more than he needed,
and felt positively rich, he ad found out that he
was not yet hap y. He wanted something more,
and could not to exactly what it was, though he
was beginning to find it out since he had seen Edith
\Vallis a second time.

He worked away on his carving, and had it finished
in the afternoon, justas Mr. Shaw came in.

Shaw had treated him like an eclual throughout his
engagement, and Jasper rather iked him; for the
speculator was one of those men who, having made
their money eas'ly, spend it freely, and are apt to be
kind to others.

Shaw looked at the work and praised it highly;
then observed:

“ I say, Rag, it seemed to me as if
old Wallis efore, and didn’t like
wrong?”

“ You’re right. I have. But I’d rather not sa
where, Mr. Shaw. Mr. Wallis did not treat me w
because I was a oor man, and I don’t want to be
under him again, if I can help it.”

Shaw laughed.

“ Oh, nonsense. Business and feeling should never
be mixed up. You see the old fellow has just lost
his head-carver, a Swiss—very smart fellow, too,
good as you are, nearly—and he has seen some of
your work. He wants to get you badly, and has of-
fered to pay me quite a snug sum for damages, if I
give up my contract with you. I’m telling you this,
so that you can make your market.”

“ Thank you. But why does he want me so
badly?”

“Well, you see, he and another man in the East
are rivals. One runs the Diamond cars, the other
the Emeralds. The ’re bidding against each other
all the time for the est workmen, and I have a sort
of idea that old Schmidt, of the Emerald cars, is af-
ter you too, and that Wallis is tr ing to steal a
march on him. Oh, he’s a shrewd o d fellow.”

“Then what do you think I’d better do, Mr.
Shaw?”

“Do? Go and see him, to be sure. If you play
your cards Well, you can get what terms you please.

ell him Schmidt offers you double what you make
now. ’

“ But that would not be true.”

“Oh, well, that makes no difference in business.
The all lie. He won’t believe you if you tell the
trut , so you may as well followhis lead.”

Jasper shook his head.

“ I’ve never found it necessary to lie in business,
and I don’t want to begin.”

“Then you can’t cope with Wallis. He has been
lyi to You already.”

“ n W at?"

“Saying his carver was sick and not exFected to
live. he man’s dead. Died last night. tell you
he wants you badly. and you’re a fool if you don’t
make him pay for you.”

Jas r hesitated still.

“ r. Shaw,” he said presently, “ may I ask you a.
question without ofi‘ensc?”

“ Certainly, if it’s not too ersonal.”

“ You say that every one es in business.”

“ Certainly.”

ou had seen
im. Am I

“ Do you?”
Shaw burst out laughing.
“ Of course! I’d have a. fine time if I didn’t.”

“Well, then; are you talking business to me now
or not?”

Shaw laughed again, more heartily than before.

“ I admire your delicacy. You mean—am I lying
to you? No, Ray; on my honor, I’m not. I’m (go-
ing to make old Wallis pay me, not you, an I
want to skin the old hunks, that‘s all. I’m giving
you all the points I know. I’ll give on another
that willbe worth mone to on. Old Vallis is go-
ing to marry off his aug ter very soon, and—-
Why, what’s the matter?”

For J aspcr had turned deadly pale, and seemed to
be gasping for breath.

But the sight of Shaw’s surprise did more to bring
him to his senses than anythin else could have
gone, so be pressed his hand on '5 breast and said

aintl :
“ Ngthing, nothing; a little ain round the heart.
I’ll have to go to the doctor, believe. I've had it
several times lately. There; it’s gone. Go on.”
He felt as if the mom were whirling round, but
managed to kcep his countenance, though Shaw ob-
served shrewdly:
“Pain round the heart, eh? Hum! That’s sus
picious, Ray. Confounded pretty girl, too. Ever
see her before?”
J naper felt his color rising, but evaded the inquiry
by saying:
“ But what has the daughter’s marriage to do
with my engagement as carver? I don’t understand
that, Mr. Shaw.”
Shaw looked amused.
“Oh, that’s the dcepness of the old hunks. You
don‘t see it, do you?"
“ I confess, I don’t."
He had re uined his coolness now.
lShaw smi ed very knowingly as he began to ex-
am:
p “ What that old fellow doesn’t know about etting
the best of a bargain, isn’t worth knowing. e’s a
financial genius. You don’t see the point yet, do

on? Well, I’ll show it to you. You know old Wal-

s is the president of a company?"

“ Yes. But what has that to do with his daugh‘
ter’s marriage?"

“This. She’s going to be married to oung Percy
son of the biggest railroad man out ere, and o d
Wallis has been blowing that he‘s goingl to give the

oung couple the handsomest house the United

tates. Do you see the point yet?“

“ Not quite.”

“ Well, I’ll make it clearer then. You know
carved work’s all the go, now. Every one wants it,
whether the are judges or not. It‘s the fashion.
And old Wal is is a good judge. He wants to beat
everything that has been done before. He’s laid out
plans for a house that would cost a million, if he had
to buy the carvings. Do you see 'et?”

“I begin to; but I’m not sure. 'ou mean that he
wants to engage me for his private benefit—”

“ And make the company foot the bills. That’s
just it. So you see you can get anything you want
out of him. It don’t come out of his pocket. He‘ll
employ you ostensibly to direct the carvers in the
factory; but really he’ll be getting his rrivate carv-
ing done at ten per cent. of the real cost. Oh, he’s a.
wary old bird, and knows just how to do the trick."

And the grain speculator seemed to be tickled to
death at the smartness of the trick, while Jasper was
only shocked at whal he heard.

“ But, Mr. Shaw," he said, resently; “if Ientered
into any such arrangement, should be helping him
cheat his own company, shouldn’t 1?”

Shaw raised his eyebrows as if amazed at his sim-

plicity.
“ 0 course, but that’s no business of yours.
That‘s their funeral. Old Wallis can pull the wool
over their eyes, you bet. All you have to do is to
pocket your money and obey orders. You’re not
responsible for his sharp practices."

‘ I think you’re wrong," returned Jasper, gravely.
{)‘However, I thank you for what you‘ve said. Good-

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CHAPTER IX.
THE nILLIoNAmn’s nocsn. ‘

THE stars were twinkling in the frosty sk that
evening as Jasper Ray took his vs ny toward t e ex-
pensive mansion of old Scnntor Wallis, with a dull

ain round his heart he had never felt before. Edith

allis was going to be married shortly, and to the
only man he had ever seen who had treated him
with insolcnce!

And he. Jasper Ray, was to be employed to make
a thing of beauty out of the house in which his rival
was to live with the woman Jnspcrndorcd!

Yes, his rival! He saw that boldly now; for he

had ncvcr cared to conceal from himself the fact
that he loved Edith W'allis, and this audacious young
American was actually thinking, all the way as he
went:
“ How shall I prevent this marriage? I’m sure she
doesn’t love him. \Vho c011le love n fellow like that?
Mean, cowardly, domineering! That's the reason
she‘s so sad. ’m sure of it. She is being forced
into this marriage.”

Which was jumping at a conclusion with great
rapidity: but Jasprr was oung and very much in
love, besides being justly e utcd with the way he had
got on in life, since he had COIIIG to Chica o, and he
actually could not see an ' reason why e should
consider Edith Wallis “ a ove him in the social
scale," as long as thc American doctrine that one
man is as good as another was supposed to regulate
our state of life.

He talked to himself to kccp up his courage in this
strain but it was 1:0 rsc. He could not disguise the
fact, that however affairs might be between this
young lady and Percy, there was no possibility that
they could be twi>tcd to favor any aspirations of
Jasper Ray, bv the most liberal construction.

The young lady had only seen him thrice in her
life—first as a common tramp, sccond as a workman
discharged by her father, and thirdly that morning.

Hm! shc recognized him then?

Her father had pretended not to, and she had given
no sign but a glance, and on that singlc glance Jus-
per was even now building all sorts of air-castles.

mt he could not cheat himsclf. He knew they
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; .,, , i .- . . 1 i. . -o- a" - n Chan 9 H . lss randon .
r . biii‘ counseiqr,” ObJected one man with a patch ’ gglltlfe'lsfglllliliséllilllOi, so that, espcc1ally 111 the so t air For a momth confllsiornb 11.25313“ on th d k had taken place, the doctor caused thegselfsizlgggrl pr’f‘isisifsd a 8.0“ iss u on h-er fordwnd' 1:
g 21‘ (lrlhils ?)::'t“l1lllke,shg0lllgY0 be tried to—morrOW, I upon deck ocean, he passed much or his time the. Two Brothers‘ then with a volley of “imaging; 3%.“ come-V04 ‘0 the “Wage. and the lady drove and pmenéié’itgfii'm Shim conquered he” mom“ ‘
i  "I lzllll O t ye w at we kin pi.0ve__u H , - _ of the crew, with kl'fl ‘  r _ , _ n ‘ I i. 5 ory.
, i 1 ,me enough when we git mm coon." answered  Caibgeltl hislcustom between .Ifiveriiool and plunged into the sea after, (Elsie 133nm 3:318}th teeth. Her house was only a few miles awn. being sltu- arrifiledb 1km tlmc after my father's death a. letter
i tO‘lllliiii'ke, siiortllyf. “D’yeytliink it takes me an hour ' l'lltJOl‘ place’R'llllp‘l‘lllt‘glllrIllgl‘ dnillvlctllflfg loimldg ml“ the It was a race f0" “f0- The tWOglllell who sought to cI‘llllmt the ngllefilll‘eg region' so“ éd from the by 5 Mr] (Ellnllztfl‘l‘c’lYfilll' 1(-i lrtft‘lted to “ll, and Signed
1. n. c on ate ense? e‘ll wait. 01' yo can go to ‘1; I ll 1 -‘ .‘ S . '53115.t11at escape had a little the stat (1 ' ‘n S "mm, 9 't 9 “V8? Fiver Which flowsi t t i ' . 0 ’ omey-flt- 21W. It con-
i Tim “Vim. Pm not touting for fees tonight I, e con 1. no longer practice the llubit w1tli comfort swimmem but one t l l . an \\ ere both fair the Shi-ewsbur The ind 1‘ 0 a Bed an order for a ticket to America an i (ii ,p i
. ‘ . - ' i - .i . ' ,w * tof the ursue v i  . Ywas an Odd character me how t - - ‘ re" ”
got ‘1“ I (an “mind to.” ve Captain Johnson, 011 show a tacltuin, but not un- more active and usat‘ “’5 P re “as t le one of the celc ritlcs of the neighborhood d v 0 proceed. It stated that I would be met ,.
And without waiting for further talk he led J85 pleasant; man, became at sea a veritable tyrant full waveq ii wot“ easfl lleytrlose and fell on the long genus ai.iicuiai.memjonl an de- by a §entlenlan when the steamer landed wllo '
to an inner mom, in a cigar shoved a box of thpel‘ oi? oaths and blows, a salt-water dog with blting gaming 3’ Seen at this man was rapidly She flanged to the class popular! w d “ould 00k out for me until I could get something I
ow]. to his visitor and said: 1 em teeth that he used without stint upon his crew so i. Donut k .. . , maids althou h in up arance she w y me Old to do’ as in the future I would have ‘0 (18 0nd '1 >1! 
aflcl‘ltll)se .dmls {121in they own me. body and sowl, 1  tllll 'Illl’g gilglhggsli‘rig $911th 3 Iil'iS’on. panionl " llw'ielfillticllg’lis 3133' gfitlljgfrnlfiglfig  {20m lhe-ffi'pfical fiviggfr’ being tm‘rsagag §fl?v?g :gloewsexl’gg‘fnézr‘lls‘ $811316 persogdwhgm line Wig” I
. icy ve pal a a ry retainer! Go ahead for I b t l ‘ - ""6 ""5 ‘ and smmenlv toward the on ' ’ ' p 1‘30“ “'1 area 3’ “0 19-100king face alt o it h — was ev "n y the one "I
. i know ye want vice from the look t l i ru a captain as governor. “Vitnlfl twenty-four D of coming nlutlneer. was marred byastpru and 1m "ht n . ug w 0mm'fatlier spoke—was not so situated t
facl- ” ' 0 your hours from the time of departure from the Ca ou“ ass would have l‘cturm‘d to and his friend in M‘ M h u" expmsslon- be able be of much " t as o
u ~ _ - _ pe, the Sm," 1e wh , _158 _art a. Brandon she was c ed and . asms ance to me at present. 
i culiiA’lrlil;hose your clients?“ asked Jasper. rather glfiiymégaigflnfi°3hfifiid Eggcgggetiwglgegogg‘finbfeg‘r- one of thbgcreiv rigs 13130:: (lietfill’uls’llvgllhfct 31593;: fiesii$fllig fieghborfhofid for nearly'twenigyl?e:$ gew‘gfie: (iomréubuiilne'is‘shéeigl‘. and it  chilled g i
l .' ' - . - i ’ - . Y ‘s moment he remembered thath ' ‘n e rs o 6 City peOPle "° im POV ' ' X’w ‘0 ‘a en as a
v 0 Rourke nodded With a - . thumbs. all for slight. irregularities. e was unarmed. the not hborhood b build' p a second mower to me “'95 111d nant t ' "
l i. , grim smile. AS has ht said As he struck strongly out be h rd 3 "185 magnificent house advised ’ lg a “a tone and ” ~
l A). 213’. that’s a good word but bedad Iv 1; . ‘?“ . young Douglass could endure oars as the f - be, b 83 the rattle of She was wealthy ept: upas lendid establish ' me not to 30' butv 5m” I “'85 ‘19 Ddem e-
; oveppmud of .em though théy a w u. In no i neitherthe Sight nor sound of such thin as these their a. 8 out dropped from her side to and altogether wasa person 0 great menfi' “PO” myself 101‘ my support. to remain in land I
Didn't ye know I liad the biggestpcgmigal enough. i and so it was that he very soon formed t e h bit f rescue- ve minutes and they would be safe. the vicinit consequence in with her, as she felt sure 1 would .t i g l -',
- . tics conflnin hi lf - . a 0 But five minutes and the tale th uid y' th b ‘ g n 0”“ bet” 6'
m Ciiimgoi Yes and thaws saying a God 1';le , fi mse asmuch as possible to his cabin the Md h er 00 tell meant She was respected and envied b t i 3}” 3’80ng abroad among strangers ” t 
r there’s heaps of wickedness here ngi wha 8' .or I during t 6 day when the captain was on d k y 'mm.” t 9 men bemud hlm. and without a mired or lov d f h ' ’ u no that at?" You tho“ ht that 3'011 Were in d ‘t b 3‘
' . l - , at dye I turin out for hi v ~ . . 9° iven- sound but with almost 811 rhuman e ’ org ed“! “9" com the fflendflhl Obe ‘ ‘ u y ound to ~4-
: “"3131: JislPilrled h In t is wa he Edgebfitsfittlglofilglli only at nlgbt- Pursuers swam after him. pe Strength his Si: 11% geighbomg'ree’ but, Wes (115th and haughty ill: "§Z§ur;atgénf£’sa:ds:hmoll:§b‘and so you came". ' -
 concifffied? a W at had happened that day. and . or crew, an even aftern month of 110533333233955 bhénd'ft'tgisthmomept’ even When we hung trem- m3 sling: liftter 5321:3115? misflmhmpy‘ too' of Strange a(“nailtlll‘es Wlallbh hadablgglillglil tilleersglge. ‘ 1
“You gnve me advice once when I i Was on familiar terms “3th but one man. the secon k pg mx 8 sawing. boat and the murderous “P011 the World. 0 m er comments she enlived in New York Bay and with which as I
i that has laced me where I am: Now “3:11;: sliloy - ignite. hThis (seaman. bed Jellifl'e by name, was a dgxfishig‘jrfhesgfgfnl appeared bearing swiftly With a rod of iron she ruled her household d reader 13 already familiar. ’ “w v
I. I “009 '3 , 8Jlis's offer and make the most of him" or 'am‘m- (far-“til young ten“? or about Ralph’s own sharki g 3 man’ a new “em-"'1 a 9-3 a 0011 u6mm, better-trained servants ' an ’ Russ Brandon was mm' - '
i 81152“, rf-(‘iect its” , O ’ dfiiinfinthglolié‘fi’éstflfi t‘fi’g‘l‘ll‘dhélad many long talks With a cry Ralph threw his arms (1 “in? i t (10111 seen. e madamehas she was usuallvvtgrrrenfl- morgéalétgn’iglhiglgy gorgll I never heard at any“)! 
s a We" 5.” said 'Rourke (11'ny 0 ' ‘5 - the air in - Y n 0 “'88 despotic and whiles ew ' ' u “‘3’ “1'8!” she exclaim "
., u ' i ,, , . ne evenino, when m . . , . en gathering breath for a 3,1 -’ . 8393mm lode“! ust- Wh it - - w
i “ agltfllltiyve ask me advice as a crim~ l 1 and the roufidjnoon siggcpuyl‘ii giaglrlfioglliilelli? sulnvll far fieneath the water‘ 9 on he I lldgittllbarllglltgr“vglog 811:3")?th wnm’ wog be‘ poor é,” Ismpfriftecvga’;Ollgmgfigs'tgnguguwgfi“ 3°}? ‘6'
 Cilia gentiemén‘” ma awyer , lsg‘z‘zr. £156 stwo friends sat near the wheel talking in tingelgn Jefiifigsev‘ugluggsedogirt, tfhe ocean was blood- I better of her in an ‘33; {Divellllgéticlll glflgggttgg perils. t legally seems as if fortune had a :pftc 
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i f As my old friend; who told me the right way to I ‘1 17m af'mid Si n -d . . ‘ toward him, the mutineers and {£2.31 iwlinmmg thls land she woulclv pour out her money like water $131“:ij ou' 
, go“ on in the woi-ld. i “on fr 1  .7] r, s‘ar Jelliffe, in reply to a ues- That night the Two Broth ad a”. ll gone: and her neighbors who. like many of the cunn. v an get. madam, I have never done anything in 
A What d ye can getting on in the world?" asked awf I 031111 ouo ass! 1 m arm“, S,“ that somet mg never seen m cm m e sail. She was and grasping country folks thought the cit. lad 1118 “my 11 eto deserve it... .
S the laivyer. keenl . “Makin man - , , u “1 come of it. The old man is a. ti er be fair ame soon f ' ' to I‘Odoubt abou‘ that!" the other ex “ i
i semi“ ecu,” y g ey orkeeping yer he s got a bail crew this time sure u g 1 and Brando‘s, wag no 0 9“?! to thelr sorrow t at: 153 flatter myself that I am an excellent {hinged‘manl ‘
‘5 allRot 1,.‘1 returned Jasper.  gellelétjif‘flfli‘gdgebot ler, “' no doubt the cap- and her vindictivengeslnpogll",  $21102: 3191313151113) :25: 33:1? and if you haven’t a good uglulggozegg face I
a “ Y ouike’fllook his bend ' is he?” 8 l r , utno more so than many, SPIRIT  son to affront will exclifslgerthsaw one. But now, my deep—if you i I,
, 1. can reconcile cm. I tried 1t. and found I . “A sir I 1; That such a. woman should of her own accord f h I e qupsuon' cons‘dedng the mum“.
‘ I 23;}. t.?$lV'c up one or the other. so I made the ' heavly'a hand nA°£efi£l$°ll§ Kill: fill all 5mg With so In J mimic: fer to tl'lketimo hm. palatial n‘mnsjon the injumagri gl‘gl’ostgfighagguavfil‘en you get “31” WI)“ do You
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And he gave vent to a slight sigh. while Jasper lgicil‘aern ti‘len lgavc been tllcf‘d bv their thumbs. at: on as“ S die "DOD her builds, was an cvléfitsffizl’éfitlg‘ql $3 Slembip comm!“ and endeavor ‘0 find out 1110 
aS‘lf‘tchllil‘lgi egrnestly: I This atogllilon Egg‘ygg’le lfetcasl e cut of! one-half. As thénsrggfimglgg igvelulng- evel'yborl in the nrlchborhood m “ llamaboum 0f [ms °nuemm"'thi8 Mr. Miller?" 7
is i. Q on mean that it is not 8 l _ 9 l _ on y wenty. and not countiii ' _’ ‘ 3' 9W, Lesbia ad s1ltTereclsv-v . ' suppose 30' "1 mppose (but is the
I “1911119, rich WltllOllt_ losing onc‘s self-respxcztgtli’we to 302(13):]: 0:? nthknqc‘f'downs ever-Y day- N0, Sil‘. 110% I awhigifi’ietgkthe V'CSthl‘d far from being fatal. slug-5g; $5.331???” co-lslrse Open to me". only ‘
i [said no such thing. But the“ Pm a lawyer ye aflo t A 1 lE_W01$t,bllli, I believe, the very worst when t V was all aglow, acriticaistate, being strictly forbiddenb th day in Oh, no. You are wrong there: if you do not
1 sins        or its. .33.; titfiiflmia" 0f “rm.   guc~l“a“glo‘iz.§:isitrs to speak or herself     £352: our“:  WW   at an:
re. recommen ye to o to old Wallis ' " Hugo 11 any time and , ‘ that the ubiquitous re ortels w ’ . 3“ anl'aSSiStance from him. It is in
 {itll yawn Out of him, as ong as Ye keep ' 9!?522 lslll’l'zl‘lge: mil-truth: M11 D“‘llgla38. qulldlfgporlggslgliggcfi‘ilgtedl scene of the accident. ike vlll'turgg tgotlllgd 1:43.133  Signfitalmn‘l and I mum 88’ there is some-
“But figwaglfiaUIdOthatg” mp.,,.si,fe ii beamed," 98 1p but would take the To thm e f m ggtb'gggb glfnligi fiat ibeltlnamo 31:38 publish it in the 15mg keel: hintillgltfsgglgfllllg'covll ind? ll]? “it”
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it Get an ye can m the way of wages, and if the old thighs?) 112:, Silk] liailph, mth a shudder, “you make The sinking sun was chasm“! by t e mity, y 3 Of the sufferers to me as if your father labored under a misa lpre-
magrx'gtiigsjzgttgfilgtriréfabe its”? {vi/«"883. . (“w-ad? will tfigv killagagegi'gtimhfiit what do you Arid allharound and about ithd' The mafidnme watched over the girl with as much gigggn. glacial}?! llltlll'uié‘tled yilotu {lo the care (ll this ,—
3“ l ‘ , n mus: o (oin ." l ‘ . son.’ cnt ousan' n cure ast emostl ' -. ' - ' 9n y 0" t at me ' -
e tiéPEzinrtfip'dn riguimgis only comdmongense and jus_ sir‘ fligiggélii glut who oppose them. In a word, Wéifle a sea ofdsl‘llgnlglgs {13:05 gfillghlel‘, and “1131135lggllfigcgfligfigfitggcfifig 31(1):: 112.2%“; fl‘wtsl'lnplkl’ Digging your I’lgs‘s‘amgdanbg 
 ‘. - ave a goo contract or he'll JH . u - ' iretched away on .311: enritical moment had ~ ed . D you 0 00 on for yourself' csbl '
ii si‘m ye aiwan , ornbleg cried the young miur “ but is t] ‘ l crhand . , paos , and that there “as my dear I am a v 1 ' ' . a,
i, 1. i . . . no wa f ,, . . ., . lel‘e A1 <1 aworld cf hap chum-e no doubt of the girls com lete rec v ' ° ’ .- "5' p {lln‘SPOI‘en “'Oman‘ end In
i 0.13:“? gig I submit 1!; to you before I sign it, - “lt’g aiollluetlefltlggl alt: All I can hope to do i to Stood before Himplzl a band:1 Emit thgi‘lfinlsil‘esslcllf the hotlse felt cguldy  {eggelltilélzfigaégfiailvoiftmen; and'it souyred
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... . ‘ - , ‘ ' in or a would ' 11113111 scene! a octor. wh had . - Warm . not beli “ "
¥ ; withl‘i’ign lfiopci-gngh’t gid thiin hhave more talk I 3:1; thasten matters, but lock your cabin door every Hi}: :11];an go be $51.0“ Eilysician for 579.33, “33:13:35? grillggfiesméfill’; 2:138:18 waste. Cl‘eéltul‘e in the world3 Oslinilsvégtli; it:
V , i are s a on i t e on- in -‘ .- . gorious semnei .yk in the ii, f I v '0 Care wo s raws bu somewa v, ~ - f 
i it'lllltives in the office, all waiting: to thmftefilggfig wxiliuipggfge IgVOI‘dls Jellifl'e prose and moved for. And my fancy gnaw yet stronger, Stranger, afilllouglll Iléellligfi‘fifilfihggtm wow] ened my Smbbm'n 118,831.“ I liked 31,413.03 11:38:31. "
a Wlefi lggiilgxgllosselor’ig as I've the name, I may as . as if fie had fiuggmiggelgtge to 131s cabin, feeling a: git w1tlil¢£ne accord word about the matter in any way er d a fnot‘o‘v lance igufihave beg: here that liking has ‘own .-,
i l .1 1 y. ~ pow or magazine a; . 1 usan sand viola After com lean" his 1 ‘ 0W2. .eaven d been kind to me n ‘
S Afidtfleshowed Jasper out. the clients nudging onrgoilldwgttfiysusrgiepdandanre atthe other, Soundedinharmon uschord. de arr, he Pepmarlied to £31329“°"' 8‘ be me to “"9,” ‘sifi‘l‘flb‘e "m I would now hay: begin: '
i ellicth 9 e1 and liiurmurlng comments on the nature ‘ tars continued tile)? after this conversation mat. Then the wond vi: 1 we will snon have 0“ “1;. on hav 1 daughter a you to cheer me in the old age which
: fnoqttbgatijefglllgigilfilo iii“c811iglliltlmzi‘otii1 hadI been held, I worse, the cmelfys of 3115 0313);;38 nillerhalps guiltthie And the sun 813:1: ouifiglndfid, wortiiciaclrfully in four-an -twent‘ ours eAll]u {3:32 Iiiiirylggnnlla’; eigeng ownge- Lesbia. my darling’ . .
Z n e e 16 at aspermust fcu tth ' ' ore m t 9 And th " ll 9 now is time and care i rsl s y ere“ ukeadaugh‘er t0 "‘0 I
r be some noted forger m. confidence_man on t , rses o c sailors deeper, but on the night of the e angels and the chi] ['91) need not be at .d to m an 118. and you I am a rich woman amp} able to t k .
of hiS fine Clothing, and cultivated face . accoun fourth came the change. Were but clouds all tinted bright, on know m t k 3 little. Not too much am 1y able to 've’ on he a e “"9 0f 3'0". 2:
Jasper resumedshis walk t0 the Quaker where hé Igloutglass had not retired until late, and he sie t A1631 thle fancy that was broken {I omens 376510le eglll‘ogfilirgo excmia Yourself, and the gir as you are glugh to havgwfigmfih  2 »_.
533w “1% Senator lived. and soon after reached the I Iwgslp:;t?§llyug§laliczwend bOltce during the night 8 Yetglll ghxlglféllfil‘ipicm]? ng' amp immediately -" m ng you mum; and fire‘ ' y ' "
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its own grgund §urr3121$363m3§1tglgégrtlhecgiiggt 2; had dl§t3rbed him.’ As he dressedc ls: ggeboednght: pm that heave 3’ music ring. em” flutg-l‘llllel 13333,” “IL 311'." the girl replied. in her lOW, there f3: m;c:nlb£g 2%:618133; 3?: begs ‘3
Elver‘ffeem’ 0" “' ‘0“ the Snow hung, twinkling in ‘ a al.1313311ng orehtls gab-m “nailing? do"? mm“ Was it all an idle fancy? “011 yes. no doubt about that " Mi 3 that there was anyone in this. world that couldailxi‘l it 
nail; log the gaiJamps‘ whiie everything in and deck above (1031: limb 31d that mm mm the Or was it: something more? market her imperious tones softening.” gigdlgkg ~bmsutsn°w that the Sllnsmne Of your presence falls -
to say of 1113331531.?031 the wealth Ohm ow”er no” 811185. e an across the heavy was lg.flnil’gmaglnationr {$03332 hf’IPIC‘SS Fit], “for a more ‘obedient child 2:1 hagggtt‘fe’eltthfeovmd lug am. pm and I £603 
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For the wanis mansion, Wm, iis semicircuiar Ih Hemuched ltwith his (glitter- It was yet moist' Didrl clutch ihgiflnthat thfire’ Icsbinsmle r3313?" mm" Them'emmlgetsl?e of both f hem 
Cerntllian porch. its pillared front and carved sto ’ e smelled or m it was bl l ’ ave I seen th 1?ng “we” refrain from g d ' yf and the docmr could “0" this POiDt. for Lesbia. too {:1 bee O t a l
tmmmnis’ had the reputation of 0°“le 1110111: I Plflxcegthudder ran throngh mm' Wm" had taken ‘ Was it all arevellitlltlali‘ighty Throne. hellualnted wfifffieemmmz $51I§Tifi°° he had been tmcted toward her hostesa. n Strangely a. I
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3.1 1wyide y house m Chicag“ Even as he asked himself 1. . Or a fancy or my own? 1101‘ t0 be so maclous. ver kn°wn I “m “end 3. trusty "lessen r to and out an 2‘
stone mp9 wiggeaziiiggillgfighui) to the door, and the his door startled him He at“; “3337 3 km“ 8" gigs; Brandon followed the doctor into the hall 32°“ thgler. and when is done it will be ‘ 
.. ‘ ' ’ ’ ' Ql‘acom an of 301- ‘ “ W1 1 h n ' y. ecan converse now with ' - 683, r ascend” "110nm th 3" - ‘
dIU‘S to march up abreast while 1211 ~ ' I 1. {95‘ @re? Ont any danger of it Jous tooonceal ' a 890 m ‘
who opened the door had, a seveme aggchaxggf; i DJcliiffe. sir. Open the door." dqilnéeherigngfig s," M put forward abgltsteilggnhflimty'to'mgsi'. (ibud’ Egbert, m 
253:9“. “if unused to bowing to any one who did . ensue?! 113190235: ntd (I! viigs and obeyed. His friend 8  0 I e  I strengtsli n 0308 not to overtax her shallbe free hose 11 y ove t 11 You
1 come miscarriage ofso k .s 00' edoorbe ' him u ' ' Les ' been ' ,
i When he saw Jasper hallo—$131111 heard his “’2‘; 9"“: hmd ' and ’ mnl’ngglgflggrlb fOPIihallbe able to find out some matrte‘l-tfo: her to 331%. 5:31:- ttllmtltit was a 'd'mcm ‘3
lr Daniela}. hfi wusseliirgceedlnsgalf1 pointy, séying: ' deadt'fi 001118! The captain and first mate are 03; u eisastrangertoyou than. as I ansmted?" don quickly checked her Whenansh: 823235112”; . ,
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sail, you. wig to be ghoul, into dealtfg: givga‘fi‘del‘sv Youn _Douglass could not speak fora mom t JOB PHENIX, n XO'S’dai perm“ fitmnseriand yet she seems as Items anodd 
. senator is at dinnah‘ sail, and will be Oglgidirebkge i Triniyf t isdwas mutiny on the high seas en . I 3:21:33“; eealljsigtririe are}; it! tsilie was my own child. the hand of Hmmggg 2.31;}: tilde Ilost/955 said. 
sub.” 1 . eare asmucb ” he at len 11 ' . . ’ ' u en. you know I‘m an I
l “biontlfienyoimgé lman was ushered into a library I {333' s‘t'atlliliss ozafiegkpe," andgthe t: 13:;    “$112530ng laughed and departed ‘ CHAPTER XXIX. I
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foot sunk into dee ’car ' ' a ,Ay, returned his friend “th ' A Thrilhn Sto of He - Tm ‘Dv‘x'runl
ii fire burned in a m fire-11538632313 :hlelrlgbltlswood- i veins. They were killed just abbve ugligxémfloug; g ry . w York me by CHAPI‘ER XXVIII. sass“,  crime on the Part of the secret as-
, covered with books in gorgeous bindi Zlatuggg I 313:" 8'ndfitubbed to death just as the watch ch 6 Day find Night AFTER the doctonlfissmdvs i?“ bounded rage e m at the mmmendem With un- *
i aild  on brackets, and the most llxurious of but Elm'ffng‘ dEvery man “the crew is.“ the Pl0t BY AL ‘ tUI‘uPdw the invalid's aeplz‘t m Miss BMdon re- “The infe'nal Scoundrel!" 11 01164 " 
, gaunt, thlt'llrsdaléd low library tables, here and they gasfinbfisghgytgaaf 01in] let me live because A OR 01,. .. BERT ‘v' AIKENv “Now my dear thanlgagogidfilret. ill be to defy 0‘" Power! Phenix fills villain He 
lel't‘. sea ere a cut. I.“ e 8 Witho t 013 JOE PHFNIX. > ’ - ’ . SS 0“ W. able ' mus P
; it was a room that look ed as it a great author 1 {they tamed of killing, but I peguadedliheullle.ou¥%1; u WITCHES OF NEW: Yogi??? .iggijcBiESPYm £?ails:g(1 sallfiitgfigwbesides yes and nozn she up i Eggflfléfi’fllngégfilt‘ ngtllfigcfiiit oontsth or how finest the I' f...‘
~ 1 _ gifilgivgill::0y¥;£1gléeltl hi: it for years and never wished . 'Douglass shuddered DETECTiVE n l. LA M‘ARMO_ and seaied heme“. in an easy-chair up to the bedside mi; office the better it will bemfor 51.32%? “Sign .1.
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" I . Filo if air of cleanliness andebrlafllllelfillieevlveqllilillqiti;r   e flrllgdeldery 1113‘“ What's their plan now, SET,” ETC" ETC. “ Eu‘zixggg 13:33 giggle meantgoll thegggggrgfisvggl’aggefilgggéhat at a" hm I
. a“ i i at gave one the impreggion manner” wor . i w ey owit me?“ —— been fl. _ i. very g . too; You have Another in: too o .
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 I I' 1  361?.I‘tflervlast thing ever attempted in that chambellc' I the llgmsm ngtilgllilfihglllnllll§§um? inn-End tlio "‘11 to  nenrlypfwfivsg:kgéaggegeglhg%gip§?gelioi?§l§; for maize? “g m u n 811:; Egggzgagegnfl’gopfiig’e‘;
1 v i i . " i- . u I thin the ma i . - romise em any- 13mm had been «he si‘  f ' always protesting that itisunut ' - '5 are "909 e(“101)01 91' or more remarkable
' A in: OVJ) went in and remained b .the fire, looking yomgmay Cage on dhfis the only means of saving lowed on the “30k 0} the 91533 hound who had fol- a woman to refrain from talkixiilbllmposslblht for His bravado was wonderful. Instead of di .
. I . V .‘ s(.;;t0:'c(ll130‘f‘llh \iltOItigSIgnghtg b1mself what the cerned I must go ,, 00 at once and appear uncon- clew to the way she had Egon: mABlulleaso b.2121” {id 3 I madame. with a snifi' of contempf" “Chum the 890W"? 0f the bodies of his victims as is mm. ’ ' ‘
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it” V asiitcctlof a man of letters, an: hisyrlegultgtllgns will: I  Vf'QPdtsj the second mate left Rajpmwho ggiéhls clew could not be followed to any decide: horilfifilnvuhd smiled at the earnestness of her . fslllstloggg‘llft‘lll Infill?ng will a (lend.
.. T” V. ‘3' (1m 8 l 1:} reverse. . .1 3 “911 ’8 instructio folio ' ' ' . ‘ l ' ’ p" . c P 3093
 F. ' l He finally concluded that the libra was h bl Ideck within afew moments ns’ wed mm on boTh‘flgifl v5“ “laced ‘0 “‘9 train—She bnarded it m‘ énqt'n-(fw that Y9“ 9” unwed ‘0 Converse you 33:13: 'fiill‘i “Iecied’ 9nd how such 9 thing could
if «i 0913'. another form of ostentationrlyn theprngilfiany IcaEpguThlfictWas qli’iiet and Jellifle was evidently pigtgiyfg 312W 1251‘: ins me'} fis‘arllearc‘d as 001111 1118181 fidifi‘gu’gilg 11:33.1; ' I am 8' {lather Odd wo’ I Cum‘ltant‘e all; $11.33; $33,531“ whee was a d"
a . alre 5 case, in which he was probabi . abo t .Y'h ' 1 in a as we asname, for the ship was in Bi - .36 -a vans led into thin air “i; E v . , v 3’ says t at I am. and head; of A t . and experienced .
~ ..-. and then he began to wonder when tii‘ u "is 3. perfect order and all command ount had tinted up the conductor wh '1 .‘a e‘erybOdY,8ays must be true. I was ridi A m-u. wo worth'es'
. . . _ _ esenator was 1,: ed. 5 were Pmmptly charm of the t ' th - 0 ma our the mad bulls. h - . . D8 The bodies must be iron»: 3* ‘
i 90111111". ion the house was v 0 ~ One thing however 1;}; " mm at morning. but that ~ .. new 9“ the 1‘ alluay acolclent oc- ~ ‘po “ed to the 10081“!
f 7 'a 1112!. ththe clock on the nléfiesgggtt and the tick' “0‘ 06d. which was that the enumecrgguag man could not remember anything about any sue-(hm l c—mwd andl reached the Scene just in time to see allele they were feund b means or “We vehic'el l "I
. «. ' audible he only sound deck together and thatm h 11' . “8.0” senger as Miss Mnrdol altho ~11 o hi .3011 brought from the shattered car o I “low they've"? remove fm‘hecam 600th ' ’
 .'  ;' - . . on “c w ‘3 “Hg was 8‘0 owned unless th ~‘ v n‘ -’ ,a" L frmlkly : than alive. I don’t k n ' ’ 1110.", dLa2d ground Without excmn D0“ sag o "'
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. _ L 1.1 nqnced doubie swmgmg doorS ashe came 118 em. ortly after renkfast, whllgfi strikin‘g about th lad“, Quiet 1111; unusual and .thin (vm to m H... Y1 Wasi dear I can t Diligent inquiry revealed W t m)" cry. ._
I _ ' i 11.1; and attributed the silence to them. and the la ‘ was prepared and served "1 the cabin as usual ex- were that l: e ’1 S 51p p0 5‘? mice” the Chances I touule ‘l‘lcf it w- yse ' hm mmemmg Winspered fiat-IO 0f 801118 dfscri t' 6 net that a Close car. I I
i I, 5”,» of the house 1'86 cc t that Douglass ate alone instead of with C 1 . _ 0 would not have no.1cc-rl her (rouwi i M  °“ . as my dmy $010011 after you and as p Ion—the omcer Who had 911-
;, Turn, as he was beginning to grow a. little im I Jgti’l‘mny and when he had gone on deck agaéliptgg :33?“ “1180 factftiiat she was on the train, particu‘lafrl; g...” 1,“; linly’vlll-T‘ivel—ttlofilllluch so. Sometimesil'for my i nctleass—red iInfill 383100;?“ Wigstlliwt exam”, sure or
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, ., , 'r . ‘ l _ g man D11. em; . _ I bl ought here ‘ 3011 minutes before the t - .
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. Sim Win17. fol-“vnrd with the ease of a I T e youn man hesitated. To be bound b aware. and it was not until almost two wcellg art“; . 0:: i to solid mud to my f1‘f011d’3lllat was safe " ' figoc. 1? Ens!) t atall sure about this. and the car-
3 i tiniiiioriii‘ flying: woman of ' gala]: wfitotogné terrible, for he meant to keepytgg dlisa peg-Elf? (ftue girl that any unangcm-Cm i ii ‘Etnliillggr: yoitmld there wasmi; an need of , boltéilflgf’tlvgztgnéfin 1? 1§°filidmwn b a single
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 Illilr. Iliay; brat he!3 has a ba1l's‘lille‘sesptclillu £30.33 s m8§°y$filnzge ‘53 b58131 adrift er hand” It would be eséfgegogog’tgglftrace the gli-l‘s footsteps after 5119 ! LI.?t"jgvfif‘ab?isty;our £3219." I tmub e I {iii-'lkd‘lfé'x‘: ltch-Lesrtecdgikalhd t1lJe animaL r anhfl— I
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 V to be 111 1rrcd. and '011 f- a - ‘ g mg 11,1111 by the most anul oath ’ work: ’ =   true. 19. i on ._ h) judlcmus “pm in '19 ascertain it
a . mm your “10w “Gaga” r atllcr Wishes me to deco- ‘ a;l knOW'lndg-e he had or mig‘gtmg ggll‘flymrct Shc discovered where the water had found its wit I ' L J n.” {can “RPM-in." “EV-(Of, tale “{lvemklIt-W ought 01‘s) cgach which bad
  celthl‘gmkolm a Ilia-(111 hamh Way‘ as if he “'3”th to $313331?" Two Brothers' Then he W88 permitltlegg Eggdthéfigdagsaabtrgg‘len b?r?i-Sla"el fortunately a); I he" i=‘o‘1‘552r3‘  (Ephllgtiog may net be a pleasant i gt is(fen "irlljlbfillrmmbeny Street on a certain mam
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ii. 3 short”: a e subJect quickly, and added, ! That night his friend Jeliifle came .n t” m to dig a hole under the. edge (li‘:1§§thfé§:§(1t$;ttsi§ l 1 ,2;ngwa loo must not. tliigkfuc-(lllllll Illa? 16?}; ‘ i.1me‘.m‘i,“hl1°vm°nlxproceeded accord‘ mills own
13‘, i “ I fear I must decline the task. for several pea- caum- as” d  she crawled to the open air. 11° I  (9“ _"y into your secrets. By some odd ca. ; 11:19:11: cfam‘g .anlm’zl‘d Wm] the s“ ' mendem‘ 3
q. i sono- We touch tomorrow at a mu . on she fled. as rapidly as possible 1 -  m' 1‘ 11 grcat intercst in on as gm g - 1 ’ communication, so tint eac could mach
3i. 1 Erlllll had raised her brown eyes to his witl l k i‘sed as a confine sumo” for EnESSlilsElgel-gggais W'stfiout attracting observation am ’ lucmly' If)“ youir “we” and 0" lh“ F 111‘ of 5the momenItl lat-lsI I t'h’le‘loucxlprt m almos‘ any time'
.9. I _. .  , V \ _ l a 00 I have advised th ' - r. e walked srz-aiwhi ,..' - ‘ ' . . v (‘l‘mmw that "nu rho id _- g 16 e cctive was now satisfied tb t,
1 _ of Slil pl 101 .lshe spoke, and the color \vellerl u . 8 crew to put, you ashore Th , . .5 ~ 0w In time came to a roll. ,. n - - u 11 Well cared for and it . a - t k. . a he had made
:i. 1 her face. Fora moment she loosed a m ‘ Dover 3 will do 80. Remember your oath forth 1‘} 't 95’ roadtracn‘ and lollosed it until slip {iv-rived f  ; mm1 :. could save. your life it should be saved A ' {ms 8 " “1 endeavor“)? to 9mm the assassininhi.
 1 fueling ollzmmli t ‘ . ‘- “ ' "*‘Y1 the“ F113 1 of treache would resu ' v ' e m ’90“? debut. Wbeic slic urchw: .3 A in; I; - "' '3 1t0 war) and what ou were 1 - ‘ S ' 0““ PTO 1' person. but s'nce h]; rese ing
;i wiih .11 sllcl.lbsulilgfonlttlung else, as she asked him, ' reach. andrr'lune cemniifilln your death if Within » exactly asthe depglt masts; hllilalegérifigil‘ew York a ll'nugm'" y ’ never gave me matter  decayed web 8'” Old familiar sequggtgnce 1::
 I “ Blizllt ' ask what those reasons area" I ‘90“31898 agreed. but said: BM "‘ “‘5 stalemem m Blmm‘. the station-n cut I pawn"; “33"”!!! to conceal. and ronll 0' llureumendem' he fen m that no one else I I
i, ‘. .“l'pwi-i'v‘l' to keep them to inyqelf u'niess i , , Why do you not take the same oath and lea had made a slight mistake. but, a mistake wfiinh ‘ "Ti" lime to relate: the smry of my l‘fe'is plalii ' “(P-""0 able to penetrate it“
‘L $15” im'rpiiiied, constrained” for he felt 31:01: fil- 1 with me?" ve thlew the searcher ot’fthe track « ant uneventful. although there is somethillg of 1  w “S plan wasa simple one; for the third time he
., i was zfittinqton Yer). deiicate gnvmml a. e muggligy will tnot. let me." said I, J “.30. l. I 11:31:12? regard to the day and train that. the girl  is cgnggctailwitlhlit,” the g1” re iied' .. M; i “$5052ng ‘0 tr); the scheme which had already been
“U t C” "”'¥ not," she r‘t -' ' l. mam Quavigate the sbi .l’ I . '  . ' a I“ ‘ 3‘10. and I was rou l . "   gamu'
gasiiciii)? “it IS not for me liol);;%(lig to.) [gig “ $1.1“ iiiex Wiuikiii you next-“P bliehhml gone on an afternoon train on Tuady I  butI huve an idea from some $55.33? 3 atllnv'clifia‘tnbghfim 3“ Of a wealthy stranger had
Vuurniotives. But you are mistaken in one mi | 8) might if drunk, not otherwise No. ml _ an“  8 man behcved she had taken the first train ] 4“ «1‘1 ed expressmns, that at variot .~‘ timcs tlié b - hi 1. a r"10f.“193551195111undhad {alien
3... not going. to b8 unified, and_,. 11g. . stay by and run the Two Brothers into some farm 1 0110 W-dnasday. ‘ iii-iv ‘xjvilollad charge of me let fan, that I am Amp“ . flows] i He. Plienlx, had also succeeded, a1-
V,i.-i.-_.i.o_w pushed up to his temples‘am he exclaimed re rtthe death by natural causes of my Su'peia-og. ! ,. “13: 9: Slight matter, apparently and under or. milils‘i-l' lgl'th- My mothw I never knew, and I was post-31" ii] 5108‘?“ tho “'Omim, Whom he had sup-
"k‘h'h‘lly: 0 licel‘s‘ find the“ escfipe-n ' “Ina” c'rcumsmlmei‘ “1 Would not have made an '  I wile med when 1““ only two ears old. I was a - r0 tl ' e rvmg mane-r ‘0 Le (ml-V a (“0053 115d
" 'Xot win: to be married? Oll say that i f . But if they will not let me go tomorrow ] diffrrence. but llzistime it did, 5’ r.‘ {In “3 "D In a little country vi llgc about lift in?“ s”? -‘ become the Principal: He had cscaped
‘r‘, i S Kai:  1 - 1, 8g}! n or can You force It?” , 10w Thu flftfll'flqnn train ran 01: L110 travk in cmssi] I D'Ull S from London.  father, who “138 a qtranqéy r    a lucky Chance. and now  L
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mg” 1‘11‘. Jun was only pecan.“ i 3‘. . yr}. , ~' ‘ ' ' ~I _ I '. 1 way all t e train mo 1 . - I. “ .. ' g If. " , , 6 me at rare in! ' a ‘ ' , ' , .- k 1 l cocci. 1n inclicin the assassin
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of the fashionable u town hotels. So be resolved to
favor the BI'CVOUI‘t ouse with his patronage.

A week went by: l'hcnlx spent his money freely,
cutting: ulte a dash, and supporting the c aracter
ot’ a w I thy creole sugar- )lanter from Southwest-
gz'n Louisiana. to the life, ut never a bite did he

ave.

He was in constant communication with the chief
and so was kept posted in regard to the search for
the mysterious carriage.

The superintendent succeeded no better than the
detective, and was obliged to come to the conclusion
that the carriage was a private one; so, with all the
force that he could muster, he was endeavoring to
make as close an examination of the private car-
riages in the city as he had made of the public ones,
a task not easily accomplished.

Phenix, on his part, since he had failed to attract
his pro ' in the places which he had frequented, com-
menc to widen the scene of his operations. .

“ Possibly I have not aid attention enough to the
nether side of New Yor life," he mused. A South-
ern lan'er with plenty of money, visiting the city
for t e pur osc of enjoying himself. would be cer-
tain to see. a the si his, particularly the ones that are
only to be found a ter dark. The secret slayer seeks
men With money in their purses, e 0, then, I must
take pains to let all the world know t t I am rolhng
in wealth."

To those who dwell within the gates ofGotham,
and are possessed of the necessary funds, it is not a
difficult matt: r to find guides to the lairs wherein the
“tiger” lurks, ready to prey upon all who are rash
enough to dare his claws and teeth.

Phenix easily procured admission to all the high-
toned gainblin establishments, and in order to keep
up his assume character, he played with the reck-
less air of a man to whom money was no object.

For a week he kept this up, being mihtly to be
found at some one o the gilded gaming ells of the
metropolis, and rarely returned to his hot/cl until
three or four o‘clock in the morning.

Numerous attempts were made by the well-dressed
sharks, ever on the watch in such cities as Ne av York
for unsophisticated strangers, to obtrude themselves
on the wealthy creole, but Phenix. with his wonder-
ful knowledge of the night-birds of the city, uickly
perceived that they were mere vulgar ‘, and
not the big game he sou ht.

Phenix, being a man 0 ice, never allowed the ex-
cltemeut of play to influence him in the least, and,
as is a general rule in this life, fortune smiled upon
his ame; the blind goddess being noted for favor-
ing the indifferent souls who rather scorn than seek
her smiles.

Luck favored him so much that the gaming—house
keepers an to hate the very sight of his tall and
handsome ure.

One particular night, the ei hth one that Phenix
had devoted to this quest, an d incident occurred.

The detective about midnight had strolled into
what was popularly called the ‘ boss ” gami -house
of the City, a palatial brown-stone mansion on
Twenty-third street, where the largest “ game" in
the metropolis was $18. ed, and which admitted only
within its walls the ig -toned sports of the city.

Representative men, bankers, lawyers, politicans,
and the young bloods, who possess more money
than brains, lounged in the sum tuously-furnished
parlors, discussing the to ice of t 3 day, or partook
of the elaborate lunch w 'ch was served regularly
at twelve o’clouk, flanked with the finest wines and
11 uors, all free as air to the patrons of the house.

he Bon Ton Club the place was called, and those
who were not in t .e secret sup it to be a club-
house, pure and simple, whi in reality it was
nothing but a regular gaming-hell.

This night Phenix was out of sorts. He began to
feel annoyed that he had not succeeded in getting
in n the trail of his prey, and the question arose in
hfimind if he had not better adopt some other plan
than the one that he was pursuing).a
He was eng ed in mentally de ting this subject
when he sat own to pllay, and so for some httle
time he made his bets tip-hazard, paying little at-
tention as to how the game was oing.

There was a slender dark-fac young man on his
right hand as he sat own, and Phenix noticed that
he looked like a foreigner and was evidently deeply
interested in the game, betting heavily, and, as the
detective perceived in a short time, with decidedly
bod luck.

The cards ran out, the board was cleared of the
chips; a fresh pack, after bein dul shuffled was
placed in the dealing-box, an a n the “ ake
your game, gentlemen,” of the do or was heard.

The dark young man at a hundred dollars’ worth
of chi s on the king, an Phenix, in the jargon of the
gamb ers, “coppered” the king with fifty dollars'
worth of chips to lose.

This action instantly excited the stranger. With
flashing eyes and a voice hoarse with suppressed
passion, yet modulating his tone so as not to excite
the attention of any of the gamesters, he turned to
Phenix and said:

“ What do you mean by that! Do you desire to
cast a s 11 of ill-luck upon me? Do you ‘cop r'
the ca with fift to lose just because I bet a un-
dred that it woul win?"

“ Your action, sir, in bettiu upon the card had
nothing in the world to do wit mine. You think it
will win—I think it will lose; that is all there is to it,"
Phenix replied, calmly, thinking the young man had
allowed the excitement of the moment to get the
better of his judgment.

“I have not won a stake since you came to the ta-
ble, and you have bet against me in the most per—
sistent manner. If the king loses there will be trou-
ble between us!" the other cried.

(To be continued—command in No. 13.)

The Blue light.

I! ANTHONY P. MORRIS.

“QUICK, Sanford! here it is!”

The exclamation broke from a young man who
was seated at the window Of his boarding-house, in
an up-town locality of Baltimore.

The hour was near midnight.

On the oppOsite side of the street was a rival
boarding-house. Sanford Marlo and his chum, Dick
Dwight, had previously llVPd t ere, but, driven to
des eration by the ways of an ungracious landlady,
had? removed to lodgings in the house at an upper
window of which we find Dick Dwight_watching, at
this late hour of the night, with owl-hke patience,
across at No. 165.

There w as mstery about 165.

These two observed every night, shortly be-
fore the hour Of twelve, a singular circumstance
connected with the third-story front room.

Sly Mrs. Gloggs wished to give the appearance of
always havin a full house, and, whether the rooms
were occu i or not, strictly insisted upon burning
lamps in t e front :gartmeuts during n' hts.

Sanford, who h been dozing in , sprung
out at his friend’s call, and the two became en-
grossed with looking over toward the mysterious
room.

It seemed, as viewed through the panes, as if the
room was radually involved in an inexplicable halo
of blue. his grew more and more ositive till a
certain instant, when it paled with rap dity, followed
by total darkness, as if by a sudden extinguishnient
of the lamp.

“Well, Dick, it certainly is strange."

“ Every night the same thing."

“ What can it mean?”

“I intend to find out."

0‘ HOW?‘D

“ going back to live with Mrs. G] ."

“ Y%u'fl go alone, then. Nothing woul induce me
to tolerate that woman.”

Dick Dwight, in accordance with his determina-
tion, called next day at the boarding-house.

Here a tremendous surprise, a sensation, awaited

In.

A most In sterious death had occurred.

A young maker, who had arrived from the
North on the day before, had been assigned to the
third story front. In the morning she did not ap-

ar at breakfast and an investigation discovered
figr to be dead in her bed.

A detective was prom tly summoned.

An examination of t ie room which was 005in
heated by a register, ex sed nothing extraordinary.
It was a decidedly com ortable apartment, notwit -
standing the incongruity (If two small tin revolving
ventilators in the window-panes.

There was no positive evidence of foul play or sul-
cide. excepting that the skin of deceased was slight-
ly discolored.

At about this period the authorities were on a
quiet lookout for a noted bu lar who was suspected
in connection with a recent eavy burglary in Jer-
se City. So far no trace could be obtained of him.

Three days after the burial of the young dress-
maker—an overhauling of whose effects had given
no clew to friends or relatives—Mrs. Gloggs had an
up licant for the third story front.

e man had a ullargppgarance, with watery
0 es and a very eavy r ard' but he had a
p entiful supply of money, of which Mrs. Gloggs was
a worshiper.

He laughed contemptuously at the idea of there
being an thing supernatural about the death of.the
dressma er, and was duly installed in the mysterious

room.

Dick Dwi lit, with all his resolution had inwardly
confessed h mself too great a coward to dare what
the new boarder did.

This in‘livldual, who gave his name as Buxby, dilly
retired to the room and to his bed. The night passed

uietly.
q At early dawn Dick ran across to the room of his
friend.
“ Well ?" he said, interrogatively.
“ The same.“
“You saw the blue light last night?"
“ Exactly as usual."
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l “ Out-“new friend, Mr. Buxby, is rather a. late
s ee r.

“ 'cs; he‘s not come down yet," answered the
landlady, uneasily.

A: the expiration of an hour Buxby was still ab-
sen .

Going to his room, a horror was revealed.

He was as dead as a man could be, stiff and cold
in his bed!

A sudden and terrible suspicion flashed u n the
mind of Dick Dwight. Could it be possiblct at Mrs.
Gloggs was a thief, or, worse than that, a murder-
ess? The dressmaker was known to have had a
good supply of money; Mr. Buxby, too, had made
an ostentatious display of greenbacks.

Again the detective was summoned; it was the
same one who had been called in, only to be utterly
baffled, in the case of the dressmaker.

Matters were becoming alarming.

But this time there ensued a. discovery in regard
to Buxby. Bending down to examine the co se,
the officer gave a. cry. He grasped the bushy 
kcrs and tore them from the deathl face.

“ By Jove! the very man l” burst rom his lips.

“\Vho is it?"

“ W'hy, Sneak-toe Sam, one Of the ugliest burglars
known. He’s wanted in Jersey City, this minute;
but by this remarkable death he’s given the jailer
the slip. Here is his picture,” and from his pocket he
drew a photograph that fully identified the dead
man after the removal of the false ' .

An examination of Mr. Buxby’s traveling-bag
showed a receipt given by the Safe Deposit company
on South street. nquiry at the company’s office re-
sulted in the finding Of t e missing money and (110w-
elryih 351d the authorities of Jersey City were uly
no .

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ut it was not to end here.

“ Mrs. Glo ,” said the detective, “I wish to oc-
cupyghc t ' story front room.”
‘ , sir; aren‘t you afraid?" ~

“ Oh, I know my danger, and shall sleep with one

eye open.”

but up alone in the room, he went about retiring
precisely as a. man would with a mind wholly uncon-
cerned. But no sleep touched the watchful eyes.

And all the boarders in the house 1.". awake in
momentar expectation of being start ed by the
noise of a erce struggle with the mysterious assas-
sm.

It was just before midnight that the detective ex-

rienced avery peculiar sensation as he lay in a
alf-doze. At first this was of an exhilarating char-
acter; then it grew monstrously oppressive, and he
found himself sinking helplessly toward a state of
unconsolousness.

The lamp flame grew treacherously dim.

But he knew the secret at last!

With a great effort he sprung up and made for the
door. As he ained the entry, the light of the lamp
was extinguis Ied as if b a magic touch;

h required but a few outs to arouse the house-
0 .

“Madam,” e informed Mrs. Gloggs, “this house
is a death-tra l” .

“La, sir, w at is it? I’m ‘a’most worried out of
m wits."

‘ Lead the way to the cellar, please.“

Reaching the cellar, they found there a stalwart
negro lad pulling on his coat and making ready to
leaye after having fixed the huge furnace for the
nig it.

“ There, madam, you see the assassin.”

“ My goodnessl—the colored boy i"

“ No—the furnace."

The full explanation was soon arrived at.

It was the custom of the boy to replenish the fur-
nace r%ularly before his goinfi‘to bed at midnight.
In the no at the register in t e third story front
r :om there was a serious defect. An immense
draught of gas was injected into the apartment, suf-
ficient to kill any sleeper and extinlgllg'sh the low-
flamed lamp. Inthe dim light of the p this body
of gas first assumed a pal: bluish hue, visible at a
distance, but unnoticeable to a party enveloped by
it. The two small ventilators in the window-panes
were active enough to purify the room a aln before
morning, the gaseous volume be‘ more y transient
while dense enough to suflocate a uman, hence, no
one detected the odor of the silent and terrible as-
sassm.

Mrs. Gloggs prom tly had the flue repaired, and
many rsons since ave safely occupied the room.

And ut for the mystery of the blue light, the no-
torious Sneak-toe Sam with the secret of his rich

lunder from Jersey City. ' ht have remained
ong at large to puisue his bold epredations.

A lost Mine.

NEAR the boundary line between Potter and Tioga
counties, Penn, is a small, pure stream that has ts
head far back on a mountain thickly wooded with
dark pines and hemlocks. It furnishes drink for
many wild deer, and occasionall a bear or other
savage game. The stream is ed by numberless
springs Of the purest, coldest water, and although
sportsmen have haunted it for a long time there is
still a fair supply of trout in it, and plenty of game
in the forests through which it sses.

The name of this stream is 1k Run, and to the
stranger suggests game nobler than even the bean-
tiful eer that were so numerous recently,.but it has
been a long time since elk have been seen there, al-
though. at an old elk “ lick ” about two miles above
its mouth, it is said the In ansused to kill numbers
of them. From this elk lick, now a poverty-stricken

laster-bed with abundant sulphur water, the stream

erived its name, and at this ‘ lick " many deer were
killed, and some of the old hunters met adventures
worthy of a historian.

Like many backwoods settlements, this quiet
neighborhood has its legends and traditions, and,
Wm e thev ma have no other foundation than the
imagination, t ey have induced men to go to some
expense in t ng to find a more submntial basis
for them. he stran actions of Indians, with
whom, as a matter 0 course, these traditions are
associated, have fi'lven them more appearance of

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reason than usua characterizes such romances.
One of these traditions, and indeed, the leading
one, is of a silver mine of fabulous wealth, where
the Indians in the days gone by secured the precious
metal almost at pleasure to trade with the treach-
erous pale-faces who disturbed them in the famous
hunting-fields. Of the existence of this mine many
of the older inhabitants had no doubt, and, at one
time, leading men of the place—good business men
—-promised limited assistance to a visionary old
man in his profltless hunt for the great mine. But
his sudden death put an end to prospecting, and
there are on] the legend and some deep holes left
of the great lk Run Silver Mine.

The original discovery is said to have been made
by an Indian who was watching a deer-lick, and
who, seeing a light, aimed a spear at it, and in the
morning found the mine by digging in the mountain
near the light. This discovery was kept as the prop-
ert of the tribe to which the discoverer belbnged
an until they were obliged to leave the neighborhooc
was carefully worked and its secret guarded. At
last, obli ed settlers to leave, they covered every
trace of t e In nc’s existence and went awa to some
Western reservation. Here they engag in war
and for some years a struggle for existence kept
them from returning to their Elk Run treasure.
When the war was over, three or four were sent to
examine the mine and secure some of the silver.
The fact that these Indians were seen around the
su posed location of the mine is undisputed, but the
ob ect of their search is less clear.

or several days they mysteriously haunted the
legendary vicinity of the mine, but finally left, un-
able to rediscover what they had worked before the
coming of the wood-cho pers, who had so changed
the appearance of every hing that the “treble tree "
and ‘ old flat stone ” and sundry other marks were
insufficient to show the way to the silver mine. The
three returned bootlegs, and as a last resort the old
medicine-man of the tribe was sent to see if he
could not find what the others could not. Silent
and alone be searched the localit ', looki r vainly
for some familiar mark that shoul guide h m, until
he was taken dangerously sick at his boarding-place
and obli ed to stop hunting. Here he was cared for
by an 015 man. to whom it was said he imparted as
much of the secret as he himself knew, telling him
of the treble tree to the north of the mine, the
large flat stone to the east and a small spring brook
runnin near it; “and,” said the sick sachem, “if
you ting] it, you can shoe your horses with silver as
you do now with iron." _ _

The sachem died, and the old man likeWIse went
the way of all flesh, but not until he had communi-
cated his knowledge to another, who made an effort
to find the lost treasure. This man came from some
Western State to Elk Run and for months worked
only at night, digging by the light of the moon or a.
lantern, and returning ome before daybreak. He
lived With a son, and his nocturnal expeditions were
carried on so quietly that no one knew what he was
doing until some one stumbled upon the holes he had
made, and took the trouble to learn their history.
After this he worked more openly, and while he
averred his fear of assassination by the Indians in
case the found out what he was domg, he contlnu d
his wor , and his pros cting holes multiplied.
Steady and rsistent in his belief that he would find
silver, he an. d he knew it was there and that time
would reveal it. Dry holes did not in the least (115-
courage him. “It was the wrong place,“ he said,
“ but the Indian was right, and in a few months you
will see ‘Old Silver Skin ‘ was not crazy when he
came here to dig for silver."

In a few months “ Old Silver Skin " was taken sick,
and when his work was first interrupted he called in
ten of the lending men ant apposed that they should
give him two men and a team for three days. If by
that time he did not find the silver mine, he would
go away and not trouble the people with what many
termed his visionary schemes. _

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stream, and we can surely find it. I have looked
long, but it is them, and I will find it.”

_ The promise of assistance was given, and in child-
like confideuce that he would make the discovery
next week, when he was better, the Old man grew
worse and died. With him died the last worker and
hmiter for what is in all probability on] a tradition.
When he was dead some of the credu ous countly
people who examined his effects said a diary con-
tained a record of iron-bound chests sent away, and
they believed he had actually found the mine and
was digging all around to divert attention from his
real discover , but this is only evidence of the po u-
lar belief in t e myth, and the readiness with which
people in the mysterious woods pick up and preserve
what is tinctured with romance.

In some way the belief in a. silver mine has been
handed down from Indian to whites, and a very
small tributary of Elk Run is designated by the tra-
dition as the stream nearest the treasure.

 

 

Weekly Miscellany.

The Coming Sensation in Russia.

THE most gorgeous spectacle of the age is set
down for the 27th of May next at the historic Krem-
lin, in Moscow, when Alexander III. will be solemnl
crowned Czar of all the Russias and invested with
the flft -six titles attached to that exalted station.
Until t at im rtant ceremony is performed, the
ruler of the Co ossus of the North is a mere political
minor, without a handle to his name, and hardly in-
fluential enough to carry an anti—nihilist primary.
An uncrowned Czar, in the eyes of the Russian peo-
ple, is a. sort of political nondescript—a ruler that is
not at all a ruler. Hence the coronation is an event of
more than ordinary significance. As a spectacle it
will dwarf all the theatrical sensations of the day.
The Kremlin, that renowned spot where Napoleon
first met his fate and saw his star grow dim, will
present an exceedingly stn‘king appearance, with its
white walls, emerald-green fortifications, rose-tinted
entrances and golden-roofed cathedrals. The city
will be put in gala attire for the coming event, as
a law of the empire prescribes that every building
must receive three coats of white paint on such oc-
casions, intended. perhaps, as a species of political
whitewash. Amid the gorgeous rocession accom—
Banying the Czar to the scene of he coronal ion will

0 dcputations from a hundred peo )lOS that ac-
knowledge the sway of Russia. All t e pomp and
elaborate ceremonies of the Greek Church and the
barbaric splendor of an Oriental Court will surround
the newly-crowned monarch and his empress. A
grand mi itary display will be a feature of the occa-
sion. But imposing and attractive as the oflicial

rogramme is, those industrious subjects of the

zaruthe nihilists—intend to add some brilliant fea-
tures of their own which will surpass, in a sensation-
al int of view, eve hin else. Despite the energy
an watchfulness of he p0 'ce, there is a feeling of
dread that the coronation ceremonies will end with a
dis lay of fireworks not on the regular programme,
an that the Czar and his fifty-six titles will be sent
higher than even the throne of all the Russias.

 

 

“Freaks” Who Marry Opposites.

THE marriage of R. R. Moffit, the tattooed man,
and Miss Leo Hernandez, the bearded woman, led
old John Gear , the sword-swallower, who is the
ste -father of t e bride, to discourse at length to a.
Ph elphia Times reporter upon the marriage of
“freaks. ’ They usually marry opposites, he said.
He onfi; knew one fat man to marry a fat woman.
Hann Battersby weighs 600 pounds, and is goin-
ing constantly in flesh, but her husband turns the
scale at sixty. They have a mighty handsome
daughter who isn’t a ‘freak." Fat Lottie Grant is
married to a lean venti'iloqii)ist. Colonel Goshen.
the 'ant, got stuck on little aisy Henry, who isn’t
muc higher than his knee. Fanny Burdette, one
of the smallest women in the country, is the Wife of
hi Bill Bristol, a side-show blower. Osmund, the

m married the “three—handed lady.” She
died and e liked the family sowell that he mar-
ried er mother, who is a snake-charmer. Lurline,
the water queen, ain’t exactly a freak but she’s in
the business. Her right name is Sallie Swift, and
she first came out as a clubswinger. She married a
nobleman in London, and hves in bang-up style.
Mr. Geary said one would be astonished to know
how many women fall in love with “ freaks." The
ugly Chinese dwarf with Barnum last summer was
on the flirt all the time and is engaged to a fine-
looking white woman. alf a dozen of those Cape
Town negroes that were exhibited as Zulus are
married to English women. Barnnm’s indla-rubber
man, that uy that can pull his skin around, and let
it snap bac like gum, has a wife and ei ht children
in Germany. Mr. Geary added: “To king about
funny things, there's that freak, the double-headed
girl—Millie-Christine, I mean. Well, I’ll bet that
more than a dozen men have offered to marry her.
I guess the most of 'em were after her money, but
she knows it and won‘t take ’em 11 . Why, one
cranky Dutchman followed that doub e-headed girl
from Berlin to St. Petersburg and sent her an offer
of marriage every day. I guess that fellow dropped
aboué‘;d $253139 traveling around after that den 10-

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A Dance in the Lumber Region.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Minneapolis Tribuxe
gives the following description of a backwoods
dance in the lumber regionz—The woods began to

've up the young peo 1e until the number of couples

ad reachet thirty. ress was untrammelcd by so-
cial edict. The female fauc gave vent to its love of
being admired in tasteful f not always elaborate
costumes, with bits of ribbon here and there, and an
occasional artificial flower. But the lads found a
flannel shirt and no collar quite as congenial as some
sons of society find immaculate shirt fronts, iii-
cased ina low-cut full-dress vest. Dancing pumps
were strictly abjured, and he found most favor and
rec 'tion whose boot heel gave most frequent and
livehest sound, a lit clog dancer. One violin fur-
nished the musical inspiration, and as its manipu-
lator sounded the strings in the preparatory opera-
tions of tuning up, the caller exclaimed, “Step up
now and get your numbers." The 3, some of
whom had come full twelve miles for their night’s
enjoyment, stepped to the front, deposited each 50
cents, and received a number, much as the atron
of the tonsorial artist receives on the busy :1 '2; in
the. modern barber-shop. Room was made fort rec
sets, and the caller called the numbers up to twelve,
the holders choosing their partners and danc-
ing the figures in the square dances, which pro-
vailed to the exclusion of everything else. Then
the rest of the list of numbers were called, and three
more sets made uI, and the calling commenced
over again at No. 1 w ien the list had been exhausted.
No excessive accomplishment in terpsichorean art,
no especial favor in the feminine mind, no beauty or
even selfishness of person, permitth an undue mo-
nopoly of either the floor or the company of the
young ladies. The affair was manage with a dc-
mocracy and an unyielding justice which might have
obtained favor at social events as loft in the scale
even as the Governor’s receptions an universal in
their attendance as a policeman’s all.

 

 

- Cold Places of the Globe.

THERE appears to be two districts on the Northern
Hemisphere, widely separated from each other, in
which the coldest places on the earth are to be found.
One is in Northeastern Siberia, the other in the
American Arctic Archipelago. Theparticular points
within these regions that have the property of being
colder than all surrounding points may be called the
poles Of extremc cold. Their eographical situations
are not precisely ascertain , because a sufficient
number of observations have not been made; but
enough is known to make it safe to conclude that
the Asiatic polo is north of Yakutsk, and the Amer-
ican pole northwest of the Parry Islands, toward
Eastern Siberia. The Asiatic pole is upon the main~
land, the American pole in a sea studded with
islands and from this the two regions derive dis-
tinct c 'matic characters. Near‘t ie Siberian ole,
which lies in the comparatively low latitude of mm
sixtv to seventy degrees, the continental climate is
exhibited in an extremely cold winter and a warm
summer, while the more maritime climate of the
American pole, which lies between sixty-five and
slxtv-eight degrees Of latitude, is expressed in a rela-
tively milder winter and cooler summer. Yakutsk
has hitherto been considered the coldest lace on
the earth, it having a mean temperature in anuary
of —forty-flve degrees. Colder places have since
been found, that have a mean temperature for Jan-
uary as low as —fifty-five degrees. They are situated
in about latitude sixtv-seven and a alf degrees
north. near Werkojansk, in Siberia. The cold pole
is located here from November till March; it then
m0ves in April and May toward the northwest into the
Arctic Ocean between the mouth of the Obi and Nova
Zembla, and afterward retu‘ns to Werkojansk.
Werkojansk is the only place that lies within the
isotherm of —forty degrees during November, De-
cember January and February, or for four months;
Yakutsk suffers this mean temperature during De-
Ccinber and January' Ustjansk. at the mouth of the
Yann, only during anuary, while Tolstoi Noos, at
the mouth of the Yenisei, lies entirely outside of the
isothermal of —forty degrees. The mean annual
temperature of the Siberian cold pole may be es-
timated at two degrees. A still colder place .ap-
pears to have been found by M. Klutschak, of Lien-
tenant Schwatka’s expedition, at the Adelaide Penin-
sula, in Co-.-kburn Bay, latitude sixty-six to Fle)‘-
eight degrees, where the temperature in 18%. reached
Seventy—two degrees in December, 1879, and Febru-
ary, 18’90, —sixfy-eiglit degrees, and in September,
October and November, 1879, live degrees. —thirty-
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The mean temperature from December to February,
———_ferty—ciglit degrees, varies but little from that Of
Vl crkojansk, and is from eighteen to twenty-one dc-
grecs lower than had been previously noticed in the
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Is Friday an Unlucky Day?

PERHAPS the world will never ct over the idea
that Fiiday is an unlucky day. but the crucifix-
ion occurrcd on a Friday 13 more than can be proved,
for even the year of that event is by no means
determined, to say nothing of the widespread Opin-
ion that there never was such an event. But admit-
ting all that is claimed, there have been many cven‘. s
occurring on this unluck day that were dccidcdly
the reverse of unlucky. f course, a long list might
be given, _but a few connected chiefly with American
history Will do. On Friday, August 3, 1492, Colum-
bus sailcd from Palos on his memorable voyage of
discovery and on Friday, October 12, he discowred
the first land, the island which he called San Sal-
vador. On Friday, March 5, 1496, Henry VIII. com-
missioned John Cabot, and this commiSiou is the
first English State paper on record. poncei'ning
America. On Friday, September 7, 1505, St. Augus-
tine, Fla., was found—the oldest town in the United
States. On Friday, November 10, 1620, the Jill/winder
made land at Princetown, and on the same day the
Pilgrims signed the compact which was the forerun-
ner of our Constitution. On Friday, Deccnibcrm,
1620, the Pilgrims landed at P1 mouth Rock. On
FridQY. February 22, 1732, Was iin ton was born.
On BTiday, June 16, 1775, Bunker ’ill was seized
and fortified. On Friday, October 8, 1777 occurred
the surrender at Saratoga. On Friday, September
22, 1780 Arnold’s treason was discovered. On Fri-
day October 19, 1781, Cornwallis surrendered at
Yor ’town, and the war for independence ended in
complete victory. Other events mi ht be named.
In the war with Mexico the battle 0 Palo Alto bc-
gan on Friday. The northwestern boundary ques-
tion, which threatened war with England, was set-
tled on Friday of the same year. On Friday the
Confederates captured Fort Sumter, and precipi-
tated the war for the Union. The Port Royal forts
were taken by the Union forces on Friday; the bat-
tle of Pea Rid 6 closed on Friday: slavery was abol-
ished in the istrict of Columbia on Friday; Fort
Pulaski was taken, Memphis was taken, Fredcz‘.
icksburg bombarded, the battle of Gettysburg end-
ed, Lee defeated at Five Forks, the Union flag re-
stored to Fort Sumter, all on Fridays.

 

Pets of Prisoners.

IT is somewhat surprising to what an extent m on
confined in a prison will succeed in domesticating
difierent kinds of animals. This practice has never
been more successfully developed than at the State
Prison at Concord, Mass, where there are men
who, in a number of instances, derive great comfort
from the companionship of difierent species of ani-
mals and who while away many a lonely hour by
training them, while in their cells, to perform dif-
ferent tricks. At the present time one of the most
noted convicts in the institution has a. pet mouse
which he has caught and trained to whirl a small
wheel arranged on the same principle as a s uirrel-
cage is. Another has two wharf rats which c has
tolled into his cell, fed and so completely domesti-
cated that they will go through a tiglht-rope per-
formance in his cell when they are bid on to do so.
Others have trained rats and mice, which they carry
in their pockets to and from the workshops, and be-
come greatly attached to them. The trained pet
canary of Jesse Pomeroy the boy fiend, has just
died. He was a very fine singer, and Jesse grieves
very much on account of the bird’s death, for, in
solitary confinement, he has been much cheered by
the singing. He now expects his mother will bring
or send him another canary soon. The steward in
the hospital department has several pet canaries,
and one of them has been trained to a remarkable
degree. A colored convict, formerly a well-known
waiter in one of the leading Boston hotels, who oc-
cupies a strong cell, has succeeded in propagating
pigleons in a peculiar manner. The window of his
ce opens into the prison yard, and on this window
he placed bread crumbs until he trapped a pair of
pigeons. He afterward caught three more in the
same way, clipped their wings, and they have be-
come so thoroughly domesticated that they have
built a nest underneath his bed. and at present have
three (young doves which they have reared. One of
the ol pigeons is coal black, and this one the darky
has named after his wife, and all the rest have
names. He regularly feeds his flock from his own
allowance. The other convicts felt very much dis-
appointed because the large number of doves for-
merly kept at the rison were killed and the thatched
dovecote rem0ve . At one time a number of do-
mesticated skunks were kept in the prison yard, and
they were cared for by the convicts. There are now
numerous cats in different parts of the prison, and
if a person wishes to ct the ill-will of a convict he
only needs to molest ‘ his " cat. These animals al-
ways disap ar from view when visitors come to
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onc marria s; in Vermont, New Hampshire and
Connecticut, about one to fourteen; in Rhode Island
one to twelve; in Maine one to eight.

IN Vienna, an ordinance of the municipal council
forbids a married man from takinga voyage in a
balloon until it is proved to the satisfaction of the
authorities that he has received the consent of his
wife and children.

AMONG a dozen or so other international exhibitions
to be held this 5 car, an International Electrical Ex-
hibition wifl be held in Vienna, under the patrons e
of the Austro-Hungarian Government, in the montfis
of August, September and October next.

TIIE Buddhist priests of JR an have an idea that
they are behind the times. lxcrefore a grand meet-
ing of the chief priests of the empire is to be held
to remove certain restrictions and all or various rules,
such as enforced celibacy and vegetarianism.

A FARIIER near Stockton. Cal. has had his farm
devastated by millions of little birds no bigger than
a man’s thumb. They pulled u the young grain
just appearing above the grouu , and were so thick
that dogs and guns made no impression on them.

THE Holiness Band, a fanatical religious organiza-
tion, are raising a general excitement at Corsicana,
Texas, and it is expected they will prove themselves
as obnoxious as they did two years ago, when the
leader was ridden on a rail and the band dispersed
as a nuisance.

TIIE first instance where hysicians are mentioned
in the Bible is 11. Chronic es xvi., 12: “And Ala. in
the thirtyninth year of his reign, was diseased in
his feet until the disease was exceedin ly greatfiyet,
in his disease, he sought not the Lord, iut the physi-
cians. And Ala slept with his fathers."

AN eminent French physician, who has known
Prince Bismarck well for nearly a quarter of a cen-
tury, says that all talk about the. Chancellor’s heart
breaking down is sheer nonsense. His nerves and

ncral constitution are in admirable condition, and

id fair to remain so for twenty years to come.

THE Indians of Nevada catch quail by making
them drunk. The Indians bu alcohol from some
of the ranchers, and wheat 50:). -:ed in this liquor is
scattered where the nail most do congregate. As
soon as they become intoxicated they fall over and
indulge in a drunken sleep. The Indians then pro-
ceed to pick them up and kill them. This is the
conventional story.

WAGNER's mausoleum at Wahnfrlcd was not a
new tomb. When the compova’s dog,Russ. was
poisoned some yeais ago, his body was placed in the
tomb which was then destined to receive, as it now
has done, the remains of his master, and Wagner
had carved by the entrance the effigy of his favorite
in an attitude of repose, and underneath the legend:
“ Here Russ rests, and waits ”

IT must be a terrible thing to live in a neighbor-
hood of cannibals. For instance, in the “'estern
Pacific Archipelago, if a man strays a couple of
miles or so from his home he probably finds himself
among enemies by whom he is summarily dis-
patchcd and eaten. If he goes out sailing an hap-
pens to land further away than he intended, the
same fate occurs. If he does not maintain constant
vigilance he gets in the way of hostile tribes and is
promptly eaten. 'l he 'e r:an’t be much comfort in
such an existence.

ACCORDING to Ludwig Nobel, the oil king of Rus-
sia, a gigantic fortune awaits the inventor of a lamp
ca able of burning the thick but non-explosive oil
oflliaku, which yields only 25 per cent. of kerosene.
and is therefore heavily handicapped as against the
rich petroleum of America. Herr Noble is of the
opinion that a revolution in the oil trade would fol-
low lhe invention of such a lamp: for Baku then
would not attempt to compete with America in
kerosene, but would flood the world with non-ex-
plosive Oil.

AN important industry of Morehead City. N. C., is
the raising of “ma‘sh tackles.” The marsh tackey
is a shaggy pony hardly larger than the Shetland,
light built and hardy. He lich in the water and
will not eat corn or hay. He is brought up on the
marsh grass, which he eats between tides. They
cost literally nothing, breeding in droves as wild
horses. Once every year the owners have what is
called a “ pony penning.” All the ponies along the
coast, running into the thousands, are diiven in by
boats and either branded or sold. They bring from
$15 to $30 apiece; a “broke” pony—that 1S, one
that can be ridden or driven—is called a “trained
tackcy,” and brings 370. They are in great demand
in the middle part of the State, eating little and do-
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I am very grieved to say
Old Couponica is dead;

He was proud of his own land—
And he showed it in his tread.

When the r would seek his door,
Though iis aims were duily tasked,
He (lid ne‘er refuse a cent—
If a cent was only asked.

He chose not to famous be
And the scroll of fame to fill;
Far-off )eople knew him well——
Close- y neighbors knew him ill.

r‘ull of impulse was his soul
And obliging in his way :—

He obliged his creditors
Straight to sidle up and pay.

Little business he disliked,
For he did not care a fig,

And his scorn for little things
Always made him talk quite his.

He was rovident, I know,
And h heart on that was set;
All he wanted was his own—
And much else as he could get.

Never did he scorn the world
Far as any one has known,
For he loved the world, and so

Several leagues of it did own.

On the earth he laid up wealth
All in gold and silver ood;

When he died he took a ong
Every cent of it he could.

He was close in his accounts,
And, as all the rumors run,

Paid the last debt that he owed—
Nziture‘s debt— the only one.

 

 

Around tlgtamp-Fire.

BY CAPTAIN RINGWOOD.

A “Greenhorn’s” Grit.

“THAT ’ere English fel’er; well, be war the
funniest chap as ever I come across, but be war
game to the backbone, an’ no mistake,” was a
remark I heard as I neared the fire where the
rangers were congregated.

“Do ’ee mean the one thet war wi’ us when
we war down to the Copper Mines ’bove Fill~
more?” asked an old ranger.

“ Yes, Dan, the one with them queer-lookin’
whiskers, or whatever they war, an’ thet hung
all ther game up ag’in’ a tree ’tell it drapped uv
its own weight afore he‘d eat it.”

“ I remember him, an’ be war grit to the very
innards,” was the ready indorsement.

“ Thar ain’t menny men as kin say they hev
fou’t a grizzly, single handed, an’ kim out with
wind enough left in his body to tell it. No,
siree! an’ them fellers what writes them ’ere
books an’ tells about hunters rubbin’ out Old Eph
ev’ry day in the week, ar’ a set uv durued green-
horns thet don’t know a grizzly b’ar from a
yearlin’ calf.”

“ Thet’s so, old hoss.”

“ This Englisher,” continued the ranger, “hed
kim out to see the kentr , and fight Injins, es he
sed in his funny way, w at I can’t give you no
ideer uv, an’ tackled onto our party es we war
leavin’ Fort Fillmore fur the copper regions,
whar game war plenty.

“ He soon got to he a great favorite with the
whole party, the Englisher did, an’ though we
played all sorts uv tricks onto him, an’ some of
them darned rough ’uns, he bore ’em all in good
natur’, an’ larfed louder’n anybody else at his-
self.

“It war in playin’ one nv these hyar 'okes
thet kim purty nigh costin’ the feller his li e.

“He bed a fine gray mar’ thet he rode an’
thought a power uv, fur he hed brought her
from across the waters, an’ it war a sight to see
the sins an’ trouble he took with thet hoss.

“ ell, a day er two arter we war in camp,
Ned Stockton took it into his head to play of!
another trick on the Englisher, an’ airly one
mornin’ the gray mar’ was missin’, an’ couldn’t
be found nowhar.

“The poor feller took on so ’bout the critter
thet I war jess goin’ to tell him, when all of a
suddent he ketched up his double-bar’l gun, an’
started off like mad to‘ards the hills that lay
west’ard uv the camp.

“ I told Ned be war wrong, but he only larfed
an’ sad as how he hed roped the min" to a
muskeet‘bush down in a holler, an’ she would
be all right, an’ so I sed no more ’bout it.

“ I reckin the English chap hed been gone
suthin’ like two hours er more, when all at ouc’t
hyar come the gray mar’ a-tearin’ into camp,
her neck all over blood, an’ her flanks and back
hit an’ tore in a way thet war pitiful to see.

“ The poor creeter come runnin’ right in
among the men, an’ rubbed her head ag’iu’ one
of the feller’s shoulders, jess like a human, and
whinnyin’ all ther time.

“ I tell you thar war a scatterin’ an’ grabbin’
uv arms ’mon thet party, an’ away we put, on
the run, follerin’ the Englisher’s trail.

“ When we struck the hills we lost it fur a
bit, but soon got it ag’in, an’ lifted it till we
IvarI stopped by a deep gully thet crossed the

eve .

“ Right on the edge uv the gully, an’ all
around fur sum distance, the airth war torn u ,
an’ here an’ thar we found blood, plenty uv it,
an’ b an’ by one uv the fellers picked up the
doub e-bar’l all broke an’ battered, an’ covered
with blood.

“The sign looked bad, deuced had an’ al-
most dreadin’ to see suthiu’ dreadful, I looked
over the edge into the lly below.

“ Tough es I am, declar’ I liked to hev
keeled over at the sight I see down in thet
wash.

“ Thar lay the English chap, bloody from his
eyes to his feet, and right alongside uv him lay
a who pin’ big grizzly dead es a hammer.

“ While I war examinin’ the gully one uv the
boyees hed found whar the b’ar hed chased him
from the valley below whar the mar’ had been
hitched, an’ then the thing war plain as day-

light
r feller hed kim up jess as Old Eph

 

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had trac ed the mar’, and bed pitched in to
save his critter, an’ got the b’ar arter himself
instead uv the boss.

“How the mar’ hed got loose none uv us
cpuld tell; broke the lariat mebby in her strug-

es.

“We got down into the wash arter a good

eal uv trouble, and picked up the Eu lisher,
stone dead, es we thought, an carried im to
cam .

“ at he warn’t dead, by a. good deal, though
be war cut up awful, an’ arter a while he kim
to, and asked fur water.

“It war several days afore he could tell us
’bout the thing, but when he war strong enough
he sed that he hed found the trail uv the mar’
an’ follered it to the holler whar Ned had hid

er.

“ He war putty mad, he sed, when he see it
war another joke, by the animel’s bein’ hitched,
an’ war in the act uv cuttin’ the lariat when the
b’ar broke out uv a thicket clos’t by and sprung
onto the ‘noss.

“He fired both bar’ls into the brute, an’ it
then lefl’ the critter an’ made arter him, an’
ketched him on the side uv the gully whar we
hed seen the airth torn up.

“He didn’t recollect much ’bout the fight,
onn that it war a awful one.

“ 6 used his knife, he sed, es long es he war
able, the b’ar chawin’ an’ clawin‘ him all the
time, an’ then when both war about played
out, he grupped the critter, an' both went over
the edge uv the wash.

“Thet war all thet he knowed, an’ thet war
a ood deal fur one man, you kin bet.

‘ What saved him war the donble-bar’l, which
hed been loadened with ounce bullets, an’ both
uv ’em hed gone clean through, weak’nin’ Old
Eph powerfully.

“Well, we nussed the Englisher well ag’in,
an’ you may depend thar warn’t enny more
tricks played on him, fur I tell you, it won’t do,
nobow, to do dirt to a man who has killed a
grizzly in fa’r fight all by hisself.”

A Skeleton’s Cache!

A ROMANCE 0F P003 MAN’S FLATS.

BY H. S. KELLER.

 

PERHAPS the most unlucky town for a man
to locate a claim in, or adjacent to, amon all
the mushroom cities of the West is Poor an’s
Flats. Time was, however, when the dirt turned
up “ pay ;” but that is of the long ago.

Now it is the resort for four or five seedy pil-
grims, the fagI end of a line of ros ctors who
are turning t eir eyes toward ew exico.

When the "Flats" was in its palmy days, it
was called Rich Man’s Bottom; and when the
placers proved shallow, and refused to pan out,
it took the name by which it is now known.

It was a sorry arty which huddled close to
the fir ‘11 one of the dilapidated shanties, of
which umber remained to tell that the place
had once known thrift and prosperity.

“I tell yer, boys, I had this ’tarnal dream
right ’long fur three nights,” spoke up one of
the ragged specimens of humanity.

“ Yas, so we’ve heard yer say, Mose,” re-
sponded one.

“ Tell us ther hull on it ag‘in,” said another.

“Wal,” uttered the first speaker, poking the
fire with his boot, “ yer see, I went sleep
thinkin’ ’bout how shiftless ther lay war runniu’
bar. I dreamed as how I walked ’long ther dry
sluices an’ turned over ther refuse washin’s.
Nuthin’ thar. Then I goes on up thcr creek a
bit, pokin’ my nose inter every nook an’ hole
’long ther way. Purty soon I seen a shinin’
light’ ’head of me. I drawed nigher, an’—darn
me! thar war a harnsum squaw gal a-diggin’ in
ther soft sile with a wooden spade. A leetle fire
war burnin’ by hur, an’ I could see that she war
jist a-turnin’ up ther nuggets by ther han’ful. I
bent down, an’ as I teched ther yaller lumps—I
woke.”

“ It are jest ther same, Mose. Yer’ve tole us
ther dream store. Why didn’t yer locate ther
place?’

“ How’n thunder would I ha’ done it?” asked

ose.

“ That’s easy ’nufl. J ist cut a notch in a tree
near by,” laughingly responded one.

“ Darn me if I don’t!” said Mose.

“Boys, do you know what night this are?”
suddenly asked one, after a short pause.

“ What night are it, Jack?"

“ Christmas Eve,” slowly uttered the latter.

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them then. It as been many along year since '
Christmas was to them anything different from t
other days in general. i
Finally, after a long lapse of silence, Jack;
said:
“It war on Christmas Eve that Dick went}
’way from hum.”
“ Dick! Who’s Dick?” asked one. i
“ He war my twin brother; be war jist a bit
wild an’ reckless like.

mas Eve.
fortun’; I—I uess ther boy found it in a grave,

left.”

ever, we’re all boun’ ter get thar,” said Mose,
laconicall .
“ Yas,

fur thar hain’t no one ter put a single present
in, yer knows.”

Then the all turned in for the night. They
occu ied t e same shaut ; they were few in
num r, and it seemed p easanter for even ill-
luck to be in close communion with them.

“Remember, Mose, mark ther spot if yer
dream of ther harnsum s new fer-night,” said
one of the party, as be rol ed himself up in his
tattered blanket.

“I’ll do the best I
Mose.
amiserable shanty in a played-out gold camp,
as small party of unlucky men sleep.

No Christmas chimes disturb their slumbers;
nothing but the sob and moan of the wind up
amon the mountain pines.

Christmas Eve. What joy here at home;
what fond anticipation takes wing, as we
dream of to-morrow’s joy; to morrow’s re-uuit-
ing of the dear old famil circle, the exchance
of tokens and the love-lig t shining in the eyes
of the dear ones. But—out there in Poor Man’s
Flats, there am only memories to thrill the
hearts of the sleepers; only bitter disappoint—
ment to greet them when they awaken.

 

“ I got ther place marked—I got that claim
located!” criec'. Mose, springing to his feet when
the first rays of the morning sun streaked the
horizon in the east.

“ Yer havei—oh, nonsense! I war only fool-
in’ ’bout markin’ ther place. Mose. How in
thunder could a man cut a notch in a tree, in
his dreams!”

 

“ I—I don’t know—but I done ther biz. Any-

can fur yer, boys,” said t
And then silence fell over all; there, in ;

 

 
  
 

He went from ther ole i . .
hum down in York State, years ’go, on Christ- read it; it was simply as follow.=:
He said be war goin’ ter hunt hisi

fur we never card a word from him arter he ? thing are gettin’

s’pose so; but it kinder wakes me up 
bar in my heart, yer see, this night does. He '
war my twin, yer knows. Boys, let’s turn in. §
No settin’ of plates nor haugin’ of stockin’s———‘

 

 

how, if yer wanter go with me, yer can,” and
Mose grasped a pick and went from the shanty.

Five, ten minutes passed, and then one of t 0
men said:

“ Let’s foller ther lad; he’s a reg’lar funatic
’bout this biz.”

In a few minutes four sleepy-looking men
were crawling along the creek on the trail of
Mose.

They halted suddenly, when the sound of his
pick fell upon their ears.

Slowly and cautiously they approached the
spot from whence the sound issued. There, in
a small clump of trees was the pilgrim, driving
his pick into the soft soil.

A smile passed over each man’s face, as the
pilgrim’s earnestness manifested itself. Then——
a sound smote their sense of hearing, causing
every heart to leap and the breath to come
quickly.

The pick struck something which gave forth
a hollow sound. And, as the dirt flew beneath
the vigorous strokes of the pick, great beads of
sweat appeared upon every man’s brow; for
they were u it their knees, hauling the loosened
dirt out wit their bare hands.

“ Did yer mind my dreaml—oh, yer did.
Money down thar, or ’m a goat,” cried Mose,
as he drove the pick deeper and deeper.

After a few minutes of vigorous digging a
long, narrow box was revealed. Then—only t e
ghastly skull and fleshless bones of a skeleton.

“My God! Boys-do you see that hand?”
cried Jack, pointing toward one of the fieshless
hands.

“ Yas: what of it?” asked one of the startled
men.

“ Tu 0 fingers gone—my twin brother—Dick,”
and Jack, strong-hearted man that he was, yet
weak now as some woman, fell upon his knees,
and covering his face with his dirt-stained
hands, wept.

“I say, boys, thar's a leetle wallet or sum—
tbin’ thar ’mong ther bones,” said Mose, leaning
upon his pick and peering over into the excava-
tion.

One of the men took the wallet, and, as Jack
had claimed the remains as those of his brother,
the wallet was handed to him.

“ Fill up ther hole, boys; when we git back to
ther shanty, we’ll examine ther contents of this
wallet," said Jack, turning sadly away.

In a few minutes the hole was refilled, and
Dick’s bones were bid from mortal sight.

In the shanty, the little circle is drawn closely
together. Jack is seated in the center. Upon

 

     

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And then a silence fell upon the little group. i the floor before him is spread a bit of paper—all
I that the wallet contained. Upon the paper the
of events, thou hts and scenes came up before ; following was traced:

“LLAFRETAW EHT YB ENOTS GIB
EHT REDNU.”

“ I’m hanged if I can make it out!" said Jack,
after studying the affair a spell.
The others crowded nearer, and suddenly

i Mose said:

“It are secret writin’, Jack; try hur back-
’ardsl”
Jack picked up the cryptogram and readily

(Under the big stone by the waterfall.) '
“ I know wbar it are. Feller me, boys—this
curiouser than afore,” cried

I Mose, rushing from the shanty.
“P’r’aps he did, Jack, p’r’aps he did. How- '

They followed him to the bend in the little
creek where the water takes a slight fall of some
eight or ten feet. There are no large stones
near, with the exception of one flat, moss -cov-
ered one. They take hold with their ha'nds and—
lzi‘th a grand, powerful effort, raise it from its

There revealed before their astonished vision,
is a r ect cache dug in the earth, filled with
shining nuggets, hea of dust and little buck—
skin bags of dglittering scale-gold. It is a bo-
nanza, a win all, a God-send to the poor pros-
pectors of Poor Man’s Flats.

The dream had done its work. Who or what
the handsome Squaw was, I cannot say. As
well undertake to explain some of the fantastic
vagaries which visit us all in slumber’s fold.

Jack found his twin brother—dead; and
through the agency of the skeleton, the unlucky
pilgrims of Poor Man’s Flats had such a cele-
bration as made its memory forever afterward
a joy forever.

“

 

A LADY at Staunton, Va., called at a watch-
maker’s recently to get her alarm-clock, which
had been been undergoing repairs, and when the
alarm had been carefully set for 5:21) o’clock,
started for home. On the way, finding that she
was just in time for the ra er-meeting of the
First Presbyterian Churc , s e entered and sat
down among the devout. Now, when she or-
dered the alarm set at 5:30, she had morning’in
her mind, but the repairer had afternoon in is,
while the clock was intent only on doing its duty,
and ran on silently toward a relentless fate.
The prayer-meeting had reached a moment of
unusual solemnity, when suddenly the alarm
went OH with a fury born of recent repairs, and
with a noise like a drunken trombone. If that
clock ever has another chance to take part in a
prayer-meeting, it will not be during its present
ownership.

 

 

DE TRAIN 0N DE GOLDEN RAIL.

Dis ni ger’snl‘iair am turnin' white like do cotton on
e sta ,
His limbs ain growin’ feeble, an’ it's hard for me ter

 

wa ,
But wid all uv dis I’se happy, an‘ w‘eu de gospel
train rolls b
Uncle Remus wil be runnin‘, an’ will stop fer the
and Si.

I’ll be standin' at de stasliun wid er through ticket
in my han',

An’ doan kalkulate ter get off do train dis side de
promise lan’;

We‘ll ggr dlelnewsbutch from de kar, his pies will not

30 .

’Kase we’se gwine ter take our own grub ef we has

ter take it cold.

De cross-ties will be uv marble and de spikes uv sil-
ver white,

For de gospel train on de golden rail will leave de
sinner fum sight;

Wid Uncle Remus‘s han' on de throttle, an‘ Old Si
in do gage car,

We’ll lan’ on ime in de sweet by ’n‘ by wid do
beautiful gates ajar.

 

 

Unbleacteflomestics.

BY ALF RESCO.

“Hark,” on Mal—Responsibility.

“HE hesn’t got no mo’ idee ob dat in his com-
persition, dau a sp’iled rattlesnake wid sixteen
rattles an’ a button l”

“ That’s bad. What is it the young man is so
deficient in?”

"De sense ob his own accountability to de
Maker ob de Uniwerse.”

“ Lacking in moral sense, you think?”

“Dat what he is, sho’! An’ hit am greater,
an’ 0b mo’ importance dan all do oder seben
senses. I says dat, an’ i b’lieve hit, ef I hes un-
jined de chu‘ch.”

“It’s a great deficiency in a man’s character,
no doubt.”

“ A man ain’t no kinder ’count widout it. De
bes’ use yer kin put sich folkses to am ter gib dem
a free lot in some well-located symmetry. Dey
mought do at me good in dat position; an’,
wheder de does or not, dey would be out Oh de
way ob dom’ harm. An’ dat am a great p’int
tor git settled, sho’ es you is borned. When yer
gits all do troublesome wariety ob citizens
’sposed ch in dat way, ye’s hes gone a mighty
long way in fotching ’roun’ the millennium.”

 

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21%),“ this gentleman is not troubling any one:
6

“ No mo’ ain’t de rattlesnake when he am
sleepin’, an’ jes’ before he’s bin skun. He don’t
harm nobody ’bout dem times. But jes’ wait a
while. You jes’ watch de reptile’s motions.”

“ He generally notifies one, does he not?”

“ Allers. Au’ dar am whar he am de 110’
’spectable—leastwise de less dangerous member
ob ’ciety. Folkses kin be on dere ard wid
dem kinder varmiut: but hit am a d' runt state
ob things wid de snake in de grass what gibs no
wa’nin’.”

“ I agree with you, Hark.”

“Cou’se yer does! Yer am’bleeged ter see
whar de rattlesnake has all de adwantage in
p’iut of honor, an’ curts’y, en’ chivilry, an’ all
dat. He am a heap do best citerzen ob do two,
fust an’ las’: an’ I orter beg his parding fer de
’parison what I drawed ter start wid.”

“ You’re nothing if not polite, I must say.”

“An‘ de man widout moril ’sponsibilitude am
nufliu if not snake . Jes’ you keep an e e on
him; dat is, ef he on’t wriggle an’ twist isself
outen de way, ’fo’ yer kin take his measure. De
pen’tentiaries am chock full ob better conwicts
dau he would make; an’ at ebery one ob his class
war in colleges ob dat kind, do hull kentry ’ud
be bankru tured in payin’ de taxes fer keep
dem u . at am one reason why I am in fa-
véor 0 de graveyard policy, what I war ’ludin’
a .

“ So you think the tribe increases?"

“ Like de lovvcuses in p’, boss! An’ dey
am gwine ter be on do increase, fur es kin see,
fer a right smart while ter come. De fac’ am,
dat de present cistern ob edercation hab got tor
be changed, ’fore dar am likel ter be any wisi-
ble dimernution ob dat class 0 citizens.”

“Why do you think so, Uncle?"

“ De tree am known by its fruits, Mass’
I reckon yer b’lieves de Scriptur’s, doesn’t
yer, honey?”

“ Oh, yes: I’m thoroughly orthodox."

“ Hit am mo’ dan a heap ob folks am, den. I
is a Mef’dis’ myself~leastwise I war, ’fore I un-
"ined — but when members an’ ex-members
grees on do great doctoriu’ ob futur’ ’counter-
bilitude, dey kin understan’ de subjick in de-
bate. an’ symperthize ’cordin’ly.”

“Very naturally.”

“ Well, do fruit ob dis yere modern tree ob
knowledge, what seems ter flourish like a tree
on Green Bay. am what we has ter go by. Hit
am do only criterion. Now, you jes’ listen at
de rank an file ob de young men what ’spects
ter corutrol de dynasties ob de futur’, an’ hear
what dey hes ter say on marters an’ things in
gineral. Mo’ dan dat, s’posen yer jes’ watches
dere motions, an’ see what do law am what
regurlates dem. Ef hit hain’t de onwritten law

ob ole Satan hisself, dst do weak hain’t no
ri hts what do strong am boun’ ter ’spect, den
I fi; :3 mightv onsophistercated specimeut ob a
enfranchtsed citizen. Dat’s what!"

“ That’s a. bad sign—a very bad sign, Uncle."

“Hit am one ob de signs ob de tunes. An’,
What’s mo’, hit am writ up so giu’ral an’ r-
miscu’s dat dere am no niistakin’ hit. I ’c ar’,
’fo’ gracious, hit am as cornspickerous as do
circus posters on de boa’d fences!”

“,At least, then, the public can take warn-
in .

“But dey won’t, Mass Alf—not dey. De
universal tendency am ter cussidness, perwided
hit shows up well. Hit am mighty temptations
to de nat’ral man; fa’r to de eye, an’ good fer
food—fer fools, dat is—an’ t-o dey goes an’ swal-
lers hit widout a dose ob salts. Dey spring
chickens imertates de young roosters what’s
crowin’ so loud on dis new note; an’ de lookout
am, ’bout de present time, dat de hull b’iliu’ am
boun’ ter be birds ob a redder. Ef vou gen’l-
mens what comes down on de sound 9 ery win-
ter arter game, c’u’d jes’ be presuaded ter take
a season’s shootiu' ’mong dem, hit would be do
best skyclone, in a moril sense, dat hes struck
dis latertude sauce de tidal wave ob free-
dom.”

“ You’re getting sanguinary, old man."

“I ain’t nowa s sanguine ’bout ary remedy
fer do evil what complains ob. I reckon hit
must work out hits own cure, in de good Lor’s
time. But hit ain’t gwine ter be in my time—
fur es I kin see—an’ arter l’l gone, I s‘pose de
worl’ in gin’ral an’ dis part ob de moril wine-

ard in perti;kler, must do do bes’ what dey
in. I hain‘t a-carin‘.”

“Still, you would like, as a statesman—I beg
pardon! 1 should have said a United States
man—to feel, when you were about to pass over
to the silent majority, that your country was
in a hopeful condition!”

“ To be Certingly, I would dat. But, de same
time, dat am de lookout ob our futur’ ansisters
an’ gran’sisters. Dey am de ones what must
wrestle wid de problim ewentually.”

“They must, indeed. if the lookout is as bad
as you seem to think it.”

“ Hit am a all—perwadin’ spirit ob cussiduess,
Mass’ Alf. Ebery young nigger what thinks
he’s a smarty, am bein’ trained up in dat cou’se
ob study, an’ heaps ob ’em hes gradooated.
Whar de ’11 fotch up, ewentually, I hain’t no
doubt: [ye when am do only question in do
case.

 

 

Telephone Echoes.

 

A VERMONT youth, at his mother’s funeral,
said to the net hbors: “Me and father are
obliged to you a l, and hope soon to be able to
do as much for you."

A Timur-tr father took his son to the doctor.
“ If you can cure him for less than funeral ex-
penses,” he said, “go ahead; but if you can’t,
sonny will have to take his chancos.”

A NEGRO baby was born recently in Sumter
county, GIL, which weighed only twent -two
ounces. A comical coon remarks that it’s unny
how anything so dark can be so light.

A'r Benson, Arizona, the trainmeu are said to
be chary of carrying the usual lanterns about
the depdt yard, a habit having arisen among
the cowboys of trying to snuff them out with
revolvers from a distance.

“Dons your Helen remind you of Helen of
Troy!” she asked sweetly, as the sofa springs
flattened undera pressure of 160 pounds. “ No,
not recisely; you remind me more of Helen of
Avmrdupois,” was the scaly reply.

WHEN a woman rushes out into the yard, her
eyes flashin with executive determination, and

icks up a piece of board to throw at a hen it is
uteresting to see how quickly all the children
playing in the vicinity will run in front of her
to prevent being hit.

Tm: State of Georgia claims to have con‘
tributed the wor “ ” to the English vo-
cabulary. William A. a ran a sort of land
lottery, with which he succeeded in swindling
nearly everybody in Au etc before he ran
away to Arkansas, where 0 died.

Pinoan who live remote from the sea-shore
can make a artificial clam by rolling a
piece of soa in sand and ashes, and eating it
when it is a at half cool, says the Providence
Prrss. This is not much better than the real
clam, but it will give the inlanders an approxi-
mate idea of the uxury.

Tin: loving mother loves to see her little boy
make great progress in writing, and is pleased
to see him give her mmdples of his writing at
home—except when he oes so with his finger
on a windowpane. Then all that pride and love
was turned into— . Webster hasn’t got any
word in his dictionary that will fit here.

“ I CAN’T think that all sinners will be lost,”
said Mrs. Nimbletung. “ There’s my husband,
now. He’s a bad man, a very bad man. but I
trust he will be saved at last. I believe he th
suflered his due share in this life.” “Amen l"
shouted Nimbletung from the back seat. Mrs.
N. gave him such a look, but said nothing.

A conummv asks: "How shall women
carry their purses to frustrate the thieves?”
Why, carry them empty. Nothing frustrates a
thief more than to snatch a woman s purse, after
following her half a mile, and then find that
it contains nothing but a recipe for spiced
peaches and a faded photograph of her grand-
mother.

“WHAT’S them thin , ma?" asked a little
girl at the table the ot er day.
are Turkish prunes, my dear.” “Where did
they come from?” Her small brother looked
up with an expression of disdain on his face
as he exclaimed, "They come out of turkeys,
tsailsbl Gpess you don’t know much about vege-

es.

A BUFFALO scientist explains that the assthetic
way of cracking a butternut is to make an in-
cision in the osseous endocarp at right~angle ,
with the placenta; in the region of the rudi-
men sutures. In this way the operator is
able to strike the oleaginous ovule laterally.
The old method was to break the shell with a
flatiron and pick out the fruit with a hairpin.

A Dnnmusma at the Naval Academy, An-
lis, wasa determined stuttere . One day
he was drilling a squad of cadets who were
marching toward the Severn. As the neared
the sea wall the lieutenant attemp to halt
them. The word hung fire. Overboard the
mischievous cadets went. The lieutenant took
the precaution to tell his men the next time he
did not get “halt ” out, they needn’t go over-
board.

A Vnnxom' man, who arose in the night and
dressed hastily to go to a fire, was, on examina-
tion, found to have, among other things, his
wife’s waist instead of a vest, one of her garters
in place of a belt, and a section of the stovepipe
be ad knocked down instead of his left boot.
Besides this his trowsers were reversed and he
had used one stocking for a necktie. He ex-
plained that be dressed in a hurry and under
excitement.

Tm: origin of the expression “getting into a
scrape ” is thus given in an English newspaper:
“ The deer is addicted at certain seasons to dig
up the land with their forefeet in holes of the
depth of a foot, or even of ha] a yard. These
are called “scrapes.” To tumble into one of
these is sometimes done at the cost of a broken
leg; hence a_ inan who finds himself in an un~
pleasant posttiou, from which extrication is
difficult, is said to have “ got into a scrape.”

A LEADVILLE man traveling in the Gunniscu
country met a stranger in the onely part of the
trail. ‘ Hallow!" said the Leadville man. “ Hal-
low!” 'was the rather surly reply. Then the
Deadvdle man reached around to his hip pocket
to get out a bottle of whisky as a kind of a Inc'-
lifier. The stranger prom tly shot at him, put~
ting a bullet through the dville man’s hat.
“.All right,” said the latter, digging spurs into
his broncho; “if that’s the way you feel about
it we Will Just drop the a uaintance right here.

 

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