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- i . , i . . i . ., isiirB i ii ii in i nil i ii Mill iiii EUGENE CUT GUARD. la I CAMPBKLL, . Froprieter EUGENE CITY. OREGON. LIFE IN YOKOHAMA. Curious BlchU In the Clty-Xatlva t bi- oter mid CiitUitnt. In visiting Jajion from this country the direct course is to cross the continent to Son Franciaco, whence a throe weeks' royage will laud tlio traveler In tho com mercial capital or lokoimma. When CommoJoro Perry ociied this port ia 1854 with a fleet of the American navy, It was scarcely more than u fishing vil lage, but it has now a population of 180,000, with well built struts of dwell lug houses, the thoroughfare broad, cleanly and all macui!uini.ed. The town extondH along tho level shoro, but ia backed by a half moon of low, woo. Jed bills, known an tho Bluffs, ujion which are Uie villas of the foreign residents, built after the European ami American styles. A deep, broad canal surrounds the city, pausing by the largo warehouHo and connected with the ly at each end, being crossed hv several handsome and substantial bridges. From tho Uluira there is a charming and extended view In the west, seventy miles away, the white, cloud lik" cone of Fujiyama, tho one volcanio mountain of Japan, can ho clearly discerned, whilo nil about the visitor lie tho attractive villas, beautiful gardens and groves of ornamental trees belonging to tho foreign settlers. In looking ulut Yokohama, every thing strikes us as curious; every new light is a revelation, while in oil direc tions tangible representations of tho Itrango pictures we have rocn ujion funs, Butsuina and lacquered wuro are pre sented to view. One is struck by tho partial nudity of men, women anf chil dren, the extremely simple, architecture Of the dwelling houses, the peculiar veg etation, the extraordinary salutations be tween the common peoplo who meet each other ujxm the streets, the trading bazars and the queer, toyliko articles which fill them, children flying kites in the shape of hideous yellow monsters each subject becomes a fresh study. Wen profiling vehicles, like horses be tween the shafts, and trotting off at a six mile pony gait, Is a singular sight to a stranger. Bo are tho nuked coolies, working by fours, bearing heavy bales or hogsheads swung from their shoulders Upon stout polus, wliilo they shout a measured chant by means of which to keep step. Mo beggars are swell UKn the streets. The peoplo are neat und cleanly. Tho houses uro special exam ples of this very small, seldom over twenty feet square and one story in height. All persons, foreigners or natives, take oh their shoes lioforo entering uioii tho polished Doors. The conviction forces itself upon us that such universal neatness and iVanlincxs imi.it extend even to tho moral character of the people. K spirit of gentleness, industry und thrift Is olnervublo everywhere, imparting mi Arcadian atmosphere to theso surround ings. In tho houses which we enter there lire found neither chairs, tables nor bed.-tc ads ; the peoplo sit, cat ami sleep upon the Poors, which lire at all times asclean as a puwly laid table cloth. Hero and then) npon the roadsides muss grown shrines bearing sacred emblems uro disserved, be fore which women, but rarely men, nro seen bending. Tho principal religions of Japan lire Miinlu and lluddhism, snl divided into ii :!tiy wets. The Shinto Is mainly a form of hero worship, success ful warriors bring canonized us martyrs are in tho Koiiiun Catholic church, tluddhimii is another form of idolatry, borrowed originally from the Chinese. As wo travel inland, places are intsl out to us wliero opiilouB cities onco Itood, but where no ruins mark the A dead and burred city in Uuroo or Asia leaves rudu but uhiit indisiructiblo re mains to mark where great communities once built temples und monuments, and where they lived and thrived, like those historic examples of mutability, Memphis, raeetum or Delhi, but it is not so in Japan. When it is rcmcmlicrcd of what ephemeral material tiie natives build their dwellings, namely, of light buinlioo frames and )uicr, their utter disappear ance ceases to surprise us. It is u curi ous fact that this eople, contemKrury with Greece and Komi' at their eeuith, who have only reared cities of wood and temple of lacquer, have outlived the classic nations whose half ruined monu ments form our choicest models. Tho Uellenio and Latin races have passed away, but Japuu still remains,- without a dynastlo change and with an inviolate sountry. In journeying Inland, wo are struck with many peculiarities showing how en tirely oppotuto to our own methods are tuuny of theirs. At tho post stations tho horses ore placed in stalls with their beads to the jHissngcway, und their tails show in place of their heads. Instead of Iron shoes, the Japanese iony is bIuxI with closely braided rice straw. Ciirpon tors draw tho plane toward them, instead of pushing it from them. It is the satuo In using a saw, tho teeth being set ac cordingly. Tho tailor sews from him, not toward his body, and holds his thread with his toes. Tho women rido astride, like tho lluwaiiuus. Miuiufuctiiring of various sorts is carried on to a large ex tent. We have evidence enough of this In the variety und quantity of nativo articles which are inqiortcd thence into this country. Yet the use of mcchuui cal contrivances for tho puros6 of pro duction is little known. Hand work is Dearly the only process employed. The mode of husking rice which is common will illustrate this, bring informed us follows: Tho grain is placed iu a sort of mortar, into which a pe.ttlo falls, it Icing attached to a horizontal bar of wood sup ported in tho middle by a fulcrum. On the end opposite to the pestlo a man takes his position, and by stepping on and oil the end of ' ' -,e raisoi and lets fall the l" rice. Ma- chinerr is ' 'ntroJuced from v" is still f lo Willi loruU IN THE REGULAR ARMY AUBREi"8 GREAT RIDE. I Ml UMiUVlUJ' UU 1 1 Vll lUcrolta Earn u Blurh Money as Mm as Any Muniml Labor. "It is a mistuko to think that men who enlist in the Unit" States nrmy nro not paid as well as citizens in tho ordinary walks of lifo." saiil a veteran who hoi aerved under Undo Kum for nearly a score of years. "I think they are better paid. If I didn't I wouldn't bo in tho army today." When asked to give a few details the old warrior replied: "Take tho placo of a private. When ho enlist it is for flvo years. Tho first two years he gets $id a mouth. Tho third year bo gets (14, the fourth year (13, und when his term expires he is receiving (10. Now, if ho re-enlists within thirty days his wages will bo in creased (2 a month, making a private's pay, ufter he has been in the army flvo years, (18 b month, or (210 a year. That amount, however, is clear profit. Every- thing in the lino of clothes and rations that is necessary tho government fur nishi'S. "Now, "asked the old soldier, "wliero Is the man who works for f 3 a duy who is better off than a privuto in Undo Sam's polico force?" Tho question seemed difficult and tho reporter gavo it up. "That's not ull, though," resumed tho military muri, who evidently was proud of his vocation. "If a man ufter enlist ment and assignment to a sot is found out to be skillful at any trade, so much the better; ho can niako ft pay. If he is a shoemukcr ho can find plenty of em ployment and compensation. If he is a barber he can always find subjects fur his razor. If ho is a tailor lie can reap a harvest. Tailors are usually in demand, and consequently in luck. In the last post in tho west at which I was stationed the regimental tailor nn enlisted private had practically nothing else to do but work at his trade, except, perhaps, occa sionally do guard duty. Whut do you think he saved during his flvo years ser vicer' Tho newspaper man couldn't guess. "Between (l,.r)0() und (3.000." was the reply. "Of course this man was careful in his habits; lie didn't drink and he didn't plav piker. Hut his case may be Cited to show what a man can accuuiu- lato wliilo serving his country in tho modest capacity of an nrmy private.'' " hat uro the highest wngi aid by tho government to un enlisted soldier'" was asked. "The hospital steward Is the highest paid man in tho regiment lie gets (15 a month (340 a year and ull his ex penses paid. A corporal gets (3 more than a private, or (13 a mouth for the first two years and (1 more each subse quent year, with (20 for his second en listment. A sergeant gets t'i mora than corporal, und in five years receives (1,020.". "Have- you found that most of the men in the nrmy ure foreigners! in quired tho reporter. 'Unit is often stated," was the an swer, "but it is not tho truth. Jly ex perience, which has been quite extensive, lias shown mo that native Americans form tho majority of our men. There are, of course, many Irishmen and Ger mans who enlist, but they aro m the minority. ' " ho make the liewt soldiers? "Well, probably the Germans make the best soldiers on Mt duty. They are. usually well up in the manual. On a campaign say out west against the Indi ans where wo have to niako long marches over sandy or rocky country with our accouterments on our backs, fifty rounds of uuimuuition in our belts, the sun iMiiiring down its heat from alwve, with no wuter except the few pints in our canteens in marches wliero we have to do thirty und thirty-live miles a duy under such disagreeublo circum stances the German is apt to flag. Ho can't stand it as well as tho tough, liurdy, native American. 1 ho American makes tho best all uround soldier, He's hard to beat" Aro there many desertions?" Tho proportion of desertions is quito small in this country. The service is voluntary, and the discipline is not un necessarily severe, besides, it is hard for a man to desert without being re captured. Very frequently deserters surrender themselves. After a few months of freedom they discover that, after all, soldiering compares fuvorubly with manual labor as a private citizen. "How ubout soldiers marrying "Tho government doesn't want mar ried men. An eitlisted man must get permission from tho commaudiuit of his company before he cun become a lleno dict. At military jnists there nro gen erally ono or two men in a commny, sometimes more, who aro married. If their wives do tho laundry work of the company they ure imid for it. Other wise a married soldier gets no more ra tions than if ho were a single man. " Baltimore lleruld. rirklra, Sour ami Nwrvt. An observant Kontlemun tells Ths Grocerymuu of this city, that the north ern girls cut sour pickles as though they loved them, while a southern belle re quired them made into sweet pickles, and will not eat tho tiny, sharp little pickles our northerners so like. "Sweets to tho sweet," however, is the motto of : both; for The Record will wnger a sour nail to a Hiss verse mat tno girls in Dixio ' love caramels as well as do tho girls that ! bloom with the roses on the northern ! side of Mason and Dixou's hne.-l'hila- delphiu llocord. Male unit Frmula Kmptoye. A dry gixxls man, who keeps careful record from year to year of the punctu ality and grade of service rendered by his 1,000 employee, says that the txtit women aro more faithful than the best men, but that the average record of the nieu is much above that of the women. New York Cor. Globe-DcuiocraL A risiulbl ElpUnitlloa. Wife You say you shot this duck yourself, John? I can find no marks on it. Husliand (who hadn't thought of that) Well er my dear, the bird was very high up, you know, and perhaps the foil killed it Life, llorw Flrh In Furl. The Inspector of butcheries at Paris has just published a report on the sale of horse flesh in the French capital It ap nours the consumption of this meat, in a .vr.u.....u in- u.S m. .ore or les. concealed form, has ln - 'Mtsed to an extraordinary extent. me Journal. Itemed? for fceaelrkaeaa. ' your breath and contract your uU muscles ia the remedy fur aea ucgosteil by an English phy K. P. Thurston, who speaks ieoce. Utoa Budget experience of the world, I od I never knew a rogue 'haoDT. Juniua. Rama kbl Jaarwy o riorwbrk AeroM id Wrsira I'Un Among the deeds of early life in the west the famous ride of r' X. Aubrey from the plaza of Santa F to the public Iniencndence. Mo., as a physi col achievement stain! without an equal . j,,,), t u doubtful if the history of the world con present a parallel to that great ride of 600 miles, through a country overrun with hostile Indians, a large part of the distance being through sandy ilMUTt and leading across river, mount ins and prairies, with only the sky for a covering and the earth as a resting placa An old resident of this city who used to know Aubrey very well, in cou versa linn rwj'fillv said "When I first met Aubrey obout 19-IS, h ivim h timiiiu man ol 33 the perfect pj(.rure 0f health and strength Short, ratlier (.,., M.u weighing about 100 I pounds, he hud an honest. 0s-n counten anee, and was one of the rising men of the plains, lie was a rreiien e-unauiuu came to St Louis in ltWO and very ttun afterward engaged in business as a Santa pe trailer making tri to Santa Ft from Indeiendehoe, Mo., and sending the lurger part of his time in the saddle, lie was a noti-d horseman, and spared neither man nor beast when on a journey fcvery j thing he did was done with a rush. j I "Aubrey made two rides alone from j 1 Santa Fe to Independence. The first was ! on a wager of (1.000 lliut he could cover the distance iu eight days He succeeded in reaching his destination three hours ' before the expiration of the time, lie killed severul horses in tho ride, and It is said that the death of one horse on the i way obliged him to walk twenty five i nulia to Council Grove, carrvmg his sad die on his buck, before he found anothct lie was the lion of the day at St Louis and lndeieiidviice after that nde. There were many powerful men and many good riders in those times, but not one of them dared toattempt to beat Audrey's record, lie determined to tnl it himself, and on a second wager he left Santa Fe in 1931 and gave the severest test of human en durance I huve ever known. I wus on my way to Santa Fe (it was thirty -seven years ago) with a train of twenty five wagons filled with nierchun due, and knew nothing of his design When we were at the Kabbil Burs, aUuit 100 mill's from the old KKinish city we saw a man approaching in a sweeping gallop, mounted on a yellow mure and leading another As he came nearer mistaking us for Indians, lie whirled und retreated lifty or sixty yards, then turned to take s second look Our wagons com Ing round a bill proved that we were friends, and. putting spurs to his steed, he dashed ast merely nodding his head as the dust Hew into our faces. It was a great surprise to me for Aubrey to treat a friend iu that style, but when I reached Santa Fe I understood it Every mo ment was precious. It was the supreme effort of his Ufa Night and day he rushed on. Six horses dropped dead as he rode them. "His own U'autiful mare, Nellie, the one he was riding as be passed our party and one of the finest pieces of horse flesh 1 ever suw, quivered and fell in the agonies of death at the end of the first ISO miles. Several splendid horses bad been tent ahead, and stationed at different points on the trail. No man could keep up with Aubrey He would have sacri flced every horse in the west if neces sary to the accomplishment of his design. It was not money he was after, but tome. He had laid a wager that the trip would be made in six days. "At the end of live days and thirteen nours, exhausted und fainting, he was token from a horse that was trembling from head to foot, and covered with sweat and foam, at the southwest corner of the present square of Independence He sank into a stupor, from which he was not aroused for forty -eight hours." Kansas City News. Wlioli-nnlo Tnulo In Fireworks. Tho center of tho wholesale trade in fireworks in New York city is about Turk place. Hero the progress of the art may be noted; how it lias risen from the hum ble Chinese firecracker, still and always the staple of the trade, up through vari ous grades of giant crackers, torpedoes, Koniuu candles, pin wheels, flying ser pents, rockets, fountains, geysers, mint's, star showers, suueissons, fire flowers and floating animals and monstrosities, up to the triumph of pyrotechnic ingenuity and extruviiganoo those great set pieces, representing cataracts, portraits, mot toes, allegorical personages, etc., from 100 to 300 feet long, und from ten to fifty feet high, and costing each from (100 to (1,000, warranted to illuminate the darkest night for miles around, daz zle tho eyes of any mitnlier of beholders and consume more money in five min utes than any other contrivance known to man. New York Tribune. The World's Cottrni Ylold. Though known from prehistorio times, tho use of cotton for cloth did not become genertd until after the first successful American cultivation of the filter in 1700. Iu 1701 tho world's yield was 400,000,000 pounds, and that of the United States 2,000.000 pounds. Since then the Ame rican development of the industry has been stiiondous, the present production of the United Suites being six times as great us that of the whole world acentury ugo,und its home consumption being equal to the world's product fifty veurs nco. It has leen calculated that, with tho no- pliances of 1700, the manufacture of the world's cotton in 1820 would havo oc cupied ubout 30,000,000 people, while it would require 300,000,000 persons at the present time. Arkunsuw Traveler. A Lltrrmry Curlmlty. A bookseller at Lyons named Roux is Issuing a literary curiosity. It is a vol ume entirely of silk, to Ih pul4ished in twenty-live parts, of which fifteen have already appeared, at the price of (2 per IuiiuUt. The text is woven in the silk. As each numlier consists of only two leaves, the whole volume, containing the Koman Catholic mass and a manlier of prayers, will havo only fifty leaves, round the Gothic text of which every leaf bus a specially designed mediwvol bonier. Both text and border are woven in black ilk on a w hite surface, and theetfivt is said to be "very artistic" Chicago Herald. Composition of Hallway Duit. Tho rnilwav companies aro gradually p.ttmg rid of the thing known as -the lU h car 8tove-1. ,w ot thm beve paengrsof railway dust They have no contrivance which actually does that now. IV you know what the rail way dust hieh torments you so is coin )oscd of? Under a good gLiss it is show n to be competed of a large proportion of fragments of iron of a magnetic charac ter, looking like old nails; of fused par ticles of burned iron, like clinkers cov ered with spikes and dogger with long tails; puces of glans and coal and angu lar bits of metal Pioneur Press. I The Boycott That Didn't Work-Is tire Worth Living? Tb following extracts are made from the last Issue of The Aritona Eickeri "Tbiv Boycott Us. The fact that we bavs boen running The Kicker pretty much w we pluued since tho first number was bucd has given mortal oneiise v cerium peoplo In this neighborhood. Wo have been kicked, licked, pounded, tiireuwued, shot at aud bluffed right along, and have grown fat on it. "We came to stay. "Fact is, we've got to. We havent any thing to go on. "Huvlng tried all other measures to make us lot go, and bavins failed Ingloriously ia each Instance, it wus determined to boycott us ia a social way. We huve been chuck a luck with tlie very cream of society since our advent In fact, we have been most of the cream. "It was decided a few days ago by a syndi cate of the high toned thut we must be so cially snublied and crushed. Accordingly Mrs. Maj. Bazoo, of Grixzly Heights, an nounced a recherche uffuir and invited every body in the set but us. It was given out thut she feared our manners would disgrace the occasion, and if they didn't our clothe would. "We weren't saying a word. We saw the bluff and went one liotter. On the night of the party the sheriff made a haul of three high toned prisoners at the bouse of Maj. Bazoo, while half a dozen others broke for the woods. We have got one grout advantage over tbe other creams of society. We left the east by daylight aud shook bands with tbe sheriff as we started. We are neither a bigamist, eloper, embezzler, bono thief, jail bird or gambler. We don't want to work this lever unless some one jumps on our col lar. We have reduced tony society over half since we cams here by giving the sheriff pointers, We can run the other half out of town in a week. Mrs. alaj. Bazoo has called to beg our pardon and express her deep dis gust with herself. We have forgiven her, knowing it will not happen again. As for Judge Cahoots, wbo inspired the boycott and set tbe crushing machine at work, we bear him no animosity. We will simply remark that he is a bigamist incendiary, embezzler, forger, perjurer and highway robber, aud we have dispatched Pinkerton to come and get him." 'Our amiable and gentlemanly sheriff en tered our ofllce day before yesterday in his usual urbane mauner and announced that he must serve papers on us. It was a notice of a breach of promise suit against us by the widow Clixby, wbo alleges that we have been toying with her heart strings, and that it will take $5,000 of our cash to settle ber thoughts back in tho old cbuuneL "It is another move on the port ol our en emies to down us. "We first met the widow Clixby twenty- eight days ago in Carter's grocery. She asked our opinion of herrings, and wo asked ber's of soap. She invited us to call at the house and see some poetry she bad written on the rise and fall of tbe mastodon. We complied. We caKjd there throe or f-'ur times alterwards, but only as a menu, un ono occasion tho widow showed us a clipping from an eastern paper to tbe effect that it was better for a man wbo bad passed tbe ng of S3 to marry a widow, if be was to marry, but we didn't bite. "We kuow our gait If the widow Clixby can prove to the world that we havo toyed with her affections we'll cheerfully go to Jail. We are not on the toy. The widow will Und us no jack rabbit, and tbe enemios who have encouraged this now move may hear some thing drop before the trial is over." "Wednesday evening as we put on our Mother Hubbard and sat down by the cicn window to get a breath of air before retiring, a sudness suddenly stole over us and in a few niiuutcs we found tours in our eyes. Tho query coiiio to us over und over again; 'Is life worth livingl" and as we thought of the old homestead the days of boyhood the many graves the changes of thirty years tbe fountains of the deep were broken up and we wept 'tfuch moods do a man good. They bring him nearer heaven's gate. We don't know whether they eonio from a disordered b'ver or tbe uoar presence of a guardian angel, but we always fool a heap better afterwards. We no longer feel a spirit of revenge. We have no greed. We feel charity for alL "And as the bright beams of the harvest moon stool into our office window and throw a flood of silver light upon tbe dead ads on tbe imposing stone as tbe south wind comes sighing around tbe corner of Jackass hill and whispers to us tbe story of household graves us the whip-poor-will wakes from bis sweet sleep in the rear of isUvens'dis reputablo dance bouse to call to us to press onward and upward and be not discouraged, wo tako down theolllce towl, wipe the falling tears away, and seek our couch with the de termination to secure a puss from here to Omaha and return or make it so hot for tbe railroads that they will have to keep every tie wet all tbo year "round." Detroit Free Presa. An Old Tims I,onilon Clipper. One of the old time London clipper toa ships, the Mikado, Is now lying In the Erie basin. She was run Into In the most stupid and unaccountable manner by the big Philadelphia tug boat Rattler, and considerably dam aged on the port side, and is being re paired at the Rattler's expense. The Mikado is a handsome type of a line of vessels that have passed away. She ia what is known as a composite ship tlint is, the frames are Iron, with teak planking fastened with copper bolts. These clippers were specially built for the toa trade, and many a cargo the Mikado has discharged in New York. The figurehead ia the mikado, saber In hand. On each side of the bow Is the Chinese dragon. Each side of the after cabin doors Is decorated with carved figures of this emblem. The rig of the Mikado has been altered to a bark, as it requires less hands to man the vessel. The cabin Is very hand some, the panels being painted with Chinese and Japanese scenes. Tbe master, Capt W. Bunn; Mrs. Bunn and their two boys live aboard. Capt Bunn has quite a museum of curiosities petrified Jellyfish, boat made from the breastbone of the alba tross, collections of dried flowers and leaves, including some from Pitcairn Island. The Mikado baa been for years In the Chilian trade, and was once caught in an attack made by the Peru vian fleet when the latter attempted to cut out the vessels of the Chilians. Capt Bunn has made ten tripe around Cape Horn in the Mikado. Brooklyn Eagle. The sugar mite (aenrus sacchari) is es timated to number 100,000 per pound in most unrtflr.ed sugars. It causes the "grocer's" itch of those handling the raw sugar. Twenty Inches Is Kdd to be the nar rowest giuige of railroad doing regular business in the United State. More than a million men are employed by the vartous railway linus in the L'niul BUtee. Pai is has adopted the Aoflbaui laaoeiTste w. - - FROM THK DIARY OF A LAWYER AND THI MOTE BOOK OF A KKPOBTEB. By BARCLAY flOBTH. (OopyrlKhtod, 1889, by 0. U. Dunham. Published far special arrauKeiaent through Tbs Americaa Flmt AshociaUob.) CHAPTER L "MUKDEBl MCRDERt I" HE place was Union square; the time, an hour after midnight Three men, leaving three different points on the square, met a little north of the monument of Washington. One of them left the corner of Fifteenth street and Fourth avenue, and walked in the direction of Fourteenth street and Broadway; an other left the corner of Fourteenth street and Broadway, and walked in the direction of Fifteenth street ond Fourth avenue. These two met closely, having walked on the same line in opposite di rections. The third left the corner of Fourteenth street and Fourth avenue and walked in the direction of the park, on a line with the monument. When the other two met, the third had only reached as far as the iron rail ing which Insures the father of his country the uninterrupted enjoyment of that ride upon which he set out some thirty or forty years ago; he had loitered along with tho air of one who hod no purpose in his walk, smoking with leis urely puffs. The other two walked briskly. But the third, having the shorter dis tance to go, was near enough to see the man who had come from Fifteenth street and Fourth avenue stop short as he was about to pass the other, catch him by the arm and peer sharply in his face, and heard these words: "It is you, is it? Then take this." At the same moment, the man at the railing saw a glittering flash in the night, an uplifted arm brought down swiftly, heard a blow a groan, saw a body fall ing to the ground, and a man quickly disappear into the park. Dazed by the rapid action of this trag edy, enacted almost at his very feet, he clung to the iron railing and shouted, "Murder! Murder!!" Tho square, which but a moment be fore seemed to have no occupants but the t'-rec, was quickly thronged. Thero were hotels and drinking saloons on two sides, cabmen sleeping on their boxes and tramps, plenty, in the park, for it was a summer's night in August These produced a crowd, while a po liceman came running from Fourteenth street. "Who did this?" demanded the officer, casting a glance at the fallen man. No one answered. He examined tho body. "The man is dead," he exclaimed. lie lifted the arm of the victim. "Heavens! The knife is still sticking in him. Did any oiie seo this?" "Yes, 1 did," said the man who had first shouted "murder." Then he told what he had seen. "Stand here till I can take your name and address," said the policeman, "but 1 must have help." lie rapied several times on the pave ment with his long night club; the sig nal was promptly answered from differ ent quarters; among others who came wus tho sergeant After lie had heard all that could be told him he dispatched an otliuer for tbe coroner. Then he asked the name of him who had given the alarm. "Albert Wessing," was the reply. "Well, Mr. Wessing, I suppose you will not like it, but you will have to go with me to the station house. Don't leave. You are a valuable witness the only one who saw the deed committed." Before the valuable witness could re ply two things occurred. From each side a man forced his way to the spot where lay the body. One, who came from the Fourth avenue side, had a loose coat thrown over his night shirt; his bare feet were thrust into slip pers, and his suspenders were gathered around the waistband of his trousers like a belt; he had evidently dressed with great haste. As he came forward he said: "No, not the only witness, for 1 suw the blow." "Where were you?" sharply queried the sergeant. "Looking out of the window of my room," replied the newcomer, pointing to the Union Square hotel. "I was pre pared for bed, but I threw on some clothes and came down." Then, perceiving that the sergeant scru tinized him, he added: "Have no fear concerning me, ser geant; I am well known in the city. I am a practicing lawyer; my name is Henry Holbrook; I have lived a long time at that hotel. The night clerk will vouch for me." "Yes," said the man beside him, "he gave the alarm in the hotel as he came rushing down stairs." This satisfied the s."gcant, for he rec ognized hi the man the night clerk of the hotel. "But why have you not searched tho park for the murderer asked Holbrook. "He ran in the direct street ond Broadwa until he was lost to n. As he ran he threw o "Yes," said a fro man running thiouj, a of Seventeenth I followed him eyes in the trees. : coat." tramp, "I saw a he park when 1 was woke up by this ere feller hollerin' Murder.' " "Two of you search the park," or dered the sergeant "That should havt been" "Great Heavens! It Is Mr. Temple ton !" This interruption came from the one who had come from the Broadway side, he had been bending over the prostrate body, and as the two officers moved off at the command of the sergeant, thev had opened the ranks of those crowding a!xut, thus enabling the light to shim upon the dead man's face. "Who are rou?" demanded the scr- geant, grasping the arm oT tne' new comer as he straignteneo up. The policeman who had come first at the cry of muraer recogmzeu the speaker. Sliding tip to the superior officer .ol1- he "Hfl's all rieht. sergeant; I know him; head barkeeper over here on the corner Morton house. Tiion moved bv the recollection of sundry sly imbibations, he added: "A perfect gentleman." nhi"Aid the senrennt "Who is Mr Templeton? What do you know about him?' m viV much." replied the keeper. "Comes into our place pretty ftnn fTannllv stons In on Ins way up town of an afternoon. Sometimes comes in at night, but not often. He was in our place half an hour ago." "Had he been drinking?" "Not much In our place." "Was he intoxicated?" "Oh no, he never gets drunk. Very .arpfnl drinker. There were some friends with him. Thoy all went out to getner." "Was there any quarreling anion; them?" "No. verv frlendlv and jolly." "Still it might have been one of them wlin knifed him. "No," said Holbrook, "I saw this man standing on the corner of rourteciitl street and Broadway. He parted fron them and came this way; the other went down Fourteenth street toward th North river. The aro lights mudo every thing clear to me, and there were fev people in the square." "Yes, that is so," remarked Wessing. CHAPTER IL THR CORONER TAKES CHARGE. linE coroner cntiit up at this mo ment and the ser geant gave him all the facts in lib possession The official, who was a physician, examined the body. "Death was in stantaneous," lie said; "tho knife passed between the ribs and pierc ed the heart; a powerful blow." The two police men who had gone Into the park return ed. They brought with them a pair of trousers, a coat and a hat; they had been found at different places, but on a lint with the supposed flight of the murder er; first the coat, then the trousers and lastly the hat tossed on one side or the other, on the grass. The coroner closely examined them and then handed them to Hie sergeant There was nothing whatever in the pock ets. They were of cheap quality, such as you see in front of Chatham street cloth' ing stores on wire frames, marked six eight und ten dollars the suit Apparently they had never been worn before, for the creases, which come from being folded in piles on the counters were still in them. "Worn for the purposeof being thrown off." commented the sergeant. " hcrt is the vent?" "We didn't find any." "Look again." The two officers moved off to obey tin order. "Has tlio body been searched?" askcr the coroner. "No." "Then search it" Little was revealed. A handkerchief a pair of kid gloves, a card case fillet with cards, bearing the name of "Jam or Holroyd Templeton," a receipted tailor'. bill, a wallet containing memoranda, de scriptions of real estate in various part. of the city, a gold toothpick, ninety-on dollars in bills, less than a dollar iu silvi i change, a gold watch and chain, a few cigars. These articles were placed in the hand kerchief, tied up, and given to the euro no "The body may be removed, sergeant,' said the coroner. "Have the clothet taken to the station house. Have you the names aud addresses of the wit nesses?" "Yes; also the names of those win. were last with the deceased." "That is well." "Except the address of this man,' turning to Wessing, who had never left the side of the sergeant. "I am a stranger in the city," he re p ed. "1 live in Philadelphia; I came from there this evening." "You came last night." "Yes, since this is the morning, a new day." "Wjere are you stopping?" Wese?K hesitated. This made the sergeant suspicious. "The truth is, sergeant," said Wessing "T have not taken lodgings yet. My va lise is over there at that hotel." pointina to Fourteenth street. "I was about to t ke a turn in the park, smoke my cigai and then go back to take a room." "Cm. Well, 1 will accommodate you with lodgings for the rest of the night' "Why," said Holbrook, "he saw no more than I did." "That may be." replied the sergeant, grimly, "but he may know more than you do. At all events, he must give r. better account of himself than he bus yet done." This made Wessing smile. "That I will do, but I prefer doing it at the station house rather than in this crowd." "Well, let us go," "I will go, too," said Holbrook, who was strongly attracted by Wessing. "As you please." rejoined the ser geant; then turning to an officer he said "tt atcb the body; I will send a Utter to you as soon as 1 can." Arriving at the station house, after all had been excluded except the coroner and Holbrook. Wessing gave a straight, forward account of his coming into the city from Pluladelphia the night previ ous. and his determination not to regis ter himself at any hotel until after lie had taken something to eat: that having eaten at an eating house on Fourteenth street and lit a cigas. he thought he would smoke it in tbe park and cool off oefore he returned to the hotel. He gave names and addresses in Phil adelphia whereby his statements could oe venneu by telegraph. The sergeant, however, rimer i.,i to hold him until verification could be ada, To this Wessinz acauierwH .i.-i that Holbrook was convinced he had nothing to feu from investigation. Ho expressing Iffluieif, nni the sergeant: "Be careful have a suit for fal Lnprff N your hands." ,nniBB4 This made the sergeant anew. The coroner laughed but nothing to relieve the officer "f "Have no fear," said yLi are only doing your duty 1 1 This complaisance serii.. the captuiu's room for the ntl H than a cell. ratC Holbrook, having nnthi.' . . him, went away. ")b When he reached the WUflr. , over to tho spot where ii, " be-endono. Ho hod Uo -J there; un irresistible imii fascination drew him iliither The square was deserted Li quid reigned. Tho revelers 7 back to their haunts, the tramnf benches in the park, th, "2 slept again on their boXe Vhn awaited tho belated one, whoJ,;., quire their services, The nio . brightly. ThesilcncewasoppS broken only at Intervals by th,T, of drunken song in the diJtan occasional rumble of the traiai oniv avenue. of life. The man strong, in health, and In . J9 had been struck down and ,i j , walked the streets late at night hiiJ at times, and the same fate eiisilv buva luen lila II,.. .1. : " 1 was not a murder for th n,,.'! berv. Andwlt.u.rr0" i 1 , "'""" "lOWKrad in Rlinor u-lrL-pilnoca !..... . . uuumrn tui ( blood? nardly such thing, JJJ iu uui tiv minion, mere was amah, for the act, a strong one doubtl "Sv discovery of the motive would lead J! discovery of the murderer. Tin 'b! effort of tho olice would doubtles bth discover that motive. As he stood some'tliing sparkled mfe the sudden flaring of a distant Z! light, at Ins feet. Ho picked up the shining object it wu cuu outton-a round, pn uuiiuu nium uiumunu unDeuued it t ijj. TT-.11.-1. , ... uoiuiuuu. iooeu auout him, fi. murdered man must have Iain otw "When was that lost?" he r.uttertJ to himself. "Does it have any tm tion with this murder?" "Pshaw," he added, "it may h, there all night But etopl The aw sweeping machine passed over this im twenty minutes or less before the tit met anu wouiu nave swept it twaj,' He examined it closely. "The button belongs to mm i, commands money and is particidus his dress. Good! Bar keepers tad p licemen do not wear diamond buttons a( this kind, nor cabbies, nor tramp il ing in the park, nor indeed man; U yers. It belonged either to the nw dcred man or Ins murderer." lie teic pleased with himself thought he would make a shrewd k tective. "Perhaps It belongs to the coroner,', said aloud. "Not probable," he added, on another thought "A coroner ami ened in the middle of the night to riet a body recently killed would hardly ray himself with diamond buttons. II til events I suppose I must turn it on to the authorities. In the meantime 1 shall go to bed." He put the button in his purse and J rered his hotel. It was a curious coincidence that 1 1 the mouncnt Holbrook picked uptheltt ton a young man of fasliion, who U just returned from his club to his apft ments, half a mile distant, took off In cout and discovered that tbe buttoahols of his right cuff were torn out mi hi suff button gone. He looked at it a moment, muttered u oath and asked himself, "Qowwasttm done?" Then he proceeded with his dUrobiiif CHAPTER DL A NEW CHARACTER ENTERS. II EN Holbror left the M house the com and the sergnS entered into s cousulutioouti the best mm of urocedun Tbe serp- thougbt h an opportunity gain credit M himself br tl' ipeedy discovery of the murderer, was anxious mat as mum r-'- mi. i 11 iw. m-iilnltODCS was possiuio bliouiu u. . He was compelled bv the rulf lepartment to inform the central" .- o He had do ji 1110 enmo ux uu j wtitS but he hoped the headquarters dew would not stir in tne mau -.-n the day, when he hoped toba"" nuch progress. He had already concocjed a h l... 'i... frt hu what uui ue was ouiiuuo coroner wno was a muu u 1 t:..t .Tivnen mon sense anu no uw r- me trouble was, i" w- und no idea of P' . 1 geant the benefit of his brains, he was anxious to Know" geant thought. . p It can be imagined, there'" neitner saiu very bik"' .1... u 0,1 the ouw "H ncaiiy. .,- "A mysterious case, serg - j, "Verv. something uiue. usual drunken brawl. . "Yes; likely to give u u.- "A lonir examination; little in the beginning, an? m- "Unless theexaniinaiiu"- - the man was with last Qt""-r thing." "Perhaps it will. Ti.:. f inirrin: I01 iius wjii "i" " -fref brought forth anything, they for a short time, when the sen, in a feeler. . . "What could have been tne The coroner returnd tne fi "It could not have beenr"1- dentlv." .? "At all events tnere-- - -asi nu made." ,s m unless auer uo frightened by the cry of su . "That's one view of it, Vr This havinn brought lonu coroner mlde a lead. ,TO 'BKCuSTm-"- George S. Mackenzie, , C'' trator of the British ..... . .v... -ifblll S X1.. companv has freed 4. "v v, 1-, c ., the naval cruisers capture an aveyae of 10 s year. j, ,,. m v .lnl shed anJ lr ' or opened by building I luuim 1 vs 1 . w the interior.