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EUGENE CITY GUARD, LUCliniLL, . . rrerletr. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. THE ROBBER'S DRAWN PISTOL It Duein't Look Pretty, and llreve Succumb. A group of intn were lolling In tin loung er's corner of a Sun Francisco hotel th other forenoon, says a writer In the Sun Francisco Examiner. Each was reading a morning paper. Each bud lila paer open at tba page describing tbf robbery that startled Berkeley. "I canuot'help having admiration for inch bold thieves," aald a very respectable looking member of the gathering. "Not," be added, "that I ap prove stealing In any form, but if one la bound to loot a strong box it I more manly to do it ut the point of a pistol than to sneak Iuto the victim's confidence and then betray it." Ons by one the renders threw their papers aside, and without dllllculty dis posed of bnndlts and plunder in the re markably abort order that always prevails on such occasion. Then they grew rem iniscent. "The pluck lent robber I ever heunl of," aid a Denverite, "wo the one who mads Dan Muffattgive up fJI.OUO about three years ago. 1'he story became familiar enough, but the scouel lion been generally squelched. A young fellow walked lots Moduli's private ofllce at the Flint Na tional bank, covered MofTutt with a pistol, . displaying a bottle of hurmleu oil that be aald was nitroglycerine, made MofTutt fill out a check and then get it cashed and hand him the money. He specified just What he wanted, demanding $1,000 In gold, a $10,000 bill and smaller bills. When MofTutt went to the paying teller for the cash the visitor was Just behind him with the revolver clime to bis ribs, but hidden by an ovcrcoet. Having secured the money, the robber backed out the door and dlsap peared. "Did they ever catch him t Well now, that Is hard to state. There Is some mys tery about It. Home people did not think that MolTatt wanted him caught. But a big row was made about It, and rewards offered. In perhaps a year, after numer ous arrests and releases, it was announced that a prisoner In Jail In Clay county, Mo., charged with hone stealing, hod confessed to being Moffatt's robber. The bunk teller went there and Identified him. Then Mof fatt went and Identified him. The Denver chief of police told me, however, that the prisoner was a pretender, and that be did not believe be bad ever lieen lu t he state of Colorado. Then the chap went crasy. You can't try a lunntlo for robbery, and the public does not keep track of tbecraty prisoners of Clay county, Ma So the mat ter rests." The Denver man bod the floor. "You remember, don't you, the way Senator Tabor's gold bricks from the Vulture mine In Arizona were stolen? He got the prop erty along In the eighties. The output lu the form of a brick left the mine every two weeks. One of these bricks was worth About 18,0(10. The foreman thought be could carry the treasure himself, but a lone highwayman fooled him; got away with the game, too. lie was afterward caught In the city of Mexico and the brick recovered. The foreman took some assistants with him next time, and on this trip ran Into an ambush. One assistant was killed and the other wounded. One of the robbers was hurt, sod was caught later nursing his won ml In a hut. The other robber was picked up In a lonely canyon, dead, a bullet through bis head, a revolver in bis band and the brick on bis breast. Must have been a grimly sat-castlo cuss. "I notice you are having a good mnny Stage robberies out hern. Used to have them In Colorado. Abolished the rob beries first ami afterward the stage. But speaking of robberies reminds me of the highwayman who could give your Block Dart points. He hud held up stags after stage in southern Colorado; taken every thing In eight. He always gave orders aa though be hud a whole posse In bis gang. When he was captured it was found that he was a cripple weighing about one hundred pounds, and never bad any coq. federate except dummies armed with nrormatlcka. lie's lu the government pen air nvinni now, U'CK BETTER THAN RICHES. gone People lllrued by Fortune Tell of Thrlr Motl I'rofltabla Momenta. Speaking of ;.;ood luck, what do you con slder the i.. u.i profitable moment In your liter Treacher, gamesters, actresses. financiers, politicians, bourd of trade spec ulators, lawyers atid newspafier men have answered the question, hitch In bis own way tells bow be met that "tide in the af fairs of men" whioh bore him on the crest of t he wave to success, Hurry Komuine, the well known sport ing man, w ho has lost and won thousands on the sight of a single card, does not look upon any of the flattering turns of chance as highly profitable, though be has writ ten a IxKik defending the profession of the gamester. "The most profitable thing I ever did In my life was to get married," said Mr. Itomuine, "and the most profita ble moment in my life was certainly that In which I took the marriage vows." Miss Frances K. Wlllurd, known all over the world as the leader and president of the Womuu's Christian Temperance union. stopped long enough in the midst of ths proceedings of the federated clubs, a Central Music ball, to read the questloi and send out her answer. It reads, "The moment In June of 18.VJ w hen I deliberate ly made up my mind to be a Christian." There was no hesitation and no delay in Miss Willurd's answer. , Her mind was made up as soon oh the question was asked. Kd Pardridgp, king of the wheat pit, makes a surprising contribution to the syniiosiuin. More than once Mr. Par (fridge lias added .7,0U0to his bank ac count in a single day on a break In wheat. It might lie expected that he would point back to some such lucky turn of the mar ket when asked what had been the most profitable moment in his life. Hut when A FOREST PRIMEVAL SUCH WAS THE ADIRONDACK REGION ' YEARS AGO. now That It Has Come la Contact with Civilisation, the Straggle Has Began to Preserve Its Pristine Beaoty Mrs. Harrison's Visit. ALL trees and stately, murmur ing in the breeze or shaken by the storm blast; silver streams dashing downward toward the plain, halting anon In shady pools and thea again resuming the i m pet u ons rush to river and to sea: lakes. plaold, clear and cool, frlmred with ths gold and green or lilies and guarded by giant pines; mountains majestic 'neath the noonday sun and magnificent in nanonlv of mist at early dawn; the splash of gamy trout, tneuasn or the lleetfooted deer, the growl or the black bear surprised at bis feast of wild berries, the plaint of the mourning dove, the whirr of the woodcock. the bark of tbe fox, the hoot of the owl, the crow's warning croak, and occasion ally the shriek of the panther this is the Adirondacks, as planned and perfected by nature. Through all the years since flendrlck Hudson sailed northward to the nresent sue or Albany the white man has ex its plored this region where somber beautv and dainty loveliness blend and shade from he heard the question he clambered up oi;t."ne 10 ot,ier witn in'ck transition and of the noisy pit of the open bourd, pulled nervously at his mustache and said, "Profit means happiness, and the happiest, proud est moments in my life, as I look back, were those when, as a Iniy, I used to come In from the spring run on the old farm with a big string of suckers and lay them down Dcrore my rather." Just then started a wilder uproar In turned away. capricious grace. He has fished and hunt ed, he has torn open the granite hills in search for gold and Iron, he bos chopped down whole forests of spruce and hemlock and burdened the rivers with rich freight age to the tanneries and pulp mill and be bus built summer cottages and hotels at every available point and tilled them with the pit and I'ardrldge tlie wearr and wealthy city people who iiim renew eo neaiio aim outdoor diversion Ixxiklng bark upon the past." said ths mi(1 t,ie &lamlc breezes of the big north Ilev. Dr. H. W. Thomas, "I regard all wo"1"- gun, rod, ax and occupation labor, study, suflerlnif. iov and sorrow as nT nia," cars ""an one mlghtthink having a place and value In life. The upou this vast tract. The wounds are up most profitable moments are those of the Prent, however, and are so displayed that most earnest and noble resolves and conse- the sportsman, the scientist, the lover of cratlons that wore pivotal points or en- nature and thepractlcal businessman have trance ways to tbe days and years of duty combined to prevent a wantonness that in and service beyond. In the retrospect of tllne wollld reHtt uPn te who plunned life many things are forgotten; the good a,11 perpetrated it. one has tried to do is remembered with the JuHt n"w wller the Adirondacks need most satisfaction; the pleasures once en- 811 lne '"ends and advocates possible, an Be that as it may, it is the men of his class who object to so called Improvements and who stand ready to give tbe New York state forest commission all possible aid in perpetuating a huge park that shall be to the east whst the Yellowstone park Is to ths west. An extract from tbe report of the commissioners, mads a little over a year ago. Is worthy of reproduction be cause of the facts and suggestions con tallied therein. Say these geutlemen: "The gross area of the Adirondack wil derness Is about 3,000 square miles, or 8,600,000 acres, including lakes, ponds and rivers, overflowed lauds, clearings, farms and some villages or settlements. Of this area the state bos acquired title, under sundry tax sales, to 7'-,030 acres only, In elusive of water and overflowed lands. This area Is In widely separated parcels, varying in extent from, one-quarter of an acre to 70,000 acres, interspersed among tracts owned by individuals and corpora tions and an unknown number of clubs. "There must be some scheme adopted by which nn area could he consolidated sum ciently large to make a park. Only two methods have ever been suggested one, that the state should condemn the land by the right of eminent domain; the other, that the state should purchase the land. The first method Is looked upon by the commission as at present Impracticable. The other could be easily carried out pro vided that the present owners of the land were willing to sell them and tbe state would provide the necessary money. "Under the plan suggested by chapter 475, laws of 1887, it is found that the state may gradually acquire large areas of land at low prices, and so much of the land needed for a park can be obtained by these meth ods that comparatively small appropria tions will be required from the state treas ury. From the figures thus fur ascertained It is thought that the cost of the park will not exceed $.'1,000,000 to $3,500,000." But whatever happens to the grand old North woods there are some charms of which Nineteenth century vandals cannot despoil them. Deer and war, trout and birds may disappear, but tbe bills are cter nal, and around their hoary, time worn beads the lightnings will continue to dart and battle as of yore, and the mists of early morn will form in phantoms of marching armies, of giant shapes, and of castled cities, and then disappear at tne wooing or the rising sun In the blue vast- ness of the airy dome. Fbed C. Datton. Joyed can hardly be recalled." "looked at broadly," said Carter II. Harrison, "perhaps the most profitable hour or my lite was one which I spent driv ing about the streets or Chicago with a friend. When I started I hud no Idea of locating here. Before the drive was over I had begun to see the possibilities of the future metropolis and had determined to settle down and muke my borne In Chi cago." i'retty Rose Coghlun sat down and thought very hard when the question was put to her. "Well," she said finally, "if I must my finger on absolutely the most profitable slnglo moment in my life, I bops I may be pardoned If I give the credit to the moment in which I was born." City Clerk John It. B. Van Cleave mads his Ikiw to the ladies and said, "The most profitable moment I can rcmemlier was that lu which I was introduced to my wire." Chicago limes. incident has occurred that will, it Is boned. do much toward the preservation of the tores ta, tbe game and the flub. Mrs. liar Quarts Mining In California, So fur as productiveness and extent of operations go, quartz or vein mining Is the leading branch of the business in Califor nia, fully two-thirds of the gold product of the state being obtained from auriferous ores. This brunch of mining Is spread over the entire length and nearly the entire breadth of California, being pursued to some extent In three-fourths of the coun ties of the state. This industry employs about 4,000 stumps or their equivalent. some of tbe. crushing being performed by arrustrus, roller mills and similar devices. Of the above number it may be calcu lated thai 3,500 stamps are constantly in active service. Estimating that these stamps crush ten tons of ore per day for 200 days in the year, there results an an nual total of 3,100,000 tons of ore crushed. As this ore will average nearly seven dol lars per ton the yield amounts, at the low est calculation, to $13,000,000 per annum. That this product will be steadily Increased for mnny years to come there is good rea son to believe. Nevada, Amador and SI erra remain the leading quartz mining counties of the state, their annua! output amounting to $3,000,000, $si,000,000 and $1, 500,000 respectively. Sun Francisco Chronicle. MRS. BENJAMIN HARRISON. Wished He Was a Colored nor. Some few months ago the firm engaged anew ofllce boy. Hu was a bright little chap, just turned fourteen and fresh from rlson, wife of the president, goes to the fc'llollKwl ' A ff (lilt l...l nn 1 1 I.I... k I ...... ... . 1 . . "m .m..j, wv v.wnnvm uiui, in-1 mini utauis w recu iieruie uuer ner recent cause that Is the way he first pronounced severe Illness, her husband will follow nisown name when asked whut It was. later on. newsnuner correspondents will When be grows a bit bigger and acquires I chronicle the doings of the distinguished a better knowledge of United States F.ng- couple, and naturally the Journ. istawlll llsn he will punch somebody's head for also comment on their surrniin n.n iwl culling mm 'Arry, and theu he will be find much to commend and a goo deal to caned nurry. criticise. If their reports aid i prevent inri niumn miuin up n close menu- ruiure stealing or tsin r anil unlawful ship w ith the little colored errand boy In taking of fish and shooting of game thev .......111... rm. . . ii, . i.i i ... . tun uiiiip. tin. jiiiir mien ntKe ones out i win nave done a public service, ot tne same apple mid otherwise manifest I "it seems to me," remurked my old congeniality or tastes mid tcniperumeuts. friend, Freeman Odell, as we sat one even The other morning 'Arry showed ud at ling not lonir auo on th nnn h nf hi. w,.h. the ofllce with a dirty face. elor cottage at the foot of West mountain. "do and wash yourself," said one of the "that the old times was tl. . tin... "What's the useof resisting when a man JI,'.rkl! r,'P";vl"K,y- yu want Here I am goln on to sixty-five years of nounced yeller is a baby." Has the drop on your T h Is from a den "af'T '"'J' age, and consarn their skins, these tower- After which he once more n.lne,l Wi. i it.. i I.. ... . . . I 'Arrv Hlmt. nn t.iivlfiiiii n hum 1,UIIU. .11 ..... .1. 1. .-t-t I m . . .. . 1 luomuK individual wnose ulerclim eves . i . . . r "" "" u uiinrrcinuui wuu i. give ine i siience.ueiroit f ree fress. would have scared the ordinary highway- Brm lutu n'l""'d wuu ths old man no chance. They're bulldln rail- man. "All nonsense. I say. Now In thn uv',u". . 'rl"": .. roudsand stage lines and hotels all through - , I., I ui,,. I L. II,... 11 . l. 1 .1 ... .. . . . nn. una nn, im-u wnen 1 1 a region tne Almighty intended should re in y nice nolKsly wouldn't main the home of blir imm nnd th nr.. ew lork Herald. dlse of the honest hunter who loves a rnlr A Progressive Conundrum. They were working the conundrum rack et ut a small sociable on Cass avenue the other evening, when a previously silent youin put in ins our with the current con versation. "I've got one," he said. "Whut Is itf" asked the crowd. "Why is heaven like a baby?" 1 hey wrestled with it for ten minutes and gave it up; then he submitted this an swer: "Because heaven is home, home Is where the heart Is, where the heart is is the chest. a chest is a box, a box is a small tree, a small tree is a bush, a bush is a growing piuni, a growing plant is a beautiful thing, a beautiful thing is a primrose, the prim rose is a pronounced yeller and a nro- man. "Ail nonsense, 1 say. Now In tho Bedding robbery Messenger Montgomery ., ,.w I 1 resisted. Whut did be getf Why.asyi Jld" t.tw'ut tern full of lead. He didn't save the tress- know't"-Ne ure. He dldu't do himself any servloe, and tbe good opinion of the company Is nothing to a dead man. I say it's all right to give up when a gun Is at your head. There's nothing else to do. Shoot your highway mail as be runs If you can, but look out for your own hide. Vou'll never get another." "Are the authorities severe upon stage robbers in Callforuiaf" queried a I'hlladel pblnn. "Oh, not ery," answered the fierce look ing one. "lu the first place they usually do not catch them. Two boys, frightened half to death, stoped a stage near Caxa dero the other day. They trembled so that they couldn't get the quaver out of their voices for a week, and this gave them away, Tbey were sentenced to two years each. As to the Bedding roblivry, the comparatively Innocent lad who was led Into it was captured. His elder brother, the one who killed Montgomery and got the booty, Is still at large. The Ban An dreas murderer, who shot Into a stags a few weeks ago and riddled a young lady passenger, bos snever come to light. No. California Is not particularly hard onstage robbers," "Coming back to the Berkeley case," re marked the quietest member of the loung ers, "the pair of brigands were audacious enough to have Iwen trained under Jesse Jaiuos. I do not blame tbe men for yield ing. When roliliers are so desperate as to make such an attack In daylight and In the midst of a crowd t hey are desperate enough for anything. I was In the big Blue Cut bold up 011 the Bock Island rail road years sgo. It was done, by the James crowd, and 1 want to say that the barrsl of theslxshisiter I gated Iuto looked big ger thau a Joint of suivepipe. Some of us had been boasting ths nighl before what we would do in just such an emergency, but we didn't do It, We attempted to crawl under our seats and through win dows, and many forgot to hide their watches and money. Oh, It's easy enough to alt around a hotel and brag, but the man who refuses to acknowledge the po tency of tbe drop the other fellow has on him is a bigger fool than I am. But I don't mean to be personal-no, ludeed." And the quiet man looked apologetically about to see If be had hurt any one's feel-lag. light an a square victory, whether he be from town or is native bred to these hills. Why, do you know whut was done not fifty miles above here ouly last fullf A rich feller f nun York was bound to kill a deer. He couldn't shoot a gun without Ao Interfiling riant. Towns that happen to have been built near waterfalls are beginning to realize their good fortune In possessing such a valuable source of convenience and wealth In the town of Bristol, N. H., electricity shuttln his eyes, but he had six guides dominates everything in the field of light hired, an what Adirondack guides can't ami power, lhe entire town, containing do when they're paid for It ain't down lu otv or oou houses, two hotels, many stores tbe books. ami over a dozen lactones, is profusely "Ihey anew that wild deer was too lighted with Incandescent lumps supplied scarce to be worth look I u for in thatneigh- uy power imiu tne rvmigewaaset river, Doruood, so they bought a tamedoe from a which tumbles In a series of cascades through the picturesque settlement. The Hwer is so cheap ns to be used with great economy of luhor and expense In the factories, and such is the luxurious ten dency of electrical application, that many of the householders are prtMising to ban ish the heat and dirt of their kitchens by adopting electrical cooking apparatus. St. 1 .on is lilooe-lJenuKTat. tavern keeper an hitched it to a tree in the woods near a little lake. Then oue of the six got the boss to go out in a boat, tellin htm the other boys bad found a big run- A Green City Fellow. A local farmer tells this storyt "When In the city we do not act half so Idiotic as city rolk do on a farm. Why do you know that one summer a student from the Cincinnati university visited my farm, and one day when I started to get some young potatoes, took the basket from my hand and said he'd get t hem. Half an hour later he came hack with an empty basket, say ing that ho had hunted all over the patch and could llud uothing but blossoms. There was not a single potato on the vines. I thought he would drop dead when I took the h and began digging them out of the ground. lis said he thought they grew on top ot ins vines." Cincinnati Times-Star. Table Manners Two Centuries Ago. Writers on the history of table manners have a great deal to say respecting the use of the spoon and fork, and the habit of eating from a common- dish, Illustrating iueir narraiive wuu numerous anecdotes. In 1850 Montaigne visited Switzerland and was surprised to remark that at table they gave always as many Boons as there were guests. Mates begun gradually to replace porringers after the year 1000, but were used only for the solid food. The soups were sun niMcea in a large vessel in the ceuterof the table, and every guest ate from it with his own spoon. some writers do not wish to believe that such a waut of refinement was possible as aieas me reign ot Ixmis XIV, but the prooi is against them. Golden Days. Walked Seventy Miles for a Job. w illium Corbett, famous In American Revolutionary politics, and in connection witn American agriculture and horticul ture of a ceutury ago, was once employed in the Royal gardens at Kew, according to Professor Hemsley, haviug walked some seventy miles when but a lad of eleven, with but thirteen cents in his pocket, in order to secure the promised Job. He was a fine type of a self educated man. Mee- nans- .Monthly. Concluded U Oo U Work. A family In Abilene, Kan., who be lieved that the world would come to an end last fall, suspended their occupations aim passed ma cnurewinter in their bouse waiting for the dread event Late lathe spring the bead ef the fami ly went out aud planted a patch of potatoes and his wife Curkoo Customs la Knglacd. There are or were not long ago In differ ent parts of Kuglaud remnants of old cus toms marking the position which the cuckoo held in the Middle Agea. In Shrop shire, till very recently, when the first cuckoo was heard the lalsirers were in the habit of leaving their work, making holi day of the rest of the day and carousing in what they called cuckoo ale. Among the peasantry In some parts of the kingdom it wss considered to be very unlucky to have no money In y))Ur pocket when you hear the cuckoo's note for the first time in the season. lAudon (Juevn SnakM ra by Charm. n Cobra are selected by the ao called snake charmers of both Egypt and India for their performance. The Eirrotian charmers sometime pretend to chanee raluctautly put some eggs under a sitting the eerpent into a rod, and according to vwun-y ot. uuiairo, mis appearance can be induced br snriiur a itmm Hunting for the treat aa iirf.ii... . Sduecse to the animul's nn-k. m-hi.-v, i. fords a aoixl living to manv thniiun.u dtirwa a mnvnUlva ri.ri.1it fwun ki.i. , - 4 I IM..V V I - ' " " "'" VM. V UJCIi fishermen in the world. During the time of the old Roman em pire tbe dead bodies of all except snldds were burned. tne animal aoon recovers. It need hardly be said that the snake charmers always carefully extract the famrs of the snake they use. Quarterly Review. In nt HIS TWO IIUNDHEPTH BEAR. way for deer an would chose two or three Into the water where he could get swlmmln shots at 'em. Well, they turned tbe poor doe loose an scared it into the pond. The York man shook so he couldn't shoot, until the guide rowed right close nptothe frightened brute, caught it by the tail an held It while his employer blew lu head off. He took the hide home, an I hear that he brags of bringin the doe down at 300 y.trd while she was jumpin twenty feet to the jump." "Uncle Free," as they call him. has a right to growl, for he is a famous man in tbe lower Adirondacks, and when he killed his two hundredth bear, three years ago, the event was chronicled far and wide. I was wltJi him on that mmorable chase up me tog covered side or W est mountain, but fulled to oe "In at the death." When I reached the old hunter he sat on the corpse of bruin waiting complacently for my ar rival. "1 got him," he remarked. "Have you any maicnesr "Yes," and I handed him several He pulled three black hairs from the bear's tail, lit a match and burned them. "That," he explained, "is to square things Willi the Witch of West moun tain. So lomi's I don't forget to do this every time I knock over one of these var mints she'll let me live an hunt." "Uncle Free'' is still on earth, but wheth er his paganish, sacrifice have anything to A Maple Sugar Miser. A man living at Burke. Vt.. hss VAS. all the maple sugar he bos mode in the past ntty years, having now on hand a con siderable quantity of the boiling of 1813 and his entire crop of every year since, tbe wnoie aggregating 1U.000 Dounds. It is nil stirred sugar and has kept perfectly. No- issiy snows wuy ne hoards the sugar and ue oners uo explanation. Boston Tr. ener. In Her Debt. As a pleasant faced woman passed the corner Jones touched his hat to her and remarsed feelingly to bis companion: "Ah, my boy, I owe a great deal to that woman. "Your mother?" was the onerv. "No, my landlady. "-Exchange. Tha Nature of Tea. People are beginning to understand that tea is rather an edged tool which It be- noovesone to handle carefully. Physicians ure inveigneii loudly against the tea habit, and have succeeded in working a needed reform in the making of the beverage. iora limes. do with his lona-evity I am aoabl to say. I ant. Tessellated pavement has been applied to many 01 me lavatories, passages and other similar places on board the new English menf-war with capital effect It offers a good foothold and Is not slippery. The French railway carriages are a little better than the English In this, tbst you have a way of cotumnuicating with tbe guard in rase the man next to you is taken with a fit. England pnsarfMea no lesa than 70,000 coachmen and grooms, M.250 male indoor servauis ana l,i,000 female Indoor 'INGENIOUS thieving. a. CLEVER DIAMOND STEAL WORKED BY A BRIGHT COUPLE A a Incident Hcrallrd by Seeing lb Dar Inez Thieves la lbs fublle Garden In llintoi A Preclom Pair That Swindled Mora Than On Cautious Merchant. "Where have I seen that face before?" Tbe answer to this Inquiry, which every one bus some time put to himself at the sight of a countenance once familiar but lost sight of for many years, does not al ways recall us Interesting aud timely a story as it did to a gentleman who sat on one of the seats In the Public garden a short time ago, endeavoring to "place" the face of a man on the next seat. The person who had aroused the curios ity of the gcutlcniHO was a tail, elderly man of grave and distinguished bearing. His hair and beard were silvery gray, and his eyes, which occasionally met those of bis nelghlwr in a seemingly casual way, gave proof that their owner possessed the faculty of self control in a noticeable de-gree. On the seat with the stranger was a young woman some thirty years old, of prepossessing appearance and charming manner. Her attractiveness divided the attention of the man on the adjoining bench, who sat patiently puzzling his memory for the Identity of the two companions. 1 he watcher of the twain was also a vis itor to Boston. He was a secret service agent from Europe, whose business brought him frequently to American cities. He was convinced from the first glance that his two neighbors were people whom e bad met "professionally" somewhere In Europo many yeurs before, but for many minutes their names and the circumstances which had brought him into contact with them eluded him altogether. At length their Identity flushed upon him, and with it the conviction that the pair's visit to America boded nn good to any one upon whom they might bestow their intimate acquaintance. The man was one of the most accom plished diamond thieves in tbe world, whose exploits had reduced the wealth of many a foreign jeweler by thousands ot dollars, and whose acts had been success fully played throughout Europe for more than thirty-five years. The presence of such a skillful pair of criminals in Boston induced the detective to give publicity to one of many of their successful thefts, accomplished in Naples in vfib. One day the pair appeared at a Ncanoli tun hotel and registered as an English gen tleman and daughter. Among their baggage were two rose wood chests of the kind used by English officers in camp or barracks, aud which, when joined together, formed a bureau, with an os'u writing desk in its upper part, callable or folding upward, and clos ing with a spring lock. 1 hey took two rooms communicating by a noor, against which, lu the man's room, this piece or furniture was placed. There was seemingly nothing to attract susni clon in this, and they conducted themselves In such nn affable manner that in a few weeks they hod ingratiated themselves with all the guests und attendants at the hotel. The man soon became known at a lead ing jeweler's as an expert purchaser of dia monds, ins dealings were Biuull. but al ways shrewd and judicious, and always paid for cash down. It was his custom to drop Into the richly furnished store, ac companied by his daughter (?), who, while papa bargained in the coolest and most businesslike way for a stone which struck his fancy, did not fail to exert the influ- ence of her engaging manners and be witching eyes upon the susceptible mer chc it. In a short time the man had established his credit solidly with the jeweler, and then he went straight to work to carry out his scheme. Hu called on the jeweler oue day to negotiate for a diamond necklace of great value, which the jeweler hud shown him before anil pressed him to buy for his charming daughter. The hitter was not with him this time. "Pnpa" said he wanted to surprise the girl with the gift on her bridal day, which was near at hand, and warned the mer chant that the purchase must be kept strictly secret between them. A bargain was finally struck, 1,000 francs were given In part payment and the necklace was left for certain alterations, which were to ba completed In a few days. un the day In question the vounir ladv called on the jeweler, saving that her r. ther was unwell and wished to see him on business, or course the jeweler went, bringing the dianiotid necklace with him. He found his customer sitting at the writ. ing desk, and after some conversation the subject of the business between them was broached, 'lhe diamonds were nlaml nn me ness and tne supposed customer began to count out the payment. At this Interesting moment the dnnr nf the room was opened, and the girl, radiant with smiles, bounded in. She paused on seeing me jeweler and pretended to retire. As the diamonds were to be a surprise, of course she must not see them, so "pnpa" hastily closed up the desk, diamonds, money and all. The merchant was entirely unsuspicious of anything wrong In this, and even when the girl told her father that the Duchess awaited his immediate presence in the reception room, no thought of theft en tered the jeweler's mind. "Papa" made a feintof impatience ntthe duchess' Interruption, but went out to see her, leaving the girl to entertain her caller, which she did in her most capti vating style. Suddenly, pretending to take offense r. a remark of her companion, she rose hur riedly and swept out of the room in aeem. mg Indignatiou to fetch her father. The jeweler was uneasy, not on account of the mumouus, out tor havfno- Unwittin.rlo offended the maiden, and he spent some nine in irumingiue most humble apolo gies and explanations for the father, it was only after watching an hour nr si? ti me return ot nis customer that an inkling of the truth dawned upon him, and an ex amination of the desk showed that it precious contents had been extrie, through an opening on the other side, reached by removing tbe panel of the door leading into the girl's room. Everything had been successful!? nlnnni and timed, and before the alarm was (riven and search for the thieves begun the latter were well beyond the reach of capture.--Boston Herald. A COSMOPOLITAN SCHOOL A Queer Mlilurs or Children In One of New fork's Dig School Uulldlngs. Until about a year ago the principal of ward rchool No. 5.J, Aew lork, did not reulizo whut a queer lot of pupils he had, although he hud sometimes luughed over the strange collection of names upon the rolls. A year ago he took a census and carefully traced out the exact part of the earth from which the parents of each of Ins pupils had come. lie found that there were in his school no less than twenty-seven different na tionulities, speaking about twenty-five lunguuges other than English and its diulects. He found that of these sixteen were in the primary department alone, Ho not long ufterwurd he arranged a novel feature to one of the school enter tainments. At a certain place in the programme each child arose, holding in his or her lunula two flags. One was the American flag, tlio other the flag of the nution from which the father had come. The visitors to tlio school were astonished. They recognized half a dozen flags well known as the banners of European nations Italian, German, Spanish. French, Swiss and the like, Then they saw neurly a dozen others, recognizable from theirshuiiesand colors and designs as the banners of barbaric or semiliarburic countries, known to us in a vague way as heathen. When these children, none being un der five years of age, first come to this school they are foreigners to the very core. They stienk the language of their fathers, and perhaps have never even heard the sound of an English word. They are of the country from which their parents cumo both in customs and ideus. Their clothing alone bears the stamp of America, and that so out of ac cord with their faces and expressions that they seem ill at ease, mid even more poorly clud than they reully are. They enter the primary department And here it may be said that, although the youngest are five years old, the ages of ninny extend upward toward eighteen and twenty years. It is the business of Miss Rose O'Neill and her seven nssistunts to tench these children the English language, and then to make American children out of them. Oo into the school at the beginning of the school yeur. and you will think the task hojielesfl, impossible. Come back at the end of six mouths, and if yon close your eyes and listen to the reading exercises you will not be able to dis tinguish Chinese child or Arab child or Tunisian child from the few pure blood ed Americans who fonn the curiosities of the school. Then you will wonder how the miracle has been performed. Harper's Weekly. IS HE Ajiootft, A MAN WHO SEEMS To . 6UE0 BY OIL CONFUG; HU First Eiperl.nr, w . f ISei-Thre. Vear. , ''K ne.M-,1 Another tireat 0 ' 1HHO II. Was Hl(lil A "In the springer W,"kiM western railroad trsv.n.... nt!1l to the oil regions to -J '" "1 rememlier that I gt to.ii, i! called Kouscville ulsmt ,,, ! evening early in Anril t J 1 ' t . . . . iii hail Just Is-en strinli ti.. . ... '"'-n-. , l spuming ai tne ruleof no i,,,' ,"" Flowing oil wells were a 2 1 those nays, ror I think this . second or third one that hail i I be oil was thrown Inin n.. r or more by this well, and ,, way to store petroleum i. " flowing alK.ut in stream. ., .T" All the engine fires nboiu th. put out as Moon as the .,: i.. ril ami a score or more of n,.m , ?ter. to work digging trenche, a,,,, ,,'' dams to prevent the oil was one of many curious srs,,., hurried to ga.e upon tliestranwT? were crooned nlumi n .. A f liitiLTi.r Him, ...,l " "UKIIOWD aorm. that great outpouring of oil volume of gas was gein-rnti f , creasing with the flow or oil 11, In every direction. T,e nT ?"1 spouting Incessantly for two h0 suddenly there came a great lUi niendous roar and tin. ui...t.. , sheet nf flame in , great jet of spouting oil U-can,.. livid lire, while the volume of in..! j. t ha lu.hrlit nf ,.w . . S"S''. was flushing, exploding and ' ward in ferocious tongiiesnf . . derrick, building and engine l10u, an area of seventy rcssseeiwl ,,' tuneously wrapped in fire tu spreading about, had come In omtjr ine nresoi an engine house m-nrlr t . mile away, which was thn o' 7 great and instantaneous .n.,n,.... .. H "As soon us the column of oil pillar of fire the burning oil ft.n rrom a fountain over a space a W feet In diameter, each tlron mmi..?' nan lilii-ziiiiff rrlnlu. t. - K w. "o "i uuiimg petrol,). ground around the well . ... . ... . . .... - WUf 1 ..,...,,., .,.,. iUV nuilllg oil coiWu Increased, fortunately for nn I , enough away to be out of danger, HicKciiuix incioeiiis or tha coufla,.. iiv..iimiij njiirai ueiore ine,am. see them yet. Scores of th. were thrown flat on the ground forifc. uroiiiin. many or mem regain, feet and came rushing, all ahluze, froot. m-cmuiK inc. .illhi Wllllin llieawflllq. of the flames I counted nine me n the blazing oil for un instant, and they were gone. I could Maud toiwiv i n...i .i uiore, nun lieu iroiu uie scene, 4.1 1 -.1 i i uever uearu now many lives imtlc in that, the first, terrible oil ronflmnu in the history of petroleum pinductiocSr Know mat a score or more of . , , I-.-.- I were reported missing during the tin, inys I was there, and they were ill i. neveu to nave perished In that fire. "One evening in February, ISW, br on my way to Washington, I tumi in Philadelphia to see a friend gf to wno lived in foouth r ifth strwt, & vtasiimgton avenue. I found him, during tlio evening I went with tut Eilucata Children to High Ideals. We are b ready to impart instruc tion to children from low moods and on a low plane, because we do not ourselves habitually dwell in the latitude of the uplands. Motives of policy, of vanity, of seeming instead of being right, enter into our own lives and, alas! poison the lives of the little ones at the fountain, A grand life, a brave example, a splen um ...suu.ee oi lorui.i.ie, m sen aonega- cftll on a mutual acquaintance whot wv..., lviiii,0 118iuiioi uuiia is never iu in South. Tenth street, near the arm. vain. It is an object lesson that flames We did not leave there until nuit.1.1. out. irom ine suy, as tne planet amid tlie un our way noinc, as we werewalui host of lesser stars. Whether it be an d"n Washington avenue, the sound ii arctic or au African exnlnrpr tho lonilor terrific explosion filled the air. and t of a forlorn hope, the missionary living clo!W "Ls, nl"lost t0 throWMl'! among the island lepers, or the army Kro",,: The next instant names Ait later to the wounded and soothe the that side of the street. We mU uying, tne nome idem is upiuted before escaped it by running. the eyes of those who ore yet in tlie in- "Au oil rt llnerv or stoiaire tank. It itial stages, and whose chnriicters are In that vicinity, had exploded, and in n not yet in the mold of destiny. time thau it takes me to tell it that wm This thought of the lofty ideal eives "lucl' wns a seeming mass 01 names, m the chief value of our annual Decoration ourll'"8 ". n down the side strntna Day. giving us pause amid the pomn and l.uu p . ". . ""T '"7- ease of peace, that we may think not of lrjg everything before it. I read it ib the pageantry of war. but of its suffer- papers next day that sixteen personstn ings. its fever and thirst, its rigors of known to have perished in the eonflagn- cold and furnace hents, its weary lion, which raged all night, with wfi! marches, fierce buttles and theratriot- destruction of property, which naitk ism which alone condones its hittpr wnn second irigntiui one in the uistoryoi and the mourning that follows in its leum and the first to occur away from ih track TTiirrwoi-'a ll,., "Ii regions. 1 I ,.. men 1 : !.... 1 - ...... tii itjjv, unruiy, uctu lur iiiituj ;ww the Pacific coast, I returned east mi stopped at Bradford, theu the great oeoter of oil production, to see a relative of ma who was an oil operator and producer. Powerful Indian Air Guns. The Indians along the Mirida river hunt with blow guns made out of the young stalks of a certain kind of palm, learned in Bradford that he was openiin; from which the pith is removed. The at Kew City, a new and growing oil ton arrows employed as projectiles are sim- ply splinters of reed, sharpened nt one end, the other end being wrapped with enough silk cotton obtained from another a few miles distant. I went to Rew City, and while 1 was trying to find the trailef my relative a torpedo exploded at a wlls the vtciuity, and in less than two houriM a house was left standing in Rew City. W Li,i i. , . ., , r . - a uouse was leu standing in new v.i. kind of palm to fill np the bore of the derricks were wiped out of existence something like 300,000 barrels of oils tanks were consumed. I found my rcUt after the town had been burned opu we went buck to Bradford. He w ' heavy loser bv the fire. Three days latitl started with him to go to the scene o(l A Matter of Opinion. She had been havinu fun irith rw. kins right along and he made hd what mind he had to get even. It took t.ie form of a brilliant and coirent mnn drum, whose answer Dudekins thought was locked in his manly bosom. "I have a conundrum for yon, Miss Fannie," he said, when he saw her next An, sne replied, "what is it? Who gave it to your "I made it no mvself " ha assorts bridling somewhat "Indeed! WhatiaitT "Why are my clothes like the moonr She hesitated a moment and Dndlrin. organ 10 loon triumphant. oiow gun. lhe arrows are about tpri inches long and very light. They are tippeu witn the famous and deadly woorun" poison. Used by one of these naked savnees the blow L'lin is H W-pnnnn nf rrrnt ., ' e,.v.vvu: .Ire to look thlnirs over. iacjf a..u euueuveness, even a small bird ..... skilled shooter with reasonable certainty had some business. While he was site at the first try. Interview in Washing- Ing to his business I sauntered out in ton Star. toWn. which wn filled with dernoi Snilili-nlv I lumtvl a I11111I rxnlosion, aw' A Curious Salvage Case. I m.,,,! l,.tui.uf I,iha In flames, I" Perhaps the most curious salvase case very few minutes the whole town w on record is that of the ship Two Friends, ablaze, a hundred shafts of fire leaping "P which Btranded on the coast of Cuba and frora M niany wells about the place. was abandoned by her crew. Anothpr enty-flve buildings, more than lU)lnf ship, the John Dlake, met a similar fate and amm barreIs ' oiI weut upUI ZWe' "i aUemPting I? "tTd'ver struck me before, landing place, ime across the Two while this big fire was raging it cmk r nends, which they nianaced to ept off , nf ..i., n i ii hwn sswr and to navigate to England without fur- tor to more than my share of oil firedi ther mishap. The judge who tried thp ters, and I cave my relative my reconta case decided that salvage services had tuat resPeet. hopn rptiilora,! V.,.,,i 1: ,-m "'Mv f;li ho sin'il 'Don't let that?" pnltvnml niorif in..,.u out in this country, for there are men b'" - 'j -- ...v.., 1111,011,111.1103 liih rrew - of the John Blake salv-p.1 Friends in order to save their own Uvp ipl. ... - , , - 1 saw mat ne meant ii, auu The owners of the John Blake of course parts without much delay. The next y got nothing, but the salvino- rw . l..niu;i ,i ri,,lll and in l ceived X0 out of the total value of another one iu Jersey City."-Xe Vurt 1,237. New Orleans Picayune. fcun. . - I m. 1 c. 1 .. u t.Mlimntl. The Art of Conversation. rm.-e.i-i. ..... 1- th. CUT 11-1 . . . .... I -lie .unuiau iuervuim ' -- , - 1 "Conversation." savs a brill nnt Am-J ...:.. . ..piston- , , . .-w-1 lucAicu-unve orgn.ll.eu nu ; can humorist, "is, in this generation, a decided to open a permanent exposition opanisn proaucis, or a sum i" , Iviin 111 bills vuiiuu Jf,iui m-i - - ... who would show you your way out of a manner you wouldu t care to go. 1 saw that he meant it, and 1 ien the display of articles of merchandise!" duced in that country. For many J the trade between Spain and Mexico been very small, but this attempt""' crease it is earnest and Important. lost art, It was an art which our grandfathers studied perhaps more than any other. A geutleman, in the beginning of this centnry, was nsunlly more nmbitious to tell a story well or to state hiaannimAnt clearly than to understand science or statecraft, Youth's Companion. Pretty. Airy Head Covering-. the national capital says tt' oneol Handkerchief r . . most difficult things to do is w tnade in Vienna 'foS. tng little summer evenimr canntP. ""I :ZCTZL ..: .-. that. h Pmft. . 1 v. " - uu c,cu ui.v. -- - .v.v a unu-a walK cr a moonlight drive, they are not protective enough Eloquence at Washington. A veteran observer of men and s-"V wnen me air is damp. The handker- cmeisare mounted in aiift on a uoi.ee . hitu . lt speaker will have the floor to count on his securing it. You may think." .heaal.l.i, T"1"0" 'ounaadon, and the points Dudekins somehow felt the sand l,Z 1 . Ddl? toP ping from under him, "it U because ther 1 11" V,?1 ?? f?U to theW' Md dingmuch Ttlr fT k M IT. P-J perfect right to think as you please, but. I ymrvlrtJ bnaA' Pound, of meat. .W r Mr. Dudekins. opinions differ." " - 5 W ' WibleTeggs Md " . J T.ouo gallons of liquids. Statistics of Human Lira- According to a French statistician, of fifty years has slept 0.000 days, ' ,500 davs, walked SOO days, amused self 8,000 days, was eating 1.500 j