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sm
demand the payment of the
$l(l,0 In gold," said Miss Ma
Kinder, a Utile testily and quite
determinedly. "I owe thin to my ulece,
who Is about to be married. As you
know, I am her guardian, and I do not
wish to diminish her legacy by any
overnight on my part Just now, when
no one knows Just what effect a possi
ble sliver victory may have upon the
tinunclul condition of the country
Once married, her husband may do as
he likes."
"Very well. Miss Magruder," said
Cashier Holt. "Your request will be
honored if for no other reason than to
show you that this bank Is amply able
(o m't n!! dmnnds."
The lady whom he addressed as Miss
Magruder was a spinster of uncertain
age, regular features and a determined
and business like manner.
( ashler Holt, a middle-aged man
Willi Vandyke beard atid curly flax
colored hair, had tried vainly to dero-
onslrale to his shrewd client that her
money would be safer In the vaults of
the bank than In her house.
Now he gave a whispered order to
the only clerk the bank afforded. The
latter turned an Inquisitive face upon
the spinster and her companion, a
pretty country girl of 20 glimmers.
when he returned from the vault he
carried In his hand a leather satchel,
which he phi ced on the counter before
the casliier.
"Here are your ten thousand," said
Mr. Holt, whimsically. "Remember
my warning! Take good care of the
money!"
Miss .Magruder was not so easily sat
Islled. She opened the satchel, took
from it a buckskin bag and counted
the money, which was In $50 coins.
Then she pushed It nil back, locked the
lg and left the bank, accompanied by
the clerk, who carried the satchel and
deposited It under the buggy seat. As
the ladles entered their conveyance
they were accosted by a tramp. The
fellow looked anything but preiwssess
lug, and Miss Magmder curtly denied
him aid.
During the drive from New Bruns
wick to the Utile hamlet which was
their home. Miss Magruder gave vent
to her annoyance over the cashier's
hesitancy to pay her niece's legacy In
gold. Ills warning against robbers
wiih especially distasteful to the spin
ster, who had never liecn ntlllcted with
fenr of anything. Nora Wilson listen
ed to her aunt lu silence. She was not
at all Inclined to share her guardian's
confidence that their house was as safe
ns the bank vault; but out of deference
to the older woman she refrained from
expressing her opinion. Kven when
the money was safely stowed away
under Miss Magruder's lied, Nora felt
uneasy. When bedtime came she her
svlf examined every window and door,
to see that It had been securely fasten
ed by the servant. Anxious dreams
disturbed her slumber, w hich she woo
ed In vain for a lung time. In the mid
dle of the night the girl awoke with a
fart. She was not certain at first
whether her imagination had played
ber a trick, or whether she had really
lien i-d a stilled noise In th,. next rooni
She hearkened Willi haled breath, ami
was soon convinced t lint what disturb,
ed her were stealthy tontMeps.
Without moment's hesitation the
girl Jumped from her bed. A door led
from her room to her mini's chamber,
but this she would not open. After all
if might only have been th,. vivid play
of her Imagination, and she dreaded
Miss Magruder's ridicule. So she tin
latched the door thnt opened out Into
the corridor ami groped her way to her
aunt's room. It was ajur.
Nora Wilson scarcely breathed as she
listened. She could distinctly hear the
respiration of two persons. one breath
ed regularly and quietly, tl. ,ti.r-
breath initio lu short, stilled gasps
sweet, penetrating odor came front' (lie
room. Then ull her doubts were ills
polled.
There was a robber In the room He
was searching for the hidden RoU,
Norn was a courageous girl. She press!
ill lier lips llrnily together, advancing
iiitvfnlly with outstretched arms i
most Instantly she cam,. i t.0ntiict
with a human body. The man-for It
was n burglar-clutched her around
the waist and held a shiis,. saturated
with chloroform to her nose. Nora
tried uot to breathe to keep froin liilinl
lug the noxious vapor. The girl's tierce
hi niggle made the burglar resort to
other means to overcome lur. He drop
ped the sponge and pluugvd his hand
Into his breast pocket.
"He has a pistol and he is going to
kill me!" thought Nora. Quick as a
flash she seized his hand the moment
he withdrew It. Her lingers closed over
the handle of a large bowlo kulfe, uot
the butt end of a revolver.
The nmurnuder dragged Nora from
the room, down the stairs and Into the
lower corridor. There he hissed Into
ber ear that 1m would kill her If she
made an outcry and did not release
the knife. Gathering all his strength
n
mm
he thrust her into the pantry, the door
of which stood wide open.
Miss Wilson made no reply, but with
an almost superhuman effort attempt
ed to wrench the weapon from him.
She succeeded In clutching n few Inch
es more of the long handle of the
knife, and the man uttered a terrible
oath. The blade had sunk into his
hand. Snatching his left arm from her
waist, he struck her a fearful blow
with his fist.
Realizing that she could no longer
cope with the robber, Nora turned
quickly and dashed past him toward
the door that led out Into the yard.
It was open, but on the threshold the
girl stumblc-d aud Ml pioiie lo the
floor. When she nwoke a few moments
afterwards from the stupor caused by
the fall, two men were bending over
her. They were grappling, und by
their voices Miss Wilson recognized
in one of them her aunt's gardener.
The girl, brave as ever, came to his
assistance.
Their combined cries for help
brought one of their neighbors to the
scene of the struggle. The marauder
was soon overcome, and when the ser-
vant maid appeared with a lamp. Nora
and the gardener recognized in him the
tramp who had accosted them in the
afternoon In front of the bank.
Take him to prison," commanded
Miss Wilson. "My aunt and I will lodge
complaint against him In the morn
ing." While the two men carried off their
prisoner, Nora hurried to her aunt's
room. By this time the effect of the
chloroform lmd disappeared, and Miss
Jingruder was acquainted with the
events of the night. The little satchel
with Its precious contents was moved
a considerable distance from where it
had originally been placed, and the
spinster admitted that the casliier was
right after all In admonishing her as
lie did. To relieve herself from fur
ther responsibility she sent for her
niece's betrothed early In the morning.
In the meantime the prisoner had a
preliminary hearing before the Judge.
Miss Wilson deposed that she had met
the man lu tuo. afternoon: that he had
seen the satchel which they curried
from the bank, stowed away under
the buggy seat. She then narrated
her struggle with the intruder and his
final arrest by a neighbor and her
aunt's gardener. The latter eorrobo
rated her statement. The prisoner
firmly declared his innocence, even In
the face of these grave charges. He
deuied having struggled with the
young lady lu her aunt's room, and
said that he had sought shelter In Miss
Magruder's woodshed for the night.
When lie heard Miss Wilson's cries for
help, he thought a tire had broken out,
aud rushed from the shed to aid In
suppressing It.
Without a word Nora Wilson point
ed to the prisoner's right hand, which
was bandaged with a dirty rag. The
Judge understood lier meaning and
asked the trump how lie hud Injured
his band.
His answer was that lie had cut
himself with nil ax, as he cleared the
' AUVASCtM) CAttKFfl.I.V WITH
STIIKTCIIKO ARMS."
place in the dark to find a comfortable
sxt to lie down In.
His statement was not credited, and
lie was remanded to Jail.
An hour inter Nora and her betroth,
ed were ou the way to the hank. They
had with thorn the satchel of gold,
ready to again entrust It to the custody
of tlie bank cashier.
"Good morning, Mr. Holt," snld the
girl. "Here Is the money! You were
right, some ou did try to rob us lust
ulglit."
"Ah. liar cried Mr. Holt, coming
close to the cashier's window to receive
the money.
A penetrating odor of chloroform
was noticeable. It came from the
clothes of tlie casliier.
"Oh, James!" cried the girl, still pale
and nervous from her terrible expe
rience of the night.
"My name is Cliff," said James. "I
am Miss Wilson's fiance. Permit me to
lead her to yonder couch. She is not
well. A little rest will soou restore
her."
Holt was not inclined to grant the
request to ndmlt the two young people
to the back room without opposition.
"It's against the rules of the bank,"
he remarked stubbornly.
.Tames Cliff paid no attention to him,
but pushed the door open nnd led the
young girl to the leather sofa lu the
QCICK AS A Pt.ASIISHK8tI7.RD HIS HAND,
bank room. Nora was far from faint
ing. Her mind had never worked more
quickly ond to the point. A suddeu
suspicion that not the tramp, but an
other tried to rob them of her fortune
flashed through her brain. There was
the odor of tlie chloroform, and be
sides the cashier held his hand con
cealed in his coat pocket.
"What Is the matter with your hand,
Mr. Holt';" she asked.
"My hundV I sprained it last night
while trying to move a heavy piece of
furniture. I have been bathing it with
arnica aud must keep It banduged."
"Won't you let me see It V"
The cashier hesitated, but when he
pulled the hand from the pocket at
last, the bandage showed other stains
than those of arnica.
With a bound tlie girl stood before
him.
"This is blood. .Tames," she cried.
"A swain could not have cnilseri them
Tile smell of the chloroform, his voice,
his look; aud the hairs wrapped around
the button of his coat! Do vou mw.
nlze theuiV"
"They nre yours, Nora," said James
Cliff, carefully loosening them from
tlie button that held them confined. "I
would recognize theni anywhere!"
"This Is the man who broke Into our
house, with whom 1 struggled, and in
tlie struggle lie cut his hand," said
Norn, firmly and menacingly.
"I wish I lmd killed you." muttered
Holt, now blind with rage over the
girl's discovery.
They culled the clerk and sent for
the sheriff, but Jnmes Cliff was com
pelled to keep the desperate bank cash,
ler at bay with the point of a revol
ver. At ills home were found a bottle half
tilled with chloroform, a blood-stained
cuff, a liowle knife, a bunch of skeleton
keys and other paraphernalia belong
ing to the light-lingered gentry.
Years afterwards, when Nora Wilson
and James Cliff celebrated their mar
riage anniversary they learned the
cause for the crime of the bank cash
ler. He had lieon lu love with the pret
ty country lassie, and as .lames Cliff
was then an Impecunious attorney he
thought If lie robbed her of her fortune
tlie young man would uot marry her.
"Hut you know better, dear wife,"
whispered James into tlie pretty mat
ron's ear. She nodded her head In si
lence, and wound her arms around his
nock
The 10,000 In gold were deposited in
a larger bank, and the Interest lias
been piling up from year to year, milk
ing a nest-egg for the three little cbll.
dreu of the Cllffs.-St. tauis Republic.
The Conductor's Keen Senses.
"Railroad conductors train them
selves up to a tine point." said a trav
eling man. "The other night I was
on Conductor Stovnll's train, ou the
Southern, going up to Washington. We
were somewhere In tlie neighborhood of
Charlotte, X. C. I knew, but to lie ex
act 1 askiNl Cjipt. Stovnll, who was Hit
ting Just behind me. where we were
He waited about half a minute mid ivi
plied:
" 'We are about nineteen miles frou;
Charlotte."
" 'How can you toll? I asked him
"Easy enough.' he replied. -Just
feel the motion of tlie tnilu, and i CJU,
teU. 1 can toll every curve on the wad
nearly anil 1 never have to look out tu
uud where we are.'
"Just at that moment there was a
Wast from the locomotive. "That's
Stanley's crossing,' sold tlie conductor
Aud that was from a man who has a
run of about 300 miles." Atlanta Con.
stltuUou.
A SHORTHAND TYPE WRITER.
Machine Which Write Entire Words
at One Stroke of the Finiters.
Business men aud stenographers will
hail with delight the Invention of a
typewriting machine which can be so
manipulated as lu
print words entire
with one stroke
of the fingers in
stead of the old
method of spell
1 n g ciktIi word
out. The machine
Is intended to
take the place of
ordinary short
hand writing, and
at the same time
to make a record
which can be read
by anyone.
In the ordinary
typewriting mu-
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vou
ha mi-lk ok work, chines ttpeed la
limited by the fact that but one key
can be operated at a time and only one
character printed.
The inventor saw that If several fin
gers could be used at the time time, as
on tlie piano, to select the letters for
a word, and tlie word printed at a sin
glestroke, sufficient speed could be got
ten to take speeches from dictation
direct on machines Instead of using
shorthand. He then constructed a ma
chine after this idea. It is a very small
affair, weighing only two and one-half
pounds, occupying a space only sdx
Inches square, and enn be plnced In a
case two Indies deep.
In this Invention the operator can
bring Into piny any or all of twenty
keys without changing the position of
the hands for any combinations.
There nre sixteen keys which lie next
to one another, within the four outer
keys. On these are printed all the let
ters and characters that are to be print
ed. If any of these keys are
struck without touching another
or the outer ones, it will
print
the letter or character which Is mark
ed ou the end nearest the operator.
When it is desired to print any of the
letters on the second line, It can be
done by pressing at the same time one
of the outer keys, which are marked
"con's line 2" or "vow's line 2." This
brings forward elthertheconsonants or
vowels. The same is true of line three.
The figures are printed by using the
fingers of the right hand, while press
lug a lever at tlie left of the head of
the machine. The sixteen keys are so
arranged that tliey can be operated In
pairs, so that one finger can press down
either one or both keys of each pair.
The machine cannot do accurate spelli
lng, nor will the writing do for corre
spondence, but phonetic spelling can be
done aud It Is possible at each stroke
to print the greater pnrt of a word if
not the whole of it. The Inventor has
made several of these machines and
placed them for use lu business offices
Tliose oiiemtlug tlieni are able to write
100 words a minute.
Tlie principal alvnivtage this machine
him Is its siHixl, and If not accurate
the words are more easily read than If
written lu shorthand. It can be used
to advantage In taking speeches for tho
press nnd other matter that Is turned
Into an office Just before the paper goes
to press. In tills case a good compos-
....i coum get up tne matter fmm its
recorn. i ne record Is printed on a nar
row slip, an sliowu by tlie aimn.i.v
lng cut. The letters read across the
slip from left to right. Many of tlie
words are spelled phonetically, but
their meanings are obvious. The letter
in tue luumration translated in long
hand runs as follows: "If ymi could
make It convenient to call at the Sun
office to-morrow night. Thursday, 1
shall be glad to see you."
A LAMB IN ICE.
Exported from New Zealand to Teat
a KcfrlKeratlnir Proceaa.
This is a picture of tlie smallest lamb
exported from New Zealand, it was
A I.AMB IN ICS.
frozen Into the block of Ice as-re".
sented to demonstrate th capabUlUes
of a refrigerating process.
Some num tvtin .
Itf-kT eTery u"uute. am bocowl
THE SHORTHAND TYPEWRITER,
Changes.
"Tho vnrlit trrxna nuM 1 Uf. ..
.-. .c io uU Lu-uiunun, just to-aayi"
Smiling I said it, and turned to g
Thlnking blindly 'twould ever be to.
A friend said softly, "Life is all woe
Joy is a thing I never ahull kn,u '
SmililiK she said It. cnlmlv ro;,..,..j
- .., .iKurU(
Nor dreamed the cloud was all silver Uw
Later, when life had brought soreurl
And robbed me of all that first belief
I met this friend. Ah! Joy had bpenthml
T.irn.l I 1 i .... . . l
",ru - uuiut?u, uuu eusea uerctrt
noston lrauscript.
Lnve'n Trihut".
'Tis but A feeble strain I uinir in
Though when I sing to others, barili(l
. nipiiKni I
From brightest fancies of .the brain I
wrought. I
Where is my manhood, love, that I short I
oe
So weak, my own, where I would win tkj I
praise .'
My fairest laurels to adorn thy brow
I fain would offer thee in runtiire nowr
Yet, if rejected, scorned! through pauiil
unys
My heart shall gee a vision ever fair.
Immortal, through my love, whone tootl I
divine
Hath power thug to claim the ml
mine.
From cherished hopes to lift tha veil dt
spin r.
Boston Transcript.
8prln.
"Winter, unloose thy shackles!" cries tin
spring.
"And bare the breasts of fountaini t I
the sun!"
The mandate given, straightway It p
done.
Again the earth grows green, the iwt
birds sing
And build their nests where bud in
opening,
And all the streams In tuneful gladiim
run;
And so all loving hearts should, oneb;
one.
Burst from their bonds and have awik-
ening;
Awakening from sloth and blissful eaw,
From sadness, gloom, and carea that
chafe and fret.
From acts and thoughts that rob the Mil
of peace.
And cause the heart its Maker to forgetl
Awake to life and bloom, like to the year,
Blushing with flowers as the muutbi if
pear!
Boston Transcript.
A Favorite Poem.
I wandered lonelv as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and bills.
v nen all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the troei
Fluttering and dancing In the breeise.
Continuous as the stars thnt shine
And twinkle on the milky way.
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay.
Ten thousand saw I at a glance.
Tossing their heads iu sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, bnt the
Outdid the spurkiing waves in glee;
A poet could not but lie gay
In such a Jocund company.
I gazed nnd gazed, but little thought
What wealth that show to Die hal
brought.
For often when on my couch I He,
In vacant or iu pensive mood.
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of Bolitude.
And then my heart with plensure fills
And dn noes with the daffodils.
Wordsworth.
Nleht.
The golden rays are fleeting and night
draws on apace,
Diana c&sts her dusky robe o'er heaven's
beauteous face,
Earth's deepest vales are sleeping, In mist
lies Jocund Iny;
Wrapped in slumber so divine, as tboufk
she knelt to pray.
The pearly gates are opening, the lustroM
stars burst rhrough,
While shaken from a cherub's hands fH
drops of crystal dew.
Hark! angels bright are singing; their
voices, clear and sweet,
Tell o'er and o'er the story of old, of
Christ the mercy-seat.
The flowers, their heads npliftlngv' "Jnd
incense, pure and rare, e I
To mingle with the clouds above, an-vM
sweet fragrance there; 7
While gentle zephyrs, singing tfiroui"
every lenfy tree.
Cool many a hot and fevered brow befors
they turu to flee.
So, thus with voice ascending in praise t
God above,
Who clothes the Illy of the field, wh
teaches truth and love,
We welcome In the morning Aurora, clear
and bright.
And bid Diana fond farewell-farewell M
beauteous Night.
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