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Frank. Lillie Tollock
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a couple of Intermediate pulleys to a
small galvanized iron house litfr yards
away.
_ tied the borse» uuder the
pines, and Gleuny led the way to the
louse, There seemed «> li«ng betag
about the valley, una he uulocked (fie
strongly fastened ftoor
The single room seemed to have been
designed partly as a labonfftory and
partly as a dwelling place. TtieM' was
an lrou bed with other domestic ar
ruugements at one side, while along
the other, under three large windows,
ran a long bene«littered with strange
Instruments In brass and glass, quite
Incomprehensible to me. Disaster fleem-
ed to have been there, however. Some
of the apparatus wus broken, and frag
ments of glass had been actually melt
ed Into little (tools ou the burned table.
“Nothing here,” said Glenny impa
tiently. "This la Just my workshop.
Step ou here, and we’ll go below.”
Then I observed that the center of
the floor was a movable platform like
that of a freight elevator. Glenny bad
lighted a long candle and guve It to me
to hold while be manipulated the rope
that controlled the counterpoise, and we
went down down a dark shaft twenty
or thirty feet. Then the earth walls
changed to stone, and in two minutes
we touched the bottom.
We were tn u chamber perhaps fif
teen feet square, hewn and blasted
from the solid rock. At one side stood
a small table holding physical appa
ratus, among which I noticed a num
ber of delicate thermometers, An Iron
shaft ran down, apparently from the
room above, and connected with a
small and complicated looking ma
chine in a corner. Close to this was
a boxlike trench, resembling a shullow
grave, cut In tlie rock floor. Its mas
sive metal lid wus raised, and in the
cavity lay some long object covered
with a blanket.
“That,” said Glenny solemnly, "is
my evil angel."
“It looks very harmless.” I said,
more carelessly than I felt, and pulled
off the cloth.
I shall never forget the shock. I
hardly know what I had expected to
find—perhaps a corpse. But there lay
a marvelous statue of a man in solid
gold, a little less than life size and
somewhat spongy looking, but abso
lutely perfect. Every hair, every
thread of the clothing was duplicated
In the precious metal thut glittered In
the candlelight. But at the moment 1
scarcely realized the miracle of its
workmanship and material, for the
form and features were those of Au
gustus Keurnahan.
"In heaven’s name,” I ejaculated, "is
this a mine? Do you mean to say that
you cast that statue yourself? Do you
know that it's the most wonderful
thing ever done?”
"1 dare say,” said Glenny. “I knew
you wouldn't believe unless you saw
it. But It Isn’t a statue. It can’t be
called anything but a corpse—at any
rate it’s all that remains of the man.
Do you know him?"
"I know the face,” I cried. "But this
is gold.”
"Yes,” he said. “I’ll tell you all
about it. I wanted you to see for your
self. You probably didn’t know that
I was once something of a cracksman,
did you?”
"I certainly did not.”
“It was before I was twenty, nnd I
was quite a success at it. That wus
how I came to know him,” pointing at
the golden Image that regarded the roof
with a yellow stare. "He kept a gam
bling house la New Orleans then, ami
one night I tried to get into his safe
with some tools of my owq invention.
|OR many years Mr. Augustus
I Kearnahan hud been h guiding
I wheel In the "I'lachlne" that
____ | misgoverned onM of tlie long
suffering cities of the middle west.
The jiollce department wus his, and be
used It much as a German baron of
old might huve used his mercenaries,
but his end wus at hand. The munici
pal elections were neur, and the cltl-
Zi'iis' reform league wus straining
every nerve to put up a decent ticket,
and Incidentally (and successfully) to
collect evidences of the misdoings of
tlie present holders of office.
It was In this latter work that I had
part, uctlng as one of the league's
upeclul detectives, for which I was
qualified by some experience with the
government secret service. It wus uot
long before we found good reason to
sus|H*ct a most astonishing state of
tilings; Kearnuiian himself seemed to
huve been in actual collusion with one
or more gangs of "high class” safe
blowers and counterfeiters. As yet we
laud not sufficient proof to convict or
even to serve as a campaign weapon,
so we preserved an awful silence and
had our man shadowed wherever he
went
I'll us, when he left town, ostensibly
for St. Louis, 1 was detailed to follow
him. lie spent several hours most In
nocently In thut city, and then took u
ticket for Denver, still in my unsus
pected company. As we left the depot
at the destination, however, I lost him
in some unuccountable manner and
could not pick up the trail. I could not
well call on the local detectives for
help, but I went through the city us
scientifically as I knew how and after
ward visited la'udvllle,Colorado Springs
and Pueblo without finding any clew.
It was most mortifying, for bls adroit
disappearance strengthened the pre
sumption that lie was engaged in shady
transactions. Nearly three weeks I
spent in rushing about the state and
tlnally returned, discouraged and dis
gusted, to Denver.
At the hotel I glanced over the regis
ter for some time back, as Is my habit,
and found a name which interested
me. though it waa not that ot the man
I sought. Years ago 1 had known Curl
Glenny at the University of Chicago,
where he was one of the most brilliant
men in physical science they ever turn
ed out, a devourer of seliolurshlps. He
lied made no friends, scarcely any ac
quaintance«, owing to a curiously
stand offish manner that be wore, it
seemed to me, against his real nature.
I believe I was the only man with
whom he hud any lntliuuey, mid he
never invited me to lila rooms and ul-
ways met me with somethlng of the
embarrassment of a shy lover keeping
a tryst. It was not a question of pov
erty. He seemed to have plenty of
money. The students simply consid
ered him “queer” and let him alone, us
he seemed to desire. I had never beard
of liiui since leuvlng college, aud here
he was at the Hotel Denison.
“Do you know whether Mr. Glenny
is In?” I asked the clerk.
“I’m pretty sure lie is,” was the re
ply. "Are you n friend of bls?" look
ing at me with some Interest.
“Why, I used to know him pretty
well,” I sahl cautiously.
“We’d be glad to see any friend of
Mr. Glenny's,” continued the clerk,
still looking at me curiously. "He
seems to be a stranger In town. He's
been here for two or three weeks and,
to tell the truth, we're getting a little
uneasy about him—not afraid of his
bill, you understand — but he don’t
seem quite right somehow; hardly ever
seems to eat or sleep and seldom leaves
tffe house. Maybe he's sick, but he
looks well enough. Anyway, some
thing seems to be troubling him badly,
nnd we’d hate to have anything hap
pen In the house. You'd better go up
and see him. Don’t tell hint that I
said anything.”
So I went up. A tiellboy showed me
the room nnd knocked.
"Who Is It? I can't see anybody,
said a voice.
“It’s Billy Kirkman." I said. "Don't
you remember me, Glen, at varsity?"
A crack was opened and an eye ap
peared; then Glenny swung the door
wide, dragged me in and slammed It
after me.
“I,ord, Kirkman, I’m glad to see
you!” he cried, and repeated it. "Any
triend—I never nia*d«*d one more! I
swear I couldn’t think of a soul on
earth to call on.”
I pulled off the doth.
He had changed greatly and looked
older, I thought, than he should have unti ne cauie down anu caught me in
done. He had been a lilg, handsomely the act. Greatly to my surprise, he did
built man, but he was stooped, his head not have me arrested, but after a long
showed patclics of grizzle, and his face tulk over a revolver barrel he let me go.
was pitifully llneil. Moreover, Ills
"That was the beginning. Nobody
nerves were clearly In rags. He could can think worse of Kearnabnn than I
not sit or stand stUI for a moment, and do, but he had more foresight nml
it seemed to me that he was gulping shrewdness than any other man I ever
down a tit of hysterics as we shook knew. I was arrested a month later for
hands. I did not much wonder that another affair, and he bath'd me out
the initi l people were afraid of having and then told me to Jump my bail and
a suicide.
go north, where he would look nfter
“Y'ou look run down," I remarked. me. It seems that lie detected my sei
“What’s the matter?"
entitle bent before I discovered it my-
"The matter? The matter?" he said,
ArJmol
rallier wildly.' r'Why, niaii'. Tin rejofi'- where they hammered mathematics and
lng. I’m a free man, pretty nearly for elementary science Into me and finally
the first time si nee-1 can remember.”
matriculated me for Chicago univer
"You look It,” I said. "Stop It!”
sity, where you saw me. 'I don’t want
He hnd burst Into 11 roar of discordant you to fall in love, take to drink, make
laughter, rolling in Ills chair, and he any friends or get religion,’ he said to
kept It up till I emptied the water me. 'Outside that von can do ns you
pitcher over Ills head. Then he sat up, please and call on me for the price. I
dripping, and looked nt me more sane know you’ve got the head for what I
want.’
ly.
"Thanks,” he said seriously. •That
"It seemed that I had. You remem
was what I needl'd. But you've no ber the way I went through practical
idea how badly I've wanted help or ad and theoretical physics. I seemed to
rice. I say you’ve got to come with have a peculiar knack for the work,
1111. i can t tell you here; you <1 never nnd I never was happier In my life ex
believe It. Will you?**
cept for his prohibition against milking
Half an hour later we were on an friends. I felt too much gratitude,
evening «rain for l.liiH'stone, w here we however, to disobey him In anything,
sja-nt the night. Glenny was excited but I never could understand the rea
and moody by turns, but he would give son for It or for his befriending me at
me no hint of the cause. Next morning all—fill I graduated.
we hired two saddle horse» and gxsle
"Then he sent for me to his own
up 11 very devious trull Into the tnoun city, where lie had Just got himself ap
Inins for nearly two hours,
This pointed chief of pollse. and I found
brought 11s to a little valley where that he l^d been quietly collecting evi
stissl the rude buildings of w hat might dence of all n< youthful mi«1<«||ls -
have licen a mine. There wan an en enough to get me n°*iSMl Yw«ijy «years
gine nlied with a tall smokestack and In the prisons of ¿90 o* th»«» «tnteSi
un enormously long belt that ran over He said blandly «hat he sroulRn'* bgln«,
_
• « o
thlngicto «ght Just at present,
xhouglk as lie had some work Ot want
ed «ic to
nnd he proposed to estab
lish uw |ji a laboratory of my own In
Ht Louis.
”<W •ourse f jumped at the opening.
I had hoped tW spend my life in scien
tific work, and I Weuld rather have
'.u ffd death than twenty years of penal
servitude Just then. But It wasn't loi«
tiefore I discovered wliat sort of scien
tific lidHirs were to lie lmisised on me.
Kearnahan made no Ismes about tell
ing me that he was 'interested In' the
enterprises of hnlf a dozen gangs of
expert safe crackers and counterfeit
ers. and he wanted to apply modern
science to these Industries. He never
accompanied the gangs ou their raids,
you uaderatnnd, but be supplied tho
capital and Acted ns ’fence,’ and got
hold of most of the profits.
”1 rebelled. of course, but what could
1 do? I've often wondered since what
I ought to have done. The prison
blocked every road but one. In short,
I succumbed and went to work, and
nice work it wns! There was no sort
of lawless implement thnt I didn't
bundle. Molds and dies for coining,
chemical erasers for bunk notes nnd
checks, electric drills and blowpipes
for safe cracking—I had them all. I
did gixal work, too, and I nm ashamed
to say that It wasn't very long before
the scientific side of tlie work begnn to
eclipse the moral, in my mind. I had
plenty ot ume tor private experiment
ing besides, and Kearnahan bought the
costliest apparatus for me without n
kick. He said I was worth $20,000 n
year to him, and In fact 1 believe thnt
some of the cleverest robberies of thnt
nerind owed their success to me.
CHURCHES AND OUTLAWS.
• % L
Anelrat
Ml»»» —
Tlisf^.ute
•Woleclton <o < ' la.lual|a.
1
•
\AATER CLOCKS,
ta'iloo» I.Ml Iff iB.lruui.^k I
(■••4 la sffkhru Desert.
WOMAN AND
_ _ FASHKm
• •
Ar«
A N»»<0 N»«ll«e«.
ÔÊQUtLS TO STORIES.
Aw • ISVIe
A re Xul »• Gooff a«
•tic Inrll«, B oo ^ b .
IlaniUcerehiets ns material for gar
A muii'i wealth lu the Sahara la cal ment» of Vari«»'. »orts are cout*iually
The qAffflou of sequels was uuder dis
culated alu|o4 entirely by the numta'r •rowing In demand, but .i*- never more cussion In a literary gathering the oth-
of cumels or palm trees which he out* attractive than when made up Into a I er day. and the consensus of opinion
and by the amount of water to which kimono such ns the one Illustrateli I was decidedly aifalnst them. It was
he is entitled. Water in the desert is Tho»e use I for the miaiel are of white I evyn roundly maintained »that no se-
so sv-ariW tiiut the owarrsliip of it 1» Japanese silk, w ith border of blue silk I quel hail ever ta*eii a success from the
most JealotMly guarded. In “A Search
literary point of view. Bong* one de
For the Masked Tawareks" Qie author
murred and suggested "Paradise Re
Buys that in buying a palm grove It 1»
gained.” but that suggestion, greeted
always necessary to stipulate for flo
with a burst 'of laughter, practically
many sa’us per day or week. A sa’a,
determined the argument. “Paradise
literally “an hour,” la the amount of
Regained” was u distinct falling off
water which will flow In an hour
from "Paradise Lost.” It might even
through un opening the width of 11
lm declared a dignified, dismal failure.
man's fist in the side of a segia.
N<>; Milton's sequel wus no flxceptlon
The main aegis», or channels, us a
to the rule.
rule- follow the roads of the oasis,
If there be a rule, are there any ex
forming a sort of ditch ut the side. A
ceptions
that prove It? Stevenson's
regular time table Is kept, showing the
"Catriona" was not up to the level of
hours at which the owners of the dif
"Kldnuped.” Mr. Anthony Hope wrote
ferent plantations ure entitled to draw
x better book in “The Prisoner of Zen
water.
da” than he did in "Rupert of Hent-
The time is measured by a very curi
zau.” Wise authors never undertake
ous little wuter dock, consisting of a
sequels. Once main a time Mr. Rider
metal cup, made usually of brass or
Haggard was tempted to adventure a
copper, with a small hole pierced in
sequel to "She,” but repented at dis
tlie bottom. At tlie commencement of
cretion. It is altogether a different
each hour this is placed in a basin of
matter when successive books Include
water. The water gradually runs
the same character. Thackeray used
through the hole until at the expiration
thnt trick In "Pendennis" and "The
of the hour the cup sinks to the Ixjttom
Neweotnes.” but In no sense Is the lat
of the basin. It is then taken out,
ter !l sequel to the farmer. In a way
emptied and set again to measure >ff
Thackeray's novels may be said to
the next sa’a, and so the process la dotted with white, but there are In constitute a
chain right down from
continued throughout the twenty-four numerable oik ' s from which a choice "Esmond."
The links subsist, but
can be made. Those of linen, with
hours.
there is no
of narrutlve
This Instrument is usually kept in borders in color, are pretty and always which defines a continuity
sequel proper.
launder
satisfactorily,
and
dealers
are
the village mosque. In order to pre
He who will may compare the re
vent all Interference with it a watch- also showing a considerable variety
man Is set over it, who notifies the ex woven specially for purposes of the spective merits of Zola's “L'Assom-
[TO be continued .]
piration of each hour from the minaret sort. Tlie handkerchiefs are Joined on molr" and “Nana.” There does not ap
indicated lines and are so adjusted ub pear to be much to choose between
of the mosque.
CRETAN LEPERS.
At the end of the sa’a the opening In to form the deep points in fronts, back them, but undoubtedly the earlier book
FATE OF A BIG OHIO TREE. the side of the segia through which the and sleeves, while the neck edges are has been more popular. Zola’s habit,
Their Number« Are Swelled by The!«
water flows is closed with clay, and the turned over to give a collar effect. To as Is well known, was to keep the same
Food and Their Filth.
Slse of Thin Great Sycamore Wan the water Is cut off and allowed to flow make the kimono for a woman of medi families In Ids various treatises, for to
In the small Island of Crete leprosy
Cause of Ita Destruction.
down the main channel to the next um size will be required five handker hint they were specimens of natural
chiefs twenty Inches square.
history and mightily portentous. Con
Is shockingly prevalent. The Cretans
The greatest tree ever seen by white plantation.
trast with Zola our immortal Fielding,
have themselves to thank for this state men in Ohio is believed to have been
Summer ShawlN In Favor.
who began one of Ills novels by way of
of affairs. The houses may be pretty the enormous sycamore, or, more prop
OAK APPLES.
The girl who discovers in the truqk a parody of Richardson. It would be
and whitewashed on the outside, but erly. buttonwood, which stood in what
of a Disease Propagated hr ■ of family heirlooms a summer shawl interesting to collect Into one volume
within the tilth is fearful. And the is now Valley township. Scioto county,
Minute Gallfly.
of any sort may count herself in luck, the stories of the masterpiece». In
food they eat is Just what encourages In the rich bottom lands of the Scioto
The little brown balls popularly for this style of wrap Is enjoying a whnt circumstances were the great
leprosy. The Greek forbids meat about "Ter.
books of the world written? Think of
200 days out of the year, so as good
It was so prodigious in bulk that as known as “oak apples,” which may of- genuine renaissance.
The fad In shawls runs toward em Dumas pere and his firm of assistants!
Christians they must live on salt fish, early as 1810 it was described in the ten lie seen growing In elusters upon
which Is not Improved by its long Cincinnati Almanac as one of the natu oak twigs, nre not fruit, as some sup broidered crape, particularly when the Well. Pope preceded him nml farmed
Journey from northern seas southern ral wonder# of Ohio. In June, 1808, ac pose, but forms of a disease which re embroidery is In self tones, For the | out his translation of Homer. That
heat. The olive oil is so plentiful— cording to what seems reliable testi sults from ttie attacks of a minute girl who may own only one shawl the was a conscienceless thing to do. A
they export 20,000 tons each year—that mony, a party of thirteen persons, all gallfly (cynips). This little Insect, a most desirable selection is a white work of art Is not a contractor's job.
they use it to excess, even adding it to on horseback, rode into the hollow distant cousin of wasps and bees, la crape embroidered nnd fringed In But then Pope's Homer was not a
the milk of a rice pudding. But the trunk of this sycamore and found that provided with a complicated piercing white. She will fold it In long, nar work of art. But Dumas! Grub street
crowning evil Is pork, the favorite fare room enough remained for two more ovipositor tn her tall, by means ot row, scarf-like lines, with one row of | lies in Paris too.—London Mall,
of the Cretans on days when the horses and their riders, The tree which she makes little boles In the fringe at the top, so that she may draw
church allows them to eat meat. The forked about eight feet from the tender shoots of the oak, laying an egg it up over her head in the cool night PERSONAL NOMENCLATURE.
leper Is not cut off here as be is In the ground, and it was hollow when first hi each, nnd at the same time Introduc air. The fringe softens a tace lm-
mensely.
Fiji islands or at the Cape. Outside seen by the white settlers. The clreuni ing a drop of irritant fluid.
Ancient Names and the Modern Sr»-
The substance of the shoot Is thus
each village may be seen a little white ference of the trunk »’as about slxty-
ten» of Surnames.
New
i*HranolN,
bouse called the "leprochorion.” Here three feet at the base, and five feet stimulated to unnatural growth and
Neither
Hebrews, Egyptians, Assyr
Some new parasols are of taffeta or
the lepers live. Their estates, if they from tiie earth It was forty-two feet In produces an oak apple or “gall,” which
ians. Babylonians, Persians nor Greeks
louisine
silk,
trimmed
with
straps
ln-
limy
be
regarded
as
a
sort
of
vegetable
have any, are administered for them girth. These figures remind the reader
bad surnames, and In the earliest peri
by friends, and any one passing by the of the famous big trees of California. tumor and serves as a home for the stead of circular bands, That Is, the od of their history the same may be
trimming
appears
In
low
relief
against
door may speak to them. If the suf Tin' opening Into the cavity within tho grub which batches out of the egg.
said ot the Romans. In course of time,
ferers be poor the state provides each trunk was ten feet wide at the bottom, This can easily be seen by cutting the cover, Instead of being stitched however, every Roman citizen had
flat
down.
There
is
a
thickness
of
open
a
young
gall,
but
In
an
old
one
day a loaf of bread, nnd the charity nine and a half feet high, and the hoi-
three names the praenomen, or per
of passersby adds the luxuries.—New low was about fourteen feet in diame the Insect has escaped by driving a material under it to make It stnml out. sonal name; the nomen, or name of the
One end of the band Is longer than
tunnel
to
the
outside.
York Herald.
ter.
The oak Is Infested by many other enough to meet the other, and the end I K''ns or clan, and the cognomen, or
The account which has been pre kinds of gall. Some are tufted, oth Is cut in a point, and it fastens over on i**uitly name, as lhibllus Cornelius Sclp-
served of the fate of this enormous tree ers look like currants, nnd others again the flat end
THE PRIMITIVE STAGE.
I *0- Conquerors were occasionally com-
I pllmented by the addition of a fourth
Is very odd. It is claimed that the gi are the little brown "oak spangles"
How the Drama Flourished In the ant buttonwood was kept uninjured as
Feaiherhoned skirts.
I name, or agnomen, commemorative of
seen
on
the
undersides
of
the
leaves.
Time of Elisabeth.
The total absence of the drop skirt I their conquest, as I’ubllus Cornelius
a great curiosity until the farm on
The great plays of Marlowe, Shake which It stood was need as a stock Each kind of gallfly leads to the pro has been one of the absorbing ques- I Scipio Africanus.
duetion
of
a
different
kind
of
gall.
—
speare and Jonson were performed by farm by one Thomas 'Dr,,.an. This
lions of tho season. Need of some I It ts Impossible to state with any de
actors tn Elizabethan dress In front of stock breeder turned several valuable London Answers.
underbody Is very apparent In many I gree of certainty when the modern
a curtain, usually In daylight, on a lit bulls into the fields where the huge
Instances, and so the use of a reed or system of personal nomenclature be-
tle stage partly occupied by the gal tree stood. nnd two of them fought in
BOWER BUILDERS.
feaUierbone inserted at the hem, and came general. It has been stated that
lants of the period, with their puges side its trunk. In that small space for
even several rows above, has been the practice of surnames began In Nor-
For
Birds
That
Construct
Gardens
and tobacco pipes. There was no fash a bull ring the victor was able to pre
found very acceptable.
mandy and extended to England after
Their
Own
Enjoyment.
ionable actress, no orchestra, no lime vent the escape of bls rival, and the
------------
the Norman conquest, but a document
There are five different bower birds—
light, yet the drama was more popu weaker was killed. This affair con
General Purpose Gown.
in the Cottonian MSB. quoted la Tur-
lar than churchgolng and held Its own vinced Dugan that the largest tree in three in Australia, the regent, the satin
Ilere Is the newest, most correct cos- tier's "History of the Anglo-Saxons’*
and
tlie
spotted;
one
In
the
1
’
apuan
is
even with such gentle sports as bull Ohio was a menace to his stock, and
tume for walking, traveling and gen- contains reference to Iiwfta Hatte, a
baiting and “wiping of the blind he cut it down. Later hogs kept in the lands, the catbird, and one in New eral knockabout wear. It is made of keeper of bees In Hathfelda; to Tate
beare.” The little that we know of same field were attacked by cholera, Guinea. Their brilliant plumage is a fine black and white check in silky Hatte, bls daughter, mother of Wul-
the actors shows them, with the excep and the owner reasoned that their hab golden yellow, glossy black or spotted slcllienne. The Instep length skirt Is slge the Shooter, and Lulle Hatte, Bis-
tion of Burbage nnd Nathaniel Field, to It of lying inside the hollow stump was brown, often with a rose tinted collar. plaited all the way around, the plaits ter of Wulslge. The date of these rec-
Their bowers nre in no sense nests, stltched down for about eight inches | ords of the Ilattes Is not to be ascer
have been very ordinary workaday bad for their health, and so he had the
people, with empty pockets and domes stump removed. It may well be doubt but miniature gardens, adapted for en
tained, but they were certainly written
tic affections and other modern charac ed whether any other Immense tree joyment and courtship and set In the
before the year 10<J0. So far as anti
teristics. Y’et the protests of the Puri was ever destroyed because of a fight eye of the sun. A pavement of equal
quarians have been able to discover,
sized pebbles Is arranged, and number
tans, the avaricious records of the between two bulls. Cleveland Leader
Hatte Is the first surname whose exist
less twigs are thrust firmly between
censor and the continual erection of
ence can be traced In England. It is
them In two parallel rows, inclined to
new theaters In spite of the solemn
not Improbable that the founder of tho
SENTENCE
SERMONS.
each
other,
inclosing
an
avenue
about
threats of the city fathers are evidence
Hatte family was so calk'd because of
a
yard
long
and
several
Inches
wide.
enough of the marvelous popularity to
some
unusual or noticeable beadgear
A
difficulty
is
at
the
door
of
every
To decorate this arbor gay feathers,
which the nrt attained in that "spa
that he was In the habit of wearing.
ruddy berries, pearly shells, bleached
cious time” of playhouses most re delight.
Gold fetters are not more elastic bones, even watches, knives and other
markable for lack of space.—London
Don't Be F.nvIoB».
than iron.
glittering objects, are tastefully placed
World.
The men or women who envy those
Respectability is no substitute for In and around the entrance.
who happen to be able to dri'ss well
repenta nee.
The New Guinea bird, still more of a
OIL ON THE WATER.
and to enjoy the pleasures of life a
It takes a great tnnn to do little gardener,constructs a miniature conical
little more than those who are compel
summer bouse, with Internal gallery.
It. Soothing Effect Was Known ns things well.
led to work continually will be misera
Early a. the Sixth Century.
Before
this
Is
a
meadow
of
moss,
kept
The gold of grace docs not come from
ble all their days, for, no matter how-
free from grass, dust and leaves, on
A few gallons of oil cast upon stormy the greed of gold.
high they may get. they will find oth
seas moderates their violence and pre
A little patient pushing is worth a which bright Cowers and fruit are dal
ers still higher. Tjie envious person
ly offered by the enamored male bird
vents the waves from breaking with profound lot of puffing.
is never satisfied and never can be.
to
hts
mate.
force. That this Is the case has long
It is no use praying for your debtors
Take the successful men of the city,
been known. Theophylactes, the By If you won’t pay your debts.
Sliuonlde«* Delay.
and you will find that the majority of
zantine historian of the sixth century,
A man loses force as soon as be be
“Why should we expect religion,
them began Just where you did. Then
propounded the question, “Why does gins to worry over his feelings.
says Sir John Lubbock, “to solve ques
why are you not in equally good cir
oil calm the sea?” and answered It to
cumstances? If you ran a race with
You know what a man lives for when tions with reference to the origin and
the effect that ns the wind la a subtle
a man and lost it, you would hardly
you know what he looks at when alone. destiny of the universe? We do not
and delicate thing and oil Is adhesive
blame your failure on the race course.
Many people think they are living expect the most elaborate treatise to
and unctuous the wind glides over the
tell us the origin of electricity or of
You started even and ran together, and
surface of the water on which oil has for character who are only fighting beat. Natural history throws no light
you lost because you couldn’t run as
for
reputation.
—
Chicago
Tribune.
been spread and cannot raise waves.
fast ns he or lacked the power of en
on the origin of life. Has Bibliology
The wind. In fact slips over the water
durance. So your failure in the race
ever professed to explain existence?
lloir
lie
Protected
the
Seals.
without being able to obtain a grip.
of life Is not due to the track, but to
Some years ago a Russian warship Simonides was asked at Syracuse by
In the gulf of Mexico there is a re
your lack of ability an a runner.
Hiero who or what God was, when be
markable stretch of water about two was on special duty In Bering sea requested a day's time to think of bls
guarding
the
seal
fisheries,
preventing
miles long by three-quarters of a mile
Pern's Whlstllnu Jara.
answer. On subsequent days he al
broad to which the name of “oil spot” tlie slaughter of the seals during the ways doubled the time required for de
Among the ruined cltfec of Pern
closed
season
The
ndmiral
of
the
sta
has been given because la the worst of
nearly fifty different kinds of musical
liberation, and when Hiero Inquired
storms the mnrlner finds still water tlon In the course of an Inspection of the reason he repiled that the longer
Instruments have been found. Unique
WALKINO COSTUMfl.
the
vessel
Invited
any
of
the
sailors
there.
he considered tho subject the more ob below the waist line and then their among these are many double whis
Its character as a safe harbor of ref who bad any complulnt to make to scure It appeared.”
tling Jara or musical water bottles.
fullness allowed to flare The bottom Kent the top'Uftth first'Or front Jar,'"
uge Is said to be due to an oily proper step forward. One of the men. as
of
the
skirt
Is
protected
by
n
light
«pokesman
fm
-
the
vthole
crew,
Com
ty Oft lie mud stirred up by the storm.
which Is usually surmounted by a hu
Tho Seychelles Island«.
plained that the "seal money" prom
weight velveteen binding. The blouse
The Seychelles Islands form an archi Is also plaited nnd worn with a feath man or animal figure, Is the op<inlng of
lsrsl
them
hnd
not
been
paid.
On
the
Ancient Ventrlloqnfnm.
the whistle. When the Jars have been
pelago of 114 Islands and are situated
Ventriloquism
was
undoubtedly astonished admiral inquiring what he about 1,400 miles east of Aden nnd erboned girdle belt of the same mate partly filled and are swung backward
known both to the Jews and to the meant It came out that the ship’s com 1,000 miles from Zanzibar. They rise rial. Down the front of the blouse are and forward a number of whistling
Egyptians. It was used by many per mander had been doing a lucrative steeply out of the sen, culminating In black silk embroidered circles to sim sounds are produced. As tho vessel
sons for purposes of deception. The trade by killing the seals placed under the isle of Mabe, which Is about 8,000 ulate buttons. With this smart walk swings forward and upward the water
wizards who employed It declared that his protection and sending the skins to feet above the level of the ocean and ing gown shiny black shoes nre worn is lowered In the first Jar and rises In
their "familiar spirit" resided in the London and had tn ken the crew into Is nearly the center of the group. All nnd a tailored straw bat trimmed with the other. In the backward motion It
abdomen, whence the voice was sup partnership. He was duly transferred the Islands nre of coral growth. The loops of blnck velvet ribbon.
rushes back Into the first, forcing the
posed to proceed. The Old Testament to Siberia.
air out through the whistle.
houses nre built of a species of massive
The Knotted Stock.
Scriptures abound with denunciations
corn) hewn Into square blocks which
A pretty stock of white crape has the
A Hearty Farewell.
Still One.
both of persons who hnd these fa
glisten like white marble.
long front tab tied up Into little bows
The
old
friends
had
enjoyed
their
“Hello. Bill, old man! Well, well! I
miliar spirits and of those who went
down Its length._________
haven’t seen you since the old days,
to seek their advice nnd assistance. three days together In spite of the fact
Hl« lleunon.
Senin on the Water.
when we us«d to run around together!"
They were treated as though they were that tact was not a conspicuous qual Judge—You let tlie burglar go to ar
It has been observed that Immediate
“No, Jack. Ah. those old days! What
In familiar Intercourse with the evil ity <5f either of them.
"You have quite a pretty place here, rest an automoblllst? Policeman— ly preceding storms an unusual amount a fool I used to be then!”
one nnd according to Jewish law re
Yes.
The
automoblllst
pays
a
fine
nnd
"I tell you, I'm glad to see you. You
ceived no mercy. Instances, however, John,” said the guest as he took a adds to the resources of the state. The of scum appears on the surface of
are very frequent In much later his final look about him on the morning of burglar goes to prison, nnd the state ponds, and In London Nature a plausi haven't changed a bit, old man."—
ble explanation of this phenomenon Philadelphia Press.
tory of deception being successfully his departure-“quite a pretty place, has to pay for his keep.
attributes It to "change In barometric
practiced by persons having this pecul though It looks a bit bare ns yet.”
t’l>- Whole Story.
"Oh, that's because the trees are so
T»e Height of lloflftlnr».
pressure. It is suggested that Ute
iar gift
Robert—Has your wife much curios tcum formation Is due to the rise of
young,” said the h<*t <«>mfortably. “I
He- After I am out of college, dar
hope they’ll have grown to a good size ity? Richard—Oh. ap awful lot. If I marsh grass from the ooze at the bot ling, I may have to wait a few months
Bod»
A mnga«l«e writer want« t* know before }ou come again. Then you'll begnn to tell her what you told me tom of ponds following a sudden fall «fore I can make enough to sirpijort
•hat a»« the four fleetest words Jn see how much Improved the place will standii||{ on this corner „she wouldn't In the barometer, preflhglng weather ,you. She It Is »0 hard io watt. He
the F.ngllsh )«ngua«e. Some 'Would be” And tffey shook hands with mu- hear y word of what you said until I change, the gas carrying aloifg with (bravely)—1« knew It. Rut of bourse
told her whnt corner we were standin* It some of the solid matter of the ooze, you know the world •oesu’t know any
"Mere, iff«» this mMe,.”- 8om«m tun) affectioe and Sood «Ifi.
on.— Indianapolis Journal.
thing about me yet. Brooklyn Life.
thus forming the ecu«.
o
Ill carly*tll(i«s. when lit». taj prO|>
erty w»Te accounted in<-ap unless d«?-
fended s»v>r?I “» bund, the clMi<h of
tered shelter iiltd sanctuary to tho»«
•
had occasion to fAr the arm of
'the law. hi the middle age* Whoever
crossed the threshold of a church was
considered under divine protection and
could not be urre«ed, while several
churches and cutliedral* »till preservs
the kmxJkers used by those who had
fled thither for shelter and claimed ad
mlttance. In some buildings the fugi
tive from Justice sat upon a chair or
stool, and the register of a church in
Durham, England, covering a period
extending from the year 1-PH to the
year 1524, Included, besides other
crimes, 195 murders and homicides. In
which 283 persons seeking protection
were concerned. To attempt to violate
sanctuary by force was In those days
a very serious matter, and when the
outlaw decided to save bls life by leav
ing the realm he did so In the follow
ing manner: "When a robber, murderer
or other evil doer shall fly unto any
church upon his confession of felony
the coroner shall cause the abjuration
to be made thus: Let the felon be
brought to the church door and there
be assigned unto him a port, near or
far off, and a time appointed to him to
go out of the realm, so that in going
toward that port he carry a cross In
his hand, and thnt he go not out of the
king's highway, neither on the right
band nor on the left, but that he keep
It always until he shall be gone out of
the land, and that he shall not return
without special grace of our lord the
king.”