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THE IRON PIRATE A Plain Talc of Strange Happenings on the Sea 5; ss I By MAX CIlAPTEIt XII. ( Continued.) T!ie room was filled with the scum of ea-gvung humanity; foul smoke from foul pipes floated in choking clouds to the dirt It'crimed ceiling. Now and again, be twixt the shouting and the singing, a young girl, whose presence in such a com pany turned my heart sick, played upon a harp, and there was a niahogany-f acini hag whom the men addressed as "Mother Catch." She seemed to have the eye of a hawk ; nor did I escape her glance. She shuffled up to me and stood glaring with her shining eyes for a moment or two, the very presentment of an old-time witch. The glass door again swuug ifuMi ; three men entered through it, and 1 recognized the three of them in a moment. The first was the Irishman, "Four-Eyes:" the sec ond was the lantern-jawed Scotsman, who had been addressed in Paris as "Dick the Kanler;" the third was "Roaring John." into whose face Dan had emptied the con tents of his duck gun three days before. The ruffian had his mouth all bound in a bloody rag. but he was in nowise depress ed : and. although thp gun had stopped Irs speech, he smacked Paolo ou the back when he greeted him. One of the men started a wild dance. It was an extraordinary exhibition, and it pleased the men about s. that they roared with delight. I was watching it, but my at rent ion was suddenly diverted by the sense that something under a near table was pulling at my leg. I looked down quickly, and saw a strange sight ; it was 4he black face of the lad Splinters., who had been treated so brutally in Paris. lie. crouching under the table, was making . signs to me, earnest, meaning signs, so ithat without anv betrayal I leaned my Jienil down as though upon my hands, and RiK)kc to him : "What is it. lad?" I asked in a whis per. "What do you want to say?" "I"n't stop here, sir!" he answered in a state of great agitation. "They know you. and are going to kill you !" He said no more, crawling away at once ; but he left me hot with fear. I left my seat, and pushed amongst the men, passing nearer and nearer to thr street, until at last I was at the very por tal itself. Then I saw that a change had been made while I had been sitting .The doors of glass were wide open, but the way to the street without was nc linger clear an iron curtain had been drawn across the entrance. This was a terrible discovery. It seem ed to me that the iron door had been clos od for an especial purpose. I knew, how ever, that when the dance was over sonv of the audience would wish to go out. ant' to I waited by .he curtain. The men wer' then about to push their tables to the cen ter again, but the hag raised her voice tul cried : "As you are. my prtty gntlemn ; UV only the first parry ye've been treated to No. no: ye don't have the door drawn yet awhile. (lood boys, all of ye, there's work tc. do: ho! ho! work to do." Somehow, all the men immediately Rrnund me slunk away, and I found my K"lf standing piite alone, with many star itig at me. The f ur men whom most 1 f'-ared had turned their backs, but tin vest of the assembly bad eyes only for thi terrible woman and for myself. Presently the discordant music began again. The Ji:i g moved with a .hobble and a jig to th' f ir end of the room, and began to corn straight down to the door whereby I utood. I know not what presentiment forewarned mo to beware as the creatun rirew near. I had my revolver in m pocket, L t had I shown it twenty barreb would have answered the folly. There was nothing to do but to face the screech ing woman ; and this I did. At the last, the old witch, who had danced for some moments at a distance of eti pace from .he spot where I stood became as on- possessed. She uttered a piercing shiek. and hurled herself almos on me. In that instant I remember see ing the three men with Paolo sudden! rise to their feet, while the other in the room called out in their excitement. Iiut the hag herself drew from her breast something that she had concealed there: and. as she stood within a yard of me. she brought it crash upon my head, and all aiv senses left me. CHAPTER XIII. When I regained consciousness it was because rain beat upon my face, a driz zling warm rain of bite summer, and there was spray from a fresh sea. For seme minutes I set myself to ask where I was: but I knew that I was bound at the left hand and at my feet, and when I raised my head. I saw that I lay in fin open boat, but my feet were towards the stern of it. and I could see nothing of the power which moved the boat or of the scene about us. The boat in which I lay was painted white, and was of elegant build. She had all the fine lines of a yacht's jolly lioat: and when I raised my head I could see that her fittings had been put in only at great expense. The silence was broken at last by a shout, and the boat ceased to uiove. "All hands, make sail!" cried someone: and after that I heard the "yo-heave" of the men hauling, as I judged, at a main sail. The second order, "Sheets home!" proved to me that I was behind a sailing hip, perhaps a jacht. There came a sud den shout from the deck of the ship. "Ho, Bill, is the young 'un gone?" "No. my hearty." And then I heard a voice I knew, the voice of the Irishman. "Four-Eyes." "Is it the boi ye're niindin? Throw him a Rheet, one ar yer; it's nrself that's not bringing the guvner a dead body when he wants a live one!" They tried to throw me a sheet as the man had ordered, and I heard it fall in the water at my bead. I pondered long on die remark of the Irishman, that the "'guvner" wanted me alive. It wan quite clear that my life was safe from these di until they readied their chief. PEMBERTON The rain ceased and the sun shone, drying my clothes upon me. I struggled and in doing so I found that the ropes binding my right arm were tied with common hitches ; and my experience as a yachtsman let me get free of them with very little trouble. I did not sit up at once, but turned my head to look at the boat which towed me, and saw that she was a barque-rigged yacht after the Amer ican fashion : her name Labrador being conspicuous across her stern. My boat was towed by a double hawser, but no man watched me, and I lay down again reassured. The hope of escape was already in my head, for I judged that we could not be far out from New York. It oc curred to me that if they would only let me be until uight I could get my left hand free. Finally there was a change in the mo notony of the scene. I heard an order to heave the barque to. I felt all motion eease, and then someone hauling at the hawser, so that the jolly-boat was pulled against the side of the bigger ship: and. looking up. I saw half a dozen of Black's sang watching me from the quarter-deck. Then a ladder was put over the bulwark, and "Four-Eyes" came down it with a great can of steaming stuff. He stepped off the ladder to the stern seat, and then bent over me. But I saw this only, that he had a knife in his belt: and I made up my mind in a moment to get it from him. He held to the rope with one hand while he put the can of hot stuff to my lips with the other. I drank half of it with great gulps, feeling the warmth spread thre-igh my body to my very toes as the broth went down : and a great hope consoled m: for I had his knife, having snatched it from him when first he stoop ed. The good luck of the theft made me quick to empty the pot of gravy. Four Eyes went over the side again, and the yacht moved onward lazily in the softest of breezes from the west. When I deemed that I had waited long enough I cut away the remaining' ropes at my feet, and crouched unlwund in the boat. I crawled to the bow, and began to cut the strands of the hawser one by one. I felt my boat go swirling away on the backwash. It was a moment of su preme excitement, and I lay quite flat, waiting to hear if I were missed : but I heard no sound, nnd looking around me presently, I saw the yacht away a mile, and I knew that I was a free man. When a couple of hours had passed I took a new consolation in the thought that I must be in the track of steamers bound iut from, or to. New York: and in this hope I covered myself in the tarpaulins and lay down again to shield myself from 'he wind which blew with much sharpness is the night grew. I did not sleep, but 'ay half-dazed for an hour or more, and was roused only at a curious light which flashed above me in the sky. The light was clearly focusspd. being a volume of intensely bright, white rays which passed "ight above me with slow and guided mo ion, and then stopped altogether, almost 'ixed upon the jolly-boat. I knew then what it was. and I sat up to see the great beams of a man-of-war's searchlight, showing an arc of the water almost as clear as by the sun's power. The light shone in all its brightness for some five minutes: then it died away sud denly, and on the spot whence it had come I could just distinguish the dark hull of a steamer. Some moments, long moments to me, passed in fpverish con jecture: and then in the pathway of the light rekindled I saw in all distinctness the outline of a long-boat, fully manned, and she was coming straight to me. Its progress seemed slow ; the men in it made nie no manner of signal. They came in a bee-line towards me, and the radiat ing light never moved once whilst they rowed. In the end, I myself broke the silence, shouting lustily to them, but get ting no answer until I had repeated the call thrice. The fourth cry, loud and in something desperate, brought the response so eagerly awaited: but when I recognized the voice of him who then hailed me I fell down again in my lxat with a heart stricken burst of sorrow, for the voice was the Irishman's, and Four-Eyes spoke: "Avast hailin', young 'un." he cried ; "we ain't goin' to part along o' your socie ty no more, don't you be frettin'." They dragged me into their boat, and, taking my own in tow, they rowed rapidly to the distant steamer, on whose deck I stood presently: but not without pro found fear, for I knew that at last I was a prisoner on the nameless ship. CHAPTER XIV. There was light from six lanterns, held by giant negroes, to greet me when I had mounted the ladder and was at last on the deck of the great ship ; but none of the men spoke a word, nor could I see their fao-s. One of the men silently touched me on the shoulder, and I follow ed him along a narrow strip of iron deck, past a great turret which reared itself above me. and again by the covered forms of quick-firing guns. We descended a short ladder to a lower deck, and so to the companion way, and to a narrow pas sage in which were many doors. One of these he opened, and motioned me to en ter, when the door was closed noiselessly behind me, and I found myself alone. My first feeling was one of intense sur prise. I kad looked to enter a prison. Hie cabin was not large, but one more artistic in effect was never built. Hung all around with poppy-colored silk, the ame material made curtains for the bunk. It was employed also for the cushions and covering of the armchair and the couch, and to drape the dressing glass and basin which were in the left-hand corner. It seemed, indeed, that the whol room was a harmony in scarlet, with a scarlet ceil ing and scarlet hangings. The feet sank above the ankles in a soft Indian rug, whnji was ornate with the quaint mosaic like workings and penetrating colors of all Eastern tapevtry. For light, there waa an lire lamp, veiled with gauze of the faintest yellow. The room would have been ierfect but for a horrid blot upon it a blot which stared at me from the outer ,all with bloodshot eyes and hide- ous visage. It was the picture of a man's head that had Ihtii severed from the body. The picture almost terrified me, but I thought. If no worse harm befall me, what odds? and 1 sat down, all wonder ing and dazed. My conclusion was that the man Black could be showing me this 'marked consid eration only for some motive of self-interest. It was evident that he had been aware of my intention to follow him from the moment when Roderick purchased our new steamyncht. He had put one of his own men craftily upon the ship to watch us, and had made a bold attempt to deal with us in mid-At!antie. Foiled there, he had taken advantage of my folly in entering such n piace ns the Bowery, and i had given orders that 1 should he carried to his own ship. Suddenly the electric light went out. I sat quite still for some half an hour. There was no noise of movement save on the deck above, and my own cabin re- "'" "s '"' 'VV. tw that I was to be left unmolested for that night at anv rate. I undressed and lav down in one of the most seductive beds I have met with nt sea. I was so weary and fatigued with my sufferings in the open bout that 1 fell asleep at once, and must have slept for many hours. I awoke in the day. The red curtains opposite my bunk were drawn back, admitting dull light from a port hole through which I could look upon a tumbling sea, and a sky nil girt with rain clouds. My armchair was occupied by a man, dressed with nil the scrupulous neatness of a thorough going yachtsman. He had a bright, open face, and there was something refined and polished in his voice. "(Jood morning to you," he said: "I hope you have slept well? I didn't wake you before, because sleep is the best medi cine in your '.-use. I'm a doctor, you know." "Oh! you're the physioian-in-ordinary to the crew, I suppose; you must see a good deal of practice." He looked rather surprised at my mean ing remark, and then said quite calmly, "Yes, I write n good many death certifi cates. You must be hungry. I will ring for breakfast; and, if you would take a rub, your bathroom is here." He opened the door in the passage, and led the way to a cabin furnished with marble and bra-s fittings, wherein was a full-sized b.-h. I took a bath, and found him waiting for me when I had finished. We returned to the scarlet room, and there spread upon the table was a meal worthy of Delmonico's. There was coffee served with thick cream: there were choice dishes of meat, game pies, new rolls, fruit, and the whole was finished with ices and bon-bons in the true Amer ican fashion. My new friend, the doctor, said nothing as I ate; but when the re past was removed he began to talk at once. "I regret," he said, "that I cannot supply vou with a morning newspaper; the latest journal that I can lend you is1 a copy of Saturday last. There is a pas sage in it which may interest you." The paper was folded and marked in a certain spot. I read it with blank amazement, for it. was a full account of the nameless shin's attack upon the Amer ican cruiser and the Ocean King. The matter ws tho subject of a profound sensation, ot only in America, but throughout the world. The Chilian gov ernment had been approached at once, but had repudiated all knowledge of the mys terious ship. Meanwhile war vessels from England. America and from France had set out to scour the seas and bring such intelligence as they could. The whole ac count concluded with the rumor that a gentleman in New York had knowledge of the affair and would at once be inter viewed. "Yon see that interview was unfortu nately interrupted," said the doctor. "You are the gentleman with the full particu lars. I am here to ask you to write accu duately for us a complete account of every step you have taken in this matter since you were fool enough to follow Martin Hall." "And otherwise?" "Otherwise, you would give all you possessed if 1 would shoot you now as , you sit. II you woum still nave uie, not altogether under unfavorable conditions, you have but to ask for pen, ink and pa per and to make yourself one of us." "That I will never do '." UAI. .- hnf Kilt- ttA oJioll give vou some "days to think of it. Let sued by the tax collector shall also in me advise you to be a man of common every case contain the postofhee or resi Spnw. nd not run your head against a dence address of the taxpayer, which stone wall. We are now bound on a four- j .lavs' vovaee. Purins these four days, you need fear nothing. So don't disturb yourself unnecessarily until Captair Black puts the question to you." (To be continued.) ItlKblliiK a Wrong. Mlggles I understand you tolA Ilyker that I was a fool. Wiggles Never told bhn anything of the kind. I merely said that If I were you and got a glimpse of the fool-killer coming up the street I'd dodge up an alley. Judicial Wisdom. "Xo," said the gray-haired judge, "I'm not in favor of women on juries." "Why not?" queried the young law yer. "P.ecause," answered the venerable judge, "we have too many disagree ments as It Is." Oatelamied. Just handed him She bad mitt. "Then I led. "Hardly r.re not In the frigid have a rival, eh?" he iaer- that." she replied. "You it with the other party." Sounds That Way. Illcks I see one of our clergymen has declared that there Is more sin In Boston than In any other city in the coantry. Wicks He's wrong. There's more sin lu Cln-clnnati. Hoston Transcript Too Wide. Kind I.ady My poor man, your cor.t Is full of rents. Here Is a needle and thread. Gritty George No use, mum. Denj renu are too bis to be collected. I i 7iinii 777; 1 Proposed Oregon Tax Law (Continued from lust week) (Tux collector to make weekly state ments To keep funds separate.) Section 19. It shall be the, duty of the tax collector to make a statement on the last business day of ouch week of the exact amounts of the cash and county orders by him collected for taxes and penalties and interest, and what amounts thereof are to be credited to the several funds for which they are re spectively collected, one of which state ments shall be tiled with the county clerk and one furnished to the school district, town, city, port, or other mu nicipal taixng agency for which en eh of such amounts are so paid in, and one of which statements he shall retain on file in his office; and shall exhibit to the county clerk for examination and rompnriHon bis collection register and , , . ' , . , ... ? . Ius luu U(K K wniniiung copies OI the receipts by him given for the taxes so collected. The tax collet or shall keep the moneys received by him in separate funds, and shall pay the same over to the several school districts, towns, cities, ports, or other municipal taxing dis tricts or agencies entitled thereto, upon demand made by them, paying them the amount thereof to which they are respectively entitled, taking their re ceipts therefor: Provided, special road funds shall be retained in the hands of the county treasurer, and expended by him upon the warrant of the county clerk as by law provided. (Supersedes li. S: C. Conip. section 3100 (except first two lines, which are included in the preceding section )li of this act), merely changing to conform to the plan of making the county treasurer the tax collector. Por tion as to separate funds is taken from 1!. & C Comp., section 3101, adding ports and other agencies. The proviso is in analogy to Laws of 1U03, page 2S4, section 74.) (Applying money collected for one ob ject to another Penalty.) Section 20. When any moneys shall have been collected or received by any oflieer for any distinct and specified ob ject, no portion of them shall be paid or applied to any other object or pur pose without due authority, but shall be kept a separate fund for such speci fied object; and any officer failing to comply with the provisions of this sec tion shall be Tiable to a fine not exceed ing $500, or to imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months. (Ii. & C. Comp., section 3150, no change.) (Tax collector to receive and receipt for moneys and county orders collected Penalty.) Section 21. The tax collector shall receive and receipt for all moneys and county orders collected by him for taxes in the manner prescribed in the follow ing section hereof, and any tax collector failing to comply with any of the pro visions of the following section shall be deemed gul.ty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, and the con it before whom said tax collector is tried shall declare his ofliee as treasurer and tax collector vacant for the remainder of his term. (Ii. & C. Comp., section 3102, no change.) (Tax collector's record of tax collectons.) Section 22. The tax collector shall receive and receipt for all moneys and county orders collected by him for taxes, and shall note on the tax roll against the property paid on, in columns pro vided therefor, the date of each payment and number of receipt. He shall keep such stub receipt books, in which shall be kept by him a copy of each and every receipt by him issued, and such receipts and stubs shall be arranged and num bered consecutively for each year, and shall show exactly the amount paid in cash and the amount paid in county orders, and shall show the place and date of collection, the purpose for which and the property on which the taxes were paid; but the matters shown upon the tax roll may be omitted from the stub if it contains a reference to the volume, page and line of the tax roll wherein such matters are set forth. Such stubs or copies of the receipts is may be ascertained at the time of the navment of the tax and then entered on the stub or copy of the receipt re tained by the tax collector. .o tax collector shall receive a larger amount in countv orders from any person for taxes than the amount of such person's county taxes for the year or years for which the payment is made. It shall be the duty of the tax collector to note upon each receipt and copy thereof the number and amount of each county or der he shall receive, the amount of the taxes for which such receipt shall be given, and also to write the date of the receipt upon the back of each county j order paid in for taxes, and at the same time write or stamp across tne iace thereof "Received for Taxes," and no county order shall draw any interest after such date. He shall keep, as a part of the records of his ofliee, a collec tion register, in which he shall make proper entries, showing the various amounts collected by him, the amounts thereof collected for each and every sep- f arate fund, the year in which the tax ' ho collected became due, and the num bers and dates of the respective receipts given by him therefor. (B & C. Comp., section 3103, as amended by Laws of 1905, chapter 53.) Franknei) and Honntr. "Of course your constituents want a man who Is perfectly frank and hon est" "Yes," answered Senator Sorgham. "At the same time most of them have no objections to my working through river and harbor appropriations for places that never see two feet of wa ter except when it rains." Washing ton Star. The streets of Tokio will coa have trolley can. (Double assessments and other errors tax collector may correct.) Section 23. Whenever the tax col lector discovers that any property lias been assessed more than once for the same year, he shall collect only the tax justly due thereon, and shall make re turn to the county court of the balance as double assessment, and shall be properly credited therefor; and when ever, at any stage in the collection of taxes, the oflieer having charge of the rolls shall discover errors or omissions of any kind therein he may properly correct the same to conform to the facts in whatever manner may be necessarj to make such assessment, tax, or other proceeding whatsoever regular and valid, such correction to be made in red ink, or otherwise distinguished, and to be signed with the initials of the ollicer making the same and the date of such orrection. (H. & C. Comp., section 3105.) ( 0 m i 1 1 ed proper t y Assess men t .) Section 24. Whenever, after the return of the assessment roll to the county clerk by the board of equaliza tion, tne omeer having tlie possession of the roll hhill discover or receive credible information, or if lie has rea son to neiieve tliat any real or personal property has, from any cause oeen omitted, m wlioie or in part, in the assessment of anv vear or number of years not exceeding two years prior to the last roll so equalized and re turned, or lrotn the assessment roll or the tax roll, he shall proceed to correct the assessment or tax roll in his ham and add such property thereto, with the proper valuation, and charge such property and the owner thereof with the proper amount of taxes thereon at the rate which the said property would have been taxed had it been properly upon the tax roll lor t lie year or years as to which it was omitted; to enable which officer so to do he is hereby in vested with all of the powers of the assessor, board of equalization, and county clerk under the laws in force during such years and thereafter, l'.ut before making such correction or addi tion, if the person claiming to own said property, or occupying it or in posses sion thereof, resides in the county and is not present, such oflieer shall give such person notice in writing of his inten tion to add such property to the assess ment or tax roll, describing it in gen eral terms, and requiring such person to appear before him at his ofliee at a specified time, within five days after giving such notice, and to show cause, if any, why such property should not be added to the assessment and tax roll; and if the party so notified does not ap pear, or if he appears and fails to show any good and sufficient cause why such assessment shall not be made, the same shall be made, and the officer making the correction or addition shall file in his office a statement of the facts or evidence on which he made such correction. The notice in this section provided may be given and served in the same manner and by the same persons competent to serve sub poenas. Appeal may be taken from the action of the officer in making the correction or addition by the person ag grieved within ten days after the action of such officer is taken, by giving notice to such officer and otherwise proceeding in the manner provided for appeals from the board of equalization. (New; see note to section 25.) (Duty of officer having possession of roll Proceedings on failure to act.) Section 25. Whenever any oflieer described in the preceding section shall discover credible information, or have reason to believe that real or personal property has from any cause been omit ted, in whole or in part, from assess ment for taxation for the years specified in the preceding section, or such credi ble information shall be furnished to such oflieer, it shall le the duty of the officer having possession of said assess ment or tax roll to take the steps pro vided for in the preceding section to place such omitted property on the assessment or tax roll. If such officer shall fail or refuse on the discovery by himself, or on credible information be ing furnished him by another person, that property has been omitted from taxation, the state, on the relation of any state officer or of any taxpayer of the county in which such failure or re fusal occurs, shall have the right to proceed 'against such officer in any court of competent jurisdiction by man damus to compel such officer to comply with the provisions of the preceeding section. In the trial of such a suit the question of what constitutes credible information as herein mentioned shall be a question of fact to le determined by the court trying the case in the same manner other issues of fact are determined. If judgment shall be ren dered to the effect that credible infor mation has leen discovered by or fur nished to such officer, or that he has reason to believe that property has been omitted from taxation, it shall then be the duty of such officer .to forthwith place such omitted projcrty on the as sessment and tax roll in accordance with the provisions of this and the pre ceding section, and such officer shall le liable for all costs of such mandamus suit, and for a reasonable attorney's fee Pole Finder. "Some explorers are In favor of hunting for the north pole In automo biles," remarked the man who reads the magazines. "Do you think the plan would be successful?" "I wouldn't be surprised," replied the motorist, who had Just been In a wreck. "Automobiles seem capable of finding every pole from a hitching pole to a telegraph pole." European Kussia has a less percentage of forest tban the UnPed States. for relator's attorney, which shall be taxed as a part of the costs of such suit in all eases where judgment is rendered against such officer: Provided, how ever, that in ease proceedings are insti tuted hereunder on the relation of any private citizen, such relator shall give lond to the satisfaction of the court to pay all costs which muy bo recovered against him. (Ii. & C. Comp., section 3111, provided for the assessment, by the sheriff, of property which had been omitted from the current roll or the preceding year's roll. The two sections last above provide for the addition of omitted property for the current and two preceding years, by any oflieer having possession of the roll, upon notice to the taxpayer if a resident and if not present. Provision is made for lip peal as from assessments corrected by the hoard of equalization. (See the act as to the hoard of equalization recommended by this re port.) The provisions for appeal and notice obviate the constitutional objections which may he urged against It. & C. Comp., section 3111, at least i as far as residents nnd those having notice are concerned. See lf4 Ind. 1(1(1; af firmed 1S3 U. S. 300. The two sections aro modeled after Indiana.) (Time for payment of taxes Penalty I ntcrest Rebate.) Section 20. Taxes legally levied and charged in any year may ho paid on or before the first Monday of April follow ing, and if not so paid they shall be come delinquent: Provided, however, that if one half of the taxes against any particular parcel of ' real property, or the taxes on personal property charged against any individual, be paid on or before the said first Monday of April, then the time for the payment of the remainder of such tax may be extend ed to and including the first Monday of October next following, but if the re maining one half of such tax be not paid on or before the first Monday of October then such remaining half shall bo delinquent, and, besides the pen alty, interest thereon shall be charged and collected at the rate of twelve per centum per annum from the first Mon day of April preceding; and upon all delinquent taxes there shall be collect ed from the taxpayer of such taxes, for the benefit of the county, ten per centum as a penalty, and for the bene fit of the county or Otlier corporation which shall have an interest in any por tion of such taxes interest at the rate of twelve per centum per annum on such taxes from the day on which they be come delinquent until tlieir pavinent : Provided further, that there shall be an allowance of three per centum rebate upon any tax paid on any separate par- eel of real property, or upon the per sonal property charged to any individ ual as aforesaid, on or before the fif teenth day of March next prior to the date when such tax would become de linquent if not paid. (li. & C. Comp., section 3100, no change.) (Personal property tax, levy and sale Personalty tax charged to realty.) Section 27. On or immediately after the first Monday of May in each year the tux collector shall proceed to collect all taxes levied in his county upon per sonal property, of which one half was not paid as hereinbefore provided on or before the first Monday of April, to gether with the penalty and interest. He shall levy upon suflie'ent goods and chattels belonging to the porsson or cor poration charged with such taxes, if the same can he found in the county, by taking them into his possession to pay such delinquent taxes, together with in terest, accruing interest, penalties and otlier lawful charges; and shall inline- lintel y advertise such goods and chat tels for sale by t sting written or print- 1 notices of the time and place of sale in three public places in his county not less than ten days prior to such sale, ind if such taxes, interest, and penal ties shall not be paid before the time appointed for such sale the tax collect or shall proceed to sell such property at public vendue, or so much thereof as shall le sufficient to pay such (axes, in terest, and penalties and shall deliver to the purchasers thereof at such sale the property so sold to them respective ly, and such sale shall be absolute; ;ind the tax collector shall proceed in ike manner, on and after the first Monday in November, to collect the residue of taxes charged against per sonal property remaining delinquent on his roll. In like manner ho shall levy upon and sell the goods and chattels (J any person or persons removing from the county without paying all taxes barged against them. Whenever after lelinquency, in the opinion of the tax collector, it becomes necessary to barge the tax on personal property against real property in order that such personal property tax may be col ie -ted. such tax collector shall select for the purpose some particular tract or lots of real property owned by the person ow ing such personal property tax, and shall note upon the tax roll opposite such tract or lot s the said tax on per sonal property, and said tax shall lie a lien on such real property from ami after the time the said tax on personal property is charged against the said real property, and shall be enforced in the same manner as other real estate tax leins. (ft. & C. Comp., section 3107, adding pro vision for charging personal property taxes on real estate, which is borrowed from Washing ton. Consolidates li. & C. Comp., section 3137.) (To be continued next week) Vncle Abner'a Idea. City Nephew Uncle Abner, som ot the city people accuse country foJks of eating with their hands. You dqn't eat with your hands, do you? Uncle Abner Wal, I should Fay not, ' my boy. always make the hired men eat out In the kitchen. Mlinndrratood. "So, you're a journalist said Uncle Joshua, who had town to see his nephew. be ye?" come to "You bet I am," answered the cub reporter, mentally contrasting his own magnificent and expensive attire with the homely garb of the farmer. "You bet I'm a Journalist and with a big J, tool- He always wondered why the old man got mad. Cleveland Leader.