Cottage Grove leader., June 26, 1908, Image 6

' still a magic In those words, ‘‘ths
duke.”
A paragon of all the solid
qualities could not be destroyed when
there was support on every side from
the public sentiment that
hud been
built up through u series of years.
That the qualities were ¡»osaeased b>
the duke there can be no doubt, and
One Arm has sold 14,500 Merry w n l •~| the faith that was reposed In him was
ow hats In three months. How many probably a very good thing for the
country, but there could be no better
acres does that make.
Illustration of the power aud ltifiu*
Fewer women would t»e so keen for ence that comes from a great fam ily
universal suffrage If a law were passed connection In an
aristocracy.
The
compelling them \o vote.
duke’s downright honest ways were ad­
mirable, but they would never have
Once more In the case of Miss Bible carried him so near a premiership
A. C O N A N DOYLE
who stole Jewelry, we have proof tliut without his title and his splendid in­
there U nothing In a name.
heritance. Justin McCarthy writes of
him In The Independent that ‘‘he be­
Think you can become accustomed, came a remarkable figure In political
without a struggle, to si>eaking o f nav
life chiefly la'cause o f the absence of
lgatlng the air as “ avlutlon?"
C H A P T E R X X I I I . — (Continued.)
any remarkable qualities in him.” And
The voices and the footsteps sounded
to this he adds. ‘‘ lie was not a man
Farmers are making enough money o f intellect, he was not In any sense louder and louder, until they were just at
out o f their wheat now to be able to whatever a statesman, and never ap­ the other side of the boundary. They
spend some o f It lu Improving the coun­ parently made any effort or showed seemed to come from several people walk­
ing slowly and heavily. There was the
try roads.
any ambition to become one.”
That, shrill rasping of a key and the wooden
o f course, was the beauty o f Tt all. He door swung back on its rusty
hinges,
Mrs. Gunness said she was an ex
didn't have to make an effort on any while three dark figures passed out who
cel lent cook.
She was also a pretty
account. He was born to the purple, appeared to bear some burden between
fair hand at butchering, If appear
never had any doubts us to his posl ¡‘them. The party in the shadow crouched
nuces are not deceitful.
tlon in the world, never was 111 the | cIo" ' r »*111, and peered through the dark-
slightest degree concerned about what j ness with eager anxious eyes. They could
A Los Angeles woman was in
discern little save the vague outline* of
trance for 81 days. Some women will other people thought o f him, had in the moving men, and yet as they gazed at
perfection
through
his
breeding
that
them an unaccountable and overpowering
resort to anything to avoid doing their
self-poise which others could not at­ horror crept into the hearts of every one
share o f the. house-cleaning.
tain after the most sedulous efforts. of them. They breathed an atmosphere
I f Mrs. Guuness Is alive and has McCarthy says: ‘‘ He always appeared of death.
The newcomers tramped across the
noted that the newspapers are calling to me as It he really belonged to the
road, and pushing through the thin hedge,
her an ‘‘ogress” and a ’‘fem ale Blue­ order of English country aristocracy as
ascended
the railway embankment upon
beard,” her punishment has already be it might have shown Itself somewhere the other side. It was evident that their
about
the
days
o
f
Fielding
ami
Smol­
gun.
burden was a heavy one, for they stopped
lett, when the culture and chivalry had more than once while ascending the steep
Persons who are so afraid o f the passed away and the principle o f po­ grassy slope, aud once, when near the top,
“ night air” that they prefer the air litical equality had not yet come to bo one of the party slipped, and there was
o f a close and unvcntilated sleeping
recognized faith even with the ma a sound as though he had fallen upon his
room should not blame Providence for Jority o f Englishmen.” Anyway, It was knees, together with a stifled oath. They
their moniing headaches.
fine to be such a duke, a good fortune reached the top, however, and their fig­
that we should all o f us enjoy, and he ures, which had disappeared from view,
came into sight again standing out dimly
W ith all due respect to the learned certainly was the genuine article.
It
. . . . . .
,
, .
. against the murky sky. They bent down
doctor we submit tliut It is well for is a pity that the American heiress can- ] £ er the railway ,ine and placed the ¡n.
the nation that the Harvard students not get that kind instead o f poor little distinguishable mass which they bore care-
have their hands In their own pockets whlppersnappers whose property con fully upon it.
Instead of some one else’s.
ftlsts o f debts and whose titles are often
"W e must have the light,” said a voice.
worthless.
"N o, no; there’s no need,” another ex­
Young K ing Manuel
of
Portugal
postulated.
threatens to marry the daughter of
‘ ‘ We can’t work in the dark,” said the
one o f his mother’s ladles In waiting.
third, loudly and harshly. “ Where’s the
W e shall not expect to hear any very
lantern, guv’nor? I've got a lucifer.”
loud protests from the g irl’s ma.
“ We must manage that the train passes
over right,” the first voice remarked.
“ Here, Burt, you light it.”
In a single block between Thirty-
There was the sharp sound of the strik­
second and Thirty-third streets In Chi­
the voyage o f his little ship Gjoa Is ing of a match, and a feeble glimmer ap-
cago there are 217 children. It Is not,
appearing In English, Russian, Ger­ jx a red in the darkness. It flickered and
we hasten to add, lu what is generally
man, Italian, Swedish and Finnish, be­ waned, as though the wind would extin­
known as a fashionable district.
guish it, but next instant the wick of the
sides the original Norwegian.
lantern had caught, and threw a strong
H arper’s Bazar, for which
Henry
T w o trains running wild c” — d many
yellow glare upon the scene. The light
persons to be injured In Pennsylvania James writes on manners, and Bishop foil upon the major and his comrades, who
a few days ago. A ll trains should be Potter writes on morals, and Helen T. had sprung into the road, and it lit up
on
“ Embroidered
Evening the group on the railway line. Yet it was
thoroughly tamed before being allowed Stout
to use the tracks In a civilized commu­ Scarfs,” has persuaded President Eliot, not upon the rescuing party that murder­
o f Harvard, to w rite on the Higher ers fixed their terror-stricken eyes, and the
nity.
major and his friends had lost all thought
education for women.
of the miscreants above them— for there
“ A good man obeys his w ife and a
Houghton, Mifflin St Co. have already
w ife sometimes gives her husband good received from Clara Louise Burnham, standing in the center of the roadway,
advice,” says Wu Ting Fang. Wu Is author o f “ The Opened Shutters,” ‘‘The there with the light flickering over pale
sweet face, like a spirit from the tomb,
evidently determined not to be under Right Princess,” etc., the manuscript
stood no other than the much-enduring,
the necessity o f making explanations to
for a large part of her new novel, cruelly-treated girl for whom Burt’s mur­
the ladies.
which she has named "T h e Leaven derous blow had been intended.
For a few seconds she stood there with­
The Duchess of Marlborough hafi o f Love.” This w ill be one o f the prom­ out either party moving a foot or uttering
been fined $15 by a London court for inent publications o f the coining fall
sound. Then there came from the rail-
Ciiptnln Amundsen's book describing a
. ...
... .
riding faster than the law permitted
way a cry so wild that it will ring forever
Professor Edward A. Ross, o f the in the ears of those who heard it. Burt
In her automobile. But It will prob­
ably take more than that to make her University o f Wisconsin, whose recent dropped upon his knees and put his hands
book on “ Sin and Society” had the in­ over his eyes to keep out the sight. John
weary o f dear old England.
dorsement o f President Roosevelt, has Girdlestone caught his son by the wrist
A Springfield, Mass., dispatch says been discussing the future o f women and dashed away in the darkness, flying
wildly, madly, with white face and staring
J. B. Hamilton, of that place, while factory workers In America.
In the
eyes, as men who have looked upon that
digging for ungle worms dug up a Ho­ larger centers he declares that 50 per which is not of this world. In the mean­
man coin worth $1,500.
I f he is a cent of the young women earn their time, Tom had sprung down from his
worthy disciple of Izaak Walton, he livelihood under extrem ely trying con­ perch, and had clasped Kate in his arms,
He belleves that the rapid and there she lay, sobbing and laughing,
didn’t let that Interfere with his day’s ditions.
pace forced by modern competition con­ with many pretty feminine ejaculations
fishing.
stitutes a grave menace to the health and exclamations and questions, saved at
In spite o f the declaration of scient­ and well-being o f society.
last from the net of death, which had been
closing upon her so long.
ists that dflnclng makes girls’ feet big
Among the many things o f which
that Ice cream makes freckles, and that
Tolstoy disapproves is poetry.
“I
C H A P T E R X X IV .
hanging on the front gate produce*
count language,” he says In a recent
The ruffian Burt was so horror-stricken
rheumatism, enough marriage license*
letter to a peasant, "too Important a at the sight of the girl whom he imagined
are being Issued to prove that love will
thing to mix up with It considerations that he had murdered, that he lay grovel­
find a way.
o f meter and rhythm and rhyme, and ing on the railway line by the side of his
victim, moaning with terror, and incapa­
Yankee ingenuity Is equal to almost to sacrifice to them clearness and sim­ ble of any resistance. He was promptly
anything, as was proved the other day plicity. T o do so Is to scoff at sacred seized by the major’s party, and the N i­
when It was found necessary to put things, ami the act o f a plowman who hilist secured his hands with a handker­
fresh boilers In u New England grain danced a Jig as he follow ed his plow, chief so quickly and effectively that it
elevator. Instead o f stopping the ma­ spoiling thereby the straightness and was clearly not the first time that he had
P oetry making performed the feat. He then calmly drew
chinery, a railroad locomotive was run order o f the furrow.
alongside of the building, and a con­ s, in my opinion, even when It Is a very long and bright knife from the
recesses of his frock coat, and having
nection made between Its boiler and good, a very silly superstition.”
pressed it against Burt’s nose to insure
the engine inside. Work was continu­
“ W e have always
supposed
that his attention, he brandished it in front of
ed, and no employe lost a day.
Conan Doyle derived hts general theory him in a menacing way, as a hint that an
o f scientific detection from the rend­ attempt at escape might be dangerous.
“ And who is dis?” asked Baumser, lift­
It was In Germany that the flreless ing o f Poe." says a w riter In The Book­
cook-stove was jierfeeted, and now man. “ and that Poe had taken his no­ ing up the dead woman's head, and rest­
lens o f deduction from the Interesting ing it upon his knee.
comes news from n special consular
“ Poor g ir l! She will never speak
agent that the Germans are making a story In Voltaire’s Zndig which tells
again, whoever she may have been,” the
flreless railroad locomotive.
It
Is how Zadlz described to the king’s chief
major said, holding the lantern to her
equlpi>ed with a boiler after the mau- huntsman all the peculiarities o f a cold, pale face. "H ere’s where the cow­
uer of other
locomotives, but the horse and a dog which he had never ards struck her. Death must have been
water In It Is heated to the necessary himself seen, Ills description being bas­ instantaneous and painless. I could have
temperature from a stationary plant. ed upon the same method o f reason­ sworn it was the young lady we came
Enough power can be. stored In it to ing which so Interested us in “ The after, if it were not that we h»ve her
operate It four hours for switching Murders In the Rue Morgue” and In safe down there, thank the Lord !”
“ Where are those oilersV” asked Von
purp«*oB In a railroad yard, and It docs the Sherlock Holmes story cycle. Poe
Baumser. peering about through the dark­
not take more than fifteen minutes to was. o f course, fam ilia r with Voltaire,
ness. “ I f there is justice in the country,
and doubtless got his original sugges­
charge It.
they will hing for the work of dis night.”
tion from the work o f that ingenious
“ They are off,” the major answered,
American hospitality is warm-heart­ author. T h is theory we still hold to lie
laying the girl’s head reverently down
ed and sliu-ere, but not always courte­ true so fa r a* F*oe and Conan D oyl* again. “ It ’s hopeless to follow them, as
ous or Judicious. “ I am literally d riv­ are concerned.
But the Interesting1 we know nothing of the counthry, nor
en from Chicago, where I came for ii question arises: whence did Voltaire which direction they took. They ran like
week's rest, by oversolldtous friends derive his hint? This question has been! t . ad men. H ullo! What can this be?"
and citizens and newspaper re|x>rters,” very satisfactorily
answered by Mr. J The sight whach had attracted the vet-
said Doctor Koch, the noted German Leon Fraser in a short but interesting bran’s attention was nothing less than the
.
,
,
,
’
.
. , .
" , , nnnearance at the end of the lane of three
bacteriologist.
The
treatment
of paper which he contributed
to "Mod- " " T . , .
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.
i brilliant luminous discs moving along
which he complained has been suffered ern Language Notes more than a y e a r L brwlllt of on, another. They came «ap­
by other distinguished visitors, nor ago. In this paper he points out that j jdjy nearer, increasing in brilliancy as
are public personages the only victims. V oltaire’s story Is nof very d ifferen t, they approached. Then a voice rang out
Overattentiveness on the part o f the In form from one contained In a book | of the darkness, “ There they are, officers!
hostess In a private house may be as by the Chevalier do M allly, entitled j Close with them!
Don’t let ’em get
Irritating to a guest ns neglect, and Is “ Voyage et Aventures des Trols Prince* . sway
* nd before the major and his
fa r
harder to escii{>e. The system de 8 a rend Ip,” which appeared In 1710 I PRrt.Y
quite grasp the situation they
which prevails at English house part­ or twenty eight y e a r, earlier than
ch* 7 * d, * ' hT of ' T T
much-enduring,
stout-hearted
mortals
ies o f leaving each guest to his own Zadlg.”
known as the British police force.
devices for a part o f each day Is far
These three burly Hampshire police­
more considerate.
A D iplom atic System.
men, having been placed upon our friends’
The Firm of
M estone
Topics of
the Times
The Duke o f Devonshire was a
straightforward man o f strong common
sense, always self-reliant and always
posae w ed o f the courage o f bis convic­
tions. He was not great or brilliant,
but during the latter part of his life
he occupied a most enviable position In
politics. It became a habit o f the Eng­
lish press to refsr to his every utter­
ance as i f hs were a person whose
Judgment was infallible. When the
duke broke with tbs conservatives on
the tarlfl reform issue It was as I f an
army had gone over to the liberals. O f
coarse he was criticised by his late com­
rades, and Mr. Balfour felt a natural
irritation at his conduct, but there wss
“ T o what, sir," we asked a middlt
aged, happily married man recently,
"do you attribute the success you hav«
made o f your married life ? "
"* T ls a bit o f elementary wisdom
my son,” he replied. “ When my w ifi
Is In the wrong. I agree with her, and
all It well. When she is In the right, 1
argue against her; she emerges trl
umphantly, proves me foolish, feeli
good all d ay—and again all Is w ell
Iyearn thla.my son„ ere you m any.*^-
C level and Leader.
G irls chase the boys so hard her*
lately that the boye are using their
mothers’ parlors mors to entert al#
Uv
* riots he placed the handcuffs. Fie then
listened to a more detailed account of the
circumstances from the lips of the major.
"W ho is this young lady?” he asked,
pointing to Kate.
"This is the Miss Ilarston whom we
came to rescue, and for whom no doubt
the blow was intended which killed this
unhappy girl."
“ Perhaps, sir,” said the inspector to
Tom, "you had better take her up to the
house.”
"Thank you,” said Tom, and went off
through the wood with Kate upon his
arm. On their way she told him how, be­
ing unable to find her bonnet and cloak,
which Rebecca had abstracted, she had de­
termined to keep her appointment without
them. Her delay rendered her a little
late, however; but on reaching the with­
ered oak she heard voices and steps in
fiont of her, which she had followed.
These had led her to the open gate, and
the lighting o f the lantern had revealed
her to friends aud foes. Ere she con­
cluded her story Tom noticed that she
leaned more and more heavily ui>on him,
until by the time that they reached the
Priory he was obliged to lift her up and
carry her to preveut her from falling. The
hardships of the last few weeks, and this
final terrible and yet more joyful incident
of all, had broken down her strength. He
bore her into the house, aud laying her
by the fire in the dining room, watched
tenderly over her, and exhausted his hum-
bit stock of medical knowledge in devising
remedies for her condition.
In the meantime the inspector having
thoroughly grasped the major’s lucid nar­
rative, was taking prompt and energetic
measures.
"You go down to the station. Constable
Jones," he ordered. “ Wire to London,
John Girdlestone, aged sixty-one, and his
son, aged twenty-eight, wanted for mur­
der. Address, Eccleston square and Fen-
church street, City. Send a description
of them. Father, six feet one inch in
height, hatchet-faced, grey hair and whis­
kers, deep-set eyes, heavy brows, round
shoulders. Son, five feet ten, dark faced,
black eyes, black curly hair, strongly
made, well dressed.”
“ Yes, that’s near enough,” observed the
major.
"W ire to every station along the line
to be on the lookout. Send a description
to the chief constable of Portsmouth, and
have a watch kept on the shipping. That
should catch them. Let us carry the poor
soul up to the house,” the inspector con­
tinued, after making careful examination
of the ground al! round the body. The
purty assisted in raising the girl up, and
in carrying her back along the path by
which she had been brought.
Burt tramped stolidly along behind
v ith the remaining policeman beside him.
The Nihilist brought up the rear with his
keen eyes fixed upon the navvy, and his
knife still ready for use.
When they
reached the Priory the prisoner was safe­
ly locked away in one of the numerous
empty rooms, while Rebecca was carried
upstairs and laid upon the very* bed which
had been hers.
“ We must search the house,” the in­
spector said, and Mrs. Jorrocks having
been brought out o f her room, and having
forthwith fainted and been revived again,
was ordered to accompany the police in
their investigation, which she did in a
very dazed and stupefied manner. Indeed,
not a word could be got from her until,
entering the dining room, she perceived
her bottle of Hollands upon the table, on
which she raised up her voice and cursed
the whole company, from the inspector
downwards, with the shrillest volubility
of invective.
Having satisfied her soul
in this manner, she wound up by a per­
fect shriek of profanity, and breaking
away from her guardians, she regained
the shelter of her room and locked herself
up there, after which they could hear by
the drumming of her heels that she went
into a violent hysterical attack upon the
floor.
Kate had, however, recovered sufficient­
ly to be able to show the police the differ­
ent rooms, and to explain to them which
was which. The inspector examined the
scanty furniture of Kate’s apartment with
great interest.
“ You say you have been living here for
three weeks,” he said.
“ Nearly a month,” Kate answered.
“ No wonder you look pale and ill. You
have a fine prospect from the window.”
He drew the blind aside and looked out
into the darkness. A gleam of moonlight
lay upon the heaving ocean, and in the
center of this silver streak was a single
brown-sailed fishing boat running to the
eastward before the wind. The inspector’s
keen eye rested upon it for an instant,
and then he dropped the blind and turned
away. It never flashed across his mind
that the men whom he was hunting down
could have chosen this means of escape,
and were already beyond his reach.
gale, and the Black Eagle lay roning
about as though she had learned habits of
inebriation from her skipper. The *ky
was very clear above, but all round the
horizon a low i gze lay upon the water. So
silent was it that the creaking of the
boats as they swung at the davits, snd
the straining of the shrouds as the ship
rolled, sounded loud and clear, as did
the raucous cries of a couple of gulls who
hovered round the poop. Every now and
then a rumbling noise ending in a thud
down below showed that the swing of the
ship had caused something to come down
with a run. Underlying all other sounds,
however, was a muffled clank, clank,
which might almost make one forget that
this was a sailing ship, it sounded so like
the chipping of a propeller.
“ What is that noise, Captain Miggs?”
asked John Girdlestone, as he stood lean­
ing over the quarter rail, while the old
sea-dog, sextant in hand, was taking his
midday observations. The captain had
been on his good behavior since the unex­
pected advent of his employers, and he
was now in a wonderful aud unprecedent­
ed state of sobriety.
"Them’s the pumps agoin’,” Miggs an­
swered, (lacking his sextant away in its
case.
"The pumps!
I thought they were
only used when a ship was in danger?”
Ezra came along the deck at this moment,
and listened with interest to the conver­
sation.
“ This ship is in danger,” Miggs remark­
ed calmly.
“ In danger!” cried Ezra, looking round
at the clear sky and placid sea. "Where
is the danger? 1 did not think you were
such an old woman, Miggs."
"W e will see about that,” the searnav.
answered angrily. " I f a ship’s got no
bottom in her she’s bound to be in dan­
ger, be the weather fair or foul.”
“ Do you mean to tell me this ship has
no bottom?”
“ I mean to tell you that there are
places where you could put your fingers
through her seams. It’s only the pumpin’
that keeps her afloat.”
“ This is a pretty state of things,” saia
Girdlestone. “ How is it that I have not
been informed of it before? It is most
dangerous.”
“ Informed !” cried Miggs. "Informed
of i t ! Has there been a v’yage yet that
I haven’t come to you. Muster Girdle­
stone, and told ye I was surprised ever to
find myself back in Lunnon?
A year
agone I told ye how this ship was. and ye
laughed at me, ye did. It’s only when ye
find yourselves on her in the middle o’ the
broad sea that ye nnderstan’ what it is
that sailor folk have to put up wi\”
“ I presume,” Girdlestone said, in a con­
ciliatory voice, “ that there would be no
real danger as long as the w’eather was
fine.”
“ It won’t be fine long,” the captain an­
swered gruffly. "The glass was well un­
der thirty when I come up, and it is
failin’ fast. I ’ve been about here before
a* this time o’ year in a calm, with a
ground swell and a sinkin’ glass. No good
ever came of it.”
(T o be continued.)
E L IZ A B E T H ’S A W A K E N IN G .
S u ircrcM ted P l a n
to D e fr a u d
S lio w *
H er
H er
Real
P o s itio n .
Every one had left the office except
Elizabeth May, the stenographer, and
Howard Dudley, the office hoy.
“ May I speak to you. Miss M ay?”
asked Howard, seating himself by Eliz­
abeth’s desk.
“ Certainly," she replied, somewhat
surprised at the seriousness o f the lad,
who was usually merry and slangy to a
distracting degree.
" I ’ve thought of a scheme,” he be­
gan, “ by which w e can make a heap of
money i f you don’t object to adding to
your Income.”
“ O b ject!’ repeated Elizabeth, smiling.
“ I thought you’d be game. Now, list­
en. and I ’ll explain my Idea."
Elizabeth, laying down the papers she
was sorting, gave Howard her full at­
tention while Iffc unfolded the details
of a superficially clever plan to defraud
the company for which they worked of
a goodly percentage o f its profits. So
intent was he in making clear to her
the system he had evolved that he did
not notice the change that gradually
came Into Elizabeth’ s face. When she
at last Interrupted him with an Indig­
nant exclamation, he drew away from
her In astonishment as he saw her
shocked expression.
"W h y, what’s the m atter?"
"T h e m atter! Need you ask? How
can you think for a minute that I
would do anything so dishonest?”
“ I wouldn’ t have thought o f your go­
ing In with me, Miss May, If I hadn’t
known you were a grafter.”
“ I a grafter? W hat do you mean?“
“Don’t you always use the company’s
stamps for your owp letters? Didn’t
you manage so that the company paid
the express on all the packages you
sent last Christmas?
W eren’ t your
pearl-handled knife and alligator card-
ens sent to the company as presents,
and didn’t you help yourself to them
when you found them In the mail?
Don’ t you always take all the pretty lit­
tle a’dvertisements or gifts
that are
sent in?”
The white o f anger In Elizabeth’s
cheeks turned to the flush o f shame as
he spoke, and she dropped her head on
her desk and began to weep with a
violence that alarmed her boyish young
accuser.
" I ’m— I ’m sorry. Miss M ay."
“ Sorry, H ow ard?"
She lifted her
face and looked at him penitently. “ Oh,
I ’m the one to be sorry. I was never
so sorry or ashamed In my life before.
I have been dishonest, and hard as It is
for me. I ’ m glad you have made me
see It. But what makes me feel the
worst Is that my example has encotir-
ageil you even to think of deceiving and
defrauding the good people we work
for. You are only a young boy. and
when I think that It is really my fault
that you planned to begin what might
have led to a life o f crime, why. H ow ­
ard, I Just shudder. Promise me that
you w ill never try to make money by
unfair means, and I ’ ll promise you that
I ’ll never again take so much as a pin
that Isn’t mine by rig h t
W e’ll help
each other to keep our promises, won’t
w e?"
Tears were again streaming d ow i
Elizabeth’s face, and Howard, meeting
her earnest gaze with brave frankness,
awkwardly reached out his hand to­
ward her and said, huskily. “ L et’s
shake on. It.” — Youth’s Companion.
C H APTER X XV .
Ezra Girdlestone had given many indi­
cations during his life, both in Africa and
elsewhere, of being possessed of the power
of grasping a situation and of acting for
the best at the shortest notice. He never
showed this quality more conclusively
than at that terrible moment, when he
realized not only that the crime in which
he had participated had failed, but that
ail was discovered, and that his father
and he were hunted criminals. With the
same intuitive quickness which made him
a brilliant man of business, he saw in­
stantly what were the only available
means of escape, and proceeded at once to
adopt them. If they could but reach the
vessel o f Captain Hamilton Miggs they
might defy the pursuit of the law. He
had hired a boat near Claxton.
The Black Eagle had dropped down the
Thames on the very Saturday which was
so fruitful of eventful episodes.
Miggs
would lie at Gravesend, and intended af­
terwards to beat round to the Downs,
there to await the final instructions of
the firm. I f they could catch him before
h* left, there was very little chance that
he would know anything of what had oc­
curred. It was a fortunate chance that
the next day was Sunday, and there
would be no morning paper to enlighten
him as to the doings in Hampshire. They
had only to invent some plausible excuse
for their wish to accompany him, and get
him to drop them upon the Spanish coast.
Once out of sight of England, and on the
htoad ocean, what detective could follow
their track?
They reached the ship. The early part
of the voyage of the Black Eagle was
extremely fortunate.
The wind came
track by the ostler of the Flying Bull, snd round to the eastward and wafted them
having themselves observed maneuvers steadily down channel, until on the third
which could only be characterised as sus­ day they saw the Isle of U ah ant lying
picious. charged down with such vehe­ low upon the skyline. No inquisitive gun­
mence that in less time than it take* to boat, or lurking police launch came with­
tell it, both TOm snd the major and Von in sight of them, though whenever any
Baumser were in safe custody. The Nihil­ veaaePs course brought her in their direc­
ist, who had an inextinguishable hatred tion the heart of Ezra Girdlestone sunk
of the law, and who could never be within him. On one occasion a small brig
brought to understand that It might un­ signalled to them, and the wretched fugi­
der any circumstances be on his side, pull­ tives. when they saw the flags run up,
It proved,
ed himself very straight and held his thought that all was loat.
knife down at his hip ss though he meant however, to be merely some trivial mes­
to use it, while Bulow. of Kiel, likewise sage, and the two owners breathed again.
The wind fell away on the day that
issnmed an aggressive attitude. Fortu­
O n e T h i n * C e r t a in .
nate!^, however, the appearance of their they cleared the channel, and the whole
Sspletgh— I ’ve got s cold or some»
prisoners snd a few hurried words of the surface of the sea was like a great ex­
major made the inspector in charge un­ panse o f quicksilver which shimmered in thing in my hesd. doneber know.
Miss Cutting— W ell, If there’s an^
derstand how the land lay, and he trana- the rays of the wintry tun. There was
Isrrsd his attentions to Burt, on whose ■till % considerable swell after the recent thin/ there It must he a cold.
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votlon, aud an unconquerable determ­
ination tu achieve eucceiia In life aud
make himself worthy o f you 7”
“ I am wllllug to make a stub at It,
B illy," ahe auawered, raising ber eyua
trustingly to hi*.— Chicago Tribune.
The
question
whether
replevin
X -R A Y USED AS DETECTIVE.
aguluat a bankrupt, a fte r adjudication,
may be maintained
to m o v e r prop­
erty belonging to a third peraon, where I m n i i l e n E x p o s e d In F r e n c h Cn*>
to m H onaea.
nothing hna been done to obtain poa-
The French government has employ
aeaalon under the bankruptcy proceed­
ings, waa answered attlrmatlvely in the ed the Roentgen ray In a peculiar aud
rase o f Ayers v. Farwell, 82 North­ certainly novel way. It Is subjecting
western Reporter, 35. The Massachus­ persons who pass through Its custom
etts court held that the mere fact of houses to the X-ray In order to de­
the adjudication was no bar to such termine whether they are smuggling
articles upon which they should pay
action under the facts o f this case.
duty. On one trial mentioned 167 per­
The valid ity o f the Missouri Statute
sona were examined In forty-five min­
(R ev. St. 1870, Sec. 5682), which ex­
utes and on them were found Jewels
cludes suicide us a defense In suits ou
and merchandise hidden fur the ex­
life Insurance policies unless such sui­
periment. A small Jewele<J locket was
cide was contemplated at the time ap­
revealed under a young man's tongue.
plication was made for the policy. Is
Several watch chains were found In
upheld by the United States Supreme
the colls o f a woman’s hair. Card
Court In W hitfield v. Hadley, 27 Su­
cases spread out flat under the feet In
preme Court Reporter. 578, 205 U. 8.
the
shoes were
revealed.
Articles
480, 51 L. Ed. 805. It was suggested
wrapped In muny thicknesses o f tw-
that the statute “ merely encourages
|>er and woolen Mbrlos were discover­
suicide, and offers a bounty therefor,
ed, amt the account o f this trial says
payable, not out o f the public funda o f
these articles Instead o f being success­
the state, but out o f tile funds o f the
fu lly bidden might ns well In nearly
Insurance company."
But the court
every case have Bhouted out their ex­
su.va that an Insurance compnny Is not
istence lyid declared themselves on a
bound to make a contract which Is at­
manifest.
tended by the results Indicated by the
What a fine thing It would be if the
statute. I f It docs business nt all In
the state. It must do so subject to such Roentgen ra.v could be successfully ap­
vnlid regulations as the state
may plied to proposed legislation and to
legislators. If It could be made to re­
choose to adopt.
veal the presence o f the little Joker in
In State o f Georgia v. Tennessee
the bill and the consideration lodged
Copper Company, 27 Supreme Court
In the pocket o f the legislator to In­
Reporter, 618, 206 D. S. 230, 51 L. Ed.
duce hint to pursue a certain course o f
1038, the United States Supreme Court
action! The X-ray of publicity is all
lays down the proposition that a . f o r ­
right when properly applied, hut tt has
eign corporation w ill be enjoined at
not yet been developed to as high a
the suit o f the state o f Georgia from
degree o f efficiency ns the Interesting
so discharging sulphurous fumes from
scientific principle o f Roentgen ray.—
Its works In Tennessee ns to pollute
Minneapolis Journal.
the a ir over large tracts o f territory
In Georgia, and to cause and threaten
wholesale damage to forests and vege­
table life therein, If not to health.
When the states by thetr union made
the forcible abatement o f outside nuis­
ances Impossible to each other, they
The rambler In old France can sel­
did not thereby agree to submit to
dom undertake a little Journey during
whatever might be done. They did not
the summer, writes J. A. Hamiuerton
renounce the
possibility o f
making
In his book, “ In the Track o f R. L.
reasonable demands on the ground o f
Stevenson,” without coming upon some
their still remslnlng quasi sovereign
town where a fa ir Is In progress. The
Interests, and the alternative to force
looker-on Is Immediately Impressed by
Is a suit In the United States Supreme
the attractive booths, the good charac­
C ourt
ter o f the entertainments, and the neat­
T H E M O TH E R LO V E IN A N IM A L S . ness o f the stalls where food Is die-
played.
A performance which I enjoyed not
In s ta n c e . T h a t P r o ? . T h e re I . R e a l
a little, writes Mr. Mainmerton In de­
A ffe c tio n
A m on g Thom .
Dr. A lfred Girard, of Paris, has been scribing a fa ir at Orleans, was given
making observations and experiments by a quack doctor. An enormous car­
to determine, If possible, what la the riage, resembling In outline an old
exact character o f what
Is
called stage-coach, but decorated with much
moldlDg and thickly covered
"m other love” in animals, birds and carved
with gilt and crimson, which produced
the low er order o f creation.
Dr. Girard thinks the maternal love a most bizarre effect, stood In an open
in some o f the lower animals Is mere space.
Seated on the roof was s hoy, who
Instinct, but his conclusions In some
respects are much nt variance with the turned a machine which emitted the
observations o f ninny other naturalists. only hideous noise to be beard at the
Dr. James W eir, the Kentucky nat­ fair.
In the open fore part, richly cush­
uralist, knew a dog which seemed to
be exceedingly proud of her puppies on ioned. a man stood dressed In a daz­
their advent.
She not only brought zling suit o f brass armor, his glitter­
them one by one to her mistress for ing helmet lying In front o f him. and
admiration but she also brought them In bis hand a bottle o f clear liquid.
He assured a gaping crowd that his
In to show them to her master. She
deposited them, one by one. at the feet medicine would cure any disense from
o f the person whose regard she solicit­ toothache to tetanus, and he Invited
ed, and after they hnd been admired, nny sufferer to step up.
Imm ediately one did so. The hoy
returned them to their kennel— after
the fashion o f the young human moth­ ground out the hideous din nbove, and
er who thinks her babe Is the hand­ the doctor sat for a few noisy seconds
while his patient told him bis trouble.
somest o f all human kind.
Theu the racket was stopped with a
Birds defend their young to their ut­
termost abilities and often yield up wave o f the qunck's hand, nnd he ex­
in
vivid
their lives In unequal combat with the plained for five minutes,
ravage™ o f their nests. One summer words, the terrible nnture o. the pa­
Dr. W ler saw two Jays whip. In a fa ir tient's disease, nnd Invited the man to
fight, a large cat which had attempted pick any bottle from the stock In front
to rob their nest. They seemed to have o f him. This done, he had to open the
nrranged the order o f combat with one man’s waistcoat and shirt, for It was
another
before
they
attacked the a severe pain In the left side from
would-be ravlsher o f their home. The which he suffered, nnd the quack In
father concentrated his attention on armor struck the bottom o f the bottle
the cat’» head while the mother went on bis knee, thus causing the cork to
pop out.
at Its hack with elaw and beak.
He now shook the bottle vigorously
A small boy killed a snake which was
In the net o f robbing a song sparrow's with his forefinger on the neck, and
nest.
A fterw ards whenever he went the fluid changed Into green, brown,
Into the garden the father sparrow and finally black, whereat the simple­
flew to him, sometimes alighting on his tons round wondered and marveled, as
head and at other times on his shoul­ they were meant to do.
The practitioner next thrust the bot­
der, all the while pouring out a tu­
multuous aong o f praise and gratitude. tle Into the open shirt-front o f his pa­
The gratitude which would change tient, and shook the contents o f It
the tlinld, wild nnture o f a bird In such against the victim's skin, pressing his
a manner must have hnd Its origin In hand for a few moments on the psrt.
a feeling whose depths can be fathomed Then he asked the fellow to step down
only In the psychical rnbltudes o f the as cured, and go among the crowd
most refined of human beings.— Boston “ telling his experience.”
A dozen cases were treated In less
Post.
than half an hour— people with neu­
W i l l i n g to T r r .
ralgia, sprained wrists and ankles, nnd
“ Pulsatilla," said the young lawyer, always the same formula ns to consul­
stirred by an emotion which he made tation, explanation, application.
no pretense o f concealing, "w ill you
P h ilo s o p h y o f D e sc a rte s.
listen to me for a few minutes?”
Turning the mental vision inward,
She nodded.
" I am about to ask a great deal of as Bacon turned it outwnrd, Descartes
you— the moat that any man can ask watched the d era tio n s o f the soul as
an object in a microscope. Resolved
o f any woman.”
Still
she did not atop him.
She to believe nothing but ni>on evidence
so convincing that he could not by
listened with downcast eyes.
“ I am but a beginner.” he proceed­ any effort refuse his assent, he found
ed, "In lnw as well ns in love. W hile as he Inspected bla beliefs that he
I am confident o f ultimate success. I could plausibly doubt everything but
realise that there la no short cut to 1L hla own existence. Here at last was
The w ay Is rough and thorny. Good the everlasting rock, and this was re­
heavens,
yes!
Pulsatilla,
do
yon vealed In his own consciousness ; hence
(I
know there are 4.000 lawyers In this his famous “ Coglto ergo sum"
town starving to death? It Is the old think, therefore I am ). Consciousness,
contest that has raged from the be­ said he. Is the basis o f certitude. In­
ginning o f time.
To the Inexorable terrogate It and Its d ea r replies w ill
law o f the survival o f the fittest there be science, for all clear Ideas are true.
are no exceptions.
I must fight my Down in the depths o f the mind Is the
way up or be trodden under foot. I idea ot the Infinite perfection— the
do not deceive myself as to the strug­ mark o f the workman Impressed upon
his work. Therefore God exists.— N ew
gle that lies before me.”
W iping the
perspiration from bis York American.
brow he resumed, but In a different
v oic e : .
“ Dear girl. It would be unfair on my
part to ask you to unite your destiny
with mine without placing the case be­
fore you In all Its aspects. It would
be unpardonable to assume that I am
able to support a w ife In luxury with
my present Income. But I have allow ­
ed myself to dream that love would
make t i l our burdens lig h t
I have
dared to hope that I would have yon
by my side to cheer me on my way.
Pulm ttlla. dare you assume the risk
o f marrying a man who has nothing
to offer /“ *' hut health, strength, d e
S tra in e d
R e la t io n «.
“ You wish me to state, then, that
you are quite at peace with all your
relatives?" asked the Interviewer.
“ W ell," replied John D., “ I must ad­
mit I still have a little grudge against
Uncle Sam and Anti Rebates.” — Kan­
sas C ity T im e *
When the men find a blonde b all­
on a man's c o a t although they
s ll
know nla w ife has bltck hair, they
laugh, and are merry.
Instead, they
should refuse to speak to the man
until he offers a satisfactory explana­
tio n