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W A S H IN G T O N r& \< C u l t £ w lu _j a / v\ • O R V R K .H T a r A M E R IC A N P R E S S A S S O C IA T IO N . !*•* C HAPTER XL him in a hard grip, sh<x>k him as a dog shakes a rat and said through set teeth: “ You hound, you hound, to threaten au old man in this dastard fashion! Go now, but take this word with you— the i minute you dare to speak of anything in that miserable post you sign your own death warrant! It touches me, to«», re- mcuilx r. 1 w ill shoot you with as little compunction as 1 would a mail dog.” As Hawkins reeled down the steps Allen t unit'd to Major Oveftou. “ Forgive my intrusion, sir,” he said, “ or at least hear my errand before you punish it. You warned me fuirly of the risk I ran in coming, but in spite of it I felt that I must see you here at once again. “ “ W ill you come within to speak?” Major Overton said, with grave cour tesy, leading the way to the small office Allen remembered so well. The old man was spent and shaken in spite of his iron nerve. He sat down heavily, with a long sigh, and said as though speech were painful: “ Since our last meeting, Mr. Faunt- loroy, my opinion of you has changed, though unluckily fate has put it out of the power of either of us to change our course of action. ” “ You mean we can never lx» friends? Believe me, Major Overton, if I had known everything I would never have dared to thrust my presence upon you. When I came to know all the wrong you COUNTY ly enough, seemed yean younger after the marriaga “ No doubt you think I am wander ing, garrulous. W ait till 1 am through, then judge if it lie so. Though my par ents always treated Jiucev with the ut most kindness, I am sure she hated them, with the wild, unreasoning hate of passionate ignorance. If, she reason ed, they had not br«raght.her away from the old home, Bob would be her hus- band instead of that hated yellow g ir l’s, though no doubt, had she married him, she would have been glad after a little to cast him aside. It was the thwarting of her passion that gave it force and constancy. G<xl forgive me i f I wrong her, but 1 believe my mother died at her hand of some subtle, suddeu poison; my young brothers and sisters as well. 1 am sure, too, that her liaud took away our deeds, of course by connivance of those outside, who made away with the rec ords. “ So 1 have believed for years. Latter ly I have found a clew, faiut, hut tangi ble enough to give hope of development. You s«*c, I speak frankly to you, my en emy, for I pay you the complimeut of feeling that it is safe to do so. ” “ Surely,” said Allen. “ Else why should I be here? It must l>e as you say. Is this woman still living?” Major Overton nodded. The other went on. “ Yesterday the humor seized me to go through my grandfather’s secretary. Did you know him, sir? He must have been uear your age. ” HATCHET T H O U G H L O V E BE SLAIN. Forget?—But that I cannot, though you plead With me by Lethe's brink till clo»e of day; No waves of dull oblivion, dear, can *u«in The mem’ry of our happy dream uwuy. comfort. I .trolled down to tbe Lleuteu- a n t’s cabin to have a look tit hlui In (be ew light o or f u u ptturu«. new patient •The door of tuy friend'» cab n waa Ular us I bail approached a, null wbt 1 Claueed luto the room before kuoih- tng 1 was surprised to eatcb » «>*< Engineer I-ashtou standing by tbe side of the Lieutenant's bunk The rose of love hath shed her velvet •The fact of 1 .usinoli'» enmity for leaves, my friend was so undisputed that «1 j»"* And all our life of joy is dispossessed; Yet still I claim the sacred right to wear sight of ills ligure iu las enemy » « " The shrunk und withered blossom uu 1 felt quite justified iu watching »It was going on before making my l1" ' my breast. " ■- li- In e a across e r ie lying ¡ill. v — was enee known •d and appare» Ah! say not when the silver lyre is hush his bunk, liiilf lim liw ............ • ■ ed, IV rust «Sleep. ......... was stand- “ Remember not the tune wherewith it |'„e „ver him with a bottle of some thrilled!” Murk fluid ill bis hauti, " bile 1 w»tcli- It is our sweetest pleasure to recall His song, when death the singer’s voice ed. lie inaile rive small marks with it .i ,i.... iniiiiV n mi. file opera - n tli * sleeping man’s arm. has stilled. t ion seemed such i i mysterious one that -—Madame. 1 watched him , till he put (lie cork back into tlic bottl without moving a Htep to interfere with tin* man, but 1 pollllriol upon him us lie turtle m I to leave Vance was u true prophet. When it caino out that in» jierraa&ioii, no counsel, could win Major Overton to accept A l len FaunHeroy’s surrender, that he per sisted in leaving that fatal cloud on tho title, Hawkins fell first into a foaming rage, later into a hard eyed, sharp edged anger that augured ill for whoever might chance to be held in his power. Y et Hawkins was not ordinarily bad tempered. Indeed he reckoned himself among the most generous and forbearing o f mankind, especially when bethought o f Major < Herton, whose secret he had so faithfully kept through all these years of warfare. “ The most miserable time l ever had the eahili. •• •"'lint oil eurtll hove you bei- iln To think that now the major could be In ray life,” said Dr. Macpherson one so selfish, could set his own foolish no day as we sat chatting in his cosy ingV' 1 usked nneeis inouloiisly. mill the tion of right and honor above the music drawing-room, “ was spent iu a gun fellow seemed rather taken ulmek. •• -it is only n pruetlenl Joke,' lie said, o f jingling gold in both pockets— Haw boat off the coast of Guinea. 1 began kins’ pockets! Clearly he ought to lx» my professional life as a surgeon iu with i. feeble attempt lo smile uueo.i- reminded of what he owed to tho disap eeruedly. the navy, you know.” pointed attorney; made to understand •• Moke or no Joke. I demand to see I did not know, but as the Doctor that knowledge, especially of family i seemed intent on telling the story 1 what is in that bottle.' I said unthorltu- skeU •tons, is always power. ' lively, my mind full of mysterious poi did not interrupt him by saying so. had suffered raff ex* yet, I felt that it So reasoned Mr. Hawkins as he made must henceforth be the purpose of my “ Wo bad been cruising about In the sons. and tile engineer bunded it over away to Ridgeley one brigl t day when life to help you to your own. ” Mediterranean,” he went on, "when we tamely. "The Isittle eoaiutiieil nothing hut July hail slipped into golden August. “ He was six months younger, ” Major were unexpectedly ordered to the Bay The old man looked at him with a Either hand the fields lay ripe and lush. long, farsecing gaze, saving: “ It is my Overtoil said. “ W e played together in o f Lagos to overawe some iniserahl«* ink." • Ink:" 1 exclaimed when the great A ll the world was bright with summer’s own— justly, honorably my own— but I short frocks and got our first trousers at little tribe near the const which had most radiant smile. Hawkins heeded it must prove it. I will. I cm take it on no the same time, but he did not come out not been behaving Itself as a properly brain specialist reached this point ill as little as though blindness veiled bis man’s sufferance. I would not lift a fin until after my father’s death. Naturally, regulated little tribe under the protec Ids narrative, aud Macpherson smiled tion o f the British empire ought to do. in a peculiarly quiet way he lias when eyes. He saw only precious yellow gold ger to take it all, save that I must do it then, we met only iu the courts. ” vanishing forever, held from his hand to clear my father’s name. ” “ I remember him well, a slim, tall Kakoga’s tribe, It was called, and Ivu- he has perfectly mystified a hearer. "Yes. ordinary ink." in* went on. by an obstinate old man, whom he wish “ Do you not care for fortune?” young man, of whom I was very much afraid, koga came in for a good share of honest ed heartily “ dead mid done with it a ll,” Fauntleroy asked. but one who impressed me always as the abuse from the officers and men of the "The disc overy naturally made me feel not from any personal grudge, but sim Dragon Fly, when our orders came. rather foolish, hut not so much ns it soul uf honor,” Allen said reflectively. The major touched his white hair. ply by way of setting right ¡gi inconven The worst of it was, as far as the offi would have done if I had not been Major Overton’s mouth hardened. “ W hy should I?” he said. “ I am old, ient complication. “ N o doubt he was, as he read such cers and men were concerned, that we convinced still that his aetloti was ill old. Could fortune bring back one year, A ll the way he told himself over and •ne day even, that it has lost me? Hou- things,” he said, “ but men of his stamp were not at unity among ourselves. some way a malicious one. \\ lint his ever the story of his wrong, his deserv 6t*c all things through the medium of The engineer, called Lashton, had been Idea could he. however, It was impossi ing. By the time he came into Major I their own inclinations. Ho was hard, disappointed in love, and was naturally ble for me to divine and I felt so curious Overton’s presence he was so full of ; selfish, grasping, so much so that it morose in consequence. What made about It that I should have roused my wrath as to lose sight of discretion. seems impossible you eau be his grauil- him more so was the fact that his suc friend at once to Inquire how five black The major sat at ease within tho nar cessful rival was the sub-lieutenant, an marks on his arm could possibly affect I boil ’ ’ row front portico listening to the county Was his father like him?” asked A l aw fully nice fellow, and the only man Ids happiness if lie had not looked so news which Dare read in scraps from on board that I cared for. Lieut. Gllby thorn lghly worn out and in need of len. the local papers. Through the long hall had met Miss Callan at Malta, and had sleep As soon as I -Ashton lead gone 1 The* major shook his head. came the drone of mammy’s wheel from “ No. He was a weak, good natureil, become engaged to lier without th.* left the cabin at once for fear of dis the back piazza. Under a rosebush, a lit I obstinate man, who needed always to least idea that the engineer laid inten turbing the sleeper, without stopping tle to one side of the door, Jubilee sat have his mind made up far him, though tions that way, not that it would have even to try and remove the Ink stains, a polishing kniv«*s by rubbing them hard | once it was made up heaven nor earth made any difference to him if lu* had, I piece of stupidity at which 1 have not in the fresh earth at its root. suppose. I »ash ton’s unconcealed en ceased to wonder. You see it was Im could change it. ” Hawkins looked at all of it with a “ Do you think he was deceiveil into mity against him made life on board possible for me to guess how desper contemptuous eye— it was so poor and I claiming land to which he had no title?” pretty unpleasant, and divided us into ately serious the plot was that the en rough, poverty stricken almost, beside “ No, but that he was cheated into two cliques. The Lieutenant's clique, gineer hud formed against the man his gorgeous imaginings of what might | paying for land that belonged to another consisting of himself and me, certain whom he considered Ids rival. 1 re so easily be in its stead. Very deliberate ly had the liveliest time of it, for the tired to my own cabin, opposite Qilby's, ! man. ” ly 1*3 flung his reins over the limb of a “ Then, in your judgment, both side's successful suitor of Miss Callan was the keeping the door open to make sure that near maple, got down and walked to tin* were victims. Have you any idea how merriest fellow on earth, and while we IJishton did not return to do more mis unhewn stone ste|>s, paused with a foot were In the Mediterranean we suffered chief, but I made a poor .sentry. 1 was it camo about?” upon the lowermost one and said in deep very little from the engineer’s hostility. tired out, like the young Lieutenant, “ Ideas! Plenty, but no proofs. ” est chest tones: “ Then perhaps this may lx* of value, ” But directly we steamed off for Lagos through not having hail my proper “ Good day, major. I ’d like a little Allen said, holding out a packet of yel a most remarkable change came over amount of rest for four nights, and I talk with you this morning. W ill you low papers covered with faded script. my friend, and he turned as taciturn as fell asleep, still wondering about lice come out with me, or shall 1 come ill?” five blank marks. “ / in'// shoot you with as littlr compunc “ Here are some letters betwixt my great Lashton himself. “ Good «lay, sir. Be seated,” Major grandfather and his Tennessee lawyer, tion an I would n mod day.” “ It puzzled me to discover the reason, "When 1 awoke, I do not know how Overton said, rising courteously to w el estly, now that I find what stuff you detailing the purchase of the land and for though all were sorry to leave the long after. It was to find tillhy stand- come the guest, at sight of whom Dare Mediterranean, still it was not like lug In my room, half undressed, as 1 are made of, I am sorry that I cannot giving the original locator’s name. ” hail vanished. “ Lot me see it. Quick, quick!” Major Gllby to sulk over it. He could not see had seen him In his hunk, bill with his leave Von in peaceful possession, even Hawkins climbed the three steps in Overtoil ulm<»st shouted. Allen laid a less of his fiancee than he had been shirt sieve buttoned up over the ink when I remember whose son you are.” front of him with the ixmderous tread doing for two or three months, and we stains on his arm. 1 was too full of “ You forget your grandchild,” A l finger upon one blurred line, saving: o f au angry man and sat heavily down “ There it is— Bruce Stirling!” had the prospect before us of a small sleep, however, to notice the fact at tho ien said, halting ever so slightly over in a big splint chair, dropp'd his hat “ W hat!” Major Overton fell back, fight, for which he had been wishing. time, or even to remember for the mo the word. upon the floor and said, brushing over gasping. Lashton suggested to me in his sinister ment anything about what 1 had seen. The major shook his heaiL his mustache a fine, scented cambric “ Bruce Stirling,” Alleu repeated. way that It was the prospect of fight Nlepy ns I was, I could not help no “ No, but what can a girl do with handkerchief: money? It is oftener than not a curse to “ Do you know him? Did you ever hear ing which caused the change in my ticing the look of complete misery and “ You are surprised, I know, toseeine, her, makes her the prey of fortune hunt of him?” friend, and though I answered the sug despair on my friend's face. He was major, but my surprise is that I haven’t “ Bruce Stirling! I see it all now. Y'es, gestion in the tone it deserved, still it standing at the side of my hunk, hold ers, drives deserving lovers away. Be come before. ” lieve me, young man, the trouble of tho I have heard of him. Nothing to his seemed the only explanation. ing an envelope, and when I started A deep line ilrew in betwixt Major world comes through and to women. credit. Why, he was said to have been “ Gllby said, when I asked him. that up. rubbing my eyes, he put it luto my Overton's brows, but he said, with no Why, there is, in my judgment, a wom one of the Mart'll gang. He was know’ll It w’as the weather, and the irritation hand. hint of impatience in his tone: an at the Ixittom of this disagreement to be gambler, blackguard, spendthrift, with which ho answered prevented mo “ '1 am glad you are awake, Mac “ Indeed! Then you must have urgent wholly without principle. No wonder of ours. ” continuing my inquiries and made me pherson,' he said, in a strangely con business?” lu* entered the land in Mr. Fahntlerov’s “ Indeed! Tell me who she is or was?” more than ever convinced that It wim strained tone. 'I wanted to ask you to “ I have, ” said Hawkins, uncrossing name. I f this had appeared, the fraud ’funk,’ and a very severe form of the do me a favor. Will you give this letter Allen said, with a great start. his legs and setting both fi*et firm on the would have been patent to everybody “ You forget 1 have yet to hear what disease, too. In fact, lie took very little to Miss Callan personally when you .us floor. Leaning forward, In* continued: brought you to me this morning,” Ma that knew him. Plainly he conspired pains to conceal It. her? 1 do not want to take the risk of “ The fact is, major, you haven’t used jor Overton said, looking keenly at the to sell what he did not owti , got the “ ‘I hope to goodness that I shall not sending it by mail.’ me well in this last turn of affairs. You other Fanntleroy money, then forged and stole have to go on shore,’ he said, when we. '* 'Hut you will see her yourself as know’, for I sent you word through H il “ Let me speak after you,” Allen re to put them in possession of another had nearly reached our destination. *1 soon as I shall.’ 1 said in surprise at tin- dreth, how 1 stand regarding this sale, plied eagerly. “ It may lx* one story w ill man's property. ” wish the commander would lead the request, nnd (illhy dhl not reply. In yet just for a ehinieru you set yourself illuminate tin* other. ” “ But how?” asked Allen. “ It seems party and leave me here to look after stead, he turned and walked out of the against everything. I f it meantnothing to me tho most foolhardy villain would the ship.’ cabin, leaving me staring at tin- letter to anybody but yourself. I ’d agn*e you not take snch risks of instant und cer C H A P T E R XII. “ ‘It is not likely,* I answered, gruf in my hand and wondering what It had a perfect right to act— well, tho fool “ I dare say yon think 1 mean my tain detection. ” fly. and I was glad that Lush ton was meant. I was so stupid witli sleep still i f it suited you. But taking money out ‘ ‘ Yon do not know him ,' ’ Major Over- mother. I know it has lx*en said she was not about to overbear him. I answered that it took me two minutes to think o f my pocket is another thing. Do you the prime cause of this fend. But she ton said. “ He would have risked hell bis next suggestion more gruffly still. of any explanation nt all. When I did think it is quite square, considering all the next hour for money that he w’anted had nothing whatever to do with it, “ ‘I suppose you would not like to l was out of my hunk and running you owe me?” though 1 believe she declined tho honor to spend in this one. And old Isaac, certify that 1 ought to l>e on the sick across to the opposite cabin in a second. The last words were s]H>keu very low. Jincey’s husband, had belonged to him. of becoming your grandmother, ” Major (1st. would you. Maepliersou?' be usk“d Just ill time, too, for Gllby was in the but Major Overton caught their full Overton said, sinking wearily back in Y’es, and 1 remember now it was said me, hesitatingly. act of locking his door when 1 burst it meaning. He but up very straight, and that every week o f his life the negro his chair. After a minnto ho went on: “ I refused, flatly. open and rushed in without ci-remon lightning bogau to play under his pent ” 1 was born in Carolina; was a stout tramped over to see his worthless ex- “ I f he had told me the true reason of 1 he fact that the young Lieutenant's house brows. Gripping hard the wooden lad of 8 when wo came over the moun master. Apart from his knavish tend bis fear l might have aeted differently, revolver and n couple of letters, one of arms of his chair, he saiil, not loudly, tains, so 1 rememlx*r very well how encies, Stirling hated my father, who, for he looked 111 enough, poor fellow. but with a riug of defiance: them addressed to me, were lying on the Jincey, my mother’s maid, moaned and as a coiuity magistrate, had once sent E ls face had grown quite white ami “ N o doubt, Mr. Hawkins, right and table, served to assure me that my fen rs wept on the way. and how the other lie- him to jail. This was his revenge, a bit wan slnee we started. honor are to you but chimeras, not a were not ungrounded. The first thing grot's laughed and said tauntingly that ter one indeed. Tell me, is there more “ I looked whiter still next day when 1 did was to secure the revolver. Then feather's weight in the scale against she was crying for her sweetheart, who than one reference to him in these let he had to go in eotnmnnil of the landing I turned to my friend. hard cash. Unfortunately fur you, 1 see had been loft behind, though my father ters?” party, whieh I ai'eompanled, of course. differently. As to uny obligation that "*\\hnt the devil are you going to “ Several, I think. It is, I know, men tried hard to bring him. Bob’s master “ When we were fairly embarked on shoot yourself for?' I demanded, blunt 1 may l»e under, i f money or material was w illing to part with him, but Bob tioned that he has gone to Texas, so the enterprise Ills one idea seemed to bo advantage can discharge it, then it dues ly- himself, it seems, had another string to cannot testify. He is mentioned only to get It over with all [Hiss!Me speed, not exist. ” "Gllby made no attempt to deny bis his bow. A t any rate, ho declined to in the deeds under tho disguise of and the haste with which he advano-d Intention. Hawkins rose up in white fury. leave Carolina for a new, unknown an agent and attorney. My great grand to Kakoga's country would have beou “ Do you mean to say that I lie?” ho “ 'I am sorry you have disturbed me country, and six months later some ouo father refers, too^ to his ‘disinterested Impossible if the men under him had roared. “ Wouldn’ t yon have paid all wrote my mother that he had married services’ as a reason for sparing him all not themselves been so anxious to get Maepl erson.' he said, with perfect cool and men* than all you were worth to tho yellow maid of his young master’« annoyance in the matter. So 1 fancy Into action nnd Introduce a little change ness, 'because It cannot make any dif keep people from haaring that your only ference.’ ” wife. Jincey was just 18 then, a slim, Stirling had been at some pains to cover j Into the monotony of life on a gunboat. daughter w illfully, knowingly, ran away "And the reason?" I asked, with in supple, stealthy thing, quick as a flash his track. ” “ However, the change was less than terest. for the Doctor had paused to w ith a married man?-By tho Lord, sir. in all her movements. When my mother the majority of the blue Jackets hoped they shall hoar it, with proof, too, such light another cigarette. Macpherson [ continued .] told her the newt that Bob was married, for, the miserable little tribe did not blew a whiff of smoke from his mouth, proof its cannot 1« push* l aside, unless she got ashy and staggered against the show fight, nnd our business was soon and continued his story. you listen to reason. I ’ ve been easy with MU« U nri» A. C. lin g he*. wall, hut said no word. The next Satnr you, your friend so long, you forgot, Miss Laura A. C. Hughes, who was accomplished. In five days from the " I suppose you have never heard of day night she was married to old Isaac time we left the Dragon F ly we were a disease called 'Guinea madnessV " he didn’ t you, how 1 ootild cut your pride? Boll, the most famous conjurer in the recently graduated from Tufts college, Now make your oh<*i«*o and be quick back again, none the worse for our trip, asked, and when I shook my head he country, a hideous, toothless old fellow, has been a noted hospital worker in Ba about i t I ’ m not Uf (ho humor to stand except that we were all worn out by went on: who looked all of 80. My mother tried ton and has had charge of a dispensary any more of your tfrs. “ G llb y'» forced marches. "Neither had 1 until Gllby told me in vain to change her purpose. Jincey in that city. During the G. A. R. on Both men hail risen and stood faeo to “The Lieuteuant seemed more ox about It, although 1 am a doctor. It Is swore that she loved him; had no use for | campment iu B«>stou she established au face. Major <M o n ' i jaw was like iron, hausted than any of us. and as soon one of those strange diseases that limit young niggers. So shohad her way, ami emergency hospital, one of the first in his eyes deadly» but his hands hung at as he had received the congratulations themselves luckily to a particular dis old Ike Ixvame a nightly visitor, his Boston. She has been elected a member his side, his tutor was low and even a-* o f the Commander he retired at once trict. and is only found among a few master's plantation lying broadside to of the Massachusetts Medical s o c k iy. he said: to his berth. What surprised me was tribes along the const of Guinea It is ours. Soon Jincey became so slow und Besides her regular work in the medical “ Under my roof, Mr. Hawkins, you that his spirits did not show any im generally thought that Europeans can careless about her duties that my mother school Miss Hughes is a graduate of tho say what you please. Repeat your threat* provement after the chance of fighting not take It, but the Idea is an erroneous said to her, ‘ I f you cannot do better, 1 training school for nurses connected with away from it, 1 w ill answer them a* was at an end. It seemed to me us if one. or, at any rate, there are excetv must put you to spuming. ’ ‘ Dat a wliut (he city hospital, she having served a they deserve. ” he were still expecting some calamity tions. for Lieut. Gilby's father died of I want,’ she said sullenly, and from that term in rath ward, and owing to ef “ You shall suffer for thus, ” Hawkins to happen to him. and I began to won It when my friend was a hov of lo H's day forward she spent her time in her ficieney Lad charge for a long time of said, turning upon his heels. der whether there might not t>e some father was captain of a trading vessel cabin. She was a sw ift worker when she the male surgical ward. She is a mem “ No, you w ill,” said Allen Fanntle chose. Often her task was «lone bv noon. thing seriously wrong with his health r City IIi*«pital clnh. She stud nnd the Lieutenant was aeeompanvin- ^fey, who had come unheard of either Afterward she nxmaxl woods and field», to account for all that had surprised me him on s voyage when they called at at St Margaret s hospital. which A n test ant and stood a boro three feet •taying away sometime* till after mid- Dno of the n,ort exacting institutions in In his manner. This explanation which the Guinea roast. He therefore saw i.is •w ay night Tho other negroes stood in mor- •»d she also took the teachers’ had not occurred to me while there nos father In all the Indescritmlile a „nv any real danger, struck me forcibly, “ Stand «side, ” said Hawkins furious tal terror of her; suid she was a worse Hemenway gymnasium of the disease, which seems more'lik',- now that we were safe on the gunboat, ly. trying to shoulder past Allen caught ootijuxvr than her old husband, who, odd- huder Dr. Sargent— New \ ork Tribune. hydrophobia than anything else si nnd. as soon as I had enjoyed the Inx- though It is infectious. ’ V sny of a bath aftar my five days of dl*- "lU e si.ht made a great Impression FIVE BLACK M A R K S . on liitn, and, since bl. constitution - quite similar to hi. father'., hr way. suffered from au almost urul terror of the Guinea coast, a, quite persuaded that If he ever » ashore there lie would catch the eutfe and die like his father. Ijtshc it seems, was aware of this monoisir of Ills, for it almost amounted to m mania." "And lie had really caught the ease?” 1 asked. Macpherson smiled. "IU- though l hail. The first symptom is the atm- of small dark marks ou tin-am leg " IIIII Mall Budget. Wmm Knjrlisli r»*vU'vvt»rH Ini' bon lh*rlH'rt S|H'U«H'r aiul .lumi'H Bryce * tin* jM.sxihli* uuthorn o f tlu* anonyijl0( reply (»» Max Norilau, t'litltlixl “Hq: oration.” Sii*|>li»,n Cram* now announces that liia Hint hook, “ Maggie, a titrl of th* Streets,” was not refused by a long li» of publishers, for the reason that b|l never offered It to any of them, but published it himself. Clinton Seollard has resigned hlup^ fesHorship of English literature at Hua. lit«>n College, and Intends to drv.jii more time to writing. He 1ms writiw an eple «»f tin* American Indian, whki will l»e printed in the autumn. The fuel that Dr. Conan I>oyle is^ ing to tlu* Soudan for a Loudon Joj iuil has astonished many people, Cc Doyle, however, says that the dellghr of newspaper work are equal to any) thing that successful novel-writing|J gets. (icorge \V. Cable explains that 1£J story, "Madame I)elphlneN” was writtc in response to a request from a qua rooii who had read “ ’Tlte Fouletuh that la* would present tin* ease of qua* rooii women more clearly, and "tellb whole truth.” As a sister volume to the handson "Song of Songs,” Elbert llubbarili ef the ridllstlne and the Roycroi printing shop In East Aurora, N. Y., fringing out “ The Journal of Koi h*th: Being a Reprint of the Book E« <*leslast(*s: With an Essay.” The London Times is suing the C; tml News Company, charging that" dispatches regarding the Jaiianea** wti whieh were supplied by the Cent News were iu some eases entirely fat! Heated, and in other eases largely tered ami expanded, and that by pui. fishing them the Times suffered in utatlon. The Societe des Gens de Lettres h made with an advertising agent «c tract, by the terms of whieh Fmtf iMioks are contain several leaves: advertisements of all sorts. Theae *i be Ixrand ku the hack covers of evetj volume. The money earned from t contract by the society is to be applif. to its authors’ pension fund. John Bonner gives this as the lar, guage of a British officer lately retu ed from India: "K ipling? Oh, yw, know him very well. Dirty little blaci guard! Used to go up to Simla when was full of army men and officials' the civil service, and used to bar round the billiard tables and veram to listen to everything that was « and printed It ail in a dirty little pt| of which lu* was a reporter—a anei and an eavesdropper; a dirty liti blackguard. You never could tell a: cret among his friends that ho did DC ferret It out and print it. And hedm, us so that tin* portraits were uiimistal able, by Jove. A dirty little blackguar sir; a chee*ohee.” 'I’la* London Chronicle prints the 5 lowing extraordinary statement: » had not thought that It would evert our unpleasant duty to deal with M i Robott Buchanan personally in tbe. columns. A letter, however, which* addressed recently to tbe Star cod W l ing this paper compels us to make brief, but, we think, sufficient eomm^ Mr. Buchanan’s letter, so far as It > late« to our criticism o f ‘Jude the1 seure,’ is a lie from beginning to Having characterized Mr. Buchans1 letter, we beg him to understand that columns are not open to him for an pression of opinion upon this or • other matter. The only method oft munication In future between ourseit ami this gentleman will be through solicitors.” Of Mrs. Gertrude Atherton’i Whirl Asunder,” the Critic says: author brings together a strong, nr well-poised young Englishman, wbo engaged to a homely English girl, i a capricious Californian, whose will her law, and who has never beencJ ed in her wishes and whims. Shefc in love with the Englishman, of cott and lie with her; but loyalty surd* and the girl lacks, at the last nonT the courage to win him by the nr which Arabella employed to winJ All this hapens under t lie Califor^ redwoods, and more or less under e auspices of the Bohemian Club of“ Francisco, which we do not hold sponsible, however, for this ^ asunder, nnd still less for the * together that preceded It.” Not W orth a llu«»h. AVhen one says of anything I “ not worth a straw,” one n imply that It Is worthless. T saying was "not worth a mi this brings out the origin of tin In tlie days before carpets it custom to strew the floor witt When guests of rank were enh rushes, green, fresh and swe spread for them; but folk of 1« gree hail to be content with rus Lad already been used, while s1 bier persons hail none, as nut Ing worth a rush.