E IRON PIRATE
A Tlain Tale of Strange
Happenings on the Sea
By MAX PEMBERT05
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- CHAPTER IV. (Continued.)
The helu went oTer. and the yacht
loomed ud black, ai our own litfht died
awav : and uassed ua within cable
length. What lift of the night there waa
showed ua her decks again ; but riy were
not deserted, for aa ona or two atxara
riivi m rntit err. 1 aaw tba whit and
horridly diatorted face of a man who
dun to tba main ahrouda and ha alone
.1. uur.lin of the wanderer.
That vision of the man I had left well
and hopeful and etrong not threa days
since wai terr ble to me. A Drave umu
bad gone to bi death, but to what a
death, if that agonised fare and diatorted
visage betokened aught ! And 1 had prom
ised to aid hiui, and waa drifting there
with the schooner, raiaiug no hand to give
biui help.
Lii,.-.r - I rried. "thia time well risk
getting a boat off; I'm going aboard thut
veaaid now, if I Urown twtore i
Then I turned to the men and said : "lou
aaw the yacht paw just now, and you
t I-..'., n. ff llllll
hw that man aDoarci ner u
am! I'm trolnf to fetch him.
Aa tiie good feilowe gave way and our
boat rode eaaily before the wind, I no
ticed for the drat time that tha clouds
were ecattering; and we had not maae
another cable's length when a great cloud
above ua allowed silver at Ita edges, ana
oiwouelv white In Its center, through
mhi.-h th. moon ahone. Anon It diaaolv
ed, and the transformation on tbe aurface
of the water waa a transformation from
the dark of atorin to the chroma light of
a summer moon. The deserted yaent
waa beating up to us, and we stood right
lu her truck.
"(Jet a grapnel forward, and look out
there," cried the man in command.
Aa If to help ua, the wind fell away aa
the echooner came up, and she began to
ehake her sails. Suddenly there waa the
sound aa of fierce contest, of the bursting
of wood, and tha spread of flame; and In
that IriNtaut the decks of the yacht were
ripped up, and sheets of fira rose from
them to the rigging above.
"(Jive way," roared Pan again, for the
men sat motionlesa with terror. "Are you
going to let him burn?"
The words awed them. They shot the
long boat forward ; and I stood In her
stern to observe. If I conld, what passed
on the burning decks. And I aaw a sight
the like
. . in llvlnff
I cannot tell, but I anueu
log into tha detectlv. force
and after working up for te" '"J
. .. i... ik.. nut ma on me
tnrougn me rou-, .u-v - ,
landing-stag, at Liverpool, to watch for
men who wished to emigrate. -
erabla employment, but educating, for u
taught m. to read facea that were dis
guised, old men become beardless, young
men made old. I suppose I bad mora
than common success, for when "aa
been so employed for five 1"
sent to London by our people, and there
commanded to go to tha Admiralty and
get new Instructions. Kegard this, please,
aa tha Brst mark in thia record I am mak
ing. Of my work for our own peopla I
may not tell even you, ainre I engaged
upon it under aolemn bond of secrecy; but
I can Indicate that I waa aent to Italy
to pick up facts In tha dock yarda there,
and that our people relied on my rifts
of disguise, and on my knowledge of Ital
ian. In abort, I waa expected to provide
plana and account of many things mate
rial to our own aervice, and I entered on
the business wirh alacrity, gained admit
tance to the public dock yards, and knew
in . tw.lvemnnth all that any man could
learn who had hia wita only to guide him.
it In Italy during my second year
of work that I had cause to De at eipeiia.
. hformitl. I was to get mvM J J
other mo.lea. The nature of tbeee I knew
I . i .1... -mined to set out upon
HOI. UU W, mm ,
. ;ialt to Sitmor Veaaia. who ".. the
builder to whom the d.sks wherein I
worked belonged. To bin. I
pretended agent of a shipping
York, with whom I had some little ao
...J. ..i h. rave me audience
lie waa r, willing to hear me
when he learned that I waa In quest of.
builder to lay down eteamera for the
American trad, with Italy : and sou.,
while we paaaed In great cordiality, to I
ventured the other business.
"Hy the by, Slgnor Aeisla. that a
marvellous battleahip you have In your
.econd dock : I have never seen anything
like her before.'
"I spoke the words, and read hlra aa
one reads a barometer. lie snrans t.-.o.
Into hia bulb, and the tone of hie eonver
aation marked a storm. I beard him mut
ter under hia breath, and then the mer
cury of bla conversation mounted quickly.
"'Yea yea; a curloua vessel, quite a
fecial thing, for a South American re
public, an idea of theirs-but you will
extend me the favor of your pardon. I am
busy and In bis excitement he put his
spectaclea off and on. and called uiovan
nL Giovanni !' to hia head clerk, who made
buaineas to be rid of me. I mounted to
my bill top again: and apent the morning
looking down upon the golden ahlp which
waa built for 'a South American repub
lic' That tale I never believed, for the
man'e face marked It a lie aa ne gave u
to me. I resolved In that hour to devote
myself heart and soul to the work of un
ravelling the slender threads, even If I
lost my common employment In the Dual-
T,. reverie held me long. I waa
a trcm It bv the alirht of a dull va
por mounting from the funnel of the
nameleaa ahlp. She waa going to aall
then at the next tide ahe might leave
Speiia, and there would De no more nope.
I hurried to my hotel.
"Here waa a problem at thia atage as
If then appeared to me: Item (1), A ahlp
built of aome metal I had no knowledge
ng there a new 7 J ot I . A ' . -bone like.
iZTwh'u mere waa Z talk and rich sunset ot ,. garden ak. I (3).
A snip inai w . - -
many opinions. It waa an evening taie
in the year, and the aun waa Juat eetting.
I watched the changing hues of the peaka
aa the light spread from po'nt to point
upon the caatle roof, upon the ateel hulla
of great ahipa. And then I aaw a at range
thing, for amongst all tha vesaela I aaw
one that atood out beyond them all, a
great globe, not of ellver, but of goldefl
Are. There waa no doubt about It at all ;
I rubbed my eyea. I used the glaaa I al-
waya carried with me; I viewed the bull
I saw lying there from hair a aoaen
heights; aud I waa aure that what I aaw
waa no effect of evening llgnt or arrange
refraction. The ahlp I looked on waa
built eirher of braaa, or of some alloy of
brass, aa It seemed to me, for the notion
that ahe could be plated with gold waa
prepoeteroua ; and yet the more I exam
ined ber, the more clearly did I make out
that her hull waa constructed of a metal
nfinitely gold-like, and of so beautiful a
color In the redilened atreara which ahone
upon It that the whole ahlp had the aapect
to which I pray that I may never ' . . .. . . .
aee again. Martin Llall atood at the main "
ahrouda. motionlesa, volumes of flame
around him. hia figure clear to be viewed
ly that awful beacon.
"Why doesn't he Jump ItT I called
loud. Hut Martin Hall never moved,
lis gnunt figure waa motionlesa the
(In mi's beat upon It, it did not stir; and
we drew near enough anon aud knew the
worst.
"Ile'a lashed there and he's dead,"
aaid Ian. "Kasy 1 for a parcel of stark
Xonlst Would you run alongside her?"
There they lay, for any nearer ap
proach would have been perlloua, and even
seen.
The dark fell. I returned to the town
quickly. I went straight to the sea front
and began. If I could, to find where the
water lay wherein this extraordinary
steamer was docked. I had taken the
bearlnga of It from the hills, and I waa
very quickly at that apot where I thought
to have seen the strange vessel. There,
truly enough, waa a dock In which two
amall coasting steamers were moored, but
of a sign of that which I sought there
waa none. I should have had the matter
out there and then, searching the place
to Ita extremity; but I bad not been at
In that place where we were, twenty feet . . ,,',. ,u t M,.,
on the windward aide, the heat waa nitfh , wag watphed A mni drewed , rough
unbearable. So near were we that I look-
aailor, and remarkable for the hideouanesa
d cl'.e a It might be Into the dead face lf tnd curIous formation of
of Martin Hall, and saw that the fiends
one tooth, lurked behind the beaps of sea
I t I I 1 I i . I 1- - J J l. . ! -
wno nau ins.eu n.ra xuere u... uoue lUe.r ,umbe and folIowed me trom t0
work too well Hut I hoped In my heart ,t , turned ln , food dig)f,1g9 of
that he had been dead when the end of Englil,n KamaQ on th, folow.
the ship had begun to eonie. and 1 that It )p tven Rnd ain fntere,, th, dlK.k
were no reproach to me that he had per-1
yard. Tbe same man waa watching, but
isi eu; .or 10 aave .... oouy irom he had no suspicion of me,
ftomcau.r waa worn no man m.gnt ao. . ,Any job goln(?r x Md tfc
" "-'" u.mUIm.. ...i, ... - qUMtOI1 denied to Tnterest him.
ne .. , oi ne yacm r r.u.,. ,j rK,kon doI)end, ,h, .
ucy sne raise,, ner neaa to . new gtMnt hia handa deep Into
treee. shook her great Mil of flame In pockMi w,Ien
I. m! '"'"Tv . I.,"..: like you good for. except to get yer neck
iT-i . a hi-ii hub iiiiiin-t. lid uui uiui jii I
as if In salute, and there waa darkness,
As we nenred our own ship Roderick
took my hand, giving it a great grip. Then
we came aboard, where Mary waited for
us with a white face, and the othera stood
nilvnt ; but we said nothing to them, going
below. There I lorked myself in my own
Tallin, and though fatigue lay heavy on
rue. I took Martin Haifa papers from my
1'H'ker and lighted the lamp to read them
through.
Hut not without awe, for they were a
mt'sstige from the dead.
casual glance told me. with every kind of
quick-firing gun, and with two ten-Inch
guna In her turret. Item (4), A ruffian
ly blackguard, to whom the cutting of a
throat aeemed meat and drink, with ten
other roguea no lesa deserving, from a
murderous point of view, put to watch
about the ship that no strange eye might
look upon her. Item (5), The confusion
of Signor Vexzla. who made a fine tale
and said at the same time with hia eyes,
'This la a lie, and bad one; I'm aorry that
I have nothing better ready.' Item (8),
My own adamantine conviction that I
atood near by aome tnyatery, which waa
about to be a big mystery, and which
would pay me to pursue. Instinct told me
to go on In this work. If I lost all other,
If I starved. If I drowned, If I died at
It. And to go on I meant.
(To be continued.)
CIIAl'TKIl V.
The manuscript, which was senled on
Its cm-er in many places, consisted of
vera I pages of close writing, and of
ketches and scraps from newspapers
Italian, trench and Knglish. The sketches
1 hxiked at first, and was uot a little
aurprised to see that one of them was the
portrait of the man known as "Hoarlng
J.lm," and there was wit hthla a blur
red and faint outline of the features of
the seaman called "Four-Kyes." Hut
what, perhaps, was even more difficult to
iinniTsiann was ine picture ot the great
'All In my line,' I answered Jauntily,
having fixed my plan ; 'I'm starving
amongst thpse cutthroats here, and I'm
ready for anything.'
1 chatted with him, and later on with
his companions, about aa fine a dozen of
self-stamped rascals aa ever I wish to
see. Next day, I came again to the dock
yards, convinced that I was at the foot of
a mystery, and. to my delight, I got em
ployment from the chief of the gang,
named 'Uoaring John' by his friends; and
was soon at work on the simple and mat
ter-of-fact business of cutting planks. This
gave me an entry to the dock yard all
I wished at the moment.
"I had got admission to the dock, but
had learnt nothing of the vessel. I was
admitted only to the outer basin, where
the coasting steamers lay, and 'Itoaring
John' threatened me if I passed the gate
which opened into the dock beyond. Min
ute by minute and hour by hour, I wait
ed my opportunity. It came to me on
the morning of the eighth day, when I
reached the yard at four o'clock; and the
gate being unopen, I lurked In hiding
until the first man should come. He waa
ILL WIND BLOWS ONE GOOD.
Accompanied bjr a Furious Itala, It
Makes Profit for Fakir.
Ia tbe bnlf hour tlie heavy rain lust
ed last ulght the Hruuklyn bridge um
brella fuklr gold tweuty-three of tbe
sun proof devices. He Is a quiet fel
low, or lie would have done double the
business. A Coney Island barker with
a good cry of "Keep dry I Umbrella !
TUirty-flve cent!" would have put out
twice as many of the parasols ln that
wind-swept, drenched crowd. Enough
men and women slid under the shelter
ing bridge with umbrellas turned Into
black lilies In their hands to furnish
customers for on umbrella factory. As
It was, the fuklr did a good business
for his half hour. Judging from the
behavior of his goods after they go out
In the wet aud the wind with venture
some purchasers, they must have cost
him all of 20 cents apiece. Including the
paper wrapper that hides everything.
Thut left a profit of 15 cenU apiece, or
$.1.43 lu the half hour. I needed one of
those umbrellas, but felt It might cost
too much nt 35 cents. These sudden
storm umbrellas are alike the world
over, and an experience with a brother
of the family lu Naples had made me
shy. For that one I paid a smiling
thief 2 lire 10 cents plus suudry oth
er amounts Involved in the loss of the
counterfeit money hauded out to me, a
stranger, In change. I used the um
brella ln going up Mount Vesuvius, and
that day It was foggy nlove the "snow
line" otherwise the top of the cable
railw ay. Clad at the lieglnnlng In cream
serge as was suitable In that day and
place I returned In the afternoon In
suit of "Vesuve," as the Italians call It
a gray shade. Imitating the asliwi
that reivtitly shrouded everything about
Vesuvius. It was good dye, too, for It
never came out
V.. 11 .f V . , I I . .
...... ... r,.. . ' ' warsnip, ,.,, otW ,hnn thm on. h hnA .,,
howtng ner a-niii iling. with the work vet i . . , , . .. .
.: , . , . """""i"!" nw the second door after him. there
cuttings I deemed to be n some Dart n K '. , L l"rr"
. . an l hemr rtn men then sr tlil vnrk T n
explanation of these sketches, for one ofl
i . ,ii . t . i i ,
them gave a description of a very note- k f . l 1 y V".
worth, battleship, constructed T for" B "l'"""- J' '"I', Tv".'
South American republic, bu? In much ,T wmV"b ? w"hP 1 "
., mucn beheld a great, well-armed cruiser, whose
All thia reading remained enigmatical 7'" k ' ,With J"''firln, r'n"'
. . ru,"ln"cai, i whose lines showed nove tv In everv Inch
i course, inn as i count make noth,ni of .i . .
It to connect It with the event. I have h'il?; M th?D
narrated. I went on to th. writing, which ZTi h V T'T1
was fine and small th. -,lt!n. Zi hi h 1 hnJ ,een ,rom ,h nlII- The
waa nne and sma 1. aa the writing of an ..ni. .... k...i. .v.. .
exact man. And the worda onon the
head of it were these:
SOME ACCDT'NT OK A NAMELESS
WAUSII1P.
Or lira Cbew, asd lira rvaposc.
TTrt'Mrn for ae ryrt of Mark Strontj, hy
J urns llall, sometime ai friend.
ship, seemingly, waa built of the purest
gold. Thia, of course, I knew could not
be; but as the aun got up and his light
fell on the vessel, I thought that I had
never seen a more glorious sight. She
shone with the refulg-nt beauty of a
thousand mirrors ; every foot of ber deck,
of her turrets, of her upper house ma.le
a ttieen of dazxllng fire; the points of her
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
A V70MA5 AUD HER DEES 3.
EW VOUK woiuhu bus been talking with a
yf 1 w.rter alwut her clotlwa. She says slie
I t(WUiU laiO.UK) a year on them, and consld-
1 .r that she Is not extravagant "There Is
po end," she added, "to the amount I could
qieiid. If I wished to do so. I think I am
...r moderate."
Leaving asU tnu 1e,,tlon ' '"In0". un" t ,n,,t
one hundred a 7' or on every tllle or four
days. In nddltl"" to her house dresses. Then she has to
ttend to the purchase of shoes, stockings, rlblons, hand
kerchief hat veils, gloves and the other things that
Uinke up a woman's wardrobe, to say nothing of furs and
clothing for out of doors. As there are only three hun
dred and sixty Ave days In a year, It la apparent that
he must give up her whole time to dress.
What can life I worth to a woman of this sortT What
Mom Is therein It for Intellectual exercise, for learning,
for emotional excitation, for pleasure? When does she
get time to thUit ? She must be an automaton, shifting
her clothes continually. Ioes It not seem astonishing
thut a human being, gifted orlglnaly with a brain, sent
Into this world between two eternities, staying here but
a moment, can waste ber existence In this empty fash
ion, thinking only of her little vanity, devoting all her
time to decking ou uer 'y' ,ut'u creature Is as
low In the sc!e of real existence as an amoeba, wriggling
feebly In the sea. Iudlanapolls Hun. .
THE DISCONTENT OF THE EICH.
HE rich are constantly trying to get away
T" I from themselves. The poor man may want
I I to do this, but for obvious reasons ho and
m I i,i,,,if must remntn on terms, and If he la
merely oor ln pocket, and not lu mind and
resource, he will find that he can be rather
pleasant and profitable company, for htm-
elf. At all events, he has employments and duties and
resiwnslbllltles, and It Is the want of these that makes
the rich uneasy. Man Is a working animal, and If for
tune or accident deprives hltn of the power to work he
degenerates. It Is the hardship of finding substitutes for
work that keeps the rich so busy and so sad. They travel,
they dance, they eat, Uiey ride, they surround themselves
with others who travel, dance, eat and ride, they make
of dressing aa employment, and of dining a religion, but
through It all there Is a more or less clear realization of
the futility of It all, and pleasure becomes unpleasant
when It Is repeated constantly. The man who Inherits
riches never whistles at his business of pleasure. The
farmer, hoeing potatoes In the sun, can afford to whistle,
for he Is doing his little best for the world, aud Is living
to a purpose. Brooklyn Eagle.
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DOES A TICKET IMPLY A SEAT
A a railroad legally under contract with the
purchaser of a ticket between any two sta
tions along Its line to furnish the traveler
a soot? This old question was raised again
the other night on the New Haven road by
the refusal of ex-Governor Chamberlain and
two companions to give up their tickets be
cause no seiits were furnished them. The officials of the
road have now given out what Is called an opinion to
the effect that "a common carrier of passengers Is bound
to fumle-U. resonnblo accommodations for the average
number of passengers carried by It A passenger has a
right to a s-ft In a train, but he has not a right to a seat
In any particular train." Tbe "opinion" goes on to state
that if the psssenger Insists on having a aeat he must
wait until a train comes along with one vacant
This opining seems open to criticism. In the first place
the purpose of the iaseuger trains of a railway la to
carry (arsons from point to jiolut as rapidly as possible.
Secondly, the time table amounts to au advertisement
that at certain times trains may be taken at New York,
for Instance, for 1 low ton, and the company virtually en
ters Into a contract with the purchaser of a flrsU'lasa
ticket to furnish him on the next train with the ordinary
first-clans railway accommodations of such a Journey,
unless, of course, the traiu be advertised as a limited
one.
That a railway la at liberty, If It so chooses, to hold
up such ticket holders for a week because he refuses to
stand up on the Journey between New York and lioston,
which would be the logical conclusion If the contention
of the New Haven olllelaU were sustained, U plainly
absurd. New York Globe.
THE MISMANAGED POSTOFFICE DEPAETMENT.
HE I'ostoffice Iitiartnitnt Is lit nun ttl ! K
T - - "w Htmsjtl n IIM
I reckless extravagance, such as would not be
I tolerated for a single day by private enter-
juifw. ii inrnn auveruBiiig matter in euor
mous quantities at a great loss, at the re
quest of a powerful lobby, and charges the
people twice as much as Is actually neces
sary for the transportation of letters. It Is robbed un
mercifully by the railroads. It has bad nine postmasters
general within the past twenty years, none of them ex
Ierleneed ln the work and many of them absolutely In
capable of transacting the department's business. The
department, as a whole Is preposterously mismanaged.
And yet public opinion would not consent to allowing
the department to be conducted by Individuals, however
costly and Inefficient conduct by politicians may be. The
business of transporting the jieople's eorespondenee may
not be Intrusted to Individuals, but must be retained by
the people's government This may be only sentiment
but It Is powerful and will persist There Is no reason
to object to private ownership of means of letter trans
portation any more than there Is to private ownership
of railways or express companies. Hut belief that gov
ernment should care for the letters of citizens Is so firmly
established that It will never be overthrown. Time will
remedy the abuses In the rostofflee Department In the
meantime Uncle Sam Is rich enough to afford the annual
deficit Chicago Journal.
WOMEN, MEN AND FOOD.
HATEVEIt woman mar be in her hours r.f
Al niw Perhaps uncertain, coy and hard to
I please whenever the world goes wrong and
uuuuiv umifei, vim nuii.o iiju uoiue, 11 IS
she, nine times out of ten, who looks into
the fuce of the future most severely.
Mara iwain, in nis auiotnograpiiy now in
course of publication, pays this tribute to his wife, who
died several years ago ln Florence: "She was always
cheerful, and she was always able to communicate her
cheerfulness to others. During the nine years that we
spent In poverty and debt, she was always able to rea
son me out of my despairs and find a bright side to the
clouds, and make me see It In all that time I never
knew her to utter a word of regret concerning our al
tered circumstances, nor did I ever know her children to
do the like. For she had taught them, and they drew
their fortitude from her."
Too uiuny men get dlscouroged too easily. They should
learn a lesson from the women. When business goes to
the bad grin, and the quicker will fortune lie retrieved.
There Is no better medicine for shattered health than
a sunny spirit The discouraged man Is beaten before
tbe battle begins; the cheerful man always has a fight
ing chance. Boston Globe.
From that place the etory , in great drck lights were aa beamns. all lurid and
.art autobiographical. It was. ., yu , ,ld. So marvellous, truly, was her as-
,... ......... ..,.,. ,,! . Inn peer, that 1 forgot all eUe but It. and
inhere n his dreaming, f he did dream; siood entranced, marwlling. forgetful of
logical I In his madness. If he were mad. myself and purpose. The fl,h of S knift
And this was hi. story a. first I read It : In the air brought m. to my sense, to
-I waa born In Liverpool thirty-three know that I was in the grasp of th. man
years ago. and waa educated for a few 'Koaring John '
year, at the well known Institute In that A bad mishap befell me. The best of
city. They taught me there that eon- my disuse waa the thick, bushy black
ciousnes. of loran which I. half an hair I wore about my face. As the ruffian
education: and being the son of a man went to take a firmer hold of my collar.
Vho starve, on a fine ability for model- he pled i,J? p,)r,lrtn o( m jj, m
ling things In clay, and plaster moulding, left my chin clean shaven beneath aa nt.
1 went out presently to make m, living. lt w. , , J"'f
J irst to America, to get the experience this discovery seemed to hit him like a
of coming home again; then to the tape, blow. IU stepped back with a murderous
to watch other men dig diamonds; to nll ty , , tH v. "
Home, to Naples, to Genoa, that I might and, turning on my heel I fled with .11
know what it was to want food ; to South ,h. speed I posseJLl. ,BJ t"n"
America aa an able aman ; to Australia stre with twenty ruffians at my heels!
In the atoke-bole of a South Sea liner; and a hue and cry such .! I VTpe l7,
tiot,u again to my poor father, who lay to hear again.
dead when I reached Liverpool. "The escape was clever I reached
"I was twenty-two yeara old then, and hotel. I wa. .,lr, that 'y i oi Til
Jutted ml life. V what chance it was hope of warning to the y.rd;ind wUt
The "Maklnaj-l p" Process.
"Making up" always excites the cu
riosity ot the matinee girl, and she
wonders how It Is done. While the au
uience is gauieruig downstairs and
looking over the program, the actors
ore scattered throughout their dress
ing rooms going through the mysterious
process by which they shake off the
attributes of children of eurth aud be
come the dazzling, the Intangible spirit
folk or the genii land.
The first part of the process, suppos
ing you are a young woman, necessl
tates the removal of your outer gar
nients, and the donning of saeque or
kimono; then the binding of your hair
tightly away from your face, and an
application of cold cream to your fea
tures. It Is ImiHisslble for anyone to
be even passably good looking at this
stage. There are various rules about
the application of make-up to narrow
and broad-faced persons, low and hlgh
foreheaded ones, which I should not
attempt to go Into even If I knew
them. Hut the general Idea Is to put
the "red" on after the cold cream, blend
it In with the hare's foot ami then nut
cn the powder. I forget whether you
"do" your eyes before or after this; at
any rate, when you do thut you make
various lines and shadows and make
an effort to 1 as beautiful as possible
There are Infinite little touches of the
blue and white and red by which the
make-up artist can prod,,,, any efTect
she wishes upon her face. To quote
one of the actresses, "making
really painting a picture on your face "
- -The Housekeeper.
Years sgo the French government e
fered ,(.) franc, Xo
one who would give a remedy for
Phylloxera but the prize ha. neler
no remedy ha
been discovered. It Is en. t
wh th, r-t w.thVVToUrv;
butjhat .am, klII. W;
A REAL TRILBY.
Girl's Marveloss Voice Ilrongbt Out
by Hrpnollsm.
Miss Edna Murray, of Texas and
New York, Is a Trilby In real life.
Until a year and a half ago she could
not sing with any
particular distinc
tion, but now her
voice a basso
profundo of ex
traordinary range,
power and timbre
4'-l aaid to have
f 'll i ol,!' inJ v-ijua.
'.' on the operatic stage
miss Murray, today.
Eighteen months ago In Texas Miss
Murray listened l'u Br'nt enthusiasm
to the singing of a solo by a sluger of
talent, a buss voice. Until that mo
ment she could not sing. While still
under the Influence of the emotional
excitement of the song Miss Murray
turned to the shipr and said:
"1 believe I could sing that song."
Tll, Khi asked that the accompani
ment be played, aJ to the utter as
tonishment of those present she sang
the sung with an Imitation of the bass
"lce so marvelous as regards Its vol
ume, ranee mid timbre that those pres
ent could scarcely credit their senses.
The following day Miss Murray, who
was as mix h mystified as anyone, was
amazed to find the vo," newly ac
quired ami so astonishing to everyone
as powerful and beautiful as ever. She
consulted vocalists, first In St Louis
and next In New York, and received
considerable trslnlna: and , now her
'nglng Is almost perfection.
Her case is n extraordinary one
and Ir. Custave Gy't of New York,
a noted hypnotist, explains It by hyp
rmtle suggiwtion. He believes that
Miss Murray at the time she listened
to the aonjj nie self-hypnotized
an entirely possible occurrence, he
says, Wbllo In thi hypnotic condi
tion, si'lf.i,,,, she willed that she
honhl in(? ()nM m other words. Miss
Murray artl1l",iy the Trilby of the
tory book. ttItlio?h 11 ,,M h,r
K'lf wh0 created ttf hypnotic sugges
tion this cxtrnorJlnary Tol'''-
METALLIC LADDER.
'ell rirmer Climb
Tbs a Leader.
nly those who hnT baii tno
IxTieno. 0e K()lt up or down a rot
ladder kow trying It Is. It
would be almost lnil"'sIlle tor any
nprvous person to attempt It without
falling. iu.ng ,n W(l,l!lt' the
ladder naturally so"1 to nJ fro e""
If the etiJ ' not wr"' to
aomethlng. GencrsW 11 not P"""'"'6
to do this, A j.,dJrr which, theoreti
cally, seems to b f"r "P,'rlor to
r"Pe ladder bss P""'""' bwn Pn,ent
l r Urooklvn tnc hanlc. The ao
eupaof!ng illutr,loa c,carI
LADDER IX SECTIONS.
Its construction. It Is a aerlea of al
ternate hand holds and steps, made out
of wire rods bent to shape. An addi
tional advantage lies In the fact that
this ladder Is made ln sections. At
the top of each section Is a threaded
opening to receive a corresponding
threaded extension at the end of the
section above. In this way the ladder
can lie made any desired length very
quickly.
A Hostler M astral Instrument.
The most gigantic harp ever con
structed, as far as the record goes,
was that made by Verltan, the provost
of Iturkll, near Uascl, Switzerland, In
178". That was a long while ago, but
the fame of M. Verlton's gigantic harp
was such that It Is still occasionally
mentioned by writers ou the rare and
the wonderful. Just aa the sea serpent
bloody rain, live mustodons, etc., are.
M. Verltan'i colossal musical Instru
ment was 320 feet lu length, and, on
that account was constructed ln an
!en lot Instead of In a harp factory.
It was most simple ln construction,
consisting of fifteen wires strung tight
ly between two poles. These wires
were of different sizes, the largest be
ing one-sixth of an Inch In diameter
and the smallest one-twelfth of an
Inch. They were stretched north and
south and Inclined In such a manner
as to form an angle of from twenty
to thirty degrees with the horizon. This
queer Instrument was not Intended as
an exaggerated toy, but was construct,
ed for the express purpose of foretell
ing changes lu the weather, which were
calculated by Professor Verltan ac
cording to the different tones tbe In
strument made when the wind was
blowing through It
No use talking. It Is very hard to feel
Just right towards a friend after you
have heard him praise your enemy.
When a ipular woman Is not pret
ty, her friends say she 1 "Interesting
looking."
DAYLIGHT AHEAD.
The Latest Stac in the Evolution ol
the Electrlo Llabt.
Fireflies are still lu advance of man
kind ln the matter of economical light
producing. The pliosphorescent glow
which they give off is nearly pure light
Very little of the euergy Is wasted lu
heat while lu the case of the lighting
devised by man more power Is used
up In producing heat, which is usual
ly not wanted, than la converted into
visible light
The nearest we have yet como to
following the fireflies is the mercury
vajHir light developed by American In
vetitors, which, In the form of long,
glowing tuU-s, has been seen in our
shop windows as advertisements for
two years or more.
They produce more light nt less cost
than any other practical method of il
lumination, and would be extensively
used if It were not for the color of the
light. It contains no red rnys, but Is
strongest In the violet end of the nte
trum, extending fur beyond tho limits
of visibility In that direction und in
cluding an abundance of rays that we
can photograph, but cannot soe.
This mercury glow light has made
the "while you wait photography" of
the pleasure parks a iKisslblllty, but
lt Is too ghastly for common use. It
will turn a parlor Into a morgue or a
seance room.
Hut recently It Is reported that Ger
man chemists have overcome tills dif
ficulty by putting Into the electrodes
other metals besides mercury, thus
changing the character of the light
and making lt approach the llgt of
common day.
Zinc with 10 per cent of bismuth and
a trace of sodium Is used for this pur
jHse. If this proves practical we shall
have our houwa cheaply lighted by
softly glowing tulies arranged In all
sorts of artistic design on the walls
and ceilings. Instead of one or more
points of light too bright to look at di
rectly. Oot What Was fnmlnaj.
"I wish you'd wrlt ttit. i,...
muT over
and correct the selllng." anld the offl.
clous man w ho had neglected to pny his
stenographer for three weeks."
That's the l.et I ran do for the
money I get" ahe replied. Lm roll
Free Tress,
LESS THAN HALF MAGYARS.
This Hare, llawetvr, I. Ilsnlsssl In
llnngarlan liuvrramrnt.
Hungary Is too often regarded as a
national state like France or Germany.
In reality it Is one of the most poly
glot state In existence and tts great
est of Its kings took as his motto:
"I'ulus linguae regnuiu linbecllle et
fragile est" Out of a population of
11),OUO,(jO only 4.") per cent are Mag
yars, and even that proportion Includes)
a large Jewish element aud the con
verts of all the other ra-es. Croatia,
whose autonomous parliament supplies
an eloquent proof of the jhtII of home
rule, atx-unts for slightly over 2.iV
(ssi. Tlie remainder is comiosed in
round uumbers of "..ix. Merman,
2,0ti0,0tMj Slovaks, 3,xUs0 Kouma
illume. 000,i0 Kerbo-Crout, -PHM)
Kuthene and a number of smaller ru
tial units with which we need not con
fuse the issue. Hut while in numbers
Magyar and non-Magyar are almost
equally balanced, Magy ar Is, of course,
the state language, the language of ttio
tviitral parliament and the county as
semblies, of Justice aud administration,
of state and schools and Itoman Cath
olic seminaries.
Though 40 per cent of the population
cannot si?uk lt. Its knowledge Is a
necessary qualification for all adminis
trative and ollhial ststs, frotu the heud
of a department to a railway isirter,
and In districts where the non-Magyars
form H5 iH-r cent or more the busi
ness of tbe local court Is conducted
lu the dominant tongue. State educa
tion I exclusively Magyar, though this
Is not ln accordant with the funda
mental laws of lNCS, and even the sub
sidies grafted to uon-Magyar confes
sional schools have control and Mag
yarlzatlon as their ulterior alms. Tho
county assemblies are still semlfeudal
In their mode of election, which is so
contrived as to secure a ertnanent
majority for the noble and the towns
In other words, for the two chief
Magyar element.
Thus the Magyars and those who
profes themselves as Magyars (their
lungunge, be It observed. Is incapable
of the all-Important distinction be
tween "Magyar" and "Hungarian")
have a complete monopoly In almost
every branch of public life, and thi
monopoly, coupled with the vagueness
of the press law and the absence of
the free right of assembly and associa
tion, affords some scope for tho oppres
sion of those' who cling to their nation
ality. London Spectator.
X OLD-TIME PUNISHMENTS.
letter Than SfMhla-.
1 sntitMisn von ara oln.f -
- ' io nave es
caped all notoriety ln connection with
these financial exposures?"
"I dunno, answered Mr. Cumrox
"sometimes I think mother and the
girls would rather see my name In the
nnrvp thnt war than -.
' - - - ' w a i all.
When a friend expresses a dlsitk.
some one, either agree with him or
keen still. Don't be Irritating . i.
. m ,j J
aiming that the other follow baa Qua
point.
To punish a child ln such a way that
It will see the direct connection! be
tween the correction and the fault Is
one of the precepts of modern educa
tion. The Judge of the eighteenth cen
tury was not worried by such psycho
logical theories, but his di-clslotis often
bad the grim humor of fitness. What
cc.tild be better for the scold than n
cooling plunge, or for the wlfe-Iieiiter,
than a few lashes on his owu back?
Alice Morse Earle instances. In a book;
on "1'uulshtnents of Itygone Days,'
some of these picturesque but ofteu
cruel sentences of the colonial court
A number of tender-handed Knglish
gallant Joined a pioneer expedition to
Virginia. The weather was cold and
the work hard. When these soft-nius-cled
young men were set at chopping
trees their hands were sorely blistered
by the ax-helves. With the cries of pain
many oaths were heard. The president
of the company sc-nn put a stop to this
swearing by ordering a can of cold
water to be iniured down the sleeve of
the guilty one at every oath he uttered.
In colonial days hog-stealing wa
considered one of the most serlaus of
crime. At the first offense' the thief's
ears were slit, at the second his ears
were nailed to a pillory, and at the
third he suffered deuth "without bene
fit of clergy."
Deceitful bakers and careless fiah
dealers had to "loose their ears," while
he who spoke detracting words hud Uis
tongue bored by a bc.dkin.
A Frenchman, traveling In Anierlct
In lf, describes the ducking stool as a
"pleasant mode" of punishing a scold
ing woman. He says:
"Of members, ye tonge Is worst cr
beste. An yll tonge oft doth brcede un
reste worth a ducking stoole."
In lh!o Thomas Hartley c.f Virginia
wrote of his witnessing the execution
of a ducking-stool sentence:
"Day Is-fore yesterday, at two of ye
Clock. I saw this punishment given U
one Hetsey Walker, who. by ye violent
of her tonge made her house and her
neighborhood uncomfortable. They had
a machine for ye purpose j t belongs to
ye I'arlsh. It has already Im-cu used
three time this Hummer. Ye Woman
was allowed to go under ye water for
ye space of minute. Betsey had a
stout sUAnaehe and would not yield tin
Itl she had been under five times. Then
she cried plteously. Then they drew
back ye Machine, untied ye Hopes and
let 1t walk home a hopefully s?nltent
wojnan."
It seems strange to read that almost
within the memory of is-rsotis still liv
ing Mrs. Anne Uoynl was sentenced In
Washington, District of Columbia, t-
be ducked for writing TltuiHTatlns
books. She terrorized the town by ed
iting a "Paul Try" paiier. F.ven John
Qulncy Adams pronunced her a virago.
and she was arraigned as a co;iiiiioii
"cold. Mrs. Hoy a I was sentenced to Is
ducked In the Potomac, but wns after
wards released on paying a fine.
A Conservative Position.
An applicant for the iost of mistress)
ln a country scIkmiI was asked, says
writer In the Rural World, what her
position was with regard to the whip
ping of children.
Hiss replied, "My usual position Is ort
a choir with the child held firmly
across my knees, face downward"
Ion't worry alsiut being smart The
people you agree with will think yotl
are smart no matter how stupid you
are, and tlssse you do not agree with)
think you are dumb, no matter how
brilliant you may tie.
Nobody knows much, but everybody
should know enough not to go to law.