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THE IRON PIRATE
A Pain To of Strange
Happenings on 1he Sea
By MAX PEMBERTOJf
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CHAITEB XX
It wn later tht Captain Black. Doctor
Oahart and myself entered the 7 :) tram
from Itanisgate: lesving tha screw tender,
Dow dirguised, with tha man John and
ifht of th moat turbulent among tn
crew of tha nameless ahlp aboard ber. We
bad coin without hindrance through the
crowded wafer of tha Channel ; and, atyl
In ourselvee Norwegian whaler In bal
laat, had gained tha difficult harbor with
out arousing uaicion. At tha first.
Black bad thought to leav tna on tha
steamer; but I gave him solemn word tftat
I would not seek to quit him, that I would
not In any way betray hltn whila the true
lasted, and that I would return, wherever
I waa, to tha tender In tha harbor at tna
nd of a week
I will not pauaa to tell yon my own
thoughts when I set foot on adore again.
I could not help but carry my memory to
tha laat occssion when, with Iloderlcg ana
Mary, I had coma to London In the very
hope of getting tidinga of thle man who
now aat with me in a Kent Coaat express.
Where were the othera then the girl
who bad been aa a sister to me, and the
man aa a brother; how far had the fear
of my death made aad that childlah fax
which bad known such little aadneaa In lt
aiiteen reara of life? It waa odd to think
that Mary might be then returned to Lon
don, and that I. whom perchance an
thought Head, wai near to her, and yet,
In a aenae, more cut off from her than In
the crave Itself.
It waa after 10 o'clock that the ride
terminated, and. following Black and Os
bart Into a cloaed carriage, I waa driven
from the atation. We drove for fifteen
minutes, ataylng at laat before a bou
In a narrow atreet. where we went up-
etalra to a auife of rootna reserved for us
After an excellent suwer Oabart left ua
but niack took me to a double-bedded
room, eaylng that he could not let me out
of h i iicht.
"Hy. If y make one attempt to play
me false," aaid be, "I'll blow your Drama
out."
On the next morning Black quitted the
bonne at an early hour after breakfast,
but he locked the door of the room upon
bart and myself. "Not," aa he a Id,
"became I can't take your word, but be
eaune I don't want anyone fooling In
here." He returned In the evening at 7
o'clock, and found me aa be bad left ma,
reading a novel.
Th following day waa Thursday, I
ahall alwuys remember It, for I regard
It as one of the moat memorable daya In
my life. Black went out aa uaual early
In tha morning: hia object being, aa on
the preceding day, to find out, if he could,
what the Admiralty were doing In view of
the robbery of the Bellonic We had been
left thua about th apace of an hour when
there came a telegram for the doctor, who
read It with a fierce exclnmatton.
The captain wanta me urgently," walo
be, "and thi-re'a Dnthing to do but to leave
you here. You must put up with the In
dignity of being locked In. Th maa who
owna thin house la one of na."
When he waa gone I aat la fa great
armchair, pulling It to the window, and
taking up my book. I could hear the bum
of town, the rumbling of bosee, and th
uhdiied roar of Ixindon awake. I could
even aee people In the bouaea at tS other
aide of th lead, and It occurred to me.
What If I open that casement and call
for help? I had given a pledge, H I true;
but ahould a pledge bind under aura con
ditions? I wai In the very throe of a mental
struggle when the atrange event of the
CHAPTER XXI.
We drove rapidly and took a train t-rr
Tilbury. The Journey waa accomplUhed
In aomethlng under an hour: and when
w alighted and got upon tb bank or
the river. I aaw a ateam launch with the
man John In the bow of her. I entered
the launch and we atarted Immediately,
going at a great pace towarda Sheet-new;
and reached the Nore after m bulTet
with the eeaa In th open. At thi point
w algbted th tender, and went aboard
her. when we made full speed towarda the
North Foreland.
Black bad made a colossal mistake,
from hia nolnt of view. In setting foot in
Fnrlaiut hu the crown nc blunder or ni
life waa that fatal act of folly tT wnicn
he had aought to shield m from the men
Now the object of letting Black reach ni
vessel aealn waa aa clear aa uajnu. ,
waa not so much th man aa hia ahlp
which they wished to take.
But were we followed? I bad seen
nothing to lead me to that conclusion aa
I came down the Thames; and now, la
vored by an Intensely dark night, we
oromlsed. If nothing should Intervene, to
gain the Atlantic In two daya, and to ne
aboard that atrange citadel which waa our
stronghold aialnat the nations. There
waa no sign of any warship pursuing: no
Indication whatever that the tender, tben
teaming at thirteen knots towards Dover,
was watched or observed by any living
being.
I waa dead worn out and slept twelve
hours at the leaat. for It waa afternoon
when I awoke. Black waa not In the
cabin, and I went above to him on the
bridge. There was no land then to be
seen ; but the clear play of sparkling
wavea ahone away to the horlaon over a
tumbling sea, npon which were a few
shipa. t'pon one of these be constantly
turned bis glaaa,
By and by all the crew began to ob
serve Black's anxiety and to crowd to the
starboard side: but he told them noth-
ng, although be never left the bridge. It
waa somewhat perplexing to me to ob
serve that, while the great ahlp waa un
doubtedly following ua, aba did not gala
a yard upon ua.
This strange pursuit lasted three daya
and Into the third night: when I was
awakened from a snatch of sleep by th
firing of a gun above my head. I got on
deck, where my eyes were almost blinded
by a great Tolurae of light which spread
over the from a point some two mile
away on our starboard bow. We had been
the Atlantic tben for twenty-four
tower, iuen, - . . h ,
, .wept the bori.,- Ub or lirht. J;.
this time, isr mj ,
.l- -i I answered.
or water, me ' . ,
t- ..i.i it -k. quit calav
ly. .ben I told him. "and this tiui a bat
Ifeahlp. Well boy. If -. don't take that
oil yonder in ten minutes
your prayere.
"ii i pri-n XXII.
.m Kniinded forward la
me Piran 'K rds
to the night, and soon waa Bat fifty J""
, v.. .,.rnnL Never nave? l
away irow .
known anything akin to the .- wh
bullet, ran, npm our deck. In
and the dead and the living In the other
-Li- i. .ther. In a seething,
.U.K -
struggling, moaning mass.
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects
In
hours, and I did not doubt for a moment
that we hud reached the nameless ship.
Had there been any uncertainty, the wild
Joy of the men would have banished It
I beard the voice of Black ainglng,
"Ilanda, stand by to lower boats I" At
that moment the cruiser showed her teeth.
Suddenly tbere waa a rnah of flame from
aer bows, and a shell biased above ns -
th first sign of her attempt to stop n.
Joining our own sblp.
were no more than a Quarter of a
mile from safety, but the run waa full of
peril, and, as the launch stood out, the
nameless ship of a midden shut off hep
light, If possible to shield us In the dark.
Hut the pursuer Instantly flooded ua with
ber own arc, and. following It with quick
shots, she hit the Jolly-boat at the third.
Of the eight men there, only two rose
when tb bull had diaappeared. .
Fire away!" cried Black, ehnklne his
fist, and mad with passion ; "and get your
bands In ; you'll want all th bark you've
got Just now."
But w had hauled th men aboard a
day happened. I chanced to look a from I he spoke, and. though two shells foamed
the book I had been trying to read, and
I saw a remarkable object upon fbe leads
outside my window. It waa the figure of
a man, looking Into my room: and
ently, when he had given me Innumerable
noda and winks, he took a knife from hli
pocket, and opened the catch, stepping
Into the chamber with the nimble foot of
a goat upon a crag path. Then he drew
a chair up to mine, alapped m npon tb
knee and aald :
In the sea and wetted us to the skin In
th passage, w were at the ladder of the
nameless ship without other harm. nrf
Ith fierce shouts the men gained the
decks.
ty
Strong. In the first place I have wired
to your friend, Mr. Roderick Stewart,
and I expect bim from Portsmouth la a
couple of hours ; In the second, yonr other
friend, the doctor. Is under lock and key,
on the trifling charge of murder la th
Allilianiia, 10 negin wun. warn we bavs
Captain Black, the little parly will be
complete."
I looked at him, voiceless from the sar
prise of it, and he went on :
"I needn t tell you who I ami but
there's my card. We have six men In the
atreet outside, and another half doaen
watching the leads here. Tou will be
W bad open
ed fire own ber before eucn i u"
.,1.1 k. mnmrA had lot belOW
"Let 'em digest that !" cried Black, aa
he watched the havoc.
I who had not ceased to watcn m
diatant light which marked another war-
,h. Wi.nn knew tna "
light had shone out aa a etar away over
the sea : and now. when I looked again.
I saw a third light. W were being sur
rounded. The searchlight, of tha di.tant
ships were clearer to my "tow every mo
ment. Black aaw them, ana ioo
.V.. .!
"Boy" he said, "you should bar told
me of thla. I see three light, and that
"Are yon going to rnn for It?" I asked.
n.i f,e It. with two engine. ye
hnt it's a noor business. And we'll bar
tn fleht!"
I aaw tb foremost Ironclad but two
mllea away from us, and the othera were
sweeping round to cut as otr it we si
temnted fllahL W lay with but two
.iiu. tKii-kln and a ineed of sixteen
knot, at th best. Nor did we know from
minute to minute when another engine
would break down. At that moment there
came a horrible Bound of grating and
tearing from the engine room, and It waa
succeeded by a moment or oeaa naa cnui
lng silence.
"Tki asM-id enelne'a gone F aald
man abov. ai'K-f calmly.
We found the crew sullen and mutter-
ln. but Frledrlch. the englneer'a eldewt
son, aat at th top of th engine room lad
der, and tea re rolled down hia race. ID
great ahlo .till trembled nnder th shock
of the breakdown and waa not showing
ten knots, Th foremost Ironclad crept
np minute by minute: and before we had
realised the whole extent of the mishap,
she waa within gunshot of ua: bat her
colleagues were some mllea away, aha out
pacing them all through It
She algnal. to o. to let her com
aboard." aaid "Four-Eyea."
"Answer that we'll aee In chlpa first,"
aald Black, and he called for Karl and
made signs to him.
Tboe on the battleship mad quite sure
of us now, for they steamed on and cam
within three hundred yards of us. Black
watched them aa a beast watches the un
suspecting prey. He stood, hia face knit
In savage lines, hia band upon the bell.
I looked from the glaaa, and aaw that no
man waa visible upon our deck a, that our
englnea bad ceased to move. W were
motionless. Then in a second the bells
rang out There was again that frightful
grating and tearing In the eng ne room.
The nameless ship came round to ber
helm w
and plunged In the seact ene turned hsr
ram atraight at the other; and, groaning
aa a great stricken wounded beast, she
roared onward to the voyage of death. I
knew then the fearful truth ; Black meant
to alnk the cruiser with hia ram. I ahall
never forget that moment of terror, that
grinding of heated steel, that plunge Into
the seat. I waited for the crash, and In
the suspense hours seemed to pass. A
last there waa nnder tha sea a mighty clap
of submarine thunder. Dashed headlong
from my poet, I lay bruised and wounded
upon the floor of ateel. Tha roof abov
m rocked; the walla shook and were
bent; my ear rang with the deafening
roar in them; aeaa of foam mounted;
shrieks and th sound of awful rending
and tearing drowned other about, of men
going to their death. And through all
waa the hysterical yelling of Black, hi
defiance, his elation.
(To be continued.)
m
ssae
vajishisq fobests.
the rw'lle Northwest, nearly two hundred
"th .Ind " 'Pty'J la cu,tlnit ,loWn
thl tat primeval forenta of thla country
.7i Jk-lni tbeea stately armies of apruce
, t, and cedar Into 5.0K),0K,MH) feet of
hl'iubrr nd 6.0U0.UOO.0UO ahlng-lee every
Thla tlmlJLJ .! the) richest natural treasure of
the American ,tineut, compared with which the gold
mlnee of Alaugg tad Nevada ara of picayune value for
thla and for c.ii.mg generation.
It U .0 womlerful'y ''' tre"ur tbat- vord,,n to
Rall'U I). Pal,,, in Outing. It owner are atiuttuderlng
It "e drunken .spendthrift. A billion feet of lumber
wasted every yer: enough to build oue uuudred thou
nd comfortable Amerloau home.
It I ctmril(.teri.tle of Western men and methods that
t te way, of , rfBf In the Kast aliould have been flung
.lde aa erud and 'oW- Tb Blunt XXwWt of the ""
Ingtou forests on toe l,,IM of the Ca'aal', ' not liauM
by teauw or rafted down river. Steam ba muile of
logKlng a buNlne which devnatute the wood with In
credible sikhhI sTirteiu and ardor.
The !oKKin ' anil of the Cascade differ a strikingly
from tlie luu.iiering center of northern New England a
the electric gold dredge of the Sacramento Valley con
trast with the plaP digging of the Forty-niner. In
other words thgr'"1' Ile,J of proving the for
hU. the grater I the Amerlcau Ingenuity for turning
thent Into cash 0 faRt a poanlule. New York Sun.
HUNTING THE POLE
I HE unn.pproacbn.ble North role ha been a
nulrtinc about long enougn. 11 una cauaeu
Innumerable chllhlalua, broncbltlaea and dla
anpolutnienta, much popular boredom, and
uot few deutha, to uy nothing of the
financial waate. Nobody get there, for
hv the time a fellow come within some
thing like 2(H) vile of It the hardship tins turned him
Into another sort of mun the sort that renlg. Thla
may go on indefinitely, unle we find a way to cut It
hort, and that I not eaay.
It lini recently been uggeted that If someone should
absent himself for a while and then come buck and
say he had climbed the pole, the agony would abate. I
don't believe It Science would overhaul his tint a and
find lacunae In It. The search for the pole would be
renewed. Or If science believed him, frenh expeditions
would set out to verify his findings and enlarge their
Scope. Thus we ee wily Amu- ryiin-in uuii 1 iw, wuj
they one and all confess their failure; film would not
do a bit of good, whether swallowed or not
But don't Imagine that Its scieutme enthuHiaam
alone that lure men to brave the Polar lee. A genial
my
Maeceua finance the venture, and when you get home
you can write fia.iajo book and go on a IIUO.IM) lec
ture tour. Aa your Arctic experleuce baa flttwl you to
live 011 shoe atrlng and caudle ends, this mean wealth.
Financially, jKle hunting Is bound to become more and
more attractive. Wireless telegraphy will soon jernilt
an explorer to flash home halr-llfttng dlMpatches at the
rate of $"0 syllable. Boston Trauacrlpt
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THE SIMPLIFIED SPELLERS.
V Congress thought to discourage that band
of patrlota known as the simplified spellers
by refusing to adopt simplified spelling It Is
going to be dUupixilnted. The simplified
siH'ller are not In the leust cast down. Dr.
Funk, author of "The Widow's Mite" aud
chalrmnn of the committee of spellers, says
hU committee never asked the government or the Presi
dent to adopt the new plan, and now tbat the govern
ment has snubbed the President aud refused to adopt
It the situation remains exuetly what It was before.
Them simplified fellows can't apell themselves and It
grieves them to know that anybody can do so. They
pretend to like a new code of spelling, but that Is only
a bluff. What they are trying to do Is to make good
speller abandon their ways and thus bring about a
state of anarchy; then they will get up and claim to be
as good spellers as anybody. It does not seem likely
that they will succeed, (iood spellers are naturally proud
of their accomplishment and we do not think any of them
will be bamboozled Into abandoning It for the benefit
of any person who has difficulty In spelling well. Kan
sas City World.
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ANOMALIES OF PROSPERITY.
ATUKAL prosperity continues to show that
It entails certain penalties aa well as pleas
ures. The very force of the swelling tide
tends to react upon Itself. Thus business
activity la ao great that money command
high prices. It Is not only the stock gam
blers who suffer. Legitimate enterprise, are
baited by the difficulty of financing them. It Is well
known tbat the published rates for money do not by
any meana tell the story. Money, like any other com
modity, Is worth what It will bring, and neither lender
nor borrower Is likely to tHke the public Into confidence
Into transactions far above the normal rate. The scarcity
of money Is one disagreeable phase of prosperity; the
great enterprises are hampered and scarcity of labor Is
another. Here, too, great enterprises are hampered and
delayed by the circumstance that men are not to be bud
to do the manual luUir. They cannot be secured even
by offering extravagantly high wages. Tliere are simply
not enough men In the country to do the work of the coun
try. The tide reacts ujton Itself again. Chicago
Chronicle.
GETTIN
ror them It wa a glorlou.
ThjF bad wath.?rd th perils of a city
sou sfoou wnere mey eouu best face the
crisis of the pursuit. It waa a spectacle
to move th most stolid apathy; the alght
of a counts ni hi.nitrMl if.mni.Lu I a
"In the name of the law! 1 take roe u,nted by the great whit, wave of light
surprise; but business, Mr. Mark from the enemy'e ship, their faces un
turned as they waited Black'a order.
tbelr hands flourishing knives and cut
lasses, their hunger for the contest be
trayed in every gesture.
Boys," cried Black, "yonder'a a m..
srnment ship. Tou know me. that I don't
run after war scum every day. for that'a
not my bunlne. But we're ab--rt of oil,
and th cylinders ar heating. Boys, It's
swing or tak that ship and th oil aboard
ber."
"Look out aft the torpedo!"
A tiny line of foam was luat el.Ihl.
for a second In the way of the light ; but
the moment the milu. k.j i '
eensihl. enough to follow my Instruction. hef tub,, ,h, tlnrillhw, w
absolutely Bl.ck we know, leave, the ,n, Ui t0 llght th, w ,
country to-night In hi. stesmer. Th Th. ... J;-.. .. . . .
- - uiun-uuj woaiever in fol
lowing the line of the deadly message.
uu speed, astern r roared Black, and
the nameless ship moved bark wards, fast
er and yet taster. But the black death
bearer followed ber, as a shark follow a
death ship ; we seemed even to have back
ed into Its coupee It came on aa thnneh
to etrike us full amidships, but the great
ship swung round with a majestic sweep,
and as we waited breathlessly, the torpedo
v ngai under our bow, missing the
uy a nair a breadth.
country to-night In bl. stesmer. The
probability la that be will come to fetch
you at 7 o'clock I have frightened It all
out of the people downstairs If he doe.
you will go with him. Otherwise, he's
pretty sure to send someone for you. and.
aa you St the moment are our sole link be
tween thst unmitigated scoundrel and his
arrest, I ask you to risk one step more,
and return st any rate aa far aa the coaat
that we may follow him for the laat time."
I looked at his card, whereon was the
Inscription, "Detective Inspector King,
. 1 1 . . a v . .
' MahaU-noVonirg; bu, .v." ?J
to hi. tender, for I've el.. " J" . ,uune'- na ""M "me
. - j -"- 1 unr oer rnM v- ju .
What you may do In the meantime Is not
my affair. I suppose be' mad a sens'
tiont
"Sensstlon! There Isn't snother sub
ject tslked of In any house In Rump
but, resd thst; and It's ten thousand In
my pocket, any way !"
IVtectlve-Inspector King went as h
had come, passing noiselessly over th
leads ; but b left me a newspaper, where
in there was column after column con
earning the robbery of the Bellonic. At
laat, tbe police were on the trail of Cap
tain Black ; yet I aaw at once that, lack
lng my help, he would elude them,
It was half past sis when at laat a man
anlocked the door of my room and entered.
He was one of Black', negroes.
"Sar will come qolck." said he, "and
leav. hi. luggage. The master waits."
He gave me ne time for any erplana-
near ner fore gun. Nor did she answer
our firing, but rolled to th swell sppar
ently out of action.
Skipper, are yon going aboard her
nnwr naked the m.n m i t.i
She's done by her looks, and tou-ii .!
no oil If delay. Karl, there, he ian't
as comfortable aa If he were In his bed."
ine little Oennan engineer was very
fr from It. II . imo.t dp,rilt;
when mlnuta by minute hia etork of oil
tea.; ,nd he ran from one to the
other as though we had grease In one
iwketa. and could give It to him. Black
took due notice, but did not lose his calm.
ne esked, turning to the big man.
sue
" word, hail bmm. vi. 1
words had bmm. vi.
v , . - ma up.
when the cm !.,, .f, ran, thun,lere4 out
Sftnost together, and ,.11 .
tlons, but took me by th arm. and. pass- through the eery center of wi nZ u
In, from the house b, a tec door, be cot th. man ot , half m,J
went mtarm w uu-. a am. rm a, r. nave Deen Ct b B awiwt ..J Vu i, .
a cab waited for aa. and we drove .t a-fc -o.'v. ! "Wl blood
.way. but not bofore on. who ood I o. of hh, ood np llkC t7d!S.f
in Pemeu naa naa siigut sigaai I ana during one horrible nM.M ku '
eslled anort.ee caK In him II .t, .T B"m l arms
recognl IX!t Inrpector King, and quivering u toe muletf ht?f. KM
I kaew that we were follewL 1 cond a .uweks X.
me 1 arret
The reglsterin, of the names of new
1th a mighty sweep; she foamed Primary pupils for the coining school
year was in wogress in .New lorn s
largest srlioo7,a representative of
the New Tori? Sun entered. The law
prohibits 1 child from becoming a
wage-earner before reaching the age of
14 years, mi forbids their admission
to the pubic schools before they are 6
years old.. These rules are disliked by
many of tlx East Side parents, and
attempts areoften made to evade that
relating to cliool age by adding to
the years of the youngster when they
are brought 0 the sctioolhoitse. The
teachers are required to explain, over
and over again, that a child who has
Just passed 1 fifth birthday Is not yet
D year old, although the social con
ventions of tbe East Side hold to tbe
contrary.
"How oldr the teacher asks the
mother of 1 tiny girl who la clinging
to her skirt
Conslcenc mil dslre struggle. Fi
nally the mother says, hoarsely, and
It Is nevMan to lenn forward a little
to hear:
"I can't tell a lie. I was born In
Wlen."
Just why birth In the Austrian capi
tal should be put forward in such a
predicament the does not say, and the
traMier, used to weird statements, does
not ask. 8h keeps to the subject at
hand.
"You mean he I not fl yetf
A last ray of hope Is evident In the
forthcoming whlier.
"Not jet, but she will be soon."
The teacher .hakes her head, and
weeping mother end thumb-sucking
child are obliged to neck the kinder
garten, which to the East Slder means
a waste of time end effort. "Mere
pley," they gay, contemptuously. "I
want tbe child to go to school."
Tbe next applicant waa a small boy
who came ilone. Evidently, he had
been well tutored In anemorlxlng what
was thought nio't essential.
"Where do you He, dearr arked
the teacher.
"Sixth."
"tou mean yoo are
"Sixth."
"Are yoo vaccinated?"
"Sixth."
"Born In this country V
"Sixth."
Judgment of no undecided character
descends npon bl unhatted mop of
hair.
"You go home nd get a birth certifi
cate and a vaccination paper before
you come back."
f the next! wh0 WM accompanied
by his grnnduintlicr. the teacher ob
served, "Hut ha certainly look lea
than r."
"Ach!" n1 h, gray-haired grand
mother drew blm forward a If to pro
tect him from some threatened vio
lence. show j.our teeth, Abraham."
The mouth open, disclosing a Jag-fed-edged
crater.
"Fwl hi. seconds."
T grandmother I personified will
Pwr, and the t'her unwillingly ad
tances a finger whlcn "eUpd and
rubbed across tn mouth of the cavern
and then tossed f DO further
In this world f the n,lt
"Don't he lous wltn thoi "eo"
ondaT"
Nertheles tb to,1 n Cnnt
bring better erldcnf the boy' age.
ur cup, fui'iw81 w M Pr111-
H0R8E8 THIRTY FEET TALL
Roamed la Wromli. Sonie Time
Aaro aad Are Now Fossilised.
Out In Wyoming a lot of scientific
grubbers have unearthed the fossil re
mains of a horse thirty feet long and
more than thirty feet high. The grub
bers seem to have pieced the horse to
gether without any comment and they
don't offer a word of Information con
cerning either bl genealogy or bis
track record.
A horse. thirty feet long would ap
pear to be a lot of horse. If he be
longed to the cave man the latter cer
tainly nad his hands full. A horse so
tall that a thirty-foot ladder became
necessary when bla bridle waa to be Dut
on might well be called the pride of the
stable although no ordinary stable
would beglu to aecommmodttte him.
ir the cave man hadn't any ladder
and couldn't borrow one the next best
uung waa to climb a tree. Then try
to imagine him shinning up a tall palm
with the heavy bridle on hia back, only
to And when be attained the right altl-
uu mat ine horse had moved beyond
reach and was peacefully browalng on
tbe tall grass of the Jungle I
ut course, a thirty foot bore .i.t
be expected to cover much more ground
than th ordinary animal of the aame
breed even at a walk. And If hat tr-w-vW
t into hi. bead to work hU way across
to Impede him. Fence would a
before hl.n like stubble .n . .
playful cavort would carry hlm over
"ig lorrenis.
When a thlrty.foot
bit o, white paper ,
? ,re 0181 JuUd clear over
uiu iiw next county.
y.t' !.W" h0Me thirty-footer must
"r u.n a taruer. When h I
neigh the enemy fl ftj u
unreasoning terror. When hJ T
And then think a k- .
uld be expected to follow Th? ?
'ht of thi. prodlSou.
wtatolj wm a wonder T. H
Pity w, know so littu .11. V11
Clereland fi.,",' ' ,bw,t hlm.
ai
eet
I
ed at his christening In Itussla and en
graved wth date and name, was un
swathed from Its wrappings, and tri
umphantly exhibited to the teacher as
evidence In behalf of the claim of the
next applicant. .
Tho teacher takes tbe loving-cup and
admires It generously. It Is a bit bat
tered and shows Its long Journeying".
"How do I know," she says, patting a
tow liend that accompanies, the cup
"that this Is Morltzr
The mother looks at her with the ex
pression of one who wrestles with eras
Ignorance. There Is the cup, and here
I Mori t a. She tries to explain In bro
ken English, but the tencher I fright
fully stupid. She cannot make ber
understand, and Anally goes away to
get a birth certificate.
The various documents brought for
ward and presented to the teachers for
Inspection during registration form a
curious collection. Passports, birth cer
tificates, certificate of vaccination,
written or printed In Yiddish, Russian,
Hebrew, Hungarian, appear among
them. Obviously, the lingual accom
plishments of the teachers of the New
York public schools must be of an un
usual kind.
ONE OF MAN'S LIMITATIONS.
ll
the
Caa Not Be Careless Aboat
War II Wears Ilia Hal.
There are things, It 1 a comfort to
know, which even a man cannot do,
and a man Is supposed to be able to
do almost anything. Now a novelist
may put his heroine' hnt on her head
at any angle he chooses It Is ope of
the few privileges of womanhood and
leave her not a bit less charming or
dignified, but I defy him to put hi
hero' hat at a rowdy angle over bis
ear at a crucial point In bis career
and leave blm still heroic I
The Achilles heel of a man Is his
hat He must guard tbat a he doe
hi reputation, for It Is at once his
strength and weakness. It would hurt
an archbishop and an archbishop
necessarily stands for all that Is good
and great los In the eye of the pub
lic to commit a crime than to wesr
his bat on tbe back of bla sacred head
real back! ami ao exhibit himself
to bla distressed diocese. He may
hare all the known virtues aud many
that are not known, but even an arch
bishop cannot with Impunity defy con
vention. Still. If he Is so Inclined,
why ahould not a great and good man
wear bla bat over bis nose without cre
ating unfavorable comment? The fact
Is be cannot He Is ruled by conven
tion and convention I tbe red tape of
society.
The cast Iron laws of fashion, which
Is only another name for convention,
are such that If the greatest man In
England were to walk with all his ac
customed dignity from the marble arch
to the bank with a trailing peacock'
feather nttnehed to the band of his Im
maculate silk hnt he would be followed
by a mob In two seconds and by the
time he reached Vere street tbe out
raged majesty of the law would take
him Into custody as a suspicious char
acter. Putnam' Monthly.
A Base Libel.
"Yea." aald' Te, "he proposed to
Tie last night"
"Tue Idea 1" exclaimed Jee. "On his
knee, I upposeT"
"Oh, you mean thing I I waa not!
At least not until afterward." Phil
adelphia Presa,
Tbere are always lota of wolves un
til the men engage la a wolf hunt
By his gift of story-telling Mark
Twain lias endeared himself to the
whole American ieople. A pleasant
glimpse of the way In which this gift
wus exercised In his own hoiuu, fur Ills
own children, lie gives lu his autobiog
raphy, published In the North Ameri
can. "Along one side of the library, In the
Hartford home," he snys, "the book
shelves Joined the mantelpiece; In fact,
there were shelves both sides of tho
mantelpiece. On those shelves and on
the mantelpiece stood various orna
ments. At one end of the procession
was a framed oll-palutlng of a cat'
head ; at the other end was the bead of
a beautiful young girl, life-size called
Emmellne, because she looked Just like
that, an Impressionist water-color. Be
tween the pictures there were twelve
or fifteen of the brle-a-brac things al
ready mentioned ; also an oll-palutlng
fy Ellhu Tedder. 'The Young Medusa.'
"Now end then the children required
me to construct a romance, always Im
promptu, not a moment' preparation
permitted, and into that romance I
had to get all that bric-a-brac aud the
three pictures. I had to start always
with tho cat and finish with Emmellne.
I was never allowed the refreshment
of a change, end for end. It was not
permitted to Introduce any bric-a-hrnc
ornament Info the story out of Its place
In the procession. In the course of
time the picture and the brlobrec
showed wear. It was because tlrcy had
so many nnd such tumultuous adven
tures In their romantic cni-eers.
"As roinnncer to the children I had a
hard time even fnr.n the beginning. If
they brought me a picture In a niagn
nine, and required me to build a story
to It, they would cover the rest of the
page with their pudgy hands, to keep
me from stealing an Idea from It The
stories had to come hot from the bat
always.
"Sometimes the children furnished
me a character or two, or dozen, and
required me to start out at once on that
slim basis and deliver those character
up to a vigorous and entertaining llf
of crime. If they heard of a new trade,
or an unfamllnr animal, or anything
like that, I wa pretty sure to have to
deal with It In the next ror.nance.
"Once Clara required me to build a
udden talc out of a plumber and a
'bawgiinstrlctor.'and I had to do It She
didn't know what a boa -constrictor wa
until he developed n the tale. Then she
wa better satisfied with It than ever."
rev He.olallua a aa lie HUldly Ad
bered la aa All Oeraaloaa.
"Tweuty years ago," Mis Harriet
observed, 'I made a rule from which
I have never deviated aluce. It Id
largely to the observance of tbat rule
tbat I attribute my freedom froui wrin
kles aud worry."
Miss Harriet' bearer looked Inter
ested ; one wa very apt to look, inter
ested when Mis Vinton wa talking.
"Wa It an Euiersouluu rul7" Con
stance asked, slyly.
"It was," Mis Harriet returned,
calmly. "I bad to go through a great
deal of unnecessary suffering before I
arrived at my decision; mankind and
especially womankind Ketid a great
deal of life In undergoing unnecessary
suffering, and I waa no exception. But
one day my eye were opened. Since
then I have sternly refused to accept
any gift except flower from any friend
I 1 losses."
Constance and Katharine exchanged
liuoluntury glances; each fuce, al
though amused, revealed a trifle of em
burrasHinent "Of course," Mis Harriet pursued,
"I don't exiect you to take my advice
I've given up expecting anybody to
take advice that' atiotber emancipa
tion; I am merely saying that It Is a
pity to have such a pretty room as this
spoiled by that atrocious vase and the
puper-doll lady In the very extensive
fra-iie."
"Would you nitnd telling us," Kath
arine Inquired, respectfully, "how you
managed your emancipation without
hurting people?"
"I didn't manage It without hurting
people. It did hurt people's foolish
feelings at first mine most of all.
But It' easy now. As soon as I And
I am making a new friend I lead the
conversation to the subject of gifts,
and express my sentiment clearly and
unmistakably, and after a gasp of sur
prise, people take It sensibly and real
ize the comfort of It."
Constance alghed wistfully. "It doe
sound comfortable." she aald. "But I
know I never could."
Two day later, as the girl were
coming in from a concert they met
little Katie Barry Just leaving. Katie
wa a cripple, and Mis Harriet, In her
usual breezy fashion, found many
things to do for ber, and wa repaid
by an adoring devotion. To-day Kotle'
thin little face was fairly radiant
"I brought Miss Harriet a present,"
she confided to ther.n. "She liked It a
lot."
With one Impulse the girls flew to
the library. It was even better than
they expected. Miss Harriet was
guzlng wlth an expression of grim dis
may at an Imltntlon bronze vase with
a huge pink bow.
"Well," she greeted thorn, "say It I
Now's your chance."
But the girls, to their honor, said
nothing then. Only to each other
they acknowledged a certain comfort
n the situation. Youth's Companion.
Passle of tbe Marlae llarraeka. '
Among the interested visitor at the
marine barracks at Washington on
one occasion there waa a party of
young girl from a Maryland town.
They proved very much Interested In
everything pertaining to the life and
discipline of the post "What do you
mean by 'taps'7" asked one youiyc
woman. "Tap are played every night
on the bugle," answered the meer.
"It means 'light out They play It
over the bodies of dead soldiers." x
puzzled look came to the face of the
questioner. Then she asked. "What
do you do If you haven't a dead sol
dlerr
Deabla liar la tba Dla.ee.
Not everyone la aware that Mlgar,
the second star of the big dipper, la
a double star. To observe thla doublet
on a clear night require good vision.
Tbe !ar Was Tired.
A little Incident related by the late
General Shaffer In an article on the
capture of Santiago Illustrates the splr- :
It of the American soldiers who en
tered Cuba, and at the same time con
tains a bit of humor that was none the
less enjoyable because It wa uncon
scious. Tho men bad been In battle all day,
and, weary as they wers, had then
walked eleven rough, muddy miles lu
tbe dark, a remarkable and arduous
IHTforuiance, which served to sliow
their sterling military qualities.
A correspondent noticed a corporal
of the Twenty-fifth Colored Regiment
carrying a pet dng In his anus. Sur
prised that an overworked soldier
should voluntarily burden himself, he
said :
"Corporal, didn't you march all
night before last?"
"Yes, sah."
"Didn't you fight all day yesterday?"
"'Deed I did, sah."
"Didn't you march all last night?"
"Yes. ah."
"Then why do you carry that dog?"
"Why, boss, 'cause the dog's tired."
Tides I pan I.aad aad Sea.
A correspondent of the Geodetic
Survey ba recently made observation
with the seismograph at Mauritius that
have led to the suggestion that not only
the ocean and the atmosphere but even
the lund may experience the effects of
a dally tide running round and round
the earth a It revolves on It axis.
But, while the tidea In the air and
the sea are due more to the moon than
to the sun, the upiosed "land tide"
arise solely from the sun's action.
Moreover, It la caused uot by the at
traction of the sun but by Its heat A
wave of depression I supposed to fol
low tbe sun from east to west caused
by tbe extraction of moisture from th
solL
At Mauritius It la found that then
Is a relative upheaval of the land to
the west of the place of observation
from morning until evening and a rela
tive depression on tbe same side, or an
upheaval to tbe east, during tbe sams
night.
Sarprlsa to tbe Offlee Roy,
In a certain large and busy office
downtown there are five telephone
booths, and It takes a good deal of th
time of one office boy to answer the
many calls. During rush hours, indeed,
these calls are almost Incessant, and
when the duty of attending to them
was assigned to a new boy the otliet
day be got Into trouble right away.
Before answering a call he learned thai
the party at the other end wns th
wife of one of the members of th
firm. He called this member out o!
his office and told hi 111 bis wife want
ed to speak to him on the phone. The
member, approaching the booths, askeil,
"Which oneT "I'm sure I don't know,
sir," replied the boy. "I didn't know
you had more than one." Philadelphia
Kecord.
When a strong, healthy man gets a
severe pain, he Is sure be Is nearei
death than the Invalid who loafi
around the edge of the grave contln
ually.
ror that tired feeling poilcetuea
ibould give tramps arrest