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Day In and day out there la that feeling
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Sleep does not refresh. 1
It Is bard to do, hard to bear, what
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dyer It isn't always a good plan
lor a man to try to make a name for
himself.
Myei" Why not?
Gyer Well, I knew a man once who
tried it, and he was arrested for for
gery. Brutality.
Here the far western orator waxed fer
vent. "Fellow citizens," he exclaimed, "ordi
narily I pay no attention to campaign
slanders, but the candidate on the other
ticket has lied about me so persistently
and maliciously that torbearance has
ceased to lie a virtue and I am going to
handle him without ptoves !"
"You can't!" hoarsely bellowed a man
with short hair, a thick neck, and a bull
dog face.
"Why not?" demanded the orator.
" 'Cause it's agin the rules. Anywheres
in this State you've got to have glovea
weighin' at least two ounces !"
"Origin" of MahoKany.
The origin of the use of mahogany
Is said to have been as follows: A
West Indian trader brought home sev
eral logs of mahogany as ballast for his
ship. The trader's brother, a London
physician, happened to be building a
bouse, and his brother suggested that
the logs would serve for ceiling beams.
Acting on the proposal, the doctor gave
orders to his workmen accordingly, but
their, tools were not able to make an im
pression on the hard wood. The doctor
ordered fresh tools to be made, and at
length succeeded in finding Implements
which would cut the timber. Delighted
with his discovery he ordered a bureau
to be made, and so beautiful was It
that It attracted general attention.
New York Tribune.
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THE SWIFT
. Story of a Flirtation.
"She wasn't one bit like the girls
who Indulge In public .flirtations she
was so tall and cold and stately," began
the car conductor who observes thiugs.
"When she got In at 35th street I Baw
her catch his eye Immediately.
. "He seemed indifferent and turned
his head away. She squeezed Into the
Beat next to him and he became ab
sorbed In looking out of the window.
"She went to all sorts of trouble to
attract his attention, that girl. I saw
her myself. Finally she jangled her
chatelaine loudly and looked at him
alluringly from beneath her long-lashed
eyes.
"Then he turned and gazed at her
questlonlngly. She smiled, a bright,
unabashed smile, with the whole car
looking at her.
"Something in that smile warned
him, and" here the conductor paused
Impressively and tried to hide the twin
kle In his eye "he reached out two
pink, chubby little hands to grasp her
dangling chatelaine.
"Well, sir, she kissed one of those
chubby little hands and pinched his
little apple red cheeks and then asked
the woman who held him a question.
Guess it was his mother and she asked
how old he was." New York Sun.
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SIMIAN LOVE AND REVENGE.
Peculiar Conduct of a Monkey
Caniei Sailor Mnch Trouble.
A curious story of lo.ve and revenge
comes to us from the far east and the
fact that it Is the love and revenge
Df a Javanese monkey doesn't abate
the human Interest in the narrative.
Nor should the further fact that the
tale comes tq us via the crew of a
tramp steamer abate all confidence in
its truth. It appears that the sailors
who manned this steamer had collected
in Java a number of monkeys for spec
ulative purposes and these were con
fined In the hold.
Among them were two unusually In
telligent simians who, were released
during the voyage and permitted the
freedom of the ship. Unhappily a
sudden storm came up and one of the
playful creatures was washed over
board. The remaining one, who had
not seen his comrade's sudden taking
off, searched the ship for hours and
finally betook himself to the rigging,
where he remained three days, refus
ing food and avoiding all efforts to cap
ture him.
No doubt he held the sailors respon
sible fo,r the death of his partner and
it would appear that he was formulat
ing a scheme for revenge. Anyway,
the third night he released all the mon
keys In the hold and for two days the
simians made life miserable for the
sailors. They bit and scratched and
fought and It was only after a number
of them had been flung overboard that
the balance could be captured and se
cured. And In all the forays and fierce
charges the revengeful monkey was In
the van.
Whatever may be contended concern
ing the reasoning powers of the brute
creation, there have been many lu-
stances recorded of their remembrance
of past Injuries. , And this fact would
seem to give the story of monkey ven
geance some semblance of truth.
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THE IRON PIRATE
A Ttain Tate of Strange
Happenings on the Sea
By MAX PEMBERTON
-ooo-
CHAPTER V. (Continued.)
"I went to bed, my brain aflame with
speculation ; put out the candle ; lit it
again. I could not have slept if ft king'
ransom went with the sleeping; and so 1
lay fretful, blameful, vowing the whole
problem a plague and a cheat. This Idle
wondering might have lasted until dawn,
had it not been for my neighbor in the
room to my left, who began to talk with
a low buzz as of a night-insect humming
in a bed curtain. The surging of the
voice amused me ; I lay quite still and
listened to it. Now it rose loud I glean
ed a word, and was pleased ; now it fell
and I fretted ; but anon another voice was
added to the first, and, if the one had
pleased me, the second thrilled me. It
was the voice of my friend at the dock.
"Two words spoken by this man
brought me, to my feet ; two more to the
thin wooden door which divided out
rooms. With feverish impatience I knelt
to pry through the keyhole. It was stuffed
with paper. 1 listened with an ear long
trained to listening, although the men
spoke so that few words reached me. The
ship hod not sailed, then, for here was
the ruffian, who watched her, wasting rest
in the first hours to hold a parley; and
if a parley, with whom? Why, with those
who paid him for the work, I did not
doubt.
"At the end of an hour the voices ceas
ed. I judged that my neighbor had gone
to bed. I took'from my satchel a brace
and bit, and an oiled saw. In ten mi
utes I cut a hole in the partition and put
my eye to it. A burly, black-bearded
man sat In a reverie before a dressing
table, and I saw that there was spread
upon the table a great heap of jewels.
And beside the jewels was a big bulldog
revolver.
"Who was this man? I asked, and why
did he sit in an Italian hotel fingering
jewels, and giving a meeting place at mid
night to a common murderer from a dock
yard? Were the jewels his own? Had he
come by them honestly? He stirred in his
chair and then sat bolt upright. I thought
he looked to have some tremor of nervous
ness upon' him; clutching hastily at the
jewels to put them in a great leather case,
which again he shut In a larger iron box,
locking both, and placing the key under
his nillow. After that he threw off his
clothes with some Impatience, and, leav
ing the lamp which burned upon his dress
ing table, he dropped upon his toed.
"Being assured that my man slept, i
put back with some cold glue, which was
always in my tool chest, thj piece I had
cut from the door, and then picked tne
lock with one grip of my small pincers,
My revolver I carried in the belt at my
waist, for my hands were occupied with
a soft cloth and a bottle of chloroform.
I had big felt slippers on my feet; and
went straight to his bed, where I let him
breathe the drug for a few moments. I
got at his keys and his jewels, and saw
what I wished. There, true enough, were
precious stones of all values, Brazilian
diamonds, Cape stones tinged with yellow,
the finer class of Indian turquoise, pink
pearls, black pearls all these loosely
wrapped in tissue paper; but a magnih-
cent parcel. I brought up at last a neck
lace of opals and diamonds, and as 1 held
them to the lamp and examined the curl
ous grouping of the stones, and the
strange eastern form of the clasp, I knew
that I had seen the bundle before. The
conviction was Instantaneous, powerful,
convincing ; yet even with my aptitude for
recalling names, places and things, I could
not In my mind place these jewels. None
the less was I assured that the one solid
clue I had yet taken hold of was in my
keeping ; and, as a quick glance round the
chamber told me no more, I put up the
baubles in their case again, replaced the
key and quitted the chamber.
"I lay upon my bed and brought the
whole of my recollection back upon the
jewels. Where had I seen them ; In what
circumstances; In whose hands? Again
and again I traveled old ground, exhumed
buried cases, dwelt upon names of for
gotten criminals, and of big world people
An hour's intense .mental concentration
told me nothing, but In my dreaming I
got what wakefulness had denied to me,
There in my sleep was the whole history
of the stones written for me. I remem
bered the Liverpool landing stage; thde
parture of the Star liner City of St. Pe-
tersburg, for New York ; the arrest of the
notorious jewel thief, CarlVReichsmann
the discovery of the opal and diamond
necklace upon him; the restoration of It
to to the brain failed for a moment-
then with a loud ory of delight, which
roused me, I pronounced the words ; to
Lady Hardon of 202a Berkeley Square,
London.
"I repeated the name again and again
muttering it as I got Into my clothes. I
bethought me of the man in the next
room. I listened. There was no sound,
He had gone then, and had Lady Hardon's
jewels. My memory traveled quickly on
to Lady Hardon's end ; for I remembered
then that she went down in the great
steamer Alexandria, which was lost In
the Bay of Biscay twelve months before
I discovered the golden ship in the dock
yard at Spezia; and I recalled the fact,
known world-wide, that her famous jewels
had gone with her to her end. How came
it, then, that this man who knew the
ruffians in the dock yard below, yet pos
teased a hundred thousand pounds' worth
f jewelry, how came It that h had got
that which the world thought to be lying
on the sands of the bay? I left my hotel
and mounted to the hill top for tidings of
the great vessel. But she had sailed, and
the dock which had held her was empty.
"This discovery did not daunt me, for
I had expected it. I waited only to as
certain officially what ships had left Spe
zia during the past twenty-four hours.
They told me at the Customs that the
Brazilian war vessel built by Slgnor Vez
zia weighed at three a. m I hurried
tmek to assure myself that my neighbor
with the necklace had sailed also. To my
surprise, he was at breakfast when I ar
rived at the hotel ; and so one great link
In my theoretic chain snapped at the firirt
test. As he had not sailed with the oth
ers, he could have no direct connection
with the nameless ship, no nautical part
or lot with her. But what was he, then?
That I -meant to know as soon as oppor
tunity should serve.
"I have led vyou up, Strong, step by
step, through the details of this work to
this point. I am now about to move over
the ground more quickly. I will quit
Spezia, and ask you to come with me,
after the interval of nigh a year, to Lon
don, where, in an hotel in Cecil street,
Strand, I was again the neighbor of the
man with the jewels. The day on which
the nameless ship left the dock this roan
whom, I may say at once, I have al
ways met under the name of Captain
Black quitted the town and reached
Paris. Thither I followed him, staying
one day in the French capital, but going
onward with him on the following morn
ing to Cherbourg. There he went aboard
a small yacht, and I lost him In the Chan
nel. I returned at once to Italy, and
wired to friends in. the police force at
New York, at London and San Francisco,
and at three ports in South America for
news (a) of a new warship lately com
pleted at Spezia for the Brazilian repub
lic; (b) of a man known as Captain
Black, who left the port of Cherbourg
in the cutter-yacht La France on the
morning of Oct. 30. For nearly twelve
months I waited for an apswer to these
questions, but none came to me. To the
best of my knowledge, the nameless war
ship was never seen upon the high seas.
I began to ask myself, if she existed, how
came it that a vessel, burnished to the
beauty of gold, had been spoken of none,
seen of none, reported in no harbor, men
tioned in no dispatch? Yet in the month
when the cruiser quitted Spezia three
ocean-going steamers, each carrying specie
to the value of more than one hundred
thousand pounds, went down in fair
weather, and were paid for at Lloydf's.
"I was much occupied making a list
as far as that were possible, of all the
gems and baubles which the dead men
and women on the sunken steamers naa
owned. This was a paltry record of
bracelets, and rings, and tiaras, and
elasDs. such stuff as any fellow of a jew
eler may sell; unconvincing stuff, worth
no more than a near relation lor purposes
of evidence. There was but one piece of
the whole mass that did not come in my
category a great box with a fine paint-
ine bv Jean Petitot upon its lid, ana a
curious circle of jasper all about the min
iatures. Tills was a historic piece men
tioned as having once been the property
of Necker, the French financier; then
lost by a New York dealer, who was taa
ing it from Paris to Boston In the steam
ship Catalania ; the ship supposed to have
foundered, with the loss of all hands, off
the banks of Newfoundland, sixteen days
after the nameless ship left Spezia. I
made a record of this trifle, and forgot it
until, many months later, a private com
munication from the head of the New
York secret service told me that the man
I wanted was in London ; that he was an
American millionairewho owned a house
on the banks of the Hudson river, who
had great - Influence in many cities, who
came to Europe to buy "precious stones
and miniature paintings, a man who was
considered eccentric by his friends. I
took rooms In the hotel where Captain
Black was staying. Three days after I
was disguised as you have seen me, sell
ing him miniatures. Within a week, by
ivhat step I need not pause to say, I
knew that the jasper box, lost, by report,
in the steamer Catalania. was under lock
and key in his bedroom.
"I cannot tell you how that discovery
agitated me. Here, indeed, was my sec
ond direct link. The man had in his pos
session an historic and unmistakable cas
ket, which all the world believed to be
lost in a steamer from which no soul had
escaped. How I treasured that knowl
edge 1 Three months the man remained in
London ; during three months he was not
thirty hours out of my sight or knowl
edge. I resigned my work 'for the gov
ernment, and henceforth gave myself
heart and soul to the pursuit of the man.
I followed him to Paris, to St. Peters
burg; I tracked him through France to
Marseilles ; I watched him embark, with
three of the ruffians I had seen at Spezia,
in his yacht again; and within a month
the yacht was in harbor at Cowee with
out him ; while a steamer, bound from the
Cape to Cadiz, and known to have specie
aboard her, went out of knowledge as the
others had done. Then was I sure that I
alone shared with that man and his crew
one of the most ghastly secrets that the
deep has kept within her.
"I had positively to connect the man
Black with the nameless thin, for this I
had only done-so far by pure oirctrm-;
stance. For many months I have mnde
no gain in this attempt. Last year In
Liverpool I sketched In yet another point'
In my picture, I received tidings of th
mnn In that city, and there I did trade
with him In my old disguise J but he was
not alone tho crew of ruffians you havt
known by this time kept company with
him. I kept vigil there a week, but lost
him at the end of that time. When he
reappeared In the circles of civilization It
was In Paris, but two dnys ago, when I
asked you to accompany me. You know
that I attempted to Hall with him on his
cruise, and your instinct tells you why.
If I could; by being two days afloat In his
company, prove beyond doubt that he used
his yacht as a pretense ; If I could prove
that when ho loft port in her he sailed
some miles out to sea, and was picked up
by the nameless ship, my chain was forg
ed, my book complete, and I had but to
call the government to the work !
"But I have failed, and the labor I
have set myself shall be done by others,
but chiefly, Mark Strong, by you. From
the valley of the dead soon I must look
back. You have youth, and money suffi
cient for the enterprise; you will get
money In its pursuit. So my mantle falls
upon you. What information I have, you
have. The names of my friends in the
cities mentioned I have written down for
you ; they will serve you for the memory
of my name ; but be assured at the outset
that you will never take this man upon
the sea. And as for the. money which Is
rightly due to the one who rids humanity
of this pest, I say, go to the Admiralty In
London, and lay so much of your knowl
edge before them as shall prevent a rob
bery of your due; claim a fit reward from
them and the steamship companies; and,
as your beginning, go now to the Hudson
river I meant to go within a month
and learn there more of the man you seek ;
or, If the time be ripe, lay hands there
upon him. And may the Bpirit of a dead
man breathe success upon you !"
On the yacht Cchis, lying at Cowet,
written in the month of, August, for
Mark Strong.
When I had put down the papers, my
eyes were tear-stained with the effort of
reading, and the cabin lamp was nigh
out. My interest In the writing had been
so sustained that I had not seen the march
of daylight, now streaming through tho
glass above, upon my bare cabin table:
I went above, and saw that we were at
anchor in the Solent, and that the whole
glory of a summer's dawn lit the sleeping
waters.
I stretched myself on a deck chair. I
slept and dreamt again of Hall, of Cap
tain Black, of the man "Four-Eyes," of
a great holocaust on the sea. When I
awoke, a doctor from Southsea was writ
ing down the names of drugs upon paper ;
and Mary was busy with Ice. They told
me I had slept for thirty hours, and that
they had feared brain fever. But the
sleep had saved me; and when Mary and
Roderick talked of the doctor's order that
I was to lie resting a week, I laughed
aloud.
"I start for London to-night," I said.
"What !" they cried in one voice.
"Exactly, and if Mary would not mind
running on deck-for a minute, I'll tell you
why, Roderick."
She went at the word, casting one '
pleading look with her eyes as Bhe stood
at the door, but I gave no sign, and she
closed it. I had fixed upon a course, and,,
as Roderick, dreamingly indifferent, pre
pared to talk about that which he called
my "madness," I took Hall's manuscript
and read it to him. When I had finished,
there was a strange light in his eyes.
"Let's go at once," he saiS; and that,
was all. '
(To be continued.)
OLD SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
Some of the Men Who Survived Wars
for Many Yean,
Soldiers of the Revolution can be re
membered by men who are not to-day
In their old age. Several of the rear
guard of the Continental army saw
striking episodes of the Revolution and
were able to narrate them when more
than seventy years had passed, says the
Boston Transcript. Benjamin Abbott,
a drum major, who beat the death
march at Major Andre's execution, died
at Nushua, N. II., In 1851. Peter Bes
ancon, who was one of Lafayette's fol
lowers and who died at Warsaw, N. Y.,
In 1855, la believed to have been the
longest surviving witness of Andre's
death, which occurred Oct. 2, 1780,
The annals of many countries bear
witness to occasional Instances of long
evity in those "whose business 'tis to
die." Samuel Gibson, who was a sol
dier at Waterloo, died Dec. 15, 1801,
aged 101. Who was the last Waterloo
oifieer Is the subject of considerable
doubt, but the distinction was claimed
for Lieutenant Maurice Shea, who died
Feb. 5, 1892, and who fell short one
year of being a centenarian. Veteran
sailors are almost as common as vet
eran soldiers. Admiral Sir Provo Wal
11s, who died Feb. 13, 1892, in his 101st
year, wns one of the lieutenants of the
Shannon when she captured the Ches
apeake In 1813. Rear-Admiral Thomas
O. Selfridge, the elder of our own
navy, who was born In 1804, was a
rival of Wallls In length of days.
Lives that span the historic past and
the present are commoner than are
generally supposed. One June 18 the
son of a revolutionary soldier took part
In decorating at Saugus the graves of
his father's comrades.
The Lnut Reaort.
"I tell you," remarked the newly
married, man, "there's no place Ilka
home, after all."
"Yes," agreed the old rounder, "after
all." Philadelphia Ledger.