THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. v. i I5 II x ! : AN ORIENTAL TALE. !p'-ora un KuKtorn kins? one dny, Ai iK.'.vr t u man lioih pure and wle 'lie Klt' W'nneil of the twin to say What rend to tnlto to paradlae. "For various Beets." he Ml J. "declare TtKV- hut one rond that we can take, Anl of the n-pt we must liowaro; 80 tell me for my own nuiil's sake. K. ix 1 nused the king; thu hall was still Ami ilif wine man looked thoughtfully ; Lut round th(t audience went a thrill In ii thus he spake on bended knee. "O mhrhty king;, a loving; race Kinds half the light of heaven In thee. An. I 1 heseei'li thy pardoning (trace l-'ur what my sole leply must lie. "t'n'Iironeil ere thou within a hall Vh.-ro various doors the guests admit; Ah lie thy splendor falls on all. Vi hit-never way they enter It. "Thr.t I have found one certain way Your messenger the praise must claim; So fliizuleil was I by his sway, I ctiiinot tell what road 1 came." Joel Uenton. ABOUT UMiUT DIAMONDS. It is difficult to place a value on an u in-ut diamond. 11 is irregular la tinnuc. und often bo covered with un sifiir.ly Hakes taal It is impouslble to t.eiuruilne either Its slice, weight, or lustre, upcu which its price depends, biu all gems, cut or uncut embody Bruit value In the smallest epace. There are multitudes of precloua etches worth each from fifty thousand uclliirs to half a million and yet so small that a lady might stuff a fortune 01 Uem inside of her glove in the palm of her hand. I recall the case of a woman who had been terribly disfigured in a burning theatre her skinny fingers being drawn tlftht down upon her palm. And yet she made space between fingers and p.ilm to squeeze into her uncanny clutch, while being Inspected, an un cut ceui, on which, had she evaded the .yes of the officer, she would have re- ! :ilizod an unlawful gain of nearly 2Q,- 000. Uncut stones are fre.iuently smug gled into the country by stokers and other cemmon steamship hands. It 1b a comparatively easy thing to evade the Inspectors with a handful of seeming pebbles, dumped, perhaps, into a coal-hod, and still more dia KulHort with the grime, the whole lot, gems and coal, treated as If worthless, until chance occurs to carry them ashore. But suoh hands are some times lordly members of the bon-ton, who, to replenish their funds, doff their broadcloths, don cotton Jeans, and shovel coal or wash decks for a few voyages. One stoker was so suc cessful in smuggling that after two years at the furnace mouth he retired to an inland city, where he now lives in grand style; but we could never .procure convicting evidence of his ras- cality. A lapidary Is one whose trade It is to take diamonds in the rough, and polish them to forms suitable for or naments. The Dutch are lapidaries of the world, and since the discovery of the South African diamond fields in 18(57, Immigrants from Holland, skill ful in their trade, have caused the cus tom officials of America no little trou ble. They seldom open their shops, however, in cities along the seaboard. Having always more or less smuggled renn to cut, they dare not undertake the work too near our chief offices, lest our vigilance find them out. Hence In land towns receive them, and their agents and others having smuggled sinnes to cut, steer for them Immedi ately upon leaving the steamer; to cut, steer for them immediately upon leaving the steamer. A few years ago a message came from Chicago that certain Dutch lapid aries in that city had a surplus of stock and it was believed that they had ascnts on the seaboard and abroad en gaged in illegal business. This put us on our mettle, for what the message hinted at we- were sure of, since we were registering very few uncut gems; hence, somebody must be entering thorn unregistered. After considera ble consultation, the case was placed in my hands to ferret out. My first move was to obtain a rough eem of low grade, though to a novice it seemed all right, and going to Chi cago, I hunted up the suspected lapidaries, to whom I was totally un known, to have them cut it for me. I pretended to have been a Pennsylvania fi inner who had recently sold my farm at a fabulous price as "oil territory." and tried to net like a green farmer I suddenly lifted out of his sphere. I LM.not.ea or my wealth, and stated that tho diamond had cost me 5,000. Af-ff-r examining it, the lapidary ex cl aimed: "Goa in Himmel! how you vos rot Ehrated ven you bays fife tousan for dot. See dot vlaw? No goot shtone. ' Vert not fife hunder dollar. Vare you PY dot sheat?" I told him that I bought it in Phlla- 1 dclphla, and appeared very much ;rr!'.red at Its defects, but declared my intention of venturing again, as I waa resolved to own Bome rich diamonds. "I've got the cash," ranted I, "and I'll buy every Jewel In Philadelphia but j I'll have some fine ones." "Veil, now, mynheer, you not go Pltiladelph to py diamonds. Ve can gif you virst vater shewels. Ve has pi shtock. sblendld gems, sheap." "Why!" said I, "where do vou find diamonds in Chicago? I thought they came across the ocean from South Africa, and landed at the seaports." "Dot lsh all right. Dey comes from Sunt Afrlc, but ve has agents dare, mi' anoder on der shteamer, so ve has 'em right avay from dose mines. Com d!s vay, I show you." Following him, he showed me under class a magnificent display of gems, Etich as I had never seen in my rather abundant opportunities as an official. In tsenulne wonder, I exclaimed: "Why! you must have been year collecting so many?" "Neln. Ve sells many. 8hangins; fthtock all der dime. Dem shtonee nfw. Not been fife monts in Am erica." I did not buy of the Dutchman, but I crept so far Into his greed and con fidence that we went out and drank i:i;;ether, and I learned that their r int was a deck hand on a certain c"m steamor, and his name Von T filler. When I departed, as he aup .' d for San Francisco, he was Quite effusive. , "Goot-py, mine vrend. Ven you I cornea pack py dem pons of mo. I Klfa yo't vcm pig parfraln. You soe, I bays no gov'incnt pounty. Uncle Sam no shmnrt 'nough for me. So I 1 sell you thp.ip." t My nexi wish was to set eyes on Von ; Twlher. The pecond mate of the 1 steamer named was an acquaintance, ' and the very afternoon of her next j arrival In port, divesting myself of ; every visible sign of official character, j I called on him, finding him In charge . cf the vessel for the day. I explained! ! my orrand, and Joining him In a stroll . along the deck, he at ones directed my ; attention to a fellow scrubbing the ship. He was Von Twlller, a surly I looking man, whom, once seen, would j not be readily forgotten. I took care i that he should not observe ma Half an hour later, from conceal- j ment I was watching my man as he washed the lower deck, astern, where It had been soiled by Immigrants. Sev eral officers In citizen's dress were within easy call, ready to come or go at my signal. Von Twlller had a bucket of stemm ing hot water and a scrubbing cloth, and was hard at work, but after awhile I noticed two or three things that seemed somewhat significant. He was singularly uneasy, con stantly glancing up and down the river front, as if expecting an arrival; with which I combined the actions of two men In a skiff not far distant and slowly approaching, but out of his view. They seemed to be looking for him and he for them, or so my sue- ; nlclons Interpreted It. ! Attached to the bucket was not onlji the usual rope for taking up water from the river, but a longer cord, like a fishing-line, loosely colled, with a huso cork at the end of it, and Von Twlller seemed anxious to keep it out of sight. I observed also that when he dipped the cloth in the brimming bucket he avoided immersing it, as if the pall were quite shallow. Such things proved nothing conclusively, and yet were enough out of the or- , dinary to awaken suspicion. I Slowly the men in the skiff worked along the starboard of the great steam er and rounded her stern, coming into Von Twlller's view at last, and I thought a covert recognition passed between them. Presently one of them removed his hat and gave it a pe culiar swinging motion, whereupon Von Twlller doffed his cap and re turned the signal. Then the man in the skiff gave a long, low whistle, to which Von Twlller also replied in the same style, and this, notwithstanding the fact that he and they were not forty feet apart, easy speaking dis- , tance. The case was rapidly assuming ' shape and interest. It was evident that something decisive would not be i long delayed. Suddenly Von Twlller laid the cloth -on the rail, and lifting the bucket ; poured its soiled contents in the river I noticing that it held but little wa- j tcr for so large a pall. Next, placing ' the cord and cork in the bucket and , grasping the rope, he swung it over the side to dip up water for rinsing : purposes. Giving it a sldewlse turn, i it filled, and he started to draw it up but with such energy as to snap the '. rope. "Too thin!" I muttered to my- .. 1 , LI. , n(nn . tt 1 I pun, lli 11 ID luvciiuuu ntu pel icvii clear. Steadily the light bucket settled into the water and soon strangely sank from sight, but floating where it went down lay the cork. For an hour the skiff drifted about In the most Innocent manner, the men not seeming to notice the cork, whloh I regarded with special Interest I kept my hiding, however, confident of results. Meantime Von Twlller had silently disappeared below deck. At length, when night was falling, the fellows approached the cork, and lifting it into the skiff, drew up the sunken bucket and detached the cord. Then they drifted again, now under the open piers and again outside. But I was not ready as yet to interfere with them, for I hoped by delaying to trace them to their headquarters and bag a gang of their pals. When it was quite dark and the lamps were lighted, I called one of my aids to watch them, while with two others I entered a yawl which we had in readiness near by, and pulled around to the vicinity of the skiff. By my direction my companions were dressed and acted like sailors half drunk, and searching for our ship in that neighborhood; I also reclining in the stern in a tipsy manner. The fel lows did not suspect us as we paddled here and there, singing, shouting, and variously making merry. They evi dently had some cause for remaining on the spot, perhaps waiting for Von Twlller. At least I hoped that wu their reason, for I wished to have them all together. I was also watch ing for a chance to seize the bucket by stratagem, lest they might suddenly drop it in the river beyond recovery, as, if my suspicions were right, we had to deal with desperate men. All of that class are; the magnitude of their ventures makes them so. At length another long, low whistle from the dock overhead hastened my action. We were three or four boat lepgths from the skiff, when, arous ing from my apparent drowse of the last hour, I sung out to my aids at the oars: "Here, you lubbers! what ye about under these docks? Pull away, and put me aboard the ship." With a fitful effort they manned the oars and sent the yawl here and there in the. most drunken style, I meanwhile cursing them full blast. It was not very dark where we were, owing to the indirect light of numer ous lamps, and in the course of the helter-skelter rowing we ran stern first against the skiff. This was my chance. Without a lisp of apology I turned, stretched out my hand, grasped the bucket and lifted It into the yawl. Instantly I found out what sort of fellows we were dealing with. One of them whipped out a pistol and plant ed a bullet in the tiller post, directly opposite the small of my bock, a fatal shot but for the post; while another aa I wheeled to ueo my own revolver, struck me in the left breast, where it also would have vetoed my relating the incidents had it not met with my official badge pinned on my vest and doing guard duty over my heart. The badge arrested the bullet. Hy tnls j time my assistants got to work In the : same line, and for a moment bullets flew thick and fast both ways. When the fusillade stopped, we dis covered that one rascal had received more than his share, an ugly furrow across his chook, a piece of lead In hid rlfht shoulder, and his left arm bFoken. He lay on the bottom of the skiff. The other fellow, though np parently unharmed, was completely demoralized and crying like a baby. I I thought it was probably new busi ness to him. We scaped without a scratch. Not delaying for further examlna- ! Hon, we took the skiff In tow, and pul led away to reach a doctor. But at the Instant another man sprang from some where under the dock, and landed on the seat Just vacated by the wounded chap. At the same time & stern voice hailed over the edge of the pier: "Halloo! What's going on down there? Paddle out here, you shooting scoundrels, and explain." I recognized the voice of a police- ; man of my acquaintance, and called out who we were, and that we wanted an ambulance at once. Pulling to a ; ladder, the injured fellow was lifted up on the dock, and passed from our care. Next day I found htm in a hos pital, doing finely and Identified him as one of the worst of harbor desper adoes. Relieved of the wounded man, we rowed away, still towing the skiff, and when fairly out In the light, I found that the newcomer was Von Twlller. Immediately I demanded his arms, when another fight ensued, ending in more work for the doctors. When Von Twlller was hurt enough to keep the peace, and his revolver was taken from him, it seemed best to search the frightened man more thor oughly for weapons, lest he might find his courage and give us another skir mish. But as I turned him about to get at his pockets, he suddenly stood up, sprang head first into the river, and vanished. We rested on the oars, expecting him to come up in an in stant, when we would pull him in again. But here was the mystery of the night. He did not reappear. We rowed about the spot several minutes, watching for him in vain, and Anally, concluded that he must have swam under water to the shelter of the dock and crept out in the dark, a prodig ious task, as the distance was doubt less 200 feet. At length we pased on to the gov ernment pier, called another ambul ance for Von Twlller, and then went to the custom office to examine the bucket. Will wonders never cease? The bucket had a double bottom, four or five inches apart, and between them was stored a quantity of uncut gems, the value of which I dare not state lest it discredit the whole affair. It was the boldest and the largest Job of smuggling I ever detected, and the easiest. The next day the body of the man who Jumped overboard was found In the harbor, and the cause of his de moralization was explained; a bullet had entered one ear and lodged in his brain. But from his position it was clear that it was fired by his pal, who sat beyond him in the skiff, and de signed it for me. I cannot say that I was sorry it missed me. Thank Heaven! both of the fellows whom we had hit recovered. Women in the World. According to the most reliable es timates the world to-day contains 280, 000,000 grown women. Among civil ized nations the United States have actually the largest share, their fem inine population being 30,554,370. Rus sia comes next with an adult feminine population of 23,200.000. Then a long way after come the German empire with 10.930,000, Austria with 9,680,000, Great Britain with 8,766,000, France with 8,586,000 and Italy with 6,850,000. Spain comes next on the list with 4, 130,000 of the fair sex, and she is fol lowed by Belgium with 1,340,000, Rou mania with 1,269,000, Sweden with 1, 170,000, Portugal with 1,080,000 and Holland with 1,070,000. The countries whose adult feminine population does not reach 1,000,000 are Switzerland, which has only 690,000; Norway, which has 465,000, and Greece and Denmark, which are tied at 490,000. In this estimate it will be quoted that the entire female population of the United States is given and only the number of grown women in the different countries of Europe. As a matter of fact, in proportion to its population, this country has fewer wo men than most of the others mention ed. The proportion of women to men In the United States is greatest in New England, whers the women are in ex cess. It is least in the far west, where the number of men exceeds that of tha women. Wyoming has the smallest female population, 21,362; New York the largest, 3,020,960; while It is said that one factory in New England em ploys 12,000 women. The Foundation Stone of Success, The one great rule of business la that of honesty, absolute and unquall fled honesty, writes Edward W. Bok, in the Ladles' Home Journal. All the rules of business are worthless it they are not founded on that one and only foundation stone to true commer cial success. Honesty is not alone the best policy in business; it is the one nnd only policy. Upon it, and upon it alone, can a good reputation be built and a man in business without a re putation tor honesty might Just as well stop. Any deviation from the rule of honesty in business may bring tem porary gain, but It invariably means permanent loss. On the other hand, a strict adherence to an honest policy may mean a temporary loss, but it Is sure to result in a permanent gain. Itnther Hough on lbucn. 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It includes also cart of equal in desirability for residence ttuiuii. LtVLS are oiiered in a short time. No such opportunity can be had elsewhere to make money. Lots secured on SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS Mapa of the town and of plotted rronertv furnished nn nr.- plication. Call upon or write to the Secretary, or J. S. Woods, Sales Agent, or any member of the Board'of Directors. BOARD OF B. F. Sharpless: C. W. Neal, A. G. Dr. H. W. McReynolds, : POSITIVE CUR EilWUEliS, 60 Wmm St, Kev? York. IMce ORGANIZED. THE SOUTH CENTRAL CONSOLIDATED COLD MINING AND MILLING CO. (INrOM'OKATED.) CAPITAL STOCK - - 82,000,000. BliurcH 91 on eacti. Full lld mm IHoii.AHHenHablc. (Issued in payment for this company's Mines.) TREASURY RESERVE STOCK, $too,ooo 1 A Mi . OVER GOLD. .TSI loX" Au-,tl" -te an 4 MwtgV iClAttta Capital. k J,h MI"eW6 PRODUCERS, and will be Worked for Dividends. izi CENTS A SHARE. Certain to advance and yield ten to hundred told on the par. . 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