6 THOSE WHO CAN'T KEEP UP. It Is human nature mtbbe to be borno 'lore with the crowd. And when they shout and hollo, to hollo just as loud; But there's u sight o' pleasure like a draught from nectar's cup, In Just a-lolterln' back along with those who can't keep up. Or.t needn't think the only men Clod ever made are those Who wear the tli.i st linen and the latest out In clothes— I. find patriotism, honor ar.d fidelity to truth In the man whose outward bearing often is tin. most uncouth. In the weather-beaten cottage where the eaves most touch the door, Whose shingles are quite hidden with the moss that's gathered o'er, There is still the old-time altar, where duly morn and l.ight The inmates bow and ask the Lord to guide their steps aright. The gentlest words are spoken when the heart Is sad with woe. And the rarest wisdom emanates from those whose steps are slow, And those whose eyes are blind to sights that glisten for a day See glui-li s far transcendent that can never fade away. Bo I like to loiter back a bit; the crowd may surge along. for some it's pleasant thus to Jostle with the throng; But I tind my life grows richer, even drink ing sorrow's cup, With the weary and unfortunate who can not quite keep up! —Arfe'.bert F. Caldweil. in Ladies' World, New York. 112 My Strangest Case BY GUY BOOTHBY. Author of "Dr. Kikola," "The Beautiful White Devil," "Pharos, The Egyptian/' Etc. V J (Cupyrlghwd, IWI, b/ Ward, Lock & Co.} CHAPTER XI. It was in 1 lie early afternoon fol lowing- our leaving Paris that we reached Naples. But this time, in spite of our endeavors to prevent it, Miss Kitwater was quite tired out. She certainly pretended not to be, but it was difficult, if not impossible, for ber to conceal the fact. Immediately on arrival we conveyed her to the best hotel, of the proprietor of which Le ■glosse had already made inquiries, in order to find out whether or not Hayle liad taken up his abode there. It was with relief that we discov ered that no person answering' at all to his description was located there. That done, we commenced our search t'or the man we wanted. We decided to first try the offices of the various steamers plying across the Mediter ranean to Port Said. Considerably to our amazement, however, we hap pened to be successful at the first cast. A man signing himself as Henry Gif ford had applied for a first-class pass age to Colombo, with the intention of changing at that port into another steamer for Hong-Kong. "What was he like?" I inquired of the clerk; "and did anything strike you as peculiar about him or his ap pearance?" "Well, there was one thing," he said. "And at tlie time 1 must say I thought it funny. When I asked him bis name he began 'Gideon,' and then suddenly corrected himself and said: 'Henry Gifford.' I remember wonder ing whether he was usinga false name or not. He booked his passage at the last moment, and seemed in a great hurry to get aboard—being afraid he would miss the boat." 1 questioned him as to the man's gen eral appearance, and when I had learned all he had to tell us, 1 was per fectly satisfied in my own mind that Hayle was the man who had gone aboard. "He didn't lose much tiAie," said Le glosse. "Mark my words, he'll leave the. steamer at Port Said, and will either eorne back on his own tracks, or go up the Palestine coast to JafTa, and thence back to Europe. What do you think is the best thing to be done?" "See the agent of the company here and get him to telegraph to Port Said," I answered. "Both to their •gent there and the captain of the steamer. If the captain telegraphs back that Gifford is our man, we must wire to the police authorities author izing them to detain him pending our arrival. There is a bit of risk at tached to it, but if we want to catch him we must not think of that." We accordingly interviewed the agent and placed the case before him. We told him who we were, and Le glosse explained to him that he held a warrant for the arrest of one Gid eon Hayle, an individual whom he had every reason to believe was endeavor ing to escape under the assumed name «112 Henry Gifford. The clerk was next called in, and gave his evidence, and these matters having been settled, the telegrams were dispatched to both the captain and the agent. Some four days we knew must cer tainly elapse buforu we could receive a reply, and that time was devoted to searching the city for Kitwater and Codd. That they had not booked pas sages in the same boat in which llayle had sailed, we soon settled to our satisfaction. In that ease we knew that they must lie domiciled in .Na ples somewhere. In the intervals be tween our search J.eglo e and I used our lust endeavors to make Miss Kit water enjoy her stay. We took her to Pompeii, climbed Vesuvius together, visited ri, Ischia, the great mu seum, th' k.i% I aee, iiil », Hi il to gether ei< r> evening. I had not been acquainted with the girl much more than a fortnight, and ,\et I felt as if I liif! known her all my life, and the greater mv experience of her vvus, the better I llk< d her. A* for Leplohnc, he outiJ.il h*in elf in hi* devotion, lb* made the most extinordinary toilet* la her honor, and on one occasion went even Kit far us to inform m* that, if all Khjf lUll Wolue|| Here like this uifcu.at ut ttuulu good-by to his beloved Paris, and cross the channel never to return again. At last the eventful day arrived, and from nine till twelve we called re peatedly at the office for the telegram that was to mean so much to us. It was not, however, until the afternoon was well advanced that a message was received. 1 could have taken my stick to the agent for the slowness with which he opened the envelope. The clerk was called in, the code trans lated, and the message presently trans cribed. "This, gentlemen," he said at last, pointing to the telegram, "is from our agent in Port Said, and is as fol lows: "Gifford, small man, gray hair, and wears spectacles. No scar on face, cannot find first-class passenger with one. Fear you have been deceived." "Confound the fellow," I cried, "he's done us again. What's worse, we've wasted four precious days waiting for this message. What shall we do now?" "Look for him elsewhere," said Le glosse. "If he didn't go by that boat, he might have left by another." We thanked the agent for his cour tesy, and were about to leave the of fice when another telegram was hand ed in. We waited to see whether it was from the captain, and presently found that we were not destined to be disappointed. Once more the agent consulted his code, transcribed the message, and read it to us. "Have interviewed Gifford, threat ened him with the police for using passage booked by another person. lie confesses having been induced by stranger such its you describe to ac cept passage Colombo. How shall 1 act ?" "We've been done again," I cried, bringing my fist down with a thump upon the table. "It's only another proof of Hayle's cleverness. The in genious rascal books his passage here, knowing very well that it will be one of the first places at which we shall make inquiries, lets fall a 'Gideon,' and then transfers his ticket to some body else. 1 suppose he didn't bargain for my getting out of that house in time to follow him, and to telegraph to Port Said. Now that we are certain that he did not go that way, we must try and find out in what direction he did proceed." "And also what has become of the blind man and his companion," said Leglosse. "They may be hot upon his trail, and if we can only discover them, and keep an eye on them, we may find out all we want to know. But it is likely to prove a difficult task." We tried the various shipping offices, without success. We called at every hotel, important or otherwise, ques tioned the city police, who assured us they had seen nothing of the men we described, and finally were com pelled to own ourselves thoroughly well beaten. Leglosse's face was the picture of despair, and I fear mine was not much better. We inserted adver tisements in the papers, but with no more luck than before. From the mo ment the trio had entered Naples, they seemed to have vanished entirely. Then one evening a ragged urchin called at the hotel and asked to see us. In reply to our questions, lie in formed tts that he had seen two Eng lishmen only the day before, such as the police were inquiring for; one of them was blind, the other dumb. In deed, he was sure of this, for the rea son that he had carried their bag for them down to the harbor whence the Palermo boat hailed. We prickefl up our ears on hearing this. If his story was correct, and Kitwater and Codd had visited Sicily, then without a doubt Hayle must have gone there too. But we had no desire to allow our selves to be taken in again. It might be another of Hayie'k tricks, and for this reason we questioned the boy more closely, lie adhered, however, to his story without a variation. His description of the men was perfect in every respect, and he assured us most emphatically that he knew nothing of any individual with such a scar upon his face as Hayle possessed. At last we became convinced that his story was genuine, and we rewarded the boy accordingly. After he had disap peared we informed Miss Kitwater of the discovery we had made. "You will follow them to Palermo?" "Assuredly, mademoiselle," Le glosse replied. "1 have my duty to perform." "Then I must go with you," she an swered. "if he is on the island the chase must be drawing to a close, and I must be present to protect him, if possible, against himself." Accordingly next morning, for the steamer for that day had long since sailed, we set out for the kingdom of Sicily, that gem among Islands ns Goethe terms it. It was the first time Miss Kitwater had seen the southern coast, and for this reason I made her promise that she would rise early next morning in order that she might witness our approach to the far famed island. This she did, and side by side we watched the ves-el draw closer to the land. Away to the west lay the island of I'stiea, its outline sharply defined in the clear morning air. "How beautiful it all is!" she said, "and to think that we are sailing such lovely seas upon such un errand." "You must try not to think about it," I said. " 'Sufficient unto the day is tin- evil thereof.' I.et us hope that it will all come right in the end. If only l.eglo <• can get hold of llayle first, your uncle cannot possibly do hint any harm, however much dis posed he may be that way. lief ween tlx we ought to be able to manage that." Shortly after breakfast we obtained our tirkl glimpse of Sicily. It was a M-elie never to be forgotten. The blue sens, the towering mountains rising apparently out of it, made up a pie ture that was lovely lte_\oiui coin pare. Presently we steamed into the UliLlUtf ati.a uwu( wUi Iw iUs CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1902 Dogana, where our htggnge was exam ined. Ilere we commenced our in quiries concerning Kitwater and Codd, and had the satisfaction of learning, ou undoubted authority, that the story the boy liad told u» was cor rect. Such terrible infirmities as theirs could scarcely fail to attract notice, and more than 011 c of the otli cials remembered seeing and commis erating them. On leaving the Dogana, they had traveled to the city by cab, so we were informed. "The man who drove them is out side now," said one of them. "Perhaps the senor would care to question him." 1 replied that I j-fTould like very much to do so, and we accordingly went out into the street together. It appeared that the cabman remem bered his fares perfectly, the more so by reason of the fact that tho blind man had sworn at liim for not using greater speed in reaching the city. He had driven them to some furnished lodgings kept by his cousin, he said, and was proceeding to recommend them to us, when 1 cut him short by informing him that we had already de cided upon a hotel. We thereupon en tered the vehicle, he mounted the box, and we set oft". From the moment that we had set foot ashore .Miss Kitwater had been growing more and more nervous. When it was taken into con sideration that before nighffall some very unpleasant things might hap pen, 1 do not think this fact is to tie wondered at. I pitieU her from the bottom of my heart, and was prepared to do all that lay in my power to help her. It was a strange change for her, from the quiet little village of Bishop stowe, to the pursuit of a criminal across Europe to an island in the Med iterranean. "And when it is over?" was the ques tion 1 asked myself 011 numerous oc casions. "What is going to happen then? I suppose I shall bid her good by, she will thank me for the trouble I have taken, and then our acquaint ance will be at an entl." After that it had become my habit to heave a prodigious sigh, and to wonder whether she could be induced to— But somehow I never got much fur ther with my speculations. Was it like ly she would ever think twice of me? She was invariably kindly and thoughtful; she deferred to me 011 everything, and seemed to think my opinions and actions must of neces sity be right. Apart from that 1 felt certain I had made 110 other impres sion upon her. "Now, mon ami," said Leglosse. when we had installed ourselves at our hotel, "I think It would be better that you should efface yourself for a time. None of the men we are after know me, but Hujie and Codd would both recognize you at once. Let me go into the town and make a few Inquir ies, and if they are satisfactory we shall know how to act. Do your best to amuse mademoiselle, and I will hasten back to you as soon as I have anything to tell." Upon my consenting to this arrange ment he set off, leaving me free to de vote myself to the amusement of Miss Kitwater. As soon as she joined me we made our way into the garden of the hotel, and seating ourselves 011 a comfortable bench spent the remain der of the morning basking in the sun shine, and watching the exquisite panorama that was spread out before us. "I wonder what they are doing in Bishopstowe now?" I said, and a mo ment later wished 1 had held my tongue. "Poor little Bishopstowe," my com panion answered. "How thankful I shall be to get safely back to it! I don't think I shall ever want to travel again." "Ah! you cannot tell," I replied. "You are seeing the world just now under very unfavorable auspices. Some day, perhaps, you will follow the same route under conditions as happy as these are the reverse." 1 think she must have guessed to what I referred, for her face flushed a little, and she hastily diverted the conversation into another channel, by drawing my attention to a picturesque sailing-boat whichat that moment was entering the harbor. I tried to en tice her back to the subject later, but she would plainly have none of it. Only once did she refer to it, and that was when we were making our way back to the hotel to lunch. 1 stated my fear lest she should find all this run ning about from place to place tiring for her. "You need not be afraid of that." she answered. "1 am very strong, and am not easily tired, licsidcs, you have been so good and kind, Mr. Fairfax, and have done so much to insure my comfort, that, if only out of gratitude to you, I could not very well be fa tigued. 1 think you know how grateful 1 am to you, do you not?" As she said this she looked up at me with her beautiful, trusting eyes, and so overwhelmed me that it was as much as I could do to keep back the words that rose to the tip of my tongue. 1 answered her to the effect that 1 had only done my best to pro mote her comfort, and was about to say something further, when Le glosse made his appearance before us. I here was a look of great satisfaction upon his face. "1 think I know now all that there is to know," lie said. "If mademoiselle will excuse me, I will tell it. M. lluyle arrived here some Jive days ago, and has taken possession of a charming »illa some ten miles from the city. It is situated on the COD t and the ugent declares it to In' unique. How lout; be intend* to occupy it, hi-, the agent, could not say, but lie has paid a high rent for ii in advance, which appears to have given unlimited satisfaction. The otlu t' two men are still prowling about the city in search of him, but o fur i Ii•-> have not been successful lu their endeavor*." "t ouhl I not goto my uncle?" Mian Kit water inquired. "It might be po.->- *.W.« *ui U4li to U'Ui lu the island without seeing this wretcL ed man." "112 fear it would be useless," 112 an swered. "And you would only cause yourself unnecessary pain. No! what we must do is to communicate with the Palermo police; Leglosse can show them his warrant, and then we must endeavor to get Hayle under lock and key, and then out of the island, with out waste of time. That is the best course, believe me." "If all goes well, I shall make the arrest to-night," said Leglosse, and then added: "112 must get back to Paris as soon as possible." That afternoon he went out once more, this time to interview the police authorities. At five o'clock he re turned in a stale of great excitement. "The other two have discovered Hayle's whereabouts," he said, when we were alone together. ""And they have set off in pursuit. They have been gone more than an hour, and, un less we start at once, we shall be too late to take him before they run him to earth." "(iood heavens! Are you quite sure of this?" "As sure as T can be of anything," he answered. "I have been to their house." "Do not say anything about this to Miss Kitwater," I said hurriedly. "We must make the best excuse we can to account for our absence." I tried to ite- this, but she saw through my endeavor. "You are going to arrest him, I can see," she said. "Poor unhappy man! But there, I would rather 1 hat should happen than that he and my uncle should meet, fio, Mr. Fairfax, and I pray God you may be successful." [To Be Continued ] SOMETHING JUST AS GOOD. Storekeeper Mail nn lilen Thnt Peo ple Could I)o Tlieir Own mow ing; If Xeee*»ary. Abel Judkins kept the corner store in Centerville, and K was his boast that no man who patronized him need lack for anything he wanted, provided he had the wherewithal to pay, relates Youth's Companion. Occasionally some unreasonable per son would ask for a commodity not in cluded in Abel's list; but if he did so, he was either provided with something which Mr. Judkins assured him was better than the article he had desired, and served exactly the same purpose, or he was made to feel that it was, for some dark and mysterious reason, no longer "carried" by any progressive and self-respecting shop. When a carping summer resident, whose pair of ancient bellows, bought at an auction sale, had collapsed be yond repair, expressed surprise that no bellows were to be had of Mr. Jud kins, the Centerville storekeeper turned upon her with a lofty smile. "Folks here, ma'am," he said, coldly, "don't hold with getting so took up with old ideas, or being so narrow, as some of those that summer with us from below. The advances of civiliza tion are prized here in this town, and air-tights with drafts are more thought of than old cbimbly fireplaces that require constant feeding and have t* be blowed onto keep 'em a-going." He glanced at the summer resident, but could discover no special signs of weakening or humility in her faeo. With a briskness which always marked his mercantile proceedings, he changed in a twinkling from the advocate of progress to the upholder of primitive methods. "But folks will be folks, ma'am," he said, indulgently, "and if you like an open glow I don't know what's to hin der. And better than any bellows that ever were made, ma'am, is an onion stalk. I can fit you out complete with three stout ones at this present, and when you've blowed them out o' use fulness, all you've got to do is to come to Abel Judkins and get some more." Doctor'* Wife's Aen roes. "The year before the civil war,"sai«l the smoker, according to the Chicago Tribune, "the locust pests came to my section of the country in northwest Missouri in myriads. They weighted the branches of the trees until the branches broke down. They lined the fences, crawled tip to the doors of the houses, and covered the roofs. They were of the singing species. I don't know whether t here is another species or not, but the ones we had produced the most peculiar noise I ever heard. It was something like that made by the katydid. There was this differ ence. tin- katydid occasionally takes an hour or two off tot tine itself, but the 17-year-old locusts, like the harp of David, were always in tune. "They began to sing at sunup. It was a sort of low hum at first, like the rustle of the leaves of a forest when they are stirred by the first whirl of a hurricane. As the day advanced the locusts got more courage and swelled the sound until it seemed as if it tilled all creation. When the locusts once struck the keynote they never varied. That was what drove some people crazy—-the monotony of that sound something like \siz-z-z-ee; iz-zee; iz zee,' with never a variation, until at sunset it would begin to die. And in its dying it seemed to (ill the earth with a sense of desolation. As dark ness crept over t he country t here came to the inhabitants the sensation that these winged songsters were still it broad, and that they were only turn ing over the music so as to begin again the next day on the first sheets. "And as surely as the sun came tip the next morning the tuning in the trees and the housetops was revived, and ;is the sun mounted skyward the insect chorus increased. The music wits the same, only the volume grew greater day by day, for the locusts multiplied by night. "One could easily believe the descrip tion of these insects as given by an Arab from Bagdad in olden t ictus to be correct. Ile said the head of the locust was like that of a horse; its breast like that of a lion; its feet like those of a camel; its body like that of a serpent; its tail like that of a scorpion. The prophet, Joel, probably did not overstate it when he said of the locusts of his time that they dark ened the sun. The locusts of the time of which I speak did likewise. "We hail it large negro population Women in the law seem to have made reputations in patent WOMAN AND T II E LAW liv CATHERINE MAY BURNF.T, Manager of tin* Rockefeller Branch of the Legal Aid Society, New York. sition to the idea of professional women, and especially to women lawyers. Personally, 1 find that everybody treats me well. Judges have always been remarkably kind, and opposing lawyers respectful. S( > FAR I fI.W K EOL'XD MY SEX AN ADYAXTAGE RATHER THAX A HIXDRAXCE. Women who wish to pursue the law as a profession should have not only a college education and law school certificate, but knowl edge of the world. They should knock about for a year, and come in contact with all kinds of people, before attempting to practice. The usual trouble with women as lawyers as yet is that they are either too modest or too much the reverse. They are too new in the profession. They are too self-conscious, and take themselves too seriously. After all, the chief difference between men and women in the court room is CI. r her chance of success in the law a man's '•**> / chance. HE I'.L'IEDS ON STUDY, Jl**- \ WUKK, CHARACTER. SO ilt'ST SHE v I ill our part of tlie sta.te. Like all negroes, they were superstitious and tlieir superxt it ion culminated in weird religious zeal. The appearance of these locusts increased the camp meeting's in the country, and the ne groes went through their incantations in a way that made the midway con tortions of the World's Columbian ex position seem tame. "itiglit in the midst of ilie visitation of the pest came the comet. Nig Tit after night for several weeks the heavenly visitor glowed like a hurri cane of flame, and cast upon the earth a peculiar, yellowish light that was indescribable. The coming of this comet almost made the population frantic, for no sooner did the chorus of the locusts dwindle in the night than the lamentations and prayers of the negroes in their cabins filled the air. "As the comet grew less luminous night by night, and finally disap peared, the locusts begun to disappear, lint they did not take their flight until they had stripped the forests of their foliage, eaten into the roots of the grass, and killed every vestige of vegetation. "Nobody ever followed the winged army in its flight to see where it went, but the next year the civil war burst upon the country, and then the more superstitious asserted that it was presaged by the locusts and the comet. Hut by that time many of the negroes who had been impelled to what they called religion, backslid, and the chicken roosts suffered as of old. The idea of freedom was disseminated among them, and they forgot all about the locust plague and the comet. I'.ut the white folks never forgot either and there was a prevalent opinion that if the ancients ever fed upon locusts, a!l other crops must have failed, or else the ancients had appetites that were easily satisfied." In Olil Ken tuck. "What are you doing in the moun tains so early?" asked the hunter ia Kentucky. "Thought if I came out early I might find a 1 still," responded the revenue officer. "H'm! The early bird catches the 'worm,' 1 suppose."—Chicago Daily News. Allll<| ull y of the I niltrelln. The umbrella and parasol were used by the eastern nations many centuries before the Christian era. The oldest china ware shows pictures of ladies and mandarins shaded by parasols of patterns similar to those now in use.—Albany Argus. succeed best in specialties. Some law. Many liave succeeded in sur rogate's work and real estate practice. The women who have made names for themselves in general practice are few. In Xew York, Miss Rosalie Loew has a practice of which many well-to-do men lawyers might he proud. There is said to he great oppo