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At tcti-timo In tht rtiil.ly llRht ('l:r..-.:iiilliciaui!is vteni in tht-ir plory My lalv ftmut to say t'lMKl-niht, Ami In i: fur just "one little story." I tiUl hi r how a frirl like her Cum- Iiiiilt u;r4i, Moitu'where or other. Ami Im.tilii lii-r doll ami made a Ktir, Ami hryj-'eil u stiry from her tnotner, W ho, tireil ami listless, also crossed T In- Utile st4iry-l'j--(,'im? tH'tiuty With tiewM of how uuotlii-r flossed Her irksome story-tolling duty. Still Iwu kuiiril w:s the tale refeml 'I'o weary h'-r, hut when I ended. As if I haul not sniil a Wird, With looks liiilf-ileadiiis-', half-ofTeiuled, She elasin il n.y neek her ehihlish trust Haiti luaiile Hie hairdest hear' fonipliamt- "A Utile one," she satiil. 'ph'atse just Ati4ui a fairy and a plant." I hissed her elose, ami olT I wenta "t hire on :'. tiim1," low. slow itml steady. She h.-..e.l a si-li of sweet content: Aly ilarliii was asleep ailri-ady. tiood Words. A STKAXiH AVILIj. It Brought Fortuno .ind Ilnppinosa to Two Lovers. Yes, shf was .load at last Martrarft Tv-iiiorest. of Stony LkI";i and 1 1 it" kIi ii-lc f tier demise had shaken Ilelle vih; frntn eenter to eireuiiifeiviiee. For years her numerous relatives, each with an eye lo the estate, had watched iuT niovi-metits from a res;x'etful dis tamee, which she herself had interposed liclweeii them, ttr.il their lii-airts hut trrnwii sick with holn- deferrctL I leairt disease, the doctors said, when saie was found one niornino; witli a smile of H-aee frozen on hi r st.-rii ami wilh'Tcd i"i':ilures. The relatives tie-ccnti-.l tin' Vi-rdict with due ivsijuai i ii :ai. f- .11. .v. in t he remains .f the "dear i:i itt-il" to their final lestiiij' plan'e aitniil an ost en tait ions display f cr:iK-. II.:t when tlii- wiil was read t he exeite-ii'4-nt ..I tl.e In irs al-law rapidly ascended to fev-r lieaL A ! ways riven lri in lifi". Miss ih-iporest haul reta.iiaeil thatt iventrieity to the end and woven it inl-i l.i r last will and testament. With tie- c.ce t ion of a few l.a-ipiests to In - r mtv ants, tin- w hole of her pro rty. laia.diil and pert.on.tl, to wit: Stony l.oia'e, her present residence, with its lieatntifnl parte, which was a very Ivl.-n i f loveliness; Rose Villa, her winter n-s.irt mi Lake Helen, l-'hu. tt irct lier with a spU-iidfil hou.-c in town ai'ul mniii'V t. the auiu Mill t of five hun dred t in -U-..I ti.l dollaiis, was to paiss into t !. sol.' j - session of that one anion her Kiiisl'.ilk who sliotiiil discover the liii iiiif pi ice of the twelve Demorest n. i n. -s. Should the rems remain tindiscov- ri i :a f l. r t lae hipe of one year fr4.ui l in- i.a.t of dcait h the estate was to le : i!d am ! .1 home fiTohl maids founded v i : ii t !;c pr. iceeds. " Thi'i i l 1 at!" imitter.'d faslii mal'le Mrs. !. :-4-ili;!i. viciously. .!! ii'nl tiai se rr.l-ies herself, tin' spiteful tl.iii ,-!" "It is too provi.kinp;!" pout.-.l her pretty dati. fitter Maude. "i shall contest the will,' said thin liriped Ki'iilH'ii l.raiy. "It cannot statu. I." . Mrs.. Meredith was Miss Dcmorest's rii.-ce and U -uleii liraiy her nephew. The two were brother anil hister and the nearest akin to the dead woman. Next came Margie Vane, child of a favorite nephew, who was to have been the heir had he not displeased his aunt by marry !n; apati list her will a trirl of ibsctire patretitae "a pauper, " Miss D.Mii- r, sl calle.l li-r. Harold Vane had died some years back, closely followed by his w ife, and the one thiii'hter, Matraret, was left ail.nie in the world ami utterly penni less. '.rs. Meredith had taken her for the old aunt had retua.-ct olulurate and she was now serving in the capacity of maid to her beautiful .tous'ni Maudo. Marjae Viine was not present at the rca iiti' of the will. Mrs. Meredith con sidered it unnecessary, ami Margie her self had not the faintest hope of be-intf 'remembered kindly by her faithitrs stern old relative. When, therefore, they returned in aner and disappoint ment and e-ave an account of tlie word ing of the will Margie's hazel eyes opi ned wide with wonder. That af t'-riKMiii and many ensuing a f ' , rm Mris M rs. Meredith, Maude and Mairjjie wailUed over t- Stony Lod'fejtml wandered fruitlessly about amid the treasr.fesof bric-a-brac, statuary, Imoks and rare old china. I In one of these occasions Mairjrie met Will llcnn rest, a cousin several limes i'4-innviil f her father. lb' was a frank, hainiisome y.miic; fellow, with dairk blue eyes and close, cnriine;. fair hair. His was the genuine Demorcst face, the index of a strony, Uoblu char acter. lly occupation he was an artist in f lass-blow in .', havinjr learned the art in Venice. 1 1 - had done eoiisitlcrable wor!: for Miss Demorost, wit h whom lie was a prime favorite. "So you thou ght you would have a look for t he rill ics w ith the rest of us," said Mrs. Meredith, with a sneer, as she found the yoiiny (,'las.sblowcr exam ining the bc.oks in the librairv one itaoruin'. "Yet I thought you abhorred mercenary considerations." "I am not in .pa st of the evms," VVill replied, as bis eyes rested in unmtstak ai.ic admiration on Margie's fair, sweet face. "Humph! I hope you don't take lue f..p a lunatic or a fool. W ill lleiuorest," was the aeuthin;.' rejoinder. "'or neither, 1 assure you," said Will, v. ith a IhiW. "Only at jres-nt I am ui..re inti-restcd in jicarls tiian nibl.-s. C.usi:i Margie, may I show you the h use? 1 lulievf 1 know it more thor ..tilJy than most pis .pic." Margie shyly af;itiescetl. and the two w. nlotT together, leaving Mrs. Mer ii.t!i ami Maude to continue their search. "Are you anxious to find the rubies also?" asketl Will, as they paused in the china close I. to admire the cut glass. "I have, not even looked for them," answered Margie, with a bright smile. "They are magnilieent gem;.." said Will, ' and w ere never scL 1 saw them just cnee, and they nearly took my breath awaj'." "I should like to m-c them," Margie said, musingly; "but oh. Will, were they more iK-autiftil than these exquis ite cups? Surety that is impossible." The cups in question were, indeed, exquisite. Ill.iwn of the costliest Vene tian glass, lily-shaped, with curled leaves for saucers, and glowing with rainbow tints, they resembled nothing so much as a bed of gorgeous tropical flowers. Margie's eyes sparkled as she looked at them. "How lovely! How dainty! Mow fairy-like!" she exclaimed, breathless ly. "See, Will; this one is exactly like an opal with a touch of fire, and here is an amethyst and here a glowing emerald. Oh, Will, do look! See how that strange glow, as of hidden fire. Hashes from each! This one is jacinth, this beryl, and -Will Demurest, here is a ruby! Oh, the lieauty! The real gems cam not le more superb!" As she sjHike she took the ruby cup int: her lratnd. Will half started for ward as if to prevent her, but drew back again with a pale, startled face. Ilefore he could frame a reply Mrs. Meredith and Maade appeared upon the scene. "Margie," cried the former, "put down that cup and come along. I should think you would have more pride than to dawdle here all day talk ing with Will Demorest." Margie's soft, hazel eyes filled with tears as Lawyer Kay entered the room, and from under his bushy brows glanced sharply at each of the group. "Hunting for rubies, oil?" he said, sarcastically'. "Hut Miss Margie seemed to Ik.' the only successful ime of the party. This is a rare bit of glass. Miss Margie, and was blown by our friend here," with a motion of his hand to ward Will. M argie's hand tightened on the cup in her surprise; her rosy forefinger pressed a r.-tised stamen in the calyx of the lily Ik'U, when, presto! change! it sank beneaith her touch, and her startled eyes gazed straight into a small cavity where glowed a ruby of inestimable value, like a drop of rosy lire. "Solved!" shouted Lawyer Fay, as his eyes also beheld the gems. Will, very white, shrank back against the wall, while Mrs. Meredith and her .laughter pressed closer to Margie and tiie lawyer. "The rubies!" gaspiil the avaricious uiiinin, making a dive for the other I cup. le.it her lawyer placet! himself in her way. "I lig your pardon," he said. "The discovery is Miss Margie's, and, in ae tsirdanee with the t.-rms of the will of my di-eeatsed client, she is sole heiress to the Demorest estate." Mrs. Meredith grew pale with cha grin. Maude hurst int.. tears, ami Kcn'-cn Uray, who had heard all from the door, announced his intention of breaking such atn unjust w ill. "V011 may try it," was all Lawyer Fay saiid to the threat. V. ilT canne siowly forward and con gr itu aatc.1 Margie on her goo-1 fortune. "And my congratulations are mine the less sincere t'nait with them I re sign the sweetest hope of 1113 life," he saini. "K.'sign a fiddlestick!" muttered the old lawyer. "Margie, that ly refused to be made Miss Demorest's heir i n-si-.teil that it would Ik- an inja.-tice to Jo.-.- nearer of kin. Then she made him blow these cups of tinted glass, with the central cavity and spring.' She inserted a ruby in each cup. which, combined with the different lints, gave them .heir rich coloring. He watched her hide the rubies and he has k.-pt the .-..end. Does he n.it merit some re war.'?" Margie flushed anil glanced timidly at WilL Then she looked around for her aunt and cousin, lloth had disap peared. "Take her. Will." said the old law yer, with twinkling eyes, "and bless ye, my children." With a melodramatic gesture he. too, vanished, and I think the young people were not long in coming t an under standing, for cards are iuw out for the wedding. Leeds Mercurv. DOOM OF THE BLACK SUIT. Larger I.ntltiolo to tie Allowed tit the Matter of llrcH. The Clothier ami Furnisher for Janu ary announces a revolution in the dress coat among the London swells. The stately and somlier black is In-ing discarded and a dark gray is takinif its piace. Many orders have recently Ix-en placet 1 in New York for suits of the saiiu' male rial, but there is lum ii t'.ilii culty in getting the goods from Lng lataitl. However, one New Y'ork tailtir has succeeded in getting a sample frt-r.l w hich it is quite likely that our manu facturers will soon succeed in producing a satisfactory- imitation. We think thai, the change will be hailed as a read re form, even among those sturdy Ameri cans who object to everything that i. "Knifli.-h. you know." Fashion has ri;.--idly Ik.uti.I gentlemen to black, while ladies are permitted to indulge in all the colors of the ra.inl.ow. That blan k is di-likcd ami only or, dnrisl under the arbit rameiit of faishi-v is evident from the fact that no gentle man accepts it for a business t.r undress suit. Dark "ray will answer for the li-ginning .i the reform. Tlx-re will quickly Ik- innovations upon ii. accord ing to taste. Lighter grays will follow, and then browns, bines ami alt other colors, sl.aul.-s and tints. -Our fore father? were gorgeous in dress, with their fancy w aistcoats, ki.ee breeches, m.nitd shirts, jxiwdercd wigs, etc.. and tI:-. :hl ami discarded fashions, to. cost ly for the .IclTersonian simplicity of the young republic, may yet return with the increase of wealth. True democ racy in dress w ill permit a larger lati tude than is prevail nt at this date. ANCIENT WONDERS. Thk o!eliks of Egypt were raised into place by instruments like our cranes. Tiik famous bridge constructed by Out-en Nilivris at I'.abvion an.! de- j serilH-d by Di.Mlarus was five furlongs long. Fi.vtM buttresses were first em pl.edto supjMtrt the roofsof churches. Their origin dates from the thirteenth century. It is lndieved that the long-lost Viaz zetta column is on the eve of lt-ing re covered, after lying for the lntst part of eight centuries in the lagoon mud of Venice. Maria 1 lii-rn.il I ...liar In Africa. The imjHTial Maria Theresa dollars of 17(1 are in use all over Africa as a circulating medium. They are still coine.l with the same date. During the Ah ssinian war tlreat Hritaiu wa- obliged to purchase large quantities of these dollars in Austria to meet the war cxjciises in Africa, as the natives knew 110 other coin. NEVEU TOO LATL. How tho Old Folks Proved tho Adago a Truo One. It was decided at last. The home place would have to be sold, for none of the lH.vs.were willing to lift the mort gage wouldn't pay, they said ai.d the father and mother would have to end their days aparL "ISecause," said Matilda, the young est, "it wouldn't do for anyone ol us to try to take care of them both together. We've always had to live in the quarrel and jangle ourselves, and to have the example of it bef.ire our children would le a downright sin." Jane, the older daughter, said noth ing, but she thought to herself that if her husband were worth as much as Matilda's was she would take Iwt.i par ents to her home and risk the example they might set for the third generation. Hut ever since Matilda had first lisped her voice had settled family mat ters, and so father was to go with Jane to the citv ami mother to move oi er to the great real-brick farmhouse which was Matilda's home. "Mother w ill lie right handy about the work," Matildasaid to her hus natul, when he showed some inclination to object- "And there isn't a lctter hand in tlie country with children. We won't h.se anything." So the Scptemlier morning came when the couple who had never parted in fifty years bade each other fare well, much as mere acquaintances would have done. Father, dressed in his best clothes, muttered "(od-by" in a defiant sort of way and hobbled out to the soring w agon, w iiiie Jane paused to ki .s the little old woman who sat looking out of the window in an indifferent wav. "(iood-by, mother. I hope yov will In? happy with Mat. Won't you come to tlietiiM.r and father off?" "Oil I ilunno as it's wuth while." re turned the old lady, and then Jane, too, was game. When she was aure the spring wagon was out of sight Mrs. I'aiue put on her gingham lion net an.l walked ov ir to the cemetery just up the hilL The graves when' she paused were not well tended no engraved stories marked their places ami the grass was cut away only enough to outline the mounds. Two were small, those. .f in fauls; one was that of a mail's sic, and they were all her children, two daugh ters and one son. The son was he- old est chiltl and he would have been forty-eight or forty-nine years old now. He had died while studying for the miuistry. She had seven child r. 1 liv ing, but in her times of trouble and sorest trial she had always wan ered over to this sacred spot ever six ce it was first made thirt3" years ago. T.nlay she sat down in the sun-dried grass ainl cried for some time. "He might a-said something ru re." she Mbled to herself. And thei. she heard Matilda calling and hurried back to the house. The months passed slowly. At C irist 111 as time there was some talk of a re union, but the talk did not materi tiize. Letters came from Jane saying fa ther was tolerably contented. but missel his loafing place at "The forrt-rs." He sent his regards to mother. -lane always added that of her ow n ac-urd, for father never sent any word to any one. Hut when Matilda answered the old mother always told her to in quire after father's health and to send h ?r re spects. It was one warm day in March that the little old lily's cup seemed full to overllowitig. Matilda had gone to 1 own. and the children were unusually paar relsome and boistrous. The grand mother had reproved them mildly, and at last sue spoke a little sharply. "l.rother and sisters shouldn't wrangle the hull time! Y'ou ort t say a decent word to one nuther onct in awhile, anyways!" she said. Lucy, the thief culprit, tossed her head disdainfully. "I guess you needn't to talk, grand ma! Matumai says you and grandpa al ways lived like cats and dogs." "And you're livin' off papa, now, too," a.hhsl (Jeorge, emboldened by his sister's example, and not particular as to whether his remarks were called for t.r 110L Mrs. Tatine sat very still for a mo inciiL Then a bright red spot liamed on each cheek, and gathering up her knitting she slowly went to her room upstairs. Yes, it was true. lint what had caused it? They had married voung aiul for love only, for neither hf d any worhlly we ilth. How had the ti uble coiiianenc d? She couhl not remt mber exactly, but the children wert the main causes. The babies came fa ,t and the iifther had to work hard. Sick ness and hard work do not sweeten a wo. nan's teanjHT. The father was im patient and easily rebuffed that was how it commenced. Then the jarriug culminated in one great quarrel, when Henry, the . hlest, was s.'iit away to school. His:ather -wanted to hire him out when he was seventeen, but the mother was ambi tious and Henry hail finished the tours.,' at the village academy with high hon ors. ' He was thirsting for more study a bright, liauilsome lad, and his 1: .other was so proud of him anil he went aw ay to college, l.ut never aga n was there -:iee Itetwccn the parents. At college Henry wasconverted to r ligi.jn and decided to study for the ministry then he was stricken w ith tv phoi.l fever, and the greater part of his moth er's heart was buried with him in the village cemetery. .The poor little failed mother sa' there recalling the long-l.wst years, m.v with a thrill, now with a pang, earth y am bitions and death-despairs strangely mingled, and not noting the silt-ice in the r. xims b-low until the sun va near setting. Theu Matilda's voice was call ing through the house and the mother awoke from her reveries and went .lowa stairs. "Where are the children?" demmded Matilda, sharply. "Now, I dct-lar I dunno!" confessed her "Kit her. r-hamefacedlv. "Well, mother. It does seem to me, as much as I do for you, you mig .t look after them Wttcr It's all you're got to tlo. There's no telling what mischief they'ri in!" And again the old lady went to her room in silence and with burning 1 cheeks. When they called her to sup- Iper she said she was not hungry, and, as Lucy and Lleorge were in ti re dis grace and sent to iksI supiH'rless. Ma tilda and her husband ate alone. "Mother always did have such a disa greeable tcniM-r stublMirn and sulky. If she had been milder with father they would have lived more like other people," said Matilda, indifferently, when explaining the cause of her moth er's al.M'nce. "I wouldn't keer so much," the old lady was sobbing to hcrstlf upstairs, "if only pap hed sent me some little word tliat he wanted to see me Chil dren's mostallers ungrateful anyways, 'siK'cially them that's hed the most done fur 'cm, an' I've worked my life out for mine, "Hut I wouldn't a hail'om if it hadn't a Ixvn for love of pap, an' I don't think he'd ort to forgit me now!" Down in the city the warm spring datys awoke a new restlessness in old Mr. l'aine. His daughter Jan was as kind to him as a kin J daughter could !k. Her children were taught to ad dress him respectfully and to wait on his every wish Wcause h;1 was the'.r grandparent- I5ut the warm sunshine called up visions of the country home where the grass would Ik' just deepen ing into green again and the maple tNinghs bursting with buds. He had always had a lettuce bed just through at this time. And the spring longings recalled the days of youth and the little children who had played atM.ut him as he weeded anil hoed in his garden, and the busy mother often taking time from her own work to help him. I.ut she hail always scolde 1 so much, he muttered defiantly to himself, and was ever s- detcrmin".l to have her own way. Then a twinge of eon science told him her way had generally been the licst, for she was clearer sighted than he, and he picked up his cane and hobbled away to the park in a funny sort of little dudgeon. Then as he sat in the p irk ha thought of Henry and tears came to his eyes in spile of him. "He's mighty fond of his mother an she was a gtMni mother, too; I'll say that for her anyways. Henry w;is a fine boy. He'd a-ticcu the finest we jot if he'd a-lived, for be seemed t, 1 hev more sense an" giMxl-heartedness, some ways. I don't know as I blame her. after all. for l-in so bnuiil to hev iniu go to college." And. the barrier of stublnrn reproach once Ii m .scTied, some way every tiling began to look different, and w hen he hobbled back to the house the oid c:i t'.eiuau was very heart-sick to se' the wife he haul treated so brusquely the past many years. He went straight to his old satchel ami tiM.k out a weil-eared-for look, but one of an old bln.ling and print- It was a Lattin grammar, and ha l been his secret and mos!. carefully-preserved treasure tor over tmrty yean. As the mother had gone to the grave of her most ardent ambitions, so he now turmsl the pages of his boy's bxii;, one word of w hich he couhl nt understand, but couhl only regard with awe. Then he crime to a page on tlie margin of w hich was much line writing in elegant scripL It was not hard for him to read, little bo.k learning as he had. Mother dear mother Wife and mother, man's truest friends guardian atngels in death. Mother sweetheart wife Edith." "He must a-been in love with sMime biMly himself," mused the old father, but he diiln't forgit his mother, neith er. She was my sweetheart onct!"' Ilefore grandfather went to sleep that night he had formed a fresh deter mination. "Jennie," he said to his daughter ia the morning, "you know the I'.arkin cottage up to the Crossings? Well, I'm goin' up and see if I can't rent it They's a nice garden patch with it. auil 'tain't tin. late yet to put i:i garden stuff, an' an" don't ye think mother' d lie willin' fur to cook fur me. " "Y'es, father; you know she always sends yoa her respects." There were tears in Jane's eyes, despitu the smile on her lips. "An' I'm pretty sure I could make enough with the ganlen fur her an' me, aa' you children could help us. I dou't believe Henry would want us to live this wav; do you?-' "No, father." That night, an hour or so after the express thundered past the station, a couple of miles from the crossing, Grandfather l'aine walked up Matilda's front yard and around to the back door, where the old graudiuotlier was put ting away the night's milk. Grandmother gave a little glad cry and dropped the criMj'.t of milk all over the tabby cat, and threw her arms around his neck. "1 just coul.ln't stand it no longer, Mary, an' I 'lowed as yon and me hed run it this long we might stick toget h er for the few years that's left to us. An' mother, I'm powerful srry I tit you like I allers did about Henry's goin' to college." Matilda started to oppose the new arrangements. She said they weren't fit to W left alon.' at their age and would be an endless trouble to the children. Hut for once Matil.la was overruled and in a few days grandmother was busily engag.il in "tixin' up" the little rented nest, only a stone's throw from the old home where the ten children had teen sheltered anal had die.! or married. And, as they say in more ro mantic tales, they lived happily ever afterward. Iielle V. Logan, in Chicago News. THE PRESS. Ix some suburban towns the news paper carrier nowadays makes his rounds on a bicycle. Of the W papers and magazines puV lished in New Y'ork city one-half -!T:' are issued monthly. The dailies numlMT forty-six. The first printing press, with the ut most diligence, could le male to print from twenty to thirty-five sheets an hour on one side only: the printing presses of to-day print from 'J.".0iM) to :;0.kmJ in the same time 011 lsith sides. Cl HVKH stereotyped plates were in dented in 1S15, but were little used for half a century after that date. Since lsig. they have come into general em ployment in every newspaper office m J the country whose edition is printed on a last steam press. The first almanac was printed in Hungary in 147(1. One medical linn in this country now prints anil circulates over S.iKMMMHl a year, and it is estima ted that the total nnmU'r printed an nually in this country docs not fall fchort of 150,000,000. MEDLEY FROM THE POETS. The moon was shiaaltiti silver hriiht An' hlooess lay the unlr.xlucu snow, Wtcn freedom, fr .111 her mountain hi-tirl. t, Kxcla.inicd: "Xu, don't be foohhli. Jot-'" An hour pa-mil on the lurk unite; A ' unit !. !-c went tliuniier:n hy To IhiVit in the sulphur smoke An 1 spread its pull uinin the sky. His ci lt-iiiiia; ax the iximan swung; "le wa.s a lad of h'i-'ii reaiown: A,.- 1 ui 1 0 .lie pearly i:iv- s an:. or.tr. ; ies Scruir?:fiM courted Molliu Brown. I,uti Tilers the wtit'l in constant Mast, An 1 ca-jill 'M si ts the sua at 1 vi-u. When twilight new s are fa!!ii.j.r fast, Ata-l rolls li.c tumult r drum of heaven. O' ever t.'.u.s from ctniilh.Mit's hour. ily l-.-ri-n a.ni lrun.i-i Tal array, ii, Iietiraih yoii ivv-iiiaii'.ie'l tower The oj.l fr. croak 1 Lis j..-r.-nadt. Mv love is like the re t, re 1 rose; 11- hoiirht a rni;r v. ith iK.sey true; Sir I tart., y !liit:-i t.r. lac I. as 11 And, Saatou, 1 aim Uo.i ra. '.a liiu! Am -sua? Journal. HIS SINC.iJLAIi CASE. A Detoctive's Strans?o Experience with a Sleep-Walker. "nuoxToN. N V.May 1 1. l-7a S.-n.l your t -st tna.n ti nie imm.nlaaieiv Wll.I.I IM H AItliV." Such w:is the telgram received 1V the chief of the bureau of w hich I am a meialiei. and I was deputed to work nMn the case: not In-cause I wa the "In-st man" connected with the bureau, but by reason of the fact that 1 was the jnly available man. Four hours subsequent to the recep tion of t!i4- message I was conferring with Mr. Hardy a man nearly sixty years i f age. the proprietor of a sinali store con tu-ctcd w ith his residence 1. whom I had made myself known, whose story was as follows: " V hen. at the close of the rcWilion. after a four years" service in In-half of niv country, 1 returned to my home in this town, my health was so impaired that I could riot follow my former vo cation that .if a c;trjM-ritT. So I con verted one of the rooms in my house iiiio a store and began to soli confec tionery, cigars anil other small articles. Wilii tl.e gmwih of the t'.wr. my busi ness has increased until it affords r.v am income siifucieiit to support 111 v wife :t!d myself 1 have no thildrcn in a comfortable manlier; an.l I have Ik-cii ab- to pay all the di b's v. I. id I. ow ing to n.y irnpecn niou-ness. w at; obliged to contract durin g the earlier piirt of my career its a merchant,"" anil he smiled as the last word fell from bis lips. "Marly last evening," he tnntinued. "I was called u jx'ii by a geiitleaian a stranger to me who said that years ago he Ixirrowed nine hundred dollars of my father and had come to pay that amount and accrued interest to me my lather's stile heir. He oid pay me nearly .sixteen hundred dollars. "As it was too lat.? t l-o.it tlie niom-j- iu Ike bank I placed it in my safe. I ha.1 scarcely done so when, glancing at one of the windows in the store, I saw the head an.l shoulders of a man, who looked like a tramp and win) was watching me closelj-. "The lower sasn 01 me win-tow was slightly raised and the idea suggested itself to me that this man might have In-en listening to the conversation w hich had Vk-cti carried on in the room, learned alut the money .-tnd was watching to see what I did with it- I stepped to the window, raise. 1 the sash still higher, put my head out of the window, looked up ami down the street, but nowhere was the stranger to be seen. "When I closed the store for the night I was inclined to take the money with me into the house proper. On second consideration I decimal it w ist to let it rt-malii where it was, as the sa:e is furnished with a combination lock, ami I could leave the doors l,e twecn the store and my sleeping room ojK-n and thus be enabled to hear anyone who effected an entrance to the store and was tampering with the safe- "This morning, to my intense amaze ment, I found that the money was missing from the safe, though nothing indicated that the store had b.'cn forci ble entered or any tampering with the safe w hose combination is known on ly to me. "I decided toemploy a detective with out delay and wired your bureau lor assistance." "May not the burglar have gained ac cess to the store from some other part of the building?" I inquired. "lie could not without passing through my slceping-iiM.iu, as you w ill find by examining the premises, and I do not think he could have done this without waking me." was the reply. "1 am not so sure that you would have been wakened by his passing through your sleeping apartment, as a 'professional' manages to get alwiut a building w ithor.t making much noise. Have von 1 -.Hiked through the house?" "1 have not." "Let us do so," arising from my seat in the store as I spoke. We started on our investigation of tl.e premises and in the kithen found an unfastened window above a sink, below which, out of diMirs. were the tracks 01 a man's bare feet in the dirt that had been moistened by a slight rain alxiut half past ten the previous, evening. A careful examination revealed sim ilar tracks on the floor in the kitchen and on the carpet in his sleeping-room, convincing Mr. llar.l v that I was cor rect in ::i.V s; p-siti.'i: that the burglar had. not directly entered the store. "Though he passed through my sleeping-room w ithout waking me I cannot comprehend how he could lave reached the interior of my safe with out inj.irittgttie receptacle." Mr. Hardy remarked. "From long experience one's fingers become so sensitive as to enable ham to open a safe when the combination is unknown to him." I rejoined; after a pause adding: "Can you give nie mis description of the- man who watched you through the window?" "I cannot, further than to say that he was evil-looking, had a heavy mus tache and li-aivl, was probably about six feet in height," was the reply. "YV ere his mustache and beard light or dark?" 'I should say they were almost blaCk " 'T will see if I can learn anything concerning the w hert alnjuts of this man." With th.-se words I went from Mr. Hardy's presence, but two hours liter returned to the store, to find him its sole occupant, greatly to my satisfae ti -ii. ' "Well," at once dropped from his lips in an inquiring tone. "I found yur evil-looking' suspect and in him a detect ivc. who, so 'made up' that his parents would Hot recog nize him, is working oil the mysterious disapiM-arancc of h young mam from a ncighlM iring town, some four or five days ago," I said. "Tij.. disappearance of Charles Walker?" "Yes, that is the name of the missing man." "It is a said affair and wonderfully strange, too, as he was a perMni of shit less character had highly esteemed by all who knew him. ' "I .lid not r.-cognize my brother de tective, but w lien he had made himself known to mi' acquainted him With my Vase' ami your description f him. Tint latter caused him to laugh and say that he looked into your store by the merest accident. "At li.c hotel where I bik my sup ht, I asiii-il the clerk if tin- establish ment was pp.ided with a burglar pp.of safe. He gave me a negative re ply and then, in the presence .if the crowd that was in the office, I informed him that 1 had a large sum of money with me, and inquired who had such a safe in which I would 1m jicrmittcd to place the money over night- He men tioned several persons who had combi nation safes, adding: "'Mr. Wiliiain Hardy has one i nd his place of business is nearer than that of any other person whom I have named.' "I learned, rather was informed, where you lived and then cauii' here. "During my previous interview with you j on said that you were to ! alone for a few days, or, more exactly, that your wife was passing a few days out of town with her invalid mother. I have a pr. position to make to yon that you allow me to puss the night with you as your ln-d-companion. If the one who burglarized your safe last niu'ht was among those in the bond win. heard me speak of my money and attempts to sc. -nre the money w hich 1 ;am supjxisf-d to have placed iu your saife. 1 assure you that 1 shall hear him if you do not." "I heartily approve of your plan." Mr. Hardy r-joined. "Then 1 v.iil go and inform the clerk of the hotel that " Our conference was interrupted by the appearance of a customer and I went from the store, to which I re turned a half-hour, more or less, later. After we had retired for the night. I entertained wearied, it may bo Mr. Hardy with some of the most excit ing cxpeneiiccs t hat had lecn mine as a detective, which caused him t. tremble from head to fooL Finally, however, he tell a-leep. Th- next morning, handing him a par wag.-, I asked: "Is that v. hat was taken from your safe night In-fore last?" "Yes," he fairly gasped, having ex amined the package. "Was my Iioum again entered last night, without wak ing me'.'" hi- inipiireil. "It was."' I rejoined, "by way of the window over the sink." "I'.y a man or a woman?" "A man." ' "Where is he?" "Within my easy reacli." "Was he among those in the office at the hotel when you sjMtke of your money?" "No." I waited a moment, and then lx'gan: "Yesterday I casually learned that you are or have been inclined to som nambulism, and nothing -lse mi tends to its development as excitement or anxiety. "It at once suggested itM-lf to my mind that the unexpected coming into js.ssession of so much money would render you extremely nervous: that this nervousness would i t-suit iu sleep walk ing; that, iu a sleep-walking condition, you would give cscciul consideration to the money and 1h likely to remove it from the safe to some place where no one would look for it. "These Impressions were strengthened 13" what I had learned when here yes terday afternoon that the mud tracks ended iu your slecpitig-rtKiui. proi ing thait there was no mud on the feet of the one who removed your money from tho safe when the deed was done; that your fett and the malefactor's were of the same size. "Wi.at 1 told you with reference to asking the hotel clerk atmut a safe, and m forth, was one of the subterfuges lies, in fact to w hich, I am Mrry to confess, we detectives sometimes are obhgeal to have recourse, for the pr.r jM.se of gaining your permission to re main with you over nighL Ami the 'experiences w hich I narrated were de signed to render you as nervous as pos sible, because, as I have said In-fore, nervousness would probably cause you to walk w hile you were asleep. "Alxuit two ;o'cliM.-k this morning you left your ln'd and went to your safe, which you ropened. After feeling around in it you went from the house, closely followed by me, to a hollow tree ill your back yard. Into the hole in the tree you placed your hand and the moonlight enabltd me to M'e that a smile immediately stole over your countenance. From the hole I took the money." "Well, 1 declare!" he exclaimed, after drawing a long breath. For my services he compensated me lilM-rally, complimenting me for my keenness and promising that if he ever again ha.l business in my line it should be intrusted to me. l-red W. Foster, in Chicago News. GIVEN WITHOUT NAMES. A woman in Tanner, W. Va., gave birth to her twenty-ninth child a few days ago. Ax Italian committed suicide at Santa llosa. Cab, recently Wcause he bail no eilucatioii. Tin: happiest negro in Wisconsin dwells ill Madison. He parades the streets, exhibiting a bullfrog with three eyes one in the center of its head. A FAKMt.it at StanWrry, Mo., has enough simple faith in mankind to ad vertise iu the l.K-al newspaper for the recovery of a ten tsilon keg of black Wrrv brandy, which he lost out of his wagon 011 tiie highway. An Omaha policeman has been sus pended for neglect of duty, but never was policeman, probably, ever lK'fore suspended for neglect under such circumstances. As he pleads, he entered a church. an.l, In-coming inter ested in the services, remained too lonjr. if I tf-r,. war- 0
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