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AT THE CRADLE.
flow still he Bleeps! Tbe morning sunlight
falls
pon bis downy head A song-bird culls
.. li;i..ul the in-low: young, rejoicing leaves,
hat garland tbe new sprint;, a checkered
stiade
iua ltui pillow throw, but his bright head Is
l.lid
i s-.inii-bt oaly: each soft cheek receives
radiant Ulss. One loving ray
. es tiebily un bis parted lipa where play
. i.- 1 ul.c praxes ot a baby a dream,
lic-uo jj.riin0- tur.s have caught another
Kleam,
polueu rift it leaves in every tress.
..hJ bless in v baoy: every sweet caress
. liat h aves a liugit.K joy ul o il my heart,
. t. h h.V!U hope a lcvin f-ar t:t pirt
....b bis.eri-U ray r, his little lid beside,
ucu f Hid xultiuar pulae of mother's pride.
All he baj brought of peace and KUlleless Joy
Kcturn iu bU-asintta on my darling bo.
Carrie Stern, in liabyhood.
A LITTLE DIPLOMACY.
It Was Worth More Than Bluff to
a Revenue Collector.
Some years ago I received a tempoary
appointment in the internal revenue
department, and was a-ssigned to the
duty of looking up violations of the
taw in regard to manufactured tobacco.
All reported irregularities were referred
t me for investigation. I was tel
egraphed by th ctllector at Nashville,
noii one tK'casion. to go to Shelbyville
liiiincdiately and take action in a case
where a manufacturer, J. II. Ladd, had
been, using canceled revenue stamps.
When I arrived, I found CapL, Nor
ville, the district deputy, awaiting me
with a posse of half a dozen men.
Ladd lived twelve or thirteen miles from
.shelbyviile, ia the richest section of
the county. I explained to Xorville
that there was no necessity of going
lliat night as Ladd could not remove
liis property if he were disposed to do
so; that we would start before day in
order to make the trip, effect the seiz
ure and return that night. I learned
the following from him: He had come
up with two of I.add's wagons a couple
of days before in an adjoining county
laden with plug tobacco put up in
lnixes varying in weight from twenty
live to one hundred pounds each; that
the stamps on them had been reused;
that be had gone the next aay with a
deputy; United States marshal to seize
the factory; that when he arrived old
. man Ladd was not at home and the fac
tory was locked. He had gone to the
dwelling for the keys, when Mrs. Ladd
told a servant to look for them. She, in
the meantime, stepped out into the
yard and rang the farm bell as vigor
ously as if the building was on fare.
In a few moments three of Ladd's sons
and a hired man rushed to the house as
fust as their horses could carry them
they had been plowing Mrs. Ladd met
them at the gate, and, he supposed,
explained the sifuation. They came
into the house, a large two-story frame
with L. and in a moment into the
room where he was sitting, waiting for
the girl to findHhe keys, armed with
shotguns. . ' '
Mrs. Ladd tben abused the officer for
everything she could think of, and or
dered him to leave and not to stand on
the order of going; that if he did not
she would have him and the deputy
killed and thrown into the hogpen,
vhere the3r ought to be. The old man
did not stand well in the collector's
office, and when Korville returned and
reported the situation by telegraph I
was ordered to the scene. I told him
to secure a-carriage. that would accom
modate three besides the driver, and an
hour lefore tlay we were eu route over
a line turnpike road. When we got iu
front of tho house j saw two men go in
from use side, arid noticed several faces
at the window, two of them females. 1
ordered the driver to go directly to the
factory almost id the rear of the dwell
ing and at a corner of the garden fence.
Leaving the pa-ty in the hack I re
uimrd to the house, entering by what I
afterwards ascertained to be the rear
door of the kitclien. An elderly white
woman and a negro girl were in the
roiii, yasliing the dishes and clean
ing up after breakfast- I asked
IHiIitely if this was Mrs. Ladd. She
jerked out a "yes," 1 approached and ex
tended my hand, assuring her 1 was very
triad to see her. and giving my name.
1 was so friendly, greeted her so cor
dially, that she was nonplussed for a
moment When Iasked if Mr. Ladd
was in she answered "yes" in a more
pleasant tone, at the samtime point
ing to a door leading to the main .build
ing. . .
1 opened it and walked in, and there
sat four men and a fourteen-year-old
boy. all except the old man having a
double-barrel shotgun lying across his
lap. 1 approached the old man aud
said: .
"This is Mr. Ladd, I presume?"
"Yes, that is my name."
I gave him mine.,
"These are your sons, I presume?"
"Some of theux."
Turning to the one nearest me I said:'
"Your name?"
"James." .
"Well, James, how do you do? I am
jrlad to see you. You favor your fa
ther. Eye and forehead exactly."
I inquired the name of every one,
shook hands with each, complimented
.ach. Here I stopped, when the old
man said:
"Stranger, since you have fot ac
quainted with, all the boys, there is
two more you ought to kuow. One is
uiy wife and the other my daughter.
"Marinda, Marinda, you and Zoa
come in here," he called.
I explained that I bad met bis wife,
tnd a most charming lady she was, but
ilurihda came in aud I was formally
.ntrotliiied to her, ' and shook hands
-.xith her again, and complimented her
n her riianly boys. Then the daugh
ter same in, who was indeed a modest,
sweet girl of sixteen. I could read in
ihe face of every one of them: "What
does all this mean?" After I had
talked awhile" about the weather and
crops, I asked Mr. Ladd to step into an
adjoining room wivh me, as 1 wished to
talk to him privately.
. "Oh! no, not any, if you please. If
vou have any business with me blurt
it out. This family has no secrets."
I then told him that I had heard that he
'md had some trouble with Capt. Nor-
"1 think Mercedes would like to go
with us," said I.
"No doubt it would be a treat for
her, poor girl," my wife respouded.
"Come here, little one!" beckoning the
child to a seat by her side. "Do you
never get lonely here by yourself?"
"Ah, no, scnora! I have always this,"
stretching out her hands with a tender
gesture toward tbe sea. It had mur
mured her cradle lullaby, aud she knew
I
and loved its varying moods.
"Then there are many people here in
summer, and often they speak with me;
when they come no more I gather my
shells and help mend the nets."
"Have you no playmates?"
"I had a sister once she died,
softly.
"I will be your sister, Mercedes,"
cried Li y, impulsively.
"So you shall, dear," said I. "Ah!
there is Pacheco home ward- bound with
a fine string of fish," and waylaying
the child's father, I told him our plans
respecting Mercedes, to which he gave
ready consent.
There was quite a gathering of na
tives about the hotel ia tne morning to
wish us "Huenos dias" as our cavalcade
set out, led by Mexican Joe, a vener
able islander, who was to act in the ca
pacity of cook and general utility man.
We were to make the trip by easy
stages, stopping over night at the In
dian mounds, a place I had long con
templated visiting.
Joe assured me that he knew tbe
mound locality well, and confident that
a rich harvest would reward, the dili
gent explorer for stone implements,
beads, bits of wampum, and even the
skulls and bones of departed warriors
had been unearthed by the islanders
I added pick and shovel to our camp
ing outfit.
The trail, following the coast, was
ascending and sometimes wound peril
ously near the edge of the cliff. look
ing down a hundred feet or more, one
could see the foaming breakers dash
ing on the rocks below. Everything
delighted the children; they laughed
and chatted and sang until we caught
their merry mood, and a tray party we
were, indeed.
The sun was high in the heavens
when we arrived at the mounds, so,
with appetites made keen by the long
ride in the bracing morning air, we set
about preparing the mid-day meal.' Old
Joe limped away to gather firewood;
my wife summoned the children, who
were culling the golden poppies that
grew in profusion along the cliffs edge,
to help unpack the lunch, white I, jug
in hand,. made for a canyon near by in
search of water. ' I found a trickling
stream dripping ' from the moss-clad
bowlders, and the jug was soon filled.
It might have been fifteen minutes be
fore I left the canyon; as soon as I came
in sight of camp I knew that some
thing was amiss. Old Joe ran toward
me, shouting and motioning wildly; on
the verge of the cliff 1 saw oi jr. wife
kneeling, Mercedes beside ber, but
where was Lily? . .-
In an instant I realized the worst
Lily had fallen from the cliff. My
brain reeled with the horror of the
thought, and I called to my wife be-'
seeching her to leave that awful place. ,
Why did she still kneel and gaze down
upon the mangled form lying on the
cruel rocks?
"Senor," the old Mexican was say
ing, "the child not hurt she cling to
the ledge. We must have ropes!"
Alive! I grasped a sturdy root and
swung myself over the abyss. Far be
low, upon a narrow, crumbling ledge,
Lily lay, her fall arrested by a dense
growth of brush.
"Quick! the ropes!" I shouted to Joe.
Those used in lashing the burro's
pack in place were all we had. Joe
was rapidly knotting them together.
"Pray Ood they may not be too short!"
gasped the child's mother.
"Ah!" the Mexican exclaimed, "the
rope too old. If the senor go down it
break."
"Listen!" cried Mercedes. "The rope
will hold ine. I will go to her."
Even as she spoke we slipped the
noose under her arms, and, as we
grasped the rope, swung off the rock.
I would not live those tnomeuts again
for wealth untold.
Would the rope reach Lily?" Would
it bear the weight of both?
These were the thoughts that almost
stopped my heart-beats, while inch by
inch was lowered the brave child, per
haps to her death.
At length the strain on the rope
ceased.
"She has reached the ledge," breathed
the trembling mother. "She slips the
noose frorr her body and fastens it un
der Lily's arms. Pull! Pull!"
And we pulled, slowly, steadily, un
til loving mother arms reached out and
drew the unconscious child from the
very brink of death, ber tiny hand still
clenched about the brilliant-hued pop
pies that had so nearly proved her de
struction. And now for one more effort! Would
the frayed strands part under the
heavier weight? In breathless silence
the rope was lowered, and we waited
the signal to pull up. '
I remember how, even at that mo
ment, the beauty of the scene appealed
to me.
The golden sunshine flooded sea and
land.
Above us bent the cloudless bine of a
tropic sky; and I could but wonder if
our Father, who made all things so
fair, would suffer the sun to shine and
the birds to sing if that brave young
life was to be sacrificed.
That of which I write occurred many
years ago. As I pen these closing lines
my ryes fall upon a missive received
this morning from an eastern convent
school.
"Mercedes and I will soon be with
you," it reads. "We have passed our
examination and graduate in June."
The father and mother have long
been dead, the brothers are scattered;
and Mercedes fills a daughter's place in
our hearts and home Home Magazine.,
It was resolved that each of the
allied powers should designate a com
missioner charged with the surveillance
xf Napoleon at St. Helena. Tallyrand
proposed to the king for this office M.
de Montchenu, described as "an insup
portable babbler, a complete nonenti
ty." On being asked why he had se
lected this man, Tallyrand replied:
"It is the only revenge which I wish to
take for his treatment of me; however,
it is terrible. What a punishment for
a man of Bonaparte stamp to be
obliged to live with an ignorant and
pedantic character! I know him; he
will not be able to support this annoy
ance; it will make him ill, and he will
die of it by slow degrees." Argonaut.
Mendicant (to actor) "Would you
oblige a brother professional with a
trifle to get some food? I used to be in
the business myself contortionist,"
Actor (giYingquarter)-"WelL here you
are. ex-torttonit "-Kate Field's Wash
PUNCTUATION.
Bow
the) Story Bess Wbra tbe
Typw-
writ.r Got Throuttta with It.
"When I first began dictating' to a
typewriter," said a man who writes
for the papers, addressing' a New York
Sun reporter, "I thought that I must
dictate all the punctuation complete,
and my dictation ran some thing like
this:
" 'Young Adolphus von Owilt leaned
back upon the blue plush seat of the
palace car and looked out upon tbe
fleeting panorama period He had
loved the fair Adeline Otville comma
and she had loved him comma but the
old man had kicked semicolon that is
comma you understand comma he had
not actually kicked Adolphus comma
but he had kicked figuratively speak
ing1 semicolon and the disconsolate
Adolphns was now traveling to assuage
his grief semicolon he was on his way
to the world s fair period paragraph
" 'Just now he felt hungry -semicolon
thanks to youth and good health his
appetite never deserted him period So
Adolphus went forward into the din
ing car to breakfast period no semi
colon and he ate a good square meal
comma as he generally did semicolon
and then he went back to his section
in the sleeper period paragraph
" 'As he entered tbe car he saw some
thing that made him almost doubt his
eyesight period no semicolon it was the
form of Adeline Otville period And she
was in the next section back of his com
ma and had been ever since the train
started comma and he hadn't known it
which was not very retnarkable'comma
after all comma for . the train bad
started very late the night before com
ma and he had not come aboard until
the last minute period It seems that
Adeline that is 1 mean Miss Otville was
travelinpf for her health comma no a
period She comma like Adolphus com
ma had been very much torn up by this
misappreciation of Adolphus on the
part of the old man comma and her
father had thought that it would
le a good thing for her to travel semi
colon and by the commonest accident
in the world she ami Adolphus had met
on this train semicolon it was just one
of those things that happen every day
comma but it did not strike these
young people in that commonplace
: way semicolon to them it was the most
delightful tiling they had ever heard
of period paragraplu
'Quote Adolphus scare mark close
quote cried Adeline comma the color
rising to her cheek and she herself
rising from the blue plush seat quote
Adeline scare mark' close quote cried
' Adolphus comma hurrying forward to
meet her semi-colon and then they sat
down together and looked out at the
Hying panorama comma or more strict
ly speaking comma I fancy they looked
at (then fleeting panorama in each
other's eyes period And then they set
about seeing if they could not in some
way fix things up with the old man
leriod Quote You know comma
Adolphus close quote comma said Ad
eline comma quote be said comma
single quote Adeline comma you shall
never marry Adolphus close single
quote semicolon but comma dear
comma papa Is gentle-nearted comma
you know comma and I think we can
bring him around after all close quote
period paragraph
"'It seems that the old man was at
that minute in the smoking-room tak
ing a cigar after breakfast comma and
Adolphus followed him boldly period
The old man gave him a grand bluff
at first comma but Adolphus was per
sistent comma and finally he got the
old man, I guess you'd better make
that gentleman, out into the car where
Adeline was sitting period He was not
proof against the combined attack of
the young people comma anil it need
only be added that at last he consent
ed to make them happy semi-colon and
so this trip which bail Wgun in grief
comma ended in joy semi-colon when
they got to Chicago they were married
period That's all.
"Hut I soon discovered that this was
all unnecessary; that all I really
needed to do was to indicate the para
graphs: that if 1 dictated intelligently
the typewriter would do the rest"
DIAMONDS StT IN IVORY.
A New Ptava Heda- Tried by Fash tunable.
Ksruvrsa J.wlra.
The fashionable jewelers of Ixin.lon,
Paris and otlyr continental capitals
have hit upon a new idea regarding
the setting of diamonds, says a foreign
exchange. They propose to use in the
Letting ivory instead of silver or g-old,
aud it must W acknowledged that
there is some reason for 'doing so. It
is well known how difficult it is to
clean the silver r (fold etting proper
ly and to preserve the origiual luster,
(ild settings have the draw lack of re
flecting' their yellow Color on the
stone, and to depreciate thereby the
water Af the stone. Another weighty
objectiou is that they lose the bright
ness which is teculiar to these metals
as soon as they are used as the ouly
setting for reflecting and transparent
stones, while they are lieautiful and
add to the appearance of diamonds set
with pearls, cats" -eyes or chrysopras.
Ivory would solve this question at
once, which at present can only be at
tained by setting the transparent with
a half transparent stone in gold or
silver.
Tna Halt la tbo 8e?a.
According to a computation of the
Berg'uud lluetteiimacuiiiscbe Zeituug,
the amount of salt in the sea waters of
the globe, if extracted, would be great
er iu mass than the laud so far as it
appears above the surface. The seas.,
it says, cover 73 per cent, of the earth's
surface, estimated at .W,uO0 (Oer
ui an) square miles." The percentage of
chlornat-rtum in the sea is the same at
all .depths. Assuming that the aver
age depth of the sea is a half (German)
mile, there are s, 400.000 cubic miles of
sea water. A cubic mile of sea water
contains, on the average, about twenty-five
kilograms of salt. TheS.4OO.O00
cubic miles of sea water would there-,
fore contain 85,000 cubic miles of dis
tilled pure salt. : There is therefore
little danger of a salt famine, is the
rather logical deduction of the writer.
Cicero was the greatest book col
lector of antiquity. One of his letters
is extant in which he urges Atticus. a
learned friend who was compelled
from poverty to sell his library at auc
tion, not to dispose of the books at
public sale, but to keep them until
the writer is able to purchase them,
Cicero adding that he is saving all his
rents for that purpose.
DICTATED
NO PLAXE FOR BOYS.
What can a boy do, and where caa a boy stay.
If he is always told lo get out of the aay
He cannot sit here, and he must not stand
there.
The cushions that cover that fine rocklug chair
W ere put there, of course, to be seen and ad
mired, A boy baa no business to ever be tired.
The beautiful roses and flowers that bloom
On tbe floor of tbe darkened and delicate room
Are not made to walk on at least, not by
boys:
Tbe bouse Is ao place, anyway, tor their noise
Yet boys must walk somewhere; and what if
their feet.
Sent out of our bouses, sent Into the street.
Should stp round tne corner and pause at the
door
Where other boys' feet bave paused often
before-.
Should pass through tbe gateway of glittering
light.
Where jokes that are merry and songs that are
bright
Ring out a warm welcome with flattering
voice.
And temptingly say: -Here's a place for tbe
boya!"
Ab, what If they should What If your boy or
mine
Should cross o'er tbe threshold which marks
out the line
'Twlxt virtue and. vice, 'twixipurenessand sin.
And leave all bis Innocent boyhood within
Ob what if they should, because you and I,
While tbe days snd tbe months and tbe years
hurry by.
Are too busy with cares and with life's fleeting
joys
To make round our hearthstone a place for the
boys
There's a place tor the boys They will find
it somewhere:
And If our own homes are too daintily fair
For the touch of their ringers, the tread of
their feet.
They'll find it, and find it, alas! in tbe street. '
'Mid tbe gildings of sin and the glitter of vice;
And with heartaches and longings we pay a
dear price i
For tbe getting of gala that our lifetime em-
ploys.
If we fall la providing a place for the boys.
A place tor the boy s dear mother, I pray. '
As cares settle down round our short earthly
way.
Don't let us forget, by onr kind, lovlntr deeds, .
To show we remember their pleasures and
needs; ;
Though our souls may be vexed witb problems'
of life.
And worn with besetmenU and tolling and
strife.
Our hearts wilj keep younger your tired heart
and mine
If we give them a place In their innermost
shrine:
And to life's latest hour 'twill be one of our
Joys ,
That we kept a small corner a place for tbe
boy.
Journal and Messenger.
A RUSSIAN PMXCESS.
She Was a Charming Woman and
Played Her Part WelL
II er - Pressaee Brightened the Wlater
Atlantis Voyage ta Arrival at Nesr
York has Itoreilvod a lioavrty
Welcome.
Alder kept pufBng away at his cigar,
while I looked ut of the great window
at the falling snow. They had been
telling stories, and thus far he had lis
tened. Finally he said, with a smile:
"1 don't believe I've ever told you of
the part I played in a diamond swindle,
have ir
"What?" ejaculated Hennequin, with
mock horror. "Is it possible what we
have been harboring a criminal? Well,
go on with your damaging confession."
The waiter had just entered with a
tray. Abler first drank his creme de
men the. Then he settled himself back
in the comfortable leather chair, and
went on, with a laugh:
"It happened two years ago, coining
over in a French steamer. It was in
the winter time, and there were very
few passengers. Our Christmas was
speut at sea, and a right jolly Christmas
it was. Capt Fourget and I were old
. friends. 1 had made the trip with him
half a dozen times In-fore, and he did
everything to make things agreeable
" for me.
We have a real live Russian princess
with us this time, mon ami, he
laughed, as we sat playing vingt-et-un,
the first night out I am afraid that
wheu you see her you will lose your
heart'
" 'Is she so very beautiful, then?' I
asked carelessly.
" 'She is superb.' was his reply. T
do not think a more charming woman
has ever traveled ou my ship.'
"I confess that, after what the cap
tain had said. I was rather curious to
see this Russian princess. Hut she
did not leave her stateroom for the first
three days out She was suffering from
an aggravated case of mal-de-mer. I
was told. Fiually she made her ap
pearance at the captain's table, and her
beauty created a veritable sensation.
"She was all the captain had said,
and more, I do not believe I have ever,
seen a more beautiful woman any
where, and, as you know, I have been
something of a glolse trotter. If
she was not a princess, which -even
then 1 doubted, she certainly looked it
in her costly sables. Whatever she
was, she ought to have liceu a queen.
"She was seated on the captain's
right, and the next place at the table
was mine. I was able, then, to extend
her a few little polite attentions, which
soon put us on the best of terms. Ac
quaintances, as you know, are easily
made on shipboard, to be dropped, if
you like, the moment the steamer,
touches its dock.
'Ah. monsieur, the princess said,
speaking French with a delicious ac
cent, I have heard of you before. You'
are the American gentleman, n'est 'ee
pas, who, several years .ago, nearly
broke the bank at Monte Carlo?'
"She alluded to a lucky coup of mine
at roug-et-noir. The newspapers at
the time had got hold of it, and exag
gerated my winnings into a princely
fortune, although in reality they were
only some thousands. '
" 'I have seen you before, monsieur,
said the princess, with her luminous
eyes fixed upon me.
" 'That is strange. I said. 'I cannot
recollect it And. if 1 Faw you once, I
never should forget you.
" 'Ah. said she. with a charming
smile, 'but you did not see me. The
Princess Dolgorouki pointed you out to
me on the New.ky l'rospekt, in St
Petersburg. You are known all over
Europe, it seems, monsieur.'
"Well, I flirted with the princess all
the way over. We promeuaded the
decks, and sent our evenings together
in some cozy corner en tete-a-tete. She
gave me soft glances and permitted
gentle pressures of her dump hand.
"There was one passenger, a French
man, to whom I took a violent dislike. ,
He looked like a croupier I had once
aeen at Monaco, lie followed us about
with bis snaky black eyes aud he hail
a nasty bat.it of turning up w hen he
was least wanted Rut everything he
did w as apparently accidental, and he
was very careful not to do anything for
w hich I could take him to account 1
strongly suspected, however, he was
playing the part of a spy.
"The princess seemed to grow very
uneasy when the voyage was nearly
over. Our Christmas was sjx-nt off the
Ranks. The day was w arm and sunny,
and we had quoits on dec k. While 1
was pitching them, the searu in one of
the shoulders of my coat ripped.
" 'You will let tne repair it for you.
will you not?" a-dted tbe princess, lay
ing her gloved hand on my arm
" T could not think of allow ingj-oti,'
I said. 'The stewardess w ill attend to
it I daresay. Unfortunately I haven't
another coat in my steamer trunk.'
jev me nx iu stie said, w-if V.
6hade of anxiety in her tone.
'I
vish
TO UO SO.
" 'Very well,' I said. You
are too
aina.
"She txok the coat to her stateroom,
and was rather a long time. I thought,
in making the necessary repair. Rut
her dainty hands might not have been
accustomed to needlework. Mie was
traveling alone, for her maid, a French
girl, bad been detained by the sudon
illness of her mother. She was to fol
low, the princess explained, by the
next steamer.
"She sent the coat to me, and when
we met at dinner she said, w ith a little
nervous laugh:
" 'Did you find it to your satisfaction,
monsieur?
"'It was beautifully done,' I said. 'I
really don't know how to repay you for
your kindness.
" 'Shall I tell you, then?' she said,
softly. 'When we arrive in New York
you will call upon me soon, will you
not? I shall be quite desolate. And
you must come it is only a whim, a
fancy of mine yes, you must come in
that coat Promise me this, monsieur.'
"Of course I promised.
" 'At what hotel shall you stop, prin
cess?' I asked.
" 'The Russian consul, a dear
friend of mv father, is hi m....t
old
me,'
she said. 'I am tO u Vl mi.t.t
. .
must trive me vonr lul.ireu n.t
Yoti
- -' " ..uu itir
first moment I have I will w rite for you
to call upon me.
"When we reached the steamer's
dock in New York, the princess seemed
tremendously agitated, but all mv
proffers of assistance were declined bv
her.
tin
"'No, monsieur,' she said to me;
dear old friend. Ivan T'-t c,., o i,
mv
will
le in waiting, and he will attend
to
every tiling.
"1 am not suprised at much, but
admit I was not quite prepared
I'll
for
What followed Tho rnni.i..i.i l. ..
......... ,Jt in. j. ' ' I
plank was thrown out two of Inspector
.1 .. : . . ,
........ urieium Sl-IH-ll UCrilsfi
it.
ami piaceu me princess and the
mau with the snaky black eyes
had watched me so closely tlurin;
little
who
the
voyage, under arrest Almost
in
a
jiffy they were being driven to
headquarters.
1
lice
"What hal they done? Well,
in
Paris they had stolen a lot of
unset
diamonds. My bogus princess wasonlv
a clever French woman, and the mail
her lover. They had fled the count rv
witlrout detection, they thought, but
the police over there were too clever
for them. The rohliery had Wen fast
ened on them, and, when it was fouud
that they had sailed for America, word
was cabled over to hold them.
"Rut the missing diamonds could not
lie found upon them. A few days after
ther arrest a detective called upon me,
and I told him all I knew alc.ut the
woman, not forgettinir to mention that
she had repaired my coat for me.
" 'Will you Ik kind enough to let me
see the coat'.'' he asked.
" Certaiuly,' I said, and I brought it
out for him.
"He took it and f1 V, t ,....! l.
wiiicii were pretty well padded.
' J ..... ....... . . .. A .1
next moment he hail his knife out, ami
w as ripping often the seams. To my
great surprise, the stolen diamonds
soon lay on the table. The woman hail
cleverly secreted them in the shoulder
padding, and I had worn the coat with
out knowing it.
Th
"Wlmt was her object? Well
the
two undoubted).-
thev
were unable to smuggle the diamonds
through the custom house, and so they
made me an unconscious confederate.
The woman was confident of getting
them agaiu from me, and I am positive
myself she would have, if the tsilice
hadn't blocked her little game.
"My part of the transaction was
hushed up, and the two were sent hack
to France. Thev are both in some
prison over there now. And the moral'.'
well, the moral must le tcrfft!j
clear to anyone. If you don't w ant'- U
get into trouble, never have vour coat
..... .1 j. . a nusiigc nuulau
troit Free Press.
. . u. t i ., . ......, . .
"He-
I tU-aaiilly I fTWUve,
A striking and decidedly unpleasant
advertisement lately placed in some of
tbe Krooklyn street cars is an excel
lent representation of a man's hand
holding a five-chamliered loaded re
volver, with the muz.le trained upon
anyone looking at it. The ends of the
bullets may le seen in the chamrVrs
and the forefinger of the hand seems to
press nervously on the hair trigger.
No matter where you may sit in t la
car the . invisible man has the drop on
you and the menacing black barrel
points square Wtween your eyes. "You
may laugh at the" notion," said a pas
senger the otlK-r day as he moved over
into the far corner of the opposite seat,
"but that picture makes me nervous.
I've lived in the far west among the
mining camps, but I'm uneasy all the
time I'm in the car." . t
Tbe Fabian" Follcy. . .
The policy of wearing out the enemy
in war by delays, misleading move
ments, feints of attacks, etc.. while
avoiding open battle, is called the
"Fabian olk-y, from the following
c-ircumstauce: Fabius Maximus was a
Roman general in the second Punic
war. HavingWcnappointed just after
the Roman army had suffered severe
defeat at Itke Tlirasyineiie, he per
ceived lhat his disheartened troops and
bands of raw recruits could not op
pose successfully a trained army flushed
with victory and led by their treat
commander. Ilannial. He therefore
avoided pitched battles, moved his
camp from highland to highland, and
tired out the enemy with marches and
countermarches. This he continued
until thwarted in his calculations by
the impatience of the Roman senate.
MONSTER POPULATION OF ANTS
They Teax-h Umi.iii In ludoatry and
I'ertrn-t tioveriiioeiit.
There are more ants to the square
mile in Florida than in any other
country in the world, says a writer in
the Savannah News. There are ants
which will measure mure than half an
inch in length, and then tin-re are ants
so small that they can scarcely be seen
to move with the unaided eye. Then
are Veil ants, and black ants and
troublesome ants. Rut, as bad as they
are. I have never heard of them eating
out the seat of a man's trousers, as a
missionary. Rev. Mr. Wilson, once told
the writer he saw the army ants lo in
India while the man was sittinir on
the earth for a few minutes l.csi.!.- him.
Rut the Florida ants will take out
the lettuce and other minute seeds
from the soil in w hi-h they are plant
ed, and actually destroy the bed. iii.-y
will suck the life out of acres of yonn;'
cucumiH-rs and melon plants, tipr. t
strawtierry plants or cover the buds
with earth to such an extent as to I, ill
them. They will get into pie. pickle,
sauce, sirup, sugar, on meat, in hash,
will riddle a cake or till a loaf of
brker's bread till it is worthless.
All remedies failing, I took to bait
ing them near their nests wit h slices
of meat, lxuies, apple and jM-:ir par
ings, anil when I had from fifty thou
sand to one hundred thousand out
turned a kettle of lniiliiig water on
them. I have killed during the last
week over one million in the space -f a
quarter-acre lot, and I have almost
w hipped them out. I had to do t his t o
secure any lettuce plants, and many
observant farmers complain of seeds
men when they should attribute their
troubles to insit ts.
It is very curious and instructive to
see bow- promptly the ants which es
cape the scalding goto work- ta'.inc
out t he dead, and, after pulling tlietn
outside first, then go to exeat at nu.'
again and rebuilding their cells and
runways. This l.eiug.lone erv quick
ly the next work on hand is the l.-i 1 1 j
in of a supply of food by liauliiiLr t lie
dead bodies of the hot-water victims
into heir storehouses.
You may see a small black nut haul
ing and tugging at the carcass nf a red
ant twenty times its own weieiit. and
he always succeeds in the end in haul
ing it in the w arehouse of t he ci.lon.
Next you may sec a sort of ambulance
corps searching for the disable. I.
These lire taken to the underground
house, where the surgeons and nurses
are in waiting. Then, too, yon mav
set! the t illiekeejHTs and bosses direct
ing this one or t urning anot hi-r la. U
on some errand or to some t lu-r duty.
Then- is not a moment's delay, no
halting feet, no idle hands, but all
.move as if it was tlnir last day on
eart h and t his was 1 lie only hour left
iu which to redeem a misspent lite.
For lessons in industry and perfect
government go to the ants.
PLAIN SPOKEN.
Tho (iood-Xatureul ( rili. l.iii of a Well
Meaning NcltflilMir.
The amount of plain speaUinf that
M-o.le will bear from on.- of whose
good w ill they are assured is sotuet i mes
a surprise to others. In " Rec. .! I. c
tions of My Mother." itsan Lesley
says 1 hat lu-r mother had the greatest
a flection for bot h Havid Lee Child and
his wife, t he gifted Lydia Maria, but.
was often much tried with the amount
of time, hard labor and money which
Mr. Chihl e.cinlcd on scheme after
scheme, none of which ever suc
ceeded. One afternoon Mrs. Child came iu to
siH-nd a quiet afternoon with my
mother. They sat with their sew inv
alid knitting at the west window,
while I sat with oneortwo friend in
the hall near the oh-ii door. Then
had been a I'.lig silence. W lien we
heard my mother say:
".Mrs. Child, can y.u tell me what is
the last thing that your husband is en
gaged in?''
An amused smile played over Mrs.
Child's face. "Yes, Mrs. Lyman: he is
carting stone fop the new railroad."
"O-o-h!" said my mother. Another
pause: then: "Mrs. Child, how nni. li
do you supixisc your husband loses on
evcrv loail of btoiie lie carts to the rail
road?" Another amused look on the dear
Lydia Maria's face, and she answered
cheerily: "Well. Mrs. L. ma u. as ti.-.i r
as I can compute it, he must lose a bout
ten cents on every load."
"lli-well -now - Mrs. Child." said
my mother, in the bravest and mo-t
cheerful tone, --if your husband has
got hold of any innocent oecti pat ion In
which he only loses ten eentsoii aloud,
for heaven's sake encourage him in it."
She had lit t le patience wit It pco.'.
who backed dow n in emergencies, and
considered it her duty to stitb-n tii.-ui
np a little. Mn never had to pi far to
find an illust ration "bi x int her m r:i I
and adorn her tale." Some gixxl neig h
bor's example would instantly come to
mind.
"look over the way at my neighbor
Hunt's front yard," she would s.ij ;
"see that splendid hydrangea, t hat ele
gant smoke bush, that buckthorn
hedge, all in the most jx-rfeet order,
and all kept so by tier own hands. Al
ways she has sickness, sorrow, death:
at every turn something sad and imev
iiected. Rut who ever dreamed of Mrs.
Hunt's abdicating? She couldn't doit."
MJar- Kcligloiirt ISeliefs.
The Mojaves Ix-licve that all who
die; and are not cremated are turned
into owls, and when they hear the di .
DiuL screech of one of the uUive
tiamed creatures of the night they le.l
you that it is the spirit of some l a t
Mojave who has returned to a l.i-.e
his jM-ople to submit to the ordeal of
fire. When one of the trilx- die-. hs
'relatives and immediate friends do
not eat salt or wash themselves i'..r
four days. Their hcatcii i "Who.
Mountain;" they know nothing of 1:. !l
nor any place of punishment -c. .t
"Rietnia." the place where utiine u
erated warriors are transformed iio.
owls.
lie Wantod an Kerleucei llortiir.
An East Indian missionary tells an
Kld
tale alx.ut one of his converts.
One dav Chixlia. while mending the?
roof of his house, fell to the grotii.d
"and broke a rib. A friend went hur
riedly for a doctor. "Have you ever
fallen from a ris.f and broken a rib?"
' was the first question Chodjaa .ked tin
doctor. "No. indeed." was the laugh
ing reply. ''Then go away at once."
cried Chodja; "I want a doctor w ho
lias fallen from a roof and knows what
it is!"
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