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THE syUATlEIi'S CLAIM.
How Ilia Dying Child Touched the
Hearta of Three Outlaws.
Tlie day named for the formal open
iiifT of the Oklahoma territory came
around ut lasL, and at noon the trrand
inllu.x iH-tfan. The broad, wild prairie
va. at once dotted with white-toped
w atroiis. all moving; on to the south,
while the fatfed and jitded ho scs
that pulled tlit-ui were urfed at the
point of the lash to the greatest
rible speed. Kvery wajfiiu bore a
party of poor home-!'elers, who for
months had waited for this day. and
who now joined in the )raiid race for
the new land of promise, intent on
fretting a claim and a home.
One rickety old waffon. hauled by a
f pan of poor, liony mules, headed off
to the west late in the afternoon, and
for an hour raced straight toward a
small body of timber that lined a water
course. It was after sunset when the I
timler was reached and the mules
picketed, but liefore it became quite
dark a tire hail been started and a
scanty supper prepared.
Shortly after dark three horsemen,
heavily armed, rode out of the timber
a mile or so lielow the wao-on. aud,
stopping, one of them said:
"Hoys, this is the sjot I picked out
for us. aud I don't lelieve you could
lind a better piece of laud if you were
to search the country over. There are
just six claims here just enough for
us and the three men who are coining
with the wai.Mii, aud so I uess we are
fixed about rio-ht."
"Iluess we are." replied one of the
other-., "if nobody ain't toue and
:.quatted on the (round. "
"'1 here's nobody on the land Vet. I
,ruess. At least. I don't see any sirus
of any camp anywhere."
"There may be some settlers aloft)?
to-morrow, though, an I if they should
beat jur wajfon here they'd have the
heels of us."
"Ma3-be they would, Sam, and maybe
they wouldn't. That would sort of de
pend, you know."
"Depend? How?"
"Why, it would depend on whether
there was more of them than there is
of us. If we was in the majority 1
reckon we'd be pretty apt to make our
claim good. If it should come to shoot
ing, I reckon Ave know about as well
as the next ones how to fiujrer a pistol."
The others nodded sif niticantly at
this, and the three men rode out a lit
tle farther from the timber. They had
jrone but a few steps when Jake came
to a short stop, aud pointing away to
the south, said:
"Hoys, see that."
"What is it?" Sam asked.
"See that light up the creek. What
do you make of it?"
"A fire-tly, I reckon," replied Sam.
"A fire-tly nothing-, (iuess they don't
have iire-tlies down here as big as riens,
and it would take one that big to
make that sort of light."
"That's so, Jake," said Sam, thought
fully. "What do vou make it out?"
"I make it nothing more nor less
than a squatter, and he's on our land,
too. I guess."
"Yes. it must be a squatter, and of
course he's on our land. The blamed
rascal has got cheek for you, sure."
"Yes, he's got cheek. Hut what are
we going to do about him? That's the
question now."
"Well, we've got to rout him out of
there, and we'd as well do it now."
"We can't do it any too quick, and
we might as well ride over there and
start him off and take possession of
his lire. It will save us the trouble of
making one of our own."
This proposition meeting with a
unanimous assent, the three men gal
loped off toward the light.
"Hy jix, boys!" said old Jake, as they
drew near to "the light, "it might be a
good idea to be prepared for business.
That squatter might not take kindly
to us. and like as not he'll open on us
with a shotgun. We don't want to do
any shooting if we can help it, but if
we can't help it, we can't, of course."
"That's so." agreed Sam. "and I ex
pect we'd better sort of fclip up ou him
and not let him get any advantage of
us."
The men dismounted and crept softly
forwaid through the grass, keeping
well in the shadow of the old wagon.
After a little while they got quite
close, and stopping to listen, distinctly
heard low voices in the wagon engaged
in earnest conversation. One of the
voices, it was plain, was that of a
woman, while the other, weak and thin,
was unmistakably that of a child.
"How do you feel now, dearie?" the
woman asked.
"I feel very well, mother, only I'm
so tired," the child replied.
"Do you feel as well as you did this
morning?"
"No; the ride was so rough and so
long that it made me sore and weak.
Hut 1 don't mind that, for I'm glad we
got here and papa got a good claim. Is
it long till daylight, mamma?"
"Yes. a long time. Night has just
come on."
"1 wish it was light, so that I could
see the country. Is it very pretty?"
"Yes, darling, very beautiful."
T am triad of that, mamma. Are
there any flowers iu bloom?"
"Tbe prairie is covered with them,
sweet, and w hen morning comes I will
bring you lots of them. When you get
well you can gather them for yourself,
all you want."
"No, no, mamma, I shall never do
that Don t cry. I am very happy,
but 1 shall never be well any more.
I am glad the land is pretty, though,
for it will be pleasant to you and papa,
and after awhile you will have a beau
tiful home. I want the morning to
come so that I may see the claim just
once just once."
"Well, go to Jeep then, pet. and
soon the morning ill come. You are
weak and tired now, but sleep and rest
will help you, and to-morrow you will
feel better."
"No, mamma. I am not sleepy now,
aud 1 want to talk. IK you think this
is as pretty as the old home in Mis
souri?" . . ...;i be
-It may not be now. but .t w i U be
when we get it improved
neat little house and yard and garden.
It will be very uice, 1 know.
"Yes. it will be very nice, mamma,
. , ,i.iv.,.nu ui had
but not as nice as me u.u -y. -
I wish we had
before papa lost it
ueiorc l"M' ,1.,.,'
never had to give it up, mamma, don t
0"Yes, but it couldn't be helped, and
so we must not grieve. We will soon be
as happy and contented here as we
were there."
"I hope so, but I'm afraid you won't
Will you be very lonely when I'm not
here?"
"Hut you will be here, darling. You
will soon get well."
For a little while the child lay per
fectly still, and the anxious parents
began to think that she had fallen
asleep. Hut soon she roused again,
and in a voice weaker and thinner
than ever liefore asked:
"Is the claim pretty, papa?"
"Yes, it's beautiful, darling."
"As pretty as the old home?"
"Almost, 1 exH'ct. and we shall soon
make it much nicer than it is."
"And nobody can take it from you,
can they?"
"No: they can't take this home from
us, dearest."
"I am so glad of that. papa. Nobody
can take it from you."
There was a slight movement on the
part of the three men outside, and a
hurried glance was exchauged among
them.
"I'm going to leave you. papa," the
child went on. "and I'm going away
right soou. You and mamma will miss
me, but you will have a new home, and
you must not think of me too much.
You must make my grave, papa, iu
some sunny spot close to where the
house will be. so that you and mamma
can see it often; and you must plant
flowers by it and a tree."
"Yes. yes. A Hie; 111 not forget." the
father replied iu a husky voice; "but
you must not think of such things.
You must sleep to-night, aud to-morrow
you will feel better."
"No. I cannot sleep, papa, and I'll
never see to-morrow. I am going away
soon: but I'm glad that you have a
new home anil will never have to
give it up."
Old Jake hurriedly drew his sleeve
across his eyes and whispered a few
words to his companions. Then they
all feil back as noiselessly as they
came. When they were out of heat
ing of the occupants of the wagon
Jake said iu his most solemn and im
pressive tout-:
"15oys. she's going to die. ain't she?"
"That's the way I put it up," replied
Sam in all seriousness.
"Yes. she's going to die." repeated
Jake, "and it's a blamed bad thing to
see that child allying away out here
on this lonely prairie, without a friend
or any thing, ami I just know that pa
aud ma must feel awful."
"I know they do," said Sam.
"Wonder if we could do anything for
them?"
"I don't know. lieckon there would
n't be any harm in going to see."
"Theu you go iluwn to the wagon,
Jake, and we'll wait here."
Jake started off at once, and two
hours passed before he came back.
"How is she. Jake?" Sam whispered.
"She's gone," Jake replied. "She's
lietter off, though, I expect, for i-he's
Wen sick a loug time. .they say, and
the doctors said she couldn't ever get
well. She's a pretty little thing,
though, Sam. and went off smiling like
an angel. She was glad her pa had
got a new home, and she wanted to be
buried on the claim."
For a little while the men were si
lent, then Sam said:
"Has he got a new home, Jake?"
"Who?" Jake asked.
"The man over there the child's
pa?"
"What do you say about that, Sam?'"
"I'd rather you'd say. Jake."
"Then I say that he has."
"Jake, here's my band on that."
said old Sam, as he extended his rough,
sun-browned fist.
"And here's mine," said Ike, extend
ing his at the same time.
"Then we understand, do we." Jake
said after a moment, "that this claim
)eloiigs to that chap in the wagon,
and that we give up all right to it?"
"That's my notion." replied Sam.
"And mine," agreed Ike.
"Then that's settled, boys," Jake
continued, "and I'm glad you fix it
that way. I'd never have the heart to
take the land from him nfter hearing
her talking and rejoicing about his
new home. Never! 1 said to myself
right then and there that this claim
was his, and that I'd stand byhim in
holding it against creation. And I'll
do it. too."
"You let!" cried the others.
The next morning the father selected
a resting place for the child and the
three men made a grave and placed
the remains in it. Then, bringing a
small tree from Uie woods, they planted
it at the head and scattered some
flower seeds about. They did every
thing they could to cheer the sad
hearted parents, and were sorry that
they eouM do no more.
"Hoys," said old Jake when the'
were again alone, "I've done some
might) low-down things in my time,
but I never done anything that made
me feel so mean as I did last night
when I stood there by that old wagon
and listened to the words of that little
dyin' child, knowin' that I'd come there
to help run her pa off the claim that is
rightly his. I tell you, I felt like a
low-down sneak."
"It was a mean trick," said Sam, "and
I'm ashamed of it. Hut it's his claim."
"You lK-t it is. We can put up with
five claims or get another, for we're
not going to take that one. That little
grave up there makes that squatter's
title good, and I'd like to see anybody
tispute it."
Jake and his companions were as
'ood as their word, and for the sake of
he little girl who had passed on to a
etter home stood by the squatter
oyally in the defense of his claim.
-Thcmas P. Montfort, in Leslie's
Week 1 j.
KiKi.t l p with lliru.
There are certain Scotch lairds who
take the name of their estate, ami
usually use that apiK-llatiou in place of
a i.urnaine. One of these is "C'luny"
Macphcrson, to whom Mr. aud Mrs.
Frank Liekwood recently paid a vi:,it.
During the London law ycr's :.tay, Mr.
and Mrs. Mavpher' n and their quests'
were invited to lu.c.i at a neighboring
country hou:, T.'here a visitors' look
was kept. The head of the ( Ian Mac
phcrson, in accordance with Scotch
custom, wrote in the book: "Cluny and
Mrs. Macphcrson." Mr. Lockwood was
not to be outdone by any Scottish chief,
and underneath "Cluny's" signature he
wrote in a fine, bold hand: '"Jo Lennox
Gardens, and Mrs. Lockwood."
CUPID'S DARTS.
How
One of Them Pierced
Unwilling Hearts.
Two
"I wouldn't marry the best man that
ever lived!" Aud she meant it, or, what
answers the same purpose, she thought
she meant it. After all, how very few
of us really know what we mean. "1
engaged myself once when a girl, and
the simpleton thought he owned me. I
soon took the conceit out of him and
sent hi in away ahout his business."
The voice was now a little sharp.
What wonder, with so galling a mem
ory? "No man shall ever tyrannize
over me never! What the mischief do
you suppose is the matter with the
sewing machine?"
"Annoyed at your logic, most like
ly," said my friend, a bright young
matron, as she threaded her needle.
"My husband is net a tyraut, Miss
Kent."
"I am glad you are satisfied," was
the laconic reply.
It was evident by the expression of
the dressmaker's face that she had
formed her own opnioii about my
friend's husband, and was quite com
petent to form ami express an opinion
ou any subject. 'Miss Kent was a little
woman, fair as a girl and plump as a
robin. She wasu't ashamed to own
that she was forty years old and an old
maid. She had earned her ow n living
most of her life, and was proud of it.
She was a good nurse, a faithful
friend aud a jolly companion; but
stroke her the wrong way, aud you'd
wish you hadn't in much shorter time
than it takes to write it. Her views
on all subjects were strikingly orig
inal and not to be combated.
"What are you going to do when
you are old?" persisted the mistress of
the establishment.
"What other folks do. I suppose."
"Hut you can't work forever."
"Can't say that I want to."
"Now. Miss Kent, a husband with
means, a kind, intelligent man "
"I don't want any man. I tell, you,
Mrs. Carlisle. I wouldn't marry the
best man living, if he was as rich as
t'ru'sus and would die if I didn't have
him. Now. if you have exhausted the
marriage question, I should like to try
ou your dress."
There w as something behind all this.
I knew well. My friend's eyes danced
with fun. and as Miss Kent fitted the
waist she threw me a letter from the
bu r.-au.
"Head that," she said, with a know
ing look. "It may amuse you."
-My IU'.ak Jknme: I shall be delighted to
s-jeiul a Uioiilh with you and oUr husband.
'1 here i.iu-.t. however. Ik- one stipulation utH.ul
lay visit -you mur.t say no more a h.iu mar
riai'e. I shall never be foolish aain. Twenty
years to-day 1 wic-ckud luv whole life.
i l tier embark in a new ship.' hadn t her' put
in leimie. sotto voice.) So uiisult U.lt- was this
iaarnat.-e. so utterly and entirely ur, tchetl
have lK-eii its consciueuce. that I aia forced to
belicce the tiiarriate institution a mislai.e. Jo.
lor the last time, let" uie assure oj th:.t I
woulun l uiarrv the best woman that ever lived,
if by so doiinf 1 could save her lite. Your old
cousin. Makk I.a.nsini;."
"Uich, isn't he?" said Jennie, ami
then pointed to the chubby little figure
whose back happened to Px? turueil.
1 shook my head and laughed.
"You'll see," said the incorrigible.
"See what?" inquired Miss Kent,
quite uuaware of the pantomime.
"That parties which are chemically
attracted will unite. Of course, an
alkali aud an acid. Don't you think
thissleeve a little too long. Miss Kent?
"Not after the seam is off. Hut
what were you saying, Mrs. Carlisle?
The other day, at I'rof. 1 toy n ton's I
saw some wonderful experiments."
"And . did they succeed?" inquired
Jennie, demurely.
"Heautifully."
"So w ill mine. I never yet botched
a job iu my life."
"I don't quite understand you, re
plied Miss Kent, perplexed.
No? I always grow scientific when
talking about marriage, my dear."
"Hother!" was all the little woman
said, but the tone was much better
uatured than I expected.
The next week Cousin Mark arrived,
and I liked him at once. An uiihappy
marriagc would have been the last
thing thought of in connection with
that gentleman. He had accepted the
situation like a man, Jennie told me,
and for fifteen years carried a load of
misery that few could have endured.
Death came to him at last, and now
the poor fellow actually believed him
self an alien from domestic happiness.
Singularly as it may appear. Cousin
Mark was the embodiment of good
health and g.wnl nature; fifty, jerhaps.
though he didn t look it. and as rotund
and as fresh iu his way as the little
dressmaker was in hers. As 1 looked
at him 1 defied anybody to see one and
not be reminded of the other. True,
he had more of the olish which comes
from travel and adaptation todiffcrcnt
classes ami individuals, but he was not
a whit more intelligent by nature than
the bright little woman whom Jennie
determined he should marry.
"I was surprised you should think it
necessary to caution me aliout that.
Cousin Mark." cooed the plotter, as
she stod by his side lookiugoutof the
window. "The idea of my leing so
ridiculous!" and in the same breath,
with a w ink at me: "Come, let us go to
mv sitting-room. We are at work there,
but it won't make any difference to
you. will it?"
Of course. Cousin Mark said: "No,"
promptly, as innoceut as a dove about
the trap iteiug laid for him.
"This is my cousin, Mr. Lansing,
Miss Kent."
Mr. Lansing bowed politely and Miss
Kent rose. dropped her scissors, blushed
ami sat down again. Cousin Mark
picked up the refractory implements
aud then Mrs. Carlisle proceeded, with
rare cautiou and tact, to her lalr of
love. Cousin Mark, at her request,
read aloud an article from the Science
Monthly, draw ing Miss Kent into the
discussion as deftly as was ever a fly
drawn into the web of a spider.
"Who is that lady, Jennie?" Cousin
Mark inquired iu the evening.
"You mean Miss Kent?" said Jennie,
looking up from her paper. "Oh, she is
a la Iv: I hav.' known her for a long
time. She is making some dresses for
ine now. Why?"
"She seems uncommonly well posted
for a woman."
Under any.other circumstances Mrs.
Carlisle would have resented this, but
now she only queried: "Do you thiuk
so?" and that ended it.
j Two or three invitations to the sew-ing-room
were quite sufficient to make
Cousin Mark at home there, aud after
a week he become familiar euough to
say:
"If you are not too busy, I should
like to read you this article."
"Oil. I'm never too busy to be read
to," Miss Kent would say. "Sit down
by the window in this comfortable
chair and let's hear it."
After a couple of weeks, when the
gentleman came in hoarse with a sud
den cold. Miss Kent bustled about, her
voice full of sympathy, and brewed
him a dose which he declared he should
not forget to his dying day; but one
dose cured. After this occurrence
Miss Kent was a really wonderful
womau.
Ah. what an arch plotter! She let
them skirmish about, but not for once
did she give them a chance to be alone
together. Her plans were not to be de
stroyed by premature confidence until
the very eveiiiug preceding Cousin
Mark's departure for California. Then
Miss Kent was very demurely asked
to remain aud keep an eye on Master
Carlisle, whom the fond mother did
not like to leave quite alone with his
nurse.
"We are compelled to be gone a
couple of hours." she said, "but Cousin
Mark will read to you, won't you,
Cousin?"
"Certainly, if Miss Kent would like
it." replied the gentleman.
The infant Carlisle, thanks to good
management, was never awake in the
evening, so the victims of this matri
monial speculation would have plenty
of time. The back parlor was the
room most in use during the evening,
and out of that room w as a large closet,
with a large blind elevator, and out of
this closet a door leading to the stoop
and garden. Imagine my surprise
when I was told that Mr. Carlisle was
going to the lodge, and that we. after
profuse warnings about the baby and
promises not to be gone txi long, were
to prceed to this closet overlooking
the lack parlor by way of the back
gate ami garden. In vain I protested.
The wily schemer took the precau
tion to lock- the closet door from the
outside, so there was no fear of detec
tion. On a high bench, as still as two
mice, we waited results.
l'resently Cousin Mark, as if arous
ing from a protracted revery, asked:
"Would you like to have me read?"
"Oh, I am not particular," replied
Miss Kent.
"Here is an excellent article on elec
tive affinities. How would you like
that?"
Jennie's elbow- in my aide almost
took away my breath.
"Who is it by?" she inquired.
Jeunie exclaimed clear iu my ear:
"That's to gain time! see if it isn't.
Now for something interesting.''
"It's by a prominent h rench writer,
I lelieve," answered Cousin Mark.
"I don't think 1 care for a transla
tion to-night," said Miss Kent.
"Nor I; nor reading of any kiud." he
continued. "This is my last evening
in New York, Miss Kent."
"I hope you've enjoyed your visit,"
she returned.
"1 didn't think I should feel so bad
altout leaving." Cousin Mark went on.
A loug pause.
"1 think 1 hear the baby," exclaimed
Miss Keut.
"Oh, no." said Cousin Mark. "You
are fond of babies, are you not. Miss
Keut?"
No answer from Miss Kent.
"I have leen a very lonely man.
Miss Keut," Cousin Mark resumed,
"but never realized how lonely the
rest of my life must be until 1 came to
this house."
"Oh, how lonely!" echoed Jennie.
"Now 1 must return to my business
and my boarding house Warding
house for a man so fond of domestic
life as 1 am. Miss Keut."
"I have friends in Sail Francisco, of
Course." said Cousin Mark, "but no
fireside like this no one to care for
me if I'm ill, nolody to feel very badly
if I die."
"That'll fetch her," said Jennie.
"I wish that I lived in San Fran
cisco," said Miss Keut. in a little quiv
ering voice. "You could call upou me
at any time if you needed anything."
Jeunie in convulsions.
"If you will go to California with
me. Miss Kent, I'll wait another week."
"Why, Mr. Lansing, what do you
mean? What would folks say?" she
said.
"We don't care for folks." said
Mark. "If you will go we will have a
house as pleasant as money can make
it. You shall have birds, and flowers,
and horses, and all the scientific
monthlies that you want, deuced if
you shan't; and you shall never sew
another stitch for anybody but me.
Will you le my wife?"
Just then Jennie and I stepped up
another peg and there was that little
old maid, who would not marry the
best man that ever lived, hugged close
to the man's breast w ho wouldn't mar
ry the best woman that ever lived, not
even tu save her life. We came away
theu, but my opinion is that they re
mained in that iiosition till we rang
the bell about half an hour later.
"How did you know?" I asked of
Jennie.
"My dear," she answered, "my whole
reliance was upon human nature; and.
let me tell you, dear goosie, whatever
else may fail, that never does."
"Why, Miss Kent, what makrs your
face so very red?" inquired Jennie,
upon entering. "And, Cousin Mark,
how strangely you look. Your hair is
all mulse.i up."
"And , 1 hope to have it mussed up
often," said Cousin Mark, boldly.
"Miss Kent and I are to be married
this week."
Jennie laughed until her face was
purple, and when I went upstairs Miss
Keut was pounding her back. N. Y.
Journal.
Ruins of a. Prehistoric C'ltjr.
A party of prospcct-.rs who were re
vrntly on the Colorado desert iu seach
of a lost mine found the ruins of a pre
historic city. There w ere walls and re
mains of stone buildings. For a dis
tance of four hundred and tweiiiy feet
in length by two hundred Ui d sixty
feet in width gigaulic pillars qouinlly
carved to represent dragons" heads and
serpents stood in the sand, supporting
ou their tops huge slabs of granite
I weighing many tons. The ornauienta
! tion resembled Lgyptian sculpture and
showed a great degree of t. kill. The
ruins are to be carefully examined by
an exploring party, and it is thought
that important discoveries will yet be
made..
PROVING His THEORIES.
How
Professional Mind-Reader
Cauht a Thief.
Wanted-Valet: niust have irood reference.
Apply A. U. lioodiuan. Kln- s Itoad. 4 'helsea.
Such was the advertisement which
appeared iu several of the London
dailies. At ten o'clock the same morn
ing a short, thickset man. with an ex
tremely red nose, showing that he had
been a high liver iu the servants' hall,
knocked at the door of the house on
King's road. A neatly attired servant
girl with a muslin cap jH-rched on her
pretty features appeared ou the thresh
old. "Is Mr. Goodman in?" asked the
caller.
"He is." responded the girl, with sev
eral critical glances at the man w ho
stood Itefore her.
"1 should like to see him on busi
ness." "Step in.
The visitor was ushered into a bright
front room.
"What name shall I say?"
"Mr. Smiler."
The girl disap-teared. Then the man
liegau to examine the apartment iu a
leisurely manner. Seveial handsome
paintings and quite a collect i..n of rare
bric-a-brac bore ample testimony to
the artistic propensities of the master
of the house.
"Some swell, evidently," murmured
the man with the red face.
The girl reapeared.
"Master wants to know- your busi
ness." "I called in reference to au adver
tisement for a valet."
"Oh!" She tossed her head and atrain
vanished. Altout five minutes elapsed
and then the girl entere I the room.
"You can wait here," she said. "Mas
ter isn't up yet."
For forty minutes the visitor was
left to his reflections.
"Must le some blooming sport," he
commented. Then the door oH-ned
and a tall, pale gentleman entered the
room in a languid fashion, picked up
the morning pit per and .carelessly
scauued the contents, as though obliv
ious of the presence of the visitor.
He read the telegraphic news and
theu the local. The servant brought
in a tray upon which reposed break
fast bacon, eggs, a cup of coffee and
rolls. The gentleman put up his nose
aud said:
"Jane, take away those dishes.
Leave the coffee."
The servant silently oleyed.
"His appetite isn't good to-day,"
commented the caller. The gentleman
sipn-d the coffee with apparent relish,
read a-raiu the cable article from 1'aris
and finally lighted a cigar. All this
time the visitor stood standing re
pectfullv. At last lie ventured to
cough, and the geutiemau, turning to
him. remarked:
"Aw you called about the adver
tisement?" "Yes. sir."
" here are your references?"
"Here, sir." and he took from his
pocket a bulky package.
"Well, 1 don't care to see them."
"I served last the duke of "
"What do 1 care whom you served?
Will you accept a guinea a week aud
exjienses?"
"Yes. sir."
"Yery well, we leave t-night for
I'aris. See that every thiiiiT is ready."
Two days later the gentleman and
his servants were quartered in I'aris.
The former had rented a magnificently
furnished house in a fashionable part
of the city. Try as he would. Smiler
could learn little of his new master.
He came and went. He usually ar
rived home aliout two in the morning
and sometimes Smiler had to put lii:n
to led. He got up auv where between,
ten o'clock ami noon. Sometimes he
breakfasted heartily; at other times he
merely siped his coffee. Smiler was
commissioned to buy tickets for every
fus.hioiial.le event, from the op r to
the races, aud he always came and de
parted iu a private carriage, quite au
elegaut equipage. Alout this time the
1'arisian newspapers wer- agitating
the matter of the remarkable tests in
mind readiuggiveii Ik fore the eminent
gentleman by a peasant woman in
Milan. The psychological society was
in session in the French capital and
the comments on the feats performed
in Italy were made more interesting
bv the presen-eof a renowned Lnglish
mind reader. This gentleman showed
great aptitude iu ferreting out crim
inals, and his accuracy in this respect
made him feared by the wrong doers.
Mr. Smiler read of these wonders, but
being of a skeptical disposition jxx.h
poohed them, tine morning when the
geutiemau was sipping his coffee, into
which he had placed a few drops of
cognac he looked up lrom his paper
ami said to Smiler:
"Markham. the mind reader, has run
down another criminal, Smiler. What
do you think of that?"
"If I might venture an opinion, sir, I
should say that it was all bosh."
"All losh. eh? May 1 ask why?"
"Well. sir. it stands to reason, sir,
that no man can read what is going on
iu another man's mind. It's against
nature, and what's against nature
can't le done. sir. My idea is. sir. that
this man. this fraud, I will cuU him,
sir. is in collusion with these fellows,
anil pays 'em. That's my impression,
sir. Kasiest thing to humbug these
French savants, sir. A criminal, sir.
can't be detected except by detec
tives, and they make au awful botch of
it. sir."
"So you don't believe in it?" The
gentleman was now driuking his sec
ond i'up of coffee.
"That 1 don't, sir."
"Well. now. su pi ose that 1 give you
a little demonstration."
Smiler started.
"You. sir?"
"Yes. I've studied a little iu that line
as an amateur. Suppose, for example.
I were to read yur mind. Smiler."
"You couldn't do it. sir."
"I should say you were a faithful,
honest fellow, who always served his
master's interests."
Smiler gave a deprecating gesture.
"It wouldn't take no mind reader to
tell that, sir."
"Hut wouldn't it take a mind reader
to tell. Smiler. what you've got iu your
poeketbook?"
Smiler turned pale.
"As au amateur, Smiler. mind I
don't pretend to be accurate; I should
say that if anyone should look in that
poeketbook he would find my ruby
scart-piu and my emerald and diamond
ring."
Smiler nearly went into a lit.
"4 if course I have so many rings and
pins that unless I was a mind reader I
would never have missed these. And.
let me see, Smiler. iu your trunk you
have three pairs of my trousers. Those
would not be easily missed, either.
Also aliout fifty neckties and collars
and cuffs innumerable."
Hy this time Smiler w as as pale as a
gin st.
"If I were to read your mind a little
further as an amateur 1 would tell you
that on the -.Mill day of Septemlx-r you
Went to a pawnshop on the Hue li
Kivoli and there disimsed of two seal
rings ami a watch, for which you re
ceived five hundred francs. They
cheated you. Smiler. You should have
got double that amount. From there
you went to a bank, like the thrift y.
honest, friural fellow- that you are. and
opened uj an account . (in t,,. ,,f
Septemlier with commendable industry
you addetl to your little hoard by dis
jHisinir of my gold-mounted stick, t he
one presented me by Huron Uoihs
child. You carefully obliterated
the names. I commend your cau
tion. Four days afterward you sol. 1.
or rather paw lied, sundry articles in
four different places which I won t
take the time to enumerate, in all
you have one thousand jive hundred
francs in the bunk and t v eiity francs
iu your tMckctlook, toircthcr with
other articles of mine which you were
al.iit to get rid of this morning. You
have lt-u .juite thrifty, and in
side of a month it was your inte'it ion
to dtaw out your money and emigrate
to America, where you are desirous of
setting up in trade. This has been
your dream. Smiler. the life of a pros-K-roiis
and honest tradesman. Am 1
right. Smiler? If 1 have made any
mistakes attribute it to the fact that i
am but an amateur."
Hut Smiler vv as sH-echless
"To continue. tr rather to go back
into the past. I read that you r. .l.bed
all your masters In-fore me. only thev
were not mind-readers in an amateur
way anl attributed the loss of differ
ent things to natural shrinkage. When
you first entered my apartments in
King's Woad your thoughts were re
garding mv worldly isses.sioiis. You
saw much that made you in- I was a
man of means. After 1 entered the
room 1 was seemingly busy reading the
newspaper. Keally. Smiler, 1 was
reading you. I did ii.it want to see
jour references. They were super
fluous. The man himself stood In-fore
me. There was the reference. 1 de
termined to make a little- study of you.
You interested me at once, for I
recognized in you a thief of many
years" traiti'iiif. a thief who had pil
fered for all his life and never been
lets-!sl. Il.-ie. I thought, is a subject
worthy of my attention, here is a case
which will e iifv an I a mils, me. So I
took you to mv l...s.ni, Smiler. and cm
ployed you on the sj.t. As von stood
there waiting for me to address you
the thoiiL'hts that flashed t hroiiLrli your
mind were: "I can easily get away
with one of those Dresdeiiware vases.
He has so many of them that he will
I. ever miss it. Then he must In- a care
less sort of a swell, one of those sH-iid-thrifts.
lie will come home inebria
ted every night. If a pin. a ring, a
watch or s. .me t her art i-h- disapin-ars
he will think he lost it somewhere the
night In-fore. Here's a swell that pays
no attention to his jn-rsonal effects.
All he thinks of is hav ing a jolly go.nl
time.' Am I right. Smiicr?"
Hut Smiler never relapsed from his
Collapsed condition.
"You lngau to pilfer w lieu you pur
chased the tickets to France. You
made ten shil lings on the tickets. You
put aside for yourself five shillings
from the purchases from the trunk
maker. I k not deny it. for it is v, rit
teli indelibly on your mind. I look to
you riirht away. 'Here is a precious
rascal. 1 thought. 'Here's a servant,
worth having." You will r-m.-mln-r
that I commended y on for your fuith
fuluess. And now, s-uiiler. do you I -e-lieve
in miml-reading? Hy the way.
where are those iavu tickets, and
kindly hand me your Lank-innd."
Smiler oln-yol without a word.
"And iio-.v it wouldn't take a mind
reader to tell what is o. .ing to hapjn-n."
The languid gentleman went to the
door and ushered in two officers
Smiler fell upon his knees.
"Mercy, mercy. "" he said.
"You i-orrolmrate all I have said."
remarked the geutiemau, with mild
interest.
' Yes. yes, I confess. Uni t put me in
jail."
"I am sorry, Smiler. but 1 have fin
ished with my subject. I now turn hiui
over to the law. Officers, do j our d uty.""
"Very well. Mr. Markham," replied
one of t hi- officers.
"Markham?" groaned Smiler.
"The same," replied the languid gen
tlemau.
"The great Knglish miud-reader?"
"1 am he. I advertised not for a
valet, but for a subject. 1 wanted to
prove some of my theories to the sn-i-ety
of savants here. You have proved
a very good subject. I sha'l write out
the results of my investigations t v
night, aud theu if you care to have the
law deal lenient ly w ith you. you w ill
sign it. I will then read the pajn-r In
fore the so'-icty. My enemies will
have to concede that my work is in
comparable. Hy the way. smiler. have
I converted you to a belief iu luiiid
rcading?" "You have, sir." groaned Smiler
"And uow. officers, take him away,
as I have a little work to do."
With that the languid gentleman
turueil and entered his study.
Smiler straightened himself up. dis
mally. "Well, Fin Mowed," he said. De
trcit Free Press.
lallle 1 lrx.ps of Water.
From many observat ions and exjn-ri-m.-nts
M. ph. 1 nur.l lind . ' I hut tirops
of water fulling upon v.aUr or w.-t
Ihxlies generate -lcvt I'icily . the w ul.r
In-coming t-lcvtriiicd f.-.e-itiv -Iy. and the
gas escaping ne'utively electrified
from the foot of the fall, and li ;l.t im
purities in the v. uW-r diminish the ef
fect t-onsi.h-rjbly. The essential con
ditions of el.s. t rilicu t ion are the c.-ii-cussions
among the drops tlu-uis-lv
and against the wet rnk. no 4-ffcct In
ing due to the water's fall through the
air and its dispersion by it. A jet .f
water falling low n from an insulated
tank to an insulated pail elcvtriiicd
the latter positiv ely, bile the Iieeii-
tive electrification d the surrounding;
air prew to several huu.ircd volts."
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