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THE WILD SOWER
.t'p and down the lund I tro.
Through the valley, over hill;
Many a ploasant Kround I sow.
Never ont- I reap or till;
Kan and lluil I never wield.
Leave no hayrick In the field.
Farmer Roes with leathern scrip.
Fills the harrowed arth with seed;
In the selfsame s-ore I slip
Oerms of many a lusty weed;
Thouph I scatter in his track,
I possess nor bin nor sack.
IIe sows wheat, and I sow tare,
.ILain and sunshine second toil;
Tame and wild these acres share,
Wrestling lor the right of soil.
1 stand by and clap my hands.
Cheering on my urchin bands.
Mine the cockle In the rye,
Thorned thistle, large an'l fine.
And the daisy's white-fringed eye.
And the dodder's endless twine;
Mine those ringers live that hind
Kvery blade and stalk they find.
Mine the lilies, hot and bright.
Setting summer meads on fire;
Mine the silkweed's spindles white,
Spinning autumn's soft attire.
Ooldenrod and aster then
I bring up by bank and glen.
Whoso fleeth to the woods.
Whoso buildtth on the plains,
I. too, seek those solitudes,
leading on my hardy trains:
Thorn and brier, still man's lot.
Crowd around the frontier cot.
Many serve me, unaware
Shaitgy herds that ceaseless roam.
And the rovers of the air
Passing to their winter home;
More than these ujon me wait
Wind and water bear my freight.
Thus. a. sower wild. I go,
Tratlieking with every clim-.
Still the fruitful germs I sow
That shall vex your harvest-time;
Otherwise, ye toil-stooped men,
lden's ease were come again!
-Kdith M. Thomas, in Journal of Educa
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A DEEP-WATER GHOST.
1Y PAI L PASTNOK.
We were four bronzed, jolly sport-s-ineii,
who h.-iiK'ned to meet during' the
artriljro shooting wason at a little
liosttlry in the southern part of Vir
ginia. There was a real olil-faliionetl
fireplace in the waiting" room of the
hotel, and here we used to rather every
evening- to smoke our eijrurs, compare
notes on the uportof theday, and "swap
yarns."
I renirmlie.r in particular the story
that Lloyd told us, the night lie fore we
parted. It. was unique and weird. Lloyd
was a tremendously liig athletic fel
low, and he had away of saying-1 bings
in thnt deep l.asw voice of his that made
them dotilil.v impressive.
lie had lieen sitting- for some time
it Ii his chin on his hand, looking stead
ily into the oen lire. Tlenson had ln-en
telling' a rather commonplace ghost
story, and the rest of us had dutifully
oh-d and ah-d and pretended to shiter
at t he prox-r laei-s, lint Lloyd said ri"ver
:i word. When silence settled tion the
little group once more, however, Lloyd
sat up in his chair, uncrossed his feet,
and remarked:
".Vow, loys, I am going- to tell yon a
ghost story the like of which you never
heard liefore, and the liest of it is it's
all true, for it happened to nie exactly
as I shall tell it.
"When I was in Rwede-n, some 15 years
ntro, 1 lmd an opjiortunity to do con
s'llerahle running-, us my friend and
host was a landed proprietor and inn
i oiled the hunting and fishing- ripht-s
il a larirennd valuable territory. In this
i.ract wa tuie large lake, called Lake
Frj'ksdal, which alKiunded in fine fish,
part icti la ily pike of a remarkable size.
Hovering" over this lake almost con
stantly were a few pairs of whitish
gray lords which the Swedes call sea
cnplcs great, magnificent, hrotwl
winred creatures, whose food consisteil
of the largv fish that were no plentiful
ii tiie waters of their habitat.
"I haii a strong1 divire to shMt one of
these birds, all hough 1 knew them to
!e lield in almost sacred esteem by the
inhabitants, who ln'lieved Uiat if anyone
should kill one of them, he would lie
haunted by the sprite of the bird as
!'nr as he lived. Hut not. lieinjr the
least bit sujx-rstition.s, my passion for
obtaining a fiixst-imen of each new bird
or :mi iiia I I came across in my travels
ca.siily overcame all si-ruplen, and I forth
with laid my plans to swure one of Hie
sea-eagles.
"1 shall never forget the circum
stances connected with the shooting cf
lliis bird. It was a brig-lit, still after
jioon. I had lieen lying1 for hours lic
it ind a larg'e rock on the shore of the
lake waiting" for one of the birds to
come w ithin rang-e of my fow ling--pieee.
A pair of them were sailing- hither and
thither aJiove the surface of .the lake.
Availing- for an opjiortunity to pounte
iiiMin some pike or other lish that might
be sunning1 itself at thetopof the water.
At leng-th I saw one of t he eagles drop
like a snot from a height, of more than
100 feet, anil strike the water in a cloud
f foam and spray. The next moment
he rose, liearing" a pood -sized fish in his
lali'iis, and flew heavily toward Ihe
shore. My heart began to thump
--.gainst ni' ribs, as 1 saw thnt, if the
vigle held to his course, he would pass
almost directly over the place where I
lay concealed. Crouching1 down, I
wailed for the shadow- which I knew
must pieeede the bird, as he was flying
iK'tween me and the stin.
"At- ieng-th it came a big1, slowly
traveling1 blot of darkness and the mo
ment it jiassed me on the shing-'e of the
lM-arh. 1 leaped up, with lioth barrels
of my pun cocked anil ready. There,
scarcely 40 yards away, anil a little to
the left, the eaple loomed in the clear,
sun lit air. The pun spranp to my
Fhoulder, and a quick, loud rejiort rang
out. on the silence. With an almost
human scream, the bird dropjied the
fish from his talons, and came sailinp
linvn with outspread, quiveritip wings,
p'.'.icefnl even unto death. Slowly he
settled UNn the beach, w inps ex tendtd.
I dashed towards him. The preat winps
were vibrntinp silently on the stones.
The head and neck had fallen prone in
Ihe weakness and stupor of death. Lnt
ss I stm d over my victim, the ej'cs of
he preat bird met mine with a planee
which I shall never forpet reproachful,
pleading1, avcusinp, condemninp. I fair
ly shivered and turned away my eyes.
It was a look to haunt a man his life
lonp. V.wt when I turned again the eves
had plazed, and the magnificent white,
eaple was stretched out in the motion
less beauty of death.
"Whin I took my rize home, my
host said, sadly, and more than half
seriously: 'I am sorry you killed the
bird. He will haunt, you to the day of
your death. I laughed carelessly, jet
somehow my heart misgave me, and it
was weeks liefore I could pet over a ce r
tain apprehensive uneasiness that pur
sued me oven :n my dreams.
"I spent the ensuinp winter and sprinp
in Stockholm; but. with the return of
nnother summer my friend in the coun
try invited me most cordially to reiieat
my visit at his fine old estate, and as I
knew he really wanted me to eoine, I
hail neither heart nor reason to decline.
"The weather durinp July was ex
ceedingly warm, and durinp our fre
quent fishinp trips to Iake Fryksdal
my friends and I often refreshed our
selves by takinp a dip in the clear wa
ters. One afternoon, as we were fish
inp off shore near the place where I
had shot my eaple, I said to my host
with banterinp triumph: 'Well, a year
has passed, and I haven'tseen the phost
of that sacred eaple yvt!
"'Never mind, was the reply, you
will see it yet. Mark my words. It
will come to you some time when you
leiist. expect it.
"I lauphed and proposed that we take
a swim, as the sun was pettiup up very
warm, and the fish were not bitinp at
all. My friends assented, so we un
dressed and plunped into the lake. I
dove straipht down, and, catchinp hold
of t he japped end of a larpe rock, oiened
my eyes to look aliout me for a mo
ment. .
"Never, if I live to lie a hundred, will
the sipht that met m eyes at that in
stant lie effa-ed from memory. Cominp
toward me, silently, and yet with in
credible swiftness, was t lie bleached
and snowy skeleton of a pipantie bird,
with winps outstretched! It made no
ripple, no pulsation of the water. It
seemed to have no means of propulsion,
for the phostly winps were rigid and
motionless. Yet on it came, swift and
still; and, to my horrified imagination,
in the w hi ted sockets of the skull
pleamed those same reproachful, con
demninp eyes which the dying- eaple
had turned tion me a year ago.
"To say that I was fairly paralyzed
with fear but inadequately descrilies
my condition. Thouph liepinninip to
suffer for lack of air, I could not to
save me have let po my prasp of the
rock. I was fascinated, enchained.
Kvery muscle in my liody was rigid and
lieyond control of the brain. And still
that, horrible, mysterious specter was
cominp toward me, and I could neither
avoid it or ward itoff.
"How lonp I clunp there, suffoeatinp
and helpless, I know not. I only know
that, just as Ihe water-phost was alnuit
to strikj me in the face, a lithe, white
form flashed in liet ween, a strong hand
seized my arm and I was drapped forci
bly up to the surface of the water.
Then I lost, consciousness, anil the next
thinp I remcmlier was lieinp rolled over
a nd over on the back and punched in t he
ribs, and then openinp my eyes on the
pale, anxious face of my friend.w ho had
dived down and saved me.
"When, an hour or two later, I told
him the story of my deep-water ap
arition, he smiled incredulously, even
as he said: "Did I not tell you you would
see it. some time?"
"Rut the mystery was solved a few
days later, when, pickinp up a Stock
holm pajier, I read the followinp para
praph: " A GHASTLY TROPHY.
" 'A recent writer tells what may be
truly regarded as one of the most curious
incidents of natural history. In some of
the Swedish lakes, he says, large birds
of prey ore In the habit of swooping down
on the pike barking at the surface of the
water. In these cases. If the pike lie more
powerful than the bird, the latter, unable
to extricate his talons, is borne to the lmt
lom ami drowned. Incredible as Ihe story
sei-ms, Kekstrom, Rev. Mr. Moller. a.id
other writers, state that the llesh of the
pike heals with the talons of the bird in"
its back, while the bird lieconics converted
Into a skeleton, which is carried about hy
the pike. One skeleton, which had long
lK-en exhibited by a. pike in Iake Wetter,
had acquired a greenish tinge .and was1
rsgard-d by the tishermen as a harbirger
of misfortune." "
Detroit Free Press.
SILENCED THE "MASHER."
How New Womim S red Herself from
I' n welcome Atteullon.
He had a smile as bripht as his pay ly
colored trap as he rode up alonpside a
demure vounp woman who was walk
ing in Central park t In? other morning,
iifMin one of the asphalt ialhs, reKrts
the New York Herald. She heard the
rattle of wheels at her side, yet slu
mmed neither to the right nor to the
left.
"(rood :norninp," said the handsome
young man as he raised his straw hat
wit h the dizzy band, "wouldn't you like
to take a ride with me this morninp?
The pirl t'.idn't say "Sir-r-r!" or
"What means this intrusion?" She
slowly turned around and looked the
yonnp mm over from head to foot, lie
ixire her paze without flinchinp, and
started to pet down from his seat as if
to assist her into the trap.
The pirl looked at him and then at
the pocket liook which she held in her
band.
"I don't know," she said, half aloud.
"I ilon't know, I'm sure. JIow much
would you ch'arpe to take me to the art
museum?
There was a whirl of yellow trap, of
bright red hat band and flyinp wheels.
"You'll do." the yonnp man said, aR
he drove rapidly away.
A ltllnd Student' Examination.
Amonp the students who went up
for the classical examinations for
foreipn lanpuapes, held before the pro
fessorof the University of Paris,fipure:i
a blind youth, who is a day scholar at
the Lycee Huffon. Some curiosity was
aroused among the other competitois
as to the method by which thus sipht
less rival would eont rive to translate his
paper. The younp man, who was ac
companied by o small lioy, was piven
a private room. Here one of the masters
read out the passapes, which the stu
dent took down on paper with a pointe I
instrument. The dictation terminated,
the pupil reread the subject, markimr
the punctuation. "He then set about
the translation, whi'h was into the Knp
lish language. Words he did not know
the meaninp of were looked for in th.?
dictionary by his companion, who, how--ever,
afforded him no further help.
When the translation had lieen written
in his ow n curious characters the younp
man tr.inscrilieil it for the examiner or.
a typewriter, working the instrument
with remarkable siVed, and he cor.
cl tided his task within the time pre
scribed for the other competitors.
London Telegraph.
RECEIVES IN HEK BATH.
Hovereign of Madacaacar Tnanaaeta State
Affair la Her Tub.
Persons who pride themselves ujion
what they call their sturdy common
sense affect to despise elalnu-ate civili
ties under the expressive term of
"starch." None the less.'sajs the Den
ver llepubliean, do such sacrifices to
exacting graces flourish, and certainly
not h"ss than in countries nearer home
amonp the Hovas of Madagascar, who
were, even liefore their annexation,
nothing if not Parisian. Starch is, how
ever, at the court of Antananarivo no
mere matter of form; rather, if anyone
may say so, a form of matter, for it is
the starch so indisMnsable in our laun
dries that, like Shakesieare"K divinity,
dolh hedge around the Queen Kanmalo.
She, like Marie Antoinette, is accus
tomed to receive slate visitors in her
morninp tub. and quite seeing the d:
:k vantages of having her lull li water
lilTe her state policy, too clear, tlie
starch is thrown into it to dissolve as
a white veil around the queen. Amonp
the dipnitaries thus received by her
was. according to the Paris correspond
ent of the Times, a French ambassador.
M. Le Myre de Vilers, who, after a
plentiful use of diplomatic "soft soap."
retired highly confident. An old Hova,
however, more experienced in Mada
gascar etiquette, took a different view
of the results of M. lie Vilers mission.
"(Ih, he will not obtain anything," he
said; "there was too much starch."
Kxci-ssive starch would seem to make
queens, and collars alike "stuck tip."
SHE KILLED THE BEAR.
Her Method Was Original Hut None the
1am KIT eft Ive.
Some Philadelphia sortsnicn hunting
the deer in the wild portion of Clear
field county, in the center of the mouii
tains of Pennsylvania, were hurriedly
called out one morning by the puidc,
who had ftiscovered two bucks a few
miles away, says the New York World.
Hastily starting, the men did not carry
a large supply of ammunition anil what
they had was all used or wasted in bap
ginp the deer. Startinp back to camp,
they encountered a liear and as they
could not shoot they ran, each going
in a different direction.
The liear chased the guide ond he
took the direct course toward the camp
lop house, where li is wife is pre
wiring a meal. With a, yell he dashed
into the house and up into the loft.
His wife ran ont of the back door,
closed it, and s the liear had gone in
side she hurried around, closed the
f ront door anil mcule the liear a prisoner.
The intrepid woman then t;ed a dop
to a kiIc. thrust the howling carinc
through the door and thus co.:xed the
bear out. As bruin apiieorcd she struck
him with an ax and killed him at the
first hkiw. i.
One of the hunters commented on lu-r
manner of fishing for ci $50 liear with a
kig worth $150, but the woman re
torted: "We generally shoots 'em, but we
never runs from "em."
SPANISH MINES IN TEXAS.
There Ik Talk of Reopening Some of the
Old Ones.
The earliest, set t iers of Hell county,
Tex., found along the mountains north
east of Helton and near Nolan's creek
what opK-arel to lie old mines thnt bad
probably lieeu workeil by 1 he Spaniards,
Indians or Actecs. Since then every
oiece in awhile there has In-en talk of
trying to ojien the mines and see what
was in them, says the (lalveston Xcvs.'
They presmtcd the apM (trance of deep
liol.-s in the pronnil, some of w hich had
Im-cii partially and others almost en
tirely tilled with dirt. In sotm instances
bushes had grown in these places. In
oi e or two cases larpe ceikir logs had
licen placed over these mine-holes tind
dirt, thrown on them. Soim jicople
have always contended that it would
pay to reoicn and work these oid mines,
but until now- no one w ho ik'sircd. to put
time or money in them.
The recent discovery of gold four or
five miles from Helton has piven a i,ev
intcrtst. in these old mines, in one of
these mines some men haveln-gun woik
in earnest, and are kecpinp at it from
ikiy to day. They art" twit very com
municative aliout their prosjiects tor
success, but this much they tell, hat
in Hfdiort time they are going to ship
some of what they think is their lest
paying ore to the smeller at e.igle Pass.
After it has lieen amclted they w ill krow
more. Meiimvh.il; there is a good deal
of interest aliout it around town.
FOREIGN PICKINGS.
Hrussels contains a clock which is
voiind up by the wind, and never by
iiimaii hands.
Soil was brought up from the depth
f :i feet, from a coal mine in Helpi'iiu,
ind from it rproutcd weeds of a sitecics
unknown to the liotanists.
Foreign Jews without distinction of
ailing will lie admitted into Russia
until further notice, after having their
passHirls vised by Russian consuls.
A Huda-Pesth journal notes the fact
that :!2.(K0 season tickets were sold for
Ihe millennium exposition in that city,
while at the last Paris exposition only
lli.OiMI were sold.
The citizens of Weisbaden intend to
buy the neighlioring hunting scat of
Platte and present it to t he German em
peror, w ho recently expressed preat ad
miration of the forests that clothe 'lie
Tan n us mountains, and intimated a
desire to sjiend some time there every
year.
A burnt- Ml art ecu
The story is told of a famous mathe
matician that he was frequently guilty
during his courtship of walking the
greater part of a mile with the young
lady of his choice without Se.iking.
One evening she took advantage of bis
alisent-mindedness to play lnm r. trick.
She sli'pped her hand from his arm and
hurried home a nearer way. He contin
ued to hold his arm in the same posil ion.
walked up the steps of her faihet's
house and rang, the liell. when, to bis
astonishment, she herself oienol the
iloor.Jle stared in an incredulous man
ner and exclaimed: "Why. S . how
in the world did yon pet on that, side of
the door?"
Royal K el leu. J
A' cambric shirt worn by Louis XVL
on ihe day liefore- his death realized
$.70, and the napkin used at masts on
the mornTinp of bis execution $3fH), at a
recent London sale. .
AN ASSAYINCJ-U00.M FUZZLH
One morninp, early in June, 1 was sent
for by my employer, the. head of a detec
tive agency, ami found a visitor with
him. The latter rose when I entered,
and the chief formally introduced us.
"M r. Vincent," he said, addrcssiiip t he .
gentleman, "this is Mr. llorland, tlie
detective, whom I lad lieen speakinp to
you about."
Mr. Vincent liowed and I returned the
salutation. "That is my canl, sir," lie
said, handing me. the piece of pasteboard
as he K'xike.
I looked at the card; itlxire the name:
"Mr. llomee Vincent," and in the corner
the name of Mr. Vincent's firm. "Legpit
fe Vincent, Assayers to the Hank of
Great Poitain."
"We. are in great trouble," said Mr.
Vincent, after . short pause; "we Imvc
reason to lielieve that one. of our as
sistants is robbinp us daily of the puld
dust which pass-; tlirouph his hands."
"Indeed," I returned; "then why not
have tho gentleman arrested tit once?"
"Tlitit is impossible," he said "quite
impossible."
"May I ask why? I said, briskly.
"We cannot do so liecause there is not
one jotof proof to justify such an arrest.
Kvery man is searched nightly on leav
ing the premises, and this man whom
we susju-ct has undergone th same
treatment. Not. a tenth of an ounce of
the dust lias lieen found on his person
on any occasion."
"Then why sustiect him?" I asked,
somewhat iiuiat iently.
"There is no tine, else to suspect. At
our establishment, we have some 2 as
saying rooms, anil each room has made
up its accounts jierfectly with the ex
ception of the room in which younp
Lenshaw is employed. Month after
month a considerable deficit occurs
there.
"If it is your w ish that I should take
the case in hand, I will come and have
a look at your place and employes with
out delay."
Mr. Vincent shook hands with the
chief, and I. having made n few neces
sary prejiorations, set out with the as
sayer for the scene of the trouble.
As we walked along, I said :
"How much of the dust has lieen
missed aJtoge-ther?" I asked, after a
short pause.
"Close on 150 ounces. You see, the
roblieries have lm-en extending over
some time now, and we are determined
to cither find the thief or discharge
every man iu our employ."
"I hope that there will lie no need for
such an extreme measure," I remarked;
"doubtless, we shall lie able to bring
home the crime to the culprit."
No more was said until we reached the
assaying-rooms. Mr. Vincent ojx-usil
the door, and, bidding me follow him.
passed rapidly into the room. No. 15.
where the. roblieries had lieen com
mitted. A young fellow was bending over a
pair of hair scales as w e entered.
"That, is Lenshaw," whispered Mr.
Vincent; "quite a youngster, as you
see."
Ilenshaw, 1 coming aware of my
presence, looked up. I am sometb'mp
of a re:ider of physiognomy, anil read
ing that face, I distrusted it at once.
Mr. Vincent was the first to speak.
"Kenshaw." he said, in a low voice,
"I am indeed prieved that I should have
to Sieak to you as I am poinp to sieak.
but there is no alternative. This peti
tleman is a private detective. He has
come to inquire into the mysterious
disapM"aranee of the pold dust from
this room."
"Well," said Renshaw, sulkily, "what
has that to do with me. sir?"
"I only hoie for your sake and your
dead father's sake that it has indeed,
nothing to do with you," returned Mr.
Vincent, sadly; "but tlie facts are so
black apainst you that I have deter
mined to take up the matter now and
pierce the heart of the mystery. Ren
shaw, it is not too late to confess. 1
will not lie hard on you, nor will Mr.
lappet t."
"1 have nothing to confess," he re
turned, moodily; "I have never taken
anything out of this room that was not
my own propertj-."
"If yon are speakinp the truth." said
Mr. Vincent, not unkindly, "how do you
explain that there is such a remark
able deficit at- the end of each month
in the accounts connected with Room
15? Noliody liesides yourself is al
lowed in here to whom else can we
look for an explanation?
"I cannot, help you. sir," he said,
quietly. "I am very sorry, of course,
for what has occurred, but it is out of
mv lower to do anvthinp in the mat
ter." He paused, and then broke out, al
most passionately:
"Haven't you searched me nipbt after
nipht, as if I were a dock laliorer?" he
said. "Surely, if I had stolen anv
thinp, it would have lieen found on me
then. What more doyou want?"
"We want to find the culprit, my lioy,
that's all. There is some preat puzzle
here some strange mystery, black as
night, Renshaw. if you will take a last
chance, I offer it to you now. If you
are connected with this business, speak
out, and I promise you that the law
shall not touch you. Lose this oppor
tunity, and then the law shall po to
work, and if it indee'd, can convict you,
then we shall have no mercy on you.
What is your answer?"
My answer is as before," he said,
slowly. "I know nothing whatever of
the affair. If I did I would say so; as I
don't, I can't,"
We left him alone, and T went to Mr.
Vincent's private room, where we spent
half an hour in earnest consultation.
"My opinion," I said, "is certainly
that the youth is guilty, and that he
has discovered some method of hiding
his spoils from the searchers nipht after
nipht,"
"Hut what method could he possibly
use?" asked Mr. Vincent, puttirp his
hand to his forehead in despair; "noth
inp escapes the searchers absolutely
nothing."
"1 am not so sure of that." I re
turned, slowly; "searchers are only hu
man, after all. and jvossibly a most
simple trick has deceived them. Is
there any means by which Renshaw
cotild Ih- watched from a nxim almve?"
"Curiously enough," replied Mr.
VinceDt, "there hapiens to l3 a
skylight in room 15. Perhaps you no
ticed it when you were there? Through
that skylight you would have ample
opjiortuuitv of seeing how ho en.nlovs
hi'iiself." " ' "
"Very well," I said, "it is no use of
my watching him now. as be will, of
course, lie on his guard. In a week's
time I will return. Meantime, yen i ill.
of course, keep your ow n counsel, ;.p-l t.t
no inkling as to my visit leak out in
the place."
He reassured me heartily on this
point, and then we shook hands and
parted.
A week later, I took up my sition
aliove the skylight, and watched the
young assajer closely.
I must confess tlwit he did nothing
wliatever of a suspicious nature. He
pursued his work calmly and method
ically, showing himself to lie a very
industrious workman.
He had a habit or mannerism which
seemed to mo rather strange in so vcung
a man. It might lie nat urctl. or it might
tie affected, but every now and a.iin
he would Mi use in his work, and jiuss
his lonp. nervous hands through his
bushy, auburn hair, as though trying
to collect his thoughts. It reminded
me very forcibly of a mannerism of
Henry Irving, and I thought it pi's'i'Ie
that Renshaw might lie a bit rtage
struck, anil had consciously or uncon
sciously adopted the mannerism of the
great actor.
Throughout the day I stood in my
uncomfortable jiosition. eliciting noth
ing. At five o'clock the establishment
closed, and I came down from my perch,
and went, straight- to Mr. Vincent's
room.
"Mr. Vincent," I said, "my search has
been useless so fax. I am now going
'round to Renshaw's place of residence,
and 1 want you to give me his address
and invent some pretext for keeping
him here for, say. haJf an hour while I
pursue my investigations."
"Very well," he replied, promptly;
and then, ringing a liell, he told the
messenger who answered it to detain
Renshaw and not let him po until he
had seen him. The messenger having
departed, Mr. Vincent wrote the ad
dress of the younp man on a slip of
paper.
Jumping into a hansom, I drove as
fast a.s the cab would take me to 2?,
Acacia Villas. Hrixton, where Renshaw
lodped. Arrived there I present! my
card, and having sufficiently overawed
the landlady by the mapic name of "de
tective," I was ushered up into l:-n-shaw's
room and left alone. I had, of
course, cautioned the woman against
pivinp him tlie slightest hint when be
came in of my visit.
Then I examined the room closely.
In one of the drawers I found a collec
tion of tradesmen's bills, which proved
charly that my "bird" had ln-en going
it for some time past. Oik' of the bills
rather astonished me, for it was fur a
liottle of aniline hair-dye.
"Wliat on earth should he want to
dye his hair for?" I pondered and
then it Hashed upon me like a lightning
stroke that Renshaw's auburn hair had
never seemed to me to lie quite genu
ine. Hut why should he desire to
change its color"?
As I stood thinking, I heard his step
on Ihe stairs. In a moment I had dart
ed lieb ind a screen, which, fort uuatdy.
hap'iened to lie standing in a corner
of the room, and waited for his entry.
He came in hurriedly and sat down
on the lied. Then he. looked in his
water can and found it empty.
He went to the door ami call-.tl out:
"Mrs. Martin, I wish, you would send
up some water at once. Yon know I
always like to have a wash directly 1
get Kick."
"Funny thing, this desire for cleanli
ness." I thought. "I saw him w ash hi
hands at five o'clock to-night lx-fore
leaving the assaying-room. He is quite
fanatical on the subject of soap and
water." .
I"p came the servant in. a mom en U
carrying with her a huge can. R'-n-shaw
thanked her, and having set the:
can down, he locked the iloor, and made
prearations for washing.
He filled the liusin. and then put his
head under water for aliout 40 seconds
slowly raisinp it at tlie end of that
time.
He repeated the process again and
again, to my intense amazement and as
tonishment. Of course, there was noth
ing strange in a man's bat hinp his head,
but w hen the process w as pone 1 h rough
a dozen tinn-s, surprise was perfect ly
nat oral.
Hut. feeling that if the secret was ever
to lie discovered, it must le discovered
now. I seized the optuvrt unity, when
Renshaw's head was turned towards the
window, of stealing out from my hiding-place
liehind the screen and exam
ining the basin and its contents.
Good heavens! In an instant the
truth flashed on me; thewaterwa? full
of gold dust washed from his head. Our
suspicions had lieen correct, and Ren-s-haw
was indeed the thief.
In a moment I had luni firmly in my
grip.
"I arrest you, Mark Renshaw," I cried,
"on a charge of thefL I've hail a nice
hunt to run you down, but I reckon I've
ilone the trick at last,"
He turned as white as death.
"The game's up." he said. ho.irsHy:
"but it was a good game while it lasted.
You can take me now whenever you
like."
I could not help admiring his self
possession. I saw the reason for the
hair-dye and the reason for his assing
his hands frequently through his hair.
The dye had lieen use! to make his hair
of similar color to the pold dust, and
when he put his hands to his head, he
quietly left a pinch of dust in the hair.
It was a very clever device, but it was
played out now. Tit-Hit.v
Taste anil SmelL
Physiologists have long known that
many sensations ordinarily ascribed to
taste are in reality due to suiell, but this
fact has lately lx-eu niade clearer than
liefore by the investigations of German
savants. Air enters the olfactory cham
ler, where the nerves connected with
the sense of smell arc centered, both
through tlie nostrils and through an in
let leading from the mouth. Inconse
quence, a breath of jierfumed air mani
fests its odor not only when it is
breathed in, but when it is breathed out.
For this reason we are sometimes de
ceived as to the source of the pleasure
we derive from thinps taken into the
mouth, the agreeablenessof the impres
sion lieiug due, in some cases, rather to
smell than to taste. Youth's Com
TOBACCO IN WILLS.
t urlooa Directions Ceft by the Kins; et
r-mok-cre.
Klaes. the merchant, of Rotterdam,
was cn'Wl the king of the., smokeirs.
from his devotion to t lie pvntJe weed,
ami hes had a riirht regal funeral. Hy
the terms of his will, every smoker who
chose to att ml it was presented with
u-n lKwinds of tobacco and two Dutch
riies. on which were engraved the
name, arms and date of the derease of
the testator. All his gu-sts were in
vited to lie careful to keep their pipes
alight during the funeral ceremonies,
and toemply their ashes into his grave.
His oak colli n was lined with the cedar
of his old Havana cigar lioxes. and a.
packet of old Dutch Wiacco was placed
at tlie foot, of his coffin. His favorite
pijH- was laid by his side along with
a lox of matches, as well as flint, and
stel and some tinder, as lie had r
prcs.ssed an opinion that "there was no
knowing what might hapj-n." Some
nnti-tobaceonisls of the leril seem to
have wickislly remarked that these pre
cautions about procuring a light w ould
lie found sn jwrfliious.
The courts recently set aside a clause
in the will of an anti-toluiceo leaguer
in Ireland. This gentleman had a
prejudice atminst smoking, jierhaps lie
cause it made him sick, and inserted
this paragraph in his last V-staroerit :
"I Lave tol l my sons. John. Richard
and Samuel, that if they indulge in the
habit they would forfeit 5O0 each,
to lie divided among their sisters, and
should they at any time liegin this habit,
their sistt-rs may sue tliem each for
511."
1
LONGS TO BE A SLAVE.
Southern Negro Who Wanta to Co late
Hondas; Again.
Some of the letters that Mayor
Thacher gets are curiosities in their
way. People from out of town who
wish to find out anything in the city of.
Albany invariably write letters to he
mayor. It doesn't make any difference
w hat the information desiri1 relat.-s to,
the mayor, they think, ought to know,
says the Albany Argus.
A letter was received from a negro
away down south, who. Mr. Monahau
says, has licvn dead for .'10 years not
literally a corpse, but dei-cased so far as
his grip on hustling, progressive nine
teenth century life was concerned. This
man lielieves that slavery is still an in
stitution in this great land, anil is igno
rant of the glorious fact that the nias
'. r's w I-. hasn't cracked for 3d years,
lie tn'T heard of the president's proc
lamation, never knew that the north
had whiiieil she so-ith. and that a mil
j'Son lives had l-en sHerificed to free the
slave. In ?iis ,-it, r to the mayor this
ii. hired man asked to In- brouirht north
and sold back into slav. ry. There is
po om-stioTi that he found it iirqMissilile
to lite in ! he south, arid longed again for
Ihe irresix.iisihility from self-support
of slavery das, which bethought still
flourished in the south.
A REMARKABLE TOOTH.
Wonderful Relic la the Temple at Take
dam. Japan.
The temple at YakaJuiiiu. Japan, con
tains a wonderful relic in the shaieof a
tooth which, tnditioii says, one of the
i-ikJs pulled from his jaw in order to
hate a weapon with which to dispaU-h
an immense cobra, says the St, Louis
Republic. Years ago. according to the
tradition, after the loolh had been
worshiped by heathen devotee for
centuries. change of sentiment took
place in regard to the relic. It was
h-clared to lie a fraud and was. ac
cordingly, ground to a powder and then
thrown into the river. Hut the particles
came together, so tin' priests say, and
again formed themselves into a jier
feet tooth, which was found as icr
fect as iK-forc the ordeal, quietly rejios
ing in the lied of the river. After this
miracle, the "Temple of the Sacred
Tootlt," which had also Lern destroyed
by the unbelievers, was rebuilt and the
tith again enshrihed as an ohj ct of "
adoration. At prefent it is kept in a
gold liox wra piied in films from the
sacted w hite spider's we.h.
Non-Wlievcrs in the jiowerof the Sa
cred Tndi-structible Tooth say that it is
simply a molar of some extinct species
of gigantic animal.
A Heroine of the Albert MedaL
Miss Hannah liosliotham is the only
woman who has received the Alliert
medal. This lady was, and still is. as
sistant, school mistress at the Sutton
National schools St, Helens. I-an-cashire.
On Octolier 14, ll. the stone
lJfry of the school was blown down
during a terrific gale, of wind, and fell
through the roof into the infant scliool
room, where nearly 200 children were
assembled, causing the death of one and
injuring many others. The mirnient
this muss of masonry bad fallen, the
schoolroom and its gallery were filled
with stones, slate and timlier. Whilt
others had fled for safety. Miss lios
iKitham, who at the time of the. acci
dent was teaching elsewhere, deliber
ately went in among1 the fallen mass
and clouds of dust, and, while fully
conscious of the extreme danger to
w hich she was ex posed, remained on the
stiot until every child had lieen placed
in safety. At the imminent risk ol her
own life this heroine of 23 removed
four infants w ho were partially covered,
with the debris and also rescued there
from a little pirl who was completely
buried and who must inevitably have
lieen suiTm'ated had not s-uch. gallantry
ijeen displayed. Strand.
In Persia.
The governorship of a state is held
yearly by the iujii who pives the shah
I be largest present; daring bis jieriod
of office he collects from the people the
taxes, the present he has given the shah
and a good substantial mm into the
largain for himself. Absolutely piti
less his men will often seize the iast
sticks of an old mau, and if the jieojile,
seeing starvation staring them in the
face, resist, they are liable to lie put to
death by torture, if what was in the
mout h of every one was t rue. I n t he old
lays it was necessary to make a fright
ful example of a few caravan rohliers to
keep tin road through the Kotalws safe.
In a country where it is customary to
commit suicide in a fanatical way. a,
for instance, when wives throw them
selves on their husliands funeral pyres
in India, an outcry often is made in
Kpgland. and yet in a cttuntry full of
Kuroieans men are taken out in broad
daylight and cruelly murdered by the
roadside. "
DEALERS GLNEKAU
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