The Wreck Mystery.
““[f you care to hear it," sad the old
pioneer detaining the writer and busying
himself about his meerschaum, “‘1 can tell
you of a neat job my trend Rénlotk, the
Turk, you know, put up on a Loudon
manne assurance company through the
agency in San Fraucisco.. After he ran
out ot money to buy gold dust in 1852, he
left Bau Frapcisco ahd went to Chins,
trom whence he returned in a tew mouths
led with a new project. He proposed to
start a mint in Shanghai to coin Bpamsh-
miliod dolinrs, then at a premium of 25 to
30 cents with Chinese merchants. Previous
to this he had bought a small but effective
coining apparatus, which the police had
¢ircovered and seized in the chaparral, near
the mission, and sbout the ownershup and
uses of which there was a good deal of
mystery that has never been cleared up.
However, Renlock bought the ‘trick,’ and
stored it in the basement of Wass, Mollitor
& Co.'s ussay office. It was with tins
portable mint (the dies for which were
made by the same man who made the ‘slug
dies’ for Kellogg & Humbert) be was gong
to do the coimuog at Shanghai. Mr. Fisher,
the paying teller of Page & Bacon's bank,
put altogether about $20,000 into the
scheme, and the bapk itself about half
that amouet. Renlock then went heavily
into the purchase of sliver bullion, and 1,
among others, bought and sola large quan-
tities of Mexican dollars on his account.
sometimes thought, in handling this coin,
that it bad a familiar touch; that it had
passed trough my hands several times bes
fore; that, in fact, these dollars were being
bonght and sold over and over again. But
I muezied my suspicions, held my peace,
and tvok the usual liberal percentage tor oy
services ns broker. ln the meantime Rean-
lock wa y busy 1a Wass & Mollitor's
basemen xirg, for the purposs
shipment, the purchased bulhion—each
box, s= sisted, uolding He had
purchasod a brand hark
to 18 treasure to Cl Soon hs
arrange:
ready to smal
of
£3,000,
une-bailt
iny,
nis were eted, and be was
He had balls of lading for
$300,000, tte amount of bullion ou board,
a policy of insurance fully covering this
amount, procured through the ageacy of a
responsibie London corepany, aod the ship
was also insured for her full value. He
left port fiying colors. The next
news li Renlock and his venture
was that the bark had been found by the
United States ship of war Vincennes, in a
sinking condition just off the coast, some-
where in the China seas. ‘The crew had
all deseried her, and were on shore mn the
vicinity. ‘The peculiarity of the position
of the vesso! was that she was down for.
ward, while aft the buil was oot of water,
Alter ineffectual attempts to free the hold,
the pumps choked, lo raise, un-
shackle or slip the sochor, the Vinceones
men were ordered to desst, the officer in
charge sayioe that if the caplain of the
partially foundered bark and hiscrew were
not interested enough to sland by their
crall, he was not gong to take any exira
trouble. ‘They woula, however, convey
the captain and crew to Hong Kong as
shipwrecked mariners and report the case,
So they abandoned the bark 10 her tate,
That ssrse mught three of the bark’s crew
put off froin the shore in a small boat to
try and got hold of some of the silver
bullion ihey supposed to be on board.
They worked as silently and expedi-
tioasly as they could, under the cover of
darkness, sad soon broke through into the
run end baled out a couple of the coveled
boxes, the lids which they pried «ff
with a smal crowbar, when lol aod be-
bold, t wes aot ailver bullion sod Mexican
dollars their astonished gaze, but
scrap iron kept 1n place Dy a
dunnsge of soni! shot, They dd not pur.
suc tbe semicon further, but when they
rowed sab Livi one of the Uoxes wilh
thei, ¢ the scene beiween themselves,
Renlock wood the skipper can better be
imagined than desenbed. It was the pack-
ing of these Boxes that bad engaged Hec-
locks tune in Wass & Molthitor’s basemuot.
When everybody thougtit hie wis putting
ap bullion be was only packing scrap iron
aad shot. My suspicions of handing ths
Mexican dollars over sad over again was
right, you see. ‘The caplain was privy to
the wioie tranmotion, ouly before he scut.
tled tive beak be did not have sense enough
40 put in the ballast required LO sink ber,
and the wes only waler-loggad. Alter a
tremendous row, Renlock pacified the sag.
ors and bought their stieuce Dy promising
to give each a handsome sit: on ariviog
in Hoog Bong. ihe next day, pratendiog
0 give up the bars for a bad job, they all
took pasguge oo the Vioccones foc Hong
Kong, aud it was not long Uelore Renloex
negolinted with the Bouse of Jardine,
Matliceon & ( sdvance of $150,000
on Bis es ange | iow wach he
gave the Caplau was {or some
Mise 8 coro, bal it leaked hed
paid hem Fngland, which, of
COUNE, Wir re Meantinue,
Fisher, the paying wlier of Page & Bacou's
baok, who savavesa $29 000 10 Renback,
gO & leider to meet ban ws New York on a
crt day to receive is money He bead
Mat ie veisel, , 800 the lnsuratce
was (0 be pelted 18 New York, Fubor
Slarie i weaned ialey ut had been
Kou nore Luea three or our days before
Reoioch toed up io Ban Fraociees The
letler was a ruse 10 get Lhe paying teller
out of ihe way, end Kenlock hoped a bis
abietce to got the policy cashed and cave
with the proceeds. He was a vola ropes
gator,” the Turk, of bo was a Turk, But
bola sa: Los ection waa, and uuick ss he was
in movements, he was Lardly speedy
epoush. The house w Hoog Kong that
bau made mdvances on Dis poilces ad by
this tue communionied wit Loe Londo
io regard to the same. The lusurance
pompany was starded, sod al once dis
\ wl an ageat lo Sao Fraoscsco wm
vestgale. ilo vised Maioe eu route, aud
guesiioned Lhe builders of the bark Ren
ook Usd bougbt, The vessel way de-
cribed &3 A i. Toen tae agent burried
pn 40 Bae Fraucseo ww conlront Henlock;
but 66 De cine tnto the city that individual,
Bo nad somehow got wind of his errand,
it. Whore he went voboady knows to
his day. A man could bide himself 1a
he worid much more effeciually 4° that
gw, you koow, than De can jo thes rail
pad-Lolegraph sage. Aad | pever found
but, visior, whether Jacdine, Mathieson &
[0 ery made good fer $150,000 ad-]
rig LL
“Rough flossciering 1a the oid times, 1
i i nay. ’ ‘
“Sigtitiy naeven oconsioually,’ assented
the ola pioneer, ‘but it had 10 contig
t had ie chase."
i AAI SS o_o
Ungratefulness is the very poison of
pew MM
ves
comp
with
aid of
Yur
TY
of
thei moet
CMI pactiy
Giecw
ral Sat Bb
senile ng
tever hon
, at
Le stat
not
oft
it
A Putol at &« Wedding.
“Professor Jake'' Bonsall, as he is
called, is the son of a Berks county
farmer, and is not more than thirty
years old, Three vears age he taught
school in Norwegian township, and
during the winter boarded with Mr,
Fletterman, whose daughter Addie be
became infatuated with and wanted to
marry. Fletterman made some in-
quiries about Bonsall, and learning
that he was dissipated and had been
arrested in Reading for garroting and
robbing a drunken man he ordered bun
out of the house. He also endeavored
to have him removed from his position
as teacher of the district school, but
failed. Bonsall then went to board at
a neighboring farm and Kept up a secret
correspondence with Miss Fletterman,
Miss Kline, who was at that time six-
teen vears of age, carrying the letters
between the separated lovers, Miss
Kline is an orphan and has for eleven
years lived with her uncle, who holds
in trust for her $35,000, which is her
share of her father's estate, Sheis a
blonde, and very pretty, and, although
deaf and dumb, has had several offers
of marriage. When Bonsall learned
that she was an heiress he at once began
making love to her, and although he is
neither handsome nor intelligent she
feild in love with him and, mn order to
Keep her rival cousin out of the field,
exposed her letters to Mr, Fletterman,
He at once sent his daughter to Phila-
delphia, where she stili lives. Delore
the schivol term ended Bonsall was ac-
cused of stealing a gold wateh {rom
Henry W. Zulich, Constable Hoflman
then attempted to arrest “The Profes-
who, in the school room, in the
3 pupils, shot the officer
of
( onstable’s
went West
in this part of
. 33
BOL,
presence of hi
through the shoulder, dashed out
bed
i
tie house
sulky and drove
and did ne
Penusylvania until last
Zulich was
reappear
spring, after
dead, Shortly after
he was arrested in Bethlehem for rob-
bery. The charge Was nob proved,
aud in Easton afew days later “The
‘rofessor stabbed a tramp called “Dub-
lin Dan,” with whom he
over the division of
robbery. He spent the summer travel-
ing ab Lebanon, Berks and Lan-
casiler couties, and although the police
authorities have suspected him of scores
1 11 i
quarreiied
tue
proceeds of a
tt
FL
of offenses they wore unable to fasten
auy of the comes upon him. He made
his headquarters while in the Welsh
Mountains with the Freslings, Strouses
and other families connected will
Buzzards,
Recently Miss Kline left her uncle's
house, saving that she intended to pay
a visit to a girl friend who lived half
nile That afterncon, as the Rey.
Andrew J. Hoechler was driving from
Schafferstown to Cocalico, he overtook
Bonsall, whom he did not kuow, At
his invitation Bonsall got™into the car-
riage. ‘They had not gone one hundred
together before Bonsall grabbed
lines, pulled the hose to a stand-
sill and excitedly said :
“*Are you a preacher?”
The astounded minister
Yes?
*Then you are the man I'm looking
for. 1 was just making for Cocalico
when you met with me,»
With that he deliberately pulled the
around towards Shafferstown.
Sr. Hoeckler objected, ou the ground
that attend wo and
could not
the
i
ofl,
t is
Lie
replied,
horse
Ie had business to
or
go
“XY ou must go,” said Bonsall,
is business, and if you make any fuss
there will be trouble, Then he told
the minister that two miles back there
Ss a dying man who wanted to make
confession that would release an in-
an from he penitentiary.
They drove two miles, got and
walked half & mile acrosss the fields to
the cabin of Bock. Bonsall went in
without Knocking, aud when Mr.
Hoeckler entered **TUhe Professor"
closed and bolted the door. Bock, who
was inloxicated, went into a back room
and soon retuned with Miss Kline,
who was weeping.
“Now,” said Bonsall, taking the
weeping girl by the hand and addressing
the minister, ‘you might as well Kuow
that 1 lied to you, 1 want you lo marry
this woman aud me. Go ahead. Don't
waste any tune.”
The
the girl. She looked at
said: “She can neither talk noi
“I refuse to many vou,"
Hoeckler,
“But you must,” éxeclaimed
sall, drawing a revolver and cocking it.
WCh,
‘This
wi
Mi
nocent
oul
hear, *
said Mr,
me, |
Taking a notebook
Bonsall wrote: “This wan
think you want to marry
showed it to the girl.
she instantly took thé pencil
underneath the query wrote:
I love hia and wust
once; now."
The minister then made them hus
band and wife, but it was nol until
the last word was spoken that the groom
put up his revolver. The girl gave the
minister $5, and he drove away to tell
hisstiange story, Ou Friday he learned
who the girl's uncle was and went
there Lo inquire whether the marriage
was known to him, Mr. Fletterman
was not at home and Mr, Hotckler
weni away, promising to return in the
evening.
In the weantime Miss Kline, who
had retumed home after her macringe
on Thursday afternoon, fled from her
uncle's house, taking with her all her
jewelry and $166. When Mr, Fletter-
man heard the minister's story that
evening and jearned of his niece's
elopement he consulted the authorities
and learned that three warrants charg
ing “Tho Professor” with robbery had
been bssued at Lebanon earlier in the
week, The story of Miss Kline's mar-
ringe spread rapully, She and Bonsall
were seen near Womelsdorf in a wagon,
Mr, Fletterman, Constalie Hehwarty
and two other men, who were promised
$50 if “I'he Professor’ was captured
with their assistance, started in pur-
suit. No further trace of the missing
girt could be found, but the pursuing
party learned that Bonsall and 0 vag
bond, known as “Horse'’ sSpiegle, had
been in Womelsdorf that day, Their
iradl was found, and after a chase of
four miles Donsall and Spiegio stopped,
suppose,’
does
me,” and
and
“Oh, ves,
marry him at
draw his pistol and covered himself
with a tree. The Constable's party
halted and unlimbered their firo-arms,
Between thirty and forty shots were
fired and thenthe official party retreated
in good order, Bonsall is now in the
mountains, and it will be diflicult to
effect his capture. Mr, Flotterman
said to-day that he wonld lodge “The
Professor’! in jail it it cost $1,000 to do
it. It is the general impression here
that before taking to the mountains
Bonaall sent his wife to Philadelphia,
whern he intends to join her as soon as
he can elude the country officers who
are after him,
p——— i ——
Deep Non Research,
Of late years, and notably since the
voyage of the Challenger, much attention
has been devoted to deep sea investiga:
tions from u purely scientific point of view
and expeditions have been titted out fur
this purpose from time to tune by various
Governwents, These expeditions have ull
yielded a rich harvest of results, and in
several countries they have besoms u part
of the permanent marine establishimuogt—
as, for instance, 1n America, where ihe
Albatross has been built and equipped ¢s-
pecially for this purpose; and iu laly,
where her spirited hydrographer, Uaptsin
Magnaghy, in company with Professor Gg.
loli of Florence, every year explores some
portion of the Mediterranean. Since the
return of the Challenger but little bes been
done in this direction by our Government
but though the country, as represented by
its Government, has Iittle,
credit bas been amply sustained by th
private enterprise of 1s
DOCrs
Lhe which
gamed by the exieasion of cab
done
teiegrabph cag
at 4 "
experience has now |
coinmu-
» ¥
that carctully
surveyed as regards not
14e ore bees
W868 Lhe nature of Lhe
is the hkilbowd that the calbile
rand wil
ocean,
science
useful |
harve
aflecling or
with the commercial character olf
terprise. With the view carrying this
out ou board the ships of the Indias Rubber,
Gutia Percha, and telegraph Works Com-
pany, Mr. J. X. Duchanan, who was a
member of the scientific stall of the Chal
lenger expedition, has been iavited to
sccompany the expedition winch sailed re-
cently from the Thames 10 survey the
route and ay the cables connecting Cadi
and the Canary lsiands, and these islands
with Senegal on the wostern coast
Africa.
Even oa antiquarian grounds the survey
of s part of the sea supposed 10 cover the
sight of the lost Atlantis would be of grewt
interest. This interest is much increased
by recent experience during the laymg of
the cable from Lasbon to Madeimm. The
route had been carefully sounded, sod the
cable was being laid over into what was
believed to be close on 2,000 fulboms,
when it suddenly parted, Soundings taken
immediately revealed the exisiesce of a
bank with no more than 1156 fathoms of
water on 18, which had been mussed wile
surveying the route. Again, quite rec ntly
—judeed, withio jhe asl TWO Weeks
ug vessel Talisman, wh
tuvesligaling LOs pari
nui rous scienliflc aafl
the direction the veteran Mine
discovered apolber Daur (0 ib
Southward “seine Dank,
wentioned, with as Little as seventy fa'h
utes ou it. This bank was fousd to
aout thinly ules Joog [ret Cas: 10 west,
bd six nates broad from orth 10 south
Ine French Govanment bas, wih great
promplilaie sud Courtesy, supplied
company wilh the [alison soundibgs,
sod A uoportaut part of toe work of we
two cable ships whigh will be engaged in
thes service will be 10 Lhor mghbly sucvey
Ms Dank sud race 1s CounReclOous, | abs
LeXist,
11 these banks turn out to be, us there is
goid resson lo believe, isolated by very
deep water {ton all land, the wmicrest si.
taching to a thorough mvestigaiion of wast
10 be touad on Wew, whether vegelable
iineral, 1s of the very highes: order, for
the only banks of ihe Kind
present wie Koown 10 exis,
tise special mvestigalion
Lhe survey tie
is carTied
purpose
means must be found for
tesulls interfer
of
Ol
ie
French explor
becn
wilh =
aad ul Lae
iL Aal
inaer
Edwar is,
Ol
of Lhe BIT
oe
is
‘EY Re
whica al
Amr
froan
bands
Which
a vine of
Ot
GOUTL B00 & Rigi
EV.IYy eves os
BUY luruish mn Qo umporiang
Ly (Wo
ais Pp
+b
FRO ig
£00 €©5
Doiweon Madeira and the Canal vy slau
ihe small group of the ¢ Inland:
which iuay be sald (uo Le alost noknown
It niended to carry be soundings
them, #0 a8 to determine whether
Fo
il Suivay
in
Dupes or with known sod, It 1s also
intended to jand on the aslands, from
winch interesting collections may be ex.
pected,
La addition tw the iostramentis orgloarily
carried wo the ships, Mr, Buchanan takes
Out 8 new sousdiug ube, constructed tor
use with the ordinary wire sonudiug sppa
rata, Wah i it wili be possibic al every
lation Lo secure 8 good sample of the mud
aid of the water from tue Dotlom withowd
Buering the routioer wark of tbe ship, As
wie route crosses the mouth of the Medi-
terrauonn 11 will thus be possible 0 deter.
mine the extent Ww which the dense warm
walter which leaves thal sen a9 a bollom
current affects the density and (emperature
of the deep walter of the Nerth Auasatic in
its nelghborbiomh
The ships 10 te used sre the Dacla aud
the luiernabionsi, bola bLeloaging to the
company, whose hosdquarters are Bilver
town. ‘Lheexpedition is under the charge
of mr, Hobert Gray, the Company's Tele
graph Eogmeer-in-Uhief, to whose energy
sad enterprise Is aus the project of
making scleace and auvioess work toe
gether 10 tho depscuinens with which he
iW comnpecled, and in which he uw eo well
AGuwn
0 A, Il 0 50
Outward actions can never give a
just estimate of us, since there a iv
many perfections of a man which u ov
not capable of appearing in sctions,
About voartshiyp.
“My friends,” said an oratorical
Quakeress, “there are three things 1
very mich wonder at, ‘I'he first
that children should be so foolish as to
throw up stones, clubs and brickbats
into fruit-frees, to knock down fruit:
if they would let it alone it would fail
itself,
“The second is, that men should be
so foolish, and even so wicked, as to go
to war and kill each other; it let alone
they would die of themselves,
“And the third and last thing I
wonder at is, that young men should
be s0 unwise as to go after the young
women: if they would stay at home,
the young women would run after
them.”
A young gentleman fell in love with
the daughter of his emplover; but the
different social status of the pair seemed
to preclude all a successful
issue, the young lady's papa sternly
forbidding any further progress in the
matter, and denying the young man
the privilege of continuing to visit the
house, The situation sppeared almost
hopeless; but feminine ingenuity rose
to the The
was in the of we
1
ita
is,
hope of
occasion. lean
cloak,
in
old gent
habit
alilng o
and the young couple made h the
unconscious bearer of their corres
The
sitter inside theslining o! her 1
en
t %
iit
id -
young lady would pin a
ather’s
old gentler An
d- £ HUNCH
LG garment in t
ae counting -
over would ake the
Cill-
opportunity to secure the valued
send back hi Hy
Love Aid
successful,
. 23341 3
salve ana
in
LOE BANG nanner.,
in
The Boss Mason, !
A middle-aged lady, with ablack al-
paca dress, Sworn shiney at the elbows,
and a cheap shawl and a cheap bonnet,
and her hands puckered up and blue, as
though she had just got her washing
out, went ito the office ofa prominent
Mason a few mornings ago and took a
chair, She wiped her nose and the
perspiration from her face on ablue- |
checked apron, and when the Mason
looked at her, with an interested,
brotherly look, as though she was
trouble, she said:
Are you the boss Mason?"
He blushed, told her he was a Mason,
but not the highest in the land, She
hesitated a moment, fingered the eor-
ner of her apron and curled 1t up like
a boy speaking a piece in school,
asked:
“Have you taken the whole two
hundred and thirty three degrees of
Masonry?”
The man laughed and told her there
were only thirty three degrees, and
that he had only taken thirty-two,
The other degree could only be taken
by a very few recommended
in
nd
who were
till my husbaed comes from the Lodge
think he has forgot his ante.”
The lady went out toa grocery to
buy some bar soap, andthe prominent
Mason resumed his business with a
feeling that we are not all truly goed,
and there is cheating ai
around,
going on
Sisaghter ai Has.
Pierre Lote, an officer of the French
expeditionary force in Tonquin, sends
the following description of the fall of
Hue:—The beaten Annamites were
cooped up in the burning village, The
only road of escape from the flames lay
under the guns of the fort, which was
filled with sailors armed with Krapot
chak repeating rifles with sight care-
fully adjusted to the distance, Maca.
zines of rifles were duly leaded. The
men looked on waiting ustil a flank
movement of the other troops and the
firing of the bamboo huts shoeald drive
the human quarry out before them.
Wa saw them halting at the end of the
village with singed hair and garments.
Then, after a few moments’ hesitation
tuck
by the Grand Lodge, and they had to
go to New York to get the thirty third
degree, i
i
i
1
i
gather, and pu
lone bir !
ong t
tii 13d
Where does my husban
Ire
The pro
her hushan
two hun wl decor
d neve
grees, unless he ha
He
lady.
“oes my
said
Yeif 13 ¥y
MIL UDOnD
was simpl
none pon ama——————
stig t sareyyt
ae ust went to bed,
_ ———
Mn there
consent,
a
3 eXpens Yi
wo lover than t
5:1
giris get married
some ones, to which sl
it was owing mainly to the
plain
tact on the part of
giris, and the vant
4 |
? H yw (do
you make that oul?” asked
a gentleman,
“In this way."
‘The
80 please their vanity; while the hand-
ones wait flattered by the
mes, who haven't the tact to do it.”
answered the lady.
plain girls flatter the men, and
BOTH to we
There have been cases, however, in
which the
been
iluation presented here has
reversed, and plain, even
have succeeded in making them.
ugly,
mes
selves so agreeable to young ladies as
to become their accepted suitors,
Here 8 point. When
Shendan first met his second wife, who
was then
a Cases In
n a Miss Ogle, years of dissipa-
tion had sadly disfigured his once hand-
some features, and only his brilliant
left to and
cheeks too purple in hue for beauty.
“Wiat a fright!”
Ogle loud for him to
of being annoyed at
mark, Sheridan
CYeS Wer redeem a nose
exclaimed
hear,
the re-
engaged hes
enough
Instead
al once
fascination, and resolved to make
wi only reverse her opinion, but
actually fail in with him, Af
their secoud meeting she thought him
ugly, bul certainly fascipating. A
week or two afterward he had so far
succeeded in his design that she de-
clared she could not live without
Her father refused
sans 3d
could sett
ove
him,
his consent unless
Sher le fifteen thousand
and, ip
found
« always safer to risk a
“Happ he wooing
¥
That i» bot Jong a doing.™
dan
his usual
the money.
little flat-
her;
i 5% upun
wav, he
Hots
ys the old couplet; buts modern
yr thinks it necessary to qualify
by the advice: “Never
1 unless you have Known her three
8, and at a pienie.”” Marrying in
aste is certainly worse than a too pro.
its dangers, too, for something
any time to break off
allair altogether, and prevent
might have been a happy union,
It may be concluded there is a screw
somewhere if Matilda is overheard
to say to ber Theodore, as they steam
up the river with the excursion:
“Don's sil far away Irom me,
and Lurn your back on we 80,
vild think we're raarrind.
st AP 5
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OCC ul
wi
vid
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deat
PHO
American women going Ww Lurope
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admitted as guests, Apartments are
to be provided to suit eveay class from
the richest to the poorest; but the
cheapest rooms in the attic are to be as
clean as the suites on the first floor,
These honses, it is stated, are an, ex-
periment of a society interested in the
development of women, amd are not
managed with the expectation of any
pecuniary profit, It is easy to under.
stand why the benevolent Dutchmen,
bent on the development of wives and
daughters, should, as the first stage in
their work, have made this odd oxperis
went of insuring their safety from
insult while teaveling., Homes for
women could be established witn great
propriety In most Contincutal cities,
and would no doubt receive a good deal
| of American nad Langlish patronage,
he asked,
**And do they keep a 1ot
tap for my husband i
y
:
har af
Liu Us
The
Ox
her three nights?”
romi Mason sad he
i { fe Masons died,
w i
only occasionally wasone sick enough
call for Masonic as s
i
G0 You
10
stance,
# 3.0
ask Laose
. tO % fi. 4
4 But Way (] Less
tions, madam?’ said the
Mason,
The woman picked the
shaw!, hung her head
said:
“Well, my husband began to join ti
about two
fringe of her
down, and
o-
and
degrees or sitting up
VOArs ago,
been taking
with people every night since.
hth
when |
said it was a secret he
could not reveal under penalty of being
shot with a cannon. All he would say
was that he took a degree. 1
kept a little track of it, and I figu
that he has taken 230 degrees, includ.
ing
he took the
his lip cut
come home twice wit
of drawers on and
how it was, he
Wrong pair
hav
ie
with
by a
night Iu
and his
CAINS Homo
ear hanging
skin
Lin.
Madam,"
Mason. ‘there is no
Pix © of
“iy
said th
prominent
Sky Fugle d @
i ITY
Masonry. Your hushand has de-
ceived
**That is what |
mn
youn,"
think,” ssid she, as
light appeared in her eye!
*“He said he was taking the Ska Eagle
degree and fell through the skylight,
I had him sewed up and ho was ready
for more degrees, After he had takea
about 150 degrees, I told him I shonld
think he would let up on it, and put
some potatos in the cellar for winter,
but he said when a man onee got star-
ted on the degrees he had to take them
il, or he didn’t amount to anything.
Sometimes « Mason
Fed
iil
brother Comes
home with him along in the morning
“full fash.” and
and raising em
when he
whisper: ‘I raise von 2100
WUE Bsiog,
raising
Another
bed, after
beer
. 3.8.4 “ 3 ve 3
ior A WHiow, Lime Do
DOO
raised up in
whal be
if 1told it, He
| suid he had spoken the pass word, and
ir the brethren knew of it they would
of the way, even as Mor-
gan was putout of the way?"
‘1 stand pat’
was rained
put him out
Mister, m=
| word?!
“he Mason told her it was not, thas
the words she had spoken was anex-
pression used by men when playing
draw poker, and he added that he didnt
husband was n Mason at
| ail, but that he had been lying to her
| all those years,
She sighed snd said. “That's what
1 thought wheu he came home with a
lot of ivory ehips in his pocket, He
said they nsed them at the Lodge to
vote on candidates, and that a white
chip elocts and a blue chip rejects a
| candidate, If you will look the mat
tor up and see if he has joined the Ma.
soms T will be obliged tovou., He save
he has taken all the 233 degrees, and
now the boys want him to join ths
Knightsof Pythias, 1 want to get
out an injunction to prevent him from
joining anything else until we get some
underclothes for winter, I'll tell you
what I will do. The next time be says
anything about Sky Fugle Degrees, I
will take a washboard and make him
think that there is one degree in Ma-
soury that he has skipped, and now
good-by. You have comforted me
{ greatly, and 1 will lay awake to night
your puss
believe her
ing up their flowing robes us high
d trying to prol
head
will
il them all
Ale up Lo breathe
4 0¢ men then amused them.
dead —Gfty
Fup prars 1b Bae kr §
AYER counsing the
£4 budnr $7 3 > %
, Bignly (o the rig
’ 3
$ Staal
heap:
wouter:
}
housand nn
The
rat
imbers destroved,
{ the morming all was over
be Annamites was complete,
‘he heat was intense and the sailors,
ddened by the sun and the
ering with exe
we fort after the wounded. Some
wore crouching in holes, were
feiguing death, while others at the last
stretching out their
noise and
tement, rushed out
Ahwers
gasp were hands
pleading for merev and shout
Han!”
fF +i
PIR tier} Tne
men slaughiered t
ng, “Han,
in heart-rending accents, Our
with bayonets
with the bull &
The Annamite
vants, diminutive, effeminate lads, who
infantry from Saigon,
were b When one of the fu-
gitives was unearthed the sailors would
call out, “Here's another. Come, give
‘le’ang, le’ang.
These sailors were quite unrecogniz-
able. They were absolulely madmen,
The officers attempted to restrain them
and said to them, “You ought to be
ashamed of such cowandly, duty work.”
They replied, “The Annamiles are sa-
vuges, They carried the head of Cap-
tain Riviere ou the (op of a pole, and
if they carried the day they would cut
the Freuch to pieces or saw them with
in twe planks.”” There was no reply
possible this—it was trae, and so
i they were eft Lo their grim work.
a
» yw Ea —_
or brained them
$
vik
Ie 1 +
il musheis KT
head al} 1 4
| had followed Lhe
unted out,
Mix 5%
in
*
Ww
SRR ——
Population of Pars.
An analyms of the population of Paris
just published, gives very siaguiar statistics
| m& 10 the inbabuan's of the gayest city mn
It seems also, for ils size, 10 be
{ the most industrious. The proportion in
| which the working classes exceed those
who hive oo hear own nCIHme 1s the more
i remarkable as Pars is the recoguised
| centre of expenditure and extravag of
tall France. There are no cities that Bnd
| Wo the capital the sme re ative position
thet Liverpool, Manchester and Buming-
bam occupy relatively to London, More
than hal! = million of Parsians are em
ployed In commerce, trade, and banking
operations, while of the artisan Class there
are considerably more than a million sad »
quarter. The liberal professions soem to
occupy bul a small proportion of the popu
isin. All combined do pel amount Ww
200,000, snd 18 the saddivisions the prom.
ipence is quite different to what it wonid
beiou, [he greal majoniy se 1a the
public service which employs more than
medicine, aw and divinity sil combined,
Hut, after the publie service, it is art which
gives employment and hvelbood Wo the
greatest pamber of Parisians. Forty two
thousand pet their ipoome from this beaach
of imdastry, The doctors come alter, but
w jong way aficr. Medicive, in its bran.
ches, supports 18,000, the branches of
ding druggists and all come
and venders of medicine, Then
comes the law, with is 16,000 volsries,
from judge to balilfl. Literature tigares
uy OW oh the ju, for, grouped with
science Journalism, it gives
ment to ouiy 11,000 people,
clergy of ail the persoamons, amount to
but ball that number. Ua the whole
: LPO
| Burope.