THY KING. Death rules the world! "Neath one encircling pall his kingdom lies; He knows no peer. The loves of men, the dreams, the fears, The aspirations, groans and tears Cling round the bier, The dark and silent shrine of sighs: Death's royal throne. Loong to the youth Seems that fixed track his destiny sues. pur- Each passing day New flelds of pleasure, bowers of bliss Brings to his eve In grief away Life is but fleeting: none can lose The dread embrace of Deatl too soon to pass Count well thy years And scan the score still held for Soon must it pass With pinions fleet the years roll by: With swifter pace draws near that Whose eve, alas! Thy closing eyes will never see, Thy race is run! Per ‘yr THE GRACKSTIAN'S GATOPAW. A DETECTIVE'S 81 Ten was thrown inte by news planned burglary. part of November, ted mayor of Wool brated his accession to civie ng a ball ] 2 at his vears ago the town ) comimott morning i 1 1 ie just outside was an exceedingly and his wife was gsessor of a very It popu these were 0, and popular + 4ne 86 Fiy wus respec was nou far } ry 3 al Ys the morning after the th mi { force matter a: best, howe: fous delfea » INIssin mouth ¢ he had spent near I ude. his first period of incarcer his second. Jimmy had from boy and those him felt persuaded would make him give u erime. It was y with my knowledge of turn to Woolford, servit hood this that made me sus- pect him of taking the diamonds When Jimmy was not in he worked as a brickiayver's' and made his home at prison ‘paddy,”’ the big common lodging houses in a low part of the town. Two or three af- ter the diamond robbery I went one evening toward this house, intend- ing to have an interview with Jimmy and hear what he had to say for himself. By good fortune I met him just outside the door and him. He regarded me calmly and with perfect equanimity. He was at all times a curious little man— dwarfish in stature, very slightly de- formed, and always full of a certain quaint assurance, mixed with a demeanor which was amusing everybody. My interview with Jimmy threw no light whatever on the mys- tery, as he pleaded ignorance of the whole affair. If Jimmy had got the diamonds he had done his work so thoroughly that a clew of any de- scription was not yet discoverable. And it was just that want of a clew that persuaded me of Jimmy's guilt I knew of no man who could have done the work so thoroughly. During the next two or three days I thought matters over from points of view, but I could find nothing to warrant me in taking steps against Jimmy Timble. I wondered if he had been associated with others in the burglary. More than once he had worked in company with his brother, Jerry Timble; but it was impossible for him to have had any help from Jerry on this oe- casion, for the simple reason that the unfortunate Jerry was spending twelve months in the county jail for gtealing. And it appeared to me, upon considering the case still more deeply, that, it being an affair of great magnitude, Jimmy Timble would prefer to work it singlehanded, one of davs stopped r rested with nothing but therefore, there was I'he secret, iim, and As no trace of the diamonds could be found we thought it well to keep a watch on two or three suspicious characters in the town, with a view It seemed to us that the jewels in somo safe spot and waited until the agitation had blown over before removing them. Thus it came about that Jimmy Timble's move- ments were watched very jealously. and his comings in and the eye of the law Whether wore noted, was constantly upon him. if he was, he sudden- foolish thing—he allowed caught, one dusky Feb- ruary evenit in the very act of bur- 1 } fv 3 ¢ sailing Tait Th glariously entering a dwelling house : ly did a and within an hour he was safely en- in the of the police [here I found him next morn- went my round. He a half ruefal, half vy of ' cells court. ing when 1 with countenance. said I. *'*} now express “Back again, Jimmy, : thought you had turned lanf aver no “Sodid I, Mr. Burt *‘But you fe or chaps a beca wind deed. Just through the better take cl and give then I see him i oss him ¢ him to keep! ‘eos I'11 fin done this { With that we parted and Jimmy whirled away in the town jail. We is presence for four years He was removed and t no doubt, made himself perfectly comfortable, I forgot all about Jimmy's parting request until a week or two later. was presently black Maria were ridof h at any rate, to Portland. s00N ere, neighborhood of the lodging house which had served as Jimmy's home, I went inside and asked the deputy to hand over the sions. remarking that Jimmy's belongings right when | over the There was of any consequence, and I wondered very much Jimmy Timbie should have been so particular about having his little I thought he subsequently tents the was turned of bundle the most incongruous object turned out of the old handkerchief which held Jimmy Timble’s belongings. 1 shook my head perplexedly as | stared at it. What was Jimmy Tim. ble, thief, burglar, thrice convicted eriminal, doing with the "Pilgrim's Progress’? And how was it that that particular work was the only book he possessed? And how did he come to possess H at all? 1 tarned the leaves over carelessly and could seo nothing unfamiliar about the book. 1 finally concluded that Jimmy Timble had picked it up somewhere and kept it out of curi- osity, and with that I tied it up again with the rest of his possessions. The days passed by, but I saw nothing of Jerry Timble. He had left the county jail, blit he did not present himself at his usual haunts in Woolford. 1 preserved the bundle for him and waited, knowing quite well that if he was in the we should see him at the police offi or later. It was impossible for either Jimmy or Jerry Timble to keep his hands from picking and stealing. But time passed on and Jerry did not appear. 1 began to think that he had removed himself to some other town. About nine months after Jimmy Timble had gone back to penal serv. itude I cl.anced to go one town ce soonav day into a second hand book shop, the propri- etor of which an old acquaint- ance of mine Somehow our conver- sation drifted to wns the eriminal and ere long the tioned the name of “He was a queer Jimmy,’ sl 2 Cliusses 1 shopkeeper men : 101] t ih In s Jimmy Timble customer, ‘He he wi round FOU nt came in here out prison, and he wante SAVES I answered b WKS here '& possess then lying and had aown ts x . at my nouse. home 111 up pn them safe other James."”'’ us an explanation of the f two myster £5 W & bure- and he had felt free to se4sion The attempted burglary had spoiled his plans. I saw Jimmy when he returned from Portland four years Inter. He smiled knowingly as he met me. i reckon you think yourself a clever man, Mr. Inspector, don't yer? said he. ''But you'd have been made a nice catspaw of if only that fool tarned up in time; wouldn't yer, now?” I dare say Jimmy was right. as events turned out fortune wholly on my side in this case, resume 44) of them good jut was A Venerable Pedestrian, Many wonderful things are to be in Bucks ecunty, Pennsylva- nia, but the latest is an old man of eighty-four, who can walk a mile, in Charles Wal. ton lives with his wife in a little cot. tage between Bristol and Hulmeville. man could not walk from Hulmeville to Eden, «a distance of one mile in fifteen minutes. There time, and, to the surprise of all, the old man covered the distance inside of ten minutes, and without unusu- ally exerting himself. The venera- ble pedestrian was born in October, 1810, in the old stone house now standing on the Simpson Grove eamp meeting site. He has never tasted intoxieating liquor, but has chewed tobacco since he was ten years old. His father was an Englishman and his mother an Indian squaw, He ls a broom maker, and has a great reputation for good work among the naighboring farmers. New York Ad: vertiser, HER SUPERIORITY OVER ENG- LAND'S LATEST BATTLESHIP. With 4,679 Tons Less Displacement the indiana Has the Same Speed, the Same Coal Carrying Capacity and Heavier Guns Than the Brit ish Battleshin. Since December 19, first class battleship, Magnificent, of the British was Chatham dock yard, the ship building of all countries have devoted a good deal of time in menting upon and erit Hew Vi ssel, They have almost tion, used the Frencl and the Amer bi gs their standard Ye i . when the new navy, lnunched at experts on CoOrmnl- icising the excep- ardegna v1 Pp India a ish construct he Magni enthus construct Magnific vessel thou BRITISH BATTLESHIP It battle con froma 12 ships would be point, but in American could 6 pounds either ahead or nd the English ship could only throw 4,494 pounds Firing abeam as fast as possible with all available guns, the Indiana could throw 12,608 pounds, while the Magnificent’s score would be but 8, 440 pounds. As regards armor, the thickest part of the Magnificent’s is 14 inches, and the Indiana has 18 inches of Harveyized steel at ickest part. I'he steel used in navies practically the same, and if there is any preference it must rest with the American product, for the Harvey nickeling process is an American in- vention and has been longer in use on this side of the water, A fact which should, in the opinion of steel experts, prove conclusively requires thre ition £303 or the if her th both is world is that the Russian govern. ment, after causing an examination to be made of the steel plants of all European countries, awarded its contract for ship armor to the iron and steel works in Bethlehem, Pa. With all of the Magnificent’s forty. four guns trained seaward and fired simuitaneously she would throw a weight of metal the total of which would be 4,200 pounds, while the In- diana under like conditions wonld throw 5,920 pounds, or 1,625 pounds | more than the English ship. Speed is still a matter ot conject- | ure, but both vessels are designed 104 yet demonstrated that she will fulfill the requirements in that direction. If precedent counts for anything, though, the Indiana will live up to them, for every ship built by Cramp the quarter of a has exceeded contract- speod by at least a Knot & Bons 1 od Some constructors regard it as vory | that Indiana, which has 4,679 tons less displacement than tae Magnificent, should ! capacity and a heavier and yet make the same but is dun largely to the remarkable the have an 1 equal conling battery spead 3 machin FLOWERS FOR AN ASTOR. The Order Which Will Keep a Florist Busy fora Year. er which Wi Broadwi Waldorf! florist Ham iY swife's grave tion or exter. be the war of to- reat distances, work ally, steam n at 188 front will proceed scien ly. with the aid of Heads, no the main. chess——and for be brough oqual in sureness blow of a sharp h.” methodically and electricity ong, will count in be a game of living matter what hun life being. none can and fatality the sword delivered at arm’s lengt no devices may ian Indian Courtship. Sometimes grown impatient, or confident of her willingness to meet him ifonly she knew of his proximity, he will contrive ingeniously to post himself go that the moonlight casts the shadow of his statuesque figure upon the side of her tepee. We saunter past just as the low lodge curtain parts and closes behind the | maiden’s lithe figure. The statue] in the moonlight makes an eager | the length of his brawny arms and | folds the girl into it. There is only one figure again——one shadow--but | fall on the white slope of the lodge We saunter more slowly and glance | out of the corners of our eyes, for to | take direct notice would be the height of rudeness. Etiquet hides those two inn vail like that with! which the gods invested the royal! lovers of Carthage. But we know | that they are swaying back and forth in the dim moonlight, whisper. ing to each other with such rubbing of faces and affectionate cooing as tells the old story in every language. HAS TRAVELED FAR. Notable Work by n New York Des tective of 10 ive Bergeéeant Phil Riley York force, has a record It wns ho ch to ran down and the famous ém- ing whom 80 much about a year seore of tiley v Was if the papers ruined a Om rations Weeks ctims by his y with hundreds of thousand id then fled, with Josta Riea, Another ¢ took to ( months man who fidential bookkeeper law firm and had long stay in un- learned to hile, vino Jal y ing Web BAYS 8B lirer. ne was Death of a Famous Lion. veg Years he had been he was never such a favorite as the elephants and camels who daily bear the loads of » riders patiestly, if not with Still, he was an eminent anc distance — ly respected character. Ho had hotographed and sketched and i of number, and ren enjoyed what a great many do not obtain--the dis- 11 # times oul annual exhibition of the Royal He was not exactly an aminl celebrity. He and his brother, who died two years ago, were brought from the Nubian desert in 1875, when the pair were about twelve months old. At that date he could have remembered almost nothing of his native haunts, and all his lifetime he has seen little save crowds of spectators. Still, to the last he exhibited little affection for any one except his old keeper, and, unlike lions generally—-many of which breed in ecaptivity—he dis- played no inclination to forsake a bachelor life academy. } ia " London's Black Month." It is common in continental Eu- rope to speak of December as ‘Lone Month of the British Isles,’’ and, on the world’s metropolis re- ceives the fewest visitors. The reo ords made at Greenwich observatory, which is a British Institution and would not purposely malign the oli- mate, is authority for the statement that for the past fourteen years Lone don’s December has had an average of nineteen perfectly sunless days and an average total of only twenty hours of sunshine for the entire month.
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