Baint Leger (August, 1777.) i By Clinton Scollard, wo ssi From out of the north-land his leaguer he led, Saint Leger, Saint Leger; And the war-lust was strong in his heart as he sped; “Their courage,” he cried, “it shall die I’ the throat, When they mark the proud standards that over us float See rover and ranger, redskin and red- coat!” Saint Leger, Saint Leger. He hurried by water, he scurried by land, Saint Leger, Saint Leger, Till closely he cordoned the band: “Surrender,” he bade, “or I tighten the net!” “Surrender?’ they mocked him, Inugh at your threat!” “By Heaven!” “he thundered, Hive to regret Saint Leger, Saint Leger! . patriot * we “you'll "wr He mounted his mortars, he smote with his shell, Saint Leger, Saint Leger: Then he fumed in a fury that futile they fell; But he counseled with chuckled, elate, As he sat in his tent-door, “Egad, can wait, For famine gate!"— Saint Leger, Saint Leger, rum till he we is famous to open a But lo! as he waited, was borne to his ear— Saint Leger. Saint Leger A whisper of dread and a murmur of rear! : “They come, and as leaves are their numbers enrolled! They come, and their onset be controlled, For tis Arnold who heads them. Arnold the bold Saint Leger, Saint Leger! may not ie *Retreat!” Was the bitterly said. Saint Leger, Saint Leger, Than when to the north-land leaguer vou led? Alis, for Burgoyne pain word e’er more your in his peril that train! alas! for the ous, the vain Saint Leger! —Sgtorday MR. HUNT, DETECTIVE BY JEANNETTE SWING. And, Evening Post. “Wonder who it can be” Nell to Martha, It ‘was just about dusk, and a tall man in a mackintosk stood ringing their door bell “1 cannot imagine,” sald peeping over her sister's shoulder. The door was opened by the maid, and the visitor shown into the parlor. Then the maid hurried up stairs, said to the waiting sisters: “He didn’t give no name, Miss Martha, but asked if he might see Miss Harper.” smoothed back her hair in a very Im portant manner, as she started down stairs. “1 wonder what he wants,” Nell enviousiy. To have tall, asking for Miss Harper was not an every day occurrence. Nell began to surmise. It might an muttered be missions, or it might be many lovers Miss Harper had had in her youth, who had at last come back to claim her. Nell had kKoown a great deal about those lovers by hearsay. Miss Harper was fond of upon them, and so many times had she spun out her stories, that she most persuaded herself to believe in them. Nell's incredulity had long since vanished, and now she began to con- template her sister claimed, and mar- ried and carried off a bride in blushing and happy triumph while she herself wns left an old maid, and an object of pity. The thought was sickening. She stood in the hall by the ballusters, with her eye fixed on the parlor door, wish- fng her sister's visitor would depart. Buddenly the door opened, Martha came out, and motioned for her to come down. “I thought it bettér to consult with you. Nellie, in regard to this gentle man’s proposal,” said Martha. “A proposal already,” gasped Nell following her sister into the room. She was soon undecelved, however, and quite forgot her miserable antici: pations In listening to the visitor, He was a fine looking man, with a smoothly shaven face, and close cropped hair. His manners were per. fect, and his voice low and refined. “1 shall explain to you as I did to Miss Harper,” he sald to Nell, placing a chair for her gallantly: “What I tell you Is strictly confidential, In case you do not care to favor me as [ wish, I trust to your honor to keep thin visit a secret. You know that there have been several burglarfes committed in thix town lately.” “Yeu,” said Nell, “we have been frightened to death several times near- ly. Sister Is so nervous, the slightest noise at night" _ “Exactly,” he said, as she paused, “there have been some heavy losses, and it is thought that the gang of thieves contemplate more tions, and it is certdin that | 3 fs foented in this vicinity.” : The two ladies loo wtriken faces at their a secret. 1 know better. many a time I have placed my life it- gelf in the hands of a woman, and did | not regret it. God bless them." Miss Harper's eyes glistened with this praise, while her sister leaned for- | ward and listened with rapt attention. secret out a card case, with a plece of paste board, the simple words, “Mr. Hunt, tive,” “1 have been sent here to work up | this robbery business. I have come to | you, knowing that you ure sensible, and presented each bearing Detec- or weeks, as the work requires.” Then he went on to explain how Im- possible it would be for him to stop at cause no one was to knew of lus pres- ence in the town, not even the town officers who had hired him. His sue- cess depended upon the secrecy main- tained, and who was better at being discreet than these ladies whom had chosen? He wanted the privilege of coming in and going out at all hours of the day and night; to both the front and back entrances in ease of emergency or pursuit, For all this he was willing to pay hand. | somely. The ladies considered and finally agreed to him. They had oceaslonally boarders, thelr income being none lavish. some and fascinating, Mr. Hunt paid a week's board in advance. An later he returned with a large trunk, the matter, accommodate {oo and no one the wiser. maidens to secrecy also, he made him- | self very much at home. in the sitting room. with the closely drawn. Mr. Hunt was very en- tertaining, and had many exciting incl | dents to relate about himseli. When | they were about to retire, he remarked: “You must not let my coming in or | going out disturb you in any way. I i shall have to prow! around at all sorts f unearthly hours. you know." “Oh, we understand.” sald Miss Har- per, as though she had been raised In detective headquarters. “You are often in great asked Nell tremulously, “Nos, * he answered, any ti for five days, | hear : open danger?” often,’ “and if at ne or even 8 week, pothing of me, you can break my trunk and find full details { there, as to whom to notify. But don't {be in a hurry to give me up. I'm i lucky, and generally come out all i right.” “Oh, do be careful of yourself?’ said Nell impulsively, and she would have sald more, but she saw her sister frowning But, when a litte later, nizht, the front door was latched. and met Mr. Hunt in the hall, dressed in a great and hat. the idea of his danger, made an anxious look come into her eyes, “I will be careful to-night,” he said, offering her his hand, “I will think of | your yneasiness, and not be rash.” Nell did pot tell this to Martha, { was her first secret from her sister. Ten days, full of a new i the Harper sisters, passed. Two more robberies had been com. i mitted, and the whole town was ex. j cited. The papers announced that de- tectives wore on the trace of the il Mr. Hunt smiled as he read this aloud to the sisters, “Yes,” he said, “I think I will have them located by to-morrow night. I'm on the scent. But this stuff in paper is all surmise. I have not given them a single clew yet, | say something. It would ruin my suc. cess if 1 told anything to anybody out- wide.” that same cont slouch It ileves, task of keeping silent was almost too much for the Miss Harpers, and they only restrained themselves by thinking of their trinmph when the affair was it. They would pose as celebrities in connection with the famous Mr. Hunt, detective, interesting mag, and some rather tend. er passages had taken place between them, so it was with a pitifully sad face, she heard him say one morning: “If all goes ar I expect, { shall leave to-morrow morning.” Then he glanced at Nell, and sighed, and Nell began to wish that the thieves might not be found for some months, at least, or never at all. That evening Mr. Hunt went out completely disguised in a red wig and whiskers, and walked with a decided Hmp, so that Nell and Martha laughed heartily at him, as he went down the steps. He laughed back at them and waved his hand, He did not return at all that night, nor the next day, and their anxiety was intense. On the next morning there came a letter for Nell, and for: tunately Miss Harper had gone to market, so Nell read it unhindered. It was from Mr. Hunt. He stated that he had been hastily obliged to leave, that his life had depended upon it, and that he wanted her to have his trunk shipped Immediately, and secretly to an address enclosed. He gave her a few directions ax to how to get his trunk to the station, and closed his letter with some words that made her face flush as it never had before: “For your sake 1 have been careful of my fife. I have you to live for now. You will see me again before many weeks, Let wo one know where 1 am. My Her plan- ning was interrupted by the sound of volee below, and on the stairs. Then Martha burst suddenly the room, her face Leyes wide open with fright. Behind | her came the town constable, two po- lice officers, and some. .girange mon, “And you have no idea where he 87” into red and angry, her NO," gasped Martha, “He left San- day night.” They unceremoniously the trunk, and revealed sight. broke open fa shocking A lot of silverware, jewelry, in except the haul of diamonds taken from the jewelry store, and these Mr. “He was as shrewd a thief as ever I traced,” sald one of the strange men, “and you ladies were nicely Imposed The law won't do anything you for receiving stolen goods, but be careful after this about I'd give 1 don't know what to know He did not leave any ad- did he? “No, he didn't, zasped Martha on the verge of hysteries, the Missionary never a word, and trembling, letter just received. Verily can a handsome man say: “Women are to be trusted.”--The Path and Nell went out society; but of an Devil In a Garden Hone and Its Serious Results, On a farm in the Southern part California a young Chinaman was ¢m- ployed to do odd jobs. His one great the Goze. One afternoon when he was at his favorite occupation a visitor thought it would be a good to cut the water off by turn. at end of the the Chinaman had one Now Fad pot the the water came granted that it thing in the world for the water flow from the hose. Therefore the visitor carried out his idea the water stopped running, the Chil naman was perplexed to what had happened First he remotest from, taking it for fo sorely upon it and shook it, vigorous treatment produced no bene ficial results he blew down Just then the owner of the the hose, The next ti I will turn it on “Just see the fun Wows down the hose full force.” Sure enough, In a few minutes Chinaman started to blow down and as he did the turned the water on full, oy visitor gleefully The Chinaman certainly was ished. He threw the hose ground and made one beeline room. on which was next to the tank In a few min returned with a small bundle arm, and going up to his he “Give me my money. Me Debbil in hoses.” The joke had turned out to be of a The Chinaman walked off in Bright and early the next and as everything seemed satisfactory his room, the same one oceapied by his He had beon in the roo “Me no likee, Me no likee. Me no stayee.” Upon being questioned he would give no answer except that he didn't Recourse was again had to the Chinese agent, and the next morning another Chinese boy arrived with his invariable little bundle under his arm. Golng to , is room. he returned almost as instantly and, with a mystified way, sald like “Me no stayee. Me no stayee.” Things were beginning to look serl. ous, and the visitor wished he hadu’t played that pratical joke. For toe third time the Chinese agent was called upon. This time the agent made some inquiries and promised to call the next morning and try to find out the trouble, The next morning he ar. rived, and, after looking around the place, went te the Chinaman’s former room. There he discovered, written on one side of the wall. iu Chinese characters, the information that the place was haunted and was Inhabit ed with strange spirita or devila, and that Chinamen had better kesp clear of if This explained it all, and alter removing the writing no trouble Was fad In peo coring a new Chine a2 boy,- New York Nan, Why We Value Our Libertion, The late Roswell I. Flower once re- marked: "People wonder why our lib. erties had to be bought with blood. I'll tell you why. The more & thing costs you the more you value it; the more it's worth; and while George Washing ton and the Continental Army were freezing to death at Valley Forge, God RAGE FOR CLIPPINGS. AN AMERICAN IDEA THAT THE WORLD HAS ADOPTED. ness Which Began With Fifty Cents Emperors, Business Men and Many Others Among the Customers of Clipping Baresas, Eighteen years ago a man had an idea, which he develpped wita fifty cents, the lust money in hie pocket. from that idea coalesced, and capital ized ther joint undertaking at $5,000, 000. The story has been told more than once of how a young Russian American at the end of his resources, saw a famous French artist pay hand. somely for papers several days old, containing notices of his pictures, and was inspired by the sight with the thought of making a business of fur- nishing such notices to whoever had need of them. To-day 50,000 persons and 850,000,000 are employed in business of making and distributing newspaper clippings. There are tween fifty and one hundred bureaus in the United States, nearly as many in rope, others at Melbourne, Sydney, Cal- citta, Yokahoma, Hong Kong, Johan- nesburg, Natal, Buenos Ayres and Rio de Janeiro, The biggest of these are in effect international. If they have not branches they have of traffic arrangement, ner of the big banks, by which their foreign correspondents fill orders quite as If they were over their own counters, Even this does not mark the spread of the idea. Railway, teleg and XPress companies have gone into the business on thelr own account. At first they were among the best custom regular bureaus, but ently they began ordering local agents to clip and file every line of railway matter appedaring in local sheets and to send the clippings to the main office are indexed and put away. kept good many after the man- received i] dol as elsewhere, Rome bureaus whole attention to literary The minute a book is But the writer of it re cirendar letter lippiag, and asking rate is £5 a the writer be Where are often lowered one case the avthor already eng another bureag it i not nneammon 10 that the late allowed to Among clippers, spe give mat ters, sone inclosing of hi his su thelr a sample « fA notice mised! book, The or, if bsmerip tion, hundred clip little known, 1 In oil competition Is Ke half has ig comer be receiving pay only those Yesides potices and bureau will, if of literary for such a already received, the literary send all manner % are not duplicates of reviews, Emperor William is much too busy yet needs to know his world is saying of particular So he has a scrapbook. in charge of a court officer. W. T. Stead is said to possess a whole library made up of clippings, It filis three din in a London house, So concern themselves mainly affairs. They to subscribers all tha appears in lines ing of con. papers what me bureaus with business give new materials, Inventions, discoveries, legal decisions affecting commercial in The Iantest de velopment is the bureau of madieal in. telligence. One needs imagination to see any thing picturesque in the mechanics of clipping. One establishment more than a hundred employees shows to the casual eye only ranks and rows of men and women, reading, blue pen cilling. clipping, pasting and stamping. This bureau's usual output is 50,000 clippings a week. Under a rush order it could clip and mail 100,000, There is an elaborate system of card classi fication. The cards are hung on books in a rack some four feet across, and running the whole length of a very long room. Nearly every book is filled Queen Victoria subscribes to more than one bureau, but never sees the clippings until they have been put in books under the editing of some of her family, which means, of course. the leaving ont of anything unpleasant The Prince of Wales also takes clip. pings from two sources. In addition he cuts out with his own hands all the pictures of himself which appear in the public prints. Slurs upon his family are sald to touch him nearly, yet to things sald against himself he is indifferent. One can readily credit that upon hearing that by his own order a scrapbook was made for him containing American opinions about the baccarat scandal The royal patron dearest to clipping bureaus is the Czar of Russia. He has shown himself ex. ceedingly well disposed toward them. A New York bureau man has made for him sumptuaously bound scrapbooks, all Russia Jeather, and gold clasps and gilt edges, first about the death and obsequies of his father, Alexander 111, than about hisz own marriage and cor. onation ceremonies, and later in regard to the American journey of Prince Hill koff, his Minister of Railways. The game house has now In hand clippings about the Peace Conference, which are to form another In the series of Ime perial scrapbooks, Uncle Bam himself has taken the clippings idea, and keeps at the White House a corps of clippers and a Gov. ernment serapbook. Mrs. Harrison count. and her daughter has many nent men have similar books. Aimost every man in public life is a bureau subscriber. The Government has just ordered a scrap history of the war with Spain. It is in twenty big voiumes, though most of the war pictures were left out, The volumes are bound in i morocco cloth, and cost the Govern. iment $1,000. That sum, indeed, hard- ly covered the cost of making, but the bureau man has gathered a duplicate set of clippings and looks for his profit Lin them, whenever a rich and patriotic | citizen decides to give a similar history Stanford University has already a monumental get of scrap histories, bearing on every- thing American, and particularly the life and works of its founder, John L. Sullivan gets clippings—sub.- ject not specified. lord Randolph Churchill ordered “everything unfav- orable,” and was forced by the size of the first month's bill to reverse his iorder. Nicola Tesla wants “electrical inventions.” Edison is more compre- hensive—he orders clippings upon about twenty subjects of living inter. fest. W. D., Howells subscribes ier i mittently for real incidents going with ito West Point or Annapolis, | whatever story he may bave in hand { One man who Is sald to have a plot fac. | tory patronized by both novelists aud | dramatists when f{magination lag { wants all sorts of hairbreadth happen “Stories of elopement” was an- {other order. The maker of it, strange Ito relate, was not a realistic novelist, { but a luckless lover, who hoped thus by vicarious example to persuade his | sweethenrt to defy her parent and make him happy. The Cran get every line printed in any part of the world about any one of their ships.— | New York San. | ings, ps WOMEN TALK THE MOST. In 1,000 Couples Observer Finds 751 Girls Lend the Chat, again. Just what I had mind to long ago.” ex- as they were standing , ¢longat { “There it is | made up my i claimed the we upon the elastic substance in the the passing female population. { “What's that?” replied the other, | qui Hogly hat the at street corner ing pe necks in- fellow and it them?” Pon's soe that anything eplar mselves abo on Colne i vistioe nin RE + you driving at yurself,” anyway, ‘xplain ¥ de his companion its just King GLHROTYH- ive amount TMG each IR YOu Can «as yourself “I've taken 1.000 cou they passed me, the The aught, ie rest. thought, been dealin Those taken with who just passed os i have been youn whether the man or the talking. conversation 1 it have heen for fur I've only. woman, was doing snatches of while they ing as a ‘ Ldid not Interest in mat! {are pocurate, and feare, The couple i was the one thousandth | served]. The others have {and old, native and foreign born {altogether it establishes a general | rule which I am positive can be safely { relied upon. “Out of the 1,000, 1 have noted, just as they came, mark you, the man was talking 130 times. In those instances, I expect, there must have been some thing the matter with the vocal chords of hiz female companion, but, however, 1 won't attempt to explain it away. In 27 cases both were making an effort to be heard. The womad was doubt. less successful in the end, but 1 never followsd them up to see. Eighty-three times | observed that silence reigned, another phenomenon for which 1 am unable to offer any explanation. But listen—nay. hearken—here is the record of the fair ones. Before the appear- ance of this lazt couple 1 had 750 timeg charged against them, 750 times out of 1.000 where their sweet volees Lave been heard while a man was the only andi. tor. This last instance completes the 1.000, and makes the grand total GL Try it and see if your figures do not come out about the same.” Eid the ne Fe nailes figures great abe. ig Havana a Pest<-Hole, The lack of a proper sewerage sys. tem is the cause of nearly all the dis. case and pestilence that have made Havana one of the most dreaded ports of the world. There are more and bet. ter sewers than is generally supposed, but the cause of their breeding sick. ness js the fact that they are, in many cases, open to the street by manholes, and they all empty into the harbor im. mediately in front of the city. Two of the main sewers flow into the channel of the harbor directly under the iieu- tepant-Governor's Palace, in which General Ludlow lives and in which he has his headquarters: one empties un- der the Maestranza de Artilleria. In which some of the troops were quarte- ed: and from these maine flow all the flith of Havana, that pest-hole of dis ease, while at all times there arises a sickening odor, and it will be the greatest of wonders If there is not much sickness among our troops, who are accustomed to cleanliness at home. The one thing that always is the most oticanbie to fe oe on we JOKERS’ BUDGET. The One Thing She Caren For. Bhe doesn’t care for operas, the drama or the play, She doesn’t care for housework-—she isn't built that way; She doesn’t care for dancing ers or for books, She doesn’t care for bloomers—she doesn’t Hike thelr looks; She doesn’t care for picnics, freckle her and tan— The only thing she does care for is a marringeable man, —Chieago Record, , for flow- they A Tacltnl Mistake, “Tom, my dear, do you think I made a mistake in naming baby after your rich uncle?” “No, my love: your mistake was tell ing him the baby 1 looked like him.” A Yeminine View, Kate—80 Carrie is to be married. suppose she is very happy? Ruth-—-Happy! 1 should say so! Mr, Fixton, her fiance, doesn't amount to much. but her trousseau is just ele gant.—Boston Transeript. A Serious Omission, “That new reporter has been dropped to office boy.” “What was the trouble?” “He wrote an account of the cyclone without using the expression ‘funnel shaped,” "Cleveland Vialndealer. Against His Principles, Lady—1 should think you would be ashamed to live on charity, Why don’t you do something? Haven't you ever learned that a is kpown by works? Sloppy Bim--—-Well, ain't no pocket Herald, man his go's a watch, 1 piece. Chicago Times Xo Time for 1dieness, tetired Buosiness Man--I am rich at last, and now I'm going to find a per- fect climate to live In Great Traveler-Good idea! ways held that when a from business he should Immediately take up something that will keep him occupied for the his life. New York Weekly, I've al man retires rest of No Use for IL would you ds to take 17” inquir “What young man wi rature advice give a up lit ed the 3 Inte ax 0 ho Wess LF Ing hnire ¢ yo “1 should i 810 i removed.” without a my York Journal ad im to replied ments hesitation, — have the his old timer Hint At An I'nfortanate Time, “What has happened to Mrs. Nib “she fell 10 Ree while her Rec- window who was sitting on h."-Lhicago out of the trying next neig ord. hbor's pore ’ A Mortifyiog Confession, to I was mawtified almost lawst night wie What happened? A bold wobbah demanded amond stud or me life, and to gave me life I had to confess it wasn't a diamond The Jewelers’ Weekly Condescends to Explain. Half frozen Passenger—What do you run these open cars for when the weather is like this? Conductor—For pickles, Fare, please, ~~ hicago Tribune. me Double Proof. “Do you believe in heredity, Simpson?” “Indeed 1 do; every mean trait Bob- by has I can trace right back to his father.” “Does his father believe in heredity, oo?” “Nes: he back to me, Mrs. traces Bobby's faults all "Chicago Record. Looking for a Friend. SBaleswoman (to lady who has been rummaging the silk counter)—1 think you will like this mauve; it is very stylish, and 1 am sure it would become you beautifully. Lady-—Oh. 1 didn’t come in to buyf I was only looking for a friend. Saleswoman—And did you expect te find ber in that ribbon box? Pity the Poor Iceman. “In some future year,” said the citi- gen with a powerful imagination, “the human race will find the sun extinet. That once glowing orb will cease to shed its rays upon our world, Thea what'll we do.” “What will we do?” echoed the mo rose man, who was grioning for the first time in weeks, “That isn’t the question. What'll the leeman do¥'— Washington Star. Misnmomers, Mrs. Brown-—Our language is foll of misnomers. For instance, I met a man once who was a perfect bear, and they called him a “civil englocer.™ Mrs. Smith—Yes, but that's not so ridiculous as the man they call “teller” in a bank. He won't tell you anything. 1 asked one the other day bow much money my husband had on deposit and he just laughed at me.-Catholic Standard and Times, ) H———— A Wasted Opportunity, “1 never was 0 insulted in my Lfe™ she exclaimed, “What did he do?” asked ber dear- est friend. “We were all alone and be threat. ened to kiss me.”
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