The Haunted World. Yonder fall of the leaf, yonder splash ing of water, Have all one meaning to me; Under the mute, wet rocks, over the breathing treetops, A volce speaks breathlessly, Ushered into the woods 'mid the still, slim trunks of the pine, Waving the reddened boughs, tearing the tangled vine-— The wild world's misery. and the steel-stone city, To meet with God in the woods, with the flaming planets, And steep myself in its moods; But, oh, not far enough to escape tho anguish of man! On every leaf it is stamped, on every blade is its ban; Into the wind it swung, stream it ran, And, lo! in the sky it broods! ~James Oppenheim in into 2900 D0 0-90-0400" } STEALING : A SCHOONER : 4 BY LAURENCE J. YATES. the in my friend, It was a very and late in Wallace Carter, a ¥ a Liberty down t hot day the aftern oung attorney in law we, and I went ing plun and 1 our bat! on hi elbow scar and pearance of Carter, ‘badge of lidn't know powder.” “Oh, that? thievea- young chap tell you like,” and he away with long about Liv EQ Later, as beach, I reminded Cartér ise. Then he told the “During college, eigh assistant bookkeeper at ship-building establishment, whi in a small ville land on one empty morning in I took we ge lving ten n * BATTOW rive § gun an ‘Guess,’ i in a canvas dled down th snipe-shooting “1 wasn't o'clock found me with : ridge-belt and credit. I started for home gusted with myself Two the river, a thundershower re from the bay and shelter in an empty shack river-bank, used by duck season. “The storm was a one, and while I walted to pass, sitting on an oid scap-box and leaning back against the wall in the gloomy little shack, I dropped off to sleep. 1 had been up rather late the night before, and I slept soundly in my uncom- fortable position until 1 was finally aroused by having Guess rust his cold muzzle in my face. “lI at once discovered that the rain had stopped, and I hurried the door to look out. The moon, nearly full, was struggling to shine through broken masses of clouds. 1 my watch, and could hardly believe my eyes when I made out that it was past one o'clock in the morning “Quickly 1 my cance into the water, called Guess, and resumed the homeward journey. A mile and a half from the shack I passed under the drawbridge that bore the rallroad over the river. When I was and a half farther on I heard a chugging its way down the ward me. “It was not very that a tug had occasion to be abroad on the river at that time of night, and | wondered what had brought out this one. The moon was in shadow, and the came near before I made out that it had a vessel in tow. ver to try ae ma on much of a shot, six r cart. and only two ‘kills’ to my rather dis. up d over take the og drove me to on inters In the long for it to drew out pushed two miles tux river to often to give the vessels the right of way. As the tug was opposite me the moon masted schooner schooner which had recently been built at my uncle's yards for a firm chored in the roadstead In the yards for more than two weeks since it had been finished. My uncle had refused #5 turn the vessels over the last the contract price. “The fact that there was no other four-masted vessel in the river at that time made me sure as to the identity of the schooner. Immediately arose payment on tug had taken her by stealth, with the intention of towing her across the bay Into Virginia waters, where the owners could boldly assume pos. session and let by uncle whistle for the money still due—so long as the vessel was kept away from Maryland ports. 1 did net think for a moment that any one would be so foolish as to steal outright such an unconceal- able thing as a ship—at least, not In coast waters in thess medern times, “My uncle had gone away the day before fer a three days’ fishing trip down the bay. He was beyond com- munication by wire. There was no one at the shipyards with authority to receive money and release a vessel, so there was no chance that since my departure that morning the Virginia people had paid up and rightfully come into the possession of their prop- erty. It was plain that crooked work was afoot. “But what was I to do—alone and, my cartridges were gone, un- My first thought was that 1 up the river to the give the alarm, and start a of constables in a gasoline launch after the rascals. But I saw could only hurry the village could appear upon the “Then I remembered the draw of the railroad bridge through which the tug miles down the river. If 1 hold | could | whom I knew, the draw shut, the schooner not be taken from the river. “While I hesitated, the schooner had and passed me, 1 had seen three men on her deck--one for- | ward, one amidships, and one at the | wheel; and I was sure fhat the man | come on 1d noticed me, lying there | canoe, To turn attempt to i » to shore in my about and of » canoe now ahead the tug wouk lv | inks on each side and 1 re- | tried on I 3 y | 1 + noin poing, led and ing-an opportunity the shore Now river, the jstance. It on glowing in the to keej “But time pa hide itself, ped down nearer the bezan to feel anxious for me with the tug. pace sed, the and the the river moon refuse to two nearer and that I Finally, ever, when the draw was a litt] bridge, so swiftly than a mi arge cloud le away, a i the the 1d 1 urged td ed across moon, i canoe forward as fast as [I con “1 came ev » stern of the oner away, and forging swiftly on to the front moon suddenly shone out br ugh a traved me to ‘A voice rift in the cloud, and be the men on board an from idships sang out sharply: “What's your hurry, young fellow? Hadn't ‘I knew with a they you better drop back a bit?” I had really scoundrels, my past to and intention them hint. In I bent that of now EADE that had divined in attempting to steal But 1 did not take the stead, I did a foolish thing forward and tried paddle than ever. “Swift deal to of the men on the schooner not taken more than three strokes be fore there came the flash and erack of a revolver, and a bullet over my head. sion several more shots rang out; the sang round me like the paddle dropped missiles hornets; from my hand. strike plunk! plunk! plunk! canoe just beyond the middle Aa leaden spiteful sudden lunge of the stricken dog, aid ed by an involuntary movement of my own, the ‘Jing into the water, another bullet plowed a burrow through the flesh of my left arm, leavy- ing a stinging, smarting wound “However, I was able to right elf quickly, and with a few reach the shore. 1 crawled cautious iy up the low bank until I was hidden by the high grass. No more shots were fired. “1 don't know whether the ruffians upset canoe. 1 spilled and as I did my water or not. At any rate, | do not suppose that they wanted to add murder to their erime. 1 think that “When I had made my way through a rank growth of marshgrass to a point several yards from the water, to examine the injury to my arm. Blood was flowing freely from the wound, but I found that it was not deep. 1 knotted my handker- on, determined to reach the draw In “The dangerous part of the marsh on this side of the river extended for some little distance farther. But 1 ran on carefully, skirted three sticky slough-holes, and without accident reached higher ground. The tug waa now, hurrying on with a quickened throb of the engine. I exerted my- self to the uttermost, but 1 could not gain, running as 1 did through a mea- dow of rank grass and rushes, The tangled growth tripped my feet, and every little way I would stumble and fall headlong. “My strength was rapidly being ex. hausted; soon 1 began to feel that there was no use in keeping up 8 hopeless race; but the thought of the large amount of money at stake kept me struggling on. I saw the skeleton like structure of the bridge looming up behind the signallights, faint in the moonlight. A moment later 1 heard the tug whistling for the draw to open, “Beaten! I murmured, as 1 stag: gered on, keeping my eyes fixed on the two lights on the bridge, and ex pecting at every moment 10 see them dip in response to the demand of the tug. To my surprise, the lights re mained stationary. There came an. other series of impatient bellows from the whistle of the tug, and still the signal remained unanswered. Then, as the low, distant roar of a train reached my the reason dawned on me. A passengerirain was ap- proaching; it had the right of way. 1 knew the tug and its tow must wait CArS, *1 quickened my pace somehow, al- though 1 was panting for breath. In a moment the train burst into view, and swung round the curve toward the bridge, lights gleaming from the windows of {ts four coaches, “1 was only a hundred yards from the end of the bridge now, and run- ning desperately. Hardly had the rear | the structure than the for passage. But the slow In heeding. 1 the saw the cqach cleare tug clamored getender was the railroad-track idee before 1 gained wreath enough le the firs I gasped oon as the gslow-wi man gras ords, he i reversed the that the gang ith whom s, had abandoned ing with draw, ha sight irift her “There spars was bridgetender’s A the message station in hour doctor at the night op the village be ht down, an ontaining a However later, a launch « for me and five constables, the tug had ved that for it been gone so long when they arr the officers made search “We gpirators were Bo earned who the The watchman at the shipyards had been overpowered from behind, and left bound and gagged He recognized none of his assailants, “The schooner was towed back the yards the next day and repaired later a member of the firm appeared and, with pro for the delay, paid the full amount upon the schooner Thus the incident closed, but my made it a point to business dealings with shipowners."—Youth's neyer con * Wo fuse apologies due since that firm of Companion MOON CAUSES CRIME. Conan Doyle, Sir Conan Doyle having successive cleared two innocent men charged at Great seems at home the maiming outrages in Hertfordshire, to have brought minds who with unbalanced but who are allowed to remain at liberty, owing to the fact that their dementia seizes them merely at stat ed epochs, and is restricted to a cer tain class of acts, leaving them in an absolutely normal frame of mind at all other times and in all other par ticulars. Sir Conan, by means ol “Sherlock Holmes” lines of investiga tion, first ascertained the significant fact that the orimes In question, so falsely ascribed to the unfortunate Edaljl, were invariably committed when the moon was full This con vinced him that he had to deal with a lunatic, for, as an Elizabethan dram atist puts it, “When the moon's in the full then wit’s in the wane,” and there is no doubt that the old sup erstition to the effect that the moon causes and aggravates insanity has some foundation for its existence, In deed, the very word “lunatic” testi fles to it, since the word, etymologl cally considered, means moonstruck Sir Conan Doyle's discovery will now render this conviction as to the pow: ers of the full moon more pronounced than ever, The salamander looks like a lizard, but its character is that of the frog The old story that the salamander can endure fre ia unfounded, It is stated that a chameleon which fs blind loses its power of making it self of the same hue as its surround ings. en WORRIMENT. 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