THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1898
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MILLINERY OPENING.
MILLINERY OPENING.
MILLINERY OPENING.
MILLINERY OPENING.
THE LAMBTON DIAMOND.
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Tlie famous Lambton diamond
threw bark the light from Us many
facets, 'md strange, tirllltant colors
tihot from Its depths. It was the Ilnest
stone I liad ever act In my life.
I was particularly pleased with my
design for the setting. No other hand
had touched It, rind 1 felt that the
frame, fo to speak, was worthy of the
picture.
The line, now that It way finished,
was fit even to adorn the hand of Lady
Gwendolen Foirest, the beauty and
heiress of the season. Uut 1 did not
envy young Lord Lambton his fiance:
In my own Nell I had a girl as good nnd
as pretty as any in the land.
I was about to take the ring to Mr.
Nugent when Nell herself ran In. She
was my employer's daughter, and his
private house watt upstair? over the
large showroom In Clifford street. It
was against all custom for Nell to come
down to my workshop, for her father
disapproved our engagement. Uut
today she had not been able to resist
the temptation of having a peep at the
Lambton diamond.
Just as she had slipped It on her
linger and was dancing about twisting
her hand, that the marvelous stone
might catch the light, the door opened
and Mr. Nugent entered. I prepared to
defend Nell from a harsh reprimand,
hut none came. Her father appeared
oddly preoccupied, merely tok the ring
from her, examined it earnestly, and,
snapping the lid of the case down upon
it, placed it In his pocket and walked
away.
Next day I was sitting at work,
when 1 saw a hansom drive up, and
Lord Lambton jump out. lie came
hastily Into the room, which adjoined
the one where 1 was sitting and where
Mr. Nugent was.
"Scoundrel!" I heard him say, and
could scarcely believe my cars. "You
thought to fool mo easily by a false
stone; but I am as good a Judge of
jewels as you are. You arc a thief sir!
What have you done with the diamond
I Intrusted to you?"
Mr. Nugent answered In a lower
voice. What ho said could not have
made any great Impression upon Lord
Lambton, however, for he Impatiently
interrupted, and at last an ominous
threat concerning the "police" reached
my cars.
I sat still. I understood very well
that Lord Lambton had deliberately
accused my employer of trying to palm
off upon him an Imitation diamond, yet
I know that I had set the true stono
and delivered It to Mr. Nugent only
yesterday.
My employer himself was a skilled
workman, though not a good designer,
and In the time that had elapsed be
tween, my handing him the ring and
his transferring It to the owner he
could have removed the stono and re
placed It by another. Uut for such a
bold trick to succeed the Imitation must
be magnltlcently made, and the orig
inal diamond must have been caicfully
measured.
I had never known that Mr. Nugent
kept any false gems about the place.
Tesldes.was It likely that a man In his
position would care to run so terrible
a risk? Still, I could not help remem
bering how haggard and Irritable he
had been of late, and the keen Interest
that he took In the racing Intelligence,
is I thus speculated on the astound
ing accusation, Mr. Nugent himself
opened the door of the workroom. Ho
looked keenly at me as If wondering if
it would be safe to trust me.
"Did you hear anything of what
passed In the next room?" he ques
tioned. I admitted that I had.
"Of course, I shall be triumphantly
acquitted," ho announced, clearing his
throat huskily as ho spoke. "Still,
Lord Lambton can make things dis
agreeable. And look here, Wade, I
haven't always been as friendly to you
as I might, hut I can trust you. You'll
bo an Important witness. Do what you
can for me, for the girl's sake."
The words sounded strange, but I
wa3 given no time to answer, for at
that moment Lord Lambton returned
with two Scotland Yard men. My em
ployer was given into custody and
taken to the police station to be
charged, the detectives remaining to
search the premises.
Mr. Nugent being a widownr, with
only one child, the management of the
business practically devolved on me,
and as the detectives ransacked the
place, they put many questions to me
at to where the stones were kept. The
safes were all pointed out to them, but
they seemed disappointed with their
operations.
Late In the evening they came to me
In the workroom, and, holding out the
ring that I had made for Lord Lamb
ton, one of them said:
"This Is your woik, we understand.
Is that the atone you set?"
I glanced at it, but I only replied: "I
don't call myself an expert In precious
stones, nnd all I can say Is that this
one precisely resembles In size, shape
and appearance the one given mo to
set."
While this statement was practically
true, that one glance had been enough
to show mo that I was not looking at
thj Lambton diamond.
The detectives left, saying that I
would have to tell all I know in the
witness box, and then, Just no I was
t about to lock up the place for the
ldght, Nell carrie In. It was the first
lime she had let me see her since her
father had been taken away.
The face whlcn I thought the sweet
est on earth was marble- while, and
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there were daik shadows under tho
lashes.
"There's something t must say to
you," she panted, "something I've been
wild to say all day, lest It should be too
late, but I dared not let anyone i;us
port. V month ago father confided to
me that he had lost a great deal of
money -and he showed me how to open
a secret drawer In his Chippendale
bureau. 'If over anything happens to
me.' ho sr.ld. 'don't lose a moment, but
look Into this drawer; throw away
everything that yon will ilnd In tho
left-hand partition, anil keep what
may be In tho right.' "
It.
Together we mnraokid the old
bureau, ami at length. Nell touched tin
spring which opened the secret drawer.
I drew In my breath sharply lor the
light of the candle which I hold struck
out a gleam from a pile ol exquisitely
mad" false stones, which lay In a par
tition on the lefi hand, while on thu
right was the Lambton diamond.
lnvoluiitnrll 1 l-rtrayed the dreadful
nature of the discovery by an exclama
tion, for, left to herself, Nell would not
have understood. Hut she was quick
to comprehend, and realising tho worst
she swayed, slaggcHng backward.
"My poor father," she moaned, as I
held her. "He is ruined forever and
I, too. The daughter of a convicted
thief Is no lit wife for ati honest man.''
"My darling, you aro a wife for a
king, nnd as for your father, I swear
to you that 1 will save him yet,"
"You you cannot."
"I tell you that I can and will." For
even as 1 spoke an Idea Hashed into
my head which startled me by Its au
dacity. In a moment 1 had thought
out every detail.
I made up the stones, Lambton dia
mond and all. Into a packet, carefully
closing the secret drawer, and con
triving to get away without being seen,
and went straight to my brother's
house In Kent, managing to avoid the
service of a subpoena. Thus 1 was not
present at the police proceedings, which
would havo meant ruin for my plan.
Mr. Nugent was committed for trial,
and meanwhile I stayed In the coun
try working each night In locked
room, with the tools 1 had brought
with me, until the gray dawn Altered
under my closed shutters.
When I saw my old employer In the
dock at the trial I was shocked at the
ghastly change which had come over
him.
The evidence at first vent stoadllv
against him. Lord Lambton swore
that the stone In tho ring was not his
diamond. One expert testified that not
only was the stone he now saw not
the Lamberton diamond, but was not a
genuine Jewel nt all, hut a marvelous
Imitation. Another was not so posi
tive He looked at the gem through
his glass, turning It this way and that,
declaring that In all his oxeiience lie
had never seen a false stone so clever
ly executed as this. Indeed, ho was
not prepared to swear that it was
false.
This was the Hist ray of doubt which
had been thrown by the evidence upon
Mr. Nugent's guilt; and then I went
Into the box. I was very cool now, for
the game I had determined on had
cost me many a qualm of conscience.
Uut I had no Intention of cheating
Lord Lambton swearing falsely, or
tarnishing my personal honor.
Tho preliminary question of the pros
ecuting counsel brought out the fact
that I had designed the ring's tot
ting, and done all the work upon it.
"What sort of stone was it your em
ployer gave you to set?" was the next
(iuestion.
"An extremely valuable white dia
mond," 1 replied.
"Do you swear that you set the gen
uine stone, and delivered the ring when
finished to the prisoner?"
"I do."
"Do you consider It possible that
stone might have been taken out and
an Imitation (mo substituted?"
"Certainly. Uut I could tell whether
the ring hod been tampered with since
it left my hands."
"Take this, then, examine it, and In
form the court If that Is the stone you
set." i
The ring was handed to me. and n
hush fell upon the court. The kind of
lull which denotes that a vital point
In a case has been reached.
I put my hand In my wnlstcoat pock
et for my jeweler's glass, and the
sharpest eye could not havo seen that
I also drew forth a now ring, made In
the secret hours of the night an exact
counterpart of the other, save that It
contains! the real Lambton diamond.
I pretended to examine the Imitation
with creat care while all eyes weie
flxd upon me. At length 1 returned the
glass to my pocket, and with It the
ring with the false stone. I could hear
my own heart beating, but. handing
the court usher the new ring, I ald
firmly, In reply to tho snappish "Well?"
of tho prosecuting counsel:
"I swear unhesitatingly that the set
ting of this ring has not been tamper
ed with, and that this is the genuine
diamond which was given to me to set."
A rustle went round the court; the
doubting expert pricked up his ears,
the prosecuting counsel, with Lord
Lambtor and the treasury solicitor,
were whispering over the ring.
".Mind." said the counsel, "I ask
permission to recall the expert."
1 stepped out of the box and the ex
pert stepped In. The new ring was put
Into his hand, a friendly ray of sun
shine lighting up the Jewel.
"This Is very remarkable," he said at
last. "It's tho first time I havo over
made a mistake. This stono Is gen
uine. I cannot doubt it."
And so tho prisoner was free; but
when the verdict of "Not guilty" was
pronounced a faint groan echoed It, and
a dead man was taken from the dock.
A spasm of the heart had proved fatal.
Six months later Nell and I were
married. On our honeymoon we were
wnlklng In a lane near Jlfracombe,
when we came face to face with Lord
Lambton, who was stopping with his
bride In a neighboring country house.
"Ah, Mr. Wade!" he exclaimed, "I
haven't seen you since tho very mys
terious case of mine. Do you know I
have always since thought of you
as a very clever mun?"
"Thank you," I said quietly. "Will
you allow me, my lord, to present you
to my wife the only daughter of tho
late Air, Nugent."
Lord Lambton raised his hat, looked
keenly at pretty Nell, shook handB with
us both, and murmured:
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SOME ODD PHASES
OF COURAGE
THINGS THAT iiAVE MADE OF
riCEKS FAINT-HEAKTED.
Capt. Gridley and the Jack-o'- the
Dust Awakening of a Loutish
Landsman Brave Act of a Powder
Hoy Ilcu Who Have Acted
Promptly at the Bight Moment.
Mony Varieties of Bravery.
1'rom the New York Sun.
Courage possesses a man completely
at one time and at another does not
even Ilnd him. It may be too much to
say that the quality called nerve Is a
mood, but there are many lB-tances
that go to show how strong a man
may be on one occasion and how wo
n.anish on another.
A regular army cavalry otllcer. one
of tl-.o men to go down with a bad
wound In the first light bfori San
tiago, had proved his valor in Indian
campaigns when lie was wearing his
Prst shoulder straps. He had been a
witness of many scenes of violence on
tho frontier, and he fousht well anil
haul leforo .Santiago. He has always
been know n among olllccrs nnd men
who have soldiered alongside of him
as Intrepid. A low years ago, when ho
was commanding Ills troops down In
one of the Arizona cavalry garrisons,
one ol the soldiers of his outfit shot
himself In a (It of remorse after a
protracted spree. The soldier walte.l
until lr.ess call for dinner. Then he
got his carbine out of the rack, put a
ball In It. pulled oft his light boot, and,
working the trigger with his toe. sent
the bullet crashing Into his head, dy
ing almost Instantly. Tho commander
of the troop, the officer of proved cour
age, was on hand in a f-w moments.
Ho passed through the crowd of troop
ers, and took one look at the dead
man. Then he put his hand to his
head, reeled dizzily, and. In a dead
fulnt, fell lino the arms of a couple of
soldiers. lit! was unconscious for fully
ten minutes, and It was the sight of
the blood that did it. There had been
no comradeship between the ofllcer
niui the dead soldier, such as often
spilngs up between enlisted men and
nlllrerx who fpend maiiv years togeth
er ill the same out lit or post, for the
suklde had been recently transferred
It. the troop, it was a pure case of
wilting at the sight of blood on the
pail of the oflicer. although he had
been used to violent scenes since his
eaihest manhood and he could afford
to.' and did acknowledge It freely.
WJIKN GIUDLUY WEAKENED.
(.'apt. (Irldley. who dlfd at Hon,?
Kon. whlthc i he was carried very 111
nfter he had done his share of the
llKhtiin: with Dewey in Manila Cay.
had a similar experience when he was
a commander. He was In some of the
bad lighting Jobs of the civil war, and
wns a conspicuously brave and cool
headed man. When he was promoted
to Hi'.- rank of commander his first rhlp
had as a member of her crew a .lack-ii'-tiv-dust
who was a heavy orinker,
but so valuable a man that the ofllcera
overlooked a vod many bad breaks.
A Jack-o'-the-dust Is the striker" for
tho paymaster and tho paymaster's
yeoman. He holds the rate of fea
man, and Is assigned as .lack-o'-the-dust
to dish out the provisions to the
ne?8 cooks and to act ad general fac
totum for thu pay olllce uboard Milp.
tiildley had been In command of tho
ship for a month before the .lack-o'-ihe,duRt
went on a spree nnd had to
bo put in the brig over night. Orldley
had been shipmate with tne man on
and off for twenty years and liked him
and hated to seo him in trouble. So,
when tho .Tuck-o'-the-du&t got sober
enough Orldley had him brought aft to
tho cabin Instead of Jawing him at
' tho stick." and gave him as clover a
man-to-man sort of talk as a blue
jacket ever listened to. Then, Instead
of punishing him for his spree, ha
turned lilin loose. Thle was on a
monthly muster morning. The re
morseful .luck, on whom (Jrldley's
kindly talk had pressed heavily, got
his nuisterlntf clothes and appeared on
deck all right for muster. When tho
men wero dismissed he went below to
stand In one of tho paymaster's store
rooms until tho skipper had ilnLshcd
Inspecting tho ship, nridley made a
vety thorough inspection of the ship In
company with tho executive ofllcer,
and tho Inspection wus to wind up'
with the offices and storerooms In tho
, after part of thu vessel on the berth
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deck. He walked a few feet ahead of
the executive officer, and when he
i cached the last paymaster's store
room and peered Inside he fell back
Into the nrms of the executive ofllcer,
utterly unconscious. The executive
ofllc"!' called out for the surjoon, and
then looked Into the storeroom to sc
what had had such an effect upon the
cool-headed rirldley. The repentant
Jack-o'-the-dust was sitting on a box
of salt-water soap, dead, with his
throat cut from ear to car. The thing
made so painful an Impression upon
Orldley that he was under the weather
for some time, and yet he was one of
the nerviest men In I'ncle Sam's line
if lighting packets
A CADET'S EXPEKIENVE.
;n engineer cadet, who Is now an
assistant engineer on one of the cruis
ers In Cuban waters, wcU ashore in
Honolulu to weigh coal for his ship
one morning about live years ago.
When he leturned aboard for luncheon
all hands were at mess, except a lout
ish, moon-faced landsman, a former
farm hand from Interior California,
who had been the butt of his mates as
an innocent of the rawest kind. This
landsman had bolted his dinner and
was leaning of the starboard rail, look
ing no more stupid or Inert that he
generally did. A big coal lighter was
moored alongside the ship, and the
cadet In order to get aboard ship had
to climb from the .steam launch that
brought him olf onto the lighter, and
then pull himself up on the fixed Iron
gangway ladder to the gangway. There
was a space of about two feet between
the coal lighter and the ship. Into
this space the cadet, missing his hold
when he attempted to clutch tho lad
der, fell, feet foremost, with a splash.
The crew of the steam launch heard
the splash, but did not know what had
caused It, It was about 100 to 1 against
the cadet's saving his life by his own
efforts, for when he came up his head
was due to bump against tho bottom of
the lighter, and It Is a hard proposition
even for a good swimmer to keep his
nerve under such clmcunistances. The
cadet didn't keep his nerve, mid he
would surely have been a goner had it
not been for the loutish landsman lean
ing over the starboard rail. The lout
ish landsman proved to be the tight
man. He did not even kick off his gov
ernment straight brogans before he let
himself fall Into the space between the
lighter and the ship at the exact point
where the cadet had gone down. The
crew of the steam launch saw this
move and wondered what It meant.
They did not know the cadet wus un
derneath the lighter. In about half a
minute the moon-faced landsman camo
from beneath the lighter and he had
the cadet along with him. The cadet,
his nerve gone, was very wild, and
clutched the landsman fiercely. The
landsman freed his right arm from tho
grasp of the strugglng cadet and gave
him a jolt on the point of the Jaw with
his big light fist that the cadet de
clares he feels yet. The blow put the
cadei out of the gume altogether, but
it saved his life. He would have pulled
his rescuer down with him had he not
been knocked silly, and this was one of
the times when an enlisted man struck
an otllcer without being punished for It.
The landsman and the cadet were
hauled Into the steam launch by the
crew, ami the ship's company proceed
ed to hunt up another butt for their
humor. The moon-faced landsman
wasn't made to serve In that capacity
any longer.
NERVE OP A HOY.
Not long ufter the Atlnnta went Into
commission an apprentice boy who
had been dubbed by his companions
the man-o'-war equivalent of a na
tural put the whole pack of them Into
the shade by a sudden exhibition of
nerve. A gun's crew, Including sever
al of the boys, and this slow-witted
boy Ir. particular, wero engaged In
breaking out one of the after maga
zines. Two of the men were down In
the magazine and fastened cans of
powder to thu hoist hook, and the rest
of tho gang were ut tho head of the
magazine hatch handling the ammunl
lion as It camo up. The Atlanta wasn't
fitted with electric lights at that time,
nnd tho gunner's mato In charge of the
Job swung a closed lantern In his hand
at the head of tho hutch. He was
swinging It somewhat ourelessly when
the lantern struck against one of tho
sides of the hatch, and the lamp, al
ready loosened, fell from tho lantern
down the hatchway. It fell squarely
on the top of u can of powder a tweu-ty-flve
pound can. The men down In
the magazine had gone way forward
to get unother can of powder, and they
weren't on hand to pick tho lamp off
thu powder can and extinguish It. Tho
heavy-headed apprentice hoy was at
thu top of the hatch, though, and ho
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to show its autumn and winter styles and we are abreast
was the only one of the gang who
wasn't paralyzed with fear. While all
of the others stood waiting for the ship
to go Into the air, lie slid down the
hoist chain like a cat descending from
a tree. He grabbed the lamp, the wick
of which, still ablaze, was heating thu
Iron can, and blew It out. Then he
clutched the handle of the powder can
with one hand, took a firm hold on the
hoist chain with the other, and yelled:
"Shoot me up out o' this, you fellows
above there, iiulck!"
The lad with the can of powder In his
hand was at the top of tho hatch in no
time. He ran for the poop as soon as
he made the spar deck and chucked
the can, the lid of which was hot from
the wick of the lantern lamp, over the
side Into the water. The lad certainly
saved his ship from being blown up.
The skipper didn't punish the boy for
wasting government ammunition, as
may be taken for granted. Instead, he
commended the lad so highly in a let
ter to the department that the boy re
received a special letter of praise from
the secretary of the navy.
CNEXl ECTED HUAVEHY.
An American sealing vessel, bound
for Japan and thence to the Aleutian
sealing waters, got onto the French
Frigate Shoals, a couple of hundred
mllcfi oft the Hawaiian Islands, a few
years ago, and began to go to pieces.
An Ameiican man-o'-wnr, making
soundings down In that neighborhood,
sighted the wiccUed sealer, and,
though the Fca was terrific, a boat's
crev , under the l?ndcrship of the
chief's bo'sun's mate, was put off
from the wjrshlp to succor tho fieal
ei's crew. The chief bo'sun's mate
was not a man not'ible for nutve. Hu
had. in fact, shown the white feather
in two or three mix-ups he had had
with other chief petty olliccrs of his
ship, and he hod lost prestige among
the men forward for this reason. When
the man-o'-war boat got within a hun
dred feet or so of the sealer, which was
rapidly going to pieces, the crew of tho
succoring boat saw, with considerable
disgust, that all hands aboard the seal
er. Including the bklpper, weie boiling
drunH, and were standing maundering
to one another, waiting for the last
lurch of their ship, Instead of making
an effort to clear the life-boats of the
d.ivlls. It was Impossible for the war
ship's boat to get alongside the
wrecked sealer on account of the giant
seas. The chief bo'sun's mate, who
had hitherto lacked the nerve to take
his own part In fo'c'sle uct'Jabbles,
didn't Intend to let it go at that, how
ever. Ho leaped cuddenly Info the sea,
nnd he had a navy pistol etuck Into
the lioEom of his mustering shirt when
h" leaped. When ho drew near to the
distressed sealer the sas slammed him
against the s-hlp's tides time and again
before ho was able to clutch at a rail
chain to pull himself aboaid. He suc
ceeded In climbing aboard finally, how
ever, and then ho made a race forward
to where tho crew, including the skip
per and mates, were huddled around a
rum cask, soaking themselves The
chief bo'sun's mate hopped Into the
middle of the gang of drunkards,
whipped out his big navy pistol, and
made the bluff of his life. The bluff
went.
"Cut away tho boats, ye sots, and
take a chance or I'll put an ounce of
lead into every drunken dog of ye!" he
yelled.
He covered the crew with his gun as
he spoke, and his attitude sobered the
men. They lumbered out of tho fo'
c'sle, and, despite their half-helpless
condition, they got two longboats clear
of tho davits, and all hands, nineteen
men In nil of the sealer's crew, got at
the oars In the nick of time. The
bft'sun's mate went along In ono of tho
longboats, and, followed by the man-o'-war's
boat, the all madn for tho
Amrrlcan warship, which wns hove to
a (luarter of a mile away. The sealer
went to pieces ten minutes after tho
crew had left her. Tho crew was taken
to Honolulu by the warship. The chief
bo'sun's mate was afterward regarded
Vy his shipmates as a man who could
only be can led nlong a certain num
ber of knots.
SAVED HIS LIFE.
Commander Thomas, formerly of the
gunboat Hennlngtcn, had his life saved
aluard that ship by a Cingalese mc3s
attendnnt In an odd f.ort of way. He
was doing n bit of Inspecting on the
berth deck, uft, one afternoon when
the executive olllcer of the ship. came
to the head of tho after berth deck
ladder and thouted down below to any
body within hearing:
"Is tho captain below theto?"
Commander Thomas heard the call,
and, without making any reply to tho
nucMlon, started from tho pay ofllce
for the ludder Intending to go abovo
to the main dec); to tee wuaj. Uuj first
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lieutenant wanted. The hetch right
at the foot of the ladder had been care
lessly left open by a seaman who had
gone forward for a bit of gear, and It
was dark on the berth deck. Tho
commander had his eyes raised to the
head of the ladder, anyhow, as he ap
proached the ladder, and had he made
another step hu would have plunged
to the bottom of the deep hatch nnd
been mangled to bits. He was arrest
ed by healing a plciclng voice behind
him exclaim:
"Damn the skipper's eyes! Damn
tho skipper's eyes!"
With his foot still raised to take the
step that would have plunged him Into
the hatch, Commodore Thomas turned
his heaj suddenly.
"Who's that?" he asked.
Then the Cingoleho mess attendant,
leaping out of the darkness, had the
skipper clutched .by the sleeve, and
Jerked him back from tho open hatch
by main force. Thomas couldn't quite
sea into It for a second, until the Cin
galese, who had fortunately picked up
English on a UrUlsh wind-jammer,
pointed to the open hatch. The Cin
galese explained in his broken dialect
that the exclamation he had u.ed was
the first bunch of English words that
camo into his head when lie saw the
captain's dapger. He couldn't remem
ber the English equivalent of the word
"stop" soon enough, he snld, and so he
had damned the skipper's eyes ns the
best way of attracting the ofllcer's at
tention. "And so the first thing that crops
Into your head. Is to damm your skip
per's eyes, ir It?" asked Thomas of the
Cingalese. The man got all of the best
of it on the Uennlngton after that.
An Ordnance sergeant stationed at
one of the Pacific coast artlllcrj posts
went suddenly Insane a few years ago.
His mind had been disturbed for some
time by the hard-heartf dness of n
young woman who .jniincd to marry
him. On the day that his wits went
completely awry he made for the mag
azines with the intention, as he quiet
ly nnnounced to a young Swedish re
cruit whom he met on the way, of
blowing them up. The Swede's eyes
stuck out nt this, but ho was one of
the tribe of quick thinkers.
"Ay tank Ay'll go alang nn" halp,"
said he to the crazy Ordnanep ser
geant, whoso eyes gleamed with In
sanity. The cargeant made no response, and
the Swedish recruit walked after him.
The sergeant opened the door of one of
the main magazines, that held mnny
thousands of pounds of black smooth
boie powder, and started to break out
a big box of It. The Swede saw that
the crazy man actually Intended to
blow up tho magazine. When ho was
convinced of this lie picked up a shell
bar, waited for the Insane man to turn
his back and banged him over tho
head with It. Then he carried the
crazy Ordancc bergeant u his back to
tho guardhouse. The Swedish recruit
was corporal the next day.
KEST IN MANILA.
Every Year Has 120 Holidays-Two
Hours for Lunchoen Music and
Alluring Beauty.
From tho Louisville Courier-Journal.
Outside of the Spanish colony In Man
ila there Is little care for the fash
Ions as they change from season to
season In Europe and America. The
same matcrlul and cut does In summer
nnd winter or, moro accurately, in
the wet season and the dry. There Is
never any frost and never occasion
for furnaces or open fires. Except for
cooking, there Is plenty of heat In the
atmosphere the year around.
Men wear white duck suits, with thin
flannel or silk underwear, no linen shirt
or collar, white pith helmets, and white
canvas shoes the year round. The
Spanards and tho Spanish half-castes
go in for stylo a little moro. The
Spaniards ure haughty and fond of
displaying their uniforms of blue or
white und their gold trimmings. The
half-castes, or Mestizo, are equally
fond of display, but their nttlc Is
something of u compromise between
European and Chinese modes.
Besides the ono year out of seven
that all foreign employes of tho great
mercantile houses represented In Man
ila have given to them as "homo
leave," there Is a month's vacation
each year, a regular holiday each
month, and all thu saints' days and
Spanish, French, English, German, and
Ameiican holidays. Not to observe a
salnt'a day in Manila Is sinful, and
every one holds such sinfulness In es
pecial detestation. Figuring In all the
saints' days, Sundays, and general hol
idays, thero aro 129 days In each year
when these people do not work.
Clerks earn from $2,600 to $5,000 a
year, besides having lodgings found,
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BROWN or BLACK
rilRRU DIMENSIONS.
Tho kind that U fully ctiaranteei. Dy that
we menu you can hnvo another hat wltlioii
coat Kit iloo not glo entire H:itlnfuctloa.
CONRAD,
30ft
Lacka, Avenus
SELLS THEM AT $3.00.
Grab Apples,
Peaches, Pears,
Grapes, Quinces,
Blue Point and
Rockaway Oysters
Fresh Daily.
Pierce's Market
a mess allowance, medical attendance,
and traveling expenses. In many cases
their rooms are over tho ofllces. They
work from daylight to noon, rest fop
two or three hours, and then worls
till C o'clock, but they have much free
dom In choosing their hours and aro
hurried only on mall days.
There are many excellent bands Irt
Manila, and open-air concerts aro
given every evening In fair weather.
Theatrical companies, both native and
foreign, play through tho season. Tho
Mestlza chorus girl Is alluring. In tho
cathedral nnd the churches tho muslo
Is always good, though it Is startling
to the newcomer to hear, as ho will, In
soma services, n. Gloria from Trova
tore," the Credo with music from" Bar
blere," and tho Elevation from "Tra-
vlata."
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rHE KATXROAD ARMY.
The Largest Peace Establishment
That the World Possesses.
From tho Sun
Tho standing army of Ttussla 3
usually put .it 800,000 men, of Germany
at 000,000, of Austria at U'COOO, and of
Great Urltaln at 2:r,c00, all on a peacj
footing. Yet there are, it appears by
the last published report of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, 830,009
railroad employees In tho United
States, whose gross wages and salaries
are nearly $.'i00,000,000 a year, or 02 per
cent, of the operating expenses of tho
American railways. There nro four
employees, on tho average, for each
mile of railroad track. There ure 30,
019 station acents, S",CG7 engineers, 23,
32J onductor.s, 13.76S switchmen, flag
men, and watchmen, and IM.IM tele
graph operators and despatchers. At
the present ratio of Increase there nra
now GO.OOn mart railway emplojces In
the I'ntted States than there were In
lsM tho total number will not be very
far below 1.000,000 at the time of the
next census.
Here Is an army In which there Is no
mustering out and no war footing, for
thu railroad army of the United States,
larger than the number of railroad em
ployees of ary other country. Is essen
tially an army of peace, and it Is stead
ily growing at n rate larger than tho
ivfiiroaos uiciniiM'.i, taxing uic mue-t
age as a measme of their Importance.
Silence.
So silent Is the world tonight
The lamp give? silence out like light,
The latticed windows, open wide.
Show Hllunce. like the night, ouulde;
Thu nightingale's faint botes draw nea.
LIku niiitiic.il hlltnce to inluu ear.
Tho empty houfe calls rot to me:
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And even the lot glng of my soul
Is silent in this hour's control.
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