Xhe Somerset Herald.
tSTUSHEO itzT.
TVrms oi'lviblieation. :
i,t,1 rvry Wednesday muniu t 2 ;
nm. p! i advance ; herwi-se fc " ;
H ,varUh "-nr-J- j
,. itn -riptHHi will diaewitinmsl mil all
i-,-" re I""'1 "' vtusu't,'T,' t"-4'"'"
vH'tf " hen -ols fiber do n.4 t k e mil iheir
held re-pmsible for the snlairrip-
ji-r win
ti.o.
whMTi!,i" rensninz Irian mtt pomrtttice U an-
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Tilt S.HtKUKT IltKALl),
SumwT, Pa.
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m i.ui-iet and a.ijomtin: iwnrtii-.
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swrtneTai, Pa.
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..... u;:t -Viiiinttl. antl all tctr.il Itlllit-r at
:.,Vt,i :i. itntiiiptiie and Bdelity. Suits atul Wrnw. nml Mens ami Boys' Fttr-
j . .,n t.v. L. C. COI.BOK.V I uisliiiiiir ik1s.
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Smierset, I'a. i iur Mail imU'r liu-itH'ss extemls over all
,'l Liiv-i,.. fiitpw-tl to our pare am oe
Min 'in.-au'' .iiiir dii ou rwi-
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4.HIIKM-.VATI.AW,
souitwt. Pa.
miv and ivnsiou Aifeut. Ortiee in Mammoth
'A1.1NT1NK HAY,
int'i;.vtvAii.A.
tstmeraet. Ph.
li.-nl.-r in K. l Ktate. W ill attend to all j
tii entrusted to hit- 4are w ith prtrtlllttuess 1
;! int. I
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A'l'i I 'l.N r. 1 -A I LAW.
Somerset. I'a.
w 11 j,r..i ipt!v attend t.. all taiinew pntnisted
. ii.u X4u.t ii.natifetltai poliei-Uiaut, 4c. Of
.. id Mttii'.mtitlt ltlts k.
jy: 11 S. KIMMKL1-, j
lewier-hi profWHMial aervlt e to the eitlrens j
.rf s.iirel ami untiiK. I u"w- profesnotmlly I
, , M. i,.- mi. Is- found at his offi-4- on Main
l-t.; m lii.tiit.iini.
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U. 11. W.'l'ltAKKiJ
Mu.i. tr.tl - t ItiMnHrllrt.
I)U
!; VM. HATCH
1 .-iMlt-r- lt pntf4iaial serviti-s to the eitiiens i
.1 -..n.tix-l and Mtiuity. I'fliee in Ptt tifliee
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U. K. W. l'.l.ort.H, !
ir MFol ATIllt I'HY.-IrlAS AM Stt.r.".. I
T. inlt is hi.--t n it t- to till' t.ple of SrtiHTset j
vt.-i'.tn. i ail- in town antl eountry prompt- ;
t iiti. i!-;! to. i an is loiiutl ai orlns- day in- .
'i .:i', unit prtilriitnaUy enmuied. 9iee on
"-..'lii-u-i it.ni.1 of iiianiotiti, 4.V4.T Kni'pp4r ;
D':.. J. V. J.orTHl-1!.
IHVsli IAN AN 1 1 si 'KitKoN.
llu- l.-iit.il i.-ntisnentlv in Simers-t for the
t'r.nlnt it. Itt-.t-nu.
it. n-ur tti hTii: Stole.
otlitv tai Main nrtst.
Dl;. J. M M1I.I.KN.
t'.rtftstltf la lewriVrv.)
':n -nl attention to the pres-rvation of
tNf littlumi Iteili. Artifiral ta'ts ill-4-rttsl. All
!Titu.iti- miaranttssl -atist'ai-tory. tittu-e in Itavr
iin- li. lllairs.
D1:. JOHN IUIJ.
Dlt. WM. COLLINS.
I'KNTIST.
'n:. i- f-nti1 nil titu (iivf-nre. utlatH kimic
"i -rfli wiit-h tt liliiiij;, nafulatin cxirju-tiuu,
i Arn-cmi wh fH nil kimi it. f Ihv.
iiiu'.rrml nio-nt-l. All rk muiXaUiKti.
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U. J. K. MII.l.KK
IU- i- riiinnt-niiy l.sale.1 ib llerlin for the prat'
in- "1 i. is prolt-ssiou. otliee .tpptisue t'harUt
kri-Mii., r - -tor?.
iiirt-st't Cnnty IJank.
tr.4rf.ys7A7 177.).
C. J. HARRISON, M. J. PRITTS,
i-Ki-tinr.-iT. Cashikr.
ii.tiii.tii. made in all uns of the Cuius! Hlatt.
!
CHARGES MODERATE. !
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Itoi.,.,.l.m.,..-H, eUW.-.. heS. !
.-y W est tall lie ae- !
til HHiijU-.i l.v .Iran itit .-w York in anv aillu. I
4 i'.h.Iih nutiir illi pnanptiH'SS. I', r. Hou.1 I
'-iiiii.T u-it'. s,.i,( Money ami wlnl.hs set-imsl j
tiv.iwet.i in..Hti4l' eeirliralcvl aaiw. itlt a Sar-
-t itl Ya!..,wtl!tte loek. !
ACCCTOTS SOLICITIC.'
Ail L.al HoIi4iain OtssTved.
CURTIS K. GROVE.
SOMERSET, PA.
W'"-:!. SlrKrUHH. CAERLM.F.S.
sl hlNi; W AI.OSS, lil't'K t ASS
VNIt KASTKJIN AXIWKTEKX wtiKK
Fiiraislnsf on Sbt-rt S. aits'.
fainting Done on Short Time.
a ' -rl. i- uiatW- .ai: of TVsoatMy Snmmrtt M'it.
a- dihe HrJ Inm rrwt rHllaailtillllT
t t.ntnitted. Xeatly Kinished. and
aminled to rive at1sfa4-r!oD.
Only First Class Torfanea.
K- pturiiyt tf All Kiwis in My Lille Tsmk- on
Mi.wt .N.airv. Prl.- RKASOXABLE. ami
All W ork Warranted.
i-.ti t . . i
'auaiKl Kxaniinemy Mn-k. and lm Prn-w. j
tdii Wact.n a.n-k. ami furnish -Vive tir Wind- ;
M ik Kemendier tlu- i.ltus. ll i i
CTJRTI3 K. GROVE,
(Fast of rin H.aus i
lt)i.KRsl!T, PA.
mm
Eaaraateed
f?-iiil??r-
l(rmlMMIM,v.T, (SL.. V-.(ss....
7clj.-a.a. Hcraaer. Jr. Sb Co..
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VOL. XXXV. NO.
ON THE ENGINE.
Running an Engirt While OeatMy Sick.
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i Aimn, Jams.,
J. ImrU . .!, Itvmkmt. S. i;
sis : i am an enrtneeron the Old Colony
kaiitxaul. ami run the Fall River laau train he.
tween rail kiKT and Lowell, residing ui Taun-
ivm. rtw an years i xin.nn cvervtliiiuf l.ut death
fowl dyspepsia, often I had u:b bliudiur n-k
I i,.Mit.-i.-ii.-. ,, I k.hlh .i....r .1.;-
... .- - - ." ' . . 1 I II 111 . II 1 1.
as 1iih partly u lmilr Iialilti. ufeatitiK. ami
partly Ut the jar rf tit 4tiintif.
K'ntrtt)Ur tliat liait trWl
hrani iff. and had hero uvatt! hr "me of the ties!
phyneiam in Tauut aud Umell. At tliif Ttti
eal till..- IR. H.WIU J ..V.V y.., fAKHITK
ril'.H. mm......! ... i.
; .i .in . i ii. .
Idi. and with uiy 'at-rH-im of medkitHw vua
eily funrive me ka-aayiuK that I had nut a
nl'lei. taith iii it.
I hail taken it but a few dav w hen I U-mn to
"ei. ine raa aim wwe leeilllK kh my
Htiauaeh. aud the mal.niuir oaiin left me head
, , . , , ' , . . . : '
w nit riiii. hiiij nave tieen ever
Kinee. It'in the only tlnnir that ever did me the
leat n.d, and it drove vxvry a-he, paiu aud dla
diriili.rr et.mi.Melv tmt t niv Univ. Now J keen
" f.iii'ffijr. Kr.Ht.iii wiui me on
Uiy enir.lie. and It site w herever I tmt
T-. w.t
WtlV I t 1 IVlPTi Ji 11 -.!!
anyimnif. one mtht awhile air.. John LaTton.
iuriiieer w ho ruu the main line 1m wt train
ironi rhfton. hh on my enmiie piek an death.
, He w. worn oat wilh work, had a hit'h ferer.
1 alio war.au lim.w lie ailil.j-1 bn.kedowu rr'itlK.
."t-.-it-. tuiiii, i titi ; eneer up. 1 vv imi
""meiliinron uiy emrinnhat will aet up in a
i Vfx out mj l.itle i raronu- Koine
dy." Hftetl hi head and rave hhn a rood de
He went to l4. 1 w., Uay. alter 1 taw him. In.
)n( ,.,,,. , .. 1(11U hr ,,, .. Knu
war that urn IT you nrr me the other niirht?" It
IttMt.hV. Roli.lont. X. Y.,"aidl. "Well,!
" li'"e MTiiedy it t, tl'r the thinr for a
man iu tne rallnaul. . nay we all. oiint.
r asif.l Kim
It i h e own rfi.T if y.ai ut from Head
ehe. uidirertittn. 4 iyia'pia. one lttillarwil)
,,u '" l riv.tnte Keuily aud eure you.
JULY BARGAINS !
We wan! to retliKv xtia-k ill all lViartin4-iit.
tluriiip tlie tiionth of July, ami llave mailt
Krint mint tittiis thniu.'liout our stores.
p,.,.-, . ff , . .,
live, w ill fiml it pnitrly to tlieir alrantajn- ti
spinl for uni.li-' I..nli itli.
We ket'. IJIupk Silks, ('..lctretl Silks, ami
Vplv4-t; Wiml 1 n--1 Siiinnier wei.'lil:
t'tittou Wa-li Kaliriitt, Hosiery, I'tiilerware
tiltivps. Kiiiltpiitlerii's. ("ttllars and Cuff's.
H.m.lki n Ukik. Tli'm White tn.sls,
laneiis, ijue t'urlaiiis. Milliner-, Ilrww
the States ami Territttries North, West ami
South.
Sal isfiwtt ir- tlealiiiL's 4niaraut4-etl, as all
ltusim-ss is 4lotie on trtt:ressivp itli-as.
Silks and iin-ss titssls our i;ret saoiaIty.
JOS. HORXE &CO.'s
RETAIL STORES,
613-621 yJENJC AVE.,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Albfkt A HoKye.
J. -strrr Waki.
HORNE & m
lila ton I3ros.
NO. 27 FIFTH AVENUE,
riTlSIil JlGH, I'A.
SPRING AND SUMMER 1886.
NEW GOODS
' E7E2Y LAY SPECIALTIES
Embrttiilrrir, Isw, MiflittT0, 'hitt ffW, lfntf'
krrrht, rrm Trrmitiimj, H'irr, ibnv, Orr
JIWutrtJwf Mm' t mtlfrvrar. In fant'
mH (fctrWrnt'f 4ttiktj, Fumy UottH,
Yarn, Zift)fr, Mshrittfs of all
kiwi for FA M Y WO ft A'.
a
j Gents' FnrnlsMBg; Goods, k, k
Your Patronage li Rospactfultjr tolicitett.
.OrdTby Mail attended to w ith Promptnemj
and Iispatt-h.
AN OPEN LETTER.
I.isroxiit hi;. Pa..
Mty 24. jm. ,'
Mr. C. N. Bovu. S.mkksct, I'a.
Itnir Sir: In t.-1if in-: lt the nx-rits tf
your Mamlraki' I.ivpr fills, wonls fail me in
exprosini: my just attre iation of their pal
ami i nrutivp narti, as well as the uti-sja-akaltle
la-m lits I have ri -eel veil from thoir
use. For a sjastiy ami etfts-tivpctire for liver
ilix-ase. they are unnvaUsl. As a hltssl pn
rilier tln-y siirjwss all known reiiuslips. It
mar tntt jifttliv la- saitl that their at'tiou titain
the liver is universal, not a tflatul or tissue es-
infinc their sanative intlut'tn-s. I heartilv
iwrniinmajw Mamlrake LivTMllHtoany
4Mie sutleriiiu fnuii iiviT4-onilaint.
Yours.
- - I'Kl-AlJr.K
TheaUtve t4jstiinoiiial cunte illt-i!it itttl anil
I is all the more aipris iateil. These pills are
aim mi; tlie l-est mailt'. Tht-y are mit a patent
ntneiiy. as thefonuula ison every bottle.. Try
ili4 tn. You will IhmI just-what you want.
all at ntvst4rt!. wlwreyiHi willstw thetiiu-rt
I xttN-k if l'tniu-s in theiitiinty. toaais the txsit
I antl 4-i4is. Inw4s4t.
I!est-tfiillv,
C. N. BOYD.
I Mamiiioth Bltak. Simkh-et. Pa.
A
UMTdR'S NOT4CR
Th u..4atTMitm-1 bnvuiff nt'U Miiii4() An
ilitir tiy thv 4rhifir' t 'xirt ttt S-tiHTMvt HUiiy
Matt- n awciMim atii rvrt tliri.Mitin UKMVn
hrM' irivi Dirtitv thni he ill MlU'lul U the
dutw'of hit t,i!i tmnt at hi ttW' iu Amr
st. I'a-. Kritiay. the 27th day if AumiM. lw..
ht-u au. witt-rv ail Nfaur. ttu-ft-te. raa al-U-wi.
HENRY F. K'HKIX.
aiir4. AUsliuw.
A
HMIMSTRAT(US Nt TI('E.
kstateof JenVrat-n lilssttts. tieeeat-ed. late (af Som
erset rstnaufh. -sanerset ctMinty. I'a.
letters of Atimitiistration on the aUive estate
havinr tas-n rrauted to the liisttTKimied by the
DM titer aulhivrily. ntKice ht hereby riven to all
; per-4ais moeraeti in aain t-saie n mate imnrai.
ale i-avnierii. ann tm-se navuia eiaons aa-aiutw in..
mUK. w ill prets-m them duly aulbentii-aleii
aettlenK-nt on Thursdav. AtunM l. is-, at the
olti. 4d F. W. BiearekeV. Kjsi.. ill' SneT--t Ht-
i . juiu. Atiuiimnran-r.
I QHAKLFi- HOFFMAN, N ' .
.-...I. UlllV KUllllMl
V- s - - - X -v.. 1
MERCHANT TAILOR.
(Above Heffiey's -ore.
rL"1 Stylo, and Lowstt Prioaa.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Somerset, Pa.
10.
THE BABY ON THE PULL
MAN. BV Pail IK IT.
Hear the yellinr, squalllnr hahy.
t-n the train, "
Her its mother try to atop it.
All lu rain.
Nee ber aeold and pet aud spank It,
Ci-ax It, pit4-h it muud and yank it :
Hear Its yellinc- aud its squalling.
And it eicrralHe bawlinr.
While we all fuel Juat like mauling
Out its oraiu.
While its wild voeiferatiotta.
Lour eoutinued uluUti4Mu,
As we stop at all toe statioaa, .
Makes ua aay.
Makes Us pray
That lu family wtaild rn settle
Ijwn nar Popoeatapetl,
And would atay ;
That Mane liunrry eroetaiile
Fniui the niutlily rirer Nile
vtsiltl some morntur ttnue and eat it with
Its huge rond-natured smile,
see the panmnrera all tiare.
Hear then awear
At the IHit ker-faeed youmr weeper,
Aritatitut the w hole sleeper.
Wim't its mother
Take and another
It. or if not ahe stone other
Kill the 4-hlld?
or we all will soon go wild.
We are all in aueh a ndyet
At the kaid voit ed little mldjret.
Sever Into sleep betruiled.
Why will BtAtsaae per-uu shake it.
Or just take its head and break it?
Why is it that the ciradutK
Ha not hour ago just t-aoekt-d her
Oil the train
With mirUt aud main?
Ft- the aw ful uilaiit nar,
Anti its )'- uneousi-i4Kui more,
Nearly drive ua ant the diaar.
While It bawta.
As it craw ls
Ail around bet-eat tbe Meat,
Jettinr mixed up w ith our feet.
Like a band of caterwauls.
Like Niaif'ra'n watertalls.
Like a thousand trumpet calls ;
Ob ! the hahy is no use
In a Pullman aieeviiuc berth.
You can make no rood excuse
Fiar iu preseuee on the earth,
it should just
ftt up and dust.
It don't w aut to but It must.
MY FRIEND THE PROFESSOR.
MyIkabVan: Aline in liaxtt'. If
vim pan iM-xsibly inanity it (time tlown
iiere liv tht 6ur oVluck train. My moth
er's duttmmil ha l-eeii stulen. Ifcin't
bring a dptwtive ; we'll try it ourwlvps
first. TeU-irrapb if you can come. Youn
in haste, ' H. CARGILL.
I ft n ml thin letter waiting forme at my
flub one morning towanl the euti of Mar.
(to! ofeoumel sboulil ; I had nothing
jtartitTilar ti keep me in town ; m by the
four o'cliH'k train I found myself travel
ing Mouth in a much more lively frame of
mind than I had experienped in the
morning, endeavoring to while away the
time with ivnjecturt as U what could
really have taken place. The diamond I
knew well. It was truly a precious xtone
not onlv for its intrinsic worth, but also
froru the fact that it hail been given by
an Indian Kajah to Mm. Canill's father,
ami, further, it wan the las gift of a par
ent whwe memory wan loved by all who
had known hint. Mrs. C'argill Wore it
plainly net in gold ax a bn-nch, and wore
it more frequently than perhaps most
women would have thought it w ine to air
ao valuable a treasure.
My friend lived with bin mother aud a
little sister in a quaint old house with
consitlerable groumls, in a very quiet and
unpreteuiling manner. The nearest vil
lageof any inrportant-e was at a distance of
some four ami a half miles. Often had I
envied him the ijuiet j-eace of his home.
His tastes were artistic, like mine, and,
with such w ork as he might rhof-se to do,
and the -rcaional superintenilenee of
his family acas, as might lie necessary to
divert his attentitm, life must have been
very pleasant indeeil.
My frieird Harold was waiting for me
when I reached the little station about
seven in the evening, and on the drive
home I learned a few more particulars.
The mbl-cry had taken place, as far as
could 1-e judged, either during the night
lefore last or on the rweoeding day, The
iMiuse and the effects of the servants hail
l-een sesrrht-d without avail, ami Harold
luvl only awaite-d my arrival before tak
ing further steps. We talked the matter
over at gre:'t length Iroth on our way
lwmie ami after dinner. That one of the
servants was guilty seemed to me quite
evident, but I could convince neither of
the others tin this point.
Mrs. Cargill left us soon to our winetml
I continue! my endeavors without avail
to prove to tiarohl that strict measures
should at oik lie taken with all the ser
vants. He contended that a thorough
search ha4l already lieen made.
"My 4lear fellow," I said at length,
you should have allowed me to nse my
dis. retitMi in the matter, ami I W4M1.4I have
brought you down a French detective or
two."
"And what would your tletertives have
dune? Made up a na-e story, implicating
one or all of the servant, and pnibably
the gardener as an outdoor agent, but not
found the diamond. Now, where is the
use of investigations unless we recover
the diamoml?"
A happy t bought struck me as he spoke.
If your object, HarohL is entirely the
recover' if tlte diamotxl and not the pun
ishment of the thief, I have a miggestion
to make ; and it may be, after all that if
we .liscover the stone first we may learn
mute afterward. It us have down thin
great mesmerist and thtiught reader who
is making such a small rommotion just
now. Well tax him (if he'll come) to
eoniluct us ti the stoiK. It is probably
still in tbe house; the nhl-ery was dis
covered so very quickly that even w ith
an outsMe agency in the jierson of tlie
gardener, whom I grant you I din't like,
it is unlikely the stone can have got so
far as tha village yet."
On this suggestion, (made half in jest,
liall in earnest) we eventually decided to
act Tlie robl-ery had la-en discovered
the iutming before, ami the setvantshad
since then been pretty cltasely wabJied,
an tlutt, after a further talk, which, it is
needless to say, went over and over the
same ground at least a -score of times,
each of up attempting to provto bhittelf
and to the other that detective work was
what proviilence had severally meant for
us, we came to the deteiruination that we
would ask the great thought reader, Prof.
Landley, to come to our awMance.
The greatest aeciwy of rotme was nec
essary. Not even Mrs. Cargill should
know at first who our visitor really was ;
fir oar only hope of succc. lay in the
chance that if one of the servanta was the
thief the stone might still be hidden in
the house, or perhaps buried in the
ground outside, till H could with greater
Somerset
safety be removed when tlie matter had
had time to be partly forgotten.
I went to town early next morning,
and called at once upon the learned Pro
fessor. He was "out" but was to be in
ag.iin very anon. I strolled about the
neighborhood some time so aa not to miss
him, having a shrewd suspicion that he
hal not yet made his appearance at
breakfast. 8ure enough I found hitu a
little before noon eating in a languid
manner the remain of a fowl which had
done duty liefore, and drinking small
beer. Knowing a little of professional
men, however, I recognisti the exigen
cies of tlie case, and after the usual civili
ties explained the reasons of my call. He
was a tall man, rather thin, with weak
eyes, but sufficiently gentlemanly to pass
muster both in dress and manner. Rath
er to my surprise he readily agreed to ac
company me, and -ostponeforafew days
the private engagements which he had
on hand at tlie time ; but in the course of
our journey down (for we returned that
night ) the reason of his compliance came
out. He wished to include the robl-ery
in his advertisements, and all that I
could say to the contrary would not con
vince him that my friend would scarcely
care for his name to be mixed up in the
matter After considerable discussion we
thought it best to inform Mrs. Cargill
later in the evening who and what our
visitor really was.
Tlie Professor explained to us that, as
Mrs. Cargill knew the diamond and had
worn it so long, site w as the one w ho, with
her hand in his, conlil best com munii ate
to him where to head her. " If,"saiil he,
"the day is clear and bright, I shall lead
you t4morrow to the spot, Mrs. Cargill,
provided you have sufficient strength of
mind to keep your ideas fixel entirely
upon the rt4)ne. You must keep it vivid
ly before, your mind's eye, anil I shall
lead you to it if it if in the house or
grounds."
Nothing had otrcurretl in the household
since my departure in the morning, and
the robber (win-ever he was) must now,
we judged, be beginning to feel somewhat
easier in mind : so in case of his defining
it necessary to alter the prolmble hiding
place of the stone, we determined upon
immediate action, deciding to continence
next morning at daybreak, before the
world would be properly awake. The
pmfeasor did not much appreciate the
idea of such an early start, but we suc
ceeded in overcoming his scruples, and it
was arranged before we parted for bed
that we siioulil all meet in the dining
room at three o'ch-rk next morning.
Mrs. Cargill was down before me, ami
Harold shortlv after. Of course, we were
all liefore the time.'and to wait in dumb
silence (even with the pn-spect of a most
interesting experiment) fur twenty min
utes in the cold dawn, was anything but
lively- At length the Ife-wor appeared.
It Hiking, we were glad to see, eijual to his
business. YVe bad left the front door
ajar in case of neeii, as it w as our impres
sion (so thorough a search having already
been made inside) that the object of our
quest must be without the house. It was
rather eerie work for us ' all, except the
Professor, who was equal to the occasion
ami seemed to scent the battle, so to speak
in the shape of some far-off diamoml
which he hail never seen.
At twelve minutes past three, then.Mrs,
Cargill took the Professor hand, he hav
ing been previously blindfolded. " Not,'
he said, " that snch a thing was necesMarj-,
but it calmed his power of tluiught to
some extent," HaroM anil I retired a
few steps, antl the silence for several min
utes was deathlike. At last the Professor
made a step, another and then to us on
lookers it seemed as if certainty had re
placed doubt. He went straight to the
door, Mrs. Cargill follow ing (anil we, too,
discreetly) down the avenue to the first
turning, ami then bang ag-.tinst the fence
in a most disturbing manner.' This little
incident seemed to have upset his train of
thought, and it was some minutes liefore
be seemeil to grasp the situation.
It was a fortunate thing that the morn
ing was fine, though the grass looked
alHiminably wet. I inwardly shuddered
at the idea that, had there been agate we
should have felt obliged to open it, and
take to the grass ; and catchiug Harold's
eve. we both felt somewhat gniltv, as
though we might Is? shirking something.
But the "something" was not to be
shirked. Tlie Professor calmlv commenc
ed to climb the paling, which, as his one
hand was occupied, and as he was an ex
ceelingly ungainly man, obviously never
lsrn for feats of agility, "eemed rather ah
extmordinun-proi-wling. Over he wiuld
go, however, ami aver Mrs. Cargill must
go with him ; when a man is in a trance
he is very unreasonable ; how Mrs. Car
gill stood it I cannot tell, save that she
herself was, perhaps a little affected.
Yi'e were helping them quietly over
w hen the Professor got into a ni'ist unac
countable hurry, and ha4l we not both
devoted our attention to Mrs. Cargill she
and her leader must have fallen, and the
train of thought been probably, broken.
We hail l-een asked to maintain a dis
creet silence, but I could almost have
sworn I caught a smothered exclamation
from Haroltl as Mrs. CaryiH's fts-t was
brought smartly round upon the side of
his liead ow ing to the Pnifessor's unrea
sonable haste.
Once over the Jailing the scent seemed
to have grown weaker. Of course, there
was no hesitation in the avenue, and a
very evitlent abencof such feeling w lieu
palings had been surmounted ; but once
011 the dewy grass things might lie taken
more easily. 1 went back to tlie puling
to join Harold, and we left the pair to
themselves till they got fairly acrom the
fii'lil. Then the Professor seemed to rec
ognise the proximity of another paling,
and we had to run to lie in time to help
them over. We were getting more used
to it now, and Mrs. Cargill was bearing
up wonderfully. We hand-d them over
without any mishap, save that the Pro-fc-or'
frit got twisted in the fence, and
his boot (one of these elastic-sided mon
strosities, ami very old J came off in the
struggle to extricate him. . t - : : - -
Harold and I had, up till now been
feeling not a little skeptical about the
proceedings, but the fact that we were in
the wood by this time, and that the Pro
fessor seemed totally uncoiiMciouK of the
alatence of his boot, began to impress ns.
It seemed, too, a little extraon Unary that
he should be aide to go calmly 00 now
without -knocking against or wishing to
surmount the trees.
It was by this time thoroughly light ;
we most have been out for nearly half an
hoar, and as yet had done itothing but
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climb palings amlget our feet very wet
Still, it certainly seemed that there might
be some method in this mailness, and so
on we went, more slowly now, owing to
the brushwood, which happily was not
very thick. Suddenly the PrifeM4or stop-
lied, in so decided a manner that I could
not but think it posmlile tnat we were
near the odjwt of our sea ri 6. He was at
the moment just opposite a thick laurel
bush. I linked hastily at Harold, who
appeared as confident as myself that we
uita-4 have come to somethjng to cause
such a deciiled and prolonged stop. A
few 'minutes of silence and suspense pass
ed like hours; then, a step forward, and
tlie Profescor conunentxd to stoop slowly
downward, when we heard a rustling
among the laurel leaves and a fox slunk
out from tne other side of the bush and
nuule off through the wood. This dis
tracted! my attention for a moment, and
when I looked round the professor had
resumed his usual stiff-backed attitude.
We waited for full five minutes. What
had gone wrong? Where was the Profes
sor's promise? Was there nothing in the
bush after all ? '
He slowly relaxed Mrs. Cargills hand :
" It is no use, gentlemen J can do noth
ing more justnow !,,: But whv? What
was the reason? Why stop himself just
as discovery appeared certain ? The Pro
fi-snor could nmlerstaud it no more than
we. " I came here," he said, guided by
Mrs. Cargill's Ui ought. I dont know
where I am. I had the diamond, or the
clue to it, five minutes agtf ; now it is lout
Whether Mrs. Cargill ceased to assist me
or not, I cannot tell. But I know I can
tlo nothing more just now
It seemed best if we wished to preserve
any secrecy in the matter, to muke our
way home as quick as we rould. I gave
the Professor his Us-t, aad Mrs. Cargill
(who was something exhausted) my arm ;
and we returned gloomily, almost as we
had come that is to say, by the shortest
and most direct wav. V were all too
disgusted with the Professor to be able to
discuss the matter amicably with him at
the moment, so we parted quietly and
like guilty creatures in the hall to court
the sleep, which weall.liegan to feel
would be beneficial. My position I
could not but think was rather an un
pleasant one. Old friend of the family as
I was, I could not bnt blame myself for
bringing so fraudulent a Professor to the
house. However, I decided before fall
ing asleep that it would not be quite fair
npon oar visitor to eondeinn him right off
on the failure of a single experiment
His explanations later in the ilay niatie
the matter no clearer. Jle was certain
that he had been on the track, and it cer
tainly looked like it, but tlie reason for
the sudden "stop he could not telL Still,
in the end he managed to talk us over,
and Mrs. Cargill was induced to go
through the experiment again, but this
time we were to start where we hail left
off. i me thing alone the IVufcs-s r would
swear to tne diamond couia not be in
the house, else he would never have gone
outside. Also, he informed ns that his
foot, notwithstanding his thick stocking
was considerably the worse for wear.
The hour at length came again. Har
old and I hail decided to dispense with
sleep; Mrs. Cargill and the Pnifessor
turned up very punctually within a few
seconds of one another.
The morning was clear and frosty. We
w alked to the laurel bush, where, having
blindfolded the Professor as before, Mrs.
Cargill took his hand. He soon started
off, taking no notice of the laurel bush,
but away through the woisl. We mast
liave been walking for several minutes,
and at a pretty quick pace, when.Jike an
evil omen, a fot (probably the one we had
seen on the previous night) sprang out of
a clump of unilerwixsl and vanished
among the trees.
It was the same storv over again. Our
leader's jiace slackened ;then he stopped.
Could it be that a fox was, as it were, a
non-conilucting agent? I put the ques
tion to the Professor ; nay, I further hint
ed that perhaps when in a mesmeric
state the sense of smell might lie so
heightened that be had been follow ing
like a foxhound for two nights in succes
sion this evil denizen of the woods. He
put the suggestion aside with scorn, but
the more I thought the more I felt there
might be something in it, antl Herold so
far agreed with me as to question the
learned Professor next day as to whether
he lutd ever been fond of hunting.
We had gone home as liefore nonpluss
ed ; we had retired to our rooms, slum
bered late, and met for fresh discussion
all to no purpose. Mrs. Cargill wished
to give up the attempt and call in the
detectives, HeroUl antl I were inclined
somewhat ignominiously to agree. But
we had iorgotten the Professor. .His
blood was up; our taunts on the subject
of fox hunting had aggravated him more
than we hail fancied, Pnve himself
right he would ; his honor, he insisted,
was at stake ; he must be successful in
the end. He appealed t4 Mrs. Cargill to
stand by him, and the king am! short of
it was that she agreed to make a third and
last trial, the Professor on his side prom
ising that it should be the very last
It rained hard all the evening, antl at
daybreak when we met it was so damp,
dreary, and misty that we all felt relieved
when the Professor asked us to leave
matters alone for a day and give his last
attempt every possible chance.
All this time things in the household
bail been going on quietly enough, and it
seemed as though the servants had quite
made up . their minds that no furth er
search was intentled. The only fresh cir
cumstance that came to light was that
tbe gardener's kennel, formerly occupied
by a tarue fox for which be had .a great
affection, was observed to be empty. The
man afhrtned that the animal had slip
ped its color the day before. We could
only question him casually, on the sub
ject, but it seemed likely that the animal,
whose scent had proven too strong for
the Professor, was the one which the
gardener affirmed only to have escaped
on the previous day. The animal, he
said, was bound to come back for its meals
sooner or later, but we did not altogether
agree with him on that point
Daybreak next morning saw ns again
asseutbleal in the' dining room, and we
left the house to reconunence business in
the wood w here we had last stopped. It
was a fine, clear morning, and gave prom
ise of glorious day. The Professor was
on his mettle. He nad said to as, "1
will succeed to-morrow." and to sao-eed
he evidently intended. " ''
He stood for a few minutes blindfolded,
as usual, before he took Mrs. Cargill's
18, 1886.
hand, and then commenced to move for
ward, but in an opposite direction to that
we had been taking when he hail lost tlie
clue before. On he went, ami on, right
through the wood, till the affair began to
grow tiresome. He was going well, to-
oay certainly ;. lie bad kept ns at it a
good long time; but if we were only go
ing to get a few hundred yards every
night and perhaps not find the stone af
ter all, we might as well give tbe matter
up entirely. Harold appeared, from the
frown upon his face, to have begun to
consider matters in this light too, when
tlie IVufessor, who bad been going at a
fair ice, suddenly stopped. It seemed
to me only natural that, as he had gone
further than he had ever gone before,
he should stop. His imbecile mind
could stand .the strain no longer.
After Considerable hesitation, however,
he turned slowly to the left, bent over
souio thick brushwood and gradually
stretched out his hand, "It's that fox
again to a certainty," whispered Harold
to me; "the Professor's as mad as a
March hare." No signs of tbe fox though
and the Professor was well into the bush ;
if tlie diamond was there, surely a sud
den flash of thought would assist him;
but it was not likely to be there any
more than our friend the fox, who would
certainly have made off long before now.
Ere my ideas were completed the flash
of thought did come, A sudden dart
downward on the part of the Professor
was instantaneously suceeedetl by a
frightful yell that rang through tlie wesjd
Mrs. Cargill's hand was dropped in a
second, and it seemed as though the
Professor was engaging blindfolded 1 in
some awful struggle with a ft whom
none of us had as vet seen.
It was the fox after all. The Professor
had tracked him down this time, if not to
his den, at least to the trap in which the
animal wasstniggling.
Certes, he was pretty severely punish
ed for his fox-hunting propensities!
Foxes don't usually attack until driven
to the last extremity, am! tlie I'rufesror
must have forced the animal to the fur
thest point it could go with the trap on
its fore paw ere he nuule that sodden
dive which was so disastrous for him.
Had it not been that the learned man's
hand was most terribly bitten we should
have been struck with the alwnrdity of
the scene. Mrs. Careifl bad had a ureat
fright ; the Professor was in a towering
rage, not merely at the injury 4 lone to his
hand, but that he should after all have
again tracked down his fox; so Harold
anil I alone were in any condition for
action. Th Professor swore he must kill
the fox that luvl so bitten him, and so
great was his wrath ami haste that he
would scarcely wait till we had stanched
his wonml with a handkerchief.
I took Mrs, Cargill to some little dis
tance, and w hen I returned the fox was
wellnigh demolished by the aid of a stout
stick, with which the Professor had
promptly avengeii himself.
He was calmer now, and as we were
talking over the little excitement of the
moment, he gave it as his decided opin
ion that either Mrs. Cargill must, un
known to herself, have been wearing the
diamond all the time, or the fox must
have swallowed it. The last idea seemed
to have something in it, and he was so
impressed with it that the only course to
convince him (for we had begun to doubt
his sanity) seemed to be to dissect the
animal there and then. I left them to
inform Mrs. Cargill of our last resolve,
when a shout of joy from the Professor
and of surprise from Harold, nuule me
hastily turn to rejoin them, Mrs, Cargill,
hearing the shout, was with us in a mo
ment.
The diamond had been found '. The
fox had not swallowed it ; but tied tight
ly round its neck, roughly sewn np in a
bit of brown leather, was the missing dia
mond. The Professor was exultant ; his wonml
was forgotten ; he had been right after
ali!
But who was the thief? Some one
one must have committed the diamond
to the fox's care. Was it true that the
animal had slipped its collar, or had the
culprit freed it for greater safety in the
belief that it would return for its meals?
Only the gardener could tell us, antl he
would probably not miss his fox till we
saw him in the morning.
Excited as we were we talkeil it all
over in the wood, and w ere considerably
later than nsual in getting home, where
we parted at once silently, retiring to our
several chambers to take the rest we so
well earned, after mutual compliments,
all around.
We hadilecided that theganlener alone
could be the thief, anil that we would
confront him with the charge in the
morning but we hail recokoned without
our host ! When we had assembled for
breakfast, tbe Professor with his hand
wrapped up in must nngainly fashion,
Mrs. Oardill met us with a blank face.
note, which the servant hail fisnml in
the silver chest some minutes si nee, ex
plained all. It was a filthy piece of work
manship, but still legible, and the con
tents, alas? too plainly strike the truth.
It ran as follows :
Missi s i seen vou anil the frintlemen
:oo nites wankin atsut the wis sis lookin
for mi fox. You kant find him eny more
than me so ime off. i hop von mav ketch
my fox i kant so me ami my pals tnk a
few spunes insted.
lour tibetlian strvent,
TOMBLAK.
ps thenks for levin the door opin,
Tlie Professor was the only one who
maile a hearty breakfast. lie had proved
the power of thought reading ; it was our
fault, not his, the gardener had been too
sharp for ns. Now, of coarse, we had the
detectives down, I Kit we never caught
Mr. Black. "Tnk a few spunes insted r
I should rather think he had ; there was
not a piece of plate left in the house !
Of a Convivial Californian.
Senator McDongall, of Califttrnia, was
convivial and witty to a degree. Return
ing from the Capitol one night slightly
excited by tea, he mistook Maryland for
Pennsy lvania avenne, and in the dark
ness fell into a moddy sewer, from which
he was try ing to crawl, whena policeman
came np and inquired ; " Who in the
name of all that's holy are you?" "Gent
ly, my friend, gently," came the labored
response ; " when I left the Senate cham
ber I was McDooealL, bnt now it seems
that I am Forward." Man ftmmatt Argo
sxrat :' -r-" - -' : ";:
Yenexnela has been favored with blue
and rose-colored hailstones.
erald
Lesson in an Egg-Shell.
Prom the Chi earn Times.
Five hundred million dozen eggs, says
an English paper, are annually consumed
in tlie United States ; their value, at 8
pence per dozen being considerably more
Than Xlti.OOU.OOO. These figures are to
some extent aouainted for bv the nation
al fondneas for pastry, of which die tie-
dared eggs to be " the great original.'
One of tlie best signs of a thriving indus
try is the little public fuss matte about it
Tbe American poultry fanners have for a
long time been naturally and profitably
silent But a cause of disquietude has at
length arisen. No duty is imisisetl on
foreign eggs, and some sixteen million
dozen of these are annually imported in
to the United States, The competition is
not so very severe at present, tlie foreign
supply being lew than one-thirtieth of tlie
entire consumption. Still, forewarned is
forearmed; and an American "trade"
journal presumably expresses tlie senti
ments of its subscribers when it indig
nantly asks whether the native egg indus
try is to be crushed oat by the rivalry of
the "cheap pauper fowls of the old world."
There is perhaps mure pique than pro
priety in this expression, though it sug
gests obvious matter for reflection on our
side of the Atlantic If we may judge
from the innumerable treatises founded
upon the problem, "How to make poul
try pay," poultry seldom does pay in
England. . In regard to this matter there
is a sinirular if not a painful contrast be
tween English indifference and American
enthusiasm. American pnslucers are ex
cited by tlie fait that a qnite insigniriiaiit
proportion of foreign eggs finils its way
into their markets. English should-be
producers are in no way disturbeil, al
though every retail shop in the kingdom
has practically to rely upon the foreign
supply. The statistics of these imports
tell their own significant story. During
the summer months from fifty to eighty
tons of eggs are landed every twenty-four
hours on the quays of Harwich. These
come almost exclusively from North It
aly by the way of St Gothard tunnel.
The daily rarg? occasionally amount to
as much as 1:10 tons, representing about
2,0(10,000 of eggs, of which London is al
most the sole destination. Besides these,
from 50,000,000 to 0,OiK),000 of eggs are
sent into England every month from
Denmark, Germany, Belgium and France.
Tlie last country does a thriving export
trade after supplying the egg-loving Par
isians with the 40,000,000 dozen which is
their annual consumption. It may be
instructive to note some of tlie points on
oar coast, at which this foreign pnsltv-e
is discharged. Weytrrtsith receives from
3,000,000 to 4,000,000 of eggs per month ;
Newhaven ami Southampton over H,l)0,-
0(10 each; London (port of,) 5,000,000;
Harlepool, 8,01X1,000 ; Grimsby and New
castle, 5,000,000 each; Leith, 2,000,000.
The duty on imported eggs was repealed
in 1).
If there is anyone thing on which
poultry experts are agreed, it is that
fow Is thrive best in moderate companies.
A stock of fifty head of fowls is likely to
yield a greater proportionate profit than
oneof five hundred. Poultrv keeping is,
in fact the it leal of a pi sir man's industry.
The enormous continental supply of egs
is not due to large establishments, bnt to
a well-organized systehi of collecting the
produce of small ones. Tlie Italian peas
ant finds fow l-keeping one of his most
profitable pursuits. He barters or sells
his eggs to the local agents of the great
dealers, who apportion the various cir
cuits to traveling collectors. Thus, by in
numerable small but fructifying channels,
the prosperity of the ronntryside is con
nected with the maintenance of the cen
tral marts. Such facts as these might ap
peal to the general laborer, or at least to
many who assume to la? interested in his
behalf.
THE GIRL AT THE GATE.
Heaven bless the girl at the front gate
with peach-bloom on hercheeksand love
light in her eyes. Some men would shut
her out of our literature, but I am not one
of them. The girl at the front gate tan
never grow old to those who have been
there with her. Years may come and go,
but the music of the low voice at the front
gate will not be stilled, and the memory
of the cherry lips we kisseil at the front
gate will hold out faithful to the end.
What if the old gate dies sag and its
hinges rattle and its latch refuse to hold
it shut? What if the posts are shaky and
some of its pickets gone? We love the
dear old relic still. We love it for the
sake of the girl who used to stand out
there by it with roses on her cheeks and
nectar on her lips.
We held the old gate up ami counted
the stars, and bid giaal-by ami then coun
ted the stars again. How many times of
a night was gtssl-by said? How many
times did lips meet over the dear old
gate? The old gate knows, but it will nev
er telL The old front gate may have
counted the kisses, but I never diiL And
I am sure that tlie girl with the peach
bloom cheeks never did;
And wiiat of the girl with the peach
bloom cheeks? Ah, me! She married
another. She forgot her vows at the old
front gate, as some girls w ill, and married
a richer ami handsomer man. - And I ?
Well, I went off to another front gate
where there were other peach-hit sun
cheeks and other lips as sweet, ami just
as many stars to count.
And now I have a front gate of my ow n
and a girl of my own, with peach-bloom
cheeks, who counts the stars with the
boy of the girl whtise vows made w ith me
at the first front gate were broken. But
he is a true, gtasl boy, and my girl is a
good, true girl, and heaven bless them
both as they stand to-night at the old
front gate. Sob B'tnlrttt.
She Gets Enough Kisses.
A Coatesvirie, Chester County, girl has
steady company in the person of a young
man who is forever and forever a kissing
her. She likes a share -of this sort of
sweetmeats, but quite frequently it palls
on her taste. He invited her to ride the
other moonlight night ami she accepted,
fully realizing that she would be made
the target of no end if osrnlatory prac
tice. Out on the road, in the moonlight,
the young man handed ber the reins,
placed his arm about ber waist, and then 1
drew nearer to her. She said nothing.
Ham ling back the lines, from somewhere
beneath her wrap she drew out a base
ball .attics' mask, strapped it to her
face and reached out for the Lines.
CoatemriUe Una
WHOLE NO. 1831.
A Beggar's Romance.
From (be Chicago Tribune.
Irid yon ever notice tlie little old wo
man w ho turns the crank of a wheezy old
hand organ on one of the railroad via
ducts ? Iay after ilay, summer and win
ter, rain or shine, she is seated there on
a little eamptool, grinding out tlie same
oltl distracting tunes. Hot or coM, she
always wears tlie same tat Us I gown, and
the same threadbare stiawl is always
drawn tightly across her shoulders. A
little black bonnet, rusty with age, is
pulled well dow n over her foreheail, so
as to hide her pinched and careworn j
leatures. rerhaps yon nave caugnt a
chance glimpse of her pale face and saw
something in the pitiful expression that
caused you to stop for an instant and
drop a coin into the little tin cup. It
tirobably never ocenrred to you that the
life history of this street ls?ggar is inter
lined with a choice bit of romance. Yoa
certainly never dreamed that tlie humble
creature before yon was once the belle
of Salt Lake City, a leader of fashion, and
the heiress to millions. Yet site was.
She is the oldest daughter of of John
Brighain Young, one of tlie wealthiest
men in Utah, and a favorite niece of the
once faun Hut Mormon prophet She was
reared in luxury, ant! received a liberal
education. Gifteil with rare musical tal
ents, she became celebrated among her
people as an accomplished vocalist, and
at one time was the principal contralto
in the choir at the tabernacle. She was
ber father's joy, and just as she was bud
ding into w oman boot i he pledged her
hand to a rising young elder who hail
l-en active in proselyting for the Mor
mon Church. She remonstrateil, but
without avail.
A short time before the day set for the
wedding she was secretly married to a
young newspaper man. He was a (ren-
tile. When her father got wind of the
marriage he renounced his ilaughter ami
cast her out of his house. She tied with
her husband to New York, where he ob
tained employment as a reporter on a
morning newspaper. Shortly after his
eyesight became affected and he was un
able to retain his position. Then came
the struggle fl ir an existent. Their little
savings were sin exhausted in trying to
restore the husliand's eyesight, and after
three v ears' treatment he became totallv
blind. Though dLsinheritexl and reduced
to poverty, the devoted wife remained
true to her marriage vows. She wrote to
her father begging him to aid her, but re
ceiving no reply, songht fi.r employment.
Every one turtles 1 a deaf ear to her ap
a?als for work, and as a Last resort she
accepted an engagement in a concert sa
loon. There her splendid voice attracted
attention, and she was able to earn
enough to give her blind husliand a com
fortable home. Their prosperity, how
ever, was short-lived, for ns! long after
she was prostrated by sickness and the
fever roblwd her of Iter voice ami left ber
but a wreck of her former self. Dis
heartened in spirit and feeble in health,
she liegan the life of a street beggar, w an
tiering from place to place and finally
locating in Chii-ago, the Mecca for poverty-stricken
Bohemians. Although drag
ged down to the very ilepths of desimir
and degradation, she has steadfastly
clung to the sightless old man who un
wittingly caused her downfiill. Recently
a woman who knew the t"ggar many
years ago saw and recognized her, and by
close questioning elicited the sad story of
her unfortunate career.
Kentucky Cattle Stealers.
A few years after the war, says the
Louisville (Ky.) Tuwt, Ed. Collins, a
shiftless fellow of Men-er county, was
indicted fiir stealing tattle. The case came
up Isi'fore Judge J. C. Wisiilfe, now U. S.
Attorney here, then Circuit Judge. The
trial was in the Court House at Ilarnsls
burg. Phil Thompson, Jr, was Prosecu
ting Attorney and Phil Thompson, Sr.,
and Col. Thomas C. Bell, now Assistant
U. S. Attorney here, api'aretl for the de
fense. Collins had been a soldier in the
Federal army, while every man on the
jury, the Prosecuting Attorney, lircmt
Clerk and the Jnlge himself hail fought
forthe Confitleracy. The w itnesses were
brought forw ard and a plain case of theft
made out against Collins.
The only dependence of the defense was
the testimony of Collins' daughter, Rose,
who was to prove an alibi. She was a
beautiful woman, anil was made to tell
her story fur all it was worth. Col. Bell
made a most touching plea, appealing to
the sympathies of the jury for a beautiful
woman in distress w ith all the power of
language he could snmiiion. But the
veterans of Donelson and Shiloh were
unmoved. Then old Phil Thompson laid
himself out to mystify them antl raise a
doubt of the prisoner's gtii t, and he, too,
finally begun to appeal to their gallantry.
In the midst of a glowing sentence, how
ever, he found the jury yawning, Lsiking
out of the window, and wholly inatten
tive. Breaking off his pathos the old
lawyer leaned track on a table a moment,
eyed the jury quizzically with a humor
ous tw inkle in his eye, ami sasi :
" Look here, gentlemen, this stealing
was done during the war, and yon can't
do anything with a man for that. You,
Tom Munday !" he continued, turning
and pointing to the foreman of the jury,
a strapping big Kentuckian, "don't y.Hi
rernemls-r that sheep yon stole in Fowl's
Valley? You can't convict E1. Collins.'
There was a general waking up of the
jury, and a smile went round. " And
yoa, Dan Bond; you know that horse
yon stole from Lord Alexander in the
spring of '62? Yon can't send a man to
prison for stealing cattle."
Tlie smile broke into an open guffaw
in one or two places, ami half a dozen
men on the back seats stotsl np. As the
old man took op the jury one by one and
retailed his shortcomings, the laughter be
came general ami continuous. Finally
he said : "And there's my Phil. Wasn't
he one of Morgan's greatest horse
thieves? What can he say .against Ed.
Collins? Am! you, Ed. Butts ; too re
member that raid on that old Yankee
sympathizer in East Tennessee? And
can yuu raise your voice against him?
And bis Honor on the bench, if the troth
were known " but the rest of the sen
tence was drowned in a shout of laugh
ter and nproar of applause that shook
building. The jury was out three
minutes, and they brought in s verdict
for acquittal.
The town of Verden, in Germany, has
just celebrated the 1100th anniversary of
the completion of its cathedran.
Letter Carrying In Savage
Lands.
Three scientific men, Emin Bey, Dr.
Junker ami Sig. Casiti, have fiar two years
been virtually prisoners ha the depths of
Africa, says a writer in the New York
Sim. Hemmed in on one side by the
followers of the mehdi, they retreated
southward until they were stopped by
hoctiln blacks is far from th sourier. uf
the Nile. There they now are in the
Unyon country, waiting for the succor
which two parties sent out under Drs.
Fischer and Lenn are trying amid great
ditficoltiea to carry to them. Though cut
off from all hope of escaping by their
own exertions, they have been able to
send a letter to their frien.ls. The bet
has been frequently illustrate.! within
the past year or two that the castaway in
savage lamls ran often make his sad
plight known to the friends whom it is
utterly impossible fW him to reach ex
cept by letter.
The messenger who bore the missive
of these nnfortunates to Victor Nyanza
was probably just tike those who, until
recently, were wont to travel over the
same nsul fnwu the Egyptian outcast to
the great lake an almost naked savag
carrying his letter in a split slick, which
he Is ire high above his head when walk
ing through the tall, wet grass. Postmen
Like this have done a great deal of Wtter
carrvinir throuvh the African iunaies.
I ami they have proved faithful anil ex
peditious.
Tlie muMonaries of the north e mi of
Victoria Nyanza for some month past
have virtually been prisoners in Kubaga,
' and until recently none of them were
permitted to set font outside of the town.
Y'et in the dark days when no white
man could possibly reach them, anil
they hardly dared to hope that their
lives would be spared from hour to hour,
they managed several times to communi
cate with their frien.ls in England. Hid
den in the garments of Arab traders, their
letters safely reached the coast, ami were
read in England about three months af
ter they were written. In the same way
a number of white captives of the mehdi
have contrived to semi tidings from their
prison huts in Kliartouni to friemls in
Euroja.
Six hundred years ago the man w ho
wished to send a letter north from the
south end of Cochin China placed it in
the ham Is of a courier, who was relieved
when about twelve to sixteen miles on
his way by a second courier, ami thus
the letter was transferred from post to
post, the couriers traveling at a sharp
trot, carry ing the letter as far in one day
as the ordinary traveler could j4Kirney in
three. Exactly the same method is still
employed to carry tlie mails over this
route. Along the royal road that skirts
the sea from Saigon through Annam to
Hue the couriers still hurry at an extra
ordinary pace with their mails snugly
stowed away in bamboo tubes.
The methotl of carrying tlie mail in
savage lamls is here and there iinprovinif.
It is now possible, for instance, a tlwa
sund miles up the Congo river, to affix to
a letter a pi art age stamp bearing the por
trait of the King of Belgium, and the
won Is "Free Congo State," put it into a
civilized mail bag, and semi it on its jour
ney to the sea. This is a decided im
provement on the black native with the
split stick.
An Incident of the War.
Captain MeGrath, Clerk of the Supreme
Court, tells a good story of his war expe
rience, going to show that during the war,
at least, the world sometimes seemed so
small that yoa werpcontinually knocking
against souiebtsly you didn't expect to
meet Just after the fail of Vickshurg
the Captain's regiment, the Seventeenth
Wisconsin, had charge of a lot of prison
crs,niitt of whom had man net I the works
immediately in front of them during
the siege. These prisoners were snpplied
with rations ninler tieneral (.rant's or
der, the same as their guanls, but they
didn't always, or even generally, eat
alone. The Unitm soldiers fellowed with
them, to a great extent, and, while iruard
ing them as prisoners, really treated them
as oltl friemls, and discussed the incidents
of the siege with them with great relish.
Among the prisoners was a young officer
named Saunders, belonging to an Arkan
sas regiment, who became a favorite in
the camp of the Seventeenth, and spent a
great deal of time for a few tlays among
its officers. He had come ofa good fami
ly, was well educated, and among gentle
men always a gentleman. When he was
paroled, a few tlays later, he parted from
his recent foes, now friends, with evident
regret, taking with him a new Yankee
uniform which his entertainers hail made
np for him to replace tbe tattered garb
in whicn be kad been captured. He
went away exjaycting never to see his new
found friemls again, bnt a few weeks la
ter, as the regiment was approaching
Nachez, early one morning, a lone horse
man, in bine uniform, mounted on a
innie, was seen approaching from the di
rection of the city. He evidently did not
see the blue-ositB until they were nearly
tiain him, and then seemed anxious to
avo'sl a meeting a kind of conduit the
soldiers couldn't understand at first, as he
w.ire tlie blue. Tlie soldiers thought
j they must have caught a spy, but the
first orhcer who came up identitie.1
Sanndem. Being among friemls it was
easy to prove his parole, and he was soon
free again, and this timecriawd the river
ami went home to Arkansas.
A year later the rvls-1 an.! Union ar
mies were confronting each other near
Atlanta. There had been sharp firing
on the picket line all ilay. Just as it was
getting ilark it let np a little, six I pretty
soon a voice called out from the Confe.1
erate rifle-pits:
" What reiriment is that?"
The answer went laack : " Seventeenth
Wisconsin."
Then tame tlie surprising inquiry : " Is
McAuley there?"
"Yes."
" Is MeGrath there T
"Yes, Who the d I are v.?"
" Sati rulers, of Arkinsaw."
A slwait greeted this annsanceruent,
anil " Sanmlers, of Arkinsaw," was at
01 ice invite.! over. He came, ami, oa in
vitation brought a party of fellow-relayls
with him. Then, as so often happened
Is.th in the East ami tlie West during the
war, men who had spent the day in act
ire efforts to take each others Uvea, gath
ered around the same camp-fire La the
evening as chawst friewls, and then re
turned again each to his p of duty, to
look upon each other as in tit lei dogs or
hated enemies.
Dr. K. Butler, yiaster.if Arts,Candri.lge
University, EnglamL, says: "St Jacobs
Oil acts like magic."
Smiloii's cotoh and Consumption Cure
is sold by two. W. Ben ford A Son on a
guarantee. It cures Consumption.
One night awhile ago John Layton,
who runs tlie main line blast train from,
Boston, came on my engine sick as.leath.
He was so feverish and nervous he almost
crieiL Cheer op, John," says L "and 111
fix you In a jiffy, and I gave him a good
dose of Dr. Kennedy's " Favorite Ketue
dy." He went to bed. Two days after I
saw him looking strong as a batcher.
-That's the stuff for a rail road man,' he
said." Daniel Fit'a, Engineer Old Colo
ny Railroad.