V OL XX XI HUB ELTON 8' Spring Attractions in the Finest Styles of FOOTWE' R. now open. These styles are all new—the Cream of the Market. No excuse for not wearing a nice, new pair of stylish, good-fit ting Shoes at these prices. You will find all the New N arrow, Sq u are and New Narrow Opera Las s. The New Congress and Cloth Top with large Buttons and the Blucheretts and Dongola Tan and Patent, Calf in this stock. LADIES RINE PAT. TIP 8 IIOEA AT 88C. son. F 1 .00 and 1.25. " »ery LINEAR $1.50 2.50 " BAUD TURNS. <2.25, 2.50 IND A UO. _ _ " CLOTH TOPS tl 25 1 30. SOI AND 3.00. Good H«aYT Shoes at 75C. Me and *IOO FINE LA.-*. TIP. OXFORDS AT 50c. MO. «C AND «1 ON. FINE OPERA STYLES, 50C 75C AND 11.00 'FAN AND BLACK BLUCHERETTS AT <2 00. 2 ,VI AND 3 00. OXFORDS, GREAT VARIETY IN TAN 1 BITOT »R. THE NHERE D1O». MISSES' and CHILDREN'S SHOES FINE BUTTON SNOT*. MM* 11 TO 2 AT ►SC. FI 00 AND 1 25 CHILDREN S •• TO lex AT soc. 75C and SI.OO. •' " to TAN AND KLAC» AT.10C.650 T6C »LD »L 00. Leu "he?** * 8 Fine L/j*r cat Oxfords very lo** prtoe* 'n H>a?o?A« ail 11. MKJSTS', HOYS' and YOUTHV MEN'S U. (.'ALL TIP COSFFR -S» AUD B*L- ONL> SOC. MEN'I GOOD AT TOE SOC IT 01 AND I 23. MEN'S >OOD TKX TOE E&.IESAT TLJW IND 200 *EN * UR«LN AND KUI T REDEMORE* AT (T E> AND I 50 MEN S "X'.RA ONE • 'AW I*H«ES AT, u 0».2&u NRJ 3 I«J. FINE KATTTFTROO T<OOE» -I 2.5". 3 DO A-ID 3 » MEI. - < OR.LI.VUU FAL OR I'ALF BLUI.-LITTELM. <ll NEW STYLES ALT 11-* TAN KTW *PRN<G -TYLEI „R. 75 2.00 AUD 2.50 BOJ* SLIN-S RRORN AIC 3 "0 IN I 25. ALL MORLUTF ST-. IE» B-->S"]S«FI SHOES MENI IRS «T FL.S6AN<I 1 SU. MEN'S I ALF BOOTS AL #L.AU T. 5..50 This stock is carried in all widths, all toes and lasts. Words fail to describe the extent of this stock. Come and see for yourself. Repairing of all kinds done at reasonable prices. B.C. HUSKLTON Ho. 102 North rdaiti Street - Rutle ■, Pa. THE LARGEST SHOE HOUSE IN BUTLER COUNTY. SPRING! SPRING! Are You Interested In Low Prices? We offer a magnificent new stock lor Spring and Summer at PRICES THE LOWEST YET NAMED FOR STRICTLY FIRST CLASS GOODS. High Grades in all Departments. True merit in every Article. Hon est Quality Everywhere. An Immense Assortment. Nothing Missing. o o Every thing the Best. The Quality will tell it. The Price will sell it. And that is the reason you should come early to get your bargains from our splendid line of Shoes, Slippers and Oxfords. We show all the latest novelties in great profusion. We keep the very finest selections in all standard styles. We make it a poinc to have every article in stock the best of its kind. Shoe Dealer. AL RUFF. s. Main St. JENNIE E.ZIMMERMAN. Grand Spring Opening, Of Dress Goods, Millinery, Wraps, Silk Waists, Underwear, Hosiery, Laces, Trimmings, Notions, and a complete line of Domestics. We quote below prices of a few of the many wonderful bargains to be found here. § § § § § Prices given below good until change of advertisement. 90T' BLATK HENRIETTA 75E 10I; INDIES' BLACK BOW 5C 85 " 46-IOCH SERGE 60 15 MIOSES' " " 10 50 " HENRIETTA 40 10 EMBROIDERIES 5 25 COL. " 2'» 8 GINGHAMS 5 20 " •' 12 10 • 6 35 JAMESTOWN 19 12 DRE*< GINGHAM* 8 50 " 35 15 •• '• 10 50 INDIA SILKA 29 8 RLNE ''ALIEN 5 85 BLACK SARRAH SILKS CO 8 X-W SPRING CALICO 6£ 75 INDIA SILK* 50 10 LONSDALE MIIF-IIN 8 100 " " 75 8 HLESCBED " 5 I 25 " " 1 00 5 UNBLEACHED " 4 1 00 CHANFFABLE BILKS 65 7 " '• 5 25 SAILOR HAU 10 8 R*H AND B'AI K CALICO 5 15 FRENCH FLOWER* 5 35 RED DAMASK 25 50 MILAN HATS.... 25 35 CNBL»NOBED DAMASK.... 25 10 LADIES' VESTS 5 25 9-4 STIRELIUFR 18 15 •' •' 10 20 8 4 •' 16 Call and see us and we will convince you that the place to get lat est styles, best qualities ind lowest prices, is at the Leading Dry Goods, Millinery and Wrap House of Butler. JENNIE E. ZIMMERMAN", (Successor to Ritter &"Ralston.) TOOELE? & BIKROFI, WANT EVERY Marx, Woman and Child In Butler county know that they have received their large and com plete line of Fall and Winter Boots, Shoes and Slippers at prices that will surprise them. We have the celebrated Jamestown Boots and Shoes, made by hand and warranted, which have proven their wearing quailitcs for years past. We want to eive the trade & H*Tbe Best Goods for Least Possible, Living Profit.#* The best line of Ladies and Gents f"inc Shoes ever shown in the county. Children's School Shoes in every shape and style. Rubber Goods oi all kinds and shapes at all prices Come and see the boys. * Yogeley Bancroft 347 S. Main Street. - _ Butler, Pa THE, BUTLER CITIZEN. I Hood's Never Fails A Business Man's Experience J Cured of Rheumatism. Mr. T. ir. Haun, A well known business man In Pittsburgh, Pa., writes the letter given below. Mr. Haus Is gen eral agent for the Maine granite quarries and contractor for cemetery and building work, hav ing an office at No. 708 Pcnn Avenue. "C. I. Hood ft Co., Lowell, Mass.: "Gentlemen—We have a very high opinion of both Hood's Sarsaparllla and Hold's Pills at our house and with good reason. 1 have taken al most every remedy known for rheumatism, and feel justified in saying that Hood's harsaparilla Is the only one that docs ine any good. I must admit I have not taken it steadily, but only when the pains of rheumatism caiue on. Hood'* Sarsaparilla has Always Civen Me clief, jLi.fi like many others, as soon a.> 1 am wall 1 never think of medicine again until the next at- HOOD'S Sarsaparilla CURES tack. We are never without Hood's Sarsapa rllla and Hood's Pills In our house, and have recommended both to dozens of friends. When any of my family are taken sick, no matter with what disease, the first thing we do is to give A Dose of Hood's Piiis and follow it up with Hood's Sarsaparilla. I might write several pages in praise of this ex cellent medicine, but think I have said enough to convince." T. W. HAUS, Pittsburgh, Pa. Hood's Pills &ro prompt and efficient, ye« •My In action. Sold by all rtruggiai*. 28c. SPECIAL SALE OF PANTS. $6 00|Psot8 for $5 00. $5 50 Pants for $4 50. $5 00 Punts,foi $4.00. $4 50 Pauts for $3 50. $4.<10 Pants for $3 00. $3 00 Pants for $2.50 $2.50 Pant* for $1.75. $2.00 Pants for $1 25. Warranted Jran Pamß sold hy D'>n»* for leas than $1 00, %* for 89c. %* fl RACKET STORE! 120 South Main Street, Butler, I'r,, Inspection + Invited, CI-iV Jmm mi [T IQn ' V' r- X \ \ HOLDING UP Shoes for the inspection of all, holding down prices for the con veniance of everybody, holding out bargains within the reach 01 all and consequently holding on to the people's patronage to the consternation of all competitors. All people go where they can get the best for their money. J£Sec our Infant's Shoes in Red and Tan at i 5 cents. See our Boys' Extra High Cut Shoes at $1.25. See our Ladies' Fine Rubbers at 25 cents. See our Ladies' Storm Rubbers at 35 cents. See us for all kinds of footwear. Will save you money. The New Shoe Store. C. E. MILLER, 215 SOUTH MAIN STREET. So Dry Yet BO forceful are "npiri'." fpctp. They ''wlipt" op OP sjMen., Htiniulme yon—not too much, bnt jnst enontrh 10 make you better Fnifb'i? Go'den Wedding-. GiHnoi V and Old Dougherty Wbi* keynj»re » few of the'Vpirit" facto kept, by. Fobt. Icwin, 136 Water St. Opposite B. & 0 Depot, PittHburg, I a Garfield Teas GWTTSF <»n.4ti}i*t:nn. K< 1 *ron .• * -i\. .SAT«-h Hoctoo | '4ila. Cures Swk Headache PA.,FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1894. J±: OOIVAIf DOTIiBL &&& CHAPTER VX ▲ COWTIJiCATIOX or THE RESIINISCESCE3 Ol JOHN H. WATSON, M D. Our prisoner's furious resistance did not apparently indicate any ferocity in his disposition toward ourselves, for on finding himself powerless he smiled in an affable manner, and expressed his hopes that he had not hurt any of us in the scuffle. "I guess you're go ing to take me to the police station," he remarked to Sherlock Holmes. "My cab's at the door. If you'll loose my legs I'll walk down to it. I'm not so light to lift as I used to be." Gregson and Lestrade exchanged glances as if they thought this propo sition rather a bold one; but Holmes at once took the prisoner at his word, and loosened the towel which he had bound round his ankles. He rose and stretched his legs, as though to assure himself that they were free once more. I remember that I thought to myself, as I eyed him, that I had seldom seen a more powerfully built man: and his dark, sunburned face bore an expres sion of determination and energy which was as formidable as his person al strength "lf there's a vacant place for a chief ol the police, I reckon you are the man for it," he said, gazing with undis guised admiration at my fellow-lodger. "The way you kept on my trail was a caution." "You had better come with me," said Holmes to the two detectives. "I can drive you," said Lestrade. "Good! and Gregson can come inside with me. You too, doctor; you have taken an interest in the case, and may as well stick to us." I assented gladly, and we all de scended together. Our prisoner made no attempt at escape, but stepped calmly into the cab which had been his, and we followed him. Lestrade mounted the box, whipped up the horse, and brought us in a very short time to our destination. We were ushered into a small chamber, where a police inspector noted down our prisoner's name and the names of the men with whose murder he had been charged. The official was a white-faced, unemotional man, who went through his duties in a dull, me chanical way. "The prisoner will be put before the magistrates in the course of the week," he said: "in the meantime, Mr. Jefferson Hope, have you anything that you wish to say? I must warn you that your words will be taken down and may be used against you. "I've got a good deal to say," our prisoner said slowly. "I want to tell you gentlemen all about it." "Hadn't you better reserve that for your trial?" asked the inspector. "I may never be tried," he answered. "You needn't look startled. It isn't ■uicide I am thinking of. Are you a doctor?" He turned his fk roe, dark eyes upon me as he asked this last question. "Yes, I am," I answered. "Then put your hand here," he said, with a smile, motioning with his manacled wrists toward his chest. I did so, and became at once con scious of an extraordinary throbbing which was going on inside. The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside which some powerful engine was at work. In the silence of the room I could hear a dull humming and buz zing noise which proceeded from the same source. "Why," I cried, "you have an aortic aneurism!" "That's what they call it," he said, placidly. "I went to a doctor last week about it, and he told me that it was bound to burst before many days passed. It has been getting worse for years. I got it from over-exposure and under-feeding among the Salt lake mountains. I've done my work now, and I don'<*cure how soon I go, but I should like to leave some account of the business behind me. I don't want to be remembered as a common cut throat." The inspector and the tivo detectives had a hurried discussion as to the ad visability of allowing him to tell his Story. "Do you consider, doctor, that there is immediate danger?" the former asked. "Most certainly there is," I an swered. "In that case it is clearly our duty, in the interests of justice, to take his statement," said the inspector. "You are at liberty, sir, to give your ac count, which I again warn you will be taken down." "I'll sit down, with your leave," the prisoner said, suiting the action to the word. "This aneurism of mine makes me easily tired, and the tussle we had half an hour ago has not mended mat ters. I'm on the brink of the grave, and I am not likely to lie to you. Every word I say is the absolute truth, and how you use it is a matter of no consequence to me." With these words, Jefferson Hope leaned back in his chair and began the following remarkable statement. He spoke in a calm and methodical man ner, as though the events which he narrated were commonplace enough. I can vouch for the accuracy of the subjoined account, for I have had ac cess to Lestrade's note-book, in which the prisoner's words were taken down exactly as they were uttered. "It don't much matter to you why I hated these men," he said; "it's enough that they were guilty of the death of two human beings—a father and a daughter—and that they had, there fore, forfeited their own lives. After the lapse of time that has passed since their crime, it was imnossible for me to secure a conviction against them in any court. I knew of their guilt, though, and I determined that I should be judge, jury and executioner all rolled into one. You'd have done the bame, if you have any manhood in you, if you had been in my place. "That girl that I spoke of was to have married me twenty years ago. She was forced into marrying that same Drebber, and broke her heart over it. I took the marriage ring from her dead finger and I vowed that his dying eyes should rest upon that very ring and that his last thoughts should be of the crime for which he was pun ished. I have carried it about with me and have followed him and his ac complice over two continents until I caught them. They thought to tire me out, but they could not do it. If 1 die to-morrow, as is likely enough, I die knowing that my work in this world is done, and well done. They have perished, and by my hand. There is nothing left for me to hope for or to desire. "They were rich and I was poor, so that it was no easy matter for me to follow them. When I got to London my pocket was about empty and I found that I must turn my hand to something' for my living Driving and riding are as natural to me as walk lug, so I applied at cab owner's ofliue soya goy J was oring a certain sum a week to the owner, and whatever was over that I Tru'- V * keep for myself. Tnere was sel dom much over, but I managed to scrape along somehow. The hardest job was to learn my way about, for I reckon that of all the mazes that eve* were contrived this city is the most confusing. 1 had a map beside me, though, and when once I had spotted the principal hotels and stations I got on pretty well. "It was some time before I found out where my two gentlemen were living, but I inquired and inquired, until at last I dropped across them. They were at a boarding-house at Camberwell. over on the other side of the river. When once I found them out I knew that I had them at my mercy. I had grown my beard and there was nc chance of their recognizing me. 1 would dog them and follow them until I saw my opportunity. I was deter mined that they should not escape ra« again. "They were very near doing it, foi all that. Go where they would about London I was always at their heels. Sometimes I followed them on my cat and sometimes on foot, but the former was the best, for then they could not get away from me. It was only early in the morning or late at night that I could learn anything, so that I began to get behindhand with my employer. I did not mind that, however, as long as I could lay my hand upon the men I wanted. "Thev were very cunning, though. They must have thought that there was some chance of their being followed, for they would never go out alone, and never after nightfall. During two weeks I drove behind them every day, and never once saw them separate. Drebber himself was drunk half the time, but Stangerson was not, to be caught napping. I watched them late and early, but never saw the ghost of a chance; but I was not discouraged, for something told me that the hour had almost come. My only fear was that this thing in my chest might burst a little too soon and leave my work un done. "At last, one evening I was driving up and down Torquay terrace, as the street was called in which they board ed, when I saw a cab drive up to their door. Presently some luggage was brought out, and after a time Drebber and Stangerson followed it and drove off. I whipped up my horse and kept within sight of them, feeling ill at ease, for I feared that they were going to shift their quarters. At Guston station they got out. and I left a boy to hold my horse and followed the-i on to the platform. I heard them asU for the Liverpool train, and the guard answer that one had just gone a'id that there would not be another for some hours. Stangerson seemed to be put out at that, but Drebber was rather pleased than otherwise. I got so close to them in the bustle that I could hear every word that passed be tween them. Drebber said that he had a little business of his own to do, and that if the other would wait for him he would soon rejoin him. Uis companion remonstrated with him, and reminded him that they had resolved to stick to gether. Drebber answered that the matter was a delieate one, and that he must go alone. I could not catch what Stangerson said to that, but the other burst out swearing, and reminded him that he was nothing more than his paid servant, and that he must not pre sume to dictate to him. On that the secretary gave it up as a bad job, and simply bargained with him that if he missed the last train he should rejoin him at Ilalliday's private hotel; to which Drebber answered that he would be back on the platform before eleven, and made his way out of the station. "The moment for which I had waited so long had at last come. I had my enemies within my power. Together they could protect each other, but singly they were at my mercy. I did not act, however, with undue precip itation. My plans were already formed. There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come up on him. I had my plans arranged by which I should have the opportunity of making the man who had wronged me understand that his old sin had found him out. It chanced that some days before a gentleman who had been engaged in looking over some houses in the Brixton road had dropped the key of one of them in my carriage. It was claimed that same evening and re turned; but in the interval I had taken a moulding of it, and had a duplicate constructed. By means of this I had access to at least one spot in this great city where I could rely upon being free from interruption. How to get Drebber to that house was the diffi cult problem which I had now to solve. "He walked down the road and went into one or two liquor-shops, staying for nearly half an hour in the last of them. When he came out he staggered in his walk, and was evidently pretty well on. There was a hansom just in front of me, and he hailed it. I fol lowed it so close that the nose of my horse was within a yard of his driver the whole way. We rattled across Wa terloo bridge and through miles of streets, until, to my astonishment, we found ourselves back in the terrace in which he had boarded. I could not imagine what his intention was in re turning there; but I went on and pulled up my cab a hundred yards or so from the house. lie entered it and his hansom drove away. Give me a glass of water, if you please. My mouth gets dry with the talk'ng." I handed him the glass and he drank it down. "That's better." he said. "Well, I waited for a quarter of an hour or more, when suddenly there came a noise like people struggling inside the house. Next moment the door was flung open and two men appeared, one of whom was Drebber, arid the other was a young chap whom I had never seen before. This fellow had Drebber by the collar, and when they came to the head of the steps he gave him a shove and a kick which sent him half across the road. 'You hound!" he cried, j shaking his stick at him: 'l'll teach yon j to insult an honest girl!' He was so ' hot that I think he would have i thrashed Drebber with his cudgel, only i that the cur staggered away down the j road as fast as his legs would carry I him. He ran as far as the corner, and | then, seeing my cab, he hailed me and jumped in. 'Drive me to Halliday's private hotel,' said he. "When I had him fairly inside my j eab my heart jumped so with joy that I feared lest at this last moment my I aneurism might go wrong. 1 drove ' along slowly, weighing in my own mind what it was best to do. I might take ! him right out into the country, and there in some (Inserted lane have my last interview with him. I hail almost ! decided upon this, when he solved the j jU' <4tc- >WMB. i<Jr vUw had selze<l hi in again. and he ordered me to pull up outside a (fin palace. He went in, leaving 1 word that I should for him. There he remained un til closing-time, and when he came out he was so far gone that I knew the game was in my own hands. "Don't imagine that I intended to kill him in cold blood. It would only have been rigid justice if I had done so. but I could not bring myself to do it. I had long determined that he should have a show for his life if he chose to take advantage of it. Among the many billets which I have filled in America during my wandering life, I was once a janitor and sweep-out of the laboratory at York college. One day the professor was lecturing on poisons, and he showed his students some alkaloid, as he called it. which he had extracted from some South American arrow poison, and which was so powerful that the least grain meant instant death. I spotted the bottle in which this preparation was kept, and when they were all goue 1 helped myself to a little of it. 1 was a fairly good dispenser, so I worked this alkaloid into small, soluble pills, and each pill I put in a box with a similar pill made without poison. I deter mined at the time that, when 1 had my chance, my gentlemen should each have a draw out of one of these boxes, while I ate the pill that remained. It would be quite as deadly, and a good deal less noisy than tiring across a •handkerchief. From that day I had always my pill-boxes about with me, and the time had now come when I was to use them. "It was nearer one than twelve, and a wild. ' ' ak night, blowing hard and rainin torrents. Dismal as it was outside, i was glad within—so glad that 1 could have shouted out from pure exultation. If any of you gentle men have ever pined for a tiling and longed for it during twenty long years, and then suddenly found it within your reach, you would understand my feelings. I lit a cigar and puffed at it \ to steady my nerves, but my hands i were trembling and my temples throb bing with excitement. As 1 drove, I could see old John I'errier and sweet Lucy looking at me out of the dark ness and smiling at me just as plain as 1 see you all in this root i. \ll the way they were ahead of w«, one on each side of the horse, until 1 pulled up at the house in the Brixton r- ad. "There was not a 'oul to be seen, nor a sound to be heard except the drip ping of the rain. When I looked in at the window I found Drebber all hud dled together in a drunken sleep, i 6hook him by the arm. 'lt's time to go out.' I said. " "All right, cabby.' said he. "I suppose he thought ve had come to the hotel that he had mentioned, for he got out without another word and followed me down the garden. I had to walk beside him to keep him steady, for he was still a little top-heavy. When we came to the door I opened it and led him into the front room. I "HE GAZED AT ME WITH BLEARED DRUNKEN EYES A MOMENT." give you my word thafpull the way, the father and daughter were walking in front of us. " 'lt's infernally dark,' said he, stamping about. " 'We'll soon have a light.' I said, striking a match and putting it to a wax candle which I had brought with me. 'Now, Enoch Drebber,' I con tinued, turning to him, and holding the light to my own face: 'Who am I?' "He gazed at me with bleared, drunken eyes for & moment, and then I saw a horror spring up in them and convulse his whole features, which showed me that he knew me. He staggered back with a livid face, and I saw the perspiration break out upon his brow, while his teeth chattered. At the sight I leaned my back against the door and laughed loud and long. I had always known that vengeance would be sweet, but had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed me. " 'You dog!' I said; 'I have hunted you from Salt Lake City to St. Peters burg, and you have always escaped me. Now at last your wanderings have come to an end, for either you or I shall never see to-morrow's sun rise.' He shrank still farther away as I spoke, and I could see on his face that he thought I was mad. So I was for the time. The pulses in my temples beat like sledge-hammers, and I be lieve I would have had a fit of some sort if the blood had not gushed from my nose and relieved me. " 'What do you think of Lucy Fer rier now?' I cried, locking the door and shaking the key in his face. 'Pun ishment has been slow in coming, but it has overtaken you at last.' I saw his coward lips tremble as I spoke. He would have begged for his life, but he knew well it was useless. " 'Would you murder me?' he stam mered. " 'There is no murder.' I answered. 'Who talks of murdering a mad dog? What mercy had you upon my poor darling when you dragged her from her slaughtered father and bore her away to your accursed and shameless harem?' " 'lt was not I who killed her father,* he cried. " 'But it was you who broke her in nocent heart,' I shrieked, thrusting the box before him. 'Let the high God judge between us. Choose and eat. There is death in one and life in the other. I shall take what you leave. Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.' "He cowered away with wild cries and prayers for mercy, but I drew my knife and held it to his throat until ho had obeyed me. Then I swallowed the other, and we stood facing each other in silence for a minute or more, waiting to see which was to live and which was to die. Shall I ever forget the look which came over Ills face when the first warning pangs told him that the poison was in his system? I laughed as I saw it, and held Lucy's marriage ring in front of his eyes. It was but for a moment, for the action of the alkaloid is rapid. A spasm of pain contorted his features: he threw his hands out in front of him. stag gered. and then, with a hoarse cry, fell heavily upon the floor. 1 turned him over with my foot and placed my hand upon his heart. There was no move ment. He was dead! "The blood had been streaming from my nose, but 1 had taken no notice of it. I don't know what it was that put it into my h.-scl to • is; on the wall with it. Ivrhap. it some mis chic voii. idea of setti" thi police upon a wrong track, for I I: 'ht-hearted and cheerful. I rt u ... i\ d a Ger "HE COWERED A WAY WITH WILD CRIES AND PRATERS FOR MERCY." man being found in New York with 'raclie' written up above him. and it was argued at the time in the newspa pers that the secret societies must have done it. I guessed that what puzzled the New Yorkers would puzzle the Londoners, so I dipped my finger in my own blood and printed it on a con venient place on the wall. Then I walked down to my cab and found that there was nob»«ly ai>out, and that the night was still very wild. I had driven some distance, when I put my hand into the pocket in which I usual ly kept Lucy's ring and found that it was not there. I was thunderstruck at this, for it was the only memento that I had of her. Thinking that I might have dropped it when I stooped over Drebber's body, I drove back, and, leaving my cab in a side street. 1 went boldly up to the house—fori was ready to dare anything rather than lose the ring! When I arrived there I walked right into the arms of a police officer who was coming out, and only man aged to disarm his suspicions by pre- . tending to be hopelessly drunk. "That was how Enoch Drebber came to his end. All I had to do then was to do as much for Stangerson. and so pay off John Terrier's debt. I knew that he was staying at Ilalliday's pri- , vate hotel, and I hung about all day, j but he never came out. I fancy that he suspected something when Drebber failed to put in an appearance. He ; was cunning, was Stangerson. and al- , ways on his guard. If he thought he | could keep me off by staying indoors ■ he was very much mistaken. I soon found out which was the window of his bedroom, and early next morning I took advantage of some ladders which were lying in the lane behind the hotel and so made my way into his room in the gray of the dawn. I woke him up and told him that the hour had come when he was to answer for the life he had taken so long before. I de scribed Drebber's death to him, and 1 gave him the same choice of the poisoned pills. Instead of grasping at the chance of safety which that offered him, he sprang from his bed and flew at my throat. In self-defense I stabbed him to the heart. It would have been the same in any case, for Providence would never have allowed his guilty hand to pick out anything but the poison. "I have little more to say, and it's as well, for lam about done up. I went on cabbing it for a day or so, intend ing to keep at it until I could save enough to take me back to America. I was standing in the yard when a ragged youngster asked if there was a cabby there called Jefferson Hope, and said that his cab was wanted by a gen "l DESCRIBED DREBBER'S DEATH TO HIM." tleman at 22111 Baker street. I went round, suspecting no harm, and the next thing I knew, this young man here had the bracelets on my wrists, and as neatly shackled as ever I was in my life. That's the whole story, gentlemen. You may consider me to be a murderer; but I hold that I am Just as much an officer of justice as you are." So thrilling had the man's narrative been, and his manner was so impres sive, that we had sat silent and ab sorbed. Even the professional detec tives, blase as they were in every de tail of crime, appeared to be keenly in terested in the man's story. When he finished we sat for some minutes in a stillness which was only broken by the scratching of Lestrade's pencil as he gave the finishing touches to his shorthand account. "There is only one point on which I .should like a little more information," i Sherlock Holmes said at last. "Wh4 was your accomplice who came for thq i ring which I advertised?" The prisoner winked at my friend jocosely. "I can tell my own secrets," i he said, "but I don't pet other people into trouble. 1 saw your advertise ! ment, and I thought it might be a plant, or St might be the ring I wanted. My friend volunteered to go and see. I think you'll own he did it smartly." "Not a doubt of that," said Holmes, heartily. "Now, gentlemen," the inspector re marked gravely, "the forms of the law must be complied with. On Thursday the prisoner will be brought before the magistrates, and your attendance will be required. Until then I will be re sponsible for him." He rang the bell as he spoke, and Jefferson Hope was led off by a couple of warders, while my friend and I made our way out of the station and took a cab back to Baker street. (TO BE CONTINL' *<D. ) Studying Hl» l'art. Father—Here I'm giving you an ex pensive education so that you shall be come a lawyer, hoping that you may eventually occupy a position on th« bench, and you spend your time going to prize fights and the races. Son—lt's a necessary part of my studies, father. I want to become • police-justice some day. Brooklyn Life. TUB HEIGHT OF I'NPOPULABIT*. She— You say he is unpopular? He—Unpopular? He is so unpopular th&t when lie hits a cold nobody ot- , isa tfsi » rviawiy II -ntfryiflrir 1 MOVED IN THE ICE AQE. Hup Bowlder* Carrie* All the War front Canada to KutMkj. Prof A. H. Wallace states in tho Fortnightly Review that an immense area of the northeastern states extend ing south to New York and then west* ward in an irregular line to Cincinnati and St. Louis is almost wholly covered with a deposit of drift material, in which rocks of various sizes are im bedded, while other rocks, often of enormous sire, lie upon the surface. These blocks have been carefully stud ied by the American geologists, and they present us with some very in teresting' facts. Not only are the dis tances from which they have been transported very great, but in very many they are found at greater elevation than the place from which they must have come. Prof. O. F. Wright found an enormous accumula tion of bowlders on a sandstone pla teau in Monroe county. Pa. Many of these bowlders were granite, and must have come either from tho Adirondack mountains, two hundred miles north, or from the Canadian highlands, still further away. This accumulation of bowlders was seventy or eighty feet high, and it extended many miles, descending into a deep ▼alley one thousand feet below the plateau in a nearly continuous line, forming part of the southern moraine of the great American ice sheet. On the Kentucky hills, ahont twelve milessouth of Cincinnati, conglomerate bowlders containing pebbles of red jasper can be traced to a limited out crop of the same rock in Canada to the north of Lake fluron, more than six hundred miles distant, and similar bowlders have been found at intervals over the whole intervening country. In both these cases the blocks must have passed over intervening valleys and hills, the latter as high or nearly as high as the source whence the rocks were derived. Even more remarkable are numerous bowlders of llelderberg limestone on the summit of the Blue Ridge in Pennsylvania, which must have been brought from !-«1gos at least five hundred feet lower than the places upon which they now lie. The Blue Ridge itself shows remarkable signs of glacial abrasion in a well-defined shoulder marking the southern limit of the ice (as Indicated also by heaps of drift and erratics), so that Mr. Wright concludes that several hun dred feet of the ridge have been worn away by the ice. The crowning exam ple of bowlder transportation is, how ever, afforded by the blocks of light gray gneiss discovered by Prof. Hitch cock on the summit of Mount Washing ton, over six thousand feet above sea level, and identified with Bethlehem gneiss, whose nearest crop is in Jeffer son, several miles to the northwest, and three thousand or four thousand feet lower than Mount Washington. BAROMETER OF THE SENATE. If the Pnu Gallery Is Crowded Be tare Something: Interest!** la on Foot. The movements of the press gallery overlooking the senate chamber at Washington are doubtless the safest barometer of the importance of the do ings on the floor below says the Poet. If the gallery seats are well taken up something is surely transpiring in the chamber that is worth watching. If they are empty the proceedings are apt to possess no interest. The public may be mistaken and the visitors' galleries may be overflowing, but the curiosity seekers do not possess the delicate In stinct of foretelling Impending crises, and if the press gallery be empty, though expectancy be written on every face that peers down from the crowded balconies, no gladiatorial feats of com peting oratory need be looked for, and disappointment will overtake him who disregards the signs. This was well illustrated the other day. When Mr. Oorman arose to reply to Senator Sher man not more than two or three heads appeared above the row of seats in the press gallery Once or twice Mr. Gor man's eye wandered carelessly In that direction and encountered a tier of vacant seats, but he had not got far into his subject before head after head appeared over the row of desks, and, as if some subtle magic, forty or fifty men were in their seats following the debate with close attention and mentally registering their comments on the proceedings. Each man had come from a different direction and from every conceivable corner of the vast block of corridors and committee rooms. No one had told them what was on. It was the indefinable instinct of impending news developments. (treat Fighters. K i rig Lobengula. of the Matabele, a greater man than his people, had the satisfaction of knowing that his men were no mean warriors and that he had trained them to go against, and stand it, too, almost anything but m»- i chine guns and repeating rifles con i stantly emptied. British defenses In South African warfare are the laager, a fortification formed by throwing wagons into a circle. In one battle some of the Matabele gallantly pressed 1 up to within fifty yards of the British 1 position, but having poor arms and be ing poor marksmen, they were no [ match for the well-armed whites. Within two hours and a half the Mata ' bele attacked the British laager three times. In retreat the Matabele bung 1 some of their wounded to trees and drowned others, it being their princl -1 pie, apparently, that the only good Matabele is a sound one. A Moun for ■ Companion. One of the quaint remembrances of ' Robert Lottis Stevenson's south sea ' life is that of his Honolulu monse. A ! small shelf hung over the couch ' whereon ha used to lie when ill and trying to forget his pain in "tooting" L jon his flageolet. Out on this shelf the 1 ■ little mouse would venture, and soon s became so tame as to delight in the ' novelist's caresses. If It got no im » mediate attention it would scratch on the shelf and make a little whine or song to attract its friend, and after a time it actually persuaded its spouse to pay a daily visit to the musician in its company. A Practical Token. Traveler—Might I ask you to write something In my album? Merchant With pleasure; but I ean't think of anything just now. What should I put down, do you think? j Traveler—Write: Please send by re - turn one hundred yards of cheviot. In : token of remembrance. Pip & Co.— Fliegende Blatter. A Fatal Objection. "I can't understand why you engaged yourself to Arthur Bally, who possesses neither good looks nor fortune, when you had your pick of half a dozen rich and handsome fellows." "The others made me tired, Laura. Arthur was the only one of them who hadn't been to the fair." —Judge. Found at l.a«t. Employment Agent—How does your wife like that girl I sent her? Mr Upton—That girl must be an angel straight from Heaven. She's been with us a week and my wffe I hasn't made a complaint. —N. Y. j Weekly. An l'Dexp«ctfd Plewore. Neighbor (rushing In) —Quick, man! Your house is on fire,—but you may be able to save it yet. Suburban Resident —Let her burnt — 1 it'll be the firut time this house has i been wiwu buicc I've lived in lL— lPuok. NO 14 IMPROVEMENT: EVOLUTION OF ROADS. nfnlopmrat of the Public Highway Bye- I'm In tlie l ulled States. The notice: "Keep off the gnat," posted in public squares or on unfenood swards, are not so much a forbidding to children who would play upon them as to older persons who, in the hurry of life, would make crossing-pa tha bo* envse of the instinctive impulse of pe destrians to cut off corners In seeking the shortest distance to points of desti nation. Paths are the beginnings of road*. Man is a social animal, and, in his In tercourse with his neighbors for either pleasure or trade, wbl make the short* ett practicable cut to get at them. These cuts are soon worn into paths. Undoubtedly the first paths and trails in America were made by tho Indians in their tribal communication, in trips to their hunting grounds, ana later in visits to the trading posts of the white men. In hilly and mountain* ous regions these trails were directed, over the high grounds or the passes through them, and thence to the ford able places in streams, or else they fol lowed the summits of mountain ranges or the valleys iying between them. The conversion of the foot trail into a horse trail demanded more of air than of earth work. The forests were many and dense. Overhanging branches* obstructive trees and swinging vines had to be chopped away, or bumped heads, skinned legs, and dismantling of pack trains would have been Occasionally fallen trees and roelts in fords had to be removed; sometimes an ascent too steep for horses had to bo avoided. It was not until the necessity for tho wheeled earricr arose that what Is now called a public road came into exist ence. Tho poles of the Indians' wig wam dragged behind their ponies when they carried their household effects, and required no wider path than the family loads upon their ponies' backs; but the wagon, with its broad tread and upsetting proclivites, had to be pro vided for. It was not until then that the hands, backs and Ingenuity of the white settlers were much road-taxed. The horse trail had to be broadened, trees, stumps and rocks removed, marshy lands and steep places avoided, gullies and deep streams bridged. But the trail indicated the general route; the wagon road followed It. With the wagon roads came the obli gation upon tho people to keep tiiem In repair, or at least passable. To ac complish this the ruling bodies of com munities made orders that each man should do his allotment of work upon the roads or pay his proper share. One of the earliest of these "orders"— 1078—is found among the records of tho court at Upland, Pa.: "Ordered, that every person within the space of two month*, as far as his land reaches, make good and passable ways from neighbor to neighbor, with bridges where it needs, to the end that neigh bors on occasion may come together; those neglecting to forfeit twenty-five guilders." The manner of making these roads Is not prescribed in this order, but a few months later the court in the near town of Newcastle made the following order: "The highways to be cleared as fol loweth.viz.: the way to bee made cleare of standing and lying trees, at least ten feet broad; all stumps and shrubs to bee cut close to ye ground. The trees mark'd yearly on both sydes—sufficient bridges to be made and kept ouer all marshy, swampy, and difficult dirty places, and whatever else may be thought necessary about ye Highways aforesaid." , In 1680 the Upland court record*: ( "Whereas, the court finds itt necessary that some fitt person bee appointed overseers of ye highways and roada" j Very similar methods of making, maintaining and overseeing roads pre i vail to this day. As pioneers and emigrants scattered settlements In all directions from the mother colonies on the Atlantic coast, I roads were made and maintained to them by taxing all the citizens residing ' in the townships, counties and states , through which they passed. When a public road was a much-used thor oughfare, demanding extraordinary solidity of road-bed and the best con ' dition of repair, a company was organ ' ized, capital was furnished, and the road was handed over by the people to the company, who lowered its grades, bridged its streams, stoned and drained its wheel-way, and, when finished, charged each traveler on horse or wheels a toll for each mile traveled upon it. Thus the public road became a turnpike; so called because at the places where the toll was collected there were poles armed with spikes set across the road, which turned upon a post —a prickly notice to the traveler that he must pay or stop. The first turnpike in America waa chartered in 1792, by the Philadelphia <fe Lancaster Turnpike company. It was commenced In 1794, and soon com* pleted. There Is no more Important economic subject before the American people to day than the best method of making and maintaining the public roads.— Charles Mcllvalne, In Lipplncott'a Magazine. CoogreM should Take Action* That the subject of good roada la im« portant enough to be considered by congress, and In a broad and liberal tv 'ay, there can be no doubt. Before the advont of railroads It w»a a com mon saying that a country's cirilUa tion might be measured by Ita road*. If such were the case now, tfe* United States would be far down In the scale. —Philadelphia Call. A Dntjr of the Hoar. What we want to do, aa citlzena of to-day, Is to bring the publio into • i keen realization of the need of new road laws.—Good Roads. I The Drat I'lnre to Land. Friend—Suppose there should be an earthquake here. Your new sky scraping building would be the first to fall Builder—Y-e-s; but we'd laud on top. j —N. Y. Weekly. ABOUT TWO IN THE MORNING. You press the button, we do the pest."—Life. A Different Kind of Otnt. "Did you hunt while you were In the east?" 1 "Not much, except with a bellows well charged with Persian powder."— Brooklyn Life. » Looking Ahead. "I —I hardly—how many lodges are you a member of, II train?" 1 "Not one, Katie; not one." you w&wk
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