V OLXXXII Mrs. J. E. Zimmerman, wnv ARE WE 0 Hill THRONG* WHAT ISTHE 9 ill nil 1 ATTRACTION- It is only the unusual bargains that don't go a begging. Values and big ones a that alone possess the power to interest. We have the values, and a visit to our big store and inspection of our immense stock of Dress Goods, Millinery, W raps, 6tc., comparing our prices with prices asked elsewhere, will convince ycu that this store is full of big bargains. HERE'S TIIE BARGAINS: 25c all-wool black and colored Serges, 36 inches wide, real value, 35c. 39c all-wool colored Serges, 38 inches wide, real value, 50. 50c all-wool black and colored Serges, 50 inches wide, real value, 75c. 50c all-wool black Mohair Novelty, 40 inches wide, real value, 75. 85c all-wool black Mohair Novelty, 46 in< ii wide, real value, Jr.oo. 50c r.'i 00l black and navy Storm Serges 46 inches wide, real value, 75c. 75c all-wool black and navy Boucle Cloth latest novelty, real value, fi.oo. 13.9S latest style, Ladies' Jacket, Beaver Cloth, real value, $5.00. (5.50 latest style genuine Rothschild Jacket, real value, $8.50. SI.OO infant's Eider Down Cloaks, real value, $1.50. $1.25 infant's Angora Trimmed Eider Down Cloaks, real value, $2.00. JI.OO ladies' dark calico wrappers, lined, real value, fi.25. $1.25 ladies dark Flannelette wrappers, lined, real value, $1.50. 50c ladies' all-wool skirt patterns, real value, 75c. This is but few of the many good values we have at old prices. The dry goods market is steadily advancing. We fortunately bought our stock before the advance in prices and gladly share the profits with you. Don't forget that we are sole agents for the Rothschild Wraps. Don't forget that we are sole agents for Standard Patterns. Don't forget that we have the largest, most fashionable, lowest priced stock ot Millinery in the city of Butler. Don't forget that we have opened a fine Art Department. Mrs, Jennie E. ZimmermaN f Oppodie Hotel Lowry. Successor to Ritter & Ralfiton Bring your friends along. LORE LB TIE FIARPINTIL FOR. LOOK'DG FORWARD, IN FOOTWEAR. Always alert to the interests of our E patrons. First in the field with th. LATEST AND BEST 9 MP IN SHOES. OT3R IDEAL ST7LES IN ; T TJNIO FOOTWEAR FOR - LADIES & GENTLEMEN Is what every customer ot ours Li l\ I I Z\ thinks he has received after making _l_ J 1 J 1 a purchase. We find that our cus —rX7"T tomers being convinced of means \A/ I I M IX many more customers for us. You V V * '■* get more than you bargain for when m .g-j w \ t you get a pair of our SHOES. W ■ /\ J\ Ladies' twentieth century SHOES SSS Cork soles Goodyear welts. Ladies' Fine button shoes, l'at. tip SSC, f 1 .00, J 1 .2 , ».!• J1.50. Heavy sole fair stitch at #2.00, #2.50 and £3.00. Goodyear welt* are perl. 1 ¥ms for the price. Ladies fine hand turns Dongola and cloth top lace and button ry our Womens' and Childrens' Kid and Calf Shoe - They are the thing for School Shoes. They will resist water. \\ •. h:»\v tl* t-m high cut, lace and button, at price that your pocket book will open quickly win you see the goods. c w • •It /*** 1 C* I Shoes for men in INVISIBLE CORK SOLES^^TE $2 00 f2 50, #3.00 and $4.00, Extension soles. Men's Heavy Shoes at 75c, fi.f". Our* Kid and Veal boots, high and low insteps at <1.50, <2.00 £2.50 and $3.00. Dril lers Heavy Box Toe Shoes high cut. BOYS' AND YOUTHS'SHOESHI the Youngsters are here,grand styles for dress or the longest road to school, posi tively will resist water at 75c, #I.OO 1.25 and 1.50. Manufacturers are asking 25 per cent advance on shoes. HUsELTON will sell this winter at old prices, qualit\ maintained Wool Boots, Rubber Boots and Shoes. See our new Rubber Boots with leather insoles, wont sweat the foot. We guaran tee our best rubber boots not to break. Save Money Save Time Save Annoy ances by buying at B. C, Huselton's, -# Every step you take in HUSELTON'S Shoes is a treat to tbe fee 102 N r . Main Street, - READ THIS! - —A N D —'TFH You will the low prices Bickel is asking for reliable foot wear. Why does he sell shoes so cheap ? Well, I will tell you Next spring he intends building a new store room to take the place of the one he now occupier and has been disappointed in getting a large room so he will have to do business during the time h< builds in a much smaller room than he now has and therefore w 1 ofiler greater bargains in all kinds of footwear than ever before offered in Butler county. Here are a few of the Bargains Offered. Ladies Hand Welt Shoes at $2.25- " Turn " $2.25. Ladies line Dongola, patent tip at 90 cents. Ladies heavy oil grain (waterproof) shoes at sl.lO. " calf shoes in button and lace at SI.OO. Ladies best kip shoes at SI.OO. Misses school shoes at 75 cents. Childrens shoes at 50 cents. Infants fine shoes at 25 cents. Mens bulT shoes, all styles at si.co. Mens fine calf shoes at $1.50. Mens Winter Tans, extended soles at $2.2;. Mens working shoes at SI.OO. Hoys fine dress shoes at SI.OO. Call and see our stock of Leggins and overgaiters for I adits, Missei and Children—the very kind to wear this t ; me of the ycai Our stock of Rubber I'oots and Shoes is large. I* ull stfck of \len> Boys, Youths and Ladies 1 *cll Boots and Warm Lined Shoes at Hoc Bottom Prices. Full stock of Leather and Findings, includirg a large stock of Lace Leather. Sole Leather cut to any amount you may wish to purchase. Iron Stands with four feet each at 50 cents. Mail orders receive prompt attention. "JOHN BICKEL, 12S SMaln Street, BUTLER, PA. BRANCH STORE l2 s N- riain st, 75c ladies' all-wool skirt patterns, extra size, real value, SI.OO. 22c per yard all-wool Country Flannel, sold everywhere at 25c per yard. 50c per pair heavy cotton blankets, real value, 75c. $3.00 per pair heavy all-wool country blankets, all colors, worth $4,00. 15c per pair Misses' and Children's blacV wool hose, real value, 25c. 15c per pair ladies' black wool hose, real value, 25c. 22c per pair ladies' fleeced cotton ribbe< vests, real value, 25c. 69c ladies natural all-wool vests —pan! -, real value, SI.OO. 25c men's heavy underwear, grev mixed, real value, 40c. 50c men's heavy natural wool underwear, real value, 75c. 5c per yard good dark calico, real value 6%c. 5c heavy sheeting—with advance price, real value, 7c. $2.25 Chenille Portiers, real value $3.50. 50c, 26-incli fast colored Sateen umbrellas real value, 75c. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. !t is Mot What We Say ,-a Bat what Hood's Sarsaparilla Do*-; that tells the story. Thousands ol voluntary testimonials prove that Hood's Sarsapa?ii!a Is the Onlv True Blood Purifier i Prominently in the public eye today. HEINEMAN & SON, ; I 1 $ SUMMER \ 5 M «ppr< : eb : -g "I'd iq-» J F 0 ;!v wut i-.k-.p eool is \ a f Ileiiiem.iii i& t n tet v• • 111 — 1• •' a u •:< # ►-< t Hammock* P & -W i.j largf»*t f 09 nnd fi'.-est line -j,. zg Hammocks jf 2 Q !p ever brought •>> Sutler c 4 Wall Paper So I . 1:. the cheapest to the V? <3* \ Ii; > .-t of f'ri -jvd * s\ I'AI'ERS. -\t W* * o We also handle tb<- &L, » ce'ebrated r* RAMBLER S? j BICYCLE. * L ® HEINEiiiAN a SON. 'Selling out J J To Quit j t Business.? m # f Wall Papei at less th.l Jont-half cost.. 5 4 Fine papers at the price} iof commo 1 cheap ones. f # The largest slock ol Wal JPa per in the couiily to b; . ?sold out either Wholesale ors at — 4 jDOUGLASS' # Near P. O.j J N. B. —Wall Paper rsale within t».o months # Running Chances is the man who buys the cheap and poo-- ly made clothing simply because it 1 cheap. There are just as good bargin to be had in good grades of goods, sue' .or instance as our $25.00 Clay Diagona Suits. Running Chances is the man win rushei from this "alteration sale" totlia "closing out barga ins." The safe wa; is to prtronize the firm that does bu ness on the same principles you do You know that you have to deal wit' then. You get honest goods for hones prices, and don't save twenty-five ceii hereto throw away seventy-five ee 11. there. Chances are Not " inning away fron you, but you are running away from *1: chances for the b.-st birgius of the yea in Suits and Overcoats u ien you fail to look at our immense stock. Running < liances is the man who bin . now when he can have lis make hiin u fine Overcoat for 22.00. pfifipc'o i nn ullili fcii ol Lb Cor. Diamond, Butler, i a C.V.D. ozmmmmmo ss |UWer= | |W 100 - ' 4 2^ d to withdraw my account. He begged mo not to do so, suid many flattering things to me and urged that it would be convenient to have an open account in London. "Well," I said, looking at my pass book, "I see I have £2,3,>5 to my credit. I will leave the odd £35 with you. " fie instantly acquiesced. Had he sod, "No, yon must leave at least £3OO, as our rules require," I should have said ull right and have made it £SOO. I drew out the £2,300 at once, intending to de posit £3OO before leaving London, but in tho haste of our preparations I neg lected it, and my balance at the bank stood £35 for ail the weeks I was on our piratical cruise to the Spanish main. Storing most of our baggage in Lon don, wo took the train to Liverpool, and, purchasing tickets for Rio, we went on board tho good ship Lusitania. The firm of Maua in Rio was tho most considerable in all South America, and Mac's introductions were to this firm. Tho plan was for Mac to present himself to Maua & Co., and to draw within 24 hours at least £IO,OOO, so as to mako sure of onr expenses, aud a day or two before steamer day to arrange for a very largo sum, £20,000 or £30,000. Fate, providence, call it what you will, seldom fails to i:r et wrongdoing, making it rocky for the wrongdoer. By an irony of fortune we carried with us that which was going to balk all, or nearly all, our lire seheme. In our letters of credit in some mys terious w;y the namo if ti.o subr -•• ger of the London aud We . bank had r;cn omitted, alt!" was absolutely e.-. eutial to t' << \aiio ty of the letters. There was at o anolUei error, an error of such an extraordinary nature —that of spelling "indorse with a "o"—that it is euougli to make any man contemplating an unlawful act de spair of success, since wo could be de feated by so mysterious and unforeseen accidents. A few hours after our arrival Mac called at tho bankers' and was well re ceived by the manager. He told him of his credits for £5,000 to £20,000 each, and that lie should want £IO,OOO tho next day. Would they have it ready? The next day ho went to the bank, George and myself being posted outside. In ten minutes he reappeared with a square bundle under his arm. He smiled as he passed u.s, and, turning* a corner, entered a cafe, where we joined him. Ilis bundle contained £IO,OOO in Bra zilian bank notes. He assured us that everything was sereuo at the l>:.nk; that he could have £IOO,OOO if ho v. anted to ask for it. Tho next day Mr.o went to the bank er:; again and was rcqr.e tod by the manager to show the hitter of credit c.n which was indorsed the £IO,OOO he had dra">\n against ii. Looking ;:ttho letter, tho manager said: "This is i inf.;ul:.i\ There is only the lii.me of Air. Brad bhaw, the manager, on this letter. J. P. Shipp, tho submanager's name, should be on tho credit as well. " And then he went on to say that some time since they had been notified by the Lou don bank that all letters issued by them would bear two signatures. Mac was a man of nerve, but it re quired all ho had not to betray his un easiness. Ho said he really could not say how tho omission had occurred; he sup posed it must have been accidental, but ho would examine his other letters as soon as he went back to the hotel. Tho look of chagrin and vexation on Mac's faco when ho camo out was a sight to see and one that is as vivid in my memory now as in that farolV day in 1872. What a sea of misery rolls be tween then and now! Ho went direct to tho hotel, and there Gcorgo and I soon joined him. Wo sat down and looked at each other. The game apparently was up, and we were a sorely disgusted party. Wo did not fall out with or reproach each other, but felt we deserved a kicking. Wo did not ask each other any questions, bur I know our faces all wore a sadly puzzled look as we repeated mentally, "How could wo have made such an oversight?" But soon another blunder—the mis spelled word —was to crop up that made this oneflt tho omitted name seem as a fly to an eagle. Mac and I thought tho game up and were mentally planning for flight. But George, a man of extraordinary courage and resource ns well, dec lared wo could and would retrieve tho blun der. Ho declared a bold step m;;.it be taken; that its the bankers had only seen tho ono credit tho namo of Shipp, the submanager, must bo instantly put on tho others. We had tho gennine signa ture of J. P. Shipp on a draft, and Mac at onco sat down to write it on all tho letters. It was a trying ordeal for him, Mac's nerves having had a wrench. Ho was a temperate man, but under the circumstances we advised him to take a glass of brandy to steady his nerves. Then placing the genuine signature be fore him and tho forged letters he began to put in tho name. The signatures were not well written, bnt under the trying circumstances it was wonderful ly well done. All this had taken place within half an hour after ho had left tho bank. It was a trying ordeal* but Mac was quite willing to do as George advised, which was tii..t be sli nkltake nrenlof tho letters and march boldly into the bank and say: "Here are my letters; they are all right. Both signatures are on all my letters but tho one, and from that tho second signature has beeu un intentionally omitted." George's last word to Mac was: "Rely on us to extri late you from anything. Keep cooL Act up to the character you have as sumed. They can never fathom that tho names could have been written in so short a time. Boldly offer them more exchange on London, and if there is any hesitation say yon will transfer your business to the English bank of Rio at once." He started on his decisive errand, fol lowed by us in a miserable state of anx iety. He was not long in the bank, but returned empty handed. Upon meeting at the designated plaeo he informed us tho manager was evidently agreeably surpri: ed when shown the letters with both signatures and transferred the in dorsement froui the letter that had but one s'guature to one with two. Once more we had . all right and tho broken place p : up again, but it behooved us not to do so any more. But we did. The steamer we purposed to load our money on aud ourselves, too, was tho Chimborazo, advertised to arrive on Tuesday aud to leave for the river Plato and the west coast tho next day. So it was agreed that on Monday Mac should go to the bank and arrange to cash his letters for £20,000 or £'30,000 aud go the next day for the money. Monday came. We expected a nerv ous day, not such a paralyzingly nerv ons one as it proved to be. In fact, a nervous Tvc: day followed a nervous Monday. My reader must remember that weweie in the tropics, with a blaz ing fun 1" ; >£ dwnon us with an in tensity i % made one long for Green laud's icy mountains to cool us. We went info the public park for our last consultation before our fortune, which never came, was to come. Mac had in the little morocco case in his pocket two letters, each for £20,000. Certainly no man in the world but him self could have carried off such a game played for such high stakes. Handsome in person, faultless in address, cool in nerve, a master of all the lauguages spoken in Rio—Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and French. Above all, he had a boundless confidence in himself. What an honorable future might have been his but for his youthful follies! Truly he could have achieved a wonderful suc cess in any honorable career. Unhappily for him, ho, like thousands of our brain iest youth, had entered the Primrose Way. In our youthful fire and thought lessness we saw only the flowers and heard the siren's songs, but at last tho Primrose Way led us down iuto a gloom where all the flowers withered and tho gay songs turned Into dirges. Looking at his watch, Mac jumped up, saying, "It is 10:45 aud time to be off. " So ho started for the bank, we following at some distance, our nerves all on the stretch. We felt that our lives and fortuned were trembling in the bal ance. While watching we saw several persons enter or leave the bank, and still our friend delayed his appearance. To our suspicious minds there ap peared to bo strange movements about the bank that boded ill for us. A thou sand suspicions born of our fears came and went through our minds uutil at last, unable to endure the suspense, I entered the bank myself and stood there, pretending 1 was waiting for some one. I sharply scrutinized every ono and everything. Mac was some where out of sight in the private offices. The clerks wero gossiping together, and that to me was suspicious. Then, to my alarm, a bank clerk entered from the street with an eagle eyed man, a He brew evidently, of about 45 years of age. Both passed hurriedly into tho private office, leaving me in an agony of sus pense. My only relief at that moment was the thought that George and my self had not as yet compromised our selves, and could, in the event of Mac's arrest, manage to save him, cither by bribery or a rescue. Without appearing to do so I watched that dingy, mottled door leading into the private office until every crack and seam in it was photographed indelibly on my brain. In the trying periods of one's lif-\ when the heart and soul are ou the rack, how strangely trifling details of the objects about one will be noticed and remembered. It seems some cell of tho brain, quite separate from tho cell of feeling and sensation, works calmly and steadily on, photographing tho ma terial of one's surroundings. At last, unable to enduro the sus pense, above all the uncertainty, I went to the little door, aud, opening it, looked in. To my intense relief I saw Mac sitting there apparently talking un concernedly with Braga, the manager, and tho Hebrew. As I had not attracted attention I closed the door, went out in the street and gave George the prear ranged signal that all was well. Just then our partner emerged, but with a telltale face. It was flushed with cha grin and vexation, and there was gone from the contour of his body that inde scribable pait that tells, better than words, of confidence and victory. We went by different routes to our rendezvous, and I will leave it to the imagination of my readers to picture our stato of mind as wo listened to his recital of woe—tho tale of Priam's Troy over again. Mac had been cordially received by the manager, and had told him he would require £20,000 tho next day; would ho please have it ready? The manager replied that ho did not require any more exchange on London, but that ho would send out for his broker, who would sell his bills ou the ex change. Ho (tho manager) would in dorse the bills of exchange and indorse the amounts on his letters of credit. Of course Mao could only acquiesce, and Mr. Braga sent a cli rk to his broker, Mr. Meyers, to come aronnd. This was tho sharp eyed Hebrew whi m I saw en ter. The manager introduced Meyers to "Mr. Gregory Morrison" and explained that lie was to sell exchange for £20.000 on Morrison's credit, which tho bank would indorse. Meyers said, "Please show 1110 your letters." Putting bis hand into liis breast pocket and pulling out tin? littlo morocco c*i.-0 containing tho two letters, lie handed the case and contents to Meyers, who, probably with out suspicion of anything bcirg wrong, unrolled 1» ;li letters, and holding them in his hands rati his sharp eyes down one of them and read right through the body of the letter. Coming to the "note" which read, "All sums drawn against this credit please indorse on the back and notify tiie Loudon and Westminster bank at ouee," ho suddenly halted, turned his hawk's eye on Mac ai.d said: "Why, sir, here's the word indorse misspelled. Surely the clerks in the London banks know how to spell I" Here was a thunderbolt, indeed, that pierced poor Mr. Gregory Morrison through and through, but he showed no sign. He coolly remarked that be did not care to have his bills sold on the ex change, but would go and see the peo ple of the London and Rio and River Plate banks, as they probably would want exchange and would doubtless let him have what ho required. Meyers said very sharply, "Have you letters to thosobanks?" "I have," said Mac, at the same time producing two, one to each bank, and each bearing the stamp of their respective banks. That he had letters was a happy thing, and no one under 40 days' time could say for a fact that they were not genu ine. The dramatic production of the e letters lulled the fast gathering suspi cions and would have called a halt h.. l they purposed any serious action, for the reason that during the 40 days it would take to communicate with L :i --don the credits could not be proved to be forgeries. That such letters existed at all was due entirely to the foresight which had provided to meet just such a contingency. Wo all were for a brief few seconds utterly dumfounded, but quickly aroused ourselves to the necessity of instant ac tion to protect our* comrade. We saw that we must at once give over all thought of trying to do any more busi ness in Rio, and set all our inventions and energy at work to save the £IO,OOO and to smuggle our companion safely out. of Rio. But how? The Ebro. going to Europe, was in the harbor taking in cargo and coal. The Chimborazo, going south, was not yet signaled, and we determined at all haz ards to get him off by the Ebro. We all had American passports, aud by the use of chemicals could alter the names and descriptions on them at wilL Of course the names in our passports were tho same as we had in our letters. George went to police headquarters, and giving a douceur to an attendant had the vise pnt on his passport at once. Then, going to the passenger agent, he bought a ticket to Liverpool by the Ebro, and by paying 10 guineas extra had a stateroom assigned to him alone. After this ho took a boat and went out to tho steamer, carrying with him two bags of oianges and stowed them away under the bottom berth. To mako the escape a success it was decided prudent for George as Wilson to get the agent well acquainted with his face and appearance, so if the ques tion was asked, "Who is this Wilson?" the police would see by the description it was not the man they were looking for. For the next 40 hours George made the agent very tired. At one time he would want to know if he could not get some reduction in the passage rate, or if the Ebro was seaworthy, or if there was any danger of her engines breaking down, etc., until the agent got not only to know "Mr. Wilson," but wished him at the bottom of tho sea. When George started for tho police offico he left Mac and me alone in the park. It was absolutely essential thnt Mac should put in one more appearance at the bank. It was an ordeal, but one he had to undergo. He even dreaded to re turn to his hotel, but go ho must; so, just before tho bank closed, ho called in and casually informed tho manager that he should start the next morning for S. Romao, a town in the interior of Bra zil, to be absent a week. He was then to go to the Hotel d'Europe, pay his bill at the same time, stating that he was to leave Rio by the 4 o'clock train tho next morning. As Mac had two trunks and other impedimenta befitting a man of his importance it was neces sary to take a carriage to the station, which was nearly a mile distant. It would be unsafe to go in a carriage be longing to the hotel; therefore he was to say that a friend would call for him. As it was still two hours to sunset I suggested that after ho had arranged matters he should saunter out, walk about the streets until dark, then return to the hotel and be ready when George should call for him at 3 o'clock the next morning. After these arrangements we separat ed, George had I following to ascertain if he was being watched or shadowed by detectives. When he entered the ho tel we remained in view of tho entrance. It was not long before he reappeared and walked leisurely along tho street. A few seconds after wo saw another man come out, cross tho street and go in the same direction. I followed him, and was. soon satisfied that ho was keep ing Mac in view. This sort of double hunt was kept up until dusk, when Mao returned to his hotel, unconscious that a moment later his "shadow" en tered the place also. Hero was a "stun ner, '' no mistake, though it was no more than we had anticipated among tho pos sibilities. Still I had indulged in the hope that tho bank would rely entirely upon tho passport system, and take no further steps for a day or two, which was all the time required to carry out our plan. Though Mac had good nerve, it was already somewhat shaken, ami surely tho situation would liavo un nerved most men. Therefore, fearing that tho certain knowledge of imminent danger might still further confuse him and cause some false move, we deter mined to keep our discovery to our selves. Geoi"ge next proceeded to an obscure part of the town, and stopping at a small but respectable looking tavern ho rngaged a room for tho next day; also a carriage, with an Euglish speaking driver, to bo in readiness at 3 o'clock the next morning. Promptly at the hour he was at the livery stable, where he found the carriage ready, and was driv en to tho Hotel d'Europe. Sending tho driver up to the office on the second floor, Mac soon appeared and informed him that he had promised to take to the station a man who was stopping at the hotel. "He is going to S. Romao by the same train," continued Mac, "and seems a good fellow, for I had a long talk with him last night." Upon seeing signs of disapproval in my face he explained, "Well, you know, be' said he could not get a carriage at so early an hour in the morning, and I thought it could do no harm to take him in, and he is waiting up stairs." Hero I joined them, and it would be difficult for the reader to imagine the effect of this surprising communication upon our minds, for it was clear enough that this was the very person who had been "shadowing" Mao the day before and had skillfully ingratiated himself into his now friend's confidence. I could but admire his nerve in asking a con templated victim for a ride to tho sta tion. I said to Mac: "What in the world can you be thinking of? Don't you see you are blocking our whole plan? Go up and tell him your carriage is loaded down with luggage and express your regrets that yon cannot accommodate him." During this time the baggage was being placed in the carriage, and as soon as Mac bad dismissed his "passen ger," who for some reason did not show himself, wo started rapidly for the sta tion. On the way I requested him to avoid making any new friends until bo should find himself well out at sea I said: "It might bo fatal to attract tho at tention of luly ono or to let any ouo see T wU kavo tho Ufiln. Of course tliia nffrt acquaintance ot yours lsuaiy u conmry -111 an, but it is not possible to foresee •what disaster the lea>t mistake or want of caution might originate. These cars are on the English system—divided into compartments. You must go into the station, stand near the ticket office un til your new acquaintance come-, then observe if ho buys a first ciars. If so, you take a second, and vice versa. Pay no attention to him and let him see you get into your compartment, but keep :m " his movement.-;. In case ho comes to get ... • t-ou are, despite the dif ferent class oi . '' «. tell him the compartment is c. D " -vthinar depends on how yoti carry \. ... ■ t" through the next 20 minutes. A singlo false step, a word too little or too much, will surely prove fatal to all." In accordance with our prearranged plau, I stopped the carriage opposite the station, it being still dark. Mac alight ed, went straight inside, and i:i a few minutes saw his "passenger" come puffing in, nearly out of breath Un questionably supposing 'lac's baijga-e to be already on the train, he pr.rciia* 1 a ticket, end after seeing his intend', d victim enter a compartment got iuto another hinipelf just as the train began to move. This was the vital moment for which Mac bad been waiting, and having pre viously unlocked with his master car key the door opposite he stepped olf on that side, hastily crossed to the other plat form of the dimly lighted station and made his way unnoticed into the street. While this was passing 1 sat in the car riage. and it was not many minutes be fore I had the satisfaction of seeing Mac coming back to me. But for the benefit of the driver we then had a dialogue somewhat as follows: , "It is too bad. Our friends have not arrived. What shall we do?" "Well, I suppose we must go back to the hotel and wait for the afternoon train," I answered. "But I have paid my bill there, "said Mac, "and do not care to go back." "Then." I replied, "meet me at the station, and I will look after the lug gage." In case they recovered the trail the information obtained from the driver would cause confusion and delay suffi cient, I hoped, to enable us to get Mac out cf Rio. I then told the coachman to drive me into tho city. It was not yet daylight, but-after awhile I saw a sort of eating house and tavern combined and had the carriage halted there. Alighting, I en tered and said to tho person in charge that I did not wish to disturb my friends at so early an hour and would pay him for taking euro of my baggage, as I wished to discharge the carriage. The offer was of course accepted, the bag gage housed and the carriage dismissed. Li the meantime Mac was waiting for us in au appointed place not far away, where I joined him, and we went to the obscure tavern, where the room had been engaged. George was awaiting us. So far our plan was successful. Mac was safely hidden away, while his clever friend was speeding miles away on a wild goose chase. Thero was only one train a day each way, and we knew the detective could not get back to Rio until late. We felt certain when he found Mao was not on tho train he would think his intended victim had slipped off at some way station—pos sibly with a view of making his escape into the interior. Even if he sent a dis patch to the bank—an unlikely thing for a Brazilian to do—it would doubtless be to the effect that his quarry liad left Rio on the early traiu that morning with him. We passed some trying hours together. Then George left to tako Mac's baggage off to the steamer. He engaged two stal wart porters. They stand on every corner busily engaged iu plaiting straw for hats while waiting for a job. Dividing tho baggage between the two, he had it carried to the wharf, and taking a small boat quickly had it stowed in the hold and the small articles carried to the stateroom. Soon after be joined us on shore. It was but 10 o'clock when George joined us, aud it was with something like dismay wc realized that the whole day was beforo us. Until the day be fore, when Mac was iu the bank, I had never known how long an hour was, but this day we all camo to know how long a day could be. At last tho long day drew to mi end, and the shadow, to our intense relief, began to darken iu our little room, where we were holding onr watch. The tropic night closes quickly in. Soou the city was shrouded iu darkness, aud we sallied out to the beach at the head of the bay to find relief in movement. The time passed quicker then, and at last we sat down on some wreckage there aud watched the tropio night as it revealed its wealth of stars, and sitting there we moralized upon the destiny of man and his relations to things seen and unseen. npon spiritual force, most of all upon divine justice, which in the end evens up all things. But like so many other philosophers who write the style of the gods aud make a pish at fortnue we failed to make a personal application of our philosophy. We sat for an hour longer, and then securing a Ik £ x ''ith two uegro rowers we pulled for the ship. Three or four small boats were fastened to the com panion ladder, and our arrival attracted no attention. Two officials in uuiform, probably customs stood at the companion way. It was an anxious moment, but we slipped through the dimly lighted cabins aud passages and were soon safely in the stateroom. Bid ding both goodby and promising to be on board again at 8 in the morning, I went ashore and straight to bed and soon was dreamiug of starlit seas, of tropic woods and summer bowers white and sweet with May blossom^. My health then as now was perfect, and I awoke fresh and hopeful. After breakfasting ou a dish of prawns and an other of soft shelled crabs I was off across tho bay. Soon after 8 I knocked softly at tho stateroom door, was ad mitted and presented the lunch I had brought. They gave me a warm greet ing, but neither had slept. The room had been hot and stuffy, and the noise of stowing cargo had helped to banish sleep. Both were unnerved 6omewliat, but I had just come off shore confident and cheerful, and my confidence and spirits proved infectious. I knew by sight the chief of police and those just under him. I also knew Braga, tho bank manager, by sight. They of course did not know jne, and I could unsuspected be a looker ou in Vienna. Soon the shore passengers, their friends and many idle visitors came off in boatloads, while I of course scruti uized every boatload as it came up the side of tho ship. At 9:30 I saw a boat coming, which, when half a inilo away, I recognized as containing the chief of police and sev eral of his subordinates. Ten minutes aitor Braga and one of the bauk officials came, the only passengers in their boat, and at once joined the police on the aft er deck and stood with them waiting and watching the boats as they arrived. In the meantime babel reigned around the ship. About threescore boats sur rounded her, the owners soiling to the passengers everything from oranges to monkeys, snakes and parrots. I determined to conceal from George and Mac that Braga and the police were on the ship, and about every 20 minutes I would slip down and report all's well, but soon after 10 o'clock the enemy was joined by the ticket agent from shore, and I ccujifl.PWUigy were contemplating some movement. Slipping get her>>. I will keep everything in my eye an«r. vest and dig nity at the same time he planted him self under the Iterth. Very close and very hot quarters he found it, and we put the bags of oranges in front, .-pok ing of them so ES to make it appear a* if they filled ilio whole space, when in reality they wore a mere screen. Then we opened the door to the full est extent. Wo had taken off our coats, it being frightfully hot. and with a bo*- Hi IT« had token of our coot*, ft Iseii\rking and readily brought forth a new scheme. For was not there the Bank of England, with uncounted millions in her vaults, and was not I, as Frederick Albert Warren, a customer of the b;ink and as such were not the vaults of the bank at our disposition? Finally we resolved to go on with our postponed assault upon the money bags of the Bank of England, at the same time evolving a plan that seemed to promise unbounded wealth and complete immunity for us all. So we packed our baggage, bade fare well to Wiesbaden, and one early June morning in 1873 saw us all once more in smoky London, resolved to rouse that old lady called the Bunk of England from her century long slumber spent in dreaming of her improguubility. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Carrie's Blonder. Little Carrie had been instructed to learn a Scripture verse with the word good in it. Accordingly her parents taught her, "It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day." The little maid repeated her text many times softly to herself before the beginning of the general exercise, in which all the Sunday school classes were to join. Then, when ber turn came, she tent a ripple over the audience by recit ing, in clear but lisping accents: "It is awlul to be good on the Sab bath day. " —Youth's Companion. •NTo 40 Nrtlcola**4 Aalial*. Aim Oft every group of mammals has eoine members conspicuously striped, otheri spotted or covered with rosettes. Even those that are plain or self colored exhibit atripings or stars as a frequent abnormality. Thus, most donkeys and horses show some trace of stars, of dap plinga, or, in rarer though common cases, of xebra marking*. Most lions show here and there on their sides ro settelike markings recalling the spots of the leopard. A very large number of ■elf colored animals have ringed tails or spotted bellies. Another frequent oc currence is a disparity in coloration be tween the young and the full grown skin among many animals. Dr. Bouavia mentions that the plain colored puma gives birth to spotted youri#, while many deer, tinted a uniform brown when adult, are barred aud spotted when young. He might have added that lion helps almost invariably are bpotted, and that tapirs are born with whitish spots cu a brown ground color. Hi.-, general conclusion is that all msnimab were originally spotted, and that etiiprs have resulted from the TJV.OU of rows of spots, and self color f.iin the obliteration of spots. So far he might lind many naturalists p-p pared to agrte with him and all n: ■ .-lists wiu ng to consider the e< 'let \i- • .t old and new facts tending t >'v> .1) ni dation. On the other • mi. I *er, Eimer, a Gorman natut.:!>t > has mcde a special study of tl.o i:i.ir.' ■>;* of annuals, has shown at least a:: equal weight of evidence in favor of the view that spots are the result of bands break ing up and are newer than bands in the history of animals. For our own part, we do not think that there is enough evidence to draw a definite conclusion •itber way.—Saturday Review. The Great Wall of China. Authorities differ as to the exact dato when the great wall of China was built, but the concensus of opinion appears to be that it was begun at least in the reign of the Emperor Che-Hwang -Te, the founder of the Tsin dynasty, who ascended the throne in 231 B. C., and died 210 B. C. There does not seem to be eny reason for doubting its actual existence. It ii true that, tho late Carter Harrison of Chicago, whon visiting China in lbSfl, wrote home that he was inclined to look, upon it as a myth. Subsequently a paragraph went tho round of the papers, copied from the Liondon 'limes of Aug. 5, 1887, which attempted to show on the authority of Abbe Lairien that the great wall "deJfcs not and never did exist," that there are .ndced "square towers of earth faced Kith brick at considerable distance from each other, but these were never joined together by any wall, as originally in tended. " This paragraph called out a lively controversy which was settled in favor of the wall Among others, H. S. Ash bee wrote to Notes and Queries insisting that ho himself had seen the great wall; that he had climbed upon it, and though he had never measured it nor traveled along it for any great length he could bear ocular evidence that it extended from the point where he stood upon it in a straight line, unbroken save in places where it has been allowed to fall into decay, as far as the eye could reach in either direction. "While crossing the gulf of Liau-Tong I plainly saw, from tho deck of the steamer, where the great wall started from the sea. Further, in the same part of China, but unconnected with the great wall, I observed the square towers in question.'' Idleness—lts Varieties. Idleness plays many parts. There are tho constitutionally indolent those ,\ no, we l»r. Johnson, are never phys ically ready to get up in the morning, but who, i ke him, are possessed of a uc.nsc:euce which compels them now and again io face the reflection of what they have—ccinphrud with what they might have —dune and to stand aghast at the comparison. There are those whom circumstances have uiade idle —riches, absence of mo tive lor exertion; ill health, real or fancied; indulgent friends and much more often by self indulgence. That idle ness is cue of tho seven deadly sins gives them no sort of concern. It is of the esence of their complaint to have no feeling of their own infirmity. They are asleep. They cannot tell their dreams, for they do not even know that they are dreaming. Giving up, nerveless relaxation, has become a habit, and to thern—as to the immortal Mr. Toots, though from a dif ferent motive—nothing is of any conse quence. But whereas it was his own con venience, his own feelings, his own comfort, that never were of consequence to the unselfish Toots, it is precisely your convenience, your feelings, your comfort that are, to the idle man, of no consequence. Floating idly about on "the great Pacific ocean of indolence,' he makes first one compromise, then an other, with self respect, until ho ends by sacrificing the etteem of his fellow men on the private altar of his own sloth. His affairs get first muddled, then em barrassed, then decaying, then desper ate, aad he feebly flatters himself with an idt.» of repose, now that all is gone. —Chambers' Journal. THE FASHION PLATE. The smart 'white mohair gowns of the FnnjLuJr serve admirably as demisaison dinner toilets. New belts are of soft, gay plaid silk, knotted under a metal clasp at one side, and ate suggestively named toreador. Framboise or raspberry red is a color that will be- much seen in millinery, feit bonnets and hats being shown of this tint. Wide effects continue in millinery. The early autumn hats look vory much overloaded in their abundance of ostrich plumes, wide ribbons and elaborate or naments. All browns with a reddish tinge are in especial favor for the coming cool season, though no wardrobe will be complete without one good black gown for the street. The pretty fichus of the summer in gauze mull and chiffon arc to be contin ued for autumn wear in heavier mate rials. They are of the regulation Marie Antoinette cut and are trimmed with lace or ruffles. The women who come back to town with black mohair gowns lined with colored siik to match the bodice worn with them ueed wily a small, full cape of black velvet, trimmed with jet van rijk«-s, to have handsome early autumn toilets. Although ibe Ekirts of gowns remain pi a n for the iaoet part, and the godet ikirt is still the fashionable one, frills are seen oxi some of the imported gowns. Ibe road back to trimmed skirts un doubtedly Ins by way of flounces.—New York Times. ODDS AND ENDS. Monazitei a rare mineral which nei ther melts nor burns, is found in the rieh metallic heart of the Appalachian mountains that lie in North Carolina. It is estimated that 293 hairs on the head, 30 on the chin, 23 on the fore arm and 19 on the back of the hand are respectively contained iu an area of a quarter uf an inch. If there were but one potato in the world a careful cultivator might pro duce 10,000,000,000 from it in ten years, and that would supply the world with seed cmoe more.