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w • • 1 1 1 t~* 1 Shoes for men in fine
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maintained
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102 N. Main Street, -
111 MILLINERY!
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LADIES' AND CHILDREN S FURNISHINGS
This line is also complete and contains many items you have not
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M. F. & M. MARKS,
Jl3 to 11? S. Main St.
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protect where the most wear AN[)
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wise mother. They are on our , , Knuoht
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Repairing, \:\c.
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CHAPTEK IX
I began to see more and more what a
fool I was to let myself be caught at
such a time in such a land, but still had
so much confidence in my good fortune
that I felt I would be on time for the
steamer on Monday.
It was now 3 o'clock Friday. We
were all aboard for Madrid and just
pulling out of the station. We would be
due there the nest morning. From Mad
rid to Cadiz there is only one through
train in 24 hours, and that leaves seven
mornings a week; but, as it runs only
10 miles an hour and is seldom on time
at that, one must figure on taking an
entire 24 hours for the journey. Still as
we would be dne Saturday morning I
had a big margin for delay.
At last we were off. On the train and
in every group we passed there were
signs of subdued excitement. Between
Royalists and Republicans sharp lines
were evidently drawn which soon were
to culminate in bloody conflict.
Soon after 10 o'clock we arrived in
the walled town of Avila, about 80
miles from the famous Escurial built
by the second Philip, and about 150
miles from Madrid. Here we got an ex
cellent dinner and good coffee. But din
ner was spoiled for me by the disastrous
intelligence that martial law had been
proclaimed and that the government
had seized the roads running north from
Madrid to transport tr<xjps.
Here was a pretty pickle! I was en
raged. I saw the chief of the railway at
Avila, but fie was a fool, and under the
unwonted state of affairs had lost what
little head he ever had.
So once more our baggage was all
piled out of the train, and once more
we had to go into camp on the floor of
the station, with a terrific din around
us.
I arose early, and looking up the tele
graph clerk and railway chief I made
them both rich by the present to each
of 5 escudos.
Then I telegraphed Castelar and the
minister of war that I was an English
man ; that I had my family with me,
and having important business in Mad
rid I must not be detained iu Avila. I
demanded that he should at once direct
the military oflicials to send me on to
Madrid by special train. I also sent a<
telegram to Hernandez, president of the
road in Paris, offering 5,000 francs for
a special train. Another urgent message
was sent to the superintendent iu Mad
rid repeating the offer for a special train,
the same sum to himself if lie expedited
the train. I also authorized him to
spend a similar amount if necessary in
bribing the military authorities.
At 11 o'clock I had a long telegram
from him saying a train would be made
up at Avila. But an hour having passed
away I sent him a message to order up
an engine and one car from Madrid.
Another message arrived at 12 o'clock,
and down came an engine and car.
The local railway chief was more
than anxious to see us off, as I had add
ed another $."• to the s•"> already given.
Just then the telegraph operator flew
out with au order for our tcjim to wait
the arrival of the train from Madrid.
I stormed. I kept the wire hot with
messages of protest to officials. Two
messages came from Madriil saying the
delay was but temporary. So there I
sat in that musty compartment with my
wife by my side and a heart full of bit
terness, for I saw the precious hours slip
ping away and with them my chance
of taking the Sunday morning train so
as to catch the Cadiz steamer. To miss
it meant ruin.
Hour after hour passed by, and there
we sat. My secret cause of unrest had
to be kept locked in my breast, while
my young wife, all unsuspecting, was
merry and happy, chanting little snatch
es of song and telling me 100 times she
was the happiest of women. She did
not care for revolutions nor for delays.
Was she not with me? Tho sun began
to go down the sky, and the shadows
fell. Still wo sat on, expecting every
moment an order to proceed. The sus
pense was terrible.
Tho time wore on, when suddenly,
toward midnight, tho operator rushed
out of his office, and, shouting to the en
gineer, flew up to our compartment,
said goodby, and in a minute we were
off. After that long and terrible day it
was happiness to be moving.
I had given the engineer a tip; he
put on steam, and as we flew over the
road hope returned. I felt we were safe.
At the rate we were going I should
have two or three hours to spare. We
soon were at tho Escurial. As fate
would have it, we found here an order
to run us on a side line and to keep the
track clear for a train goinjyiortb. For
two miserable hours we wlßed, and no
train. Then I set tho wires in motion
again, and just as tho eastern skies grew
gray we started.
Madrid is situated on a high sandy
plain, storm swept in winter worse than
any plain in northern Europe. Wo had
a wheezy engine. Four miles out it
broke down, and then I gave up the
struggle.
At 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, nine
hours too late for the Cadiz train, we
arrived at Madrid. Too late to reach
Cadiz by a special train! Not too late
could the train have been started off as
soon as ordered, but in Spain a special
train is an unheard of thing.
I telegraphed to Lopez & Co. t at Cad
iz inquiring if they would hold tho El
Rey Felipe for 24 hours. They replied
thoy were under contract with the gov
ernment and had to sail on time. So I
said goodby to that plan.
On consulting my memorandum I saw
there was a French steamer sailing from
St. Nazaire, on tho west coast of France,
for Vera Cruz, Mexico, which would
touch at Santander on Saturday for
mails and passengers, and I resolved to
go by her; this, of course, meant retrac
ing our way throngh tho hated Avila to
Burgos, and changing there for San
tander.
On Monday we visited the picture
galleries and museums, and on Tuesday
we got our baggage down to the depot
once more, and purchasing our tickets
we were off for Santander. I was too
anxious to enjoy the scenery. Wo were
a day and a night on tho journey, and
arriving on Wednesday I still had bo»
fore mo a day of anxiety.
Early the next morning my servant
awoke me, asking mo to look out of the,
window. I ran to it, and, looking out,'
there in the bay, just in front of the
hotel, lay a steamer of the largest size'
and magnificent in her beauty. It was a. ;
happy sight for me.
Nunn hired a boat for our luggago
and a second for me, and then, after a
hurried breakfast, wo boarded the
steamer, Nunn following with tho bag
gage. At last we were afloat, and now
I was all eagerness to hear tho steam
monkey start to bring the anchor apeak.
It is simply amazing how a bad con
science "moldeth goblins swift as fren
zy's thought." Even as I stood there I
was not at rest, but wae impatient and
Susp: ens of every movement from the
shore.
Just then with a mighty throb the
screw gave a turn, and it was music to
my ears.
But as I stood on the deck that night
and watched the mountains sink into
the sea I felt this all dimly and tried
to shake off the feeling. I stood fasci
nated, with many conflicting emotions
sweeping through my mind, sadly
watching the receding shores of Spain,
and just as the highest mountains were
sinking in the sea my servant, appear
ing at my side, informed me dinner was
ready and my wife waiting. Sending him
away and turning my face to tho land
I strained my eyes through the gather
ing gloom to disceru the distant shore.
Then with a bitter feelir g in my heart
I set ont for tho saloon, but stopped, and
quoting this line—
Tho day of my destiny Is o'er,
And tho star of my fate hath declined—
I went below.
Soon, under tho warming influence of
wine, forgetting all my forebodings and
looking into my wife's face beaming
with love and content, I could not
help saying to myself: I am a fool to
doubt that happiness is mine. Am I not
fortune's favorite? With love, youth,
enthusiasm, health and wealth on my
side, what else save happy days and
nights and long years filled with content
can be mine:
So, shaking off my foebodings, the 18
days of our voyage over green Nep
tune's back were Ideal, and we became
objects of envy to all the passengers.
After 18 days we cast anchor in St.
Thomas harbor, and pleasant as our
voyage had been we were glad to see
land. Wo were to stop a day for coal
ing.
Taking the two sisters we went ashore
in one of the many boats surrounding
the ship, all manned by scantily robed
black fellows. The town, with its hordes
of gaudily dressed and noisy blacks,
was most interesting.
First I took the sisters to the cathe
dral. Both were grateful and knelt at
the altar for a full half hour while we
waited. Then, after visiting several
stores to make some small purchases,
wo went to a circus showing there that
week. I bought ten tickets for my
party. Everything they saw in the town
was marvelous and strange to them.
When we entered the circus tent, the
sisters were perplexed and thought it
must be a new sort of church. But
words would fail to express their amaze
ment when they saw the clown and be
spangled horsemen enter tho ring and the
performance begin. They were in a new
and hitherto undreamed cf world and
gazed in childlike wonderment on the
scene, and, like children, only saw tho
glitter of the spangles and thought both
men and women performers were angels
of beauty. Even after the thing was
over the magic and witchery of it all
rested on them. To please them we sat
until the audience had dispersed, and
when going out one of them, speaking
of tho pel-formers, told my wife they
must be very near to God.
The next morning I found wo were
sailing along the Cuban coast, quite
near the land, which looked so inviting
that I made up my mind to go ashore
and stay a month in Havana, so I bad
my baggage got on deck. Soon after
dinner the engines were stopped for
some hours for repacking, the captain
informing mo that it was doubtful
whether we should arrive in Havana in
time to go ashore that night. At 6
o'clock the sunset gun is fired, the cus
tom house closes, and no more debarka
tions are allowed that day. If I went
ashore tho next day, I must be up and
off at an early hour, as tho ship sailed
at 7 :30, so I told tho captain if he ar
rived before 6 I would go ashore and
wait for the next steamer, but if we
were late I would go on to Vera Cruz
with him.
It was well on to 6 o'clock when we
steamed past Moro castle and dropped
anchor in the harbor. I engaged two of
the boats alongside, our baggage was
hurried into them, my wife went down
the ladder, and speaking some hurried
farewells I ran down after her and
sprang lightly into the boat. That in
stant the sunset gun was fired. Two
minutes later, and the custom house
officers on board would have forbidden
my leaving the steamer. I say two min
utes, but it was less than half a minute.
Half a minute! Thirty seconds changed
my destiny.
One day's stay in Cuba convinced us
we could spend a month very happily
on the island, and discovering that Don
Fernando, the proprietor of tho hotel,
had a furnished house in a lovely situa
tion to let, we resolved to remain, rent
ing the house for a month at a fixed rate
per day. This rate included the ten serv
ants —slaves—in tho house, he to fur
nish good horses and everything except
wine. The service proved good and the
cooking exquisite. This was rather ex
pensive, but certainly a handy kind of
housekeeping, taking all worry and
household cares from my wife's shoul
ders.
Our house was ou a lovely slope in
full view of tbo gulf of Mexico and in
the midst of what was more like a trop
ical plantation than a garden.
I made the acquaintance of General
Torbert, our consul, and was introduced
by him to the Spanish officials, includ
ing the colonel of police. I assiduously
cultivated the acquaintance of the lat
ter and frequently had him out to the
house to dinner and lunch and felt pret
ty confident that if any telegrams came
about me he would certainly bring
them to me at once for an explanation.
Even if my presence became known and
telegraphic orders for my arrest should
arrive no speedy action would be taken
and ample time given me to escape.
We had been some weeks in Havana.
It was well into the month of Febru
ary when one day. being in my ham
mock on the veranda, with my wife sit
I leisurely opened it.
ting near me, my servant rode up with
the papers, and handing me the New
York Herald I leisurely opened it while
' batting with my wife, but could not
suppress an exclamation when my eyes
fell l upon an Associated I'ress dispatch
Loudon which read :
London, Fob. 14, IS7&
Au uniuZiUK fr:»ud ha* lieon jKrp. tratid up- it
:b<> B»nk of England by a young American
gave tiie iinxuo of Frederick Albert War
ren. The loan of tho l ank Is reported to be
from three to ten milli. us, and it Is rum. red
that many London have b.-. n victimized
to enormous amounts. The greatest excite
ment prevails in the city, and the forgery,
for surh it is, :s the one topi -.of conversation
on the exchange and in the street. The police
are completely at fault, although a young
man named N<.yes, who was Warren's clerk,
has been arrest.xl, but it is b» lieved that he is
a dape.
The bank has offered a reward of £5,000 for
Information leading to the arrest of Warr. nor
any confederate.
Not a soul in all Europe knew I was
in Cuba, and so long as mv name did
not transpire I was as safe in as if
in the de.serf.
Consequently I determined to go on
in the same way since our landing. In
the meanwhile I would watch the pa
pers, and if any signs of danger appear
ed I could take instant measures for my
safety.
The next French 6teamer for Mexico
was advertised to land at Havana for
passengers and mails for Vera Cruz in a
few days, and I determined to sail by
her.
Had I known of the clever work of
the detectives in London and the dis
coveries ill Paris I should have been ill
at ease, but had I known that Pinkerton
and his aid, Captain John Curtin—then
a member of the Pinkerton staff in New
York, but now (1895) of Ban Francisco
—had with perfectly marvelous intui
tion and rare detective skill let daylight
into the whole plot, and had reported
that whenever F. A. Warren was dis
covered he would prove to be Austin
Bidwell—l say if I had known this, in
stead of going off on a ten days' pleasure
jaunt into an isolated corner of the
world, I should have taken instant
flight, leaving Cuba, not by the usual
modes of departure, but by sailing boat
and alone for one of the Mexican ports.
CHAPTER X.
Captain Curtin had been detailed to
work on the New York end of the case,
to look for clews. It seemed a hopeless
task. He is a warm friend of mine now,
after 20 years, and has long forgiven
me for the bullet I lodged in him in
1873. A few years after arresting me in
tho West Indies lie went to San Fran
cisco and started a private inquiry office
of his own at 328 Montgomery street.
When, after 20 years' incarceration, I ar
rived there one lovely May day in 1892,
he was waiting for me at the ferry and
gave me warm greetings, and as hearty
congratulations, too, as any man could
give another, then introduced me to
his friends everywhere, and, in fact,
from the hour of my arrival until my
departure, three months afterward, was
never tired of doing me a service and
forwarding my business, so that, by his
kind offices I made a great success out
of what, by reason of the great financial
depression, might otherwise have proved
a failure. But as Captain Curtin, after
effecting my arrest, having recovered
from his wound, was one of the four
who took me to England, I will wait
until a later chapter to tell how it was
be discovered my name and located me
in Cuba.
There was not a single cloud on tho
horizon iu Havana, but it was soon to
blow a hurricane. My wife had sent out
invitations to dinner for Thursday to 20
friends. There was then a steamer in
tho harbor advertised to sail in two
days for Mexico, and I had thought of
going by her. Had we, this narrative
would never have been written.
As invitations were out for Thursday
I concluded to wait for Saturday's
steamer, but determined to sail on that
day without fail.
On the day of our dinner I was
strongly tempted to give some hint to
my wife that I was in some way entan
gled in a web, but as she was so happy
I could not do it, but resolved to wait
until we were settled in Mexico, and
then to tell her a little, but not all the
truth.
My wife, all unconscious of the
frightful calamity impending, entered
upon the last half day of happiness she
was to know for many long years. The
same statement would be true of my
self. As the guests were arriving I was
in a happy vein, and in the same happy
frame of mind sat down to dinner.
Twenty happy mortals, but not one di
vined tho termination of that dinner
party, least of all the proud and happy
hostess. It was a great success, and at
8 was drawing to a close. The long
windows were open, while tho warm
breeze from tho nearby gulf was pour
ing through the room. The clock had
just chimed the quarter, when there
camo a sudden rush of feet over the ve
randa and through tho hall. All eyes
were fixed on the open door leading to
tho hall, when an eager, resolute faced
man, evidently au American, stepped
with a firm pace into the room, follow
ed by a dozen civilians and soldiers.
With a quick glance over the company
his eyes rested on me, and comiif); di
rect to my chair, while my guests stared
in amazement, he bowed and said in a
low voice: "Mr. Bidwell, I am sorry to
disturb your dinner party or fo annoy
you in any way, but I am forced to tell
you I have a warrant in my pockot for
your arrest upon a charge of forgery
upon the Bank of England. The war
rant is signed by the captain general of
Cuba. Everything is in due form, and
you are my prisoner. lam John Curtin
of the Pinkerton force.''
Every man who enters the arena and
joins in the struggle of life has more or
fewer takedowns iu his history. But
my wish is that between this hour and
my last I may have no more takedowns
so near the freezing point as this was. I
shall never forget the look on my wife's
face. First she gazed at tho intruders
with indignation, then turned to me
with a look of eager expectation, as
much as to say, "Wait till my husband
raises his arm and you will all go
down.'' Bnt instead of seeing me rise
indignant and angry, driving tho in
truders out, she saw mo talking quite
calmly to Curtin. Then her face grow
deadly white. None of the guests heard
Captain Curtin's words; but, as will bo
easily imagined, there was a painful
silence, which I broke by standing up
and saying that there was some unhap
py mistake; that I was arrested upon
the charge of furnishing arms to the in
surrectionists in the eastern provinces.
I requested my friends to withdraw at
once and everything would l>e explained
on the morrow.
Thero were fivo soldiers present, Mr.
Crawford, tho English consul general,
and Captain Curtin, my servant Nunn
being in custody of the latter. It was a
strange and unhappy scene, and every
one felt extremely awkward and ill at
ease, especially the writer. In tho rear
of tho dining room was a large sitting
room, where I kept my valuables in
trunks and did my writing. I turned to
Curtin and said, "Will you come in the
other room?" "Certainly," ho replied
without the slightest hesitation. Tho
room was brilliantly lighted. Motion
ing him to a seat, I said:
"Will you have a glass of wine?"
"Yes, but I never drink anything but
Cliquot,'' replied the captain pleasantly.
A sen-ant brought in a bottle and
glasses, and I turned the conversation
upon the subject of money. The captain,
being a itrangor to me, guided by for
mer experiences with Irving & Co., I
fancied might bo bribed. Sometimes
tho police are nnseeptible to this form of
temptation, and I was at bay and des
perate. I intended to offer him a fortune
for u bribe. If he refused to take it, I
resolved to shoot him and dash out of
the window, for at my elbow was an
(ipt-n arawor witn a 1>..u10l rf-volver
ready at my band.
1 said, "You know the p< v. r and
value of money?"
"Yes, and I need and want pi. nty of
it"
Pointing to a trunk, I said: "1 liuvo
a fortune there. Sit where y u are ten
minutes, give no alarm, and I will give
you $.">0,000."
Then a scene ensued that if pnt up m
the stage would b.' deemed farfetched
'■ * incredible. When I said this, tho
capu "v>ved a muscle, but lt*>k
ed at xneoei. - - w tlv, then drop
peel his eyes to th did so
I placed my band on the u . .... He
took the bottle np, filled his gla», and
looking steadily at me drank it off, and
replacing the glass on tiie stand coolly
remarked:
"Why, sir. that is $5,000 a minute!"
"Yes, and good pay, too,'" I said.
"But I won't have it!" he interject
ed and sprang to his feet as he saw me
make a movement, but I was too quick
for him.
I fired point blank, and down he went
as if by lightning.
I rushed to the window, when the
Venetians were torn violently down, and
William Piukerton, revolver in hand,
sprang from the outer darkness through
the window into the room, and the eth-
1 Jin'd point blank.
ers came with the soldiers. My wife,
too, white faced, itulud in from tho
dining room. A lively struggle follow
ed, in which Curtin, having risen from
tho floor, joined. The struggle was soon
over, leaving mo a prisoner under dose
guard.
My bullet had struck tho captain,
break ng a rib and glancing off, but he
was game, and when we shortly after
departed for the city he rode with me
in the same carriage. I tried to soothe
tny wife's fears, but it was attempting
the impossible, so we drove away for
the city in three carriages, Pinkerton
assuring my wife that I shonld sleep at
the hotel.
By the time we arrived the news had
spread among the American colony, and
as the hotel was a sort of American
club delegations of my acquaintances
speedily arrived All were loud in de
nunciation of the outrage. Of course
they saw things on the surface only.
Soon our Consul General T<irbert arrived
and assured me ho would see that I
should be treated with every considera
tion until such time as the unfortunate
mistake was corrected.
That night I slept at the hotel with
Curtin, who took his wound and close
call very good natnrerlly and said he did
not blame me at all, but felt taken
down to think I had got the drop on
him. Early the noxt morning my friend,
the chief of police, Colonel Moreno de
Vascos, called on me, indignant and
angry that I should suffer such discour
tesy. He was particularly indignant
over the insult to himself in not being
consulted, so that ho could have sent
me a note to call on him and explain.
Then he turned to Captain Curtin and
told him to liberate me, as lie would be
responsible for me whenever wanted.
But the captain knew what he was
about and knew his business too well
and the backing he had to pay any at
tention to Colonel Vascos. I claimed
the protection of our consul, but Torbert
regretfully told me that on account of
orders from the state department at
Washington he was forced to consent to
my detention, but he would not permit
me to be kept in the ordinary prison.
So about 12 o'clock next day I was
transferred to tho police barracks and
put into the lieutenant of police's room
and a guard of soldiers placed over me.
So at last justice had laid hold of me,
but I thought it a very shaky hold, so
much so that I was confident I could
break away from her, so that she should
never weigh me in her balance.
My wife spent many hours with me
daily. All my meals were brought from
the hotel. Nunnwas kept a prisoner for
two days, then liberated. I took him
into my confidence, telling him I was
going to escape and directing hint to
make all outside arrangements for that
event, and he was greatly rejoiced when
I told him he should accompany me m
my flight.
Pinkerton was awake to the danger
of lr sing his man and had lodged a
written protest with the English and
American consuls against my being con
fined in tho police barracks.
The only result was that Colonel Vas
cos issued an order to keep him and bis
men out of the barracks.
Men like William A. Pinkerton, who
had now arrived, and his lieutenant
were not going to make fools of them
selves by arresting a man they could
not hold. I was confident that my sur
render was only a question of time, and
I resolved not to wait for it, but to be
off.
At my request Colonel Vascos had
sent a guard of soldiers to my house and
brought to the barracks two of my
trunks. I had SBO,OOO ill cash ami bonds,
besides many valuables its well, in
them. I gave my wife $20,000 and my
servant SI,OOO in gold and $.">,000 in
Spanish bank notes. Pinkerton bad in
vain tried to seize my luggage, but tho
Spanish law stood in his way.
Once among the rebels all pursuit of
me was at an end, as army after army
had been sent from Spain to crush the
rebellion, and each had iu turn melted
away before the valor of tho relic Is or
the deadly climate.
Nunn volunteered to accompany me
and I gave him $2,000 to send his wife
in Paris that his mind might Is. easy 011
that score. No one knew my real desti
nation save Nunn and my wife. It was
hard to obtain her consent, but at last it
was given. I arranged with her that she
was to leave Havana as soon as she
knew I was off, cross to Key West, wait
one month there, and if she then heard
nothing of me she was to telegraph my
sister to meet her in New York, take the
steamer to that city and live with her
until I rejoined her.
Among other things Nunn, by my or
ders, procured good maps of the country.
A Spanish gentleman, a warm friend,
but whose name I will not mention, was
my counselor iu the plot. He advised
me to go to the isle of Pines, as Senor
Andrez had promised to keep me safely
from all pursuit. I let my friends think
that was my destination. I purposed, as
when on my visit, to embark fromCajio,
but to take a westward course along the
coast, and when well off Pinar del Rio
and night fell to put about and steer to
shore under cover of the darkness, once
ashore to get as far inland as possible
before dawn, then to keep a lookout for
any body of rebels and join them as a
volunteer in tho cause of "free Cuba."
Wo were sure of a welcome, particularly
as we would come well armed.
I had given the sentinels iu the jiolice
barracks a bottle of brandy every day
n box of cigars every second day
during my stay besides what were to
themwflloable presents, so I \vas highly
poj alar in the ban We had fixed
on tne i; _ht - f March 20 for the venture.
Myr>»'ini is in th> ud story of the
barr:!. k . 1 I'.t I was allowed t . go freely
through all the rooms on that tt<)ur, fol
lowed in* ve < r less by a gnard, There
was a r. > :.i le..dii:g to an < j; :i window,
but the di«>r was ki-jit
arranged to have it unlock, d with the
key cm the in ! : ..t 10 o'clock that night.
I was t walk ;.l >ur u.- usual, and when
the honr came sutldcnly step through
the door, lock it behind me and then
bolt through the window into the street.
Nnun and i.i.v friend were to await me
outside i f 11.> window with orders to
shoot any man, not a native, who at
tempted to stop me, as I feared Pink
erton or his men might Ik> on guard in
the street, and once in the street I did
not prop -e to go back again -'live.
The guns and two ( xtra revolvers had
beeu in ado into a bundle and left at the
station. At n nearby r nu wore disguises
for Kunn and myself, i nsisting simply
of cloaks and whiskers. We intended to
board the 10:30 train going south, and
once well out of the station would dis
pense with all disguise but the Spanish
cloak each of ns wore.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
OvrratlUi't Wliiii.
The body can be killed through one
organ, and iu yonth and middle age
mortal injury of body and mind comes
usually through one organ as the pri
mary seat of eviL It is an evil of fre
quent occurrence and greatly on the in
crease. A man is said to "throw him
self, heart and soul, into his work."
Such a man it iu danger. He ha.- four
great parts of his body to consider—his
heart and blood system, his lungs and
other organs associated with bre.uliing,
his muscles, his brain and nervous sys
tem. Bat he does not heed them at all.
He runs or cycles excessively, and iu a
much shorter time than he has the least
idea of ho makes his heart too strong for
the rest of his organism and endangers
the finer ramifications of the vessels
which are under the domination of the
heart. He rows without studying conse
quences, and long before he is convinced
of troublo he has produced an injury of
the chest mechanism which may soon
be permanently established.
He takes to some muscular training,
which puts the muscular organs to an
extreme of tension. Largo and small
muscles alike are exposed to strain, botli
the strong muscles that give propulsion
and the delicate muscles that guide, and
beforo he has become conscious of the
error ho has committed he is a strained
man, from which predicament he is for
tunate if he make anything like a com
plete recovery. Another man entei s into
competitions in which his mental organs
are kept awake for long intervals,
charged with expectations, anxieties,
fears, nay, excess of satisfaction, and
while ho is yet young he grows old.
Saturday Review.
A Famous Dug.
Railway Bob is the name of a fa
mous dog in Australia Ho passes his
whole existence on the train, his favor
ite seat being on top of the coalbox. In
this way he has traveled many thou
sands of miles, going over all the lines
in South Austrnlia. He is well known
in Victoria, frequently seen in Sydney,
and has been up as far as Brisbane The
most curious part of his conduct is tiiat
he has no master, but every engine
driver is his friend. At night he fol
lows home the engine driver of the day,
never leaving him or letting him out of
his sight until they are back in the rail
way station in the morning, when he
starts off on another of his ceaseless
lourneyiugs.—New York Tribune.
There is in Norway a wooden church
of unknown ago, but undoubtedly sev
eral hundred years old, which is held
to illustrate old methods of building ad
mirably. The queer, peaked, many an
gled roof has almost an oriental appear
ance.
It is asserted that "the only wealthy
people in China are officials uud ex offi
cials, and not a single person can be
found who has grown rich from honest
industry."
At the Pyramid*.
"Have an Egyptian cigarette. They
are some I just got from New York. "
Trnth.
Taking It For Granted.
He (confidently)—By Jove! I can tell
you, the woman who could make a fool
o' me isn't living.
She—Poor thing! What a satisfaction
it must be to you (hat she so thorough
ly accomplished her mission before she
died ! —New Budget.
A Slight Mifcft-nnd<*rHt*ndlnff.
—Truth.
••Not Getting: on Very Well/*
N044
ONCE AND TODAY.
A wreath of lilies and of passion flowers
For golden days slew strunp,
A chain of mcmon* to link the hours
Whose knell so soon wiu rung;
A pift of pride and lore must h< nceforth craes
To bear what death Healed lip*, no more may
say.
Sad, widowed eyes that toward my silence
stray.
Ah. fading wreath, too quickly cast away.
That may not mingle with my lonely dust,
Ah, warm ,N«»ung life, that cannot near me
*tay,
JBv poverty led forth to stranpers trust!
Sweet, mi r >oul, that in lift- nothing gr»ve.
Yet now bcqifteathfe great tears in generous
showers.
You btarved my love while wealth, youth,
life were ours!
Oh, fairest face was been since Eden's bowers.
Oh, ripe, red lip by too great scorning stung,
Short, willful chin, cold, bright eyes—dearest
dowers
Of woman's beauty ever lover sung!
Oh, heartless, trustless sou! could cvci brave
The chance to grieve when rosy youth grows
gray—
You would not hear me nice—you love today.
—Xc w Buugt-t.
ACTION OF THE RAIN.
The Wonderful Factor it Is I:i the Disin»
teg rat ion of Itocka.
The rain tailing on tfie rocks sinks in
to every crack and crevice > -ryirg
with it into these fissurt - sail. mate
rial which has been t';-gi .•!( 1 v the
weather, and thus all . .tnx
sufficient to start the gr >v tii c: rgota
tiou and afterward t> u.iii. n the
plants. The fibers auii roots . these
plants, bushes and trees thu:' i.rought
into life, growing and expanding, act
as wedges to split up the surface of the
rock and to commence the process of
wearing away. From this quality of de
struction a large class of piauts derive
the name of saxifrages, or lock break
ers, from their roots penetrating into the
minute fissures in search of water, and
so assisting in the process of disintegra
tiou. Iu winter the water collected in
the hollows and crevices becomes froz
en, and expanding as it changes into
ico acts like a charge of blasting mate
rial iu breaking up the rock. The pieces
thus detached become further disinte
giatod by frost and weather, and, being
rolled over and over an drubbed against
each other as they are carried away
down the mountain torrents, are ground
gradually smaller and smaller, till frßm
fragments of rock they become bowiefs,
then pebbles and finally sand. As the
mountain stream merges into the river
the pebbles and coarse sand continue to
be rolled along the bottom of the chan
nel, while the ragillaceous particles and
salts become mingled with the water
and flow on with it either in suspension
or solution.
While this disintegrating process is
going on inlund the rocks and cliffs on
the coast exposed to the sea are suffer
ing degradation by n similar process and
are also being worn away by tbo inces
sant action of the waves of the ocean
beating on them and attacking them,
not only with the impact of the water,
but also with the fragments broken off,
which, dashed against the face from
which they have been eroded, are thus
used as implements of destruction. —
Longman's Magazine.
A Rare Sign.
"Hush, there are visitors in the draw
ing room 1"
"How do yon know?"
"Listen 1 Papa is saying 'my dear' to
mamma."—Punch.
A Rare Specimen.
Mrs. Donovan —Michael, wud ye luk
at that lovely goat? Be the powers, if
we had that big divvel in the front
yard, we'd be the invy av the whole
neighborhood.
Mr. Donovan—Go an wit' yon an
yonr ignorance! Can't ye see be the sign
on the birdcage that he's wan o' them
Oryx Licorices?
Mrs. D.—Arrah, thin av coorse it is
that same, an 1 might av knowed had I
noticed his beautiful licorice horns.—
Troth.
A Mix Tp.
The elements were s<> mixed in hini
that nature might stand up and say to
all the world, This was a man !—Shakes
peare. —Life.
Difficult.
"Before I came up my wife says to
me, 'Don't ride facing his tail, George.'
But how am 1 to know which is his
tail?" —London's fonder.