VOLXXXU to Tliao He Bargained Fop, Looking Forward, § IN FOOTWEAR. LATE|T T OUR IDEAL ST7LES IN FOOTWEAR FOR LADIES & GENTLEMEN Is what every cusiomei oT ours IJ /\ I I J\ J\l I J thinks he has received after making _L 11. J 1 * ■ a purchase. We find that our cus—mr~r~r~ I - ~X~T r" I^ I") tomers being convinced of means \A/ I IXI I W K many more customers for us. You V V -i- ~ J—* get more than you bargain for when \ -gj * |-* you get a pair of our SHOES. yy Ladies' twentieth century SHOES SS3S Cork - !es Goodyear welts. Indies' Fine button shoes, I'at. tip 85c, #I.OO, $1.25 ai: si.y Heavy sole fair stitch at $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00. Goodyear welts are perfect gem , li.;■>. i'ine Shots at9oc, |r.oo, «i.25 add fi.so, both congress and lace. Our ki'! and Vi al Ijoots, high and low insteps at <1.50, *2.00 >2.50 and fj.oo. Dril lers Heavy Bo* Toe Shoes high cut. Boys' and Youths'SHOES™!^ th" Youngsters are here,grand styles for dress or the longest road to school, posi tively will resist water at 75c, fj.oo 1.25 and 1.50. Manufacturers are asking 25 per cent advance on shoes. HUHELTON will sell this winter at old prices, cjualitj 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 boets not to break. Save Money Save Tinie Save Annoy ances by buying at #- t3. C, Huselton's, -# Every step you take in HUSELTON'S Shf>es is a treat to the f<:e 102 N. Main Street, - THIS WEEK'S BARGAINS! One lot fine felt hats at $2.78 —worth $5.00. One lot felt hats at $1.79 —worth $3.00 One lot children's hats at 98c —worth $1.50. Elegant assortment hats at $2, $6, $7 and $8 —woith $lO to $1 5. ODD SIZES in underwear , at half price. GREAT BARGAINS in hosiery. M. F. & M. MARKS, 113 to 117 S. Main St. ~~US4>T NOBODY EVER MADE A y By buying the -Jr Elegant Dress Shoes RUFF'S are Selling lor T-r,. 1 —:o TIPS . . FELT BOOTS at the toes of childrens shoes! protect where the most wear AND comes. TII>S • • , , Boston Overs on children sshoes mean an econ- ZVJ," P " °" smJ " $1.85 I'cr I'air. TIPS . . l'irst Quality Rubbers of should be asked for by every a ][ kinds Cheaper than wise mother. They are on our , , 1 , lines of children's shoes. they can be Bought Elsewhere in the Coun roE XJ"3T ty. A. RUFF & SON, Any good thing in Footwear,(we give you a tip,)can be had at Ruflf's. FAIR. V v ' \ (NOT FAIRY) I '» \ j • \ j Hands and arms are counted high'mong \ \ \ I nature's cliaims. When decked with rings j » and bracelets bright, these charms possess ■ ■ , ; ..11 a greater might to fascinate the beholder. ', J '■ j ' -<.• The finest jewelry in this and other lines : C \ \ Jar to be found at prices that defy competition. //J 1 \ vf 1 make a specialty of new and fine novel \ bJXr ties in silver and cut glass. * Atlcntion Given 10 Watch '■ 'M ,^Repairing, Etc. J. R. GRIERi 18 South Main Street, ... Butler, Pa ■ >.:3- •• •'-•••' -p v ■ •» I '* ■ *3®* The place to buy GAS COOKING STOVES AND BURNERS. GAS LAMPS FIXTURKS, IIOSK, WATER FILTERS. BATH TUB ENAMEL etc, is at VV. II .5 *y (0 vVe also baudle the d M # celebrated w" RAMBLER | BICYCLE, j HEINEMAN & SON. Selling Out Wall Paper! It has been going quite rapidly during the last few weeks. We arc selling our whole stock at less than cost. It will pay you to buy your Spring paper now. A FREK TICKET to the Wilber Entertainment to every $2 purchase—at Park Theatre, Nov. 22. DOUGLASS' Near P. O. It's All In The Making. NTPF whether clothes fit well or not. That is where we excel. Whether we succeed or not you can judge by the fact that the best dressed men ill Butler almost with out exception patronize us. Poorly Made Clothes always look cheap while those well made have an elegant appearpuce. The clothes we make are put together tlfcroughly. No slop shop work is tolerated. Try us, and sec if we do not answer this description. Cutting Your Cloth to suit the size and shape is a good thing to push along, also the cutting of our prices to suit tne de mands of the public. You'll be astonish ed at the low prices at which we are mak ing up our large and elegant stock of Foreign and Domestic Woolens. Call and examine our large stock. COOPER & CO Cor. Diamond, Butler, Pa C7~ D D. onmm&iimm&o 00 C>o | IWciur | |P©Dpts | rsj CO Qg rvj protection rv rv fig fi® irritation cS} 00 '-\J OJ ftoi)-s!?riii9!\*Mc OJ rvi Mo"s®rat'€ prie«? CSJ IVJ AH i*M&ros Hyfieijic rv/ Utjdeivw. go oumuimmmo All grade of rnderwear at very low prices. Largest stock of hats and furnishings for gentleman in the country. An inspection will prove this to any ones satisfacture. Colbert & Dale. 242 S. Main St., lhitler, Penn'a Successful ftdvnrtiners use Remington's County Seat Lists. They include the best towns and best papers We can recom mend them highly. Send to Remington Brothers, Now York, for copy. HUTLEH, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1895. •&£L- r p3; ' ' i "SyT hi If W E coprßn,fn. av r at ajihch. CHAPTER XI. The day for the venturo came. I had previously instructed my wife to send word she was indisposed and to remain at tho hotel. She had very bravely of fered to bo on hand and with me up to the moment I disappeared through the door, but fearing that in the excitement some of the soldiers might say or do something insulting I forbade her being on the scene. I had had an unusually large number of visitors during the day. I felt but little anxiety over the result, save only on the side of Captain Cur- j tin. I had a sort of suspicion or presen timent that, once fairly outside of the barracks I would run against him. The day passed rapidly away, and (i o'clock came, and all tho civil officials, with the horde of hangers on, departed, leav ing the usual evening solitude in the barracks. Soon Nunn came with my ! supper and cautiously produced a re volver and bolt I strapped the belt around me under my vest and braces, placing tho revolver under a of ; clothing. Nnwi reported everything all j right. He had seen Curtin that day as ; usual around the hotel and apparently j unsuspicious of anything unusual going I on. The window I wus to jump out of opened on the public street, and the street would be jammed full of people at the hour I was going. Of course there were a good many chances of failure, chiefly so because all the police from top to bottom knew mo by sight, and if one of them happened to be one of the half hundred witnesses of my jump lie might have wit enough to seize me. Nuu 11 and my friend were to bo un der the window ready to act according to circumstances, above all to be ready to seize hold of any one who manifested any intention to detain me. Nunn was full of courage and hope. At 7 o'clock ho went away, not to see me until we met outside the barracks. I called the guard and three or four idle soldiers | into my room and served them out lib- i eral doses of brandy. Unluckily enough, ' however, the one on duty would drink | but lightly. Soon after 8 Consul Gen eral Torbert came in to smoko a cigar and have a chat. He remained until nearly 10 and then departed. Then I felt the hour had indeed come. I thrust tho revolver inside my shirt and rolled up a cap and put it in tho same place; then, calling the sentry, I gave him a drink and a cigar, and stepping out into the hall I began my usual march around through the upper rooms of the bar racks. I was to go ont of tho window at precisely 10. It wanted ten minutes of that time. It was a long ten minutes to me, but I marched around puffing my cigar unconcernedly, with my eye on the door I was to slip through. At the hour I had my watch in my hand and was in the room farthest from the dooi of exit into the room opening on tho stroct. I walked swiftly through tho two intervening rooms, and so was for a hriof four or fire *JUt Uf Klght of the slow following sentinel. I reach ed the door, opened it, stepped through and instantly locked it. In a moment I was through the open window into tho little iron balcony outside. Ono swift glance showod me the street thronged with people, but hesitation meant fail uro and death. I climbed lightly over the railing and hung suspended for an instant from the bottom. The crowd below made a circle from under, and I dropped easily to the ground, bareheaded, of course. Nunn was thero and instantly clapped a largo straw hat on my head. The strange in cident did not soom to attract tho least notice, for in P. moment wo were lost in tho crowd. I had my hand on my revolv er and had so strong a belief I should every second bo confronted by Curtin that I was strangely surprised when I saw no sign of tho gentleman. Li less time than it takes to tell it I was down into an open hallway and then into a room. I and Nunn, who were smooth faced, were given bushy whiskers and a cloak. In the meantime I paid an agent in waiting $ 10,000 in French and Span ish notes. Then we hurried out of the rear into a cab and were driven to the station, arriving just in time to catch the 10:30 train. The cab ride and train rido that night wero happy rides. I had boon a captive and now was free. Tho sights and sounds all around me took on a deeper purpose and a more significant meaning than they had ever borne before. I struck tho road leading to the beach and marched westward, but it was an un known land, and I was in constant fear of running against some military post or patrol, being thus constantly delayed by long halts to watch some suspicious object or by making long detours to avoid them. Once I had a fright. Two mon on horseback riding on the sandy road wero almost on me before I saw or beard them, and I only had tirno to sink into the shadow as they passed almost within reach of my hand. Both wero smoking tho ovorlasting cigarette and wero engaged in earnest talk. Daylight came and found me not more than eight or ten miles farther on my journey, but I was very well content as I pitched my camp for the day. I had a royal feast, then, after a cigar, lay down to sleep in another fairy bower and slept until noon and awoko to find myself wondering how matters wero going with Captain Curtin in Havana, rather amused over tho state of chagrin I know he must bo in. I thought of a possible futuro meet ing some years ahead when, all danger over, I would seo and chaff him over tho bottle of Cliquot and the if .">O,OOO lie wouldn't have, and how I went all tho same and saved tho money. I realized I must be frugal or my pro visions would never hold out, so after a light lunch I began to make my way slowly to tho beach through tho tangled mazo of trees and vines. Coming in sight of tho blue waters, I lay down to sleep again and awoko when the stars were out. Tho moon would not go down till late, but as thero was a deep, broad shadow cast I walked iu it. Good fowl and tho long day of rest restored my strength. All my confidence returned, and I made good progress. At last tho inoon went down, and then I pressed rapidly forward, always with revolver in hand ready for instant ac tion. I think I mado fnlly 25 miles this night, but as tho coast was indented my progress in a straight direction was not more than half that distance. Just as it began to grow gray in tho east I came out on a wide inlet. It ran deep into the land. I recognized it from my map ;is Puerto del Gato, and then I knew I was in the province of Pinar del Rio and almost out of danger. I went into the bush again and pitch ed camp, waiting for daylight to come and reveal my surroundings. Pitching camp consisted in scraping a few leaves together and lying down, but this morn ing I was too excited to sleep. I felt that I was near my goal after having safely gone through many dangers. unoc across the Puerto del Gato two night.i cf travel would place me omside of the farthest Spanish pickets and bring mo nmong friends, far beyond chance of pursuit, and I also knew that the mere knowledge of my presence in the rebel camp would cause all thought of pursuit to be dropped When daylight came, I stood and looked around- Across the inlet, 20 miles away, I could see only dark muM of green with no sign of lifa To the north tho land was hilly, with houses here and there in the distance ami signs of animal life. I cautiously searched the shore for a mile in the hope of finding a boat to cross to the other shore of the inlet, but none was in sight. About 0 o'clock I saw smoke off at sea, and soon I made out a small Sp;m ish gunboat eoming rapidly up. Drop ping anchor a!>out a mile up the inlet, she sent a boat ashore. I was feeling sleepy, and going into the woods again I took a light lunch, and emptying one • bottle of water lay down to sleep, re solved to make my plans when I awoke. I did not like the appearance of this gunboat. It seemed to promise the pres ence of the enemy in force around me, besides being a visible manifestation of the power of that enemy. When I awoke from my nap, I started on a cautious spying out of tho land, making my way toward the head of the inlet, but keeping always under tho pro tection of the woods. While going cau tiously along I was startled by tho notes of a bugle ringing out some military call not far away, and a moment later the gunboat replied with a gun, then steamed out to sea. Continuing my progress through the woods, I came to the road, and hiding securely in a thicket where I could see unseen I watched. Soon I heard the sound of voices, and then a detail of armed men passed, going leisurely east, escorting an empty wagon drawn by four mules. It meant much, these armed escorts, showing they were in the face of the enemy. Several others p:u*ed during the hour of my watch; then, with many cautious glances up and down the road, I slipped quietly across and crept for two hours through the jungle. Making my way to the side of the bay, I sow I had left the military post behind ma Thero were white barracks and a wharf with people walking on it, and here the road and beach were one. This much discovered, I went a safe distance into the jungle and lay down to have a good sleep, feeling I would need all my energy and strength for the coming pight, as it promised to be a critical one, especially as I could not afford to wait for the moon to go down and would not have the shelter of darkness, for the moonlight was so powerful that ono could easily read print by it. I slept until dark and awoke refresh ed, then lunched and nearly finished my last bottle of water. I bad only sufficient food for two ipore light meals. After lunch I smoked for an hrm*. *>*«— and philosophizing. At it o'clock, emerg ing into the road, I started cautiously out, walking in tho shadow of tho jun- I cUmhad Uijhtly over the ralltnQ. gle as much as possible. I thought the head of the inlet was about ten miles away and expected to find a military post or at least a picket stationed there. Daylight once more. But it found me happy and content, for tho difficulties of the passage of tho wide inlet which had confronted mo tho night before had all been surmounted. I was now in a dense ly wooded point on tho western side of tho bay. Between mo and San Diego lay a wild no man's land of 50 miles. That meant only two nights more of peril and uncertainty, and it was all straight go ing. So far as tho coast lino was con cerned, I was outeido of tho Spanish lines. Tired out and very well content ed, Just as tho sun rose fiery red above tho horizon I lay down and was at once iu dreamland. At noon, hungry and with only a few ounces of food to satis fy my hunger, I woke. Finishing my last bit of ham and bread, I lit a cigar and set about planning. Pulling out my littlo map, I began to scan it for tho thousandth time. About six miles to the north was tho little town of San Miguel. Between me and San Diego lay 50 miles of wild country, swept by fire and sword, without an inhabitant and without food. Hungry as I already was, I felt it would not do to undertake a two days' journey through that wilderness without eating. Of course I made a mistake. I was clear of tho toils, and I ought to have taken every and any chance rather than enter the enemy's lines again. I rosolved soon as ni- 'it came to set out for San Miguel, watt -i my chance to enter a shop and purchase food, then boating a hasty retreat strike out across tho country straight for San Diego, thero to find myself among friends. I set out and without any particular adventure arrived about 9 o'clock at San Miguel. It proved to be a hamlet with tho houses ranged close together on opposite sides of tho streets. Tho moonlight cast a deep shadow on one side, while the opposite side was almost like day. I stood in tho deep shadow watching. The first building was evi dently a police or military barrack. The door was wide open, but bo one was visi ble inside. About five doors off was a shop, but the door was closed, and from where I stood there appeared no sign of life within. I waited about ten minutes, and rashly concluding that there was no one save the proprietor there I stepped out of the shadow into tho moonlight, and hurrying across the btreet put iuy hand on tho door, opened it and step ping within found myself in the pres ence of 20 soldiers, all gossiping, smok ing or gambling. Bolts and csu'tridge burets alung with bayonets decorated the walls or were lying about on boxe« and barrels. All eyes wore turned on me. I saw myself in a fearful trap and nothing but consummate coolness could keep them from questioning me. My heart beat fast, but with an affectation of indiffer ence I saluted and said, "Bueuas noehes, senoree." They all returned my salutation, but looked at each other eagerly, each waiting for the other to qnestion me. I stepped to the counter and asked for brt ad. Two loaves were given me. 1 picked up some cakes and paid for them. From the door I turned, and put uijg my dignity into a bow 1 said good Uight. They all seemed held by a spell, but they looked and were dangerous as death. I closed the door, fully realizing my peril, feeling the storm would break the instant I was out of sight. Fortu nately there waa no one near, and I ran swiftly across the 6treet into the pro tecting shadow and crouched down in a dark space between two houses. The cactuslike weeds grew there and pricked me, but I heeded them not, for that in stant the soldiers poured ont of the shop, an angry and wxcited mob, buckling on their belts, cartridge boxes and bayonets as they ran. Some had their muskets, others hastened to get them, and all save two stragglers rushed out of the town in the direction from which I had en tered. I wondered at this, but soon dis covered the reason. Some few women, hearing the tumult., came into the street, but seeing nothing went in again. The stragglers all disappeared, and the street was quiet I came out of my corner and hurried in the shadow down the road in the op posite direction to the course followed by my pursuers. Arriving at the last house at the foot of the street, 1 found myself confronted by a small river, quiet and apparently deep, with all the space from the last house to the river one impassable barrier of giant cactus. I had either to swim the river or turn back, and I ought to have plunged in as I was, revolver and all, the distance over being short, and as I am an expert swimmer I could easily have got across, loaded down as I was. 13ut a contempt ible trifle had weight enough to cause me to adopt the suicidal course of turn ing back. I was very hungry and longed for the cake*) and bread I carried, and I thought If I swam the stream,, they would be soaked and probably lost, for I had them loose in my arms. Besides I was over confident of my ability to escape my pur suers. They had marched by the road that led behind the village to the bridge crossing the river some distance up. Evidently not seeing me, they took it for granted I knew of the bridge and had gone that way. In a fatal moment I retraced my steps. As I passed a house three women came out They spoke to me, and in my ex citement, instead of saying "Good even ing" in Spanish (Buenas noches), I said "Good morning" (Buenasdias). They of course saw I was a stranger. Just then four soldiers came hurried ly into the street from the road, and I was forced to leave the women and crouch down in my former hiding place. Then they did what women seldom do —betrayed the fugitive. Calling to the soldiers, they pointed out the place I was in. All four came running, and in a moment were almost on top of me. I presented my revolver and snapped the trigger twice without exploding the cartridges. They were too close or too excited to use their muskets, but all four grappled with mo and naturally used me pretty roughly. Thoxo TI4IS U tCUL&mc li ullnt?c»lo«> 111 response to their cries their comrades camo running in. By the time they had hustled me across the street into the shop thero was a mob of half a hundred around me. Soon the commander, a captain, appeared. I wish I could say he was a gentleman, but he was not Ho was a little, peppery young fellow, apparently with negro blood in his veins and dictatoral and insulting in manner. Surely I was an object—a tramp in appearance—but with a diamond ring on my finger, which I had taken from my pocket and slipped on, a revolvei strapped to my waist and a splendid chronometer in my pocket. Stich an ob ject bad never before loomed on theii horizon. Was not one glance enough tc show that I must be a notable rebel 1 And there was but one doom for such. My desperate situation cast out all fear, and I was cold and haughty. Flour ishing my police passport, I informed him that I was Stanley W. Parish oi New York, a correspondent of the New York Herald, and he had better look out what he was about. But it was evident that police pass ports made out in Havana had no cur rency in the faco of the enemy, but at any rate it proved that whatever my in tentions might be I had at least hailed last from Havana,and this would prevent my peppory captain from enjoying th€ pleasure of standing me up in the morn ing to be fusilladed, such being the law for captives in the savage contest. Down my gentleman sat on a barrel, pompous and important, and ordered me to be eaarchod. All this time a dozen hands wore holding me fast. I told my officer ho was a fool and a down, but my captors began to go through my pockots, and speedily there was a heap of gold and paper money on tho barrel, and my littlo friend fingered it with a oovotous eye. I had my SIO,OOO in bond* pinned iu tho sleeve of my undershirt This they missed, but found all else I oarriod. In the meantime there was an eager audience looking on, absorlted in the interest of the scene. Thero was a collection indeed oil that barrel. Besides my ring, there were fivo other valuable diamonds, and my chro nometer, with its regular beat and stem winding arrangement, was a groat curiosity. Then the heap of money was a loadstone for all their hungry eyes. The captain was making out an inven tory and statement, while I stood white with rage to seo the half breeds, blacks, browns and yellows haudle my property so freely. I was especially in a rage with tho impudent captain, who had the nerve to put my watch in his pocket. Absorbed by the interest of the scene, my captors had insensibly loosened their hold, and I determined to have some satisfaction out of the captain. Sudden ly seizing one of the revolvers before I could bo stopped, I gave him a stinging blow with it and sprung on him. We rolled on the floor, and there was a scene. I was dragg<«d off by 50 hands, every ono trying to soizo me if only by one hand. The captain got up with the blood running down his face, and rush ing to a peg he seized a sat>er bayonet and flew at me like a mad bull. I shout ed at him in Spanish, calling him a cur and coward, bidding him to come on. He was not unwilling while my captors held me firmly exposed to his assault. Another second would have ended my life, when a woman spectator, who stood near nursing a child, threw her arms around him. This, joined to my indifference, for I continued my jeers and taunts, changed his purpose, to my disappointment, for I preferred death to going back to Havana Ten days after I soiled once more into Havana, this time a prisoner. Two days after my capture, by order of the captain general of Cuba, I was put on board the little gunboat Santa Rita, a wretched little tub that steamed four miles an hour and took eight days going from Puerto Novo on the south to Ha vana I wan taken by a guard of soldiers to the common corridor was cleared ot its inmates to mak.t roum for me and my guards. Cap tain llnkt-rtou was thetirst man ucu 1L Be of oours# was delighted to so me. While giving me credit for my ~n his own account. One of his men, of the name of Perry, used to sleep in my little room with me, and every morning Curtin would relieve him, remaining until dinner time. We had many long talks on all sorts of sub jects, and he gave me many inside his tories of famous criminal cases which he had been engaged in. In time we be came very good friends, ami I am happy to state that Captain John Curtin is to day well and hearty, a prosperous man and very generally respited by the citi zens of San Francisco, where lie lives. About ten days after my arrival he brought mo a New York Herald con taining these dispatcher: [Special to New York Herald.] MAPHID, April 1-, 1873. Tho American embassador, General Sickles, has formally notified Senor Cavtelar that the American government will consent U> the cur render to the Britiah government of Austin Bid well, now under arrtst in Havana upon charge of being concerned in the Bank of Eng land forgery. [Special to New York Herald.] LONDON, April 12, 1873. To the great gratification of the authorities here official ronflnnation is given to the ru mor that tho Spanish government has con elnded to grant the extradition of Austin Bid well, now under arrest in Havana. There seems to be no doubt that Bidwell is the mys terious Frederick Albert Warren, and there is a very general curiosity to see him. Many conflicting stories have b*-en published of his extraordinary escape and equally extraor dinary capture. The Times' report had it that he was mortally wounded and that he had on his person when captured diamonds to an enormous value, which had disappeared soon after. Sergeants Haydcn and Green of the Bow Htreet force and Mr. Good of the Bank of England sail on the Java tomorrow to escort Bidwell to London. So tho web was closing in on me. Of my daily sad interviews with my wife I will say nothing here. In due time Green, Hayden and Good arrived and were introduced to me. I did not give in, but made, by the aid of my frirtids, a hard fight to persuade the captain gen eral to suspend the order for my deliv ery and succeeded for a time. At last, after many delays and many plans, early one May morning I was taken to the mouth of the harbor. There the boat of tho English warship Vul ture was in waiting, and I was formally transferred to the English government, and Pinkerton, Curtin, Perry, Hayden and Green went on board with me. Soon after she steamed out of the har bor. Later in the day the Moselle, the regular passenger steamer to Plymouth and Southampton, came out, and about ten miles out at sea was met by the Vul ture's boat, and I and my five guardian;; were transferred to her. At last I was off for England, and it looked very much as if justice would weigh me in her balance after all, the more certainly because I found my wife on tho Moselle. I had secretly resolved never to bo taken back, but intended the first night out of Havana to jump over board, possibly with a cork jacket or something to help keep me afloat. The waters of the gulf were warm, there were many passing ships, and I would tako my chance of surviving tho niirht ana being picked up. But very cleverly Curtin decided to scud my wife with mo and treat me like any other cabin passenger, rightly divining J. would not kill her by committing suicide or going over tho side on chances. I was well treated all the way over, but every night my prayer was that we Sight run on an iceberg or go down, so at my wife might bo spared long years of agony, and I tho misery and degradation of prison lifo. I had obtained a position in Havana for ono of my servants, but Nnnn was returning with me, feeling very bad and most unhappy over tho sure pros pect of my future misery. I was pleased to think ho had hold on to the money I had given him. Altogether he was quite ,000 ahead, and I wanted to make-it ,000. He certainly deserved it for his constancy and affection. Ono lovely June day wo sailed into Plymouth, there to land the mail and such passengers as wanted to take the express to London. I instructed my wife to go to Southampton, while I went ashore with my gnardians. From the London Times, June 10, ifrtß: "Among tho passengers who lauded at Plymouth yesterday morning from tho royal mail steamer Moselle was Austin Bidwell, otherwise F. A. War ren, in charge of Detective Sergeants Michael Hayden and William Green, ac companied by Captain John Curtin and Walter Porry of Mr. Pinkerton's staff. They were joined by Inspector Wallace and Detective Sergeant William Moss of iho city police, who had comedown from London tho previous night to meet tho steamer. "It being known that Bidwell was oxpocted from Havana in the Moselle, an enormous crowd assembled iu Milbay pier to await the return of tho steam tender with tho mail in order to get a sight of the prisoner, and so great was tho crowd that it was with some diffi culty that Bidwell and his escort man aged to reach cabs and were driven to tho Duke of Cornwall hotel ml joining tho railway station. They left by the 12 :43 train for London. A crowd of 20,- 000 persons were present to see them off •nd cheered Bidwell heartily. "Bidwell will bo taken before the lord mayor in tho justice r Kim at the Mansion House thin morning.'' Accompanied by my escort of six, I arrived in London one bright morning Just ae tho mighty masses of that great Babylon were thronging in their thou sands toward Epsom Downs, where on that day tho Derby, that pivotal event in the English year, wvi to be mil. All London was astir and had put on holi day attire, while I, now a poor weed drifting to rot on Lethe's wharf, was on my way to Newgate. Newgate! Then it had come to this! Tho Primrose Way wherein I had walk ed and lived delicately at the expense of honor ended hero. "Whatsoevera mansoweth, that shall ho also reap," was written by one Paul. Tho wisdom of many was hero and con densed in tho wit of one, and one with shrewdest insight into things and a practical knowledge of human history. I was a prisoner in Newgate. Tho very name casts a chill; so, too, does a sight of that granite fortress rising there in the heart of mighty London. Amid all tho throbbing life of that great Baby lon it stands—chill and grim—and lias stood a prison fortress for 500 years. Through all those linked centuries how many thousands of the miserable and heartbroken of every generation have boen garnered within its cold embrace! What sights and sounds thosigild walls have seen and heard! As I paced its gloomy corridors that first night pictures of its past rose before me so grim and terrible that I turned shuddering from them only to remember that I, too, had joined the long unending procession ever flowing through its gates which had heaped its walls to tho top with one inky sea of misery. In tho cruel days of old many a sav age frojm_the lipf of niercilt - judges, but none more terrible than the oue which was to fall on us from l!. lij«r:«-f their ferocious imitator. Justice Arch: 1 dd. I found luy tlu»»> friends already pris oners there, and a party we were. When vv said g >odby that night uu the wharf at Calais, where we sat star gaz iug and phi] -'pliizjug. we little- antici pate»l this reunion. What a rude surprise it was to find how thinKS were conducted in this same Newgate! 1 t• >k it f< r granteur safekeeping. But, no. The system of the convict prison was enforced here and with the same iron rig>T. Strict silence was the rule, along with the ,iU- l..te exclusion of newspapers and all news of the outside world. The rules forbid any delicacy or books being furnished by one's friends from the outside. This iron system is ;is cruel as unpliilosoph ical, for, pending trial, the inmates are more or less living in a perfect agony of mind, which drives many into insau itv or to the verge of insanity, as if di<' me. How, then, can one find oblivion or raze out the written troubles of the brain save in absorption iu books? If I had the pen of Victor Hugo, what a picture I would draw of a mind con sciously going down into the fearful abyss of insanity and making mighty struggles against it, yet looking on the cold walls shutting one in and weighing down the spirit, feeling that the strug gle is ineffectual, the fight all in vain, for the dead, blank walls are staring coldly on you without giving one reflex message, bearing on their gray surface no thought, no response of mind, for they have been looked over with anxious care to discover if any other mind had recorded there some thought which would awake thought in one's own and help to shake off the fearful burden pressing one to earth. As a fivct, a man so situated does—aye, must—make an effort to leave some visible impress of his mind as a message to his kind. It is a natural law, and tne instinct is part of one's being. It is a passion of mind, a longing to be united to the spiritual mass of minds from which the isolated one is suffering an unnatural divorce by hideous material walls. It is t' ' i law which makes tho savage place hi .otem on the rocks, and it is, thanks to the same instinct, that this very (Jay our savants ore finding beneath the foundations of the temples and pal I was dragged off. wo, wsncxi uu\\> atvKoU tno niCPBICIBD plain the baked tablets which tell us tho family histories no loss than the story of tho empires of those days. When the iin- Sress was made on the soft clay to be ro hardened, each writer felt or hoped in the long ages in the faroff unknown, When time ts oUI and buth forgot ifetelf. When water drops have worn the streets of Troy, And blind oblivion swallowed cities up, And mighty states, characterless, are grated To dusty nothing, then some thought, some message from their minds, there impressed on the senseless clay, would bo communi cated to somo other mind and wake a re sponse thera Many a time, with a brain reeling in agony, did I turn and stare blankly at those walls, and in a sort of dumb stu por search them over in hope to find some word, some message impressed there,some scratch of pen or finger nail— it might be a message of misery, some outcry from a wounded spirit, some ex pression of despair. Had thero been one such—lmd there been! Every one of my predecessors had left a message on that smooth painted wall, but the red tape official rogues— the stultified images sans reason sans all imagination—had, after the depar ture of each one, carefully painted over all euch legacies. The hideous cruelty of it all! My blood boils even now when I think of it. Even in tho days of Eliz-abeth the keepers of the Tower of London had enough human feeling to leave untouch «d the inscriptions made by llaleigli and Others, and there they are today, ami today wake a response In the heart of every visitor that looks on them. [TO BE CONTINUED.] THE TELEGRAPHIC "THIRTY." Bow the Cipher, Which la Now Universal, Had 1U Origin. I attended a funeral the other day where there was a lovely flower pieco with the figures "80" in the center. The deceased had beeu familiar all his life with that signal, having been con nected with telegraph or newspaper business for nearly 30 years, and yet I doubt if ever he or any ono who con tributed to tho flower piece knew or dreamed how 80 came to mean any thing, especially finis, or the end. As a part in telegraph history I will explain how this signal, which has some to mean so much, had its origin. Like a great many other expressions, it was started accidentally, an it were. In the infancy of the telegraph business dispatches were sent paid or collect, many of them abbreviated in telegraph ing, and all newspaper dispatches were not only abbreviated, but sent collect. There were no news agencies then, as now, and papers had friends in all tho towns, who were authorized to send them dispatches to bo called for. Every beginner in the art of teleg raphy was given a book of abbrevia tion! and signals, which ho had to com mit to memory and practice till he be came expert in their use. Among those signals that of 30 was found, and it meant "collect pay at the other end. Whether a news dispatch or common business message, if not prepaid, the signal 30 was attached. As all press dispatches were paid for where received, they all had 80 at the end. So when news agencies began their work tlio sig nal was retained, for they were still paid for where received. This signal has come in thrse days tc be a universal finis to all press dis patches, private, special and general, and a secondary meaning, or perhaps, better, a legendary meaning attache* itself as "the end" and is a proper and beautiful expression of the finis of s telegraph operator or any other person. It well may bo a signal to the spirit ual dispatch of a human soul to the great center of rewards and as a noticf to estimat»> its value when received ami "collect pay at tbe othor end."—St. Louis Post Dispatch. :sro4r> PURITANICAL LAWS. How They Round rp DflSnqucnt Ikbtori In Cultured Rostou. "Just wait till I catch him iu iJos t«jn. Then I'll make kim come to the center," remarked -ui aiigry m:iu the other day while roasting a theatrical manager who owed him a fow hundred dollars for ,-ervices rendered i tol.l him that I supposed he would then < lap the debtor into the Chuile9 Street jail. "That's just what I will do if lever cateh him there, you bet" And then the mad actor explained how <.asy it was to get even with people of that sort in the Hub. No matter what the debt, nor where or how it was contracted, all one has to do is to enter a complaint and that settles it. If one who owes is averse to notoriety, he'll hardly take the poor debtor's oath, which releases bim for a certain number cf years, but does not wipe out his obligations, but will linger in the bastile until he caa interest his friends or realize on liis col lateral and settle, I know several New Yorkers who have run against creditors in the bean burg and havo suffered. Some joke about their incarceration and the ques tions put to them during the process of administering the poor debt ' oath, but most all agree that the I u law is a puritanical provisio' ib >uld be materially amended. Bc.-"oi who are dodging process servers a ing a change that will i rr.iit .cm to pay up on tbe installment plsiu .1: stead of being forced to cash in the full amount or remain a guest of the Charles 6treet hotel. If such a law was on the New York statute books and was en forced here—well, the Tombs or some other prison would be holding hundreds who now look as if they owned the town instead of merely owing the townspeople. —New York Letter in Pittsburg Dip patch. Poisoning by Tinned Food. Some light is thrown by The Lancet upon the mysterious cases of poisoning by tinned food which from time to time are reported. They are believed to be due to neglect of the caution against eatiug tinned foods that have been ex posed to the air for some time after bo ing opened. The exact manner in which poisonous substances, technically known as "ptomaines," are generated so rapid ly is not known with certainty, but tho fact that they are produced in sufficient quantity to cause very gravo symptoms of poisoning have been brought out in a multitude of instances. In one well known caso the first half of the contents of a tin of lobster was consumed with no ill effect, but the rest a few days aft erward proved extremely poisonous. It is suggested that as a safeguard manu facturers might label the tins with some such notice as "Tho contents of this tin are perfectly wholesome when eaten fresh from the tin and afford good food, s ut tho public is advised not to exposi, tho contents for any length of time to the injurious influences of the atmosphere." The Lancet writer even goes so far as to suggest that somo such warning might be insisted on by the legislature.—London News. Whero We Are Going. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven we must sail some times with tho wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.—Oliver Wen dell Holmes. Hla Money All In Stocks. "There's money in stocks," said tho man who is young and enthusiastic. "Yes," replied his seasoned friend, "I'm sure there is. I have been put ting half my salary there for the last four years, and it's all thero yet."— Washington Star. Very SlmplA L Talk nbout hunting ostriches; wo do It very simply nowadays. I (ako a inxm* ber of ostrich eggs and fill them with an explosive chemical. n. In the evening tho ostriches approach and sit on the eggs to hatch. TIL —Truth. A Soliloquy. Generous Dealer (examining ring)— ye asks twenty. Ho thinks he'll g' ■ eighteen. It's worth sixteen. I'Ugivg fvtouvii. He I'U Qflsfr'