Rl Re Sr a ANS are 8) odin 3 BE pot of of fetioa, The short man imped throne te | ‘own and ont into the country. After | to a litle tool house and obtained a shovel, with which he dug a deep hole, He then opened the satchel Shifty saw him abstract a few yellow backed He then placed the satchel In the hole, carefully covered it up, put the shovel back in the tool house and silently stole away. Shifty Simmons pow took a promi. nent part in this little drama. He § sneaked up to the tool house and began TA LITTLE STORY OF THE ~ FARMER ARD THE FAKIR X He village of Peapack was mdisnt. It was a legal holiday and the elrcus was town. Every ohe was there drinking In ita Intoxi- delights. The tents had been Md under the Joint eriticlsm of the male population of Peapack, and iniating odor of the menageria x and dee antiy This "man was giving away gold 8. At first the suspicious citi Peapack regarded the thing cold and calculating eye. Phi- ; seemed to be a drug on the | Then four watches were sold acke and a two-dollar bill was n the back of each case. There the Intelligent citizens of Pea- bit) mei the back of the wos The quick ghey Fes. exsic ofc countenance, This pra disappeared, and | at Bh Rimmons with an bleh mad éven that bard: al the varions phenomena of na there is nothing more tantalizing to observe a vacuous looking bere ih of the reals is confi. : frost of the Firat National Bank k the street was deserted. It an though every one was at: the afternoon sesslon of the And yet Wsidp the bank 8 per was going on which was not ut merit. The actors were three e looking gentlemen who were ver tricks with the safe. The consisted of the bank watch. | lay on his back in an indo de. This watchman was and 1 gasped in such an artistic hat he was unable either to OF to exhibit any signs of the al which at times seemed to ng wp within him. © hours later the cashier entered. Was softly and happily tooting In 4 emulation of the steam cali His eves fell upon the watchman. c tooting stopped. They exchanged Ising glances. The cashier ran to vault. The door opened readily at is touch and showed certain unmis takible vacancies within, The cashier at once resumed bis tooting. but an musician might have observed tune was now pitched In quite key. ¥ minutes all Peapack knew " The ban robbery and a circus in p day! opel ho. had fever seen is about the fight he p before he was overpow- ered, but bis conclusion was always he same: And then the little man who limped all the money in a green and out he skipped.” office of the bank the cashier Was bitterly cursing the fate that had to make up a deficiency of $500 : tn bis cash secount | the day before. ” Night Bad dome. Shitty Simmons, with his philanthropte labors, ly walked up Main street to the which he was gracing with his e. A low whistle sounded. Sim- stopped and looked around with apprehension, He had philas- funds in big pockets. Through groping for the shovel Enter the trained beasts—two large, cavernous, bounding, resounding and ravenous bulldogs—who dashed across the field from the farm house in the nest lot Shifty fled. He spent the night just outside the fence and kept an unwink. Ing eye upon the spot where the olive colored satclie] lay buried, As a trict matter of history It shonld it should bie stated that it started rain. ing in torrents shortly afterward, and that the rain continued all night It would indeed often seem as though na. ture was not above a joke, At daybreak next morning there was unusual activity in the eld. A num ber of hired men appeared with spades and lumber. Shifty shook some of the water from his clothes and climbed over fence. “What's going on?” be asked. “We're going to dig potato pits, ” they replied. WL TR ld Bhifty dido’t tke this derelonent It seemed to him that these prospective potato pls were much too pear the buried treasure. He asked for the dwner of the field and found in him old Amddee Plerson. who had bought one of bis watclies tbe day before for £10. “I've Just been looking for you to pay yout back that £19. began Shifty sol emnly. “It's been troubling my miml™ “Oh, that's all right.” replied Amades, “I'm not kicking. That was business snd [ got valuable experience. Any- thing I can do for you?’ “Why, yea” answered Bhifty, *The circus people want to rent a fall to put some oll circus wagons and things on, 111 give you $20 for a year's use of this field.” Amadee scratched his head with a | puzzled motion. “Beems kinder funny they didn't come themselves” he remarked. “Still, i's none of my business. 1 was just going to put some improvements on this Jot and I'd figured on making quite some money ont of it. I'll let you have the fleld for six months for $250 and not a cent less. And I'd want the cash in advince, seding as 1 don't know you” “I'll take 16" Bhifty repllsd, after a suitable pause. “If you'll give me a reo- ecelpt I'll give you the money, diate possession-sud say, just chain up your dogs at night, will yout Thatnizht. In another pouring shower, | Bhifty SBhmnions dug up the Preclons satchel He carried it Joviogly to th tool house and opened it carefully te der the flickering glim of a little lan- fern. He pleked a neatly folded note out of the satchel and read: “My boy Eph Hmnped like the bank burglar and Josh painted the satehel green. We lay for you, The American farmer is quick to learn and 1's a bad business to cheat him out of $10. “AMADEFE PIERSON" In concinsion it may be set down, judging from Shifty's subsequent re- marks and manner, it would seem that there are few things so Irritating as Yor 4 man to be tripped up at Lis own game. —~New York Evening Sun, Russian Lady as Navey, The Lockalonzelger states that the “watchman” at a level crossing on the Ruxslan Southern Rallway, who goes under the name of Alexander Rodicheveky, is really the daughter of a high raflway official. Nhe sought and found work as a pavey on the line some time ago, and proved so intelli reat and industrious as to soon become foreman, When the position as watchman became vacant, It was give en to ber, and she has discharged the duties with unfailing regularity and geal. Chance led to the discovery that the watchman” was a lady, a blue stocking who had taken a University degree, and a distinguished classiond scholar. She disappeared from home dover eighteen months ago, awl hey relatives had given up nll hope of Seclng her ggain, when they heard of the curious employment she had ae cepted, As soon 8% a new watch man can Ue appointed she will be sent back to her paretits, It fs not known why slie gave up her studies to be- come a manual laborer. Her age {a twenty-seven.—London ixpress, Three Great Thoughts, The winner of a prize of one guinea, offered by the London Academy to the person who should select the three most pregnant and felleltous sentences from any nuthers, chose the following three quotations: Fancy plays like a squirrel in tts cin cular prison, and is happy: but im. agination is a pilgrim on the earth—and er home is in Heaven. Huskin. Discouragement is but disenchanted egotism.--Mazzint, The true wisdom {8 tobe always geasonable, and to change with a goad grace in changing circumstances, To love playthings well as a child, to Jead and to settle when the time arrives into a green and sniiling age, 18 to be a good artist in life and deserve well of da yourself’ and your ht eu son. an hour's walk he jumped over a fence | and ran nimbly over a freshly plowed | * field. Shifty laboriously followed, | keeping close to a fringe of trees that | bordered the Held. The short man went | bills. leaving the rest of the contents, inte | an adventurous and honorable youth, WOMAN TRAPP £D APACHES, . ting HE women who have gene with thelr busbands or IT Trothers to make homes \ down in the famous gold WoW mining regions of Tombe stone, In gonthern Arlzonn, are acs counted among the most daring of any in the Territories in the lgst ten years The Apusche Indlans, when Geronimo wag thelr chief, made frequent incurs fons into that part of the country, aml the outrages cotimitted In the homes of settlers and ranchinen among the mountains nnd foothills ara among {he riost atrocious anil borrible ever known by savages. With the conquer ing of the Apaches some twelve years ago by General Miles the fearful slatighter of settlers’ famiiles and cal- tlemen came to an end, but the women who still live In that reglon deserve merit for frequent acts of bravery and coolness in thelr dally life. Mrs. Matty Nugent and ber husband and three children came from a little town near Beranton, Pa. several years apo. They made thelr home seventeen miles east of Tombstone, where they took up one of Uncle Bam's land ¢lalmes and opened a Httle merchandise store for the cowbore snd Mesiean Both the husband and wife became aceustomed to sselng Apache Indians atiout, and they often gave the sav- nges enstoff clothing to keep thers from loafing about thelr home too mach. Oné day in June, while Mr, Nugent had gone smne twenty-five mils aoross country to a ranch hoose, two sirapping strange Apaches armed with knives suddenly appeared io the gettier's home Mrs. Nugent was there with a twelve yearold sen and a smaller daughter, There had been reports for weeks among the settlers that Apache Kid and bis gang of cutthreats and thieves were marauding the reglon, Mrs. Nun gent was sure she had wo deal with the most erue! and ost human Indiana, in the country. That the men had watched her husband tide away from the house shie knew full well. It would be useless to try ww deceive the red shing, Instant thought etd decision alotie were serviceable best she could In the Jargon of Eag- His atl Apache, she Lolly sald that her hastand would be away all day and that she waa glad the Indias had come, beeatize she walited them to help her at some work. That gave the savages a fooling that they need not hurry about whatever slulstor plang they had for the Nugent houss. bold. In less than half an hour the woman, with a smiling face and a» parent deliberation, had cooked a fire breakfast for the Apaches, who sit never uttering so much as a grunt and sll the time watching her every movement, When the mes] was over and the Indians had been given a quantity of tobacce Mrs. Nugent asked them if they would belp her In moving pro vistons into the store at the front of the house, Thore was a sort of cold storage cellarght the back of the house. It wens built of adobe bricks, with a heavy wood door, having big hinges and a basp for a padlock on the oul side. It was without windows nnd the walls ware three foet thick a storage place for the merchandise sold In the little Nugent store. Bust. { lng about the house with a forced energy. but not a moment forgetting the two great, half-naked savages who stood In ber doorway were there for a seftlod purpose, she carried pumerons hams and polls of lard from the store. botise, as If the grostest expedition ware necessary. Then, suddenly call fug the Apaches to the storehouse, hie pralged their strong arma and backs and asked If they would not ecanry a barrel of lard out of the adobe celia to the store, Tha savages vere caught off thelr guard, and, bending low, they began to slowly raise the Leavy barrel, Al that moment Mrz, Nugent saatehed hold of the heavy wood dear, and in a flash she drew [t shut, put the hisup iin place and fastened the padlock ont side, Then, while all manner of Io dian onthe rveachsd Ler ears, she bronght out the two family Winches ter rifles and stood gunrd over the storehouse, Khe with all posstise speed on the bare back of a broticho to the Alling ranch. seven mile away, for help from the cowpuuchers, Lifts in hand, she walked gout the exterior of the store house, wal : for tie Grst evidinse of the lunrise ond Avaches attempting to File gut through the adobe wal Boveral times she fired her rile fn or der to let the men kpoow there was some oue nisatt with firearms. Two thelr reservation, where they have since been in prison. The Indians were not in the Apache Kid band, but years ago they were the murderars of whites, aud are intractable savages, Not the least doubt remalns that they meant to Kil Mrs. Nugent and her children and rob the store of is tonyy. CUBA'S LAST BUCCANEERS. As iare nis the year ISIS the waters adjacent to Porto Rico were infested by a hloedilirsty band of pirates, led by a Spaniard nmmed Confrecigas, It was the proud bos - of the uccapesy chief that he ueithber gave nor asked quarter. In Marvel ry the year men tioned Captain Johan Drake Sloat, who twenty-one years later raised the American flag over California, was placed in command of the sloop-of-war Grampus, with orders to proceed to the West Indies and wipe the pirates ¢™ thq ocean, The Grampus cruised | Speaking oe ft wus | When they reached the su Cthey were In a fainting condition, and hours Iater severn] cowboys came to] the Nugen: Louse, the Indians were | easily taken and were zent back to Lop that stream to Su where his wife of six weeks has heen vigitipg, and from whom he was cut for some ecks ithout catching jot any pirate vessel. One morning, | while the sloop was lying at sachor in the harbor of Ban Juan, a man who { hal swam ashore from a merchant reseel eaptured hy Confrecinas, ree ported that the pirate brig was an- c¢hored in the Boen de Inferno (Mouth af Hell), an ohsctire harhor some miles up the coast, walting to etiack a heavy. fly laden schooner which was to sail from San Juan that very day. Coafrecinag knew the Grampoa well, go to make gure of his prey, Captain Sloat placed a heavily armed crew nnd cannon loaded with grape on board the schooner, and saliied forth. The pirates, unsuspecting any resistatice, bore down on the disguised vessel, with the black flag nnd skuil and cross. bones at the lLrig's masthead, Not 8 move was made ty Sloat and bis crew until the vessels were almost along: side, when the marines arose from} the deck and poured a deadly volley | frito the brig. Confrecinas rallied his men, and for some time kept up a running fight, showing great skill in manipulating his erippled vessel. He was finally forced to run his trig ashore, bhuccaneer chief, were captured by wilting soldiers. They were taken to San Juan, court-martialed the next day, and shot, Confrecinas was the last to dle. When they attempted to hind lls eyes he threw the men aside, ridiculed the priest, and exclaimed In a loud voice: “I have slain hundreds with my own hands, and 1 know how fo dis. Flrel” He fell pierced by many bullets, the last and most bloodihirsty of the hues cancers of that reglon~Harper's Weekly. THE SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE. The spirit of adventure existy in many men today, as strongly as it did In the days of Ivanhoe and Rich ard the Lin-Hearted, Danger seems to have a perennial chinrm,. Bome men | go to war for patriotism, but more go with the feelings which lead one band of small boys fo seek combat swith another. Expeditions toward the | poles are Justified on sclentific grousils, but the actual men who compose them are ted by the longing for adventure, The steamer Discovery 18 now {oes bannd in the Antarctic rezlons, await ing relief from Great Britain, What contributions on subjects of botany, geography, Ulology and magnetism have been made by her voyage, we do not yet know. What we do know | about, and what impresses most Loth the popular imagination and the ex: plorérs themselves, {8 the serles of deamatleo adventures. One period of darkness lasted oue hundred nnd twenty-one days. A lenteumnt fell twenty feet anid was saved on the brink of a precipice of twenty-five hun dred feet Beveral men slipped on A glacier, and all were able to dig thelr knives fnto the blue joa and check thelr progress toward destruction, ex: cept Thomas Vance, who was hurtied over the precipice with a final scream. Clarence Hare slept #ix days and a half, without sawaking, in a bed of stow, Twelve men were hiown inte the coean by the wind, and saved The dogs died of canna food, and the men hauled the sledger. We all jove to hear of such adreniures, expecinlly when we know that they are real There 1&8 8 wonderful essay by Robert Louis Btovenson, called “The Lantern Bearers,” which explains this charm of adventure mors skilfully than any ather plece of writing that we know, The chart exists in all of ve. 10 some it ta Strong enough to eanse the actual trip to the polar regions, there to face the freezing, and the despernte fall to death. In others ft is only strong enough to give enormons sale to such a book as Nanson's “Farthest North” The man who seeks adventure is still 1 hero, and the rest of us love him for the dangers he has passed. —Colller's Weekly, NARROW ESCAPE. A small company of Alaskan gold: fevkers were walking across one of the great lee fields in that winter boutd country when one of them no- ticed a difference in the Bolor of the lee a few yards before them, Almost 4% he spoke, however, the treachercus costing of thin ice across a Jagged crevasse gave way, ond with an awful ery the two lotetost men went down with the ernin billing, gilttering surface. A third man would have followed, but i i bls gun Jodged crosswise in the crevice diapatehed her bay and saved him, Ths other two bad Paunk out of sight only tine volees gulding thelr rescuers. Blankets were torn ato strips and all the avaliable Prong pasd as well to reach the vafor- 1 inate prisotiers, to whony batchets Paleo bad to be jowered to hoek thelr way out, Fo tightly had they been Jamimed in between tae low bowlders Gy thelr fall of fifty fest or more, riace ngain it was many days btfors they recov. ered from the effects of the thine span ia that oy tomb A LEANDER IN MISRSOURL J. A. Board, aged elghty-nine years, swam the flooded Platte River, halt a | wile wide, in arder to got from his Ptewporary bome in the country east Jozeph, Mo, off by the ficod. His feat was witnessed hy some famlileg along the river bank, who chicered him lusiiy The river was a raging torrent where he breasted it, but it was the narrow. ext point acrosy Jor many miles, Mn Saard was completely exhausted when he reached the other side, but was nome | the worse for his pl lucky deed. eR 4m 3 po hb mes Only about two per cent. of the ra dlant energy that cones to us from the sun is capable of affeciing the Lumar eye, » Forty of the crew, with the} BUCH LOVELY BOT 31 our backs 10 you- Ve are rofl rude you know: OY nurse has Tied each hifi sash- In such » lovely bow: ° = Pittsburg Dispatel, Katie lind reached an nzge when sto grombied from morning till night. Xr} it rained, she longed for sunshine; i the sun shone forth in all his gis. od ing into her eye. much patience ax girls, you know™ cehiedd In Katie's Lesrt and mind, “Compinising, complaining, complains log. she finally cried in despair. “I wish Jack had never sald that to me. i an so sick of that horrid old word” “Why not stop it, then, my dear” fall Aunt Allee, who «at sewing near hy, “I overheard what you were say. ing and have wondered for a long time any over aad] It Rn a ores, ped aed fontin) Pe = why my sweet little Katie didn't ty to tvercame that fagit” 500, A aor All Qn" Katia replied, throwing herself Into her aunt's arms, “1 am going to fry, bot anyway Jack wag cross to re this morning” “Jack was only in a Lurry, that was all sald Aunt Alice, a twinkle Creep ayy haven't as Katie dried Wer eves, snd with a smiling aos then and there sof herself to work to show ber mother and father anil indeed all the housahiald that she cold and would stop granibling. Nora, the cook, questioned long and Iond as to what had bappeaed to “Mise [ Katie,” and asked Aunt Alice quietly she wanted rain to make a puddie In Lit abe thought she was sick the yard, and so things were goizg Fuck was quite beside himself wit THE FOX do PUZZLE. eave bon Sanh Ey : There Is another fas rd two ducks here. Find them, from bad to worse, and worse to evigi worse than that One morning Jack, her hig brothes, called to ber from the porch, where he are. “Come our here a minute, as 1 went to show you something” “Oh, 1 can’t” responded Rattle, “Yy feces gobs and my shoestring zs broken, and If golng to rain, tee” “Fur pity’s sake, Katie, do be cheer: “Xen am’ ful, please” Jack reniled iways complaining.” Beelng nothing to indicate that Kalle was coming, Juek slung his pask of books over hia shionlder, and, w whistling } Amery tune, went off 16 soba, Katie stood for a mown sean. gointely peering between the curtaing fit hor Big brother, whan in her innay. most heart she adored. “1 wonder if ke dows think wave comiplaining.” sli didn’ wilt for me. thon he's a mean old thing arywas” Bit. strange to say. a te4r or vo roitmd s:owiy down the child's chubby cheek, . All day long at schoo! Jack's words 1 word ior aud told ev cry body far and near that [de Hiile sister was a “brick.” oR is the sunhiest [tile creature” he Leotifided to his chum, “and can beat stood] with his schoolbooks onder Ris! any soater in own” Sa Grombing Katie became Sune shiny Katie, and in gulte a short space suf tune, too~Chicags Record-Heraldh ————————— THE DANCING PEA, This ts a refmarkaniy simple but ab ways sarprising and elective trick. Wh pertuniter ales the som of 8 Spmken clay pipe or 2 strgw and, Bold rar it perpendicular to bis mouth, pliess a pea quickly upon the unper eo. Then he makes the pia bop wp and down to a ively tune on the Pine, The whole trick consizste in stick! 8 ot thin peedls nto the pes, foiees It always to return to ity place oA yf of thin wire can be vsod ine ad of the peedie, which fn order to i] ain fuvisilie, shag! pot be brisbt fang ashing, Care must be taken that sh tee Ye or wire 1s fastened well into {the pea, so that it «ill not drop inte the performer's weuth.~New York i Fn a The pormal Lhuwan eye ean read lot. tots seven -Iwentisths of an inch high at a distanee of twenty feet. Inability to do this shows defective sight. whlch should be corrected wita glasses » : This
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