fHED BY DAVID CHATTER XIX. (Continued.) "Well," sold Harvey, "I'm leaving ev crythlng, ami I don't know why or therefore. I leave it to you, but don't fou think It tlmo you let mo know some thing clelinltoV" "You may think mo crnr.od, I dnre liny," oalil Jet lime, "hut I have whni mountfi to n fixed belief that IT I speak iny secret boforo the tlmo I shall never Jive to profit by It. You shall know till In Rood time, and meantime you've only rot to believe thnt I mean well by you. 5 tell you, Harvey, I'm going to ninki' you the wealthiest man In thu world, In fix months we can be back, prepared to buy up the Rothschilds between us, and when I'm gono you'll havo my Hhnro an Yrell ns your own. There won't bo an Emperor, my lord, who'll tako airs with Harvey Jethroe the younger." Jcl'iroo had booked liiniHolf for the y 'k -h I'.i Ii n-lHon, and had entered JIurvey iinikr an aliau also. lie had purposely chosen a bout by which he had never nailed before. IIIh confidence) In kla disgulso was Hhakcn, but ho wan pre pared to faco any and nil suspicions with n perfect effrontery. It would have been a strong likeness indeed, which would havo convicted him against the absolute Rang frold of the denial with which ho whs ready. Aa It chanced, he was not called upon for tho denial at ll. There was a ntoward aboard tho bont with whom ho had traveled upon Another line, and who from time to time looked nt him curiously. Hut If the stew ard over allied Jethroo and Richardson In his mind at all, ho must have dismiss ed tho fancy Instantly, for tho Mr. Jeth roo ho had known was i power In tho Btnte, and a man reputedly made of money, and why on earth should a mill ionaire have disguised himself and gono tinder nn alias? Tho voyage passed without adventure. The landing was as uneventful; the jour ney up country passed without recogni tion or Incident which calls for narration. But nt last the two nrrlved at a station with great hills rising on the far horizon, snd they passed tho night at n woathor bonrd shanty of n hotel with a roof of eorrugatcd zinc, on which a rain shower played a thundering concerto as they lay bed. Before they slept Jethroe had been ebrond bargain making, and in the morn ing there were two wiry saddle horstw fit tho door, and a baggage cart laden With nil tnnnner of bags and boxes, with four upstanding mules hnrnessed to It. A lialf-brcod had charge of the cart, and tho small cavalcade Btarted In the cool of tho day. Nobody in tho Hlcepy township seemed to bare noted either their coming or f:olng. Thoeo who had Ijcon npproachod n tho way of business had done their little bit of trade and had thought no more about It. Ah to the business of the travelers, whence thoy enme and whither tliey were bound, there was no more in terest in them than if they had been a tpnir of house flics. They came, they Went out Into tho desert unregarded Thero were a hundred places to which they might have been going, and the people who made up the township did ftot caro whether they were going to them all, or driving out to dio In tho wilder ness. This absolute indifference suited Jeth roo to admiration. Nothing could haw initcd his purpose better, and ho mount ed In high good humor. "Is tho time yet here? asked liar- wav nt. Mini TnnAil ilin vnaf nrmitiAnt nf the wilderness, which would have seem td Interminable but for tho blue barrier of the hills miles and miles away. "Am I to know on what wise errand I am go ing?" "Now's the time!" cried Jethroe. "I've taken pains to know that our guide bo bind us doosn't speak a word of Eng lish, and here, ut least, we're pretty safe from listeners. All tho same, we'll ride Out of earshot. I shouldn't bo in thu least surprised to learn that one of the Very mules was Little William in dis tulse." Ho put in spurs and galloped for some two or three hundred yards, nnd Harvey followed his lead. "Now," said Jethroe, turning on htm with n glittering cyo, "I can tell you. "I'm Inking you, Ilarvoy, to what poor old Zelknr christened Diamond river, a . tolace compared with which Slnbad s val ley was not n circumstance." ley "Who wns Zelkar?" naked Harvey. Ue was mightily little moved as yet. "Zelkar," returned his undo, "was a Hungarian Jew, who wns famous in his 4ny an a chess player and now famous fttlll na a constructor of chess problems, lie wns not the discoverer of Diamond Ever, nnd ho never saw it, but be was i n sort of way tho chronicler and carto grapher of it. Let mo begin nt the be Jr nlng. "Onme Wiley first enmo out to Brazil fears and years ago long boforo my line. The natives were thorough-going i tnges then, but Wlloy got along with Urn well enough, nnd ho wns in this re gion off nnd on for threo years. Got down to the coast twice In all that time. Sec ond time ho was there back to some ort of wild approach to civilization ho eets a fellow by tho namo of Kaster, who was on the point of sailing for Eu rope with the very first big diamond tcr found in Brazil. 'Is this diamond of tours in the rough?' says WHoy to ICas ter. 'Yco,' Bays KaBterj 'but It's n fiuo Lis atone nnd it bids fair to bo worth a lot o monoy.' 'I should like to look nt it,' Bays Wiley, and Kaster makes no ndo tbout tho matter at all, but just unpacks la kit nnd shows Wiley the stone, 'You ion't mean to any that thlns'a a dia 3 J IAM0ND RIVER MURRAY mond?' says Wiley. 'But I do, rather,' syn Kaster. 'Well,' says Wiley, 'I'll have u spell up country and coino back and buy out tho Rothschilds. I know whom there's thousands of 'em.' Kaster argued that It was easy to mistake a diamond that Is, for an ignoramus like Wiley, who knew nothing in tho world and cared for nothing In tho world but big gamo shooting but Wiley stuck to it. Ho knew tho bed of u dried-tip river up country which was strewn thick with 'em. He'd picked 'cm up, handled 'em and never dreamed that they had nny xpcclnl value. Not a bit like diamonds In a jeweler's window. It was likely enough that Wiley thought they woro dug up already cut and polished. Well, Kaster took his quo big stono to Europe. It was polished in Amster dam. It sold for twelve thousand pounds. 'Pl.ni nln.m ,.t t.lll.t T." ...... I. couldn't Rtand It. lie went on one un bounded bender of a sprco nnd died be fore he hnd spent n quarter of the money. Hut Wiley, meantime, wont up country, not believing much, so far as I can make out, in the diamond idea, but quite per suaded, nil the Bame, that if Kaster's stono wns a diamond, ho could pick 'cm up like pebbles on a- beach. He wns away this time about a yenr nnd n hnlf, and when he got down to the const again he hnd been very badly mauled. He had got Into close quartern with a lion, and ho was fairly spoiled for life. "I can't tell you half the story, but tho natives had got fond of him tor some reason or another, and they nursed him and they pulled him round in a measure, nnd they got him down to the coast again. The boast had spared his vitals, but he had no use of either log or of his left nrm. I never saw the man, but I know those who knew him well, and they have told mo ho had to bo carried about, and dressed and undressed and put to bed nnd taken out again like n baby. "Wiley had plenty of money, and could havo gone home nnd finished his career; but Brazil had got into the soul of him. 1 shall die here. Ilarvoy; I shall have to be in reach of the mountains when my tlmo comes. Wiley stuck on, nnd he wns very queer, lie used to Hugh when he talked about It; but ho told his tale about tho river bed full of diamond to anybody who cared to hear it, and the majority of people thought that on this particular point his wits woro turned. "Well, now, old Zelkar comes upon the scene. Zelkar, as I told you, was a Hungarian Jew. He had been in trou ble with Kossuth ages ngo, and he had been In trouble with Mazzini. and he had been in half the prisons of tho Continent for hatching treason of one sort or an other, and nt last, by some strange chance, he drifted out to Brazil, and so on until ho lighted on Wiley. I knew Zelkar in ltis into days, as I shall toll you when I come to my own share in tho story. Outside his politics he had only one interest In tho world; it was the royal game of chess. I do believe that you might have lit a slow fire under old Zelkar when once he hnd fairly set tled down to a gamo ho got so nston Ishingly absorbed. Wiley turned out n sort of protector for him, nnd n local carpenter, who was clever at the lathe, turned 'em out a set of chessmen and a board; for there was nothing of thnt sort to bo bought nearer than Ulo Janeiro, and the two played together every day. It catno out that Zelkar s great passion was the mnklng of chesa problems, nnd Wiley set him to work nt It. All the problems you hnve seen nnd worked nt were mnde by Zelkar. but the old man was kept In Ignorance of the purpose he wns working for. All he knew was that his patron Would say to him: I want you to Invent mo a problem In which the black king shall be forced to such and such a square.' Zelkar thought this a mcro caprice, nnd slnco Wiley nlwnys gave him n gold coin when he hnd tested nnd npproved the problem. It served bis turn no well that he would havo asked for nothing better all his life. "Ho was working two or threo prob lems n week It wns no sort of tnsk for him, for ho hnd n perfect genius for tho work and all on a sudden lie mnde the discovery that he was working on n plan. Ho found one day In Wiley's room be tween the title page and the binding of n big Bible a sheet of cartridge paper markcd out for n chess board, and o'ich of its squares marked with a letter. The whole nlphnbot was used up twice, and ns far again ns wns needed to cover ev ery square on the board. He had In his pocketbook tho roughly penciled notes of his problems, and it occurred to him to go over them. He found that the letters on tho successive squares on which tho black king stood in the problems as they camo In order Bpelled out words in rea sonable sequence. Ho took a note of the board, for the letters were distributed all nbout It at hnphnzard. And so It came to pass, as they used to say in old times, that when nil tho problems were mnde Hint Wiley wanted, old Zelknr hnd got tho wholo Inscription. Wiley, I ought to tell you, professed to hnvo brought a score of the finest stones nway with him, but ho lost them when he got maul ed by tho Hon. The natives who rescued him and took care of him hnd no Iden of their value, and left them bohlud. CHAPTER XX. "Wiley, aa I told you, hnd talked about his discovery to anybody and ovcrybody, but ho hnd never given a ghost of n hint ns to where It lay. Nobody could hav guessed within five hnndrcd miles, even if anybody had taken tbe trouble. Moat people took tt for a craxt, but eld Zblkar I believed It, nud lie mailt) all me prui lein drawings I have about me now, ami tho plan of tho board with Ita letterings, and he used to go nbout offering to guide people if they would only find tho money for the expedition mid go halves with him. He couldn't find a soul to heltovo in him or his diamonds, nnd when It ennie to Wiley's knowledge that the old Hebrew hnd uttered to betray tho treasure, he swore he'd shoot him nt sight. That kept Zelkar out of Wiley's way, bh you may very well imagine, and, with his only patron gone, tho problem worker wns bo hard up that he was with out food for days together. "This Is where I come In. In thoso days -it's fifteon years ngo now 1 be-' Iongc I to n syndicate which had arrang ed to prospect for g ld. It wns a meas ly sort of an affair, and it never camo to much. It was called the Ezekiel Com pany, because nn old Jew of that iinmo had been Its founder. There were a doz en of us nltogethcr. nnd n bigger set of cut-throats than you could havo found among us was never seen in the world. Tho whole crowd of us wero down at a place called Anipslo together when I met Zelkar, and henrd the story of tho treas ure the river-bed full of diamonds. I laughed nt It, ns everybody else had laughed, nnd I chaffed old Zelkar about It until I found that he was literally dy ing of starvation. I fed him up, of course, nnd wo nil went up-country for a week to look nt n place we'd heard of. It turned out good for nothing, and wo came back. Zelknr was on the hard pnn once more. Ho offered me his problems on parchment, saying nothing, of course, about their meaning. I didn't wnnt 'em, but finally, out of pity for the old chap, I bought 'cm. The whole gang of the syndicato was thero at tho time. "Tho old boy used to hang nbout after this and hint nnd hint nbout i-ome mys terious value that attached to his prob lems until I was sick of him. But ono day, when ho was bothering me. it oc curred to me to say: 'Look hero, old chap, I know nil nbout It; you've sold me Diamond river.' It was the strangest thing that over happened In my life. It wasn't even drawing a bow at n venture. What I Bald hadn't nny real meaning to myself. It was a more piece of silly banter. But I had no sooner spoken than Zolkar let out a cry, nnd came Btralght for mo with a face as pale as nshes. 'How do you know?' says be. nil trembling nnd shaking and staring. You never saw n fellow in such n stnte n ho wns. I looked nt him very straight, and I said, 'Well. Zelkar, I didn't know anything, but you've given me something to think nbout.' He went away without a word, but lie sent me one or two of the queerest looks I ever saw, and sev eral of tho rulllans of the syndicate who happened to be thero nt the time wero quite fixed in their own minds thnt thero was a good deal In It. "The next thing I knew was that Wiley was dead, and it wns said that ho had put his problems and his plan Into tho hands of a young Englishman, a dis tant relative of his, and had explained everything to him. The youngster went up-country, but tho native tribes were nt war among themselves, and the expedi tion camo to grief. Problems and plan wero lost In tho wilderness. The lad was shot, but he mnnnged to send down some kind of mutilated message. He had actually found Diamond river. There was no mistake about that. Perhaps it was through his fever, or he may have written in hnsto and llurry, but though his one professed purpose In writing was to tell tho whereabouts of the find, ho gave no intelligence of it nt nil. And so the thing died out of reir-embrance for years and years. I thought that Zelkar must bo dead for n certainty, for tho legend of n dried up watercourse full of diamonds as big as pigeon's eggs was common property, nnd he would hnvo been able to find nny number of men to back hhn. Thero were lots of men, too, who knew how Wiley hnd meant to lock up his secret in tiie chess problem. "It turned out that Zelkar was nllvo after nil, but he wns ns helpless ns if ho hnd never hnd n inkling of the secret. Ho had never had an inkling of the secret. He in which he had kept n record of his problems, but the theft wns useless, be cause the thief hnd fulled to secure tho key. Whon I lighted on Zelknr two years ngo he wns n wreck, senile, ragged, homeless. He was still maundering nbout his river of diamonds, aud would get a drink from n new chum sometimes by allowing his key to ft puzzle which every body supposed to bo undecipherable until the day of judgment, ne did not know mo when wo met, but he Jumped at tho chanco of selling his worthless bit of parchment for a ten dollar note. I didn't net unfairly by him, for I bought him an annuity, which he didn't enjoy long, poor old beggar 1" "But the Ezekiol firm, and Little Wil liam, nnd Mr. Taylor?" asked Harvey, when his uncle had mnde a seeming end of his story. (To be continued.) Tlio Itoiort Courfoim. An excellent story nbout Jnmes Mc Neill Whistler, which Is thoroughly characteristic of "the gentle master of all thnt Is fino nnd flippant In nrt," is going round In artlstb: circles. A cer tain gentleman whoso portrait Whe ther had painted failed to appreciate the work, and finally remarked: "Aft er nil, Mr,. Whistler, you can't call that a great work of art." "Perhaps not," replied tho painter, "but then you enn't call yourself a great work of naturel" DrunknrdH Kent Horn- in Cnrrlncnu. In Denmark It is tho law thnt all drunken persons shall bo taken to their homes In carriages provided at tho exponso of the publican who sold them tbo last glasi. A man may be a hopeless Idiot, but bo woman will admit It after bo has propowod luurrlnpo to u GOOD torles I In talking with n young Ynlo grad uate wlio had been at tho recent com nKiicoincnt, n newspaper man nsketl whether be hnd heard uny ndverso CJiniueiits on Yale's acceptance of Uockerellcr'a "tainted money." "Well," ho said, "tho only comment I heard wa-i '(ain't enough.' " An extremely unintelligent rhllndcl ph u "icpeator" was arrested at the Inst election in tho Quaker City. Ho asked what crimo was laid at his door, and the policeman replied: "You are ;hurgid with voting twice." "Chargud, am 1? muttered the dazed prisoner; "why," I expected to bo paid for It.' When In New York, F. Marion Crawford has his harboring done and his boots blacked at his ofllce. lie nl wnys has the same men, nnd both are Italians. In cngngiug tho bootblack, Mr. Crawford asked him whero ho wj born. "In Genoa," was tho answer. "Aud what Is your name?" "Patrick Murphy," was tho astonishing reply. "Whero In tho world did you get that namo?" asked tho novelist. "I tnko-a the name after I como hero, so people think-a I tho American," said the boot black. A sculllng-mntch once took plnce un der the auspices of the athletic as sociation at Oxford, tho contestants being a Londoner, of tho Oxford crew, and an irishman, of tho Cambridge crew. The Oxford man won handily, at no stage of the race being In danger of dofeat. So, sure was ho of win ning the contest that In a spirit of fun he ceased rowing several times, and hade the Celt in the rear to "hurry up." When tho rnco was over, tho Irlbhmnu received a good deal of chaff at the hands of all, In view of his over whelming defeat. But to this he mere ly elevated hU eyebrows. "Sure," ho finally consented to reply, "I'd have beaten him easily enough If I'd taken the loug rests that ho took." Professor Nichols, the famous Cor nell physicist, during the recitation of a freshman class In natural philosophy, observed a tall, lanky youth in a rear seat, his bead In a recumbent position, his body In a languid pose, his eyes half closed, and his legs extended fur out in an adjacent aisle. He was either asleep or about to lose con sciousness. "Mr. Frazer," suld tho great scientist, "you may recite." The freshman opened his eyes slowly. Ho did not change his somnolent pose. "Mr. Frazer, what Is work?" "Every thing Is work,"vas tho drawling reply. "What! Everything ig work?" "Yes, sir." "Theu, I tako it, you would like me and the class to believe thnt this desk is work?" "Yes, sir," replied tho youth, wearily, that desk Is wood work." A literary man, who has seven chil dren, recently purchased n country place. This man has rather strenuous I Ideas about bringing up children, in cluding cold baths among the things that are good for them. One morning he carried his youngest, a two-year-old, to the crook near tho houso; and gave him a cold plunge. Tho child ob jected, but the father soused him in again, aud plunged him under. At this Instant a hand grabbed the Spar tan father, and a neighboring fanner, owner of the hand, roared at blm: "Here, none of that! I'll have the law on you for this!" "Aud," said tho lit erary man, "it took me half an hour to convince that man that I was not trying to drown that child. Even then ho wasn't wholly convinced. To the very last minute he kept on Blinking bis head skeptically, and Baying: Wal, I duniio about that. I dunno. You got six besides this.' " WHEN LOST IN THE WOOD& Keep Your Witt), Tuko Time, mid, If Po&oibU'i 1'oUotv Stri-um. "What should you do if lost in tho woods?" Young foresters taking tho civil service examinations for govern ment service used to find this question a favorite, says the Boston Tran script. Lator, most of them havo had more than cue ocension to put their answers to a practical test" Ono ol tho commonest experiences of pcoplo who go to tho woods Is to stray uwny from the trails nnd familiar land marks and lose their bearings. Every yenr brings its quota of stories of lost men nnd women, of search parries organized, of days spent in fruitless quest, and perhaps of tho finding of tho lost ones In wretched condition, ragged, starved, sometimes temporar ily insane from the fright and hard ships. Such experiences as these ure usually duo to panic. They seldom happen to the man who Is able to act with calmness and Judgment. Summer visitors to tho woods aro peculiarly likely to be lo3t, but bo may also pooplo who ore accustomed to living In the wood. No man la n wild coun try la Altogether certain when he goes to the vrooda that ho will find his way back "witbout dllttculty, r santUr tow Shorter 1 '-js-a many times he has been ovor tb same ground. A snow, a forest flr, even a wiudfnll in the forest, may havo obliterated his guide marks and changed utterly" tho appearauca ol things. Every mnn who goes into tho wood should make up his mind that in cast ho Is lost ho will observe n few sin plo common-sense rules of conduct In tho first plnce, he should reBolutely refuse to be frightened. Tho lmme dlnte effect of the discovery that out is lost is usually complete dcmornliziv tion. Tho victim falls Into a pnnU of fear and wants to extricate himseM Immediately. He runs about in dlfr fercnt directions, hallooing, until whnl little seiiBC ho had left is completely gone. Avoid that. If you should mlsl your trail or bo In doubt ns to youl wliereabout8 tho best course Is Aral to Bit down whero you are and thlnS over mutters. It Ts not a serious at fair; be assured of thnt. Thero nrl few regions in this country where a man is not within n day's walk oi some settlement nnd if the season bi summer you havo nothing to feai. Consider -.Iie tnnttcr calmly; use ybw mor'.ory and your reason. Mnko u your mind about the proper dlrcctlet to follow, then tako your courso am rcfU8o to change it without good anl sufllcient cause. Don't hurry; taki your time and when you feel cx hausted atop and rest. Don't try tt travel nt night. A night spent out oi doora In the summer doesn't hurt ixuy body. If you hnve so lost tho oenso of direction that you cannot make U) your mind wfcitt courso to take It If usually best to follow n stream. In a rough country there Is almost uV wayn flowing water. Streams nlwnyi leads to settlements. The way may be long nnd the "going" tortuous, boi stick to your stream nnd it will brlni you out. Keep your eye on the sun, If It li out, nnd get your directions from it Study the contours of the hills nnd mountains, the appearance of the ireci and of the stream. Try to find soma thing familiar. Di?h'tlook for mos on the trees to determine your direc tion. It is not a safe guide. Don't throw nway food or clothing In order to travel faste?. You wlfl probably need both. Keep your confidence. When every thing else Is gone, hold on to thai Getting lost in tho woods is. after all under certain restrictions, 'a raro k.nd of sport,. Thero Is certainly excite ment enough nbout it to stir the most jaded, with plenty of opportunity foi tho exercise of coolness and commos sense. A country like the Adirou (lacks furnishes Ideal conditions fo getting lost nnd getting back again Settlement Is nowhero so far awnj that you ore not within a few hour wnlk of a hotel or n summer cottng nnd think of the romantic possiblU tics of such nn experience. Re Html to tho Whalo, Spenk kindly to the elephant And gently to tho whale, And when you meet the jagnn Plonso do not yank his tail. Kespect tho tiger's feelings, deai His whiskers do not pull: Oh, let your heart with kindllneaa Bo ever, ever full. Oh, do not pinch the python Or punch tho rattlesnake. If you should hurt tho cobra lib l.ttlo heart would break. Don't stick pins in the crocodiU Or irrltnte tho yak; Pray do not bruise the polnr bea By pounding on hia buck. Don't mnko the lion cry, my child. By walking on his toes; Nor slight the hippopotamus By standing on his nose. For nil good children, you must know, Bnch morning gladly sing: "Oh, help me be considerate Of every living thing." -New York Times. Not a Willlni; Vlot'in, The neat, middle-aged matron cd suspiciously at the disreputable looking tramp who had knocked at boi kitchen door. "What do you want, Bho asked. "Would yo mind glvin' mo a ploc o' plo, ma'am?" ho said. "I don't know nbout thnt. I can't say I like the looks of you." "I know I ain't very preposscitnln'l ma'am, but it ain't my fnult. I cau'l afford to dress any bettor." "I'm not speaking of your clothci nltogethcr. You don't look c'lan." "I'm willln' to confess it, ma'am. 1 guess I don't" "And you don't look ns if you cvea combed your hair or took nny sort of caro of yourself." "Well, I reckon that's 'cnuso I llvi close to nnturo." "If you do," sho said, ns sho wen! nfter tho plo, "I'll guarantee it Isn't nature's faultl" ; Notlhn SsmoWItte, Kilson Gaylord'a wife used to b nwfully stout, and now sho Is quit thin. What caused the chango, I wo der? Marlo-ir Divorce. This lon't fki snm wlfA. Town And Country. Almost anybody would rather bun a tady jv than tady work.