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When a man ban a story to tell I believe
Jin should be permitted lo tell It In hi own
nay, and that the render should not sneer
nd crltlclso because tho toller must use mo
personal pronoun and perhaps refer to bl
perception or his prowess. If It Is his
adventure bow can ho avoid aaylnK, "1
did thus or so?" If his couraRO pulled him
out ot n tight plnco why seek to demean
H? A man Is what ho 13. If things have
harpened to him which may bo of Interest
to others, let him wrlto of them as they
took place, whether ho wns a hero or a
craven.
Your"ntlas"wlll show you that the eastern
Carpathian mountains form a portion of tho
boundary lino betweon Servla and Bulgaria,
If you crosa nnywhero to tho north of rirot
you must croas tbo range. In my wander
ings afoot I had plunned to cross tho rango
by the public road between Plrot nnd Nlssa,
but for three days I was a guest at a poor
llttlo -waysldo Inn In the shadow of tho
foothills. This Inn differed In no degree
from a hundred others, being only a
wretched apology for a houso of entcrtaln
tnent, but 1 had mado a long tramp and
wanted a bieathtng spell beforo tho long and
nigged ascent. Tho landlord was a silent.
Tno'roso man, giving mo llttlo attention, and
his wlfo was a sloven with n face which
a enan would look at twlco only for Its
wickedness. Tho beds and the faro were
of tho meanest, but, as I had expected
nothing better, 1 was not disappointed.
On tho fcecond day of my arrival, as 1
vns walking along tho banks of a utream
lialf a mllo from tbo Inn, nn Kngllsh pedes.
rlan camo nlong. That Is, ho was u pe
destrian In tho senso thnt ho was afoot. As
foon as ho learned who I wns, ho told me
that a couBln ot his had Journeyed that way
threo months before, but had mysteriously
disappeared. Tho missing man had been
traced as far as Pirot. Ho was known to
liavo set out for the mountain road, but
lie could not bo traced Into Ilulgarla. Somo
whern on tho mountain trail ho had van'
lshed from sight. The story did not inter
est mo overmuch. American nnd Kngllsh
pedestrians abroad have a habit of dlsap
rearing from tho world now and then, and It
Is learned later on that they were tucked
Rway In somo obscuro Inn or camped amidst
pome old ruin. The searcher passed cn to
my Inn and mado Inquiries, nnd two hours
later Informed mo that he had secured no
news.
That evening a neconil searcher arrived.
Ho was a native Servian, living at I.esko-
vatz, and had been hired by a Frenchman
to prosecute Inquiries regarding tho dlsap
jiparanco ot n young man of 20 who wa:i
making a pedestrian tour. Indeed, I soon
recalled the fact of meeting tho young man
nt Somomlrla two months previously. Ho
bad headuj for thn Carpathians and Bul
garia, and ho had also disappeared In the
mountains, Even whon the two disappear
ances wero coupled together I saw nothing
alarming. It was not until tbo third day
that I felt I had camio for speculation.
Thon a police official, who had been sent
out from Novlbasar by the widowed mother
of a young man who had disappeared as mys
teriously as tho other two, reached tho Inn.
This young man, -who nlmply set out for a
two weeks' tramp In order to boast ot
having crorsed tho Carpathians, had been
traced to within nvo mllii of the Inn, but
the landlord nnd his daughter stoutly denied
that ho had ever reached It. Thcro were
roada by which ho could havo .branched oft
and continued hU way, but yet the official
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was not satisfied. Ho frankly told me that
ho believed young Hull had come to tho
Inn nnd been mado way with for the money
bo carried. I had seen nothing suspicious,
and he had no raal grounds for an accusa
tion, hut he went away saying that he
would havo tho placo -watched.
I was ready to take my departure on
the fourth day, when thcro was a sudden
ehango In the demeanor ot the landlord
and his wife. All at ooco they became ob
sequious and smiling and solicitous. A nlco
lunch was put up for me. and they refused
pay for It. I was given tho clearest direc
tions and "was told that almost as soon as I
had tK'gun tho ascent of the mountain I
would find an Interesting ruin a little oft
tho road. It was something I ought not to
miss, and they kept extolling It until I
promised to turn aside. I set off In good
spirits, though wondering a bit as to tho
sudden nnd singular chango In tho peoplo
ot tho Inn, nnd by noon I had covered a dis
tance of twclvo miles. I passed two Inns
without stopping, nnd HkcwLso tbreo or four
peasants' huts, and whon I sat down to rest
It was on a largo stono by the roadsldo and
clo'o bc3do onci ot tho branches of tho
Danube. I nibbled nt lunch as I rested, and
I had been sitting perhaps twenty minutes
when a young woman with a flsh pole In
her hand suddenly appeared. I gavo her
goodday, as a matter of course, and was
not much surprised when sho laid down her
polo and enmo nnd sat beside mo nnd began
to ask questions. Sho was a peasant girl
of nbout 21, better dresjod and bet
ter looking than tho average, and In ad
dressing a stranger sho broko no rulo of
conventionality according to tho peasant
code. I Invited her to share my lunch, and
presently wo were chatting away llko old
acquaintances.
In 100 Instances the peasants of Scrvla
bad displayed more curiosity than a born
Yankee, but this girl went deeper than
any of them. Some of her questions were
answered and some turned aside, but sho
certainly came to know a good deal about
me. I was a single man. and I had not com
municated with my trlcndB for months. I
wbh strolling from point to point to Btudy
tne people nnd see tho country, nnd was not
expected at nny particular point In Bul
garia. Peasant though sho was, sho had
the gift of n lnwyer In extracting Informa
tion. An hour slipped away, and then n
man nppeared. He was also fishing, or
pretending to, and as he rame In sight she
called him and he Joined us nnd was In
troduced as her brother A glance from face
to face made mo doubt the relationship. In
may own mind I flsured that he was her
husband. He tried to smile and show a
pleasant face, but I Instinctively felt that he
was n rascal. Ho had a furtive eyo and a
bad mouth, and I though I caught signal
between the pair. Such a thing as fear,
however, had no place In my heart, I had
no weapon aside from my stout stick, but I
was ntrald of no man by daylight on a public
highway.
I was ready to movo on, when tho woman
spoko ot the castle ruins. They were only
ii step away, sho said, and If I missed
thum I would be sorry forever after. Tbo
man nt onco added his persuasion, but as 1
was ready to go with them ho claimed to
havo loft his knlfo n hundred rods awaj1
and set out after it and left tho two ot
us to walk on together. Trom tho moment
we started I noticed a change In her. She
looked nbout apprehensively, her laughter
was forced, and her demeanor put me on
jny guard.. It was, as It sho expected m to
bo shot down from ambuih. Had I not
been ablo to seo the old ruins alme.?t as
soon as we started I should have doubted
that they existed. As It was, I found my
self 'wondering If this pair was In any man
ner connected with tho dlsappearanco of tho
tourists. 1 was on my guard for what
might happen, and yet I did not betray
rr.ytclf. I kept up the conversation as we
walked nlong, nnd I am sure sho took mo
for an easy victim. I rather expected to ho
fired on from some rock as soon as we were
off the road, but by and by wo heard tho
man calling from the ruins, nnd I realized
that tho ambush would bo there It any
where. As wo halted on the plateau It was
easy to make out that a vast building had
stood mere once, l enould have slid a
monastery, but tbo woman Insisted that It
was a great castle belonging to somo
mighty prince, and that It had besn
destroyed by an earthquake. We wandered
among tho acre of ruins as wo talked. As
wo nearcd what must havo been tho rear
of tho building, I found that the walls stood
almost on tho brink of a precipice. Hcfore
'opening wo bad to climb up three stono!
steps, nnd sho stood for a moment lcoklngj
out and clinging to the wall for support.
"You will see a fine view a fino view."
she said, as ehe mado room for me. "Step
out nnd look up and down."
I did not step out. Tbcro was something
so modern nbout that platform and It had
been built so deftly that 1 feared It. I sim
ply clung to the wall and thrust my head
out and I wan looking up the valley when
tho woman gave mo n push with all her
strength. Her hand did not strike mo fair
or my hold would havo been broken. I was
whirled half way round and partly thrown
down, but as I recovered my footing I
swept hor aside with my arm and she went
to tho ground with a scream. Next Instant
the man camo dashing through the doorway
I In the wall. He bad a knife In his hand and
j he meant murder. I leaped down to meet
I him, that I might havo frco play for my
staff, and I bcllovo wo battled for ten mln-
ut03. Still lying on tbo ground, the woman
seized my legs and tried to pull mo down,
but I kicked her away and gavo all my at-
THE MAN CAMB DASHING THROUGH THE DOORWAY KNIKK IN HAND.
us was what had been a large room, with
three of tho walls yet standing. There
wcro no less than nvo window openings, anil
as I advanced to one of them tho woman
ta!d:
"No take this one. My brother has built
a platform from which you can look up
and down the valley for miles."
A peculiar something In her voice caused
me to glanco at her fare, and I found It palo
and her features working In a nervous way.
U was tho window, then, which was thu
ambush? My heart beat against my ribs,
but I meant to see tho thing to a finish.
Tho man had called to ur, but we had not
seen him sinco arriving at tho ruins. With
a laugh that sounded more like a croak
the woman pulled herself together and pre
coded me, to tho wudow. To reach tb
tentlon to tho man. Ayo! ibut that fellow
was crafty and villainous and determined.
Had I fought him with a knlfo he would
soon havo nettled me. It was tho stout staff
which kept him off and It was tbo staff
which finally dealt him a blow that laid him
out unconscious. I looked for tho woman
as I stopped to breathe, but sho had disap
peared. I went over to tho window and ex
amined the platform and found that It was
sustained by a lover which could be pulled
out and allow the bottom to drop. As tho
man begun to return to life I lifted up my
staff and beat him 'till I was weary and
then 1 went my way up the mountain road.
That ambush had gathered at least three
victims, but it was not for me to carry a
mystery to the police and be detained In a
filthy Jail for months or years, whllo they
took their time to uolvo l
Whnt Forty Yrarn of Thrift Ilroimlit
to Apple .Mar'.
Thrift tells. Apple Mary will prove it
for you. Long ago say forty years ago
thrift and tho greed of gain gripped tho
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awaiting, relates the New York Journal.
Rut It was fortune that should not como
by any sudden climax. It meant hard, tor
did, unflagging thrift. It meant to forego
tho vanities of pleasure and dress. She
won It.
Yesterday the police arrested Applo Mary
In Hanover square for begging. Rut that
Is a mero detail neither hero nor there. It
served, however, to bring out the fact that
In forty years sho has accomplished her
purpose. It means that today Applo Mary
can write at will large figures "5,000 and
that before them she can set this magic
mark $.
Applo Mary's real name Is Mary Ward,
of somewhero In the counties of Ireland.
Forty years ago, almost to n day, Slary
Ward nnd her sister, Kate, stepped off an
Immigrant ship at the port of New York.
Mary was 19 nnd her sister 17. They were
fresh colored, bright-eyed nnd beaming with
hope. Fortuno did not come as quickly
as tho 6angulno sisters expected. Marriage
seemed tho easiest means or comfort, so
tho wetker slater married.
Mary concluded to keep on. Tho yoan
passed ten years or more, maybe nnd sho
wns no longer a girl. Rut sho had saved,
not much, perhaps, but still something. In
tho old Fourth ward was a politician who
thought n great deal of Mary. Ho felt that
ho would llko to do something for her. Ho
asked whether thorn was anything In tho
world by which ho might prove dovotlon
and friendship.
"Well," said Mury. musing, "you might
get a body the right to soli apples nnd
pasties down be Wall and Nassau streets."
Ho got It. Thon ho went away. Mary
opened her stand on the corner, nnd dis
played apples as round nnd rosy as her own
cheeks had been. They were good apples,
and they sold. Meanwhile I'-.ry saved. Sho
UBed to see her sister In ribbons nnd now
hats and things llko thnt, but Mary had
none. She had Instead pennies and dimes
and quarters.
After a whllo tho figure of Mary becamo
familiar In Wall etrrct. The brokers nnd
bankers got to know Apple Mnry. Riifscll
Sago lias bouuht his luncheon 'more time's
from Mary thnn a good many other mil
lionaires havo bought theirs at Delmonlco's.
Sometimes Mary's Influential friends gavo
her a quiet tip on tho market nnd onco In a
while once In a great while Mary took n
flyer.
Sho was never nipped but onco and that
was on Rlack Friday, when one day sho was
worth $30,000 and on tho next day exactly
nothing at all. A few men blow out their
brains on that occasion, but 'Mary began
nnow.
When ordinary persons mako n fortuno
and retire they set out to enjoy thcmeelves.
That's what Mary did, too, Tho brokers
and tho bankers, tne treasury officers, the
policemen and tho meascngor boys missed
hor from tho corner.
Somo of Mary'e old tlmo friends wero. a
bit astonished subi'qucntlv te find Mary
begging In the trot. When Mary, with
outstretched palm, nppo-ilod for the mercy
of alms, they expressr 1 th!r astonishment.
"Suro, your honor," Mary nnswored them,
"nnd can't a body enloy herself v. in wav or
t'other?"
A policeman raw Mary sta-wrln.-r Mcr-i?
Hanover q'ia-o f.? Iiy. weighted down
under a hoivy Joirt. On r.i.o nrni -.vi:e a
basket laden '.v,th a vitiol nnsnrtmont t.t
rubbish; things that n pauper would throw
away, but etlll valuable to nno of Mary's
thinking thrift. Vp nnd down the street
she plied, wheedling and pleading for pen
nies. She went eontentedly to the police sta
tion and from there she went to the city
lolglng hcuho. I'urlng tho Journey she
clung desperately to her basket. At the
lodging, when It was taken from her. It was
found to be a floating bank.
In a pillow ehani nt tho bottom of tlii
basket were r,5G3 pennies. They weighed
exactly twenty-thrco pounds and six ounces
and wero of n total value of J5,'.63. Sewed
to tho lining of her waist wero two $-0
notes, one $5 note, a $1 note and half a J2
note. Tbero was nlso the record of n roal
estate fansactioa with Uiwton G. Kennedy.
The mipcrlntcndcnt insisted upon thn
money jplnc into the safo and Mary In
sisted upon a counting nnd a receipt, it
took four clerks half on hour to count the
pennies.
"Sure," raid 'Mary, "It was nil a body
could make In a week."
COST OK .SOITH Al'UlCAX Till I'.
Plenty of Muiiey .-,ONiinry to .MnLr
llii loiiru.-y.
"Well," said tho man who know somrtH'ng
about it te a Chicago Inter-Ocean reporter,
"If you want to go to South Africa you havo
got to havo money or you have got to swim.
Swimming Is slow because It Is fi.OOO miles
from London to Capo Town nnd -1,000 inllea
from Chicago to London, or to Southampton,
from which port the ehlps sail. You can
go from tho other side by thn German Kast
African line, 'but that takes you around to
Delagoa bay only. There nre iocmI Kng
llsh lines, but tho best nro tho Union i.ud
Castlo lines, nulling every Saturday from
Southampton, Tho fare from hero to Lon
don is anything you wnnt to mako It from
$C0 up. From London to Capo Town by
Royal Mall ixmtn Is J200 tlrst class, $128 sec
ond class, $C7 third and tho usual tlmo Is
seventeen days.
"Ry Intermediate boats first rlars faro Is
$181, second $117, third $67 and tho tlmo Is
twenty-ono days. If you want to camp out
you can get nn open berth ticket for $52.
Tho German lines so through the Mediter
ranean, stopping nt Lisbon, Naples. Zanzi
bar nnd other ports. Tho British and co
lonial boato sail every two weeks from Lon
don, as do tho Aberdeen boats, but thrso
latter go direct to Port Natal. Reforo tho
war you could get tickets direct from Lon
don to Johannesburg vln Natal, but you
can't now. The faro was $251 first class, $1C2
second and $103 third, with n JO per cent
lefti rate by Intermediate boats. When you
have got to Capo Town you will find rail
road travel expensive nnd distances about
ns stretched out as in tho United States.
"For Instance, It is 1,01 ( miles to Johan
nesburg and Jt costs, first class, $37 to get
there, or nearly six crnts a mile, doublo the
usual rate In this country. Second class was
$39 and third $21. Time, two days. From
Capo Town to Kimborlcy, which is now open,
tho distance Is 017 ml Ice, and tho fare, first
cIhss, Is, or was 'beforo the war, $10, second
$27, third $13, and the tlmo wns a day and
a half. From Capo Town to Iluluwnyn It U
1,360 miles nnd tho first c1rr3 faro Is $!0.
second $60, third $28 nnd tho tlmo Is four
days. That, you see, gives you plenty of
time and opportunity to spend money for
bed and board, though I don't bellevo they
havo our kind of sleeping cars down there.
Tho railway tlmo from Durban to Johannes
burg was twenty-Hovon hours and to Pre
toria twenty-nlno hours. Incidentally I may
add that If you want to do any telegraphing
you will find It somewhat expensive also,
tho rato from Kngland to West African points
running from $1.01 a word to $2.01, while
to tho cast coast It runs from $1.21 to $1.3S.
It Is a bit cheaper In South Africa, being
97 cents to Capo Town, Natal and tho South
African republic and the Orange Free State
and $1.01 to $1.07 to other polnte. Taking
It nil In nil n man doesn't wnnt to start to
South Africa with much less than $1,000 In
his pocket If he expects to got back home
again without having to work his way."
Huropean expositions havo awarded their
premiums to only one American champagne,
Cook's Imperial Extra Dry. Try It.
' run Once I, n rue In Tlilm ('oiiii(i-), hut
) Mcnillly Hi-im-ciixIiik.
I What In the matter with buckwheat?
'Cakes made of It and eaten warm nro re
'garded ns very nutritious anil are still n
favorlto article of food with many thou-
band3, but for nil that tho cultivation of tho
grain Is steadily declining, it must be that
a great many have stopped eating buck
wheat cakes, rcporto tho New York Sun, for
thero Is certainly a great deal le...s buck
wheat to ho eaten than In former iI.ijh.
Thlrty-llvo years ago tho farmers of our
country sowed, every year, over 1,000,00(1
acres In buckwheat. Sluce then the crop has
sometlmcn been larger. sometlme3 smaller,
but, on the whole, the acreago and yield
have been almost steadily decreasing. In
1898 the acreace was 078,332, only a little
more than half that of thlrty-fivo years ar.n.
and thu yield wns only 11,700,000 bushels,
which wns Just abnut one-half the yield at
the close of the civil war.
No explanation of this great decline In
buckwheat raising has been made. It Is
probable, however, that the unreliability of
tho crop, which Id sometimes large and some
times small, without nny apparent reason for
the variation, him discouraged a great mnny
farmers. Another reason for the decline may
bo tho larger use within tho pant fow yearn
of cereal preparations, especially wheat, all
of which ccmo under the general designa
tion of hygienic foods. These preparations
hno prcbably won many peteons from their
allcglanco to buckwheat cakes.
If buckwheut raising continues to decline,
perhaps tho bees most of all will miss tlio
fields, for they nro very partial to tho flow
ers of thlti plant, which eecrcte a great deal
of honey, that Is not, however, of tho Hist
quality, as ovcrybody knows who has eaten
It.
Ruckwhont Ik not raised widely over tho
world, and this fact makrs t decline In
Amorlcn, whero It Is most largely grown,
nil tho molt Intcrruilng. Russia and Franco
nro about tho only couutrlra In Kurnpo that
produce It, and Great llrltnln has never
taken kindly to buckwheat cakes and Im
ports very llttlo of tho grain.
J. Q. Hood, Justice of th Rcaic. Crosby,
Miss., makes tho following statement: 'I
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