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BKOWNVTLLE, NEBRASKA, THlJRSDAT, AUGUST 15, 18T8.
The Mysterious Stranger.
The hoar grew late, nnd Mr. Brand
paced his chamber in moody ailence.
The train had come in, but bia mes
senger had not returned, and the mer
chant was troubled. Troubled by a
vague sort of doubt, which haunted
him in spite of his faith in Lake. A
merry, sober old trader of long exper
ience had said that Lake was too
young to fill the important position
which he held, but Mr. Brand had
never found his trust in Tom mis
placed. Having heard rumors concerning a
house with which he had extensive
dealings, the merchant had dispatch
ed Lake to Loudon, telling him to
make inquiries and in any case, to get
the partners of the firm in question to
settle their account.
So Lake had gone from Liverpool
to London. The time appointed for
his return bad passed, and still he did
not come.
A lady entered and stole to the
merchant's side ; her own sweet
face was anxious, and there was a
tremor in the music of her voice, as
she snid :
"Do you think he will be here to
night dear papa?"
I hope so, Mary; but it is very
late."
"la there no other train ?'
"Only the night express, and that
does not stop except at the central sta
tions."
"Perhap3 he will come, papa-; he
would not mind coming ten miles,
even if he had to walk."
"He should not have missed the
train," said Mr. Brand, sternly ;
"punctuality is an imperative duty
with men of business."
"But, papa, something may have
occurred to detain him."
"Nothing should detain a man who
has given his word"."
The fair pleader was silenced her
father was angry, and kuowing his
strictness of principle, and how in
veterate was his dislike to any breach
of discipline or duty, she did not ven
ture to speak again.
The time dragged sowly on ; Mr.
Brand continued his restless walk,
and Mary sat subdued and quiet
watcbing.birn. She saw he was lis-
teniug as the uight express went
whirling by, aud from the depth of
her heart there went a prayer that
Lake would come safely home. The
girl loved him, would have staked her
life on his truth, and knew that he
was not beyond his time through any
weakness or wrong. Two slow, wea
ry hours passed. Mr. Brand was
reading the commercial news ; but
for the first time in his life it did not
interest him ; he was thinking of the
young clerk, and the heavy sum of
money should the London iirm have
paid him. And Alary reading hei
father's countenance, felt chilled and
pained by the slur he cast on her lov
er's houefaty by his suspicions he:
every thought was a denial to hii
doubts, and as the rapid clutter of t
horse's feet rang out, she ran to the
window.
"Look I" she said, dashing the cur
tain aside with eager hands; "look,
papa, I said he would come I knew
he would.
The merchant's stern features relax
ed with a smile of pleasure ; he
was not emotional or demonstrative,
but his daughter's gladness pleased
him.
There was a few moments of ex
pectancy, and then Tom Lake came
in. He went straight to Mr. Brand,
only noticing with a bow the love
ly face whose glance thrilled his
soul.
"They have paid," he said quiotly,
as he placed a thick pocket-book in
the merchant's hand, "but I think
we were only just in time."
"Indeed!"
"There was a consultation at the
banker's before I could get cash for
the check."
"Do you think thoy will break?"
"Hopelessly. They have given me
an immense order, but it would not
be well to forward the goods."
"You did not hint that we had the
elightest fear?"
,l2xo, but I was glad to get the mon
ey ; 12,000 would have been a heavy
loss."
"It would have done me serious in
jury just now."
"And yet," said Tom gravely,
"this morning the odds were con
siderable against its ever reaching
you."
"How?"
Tom took two chairs, placed tliem
side by side near the fire, led Mary to
one, and seated himself in the other.
He had done his duty as the mer
chant's clerk, and now was Mr.
Brand's prospective son-in-law and
partner.
"I had an adventure," hesaid: "I
was the hero of a strange story in a
ride bj' express.'
Mary bent forward to listen Tom
clasped her hand in his own. Mr.
Brand sat opposile them, interested
by the speaker's manner, as he be
gan :
When T got the check I had an idea
that all might no be well, so to make
sure I presented it at the banker's.
There was, as I told you, a consulta
tion before they cashed it, and while
the consultation was goiug forward I
noticed a stranger looking at me in
tently. I knew the man in my
younger and wilder days. I had met
him often at the race course, in bill
iard rooms, and in other places more
or less respectable. K"ow he was
I changing a check for some petty
amount, and was evidently astonish
ed by the immensity of the order I
had presented. I left the hank with
my pocket-book full of notes, and
found I had lost the train. The next
would bethenight express, so I stroll
ed into a billiard room. A man Is
just as safe with a fortune in his pock
et as,if penniless, so that he is wise
enough to hold his tongue. There
was some clever play going on, and I
stood watching the players till some
one chalenged me to have a game. If
I have one special vanity, it is my sci
ence with the cue ; I accepted, and as
I did so a strange feeling which had
been growing upon me took a sudden
turn which startled me.
My challenger was the man whom
I had.noticed at the banker's. There
was nothing strange in the fact of his
being in the .room, one of his favorite
resorts, but I was possessed of the
vague shadow of a single Idea. I had
read somewhere of a man being fol
lowed and plundered in a train, and
somehow I associated the story with
the man before me. It was the first time
I had ever paid him any particular
attention, but I gave him full observa
tionnow. Themorel looked athim the
less I liked him. He was handsome,
gentlemanly, with a fair form and
elegant figure, full of suppleness and
strength. His manner was singular
ly unassuming, his face frank and ge
nial, but by looking closely at him
you oould see something sinister look
ing in tne deptn and softness of his
eyes.
I never liked a stranger to be affa
ble aud prepossessing, and my friend
was the very pink of affability and
grace.
We played for an hour with alter
nating success ; he was an amusing
companion, well informed, and had
traveled ; but I was shy of conversa
tion. I left him, and, still having
some time to spare, went to Eee a
fsiend in the Temple.
When, at the expiration of some
thirty or forty minutes, I emerged in
to Fleet street, almost the first person
on whom my gaze fell was my late
antogonist at billiards.
I thought there was something more
than a mere coincidence in thesecond
meeting since we stood together at the
banker's. He wa3 in a cigar shop op
posite. .Not two hundred yards from the
Temple gate stood a man whom I rea
oguized with a verj- welcome feeling.
It way George Vixen, the detective.
He was fashionably dressed, and
looked an aristocrat of the first water.
X3xent up, and greeting him as I
should an old familiar friend, held
out 013' hand and said :
"Come and drink a class of wine
with me, I have something to say."
He shook hands in the most natur
al way possible. I took his arm aud
we entered the public bar of an adja
cent hotel.
I told him my suspicion, told him
of the sum iu my possession, and of
the journey I had to perform by rail
I saw that, waching through the
glass of the door, he was taking a
mental photograph of the two men.
"They mean business," said Vix
en, quietly, "but I shall be with you.
We must part at the door, or they
will see that we havu scented the
game."
"And you," I said, "how will you
act?"
"I shall travel to Liverpool by the
night express."
He left me. I had no fear now
knowing him to be a clever and deter
mined fellow.
Taking a casual glance across the
road, I saw my man with his compan
ion. It was quite evident that they
were tracking me, though I lost sight
of them before reaching St. Paul's.
I strolled along the church yard,
wandering nearly to Islington, then
went though the city again before I
made for the station ; my acquaint
ance of the billiard room did not
come in sight, though I kejjt well on
the alert.
I took my ticket, lingering almost
to the moment of starting before I
entered the carriage, but my man did
not appear. Two men were in the
compartment with me. I could not
see the face of one, and the other was
a stranger.
The bell rang. The guard had just
time to put a bewildered old gentle
man in by my side, and we were off.
The man whose face Lhad not seen
turned toward me.
I could hardly repress an exclama
tion. There was no mistaking that
frank, geuial countenance, nor the
lurking devil in those eyes, whose
softness was so uiuister.
He bad me then at last. Vixen
had broken his promise, and I was
left to travel this perilous journey
alone, with the man who had follow
ed me so skillfully another who
might be his confederate, and an old
gentleman, who, after grumbling out
his indignation against railway ser
vants and locomotive traveling in
general, was fast asleep in the corner.
That the intentions of my billiard
player were bad was manifest by the
fact of his having assumed a falae
moustache and beard. They added to
the beauty of his face but left to his
eyes that sleepy cruel glitter that is
characteristic of the Asiatic.
He spoke to me, remarked the oddi
ty of our being traveling companions,
and grew unpleasantly familiar. I
answered him, notwisbing to appear
churlish or afraid, knowing that I
could trust something to my own
strength should the worst come.
We had made the last stoppage,
and were rolling swiftly through
the gloom, when among other topics,
onr conversation touched upon jewel
ry; he drew a showy ring from his
finger, telling me it was a curious
piece of workmanship, having a se
cret spring, whioh he said I could not
discover.
"I took it searching in vain for a
spring, then returning it to him. It
dropped and rolled under my feet.
I stooped to pick it up, and so did
he, but at that moment, while mi
head was down, he Bad me tightly by
the throat, and threw me on the car
riage floor.
His confederate was upon me in an
instant. I could scarcely breathe,
aud could not struggle, for a heavj'
kneo was upon my chest, and two
strong, brutal bands were crushing
the life from my throat.
Though the horror of the situation
did not last a minute, it seemed an
eternity to me. I felt the ruffians'
hands searching for the pooket-book,
and I strained desperately for a
chance of resistance.
Their work was nearly done.
Cramped in that small place, I was
powerless, and the veins in my throat
and head were swelling like sinuous
bars, when the old gentleman in the
corner awoke and came to my assist
ance. I heard alow whirr of some weapon
in its descent, and my first assailant
reeled from me stunned. Then the
old gentleman with a strength and
rapidity of action wonderful to see in
a person of his age, seized the scoun
drel, and lifted him away, and dash
ed him down on a seat.
There was a brief struggle, and then
I heard a sharp olick, scoundrel the
second had a pair of handkuffs on his
wrists.
"They were more prompt than I
had expected," said the old gentle
man, removing his woolen comforter,
with whioh he fastened mi' first as
sailants bands behind him, "and a
railway carriage does not afford much
scope for a struggle?"
The pocket-book was safe. The
ruffians were securely bound, and the
old gentleman who, without his spec
tacles and mufller'Btood out in bold
and pleasant relief as the detective,
kept guard over them.
At the station the3T were handed
over into the custody of the police. I
was all right by that time. Vixen
rode with me as far as the hotel near
est here, and to-morrow he will call to
see if 1 am any worse for my ride by
express.
The contents of the pocket-book
were Mary's bridal dowry.
The detective speaks of the senior
partner of the firm of Brand & Lake
as the most hospitable and generous
man he ever met in the course of his
professional career.
Lake was quite cured of his love for
billiard playing. He had too narrow
an escape, and he did not forget the
lesson.
A SNAKE'S WONDERFUL FEAT.
A Boa Swallows aJjBlankct as a Rem
edy for Declining Health.
Speaking of snakes, yesterday Su
perintendent Brown, of theZoological
Garden, said he would tell a snake
story, and not a second-handed one
either. About a j'ear ago one of the
largest reptiles in the collection took
sick and seemed to be going into a de
cline. Nothing that they could give
him appeared to do him good, aud
from loss of appetLte and sleeplessness
the snake became a mere wreck of his
former self. A large blanket had
been placed in the serpent's ceil for
him to sleep upon. One morning the
keeper found that the blanket had
disappeared. Search was made
throughout the cage, but without suc
cess. At the same time the snake's
body had swelled to the thickness of
a cood-sized sanling. He had swal
lowed the blanketand it wouldn't di
gest, and thesuakebecamefeicker than
before. In this manner he lolled
around like.a wan despeptic for over
four weeks. Finally the blanket was
discharged by natural causes. Imme
diately the snake began to improve.
The swelling in the body gradually
dwindled down, and he grew larger
and fatter than before, till the box be
came too small to hold him. The
keepers then removed him to a larger
cage. He ate like a gormand, and at
times found room for two and three
times the customary quantity of food.
The blanket acted as a sore of medi
cine upon. his stomaoh, and cleaned
him out entirely. Now he is fifteen
feet long, eighteen inches in circum
ference, and is the healthiest boa con
strictor of the lot. A change of color
was the only visible effect on the
blanket. Under the microscope it
showed it had become a little worn
by being rubbed in the animal's stom
ach. It came out indigested, and it
was carefully packed away in the su
perintendent's private office, where it
now lies. Philadelphia Timet.
A correspondent of London Truth
draws the following not very encour
aging picture of a true Bussian coach
man : "At St. Petersburg I had a
coachman a most respectable man.
Once a month he used to make his
appearance in my lodgings, fall upon
his knees before me and say some
thing. I would nod. He would
then withdraw, go and get drunk for
three days and nights, and then reap
pear, kiss my hand, and resume hi3
duties as ooaohman. Had not I per
mitted this safty-valve, he would
have got drunk while driving and up
Bet me,"
YOL. 23. NO. S.
SiaaBiKBBBianiaBam
Piery Tomatoes.
Schneider is very fond of tomatoes.
Schneider has a friend in the country
who raises "garden sass, and sich."
Schneider had an invitation to visit
his friend last week, and regale him
self on his favorito vegetable. His
friend Pieffer being bus3 negotiating
with a city" produce dealer on his ar
rival, Schneider thought ho would
stroll in the garden and see some of
his favorites in their pristine beauty.
We will let him tell the rest of the
story In his own language:
"Veil, I valks shust a liddle vhile
roundt, when I sees some of dose der
marters vot. vas so red und nice as I
nefer dit see any more, und I dhinks
I vill put mjnself out side about a
gnuble-a-tozen, shust to geef me a lid
dle nbbedite vor dinner. So I bulla
off von ov der reddest und beatlookin
of dose dermarters, nnd dakes a booty
good pite out ov dot, und vaschew:
ing it oup pooty quick, ven by chim
iney ! I dort I had apeeseov red-hot
goals In mine mout or vas chewing
oup dwo or dree papers of needles;
und I velt so nad alreadv. dot mine
eyes vas vool of dears und I mate vor
an 'oltoken bucket1 vot I seen hang
ing in der veil, as I vas goomin,
along.
Shust den mine vriend Pieffer game
oup, ask me vot mate me veel so bat,
und if any of mine vamily vas deat.
I tolt him dot I vas der only ono ov
der vamily dot vas pooty sick ; und
den I ask him vot kind ov dermarters
dose vas I had shust peen bicking;
und mine gracious, how dot lands
man laughft, und said dot dose vas ret
beppers dot he vas raising vor bepper
sauce. You bet my life I vas mat. I
radderj'ou gif feefty tollara as to eat
some moro ov dose bepper sauce der
marters.' Remedy forSuake-bltc and Hydropho
bia. Use rattlesnake's master cryn
yium aquaticum sometimes called
corn snake-root. This plant is most
common on the prairies of the west
ern states; grows from two to three
feet high, and a much stouter and
tougher leaf, and being of a bluish
green color. The stalk usually divides
into two or three branches near the
top, bearing largo balls covered with a
white bloom. They are long, like the
blades of corn, having a number of
sharp spikes or prickles along their
edge, and one at the point of the leaf.
You cannot mistake it with this des
cription. The root is bulbuous, pe
rennial, and only from one to two
inches loug, being decayed or rotten
at the bottom, and giving off numer
ous little branches or fibers around
the sides. The root is the part used,
either green or dried, but the green is
best. Take about the same quantity
you would of any other herb, and
steep in sweet milk; drink as much
as the stomach will bear, and apply
some to the bitten part. It may be
used several times during the day. It
is my opinion that It would prove an
antidote to mad-dog bite. It should
be used internally, and a poultice
made and applied to the bitten pert.
This should be done as soon as bitten.
Dr. J. H. Oy$i$r in JCansae Farmer.
Public Cantion.
The "Patrons of Husbandry," iu
Massachusetts have issued a oiroular
upon the subject of poisons in food, in
articles of dress, and in the papers up
on our walls, which has been widely
circulated through the daily press. In
one year, over two millions of poundf
of arsenic, we are told, were import
ed ; a "considerabIeportion"of which
was used in wall-papers. It is also
used in tickets, box-covers, and pa
pers containing confectionery. Also
as coloring matter of ladias' dresses,
and in wollens, silk3, artificial flow
ers, &.C.
White earth is also mixed, in vari
ous forms, with sugars, cream of tar
tar, &c. Caution is given against
pickles, adulteratedraill, butter,
cheese, &c. This vigorous'paper was
prepared by Mr. Angell, our President
who is also the chaplain of the "Mass
achusetts Grange."
It will make tens of thousands, more
cautious in what they use and of
whom they buy. We could have
wished that the circular had gone
farther and inculcated, also, upon all
buyers, the honesty and justice of
paying a fair price for a fair article,
if this were universal, the adultera
tor's occupation would be gone. This
is no excasa for poioninp; but buy
ers who will not so deal, should re
flect that they offer the temptation and
may share in a part of the guilt.
Exchange.
It i3 difficult, soys a Belgian Journ
al, to distinguish between iron and
steel tools. They have the game pol
ish and workmanship ; use will com
monly alone show the difference. To
make the distinction quiokly, place
the tool upon a atone, and drop upon
it some dilute nitric acid (four parts
of water to one of aeid). If the tool
remains clean it is of iron, if of steel,
it will show a blaek spot where touch
ed by the aaid. These 3pota can be
easily rubbed off.
Chim Sauce. 24 large tomatoes,
ripe, 8 large onions, 4 green peppers,
4 tablespoons salt, 8.tabIespoons sugar,
4 teaspoons cassia, 2 teaspoons of gin
ger, 2 cloves, 8 teacups vinegar. Boil
all logetho until thick. When cool,
r. ub through a sieve, pottle and per.
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2LU
The "JUile Battery" Which Eeducea
Destruction to a Pine Art.
A gun, which promises to be the,
most terrible agent of destruction of
modern times, is on exhibition at the
ofilce, of the patentees and inventors,
Francis E. Meyer and Frederick:
Schultz, in New York. The. "rifle
battery," as it is called, Is so construct
ed as to deliver Its fire either in a right
line or in horizontal, radiating lines.
The barrels, ranging In number from
six to twenty, are sufficiently far
apart to prevent heating from contini
uous firing, and are fired successively,
instead of simultaneously, at the rate
of 20,000 shots an hour. A steel cov
er in front of the gunners protects
them from the enemy's fire. These
guns may be fired continuously in ono
fixed direction, or from side to side,
or the battery may be made to vibrate
literally of itself, at the discharge of
each gun, thus sweeping the field in
front. The barrels are about an inch
apart, and at intervals, where the
guns are held by clasps, they are in
closed within asbestos or some non
conductor of heat.
The battery may bo divided into
the barrels and the breech lock of ma
chinery by which the barrels are load
ed and dischaiged, the whole resting
on a turn-table or pivot. Tho balls
are placed in a cartridge-receiver at
right angles, to and resting on the
blocks. At the right of this i3 a crank
at the left a lever. By pressing the
lever in a given direction the block ia
forced up to the muzzle of tho gun,
when an automatic lever called the
"fingers" takes hold of the cartridges
and withdraws them from the receiv
er. Another turn of the lever and
the balls are forced into tho muzzles,
and tho battery is loaded! Then the
crank at the right is turned, and at,
every revolution a needle is thrust for
ward, and strikes a cartridgo with a
sufficient force to explode it. Again
the lever on the left is tdrned, and the
"fingers" advance and withdraw the
spent cartridges, and the jbattary ia
again ready to be loaded. By meana
of a sorew placed in the center of tho
block the buttery may be elevated or
depressed at pleasure. The invantora
are trying to have their guna adopted
by the English Government. They
claim that they will be especially ef
fective in naval engagements. With
a toy model of the battery a ball waa
fired through an oak plank an inch in
thickness at fifteen yards.
A Turkish liomnngh
On the occasion of the circumcision
of the 13-year-old son of Damad Pasha,
brother-in-law of the Sultan, a grand
ceremoni took place in his palace at
Constantinople on the 0th of Novem
ber. The chief civil disrnitaries and
many of the Mollabs were present,
In honor of the event, 000 poor chil
dren of the city of the same age,
were circumcised at the expenseof tho
Pasha and presented with money and
3uits of clothing. Although Damad
Pasha Is a man of great wealth and
the most powerful in theEmpire after
the Sultan, he is very unpopular, and
may lose his pre-eininenoe at any
moment. He was originaiy an ajn
bulatory vender of amulets and owes
his good fortune to the grace he found
in the eyes of the sister of the Sultan,
who capriciously chose him for a hus
band on account of his good looks.
She called him to the palace, had him
dressed up in fine style and than took
him for her own husband. Finding
woman-like that she would have
her way, the sultan made him a Beyy
next a Pasha, then a Cabinet Minis
ter, &c. The Arabian Nighte1 ro
mances are as common as ever ir tha
East. Philadelphia Prem.
Here is a Milwaukee story of 25r.
.Rolf and his pet monkey :
The monkey was his solace and his
care during tho cold of last winter
Toward early Bpring the deatrs at
tention grew slack, and the monkey's
tail was frozen. The fact did not be
come known, however, until warm
weather came and mortifieatlon set la
in the tail. Of course the menkey
became ill, and the doctor concluded,
after oareful examination, that ampu
tation of the diseased member wa3
necessary to save Joeko's life ; so it
was cut off. The man key's health
begen to improve immedieteiy, but
he became depressed in mind and
ashamed. We may never realfze tha
full extent of that monkey's ohagrin
as he viewed his useless tail-stump i
only as we ponder on the aetion
of the "missing link." In the men
key's cage was a stoet eord that serv
ed a number of useful purposes. Tha
monkey was seen lo handle tha
rope a good deitl, and to beeome ab
sorbed In the oon temptation of it.
What was Dr. Rolfs astonishment to
to get up one morning and find that
the monkey had actually fastened tha
rope to the top of his cage, bad made
a perfect slip noose, and had eommit
ted suielde In a thoroughly human
way by banging.
Baked Indian Pudbing. Put I
pint of sweat milk and the same of
water Into a tin pan or basin, and
when it boils stir In a cup of Indian,
meal, wet up with a little waterand a
teaspoonful of salt; remove from tha
I fire and add a pint of eold sweet milk.
4 beaten egg3, a cup of sugar and any
seasoning you may like; bake weP in
deep dish half or three-anarters of a
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