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AW) A THUMP.
My professional reputation was nt
stake. I bad, airco months before tho
dato of which 1 write, permitted n no
torious desperado to escape from my
charge, nnd I wan distinctly out of
favor with tho department. I hnd u
peculiar Biiperfltitton about the adroit
criminal whoso ruse had outwitted mo.
Ho was tall, nlcrt nnd graceful, with
n face- that reminded mo strongly t
tho pictures I had seen of Edgar A.
Poo. Ho had an Insinuating mannor
nnd tho most musical voice I ever
heard. Ills profession was snfo-brenk-lug.
I had onco apprehended tho man,
and, curiously enough, It woh tho re
suit of my first assignment to dotect
Ito work. Ho had, as a result, served
n term of soven yearn In tho peniten
tiary. It chanced that during his residence
thoro I met him several times nnd on
each occasion ho had rcgnrded mo with
a look that was none the less sinister
bcrauso It was hnlf Jocular. Tho
man's look was n menace. 1 know ho
'waB thinking that ho would bo re
venged, nnd I'woh sure thnt only tho
most conclusive of revenges would
satisfy him. In other words, this man
was determined to have my life. I
always fared him wllh a look ns dark
hb that which ho gave mo, for tho In
tention In my soul wns no less relent
less than his own. We were doomed,
as I felt In my apprehensive sotiU to
stand opposed In somn hideous trag
edy. When, three years after his release,
ho again Incurred the displeasure of
the law, I, traveled C.000 mllc3 In my
search for him, and discovered him nt
length In Indian territory. How ho
outwitted mo on our way hack to Chi
cago Is a story 1 have no Inclination
to tell.
It wns, therefore, with mixed feel
ings thnt I learned from the chief of
our ngency of the nature of my com
mission. Ho told me that Information
had been brought blm of an nttempt
to bo made that night upon tho safo
of tho McPhorson Investment company.
The plot had been overheard by nn ec
centric reporter for ono of tho dally
papers, whoso business hnd taken him
Into Homo sorry resort. From tho de
scription which tho young mnn gavo
of tho thrco conspirators tho chief hnd
no difficulty In establishing their Iden-
CltOUCHINO ON THE FLOOK.
tlty. Tho foremost of them was my
foo, Payson Wcntherby for, though ho
had many aliases, this I believe to have
boon his true tin mo. Tho second was a
mulatto, Washington Drown, a mnn
of much Intelligence nnd reckless cour
age, who took his destiny by tho throat
and made an outlaw of himsolf richer
than court favor of u world which
would, nt best, have shown hfm only
contempt. Tho third rascal was an old
time culprit. George Durkc, n tfclck
necked, low-browed follow, who was
born to crime.
"How many men do you wnnt?"
asked tho chief of me.
"Two."
"But would It not bo wise to out
number your adversaries? They aro
desporato men."
I thought of Payson Wcntherby'B si
lent challenge, nnd formed a resolve
to meet him without odd-
We expected to bo beforehand with
our men, nnd with Ornyson, tho re
porter who had given us tho informa
tion, wero nt the spot a quarter of an
hour before tho tlmo Wcntherby had
appointed. Dut to our chagrin wo
found tho rear window of the placo
without a square of glass. My evil
luck still held. Tho safe-blowers wero
within. With me wero James Illgclow,
a young fellow, fresh to n detective's
life, and Nelson Green, n grizzled vet
eran, cautious as a cat, and n man
noted for his lightning-swift motions.
They and tho reporter followed mo
through tho window. A few steps
moro rovcnled to mo the fact that the
door of tho outer vault hud already
boen forced.
I motioned tho reporter to stand
back and my men and I entered tho
vault, which was an iron room lGxlti
feet In size, and occupied by a heavy
table and two chairs. Opposite the
dour was the snfe proper, and before
this three men knelt, all desperntoly
occupied.
I had noticed while I stood In tho
dark alley without thnt there was u
rising storm, nnd now a sudden ex
cessive gust of wind blew shut the
Iron door of tho vault with a report
'as loud as thnt of un explosion. Ono
of the men It was Weatherby cried
out in terror and leaped nwuy from
certain little box-like contrivances
which lay buldo him on tho floor. Ho
thought tho concussion would cxplodo
tho dynamlto, Then bo saw us, stand
ling together, our revolvers aimed, and,
jrecogulzlng mo, gavo a llttlo cluck with
his tonguo nnd smiled cynically as ho
threw up his hands In token of tho
fact thnt ho recognlzod tho situation,
illla confederates glanced up, saw us,
and cowered where they were, but ono
of them managed to extinguish the
lantern by whose light they had been
working, and they were possessed of
tho vantage of shadow, I heard tho
click of their revolvers, and, renllzlng
thnt tho light I carried mado us fair
turgets, I put It out. Half a second
Inter a bullet clattered against the wall
behind me. I dropped to the floor,- nnd
tho men with mo followed my example.
Then 1 heard a clattering at tho door,
and knew that Grayson, the, reporter,
was trying to get In to us. Dut though
the lock must hnvo been forced, yet It
did not yield to Its manipulations, nnd
presently all was silent.
Then tho unexpected happened.
Through a tiny barred window, high
In tho wall, a flash of white lightning
gleamed, nnd we snw that our foes,
like ourselves, wero crouching on the
floor. Green fired, und a groan fol
lowed tho report of his revolver. For
some rcuson which I shnll never he
able to explain, Wcntherby and I did
not shoot. His smiling, Insolent faco
menaced me, nnd I looked back with
what defiance I could.
Wo nil wnlted for the next flash of
lightning, not drawing un audible
breath. Never did sllcnco seem so
complete to mo as In that llttlo room
where six desperate men wnlted In
darkness to do each other to tho death.
If I could have heard a sigh I should
have fired. I havo known wounds nnd
tho surgeon's probe, but the pain of
thnt sllcnco discounted them.
I crawled along tho edge o'f tho wall
that I might be In nn unexpected plnco
by the next lightning gleam, keeping
my revolver Just In ndvnnco of my
nose. When the enveloping flash camo
It revealed tho eyes of Payson Wcnth
erby not six Inches from mine. We
both Involuntarily recoiled; we both
fired. A hit of lee seemed to graze my
head, and then I felt a warm fluid
dampening my cheek. Illgclow cried
out suddenly, nnd I wns guilty of un
utidlblo groan of nnxloty for him.
Agnln we wnlted I cannot tell tho
length of time. It was no more to
bo measured that a hasheesh dream.
Then out of the sllenco camo n vibrant,
hysterical shriek. Payson Wenthcrby
hnd not looked llko Edgar A. Poo for
nothing. Ills delicately wrought or
ganization revolted ngnlnst the strain
upon It. Ho sobbed and luughed. Ho
was a madman.
This horror affected us ull similarly.
We wore wary, but wo suspended hos
tilities. Wo were on our guard lest
this emotional maniac should dash our
brains out or his own ngalnst tho Iron
walls.
Tho hasheesh dream reached out llko
tho beginning of eternity, and wo be
gan to Buffer for a lack of oxygen.
Then cumo u battering nt tho door and
I staggered out, drenched In blood
from my wound. Somn ono helped mo
up, nnd I heard later that It was Pay
son Wet therby.
When, six weeks later, I came out of
tho hospital, they told mo ho was In
a cell nt Kanknkec. As for mc, I
gavo up tho detective profession. I
had been a failure at It. But I have
the comfort of tho reflection that It
Payson Wcntherby defeated mo, I de
featcd him no less,
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No "Property" Kucape.
Over the audlenco rests a settled, Im
movable stillness, unbroken oven by n
sigh. No expression referable to sor
row, sympathy, Joy or tears lightens
tho blank, dead walls of the faces. The
Chlnnman is Impregnable. Only once
do his eyes change, itnd that Is while
tho property man Is on tho stage, and
he Is never off. The Chinese property
man sees his duty to tho management,
and puts It lpto practical effect. No
"property" shall escupe him. He gath
ers all things by tho wny. When tho
Chinese Homco slnys Tybalt tho prop
erty mnn steps on to tho stage, gath
ers. up Tybalt's sword, cup and cloak
and things nnd walks off with them.
He would enter Mucbeth's banquet hall
while tho weak-kneed monarch was
exorcising Rnnquo'B ghost, gathor up
the goblets and plates In one arm and
Macbcth's chair with tho othor, and
carry them away. He would pluck tho
roses from Elaine's breast; ho would
take the, dagger from Juliet's dead
hand; he would Interrupt Hamlet's
soliloquy In tho churchyard with a re
quest for Yorlck's skull, and ho would
Interpose In tho murder of Dcsdemona
to remove the pillows from her head.
Leslie's Weekly.
The I.nrceU Plant In the World.
"The Inrgest plant In tho world,"
said an eminent naturalist ta tho writ
er tho other day, "Is probifbly n gigan
tic seaweed, known ub tho 'neroocytls,'
which frequently grows to a height of
moro than 300 feet. Tho stem of tho
plnnt Is iw strong! as an ordinary ropo
and Inrfeo quantities of It are dried and
used as ropo by tho Inhabitants of tho
South Sea Islands, where tho curious
vegotablo ropes are found. Tho sea
weed usually grows to a depth of from
200 to 300 feet. As soon as the plant
takes root a spear shaped balloon Is
formed, which grows with tho stem
toward tho surface of tho contor. This
balloon frequently has a diameter of
six feet or more. It has, of course,
an upward tendency, nnd therefore
keeps tho stem growing until it floats
on the top of tho water. This enor
mous weed grows In such quantities
that large meadowlike Islands are
formed, which aro often so big as to
Impcdo navigation. Tho ropes mado
from tho stem of tho plant are usod
for building purposes, und tho balloons
when dried mako very serviceable ves
sels. Washington Star,
, Not Worth While.
Ho No; I novor read books that aro
talked about. She Dut why not? He
It takes so much effort to explain If
1 don't llko 'them. Puck,
FORTUNES FROM DREAMS.
Inventor run Tell nf Home Strang"
Kxperlencr.
"It Is remarkable how Ideas of an
Invontlvo nature occur to me," re
marked Henry Holllngsworth to u
Cleveland Inventor. "Frequently when
eugnged In problems upon mechanics
I have gone to bed and dreamed what
sremed to be n perfect solution of that
which had been uppermost In my mind
during tho dny. Hut the troublo Is thnt
upon awaking, while recollecting per
fectly thnt I had dreamed tho solution,
It wns Impossible to recall the details
necessary to a practical application of
my Idea. Von know, It Is said of tho
automatic car-coupler of the double
Jaw typo, that tho originator of the
Idea was a telegraph operator who,
while leaning back In his chair, with
his hands clasped behind his heud,
dozing, was brought to his senses by
the blowing of a locomotive whistle.
Thnt noise served us a connecting link
for his thoughts. With his hands utlll
clasped, sailor fashion, he slowly
brought them In front of him, nnd
wondered why the cars of that train
could not he connected with ono au
other In the same way his hands were
hooked together. As n result of this
curiously suggested Ideu wc hnvo the
tho two Jaws of which lit Into each
other nnd clasp after the same manner
of tho human hands. There Is a west
ern lnvenUr who tells of dreaming of
railroad spikes one night lust summer.
Ho saw around lm nothing but Bplkes,
hundreds nnd thousands of them, and
tons nnd tons piled up In front of him.
Dut these spikes differed from nny oth
er ho hnd over seen, In that the four
faces were grooved. He thought about
these spikes when ho woke up, and
next night snw more spikes than ever
In his dream. Then he became- con
vinced thnt those spikes were intended
us tho foundation for tho fortune that
ho had bcn striving for. As n result
tho western man has applied for a
patent upon tho Invention, which, It
Is claimed, effects a snvlng of 20 per
cent in the steel used, and .makes a
cheaper nnd better menus of holding
the rail to tho tie than heretofore em
ployed." Wnshlngton Post.
PIRACY IS NOT PROFITABLE.
No Cargo or Mold Now Tempt the
Cnpldltr of Mariner.
Now York Sun: A son of the old
tltno yachting captain, Jack White of
Hcd Dank, picked up a Mexican silver
dollar of 1834 on Sandy hook the other
day. Capt. Jack said It reminded him
of many a dollar ho had seen that had
boon picked up along tho Jersey coast
nnd on Long Inland shores. "Mexican
silver dollnrs," ho said, "wore tho
money of tho commerclul world during
nil tho early part of this century, and
you could Hnd them whenever there
were wrecks. Nowudays pirating would
not pay, but In those days every ship
had to carry a lot of money every tlmo
sho went on a voyage. Nowadays a
captain doesn't have to have unything
hut a hit of pocket money, und It Is n
fuct that many a ship goes out on a
voyuge with hardly a dollar on hoard.
If the captain needs anything, ho can
either draw money nt any port ho ou
ters or olse flnd credit there. It was
very different a generation ago. la
those days a cnptnln had to take
out with him money enough to
last him for the whole voyage and
sometimes for emergencies besides. He
often had big sums aboard also that
were used In trndlng, or that repre
sented n cargo Bold. It was not un
common In those days for a ship to
start out with n full cargo, bound for
some foreign port, where tho captain
would havo to hunt his own market.
If tho cargo wouldn't sell well there,
ho had powor to go to any other port
to hunt a proiltablo market. Thon
when ho hnd sold out ho wns expected
to buy now cargo, either for a home
port, or, perhaps, Homo othor port of
tho world. It wns not unusual for a
captain to bundle half u dozen cargoes
on a loug trndlng voyage nnd como
homo In ballast with a big box of sil
ver dollars to helpv keep his ship up
to the wind. Even tho llttlo vessels
carried a lot of money aboard. I guess
that dollar whb wrecked there fifty
years or bo ago. and It has been drift
ing around In tho sands ever since."
When It Wa Dark.
Tho Cleveland Plain Dealer says nn
educated colored man addressod tho
Btudents of Adelbert college tho other
day. Ho told nbotit his experience In
his chosen profession, thnt of a lawyer,
assorting that on but ono occnslon had
ho ever met with discourtesy nt tho
hands of white men during his legal
oxporlonco In his nntlve state, Virginia.
This happened In n backwoods hamlet,
where the general Ignorance of tho In
habitants was some excuse for their
boorlehness. In the course of his re
marks ho perpetrated nn unconscious
bit of humor thnt bi ought a smllo to
tho students' faces and diew n laugh
from tho speaker himself ns soon ns ho
renllzed tho suggestion In his state
ment. "I started out In my profes
sion with somewhat gloomy anticipa
tions," he said. "When I reached
Alexandria, where there were 7,000 col
or people, everything looked dark."
It was at this point that the smile ran
around.
UUpnaed ta lie Teehnluul.
"Did you say this was a comic opera
war?" asked tho Filipino soldier who
came Into enmp with a flag of truce.
"That remnrk has been made."
"Well, our general says ho's -willing
to take you at your word. He wants
to know If you can fix up the show so
there will bo fewer marches and moro
dialogue." Washington Stnr.
Nature, after Hiaklng mnn, found sho
had somo mutorlal left, so sho mado a
dudu.
OUE CLOCKS ABROAD.
TIMEPIECES SENT TO EVERY
QUARTER OF THE GLOBE.
Demand For Cheap Monti (treat tho
Manufacturer Cannot Meet It recall
arltlr of the Trade Itound Clock
for Chin.
Amerlcnn-made clocks nnd watches
aro now shipped direct from this port
to every quarter of tho globo where
civilization has mude or Is making Its
way, says the Now York Evening Post.
They uro for the most part of a kind
with tho nickel nlarm clock nnd the
dollur nickel wntch nnchlne-mndo
goods, with which tho foreign manu
facturer cannot compete. The export
demand of last year has been the
gteate.it the manufacturers havo
Known; they have not resources sufli
clent to supply the whole of It. Tho
shipments In the ten months ending
October aggregate In value nearly 1,
C0O.O0O; which Is the same as saylug
about n million und n quarter clocks
nnd wntches. In 1878 tho exports wero
valued nt about l,000,000;in I88!, nt
about $1,300,000, und It Is estimated
that for 1839 tho value will reach about
11,700,000. The clocks go to Hong
kong, Duenos Ayres. Dombuy, Loudon.
Cnpo Town, Manila, Aiabla, northern
Africa everywhere: even, In somo
considerable quantity, to Switzerland.
The clockmnklng Industry In tho
United States Is Just as old as the cen
tury. It Ih on record, however, thnt
Ell Terry patented nnd mnnufnetured
an equation clock In 17U7. In 1807 this
same Terry entered Into a contract
with n clockmaker ofiWnterbury to
mnke 4.000 thirty-hour clocks with sec
onds pendulum, dial and -bunds, nnd
nil for 4 each. He wus given three
years to complete his contract. There
wns then a clockmnker at Plymouth,
another nt Snlem Dridge nnd another
ut Roxbury all distinguished In their
profession. In 1811 Terry perfected n
thirty-hour clock of n new construc
tion und at once nil the makers took
It up successfully.
Since then the Industry bus rapidly
developed, until now one concern, the
Ansonla Clock company, makes eight
clocks and cheap watches a minute, or
C000 u dny or 1.500.000 a year; and
another, the Seth Thor.-.as Clock com
pany, mukes. of clocks nlone, two u
minute, or 1.200 n dny, or 400,000 n
year. It tuny be snld. in passing that
the cheapest nickel clock requires 450
"handlings" to complete.
"I estlmnte.'' said a manufacturer,
"that about 10.000 clocks a day are
mude In the United States. That this
enormous supply continues Is simply
explnlned. Tho ehap clock or watch
will keep good tlmo for nbout two
yenrs. Then tho oil dries and clogs
the wheels; nnd the owner buys n new
one rather than, go to tho expense of
having the old one repaired. Here's n
llttlo clock called tho 'bee.' it was In
vented In twenty minutes, It has gone
nil over the world, and I shouldn't
wonder If It held Its own In the mar
ket until 20,000,000 are sold. Yqu must
know thnt clockmnklng some time ago
renched n point In progress near per
fection. Tlie'lnipoitnnt Improvements
of recent yenrs have been few,"
In ten months of 1808 ?ll,o00 woith
of clocks and watches wete exported
to China and $170,000 worth to Jnpnn.
Tho Japanese are teaching- themselves
clockmuklng; In the corresponding ten
months of this year only 150,000 worth
of clocks and wntches weie exported
to that country. Tho demand In China,
however, has Increased; nnd It Is pe
culiar concerning It that nothing but
round or octagon clocks enn be sold to
tho Chinese merchants old fashioned
wooden, large dial clocks, such as have
hung in cotintry schoolrooms and
churches for yenrs, nnd which now
must bo mndo to supply this demand.
The Chlneso aro beginning to make
the cases for themselves, as the Japan
eBo did long ago; for the most purt
only the movements to lit nre sent to
these countries. The nmount saved to
tho buyer Is extremely small. Tho
manufacturers have tried vainly to In
troduce clocks of un Improved form
nnd movement; but there Is prftetlcnl
ly no sale for anything other than the
octagon style, which can be shipped In
nny position, and therefore Hrst mude
their wny so fur east.
The nickel alunn clock goes to tho
mining cumps of Alaska and the Hud
son bay posts of Drltlsh North Amer
ica and to North Africa and Arabia
even to tho tents of the Dedoulns. In
tho orient, however, tho snle Is small,
ns it Is to nil Indolent peoples. Queer
orders come to tho manufacturers
from such places. Tho catalogues of
tho various firms drift through many
countries, being carried to this place by
a commission salesman nnd to that by
a traveling merchant, being lost nnd
found nnd traded and sold, gathering
business for the firm nil tho time. Often
orders nrrlvo In New York thnt were
put in tho mail in somo out-of-tho-wny
corner of tho world six or nine months
before. It turiiB out usually that tho
selection Is mado from a long out-of-date
catalogue, and sometimes It hap
pens that the clocks are out of date,
too, being mude no moro nt all. When
such orders are filled the pncklng cases
are wired tightly, ns they are In nil
shipments eastern countries; for the
thieves are many nnd flnd It ensy to
loosen a board and abstract clocks
from the cases In transit.
A Renegade KnglUhman.
The editor of Voortrekker, n Kr
gerBdorp paper, which hits gained nt
torlety of Into by its violent attacks
on tha Drltlsh race In genoral and tho
troops in particular, h an English
curate, and lute head master ol Allwal
public; school.
IRON GATES.
Decay In Ironwnrkliig a Hlgn of Na
tional Wuaknei.
Iron gates, through tho bars of which
landscapes und gardens could bo seen
and admired, were brought Into voguo
by n settled feeling of public security,
says tho Magazine of ArL They were
among tho earliest outdoor ornaments
of n civilization which hnd becomo
nutlonal In Its force nnd Industrial In
Its nlms. They proved that tho so
cial spirit, long fostered by religion,
by commerce nnd by law, hnd nt Inst
triumphed over the fierce pride, tho
t mimical lust of power, which during
so many yenrs had set the nobles nt
variance with one another nnd with
growing townships, making the draw
bridge and the armored gate of wood
ar necessary us wore a good sword
nnd a heavy suit of mall. Thus tho
Hinlth'sVrnft, after long ministering
to the needs and passions of those un
quiet times when war was an Instinct,
became, llttlo by little, not only tho
agent of n warfare which had been
rnlBcd Into n nrt, hut also tho ncccs
wiry friend of muny peaceful Indus
tries; nnd wo nil know that our own
civilization Is bound up with tho his
tory of Iron, Is really dependent on tho
active working of this metal. Long
may It be so; for n genernl decay In
lion working has over been a sign of
national weakness. Thus It was In
Itniy, In Flnnders. in Spain, as Mr.
Stnrklo Gardner points out In his well
known handbooks on smithing; nnd
thus wo oo how readily wo mny pass
through :n Iron gato Into tho vast
flcld of modern history tho history
of clvlllzntlon In Christian tlmeB. Aa
might have been expected, Iron gates
were Hrst set up on sacred ground,
within churches and abbeys. They were
known then ns grilles or screens, and
they Inclosed tho choir nnd tho added
side chapels. A very old ono has been
handed down to us nnniolv. tho St.
-Swlthln grille In Winchester cathedral,
thnt tnkes our thoughts buck to the
ted-handed days of William II. These
gates, wc must remember, wore slowly
evolved out of much oldet typo of
grille, a grlllo In bronze, which came
Into use either late In the seventh cen
tury or enrly In tho eighth. Other ec
clesiastical gates of Iron 'have yet to
be mentioned; they were of later date,
and were put outside a good many bu
cred buildings. Some nre still extant
In this country, the oldest of nil being
probably those In front of Cirencester
nbey, whfch are supposed to be early
Elizabethan. Llko the younger gates
at Canterbury cathedral, they close tho
principal doors.
TWO BLUFFS.
A MfiiiHiit Meeting Iletween tho Kdl
tor ami th Iteporter.
Jack Rogers was a newspaper report
er and broke. Ho had hung around
tins Dubuque newspaper offices for a
Job until ho hnd been requested to
move on. So he decided to move on
to Pes Moines. Dut how to get there,
was tho question. Jnck put on his
thinking cap, and the result wns that
two hours later he found himself on
n truln and the conductor standing by
his seat. "Ticket!" said the conduc
tor. "See here, conductor," said Jack,
easily, "my name's Rogers, and I'm a
reporter on the Des Moines 'Air
JJlust.' I'm broke and I'm in u hurry
to get back home with n big scoop. You
lot me rldo und the olllce'll fix It tip
with you." See?" "Well." said tho
tonductor, "I guess that'll do all right.
The road feels friendly toward the 'Air
Dlust.' In fact, the editor Is In the
hack coach. Como nloug and I'lL In
troduce you. If he snys you're nil right
It goes,." Jack was knocked all In a
heap at tho turn things had tnken, but
he hnd nothing to do bdt to follow the
tonductor. They halted In front of a
man In the coach, and tho conductor
said: "Mr. Smltom, this Is Mr. Rog
eis. He says he's a reporter on your
paper, and wants tho ofllce to pay for
his transportation when he gets to Des
Moines." "How do you do, Mr. Rog
ers?" said tho editor pleasantly, ex
tending his hand. "Glad to seo you.
Sit down here with me." The conduc
tor didn't wait for any more, but went
off. "Well, this Is nice of you," said
Jack, too astonished and embarrassed
to talk straight. "Of cotirso, I'm not
on your pnper, but I'm broke and
ynrned to tho conductor, hoping to get
a Job and square It up later." "Oh,
that's all right, my boy," said tho
other. "Neither am I on the paper.
I'm only riding on tho editor's pass."
San Francisco Dulletln.
What the Dug tint,
A very curious circumstance hap
pened nt Clinton In the fox hunt re
cently. The dogs wero hard on tho
heels of a fox, when the fox darted
Ino a hole, but somo obstruction im
peded Its passago, and It only entered
fur enough to conceal Its body, leaving
the end of Us bushy tall sticking out
of tho hole. When the men came
near they saw one of tho tlogs tearing
across the field with the brush In Its
mouth and tho fox flying in another
direction, with nothing leftofJts beau
tiful tall but the. skinned strflrtpV'Tho
dog had literally pulled off'thejhlde,
and lfavtng obtnlned tno ibruah.'retlred
from the contest, Severitf shots wore
fired at tho fox, lint failed to bring
him down. Hartford Courant.
Making Her Happy.
Sunday-School Teacher Have you
made anyone happy this week? Llttlo
Girl YcB'm. Mrs. Highupp has a baby,
nnd It's n awful squally, red-faced
little brat; but, wo'n I mot Mrs. Hlgh
upp yesterday, I told her she had tho
sweetest, prettiest baby I over saw.
Thsro aro critical moments In overy
llfo when we must act nnd act quick
ly. Rev. D. C. Garrett.
BURR FOUND THE ASSASSIN.
Famous Lawyer Once Cleared III Cli
ent nf Murder.
"I was particularly Interested," Bald
an old Washington lawyer tho other
;.-., speaking of the Manhattan woll
crime, "In the paragraph that describ
ed Aaron Durr's dramatic net In hold
ing a pair of lighted candles In tho
fnco of n spectator in tho courtroom
and shouting, 'Gentlemen, hero Is tho
real murderer.' I do not question this,
but I remember that Jore Clemens,
onco it fnmoiiB United Stutcs senntor
from Alabama, told of a trial In which
Durr appeared for tho defenso of a
man, charged with murder. My recol
lection Is that the trlnl wus In the
southwest. When Durr uddresscd tho
Jury It wns night. Tho guilty man
was In tho room. He had been tho
principal witness for the prosecution,
hut Durr hnd lenrncd that this wltncsa
was the nssussln, nnd In closing his
nddress for his client ho picked up two
lighted candles from tho tablo and
holding them In the faco of tho wit
ness referred to, he exclaimed: 'Gen
tlemen of the Jury, there Is nature's
verdict. Now write yours.' At that
moment tho witness fled from tho
room. After Clemens told this story
ho wrote nn historical novel called
'The Rivals; or, Tho Times of Hamil
ton nnd Durr.' In thnt book ho wove
tho incident Into one of tho chapters.
The book Is out of print and has been
for many years. Dut It had n great
sale, particularly In the south, before
tho civil war, for Clemens was a typi
cal southern orntor. nnd n man of
wonderful personal mngnetlsm. Tho
object of the novel wns to mako Durr
a hero, and to besmirch Hamilton's
churncter. In one chupter where Durr
wns high In tho esteem of Wnshlngton,
tho Intter is represented as reudlng n.
letter front Hamilton In which Hamil
ton detailed some scnudalous gossip
about Burr. Durr was standing behind
Washington during tho rending of tho
letter. Wnshlngton Incensed at tho
contentH of tho letter, turned quickly
and buw Durr, to whom ho said: 'How
dare you read my letter over my
shoulder?' Durr, us Clemens repre
sents, stung to the quick, drew him
self up nnd replied with all tho hutit
eur of his nature: 'When your majes
ty addresses such an Inquiry to mc In
the munner you hnvo, tho only reply
deceny enn prompt Is, Anron Durr
dures to do nnythlng.' This, ClcmenH
nvers. was the cause of the break be
tween Wushlngton nnd Durr."
FILTHY PEKING.
The frightfully Unaanltary Condition of
Chlmt' Capital.
The three chief churncterlstlcs of
tho Chinese capital which most Im
press the newly urrlved visitor ate
dust, stench nnd dogs, writes nn Am
erican from Peking. There has been
no rnln since June, nnd tho hideous
trucks that nre dignified by the title
of streets are ankle 'deep in black dust,
mitcb of which lu nillrcrlaad Uth
Along the mncndnmlzed streets, of
which there uro three, aro open drains.
These serve as Bowera from which tho
sewage Is dipped und tho highways
sprinkled. When It dries the pulveriz
ing is resumed, and, In addition to tho
original compound, the residuum of
tho tainted water Is breathed Int: the
lungs. From the gnyety of Jupan,J
with Its dainty teahouses, pretty gar
dens, polite, cheerful people, China Is
n descent Into A vermis, 'i here are two'
flushes the rich and the poor since
In comparison with th poverty of the
very poor, those In comfortable clr-'
cumstunccs, the farmers, shopkeepers,'
and others of llko" position, must be
tountcd as rich. Tho one thought the
dally struggle with half the population
Is to secure food enough to allay
the pangs of hunger. In summer they
are but half clad. and. In tho north,
In winter, their wadded clothing sim
ply prevents them from freezing to
death. They wear no underclothing,
and the wadded garments, worn for
years, left when not In use nt tho
pawnbroker's, are blnck and stiff with
tilth nnd Infested with vermin. The
houses of the lower classes are wretch
ed In the extreme, the floor of earth
or brick, tho kang or brick stove bed,
nnd a few poor utensils being the sum
of their possessions. While they show
great skill In mnny lines of purely
decorative work the Chinese are not
the best artisans In the world, espec
ially ub carpenters, und the doors und
windows are seldom fitted to exclttdo
tho piercing winds. Added to this they
rarely shut a door, and tho windows,
covered with paper, which soon be
comes ragged nnd broken, nre better
adapted to excluding tho light than
tho cold. The people suffer frightfully
from chilblains during tho winter
months, hands and feet being raw and
bleeding, nnd thousands tile of pulmon
ary complaints.
Abienl'Mlnded.
It was an electric car, nndn man
was sitting between two women. Thov,
man left the cir, and as ho passed
out an umbroln slid from the seat
toward tho flcwr and woman No. 1.
Sho caught lt.tushed to tho door, had
the car stoppol nnd told tho conductor
to call the mn back. Tho man, how
over.decllncdto tako what was not hlB,
and so the god Samaritan, leaving the
"watershed7ln tho conductor's hands,
regained hrr Beat. Meantime woman
No. 2, wh had seen and heard the N
wholo perrmance, suddenly came out
of her traice and exclaimed, "Where is
my iimbilla?" You can Imagine the
rest of t(o talo; but It wns very funny
to seo all. Mllford Journal.
Salyrs' trousers, or "trorabona
panttf' ns they havo somotlmes boon
calle, expand in boll-shape nt the
botym so us to be tho more easily
klc2d off In caso of tho wearor'B fall
inlnit) tho water.
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