The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, December 27, 1901, Image 6
'i F jr iTTTfcflnMBiVTftij"iijrr3TifcjXjjri-MrM.JLt Tt LJifcClj - fc J. nisii-r ,i . -V ', ij f ,L f-- . WBBIBWBBBBBB dftlffM 'i?'i'),f!tewwatT wlKwJR Iv m w '-te ,ti Red Cloud Chief. - M !! nail.,. PW' ! PUBLISHED WEEKLY. RED CLOKD, - - NEMUSKA " - Mr. Cnrncxlo might bo Invited to help out on tho echoine to establish a religious dnlly in .Tnpnn. Mmc. Nordlcn must ho preparing (or iv green old ngo it sho cxpectti to collect that 1,000.000 from Undo Snin. Cuba's health authorities hnvo do elded tli lit tho dissemination of jellow fovor Is entirely duo to mosquitoes. I.ord Kitchener l fencing In thn Jjoorp but wnut will happen when his troops get chased up against tho fence? Tho American speculator Is every where. Ho now wants to rescue Miss Btono for ono-slxth of what the bandit OBk. It begins to look as if it might bo necessary to set out a search warrant for Colonel Arthur Lynch, M. 1". for Gnlway. John Long married Miss Hello Loud In Tennessee tho other day. Well, Long and 1-ouii ought to ho able to mako thonisclvcu heard. SInco his retirement from military llfo tlmo Is said to hang heavy on Gen. Bailor. IIo ought to bo able to make a good hauiPnt brldgo whist. Tho German national game of "Skat" Is said to require thought, culture, and deliberation. Tho Yankca cat flees at the mere name of tho thing. Tho nlnety-iilue-nn-lioiir wlnu on the Pacific coiwt began beforo congress got down to business, 'ihls munh In Justice to that much maligned body. Senator Hoar suggests "limiting tho circulation of fanatical doctrines." It seems to us that would seriously Intor foro with tho output of New England Ideas. What tho other fellow thinks of us doesn't matter half so much as what wo think of ourselves after making n I per cent deduction for proper self esteem. Tho empress dowager of China has conferred tho two-oyod peacock feather on General Yung-Lu, tho Hoxer loader This ought to tickle the foreign powers half to death. A membership of KiOO In tho Harvard Club of Now York would scorn to show that tho metropolis and Cam bridge nro within 'easy reaching dis tance of each other. Tho new navy of Mexico is to bo liullt in tho United States. Undo Sam can accommodato tho world either In building navies or in smashing them. Apply nt tho world's workshop. Pardon tho suggestion, Indies, hut whon protty llttlo Wllhelmlna asks her subjects to bo us forgiving to her un worthy husband as Hho, herself is, docs she wink htr other eye Just a little? A Chicago policeman shot at a dog nnd hit himself. This Is a distinct improvement on tho well-known prnc tlco ot shooting at a dog and hitting somo Inoffensive citizen or Innocent child. Mlko Sullivan, who wns a profes sional baseball pitcher a few years ago, Is now n momber of tho Massachusetts legislature. Miko must have put In eomo of his spuro moments not leaning against tho bar. Tho fact that twenty-threo men have been killed or wounded in tho Adiron dack this year by hunters who mis took them for deer has created a de mand for tho suppression of tho long rango riflo. At n distance of two miles a man may look Ilka a deer or u mon hoy or anything elso In tho animal cre ation. Mrs. Ormsby of Chicago, of course, hies for a divorce, and, therefore, may bo set down ns considering marriage a howling failure. Yet fourteen children wcro born to tho innrrlngc, of which thrco camo singly, four came In two of a kind, tltroa camo at oun tlmo, nnd the lost result showed up in fours. Under tho circumstances it was more probably a failure of tho Hour barrel rather than of tho marriage. The passing of tho historical novel is foreshadowed nnd few readers or fiction will mourn tho loss of the swashbuckling, blood-thirsty heroes familiar to tho public for tho last live years. To demand for modern wooors of up-to-dnto girls has already been folt and business men nro likely to got a chanco to do a llttlo love-making In the pages or tho ulorlcs of 1902. Tho golf stick I to tako tho plnco of tho sword nnd thn automobile Is to supplant tho flovy war horse. Tho heirs of Anneko Jans aro Inaug urating anothor determined movement to obtain possession of millions of dol lars worth of properly hold by tho Trinity church corporation of Now .York for centuries. At a Philadelphia meeting they raiecd 2.C8 to pay ft lawyer, .1 I .n..1.l. .l.Anful rt fAflfl SlV vJJw condition of Ituly'a finances, which kow a surplus for tuo year, n re nlnds ono ot tho financial condition about all tho other European nu- IrJi2 u9, became it iff so ainereni. STRANGE MURDER James B. Hay of Salt Lake Bur ied in a Trench. POSSESSED A IARGE SUM OF MOfiEY Agitator Sent to .lull Letter Kxpnf-4 thn I'lot Duel In 11 llimrtlliiK Homo Tito L'hllilri'ii Itiirnoil to llrntli Kmlirrtrr Slln Out. The body of James II. Iluy, secretary of tho Pacific Lumber company, at Salt Lake City, Utah, was found burled in u shallow trench alongside the Uli (Jraudo tracks near Sixth and South streets. Last Monday liny called at the homo of Peter Mortcnsen, a contractor living at y.'IO Walnut avenue, and eollecU'd S-80( which Mortonsen owed tho Pa cific Lumber coiuimnv. mul which lute In the afternoon Hay had refused to accept, not earing to leave that amount in the ollleo safe over night, lie gave a receipt to Mortensen and left, saying that lie was taking the money to Man ager (I. E. Homney of tho lumber com pany. Snec that time nothing had been seen or heard of Hay until recently, when his body was found. The money was gone and In thu bade of May:s head was a great jaggod wound. His the theory of the. police that some one saw Hay recleve the money from Mortonson, followed liliu when he left the house and murdered him anil burled the body In the hnstlly dug trench. ' . liny wan tliirty-onu years of age, prominent in Mormon church work and Implicitly trusted by bin employers llu camo to Salt Lake from Australia bcvcral years ago. Peter Mortonson, the contractor who paid young Hay the money Mon day night, was arrested on suspicion of being connected with the murder. FIND KEY TO THE MYSTERY Tim l'omilhlo Amiilliint of .11r. Itt-iinU 11 Suicide. Samuel 0. Presley, n printer, thirty nine years old, of Washington, I), c, was found dead in bed this morning in his room at tho house adjoining that of Mrs. Ada Gilbert Dentils, the mo diste who was mysteriously assaulted a week ago in her apartments. Death was attributed to suicide by Inhaling illuminating gas. Presley left letters directing his bur ial at Many, la. The police found in his room it key fitting tho vestibule door of Mrs. Dunn is' house. A boy named Lonsdale, who saw a man emerg ing from this Dennis house lato on the night of tho attempted murder, was taken to see tho body of Presley and Mild ho was quite sure he was the mini, and a slouch hat, tho kind worn by the man ho saw, was found in the room. Stains, thought to lie blood, also wore found on Presley's garments. 'lot i:xionril. When Convicts Turner, ltarncs ami Hob Clark, leaders In tho federal prison mutiny at Leavenworth, Knn., were arrested at Lawton, Clark banded a letter to the sheritr, requesting him to mull U Tho letter WMs ...ssed to Chirks brother at Keoknk, la. Sns pectlng a plot, the letter was riven to Deputy Warden Lemon. Since his re turn Warden MoLnughry has had ex perts working on the letter, which was n cipher. Later thu "key" was found. Clark had requested his brother to get a confederate, board the train at Guth re, overpower the olllcers and kill them if necessary to enable him to gain his freedom. Irlilinirn Sriii In .lull. Hearing the charges of holding meetings and delivering Intimidating speeches in deUance of the police, brought against Connor O'ICelly M P., and several otherollidals of Castle bar, Ireland, wns concluded Dee 18 Mr. O'ICelly was sentenced to two months' Imprisonment. Four he were sentenced to terms ranging from n fortnight to a mouth. AH the sen! teuecs Imposed wero without hard la- The court refused the demand of the defendants for leave to appeal from jurisdiction of tho court! The r". that th V , L0,ltwas'"to the fact that tho defendants refused to promise not to speakjn,bUelyJ,, Hie interim. 87,500 IliiuiiiKfH, Joseph Coveney or St. Joseph, Mich vna awarded a verdict in t, e,reu,7 court against Frank Phiscator, the Haroda gold king of the Yukon valley nthosumof S7,r,00, because it was alleged, Phiscator alienated the alVee tlonsorCoveney'swlfo. Coveney had had previously obtained from Phlsea torSO.Mto, and then followed Phiscator to tho Klondsko and demanded Si" 000 more In the Yukon Coveney wns pt n jail and forfeited 87,000 i ,,01.1 dust to secure his freedom. The present" suit was brought to recover 37,000 and $300 interest. Tho Philadelphia committee for tho relief of tho Uocr concent i-min.... .1....1.1 cd to cable 81,000 to tho Dutch consul ut Capo town' utonco Tho money is to bo used to relievo tho suffering n the camps in tho vicinity of Capetown. Plans for sending a relief ship from Philadelphia wero fully discussed. The secretary was Instructed to send a lotter to President Hoosovolt asking him If the govornment would iutarfero in any way with tho ship undor the nmcuuuu JllUfUIlU WURt protection, If uny, tho ship would to tvJItttJed by the ffovwnmont BOER LEADER CAUGHT. i Coiiiinniiilniit KrlMimor Wuutnlofl ""i In HaniU of ItrllUli. & A dUpiiteh from Lord K'.'lehvncr, dated lielfast fiibout half way between IVvtorln mill tho frontier of Portfifeso Hunt Africa) announces that Command ant Krltzlnger, thu famous Kocr cjun inandcr who has figured so prominent ly In connection with tho invasion of Cape Colony, has been captured Imply wounded, by General l'rench. Krjtz inger was trying to break the block house cordon at Hanover road. Commandant Krlt.lnger has been de scribed as a leader of exceptional abili ty, not second oven to Christian Do Wet. lie has been repeatedly referred loin dispatcher from South Africa as being hotly pursued, cornered or ernsbed up against the Orange river in flood. Once no fewer than seven Hell ish columns wore In hot pursuit of him nnd drove him towards the Orange river, which was then unfordable. lint when the llritlsh thought they had him caught they discovered that he was fifty miles In their rear, threaten ing the railroad, after having divided his command into two sections. DIE TOGETHER. Di'lllirruU'ly IMinuifil (Jiiadriipla Sulcld ut CoIiiiiiIiiih. O. Two young women and two young men were found dead In rooms at a boarding house at Columbus, O., and evidence points to a quadruple suicide deliberately filnnncd. The two couples secured ndjolnlng rooms, claiming they wero married. .Nothing was seen of them, and though the rooms remalued locked and no re sponse could be secured to repeated calls, suspicion was not aroused until the next ilny after their arrival.. Final ly tjie doors to the room were forced and the occupants were discovered lying on the beds deiid. It is evident that both eourilcs had planned suicide, but the motive is not known. I'nlul Hurl la ii lloiinllntr llotmo. Dantel llradburn and David Fagau fought a duel to the death with revolv ers in a small room ot Hall's boarding house, at I'niontown, Pa., where both men lived. Itradlmru was killed and Fagau is in jail with a bullet hole in hi.s side, from the effects of which he may die. Fagau had accused llrad burn of stealing money from htiu. Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Addis were In the room and tried to stop tho quarrel. Sirs. Hall was shot through the bund during the fight. l'lipo Lou .Maintain III lluultli. A dispatch from Homo to the Paris Temps quoted by tho correspondent of the Loudon times and New York Times in the French capital, describes an in terview with Hie pope, in which his holiness complained about the false re ports In regard to his health. "You see," said the pope, "that it is not all over witli me. I work six or eight hours a day, and my work Is not easy, for it embraces the whole church Please say that I am not yet dead." Collision C'oiU thin Lifts Milwaukee passenger train No. 3, and freight No. tW, collided recently head'ou at Potter, la., a little station five mUe.s west of Tama. -Mall Clerk J. E. Carpenter, of Columbus Junction, was instantly killed; Engineer lien Giles of Perry, .severely Injured, and seven passengers slightly injured. The trains met on a curve just east of the station. The engineer of the freight says the air brakes failed to w ork. Tim Vlelliii of Minuting Doiul. Willard S. Uayiics, the Chicago trav eling man who was shot at Salt Luke City, Utah, by Hoy ICalghn, a nluetecn year-old boy, while the" two wero con versing lu the foyer of Knutsford Ho tel, about three weeks ago, died from the. Injuries. The body will probably be shipped to his old home at Hushnell 111., for Interment. Kaighu lias been in jail since the shooting. ltiiliy liny to Wrlromn (loncriil Funtton. A son was born to Mrs. Frederick Fitnston, wife of llrigadler General Funstoii of Kansas, at Oakland, Oil., December is. Mrs. Funston returned from the Philippines a few weeks ago and has been living with her parents since. General Funston sailed from Manila for thu United States last Sun day. He is due about January 8. Itrliln of Tliri'e Week. Ora Strine, iigod twenty-flvo years, of Elkhart, lnd., cut his wife's throat with a razor and then attempted to end his life In tho same manner. Sho died in ten minutes, but the surgeons who sewed up his, windpipe think ho may recover. Jealousy was the. cause of ibis deliberate murder of a bride of thive weeks. l'lcil to I'amulii. Lee D. Mills of Phoenix, A.iU, local manager of the Southern Mutual In vestment Company, has fled to Canada, taking a largo .sum of money and leav ing lielilml local creditors to the amount of several thousand dollars. It Is alleged that Millb' shortage ap proximates 510,000. A letter IpiH just been received at Manchester from Captain John Cofa at Morocco, saying that be expected a lino blooded Arabian saddle horse to reach him from thu Interior about De cember 10. Ho says tho animul will bo shipped to Washington for Presi dent Itooscvelt's use. A wuvrant was sworn out by County Attorney Hoot of Plattsmouth against James Moran, charging him with grand larceny. Moran, it is alleg ed, stole S110 I from Nicholas Cox. of Avoja. Ho was captured at Nobraika .i nv , - "i i,iviV io -v vlnVl The Diamond Bracelet By MRS. HENRY WOOD. Author of East CHAPTER XVI. In nn obscure room of u low nnd dilapidated lodging home, In a low and dilapidated neighborhood, there snt n man ono evening in the coming twi light; n towering, gaunt skeleton, whoso remarkably long arms and logs looked llttlo moro than skin nnd bone. The arms were fully exposed to view, sinco their owner, though ho possessed and wore a walBtcoat, dispensed with tho use of n shirt. An article, once a coat, lay on the lloor, to bo donned at will if It could bo got Into for tho holes. The man flat 011 tho floor In n corner, his head finding a resting place against thn wall, nnd ho had dropped Into n light sleep, but If over famine wns depleted In n face, It was lu his. Unwashed, unshnven, with matted hair nnd feverish lips; tho checks wero hollow, tho nostrils whlto and pinched, nnd tho skin around the mouth had a blue tinge. Some ono tried and shook the door; It aroused him, nnd hn started up, but only to cower In n bending attitude and listen. "I hear you," cried a voice. "How are you tonight, Joe? Open the door." The volco was not one ho knew; not ono that might lie responded to. "Do you call this politeness, Joe NIcholls? H you don't open thn door, I shall tnkc the liberty ot opening It tor myscir, which will put yon to tho trouble or mending the fastenings afterwards." "Who are you?" cried Nicholls, read ing determination in tho voice. "I'm gonn to bed, and can't admit folks tonight." "Gone to bed at S o'clock?" "Yes; I'm 111." "I will give you ono minute, nnd then I como in. Yon will open It If you want to save trouble." NIcholls yielded to his fate and opened tho door. Tho gentleman he looked like one cast his keen oyes around the room. There was not a vestigo of furniture in it; nothing but the bare, dirty walls, from which the mortar crum bled, and the bare, dirty boards. "What did you menu by saying you wero gono to bed, eh?" "So I was. 1 was asleep there," pointing to the corner, "and there's my bed. What do you want?" added Nicholls, peeling at the stranger's faco in the gloom ot tho evening, but seeing it imperfectly, for his hat was drawn low over It. "A llttlo talk with you. Tho last aweepstako you got Into" Tho man lifted his face and hurst forth with such eagerness that tho stranger could only arrest his own words nnd listen. "It was n swindle from beginning to ond. 1 hnd scraped together the ten shillings to put in It, and I drew tho right horso and was shuffled out of tho gains and I have never hat! my dues, not a farthing of 'em. Sines then I hnvo been 111, nnd I can't get about to better myself. Arc you come, sir, to mako It right?" "Some." the stranger coughed "frlcntlH or mine wero In It, also," said ho; "and they lost their money." "Everybody lost It; tho gettors-up bolted with till they hnd drawn Into their fingers. Have they been took, do you know?" "All In good time; they hnvo left their trail. So you have been ill, have you?" "111! Just take a sight of mo! There's an nrm for a big man." Ho stretched out his naked arm for Inspection; It appeared as If a touch would snnp it. The stranger laid his hand upon its fingers, mid his other hand appeared to ho stealing furtively toward his own pocket. "I should say this looks like starva tion, Joe." "Somo'nt nigh akin to it." A pause of unsuspidon and tho handcuffs were clapped on tho aston ished man. Ho started up with an oath. "No need to mnko n noise, Nicholls," said tho detective with 11 careless air. "I hnvo got two men walting.oiitside." "I swear I wasn't In tho pinto rob bery." passionately uttered tho man. "I know of It, but I didn't Join 'cm, and I never hnd the worth of a salt spoon after It was molted down! And they call mo a coward, and they leave mo here to starve and die! 1 swenr I wasn't In It." "Well, we'll talk about the plate robbery another tlmo," said tho officer, as ho raised his hat; "you have got thoso brucelnts on, my man, for an othor sort of bracelet. A diamond one. Don't you remember me?" Tho prisoner's mouth fell. "I thought thnt was over and done with all this time I don't know what you mean." he added, correcting him self. "No," said tho officer, "it's Just be ginning. The bracelet is found and hns been traced to you. You wero a clover fellow, and I had my doubts of you nt tho time; I thought you wore too clever to go on long." "I should bo ushamed to play tho sneak and cntch a fellow In this way. Why couldn't you como openly In youV proper clothes? not come playing tho spy In tho garb of a friendly clvl llun." "My men are In their 'proper clothes,' " returned tho equablo oMcor, "and you will havo tho honor of their escort presently. I enmo becauso thoy did not know you, nnd I did." "Thrco officers to a single man, and ho a skeleton!" uttered Nicholls, with a vast Bhow ot Indignation. Lynne, Etc. "Ay! but you woro powerful once and ferocious, too. The skeleton as pect is a recent one." "And nil for nothing. I don't know about any bracelets." "Don't troublo yourself with inven tions, Nicholls. Your friend is safe in our hands, and has made a full con fession." "What friend?" asked Nicholls, too eagerly. 'The lady you got to dispose of it for you to the Jew." Nicholls was startled to Inanition. "Sho hasn't split, has she?" "Every paitlculnr she knew or guessed nt. Split to save herself." "Then there's no faith in woman." "Tliero never vna yet," returned the ofllccr. "If they arc not ut the top and bottom of every mischief, Joe, they aro Euro to ho lu tho middle. Is this yoUr coat?" touching It gingerly. "She's, a disgrace to the female sex, sho Is," raved Nicholls, disregarding tho question as to the coat. "Hut it's a relief now I'm took, It's a weight off my mind; I was always expecting of it, and I shall get food in the Old Ilnilcy at any rnte." "Ah," said the ofllccr, "you wero in good service as a respectable servant; you hnd better havo stucK to your dhtles." "The temptation was so great." ob served tho man, who had evidently abandoned nil Idea of denial; and now that ho hail done so. was ready to bo voluble with remembrance nnd par ticulars. "Don't say anything to me," said the ofllcer., ,;'It will be used against you." "It came along of my long legs," cried Nicholls, Ignoring tho friendly Injunction, and proceeding to enlarge on the feat ho had performed. "I have never iiad a happy hour since; 1 was second footman there, and a good place I had; and I had wished, thou sands of times, that the bracelet had been in a sea of molten fire. Our folks hnd taken a house in the neighborhood of Ascot for tho race week, nnd they hnd left me at homo to tako care of the kitchen maid, nnd another Inferior or two, taking the rest of the servants with them. 1 had to clean the win ders afore they returned, and I hnd druv It off till tho Thursday evening, and out I got on tho balqueny, to be gin with tho bnck drawing room." "What did you siiy you got out on?" "Thn balqueny. Tho thing with tho gieen rails around It, what encloses the windows. While I wns leaning over the rails afore 1 begun, I heard somehing llko click dick agoing on lu the fellow room at tho next door, which was Colonel Hope's. It wns like as if something light was being laid on the table, and presently I heard two voices beginning to talk, a lady's and a gentleman's, and I listened" "No good over comes of tllstcnlng, Joe!" Interrupted the ofllcer. "I didn't listen for I he sake of lis tening, but It was awful hot, a stand ing outside there In the sun, nnd lis tening was better than working. I didn't want to hear neither, for I was thinking of my own concerns, and what a fool I was to have Idled away my time nil day till the huh camo on to tho bade, winders. Hit by bit I hcerd what they were talking about that K was Jewels they had got there, and that otic wns worth 200 guineas. Thinks I. If Unit was mine, I'd do no more work. After awhile I hecrd them go out of the room, nnd I thought I'd have a look at tho rich things, mid I stepped over slanting ways on to tho llttlo ledgo running along the houses, holding on by our bnlqueny, and then I passed my hands along the wall till I got hold of tho balqueny but one with ordlnnry legs and nrms couldn't have done It. You couldn't, sir!" "Perhaps not," remarked the officer. "Thero wasn't fur to fnll If I had fell, only on to tho kitchen leads un der; but I didn't fall, and I raised myBolf on to their balqueny, and look od In. My! what a show It was! stun ning Jowels, all laid out thero; so close that it I had put my hand inside It must havo struck all among 'cm; nnd tho fiend prompted mo to tako one. T didn't stop to look; I didn't stop to think; tho ono that twinkled tho brightest, mid had tho most stones In it was tho nearest to mo, mid I clutched it and slipped it into my footman's undress jacket, and stepped back again." "And got safo Into your own bal cony." "Yes; but I didn't clean tho winder that night. I was upset llko by what I had done, nnd I think, If I could hnvo put it buck nguln, I should; but thero was no opportunity. I wrapped It up in my winder leather, and then In a sheet ot paper, and then r put It up tho chlmbloy In ono or tho spare bedroomB. I was up the next morning atom G, and I cleaned my winders; I'd no troublo to awake myBeir, for I had never slept. Tho samo day to wurds evening you called sir, and asked rno some questions whether wo had seen any ono on tho leads nt tho back, nnd such llko. I said, as mas ter was Just como homo from Ascot, would you bo pleased to speak to him," "Ah," again remarked tho officer, "you wero n clover fellow thnt day. Hut If my suspicions had not been strongly directed to another quarter, I might hai'e looked you up more sharply." I "I kep HJby mo for a month or two, nnd then ijgave warning to leave, r thought I'djhavo my fling, and I bo camo acquainted with hcr-that Infly nnd somehow sho wormed out of mo that I had got It, nnd lot her'dlBposo of it for me, for slie said aho knew .how to do It without Wrligor." "Whnt did you get for it?" Tho skeleton shook his head. Thirty four pound, nnd I had counted on a hundred and fifty. Slio took nn oath sho had not helped herself to a six pence." "Oaths nro plentiful with the genus," rcmnikcd tho detective. "Sho stood to It sho hadn't, nnd she stopped nnd helped mo to spend it. After thnt wns done, sho went over to somebody else who was In luck; nnd I huvo tried to go on, nnd I can't; honestly or dishonestly; it seems all ono; nothing prospers, nnd I'm naked and famishing nnd I wish I was dy ing." "Evil courses never do prosper, Nicholls," said tho officer, ns ho call ed In tho policemen, and consigned the prisoner to their enre. So Gcrnrd was Innocent! "Hut how wns It you skillful detec tives could not bo on this man's scent?" nsked Colonel Hopo of the of ficer, when ho heard the tale. "Colonel, I was thrown off. Your posltlvo belief In your nephew's guilt Infected me, and appearances were very strong ugnlnst him. Miss Scnton nlso helped to throw me off; sho snld, If you remember, thnt sho did not leave tho room; but It now nppears sho did leave It when your nephew did, though only for a few moments. Those few moments sufilced to do tho Job." "It's strnnge sho could not tell the exact truth," growled the colonel. "She probably thought alio was exact enough since sho only remained out side the door and could nnswer for it that no one had entered by It. She forgot tho window. 1 thought ot the window the Instant the loss wns men tioned to me, but Miss Scaton's asser tion that she never hnd the window out of her view prevented my dwelling 011 Jt. I did go to tho next door, and saw Ihe very fellow who committed the robbery, but his ninnner was sufficient ly satisfactory. He talked too freely; I did not like that; but 1 found ho hud been in the same service lf months, nnd, as I must repeat, I laid the guilt to another." "It Is a confoundedly unpleasant af fair for me." cried tho colonel; "I have published my nephew's disgrace and guilt all over London." "It Is more unpleasant for him, colonel," was the rejoinder of the ofll cer. "And I hnvo kept him short ot money, and suffered him to be sued for debt, and 1 havo let him go nnd live nmongst the runawuy scamps over the water, and not hindered his engag ing himself as a merchant's clerk; and, In short, I have played tho very tlouco witli him." "Hut reparation Is, doubtless, In your hcurt and hands, colonel." "I don't know thnt, sir," testily con cluded the colonel. (To be continued.) llimllnc Mutton Factory. Taking the factory to tho raw ma terial instead of bringing tho material to tho factory, Is an Innovation just put In operation on the Mississippi liver by n button factory, and It Is a plan that has many practical advan tages. This factory is about forty-two feet long and twelve feet wide, fitted with all tho necessary mnchincry for tho manufacture or buttons, and provided with a three-horse-pouer engine for Its work. The prlnclpnl mnteiinl used by this factory Is mussel shells, which are found ut nearly all points along tho river, and ono of tho great expenses lu conducting the business herctoiore has been the cost of transporting the shells. Now the tnctory has reversed tho operation and will go to tho mus sels. When u bed ot shells Is found tho boat will (hop Its anchor and go to work. Wlton tho bed is exhausted It will move on to a new location, in this fashion 1 will go from stato to slate, from Minnesota to Louisiana, passing along with the seasons, and always enjoying tli'smost deslrabhi weather of tho MIsslsslppKyallejr., Automobile 1'oneben. A Paris correspondent tells of 6omc wholesalo poaching ot automoblllsts, who used their "car" as a trap for tho gamo and mado off with enor mous "bags" of plunder whllo the gamokeeper slept. Tho trick was so clover that, barring tho feelings of tho birds who fnlled of being "pre served" for tho guns of sporting own era, tho nutomobllo ponchcr3 must be congratulated on accomplishing their purpose. They pretended to have broken down whllo driving nlong the high road, and told tho peasants and tho gamekeeper, with many lamentn tlons, they would bo forced to remain all night In tho Held adjacent. The gamftkeeper, though ho Bays It was against his will, aided the men lu moving tho enr to u placo of safety until certnln repairs could bo effected. Theso "repairs" wero mado in tho dead of night by robbing tho pre serves of nearly every partridge and quail they contained nnd making oft with tho booty. Xearnets or Kelatlonahlp. A llttlo miss or five, living In Wash ington, conspired with her brothor, uga four, to save enough pennies to buy papa and mamma presents. A friend of tho family noticed that mamma's present wus;toj flnor and moro ex pensive than papa's nnd was impelled by curiosity to inquire why tho bulk of tho Bavlngs hnd been oxponded for tho mother. Tho llttlo miss replied: "Well, you see, papa Is only related to wo children by marrlago, whlla mamma Is our relative by bornntlon." '. , .tWt.Wi '''-i utg4awwft