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gj3Sp32SgSSi ;wt.Vj?v (J Off- . oil. .. ?m slH J!T SrfRVCF PjflTOOMti jenaapar I 0 CHAFTEsl XXIII Continued. Her words are followed by a scene of emotion as .Pauline bends over Juanita and. taking ber in her arms, kisses her fondly. Iter tears falling like raindrops on the upturned olive face, so faultless ia its rounded contour the one so fair, the other so dark, and 5'et sisters. "Now I understand why I could not hate you my sister. The good Vir gin put it into my heart to let love reign instead of hatred. Do not grieve it is a sweet pleasuie lo die for you both." . "It is miseryI feel as though I could never be happy again!" Pauline fobs. The old senor has fallen back, and Dick with one glance sees that he has .passed away. "Can nothing lie done to save her?" lie says, feeling worse than ever be fore in his life. "It is useless. I know that I have re ceived my death; a little while and 1 shall pass away from you. Sister, let xa die in your arms." Pauline only weeps as she gathers the small but beautiful figure close to her heart; she has searched for Beu lah. in many lands over the sea, and at last finds bier, but oh. the terrible pain of this meeting that is but the pre cursor of the sad parting. "I have some knowledge of medi Vine, let me .ee what can be done,' i;iys .Colonel Bob, gravely. The girl" looks at him gratefully .but shakes, her head. "It would be useless; besides, when I remove my hand fiom the wound. , life- .goes out. Give me a few more minutes to look into my sister's face; .oh. how strange it all seems how hap- t py I am to know that there is some nniQ who loves me. who will think of ; . me." Paulino weeps more violently than before Dick winks very hard to keep . back the tears, while the valiant Col ouel Bob. to hide his emotion, turns .and makes a rush toward the little -naturalist who has ventured to show -his head and shoulders from under the table, but who vanishes within his shell much after the manner of tor toise drawing in head and feet in times of danger, when he sees that tierce terror of New Mexico descend ing upon him. .As Colonel Hob. having furtively drawn the sleeve of his coat across his eyes, turns again, he sees that all is over: Dick is leading the almost faint ing Pauline from the loom, followed l.y the hste.rical Doia. while Antoin ette Duval bends over the lovely mo tionless form of the girl who gave her own life to save that of the man she loved. CHAPTER XXIV. Mrs. Richard Danvers. Where the tumult of battle raged such a short time before, a fearful si- lonce reigns. Men go about with Ian- terns, searching for the wounded, who are carried into one of the mine houses to receive attention from the S fM.en2Bv C Q ASr." ill company's doctor, who most certainly sure enough. Miss Pauline. I'm very arns his good salary on this night at sorry, aud if I can redeem myself in least. The dead are removed at once any way, you can't treat me too rough aud quietly buried, and they are not t ly." all on the side of the Mexicans, either. "We are all liable to errors of judg It has been a sad night for E! Dorado. , ment. Bob. I shall not be too hard but the lesson has been so severe that it may be effectual. Dick has been deeply affected by the ad scene he has just witnessed, but when Dora has led her sobbing mis tress away to her room, he hurries outside to see about certain things ihat should be done, and is just in time to see a figure come sprawling from the window. landing in a mud hole with a splash, while the voice of Colonel Boli calls: "Hope that will teach yon a lesson. jou imp of London assurance I reck- , entering at a window may fall upon on you'll fight shy of women folks in the page. general and the charming Dora in par 'ticnlar after this." "You've killed him. my dear fellow." says Dick, whereat the New Mexican sheriff -laughs harshly. "What!- kill that audacious fellow who wants to make love to every pret ty sir! he sees? Impossible. Why. he's one 'of the kind that have nine lives there. look at him limp away. Ta, ta.-my little coek-of-t he-walk; your plumage, is badly soiled. Hunt up some one you can bully." "ExeHnt Professor John." says Dic'k. and then begs his comrade to come out and lend a helping hand. A storm is rapidly approaching, .and before it bursts upon the valley every wounded man to be found should be provided with shelter, while the fallen must bp placed in their last rest ins-place. Thus the night passes away and morning comes at last. A new day has dawned for the great mine peace, with honor, has been gained, and now that, the scheming brain of the old senor is stilled forever it will donbt- . less last. A mournful task awaits them all that is earthly of poor Juanita must be consigned to mother earth. No tears axe shed over Senor Lopez, but the scene is very sad when the plain coffin, made on purpose, -ind contain ing Pauline's long lost sister, found only to leave her forever, is lowered 'into the grave already prenared. -. The sorrowful task is done at last. and th'en with a swoop the gale is upon them; rain falls heavily, the ar ..'tillery of Heaven crashes with detona- trans that shake the foundations of the mountains, while the flashes of elec tric Are are terrifying. It lasts nearly an hour, and a deluge 'falls that converts puny mountain brooks into raging torrents then the ..tropical storm moves away over the high peak's that inclose the valley, and 'agaia silence broods over the scene of 'the late straggle. . : Of coarse, our friends have little -.heart for scenes of pleasure, but after 'mature consultation it is thought best .all around that n'ck and Pauline be PaIune mFfyfYCSSL (CQf7l!E7;jg&. &rJJZEeTC3Zt& married by the padre who has officiat ed at the mine. They will not make the occasion one of merriment Paul ine's nerves have been too recently and cruelly wounded for that, but it is better that Dick may be recognized as the controlling spirit of the mine. They sit together in a room of Al exander's house talking over the situa tion. Dick, it may be noticed, has something on his mind; several times he .starts to speak and by accident is interrupted: it does not take much to interrupt him at present to all appear- i ances. : Somehow the conversation takes, a ' retrospective turn, and Pauline, in a J leflectiie way, says: J "It has always appeared strange to me that the Prefect of Paris, with all the force at his command, was unable to supply me with any, information concerning Beulah. He seemed confi dent that be knew where Antoinette Dual might be fouud, and gave me every assurance of success, but it wound up in a failure." Bob pricks up his ears he holds his breath like a man who has sud-, to find Richard Danvers. , and he denly remembered something that ' meant to do it. though he changed his quite astonishes him. mind afterward." "I saw a man running after the train The colonel grasps the hand of his he had just missed it he waved t comrade, and while he squeezes it de aloft a small packet that looked like a ! clares vehemently that it would have letter. Perhaps that was a messen ger from the prefect." The sheriff of Secora county stands 1 up. "Miss Pauline. I throw myself upon , your mercy I am the one to blame I, ' alone." he says. You?" gasps Dick. I "That message arrived during the i ! night. I received it. paid for it six- i teen francs, eight centimes." "Oh!" I "I thrust the little packet Into my I ttn1nf faallv itWAnilitiff - r-inrl it AVA1 i "7 . .,,". f,. I II, " -Ji iu .auss rauiiue in me uiuiuiii auu recover my advances." "You forgot it." almost shrieks Dora. , "I changed my coat for a rough pea jacket in the morning, and to-day is the first time I have had that same coat on since the day we left Havre. iiil m - m,.ii; Kat Oftv 4T aTbvsbbbbbM BOB READS THE PREFECT'S MESSAGE. , j They have always accused men of car- , enemy, giving Senor Lopez control, ! tying letters they were sent to mail, has kept me awake on more than one and this time I've put my foot in it , occasion, I can assure you," Pauline on you. One question have you the message yet?" "I feel something crackle in my pocket yes. here it is," and after hav ing lain all these weeks snuglj- repos ing in a man's pocke. the message ot the Prefect of Paris is drawn to the light or day. Bob holds it aloft triumphantly. He breaks open the end of the blue envelope, and takes out the inclosure it has contained, unfolds this latter aud ho'ds it up so that the daylight "'Antoinette Duval is with Senor Lopez. His supposed daughter Juan ita is the lost Beulah. We have also discovered Richard Danvers. He i? ' "Great Heaven, and I never dreamed it." and Bob strikes his forehead with his hand. "Proceed, my dear co'onel if wo can find him we may he able to make our position sure by some sort of partnership agreement." says the girl fiom New York, when to her amazement Bob Harlan gives a shout and slaps his hand down upon his knee as he exclaims: "Good! good! A partnership agree ment' what d'ye think of that. Dick? Fine, clever idea, eh? My dear lady, you and here another lit of laugh- ter almost chokes him. TROUBLES OF A physician was talking about his patient's symptoms. "Young, strong" people don't give me . enough symptoms when they are ill." he said, "but the middle-aged and the aged give me too many. Thinking ' about their health all the time, study ing their condition all the time, the 'aged and the middle-aged discover a symptom in every muscle, in every, organ, in every limb. Thus they con fuse me. "The average sufferer of SO or so, will pour upon my bead a deluge of j symptoms like this: . "Well, doctor. I'm miserable all over. Feverish one minute, freezing the next. I've a gnawing pain in my hip and side and back, and an all gone sensation in the stomach, with a shooting, neuralgic headache over the left eye. I have a queer taste in my mouth, a dizziness when I stoop over. land a dull ache up and down the right side, along with a kind of numb mess. I coBgh a lot, my throat's sore, and I've the earache. Appetite's fair, but not what it should be. I have a feeling of lassitude, and I'm very Pauline looks toward Dick 'in oes pair. - J ( 1 "Cant rbu manage' to control him?" she asks, when to her surprise Dick Ianghs loudly, too. - "Bob. behave yourself, sir. Finish reading the prefect's message, and then support me. sir, for I believe 1 will have to faint." This admoBitfoa or warning gives Bob a little backbone, and he sobers up. "I beg your pardon. Miss Pauline." Then, with a twitching at the corners of his mouth, he continues: "The proposition to draw this Danvers into a combination would seem very rea sonable, only for the fact that I'm afraid .he has .already committed him self, and is bound band and foot. Haven't you, Dick, you Ely rascal?" Dora giggles. Miss Pauline looks amazed. , "Is it possible?" she almost gasps. Dick bows his head. "You are Richard Danvers?" con tinues the fair inquisitor, almost re proachfully. "I did not purposely deceive you. Years ago my name became Dick Den ver among the cowboys, and I have .fallen into the habit. of using it, ex-J cept when signinglegal documents. I knew that both you and the senor here were hunting for me after 1 met you I learned this, and my chum Bob bless his dear innocent old soul! told me that he had been hired by Lopez to be something ten times as grave as this that would make him feel that any wrong had been put upon him that his words have only been chaff, and that after all the affair has ter minated about as well as it could. Dick turns to the fair girl. "And" you. Pauline do you forgive the little deception?" he gently asks. Miss Westerly has been surprised: she can hardly comprehend it as yet; her name will be Danvers then, In- stead of Denver; but what difference lnac if tnibo UTrtAri tho mati cVlO la .r JJa ".1.M uuuui iu iiijiit win ire me muic uitiv. "Freely and fully, in fact, there is nothing to forgive, Dick. You have had your little fun, and 'on my part I make sure of the mine between us. The worry lest Mr. Danvers might change his mind and desert to the says. "For that I beg your pardon, and as sure you it will not happen again." "He means to be an exemplary hus band." declares Bob. "Well, don't you?" demands Dora, quickly. "1 reckon you vcan trust me. There comes the good padre up the street. Indies, summon your best nerves to the surface for the occasion." A chorus of exclamations break forth. Mrs. Alexander having joined them with her husband. . "I know I shall be stupid and forget to make the proper responses." de clares Dora. "You?" exclaims Miss Pauline. Dora is confused with blushes, while the colonel roars with laughter. "You see." he says, "we made up our minds this morning, at least I did. and Dora was convinced by my rea soning, that there was no need of mak ing two separate jobs out of the busi ness we couldn't do better than fol low such "a good example, so we de cided that Dora shall become Mrs. Bob Hsyian this A. M." The surprise over. Pauline con gratulates the girl who has been so much like a companion and sister to her. always as faithful as the needle t to the pole. Then the padre is an- nounced: and here we must drop the curtain on the quiet little scene, for the magician in clerical robes, and armed with authority, has by a few words created Mrs. Richard Danvers. 1 and relegated to the past Miss Pau- line of New York. (The end.) A PHYSICIAN. weak. TtiASfb 9ro finltr 9 fan.- nf ml f -- .... .v. ....- . ... ...y mam symptoms. ,to proeeett , etc St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Development -Outside of College. The slow boy in school often givei an excellent account of himself in the fierce competitions of after life, says the Philadelphia Ledger. Some youth develou very slowly and do not imme diately find. their vocation. The honor menattheuniversity must possess adap ability for the mastery of all or near ly all the studies in the curriculum. uene.ency in matnematics may re duce the rank of the student who is as adept in the languages.- Greek may be a suitable block, to the youth who may be a mathematical genius. Outside tht college walls the graduate can develop along chosen lines and find his sphere Not If They Know It. Barker I wonder why most man ried women are afraid of their hus bands? , Parker i guess its because met never propose to the other kind. Chicago Daily News. OLD-FASHIONED DOUGHNUTS If Tee Ik They Soak the Fat How v lo Make and Fry Prop erly. Whea doughnuts turn out rough aad clumsy, they are perhaps made 'joo rich, or too soft, or both. Dcagh nuts soafrfat, if made too rich". Here s my. recipe: To oae cup sugar add two eggs, Ihree-qaarters cup milk, one table spoon melted butter, one-half (scant) teaspoon salt, the same of cinnamon, ud a little grated nutmeg- Use on heaping teaspoon baking powder, and lour eaoagh to make dough stiff enough' to' :be handled. Beat eggs, add sugar, then butter, then seasoning, then milk; then sift .in flour (about a pint), into which you have put salt and baking powder. Mow beat until smooth and fine, add ing a little more flour if necessary. Take out upon a board about a third of the dough at a time, putting the scraps back and Stirling into the dough each time. Have no flour on the outside of the cakes when put into fat. These will not soak fat (if frled-properly). and' will keep 'their shape smooth outside and of fine, close texture inside, and not tough. says a writer in Farm and Home. Clarify fat by boiling a raw potato in it. I always clean the black sedi ment from the bottom of fat before using. Try it by dropping one of the little centers in. If it rises almost instan taneously, it is hot enough. To fill the kettle with uncooked cakes all at once, and take out all at once, chills the fat too much. Then it gets too hot later. Manage to have the kettle full, but only two or three done at a time, and two or three uncooked ones added at a time. FOR A COMPANY DINNER. Jellied Chicken Very Nice to Serve at Sunday Dinner Recipe for a Summer Drink, Jellied chicken is very nice for a company tea or Sunday dinner. Dress, clean and cut up a four-pound fowl. Put it in a kettle with a sliced onion, a stalk of celery, and two or three slices of carrot. Cover with boiling water, and cook until the meat falls from the bones. When half cooked add a tablespoon of salt. Remove the chicken when cooked, and free from skin and bones. Reduce the stock to three-fourths of a cup. season it if needed, strain, and skim off the fat. Decorate the bottom of a buttered mold with slices of hard-boiled eggs, pack in the chicken meat, nicely sea soned, pour on the stock, cover, and place the mold under a heavy weight. Keep in a cool place until firm. If the weather is warm it is better to add one-half a tablespoonful of gran ulated gelatine to the stock. A delightful summer drink, says the Farmer's Voice, is called ginger ade. Boil together one quart of wa ter and one cup of sugar: add one fourth ounce of white ginger root broken in small pieces, and let it boil 20 minutes longer. Remove from the fire and add one cupful of orange juice and the juice of one lemon. Strain and cool. Serve with pow dered ice. Cherry juice may be used in place of orange juice if preferred. CASE OF RULING PASSION. Hospital Nurses Finally Found Out Why the Pretty Girl Had to Have Blue Ribbon. She was the prettiest jwitient that they had had at the Polyclinic in a long time. And she knew it, too. Her kimono was an exqusite creation of its kind. Aestheticism seemed to rise up in revolt against a cruel operation upon such a darling daughter of Eve. But so fate had decreed. "Get me a yard of ribbon blue rib bon an inch wide the next time you go to the department store." she said to the day nurse. The day nurse for got It. "Please get me a yard of Alice-blue ribbon an inch wide." she pleaded with the night nurse, and the night nurse forgot it. Then her temperature rose till the ribbon arrived. When, on the dreaded day. she was lifted to the operating table it was dis covered that she wore white silk stock ings with dainty blue bow-knots tied to the garters. The secret of the Alice blue ribbon was revealed. "The ruling passion strong in death." grunted the surgeon but the sweet thing, she didn't die after all she was saved to fashion and to finery. The stockings came off and the ribbon went into the carnage trough before the operation, however. Eggs a Hundred Years Old. In felling a large tree some days ago in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, a bird's nest containing four eggs was discov ered inclosed in a hollow near the heart of the trunk. The sap rings showed that nearly a century has elapsed since the eggs were laid, and it was obvious that the hollow had closed automatically. The eggs were intact, but slightly faded. London Daily Mail. German Cinnamon Cake. To one quart flour add one teaspoon salt, two teaspoons baking powder, three tablespoons butter, one egg, one pint milk, one teaspoon vanilla or lemon. Dough should be soft Roll one inch thick, put in shallow pans and cover the top with a creamy mix ture of sugar, cinnamon and melted butter. Bake in a quick oven. A Flower Vase. For cleaning the inside of the flower glass or vase which cannot be scalded, put a tablespoonful of rock salt into a gill of vinegar, pour into the vase and shake about for a few minutes, then rinse clean with soft water. The wa ter should not be allowed to stand until it gets sour about the flower stems. Xaple Fudge. Break a pound 'of maple, sugar Into bits and put it in a saucepan with a pint of milk. Boil, stirring steadily, until it is brittle when dropped into cold, water. Stir in a tablespoonful of butter and when this is melted turn into a greased pan. and. as it cools, cut into squares. i -. J " l If ' 11 J n. -I l f " t - - V2- II r ' ibsssi f-C -Jl Chicago. Keeping pace with the ingenuity of the criminal class is one of the most diScult duties of the modern police of large cities. There Is no class so up to date in its business methods as the criminal class. Successful businesses of a le gitimate character must, change their systems constantly because of com petition. Between the professional criminal and the professional crim- &ghzk?a ZiBamy'ocszy inal catcher, aided and abetted by alT good citizens, there is a constant war of wits. That the criminal so often gets the better of his opponent, hired for his sagacity and paid to catch the thief, the hold-up and the burglar, is sufficient indication of the average superiority of wit possessed by the professional criminal when compared to the criminal catcher. One quick-witted thief can often keep 100 famous sleuths busy without re sults for weeks, months and years, and be plying his particular calling all the time. The old adage that the same amount of ingenuity expend ed by the average criminal in earn ing a dishonest living would, if ap plied, be the means of his achieving unlimited success in legitimate busi ness channels is exemplified in crim inal records every day in the year. An inspector, whose intimate ac quaintance with criminals dates over a period of several years, declares that he has never yet had personal experience with alleged schools for the education of thieves along the plan originated by the late Mr. Fagin. of the Dickens' period. But whether there are Fagin schools for pickpock ets or not, it is a positive fact that in the larger cities of the country the pickpocket problem at this period is a very serious one, and far more difficult to deal with than was the rase several years ago. In those days the professionals were not near ly so numerous as they are now. and nine times in ten when the detectives became acquainted with the details of a job in the pocket-picking line they could tell offhand who did it, and all they had to do was to look up the man or woman whose peculiar kind of handiwork was shown iu the crime. In those days, too, there were less people in Chicago who bought stolen goods, and it was a compara tively easy matter to trace anything lost through the pocket-picking proc ess. There was a time when the Eng lish were considered the most expert in this branch of crime, but that is no longer an existing condition. A crowd of English crooks came to this country a couple of years ago. They got no further than New York, which has the system of apprehending pro fessional crooks boiled down to a fine art. This party included four of the wiliest and most skillful pick pockets if Loudon and the continent. The New York police caught them all. one after another, so rapidly that they were dazed. The same kind of performance occurred when a party of German thieves landed in Phila delphia. The thieves were arrested very quickly after they began op erations, one of them being caught with seven watches on his person. In the cases of most thieves who ply their calling between New York and Chicago and other of the larger cities the process of making the de tectives acquainted with the crimina Is makes it difficult for any well-known crook to be in the city any length of time without being recognized and watched. For instance, at the Har rison Street station or the old cen FACTS The main physical characteristics of the whale are its distorted jaws, with upward directed nostrils, its great bulk and rudimentary limbs. The huge bulk of the creature is driven forward by I the flexible caudal fin. and. while the body is rigid in front, it exhibits great mobility behind. The blow-holes are placed on the top of the head, and the animal can only respire when these are above water. The larger whales travel at the rate of about four miles an hour, but when pursuing their prey, or goaded by pain, they rush through the water at a much greater pace. They are -aided in this by the broad and powerful tall, which is their chief organ of locomotion. In stead of being vertical, as in the fishes, this Is horizontal, and the larges spe cies cam command immense driving power. The tail is also used as an offensive and defensive weapon. The smooth, asHwiDnH(rsssssssssCr Kfr tral detail, now boused at the Des plaines Street station, the- criminals and suspicious persons picked up dur ing the night are held until morning for scrutiny and possible ideatiflen-. tkra by the detectives, a simple proc ess that has for some time keen -in vogue. "John Smith." for example, the in spector, lieutenant or sergeant in charge of the operations, would call out in gruff, imperious tones: "Hold up your right hand." The individual addressed on one such instance re cently, a dapper, well-dressed young man with a narrow face and bright, ratty eyes, had raised his hand high in the air. Then the inspector had repeated: "John Smith, pickpocket, works the surface cars and bridge entrances." To Smith was thereupon addressed an inquiry as to who was his partner. He pointed out another youthful, but rather more roughly dressed fellow in the crowd. This "dipper" was or dered over to stand beside Smith. By this process the detectives were enabled not alone to fasten in their memories the faces of the two of fenders individually, but to associate them with each other, and in this manner simplify the task or picking them out in future. Everybody brought into this cham ber of sifting is photographed and measured by the Bertiilon system, after which all hands are taken to court to be turned loose by the va rious police magistrates, many of whom seem disinclined to hold pris oners of this type on a vagrancy charge or to remand them for further examination with a view to adding to their discomforts, and thus en couraging them to seek fresh fields r iz I IjrB i mmi 11 V m mlum f M M WH i VMM III IS SSSSSff W. SSSlSl -'I I T g J and pastures new. It is the aim and purpose of all police orders that this class be apprehended whenever and wherever they turn up. Some women engage in the work of picking pockets, but that sex is not so commonly found nowadays as formerly. It used to be that such women, when they were not en gaged in shoplifting, plied their vo cation on the street cars and other crowded places, usually with a male companion. That was straight pick pocketing. The business is now done after dark, more often late at night, by women who accost drunken men or unsophisticated strangers and back them up against a fence, or lead them into a vacant hall, ostensibly for con versational purposes. Then they start in to fondle their victims, and it is all over. Some of these women are so very clever that when they have suc ceeded in removing a man's bank roll they manage to replace it with a bun dle of blank paper so familiar In di mensions to the money they have ab stracted that he cannot tell the differ ence by touching the spurious roll from the outside. There are both white and black women in this branch of thieving, and they are a busy lot. When one of fchem has landed the prize she has been after she makes a sign usually in the form of a cough and a man or another wom an steps smartly up and "splits her out" from her prey. A Pinkerton man. who has spent most of his life in finding out the habits of criminals, says of the new generation of pickpockets: "In Chi cago there are several classes of pickpockets, the newest of which, perhaps, is made up of the boys who operate in State street and in the theater districts when audiences are leaving the various playhouses. These are ostensibly newsboys, cry ABOUT THE shining skin is immediately underlaid by a quick coating of blubber, the great object of the whalers. This is at once dense and elastic, and. while it preserves the animal heat, it also serves to reduce the mighty bulk of the whale and to bring it nearer to the specific gravity of the element in which it spends its existence. An interesting trait in the economy of the whale is the manner in which it suckles its young, says the Philadel phia Press. In doing this it partly turns on its side, and the teats being protruded, sucking and breathing can proceed simultaneously. Naturalists divide the cetacea into two divisions, represented by the "whalebone" and "toothed" whales. In the former the teeth are replaced by a series of great plates of a horny nature, and these, depending from the palate, constitute the baleen the whalebone of commerce. The laminae which com prise this, number about 500. are ranged about two-thirds of an iach ing the hardy serial with flaunting1 red headlines. Their scheme is to push the papers up into the faces of pedestrians, and. while under cover of the ruse, they 'get off the fronts" of the dupes, who ieither stop to bay ,jhe paper or who cannot escape th onslaughts of the persistent young sters. "For instance .a well-dressed aui with a woman companion may be emerging from a theater slowly fas tening his coat. A boy rushes up to him and pesters him with a paper, so that he becomes irritable and angry. He growls at the lad. but that does not bother his tormentor. Having centered the attention of the gentleman upon the newspaper in his left hand, the boy slips his right hand underneath the 'extra' and ia an instant is in possession of a watch and sometimes a chain. These young sters go mainly for fobs, which are more easily acquired than the other sort, but they are sufficiently skill ful to take watch, chain and all whea it is convenient or necessary. k "This line of thieving has been de veloped mainly during the last IS months, and it has been carried to such a pass that the public ought to be warned to keep a sharp vigil whea unduly pressed to buy a paper. "In the street cars there are vari ous methods of working, and it ia seldom that less than three or four operators ply their trade together. If there is a mob of four only one of them engages in the actual work of depriving the 'mark of his or bar valuables. The thief is called the 'tool.' and the others arc known as 'stall.' Quite often a woman is em ployed as a 'stall. By some secret code of signals the 'mark' is de cided upon and the woman picks a fuss with him. either accusing him of trying to flirt with her or exclaim ing that he has clumsily stepped upon her foot. Then, when he is busy with his expostulations, the others crowd about him menacingly and the 'tool takes his money and jewelry. "The best pickpockets do not work as a rule in what are known as the rush hours on the elevated and sur face lines the hours, that is to say. when workingmen, clerks and sales women are going to and from their homes. It is the theater crowd or the crowd going to the races that at tracts the pickpockets, who are after the people that have money, not those ' of slender incomes." Pickpockets, like other criminals. rarely have any money when they come to lay down the cares of a busy life. The only noteworthy in stance to the contrary was that of a famous pickpocket known as "GoM ' Tooth Kid." who died five years ago. and whose efforts for the "relief" ol humanity were largely confined te ! New York, although he had graced Chicago and other large cities with his presence at various periods of hia career. But in addition to pioking liockets he had worked with the "yeggs" or "hobo" thieves and was a versatile criminal. He was an Eng lishman by birth, and of thrifty hab its, which is a condition not at all usual. j Counteracting the Effects. 1 "Jack, you are an ardent devotee of I baseball. I notice." "No; but after I've talked golf all afternoon I like to read about two col umns of baseball talk to rest my head.- Judge. WHALE. apart, and have their interior edges covered with fringes of hair. Some of these attain to a length of 15 feet. . The cavity of a whale's mouth has been likened to that of an ordinary ship's cabin, and inside the surface conveys the idea of being covered with a thick fur. The soft, spongy tongue is often a monstrous mass ten feet broad and 18 feet long. It might be thought that the whale, with its vast bulk, would want sea creatures to nourish it; but this is not so. Its chief food consists of minute mollusks, and with these its immense pasture grounds in the northern seas abound. In con nection with these will be seen the beauty of the mouth structure. "Open ing its huge mouth," says Prof. Hux ley, "and allowing the sea water, with its multitudinous tenants, to fill the oral cavity, the whale shnts the lower I jaw upon the baleen plates, and, strain ing pot the water through them, swal lows the prey stranded on Its tsagee." llr bHI 1 bbbbbII VraBBI flt&JkkiA. ja--a-a&.y-Ji --&! j&JjJriS--.