Pittston Gazette

              - : / ( ' MT*HLINHKID IN.VI. COL. XU. N».t. Oldest f'ewsDaoer in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, .1889. . A WteKly Local and Family lournal. Drawbacks of the Elixir. I've heerd an awful sight about This stuff they call Elixir, That's been fixod up for human fo'ks By some smart physio mixer. They squirt It thro' a feller's hide, CHAPTER n. pv the trade. This diamond was recut in 1852, and now weighs 103 1-2 carats." Jcriuuoife way responsible tor tiie giris action. — Sir Edmund returned in the evenine During this recital, which I have ah- from London. jreviated considerably, Van Hoeck, who "Now, indeed, you look yourself—i lespised the Judge and abominated all gentleman," he said .shaking" my hanc ie said, sat with his eyes closely shut, cordially. He had made inquiries re lis nostrils pinched, and his black brows specting a lapidary, and learned that th« creased together, so that they almost m08* expert known to the trade was i met. Miss Lascelles listened with in- man named Carvalho, then occupied ai tense interest, her pretty lips just parted, Madrid. With our sanction he wrote al and I thought she looked more kindly once, offering this man his own terms, tC upon me for the glowing eulogium—of come to the abbey, and cut the Ureal which I have omitted a great part—paid Hesper. to me by Brace. At night, the door by which Lola wai The Kid changed her position, seeming supposed to have escaped from theabbei to catch some of her father's enthusiasm, was left open, and a night-light was and, sitting upon her heels with her placed in her bed-room. hands clasped* before her, turned her The next morning the dairy-maid saic flashing eves sometimes upon me, but that someone had been at her milk-pan: more often upon Miss Lascelles, as if to in the night; there was no other evidence catch the effect of this narrative. Lola having entered the house. Aftei "One thing is obvious," said Sir Ed- breakfast, I determined to go throngl mund cheerfully; "you won't want to the woods myself in search or her. Misi leave mie to-night." Lascelles wished to accompany me. ] "Neery one on us, you bet!" replied ought to have pointed out to her that hei the Judge, while Van Hoeck and I ex- company lessened the chances of Lola pressed the same sentiments in other suffering me to approach her, but I coulc words. not deprive myself the pleasure of hav The baronet spoke in a low tone to his ing such a sweet companion. We saw daughter, who rose and left the room. IxDla at the edge of a clearing on th( "The next thing to consider is," he hill-side. She watched us as we drew then said, "how can I be of service to near. I called to her, but she shook hei you in this affair. To purchase your head, and, turning her back upon us treasure is of course altogether out or the quickly disappeared among the pines question. But I should like to buy a The forlorn condition, of the girl; hei small—a very, very small—share in it, gesture, which seemed full of sadness paying down a certain sum for your t,le silent fall of leaves; the tristness oi present convenience, and taking it back the autumn woods, overcame Miss Las when the diamond is ultimately disposed cellea; and as she walked silently besidC of, with a reasonable percentage upon meD with her head bent, I saw that she the outlay. I make this suggestion as a was crying. This episode made a deer matter of business, that you may feel impression upon me; yet while my hear) yourselves free from any restraint in ac- ached with sympathv for the poor little renting my offer." sa vage wandering alone in those silent, It took us but a few moments to agree still woods, an indescribable happiness to this proposal. stole over my senses. It was the awak"In that case," he proceeded, "I should ening of love. wish to have a voice in the management Sir Edmund had a basket of food of this business, and the iirst suggestion placed in the dairy, and the doors again I should make is, that the finest artist in left ooen. work of this kind be engaged to cut the On "the 17th we learned that? some diamond under this roof, and that during bread and fruit had been tajten from the the operation you should take up your dairy in the night Sir Edmund and ] residence here. This precaution is ne- walked through the woods; we saw cessarv for the safe keeping of the treas- nothing of Lola. Our conversation turnore, and'for our own common security." ed upon his daughter, and he told me This arrangement was too obviously how she had consoled him for the loss advantageous to us to require argument: of his wife, Hesiioke with natural pride we consulted together, aud quickly agreed of her sweet and loyal disiwsition Latei to accept the condition. j on, falling upon the subject of tl»e great Sir kAmund read the agreement through diamond, he asked me how I came to be again, and then said: a miner. I told him of my loss by the \\ e must consult a lawyer with re- failure of the Imperial, of the impossigard to a legal form of agreement. Here bility of my getting mv living as a clerk there is a kind of tontine arrangement by otc. Incidentally I referred to my moth' which one would receive an enormous er's family, and the name leading him tc advantage by the death of his partners, make further inquiries, he discovered It is an clause, and I do the curious fact that mv mother must not see the necessity lor its existence, have beeu his wife's cousin. How often now that the circumstances which called do we find wide circles of friends linked for its being made are changed. A law- together in this wavf I thought that yer may provide for our 'security with- Miss lascelles was greatly pleased with out exposing us to ugly possibilities, the discovery of the distant relationship liiat, however, can all be settled later existing between us; we seemed less retDn. There* is no hurry. It will be time mote from each other. Biiough to make the legal arrangement During our atwence Miss Lascelles had We !avf ascertained the value of devoted herself entirely to Van Hoeck' the property to be arranged, and that we her sympathy had a remarkable St Sn ,lOW if tre the stone is cut. We upon this strange man. When I took ■ . question the best firms m London him up to his room to dress for dinner with regard to a lapidary, and take our he asked me to open the. windows, and ame. Meanwhde, I will supply yon place him where he might feel the air with what money you want upon your He sat before the open window; the set- L O U, and the diamond shall remain in ting sun was reflected upon his sightless tour keeping. Talk it over amongyour- eyes. I believe he became unconscious selves at your leisure, and any modifica- of my presence, and I stood there watchaon you may think advisable I have no ing the play of his features. . His nostrils loubt I shall bo able to accept." dilated, his brows creased together his Miss Lascelles returned to the room, lips parted, showing his teeth closely ind spoke to her father. Then she went set, the whole expression of his face in» L«oIa, who had curled herself upon cheating extreme dread; then the muscles he skin, and knelt down beside her. relaxed, for a moment his cadaverous L he girl was not asleep; she started up oheeks were tinged with color, the evoa nto a sitting attitude as Miss Lascelles closed, and the lips trembled as if in e© ipproaohed, ami Hung off the hand that Stacy. Again his lids rose, and the look *asilaid,t«nderi von her ann. of dread returned to his face. He shrunk i i dV^lkemeD the young back in his chair, and blinked his evesai SSttfiSg-g *51 J'Mp^£H^Sir"EdTt ® -°f i?1 I know what partic lar oie we snoiua hev been stickin' in at the present moment."We marched on to the High Street, our appearance attracting a good deal of attention, and creating some amusement and speculation doubtless. Persons on the opposite side of the road stopped to look across at us, others regarded us askant in passing and turned round to watch our progress, a few children followed us, thinking may be that we were about to give some kind of street entertainment. W e found a bank and streamed in, a small crowd collecting round the door, as it swung to behind the Kid. The clerks suspended their operations and looked at us in open-mouthed astonishment as we ranged ourselves along the counter. "Is the manager of this concern in?" asked the Judge—"Hands off," he added, in a roar, as the Kid, slipping her lithe hand under the brasswork protecting the counter, began to finger the scales. The Kid, unmoved, satisfied her curiosity, then, withdrawing her hand, rested her elbow on the counter, and dropping her chin in the palm, g;ized~ at the clerks with stolid indifference. "The manager is in, what do you want?" asked the clerk. "Letup, Israel," said the Judge, falling back a step, and waving his hand significantly toward Van Hoeck. "We wish to negotiate a loan on the security of a large diamond that we have brought home from the Cape," said Van Hoeck. "Eight hundred and twenty carats, fust water," added the Judge; "the grandest stone in this almighty universe!" There was a whispered consultation among the clerks, anil one went into a private rt»m at the back of the bank, from which he presently returned with the manager. "I am the manager; what do you want?" Van Hoeck repeated his statement. "And what security can you give me that the diamond is genuine," asked the manager, with a pleasant smile, "or that it is legitimately yours to dispose of?" "You will allow, sir, if anyone hed lost a stone of this kind he would have AN ECHO SONG. pull through. i roae on tor ten miles oeyouu this camp, and then finding good water and grass and a capital place to hide myself, I halted and unsaddled again and slept until 8 o'clock in tha afternoon. V\ hen I pushed ahead again I made twelve miles without a halt. Then I reached her second camp. She had been obliged to encamp on the level ground, and without water. I saw that ber horses had grazed during the night, but she had built no fire. There was a great blood stain on the grass near the wagon, and a few foet away lay the skeleton of a wolf which the buzzards had picked clean.' The animal had probably made an attack on the wagon or the horses during the night, arid the woman had killed him. I hunt Dd about to find the empty shell which she would have thrown out of her rifle after firing, but as I could not find it, I had to conclude that she had struck the beast with an ax or other weapon. I had gone five miles further on her i track, when I made a discovery that filled me with alarm. Either because she had sighted something to alarm her, or because her nerve had given away, she had left the ; trail, which ran straight to the northeast, and turned square to the east More than D that, she had put the horses to a gallop, and i I knew that it was the beginning of the end. They had gone at a reckless pace for about five miles, and had then been pulled down, and afcl could not find a single sign to show that Indians were in pursuit, I knew what had overtaken her. She had been seized with that species of insanity that often comes to strong men when finding themselves alone on the plains. There was a terror in the situation that unnerved her. God pity the human being left helpless on the lonely plains or the wide spreading prairies. If there was no peril, the loneliness of the situation would drive one mad. One is out of the world—almost cut off from God's own protection. There is a monotony such as no other situation knows. There is a menace in the loneliness that chills the blood, ft By and by I found where she had halted to give the horses water. This was a better sign, but as she drove on, her course was erratic, beading from due south to due east. This troubled me again. She had also made frequent halts, and just before dark I found a lot of the household goods which had been thrown out of the wagon. She had lost so much ground by her erratic course that I counted on coming up with her before midnight The night came down starlight, and I had no difficulty in following the trail at a lope. I rode cautiously, however, knowing that I was approaching the Elkhorn, and realizing that I might run upon hostiies any moment At about 9 o'clock I came upon the wagon and horses on the level ground. The tired and exhausted beasts were nibbling* at the short grass as they walked along, and as they became aware of my presence they uttered shrill neighs of rejoicing and held their heads high in air. I expected to find mother and children in the wagon, but was bitterly dis appointed. At the risk of making my presence known and bringing the Indians down upon me, I shouted a score of times, and also discharged my rifle several times. I got no answer, and after waiting by the wagon for a full hour I felt that the case was hopeless. In her terror the woman had abandoned the wagon and continued her flight on foot The horses were suffering for water, and as I could not be encumbered with them I cast them loose and let them gallop away. In the wagon were rifle, revolver and knife, so that the woman was defenseless. Takingjthe wagon as a fixed center, I made cirdeaftwcircle around it, but I neither found nor heard of the poor wretches. ODDS AND ENDS. "Good, good!" cried the baronet. "With skilful cutting, a diamond of such a form as this need not lose 100 carats. Heavens!" he exclaimed, turning to us, "you have the greatest treasure in the world." Echo, tell me while I wander O'er this fairy plain to prove him. If my shepherd still grows fonder, Ought I, in return, to love himf Echo—Love him, love him. A Paris correspondent, writing to 111* Woman's Cycle, asserts that French wobm* are becoming clamorous for a Mat is tlM chamber of deputies, and describes a ing of the "Women's Protective League and Socialist Republican Federation," which wu held to appoint the female candidates to be brought forward at the elections. Although 300 women were present, a man, M. Julaa Roques, of The Courier Francaise, was upon to preside. Hum. D. St Hilaire opened fire by a speech in the lengthy preamble to which she deplored having wasted so many years in the writing of verses before aha came forward to vindicate the rights at women, and was about to proceed whan a rustle of silk was heard and a nK™ elegantly • dressed lady, with a dagger in her yellow hair, stepped upon the platform, and St. Hilaire was obliged to retire, much to ber vexation. Radical French Women. There are about 60,000 school children in Baltimore, an increase of 2,394 over 1888. When old an' still He's gettin' An' make him feel as supple An' as frisky as a kitten. Fifty miners recently lost their lives by an explosion in the Bentilee colliel-y, at Longton, England. s "Give me your hand, Thorne; hold me," said Van Hoeck in a low voice, and speaking thickly. I turned quickly, and caught him as he reeled forward; for he had fainted, either from the want Of food, from intense excitement, or both. If he loves, as is the fashion, Should I churlishly foreake himf Or, in pity to his passion, Fondly to my bosom take him? They say it works just like a chann, They'll take a worn-out stager An' fire a dose inter his arm, Then run him on a wager; An' If a feller once gets some He never thinks o' dyin'. An' as for klllln' him, by gum, There ain't no use in try in'. Under the lows of China, the adult who loses his temper in a discussion is sent, to jail for five days to cool down. Echo—Take him, take him. It is stated as a curious fact that during the recent great strike in Loudon the almshouses were emptier than has ever been the case before. Thy advice, then, I'll adhere to, Since in Cupid's chains I've led him. And with Henry shall not fear to Marry, if you answer, "Wed him.'- Echo—Wed him, wed him. Wal, now. It may be jes' the thing, But still I can't be sartin; Of course 'twould Save, for married fo'ks, A heap o' pain an' partin'; An' if a feller'd hev good luck. An' git a wife that's clever, It mightn't be so bad a thing Ter live right on forever. When Van Hoeck recovered, and the baronet heard of our long fast, he took us at once into the dining-room, and had us served with the best he could give. It was a repast to recompense us lor our long privations, and for a time we famished wretches forgot our treasure in the keen, animal pleasure of satisfying the craving of hunger. Sir Edmund sat at the table with us, directing the .servants, who surely had never before waited upon such strange company. One could see that it was a real delight to this largehearted man to see us eat and drink. Miss Lascelles herself waited upon Van Hoeck, attending to his wants with feminine tact and delicacy; his affliction appealed to her womanly sympathy. She was a tall and graceful girl, with her father's fair complexion, bright, mirthful eyes, that added to the happy expression of her face, and beautiful soft brown hair, that took golden lights and chestnut shadows in its undulation. She looked you in the face with a fearlessness only possible to those who are perfectly healthy rid perfectly honest. To the charm of physical beauty was added a faultless manner—the complete self-command and unfailing grace inseparable from a lady of birth and education. She was as courteous to us, who must have seemed the veriest out-casts of society, as though we were her equal. A true lady can never be ungracious. Her presence had an indescrilDable effect upon my senses—the effect of fine music after discord; I was conscious of a return from savagery to civilization. But it was not until my gross appetite satisfied that I became susceptible to the new delight. The baronet spoke not one word about the diamond during dinner, but when it was all over he said: CHAPTER HI. Gen. Miles, commander"of the department of the Pacific, has asked the Pacific coast congressional delegation for an appropriation of $40,000,000 for Pacific coast defense. MYSTERY OF THE PLAINS. Mrs. McAdow, one of the owners of the Spoiled Horse mine, of Montana, recently drove into Helena in a buckboard, unattended, carrying a gold brick worth $10,000. It took two porters and a truck to get the heavy mass of gold from the wagon into the bank. The perils, sufferings, adventures and escapes of the pioneers of the great west can scarcely be numbered. No pen will ever write of the half of them. Some of these adventures appeal to our admiration and elicit words of praise for the pluck and bravery displayed, while others touch the heart of the roughest man and bring a mist to his eyes as he hears the particulars related around the evening camp fire. During the first rush to the Black Hills seotion the government posted a small force of cavalry on the Loup Pork of the Platte river, a stream having its rise in western Nebraska! Gold hunters and immigrants heading for the Black Hills from eastern Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and eastern Kansas all followed the Loup Pork as far as they could go. The oavftlry numbered only about seventy mtDn while the number of hostile Indians up in arms to drive back the tide was fully 3,000. The command was a menace to the Indians, however, and our camp was a half way rallying point at which the immigrants could halt and refresh themselves and repair damages. I was the only government scout attached to this command, and I had to carry a report to either Port Laramie or Port Kearney once a fortnight. One afternoon seven or eight horsemen and four wagons came Into our camp from the west and told an exciting story. Two weeks previous a train of fifteen wagons and forty meii had left Sioux City and struck across to the Elkhorn river. Following that up for three days, they had been attacked by a large force of hostiles while strung out on ; the march. They lost ten men and had five of their wagons cut off and captured. They went into camp, threw up breastworks, and finally beat the Indians off. Next day over twenty of the men, disheartened and afraid to continue further, took six of the wagons and started on their return to the east. There were five wagons and eight men left One of the wagons belonged to an immigrant named John Hosmer, who had his family and aU his belongings in the vehicle. He-was one of the ten men killed. His family consisted of his wife, who was described as a little woman weighing less than 100 pounds, a bov of 10 and a girl of 6. Mrs. Hosmer was advised to return with that section of the party which had decided to retrace its steps, but she refused to do so. She had traveled with the smaller party for five days, driving her own team and bearing up in a courageous way. Then, when within thirty miles of our camp, a reaction came, and she suddenly determined to return to Iowa It was an embarrassing situation for the others. They did not wish to return, ' and of course they could not think of seeing her go back alone. They argued, coaxed and pleaded with her, but she was obdurate. When, in her own interest, they decided to take possession of the team, she seized her dead husband's Winchester rifle and threatened to kill the first man who approached. No one has ever blamed the men for allowing her to separate from them and head back over the trail. They believed she was driving to har death, but she would not listen to them Bhe bad come to the resolution that she would return, and nothing could be said to change it. They were rough fellows, and she was the only woman and hers were the only children in the party, but she could not But il it happened t'other way, Pot women is unsartin. An' they don't alius pull up true, Jes' like they did at startin'; An' many a weary hen pecked man, Cussed with domestic riot, Is mighty glad to turn his toes An' git a little quiet. This lady vested with so much authority was Mud. de V alsayre, famous ist Franc® tcf her opposition to M. Pasteur, her *—Unwt for dueling, and her petitions to ♦ for the privilege of dressing in attire, which privilege, although granted to Bonheur, George Sand, Mme. Dieulafoy, the " celebrated Persian explorer, Mme. Foucanlt, the bearded woman, and two female stonecutters, for the annual sum of $10, has been denied to bar. At her majesty's promenade concerts in London a series of voting papers has been distributed nightly in order that audiences might choose their own programmes on the succeeding Saturday night. The more I come ter think of it The more I'm got agin' it, 80 when they atari their little plan They needn't count me in it; rd rnther run my nat'ral course An" die without no flxin', Than be doomed to live a thousand years With some kantankerous vixen. -Mortimer CL Brown, in Yankee Blado. A little girl was eating green com by gnawing it from the cob, when her teeth got entangled in a com silk. "Oh, dear!" she ex**J "tab when they get the oorn made, they d pull out the basting threads?" She is a forcible speaker, with a strong, masculine voice, and she that mmhad no right to crarider whether it would be wise to enfranchise women or not, for by the very act of paying taxes woman has enfranchised herself and niade herself equal with man. She also claimed that people would quickly get used to seeing a woman soUctt votes as a candidate for election to the berg as they had to many other things, tomatoes for example, and that when tile electors, convinced of the eligibility of woman for office, should put her name upon the success follows. Mme. Normand and Mile. Boulangsr—no relation to the general—and other apostles of equal rights addressed the meeting, all agreeing that the only way of improving the unsatisfactory state of affairs in France was to send several women to jm-Hfnuit A movement la on foot In 8t. Petersburg for observing 8unday as it is understood in the United States and Great Britain. It is said that twelve hundred St. Petersburg merchants have already declared themselves willing to keep their places of business closed on the first day of the week. THE GREAT HESPER. BY FRANK BARRETT. Superiority in wit is more frequently the cause of vanity than superiority of judgment, as the person that wears an ornamental sword is even more vain than he that wears a useful one.—William Shenstone. CHAPTER L We landed at Southampton, September 14, 1883, and a ragged crew we were. The "Judge," Joe Brace, led the way —a great, gaunt man, with long, long legs, a stoop in his shoulders, and a swaying movement of his body and arms when he walked, as if he had a load on his back and a long war to go; a man with a black fell on the back or his hands,/ a dark beard- growing high upon hia cheek-bones, and a great bush of iron? gray hair sticking out all round his head; and a forelock hanging down over his eye. One could see nothing of his features but a long red nose and deep-set, beady black eyes. His fustian jacket was worn to rags at the elbows—and so waa mine, as for that—split in the seams between the Shoulders with the constant strain of the laboring arms. Once upon a time his top-boots had been black, but now they were all the-same yellow clay color with the trousers that were tucked into them, and just as badly in need of repair. 1 followed with Van Hoeck. He held my arm, not for support, but for guidance, because he was stone blind. He was thirtv or thereabouts, I believe; but he looked twenty years older than I, who am now about twenty-six. Though he was Dutch by birth, he looked like an Asiatic, being a small, dark Jew, with all the characteristics of his people; while I, with my fair skin, light hair, and large frame, am pretty true in appearance to my modern race. He was better dressed than any of us, for though he had accompanied us, and roughed it so far as board and lodging were concerned, he had taken only a financial part in the enterprise, bis blindness naturally debarring him from a laborious part His I clothe* retained something of their original appearance. Albeit he had worn them day after day for eighteen months at the least; whereas mine, what with exposure to the sun, the sweat of work, rough usage, and the strange devices employed in repairing them, were scarcely reoognizable as Chnstian clothing. His faoe gasre rawc -train and fatigue than either the Judge". 2 — which might well be, seeing how great a relief to the mind physical labor is. There was a furrow between his brows, deep lines descending from the inner angle of the eyes, a pinched look about the nostrils and fieshless cheeks, that gave a fearful, strenuous eagerness to the weird expression of his faoe. And that expression was weird, nay, even repulsive. though his features were not illshaped, and it was due chiefly to the peculiarity of his eyes. Most people of dark complexion, like his, have a dark iris to the eye, but his was of a steely-gray, and waa the more noticeable because there waa the iris and nothing else; there was so pupil—nothing but that gray patch upon the yellowish ball of the eye. He kept his eyea open when his mind was preoccupied. Often, when he was sitting near me while I worked, I have changed my position that I might not see those ghastly eyes wide open to an African sun, yet unconscious of its glare. There waa something terrible in his blindness. Onr rear was brought up by the "Kid." The name by constant use and familiarity had long ceased to be slangy to my Samuel Blatchford, the Pennsylvania justice, has a large piece of valuable silver to which is attached an odd story. He sent to England for it, and, wishing his initials put on it, he wrote to that effect, giving hia name and adding . "C. O. D." This cash on delivery system is unknown in England, so, to his dismay, the silver piece arrived with his initials and C. O. D. cut on it! made it unsafe for us to walk about with it in the daylight," replied the Judge, "and as for its bein* genuine, you kin hev the security of your own eyesight." "I do not profess to be a judge or diamonds, and I can have nothing to do ! with it," said the manager, definitively. We streamed out of that liank as we had streamed into it, and tried another, but with no better result, the manager" telling us that transactions of such a kind were altogether beyond the range of his business; and we round a third, but the manager was absent, and by this time, being convinced that the plan we had proposed was impracticable, we put our heals together in council at the corner of the street to determine what course we should take. The Chicago Auditorium. ' Curtains, stage, and everything else in ttw theatre are operated by hydraulic power, there being sixteen hydraulic jacks, four at which are telescopic, under the stage. in this case should ,be plural, far there is a double arrangement by which one stage can be set while the other is in use, »nii the transfer made' the "Well, now we will go back to the library , and you shall cotue with us, Edith, if our cigars will not be disagreeable to you, for we have a marvellous matter to talk alwut." The late king of Portugal's translations of Shakespeare's plays were recognized by the dramatic critics of Lisbon as possessing in the highest degree power, force, skill, and the best literary workmanship. The dramatic critics of Lisbon are perfectly honorable men, and doubtless the king's royal rank had no influence in determining their views. - style of the Madison Square thtatro. where the one stage is above the other, bat is nodeled after the leading theatre at Boda\, considered to be tha eooraoiflot ixtBtence. Ail the scenery fa hung over sheaves, with iron cables and iron oonaveights, there being ovtr tea mil** of used. The seats will be opera chairs, upholstered in amber plush, ia tha gal ?ries every one will have a chair. A special feature of the hall will be Hi lobbies. These are four in number , 30x130, 40x130 and 20x120 feet In basement are two room, and and on the seoond floor will be the zooms and retiring rooms for ladha jeat&g arrangements are soch that a riew of the stage can be hadaren from olghest seat in the upper gallery, and tha acoustic properties of the hall are jw »hh»«i| act. The arches of the roof aro treated gold and ivory, and this is the IhraiMiy of the decoration throughout Over e proscenium arch figure pieces have been by Mr. Holloway, while the aide are filled in with landscapes by M. Fleury. The paintings are of a superior kind will attract much attention.—Chicago In the library Miss Lascelles seated herself beside her father, while we three men sat facing them on the other side of a small round table, on which I placed the diamond. At a little distance from us there was a lion skin on the floor, and on this the Kid threw herself, and as she lay there looking toward us, with her chin resting in the palms of her hands and her elbows planted in the fur, we saw scarcely anything of her but her great lustrous eyes, because of the shadow thrown by the lamp-shade. "Now let us understand the position of things to begin with," said Sir Edmund, taking a cigar, after handing the box to us. Pesth in*- A few nights ago 80,000 persons assembled near the small town of Lancaster, O., to witness a sight not yet gazed upon by mortal eyes, namely, a horse race by the light of natural gas. Two of the largest wells in the vicinity were drawn upon to supply the radiance. In a year or two these hilar 10*3 Buckeye men will be wishing they had saved up that gas and held their race during daylightC■ . irou ter cable We "were disgusted at Southampton, and, had we possessed the means, should have pone on at once to London, where we might have found some former acquaintance to help "us out of our present difficulty. But"we had nothing—nothing in the world but the things we stood upright in and the great diamond. For our smaller finds and our implements we liad sold at Natal to make up enough to pay our steerage home, and our spare clothes, our knives, every available thing we had bartered a war on our passage for food to supplement the miserably insufficient steerage fare. "We kin not pawn the Kid," said the Judge, "end that's about the only perkisit as we could well do without." Bpaciout —80x130, the there cloak The ful) thf A society has lately been organized in England which is called the "Home for Life society," and especially provides for the wants of educated women, unmarried or widows, who are left in middle life unable to provide for themselves owing to lack of suitable training for remunerative employment. The annuities acquired by members of the society, if amounting to an annual value of £30, can be exchanged for residence and board in one of the homes to be established for the purpose. "TMs will explain a good deal," said I putting in his hand the copy of our agreement • Ho held it that his daughter might read it with him, and having come to the end said: perfect in - At midnight, feeling that I could do no more, and yet determined not to leave them to their fate, I "went into camp near the wagon and slept until daylight. When the morning broke I took a long look around, but saw neither signs of Indians nor traces of the immigrants. I rode back over the trail for Beven or eight miles, and finally found the place where the horses had been abandoned to their own guidance. I could detect it because the eccentric trail from thence on proved that they had been guided by their own wilL Then I made new circles from this spot, spending the whole day in the saddle, but it was in vain. Their light feet feature thC It was now well upon three o'clock, and we felt the need of food, having eaten nothing since six, when our last ra- "Might'I ask which is the Judge?" "That's me," said Brace, with, some pride; "appinted by the Long Pike Vigilance Committee in '56." painted panel* tions were served out to us on the "You are an American?" "Located as such for twenty years; born in Cornwall." ' The Age of Marvels. and Tribune. "Southern Cross." Our position was a desperate one. With millions in our In view of the almost incredible progress of the last two generations, it is not the best judgment which pronounces the post electric system of transportation the dream of an inventive maniac. There is a freshness about the proposition that we shall yet send letters across the continent between the dawns of successive days that takes the average breath away, and the suggestion that passengers are to be rushed through space at the rate of 200 miles per hour is apt to alarm the apprehenm^&t.£&£JDL0£2sltl°n isnot beyond the possession, we might starve in the street, or have to take refuge in the work-house. It was odd, indeed, and very unpleasant also. At length, being unable to see any ga£ fflELof pur difficulty, we made our The Royalty of Karope. It is the same "all over Europe. Every now and then the direct line fails; then the power* in church and state have to trace away back up the genealogyto where soma daughter of a king married some commoner or foreign prince of a sturdy stock, and trace down that line to find the right heir, the all important "next of kin." At the tap there fc rapid and perpetual decay; from the com- "And Jan Van Hoeck?" "That's Israel," responded the Judge, indicating Van Hoeck; "and darkness fell upon 'em," he added, explanatively. During a short space of his eventful •*- * -•—D «_*. * _ « • before the inspector. "Well, my good fellows," said he, having heard us out, "I don't see how I'm to help you. The mayor is the proper person to go to, but he s away yachting. The only person I can think of, he added, after a moment's reflection, "who might serve you is Sir Edmund Lascelles. He s got a kind of museum, and buys up curiosities, I know; and a kind old gentleman he is, too. Now, if he's at home istence~as a bing veins whicETatCw3 ottf WiblStter 'itffti hard upon his temple. '•What is the matter, old man?" I asked, putting my hand on his shoulder. He started, and answered impatiently. "Nothing, nothing—a dream!" And then he asked savagely—"Who watches you in the night?" "This is not the night," I replied, fancying he was yet but half awake. "Isn't it?" he asked, turning his eyea from one side to the other; then stretching out his hands, as if to heaven, he cried—"Then what t» the night?" Poor wretch, all was indeed night to him. I tried to engage him in conversation, but he waved his hand impatiently, and, getting up, felt his way tothewasnstand."Then you are Bernard Thome," the baronet said to me, "and Lola is " mund addressed us: she had determined "Your rooms are ready," he said; "Johnson will show you to them if you feel you would like to turn in." spired to disable her wagon, but she was "terUe plain8' T ~ , -j—1 gave up and pushed I can today game yw ~ f K Indians found the wagon and robbed and burned it, and one of the horses was found on the Elkhorn. As to the poor mother and children, only God knowB where and how they perished—New York Sun. 4 "The Kid," said Brace; "her mother was a greaser—a Mexican," he explained to Miss Lascelles. The dinner liad warmed his spirits and loosened his tongue, and he continued: "We were drawed together at Cape Town by an advertisement in the paper. Our afflicted brother wanted to stake his little pile upon a mining venture. He had studied the thing scientific'lly; he had laid out a kinder chart in his head, pricked down where tile great finds had been made, sorter reasoned out the cause thereof, end sot his mind firm as a big find was to be made in a certain spot known only unto himself. We conversed, and he perceived without much difficulty, as he ned found the right sorter partner in me, end he kinder left it with me to find a third party to jine in the venture. I spotted out Gentleman Thorne here among a dozen. I liked the shape of his chest and shoulders; I liked the look of his face; I see that though he was outer luck, he was a gentleman, every inch of him; and I tell you, miss," he said, addressing Miss Lascelles, "that though I ain't no gentleman myself, I back blood and breed in' ag'in all creation. A man like Gentleman Thorne, who has been kep' clean in his infancy, fed wholesome, trained up in a public school, and been learnt to respect hisself and God Almighty, has better temper, more endurance, more pluck and fightin' power to overcome and win, than a dozen of the muckers that bounce about bein' workin' men." He paused a moment to let his words make due impression, and then continued, "Gentleman Thorne had no experience, but he had a hundred pound to put into the concern, and that fetched Israel just as much as his looks fetched me. Israel had three hundred, I hed nothing in the shape of dollars, but 1 threw m the Kid, which, being a female, was calculated to be useful unter us in the nat'ral order of things. What we hed we lumpt in, and by written agreement drawed up mutual, we undertook to play it out to the bottom dollar and the pint of starvation. We worked, sir, through thick and thin, through the measliest streak of luck mortal man ever struck. the watch to prevent, and had any man attempted to detain her by force be would have periled his life. After breakfast on the morning of the day before the party reached our camp lira. Hosmer left them, with a curt good-by, and headed back over the trail monalty fresh 1 The prospect of sleeping oncc more in a good bed brought us to our feet at once. Miss Lascelles. undaunted by the first rebuff, had got Lola's hand in hers, and was talking in a low, endearing tone to her. The Kid snatched her hand away, started to her feet, and came to my side, seeing we were about to go. "A little cuss," said the Judge; "you must excuse her. Miss. Her mother was a greaser, and she's never had any kindness shown her, except by Gentleman Thome. A lick with the strap is what she understands best. No, Miss," ha added, when Miss Lascelles offered to take Lola to her room; "leave her to me. There ain't nothing but disappointment and vexation of spirit to be got outer the ungrateful little varmint." The room given to the Kid was the prettiest imaginable, with hangings of white lace over blue silk, and everywhere the eye was pleased with some pretty evidence of care and taste. The bed was suggestive of coziness and fresh virgin puritv at the same time. I might have taxea my ingenuity in vain to have invented such a room in the stories I have told to Lola. We left the Kid there, leaping against the wall, her unfathomable eyes looking around her in sullen curiosity. In the morning the room was found empty, the bed untouched, the floor covered with shreds of the clothing- Miss Lascelles had laid out for Lola's use, andwhich, undoubtedly, the little savage had torn up. Poor little Lola! She and I had always been the lDest of friends, except when a question of cooking or washing occurred to trouble us. She would yield to my persuasion when nothing else would bend her stubborn spirits. She feared my silent reproach more than the scathing sarcasm Van Hoeck treated her with, or the heavy hand of her father. She respected no one but me, probably because I alone respected her feelings. Had I foreseen that night the course 1 she was about to take, I might, with a little patient persuasion, have brought her to reason. My spirit is weighed down with regret when I think how per-1 haps a dozen words from me at tliat time ■ would have turned aside the fearful con- I sequences of that act—an act so slight, yet followed by terror upon terror, by about sixty minutes, some journey being at the rate of nearly two miles per minute. If steam can accomplish such marvelous results as this, why may not that greater power, electricity, eclipse this stupendous record! ucwiuoo a uai vu f i and that earl's son a princess, and by the bis son or i line grandson becomes a king, en, however, the foreign Hnecoma Ct has resulted that every country except Turkey, ha* a foreign or monarch. Thus the reigning , of Brunswick is German. Belouse of Orange waa Dutch, and the house of Stuart was Bootch; of Tudor was originally Welsh, and preceding monarcha of Yorkist and lines were English, their comthe Plantagenets, would betis French. The royal family Cs not Danish, thoogh thai at The king of Sweden is French, is not strictly a Russian. The Qer is Russo-British-Germau; the is a recent importation from « Ti »— • This was the story as told us, and no one bad reason to doubt that it was the true one. The first thing the immigrants did was to appeal to our major to send out a force to overtake the woman and bring her in. The idea could not be entertained. It was thirty miles to the "point where she had separated, and, if she had not been disturbed in her Journey, she had made thirty more by that hour. To expect a squadron to overtake her, even, with the country .full of hostiles, was almost absurd. Our great wonder was that the party had come in without being attacked, and it must have so happened that they slipped between hostile hands. It was quickly decided that we could do nothing as a command. Not a soldier could be spared from the post, which might be invested any hour. I offered, in case the major would consent, to take five of the best mounted immigrants and make the attempt, but he would not consent, and none of the men cared to encounter the peril Fate, however, had a hand in the matter. Within two hours from the arrival of the party a courier came in to us from Port Laramie, bearing orders which I must attempt to transmit to Fort Randall. My ride would take me over a portion of the trail, and it was probable that I would make some discoveries. Koagh on the Poor Prime. Most often, in, and so in Europel half foreigi British houa fore it the ' before that the house while the. Lancastrian mon ancestors, ter be classed of Denmark Greece is. The czai man emperor king of Bulgaria -r  Germany, and the kiag of Italy is from the same original stock as Qneem Victoria.—J. H. Beadle. n British royalty doesn't amount to much in these days. It cannot even command washstands for its personal use at the public The truth is that jro live in a phenomenal age. All the ancient faiths concerning: the development of material things are being rudely jostled by the pushing shoulders of science. It is no longer the dream of a visionary that we shall converse with persons a thousand miles away. Marked progress has been made toward solving the probletn of aerial navigation, and although it is yet impossible to predict the ultimate outcome, it is not insanity to believe that air ships may yet run counter to the winds. The turning illuminates a populous* city and new explosives shatter in an instant obstacles which were deemed immovable. There are improvements to the telegraph which would have astounded Morse had he lived to see them. —Philadel- Philadelnhia Inauirer. We asked htm hurriedly where Sir Edmund lived, and he replied that it was out Lymington way—Monken Abbey— eight or nine miles, and anyone would tell us the way. Well, there was nothing better to be done; so we got the inspector to give us a more definite direction, and then started off in search of the abbey. The Judge swinging along ahead at a good four miles au hour, the Kid had to trot to keep up with us; but I gave her my hand and she did not complain—it was not in her nature to show suffering in the ordinary way. It must have been about six o'clock when we found the park entrance to Monken Abbey, and there we were stopped by the loage-keeper, who refused to let us pass without permission from Sir Edmund; but when he heard that we had been sent by the inspector of police at Southampton, he sent his wife up to the house, to know-if the baronet would see us. expense. y This is the substance of a recent decision by the British admiralty. Young Prince George, the second son of the Prince of Wales, is In the navy, quartered on board H. M. S. Excellent. A short time ago he wanted a marble top washstand and dressing table for his quarters and made requisition for them. "Go down," he said; "Miss Lascelles is more pleasing to the eye than I am; she must be beautiful, for "her voice is music, her touch is like the petal of a rose. Where do you keep the diamond—is it safe?" The order was at first given, but, after a howl from Labouchere and a consequent stirring up of public discussion, the admiralty hastened to rescind the order. Young Prince George, therefore, will have to go without the marble top washstand and the dressing table unless he provides them at his own expense—or royal papa's. Thus is royalty fallen. One who stands near the throne—so near that two deaths would make htm heir apparent—is officially ordered to provide his own washstand or go without! It is indeed bitter.—Boston Globe. I told him that I now kept it in a belt buckled Mhny waist. "Strap it to" your wrist again, it is safer," he said; and then, bending his head aside, he listened attentively for a moment and continued, in a lower voice: "They are talking together down there. Creep down and listen. I tell you we are not safe here—I see that through my blindness. I have faculties in place of that I have lost. Do you hear them? Come closer, Thome; there is a conspiracy in this house—a plot to rob us of our treasure, and turn us beggars again upon the street. If I could trust you, I'd tell ▼ou more. But everyone is a thief who has the power to steal." It was not the first time I had heard him talk in this vein. At Natal, on the ship, he had been in constant dread of being rpbbed. I was glad to get away from him. As I passed the head of the stairs in going to mv room, I distinguished the sound—too distant before to tell upon my dull ear—of Sir Edmund's voice and the Judge's; they were in the library below. After dressing, I joined them, and found Sir Edmund greatly interested in Brace's description of gold-mining in California—a subject upon which he could be eloquent by the hour together. On the 18th, Sir Edmund, Miss Lascelles and I rode over to Southampton. Miss Lascelles was in her gayest, happiest mood, and in her riding-habit looked more charming than ever. • In returning we met a friend of Sir Edmund's; he accepted the invitation to take lunch at the abbey, and rode beside the baronet, ahead of us. We two took the hill so slowly that, coming to the cross-roads, we could not see Sir Edmund and his friend. There were two ways to the abbey. After a little deliberation, Miss Lascelles laughingly consented to take the longer one. The morning was superb; the woods were glorious. The rich, warm tints of the reddening foliage were reflected on my beautiful companion's cheek; her eyes seemed to catch the glitter of the dew that still hung on the gossamers. I forgot what we talked about, but she was full of mirth, and now and then the still woods rang with the musical cadence of her laugh. But suddenly the smile died from her face, and she said: ear. Poor little Lola! she was the raggedest and most disreputable of the lot, though it waa not for that reason that she walked behind as; indeed, had she suspected that to follow implied inferiority, she would have marched ahead of her own father. That was her character. William liiack. A New American Conservatory of Music. M. Theophile Manowry, the well known baritone of the.Grand opera in Paris, who recently arrived in New York, will shortly begin his duties as director of the vooal department of the new National Conservatory ot Music in New York city, of which Mrs. Jeannette M Thurber is president. Mrs. Thurber, who is now abroad, hearing that M. Manowry - had graduated with first honors at the Paris D- conservatory, and having him recommended to her in the highest terms by such well known musicians as Gounod, SaintnSaens, Massenet and Ambrose Thomas, persuaded him to give up his brilliant career abroad \j9 accept the vocal directorship of this new National conservatory, in which she is so much interested. Mra. ThurW* late efforts to establish national opera In the United' States will naturally make this new movement of hers of great interest, H*r idea is that America, which has done so much for education in other lines, should establish and endow a musical university, open to rioh and poor alike, where art is not subordinated to money, and where Americans with talent can obtain musical instruction under jthe direction of the best masters at reasonable cost D The story reading world is greatly interested in the statement that Mr. William Black is making Miss Mary Anderson the heroine of his next production. Mr. Black is a writer about whom there is little gossip, because he is naturally of a retiring nature and prefers not to see his every action chronicled in the press. There are fabulous stories told of the amount of leader writing which he could ac complish in his days of journalistic work. Mr. Black's first stories were written when he accomplished an immense amount of newspaper work, and his continued health during that period is probably due to the fact that he has always delighted in out of door games. He is an excellent pool player and is fond of various active amusements. Yet it is probable that if he were asked to describe his own disposition he would say that his habitual mood is one of profound melancholy.—Montreal Star.  The child wore a ragged red flannel petticoat, a camisole that had once been white, and a colored handkerchief tied closely round her neck. She had a string of colored beads upon her wrist, but neither hat on her head nor shoe on her foot, Her purple black hair grew low down on her temple, and broke into curls over the ears at the nape of her neck, and wherever it was uncontrolled; it was matted together in a thick, loose plait that fell down to her waist, and tied at the end with a strip of red flannel, torn from her petticoat. She had the prettiest little hands and feet, a dark olive skin, a large but beautifully-shaped mouth, with the finest teeth I have ever seen, and a pair of glorious black eyes, full of audacity, and betraying only too faithfully her wild and ungovernable disposition. Properly dressed (and washed), she might have passed for a Spanish princess; in her present condition, there was no mistaking her for anything but the self-willed little savage slie was. The Kid had given us a deal of trouble —had we foreseen how much, I do not think Van Hoeck or I would have put in that postscript to the agreement which her father, the Judge, induced us to inscribe.We sat on a bank near the lodge gate close upon an hour before we learned our fate; for Sir Edmund was at dinner when the message reached the house, and the servants did not choose to delivefit until he had dined. A servant led us through the park to the abbey, and took us into a beautiful hall, wainscotedMvith dark oak, and hung with antlers, old armor, and other suitable decorations; and here we waited until Sir Edmund Lascelles came to us. Our spirits rose at the first glimpse of the handsome, portly old gentleman. There was benevolence in the little curls of his soft white hair, and the promise of kind treatment in tiie genial smile with which he greeted us. The Mlllerltes. "I can't psk you to deviate from your direct course or to incur any additional peril," said the major, as I was making ready to go. "Indeed, if you get through alive, with all your skill and cunning, it will lift a great load from my mind. I have no doubt there are a thousand hostiles between this and Fort Randall. The woman and children were no doubt attacked within two hours after leaving the party. It's a sad case, but I don't see how we can help them." There is something comical in the way outsiders are affected simply by living in an atmosphere surcharged with "Millerism." They first laugh, then argue, then get a little nervous—"it might be so, y' know." In Indiana in 1813 hundreds of people in the infected townships, from hearing the matter constantly discussed and hearing very little else, grew chronically uneasy, though they did not believe the prophets. This, indeed, is the philosophy of all popular delusions. It is needless to give the arguments; they all refer to Daniel's 3,300 years, and claim that the starting time can be located by certain events. In 1886 there was a strong movement in some parts of the south, especially among the negroes, and finally the same year was settled on by many in different sections and without apparent concert. It is stated that 40,000 Adventists in the United States firmly believe that Harrison will be the last president, but they are uncertain, about the day.—J. B. Parka "Are the dispatches very important/' I asked. "Yes, but they will keep. You need not kill your horse to deliver them." "Then before I return I shall learn the fate of the woman." Father of the Life Saving Service. '•Well," said he, cheerfully, '"you have something to sell me, have you?' "Yes," I replied, "if you can buy it; it is a diamond.' Few of the thousands who pass him on lower Broadway have an idea that the old gentleman with the silky white hair, clean shaven face, somewhat stoop shouldered, and wearing an old fashioned light hat, whom they meet occasionally, is Joseph Francis, the father of the American life saving service. He is the inventor of the metal life car, and almost the entire service to-day is the fruit of his inventive genius. During the past few years Mr. Francis has subsisted entirely upon a diet of milk. Although over 80 years of age, he is as sprightly and has as clear ah intellect as most men of half his years.—New York Star. He extended his hand and turned his face away. It was what he wanted, but he would not command it. He had a wife and two children of his own back in the States, and I knew how his sympathies went out for this poor, obstinate mother, whom grief had probably worked to such an extent that her mind was not quite right Soon after dark that night I rode away to the northeast, only half an hour before a scouting party came in with the news that a large band of hostiles were approaching from the north. Had I been delayed a few minutes I could not have got out for a week It was a July night, cloudy and threatening rain, and I took my chances and pushed ahead at a gallop, hour after hour, havtng a pretty level country, knowing I could not go wrong. I did not intend to look for the trail of the wagon until daylight, and when dawn came I found it with very little trouble. I hit It at least ton miles beyond the point where Mrs. Hosmer had separated from the band. In other words, I had gained ton miles on her back traiL I had been told of a peculiarity about her wagon which enabled me to pick out its trail at once. On the tire of one of the hind wheels the blacksmith bad stamped a hand thus: tar. This pointed in the direction the vehicle was going, and I found its imprint in a dosen places headed back for the Elkhorn."A diamond! Ah, that's a costly kind of curiosity, but I like them for all that; have you got it with you?" "Yes," said I; and, turning over my hand, I ojiened it, showing the leather case strapped to my wrist, which contained the Great ilea per, as we called our diamond. The baronet was thunderstruck by the prodigious size of the stone, for he could see that the leather fitted it closely. "Israel was the first to funk it. 'My ! calc'lations are wrong; it's a hopeless venture, let us chuck it,' he says; to • which Gentleman Thorne replies—'No,' D he says, 'we'll stick to our colors and 1 fight it out,' says he; end he did his level best to cheer us on. You should have heered him there a-whistlin' like a blackbud, Bingin'-songs, drawin' us out of ourselves, and makin' a pleasant joke out of our bad luck. Ast the Kid down there who was her best friend in that trouble. She'll tell you it was Gentleman Thorne, not her father. She had a bit of a fever —It was him made up a bed for her, built a screen to keep the sun off, walked fifteen mile in the night to get things from the store, set up night after night to give her water, end used for to sing out about the sleeping beauty and Cinerella, while he was peggin' away at the durned stones. I will allow, miss, I were ashamed to let him see I was losin'heart, and when I felt like blaspliemin' at things in gen'ral, I used to take i| short walk and let of all my swearin' where he couldn't hear me. Well, it did look as ef we had hooked on to the everlaetin' fish-kettle. Then Israel funked it a second time. 'We hev still a few pounds left,' he says to Gentleman Thorne, 'let's throw up the cards,' which they might hev done without going from our written word, they two formin' a majority. But Gentleman Thorne wouldn't aeree to it. It wouldn't be fair to the Judge, he said, and then he promised that if we failed in the end he'd stick by Israel, and keen him like his own flesh and blood until he tound the means ot keeping hisself, which was more than I'd hev promised him, I will allow. Well, we played on till the last cent was spent in stores, and the stores had got down to half a tin of beef, and a screw of shag, and then I lighted on a two-carat stone. The very next day Gentleman Thorne found the Great Hesper, We couldn't allow it was real, yet we sorter thought it was. Anyhow, we didn't sleep till we got to Natal and had it tested. We sold the littler ston$, and scraped enough together to pay our passage to Southampton by the next boat In committee we agreed to go to a bank and raise money on the diamond as soon's we landed, but no one wouldn't take us on, end ef the police hadn't out us on this track I'm durned if His Literary Jack—Heard about young Slytewytte! Wrote something that brought him a cle&r thousand. crimc upon cnii!1 Bravery Rewarded. Clara—Gracious 1 I never supposed him capable of expressing two ideas.* Jack—He cant Got that money by signing his name to a check.—Plttsbnrg Bulletin. George Grouchy, a salesman in Lawrence, Mass., has received an unexpected reward for saving a man's life at Nantasket Beach last summer. The rescued man is a wealths merchant of Providence, and he showed his gratitude to his preserver by giving him #100 in cash and a note for 15,000, due when the young man becomes of age. Grouchy is more than 20 years old, so that within a year he will receive a snug sum for his bravery. The rescue was accomplished at great personal risk, and he did not recover for more than a month. The rescued man was unconscious when brought to shore, and lost track of the young man who had saved him, but by employing detectives he found him and rewarded him.—Beaton Letter. I must summarize as briefly as possible the events that took place the week following Lola's flight, not because I find them lacking in interest—for indeed these were the happiest days I had ever spent —but because the lengthy description would unduly retard the progress of the histyry I have set myself to narrate. On the morning of the lath, search was made for Lola. She was not in the house. A little after midday, one of the keepers, sent out to explore the abbey woods and park, reported that he had seen the fugitive in the ijr plantation, about half a mile from the abbey. At sight of him she had "scuttled" away like a young deer, but he, obedient to orders, had not pursued her. "It's the smell of the pines as drawed her there," said the Judg*; "she was bora amongst 'em, she has lived amongst 'em, and she loves 'em more than laces and satins, and picters, and sich like; and and it's more nat'ral for the little cuss to sleep on the brown needles than in feathers. There's no tamin' her. It's instinc', end, liJto foul weeds in a fair pasture, durn her, there's no gettin' it out of hen Leave her alone, sir, and she'll coma in when she's hungry, and then I will lain her the iniquity of ongratitudef In the afternoon we went in a break to Southampton, driving slowly through the woods, with the possibility of being seen by Lola, who would certainly then have followed us, but we saw nothing of her. At Southampton bought decent clothes, and spent some time in the hairdresser's. I had my beard shaved off; and we returned to the abbey, very much altered for the better in appearance. Miss Lascelles was much distressed about Lola, who was still absent. Brace's explanation of her leaving the abbey seemed a reasonable one, but her antipathy to Miss Lascelles, which led her to destroy the thingb she bad given her, was to me a mystery, to Miss Lascelles also, I believe, and a very pDainful one. She seemed to feel herself in soma in- CHAPTER IV. AORIEMINT (COPT). Caps Towk, May 1,1884. we, the undersigned, agree to work together M long as our strength and means hold out, and we agree to share In equal parts whatever profits may arise from the enterprise without favor to the more or less fortuuate partners; the said profits to be divided at such time as •hall be decided by majority, or by lot, aoooriling to circumstances. It Is further agreed that, in the event of one partner dying, or otherwise backing out of theeonoern, bis share shall be divided In equal parts between the two remaining partners; and should one of the remaining two die (or otherwise baok out), the whole lots, tools, land, produce, etc.. shall beoome the property of the survivor to the exclusion of all other relatives, friends or claimants upon the deceased. Signed— Jar Vaw Hokcx. Joe. Bruck. Judge. _ _ Bernard Thobnb. P. S.—It Is understood between the above partners that hi the event of a lucky find, the KM not be forgotten. X The Rid (Lou her mark. "The Bad has eyes in her bead for to Bee with," the Judge said, in urging her claim upon our future consideration, "end she kin use'em as well as us in lookin' for stones, end likewise, bein' a female, she kin cook our meals for us; the kin wasb our snuts, ena sue Km sew is up, end keep m nice and tidy." Whether she was capable of helping us n these matters I cannot say; all I know thai she didn't. "What kin you exsect?" asked her father, in extenuation; 'her was the darter of a durned the Kid'-  Applicant (to editor)—Have you any vacancies just now! Editor—Tea; the waste basket was emptUd obis morning, I believe.—Time. There Was One. "You tell me that this is a diamond?" he exclaimed, lifting the case as it lav on my nana. "We had it tested at Natal," said Van Hoeck; "it is a white diamond, and if not of the first water, is certainly of the second; it weighs 830 carats." "Is it possible? Come with me. Eight hundred and twenty carats!" said Sir Edmund, in great excitement "Bring a light into the library at once," he called to one of the servants. Tourists who rush to see the ruins of the ancient cities of Macedonia are warned to keep away if they value their lives. Brigandage has assumed greater proportions there than ever before known. Within the small space of two months no less than 200 travelers have been murdered and robbed by outlaws, who make it a rule to kill every one falling into their hands, without first ascertaining the amount of plunder to be thrived. More than twenty murders, each one known to have been by two well known brigands, but the authorities make little effort to capture them.—Exchange. Stay Out of Macedonia. Ideas of • Future Ufa, The Iroquois and Huron* behaved In a country for the soul* of the dead, which they called the "country of ancestors." Thiaia to the west, from which direction their traditions told that they had migrated. Spirit* must go there after death by a very long and painful journey, past many rivers, and at the end of a narrow bridge fight with a dog like Cerberus, and seme may fall into the water and be carried away over precipices. This road is all on the earth; bat several of the Indian tribes consider the milky way to be the path of souls, thoee of human being* forming the main body of the star*, and their dogs, which also have soul*, running on the sides. In the next world the Indiana do the same as they customarily do here, but without life's troubles. The Israelites believed in a doubling of the person by a shadow, a pale figure, which after death descended under the earth and there led a sad and gloomy existence The abode of these poor beings was called sheoL There was no recompense, no pu&ahment. The greatest comfort was to be amongrancestors and resting with them. There were some very virtuous men whom Qod carried up that they might be with him. Apart from these elect, dead men went into torpor. Man's good fortune was to be accorded,* long term of years, with children to perpetuate his family and respect for his memory after death.—Garrick Mallery in Popular Science Monthly. We went into the library, where I cut the stitches of the case, took out the Great Hesper and put it into Sir Edmund's hand, bv which time a readinglamp had been brought in. "It is true! it is true!" said he, examining it under a powerful light. "A wonderful stone—a perfect form—a prodigy! Come here, Editn; look at this!" * "We forgot poor little Lola." And then, as it the words had conjured up her presence, the girl appeared, swiftly speeding between the red boles of the fir-trees. We stopped, and I called: "Lola, dear, come and speak to me." She stood still, and looked as if irresolute whether or not to respond to my appeal."I will stay here. Go to her," said Miss Lascelles, softly. "But, as if she had divined my intention, Lola shook her head mournfully, as she had done lDefore,; and going her way was presently hid by the tall brake. As we crossed the opening where we had previously seen her, I looked back, and perceieed her standing in the same place gazing after us. It was easy to conceive her misery, and the bitter feelings of her heart. She was unaltered, but 1 was no longer the rough toiler grateful for a tin of water fetched from ihe stream. All that was passed. I was no longer her companion. I should never, never more share her hard fare, and look to her to lessen the hardships of existence. Jack the Writer. If Jack the Ripper is ever caught, he—or she—should write a book. Of Its kind, it would be a unique production, detailing the baffling of the ablest Vidocqs of the great city of London and Setting forth the most astounding career of murder that ever shocked the world. The communications purporting to emanate from this red handed outlaw reveal a sufficiency of literary ability to invest a narrative from his pen with such gory interest as would far surpass the pages of the most lurid dime novel that ever appeared. Before the gallows has done its work, Jack the Ripper should at least have a chance to shine as Jack the Writer, if fdr no other purpose than to show the police authorities of London that they do not "know it all."— Pittsburg Bulletin. A Flo ft table Industry. Flies have been unusually numerous and sticky in some places this fall; but there is one advantage—they are killed easily. A young l*ly in Augusta, having made a contract from some fly hater to receive one oent for every fifteen killed, went to work. Her season's work amounts to #15. This may be a new industry in Kennebec county, but it is old in some other parts of Maine. A 4-year-old Lewiston girl once earned enough at this business to purchase her a doll, a sixty cent tea set and then walked a mile to buy it.— Lewiston. Journal  A young lady who had entered the room drew near. It was only by looking at the facet we had had cut and polished that she could distinguish that this was a diamond, for it was dull and gray, and looked like a lump of glass that had passed through the fire. "It is an extraordinary size, is it not, papa?" she asked. "Extraordinary, indeed! The Koh-i-noor is not aD#*orth of the sizet See what the book says about that; get down Hayden, my dear." Miss Lascelles fetched the book, while her father still examined the «tone, aa an artist might a masterpiece, and presently read aloud-«- "Its original weight was nearly 800 carats, but it was reduced by the unskilf illness of the artist—Borghese, a Venetian—to 279 carats; its shape and size resembled the pointed half rose cut of a small hen's egg; the value is scarcely computable, though two millions sterling have been mentioned as a justifiable price, a calculated bv the scale employ*! As soon as the sun was fairly up I took a careful survey of the country and found nothing to alarm ma The. great body of the hostiles had gathered lower down on the various forks of the Platte, and the small bands roaming over the section could not thoroughly cover it I unsaddled, got a bite to eat, let the horse rest and graze for a couple of hours, and had the luck to find water, such as it was, in a sink hole. About 9 o'clock, having an almost level country ahead of me, 1 picked up the trail and rode on. After an hour's gallop I came to the spot where Mrs. Hosmer had made her first camp She had made a distance of about twenty-two miles the first day, and had gone into camp in a dry ravine, deep enough to hide the wagon from sight of any one riding over the plains. She had found water, though little better than a mud hole, and had built a small fire and cooked supper. So far as I had followed the trail the horses had kept a regular gait, proving that the woman was not unnerved by her lonely and dangerous situation. Her making camp where she did encouraged me a bit to hope that she might greater, end it ain't .fiult if she's got srreaser blood in her." We came up with the Judge at the dock gates, where he stopped to address a poll corn an stationed there* "Kiq you tell me, my friend," he said, ''where the best bank in this town is loft* he regarded*us, was that we had a felonious purpose in asking this question. Street, and told us to inquire there of Looking Ahead. "And I'll take a dozen ears of green corn," he said, as he wound up his order to the grocer.At South Paris, Me., the other day, Uncle Robert Gray, 87 years old, harnessed his horse Dick, 34 years old, and, accompanied by his wife, 85 years old. drove to North raris and visited Sullivan Andrews, 83 years old, meeting while there Mrs. Edward Andrews, 86 years old, who has just returned from Europe, and Mr. Pottle, 88 years old. The art of living a long life evidently has been successfully cultivated in Oxford county by man, woman and beast.—Exchange. An Elderly Gathering. "Gracious me! but you don't expect green corn in the month of November, do you?" "No, sir; but we'll get it next July, wont weP' (TO BB CONTINUED ) "Then make the order for next July. I'm very absent minded and am continually forgetting something. I've tried to think of green corn all summer, but forgot it day by day, and now Til order nine month* ahead." —Detroit Free Prsa*. "Yes." The Proprietors OE Ely's Cream Balm do not claim it to be : a cure-all, but a sure remedyfer catarrh, ooldg in the bead and h»y fever. It is not a liquid or a snuff, but is easily applied into tit* WW trils. It gives relief at ooee. "The decorations and wallpaper of a sick chamber have more influence over a convalescing patient than the medicine given," said a progressive doctor.