Pittston Gazette

              ■atabllshed 1850. I TOL. XUXHo.I1. f Oldest Newspaper in the Wvomine Vallev PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1899. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. i SI.00 a Tear ; iiAdTUN. | Five Hundred Carats I Seorye Sriffith• gered. If the secretary had not been so positive that the stone was looked up when he saw the safe oloeed on the Saturday, I should have worked upon the theory—the only possible one, aa it seemed—that the stone bad been abstracted from the safe during the day, concealed in the room and somehow or other smuggled out, %)thongh even that would have been almost impossible in oonsequence of the strictness of the searching system and the almost certain discovery which must have followed an attempt to get it oat of town. equally undeniable that it had got out of the safe and out of tho room." dia rubber. That is the remains of the apparatus that I used. 1 make them a present to you. You may like to add them to your collection. fiOSWELL FLOWER DEAD TOO FRESH I" MR. EPIZOOT WILK1NS. A TOWN FOR NEGROES. "And therefore it flew out, I suppose, "I could not help interrupting, nor, I am afraid, oonld I quite avoid a suggestion of incredulity in my tona Former Governor Expires Suddenly at Eastport, N. Y. a Driaaert Hkperleaec la Persoa- atlag a Railroad Kuasw. " 'Lomas, when he went on duty that Saturday night, took the bit of tube charged with compressed hydrogen and an empty child's toy balloon with him. You will remember that that night was very dark and that the wind had been blowing very steadily all day toward the Barkly bills. Well, when everything was quiet he filled the with gas, tied the diamond'— "There is sftslang expression about being too fresh," said this drummer as he lighted his cigar. "I have adopted that expression and written it at the head of every page of my notebook, so that it will be constantly before me. Remarkable Project Due tft Lynching In the South. "Yes, my dear sir," replied the inspector, with an emphasis which be increased by slapping the four fingers of f is right hand on the palm of his left "Yes, it flew out. It flew some 17 or 18 miles before it returned to the earth in which it was born, if we may accept the theory of the terrestrial origin of diamonds. So far, as the event proved, 1 was absolutely correct, wild and all as you may naturally think my hypothesis to have been. DEATH DUE TO 1EAET FAILURE. TO BE LOCATED OF LONG ISLAND. Iaiaw4 by Overwork la Attcadlig to Oroat riaueUl Intorosto—HUtory of Wall Street Loader's RUo "Last fall I changed cars at a little Junction in the western part of the state. It Is a dreary spot, and the trains never oonnect within three hours of each other. Finding time hanging heavily on my hands I wandered over to an orchard near by, where there was some tempting looking fruit. I was so busily engagsd in throwing stones at a luscious looking apple In the top of one of the trees that I did not notice an old farmer bearing down where I was with blood in bis eye. When I discovered him, It was too late to flea So I concluded to faoe it out. Factories ua Dwellings Will B* Built tk* Pcconle River, New JtmiportC-lluf Ktfrou Already Baser to tto There. Vroap Poverty to Greataeoa. "Both the rooms were searched in every nook and cranny. The whole staff, naturally feeling that every one of them must be suspected, immediately volunteered to submit to any process of search that I might think satisfactory, and I can assure you the search was a very thorough one. New York, May IS.—Former Governor Roswall P. Flower died last night at 10:30 at the Eastport Country club, at Eastport, N. T. Mr. Flower was taken 111 early In the day with a severe attack of acute indigestion. In the afternoon symptoms of heart failure supervened. and he grew steadily worse until the time of bis death. The attack of heart failure was accompanied by a fain ting spell, and Mr. Flower's family in New York city was quickly notified. Mrs. Flower and the former governor's nephew, Frederick 8. flower, accompanied by Dr. Thomas H. Allen, Mr. Flower's physician, left at once on a special train for Eastport. When they arrived there. Mr. Flower had somewhat recovered, but at night the attack of heart failure was marked, and Mr. Flower became unconscious an hour or more before his death. " 'But how did be get the diamond out of the safe? The secretary saw it looked up that evening I' I exclaimed, my curiosity getting the better of my prudence. New York, May 16.—Within a feW month* Long Island la to have an industrial colony made up of negroes from the south. It will be a municipality In itself, conducted according to its own rules, and will start its existence with a population of 1,000, all negroes. No white person will be permitted to acquire property for dwelling purposes within limits, but the factories which wiu'furnisb the industrial life of the town will be owned by whites. Lynch law, mm practiced in the south, is the determining cause of this colony, the colonists being from the states of Georgia, North Carolina and Soufli Carolina, and should this experiment prows a success other northern settls* ments for southern negroes may follow. fCopyright. Use. by th» Author.] inspector, "with another of his quiet, pleasant smiles, "that every one can do work better than those whose reputation depends upon the doing of it. We are not altogether fools at the department, and yet I have to confess that I myself was in ignoranoe as to just how that diamond disappeared or where it got to until within 12 hours ago. "Now, I am going to tell you the facts exactly as they are, but under the oonaiuoo that you will alter all um names except, if you choose, my own and that you will not publish the story for at least 12 months to come. There are personal and private reasons for this which you will probably understand without my stating than. Of oourse it will in time leak out into the papers, although there has been and will be no prosecution, but anything in the newspapers will of necessity be garbled and inoorrect, and—well, I may as well confess that I am sufficiently vain to wish that my share in the transaction shall not be left altogether to the tender mercies of the imaginative penny-a- "But," he continued, stopping in bis walk and making an eloquent gesture of apology, "being only human, I almost instantly deviated from truth into error. In fact, I freely confess to yon that there and then I made what 1 consider to be the greatest and most fatal mistake of my career. lt was several months after the brilliant if somewhat mysterious reoovery of the £16,000 parcel from the notorious bo* bow vanished Seth Salter that I had the pleasure, and I think I may fairly add the privilege* of making the acquaintance of Inspector Lipinaki. " 'It was not looked op in the safe at all that night,' be answered, smiling with a sort of ghastly satisfaction. 'Lomas and I, as yon know, took the tray of diamonds to the safe, and, m far as the secretary oonld see, put them in, but as he put the, tray into its compartment he palmed the big diamond as I had taught him to do in a good many lessons before. At the moment that I shut the safe and looked it It was m his pocket "Nothing was found, and when we had done there wasn't asointillaof evidence to warrant us in suspecting anybody. It is true that the diamond was last aotually. seen by the secretary in oharge of Mr. Marsden and Mr. Lomas. Mfc Marsden opened the safe, Mr. Lomas put the tray containing the big stone and several other fine ones into its usual compartment, and the safe door was locked. Therefore that fact went for nothing. " 'Fine orchard you've got hero," said I, opening on him before he bad a ohanoe to get In the first word. ' Iu.wtll tie a pity to spoil It by running a railroad through if * I can say without hesitation that in tha oourse of wanderings which have led dm over a considerable portion of tha lands and seas of the world I have never met a morsJntsaestteg man than be was. I say "vnts," poor fellow, for ha is now no longer anything bnt a mssnory of bitterness to the L D. B., bat that must be told in another plaoe. "Absolutely certain as I was that the diamond had been conveyed through the air to the Barklv hills Hat Mr. " 'I remarked,' said I, 'that it will be a pity to spoil such a fine orchard by running a railroad through It. I am the general manager of this road, and I have been looking It over with a view of straightening out some of the kinks. I have about oonclnded to run the road through your orchard and thus get rid of the bad curve just beyond.' " ' Hay?' said he. Philip Marsden's ahooti. edition had been undertaken with the object of recovering it, I had all the approaches to the town watched till he came back. He came in by the old Transvaal road about an hour alter dark. I had him arrested, took him into the bouse of one of my men who happened to live out that way, searched him, as I might say, from the roots of his hair to the soles of his feet and found—nothing. " 'The secretary and bis friends left the room. Lomas and I went bank to the tables, and I told him to clean the scales, as I wanted to test them. While he was doing so he slipped the diamond behind the box, and there it lay between the box and the osrner of the wall until it was wanted. The promoters of the project, say thSt such Is ths feeling on the part of ttts better element of negroes in the soutlt regarding the recent lynohlngs thrft 100,00# colored families would  lsave the south and come north If eirfployment could be guaranteed to therili The site of the proposed colony is lfi Suffolk county, about 20 miles from the eastern end of Long Island. To reach It one takes the Long Island railroad, main (line, to Jamesport, and drlvAi about a mile and a half from the station to the south side of Peconic bay. Here ths river is broad and dee® enough to admit large vessels. A reporter visited the place yesterday. Ths country there Is level and free from swamps. Nearby are some of the berft farms on Long Island. While the tracl near the river is not wooded, back A short distance there is fine timber land.- An Admirable Site. It would be difficult to find anywhere a site better suited for an Industrial olty whose inhabitants Intend to gro# their own crops, as is the plan with the negro colony. The land will require little grading or clearing, the soil Is in ii high degree susceptible of cultivation, and access is easy both by land and by water. The promoters intend to buy at first a tract of S.000 acres, and they have an option on 1,000 acres more. The first "Yon know, I suppose, that one of the diamond room staff always remains all night in the room. There is at least one night watchman on every landing, and the frontages are patrolled all night by armed men of the special police. Lomas was on duty on the Saturday night He was searched as usual when he came off duty on Sunday morning. Nothing was found, and I recognized that it was absolutely impossible that he could have brought the diamond out of the room or passed it to any confederate in the street without being discovered. Therefore, though at first sight suspicion might have pointed to him as being the one who was apparently last in the room with the diamond, there was absolutely no reason to connect that fact with its disappearance." HeUi tly Goes to Washington Mr. Flower had been a sufferer from gastritis fer a long time, with every now and then an acute attack. For a month or two past he had been a regular visitor at the Eastport Country elub in the hops that he would find some re. lief in the outing. He appeared in robust health Thursday, and yesterday morning when he arrived at Eastport, where he intended to remain until Mon- aa the Ire of Bli Ntlghbor, Grover Cleveland, to Assist la Reorganising the Democratic Party. Washington, D. 0. There is bo seed of further explanation of the all too brief Intimacy which followed oar introduction than the statement at the tact that the greatest Sooth African detective of his day was after all a man as well as a detective, aad benoe not only justifiably proud of the many brilliant achievements which Illustrated his career, but also by no means loath that seme day the story of them should, with all due and proper precautions and reservations, be told to a wider and' possibly less prejudiced audience than the motley and migratory population at the camp as it waa in his 1 had not been five minutes in the 9oay tastily furnished sanctum at his low, broad tooled bungalow in New De Been toad before I saw it was a ma- "This disarmed the old man at once and plaoed him In a more conciliatory mood. " 'General manager be yef' said he. 'Waal, oome op ter the house an we'll talk it over.' "Of coarse be was indignant, and of coarse I looked a very considerable fooL In fact, nothing would pacify him bat that I should meet him the next morning in the boardroom at De Beers' and in the presence of the secretary and at least three directors apologize to him for my nnfoauded suspicions and the outrage that they had led me to make " 'We all left the room as usual, and, as you know, we were Marched. When Lomaa went on night duty, then was the diamond ready far iU balloon voyage. He filled the balloon just so that it lifted the diamond and no more. Two of the windows were open on aoconnt of the heat He watched his opportunity and committed it to the air about two hours before dawn. Ton know what a sudden fall there la in the temperature here jnat before daybreak. I calculated upon that to wtoat the volume of the gas sufficiently to dertroy the balance and bring the balloon to the ground, and I knew that if Loaaaa had obeyed my instructions it would fell either on the veldt or on this aide of the hills. Tu the Editor. "I thought the old man had something in the line of wet goods that he wanted me to sample in the hope that it might pat me In good humor and save his orchard. I looked at my watch and seeing that I had plenty of time I concluded to carry on the Joke, eo I followed up to the house. I hey plantid ml hoofs doun is the kapital ut mi konntry and heer I shel remane ontil sumthin' 'desisive he* bin ■creed upon bi me, and other grate men, eonaarnin' the policy tn be persood bi the Dimicratic party upon the iaaooa tn hum before the peeple. I hed no idee ut kummin heer, but mi nabur, G rover Cleveland, sed it wni mi dooty tu knm and intervoo our leedera fer the pubtik good. He aed it was «▼ no yooae fer him tn knm. fer be hed no infiooence, and mu generally dlakredited and liabel tn be blackballed in Dimicratic airklea. Under these sirkumstance* he thot it advitabel tn aend a substitoot, ea he did doorin' the lait onpleaaantneaa with our aouthern brethren, and let me taik the Hddna, politikally apeekin', thet aum peeple thot wus doo tn him. At fuat I wua not favorably imprest with thia rue ut the aitooaahun, and the idee ut ma kin' a Tikariaa aakrifiae ut miaelf did not appeel tu mi aenae ut publik dooty; bnt under the inspirin' infiooence ut anm ut the famua Kentucky whiaky, booae pedigree ran bak intu the fuat familiea ut the atait, ez guaranteed bi Mr. CleTeland, I aor things in a different lite, and mi path bt dooty aeemed tn be cleerer. Only wan obstakle wui in the wt, and Mr. CleTeland generusly removed thet. It wua wun ut finanae. Altho' I hed in mi hnmbel wa diakuat and aettled the grate finanahul kweations ut the da with mi nabnra at the Applejack Farm withont much trubble, wen it knm tn nockin' together fifty dollar* in caah tn pa travellia' expenses and bi iikuld refreshments it wua "a kondiahun and not a theory" thet konfruntid me. Wen I menahuned the anb- da* hta health waa annarently exoel ■j VwQk J akHH HP' m |K nner." I acknowledged the compliment with a bow as graceful as the easiness at the inspector's chair would allow me to make, but I said nothing, as I wanted to gat to the story. _ ) "I had better begin at the beginning," the inspector went on as he meditatively snipped the end of a fresh oigar. " As I suppose you already know, the largest and most valuable diamond ever found on these fields was a really magnificent stone, a perfect octahedron, pure white, without a flaw and weighing close on 500 carats. There's a photograph of it there on the mantelpiece. I've got another one by me. I'll give it you before you leave Kimberley. "Well, this atone was found about six months ago in one of the drives on the 800 foot level of the Kimberley mine. It was taken by the overseer straight to the De Beers' offices and plaoed on the secretary's desk—you know where he sits, on the right hand side as you go into the boardroom through the green baize doors. There were several of the directors present at the time, and, as you may imagine, they were pretty well pleased at the find, for the stone, without any exaggeration, was worui a prince's ransom. "Of oouree I needn't tell you that the value per carat of a diamond which is perfect and of a good color increases in a sort of geometrical progression with the size. I dare say that stone was worth anywhere between £1,000,000 and £2,000,000, acoording to the depth of the purchaser's purse. It was worthy to adorn the proudest crown in the world instead of—but there, you'll think me a very poor story teller if I anticipate. "Well, the diamond, after being duly admired, was taken up stairs to the diamond room by the secretary himself, acoampanied by two of the directors. Of oourse you have been through the new offices of De Beers, but still perhaps I had better just run over the ground, as the locality is rather important"You know that when you get up stain and turn to the right on the landing from the top of the staircase there is a door with a little grille in it You knock, a trapdoor is raised, and if you are recognized and your business warrants it you are admitted. Then you go along a little passage, out of whioh a room opens on the left, and in front of you is another door, leading into the diamond rooms themselves. "You know, too, that in the main room fronting Stockdale street and Janes street the diamond tables run round the two sides under the windows and are railed off from the rest of the room by a single light wooden rail. There is a table in the middle of the room, and on your right hand as you go in there is a big safe standing against the wall. You will remember, too, that in the oorner exactly facing the door stands the glass case containing the diamond scales. I want you particularly to recall the fact that these scales stand diagonally across the oorner by the window. The secondary room, as you know, opens out on to the left, but that is not of much consequence. " I signified my remembranoe of these details, and the inspector went on: "The diamond was first put in the scale and weighed in the presence of the secretary and the two directors by one of the higher officials, a lioensed diamond broker and a most trusted employee of De Be$rs, whom you may call fhilip Marsden when you oome to write the story. The weight, as I told you, in round figures was (00 carats. The stone was then photographed, partly for purposes of identification and partly as a reminder ot the biggest stone ever found in Kimberley in its rough state. "The gem was then handed over to Mr. Marsdnn's care pending the departure of the diamond poet to Vryebuig on the following Monday—this was a Tuesday. The secretary saw it looked up in the big safe by Mr. Marsden, who, as usual, was acoompanied by another official, a younger man than himself, whom you can call Henry Lomas, a connection of his, and also otfe of the most trusted members of the staff. "Every day, and sometimes two or three times a day, either the secretary "As we were passing a brlok smokehouse the old man threw the door open and invited me to inspect a fine lot of hams that he had Inside. I stepped in the doorway, and as I did so the old man gave me a shove that sent me inside upon my hands and knees. Before I could reoover myself he had thrown the door shut and looked it "I must say that that is a great deal plainer and more matter of fact than any of the other stories that I have heard of tbb mysterious disappearance," I said as the inspector paused to refill his glass and ask me to do likewise. " 'General manager, be yef be bawled through a oraok In the door. "I didn't think it wise to deny it, so 1 shouted back that I was, and, moreover, that I would take pains to see that the railroad ran straight through his house. " 'Waal, we'll talk about that later,' said he. 'Member that thar bill that I sent ye fer klllin them sheepf " 'The balloon was a bright red and, to make a long story abort, I started out before daybreak that morning, as you know, to look for book. When X got outside the camp, I took compass bearings and rode straight down the wind toward the hills. By good look or good calculation or both I must have followed the oourse of the balloon almost exactly, for in three hours after I left the camp 1 saw the little red speak ahead of me up among the stonee on the hillside. "Yes," he said dryly, "the truth is more commonplace up to a certain point than the sort of stories that a stranger will find floating about Kimberley, but still I dare say you have found in your own profession that it sometimes has a way of—to put it in sporting language —giving fiction a seven pound handicap and beating it in a oanter." "I truthfully replied that I didn't. purchaae will be made within a day or two, aa soon aa the'title has been thoroughly searched. What financial Interests are back of the project la a matter of stfcrecy at present. Bufus L. Perry of Brooklyn represents the active management. Mr. Perry la a young lawyer, a graduate of the New Tork university and a Democratic politician of some prominence. His .scheme la In substance as R08WKLL P. FLOWER. " 'Waal,' said he, 'you'll stay where ye an till ye da I've got ye jes' where I want ye, an if ye don't pay me that thar 916 that ye owe me far klllin them sheep the railroad is goin tor be short one general manager.' tent. The attack from which he suffered came on suddenly and waa of a more severe type at the outeet than any he bad previously suffered from. "For my own part" I answered, with an affirmative nod, "my money would go on faot every time. Therefore it would go on now if I were betting. At any rate I may say that none of the fiction that I have so far beard has offered even a reasonable explanation of the disappearance of that diamond, given the conditions which you have juat stated, and as far as I can see I admit that I couldn't give the remotest guess at the solution of the mystery."Frederick 8. Flower took charge of the details after his death, but no arrangement for the funeral has yet been made. "I tried to explain the true situation, but he refused to listen. It was 916 or stay where I was. While I was arguing with the old man I heard my train whistle a mile or so off. I had an Important engagement to meet, and I simply had to catoh that train, so I poked $15 through the crack. "I taw him ttanding in front of me, cots criiuj mt with a brace of revobvert " upon him. 1 was of course, aa you might say, between the devil and the deep sea. I had to do it, and I did it, but my convictions and my suspicions remained exactly what they were before. " 'I'dodged about for a bit, aa though I were really after book, in oaae anybody was watching me. I worked round to the red spot, put my foot on the balloon and burst it I folded the Indie rubber up, aa I didn't like to leave it there, and put it in ay pocket book. You remember that whan yon ssarobed me you didn't open my pocket book, a* of oourse it was perfectly flat and the diamond oouldn't possibly have been in it That's how yon miaasil your clew, though I don't soppoaa it would have been much use to you, aa you'd already gneaaad it However, thar} It la at your aervioe now.' Mr. ricwtr*! Varied Career. follows: A* soon as tbe land is secured grants Till b« made to certain manufacturers, •ho Will put up factories. To the manacturers all the labor they need will guaranteed at a certain rate, in reengage to corporation affairs of the 4id out and factories are accomof them selection of has been he colo(b« facvlnter.RosweU Petti bona Flower, teacher, seller of watchea, politician, statesman, financier, philanthropist, was born in Theresa, Jefferson county, N. Y.. Aug. 7, IMS, the sixth of nine children. His tether died when he was 8 years old, and the bey helped his mother to run the wool carding and cloth making business in ths summer season and went to school In winter until he had obtained e good education. "Then there began a very strange and—although you may think the term curious—a very pathetic waiting game between us. He knew that in spite of bis temporary victory I had really solved the mystery and was on the right track. I knew that the great diamond was out yonder somewhere among the bills or on the veldt, and 1 knervr, too, that he waa only waiting for my vigllanoe to relax to go out and get it "The old man unlocked the door, and I was stopping out when he suddenly threw his weight against it. " 'Poke out 60 oents morel' be shouted jeck to mi wife. borrw fifty dolfera Vlariar. sad wantid tn turn for which they must it her, wich she feed »Wde by the rules of the vtlhin', the ondootiful which is to conduct the af her tu| and git au a colony. Streets are to be laid lot kare tu repeet. It houses built, and when the ' diet I told ber nr the ln runnln* order and there are would fall onto her is modations for the colonists 1,000 »er husband be la' seat will oome up* Already the selC - sick a misshun, and the emigrants from the south needed all the arranged for by the agents of acin' up it cood git nisers, and it is expected that Mest workers, in order tories will be running by n*xt i hands ut the perlitl- . . ■ di heftiest argooments MATRON AND MA '"What tort' I howled as I heard my train getting nearer and nearer. *rn*d bi takin" in "I took a long draw at my weed." ■sum as well aa a study. Specimens of all aorta of queer apparatus employed by the L D. B.'s for smuggling diamonds were scattered over tba tables and mantelpiece. There were massive, handsomely. carved brier and meerschaum pipes, whioh seemed to hold wonderfully little tobacco for their size; rough sticks of firewood ingeniously hollowed out which must have been worth a good round sum in their time; hollow handles of traveling trunks; ladies' boot heels at the fashion affected on a memorable occasion by Mrs. Michael Muratti, and novels, hymnbooks, church ssriiues and Bibles, .with cavities cut oat at the center of their leaves which had once held thousands of pounds' worth of illicit stones on their unsuspected passage through the book poet. Bat none at these interested or indeed pawled me so much as did a couple of curiously assorted articles whioh lay under a little glass cast on a oorner bracket One was an ordinary piece of heavy lead tubing about three inches long and an inch irf diameter, sealed by fusing at both ends, and having a little brass tap fused into one end. The other was a little ragged piece of dirty red sheet India rubber, very thin—in fact almost transparent—and, roughly speaking, four or five inohes square. I was looking at these things, wondering what on earth oould be the connection between them and what man aer at strange story might be connected with them, when the inspector came in. "Good evening. Olad to see you," he said in bis quiet and almost gentle voice and without a trace of foreign aooent as we shook hands. "Well, what do you think of my museum? I dare say you've guessed already that if some of these things oould speak they oould keep your readers entertained for some little time, eh?" "Wall, there is no reason why their owner shouldn't speak far them," I said, making the obvious reply, "provided always, of course, that it wouldn't be giving away too many secrets of Ptate." "My dear sir," be said, with a smile whioh curled up the ends of his little black carefully trimmed mustache ever po slightly. "I should not have made joa the promise I did at the club the Other night if I had not been prepared to rely absolutely on your discretion— and my own. Now, there's whisky and soda or brandy. Whioh do you prefer? fToa snake, of pourse, and I think you'll find these pretty good, and that obair I can recommend. I have unraveled many a knotty problem in it I can tall you. "And now," be went on when w* were at last oomfortably settled, "may I ask which at my relief has most aroassd your professional curiosity?" It was already on the tip of my tongue to ask for the story of the gas "That's exactly what I said to myself after I had been worrying day and 'night for more than a week over it" said the inspector, "and then," he went on, suddenly getting up from his seat and beginning to walk up and down the room with quick, irregular strides, "all of a sudden in the middle of a very much smaller puzzle, just one of the oommon L D. B. cases we have almost every week, the whole at the work that I was engaged upon vanished from my mind, leaving it for the moment a perfect blank. Then, like a lightning out of a black cloud, there came a momentary ray of light which showed me the clew to the mystery. That was the idea. These," he said, stopping in front of the mantelpiece and putting his finger on the glass case which oovered the two relics which bad started the story, "these were the materialization of it" "And yet, my dear inspector," I ventured to interrupt "you will perhaps pardon me for saying that your ray of light leaves me as much in the dark as ever." femail unlimbered lector wich I da i "'Fer postage stamps that I wasted wrltin' ye about that thar bilL' was all in vane Then he became a teacher, and after two years of this he took a position as clerk. He waa II years old whea he found himself a clerk in a general merchandise store in Watertown. and the poetmaater made him his deputy at a salary of (60 a month. He waa deputy postmaster for elx years. "I didn't have time to argue the question, eo I poked out 60 cents more and legged it for my train." grate ooer thev coBfritttnw or t» wfcAirigton npor how the Dimicratlc » r*or*anizin' and brack Tke Oas Crop System. "Day alter day, week after week and month after month the game went on in silence. We met almost every day. His credit had been completely restored at De Beers'. Lomas, his connection, and, as I firmly believed, his confederate, had been, through his influence, sent on a mission to England, and when he went I confess that I thought the game was up; that Marsden bad somehow managed to reoover the diamond, and that Lomaa had taken it beyond our reach. " 'And the diamondr "Aa I said these three words his whole manner suddenly changed. So far he had spoken quietly and deliberately and without even a trace at anger In his voice, but now his white, sunken cheeks suddenly flushed a bright fever red, and his eyes literally biased at me. His voice sank to a low, hissing tone that was really horrible to hear. That it la to the crop most readily convertible into money that ell other things Ming equal, the farmer will give the preference in determining what he will grow needs no proof. The cultivation of wheat at the expense of other neoessary crops will, however, be held in check by two very powerful Influences tren from its hnml tn keep out ut the kal andertaiker. D. In that time he had aaved 11,000, and then he bought out the postmaater'a interest In a Jewelry bualneea, turned In aad learned the trade at the bench and Joined a labor union. He bought out hla partner and sold watches and repaired the trinkets of Watertown until ISM. fell upon unsimpathetik ear* and nary i nickle ut money did I (it. I wos obleeg*! in to to Mr. Cleveland and tell him ia plane wurds the finanahol k on dish an 01 the treaaary, ao for es it was represents bi me, and tn suggest a noo issoo ut bonds tn releev the stringency or the market in mi immejit visinlty. To mi crate releef he sir immort than I askt fer, and wen I seen hAkoant oat a hundred doilers in smaiM|)s I was almost overkum hi emoshuns To wich I hed hitherto bin a stranger. I neerly slopped over in tenderin' mi thanks, bat he kat ma short bi say in': "Never mind, old man, yoa will need it all before yoo fit bak from Washington ef yoo travil much among Dimicrata. It ia only a littel keepsaik wich I giv yoo to remember me bi and to rekall the dase or Morgan ■indikates and reel estait spekalaahnns. Taik it, and go foorth to rejoovenalt oar dlstraktid party and pot it wane* moar in fitein' kondishon." With that partin' advice he went to the depo, and seen am off, wile the rabble around the staahnn hollered: "Ain't he a korker?" So fer es I cood observe mi arrival did aot seem to disturb the existin' kondifhan av affares at the kapital. In thia I was dUappinted, at fast, fer I thot thet the arrival uv a Noo Oeraey Dimicrat was an event uv a hi order, and wan wich ahood kreate moar kommoahnn then it aeemed to. Then I remembered thet Mr. Cleveland, hizaelf, hed arrived there, wunst, and nobody seemed tn notia him after he hed disposed nv all his offlsea. It is ever thna with the trooly good and grate. We kut a wide swath fer a littel wile and then we air uv no moar akkount then a last yeera bumble bee'a , Mlas Emms Bradlaugh, a sister of ■ — la 111 and in straitened oireumstanoee. By doing her own marketing while at Newport Mrs. W. K. Vanderbllt, Jr., has set a new fashion for brides. Miss Lettie Simmons of Friendship, Me., raised last season a turnip which she ooased up to the enormous weight of 12 X pounds. The first will arise from the fact that a reduction of the acreage under any product of general uae below the aStoal requirements of the country will instantly —perhaps even prospectively—affect this price of that product, possibly In the proportion even greater than that by which its acreage Is diminished, and may oven be sufficient to constitute It a competitor with wheat on equal terms for the farmer's favor. The second check will be found in the fact that the American farmer, north, south, east and west, has at last fully awakened to the safety, stability, and, In the long run, Increased profit resulting from a judiciously diversified aystem of farming. Meantime he married Mlaa Sarah M. Woodruff, a daughter of Morrla M. Woodruff. " 'The diamond!' he said. 'Yea, curse it and curse yon, Mr. Inspector Lipinzki—for it and yon have been a earn to me! Day and night I have seen the spot where I buried it, and day and night yon have kept your nets spread about my feet so that I oould not more a step to go and take it I can bear the suspense no longer. Between yon—yon and that infernal stone—yon have wreaked my health and driven me mad. If I had all the wealth of De Beers now, it wouldn't be any nee to me, and tonight a new fear oame to me—that if this goes on much longer I shall go mad, really mad, and in my delirium rob myself of my revenge on yon by letting out where I hid itl Henry Keep, who had married llr. Flower's sister, was president of the New Tork Central railroad. He was rich, and he knew he was going to die soon. He aent for Mr. Flower to come to New Tork to take care of the money that he had gathered. He had great confidence In the country merchant, and when he died Mr. Flower took charge of his estate and so managed It that It quadrupled in value. Then he became prominent as a financier and organised the banking and brokerage firm of Benedict. Flower A Co., afterward R. F. Flower A Co., and, slnoe ISM. Flower * Co. "Still I watched and waited, and aa time went on I saw that my fears were groundless and that the gem was still on the veldt or in the hills. He kept up bravely far weeks, bat at last the strain began to tell upon him. Picture to yourself the pitiable position of a man of good family in the old country, of expensive tastes and very considerable ambition, living here in Kimberley an a salary of some £12 a week, worth about £5 in England, and knowing that within a few miles of him, in a spot that he alone knew of, there lay a concrete fortune of, say, £1,500,000, which was his far the picking up if he only dared to go and take it, and yet he dared not do so. Mrs. Sellna Weeden of Bridgewater, Vt., has some maple sugar whioh was made 90 yean ago and whioh still sstains excellent flavor. Mrs. Ohoate, wife of the Amerioan embassador in London, is in Paris, where she has bought some of the most exquisite eomt gowns nuyle in that city. Mis. Betty Green has rented a cottage , in Newport, B. I., where she will pass the summer, making frequent business trips to New York and New Bedford. "But your darkness shall be made day all in good oourse," be said, with a smile. I could see that he had an eye for dramatic effect and so I thought it was better to let him tell the story uninterrupted and in his own way, bo I simply assured bim of my ever increasing interest, and waited for him to go on. He took a couple of turns up and down the raojaa in silenoe, as though be were considering in what form he The one crop system has passed away, never to return, and before wheat can be extensively cultivated at the expense of other products it will not only have to command what would now appear to us aa an exoesslvely high price and afford a Mias Caroline Hazard, the new president of Wellesley college, U a believer in open air exercise and takes a long walk every day, whatever the weather may be. Mme. Emma Calve has ordered a tombstone from the sculptor M. Denys Puech of Paris. It represents Mme. Calve as Ophelia drawn toward the void by phantom voices. It will be exhibited in 1900. Mile. Marie Louise Marsy, an actress, has bought a balloon for her vacation trip. She says she bought it because she was in need of a change of air. The balloon has places in It for Mile. Marsy and one other aeronaut. 1 Mrs. Caroline B. Freer, who died at Warren, O., not long ago, wu the teaoher and afterward lifelong friend of John Godfrey Saxe. She owned the manuscript of Saxe's first verses, which were addressed to her. Mrs. William Rockefeller has received at her oountry residenoe, Rockwood Hall, In Soarsboco, 900 Malmalson carnations and 100 at the gold nugget variety. They oame from Paris and ooet $8,000, whioh Is at the average rate of 910 apiece. The following item reoently appeared in the local columns of the Sprlngdale (Me.) Advocate: Mrs. Mary A. Goodwin, widow at the late Stephen Goodwin, wishes that every one would oblige her by attending to their own affairs and she will attend to In 1877 he was chairman of the Demeeratlc state executive committee. He had been chairman of his county Democratic committee in the early seventies, when Samuel J. TUden made a tour of the state. " 'Mow, listen. Lomas has gone. He is beyond your reach. He haa changed his name, his vary identity. I have sent him by different posta and to different names and ad drosses two letters. One ia a plan, and the other ia a key to it With thoee two pieces of paper be can find the diamond Without them you can bunt lor a century and never go near it to do, but would have to do this without affecting to any considerable extent the prloeof other products.—John Hyde, Statistician U. S. Department of Agriculture, In North American Review. reasonable of Its continuing so should spring the solution of the mystery upon me. Then he stopped and said abruptly: "Tea, it ia a pitiless trade, this of ours, and professional thief catchers can't afford to have much to do with mercy, and yet I tell you that aa I watched that man day after day with the fever growing hotter in his blood and the unbearable anxiety tearing ever harder and harder at hia nerves I pitied him—yes, I pitied him ao much that I even found myself growing impatient far the end to oome. Fancy that, a detective, a thief catcher, getting impatient to aee hia victim ont of hiB misery I In INI Mr. Flower defeated William Waldorf Astor for congress. Ten years later he wa elected governor of this state. He ha declined a nomination for lieutenant governor at a previous convention.■Class at the Plar. "I didn't tell yon that the next morning—that is to say, Sunday—Mr. Marsden went out on horseback, shooting, in the veldt np toward that range of hills which lies over yonder to the northwestward, between hero and Barkly West I can see by your faoe that you are already asking yourself what that has got to do with spiriting a million or bo's worth of crystallised carbon out of the safe at De Beers'. Well, a little patience and you shall see. Fraulein Helene Odilon, oopying the modern fashion of remlnisoences of "Sov- ereigns I Have Met" has been discoursing In the Vienna press on the behavior of royalties at the play. Foremost In the list oomes the emperor of Austria, who goes to the theater as often aa he can, and Is always on the side of the author and the actor. Our own gracious sovereign often displays the same kind spirit and Is generally lavish of her praises at the beginning of a piece. Toward the end, however, her majesty Is said, like the great Homer, occasionally to nod. " 'And now that you know that that your incomparable stone, that should have been mine, ia out ycoder aomewbere where you can never find it, yon and the De Been people will be able to guess at the tortures of Tantalus that you have made me endure. That is all you have got by your amartneaa. That is my legacy to you, curse yon I If I had my way, I would send you all ont there to bunt far it without food ar drink till you died of hunger and thirst of body, aa you have made me die a living death by hunger and thirst at mind.' A PniMmtlal Feasibility. Ia 1S91 he was a possible candidate before the national convention, and in UM Flower bolted the Chicago convention. with its free silver plank, and was prominent In the organisation of the Indianapolis convention and the nomination of Palmer and Buckner on the gold Democratic ticket. nest. On ml wa tu s tavern s pert and weD drest yung msn haied me and sed: "Beuben, let me karry your baggage." "Ml name ain't Beuben," sed I; "ml name is Epicoot Wilkins, and I'm a Noo (Jersey Dimicrat, and don't yer ferget it! I'm a representativ uv Graver Cleveland, hooce farm is next tu mine, and I hev kum doun heer tu reorganise the Dimicrat party—and it needs reorganisln, tu. young man." I then pat on mi most kosamandin appeerance, and after apoligisin' fer so roodly sddressin* me he walkt awa. "Well, I had to wait six months— that is to say, I had to wait until 5 o'clock this morning—for the end. Soon after 4. one of my men came and knocked me up. He brought a note into my bedroom and J read it in bed. It was from Philip Mtfraden, asking me to go and see him at onoe and alone. I went aa you may be sure, with as little delay as possible. 1 found him in his sitting room. The lights were burning. He was fully dreaaed and had evidently been up all night He was president of the Democratic olub until it became a mere Croker institution. and was a member of the Metropolitan, Manhattan, Riding and lawyers' clubs. "Early that same Sunday morning I was walking down Stockdale street, in front of the De Been' offloes, smoking a cigar, and of oonrse worrying my brains about the diamond. I took a long draw at my weed and quite involuntarily put my head back and blew it ap into the air—there, just like that— and the olond drifted diagonally across the street dead in the direotion of the hills on which Mr. Philip Maraden wonld just then be bunting book. At the same instant the revelation whioh bad scattered my thooghts about the other little case that I mentioned jnst now came back to me. I saw, with my mind's eye of course—well, now, what do you think I saw?" The Prince of Wales, the caar and the csarfha are also sympathetic listeners, the former being rather demonstrative, while the Imperial couple are more reserved. The kaiser, as all the world knows, is a keenly critical spectator, and not above Instructing the whole company, from playwright to soene shifter, in their duties. Among the careless auditors may De reckoned the king of Roumanla, who has been known to mutter "Thank God!" when the curtain falls, and King Alexander of Servia, who "never looks at the stage unless a pretty actress attracts him foi a moment."—London Chronicle. For many years he and Mrs. Flower set aside one-tenth of their Income for benevolence. He built St. Thomas House, an establishment for work aaon* the poor In this city, and he erected the Prest f erlan church la Theresa. N. T-. aa n memorial to his parents. "As he said this he ooverad me with one revolver and put the munle of the other into hia mouth. With an ungovernable impulse I sprang to my feet Ha pulled both triggers at onoe. One bullet passed between my arm and my body, ripping a piece out of my ooat The other—well, I can spare you the detail*. He dropped deed instantly." I hed then reached Pennsylvany Avenoo, and wua pleesed tu see thet the peeple notised me moar. "It is the triboot tha pa tu ml grateceee and the magnltood uv mi misshun," I sed softly tu mlself. Then it wus thet I hed a most enthooeiastic reseption, rite on the street. An elderly man, who wore a wite necktie and seemed tu be a mln- Lady Sophie Boott's mysterious disappearance from London is now explained. She is having a little row with her husband on aooount of her alleged extravagance. Lady Sophie's lnoome, settled on her at the time of marriage, is $60,000 a year. Her husband's income is $75,000, and her father's Is $900,000. In 1M0 thi Flower hospital wu openad 1b this city m a memorial to hla dead •on. Henry Keep Flower. The Flower* bad only three children, and a daughter, Helen, also died. The only surviving child la Emma O., who la the wife of John B. Taylor of Watertown. "Even I, -who bad seen the despair that oomea of crime in most of its worst forms, was shocked at the look of him. Still be greeted me politely and with perfect contposore. He affected not to see the hand that I held ont to him, bnt asked me qnite kindly to sit down and have a chat with him. I sat down, and when I looked np I saw him standing in front of me, covering me with a brace of revolvers. My life, of course, was absolutely at his mercy, and, whatever I might have thought of myself or the situation, there was obviously nothing to do but to cit still and wait for developments. "And the diamond?" I said. The sudden death of ex-Attorney General Garland recalls the fact that a few months ago he said to ex-Judge. Henry W. Scott in the United States supreme oourt: ' 'It has been over 40 yean since I argued my first case. Nothing would please me better when my time oomes to die than to be stricken right hare in this oourtroom in the midst of an argument. That would be a fitting climax to mv career." I ML CYNIC. Died mm Be Wlaked. ister, rusht up to m» the hand and aaid: boy, how air you? nabur, G rover Cleveh tu see a ginooine No© down in thia diar is, jiat now, a sink uv publikinism. Let me mi personal frends, Maasachooaetta, am Maine. Tha air, bo, iikin Insurgents fer th» tn a limited extent. parpuses tha her bin Spanyarda ever sence thC uv the war, and I will feel onered tu mail ance." "I em glad ta men," aed I kalmly es ] •trade I abode sines a* didn't expect tu meet t me, and 2 senators befori awa (rum the depo. But pectid that is alwase h it proved in mi case. 7 aeveril drinks, and padt they were diapootin' ab her the honor uv treetin' a plane staitment ut (acts, deseeved in them men, anc the hotel sed I hed "bee whatever thet meens. «nd grabbed _ "Why, Epicoot, old  And how is your —  id? It looks good n.n, T-— 5*r*j Dimlcrat L 3U poo table town, wlch °Af,s  bt iniquity and Re- of tho Globe ft* • introdoooe yon tn V DUCIIKIlTIOIIa Senator Hoar, bt I II11 C II HI A I l«ffl,l all intents and LlEiaiR 1EIMGAL law t.M food Amerikin kommencement ■m OR. RICHTER'S (KSk X.,XUI Rs'44 ANCHOR "D3 VPAIN EXPELLERl 1 gut 4 bloks Ir. XcikMtf 'Co., C16 PmHSL, New tort. ■ „.p';r!"„T:o 1.»' »««» awmds., th.m to ■ »J.^r ■ ter them, wile iuui a rscL, as Wm» »»»i It who shood B.C.6UCK, M lirtk B*ta Mmt, jfl no. Tn maik i.b.ioccs, «s««knates*. I was basely rmsraa. pa.  'xe ci"k,.®T WS^Sr^^^m innkoed — pHW,. . ,. . . HHU , | DRD RICH I KJt'S b _ | WAWM» BTOMAOEAX, best for I matter orer, Ororer, thet I ———————— oward yawnin' with no more ACTIVE 8OLICITOR8 WANTED EVHBT" liable t* whore for "The Story of the Philippines," by Mnrat Halstead, commissioned by the Gor°® ernment as Official Historian to the War Department. The book was written in army camps at San Francisco, on the Pacific withrOen. Herritt, In the hospitals at Honolola, in Bong Kong, in the American trenches at Manila, in tne mgnwrtnt camps with Aguinaldo, on the deck of the Olympia with Dewey, and in th« roar of battle at the tall of Manila. Bonansa for agenta. Br instil of original plot ores ,*ei 5f ««VDNtolt flntfl' #F»*'V Kt\C\*r*i . F 1 m,r I u*u me M "Is at your servioe," replied the inspector in bis sua vest manner, "provided that yon oan find it—or Mr. Icmaa and bis plans." It waa as a leader of Wall street that •■-Governor Flower was best known, though bis prominence In politics at one time seemed to preclude his attaining any further pre-eminence In a different Mb*. Only after he left the executive chair In Albany did Mr. Flower oar especial attention to the speculative market."If it wouldn't spoil bl incomparable detective," I said somewhat irrelevantly, "I should say that you would make an exoellent story teller. Never mind what I think. I'm in the plastic condition just now. I am reoeiving impressions, not making them. Now, what did yon see?" pipe and piece of india robber, bat the inspector forestalled me by saying: or one or other of the directors came np and had a look at the big stone, either THE KND. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. "Bat perhaps that is hardly a fair question, as they will all probably seem pretty strange to yon. Now, for instance, I saw yon looking at two of my curios wbea I came in. Yon would hardly expect them to be associated, and very intimately, too, with abont the most daring and skillfully planned diamond robbery that ever took place on the field*, or off them, for the matter of *h»t, would yon?" for their own satisfaction or to ahow it to some of their more intimate friends. I onght perhaps to have told you before that the whole diamond room staff were practically sworn to secrecy on the subject. because, aa you will readily understand, it was not oonsidered desirable for snoh an exoeedingly valuable find to be made public property in a place like this. When Saturday oame, it was decided not to send it down to It is a good plan to let the bogs ran In the plum orchard. Chicago Gas was his first big deal. Then came Rook Island, International Paper, Brooklyn Rapid Transit, Federal Steal, but the biggest operation of all with which his name has been connected Is Brooklyn Rapid Transit. "I saw the great De Beers diamond —say, from £1,000,000 to £1,600,000 worth of oon centra ted capital—floating from the upper story of the De Beers' consolidated mines, rising over the housetops and drifting down tbe wind to Mr. Philip Marsden's hunting ground." "He began very quietly to tell me why he had sent for me. He said: 'I wanted to see you. Mr. Lipinzki, to clear up this matter a Lout the big diamond. I have seen for u long time—in fact, from that Sunday ni-.rht—that you had worked out a pretty crrrect notion as to the way that diamond vanished- You are quite right. It did fly across the veldt to the Barkly hills. I am a bit of a chemist, you know, and when I bad once made up my mind to stoal it— for there is no use in mincing words now—I saw that it would he perfectly absurd to attempt to smuggle such a stone out by any of the ordinary methods.A vine that Is overloaded will not produce the best fruit. "Nobody has trouble equal to mine." You can all sign this. The more healthy leaves a plant has the better fruit will oolor. A barber who would out a man's hair as he wants it cut would get all the business. For young trees wood aabes supplying the nonvolatile elements for making wood are an exoeUent fertiliser. Some of his friends Interested him In Chicago Gas. It was a big enterprise, expensively managed. He brought about reduotlons In expenses and bought all the stock he could get his hands on. He bought In the fifties, and the stock went to more than 100. When people are pleased, they say nothing ; when they are displeased, they grumble.There is not much difficulty in grafting well established, thrifty trees of any slxe provided branches can be found to fit the grafts. The cheaper the man the sooner he begins on his grievances when you talk to him. "Hardly,'' I said, "and yet I think I pare learned enoogn oi umD aeriont jrajra of the 1 D. B. to be prepared for fk pwfartly logical explanation of the (tape Town, (or same reasons oonneoted with the state of the market. When the safe was opened on Monday morning, the stone Was gone. To say that I stared in the silenoe of blank amazement at the inspector, who made this astounding assertion with a dramatic gesture and inflection whioh naturally cannot be reprodnoed in print, would be to utter the merest oommonplaoe. He seemed to take my stare for one of incredulity rather than wonder, for he said almost sharply: When a local doctor can't fool a patient any longer, he sends her off to an accomplice in the east. The ground for small fruits should be so well dralnod that no water will stand between the rows or plants. Brooklyn Rapid Transit was selling at • when he went Into It. He and Anthony N. Brady bought 10,000 shares apiece for a starter. Then they advised all their friends to buy. One road after another was absorbed In the combination. Finally the Long Island and the Coney Island hotels became part and parcel of the system. fret" "I needn't attempt to describe the • » LI. 11 J-H - — »'A« logical m I think I may (airly absolute panio which followed. It hat ny lomantip," replied the inspector as been seen two or three times in the aafC be set his glass down. "In one sense it on the Saturday, and the secretary hini was the most ticklish problem that I've self was positive that it was there a ever had to tackle. Of ooorse you've closing time, because he saw it just at heard some version or other of the dis- the safe was being locked for the nigbt appearanoe of the great De Beers dia- In faot, he actually saw it put in, for il mondr* had been taken out to show to a friend "I should rather think I had," I said, of his a few minutes before. with a decided thrill of pleasurable an- "The safe had not been tampered tioipatioa, for I felt sure that now, if with, nor nould it have been unlocked, aver, I was going to the bottom because when it is olosed for the night of the great mystery. "Everybody in it cannot be opened again unless either camp seams to have a different version the secretary cr the managing director ef it, and of ooorse every one seems to is present, as they have each a master think that if he had only had the man- key, without which the key used during ■PiMBtd the ease thei mystei y wouhi the day is of no use. Jftwa tea* aoHa* toe* ago." "Of coaise I was seat for immediate„ "h ia iavariah|v the ease," laid the lv and I admit that 1 was fairlv stag- In setting out raspberry plants make the rows about six feet apart, so as to give plenty of mom to cultivate between them. At first a boy wears his father's old pants, made over. Later the father wears the son's old pants. The people with cold, clammy hands always insist upon shaking hands every time they meet you. To detect the currant worm dissolve half a tabliD8p«onful of white hellebore In a ten quart pnll of water and spray the plants thoroughly.—Exchange. Wen I kum tu think in the still watches ut the the langwig uv our noble hed taken "a mad rush tC disaster," but hed escaped onpleasant experience then wus happen tu enny Noo Qersey Dimicrav . gote beyond the ded line ut his dooryara EPIZOOT WILKINS. Frum Applejack Farm, wich is next tu Grover Cleveland's, la the stait ■? "Ah, I see yon are beginning to think that I am talking fiction now, but never mind, we will see about that later on. Yon have followed me, I have no doubt, closely enough to understand that having exhausted all the resources of my experience and such native wit as the fates have, given me, and having made the most minute analysis of the circumstances of the case, I had come to the fixed conclusion that the great diamond had not been carried out of the room on tb« person of a human being nor had it been dropped or thrown froit) W/inrUiMD« Uithu «tiv«t " 'I dare say you womer what these revolvers are for. Thej are to keep you there in that chair t;il I've done, for one thing. If you at'/empt to get out of it or utter a sound, I shall shoot you. If you hear me out, you will not be injured, so you may as well sit still and keep your ears open. If some people spent as muoh time at work as they do In complaining that they are abused, they could buy their crltioa.— Atchison Globe. Of all the millionaires that Wall street has known Mr- Flower has been the most genial, the most approacnaoie, tne one with the most warm personal friends. He was short and stout and jolly. He told funny stortsa and enjoyed hearing them. TWO MARCHES. The French are making mucb of a hundred men of a hussar regiment who have just riddeu from Marseilles to Tarasoon and back, a distance of 180 miles, in two days.—New York Commercial Advertiser. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. His word was never broken. He was never suspected of being tricky, even In Wall street, where "wlsarda" abound. Stir your starch with a piece of wax candle. " 'To have any ohance of success J must have confederate, and { made young Lomaa one. If you look oq that little table beside your chair, yon will see y bit of closed lead piping with » .' a v* C»k When you want to out whalebone, warm It by the fire. Noo At the time of the battle of Wounded Knee General Law too marched his troop of 100 men 100 mils* In M bom* and brought In every man safe and every horse ut ix KutilksuaU. Louilni. (.'Lrwuick, He had a handsome house In Fifth avenue, and every summer he spent a lev weeks with hla relatives and old friends in Watertewa. where bis haute s'»C ays ww kept open, winter aud surD If you mat Um bwt, buy tiD« Onhrabia «H«tM 0rilaa4«M«w «b«ria«ad Tyy »rm (m, 8t*oV« i li«ruu»D. &u«um. u Gilded articles coated with oil of laurel ware (Use away. A bedroom crowded with furniture Is vu.v V. l«| lUMUgjf