Pittston Gazette

              A J -rf RSTABUSHKJ) I M."D(D. , vol.. xi.ni. Do. a i. ,* Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Vdley. ITTTSTON, H'ZKItNH CO., IW.,FRIDAY. FEIUiUAIIY Mi. |sCu. A Weekly Igcs anu a 4 r« jf Journal SI.50 I'ER AXSCM IN ADVANCE wrnmt cab my heart jumped so with joy that I feared lest at this last moment my aneurism might go wrong1. I drove along slowly, weighing in my own mind what it was best to do. I might take «p..„ his m art. There was no more- j what can yon male people bieve that "Th U,"r rr , . , ! you hare done? Never mine- ho nm- The blood had been streaming from tinned, more brightly, aft.-,- • I my nose, but I had taken no notice of would not have raised thenvestigait. don t know what it was that put j .ion for anything There h, Wen no it into my head to wnte upon the wall letter case within my reflection with it. Perhaps.t was some mis- Simple as it was. thCDre weD  chievous idea of setting the police upon ! most instructive points abouit «' a wronf,' track, for I felt light-hearteil j "Simple!" I ejaculated, and cheerful. I remembered a Ger- J «'Wc|l, really, it can ha«y be described as otherwise," said Sherlock Holmes, smiling at my surpr-e. "The proof of its intrinsic simplify is that \» ithout any help, save a fe\ very ordinary deductions, I was nDle to lay my hand upon the crimitil within three days." could tin? driver lDe. unl« sit it* the house' UX&HaSMHSani Attain, it 1 to 1 Aim, v lplo of 1 XYE HOME AC! AI sp urn or modesty ana fh of stuff, "un which I borrowing tho suppose that ane man wC 1 car tl li tel ired as it were, of a third pers I \ I W 1 tlle I HE RE-fi CUES H ! amount fr :i a friend. after him right out into the country, and very eyC win) was sure to betray him. Lastl rt (i L IN As I put down the borrowed money at the desk df the appraiser my examiner said cheerily to me: "You really need not have paid anything on what you had there in some deserted lane have my last interview with him. I had almost decided upon this, when he solved the problem for me. The cra/.e for drink had seized him again, and he ordered me to pull up outside a gin palace. He w«nt in, leaving word that I should wait for him. There he remained until closing-time, and when he came out he was so far gone that 1 knew the game was in my own hands. "Don't imagine that I intended to kil' him in cold blood. It would onlx mul yet i NEW other through [.,C Ion, t. woman think I ilidn't and you ev lizard to vi' il- 1 ITo\v Re Enj driver? Id he adopt than to turn ca1 ill these considerations 1. ri U l» Over and I if yon ha rl kept your mouth closed so that the climate would not get into your c' in. After you declared these things, •) you had to pay, but I should •e paid any attention to them if I me to the irr Jefferson I f«•: n that t Jto write j "Well, (lid i i lie hack of i Getti br.t k of it mg on the 1Xo,1(M, m the jftrvc ■s of t trrvr iKoa a friend lirily I diil. I wrote on a f COXXTB f y 8 1# reason to believe that lie ! If he had D one ther « was no ceased to iut 1 h r» 111 my pocket lot I haCl seen them. be. Un the contrary, view, any sudden c! his i tli' y ;ethC*r address was There i After this those who wish to run up against the custom house with $57 worth of integrity may do so. I will neTer again have anything about me that is dutiable. Duty done is said to be the soul's fireside, but the United States of America will hereafter have to beg from door to door if they depend on me and my little old $57 borrowed money to keep the wolf from the door. A; CONA1V DOTIjU. would 1 nd the note On the otlif The [continued ] "That is true." said I. "1 have already expluiird to you that what* is out of the oruntnon is usually a guide rather thin a hindrance. In solving a probbm of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful accomplishment and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much. In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. I here are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason an- likely to dra to 1 iself Dn" wi t h the fidClrC right, of coursis, but the not- is floating **?* " - ur mxl soil;-where 1). tw. C n i. v :ik1 the f'»r the last tin lottvr off,*.! anCl I get t in- worst of faee towar.l tho • - " through ich tugs at th( i to fritnda CHAPTER VL A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES Or my poeket was aborst orr.ptr arid i found that I must turn my hand to something for my living. Driving1 and riding are as natural to me as walking, so I applied at a cab owner's ollice and soon got employment. I was to bring a certain sum a week to the owner, and whatever was over that I might keep for myself. There was seldom much over, but I managed to scrape along somehow. The hardest job was to learn my way about, for J] reckon that of all the mazes that ever have lDeen rigid justice if I had 1' M — i-.V:.-A 4?fev '  so, but I could not bring myself t . do it. I had long determined that he should have a show for his life if he chose to take advantage of.it. Anions' the many billets which I have filled ii: America during my wandering life, 1 was once a janitor and sweep-out of the laboratory at York college. One day the professor was lecturing on poisons, and he showed his students some alkaloid, as he called it, which he had extracted from some American arrow poison, am1 t~ gram f In3 own. I can c John h. watson, m d. 1 because two of tho: hope that the British dos ions a Our prisoner's furious resistance did not apparently indicate any ferocitv In his disposition toward ourselves, for on finding himself powerless he smiled in an affable manner, and expressed his hopes that he had not hurt any of us in the scuffle. "I guess yon're going1 to take me to the police station." he remarked to Sherlock Holmes. "My cab's at the door. If you'll loose my legs I'll walk down to it. I'm not so light to lift as I used to be." gasted postal cards stuck toge ther. ,et^P1 nr mi" Vi If that ain't a lioodoo (jaiue, I don't want B°^€n stream which I have poured i Small though 1 a cent '—Buffalo Expr In the first place, I did not have a thing on which I paid duty that I could not have lxinght at home and in some instances been better pleased. Moreover, I could have bought on time. Anil Then There Wan a Silence, rir ' '..J? ' Mr. Hngitt (two years after Lis mmriage)—All this frni-h about love is oxtfeicfly silly. Wln rever iJi'l you ge. tliis-stnpbl book from? I must say the fi fl1 "HE POWKRF.I) AWAY WITH WILD CRIF.9 mriwis i 1 \ | V-' AND 1'IiAVKIiS FOB MERCY." There is a pretty strict ruling now, I find, at the custom house, however, regaraui1 f Bitt Wij permitted to land with, as clothing, etc., "suitable to one's station in life.' In the station I occupy, for instance, I am entitled to a piano and other delicacies, but the customs officers will not permit me to travel with all the t hings to which my station entitles me. Strictly, at present and under the late rulings on these matters, one is permitted to carry only such things as a journey of a certain length of time would require. This involves very fine legal technicalities and sometimes the counting of linen, for the examiner has a right to say, "You certainly have with you more linen than a person need wear in so many weeks,"' or he may say: "Why don't you wear flannel shirts while abroad just as an Englishman would if visiting America? Linen is a luxury, and so you must pay duty on it.' were contrived this city is the most confusing. I had a map besiCLrf me. timnfrn. ana wncn onco I naa spottcrr the principal hotels and stations I got on pretty well. facluV wirTtten" up'n New York with was argued at the ' ahove him,, and it a,:;V'' **ul A' "um*j ■*- 441 rCDntoss» per eip; "D• ;tD (iitittrH ,)—it is the book you a... ■ in6 daring our honeymoon, love. We read it 12 times the first week we had it.—Vopfue. C■ ■lected it showed a very in 4~expected that you would, i Let me see if I can make it clear. Mo t i people, if you describe a train of events I to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backward, or analytically." "I understand." said I. "Now, this was a case In which yon were given the result and had to find everything else for yourself. Now, let me endeavor to show you tjie different steps in my reasoning1. To begin at the beginning: I approached the house, as you know, on foot, and witli my inind entirely free from all impressions. 1 naturally began by examining the roadway, and there, as I have alreadv explained to vou. I saw clearly the marks of a cab, which. I aseertained by inquiry, must have been there during the night. I satisfied myself that It was a cab and not a private carriage by the narrow gauge of the wheels. The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman's brougham. "This was the first point gained. I then walked slowly down the garden path, which happened to be Composed of a elay soil, peculiarly suitable for taking impressions. No doubt it appeared to you to be a mere trampled line of slush, but to my trained eyes every mark upon its surface had a meaning. There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracin r footsteps. Happily, J have always laid great stress upon it, and much practice has made it second nature to me. I saw the heavy footmarks of the constables, but I srtw also tiie tracks of the two men who had lirst passed through the garden. It \vu - easy to tell that they had been before the others, because in places their marks had been entirely obliterated lDv the others coming upon the top of them. In- this way my second link was formed, which told me that Uregson and Lestrade exchanged glances as if they thought this proposition rather a bold one; but Holmes «it once took the prisoner at his word, and loosened the towel which he had bound round his ankles. He rose and stretched his legs, as though to assure liiinself that they Were free once more. I remember that I thought to invself, as I eyed him, that I had seldom seen a more powerfully built man; and his dark, sunburned face bore an expression of determination and energy which was as formidable as his ersonal strength. meant instant death. 1 spotted the bottle in which this preparation was kept, and when they were all gone I helped myself to a little of it. I was a fairly good dispenser, so I worked this alkaloid into small, soluble pills, and each pill I put in a box with a similar pill made without poison. ( determined at the time that, when I had my chance, my gentlemen should each have a draw out of one of these boxes, while I ate the pill that remained. It would be quite as deadly, and a good deal less noisy than firing across a handkerchief. From that day I had always my pill-boxes about with me, and the time had now come when i was to use them. pers that the secret societies must have done it. I guessed that what puzzled the New Yorkers would puzzle the Londoners, so I dipped my finder in my own blood ard printed it on a convenient place on tho wall. Then I walked down to my cab and found that there was nobody about, and that the night was still very wild. I had driven some distance, when I put my hand into the pocket in which I usually kept Lucy's ring and found that it was not there. I was thunderstruck at this, for it was the only memento that I had of her. Thinking that 1 might have dropped it when 1 stooped over |)rebber's body, 1 drove back, and, leaving my cab in a side street, 1 went boldly up to the house—fori was ready to dan; anything rather than lose tlyD rinsf! When I arrived there I walked right into the arms of a "police Officer who was coming out, and only managed to disarm his suspicions by pretending to be hopelessly drunk. , "It was some time before I found out where my two gentlemen were living, but I inquired and inquired, until at last I dropped across them. They were at a boarding-house at Camberwell. over on the other side of the river When once I found them out I knew that 1 had them at my mprcy. I had grown my heard and there was no chance of their recognizing me. I would dog them and follow them until I saw my opportunity. I was determined that they should not escape me A RAOOET) YOUNGSTER ASKED IF THERE sg) r WAS A CABBY THE UK CALLED JEFFEK- The Results as TabulatcO ir BOX HOPE. Inquirer—What are all these pages oi closely written manuscript about? Fie would probably, tor a time at least, continue to perform his duties. There was no reason to suppose that he was yolnof under an assumed name. Why should he change his name in a country u here no one know his original one? I therefore organized my street- Arab detective corps, and sent them systematically UD every cab proprietor in London until they ferreted out the man that I wanted. How well thev succeeded anil how quickly I took advantage nf it are still fresh in your recollection. The murder of Ktangerson wa- an incident which was entire- Statistician—1 lioso are the records of the murders committed last year. "Is it possible? And what are those three or four lonesome looking lines in the middle of that long page?" "The records of the hangings."—Chicago Tribune. "If there's a vacant place for a chief of the police, I reckon you are the man for it," he said, gazing with undisguised admiration at mv fellow-lodger. •"The way you kept on my trail was a caution." again. A Moan Man. "They were very near doing it, for all that. (Jo where they would about London I was always at their heels Sometimes I followed them on ray ealD ami sometimes 011 root, rat tne niruier was the best, for then they could not get away from me. It was only early in the morning or late at night that I could learn anything, so that I began to get behindhand with my employer I did not mind that, however, as long as I could lay my hand upon the men I wanted. "My dear," said Mr. Soworby to his wife, "I wish you would have some of theso dumplings of yours when Mr. Teale is here to dinner." "It was nearer one than twelve, and a wild, bleak night, blowing hard and raining in torrents. Dismal as it was outside, I was glad within—so glad that I could have shouted out from pure exultation. If any of you gentlemen have ever pined for a thing and longed for it during twenty long years, and then suddenly found it within your reach, you would understand my feelings. I lit a cigar and puffed at it to steady my nerves, but my hands were trembling and my temples throbbing with excitement. As I drove, I could see old John Ferrier and sweet THE SSI-IT of reverberating tweed. her (-offers, if husbanded it will help. It might not go far in a war with Germany, hut it wonld help pa}' tho expenses of parliament. "I thought you didn't like Mr. TealC love," replied Mrs. Sowerby sweetly. "I don't."—Tit-Bits. Then again arises the question of what station in life one occupies. Can a new examiner and a perfect stranger assign "You had better come with me," said Holmes to the two detectives. "I can drive you,'' said Lestrade. "Good! and (Jregson can come inside ly unexpected, but which could hardly in any case have been prevented through it, as yon know. I came into possession of the pills, the existence of which I hail already Surmised. You see the whole thing is a chain of logical sequences without a break or tlaw." Great Britain has my money, and I have a new suit of clothes. They will appear in the principal cities of America for one night only during the season of 1894-5. I will mail terms to applicants promptly on application of the applicant. The ride down to Southampton on the 10 o'clock steamer train is delightful on such a day as I had. No one can appreciate the carefully kempt farms and hedges and roads of England as a horny fisted farmer from North Carolina can. In North Carolina most of our territory is still virgin forest, except where here and there some man has cut down a bee tree. with me. You too. doctor; you have taken an interest in the case, and may as well stick to us." "That was how Enoch Drebber camo to his end. All I had to do then was to do as much for Stangerson, and so pay off John Ferrier's debt. I know that he was staying at Halliday's private hotel, and I hujig about all day, but he never came out. I fancy that he suspected something when Drebber failed to put in an appearance, lie was cunning, was Stangerson, and always on his guard. If he thought he could keep me off by staying indoors he wwft very fnuch mistaken. I soon found out which was the window of his bedroom, and early next morning I took advantage of some ladder* which wC«re lying in the lane behind the hotel and so made my way into his room In the gray of the dawn. 1 woke him up and told him that the hour had ■•'■me when he was to answer for the She—Which sort of girls do you like best, Mr. \\ indsor, blonds or brunettes? He Well. Miss Gladys, it depends a very great deal, I ve noticed, on which I'm with.—Somerville Journal. Happy With Either. I assented gladly, and we all descended together. Our prisoner made no attempt at escape, but stepped calmly into the cab which had been his. and we followed him. Lestrade mounted the box, whipped up the horse, and brought us in a very short time to our destination. We were "They were very cunning, though They must have thought that there was some chance of their being followed, for they would never go out alone, and never after nightfall. During two weeks I drove behind them every day, and never once saw them separate. Drebber himself was drunk half the time, but Stangerson was not to be caught napping. I watched them late and early, but never saw the ghost of a chance; but I was not discouraged, for something told me that the hour had almost come. My only fear was. that this thing in my chest might burst a little too soon and leave my work un- "It is wonderful!" I cried. "Your merits should be publicly recognized. \ ou should publish an account of the case. If you won't, I will for you." A Mutual Query Luey looking at me out of the darkness and smiling at me, just as plain as \ oil may do what you doctor," he answered. "See here!" he continni1 handing a paper over to me, 'look at this! look at this!" Mrs. Bingo—One of my most intimate girl friends is going to be married next month, 1 see you all In this room. All the way they were ahead of me, one on each Bingo—Have you decided what I am going to give her'/—Truth. ushered into a small chamber, where a police inspector noted down our prisoner's name and the names of the men with whose murder he had been charged. The official was a white-faced, unemotional man, who went through his duties in a dull, mechanical way. "The prisoner will be put before the magistrates in the course of the week," he said: "in the meantime, Mr. Jefferson Hope,, have you anything that you wish to say? I must warn you that your words will be taken down and may be used against you. side of the horse, until I pulled up at the house in the Brixton road. It was the Echo for the day, and the paragraph to which he pointed was devoted to the case in question. "There was not a soul to be seen, nor a sound to be heard except the dripping of the rain. When i looked in at the window I found Drebber all huddled together in a drunken sleep. I shook him by the arm. 'It's time to go out," I said. Carte Blanche. In England the lands are underbrushed, seeded down to grass, drained and entailed. In North Carolina this has not been done. Sometimes you will see a tract of 5,000 acres with nothing on it whatever in tho way of improvement except a lis pendens or a right of dower, while in England the whole island looks like a thrifty truck patch. "The public," it said, "have lost a sensational treat through the sudden death of tho man Hope, who was suspected of the murder of Mr. Enoch Drebber and of Mr. Joseph Stangerson. The details of the case will probably never be known now, though we are informed upon good authority that the crime was the result of an old-standing and romantic feud, in which love and Mormonism bore a part. It sewns that both the victims belonged, in their younger days, to the Latter-Day Saints, and Hope, the deceased prisoner, hails also from Salt I.ake City. If tho case lias had no other effect,it at least brings out in the most striking manner the efficiency of our detective police force, and will serve will Cio wisely trrsettle merf leuftt vf homo nnd not to carry them on to. Hritish soil. It is arD open secret that the credit of this smart capture belongs entirely to the well-known Scotland Yard officials, Messrs. Lestrade and Grogson. The man was apprehended, it appears, in the rooms of a certain Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who has himself, as an a ma tour, shown some talent in the detective line, and who, with such instructors, may hope in time to attain to some degree of their skill. It is expected that a testimonial of some sort will be presented to the two officers as a fitting recognition of their services." . i 3-. - v. . 0 vw- -^41 IPISlKyp r ' done, "At one evening I was driving up and down Torquay terrace, as the street was called in which they boarded. when I saw a cab drive up to their door. Presently some luggage was brought out. and after a time Drebber and Stangerson followed it and drove off. I whipped up my horse and kept within sight of them, feeling ill at ease, for I feared that they were going to shift their quarters. At E us ton station they got out. and I left a boy to hold my horse and followed tHotn on uD tin* pliliRuui r ti'.'iiru *D.«, ui All right, cabby,' said lie ft' he had taken so lonff before. I deribod Ilrebber's death to him, and 1 "I suppose he thought we had come o the hotel that ho had mentioned, for ie got out without another word and oil owed me down the garden. I had o walk beside him to keep him steady, or he was still a little top-heavy. rave him same choice /Df the xDisoned pills. Instead of grasping at lie chtnce of safety which that offered I got aboard the steamer train wearing a reverberating suit of tweed, with a Norfolk jacket of same, made with box plait, aud heavy hose which almost reached to my knickerbockers. Really it was a shooting suit, but I thought possibly we might scare up a few duckscoming home on the steamer, so prepared mvself. "Fve got a good deal to say," onr prisoner said slowly. "I want to tell you gentlemen all about it."' if. he sfiranc from His bed and flew t my throat. In self-defense 1 btalDtieCi im tu the heart. It would have lDe*»u lien we came to the door I opened it me at a glance to a station beneath me? I trow not. How does he know whether at home I am beloved and respected by all who know me or not? HE LEFT TOE SHOES OUTSIDE. id led him into the front room lime in auv case, for Providence "Hadn't you better reserve that for your trial?" asked the inspector. wlX % "IS sni j mild never havu allowed his guilty uid to pick out anything but the "I may never be tried." he answered. "Yon needn't look startled. It isn't suicide I am thinkintr of. Are you a doctor?" He turned his fierce,  upon me as he asked this last question. iirnal visitors were two in As I got on board tho train' I put on an air of importance and asked the guard in a low, rumbling voice if he could give me a compartment by myself, meanllttu let t. X-IU cv III - . partment, put my closing out sale of wraps, rugs, etc., inside and locked the door. I was proud to know that I commanded esteem where I was not known, There is nothing about my general appearance to impress a stranger. I admit that myself. "I have little more to say, and it's as D» cabbin _~7l "fef'a C fay" "or "so. .11!; tC» keep at. it until I could save umber, one remarkable fur his height The'Brossmaker—Yon wish your new "~~n to ImD very simple? sible. Timrr* ... |D .—i- ,rC *. fLs-i asvt for tin- Liverpool train, and the puard answer that one had just pone and that there would not be another for some hours. Staaperson seemed to be put out at that, but Drebber was rather pleased than otherwise. I pot so close to them in the bustle that I could hear every word that passed between them. Drebber said that he had a little business of his own to do, and that if the other would wait for him he would soon rejoin him. His companion remonstrated with him. and reminded him that they had resolved to stick together. lDrebber answered that the n;atter was a delicate one. and that he must po alone. I could not catch what Manperson said to that, but the other burst out swearinp, and reminded him that he was nothinp more than his paid servant, and that he must not presume to dictate to him. On that the secretary pave it up as a bad job, and simply bargained with him that if he missed the last train he should rejoin him at Halliday's private hotel; to which Dreblier answered that he would be back on tin- platform before eleven, and made his wav out of the station. ,,jJie lers^nabiv My carriage is extremely democratic— Wfifc Sgm one n,"ftht even if I were to occupy a throne for 15 minutes I -would carry off the tidy on my shoulder, for in the pioneering that I have done in order to open up a new world and make way for liberty in the crude west, so that the poor serf from despotic Europe may find peace and a hoine. I have had to deny myself the all refining influences of nobility and steam heat. "Yes, lam," I answered. "Then put your hand here," he said, with a smile, motioning1 with his manacled wrists toward his chest. enough to take roe hack to America. I was standing in the yard when ri ragged youngster asked if there was a Iressed. to judge from the small and [decant impression left bj- his boots. "On entering the house this last infere nee w ;is confirmed. My well-booted man lay before me. The tall on$, then, hail thine thu murder, if murder there was. There was no wound upon the .lead man's person, but the agitated expression upon his face assured me that he had foreseen his fate before it came upon him. Men who die from heart disease or any sudden natural cause never by any chance exhibit agitation upon their features. Having sniffed the dead man's lips. I detected a slightly sour smell, and 1 came to the conclusion that he had had poison forced upon him. Apain I argued that it had been forced upon him, from the hatred and fear expressed upon his face. By the method of exclusion I had arrived at this result, for no other hypothesis Would meet the facts. Ponot imagine that it was a very unheard-of idea. The forcible administration of poison is by no means anew thing in criminal annals. The cases of Dolsky, in Odessa, and of Leturier, in Montpelicr, will occur at once to any toxicologist. "And now came the great question as to the reason why. Robbery had not been the object of the murder, for nothing was taken. Was it politics, then, or was it a woman? That was the question which confronted me.- I was inclined from the first to the latter supposition. Political assassins are only too glad to do their work and to fly. This murder had, on the contrary, been done most deliberately, and the perpetrator had left his tracks all over the room, showing that he had been there all the time. It must have been a private wrong, and not a political one, which called for such a methodical revenge. When the inscription was discovered upon the wall I was more inclined than ever to my opinion. The thin# was too evidently a blind. When the ring was found, however, it settled the question. Clearly the murderer had nsed it to remind" his victim of some dead or absent woman. It was at this point that I asked Gregson whether he had inquired in his telegram to Cleveland as to any particular point in Mr. Drebber's former career, lie answered, you remember, in the negative. ,"I then proceeded to make a careful examination of the room, which confirmed me in my opinion as to the murderer's height, and furnished me with the additional detail as to the Trichinopoly cigar and the length of his nails. I had already come to the conclusion, since there were no signs of a struggle, that the blood which covered the floor had burst from the murderer's nose in his excitement. I could perceive that the track of blood coincided with the track of his feet. It is seldom that any man, unless he is very full-blooded, breaks out in this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the criminal was probably a robust and ruddy-faced man. Events proved that 1 had judged correctly. "Having left the house, I proceeded to do what (irC?gson had neglected. I telegraphed to the head of the police at Cleveland, limiting my inquiry to the circumstances connected with the marriage of Enoch -Drebber. The answer was conclusive. It told me that Drebber had already applied for the •otection of the law against an old rival in love, named Jefferson Hope, and that this same Hope was at present in Europe. I knew now that I held the clew to the mystery in my hand, and all that remained was to secure the He Misniulcrntoml Iler. A pious and aged Saco lady, who felt that the end of lit* mortal existence was close at hand, was settling her bill with her iceman the other day and took occasion to remark iu an earnest way: "I don't suppose I shall take ice of you another year. I expect to pass over the other side of the river b "ore long." I did so, and became at once conscious of an extraordinary throbbing which was going on inside. The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside which some powerful engine was at work. In the silence of the room I could hear a dull humming and buzting noise which proceeded from the same source. II cabby there called Jefferson Hope, and said that his eab was wanted by a gen- end I leaned back joyfully in the rich cushions of my moving penitentiary. To myself I said: "Some folks think I cannot travel in a foreign country without a matron, but /this would indicate that I can. Here I am occupying the place of passengers, and nothing out except what I paid the guard, while the traveling public may howl its head off for accommodations, but in vain. My door is loc ked, and they cannot enter here." The more I thought it over the more haughty and offensive I became. But we did not stop more than once between London and Southampton and then only to pass the time of day with a railroad man in corduroys. When I got to the end of the journey, I found that I was the only passenger on the entire train. I had suborned and corrupted the guard with money which I afterward sadly needed, while I could have taken my pick of the whole train and welcome. 4iii | fe/\ I KX^i \j JP "Oh, no trouble, no trouble at all," replied the enterprising iceman. '' We send a team over to Biddeford every day." Then he began slowly to grasp the real meaning and muttered as he picked up his tongs and went out of the door, "Some people would be happy to have a piece of ice 'over there' anyway, I guess."—Lewis ton (Me.) Journal. Why, therefore, should a customs examiner of meager attainments become the arbiter of these great questions and tell me at a glance where I belong, when that power is vested only in omnipotence and omniscience? Shall poor, weak, feeble man with brief authority vested in him by a fleeting administration assume the right to say at a glance whether my mental and moral status entitles me to visit Europe with 19 trunks or simply a package done np in a red bandanna? "Why," I cried, "you have an aortic aneurism!" "UK OA/I'D AT ME WITH Bt.KAKKD "IJfdn't I tell you so when wo started?" cried Sherlock Holmes, with a laugh. "That's the r"5sult of all our study in scarlet; to get them a testimonial!""That's what they call it," he said, placidly. "I went to a doctor last ■week about it, and he told me that it •was bound to burst before many days passed. It has beon pettinp worse for years. I pot it from over-exposure and nnder-feedinp amonpthe Salt lake mountains. I've done my work now, and I don't care how soon I po, but I should like to leave some account of Cjthe business behind me. I don't want to be remembered as a common cutthroat,"N KKN KYF.S A MOM I.XT." tve you my word thiit he father and daughter were walking n front of us. 1 the w n 'It's infernally dark,' si id h« Id "Never mind," I answered; "I have all the facts in my journal and tbe public shall know them. In the meantime you must make yourself contented by the consciousness of success, like the Roman miser— stamping about. A Fine After IDinner Speaker " 'We'll soon have a light.' I said, striking' a match and putting it tCD a wax candle which I had brought with me. 'Now, Enoch Dreblier,' I continued, turning to him, and holding the light to my own face: 'Who am I?' "Colonel Brown," remarked a chappie, "is the finest after dinner speaker 1 know of." "I IlKSCHIBEI) DKKHIIKU'8 IJKATII TO 1I1M "Why," said his friend iii some astonishment, "I never heard he had any ability i if that direction at all." Nay, nay! tleman at 22111 Itaker street. I went round, suspecting no harm, and the next thing I knew, this young man lu-re had the bracelets on my wrists, and as neatly shackled as ever I was in my life. That's the whole story, gentlemen. You may consider me to lDe a murderer; but I hold that I am just as much an officer of justice as " 'Populus me Ribllat, at miht plaudo Ipse Clom! slmul ac nummos contemplar la area.'" But I will not murmur or repine. Take my little offering of $57, Mr. Carlisle. Use it as if it had been honesty received instead of being wrung from trembling and unwilling hands. Use it wisely, and I will not whimper over it. Believe suffering with it. Pay mileage to worn and weary congressmen who travel on passes. Buy $6 pocketknives for overworked senators to cut their names on their desks at the capitol in order to rescue themselves from oblivion. Use it for deepening the harbors of Alaska and lending pomegranate seeds to Dakota. So that it goes to relieve distress or make men better I reck not a raw wet clam what is done with it. Let "Come easy, go easy" lie the fatal watchwords, while nations rise, flourish and decay, but do not depend upon further remittances from me. Be warned in time and provide some other for making up deficiencies, as I shall never again hold myself ready to come to the rescue of a reckless and improvident republic. "The moment {or which 1 had waited so Ion? had at last come. I had my enemies within my power. Together they eould protect each other, but singly they were at rnv mercy. 1 did not act, however, with undue precipitation. My plans were already formed. There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him. and why retribution has come upon him. I had my plans arranged by which I should have the opportunity of making the man who had wronged me understand that his old sin bad found him out. It chanced that some Jays before a gentleman who had been engaged in looking over some, houses in the ltrixton road had dropped the key of one of them in my carriage. It was claimed that same evening' and returned; but in the interval I had taken a moulding of it. and had a duplicate constructed. Ily means of this I had access to at least one spot in this great city wtiere J could reiy upon oeing free from interruption. How to get Drebber to that house was the difficult problem which I had now to solve. "lie gazed at me with bleared drunken eyes for C"t moment. and then I saw a horror spring up in them and convulse his whole features, which [THE EXD.] "Well, he has. I've dined with him several times at various places, and after dinner he always says, 'That's all right, my boy; I'll pay for it.' "—Detroit Free Press. The tender at Southampton was waiting for me, and out at her anchorage the Bremen steamer greeted me with several selections by its triple plated silver band. People rushed on deck, thinking I might be Mitchell or Gladstone, those two sterling champions of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The inspector and the two detectives had a hurried discussion as to the advisability of allowing him to tell his story. JUST HIS LUCK. showed me that he knew me. Ho staggered back with a livid face, and I saw the perspiration break out upon "Do yon consider, doctor, that there is immediate danger?" the former asked. He Wrote Her All liifjlit, but There W One Too Many his brow, while his teeth chattered. At the sight I leaned my back against the door and laughed loud irnd long. I on are." So thrilling' had the man's narrative DeC-n, iind his manner was so impres•ive, that we had sat silent and absorbed. liven the professional detecives. blase as they were in every de- A pretty woman and a fine looking man were seated together in the Central station the other afternoon. He was going away and she had come down to seo him off. The doorman called his train and he rose to go. "Porter," said the man who finds fault, "there's a draft in my section of this Business. "Most certainly there is," I answered.had always known that vengeance would be sweet, but had never hoped sleeping car." Among other things that I have taken a fancy to is a high, laced, waterproof shoe with cork sole and upper leather of porpoise skin. "In that case it is clearly our duty, in the interests of justice, to take his statement," said the inspector. "You are at liberty, sir, to give your account, which I again warn you will be taken down." "Well, sir," was the reply, accompanied by an outstretched hand, "dar ain' but one way ter irit rid ob a draft." Dr the contentment of soul which now DC■ sessed me ail nf crime, appeared to be keenly incrested in the man's story. When he ne lied we sat for some minutes in a "Now, Jim," she said, "you will bo sure to write to me the minute you get there, won't yon?" "What's that?" I wore these aboard. They are very soft and easy to the feet and made large, so that they almost require a janitor or caretaker. They make my feet look deformed, and I feel that people are looking at them all the time, wondering if I am an Englishman who bought at the wrong time a large part of Frady's addition to South Hutchinson, Kan., and now on the way west to see about it. " 'You dog!" I said: 'I have hunted ou from Sal* Lake City to St. I'etersurg, and you have always escape*} "Cash it." '—Washington Star. illness which was only broken by "I'll sit down, with your leave," the prisoner said, suiting the action to the word. "This aneurism of mine makes me easily tired, and the tussle we had half an hour ago has not mended matters. I'm on the brink of the grave, and I am not likely to lie to you. Every word I say is the absolute truth, and how you use it is a matter of no consequence to me." Now at hist your wanderings .lie scratching of Lestrade'S pencil as tie pave the finishing touches to his "Be sure, now," she said ngain ftshe was about to pass out into tho train shed. "I shall be so anxious until I hear that you got there safe." "Certainly," said Jim Didn't I.ike Variety. "Ma," said a discouraged urchin, "1 ain't going to school any more." "Why, dear?" tenderly inquired his mother. vc come to an end. for eit her vou or hall never see to-morrow's sun rise.' rid account. I ! conl it ! v. i; fin his uwav as I face that 's nnlv "no point on v liieh I should like a little more Information," Sherlock Holmes said at last. "Who was your accomplice who came for the ring which I advertised?" DOke. e tin So 1 « as fur At the end of three days Jim returned home. He went to the store and left hit grip, and then he went homo. His wifa met him at the door. "Hello!" said Jim. "'Cause 'tain't no use. I can never learnrto spell. The teacher keeps changing tho words every day."—Exchange. He timi The pulses in my temples ■lit like slodpe-hatnniers, und I heleve I would have had xi lit tDf some 'Drt if the Mood hail not pushed from That is not all. The porpoise is a fish With his pores full of oil, which has a slight odor of salt codfish, whale oil, harness oil, hot glue, unnaturalized cheese and an emancipation anniversary ball at the south. /czh-CuU The prisoner winked at my friend jocosely. "I can tell my own secrets," he said, "but I don't get other people into trouble. I saw your advertisement, and I thought it might be a plant, or it might be the ring I wanted. My friend volunteered to go and see. I think you'll own he did it smartly." A Flea In Extenuation, With these words, Jefferson Hope leaned back in his chair and began the following- remarkable statement. He spoke in a calm and methodical manner, as though the events which he narrated were commonplace enough. I can vouch for the accuracy of the subjoined account, for I have had access to Lestrade's note-book, in which the prisoner's words were taken down exactly as they were uttered. v v.Cy [tnC! relieved inC She said nothing. Judge—You have been previously sentenced to three months' imprisonment for debt. "lie walked down the road and went into one or two liquor-shops, staying for nearly half an hour in the last of them. When he came out he statrjrered in his walk, and was evidently pretty well on. There was a hansom just in front of tne, and he hailed it. I followed it so close that the nose of my horse was within a yard of his driver the whole way. We rattled across Waterloo bridge and through miles of streets, until, to mv astonishment, we found ourselves back in the terrace in which he had boarded. I could not imagine what his intention was in returning there; but I went on and pulled up my cab a hundred yards or so from the house. He entered it and What do you think of Lu"v Fer- "What's the matter?" inquired Jim anxiously. rier no incr the kev in hi I cried, locki the door I'un His wife glared at him. "I thought you were going to write to me when you ;ot to Detroit?" I came on board and went down into the salon, where there were two pale women, who excused themselves and went away with a look that I did not deserve. for I had not said anything at all. A Detinltlon. merit 11a.v been slow in C Prisoner (shrugging his shoulders)— Dy the court at Mortain, a little town of 2,000 inhabitants; why, really, that oughtn't to count !—Paris Cirelot. Teacher—What is the feminine of man, lias ovi en vC ;it last I saw Thomas? Thomas—W oman. Teacher—And the feminine of gentle- fmble as I spoke, ed for his life, but "Not a doubt of that," said Holmes, heartily. "Why,' Jim replied, "I did write to you. I sent you a nice long message on a jiostai card. Didn't you get it?" e km well It a This salon is a very pleasant part of the boat, hut no one seemed tol care for it but I. Just my nice new porpoise shoes and I. We cared l'or no other go- nial "Now, gentlemen," the inspector remarked gravely, "the forms of the law must be complied with. On Thursday the prisoner will be brought before the magistrates, and your attendance will bo required. Until then I will bo responsible for him." He rang the bell as he spoke, and Jefferson Hope was led off by a couple of warders, while my friend and I made our way out of tho station and took a cab back to liaker street. "Nice long message, was it Housekeeper AVliy He lackfd Sfcyl«' —Now. you just get out! Thomas (unhesitatingly) — Dude!— Puck. mered "Certainly. I wrote you just a little while after I got there. Didn't any Tramp—You shouldn't judge of me by me disheveled appearance, mnm. I came to town in a sleeping car and neglected to feo the porter, mum.—New Y'ork Weekly. "It don't much matter to you why I hated these men," he said; "it's enough that they were guilty of the death of two human beings—a father and a daughter—and that they had, therefore, forfeited their own lives. After the lapse of time that has passed since their crime, it was impossible for me to secure a conviction against them in any court I knew of their guilt, though, and I determined that I should be judge, jury and executioner all rolled into one. You'd have done the same, if you have any manhood in you, if you had been in my place. ciety—and were content JIailn't Any Left, Who talks of iin What rev had n mad dug "Oh„y*-s," and there was a dangerous glitter in the wife's eyes," "I got the postal card all right." come?" One day I went down into the steerage to maKe stumes or tne poorer classes of emigrants, but tho emigrants peti- "Confound you, sir! I've a notion to pull your noso. What do you mean by telling people that I've got a temper?" ii my poor I Iter from 11n r tioned our captain not to li t me conic '•I take it all back. sir. When I said that, I wasn't aware that you had lost it t his morning.'"—Brooklyn Eagle. to your 11 me! Jim felt relieved. "Then what are you kicking about?" lie asked. Her Usual Practl^f Tom—I wonder why Nett screamed so loud when I kissed her. Ex there v more, f vferred suet It was not I who killed her f Gav as they had br of course, but pow- His wife took a card out of her pocket and held it toward him, address side ont. "Was this the card?" she asked. treine modesty? Dick—No. Force of habit Record. with themerful enough to answer their purposes his hansom drove awa\ Ciive me a Uy —Chicago "He is madly infatuated with her." Completely Gone. glass of water, if mouth pets dry with the talkin nu pleas* Kieellt I hC iv \ thru 1 CHAPTER VIL THE CO!»CL.CjSIO!». Jim looked at the writing, little straggly for liim, hut lir recoe it. "Yes," bo asserted, "t It was a llizcll s til.' card." without calling science in. At nislit 1 left those shoes outside my door to be blackened and polished by the " Indeed?' I handed him the glass and he drank e bet v re him Let t! We had all been warned to appear before the magistrates upon the ThursClay; but when the' Thursday came there was no occasion for our testimony. A higher Judge had taken the matter in hand, and Jefferson Hope had been summoned before a tribunal where strict justice would be meted out to him. On the very night after his capture the aneurism burst, and lie was found in the morning stretched upon the floor of the cell, with a placid smile upon his face, as though he had been aide in his dying moments to look back upon a useful life and on work well done. Suburban Tragedy "Yes. I3-' even went so far as to tell lier that if she were only ft few years younger he would marry her."—Life. d ]if "What did you say?" inquired his wife, still clutching the postal card. "It was ho thoughtful of yon, Her- ,1. One r :t as well try to put "That's better," he Raid. "Well, I waited for a quarter of an hour or bort," paid the y at tin? door i g wi fe, meeting him a polish on the Standard Oil company. Tlio more he rubbed and brushed their the morp they open-" " "ir oily pi1" and shed then- - "That girl that I spoke of was to have married me twenty years ago. She was forced Into marrying that same Drebber, and broke her heart over it. I took the marriage ring1 from her dead finger and I vowed that his dying eyes should rest upon that very ring and that his last thoughts should be of the crime for which he was punished. I have carried it about with me and have followed him and his accomplice over two continents until I caught them. They thought to tire me out, but they could not do it. If I die to-morrow, as is likely enough,-1 die knowing that my work in this world is done, and well done. They have perished, and by my hand. There is nothing left for mo to hope for or to when suddenly there came a e i.s just ice v ruled by Jim settled liai k in his chair ar.d thought hard. "I saiil I li.nl arrived iill right," he finally began, "anil that I had met Hinnc of the buys and was having a good time, and that I was coming home today and that von should take good coat. YC u k i send a man for your over- Not That Kind of a Young Man. more. noise like people struggling inside the char coming and  "What are yon talking about, Marie? said Herbert. "I didn't send a man foi w there was a cold wav they oji.'iK'il t Maud—\\*hat did young Fitznoodle do •when you rejected him. Did he get down on his knees? housf Next moment the door was He cowered ild cr the deck like everyt1 I had a tlung open and two men appeared, one r* f ale to mvself .ill the trip £tl Trutl •No, lie went off on his ear.—' of whom was Drebber, and the other was a young ehap whom I had never seen before. This fellow hail Drebber | by the collar, and when they came to | the head of the steps he gave him a j shove and a kick which sent him half across the road. 'You hound!' he cried, ' shaking his stick at him; 'I'll teach you j to insult an honest girl!' He was so hot that I think he would have j thrashed Drebber with his cudgel, only tljat the cur staggered away down the road as fast .'is his legs would carry him. He ran as far as the corner, and then, seeing my calD, he hailed me and jumped in. 'Drive me to Ilalliday's Knife and held it to his throat until nC« had obeyed me. Then I swallowed the other, and we stood facing each other in silence for a minute or riore, waiting to see which was to live and which was to die. Shall I ever forget the look which came over his face when the first warning pangs told him that the poison was in his system? I laughed as I saw it, and held Lucy's marriage ring in front of his eyes. It was but for a moment, for the action of the alkaloid is rapid. A spasm of pain contorted his features; he threw his hands out in front of him, staggered. and then, with a hoarse cry, fell luy overcoat "W when I pot back a care of yonr "Said all t v, vcs, Herbert vhimt the middle of th in di Don't vou?" asked his wife von remei afternoon you sCnt a very j it and young mail to toll 1110 I itmle at th Broadway or at the i Briggslady lias! Griircrs- Explained. •What a severe cold your land- in a cold, 1 "Certainly I C and ran read it She looked h card. "I don't here 1. You've grot the caid River lDriCV can't must lot lii!n lm and vou hadn't ti: your best overc wear the? Yea. She sat in my room for in lionr vcsterflav.—New York Herald. back of the it Was haiv-ci)] ,' would need it! I lot him hay what is the 1 i the hall rack, and von •nd a r but on a v "Ureg'son and Lestrade will be wild alwut his death," Holmes remarked, as we chatted it over next evening. "Where will their grand advertisement murderer. "I had already determined in mv own mind that tlio man who had walked into the house with Drebber was none other than the man who had driven the cab. The marks in the road showed me that the horse had wandered on in a way which would have been impossible had there been anyone in charee of It. Where, then, anvthi like that i pat Couldn't Remember. 1, after studying it for a why. II •o every D0(1 brother who recently offered a ut n prayer meeting started to reference to Noah, but got a little 1 and forgot the name of the ;v': . Aft - hemming and hawing i'\v trior i.'nts he turned to a neigh- moment "Quit your j with n aid Jim I whv haven't be now?" who was begimin "and let mo see that eanl it out of his wife'3 liaml ar over. i bit anxious, He grabbed ad turned it yon got it 011, atul can it be possibl but t "I don't see that they bad very much to do with liis capture," I answered. But there are scenes too sacred to bo iiv tr desire. "What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence," returned my coniDanion. bitterly. "The question is, profaned by the presence of listeners. Herbert has begun to speak. Let us hasten to retire.—Chicago Tribune. lid be brief if I would 6tav 1 th; "They were rich and I was poor, so that it was no easy matter for me to follow them. When I got to London private hotel,' said he. j heavily upon the floor. I turned him "When I had him fairlv inside mv over with my foot and placed my hand There wasn't a word of writingon the «f't' anC3 give those shots a chance, but I aid not follow his -lit by my t bur and aalc, J in a loud whisper, "Who was it Luilt the ark/"—New York Tribune.