Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1889 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3. 18S9.

FAR AWAY FROM HIS HOME.

A WANDERER IN CENTRAL AMERICA. Ih Biosquito Territory Ita GoTerninent, Capital ind Feople Tn Land of Benuty Htxd Banana A Trip Up the KsconKiTcr, Etc. - BLrrriEi.ns, M. IL, Nie, June 15. Special. In the year of lSil, I think it was, by a treaty between Kurland and Nicaragua, a small portion of the territory of Nicaragua was surveyed off and given to the Mosquito Indians, the aborigines of this republic, and is called the Mosquito reservation. This reservation is about fiitj miles' wide and extends from Spanish Honduras, on the north, to river San Jaun; Costa Rico, on the Fouth. The treaty provides that the Indians ehall have undisputed riht to make and fvxecute their own laws without the intervention of any other power. The death cf Chief Heudy recently necessitated the election of a new man for the position. Although the chiefship is claimed to be hereditary, still it is elective, as any one of the "royal family" is eligible and an , election decides upon whom the honor falls. At the recent election, held by forty-three "head men,-' who are appointed bv the chief, Jonathan was declared duly elected. He celebrated the event by giving freedom to all persons confined in vnson, some of whom were fentenced lor ue. An amusing incident occurred dunn? the- election, and caused much mirth among the spectators. The presiding officer requested all tho.e who desired to vote for Jonathan to stand up, and that individual was on his te?t in a second, and all the reasoning of his supporters could not make him sit down while the votes were beins counted. Frevious to his election he husked cocoanuts for a living, and made a verv poor one at that, and now he receives S.öt'O soles (about ?2,-x) a year for doing little or nothing. The Mosquito Indian deserves a passing notice and nothing more. A picture of these Indians does not bear the wellknown features of the renowned hunters and daring warriors whom we are acr;nainted with from "Leather Stockings," '"The Pathfinder" and other Indian stories. There are no noble figures roaming on bcrse-back over the boundless prairie, with scalpine-knile in hand, and a belt around the waist, fantastically ornamented with thirty or forty fresh scalps. I say you must" not imagine such things, for they are not true, and I must confess that I feit astonished and disappointed when I first saw them. It seems that Iame Nature, trying her hand on man. cut these Indians out for models and forcot to finish them, for, indeed, they only look as ver' rough sketches of tho real article mm. They are remarkably .small of stature, having black hair und very flat noses and faces. I don't think they would be considered at all extravagant in dress, for the entire outfit of the average Mosquito Indian could be purchased in Indianapolis for 50 cents. They wear pants made of coarse cotton stuff and without tho slightest regard to their architectural arrangement or the latest fashion. The next is a f hirt of the same material, made about a foot longer behind than in front, and come down to tho knee bt-hind. Not the least restraining influences are thrown around this article of wear and its lower extremities are allowed to tlit about in the breeze at its own free will. Just why they ear their shirts after this fashion I am not able to say. They eke out a living by fishing, hunting and cutting rubber. The capital of the Mosquito reservation, the largest port on the eastern coast of Nicaragua, is the pretty little town of Bluefieids, built on a hill, or rather several hills, about six miles south of Bluetlelds (Fscondida) river, and situated on tha border of BlueSelds Lagoon, a beautiful body of water about fourteen miles long and seven wide. Eight years ago this place was an insignificant settlement. Now it is, a prosperous and growing town with a population of about two thousand, including 100 white men and about ten white women. It contains over two hundred and fifty substantially built houses, two hotels or inns, a large "church (erected by the monrovian missionaries), a goodfcized pchool house, the government house, a local court house and twenty stores. Tho main etreet of the town is lighted by lamps ; the laws are enforced and a disturbance of any kind is rare. The climate is p!easant, the temperature ranging from Feventy-the to ninety the year round. The sanitary condition of the town is excellent and "the health of the people as ooi as could be desired. The deaths average one a week. There are only two physicians here, but they are all, if not more, than are necessary. Uncle Alec, aged 103. recently lost a son aged seventythree. Bluetields is healthier than many cf the cities in the southern states, and "a rase of sun-stroke, yellow fever, smallpox or rabies was never known here. The population of Bluefieids is wonderfully mixed. About half are "creoles," as they are pleased to call themselves. They ppeak the Creole language, which is nothing luore or less than terrible bad English with a peculiar accent, and not easily understood by a stranger. For instance! they fay, "rue mooma" and "me poopa," (accent on last syllable,) instead of mamma and papa. The creolos are a mixture of HP7T0, Spanish, Indian, etc., etc. In my opinion tho American negro is far euperior, intellectually, to the Creole or Jamaica negro, and nothing will excite the ire of au American negro so quickly as to ask if he is from Jamaica. But the Jamaica nero feels highly flattered if you ask him if he is from America, and shows you as nice a set of teeth as you ever fcaw an your life for your trouble. The native houses are made from bambo, covered with palm leaves. Four or live natives, with no other tool than tfieir machettes, )a long, heavy b'.aded knite,) will put up a good house in a few days. The frame, of poets and poles, la tied together with a Email, stout und pliable vine, no nails, Forews or pins being used. omo of the roofs are a foot thick, and a good one will last, six years. A house with a roof of palm leaves is much cooler than the ehinple roof. The native food consists of beans, plantains, banana?, cassava, bread frnit, fish, turtle and numerous kinds of small fruit. Tbe bread-fruit tree is a large and most ieautiful tree ; the fruit is very toothsome, und is prepared by boiling, baking or frying, earae potatoes. A walk to the rreek, running through Bluefieids, will jrive you an idea as to how your linen is washed. Seated on rock s in the stream, with the water about their waists, the women ronnd and rub clothes all day. Many who make their living by washing can be reen here nearly every day in the year, and, I am told, enjoy the best of health. In washing many gather and use the leaf of the papaya tree, which is Faid to make an excellent substitute for goap. A tough piece of meat, or fowl, hong under thia tree for an hour will become very tender. I be banana is cultivated on a large scale, liubber and cocoanuis are also exported to a large extent. A regular line of steamrs come from New Orleans, one arriving ?very week ; also two teamers per month from Philadelphia. Nearly two hundred thousand bunches of bananas were hipped from here last month. A trip, vi6teamer Heudy, tip the Eseondida river la one well worth the making", f rom the moment you board the

steamer in Bluefieids until you arrive at" Boca del Kama, a distance of sixty miles, there is always something pleasing for the eyes to rest upon. Every element which goes to make up grand and beautiful natural ecenery; mountains, large bodies of water and variety of trees and flowers, can be seen on this river. As we entered the mouth of the river from the lagoon the air was, in fact, just simply loaded down with delicate perfumes, emanating from flowering vines, bushes and trees. Here, too, are to be seen hundreds of large and email birds of the most gorgeous plumage, whistling, singing, screaming and darting from bough to bough, their only object, seemingly, to make the scene more attractive. Looking across the river I see a very large alligator, with his mouth wide open, stretching his lazy length on a sand bank. In a moment several breech-loaders are ready and are fired, but the alligator sleeps on, oblivious to our blood-thirsty intentions. The country for fifteen or twenty miles up the river is low and swampy, and not a house nor hnman being's face did we see in this distance. Now the face of the country puts on a different appearance, for tbe land gets higher and drv, and a few small banana plantations begin to spring up on either Bide. A few miles more brings us to where banana plantations begin in earnest, and continues almost one solid farm to Rama, and from there up the two rivers, Siquia and Rama. These two rivers join at Boca del Kama to form the Fscondida cr BlueSelds river. A banana plantation is about as pretty a eight as one would wish to see. They grow fron twenty to twenty-five feet in hight, with leaves from seven to ten feet long and from two to three feet wide. At intervals of every mile or half mile we would pass small houses with thatched roofs, while perhaps a dozen half nude women, men and children would run out "to see the teenier pass, sah" like so many pigs let out of a stye. The country becomes higher and better as you go up the river ; the scenery also puts on a grander appearance. Great, green, steep mountains, covered to their summits with beautiful trees put up close to the river bank?. Here and there a perpendicular cliffbroke the smoothness of the dope, and over the cliiTs leapt tiny cascades threads of light sparkling in the sunshine. The air was warm and soft ; the sloping sunshine lay on the grove and clearing, mountain side, forest and banana fields, making everything plow with a eplendid richness and prodigality of color, softening outlines and bringing out new and unexpected curves on the hillsides. The steamer made frequent landings at the plantation houses to deliver goods bought at Bluefieids, and at each landing the Spaniards aboard would sing out "Auiigo" to those ashore. I thought that every Spaniard m Nicaragua was named "AmiPro," but have since learned that in the Spanish language it means "my friend." As we approached the little town of Boca del Rama, the sun was sinking behind the western hills, mantling with its last rays the scene with gilt and gold, and 1 felt that 1 had passed at least one day of unalloyed pleasure. fc. The Month of Jane. 'TiyJnco; The air i warm, the ws Woom, This month is summer's bridal dar. The worll is decked in Coral 'ray. With seet, oll-fashiened .'eeut'd pink, With garden thyme aud Jcsam;oe And buttercura, till oft uu thinks That 'tis the resurrection day, And flowers are mortals who have cast From oirtheir form a the shroud away. June, thou art dear to me; Tho'i snvft me birth and robed the earth In briht-fst flowers, Thrt I. iu childhood's fleeting hours Might happy be. Thou brou I;t a lover or the S"a And gavo Tis goMen bonrs t g' thf r, A, wEudcriD otit the grassy lea Our hearts you taught unc onsciously The 1 son that wc all must learn. But whether 1st or whether aooo, 'Tis better learned in the, weet Jim. Ah' gentle month, you could not stay, For July' beat drove you away. Then came the winter's boreal blast; It, too, could Dot ty, but passed. The south wicd bore you back again. Your honey cells are filled with pain. You saw nie clad in snowy white. They twined In my haar yoor garland bright. You si w nie standing as his brid. You saw hira strick-n hr my aide; And If af by leaf, O tender Jtrne, You dropped your roies on his tomb. So some of tbe memories are aweet to m, And some are full of misery. But I nelroaie you, dearest of the yeir, I welcome you with smile and tar. There is one boon I would a.k of sbee. An i 'tit: When from tin? t eternity My weary feet have trod tho way. Through dawn's darkness to life's bright day, That up through azure, starlit skies To meet its God let my soul arise, ' There scatter thy roses o'er our tomb, And let me die in thee, sweet June. friErriE. Wanted a Correction. Arkansaw Traveler. The editor of the Hombeim JIivl received a vieit from Tobe Phillip. "Look here," said Mr. Fhillirs 'last week von pnoke of the death of my granlmotber Mrs. Harky." "Yes, yes. so I did. Anything wronc?" "You said she was ninety-dght years old and "Well, wasn't she that old?" "Oh, ye, but you taid she never chewed toWr-o and was never drank in her life." "Well, ia there anything wronsj about that?" "But don't you understand, it sorter reflects on tis on her." "J low so." j "Wall, hot I'll tell yon. I don't reckon there is a more respectable lot of people anywhere than e are " "'Mint's nil ritrht, old fellow. I didn't mean any reflection. You sec, when a very old nuin dies, the i)?wsjaper, rBrticularly the temperance publications, fay that he never used tobacco or liquor; and what I said was merely a take ort!" "Yes," kn'u the visitor, "your intentions Mere all rijjht, but what you say ain't the truth. The old lady usually took a chew of tobacco about the size of a walnut and I don't reckon there was a better judge of licker in our neighborhood, he was sorter proud of her record in regard to licker. and if it won't be too much trouble to yon I wish you would make a fcort of correction."

AVater aa a Substitut For Grace. Sister Weymouth was one of the most notable women that ever lived in the good old Maine town of r.lankmoutb, oaya the Lewi6toa Jourwtt. She was notable for her powers as aa exhortcr, which shone in the village grayermeetinz as brilliantly as those of any licensed preacher whom the villagers heard, and for her quick wit, that found expression in maay quaint and pithy speeches, pome of which are treasured to this day although she has long been gathered to her fathers and mothers. A worthless youn? man named Frost fell in love with Sister Weymouth's daughter. Tailing to melt the etern objections of the youn woman's mother in any other way, he pretended to be eonverted under her e ihortations, joined the church and was married to his heart's desire. Very soon the bad blood in Frost's teins asserted itself and the rascal deserted his wile after he bad lived with her bat fire or six months. Not long afterward his child was born. While the officiating person was giving the infanta bath, Sister Weymontu came in. "Look here!" said she, "be sure and hold that baby under water lonar enough to t alt the Frost out of it!" It IIa! Been Picked l. ruck . . Swipes "Wot are you scrap in z around in dat mud for, Fafle;' Lookiu. fur a sfijoke?." F.a;j!es "'aw; I beard a sport tell another core in front of de Uoftnia dat he dropped ro hundred down here dis morning-, and I'm going to find it if I hate to scrape from do river to Trinity !"

A CHANCE CHECKMATE Chambers' Jonrnal. Three years ago I was a girl of eixteen, unemancipated from the school-room. My father was and is a banker at Siston. The town lies in a valley, and by a preat many people is thought unhealthy. Having a kinsman whom he can thoroughly trust aa acting manager, papa these many year3 ßince abandoned the red houäo in Siston Broadway and resided at the manor, Walnsey. This is, however, twelve miles from his place of business eight by rail and four by road. The manor bas one other drawback it fctands in a very isolated situation. Our nearest neighbors are our namesakes, tbe Eecctts of Walnsey. cross; and Valentia lodge, the country seat of Capt. Milne Kscott, lies westward across the wilderness we call the Health a good three miles. The month when my Etory opens was that of February Fill-dike, and it was justifying its name. Of storms we seemed to have a ceaseless succession. Heavy rains and high winds had been for several weeks the prevailing meteorological conditions. Alice, my younger sister, and I were prisoners within doors, and should have found time drag more heavily than it did but for the presence of Val. An only brother is always a girl's hero, and Val was ours. In age he came between us, and his proper place at this period of the year was Rugby. But he bad met with an accident at Christmas, and was only just convalescent. Hence his holidays had already lasted in excess a füll fortnight of the working term. As perhaps Val may read this, I will be candia and add that there were seasons when, owing to bis teasinc. we heartily wished him back in the Midlands. The Tuesday on which papa announced his urgent summons to Ferris court was, however, not one of these occasions. Boreas was doing his best to brin? the house about onr ears. We could not possiblv go out in tbe tempest. We were not ultraenthusiastic readers, and fancy work was ever Alice's bete noir. Therefore we must have settled into tame subjection to ennui but for Val. It was his business, as he put it, to make things lively, and he did. I had ventured to demur to papa's going. Sarely it was my p'.ace to care for him as mamma would have done had she lived, and his health had troubled me of late, thoughtless as I too frequently was. "It is a dreadfully rough day, papa," I said. "Can not Sir Hugo Ferris wait? It is such a distance, too. to Ferris court, and all across country. You can't reach the place readily by rail." "'o; I wish that I could." papa answered. "But the journey is quite imperative. Sir Hugo is one of our best patrons. He telegraphs that his departure for Algiers is fixed definitely for Thursday an alteration of week in his arrangements; and I have urgent mattors to discuss with him. He insists foolishly, but I can not help it on negotiating with the principal; he will have none of Mr. Beilew s." I suppose my face was visibly lengthening, for before I could reply papa added: "Don't look so glum about it, Maggie. You'll be quite safe here in charge of Mrs. Climber, our new housekeeper. I am convinced that, after many changes and mishaps, we have secured a treasure. I sa this because it is uncertain if I shall return to-night." "Not return to-night!" I echoed helplesrf'y. "So," he said. "I have decided to take the horses tbe whole way ; and as the roads are in a bad state, S pence will put the cattle up in the next village and then drive me back the nest morning. I shall be sure of comfortable quarters at Ferris court." "Is it quite safe?" I asked. "For me, do you mean ?" "Xo-o; for U3. This house is so lonely, and it is known that there are mamma's jewels and the pictures and the plate." Tapa scoHed at my fears. "We are too far from the track of the light-fingered prowler to receive his attentions," he answered. But it was an error. Ever 6ince that dav I have had a lurking belief in presentiments. I know very well that the confession will cause pome superior persons, fortified in the lines of a eane common sense, to smile with pity at my girlish weakness. I am somewhat disposed to smile with them; and yet it is not more certain thac a plot existed to rifle the manor than that hoar by hour after papa had gone I grew more and more vacuely but genuinely uneaev. I said nothing to either Val or Alice. What was there to say? Xor to Mrs. Climber. Somehow I had not taken to the fresh arrival so warmly as the others. I did not dispute that her recommendations were fcrst-class; that her demeanor to each of us was precisely what it should be neither over-deferential nor too familiar; that she was a skilled housemistress and a paragon of order. Nevertheless, I had conspicuously frowned when papa praised ber, and X was in no hurry to take her into confidence when an oppression weighed upon my spirits. Ali had discovered my lack of enthusiasm long ago, and insisted that I was prejudiced because Mrs. Climber was foreign looking and had an affected way of putting up an eyeglass, which, in the opinion of Val and nivself, was totallv useless to her. I allowed Alice to think H3 ehe pleased. The fact remained that hitherto I wa& unconquercd and that Mrs. Climber knew; it. Dusk thickened at last, and wo had the approval of our consciences in closing blinds and drawing curtains to, and shuttin? out bye very recognized expedient the driving cloud-rack, the desolate landscape and tho constant drip, drip of the complaining trees. And then Val accepted a hlray challenge mine or Alice's, I cannot now be sure ; the point is immaterial and proceeded with a glow of boyish eloquence which promised well for bis intended future at tbe bar, to vindicate his latest hobby, the sienco of graphiology. He had a notable little collection of autographs and specimens of caligraphy which he rummaged out of his hoard of treasures, and upon these be descanted with all the dogmatism of the professor and all the fervor of the disciple. As he was pointing out to half-skeptical critic.-? and listeners an alleged resemblance between traits in the historical character of the Duke of Wellington and features in the great warrior's handwriting, he was interrupted. To the eurprise of each of us, we heard the rumble of approaching wheels on tho soaked avenue without. "Can papa be back after all, and as early as this?" Alice cried. "Not he. That isn't our carriage. It's a brougham, certainlv; but Spence isn't driving it the rattlers different, Val answered, at tbe end of a short pause. "Then who can it be?" I s.aid with wonder and a recrudesence of anxietv. Val crossed to the window and caught question and reply of visitor and coachman. "Is this the place?" inquired the former. "Yes; this Mr. Escott's o't' manor, Walnsey," returned tbe latter. Clang went tbe ball bell ; and in another half minuie, Josephs, our butler, looking anything but please! at the interference with his session of enjoyment io the kitchen, opened our door and ponderously announced: "Mr. Lidlaw." The name was entirelv nnknown to me, as also the purport and occasion of the call. I debated for a second whether I

should send Alice in search of Mrs. Climber who was, I believed, writing in her own room or whether I should myself assume the responsibility of confronting the stranger. The question was decided for me. On the heels of the domestic advanced Mr. Lidlaw ; he, at least, appeared to have no doubt as to tho course to follow. Under-sized, middle-aged, cleanshaven, gray this is the best and fullest description which I could have given at the moment of the easy-going intruder, and will suffice for rav narrative. "Ah, three of y&u!" he said. "My old friend's daughters and son, I presume? I wasn't aware he was so favored." The human voice is a wonderful instrument. In one case it 6hall of itself convey suspicion, in another, reassurance. It was the latter here. A tyrannical imagination bad painted before" my mental vision with swift brush the portrait of a dangerous conspirator. The living enigma spoke, and however puzzling and mysterious his presence continued to be, my courage revived. Th? circumstance is as I state ; the explanation I leave toothers. "My name isTscott ; this is my brother and my sister," I stammeringly answered. "But to who to what do we owe ?"Iwasa pitifully poor inquisitor. Before I hadframedjmy query, I was stopped. "Who am I ?" the cheery stranerer said. "Well, I suppose one cau'tdaim universal fame ; but it certainly strikes me as curious that you should have to ask. As to my errand, that is just pleasure and the resuscitation of eld memories. Your father and I used to be stanch friends. You're not very like him, young gentleman." The latter sentence was, of course, addressed to my brother Valentine. "Indeed !""the boy said laconically. Tbe stranger's glance had fallen upon the stranee medley that decorated our center-table. "Some one here is a collector of autographs, I see," he went on gaily. "May I inspect them? Thank you. This ia a pursuit of great interest to me ; I sometimes have to etudy ahem! in a professional capacity contrast and likeness in penmanshsp." He bent over Val's specimens, among which were included examples of the hand of nearly all the boy's acquaintances; for Val played havoc very impartially with the characters ancient and modern, great and 6mall, famous or obscure. And by-and-by I noticed a queer little start, seemingly of recognition. Mr. Lidlaw looked up." "Who wrote this?" he said. It was a couple of lines a quotation from Tennyson and, beneath, the signature of Mrs". Climber. It was Alice who replied. "That's the writing of our housekeeper," said she, wonderingly. "Do you know Mrs. Climber? he came to us from Leeds. I like her hand, it is so neat and pretty." "And it bespeaks a strong will, decision, and perhaps finesse," said Val, eententiously, quite in the style of the lecturer. But I felt that it was time to know more of the visitor, who seemed to be taking bis footing in our midst so much for granted. I broke in with a direct demand. "I have never heard papa speak of you, so far as 1 can recollect, Mr. Lidlaw, and he is not at home. Did he expect you to-night?" Mr. Lidlaw awoke as from a dream. "Capt. Escott not a home!" be repeated. "Expect mel I am here in response to his pressing invitation." Val and I had the clew to the riddle simultaneously. "You are wanting Valentia lodge, Walnsy cro??," I said. "It is Mr. John Escott who lives here; there has been a mistake," cried Val. Mr. Lidlaw stood as though paralyzed by the revelation of bis blunder; that a shadow of intense vexution passed over his features, and this in turn yielded to a iTnile at bl3 own expense. "Whew!" This comes of not being sufficiently precise in investigation; a lesson I hardly ought to need to learn, after all these vears," he grimly soliloquized. Then he bowed depreciatingly to us and proceeded: "The storm was raging so fiercely that I was content in the station-yard, with little delay and few words. I asked the coachman who was handiest if he could drive me to Capt. Escott's, Walnsey, nndbeeaid: 'Yes.' I suppose he did not catch more than the surname, and 1 was ignorant that Walnsey and Walnsey cross are not identical places." "They are three miles apart," said Val. "I was uncertain of my train, or Capt. Escott would have 6ent to meet me. I begjred him not to do that. The question now is, how to get away, for the driver he was none too sober is gone and ray luggage is in your hall. It is most unfortunate and absurd, and wholly my fault, for I remember remarking that the fellow called your homo "the manor" which was not a familiar nam? for it both at Daleford station and here on arrival. I tender a thousand apologies." Forthwith our group of four resolved itself into a committee for dealing with this singular emergency. Oar debate had but a lame issue. If papa had been here and bad become convinced of the bona fides of his uninvited guest, he would have sent Spruce with Lidlaw to Capt. Escott's. But both papa and the man were absent. Josephs was old and often ailing; I hesitated to suggest any scheme that should involve his going out into the tempest. And certainly Val must not venture any such exposure. Mr. Lidlaw carefully inquired bis way and announced that he should walk. He asked, too very oddly, as I thought, with anew twinkle of doubt the nearest route back to Daleford village. Val's directions were clear and full, and if the stranger obeyed them he could not possiblv go astray in either direction. It 'seemed inhospitable to permit him to turn out unattended into the night, but I could perceive no alternative, and I have reason to think that he would havo overruled any and every objection. Mrs. Climber had not appeared. This struck us afterward as strange. However busy she might bo with her correspondence it was curious that she should have beard nothing of the arrival, or that, hearing, she should have kept away. Some twenty minutes after Mr. Lidlaw bad left she entered the drawing-room and listened to our juint narrative ot w hat had haj)pened. I fancied that she was preoccupied, until Alice casually referred to the visitor's inspection of her handwriting, and that then her manner changed, and she listened with more interest even anxiety than she cared for us to observe. From this fact if such it were I was, howeer, at a loss to draw any particular deduction. I pass over the hours that elapsed between this episode and midnight. We bad retired early, and the house ought to have been a. dark and still as if uninhabited. Older friends tell me that it is the privilege of healthy girlhood to sleep soundly and with ease. I do not doubt that they are right; but on this occasion 1 continued obstinately awake. The day had not wanted in agitations and surprises, and they had affected my spirit with unusual restlessness. Perhaps I am nervous by temperament, and it was this quality w'hich filled the darkness with shapes of terror and my brain with inchoatic fears of some stealthily on-creeping evil. It is likely enough to be the true and ample explanation of my mental condition. Certainly I could not rest. How valnlr I wished that I had proposed to Alice that we ßhould occupy the same room. She would have consented Instantly, although I bad no reason to suppose that Alice shared my tremors. But it would be a confession of cowardice of which I should not soon hear the last to co to her now.

even if the situation of her room, at the end of a long, silent corridor and across a mid-landing, was not an insufficient deterrent. No; I must toss and turn and wait for the tardy morning, Suddenly a chiil shot through my veins ; I sat up among the pillows, rigid, and, I doubt not, blanched almost to their own whiteness. I listened in a very agony of atteution. From the depths below there had echoed distinctly upward or my faculties were playing me false the sound of the sullen yielding of a bolt. My apartments were immediately over tho plate closet, and adjacent to the partition which closed in the second flight of stairs. This accounted for the transmission of the noise. But the noise was an ominous disclosure. In the dead of night it was surely illegitimate, and spoke of crime. The veriest craven will sometimes obtain an access of courace as mysterious in its source as, generally, transient in its sway. I am not calling myself bard names. Indeed, I should be sorry to believe that I absolutely belong to the class whose badge is a white feather. But I have owned to trepidation, and now I mastered for at least a few minutes the first paralysis of fright. I pressed my throbbing temples bard against the wainscot and found that the wood was a faithful conductor of sound. A rumbling and grating that could have no honest and satisfactory cause jarred upon my highlystrung nerves. I was not the victim of lelusion. Assured of this, I began to dress, with quaking, fumbling fingers, and in the dark. Flan 1 had none as yet, and my actuating purpose was merely to reach and alarm the rest cf the household. It was just blind instinct, for I did not pause to ask what effectual resistance to a gang of robbers could be ofiered by a rack of scared women, an invalid boy and one tottering old man. I thought first of Miss Turpin, our governess, and Mrs, Climber, and in this trder. They both occupied rooms on the same floor as myself, but far in the rear of the building. It was an ugly venture to get to them. As I was debating I remembered my mother's jewels. These were deposited in a dressing-case locked into a wardrobe strong-bos in papa's room. Had they escaped the thieves? Would they escape? By almost a mechanical impulse I unfastened and opened my door and stepped lightly the five or six paces to that of the vast cavern-like chamber in which, the fable goes, a queen once slept. There was a light within other than that of the wan young moon, which glimmered feebly through lozenge-shaped panes in a window high over my head. I sucked in my breath with a weil-nigh audible grasp and shivered; but it was as though a subtle fascination drew me nearer in spite of the peril. I crept to the tell-tale crack through w hich the penciled line of light fell. A single peep and I knew the worst; we were betrayed. Knoi ling before the receptacle of my mother's family heirlooms was a woman, holding a lamp for the guidance of a male confederate, who busied himself with a file at the wardrobe lock. They seemed equally absorbed in their nefarious task. The man I had never before seen : the woman was Mrs. Climber. I believe I was nigher to swooning than on any previous or subsequent occasion. Luckily, with a supreme effort I was able to recover the self-possession wrested from me by the double 6hjck. I dare not think what might have been the denouement in the contrary event. How papa had been deceived ! and all of us, tor, though I had vaguely disliked the newcomer, no suspicion ot her fidelity bad entered my mind; yet ray eyes testified that she w;is an accomplice in a sinister plot. Very possibly she was its originator. It gave me intense anxiety to decide upon my next step. A daring suggestion flew to my brain; but I dismissed it, not so much as impracticable as useless. It was to lock tbe two thieves in. This was possible, if managed with adroitness, for the key cast a shadow on the polished floor. Mrs. Climber had locked the door of papa's room with hypocritical care, as we retired that night, saying that housemaids Avere curious and bad been known to walk in their sleep, and that it was not well to trust them to excess. And new the adventuress had left the key on the outside. But what would the countermove avail ? There were villains below making sway with the plate; I had heard them; they would come to the rescue, and I had no means of successfully following up the temporary advantage. Yet my fingers itched to drag to that door and imprison my foes. Clang! clatter! all our bells seemed to be ringing at once, and Mrs. Climber's precious confederates would not have given the alarm; it must mean for them interruption and discomfiture. And in a trice I had acted on my wild idea. The great oak door was fast fast ! I had the key, and with it I fled to my own room. There I cowered as children do under the bed-clothes, and suffered paroxysm after paroxysm of helpless, abject terror. Every vestige of bravery, deliberate or fortuitous, had forsaken me. But I was not molested. What happened on the other side of my fortress can be simply and succinctly related in the words with which, on the morrow, our friend and benefactor, Mr. Lidlaw, enlightened papa. It will be needful to resume from the point of his recognition of Mrs. Climber's handwriting wh-n chatting in our drawing-room. "You see, I am an expert in these matters," he said. "Probably you may have seen my r.arne in the newspapers In connection with some trial, civil or criminal, in which the identification of handwriting has formed a leading feature in the proceedings?" "I have," papa answered. "Exactly. And two months ago I had to make a professional ttudy ot various documents and signatures in a northcountry case of systematic and long-continued fraud. I am prepared to swear that the specimen of Mrs. Climber's, alias Mrs. Clegg, hand shown me by j-our eon is tho fac-simile oi a large number of those forged papers. The writer is the same. And now that I have seen her she had a most valid reason for keeping in the back-ground j-esterday evening I recognize the woman too. Hhe only escaped a long term of penal servitude through the plea that she was her husband's tool. And another thing made me startled and suspicious. It was this: At Daleford, a man left the same train, whom I identified, in spite of his wrappings, as tho brother of the condemned Long Firm swindler, who stood in the dock with .Mrs. Clegg. He'll soon follow hira into a convict cell. Ho was involved in the Manchester case, though there was a flaw in tho evidence, and he eluded the grasp of justice." "But Mrs. Climlier's testimonials they were mast excellent," murmured papa. "Forged, my dear sir; I entertain no doubt of it," replied Mr. Lidlaw. "These people 6aw vour advertisement, and application and references were all parts of rather a clever 'plant.' But the female trickster carried her daring a step too far, and will pay the penalty. When I was confronted with that couplet, in the hand that I had so much reason to know, I got an inkling of the game that was on foot. And, instead of going on to Walnsey cross, I returned to Daleford and interviewed a sergeant of police. It seemed that be was in possession of an official warning that tended in the like direction of watchfulness. We both had a suspicion that you might have been lured out of the way by a boras meesage." . "No ; there was no stratagem there," put In my tather. "Then events conspired so far with the eanar of rogues. Welh.we came up to tbe

manor to make sure that all was right,and we found an open window and moving lights. We were five in number and armed. The sergeant and two of his men entered by the same road as the burglars, and at a signal by tbe officer I aroused the household. One thief was taken in the act of selecting the c hoicest specimens of your old-fashioned silver, and, to our infinite bewilderment, we discovered later that clever housekeeper and a second con federate were caught like rats in a trap. That was the work of Miss Maggie here. As soon as we learned this we applied to the young lady, got the key and entered. We were only just in time to thwart an attempt to escape by the window. But for the hight and the awkwardness of the descent the man at least would have escaped. But the three are in Siston jail."' "And I have to thank you," said papa, "for the protection of my property, Mr. Lidlaw; I am sincerely grateful." "And I am glad to have been of service," answered our friend. My story is almost at its cloe. One point which was cleared up at the trial at Piston assizes was that of the choice of the occasion for the attempt. It came out that a fictitious letter had been compiled which would equally have taken papa from home that stormy February night; but this part of the scheme was rendered superfluous by the genial messnge cf Sir Hugo Ferris and the resolve to which papa subsequently came. Mrs. Climber boasting many other names equally convenient for a month or a year was this time punished by a heavy sentence, her two associates being treated with the like severity. Val believes more than ever in graphiologv. We lost a housekeeper but gained a permanent friend. Mr. Lidlaw comes now as frequently to Walsney as to Walsney cross. And may I not confess that there is more behind? I have special reasons to remember with thankfulness the deliverance from that dark peril. To these events I owe an introduction to Harry Lidlaw, Mr. Lidlaw's nephew. He, too, is our friend; and I have promised him that one day I will let him assume a still clearer title. It is unnecessary to be more explicit; anylovir.i jrirl's heart will read the meaning into the riddle.

When Old Jork IMed. When old Jack died, it seeniiyl s human Irinl Had suddenly gone from u; that some face That wc bad loved to fondle and embrace From babyhood, io more would codren4 To smile on ut for? ver, we might bend With tearful tp abore btm, interlay Our fingers or him, romp and race, Plead with him, call and eon aye, " might send The old halloo up for hira, whistle, hist (if sob had let u or, as wildly rain. J-napped thumbs, called 'Se3k," and be had not replied ; We might hare gone down on our knees aid kissed The tout-led ears, an 1 yet they must remain Ieaf and motionless, we knew hen old Ja'k dud. Wbn old Jack died, it seemed to us, some way, That ail the other dogs in town were pained With our bereavement, and some that were chained Even slipped their collars on that day. To visit Jack in state, as thouzh to pay A lat sad tribute there, while nihbors craned Their head above the fence and deigned To sigh, "Poor do?," remembering how they Had cuffed hira, when aUve, perchance tecause For lore of them he leaped to lick their hands Now that he coul I not they were satisfied? We children thought that, as we crossed his psw, And o'er Iii prave way down the bottom land Wrote, "Our First Love Liei Here," when old Jack ditd. JAME3 W. Kilet. Seventy-two Millionaires. Globe-Deraoora t. A correspondent Las discovered that there are bcventy-two men in the United States whose combined wealth equals the national debt: Wpton Pobson K. B. Cose I, Z. I iter I P. Morton Oauldw'H CVile. A. M. Cannon T. W. Palmer A. J. Drexel Claus Speckles Phi ip ArmourJ. J. Hi!! John L Biair Ulbert Bonner James McMi lan J. J. AstorW. M. Astor C. P. Huntington Montgomery r-ears George M. Pullman P.. P. II tchinson Georg Ebret - Russell A. Alger John P. JoDes Marshall Field John P. Rockefeller .. H. A. Flni?ler John J. Jennings Cornelius YamlerhiU , William K. Vanderhilt F. W. Vanderhilt. George "W. Vanderbilt Jar Gould - P.'T. Barnum John T. Iavi "Harles McOure W. H. English Andrew CarnegieI. W. BishopGorve W. Vetinghoue W. D. Sloane - .... ?, l.ooo 10,'x),c00 ri.orri.c fi.fml.f') S.'mO.COO .... ;o,oow .... 2n.rA,ofiO .... 25KX'.i'0 13.000,000 .... 40,000.000 .... 6,0"0.0-0 .... 10,0X0"0 ... 100, 000 00 .... lOC.fioo.oon 40.000.ono .... 12,000.000 .... 5.(H0,i0t S.O-'tO.OijO n,f o '.ooo . 5,000.000 .... 15,0O0,0U0 .... 11,000,0110 .... ftWO.OOO 15,000.000 .... .".ono.iX'O ... 110,0 0,000 .... fcö.ono.ono .... ifi.oon.ooo .... l.s.o o o) .... 70,000,000 S.OOO.W) .... 15 00001 S.0"0,'O .... S.orOfmO .... 40,000.000 1S-iO,W0 .... 20,OnüV) .... l.0"i.0O0 George Laufer , l.s.noP.o G. G. Haven l-:,i -:o.0O0 Georee S. Crocker W. H. Bradford Anson P. Stokes Bravton Ives J. V. Mackey Jrmes G. Fair Leland Manford Charles Pratt Saui.:el A. Scott ... George W. Childs I'. W. Hruce John TVnnmiaker Warner M iller W. II. Windoni Sidney Dillon , I avid Sinton Jon Hav J. H. Wade Arthur Pue Gorman 12.000,000 10,000,000 S.OVinK) K,ijOO,tM)0 30,000.0. k) 2n,of',orfj 40,000,000 f,OV),000 10knik) 15,000,000 1 2.000,1 0 l.VOO-i.poi .VOf-OtOl 5 l i.KlO 15,000,000 20fXi.poO ft.i'OO.O'ifl Ä.0"0,0uO 6'"',,00'l Two WaTi. f-awrence American.J He (sentimentally) "How shall I ever leave thfe, love?" he (practically) "Well, if yon co now yon may pet ont of the door. Kut I hear father coniinsr, and if you don't go now you may go out at the window." Hough on Cncle. Harper's P-aar. 'Tome here, Hobby. Do you remember me?" "Oh, yes, you're the ancle who came here and stayed two month., and never offered t pay a cent for board. I've beard papa ppeali of you olten." Crisp and CkmuaI. "Let me die. I cannot afford to live." "Why?" "Well, my time is worth $0 an hour, io that it costfl me if 10 every night to get eitrht hours' sleep. That is year for sleep aloueI cau't do that on an iucotne of 5,000." Harper's liazar. The Shopkeeper Never Recovered. Customer- "I see you advertise 'Umbrellas recovered while you wait.'" Shopkeeper "Yes, sir; certainly Mr." Cnstomer "Well, I lost an umbrella a year ago last fall, and I guess I'll sit down here wlnle you recover it for me." nuomj. Epoch. J Boy "Oh, mamma, our cat has caupht & rat" Mamma "Take it away from puss and cdre it to the Chinese laundrymaa when he calls. He'll allow a deduction on the wash." Their Statal Flower. , X. Y. Herald. 1 Can it be that llttlo Khodr' Left the prohibition bower? Can it be that b and Tensy Chose tbe rum blossom for their flower? How to Get Tbtr. : Oil City Bliuard. Grit, makes the man, and want of it the chump; the men who win lay hold, has g on and hump.

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