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”’ . I o —————————————————————————— e — 2 T T . L i/ : v %l FOUR.. ~:' Y QAN DOYLE . < AP - CHAPTER VIIL—CONTINUED. *Nice, amiable people, Watson! If this fellow had been left to his own unaided devices this affair might have taken an even more ghastly turn. I fancy that, even as it is, Jonathan Small would give a good deal not to have employed him.” L = *But how came he to have sosingular a companion?” ““Ah, that is more than I can tell. Since, however, we had already determined that Small had come from the Andamans, it is not so very “wonderful that this islander should be with him. No doubt we shall know all about it in time. Look here, Watson; you look regularly done. Lie down there on the sofa, and see if I can put you to sleep.” v ) He took up his violin from the corner, and as I stretched myself out he began to play some low, dreamy, melodious air—his own, no doubt, for he had a remarkable gift for improvisation. I bave a vague remembrance of his gaunt limbs, his earnest face, and the rise and fall of his bow. Then I seemed to be floated peacefully away upon a soft sea of sound, until I found myself in | dreamland, with the sweet face of Mary 1 ‘Morstan looking down upon me. , .| CHAPTER IX. : A BREA KIN THE CHAIN. It was late in the afternoon before I woke, strengthened and refreshed. Sherlock Holmes. still sat exactly as I had left him, save that he had laid aside his violin and was deep in a book. . He looked across at-me as I stirred, and I notleed that his face was dark and troub.ed. Tt - “Yoa ha¥g slept soundly,” he said. *I feared that our talk would wake you.” ‘I heard nothing,” I answered. ‘“Have ~ you had fi\esh>news, then?” “Unfortunately, no. I confess that I am surprised and disappointed. I expected something definite by this time. Wiggins has just been up to report. He says that no trace can be found of the launch. It isa provoking check, - for every hour is of importance.” “Can I do anything? lam perfectly - fresh now, and quite ready for another night’s outing.” . “No; we can do nothing. We can only wait. If we goourselves, the message might come in our absence, and delay be caused. You can do what you will, but I must remain on guard.” “Then I shall run over to Camberwell and call upon Mrs. Cecil Forrester. ‘ She asked me to, yesterday.” | “On Mrs. Cecil Forrester?” asked Holmes, with the twiakle of a smile in’ his eyes. : . ‘“Well, of course, on Miss Morstan . too. They were anxious to hear what happened.” - “I would not tell them too much,” gaid Holmes. ‘*‘Women are never to be entirely trusted—not the best of them.” I did not pause to argue over this atrocious sentiment. “‘I shall be back in an hour or two,” I remarked. ““All right! Good luck!. But. I say, if you are crossing the river you may as well return Toby, for I don’t think it is at all likely that we shall have any use for him now.” I took our mongrel accordingly, and ieft him, together with a half sovereign, at the old naturalist’s in Pinchin lane. At Camberwell I found Miss Morstan a little weary after her night’s adven- ~ tures, but very eager to hear the news. Mrs. Forrester,too, was full of curiosity. I told them all that we had done, suppressing, however, the more dreadful parts of the tragedy. Thus, although I spoke of Mr. Sholto’s death, I - paid nothing of the exact manner and method of it. With all my omissions, however, there was enough to startle @nd amaze them. ; “It is a romance!” cried Mrs. Forres- © ter. ‘‘An injured lady, half a million in treasure, a black cannibal and a wooden-legged ruffian. They take the ‘place of the conventional dragon or . wicked earl.” ! ‘‘And two knight-errants to the rescue,” added Miss Morstan, with a bright glance at me. “Why, Mary, your fortune depends upon the issue of this search. I don’t think that you are nearly excited enough. Just imagine what it must be to be so rich and to have the world at your feet!” ‘ It sent a thrill of joy to my heart to notice that she showed no sign of elation at the prospect. On the contrary, she gave a toss of her proud head, as “though the matter were one in which she took small interest. “It is for Mr. Thaddeus Sholto that I am anxious,” she said. ‘“Nothing else is of any consequence; but I think that he has behaved most kindly and honorably throughout. It is our duty to clear him of this dreadful and unfounded charge.” : It was evening before I left CambYerwell, and quite dark by the time I . reached home. My companion’s book and pipe lay by his chair, but he had disappeared. I looked about in the hope of seeing a note, but there was none. 4 “I suppose that Mr. Sherlock Holmes has gone out,” I said to Mrs.'Hudson as she came up to lower the blinds. “No, sir. .He has gone to his room, sir. Do you know, sir,” sinking her voice into an impressive whisper, ‘I am . afraid for his health?” . *‘Why so, Mrs. [ludson?” ‘“Well, he’s. that strange, sir. After you was gone he walked and he * walked, up and down, and up and down, until I was weary of the sound of his fooifstep. Then I heard him talking to himself and muttering, and every time the bell rang out he came on the stair-head with: ‘What is that, Mrs. Hudson?” And mnow he has slammed off to his room, but I can hear "~ him walking away the same as cver. 1 hope. he’s not going to be ill, sir. I ventured to say something to him about cooling medicine, but he turned on me, sir, with such a look that I don’t know how I ever:got out of the room.” ! . “I don’t think that you have any - gause to be uneasy, Mrs. [udson,” 1 answered. “I have sccn him like this before., .He has some small matter up~on his éi;iﬂd_ which makes him restless.” -1 tried/to. speak lightly to our worthy ~ landlady, but I was myself somewhat uneasy when, through the long night, 1 stil} from time to time heard the dull : pan&o{ his tread, and knew how his. . keen spirit was chafing against this oo A 8 meakdust time ﬁmmhlgked T ‘“"”* s

*“You are knocking yourself up, old man,” I remarked. ‘I heard you marching about in the night.” “No, I could not sleep,” he answered. “This infernal problem is consuming me. Itis too much to be balked by so petty an obstacle, when all else had been overcome. I know the men, the launch, everything; and yet I can get no news. [ have set other agencies at work, and used every means at my disposal. The whole river has been searched on either side, but there isno news, nor has Mrs. Smith heard of her husband. I shall come to the conclusion soon that they have scuttled the craft. But there are objections to that.” “Or that Mrs. Smith has put us on a wrong scent.”

*No, I think that may be dismissed. I had inquiries made, and there is a launch of that description.” 3 “Could it have gone up the river?”

“] have considered that possibility too, and there is a search party who will work up as far as Richmond. If no news comes to-day, I shall start off myself to-morrow, and go for the men rather than the, boat. But surely, surely, we shall hear something.” We did not, however. = Not a word came to us either from Wiggins or from the other agencies. There were articles in most of the . papers upon the Norwood tragedy. They all appeared to be rather hostile to.the unfortunate Thaddeus Sholto. No fresh details were to be found, however, in any of them, save that an inquest was held upon the following day. I walked over to Camberwell in the evening to to report our ill success to the, ladies, and on my return I found Holmes dejected and* somewhat morose. He would hardly reply to my questions, and busied himself all evening in an abstruse chemical analysis which involved much heating of retorts and distilling of vapors, ending at last in a smell which fairly drove me out of the apartment. Up to the small rours of the morning I could hear the clicking of his test-tubes which told me that he was still engaged in his malodorous experiment. ] "

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standing by my begside clad in a rude sailor’s ‘dress, with a peajacket, and a coarse red scarf round his ngck. : “I am off down the river, Watson,” said he.” *‘l have been turning it over in my mind, and I can see only one way out of it.. It'is worth trying, at all events.” : “Surely I can come with you; then,” said I. - i ' “*No; you cah be much more useful if you will remain here as my representative.. lam loath to go, for it is quite on the cards that some message may come during the day, though Wiggins was despondent about it last night. I want you to open all notes and telegrams, and to act ¢cn your own judgment if any news should come. Can I rely upon you?” “Most certainly.” _ “I am afraid that you will not be able to wire to me, for I can hardly tell yetwhere I may find myself. 1f lam in luck, however, I may not be gone so very long. I shall have news of some sort or other before I get back.” - I had heard nothing of him by breakfast time. On opening the Standard, however, I found that there was a fresh allusion to the business. ‘‘With reference to the Upper Norwood tragedy,” it remarked, ‘““‘we have reason to believe that the matter promises to be even more complex and mysterious than was originally supposed. Fresh evidence has shown that it is quite impossible that Mr. Thaddeus Sholto could bave been in any way concerned in the matter. He and the housekeeper, Mrs. Bernstone, were both releascd' yesterday evening. It is believed, however, that the police have a clew to the real culprits, and that it is being | prosecuted by Mr. Athelney Jones, of Scotland Yard, with all his well-known energy and sagacity. Further arrests may be expected at any moment.” . “That is satisfactory so far as it goes,” thought I. “Friend Sholto is safe at any rate. I wonder what the fresh clew may be; though it seems to be a stereotyped form whenever the police have made a blunder.” I tossed the paper down upon the table, but at that moment my eye caught an advertisement in the agony column. It ran/in this way: : : ‘‘Lost. — Whereas Mordecai Smith, boatman, and his son Jim left Smith’s wharf at or about three o’clock last Tuesday morning in the steam launch Aurora, black with two red stripes, funncl black with a white band, the sum of five pounds will be paid to anyone who can give information to Mrs. Smith, at Smith’s wharf, or at 221 b Baler street, as to the whereabouts of the said Mordecai Smith and the launch Aurora.” This was clearly Holmes' doing. The Balker strecet address was enough to prove that. It struck me as rather ingenious, because it might be read by the fugitives without their sceing in it mote than the natural anxiety of a wife for her missing husband, =« - It was a long day. Every time that a knock came to the door, or a sharp step passed in the street, I imagined ‘that it was cither Holmes returning or an answer to his advertiscment. 1 tried to read, but my thoughts would wander off to our strange quest and to thé ill-assorted and villzinous pair whom we were pursuing, Could therg be, I wondered, some radieal flaw in my companion’s reasoning? Might he be suffering from -some huge self-decepsion? Was it not possible that his nimble and specufntivﬁe mind had built up this wild theory upon faulty premises? I had ‘never known him to be wrong; and yet ‘the keenest reasoner may oceasionally ‘be deceived. He was likely, I thought, to fall into error through the over;ggnmnt of his loqiw'smfm L G e R S L B DT

when & plainer and more cemisonplace one lay ready to his hand.: Yet, on the other hand, I had myself seen the evidence, and I had- heard the reasons for his deductions. When I looked back on the long chain of curious circumstances, many of them trivial in themselves, but all tending in the same direction, I could not disguise from myself that even if Holmes’ explanation were incorrect the true theory must be equally outre and startling.

At three o'clock in the afternoom there was a loud peal at the bell, an authoritative voice in the hall, and, to mwy surprise, no less a person than Mr. Athelney Jones was shown up to me. Very different was he, however, from the brusque and masterful professor of common sense who had taken over the case so confidently at Upper Norwood. His expression was downcast, and his bearing meek and even apologetic. - “Good day, sir; good day,” said he. “Mr. Sherlock Holmes is out, I understand.” :

“Yes, and I'cannot be sure when he will be back. But perhaps you would care to wait. Take that chair and try one of these cigars.” _ ‘“Thank yow; I don’t mind if I do,” said he, mopping his face with a red bandanna haridkerchief. :

‘‘And-a whisky-and-soda?” . “Well, half a glass. It is very'hot for the time of year; and I have had a good deal to worry and try me. You know my theory about this Norwood case?”

“I remember that you expressed one.” :

*“Well, I have been obliged to reconsider it. I had mv net drawn tightly round Mr. Sholto, sir, when pop he went through a hole in the midd}s of it. He was able to prove an alibi which could not be shaken. From the {ime tha% he left his brother’s room he was mever out of sight of some one or other. So it could not be he who climbed over roofs and through trap-doors. It's a very dark case, and my professional credit is at stake. I should be very glad of a little assistance.” ;

*We all need help sometimes,” said I. ‘“Your friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, is a wonderful man, sir,” said he,ina husky and confidential voice. ‘He's a man who is not to be beat. I have known that young man go into a good many cases, but I never saw the case yet that he could not throw a light upon. He isirregular in his methods, and a little quick, perhaps, in jumping at theories, but, on the whole, I think he would have made a most promising officer, and I don’t care who knows it. I have had a wire from him this morning, by which I understand that he has got some clew to this Sholto business. Here is-his message.” — He took the telegram out of - his pocket, and handed it to me. It was dated from Poplar at twelve o’clock. “Go to Bakér street at once,” it saild. “If I have not returned, wait for me. I am close on the track of the Sholto gang. You can come with us to-night if you want to be in at the finish.” “This sounds well. He has evidently picked up the'scent again,” said I. : ““Ah, then he has been at fault too,” exclaimed Jones, with evident satisfaction. ‘‘Even the best of us are thrown off sometimes. Of course this may prove to be a false alarm; but it is my duty as an officer of the law to allow no chance to slip. But there is seme one at the door. Perhaps this is he.” A heavy step was heard ascending the stairs, with a great wheezing and rattling as from a man who was sorely put to it for breath. Once or twice he stopped, as though the elimb was too much for him, but at last he made his way to our door and entered. His appearance corresponded to the sounds which we had heard. He was an aged man, clad in seafaring garb, with an old peajacket buttoned up to his throat. His back was bowed, his knees were shaky, and his breathing was painfully asthmatic. As he leaned upon a thick oaken cudgel his shoulders heaved in the effort to draw air into his lungs. He had a colored “scarf round his chin, and I could see little of his face save a pair of keen dark eyes, overhung by bushy white brows, and long gray side-whiskers. Altogether

4": A N = AW\ : {3} 15 /’% e )}\ W ) x s'? ] ff‘J 7 / "Zéy l‘ ‘T .'.’Z/ Mo' i}LT e \ R NS =N uh AW e ‘ <\\F#* )WA 27 ﬂl, ; ’ : /-'—\ - 3 | Q—\ e {N = : “WHAT IS IT, MY MAN?” I ASKED. he gave me the Impression of a re. spectable master marriner who hkad fallen into years and poverty. . “What is it, my man?” I asked. . - He looked about him in the slow naethodical fashion of old age. *“ls Mr. Sherlock Holmes here?” suid he. ““No; but I am acting for him. You can tell me any message you have for him.” ; “It was to him himself I was to tell it,” said he. “But I tell you that I am acting for him. Was it about Mordeocai Smith’s boat??" | : ! ‘ “Yes. I knows well where it is. An’ I knows where the men he is after azte. An’ I knows where the ireasureis. I knows all aboutit.” ‘*“Then tell me, and T shall let him know.” 1 e B “Tt was to him T was to tell: It,” he repeated, with the petulant obstinacy of a very old man. et ! . “Well, you must wait for him.” ‘“No, no; I ain’t goin’ to lose a whole day to please no one. If Mr. Holmes ain’t here, then Mr. Holmes must find it all out for himself. I don’t care about the look of either of you, and I won't tell a word.” He shuffled towards tbe door, but Athelney Jones got in front of him, “Wait a bit, ay friend,” said he. “You have important information, and you must not wallk off. We shall keeg you, whether you like or not, until cus friend returns.” s ~The old man made a little run to wards the door, 7t as Athelney Joner put his broad back up against it, he recogrized the uselessness of resistance. e oßy caRTINERDI] s Mercy to him that shows it is the Bl ke e s

OHIUO DEMUCRATS.

Ex-Gov. Campbell Opens the o State Campaign. The Wilson Bill Recelves His Warmest Praise, and He Predicts Defeat for the McKinley Tariff . : - Tinker! ¢ The Ohio democratic campaign was opened with great enthusiasm at Columbus on the evening of Saturday, September 28. A parade of democratic adherents seven miles in length was one of the features ozl the event. ExGov. Campbell made the opening speech and among other things he said: “I congratulate you, citizens of Columbus, upon the remarkable growth, prosperity and thrift of your city. Neyer has labor been so fully employed or at|more remunerative wages, and the money sp earned now purchases 25 per cent. more bt thé necessaries of life than ever before. Never have so many manufacturing establishments been pressed beyond their capacity witll lucrative contracts. But not alone is Columbus to be congratulated. The whole state of Ohio is sharing in this even distribution of ﬂrosperity, happiness and wealth. - i 5 **Not only is the city otJColumbus to be congratulated, not only is the state of Ohio tebe congratulated, but the whole country rises up and calls the Wilson bill blessed American carpets are selling in Axminster. I hold in my hand a piece of ¢loth sentito me by the American consul at Bradford; with the words: <] inclose you a small sample of the American goods sold here at A!ty cents a yard, and of which I have ordered a suit.’ “Bradstreet's says.that the recent advance in the production and pricg in iron and steel is ‘the greatest boom in the iron and steel trade in our history,’ and, as eatﬁy as July 6, printed the following régarding the increase in wages up to that date: codea **The extent .of the fu;ll’ voluntary advance ir wages reported within a month or two has outgrown the resources of voluntary statistical bureaus, which huvé endeavored to keep track of them, latest advices being that more than 1,000,000 industrial viorkers have received an advance averaging about 10 per cent. “The Iron Age recently contained a glowing account of the steel workis of the states of the central west, and says: "JEhe tremendous pressure to get orders filled at the mills has never been equaled and the demand far exceeds anything heretofore known, and it is utterly out of the question to meet the demand.’ “Dun’s Review reports a general and rapid improvement in mdrkets and prices in all directions, and says tn:xt,“ii has come now to be It.he only question in wha.tg branches, if any, the rise in prices and the increase in business may g 0 too far.’ | “Another high authority notes almost phenomenal improvement in the sales of dry goods, sclothing, boots and shoes and other staples which the country buys freely when prosperous, but scantily when reverse conditions prevail. . “The iron dealers and manufacturers of iron structural work at Pittsburgh are complaining of a car famine. 7The iron industry has so revived that cars cannot/be secured to remove the goods. The Carnegi¢ company has been forced to begin the erection of an immense car factory in which to build end repuir its own cars. | : “The voluntary increase of wages to the employes in the copper mines of a single county in Michigan amounts to $300,000 a year. Even some of the republican newspapers in Ohio have discovered that thé country is prosperous and happy under the Wilson tariff, and the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette of September 8 has the following: “ *The voluntary increase of Wwages still goes on in many of the manufacturing centers, and this is an excellent indicaltion of a tendency that cannot be accounted merely temporary. The indications displayed fpr several momnths are being confirmed by these voluntary increases, and the news of the enlargement and strengthening of lines of business.’ “In the face of all this thi,e republican nominee for senator said in his Springfield speech: ‘T'o begin with, the whole subject of the tariff will have to be revised on protection lines.’ We are moved to ask who are the ‘tariff tinkers!” Who would tear down and déstroy the prosperity of the country? . Who. for the purpose of temporary p:rtisfxq advantage, would again unsettle business as they unsettled it by the tariff act of 1890 apd throw the country again into an industrial panic? It is not the republican party of the union which threatens existing prosperity, becausé¢ the great leaders outside of the state of Ohio have forever repudiated a return to the McKiinley bill or to any legislation akin to it. It 1s mot the voice of the entire republican party of Ohio which clamors for industrial destruction, for the Sandusky Register, cn ably-edited unip leading journal of this state, in a recent issue blurted out this truth: : i i “*We have reached a peoint in our career when the great majority ¢r republicans and business men generally, whether republicans or democrats, will oppose any sweeping changes 1n the tariff.’” And/further says: ‘We may as well face the music jand the facts first as last.’ | ;

*‘Another republican newspaper in Ohio rebukes the attempt to divert attention from ‘Coxism’ and legislative cox@ruptlon by saying that the people ‘will listen to no demagogic vaporings about great nationpl issues, and they will turn with 'impatience from' all appeals to mere partisanship.’ : “The few men, candidates for office in Onio, who have declared for a return to the McKine ley law, for a tinkerinz of the tariff and an ebbing of the tide of prosperity, will go down to defeat at this year's elecﬁtion in this state, and their hobby will be relégated to the rear in the next national republican convention They are the ‘kalamity kroakers’ now. How pitiful and how ridiculous they look as they sit croaking in the sunshine, their feeble voices drowned by the joyous whistles of reviving industries! ! : “*What a farce it all Wa.s-—&that pretense at the Springfield opening of the republican campaign that the counbjy was suffering under the Wilson tariff! But the screaming ‘part of the farce, which conwvulsed the entire people of Ohio with mirth. wis the pretended reconciliation between the two gentlemen whom the Zanesville convemtion had nominated respectively for Unieeh States senator and president of the United States. So far as the nomination of United States senator was concerned, it is possible that the convention may - not bave exceeded -;its jurisdiction, but the nomination Ifor preside'nc of the United States by the chara¢ter of men who dominated the convention may. not necessarily be binding upon the ndxt national convention, nor upon the state and district conventions which will select the Ohio delezaNap. | ‘“There is one question upon which Bushnell and Arid Asa Jones 'seem to be a little reluctant to express themselves. [That is the subjeco of coinage. The natioral democratic platform of 1892 was the last ehunciation upon this somewnat vexed subjec% by the democracy of the nation in council azsembled, and until they again assemble, s they will in a few months, to lay down the principles which shall guide them in the neEn natlonal campaign, it is the duty of every democrat who loves his party and believes in It. its earnestness, its sincerity and its intention to do right by the people, to stand upon that platform. If there be any who differ h-ouj the decluration ‘of the platform of 1892 it is their right and privilege us democrats to a}gpeal te the na‘tional representatives in 1898 for recoznition of their views, and then, likei'nm-ue demecrats, acquiesce in the verdict, whiatever it may be as I myself shall do. 1 o *lt behooves us as pu.triotis, looking to the future welfare of our country, aside from what may be purely partisan qupstlons, to take speedy and decided action upﬁn a subject now confronting us as a nation. | More than seventy years ago President James Monroe issued a message which oﬁl&:iully committed the United States to the doctrine that any attempt by a foreign power tp obtain further, foothold in the western hemisphere would be treated by this nation as an agt of hostility. o MPo-day the queen of Great Britain clauims and exercises jurisdiction over territory larger than the state of Ohlio. which is the lawful and for many years uadisputed propeérty of our sister republic of [Venezuela. The question as’' to whether we propose to maintain and assert the Monroe dectrine confronts us'there. In the near future the same question will confront us in our own dominions, for Great Britain has actually, althouzh covertly and peacefully. invaded, under claim of right, territory purchased by us from Russia and included in the boundarigs of Alaska. It is pleasant to read."in a recentissue of a New. York paper, that ‘Mr. Oluey intends to plant himself firmly upon the Monroe doctrine znd stand there while he remains at the head of affairs. He belicves that the actlon ot Great ‘Britain in this Venezuelan boundary question s a flagrant violatlon of this doctrine, and that & halt must therefore be called.’ - “Let us hope that, in plirsu nceof that ‘L.udable purposy, he will alsy call a halt in

the aggressions of Great Britain upon our own territory in the northwest.

“The Monroe doctrine was in it 3 origin distinctly and especially a democratic doctrine The Monroe message was submitted to Jelerson and approved by him, and the question therein raised declared by him to be ‘the most momentous since that of independence.’ Let it be understood that we, as the followers of Jefferson, are as aggressively, as earnestly and as deflantly in favor of the Monroe doctrine as he was, and that the United States of America stands ready with its army, its navy and its treasury to uphold this doctrine at all hazards.

“I call upon you, my fellow countrymen, whether you be democrats or republicans, to rally to our standard in this fight in Ohio. It s not the fight of a 2 party or a faction. ‘lt is the fight of a people. The men we oppose are not republicans. The Coxes, the Blisses, tho Kurtzes, the Majors are not the lineal descendants of the Chases, the Garfields, the Wades and the Giddingses who created the republican party of Ohio. Every republican who believes in the history and traditions of his party, or who loves his country, should join us in driving such people not only from their own party, but out of politics forever. *“We see before us a divided: demoralized, faction-ridden foe, torn by internal strifes, and rebelling against its bosses. To this halfhearted and disorganized host we present an unbroken front. There are no dissensions, no bickerings, no murmurings. Every man is eager for the fray. As I look into your earnest faces 1 see that which we already breathe in the air and feel tingling in our blood—the assurance of certain and glorious victory."”

GOLD NUGGETS.

Finding Out How They Originated and

What Their Structure Is.

There are few more attractive objects in the mineral world than a fine! nugget of gold. Iluv is not alone the value it represents that makes such a nugget admirable, for nature often shows herself more skillful than any jeweler in molding it into shapes of beauty. People who can afford such luxuries will pay a price considerably beyond the weight value for a chunk of pure gold whose form has not been altered by the hand of man. But how do nuggets of gold originate? Sometimes a mass of the precious metal worth one thousand dollars or more is found. By what process was so much gold compacted into a lump? An attempt has recently been made to answer this question. ~ ° : : ¢ Prof. Liversidge of the Royal society in Australia has lately been'cutting and slicing and polishing gold nuggets with the sole purpose of finding out just what their structure is. The first thing he discovered was that there is one curious point of resemblance between gold nuggets and meteorites—both when polished and etched with chlorine water exhibit a crystalline structure. In the case of meteorites the lines thus exhibited on the etched surface are called Widmannstattian figures, and their presence is one of the most invariable characteristics of those metallic bodies that fall out of the sky upon the earth. But it is. not meant to be implied that gold muggets have fallen from the sky because they exhibit a crystalline structure recalling that of meteorites. The resemblance is apparently only superficial, and the crystals of the nuggets differ in form frem those of the meteorites. , Another curious fact is that when a nugget is heated in a Bunsen flame explosions take place on its surface. Blisters are formed which continue to swell until they burst with a sharp report, and bits of gold are violently scattered about. It is evident that the nuggets contain either gases, or some liquids or solids which are easily turned into the gaseous form, and the expansion of which produces the ex: plosions. - ‘ Prof. Liversidge has not yet drawn any definite conclusions from hisexperiments. He wants a new supply of nuggets from which to ascertain what the explosive substance they contain is, and, if possible, how it got there. Having done that he may be able to tell how nature goes to work when she makes a gold nugget. That information would not, it is true, increase the amount of gold in the world, and probably it would not put any gold into the discoverer’s pockets; yet it would be knowledge, and knowledge is power in ways that we are frequently unable to foresee.—Youth's Companion.

FORCE WOMEN TO BETRAY MEN

With the Paris Police Efficacy Is the Chiet Thing in Catching a Criminal

" The Parisian police have of late given proof of extraordinary activity. Some weeks ago it undertcok to ‘‘cleanse” the Bois de ‘Bologne, the Bois de Vincennes and the outer boulevards from the gangs of vagabonds that infested them. ' Hundreds of homeless individuals were arrested and turned over to various reformatories; or, in the case of ‘‘wanted” criminals, to prisons. : Within & few days the central police brigade has succeeded in arresting a large band of thieves, burglars and shoplifters. - The band was thoroughly organized and worked under the direction of a man named Corbeaux, whe possessed a carriage and pair, as well as a town and country residence. Once jairly caught, Corbeaux, or *‘La Morue” (Codfish), as he was generally known, informed against his subordinates, hoping thus to escape punishment. :

He was disappointed. He was con*j demmned to fifteen years’ hard labor, and his associates to shorter terms of the same punishment. ‘ The police owe their success in this instance. to the ‘application of the famous principle, ‘““Cherchez la femme,”’ which for a century past has been the keystone of the Parisian detectiva organization. The method of proceilure is as simple as it is efiicacious. hen doubts are entertained as to the means by which a given individual earns his living, or when a known criminal is ‘‘wanted,” the police look out for and arrest (when found) the woman with whom the man in question is most intimate. What happens afterward de</ pends largely upon the character of the person ‘“*‘wanted.” - Sometimes the police will arrest a woman conspicuous among the man’s associates, who, in order to olitain her release, will usually tell all she knows about the life and antecedents of the apprehended criminal. Information so obtained is not,” however, directly used against the prisoner, but is employed to induce him to confess; or, if he prave obdurate, as: a clew for the researches of the detective department. : B Attempts have repeatedly been made to abolish this system of ecriminal investigation, but in vain. In France the supreme argument of eflicacy overrides all other considerations.—N. Y, | World. . ' YWhere to Go, e Jimbly~-There issomething the muts ter with my head and the doctor douss n’t seem to know what itis. Jorkins—Why don’t: you go to a wheelwright?—lndianapolis Journal e ‘ BT R R

~ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. International Lesson for October 13, 1895—The Triumph of Gideoa—Judges 7:13-23 . ' hay [Specially Arrranged from Peloubet's Notes.] GOLDEN TEXT —Though a host-should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear.— Psalms 27:3. Eo THE SECTION includes chapters 6, 7 and 8, together with a glance at the remainder of the bo'x?;n —About B. C. 1222 Twohundred years. after the death of Joshua; Gideon’s judgeship extended from B. C. 1222—1182. ; , . PLACE.—Gideon's home was in Ophrah, near Shechem. The gathering of his army was some distance to the north, at thé fountain of Harod, near the hill Moreh. It was at the foot of Moynt Gilboa, some fifteen or twenty miles scuthwest of the sea of Galilee, and in the ssuthern part of what in our Lord's time was called Galilee. i . : ‘ LESSON NOTES.. : Seven Years’ Oppression by the Midianites. The plain of Esdraelon (the Greek form of Jezreel), northeast of the Carmel range, was the most pro-. ductive grain-growing region of the Holy Land. The wandering hordes of the descrt, the predominating power being the Midianites, coveted tho riches of this favored region which seemed the very gates of Paradise; and to the number of at least one hundred and thirty-five thousand (Judges S:10) ‘‘streamed over the fords of the Jordan year by year, migrating thither, with their households and herds, in such ‘numbers as could only be compared, by those whom they invaded, to a flight of locusts; which, indeed, they rivaled in destructiveness.”—Geikie, _“The people fled to mountain fastnesses and hid themselves in ecaves, and a grievous famine ensued.”—Dean Milman. All this continued for seven years (6:1). © When the people cried to the Lord in their distress, a prophet was . sent to show them that it was on account of their sins.

- The object of this deliverance from God was not chiefly to save the people’s farms and crops from the Midianites, but to save them from their sins, and to teach them to trust and obey God. Hence the method of gaining the vietory; for the vietory would amount to very little unless it taught the people that all their hope was in God, and in obeying Him, and thus led them to trust in the power and goodness of God, and to cleave to Him as their only Saviour. The army was subjected to two tests. .

The first test was the permission for all who were afraid in the presence of the wild and warlike hordes, who outnumbered them four to one, to go quietly home. Twenty-two thousand, or more than two-thirds, returned home.

The second test consisted of the way they drank of the water of a brook on the march. Three hundred *did not break rank or stop in their march, but dipped their hollowed palm into the stream, and tossed a little in their mouth as they ran,” ‘‘as a dog, running along the bank of a shallow stream, and without stopping, snatches mouthfuls or tonguefuls of water, too intent on his pursuit to take a leisurely drink, never even while slaking his thirst turning. aside or pausing from the chase.” The remaining nine thousand seven hundred stopped in their march, ‘‘unbuckled their swords, and eased their armor and knelt down to drink.” —Elmslie. These were sent home. Then God told Gideon that if he had any fear he should take his servant by night down to the host of the Midianites. R

13. “When Gideon was come:” to the enemy’s-encampment, he overheard one of them telling to his companion: a dream he had just dreamed. “A cake of barley bread:” the food of the poor: and of the beasts, suggested by the scarcity among the Israclites. . ‘‘Came unto a tent:” It should be.the tent, that of the king or captain of the host. —Cook. ‘“‘And smote it that it fell:” This poor little cake caused a great destruction, altogether beyond its natural power. : '

14. “His fellow answered:” .Interpreting the dream as signifying Gideon and his little army; the Midianites, of course, saw this army and had heard something of Gideon. *‘This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon,” etc.: 15. “‘Arise; for the Lord hath delivered,” ete.: Gideon tells his story to his little army, for their encouragement.

16. “And he divided the three hundred into three companies:” Under leaders. ‘ Trumpets, pitchers and lamps:” Which were obtained from the numbers who went home. Trumpets were not usually in the hands of coms mon soldiers, .nor ‘were lamps, or, rather, torches. These belonged only to leaders, so that each of the hundred would appear to the Midianites as a leader of a large band. L 18. “The sword of the Lord:"Jehovah, the real commander, the source 'of power. The ane who had overthrown: Pharaoh and Jericho, and had made the sun and moon stand still for Joshua. ““And Gideon,” the leader of this host. The stratagem of Gideon was simple. Three hundred trumpets and torches represented three hundred. companies of troops.. The breéaking of the jars, the outflashing of -the lights, the deafening blare of trumpets on every side aroused the enemy from sleep. The Israclites seemed by thé many lights and trumpets to be present in overwhelming numbers. Each heathen in the darkness mistook his neighbor for a foe. They slew one anothér. The invaders fled in conifusion, and scattered over the country, throughout which Gideon immediately sent rinners to arousc the .people. The fords of the Jordan werc seized by the Israclities, and the destruction of the invaders was romplete. : S >

SOME RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS.

IN each of the high-grade lm:’omoﬁives the Pennsylvania is building there are 6,003 pieces. . ! _ IT is calculated that the revenue derived by the Pennsylvania from the transportation of theatrical companies amounts annually to over $500,000. o Miss FroreNcE Purimaw, daughter of George Pullman, is said to receivean annual salary,of $lO,OOO for selecting names for new Pullman cars. Sy

Tue New York Equipment ecompany has just sent to Jamaica, West Indies, the first cargo of 20,000 creoso‘c’ed Cross= ties for the Jamaiea railway. -~ Tae enlargement of the Grand Central stat.on in New York is again being talked of, but delay in acquiring the necessary land preveats any definite steps being taken-as yet. A considera-. ble portion of theland has already been purchased. = Eopakn oA It is stated that Peter Styers, an engincer on the Lehigh Valley raiiroad,. who died recently at Bethlehem, Pa., ‘aged scventy-three years, has traveled during his forty-six years of serviceas -engineer at least 1,000,000 ‘miles. f}uring this time he has never had an aceident.

The Scales Fall from the Eyes of an mu’w : ¢ .- . Protectionist. i i A correspondent says that'tlJe“ latest republican to testify that fres trade does not reduce wages, is prof, Robert Ellis' Thompson, of the univ‘ej'sity of Pennsylvania. Prof. Thompson has the bad pre-eminence of being the foremost protectionist in - Amerita. who lays any claim to be considered an economist. For many years he has been railing against the a‘dvoéa.tes .of free trade, and’ asserting that under a low tariff wagés would be reduced. " - During the past summer he has been traveling through England, and, as is frequently the case with believers in the Chinese- policy, his expﬁariences abroad have opened his eyes. Not wholly as yet,.for in a series of letters to the Philadelphia American he paints a gloomy picture of British induastry, and predicts that England will® soon go back to the vanished delusions of protection. He was grieved to find that the Englishmen only laﬁghed at him when he tried to convince them that it woutd be wise for them to put a heavy tax on the food of 30,000,000 people, ‘in order to raise the rents of less than 30,000 landlords. -Sg he tries to show that- free trade has not benefited British manufacturers, and ‘as proof of his unfounded assertions says: ‘“Nor have wages gone down ]wvith the cheapening of bread, much as the free traders desired that result. The trades unions have been too much for them, and have forced wages higher, even while commodities declined in price.” - Here, then, is the testimony. of a high tariff apostle, that instead of reducing . wages, free trade has cheapened the bread of the English people, while wages have been increaséd. The statement that free traders| wanted wages cut down is, of ‘course,i a gratuitious falsehood. Apart from this sneer Prof. Thompson’s admission as to the e¢ffect of free trade on wages is good, sound doctrine. Tariff reformers have always claimed that lower duties on imports would cause a decline’in the price’ of cbmmodities and an-advance in real wages. This is exactly what Prof. Thompson says has ‘happened in England, and it is what is now happening in America. = : It.will be noticed that Prof. Thompson credits the tradés unions with the advance in wages in England But he ‘does not explain why the unidms could not raise wages under protection, nor why trades unions in this .country could not advance wages under MeKinleyism. = The essential facts are that under free trade the! English ‘workingmen get higher pay, and buy bread and commodities far cheaper than under protection. ' ;1

ABOUT STRIKES.

A Protectionist Tries to Manufacture Some

on a High Tariff Principle.

~ With the undeniable facts .of business prosperity and higher wages under the Wilson tariff the despairing New York Tribune.resorts to the device of deliberate falsehoods about the condition .of trade. . Looking té€artully through blue ruin glasses at the country’s _industries, that paper |whines that perhaps things are not so very prosperous after all, and as proof of the sad state of affairs it refers/to ‘‘the great strikes in woolen and carpet mills which have failed.” i ‘ $

The Tribune does not give the names of the woolen and carpet mills ‘where the great strikes have failed. And for the very good reason that there were no such mills. Since the Wilson bill went in force there is not one| single instance of a strike in any imfmrtanb woolen or carpet mill which has faild to” win substantial concessions from - employers. Many of the leading . -woolen mills - | voluntarily advanced wages from 5 to 25 per cent., a noticeable instance being the woolen and worsted factories of Rhode Island, which increased the wages of all their employes 714 per cent. on August 1. In some parts of the country there have been strikes, but they have practically all been successful. The great strike in.the carpetindustry of Philadelphia, whei: 8,000 operatives demanded higher wages, was won by the strikers, the ga,syt' of the mills -signing the increased wage scale a short time ago. - These facts were, of course, well known to the Tribune, but it wpuld not have suited its partisan objects to have told the truth. But if that paper has any fair-minded readers theyL must be ashamed of its willful refusal to publish the truth when it hurts the republicans. BW.H.,

AS TO RECIPROCITY,

One by One the Humgug‘s Are Being Ex- : posed. - oo

- When the new tariff went into effect; the advocates of McKinley reciprocity loudly lamented theloss of trade which they said would be sure to result|from the abandonment of their darling policy. They boasted especially of the advantageous reciprocity arrangement that had been made with Brazil in opening a market for Ameriean products in that country. Yet the official returns of commeree show that since reciprocity has been abolished the exports of the United States to Brazil are greater than ever before. In 1892 these eéxports amounted in vaiune t0'®14,291,873;in 1893 to $12,388,124; in 1894 to $13,866,006, and in 1895 to $15,165,069. Thus one by one the humbugs of MeKinleyism are exploded by the factsof trade. The worst feature of reciproeity was the presidential embargo upon trade with Colombia and Vene‘puela under the pretense that those republics unjustly diseriminated againit the commerece of the United States. While the arbijrary levy of duties upon the coﬁ;fejxgd hides of Colombia and| Venezudla by President Harrison’s proclamation did little harm to those couns, tries, it seriously ‘embarrassed American merchants who were engaged in. ‘trade with them. Since the removal of the embargo better relations have ‘been established with Colombia and Venezuela, and our trade with Lthose ‘countries is improving undér the auspices of the new tariff. It ybe safely predicted that the Am_n%:ica.n people will never again put it in the power of any president to make war upon this country's trade undj‘r the plea of reciprocity. The reciprocity ‘humbug isdead. —-Phila.delphi,aeg 'cord‘: v il A eloßs e The business revival puts the demo‘eratic party in a ‘much strongen posistion before the voters than it held last year, in the opinion of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and the republicans will not have the easy time of it they have been reckoniag on. This is due to ‘the fact that the average voter is almost as_strongly disposed to_suppors Isin bad times to blame that party for ‘the depre r%m polls.— Springield Repy biigs, T s oV L SRR e