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N ”"’-.—_"'N e, q N @E@ j""‘{‘jlv . A E L 4 Ll a 2 o FOUR. ] NN "a‘.@ f o i P CHAPTER IX.—-CONTINUED “Pretty sort o' treatment this!” he eried, stamping his stick. *‘l come here to see a gentleman, and you two, who I never saw in my life, seize me and treat me in this fashion!” o *You will be none the worse,” I said. “We shall recompense you for the loss of your time. Sit over here on the sofa, and you will not have long to wait.” He came across sullenly enough, and scated himself with his face resting on his hands. Jones and I resumed our cigars and our talk. Suddenly, however, Holmes’ voice broke in upon us.’ ] think that you might offer me a cigar, t 00,” he said. ' We both started in our chairs. There was Holmes sitting close to us with an air of quiet amusement. i “Holmes!” I exclaimed. *‘‘You here! But where is the old man?” “Here is the old man,” said he, holding out a heap of white hair. ‘“Here he is—wig, whiskers, eyebrows, and all. I thought my disguise was pretty good, but I hardly expected that it would stand that test.” “Ah, you rogue!”’ cried Jones, highly delighted. ‘‘Yuu would have made an actor, and a rare one. You had the proper workhouse cough, and those .weak ‘legs of yours are worth ten pound a week. I thought I knew the glint of your eye, though. You didn’t get away from us so easily, you see.” “I have been working in that get-up 01l day,” said he, lighting his cigar. *“You see, a good many of the criminal classes begin to know me—especially since our friend here took to publishing some of my cases; so I can only go on the warpathunder some simple disguise like this. You got my wire?” *“Yes; that was what brought me here.” : “How has your case prospered?” “It has all come to nothing. I have had to release two of my prisoners, and there is no evidence against the other two.”

4“Never mind. Weshall give you two others in the place of them. But you must put yourself under my orders. You are welcome to all the official credit, but yom must act on the lines that I point out. Is that agreed?” ‘“‘Entirely, if you will help me to the men.” ;

*Well, then, in the first place I shall want afast police-boat—a steam launch —to be at the Westminster Stairs at peven o’clock.” ‘ . "

‘“That is easily managed, There is always one about there; but I can step across the rcad and telephone to make sure.” ; ‘ “Then I'shall want two stanch men, {n case of resistance.” _ “There will be two or three in the boat. What else?” ‘ ““When we secure the men we shall get the treasure. I think that it would be a pleasure to my friend here to take the box round to the young lady to whom half of it rightfully belongs. Let her be the first to open it. Eh, Watson?”

*lt would be a great pleasure to me.” “Rather an. irregular proceeding,” paid Jones, shaking his head. ‘‘However, the whole thing is -irrcgular, and I suppose we must wink at it. The treasure must afterwards be handed over to the anthorities until after the official investigation.” L " “Certainly. That is easily managed. One other point. I should like much “to have a few details about this matter from the lips of Jonathan Small himself. You know I like to work the detail of my cases out. There is no objection to my having an unofficial interview with him either here in my ‘rooms or elsewhere, as long as he is efficiently guarded?” ‘“Well, you are master of the situation. I have had no proofs yet of the existence of Jonathan Small. However, if you can catch him, I don’t see how I can refuse you an interview with him.” ‘‘That is understood, then?” 74 ‘‘Perfectly. Isthere anything else?” *‘Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something alittle choice in white wine. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper.” ,

. CHAPTER X.THE END. OF THE ISLANDER.

Our meal was a merry one. Holmes could talk exceedingly well when he chose, and that night he did choose. He appeared to be in- a state of nervous exaltation ' I have never known him so brilliant. He spoke on a quick succession of subjects,—on miracleplays, on medieval pottery, on Stradivarius violins, on the Buddhism of Ceylon, and on the warships of the future—handling each as though he had made a special study of it. His bright humor marked the reaction from his black depression of the preceding days. Athelney Jones proved to be a sociable soul in his hours of relaxation, and faced his dinner with the air of a bon vivant. For myself, I felt elated at the thought that we were nearing the end of our task, and I caught something of Holmes’ gayety. None of us alluded during dinner to the cause which had brought us together. ‘ When the cloth was cleared Holmes glanced at his watch and filled up three glasses with port. *‘One bumper,” said he, “to the success of our little expedition. And now it is high time we were off. Have you a pistol, Watson?” = - o *I have my old service revolver in ‘my desk.” *“You had best take it, then. Itis well to be prepared. I sce the cab is at the door. I ordered it for half-past six.” It was a little past seven before we ~ réached the Westminster wharf and found our launch awaiting us. Holmes ‘eyed it critically. ~ “Is there anything to mark it as a “police boat?” ’ g . “Yes-wthat green lamp at the side.” . “Then Yake it oft.” ' The small change was made, we - stepped on board, and the ropes were cast off. Jones, Holmes and I sat in the stern. There was owe man at the - rudder, one to tend the engines,.and two burly poliee inspectors forward. “Where to?” asked Jones. . *“To the tower. Tell them to stop aw posite to Jacobson’s yerd.” |~ ~ :Onr craft was evidently a very fast one. W shot past the long lines of Joaded barges as though they were staoA guiiod *1‘53.5”3"%‘ tion ‘aB ‘we overhauled a river steam-:

*We ought to be able to calcu anything on the river,? he said. “Well, hardly that. DBut there are not many launches to beat us.” ' “We shall have to catch the Aurora, and she has a name for being a clipper. 1 will tell you how the land lies, Watson. You recollect how annoyed I was at being balked by so small a thing?” GOYeS.Y9 . “Well, I gave my mind a thorough rest by plunging into a chemical analysis. One of our greatest statesmen has said that a change of work is the best rest. Soitis. When I had succeeded in dissolving the hydrocarbon .which I was at workat, I came back to our problem of the Sholtos, and thought the whole matter out again. My boys had been up the river and down ' the river without result. The launch was not at any landing stage or wharf, nor had it returned. Yet it could hardly have been scuttled to hide their traces—though that always remained as a possible hypothesis if all else failed. I knew that this man Small had a certain degree of low cunning, but I did not think him capable of anything in the nature of delicate finesse. That is usually a product of higher education. I then reflected that since he had certainly been in London some time—as we had evidence that he maintained a continual watch over Pondicherry lodge—he could hardly leave at a moment’s notice, but would need some little time, if it were only a day, to arrange his affairs. That was the balance of probability, at any rate,” “It seems to me to be a little weak,” said . “Itis more probable that he had arranged his affairs before ever he set out upon his expedition.”

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it. DBut a second consideration struck me: Jonathan Small must have felt that the peculiar appearance of his companion, however much he may have top-coated him, would give rise to gossip, and possibly be associated with this Norwood tragedy. He was quite sharp enough to see that. They had started from their -headquarters under cover of darkness, and he would wish to get back before it was broad light. Now, it was past three o'clock, according to Mrs. Smith, when they got the boat. It would be quite bright, and people would be about in an hour or so. Therefore, I argued, they did not go very far. They paid Smith well to hold his tongue, reserved his launch for the final escape, and hurried to their lodgings with the treasure-box. In a. couple of nights, when they had time to see’ what view the papers took, and whether there was any suspicion, they would make their way under cover of darkness to some ship at Gravesend or in the Downs, where no doubt they had already arranged for passages to America or the colonies.”

“But the launch? They could not have taken that to their lodgings.” “Quite so. I argued that the launch must be no great way off, in spite of its invisibility.. I then put myself in the place of Small, and looked at it as a man of his capacity would. He would probably consider that to send back the launch or to keep it at a wharf would make pursnit easy if the police did happen to geton his track. How, then, could he coneceal the launch and yet have her at hand when wanted? I wondered what I should do myself if I were in his shoes. T could only think of one way of doing it. I might hand the launch over to some boatbuilder or repairer, with directions to make « trifling change in her. She would then be removed to his shed or yard, and so be effectually concealed, while at the same time I could have her at a few hours’ notice.” :

*“That seems simple enough.” *lt is just these very simple things which are extremely liable to be overlooked. However, I determined to act. on the idea. 1 started at once in this harmless seaman’s rig and ipquired at all the yards down the river. I drew blank at fiftecn, but at the sixteenth— Jacobson’s—l learned that the Aurora had been handed over to them two days ago by a wooden-legged man, with some trivial directions as to her sudder. ‘There ain't 'naught amiss with her rudder,” said the foreman. “There she lies, with the red streaks.’ At that moment who should come down but Mordecai Smith, the missing owner? Ile was rather the worse for liquor. I should not, of: course, have known him, but he bellowed out his name and the name of his launch. ‘I want her to-night at eight o'clock,’ said he—‘at eight o’clock sharp, mind, for I have two gentlemen who won’t be kept waiting.” . They had evidently paid bim well, for he was very flash of money, ‘chucking shillings about to the men. I followed him some distance, but he subsided in an zle house; so I went back to the yard, and, happening to pick up. one of my boys on the way, I stationed him as a sentry over the launch. lie is to stand at the water’s edge and wave his handkerchief to us when they start. We shall be lying off in the stream, and it will bea strange thing if we do not take men, treasure and all” : S

‘‘Yon have planned it all very neatly, ' whether they are the right men or not,” sald Jones; “but if the affair were in my hands I g¢hould have had a body of police in Jacobson’s yard, and arrested them when they came gown,” ' *Which would have been never. This man Small is a pretty shrewd fellow. Ie would send a scout on ahead, and if anything made him suspicious he would lie snug for another week.” “Bat you might have stuck to Mordecai Smith, and so been led to their hiding-place,” said L.~ ~*ln that case I should have wasted my day. Tthink that it is o hundred te one against Smith knowing whars

they “live. 'As long as. he; has f{iguc: and good pay, why slould he ask ques l tions? They send him messages what todo. No, 1 thought over every pos sible course, and this is the best.” ~While this conversation had been proceeding, we had been shooting the long series of bridges which span the Thames. As we passed the city the last rays of the sun were gilding the cross upon the summit of St. Paul’'s. It was twilight before we reached the tower. “That is Jacobson’s yard,” said Holmes, pointing to a bristle of masts and rigging on the Surrey side. *Cruise gently up and down here under cover of this string of lighters.” Hetook a pair of night glasses from his pocket and gazed some time at the shore. *‘l see my sentry at his post,” he remarked, ‘‘but no sign of a handkerchief.” | : “Suppose we go down stream a short way and lie in wait for them,” said Jones, eagerly. We were all eager by this time, even the policemen and stokers, who had a very vague idea of what was going forward. . : “We have no right to take anything for granted,” Holmes answered. *“lt is certainly ten to one that they gc down stream, but we cannot be certain. From this point we can see the entrance to the yard,and they can hardly gee us. It will be a clear night and plenty of light.. We must stay where we are. See how the folk swarm over yonder in the gaslight.” 2 ‘“They are coming from work in the yard.? . o : “Dirty-looking rascals, but I suppose every one hassome little immortal spark concealed about him. You would not think it, to look at them. There is no a priori probability about it. A strange enigma is-man!” - ‘‘Some one calls hizu a soul concealed in an animal,” I suggested. - “Winwood Reade is gnod upon the subject,” said Holmes. ‘e remarks that, while the individualiman is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell ' what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentagesremain constant. So says the statistician. But dol see a handkerchief? Surely there is a white flutter over yonder.” ‘“Yes, it is your boy,” leried. *I can see Lim plainly.” ‘‘And there is the Aurora,” exclaimed Holmes, ‘“‘and going like the devil! Full speed ahead, engineer. Make after that launch <ith the yellow light. By heaven, I shall never forgive myself if she proves to have the heels of us!”

She had slipped unseen through the yard entrance and passed behind twc or three small craft, so tha4 she had fairly got her speed up before we saw her. Now she was flying down the stream, near in to the shore, going at a tremendous rate. Jones looked gravely at her and shook his head.

**She is very fast,” he said. *I doubt if we shall catch her.”

“We must catch her!” cried Holmes, between his teeth. ‘‘Heap it on, stokers! Make her do all she can! If we burn the boat we must have them!”

We were fairly after her now. The furnaces roared, and the powerful engines whizzed and clanked, like a great metallic heart. Her sharp, steep prow cut through the still river water and sent two rolling waves to right and ‘te left of us. With every throb of the engines we sprang and quivered like a living thing. One ‘great yellow lan: tern in our bows threw a long, flickering funnel of light in front of us Right ahead a dark blur upon the water showed where the Aurora lay, and the swirl of white foam behind hes

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“I think we gain a little,” said Jones, | with his eyes on the Aurora. ; “I am sure of it,” said I. ‘*We shall be up with her in a very few minutes.” At that moment, however, as our evil fate would have it, a tug 'with three barges in tow blundered in ; between us. It was only by putting our helm hard down that we a’void-} ed a collision, and before we could round them and recover our way the 1 ‘Aurora had: gained a good two hun‘dred yards. She was still, however, | well in view, and the murky uncertain twilight was settling into a elear:star}lit night. Our boilers were strained to their utmost, and the frail shell vi- ! brated and creaked with ' the fierce en- { _ergy which was driving us along. We - had shot through the pool past the West India docks, down the long Deptford Reach, and up again after rounding the Isle of Dogs. The dull blur in front of us resolved itself now clearly ‘enough into the dainty Aurora. . Jones turned our searchlight upon her, so that we could plainly see the figures upon her deck. One man sat by the stern, with something black between his knees over which he stooped. Beside 1 him lay a dark mass which looked like o Newfoundland dog. The koy held the tiller, while against the red glare of ‘the furnace I could see old Smith, ‘stripped to the waist, and shoveling ‘ _coals for dear life. They may have had some doubt at first as to whether we were reaily pursuing them, but now ag | we followed every winding and turning which they took there could no longer be any question about it. 'At “Grecnwich we wereabout three hundred . paces behina them. At Blackwall we could not have been more than tmxe. Gl T el e e

PROGRAMME OF REPUBLICANS. scheme of the Protectionists [f6r Raising » -the Revenue. | ' e The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune is authority for the announcement that the/republican leaders have practically aé‘reed upon their financial programme for the coming session of congress. ‘‘The idea of more revenue through a refeuue tarift on wool, with the Allison notes for emergencies, will be the [republican financial scheme,” says this correspondent. Lo, Whether he has learned this directly from the rep&licans- or by making a survey of thesituation on this own account, very likely he is }ight. The republican leaders may not| have come to a distinct uuderstanding yet, but logically they cannot vot; to increase the revenue without at th? same time voting to protect somef)odm Just now the wool groweis are thej most clamorous of all the late republican proteges, and naturally their demands will be the first considered. Other producers of raw materi-jls, such as coal and iron oro, ure still vﬁrotected 1o some extent, and there will be a certain degrée of plausibility '@n the claim that the farmers who grow, wool are as much entitled to protecti‘ole as the cap italists who are concerned in the production of other raw materials. But the republicans c*annot well vote to lincrease the “duti’es‘on wool without at the same time ¥oting to increase the duties on Wofolen goods. The woolen manufacturers must have more protection if the pxx'fca of their raw material is to be increased by protective duties. The re;)tblicans always have legislated updn this principle and they always must adhere to it, not only for the sake of jconsistency, but also in order to retainithe support of their most valuable alliﬁés, the manu‘acturers. ok

When they increase thi duties on manufactures of wool in ofder to compensate for the duties imposed on the raw material they will ad%mit‘-tlfut the effect of a duty, or, at least, the intended effect, is to raise [the price of theearticle on, which it iglaid. They admit that a duty on Wogﬁ is intended to raise the price of wool. 1 They must, then, admit that an incfease in the duties on woolen goods is| intended to increase the price of ﬁhose goods. Otherwise raising those iduties would not compensate at all' for the duties laid on wool. Are the republicans prepared to admit that they wish to increase the prices of all wholen goods? What do they think coixsumers will have to say to that? -Thefy must malse the admission, and theA [email protected] are willing that they should.; . As for the *‘Allison notds,” it will be necessary to issue securigties of some kind if the government jneeds thirty million dollars more reyenue, as the republicans claim, and if; no more revcnue is to be provided] except from wool. No duties whichjthe republieans will dare propose pn wool and woolens would provide rgore than half that sum. 4 Few it is estimated that t}éis republican programme has been a.,%reea upon on the assumption that th administration will not take the responsibility of recommending any plafh for raising more revenue. ‘‘The adinimstrm;ion."’ we are told, “would liké the revenue without the responsibili?y.”} If the republican programme is wholly contingent upon this assumptié)n we may rest assured that'it will never be entered upon. President Clevel?md has never yet hesitated to recommend any ineasure that he deemed mecessary or of great importance and t?nere is no reason to think that he is%fgoin,': to show the political white feuther at this late day. - If he thinks tha{:e is a real need for more revenue be will not hesitate to say so or to let c"on{:ress know that what he yvants is revgnue and enough of it, and not tariff protection for the Ohio shepherds or anybody else.—Chicago Chronicle. fo :

THE WHEAT SITUATION. | Improving Conditions; Under the ““'llson La.\;iﬂ. A high tariff coxiﬁemporary claims that Europe bought/more **high-priced wheat from us under the McKinley law than low-pricedj wheat under the Wilson law.” lie . Yes, it did in 1922 bzcause of crop shortageés that year and the year before in Europe. . Crdp damages were so great that some of the European countries suspended theéir duties on grain and otherwise favored by legislation the import of American wheat. But McKinleyism couldn’t help our farmers after that. Not m{ly dida our wheat exports fall off in 1893 over forty million bushels, but thi price per bushel fell twenty per ceu:i. 5 Instead of recovering the lost ground in the next year| of McKinleyism, wheat continued to!fall in price. Not until the Wilson bill had taken effect wds any improvement perceptible. The averare exporf price of No. 2 red wheat has been higher this year than | at any time since Envrope's erop short- ‘ age in 1892 The a‘reru.ge for the year. hasalso been higher than duriung the corresponding peripd of last year under the MeKinley bill. - - When we comparg guantities we find that up to the Ist of “August about two million three [hundred .thousand vushels more werci exported than during the corrcspmiiug‘ period of last year. Our crop shortage this year in winter wheat cut down exports considably until the spring wheat crop was harvested, but sincs the middls of September they have ixceedei last year'’s exports. \We are Thead now of 1894 and are likely to|make gains every week for several m%»nvths over ths year 1893 as well as lajt year. Whaat is higher now than itiwas a yearago and as high as it was in-October, 1893, There is this difference, however. While the t_enlencj of the market twe years ago was dovvxjwa.rd it is now upward. —St. Louis Republic. s Phoa e T - ——Republican l%aders in Ohio are Leginning to look! blue around the mouth. Campbell is one of the most popular men in th‘* state, and as a stumper he can give McKinley half a dozen laps aad then distance him. With some of the best democratic workers in the country rallying to. his standard the ex-governor is -setting a pace that is decidedly discourazing to the little Napoleon, who.cannot bnt doubt the sincerity of men like Bushvell and Foraker.—Detroit Free Press. . ——The south is in clover. Cotton and tobaeeo are briaging higher prices than for years. Correspondingly the demand for free coinage is abating. It Reed and Napoleon JcKinley may be. *ghwwmmrmﬁ g@%w

NOT YET RUINED. Fallacious Predictions of Republicans e~ . garding the Iron Trade. ' The prediction of the ruin of our industries that was to follow the passige of the Wilson bill are still fresh in the minds of the people. Even their authors have not forgotten them, though they are praying for some ‘‘sweet. oblivious antidote” that will remove them from the memory of others. The iron trade has long been regarded.as a sort of barometer indicating the state of general business. It furnishes the implements of production to such an extent that it must be virtually affected by either an increase or decrease of activity in productive industries. The statistics of the business are carefully collected and published, the lron Age being a leading authority. - : : On March 1, 1892, the Iron Age reported the weekly production of American furnacss to be 193,902 tons | ‘of iron. This was the largest produetion ever attained up to that date. It was high-water mark under the MeKinley bill or any previous tariff bill It was never equaled in any subsequent week before the repeal of the McKinley act. On August 1, 1894, the beginning of the last month of the life of the “‘bill of abomination.” the weekly production of the furnaces was 115,113 tons. On August 28 the new tariff bill be‘came a law. On September 1, 1894, tha weekly capacity of the furmaces had risen to 151,113 tons. A year later, on September 1, 1895, the weekly output had risen to 194,029. : This is not a 4 large Idcrease over the greatest previous production, but it is ‘an increase. It is a new high-water mark, established under a “tariff law which, however imperfect from the standpoint of tariff reform, was condemned everywhere in protection circles as a free trade measure and as certain to ruin our industries. Against these reckless and unfounded predietions. which we denounced at the time they were made, we have the satisfaction of setting the testimony of a protection author that the ‘‘barometer of trade” now registers a higher figura than it ever did before.—Louisville, Courier-Journal.. :

PROSPZRITY SADDENS THEM

Republicans Distressed by Improved lusi-

ness Conditions.

The improvement in the finances of the country and in the general condition of business has disclosed the existedce of a painful state of mind among the editors of -certain republiean papers. The announcement that the receipts of the treasury for the month will exceed the disbursemeants causes them deep distress. The estimate that the continuous deficit of the past two years will hereafter be replaced by a steadily increasing surplus”is received by them with every indication of genuine sorrow. They try not to believe it. They even go so far as to argue that it must be a mistake. They accuse the treasury department of swvithholding payments, oi starving the government service, of juggling with the transaction of public busineis, of seeking to force a balance for the purpose of influencing the elections.

~ What kind of Americans are these whose hearts are saddened at the evidences of their country’s prosperity? What kind of patriotism is it wnich carries partisanship to such an extreme? Above all, where is the intelligence in acting the part of a mere calamity howler in a country in whish prosperity is inevitable?—N. Y. World.

PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.

'——Harrison is shrewd enough tu see that no ‘‘hard times" candidate can be elécted in 1826.—Rochester (N. Y.) Herald. g ‘

——Mr. Reed hasn’t been consulted in the proposed withdrawal of Harrison. in favor of McKinley.—St. Paul Globe. .

——li this tide of prosperity keeps on rising,what will our republican iriends have to talk about in the campaign of 1896?—Philadelphia Record. :

-—The sarplus in the traasury for Septembey makes a ¢orresponding deficit in the republican magazine of campaign ammunition.--Louisville Courier Journal. ;

——Latest returns from the anxiouns bench are to the effect that Gen. Harrison 1s still on the lookout for that “great emergency.”—Grand Rapids Democrat. ' ’

——"The republicans could talk with a good deal more assurance of the beauties of protection if McKinley were not such an embarrassing fact.— Indianapolis News. ——A few republicans attribute the return of prosperity to the republican congress that hasn’t met yet. No wonder the lunatic asylums are crowded. —Anderson (Ind.) Democrat. i

—-—Now that Tom Rzed has had an engine company in Kentuelky named after him, it is time for Gen. Harrison and Maj. MecKinley to do something noticeable qaick.—w—l}ostgu (globe. . ——lf all the:democrats who stayed away from the polls last year will come out and vote in the states whero elections arc held this year democratic vietory will be sure.—Chicago Chronicle. e

——Mr. Harrison wishes it distinctly understood that while he is not and will not be a candidate for the presi dency, he must not be understool as recommending either Mr. MceKinley or Brer Reed.—N. Y. Journal. ‘ ' ——With the new tariff law produeing sulficient revenue, it lcoks as if the next republican congress will not be troubled with the question that seemed to worry Seaator Sherman the other day about the relief of the United States treasury.—Utiea (N. Y.) Observer.

——The republican national committeeisshy forty thousand dollarsand will locate the convention in the ecity that subseribes the amount. That scheme fuiling, possibly Andresr Carnegie or some other manufacturer who has made millions out of the proteection policy of the republicin party and is planning to muke more 1 the event of the return of McKinleyism might ba induced to put it up.—Kansas City Star. ' , ' ——Readers of some republican newspapers may be surprised to hear from the presidentof the Southern Pacific that *the general condition of the railways and of the country is better than it has been for years.” If the recognition of such facts could be postponed for eighteen months Mr. McKinley’s misery-loving admirers in Ohio might be happy again. But it is impossible, and ail hope of a calamity campuign might as well Le abandoned.

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. | - JOHNNY'S TRIALS, Bet our sidewalk'd be covered P With the 'rithmetic I'vo done; 5 Bet I've writ a million snswers a 4 Siwses tho time I first begun. - . " Allus lots and lots more comin®" Oh! the work I gotta do: Wonder why in thunderation . This old work ain't never throught ik . Wonder if thero's mariy others Adds up just the same as me: ke I jest guess and keop on guessin', ~ . : Hopin’ one and one makes three. ; Wonder, if I kecp on learnin’, ek I'll be just the stupid/fool . ; Teacher seems to liko to call me o ‘When he keeps me artsr school? ‘. Wonder, in that place called Heaven, | Jf they give you stms to do? Any place’d seemi most Heaven™ -~ . | Where a feller's work'is through. - .| —Kenneth Graham Duffleld, in Puock. - VIDOCQ'S MANY TRICKS. | A Black and Tan Whose Intelligence Ia . Really Remarkable. . - ] Julius Mentz, of Bay Shore, L. 1., has 8 black and tan ratter which he calls Vidocq, beeause he thinks his dog is s sharp. as any detective that ever lived. Vidocq is none ¢f your common, ' ordinary dogs, with only dog sense enough to bark when a ragged tramp . comes to her master’s door, and she is not only educated, but accomplished. She was never a circus-dog, but always kept good company, and her tricks are only performed for the -amusement of her master’s friends and such visitors to DBay Shore as, having heard of the dog, may wish to see her. Vidocqis the mother of four puppies, and all her children do their mother and their master proud by the accomplishments they have mastered in their one brief year of life. ! D Vidocq does twenty different tricks. They are, prayer, roll over, dead dog, sit up, walk on hind legs, dance, sing, smoke, just like grandpa, loss of onc arm, loss of both arms,mshamed, everybody’s dog, watch him, jump through hoops and over bars, speak, good girl, next Vidoceq. . It is very amusing indeed to-see her go through some ‘of these tricis. Her | master «says: “Come, Vidocq, it 15; time for you to say your ‘prayers.” ‘ Up on a chair the little dog jumps, puts her little head down between her 1‘ paws, closes her black eyes and waits | for the amen, when she jumps down from the chair and runs to her master, her face expressing clearly her joy that church is out. When told to sing she commences a something in the dog singing line which might be considered a burlesque of thglead march in “Saul.” One of her most 'fetching’ tricks is when she poses as ashamed. She puts her two black paws up over her nose, shuts her eyes, and looks for ‘all the world as if she had been doing. something she was ashamed of. ~ Then “her master says: “Well, what have you been doing now? Have you been 'doing something naughty in the house? ; Never mind, I'll forgive you.” At the words: “I'll forgive you,” Vidoeq runs, |to her master and jumps joyfully ‘around him expressing in her dumb i ‘way how sweet 'tis to be forgiven for all - offenses. Sh . 'The trick which cost him the most time and patience, for it required a vast amount of patience, was a trick in | which the dog posesas a blind beggax. Vidocq jumps up in a chair, Mr. Mentz - puts a ticket on her neck, upon which is printed: “Please help the blind.” Underneath this placard is a liftle tin box in which the pennies of the generous. ! can ke dropped.: This box the ‘dogz ' holds betweern her fore feet. She shuts her eyes and sits there begging untd] her master says: “Oh, Ido not believe that dog is blind. This is only

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.~ UNDER A LION‘Q;QF'AW. (e, How It Feels to Be shammkos 8 . by a Wild Beast. ; One of the most famou’s.enco?h TS with a lion, from which the ch actor escaped and was able to relate full particulars, is that recorded in%& life of Dr. Livingstone. “I meant,” he says, “to have kept it to tell my children in my dotage,” but friends considered it so marvelous that he was persuade to relate it in his first book.. e testimony of such a man is far more valuable than accounts of the average ‘sportsman. It is as follows: | “The Dakatla of the village of Ma'botsa were troubled by lions, which leaped into the cattle pens by night and destroyed their cows. ‘They even attacked the herds in open day. This was so unusual an occurrence that the ‘people beiiecved themselves to be bewitched—‘given,’ as they said, ‘into the ‘power of the lions by the neighborhtiod tribe.” . They went once to attack the t animals, but being rather cowardly in comparison with the Dechuanans in general, théy returned without slay=i it

“It is well known that if one in a trocp of lions is killed, the remaﬁnﬁbr leave that part of the country. he next time, however, the herds were;f attacked, 1 went with the people to jengouragé them to rid themselves of the annoyance by destroying one of the Ijmi—rauders.” We found the animals on a small hill covered with trees. The men formed round it in a circle and gradually closed up as they advanced. Being Delow on the plain with a native schoolmaster named Mabalwe,'l-%aw one of the lions sitting on a piece of rock within the ring. Mabalwe fired at him and the ball hit the',“rocﬁ on which the animal was sitting. He bit at the spot struck, as a dog does at a stick or stone thrown at him; and then leaping away broke through the circle and escaped unhurt. If the Bakatla had dcted according to the lt;ustom of the country, they would have speared-him in his attempt to get gat, but they were afraid to attack gxln. ‘When the circle was reformed we saw two other lions in it, but dared not fire lest we should shoot some of theﬂpeo-_ ple. The beasts burst through the line, and, as it was evident the men could not be prevailed on to face their focs, we bent our footsteps toward the \'iliage.

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In going round the end of the hill I saw a lion sitting on a piece of rock about thirty yards off, with ajlittle Dbush in front of him. I took a good % a®m at him through the bush anf:l fired both barrels into it. The men/called out; ' ‘ITe is shot, he is shot!’ Others cried: ~ ‘He -has been shot by another man, tog; let us go to him!’ I saw the lion’s t'ai"gf erected in anger, and, turuing %o the people, said: “Stop a little till T load again.’ When in the act of ram# ming down the bullets I heard la shout, and, looking half round, I saw the lion | in the act of springing upon me. He cagghtmeby theshoulder and hwe both caév'tp the ground together. Growlinf horribly, he shook me as a tefrier dog ‘does a rat. The shock produced a stii<: ‘por similar to that which seéms t(}.‘bo{;‘ felt by a mouse after the first grip of the cat. -It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of ‘pain nor feeling of terror, though Iwas quite conscious of all 'that was' ‘happening. It was like what patients -partially under the influence of chloro- 3 form describe—they see the operation, but do not feel the knife. This plaeidi- - ty is probably produced in all animals ‘killed” by the carnivora; and if so, is a merciful provision of the Creator for lessening ‘the pain of 'death.[i Ashehad one paw on the back of my head, I turned round to relieve myself of thefg weight, and saw his eyes firécted. at Mabalwe, who was aiming at him frg@i a distance of ten or fifteen yards. Hisl gun, which was a flint oLe,-» missed fire in both Larrels. The animal im= ‘mediately left me toattack him, and btk his ‘thigh. Another man, ;those life T'¢ had saved after he had been tossed by'y a buffalo, attempted to spear the lion.é upon which he turned frox'j;x Mabalwe -and seized this fresh foe by the shotilgﬁ,% der. At that moment the bullets thcﬁ@ beast had received took effiect undhﬂf% fell down dead. The whale was the work of a few moments, and nlust have been his paroxysm of dyin% rage.” Ing order to take out the charm from hifi;‘ﬁ the Bakatla on the following day made. a huge bonfire over the carcass, which - was declared to be the largest ever seen. Besides crunching the bone into" splinters, eleven of his teet hadpeué-&’%« trated the upper part of my arm. The% bite of a lion resembles a gunshot wound. It is generally followed by :‘ great deal of sloughing and discharge, and ever afterward pains are felt periedically in the:part. [ had on @& tartan jacket, which I believed wa : off the virus from the teeth that picrestl the flesh, for my.two companions i the affray have both suffered from the! usual- pains, while I have ed with only the inconvenience of a false joint in my limb. The wound of the man who was bit in the shoulder actu vw% ly burst fort afresh on the same | month of the following year. This | curious point deserves the attention of 7 What is t..hﬁ-"»» ok’ in Tre. land? Shameod. 'HA R . When isasilver dollar solitary?\Vhen' tisaloon (alone), + S " Whatpart of a boat is the produetet 8 mine? The oars (ore yg?%@%w i . What proves that g lel howe he' spirit? A lc(a)d horse must bé a horse - Tonbiebal o bir thanis: os i MR ik