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AR .M ) @ L N vGM OF Tﬂ‘k Y ovetean G oy -“ 3 e :LF U i JiB FAFOUR, NNV, S 0 o DoviE S CHAPTER XIIL—CONTINUED. ~ “One night Maj. Sholto lost even more heavily than usual. I was sitting in my hut when he and Capt. Morstan came stumbling along on the way to their quarters. They were bosom friends, those two, and never far apart. The major was raving about his losses. ‘¢ ‘lt's all up, Morstan,” he was saying, as they passed my hut. ‘I shall have to send in my papers. I am ‘a ruined man.’ i ' _ ‘“‘Nonsense, old chap!" said the other, slapping him upon the shoulder. ‘l've had a nasty facer myself, but— That was all I could hear, but it was enough to set me thinking. oy “A couple of days later Maj. Sholto was strolling on the beach; so I took the chance of speaking to him. ***l wish to have your advice, major,’ said L. [ i “Well, Small, what is it?’ he said, taking his cheroot from his lips. ‘I wanted to ask you, sir,’ said I. ‘who is the proper person to whom hidden treasure should be handed over. 1 lknow where half a million worth lies, ‘and, as I cannotuse it myself, I thought perhaps the best thing that I could do would be to hand it over to the proper authorities, and then perhaps they would get my sentence shortened for me.’ ‘“ ‘Half a million, Small?” he gasped, looking hard at me to see if I was in earnest. ‘‘Quite that, sir—in jewels and pearls. It lies there ready for anyone. And the queer thing about it is that the real owner is outlawed and cannot hold property, so that it belongs to the first comer.’ ““To government, Small,” he stammered—‘to government.” But he said it in a halting fashion, and I knew in my heart that I bad got him. . ““‘*You think then, sir, that I should give the information to the governor general? said I, quietly. 4 ‘Well, well, you must not do anything rash, or. that you might rcpent. Let me hear all about it, Small. Give me the facts.’ A : ““I told him the whole story,with small changes so that he could not identify the places.. When I had finished he stood stock still and full of thouszht. I

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“Well, the matter ended Ly a second meeting, at which Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan and Dost Akbar were all present. .We talked the matter over again, and at iast we came to an arrangement. We were to provide both the officers with charts of the part of the Agra fort and mark the place in ‘the wall where the treasure was hid. . Maj. Sholto was to go to India to test our story. If he found the box he was to leave it there, to send out a small yacht provisioned for a voyage, which was to lie off Rutland island, and to which we were to make our way, and finally to return to his duties. Capt. Morstan was then to apply for leave of absence, to mect us at Agra, and there we were to have a final divisicn of the treasure, he taking the major’s share as wellas his own. All this we sealed by the most solemn oaths that the mind counld think or the lips utter. I° sat up all night with paper and ink, and by morning I had the two charts all ready, signed with the sign of four —that is, of Abdullah, Alkbar, Mahomet and myself. : ~ “Well, gentlemen, I weary you with my long story, and I know that my friend Mr. Jones s impatient to get me safely stowed in chokey. I'll malke ¢t as short as I can. The villian, Sholto, went off to India, but he never came back again. Capt. Morstan showed me his name among a list of passengers in one of the mail boats very shortly afterwards. His uncle had died, leaving him a fortune, and he ‘had left the army, yet he could stcop to treat five men as he had treated us. Morstan went over to Agra shortly afterwards, and found, as we expected, that the treasure ivasindeed gone. The scoundrel had stolen it all, without carrying,out one of the conditions on which we had sold him the secret. From that day ! lived only for vengeance. I thought of it by day and 1 nursed it by night. It beecame an overpowering, absorbing passion with me. I cared nothing for the law—nothing for the gallows. To escape, to track down Sholto, to have mv hand upon his throat—that wasmy one thought. Even the Agra treasure had come to be & smaller thing in my mind than the slaying of Sholto. : . “Well, I have set my mind on many things in this life, and never one which I did not carry out. - But it was weary years before my time came. I have told you that- I had picked up something of medicine. One day when Dr. Somerton was down with a fever a lit‘tle Andaman islander was picked up by a convict gang in the woods. He was sick to-death, and had gone fo a lonely place to die. I took him in hand, though he was as venomous as a snake, and after a couple of months T got him all right and able to walk. He -took a kind of fancy to me then, and would hardly go -back to his woods, but was always hanging about my hut. Tlearned a little of his lingo from him, and this made himall the fonder of me. “Tonga—for that wus his name—was | a fine boatiman,and owned a big, roomy canot of his own. When I found that he was devoted to me and would do anything to scrve me, I saw my chance of eseape. I talked it over with him. lle was to bring his boat on a certain night to an old wharf which was never guarded, and there he was to pick me up. I gave him directions to have several gourds of water and a lot of yams, cocoanuts and sweet potatoes. : “He was staunch and true, was little Tonga. No man ever had a morée faithful mate. At the night named he had his boat at the wharf. As it chanced, however, there was one of the conviet guard down' there—a vile Pathan who had never missed a chance of insulting and injuring me. 1 had always vowed vengeance, and now I had my c¢hance. 1T was as if fate had placed him in my way that I might pay my debt before I left the island. [lle stood on the bank with his back to me and his carbine on his shoulder. I looked about for a stone to ] beat out his brains with, but none t could I see. Then a queer thought came into my -head and showed me ‘where I could lay my hand on a weapon. I sat down inthe darkness and un‘strapped my wooden leg. With three long hops I was on him. He put his carbine to his shoulder, but I struck him full and knocked the whole front of his skull in. You can sec the split in the wood now where I hit him. We both went down together, for I could not keep my balance, but when I got up I found him still lyiag quiet enough. I made for the boat and in an hour we were -well out at sea. Tonga had

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} brought all his earthly possessions { with him, his arms and his gods. }Among‘ other thirgs, he had a long i bamboo spear and somei Andaman i cocoanut matting, with swhich I made | @ sort of a sail. For ten days we were beating about, trusting to luck, and on the .eleventh we were picked up by a ltradcr which was going from Singa- | pore to Jiddah with a crowd of Malay pilgrims. They were a rum crowd, and Torga and I scon managed to settle ldown among them. They had one [(good quality—~they let you alone and asked no questions. - “Well. if I were to tell you all the adventures that my little chum and I went through, you would not thank 'me, for I would have you here until the sun was shining. ltere and there ’ we drifted about the world, something always turning up to kecpus from Lonldon. All the time, howcever, I never lost sight of my purpose. 1 would dream of Sholto vt night. A hupdred |*ti:nes-! have killed him in my sleep. At last, however, soms three or four years ago, we found oursglves in EngJand. I had no great ditfleulty in finding where Sholto lived, and I set to - work to discover whether he had realized the treasure. or if he still had it. I made friends with somc 6ne who could help me—l name no names, for I don’t -want to get anyone else in o hole—and I soon found that he still hod the jewﬁm . They I tried tozet 4t him inmany

ways; but he was pretty sly, aad had always two prize-fighters, besides his sons and his khitmutgar, on guard over him. : , . ‘“‘Qne day, however, I got word that he was dying. [ hurried at once to the garden, mad that he should slip cut of my clutches like that, and, looking through the window, I saw him lyirng in his bed, with his sons on each side of him. I'd have come through and takken my chance with the three of them, only even as I looked at him his jaw dropped, and I knew that he was gone. I'got into his room that same night, though, and ‘1 searched his papers to see if there was any record of where he had hidden -our jewels. There was not a line, however, so I came away, bitter and savage asa man could be. Before I left I bethought me that if I ever met my Sikh friends again it would be a satisfaction to know. that I had left some mark of our hatred; so I scrawled down the sign of the four of us, as it had been on the chart, and I pinned it on his bosom. It was too much that he ‘should be taken to the grave without some token from the men whom he had robbed and befooled. ““We earned a living at this time by my exhibiting poor Tonga at fairs and other places as the black cannibal. Ie would eat raw meat and dance his war dance; so we always had a hatful of pennies after a day’s work. I still heard all the news from Pondicherry Lodge, and for some years there was no news to hear, except that they were hunting for the treasure. At last, however, came what we had waited for so long. The treasure had been found. It was up at the top of the house, in Mr. Bartholomew Sholto’s chemical laboratory. I came at once and had a look at the place, but I could not see how with my wooden leg I was to make my way up to it. I learned, however, about a trap-door in ' the roof, and also . about Mr. Sholto’s supper hour. It secmed to me that I could manage the thing easily through Tonga. I brought him out with me with a long rope wound round his waist. He could climb liken cat, and he soon made his way through the roof, but, asill luck would have it, Bartholomew Sholto was still in the room, to his cost. Tonga thought he had done something very clever in killing him, for when I came up by the rope I found him strutting about as proud as a peaccck. Very much surprised was he when I made athim with the rope’s end and cursed him for adittle bloodthirsty-imp. I took the treas-ure-box and let it down, and then slid down myself, having first left the sign of the four upon the table., to show that the jewels had come back at last to those who had most right'to them. /Tonga thenh pulled up the rope, closed the window, and made off the way that he had eome. ‘I don’t know that I have anything else to tell you. I had heard a waterman speak of the speed of Smith's luunch, the Aurora, so I thought she would be a handy craft for our escape. I engaged with old Smith, and was to give him a big sum if he got us safe to our ship.- e knew, no doubt, that there was some serew loose, but he was not in our secrets. All this is the truth, and if I tell it to you, gentlemen, it is not to amuse you—for you have not done me a very good turn—but itis because I believe the best defense I can male is just to hold back nothing, but let all the world know how badly I have myself been served by Maj. Sholto, and how innocent I am of the death of his son.” “*A very remarkable account,” said Sherlock Holmes. ‘‘A fitting ‘wind-up to an extremely interesting case. There is nothing at all new to me in the latter part of your narrative, except that you brought your own rope. That I did not know. By the way, I had hoped that Tonza had lost all his darts; yet he managed to shoot one at us in the boat.” ‘“‘He had lost them all, sir, except the one which was in his blow pipe at the time.” . “Ah, of course,” said Holmes. I had not thought of that.” : : *‘ls there any other point which you would like to ask about?” asked the convict, affably. 2 . *“L think not, thank you,” my companion answered. “Well, Holmes,” said Athelaey Jones, ‘‘you are a man to be humored, and we all know that you are a connoisseur of crime, but duty isduty, and I have gone rather far in doing what youand your frietid asked me. I shall feel more at ease when we have our story-teller here under lock and key The cab still waits, and there are two inspectors downstairs. I am much obliged to you both for yourassistance. Of course, you will be wanted at the trial. Good-night to you.” *Good-night, gentlemen, both,” said Jonathan Small.

“You first, Smiall,” remarked the wary Jones as they left the room. *‘l'll take particular care that you don’t club mec with you wooden leg, whatever you may have done to the gentleman at the Andaman Isles.” “Well, and there.is the cnd of our drama,” I remarked, after we had sat som¢ time smoking in silence. *I fear it shall be the last investigation in which J shall have the chance of studying your methods. Miss Morstan has donc me the honor to accept meas a huasband in prospective.” He gave a most dismal groan. I feared as much,” said he, ‘I really cannot congratulate you.” I was a little hurt. “Have you any reason to Dbe dissatisfied with my choice?” [ asked.

“Notatall. I think sheis cne cf the most charming young ladiesl ever met, and might have been most useful in such work aswe have been doing. She had a decided genius that way; witness the way in which she preserved that Agra plan from all the other pa~ pers of her father. Butlove is an emotional thing, and whatever is cmotiopal is opposed to that true cold rcason which 1 place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest 11 bias my judgment.” ’ *I trust,” said I, laughing, “that my judgment may survive the ordeal. But you look weary.” : ““Yes, the reaction is alrcady upon me. I shall be as limp a 5 a rag for a week.” ; :

. “Strange,” said 1, “how terms of what in another man I should eall laziness alternate with fits of splendid | energy and vigor.”. “Yes,” he answered, ‘‘there- are in l me the makings of a véry fine loafer and alse of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: ' . *Schade dass die Natur nur cinen Mcasch sus dirschut, ; . Denn zum wurdizen Mann war und zum Schel- ; men der Stofl.'’ - By the way, apropos of this Norwood business, you sce that they had, asl surmised, a confederate in the house, g who could be none other than Lal Rao, { the , butler; so Jonecs actually has the undivided honor of having caught one fish in his great hanl.” “The division scems rather unfair,” I remarked. ‘‘You havé done all the work in this business. I got a wife out l of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for yom¥ii o . Sha s A - “For me.” gaid Sherlock = [lolmes, 'there still remains the cocaine-bottle." And he stretehed his long white hand up for it SRR Iy, ol ,

v LOBT IN THE FOQG, | ‘ j A Protectionists Editor Who Cannot Keep Up with the Tariff Reform Procesiion. Mr. Charles Emory Smith, editor of the Philadelphia Press, was appginted minister to Russia by the late republican administration. Since his return to the United States he seems to have been trying to live over azain the yvears he spent abroad. and wit}x proverbial Philadelphia siowness (he is now in the middle of the McKinley panie of 1893. At least this is t};te only plausible explanation of his statements made in a speech in New York j;ty on October 15., Having modestly criedited the republican party with Lheicou'ntry’s railroads, farms, iron mahufaetures, increased population and 4 number of other things for which w’ie had previously been supposed to ‘be indebted to Providence, he said: **What are the fruits of democratic policy as we see them to-day? It has%left a blight upon the woolen and other industries. Even with the partiaﬂ restoration in wages of the last few months it still strips American labor of hun--dreds of millions a year.” . ’ This is a tolerably truthful qicture of the working of the McKinley itariff, and is therefore a strong reasém for supposing that Mr. Smith is-stilljliving two years in the past. Undér the operation of the tariff of 1890 a blight did fall on the ‘“‘woolen and other industries.”” Hundreds of mills and factories shut down while that high taxation law was on the statute boolk. The wages of at least a million workers were reduced from 10 toi 20 per cent. American labor was stripped oq hun‘dreds of millions of dollars. There were no advances or. restorat%ons of wages. i DBut this is 1893, and the condition of ‘affairs described by Mr. Smith no longer exists. Even a Philadelphia editor ought to know that over}ra, year ago congress repealed the DMcKinley tariff and enacted alaw.which imposed lower taxes. At once, as if by i::ag'ic, our ‘‘woolen and other industries” whieca had been practically s‘ta{'g‘nant, began to revive, and from that. time until the present day we havie‘been. steadilv advancing in prosperity. Not only hédve the woolen mills, idle under McKinleyism, all been star},ed up again, but nearly fifty new woolen factories have been built or fpfflanned for early erection. The iron and steel industry is more prosperous than ever before in the history of the country. Nearly all the workers whose| wages were reduced under a high tariﬁf have had increased wages under tariff reform. These are the real fruits of the democratic policy as we see them today. The attempt to make itlappear otherwise conviets the republicaps of gross ignorance of the .plaine:fm facts of recent experiencs. 4. Byrox W. HoLT. SLANDERING THEIR COUNTRY. That Is What Profectionist Cruak%ers Are Doing. | Protectionists do not seem to {understand that in arguing that there cannot be prosperity until everybody is again taxed on everything theey use, they are disparaging the resources of the country and the skill of its industrious people. Ever since the a:}option ‘of the Wilson tariff the republican papers have favored an unholy alliance for the purpose of making the condition of trade and industry appear contrary to the actual faets. Neivs of the great business revival which | began ‘nearly a year ago was carefuligly suppressed; no mention was made of the mills and factories which weré starts ing up, and the evidence of better times shown by increased wages to |over a million workers was ignored. ' Pursuing their policy of malkijng political capital out of public . disaster the McKinleyites are now engaged in ‘magnifving every petty failuie and claiming that it is the work ‘of the new tariff. Nor are they satisfidd with their exaggerated reports of matters with which the tariff has nothing to do. They go further and publish malicious attacks onleading: industries solely in order “to create pre¢judice against the party in power.{ . Thus they have represented cotton fma.nufactures as suffering from foreigm competition, even whiie all the |cotton mills are runnine on full time and making good profits, and new factories are being started than in any one year under McKinleyism. So with the iron and steel industry, which they glaim is in a precarious condition, owing to the danger that because of thie enormous demand for its products| prices will be advanced to a price whif:h will permit foreign iron and steel tb come in. In spite of the establishn’iexfb of at least twenty-five new tin ‘plate factories duriny the past year, land a greatly inereased output of the finished products, they have prdtended that the duty has injured th%ih plate industry, and are demanding tﬂat the next congress inerease the duty on foreign plates. ; These deliberate falsehoods are meant to serve a partisan purppse by showing that the country is lesF prosperous under the democratic | policy than it was under republican rule. But their real effect is to injurt business, and to some extent prevent a complete recovery from the tride, depression and panie which marked the | closing years of the McKinley| tariff. As a man in good health may be made ill through having a number o | people tell him he looks very sick, so business is seriously injured by the tariff. In this thev will certainly fail, for the low-tariff good times are ,here§ stay. ' WEIDDEN GRAIMAM. Peculiaricles of Tariffs. | Here’s a sincular thinz. Heziigy - ving, an Englishman, comes here with several hundred tons of scenerj , COStumes and properties for his American tour. He is only required to |give a bond that all this matter yill be returned to England within six months, and enters it free of duty. Francis Wilson, an American, does precisely the same thing excepting that he can’t promise to return it within thyt time, and he must pay $12,000 dutpy. But' agein, and more singulgr than ever, an Englishman, who is admitfed free to this country, has to pay 20 per cent. | duty to enter Canada, a conntry under the same rule as himself.—Quincy (I 11. Helig o R ~_The ruin that was to be wrotight by ‘the Wilson tariff is not very apparent fn the iron industry. And Nenmator Sherman pretends to believe thui the sountry wants to go back to MdKinleyism. Not much. “The only dinger to “ﬁ%ﬁﬁfﬁ;’“{“{“”v“ often ’;330" re, o C S aen o R ing on. %‘fﬁ?ﬂ'ﬁﬁw L the "’”ﬁ*'“g% w Adolgiie Thaes, - 0 0 00l

HOW M'KINLEYISM WORKS. Labor Impoverished and Degraded by : ' Protectionists. Under the tarifi protection which is said to be laid primarily for the purpose of enriching and ennobling American labor manufacturers have amassed colossal fortunes. American labor has largely disappeared in milis and shops of all kinds. Its place has heen-taKen by Iluns, Polacks, Russians and Ital--ians, imported free, there being no cus-tem-house tax upon labor. ' Pampered by republican legdslation of more than a quarter of a century, laid in its excesses as a war measure and maintained because protected iniustries had tasted blood and would not cadily yield advantage, great corporaions in this country have dealt by their abor unjustly, ecruelly and harshly. he American laborer has gone into other fields. He has taken up lands or he has found occupation for himself elsewhere. The class of men taking his place are not of the highest, thougb they are some of the fiercest at times. Companies, instead of enriching and ennobling these men, have used their advantages to treat them as villains and serfs. The insuflicient wage they have given ' them .at times has been: taken back from them for rents and through truck stores. Stockades have been built about them as though they were prisoners. The law has still looked to the protection of all citizens, even of aliens. To make appeal to the law a nullity insolent employers of labor that have tagged men with numbered bits of brass as if they were cattle instead of men are going so far as to compel the parents or guardians of children upon their pay rolls—-children who ought never be there while adult labor is to be had—to sign contracts in their behalf as a condition of their employment that they shall hold the company harmless for any injury that may bésustained by them in the performance¢ of perilous labor. . 1

At the end of a long litigation such a contract might be pronounced void and of no effect, but the tariff which its friends and beneficiaries say was designed to ennoble and enrich American labor does not give that American labor sufficient surplus to warrant its contesting a 'long litigation. The companies have the benefit of these contracts. - Such treatment of labor as the requirement as to children is monstrous. 1t comes from those industries that are still clamoring for more protection, still asserting falsely that a high tariif is laid primarily inthe interest of labor. It comes from McKinleyites. It is the inevitable accompaniment of McKinleyjsm, which impoverishes and degrades labor.——Chicago Chronicle. - INSTRUCTIVE AT LEAST. Suggestions for Democrats in the Republican- Victory. It might have_been better; it might have been worse. ; , - - In all the big states there have been great democratic gains since last year. The party is regaining its voting strength. In Ohio Campbell has won what is equivalent to a real victory. In spite of painful perplexities the natural vigor of democracy has asserted itself in Kentucky. : The cause of deepest regret is the dafeat of Judge Edward Lane in the 18th Illincis-district. The leaders and the press of the party made a gallant fight for Judge Lane, laying aside all differences of judgment on single questions. The Republic has earnestly labored in his behalf, and has had the cooperation of the democratic newspapers.in the counties of the district. s

The result in Illinois is a lesson upon the necessity of full and generous consideration for all the elementsof opinion on disputed questions. The party must be able to utilize all its strength. It cannot rely upon any gains whatever ifrom the republican ranks or from those of the populists. : Maryland’s turnini over of things should have little dignificance. The democracy will not be benefited and the republicans will reap some advantage irom the result. But the state will be in theright column next year. Gorman is not the democratic party of Maryland. - The late election proves that the demecracy is abundantly supplied with the votes. to win in 1896; but that the votes must be organized, satisfied and honestly led. - Now we know whatis beforeus. We can win if we will.—St. Louis Republic. A LESSON FOR PROTECTION.

Tin-Plate Production Under Tariff Re- | / form Laws. A gain of 54,000,000 pounds in the American production of tin plate in the first year of the new tariff is a fact of the greatest possible interest to Mr. William McKinley. It shows him that ‘he has not labored in vain. The prayers he made for the preservation of the infant tin plate industry have been answered. The democratic tariff law abolished the absurd McKinley duty of four cents a pound on tin ore and reduced the duty on tin plate onehalf. Twenty-six new mills which have begun operation in a single year will come very near increasing the total annual output to an equality with the total annual consumption. In a few vears from now we may be exporting tin plate instead of buying it. : Mr. McKinley's organs are obliged to admit the facts, but they explain that the incredse is the result of “duties high enough to protect”— which is something quite different from their. frantic assertions of 1894 that democratic success would bankrupt the tin plate mills already in operation and make -the opening of others impossible. 1t is evident that Mr, McKinley’s organs are learning in spite of themselves. Perhaps in time Mr. McKinley ‘himself may know more about the nalitical economy of tin plate production fhan he has ever allowed himself to suspecti==N, XoNvoeld, 0 o 0 ,

——Prosperity by taxation is the McKinley idea; prosperity by our own industry, skill and resources is the only prosperity that can be universal and enduring. Nobody was ever made richer, happier or better by being taxed.-~Columbus (0.) Press.

——The general result of the state and local elections shows a large falling ‘off from the republican landslide majorities of last year, except, perhaps, in this immediate neighborhood, whers the republicans appear to have pretty nearly held their own.—Chicago Chrou: icle. ‘ j

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. A FELLOW’S WOES. There’s a very serious matter That I've pondered long about, - And the more I thinkit over, The more I can’t makeout. = : And I wish that ali you fellows A Whose sufferings are the same, ' g Would assist my meditations, - ) And find out who’s 1o blame. : "Tis this—Whenever mothers T Go to mend a fellow’s clothes - ‘ (And a fellow’s clothes need mending - Pretty often, I suppose), : : ) They turn one’s trousers upside down - To give the finalshakes! Oh, the tribulation, brothers, . This unlucky action makes! o Oh, my penknife, lost since Christmas! Oh, my marbles, balls and string, : Rusty nails and bits of iron,. . . Wood and lead—and everything! ‘ Trash!” the':;' cry, in heartless accents, As the contents roll about; And they briskly brush the dust frcm Off the pockets—inside out! ; 'Comradés; number up your losses, Treasures hoarded with such care, : Think upon the risk you're running a ‘When your ‘“‘pants’’ show signs of wear! Then reflect. Is there no method : To escape maternal frown, ) Teaching mothers sorrow, caused by Shaking trousers upside down? ’ : —Eva L. Carson, in Golden Days. : ANIMAL FRIENDSHIPS. ’ Horses, Dogs, Hens and a Lioness Form Queer Companionships. . ‘Why it is that animals have such a great dislike for solitude and have fits of loneliness when shut up by themselves away from any other living being i¢ something no one has been able to explain. Yet it is the fact that all animals yearn for companionship, even animals that are wild and fierce. .

Ilermu-lmbly strange and c_urious are the friendships animals form. Horses chum with cats, dogs with geese, and there are two capital stories, one of how a horse and a hen, the other of how a dog and a hen became fast companions. .The horse and the hen happened to be the only. occupants of a large orchard, and got to know each other and seldom were to be found apart. The hen’s favorite method of showing her friendship was to approach the horse with a cackle of joy and rub gently against his legs, the sagacious equine looking down upon her kindly and standing perfectly still in 2 well-satisfied manner

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as the feathered wings fluttered about his legs. ' e In one of the farms just over the border line of the annexed district a hen became so chummy with a valuable retriever that she actually laid her eggs and hatched her chickens in the dog’s kennel, and the four-footed beast enjoyed it immensely. He would guard by the hour the eggs, and later the little chickens, and when he had occasion to go in and out of the house he would move with the greatest of care so as not to disturb his feathered friend. ' :

Geese and dogs-are apt to be very fand of each other. There is a story of a goose that was rescued by a mastiff {from the attack of a fox and was so grateful that it could not show the dog enough attention. It left all the other geese of the farmyard and stayed by the dog day and night, accompanying him daily as he wandered over the farm. When the dog fell ill the goose never once left the kennel, and in its devotion it would have starved to death if a handful of corn had not been brought to it every day. 4 The friendship between the horse and the stable eat has been many times remarked, and it is well known that if ior any reason the stable cat is killed or taken away the horse will get impatient and nervous over it. : A remarkable case is on record of one of the Derby favorites a few years ago, Galeopsis, who some months before the rdce got into a state of positive melancholia, which was rapidly pulling him down. Veterinarians examined him and found that his trouble was purely a mervous one, brought about through excessive loneliness. Nothing could be done for him until a shrewd stable hand happened to suggest animal companionship. A goat and a kid were introduced into the stable with great success, and the race horse picked up so that on the day of the'event he was able to make a fine showing. : : - An. eye-witness of this describes Galeopsis’ satisfaction as follows: Galeopsis seemed to take much interest in them until the goat died; but the kid remained, and the horse now vastly diverted himself by lifting the little. creature up by the back of its neck with his teeth, putting it down in the manger, caref,ul?y placing it on the ground again after awhile and then repeating the operation. . :

. There was once a lioness in the Dublin zoological gardens who had arrived at an advanced age and was so feeble that she was unable to drive away the rats that used to annoy her by biting her feet., The trainer at last evolved the scheme of putting a good rat terrier into her cage. She received the dog at first with an angry growl and decided symptoms of aversion, but as soon as the little brute grabbed the first rat and shook.the life out of it she began to understand what he was there for, and at once took a great fancy to him. She coaxed him to her side, put her paws around him and night after night the little terrier used to sleep close upl to her, both in a state of mutual great content.—N. Y. World, : : Conundrums Already Answered. When is a child’s hair like a house? When it is shingled, = Ui . When are a chime of bells and a potato alike? When they are pealed (peeled). g S ~ When 1s your head like a window ?, When it is one big pain (pane).—Youth's

. DYEING THE BURGLARS. Queer Punlélgme_pt Inflicted on a Couple of ; - Midnight Marauders, " “A good story is told by a German paper of the way in which a dyer treated two burglars whom he caught in his establishment, as they were in the act of making off with some valuable '‘dyes. Mr. S~——, the owner of the color works, s often engaged:-in ekperiments late into' the evening, and occasionally spends the night in the chemical laboratory, which opens into the room where the great dye vats are. : , The thieves made their visit, as it chanced; on one of the nights when Mr. S——— was <leeping at the labotratory. He is naturally a light sleeper, and a little past midnight he was aroused by the sound of voices in the vat-room. Ile saw the flash of a light, and suspect‘ing thieves arose quietly from his sofa. took his revolver, and, concealed in the darkness, watched the movements of ‘the two men. lesaw that each bore a package of new and valuable dyes. “Thinking thatmatters had progressed far enough, he stepped forward, cocked - liis',re\"ol\iegv, and said, quietly: “I have a use for those dyes. You'd better leave them alone.” ' ~ The thieves, taken completely by sur_prise,dropped their plunderand startéd -to.run, leaping from the side of one vat to>the next. . In the darkness one of them miscalculated the distance, and feil headlong into an indigo vat; and his companijon, hearing the splash. ' clanced back to see what had occurred, iost his balance, and toppled into the same vat. 4 : S . “That’s all right,” said Mr. S—, half-joccsely, as he stepped to the edge of the vat and covered the thieves with his revolver. “I''won’t grudge,; you enough of that indigo to dye I&your clothes and your skin.. You needn’t hurry about getting out. We must giv{ the dye a chance to takeeflect.,” '~ For 15 minutes or more he kept the two men in the vat, where they several times plunged beneath the surface of the liquid, and came up spluttering and. | choking, and finally begged for mercy. “Well,” ‘temarked Mr. S—— goodnaturédly, “I think you probably are as bhue outside as you feel inside, so I -won’t detain you longer. And now,” changing his toné to one of stern comanand, “if you don’t want the police on vour tracks, you'll make yourselves scarce-in this town. Out now, and be OR . ’ Without a word'the two men climbed out of the vat and hastened away. A few days later a friend from an adjoining town called on Mr. S——, and mentioned. incidentally that two men came to him and offered him five dol‘jars to tell him what would remove indigo stains from the skin, “They were the bluest-looking fellows you ever saw,” he added.’ “They said they got to fooling in the dye-house, and fell into the vat.”. ‘ : ; :

THE ‘LITTLE PECCABY. : A Very Plucky Fighter, When Angry, De. e ~ spite Eis Size. : Of the few American quadrupeds for which-an intelligent hunter entertains a- certain amount of respect, the colJared pececary- is one. Although he is only a little flat-sided, high-shouldered hog, wild and uneducated, yet he is a plucky fighter when angry—and like a trye child of the wild west, he gets mad quite easily. - It always annoys him very much’ that anyone should dare to go a-gunning for him, and. Mr. A. B. Baker, of the Washington “Zoo,” points to a long slit in the side of his leather leggings as an illustration of what a Texas peccary can do when he is very angry.. . .= : .~ 'This species has a very wide range, being found from the Red river of Arkansas as far south as Patagonia. In

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' et LR LRR TR e e | lTexas it is no_lofer abundant save in ; the low, jungly bottom lands along the | 1 Rio Grande. It“does not go in great | droves, like. the white-lipped peccary, | and it is seldom that more than eight or | ten inglividuals are seen together. The | time was w"hen\ilgey were much more i ready to fight than they are now; but, | like all-other dangerous animals, they | ‘have learned to fecar man and his deadly | firearms.,—W. T. Hornaday, in St.Nich- | olas. : i : | '..l?:vidently Catis Cannot Count, : ! ' A {friend has several cats which have | been taught to make their homesina | barn. One of the workmen in the es- | tablishment had been for a number‘: of years in the habit of bringing food }’ from his house, after every dinner time, | for these cats. A remarkable fact is | that they go from the barn to the en- | trance of the gate property alwaysabout | fifteen or twenty minutes before- the workman makes-his appearance. Just- l how they come to learn thig exact time of day is not clear, although it goes to | show that these animals have reason | and judgment to some extent. Strange | to say, although this has been go- | ing on for several years, the cats do | not seem to know that every seventh | ~day is Sunday, and that the workman ; does’ not make his appearance at the i }'grounds‘ on that day, yet regularly | every Sunday, for all these many years, 1 "they come to meet him, only to be idoogned to disappointment. It would [ 'seem from this that cats have not the ‘power to count, or they surely would f ‘be able to know by this time that there is a seventh day when they would be | ‘doomed to disappointment in their daily meal,—Meehan’s Mont‘h}y; e | ' ¥e Was Absent-Minded. | - Prof. C—— had to spend the evening | at-a friend’-s house. When he 'wag_; ~about to leave it was raining very heav- | ily, wherefore the hostess kindly offered him accommodatns for the night, which he readily accepted. Suddenly the guest disappeared, nobody Lnowing what had become of him, and {ha ftly Soeif S e e the night, when Trof. C—— walked if, aswetws been, AL R S R AR U R R R R R home to fetch his nightshirt.—Mercury. *-“*{ "'v?ffin‘{ts*m‘m:i” 2 o