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BY elanht. E. BRADDON.
THE .BX.T.E.13, 'Ti S
needs ba in each a case as his, where
pature, it►juste noverca, leas been so
unkind." "Do not fear the result,"
continued Verger, "I will be reeponsi-
ble for the child's training; and 1
pledge myself that eduoattiou. shall
1 a
!conquer evil instinots, if there t n'y`
awe. The than had: taught !thing evil in that young cb ac
U$APTEi2 V,^—Cantiauek 4 eaw�e ofg 'Ade' Lashmar
*Mother," said theboy, connate his pupil all the could teaeh• He ova L y pushed the argu
e
mane na further,
s r toher and lowering his voice, !receiving two hundred a year for do- f ",l enact go and ut an my !sennet,"
aloe- ow one of the fellows here mg nothing. at when those views of ;she said rattier cleanly ; "1 nn et a
a tin
have told me that I should be a tool hers were mule known to I,zshtnar ha ;round of tiresome cal'..to soaks. Z
to worn, because I roust be or Leah., informe l her that he meant Gabriel leave you to your beloved }?tato :"
friar before # am many year; :alder, er'ner to ani his days at the castle. ; • e
Poor bash has sue s.acing .
h h kbad' h eviler in too 01,1 to go among new t
ltea.ith, don't you knew. and it isn't ,, facer or to learn new habits,,. For six years of young, freslx life
likely he'll last long." i„ he sated; r.
lie will be very triad to ane as a . Scalia Beldwoed was almost entirely
h,:eltpy. he lived in a world where
"Whoever taught Fou #o tbitilr yea 'til>rariaat and secretary. He cart tale all thio s were new to alta dweller he
g etre of say bootie and write my busi-- g
will ba Lord Iaa,hutar is your worst �, flee tents of the people;
an actual I"
enemy," said his Tiiooher aaFerefly, nem lettere. T ens eleven years old.. Lady Leah-
„ t Be ;has ne more idea of business world 14 beauty and !usurp which
neuralgia, suffers at war•yrd>nn fr.etn no ehan e, world of thought . mar. was to London, Victorian was at
secure! is oar fellow, but there is auto one of thus. peacoelrs,"' said her � knewg ' ag pxfartl-
g F a biota horieon avidened with every day
noth'sng organically wrong. Sri'4\'tt ; 1``dy'hip• Lashmar .and his protege bad their
°•Fortioatte1Q I have. 1 oats ai;�r,et her existence. Education to Stella
liven Spenser told him 'ant be nun to „ : was as sunlight to the flowers or little world all era themselves, save for
Gabriel' i w at to sb eel
Verner.
{Fa s toil lane t►t=a
1 y•devotedsieve., r
, their
a • anold main" y ,
!Esta t be o ti Gabriel Vernier stiyad, a quaint SPringtixu.. to the birds.
"I'm grad hear of it,"Les; the boy. d'. Lwhimar taught his pupil history bard 1:,36litn9.r genera ly breakfasted
p'"No., never.. What was it, who was.
it?"
Lashmar seated up the., sheets of
tindery 'paper in a larger envelope and
subscribed it osrefully, ""Burned pap•
ere found in'Bolefwooe's rash box,"
with tits place and date. He olean-
ed up the cash, box and put ,the mint
stare and the papere bark into tt,
iecked,'it and tacit the key 'to the han-
dle, Osten wrote a label, "This box is
Stella Boldwood's pre•pertr, the oaty
tieing saved from her father's lodge
ngs. alar put the box in a locked
bookcase where he kept :some of his
most valuable books.
CHAPTER VI,
vas Midsummer den, and Stella
"fo 3'>±t very fond of olid I,ish. �s for ;'0l3 f'gutee, anti shoulders so bent an
i ' in a series of narrations be 'amts in fats study^ ober/ her ladyship. was
t 3t
5' at i bootie tier
reloaded b +'? neer la periods Yar
r o.
n al
F t de
3 g va an seeh a{
Y.' V � �
?r ih
' i e woo.
n'L lk y'•
{star$ing, este:! Ado._. . ;, >SLtli the Bible stories of that fora: •caY
hen l But x alt ere, >nd to bre top of , el arra :teaau e a r had barn Grade...' patriarchal world in w`eneet gee; anon and Stella always brealefacted with
the t�ztiee aver .'•o•itere, and 1 sl)<ttl try re ..:glia Is.trly i.ailitct:ii• lead Aaecoitie ra*steges- s tprotectionhttn. Site wms with hint this Morn -
be
y dwell under the personal
t: o: the tree at St. tieeptaen' R t y- ed to ilia ie$e.i apart he wan to cad his their iconstante n- lag, proud in the recitation ot her
beof th s God bolding o
d -b I etre ul in for aFnatgcrat i d
art y
radicalism." ` gradually donapiavard through the
" Victcr;an!'' cried her ladyshara, uee:l to wear, anti speak: of with rester..
ewe :a- "her ladyship's little attest-?, dart m'ys'tery of Egypt to the fair
grotaing r. alta with horror. .. dawn Of Greece. Arid Stella loved
• There's no one stweeeds ireae£ tblrx sterna.
e�` *i" - at hi,xtt versus ia a e: to ta• steric@ Verner that Lady
ria liw�ar of these fair myths of a world
Tour ewer. Rad. Yat. ie Zz t d dew turned ed for s nh a tlr , that is tlet)d. Ira tbe boat beneath the
!dr hast ager halo p�4 g,a^ the err Lash • r n o 9 In Y
lsx cite
sultriest Summar atter
mea at
L shm:ir. he even knitted. , first Greets verb. Smile repeated liar
ra'arrn curnfuraers for bice atiiielt ha > worse avhth heaven, and wortStng'
tat tbe Flottee tont sR. aged; sR ase been/ he j ::aged !shwa on the terrace that
shell, re in for the kind of t ricot that :sfterneee %%bib' be was taideit h1=;
s
Poor beggar 13u'awood prdeeelied ea (ea- , eatttst:eutional week.
tvi;t
erbin its innumerable tense with
very few ut•isrel;ee, and woii a kindly
word of approval from l,aalttnar,
"htpst little trla .t . your age would
r k'•1
he learning French instead, of C age ,
- be said, "hut ne there is teethe -age to
- the Freuelt a equal to Horner
moans, or Weide the Winter ales, eta language S
t{vixt fxtternoon tea and the eight or Plato, I would rather you should
learn Greek first and Emelt after-
wards."
'otters w,exo 10. to brarlttailt to-
gether,. The table was bright with
flowers, old English silver and old
SOIMIF. FACTS ABOUT KUMASSI.
The. Home of the Ashatatt Warriors -Then'
treeeteen 4)rctcs..
Three timer h eve thee turbu}ent war-
riors of Ashanti come into conflict:
with the British. The first campaign
began in 1807, and did not terminate
till 1826, by which time the Aslaantis
were driven inland. In 1873, the
Dutch forts having been transferred
to Great Britain, trouble again arose,
the .Ding fearing that he would be
gut off from, access to the sea.
The present Commander -in -Chief,
then Sir Garnet Wolseley, was seat
out toquell the disturbance. The
handful of British bayonets forced its
way to the centra of the kingdom.
There was desperate fighting at Am.
oaful, in which the British tortes suf-
fered heavily, the 42nd Regiment
alone losing nine officers and 105
men in killed and wounded. It took
five days' hard fighting before the
troops under Sir Garnet Wolseley
woo
their way into Kunhassi. The a•ity
was immediately burned and the king
i .
rode n t
east m
toah y
•� forced a F
w,sf eP 7
A threatened attack by Bing
Prempeh in the year 1894, on a tribe
under British protection. caused the
despatch of an, ultimatum warning
bilae not to enter British territory and
suggesting that a Resident should
take up his abode in the capital. No
satisfactory reply could be obtained.
so a tierce under Sir Francis Scott
was despatched to uonapel the obstia-
ate savage to comply with their de-
mands, The troops entered Kmarissi
without opposition in January, 1596,
and the .!ting was made prisoner.
Isuuaar.a.i is a elty built upon a bill,
and iss foot' miles in eirouuu.ferenee,
The "houses" are merely wattle -and -
clay buts, with roofe of palm leaves.
The Place will ever be shamefully
fatuous as the eeete of
THE HORRIBLE, ORGIES
of !arum blood inwhich, under the
en
guise tit ,<f s.acrlfioes," the drunk
tyrants who snccessively occupied the
"golden stool" used to indulge.
It was ono of the fetish men under
whonh the ghestiy ceremonies are car-
vied out that was the fount of all the
present trouble, He worked upon
Native chief while the latter was
drunk, end succeeded in rausiug fn
!lithe spirit of disafteetian. The tetish-
men is the outward and visible sign
of the peculiar religion, if it may be
tno called, of Ashanti. "Fetisbis n, "
says an authority, "implies bend in
the incorporation of a spirit iu souzo
object chosen as a fetish, either by
a simple gut of spuutanoous uhaice,
or through a magical operation. The
latter Le much mare wide -spread than
the former, and obviously presupposes
a belief in animism, Any object may
become a fetish, provided only it is
capable of being appropriated literally
Such objeots as flints, shells, claws,
or tnetapboeicaily by an individual.
twitters, earth, salt, .plantar, manu-
factured artioles, anything peculiar,
ar unknown, or not understood, trees,
streams, rocks, and even certain ani-
mals. Fetislhes are attached to in-
dividuals, to families, and to tribes,
and it is even not unusual to see theta
beaten and kinked as a warning when
they have foiled to bring the luck
that was expected. Even in the
orooked sixpence, and in the luok tok-
ens of our gamesters, there is some-
thing more than an analogy to the
fetish of the savage."
The Ashanti people are not exact-
ly dreams of beauty. They have tbe
well-known thick lips, and flat nose
of the West Coast African, and their
figures run too much to flesh below
the belt for perfect grace, The
women have a funny habit of carry-
ing their children on their hips. The
superstition of the Ashautis is the ( off and went away and never thought
greatest bar to their civilization. j nothing more about it, or I never
l , y alone Mr. Verner, bow well you 4ta'riters triliner, Stella's education was
heeeely; etoy 1 roan be as mita s lff ladyship. "ever ralavtt's going on an educatiohi or
l sheerer us dont ed k¢tuas anti 1 are . as.lt,ug l eridd iter
eas k wit of the l ouse. bathes se much bettor than twheu 1 left the legend and history, poetry and fact;
tst». "1 be the .� i3 ca.atle." Gabriel, Verner took the child to baud
toile like att..
vv t is eon ot the feu tlatuna been more in the op°•n !lir," repliaal the t:auiaht her to read and write and Englisltt silver and old >auglish chinae
ala;t e. "A era resent," se:t.I the e,IFt ,can, utnr,an:�c:aasly ens►ve.'iiig cil;lter. .rail the root was learnt at Stella gave a ere- of surprise and rap-
ttno.iiec. •'A mart Eatanalt Fag e°:tlter a ; "his , lure as slie took her seat. Under
twat as Lasltiratr had atlstaered, #r s 1"taltraar s lasses.
sa glittering
tens? singer ere :vat Or riga "tut s lordettip and I have been spending
And steric. in elle lap or luxury, tire- her folded napkin y t3 &
lug" entr deer oat the river during the !sate loved and ckc+ri;bed, Jonathan Bold -
,.
old f;
.. ,• , e i ` t",treat
�{.e :33I. L'R.L dt3tt a+ar'il ,. ii,
. .a ,, E r 'tiu:,c, ,gl?riau9 weather; Oce, here fali•.'ta our , at;trodrn dauglttor arrived at her elov
cotafia�n..y. "Ii 1 go reit, i* Il I,,,t•., :ant wane' 9utis'ltton—". enalb biraltday. :be bad rerxte'utbered
It ea n.. a goo melee .!»o thietrat?rw l:�ua It , #n.a bi.a 1: r IIQiabl� j Gate at playa bin -•- ber� leisttedey', noting a3 filar av:iti. ltt•.z.
-.,tetra Iwo. slut at duh•" taint:ter.'" tli.at rhro«rid etiiwtl." ixpttttrugrl ;.i Indy 'dark okifld wizb the aster-lil:a eyes !tad
Ia,icze ysaz €tt''U to cher gar;➢tl k:egua life, up.tn 3ladeunhlner day.
cat i aatetam, nail hcet eteeeitip leering 144,'3,4141.'"
•booth., t ,gra or., hd et siva h ter, 1C eaa tieeare near II gals sb't' � laxt Liebazar questioned her : ametunes
sate .,ur s A f�` "ie Lula girl i< h s 'st 'ie;,entbS0 .1tioiAt her earnest expecte-aces, He
txrthR<: -4 %➢3s twice; `.4u 4t.e e;A/t mat
Y'+a,U�4, :;tad e. very inte•ro ting ➢- .vetted Iter it liar" father bed ever hold
ttcKaim• > d4►r➢ as $rrfII :era tatsnHa; 'ttr+� inneen. 1 never ere Fri ,onng an her any icing about her mother. or^
ludas traa,us; GSi^l'lUr.et of vaneb stave .ial .It" 'tap. et itis oast► ltfrt.
`„;44, ;,n+ their p.tr Wg iiaire. �'se..want; it induce nae to Mutt with, Yes. Lie lied told her that he .vas
re:.. .+rhh:t t,,--.- oA. 54t"lrile+r3,,t, grad rntaco a enttetnatr Lhat he seas born
{� , rj`,arrp t'ea'ei"fai !) " her y"u• a)rl '.t{.t'G`�tartlA tit -t9 in ib_• poet➢last,' trf i�itx➢0 ,
5 P ,, f tree 1 tr vii zx➢,at great !muse sear tato 1
h 1 d Of a mine a b, ch: I must be sharp, away ou the Scottish border. .1 Ie had
�tct? at:; it:i; to Haat awai,ect aviaf^:'h as°:ta "
+l�t•lysiiibr quiakiy, '"thea is th, chi d hat tel and ougb.t to have hada rich.'This
"'1 ,innnk it must be hoettwwe heave; for au !tour every monma..
lie
.,, , iu a gre' u a sea,
wan wee tie the stet9eait to Meet ler, r • 61;a• 1
, r tepid her that her mother was boauti-
cunnia - own t i" 1lione,t," said baa
her due.
.'l -les uedne. ee and er
ti+et,^ rigihc. He !mal e
ase t„ ho ninety," she
and then, with a ;sigh,
"Poor �•ietori.en."
"'Mati brawn you hive ;,rotvn, L t' h
at tier WiL4 un se<1iteee and free thoat„lat. The child was all that Laelea er could obtain
rs iL eta iui„izt ..of ,t m til sh.r.e, ltttvlketuat !mown by hie questioning.
see 1 to berse'f. a Weise eutpiel:e:t only in doing chat tel,"f. - after all, the pee( history of Jona-
she murmured, 1 :tut nyet r,urprised that you should Lh.au lluidwood could matter very
thank the Chit+% eleven. A. few years.; little. Oely arta relit of tbe dead tau
, helize :'be shfalt be .t great deal too laid been erred trent the fire, A
roar. she said, a'l the sh'.+s'4 hand, clevor torr :my 01 uts—:t source of un- , smell, tin cash bons, with rite hnitials
"unaa hos.': well you are looking!"
sl it sow nr50.14 f --unless you, dear .` 113.. hod beau found among alae cakes
"1 i n .' 41 t nue orf talc lte:ttlsc b*.. alt, veneer, vara a .ere e, y.,ur and rubbie,h below that portion of the
,siuce You lett. 1 eulapuse it is ber'urte greet influNnee finer I,1,4btnur; for you gutted pile in which ifoldwood s rooms
1 !Lave lived more out of doure thea h,:.,, great i,afiuence over him. my bad beeu situated. It was identified
I need to do." t dear sir; he positively adores you. and . as his by a fellow, -lodger and was
"i shduulal attvise you always t!, I've `,think, your !look will revolutionize. ultfrau telt, handed over to Lashmar,
out of doors," replied his step -mother. 1l ur„pe:tu thtnit5lht." , together with the key found hang
tike stood upon her iraieorly next'1 .•you ,are too kind." ,murmured the ; fn:g on his steal watch=relent. Watch,
morning wraal,ped in her dressing- .trittut:s'iau aural ly. i chain and key were given up to Lash -
gee n.
ash-goeu. testing the eweeee freshness of '.'Yes, my dear Mr. Verner,' she bur: i mar ;after the inquest.
the air that sevept over woodland and ries en, "you must really bring your . The contents of the casket were dis
rneedu:e and rippled the wavelets <41 ..uperiur brain to bear upon poor ;ippon& ing, IP eon -tenni papers wettrh
tbe river yowler. l'ar away in the , ishuh.tr. Yea thus: show hire the , t he' smulie heti blackened So .1-3 ice !be
rose•g:erdeu—a quaint. old quadrangle I eaager involved in this folly of hie-- . utterly undecipherable. The t.rrginal
of turf and rose -trees hedged in with !Ela.. int'obu•�'h„ is preparing for hint- fume was there, but reduced almost
yea•. -- the saw awe figures -- Lash- `.c.f in size future. What is he to do to tinder. The twitter had vanished.
mar'. and a tittle girl in a white p w ih chi- ('h114 b'--:and-by if ehe should , The only uninjured object wen a
frank. Thr, child was flitting from "tuna :no nettle :and of coneys she will miniature in a double gold ease,
fluecer to flower. ! turn out brolly. 1 have a proft.und , which bad better resisted the action
•Ledy La-htnar stood for a long i be l -f i:i here litery in:.tinct." ; of the fire than the ill -made metal
time watching them. ! " Att t i. ,l..ar Lady Lashmar, have an box. The miniature was an o1d-
"9V;ta there ever such an absurb in- leg4;:,lly profoun,i belief .in education. ,;fashioned painting upon ivory; the
fatuetion2'' she said to herself, son- „Not for worlds would! I thwart Lash_ a portrait of a man in the prime of Life.
tehnrtueus y !char in /hie f ewe of his. She inter- A grave, sallow face, with Large, dark
este, she trrar:tsesa Trim, Tile takes him eyes and a high, bold forehead. He
nut of hiEn-elf ; nee think what a showed Stella the picture and asked
blessing tiro self -forgetfulness must i if she had ever seen it before.
e
chti
hn
withlad e
as
Watch. a
l {a ,
0
den 1i
tike a sere
The
ut. It
it li •
roiled rouroundF
heels of the watch Was enameled, and
on the enamel appeared the ivatiat
S. surmounted by a star in small
hrBlunts.
"Oh. whit a beantiftil watcbl' she
erten "whose is ter
"'Yours, Stalt:a, You. are so precise
in gtving tea my Medicine when I ant
ill that I ant sure you know
aha value of time; est 1 thought yea
{could like to have a thmeleeepor of
your own."
Stella ran to high and threw her
arms round his neck and kissed lion.
"I -tow good yeti are to pact You are.
always giving ate pretty things. But
a w•ateht I never thought I should
have a watch, like a grown-up per
sone"
"You are more thoughtful and more
exact: than many grown-up persons,
Stolle. You deserve to own a watch.'.
To be Continued.
It wae- nearly a week later when
she met the c'hiltt for the first time in
the corridor. Her lady.ebil: laid her
hand upon the child's shoulder and
bent down to scrutinize her small
sallow facie.
"1 shouldn'twonder if the creature
were tie grow up into 0 handsome no -
nun," thought her ladyship, "and
then the chances are that Lashmar
will marry her. Let me see, she is
five--itwill be twelve or thirteen
years before she is marriageable. And
in she meantime she may hinder his
marrying any one else."
"What is your :nacre?" she asked
aterniy.
"S:elle," answered the child, looking
up a: her ladyship calmly.
"Stella! A. fine theatrical name,
upon my 'word. 1 suppose it was
L,+ashmar who called you Stella."
"It was my daddy. He called me
Stella. Do you know where he is 1"
taskedthe ehild, looking up eagerly.
In another instant the herd, bitter
truth would have been epoken, had
not Lashmar come out of the library
close by and interrueted the converse -
tion.
"So you have been talking to Stella;'
be said cheerily, "Don't you think she
has improved to Betsy's caret"
"Ob., I like, her to look pretty 1 There,
you can run away, Stella, Run away
and get your dinner, and cone to me
again at four o'clock for your reading
lesson. Good -by till four,"
11e stooped to kiss her and dismissed
her with a smile,
Lady Lashmar - feltthe uselessness
of argument with tier , step -son. Trier
ladyship had wished to get rid of the
old bookworm tutor when Lashmar.
;O.THING SERIOUS.
Sweltering Passenger, on railroad
train —This window stioks so I can't
get it up.
Conductor—Yea. Wood is swollen a
little by the rain. It'll be all right
in a few days.
THE reit AL REASON,
Daughter—Papa, I tvish you'd get
me the New Universal International
Unabridged Encyclopaedia, oompleto
in ninety-nine volumes,
Father—Gee Whittaker !
you want that?
Daughter -Because
has one.
Why do
Clara Wayupp
FROM' HEAD TO FOOT.
Mrs. Noozy. She has a full-length
mirror in her boudoir. What do you.
think of that?
ilIr, Noozy. Oh, woman-like, I sup-
pose she wants to see everything
that's going on.
RETJRUB BURRO,
O,
SHORT STORY ABOUT HIS PARTNER,
WILLIA07 GQBBI I$.
—t
Brod at Great Head roe 1Fteares, cad
)tilt --flow 05 wothett out a sum in
aleexarat nave n Sleepintr Rey --,titer
Many ', eer» tie Ont rt,•tiard,
Hee
"I never bad any patience," said the
ired burglar, "with the men who
ve samples of their handwriting
bel
when they visit a pause, 'We
ve oarried off all we leave got
am for in the wagon; we will eoine
r the rest tete next time, '.Madam,
a do not like your pie, it is too
eet," and foolish things like that.
An.
besides being foolish it takes.
na T t' toh
ret
lea
be.
ha
re
fo
sw
4
did, anyway, for years afterward—it
t'd --it
must- have been fifteen years at least
---and then Bill told me the outcon e
of it.
"8111 was an older titan than I was
when we worked together, and only
a few years after that he sort of
practically retired. Oh, he used to.
go out now and theu and do some
easy job, but after a while he got
so he didn't even do that ; eta was get-
ting old, that's ell, and kind "o' out
of it .; amid for a long time Bill had
pooty bard sleddin' to get along et
all; and thea one day his eve hap-
pens to light on an advertisement in
the paper he took, saying something...
like this; jimmy, are you the man
that did the problem for mei If yotx
ore ngs, less time write these are, address so-and-so. This is to
!ziand so adds by so 'rusty taint your advantage.'
es to the length of time a man "Well, ys in a hoose. and thus Increases now, you know, among Dale.
er things, old Bill had instinct or iu
ul otof say nothing of the won-
terful foolishness, of a man's dabber- tuition or insight, or whatever you
ely leaving something that might call It, and be knew that that weer~
P 4
a
r t andalso t
e a al
from h
time 3'd b;
alt h
Y
t b.to t'
me m used identify plea
y by.
t.
ut
sta
his
d
at
so
th
lar
est
re
ler
tri
Go
an
ha
m
ate
tat
an
at
I ax
at
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t,t
fr
st
le
doat't suppose, as a ;natter of fact,
atableurg-
realburg-
,
up -and -up
any u.an u
g
p p
i
who ever act use ss of t
h made ne
er aid anything of tbat sort, any
ry, but 1 did know a man once, a
al protessianal he was, too, warm onee
t some marks behind ttliu. that
rued out later to Itis. great benefit -
'That was Bill Cobbles—William
fables. ,Singular name? Curious,'
d a curious man Bill was, too. He
d a great head for figures; nhathe-
aties. He could do sums with signs
d all that sort of thing just ate
y as rutting off a tog; it game na-
r'al to him, and ha liked it. Hill
d l was pa.rtuers, once, and time
an
again, when we've been all ready
td only waiting for time before
seting out, lave seed Bill set dowa
ith a stubby pencil and a piece of
per and figure away tip algebray
nd forget all about business, and 1'd
ittime o
when wasa t
in
tee t
atellhftaa
cart. Happy Ulan, Hill! He could
eget Itis troubles figuring out those
Igoe, I often thought I'd
aria algebray myself, but
I tN VEER I,IUX'1"1: Clfi+\114 IT,
"It Was While we were working to -
her thalt 13i11 come aeross that
ting where he tett his mak. lit
n a boy's room, that was plain
exaough, :tied thore was the boy him-
sett in bed, a yeaengsler tiff 1G or
thereabouts, and a vigaroue, whole -
owe -looking lad he was too, though
lane looked as though he'd rather sail
a boat or play belt than to 'castle
with figures; but !he'd been /riving
u set-to with figures, alt the same,
as we presently discovered, or as Bill.
did, because Bill was the boas; he car-
tied the Linty and I curried the kit
—throwing the letup 'round the room
and lightin' un the table where the.
Sheets of paper with the bay's figur-
ing on 'em was.
"The minute Bill's eye lights on
those sheets of paper he sets the lamp
right down on the table and sets
down himself an the chair the boy had
been sittin' in, leaving it right: where.
the boy left it when be pushed it
back. I could see u smile on his
face, in the light cif the lamp, as he
bent down over the papers, and then
1 see him Zishin' in his pocket for
tbat stubby pencil, and when be got
that out he smiled some more and
begun chalking down a few marks on
the paper with crosses and letters and
things that I didn't understand. It
didn't take him long, and when he'd
got through he put the pencil back
in his pooket and picked up the lamp
and we got to work again.
"Well, we went. through the house
after that and gathered up what th 're
was there that was worth carrying
ea
TH1UbFI WAS NO TRAP
and that it meant it when it said
"This is to your advantage;' and he
went and saw him, and, true enough,.
it was the bay; and, so Bill said, just
what you'd have expected hitt to be
from wliet w•e saw o1 hit when ba
a4ee a boy --a good, big,. bustling man,
and prosperous; but the curious tiling
about it was his story,
"As hill tells me, the boy was, when
we sate hitt, getting ready to go to
some college, and he'd all but missed
it, and if he'd ha' missed that aura
in algebray that he'd been 'rasttiai"
too with. the night we saw 'him --and
,it, 13111 tells me. lle never ectuld
tee done he the world—he'd ha' been
out of it, Thew along comes 13111.
and doles it just for fou; and. do you
know, tbe yout➢gster, when he sees it
on the paper in the morning, thought
he'd done it Himself in his sleep. Cit
cn rye he knew about tho
carrying
rryin
d
off the things. but alta idea of a me-
tbematieal burglar strapping to do hie
;lulus in algebray never occurred to
bigh, ;and 1 don't blare him. But one
day it struck bit all in a heap that
thele
man that did the Hum was the
burg; and then be pule in the`adver-
tlsemont,
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DISTANCES.
From Tien-Tsin to Tangku • 27 miles
From Taagku to Tutai 25 miles
From Tien-Tsin to Pekin. , 79 miles
From Tangku to Chung Liang Cheng z miles
From mouth of Pei -Ho River to the bar - • ... 6 miles
From Tien-Tsin railroad station to Yang Tsien bridge 17 miles
MAP OF T!FN=TSIN AND ,DISTRICT, SHOWING RAILROADS AND TAKU FORTS.
native cityis walled in with stone, while around two-thirds of the outer city, including the French, English and Germai concessions, is a tnud wall, The Pei -Ho'
The �'
River and the Grand Canal guard the outer city on the portion not inclosed within the mud wail.
t to Tien-Tsin is tracked ; thence on to Pekin it. is a double -tracked road. The mouth of the Pei -Ho River is guarded
The railroad from Tangku singleby non! forts.
The bar will allow only vessels drawing less than x2 feet 6 inches to enter' the river.
s d along over the double -track beyond Tien-Tsin repaired it as theymoved on to Pekin. The various villages, camps and roads
The international relief force pas,.e g �" , p 4
art* marked..
MOUTH OFTHE P ^IHo RIVER'`;,•,
PILOT rows iR
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"He told Bill that be thought he.
owed him a thousand dollars; then
raved him a year at least, in getting
Tato this collage; that maybe he'd ha'
woke up and got in lfihnsel1 next year,
but not that year, and so 13i11 had nest
ed Itihn a year, anyhow, and he'd pros-
pored fairly well; andhe thought
Bill's rake -oft for the year he'd sav-
ed him ought to bo about a thousand
dollars, if that was satisfactory to
Bill, as it was in a high degree.
"And it was ilia =akin' of 13111. He
bought a blacksmith':t shop there wan
for sale in the neighborhood of where
he was then living and went to work;
be was always a good man with tools,
and he turned out the best burglars'
tools of anybody in his part of tete
country, and everybody went to bint,
So, you see, here he was now, all fix-
ed a gain ; no more night, work, but
work that he like.;, and. that he could
do to advantage, and that was .profi-,
table, and comfortably settled down
for life, sure of good income as long
as he could lift a hammer; and all
through doing that little sum in alge-
bray on that boy's papers.
"Curious how things come about;
ain't it I It is, indeed."
VIOLENT DEATHS.
They Teritttnated the. Careers er hittnerotts
Scotch Soverclgns.
Taking tbe reigr.'of Duncan as the
beginning of authentic Scotch history
14 sovereigns out of the 25 before the
union of thecrown with England,
died violent deaths. Duncan, who bee
gen to reign be 1034, was murdered
Icy Macbeth, who was in turn mars
dared by his successor, MVIalcolin Cane
more, pieced by some as elle first
real Piing of Scotland Malcolm was
stain while besieging Alnwiok; Dun-
can II. was murdered; A%exander II.
died of fatigue and worry while mile -
tering his fleet et Oban; .Alexander
III. fell over the cliffs at Hingham;
Margaret the Maid of Norway waS
drowned at. sea ; Robert 111. died of
a broken hear( ; James I. was mar-
dared by his subjects; James 11:. was
killed by a cannon bursting at Rox-
burgh;
ox_burgh; James 11.3.. was stabbed by an •
assassin after the' battle of Sauchiee
buru ; James .LV. was bitted by the
English at the battle of 1!lodden ;
James V. died: of exhaustion and fev-
er after the battle of Fele 1Vloss and
Mary Queen of Scots . was beheaded
in 1587. Scai,tish annals' before the
time of Macbeth., 1030, are tconflicting
in character, and, historians, regard
them as in great measure legendary.
Tble evidence of tbe eerily ,chronicle,)
suggests the etrong probabiLity that
a large number of the earlier Scottish -
soverceigns<met with' violent. deaths.
Fuom the reign of Eugenius I., who
in Bial wale slain in battle by Maxi-
mus, the Roman General, no fewer
ilhien 122 orate of 4'6 are maid to Lava
died by violence in the various forms
of nasassi:;ttit.ion—d'rowihizrg, poisoning
or suicide: