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NYINOI'See9; OF PRECF.DING "What. a straw:re girt she
rof Co
ClIAPTERS.-ur
Secities vanish awe cried Daunt in erfuinte admiro.tiatililt
e
the stng-reeat owie:exit. Dandy
'Can you helpg
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aud Waldo, bankers. ear. Paseo of then tedhe - tt new 51
Scotland Yard is called la to solve "It shall be done" Fed le
the mystery. 'There are eito keys readies ; and it wed, terretPtIff fefeilneti
to the strongerooe--,e-dreeddelid_ ,isb...v 14?Arr.. seen his. love settled down in her
'Wald°. Partner, te
'''''r uldfls "'fatter new lionalt that be began his pre-
Stonsreeetwso elles.bef,_iehneenh.terfBa. and Jose. ttareljons for following Panchette to luau, ea acme Imo hail some ave.
Pbine. He reproacees Bola who is -Irtt''•• , and- tweety years* pollee experience,
an extraragaet elite:lite/et with as- „„„, --tvwlel.'rst °t ell neeesserY to ` anul was titeroughly maeter of his
pirations eo the Lend of dieleza /teen P.-ts incognito : if he: went peeidiar profeesion. A eziall man.
whhao. for hhh.h.,..a. oa„eraffea his see- Vilenhef if Ms deParture for the gale 'quick and active in voice and ges-
ter's dowry to pay his gambl..nt g 't eaPital were bruited about, es it
Its er,•,,uteteoo ie sesheetee ef theist:one/ certainly' be by the papers-, :tare, ore- wee al epetiOlea
once gave yon leis whole undivided
theft. A eeerebewarrant is taken '
,tee dact. might raise the suspicions ,:attention. rooking leanly at You
out ahaerat eim, eteme. pereugegs.0 ;•of doe Martinis and bis confederates- lwitli his briglat, immieitive cave, as
leentls anewerere to derptien of I:4e firPt :-.4....p. then, was to get to :thoege te read vow,. inmost
exisearg ireceritiee ore feeeel in his ,ireaie unoleserlot Ile had' n° illdens !tree:glare
zhddes,..d.dd 14" js convicwd c:All t:(3;:,.. -.0f l.nowing whether or .not any f •-wol, oir." see/ M. Acele, when
neau. where he lodged, he ga.ve the
nd ealled himself a na-
sal -no name, a
tive of Caen, in Normandy. In Bore
deattx he only stayed one night ;
thence went an through to Paris.
The hotel he had selected there was
little better than a miser). ineublee ;
but. it was quiet. and out of the way
of English visit ors.
It was situated at the end of the
qua' Voltaire. not far from the
Petals de Justice.
Sir Richard bad particular reasons
for residirg in this neighborhood.
He wished to be handy to the Pre-
fecture and the ebief office of the
French detective potice.
It was to the bead of it, or, as he
is knoun in Paris, the the de ea
surete. that he paid leis first visit
next morning.
Although in aspect still a young
teeced to eevea years renal servie'Cdeet&li had been eet oh- Ms 2U $h V' as intredeced. They
twee. Mrs. Waleo teases oa-fitanta, but he did rot eatill eteere rea frefees, lett nenetes dis-
fee uf ter: Ills allen wee to leeere the Allenty in grfee ai e enueneaate.,..... *on iebat ,
„td...„,• ....h ;fix ,h hh...h, ihhoo,...,... le re.eet breeel dee .tela. lett rot for any Of %a 3 1 !m?, to: ti,,IkririAVI to :you ?..
Wit . tgt,S ':' ::-: • ;',ets tee 51eleta;:: • tLe rilldd•ll"-- statilins wilieb pool:ea °I lerte etillea to eive some 3n33 .-3t. ate!, .t..t, 8.....z.c. for son," 1 oetenel Willeara s volume bee been
neeeey atel a:ea a feeteetive. tCt 74-,ett.:Za ; .`.' 1-...,,,, .t l t;,..•.• ..., ,.. 1 -tee vo lase icer,on te tleret teat a. crime doing good woe1e of late ie -----
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kr;:j.`• 4:311.0:p4 rtl 333...?, 'Pea i leea, eannigieed, fee:owed bo- oo Transvaal and Orange Itiver Ceiony.
',dee ereenleere the eaei in freele-eoat en i23;.; -1 1 23:01;."' : wegons. ;feel atout ille same teuriber
,eed te-: / n,-, oak's! event to 14-e.a4LIst • ..1 3„..,•,., it-eereeee re ; of prisoners. The et-eoinoenyine 11-
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fee.. itee, fearideg la „lime he /eft .fetilere of jitetive ir. tee ceeetetion of In ten days he eapturoa some sixty
ellaPTier,l,
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'haat reo emelt care to distross
4. euelegey turral nem& end self telre leettees foeeeen o OWO:
3°"trt-.4 'tele, a few dozen Yarda- coinary. ebat Fotne of tee reeeons
the beela oe.-eekere he detocttsa the imr•Ii,774 re neeee oreage ; eue
eate, Oldie:Seed el:emit:a him. 1173 1. re, fees 31re. Peva; I lalieve. atel
weal; he tree.: Nrk. tureed baelel it ir to 11- .3'33 r I ate: zeoer as -
too; 41er:ewe "
"Tbry ere tretehiee me. then," 'M r is Preuele ?" eal
ealti lieent to / 'esecei. "Ill
tees fehres a ee•-• 41.iree. It will re
cell if 1 Oredt eke idle tile ?dile"
end hr weeet ro elute
, ereenali alee teer the
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ev:r. 1: ,.„,....,. -, ii,,, ..r.--„ t., ^,332 --ed ear. ,3;r
¶.7: • t 7 ..L2 .r;:,7. "" =It la,it 4. into a. tiretecage
;fee* teer et% lean :de 7 e, lees i.7.,-;!•,,..,." • tro,ri7-?. nvid swa! eie eh allow sal
*algae !. ' erieti heriet, ee teter.a? leeehr erp,u3'.41::1 enter a. third. Bet ,Ireei c:e.rr ; we have tie ffe'te to go , that the privilege eheuld be extended nip;Ilt zulti 0014 to Fmk tile '.12 3110V34»3
eureriee eteleen e ili.r. - v.-1.,:i.ra ?.. lentet went cn to Liverpeol street. ,Iliton." : to them, et least for the coronetion, •wattsrs. it is a huppening
•14!':,... CIL'i 0:d :nether liteelde have 'earl there ehargeel getighly to the ' "Hut I have edeen Yell hie ee!!:trill- •and tee siaggestion will uniloubteilly i eu,oetroue. most *II/natural. It is us
most
had a eianerg rev:. Lot the eret it, undovereurd eleereerestrin lira eg tam, and his lli9i.abfe. Leon: tee celopted. • if the groves lied opened. and were
afeeeee. tut 7::S't:174;4; 1„3;;;f;F: C:;;;Le nleeh ee treveleal ra tar QS Gower „and the Je.et thPt. he the a gouche, :, TLerc are Ina tot living, women of parading* their sacred mysteries.
to a e''3i7. n't:;;','!":"..,,,?, t7,7;, Ont. Vi:‘.'!". Strt2et. ; or dreier. hie Jett leg. a ettre mark tef "Englisb dtacent who hold titles in- ,leor
4 nature.. bitving mule the oeta-
Cie was weeded • Mee Wedele e1eaded : Chi :::gregging intt.• the Ensten no:A :an 0141 gati1eYa'deve." Tile pus. as if she had become horrified
heri 1 ed or ereai tel for there.
Ler' C'q! F•1"-d1d1ilvd-Inel'd1 :.-lddd•l .;•--' 'id' her :,e leeleal reeteel. atei. reeing nothieg -: *It ii'l Net eneliell ; Lis tii.gua!emott :. most venerable of these is the Baron- ta her own handiwork, banished :the
effeet. end the nehe wee learil all (-4/ Lis Virille?, c.,7:41 'With a laugh. ei will m'd lielp us. for he is sure to be ., 4,.;,i.3 pardeiteteditts, who is now in creature to the grirvee of the ocean
other tile hedee- Tied nethet of it theek 1 have :11:11!it-na the feelleav off at in dill'oli$0 ; Leon is a common her reeler Seeeee 11 Year. Tier title -to there dieT, dark eluisms where
all eves tliet Pexeseeette welleel et? !eat •-" then, Levying eeesudee efe • ChriSt Ian ualne, asal there are thou.s- i was the eXpiOrer'S dredge penetrates
tle, eater, dae." aoottad. to bailee „ oath mai was ;fouls of. old sonviets in the country.' gielti•cncstai tr(;erhtinnallinvictoyglintioeivieloyf
'iciinidlY gropes it -while blindly, bringing
"Does' areeilodY haow what Ss to . driven to the Euston terminus. ae.bandon Ar. .1...eon for the present kh:rown"erountry. She has built end up fragmentary captures' that hint
tee:me of iver 9" A train wig, jrst. ;fleeting fer lea_ tteel sleek to Panebette." flail supports ehurches, seller:1s aud frightfully at frightful things that
"They say Pia= sterted for Pare/ by. 'leaden jimetiou. Itaunt tool:. it, and • eyou ean help me there, tan% 1u/spit:lir. and so. wise :and kin:11Y • dwell there in everlasting eight and
ties nigiatetriall." 'ii, quarter of an hour after he had 'you ?" are her efforte to lift the lower teas- in terrible comptutionsbip.
"WrAl, that is neteral enotigh. it eeached that main centre of our • "1 dere eay. Paris is a large place s.es in England filet ehe is foncilY 1 :MANY IN IffNCILISIX CHANNEL
lee her herate and she wonlii go there. northern railway aystem, but the Prefecture has inany ee•es, linown among them as the relieves: „.„.0311.
of eteiree ; but whet eeill she do. I ,- It was now little nane than onee and no one can escape it for long. of the Poor. On the day of the ' " Cape de la Hague to the
Channel Islands no net can be cast
vet:tiler, now e" said Iiaent. reteireer 'o'clock, ,Ncliat So you say this woman Fan- i Queen's Jubilee a vast procession of
over the annoureeirseet. d now without the sea nightmaree
i
;. °Tianmond ought to be here by ;thette 'Mantled to do ?" the lame and blind, orphans an
"crawling into it at once to strip it
"Helena's maid Say that Pan- this train," was ;Sir Richard's solilo- I "Her own fellow -servants declare neeey folk who lived on lbe bounter
, of Bele The visitation has extended
chette swaggered a good de.al abnut , quer. el hope he has made no inis-othat she meant to buy the good -will of the good baroness marched up Ple-
her Mum pas. It eeeres she Les: toke." If ail goes well I shall catch i of some shop a. a:enteric or a lin- eadiny, end surrounding her home teiNrt coast bathing resorts along
got together e gond bit of =clad: : :difel half -Past one exPeess: and be at gerie, or- the btrsiness of a. coiffeur, /aid homege to lier be- :music and , , and every tide brings
mei she thielts of bueing a business . Liverpool in time for dinner. Ha. i _;tmt there may be a thousand such cheers. contarteu forms with arms writhing
for herself in the milliner:: or Iir.- etkere he is." tad Sir Richard went ;in Paris, and le limo not be easy to The Countess of Yarborou,gh now
. as if in deadly agony. In pools
along the coast they Iie, some dy-
gerie, or ig:r-dreo-213g Hee." .up to rhere the faithful servitor was !find out her new aeldrees."
"We must feeiow Ler are! find out ' standing with a email collection o!1 "Ade have views and mo 311S in the 'holds in her own right the barony of ing,
others full of life and whipping
I expect Panceette will be of great baggage. first place, xf she has boueht a busi- Conyers, which hoe been in her fano ; i
the r sucker -Hued, snaky tentacles at
USC to us eet. It .s cpute evident !i "You did what. I told you ?" ask- • ness there will be a record of the lay for nearly four centuries. .all who approach them. „
transfer. A narrow search of the The title of Baroness Beaumont 1
that she Las fallen out with the ed Sir Riche:rd. The crentures are the most plenti-
Marqui.e., arid for the present, at any I °Certainly, sir. I drove with the iregisters will tell us what businesses dates back to the beginning of the •oa i th
In a English Channel from the
to him." by a child of seven. held
!proved caskets indeed to ships in -
rate, will ha.ve nothing more to say baggage to ' Broad Street station ; have lately changed hanes ; but, be- fourteenth century, • and is now i well -named Ctesket Islands, that have
'I then came on here by Chalk Farm." fore we do that, let us think for
I suppose it was the Marquis ?a 1 "There was a. chap saw me getting ten
nre Ivprereensseosf iinntgliiiesilil• •
what had occurred the tiay before. :think ?" , , deOscneent0 1 wtilro mar is e
'numerable along the curve that
Then Daunt passed on to describe, "Were you followed, do you one moment what She would pro -
I th le0-foot de th to the
eaid Bob. !into the cab who e,ame up and spoke
"I have not the slightest doubt of ,•to nie. Wanted to know where Ma-
lt myself," replied Da.unt ; "and it !jor Smith lived -the gentleman you
convinces me, in the first place, that know, sir, as has X22 ; asked me,
the fellow is not allat he pretends ; too, if I was going to the country.
and in the second, that he is a moo- II said my master was going down
ing spirit in the whole eillainy. But ;into Hertfordshire for a bit, and 1
we must know more about bile and was to meet him there with the lug -
'tel. to - etas
al who
are. dfer: aatto-
some wagons which formed part of
the convoy of Commandants Pot-
gieters and Venues. The attack
took place at the end of a rapid
night march of fifteen miles. and was
delivered by a company of the 21st
Monnted Infantry. It was a very
picturesque sight, the time being one
tam., and there. being a bright /noon.
The Boers were completely -taken by
surprise. The first thing they heard
of the proximity of Colonel Williams'
troops was their cheers as they
streek the convoy.
And the ebef oroefeeliel to explain
to :a. ;lobar,' wLat it was 3,,,e was
'wanted to do.
Daunt end tee eartective teen /el
tier Palais together, the 183140 pro -
maim; to tall at 1Le Hotel Turenne
witele a deo or two at the latest.
illef tair,tinactla,
093 ArD ITQ VIER they are there is hordes. They have
U.ed 4 44 1,, not attacked Mart: except to fight
hack as they were attacked. But
they have rendered Mall helpless anti
almost ruined the one mode of live-
lihood left, to bira in those water.%
BECAdille A PLAGPle.
The octopi made their mat aeeene.
once in the autumn of lteette They
did not, come gr;adually. Suddenly
ono day the eea around Sark,
Guernsey arid Herm, was full of
,tizezu. Fleeing from some imagivable
horror of their tieep eea halatant
that, whatever it Wag. wee mighty
aud frighteuing, euough to Creel:tau
evea them, echool utter school of
them came swieening., towerd shore.
Witeln a week they were a meattee.
TriosE olt.:Eziairx,x AlowswEas
OP TBE DEzp.
rarifaro.re
Xave in the G e the ocean.
-rish nee xis Them in
Te
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IN' TilElle OWN RIGHT. I'robaltly never since Last island,
lit the Gulf of .Mexico, was swept.
eway, forty -live years ago, by such a
P-etegeee Ileill Be .A.timitted. to the hurrietine us deetroyed Galveston,
i tool for ming mouths ufterwards the
: eine C.01°37%tei:crie fre7t.enlitiZeese.reetpe :deter:ilea of liartitario. oael Attila, -
“t ti -e '`I'lrer2."11'.1"4 1C'11.1g 1:clwer41 1.2;!..!,-1:j•-1,0411.4s.neTtulgItirt, gdoea(tiolAtililvst71.41"01%"?-
mkk-re, lee; a uehere /eau laid proe-
note so etteitigeey 148 IlitVi. lite 11eh-
eriee of the mirth Prench tweet. za
the tare three eintre.
ant the Wreeeli reLeratten are not
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1, ata be thee to the yet ri-;-',Et$ it
tht'ir 00;11- Tirey will he pre -
1, tl e cerseeerey. however, net
ee tire. it4.-Ont14',1+
111:1''0, 1.,1'3.11, IT Lee, the Kiva
• n theare. re th taret. eferare
0; ; 4:343 om„ 4.4 1 Ei.glish Ceanuel are living
iere of tire re.ilte. whe wet 4' :411f4elit 1.CA t dererharis t1341 lagliP tiviinr;
•
33' 193 se 'alley te.of „ foe ZtI 11C.tt. have their Laing' on the
only of tee Iteeee Vol,.4,11011.,, eme.,13 ,
1.11 to the tel
r :re zit of a oarlizimentety cone- dhohod hao ,rhey crawl idth i„hhied
:e ie.:ea/eel •ent. : tee; taid-hee to ermsi`ler 13-33(41 11 °1 • creb traps and 1111 them with the
. • -
inar of their bodies anti the ink
k;e3." are octopi. They l'aeten to
herel linen anti Vali thent of the
yore. t.re j7e. z 64 1 :e errant ;eel Ka; ac • e ee 11
t1all;;:11 wi..df dilhe e 0* 33a1 "41. 4•""'. v.3-4124-0 1-4/433 1"" t• hat they equirt Its scum ter /Ley
e'e'al,*47 thdd. i" 1°, '-..„*.. s...3 „c4' ',,:elr41,"4"Ii!,:es Pk'' vl*.a" tb' li''' "i find littera-elves captured. They
to 1...,:tli.:,:‘ 'taw. ;,:z..3. -4-...e;,. 4..i t1,33: r 34:,Z.+0. , i.orfas fA3o33141 not 1,0 ere-, e ek for he „weigh down. the tioep nines and
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t•,,,tt-rt . Y.41 1...s.av.' a:A.1, t,..TAI int% eet eer,inene. Amalie teeder iiite'r*"'""F .ellitg to boots and oars and the
'theres whitix 1138 comnievion diveite- feeterteen toemoth.es.
, "Wey, 1„1.- 331.331.31-%;::g teee Foie; ered eves tli* fort that the l'ehm-sf'8r A vest catastrophe, of which the
1, di ...e; .51.;,e, ea 4 f C -t;vi'.';'. ; It4 UT ?,Lart' rfe established rieht to iippear aef000 heoth wilt he looms ay mut.
• 3,,11.301::. lee oa the (1 t..%3 el' lesua iti, tee Heave of levee, either on or- ,hoo ouppessa
.: caet re • in the eecret deep
,Ilefary or epecial elecaelone. But it. • 021.3vs Of the outer Atlantic Ocean
tot 1'1344, :'Vt'aS the 01-1:21e21 01 the tIlMnib'St" and has driven these ereaturee oi
for that I rely on you."
"What can I do ? You Lnow you
have only to toil inc."
"You must replace Inc in keeping
your eye on the Marquis, for now he
Wiil not give me a chance of getting
near him, and we cannot. trust Hag-
gle and Homy any more. Besides,
as soon. as I can get about again, I
shall start for Paris."
"Paris ? After Fanchette, I sup-
pose ?"
"Precisely. 1 know ray Paris ; I
ean speak French fluently, and,
thanks to my legal course there, I
am well known to the magistracy
and at the Prefecture. It will be
odd if I do not come upon her track
and hunt up all about her."
gage."
"Capital, Ttunmond ; that throws
them completely off the scent. But
here is ray -train. Mind, I must have
a carriage to myself. See about it,
will you. rand tip the guard."
When the 0.30 train reached Liver-
pool a very'different person descended
from the carriage into which Sir
Richard Daunt had entered. Instead
of tam young baronet, " with his
slight, active figure, this was a per-
son inclined to corpulence, dem 'walk-
ed with the staid, ponderous step of
middle age. He wore a trim -
middle age. He wore trim -cut whis-
kers, and not the light brown beard
of Sir Richard Daunt. His hair
also Was grey and very long. He
"Shall you start soon ? Shall we was dressed in sober clothes, had a
see you again ?" asked Bob, a little broad -brimmed hat, and round his
awkwardly, but with eivident•anxiety neck a rather crumpled white tie.
"Josephine would ltIce-I mean she His gold-rineraed spectacles increased
th�. solemnity of his grave face, and
his whole a.ppearance was that of a
Dissenting minister who had got
rather a foreign. look from a long
course of Continental travel. t
Thus disguised, Sir Richard Daunt
drove to the 'Stork Hotel. He se-
cured a room theire, giving the name
of jotiale, and an address in Paris.
Next morning he embarked on board
vaults -
"Go on, my dean Bob. 'You know,
or ought to know, that I ara 'a.bso-
lately at her and your disposal."
"We are thinking of breaking up
our little esta.hlishment in Pimlico.
.1 am going on a short provincial
tour, and Joeephine is anzious to
reeve to Chatham."
"To Chatham ?"
the dear dud is to be trans- one of the Pacific steamers, and a
ferrod to that prisone and Josephine couple of days later landed at Bor-
is anXi088 4,44, be as near hira as deaux.
possible." In the books ate the Hotel
ably pie et. le crernetm, think,
Wo may leave out of the question."
"But why ?"
"It would not be in her line. A
lady's -maid would not care to raix
herself up with the sale of food. I
doubt very much whether she would
take to lingerie ; it is an intricate
business that requires some special
training. Now the hairdressing is
different. It is part of the lady's-
inald's daily work."
"But are not coiffeurs in Paris al-
ways men ?"
"There is DO reason why a woman
should not be a. proprietor and em-
ploy male assistants Yes ; think
we will first , exhaust that line of
inquiry. Let me see, in whose heeds
shall I put it ? Jobard ? Yes, So -
bard will do," and, touching his boll,
the chef summoned .that Subordinate
to his presence. "You wish, I pre-
sume, to preserve your incognito ?"
he went on to Daunt.
"I think so ; it will give nee a bet-
ter chance With leanchette if we find
her."
"What is your address ?"
"For the present, the Hotel Tun -
011210 ; but, if I am to stay here for
long, / shall take an apartment,
provided you can recommend nee a
good, safe .servant.
"We will see about that by-and-
by ; but here is Jobard."
And as M. Acme •spoke the door
opened and gave adinission to a tall;
well-dressed, Middle-aged' man, with
a pleasing :countenance and a mili-
tary air. e: •
"This ts Jolia,u," said theachef
to his subordinate,. "He has need
of. certain information Which I think
yciu will be able to procure. The
matter is secret, and- of the utmost
import ance,
awn right is, tiddler ehougli, an Amer- Channel Islands. Of those Channel
ican. the daughter of a New York :Islands 0310' 18 Sark -the island of
merchant. She is the wife of Count j Victor leugo's devil -fish, described by
Von Waidersee, recently commander :lam in "The Toilers of the Sea."
of the allied forces in China,. The ;Sark's marine caves, he one of which
Emperor ef A.ustria conferred on her 'he laid his scene of the famous fight
the title of Princess de Poer. Her i between the . octopus and his hero,
first. husband was the uncle of the inow contain, not one, but herds of
German. Empress. the gray things, "brooding in the
abyss."
-0- They are not such raonsters as ho
e idescribed. Pew of' them are larger in
In the province of Verona, n Italy, the body than a man's head, and
3,800 people 'were victims last year their tentacles rarely are more than
of pellapa, a disease resembling lep- ten feet long. Their a.verage weight
fiLllES *WITT' YOB
TitirLEs DETECTS:4'ES LOOld.
FOR PIRST.
Forgoes Injured Thumb Brought
Rim to Justice -Watch Con-
. vieted Nurderee.
. Ally manicure can tell you thdt. 11
takes between 105 aud 130 days for
a. new fluger-nall to grow Upon the
hand of a man in ordinary health.
according to his age. So any bruiso.
or other mark received on the''white
crescent at the base of the nail will
tato as nemey as possible four
months to disappear -a little shortee
time in the case of a young elan'» a
litt'e longer if the subject is oven
forty.
it waft Lnewledge of this fact
that elabled a detective to arreet the
forger Simpson in Paris in emie,
1817. lee knew, from Simpson's
iandlord in Bristol England, that- a
window sash had elipped and pinchee
the criminal's thumb during the first
'Wee:: of Marchaa few days before lie
leZt England. The black blot was
just disappeariag from the end of the
nail when the detective met Simpeon
in Paris four months later. It was
the only clue, for, by shaving
head, anti dreseing like a. pricee, the
forger bad absolutely disguised Idea -
self.
The number of cities each of us ear.
ries with us every day of our lives,
anti by 'which detectives could surely•
identify es, is endless.
Take clothee first of all. A e'et.
as a rale. gets all his clotbes front
dhe etteee tailor; but, whether he does
or not, and however earefully he en-
deavors to cut off every tag and
Mark, that, tailor Would have 330 Alia
neulte in identifying the garmente he
has nutde. Thread. stitehing, but-
tons, linings -
ALL, 11.11.1, THEM OWN TALE -
More particularly so do what tallore
ell "specials." Thew are eimply
sr poeketS-iountain1+011 533(1
pencil poceete, eyaglass pocket',
wa.tch poeltete lined with wash -leath-
er, -cigar, ticket, flask, read. haler
waistcoat pockets.
A watch brought a ninraor.4 to
jutitice about tour years ago. It wan
11-4. a stolen one, but Ids own, that
he had lied for years. Ills defence,
W43.'3 ea very nearly mils:,
•
021 3. 1,. au een in It
' Eligaind, seene of the critue,
wetlan three months of the dole Of
tit. murder. Halt not one of 1.0 de -
:Weaves eneneed in the case legit for-
m- rile towel" ° • '' I 1
•
mare would have got. OIL rtitt
the criminal's watch -rase was the re -
tore, written so that only a, watch-.
melee' could read it. that the watch
had b en in the bends of a jewfilty
Sr repairs the very day before el.e
murder. The Wa I eh was etibmit tei
to a, tratular of Hull wateleentatene,
end tit last reale-niece by one who
had put into i3,. a pow mainspring.
Th. elibi watt brolien tlown, and in
the end the prietmer nuttle a full con-
fession
Only one elan in 2111 eark be aro-
nettneed physically perfect. Malty ft
num who is 41 splendid athlete, mei
in excellent health, would be auureed
to find how unevenly made he ie. it
he got biniself carefully tested-etithee
THE MEASURING TAPE.
Either one arm or one leg is 'longer
than the other, ime shoulder Ligher
than its fellow, or, still more fro-
geently the eyes are quite different.
The fact that the pupil 01 3138 reit eye
WAS larger than that of the right
causea the emartolition from Spain
two years ago of a very celebrated
swindler, who is eow undergoing
seven Fairs' penal servitude,
rnte noee is very seldom strrJght,
but leans either to right or left, ac-
cording to which side a Person sleelee
A man who suffers front intligeStion
ahnost invariably lies far over on
his right side, as la that positiou 130
Is most comfortable. Coneetyiently,
his nose is almost certain leaLe bent
to the
But, after all. it is a man's mouth
which goes furthest to give hint
away. The man WhO has ever gone •
to good dentist has lett behind
him a life-long record which would.... o
enable that eractitioner to identify
him with absolute certainty. Such
a dentist makes notes of eepry tooth
he stops, and more particularly what
he puts in it. Stoppings are of
dozens of different kinds in these
days. Plain gold or plain tunalgion
is comparatively rarely used. Gold
and platinum in. various proportion:a.,
and many other metals al•e employed
so that, unless a crIminal has all his
teeth. lulled out, he can enost certain-
ly be identified. Even then a plate
is as sure a chi as a coat.
for the eel/ fled before them. \Vitale
a nueitli they „were a plapete. Within
.two months they were the groat est
tor. the tealermen -of tee Channel /ea
‘lands told of tito Narmitudy coast
ever hell to gontend with, and now
they have Peemee a oak:mit:v. 1
.1 For the cetopi have not returned
Ito their Lille:en home in the ecean.
as men impel they would, ineteati
each ;year Las even more ot them.
,Whetiter the mainown 043t854 0(413130
has rendered theic old luritieg phiees
uzinlitibittiele or 'whether they ha:Ve
kiMillti the rieli waters of the English
'Clunatel more congenial, nem can
any. Ilut scientists and ichthyolog-
ists believe that the octopi were
driven from their homes outside, of
the leuglish Cliannel, in water a
i themeand and more feet deep, by a
. melon felling off of their food sup-
ply. and that it was starvation that
hoe 'forced them to seek the ineliore
i waters.
MILLIQNS DESTROYED.
A mighty feasting this has been
and is. The food fish that have
. been destroyed since 1890. are count-
ed as millions. litit, there is another
feasting that the human mind, hap-
pily, cannot conceive in its appalliug
details. Could a num look down
into the sullen sea off the 'Casket.
Itocke, where in thirty fathoms ship
lies by ship, what sights sufficient to
blast the Vision forever from a hu-
man eve /night not be viewed 1 Con-
ceive the unearthly herds that come
'to pesture in that lost place of the
1
, drowned dead 1 They do not. swim,
or float, or drift, or walk. Each
bulbous, tentacled thing spurts
water from its mouth and so darts
backwards with incredible swiftness
with a motion like nothing else that
113-438. Eight tellttlaeS, each quiver-
ing ond sentient with an evil life of
its own stream in the -current. Two
immense eyes, unlike those of any
creature that ever was, flat as •the
ghastly face pieces that are fitted in
coffins, ae•e at the head of each
slimy, pallid bulb. Those flat disks
do not gleam. They have light, but
it is the dim light. of the sea that
they reflect. dully.
But those serpentine, Murderous
erms, those- dead eyes, those soft,
pulsating, leprous bags' that are
their bodies still are not the worst
of the octopus. Par from appalling,
unnerving is this : The aspect of the
monster is that of a living creature
without a soul. Here are motion
and intelligence and action and fear;
but they belong to a thing from an-
other world. No other living crea-
ture looks like that ; no -other in-
spires such dread and repugnance.
Of -the 104,000 foreigners who re-
side in Paris, 45,000 are Belgian;
and.dn is from ten to twenty pounds. But 11'000 British.
.
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•
SHE WAS THE CHERUB.
She was just married, and when
she asked her husband ter a chequ
for $50, what could he sictebu I'
her one? But as just then he WaS
deeply» in love he lined up the cheque
thus: "Pay Sweet Little Cherub
$50"; and next, in an absentaninded
way, forgetting altogether what he
was doing, he struck out "Or bear-
er" and put in "Or order." •
She didn't notice what he bad done
and if she had she wouldn't have
known the meaning. So she popped
into the bank, and walking up to the:
man, at 'the desk handed him the
cheque. Ile looked at it, grinned,
and then „began to show it to the •
other fellows: But the sigeature
was right and the cheque was a good -• ' •
one.
"Madana,"' he said, "this cheque is •
payable to ordeia"
"Yes," she replied, "I ordered AY"
"Oh, that's not the point," he ex-
plained. `13e33333, payable to order
W13 can only pay it to the person in
whose favor it is drawn."
"Well, that's- me!" she- smilingly •
replied. '
"Indeed," , he said. "Are you the
Sweet Little ;Cherub?"' -
e"Of course; we're . •only marriee
earee menths1".
''Thert," he added, ''plees AVz•
`SuNft Little Cherub' and sign you)
name 'alder
She did it, and•got the money.
.12,000 volunteers nag:,_ 280 British
lifeboats. "