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HENRY NORBERFS
Of The Death of Theodore Knight
BX HENRY HARLAND, IN TRE "New ream Henatn,"
CEIAPT1fPi I,
I have been eonvloted of the murder of
Theodore liuight, On next elonday morn•
ing I am to receive my sentence from the
lips of the Judge who presided at my trial.
The burden of that sentence will be oon-
fiuemenb at hard later for the toren of my
natural life. And though I am innocent of
the crime they have ooavloted me of, I be.
iteve I shall be able to eupport my punish.
anent with Boma degree of indifference. I
have suffered so much during the past year
that my capacity for suffering enema to have
become exhausted, But there is one thing
that still has power to cense me pain, one
thing thab I cannot bear with any Bort of
equanimity—one thing the mere thought of
which pita me nearly beside myoelf with
despair—and that is that you should deem
me guilty.
The true story of the death of Theodore
Knight I told upon the witness stand at eny
trial ; but it was in itself eo improbable a
story, and I told it with so little deter,a0
little verisimilitude, than I suppose nobody
who beard lo plead the least °rodenoe in it,
1 was laboring under great excitement and
nervousness, my mind was woory and eon -
fused, my heart was filled with wretched-
ness ; and eo by my testimony I suooeeded
only in making an unlikely story seem more
unlikely still,
I am alone now, and in quiet : I believe
that if I bend my whole mind to 10 I shall be
able to tell that story over again here with
such fullness and exaotneee that you cannot
doubt it, provided only that you will do me
the justice of reading it through. I oeunot
bear to have you think me guilty. I can
bear anything bub that. To have you de-
spise me as utterly base and ignoble, to have
you think nee guilty of the orime by whioh
your happiness was destroyed—I cannot bear
that. I implore you to read what I shall
write to the end.
As you know and was established by bhe
prosecution at my trial, Knighb and I were
old and intimate friends. Our friendship
had begun when we were freshmen at Col-
lege and it continued for five years after our
graduation. We oome from College to the
city together and here took rooms together.
We had no secrets from each other and
$night know how deeply I was in love wibh
you. He was the first man to be told of our
engagement end the first also to be told when
that engagement was broken off, From that
Meeting with you ab which you confessed to
me that your heart was changed, bhab your
love for me was dead, thab you, knew you
never Gould love me any more, I went home
half crazed with pain and poured all my sor-
row oub to Knight. Ho was my confidant.
He knew the whole story perfectly from the
beginning to the end.
After that I went abroad and remained
there for three years. Then I came
home. Nob then I had got over 10, bat I
was sick of Europe. I had found that
absence and distance from you did nob help
me. I craved a sight of you, 1 longed to
feel that wo were near each obher, that I
was in the same city with you, and so I came
home.
Knight and I had not kept up a regular
correspondence while I wait away. I had no
heart for writing letters, and Knight, as I
knew very well, had always regarded letter
writing as the most irksome and disagree-
able of tasks. Bub shortly before I sailed
from Havre I sent him a little note warning
him of my coming and so I was not enrprised
to find him waiting upon the dock to
greet me at my arrived. 1 was nob sur-
prised, but I was greatly pleased. We had
not seen each other for three years, and no
two friends were ever closer or fonder than
be and I, Our meeting wee of the most
cordial nature,
By and by he asked me this question :—
"And the wound, old fellow, the wound that
drove you abroad, it is quite healed by this
time, 1 suppose?"
Then I told him no ; bhab the wound was
open still, He was silent for a little after
this. Then all at once he said :—" I must
tell you something before we go any further,
Norbert. Ib will pain you, but it would be
wrong for me to let things go any further
•without telling 70 bo you."
He paused, and I said, "Oh, I suppose
•she's married. I have made up my mind to
that."
"No, the isn't married yet," he answered ;
"but she is engaged."
" Weil, it makes no difference to me," I
said. " I have understood all along that I
must expect to hear of her engagement or
marriage sooner or later."
For some minutes now Knight did not
upeak, nor did I. At last, " You do not
ask who it is that she is engaged to," ho
said,
"I dun'b care," Baia r,
"But you must? oare. Thab le what I
mueb tell you," he insisted.
" Well, if you must tell me, tell me," I
returned,
" She is engaged to me," he raid in a very
low voioe.
Whet happened then was proved by the
prosecution at my trial. We had a most
violent genre!. I was wild with pain and
aotoniehment, and I said things that were
savage and unjust. He retorted hotly. The
reeilb was that we separated in anger. IO
was my fault entirely. He had done nothing
that I could rightly blame him for, nothing
dishonorable or unfair. So our long stand-
tingg.friendehip Dame to an end.
It was further proved at my trial that we
did not meet agars until the night of the 6th
of May—the night, than is, of his death.
'On the next day, the 7th of May, yon and
he were to be married. Ib was proved that
two or three days earlier I had written him
s note saying that I felt that I had been in
the :wrong in our quarrel, and that if he
'was willing I should like to see him once be-
fore his wedding and sleeks hands wibh him.
I said in my note that I knew, of course, we
never oould be Mende again in the old way,
;but thab for the sake ofourformer friend,
tsltip 1 should like to meeb him once more
and take bath the bitter w orde that I had
spoken ab our separation, That note wet
out in evidence as an exhibib ab my trial,
And the note that Knight replied by request.
ing me to call upon him at hie house on bhe
evening of May 6, at ten o'clock.
CHAPTER II.
As I have said, I told the true story of
my visit with Knight on that evening, when
1 was a witness in my own behalf at my
trial. Now I will try to tall it again, with
,greater preoieion and detail.
I rang the door bell of hie house ab exact.
ly ton o'clock, The door was opened to me
'by Knight himself, who without speaking
gave me his hand and led me into the hall,
Schen, after the street door woe Closed be,
bind ue, he said, "Harry, I am very glad
that you have oome. I thank you for offer.
dug to oome.'
7®,\JHere is a strong man, Heil in all the good
of mind have you wrought yourself into ? OUR SILVER .AND GOLD.
things of life, and ius0eed of enjoying basin The , , ] ., , ,,
"1 Deals] not help it, Theodore," said
" I knew" had been quite wrong in our qu
rel. I had no right to begrudge yen yo
better luck. I could not feel easy in
conooienoo about it. I thought ib would
good for both of ue if before you married b
we should meet and I should withdraw t
tillage I said that day."
"It le very generous of you," he ane were
"My happiness would have been grave
alloyed if tomorrow had conte and gone a
you had remained my enemy."
Afber that neither of us spoke for 00
time, Finally he said, "Come up Mai
with me, to my den."
I followed him np stairs to the bath roo
on the top floor. lie had fitted it up in
most luxurioue manner is a,library and stud
There he bade me be seated, and, prodnoi
u bottle of wine and glasses, be said that w
must drink a cup of kindness for the sake
Bulbi long sync, eVe drank together and the
he oat down opposite me, and for a while w
were silent,
" Well, Theodore," I began at last, "
there ever was a mortal whom ;mothmight reasonably envy you're the man."
That was the thoughh whioh filled m
mind, the feeling whioh filled my hear
how enviable he was, and bow I envied him
What single good gift had the gods withhel
from him? Hero he woe, thirty years] of
in glorious health, with abundant weal
perfect independence, an innooenh soul, an
to crown all, you for a wife 1
Yee, as I spoke, I saw come into his fan
a look that puzzled me. Ib was very fug
tivo; in a second it had passed. But it lel
ma with a vague feeling of misgiving. Hi
lips had parted alightly, his eyes had becom
wide open and fixed, with pupils dilated
his general expression had been that of mud
den fright—the soared look of a man abrupt
ly startled by a reminder or an intimation o
impending danger. Ib foroed upon me th
conjecture that Knight had in hie min
some reason for anxiety, for alarm, whioh a
ray words had recurred to his consciousness
bringing a twinge of terror. Bub, ae I say
1b was very transitory, oroaning hie face an
departing like a shadow.
"Yea," lee rejoined, "I am singularly an
richly blessed. But your inference isewrong
I am the lamb enviable man alive. 1f i
were not for one thing I should be bhe hap
pied, My happiness would be unmitigat
ed, absolute, But as it is—well, 1 giv
you my word, you err if you envy me."
"One thing," I repeated, "There's th
humanity ot ib, Everybody has one thin
too muoh or too little. Well, in your ca
what does the one thing happen to bait'
"A truth of life to which my eyes have
been opened, to whioh I cannot close them
any more," said he.
"What truth of life,"I questioned.
Knight waited a little before he spoke,
gazing the while abstractedly et the wall.
Then, "I doubt if you will understand me,"
he reburned, "It will be better for you if
you don't, perhaps. Though, perhaps, in
a long run, it is on the whole beet to ac-
knowledge the truth. You were always
very imaginative, Norberb, and therefore al-
ways very sympathetic, If you were lea.
eo, or if we had not been so intimate, I
should not dare to mention 1b to any one
SS yet—not even to Elinor. I have never
mentioned it, bub I believe ib is never alto-
gether absent from my thoughts."
" And it is --?" 1 prompted, as he pans.
ed.
' It is this. It is death. It is the fear,
the constant hideotte anticipation of death."
His face was ghastly as he pronounced the
word. All the color had faded from it.
Even the lips were whitish, and it seemed,
too, all at once to have lost in substance and
to have changed in etrnabure. It seemed ae
though the cheeks had become sunken, the
eyes hollow, The corners of the mouth
were drawn down as if ha suffered physical
pain.
dhooked,perplexed, frightened—"Deabt?"
I repeated. "The fear of death ? What do
yon mean 1"
" Yes, death ; the fear of death. Ib is
that whioh blacken the whole sky for me
and tunsmy life into a nightmare."
" Bot I don't understand. Do you mean
—for God's sake, do you mean that there is
anything the matter with—with Elinor ?"
" No, no ; nob Elinor, Not Mies Kingslake,
Myself. he knowledge bhab sooner or
later I have inevitably got to die, and
the frightful unoerbainby when death may
oome. How do I know? I0 may oome
twenty years hence ; it may tomo in twenty
bourn, in—in twenty minutes," He shod. welt-
ingand ebrank deeper into his chairwelt-
ing a glance around the room, as if he fear-
ed that death in person might be lurking in
one of the Corners, It was a moeb distress.
ing sight—this strong, young and otherwise
manly man thus overwhelmed and undone
by extreme terror. "How do I know?
What do I know ? All I know is bhie, that
it is bound to oome some tine. Isn't that
enough? Tho horrible, uncertain imminence
of depth 1 Oh, ib is hideone 1 Ib turns my
life into an agony, an unceasing suspense
and horror. All day long, everywhere I go,
it goes with mo, and at night, if I sleep, I
dream of it. See 1 We are seated here in
comfort?, in seouriiy. In what we tall emir.
Sty, ab least. But where is there the walled
real mouthy agoinst death? Not in stone
walls, nor iron bars, nor suits of mail, nor
chests of medicine. How do I know thab I
may not be dead before this time to -mor.
row f"
He leaned forward, speaking with intense
passion, And thab soared look was vivid in
his faoe. Now be Bank back again into his
chair and breathed quiok and bard, as if ex-
hausted.
"Good heavens, Knight," cried I, "do you
mean to say that you've got heart disease 1"
He laughed—dryly, untnirthfully, "Heart
;th
disease 1 Hear the materialfsb 1 No, noth-
ing °at sorb. I'm in perfect health. I
haleerrh disease."
"Well, then, for the love o semen, why
do you bother about deathf Have you an
enemy prowlingaroand afteryoo with a load-
ed gun 1"
"I don't believe I have any enemiee—no,
Not now, that you and I are reoonoiled,"
14We11, then, in the name of common
ono, why do you bother about death 1"
"Nave I got bo die some time or not?
Can 1 hope for immunity from death ? Can
you, can any man, assure me than I shall not
be dead within a week? How, then, may I
help thinking about death ? Shall'I drug
myself into obliviousness?"
"1 confess, Knight, I'm at a loss, You
nonplus me, Do you fanoy you're an exoep.
tion to the rule ? We've all gob to die eons
Ono, I'm o,edibly informed. Bat those of
us who pooaeso Dane brain in sound bodies--
we lone waste muoh strength worrying
about death. We get our lives fractured and
lot the oompaniee do the worrying. Suit.dent unto the day le the evil therebf. No,
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restrict,.
A Sb. Louie reporber the other day mob
Mr, frank Triplebb, the minieg export of
that oley, who had just rotutned from en ex.
hauetive examluation of the mineral mouth -
es of the hitherto unknown dietriot to the
northward of Lake Superior and the Sae-
katohewan country, Mr. Triplett le a "Mile
in,hie estimate of oho Saekatenewan Diu.
Grid and it ie evident Ghee hie observation,
in regard to the agricultural recourses of thin
region were very superficial. In reply to the
ling and shattering at the thought of death!
And that op the eve of his wedding day 1
Tomorrow he's to bo marrled, and to•nighb
ha talks of dying 1 Psbaw 1 You're mole
bid, puerile and cowardly, A oeneible man
never thinks of death. ' Liber Immo de
nihil minuequam de merto poem,'"
"That, Norherb," Knight rejoined, "Is
the falsest word chat ever a great; philosopher
spoke. The very contrary is true. It is the
emancipated man—'liber homo'—the man of
courage and soli htenmen0, 1b le he who
dopa think of death. Nob bo think of death
is oatrioh like, is indeed puerile and coward- goeotion whore his Iieot pllgrimageifiad taken
ly, and I may say morbid, Death, the one him, Mr. Triplettaaid : "I wont first to Port
inevitable and universal experience, the one Arthur, on the northern shore of Leko So.
birthright in which all men share alike, the
common goal to which all life !a but a i,re•
green, the aonolueion, bhe solution, the fifth
aot of this mystifying, inexplicable drama
of life—nob think of it 1 Here is life, a
Sphyax enigma, perpetually vexing the mind
and the soul of the man who has a mind
and a soul to vex. There is death, which
holds the enigma's key. And yet you say
don't think of death, banish it, blink it,
forget fb. That, 1 bell you, is etnpid end
superficial, puerile, cowardly and morbid,
prior, about half way between the eastern
and western and of the lithe. Let me tell you
about one or two mines I saw there in opera-
tion, About three years ago a prospector,
whose name I havo forgotten, dlsoovered a
urine about twentyfivo miles northwest of
Port Arthur, in the Rabbit Mountain omen.
try. It was en out propping on the faoe of a
oliff, and was what lo called in the West
"brittle silver ;" that is, a native sliver die•
seminated through quartz in the form of
nuggets and etreoks. This is the beat form
What theory, what hypothesis, what prin- of ore known. The prospector pub in foot or
oiple of life Dan you frame, except ae you five blasts and gob out bebween $42,000 and
think of death ? And some ono theory and $60,000 worth of ore, He immediately sent
principle of life, for daily ueo, you must a man 0, Dotrolb, who sold the mine to the
frame, or else you oannob live, you omunob Alger.Hackett syndicate, The prioe named
transact the business of life. Furthermore,. wait 68,000,000, but as a matter of fact,.
0000rding to your conception of death, your 6800,000 was about the price paid for 10, The
aseumptfon of what death holds in store,
most your whole conception of life's mean.
ing, porpcse aid duty be shaped and color-
ed ; fn one word your ethics, And finally,
what semblance of a religion can you have, yearn old, And this is only surface ore as yet,
if its cardinal dogma doss not deal with the deepest workin being only about 300
death f How unthinking is he who does feet. Tho mine is known as "The Beaver,"
and its one of ho richest in the world.
01Ia DADGER AND OTi1EB 0SINES,
ease was made in 1887, andthe new company
immediately began the development of the
mine, The output lest year was $300,000neb,
whioh is an enormous yield for a mine bwo
nob think of death 1 You rivet your gaze on
bhe surface of things and shun the deop
places. You feed yourself upon outward
appearances of ➢hinge and leave the inward
realities untested. You consider only the
transitory and forget the eternal. Bub how,
if you are human, how Dan you help think-
ing of death ? You have just quoted to nee
the faloesb word that a great philosopher
ever put his name to—" Liber home nihil
minnequam de morie putat." Now, I will
Dap your quotation with a better one, be-
cause It is a true one—In the midst of life
we are in death. How Dan you help thine-
ing of death ? How do you dull your mind
to that degree? Could Damoolee help think-
ing of the sword? Is nob bhe sword of death
impending over your head—yes, indeed,
your devoted head—every hour and minute
of your life, daytime and nlghbhime, where.
mover yougo, from the first breath you
draw In you cradle until all ab once it
falls? Dare yea; I aeked awhile ago,
dare you lay a wager that it will nob have
fallen 'bee this time tomorrow 7 How do we
know? What do we know ? Within thfe
very hour your dead body may by lying ab
my feat, or mine at yours. Nob think of the
black hand forever raised to strike you I
Not think of the grim companion who stalks
"Within three or four miles of elle Bea
ver le another mine known as '170 Badger,'
whioh was disoovored aboub the same time
and sold to the Niaholem, of Denver. Ib is
probably not quite so rich as the Beaver,
but tbab le not yet fully determined. So far
the oompany baa just shipped enough ere to
pay working expenses, bub bbey now have
in eight, on the dump and ready to be stop-
ed out, ore tbab will make them $200,000,
There are several other mines in the imme.
dints vicinity which have not yet been de-
veloped, bub whioh promise fully as well.
The trend of this mineral belt is nertheasb
to southwest, and its extent is unknown.
It has already been partially prospected
and is known to be twenty-five miles actress,
and no one knows bow muoh further it
extends. At ahnost any point on this belt
good•payfng mines oan be looated,and itis so
nearr the lake shore that the great question
of freight is praotioally solved and the ore
o0n be shipped anywhere by water,
"This ore is the richest I ever naw in all
my experience, and I have seen all the big
silver mines of the west. I saw more native
silver up there than ever before in my life.
Ibis an absolute fact that, from some of these
for ever at your elbow 1 When the black mines, ore is taken so rich that 10 is im-
hand may deal i0e blow at any instant; the mediately locked up in eafoa for security. Ib
grim comrade ab any intent pluck your is almost pare silver. It was a perfect revs•
sleeve and whisper, 'Come, you are mine I'
Not think of death 1 Ohl"
He bad begun, as I have nobed, by epeak-
lation to roe. And it will be very hard to
make bhe public believe In these discoveries
now until a few enterprising, credulous
ing quietly, but as he went on hie composure spirits have secured the cream of the depoe-
vanished, giving plaoe to an excitement whioh its" a The C nadiana are not prospectors.
toward the end had intensified into some- teney have never found a mine yet. They
thing like easissy. His voice increased in
stress and volume, hie eyes burned, he leaned
forward and gesticulated earnestly. Now he
fell bank into the depth of hie chair and
closed his eyes and laid hie hand aorose his
forehead, where the swollen vein showed
purple against the white skin,
(2.0 n0 00NT1NDED,)
have the least enterprise of any people on
earth, I believe. Why, within fear miles of
Port Arthur, right on the road to the Beaver
mine, I found an extremely rioh silver vein
that cropped right out on the surface 9 inches
wide.
THE 00ORY OP SILVER ISLAND,
" And now let me tell you something
about another remerkable silver mine I saw
up there. Ib is situated on a little rook
Settled, known as Silver Island, which lino out in
Lake Superior aboub t
The wife of an Irish peasant•farmer had
driven some pigs into a small town to dispose
of, and, having negotiated the sale, she re•
calved in payment bank -notes issued by a
well-known Dublin bank ; bub, the name of
the bankers not being familiar to her, doubts
arose in her mind as to their stability ; so
she decided to get the notes cashed at the
bank in the town where she then was. Ar-
riving at the bank in question, she presented
them across the counter, requesting the
cashier to give her gold in exchange. Thab
gentleman expressed his regret at nob being
able to accomodate her, saying it was not
their custom to cash notes issued by other
banks. The old lady was muoh put out, and
explained that she bad various pnrohasee to
make in the town before returning home,
and was unable to get the notes changed
elsewhere. The cashier still politely declin-
ed. However, she would not give in. first
she tried to ooax him, then stormed at him,
but without the wished -for result. Sudden-
ly a bright idea struck her. Would the
cashier be no kind as to give her notes on
his own bank in exchange ?—they might be
more acceptable to the tradesmen. Seeing
no other way of getting rid of hie tiresome
visitor, be reluctantly consented, The old
lady, seemingly quite content, turned to go.
All at once elle stopped ehort, and, turning
round 0o as bo face the cashier, read from
the note in her hand, " I promise to pay on
demand," ,Ito,, then, looking her victim full
in the faoe, said, in broad Irish, "'You
promise to Dash this note wban demanded,
do yon?" "Yes," replied the cashier.
"Then will you kindly give me gold for
these notes now ?"
Asphalt Pavements.
An unoredited newspaper paragraph says
that London Indo thab wood and asphalt
pavements are too slippery, and that memadam cannot stand the heavy wear. The
opinion is freely heard that London "bus
nob yet solved the problem of Wen pave
menta, and seems as far off from ib ae over."
Landon, however, has nob tried the asphalt
of Trinidad, whioh hao been used so MOMS.fullyy in Buffalo, but only the stone asphalt
of Switzerland Rooheoter, deelsing the
good example of a nearer metro's -lie, is fol-
lowing London on the slippery road of stone
asphalb, and will perhaps take the same
tumble that London has taken, though Park
Superintendent MoMillan thinks that the
asphalt slipperiness whioh London complains
of is due more to the London climate than
to the ohmmeter of the pavement,—CBuffalo
Courier,
A Crusher Prom the Widow.
Adorer—"Ob, how your words charm me 1
To think that you ehould daily discover
more similarity between me and your sainted
husband, May I ask stow I mumble him 1"
Young widow (gravely)—'"You have all his
bad habits,"
Yankeebroad (to Parisian jewoler)—What
ie that aoarf pin worth ?
Pariolan Jeweler—Five thousand frame.
Yankeebroad—Jewhillikene 1 And ire
been writing home to my friends that the
highest thing in the world la the Eiffel tow
er—tlewe ier's Weekly,
wo ar three mites
southeast of Porb Arthur. It is 70x07 feet
in size and aboub 4 feet above water level.
Ib was discovered about bwenty years ago.
Tha first blase took out about $50,000 worth
of native silver. It was owned fireb by the
Montreal Mining Company, who took about
$150,000 out of ib, and then sold it to Maj.
Sibley, Col. Ward and others tor aboub
$200,000. The new owners, in order to get
working ground, sunk cribs and filled them
in, thus
ENLARGING THE ISLAND
to a spade of 480x340 feet. They worked
it down 1160 feet below the lake—one of
the most remarkable feats of mining anal -
nearing ever a000mplfehed—and took out of
it $3,250,000 net, An aooident caused the
abandonment of the mine. The wintr'ae
supply of ooal was frozen, in tho lake and
never orrfved, eo bhe mine was abandoned
until spring. 13y that time it was filled
with water, and so ft has remained ever
since, At the time of its abandonment the
roof in one of the drifts of the mine woo al -
moat solid silver.. Ib was the intention of
the owners to take this out by 'finking
girders in the lake and building an arta
fioial roof over the drift, whioh would have
been a moot remarkable .and dangerous teat.
The ore from this min was the strangeot I
ever saw and unlike any other. It was a
pink spar with Entail foliatione and stems of
sliver and wao wonderfully beautiful. The
common miners in thio mine oarried off
bebween $150,000 and $2000u00 worth of oro
in the their pockets, The fabulous rioh-
'nese of this mike ought to have abtraoted
capital and investigation to the Porb Arthur
dietriot, but strange to say; it did not, and
until bhe chance discovery of the Beaver
mine nothing more was done toward de-
veloping the resouroee of the country,"
Did you extend your investigations be-
yond the Porb Arthur district ?" aeked the
reporter.
"''Yes, air, and I oome now to another,
strange feature of my experience in the
Northwest. Acting on the ro0ommendabion
of the friend whom representations had in-
duced me to visit bhe country, I next went
into the Saskatchewan country, and visited
Lobe of the Woods. k shave always been in.
formed that bhe Saskatchewan country and
the valley of the Lake of the Woods was
a paradise, and a wonderful grazing and
au agricultural wheat•produoing country.
Why, as a matter of fad, one oouldn'b raise
enough grain on 100 aoree to winter a horse.
But Ste mineral resources, I fully believe
are among the Holiest; in thio hemisphere.
There are 10,000 blends in the lake that
aro known, and a good paying vein of gold
may be found in every ono of them. The
mineral belt embraces the whole chain of
feiande, and extends to the mainland on
both ,ides.
A 01000 BEMAEIOA1LE GOLD MINN,
"The most remarkable of the mines is the
Sults Pa, ea called from tho Inland on which
ib le eituaced, If it could be developed ib
would be one of the greatest gold mines in
the world. The vein hi 25 feet wide and
will mill from $45 to 660 per ton. It tae
been traced over 800 yarde in showing, and
thorn ie at least 65,000,000 worth of ore in
sight, Like all good things, however, this
one has a drawback, and a very melons one
A good many years ago the Dominion Gov.
ernmenb granted a o..rtain man a perpotua
timber franohleo oovorlrg the islands and
theme of the lake, and as the owner of the
frenchiee will not permit miners to out his
timber to Darty on their operations, no one
aan get a title to ouy of hie mines. The
owner of the fronohise am not; himself
get a title to thom, as that belongs
00 the original dleoovorors, and so
the matter rests ab preeenb, A way
out of the oamplioetion will certainly be
found, however, and then the days of '40 will
be repeated in the Saskaoohewon wilderness,
A great many other veins not so largo as the
Sultana bub of equal richness, have been die.
covered in the same belt, I looked thio ooun•
try over oarefully and am giving you only
bald facts, My old partner, whom 1 have be-
fore referred to, writes me now that to the
south and cast of the belt covered by this
Cenuok'e timber franchise le a country
where the gold veins are just as strong and
rioh ae the Sultana, and where title Dan
easily be obtained, I firmly believe this is
brae, ea I have myself verified every othet
statement he has made about that ooantryr
and I have perfect faith in hie judgment
and veracity. I tball return thorn in a short
time and see if I can nob acquire a few
Sultanas,"
Meteors as Big as Flour Barry's.
The Brltimore Sun says :—Dr. S. T. Per -
kine, of Springfield, wlbneesed the fall of
meteors on Wednesday night in Prince
George's counby. "The night was quite
dark," he mid yesterday, in deeoribing the
phenomenon, "and the sudden flesh caused
by the obuoting meteor was entailing. A
huge glowing mass seemed to demand from
the heavens at on angle of forty.five degrees,
It was an irregular mass about the size of a
flour barrel, and of great brilliancy—a glow.
ing rod heat, The country for miles around
was lit up for a few seconds, It seemed to
fall aboub one mile to the south-west of
Bowfa, As soon as I regained my equal•
amity, for bhe wonderful sight took my
breath and elicited a scream from my wife
and children, I looked at my watch. It was
8.30. The aeoond meteorite fell about forty
minutes later. Ib was even larger than
the first and ranch brighter. As near as I
could judge, it fell about two hundred yard,
from the first I have seen meteorites fall
before, but none so bright as thin," The
people of Bowie had muoh the same story to
relate. Everyone for miles around thoughh
I0 had fallen but a few hundred yards [tom
his farmhouse. Oapt. Edward Leonard, of
the steamer Ida, reported having seen a
meteor on Wednesday night as the steamer
was going up the Tread Avon river to
Eastern Point. During the pa0e0ge of the
meteor the sky had the appearance of o
solid sheet of fire,
Playing' Pions Before His Majesty
The Emperor of Russia, when upon a tour
of inspection in the provinces, passed the
night in the ample hub of a toll -taker, , Be-
fore retiring he was pleased, ae head of the
Chnroh, to see the old man take up the
Bible and read a chapter, "Do you read
often, my son?" he asked. "Yoe, your
Majesty, every day." "How muoh of the
Bible have you read, my eon?" "During
the pub year, the Old Testament and parb
of Matthew, your blajeoty," Thinking to
reward him, the Czar placed 600 roubles
between the loaves of the book of Mark on
the following morning, unknown to the
toll -keeper, whom he bade farewell. Sever-
al months passed away and the Emperor
returned, upon a seoond tour to the toll -
taker's hub. Taking the Bible in his hands
he was surprised to find the 500 roubles
intaot. Again interrogating the toll -keeper
as to his diligeuoe in reading, he received an
affirmative answer and the statement that
he had finished the chapters of Luke.
"Lying, my son, is a great sin," replied his
Majesty. ' al' me the Bible till I see."
Opeetng One book, he pointed to the money
whioh the man had not seen, "Thou hart
not sought the Kingdom of God, my son.
As puniebment, thou shall also lose thy
earthly reward," And he plaoed the roubles
in hie pocket, to dietribute afterward among
the neighboring poor.
Cassowary Fishing.
Tha habits of the cormorant and of our
native fieh•hawk are generally known. Their
methods of taking fish are very muoh like
those of birds of prey. But the cassowary
fishes according to a method of its own. Mr.
Powell wibnessed its operations on a river in
the island of New Britain.
I saw a oa0eowary come down to the
water's edge, and stand for some minutes
apparently watching the water oarefully.
It than stepped into the river where it was
about three feeb deep, and, partially oquatb•
ing down, spread its wings out, submerging
thenr, the feathers beingepread andruflied,
The bird remained perfectly motionless,
and kept its eyes closed, as if in sleep. It
remained in this position tor fully a quart-
er of an hour, when, suddenly closing Ito
wings andetraightening its'feathers, it etepp-
ed out on the bank. Here it shook itself seve-
ral times, whereupon a quantity of small fish.
ea fell out of ite wings, and from amidst its
feathers, which the bird immediately pinked
up and swallowed.
The fishes had evidenbly misbaken the
feathers for a kind ot weed that grows in the
water along the banks , of the rivers in this
island, and whioh very muoh resembles the
feathers of the cassowary. The smaller Seta
ea bide in these weeds to avoid the larger
ones that prey on them.
Advantages of Baldness.
Smith—"I notion you are as bald as an os,
Well's
sinceI was aoung man."Smith—"Don't
"o
Smith—Dn t
yqu find iba little annoying ?" Jones" Well,
it's nob. without its advantages. I am a mar.
ried men, you know,"
Hig Reason for not Goisg,
" Why don't you leave and go furbher
West, or South, or anywhere? You're of no
amount here, and I'm ,tired of supporting
you 1' exclaimed the despairing wife.
" Fra
Chicago husband, ias'hosatdow e gainhlese
put
his feet on the table and sighed heavily,
but Im needed here for the oensue next
year "St. Lguis is orowdln' us boo close 1"
—tOhioago Tribune.
It Was Funny.
Mlea Gazeaway —" He's the dearest, love-
liest, handsomest fellow you ever saw, and
I'm going to get him or perish in the at.
tempt,"
Aunt—" Aren't you ashamed, Margaret,
to throw yourself at a man in that fashion?"
Mies Gozoaway—" It's funny, auntie,
you're always thinking about men, I was
referring to a St. ,Bernard puppy I saw Yee.
today,"
Many elderly and middle•a sed
g women at
fashionable reeorte this 8005010 are wearing
round hats. Th re large and ehad'e the
face, so they are 100 act appropriate an
becoming ae a email, dressy bonnet,
TIGERS OF THE SEA.
EvLionco 01 the lluvenous Nalure Or the
'rations Sperlea (irritant—us,
IU was reported the obher week that a
eailor engaged In scraping the si.ioe of a troop
ebip in the harbor of Sierra Leone wee drawn
into the water and promptly devoured by a
shark. Tbie is not an unoommon experience,
and a boatman has boon bitten in the short
time it took him to dip a pitcher of water
while his oraft was under full sail. We aro
aesared that ib is nothing uncommon for the
ravenous fish to spring a foot out of the sea
in order to esouro their prey, Tor miles
they will follow a vessel, on the lookoub for
any stray unfortunate who may tumble or
be thrown overboard, and so deep do they
swim under the surface that it; requires the
practised eyea of the native to deteob their
pre0enee. Many of the West India harbors
are so haunted by the white and hammer.
headed eharke -the leant amiable of the 150
different kinds known to z,ologista—that it;
is dangerous to bathe even a few yards from
the shore without an outlook.
Yet the west African negro has been
known to faoe the brute, not only with im-
punity, bob even to oome off' as victor in bhe
end. All bub amphibious, the ewimmer
cautiously approaches his enemy, and then,
just ab the moment when the greab fish burns
over to seize hint—his mouth being so plac-
ed that la necessary—the daring blaok
plunges his knife into its white belly. The
pearl divers are aleo sometimes ouooeeeful in
their attacks on sharks whioh try to seize
them, though, ib is needle's to add, such a
mode of combat is poieible only when the
monsters do not come in numbers, and under
the most favorable circumstances requires a
000lnese, a dexterity, and a courage whioh
are not to bo acquired exoept by long experi-
ence In such perilous enoountere, As a rule,
however, it is seldom thab a man who is so
luckless as to drop among sharks ever ap•
pears again. There is a shriek, a white 000 -
look is seen under the eurfeoo and a fin
above it, a reddened crest top] the next
swell whioh breaks against the ahip'o aide,
and the horror-stricken seamen know that
their meesn:ate will be seen no more,
Ib ie a woll•ase rtained feet that bhe thole,
tone of sheep, pigs, dogs, and cattle wbioh
have fallen or been thrown overboard have
been recovered many days enbaequonb to
their being swallowed ; and itis on record
that in the stomach of a shark killed in bhe
Indian Ocean a lady's workbox was found,
while in ,another the incriminatory papers
whioh had been thrown away by a hotly
ohased slaver were recovered from the maw
of an involuntary witness thus curiously
bronghb into court on the barb of a pork.
baited hook. Ruyeoh, ono of the most
bruotworthy of the old naburaliote, affirms
that a man in mail—homo lorioatue, he calls
him—was found in the stomach of .a white
shark • and ib ie recorded by Blumenbach
that in one Daae a whole horse was found.
Cobra and Tiger.
Avenburesome colleotor was in India in
search of venomous serpents for an Amster-
dam house. He 000upied a hut that had
bean used as a storehouse, the only entrance
to ib being by a narrow lane which was close-
ly fenced. This lane was aboub bwenteefive
feet long, and at nighb a fire was kept burn.
ing ab the lower end to warn off any intrud-
ing wild beasts or serpente. The man's ham-
mock was slung near the door of the hub, so
that he could easily look down the lane.
One night there was a heavy rain aboub mid-
ofghb wbioh exbinguished the fires.
Suddenly I awoke, The rain had matted,
and the moon was shining so tbab its raye
streamed brightly up the lane, There was
a poouliar odor in the but whioh 1 recognize
far too well, the nauseating smell of the
cobra.
One, of these deadly creatures must have
crawled into bhe hnt. I meld hear it now
creeping ever the dried grass on the floor,
and the Bound put me into a cold sweat.
But the cobra never strikes a sleeper ; if I
could remain motionless I might escape.
When I had turned in it was very close
and oppressive. I had, therefore, thrown
the blankets oub of the hammock. The oold
rain had chilled the snake and be was look-
ing for warmth. The blankets were on the
ground and this fact prevented him from
Doming into the hammock. I could not see
him, but I could hear and &tent him as he
twined about and finally curled down,
When he had become ,quiet 1 felt that I
had a chance far my life, 1 would wafb until
he was asleep, and then make a sudden
spring and a rush. If I waited until day-
light, and the natives Dame to bhe hut, the
snake would be alarmed, and would then
probably strike me.
I kept still for about half an hour, and
was ja00 planning bo dump myself out of bhe
hammock, when the moonlighb retealed a
new and unexpected danger. Standing at
the mouth of the lane, and looking straight
in upon mo, was a tiger.
I did not believe he would enter the hub.
The lane wood look 1100 a trap, and he
would fight shy of it. My eyes were wide
open, bub I did not move a muscle.
Tile tiger entered the opening and stealthi-
ly oome toward me, I gave myself by for
lost. The great brute was within ten feet
of the door when the serpent uttered a low
hiss and moved,
The tiger did nob 50e the snake, He came
On as a oat steals 0n its prey ; his forepaws
were soon on the threshold and he was mak.
ing reedy for a spring. I realized my help -
lemmas.
There was a brief interval, I was half
dead with terror, and closed my eyes for the
last act of bhe tragedy.
Suddenly there was a hiss and a snarl. I
opened my eyea, bewildered, to find myself
unharmed. The cobra and the tiger were
rolling over and over in the lane, in mortal
struggle, "
The village was roused by bho tiger's fear.
ful roarings. T gazed in fascination ab the
mane. The two deadly enemies wont from
ono end of the lune to the obher and bank
again. The combat had lasted nob more
than fifteen minutes when both tiger and
snake lay stretched oub,' dead.
The cobra hal bitten the tiger in scores of
planes, and the teeth and olawa of the latter
bad literally torn the snake in pieces,
The Meanest Man on Record.
Husband (kindly)—"My dear, you have
nothing deoent to wear, have you?'
Wife (with alacrity) —"No, indeed, I
haven't„ not a thing. I'd be ashamed to to
seen any where. My very noweob party dress
has been worn three tinea already."
Husband—'"Yee; that's just whatI told
Blifkine when he offered me two tickets
for the opera for to-nighb, I knew if I took
them they'd only bo wasted, so I just got
ono, You won't mind if I hurry cif?"
•
No Angelic Longings.
Little Susie H., pouring over a book in
whioh angels were represented ae winged
beings, suddenly remarked, with muoh
vehemence; 4' Mamma, I don't want to be
au angel when I die—and I needn't; need
I ?" " Why Suale 1" questioned her mother,
Cos I den'b want to levo oft all my pretty
clothes and wear fedders like a hen,