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•, CHAPTER -VIL--Continued•
"Ohre them here1" said Holmes. "Now
.doetor," turning. to mei "are them
eedinary. pills?" •• • • .
They certainly • Were not. They
were of a pearie gray color; email,
round •and almost transparent, againat
theelight, ,
"From their lightnetia and tram-
parenoy.. I should zenegine that they IWO
soluble in water," I remarked.
"Precisely O." answered Holmes.
Now would you mind going down and
fetching that poor little devil of a
terrier whielt has been bad so long,.
• end whioh tbe landlady wanted you
to put Out of Re :pain yesterdeee
.. I went downstairsand carried- the
dog npstairs in ray urine Its labored
breathing and glazing eyes show0.4
that it was not tar from its end. in-
deed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed
that it had already 'exceeded the usual
term of. canine existence. I plaSed it
• UPon • a cushion oa the rug.
"L wiJI now .out: one of these Rills in
twee" , said Holmes' and drawing his
Penknife, he suitedthe attian to the
'word. "One half we -return into the:
box for future purposes. The other
' half 1 will place in the Wine -glass, in
which is a teaspoonful of water. TOW
Perceive,' that cair friend; the. deotor,
te right, and that it readtly dissolves,
"This :May bo vary interesting,"
• said testrade, in the injured • tone of
one who suspects that he is being
• tangle:3d at, I Oannot 'sea, ho-siirev4r,
what it has tette with, the .death. of
Mr. •*.toseieh Sangerson,' •
• "Palermo, mefriend, patience! You
will find in: time that it has everything
• to do With it. It 'Shall now add a little
Milk to make :the natture peletable,
and on presenting it to the dog we.
fend that he laps it up readily enough."
• s7-Assehe--sliolee•hesturntedetheweitentit
of the wineglass into a sewer and
'placed it In •front of the terrier, Who
_ speedily 'licked it dry. Sherleck.
. Efolines's earnest denteencir had so:fir
convineed ue that We. allsal.in. silence,
_watching the animal' intently, and ex..
'Meting •0131310 startling 'effect.. -None
•Moh appeared; .bowevex., The dog
• continued to .Iie stretched upon the
'cushion; breathing in a labored way,
but . apparently neither the better nee
the worse. for its draught. . •
Holmes hadetaken.out his watch, and.
as minute followed minute vvithout re-
sult, an expression of the utmost,
..chagrin and disappointment appeared'
upon .hiefeatiires. He gniiived his lip,
drummed his fingers PPM the table;
and showed every other eyneptoin Of
acute impatience. 'So great was his
sincerely sorry.for
him. While the two deteetive,s smiled
. derisively,' by no weans ,displeased itt
this check which he hed received. . • •
."It can't be a eoinoidenee,'' he cried,
. e
at leee springing :from his ()hair. and
pacing • wildly up and down the teem, -
"it. is impossible ther,it ahead be 'a,
mere coinoideneeeThe very bills which
I suspected in the ease of Drebbei are
:• actually found after • the • death of •
Stangerscin. And .yet they are inert.
What can it Mean? Surety my whole
chain • of reasoning cannot have been
Pelee. It is impossible! And yet this
' *retched dog is none .the WOX.fie. AIL I
have ite I have itl" With a perfect
shriek' of delight he rushed to the box,
out the other pill in two. dissolved it,
added milk, , and presented it • to the
tekeitiee The .unfortunete creature's.
. tongue. 'seethed hardly to. lieve 'been
• moistened in it • before • it gave a con-
• vuleiv,e shiver in Beery, Thine and lay as
rigid and lifeless as if it had been
attreak by lightning; • •
• Slierlook'Hohnee drown long breath.
and ',Wiped: the :perspiration from • his
„ "kehould have inereereeimieb," heestA
••"/ ought to know by this tine° that
when a., fact appears to be opposed tc,o
• a:long-train of deduptionit it invariably
proves to be es.bablo. of bearing some
other Interpretation Of the two phis
In that boxzene Wan the most 'deedie
• polgon and the other was • entirety
hernilese. 1 ought to have , known
that .before ever I saw thebox at ,
' • •
/his laetstatement appeared to me
to be so etartling, that r .could hardly
believe that he was in his sober senses.
There was the dead dog, however, to
prove that his conjeoture had • been:
cored:. It seemed to me that the
mists in mit own Mind word gradually
clearing away, and rbegan tohave a
dim, vague perception of the truth.
• "All this Seems strange to PM,"
• continued Holmes, "because you fail at .
the beginning of the inouity. to. grasp
the importance of thesingle real •clew
which was presented to you, I had
the geed fortune to seize .upon that,
end- everything Which has occurred:
since, then has Mewed to confirm my
Original • supposition, and, indeed,
was the logical sequence of it. Hence,
things whioh have perplexed you and
made the ease more obscure have
.. served to enlighttei 'Me and td streng-
then my conelusidne, It is a mistake
to confound strangeness with mystery..
The most reimmotiplace crime is • often
. the most mysterious because it presents
no new or special features eromf which
• deductions. may be drawn. This mur-
der would have beau (infinitely more
difficult to unravel had the body of
'the vietim been simply found lying in
the roadway. without any of those
• outre• and sensational accompaniments
, which have rendered it remarkable.
Thetis strange details; far from mak.
log the ease mote difficult, hoe% really
had the effect of making it lees so."
• Mr. Gregson, who had listened to
• Obi address . with considerable but
• pattehoe, ootela oontain himself no
longer.. , • .
. -"Look here, Mr. Sherldek Holmes,"
he field, "we are all ready- to acknow-
ledge that you are a Mart man, and
that you have your OWll InethOda of
working. We want something more
than mere theory and preaching now,
though. It is a .case of taking the man.
have Made My ease out, and it seams
was wrong. Young Olutepentier
• could not have been engaged in this
mend affair. Lestrade went after
this man; Stangerson, and it appeare
that he was wrong, ;too. You have
thrown out hints here and hints theree
and semi to know more than we do
but the time has name When we feed
. thee we have a right to ask you
straight how much you do know of the
1111111111PIP,;„' badness. an you name the roan who
* did kr •
' "I oanno6 hello. 'feeling that Oreg..
Oh is right, air," itinaleired Leattetele.
• "We hate both tried, and we liaVe both
•. failed. You have remarked more than
0110e Since r have been in the room
• that you had all ithe eeitlente which -
you require. Surely you will not
withhold It any longer,
"Any delay in art1cating the toms.
I observed, might give him time
to perpetrate some Minh atrocity."
Thee preseedby us all, Manus
• /hewed signs of irresolution, ner.con.
• tinned to walk up and ildWit the room
with him hosed gunk ttpon hie cheat and
his broviedraWn down, as Was his habit
when log ,in thought.
"There will he no more totirdelle
- he $14, it het, edepiling ahnPtir, end.
might, RD Which Bereetord teede Peorainent Part.
but played the violiat .badly, led the
Pertaining to lite upon the broad P :SOB INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE Q under the direetien o! Beres.,
• • enoteeeeniplete and heart-subdning wUderne; notblng ht ‚u' LORD OHS. - BiRE 0 The Deka, Who hada taste for Made _
sileuce.
It bait been said there la nothing alee 1111. " orchwae estra. The stage on the arter-
Tbet is herr true. Looking down "OONDER CHARLIE,'" ford, The piece was a ape:flee of mate -
teeing US. "YOU MO put that cone
Suleretion out .of the question. Yew
have asked, me if I know the
• Mime of the aeisesin. I do. The more
knowing of his IMMO la a small thing,
- !Aaw,ever, compared with the. power of
laying our hands up= him, This I
expect very ebortly to do. I have
good hopes of managing it through reY
own arrangements; but it is a thing
which needs d,elio.e.te handling, for we
have a Shrewd and despeeate maa to
deal with, who is suppOrted, 'haVe
had mete Qaclevera iOn.to ttawa% ,.b130i; alostbleQragwhales
this man has no (idea that any one, can
have a. clew, them is mine chance of
securing but •if he had the
slightest euepicion, lie would change
his iaartie and vanish in an instant.
among the tette millions inhabitants of
this greet city. Without meaning to
hurt either of your foliage, I am
homed to seethe* egensider these men
te be more than it raatteli for the
official force, and that is why 'I, have
..not asked your amistanoe, rr I fail I
shell of course incur all the ibtams &le
to this ontiosion; but that I ane pre-
, promise . that the instant can
bared for iA.t present am ready to
commemioate with •youe itleaut eve
clangoring my own * eenabinatiOns,
shall do 80." •
Gregson and Lestrade 800100i1 to be
far from Satisfied by this asstithnce, or
by the depreciating: allege= to.thei
detective police. The termer had
flushed up to the roots- of his flaxen
. hair, while the other's• beedy. eyes
glistened with curiosity and reeent-
Neither of thern :had time • to
speakehoweeer, before there wee a tap
- at the door and the spokesman of the
street arabs, young Wiggins, intro-
.duced his insignificant and unsavory
person.
"Please, sir," he said, touching his
forelock, I have. th3 cab downstairs."
"Good boy," said Holmes, blandly.
"Why cipn't you introduce this pattern
Septlend Yardr_heecontinnedetak-•
ing a pair of steel. handcuffs ,from a
drawer, "See ha*. beautifully the
spring works; They fasten in an
instant." . ; '
• •
'"The old pattern 'le good enough,"
remarked Lestrade, if we can find the
man to but them on."
"Verer good, very geode,. said Holmes
stalling. ."The cabman may • as Well
help me With my • boxes. Just ask
him to step up, Wiggins,"
' was ,surprised to find • my core -
minion speaking. as though he were
about to set ont on a journey, sinee
:be had not said anything to nae about
It. There was a email Portmanteau in
the•rporn, and '.04 he pulled mit and
began to steep. He was busily engaged
at it, when the. cabman ,entered the
. "Just neve me a .help :With this
buckle,. cabman," he said, kneeling
over his task and cnever turning his
.. The fellow earns forward with a
somewhat stiffen, defiant air, and put
down hands to assist., At that in -
Stant there was a 'sharp oliek, tlitejang--
ling of metal, and Sherlock Hohnee
sprang to his feet. „ •
"Gentlemen," he cried; with flash-
ing .eyes, "let me introduce you to
Mr. jeffersott Hope, the murderer of
Enoch Drebher and of Jewebh•Stangee-
eon." • : •
The whole thing occurred in a mo-
ment-e-scequickltr that I had no time to
realize it. I have a vivid rec.olleothin
of that instant of Holmes's triumph-
ant. expression, and the ring of his
voice, of the cabznan's domed, savage
face,' as .110 'glared 'at the *littering
handoutfe, which lid appeared. as if
by magic upon his .wrists. For a sec-
ond or two we might have been a
group of statues. Then, with an in-
articulate -roar of fury, the prisoner
wrenched: ;himself tree from Holmeies
grasp and hurled himself through the
window. Woodwork and. glass gave
way. before Jaime, but before he got
quite through, •Gregson Lestiade, and
Holmes sprang upon him like so many
stag -hounds. He was dragged back hi -
to the room; and then commenced a•
terrific Conflict.. So powerful and so
fierce. was he, that the lour of us
were shaken off again and again. He
appeared to have the • convulsiva.
strength of a man in an epileptic fit.
His face and hands were terribly man-
gled by the passage through the glass,
but lose of blood had no effect in
his resistance. It was not un-
til Lestrade succeeded in getting his
hand inside his neckcloth and half
strangling him that; we made him" reit-
Lim that his struggles were of no
avail; and 43v'en then we felt no se-
curity natl.- we had pinioned his feet
is well as his hands. That done, .vve
rose to our feet, breathless and pant-
ing.
"We have his cab," said • Sherlock ,
Mobiles. "It will serve to take him
to Scotland, Yard. And now, gentle-
men,' he continued, with a pleasant
smile, "we have reached the end of
our little mystery. You are very wel-
cow to put any . questionti. that you
like to me now, and there is oo danger
that I ivill refuse to answer them.' e,
• PART IL -CHAPTER L
In the central portion of the great
North American Continent there Hee
an arid and repulsive desert, which for
many a long year served as a barri r
ki
against the advance of civilization.
Front the Sierra Nevada to Nebras a,
and from the Yellowstone River in the
north to the Colorado upon. the mouth,
is
it region of desolation and silence.
Nor is Nature alweys in one mood
throughout this grim district. It
comprisee snow-capped and lofty mmin-
taine, and dark and gloomy valleys.
There are swift -flowing elvers. eviiich
dash through jagged canyons; and
them are enormous plains, which in
winteeare white with artoW,, and • in
smuttier are gray with the saline alkali
duet. They all preserve, however,
the common charaoteristos of barren,.
nem, :inhospitality, and misery. •
Them are no inhabitants of this land
of despair, ' A band of Pawnee er of
Illackfeet may occasionally traverm it
in order to reach other . hunting -
grounds, but the hardiest of the braves
are glad to lose, -sight of those awe-
some plains, and to find themselves
once more upon their prairies. The
coyote skulks among the, *stub, the
blizzaed flaps heavily through the air,
and the clumsy grizzly bear lumbera
through the dark ravines, and pickti
up such atistenanoe as it can among
the rocks. These are the sole dwell --
era in the Wildernese. t, .
iii the whole world there can be rici
more dreary view than that fora the
northern slope of the Sierra, Blanco.
At far as the eye ean reach stretchee
the great flat plain -laud, all dusted;
over with patehes Of alkali, and In..
Wadded by olturopa of the dwartieh
ohapareal quahog. On the extreme
Verge Of the horizon lit a long ohaig
Of Motintainpeake, with their rugged
summIts.,fleektid With suety. In this
great etreteh of colintry there iii no
loign of lift, nor et anything aPpertaille
Ing tO Me. Mere Is DO bird la the
steeleblee heaven, AO imi-VeMeitt upon
the dull. OW evath.above ell, there
Le no shadow of * *mod in all thee
...! "
•v•
froM the erre, 131anco, one ems * cal huriescont called "Oroesiii; the
pathway traced out armee* the desert, veee
•411, Paellas °rine Itrinslit Nave aad tlie Lord Merles Bereotord, dressed
Whiell vtinde aand le lost in the as a Jack Tar a oed a miler'
extreme distanee.way
It rutted witlf Here sf Mieteddrie and lilorgelang °I" pipa in eine 4:4,10". •; 4°111*
s N '
whole apMUS 11401141 *lie World.
d trodden down by the feet Lord Charles aud a young middy were
of many adventurers. Here and there Next to the Prince of Wales, the once mized with as• desire to steal the
are scattered white objects which alio.*
Len in the oun, and stand out againat moat popular man in England Is (Rear-. flag whioh flow Over the residence of
the American Consul at a certain port.
aw
the den deposit or e A,pproaok Adm. L° rd. Oar" h I Ileresford the
4.°1- ' Therewas nefearful row, and the fleet
and examine them! They are fighting hero of the British Navy. was discovered in leeresford's cabin.
bones; some large and coarse, others Lord Charles -is the Conservative The captain requesMcileiM toreplace i1.
entailer and more delicate. The forme
er have belonged to oxen, Member of Parliament for the city of Ee refused. A friend telegraphed to his
and the y A t h en
„.,„.,I,._, mother, She wired him, "Do this for
latter to men. For fifteen hundred or. Latit nets 0 was "•"'''''''- my sake." He said; "Well, if the tiling
miles one may trace this ghastly ear- ginned by - the Assoolated Chambers 0 is to be done we'll do it Well." There
avan by these mattered remains of commerce, on a epeoial mission to China Was a photographer to photograph them
them who had fallen by the waye and to
paolorwearroin;e as
while he and the other felletie climbed,
side. ., — up, and the Stareand Stripes once more
, Looking (Iowa on this very scene, fluttered in the breeze. .
there stood upon the 41h of May. 18e7, extent to which the Chinese Govern-, When on the Detenoe Veresford save
a Politer,' traveller. His appearance ment evillt guarantee the safety of el twe lives frorn,drowning. Be pull -
was eaeh that he Plight have been the British capital invested there., ed a midshipman of Et. X. S. Olio out
very genius or demon of the region, , _ .. of the water near Panama. He tjumP-
An. observer would have fOund it dif- Lord Beresford is a Ben of the Munn ed overboard from the Galatea in
Paull to say whether he. was nearer Marquis ct Waterford, and an Irishman, heavy clothes and saved a sentry on a
to forty Or to sixty, Hai VON:, WOO lean He was Wien in,Dublin in 1846. He en- bitterly cold night ott the Falkland
and haggard, and the brown, parch- teredl the navy at twelve yeara of age, Tel-a4de•
ment-like skin was dritwn tightly
over the projecting bones; his long, beeame a lieutenant :at twenty-two, a mine veeeew A e . COLLEGE any
'lawn hair and beard were all fleck- commander at twenty-nine and a oap- •1••"" '''''''°. "'' -''' • "v4
. .
ed and daalgt-d with White; his eyes tahe at thirty-six. . ,
Were sunken' in his head, and burned - ..... _ . hei rou•eie: 1 I :11 Lovedd Hard kaocere me theaviviar WY
hand. which' grasPed his ritle was herd -
with: ari unnatural luster, while the* ofzjoemel-mlowns4 fort° 1 88Countyhhsat ahatertiord, and 'Wm a Favorite wise Hie "'atone.
ly more fleshy than that of a .skeleton. later he represented East Marylebene• banThdedpiesent lIaiser of Germany at;
and the naaasive (Tmework of his .In 1878 he martiedlifiss Gardner, the . u. the University of Bonn, re -
to 1879, He joined. the moiety milled
As he stood, he leaned upon his weapi-
on* for support; and yet his tell figure ' mauling there or our terms from -1877
da,uglater of 11 member ot Parliament. •
. .
eones suggested a rY and .vigprous 1.• The real *irk or his life, ,however, 1"Borussia" and Was an active member
constitution. His gaunt face, how- began in 1882, in theembellion.of Arabi f this* dorps, ludo ,his father', Fred, -
ever, and big clothes, which hung so
Pasha. He bad just been alepointed to erek, before him. • Naturally there
°Reinwd. what it "WaS that gale him the gunboat Condor, with the flee wa.s sonie dispOsition to show him con-
e •
baggily aver his shriveled limbs, pro-
ta
t • •
that senile and deereple appearance. 1 Alexandria, under Admiral Sevm�ur.1 sideration, but Gemini student corns
The Man was dying-dYing from hun- In the bombardment of Alexandria the
ger and teem thirst, battle-ohin Temeraire gare • most democratic) institutions, and
He had toiled painfully doWn, throunded and e Prituxie Wilhelm insisted upon being
ravine, and so on to this little -elem.- was an bilmiaeat Peril" But Berestord treated just like others. He took
tie'', .in the vain hope of seeing some and the Condor went to her Under a part in fencing bouta, giving and take
signs of water. Now the great salt galling fire and . got her off. ing hard blowe, hut there is no record
plain stretched before his eyes, and
fIHE FEAT OF THE CONDOR. of ibis having been wounded. - &daps
the distant belt of salage mountains, .
without a sign anywhere of plant or The Temeraire waa too big to close the fact that one of his arms is shrunk -
tree, whioh might indicate • the . pries
Imes of moisture. In all that broad. . .' •
in, but Charlie Bereeford ran his •little en prevented him front, entering any
'
landscape there was no gleam of hope. boat right under • the batteries and real fight with sivords, aside from the
North, and east; and west he looked Pouredhis fire into ' them until the feet that no one Would have dared to
-he -realized- that his -wanderings --bad:. - -
gunners bolted for their Reese. , thallenge the sun of the heir apparent
With wile, atiestioning .eyes, and then
The whole- fleet theke ET-iliri throne; ! - - .
come to an end, and that there, on ' - . - saw re° eSS 1 • •
•bravery of the ad and Sent up round • That he was very popular appears
from. the :faot .that when he left the
that barren crag, he was about to
die.: . ' after mend of cheers. .Admiral Sey-
.
Why nothere, as well as in it motile a grim old seadog, who never university at the and of. ehe summer
".
feather bed, twenty yeard henee," he . • . •
muttered, as he seated himself in the' wastea syhmathy on any one, couldma a. was
beira of 1879, a solemit t w
not retratn from running up. a signal tendered him On July, 31.; , The streets
of Bonn were 'gaily decorated as the
shelter- of. a bowlder.
Per sitting down; he had deposit- "Well 'done;• Condor." . Since that
and also a large bundle tied up in a dor Charlie." - — • . Hotel ):C4113Y, wbere a great.feast was
ed pn, the greana hisenseless rifle, evert Beresford hae Weil called "Cons students marched in procession to the
gray ,shawl, which he had •carried
Tw later he as i th thick sPread. The E'rince made a. speeoh In
appeared;to be somewhat too heavy of the fight in the Soudan. . He had. which he said; I am very gorry that I
for his atrength, •for, in lowering it, charge est the itiaohine gun whioh, inoW-, must leave your jollY ranks so soon.
slung pver his right shoulder. R o years ew n e
it- came d.own on the ground *with
ea down the enieny at -.Abu Elea, Yon . have ieeeived
some little violence
me in. the. student
-: InstantlY , there
broke from the gray parcel a• Retie When the battle was Over it Was' found corps and en the corm of Bowel have
moaning cry,. and from it there pro- that every man in charge of the mite
learned to _Understand the rulingspirit,
' truded_a-''
smalf, scared, fate, with eery ele""'e.
.eyes, and two little e g°41 exaePe Bera•ai°rd " both at the drinking bouts and in the
had. be
bright, brown fenci4g2hall'It is a geed, German',
speckled dimpled fists. ' .
killed, There were -no wouilded. The courageous itieirit, to which I hope to
.• .
ed, penitently. voiM reproachfully. , ' All were dead' except the Captain, who
"Have. I though 1"- the man • answer-
,
''''. didn't go for to. do stood aniong the piled up' amp/30S at41, by the students' of the iineversity, and
king had 'been t lose for that. remain. true to the very pad." .
. feast -tendered him on it visit to Rona,
"You"ve hurt' me l" said A 01.111dieh tur'- l• - - °° ° • • In- 1891: thee Emniiror presided -itt a
ready to work his gun.' . - • , I fog;n•theitontvoic6Otaiosniontualeet eegid; y'o'Iungt isning
.e.
1.t.le hn. spoke, he unwrapped the gray , Bit this was WA, his grea'-fest exploit. .
s :s
shawl and extwho enteratudent.corps receives'e.
ricated a pretty little Sailorlike, he believed that therwey to poweifill 'life ' impulse • from the spirit
girl of about 'flee years of age, Whose take Rhaticeim 'and •Memo Gerdon was which Prevaile there. It be the very
chanty shoes And smart pink free*,
by water. Hieing helped to get the best training • fleet a young' man can
with • its little -linen apron, all .be- .. get for his future life, Wboever at -
spoke a motheeaoare, :The child Via boats UP tha. Nile, he Mc& little
it, now?" he answered, anxi-
pale and wan, but her healthy arms • ermined steazner, fitted with two raa-
end legs showed that she had autfer-
ed less than her ecimpanion. - chine, guns, and made ter Ehertouin. as there are German student melee, the
There 'he found another .- steamier fnPoirtietuvredhlr u30:Qaurroaugese d
deretand its aims. 'I hope -that so long
• • • thsterecnogrpths:.
a -1111- tacks the German aerie. apes not un -
pe -t
towsy golden curie whioh covered the PeOpheeand as his boilers warp by this
blows. Our 'duels are not generally
ht while an
"Hiss it and Make it well," , She the forts, lora day and. a nig drive. us astray. :We whe'elniee be -
said, with perfect 'gravity, shoving his engineer patched up • the 'boilers. longed to the student corps, -We know
the. nijitred part • up to him. "That's Again - he escaped without a wound:
better; As in the middle ages, human
What mother ' used to do. Where's Bereeford is one of the elbsest friends
. strength and courage were increased
mother f". : • - . , oethe Prince of Wales and one of the .,, • ,.,, .. .
b th ' 1
"Mother's gone. I guess you'll me rdos , .
t 'tinged perhaps because he clods "Y ewe 'turners'. 80 now - r e soul
and communal life of the corps- .the
her before tong." . • .
* not hesitate to opeak out openly and in -
the quality of ateadfastness Will ke raised
• To Be Continued... , '4" dependently. ' 'On on° .eeeelnen • .0
to a higher degree' to be of t e great-
Pruice invited hint t,. dinner at a mo -
misty, for she was still rubbing the' wrecked in the river. He rescued her
will ceptinue telling in good hard
tiack of her head. time shot through, he anchored under .
aerstoode But that should not
est value in the after life." -t" •
A CONTRAST BIE-THOD.
enza e ent He wired the Prince tie
had a ,more agreeable
Pretty lofty. idea of the value of the
So William H. of Geatiany has a
. .
• "Can't come. Lie follows by post." German student lite.
pettish *tactile. Are Williug to Tea, ate •Had any one else dared to !wad a • .
• Americans. • measage like that to the. futute Xing
John T. MoClutcheon, tile correse et Engle" he would have been ban -
pendent of the Chicago Itecord, who But coming from Charlie Beresford it etas swap; Been Disereet In its Ciatin0
has beenr- at Manila, with • Achniral was regarded as a joke. •. . ,er Erietids;
.
•
Dewey ever sence the fleet battle . 0..DANCES
1 1120.1.1394 he acemPanied thfe gline° to - There cannot be favorites in a well -
Manila, "sends a letter to the Itecora' ' • organised modern court like that of
• "SA.VE ME T,WO ."
dealing with the problem' of Aineel- Ooccasion was on Great Britain .With the strong light
n one •Beresford •
•
THE ENOUSH COURT,
tithed forever from Marlborough House.
can government of the Philippines, hoard the Queen's yaoht at Portsmouth of publicity now besting upon the
-
In the course of hie letter hi in his official capacity. Another yacht throne, there must be no preferences
says; . 1 • . I . went by on whioh he knew his wife in favor of ' ambitious intriguers, no
Another scheme, heating on a du_ yes,gNot thinking et what lue was patronage. of millionaires 011 a00011.11t,
, he ran up a private signal ask-
ferent phase of the .question, la the ing Charles to keep two danced of their money, no degrading intireee
plan of calling into •the governmental for him at a ball to be given that otos with people of sullied reputation's,
service a number of Englishmen who night. He was put under arrest for The English royal family under the
in the ivate id nal -while on the
have had years of eeperience in colon- 21x g l'ir g h• e queen"e direction has alwAys been dia-
ization. This is rather an me -Amore. Queen% yaoht. • He placed is nava .
rank in the Queen's , hands only to re- Meet in its choice of friends. Ite in-
tan plan,lent It must be admitted that ceive it back next day with a smiling fluence has sbeedily increased daring
men who have had a lifetime of ex- reproof. . her reign bemuse its dignity has bean
.
perience in building up 'colonies know Ile has been original, all his life and
Maintained, and because' the court has
more about the work thanmen who he is determined to reMain so in death,
He has resolved to be buried notein the .beeti singularly free from public scan -
world have to learn the work by bit-
ter experience. England has had a. ordinary coffin but in a casket lash- dal. 1 The *sovereign, the princes and
niz- toned, in the foAh
neof a boat. the princesses ave •had intimate
Oentury or two of successful colo
Two leers ago he had it constructed friencts, but these associates have been
ing, while America has had none. Ail
-, by the Measrs. Windram, of Liverpool, treated with a certain, reeerve, and
the experience based on all of Eng
land's practice could be gained with- It is "caravel" shape and made of fine n0± allowed 'to Metune anything like
ea the .neeessity of learning each West African mahogany, oak and elm. familiarity of manner. •
step by years of failure •and experie It iseaeven feet long, arid looks like a In consequence Of this discretion in
double -ended lifeboat, with a deck, life- making friends and acquaintances, the
Ment. There are many men ut the lines, a couple of oars, a rudder and a members of the royal family have been
English colonies who would be eager tiller. The hinds is upholstered. A enabled to meet the most famous Eng -
to co-operate and whose , assistance London undertaker has it in his care. lishmen of' their time, and to do much
Would be extremely valuable during Ilerestord is blunt. In December, to elevate and purify seciety. Their
the first few years of occupation. 1897, in a speech at the Vagabond Club, patronage is eagerly sought for every
A story ie told. in Hong Emig which he created a sensation in society by philanthropie• enterprise, every hu -
shows the willingness of the English outspoken denunciation of wealth, "Let mane 'Muse and every progressive
colonial officials to ,help the 'United anybody," he said, "come to England movement, • Their prestige and ex -
States in every way.Ate American with enough money, no matter whether ample ate worth much Whenever any
brigadier -general, on his way trope it has been gained honorably or dig- practical work is to be done in inee
the Philippines to Peels, stopped i3OV., gracefully, and. there is no door which field of human effort.
1
eral days in Hong Kong. While there he cannot hope to enter. , Money, is /f there were favorites at court trad-
he indicated to an English officer destroying our old pride and our old ing upon their intimaeles with royalty
that he would like to get some idea of &ivory,. When a teen in our best and dragging partisans of their own
the cost and plan of running a colony society commits a dishonorable eat, into conspicuous places, there would be
like Hong Hong. The English officer that society bands itself together to a succession ef scandals. Royalty in
Immediately volunteered to de allin screen him instead of hanging him to England has been'jealous of its ree
his power to help him. A meeting was 1a tree and casting his body into the patation dating the Victorian reign.
arranged, and the goverin of the eitehe,
. t
colony„ several offwials a d the Am-. Its political 'authority has declined,
In regard ;to the Aag.W-Saxon alli- hut its, social influence has greatly
erican consul -general and the brigae ance Beresford remarkeM recently at insreased. .
dier-general met. The Englishman a Ioneeen banquet: "The time far intik»
had prepared elaborate tables, giving ing it is net opportune. The Amer',
gaverrt-' cans are shrewd, and, it is not well that IERTUDAYS AND amts. .
tko minutest detaile Of . the
merit. a work Whith had involved a it
great deal of time in preparation. They should appear as thoUgh we are in It xe rare to Meet a person who does
a poeition of difficulty add want this
were ready to enlighten thebrigadier- re-- e
Oas-saatee Lor our own benelit.” , not confess to the, fascination of pre-
overnment.
general on *rutty' phatte or celoniat
g • A PEN,PICITURE OF "CHARLIE." ' demi stones. Thabc•charin of an Opal. i
The consultation started out well. A gentlemen who knows Lord for Instance, SCOW more than the rain -
but at the firat opportunity the gen- Beresford well says Of hilt: ' bow suspended in Ltd .hidden, waters,
eral began telling war atories. Efforts "A strong, broad -shouldered, tl
eeell'e /t enema to Mean hope, and life or
Were made to get the conversation chested, welneet-up young man WAS the death, and the PrOlnise of life after
back to the, proper channel, but to no first impression t got ortord Chariot
ParPOSOr Finally the English govern. Eierestord, When I Met him thirty. yeas death, With ite ever changing, ever •
or pereeived that it was useless to ago On board rr. M. S. Gillette ta the lieW• reflections.
persist, and he gave up the task in harbor of, SidneY, Australia. • Here is an interesting elalutifleation
disgust. The meeting ended in. war "The Galatea WAS Commanded by the Of the appropriate gems for .etteb per,.
anecdotes by the American general. Duke of Edinburgh, QUeele Viettleie's eon to wear:* *
Aft day Or two -later tho 401rerziOtab001id. atute-Pritase Alfred, as people Theie *All in :antler, should Wear
said to the &Mail that he realized then called bitri. The recent, death of garnet, eigrti yittg film:144p and ft* '
that thegeneral was not interested the Duke of Edinburgh's dissipated delity; February, amethyst, Sitteer**
in the details and that the materiel &Mr the 'Crown Prince of Saxe -Coburg tty and peace; March', bloodstone, wilt -
he 4 th and Gotha, reealls the attenrettatelass dent, ceitrage and firinnese ; April. dies '
' ral..................46...........................#
1 ; A. SOrtri/D VIEW'. Oiontarf, a Mutilate Oioni0 ground near 1 d happy-; .Tune, agate, health,
*Sydney, Tzar* 12, 1N8, by an alleged wealth and long life; .ruly, ruby, eon-
buDosimaYunt hal, left! in woman going into Retibut Darned frifttrfell. The Duke tent; Attguat* ear&on,tx, oonittgal fells
was only etightli VedUAdedi httt TRars Oitli September, sitilVV.r.e* sanity, )04,6111 6
Well, if *babas Menet there•le Moro nell was banged. ' • ,, , and edee of mind; MCOTtry OPUlt UOPe4
Chant* Or getting it than if she out it "Artten the festivities was ii. Meet- Noventher, toPatto friendemp an n troll
into beliellt. ; , riotti pet tereetetee given On Wird, lit IVO; Deettitietir, tttielettikee 411041.406 A
TRAVEL'S OF AN INSECT*
A Trouttlesethe Heat% AsterIcan Natives
World.
The jigger, one of the ineeet pants
of the West Indies and Squat, America;
has at lad crowd. equatorial Attie%
from the Atlantic to Zanzibar, about
2.700 •milee, twenty-six yeare after its
introduotion' Into the Continent, This
variety of the flea, muoh than
the common flea, ia Van': trouleteaerne,
and if ite attaoke upon v, few animals,
includiag men, are not prevented, it
is eemetinies fatal to lite The fact
that its gradual advance among the
natives of Africa threw thern late con-
aternation. often causing the abandon-
ment. of villages and diarist'', has
Mado it easY trace ite progress etep
by step, and 'a brief onrumary of its
Journey denies Afrioa will be interest-
ing as a etriking illustretioa of in-
seot navigation. ,
A sailing Meet arrived et Ambriz,
Angola, in September, 1872, from
Iltazil with sand ballast; whish she
dumped on the beach. The jigger had
crossed •the ocean in this Sand, and les
propensity for boring through the skin
and lodging between the cuticle and
the flesh soon made .-ite presence
kaown, There am effective' means of
Preventing its attacks, but before the
• natives learned how to deal with it the
little peat caused, great suffering. • It
was long age evident that the jigger
was not using its own pewees ef loco-
motion to any large extent in, its jour-
• ney through Africa, but that it was
• oerried bye,caravana in the porterage
service.
• In 1885 travellers crossing the Con-
tinent teem Za,bzibar heard nething of
the jigger till they arrived withili.300
• miles of the Atlantic., -It had taken
the insect• •
• THIR,TEE.N TEARS •
*low Vet *hied, reveres* limed the
POIRY UNIAN
INTEIROSTINO MSS Amur CR
owr COUNTRY,
44444401.94,
Oathered IreM Various Points treat 00
Atlantic to asp PROM,
Niagara, 0.1 wants a post -office. •
•Kamloops is.to have a mining school,'
Midway, B.O., will have a new hoteli
There are 8,777 voters in Victoria.
NeiSear 11. a. Is to have a clradlatio
club:
• Carriage horses are !merge in eo.stern
Qatari°.
to penetrate this distence into Afeime
Thiesnatives at SitaneeyePool_had_._wite
"teased with smote the adventofthe
unweloome visitor that abided with
tiepin but sent on colonies further up
the river. Theneeeorth the jigger's
regress was more rapid; for • steaine
boat* and caravans were multiplying
on the unfiv7. Congo. Seven years ,lat-
er, 1892,. Dr. ieretev Baumann report-
ed -the arrivar of the peelefit Bakarabl.
Gulf, 'midway -on-the. south 'ezest of
Victoria Nyanza. • It was still tine.
known- on the east shores of the like.
natives declared that it had been
brought to the Nest coast by Sten-
leyee expedition for the Mlief of _Emin
Pasha. gowever, . that May be, the
jigger appeared 'about , the same time
throughout most of the central lake
region, tollowiti8 the caravan route
from the upper Congo through Many-
eina to Lake Tanganyika. The natives
along the -edge of Victoria Nyiniza suf-
fered terribly from the infliction, and
many . villages were abandoned.
Three years more elapsed before the
Missionaries at Ntpwapwit reported the
;arrival of the digger among the 0101111-,
lairta at that point, wo miles from the
Indien Ocean. 11took the insect two
'years marc to reach the . coast towns
of East .Africa, whets it appeared ale
meet simultaneously, late in 1897, at
all the towns, between Ragomoya and
Penwell, along seventy miles of the
coast, and another year elapsed before
late last fall, it was jumping along the
sands of Zanzibar Island. :
The people of the east coast have
suffered comparatively little in com-
parison with the intend tribes, for
hundreds of Zanzibaris who had work-
edteergay:erta tele: the Congo
ave • re-
turned horde and Spread the internee,
tion • that rubbing with tobacco leaves
and, sleeve. all, •cleanliness 'and. the
.wearing of shoes, are effective protec-
tionAfter its long journey from Brazil
the jigger is now established at the
• busy mart whence Many vessels sail.
for the East Indies and Oceanic. There
seems no good reason why this per-
severing and successful traveller
should not girdle the tropical world.
STORT OF LORD ATTRDEEN.'
It may ilot be generally known how,
Lord Aritedeen iiiet his future wife:
-
it was about twenty-two years ago, and
Lord Aberdeen 'was visiting at a shoot-
ing lodge in the Highlands. One day
his host could not accompany him on
the Moors, BO be went alone, and by
accident •• crossed the "march" or
boundary; or e neighbouring-- etitate.
The was tramping along, gun on shoul-
der, vvlatin a gentletuan asked him if
he was aware that he was trespassing,
"Oh,' no," said Lord Aberdeen, "I•am
the gaafit of so-and-so I" "Very Prob-
ably,' said the gentleman, "but you
are now on my property." Lord Aber-
deen apologized profusely, and hand-
ed him his card. The owner of the soil
was Mr. Marjoribanks, now Lord
Tweedeneuth; who promptly invited the
trespesser to luncheon at Guiettehan.
The unwitting poacher accepted, and
in that way met Miss Lobel Marjorie
batiks, who is now Lady Aberdeen.
4 FORGETFUL SPOUSE.
Mrs. 13ilkins-I never saw such a
forgetful man in my life. as you are.
The olock has stopped again.
Mr, Bilkins-Thet's because You for-
got to wind it.
Mrs. Bilking -ROM You know very
well, Mr. Bilking, that I told you to
remind me to wind it and you forgot
about it. •
33110101 THE WILL,
• Jasper—So they have . broken old
Scadsby'a wall I thought that he
sPenit the lett' years of his life int
devising a will that couldn't be
broken.
jumpuppe-So he did, and they broke
his unbreakable will 13.$ citing his rite
tetnpt make it as, a proof of
sanity„ •
011, 00 AHEAD,
Meddler -Not another word! It
a en outrageous scandal and not fit to
be repeated; not another word of it
will I listen to.
Mr. hteddleeeetiut I haven't finished
yet.
Meddlers.Ohl Gcl ahead'
PAT "CHA.TES" THE RAILVirAY.
Well, said rat, chuckling, rye jute
abated this oulc1 railway con'trInt nice-
ly,
Wicialiwy,age taken a, retitrn tioket, and
No no intention•of going hat* at alio
at *11.
hadprepare Was rown ttWay.
striation of the Puke of 11,1 nbuth at Mond, • innocence; May, emerald, bee
METHOD IN HER MADNESS,
Why le It, they asked, that' you let
your aittabend befit hl own Wer in
verythingt
Because*, she relied. I ilke to bit* b
SOMS ona to MAW WM% Agiagi 110
erereti
k1•
in 1898, 43:1 arreate were made in
Roseland.
Digbi, S., wiil build a new Roues
of Refuge.
Dynamite is to be manufactured. near
Nelson, B, O.
• The miners employed in Reesland, B,
C., number 1,233.
-A Nelson firm sold 3,000 pounds of'
cottee •in one day. 't ' •
Board of Trade may be formed sft
etranttowaning. : ;
• Sandon, B. Oe anent 320,000 on neve
buildiiige last year.
• Revelstook, B. 0., wants to be hewer
pointed: ee3 •a town. .
• Tile ,Miner thinka ,Ressla,nd should'
have it new theatre. 't
An effort will be Made to incorpon.
ate Woodstook as a city. • • .
Moncton, N. B.v has a surplus 94
13,100 in Scott Act funds. . "
.The sale of stamps at Roseland last
year reached almost 316,000. •
The Noe:on Works at Ingersoll are
einploying 210 men at present.
• Creston, a new town on Kootenay;
Lake; B. C., ;hes fourteen hotels.
The value of the.buildings erected.
in Moosejaw in 1898 was 3133,000. ,
Rossiand's :Presbyterians raised 410,-
025 last rev. membershi,p 80.
In Belleville Polioe Court, Iasi year
• 489 personshad charges to mistier.
••,• Mrs. Susan &filth died at Shot,
bourne, OW S., at 'the age of 101 yeers.
" A Vices:Wig, B. G., Chinaman sold
liquor to an Indian and Was fined
• e. • *. e •
A company Is being organized to es-
tablieh a felt' factory at Regina, elle,
W. T. e '
' Four ratepayers of Yarmouth,
pay- one-eighth of the taxes of that
town. , • :". ;1 • t
Seine Woocii3Mok eounoillois think ,
that tome should have -better fire pro.
teeetien. • , 1• • . ,
.1. three.•mogthe'Leourse of leeturw'
• , ,
will be -given' at Epialandis oohed et •
:Mining, •• • . .
'Four carloads of eelehavee'been ship..
ped; from Bechileuette N B.,:. to the',
United Statee, , • e• • .,
Ex -Warden /avail of Kingston pent-
tentie.ry, draws a -:seperannuation • Mee
towance. of $1,149.• •i
• Every member of Vancouveres Fitz
comical,. with Oaf; exception, .Came orie
ginaily from Ontario,
• John 8/oBain,•ManitOba, had his len'
injured in a football =tole, and had
to havee it amputated. I •
Johle•Sinepsoit, of Regina, .iscild
to Indians, and. was sentenced to sin
months lie jail and fined $.100: : L,
A new post office opened_ in the Lake .
Temiscamingue district will he known •
as Lorraineille, alter Bishop ',terrain"
Pembroke. * • • i
Willie McCormack, aged six yearde
of `Little Red Deer, eti, W. T., was elicit
:in • the' neck, acoidentally, by hie
brother, and killed. ,
. . •
• The Chief .of Police of Meiitord. is alga
Water -works engineer, publics works oire •
eraeer, truant offioer, sanitary inspeo,
tor and caretaker of the town hall., 1
•
"RETURNED THE' MONEY.
I 4 7
,
A 1111Mtonairei AtOlies for a irliae et Daisy
Years Ago,
▪ master mason in Bentschen, Ger.
many, named Jacobs, was delighted te
receive a remittance recently from 0,
An in New York. The sender was un-
known to him, but the •remittance
ainetinted to 69,078 marks, • equal
315,000. The sender, Jadobs believes.
• Must have signed an assumed name.*
He says the Only explanation he cap
give for the strange transaction is
that the money came from a former
partner; Who absconded 30 'years ago.
Be says that in 1869 his partner in
business disappeared sudden*, taking
with him 12,000 'marke which belonged
to Jacobs. Every effort .was made to
Lind him or get a trace of his where-
abouts, hut all was unsuccessful, and
after awhile he resigned himself to his
loss. About a year ago, her aYs, while
on a business trip in North Germany',
be was throtvri in.eontact with a party
of American -lounge travelling in- the
same eirection. Ile talked with theni
and they told him or many successful
Germans who had settled in the United
States.. .
He remembered his absconding
partner and wondered if he htid mi-
grated to Anierica. He told hie newly
made tompanions the story of his •
trouble and meetioned • his former
partner's name. The Americans said
they knew it millionaire of that name
in Chicago. Mr. Jacobs thinks it pos.
ible that the Americans told the
Chicago millionaire of the interview
when they returned and that the re-
•Mittanee was the result. The money
sent represents • the amount ofethe
original loss, plus compound interest.
The name of the Chicago
was not divulged by Jacobs.
PIT MIGHT HAVE
• It is sOnletimes possiblei for a laws
yer to prove that his opponent is the
eviser man. A. police justice eing
posing of oases at the rate of ' about
two a minute, with great exitance'
and dignity,being judge, jury and
attorney all in one.
Then you are sure You ; recognise
•
thie handkerchief as the One stolen
from you t lan said to a complainer. ,
Yes, yoUr honor, Wale the reply,
Kew do you knew it le yours, ttel
Attended the justice.
You can me that it is of a peoulite
• make, your honor, replied the wite
nee& That is the way I know.
;tt. • ;
Aro you aware; eir, shouted the juis
tine, drawing a, sitailar• One tem his
potket, that there are others like
it t
Indeed / am, replied the nueationed
iXtensitill more plabidly, had teed
Sow& Turner. of Dorcheliter,` N.B., •
fell from the top of ix tree and WM
impaled on a hrethohovIdeh pinta ts
ed bit bodY ilitt WIWI* He died
tke injuriso