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akane, and never after nigbtfall. Dur -
ilag two weeks I drove behind tbene• -
every day, and never once saw them
eeparate. Drabber himeelf was aryl*
h if the time, but Stangeriten wee net
; ...,
the ghost of a chanoe ; but 1 wan not
• thane late and early, but never saw
0 be caught napping, I watehed
I
,. discouraged, ter (something told me . that the hour bad almest come. lety
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• .ctrArTsil Vs -Continued.
For wane Months jeffereon Hope
.lingered among theenountains,Iaadzug
a strange, wild life, ,and nursingin
his heart the fierce desire for ven-
geance winch-- possessed hine.• Tales
were. eold in the eity ot the. weird
figure which was Seen Prowling about
the suborbs, and winch haunted the
lonely mountain gorges, Ono a bole
let whistled. tbrough Stehgertion's
, Window and flatteited itself upon the
Wall • within a foot ot hizn. tha an-
other oceasion, as Drebber passed under
rei cliff, a great, laawlder mashed down
on.. him, and he only' escaped a terrible
death by' throeving /liaison upon his
face, Tne two youitg Mormonswere
net long in diseevering the reason ot
• these attemptsupon their lives, ane
led repeated eaipeditions into the
mountains in ine hope a capturing or
killing their ..exiemy, but alweys with-
'. mit eubOess. Then they adopted the
precaution id never .goingeut alone or
after nightfall, arid of -having their
house e &aided. Mte a time they
were able to relitX these measures, for
nothing was ea:thee...seen or heard Of
their. opponent, and they hoped that
.time had Cooled hie vindictiveness. •
Far from doing 'so, it had, if any-
thing, • aligmented it The hanteres
Mind was of a hard, unyielding nature;
and the predominant • idee -of revenge
had taken suchcompete possession of,
. • it that there was no' room for :any other
emotion. He Was, however, above all
tbings piactieel. Ile soon realized
that even his iron eoostitution oould
not stand the incessant .etrain which
he 'was putting upon it. -Exposure and
.wine of wholesonie feed were wearing
him out; If hcedied like a. dog among'
• the -mountains, What was to become of
is revenge Lhei And yet stich a
• death wee sure to overtake him if.he
• persisted. He felt • • that that Was to
play his 'enemy game, so he -reluct-
antly. returhed to. the old Nevada
• mines. tinny torecruit healthand
• to amass Money enough to allow him,
' to pursue his 'object without nrivatiop,
. His intentien had been to be ebeent
year at the meet, but a:..Combination
Of unforeseen eireutnstances prevented
his. leaving the mines for nearly five.
At the end .cif that time, however, .his
- memory of his ;Wrongs and his cravings'
for revenge: were quite as -keen as on.
-that memorable night when he had
stoodeley Jobn. Ferieerei grave. :Dia-
. gnised and under an • aasemed name, he
• , returned ,to • Salt Lake 'City, eareless .
' whet beparne of his own. life, aslong
its he obtained what be knew to be
juestke.: .There.: he found evil tidings.
•:awaiting him:- .Thereinect been a shim
. among the Chesen'People e feW,mootbs
before some ot.. the younger 'meinbera
of the Chuech havingrebelled against
the antheeity. of' the elders,, and the
. result •had been 'the secession Of a ecere
Min number of the :malcontents, who
• .hed left Utah and become• Gentiles.
Atamilte those had been Deebber and
• Stangeeson; and no ,one knew 'Whither
they had 'gone: Ruiner reported that:
Deebbet bad managed to convert a
large part of 'hie property. into .money,
and that he bed. , departed a - :Wealthy
man, while his companion, Stanger -
son, 1,vee,s •coeniaratiVely ppm: There .
was no clue at ell, however, as t� their
whereabouts, e• ..
• Many, a main: beveever Vindictive,
• wou(dhave abandoned all thought Of,
revenge in the face of swab a difficulty,
• ,but, Jefferson ,HOPe never 'falteredtor
a MomentWith, the Mahn competence
• he posseseedi eked out br such employ-
• . ment as -he .r,oind..pick up, he traveled.
. from, Own tolOwn. throagh the United
States. in .quest Of his mender Year
•. passed into •year, his black hair turned
. grizzled, but -still he Wandered on; a .
human blood -hound, with his mind •
wholly set upoi . the one object 'upon,
which he hed.devotedhie life. At, best• ,
his •nerseverancie • was rewarded. , It
was but a .glance :of a fade in • a win-
dowel/hut that one glance told him that
Cleveland, in Ohio,' poaseisecl 'tile men
whona he Was in pursuit of. lee return= .
ed to his nilserablelodgings. with luis
.• plan of yengeence all arranged. 7 It-
, chanced, however, that Diebber, look-
• ing .from his Windoiv,'•had recognized.
the vagrant • In the street,. and had
read .murder in hie -eyes.. He horried
before a hist icentthepeace, accanpane.
ed by Stangersori; who bed :become hie
• private seeretery, and eepresentedto
him that they were in danger of their
• lives' from the jealousyeand hatred of.
.an old, rival, •• . •
That • eveinag Jefferson Hope wee
taken 'into • custody, and not.. Japing
able to find sureties, was detaiaed tor
soine wee*, ' When ' at lett he was
liberated,. •it was Only to find Abet
• 'Heebner's heuse Was deserted. and that
•he and ' his setretary•, had departed.fim
• Europe.; , • • '• •• •
• 'Again the everiger had been foiled,
and againhis. concentrated hatred
• urged 'hind. to eontinuethe pursuit.
et Funds were wantihg, howeder, and for
• eorde .titne he had to return to Woelt,
• saving every dollar for his approaching
journey.. At last, baying_ collected
• enough' to keep life in ,him, he depart.
• ed for Europe, and ttaelled his enemies
froin city td citer,,,weekbag his way in
• any menial Capacity, but never over-
taking the fugitives, When he reach-
• ed St. Peterebutg . they had depart-
ed for. Paris; and *hen he follewed,
• them there he learned that they had, •
hist set off for Copenhagen, At the "
Danieh capieal he wets again a few
. • days.. 'ate, for they had jaunted on to
London, where he at last succeeded in •
-
rinining 'theta to earth. Ateeto ,what
°Centred there,' We canna -do 'better
thane quote the old hunter's own lie-
eorititf SA -dub' recorded in IV, Wat-
son's jouinale to which we are already
under sus). obligations. '
• •• CHAPTER VI. •'
• Our prisoner's resistance did- not ap-
natreotly indicate any ferocity in his
dienoeition toward ourselves, for on
finding himeell powerless. be smiled in .e
an 'affable moaner, and expressed his
hopes that he bad not hurtmay of _I
us in the seuffie,
• "I guess you're going to take . me
to the Police -station' he remarked to e,
• aerie* Holmes. "My Caber at -the i
doer. If you'll loose my legs walk t
down to it len not to light to, lift
lee used to he." • '
Oregon and Le:Meade exchanged r
glences . they thought thin ProPo- I
• (Mimi rather a bold One; but Holmes I
• itt Once took the prieoner hiseword, n
•• and leeeened the towel Whieli be had ve
botthd round his ankles. ire rose and .1
efretelied 'his lege, as though as.
moo himself that they were free Mice
More. X retnentiber that thought to
•mime, r eyed him, that X had a
•delabin teen a mere powerfully built r
man, and his dark, sunburned face
bore an 'expression of determination a
side With Ine, Von, WO, deOtor; yo
bave .taketi an intereet in the 000
and may as well stiek to Mt"
assented gladly, and we an, des
cendeci together. Our priooner mad
no attempt at escape, but steppe
calmly bete the wee which bed bee
his, and wd"followed Le.strad
mourded the box whipped up th
horse, and brought us in a very slim
time to our destination. We wer
ushered into a emell chamber, wilier
a police inspector noted •down OU
prisoner's name and the naines of th
men with whose inurdee he had bee
charged. • The official Was a white
faced, uneenotionai man, wile wen
through bis duties in a dull, inechan
haat way. "The prisoner Will be ini
before the magistrates in the coarse o
the week," he said; "in the meantime
hir. Jefferson Hope have you any
thing that you wish' to say, I mus
warn you that your words will b
,taken down and may be needengains
• roue"
1 ve• got it good deal to say," ou
prisoner said, siowly. "I want to tel
' you gentlemen all about it,"
" Hadn't youbetter reserve UMW°
you e trial l" asked the inspector.
"I may never be tried," he ,answer
ed, " You needn't look startled. It isn'
suicide I'm thinking of Are you '
doctor t"
He turned his fiered dark eyes upon
me as he asked this last question,
"Yes, '1 am," I answered,
• " Theh put your hmd here," he said
evieh emile, motioning his manacle
wrists toward his ehest.
• I did OA and beerem,ant once cen mote
of an extraordinary throbbing and cone
motion which was going on inside. Th
walls of his chest, seemed to thrill an
a leave ney work undone,
ta, "At last, one evening I' was ilriving
up and down Torquay Terrace, as the
- street was called in which they board
e ed, when I saw a cab drive up to Welt
d door,. -Presently some luggage Wad
a broUghe out, and aloe a time Dreb-
e ber and Stangerson followed it and
e drove off. evlifteleed, up my horse and
t kept within eight Of them, feeling ill
e at ease, for'I feared that they were
e going to shift their quarters. At
r• Piston. Station they got out, and I
e• left a boy to hold, nee home and fol -
n lowed' them on, to the platform I
heard them ask for the Liverpool train,
t •and the guard answer that one had
, just gone, and there weuld not be an-
t other for emits hours. • StrangerSon
f seemed to be pat eat at, that, but Dreb-
, ber was rather pleased than other-
„• wise, I got so close to thein• in the
t bustle that I could hear every word
e that passed between them, Drabber
t said that be had a little business of
his men. to do, and that if thee. oth.he--
✓ would wait for bier he -would soiiiie re
•r companion remenatrat-
ed • with hira, and rex:abided binx that
✓ they had resolved to stick together,
Drebber answered that the matter was
a delicate one, and that he must go
t alone. „t could, not batch. what Sten -
s gerson said•to. that, but the other burst
out swearing, -and remolded hine that
he was netting more- than his paid ser-
vant, and that he must not presume to
dictate to iiinee. On that the mcretarY
gave it up aa a bad job, and sina:ply
bargained. with him that if he missed
the last train •he. should rejoin him at
Hall:day's Private Hotel; to which
_• Drebber neerwered that, he would be
back on tbe platform' before eleven, and
e• de hi w t of 'thestation.
d ay out ,
• quiver es a frail building would do. in
(TO Be Coptinnede
side when _seine powerful engine wa
at work. In the silence of tbe rooni
I could bear a dull liummingand buz-
zing noise which proceeded from eh
same source. '
".Why." I. cried." you have 'an aorti
aneurism!" .
" That's -what tbey call it," he said
pladdiy. " went• to 'a doctor las
week about it, and he told me that
was bound to burst before many day
passed. It has been getting worse for
years. I got it from, over-exposure and
uaderfeeding among , the Salt Lak
mountains. I've done -any week now
and I don't care how, soon I go, bu
1 sheuld like to leave some account
the business behind met: I don't wan
•to .be remembered as Recommon gut
throat"? '•'
The inspector and the two detectives
had .a hula:led discussion .as to the ad
visabieity of allowing hire to tell his
StOlt. " ••
0
:THE EETHIED
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5 .
lie Tens movv Easy it Is 'Cr a ellen to •Re
e•• . • upset bythe Ilnextvectes. ,
•• "It is the uteet-peestee,'" said the reties
1 , ed burglar, "that' opsets Us. •A rause
1
t who woald walk straight into .1)attle
13• ;With perfect readeness and calmness
, .,
eaglet be greatlyestartled by the ex -
e peo:sion of a toy pistol Floe by Wlien
, he wasn't looking for it. A mare Who
t was looking tor- tigers might walk up
L
to .a tiger without a tremor and yet
t .. • •
e ee' 'scared .lialf to death by 4 eat. 1
was once Myself not Coated. exactly; but
Certainly thrown. Mean off myenalance
- 4 • • , . •
by se . teenplesultrii ng ., as an Ordinary
domeetic cet,entet •under ,unneual ales
eurnstenoes,• . ,-,.• •
• "I was Prospecting ilie Anterior' of a
'bowie in the Usual way and at the ;us -
.041 hour of my profession, and inalue
course bed reached:en upper elninebee,
' "Do you consider; doctor, that there
is immediate danger V" the forneer ask-
ed. . :
• "Most certainly • Mere is'? I'
,swered,
"In that ease, it is clearly Mei •tluty,
tbeinterests of justice, to take hie
• etatenlente' Enid the inspector.-" ton
are at liberty, sir, to glee year acecaint
which again warn you will be taken
"Ili sit down, with your • leave,"
the ptisoner said, Suiting the action
to the word " Mitt aneurism of mine
Makes me eacsily tired, and the eussle
we had half an houragci has not mend-
ed matters. "I'm on the brink 'of the
grave, end* r p.m not likely to lie to
you. Every word I say is the Ecbsolute
truth, .and how you, use it ie a :matter
"of no 'consequence to the" •
With these words; jeffersen 11'30e
leaned back in his chair and began the
followilig remarkable statement He
spoke in a °elm end methedical man-
ner •as •though the events *hid] he
narrated, Were .commobetlace enouh. I
can vouch for the apouracy, of the sub'
joined •account, for I have had access
to Lestradeti •note -book, in which the
prisoner's words were taken down ex-.
eatly as they weril uttered ,
"It .doesn't matteie much to you, why
I hated these meneehe said ;." it's en-
ough 'that they were • winter of the
-dentireefetwo hu.man beingse-e. father
and -a-daughter-acid that they had,.
therefore,. forfeited , their ,,own lives,
er pse o a • as passed
einee. their mime, ie Wee irapo.ssible for
me to secure a ce,nytetion agalost them.
in any court r knew ot their guilt,
though, and determined thl.t I
should 13e judge, jury and executioner
all 'rolled into one. You'd have done
the same; if you hays any manhood Rh
you, if you had been in my place.
• "That girl that spoke of was to
have married 'me twenty'yearis ago.
She was forced into eaarrylog that
mine Drebber, and she broke her heart
over .it. took the marriage -ring
from her dead finger, and. I vowed
that hindying eye e sheind. reae upon
that veil ring, and that his last
thoUghte should bo of the crime for
whicl. he was punished. I have Car-
ried it - „about with me, and have foie
lowed lam/ and his accomplice over two
continents until enuglit them. They
thought to tire me out, but they could.
not do it. If I die to -morrow, • ea is
likely enough, I die knowing that my
work in this world is done, and well
done. They. haV0 periehed and by my
hand. There is nothing lefe for me to
hope for or to desire."
"They were rich, and I was poor, so
that it was no easy matter for rae to
follow thene. When I got to London
my poeket was &bent entity, and I
found that 1 must tern My hand to
something for my living. Deleting and:
ikiingtate as natural to me as
ao I applied at a cabeovvner's
Office, and soon got ettiploynient. • I.
was to bring a -certain OM WO*
to the owner, and whatever was over
that might keep to myself. There
was seldom much' over, but I marl -
aged to scrape along cotoshow. %he
hardest job was to learn my way ;
about, for reckon that of ail the
mazes that ever were contrived, this
ity is the most eetifixeing. I had a
0100 beside me, theugb, and vvh'eti once
had spotted the prweipaA hotebi tina
stations, X got on pretty well, e
"It was mime time' before I= foam) ,
ut where my two gentlemen were liv-
hg, but leenquired and enquired, Un-
it at laAt I dropped aeross them. They
were at a boarding-house at Camber -
Weil, aver On the other side of the
!vile. When mane / found thean out
knew that X had them at my mercy.
had grown my beard, and there was
a chance of their recognizing me. X
ould dog them and follow them until
'saw my opportunity. 1 was deter-, '
mined that they should not Neap° me
again.
"They Were very near doing It. for
II That. Get where they viteleld about
eondon, X was always at their litchi.
Sometimes X Mimed them oii my oily,
SOMetinleit on foot, but the former
as the best, for then they could not
• in Which Tsai My itimp ()Owe temonthe.
bureau perepareeary to Week. There
was a Main cusleno in :the bed at my
back in,this roan, .but he was: to als1
-aPpetianeeess. Emma asleep, • and I an:
prebended no. trouble froM • heal.
alert!. were .in the top drawer, oe this
• horeatt ce few- • trinkets Worth remov-
ing, and when'I hail got thane into •rey
beg shut enateirnever iiiid-started to
Open.tlarnext.. It was a good bureau,
drawers working sliek and Smooth, and
Lpueled the second drawer out as far
at I wanted it.at e touch. Ail* loeked
down wit, it 1 saw sebeething gleaniiiag
there in a cam eort et -way 7.1t the dark
• and the next ntnute .1 heard a sort'of
alz&pi in the atmosphere, .or. thought
I did, and time/et:hang leaped Out of that
drawer and went uli over ray shoulder,
just teuebing my Lace as it passed.
'• "et wits a opt. • That's ail. •Just a
oat. I etipposs it had been anpund the
.rokanl there in. the afternoon, and that
drawer thad been left open and th.e Cat
bad jumped • into: 14 and gene. to sleep,
there, undellairbeen shut in there, still
asleep when the ;dinwer was closed,
after dusk, maybe, and the cat was not
noticed. •.A.ti those • things realized
as the oat went, over nry abouldet,
etirbecle eves oniy a tracbion of a seemed
-ULM the Line wh'en, I had seen ite
eyes -as 1 :no* know them to have been
-,ehining, in .the clanwor. But in that
very brief period I had involuntarily
started back • I don 4 aupnese any man
is abeolutely meta against eurprise.
But, eeen so, I eliztud have "been all
r:ght in nett • a second mid nothing
'woad haves happened. tf I hadn't caught
my • hem en a. rug in Stepping, back. I
emildret receve± myself, t,nough I had
completely tetsoyered my Meeleal• self-
eontatel before.' I had fallen.;
"1 went down ev,th a crateh that just
Made the house rattle, falling with my
head on the Loor dose up by the side
of the bed. The Wale in the bed was
[lightning. lie woke up, tutted over,
and swung his arra in a sweep (Iowa
from the aide of the, bed while I wait
tutning over on the floor. Itis hand
just ticked My head awl tttrned away
from it only a totielh, but it was t
touch of a moo that Wasn't shy, mid
in one instant I beard the ap•ring of
-the bed mash un,der him as he bounced
up out of it. Ile was after me, but
by this time 1 had gone.
"I had hung cat to the bag_through
it all by instinct, and 00 I' got away
with the few trinklete. I had, found in
• the top drawer ; but in, place of thent
left for hen, on tv of the bureau,. my
Janne foe a aouvenle•r"
I NOW HE TAXES OUR PAPER.
,
A. Few Reasons why People Should Si,!,.
• seri be Por Their Loral dolma.
A man w'ho was too stingy to aub-
seribe for a local paper, borrowed a
• city • naoetr front a neighbour, and t),
found, that by sending one dollar to a
Valikee he could get a cure for drunk- 1
enness. Sure enough he did, It Was _e_t
to( take the p.Ted.ge and keepsete_edata,r. t
if M
OA the emit fifty tev0-tent stamps, to w
find out how to raise turnipa suceetse a
fully. lefe found out-"Jelst take hold a
of the topes and pull." Being young w
he Wished' to marry, and sent' thirty- t t
and titerd which WAS at. formidable w
et away from me. It was only early
n the morning or late ttt night that X
tild earn anything, DO thet I began
hia Peritenni (strength,
.tliertee a. vacant plaee for a chief i
Of the tactile%/estkon. you ,are the retie co
for it," he mutt, gazing with deals -
gaited admiration at My /0116W-104er, d
"The way you kept On my trail was X
eaution."
• 'roll ltad better tome with me,"
•(1lrnA!ltg4wo eetettives.91egSiTI:dker• "000d1 and oreeocag
n•
o get behind with my employer. 1
id not mind that, however, as long as
could lay my Mod upon the WM
anted.
"They were very dunning, though,
hey must have thought that there
as Wee demos of their,heing fol -
owed, for tirey would never go out ,
(Noll Qs ilefecle IQf Tier for the thcleifxtele;. ern:
oit-eng, .4; a ambler
it ye like 1.
Mice. Cottlnese and itesuranee are the
tbe
excitement of a game of Ounce.
"Being a detective, melees You grow
softer -hearted” weile on tine astute,
woman, as "elle straightened out the
" . gloves she bad rescued frone her oar-
- tease eustomier. "When Itirst went
e Into the business six years ago 1 was
hard as flint, had no pity, • and,
thought in every case that thievee jitst
got what they deserved. I know the
world better now," and. know PeoPle's
temptations and iso am not harsb. The
other day saw a. pretty young girl
fingering a gold Pin, Rue of several
unusually pretty ones (stuck in a cush-
ion. She examined it again and again
and finally, *leen slae thought no one
Was looking she slipped it in her xnuff,
She was refined looking, arid was as
• sorry when she put that pin away -as
thong') tihe were some relative. She
moved about exernining other things,
bought shine little kniok-knacks or
other, and then I. saw hoe watch the
(hence to put the pin beck on the coun-
ter. thought ber ceneelence
n't let her keep it„ and turned my at-
tention elsewhere, but in a -little, while
T saw the mine girl before that cuebion
of pins again.: she looked longingly at
the one she had previously selected,
stretched out her hand, and wits just
going lo take it when I touched her
on the arm. 'My dear you don't want
'that,' I said and I looked at her for•
a moment, and then moved away. She
fellowed me, her fitee (newton, and
thanked me effusively. '1 don't know
who you are; tele 'but you. leave
saved, me eram becoming a thief.. I was
crazy for that pin. but had not the
eildiodn.7. to get it, and 1 ehciuld not have
lingered round and looked at it as
A private carriage recently (stead be
fore Aim door of fashionable shop I
New York, the coachinan ready and al
net, and the footman eyeing the en
trance where his nalittese might b
Momentarily expected to appear. Pre
Sealy the broad glees doors swing out
ward and. a gracious, cernely firm
steps forth witli that ease of bearin
whieh marks the women of fashion
Sbe is half -way woes the pavement
and4hetasibr be
Signe adb000urt
latoettltdeP7lItell for
rehner
womanet hand is laid upon her AVM -
a small hattein an unoberusive tan
eolored glove touching her Yenta
armee
" ton nave goods belianging to th
house that you have neglecteCto pa
for. Come bark with me a encanent,'
ears tbe minim detective, for Such sh
proves to be. Instantly •the luXuriou
custoraer has auinmoned her best brow
beating Manner .put down interfer
--• ele-ce-yerielraow I am I" She 0aid
heftily.: '11 have an n6eount at thi
Wire, nnd aur oftengivenHeat 'view
of their newest importations. This i
nonsensgl" and she made as theugh
to enter .the :carriage. ..
" Lomat' insist that You come 'back,'
Wae-theequiet rejoinder, but this tim
the tan -gloved fingers were land on the
lady's slender wrist With something o
warning and authority.
Well It's a betber ; but, certain
by 'go . back," Said the lady, with
abrupt •change of ,miefi. Ifra. sorry
for You that you should make such a
mistake. You work here for year liv-
ing, I suppose, and the, helium will not
tie likely to .overlook an intent. to
me;'•
• " Walk ahead of ine,'Ideaate ; don't
care tie have peOplee notice us," was
tbe Professional wonian's only roper
-and they. me.d.to their' way through the
bitsy, dime to the private apartment
on the eecood floor, •where business
:of this naturnaeas habitually traits,
meted: • '••
, She declared .te the teat that .ene
had nothing, thatthe: house weak' have
pay for my blunder, and that I
would rite• the deer when.I selected her
for e victim,"' the detective told the
•manager atterevards in niaking bee
case. ?! She was se stiffne9ked ohdPeir-
repcirt. of, this inaportant• • easterner's
sistent and took long be Weaken,
that, if I'..had net had my eye on her
every minate. froth the • instant she
took the geode r wouideriemost.have_be
lieved she hadethroven them away ad•
Nally did not have them on 'her per
. -
son, But I'stOod by niyeettes -aod fin-
ally conyineed her that hadseen her
put two lace handkerchiefe in her bode
.ieeetindetuck the gloves inber muff.
We:never (search. any One without their
consent, vtithout witnesses, r told
her, and it in the wish Of • the house
that' Matters of this sort be conducted
as secretly as possible--sitnply give
back the goods and you go scot free,
on. cesidition that your aceount here is
*closed oneeand you never enter the
door again, ,,Persist in refusing. and
the courts and publicity will be the
result. -Then She handed out the stage
said: she. wanted the gloves, three pairs,•
for present far her maid, who was
it great comfort to her, and intended
making gifts of tbe handkerchiefs. She
,didn't'knew why she took the, things
except that it was easy to: take them;
and, that she had taken several :artie
vies before -which fact I knew or, sus-
pecteci without: being absolutely cer-
tain:
eee-Weehave panda in that dealt there
that thiepartiet concerned would give
thousands of dollen to get 'hold of,-"
said the copfidential employe• of this
exclusive shop where asked as to her
experiences. The• papers are all dat,
• ed and classified, and contain the ad-
• cheeses and signed .confessions of the
shoplifters, whose transactions with
this particular house are closed for
ever, but who are swlearning along in
•undisturbed:serenity, so • far as '• the,
public is coneerned- Because • of the
social standing of some, the integrity
Of that relatives, and the money they
are supposed to have at minniand, their
slips. Were as great a stirpriselo us as
they Would' be to. their persoual friends
were the facts made public, A high;
erase store had rather lose bundreds
of dollars than become .associated in
the public sound with. police -court theta
and .seneational• arrests, ane the de-
tective, to serve them efficiently, must'
not only be °entente and discreet, but
must never make an accusation,
so absolutely sure of her ground, 0310
the goods can be secured quietly on
th.6 sot. •
Seldont arrest anybody in the
store, but wait until they are clear of
the doors,' so that If they offer resist-
anee or make a scene, it won't attract
attention, and r never bother with any
theft whatever that does not amount in
value to 38 or .34. It does not pay,
and, besides, the person who will take
smell neetters like that and is not in-
terfered. With, will be certain to come
in milither timsounci take something
more valuable. It eis the thieves. who
operate on a large (seine that I have.
especially to watch for, jewith .and
Italian women particularly are adepts
at the trade, and a number who have
beeobie too well known lei Vanden, or
Paris or other foreign centers, come
bete to pUrsiie the game.- These work
regularly on-eommiesion and some are
notoriousle (Successful. have known
theta te take Whole plebes of silk. worth
$5, 08 or 010 a yard, in quantity so
heavy that a sarong men cOuld Seam.
ly carry- it without effort, and yet
they would. walk along as naturally as
possible. Fitter*, pliant women they
re and with wonderful nerve.
"Some of there wear long capes, fall -
ng to the hip, and the only way X can
ell they are working, is by the move -
ant of their plane which shovva from
h b k Th outer lett d
ith 'long elite &wit either Aide, whieli
lits are concealed by the gather% but
dean to the pockets in the kick Or
orking Skirt worn underneath. Often -
Imes this kiek is made of the thinnest
nen-work material so 40 •to secure
ghtne,se in weight. It can holdnar-
a dozen pieces of silk, and the ahoy-
fter nearly always has a eab 1)e wait -
ng.
'Other profetelowil ohopliftere and
he ordinary shoppers who ideal 80 fre--1
tently that' they beeame adept% eer-
y off Valtiablee Under their terMte By
eliding the &rot in n certain petition
'ally important thefts. tan be made.
endsome remnant's "of costly milk;
four' One -cent stamens to a Chicago 0
tient' how to make an mapreseioo, When _11
the aneveer carat -it read, "Sit down en 1
a pan of dough." That was a little 11
rough, but he was a patient man, and I
thought he would yet succeed. The
next advertialiMent he answered read,
"How to double your money in eix q
menthe." Ito was told to convert his r
money intobills, fold them, and he h
would have hie money doubled. The r
next time he seta for twelve useful
olded pieces of math• ribbon. feathers,
hoilsehold artitlee, and got 4 package f
of eteedlets.fle wag slow to learn, tad h
he Bent a dollar to find out "how to
get rieh"-"Work hard and never e
epend a emit." •That stopped hint but w
his brother wrote to find out how to
writes a letter without pen or ink.
was told to Una a lead pencil. e pula ti
five dollars to live without 'work,. and of
was told on a postal card to "fish for h
makers, is we do." He takes hie home tr
POW. now; and 14 heppy4 tit
mulkerehiefs, passeMenterie; even
books and blooks of stationery ecu be
arried off in that way. X' have kriown
oniert 18 walk out with two etelskill
eltete or fur 'rapes under their dram.
whith they oettired in the
ng -room and many •a elle hag get
f with eltnerielets undergarmerite thvy
ave tiontrived to Appropriate) white
ying on the differentatyies, 6%401 'With
6 saleswoman. right Mere In attend-
" Children not more than eight or
nine years old are among our aboplift-
ers. Fleame garret off things of their
own accord, planning their own Mode
of diens-it, and others are instructed
by their Mothers before they come,
and frequently 'fix the geode for the
inothers to get hold'of,:.-doing this while
the -women. engage theclerk in eonvere
eatien or otherwise divert; attention.
1 saw' a woman pineh a Child's arm
sharply one day when the little one
did not take the beaded ncteketbook
that had been shoved ;peet. in front of
her. It had probably been a prenr-
ranged trick that the ehild was to bike
certain thingee and when she failed to
• do this the pinch reminded her. , One
sime,etisfulewoman-thief comes in bare
withtwo beautifully dressed children
a girl and a boy, the latter only about •
four years- old. • Sine slides different
small articles -that she took down the
child's back, and was carrying off Rev-
•eral remnants of fine eitibreidery and
pieces of neinsook when I stopped her
• out on the 'pavement:. „
" Every, detective has to be especial-
ly °Maui about guarding her identity,
,beeause once her face and, figure be,
•come familiar: 40 the clan her neefel-
nem is gone. My name is never call-
ed in the store, and if a friend of mine
should come and ask for me, they. are
,careful to. Make sure she is' really..a
friend before she is granted an•-m-
eterview. All sorts of 'pretexts are re -
Meted to by those who wish to discov-
er the detective's •identity. One of a
clan of detectives willpretend. to have
• hest her purse, and ask to consult with
the detective about it. Another 'ill
come with eorne • click -and -bull story
• 'about some relative being ill and hav-
ing sent for me in a homy.
' When two women work together
they can perplex a detective, and one
not long at the bueiness, no matter how
clever, would be very likely ' to fan
into their trap. . One trick he for a wo-
Man to take Oonte tirade, while osten-
sibly trying to divert the clerks at-
tention •from her motions, and to do
this 80.°ton:wily :that he takes .note of ,
the occurrence and warns the detec-
tive: Later, when the cotinter from
which the woman took the goods • Is
crowded she puts t article back. If
the detective was ,t Oar oiler to
855 thi.8.; sheaccuse .0 • .• n wrong -
hilly and gets into tro e.
' 'One ,day when I was ' working 18.
a store where arrests were frequent,
woman sent in an urgent request
tha,t 1 would see her upon iriaportant
business. I found her closely veiled,
and, although neatly dressed, 1could
see enough a her lace to feel a aort
of horror at its expression. She spoke
very well and stated that ,she had rea-
son to suspect a person living in the
same apartment house With her, of
having designs. on some valuables that
she had in her flat. She was anxious
to get a woman detective to stay a
night or two with her, and offered geed
pay for the service„ She was afraid to
stay alone. I not only refused the of-
fer then, but refused on two subse-
quent occasions to go te this same ad- .
dress on the same errand: Something
told me 40 let the police investigate i
the matter, and the address. proved to
be, the renclezvoue Of a gang ef notor-
ious outlaws, river thieves, Shopliftees,
etc. The plan was never revealed;
but thera is -no telling what woold have
happened if. I had gone there. 1 was
causing the west ,of too many creek -
ed dealers to suit this gang, and so
was to pay tbe penalty."
MARINO BRASS INSTRUMENTS,
mtmenrrrowitertecen same eLtotbsehorporbi. Opal
rTioghl.t
The hell of a brass band instrument,
W1110,11 IS the big and, extending batik
to the bow or first bend, is Made of a
• single piece of metal winch was orig-
inally flat, The pattern by which the
metal is cut le catthe• shape that a bell
woulci have if it were slit straight
down, the side from end to end and
then flattened, out. Whea ,the flat
piece of metal from 'which e bell is
to he formed has been out out by sueh
a patteen, it is 'bent by hand over a
rod Until the edges meet. The seam
is braied, and the piece a metal now
has it trum,pet=shaped, form, but with
man, little more or leas uneven places
In the thin metal: '
The bell is thext placed upon a wood-
en 'mandrel, a form which fills the in-
terior of the bell from end to end and
is et the Size and shape to which the
bell is to be 'conformed The inequali-
ties in the surface of the 'metal are
then worked out by hand with wood-
en hammers, the bell being repeatedle"
driven down upon the Mandrel. When
the bell 'beet at last heen brought in
this manner siibstantially to its true
forte it is finished and brougkt to its
perfect •smootheiess of surface en a,
•spinning machine.
The bow of the instrument made
sometimes in two plecea, soMetimes, itt
one. All of the very largest instru-
ments have the bew en two pieces,
which 'axe; out from flat metal, like
the bell Piece, These feat pieces, Whose
'nitrates. conform .to the curve of the
bow, are struck into their rounded
form with dies, and. -the two halves
thue made are thee joined. Many in-
struments of all. sizes are made with
the bow thus fennel, but the costlier
instruments, of sizes other than the
very largest; are Made with the teem
of a single piece,. bent. • •
The bow has some taper, being larg-
er at;t1ae end Where the bell is join-
ed to it then at the other. The bent
bow in its original form,_ as cut by.
the patternsisa straight,. flat strip
of brass, a little narrower at one end
than at the other, in shape like that
of the face of a long, slenderekeystone,
so that when it is rounded up into tube
shape- it will have the requiredetapee.
This piece is brought into tube shape
and brazed and Wrought lute font and
finish, all except the bending of it in-
to bow! !shape, itt. inbstantialty the
same manner as the. bell. The slighte
ly tapering but yet perfectly wrought
section of pipe is then filled with
molten lead. When the lead bas cool-
ed the sectien of pipe thus filled ' is
laid across aewoixlen form 'sbitped like
•the lowm. part of the' letter, IT,einto
Whit% itis gradually bent. As the.
pipe is bent down more and More, lit-
tle everinkles appear along aerobe the'
inner side, Thelma wrinkles as thee.ap-
Pear are bea,een out by hand with very:
email; • light hainmers, :and when the
bow his finally been brOughe down to
its form the Surface of the inner dupes
is ae'sraooth as that Of the outer curve,
Then the lead is Melted out of it, anc.I
the bow in put tlireugh the process of
liniehing. • 7
THE .RUSSIAN FAMINE. .
The Peasantry ISvinn ea 'reeds and
(mopped straw. '
A London eorarespondent, referring to
•
• the flizante bit. Ituterlia, says -"Owing
to the rigorous preps emnicirshtp which
'elevens in tehe ()mien dominions, not
mach has been heard of the Russian
fantine 'There in no doubt howeem
that it. bas :attained intist serious and
even appalling dimensions. The Whole
of tome great provinces to the met of
the Rem Volga is now invoeved, and
the peasant poen:nation, numbering eeiv-
enai raillionee is reduced to the last ex-
tremity, of want..- Wait Of the yotga
the famine 'distriet extends almost to
Moscow. TbroughOut this large
area Gee &nitre of eropais, said •to be
more complete than even daring the
terrible visitation of 1891-92. The un-
happy peasantry are endeavouring to
support life an a mixture of weed,
acorns, and chopped attaave and are
being decimated by t,he effects of ty-
phus and excessive cced an constitu-.
done e.nfeebled by insufficient nourish-
ment. •
"The Hessian Government, notwith-
standing previous 'warnings, lias not
raitated thet of Britieh India in or-
gasieing and insuring against famine
In lime of comparative p,enty, and the
consequence is that this terrible catas-
• trophe bas caught it almost unprepar-
ed, Much is being done • by private
agencies, and the. Red Gross has been
distributing relief to Ware than 70,000
persons for the last two,mentlts in one
province alone, but 'Government mea-
sures 40 cope with the dietress are still
OD a very. imlad,equate.scale.
!The Times notices as significant the
fact that in a country where 85 per
cent; of tile population subsists entire-
ly by agriculture, the whole expendi-
ture on the agricultural depattneent of
the Government is L4,500,f0J, while the
army and navy cost Z52,000,000."
•OLASSICS LOST TO US.
Not mite Work eir hienamier Or Varre
mates hi the Presefit Day
'What witb barba.riene, religious in-
tolerence and indifference, little could
have reinnined to us of the literatures
of Greece and Rothe, but for their al-
most inexhaustible wealth.
Of happhe, we possess „only an Ode
Or two and quoted fragments, Her
works' were burned the eleventh 1
century, by order of tbe great Hildee
billed. Addison says, by Way of eon- t
isolation, that they were "filled with n
such bewildering tenderness and rap- n
ture, it might have been dengerous'te h
give thenx u reading."
Of 108 comedies of Greek domestic
life, the work of Menander, a writer w
THE VOICE OF LONDON. •
A writer in the Strand Magazine dee
(scribes the astoniehneent he experienc-
ed, when, riding over London in a bal-
m% at a height of more than half a
mile, hsa. heard the deafetiime roar. of
he great city beneath him,a8 it could
ot be heard when en the ground. The
oise, even at that height, was ao
arab and intense as to be painful to
he ear, How perfect a sound-conduc-
or the air is was shown when the bal.
oon drifted far over the city to a
°oiled part of the country, where the
whose field was never ocietipied by m
anybecii else, and whose, purity of style
Plutarch declares to have been sur -el
passed by Iromer alone, not: even what
may be galled a fragment vemarns.
Stray lines are (pirated herd and there.
urmur of the leaves moved by the
vind, hat a nine below, Was distinctly
heard. - • ••
COW JEWELRY, •
Twenty -font of the plays are knewil
to have existed until the seventeenth a
century, when they were erased from V
their rolls to make space for the works ft
of an ecolesialnicai Writer, • ea
Of the 276 dramas of thegioN,.vst m
Greek tragedians, Aeschylus, SoPho* j
cies and Euripides, only thirty-two.are en
possessed by the world today...
The brilliant Livy, to whene Macaw,
lay, among madams, is often likened,
wrote 140 volumes, or rolits, of his "An-
nals" of Dome. Of them only thirty-
five remain to ue.
The cows in Belgium wear earrings.
his is in itecordance with law, which
ecrees that every animal of the be -
species, when it has atteined the
of three moralist must beets in ite
✓ a ring td which is attached a
end tag bearing aellUMbers, The ob-
oist is to preserve an exaet reeord of
it lantaber of aniMais Weed, man
ear. •
GREATEST GLOVE TOWN.
Grenoble is the pleee wheil most Of
• th0 thirty historical volutam of
Paeitita we hatte four.
Of riloY the Elder, the eole great it
naturoliet of the Ilomen raeef but one
work haft efteateed deattuetien,
re kid Woven mane from, At thie
lace alone 1,200,00 °dozen pairs of
loves are manufactuted annuallY.
hie /*presents a value of)7000,000,
nd gives employment to 25,000 work.
Verret, it Latin biographer, plaeett by In
COMMOrt ooneent beside the otherwise
incomparable Plutarch, 4 totally lost
g temple of both IteXea.
10 11*.
Of Caesar's orations, for Which Ids
contemporary hone wan as great as IAA
for hie generalship or stateeMattship y
not one has been preservedv Pr
111MtlALMING. k
'Among the Egyptians embahning
sod about WO A. D. About 11200
turabefore its root revival in' war ,
Attlee.
'IT UNC1E 81IM if
ITEMS OP INTEREST ABOUT 'THE
BUSY )(magi
NelehhorlY latarast In MS 0ohigo,..stattorio
of Moment On4 hathered frees Ills
Daily Record,• "
In New York city the 'bricklayers
have not had a strike in 12 years.,
Ulehigati Is mid to be the . beet
State in tbe Union foe sugar beet
raising.
• For the last three years each con-
vict in the Missouri- State prison .bas
earned three oentea day More than
the cost of keeping him.
Senator Scott, the newly -elected Sen.,
ator from West Virginia, be,gan life as
a hired boy, then became a miner, and
is now aeweattley man.
•John W. Mackay, the millicamire,has
been for seme. time confined to his
home in San Francisco. His disease,
gout, has taken a serious turn. ,
Congressman, John M Mitchell, ot..
New York:. city, in known as thel
"Adonis of the Efonse," iind is genet.
ally said to be the handsotnest man uit -
public life.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, who, at
89, is the sucemeor Of Leman Abbott,
Lie Beecher's pulpit, was at one time
a churchJanitor, atthe salary of 11.50
a Week, • • •.
President McKinley was not afraid
of the blizzard. He went tranvia&
about the streets every afternoon, and
the Capitol has not In many years had
a better illustration of the democracy
of the White House.
J'antes FeVirarner, wefl knowei over
• all the north -wept as a ininer and, pia;
moter, is the original of Mark Twaines
ecotone. Mulberry Sellers." • He has
exploited reining schemes all over the "
world, but is just now intereeted 40
several Alaska; venture%
•ler „Murray expects eo have more
time half of the new English diction-,
arye,published by the end of the cen-
tury, up :to the middle of the 'letter
L. The letter that has given the Enge"
end' composers the greatest difficulty;
Is, (seriously. e.nough, the letter
• Gen Russell.. Hastings, newly ap-
pointed. director of the Bunten of Am -
&loan Republica, is a natl.** of Green-
field, Mass., and -served in President -
MeRinter's regiment, during the aril
Var. He was born in 188e, and when
ahoy'went to Ohio with his par-
• •
:According to e Chicago paper; quite
a profitable' buisinees is done. in Bonin
large towns by leedingettutles to iee
siteureeits: They are peentitted to re-
main in the Windows fax -a few days,
andare then taken to different parts
of the city as advertisements for oth-
ere:Edward
mses-ur, ph,y,
•
• Df. New, :gal,
nanny; Ind., has given 142,000 fen tho
town's public llibrary, this gift being
supplementary to the presentation •
some years ago el a• library, build-
ing costing 440,000. • She doctor is 88 .
years old, and desires., he. says, "to
dispose of my property without the in.
tervention of Courts ana juries." .
Bernard Career, of Ailenevileee Sy,
says he is the °beanpole long distahce
.horseback elder ph the wield. • Every
day ,in'tha,letet twenty years no hen .
kidder: thirty a-Mhon' theinentNeeturd---e -
*noting and othefee,Aea,sure :Ulna have
•brought his average. up to 12,401) mike
a year. Up to date Carter claims to
have travelled 248,060 Miles on hoirse-
back
• .
• The express companies are engaged
in an argument with the State et
Mianeeota. . Wants tbem' to pey.
5 Per 'cent. of their gross earnings.
They are :engaged in showing that
they pay •about half their gram rev-
enues to railroad :conapanies for the
facilities with which to do business, .
and that their unavoidable operating
• eapenses 0OnSinne the rest.
"Len. Wood," says an old Cape Cod
schoolboy filmed Of General Leonard
Wood, Governor 'of • Santiago, didn't
say Very Much and. „ket tit himself -
seemed to he doing .te• pinieof thinking
and ready to take it hand with the
other boys,but didn't catch on with:
the girls very Much you see; but he
wotildn't stand much. foolin' ; nobody
could monkey with' him,. nohow." •
Slime the death a Mrs. Depewe over
five years ago, Miss Annie Depew
Paulding, the Senater's niece, has been
at the heed of the distinguished New
Yorker's home. This young lady will
preside over Senator Depew's home at:
the National Capitol, She is the daugh-
ter of Senator Depen sister Annie
Mitchell Depew, who Married 'William
le..Paulding, and who still lives at '
Peekskill, N, Y.
. The anetaric Washington elni, in, "
Cambridge, Masi., beneath whose
branc,hes General Washington took
coramand of the Cont'inentel army, uti
rapidly decaying, and the Cambridge
Park Comminsioners say that it will
be impossible to wive it more than a
few yeats longer. A short time ago
workmen went over the (tree and out
af a ecnsiderablie amount of deadwood,
and there is not Muth left to keep it
env°
Prof. 3. Winter Fawkes, of the
Bureau Of Ethnology, veturied re-'
Gently front 'alert -been Arizona; where:
he luxe been since early last Munmer
with the Tunayan Indians. His rale-
sion was to study the habits and ous-
toms and observe the moil* of living,
of this inteeesting tribe and 40 had
planned to remaitt among, them dur-
ing the Winter, when many ceremonies
ant eas s of sciontifbo interest odour,
but he was driven thence by an
demic of sroallpok.
A New York grocer has' brought Mit
against a dental coMpany, and the „
cause of the action is a Most novel cute.
The plaintiff went to have a tooth et-
tratted and the wrong molar was
pulled; but this was not the worst. of -
the operation. One of the netVes of
the eyewee So disarranged that the
.aptic ketepe up oomstant twitching
xe a. manner ,00mmonly known as ' a
wink. This has WAWA the grocer
Much embarramment, On a number of
occasions he has been,ChaStitted by the
eseerts of ladies who were under the
impression that the unhappy grocer
was trying to flirt. He has been ball -
NI all mete Of names, and now he WW1.
er goes on the street or triton 4[street
ear Without wearing dark &OW*, Re
thiliks he hos been damaged to the ex,.
tent of 310,000,
'SWELL WilfillVES,
A Princess, a Countess, a Moho*,
And the daughter of a reigning rtintes
were among the 4,000 thieves, profetty
*tonal and .triprofeasiontil, , who wer
arreettid in Paris during lab! Viat
• et•