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No. 17 sat in his cell, wh4e and
deseaiOng. He had ,endured two
years of ,prison life uncomplainingly,
cheered by the knowledge that he
W5 innocent of the crime With
which he had been charged—and
cheered also by the visits of his
eweet-faced wife,Elsie, who eame re-
gularly 'to the gaol as often as the
cast-iron regulations, of the estab-
lishment would, permit. But of late
Elsie's visits had ceased, and to -day
the convict knew the reason for
their eessatiOn. She was ill --very
Ill—and the letter faom her Sister
eahich lay in his hands told him
that the doctors feared the worst.
This is how the note ran :—
Dear Artimr,—I have some rather
6ad tidings to give you, but we
must both, be heave and hope for the
best, Poor Elsie is dangerously ill,
and though all that we could possi-
bly do has been done, the medical
man holds out small hope of her ul-
timate recovery. Ile states that she
is suffering from no particular ill-
ness, but simply frOlik a general de-
bility, brought abeUt by feetting
over your abseece. If only you
could come to her, it would prob-
ably be the means of saving her life;
but alas! that •is impossible. She
is in God's handS, as we all are. I
ana praying to him to spare to us
the life that we both love—it is for
you to pray also. -Good-bye, and
1. God bless you. May he give us
strength to bear the blow that seems
sonear. ,
Your loving sister-in-law—KATE,
Arthur Desparde was no coward —
no weakling. The humiliation and
suffering of penal servitude les had
borne like a man, but those few
simple words bowed his head ao
earth and brought the salt tears to
his eyes. To feel that his absence
was causing. Elsie's decline—to feel
that one short hour of liberty would
in all probability be the means of
preserving her, and to know at the
same time that the prison walls
stood between him and her—to feel
and know all this would have mad-
dened any man. The feeliag and the
knowledge maddened Arthur Des-
parde now.
"I will go to her," he muttered
hoarsely, 'come what may ! Let
them retake me afterwards—let them
serve me as they will—but go to her
I must, and . . . I will,"
A file lay at his feet. He had
found it tbe day previous whilst la-
boring. in the yard, and he had se-
creted it in his clothing, believing
that some day he might require its
aid. Climbing the narrow wall of
his cell, he discovered that the small
window thereof was guarded merely
by two iron bars of medium thick-
ness. Without an instant's hesita-
tion he proceeded to file these bars,
hoping with ardent hope that no
warder might intervene to abruptly
terminate his labors.
Fortune favored him, and the work
was completed without interruption.
Two minutes later he was sliding
down a pipe which led from the cell
to the courtyard, and to scale the
Joy:, wall of the yard was but the
work of an instant. Then with a
muttered prayer for the protection
of Heaven on his journey he set out
for the house where his wife lay be-
tween life and death.
* * * *
"Arthur Is it possible it can be
you? How ever have you contrived
to come here ?"
It was Elsis's 'Aster who spoke;
and she stood, fully dressed, in the
doorway, scanning the escaped con-
vict's features with amazement. °
• "Yes. It is I, and you shall hear
afterwards,how I managed to make
good my flight. . . But tell me,
first of .s.11—how is she ?"
There is little change. At times
,„she is,...unconscious, and during such
'p'eriods she mentions your name in-
cessantly. When she is conscious
she talks of youhte 'flea saying that.
tliC One desire left to 1:er is to sec
You at her side ,againd,' '
'Thank Heaven,',' said the convict
.in a. low tone; ,'`thank-Heavero she
is still alive. I am not too late."
Then he explained to the wonder-
ing girl how he had contrived to
escape from ga,ol, adding also that
there was every chance of his being
retaken in the morning. "But let
them come," he said sullenly-;
"when once I have held my darling
in my arms again, and Cheered her
sickness, 1 care little what happens.
'And now, it will be well for you to
tell her I am here; but break the
news to her as gradually as you
can."
the cruel truth, and he resolved to
let her remain in ignorance of his
peril. Perchance she 'believed that
he had been released ; he would not
undeceive her.
All through the long night hus-
band and wife went on talking in
low, confiding -tones, happy in each
other's society -desiring no ether joy -
on earth. Through the long night
they remained with hands clasped,
all-in-all one to the other.' Then
morning. came and .Kate entered.
She whispered gently to Arthur :—
'The doctor' is here, and he must
not see you in your prison dress.
Corne away for a few minutes."
Kissing his wife, and telling her
he would return 500n, tl1Q young
man quitted the apartment. The
doctor entered, with a cheering
"good morning. Well, and how do
you fincl yourself to -day, Mrs. Des-
parde ?"he asked briskly.
"Much, much better, doctor," she
replied, g,ratefully; "in fact, I think
I shall soon be off your -hands."
"Bravo," cried the good-natured
physician, as he felt the patient's
pulse. "Do you know, my dear ma-
dam, I believe that your prediction
is about correct, Your pulse has
gone up most wonderfully, and al-
ready your eyes seem stronger—more
healthy. My physic is doing won -
'
known as "No 17" st4Qd one° mor TTrIflT fil 1 I akru,l'raY Price, the well known writer
upon the threshold of his horina
Kate met him at the ne0r—a smile
upon, her bonnie f aee. has
heard all," elle said, gently ; "and
she is nearly well, The goed newe
has saved her life. She is asking for
you at this moment.
Dasparde waited to hear no more.
An instant later Elsie's face was
pressed close to his own; and hus-
band and wife were re-oniteci after
their bitter separation.
"Cod has been very good to me,"
she whispered through her sobs,
"and has given you back to me."
"Yes," said Desparde, .gently—"to
remain together till death shall Part
And.afterwards," whispered ,
; "God willing."
011, "sociology," left 815,000 in
' cash, to be awarded to any ,man who
GREAT PRIZES' THAT ARE hoi1d be instrumental in bringing
Loolciim roil OWNERS. about the abolition of the Game
Laws, which wore Mr., Price's pet
bugbear,'
$60,000 Reward ter a, Navigable He also left a perfect library of
A.irship-,-Sornething f or the manuscripts and information on the
Peacemaker. subject, which are at the service of
If Dumont, the young Frenchman
who has just invented a steerable
airship, were a Briton; he weind be
entitled to a prize of $60,000, be-
sides hie own profits. He would
have won the "11-Telten Payne" award
arid a committee would now be set-
tling up the conditions prior to
handing him the money.
When ltfetton Payne, the famous
amateur aeronaut died, he left a aeg-
acy of $60,000 in trust for the first
British subject whd should invent
Practicable navigable airship. The
prize has been tried for unsuccessful-
ly by over a dozen men, and a good
many thousands spent in the pro-
cess. The nearest to success was
Captain Green's attempt, which end-
ed, however, in the serious accident
to the inventor at Exeter, when
ders." • '
Butit:. was not. the .physic .that.
had wrought this mighty change in
the invalid.. It was the 'presence' of a
certain figure, clothed in the .hide-
ous grey that :Marks, the garb of.
1-Ier. Majesty's prisons. It was the.
:presenceof that figure and the sound
of his: voice .thatahad changed Elsie
Desparde from a dying .Woinan inte
one in whom the:will and.theability
to live were 110W Predoininant.
The doctor took his leave- after a
short interval, promising to look in
on, the following day. Then Arthur
was allowed to return to „the: .sick
room., .and once more heatook up his
position beside his wile. . Towards.
noon Rate entered the apartment,.
,
trembling violently. Controlling her
vaicewith an effort so as not to
alarm her sister, she said :—
"Arthur,: will you come ontside
UP-TO-DATE GRINDSTONES.
Made With Ball Bearings Now
and With Other Improve-
inen.ts.
"If," says a dealer in such things,
anybody had told our grandfathers
that ,the time would come when we.
should have ball-bearing grindstones
suppose they would have thought
lie was crazy; but we have them
now and they are not very costly
either.
"lf the grindstone is one that is
worked with a treadle there are ball -
bearing's on the crank, where the
treadle -rod is connected, as well -as
on the shaft on which the grindstone
turns. Really, it is a pleasure to see
that homely old tool, the grindstone,
mounted on ball bearings, and it is
a positive delight to see how easily
such a grindstone turns.
"But the ball bearings are not the
only modern improvement in grind-
stone equipment. There are nowa-
days grindstone frames and ,attach-
ments that are patented. The old,
old way of turning a grindstone was
with a crank, or a single treadle ;
but nowadays we have double tread-
les, one for each foot, and the frame
that eupports the grindstone has up-
on one end of it a seat like the seat
you see on a mowing machine or
anything of that sOrt, this being by
no means a device for a lazy man,
but a convenientmeans of enabling
-the man using, the grindstone to -get
at it to the best advantage.
11 you, knowing the grindstone of
ancient times, will picture to your-
self a man sitting in a comfortable
seat so, placed On the end of the
frame that he cosi get square at the
face of the stone, which he turns by
means of two treadles, one under
each foot, the stone itself turning on
ball bearings throughout, a grind-
stone yet to be sure, but with every
working part distinctly modernized,
you will get some idea --of the differ-
ence between the old grindstone and
the new.''
for a moment ? I want to speak to
you."
'Arthur Desparde guessed what it
was that the white-faced gii•1 had to
communicate. life kissed his wife
very tenderly and then turned to-
wards the door.
"They have come for me, have
they not? he asked in a whisper, as
he followed her out. of the room.
"Yes. They are in the parlor. I
begged them to behave very quietly,
as there was illness in the house."
"Good, brave girl. God will re-
ward you for your devotion. Now
listen to me. Elsie must not know
that I have been retaken until she
is quite strong enough to bear the
news—until, ixi fact, her health is
restored. Promise me that she shall
not know."
"She shall not know."
"God bless you, Kate."
He wrung her hand, raised it to
his lips, and then went downstairs
with firm steps. • A warder in uni-
form stood in the sitting -room, and
another person was beside him. It
was the Governor of the gaol, and
with swiftly beating heart the
convict, w‘ondered why this
official had come to the
honse., It was not'.usual fpr the,
Governor of a prison to accompany
his warders. On such a mission
the recapture of a runaway convict.
"-Gentlemen," he cried, .in low
voice, surrender myself ' to you
freely. .1 have only one ‘request to
make. Let me be taken away quiet-
ly so that my wife who des ill up-
stairs may not 'know of my depart-
ure."
The Governor smiled.
"No. 17," he said, gently, "it is
certainly my duty to have you taken
back to the gat)), but at the same
time it is my duty also to give you
some very pleasant news."
There was a pause. Desparde
stood rooted to the floor, his eyes
On fire. What was coming next ?
What was the news that the Govern-
or had come to communicate ?
"My tidings," continued the latter,
''ore simply these. A man named
Charles Morrison died last night in
Chilton Gaol. Before he passed a-
way he sent for the chaplain and
made a confession. lle confessed
that the forgery for which you Were
condemned was committed by him-
self, and, that he alone was guilty.
The confession was 'sent by special
Messenger to .the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, with the
result that a telegram reached inc
two hours ago authorizing your re-
lease as soon as the neCessar','V pa-
pers can be .made out: You will re-
turn with me to the gaol but not as
O prisoner --and I think you may
take it from me that befogl'e the
week is out you will be a free man."
Then very simply and very court-
eously the. white - haired a overnor
out his hand and DeSparde
grasped it with a mighty grip of
gratitude, whilSt from his lips there
came the choking worti5
Kate nodded, and left the room or:
tip -toe. Presently she returned, her
eyes swimming with tears.
"She knows all, Arthur, and is
waiting for you. Pray God that
your coming may woo her back to
life----"
"Amen !" said the convict, husk-
ily, as he went slowly up the stairs
towards his wife's chamber. ,
She lay very white and very still,
but there came a wenn glow of joy
upon her -faded cheek as he entered.
She put out her thin hand to-lairn,
and a moment later they were clasp-
ed in each other's arms.
" I knew you would come to me,
darling," she Sobbed, "fps I have
prayed da3r and night that I might
See you once more-`-arld 1 -leaven has
heard my prayer. Oh, Arthur, dear,
dear Arthur, me has been very hard
without, you without your love."
"Poor girl. Only too well can I
realize what you have felt—knowing
what I have endured myself .
But, come. Let us talk of other
things. • You have been ill, they tell
Me very 111.''
"Yes, for I wanted you. Now that
you are here I shall soon be well.
A terrible' pang shivered through
the convic('s soul. I-Iow wag he to
tell luer the truth 7 Ilovi was he to
• tell her that ),,{2'r' many hours had
— N
MARRIED BY EWSPAPER.
os—
Strange Story of Miss Creydt's
Wedding in London.
In October last Miss Helene Creydt
who Was living at Cologne, inserted
an advertisemenF
t in the rankfurter
Zeitung, to the effect that slue was
an orphan possessing some means,
and desired to correspond with an
honorable gentleman with a view to
matrimony.
Franz Von Berger, alias Dr. Em-
manuel Egon Borges, who is an
Austrian by birth and an* American
citizen, replied to -this in a letter
written from an address in Cock-
spur street, London. He described
himself as a professor of Harvard
University, with a salary of 60,000
francs.
Correspondence ensued, and on
December 23 the lady came to Eng-
land and was met at Southampton
by Berger, who brought her to Lon-
don, and after telling her that she
came up to a,11 his expectations, and
that he would marry her, placed a
ring on her finger and asked her to
accompany him 'to a registry oMce.
They then went to a private house,
where they went through a form of
marriage., in the- presence of three
10011; but there was no trace of the
marriage In the recerds of Somerset
House.
Miss Creydt, believi»g, that she
had been legally.: married, handed to
him some -bank notes and shares to
the value of 2150, and he also in-
duced her to pawn some of her
jewellery. He then persuaded her to
write and ask her brother for £50
on account of her interest under her
father's will, and when the cheque
dame took 'it away and cashed it.
On April 1 she received a draft for
£ 543, and placed it in her desk
This draft Berger is alleged to have
stolen, as he cashed it the following
day at the Dutch 13ank. ,
Ite then disappeared, but was trac-
ed to New York, and at Bow street,
London, where the above facts IVere
recounted, was remanded on a
charge of stealing the £5413 cheque.
"At last—at last—thank God ---
thank God I'',
• *
Three days later there arrived at
the gaol an inmortant-looking docu-
ment, bearing at the top the magic
letters, "V. B.," and beneath those
letters it was written that Her Maj -
passed he would in all likelihood be eSty had been pleased to grant a
teken bacic to prison to be separa.t- tree pardon to Arthur Desparde
ecl from lam' once mere ? Ile could front that clay forward. And w 'thin
not, bring 1..lu1se1f to eonlide to her a little . space he who had been
HE AND I -PIS MACHINE
collapsed.
A committee of experts is to be
chosen to decide on the genuineness
of any airship; and it is said that,
strictly, the machine has to be heav-
ier than air, and not floated by a
gas balloon, and, if that is 50, evert
Dumont's vessel would be barred.
There will be a good many tumbles
before that $60,000 is won.
There is 815,000 a year for life,
and the residue to your heirs, wait-
ing for you, if y‘ou are anything of
a peacemaker. That is the prize of-
fered by an eminent Swede—Mr. Ed -
Mond Neillssen—to anyone who,shall
b‘e instrumental in persuading the
Powers to give up war for good and
all, and do away with arniaments of
every kind. It will take a great or-
ator with very 'strong aml oriodna,1
views to bring this off, and, accord-
ing to,rules, he must persuade Rus-
sia, Great Britain, France, Germany,
Austria, and Italy to do away with
all soldier and sailor' 11100, except the
BODYGUARDS OF THE COURTS.
Nothing is put in about the otlier
nations, who would sresumably fol-
low suit.
A good many men have had a try
ifor this result, the one nearest the
mark being a famous London jour-
nalist. But they didn't succeed, and
it looks as if that $15,000 would
look for a claimant for a very` long
time yet. It is worth noting that
the money which is held in trust is
all in 13ritish G-overnment bonds.
When Mr. Neillssen dies, the money
is to remain in trust -till somebody
wins it, no matter -how long hence.
There is a certain $5,000 a' year,
outside all personal profits,- standing
ready -for the man who finds a gen-
Aline cure for consumption. This is
the gift of the late Sir John Dean,
the famous physician and scientist.
The Bean award amounts to $175,-
000 in Government stock. He left
this legacy in trust, to be awarded
to any British subject who may dis-
cover a cure that is considered gen-
uine by a committee of the College
of Physicians and the British Medi-
cal Council. The interest amounts
to $5,000 'per annum, and there are
always plenty of starters working
at the great probleni, and a good
many
-4-
PAYING FOR A PLEASANTRY.
It was a prisoner of great activity
01 epeeeh who reeentlfaced the
magistrate in the Philadelphia Cen-
tral Police Court.
"What is your name ?" asked the
magi s trate.
"Michael 0'11-alloran," was the re-
PlY•
"What is your occupation?"
"Phwat's that ?"
"What is your occupation ? What
work do you do 7" ".
"Oi'm a sailor."
The magistrate looked incredulous.
"I don't believe you eger saw a
ship," he said.
"Didn't 01, thin.?" Said the pi -is -
oiler. "An' phwat do yez t'ink Oi
001710 over in—a hack ?"
The Philadelphia Record says that
it went hard with Michael O'Hal-
loran after that.
an,yone who likes to try for the prize
and start the litigation. This is the
will so strongly fought in the Pro-
bate Curt by Mr. Price's heirs, who
thought they could find better uses
to put, the money to; but the will
,wits -upheld, and the $15,000 is at
the disposition of any energetic gen-
tleman who can prevail an British
Parliament to quash the Came
Laws. ,
But among humanitarian awards—
and there are plenty of them—the
$25,000 "dedicated by Mrs..Vaughan
Pritchard is about the best. That
Sum will be paid over by the trustees
to any man or woman who invents
a substitute for the bit in a horse's
equipment, and
MAKES IT 'UNIVERSAL
FORTUNES HAVE BEEN SPENT
in the pursuit.
The cure, according to rules laid
down by the will, must be able to
heal seventeen cases out of twenty,
all in the "second stage" of the mai-
adjr. This is about the best be-
quest there is, for the great doctor
calculated that, out of the 80,000
people that die of consumption every
year in 13ritain alone, at least 68,-
000 would be saved. Besides that
$175,000, it has been hinted more
than once in high places that the
man 11110 can stamp out consump-
tion will get a baronetcy at least, if
not a peerage. For saving 68,000
lives a year he oug,ht;to get a duke-
dom.
,
Out of every 100 pounds of papen
maamfa.ctured in the world, only six,
pounds is made into books.
over 6
Only ane man in 203 is
feet in height,
. England USCS annually ,33,000 1,ons
of hops',. but grows -only 27,000 toes.
in Britain, in place of the rresent
variety.
Hundreds of people have made
"shots" at this prize, but they have
not been able to get their ideas tak-
en up, and it is said that there is
absblutely no other way of control-
ling a. horse. It is a rule that the
substitute must not enter the beast's
mouth in any way; and must not be`
spiked or studded.
In parts of Italy the horses wear
a sort of bar across their nose's in-
stead of a bit; but though a few
samples ,have been seen in Britain,
the old bit holds its own, and that
$25,000 is still waiting.
NO PLACE
LIkE THE SLUMS.
London Gamins Prefer Town Ex-
citement to Rural Peace.
The • children of London's slums
think there is no place like liOnae, be
it ever so squalid and poverty-
stri&en, says a recent London
paper.
-They miss the flaming naphtha
lamps, the winkle barrows; the
hokey-pokey man, and all the other
things that ,have been their life-
long conapanions," said Father
Stanton, of St. Alban's,. Holborn,
when asked how the children of the
slums take their summer outings in
the country.
"Then, too, they are afraid of the
dark at night, and are lost in the
daytime, in the country," continued
the kindly -faced, great-hearted
friend of thousands of .street ara.bs
and gutter -gamins.
"They have all sorts of reasons
for preferring; the- city to the coun-
try, and some of thein are perfectly
inexplicable. One little boy wrote
to me after his outing last year and
said he didn't like the country be-
cause while there a wasp had stung
him.
"Another youngster took a day at
Brighton with me in preference to
two weeks in the country, and could
give no reason for his choice." .It
never entered the modest mind of
this favorite of the slum children
Why it was.
"They like going out in vans best
of all," the Father went on, "and
then they, eat green fruit and thor-
oughly enjoy themselves.
"But though they like the hubbub
of the city best, and are really glad
to get back to it, their brown cheeks
and bright eyes tell a merry 'tale
when they return. Then You shoulc
hear the amusing stories they tell
and you NVOUld see how their cramp
od, warped, and stunted little minds
have been opened out by a glimpse
of the green wonderland they know
so pitifully little about. Never
mind what they say about it, it's
the good the outing does them that
we are after."
A British prize, open' to all the
world, and "ao favors," is the $25,-
000 o tiered -by, Mr, Henry Seed amore,
the famous mountaineer, for the as-
cent of Mount Everest, the, highest
mountain in the world. Mr. Seada-
more died two years ago, 'but the
825,000 is still open to be climbed
for—balloons barred—by any man of
any nati on .
Everest, which is 29,000 feet high,
or nearly as tall as two
mount Blanes piled one on top of
the other, has killed seven would-be
climbers durine-'the' last twenty
years, and hasbailled many ecores
more. That expert mountaineer,
Mr. Wymper has inade' the best re-
cord, though not necessarily for the
$25,000; but the summit has never
been reached by mortal man, an(1 it
is doubtful if any human being could
live for half an hour at such an alti-
tude, even if he got there, But every
now and then somebody has a try,
seldom getting much more than half
way up, however. The ascent, if
successful, would cost about $1,000,
andlthough there is a cash In'ize for
• TAKE A WEEK.
A
,a practical submarine boat, it is not
such a large orie—$5,000;, but it 48
intended to help an inventor, with-
out much money of- his own, to get
his invention patented and exploited:
11fr. Graham. Shaw dedicated this
prize for all time, ten years ago.
The rules are that, the submarine
must be able to stay under wa,ter at
least two hours Witliont riSing,
IntiSt travel seven knots an hour,
and be able to carry and discharge
turr ed nes. It must also accomodate
at least three 171011, nniSt, be indepen-
dent of any other vessel, and steam
as a motive power is barred, `Die
prize is restricted to -British sub-
jects. ,There have been three or
Sour attempts at a, really sound sub-
marine boat, but none,have come off
in England; and the boat that wins
the prize must not be, in the opin-
ion of experts, a copy of any foreign
inventi 011.
One of the oddeSt awards ever of-
fered, and which is likely to stay an
offer for a good
MANY YEARS Yler,
is thc 815,000 offered by the late
MEN VIRO HATE MONEY.
SEE sq MUCH OF IT THAT
LOSES ALL .VALIYE.
The Croupiers Employed at Monte
Carlo Lose All Sense of the
Value of Casla.
The croupiers are the most remark-
able people in Monte Carlo. Apart
from their wonderful powers of nlen-
tal arithmetic, which are the result
of years of patient t,rautiug, they ,
may be said to be the only. men on '
itnh)neyefiil.ee of the earth who hate
They handle thousands of pounds
in gold, silver and notes every day
of their lives. They see it flung
down on the green cloth by gamblers
ancl raked to and fro as though it
were so Much dirt. In a few years
after a croupier has been eniployecl
at Monte Carlo he loses all sense of
the Value of cash, Ile is absolutely
indifferent to the sight of it. Eo
01101 ms his duties of gathering in,
or paying out, with the mechanical
calmness of an unthinking machine.
Every croupier is searched careful-
ly when he leaves the Casino, to see
that he has not stolen anything. The
searching, however, is a more for-
mality, for nobody has ever been
known to attempt to carry off even
the smalle.st coin. The croupiers
have plenty of chances of stealing,
but they never think of taking them.
"Swell rnobsmen" who have gone
ptoo sMe oofiltseWiCnacirllionglotrhothbeanEkx11)110ses opvuerr-
and over again tried to bribe the
croupiers.
ONLY ONE INSTANCE
is on record of anyone having suc-
ceeded. A fria,n called Arclisson en-
listed the aid of a croupier, and in-
duced him to deal out a Pireviously-
arranged pack at the "Trente-et-
Quarante" table. ''Trente-et-Quaran-
te" is played with a big pack Of
cards which are shuffled in the pres-
ence of the players, and therefore no
cheating is possible. In this case,
the substituted pack was introduced
on to the top of the real one after
the shuffling was over.
The swindler. who of course knew
in what order the cards wOuld ap-
pear, placed his stakes accordingly,
and managed to win no less than
180,000 francs, or $36,000. Immo-
diately afterwards he cleared off, and
was never seen again. When the
cards were counted at the end of the
game it was of course found that
there were more than usual, and the
fraud was revealed.
NOT GOING FISHING.
A citizen with a fishing rod over
.his shoulder was going up the Street
yesterday when a stranger called
"Ia
tI:Ve any luck ?
Fifty feet further on a second in-
quired
Are they biting nowt ?
At the next corner it' third stopped
him and asked :
1 say, what'll you take for a ton
of 'em
A fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh
had their say,, and the eighth., bore
•down upon him with :
Look here, old chap, you may
laugh at the idea of crossing your
bait,butspealiogi.tbrings
tome? lqucnekriaedndthIa
e nciann
Isv)riotyhetlilte. r d.
Cer tainly.
What do you take me for ?
Why, you are going fishing.
Who said so?
'Haven't you got a fishing rod ?
Suppose I have 7 11 I saw you
carrying a bar of soap home, 'would
X argue that you. \core going to do
the family washing ?
But aren't you going fishing ?
No, sir I This rod is to knock the
sparrows' nests out of the eaves of
rny house. Funny how many people
there are in this world who are in-
terested 111 other folks' business. ^
Now comes the extraordinary part
of the story. The croupier Nvho had
committed the fraud had not gained
o single penny by it. Be had substi-
,uted the'forged pack simplyeas a fa-
dIr to his friend. Be hardly realizs -
ed what he was doing. His friend
had not paid him anything to 'do it,
nor had he proposed' to Share 1115
Spoils. The croupier actually did
not want to share in them. He had
, NO USE FOR THE MONEY.
The Administration of the Casino
only sent the offending- croupier to
prison for two months, though his
action—done with childlike innocence
—had robbed them of each a large
SUM of money. They knew -it was no
use punishing him. heavily., And,
strange' to say, they gave him Work
again when he came out of prison,
though not at his olcl employment.
The croupiers a.t 'Monte Carle re-
ceive a salary of from $2,500 to $3,-
500 per annum, ,according to the
length of time they have been in the
Administration's service. No' croup-
ier has even been known to ask for a
rise in his salary. As long as they
have enough they don't care for
more. When they receive money
they often mislay it, because they -
are as careless of it as ganiblers.
But the croupiers never gamble. It
never occm•s to them to try and in-
crease their money by any means
whatever. They are so tired of see-
ing money that they liteeally hate
Their life is .a curiously uneventful
one. They never tratrel. Monaco,
which is the loveliest'land in Eurorhe
'quite satisfies them. There are no ,
drunkands amongst them. Their life
costs them very little.: They'pay no
taxes. Their children are educated
free of charge, the boys' generally be-
come croupiers iike their fathers.
The croupiers have a kind of club
room where they can meet to talk
and play chess. Many of them spend
their whole lives eithet in this rooni
or at their work. Tho only time
they are out of doors is when they
go home at night. Notwithstanding
the quietness of their existence, they
rarely live to any very great age.
CRUEL PARENTS.
A girl in Italy, aged eighteen, was
found in a dark,:undergroundPigsty,
where she had been imprisoned by
her patents for fifteen years, She
Stands only 3 feet in height, and
was totally bereft of speech and rea-
son. She „can now begin to stand,
and efforts ore being made to restore
her reason.
NOT "IIIIIRKE'S
What's the nArne of that hook
that shotes the social standing of
the aristocrat,ic families ? inquired
the seelcer after knowledge.
'Bradstreet,'s,' 1 proniptly re-
plied the, limn who knew,
The woeld's record sugar planta-
tion .contains 13,000 a.c4•es, has 30
miles of rallavey, and employs 1,500
people. .
TI-IIRTEEN AT TABLE.
"Ever sitclown at ,table Where
there was just thirteen ?" asked the
man in the shabby ulster. ,
"Once," replied the man with the
white spot in his moustache.
"Well, you never observed that
any bad luck followed it, did you ?"
"Well—haw—yes. Bad luck for
inost of the thirteen.''
"Any of them clic ?"
"Not that I know of. Never heard
of any of them- dybig."
"iSot enough victuals to go
around ?" queried the'lliall With the
snub nose.
"Who's talking about victuals ?
There Wasn't any victuals.'' ,
"I thought You said you sat down
to a tablewhere there were thirteen
persons ?''
"That's what I said The table
waS in a lawyer's °face. It was a
Meeting of creditors. There were
tWelve of them, I was the other
There was 0 long pa,use and then
the man NVitli the baggy trousers in-
quired
"fir what way did the meeting
prove unlucky, if I" may ask.?"
"None of ever 'got a brass
baton out of rne,'' allSWercd the
man with 1,110 white spot 011 WS
n),OUS ta,C11C, heaving a deep sigh.
sseingaroo have been known to
junto 0 height of 11 f11e5. A deers
beet record is 0 • feet, 6 'riches.
There are 17 ndetals Which aro
More va1ua616'. than. gold