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The Huron News-Record, 1892-10-12, Page 71,NeW s-Re4tQrc/ Iii.:0 ,11Mti . 181/41 [j 1, ,RQASTING, f L 1)114'r118 OF T[IttEE lei pa.liprA. 11sA 1N A 0.011110INo iFtltet Tura ii! BEAD A 'M4 I On,t tiaN • ONG THA DYING. go of Thompson, twelve of 'Grand Forks, last t►ished a horrible chapter jet, unparalleled in the North Dakota. For +tIree.tr in a low shack of a etruo• 400,141110 . outer edge of Thomp- 04000tsed -for--t-he— storage- of- ilefittigl,Wine, Walter Preston and .11•11100. Sohn Turpin, two ebony ?Mnle';O inure maintained a sport- Atl-IlteletXtf, where they lived and 4'ti►i,•:, ;yiziug their waking hours !Mishit* amusement to the gul- #tble•}, Auoh games as stud poker, orsptt oi'ftch, etc: In a small apart - mayt thei'rp was a gasoline cooking 41 Ade order 10 gain entrance �� Ihtq''q,Cte main hall of revelrn whe>f•e f;hree gaining tables were lune tie surrounded with the usual COq'teonijtants, it was, neces.iary to satf �t m r u h the sall room con tdJtlipg elle deadly gasoline heater. 1i}tr.`etiueture was as dry as tinder 44 `lje interior was lined with rosinrtl'` paper to give it a palatial hper.,::$unday, the place was filled s1l•d4;with hobos and threshers, playI cards and shooting crape. ",lho =; gro, Preston, had just an ;hoyticed from the front door that :i,fupPei would soon he ready, when aslidden cry of fire from the 'front cleOr:,notified the players of danger T1ieire was a general rush for the deer. Those in the room escaped w6hont being hurt, but the meu iu lbe:rear apartment were hemmed in from.all sides. Some made a rush ';,for•.the door but the flames drove llie'n back, and thoy could do noth• '!,''';'ing' but await their doom. One ,man, Hugh McCarthy, of St. Paul, 'wasjust going into the front room +;when the fire occurred and he ;dropped to his knew and crawled i;:but, the flames burning his face ,Vbadly and injuring his hands. .Another man also escaped in the !leame way. In the front. rooin was R„.gasoline stove and near it set a ;.,can of the fluid with the cork out. :(' lie gas from the oil escaped and :/,':.filled the room, and when Preston tit a match to light hie stove to cook .`.;�. supper the gas in the room ignited. It A,Vra • - ply a pull', not an ex plosion, ,.and t. WHOLE RUILDING WAS AFIRE It was dry as tinder and urued ;rapidly. Men gathered 'om all h 'Ila a to as 18"'st in ro• i- parte of ,the village ,ecuing the imprisoned persons and - ";fight the flames. The boards from ?;'she rear of the shack were torn oil 'ti''lind three men were . taken out, !• !;i he negro named John Turpin, x'who was in the room was taken out '::of the aperture made. His cloth- ....ing was burnt from nis body and :;$he was almost cooked. As he watked away with almost superhu• 4• 1;,;i ran energy, his clothing dropped 'from his person and marked the '(path he had taken. A friendly `t -inclined person took him by the Z% arm to steady him and his fiagere .'sank into the cooked flesh to the i -:one, and in taking him from ..'i%the building he was taken by the , 4 -leg -and the flesh felloff,, How Tur- :pin lived to be taken from the build .:;ding is a myetery, but the shock . tc. ',lifts system and his injuries . were so ;;;;great he died Monday, Dennis {.ICehoe had gone into the building • ;Inst before'rthm „fi': ;ts +; j.x n i , z,(7 4 -man about threshing and he never i came out alive. As soon as the boards were ripped from the build - ;w ing his cousin yelled to him, "This "ij may Dennis ” ',Which way l' . ;�,'. Kebob called, and that is the last a -i heard of him. A moment later he a.wae heard to fall and his body was 1 taken out a charred mass. He was '' found lying with his face to the ,, floor near the aperture is the shack 1; and John Swann was lying on his ''f back. Th( loads of the two men I'1 touched and their foet extended in,. � opposite directions. Sam Curry, 4 foreman of George B. Clifford's �(farm, and John Ellis were dragged a.from the building. Curry present• 'k ed. IP.t A HORRIIILE SIGHT. i4 His face was burned black, and hia.lips were swollen and protuded, Is y his eye! beingclosed and his cloth . , ' ing hipt to crisp. Ellis' clothing ' Was belly burnt and hie face and arms were horribly burnt. They are b attendted at the Thompson being mpson house, but little hopes ars entertained for their recovery. The.follosved are the dead : Dennie Kehoe, Stillwater, Minn. John Swanson, Canada. Jon Turpin, colored, St. Paul. The injured, are : Samuel Curry, Thompson . John Lllis, Arden, Manitoba. Michael Cleary, Wiseonein. .Hugh McCarthy, St. Paul. , 1.en who were in the building previous to the fire say that the odod of gasoline gas; wee noticeable ill the • air, and that when' Preston • lit .4 wattlh to Start 'the eteve going there was Joe; a puff and the whole TQotq was a he of flamed, The iwpriaoned mon Lost their preeenoe of mind or theyrcould have kicked the boards off the shack, which was constructed is a decidedly flimsy Mannyr. The trete . evidently crouched on, the .floor and' awaited choir fate, as their positions indican- od this, Preston, as soon' as he learned the sot'iousneeeOf the (loci dent, Ieft town and has not been heard of biuoe. The coroner way very anxious to get Preston as a witness, but he could not be found. The verdict of the coroner's jury ex• oneratee Proeton from any criminal intentions, yet the authorities would probably make it pretty warm for him on a charge of conducting a gambling house The verdict reads as follows : "That said parties came to their death in a restaurant sad gambling den kept hyone. Walter -Preston and aperson la- the name of Brown, in the city of Thompson, Grand Forks county, N. D., ba the supposed cstelese use of rrosoline whereto, gas was generated RIM neatly that when ignited to barn the building and those who were unable to escape That there was no criminal intent, but gross eareleaeuese from igngraooe of the properties of gasoline." Doctors from Grand Forks were quickly on the eceue and say tvhen they arrived a sickening eight, such as they had probably never witness ed before, presented itself to their view. There were the smouldering ruins and ghastly forms of human ity, scarce animate yet feebly writh ing in . torture—the flesh of their hands and feet and fades roasted and ready to drop off at the touch. EDITORIAL NOTES. Kelly the man who shot lawyer Ball in Woodstock while attempting burglary in the house of the latter was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. As he was leaving the court he tamed to Mr. Ball and said : —"If the Lord spares me I will come back and call on you again." The impenitent prisoner should have received a life sentence in view of his threat, Iter Ryan, registrar for East Toronto, appeared in the Police Court last week charged with using insulting language to Father Murphy. Ryan had called Mur- phy " a liar' in- the course of a dis:.. cession, arising out of he the Cam' eron-Maclean libel case recently tried at Goderich. Ryaii pleaded guilty, and. was fined a dollar and costs. The bellicose results of the Cameron•Maclean libel suit is pro bably more owing to the increasing nearness of Mars to the earth than to ary attempt to have the fit cause of the all the squabbling jnd igially enquired into. 77 per cent of the residents of Ontario were born in the Province, and 91 per cent of the residents of Quebec are natives' of that Pro vines. It is about time that the classification English, Irish, Scotch, French or German Canadians, was done away with, and that all citiz enc of Canada be described as Can- adians, pure and simple. With all respect to old world nationalities, Canadian is the proudest nomencla ture, of the most intelligent, the most progessive, the freest, moat general- ly well to do people in the world: • —The people of Kansas city wit., nessed a horrible tragedy last week. Lee Ellington, a boy 10 ur-^:';;.,' '.::._aN leading a horse to a water trough. He had tied . the halter around his wrist. The horse took fright and ran away, throwing the boy to the ground and dragging him at a terrible speed along the street. The horse had run two miles before ho was stopped. The boy in the meantime had been kill- ed, and his body had been reduced to a pulp. Hundreds of pG,ple witnessed the accident. "Save who can 1" was the°frantic ot•y of Napoleon to his army at Waterloo. Save health and strength while you can, by the use of Ayer's S'rtaparilla, is ad- vice that applies to all, both young and old. Don't wait until disease fastens on you ; begin at once. —Darrell Brown, a drupken negro, went to a swell ball given last week at Bayou des Allemande, Louisiana, and proceeded to break up the affair. He was armed with an army cutlass and drove men an ?l `t '' women before him and from the ballroom. Thomas McCbrinten made a stand againet the negro and attempted to disarm him. Brown carved the white man's face and sliced off his right ear close to the head. McChrinten succeeded in making the negro flee, and picking up hie ear brought it to the city, where it was stitched to his head by Dr. Falls. When you 'feed a good, safe laxative, ask your druggist for a box of Ayer's Pille, and you will find that they give perfect satisfaetion. For indigestion, torpid liver, and sick lieaditche there is nothing superior. Leading physicians re- commend them. 4 n'i"ir"1Hent:MciK -C8, Women seldom tease .men • they do 40t love. It,ta.itss a master -stroke. to Sinootii down a rebelficus schoolboy, t It is a, wise child that gees out of the room when the old man emahes his thumb. Women never stutter. When they want is they can say "yes" without °a stammer. .Any person can got there but the quer tier is what is he going to do after he arrives. • Comments. —"He tried tokissme." "How impudent!" "But he was interrupted," "How annoying!" Young Housekeeper—Have you some fine salt? Grocer—Yes, ma'am. Young house- keeper—Is it fresh? When man pictures a heaven for himself he always has his own mansion right in the center of it. 1;iis Reputation—"I don't think—" be- gan Howell Gibbon. "So I have heard," quickly responded the cruel girl. It is a terrible wrench to one's confidence in human nature when your family physi- cian says he's sorry to find you Ill. Helen—If—papa—doesn't like George why is he ao cordial : Tom—He says it's such ,a saving of the gas for him to visit often. It has not yet occurred to the dictionary makers to classify "phonograph" as a femi- nine noun, simply because it talks back. Possibly the future politician's earliest im- pulse to smash the slate is when as a boy he has to go back t� school after vacation, She—Isn't that sign over the door— 'Gents' Clothin'—horrible English ? He— Oh, no ; that's a three -dollar -pants house. "Ah, she murmured, as her father hustl- ed two would-be visitors from the front door. "I think 1 hear the rustling of the leaves." Walking is said to be' the best exercise for brain workers, and it is yvorthy of note that brain workers can seldom afford to do anything else. There is a great deal in the papers now about lightweights, but we believe the or• dinary ton of coal•is still the champion light weight. Molly—Does your husband• still practice economy as he did when he was single ? Wife—Oh, no ; he contents himself with preaching it to me. He—I)o you dawnce? She (who has been informed that he is a bore)—No. He— Neither do I. Let's spend the evening just talking to each other. A Vacation in Town.—Attalie—Did Chol- lie Bohrman enjoy his vacation at the sea- side ? Amelie—I don't know, but his friends in town did. Chappie—I did not oatch Mrs. Histrung's remark, I wonder if it was intended for me? Bees—No, I know it was not, for she said, "A word to the wise is enough. He was a very absent-minded man. "I am very fond of fruit," site said. "I just dote on lemons." "Yes," he replied, "you know the saying—'Sweets to the sweet.' " Minnie—I simply couldn't have refused Jack after he offered me this beautiful en- gagement ring. Gladys—Yes, Jack has al- ways placed great reliance in that ring. May—Can you look me in the . face and tell me you werennt intoxicated last night ? Frank—Yes, darling ; but I couldn't look , you in the face and not be intoxicated now. Eve—Addy, my dear, I'm going shopping this morning. Can you let me. have $100? Adair—Great heavens, Eve ! You seem to believe the report that I'm made of dust. j Visiting Jeweler—I haven't seen an open.' faced watch since I came to Ashbury Park. Patrolman—Yis, sor. It's ag'in ordhera. 1 Figgers is not allowed to be ixposed on this bache. i Irate passenger (as train is moving off)— Wh didn't.youput m luggage in as I' Y y` told you ? Porter—Eh, mon ; yer luggage l is no sic a fule as yersel'. Ye're i the wrong train. The Green -Eyed 'Monster.—Jose—They, went to the mountains on their wedding I trip, and Ethel was wretched. Bess What was the trouble ? Jess—George fe11 in love with the scenery. Mother—Now you have broken my cup. You deserve a whipping. Come here. Fritz—No ; I won't come. Mother—Come, Fritz, till I whip you, and then you shall have a slice of cake. An Oversight.—He—Do you know it has always seemed strange to me that I have never married ? She—Dear me, haven't any of the girls ever given you their reasons for refusing you ? Mamma (to the professor,whose ears have been lacerated for an hour)—Don't you think the dear child should have her voice cultivated ? The professor (grimly)—Yes, if she must sing. "I hope you appreciate the fact, sir, that in marrying my daughter you marry a large - hearted, generous girl." 'I do, sir (with emotions), and I hope she inherits those qualities from her father." Little Tommy Whykins had been wrest- ling with a piece of hardtack. "Mamma," said he, after a silence. "What is it?" "If pollparrots get all the crackers they ask for, I don't wonder they learn to swear." Dealer—This is the best parrot we have, but I wouldn't sell him without letting you know his one fault ; he'll swear if his food doesn't suit him. Miss Fitz—I'll take him; it will seem quite like having a man in the house. Mrs Ohuggwater—Josiah, last Saturday was my birthday, and you forgot all about it ! Mr. Chugwater—Why, Samantha, my dear, the time passes—Wm—so swiftly in your society that your birthdays—er—come round before I know it. , Mr. Lurker—Excuse me, Miss Snapper, but I have long sought this opportunity to —" Miss Snapper—Never mind the pre- atpble, Mr. Lurker. Run right in and ask pa. He's been expecting this would come for the last two years. His one hope.—"I suppose there is no way of escaping this doosid epidemic," so- liloquized Chappie, "but since it has to come I hope we may get it by way of deah old Lunnon." To which Cholly uttered a devout and assenting "Haw !" "How in the world did young Fidgely come to marry the woman he did ? Why, she is fifteen years older than he, at the I don't know how it h least."a cued. I PP asked Fidgely the other day, and he admit- ted that he hadn't figured it out yet him- self." Guzzleton (in the mountains)—I thought it was against the rules of this house to give tips. Waiter—So hit am, sah ; but I t'ain't heerd ob any rule 'gainat a gen'lman lendin' small sums to a waitah on indef'nite tiine, wif no expectations ob interest or re- turn ob de money, sah. Physician (to dying editor)—My poor friend, I can not conceal the truth from you any longer. You have only half an hour to live." Editortle.rion (feebly)—Doctor, will you please tell the foreman, when I am gone, to place my obituary on the front page, top of column, next to pure reading matter? I wonder if I am extravagant in indulging myself in that luxury for once in my life?— Puck. • it A ry � q 4! q' t 1ieve�1 gmneratly that tint git'1 had tied with 4! ra War. •'Ite anon ilia ailed this belief then the rtrofeselonal t etective was U4°114 go to wotk. Yon will wonder where he 'mid make a begtnninr. He started with Sarah, the maid. white be did not be. Bove her guilty of conspiracy, he wag eatis. tied that elle bad either told too initial or too little. She stuck out for a day or two, but finally related just what had oo• ourred. She had neither seen nor hoard anything. She had been absent from ten to fifteen minutes. After her return Miss Bailey was nowhere to be seen. On the ground was the book she had been reading, before she fell asleep, and near by was her fan. Sarah had "forgotten" to speak of these things before. The detective was soon satisfied that the whole thing was the work of some daring villian, and as Mr. Bailey wan a very wealthy man, it was natural to conclude that hie daughter had been abducted in order to extort a large ransom. The man who carried her off also carried her trunk from the sanitarium. If he was not going to hold her several weeks soinewhere, why the need of extra clothing? And yet the idea of such a crime being per• potrated in Scotland alinoat paralizod him and made him doubt his own conclusions. Detectives- who have -to-° -go groping through a case make their hits by accident. When thia one had reasoned out an abduc- tion he jumped to the conclusion that Miss Bailey had been carried to the Cheviot hills, twenty miles to the south, and was concealed in some lonely place. When the father offered a reward of £1,000 for the restoration of his daughter a force of officials made a thorough search of the hills, hoping to stumble upon her pri- son. Not the slightest grain of information was picked up. Other deteetivea.were call- in, but they could make no progress. After three weeks had gone by it came to be be- lieved by all, except the father and the first detective, that.Mies Bailey had run off to be married, and that in due time a letter would be received giving all particulars. Meanwhile how fared it with the girl? As she was being carried across the field she recognized Adair as an employee of the sanitarium. He had a frank, open face, and although she was greatly surprised at his actions she was not much frightened. He talked to her as he hurried along, say. ing he meant her no harm and was only trying to w,in a wager made with a friend. On the far side of the cleared held she made such a fight that he had to put her down, and she also got the handkerchief clear of her mouth. Then he threaten- ed her with death if she raised an alarm, and she walked the rest of the way to the cave. He had furnished the opening with a rude but stout door, and as soon as she was safe inside he returned to his work, and no one noted his absence. That night he returned to the cave and ex - au old rift or tunnel which had beau driven plained to Miss Bailey why he had carried anfoa distance of forwhich feet and then her off. While there was nothingof the abandoned. The entrance was hidden byvillain about him, he proved to be so obstin-i vines and bushes, and everybody about thate and pig-headed that sp the situation was neighbourhood seemed to have forgotten almost as bad. He was respectful and boor- gishly tender, but very determined. It was the place. In tine course of a week, going he who got her trunk, desiring to make her to and fro only at night, Adair conveyed more comfortable. bedding, two chairs, a mirror, and other Adair visited the cave only once in articles of furniture to the tunnel or cave, twenty-four hours, about 9 o'clock at night. together with • a quantity of provisions. He provided his prisoner with a lamp, gave Everything was taken from the sanitaritnn, and yet ire one discovered hint at work. For a mile, going and coining, he had to pass over a much travelled highway, but no cue came forward afterward to say that they had encountered him. A man carry- ing a chair ought to attract observation and be remembered, but Adair seemed to have dodged everybody.. The abduction was attended by the saine good luck. During an afternoon Miss ltailey walked up the road about a inile, accompanied by her maid. They sat down in the shade of a large rock, but after per- haps half an hour Miss Bailey fell asleep, and the maid began gathering a bouquet. When they left the sanitarium Adair was mowing weeds in a field up the road, but neither of the avonen observed him. Ho followed after them, keeping in the fields, and determined to take advantage of any opportunity. He even thought at one time of carrying off both girls, but finally decided that the load would be too grout for him. Sarah was not more than o 0 feet away, although out of sight, when Adair crept up to the sleeping girl, passed his folded hand- kerchief over her mouth and tied it, and by the tiine she was awake he was carrying her off in his arms. She struggled and tried to cry out, but her cries were muffled, and her While the detective talent of the present day 1s imgteaaurablyy .keener and brighter than that of twenty-five years ago, it is by no means able to cope with all the strange, queer things which • develop in criminal eases ; I mean in what may be termed the side issues to the main clue in the case. For instance, a quosti0n much discussed in the liordon ease at Fall River was whether a stranger could have entered and left the house without being seen. Every one know- ing, the situation of affairs on the day of the double murder is at least skeptical on this point. Not an official connected with the case believes it possible. If reduced to chances there would not be more than one chance in a hundred of a stranger escaping unseen. What was known in Scotland twenty years ago as "the Hawick case" was a good illustration of how criminals sometimes take desperate chances and win. Hawick is a town in southern Scotland and right among the mountains. There is a sani- tarium a couple of miles out of the town for people in the first stages of ccnaump tion. Asa rule all such patients are people of ' means. Among those who arrived there in Julyy, 18x1, was an English girl named Eolith Bailey, whose father was a wealthy Londoner and a widower. A maid named Sarah Andrews accom- panied her. Americans who were staying at Hawick at the time pronounced Miss Bailey unusually handsome and attractive. A London physician had said that her left lung was slightly affected, hut as far as outward appearances went she- was in per- fect health. After a week everybody knew her by sight. She would perhaps have been recognized at a distance on foot or -in a car- riage sooner than any one else about the place. Among the men employed about the grounds was a young man named George Adair. Ho was 20 years old, hardly able to read and write, and was not considered either wise' or cunning. He fell in love with Miss Bailey at first sight, but, though she afterward remembered that he acted queerly on occasions, she had not the slight. est suspicion of the real state of the case ; nobody else had noticed him, for that mat- ter, for Adair had more cunning than they gave him credit for. He realized that the youod lady was so far above him in the so- cial scale that he had nothing to hope for unless he could secure some unusual ad- vantage. As he confessed afterward, and was no doubt honest in itis statements and beliefs, he determined to abduct and imprison her, and hoped she would learn to love hint when she realized how much he loved her. The idea was absurd, of course, but all believed him honest in entertaining it. Two miles away in the mountaius was her all the news in the case as it happened, and seemed to be delighted over the accounts in the newspapers. Her fare was a part of that with which he was supplied, supplemented by some luxuries he bought in the village. He usually remained from 10 to 12. He was nervous and abashed in her presence, and he treated her with the utmost consideration and respect.. He would shed tears over her appeals, but he never relented his purpose. The tunnel was a cool, dry place, and Miss Bailey did not undergo any physical discomforts on account of the imprisonment. Each day for the first week she hoped to prevail upon Adair to release her. Finding that he could not be moved from his position she gave her consent to wed hiin, having no intention, of ,course, of standing by her word. Then he was brought to see that the bans must be published and certain forms complied with, and that a legal marriage w ith 'Iter a pris- oner was impossible. Although made des- perate by his own stupidity he would not give up his idea, and thus passed a second week. Miss Bailey had not been a paseive pris- oner during the fortnight. She had gone over the place time and time again, hoping to' find some weak point to begin operations strength was weakened by the surprise of on, but had found no encouragement. The the moment. Adair carried her across an timbers used for door frames were massive open field forty rods wide, but a boy at and set against solid rock, and the door work at the north end of it, eighty rods would have defied stouter a>;tns and away, did not see him. A sportsman at the better tools than she could bring to bear south end, about as far away, was looking on it. At the beginning of the third week about for game, and he was as blind as the Adair became sullen and morose, and she boy. The maid returned to find her mis. began to fear him. On Wednesday tress gone, and though surprised at the fact night of that week he proposed that they she argued that Miss Bailey had returned secretly leave the neighbourhood for the to the sanitarium. She took her own time coast and on reaching it take ship for Amer- about getting there, and it was 6 o'clock be- ice. She agreed, but here he was bellied fore there was any general inquirIt was again. She hoof some money in the safe at Y. after dark before any one was sent out, and the sanitarium, but he could not get it and noon the next day before the search was be- had none of his own. IIs did not come on gun in earnest. Thursday night but the next evening he threatened that if she did not bring forward in nearly every criminal case of molnentgsome plan within a couple of days to solve the defective waste time by following clues the difficulty ho wculd murder her. If he given thein by persons who first "guess" or could not marry her, no one else should. "believe" and then knew for. certain. In There was no question in her mind but that this case the maid wanted to exculpate her -1 he had become daft and dangerous. A self. No one would have blamed her, but simple incident in the kitchen of the sani- she feared that result, and so she "guessed"I tariom solved the whole mystery. One of that a vehicle came along the road while the female servants noticed that Adair had she was wandering about, and that Miss Bailey went for a ride. After "guessing" a few times she was sure that she heard the rattle of wheels and caught sight of a white horse through the trees and bushes. She also heard talking and laughing. Adair was sent to the village and another per- son up the road, but nothing was to be heard of the missing girl. No one was seri- ously alarmed nntil two nights had passed. Then it was plain enough to all that there was a mystery to be solved. The police were called in and all means exhausted to discover what had become of Miss Bailey. Adair was among those questioned. All he had to say was that he caw the two girls go up the road. If Sarah had stuck to the simple truth it would have shortened the search, even if it had not led to discoveries. Every one on the case got a false start. They were led to believe there was a man and a horse and cart mixed up with it. Sarah had heard no outcry. It was, there- fore, argued that Miss Bailey had entered the vehicle of her own free will, and that the driver was an acquaintance at least. It was not until the road leading north word had been searched for a distance of thirty miles, and until wagoners, farmers, and landlords M11 along were sure that no such rig had passed that Mr. Bailey was telegraphed for, and a detective tame up from Scotland Yard. Something had happened during the in• serval to deepen the mystery. Miss Bailey's room had been plundered of her trunk and clothing. The maid occupied a room adjoining, and yet Some one had come by night and removed the articles without raising the slightest alarm. Most of the clothing was hanging up. The garments had been taken down and placed A Welt -Ordered Household. m the trunk, and the trunk carried down a Gentleman —Good evening, my little dear. pair of stairs, through two halls and out of Is your papa at home? the back door. They knew it must have Little Dear--Idon'tknow; I'll see. Mam- been by the back door because it was found ma is at home, and when she's around I can unlocked, and a strange key broken. in the never tell whether papa is here or not, he's lock. Until the father arrived it was be so quiet. --Good News. changed greatly of late and she had her eye upon him when he slipped some food from the table into his handkerchief. Nothing was said to him at the bine, but the woman began to put this and that together, and she finally began to wonder and suspect. She communicated with her master, and he with the detective, who was still at the place, and that evening Adair was followed to the cave, and Miss Bailey rescued. Tho young man was arrested and thrown into prison, and it became evident that he had lost his mind and could not be held legally responsible. After a inedical com- mission had pronounced on his case he was sent to an asylum ; Mr. Bailey and his daughter went home, and we who still lingered had ceased to talk of the case when a climax to it came. Adair escaped from the asylum and returned to the sanitarium. I want you to notice again how non-obser- vant the general run of people are. Two of us who sat op the veranda talking failed to see him, though he passed within thirty feet of us. A woman who sat at a window sewing noticed him, but took him for an al- together different man. A servant passed him on the stairs and called him "Joe," which was the name of another man. He must have passed another female servant and yet she had no remembrance of seeing him, though wide awake. He proceeded to the room formally occupied by Miss Bailey and their committed suicide by cut- ting his throat. Although his body lay in the middle of the floor, a servant entered the room, got something from the dresser, and retired without seeing anything un- usual. `M1$$IN0 C, NKS, Switzerland has a 009•year•old hotel, Tlie.440 of1Guernsoy exacts a tax from all Flfens, „ �! Brooklyn actress narnaed Drown spell* her name Broughtlo. It is now claimed that fast trains aro safer than slow ones. The Dank of England requires sixty folio ledgers for its daily accounts. ' There are 890 bathhouses in Tokio, Japan, in which a bath can be had for one -cent. A man of science in Germanv maintains that it is from meteors that all our "diamonds conte. Japan is shaken 500 times a year by earthquakes, and has 700 stations erected for observing seismic shocks. A tulip show has been held annually at the Orange Tree Inn, Butley, a small. vit. lags near Macclesfield, England, for the past sixty-seven years. , Leaden -headed nails are used by aome tinsmiths for roofing purposes. The last stroke flattens the head over the hole in the tin and leakin&is so prevented. The,Guadaloupe bees lay their honey in bladders of wax about as large as a pigeon's egg, and not in combs. The honey never hardens and is of an oily consistency. According to the last census returns Eng- land possesses no fewer than 70,000 coach• men and grooms, 56,250 male indoor ser- vants and 1,230,000 female indoor servants. In South Greenland the color of the hair ribbon which woman ties round her head denotes the social condition of the wearer, whether she be maid or wife or widow. Cannon have been in use since 1330. The Turks were the first Europeans to utilize them in 1453, at the siege of Adrianople, and it wasa century later that.England be- gan to manufacture them. As an indication of the thrift amongst the working classes of France it is stated that there are now 6,000,000 depositors in the French savings banks, with an accu- mulated fund of not less than £112,000,000. At Colmar a lawyer bequeathed the sum of 100,000 francs to a madhouse in that lo- cality. "I earned this money," said he in his will, "from those who spent their life- time in lawsuits. This legacy is only a restitution." Three Roman graves were found by work- men near Hagneau, in Alsace, Germany, a short time ago in good condition. Each grave contained a Roman warrior's skele- ton, Itis arms, armor and many Roman coins. The latest form of steamship propeller an English invention. It is designed so that when in motion there is no weight of water on the blades on the rise and fall of the propeller, due to the pitching of the vessel. A feather merchant of Paris has lately received 6,000 birds of paradise, 300,000 Indian birds of various species and 400,000 humming birds. Another dealer has receiv- ed 40,000 birds from America and 100,000 from Africa. The oldest armchair in the world is the throne once used by Queen Hatafu, who flourished in Egypt 1600 B. C. It is made of ebony, beautifully carved, and is so hard- ened with age as to appear to he carved from black marble. It is not generally known that an orange bit in the exact center by a rifle ball will vanish at once from sight. Such, however, is the fact. Shooting it through the center scatters it in such infinitesimal pieces that itis at once lost to sight. Oregon was a name formerly given to an imaginary river of the west. Carver, an American traveller, mentions it in 1763. In describing the river he evidently confound- ed it with the Missouri, but the name was finally applied to the present state of that name. The Swedish government has adopted a new smokeless gunpowder which is said to have the following advantages : It is allay of manufacture, produces no flame and does not heat the rifle. It gives the ball an ini- tial velocity of 2,100 feet with a pressure of of 2,260 atmospheres. - Put a buzzard in a pen about six feet square and open at the top and it is as much a prisoner as though it were shut up in a box. This is because buzzards always begin their flight by a short run, and they cannot or will not attempt to fly unless they can do so. It is not true that Sir Charles Russell has consented to give up his private practice on his appointment to office. Mr. Gladstone could hardly have expected that Sir Charles would agree to such an absurd request, which, though it in theory is possibly cor- rect, is utterly impossible in practice. M. Maxim Lecomte is about to introduce a bill into the French senate providing a maximum penalty and a year's imprison- ment and a fine of 2,000 francs for engag- ing in a duel. If the duelist shall have killed his man the maximum penalty will be three years' imprisonment and 10,000 francs fine. Burt Revier and Charles Lemont, of Ihnn. dee, Minn., were both in love with the same girl and they agreed to settle the mat- ter of rivalry by a fight in the presence of the young woman. She was watching the battle from a buggy, when the horse took fright and ran, throwing her out and caus- ing fatal injuries. A singular freak of nature may be observ- ed east of Ashburnham, Mass. Persons have dug down under a tree and found but one root underneath, but it. has two kinds of foliage, that of a pine and that of an oak, which may be distinctly seen from a distance. In the fall of the year burrs fall on one side and acorns on the other, At the new home for fresh air children at Ridgewood N -J., the rector of Christ church of that village was addressing the children. He told them how sin tended to mar all that was good, and held before them the illustration of the blossom in its blight and the young fruit in its disfigure- ment caused by the worm that seized upon them before they matured. "So sin enters the heart and defiles it," he said. Then, after a moment, added : "New, boys, what ie sin ?" "Worms !" came back the answer from his juvenile audience. A Philadelphia physician who has just returned from a trip to England, says : "I stopped with a gentleman in Liverpool who is making a fortun.P out of one of the most curious applications of the drop -a - penny -in -the -slot idea that I have ever seen. In England, by the way, they use it for a dozen things that we know nothing of in this country. The use of it to which I al- lude, is the firnishingiof illuminated gas to small consumers. A small device is fastened to any ordinary gas meter, and each time a copper penny is dropped in a slot a certain amount of gas is let into the meter, and thence into the pipe leading to the burner. A little dial shows how much gas is admit- ted to the meter, and a dozen or more pen- nies can be dropped in in succession if the purchaser so desires. Over 4,000 of these are now in use in Liverpool, and the demand for them in that and other big cities is so great that the company owning the patent cannot at present begin to make them fast enough to supply it.' r •— .itaistaistainedinassa=lIAlatia