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i i the Big Artery 1 i I I 1 it ii 1 ti STABBED Tra sfixed With a jlMillV StilPttO. of. Sureery-id the I 1 R-mlt The Dwto xn Experiment upon i. nrotrui that he wa dy- i i i i i t.eiri'ed the sufferer -v- b-s if-'t'H'K voice linn me i I lis hnrid nnd (,. It may have b-n a terrain refuse.

i i It a rocir, healthy, Iclluw. -aik '1 in tall. II" went to Hie r-if-- with t'." t. I Slid dhl- in. quaint I.

um started, -r I lll.iil'l puzzled. Arnold. Stroked bis "i' the knife I if r. posiuly "'l the first .1. llttl.

vi i. "I'lii'ii fmritly i.i iu iy. t- i 'o mine, i Ir not pulling 'I in- of' delicacy, it.r if there ia a iiu turned and on in the i ry A until. t'O t-ut medicine. i Arn.M Pniil-1 t.

i I ii't le i I In linil li.iii. i l-i-' I iiiiim'-t i A i dii.tatiutl .1 tt.u.y if n-rvf i.ril-nr--rt-.- -I, trtii-k inv ut: tin 1 1 1 1 i -1 i.ni Lolil -il ri Mire i it of I It, ttoiit.K int. II v'i in vl i iiipali.tK-.! ii nc- wlien t.n ot n-. r.i art-I the rii t.ii". aii'i tii'liet in il rrr.M iift.T Dr.

Ell-. it i i v. u.sked Kntrefurt ti t'v. ilio. Vnifu Jt crulintf aurlu.

i I h' In-art. Ai lolijf i'. I ij'i i iiM' ape i "inn. thoiiijh tlirtiiriirt -us i-t-y il.n If through I wm il. rm.tin i 1 i I ti.i- Uii.ti.TOtiri.

itiiil i-r. i. Hi-- rvauiini-ii I I ti.it keelit-rt in- mi r- i i faintly uiihmi il ntni ii i r. Uiivir ui Hit- v.f.iim, dic'tor" hu I 'I I tni it is a utih-tto. lr.

En- I i "1 th work of I.i i.ii.l, "and rlii.y wore .1 tin- "iiiini. Il is i I.r i ii i .1 li than I he KiinrJ nf i- ii t.u it i.i l.e.irly ii vl! yea: iiiii, l.llil ould "Ii-i vi1, the -if juiir srieml Iinuit in the i.t tin v.v.,i i-ii hrui'd hy the C.i A u.c il 1 uc the lit 'to do ItU twe?" aLed an. i reat ir.il. pi i'ififn iinthlnjr. It hone inly your dearie rate i.i-u bent it way in 1 1 tiriiiuin vvit-ti I 1 -I ,1 j- i I.

lu.i limn, huil ii- niiii-trd hi an anr.m. Kvt- i) i I mi. tH-eliet for lie 1 liiifn neo.il if the Kliiiktly i uti staring te uml I t0 rein at toward the 1 1 .1 .1 il H1 te! "ISiirt l.e a baby. ail death:" ii li. ho i d'yiinr!" 1 -a 1 not lliough," sui.l Ilif.jK.Iyto.

lien oils man a drink J-viy. rrTTii I 1. tuv hoy; it must he li i lil ro-iuee r. 9 two tu.t iri(euiou 1 -i T. I In- i.iinTrv." th hlornlurui, he aaid to takt.

it." 1 ron.ptlv iut'erptwed 7 I 1 Lii 'W when i the." I 1,::. n-l. "liut yott hitve ii may try it A-ver It vt lil he Tre vonr heitt to i.it to hvL.I rn.tlil I- ii.e i.ii about it." 'l I iu ti of the stiletto 'iir-iti the aorl.iwhieh r- it u- of the heart mid el to the arteries. If weajiou the blood f. i.i 1 lur AOKT.

'II. ti do.i.. If. the weapon tissue Wfiiid have I Wen ie of the Hile itml .1, As hoi 14 drop 1 to the into the 1 it h-ft in tn to Many ut hi.vl I do n-it wonder it- a 01 kutiri4t una iticred- V' hi roiit'tmed t-io in Miftttry; but ll'a 'aet that the 1 i' point a to ua If i.u would have -vrtvnt of Hie tiom "axiwik ltJ' holll 1 .1 violently, und 1 cried 1 -f' J. -'i '3 AmoM.

who, fcy a tV-'' l.llusell. ls baini'ul." Entrefort I Anioht. do you hy a ra.jh!. nn I fT' and Valuable a would Mapid ft-'iuated and inadequate 7'i 11 th.at most murder- jr 'i l-oiu-t rating weap-'' V. pily available, i too, fur it requires a a to the guard, tt-rnutu by a hair's tin- rib, for the a' the intetvostal Wail only a Wrong ..1.0 alo." sid I ,71 011 iru ou maw tub "I shall to on.

first, liowevc. .7 ou he fact that, as tell r. 1 the 4 it did noten- '-t ii llie for in on of the tissues would n'WT- DEATH. f11 Ven as it is. There will of the' aorta, .1 il 1 fatal aneurism iu ti aortal walls; but we V'heekit.

TUr yoUlh i LM 'do our bet dru. "tinued Entrefort; oruxs winch niMir Im, "Msny motf; mine of the more riona have not In en nn-nti nuil. OueofLhwte is th of the Hortal tissues prt-asinic upon the weapon to relax their hold allow thel- nde to iip. That would lot'out the blooti iind causo death. A fail, a jump, a blow on the chetrt any of these mizht ojar the heart aiid aorta as to brr-ik the "Is that ali asked Arnold.

"No; hut in not that noutl7" ''More than 'enntich." said Arnold, with a sud'it 11 and riaugeroiut sparkle in his eyM. any of us oll Id think, the dofpernte fellow id zed the handle of the tdetto with in Ah hani in a determined eflort to WITH PR AW rt St tilt. I had had no time to ordt-r my faculties to th movement of a. when Entrefort. with iiioredible alertrws and swiftness, had Arnold writtg.

Slowly Arnold relaxed hi hold. There, now!" siiid Entrefort svthinirlyy "That w-ss a careless act and mieht have broken the adhesion! You'll have to be caretul." Arnold looked at him with a curious combination of facial expressions. "i'roceed with your said he to Entrefort. nine rlowr, Ilippolyte," aicl Entrefort, "and ohs rve narrow iy. Will 'you kindiy help mo, Iir.

Itowellf' The latter sat helpless, wonderine. Entrefort' hand was qniok and sure, and th" knifu with marvelous dexterity. Kirt he-inade four efjuidiitant im isions oiifc-wrd from the r'-tard, and ju through the skin. Arnold wim-ed arid held his breath at the iir-t u', hut soon regained ommand of I-ieli ineision was a'oout two inc hos Ilijipolyte khuddered and turned aside his head. Entrefort, whom nothing escaped, said II ippolyte! Watch." Qiiitkly'was the skin peeled back to the limit of the This was excrui ia-tinly painful-.

Arnold groaned, and his hands hei nnie moist mid told. Iow went the Uuife into, the tleh, and blood flowed freely; I)r. Kowell ponged it off. The swift' knifo went again at work, Arnold's marvelous nerve was breaking 4) own. lie t-lurehi'd my hands with unensc-iotis arroiigth.

His eyes danced, iiis mind was weuk-ninj. Altuost in a moment the flesh had been cut removed down to the lioiios, whit were xpor-d two ribs and the A few quick cuts cleared the blade of the weapon' between the guard and the ribs. I .1 "To wyirk. be quick!" Il -evid'-ntSy been coached. With sh-ndrr, long-fingered which trembled at first, he selected certain tools with nice insde some-quick measurements of the mid' the cleared space around it, and egan to adjust the parts of a gt HtR 1.ITTI.K MACHI.NK.

"What--" Arnold started to say, but a deeper pulior settled 011 his hands relaxed, his voics hushed and his eyep closed. "Thank exilatrned Entrefort: he has fainted. He can't stop now. tuick, liip- I he machinist attached the queer little ma-clrne to the handle of the Weapon, grasped the handle with his left hand and with his right ber-ari a 'series of short, sharp, quick motions Lm kwnrd and forward. "Hurry, llip)ulyte!" eried Entrefort.

"The metal is very hard." "Ii it cut?" Iii a moment more something snapped. Ilippolytn started he was very nervous. He removed the ittlc machine. "It is very hard he said, "it breaks the saws." J. lie adjntd another saw and went to work.

In a little picked up the handle of the stiletto und laid It on the tattle. lie had tut. it tilt, leaving the Made lnstd; "tiood, Jlippolyto! exclaimed Entrefort. Aluxistlin a minute the brithl end of the cut metal was closed from view ty the skin flans. and these sewed together and the blood wiped away.

Arnold returned to consciousness, anu glanced down at his breast. He looked puz zled. "Where is the-thing?" he asked. "Here is part of it," explained Entrefort, ho'ding up the handle, "And the blade "Irremovable part of your Internal ma chinery." Arnold was silent. "It had to be cut off." resumed Entrefort.

"not only beeuuse it would be troublesome and an undcairahlo ornament, but also.be- c.nisp it was necessary to remove any possi bility of ithdrawing it. Arnold said nothing! 'Here ris a prescription," said Entrefort; "take the medicine as directed for the next 10 years, without "What, for? 1 see it contains muriatic acid." "I mny explain 10 years from now." "lfllive.r "If you live." Arnold pulled me to lutn and whispered 1 "Tell her to fly at once." -Noble, generous hoy! Years 1 thought I recognized a thin, pn4e, bright face among the passengers who were leaving an Australian steamer which had just arrived. "I r. Entrefort!" I called. "Ah!" he said, pettring up into my face: "I know vou but vou have cbanired.

You remember I was called away Immediately aftaH I performed THAT CAZY OPltUTIOS On yoor friend, and have spent the interven-seven years in India. hina, Hiberia, the South Seas, and liod knows where not. 1 am glad to set foot 011 my native soil again, for I sm tired. Hut wasn't that the most absurd, hare brained txptriment that I tried on your frit 11. 1 1 Hid he sutler much? How long did he live? A week?" "Seven years." "What!" exclaimed Entrefort, startled.

'He is alive now, aud in London." The man stagirered. "Incredible!" he said. "It is true; you shall see him," me alaiut him," he asked, eagerly, his eves glistening with the peculiar light which noticed on the night of the operation. Well, the change in him is snocmng. Imagine, a vounc dare-devil of 21.

who had no greater fear of danger and death than of a cold, now a cringing, cowering man of 2S, nursing his lite with pitiful tenderness, fearful that at any moment something may happen to break the hold of his aorta on the stiletto-blade, a eontirnied hypochondriac. rcevlsh, melancholy, unhappy jn the extreme, le keeps himself conrined as closely as possible, nvoiding all excitement and exercise, for fear they will produce disastrous results, and reads nothing exciting. The constant danger lias worn out the last shred of his manhood and left him a pitiiul wreck. an nothing be done for him?" "Eos-ibly. I-et us find him.

comes my wife to meet nieL Sshe arrived on the other steamer." 1 reconiized her instantly, and( was overcome with astonishment. Itharming woman." said Entrefort, "and you'll like her. We were married four years HK at Bombay. he belongs to a noble Italian family, and has traveled a great deal." 'Then lie introduced us. To my unspeakable relief she recognised neither my name nor face.

1 must have appeared a peculiar person to her, but it was impossible to be perteetly nonchalant. We went to Arnold's rooms, I with painful fear. 1 left her in the reception-room and took Entrefort within. Arnold was too creatly absorbed with his own troubles to be danireromly excited bv meeting Entrefort, whom he greeted with Indifferent "But I heard a woman's voice," he said, and before I could move he had gone to the reception room, and he stood face to face with the beautiful adventuress who, wickedly desperate, had driven a stilleto into his vitals In a hotel seven years before because he refused to marry tier. lney recoguutea eacn oiner.

Both started and turned pale; but she, quicker wttted, recovered her composure at once, and advanced toward him with a smile and an extended hand. He staggered back, his face ghajtlv with fear. he cried out, "the blade baa slipped out I felt it fall the blood is pouring out it burns 1 am dving!" and he fell into my arms and instantly expired. The autopsy revealed ttie astonishing fact that there was no blade in him at all. It had been gradually consumed by the muriatic acid which Entrefort had prescribed lor that purpose, and with which Arnojd had kept his xnitem constantly filled, and the wounds in the aorta had closed in steadily with the wasting blade, and were perfectly healed.

All his vital organs were sound. My poor friend, once so reckless and brave, had died Sin.niy of a childish, groundless fear of a wot: and she unwittingly had accomplished her A SLEEPY TRIO Thought That They Mad Really Taken the Ride. 18s. Lonls BepcWiol A carriage driver for a big livery stable in the business part of the city, told me the other day a good joke on a trio of well-known men about town. It was one night, two weeks ago.

The gentlemen had been nearly all evening at one of the leading clubhouses, dining and wining with hearty appetites. Tiring, of drinking champagne, they decided to take a carriage nda and proceeded to the hvcry stable and ordered a rig and driver. While the men were getting a team ready the gentlemen entered carriage and took seats. The effects of their potations soon told on the merry trio and in a few minutes they were all sound asleep. The driver, discovering this, did not hitch up the team, but sent the horses back to their stalls.

Not an inch from wher it stood in the stable shed was the carriage moved and the lay roysterers slumbered away peacefully and soundly, not waking op until the dawn ot day. Tney paid for the carriage hire and left the stable believing that they bad enjoyed aa all-nlaiit ride round town. THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, SATURDAY, JUL.T. 14, 1894 SIXTEEN PAGES: THE ILLUSION OF THE HAUNTED SWING. 'of -Of supreme nappinesa sitting in wing which apparently whirls around its points of support, giving the oocupsnt what is most properly described as a new sensation, 3v Vu I w-m AS IT FEELS.

HIS PLAN. How a Laudanum Fiend Secured the Drug-. fS. Louis Republic "Will yon fill that bottle one third full of sweet oil the other two thirds with laudanum?" This was the request that the Gleaner heard as he was standing at the counter of a well-known drugstore on the corner of Olive street, not far. from the Exposition Building.

Turning axownd to get a glimpse of the author of the request, he saw a young fellow of about 22. well built, with a florid complexion, sleepy-looking irray eyes, a smooth frvce. with a pleading but dissipated cast of countenance. "What did he want itn oil and laudanum mixed T' asked the Gleaner out of pure curiosity after the young teliow bad left the store. "To drink, 1 suppose," answered the clerk.

"He comes often enough for the sickening stuff." "How does he manage the oil in such quan- ttities?" "Or course, he poors trie on on ana annus the laudanum, but I can't sell him laudanum alone, and he got some doctor to give him a prescription tor the two mixed, and they don't mix separate, so that he can pour the one from the other. He used to come for it once a week, then twice, and now he comes every day, and I expect that all his Balary goes that way, for me laudanum drunkard spends more money, often than the whisky toper." UCIDEST3 OF TSA7EL. Oew York Sua.) Foreigner (traveling in America) -Porter, vnn rt me a pack of cards? Eorter Yes, sail (brings them). Seventy- fit- wnt, i Traveler paying and tearing open the cov ers) 1 want a uoie, too. Porter Yes, sah (tits one and pockets a fee for the service).

Thank you, sah. Traveler cards and deals out for sol- rnHnts to end of car for five minutes. fhn retnrnal 'Scuse me. sah. Cards are not allowed to ba xUw4 iu dia aasnh on Sundays, tab.

the room rotate about the auspending bar. At the beginning of operations the swing may be given a slight puh the operators outside tb room then begin to swing the room itself, rKirK 1 a Im.m.U.l tl HINT IUIW kw i r. 1. I. I ivuteraini me swir.g oar.

stcrur.g on to wiin tiaunted swipg, and ha befn in mosl succe- the movements of the swing. They swing it lul operation at Atlantic City and at the' Mid- back and forth. Increasing the arc through winter air near Francisco. Those who which it moves nntil it eoes so far as to make are to participate in the apparent gyrations of a complete rotation. The operatives do this utumu uiHi a small room, wutiout special rpecial roni a Carcrcrislni the rocirn near th cfl mg.

hangs a large swing, which is provided with seats for a number of people. After the people have takn their places, the attendant machinery, taking hold of wie si.tes and corners of the not or room. At tiiis time the people in the swing fmsgine that the room is stationarr while they are whirling throe gh space. After keeping this AS IT IS. flushes the car and it starts into oscillation op for soma time, the movement is brought ike any other swing.

The room door isclosvd. gradually to a stop, a sufficient number of Gradually those in it feel after throe or four back arid forth swings being given at the movements that their swing-Is going rather finaie to carry out the illusion to the end. high, but this is not all. The apparent ainpli- The roOzn is as completely furnished as pos-tude of the oscillations increase more and stble, everything, of course, being fastened in more, until presentiy the whole swing eeems place. Wliat is apparent! a kerosene lamp to whirl corniiletely over, describing a full stands on a table, near at hand.

It is securely circle about the Luronwh-ch it hangs, 'lo fastened to the table, which in its turn is fas-make the thing more utterly mysterious, the tened to the floor, and-the light is supplied by onr is win cranit lasniou. so mat it seems ae- a email Incandescent lamo ithin thechim- nionstrably impossible for the sw ing to pass between bar and ceiling. It continues appar- cntly to go round and round this way. impart- ing a most weird sensation to the occupants, i until its movements befin irraduallv to cense and the complete rotation is succeeded by the ney, but concealed by the shade. The visitor never imagines that it Is an electric lamp, and naturally thinks that it would be impossible for a kerosene lamp to be inverted without disaster; so that it adds to the deception ma-teriaJly.

The same is to be said of the pictures usual back and forth swinirimr. and in a few 1 on thn wl! of ti nr.lif, inf fn 1 1 of seconds, as the children any, "the old cat chinaware, of the chair with a baton it, and dies." The door ot the room is opened and tiie baby. All contribute to the mvstifiea-the sw-inging party leases. Those who have i tion. Even though one is informed of the retried it say the sensation is most peculiar and cret before entering the swine, the deception the deception perfect.

is said to be so complete that pasvingers in- The illusion is based on the movements of voluntarily seize the arms of the seats to avoid the room proper. During the entire exhibi-1 being precipitated below, Scientific Arner-tion the swing is practically ttationary, while lean. HAD WHISKERS. Tb Bern Serpen Recently Seen in au Illinois Iiake. Lewtstnn Chiesxo Record.1 Rev.

A. K. Tullis, pastor of the Methodist Church in this city, has discovered the Thompson Lake sea serpent. The reoort has 1 THE LITTLE CHURCH And How It Entered on a FlourWIiliig Eiimenee. (Chiesifo Record.

1 Virginia City was in Its Infancy, It being wild and woolly without doubt. The Mission lioaid of New York sent Kev. Mr. Huff to or- oeen rue, not only mis summer, 0111 on ocea- ganie a chDren there, he to receive his salary sions in the last yearor two, thatsome hideous from the mission. After a brief stay in the reptile, unlike in form and actions to the city he notified the home board the country common watersnake, inhabited n-ar Thonip- itself was well able to support him, as the col-son's Lake, a beautiful sheet of water near I lector seemed to De enabled to do well in this I-wistown.

This lake is tributary to the matter. But at the end of six months he Illinois Iliver, and is noted for iis excellent gave up the tak and Mr. Huff decided there game fish and as a resort for hunters. was no way other than to close up their little Tullis and bis little sou Harry were log church. Then it was my friend expressed fishing in the lake yesterday when the rever- his illingness to undertake the unpleasant end gentleman's attention was called to acorn-I duty of collecting, bo accordingly he promotion anions some sea moss ati1 pond lilies ceeded to visit ail places of business, whether about 2ou feet distant.

Suddenly from, the store, hotel, dance hail or saloon, it mattered mass of moss a frightful object arose, it was not; that church must be maintained at all the head of the serpent, hue. flat, with long hazards. Merchants said they had no money, whiskers or bushy hair protruding from either "You have bacon, flour and ull such neces-side of the head. The eyes were almost a big mries by which life Is maintained. Why not as saucers, and changed their color constantly.

give of them?" said our friend. Invariably so while from tho creature's jaw a wicked forked much of this or that was donated. tongue snot incessantly, ine air was uuea 1 1 hen came the saloons. Our friend ex with a peculiarly fetid odor seemed to be emitted from the reptile. The creature was angry, and seemed to be entangled in the sea moss, for it threshed the water into a foam for hundreds of feet of right.

Suddenly, with a mighty effort, it threw a ling uon lit. portion 01 its ootiy out 01 toe water, it was not a snake, yet from the amount of water disturbed it seemed as if the creature hundreds of feet in length. The body was very large, covered with huge scnles, as it seemed to Mr. Tullis, although a close view of the reptile could not be had. from the fact that it displayed its body but an instant, keeping only its bead above water.

While attempting to get a nearer view little Harry Tullis fell out of the boat. When his father had hauled him on board again the reptile had disappeared. The creature has been seen at intervals this season. One farmer living near the lake says that he saw the creature lumbering along through his corn field a week ago, crashing down the fetal ks 10 feet at a row. Some fields of grain have been absolutely destroyed by the monster.

It leaves the water at evening and roams through the timber and fields of grain and-seems to be in search of animal food. The natives in the vicinity are in terror. A'n effort is being made to organize for the capture of the reptile. LET HIM GO. 4 How a Lynching; In a Texaa Town Was Averted.

Detroit Free Press. There is town in Texas so poor and measly that its own Inhabitants stay there only because they are as poor as it is. though, perhaps, not quite as measly, for they are conscious of their condition. Whatever else they are they have a strong sense of state pride, and they will hang a man as quick for horse stealing as will the inhabitants of the most flourishing and richest city iu the elate. Some time ago a stranger in the town was arrested on suspicion and held until the recent disap-pearanoe of two horses could be investigated; Before the investigation was concluded, the citizens held a meeting and decided to have a public trial of their prisoner.

He was brought out on the square, and before they had found a tree suitable for their purpose a man in the crowd recognized the man. "Friends and fellow-citizens," he shouted from a barrel he had climbed on, "you are about to make a dreadful mistake. This gentleman is not a horse thief but a friend of mine, and a reputable citizen of tho city of Waco, lie came here during my absence to see a gentleman who was coming from St. "What did he want here?" asked the spokesman of the citizens' committee. "He came on a matter of business." "Name his business." "lie came here, fellow-citizens, to buy real estate and make the town boom." The committee held a consultation, and in a few minutes the spokesman was rejtdy to report.

Well. Colonel," he said, addressing the man on the barrel, as he untied the prisoner's hands and took the rope from around his neck, "on your statement that he did not steal them bosses we will let the prisoner go; and, besides, speakin' of his business here, we ain't the kind of people that wants to hang a crazy man nohow," and the gentleman from Waco got back to Waco as fast as he could with a Dusted boom on his hand. perience in one will illustrate fully what determination will accomplish not only to help support a struggling church in the wilder ness bat to restore an erring one to the path On entering this saloon and gamb- and making known his errand our friend was peremptorily ordered to vacate. "Why so?" he replied. "I come on a good "Yes, a mission to ruin me and my business.

Now git!" "Oh, no, said Mr. "I mut give those gentlemen (gamblers) in the back of the room a chance." And to them he stated his errand. All promptly gave of their gold dust, as this was MUST GIVE THEJI A the currency of the country. As he departed be told the keeper: "I'll be here again just one month from today." At the appointed time he The saloon met him with hat do you want now r' "I want $10 from you." Strange to say. he produced it.

and then said: "What became of that old fellow you used to send around I We frightened him nearly to death and he never collected a tent." lie now seemed quite willing to be approached, and after au earnest talk from our friend was induced to say he was doing wrong, had been raised better, that his parents would die for shame did they know of his conduct, and promised to go into an honest business, eutfice it to say our friend did not find him on his next round. The contributors were urged to come and hear the- preacher, for they w.ere now interested. Boon after it was necessary to add 40 feet to the building. So the little church flourished. CATCH PROBLEMS In Mathematics Which Pazzle Some Very Wise Heads.

(New York HomeUoDraal.1 If a goose weighs io pounds and a half Its own weight, what is the weight of the goose Who has not been tempted to reply on the in stant 15? the correct answer being, of course. 20 pounds. It is astonishing what a very simple query wiu sointimes catch a wise man napping. Even the following have been known to succeed: How many days would it take to cut in a piece of cloth 60 yards long, one yard being cut on eacn aay A mail climbing np a pole 20- feet high ascends five feet every day and slips down four feet every night, flow long will the snail take to reach the top of the post? A wise man having a indow one yard high and one yard wide requiring more light eu-larged his window to twice its former size, yet the window was still only one yard high and one yard wide. How was this done? This is a catch question in geometry, as the preceding were catch questions in arithmetic The window was diamond-shaped at first and was afterward made square.

As to the two former pet haps it is scarcely necessary seriously to point out that the answer to the first is not oO days, but 49; and to the second not 20 days, but iii since the snail, which gains one foot each day for 15 davs. climbs on the sixteenth day to the top of the pole and there remains. HE FORGOT TO DIE. London Globe. Our military veterans are rather commonplace beside the survivor of the Grande A mice who is still residing in tiie town of saratort.

This old soldier, who recently celebrated his one hundred and twenty-sixth birthday, is a Frenchman named Nicholas favin. He served a Lieutenant in the Russian campaign and was taken prisoner at the crossing ot ut xwresina. teing imprisoned atSaratott he never cared to ieave the ace, but remained as a teac her of French. He is said to be remarkably vigorous, notwithstanding bis great age. Truthful Child.

1 Chicago Becord.) Visitor (facetiously) And why. Tommy, do you ask. after the, welfare of my little boy so much? Tommy 'Cause ma told me not to say anything about your scapegraca -t other son whats grown uu FAMOUS Bell Witch of Tennessee. AMjsteryTbat Baffled Even Old Hickory. Demoniac Singiag, Ribald Words and Marvelous Manifestations Stranger Than; Spiritualism.

New York World. Here Ls almost the strangest story ever written a tragedy of witchcraft beyond anything in the annals of Salem, now puolished for tiie first time. In its day it was the sensution of two stutes. People of eminence aud reputation, Andrew Jackson among them, went miles to investigate it. Tiie fame of it spread throughout the South.

The witchcraft was by something outside human kin onieihing which hud pow er to take any shape it pleased, to change from one to another in the twinkling of an eye; that spoke and fought, raced and ran. It all happened 7.1 years back. Unlike those other noted manifestations, the Cock lane guost snd the Rochester knot-kings, no explanation has ever been given oi it. Those aiiiicted Khrank from publicity, regarding what they called always "our family trouble." For their own protection, however, one rif the sons rote down an exact statement of all its wonderful manifestations. A family council decided it was better left unpublished so long as any of the original suflcrers was alive.

The last of thera died a year or two ago, and now the history. has been made public iu a most interesting and well illustra'ed look. M. V. Ingram, of Ciarksville, is the compiler and responsible author of the book.

liy his ptriiilssiou a synopsis of the story ba-t it-en obtained for the Sunday World. It is the most pitiful recital. and scvej-e as a Cireek tragedy, vetattimes dripping unctuous humor. The Witch the Itell Witch, to give the full name, style and title was a creature of infinite jest and more infinite malignity. TftK CENTRAL FflfBl, John Bell, was fin honest.

God-fearing planter in Kobertson County, notably thrifty, intelligent and upright. He had laud a l.btu acres slaves and stock. His wife was a pattern of all the Christian virtues. There were five sons and two daughters. The witch's human exponent was a neighbor, in utmost the same social grade as her victims a big woman, strident and coarse.

She went through the country daily, walking in front ot her old gray horse, with a copperas homespun riding skirt flung over her arm. A negro girl led the horse, and two smaller negroes walked on either side of it. Ostensibly the woman's business was to, buy wool, flax, butter and eggs. But it was whispered that the went abroad that she might be? a brass pin to whomever she met. If she got it, the giver was thermtftttr always sullied to her spell.

fche was wonderfully pious in spite of her witchery. Though she got to church late so late the sermon was half over she never foiled to shout before it was finished. It was this woman's familiar which the Beil Witch proclaimed itself to bo. The tortured family, though, gave the proclamation neither credence nor currency. They had come out from North Carolina to Tennessee in lsx4.

It was in the summer of lslT that anything unusual first made itself manifest. Then John Bell, the father, met a strange dog, shot at it and saw it var.Uh, changing its shape as it went. One of his sons had the same experience with what had seemed to him a wild turkey. Dean, the negro wagoner, reported that a black witch-dog had chased him to his house. Last of all, Betsy, the f'ounger daughter, a girl of 14, saw a little girl light green garments swinging under the limbs of a great tree.

Though Betsy was so young, she had already a lover, as was fit and proper for a tall, pretty girl with eyes blue as the sky, skin like cream and rot leaves, and the finest yellow hair. He had been her schoolmate at Mr. Powell's academy, and, next to herself, was the master's favorite pupil. Gentle, amiable, the household pet and pride, it was certainly a most malign spirit that could slap her face till it reddened with the mark of ghostly fingers, pull and tangle her fine yellow hair, stick her fcxl or ixvistBLK pins Until she screamed aloud, and end by throwing her into a sort of spasmodio trauce, from which uo ellort count rouse her until the witch chose to relent. The seizure ran for an hour or so.

If she were left undisturbed, she rame out of it as one waking from refreshing sleep. Physicians who examined her said she was in perfect health. Her father had even more mysterious ailments. His tongue would seem to swell uutil speech or swallowing was alike impossible. It was, he said, as though a stick had been set crosswise in his mouth.

By and by the swellings turned to a series of spasmodic twitch-ings of the whole body. For more than a year the wicch showed itself only at intervals in the form of a hare, very olj and thin end or a black dog or big strange bird. But every night, as soon as lights were out, there becau a carnival of noise knot kings, scratching, gnawing, the sound of heavy chains dragged over bare floors. Investigation showed nothing. The whole house was ransacked, turned upside down, but in vain.

The noises became so unendurable that Mr. Bell called in one of his Neighbors, a brother Baptist, Mr. Johnson, hoping that his powerful prayers might send away the witch. Mr. Johnson came and prayed, but did not conquer.

He was hardly snug in bed when whirl! went sheets, counterpane, pillows and bolster. Thus it happened that the Pcll bouse was thronged every night by watchers. At first the witch answered questions by raps and knocks. But soon it made articulate speech, at first low and faltering, but strengthening nntil it was heard throughout the room. What follows only the book can adequately tell.

The witch gave 100 accounts of itvelf. It was an Indian spirit -hose bones had been disturbed; a chil i done to death in North Carolina, and haunting the Bells for vengeance; an early setticr who had buried gold and silver under a big rock near the Bell tpring, and sought to have it exhumed and given to Betsy Bell; then it was the spirit of an evil stepmother; at last, when questioned by a minister and taxed with it admitted itself to be "Old Kate Batts's witch." and that it meant to worry OLD JACK BELL TO PEATK. Here was sensation with a vengeance. Old Kate Baits, she of the riding skirt, was known to have had a alight disagreement with Mr. BelL Neither he nor his family, though, took the witch's statement for truth.

Their neighbors were less forbearing. Thereafter the witch was known as Kate or Old Kate, ana held more than ever in awe. It Was certainly a most astonishing goblin. It could quote sicripture in a way to astound the most learned minister. No transgression could be hidden from it.

It searched out the most secret thoughts and proclaimed them from the housetops. It took supreme delight in goiug to church, and later, when the minister came to the lieil house, repeating bis sermon, mimicking him exactly. The witch wis omnipresent, omntscent. She replied to Mrs. Boil's inquiry about her son's trip to Carolina that he had returned and bad fared badly, and thus heralded his return before the family saw him.

the repeated Parson Johnson's sermon, delivered 13 mil' away, to the par on himself a ho sat that night in Mr. Bell's bouse. Then the witch became profane and rioaid, howled, sang and swore, and. worse still, became a fearful toper, filling the room with her tipsy breath. toon there was another strange development.

In place of one witch there were four. Liack Log, Cypocryphy, Mathematics and Jerusalem. I to this time the voice had been teuxiidne. Now l-g rpoke.in a high, harsh kep, withal feminine; MitherDat-ics Cypocryphy had soltcr feminine voices; Jerusalem the rough, changing pipe of a boy. All were ribald and furiousiy intemperate.

Many times doors and windows had to stand wide to escape tiie stench they made. They were forever quarreling in tipay fashion. Betsy paid a visit to her sister, who bad married Bennett One day Mrs. Porter went out to greet a neighbor coining up the Line. She went out to greet her.

but lound an apparition, who as joined by two younger women and a coy. Ail four at once be nt down saplings and rode them as children da. Betsy came out to see the phenomenon. Mr. Porter caine up with his gun and tired at the iog behind which the witches had sheltered themselves.

That night at Mrs. Bell's the witch Blajk Dog complained that Porter's bullet had broken Jerusalem's kg! TUB WITCH SHOWED A fierce, concentrated malignity against Mr. Bell. For Betsy there was thj same petulant tenderness, the ame entreaty, "lon't. please don't, marry Joshua.

Gariicuer." Wheret'er site moved, there the witch followed. Few uoiuruuim ui tue ueiguoornooa escapea nex visitations. Bean, the negro wagoner, reported some wonderful experiences. When toe dog took to following him he cleft its head with tiie( ax he always carried. The ax sunk out of in the ground.

Tiie next night tiie blak (iog was as chipper as ever, with two beads inoead of the single ona it bad worn at rirwt. Then Bean's wife made him a witch ball of fox fire wrapped with, her own bair. The next time the witch met him she demanded it upon pain of turning him to a torse, which she would ride over the river to the stillbousa. "Ben." sVd Iteaa. "I say; 1 ain't gwine gin you my bnll.

gwine split you open clurter der tail ef yondow't git out my But sho's yon bewn 1 'menced ter git weak. lie ax drop oaten my ban'. I-ar pintedly wus er spell on me. When I stoop obcr ter pick it up I couldn't git up do mo An' dar I -wus stanntn' on fo" nan's an' foots, I-n suppin say, 'He's too high behine. He 'oont tote double sruff nnffln'.

len snppia else ssy, 'I lebel him Den my tail sol jerked bard, an' I kicked out, an' bofe toy foots felled off kerflop in de road." LVsn declared in a most convincing manner the witches had turned him temporarily into mule. In the thrones who rame to see and near was General Andrew Jarkson. -not yet President. home. The Hermitace.

iras some 40 miles from the Bell house. He came with a party among whom was a famous witch doc tor. The latter poasted that within three days he wonld unravel the mystery by means of a silver ballet and two inches of a black cat's tail. It was the tfp of what had once been a witch cat. He had but to tickle his nose with it to make the whole invisible world plain to his eye.

Then the silver bullet would do the rest. IresentlT the party came to a halt. The road was dry and firm. The team had not been overdriven, yet in some mysterious f-Lhion the wagon'wss stuck fast. In vain the driver lashed and swore; in vain men tugged at the wheels.

At last Old Hickory threw up his hand, exclaiming: -By the eternal, boys, it's the witch! Nothing else!" At on -e a metallic voice called from a near Uiicket: "Yes, General, it is the witch. You may go on now. I will see you again to-nieht." At the Bell bouse the witch doctor said that he would soon unearth the imposture. General Jackson said, in a disgusted aside: "I wish the thing would make mince-meat of the brageart. I know he's an arrant coward." if in anwer the witch Called out: "Here I am, General, ready for business!" Then to the witch doctor: "Now, Mr.

Smarty, here I am! Hhoot away!" In spite of the cat's tail the seer saw not. Instead, he felt a rain of blows that sent him bowling and scuttling around the room. GEN SAL JACKSON LAC0HCD, Rolled on the ground and swore: "By the eternal, boys, this is better than fighting the Bnti.h! I never had so much fun in my life." Bound and round, out of doors, up the lane went the seer, the witch still pelting him until he bowled aloud. Presently the unseen voice called: "General, is that fun enough for to-night? I will come again tomorrow and show you another rascal iu your crowd." Cine morning in early fall, when Mr. Bel went out, his shoes were snatched from his feet as fast us they were tied on.

He was beaten and twisted nntil there came upon him a seizure so violent that when at Jat he got home he had to take to his bed. He was never outdoors again. His seizure had been accompanied by demoniac singing in the air above him, that died at last to blood-curdling shrieks of triumph. For two niontus he had the tenderest care. In BiK-embcr the crisis came.

The witch said "You need not try to wake Old Jack. I have got him this time. He has bad his dose, and will never wake again." bhe had given the dying man a dose from a dark vial in the medicine closet. A straw dipped in the stun liquid wts drawn over a cat's tongue. Within three minutes the creature had died in sharp convulsions.

Mr. Bell lay in stupor, breathing heavily. The scent of the stuff in the bottle Wi'S distinguishable in his breath. The vial and its contents were thrown in the fire, here they blazed up into sulphurous flame. The next morning Bell died.

The witch kept silence until the clods were falling over hiiu. Those nearest the erave heard high in air the weird voice singing: "ltow me up some brandy, OI how! rowl row! rol Row roe up soma braadj, OI me tip some more 1" For three weeks the spirit lingered, mild and harmless. Then it leu. but promised to return each seven years to some descendant of John Bell. It came earlier.

After a year Betsy plighted herself to Joshua Gardner. It was at a fishing party upon Kcd River, just beyond her home, (soon a monster hsh began to play pranks ith the lines and poles. It dragged several into the stream and made the other hsh leap so high every one knew some unusual thing was happening. As Betsy sat with her lover on the bank the old cry sounded in her ear, "Please, please, Betsy, don't marry Joshua Gardner." Betsy broke the engagement at once. After time she married Schoolmaster Powell, whom the negroes had all along suspected of bringing -on the trouble with that end in view.

"Bat dar Mane Powell, he strak dc flint an' ketch de tier in he eye," tbey said-. These marvelous stories of the Bell Witch are still current in Kobcrtson County, Tennessee, which was populated, as was the Blue Grass region of Kentucky, with emigrant yeomanry and gentry from Virginia and the Carolinas. They devoutly believe all that is here set down, and much more besides. Now. for almost three generations the Bell Witch has been a most fascinating history mystery.

Stories are current there of its reappearance as late as 1868. BABY BANKERS. A Lot of Boys Capitalize) a Savings Bank and fit art Business. St. Louis Globe-Deoiorrst.

A novelty in banks and banking is the W. C. Lindsey fc Sons Banking Company, of Bt. Louis, with a capital stock of lu0 at $1 a share. The officers at present are: W.

C. Lindsey, President; Louis H. Lindsey, Vice ITesident, aged years Robert T. Lindsey, cashier, aged 8 years; Richard W. Lindsey, aged 5 years; Everett L.

Ames, aged 4 years, and W. C. Lindsey, aged 1 year. It was decided to capitalize the bank at Slut), and Issue 100 shares at il each, and to pay something each week on the shares, any amount, from one cent up, being received and proper credit given. As fast as these shares are paid up certificates are issued, signed by the President and cashier.

The bank was originated to induce the children to save money, and has becomeo popular that after 51 shares were reserved for the famUy and 49 disposed of, there were calls for 4tj more shares. At the next meeting the board will consider the advisability of increasing the capital stock to SoOO, when they will probably invest in real estate. At present the bank "is making loans in small amounts at the rate of 5 per cent a month, and now holds $17 of paper at the above rate. They have set their mark at $100 per share, and confidently expect to make each share worth that amount by the time the cashier attains his majority. Among the stockholders are residents of Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas.

Tennessee and Mississippi. The bank paper is out in good style, and there is a bank safe. THEY WERE EVEN. The Smart Youngster Settles a Dispute AVith His Mother. Wssbingtoa The best exemplar of democracy, pur and simple, is the iirtle fellow who has just emerged from dresses.

Ii may be the only scion of parents of the most ultra blue-blooded type, and destined to be the leader of cult and aristocracy, yet be displays pure socialism in his of companions. The black cook's little girl is bis favorite playfellow, and the children on the next block, whose parents live in bumble bouses and eat with their knives, are his cronies, and represent to his susceptible feelings a clats to be cultivated. Such a youngster resides in the Northwest, and li is devoted mother has been very much ex-r iscd over the companions he has chosen. Tne other day he ran away, as is bis custom of late, and his return, two hours later, lustily announced that he had been playing over in "Micky Kelley's back yard." As Mickey's father gets drunk and Ls supported by his wife, who "takes in" washing, the truant's mother did not believe the Kelley contingent would prove desirable for her son. and she told him she did not wish him to go there any more.

He immediately wanted to knom the reason tshe did not want to go into real reasons, because she knew what a r.o;icl.aiit little people have for repeatine un pleasant things, so she told bim she didn't want him to do so because she didn't know the Kelleys. "Oh, that's nothing," responded the little rascal, reassuringly. "I don't know half the people that you go with!" HOW IT 13 I LIFE, A rooster flies op oa lb fenae, Jost hear him erowf His sasisfectioe Immense. Bis slf-posMssioe Is laieasas Bis lusty longs give vidasvoe That this is so. Aaother rooster sees bias there and hears biia erow.

With gasping wiogs be cleaves the air. The is too small to share. Aad so they fight, and scratch, sad tear. Till cowa they go. 80 ti-- life.

Wheaaoymsa -raineat Bom rival tries to ptaa 6euw as to down him if he csa; -And if tie jutt upsets the pas. Be lev Is content. HOT BOW. Ifetrott Tribune. 1 The Youth took her Hand gently in bia.

There was a beautiful Litrht in his Eve, "Barling. -be murmured, "your worldly Condition cuts no Ice. the emitted a light, crepitant Laugh. "With She raxed trustfully into bis Face, withal. "Ice 10 cents a pound, I should say not" As tbe Reader may hay couiai u- be.

was neb and she was boot. THE LEMON TRICK. This) Tlaa It Gets tho Cerznaa Band is niot. fBoeioa tscwdio.1 There was wr blood-red war abroad in East Boatoa last night, and for more than a bsui hour tbe air in Maverick square was hiled with curses, yells and Dying stones and brickbats. Tbe cause of all the bub-bub was a Germ an band and a mischievous boy with a fine.

Juicy lemon. The German band stopped in front of Thomas Arthur's liquor store, in Maverick square, at about 10 dork, and eomxoeneed to play the "popular" airs of the day. Then it was that this small boy, at whose ear the unseen imp of mLschief ever lingers, whispering "tips for dirilment," took bis station srainst the telegraph pole, and, with a chuckle ana grin, began to lovingly suck tbe laree. juicy lemon. The eight of a youngster "pulling at a lemon will break the heart of a German musician at any time, and this was more than one of the bandnien could stand He rot decidedly "hot under the collar'' and started in to pound the youngster, but the- crowd of boys and young men sided with the boy, aed soon a lively row was in progwsg.

The street railway bed In this square is nearly all torn up, as the electric system is being laid, and of course there was a great abundance of stones, small sticks and bits of iron lying abont, andr for these weapons the crowd and bandsmen made a rush, and then the real excitement began. IXifing the row the crowd worked over toward the corner of Summer street and the square, as the Teutons retreated before them, and the window of J. Marshall's liquor store soon had the appearance of having been struck by a small sized cyclone. In the heat of the melee one of the bandsmen drew a knife, and William Johnson, ona of tbe crowd, received a slight rut in his back. The wound, however, is not a very serious one.

The Germans, finding thing growing altogether too warm for their taste, retreated down Lewis street, with tbe intention of going across to the city proper on the south ferry. They just missed the boat, and in consequence were compelled to wait some 15 or 20 minutes for the next trip. The crowd managed to get inside the ferry gates, and the combat was renewed, with added vigor. Patrolman Clark, of Station 7, who was present in citizen's clothes, ni snared to secure two of the Germans, though not before one of them hsd drawn a knife on him. Word had been sent to Station 1 by this time, and a number of officers coming oh the scene, all the band men were locked up.

Mr. Marshall will enter complaint against them for the damages received by his "Ob! You, are leaving us early, Mr. Brown." ''Yes, Mrs. Park, and I am very sorry tbat I must leave, but. not expecting to have such a pleasant time this evening, I had mad another engagement." UAII5Q IT ALL BIGHT.

Detroit Free Preee. The man had a stub of whiskers on his chin which waggled when he talked and kicked up their heeia when he brought his jaws together. I was savin'," be remarked, "when I was out West I seen 'em bang a man to a tel- at pole fer stealin' a boas. "Whose hoes?" asked a person sitting oa a molasses barreL "Nobuddy knowed." "How'd they know he stole it?" -They ketched bim ridin it." "Mebbe it was his" Praps." "Did trie owner ever claim th boss I "Not tfcat ever I heerd" "Then it must a been hia'a, -Pr'ape." "What became of "They hel it three months fer the owner to claim it, and then tuey sold it ter a- became of the money T' "Weil, they spent it for a monument to the man they hunz. The-y thought xoebb they might a made a mistake, and they sated to PBE3n23TB' SALARIES.

MM As Presidential salaries ro. tbe pay of tbe French President is liberal. He receives l2M.G0uf. or xUd.000 rer annum. The salary of tbe President of the United States is 85Q while the Vice President gets Mi 1.6001.

Th President of th Swiss Confederation has to be content with a very modest sum. bis services being valued at only 6U0 per annum. The Presidents of the South American Kepublies sre paid on a more uo-eral scale the President of hile, for instance, gelling about But it is not rvary one who would care to ruie uKsounnws mui American Republic at that ngare. 1 tbe Last Dj. I .11 nnf Gabriel (taking another blow on bis tram- petry.es, evaEVPoag axesm vun 1 iwi- 13 Scheme To Beat Uncle Sam.

A Kentncky Moonshiner's Illicit Distillery. He Makes the Firewater la a. Cav neath His Mountain Cabin. s'L Louis Poet-thspaich.) A well-known Sr. Louisan who has just return rd from a very enjoyable vacation in Kentucky, tells a fish story uf aa unusually interesting character.

He left St. Louis about two weeks ago to visit relatives in Kentucky. The family whose) rncst he was to be, reside in Elktou, Todd County, and bis host insisted on showing him the country. A pleasure party was organised and thry took the city chap la sow. They took him out atntit three mils to a "still," hich they said was one oi the sights of the neighborhood.

The St. Louis man found the "still'' to be a Urge, finely equipped licensed distillery, with an Immr nrt capacity. He examined the place, expressed bis admiration, sampled the product and then sat down with bis friends to dinner. Ua talis the story this way: "After luncheon oar party began looking around for a way to pass the tune. 1 preferred to try my lurk at catching few trout that my host said 1 could find in the branch that was fed by tbe clear water spring that was nsed by the still, so, having equipped myself with tackle, I started up the branch, crawling under the brush that covered the banks of the creek and stepping with great rare.

I met with some success and soon bad a half dozen gsnie littles fellows in my basket. I would have continued up th creek bad I not been suddenly brought to a halt by the gruff voice of a man who asked 'WHO'S TKItt? "I started up amazed and looked around, but could see no one. The brush alongside the creek's bank, which at this point was a high, rocky hill covered with walnut and hitkory, was so dense that I could not discern where the voice came from. My first theory was that 1 hsd presumed too far In SECTIONAL VIEW OF THE MOONSHINE STILL. REJECTED, But Still Ills ram Was Not Utterly Hopeless.

(Chlemab Tribune. "I em to nnderstand, then. Miss Plunkett." said the young man, outwardly calm, whatever may have been the tempest of passion that agitated his interior, "that this avowal is an unwelcome surprise to your "I have never dreamed, Mr. TTsnklnson," he replied, with cold and almost disdainful glance, "of the possibility of such a thinr, and I beg that you will never renew the subject." "It would be useless to reopen the discussion, would it?" "It would." "You could never look upon rue ia any other light than that of a friend T' "Never." He was silent a moment, and then, with a visible effort at unconcern, lie said: "Pardon ni for asking the question. Miss Plunkett, but was there anything unseemly or repellant in my language or rn my manner of expressing "So, sir.

Cnder the circumstances, Mr. Hankinson, I have no objection to saying that you expressed yourself admirably. Your words were well chosen and your manner, apart from the the emotion, which I need not say I do not share, was unobjectionable." "Had you been at all predisposed in my favor, then, you could listened kindly to me and and might might possibly "I think I may say yes to that," she saij, pitying his evident embarrassment. "Yet yet it made no impression on your a flee on your heart?" "None at all." "And it will never be of any as for me to ask you again?" "One again, Mr. Hankinson." said the young woman, coldly, "and once for all, no!" "Then yon won't mind my telling you.

Miss Plunkett." he said, greatly relieved, "that I was indulging in a little preliminary practice with a view to calling on Laura Biiderback. I am going there Good evening, Miss Plunkett-" BETTEE LEFT U58AID. Harper's Baser. I my eagerness to catch fish and must hava wandered into forbidden territory. 60 I turned to back down th branch when th same voice commanded: "I did so with alacrity and asked, 'What yoti wantf "It was then tbat I uw my bugaboo for th first time.

"If I wss surprised to hear th Strang voice 1 was simply amazed when I behold the owner thereof. As be floated out of th bushes I felt almost rooted to the spot at the weird apparition. I confess his appearanc frightened me. His tout ensemble wss very much a la Arthur Bun'n when he appeared as the old man of th sea In 'ijinbad, only he appeared a little bigger. His face was screened by a lattice-work of unkempt whiskers.

"From the way be eyed me as approached I concluded that he was actually ocended by my intrusion on his premises. When b. asked me what I was doing thars gad 1 told him 'fishing I was pre pari rig to apwlogixa, when be relieved by saying: "is them all you her eotchr When I answerad affirmatively he 1 hsnsssl tho trend of our conversation and asked 1 vt ho be your "I am from St. taid I. 'and asa visiting relatives "WLo be tueyr continued, interrogatively.

I told him, snd then be scanned with a piercina look, and said: They be rood stock, but I don't know as I ever hearn tell of "As Ui old teliow was getting so sotuaul 1 rrotlcred bim a cigar, lie accented it after some hesitation and lighted it and began to puff away with slow precision. As he blew a cloud of smoke in th air he draw led 1 The fact is, mister, you nought think I am durned inquisitive about who yoa sir ana where you come from, put uns nss to very careful, 'case sometimes them revenue tellers comes sr peeking op her, and than uns Has to sKeeoauie. MOOSSHIStf I said to myself, understanding then bis motive. 1 didn't lose any time assuring the old gent that I knew nothing abont rvnu agents and that my mission up th creek was purely one 01 pleasure. 1 mau tnenos sua him, and had probably been with bim an hour and a half when I said: 'Well, sir, I hav enjoyed meeting you very much.

I must be going, or th folks will wonder where I 'Wait a minute, be interrupted. and before I could ask why ha had disappeared in the brush. He cam np almost withiu minute bearing in his hand a dirty tiocup, which I instantly knew contained stuff. He handed it to with sotirteous mien, and said: rou go, I want you to bsv something good with me; th best hit- ia aU a.emiu:k. 'Moonshiner I inquired.

he said, 'that's what the 1 rrvsnu fellers call "1 raised it to my lip and drank a Utu. I never in all my life had anything hav such sn instantaneous enact upon tarn as did thai little drink. "1 must hav mad a wry face, for the old man said: oh. drink it down. It wen't hurt I did so.

mors from th fact that I didn't wont to incur bis displeasure than anything else, so down it went and I said, smacx-uig luy hps. 'it's 'You lust bet it is, it's th best in Kan- 'How do yoa mats it I sked. "Who toie yool make it? he replied. 'Now don't pou ax too many quest inns, 'cause yoa wou't get eny 1 said, 'yoa needn't fear me I am only asking out of curiosity and lo on will be tbe wiser. Coma, now, show ma bow it is don and where it is done, I lesr Elkton to-morrow for feu Bonis, and no ona will know 1 ma saw low 'Well, mister.

I'll trust said, "but you'll be th only stranger that ever sa th place. -With tbat baled to bis bnt on top of tbe bill, wher be told to he lived a hermit's It consisted of on Urge room, la a corner of which wss a store, with a pip leading to a substantial brick chimney. He ex plained to me that th chimney not on 17 taa from above tbe roof to th cabin floor, but want tar beneath the surface. Haled as down a ladder, and then I suddenly found yself ia th moonshine stilL it was nothing but a cave hollowed out in the biil that formed th bank of tbe stream. A small furnace rested in on corner, and on that a copper Teasel reposed.

He explained that therein be boiled tbe mash, and bs showed me bow be escaped detcctia by baring th smok that go through a pipe attached to th chimney that ran through to th roof. Tbos th sniox from the still could not be distinguished from th smoke from his cabin stove. "He also secured bis water by a Terr Ingenious arrangement. A small spring bubbled up on th side of th hill. This wss so completely covered ty brush ss to Imperceptible to a passer-by.

Right beneath tb spring he had placed a wooden trough, and so attached a wooden gutter to it that th water tbat trickled down rolled right into a rereptaci bad for it inside bis cava Thus being at I to secor fire and water, th devei-opruent of these ingredients into firewater wss easy, ss tbe mash and all other necsssary ingrdi. itscouldeasily be secured and niixed in bis cave without detection. "After 1 thoroughly examined th plac I took a sample of th fiery fluid, thanked th moonshiner and returned to my fronds, wb baa sent out etuiaaaric to for 1 WAT Oi fere be: Me tessi De veil kill tax iscai sd an ham tfor hea! pa Itb twc lion 1 thei Lie In 1 bnfei 1 Uj eren tare hsd six of 1 Ivcn i. 8ors in. a brof tr to he ra jof I I Will (off! teres tided d.

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