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I THE BROOKLYN CITIZEN, SUNDAY, MABCH 17, -1889 SIXTEEN IotGES. WHAT THE GERM AN 3 EAT. JTOHTANA rustlers. ALONE WITH A HEADED UP IN A CASK. NEW MUSEUMS OP ART 1 netting, plaoed the ladder on the other lido and rantne thong through the wtaple.

For tho first time ho made a noms, but it wss nnavoid-able and was caused by the netting being drawn upward till It bung like great ourtatn, sovermg the snutter and hiding tho window from ns. Godfrey end I stood ready to fire. The Hindoo, perspiring et every pore, descended the ladder, which he lowered aud plaoed horizontally ou the window sill and lashed it to the bottom of the netting, and again fastened that to the two lower staples ou either aide. The thing was done, Far nway In the east the dawn-wairbreakine, above which the morning star was slowly paling his silver fire. But, Karnes, the shutters are still fastened? 8abib, I unfastened them; they are open tbe breadth of a mans hand; presently the light will stream through.

Quick: fetch another ride. Wtten he returned I took the gun and gave him iny revolver. A light breath of wind passed murmuring through the feathery crowns of tbe slender cocoa palms, two great apeara of light, shot up in tbe sky, somewhere in the garden a bird skng; the suu had' riaen. Wait the signal, Whispered my brother; now, Karnes. 1 be Hindoo knelt down and imitated tbe bleating of a kid tbat bad Toet its mother.

At the instant Rameo sprang to his feet the silence was rent by a sundering orash and a sudden terrifle roar; the shutters were torn from tbeir-soekets; great mass hurled itself precipitately through tbe window, and the tiger, with its head and shoulders buried in tbe lime-covered debris, was grappling in maddened fury with an enemy bo oould not sso nor make much impression upon Our guns were at our sueuldors. The animal was twenty feet from us, tearing up the graveled path and ooiling itself in inextricable confusion in the broken netting and splintered ladder. Kamee uttered a load cry. '1 be animal had freed his head, and stood with its bleeding mouth is an enforced and listening attitude, it was ths moment Godfrey had waited tor, and he fired. The animal, evidently not seeing him, sprang at tbs window again, but missed tho opening, hurling bicnse'f against tbe wall and falling on the broken shutters At tbo minute it alighted I aimed at the spot behind the shoulder and fired.

It gave a convulsive leap and turned its bloodshot eyes in our direction. Then Godfrey fired again and told mo to do tbo same. Bock! back! shouted Rama. Tbo animal had gathered itself 'together, and sprang forward with one mighty bound, and. rolled over with scream of dying rage.

When wo came to measure the brute afterward wo foand it was fifteen foot from too nose to tho tip of ths loiL Increase its membership. It has about flvs hundred paying members at present, and vKO names have been enrolled of parsons who desire to beoome members oi tbs Fine Arts Department. The Institute should, therefore, start off by another fall of tho year with a membership of over 1.600. It is hoped and ex-looted in a year to make it full 2.500 members. The Long Island Historical Booiety.

with onfy oue purpose, numbers tbs New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, lor only one object, numbers 1,200 members. Oar eeope is broader, wider, more comprehensive, aud the dues are only $5per year for all tbo objeets to be attained. These contemporary societies charge as muob for their specialties. Now let me lead up to aa important point The promotion of the movement rests its success lb its popular and democratic character. It is not desirable that only a few wealthy men shall contribute.

The prime idea is to maks it a peoples contribution, in small sums and from tho lage body of our people, so that a general interest will bs in the institutions. Ihns every man who has contributed a dollar, or five, Or more, according td his mean or inclinations, will feel that he is an owner in fee simple in the spleudid buildings and oolleotions aud will take a personal pride in them. That is the feeling whioh we wish to ineuloate, that this ia a movement of our people for cur people for good purposes. All should be equipped by popular subscriptions. These museums should be erected in the way indicated, nott the publio expense.

It proves itself, that if there is not private enterprise enough among a large body of intelleotual and unusually intelligent people, iu this bright community ef Brooklyn, growing year by year, and dbsirous of development, to build tbeee structures, then there is no demand for them. But the promotors believe there is this desire, and that the people will take hold of the enterprise with energy and force and bnng it to a uoceesful issue. 1 hjflTfyou will 'look at Chapter 683, Laws of WHSt Title 16, Section 12, Codified Laws of Brooklyn, page 180. it will he found that one third of the East Bide Lands are already reserved by law for public buildings of this character. It is desired, however, on aceonot of the plana outlined, and to prevent all oompltoa-tions, to have an enaotment that shall fully eover the intents and purposes in The Citizen representative desired a little information in regard to the Graham Institute, sad it woe given.

The -Graham Institute, so called, is the Brooklyn Institute. It woe founded by Augustus Graham, but it was aevsr a eb arte red name. Then the name was shanged, to Brooklyn Institute. Originally it was the Apprentices Free Library, and Mr. Graham gave money to establish iu INFLUENCE OF PORTENTS.

3 Sausages Into Which Horss Flesh Io Mixed, Ths amount of animal food disponed of in tbo Gorman capital is suoh that, divided op eqanl-lytmong the population of that oit it yields an allowance of two nod a half pounds of mast a week to every man, woman and child in the plooe, including dnfasts in arms members of the Legislature and paupers. In qthor words, says tbo London Telegraph, sack and every Berliner, irrespective of sgs, sax and political opinions, is officially credited with tho consumption of 141 pounds weight of beef, mutton, veil, pork, lamb and horae flesh per annum. No fewer than 7,000 horse' are slaughtered yearly ior the Berlin moat market, their flesh Doing partlr told aa butcher's meat in shops apeoistlj afteoted to retail Jr ado in Pferao-Beech, and partly worked up into sausages, a popular variety of whioh is hawked "all hot about tho street late in tbs evening and during the smaller hours of the early morn. Poor Prussians are much addicted to horse 'flesh, stewed in savory suude; nor do the well-to-do disdain it as aa occasional wiand served under its own name. In Germany, Italy, and oven Franoe, the fieah of horsci and asses is unquestionably converted iuto saeeaogers, like unto the aged hero of one of Mr.

bsmucl Weller's most grewsome anoeodotea in vest quantities and imparts to them does texture, non color and aromatio flavor, in partioular to Brunswick Wurnt, Mertudolia oi Bologna. and Mauoisson do Lyon. The bulk of the substance to which these dainties owe their being, however, io pork, fresh or salted; and in all probability tho 4,700 pigs that annually pay the debt of nature in tribute to Berliners appetites find tbeir way to tbe table in tbo shape of either sausage or ham; for Prussians rarely cat roast pork or fried bacon, whereas they are never weary of smoked and cured preparations of pg. Beside devouring this porciae host Berlin stands accountant yearly' for the violent death of 127,500 head of cattle, ealvea 340,000 sheep, beside a multitude of minor animals, all ofwhieb vanish in due course down her oapasious maw. HE LOST THE WAGEE, Boca use Bis Kamo Wss Not Worth as Mach as a Good Storv.

Thcrs is on old story whish relates that ia ths early days of Mr. T. B. Aldrichs editing ot the Atlantic, his publisher, Mr. Houghton, who had or protended to have sons vague literary aspirations, remarked to his new editor, vith an air half serious and half jesting: I am going to scad you a story I have written, hut I shall send it under a fictitious name.

Then, woo Mr. Aldrich's remark, I advise you to send it to a fictitious editor. I have never inquired whether the1 story is trus, but it-came book to my mind ths other day when I heard the story of a wager whioh boa just been decided, says a writer in the JJook Buyer. A literary man, whose name is protty well known, was arguing with a brother author the obviously foolish proposition that acceptance goes by favor, and being of a disposition whioh, he will pardon my I do not name him, is unusually firm, bis support of his view of the case became tho mors determined as he proceeded. I'll toil you what Ill do, be said at length.

I've two snort etoiiel dons, and one is to end bettor than the other. They are written oh tho typewriter, and Ill send the worst one over my own Bams to a magazine and the other over an assumed name; and ill bet you $5 that my name carries tbe poor one while tbe bettor one will come bock. The wager woe accepted, tbe MS sent off, and the event waited. By all considerations of poetio justioe the young author should have won hi wager; but as a matter of iact he did sot. Tbe story with his name on its back, "declined with thanks to bow ah a luckless wretch, writhing under disappointment, has that printed phrase seemed the very essenee of cruel irony while the other was ocoeptod and the editor wrote ths author a kind note addressed to his nom do gnorre, evidently believing that it was bis good fortune to bavs discovered a new writer.

Whether tho editor was amiable or aot when tbe matter was explained to him I do not know, but the moral ia obviooa. HOW IT WORKED- A Drummer Saw the Boaring Wild Aylmal in the Print Shop. When I am in Buffalo I always go up and have a ohat with the editor of tbe Courier, says a writer in the Detroit Free Press. This time I found the Courier in new and sumptuous offices. The editorial rooms are just one door from tho street, whioh ie rather aa unasual situation lor editorial rooms.

They are generally near tho top oQa building. As tbe editor and I talked aud gave eaoh other points on the newspaper business the ailenoe was broken every now and then with an awful roar that began low pud gradually augmented until it woo a terrific and hair-raising sound. At last 1 asked the editor whether it was a lion or a bear they bad ia the eage, and why some one woo ceotineollr poking up the animal with a stick. The editor had so accustomed to the noise that fas never noticed it, but the moment I mentioned it be waa kind eaongh to toko me eat to see tbe animal. It was Aerelj an arrangement for shooting oopy np to tbo type setters seven stories above.

1 bo man who rushed the growler gave five tarns at a wheel, which worked a fan that made tbe roar. Tho copy was put into a little leather tube, which was then placed in a tin pipe. In order te therougbly understand how the thing worked, the copy firer invited me to put my lingers in tbe tin tubs and feel what a cyclone passed through it when he turnsd the crank. Unfortunately, at that moment a comp even stories higher up, droppea the leather tube book again. It comes down with its own weight It weighs only a few ounoes in its normal condition, but 1 am ready to take oath before tho Parnell Commission that when it hit my fingers it weighed at ldtst a ton.

I went on to'Xew York with two fingers bandaged upend a thorough understanding of how the moehine worked. A WORN OUT TALE. Manuscripts of Unknown Author Examined ns Fill sS Other A would-be contributor to the magazines writes to a newspaper complaining tbst she has positive proof tbst a manuscript tent to two prominent magazines was returned to her unread, writes W. J. in the Phila4lpbia Times, Hr scheme was to attsoh small bits of paper to tbe leaves which, if separated, must be torn those minute detectivs agents she foand intact when the MS.

was returned, and from wlueb many unpleasant deductions are drawn conoerning 'the inner literary, exroleq and other nonseaso of the same sort, This is a very old story, and perhaps it would not bo worth notioing were it not tor tbe foot that its constant repetition might serve to frighten away people who had good reason to desire that tbeir work should roooive a careful consideration from the hands of tho editor. They aay root assured that anything sent to any of the established magazines will be looked at carefully, but 1 have known articles sent to the editor of a popular monthly whish are fit only for a technical scientitio journal, stories so illiterate that the nrst page revealed tbe foot that the author could not spell nor speak his native tongue. Why should an editor read through something which is at firet glance man ifestlv unsuitable for his purpose I i am inclined to think that the editors of aur popular Eeriodiosls have more troubles to bear (at the onds of contributors who seem to all etsim a proprietary interest) than tlx world over thinks oi. THBILLING ADVENTURE OF BACHELORS UT INDIA. TWO Tbo Blaaeater Bad Bidden In the Bonis and Wu Eoeountored In tho Dork An Ingenious fiehomo to Capture Him Worked Bocceeofally.

There wore two entrances to the drawing room; this must bo borne in mind. 1 Tho house itself was old fashioned, a largo and many-gabled one, standing quite alone end solitary in a apaoioua garden; all tbe windows bad been closed and the jalousies shut and secured from the outside; tha tatty-grass blinds on tho piazza had been rolled np and put away till another blazing morning called for their refreshing shads. The looality was near that part of tbe delta called tbo Hunderbands, through whioh tho Gaogeo expands its branches as it spproaebes tbe sea a labyrinth ef creeks and rivers, of jungle and stagnant water. Tbe night was perfectly fine, bat moonless; there wss a heavy dew rapidly foiling, like misty rain, which, in hot oountnes, is a perfectly natural occurrence. 1 want into tbo drawing-room by what may bo oalled the back door, as it led into the back drawing-room and smaller one of the two; tbe other, a far larger enartment, oommumoated with this one by great folding doors of gold and white, writes Charles Zilli in th Fall Mall 'Quzelte.

The book drswing-room was vary full of furniture rather inconveniently so. Ae I was carrying an armful of book, nod my disengaged baud a bulls-eye lantern, I proceeded with tolerable security, though slowly; but then df course 1 knew tbo room, ana oould have gone to my destination in the dark. What struok me as both curious and irritative, was the faney- tbst the room seemed more impeded than ever with the furniture dark, old-fashioned rosewood furniture that had been made to match the grand piano. The various articles looked ae if they hod boon dragged about tbe room. PoHSibly the darkness above and around me helped ths illusion; anyway, they had tbo appearance ol having been gradually spread toward tbo centre of tho room, around a heavy and solid table.

It was this table tbst I wished to go to 1 walked very elowly, partly beeauso 1 did not wish to spill the books tbat I'd spent the last hour In 'collecting, and partly beoause of an ankoeountably horrible feeling that had come over ms. This part of the bouse woe silent; iadosd, it-wss often so of an My brother had passed on his way upstairs, having beea all day st Mad report, and no doubt being tired had gone to beu. There were very few stairs at all, as tho house was prsctieMly a one-stoned ono, rambling and full of angles, having been built and added to at various times; hero and there little etaircasss streamed oat loading to long passages and nnexpected cupboards; ths book drawing-room door itself A MAM. f.AMt ft, .1 A A I ftlh opened from a side flight of five stairs. As I had encountered two emsll choirs and an overturned music-stand, I stood stock etiJLfor a second, looking ior a dear passage, and thereby holding the lantern high snd well in front of me; as I paused amid the oompleto silence that reigned, an immense tiger slowly crossed the path of light turning on me two Darning yellow eves, gleaming like vivid topazes 1 stood there in stiffened terror and heard my heart beat its mouth wss loosely parted and running with saliva so wide wss it hanging open st the corners that the serrated edges of the lower lips were plainly visible.

It gazed with suoh oon-soione malignity that it froze my blood and turned my limbs to stone. This description of sight and feeling was of course the impression of one, vivid conception condensed by minute's Tho tiger crossed the India matting of tho room with a noiseless swinging gait; as it appeared to have come from the obscurity near the piano, so it vanished into obscurity bevond that is, outside the pathway of the' lantern light. I stood perfectly immovable, still olutch-ing the books with my left arm. still holding the lantern oefore me, still gazing at the place it bad crossed, and apparently forever seeing that awful look upon the tigers broad face. If seemed as if my eyes saw the face, though my mind rapidly suggested the frightful probability tbat the tiger woe behind me.

At the same time by some dual mental process it was bolding ont hope that the animal had pasted through the great folding doors into the dark beyond. room beyond. I have no remembranoe at all of my mind dictating tbe next notion I pursued; it seemed just sn insunot indulged io by the body upon its own account and for his own imme-. diate preservation. I laid the books very oarefully down without making the slightest unnecessary noise or disturbing the huid that held the lantern, and then raising with slow effort one of tbe heavy' little chairs Mist bsd blocked my passage, I silently swung it on my shoulder and held it so that it covered my head, then turned slowly Mtewiee with my mind impressed with the necessity of keeping my lantern os for os possible behind me.

This struok me at the time ae clever and of unquestionable importance in saving my life. I managed to walx gently out of tho room. I suppose Id been iu five minutes, but it ssomod like a weary hour. As I closed the door and looked my brother unexpectedly came down the passage nnd passed me on the little stairs; he wps rather in a hurry. Godfrey, I called after him, do yoa mind palling tho front door to in the large drawing room as vou go by I It seems strange now, but I oould think of nothing else to say then.

and 1 said it slowly and quite naturally. Ho assented end disappeared, aud without notioing it at the time, took np the oheir again, and, with my lantern, ascended the abort flight of stairs and proceeded along, the passage te mv own room, walking slowly snd guardedly. The mind had evidently been so cheeked that it had not recovered its dominant away over -the body. Upon reaching my own room! put tha chair oarefully down and sot upon it. Tho lantern I had plaoed on ths table at the same tkne.

1 sat there a few seconds feebly wondering which room the tiger was in. Tfleu I got up with a sudden alacrity, took from its eaeo large revolver and turned into the passage again. In a minute or so 1' was in Godfreys room. He woe half undressed. What's tbo matter? ho demanded with startled eyes.

hen I hod told him he took my hand and wrung it. Yoa may thank God that yoa are alive, old follow. Then ho dressed hurriedly, took a heavy rifle from a rack and filled hie fieckets with cartridges. Come along; stay, et me go first; your nerves are a bit shaky yet. s.

Wo crept out and awakened the punkanwal-lub, an old and faithful Hindoo, whom tuy brother onoe nursed during a dangerous illness a brave, reliable and. trustworthy man. who would bars lain his life down for Godfrey. It is the maneater! said the Hindoo, after my recitaL Will Sahib let his servant advisa him? "Yes. Romeo: tell year plan.

As tbe Hindoo rapidly unfolded it my brother smiled dubiously at the etrange idea. Cunning must be met with cunning, said the Hindoo. itll toko three hours to arrange, I remarked. Threehours will bring the down; who oan see in tho dork; not the Sahib, but, yea, tho tiger. Very well," said Godfrey.

Lets sot about it at onoe. From tho gardeners outhouse wo brought a roll of wire netting that had been put there for feaeing in psddoek a few days previously. Together we oollsotod srmsful of havings ths workmen had not cleared swsv, quantities of dried leaves, rags, ovary thing we oould find soft and pliable and having eat tbo wire into three square lengths firmly lashed them, together, one over tho otter. When completed it was the shape but rather larger than tho window in ths room in whish the tiger lay hidden, and the doors of whioh hod been Oar operations so far had been eondacted apon near the gardener relied np tbe netting and the eorner of the house to the big window. Here it and flattened ont; then poured nil the shavings, wo had collected, and and spread a quantity workmen for the morrow.

down ae well as we were able assumed some consistency interstices of the netting. stout twine and improvised needle from a bamboo implement he sewed all over making a string netting the eompoeitien in ita place. most delicate operation ye said Godfrey to me, and revolver in hie belt, laid hold netuog and threw off hto noiseless steps tho net- how the cattle country was CLEARED OF THEM. A Reign of Torrbr in tho Bad Lands of Dakota Slxtv-t wo Thieves Strung Dp. How the Work Woe Done.

The United States has never contained a better organized nor more porsistent gong of horse thieves than the one which infested ths Had Land ot Dakota between 1882" and 1884. It can hardly bo said that the gang had a headquarters, as its members were constantly on tho move, but tha town where they appeared efteneat, perhaps, waa tbe eolleotion of shanties known aa Little Missouri. This little hamlet has aohieved a notional reputation, and for years has been known the toughest town in Americp. It is In the heart of the famous Bed Lands tbo disembarking point for tourists who wish to viait 1 Cedar Canyon and the Burning Coal Mine, and is the soena of the enoounter in whioh Marquis da Mores killed Lufleey, the hunter. Numerous among these characters were tho Horae thieves, with whom tho regiod soon became infested, writes the Montana correspondent of tjlie St.

Louis Globe-Democrat. The buttes, or bills, of whioh the Bad Lands is made up. were placed in no more order than if shot out of a gun, Ono might ss well try to follow the trail of a bullet through the air os the one left by a man who took the slightest pains to eover his traoks. Twelve miles from Little Misaoun ran the Montana lino. Onoe aoroas it, tbe horse thief was safe from service by a Dakota sheriff.

The nearest officer of the law with jurisdiction was at' Mandan, 160 miles to the eastward. To the southeast one oould go miles and never see a sign of human habitation. To tho south, 200 miles away, were tbe Black Hills, la tho interveoing oountry there was but an ooca- atonal cow-oamp. To the northward, 176 miles, was the Canadian line. Onoe aoroas it there was no difficulty in disposing of horse fieah at -fancy prices.

These points were at onoe grasped by toe ruatlers, and it was a dead cinch that a man from toe south with a string of horses had either run them off from Wyoming or the Blaok Hills eoiuitry. Horse thieves were practically sate lom pursuit When they reaohed the Bad Good eitizena even now shudder at mention of this terrible band of avengers. Tbeir reign was abort, sharp and deoisive. They bsd a misiios to perform, snd well did they perform it. In less than three months they had hung or- shot sixty-three men in varioue parts of Montsua and Western Dakota.

sixty-j two of theaa were horae-thievea, the ether being son of the Fort Buford post-trader. He waa with the horse-thieves when ho wss shot, however. Hardly a Montana or Western Dakota newspaper has to this day tbo courage to speak of this red-handed band of regulators, its formation waa so secret, its operations so swift, bloody and etfeotual and its disbandment so sudden that not fifteen men outside 'of the members know who its members were. All thepublio knows, or cares to know, is that horses and. cattle running on toe range 1 wars afterward aa safe fifty miles from too boms roach as if they wore under the eye of the owner.

he organization of the horse- thieves was completely broxon up. From tost bloody raid of the stranglers was bom sn almost perfoot reign of aafctv for range stook. The formation of the band of men known ss the MontanaOStranglers' was as much an outgrowth of necessity as is the paseage snd enforcement ef proper laws in a well-settled community. it is not a hard task to justify tho acts of the btranglers to a man who has lived on the frontier for any length of time. Aside from scooting scrapes and the occasional maltreatment ef a stranger, there wsbut little law-breaking in Little Missouri." bat it was- recognized by all tbat a man bed only six-shooter right to life and property.

Numerous warrants had been issued Man- dan, 16(f miles away, for tho arrest of men in Little Missouri, but not ono of them was over served. The. officer of tho law migh corns up to the tough hamlet in too Bod Lands arid hobnob a day or two with 3 the man for whom he held the warrant, but the legal document was always returned with the indorsement Not found. It w.aa simply impossible to reoeive any support from the law, and ths rustlers took advantage of the op- portumty to carry on operations with, impunity. The oattiemen were widely separated, some of ranches being sixty or seventy miles from their nearest neigh-' bor.

All wore euflerere from the depredation of tbe horiso-thieves, but oven the bravest among them did not dare deal oat oven border justioe to tha men they knew were robbing them. The thieves had a perfect organization, -and would have taken summary vengeance on mv one rash enough to oppose them. Sue uoh a state of lawlessness oould not last forever, and tho end some about through two otdely different couecs. The firet wee tho organization of cattlemen known aa tho Montana Stook Growers' Association, and the second woe the order of President Clave- load ordering all the range cattle to bo driven from tho Indian Territory. Eleven members of the asooeiation bound themselves together in a oeoret order whose cole objool ik woe to free tho country from eat tie thieves.

Tho method of oarrying this plan into exesu- I tion waa not fully aolved until tho iaausnoo of tha President's famous order. It had been settled from tho firet that a wholesale laughter of tho thieves waa tho only effectual way to get rid of them, bnt tho trouble was in nnding men to perform the gory task. The Presidents order solved tho problem. Almost every eowbov in tho Nation was originally from Texas, and belonged to the old aohool recruited from desperados and border ruffians of. tos lowest class.

Cnm and bloodshed wore there food aud drink. The President's order threw tho most of these men oat of work by forcing tho imme diet sale of the cattle they had been herding. Here were axaotly the men the Montana cattle-growers- had been looking for. They thought no more ef atringing up a rustler than they did of shooting a prairie ehioken. A secret messenger of toe Montana men was die- patched to Indian Territory, and in loos then a week had mode terms with as blood- thirsty a gang of upholders of property rights as aver bonded together.

Twenty- eight ef the fetranglets were furnished with I ten good horses oaeb, and started overland in bunches ef four or five. They were instructed to avoid all towns snd ranehea and make all baste to the rendezvous, about thirty miles from here. It was a roundabout journey of nearly one undred thousand miles, but every man ef them showed that ho possessed too proper requisite of herd riding by appearing st ths rendezvous within twelve days. Within two days it beoame known tost Half-Breed Jack had been hong near the hosu-watero of tbe Yellowstone. The follow- ing day it waa learned that Turkey Williams i and Broncho Charlie were hanging In tbo cottonwoods, about ten miles above Miles Cty.

Ths next any it was Splay-Foot Hart- netts tarn. It was then asserted tbat hear- Face Mosley and Humpy Jack were lying dead I in their shook near Glenaitdrshot to death by i the Stranglers, a they bad already come to I be known. Investigation showed that the two men vers olive and apparently as ready to 5 steid horses ae over. The next day they were killed id exoetlj the manner bod already dia- posed ef them. Rumor had preceded reality in niaoner dramatio enough to put tension on the strongest nerve.

The man who had Ur ted tho false report was searched for in vein. Every man who had help spread it bad heard it from some other man. Nothing oould have 10 well advertised tho work of the Strangler. It showed conclusively that they were aot an unauthorized gang of murderers whoee mission it woo to kill every man they met. They had undoubtedly been hired to do tboir work.

No one in tbo country hod enough money to do this except the cattlemen. Then, for the firet time, woo noticed tbat every mam killed far wss notorious horse thief. F'rom 1 high-bonded law-breakers, th Hustlers. who had beard of the operations ol i the Stranglers, became the most sbjeot oi cowards. Many sought safety iu immediate flight never more to be seen in the cattle country.

A few, foolhardy eoough to brave tbe approach of their Nemieie, paid the Western penalty for their eriraee, and others their flignt rushed into tho very arms of the 448trangloro. After the beginning cf the reign or terror oaused by the death of Scar-Face Mocley sad Humpy Jack, the Stranglers hod divided into eeven portico each under tho leadership of a trusty Montana cowboy, and, striking sut ja os many'dttferont directions, worked with the energy of floods gam tba $5,000 whioh was hung up' as added money te the meet auoeeeefui party ia this terrible man hunt 4Tki4f'W oat Lug ig fsa.rfc' fo fits than two meuthe every man known or eu-peeled of being a boreetbief was either dead driven Irons tbe country. The btrsog- glera appeared te melt into tbio air as mys-1 terioitsly as tuev had come into being, and to this day it is not known exoept by the mstn-here themselves, tbe eleven cattlemen snd four utetdera, who compos od the famous band of men that treed Montana and Western Dakota from cattle thieve by killing sixty-three of std running 1U0 ethers caicf toe eeuutxy. EOT AN EX-BRITISH OFnOEE ELUDED HIS CREDITORS; And How a Nobis Regimental Feymaator Abuondod from One of Her Majestys Dependamalee A Very 'Carious but Who -prevision of Daring long sojourn la tho British Weak Indies I learned good many very eurioua things, you may be certain. First ef all, I lssrsed to oil one negro from another.

At first I couldn't for the life of me tell who was who, but after a time I found that tbe differ-enessof feature end expression prevailed in ths black rnoe ths same so in the whits. I also learned that it wss a disgrace for a white man to carry a Bundle or do anything a negro could do. I learned furthermore that there is ho mors faithful and self-denying servants on tha faoe of the earth than tbo blaok ones, if yoa treat them properly. A custom once prevailed it has long been sbolisned of requiring every person who intended to quit the island to advertise his pur-poseforao many weeks before he sailed. Without any circumlocution, this was to prevent a fellow's leaving his oreditors in ths larch, a thing which at sne time was pretty common.

Fotgivinjg credit was tho rule all over. I know dashing fellow who lived on bis friends and bad no other means ot suppork lie possessed, however, a magnificent horse, for there everybody rides on horseback. 7 Beiug on vory intimate terma with him and knowing his impe-oumosity -whioh by the way, not mauy even suspected I eaidtobim ono day: George, how do you manage to keep that splendid animal? I keep him! he replied, withe grin; why, he keeps ms. How do you make that oat? leaked. Easy enough' was the reply.

1 nde up to aatortf on this valuable horse. Out oomee a darkey and holds him ae I dismount. I go in, order what I want, and ride away. The Korea is my credentials. But 1 must get back to the story I was going to tell, A gay young tellow came from England with bis regiment He beoame very pop ular Aid made host of friends.

Hewent the nan aa the toys Ufod to say in those days. He gave champagne breakfaata and little suppers; kept steeplechasers and rode them, and did lot of things that oant be dons without money or oredit He got. into difficulties, of soars, and sold out They could do that in those time. He still stuoic to his friends, and, as he had nrtperty. hia creditors, whoso name waa legion, waited as patiently as they could, being satisfied that be oouldnt get Away from the island without tbeir knowing ik I have said he had many friends, aud these who were mot bis creditors stood, by him in, tbo emergenoy.

'If be had attempted to leave, bis creditors would have interposed and dapped him into ail. II he hod advertised his intention ef going they would have done tbe same, lime wore on, nnd he grew tired ef his enforced imprisonment between seas. So bis friends devised a little soheme. Old Captain a retired naval officer, was in obarge of the Steamship Ceuponys affairs ou the island. He was too honorebfe a gentleman to wink at any irregularity, aud to it was no use trying to eniist him in ths plot Bat there were wioked eierxs under him and wicked conspirators out-v Side who badnoiQoh completes the csptaip.

On tha day on which the mail steamer was to sail the young gentleman called at a merchant's counting room. He wai seen to enter it, and that was tbe last of him. He disappeared from public gaze from that time forth, Alit Trt ftf ha II ttiaarv'i dAtnininna sofor.osthat part of her Majestys dominions wu oonoernei Ho wop carefully beaded up in cook, whioh was properly' brooded, and. conveyed along with other merohagdiae to thc landing place on truck. Then tbt cask tiauaferrod, this side up, to the deok of tiio steamer, and almost immediately the hawsers were oast off and tbe stately vessel moved evey.

Not until she had passed tbe forts, and wss beyomd recall, did the contraband freight appear among the other passengers. After hia disappearance from his usual haunta auapieion waa aroused, but oooe, exoept those in the eon-plraoy, knew hot be bad eluded hia oreditors until the next mail brought the information from some of his fellow passengers that bo had sailed with them aoroaa the ooean to the land of him fathers. There was a buhbub, of course, for tune, but whore all keep open house and ice-punch abounds, small animosities don't live long. After tbo law requiring a man to advertise his purpose of leaving was abolished, another dashing gentleman quitted the island surreptitiously in another woy. He was foreign eoantand splendid man, physically perfect.

He was a civilian, but came out as paymaster to a regimenk He bad a lovely wife and beautiful children. He fitted up his abode magnifi- eeatly and lived like a prince. What is more, at the outeet he paid for all be got Then he ran into debt to a large amount and disap peared, leaving ths regiment in a sad plight. I saw and spoke to him the very dsj be passed sway like a dream He hired a sailboat, and with couple of men went down the harbor sod lay otk of the forte. As it was no unusual thing for officers or heir friends to hoard the mail ateamers in this way, the vessel hove to as a matter of course and he west aboard.

Hsdareaotgo to England, however, ae ono of her passengers, and so he quitted the steamer at bt. 1 hots as and went by another vessel to boutb America. His unfortunate family were cry kiodly cared for, and in short time they left for England. W'est Indiana am generous and hospitable, and the people who had been defrauded thought more of tho deserted wife anther ohiidren than of their own losses John. A Psrlpstetio Philosopher.

As the peanut was waiting at the Sam Leandro Station on Sunday night, one of the passengers get out to stretch his legs and blow a oloud To Luo came a tramp, ragged, dirty, and diffusing about him a most combustible breath. "i'leaee air, give me something to get a bcdl Going to work first thing in the morning, aa usual, I eupposef New, air' What! can not an able bodied man like you find work here? Dont want noia. I ain't the working kind. Drnther tramp. How muoh will your bed coat? Two bite.

If 1 give yau two bits what'll yoa do with Ml Clow it in ot booze, the sleep ia a hay cock. Here some small boys who had been atondiag about proceeded to attract his trampebip'a attention. Ht, youre alire! Uway, ohildrei; dent you see me and my fnens hawing a plsasautlittle conversation? Well, my good fellowyeur coatis really afire. Your pipe has set fire to your WelL 1 didn't waul to notice them young hoodlums, but 1 did email something burning. How Frowidouce doee look alter a poor man on aooldnight like this te keep him warm.

Don't like to hurry you. but if you oan make it convenient to giuue them two bita i'll go and put my so It out. Thank a. Chances ef Life, Seme very interesting etotietie rsepeeting ths death rate of tbo French troops stationed ia tha diftereat eolomoa have just bees supplied to ths AosMlemy of Science by Dr. Laguoau.

asyi a Peoria aorrespandaut. The mortality of thesoldiora ia tba mother oouotry averages from 2 to 11 per 1.000. In Algeria it ranges tremll te 13 per 1,000, and in Turns it is merely fraction higher, la Cochin China however, tbe death rsu double, and at Pondicherry it treble the normel rat in iu Ton-qtua ia 1S85 II attained tho figure ofPbpor nor is thim all, for many aoldiera seat home invalided either dia on ths journey or after Frauee haa bees reached. Senegal aadGuiaua ars extremely unhealthy colonies. In ths former thsaortalitvamoag tho troops averages 73 po whale la tho latter bad yeara it hae attaioed tho terrible figure ef 2J7 per 1,000.

la KcudIou where ths mesa death rate is 20 per 1,000, it rose during the Madagascar Expedite 113 por 1,000. Oo ths other hand GUheita and ksw Caledonia are svoa mere healthy than tbs mother country, tho mortality being iofeinaatod at only to 9 per 1,000. Convincing Kvldene. I Blink coachman (colored) I tosght yon lived oah folks was so doggone rich? jink cuaohmsB (Celtic) 8o they are, ye black divlL liliok'e onohmaa Hub! I goon lot, I looked in ds wilder lost might sn oesd two ob fit aa peaisngff Uucesystx all haMer economize. A Strong Men.

Atsmueenm: Hercules Sain sot (theitrong-eit man in tbe 1 here, there. Drop that, drop that Get out of here. 1 must insist bMsb, that you keep your baby outoido the rope. And 4klao strangest man in the werld re lisTcstbo babjoia i.DOO peusu weight, and puts il out of reach. CAtoage JfcraJd.

PROJECTED BY THE BROOKLYN IN8TI-TUTE AND EMINENT CITIZENS- tho Hill htrodoMd by Inatoi OConnor. Bow It Wu OrlglnaUd iid Who Arc It fretnoUrc-The Obot la to Eallit the Whole People In Museums of Art Science and Libraries, To advance tlio culture 'bf the people ia imoDg tbe line of specialties which alt highly civilized couimumties admire, and in which the feel an exceeding pride. And when thie taken the ahape of museums, and art and aoience eohobU. in which each individual citizen feels or knows that ha has a personal interest, tnere ta a strong attraction toward It or them. Of just eueh a nature is the object of the bill intro dueed by Senator Eugene P.

O'Connor on Mon day evening laet, covering the objeotive point the eeleetion of some portion of tnfc oitys pnblio domain, known as the Kaal Side Lands, and the erection thereon of anitable buildings, whioh shall be built to contain material and euriee that will grandly bcnetit the people o( Brooklyn. These lands are owned by the city, under oh ergo of the Park Commissioners, having bean originally designed to form part of Prospect park bat for many reasons, not neeeeeary to he recalled here, and for mauy years past, there haa been an intention to dispose of the property, nnd an aot of the Legislature permitting this to be done ia now a law. Still it has not been sold, and froaa present appearances and a general feeling setting Jo thFyliroction of the retentioneftheland for its original purposes, it seems more than likely, that improvements will be made' within the described limits that will greatly enhance the beauty of the location and add' largely to the culture of the young, always assuming that the suggestions of the bill nod its promoters are tarried oak Senator OConnors bill in attest says that the law Authorizing the sale of the lands shall be considered repealed It then specifies that the Mayor and Park Commissioners are authorized to set apart euoh portions of land, on tho East Bide Lands, asare not- inquired for the main tenauoeand enlargement of the present reservoir. nnd mob as they deem proper for build ing si tee for museums of art and aoienoea and libraries. And they are also empowered to lease euoh sites, at a nominal rent, and for terms nottoexoeed one hundred years, to any corporation now existing or that may hereafter be ereated for educational purposes.

All the various conditions of lease, elassea of buildiues, are left to tbo approval of the Mayor and Park Commissioners. The further conditions and ideas will be more fully expressed hereafter in the course ef this article. That the reader may fully understand, however, where the East Side lands are whioh will be affeoted by thie bill it will be well to the boundaries, namely, bounded northerly by land reserved for the Proapeet Hill Keeer voir and the Eastern Parkway, easterly by Washington avenue, southerly by the town of Flatbueh, and westerly by Flatbush avenue. To gain a more comprehensive idea of the in-tentiono of the bill and its ultimate purposes, one of tbs sriginal promoters of the measure to be carried into efleot was seen, aud hie views, ae oarefully expressed in tbs following brief outline of a large and almost neoessary field, will afford study to the masses, for they are truly the most deeply interested, for, while the man of mess may journey to where such object are already provided. the great bulk of our population are yet to become' thepossea-sora of the riches whioh will tend to develop an aptitude for art and aoience.

Tho gentleman interviewed said: The Brooklyn Institute, one year ago, found itself out of debt, with property in real estate valued at with bonds, invested at 5 per oenk interest, valued at 97,000, and movable property estimated at least at $25,000 to 910.000 more. The Institute had been quiescent for a number of years. In 1888 the Board of Directors. of whies General Woodward is president, resolved to convert the institute into an Aoad-emy of Arts ana Sciences on tbs broad and extended scale inuieated by its charter. 4Iurtng ths spring, and in fact part of the winter ef 1888, full 450 geatiemen of a scientific turn of mind organized the scientitio departments of tbe Institute, and this is a list of the various bureaus and the presidents of eaoh: 1.

Astronomy, Hon. 8. V. Whits; 2. Botany, Fev.

Dr. Charles H. Hall: 3. Chemistry, Prof. Franklin W.

Hooper, 4 Entomology, CapkT.L a. Geology, Frof.Darwin G. Eaton; .6. Microscopy, Kev, j. L.

Zabriakie; 7. Mineralogy, Joseph H. Hunt; 8. Physics, Prof. William iC.

Peckham; 0. Zoology, Prpfi John Mickle-borough. Those department, as you will see, have been formed with officers. During the present winter the Institute has held meetings for the purpose of organizing tbe art departments to be connected with ik On Feb. 6 a large meeting of oitizena was held at the Institute to inaugurate this museum, tbs meeting being held under the auapioee of suoh gentlemen as General Woodward, Mayor Chaoin.

ex-Congressmsn Darwin R. James, ex-Mayor Seth Low, tbe Kev. Dr. Riohafa 8. Btorrs, the Kev.

Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler, George M. Oloott, General E. L.

Moliueaux, Judge Calvin E. Pratt, Herman Liebmann, Edward M. Shepard, Henry Batterman, Bernard Peters, aud hundreds of others, eminent la every line ef business. That meeting was addressed by.the Kev. Dr.

Charles H. John B. Woodward, the Rev. Dr. J.

F. Bebrends, David A. Boody and others These gentlemen advocated a movement for the establishment of a museum of art; and, on metiou of ex-Judge Joehua M. Van Cott, an Executive Committee of thirty-six citizens were appointed to oo-operate with tbe directors of tbe institute in tbeir efforts to establish museums Ae veu will peroeive the committee is composed oi ladies and gentlemen, all of whom take a hearty interest in the development of tbe great objects in view. 1 will read you the names: The Kev.

Dr. Charles H. Hall, the Rev. Dr. R.

8. Storrs. tbe Kev. Dr. A.

J. F. Behrenda, the Hon. Seth Low, tbe ReVr Dr. L.

T. Chamber-lain, the Hon. 8. L. Woodford, the Kev.

Ches K. Baker, Alexander E. Orr, David H. Hough- taring, the Kev. John W.

Chadwlok, William Hamilton Gibson, A. Augustus Healy, the Hon. Darwin R. James, Henry Hentz, Charles Pratt, John T. Martin, Joseph H.

Knapp, John Gibb, the Hon. J. U. Van Lott, Carll H. DeSilvcr, William H.

Male, Cqlonel H. T. Chapman, Frank Squier, the Hob. F. A.

Bchroeder. William Bern, John P. Adams, Mrs. F. H.

Wing. Miss Matilda McLean, Miss Susan M. Baritow, Mies Chnstina Hounds, Mrs. J. IS.

T. Strasshan, Mrs. Harriet Judsoo, Mrs. 8. 15.

Duryeo, Mrs. F. H. Rockwell, Mrs. Ii.

8. Anderson. Mrs 8. V. Whits, Miss Caroline La Kow.

Mrs. A. C. Barpes. Tbe director of the Brooklyn Institute oom- 5 rise the following named gentlemen.

General ohn B. Woodward, William Potts, William J. Coombs, Dr. A. Qttersoa, L.

V.D. iiardenburgh, James Littlejohn, A. TV Baxter. George M. Oloott.

Arthur Littlejohn. David A. Boody, F. W. Hooper, Theodors E.

Smith, C. L. Woodbridge. Ik 15. Woodward, Eugene Blackford, Frederick A.

Gould. Two joint meetings of the Committee of Citizen and Board ef Directors have been held. At tbe first meeting, held on Feb. 21, tbe com-mittee agreed or approved of a resolution to the effect that it would be desirable to eeooro itea for tbe museums of art and science on those portions of tho hast Side Lands whioh re-, mum unsold. A oulveommitteo on site and legislation was therefore appointed, consisting of Joohua N.

Van Cott, ohairinsa; General Stewart L. Woodford, David Boody, the Kow. Dr. C. H.

llall, William Potts and Professor Franklin W. Hooper, This oomuiittoe made a report, at a aubse-qnsnVttMhiff, reoommeuding an set of legislation, giving authority to the Mayor andrark Commissioners to designate and set apart on sites fur museums ot arts and sciences, and for libraries ths unused portion ot the Eaet Hide Lands. The set would repeal laws requiring the imrk Commissioners to sell a portion of these lands The bill further provides that the Mayor and Park Commissioners may lease designated sites to any corporation now existing, or te be ereated lor educational purpose. Tho leases ore eondittoual that buildings suitable for museums of art nnd science may be erected. It is also provides that the plaus, epeoHteetions or designs of tho buildings shall be approved by tbe Muyor and Park Commissioners; that the collections shall at all reasonable times be open for the public sod private schools, parochial schools, or scboole of any kind; ana open also to the general publio at suoh times as the Mayor and Park Couamis-sionera may approve.

The Institute has appointed a sub-oominit-tea on organization and liitenue. This oonmnt- whioh to erect a sootiou of a museum ef art, as soon a 11), 000 shall be rauod, conditional upon the granting of tac proper sites, and then when that is secured tbe work will begin. he subscribers olromiv enrolled are Henry A. Auguat.ie Healey, William Coouibs, William Carey hunger, Eugene G. Blackford and numbers ot others, and the sum boon bed is already large.

It is expeotedto raise $50,000 the present season from the out-book and prosnecU. The Brooklyn institute it also preparing to Persoas Pretsadlag to Enlightenment Who Are Still la the Fetish Stage, Unquestionably, says tbs London Standard, the doctrine of portents and look does still influence conduot. There are ladies, not over-sonseientious in the discharge of religious observances, who would soonsr disoonosrt a hostess and throw a roomful ef guests into confusion than sit down with twelve others at ths dinner table. They would be greatly affronted if they were told that, to tar, they were as distinctly Pagan as the Druide of whom they read at school; nor would it add to tbeir eomposure Io be informed that probably they inherited tbe notion from a long line of savage ancestors. Yet, of course, that is so.

The idea which oon-necta the commission of sertain sots with the incurring of certain consequences, not arising by say law of material eauee and effeok is one ef the heathen eonoeptions whioh has survived side by side with Christian beliefs. In some oases a sort of sanction has bean for it in Christian tradition. Tbe monks oonseorated, so to peak, tho deviltries they oould not exorcise. And we have, in our age of restlesa inquirr. which does not shrink from challenging the basis of all religious hope and eomfort, the strange speotaole of persons preteadtng to enlightenment who are still ta the fetish stage.

The lover will aot givahis sweetheart an opal ring, however pretty thoftene may be; the guest at a table au4de3sBbn be epdls the salt, and tries furtively JwPpropitiate fate by throwing a few grains olpr her shoulder. Penknives and pairs 1 scissors are tabooed as preseats. Many a tbao would choose any day is the week rather than Friday for starting on journey, or beginning to mo treat enterpriser Many a woman didikea (apart from sympathetic sentiment) to meet, a funeral, or encounter a block oak It ie not so muoh that anyone pretends to bo sure that barm will aoorue from the forbidden aot or the unwelcome experience: hut that partly out of deference to what he Judges tbe feelings of others to out of the instinct of prudenoe, he wants to be on the safe side. In many of these oases, no deubk a sort of utilitarian reason oan be assigned tor tho prevailing prejudice. One can say that the obleotion to passing under a ladder ie no more whimsioal chan is the conviction that to walk aeross Regent dress at noon.

With clodbd eyes, involves risk. Yet a superstitious motive is assigned for giving a wider berth to-tho tolling brioks, while the duty of keeping sue eyes open in a Louden thoroughfare is allowed to rest on the prosaio basis of experienee. I ail is said, the human mind is an in-aorutabls medley of sense aid unreason, of credulity and unbelief; and, perhaps, on the whole, the objeotion to sitting aown thirteen to dinner is os reepootnble a oraze aa many that ars honored with muoh finer names. HE OWNED THE BOY- Peculiar Bet Mad bj a Sk Paul Has, and How fls Won Ik A boy a strange moohmo, isnt he? queried the colonel, as he looked out of the Afioe window. don't eeo anything so very strange about that partioular boy, replied one of the other loungers, as he sauntered up and saw a boy of 10 on tbe opposite side of the street, says the Sk Paul Aetcs.

But he's got a jug, persisted the colonel. Well, what of itl Cant boy carry a jag? Bat he is swinging it around bis head!" 4ljet him owing. You never eaw a boy who wouldnt? I i ll bet be breaks it before he gets to the corner, exolaimed the ooloneL Nonsense! Bet you $20. Done. Half a dozen rushed up to watoh farther proceedings.

Tbe boy eontinued to swing the Jug, apparently bent upon performing some particular teat, and just before he reaohed the eorner bis hand slipped and tho jug was daahilao pieoes. i knew it! I knew it! chuckled ths eolonsl, as he snood around. "Drat himheree your money! growled the Other. An hour later, after spending tbe Interval in solemn thought, the loser mildly inquired: Colonel, did yeu think you bad a sure thing on me? Certainly. I bought that jug for the boy, and gave him 50 cents to oarry out the pto-gramme.

Scared Out of One's Sovon Season. This expression arose in this way: According to very ancient toochiog, the soul of man, or, his inward holy body, io compounded of tho seven properties whioh are under tbe intiuenoe of toe seven planets. Fire animates, earth gives the sense of teeling. water gives eWeech air gives taste, mist gives sigbk fiowsrs give hearing, tbe south wiud gives smelling. Hanes the seven senses are animation, teeling.

speech, teste, eight, hearing end smelling. Common sense does not meau that good sense whioh is common, or commonly needed in the ordinary affaire of life, but the sense whioh ie oornmon to all the five, or tbe point where the five senses meet, supposed to be tbe seat of the soul, where it judges what is presented oy the sense and decides tho mode of notion. Detroit Frt Paper Pulp far Organ Pip. -A novel application ot paper pulp -baa re-eontly been discovered, and eonsiste in the pro-dnotion of organ piper fremTbst material. The origin of the industry ie somewhat eurtoue.

Crsspi Kigtuzzo, tbe curate ef a little Italian village, wee desirous of supplying his ehepel with an organ, but as tho commune was too poor to find the aeoeeasry fund, he and au engineer of the name of Coiombon hit upon tbe idea of making the pipes of neper pulp, whioh cave euoh satisiaotory results that the patent has beea sold in Germany for 2,5001 Ait OUjvctnr Squolchod. Mr. Kilgore, of Texas, lost his vote on the roeolutioa giving the House employees a month's extra pay. Ho was being shoved ia the cloak room when the resolution coma up. and asked tbo barber to hasten his work so that ho might record hie negative, but the 44 artist held him until the anpiaus of th benefloianee told that tbe resolution had been adopted.

The barber was interested te tbe extent A Gallant Seaman. At a seaport in tho south of France, an old salt had hia lev crushed during the launch of a man-of-war. He had to undergo amputation, and bore it all without speaking a word mid smoking hie pipe tho while. Tbe surgeon was about to leave whoa the tailor, making anoilort to rise, called him beek and oaid: Beg pardon, major, for not showing von out, hut you see ito your faulL L' Antoni AN ECCENTRIC HILLipXAIRE- He Ate at Free Loach Counters and Always Had His Niece Cat His Bair. For years and yssrs be waa shared in Blanks barber shop, on Elbow Lon.

Barber Blank, in speaking of Isaiah Williamson, his millionaire customer, said: He was generally tha lost customer of tho day to come in, said ho to a Philadelphia Times reporter, snd no matter how hot the day might be he would insist upon having all tho doors and windows -hnt tight. I Relieve ho would have oven stopped ud the keyhole, oo greet wss his dislike and fear of a draft Entering the shop he would nod, and then slowly divest himrelf of his coat and vest, collar and aecktie, and hang them on a peg. He teqaired no assistance in this. He was exceedingly neglectful of his personal appearance. He wore an old-fashioned stook until it became greasy and tattered.

-J. believe he would cling to a necktie for a year. His oellss I would bo ashamed to wear. While being shaved Mr. -Williamson Barer talked nor did ho encourage it in his barber.

He was never guilty, daring the eight years that he patronized my shop, of a hour out His meoe, he told me, always cut hie hair. I was always sure of my lu cents for my shave, but no more. And be never remembered me at Christmas, but I suppose he never thought of it One evening about 7 ooloek he came into the shop, and was more feeble then osuoL I bod to hang his coat and vest ap for him. As I placed the vest on the peg I saw a flat wad of greenbacks sticking out of the upper pocket, and there staring me in tho face was a $1,000 bill Ho maet have had a very large sum of monev on him tbat day. When he left and went into Elbow lane it was pitch dark, snd I thought bow easy it would have beea for even a boy to have robbed him then.

About noon it was Mr. Williamson's custom to go to a saloon and call for a glass of beer. He would get near the fro lunoh eounter and eat a good many crackers and some cheese. He never drenr up toe boar, and it was tho suppeeition that ho frequented the odloen for trie lunch ho got After hio orookcr and cheese dinner he would frequently go back to his offiee snd fill out a ebook for some charity. When he beoame so feeble tbat he wss obliged to set up a eorriage he oeoeed drinking beer snd took to spirits, always sending his coach man into tho saloon for a punch about noon.

WHY HE CAVED. A Conductor's Klsdaeas Thwart a Grangers Well-Laid Pleas. A train ovsr tho Bay City rood, bound into Detroit, says ths Free Press ot that city, picked np an old man at a flag station, and whsn tha oonduetor took op his faro asked: "How far oould a person without travel on thil train? About half a mile. And then youd put 'em off? Ye Would yon put a woman off? 4Td have to. Thanks.

That settles it. My old won didn't wont mo to go -to town, and she said she'd foliar me to the end of tho earth. 6hs ll try it, bat the aint got a cent te travel on, and when tha oonduotsr drops, her along about hero I con imagine her look Ob. in tbat ease I should lot hor ride, interrupted ths offisisL You would? Yes. Then, if you'll kinder elaok np when yon cross at Skinner's, Ill kinder drop off and hoof it book.

1 reckon shes got tho buigo on mo and I nught no well cave. Xtorytag a Governor. Long before tho war by whioh tho thirteen American colonise became independent States, they were often engaged struggles to prevent royal Governors from enoroaotuag on their rights and privileges, soys i'owiA Compamotu In the autumn of lod3 Governor Flcctchsr, of Ksw York, went to Hartford to assert thorn his authority as Commander-sa-Chief of the militia of Connecticut. Tbo roval commission hod intrusted him with largo powers over the militia of the col-osy, and he ordered it out, though the season for parades had ended, and tha charter of nccueut denied his jurisdiction. I will not set my lost out ef this colony, said Fletcher haughtily, to tha Governor, until 1 hove seen his Majestys oommissisn obeyed.

The Connecticut Goreraor yielded so far as to order Captain adsworth to call out the train-bands of Hartford. Tbe result is described in Lossing'e History ef the Empire Mate. When the troops were assembled, Fletcher stepped forward to take command, and ordered his aid to read his Majesty's sommission. Captain Wadsworth ordered, tha drums to be beaten. Silence! angrily ened Fletcher, sad ths aid began to read.

Dram! Drum! shouted Wadsworth, snd tha roll of the drams drowned tha aid voice. Silence! again cried tba enraged Governor, and threatened toe captain with punishment. Wadsworth stopped ia trank of tho rtinoao Governor, rested his hand his eyerd and aid. calmly: If my drummers are interrupted ogam, MI moke the ennligh shine through yen! We denv and defy your authority. Tbe Gevemer folded ap hia oommiesien, and returned to New York and oemploined to the king of his treatment, but nothing earns of his complain Geed Use Tor Old Photograph! Negatives.

Joseph H. Ives, et Danbury, finding it neoessary to replaoe much of the glass is one of hie hot-housce, bought of a photographer in the place a lot of old negatives, and refitted tho entire coot He arranged them in groups. One represents ths eld people, who nave long einoe gone te their rest Next come net snd women ef middle age, and thes young mes aod young women. 1 he ehilarea represented hr the negatives are, in many esses, married and have their children. Is one comer over the heliotrope bed, Mr.

Ives has plaoed the lover tbeee who, in the days before they ware married. following proclamation on the lampposts of tbat town: All punens as owns doge are hereby town: All punone certified that ood doge is indebted to this city Id tbe sum ot one $, and If they dont pay will be pureeeuted to tha fullest extent ef the eon-titeetion, this mease bisaioe. ferity MarahaL Arkansas VUff ispsttA. a co in or A Alabama Ghost A ghost hae caused adivereo suit atd broken np a onoe happy family in Bloat County, Ala- bams. About fire years ago James Martin married a Mias Noel one of tha holies of tho eounty.

Tho yonmg eoiipis wont to live st tho old Martin home, and all went well until about a year ago. Mra. Martin, naturally very timid, beard a ghost rambling through tho oid house one night and woo badly fricntened. 8b told ber husband about it, it he oould hear Both-ing. he said.

From that time It beoame a nightly visitor at the Martin home. Mro. Martin wanted to leavo the told honae at onoe, bnt her husband objected, declaring the strange noises heard were made by rata. Several tunes Mrs. Martin, oo she eaya, saw white rebed figure wandering through tbo old house, and eooa her nerve and health began te give way aider the strain.

8he was finally prostrated by ner fear ef her ghost, and weot te the home her parent to recover her health and strength. Fear of the ghost overcame lore of mbA Mm. Mm xsntexod As fiiro looking rergizk him again. Martin tried in Vain to induce hie wife to reluflrto the haunted houee to live, bul be refused, and he tried suit for divoroe on the ground of abandonment, Ckesags the verandah suicide, room. We them earned it around ithio a few yards of was unrolled again npen its surface we rags, leaves and refuse upon this moss smeared of lima left by the This we smoothed till the whole mass and olung to the Kamee next took come a rough kind ef eaoe.

With ibis the mass of stuff, thus the! helped to keep So far, so good; the remained. "Take mv gun, give me the revolver. He pushed the of ene end of tho shoe. With slow snd wnd llj oppiw gently down: then they had advanced. Kamee then brought tor f4tC ftfrcc ftrBwvn itorr wtoor window la b.th.

kud.liarlori Timtt. both retired as silently as from tho outhouse ladder. and. with a gesture of entreaty, aigned my brother to eland aside and take his jrirte in hia hand. With bare foot tbo Hindoo erept up- to the window again and reared th ladder against the wall.

Taking a ceil of ropo from hie nook he deftly fastened tt teuton big heel wall staple ef the outside ehutter. Deeoaad-Ing, he quickly enlaced the chert 1 triad ia tho Always Behind. Winks So Penster ia the editor of a paper In your town, $00; a molder of publio opinion, I suppose? Rival Editor Ne, he rsfieots public opinion after tt begins I mold. cTucape Mereud. 1.