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â€"______â€"_â€"-â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"‘â€"‘â€"â€""“â€" . ‘ An Adventure with a Burglar Few of us have lived long in the world without numbering among our friends a man with a tale. The delight of our youth, he becomes The 1» re of our more mature years. He is so pm a . .t his one experience. that he never loses an opportunity of inflicting it upon every new acquaintance, re ardleas of the fact that all the other occup to of the room have heard it all before. I am never likely to have another adveu ture; an unadventurous age and country is not favorable to extraordinary experience. and it would be as unfair as in this case it would be unwelct me, that fortune should allot to one individual the privilege of a second adventure. Perhaps when I have disburdened my mind in print, the tempta tion to play the part of the family here may be lessened, and so I here set forth my story once for all. Some few years ago, when I had just tak- en my degree, and was deluding myself with the notion that l was doing great things by a course of private readirg, I had taken up my abode in the temple. and I am free to confess I often found it dull. A man can not always be reading. You know London has its amusements, but they areexpensivc. especially to him who is not well posted in its ways. So it was with no little satisfac- tion that one afternoon I found on my table a telegram from an old friend which said. “Come and dine tonight and atop to-mor- row. Want you particularly." t is some- thing to a very young man to feel he is wanted ; itis also something to dine com~ fortably and not at a restaurant ; it was even more to me at that moment to have a resonable excuse for closing my books and putting ofi reading to a more convenient season. A very short time then passed before I found myself in the southeastern suburl, where my friend, whom I will call Mrs. Barton, lived with her two sons and one daughter. On arriving at the well-known house I discovered that the reason of the urgent invitation which I had received was that Mrs. Barton's two sons were to be away from home for a day or so and that she was afraid to be left.- in the house with- out any masculine protector. Fcr her dreams were haunted by the terror of wak- ing and finding an armed burglar in her room, and of late her usual state of appro- hension had been increased tenfold by an unexampled series of successful burglaries in the immediate neighborhood of her house. As I well knew from experience gained by staying in the house for months at a time as a child, every precaution against burglars had been taken. Every door and every window was provided with its socket, and every night before retiring to rest a solemn procession was made throughout the house, and a bell was fixed in each socket to warm the sleepers should the dreaded thief enter. Besides this, a huge mastifi slept in the yard. Fortified by this knowledge, though I could not but admit that burglaries both many and daring had but recently been prepetrated, I did my best to dissipate my triend’s fears, and was particularly gratified by the confidence she showed in my pres- ence. She believed in me ; I did not be- lieve in the burglar scare, and so all parties dined, and went to bed in good spirits. About 1 :30 in the morning, however, I wns awakened by an agitated knocking at my bed-room door, and the maid’s trembling voice bade me get up, as her mistress was quite sure that a burglar was in the house. 1 fear I only woke to anathematize all fem- inine fears, and set down the alarm to an attack of nightmare on the part of Mrs. Bar- ton, whose dreams had taken the shape which might have been expected. consider- in the nature of her daylight thoughts. A la y's “ I'm quite sure ” so often resolves itself into “ 1 am quite sure, I thought.” Still, as in duty bound. I arose, hastily put on some garments, with an ulster to cover deficiencies, went into one of the son’s rooms, which contained s. regular armory of weap one of all sorts, selected a heavy Cape con- stabulary revolver and a light sword and strode downstairs to investigate. The agi- tated faces of the ladies peered out from their bed-room doors ; a hurried whisper told them to shut themselves in and keep quiet, and I descended to the first floor, where, notwithstanding u‘y intimate local knowledge, I soon succeeded in making a horrible noise, shaking first one hell and then another, and giving ample warning to any noctural visitor that it was high time to be (if, for the household was astir. All seemed right there, so I descended to the basement; there, too, search as I might, I could find nothing amiss, till a happy thought struck me, why was the mastifi‘ so quiet in spite of all the noise? I unlocked a door and looked into the yard ; there he was, fast asleep, alive evidently, for I could feel his breathing, but a kick in the ribs failed to stir him. The only conclusion to come to was evidently that he had been drugged. This spurred me on to fresh investigations. Even the moss intimate acquaintance is not perfectly at home in the lower regions of a friend’s house. I tried every door I could see, and at last found one which led into a little pantry cup- board which had a window. The window was open, and one pane had been carefully removed. There had been a man at work l What had become of him? The house was one of the ordinary large villa type, semi-detached, with a large, long den in the rear, the garden being on a evel with the basement, one room of which, that facing the garden, was handsomel fur- nished, and went by the name of the reak- fast room. Over this breakfast room was the drawing room, with its large bow win- dow opening in to a verandah, from which a flight of steps descended to the garden, against the wall which divided our premises from those of the next neighbor's. Under this outside staircase there was naturally a triangular recess which had been fitted with a door, and was used as a storehouse for gar. den tools. I could not find my man, and thought that he had most tobany gone, disturbed by the noise whi I had made. Still I hardly liked to go to bed. the extracted window lass and the drugged dog counselling watch- ulnesv, so I strolled into the breakfast room, opened a case which I knew was the home of some excellent cigars, took one, lighted it, and repaired to the garden, leav- ing m sword on the table. tut taking the loaded pistol with me. The cigar was a large one, and '2 a. m. is not the warmest hourof the night,albeit the month was July. But I had resolved to stay up till that cigar war finished, and finally, after g to and fro for some time, I went an leaned up t the door of the tool shed under the drawing-room verandah. There I remained for at least nominates or aquarterof anhour i and the cigar was burning very small, when suddenly, without any warning, I was it roiny propelled forward 2 or 3 yards into the midst of the garden by a kick from be- hind, while the pistol went cfi' asI came with a crash on my nose. My unlockedfor assailant bounded past me and over the Wall into the next garden ere I realized what had happened. Smarting with rage, and not much the worse for my fall, I rushed to the wall and saw the man going over the Wall beyond. A shot from me was followed by a cry cf pain and a crash, and I was just in the act of getting over the obstruct- ing wall to see what. mischief I had done, when the enemy returned my fire, and a bullet through the bowler hat I was wear- ing testified to the accuracy of his aim. Thoroughly infuriated by my narrow es- cape, from my perch on the wall I fired all my remaining three chambers at the now retreating burglar, as he topped each auc- cessivc garden wall. But the distance, the uncertain light and the excitement sent every bullet wide of its mark. In agenersl way I make no pretentious to pluck, and, in fact, to put it mildly, prefer to keep out of harm's way. But the burglar's bullet roused every fighting instinct, and the desire to shoot overcame the fear of being shot. I im- agine this must be the ease in battle; a man's thoughts as to what his feelings are likely to be in danger, are rarely his actual feelings when the danger comes. The sound of my fuaillade sent up the sashes all over the neighborhood, and the heads of frightened men and women in all kinds of eccentric costumes appeared at the win- dows while a tremendous knocking at Mrs. Barton’s front door announced that Police- man X.required to know the why and where- fore of so much unseemly noise. Afew words put Policeman X in possession of the facts ; a few moments were lost whileI arrayed myself more suitably for a night trip, and I conducted the Policeman over the wall to the place where the burglar fell. There we found not a little blood, and then the hitherto phlegmatio and apparently in- credulous officer quite brightened up, and tuning to me said: “He’s hit, sir! we’ll catch him, sir." I professed myself ready, had we easily traced the course the man and taken until the gardens ended in a cross road, where more blood marked the pave ment ; an occasional drop of blood told us we were on the right track for anothrr 120 yards, at which point an enormous piece of waste ground covered with refuse heaps ran along the side of the road, and beyond this lay the open country. “a, nu... The officer now sprang his rattle, and in a short time a second policeman joined us, and with this additional force we commenc ed to search among the heaps, and at last found the spot where the man had sat down and bandaged his wound. for we found some torn and blood-stained linen. At this mo- ment one of the tfficers cried out, “That’s him,” as a figure crossed the sky-line at the top of the hill in front of us. Ofi' we start- ed again, and from the top of the hill we die- tinctly saw him get into a field ; all three of us ran our best, bis wound and a heavy plow crippled the burglar andI was able to gain rapidly upon him, and before he succeeded in making a thick wood for which he was aiming, I had reduced the distance between us to some 50 yards, the heavy policeman being some way behind. However, the en- emy reached his wood in safety, and we all thought it was folly to enter it after him, as he could easily shoot us without being seen, or giving us a chance of retaliating. So we contented ourselves with standing gaurd as best we could all round the copse ; but alas; he never came out, and when daylight came to our aid and we drew the copse, he no- where appeared. Thus the chase ended, and we had to re- tire discomfited, and I had nothing more exciting to-do than to return and give a de- scription of our midnight visitor as best I could at the police station. Ofteusince have I reflected upon the worth of police descrip- tions of similar criminals. I know mine was all wrong. It is not easy to make out the points of a man in the dark or in an un- certain light. And here the personal element, which must have already wearied my readers (if hapl I should have any). comes to an end. We card no more for some fifteen months ora year and a half, but we then read in the papers that a certian notorious burglar had been captured, and then that he had been condemned to suffer the last penalty of the law for mur- der committed in one of his noc- turnal expeditions. While the man lay under sentence of death (whether by way of reparation or from a mere whim who shall say 2) he seems to have desired, where he could do so, to restore the property he had stolen. At any rate, he caused tobeforward- ed to Mrs. Barton's house a small clock, the only thing he had taken from the breakfast room. with a note to the following effect ; “With Mr. Peace’s compliments to the only gentleman who ever hit him. I did you by going straight through the wood and out the other side." I have heard since that mine was not a solitary instance of stolen property restored by him at the last. Much as we thought of his wound at that time. it turned out that it was a mere scratch of the arm, which ac- counts for the speed he was able to maintain in his flight. Most stories have a moral, exce t when they narrate real incidents. Mine being of the latter class has none, unless it be in the shape of a warning, that when it comes to shooting, two can play at that game. BROUGHT BIB BLACK WIPE BOMB. ADusky Belle Suddenly Transferred from Binge Africa to Paris. Mr. Crampel. one of De Braus's assis tents in the French Congo territory, has just surprised all his friends by bringing to this country a young black woman who was presented to him as a wife during his recent explorations east of the Oguvve River. She is a young savage of rather p‘easing fea tures and graceful form and carriage, who still feels decidedly queer in dresses and regards witr. open-mouthed astonishment about everything she sees. “’hen Mr. Grenfell married a native of Africa a while ago his choice was a coast girl who had been nurtured for years a! a mission station. and who was a civilized and Christian ycung person. But the dusky flower that Crampel has brought: home with him was plucked from the depths of savage Africa. Neither she nor any of her'people had ever seen a white man before. Crampel started eleven months ago with thirty carriers to make a journey through the unknown region northeast of the Ogowe. After weeks of travelling he reached a great forest region directly east of the district ex- plored by Du Chaillu, where no white man had ever been before. This is the country of the M‘fsngs, whose language differs so greatly from any with which the explorer was acquainted that he had the greatest difiiculsy in communicating with the na- tives. The M'fangs, however, gave Crampel a hospitable reception. and he spent several weeks with them. When he was about to go away one of the chiefs came to him, lead. ing a very dark and nearly nude belle of the tribe. He told the white man that he liked him, and as a mark of his esteem he wished to present him with one of his own daughters. He said she was the daughter of achtef, and must not be made a slave, but if the white man would take her for his wife he might have her. Of~ fare of this sort are often made to African explorers, and they usually decline with thanks the delicate proposal. Crampel, however, said he would take the girl a s his wife, and that young person, nothing loth, set out with the explorer for the sea, and has probably bid a last farewell to her native forests. It is not known whether Crampel's choice is approved by his relations, but he seems to be satisfied, and of course he will take the girlbsck with him to Africa when he re- turns. Among the interesting discoveries m' ‘ s by Cramps] is that of a large dwarf tribe, who are doubtless identical with or allied to tags 0 Bongo dwarfs discovered by Du Chu~ r u. (7..-. ..‘. â€".â€"_â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"aâ€"â€"_ He Would Wait Customerâ€"“ I see you advertise “ Um- brellas recovered while you wait.” Shopkeeperâ€"“ Yes, sir." Customer “Well. I lost an umbrella a year ago last Fall, and I guess I'll sit down here while you recover it for me." A Retort in Kind. A propos of turned up noses, in more senses than one, the American colony in Paris has a story of an airy parvenue who, to plain “ Mrs. Jonathan Smith,” added on her cards “ nee Montmorenci.” 7 One of these she had occasion to send with some message to a gruff old Englishman, who returned his ; “ Capt. John Jones, 1112 retrousse.” â€"â€" A Boston Girl in Toledo. Scene : A well-known drug store in Summit street: George-“ Will you have some soda water, Clara 1" Claraâ€"" No, thanks, George ; I will try some of the chastised cream." Gear 9â€"“ Two glasses of whipped cream, please.‘ â€" (Boston Commercial. A Needful Caution. Aliceâ€"No. George; you must not put your arm around my waist. Georgeâ€"Be careful, Alice. Aliceâ€"Careful i What do you mean ? Georgeâ€"Why, haven't you heard that wilful waist makes a woful want 2 An Even Score. “ Are you going to the game to-day, Browne 2' sshed a traveling man of a friend. “ No : there’s no reason why I should.” “ \Vhy not i" “ I’ve got a bawl match at home. Twins five months old and an even score up to the present time." Confusion of Terms. " Laura," said the young lady's mother not unkindly. “ it seems to me that you had the gas turned rather low last evening.” “It was solely for economy, momma," the maider answered. “There is no use trying to beat the gas company, my daughter. I have noticed that the shutting off of the gas is always followed by a correapo “ling increase of pressure." “ Well that lessens the waist, doesn't it, mamma dear 2" replied the artless girl. And her fond parent could find no more to say. Too Much for the Baby. Gushing Visitorâ€"" Oh, oo ittle teenty weenty tcosie oosle sing I Turn here and at me ties its ittle turly toolsie-wootsie, oo itty pitty slug 1 Boston Babyâ€"“ I really beg your pardon madam, but owing to what perhaps is a foolish prejudice on mamma's part, I have not been allowed to commence my language studies. I am very sorry, but I Will have to ask you to address me solely in the Eug- lish language." Dmnksnnsss in Belgium Belgium still holds its own as the most drunken country of Europe. On an average each man. woman, and child consumes yearly 240 quart: of beer and thirteen quarts of spirits. It may be that Btvarians drink more beer than that, and Russians more sp‘rits, but taking both togeaher the Bel- gian record is unrivalled. The government is at last aroused to a sense of the evils of the situation, and some restrictive laws are to be put in force. The right to collect by legal process debts incurred in drinking houses has been abolished; it is forbidden xiflkutfi 2:;fi2: Elia at but a proverbial joker, Was chosen as accom- plice and placed in the cellar below the su- fiifiwfilfimmflg gfifiefi‘ffi,fi,‘h°fi sion room. The com any being gathered and m .mely gm to be for soap title raps being hear , the question was ask- e : “Are there any spirits present 2" “There are l ’ came in response, in a semi- sepulchral tone. “Will you please to make them known to us 2 ’ continued the medium. “Gin, whisky, Jamaica, Santa Cruz, sch- nappu, cognac and about all the varieties you can think of," was the reply.-â€"[Yonkers Gs- rette. Plenty of Spirits Present. At a recent scenes in the house of a well. known Prohibitionist in Pennsylvania, s. person supposed to be worthy of confidence, Mn. Testy (looking up from the paper) â€" " Isn't this strange! A certain gentleman after a fit of illness was absolutely unable to remember his wife, and did no: believe she was the one he married." Mr. Testyâ€" “ Well, I dunno. It's pretty hard work sometimes for a man to realise that his wife is the same woman he once went crazy over." IMPERIAL rsnssarros. No Set Scheme but ah‘atural Development Like the British Constitution. Lard Herschel“, in the absence of Lord Rosebery, presided at the annual dinner of the Imperial Federationists in London, and his principal speech is thus reported in “ The Colonies and India : " The chairman, Lord Herschell, on rising to propose the toast of the eveningâ€"” Impe- ri.l Federation"â€"~wasreceived with loud and prolonged cheers. few persons who regarded the Imperial Federation Laagu temp:, and who looked upon it simply as the embodiment of an idea. all a mean or insignificant idea of which the league was the embodiment, that these great nations. of whom it said mother, instead of drifting further apart, should be drawn into closer and more in- timate relationship. that with this closer relationship there would be an increase in unity of sentiment and ac- tion for the benefit of the entire Empire Was an ides. which could well be described as a grand one. who had previously spoken on the subj ect lie said there wars not a o with derision and con- lVell, it was not. at had been that England was the august (Cheers) To believe He differed from his friends of a practical scheme of federation, for he rejoiced that adhesion to the league involved the acceptance of no scheme. If it did its members would probably be much less than they now were. (Hear, hear.) He trusted. moreover, that the league would never have a scheme which could be called the scheme of the league until that scheme had an almost certainty of immediate realiz htIOn. (Hear, hear.) The subject was of immense importance and difficulty, and there were some who said that any scheme was an im- possibility. For the league. therefore, to pin its faith to one particular plan would be to retard rather than to advance the ob- ject they h’l’i in view. It was only by van- tilation and discussion, and after the matter had been thoroughly thrashed out and con- sidered, that we should ever arrive at a scheme afi'ordinga reasonable opportunity of success, (Hear, hear.) H: doubted, too, whether the time had yet come for the summoning of such a conference as has been suggested, for men would come to is with their minds not made up, with schemes crude and undigested, and if the conference were to part without any practi- cal result the scheme of Imperial Federation would be a great deal further cfi' realization than at present. (Hear, hear.) A desire for such a conference must come from the colonies, and when that desire was once manifested he trusted there would be every wish on the part of those who had the man- agement of colonial affairs in this country to meet the desire. (Hear, hear.) He was. however, by no means sure that the scheme would be realized at the outset as a set sym~ metrical scheme, applied at once to all the colonies, for such a scheme, however com- plete and brand now, would be out of hur- mcny with the character and scope of the British constitution. All t e developmerts and changes which that constitution had undergone had been the result of natural growth, and he believed that Imperial Fed- eration, if it: was to be realFZ3d, would come about in the same wayâ€"by slow degrees and in different forms as regarded the in- dividual colonies. Whatever the character and the degree of the federation of the future might be, the subj act was surrounded with difficulties, and it was the duty of the league to encourage discussion and to foster interest in the question both at home and in the colonies. Already, in four years, it has done much. The day had gone, he believed for ever, when the colonies were regarded as an encumbrance, or even with indifferenceâ€"(hear, hear.)â€"and its disap< pearance had been accelerated by the action of this league. (Hear, hear.) The league was keeping alive the idea of closer union, and it had brought home to the mind of our colonial fellow-subjects that we do care for them, and that we do desire a closer union. (Hear, hear.) He trusted the day might never come when any one of the colonies would desire to separate from us ; but if ever there should be a nearly unanimous wish in any one of them to part company, we should not be mad or foolish enough not to let that separation take place with good will. Separation, however, would bea loss, no less to the Mother country than to the colonyâ€"perhaps even more to the latter than to us. The union which existed in- volved no serious burden on she color:- ies, it did not hinder their free and natural development, but it gave them a tie with the historic past. It made them subjects of the British Empire, whose goon name and noble traditions were as much theirs as ours ; and to break them- selves from that continuity, to detach them- selves from that historic past, would be to them a great loss would be likely to dwarf their ideas and aspirations, and to make them less, great than they would otherwise be. (Cheers) He desired to see this bond of common interest, afi‘eczion and good-will made stronger, firmer and more vigorous even than it was to-day ; and it was because he believed that the Imperial Faderatiou League did much to stimulate and render active this community of sentiment, and in- terest and regard, that: he declared that even if its practical results avers as small as its enemies predicted they would be, it would you have well justified its existence. (Ap- plause) ‘ The toast was drunk with enthusiasm. How to Wash Fennel Shirts. Yes, we have had a good deal of camplalnt from customers about the shrinking of their shirts. 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