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Ill ipi MWIWIIIIIII ImniimwiHiinmillHillF^FIFWWy"! r*v iois'-'y CHAPTER I. r* • She was "a bonnie lassie, and many an admiring glance fell upon her as alie stood on the Broomielew that beautiful summer morning, with the miuliglit falling around her and light­ ing up her golden hair. The scene was one of bustle and activity. Enormous vessels, almost countless in number. 1 aud from nearly every nation under the aun, weiJe busy loading or unloading. \ The great quay was crowded with pleasure seekers going "doun the wat- tef," and the. Clyde steamers--the finest fleet in the world--were pulling out from their docks thronged wyth Glas­ gow citizens bound for the many de­ lightful resorts of which the Clyde alone can boast. . The subject of my sketch stood apart from the surging crowd, and was,look- tag wistfully into the dark eyes of a young sailor who had just sprung ashore to bid her a last good-by. The great ship in which he was about to «ail lay tugging at her moorings. She was bound for Sydney, and the usual excitement at the going out of such a vessel prevailed. Young Colin Camp- Bell was the quartermaster on the magnificent steamer. He was proud of his position, and would guard it with the utmost fidelity. How hand­ some and brave he looked as lie stood beside the fair young girl, who had come to see him sail! v His dark-blue, neatly-fitting sailor suit set off the fine figure to advantage; the deep sailor col­ lar rolled away from the bronzed neck, the dark curls clustered thickly round His shapely head, where rested the jaunty sailor cap. with the name of the •essel inscribed in gilt letters around the band. He was, indeed, the typical Scotch sailor in all tli* glory of young manhood. Janet loved him in her shy, self-contained. Scottish fashion, and €k>lin understood her. The look on her flower-like face and in her beautiful eyes,, where the shadows were lurking at present, expressed what the red lips fain would utter. "Wish pie God speed. Janet." said Colin as he took her white dimpled hands in his strong, warm grasp. "If we have fair weather and a prosperous Toyage I will return by Hallowe'en, and; we will keep the happy time to­ gether.'" "Ay, Colin," sobbed the girl, "but something tells me you will never come back; the voyage is long, and the sea is treacherous and deep, and I feel a»If I would never look into your dear face again." "Keep a brave heart, Janet," said Co­ lin, "and never fear; God guides the mariner into ports of peace in times of danger, and when I am pacing the lonely deck with the stars for my com­ panions my thoughts will be of you: "when the storm is at its height, aud the waves lash about in their fury, thoughts of you will comfort me, and your presence will never forsake me." "All hands on duty!" shouted the captain. A hurried kiss, a last good- by, and lie was gone. Janet stood alone, weeping silently. Sweethearts and wives are waving a tearful good- by as the gallant ship is cleared from her moorings and swings slowly round, and is steaming majestically down the river. The loved ones 011 t lie shore gaze tearfully after the departing ves­ sel. and at length sadly disperse tf their homes to watch and pray for th« ship's safe return. CHAPTER II. i Donald Cameron was a retired sea captain who lived in a beautiful, villa in Dumbarton, near the banks of the Glyde. For years lie had followed the sea, and many an interesting yarn lie could spin of shipwreck and adventure, nnd of the different countries lie had •seen. He had grown tired of "knock­ ing about," as he termed it, and be­ lieved in "reefing his own topsails," let the wind blow high or low. Janet was his only child, and his idol. Ilcr moth­ er died when she was but a wee bit I clings to Janet. She had the hempseed The days flew rapidly by. Colin had been gone since July.* It was drawing near the end of October, and lie had promised to be back for Hallowe'en, a festival that is observed throughout all Scotland. This is the night when the fairies come and dance on the green­ sward and the lads and lassies pry in­ to the future. Poor Janet, she was doomed to disappointment, ajfd grief. Hallowmas .came, with its games and charms; and the merry children march­ ing through the str ets with their Can­ dles and custocks; but Colin did not conic, nor could any tidings be learned of the vessel long past due. . • ' CHAPTER III. . , "Hallowe'en, a nicht. o' te^n, • \ A candle and a.eustqck; - Doonducks has gotten a wife • And they ca' her Jenny Lustock!" This was the shrill cry that ushered in the eve of All Hallowmas, or the Festival of All Saints, on this ."1st day of October, and the merry children went tripping through the streets, sing­ ing gaily with their candles and cus­ tocks and gay-colored lanterns. And truly the fairies were not more spright­ ly that these happy children in their innocent glee keeping their Hallowe'en. Bright lights shone from the win­ dows of Captain Cameron's villa. Twice had the purple bloom been on the heather; twice had the daisies blossom­ ed on the lea. but no tidings had ever been heard of Colin. Janet mourned for him in secret. The roses in her cheek had faded. Her step was less sprightly than of yore and her happy song has ceased. Her father had ask­ ed in her young companions and a few of his own crohies for this night of all nights. He wanted to see his "lass," as he fondly called her happy; she was too young to give way to sorrow. And Janet tried her best to please liim. Fires, w^re burning brightly in the grates and lights shone brilliantly from the winddws;: -The great kitchen was the scene of merriment. In one end was the large fireplace. A kettle hung over the glowing coals singing a merry tune. In the middle of the floor stood a large "tub filled nearly to the brim with clear, cold water; beside it stood a hamper full of rosy-cheeked apples. Around these were grouped young men and maiflen^ fair tovsee waiting their turn to duck for apples. On the white tables was the' great bowl of the steam­ ing toddy--no wonder-the kettle sang! Currant loaf, farls of oatcake and a big "whang4* Cut from big cheese graced the board, which, together with the toddy, helped con^tltute'the good cheer. The merrymaking now- began in ear­ nest. Aunt Jean .brought out a bag lull of nuts and a great scramble en­ sued to see wto should burn theirs first. Their favtes were soon decided by that charm, aVid' fWert away they ail scampered to try something else. Janet tried to be lutppy With the rest, but lov­ ing thoughts of Colin would creep into her mind; if she only knew whether he were still in. the land of the living or rolling at the bottom of the sea! "Let us try some charms," said a young lad. "Come, Janet and help us pu' the stocks." Out they go hand in hand, with eyes tightly closed, and slowly grope their way to the kail/ard, pulling the first they come to. Some are tall, some short, some are sweet, some sour, some have lots of earth hanging to the roots--indicative of a large fortune. With shout and laugh­ ter they scampered back to the house to place their kailrunts above the door. One wanders off alone to try som« spe­ cial charm. Meg goes to tlie gUss to eat an apple, but hearing a gruesome noise somewhere, she starts back in fear. "Let us- sow the hempseed.!" cried Willie. "Ye daurna." said Jock. The bag of hempseed is brought out and each one takes a handful and with beating heart and shaking limbs goes to some lonely spot to sow it. A little bit of the Scotch superstition ments she whirled and sank before them. After the storm had ceased Colin and some of the crew found themselves alone in a small boat without food or covering, drifting aimlessly about on a trackless sea. Tortured with the pangs of hunger, and no hope of rescue, death seemed to stare them in tlie face, when on the third day a ship Was sighted which seemed to be bearing down on them. Nearer and nearer it came and soon they were hailed by friendly voices and taken on board, where they were soon made comfortable. The ves­ sel was bound for Geelong and thither our hero, had to go. The wiud being against them it was many days before they arrived in port. Poor Colin! Ho was In a strange land without money, clothes or shelter. He met a party of young men going from Geelong to the gold diggings, who, after hearing his story, provided him with money and invited him to go with them and share their fortunes; so, purchasing a few necssary articles he started at once with his newly-found friends for the region of gold.0" After days of travel through the bush they reached the place in safety, staked out their, claims and proceeded to busi­ ness. They. Worked diligently from day to day, but fortune;, seldom smiled. Week after Week rolled on, and all they found of the precious dust was only a few ounces. Colin, unused to* such hardships and pining for home and Janet, fell ill of a feVer and for many welcs his life was despaired of. His friends nursed him as \yell as they could in such a rough place, and had the satisfaction of seeing him restored to health once more. He again resumed his duties at the mine, digging and pick­ ing in his search for gold. One day as lie was working busily he struck what he thought was a large stone and broke his pick; stooping down to investigate he saw something glitter. With his spade he dug around it; and there be­ fore him lay a great shining nugget of gold. How they rejoiced in the little hut that night! Their dreams were at last realized; their fortunes were made. As soou as they coidd they sold their claim at a splendid figure, and with their precious nugget started for Syd­ ney, where they disposed of it, divided th« proceeds, and with joyful hearts sailed for home. And there he was, stalwart in form and bronzed In fea­ ture, but the same true-hearted lad. He had seen Janet go into the garden, and guessing what she was about to do^. resolved to follow her. The Hallowe'en ended happily for Janet after all, and a prayer of thankfulness arose in her heart to the One who had guided her loved one safely back to this quiet ha­ ven of rest. She will never repeat the sowing of hempseed to see what the fu­ ture has in store for her, but will al­ ways cherish in loving remembrance, and celebrate with right good cheer, the night that brought Colin baek to love and happiness. lassie, but kind Aunty Jean had taken the "mitlierless bairn" to her heart and had carefully watched over her lovely charge; aud now the three lived hap­ pily together in their beautiful villa overlooking the Cylde. Captain Cameron could not have chosen a fairer spot for a residence. A few miles above was prosperous, ener­ getic Glasgow, with its miles and miles ef shipping from all over the world. The fine fleet of Clyde steamers daily went by. thronged with tourists in search of scenes of beauty and cooler air. All this Donald could see while he sat on the pebbly beach in the long, bright summer months, smoking his pipe and watching stately vessels to and from distant lands. His own town was full of historical interest to visi­ tors. There stood the rock of Dum­ barton, rugged and grand, upholding Its formidable fortress. I11 the keep of " the castle might have been seen the sword of the dauntless Wallace. This I is where lie struck the first blow for in- 1 jured, unhappy Scotland, and from the summit of this stupendous rock lie tore down the dragon of England and planted the lion of Scotland in its stead. Below is the peaceful valley, and a splendid panorama is here spread before you of beautiful, pastoral scenes, encircling hills dotted here and there with white villas and bonnie green woods, with misty uiountain- tops away in the background. This is where Donald Caineron had eliosen to live the remainder of his days with his lovely daughter Janet, the pride of Dumbarton. Janet was the village belle, and none could compare with her in beauty and goodness. She was sought by many a braw lad, but" could not remember the time when she did hot love him, for they had grown Hp together, the handsome, sturdy lad aud the winsome, blue-eyed.lass. Colin loved the sea and early chose it for his 0 vocation. The sea had a fascination for Janet, arid she had long vowed within herself that a sailor's wife she would he as soon as she was old enough to many, ' ' '• • in her mind and resolved to try it. She lias 110 fear as she goes into tlie garden and rakes the ground. She scatters the seed, and as it falls to the ground she repeats to herself--"Ilempseed, I sow thee: hempseed, I sow thee; and him that is to be my true love, come after me and pu' thee." She looked' over her left shoulder and saw some one at the end of the garden in the at­ titude of pulling heiup. Janet stood as .if petrified for a moment, then uttered one long scream which brought 1 he old folks running out of the house, to find Janet in the arms of a man. "Losh pity me!" said the eaptairi\ "what's a' this?" "It's the deil!" ex­ claimed an old lady in tones of horror. "Guid preserve us; it's Colin Campbell or his ghost," said Aunt Janet. It was indeed Colin in the flesh, with the same loveligbt dancing in ins "e'e." What a welcome he received. They dragged him into the cheerful kitchen, seated him by the fireside, when: they gathered round him while lie related to them the story of the adventure and dangers he encountered during-the two years lie had been away. /. CHAPTER IV. Col i if had arrived in Sydney all safe. They had shipped their cargo, and were homeward bound, when neariug the Cape of Gopd Hope one of the storms peculiar to" ihnt'lititude suddenly burst upon them. 'Every man was called 011 deck, but before they had time to shorten sail the storm had reached the height of its fury. The captain shout ed bis Commands, but, not a word could be heard, in the roar of the tempest. Darkness and terror reigned, a vivid Hash of lightning would now aud then leap forth from a volume of black cloud and rjglit tip/ifyfe, ghastly faces of the sailors in the shrouds. Buffeted and tossed -about for hours the ship at last sprang a lfyk. The pumps being useless the lifeboats were lowered and passengers and orew jumped in and pushed a w a y ~£ro in - inking vessel. It was well they did for in a few ino- AFTER THEY ARE DIVORCED. THE eleventh annual report of the Commissioner of Labor contains in tabulated form, reduced to ex­ act percentages, a statement showing the occupations of divorced women. The divorced women constitute niue- tenths of 1 per cent, of the female popu­ lation of ten years of age or over in the United States, and they are distributed throughout various occupations, which the statistical experts have endeavored to state with undeyiating exactness. Of the total nuinbhr of divorced wo­ men employed, it seems that .21 per cent, are bookbinders, .98 are shoe­ makers and .GO are corset-makers. A much smaller proportion, .-42, are sales­ women, Tyhile .00/are telegraph and telephone operators. Stenographers and typewriters make up .(5t per cent, aud .58 are mill hands; 1.23 of the di­ vorced women of the United States who have any business occupation are merchants, 1.04 are carpet-makers and .40 are hat and cap makers. Milliners come under a separate division, their percentage of divorced women being 1.32. Of seamstresses there are 1.35, and of clerks and copyists, 51. More­ over, .20 are boxmakers, .08 printers, .31 cigarette and tobacco makers,. .04 in the confectionery business, 1.43 dressmakers, .40 paper mill operators and 1.5 silk mills. The professions have a considerable number of divorced wo* men, 1.24 being music teachers and 1.18 teaehers off art. There are 3.33 per cent, described as hotel, restaurant and saloon keepers and barkeepeysr and a somewhat larger proportion as boarding or lodging house keepers; 1.02 as laundresses, 1.80 as nurses and .51 as agricultural laborers. of the torn part and bring the edges together, and place over them the patch, which requires to be kept in po­ sition for a few days, until quite hard, by placing a weight over it. Reason Is Restored. The ex-Empress of Mexico, sister of the King of the Belgians, who lost her reason when her husband was shot, has been under restraint for many years, and her state has been consid- Woman Golf Champion. An 18-year-old. girl, Miss Beatrix lloyt, holds the title of woman golf champion of America. She has held the title for more than a year, although it is only two years since her first ap­ pearance on any link. During the sum­ mer of 1890 she made the woman's rec­ ord over both the short and the long course, which record stood until this summer, when she herself lowered that of the shorter course to 38. Her sec­ ond success wasln winning the ladies' YOUNG PREACHERS WANTED. The Decreasing Demand for Veterans- in tlie Pulpit. "What shall we do with our old men?" is the question that is puzzling tli(j venerable bishop that presided over the Rock River conference of the Meth­ odist church in Chicago. Time was when the question that kept the clergy sitting up nights was, "What shall wo do with our boys?" But. tlie boys seem to be capable of taking care of them­ selves. Indeed, the boys are in great demand in the pulpits of the Methodist; church if any one may judge of the rer quests sent to Bishop Merrill by nu­ merous churches asking for "a young preacher." The popular desire to have the bread of life broken by the beard­ less graduates of the theological school1 is crowding the old men to the wall. The venerable defenders of the faith who have grown gray in the service of the Master, and who influence men by the power of strong personality, must be relegated to satisfy the fashionable religious fad for young preachers, fresh from the hothouses of the theo­ logical "conservatories." ^ While it is true „ that the young preachers must have a chance to read their profound dissertations to some one, the sudden clamor for tlie dis­ placement of tlie veterans cannot be regarded as a healthful religious symp­ tom. Must the demand for young preachers be attributed to a desire for didactic lectures 011 all sorts of topics outside of the gospel or to a growing appetite for sensational preaching? Is the "yellow kid" style of preaching crowding tlie grand old gospel sermons to the rear? We hesitate to believe that there is any taste for "yellow kid" sermonizing in this conservative church, which has exerted such a wonderful influence on tli*1 citizenship of the new republic. Surely the gospel as it was preached by Bishop Simpson and is preached to­ day by Moody lias not lost its hold on lie Methodist church. This is not written in disjxiragemcnt of tlie young preachers. But to say that the Methodist church prefers yoiing preachers to the rugged old defenders the faith, who preach the simple gospel pure and undefiled, and who know, its power to uplift men, is to confess that modern congregations want Intellectual or sensational enter­ tainment instead of the gospel sermons that recognize man as a sinner and in need of redemption.--Chicago Times- Herald. Parisian Thieves. So far as the safety of life and prop­ erty is concerned, Paris seems to have improved but little since the days of Eugene Sue. The police appear quite unable to grapple with the criminal class, possibly because even under the republic their chief duties are political. A fortnight ago, however, they suc­ ceeded in laying by the heels "the l>aud of Coco," a horde of „ young ruffians who for months terrorized the districts of Puteaux, Courbcvoie and Neuilly. At least a dozen wayfarers had been stripped of all they had upon them, even to their tan boots and cravat??--a.r tides for which the miscreants had a special predilection. It is surprising that the police should have allowed tills s.ort of thing to go on night after night for sp long a period, but still more astounding is the pusillanimity of the victims. Not one of them seems to have put up any kind of a fight or made„ any disturbance, and in no in­ stance did any of the bystanders conic to their assistance. MISS KEATlilX HOYT. I EX-KMmiESS OF MEXICO. ered hopeless. She lias now so far re­ covered that it is thought a visit to Mexico will replace many missing links in her mind, and she will probably be under the charge of, a trusty friend and reliable attendant before long. To Make the Hair Soft. It is not generally known that wash­ ing the hair in rain water and soft soap and rinsing in cold, ordinary water, makes the hair soft and silky. The New Woman. Miss E. A. Green lias been appointed a truant agent by the Chicago Board of Education. The women of Hiawatha, Kan., have started the innovation of appearing in church with hats off. Miss Bertha Opper has been appoint­ ed postmistress at Granville, 111., and Laura L. Hoalc at Ustick, 111. Miss Cliellier, a graduate of the Uni­ versity of Paris, has been given charge of a medical mission in the mountains of Biskra, by tlie governor, gejueral of Algeria. Mrs. N. Honsinger and her daughter Maud, of Missoula, Mont., are em­ ployed by the State Land Department in drawing township plats at the dif­ ferent land offices. A woman clerk is editor of 'the Of­ ficial Postal Guide, with its 80,000 offices. A man clerk, whom she form­ erly assisted, received $1,000. She now does his work and her own and gets $1.400. One hundred Catholic women in Chie- opee, Mass., have subscribed one dol­ lar each for the new Trinity College for Women in Washington, and have pledged themselves to send a like amount, annually for nine years. Mrs. Agnes K. Mulliean is a success­ ful real estate broker in upper New York,"and is the only woman member of the New York Real Estate Ex­ change, that honor having been accord­ ed her for accomplishing one of the largest deals in real estate history, to the discomfort of her male competitors. A man's credit is getting very low wluyi he can't even borrow trouble. championship of the°»hinnecock Hills Golf Club, but this was only a preamble tc her greater triumph in the national championship of 1890 at Morristown. In the tournament at Manchester Miss lloyt again upheld her prestige with the lowest of all scores. She defeated Miss N. C. Sargent on Friday. Aug. '7, thereby securing tlie woman's amateur golf championship for 1897. Miss Hoyt lives at Westchester, N. Y.. and learned the game on the grounds of the Country Club there. No Waltzinu Nowadays. The dancing congresses and the dancing teachers may consider the waltz in all its aspects and send forth rules and regulations as to 'jow and when and where i is to be daoeed, but as a matter of fact the waltz is not danced at all. says the New York Even­ ing Sun. The dodo is hardly more »x- tiuct. It is two-step, two-step, two- step nowadays. A ballroom orchestra may now and then, at judiciously long in te rva l s , s t r ike -up a wa l t z , bu t on ly . 0 have the floor remain deserted until they resume the quicker tempo tuat lias become so dear to dancing feet. The one or two pairs who may gyrate a few tithes while the waltz is in prog­ ress are sure to belong to an elder era, and the eyes of the youngsters follow I sweml," without' "looking'up'fro^ his them wondeimgly as the waltzers ! might the mazes of an ancient minuet, j It is the two-step or nothing nowadays. I Dangerous Slanjj. There is something of a moral in this story, and. to reverse the usual order of tilings, the moral is given at the l>egin- ning of the story. This is it: Never use slang before children. A lady was arranging her toilet be­ fore a mirror. Her boy, aged 8, had never discovered that his mother wore false bangs, really more than bangs, for the hair made almost a toupee, if that's what they call it. He saw her removing tlie false hair, and asked her what it was. She was surprised, and as she feared he might give away his discovery in public she said: "Oh, any old thing. Don't ask so many questions." The day following she was getting dinner, or rather bossing the job. "Run in and ask your father what he ! wants for dinner." she said to the boy, ; who was hanging around in the ! kitchen. The head of the family was engross- i ed in the evening paper and paid but • lit He attention to the hoy when he said: I "Paw. maw wants to know what you 1 want for dinner.". "Oil. any old thing will do," he an- paper. "Well, all I've got to say is you'll have a dern good time piekin' the hairs out of it if maw cooks that, thing fur diu- her," said the youngster, as he started for the kitchen to tell his mother. All was clear enough, however, when the mother recalled her answer made the day before. lit To Market by Trolley. An English trolley line, plying be­ tween Bessbrook and Newry, through a rich farming district, makes a sub­ stantial addition to its receipts by hauling farm wagons over its lines at­ tached to the motor car. in the place of the trailer which is sometimes seen. I11 order to keep the wagons 011 the track a second pair of rails is laid in­ side the working tracks and slightly higher. vj The towns at either end of the line are both market towns, and the line runs directly to the business center, where the wagons are drawn aside and run into their places by a half-dozen sturdy men, who are paid a few pence each by the countrymen for this serv­ ice. It is, therefore, possible for a To Mend Mackintoshes. ^ j farmer to bring his produce to market lo n|cn mackintoshes procure a ; nnd dispose of it without the aid of his small tin of pnre India rahber cement, I horses. It is not an uncommon sight, or dissolve some strips of pure India and always a rather amusing one, to rubber in naphtha, then apply a little sce ;i lumbering farm wagon loaded of the cement to the surface of a strip ; with hay or produce flying along ho­ of tlie material of which the inackin- • hind the motor car 011 its way to mar- tosh Is made; this can be purchased by ket. The farmers take lcindiy to this the yard from the waterproofers. Also scheme, as it is a saving of money as apply a .little of the cement on each side j well as horseflesh. Any up-to-date pair that deigns to in­ dulge in the waltz does so with a sort of two-step adaptation; the old-time gliding motion has been discarded alto- | gether. Smart cotillons nowadays are j always danced to the two-step. Stowaway in Petticoats. Stowaways are generally accredited ! to l»e boys, but when the steamer j Eugene was thirty miles away from j Portland, Ore., on her voyage 10 the j Klondike recently, a woman was found stowed away in the engine room. She was Mrs. H. E. Stetson, the wife of a i man aboard the steamer, who was go­ ing to look for a fortune in the gold fields. Her husband had decided to j leave her at home, believing that she could not withstand the dangers and hardships of life in Alaska. She thought otherwise, and, accordingly, hid herself away in the ship. Tlie hus­ band was dumfounded when his wife was brought on deck. He gladly for- ! gave her for hiding herself 011 board, ] and paid her faro. '* i ROBBERS IN ARIZONA. * ' Change of Fashion in the Bobbins of Western Trains. The old fashion of setting a train rob­ ber at either end of a drawing-room car, with instructions to require the passengers to surrender their valu­ ables under pain of instant death, has quite gone out; it too'often happened that an irritable passenger drew a bead on the nearest bandit and shot him where he stood. The custom now is for the road agent to cut off the ex­ press car from the rest of the train and rob it at leisure, leaving the passengers unmolested. If the express messenger is recalcitrant or slow in his move­ ments, his car is blown open with dyn­ amite, arid the robbers make a careful selection of its contents. Even this in­ dustry has been checked in its infant struggles by a tendency on the part of express messengers--when left alive-- to take quick shots at the robbers with a sawed-off rifle loaded with buckshot, as they retired with their plunder. De­ plorable accidents have occurred from this reprehensible practice. It has been observed that, when a well-known road agent meets an untimely death in this way his pals retire from business for a time, probably for prayer and meditation. The niost famous of the Arizona ^it- laws, Black Jack, was an epicure in his business, and toward the close of his life robbed nothing/l)ut postoflices. The gains were small, but the risk was almost nothing, the office being often kept by a woman, and Black Jack was so much of a gentleman that he pever laid his hand upon a woman save iv the way of kindness, so long as she handed out the registered mail prompt­ ly. He did some little business like­ wise in looting the offices of mining companies just before pay day. This branch was lucrative, but there was always the risk that the watchman might get the drop on the robber. It became the fashion years ago for mining companies and other concerns which handled large sums of money in Arizona to employ tlie worst of the road agents to act as watchmen at high wages. Thus, one of the most prosper­ ous copper companies hires, at a very high salary, a fellow who is said to have eighteen murders on his con­ science and yet is a mast faithful and trustworthy guardian of the property under his charge. Towns followed the example. Tombstone had for a long time in its employ as city marshal one of the brothers Earp. each of whom al­ ways fired with his gun resting 011 his arm. Experience had taught them that this practice gave them a start of two or three second.; over the shooter who raises his gun to the level of his eye, and in pot-liunting two or three sec­ onds are everything. A town uot far from Tombstone had been greatly in­ jured by the riotous behavior of some of its residents who were "bad men." It engaged, at a salary of $10,000 a year, tlie very worst desperado in the territory to act as -city, marshal. The day after his appointment he was ac­ costed by three noted ruffians, who, drawing their guns, sneered: "So you're a.-goin' to run this here town, air yer 7" The new marshal l ad his gun up his sleeve, and before the rascals could [Htll trigger tie lirrd three times, and L'ach time laid a man dead at his feet. "'Tain't everything," said lie, "to liraw quick and shoot: straight; yer must put yer lead where it will do most good. Ef yer don't, t'other party may slice yer \vith his knife after you've shot him.'^-Leslie's Weekly. Kill a Canadian Lynx. Several Belgians camping uear 'Sel- aia, Ind., were awakened at night by the barking of their hounds. They found thu dogs barking near a tree, in the branches of which they could see the dim outline of some animal. Think­ ing it a coon, one of the men by the name of Meijer shot at it. No sooner had lie fired than, the wounded animal, with a screech, sprang from the tree fit Meijer. striking liini in the breast. With its sharp claws it tore his clothes into shreds and lacerated his flesh. It attempted to reach his throat, when it was seized by one of the hounds, which drew it to the ground. All the dogs then attacked it, and after an ex­ citing struggle, in which one of the hounds was killed and two more crip­ pled. the men :?nd remaining dogs suc­ ceeded in killing it. The animal was taken to the camp, bitt none could tell what it v, as. They toole it to an old hunter and trapper that lived near by, who said it was a Canadian lynx and one of the largest kind. This is the first animal of that species that has been killed in this lo­ cality for thirty years, and how it came to be here is a. mystery.--Chicago Chronicle. „ Manages a Newspaper Syndicate. "Sydney Earlc" is a Southern Wom­ an who went to New York soon after the close of the war. She conducts a newspaper syndicate of her own, which does a good business. She deals en­ tirely with the country press. Left a widow early in life, she has supported her children and her children's chil­ dren. and lias succeeded in retaining in her possession the home of her parents in Kentucky, a place that has been in her family for over 150 years. Her father's name was Easoni. She is known in business circles as Mrs. S. J. Bat-toy. She says she is too busy in her life work to be a society woman or a club woman. Posters On Their Stuils. Boulevard loungers in Paris were amused the other day when ten men. correctly garbed all exactly alike, walked into a cafe and gravely ordered drinks, for. as they removed their hats, each man had painted 011 his bald head one letter of a word, advertising a new dramatic sensation. They were arrest­ ed. however, for evading tlie law that requires sandwich" men and posters to pay a tax of 02 francs, but they were discharged on promising to affix the necessary stamps to their skulls. _ji poil tax, as it were.--New York Mail and Express. Famous Italian Scholar. Tommaso Yallaurl, professor of Lat­ in at the University of Turin and-an Italian senator, died recently at the age of 92 years. He'edited Plautus and other classics, wrote histories of Latin and Italian literature and sever­ al books on Italian history. The profligate rake is never able to .hoe his own row. TEMPLE OF SOLID GOLD. It Was Besmn by Burmese Priests Before the Savior Was Born. ' Imagine a vast, bell-shaped structure higher than the great city office build­ ings,- and you will have some idea of one of the lumps of gold which may he found without going to the Klondike or exploring the bowels of the earth anywhere. It rests on a high hill, one solid, gleaming mass, filling all the sky around it with the yellow glow of an autumnal sunset. Its value is greater than all the combined outputs of Cali­ fornia, South Africa, Australia and the Klondike during an interval of mauy years. Its actual value is as bewlldex-- lng to contemplate as Its weight is dif­ ficult to estimate. It weighs thousands Upon thousands of tons--all of pure, virgin gold. There is latent power enough In this great, inert mass to set all the millions of armed men in the world to butcher­ ing each other by sea and land for years and years to come, then leave enough surplus to pay off all the na­ tional deftts and girdle the earth with dqrgjjle-tracked railways. As it lies now it represents simply a vast faith. It Js the accumulation of thousands of years of votive offerings to a deity. And the votive offerings still go on and the great gold heap con­ tinues to grow while the financial phil­ osophers demonstrate by iresistible ar­ guments that there is not gold enough above- the earth's surface to transact the business of the world. It is on an island in Burmah that this ancient Klondike is to be found-- an Island formed by the River Hlaing, and about twenty miles from where that river empties itself into the Gulf of Martaben. A hill rises in the cen­ ter of the island to a height of about 105 feet above the level of the sur­ rounding country and terminates in a little flat plain a few acres in extent. On this plain rests the lump of gold. The lump is not solid; its interior is a Buddhist temple. It is a shrine of Buddha--in other words, incased in a gold structure 321 feet high and cover­ ing a circular piece of ground 300 feet in diameter and tapering to a platform at the top just wide enough for three men to stand upon. For over two thousand years people have been bringing bit by hit the grains of gold out of which this great, glitter­ ing heap has been reared, just as ants bring grain by grain the bits of sand to make their homes. From India, China. Tartary and Japan pilgrims to this shrine have brought each one his bit of gold to add to the structure 4a Bud­ dha's honor. Tradition places the beginning of the structure at GOO years before tlie birth of the Savior. An order of monks many hundreds of years ago took charge of the work of melting down all the gold the pilgrims brought aud couyerting it into thick, solid sheets, with which the slowly growing brick shell of the struc­ ture was covered. To guard against thieves It -soon be­ came necessary to have some force more tangible than mere superstition, so a guard of soldiers 2,0tt0 strong was put about it--a force uot strong enough to beat off an army, to be sure, but still sufficient to keep away any organized baud of thieves, aud even to restrain the fury of relic-hunters with their chisels and mallets. The soldiers on guard are a detachment from the royal army of Burmah, and half their ex­ penses are borne by the King. And among the other taxes on royalty which this religious treasure -involves is the presentation to the temple by every new king when he ascends the throne of his own weight ia solid gold. Strangely enough, the hands of pro­ fane pirates have never attempted to despoil the untold wealth of this re­ markable temple so many centuries old. Vehicles in Paris. Horseless carriages are as common in Paris as in London, and electric mo­ tors are used even more extensively for delivery wagons, bicycles, tricycles and other vehicles. A company has been organized to run a line of electric 'buses, and has twenty or thirty already under construction which will be placed upon tlie Champs Elysees and other popular streets within the uext few weeks. They have an excellent system over there to prevent the crowding of omni­ buses and street cars. At the principal l>oints where these vehicles are loaded, in the busy parts of the city, waiting stations have been established, where persons who desire to take a car or an omnibus can obtain numbered tickets. Vehicles are permitted to carry only as many passengers as can be accom­ modated with seats. The remainder have to wait their turns, and are allow­ ed to enter the cars or buses in the or­ der of the tickets they hold. In that way women and children are protected from a crush.--Chicago Record. Storm-Driven Fish. A few days ago, towards evening, the inhabitants of Heilbronn perceiv­ ed that tlie Neckar was towards both its banks one moving mass of all sorts and conditions of fish, thronging land­ wards in seeming anxiety to be caught. Nor was this tacit appeal at all disre­ garded, for every man, woman and child of the vicinity ran out with pots aiml pans, with spades and rakes, and pails and baskets to kelp himself (oij herself) to a share of fish. The explana­ tion of the miracle, which perchance might prove a hint to fisherfolk, was that the river had become so muddy, after recent heavy rains, that the fish found it difficult to breathe in the "thick" water, and had approached the banks for more air. ^Making Islands Into Parks. The Canadian government has set apart a number of islands from Kings­ ton. Ontario, to Alexandria bay for park purposes. This has been done 011 the understanding that the State of New York would set aside tracts of land of equal exteut on the American side. The lands put aside for common use in Canada are for fishermen, camp­ ers and pleasure seekers generally. "Wells Under the Sea. In the garrison station forts standing in the sea at Spithead. the supply of fresh water is .obtained fronf wells in­ side their own walls, which lie under the bed of the sea. It is said*that tho water is exceedingly cool and pure. The German Emperor owns 35S car­ riages for the use of himself aud his 5 court. / '