shalt. Then she mixed and baked a cake of corn bread and fried a couple of slices of "middling.†which with a glass of buttermilk. formed he; fugal Jim, having obedienvly finished the last crumb, smiled at her withagrate- ful “Granny Smith ain’t in it with ye, Mollie," then, seized w1th sudden com- punction, exclaimed disgustedly, “\Vell if I ain’t a hog! Here ye air, {with nothin’. butabin o’ 901’ bread an’ meat night, an’ we jest a layin’ here all day long and eatin’ steady, 311’ I’ve gone en’ let: ye git my supper first! Go an cook yours this minute, an’ then sit by me while ye eat it.†She smiled at him merrily, but shook - -.. .uv J u MAJ st me for eatin’ so much." Having GIGS-ed the bedrobm tagâ€"J L x luLU we Kitchen. ’Jim watched her» through the open door as she went about her work with the swiftness and ease that characterized her motions; The fire soon blazed good-naturedly, and the kettle bubbled with self-im- portance under her deft hands. She paused now. and then to nod and smile at him. It seemed butafew moments before she appeared in the doorway, bearing atray covered with a white cloth, on which was a bit of steak. a dropped egg on toast. andaann nf fraâ€" “Now I'm .goin’ to sit right by ye,†she announced, "till 'e’ve swallered the very 'last month ul.†lA-nd so she did. watching with the frank pleasure of aohild his evident enjoyment of] his meal, and urging on him “jesta leetle bit" of the steak broiled to a turn, or a. bit of the deli- cately browned toast. Jim, having_.obedienhly finished the for five year. I’ve hadagood home, an’ [ain’t wanted for‘ nothin'; an’ now jest because ye’ve hadaltech of the fever; wn’ hev had to lay upfozracauple ofl mouths, ye’reawishin’ ye were dead. Ln’ a tryin’ to make yerse’f believe ye're in the way! Now Ifleav‘e it to ye, ain’t; that foolish, when ye know how proud an’g‘lad 1am to work for ye? Not that: it’ll befor long, for ‘twon’t be no time nowtill ye’llbe camiln’ in with aboat full 0' fish, an’ a hollerin. ‘Mollie; woman, what’s for supper 3’ " A faint smile at the picture her words had conjured up crossed J im’s face. She noticed it, and rattled on gayly,-â€"-i "A-n’ speakin’ o’ supper, it’s high time Stirring the fire intoacheerfiJ blaze and liihungacouple of lamps, Mollie‘ hung «er bonnetona. nail and passed, into the kitchen. ’Jim watched her« through the open door as she wont or kinfolkso’ some kin’, but I ain’t got: nobody. Ye know how ’twas, Jimâ€"how: mammy an’ pappy died when Iwas a little mite ofathing, an’ how. I: was kicked froma piller to pos’ tillI got big: enough .towork? in the mill an’ look ar-c against her breast with a beautifuh maternal motiocn. “Ye’re a good woman, Mollie,†he said brokenly. "I don’t never mistrus’ ye. But. it's hard to lay here day in an’ day outâ€"no use to nobody-e-an' how the woman ye love workin’ her life out in that cuss-ed mill, with sich a man as him for her boss. Sometimes I wishfl the fever had clean done for me stead} o’leavin’ me here, as. weak asanew- born baby, an’ mighty nigh as help- How could I, when ye was always the han’somes’ an’ the braves’, an’ the bes? Jes be patient a leetle longer, honey. Ye’re a-gettin’ better right along, an’ ’Uwon’t be no time till ye’ll be out an’ stirrin’ ef you’ll jest quit worrtin', an’ let me do the best I kin for us both. “Jim, darlin’, don’t beaworritin’ an' a makin’ yerse’f worse for nothin’. Ya“ know that thar ain’t adrop o’onod in my body but I’d shed it for ye willin’. Idon’t never think of no man but you.. “Yes Iwill say it agin, for I mean it. Y6 think because Ilay here all day long, like aworn-out hulk. I don't know: the kind of a man he is, or the "ways he has with women. Kind, is he. an’ perlite? Oh, yes. he’s kind enough an’ perlite enough to a han’some woman, an’ nobody’s denyin’ ye’re that.†The brown face among the pollows worked convulsively, and the deep voice, weakened by illness, 'quivered: and broke. In a moment the woman was by his side. The woman’s voice rose in sharp earnest entreaty. “Jim, honey, don’t ugin. don’t!" In {Gflflil ma DEED WUIBIS 9' door he- that word under water. There was niothing but to swim for it, and Chester Archihagld’s fine brick mansion, a. quarter of a. mile away on a bluff overlooking the river, slightly elevated above that of the sur- rounding "bottom." Mollie knew that the water in “this bottom must be over __ _ â€"_ wvwv “Ulyle- ness, to terr'or for her on her erilous errand, and to the prospect o a. sud- h‘aps both. she decided not to rouse him, and resolutely closed her mind against the possibility of his awaken.- ing to-ï¬nd himself alone in the midst of darkness and danger. pplaug nascuy out of bed {to rekindle it, only to find herself standing almost knee deep in ice-cold water. (' In an instant she realized What had happened. The long talk of flood ehecould feel the water creeping like a snake further up around her knees, and the frail cabin, trembling on its eupports. Qutside the Wind was bxlow- , _.. -uv UUU ,vvuuuu HUM“ U651“. I Returning from the window, she saw lby the clock that she; had been away from fher patient longer than- she in- tended to be. Remorsefully she extin- guished ‘the lamp and hurried to the bedroom, when she smiled happily to find glint he was already. sleeping, . _. . . g . prayer to the Father of} the lowly, .she undressed, and crept noiselessly into the cot at her husband’s feet. I necessity of covering the fire, as it would easily last till morning. . Fear- ing lest 'the change of temperature might; affect Jim u'nfavorablyr she sprang hastily out of bed {to rekindle it, only to find herself standing almost knee deep in ice-cold water. I Samâ€"Yes, I can hand you a ten [Bobâ€"Thailks awfuLly. I’m inde PLEASANT FOR THE CREDITOR. â€"â€" â€"- â€"â€"-“J .\Aqu ' Mollie Phelps was no fine lady, but a working girl, who had learned; in the herd school of experience that it 1s WIser to take no notice of an insult so long as it is umexpressedl in words. And Chester Archibald had said. noth- 1ng that; could offend her. It had only been the look in his eyes as they rest- ed upon her that. even now made her grow but with shame and anger. A...) _,1 â€". â€"-' v “w“ “V" a few commonplace words, something In _Lh.e nature of a compliment] to her quicxness and dexterity, and she had answered him in a monosyilables, while her hands flew back and forth with all the oid-time cunning that had stood her in such good stead when doctors’ bills and medicines had combined to exhaust the iittle fund she: and Jim had laid 113p for a rainy iday. nir-1|-, Then the mill owner had gone through it on a. tour of inspection. It struck Mollie that. these tours came much more frequently than they‘ used. and it seemed to her. that she caught a. eiy smile on the faces of some of her neighbors When he stopped, as he al- ways did. bwide her. He had uttered As she sat alone and very tired, de- spite her youth and strength, for she ghad been at work 'since the first dawn ?of the dreary February morning; her mind wenti back over the events of the day. The cram-“ling out of bed in the dark to get Jim’s breakfast. and her own. then the two mile tramp to the mill. where a rich man ground as much work as he could out of several hun- dred wretched fellow beings. She had noticed how the girl next to her had coughedâ€"the women 4 always con- tracted that cough if they ‘stayed long enough in the cotton millâ€"and she had taken off her own shawl, and wrapped it about the bent and thinly clad shoul- Her head and neck had something of the statue ue in their fine. strong, lines, and er ‘hands and feet were slenderly though strongly made. The face itself was oval. and the skin a clear, pale olive, While the features were Well moulded and defined, the nose being straight â€and. the mouth wide, yet sweet. Her eyes, however, were Mollie Phelps’ chief beauty. They were large and dark, and full of pathosâ€"due partly to her lonely child- hood, and later to her passionate and unsatisfied longing for the child that had been denied her. thought rgpid‘ly. Must she (To Be Continued.) fer the bee. I seized it by the neck and tried to shove it head first into the canvas bag. I had underesti- mated the powers of my adversary. I had supposed the snake would be in such a, state, owing to the meal it was making, that there would be little trou- le in handling it, buhbefore I knew it. I felt the snake foldmg abound my “I waited 'aâ€"few mmpemts .untill the rabbit had gotten imply unto the gnakg’s ‘thmag, and .thgn- I Went af- began the process preliminary swallowing of food by a boa. compileted, the snake began to 10m: Its _victim. _‘*_ -~~â€"~"V ‘V" me to do anything at night. Still I was afraid to go away. lest the snake should disappear, and it might be Weeks before I would imd it in a. place so favorable to rapture. _ ‘ "On I A.-.L WATCH AN ‘1). WAIT for my chance. I know; I was fif- teen miles from the nearest person, and that I mght cry for help as loud as I liked without the slightest prob- ability of any’ response. This was about 2 o’olook in the afternoon. It seemed as if it knew I was watching it, for it kept sharp am outlook as any snake I ever saw. I waited until darknes§ came. It was impossiibie for “I thought the situatilom over and oomoiudcd that the only thing for me to do was to -‘ tgm canvaï¬v Bag foggieabtï¬gugge $5.; awogepner too large for anything of that sort. . __ _ u...“ N..-v.â€"g asqu "no“ I found traces of the bnake. I t ail- ed it for half a mile and at last came within sight of it. It was a big one. and no mistake, but there did not seem amy opportunity for me to cap- ture. 1 readlzed that: it would be im~ possible to get it alive, for though 1 timid crowd a. pretty_ big snake into after my second trip, and so decided to make a third attempt 1 Went to that; portion of Edam: Boimt. Key that 13 known as the Prairie, being that sect-10m of Lt nearest the Hand. If I could find the snake there, I knew I would have a better fighting chance to attack it. Fortune seemed with me this tithe, for I had "barely landed When r £AC‘-_ ~’ '3- America could be of that size, and so fancied there must be a good deal of exaggeration. I made mp my mind I would at least take a look at the monster if I ooufld not capture it, and made two trips to Black Point Key for the purpose. I could not even Catch a. glimpse of the smake, and not be- ing desirous of placing myself in such a position that it canard catch me u~n~ awares if it reail y prov ed to be as horrible as my informants had stated. I kept out of the underibrush and avoided pflaoes Where it could drop on me from trees. IN A STATE OF TERROR regarding the snake, and in constant fear that it woufld leave the key on which it had been for so ‘long, pay them- a visit, and possibfly eat them before they could do 'amythlng about it. The Length of the snake, they de- cdared was phemnmenal, and it is an actual fact that a number of men who said they had seem it were Willing to make affidavit that it was fully a Ship containing specimens from South America for a. circus im the United and. it was supposw that this snake. which was really kimlg of Black Point "Black Paint Key lies just off the coast and at the edge of the Ever- Etudes. It is a low ridge topped by agrorwth of pines. \Vhizle an island now, it originally was a. neck of land. Theipeople who lived can the adjacent keys were ing statement, which tells in graphic language exactly What his fortunes and misfortunes we re: “I have been working twenty-six years in the imterest of science, and in 3111 that time never experienced an adventure so peritous as the one that befall me an Black Point Key. I had m an that time never experienced an adventure so periflous as the one that befedl me 0m Black Point Key. I had heard 0f. a- great snake being there, and made up my mind that it must be a spemmeln worth {bookitng after. The story as it came to me was that to relate it. He watahed the python Without food Or 53981:) for twenty-four hours before the opportunity came which enabled him to try to master it. with some possibility of success. The professor has prepared the fallow- ll Prof. Bali-atom tells a thrilling story of his adventure with the smake,_ and it seems almost a. miracle that he lived Cl of. He Start-ed Out to Capture a Big Snake. But. the Snake Came Near to Making a Captive of [umâ€"A Terrible Struggle in the “This of Florida. .A huge Brazilian boa constrictor which has ruled Black Point Key, Fla... for a long time has been captured ‘by Prof. Walter Ralston, of the Smithson- ian Institution, at Washington, who Went to Florida for the purpose. The snake measure-d fifteen feetin length and Weighed fully seventy- five pounds. It is supposed to have killed several Demons who landed on Black Point Key, and have never since been heard THE THRILLING ADVENTURE OF WASHINGTON SCIENTIST. IN THE GUILS OF A PYTHON the snake again soon no snake from South to the “No one who has not been in India. ' horrors of .the . . I beheve though that the Worst. lsover .n ' Testimony of a Missionary who {or Eighteen Years has Served in India. One of the passengers to New York on the Germanic was Dr. C. J. R. Ewing, of Lahore, India. Eighteen- years ago Dr.. Ewing went outas a missflomary of the Presbyterian church. 1"? A volume would not contain the stories told by expert jewelers of the misfortunes of pearls. Consisting al- most entirely of carbonate of lime, they are easily damaged, and when once injured cannot be restored. circumstances. They are easily crack- ed and broken, sometimes they lose their luster through handling while the acids contained in the perspira- tion of the skin have been known to affect them. stitious stories connected with them, since to the polishers and setters it is one of the most troublesome gems on. their list. Microtonists say that the prismatic colorsoand fire .of the opal passed the ordeals of grinding ,polishing and setting (1 onot often crack after- ward, but it is best not to expose them to even the moderate heat involved by mate, which was kept. in darkness. In the case of the garnet and to 9.2 the change is more rapid than in t at of the ruby and sapphire, but there is a curiOus difference in‘ the result in topaz and garnet; for, While the lat- terioration' of colored gems through exposure showed that even these suf- fered, a ruby which had lain for two years in a show window being percep- tibly lighter in tint than its original mate, which was Kent. in darknpsu, M'ALADIES OF GEMS. Among infirmitiw to which precious stones are liable is one common to 3.111 ing color, when long exposed to the light, says a contemporary. The emer- ald, the sapphire and the ruby suffer the least, their colors being as nearly a Hall. 111C118? WMB. 1-5335†3313038612; it is as 11eg a one I ever encountered.†The Snake is being prepared ï¬otr Pm" eerva'tlom, and before long Wiil be 9110 of the curiosities of .the Smthsonm Inst. itutihm at 'VVasLhi ngton. . 13113 Snake ié @11ka any- I ever gag b‘EfQTB. but I am satisfied it is b “2111M: python. It is of a dull hm“. ‘11 Donor. with black spots. Its th 13 about four inch-es long. and ree and qhaif inches wide. Taken on+n|m-1_1 .â€"_ vvvâ€"u- va-uv INWHU OJ â€UM“. So I choked it’wvth. an the strength 0 which I was capable. To my joy, I felt the held of the snake upon me re- lax, and the coils slipped down as they loosened. I pushed the head and neck to the ground, stifll keeping one hand and my knee thereom I managed with the other to gain possession of the knife at. my belt._ With. this I soon BRITAIN’S BENEFICENT RULE. ing at me: with the mmEVvvï¬Iaâ€"doévgl‘gï¬t look it is possible to imagine. ‘lmk;fl â€in.“ “ L‘- 3'5 _._ - “It is impossible for me to describe : with a pen such a frightfuzl position. EThe smaike turned its head towards me and hissed in my face, darting out its forked tomgue as if it would pierce me with. it. I expected to be slowly squeezed to death, but to my surprise the fodds did not tighten, and then I realized that owing to the po-- sitiom of the rabbit in the snake’s throat, the pressure of my hands there- On was having an effect. Besides this, the snake was not seemineg in the possession of its fufll powers. My hands are rather musculiar, and I doubt if this fact will ever staand me 111 better stead. I squeezed the snake's throat as vigorously as possible, and it kept up a. .qotntinuail hissing, glar- -..-_ _.L _ l I would be squeezed to jelly. limbs. In a. marvelously short spaoe of time the snake was about me as far as the abdomen. I clung to its throat despgmtely, realizing that if I once lost ny‘hoad ii'wnuld bé like " SIGNING MY 9mm: WARRANT. donna 9 have . s by the curious at h., have revived recollecâ€" tions of a primative light used in the _ ' ,tlemaents-alongthe Columbia RLVer W , here the residen called smelts candlefish. The ' . dried smeLts bum aqwell as ' , ' off an appetizlng odor The Amoor, the "great stream of China and Siberia, is 1,500 miles long and is. frozen for nearly nine months of the man who is worth 1 don’t know how many millions, but, alot of ’em. “â€110 oyer some matter we had oceasron to dlSCUSS. spoke of this temporary man- had obtusernass concerning a word as an experience of his own. “It seemed kind of stmnge that a man with, all his millions should ever flnd himself.“ unable to spell just a Slfllplle little word, but in: that respect we were just alike. I could wish that. Mr. Hooaley has made much of his money as a promoter of companies, par- ticuiarly bicycle and bicycle tire con- krns. He says he is making his land urchases because he believes five years Will see a ‘great rise in lands which are pow-absurdly cheap. \Vhen 1n London '58 1 ! l I _l f perienoe. tehx'mgh it aï¬nmst seems as If some persons ought: to be exempt from 1t. 1. men, for munce. 01100. 3 lle Finds Himself, in One Respect at Least. Like a Man Whose Means are Ample. “If,†said the man of moderate means “we dwell too 10mg upon a word our argpreheinsion of it is likely to become (11ml. The Word may even cease to 100k familiar; and we may find our- selves unable even to tell whether. it is correctly spelled or not, though it may be a very simple word indeed. It THE MARf 0F MODERATE MEANS. â€"â€"vâ€"â€" -â€"â€" "VIIIâ€"“v- he lives at the Midland Grand Hotel where he has the whoï¬e first floor for Which he pays a rental of over $50,000 per year. Mr. Hoodey’s offense seems to be two- fold. He has made money so fast that. he. has bewiddered even Barney Bar- auto. He buys things that cost a mixi- llcm or more as calmly as another man buys a cigar. Then again, among the things he has bought. are a number.- hlqtoric estates beï¬osnaging to money- poor aristocracy. Among the estates he has bought; are those of Lord Ashâ€" burto-n Lord Churchill, the Countess of Warwick and Lord Sudiey’s great. property at Tedhngton, which had been in the famiiy since the Norman conquest. {This prosperity and this moneybags vandalism are things not. easily forgiven. in each distribt, the twrellve being made all shades of creed and tail service of pure gold, and at that there war-3‘3. great outcry and much ridicule, just as there is now over the $2,000,000 charity gift. Mr. Harley is accused of “putthng a premium on idleness,†"fiddling for popularity,“ “Fishing for royal: recognition,†m the form of a. title, and so through the Wiggle "carping gamut. vNo-t long ago Mr. Hooley gave St Paul's Catheqral, Lundpn, a. sacramen- no not reoelve the money outright. but it!) the {qrm of ordjem tor suppiies up~ 9n QLStrl-but'mg stores, the orders be- ing Issued by 9. The Prince of Wad-es suggested that the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Vic. rria’s accession to the throne would best be celebrated by the devotion of sums of money by the rich tonmds the relief of those of the Queen's subjects .whoare in want nad misery. Mr. Hoe ley, who makes milliems while other ipeopI-e are making pounds. acted upon the suggestion. He gave outright the sum of $2,060,000, the income of which is to be distributed to the aged poor, the widows and the infirm of that part of Derbyshire with which Mr. Hoodey is most identiï¬ed. The money is distrihs uted to towns in proportion to their population. A tom-m of 10,000 inhabi- tants Will get $5,000 per year, while a. village of 3,000 population will get $1,500, and so om. Tihe beneficiaries.- do not receive the money outright, but -! Money Faster Even Than Barney 1 to, and “as Money Unlimited. The abuse of Ernest Terah 1h London's newest mild ionaire, con: toring throughout England. Hiq‘ sensational contribution to chm the peg on which they are just hanging all the unpleasant things are saying about him. BRITISH PUBLIC DOES NOT HGOLEY’S CHARITY. THEY SHEER AT HIS m PRIMITIVE LIGHT GR E’AT RIVER-S ., have revived recollecâ€" cangillefish. "The . dried they nonn’s KIDNEY PILL Other Medicines never touch I'Illl lnfalllbly (‘ul-c.-ISI and Paul. â€"- Pscscrvlm ltmnslh.â€"-D°Il°t â€If 3 Ge‘ In health the body ‘ doesn't reqaire. and 1‘ "ML In disease at (g .91.. b! cont of us (10 [ft WHAT 31‘6