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THE BURLTNGTON VVK PRRS5. THURSDAY, AUGUST 17. 1899 9 Til E FORAY OF 1 A PKAF.SCUIPT. Out of the gray emptiness of the Unltic tliu slow, .sullen wives were rolling, thudding on the winds of tlio llttlo rook ringed bay with monoto nous, rhythmic fall, The horizon was an uncertain niergo of .sea and sky, unbroken by a single 11. The swish of the lagging breakers made a never (tiding drone, swallowing all lesser finunds into a stillness. From out of the deep the mighty swellings march ed upon the straud, moving Hllenees of tesistless power. I'.tlt for the sea birds Hint perked and preened their white bosoms upon the dark rocks the place teemed void, lifeless, desolate. Yet behind ouo of the smooth, tldo worn bowlders something moved -comething that picked and snatched at the, pebbles with white, nerveless lin gers, elawlug nt them aimlessly. Be neath the shadow of the rock crouch ed a man, bearded, long haired, in lllthy rags, swnrt with the dust of road ami field, animal, savage, hud dling to the stone like n laired Jackal. At his feet lay a cup, a tall, richly chased, double handed beaker, gleam ing yellow with the shceu of gold uu alloyed. Kinged round it on the sand lay a necklet of timber beads, eaeli pel let large as a cherry and locked to Its neighbor by thick strands of virgin metal. The lean fingers toyed and twisted the circle of beads into a hundred wbnpes and coronals, and as the human beast lifted up Its voice now and again a mirthless laugh cleft the unending beat of the purges. The harsh rasp Df it cut the echoes horribly, and cir cling in their poised squadrons over bead the terns walled an answering plaint. From far inland oyt of the fathering dusk came a long drawn, throaty call, the howl of the wolf lead ing the famished pack atleld. There were other wolves astir than those gaunt scavengers of the night. Behind the ring of rocks that ridged landward behind the bay another man cowered and watched hungrily the nig ged waif upon the sand. Ills eyes gleamed tlgerlsbly, Ills hands grasped with knotted muscles the tags of sea weed beside him; half leaning, half squattlug, his loins heaved with the violence of his pulses, swaying his body uncertainly. Now and again ho left his strict espial into the cove and swept his gaze impatiently inland. Down upon the pebbles the restless vagrant churned the sand and wreath ed the necklet ceaselessly, and his vain. Joyless laugh rang in idle repetition across the rocks. At the sound the spy shook with an gry tension, and Ids body arched as if to spring. So might a coward wolf have crouched behind a slow dying bullock. -K:ddenIy across a glndo of the hag gard pine forest behind him three dis tant figures showed In black, moving i dots. In one of ids swift pcerlugs j across the tumble of bowlders they caught his eye. Tor a second he hesitated; then with j a last look at the wretch, who still thrashed and crooned upon the peb- . bles, he turned and ran, bending almost ! to his belly, among the tangle of gran ite slabs between the foreshore aud the forest. It was with the slinking travel of a Stoat rather than the gait of a man V The lean finders twisted the circle of heads into a hundred tlxtpcs mul uironuin. tiiat he sped Into the twilight of the pines, twisting his way among the dark trunks. It was with a stoat's Hidden, silent uprising that he emerged Into the path and stood before three gray coated soldiers. The leader, with the chevrons of n sergeant on his sleeve, looked at him ns a terrier might at the ferret who thrusts out the rat Into his Jaws. Ills face was a concentrated sneer as he found his voice In a single word. "Well?" he queried. "All Is well, little father. I havo tracked him. Some of the spoil lies be side him openly." In the excitement of his reply ho drew up to the soldier, and his eyes gleamed into the other's repugnant face. Ills hands worked one within another calmly. The sergeant fell back with a gesture of disgust. "Ugh!" he grunted. "Lead on. sleuth hound." For a single instant a malicious spasm crossed the eager face the white teeth slinno with a snarl. Then the bent shoulders dropped back Into their grovel of deference, nnd tho hu man stoat began to wind among the tumbled rocks again as he hail come. Tho sergeant and his two apathetic companions followed, their military up rightness sadly broken by the yawning clefts. Down upon the sands tho outcast still smote childishly at his sheltering mass of granite and looped his amber beads. Nor did he alter his position as the four advanced upon him. Only the nabal shrilling of his laughter b'ayed BY F.M.SAVILE., out rather more insistently upon the hllenre and prolonged Itself Into the echoes of the shore. lie scooped a handful of orange sand Into his goblet and raised it to his mouth, pledging the newcomers in fan tastic show. Then again his yelling travesty of mirth broke across the rush and backflow of the tide. One of the waiting soldiers thrust his hand Into his breast nud touched tin; elkon that huug from his swarthy throat. Ho called softly the good saint's name to protect hint from nil devilries. The sergeant laid his hand roughly upon the ragged shoulder. "No mere fooling," said ho tersely. "Get up, dog." The wild, aimless hands still tnowod tho pebbles unlieedlngly, and the blur red eyes roved vacantly across tho waste of waters. A tlako or two of snow began to fall from tho massed clouds. Impatiently the sergeant kicked at the huddled limbs, cursing with a tierce oath their listless. Inhuman swaylngs. The tossing, ungoverned hands staid themselves Into rigid surprise bo- np.'ltll the stroke nf tho honvr hnnt Then with a yell of furious pain the i man animal sprang upon his aggressor, tenrlng and worrying with blind, bes tlal ferocity at his flesh. A crimson stain followed quick upon the leopard like spring, smearing the coarse mil form. The two men fell together to ' earth, their strivings beating the pel) bly strand as a pestle beats within a mortar. They lost themselves In an in distinguishable whirl of striving, oath spitting rage. The suddenness of the fray at tlrst left the others motionless with amaze ment. Then with a shout they fell up on the twined furies of the light and tore their leader from the throttling hands of his assailant. It took tho three of them to restrain the mad man's wrlthlngs. It was not till they had shackled him with the straps of their bandoliers that they had him un der any control. With linked hands and ankles he rolled upon the sand, shrieking his unintelligible mouthlngs in a frenzy of lighting lust. The blasphemies of the sergeant rose from him like a cloud as he laved his torn limbs in the sea water. "The accursed brute's a mnnlac!' he shouted. "Wither and blast him! Why In the name of St. I'aul and all saints did you let me handle the hog, you son of perdition''' he asked fierce ly, turning on tho spy. "One of tho noble birth," pleaded tho other. "He shams. As there Is n God in heaven he makes pretense of this delirium to conceal his evil doings. Give me but leave to question him with fear, and he shall tell all all, as I live." "Do your devllmost," quoth the ser geant with a coarse oatli as he turned si train to the washing of his wound, and Into the eyes of the man stoat rose a light of unholy, hideous desire. They stretched the kicking, writhing, wretch upon the shore and piled rocks upon him, crushing his breath from him to the bare limits of existence. Between his bound lingers they burned matches; beneath ills nails they thrust splinters; after each torture they plied him with one question a single, mo notonous query. Naught did they get save yells that might have sprung from tho ninth circle of tho lost. In his disappointment and lust for cruelty the unsuccessful torturer sug gested unprintable atrocities. The sol diers, already .sickened Into half a mutiny, cursed him Into silence. Final J iff 'fffl n , J) ly at a word from the leader they 1 "owls or a ttiousanil men, they smote heaved their chattering victim to ills , P their prey. For I!0 frightful sec feet, unbound his lower limbs and be- otl,ls ,mr swaying tangles of rending tween them forced him across the eoth and claws fought and churned rocks forestward. They faded down snow, while out of them burst the trail among the pines ns the even- 1 oihs, shrieks nnd the spurting blood ing closed upon them, nnd the snow began to fall in earnest at last. The great feathery flakes thickened and swirled In the air, carpeting tho ground in swiftly piling layers. They fell upon the pines nnd spruces of the forest till each to the topmoHt bough was laden aud drooping with the cling ing weight. They covered and wiped out the dark trail as a schoolboy sponges his slate. The woods were putting on their winter clothing thick, woolly, as the bears that lived among them. They would not doff It till the spring. Night nnd snow wrapped them its by curtains that ran upon a slnglo rod. The men tumbled along wearily, thrusting their prisoner before them. They cursed Impartially the weather and tlielr quest, nor forgot to spare an execration or two for their guide, who slunk ahead, wiping now and again the drifted snow from a pine trunk to seek the yellow blaze upon It. As tho darkness deepened he did this with In creasing diilleulty, scrabbling at the flake wrapped bolls with the nervous energy of despair. At every halt the sergeant swore with growing fervor, anil the wretched craven shook wltllS dismal affright. Faintly down tho aisles of plno canto a moaning, drift borne cry. Low, deep nnd full It hegan, then swelled and shrilled to ravening discords of hunger and desire. The single, llrst heard unto lost Itself In a tossing chorus of yells. Leaping, echoing, they smote apart the thick silences of the snow bound for est. With gathering, swift growing suddenness they tilled the night. From every thicket they rose out of seeming I emptiness. The roof of naked boughs cast them back to earth as they rolled pealing down the arched avenues of trees. They linked themselves to tho hiss and swirl of the gale. The four aud their prisoner were stumbling below a barrier of rocks that edged the forest. Black clefts and crannies broke Its overhanging face. The fearsome echoes beat upon It and were Hung back ns from a bounding board. Dark, lithe, snow patched forms were about their path. The bluy.e of hot, devouring eyes glinted from countless lairs among the bowl ders nnd bushes that fringed the cng foot. A thousand fangs were bared up' on them yellow, snarling, whetted for slaughter, lusting for blood. Tho soldiers backed upon tho rocks and with rllles nt the ready peered out into the night. Groveling behind them, thrusting nt the sheer wnll ns If ho would seek refuge In Its pitiless breast, moaning, abject, huddled and scarce human, crouched the guld". Strad dling across him, gibbering, calling, laughing aloud Ids gleeless mirth, churning the snow with shoeless feet, beating with bound hands upon tho stones, stood the captive and spurned the cowering wretch with his tramp lugs. A score of paces away the gray wolves ringed them In and licked their lean Jaws. Thrusting and Jostling one upon another, they gaped upon their i prey ravenously, lashing themselves , by slow degrees to the desperation of i attack. 1 The sergeant was muttering nnd ' cursing, lingering with nervous hands at tho lock of his rltlo. He turned and with a kick and fierce oath quieted the whlnlngs of the, guide. At the same moment his glance rested on th-prisoner. A peculiar ex pression passed his face. As one who acts on sudden Impulse, he drew from his belt his sheathed knife and cut sav agely at the lashings that bound the other's w:-J'.s. With the strength of despair the despair that poises all on one last throw he tlung him forward nlmot Into tho Jaws of the clamoring, righting throng. "Uun, son of a dog, run!" he roared. "Curses be thick on you! Make Into the forest!" With a yell that rang and shrilled unearthlly above the baying of tho pack the madman smote tlallllke upon tho c!"!!c'1 ''allks of cnKor fammo' bursting tho serried lino by mere torce of impact and surprise. Out Into tho drift swept avenues lie leaped, and with hot teeth agleam and howls as from the pit the torrent of wolves wlrietl together and swept upon Ills track. A short GO yards ho held his ad vantage. Then with n snap tho fangs of the leader met In his lleshless thigh. Screaming, he turned and with ma niac strength seized In each hand a white toothed Jaw and rent and split them one from each other. As ho cast away the torn and bloody mask, like a crested wave the pack tlung Itself upon him, bellowing for slaughter, snarling, tangled, biting with unseeing fury each other's twist ed limbs. Above tho wretch's head a plno j branch ran out, bent with the gales of I scores of winters, frost shrunk, but ! gnarled to a sapless strength. Bleed i lug, desperate, shrieking, he raised and I linked his tormented arms about It I and, strong with his furious agony, swung himself up out of the wild hur tle of teetli and flying fur. A score of disappointed raveners leaped at their escaping quarry and scored and stripped the skin from him with straining teeth. Still shrieking, lie dragged himself forward nnd crawled horribly toward the trunk. The dark blood fell In gouts upon tho snow, and the panting brutes below licked aud sniffed at It with quarrel lugs. Above their torn victim climbed and moved among the pine needles to a higher shelter. As the friendly boughs closed about him, wrapping him in their warm, welcome shelter, veiling him from the yelling horde below, some tension snapped within him like the sudden parting of n riddle string. A cry, gasping, Inhuman, kin to the scream of the speared otter, rang out nbove the wild clamor of the pack. Limply ho fell forward Into the thick losses of the knitted twigs and lay motionless. Ills body hung derelict like the wind drift of a storm. Beneath the living corpse the wolves swung round to seek ror quicker meat. Back from the ruddy, trampled patch of snow they charged, filled with the fury that has tasted blood, In thick, re sistless column that staid not for knife or gun. Three shots rang out, and, with of men. Then came quiet but for the snarls of Jealous raiders and tho crunch of human bones. One by one the glutted scavengers sought tlielr lairs. The white light of the rising moon showed only scarlet tramplings and shreds of gray uniform where three rltles had fallen abroad, Aniong.the pine needles an Inert body Ktill liy without sign of life, like some hlcli tossed jetsam of the forest. CHAPTER I. A HOSPITAL l'ATir.NT. "It's good to see you again, old man," said Barr, the house surgeon. "Tho fat of prosperity's tliick upon you. Heavens, what a skinny fellow you used to be, and now good Lord!" The other smiled richly. The mellow March sunshine glinted through tho open window aud enveloped hlin with n wealthy halo. His waistcoat was creased with complacent folds. He blew a long cloud of smoke and beam ed upon his companion. "It Is good," ho assented briefly. Then as the happy retrospect loosened his tongue ho became suddenly gar rulous. "By .love, Arthur, to think that It was only In '52 that I was a weary wound dresser like you and this Is only 'M, two years! It seems a lifetime, old boy." Barr smiled back, but n llttlo dreari ly. "It seems more than two years to me, but for other reasons." "Poor old chap," sympathized Des mond. "You've been tied to this old place all that time, while I Look I here, Arthur, come with mo! You'vu 1 never tasted freedom yet. Come with mo, old man. I'll show you. Tho sea, my boy, the boundless sea. Hackneyed phrase that, but, my, lts so!" Barr shrugged his shoulders. "Thanks many, old man. Awfly good of you, but Impossible." "Is It?" queried the other. "That's where you make your mistake. Tho old Hendrlk's In dock now, relit and so forth, but next week I go out again upon tho waters. Come, Arthur, Come with me and be my lovo, You shall live live tho life of the 'Maine less salt. You shall smell the sweot ecu smell Instead of filthy antiseptics, learn tho Inside clinch or the Usher nun's bend Instead of the eternal bandage, roll and bandage. You'll sleep the dreamless sleep of the surge rocked mariner- poetry that Instead of TleiiBC, sir, No. 52's n-choklng and u-coughlng 'orrld.' " Barr chm -led. "Yes, they generally choose nbout 2 a. in. to wnku up and choke," ho an swered, with a twinkle. "It would be scrumptious to get away for awhile, but but it's no good thinking of It. 1 daren't, old man. 1 should get the boot. 1 can't afford that." The other gurgled gleefully, licking tho butt of a uew cigar. "Fact Is, old chap," ho said, half apologetically, "I've arranged It. Met Sir William on the stairs. Deuced civil, he was. Men tioned old days when 1 dressed for him. Congratulated mo ou the splen did position to which I'd succeeded. Had known Undo Silas well. Heard my Norfolk shouting was among tho best in England. Was It COO or 030 braco wo got when Lowndes was with me? Naturally I took the hint." And the speaker giggled romlnlscently. "Well?" queried Barr breathlessly, "Wliafs that got to do with" "Shut up. Naturally I asked him If he'd look me up in October. Delighted. Booked loth to '-".hi then nnd there. Then I said how run down you looked. He quite agreed. I suggested sea voy age. He thought it just the thing. Should mention It to the board. Might tell my friend. So pleased tj have met mo. Au revolr." Barr leaped to his feet and fairly yelled. "What! I'm to have a month without having to go. Did he promise? Billy. If It's so, you're a cherub." "Two months," quoth Billy stolidly. "Told him there wns no gcod in half measures. Me thought the same. Fane's to take It on." Harr smote his friend upon the shoul der and danced to the window and back to the fireplace In three skips. "Billy," he bawled, "you're the origi nal S i 11 lit rltan reincarnated. In anoth er month 1 verily believe I should have fallen by the wayside. And now. now!" The speaker found no words1 to explain his raptuie. "That's all right, old man, that's all right," said the stout benefactor "Within n couple of weeks you'll bo deathly sick and cursing me. Hut It'll do you a power of good. The sickness, I mean, not the cursing. Now, just walk me round the old eharnel house again, for old sake's sake. I should like to sniff the carbolic once more1." They wandered up the broad stair way together and Into the long wards, the sights and sounds and smells sink ing Into the soul of Burr's companion with a familiarity that rolled back as a curtain the last two magnlllcent years. He was no longer the county magnate, the yacht owner, the proprietor of a string of Newmarket cracks. He was Just plain Billy Desmond again, and the white faces that stared from above the edges of the blue check coverlets roused in him a professional instinct i H. lie ?nt up find nrtttrefsecl them, gesticu lating violently, and believe It as you may a profes sional pity that left no room for other and more prosperous emotions. He stopped and looked curiously at a diet card or two and patted a child's thin hand that was picking idly at tho bed cover. "Anything out of tho common, old chap?" ho queried. "N-no," said Barr cautiously. "Bath er curious tracheotomy that. Child here for common fracture of the leg. She was playing with a tin soldier tho mother bought and swallowed It. Wo had to pierce tho trachea lu a hurry to prevent choking. That's a. strange case over In the corner too. it's a beg gar picked up Insensible Wapplng way. When he came to, ho could only say one word, or rather make one sound. Sir William made It out to be a form of aphasia splinter pressing on tho brain. He operated. Quito right, splin ter was there. He makes any amount of sounds now, but the worst of It Is we can't understand one of 'em." They were standing opposite n cot In which a white faced, bearded man thrashed wearily at tho blankets and chattered to himself In a torrent of hoarse, guttural words. Ho ''gazed eagerly at the pair as they approached, and the storm of soliloquy rose higher. He sat up and addressed them, gesticu lating violently. Suddenly Desmond staid himself and stopped short at tho bed foot. "Great heavens!" he declared. "Tho chap's talking Finnish!" "Finnish!" quoth Burr with an In dulgent smile. "What on earth d'you know of Finnish, Billy?" "Not much, old man. But I've boon up the Baltic for three months out of each year for the last two, so I know something. As far as I can make out he's Jawing Infernal nonsense, but that it's the nonsense of Finland I'm prepared to bet my hat." He turned to the bed nnd said a fow hesitating words. A light leaped to the hopeless, weary eyes, and the lips left their aimless motion, gaping wide In astonishment. Then a yell resounded through tho quiet of the ward. The patient sprang incontinently from his bed nnd flung his arms round Desmond's neck. Be fore the Matter could repel this out rageous assault two hoarded lips had pressed a passionate salute upon his forehead. Then with triumphant ges tieulatlou the Btorw of words roared on. 'lite, ward wns morally and physical ly paralyzed, Doctor, nurses aud pa tients stared upon this astounding rupture of tho decorum of the room entirely unable to voice their emotions. Tim mouthed babblings of the Finn smoto upon a silence born of stupefac tion. Desmond laughed gleefully. "Well, old chnp, how's that? Bring hlin somewhere for me to talk to him comfortably. He's simply wild with excitement and delight at finding a .lohnny who understands hlin. It won't do for mo to collogue with him here. It would upset tho ward." "If you're quite sure that he's not a dangerous lunatic," begnn Barr. "That's right enough," Interrupted Desmond, uimlng toward the door. "You send him along to me, and I'll find out all about hlin. He's as snno as you or me now. Send hlni along." Barr shrugged his shoulders and made no further opposition. At his order two attendants came forward and helped the man Into the regula tion slop suit of the convalescent. Sup porting hlni, they followed Desmond down to the house surgeon's prlvato room. There they left hlni pouring out words and yet more words at his new found friend. One of the attend ants thrust his tongue Into his cheek as he retired Into the passage. Ho winked toward his companion and tapped his forehead significantly. . "You're right," said the other. "Both of 'em, 1 should say." Then they pass ed back to routine grinning. Barr went on through the wards, and nn hour had gone by before he finished his rounds. When he returned to his room again, the patient was still talk ing, talking, but the first passionate outburst had subsided Into a slow, ceaseless stream of monologue. Des mond, his elbows leant upon the table, was staring across at hlni. His eyes were alight with an Interest that his usual stout complacency utterly failed to conceal. "My goodness, Arthur!" he called as Barr entered. "Come here and pinch nie. old chap. Either I'm dreaming the worst sort of nightmare or else we've got a chance before us that doesn't happen to a man twice lu a lifetime. Such things as I've heard!" Barr sniffed. "You must recollect, Billy, that the beggar's only half wit tod at present. Aphasia's a rummy thing. Probably he's just remembering something that he's dreamed or what not, nnd thinks It's a reality. What's ho been trying to tell you?" "You shall hear afterward, old man. For the present get this beggar Into a private ward and the best of attend ance. I'll si ami the shot. 1 want hlni to buck up nud get well and as quick as possible too." Barr dlu not look enthusiastic. "He's been getting everything he wants so far," he said stiffly. "We don't 111 treat them as a rule, even In the public wards." Desmond chuckled Joyously. "There, there, my son, don't be shirty. You for get I know the secrets of the slaughter house as well as you. I know he's had lite best of everything, but lie hasn't had the quiet he needs, or, rather, that I shall need, for I'm coming to see lit in every dny. Next week he sails with you and mo for Uleaborg, and very likely for one or two other places that you've never heard of. So don't you bo a hedgehog, but do as I tell you." Barr stared at him in deepest aston ishment. "Good Lord!" he burst out. "Y'ou're going to tnke this Ylddlsher on your yacht! Heavens above! Billy, you're as demented as he is." Now, my good Arthur," answered Desmond solemnly, "don't you thluk I may know my own business as well as you doV Get this man comfortably lu to a private ward, and then, but not before, you shall hear all there Is to hear. What's the good of arguing about things you don't understand in the least?" "Barr shrugged his shoulders and dropped further discussion. In silence he touched the bell. Back came the two attendants and received their fur ther orders. Desmond added a guttural word or two to tlio patient, and all three retired stalrward. The Finn con tinued to wave his hand excitedly to ward his benefactor as he withdrew upward, and the How of his grateful words died slowly Into the emptiness of the passages. A door shut In the distance. The last echoes of his chat tering were still. Then Barr turned again to his friend. "Now perhaps," said lie, "you'll be kind enough to explain yourself. What has this hopeless imbecile been stutllng you with V" The other looked nt him with an air of compassion. He nipped tho end of ills cigar and spat a shred of leaf into the L'i'ate before he answered, settllncr himself comfortably Into the recesses of his armchair. "What an old, fat headed, narrow minded customer yon are, Arthur," he began cheerfully. "Kvor beeu out of F.nglund yet? No; now I come to think of It. you never have. Well, we'll right nil that presently. However, here goes for the romance, If you like to think It so. I swear to you It's gospel truth. I feel It In my bones. The chap couldn't have possibly Imagined the thing, Ho sides, I've heard myself but that's nei ther here nor there." Bnrr shoved forward the other easy chair and reached for a cigarette. "Well, I'll hear you," he said, "but draw It mild If It's particularly sensa tional. The practice of medicine doesn't Induce n high level of receptivity for the marvelous. Trot out your lie. I'll reserve judgment till afterward." TO HU CONTINUED. BhvIiik Thrlr Liven. "I guess, after all, that Ollper dm right In ids play to huva so many penplo die oil In tho second act." "Why sor "So that most of the company could escape tlto fury of tho nudlence." Detroit Free Press. Temple's Temper. An ICngllsh paper says that n deputa tion of complaining laymon waited uihui tlio archbishop of Canterbury and laid their bunion before hlni, ono item after another, tint last one being, as expressed by the spokesman, "And, my lord, wo rn gret to obstirvo Unit you fall to treat us as gentlemen." "But you are not," replied Dr. Tomplo In hl most rasping manner. (!o Well Toitetlter. "Why do you sny he's a good match for that grass wldowf" "Heeauso he's u rake." Philadelphia Bulletin. A BRILLIANT HOGCE. AS SKILLFUL AND SUCCESSFUL A THIEF AS EVER LIVED. Tho Thrilling Career of fleorerei Ilorrlnc ton A I'lchpnckrt, High Hotllng Ad venturer nnd .Australian I'lilrntatc Two Well Known 1,1 vc. Oeorgo Harrington, whoso roul name was Henry Wnltlron, was the son of nMny liooth dtlvorsiiilth nnd n mnntuii maker. Wlion a boy, lie quarreled with a fellow scholar nt n Dublin grammar pchool, and wns whipped. In revenue ho stabbed his opponont nnd, If possible, would hnvo inurilorod him. For this affair ho wns flogged so furiously thnt he dutormlnrd to run nwny from school. Ho ho stolo 10 and a silver watch from his preceptor nnd dlnappcnrod lu the middle of it May night. AtDrogheduho met it company of stroll ing players nnd lodged nt tho inn whero t-fcey wcro staying. Their mnnugor, John Price, tpok a fnnoy to Harrington and en gaged him ns nn nctor. Indeed It wns Prlco who suggested tho changing of Henry Wnlrtmn to George Harrington, h cnuso it looked better on tho bills. Prlco brought hlin Into tender connection with n mombcr of tho rompnny who called horsnif Miss Kgorton nud, when h hud hlni enninorud oomplotely of tho young wom an, proposed to him to sharo thu innuaga mrnt of tho troop. Harrington complied nnd bcrvimo Joint manager with Price. It was not long be fore Prlco found It expedient to inlnuuto to Harrington thntn young mnnof his nil dress might lntroduru himself easily into publlo places, and thitt lie nilflht find op portunities of picking pockets unnotloed nnd of escaping undetected, moro espe cially at that particular tlmn when tho fair was lxslng held. Pilce's sohotno pleased Hnrrlngton, nnd tlio noxt day he carried it Into exocutlon with great riio ceps. Tho ncqui.iltlon amounted to about 100 In Irish currency. Hallyshnnnon was tho next pluco vllted. While in tills placo Hnrrlngton qunrrellcd with Prlco, with tho result that the two adventurers parted compnny. Accompanied by Mls Kdgerton, tho young man left Hnllyslmnnon and jour neyed southward, until, In crossing tho Blver Boyno, she was drowned. After tho funeral ho went to Limerick nnd In a few weeks more to Cork. There Harrington found Prlco penniless nnd his roinnnnv dispersed. They formulated n srheino by which Hnrrlngton wits to pnsfor a pontlc mun of fortune, whllo Prlco wns to piny servant. Tho plot worked to n charm. They had credit onough to seouro horses and au outtlt, and Harrington's plausible uddress did tho rest. Operating mining thu best class of the extravagant gentry of tlio tiino, tho two roguos became familiar and popular figures in tho first society of Irolatid, and nt tho oml of 177U had n enpi tut of 1,100. On this they settled in Cork, whero Price wns detected in an at tempt to rob a young squire, arrested and sentenced to seven years' transportation. Harrington escaped to Dublin, wlicro ho lived quietly for n time. Then ho ohtuinrd pasago as a guest in Sir Alexander Schoniliorg's jacht to England. Schoni berg wns .very useful to him, and the ad venturer also found of great service tho friendship of n fellow pa-enger on thu yacht, tho Duke of Lelnster. A more profltnhlo acquaintance to Har rington, however, was a young captain In the iirmy. For many months they lived a wild life in London. Then Harrington's funds ran low, and ho went to work again. Ho picked pockets rlgh nnd left, een dipping unsuspected Into his friend's, tho Duko of LeinsUr. Tiring of London, Harrington visit (1 Brighton In thu sum mer of 1770, and thcro met tho Duke of Anrastcr, who received htm ns n gentle man of fortiinonnd noblo family. This opened up to him n royal array of lctlms, nnd brought him into contact with the most fiishlonahlo circles. Hu spent the day at court on tho anniversary of the queen's birth, when he not only contrhid to roll tho nobility present, hut to cut olf the diamond order of a nohlcmnn. IIo got it away from tho pnloco wlthouCsiisplclon. 1 As this was an article of too much vnluo , to be disposed ol in h,nglamt lie soul It to u Dutuh Jew. I In 1775 tho Russian Princo Orloff paid ' his first, visit to England. The Empress Catherine had expressed her appreciation i of his merits by presenting to him a gold snuffbox sut with brilliants. This trophy, i which was f.'ild to bo worth iiyii.OOil, was I fancied by Harrington, and he determined to get it. Onu night at Covent Garden 1 thoater ho took it from the pocket of tho 1 prince, but was caught bofuro hu left tho ; box in which the nobleman was seated j and for thu first tlmo was arrested. In court he told such a pitiful anil plausible story tint the judge wns dcoclved, and in nonscqiiencu tlio prince declined to prose cute him. His release followed, hut hu left the courtroom n ruined mnn socially, i Cut by his former intimates, hu h.ink rap- Idly and In n year was virtually a common , thief. Finally he was caught, fairly and wiis sentenced to seven years' transporta tion to the Australian penal settlements. During the voyage to Port Jnckson In 171U ho rendered great service on the con vict ship by assisting In tho quelling of n ' mutiny. This reward was a ticket of leave as soon as thu colony was reached. As a j convict prisoner ovurieer he proved sohon I ost and zealous that ho rucehod a goern- nient grant of land on tho Pannuettu riv er, the stream whero Trickett and other , Australian oarsmen niado records years after he was dead and forgotten. Ho ni ; tallied a plnco as convict overseer until his death in 1SU His ticket of lenvo expired, and ho found himsolf a rich and free man, but ho de clined to return to Knghind. Thero ho had been u common mnlofnrtor. In Aus tralia ho was u potentate ln-t small w.ty, so he remained u potuntato to the end. Ho Is remembered today because of two lines In tho prologue which he wrote for tho opening of the llrst theater in Australia: True patriots we, for, lie it understood, Wo left our country for our country's good. Kven thoso lines aro roniombored bettor thun their author. New York Sun. HORSESHOE MAGIC. it Eilmnl TIiiiiiiiiiiiiIk of Ycnrt Do- fore Horseshoe Were Kminn, Horseshoe magic Is a subject which seems to be of perennial Interest, says a writer hi St. Paul's, mainly because It touches that little substratum ot super stitious beliefs which is inherent in most of us, though, being a materialistic people lu n materialistic age and having put away from ourselves childish things, we none of us confess it. As a matter of fact, however, we are nlvuiyx, either lit erally or metaphorically, turning over i our money when we see a new moon, or ' picking up a rusty horteshoe us a hurbiu- ger of luck. But the point that never scorns to bo reached in these discussions is the cir ciimstuuce that, initially and Intrinsically, horseshoe magic has nothing to do with horseshoes. It existed long before horses were ever shod, and It has left traces of its presence in places where horses have never been known, In comparative ly modern times the horseshoe over the door nailed to the lintel with the points uppermost, lie it noted has been chiefly icgardcd as a protection ngainst witch craft, a belief which has survived hi its modified "lurk bringing" form to tho present day. But the horseshoe shaped mark has been a mystic symbol from Immemorial days, and all that modem superstition hil dune has been to fit it to the horse shoe I have seen the mark, sometimes painted and sometimes cut, on ancient shrlnc and temples In the Interior of Chinn. It has bueu In use for many cen turies lu India. It is to be found In tli Altec ruins and on the stonework of burled cities discovered recently by Dr. fchllehtor In tho region now kuown ns Hliodesla. It has been found Incised on the sncrcd Churlngn stones of the tribes of central Australia and painted on the bodies of such of the tribesmen ns havn gone through the religious mysteries pe culiar to theso aboriginal survivors. Messrs. Spencer ond Glllen tried Inst yenr to Induce the tribal priests to ex pound the horseshoe mystery to them, but It wns either too sncred or too ob scure, nnd they Icnnieil nothing save thnt the mark wns nn Indlspensnble part of their mystic rltps. The horseshoe mark is found alto In British Oulnna, in the re ligion of the Ainnzon, In Georgia nnd Illi nois, in Zululnnd, In the temple of the goddess Mat In upper Kgypt and on In numerable dolmens, klsts nnd bowlders In the British Isles, but nlwnys with the points uppermost. In so far, therefore, ns nntlqutty confers respectability horse shoe magic Is pre-emlnniitly respectable. TIip only awkward thing nbout it Is that we do not know what terrible mysteries It may have originally signified or to what papnti rites we may be unwittingly comnilttlne ourselves when we anil tho rusty symbol over our lintels. A Ilnr.l Kick. A family out In West Philadelphia lately Imported a colored boy from tlielr former home In the wilds of western Ninth Carolina, nnd though the lad has been In Philadelphia not yet quite two weeks he has already learned something which he will not soou forget. It was told this fay: Of nil the manifold chores thnt fell to his lot none gave him hnlf the delight of the hose which he was wont to use as the bun went down to wnter the bit of green lu front of the house and to sprinkle the street. This was n modern invention which had not penetrated to his moun tain home, and its wonderful possibilities as a weapon ngainst the teasings of the boys in the neighborhood impressed hlni greatly. The ether evening he was en paced in his fnvorite occupation of .sprin kling the yard, when some urchin began, from the other side of the street, to bom bard him with n volley of sticks und j stones. Here wns an opportunity not to De lost. Elevating the nozzle, he directed the stream point blnnk at the offenders, but, unfortunately, before it leached the other side of the street it came in contact with a trolley wire, and in nn instant thu ebon Importation was executing a series of back somersaults thnt finally landed hltn up against the house. As lie recovered from the effects of the electric shock he was heard to murmur, "Speck dnt must er 'most broke dat mule's leg. he kicked so hard." Philadel phia Inquirer. Clot n KIhIuk Dtig't SUrttrer. I A gentlemnn wns sitting in his room on Columbus avenue the other evening reading a paper. He was reading about ! the "kissing bugs," when his attention was suddenly diverted by the buzzing of nn insert. He looked up and snw a large ! I lly alight on hK bureau. It did not re I semble n horselly, though it was some l three times ns large ns the ordinary house i lly. It was rnther narrow and moro doll I cntely constructed than a house lly, look ing use a giant black fly. Naturally the gentleman immediately wondered if this could be the "kissing bug," like those he was reading about, nnd he at once started to make investi gations. He began by lolding his hand out toward the insect, but "te got no farther, for it straightway flow at inn, striking him between the second nnd third fingers and badly stinging his hand. He hit at it gently as the fly struck, but as the sting wns bo sharp he hit harder, killing the "bug." Although the sting had struck the man's hand only for the single instant, it was firmly imbedded and the wound whs very painful. The hand swell ed rapidly. The sting was extracted and the wound cleaned and bathed, but when the sting was subsequently examined it was found to be as hard as flint. It was nbout one thirty-second of nn inch long nnd consisted of black base with a white end, branching into two prongs. Tho prongs evidently spread out after penetrating the skin, tills causing the f'larp pain. Boston Herald. A Fnlr Swindler. A good looking young woman who said the was the daughter of a western broker who had failed in husiness sold tickets in Alleghany City recently at 10 rents each entitling the bearers to have their shoes shined by this bright and fashionably dressed young woman. She appealed for patronage on the ground thnt she was thus working her way to New York, where she would finish her miisicnl edu- I cation. It was promised thnt she would fulfill her obligations as a bootlnck at a certain barber shop. The maiden fair is estimated to have sold about .$.'0 worth of bogus pasteboards in Alleghany, as some of the victims confess to haying "0 and 0 nt the promises. For several lays an interested crowd of Alleghnnians went to the barber shop, but the "lady bootblack" failed to appear. New York Tribune. No MonqultnpN. Summer Boarder Look at my face, Mrs. Starvem. It's full of mosquito bites. Mrs. Starvem (of Hnyfield Cross roads) That's not mosquito bites. That's high livin. New York Weekly. Not Itlelitly Distributed. "Th trouble is," said the janitor phi losopher, "thot thor's altogether too much civil service in th' government an altogether too loittie in th' cars, on th' straito an in some hotils." - Chicago News. Weather Pruiihetn of lKfltl. City Miss (in the country) Is it going to rain today? Modem Farmer Don't know, mi's. The morning papers haven't got here yet. New York Weekly. Sttliiirlmii IlnrreMt Time, "Look how the bookkeeper Is smiling." "Has his salary been raised?" "No. The stenographer is letting him brag on Ids home grown tomatoes. Chi cago Record. A Xear Union. "Look up. lift up," was tho motto on the badge worn by the pale young man. "Wot's ills?" asked the elevator boy. "Has us guys got a union?"- Indianapo lis Journal. lliistoil'n Slumlord .llensnre, "This is more than 1 expected," mur mured the young woman when her suitor, with a linud half as big as a dried cod fish, proffered it to her. Boston Tran script. The busiest Thins: to tin, "Imitation is the slncerest flattery." "Oh, I don't know! Sometimes It Is nily n sign of laziness." Chicago Kec srd. WHAT UK WFICSllS. tf the driver of nn Ire w.i8"n weigh? :v rounds, what docs lis assistant on tho hi . k platform weigh? If.-. Oct up! PhIN (fulelhU Iv oril- 'THE OLD TOMCAT. I V 1t(! Mid lp o( gush tbt ttis ts1m4 t4 Hit nlftht, Mtxn tlx noon ti flooding etrthUa4 with ttt of itlvrr light, When the attri art loltly wtcklDf t ich othef In the klM, And (lit breczea gtntlr vhliper atmosphtrlo lvHli Mm. Thrrr r tMts of tti night that ioothn tUtpf teUfiw'i fur, Bl reded in u lender chorui that is mighty nlof to hear, tlut there always comet another ono to knock tl'elr Inii'ic flat Thit'i the ilcwhsh soprano ot the old tomcat I Whan the toll of day li over and the face begin! lo yawn, Anil the eyelids get to drooping like their energy a gone, Then wo pull ourseltca together, mutter couragd to unhiirk, And wa think the bed the very aoltest snap wf ever struck. Pretty noon the vision angel opens up his nlchtly allow, And we witch the (air dream pictures at they . brightly como and go, Till there enrnes a squally eto on such ecstasy at that In the deep destroying solo ot the old tomcat 1 In a voice hj thinks it tender and a dream ot harmony lie will perch upon the woodihcd and will call his sweet Marie, And the two will get together and rehearse their tale of lore In a way t'd scare an angel from Its roottin plate abotet Then a fellow's Christian tplrlt always goet upon a strike, And his words are wild at ever came resounding down the pike Aa be hurls bis houaehold treasures out to inter nipt the chat Of that diabolic putty and her old tomcat t We are weary ot the ttory ot the voices ol the night Told by dream afflicted poets when they've noth ing eUe to write, Tor they pick the grains of tweetness from the fhilT ot painful fact And omit the sounds by which our ears an devil ishly racked! Why the dlckent don't the scribblers flra a volley now nnd then At the nuisance that makee demons ot us meek and Mintly men? Cease to send their fancy pictures thro'jtfti tho old poeMe hat And assault the nightly warbling ot the old tom cat? Denver Evening Pott. Ailillna Inanlt to Injury. "Yes, sir, it is adding insult to Injury," snid young Mr. Homewooer warmly. "That's just what it Is!" "What is adding insult to injury?" de manded young Mr. Point Breeza. "Or, rather, who is doing this thing?" "Miss Murray Hill. Only a month ago she refused my offer of marriage, and today he sends me an invitation to, see her wed to another. I shall be com pelled to spend good, hard cash for a wedding present too. If that isn't add ing insult to Injury, I don't know what It is." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. A Tnrtlj- WnrnliiK. "Look out!" he cried, for the advancing vehicle was almost upon his friend. "Look out! Hero comns an au-nut, an outer-auto, an aiitomo-automohlle there, hang it! I've said it at last, but oC course it's too late," and he picked tho bleeding form of his companion from tha street as be watched the machine bowl over n policeman and crash to pieces in front of a street car. "(lood thing for the doctors," he said, "unless you've got your dictionary with, you." Cleveland Leader. A Dire Inault. The Tripper Nice boat that, captin! The Skipper Yes, and she's for sale too. The Tripper For sail! Yes, course she is. Ye didn't imagine I thought she was for steam, did ye, ye salt pork eatin shrimp catcher! Ally Sloper. Cany Ansiimptlnn. Little Helen Boo-hoo! I don't want to take that nasty, bitter stuff. Her Mamma But how do you know It's nasty nnd bitter? You haven't tasted it. Little Helen You said it would bm good for me. Chicago Times-Herald. Ketlrlnir. Jollydog The old Egyptians must have been very modest people. Pollywog Why so? Jollydog .lust think how much even those mummies have shrunk away from public gaze. Kansas City Independent Two A'leavs. She Just look at this magnificent sun set! It makes the most beautiful picture that one can possibly imagine. He (an amateur photographer) Oh, I don't know. All you get on the plate is a white spot. Photographic Life. I.nst In (Snln. "Curious paradox about thec wheel men." remarked Tolliver thoughtfully. "How's that?" inquired Bolivar. "Why, the more they make a century, the younger they die." Kansas City In-i dependent. And Then He IlrenUa Over. "I always aim t' tell th' truth," re marked an old farmer. "So do I, Silas," replied a neighbor, "but, then, n feller will trade hosses onco 'n awhile, you know." Ohio State Jour nal. Cltinrtx of Culture. "What is a cosmopolitan?" "He's a mnn who can go nil around the world without buylug a souvenir spoon." Chicago Itecord. Tvan KIuiIn of Honor. "He is a man of honor?" "Which kind French army or regular civilian?" Chicago Post. Xn MnrKtn. "Was the picnic a success?" "No; there wasn't any cake left to eat on tho way home.'" Chicago Becord. . The Welsh. The Welsh nre believed to bo tho descend nuts of tho Cymry. Tho oumo Welsh Is supposed to bo derived from tho Celt word signifying strangers or foreigners. The Welsh langungounil that of Brittany aro so nearly Identical that tho Welsh regiments in tho Duko of Wellington's nrmy found, to their astonishment, that they could un derstand tho natives of Brittany. In Oermany It Is considered nocessara; that a child should "go up" before It goes down In the world, so it is carried upstair ns soon an born. In rao there Is no up stairs, tho nurso mounts a table or ohule With thu infant- 1