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IWINNEfIrPOL-S. ' MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES. " Rice's Surprise Party In the great extravaganza "14.2" will begin a week's engagement at the Grand thi_ evening. "The Girl I Left Behind Me," Eelas -co and Fyles' border drama, was pre sented to two large audiences at the Bijou yesterday. The gifted Kentucky journalist, ora^. tor, politician and lecturer, the Hon. Henry Watterson, will deliver his cele brated lecture tonight on "Abraham Lincoln" at the Lyceum. Albert H. Fitz, Minneapolis* song writer, has written a new song, which swells into harmony with the word "Fair Rosie, My Posie." Mr. Fitz i:> the author of "Little Nellie Dobson" and other catchy melodies. The young people of the Church of the Redeemer will next Friday evening produce a play in the lecture room; of the church from the pen of A. J. Blethen Jr. The play is described as ■ a farce-comedy, and is entitled "The .War of the Roses." The university's new building for tho state school of mines has been com. pleted and equipped with the most ap proved machinery for the testing and assaying of ore. The entire plant was completed at a cost of $1.,735, of which the Business union contributed $5,000. Edward Hanson, the young man ac cused by Supt. Fay, of the associated charities, of swindling by disposing of a railroad ticket to a scalper, will be given a hearing today. The transport cation was secured by Hanson under false pretenses. .[. , y Rev. P. S. Henson, of the First Bap tist Church of Chicago, will deliver his famous lecture on "Backbone" at the First Baptist church next Friday even ing. Mr. Henson is one of the wittiest lecturers now before the public, and his. lecture should prove a genuine treat. Manager Lilt, of the Bijou, will, at the end of the regular season, put on the Griffin & Neill Stock company, a sterling organization now playing in Salt Lake City. The company is head ed by Miss Henrietta Crossman, and includes such bright names as Annie and Kate Blanke, Ted Frawley. Charles Kent, H. D. Blakemore and others. A dramatic entertainment of a de cidedly novel and interesting charac ter will be given Tuesday evening at the Metropolitan theater. At that time the new American drama "(Mr eustantial Evidence" will be given its Orel production on any stage. The play, which will be given under the auspices of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Keely institute, is the work of Miss Bencheley, of this city, and is said to contain a plot of unusual execellence. The hoard of trade is gratified at tiie interest shown by all classes of citi zens in the "Detroit plan" for reliev ing the poor by placing at their dis posal vacant lots for gardening pur posed. Secretary Hemphill has re ceived, among other tenders, an offer of a ten-acre piece of land on Thirty- Seventh street from L. F. Lay ton. A report has been made by Chair man Phelps, of the citizens' commit tee appointed by the board of county commissioners, in the matter of the Mlnnetonka dam, which shows that progress, looking to a settlement, has been made. Wednesday the board will receive the final report of the commit tee, when it is expected the vexatious question will be settled. While but a few days remain In which to secure the -.necessary sub scriptions to admit of the reorganiza tion of the new exposition company, the directors are hopeful that the property may yet be saved to the city Ihe capitol plan, which has oc casioned so much talk of late has rather had the effect of cheeking the flow of subscriptions, which were com ing m at a lively rate before the capitol project was broached. r VERY LARGE FIGURES. Appropriation* Made at Thia Ses sion of Cong-resM. WASHINGTON, March 3.-The fol lowing figures show approximately the total appropiat-ons made during the present session of congress: Agricultural, $3,303,700; army, $23,252,- COS; diplomatic and consular, $1,575,073; District of Columbia, $5,916,533; fortifi cations, $1,904,557; Indian, $9,970,948; mil itary academy, $42-1, ; pensions, $141, ---381,570; postoffices, $89,515,997; general de ficiency, $8,600,000; sundry civil, $47,140, ---000; urgent deficiency hills passed early in the session, $2,357,321; legislative, ex ecutive and judicial, $21,900,000; naval s29,llo,ooo; permanent annual, $113,073, ---95_; miscellaneous, $50,000; total, $438 ---.52.524. These figures are exact, except in the cases of the general deficiency, sundry civil, legislative, executive and judicial, naval and miscellaneous, and these are very close to the exact amounts, except possibly on the gen eral deficiency bill and miscellaneous. The figures on the general deficiency are given as the bill passed the house, and will be found to be not far from correct. Greal mining Expo. DENVER, Col.. March 3.— lt has prac tically been decided to hold an interna tional mining exposition in Denver in 18C6. D. H. Moffatt, J. H. Choate, M. J. McNamara, W. S. Ward, J. B. Grant and W. D. Lord constitute a committee to select fifty persons as a board of managers. It Is proposed to erect a building for the exposition which shall contain an auditorium capable af ac commodating 10,000 people. Appropria tions will be asked from the state legis lature and from congress in support of the exposition. . ' Nominations :tl Rochester* Special to the Globe. ROCHESTER, Minn., March 3.— The Democratic and Republican caucuses have been held, resulting in the nomi nation of Henry Ungemach for mayor on the former ticket, and Dr. W. A. Allen for mayor on the latter. The caucuses were attended with very lit tle excitement, a number of old of ficers being nominated for another term. George B. Doty, who served an county auditor for three terms and was defeated at the last election by four votes, was nominated for as sessor on. the Democratic ticket. G*n. MvCleriiuril Worse. SPRINGFIELD, 111., March Gen. MeClernand's condition Is worse today than at any time since his illness started. Last night he did not rest well and has constantly grown weak er. Today his pulse was lower than at any time during his illness. It was 45, about 22 lower tha usual, and his temperature was high. It is against his recuperation that Gen. McCler nand has surrendered hope of recov eiy. -'y^r^-'-r' Coin Coining This Way. NEW YORK, March The Cunard line steamship Aurania, which arrived today from Liverpool, brought 348,000 pounds in specie. The French Trans atlantique line steamship La Bre tagne, from Havre, brought 100,743 francs in specie. - BPB OB A $■& gas. I could get relief from fir_ E_K 6 I ____ __■ a most horrible blood ■^ Bp ■a W% disease, I had speut B__B 'GbB'BSBH hundreds of dollars Irving various remedies and physicians. My finger nails came off, and my haircameout, leav ing me perfectly bald. I then went to ■ HOT SPRINGS tut very soon became disgusted, and decided to try S. S. 8. The effect was truly wonderful. I commenced to recover after taking the first bot tle, and by the time I had taken twelve bottles, I cured entirely cured— Au^Sk __Sfe_ _______ cured byS.S.B. when the m^l ML^ world -renowned -Hot I____ \g&_ .w^ Bpriugs had failed. >8k WM. S. LOOMIB, k_ » k_ M L_JH -hreveport, La. WQ/fJ H0 Oar book on the Disease and its treatment mailed free to any address. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Atlanta, On, f-_ J -___^_t__g6_«-HI-_U''M ■ • ' Jr!»«SKS-4S .*£_. ►:■«.._ ■ -i HOLLY MILL BLAZE. Milling District Visited by a §15,000 Fire Yesterday Morning, v p^r. BLUNDER OF A WATCHMAN Causes a Serious Delay to the Department in Getting on the' Ground. MR. NYE TO SPEAK TODAY. Summing 1 Up in the Hayward Case—Where Is Mrs. Julia Walker? At. 8 o'clock yesterday morning a watchman in the milling district saw a sheet of flame about. a foot high creeping over the roof of the Holly flour mill. The watchman ran to box 25, which is a keyless box, and turned the handle outside. The bell rang, and he thought he had turned in an alarm. This mistake cost the Holly mill about $15,000, as the first intimation of the fire received at headquarters was a still alarm turned in from the - union depot several minutes later. The firemen, in consequence of this de lay, arrived on the ground late, and were further handicapped by an inadequate water supply for a time. A second and third alarm was turned in, but several minutes elapsed before the, firemen arrived. Vigorous work, however, soon got the fire under' control, and only the two upper floors of the Holly mill were seriously damaged. The plant and building is valued at $50,000, and Is insured for $20,000 with the C. B. Shove agency. The origin of the fire is unknown. The mill is a live-story stone structure, and one of the oldest in the district. It is" owned by the Holly Flour Mill company, of which C. McC. 'Reeve is president and manager, James W. Lawrence vice president, and R. H. Smith secretary and treasurer. The mill be rebuilt at once. President Reeve estimates the damage to the building at $10, --000, and to the stock $2,000. WE WILL TALK TODAY. The County Attorney .Relieves Himself Able to Spoil*-. The duration of the Hayward trial, which enters on its seventh week this morning, is now a matter of hours, yet in the short time that must elapse before the jurors retire to perform their solemn duty, a whole history must be told— the his tory of, a crime almost without par allel in the criminal annals of this country. Before the mind's eye of the vast crowd that will throng Judge Smith's court room today must pass again the horrible pano rama of Catherine Ging's brutal murder. The day will be consumed by County Attorney Nye in sum ming up the case for the state. Mr. Nye has been ill for several . days, but believes himself strong enough for the heavy task imposed upon him as public prosecutor. Mr. Nye is an eloquent advocate. He is, moreover, a plain man, who affects none of the graces of the polished orator. The eloquence which flows from his speech is grounded on facts, which he marshals with consummate skill, and if it is in the power of language to touch the coarse sensi bilities of the prisoner, he will suffer today, for he will be subject to a terrible arraignment. , Tomorrow W. „\V. Erwin, the de fendant's, attorney, will plead with all the specious reasoning at his command for the life of his client. Mr. Erwin is a natural orator. His presence is commanding, and his training has made him perhaps the most powerful advocate before a jury in a criminal case in this coun try. Mr. Erwin is a remarkably shrewd judge of human nature, and his great talents and happy temper ament make him a dangerous rival where men's opinions are to be swayed. He has saved many a neck from the halter by his masterful touch on - the humanity of jurors, and stranger things have happened than that he should walk from the Hennepin county jail . with Harry Hayward a free man. The letter from one Wheeler, of Mapleton, Minn., transpires to have been a silly hoax, and it will prob ably not be alluded to by counsel. Judge Smith's charge to the jury will doubtless be read on Wednes day morning,- and the case will go to the jury in the afternoon. Juror Dyer, who has been seriously indisposed for several days, is re ported some better, and will be able to attend the trial today, ryy-y OUAXGRS Oil LEMOXS. Mrs. Walker, Who Sim- Them Drop, liar* Left Town. " Mrs. Julia E. Walker, the hand some brunette, who told with such dramatic detail when on the wit ness stand of Harry Hayward's gathering oranges for her from, the sidewalk on an important evening in Hayward's career, has left the city. She is wanted badly by the state's attorneys, but it was learned yesterday that Mrs.Walker had gone to bleeding Kansas for a short re spite from the unpleasant notoriety she attained in connection with the Hayward trial. It will be remembered that she was called by the defense two weeks ago, and testified that Harry Hay ward once upon a time picked up some oranges for herself and a friend. After she was dismissed Frank Nye took a notion that he would like to see Mrs. Walker again, and, accordingly, he asked the de fense to call her again. John Day Smith gallantly offered to perform the service himself, and repaired at ybnee to the home of the handsome witness, only to find that she had taken up her household and tripped off to the woolly land of Mary Ellen Lease to sojourn briefly for two or three or four days or more, which is fully as long, perhaps, as the Hayward case shall last. Mrs. Walker is a charming woman in appearance, being more than ordi narily beautiful, even more beauti ful than pictured in the daily pa pers, and the disappointment was, indeed, great when the attorneys learned that she : would not be pres | ent; again, or at least not -in- all THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: MONDAY MORNING , MARCH ■■■% 1895. probability. Of course, the defense does not know anything about it, and the state ; does net know par ticularly what it wanted her recalled for, but it is at least certain that she lingers in another clime, and will not smile upon the jury again to the delight of all who fell victims of her winsome ways. Yesterday a reporter journeyed to her home, but she had not returned. The boy at the house did not know when she would. The Hayward case will go on just the same as if she were here. She is wanted, but she is away. Of course, she may return in a day or two, or in a week or two, but neither attor neys, nor court, nor jury will wait for her, for witnesses may come and witnesses may go, but the Hayward case goes' on till the jury goes home. Mr. Nye will speak, and Mr. Erwin will philosophize and expectorate, but Mrs. Walker, wanted but not will ing, will be in Kansas. FOUR I.V THE LOT.: Grocery .'ore Robbers Are Taken in Tow. Sergt. Getchell and Officer George Bahan, of the Fifth precinct, arrested John DeLong, Arthur Morris, Rudolph Sharp and Albert Merry on a charge of burglary last night. These are the four men who held up Macßeth & Armstrong's grocery store, at 405 West Thirty-fourth street, Friday night, and secured $40 In cash. At the station, the men confessed that they were the burglars who turned the trick at the grocery store. When arrested all four men were at DeLong's house and It is thought were preparing for another job. Each man was heavily armed. The Fifth precinct police force' has been suspicious of this quartette for some time and their arrest was brought about by a little clever detective work on the part of Officer Bahan. Morris's "steady company," who ac companied him to tho theater Saturday " evening, was closely questioned and the result was that enough evidence was obtained to warrant the arrests' yesterday. Vrry'''' DeLong and Merry are also charged with doing the East Side job in a grocery store Saturday night. : •_•"-"' j - K. T. Slum- Ih Demi. Frederick T. Shaw, the traveling man who was Injured on the night of Jan. 26, by falling from the sidewalk, and who has since been lying In his room at the Windsor house as the re suit of the injuries he then received, died at 7 o'clock last night without having recovered consciousness since he was injured. His remains will be. taken to Shapleigh, Me., for ; inter ment. A HUMAN 'LAMP. The Experiment of California Scl cntlMtH With a Subject.'-,'^' San Francisco Chronicle. A pallid young man, who looked as if he had swallowed an aurora boreal is, filled the lecture room at the Coop er medical college with a glow-warm effect last night. D. A. Abrams, pro fessor of pathology, was showing how an Incandescent lamp will light up the human stomach in the interest of | medical science. y "-' '•'/ v '; '-.- Quite a number of male and- female students assembled to observe the youth with the illuminated vitals. Be fore lighting up the subject, however, the professor recited a brief lecture, with the aid of blackboard illustra tions, the object being to explain the nature of the phenomena he was about to introduce. '.• 'y. : -_. ; The pale young man, it seems, is a ruminant, but does not -possess the split hoof of animals of that : species. According to the professor, the sub ject could throw his stomach around like a muscle dancer and would amuse himself at intervals by remasticaling his victuals, after the manner of the goat. But as the subject was not feel ing well he was excused from giving an exhibition in this line. When ready for the performance the professor first inserted a telephone wire into the youth and listened to the tumultuous throbbings of his heart. He next inserted a tube and flooded i the subject's interior with water. This distended the stomach and Increased the area of the illumination, which was produced by means of a small electric light at the end of a wire. The cur rent was supplied from a storage bat tery. Ater the subject had swallowed the lamp the gas was turned off. leav ing the room in total darkness. .."..., Immediately thereafter . the youth ' brightened up amidships like a switch signal in the distance. With a red and green light Inside of him the subject could have given a fair imitation of a tugboat coming through the fog. , The professor explained that with the aid of the light the presence of cancers and tumors on the anterior walls of the stomach could be easily detected. With the onward march of science the concealment of such things is no longer possible. All a man need to do is to swallow an electric light and thus find out what ails him. lie Picked. ; I Detroit Free Press. "It's funny how they do It, Isn't it?" he said to a policeman whom he met on Jefferson avenue as he came up from the depot. "How they do what?" asked the offi cer. "Why, on the train a man had three playing cards, and he tossed them around so, and so, and so, and then asked me to pick out the ace of clubs." "And of course you did it?" "Of course. Just reached right over and picked it out the first time. Then he tossed them about again and said card l I couldn't pick out the same card. "And you bet him?" ''Oh. yes - Bet him $20 even up." And you reached over and— and-. and—?" "Yes, I reached over and picked up the queen of hearts. I thought it was the ace of clubs, you know, but It wasn't." -.«"«. v Ji A w* you , w *l. n U swindler arrest ed? Where is he?" "Oh! No. no no! No. I don't want anybody arrested. Besides, he got off at Dearborn." " ■ r m "Well, what do you want?" de. manded the officer. '•: ■;ss' "Oh, nothing— nothing 'tall, except to ask you „ if " wasn't funny how they do it and warn you not to bet on the game. It blteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. So long, old boy— don't try it!" B ' Her I'nderMtniHliiiK of It. New York Herald. ionn 2"! an living on one of the fash ionable avenues had a bit of statuary bearing the inscription: "Kismet " Th* dav Se wt n id tr s ,st,n S the room one .?ou When the ""stress appeared. . thJ Sh ." r e ' mam - what's the manin'.of asL,! Ml on the bottom of this?" asked the maid, referring to the in scription on the statuary tfeKre S £ means 'Fate,' " replied the mistress. i "" ;u Bridget was limping painfully when she was walking with at " not tonS afterward, and he asket: k "Phwat's the matter, Bridget'" *alth, was her answer, "I have the most terrible korns on me kismet!" Convict Contract Labor. "CHICAGO, March 3. -The anti-con vict contract labor league today passed a resolution asking the cigar makers' International union to with draw the bill introduced in the legis lature forbidding the manufacture of cigars in prisons. ' The league has a bill pending in the legislature known as the Bogardus-Lyman bill, which, if passed, will do away altogether with contract labor in prisons. , ' __ ■ _ Boston Post. • - * -V- •"> At a 'quarter to four on the after noon of March 6, 1887, the paying cashier of. the bank in the city of London cashed a check for $10, --000, drawn by the highly respected firm of Ployd, Gow & Co., of Fen church street, merchants. . It was presented by the manager of the firm. At 3:55 the manager of Ployd, Gow & Co. handed in his book' and checks amounting to $20,000. The paying cashier looked up as he heard his voice. *" v ' "' -;. He called some one to take his place, and disappeared into - the secretary's room, and within twelve minutes the police were at work on the case. The check presented at 3:45 was a forgery, and the man who presented it 'some" "dummy," who had made himself up like Mr. Smith, of Ployd,* Gow & Cos. yVry This was not a difficult task. The counterfeit man was the same height as the original, and about the same make. Smith had not spoken a hun dred words to the cashier during trie five years his firm had dealt with the bank. '.••;'•'; '■JU : Y-}YY-.-. '•';>.'. :Y'\, ..:.-.■• j He always wore a blue serge office coat, whatever the weather. He al ways wore a silk top hat, and it in variably worked its way to trie back of his ''head before he had worn it three minutes. ' j ..No one ever saw him at the bank without his gold-trimmed eyeglasses and his tightly rolled umbrella. ,j ; Smith had a friendly nod for the patrons he knew in a business way, but he seldom spoke a single word to any one. '-'' j Officers were sent to every railway terminus; they searched the hotels and every likely place for a mam to try to change his clothes. If the. fol- ; low had not some. safe hiding place selected in advance the chances were more than ten to one against' making an escape. In Room 25 of Cremane's private and commercial hotel, which I will admit was not a first-class estab lishment; but still good enough for a traveler earning $20 a week, I read most of the particulars given arJo\*e in the evening paper. The officials had done their best to keep the whole affair dark until some clue was gained, but the reporters had been; too many for them. yy / ; } I had come in from my round of; calls utterly tired out. . .Reaching my room, I pulled off my boots, lighted a pipe, sat down with my feet on the bed, and this bank business was the first thing which caught my eye as I glanced over the paper. I had just finished' the article when the night porter came up. "Heard about the bank swindle?" he asked, as he entered my room, without the preliminary trouble of tapping. , ,;V: ... "Just read it." "Cool chap, wasn't he? And, I say, there are a couple of detectives down stairs now. They say they've shad owed him here, and they're going to search the whole place. They are on the floor below now, and will want to come in here in a minute." Yx 'r- He had hardly finished speaking when the men appeared. I was a head shorter than Ployd's manager. I was thin, while he was stout, and I was young, while he was middle aged. '•'-.*''"' ; ."'" But those old sleuthhounds came in on tiptoe, looked at me out of the corners of their eyes and sat down on the edge of ' my two - chairs to question me, the bigger of the two taking the precaution to place his seat between me and the door. It was fully a quarter of an hour be fore they had finished, and then they seemed to take it as a personal injury that I hadn't committed the crime. Before my visitors left one of them suggested with a wink to his com rade that. I might as well be taken .along on general principles, as there was no telling what I might not own up to after a week in prison. But the other was not so evil-minded. In fact he took a fatherly interest in my welfare, and put his hand upon my shoulder pleasantly and compas sionately, as he advised me it would be better to restore the money while there was yet time. I refused to dis gorge, and he went out sorrowing, saying that I had missed a golden op- - portunity, and that I should live to repent and wear a convict's suit" '.'. . The hotel was thoroughly searched. Those men did their duty; ancl I think they would have carried ; off every soul within the place as' a suspicious character had not the manager interfered, and the detect ives finally withdrew with at least two pocketbooks crammed with notes. V; * '"-^'?: ;; '- v ': At 10 o'clock I was finishing my third pipe, and had long ! befpre changed my paper for a novel. I was just getting sleepy when a queer thing happened. vi •My bed was in one corner of the room. I sat on a chair on the left hand side, with my feet across the middle. I had my book on a line with my eyes, and all had been quiet for the last half-hour, when suddenly a voice exclaimed: "Well, old man; that must be an interesting yarn." yj?: I bounded to my feet and— no one. I looked around the room care fully, peering into every corner— no one. I slipped toward the door on tiptoe, and opened, it with a jerk and saw no one. ••> Then I turned, and there was a man standing. on the other side of my bed. He wasn't a ghost. . He was made of blood, flesh and. bones, like myself. To say I was frightened is putting it mildly. I was scared. I sank right into a chair, with my mouth open and my eyes bulging out, until my. visitor laughed outright. "' """" % : I "Who are you?" I gasped, faintly. - "Well, i that's a fair question," he replied. "I suppose you've 2 got a right to ask. For the last three hours up to a minute ago, I was the man under the bed. and ' now ' I'm the man on the bed," < and suiting the action to the word,' he lay him self out at full length. , \ H- was a CDoi hnn 1. I knew, hu man nature well "enough to know ho had plenty of nerve behind hi_ cheek. It wasn't all put on. As he lay- i there I noticed a revolver in his I hand. Then I began to understand. The evening paper had given a portrait of Smith, : and I saw this was his double. It dawned on me all of a sudden that he was the identical chap. ... "You were under 7 the bed when I came in?" I queried; as we sat look ing at each other, and I was wonder ing how to reach the bell. "Exactly," he , replied.? «.'» - • "And you heard what the reporter said and the detectives?" : *"- < "Every word." ,-'; "And, to come to the point, you're the man they want?" "I am." ; YW[ : v "How the dickens* did you get here?" '.''*":*';"" 1- ' •"-"' "I didn't choose this abode for it* comfort," he said, "nor for "its com pany. I had other plans, in fact. But they miscarried." '.'l' dodged into this hotel in search of- a temporary asylum, and it looks as if I'd founq a lunatic asylum. Did you ever see 510,000 in one pile? It's a 'refreshing sight. See here." :; - - '---«-■-• . He watched me with his piercing eyes, and though he ■• was toying with his revolver carelessly' enough I saw he had his finger on the trigger all the time. He bent over from trio bed and picked up a bundle of notes from the floor. •' ■'■'■" ••••"•• ' "This means a visit to the tailor's, quail on toast with champagne, a long trip to America or the conti nent," and he fondly patted the money. So they've got "an account in the papers, have they? I'd like to read it. Thanks.",. He skimmed through the article with' evident enjoyment; mowr now and then chuckling to himself. Then he said: I "Pretty close shave, that. I'm sorry for the cashier, but I suppose he will wriggle out of the responsibility some how. Excuse my asking the question, but what do you do for a living?" "I'm a traveler, in calicoes.',' "Married?" "No." j '■ ;-. , >..• ,' '*■ y-/ "Ever been abroad w . "No." ,<:..' _""'"■•' "Look here, old chappie," he went on with easy familiarity, as he. stretched himself on the bed, "you've given me' shelter, and I'll do you a turn.* Hand in your resignation and: come with me. It will do you good and open your eyes This little pile will do- us first-class for a year." \\ -.', • "I'll see you hanged first, you cheek'v villain," I shouted. "I'm not making tours with bank thieves and jailbirds Your trip will end In prison, if it doesn't start there." "Too peppery, altogether too peppery for the head traveler to a respectable firm." he quietly observed.. "And do you thing I'll be arrested; as you know so much about it?" "Certainly. r m going" to take you down stairs and hand you over to the police." "That's a He," he said, as he swung his -feet off the bed and stood up. "I don't blame you for refusing a trip to America.but please don't make an idiot' of yourself in other ways.''.. ;'*<., ..... I /'How do you mean?" I asked, also getting up and trying to keep my head. "Just look at things straight and you'll see. I'm no chicken. Having Played for a big stake and won it, I am not likely to let myself be balked by a kid like you. I'm armed, as you see. You're not, so keep your back hair on. Even without arms I could do you, be ing the larger of the two." "You cold-blooded scoundrel," I mut tered. "No, don't call names. It's low," he said pleasantly. "Let's consider what is your path of duty. I've got the best of the bank. And how many people has the bank got the best of before? Last year over twenty banks closed their doors in the face of depos itors. Every failure was brought about by some kind of fraud. "And don't flatter yourself that you owe a duty to the public. The public would let you starve or freeze and not move a finger. You won't get any thanks, whatever you do for .them.' You owe a duty to yourself. It is to take a change of air. And now's your chance. . Preserve., the present state of your health, that's my advice, and very good advice, too." ' ' "All of which means," I. Interposed, "'that you will shoot me if- I give the alarm?" ;^y> ," ' "Precisely." .c?/ "Then I shan't do so." "I thought as much.". , He climbed again onto the bed and continued: "I thought 'I was right when I sized you up. We. have now come to an understanding. » I've got one or two favors to ask, but I won't keep you long, and I see. you want to go to bed. Ah, there are your scis sors. I must sacrifice my mustache. Please sit over by the window." He laid his revolver on the dressing, table and cut off his fine chestnut mus tache, I sat watching him, and wonder ing if I had gone off my mind, or if, perchance, I was dreaming. "You shave yourself, don't you?" he finally asked, as he turned round and faced me. ■_..*• I pointed to my razor. and strop, and In barely another moment he stood be fore me clean shaven. , He had sandy hair, while his eye brows were almost red. There was a bottle of black ink on the table. He •'dipped his handkerchief into it and painted his eyebrows. With the same fluid he made as neat a black eye as any prize fighter would care to boast, and he was chuckling as he turned to me: "Just one thing more, old man— a suit of clothes. "I must- get off this blue serge. Perhaps it will fit you. Your oldest suit, please. I will pay cash for it." "r'Yi'iri-: I handed over a much worn suit. "Rather a tight fit, but it will do," he said. "Here's $2. for it." "I don't want your dirty money," I said, savagely. -. ~' : "Don't be finicky. It's silly. Now, then, to wrap up the money in a news paper, and then I'm off. Look here, my boy, take this $500; it will make up for any little Inconveniences -I have caused you." "I'd starve first." "Oh, come, now, you're too good for this world. What are you going to do when. l leave the room'" y>...-}r*4 "Kick myself for an ass and then go to bed 'most likely.'- ... "Go to bed without the kicking part. You are a very sensible young man, you may take my word for it. If I'm arrested I'll say nothing about what' : happened here. - Ta, ta." j ?rJy£ He reached the doorway and then he turned. . "Here's a present for you,'.' he sang out. and threw his revolver on the bed. "It's no use to me. I lost my: cartridges ' getting here. Adieu," and he was gone; .- , I locked the . door . and sat r down. After a quarter ." of an hour I slipped into bed. The next morning I awoke with- a fearful headache. . I went to my- dressing table, and there, rolled up In a neat -parcel, was the $500. Did the man get away? •-. Yes; he walked . down stairs and out into the streets, and the detectives never "got ; a clue of him after that night. > About the money, I returned it to the bank by post, . and that part of the business is still worrying the'detect ives. I could tell them a thing or two, but I won't. GHOSTS IN MY TOWER. ; BY FRANK R. STOCKTON. (Copyright. 1894, by the author. ;j At one corner of my house is a tall," wide tower, rising high above the trees which surround it. In one of the upper rooms of this tower I work and think, and here, in the evening and in the early part of the night, I used to be quite alone ex cept for the ghosts. Before I had come to this house I knew that the tower was haunted, but I did not mind that. As the ghosts had never done any one any harm I did not believe they - would do me any harm, and I thought I should really be glad of their company, which must certainly ' be different from the company of other people. So when I had arranged an upper room in the tower so that I might pleasantly work and think therein, I expected the ghosts to come to me, and should have been very much dis appointed if they had not. I did not exactly understand these ghosts, of which I had heard noth ing definite, except that they haunt ed the tower, and I did not know in what way they would manifest them selves to me. It was not long, how ever, after I had begun to occupy the room before the ghosts came to. me. One evening a little before Christ mas,after everybody in the house but myself had gone to bed and all was quiet outside and inside, I heard a knock and was on the point of saying "Come in" when the knock was repeated, and I found that it did not come from the door, but from the wall. I smiled. • -* . "You cannot come in that way," I thought, "unless there are secret doors in these walls, and even then you must open them yourself." I wen. on with my writing, but I soon looked up again, for I thought I heard a chair gently pushed back against the wall in a corner behind me, and almost immediately I heard a noise as if some little boy had dropped a number of marbles, or perhaps pennies, but there was no chair in the corner at which I looked and there were no pennies nor mar bles on the floor. Night' after night I heard my ghosts for I had come to consider 'them as mine, which I had bought with the house — and although I could not see them there were so many ways in which they let me know they existed that I felt for them a sort of companionship. When* in the quiet hours of the early night I heard their gentle knocks, I knew that were the cir cumstances ' different they would have been glad to come in, and I did not feel lonely. Now and then I thought I heard the voices of the ghosts, sometimes outside, under my window, and sometimes behind me in a distant corner of the room. Their tones were low and plaintive and I could not distinguish words or phrases, but it often seemed as if they were really speaking to me, and that I ought to try to under stand and answer them. ' Hut I soon discovered that those voice-like sounds were caused by "the vagrant breezes going up and down the tall chimney of the tower, mak ing Eolian tones, not of music, but of vague and indistinct speech. The winter passed, and at last there came a time when I saw one of the ghosts. It was in the dusk of an evening, early in spring, and just outside of an open window, that it appeared to me. It was as plain to my sight as if it had been painted in delicate half tones against. a somber back ground of tender foliage and even ing sky. It was clad from head to foot in softest gray, such as the phantoms of the night are said to love, and .over its shoulders and down its up right form were thrown the fleecy folds of a mantle so mistily gray that it seemed to blend into the dusky figures it partly shrouded. The moment I saw it I knew it saw me. Out of its cloudy grayness there shone two eyes, black, clear and sparkling, fixed upon me with ques tioning intensity. I sat, gazing with checked breath at this ghost of the tower. Suddenly I leaned forward— just a little— to get a better view of the apparition, when, like a bursting bubble, it was gone, and there was nothing before me but the back ground of foliage and evening sky. Frequently after that I saw this ghost, or it may have been one of the others, for it was difficult, with these gray visions, with which one must not speak or toward which it was hazardous to move even a hand, to become so well acquainted that I should know one from the other. • But there they were; not only did I hear them; not only, night after night did my ears assure me of their ex. Istence, but in the shadows of the trees, as the summer came on, and on the lonelier stretches of the lawn I saw them, and I knew that in good truth my home was haunted. Late one afternoon, while walking In my grounds, I saw before me one of the specters of my tower. It moved slowly over the lawn, scarcely seem ing to touch the tips of the grass, with no more sound than a cloud would make when settling on a hill top. Suddenly It turned its bright watch ful eyes upon me, and then with a start that seemed to send a thrill even through the gray mantle which lightly touched its shoulders, it rose before my very eyes until it was nearly as high as the top of my tower! • Wings it .had not, nor did it float in the air: it ran like a streak of gray electricity along the lightning rod, only Instead of flashing down it, as elec tricity would pass from the sky, it ran upwards. ./;•:- y I. did not see this swiftly moving spirit reach the topmost point of the rod, for, at a point where the thick wire approached the eaves, It vanished. By this time I had come to the con clusion, not altogether pleasant to my mind, that my ghosts were taking ad vantage of my forbearance with their mystic knocks and signals in the night, and their visits in the day light, and that there must be too many of them in my tower. I must admit that they annoyed me very little, and I was not in the least afraid of them, but! there were others who came into my tower and who slept in some of its rooms, and to the minds of visitors and timorous. maids there COMPLEXION POWDER j Is an absolute necessity of refined .toilet I in this climate. Pozzoni's combines every jj element of beauty and purity. " g was something uncanny and terrify- j ing in these ." midnight knocks and ' scratches. -j '<. .-. ; * I 5£ So." having 'concluded from what I ! had seen that day that it was the very I uppermost part of the tower which I had become the resort of these gray I sprites, and from which they came to j disturb our, quiet and repose. I deter- I mined to interfere with their passage j from the earth to my tower top. If, like an electric current, they used [ the lightning rod as a means of tran- l s-It, I made a plan which would compel ) them to use it in the conventional and ' proper way. j The rod was placed there that llgnt r nlng might come down it, not that It ( might go up. so I set myself to put the I rod in a condition that would permit I the ghosts to descend as the lightning did, but which would prevent them from going up. Accordingly, I thoroughly greased the | rod for. a .considerable distance above the ground. .... "Now," said I to myself "you may all come down, one after the other, whenever you like. You will descend very quickly when you reach the greased part of the rod, but you will •not go up it again. You are getting very bold, and if you continue your mad revels in my tower you will fright en people and give my house a bad name. - ..,-.. . . , "You may become dryads If you like and shut, yourselves up In the hearts of the tall andsolemn oaks. There you may haunt the bluejays and the wood peckers, but they will not tell tales of ' ghostly visits, which may keep my friends away and make my servant give me warning." . - After that there were no more gray flashes up my lightning rods, though how many came down it I know not and the intramural revels in the tower .ceased. , -.., But not for long. The ghosts eamo hack again; perhaps not so many as before, but still enough of them to let me know that they were there. How they ascended to their lofty I haunts I could not tell, nor did I try to find out. I acceepted the situation. 1. could not. contend with these un daunted sprites. One evening in the autumn, outside -the same window from which I had seen the first ghost of the tower, I saw another apparition, but it was not one of the gray specters to which I had become accustomed. It was a jet black demon. ...... Its eyes, large, ' green and glaring ' shone upon me, and It was as motion- I less and dark as a statue cut In coal I For only an Instant I saw it. and ' then in a flash - like the apparition i i had first seen from that window, it i disappeared. • After that, I saw the demon again I and again, and, strange to say, the I ghosts in my tower became fewer and fewer, and at last they disappeared I altogether. The advent of the black spirit seemed to have exerted an evil Influence over the sprites in gray, and. like the In dian in the presence of the white man, they faded away and gradually be came extinct. The last time I saw one of my ghosts it appeared to me late on a November afternoon, among brown foliage of an ] aged oak, just as a dryad might have peeped, forth from her leafy retreat wondering if the world were yet open I to her for a ramble under the stars. ; • The world was open to my gray I ghost, but only in one direction. 8,. I tween it and me could be seen, among the shadows of the ground, the dark waiting demon, trembling and Then away from the old oak, away from my --? use and my tower. along the limbs of trees which stood on the edge of. the wood, slowly and silently my ghost vanished from my view Ilk. a little gray cloud, gently moving over Lhfht. y ' at laSt (llssolvi »ff out of my Now. In the early hours of the night I my tower is quiet and still. There fire in° t l hf r hM l J oclcs ' no more Wild revel* Mv^-hri-H.^ £"****" of the walla -uy ghosts are gone. All that I hear now are the voices In the chimney, but I know that these aie. only imaginary voices, and, there lore, they prouuee in me no feeling of exisfed! ' ,P " BUt my ghosts "W Ti".." BEAUTY. :[.;|V; Say* the Scientists Go Too ; Deep. , ... "-. _v>V; New York Sun. - ' j* "1 wish science would mind her own business," said a young woman of oh servatlon. as she laid aside her wraps "I have just come from a class lec ture given for women up at the Wal dorf, and the lecturer told us that ; beauty Is not skin deep after all. She J wanted us to believe it was a lee- , mess- that the charm of a pretty ' face depends upon our muscles and nerves, and that when we look par* tlcularly charming it is because we have had these nerves and muscles well under control— that they twitch and pull just the way we want them I to. "That's all right." I mean 1 know per fectly well that I couldn't coyly drop my eyelids if you were to tell me I was the sweetest thing in the world, and modestly blush up to the roots ,' my hair at the compliment If I didn't wor the eyelid muscles and squeeze the blood up Into my head by closing my larynx for a time, but beauty Is skin deep for all that, the science oi> no science. Why, take my skin oft and. l couldn't blush at all. and a ni< ■< - looking object I'd be winking skinless eyelids, wouldn't I? Fancy Venus a.', a physiological chart, displaying the uncovered muscles, or Helen of Troy showing the nerves and muscles that brought out her killing smile. I don't believe Paris would have tumbled head over heels in love with that sort of living picture, do you? "The network of muscles that form the mechanical system of your cheek may be magnificently developed, but I shouldn t admire the result half as much as I do if you were hldeless- and my bright smile would haunt you as a nightmare if you could have a full view of the complex .labyrinth of nerves bringing the smile into good working order. It's putting things on too anatomical a standing entirely you know. • ' ,v." Th , f -, scientists can talk as much aa they like hut they'll never get me to believe that beauty Isn't a purely superficial thing; and so long as a mas rage open-air exercise, baths and cos metics are procurable or practicable I guess I'll do the best I can for mv skin, beauty or no beauty." A CREDIT EXPERT. He Milken T«vei.t y-Slx Hundred a . ear by Giving Advice to Whole ' ■sale Firms. New York Sun. A well-dressed, sharp-eyed man en tered the office of one of the biggest jobbing houses in New York the other day and said. to the head of the firm, a man worth many millions: "Mr. , I want to get a report on the credit of John Jones, of Wauke gan." The merchant touched a button THE LIBERAL " Wy^^^^Jk PHOTOGRAPHER. "^P'-^> PRICES put HALF. *M rnlbto UU I IN HALF. TP* '.^_J^J- FINEST CABINET PHOTOS. j^^\^^^s Aristo, full or* figure, dozen . - 31.00 '*%$& y^^^^Arlsto, any style, dozen..... 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