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THE MAN FOR SANDY. ' I wouldna ftle a copper plack For ony man that turns Ills back On duty clear; X would na tak his word or note, I woulrtna mist him for a groat, Which he might steer. When things are Just as things should be, And fortune fries a man the pica, Where'er he be. It Isna hard to understand How he may walk through house and land Wl' cheerful face and open hand . Continually, But when. 1' spite o' work and care, . A man must loss and failure bear , He merits praise: Wha will not to misfortune bow, Wka cocks his bonnet on his brow And fights and flprhts, ho kensna how, Through lanir, hard days. I wouldna pie an ould bawbee . For ony man that I oould see Wha dldna hold The swoetne-ss o' his mlther's name. The klndnt-as o" his brothcr'B claim, Far malr than geld. Nor Is It hard for him to do, Wha ker.s his friends are leal and true. Love sweet and strong, Whoso heart knows not from year to year The shadow of a doubt or fear, Or feels the falling of a teur For only wrong. :' But plo htm pralr.e whoso love Is pain, Wha, wrong'd, forgives and icvys again, And, thoiif n ne grieves. Lets not the der.r ore from his care. But loves him malr, and malr, and malr, And bids his time wl' hope and prayer, li And still believes. I Ay, gle him praise wha doesna fear ' rr . 1.111 tfW ..nn n ran illlC Ull-lllll IMS"! . ARd Y.'ha grips fu3t aln dear ones through good or 11U Wha, If they wandor, loves them still; Some Cay of Joy he'll sot his mi; He'll win at la.'t. Pittsburgh Post. .The .-TTls f Wh: Copyright, 1895. by J. B. Llppincott Co. XII. Continued. Ludlow rORC from his knees and pro ceeded to dump the contents of the valises upon tho bed, whistling softly to himself as he did so. "The scheme's as clear as diluted daylight, nnd it's worthy of a graduate of Scotland Yard," he said. "There's oniy one point that's a little misty; you've given yourself a part that'll ask for a heap of downright eolu-bloodeu nerve, uugn. , What have you done with your respect ed, traditions of inherent cowardice, and the like?" "Left them in tho holo up on the mountain, I hope," replied Ringbrand, Etruggling. into the clothing handed iim by Ludlow. "Anyway, that's just what I want to find out. On two oc casions within the last three (Jays I have managed to scare up courage enough to stand up to danger like a man, but the conditions were such as would baTe made a ri-Lbit turn aud light. Whf.t I wiist t: know now is if the inspiration wens merely an ex aggeration of the instinct of self-defense, or if I really did gain a victory." "Well, you're certainly in a fair way to settle the question if you carry out your programme. Has it occurred to you that your calm demand will prob ably t e nr.swerjd with a couple of rifle baliP?" . - . l've thought oi thut, but I mean to take the chances if I don't weaken and ra-ke a failure of the whole af- Bynums, and leaving her to suppose that he had simply met with an acci dent. "I should think you would have been starved almost to death," she said, plty inclv. "How was it that somt of the men didn't find you?" , Ringbrand had heard nothing of tho search party, and she told him of the efforts that had been made to find out what had become of him. When Bbe told how the men had scoured tho plateau, shouting, he remembered tho cry that had reached him just as he hud placed the first round of the ladder, and he held her attention with a graphic de scription of tho sudden hope and its disappointment, while Ludlow took the colonel asiilo and told hiin of the in tended attack. Ringbrand saw the look of grim determination come into tho eyes of the elder Latimer, and a mo ment biter Ludlow came over and began to talk to ITester, while the colonel and his son left the room. When they came 1-ncU tbe conversation became general, and Rhigbniiid was glad of this, for he felt that the one thing impossible under the ciivunisti.nws was a tete-a-tete with Hester. After a little, the colonel suggested to his daughter tfiat she retire, adding thut they had a little matter of business to talk about that would keep them up awhile longer. She went willingly enough, being in a beatific frame of mind which would have made her obedient to a much more unreasonable request, and when they heard the door of her room close behind her they drew their chairs together, and Ringbrand gave a rapid outline of his plan for the capture of the marauders. Upon hearing it, Col. Latimer de Tuurred at onco because of the danger attending Ringbrnnd's part in the un dertakiug; but ho acquiesced finally when Ludlow added the weight of his advice, and the young man glanced gratefully at his friend for the timely assistance. When the details were ar ranged, and Ringbrand had appealed to Henry not to fire unless it became plain ly necessary, tho colonel spoke again: "In that conve'satiou in the cave, Mr. Ringbrand, did you happen to heuh any thing that might th'ow any light on this?" handing a soiled and greasy note to the young man. Ringbrand unfolded it and spelled out the contents penciled in crabbed characters scrawled irregularly across the sheet. "dere Mis ester," it ran, "hit mout be a heep beter ef you loud not to stay on the mounting .two uite epose you go down T ludlos fer a spel yurc friend." "Where did this come from?" ha asked. "That's what's a-puswlin' us. Hester found it wrapped round a piece of flint rock lyin' on the floor of her room this afte'noon, and she reckoned some body'd th'own it in at the window." "I think I know who wrote it," said Ringbrand, reflectively, recalling tho words of the conspirators. "One of them asked: 'How about the girl?' and the other replied: 'Needn't mind about her; she'll look out for herself,' nnd then he added : 'I shouldn't wonder if Jed would be glad enough to take care of her if she'd allow it. Jed is the one who will hold the horses, I believe." "Blame his cussed impudence!" ex claimed the colonel, blazing up wrath- fully. "What right has he got to bo Ihiukln' about my Hester? "Not the least bit in the world, colonel," replied Ludlow, good-naturedly ; "but don't let us forget that he had the flqod-tido of excitement turned nnd ebbed slowly away; and the heroic re quirements of the part he had volun teered to tako in the approaching1 drama stood out in vivid and disconcert- Willie this bit of by-play was going on behind the laurels, anyther incident nc cured which further disarranged Kii.g brand's plans and left Col. Latimer and Henry in doudt as to what they should ing relief. Common sense awoke and j do. When the elder Bynum stooped to V Ringbrand completed his hasty toi let, and they went down to the dining-room, where Mrs. Ludlow was wait ing to serve the returned wanderer. He took his accustomed place and made a ravenous onslaught upon the hastily prepared supper that astonished and gratified the sympathizing hostess! "How dreadfully hungry you weret" she said, calling Aunt Mima to replen ish the empty bread-plate. "Haven't you had anything to eat all these days?" "Not very much. I'll tell you all about it the first chance I get." "Are you going away to-night?" sho asked, when Ludlow went out to hitch up the horse. "Yes; we are going up to 'The Lau rels,' and it may be late before we get back." "I'm so gladl If you're going there, 111 be good and not ask a single ques tionuntil to-morrow." "Why are you glad?" v "Because Hester is worried, and I want her to know you are alive and well." Tfcey heard Ludlow drive out to the pate, and Ringbrand pushed back bis chair. "Have you anything else to tell nief he asked. , She shook her head with precise en ergy. "Not a single, solitary word except that you're to give my love to Hester." "Ill certainly do that," he promised. "Good night." And he ran down the walk and sprang into the phaeton be side Ludlow, who drove off rapidly up '. the mountain road. The colonel and his son were sitting on the veranda when the phaeton turned into the avenue, and Hester, grieving silently in the darkness of her room, heard Ringbrand'a voice answer Jntr tie hearty welcome of her father. She ran to the stairway, stopped a mo ment to regain her self-control, and then went down to meet him. They had all gone into the parlor, and when phe followed them Hester felt for a swift instant that the whole world , might read her secret in her face. Eingbrand rose to meet her, and took her extended hand in both of hta. "I . told you good-by for some purpose aft er all, didn't I, Miss nester?" he said, smiling. ' - "I should thinkr you did," she an swered, reproachfully. ''Where in the world have you been? And what makes you look so thin and pale?" "I tumbled into a hole on the moun tain" he explained, and. leading her to a chair, he seated himself beside her nnd recounted his adventures, careful ly suppressing all , mention of the Ringbrand unfolded It and ipeUcd out thm ooa- tent. enough humanity in him to send this note; he knew quite well that he did it at the risk of his neck, and it's the first decent thing I ever knew one of them to do, Ringbrand looked at his watch. "I think we'd better be taking our places," gentlemen," he said. "They set no time, but we had best be ready for them.' Henry extinguished the light, and the four men filed noiselessly out of the house to their several stations. The colonel and Henry, armed with repeat' ing rifles and provided with buckets' of water for use in case the fire spread too rapidly, concealed themselves in the shrubbery to the right and left of the small clump of laurel-bushes; Ludi low went down the avenue arid crouched in the black shadow of a low branched, pine; and Ringbrand, armed only with the revolver which had been his companion in the cavern, took his stand aa-alnst the trunk of a srrcattak. whose spreading limbs overshadowed the ambush selected by the mountain cers Up to the moment when the comple tion of the arrangements for the cap ture of the conspirators had begun to cancel the factor of excitement, Ring brand had not reflected upon the' pe cullarly trying nature of the test he hod proposed for himself. When the plan had suggested Itself, he had wel comed it gladly, hurrying forward to its culmination with the eager impa tience of one who imagines he sees the turning-point of his life in the perspec five and runs impetuously to double it. After he had taken his position under the oak, however, the suspense, and the demanded a reason for the hazardous plan, pointing the finger of ridicule at the melodramatic stage setting, nnd suggesting that nothing had been omit- ted save a calcium ngnt to dc nasnea upon the scene at the critical moment. He saw the absurdity of it all, and how much more sensible it would have been 1o take Ludlow's suggestion, surround ing the house with a posse of armed men whose numbers would have made resistance on the part of the mountain eers useless and hence improbable. nd what was there to be urged against such a safe and practical plan of procedure? Nothing, or less than nothing; merely the demonstration of un abstruse metaphysical . problem within himself; the. application of a heroic test which had no place outside the realm of fiction. And with this thought it occurred to bira that he had unconsciously planned the whole thing upon the lines that would have made it most effective in a story! And then the suggestion of the calcium light and the alarmed young woman looking down upon the theatrical tableau from her window came again, making hlmi sick with disgust. Looking at it from any point of view, the romantic project, which was more than likely to cost him his life in the ex ecuting, was merely a fantastic idea of proving himself in some way a knight without fear a modern type of gor tcsque mediaeval personage who went about slaying impossible dragons and disembowelling mythological giants. It was absurd ridiculous preposter ous! and from this point in the argu ment the descent to the Avernus of ter ror was easy. At the end of a half-hour he felt the premonitory spinal chill heralding a return of the well-known symptoms; in five minutes more the paroxysm was upon him, and he waa struggling furiously in the grasp of his familiar demon, blind, deaf and help less, with every fiber of his being strain ing Itself for flight in an impulse so real that he turned and grasped at the rough bark of the tree to keep himself from being carried bodily away by tho whirl wind of terror. The attack did not last long, nnd about the time the blood began to tingle in his veins again he heard the muffled trampling of horses approaching along the dusty road. At the signal the very recollection of his late discomposure seemed somehow to vanish into the limbo of a remote past; his pulses quickened and his muscles thrilled wilth the vibrations of an accumulating energy that sang joyously ns it leaped through the tense nerves and the throb-, bing arteries. His sharpened senses were unnaturally acute; he heard the woody clink of the rails as the men made a breach in the zigzag fence, then the smothered hoof-beats of the horses coming across the soft turf of the lawn ; n moment later, in an interval of silence, he fancied he could almost hear the whispered instructions given to Jed. When the two men emerged from the deeper shadows of the grove he saw them quite distinctly in the starlight; they came directly toward bis hiding place, and when they paused with 10 a few feet of the trees he could scarcely restrain the eager ferocity that prompt ed him to rush out upon them. In the instant of hesltatio he had time to note that one of them carried nn armful of kindlinar wood: the man gathered it into a firmer hold while they paused, and there was a smothered tinkle of breaking glass, and ihe pungent odor of kerosene filled the air. "What waa that tliar noise?" asked the other. Hit's that thar bbnie' bottle o' coal- oil, that's what hit is; hit's done bu'stcd an' run all down into my boots," replied the first; and they moved for ward and disappeared behind the corner of the house. Ringbrand kept them in sight as long ns he could, and then ran across to the clump of laurels, going down on his hands and knees and staring intently into the gloom until he found them again, two darker blots of shadow crouching in the angle formed by the bay window in the parlor. While he was straining his eyes to catch tho gleam of the match which would be the signal for their return, he did not hear the stealthy steps of a man who was ap proached him from behind, nor did he know of Its presence when the gliding figure came quite close and stood with clubbed gun waiting for him to rise. " The appearance of the third brother upon the scene was due to the fact that Ludlow had chosen his position unfor tunately and so was unable to see the men when they dismounted. For this reason, he waited until he was sure that the two incendiaries had started for the house, and the delay gave the holder of horses time to yield to a sudden im pulso born of a desire to know if his warning to Hester had accomplished its purpose. Looping the horses' bridles together and throwing them over the branch of a tree, he followed noiselessly in the footsteps of his brothers; and coming out on the open lawn in time to catch a glimpse of Ringbrand as he ran across to the laurels, he crept forward until he stood with uplifted gun behind the unsuspecting sentinel. When Ring brand rose at the flash of the match, the poised rifle cut a quick circle in the air and descended with a blow that sent him back to his knees with a thousand scintillating motes dancing before his eyes; for a single confused instant he thought the end had come, and then ho felt the revivifying breath of the spirit of battle which seemed to Inspire him with the reckless and invincible courage of his warlike ancestors. Leaping to his feet, he fell upon his assailant with irresistible fury; there was a sharp. breathless struggle, a fierce clutching for under-holds; nnd then Ringbrand swung the slight form of his antagonist light the pile of liindlings. Bud started 1 back toward the ambush alone; and us the first match went out, the younger brother had time to reach the clump of laurels before Jeff could find and light another. Seeing but one of the men appear, the colonel and his son both hes itated, and Bud confronted Ringbrand just ns the latter recovered himself from the grapple with Jed. There was no time for deliberation, and, realizing that the mountaineer could not use his rifle at close quarters, he flung himself Upon the newcomer, taking him un awares and throwing him heavily just ns a bright blaze sprang up beside the bouse and a howl of agony rang out on the still air of tbo night. A single glance revealed the cause of both. There was a terrible picture of a man wrapped in a winding sheet of flume and running toward him a yelling human torch blazing from head to foot and swinging its fiery arms frantically as It ran. TO BB CONTINUED. THE JESUIT FATHER IN CHINA. Fearfully Narrow, Darren Llfo and It Mental Effect. Up summer and winter before sun rise, he leads the matins and his day's work is often lone. Sometime? he reads the angelus and vesters; usually they are undertaken by the native catechist. Perhaps In the course of the long morn ing Ah Sun or Ah Si will present him self and pour fortli complaint about a buffalo and a trampled pad! field; or he may be called to adjudicate in what should be an action for divorce. Sometimes of n morning he sallies forth, his yellow pigtail coitol around his head and an enormous satchel slung across his back, with store of iron shot and wadding for his rickety muzzle- loader; and, if be is lucky, will bring back a pigeon or two, or even a pheas ant, to supplement the inevitable pork or fowl and rice. The mail comes in once a fortnight and a doy slips by unnoticed, thanks to home letters and a dozen numbers of La Croi.v, where, squeezed between the latest miracle and the lifo of some worthy saint, the doings of the outer world may be found recorded in a ten- line notice on "a l'Etranger.' Sometimes an afternoon is whiled away in curing the rank tobacco of the place or in brewing rice wine or malt beer because ten years of solitude havetaught him to do things for him self and when he has no such pastime on hands he gsts through the day ab sorbed, as one hopes, in his little medieval library of religious books lives of the saints and sermons and es says. . - ';" Then is it wonderful that even a mind bs broad nnd gentle as his should in constant journey ings on the one road have worn a1 rut ;'or llsclf. deep sunk and gloomy as the trnfijc-channcled paths of the loess land in the north, till, when a rare glimpse of the out side world does break upon his view, his dazzled eyes can see nothing but trees walking, schismatics nnd freemasons, Jews, and atheist,, .spiritualism and table-turning, wfth the fiend himself in a fiery cloud over all? Bbck wood's Magazine. . GODFREY'S TANKARD. Historical Relic Sold nt Auction In Loo don Heton'ly. A curious historical relic was sold by auction recently in London. It Is the large tankard of solid silver pre sented by King Charles II. to Sir Ld mund Berry Godfrey for his valuable services during Ihc plague and the fire of London, for which he received the honor of knighthood in ICOlS. The tankard, which is of plain silver, has 0 hingsd cover nnd weighs nearly 20 ounces. Its front is engraved with the royal arms and the crest of the recipient, together with inscriptions in Latin and engravings of scenes con nected with the fire, which are still in excellent preservation. The engrav ing of the pest house men carrying corpses to the dismal plague pit, and that of tho crowded blocks of houses, surmounted by flames, are very quaint und curious. Sir Edmund, who was born in 1021 nt SelliDge, in Kent, was a timber merchant possessing wharves rtt Dowgate City and at Charing Cross, ne prospered, became justice of the peace for Westminster, and member of parliament for Wlnchilsea. In history, as no reader of Macsulay and Green need be told, his name is most famous in connection with his mysterious mur der, which was popularly attributed to the zeal with which he had devoted himself to unraveling the alleged pop ish plot. His body was found in a litch near primrose hiH, face down ward, and penetrated by his own sword, under circumstances which precluded the idea of suicide or robbery. The ex citement caused by this still mysteri ous event is indicated by the fact that when the funeral procession left the city with great pomp and pageant for the burial ground of St. Martin's-in-the-Flelds, it waa preceded by 70 clergy end followed by upwards of 1,000 per sons of distinction. Boston Herald. "The Old Soldier's Favorite' A little bit of pension goes a long I way if you chew "Battle , Ax." The biggest piece of really high grade tobacco ever sold for 5 cents; -1 A. 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