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RECORDER
vol. xxl v
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA.. SEPTEMBER 19, IW2
NO. 37.
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lCopyright, 1896, by Kr>ber,t,Bonu_i'i Sons.:
CHAPTER XIX.
^ - Continued. -
"Miss Bostal takes her part? I didi
not think the dried-op little creature;
had it in her!" said Clifford, with ad?
miration. "I shall go and see her."
"That is just what she wants; you
to do," replied Miss Lansdowne. "She
has said so to me so often that I
thought, when I saw I had a chance
of speaking to you, I would not let
it slip."
"It is very good of you," said Clif?
ford. "Which was the dance you said
I might have?"
The next morning, before luncheon
time, he was at Stroan.
, It was a bright day, and there was
only just enough wind to stir the air
pleasantly on his way across the
marsh road. The sun shone on the
white, chalky sc il, and tbe place where
the body ol' Jem Stickles had been
found was now no longer distinguish?
able by any outward sign from the
rest of the grass-grown border to the
road. People hid begun to forget the
tragedy, and even the fresh interest
excited by the more recent events at
the Blue Lion Lad by this time faded
In their minds, relegated to the back?
ground by the pressure of some less
stirring but newer occurrence.
The Blue Lion itself looked melan?
choly enough, having been uninhabit?
ed for a montn. With its doors closed,
its shutters barred, with broken
panes in its upper windows, it was
a dreary contrast to the little inn ho
had known. No market-carts now
drew up before the door; the ducks
aud the chickens no longer wandered
about the road; the shed where the
cart had stood was empty and already
out of repair. Clifford, after one
walk around ino the little garden and
down to the shed where he had first
met Nell, hurried away from the deso?
late spot and made haste to reach
Shingle End.
But a change had come over this
place also. To begin with, the storms
?f tbe wiuter bad dealt harshly with
the old house. Some slates had been
carried away and had not been re?
placed, and a tree, blown down by a
southwesterly gale, now blocked the lit?
tle bit of grouuci which formed the front
garden. It had injured the corner of
the house in its fall, hall carried away
one of the outside shutters of the
drawing-room front window and
6mr.sbed half a dozen of the small
panes of glass, which had been left
broken. Sheets of brown paper had
been pasted on tbe inner side of the
window, completing the desolate ap?
pearance of thc old house. Clifford,
as he approached the gate, found that
the tree had fallen in such a manner
that it was impossible to get in. Look?
ing up doubtfully at the windows, he
caught sight of a little, withered face,
gray, haunting, peering out at him
from behind thu meager muslin cur?
tain.
"Was it or was it not Miss Bostal's?
For a moment he stood undecided with
his hand upon tbe gate. Had some
terrible calamity?the death of the
Colonel, the illness of his daughter
fallen upon the place like a blight?
Should he go back and mate Inquiries
at the nearest cottage before he ven?
tured to intrude upon what might be
some great grief?
There was au ancient cottage close
by which had once been a toll-house.
He thought he would knock at the
door and try to fiud out something, and
was retreating for tha't purpose, when
a hurried tapping on tho glass of the j
upper window made him look round |
again. Miss JBostal?lf.it_was indeed
she?made a sign to him to go round
to the back of Hie house.
Obeying her mute direction, he
found bis way back to tho little side
gate in the paling, passed through
Into the garden and presented himself
at the back door. He noticed with
surprise, as he passed the two lower
windows, the one at the side and the
other at the back of the" house, Jhat j
the blinds were drawn down. Surely,
then, the Colonel was dead, he
thought. He had not time to speculate
as to why, in that case, the upper
front rooms had had their blinds up, j
when he heard the sound of some
one within drawiu back a bolt and
then another and another.
Then the door was opened by Miss
Bostal. who put out her head to throw
one frightened glance round the gar?
den, and then, seizing his proffered
hand, drew him hastily inside, and be?
gan Immediately to replace the bolts.
Clifford could not help feeling
amused, although he took care not to
show it. It seemed to him clear that
the recent occurrences in the neigh- I
borhood had go: on the poor little ;
woman's brain, and made her absurd- j
ly nervous about the safety of her
own little person and not very valua?
ble, property.
"You are well secured against bur?
glars, I see," said bc, as he insisted
upon doing the work of bolting tho
door for her, and was surprised to find
how solid and strong the protection
was.
The little woman started. ihuMt
jumped.
"Oh, Mr. King!" gasped &he, in a
tone of acute terror. "Don't maka
jokes about it. It's too dreadful: I
never feel safe! Last night- Oh!"
abe paused, closing ber tyts tl If OA
riffie point of fainting. And Clifford
teaw, by the light that came through
the dusty panes above the front and
the back door, that her little pinched
face had grown livid at some terrible
thought.
"Well, what happened last night
Oh?" said Clifford, speaking in as
cheerful a tone as he could, lu the
hope of soothing her nerves. But In?
stead of answering at once, little Miss
Bostal, suddenly opening again her
faded light eyes and staring at him
with solemn intentness, led him to the
door of the drawing-room, which she
unlocked and threw open with a tragic
gesture.
"Look in there!" whispered she.
Clifford obeyed, and say nothing
whatever; for it was dark. When,
after a few minutes spent in rather
uncanny silence on the part of tho
lady, his eyes got used to the gloom,
he saw that the windows had been
barricaded from the Inside in the
most thorough aud ingenious manner,
with furniture and with planks nailed
across from side to side. ,
"Why," said he, in astonishment
"you seem to be preparing to stand a
siege."
_He had already made up his mind
that" the eccentric little lady had gone
out of uer mind.
"We are besieged," she whispered,
with a look which confirmed Clif?
ford's hypothesis. "I can see that you
don't believe me, that you think lt is
only my fancy. But ask my father."
And before Clifford could make any
answer, she had quickly crossed the
stone-flagged passage, had thrown
open the door of the dining-room and
with a gesture invited Clifford to en?
ter.
As the young man did so, rather
fearing what sort of conversation he
Should have to hold with her. he wac
much relieved to find that the Colonel
was there, sitting by the fire, with his
spectacles on, reading a weekly paper.
But to Clifford's astonishment and
alarm, the change in the old man was
as great as in his daughter.
Colonel Bostal, although his clothe,
were always shabby and old-fashioned,
had always retained an air of soldier?
ly trimness, had always kept his hair
closely cut and his snow-white mus?
tache well trimmed, so that he had
borne a certain air of smartness and
distinction. Now he had lost every
trace of lt. His shoulders were bent.
His hair had been allowed to grow,
long. His mustache hung ragged and
untrimmed over a rough and strag?
gling beard. More than this,, there
was In his eyes a look as pitiful in its
restlessness as the haunting expres?
sion which Clifford had noticed in
Miss Theodora's.
The old man started when he saw
the visitor, rose and heid out his hand
with mechanical, old-fashioned court,
esy; but it was doubtful whether ho
recognized him.
Miss Bostal went softly round hl?t
chair with her quick, bird-like littlo
steps, and put her hand gently on hil
shoulder.
"Dear papa," she said in a whisper,
"don't you remember Mr. King? Hg
was here in the summer. You do
remember, don't you?"
"Oh, yes, certainly I do; of cour?"
I do, Theodora," responded the Colonel,
with a slight frown at the implication
that ho was losing his memory. "Sit
down, Mr. King, and tell us what th<J
great world is doing."
Then Clifford saw that In a momenf
the old man had become quite him?
self, and it was the weight of som*?
care which had given him his changed
appearance. The young man was sop
ry when Miss Theodora at once re?
called her father to the anxiety which
was pressing upon both of them.
"I want you to tell Mr. King, papa,*'
she said, as Clifford took the chair
offered him, "about the terrible perse?
cution we have been subjected to late
ly since the Blue Lion has been shut
up."
"It's not a very lively subject.'1 ob?
jected her father, whose face fell at
his daughter's words. "However, I
will tell you, if the story is worth'
telling."
Clifford, although he was Indeed
curious to hear the narrative, protest?
ed that he did not wish to do so, as
he saw that his host was by no means
anxious to relate it. But Miss Theo?
dora insisted. j
"Well, then," said tho old gentle?
man, "it is simply this: At least half
a dozen times since the Blue Lion
has been deserted we have been an?
noyed by knocks and blows on our
doors and windows at night. And
although we have done our best to'
lind out who lt is that annoys us In
this manner, we have been unable to
do so."
"And have you no Idea, no sus?
picion?"
The Colonel shook his head in a
troubled and anxious manner, but
Miss Theodora pursed her Ups ?ud
looked shrewd.
"I have a theory," she said. And
she waited to be asked what her theo?
ry was.
Clifford expressed the wished-for
curiosity.
"I believe," she went on, with con?
viction, "that It is the person who has
been at the bottom of the mysteries
we have been suffering here lately."
"Nonsense, my dear," interrupted
her father, quickly, and not without
nervousness. "What on earth should
such a person want with us? We have
nothing in the house worth stalling;
and if we had, do you suppose that
the person who was so very skillful
in getting away and in evading jus?
tice, would try to batter our doors In?
You are talking nonsense, Theodora."
But Theodora looked stubborn. Then
Clifford made a suggestion.
"If you think that, why don't you
inform the police? They would lay
an ambush for this person, and would
certainly free you from the annoy?
ance of his visits, In any case."
To the young man's surprise Colonel
Bostal's face assumed an expression
of. alarm which he tried in vain to
hide; but Miss Theodora broke in tri?
umphantly:
"That is just what I tell him, Mr.
King, but he won't Bear of it. Per?
haps you will be better able to per?
suade him than I."
The Colonel, for answer, leaned back
in his chair and drew his daughter's
little thin hands round his shoulders.
"I always think," he said, after a
long silence, during which strange
suspicions rushed throuch Clifford's
mind, "that it is better not to stir up
scandals that are past and done with.
I may have my own suspicions that
the annoyance we suffer from is con?
nected with the uncanny stories we
have heard so much about. But still
I will not interfere, and I refuse to
call in the aid of the police. We must
not forget that in delivering up this
I unknown person who annoys us, we
might be exposing others to danger."
"What others, papa?" asked Miss
I Theodora quickly.
But the Colonel would not answer.
He turned tho conversation to another
subject, and the interesting tdolc was
not again touched upon until Clifford,
having taken leave of the Colonel,
stood in the hall with Miss Theodora.
"Do you know why I came down
here to-day?" he then asked.
"Not to see us?" asked Miss Theo?
dora. "We could hardly have hoped
for that."
"It was to see you and to thank you
for your trust in Nell. I met Mks
Lansdowne in town one evening, and
she told me you were the one person
who still believed in her innocence."
But, to his chagrin, the little lady
sighed and looked down. At last she
said:
"I did hold out as long as I could
against the thought of her guilt, Mr.
King; but I must confess that I, too,
have had to give way to overwhelm?
ing evidence. In face of some fresh
circumstances which have now come
to my knowledge, I don't see how I
can escape the conclusion that she did
commit these crimes."
Clifford drew himself up with a
great shock of disappointment. Here,
where he expected a fortress, he found
a quagmire.
"In fact, it is because my father
feels sure that the person who comes
here to annoy us is the very same crea?
ture who instigated the girl to commit
these crimes, that he refuses to give
information to the police."
"And who is thc person?" asked
Clifford, quickly.
"A young man who has obtained a
great Influence over her, and who has
probably by this time become uer hus?
band," replied Miss Bostal.
Clifford could not repress a move?
ment of anxiety at these words. Miss
Bostal tried to persuade him to come
back into the dining-room with her
and to stay to tea. But he excused
himself and, with a rather colder
leave-taking than he had expected, he
left the house by the back door, and
beard Miss Theodora draw the bolts
before he reached the end of the gar
den.
This visit had left an extraordinary
impression upon him.
There had flashed through his mind,
as he noted the effect which Theo?
dora's prattle made upon her father,
an uneasy suspicion whether the
Colonel himself was not in some wa:
implicated in the murder of Jem Stic?
kels and the robberies at the Blue
Lion. It was quite clear that poor
Miss Theodore had no Inkling of this,
for she chattered away without even
noticing her father's uneasiness. It
was in vain, however, that Clifford
tried to imagine any series of circum
stances by which the old Colonel
could have been implicated In the
crimes. On the other hand, they re?
mained just as inexplicable at the
hands o? any other person.
It was with a great sinking of the
heart that Clifford began to feel his
own belief in Nell's complete inno?
cence giving way. He was forced
again to take refuge in the belief that
if she had been an agent in these crim?
inal acts, she had been an unconscious
one. And the thought which was
uppermost in his mind was: What
steps should he take to find her? The
feeling which was. strongest in his
heart was the desire to shelter her
from the consequences of those nets.
But the question was: How to find
her? Clifford had been down to
Stroan already to make inquiries, but
had been unable to obtain any tidings
of the uncle or the niece more defin?
ite than the vague rumor that George
Claris was "shut up somewhere."
Clifford paused for a few moments
outside the garden gate of Shingle
End, wondering whether he would
apply for information to the police ut
Stroan. It was a step he dreaded to
take, although he began to think it I
was the only one likely to lead to his
obtaining the details he wanted.
As he stood looking vaguely along
the road he suddenly perceived au old
woman, who was standing at the door
of the ancient turnpike cottage, was
blinking and nodding at him in a mys?
terious manner. He took a few steps
In her direction, and she came out in
tbe road to meet him.
Io be Continued.
NEITHER SIDE WEAKENS
Believed That End of Coal Miners' Strike
ls Still Par Off.
IT IS NOW IN ITS NINETEENTH WEEK.
den. Gobln, la Charge sf tbe Slate Troops De?
nies That He ls Preparing to Remove (be
Troops at An Early Data ur That Ma Ri?
ped* An Order Prow tbe Governor to With*
draw Ihe Troosr.
Shenandoah, Pa. (Special).?Monday
began the nineteenth week of the coal
strike! The date on which Senator
Platt predicted that the strike would
end bas passed, and the hope which was
instilled into the people in this locality
because of that prediction has been
succeeded by a feeling that tbe end is
still far off.
The reiteration of the coal presidents
during the week that no concessions
won'd be made and the resolutions
passed by nearly all the local unions
ol the United Mine Workers renewing
I their allegiance to their officers and
j pledging themselves to continue the
strike until concessions ar/ granted,
show that neither side to the contro
\crsy is weakening.
General Gobin, in charge of the state
i troops encamped in this county, denies
| that he is preparing to remove thc
I troops at an early date or that he ex
| pects an order from the Governor to
withdraw the troops. He says he does
rot anticipa ? an order of that kind
until there is a settlement of the strike.
At %U Per Tm
Chicago, III. (Special).?Anthracite
coal sold in Chicago at the highest
figure quoted in years. Tile Weaver
Coal Company sold several orders of
a high grade at $25 a ton and some at
$-'0. These prices, while not general,
are in the face of a hard coal famine in
the city, and they indicate what may
bc expected unless a supply of anthra?
cite soon reaches town.
Dealers declare that an average price
on anthracite cannot possibly be quoted
because of the existing emergency,
where those who must have coal af
any price are practically bidding to se?
cure what they can of the scant supply
in the Chicago yards. Soft coal has
gone up in price 8 to io per cent, with?
in a few days, and coke, the best sub?
stitute for hard coal, was quoted at $12
to $13 a ton. double the price asked
September |. While citizens are
alarmed at the gravity of the situation,
dealers are also worried, ss they have
not been in a long time over the out?
look. A speedy settlement of the
strike would adjust matters in time and
prices would drop to a reasonable
figure, but the uncertainty of the fu?
ture is causing fright among citizens
and dealers alike.
TOWNS DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Every County In th; Westers Psrt of Wash?
ington Said to Be in Flames.
Tacoma, Was:i. (Special).?The for?
est fires are now burning in every county
of Western Washington from British
Columbia to the Columbia River. The
conflagrations are the most extensive in
Mason, Thurston, Chehalis and Lewis
counties, to the southwest of Tacoma.
The towns ot Elma and Folsom, in Che?
halis county, have been partly destroyed.
Each was thc center of large logging,
lumber and shingle mill industries..
Other towns which are in great danger
are Shelton, Mattock, Black Hills, Bu
coda. Ranier and Castle Rock, in South?
western Washington. Enumclaw and
Buckley, in the Cascade Mountains are
threatened.
The latest reports from Mason county
are that every portion of that county is
in flames, with the excention of Shelton.
WILCOX DECLINED TO ESCAPE.
Alleged Murderer of Ella Cropsey Had a Chance
to Qet Oat of Jail.
Elizabeth Cit-, N. C. 'Special).?Dur?
ing the ni-'-t a negro youth escaped
from the county jail, and left Ns means
of exit subject to the disposal of James
Wilcox, the famous alleged murderer oi
Ella Cropsey. In the morning when thc
sheriff and others visited the jail to dis?
cover the nero s means of escape, Wil?
cox told them that he could have escaped
in the same --nner. To prove h's as?
sertion he went through the process ot
making his escape in the presence of the
few who were there.
When water works were installed Bl
the jail a bar was removed to make
room for a ? ipe. The negro removed
this pipe, thus leaving an exit for every
prisoner in the jail. Wilcox said:
"If I had wished to get out, the way
was clear.''
Infants Shocking Death.
San Francisco (Special).?The horri?
ble death of a child was reported to tbe
police by the matron of a founding
home, and a well-aressed man deposited
the child in thc front yard. The man
hurried back to the carriage, which also
contained a woman, and the coachimn
lashed his horses furiously. The baby
had been choked in a shocking manner,
and its body was swathed in cloth sat?
urated with gin and carbolic acid. The
little one lived but a short time.
Haitian Insurgent General Killed.
Port au Prince, Haiti (Bv Cable).?
General Chicoye, of the Firminist forces,
who was defeated at Petit Goave on
August 3, and set fire to that town be?
fore evacuating it, and who was subse?
quently arrested near J acme!, was exe?
cuted at Jacmel. Wednesday. September
io. after having been tried by a military
tribunal.
Procla sss Matos Traitor.
Caracas, Venezuela (Bv Cable).?Th.
Govcrnment has published a decree de?
claring Gen. Manual Matos. leader of
the present revolutionary movement in
Venezuela, to be a traitor and ordering
bira to be tried on the charge of piracy
and for having offered control of thc
finances of the Government of Venezuela,
in case of the success of his movement,
to outside capitalists on the same ba?is
as prevails in Egypt. The facts of this
alleged offer were reported by tbe Ven?
ezuelan Consul at. Liverpool.
(
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
Policeman Isaac Sheve, of Camden,
N. J . was shot and seriously wounded
while attempting to capture Dan Dan?
iels, a negro, one of the assailants of
Mrs. Osier, a few days ago. The ne?
gro narrowly escaped mob violence.
The breaking away of freight cars on
a steep grade on the Santa Fe near
Colorado Springs, Col., resulted in a
collision with a passenger train, in
which three trainmen were killed and
another seriously injured.
The grand jury is still probing into
the St. Louis bribery scandal. Circuit
Attorney Folk has laid information of
bribery against the men under arrest
to keep them from being released on
habeas corpus.
C. F. W. Neely sued in New York
for the return of the $6,000 taken from
him at the time of his arrest in Cuba,
now in thc possession of the War De?
partment.
Striking miners were evicted from
their company homes at the Crescent
Mines, on the Kanawha River.
Mrs. Hobart, widow of vice-Presi?
dent Hobart, visited Mrs. McKinley in
Canton, O.
A committee of the Pennsylvania
State Legislative Board of Railroad
Employes had a conference with Pres?
ident Mitchell, of the United Mine?
workers, who says the railroad men as?
sured the miners of their support and
co-operation.
Gottlieb Niegenfind, at Pierce. Neb.,
shot and killed his former wife and her
father and wounded the latter's wife,
after which he attempted to assault a
sister of his former wife.
Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, who is
engaged to marry Bishop Potter, oi
New York, will give her new palatial
residence, on thc Riverside Drive, that
city, to charity.
Mrs. Hannah Nelson, mother .of thc
late Mrs. Charles Fair, received $i.
000.000 from the Fair estate, and each
! of Mrs. Fair's brothers received $350.
000.
Luther W. Shear, district agent of
the Northwestern Mutual Life Insur?
ance Company, wanted in Muskegon,
Mich., for forgery, surrendered.
Mrs. William M. Stewart, wife of
United States Senator Stewart, of Ne?
vada, was killed in an automobile acci?
dent at Alameda. Cal.
A big blaze started by sparks from
a locomotive has been raging in the
oilfields of Texas and has done a great
deal of damage.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has given
an order to the Baldwin Locomotive
Works for 250 high-class freight loco?
motives.
Fierce forest fires arc destroying val?
uable timber lands and threatening
cities in Oregon.
Earthquake shocks occurred in
Alaska along the coast between Muir
and Yakutat.
Mrs. Dauphin, widow of thc presi?
dent of the Louisiana Lottery, who
died in 1891, has been indicted by the
grand jury of New Orleans. It is claim?
ed that she came into possession of
over $200,000 of her husband's wealth
which was not inventoried.
Mr. Charles S. Hamlin, assistant sec?
retary 01 the Treasury during the sec?
ond term of President Cleveland, was
defeated in the primaries in Massachu?
setts for the Democratic nomination
for governor.
Idaho Populists nominated a full
state ticket.
The price of coke in Chicago is $12
and $13 per ton.
Foreign.
In reply to a query of the United
States government the German For?
eign Office has stated that either Char?
lemagne Tower, Bellamy Storer or Dr.
David J. Hill would be acceptable as
United States ambassador.
According to last year's census, the
population of the administrative county
of London was 4.536.541. while Greater
London showed an additional popula?
tion of 6,500,000. Thc city's outstand?
ing debt was $231,344,355
During the recent German Army
maneuvers a system of wireless teleg?
raphy was used, to thc secrets of which
visitors were not admitted.
An anti-Semitic outbreak is report?
ed to have occurred at Czenstochowa,
in Poland, in which 14 Jc.vs and 1 gen?
darme were killed.
Sir Thomas Lipton has decided in
favor of earlier races for the America's
Cup, and will name August in the hope
for steadier winds.
Emperor William*, in saying good-'
to Generals Corbin, Young and Wood
in Berlin, said he was specially interest?
ed in three Americans?President
Roosevelt. Mayor Seth Low. of New
York, and Andrew D. White, the
United States Ambassador, now leav?
ing his court.
It is again reported that the Portu?
guese government, in need of funds,
has pawned the crown jewels, includ?
ing the diamond-encrusted scepter of
Don Juan IV., valued at $5,000,000.
The railway authorities of India, dc
apitC test trials showing the superiority
of British locomotives, have given an?
other order for 20 locomotives to Ger?
man manufacturers.
The sensational trial of the man Voi
sin in Paris., once convicted of mur?
dering an innkeeper, transported, then
proven innocent and set free, has ended
in an acquittal.
General Firmin urges his followers
in Hayti to fight to the end against thc
provisional government. The r#vo'?i
tionists are greatly excited and very
bitter against the General.
The Austrian Prince Francis Joseph
01 Bragansea was exonerated in Lon?
don of the charge of misconduct under
the criminal law amendmnt.
Thc corporation of Dublin adopted a
resolution protesting against thc Crime*
Act as "an outrage and insult offered
the citizens of Dublin."
Professor Heilprin tells of the terri?
ble destruction on the Island of Mar?
tinique in the last eruption of Mon:
Pelee.
Financial.
Consolidated Lake Superior is weaker.
Pennsylvania hauled last week on:y
295 tons of an th rac ito.
A big melon for New York Central
stockholders is ripening.
A Stock Exchange sea! sold in New
York on Wednesday for $81,000.
Money 10 per cent, in New York and
6 per cent, in Philadelphia.
The Sub Treasury bas taken f-o 11 Nw
York banks this week $47*3 SOO.
Si'if* ft Cn directors have declaied
a ouarterlv rlivMeml ol 1 3-4 per cern.
ADC VAM M/IQC A great many people suffer through ignor
Ant TUU fflOt R?ce. Tbev don't know that for all inflam?
mation there ia no remed j* to equal "Mexican Mustang Liniment.
-
ae easy way
and a sure way to treat a case of Sore
Throat in order to kill disease germs
and insure healthy throat action is to
take half a glassfull of water put into
it a teaspoonful of
Mexican Mustang
liniment
nnd with this gargle the throat at frequent interval*.
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ment and after doing this pour some on a soft cloth and wrap/
around the neck. It is a POSITIVE CURE.
25c., 50c. and $1.00 a bottle.
IT MAV DC Vnil have long been troubled with a running
ll Iflll I DC IUU sore or ulcer. Treat it at once with Mexi?
can Mustang Lilnmen. aud you can depend upon a speedy cure.
PAWNING A $1,000 BILL
Of a _nan with a thousand-dollar
bill in his pocket and no smaller
amount of money, a story has been
written that traced him through many
experiences and took him to the verge
of starvation. But, as a matter of
fact, one man who had nothing small?
er than a one-thousand-dollar bill got
through the difficulty very easily in
this city a few nights ago.
Ten of these coveted promissory
notes of the United States had been
paid to him in the afternoon. In the
pursuit of business and a modicum of
pleasure he had, after the receipt of
his $10,000, spent the last dime he
possessed other than the big bills.
Ho was with some friends, any one
of whom could and would have ac?
commodated him with sufficient mon?
ey for his needs, but a discussion
arose about what he would do if he
were a stranger in the city and had
no money other than that which was
in his pocket.
"I wouldn't care if I were dressed
as a beggar," he said. "I can get all
I want so long as I have a one thou?
sand-dollar bill in my pocket."
"You would be arrested or turned
down If you tried to use it," said one.
"There are not many places where
$1,000 in change is kept handy. Be?
sides, most people would be shy of
taking such a bill from any of us.
We don't look as though we carried
one-thousand-dollar bills around in
our pockets."
"Well," said the man with the $10,
000, TU bet a basket of champagne
with tbe bunch that I can spend my
money as freely as though those were
five-dollar bills instead of what they
are, and I won't have any trouble
about it, either. I'll get change the
first time I try lt, too, or lose tne bet.
And I won't go to any man who knows
me."
The wager was accepted, and th*
man with $10,000, taking one friend
with him, walked out to a pawn shop.
He said to the clerk only this:
"I have received $10,000 in ten bills.
They are mine and were come by
honestly. It is difficult for me, ni
stranger, to get a one-thousand-dollap
bil! changed. Here are the ten bills.
Look at them. I need som*1 money,
and I want to pawn one of these bill.
for $25. If you are afraid of me, call
up police headquarters and I will sat?
isfy the people there by papers that
I can show that I am honest. Or, If
you like, call up Mr.-, who paid
the money to me, and he will tell you
If I am all right."
The pawnbroker looked at him
keenly for a second and then said.
"I never took money as a pledge,
but you are sober and seem all right,
and you can have the $25. Give me
tne one thousand-dollar bill."
The pawnbroker examined the bill
carefully and then, to the astonish?
ment of the others, took another one*
thousand-dollar bill out of his saf<i
and compared them. Then, just a*
he would make out a ticket for a rintf
or a watch, he Issued a ticket for a
"one-thousand-dollar bill," turned
over the $25 and closed the transa
tion.?New York Tribune.
THE ARMY OF MAUI I
Hayti is chiefly remarkable by rea?
son of Its being a military republic,
with an army of 4,000 generals and
4,000 privates?a general to each
Tommy. The generals are extraor?
dinary men in more than one sense
of the word. There is one who com?
mands a large province in the re?
public, who is of the lowest of the
people, who can neither read nor
write, and who is nevertheless a great
revolutionary power. Thia man?Gen.
Johannis Merisier?is obliged to ask
one man to read to him what another
man has written for him, and yet in
his hands are the lives and deaths of
the people over whom he rules.
Every third man you meet in Hayti
is a general, but it is only every
tenth general who gets oaid; it has
to be conceded that each general does
his best to pay himself. The author?
ized rate of pay is ?140 annually for
a general of division and ?105 for a
biigadier. A captain is passing rich
on ?12 a year; a private thinks him?
self fortunate if he receives ?2 10s.
during the same period.
The Haytian soldier's uniform is a
fearful and wonderful thing. Let us
review a regiment on parade. Some
of them are shod In dried grass slip?
pers. They wear a little blue cap
with a red band. One man, perhaps,
is wearing a shabby pair of old tweed
trousers, and slung by a hemp rope
over his shoulders is an old-fashioned
flint-lock gun. The officer who com?
mands the regiment is brandishing a
rusty sword.
The army, it goes without saying,
ls miserably housed. In Port-au
Prince, the capital of Hayti, you will
find a post of soldiers every fifty oj
a hundred yards. They live is
wretched guard rooms, which an
marely long hovels, with piazza^
raised two feet above the street. B?
low flows an open drain. The met
themselves drink, smoke, and gani
ble all the weary day.
You must never allow a smile tai
cross your face?however, tempteilj
you may be to laugh?if you meet f
Haytian soldier. A European dlplm
matist landed once at Port-au-Prinot
and on his way from the ship he fell
in with what he Imagined to be a tall
tered mountebank carrying a rifle. H^
smiled, for the black man's pompous
solemnity was immensely funny. Al
once tbe negro's face changed. i
"You laugh at me? You laugh a|
me?" he cried, furiously.
He was a soldier of the republic}
his fingers flew to his cartridges, ar.dj
the visitor waited for no more, bul
fled up the street.
The Haytian soldier needs but th 1
license of a political strife to las il
him into frenzy. Given political trou?
bles and a modicum of shooting ii
the streets, and a man such as w.|
have just described, with intense
irascibility of temper and thousands
of companions like himself, he woull
become a very perilous and terrible
element in the general anarchy.
The Haytian army in peace tim-l
may be like that upon a comic opens
stage, but given a war, it would be?
come a hotbed of tragedy.?London
Express.
Character ls the best commercial as?
set in the world.