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a FORGOTTEN. Aanes 1. Pratt in the Philadelphia Presa. ‘Then another whistle. | Then he went around to the back of the | Wagon, where his hired man, who had been routed at an early hour, lay asleep. “Jake, Jake! Darn it, be you dead, too? “A curious story,” mused Mr. Richards, “but Thave beard ofa number A Scotch Minister Tells of Unusual Hap- ‘peainge im His Expertence. Cost 85,080 to Catch One of the és ‘Game Fish. From the Chicago Inter-Oceen. ‘A Chicago man thas been to and 2 NDER THE Mooy-! !” drawled the sleepy fellow. who Florida light and amid rare! posh Med mat. that's all,” shouted Farmer| | “No, never that,” asserted Mr. Richard, “Z "- rent Pe wa) sure you would come back some- flowers that yield their | Jake iptan to his feet-aa though he were| time” 3 count of his experience before be succeeded in perfume to the summer | shot. %. ‘There was one more visit for Lyle Dermott to ; landing « tarpon: air, where the soft fall| Where’ he cried, wildly. with ANONYMOUS LETTERS. from the fountain and the fain: men. For there had Mary Severne, the beautiful @aughter of Banker Se: times marriages were frequent and in the verne, given her white blood from the poor wounded forehead, and | caressing her silken Lars hand to him and said: “I love you." Sweetest othed the shapely white hand, now restless cruel of me to surprise you so. course of a few years I united in the sacred : with f “No, no; Tam so glad,” she said, brokenly. Words ever spoken by the dearest li of the water that drops its marble basin belo twitter soffte rleepy bird are all the sounds to be heard, had Ile Dermott been made the happiest of in the a Farmer Dean lifted up the inanimate form and placed it among the vegetables in the wagon. Tien they turned the horse's ‘bead and back went past the lonesome little station to the broad white fa rode post haste was put to bed, an ighter, who looked as if wind from off her native hills would frail form afar off, gently bathed the pat waft her ‘The doctor came again and again. houses that lay her ing Bric-e-Brac at Weddings and Kecep- for the mastery in tions—Kleptomaniacs in Society—Disap- bins; cad with « quiok, plod cry of “Layla, dear im, ane er} “Lyle, cst," she crossed "he short ‘space that divided Sham ond chung thm, sobbing in the transport “Mary, dear one,” he murmured softly, fen hair with his band, “it was Special Correspondence of The Rvenine Star. ‘New York, September 15, 1892. cotton famine, early in the sixtics,I had a chureh in Dundee. The failure of cotton oc- | casioned an abnormal boom in the jute trade ‘end Dundee was the principal emportum for the import and manufacture of the flexible fiber. Tt was then that that town laid the foundation of its wealth and greatness. Im those prosper- bonds of matrimony a greater number of young “Thad heard « great deal,” eid be, “sbout tarpon fishing before I went south, and the de- tire possossed me to try my hand at the sport, “om aad .e natn ly strong co! on bore upnobly | “I thought you were dead and you have come couples than in similar period during my ‘When I learned the «ftuation I said T was World to him. Now they are pacing slowly up 7!¢ naturally strong constitution p nobly a any . 9 id nder the terrible strain, and in early Septem-| back tome. Oh, my lo" ‘d by motives of cowardly malice. Nev- jisterial career. worite fan} Gad down the broad, graveled walk, bord le Dern.ott came’ out of his Toon and | "Then he remembered. of ‘ta = oe Senet ee eee by brillant flowers, whose hues are roitene aud ethereatized by the sianting moonbe: that fall across their drooping heads. They are perfectly happy, thee two there is no obstacie in the way of a speedy and Dhieetul consummation of their most ardent Yet, strangely enough, their conversa- Ropes. tion turns rpon sorrowful thing». “Ryle,” nid Mims Severne, him a ir of tender brown held unbounded happiness, would be the Upon one? He turned snddeniy he held. ed, grav “But why talk so gloomily when the future is all bright before u« “I do not know,” «he mutmnre: the thought came to n ore. and. the saddest fate in all the world is to othing to one to presence or ab- that they are as different to us as the veric ning toward greatest sorrow that could fall Jo you know, I think be for- Oh, it is sat down in Farmer Dean's sitting room a well = man. ms “Mollie was sewing when he seated himself x, aud she raised her eyes timidly We her pale cheek flushed a delicate lie for have you well,” she said. he réplied heartily, “‘and God I owe my recovery to your father eves grew wide with wonder. Do you think it so strange that we cared for you? Do you think my father would let # fellow creature lie in the road,hurt as you were, and not bring him to his home? Fath | are rough sometimes, but his heart is very kind and good.” ‘The maiden’s eyes were tender with unshed tears as «he paid this tribute toher father.” ‘our father is one of God's noblemen,” said Dermott. Then a puzzled look overspread his face. Mollie,” suid he, “‘were there any pape about my bods when your father found me.” No; everything had been taken. Have I void apything to give youa clue to my édentity. ” 0. Again the same puzzled look came into his eyes. in- A cruel pang rent his heart strings and some- thing like a groan escaped him. _ is led her to a veat and sat down himselt be- side her: Then he told her what he had already told Mr. Richards. “How terrible,” murmured Mary, pressing closer to his side, “but it is all over now.” His face grew ghastly, but she could not seeit. Her own re covered with one soft white hand, over which trickled a few 3 Soe Ai “Wait,” he said gravely, “‘there is more to tell. Farmer Dean, who 80 kind to me, had a daughter. ‘ “Yes,” assents Miss Severne in low tones. With a great effort Lyle Dermott pulled him- self together and continued: “She is a frail, delicate girl, who is already in the first stages of consumption, I f ith careful treatment she t live a fe A shock would be fatal in a short time. Mary Severne sat with bowed head, but no word came from her lips, so he went on: “She was an angel of goodness to me while I was so strangely ill, and under the influence of the disease which held me for a year I grew to e her. He hesitated, and Mary murmured softly, Yes, I eee.” ‘One fatal day—in June—I not remember- fessional “fourteenth per- son” at dinners. There were men in Paris, not 80 very many years ago, who made it thetr busi- ness to serve at short notice as guests at ban- quets where the accident of thirteen at table occurred, thus satisfying the superstitious by adding one to the number. The individual thus called in was introduced ase friend in- vited to the repast, and there. was nothing about his appeurance or demeanor which could arouse suspicion that he was not present on the same footing with the others. It seems surprising to find such a custom, in ‘& médified form, newly introduced in New York society. The tashionable hostess nowadays in giving a dinner commonly engages a detective of gentlemanlike aspect and address to take the part of a guest at her table. He is invited not for any superstitious reason, but to protect the tableware and other household pro} len by the other diners. Most pear that the entertainer ould take such @ precaution against e my 61 bas shown that 90 cent of all'sach miseives' contain siatemesis which are true in the main. ener The once found, it is most r in the it direction. roughl; MOTIVE AS A POINTER. “To illustrate the value of motive as a pointer I will tell you a littlo story. A merchant came to me and complained that he had been greatly annoyed by anonymons letters connecting his name in the most offensive manner imagin- able with that of an esteemed young lady of his acquaintance. He had shown the mildest one of them to her and she had been exceedingly bose > wealth, with a name older U Btates, a cottage at Ne most fascinating: revolution in the Newport house? POOR AXD RICH. daughter of the American The girl whose pension is up five flights of dingy stairs, over grocor’s on the rue Jes Baseins, will trudge off to Colarossisarm in arm with the fine lady from the private hotel on the Champs millworkers was tobe married at the manse, and I was often amused at their lavish expendi- “One cvoning I bed arfanged to couple ne ever « st the mana and atthe ine an elderly fend, recently retired froma successful business, was staying with me and wished to see the cere- mony. cee cabs drove up to the entrance Clg Sd my room wee im: filled with | If a dozen couples who constituted the bridal | Party. The men were in full dress black suits, white kid gloves, buttonhole flowers, with ample display of linen and jewelry. The were | dressed in white muslin trimmed lace, and decked with flowers and coronets of a cor- ner of the room with his big fingers dovetailed into each other lying across his capacious waisteoat, and, transfixed with simple astonish | ‘that seemed to surround his eyes with phosphorescent cir- cles,” When ‘the ceremony wat over and the party had retired my epec- | ticles on to his forchead and Aapping hi heeds | on his knees exclaimed: “Well, that’ beats all! | What are the working classes coming to? I had | to be content with a humbler wedding in my day, and I reckon I could now buy up the whole mill where these people work. Mark my words, these daft going to be my own fisherman, and if I was go- ‘ing to catch tarpon I was going to catch them myself and not have them caught forme. In depends on where caught. ters the vitals it will tire itself short time. Bat if canght by the Sasiatto sens handled. Tdecided that the best thing to do was hire a roustabout instead of the ordinary and pay him £1.50 » day My experience was an ami for the fishing ground and fished for days, from morning to night, bite from a tarpon. During that nothing but sharks, Jewish and simply supplied the’ catfish with bait, tenth day a Mr. Dean came along. real tarpon fisherman, not had a guide in the boat wil and daughter were in an kodak ready to photograph him when * He anc his boat off where I bad been Li ts Hts H i i it y \d_you couldn't tell th. begi days, andin an hour and « half awful to me!” and she drew closer still to his bo ron know,” he raid, oo I have for-| ing—yon will forgive me, Mary—I ssked her to ae on aes pa of cork _ she maetiod, Haconld not think of tingle enemy | rich trom ors they both Gress in exeorable wrong end of the tether, and eet they wl | he came on the ground he had « caught, wide. gotten all my life, previous to that unfortunat my wi nows well enoug! timate had. My questions el rect “ma y rte al ee te Be There! Let us cast euch forebodings to the | night? boas In silence he waited for her to hospitality, but experience has shown that it is | that he was a bachelor and well to do, whereas | $48, Doth look a» if they had become truly | find out some day. You can't make a «ilk purse ograph - med as easily ax I clo this flower, and stoop | ash rose and scattered its The girl opened her eyes in amazement. t is true.” he snid sadly: I do not know She lifted her head and from her face every ecessary. Such articles as solid gold vestige of color had fled. ® are extremely apt to be pocketed, and the fact has long boon. notorious that no she was not well off and over thirty—an age at which many women are anxious to be married. I ventured to ask: ‘Do you not think it of unutterable, woeful dishearten: French in their habits, and both have that look ment which every female art student assumes from the out of a sow's eat I could only «mile at this bit of philosophy and say: “That isthe order of the day in Bonnie Dannie. imagine a man in a man. I turned to i Eee Sam, told him he had hood how I came here, where I belong, or what my| Then, with a painful gasp, the words came. ggpall sible | time ehe is first told by Courtois, F »| Onancther eccasion I was could have caught somethi: business was. I think my name is Perry; at] | “You had forgotten me. ‘Oh, Lyle, Lyle, my | and costly picce of bric-a-brac is safe in the | that this Indy hae written these communications | ame “Be ie Anette bright light’ that ss | couple in a curious out oftheeee piece tn zee |i it didn't get one within , 5 any rate that will have todo for me, for all my | heart is broken!” moet exclusive drawing room, | Kleptomenia, |horeclf?’ My client felt insulted and told me | yet she dosen't equal Mardlo of Bubens. She| other’ part of the’ cocccyy” deere mat. | Se comeebere das I pat sheltered from all the He rose from his seat and stood before her,| is the term charitably applied toa thieving | pretty plainiy that he did not think I under- wil ‘o ies | miles distant from the town where I then | made a beautiful cast, at id. and always ‘perhaps | while his words came fast, each one dropping stood bail be.” they turned to re- | own the long walk. t frown e but me. tually rise on his hands than he is now. 1 mal their valu So trip through these districts te for all the land I can buy cheap.” ou start?” asked M: she murmured. Jove." «aid he © vows and promises. Ab, bi have parted like tha} How ly for a little while. be for a little whii v face. It was J ttled on hat is too bad, but ing | young man, and Mollie, though not a some investments in real estate in western Mas- | was perhaps dearer than a sister could be. He sachusetts, baying up farms,which he thinks | secured a good position in the office of a manu- e him | facturing concer it is some wild scheme | with the Deans. poom them, ‘The sooner I start the sooner I will return. So they parted, as all fond lovers do, with te: y bands we bave taken in ours; how many trembling lips kiseed as we murmured “ il. perhaps it may . but often it is for all time and until eternity should bring us again face to Lyie Dermott rose early the next morning | th a merry heart, set out on his jour- weather, perfect, sunshiny, ir laden with the scent of richest bloom from garden ‘nd field. From the opeu car win- | he assented, doubtfully, and so the matter rested. As George Perry—the first name that had occurred to him, Lyle Dermott became known | to the country people round about. Farmer Dean grew to be like a father to the ter, Beetown, but his home was So the long winter wore so uway and the pleasant days of early summer he filled the earth again with sunshine and glad- ness. Perry,as we know him now, grew stron; and healthy, und filled his position of trust wit | satisfaction to his employers. His head was | | perfectly level, but the past wax a blank, and occasionally the mystified expression rose from the depths of his gray eves. | At about this time he became aware that | Mollie Dean regarded bim with tenderer feel- | ings than mere friendly regard. He noticed, too, another thing about her. She was a frail flower and already that New England disease, consumption, had marked her young life as’ prey to its Tapacity, as the hectic blooms on her fair cheek testified. er. ie was so gentle, she had been so much to him when he needed help that he could not help loving her, and it pained him deeply to see her droop'as she did sometimes in the | tering spring days. So one night in early June, when she was like lead on the gentle heart before him. gotten?” sponded. softly on h habit, which is not so very rare among persons Of good social station. AT A NEWPORT RECEPTION. “The other day at Newport,” said the chief of the principal detective agency in this city, “one of my men was employed to look out for a large reception. He saw a handsomely dressed woman deliberately take and secrete the top of a beautiful vase. The object could have been of no use to her, but the loss of it would have spoiled an ornament worth $500. He stepped up to her and said pleasantl ‘Madam, I presume that you want to have duplicate of that made?’ ‘Ob, yes!’ she replied, in some confnaion. ‘Well,’ he remarked, ‘I guess that you bad better put it back, and you licate by sending your artist here. he gave it upatonce. Nothing more was said, save that her name was reported to the hostess, who dropped it trom her list. “That is the way we always manage. Ex- posnre does no good in such cases. The same method is practiced at a dinner, where the de- tective keeps a quiet watch See things, only eating and drinking enough to keepaip appear- ances, One Indy of my acquaintance bas all her most valuable bric-a-brac fastened securely, ro that the articles cannot be remo It is too true. Oh, my God! if I could call back those days. She loves me, Mary, as ten- derly as youever did, but Iswear to you in this, the most solemn moment of my life, that I never loved her with the love I feel for you— never for a moment. “Is that true, Lyle, even when I was for- AsGod is my witness, it is true,” he re- She arose with the light of a heavenly de- termination in her besutifal eyes, laid her hand arm and said: “Lyle, if never through it all you have been untrue to me, then Iean bear it. You say it | would kill this girl to learn the truth. Do you think I would willingly shorten her life? No, ‘0 her, fulall your vows to her and make her he answered her, ‘“I cannot.” the only way. Could you do | anything that wonld hasten her death? To think of all her kindness to yon. Oh, you can- not repay it with auch cruelty. “Go,” she urged him. “I shall be happier in the knowledge that we have done right than if we had selfiehly sought our own happiness.” “The day may yet come, some time in the future,” he telis her as they part, “when I can return to you. “If it never does, Lyle,” she says, and her S has given up having silver-backed brushes and | other euch precious toilet appurtenances in the dressing rooms at her parties, because they were stolen so frequently. But it iw at wed- | brown eyes are glorified with the intensity of | dings chiefly that the society kleptomaniaca get | her love and sacrifice, ‘I shall know. and in the | in their work. At large affairs of the kind we great hereafter we may yet find the happiness | are sometimes called upon to furnish as many my business. ‘All right,’ I replied. ‘That may be so.’ He had no more facts to give) except that the lettors were never written twico\ on the same kind of paper, scrape and half sheety being utilized. LIVE ADDRESSES, “In the detective business we are aided toa reat extent by chance and intuition. Acci- dent often reveals what all our ingenuity might not have discovered. In this case I felt in- stinetively that I had hit upon the correct solu- tion—namely, that the woman herself had letters, She was employed in an estabiishment which dealt in what are known commercially as ‘live addresses.’ A man who desires to push a specialty of any kind goes to such a firm and says that he wants 1,000 names in Ohio, 2,000 names in Pennsylvania, and so .. He pays so much per thousand for enve- lopes addressed to these names, in which his circulars are inclosed and sent broadcast. No the names must all of them be those of ‘live’ peo- ple, who may buy. what the circulars offer for ‘The way ihiwhich they are got is very curious. Advertisements are widely published in newspapers offering some valuable ai such us a new patent washtub worth $25 to any one who Will write to the firm and agree to act as ite agent. Of course people by thousands re- spond, ench one hoping to obtain a washtub for nothing. They never get anything in roturn, but the advertisers secure what they want— namely, thousands on thousands of names and addresses. These are termed ‘live adddresses,” and, as has been said, they are worth money. | boarde teeth on edge. The little Italian poses for her is artistic if her hair is matted into a solid wad; 80, student lets her locks get in about’ th condition. It never seems to occur to what is sauce for the Italian isn’t sauce United-Statesian.” EA ‘T ARRIVIXG. ” poor thing. Sho gods to g00d private hote! her room what she thinks an_ artist's ri nailed on the wall in all degrees of er like the pictures in Marie kirteetf s art draperies are thrown here apf home wl nating place Paris is. So so good. When she comes up from dinner le | irate boarding house keeper stands in the san tum and ina fary talks yards of Pai innocent American until, finding she derstood. the French dame calla ip , and tol complete the art dtuden humiliation has it translated to her thit she to take down every one‘of those gravures an: isappointment number one. beggar who to be artistic, tpo, ,the same r that we 'the Her hopes are so high:when spends the first day| making om, should be. Copies of Corregio, Raphael, Rene and oigcrs per! modern for her) are fem jomb, there, and other touches given which make the plade look fecha struck it. Then she writes t is id y madam three francs for every nail’ hole. resided. I found the house full of wedding | guests, and there were evident preparations for a night of festivit, The bride was a modest, shy-looking damsel, with dark droop- | ing eyes and graceful pose of figure. I was utterly taken aback by what followed. As soon ‘as the marriage ceremony was com: pleted, the bride asked me in a soft, timid voir “Please, sir, will you baptize the baby nd at the same moment one of the women lifted a child from the cradle. In my inno- the boat, and stood up to fore [ wax fairly on my feet my and « monster tarpon was hooked. He succeeded in taking off the hook and line, leaving the rod ud reel. In taking the line the reel unwound *o quickly that it was overrun and the result was that the Line snapped, letting the fish The tarpon Jumped at least twenty feet in air. ‘This isa trick the fish have of trying to eject the bait and hooks, That was number one. cence I asked: “Whose baby is it? and the bride, with a face scarlet with blushes, meekly answered, “It's mine, sir.” What could I do Why should the innocent child be denied the Christian sacrament? The infant was placed in the arms of the bridegroom father. and with an extra touch of pathos that I sincerely felt I solemnly commended the babe to the care o' n who said “Suffer little children to come unto Me.” T have had some experience of marriages south of tbe Here there are no home marriages. The ceremony takes place in church and is often witnessed by a large con- gregation. the etiquette for the brid be first on the «pot to welcon the bride. Lonce officiated Tinge in the nort was placed in a most led down th , fol: wes in front of the communion rail. Bat the bridegroom was nowhere to be seen ther, | ‘took | I fished four days before = dite again. This time I was left with no one in the boat but my eight-year-old boy, aa my roust- about had gone of and got drank at Ponta Gorda after I paid him bis week's wages. | When the fish struck me the boy was asleep im | the stem of the boat and"l was almost helpless, | wrestling with a big tarpon and trying to steer | the boat as well. I'got hold « | to wake him wy | to poke him w | the or and | tryman of mine wason shore and I aboard to help the boy. fish and thong took a fresh turn and swam into deep water. The next time I got rd the xhore I resolved not the fich att dow be could catch the perfume of roses, | walking among the old-fashioned flowers, be | mingled with the faint sweet breath of flowers joined her and told her the old, old story, 50 that bloomed in shady woodland haunts | sweet to youthful hearts, through which they He was not a| “1 lo r ° some yousg man. this Lyle Dermott, in| She had spoken the low words that linked her the sense in which the word iy usually ac-| future with his and lovingly, trustingly given cepted. But the sunny gray eye spoke of a| her heart into his keeping. al good nature as well aes well-balanced | “I cannot tell vou anything of my past, dear,” net. The face was one to be trusted and | he said, as held her soft hand in his, “I wish rather than admired for ite classic out-| Icould. But it isa poor nameless wanderer, | or artistic coloring. In build he wasa| with no past, you have taken for better of specimen of the athletic men turned out | worse.” our best colleges of today. “You havea future,” she whispered, hope- : was the only son of the senior | fully, “and I will share it for a little while, at of a rich banking firm in Boston, when | least. Ido not care what lies buried in that been Dermott & Richards. Now that his | forgotten past, dear. Surely if you cannot re- father was dead and the firm name had been | call it, and I have never known it, we may be changed to Richards & Dermott he was the | haj jod grant he said. Then in alittle in fact, the active partner, gra ris was nearly past work and con- | while he spoke to her again, in the tender, ca- ressing way he had always used toward her. {f with starting new enterprises for his younger partner to carry out. Now he had | “Come, you_must go in now; the night air is that was here denied us. as three men—one to walk about in the room Sohe shut out paradise at her bidding and | where the presents are exposed, another to sternly turned his face where duty called. stand by the diamonds and a third to remain There was a quiet wedding among the hills | outside on the sidewalk for the purpose of keep- and Lyle Dermott brought his young wife to| ing professional thieves from entering the Boston with him. house. If is a fact that thieves in the regular If his friends thought it strange they had | lino of business carefully watch the annotnce- long ago learned better than to interfere in his | ments of swell weddings with a view to rob- affairs. and Miss Severne gave the female gos- | bery. sips who interviewed her no ratisfaction. nine days’ wonder soon ceased to be won- derat all, and Lyle Dermott went his way among men, seldom meeting the woman who had sac- rificed herself for the life and happiness of an- other, As for Mary Severne, not one wish of hers will ever shorten the life of Lyle Dermott's wife. But is she to blame if, in the midst of her patient waiting, and when she sometimes sees the quick flush on the pale cheek, and the shadows of another world she to blame if she looks forward to wit was by sucha firm that 4he young | ee ee ‘i woman I suspected was employed. ‘This fact | That evening she undoes all her moruing’s would antisfactorily account for the scraps and | work and adds a postacripture to her letter to half sheets of paper, no two of which were | the effect that Paris pension keepers arc fiends alike.” Twatched ber, caught her in the act of pe tai, silat eGiCRchG to teantina: pemine site: snonyesons letters to te Her spirits baverisen the next morning, thongh, Shant, and obtained from her a confession. She | and after coffee and bread, which hardly soems oe Ot ae nd written them for the PUF-| enough to an American at frst, whe starts pose of inducing him to marry her. inher very best gown, to hunt up Julie studio. Meisterschaff gives her the proper LETTERS TO THE PROSPECTIVE FATHER-IN-LAW. ; “That story reminds me of another. Two | form for asking the way to a street, so dhe tries it on some amigble Gaul and inquires for | Al Years ago a young man in this city was engaged ae Ee KY ton charming girl. Her father received a num- jeisterschaff-don't teach the ans#er and ber of anonymous letters, stating that his ex-| poor mam'selle i¢ juyt.as wise after monsicur pected son-in-law was a roue, a drunkard and a | bas gesticulated and screamed at her for’ ten gambler. He brought some of the missives to! minutes as she was before. She tries this sev- me. They were all in the handwriting of a | eral times, but resorts at last to dexperate woman, and had been mailed in the same post | measures and draws forth, reluctantly, the office district, as the postmarks showed. I got | Baedec! that red cover is such a giveaway, @ map of New York and drew a line with a blue | and she hadn't wanted any one to know she and no one could account for his absence. The | nearly two hundred pounds, while my fingers church was full of eager, interested spectators, | were benumbed with thumping the reel, Te and I observed the rustic aud flutter of grow- | hold such # fish with one hand was like ho zexcitement as the wi on to the tail énd of a runaway wagon. I gaft Where is the bridegroom?” I suggested that | the fish beautifully in the throat, when lo, it the ladies should rotire into the vestry, but the | whipped ore bride declined with a gentle firmn much : Thave coms here to be macried and | line with his mouth and escaped. All the peo- Tam not going te run away. * ple watched me working that fish and they were sure my beloved will be here immediately.” | sure I had st. My wife was told at the hotel But minutes that seemed drawn out into | thet I had hooked « fish 200 pounds in weight. unusual length passed away and he did | She came down in » boat to see me land the not come. It was a time of intense ang| monster tarpon. But the fish had gone before painful suspense. The father and mother | she arrived. That was experience number two. | tidgeted and flushed, the bridesmaids were in| “At the end of four days I hooked a monster the nervous borderland between laughing and m that acted in # most extraordinary man- erving and the congregation talked in buzzing | ner. Instead of trying to get away it came out whispers. I engaged the bride in conversation | of the water and headed for the boat, I real- ized thet before my colored man, who wase new land, could get up either his anchor or hand line with which I was fishing for the tarpon would get foul of LEPTOMANIA AN ACTUAL DISEASE. “My observation has shown that kleptomania is actually a dixease. It is much more common among women than with men. Furthermore, it is in a sense inherited, and the investigation of many cases has tended to show that longings onthe part of a mother will thus affect her unborn child, So thoroughly am I convinced that victims of it are not responsible that F ways try to protect them from exposure. ‘Th and indulged in a little diverting _pleasantry. said I; “keep up your heart; don’ iY punt; but if you wish to indulge | nocent luxury do it gracefully. Lean y steal not from any necessity, but from morbid i in the blue eyes, is time . I fancy. At the same time they come under the pencil on it, marking the boundaries of that foreign. But it her comfort and. shoulder and | stood with my back tothe stern aoe tk: become will over the acres of land going to | damp. I will stay out for one cigar and then | when her waiting will be over and he will be | head of ‘opportunity thieves'-they only yield i : eects, rs gions, bee ae . or - line as fast as possible, so that when waste in some of the small towns in western | go to bed; but you, dear—this air is too cool for | free? She's only human, and it is human to| to the temnfotion wher hood chances aed wed Sint aera gt rent to see the young man | through it, ehe finds Julien’s. Blessed myer re ap liege A | Ieee lack as amma bh thse tts, ‘ad as ‘Tam These deserted farms he be- but you must lieved could be bought and then by a little book: | many guide-ridden, elers find She bore up splendidly and was the most self- peace from thy pages! possessed of the whole yp egation Tose to watch the the tangle came I would have a» Imagine my surprise you. love—and to hope. they think they are secure from detection. - Not heart-sick trav- long ago I caught a woman of the highest so- é ih ii possible Yes, I will go,” she answered him, “but going to ask you some questions, ; soe I not ask me any. t_ do ‘you mean?’ he Passed as the co the line come tut over my shoulder. jadicious booming sold again at a profit, thus | there is one thing I want to say to you before “LINCOLN Is KILLED.” cial position in the act of secreting a diamond | saked. ‘Just wb — Mone aS ee |e o ti ide; A hoand ing round I found the line on the opposite «de benefiting humanity and his own pocket at the | I go,” and she stopped in the path close by his ee = | brooch at a jeweler's. I followed her carringo | Sexe, Just, wnt Tsay,’ I. re ea etn: | How perfectly frightful the celebrated studio | Face gf gem ee ee gers ed fr epee pee ag ome tie. se if I dio—sometimes Thave thought I! a Striking Incident in Midocean After the | home, asked to see her privately, and obtained | important service by ‘acquiescing. smells and how ghastly “greenery-yellowy"" n the should not li Now, tell {ORT sequaintance lives have marked on this ed man trying to disentangle him to get his knife, which he dic large line, and we got away all | learned that in the fish's third jump | clear over the boat, taking the han | him, ‘This was at 1 o'el | till 6:45 I worked to land the boat seven miles up got past a sunken tree After breaking the line | more, tired than when jumped at least a distance of forty ‘out of the wate unconscious that they mR. fh astonished to find the bride The ceremony proceeded in the usual wav and all ended happily. The blunder arose by the driver muddling ders. instead of going first for the bridegroom according to his iustructions he went to a dif- | ferent part of the townrfor the bride. ‘The putting on of Ading ring is an im. portant part of the ceremony in the English e. The ring is placed on the book out of the service is read; and the minister, handing the j him to the left hand of the bride, and, holding to repeat andibly the following formal |In a day or twoit struck this ring, a token and pledge of the vow and | might have gone where he had covenant now made betwixt me and thee, I thee | I started next morning for the wed, in the name of t ther and of the Son | the last fish. n T got to , | and of the Holy Ghost.” It is a curiousfact that | dare speak above a whisper, for it though this formula is usnally broken up into | tarpous. They were swimming in cight fragments for the sake of easy repetition | as perpoises. After about four itis rarely repeated with perfect accuracy. The | hooked a t and landed bim in great stumbling block is the phrase, “Now made | five and a half minutes. I tested m betwixt me and thee.” Though the words are | morning to see how much it would stand put immediately into the mouth of the bride- | held on to that fish justas much as I thought groom, it is invariably rendered “Betwixt thee | line would bear. ‘wus faster time |and me.” This is the rule in my experience. | ever heard of among fishermen. It is an exception when it is repeated accu- | believe it, but I had witnesses who j rately—“'Me and thes.” The bridegroom is | Williams, the president of the then asked to place the ring fully on the finger; | Manufacturing Company, was and this is not always easily accomplished. I river in a tug, and he and the crew have seen it done with such facility and neat- | landed. In ten days I lost about ness as indicated that there must have been down the aisle utterly had been the caase of and they were it, I yelled shades of night had the , and cut ogg ped cut landscape in that indistinguishal mae that | die. precedes the starlit darkness of the night the ears drew up at a stall station in an out-of-the- way town miles and miles from the busy city of thankfulness that the journey Dermottarosefrom his seat and | The maiden stooped and picked a rose, a rom the cars. blush rose, from a bush near by, then she looked station was all dark save for the dim | up at him with laughing eyes from which the | light in the waiting room. Away up the long | sadness had vanished. { the track the train disappeared with «| ‘‘Good-night, dear love,” she said, as sbe and a roar, and one by one the signal lan-| turned to leave him; then threw the rose gently vat against the fast-ancreasing | at him, from over her shoulder, and ran into | the house. tly the only passenger, and he | He stooped to pick it up, but it fell to pieces | n investigating tour. | beneath bis touch and its petals were scattered found the station | to the evening winds, while a faint perfume | on a settee. ascended from the heart of the dying flower. re I shall tind a hotel?” | When he rose to his feet his face bore the ashy paleness of death, the cold damp of almost un- arable anguish started ont on his forehead und he leaned against the fence near by for sup- ve to be very old—but if I should . dear, say you will never forget me. Oh, I | could not beargo be forgotten.” There was pitiful earnestness in the tremu- lous voice and the childish biue eyes. “Mollie, darling, don’t talk so; you pain me,” and his eyes grew very grave. from her a $600 chegie'which was the price of the article stolen. husband is one of the t-known men in New York financial circles. He never heard of the transaction. What would have been the use of creating a seandal? KEEPING SECRETS. “The detective often has it in his power to do a great deal of good by keeping a secret. On one occasion, a few years ago, a girl fifteen years old, the daughter of a man of social Prominence, became enamored of a Spanish artist of this city. She ran away to live with him. I found her ten days later, being em- loved for that purpose. She was overwhelm- ingly iy srr and anxious to go back to her | family, but shame withheld her. What do you | suppose I did? I deliberately deceived my em- ployer. Going to an hotel keeper of my inti- mate acquaintance I told him the whole story. ‘Now,’ said I to him, ‘I want you to take this young woman, ‘dress her up a8 a chambermaid and employ her as such in your hotel. Then I will bring her father here, and you and your housekeeper will both tell him that his daughter sought work here as a chambermaid ten days ago and has | been to occupied ever ninee, making her Hering | respectably.” Everything wasarranged as I re- quested, and the father came with me to the hotel, where I said I had discovered her, and actually found her making up the beds on the top floor. Of course,there was a reconciliation. Nobody outside her immediate family ever knew that the had Presidential Asdassination. From St. Nicholas. Early one morning the mate was startled by the cry from aloft, “Black smoke ahead, sir! A big steamer standing to the southward.” ‘The captain was called and in a trice bounced on deck, where, applying the glass to his eye, he took long look at the stranger who had pushed so suddenly out of the early mist hang- ing low upon the horizon. Whatever her character, we had but little chance of escape if she had rifled guns. Many aglance of apprehension was directed toward the somber hull and pair of sloping smoke- stacks with the twirling smoke trending far astern. “Show him our colors, sir! Bend on the ensign; we may as well be hanged fora sheep asalamb. If that fellow isa rebel the sooner we know it the better!” exclaimed the captain somewhat excitedly to the mate. It was close upon six bells (7 o'clock) when the steamer revealed her nationality. We fairly yelled when tho blood-red cross of St. George danced up aloft from the steamer’ signal yards, She was evidently a troopship bound for the cape, a tritle out of her course, but we did not stop to consider that. | She was too. far distant to speak, but, in obedience toa gesture from the captain, ‘the fe | girls look. They look at her with soulle hopeless eyes; very much as the lost wonls in hades must look at new arrivals, and straight- way her eyes catch the same expression. Apair of gray claws clas rm. It is an uc- | quaintance from “home,” and, though they Rave met perhaps twice, they fall to. kissing each other like long-lost sisters, so glad are they for the sight of a familiar face. But the gray claws—for it is modeling clay which gives them the ashey hue—have left their traces, and aftér the first transports of joy are over’ our heroine bas time to observe the damage done. Her very best gown is ruined; not all thgart of the Parisian tinturiere can make it good gain. A TALE OF Wor is what the new comer, hears from tims; how Julien’s prices are awful, ers careless, the air poisonous, the m me whether any lady of within the boundaries map. FINDING THE WRITER, “Well, he wouldn't answer at all for some time. Finally, being favorably prepossessed with him, I went astep further and told him that certain charges had been made against him tothe effect that he was a gambler anda libertine, &c. My visit to him, I explained, was for the purpose of clearing him of the accusa- tions, but he must be content to have it done in | my own way. You see I did not wish to let him know that Iwasa detective employed by his father-in-law to be. I reiterated my previous query and he replied that he did know one lady in the part of the city I had indicated. mention- | ing her name. I showed him simply the hand- writing of one of the anonymous letters, and, without being aware of its contents, he recog: nized it at once as hers. Then, at my request, we went and called upon the woman, who was young and well-connceted, ‘Madam,’ said I, on being introduced to her, ‘Ihave come to ask why you wrote these letters to Mr. So-and-t0.’ ‘She turned pale as a ghost, put her hand to her bosom and tried to stammer a denial, but I gave her no time. ‘Madam;' I continued, pointing to the young man, ‘I wish to ask if this is the gambler you refer to in these letters?’ She no ans\ and Iwenton. ‘Is this the libertine and - ard you have spoken of?’ ‘But it was not FE Be With a sigh of was ended L ‘I began to feel kind |and people looked upon me of it there, Wi ved the agent, rubbing | nearer than Beetown, | any place where I can put up? t matter.” Chi with, isn’t it? and P For in that brief moment he had remem- There ain't any houses | You must have here. His life, with its promising past, had come back to him inva flash, and with it what depths of woe! In his newly awakened consciousness his love for Mary Severne stood out with all the force of manly passion, to be felt but once, while the | tenderness he experienced for sweet little Mol- Dean resolved itself into its true form and pity. All that ni RE ING IGNORANCE. What avery lit £ < ght he lay | ¢ i youn; woman some previous practice of the art, But sometimes fixe ae uit Ea comet hit ely hated | ak Sede wo ate ica aT sen gs |Simppeared. She wbsguonty marvel well | "Bu $0, go any furi pf 1 paint for the the ring iver cbetnate and aicult of mar ta ty J nenit- jie of ud come to him, only he coul + an vs o i le 7 i was S o'clock. “Ican easily | not bring himself to speak of Mary beverne, halyards and lend a band to bend on the magic A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. She broke down’ entirely and Rad tied § nipulation and Ihave soen the # gota by 9. In what direction lies the | “Ob, Tam wo glad, napregtireigee date on cusilod ucts te ists Seejeeete eiurts where the « 1 with his finger toward the had lately gone to said the “unsuspecting | girl. | “So glad,” he groaned within himself, so glad when he was ready to die. flags. Upward fluttered the parti-colored bits of bunting, glasses were leveled and breathless expectancy ‘marked the sunburnt features of “One of the most mysterious disappearances Lever investigated occurred eight yoars“ago. A girl of sixteen, belonging to a rich family, to push the refractory symbol over the second joint. Iremember a case of this kind once oo- curred in Lancashire, where I was if lt the clipper's crew; for the inquiry flying from our mizzen-royalinast was, “What news of the American war! ‘The flash of foam cast up by the huge pro- peller greeted our strained vision, the great | steamer glided onws but no responsive sig- nals gladdened the anxious hearts of those yearn- ing to hear news from home. ith a passionate exclamation of disappoint- ment the captain closed the Joints of his long glass with s: soap, saying, sa he turned “He hasn't our code. It's no use.” Look at that!” suddenly exclaimed the mate, pointing. at in he going to do?” He is coming about,” shouted the captain, bronzed features fairly paling, “Can it be possible he has played us a trick and is the Alabama? Stand by, all hands, for——" A deep blast of the steam whistle rumbled over the flashing waters, followed by a number of quick toots as the steamer ranged to leeward; then an expanse of white canvas was lowered over the side. Glasses were directed upon that ht patch amidships, upon which dark lines could be dis- ved with the naked eye. ‘The glass showed cern these were letters, “I have it!” shonted the captain, leaping ex- citedly into the “Spread the news fore American confict ip vanished, No tidings of her being obtained for fortnight, I was employed to look ber up. ‘As is usual in such instances I made it my first’ business to find out who were her scquaint- ances of both sexes, and partieularly. whether she had exhibited a fancy for any man. ere seemed to be uo clue worth mentioning, but some trifle made me think twice about -s cet- | tain manufacturer, who was a friend of her father's, His reputation apy to be above Tepronch, but for lack of aprthing promising I put a ‘shadow’ on him. married Bound by to break one of which | would be death to the fragile flower here; to | ri other, a living death to himself. | What is the matter?" Are you not pleased?” “d Mollie. Mt course, child. But this return to sanity necessitate my absence for a few days, pos- ly a week. Imustlet them know where I have been, an@ then, you know, we must soon go down to Boston for good,” and he smiled ai the blushing girl, who could not guess what | that “we” had cost him. | The next his dt dead. “Eh! upon my soul!” he ejaculated, rising to | his fect in astonishment. yon't you know me, Mr. Richards?” asked you? Yes; but, bless me, where have n for syear back?” he said, grasping | hand in s hearty grip, while a suspicious are rose to his eyes. ‘ot a great way off.” it down, sit ri the elder man, sinking into « seat himself. . le had taken a chair, “let us Now,” when Ly | hear where you have been. te gis t straight ahead he said; “you'll in Dreamland. His and he could sleep now until swinging p nt himself « th eves i oman's wounded feelings. such cases have just been tried before Mr. Jus- tice Day at the Leeds assizes and cach ‘hoe ack of his © slouch ut the little nee. taking the road. It ither, for he was found Capt, Terry in 1889 walked on the Thames from Barnes to Mortlake in England at the Tate of nearly four miles an hour, and inti- y Mr. Richards looked up from k to see before him one risen from the i RUNING THE RASCAL DOWN, “I began to think that Iinust have strack » wrong scent, but finally I made the scquaint- ance of one of his employes, who remarked to | 5° me incidentally that ‘the old man wos the devil | wag after the girls.’ Lasked him if his was attentive to any one in time, ‘Not in New York,’ so “but he got a letter o} writing 1 woods, fields a reach Be Ta long time aft aight. nor, idee Milently the moment lessens then he crept whistling so am thing frem ben it high terrib ting vietim. wn, Ee] = Then the form kuelt by Uvermott's aide au H no— yea “Ling be had cleaned his pockets out trike lors ‘mast, sir,” took home the other She said: “I coolly afraid was he the captain to the mate in a subdued tone, Then | I wae ather dey. is “T pre- | Spout = Roveddod: “Moist the signal ‘taank fon cease he exe sume that some of us will live to see the time | Sen taken into papers, al steamer. [ At that moment the rich, full tones of « pe band were wafted ‘across the hows many an wit aap A ie" 1 tell you. You remember that I left 0 on a mission for you?” at @ little station, the wrong one, as I afterward learred. ‘After when the crimson streaks | learning my mistake I started to walk the dis- showing rast, | tance to Beetown, about two miles. When half he | way there I was attacked from behind by some one who knocked me se ng, Ven #eray Was picked up the next & farmer, who carried me | of deliriam and when | member any of my pock- | name of George Perry vhtary figure . d that other } le of the re of bei hining down on face andthe night dews gath- bri Fe§d} H TOE ili ‘The heart was still oenting. ‘Then the farmer put both hands in ets, where he stood in the road, and gave vent | first, and only recentiy the me that I had any business abbery, by soah!* Boston.”