Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1895, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1895—T 11 BY L. FRANK BANN. - (Copyright, 1895, by Irving Bacheller.) (Continued from Monday’s Star.) 2 Ii—A FIRST SUSPICION. Mr. Howard Forsythe was reading his brother's letter, with a ittle frown upon his brow, and I noticed that his lips w. Pressed firmly together. He wore a gray flannel shirt, with a neck searf of dari blue, wide, loose trousers, heavy boots and @ broad-brimmed straw hat. About his Waist was a leather belt, from which hung ‘@ pistol holster, with the gleaming butt of revolver protruding from it. He finished the letter, folded it, placed it his pocket and stood up. ,."You are welcome, Mr. Andrews, and Shall have all the assistance I can furnisa ou. At the same time I cannot encourage You to look for success, as we have about abandoned ope of discovering the culprit Who is rifling us. Still, you can make Yourself at home, as the steamer will not gall again for a month, and In that time you may have either succeeded in unravel- ing the mystery or realizing your helple: ness. In a few moments I will introduce ‘ou at headquarters." He paused and looked toward the landing. At that mo- Ment two men had grasped a barrel of ¢ocoanuts and were carrying it aboard the boat. Howard Forsythe ne took his eyes from that barrel until It swung out of view inte the hold. Then he turned to me, colore] sligntly at ing my eyes fixed rnestly on his face, and said, with a hort laugh: Jur sole exportation, aside from the dla- monds. Mother Videaux’s cocoanuts are the only thing the place will yield, and she 1 1 each mouth with I will show arity. Tut © sights of Beni ines consisted of a number of small cottages or huts, which were Pied by the white foremen, or Mr. Howard Forsythe. as they were called, each of whom had i of a gang of native di: ‘There so a pretty little villa occupied by 's. Peter Delby, the former the firm of propri ered that Mr. Dy to the firm a h simple a appar ented, was of Renita. He voted their entire attention to one a being sufficient unto themselves, and rather resentiug any undue intrusion into their earthly paradise. - The agent for the German firm, Herr Gchlitz, was a confirmed drunkard. He occupied a little room at the top of the main offices. His face was vacant and stupid, and his manners, when be mixed at all with his fellows, absolutely boorish. It was therefore very easy to see that the management of affairs fell almost wholly upon Howard Forsyth It was he who kept the wheels moving. He arose early and passed the day in visiting the Gifferent gangs of laborers and seeing that the overseers did their duty. ing he stood behind the little grated win- dow of his office and received the report of each overseer in turn, the man standing upon the veranda and handing in the re- sults of his da. work. ‘Mr. Forsythe received the diamonds, laced them in an iron box, thrust that Into the safe when the returns were all In and then went to supper. Afterward he weighed and counted the stones and Fecorded them in the firm's book: I myac him often and soon discovered that he never varied this program. Some- times Mr. Delby or Herr Schlitz would tbe present when the stones were received, but oftener they were tnvis ntil after upper, when they were obliged to see the gtones and to add their signatures to the daily one or two occastons Teported to be too Mr. Delby always came punctually, watch- ed the operations nervously and listlessly and i ed back to his wife at the earliest possible moment. Mr. Forsythe appointed me a room on the second floor of the matin building—a small, stuffy little apartment, but neatly nished, and nearly opposite his own room. We all ate in the common dining hall—all, that is, excepting Mr. and Mrs. Del) who lived exclusively by them- gelves. All the houses in the settlement Were set up on high posts, and the steps Were raised at night, this being necessary to guard against the numerous serpents that infested the promontory, the most vicious being the slender gray asps, or aja Haje, as they are more properly nown. These were regarded with great by the natives, and at intervals shot from some part of proclaim that an over- was protecting himself or his men of these deadly pests. The very day after my arrival, while Forsythe was showing me about the he suddeniy jumped aside end dashed his heavy heei upon one of these seer from one asps, which lay near our path. He laushed when he saw the terror written ip 2 and remarked quietly: have to get used to these fel- and to fight them, too. I make it nt to kill every one I set eyes on—it's e the less, though their num- Mother helr ac- fewer. “has the reputation of be- ‘quaint ng a snake charmer, and I'm the old fax could charm nothing else the rest f us are in constant fear of receiving @ Porat bite. There is no help for you if into your blood. therwise this place is pleasant enough, nd the bar- emarkably healthful into id little attention to me, but about at will, and I end> et thoroughly acquainted with the set- nt in order that I might, if possible, ver some clew to the missing dla- fmonds. At the end of the week de- ¢ided that there was not a suspicious per- gon on the promontory who could, by eny ans, obtain pi ession of any stones were mined. The inclosure was tm- able, and was y by armed men. At evenly feer marched his band of nati inclosure, where every one was carefully arched, and then e again and allo ach overseer Was care h ad delivered his precious burden. the day had the; and all visitors—ev © searched whenever leavirg the It was an autocratic law, and low, was permitted to guarded right and each over- to thelr ke of visitors, but besides myself Was no one, outside those actively loyed, the native women, who casionally came to the end of the In- losure for stores or other assistance. and jother Videaux. I saw this remarkable creature for the first time the week after arrival. She came into the inclosure ard evening, and hobbled up to Mr. rsythe's office to demand food. Her axe could not ¢ crossed an n be guessed, for her face was eared with innumerable wrin- Kles, and had the appearance of old leather. She was bent nearly double, and leaned on a short stick, but she walked more briskly than cne would suppose who watched the palsied shaking of her form. If spoken to she peered up at you side- ways and disclosed small but piercing black eyes, which contrasted picturesque- ly with ber snow white hair. She tm- pressed me as being more like the stereo- typed stage witch than any woman I had ever seen, and I wondered why she was permitted to live in @ settlement where no one was likely to be tolerated who could not contribute to the work in hand. Mr. Forsythe raised the grating of his window and beckoned to her, She tot- tered toward him, and he threw her a haif- used tia of meats. Mother Videaux mum- bled her thanks, and made her way to the kitchen, where our native cook filled her basket with bread and scraps from the table. She sat on the steps a moment and wiped the perspiration from her face with a faded red nandkerchief, and then she ; took her basket and started for the gates, where the guard went through the usual ceremony of searching her. Howard For- sythe was leaning from his window, smok- ing a cigar and watching the guard’s de- Liberate motions. “Who is the woman?” I asked. . “Mother Videaux? No one knows. Some say sh2 is French and others Italian. She ‘yeaks English, however, and knows the native language perfectly. I am told she came here when the mires were first open- ed, the captain of the steamer having res- cued her from a wreck in mid-ocean. She lives in that little cottage near the grove, and is neither of use nor any particular bother, so we tolerate her and feed her.” joes she live alcne?” I inquired, as her nt figure passed the gate and hobbled up path toward the grov tirsiy so. The natives attribute to her powers of sorcery, and several times when they have attempted to mutiny Mother Videaux has brought them to their vou say she sends cocoanuts to ; does she get no returns from her Forsythe laughed. “She gathers from the grove about one barrel a month, and they are not very valuable. Still, the steamer captains, know- ing her well, are good natured enough to carry them without charge, and her con- signee—some relative, I suppose—sends her provisions In return, but scarcely enough to support her.’ He thr away his cigar and returned to his work, while I turned the subject over in my mind and considered what bearings it might have on my mission. It had struck me at once that Mother Vi- deaux was the only mystery in the whole settlement, and absurd though the idea might be, I decided to watch her closely. She came to the inclosure regularly twice a week, and I noticed that each time For- sythe tossed some scrap of food into her basket. Thls in itself aroused my curiosity, as it struck me that his donation scarcely necessary when the cook presented her wita so lberal an allowance. It might be that he desired to concillate her; per- haps he had a secret fear of her sorcer; at any rate 1 discovered that he ignored all the native women who came to the inclosure, and made Mother Videaux the sole recipient of his beneficence. Forsythe never breakfasted with the rest of us. He always arose late and boiled a pot of coffee in his litue office. All this seetaed mysterious to me, and I began to hope that at length I had fallen upon the track of the diamond thief. From the first I had no confidence in Howard Forsythe, and regretted that his brother had made him aware of my mission at 1} nita. At times the boldness and presump- tion of m: picton of this man, the head of the mines and the confidant and brother of my employer, struck me forcibly, and almost decided me to abandon what mvst be an unworthy thought; but his peculiar actions, together with the fact that his fel- low-agents were worse than iacompetent, led me to believe that I was on the right track. But, in spite of all my efforts, the weeks passed by, and I was ho nearer any tan- gible evidence to support my theories than I was at the beginning. IV.--ASPS AND DIAMONDS. At the end of the month the little steamer puffed slowly into the harbor. I stood upon the veranda watching it approach, when Mr. Forsythe came toward me. ‘Well, Andrews,” he said pleasantly, “are you to leave us today?” “I'm afraid not, sir,” I answered, mood- ily enough, as the thought of returning to my sweetheart and to civilization came temptingly to my mind I've not per- formed my mission at Benita yet.” He looked at me a little curiously, and a good deal surprised, I thought. “Not discouraged yet, eh?” Not entirely, sir.”” ‘Have you any theory to work upon?’ he inquired, anxiously. “None whatever.” “Then, with a smile, “let me advise you to give it up, and return to a Jife that will be more pleasant. I do not wish to dispar- age your talents, but I have known mary others who have undertaken to ferret out the mystery, and one month has sickened them all of it and of Benita. It is not that you are not welcome, but I urge you to go for your own sake. For my own part, I am resigned to any loss we may suffer, Mother Videnux Going to Beg Food. since the mines yield us an enormous in- come as it is. What do you say?” I shook my head. “I shall not give up, Mr. Forsythe, even if it takes years to accomplish my pur- pose.”” As I spoke his brow grew dark, and he stamped his heel violently on the floor. The next minute he bit his lip and forced a smile to his face. “Please yourself,” he sald, “only do not blame me if you’ waste your time on a fool's errand,” and he walked hastily away toward the wharf. I followed him, and while we were being searched by the guard at the gate, asked if the steamer brought mail from America. He nodded without verbal reply, and we joined the group at the wharf, and watched the steamer discharge her load. There was a letter for me from Josephine —a sweet and Icving missive, written cheerfully and hopefully, and breathiag love in every line. There ‘was also a short note from Mr. Forsythe, wishing me suc- cess, and asking for a report of my pro- gress. I hurried back to the house and wrote them both—to my sweetheart a love letter, to my employer a few words to say I did ‘not yet despair of success. As I came back to the steamer I saw them cocoanuts on board. The iron chest of diamonds followed, the captain signing the receipt on a smooth rock near by, and then the whistle blew shrilly, and the steamer drew swiftly away, and communication with the great world was cut off for another long month. Still, I had Josephine’s letter to comfort me; and the thought that I had sent her all ty love in return;.and I resolved to throw off all despondent thoughts, and go to work with renewed vigor to unravel the mystery of the stolen diamonds. But what could any man do but watch and walt? Again the weeks dragged slowly by, again and again I watched every detail of Mother Videaux’s visits to the inclosure, but I couid find no solution to the mystery. Her actions, as well as those of Howard Forsythe, were so natural and free from any attempt at concealment that I almost|the outbreak of the rebellion. ‘fting Mother Videaux’s barrel of |G R ANT AT- GALENA 1k How the Raw Reoruits, Found the Man of Destiny. 20 sr One Suggested That He Would Teach Them the Rujiments of the Art ¢f, War. ca 7 From the Indianapolis Sentinel. Galena, Ill, was mot; much of a town at It was aah i decided that I was wrong and began to give | neither very populous nor generally known up Rope of success. In three days steamer would be due again. My position in the settlement this last the | as a commercial or industrial center. But there were brave hearts there, and scarcely month was not enviable. Howard Forsythe | had the call for troops been flashed over absolutely ignored me, and refused even 10 converse with me beyond a gruff word or two when they could not be avoided. called on Mr. and Mrs. Delby, but they so evidently considered me an intruder into their domain that I did not repeat the ex- periment. Herr Schlitz did not encourage familiarity, and so I was thrust upon my own resources for entertainment, since the “bosses"’ were rough, uneducated fellows, with whom I had nothing in common. I lounged in an easy chair in a shady cor- ner of the veranda and decided that the third day from that should see me aboard the steamer and bound for home. My trip to Benita was a failure, but there was enough to do in America to retrieve my wasted months. A scratching sound upon the gravel made me look up. It was Mother Videaux on her semi-weekly visit. Howard Forsythe’s window grating was thrown up abruptly. “Here, you hag—come here!” he called. The old woman hobbled to the window and he tossed part of a loaf of bread into her basket. She mumbled a word of thanks and went around to the kitchen. A sudden idea came to me and I arose and sauntered toward the gate. “Going out, sir?” asked the guard. “For a little walk,” I replied. ‘Nearly sundown, sir," he remarked, as he deftly turned out my pockets; “better take this stick—the varminte are trouble- seme toward night; but they never wixxle after the dark comes, unless they're dis- turt I knew the habits of the snakes well enough by this time, and had, to an extent, lcst my earlier terror of them, but I took the stick willingly and walked slowly to- ward the lower end of the grove. Once within its dim shadows, I increased my speed, and was soon standing opposite Mother Videaux’s hut. The old hag was crawling slowly up the path toward her home, and stopping frequently to rest. But at length she reached the hut, pushed open the door and walked in. I crept softly over the rocks to the back of the hovel, keeping well out of view from the inclosure, as I did not know who might be watching me. (To be continued on Wednesday.) —_>__ HELP OF THE TROLLEYS. Only the Undertaker Favored Intro- ducing That System Into the Town. From the Chicago Post. “I've been a little ways down in the country on a business trip,” said the man in tho hotel rotunda. “Successful?” asked the commercial tray- eler to whom the remark was addressed. Well, only s0-so,” replied the other. Whats your line?” asked the commer- cial traveler. “Trolleys,” returned the other. “I've been trying to introduce a trolley line in a city about a hundred miles out.” Woulda’t work, eh?” Not very well. Most of the citizens were down on It; said {t increased insur- ance risks and ‘was dangerous, and all that. They fought me at every turn, but I guess I'll get it through in the end.” “Some of the people believe in it, then?” Well, yes; at least one does. In fact, he was enthusiastic. He did everything he could to help me along. He circulated pe- titions and got signatures of people owning frontage and argued for a trolley night and day. He said there was nothing iike it for business, and I guess he believes it, too, from the way he ai But you can‘t get it t assistance of one man. y be not, but this fellow is a power- ful hard worker, and he seemed all wrap- ped up in the subject. I thought it was mighty funny myself, and i couldn't un- sm until I made in- »3 just before coming away.” : they throw much light on the sub- 1gh with only hat did you learn about it?” found out that he was the principal undertaker in the town. And that wasn't all, either.” “What else?” “His brother was leading surgeon and his son was a medical student.” ——___+«+__ EGYPTIAN COLORS. They Remain Unchanged for Forty Centuries. In antiquity, says Cosmos, besides indi- go and purple, few colors were employed, and these were obtained for the most part from the vegetable kingdom, but their purity was so great that they have kept well to our own times, after having under- gone for centuries the action of the air and the sun. The fact 1s particularly re- markable in the Egyptian tombs; the stone has been disintegrated by weathering, while the colors have been preserved. The color that we meet most frequently is a mixture of a reddish-brown oxide of iron (red hematite) and clay, known under the name of Pompeiian red. This color, which has resisted for 4,000 years the sun of Egypt and the action of the air, is equally proof against acids. The Egyptians re- duced it by rubbing between stones under water to a degree of fineness that we can- not obtain nowadays by chemical precipi- tation. An equally precious yellow pig- ment, also much used, was formed of a natural oxide of fron mixed with much clay, chalk and water, and browned by the action of heat; the mixture of the two colors gives orange. For this yellow color, gold bronze or goid leaf was also employed. For blue they used a glass covered ‘with copper minerals; th!s pigment was not less permanent than the preceding, even acids having very little effect upon it. Gypsum or plaster of paris furnished white and also formed the basis of pale colors when or- ganic pigments were added to it, probably madder for red. The colors were always thinned and rendered adhesive by means of gums. It is interesting to know, as is proved by inscriptions, that the artists re- garded their colors as imperishable. Expensive Nonchalance. From the Chicago Tribune. A certain young man living on the North Side went out to call the other evening upon a young woman of his acquaintance whom he especially delighted to honor. He was quite a young man, and his ex- perience with florists had been neither deep nor varied. It occurred to him, how- ever, on this particular evening to stop at a flower merchant's and choose some blossoms for the pretty girl toward whose kome he was wending his way. ‘Give me a burch of roses,” he said care- ly to the man of nosegays. yes, sir; how many, please?” “Oh, a couple of dozen or so.” In a few moments they were ready, and the purchaser was feeling in his’ vest pocket for a $2 bill to pay for them. “How much?” he asked before the bill made its appearance. “Bightcen dollars, sir,” replied the flor- ist’s assistant, with what his hearer said afterward seemed diabolical glibness. The young man felt glddy for a moment. He had unwittingly selected roses that were seventy-five cents apiece. But, ag has been said, he was very young, and it seemed to him a very serious thing to go down before that flower clerk. So he paid his money and took his bouquet. “And,” he says, “I spent the next hour watching a pretty girl nibble and chew up $18 worth of roses.” ————-+ee. The Star Out of Town. THE EVENING STAR will be sent by mail to any address in the United States or Canada for such period as may be desired at the rate of fifty cents per month. {But all such orders must be ac- companied by the money, or the paper cannot be sent, as no ac- counts are kept with mail subscrip- tions, the wires from Washington until the little Illinois town was stirred to its four cor- ners by a call for a public recruiting meet- ing. The young men of the place within less than three days had organized two good companies. But there was no one to drill them. They had forgotten for the time the one man in all Galena who had passed through West Point and had been graduated with honor, At one of the meetings of the first com- pany recruited, after the question of a drill master had been thoroughly mooted, a young man suddenly arose to his feet, and above the bedlam of voices, shouted: “Send somebody up to the tannery. Grant will drill us if you ask him right. Send some- body to the tannery!” - Up on Main street, over the entrance to a little commonplace frame storeroom, was a sign which swung out over the sidewalk, and which had creaked on its hinges for a long time. Across the face of the sign were the simple words: : “Grant & Brother, Dealers in Leather and Shoemakers’ supplies.”” Over the door was the inscription: ‘Tan- nery; Highest Cash Price Paid for Green Hides. Seated on a box under the old board awn- ing in the shade from an afternoon sun the committee of “raw recruits” found ‘“‘the man of destiny,” whose name was after- ward to go through all the civilized world as that of an American who had become one of the great central figures of his coun- try’s history. The committee came up to where he was sitting, formed a sort of semicircle about him and removed their hats. The chair- man of that committee was the young man who proposed Grant as the drillmaster. It was William Pringle, who, since the close of the rebellion, has been a citizen of In- dianapolis, and for many years ‘ias been one of the most successful and -popular legal practitioners at the Marion county bar and the courts of the state. The Silent Man, Grant was then, as he was ever after- ward known to be, a man of few words, and, turning upon his visitors a counten- ance upon which no emotion was written, he awaited an explanation. “Mr. Grant,” said Pringle, “we come as a committee of the two companies recent- ly organized in Galena to ask what is un- doubtedly a great favor at your hands. We are all aware that your business claims your close attention, and that you have but little time to devote to outside matters, but we have enlisted in the cause of our country with’determination of doing our whole duty as loyal citizens and sol- diers. We believe we''will be able to do that duty more effecttvely if we can go to active service “with some practical knowledge of the Auties of that service which must come fo ts. We have, there- fore, come to you wit the hope “That ts enough, gentlemen,” was Grant's crisp and characteristic reply in interrup- tion. “These are not the times for words; it fs action; vigorotis, ‘decisive action that 1s needed. In plain térms, I understand, you want me to become your drillmaster. is that the fact? > 7 “Yes, sir, son. “Very well, then; sd be it. I shall ex- pect you to muster off the public square replied, the committee in uni- within an hour frém this time. I shall drill you'twice each Way till you'go to join your:regimenti I shall expect you to consider that T am your commanding of- ficer, ‘and'T shall eXpedt a discipline wh! will know no relaxation. In this I s demand of you that you become soldiers from the very start. That is all. Now go. I shall-meet you within the hour. Thus did Grant step once more into mill- tary iife, and, as_drillm: companies of Galena “boys,” foot practically place his upon the first round of that ladder, planted in the groundwork of one of the most awful conflicts of modern times, from whose top he stepped to his proper place among the most remarkable military characters of history. Grant at Home. “At his home in Galena,” sald Attorney Pringle recently, “Grant's life was marked by the same peculiar characteristics that followed him through his wonderful career to the day of his death. He was reticent even to secretiveness, firm in his convic- tions as the everlasting rock, and indomit- able in his strong energy to a degree which gave him a personality possessed by few men. He was simple and unassuming as a tusiness man and citizen. As a general his great forte lay in his ability to judge ac- curately of men, and it was this faculty wFich enabled him to draw about him in council men of keen judgment and intelli- gerce, upon whose advice he could faith- fully rely when military movements of subtle, strategic force were to be planned and carried into effect. He was a strict disclplinarian, and this characteristic was so marked in the man that it made enemies for him, and out of the plenitude of the enmity of these men frequently proceeded many of the Hbelous stories intended to injure him before the country. “It was in Galena, while he was drilling our companies, that I had my first experi- ence with Grant as a disciplinarian. Now, I had known him and his brother Orvill in thelr social and business life in Galena for a long time. Whenever I had met Grant we had exchanged the ordinary courtesies existing between neighbors. One day, after he had for weeks been my drill master, I was walking up Main street, and passed him. Without any other feeling than that I was speaking to an acquaintance and neighbor, I simply safd: ‘Good day, Mr. Grant.’ In Favor of Discipline. “He never opered his lips, but with a cold and expressionless cast of countenance passed on. The cut was pointed and direct, and I felt it. I turned about in my path end stared at the man. But he never turned, and apparently had no care as to whether I was in Galena or the South Sea Islands. The next day I was passing the little tannery, and he stood in the door. He called me to stop, and I went up to where he was standing. ““‘Sergt. Pringle, he sald, ‘you realize that you are an enlisted soldier in the serv- ice of your country, do you not?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ I repHedy ‘You understand by- this time that the necessity for a perfect discipline must be cerstantly before the man who expects to become a good soldier, do you not?’ “Yes, sir,” was all I could say, but for the life of me I could not conceive what he was driving at. “Very well, Sergt. Pringle,’ he said with considerable emphasis, ‘I wish to re- mind you that you met me yesterday on the street; that I, as drill master of your company, am your superior officer; that before addressing me it was your duty, as the subordinate, to salute me before open- ing your lips. I did not notice you simply for the reason that I wished to convey to you a lesson in that military etiquette which you will have to observe if you ever expect to come up tothe standard of a perfect soldier. Now take this home to yourself, and realize that it was not out of eny lack of regard for you that I cut you when you spoke to me on the street.’ “I took the lesson just as it was intended and I beg to assure you that I found it of inestimable benefit to me before I finished my-army life with the old twelfth Illinois regiment and came back to the habits of the vocations of peace.” rd Effective. From the New York Weekly. Old Friend—‘“I was surprised to hear that you had married Mr. Head.” Mrs. Head—‘Well, he persisted in hang- ing around me wherever I went, and there wasn’t a night that he didn’t call and stay until I was 'most tired to death. So I mar- ried him to get rid of him.” Old Friend—“Humph! Have you got rid of him?” Mrs. H.—‘Oh, yes, long ago; he has joined two clubs and six lodges.” HE RECEIVES ON TUESDAYS. A Lene Stage Robber Who Deyotes That Day to Taking Offerings. From the Morning Oregonian. As the Coos Bay stage was coming up Camas mountain, en route from Myrtle point to Roseburg, between 2 and 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, Dan Cardwell ard Barney Matthews of Roseburg were riding on the box seat with Driver George Lain- ger. The driver remarked: “Here is the place we were held up lest Tuesday.” He pointed to a log by the roadside and said: “There he stood, one foot resting on the log, with a pistol in each hand. In the right he held an old-fashioned long-bar- reled Colt’s pistol and in the left a bull- dog.” After having driven on nearly a quarter of a mile, where the grade was heavier and where many small scrub oaks grew, with a large fir standing on either side of the road a short distance apart, an ideal spot for a stage hold-up, Mr. Cardwell remark- “Would it not be a joke if a robber should appear from behind that tree, on this side of the road?” Almost before he had finished speaking a slight scund, as of twigs being broken, was heard from the upper side of the road. Lainger eaid: “My God, here he come: At the same.instant a man sprang from behind the -ree, with a pistol in each hand. He was quickly recognized as the one previously described by the driver and car- ried himself in the same mznner as at the last hold-up. He wore a mask made from the leg of an old pair of knit drawers. Holes were cut for his cyes, which ap- peared to be of light blue or gray color. The cloth was tied with a string to form a tassel on the top of his nead, and hung well over his breast. He had on a yellow gum coat, reaching to his ankles, and gray socks drawn over the tops of shoes. His hands were blackened, as if with burnt wood. He cried out: “Hold up! hold up!’ The driver put on the brake and stopped. The robber next commanded all hands up, and said: “Put ’em up high and stand up,” and re- peated “stand up” several times. No ono made a move, and Mr. Cardwell asked: “To whom are you speaking?” He replied, “To you, and throw out your money.” Mr. Cardwell stood up and threw $2 to the ground, but was told to dig up the rest and not give all small “stuff.” He gave up $2 more. He had, on the first alarm, thrown another purse, contain- Ing $198, on a seat behind him, which he saved. Mr. Matthews was next com- manded to stand up and deliver. He stood up and threw-on the spot designated $2.50, saying: can’t help you much, partner; times are too hard.’ “Yes, I know,” replied the robber; “that's why I'm in this business.” Matthews carried several hundred dollars In gold and greenbacks, which he threw on a back seat and into the boot of tue stage. Major Pond, light house inspector, and Miss Myrtle Ban were inside. The robber addressed the major, saying: “Dig up, old man.” He was told the major could not. give much, and the latter took $1.50 from his vest pocket. Miss Ban carried about $134, but was not disturbed. The driver was then told to stand up, but said that he could not. The road was s> steep that It was a difficult matter to stand erect, and he was allowed to remain seated. Had he arisen the money thrown on the seat by the passengers would have been in plain view of the robber. He was asked if he had any mail, and said: “I've only a way sack, and anybody who would take that would rob his grand- mother.” The robber didn’t want that. Mr. Lain- ger then asked: “Why don’t you hold up some one else and not always me?” to which he received no reply, but was told to drive on and fer no one to look back. ‘The driver bid the robber good-bye, and he replied: “Good-bye, but you will see me again in a day or two.” The passengers looked back and saw him disappear behind the tree from which he had come. Mr. Lainger is confident It is the same fellow who held up the stage last week. —__--+0+-—____ HYPNOTIZED INTO SICKNESS. A Remarkable Little Girl Who is Sick or Well at a Word. From the New York World. ‘The most astounding instance of hypno- tism by “suggestion” somes in a report furnished to the French Society of Hyp- nology and Psychology, by M. Gorfdichze, an expert in mesmerism. The story he has to tell is of a little girl of cleven in one of the French provinces wh used to accom- pany a cousin, who was a country doctor, on his rounds, and i@ this way got to un- derstand a good many medical expressions. One day she fell ill. The illness was slight, and she was on the high road to recovery when her cousin, the doctor, hap- pened io say unthinkingly and smilingly in her presence, “Oh, good heavens! She is paralyzed!” At once the child exhibited every symptom of paralysis, and she re- mained in that state at the will of the doctor. Afterward he asked her if she was not becoming consumptive, and immedi- ately she began to suffer from the dread- ful coughing and blood spitting that con- sumptive patients have. She seemed so extraordinarily open to every sort of mesmeric “suggestion” that the doctor tried her with half the discases known In medical annals, and one by one she responded to them all. He needed only to remark that she was cured to have her perfectly well a moment later. Per- haps the strangest of the experiences she went through was when one of her school- mates got a paper pellet in her eye. From pure sympathy the child imagined that she had the same trouble, too, and she rubbed her eye to such an extent that she felt the pain of it for nearly a year. ———_+e- Baby Horse Thieves Convicted. William Melia, aged seven, and Jesse Melia, aged three, of Rockport, Ind., were found guilty in Judge Stewart's court of horse stealing. Thay will be sent to the reform school at Plainfield. gio Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 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That, however, was the fate of a certain well-to-do Philadelphian who recently visited Paris, and while in the Louvre became acquainted with a foreigner who spoke English fluently, and attached himself thereupon to the Philadelphian in the kirdest possible way. The Philadelphia gentleman, being unable to speak a word of French, and traveling alone, much ap- preciated the Parisian's friendship. ‘The two traveied together for several days about the “gay cit: and the stranger ap- peared to be a very generous spender. Within a day or so Bruneau, as the sleek Parisian called himself, told the American that he would have to go to Brussels short- ly with an Irish friend, and that he would like him to dine with them the evening be- fore their departure. The dinner was a superb affair, and the Irishman readily at- tracted the notice of the Philadelphian be- cause of his large diamond pin and ring. When the repast was ended the Irishman paid the bill, leaving upon the table his pocket book, which seemed to be full of bank notes. Among other things the trio got to talking of the confidence trick. and the American laughingly related some bunco experiences that he had heard of, these hugely tickling the ristbilities of the foreigners. For the joke of the thing they exchanged pocket books, the Irishman tak- ing possession of the Philadelphian’s wal- let, and vice versa. Just then Bruneau seemed struck with an inspiration. “Let me show you,” he sald, “the fine salon where the banquets are served.” The Philadelphian strolled out with him, and while they were admiring the frescoes Bruneau excused himself for a moment in order that he might get some cigars. The Philadelphian waited for him, but he did not return. Neither was he any- where to be found. Nor was the Irishman, who had remained at the dinner table, any- where visible. 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