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Guessers must be women and girls and necessarily they must be readers of The Star, but they may read the story in The Star taken by any member of the family and need not be regular subscribers themselves in order to enter the competi. tion. While only women and girls may | guess and win the prizes, they can receive | help as to their guess from any member of family or from all the family. (Back numbers can be obt “TWENTY-FOURTH INSTALLMENT. «ined at The Star office.) CHAPTER XXIV.—GOLDING DEMANDS THE DIAMOND. If Will had been of the fainting kind he would have lost consciousness at that in- stant. As it. was, when Martin lit a match, which he did instantly, the young man was trembling violently—it seemed to him as if every bone and every mustle in his body had been wrenched from its fastening and set to quivering. He could hardly rise when Martin shouted triumphantly. “Here she is, Billy! here she is: Will dropped his gun across the body of the man who lay before him, staggered over it and fell rather than knelt beside Elsie and put his arms around her. Bd “Will, my W ’ she cried, bursting into hysterical weeping. . The young man himself was sobbing and there was an extraordinary lump in honest John Martin’s throat as he bungled with his matches trying to get a blaze from a pine knot that he had brought into the caverf& in his pocket. He succeeded after several efforts and set the crude sputtering - “Here she is, Bill y lamp upon a projection of the wall and turned his back to the lovers. Then for the first time he saw the form of the man lying directly across the path. His eyes had been turned toward Elsie when he struck the first match, and after that upon the work in his hands. Will was busy, as soon as he realized the situation, in unloosing Elsie’s bonds. Mar- tin knelt over Sam Meeker. The man was dead. There was no need to make any critical test for life. The hands and face were cold, the flesh had the unmistakable pallor of death, and the muscles had stif- fened. Martin looked furtively over his shoulder. It would not have surprised him if he had seen the signs of delirium in Elsie’s fac to say nothing of insanity, but, unfortu- nately for his speculations, he couldn't see her face. Will's head was in the way. ‘What a big thing it must be to be in lov thought Martin, ‘nto whose life that best reward for living had never come. “Huh! I wonder what we'd better do with this?” Unimaginative as he was, the contrast here presented in this damp cavern at mid- night, was striking. Here was death, irrev- ocable, and the form that represented the grim monster had been unworthy to live by the unworthy uses to which he put his life. ‘There, within the reach of his arm, was life, buoyant and hopeful, seeing all good in the present and more in the future, two lives, each typical of what is worthy and admirable in human nature. ine “Hugh said Martin non-committally, and he would have been hard put to it to tell just how he felt. “Will he said presently without turning or rising, ‘can Elsie walk “Yes, John,” answered he heard her getting up. “Walk out, then,” remarked Martin sen- tentiously. Will gave his friend a quick glance, and eomprehending a part of what was in Mar- tin's mind, he stepped between Elsie and Meeker’s dead body, and supporting her with his arm around her waist, led her into the main tunnel and so toward the exit at the further side of the ridge. When they were well started Martin rose and followed them. It was not until they were in the open air that Elsie started pervously, and asked: “What became of the man who was watching me? “He's gone, replied “Here's your gun, Billy.” “You didn’t shoot him, John?” faltered Elsie. “Oh, no. He went before we came.” “How strange!” she murmured, “he seem- 4 so very sick! the black man had to car- ry him. You see, it was hours and hours ago—what time is it, Will? Is it tomor- row?” ‘Then she laughed at the childishness of her question. “Just_about 1 o'clock, asked WilL “Quarter past, What were you going to say, Elsie?” “Oh! the black man left to go somewhere, to find papa, I think. They both had the most absurd idea, that papa has some dia- ™monds that he should surrender for my safety. “Diamonds!” exclaimed both men in a breath. “That's what they talked about. Of sie herself, and Martin quickly. isn’t it, John?” course, it isn’t so, but it’s only a part of the mysteries that have been happening since—it seems so long ago, Will, that we were on the Summit road and saw those two men.” “It does seem long. Was it the same black man?” “Yes; and the white man was sick. He was wounded, too. Well, I was trying to tell you how, when the black man went away, he placed the white man, whom he called Sam, right in the tunnel with a re- volver at his side. There was a torch burning over his head. If I made any noise above a whisper, or if the noise of anybody coming into the cave was heard, Sam was to shoot me. Think of it!’ “T am thinking of it, id Will, but with Elsie at his side he could not feel half the horror that tne situation seemed to war- rant, and he was rather ashamed of him- self that he could not awaken a shudder. But in that respect he was much like other men. ‘The black man went away,” continued . “and for, oh, so long, we sat there without a word. Then Sam said he wanted water, but I couldn't stir to help him, though I would have done so; he.seemed to be suffering so. Then, bye-and-bye, the torch began to go out. I thought he had fallen asleep, and I think I must have fallen asleep, too. Doesn't it seem strange that anybody could sleep in such a situation? All I know is that suddenly I heard a voice whisper, ‘Jack,’ and, though I knew the voice, I supposed we both would be shot, for the black man had told Sam that if he shot in the dark he wonld be sure to hit me. Sol guess I screamed, didn’t I, Will?" She squeezed his arm and looked up with a smile. “I guess you did,” he answered, and then he did shudder, for the awful impression of that instant when he thought he felt Elsie’s body and heard what he supposed mus: be her death ery, was strong upon him. It was 3 o’clock when Martin and Sam Springer, capering about with all the jolly excitement of school boys, lit a pile of brusn and refuse boards on the ploughed ground near the Warren house. Early as it was, the neighbors soon began to aurry along the road from the corners to help Mrs. Warren rejoice and hear Elsie’s thrilling story of her experiences. She had asked for her father on the way down from the mine, and was naturally much distressed at the news of his arrest, but when ske saw the fortitude with which her mothe> bore the trials with which she was beset, and when she thought how im- possible it was that her father, of all men, could be guilty of crime, she ceased to be anxious. In a few hours she was certain her father would be released, and her sorrow was limited to regrets for the discomforts he must be experiencing and his anxiety about herself. It was a quaintly strange gathering that was attracted to the house by the bonfire. A good many came only partly dressed, and when they heard how one of the mysterious scoundrels was dead and the other, the more terrible one, was still at large, ; hurried home again, fearing “Looked up with a smile.” children might be the next victims of his extraordinary villainy. Others remained and drank coffee that Martin nade at the bon- fire, and so great was the confusion and ex- cltement that even Gran’pa Kirk was dis- turbed by It, and hobbled down from his room to see what was going on, complain- ing volubly because he hadn't been allowed to undersiand a half of what had nappend yesterday. A half indeed! He was not even aware that there was a sick man in the house, and he could only guess why it was that his son-in-law had gone to Denby early in the afternoon. Mrs. Warren had been the utmost pains to keep from him any knowledge of Dutton, going so far as to caution some of her neighbors to say noth- ing of the stranger in his presence. Gran’ pa had known of Elsie’s disappearanc however, and of the fruitless search for her, and he had gone to bed with his head full of early-century rerainiscences of bears and Indians. He was overjoyed when he came down- stairs to run right into Elsie’s arms. He laughed in a broken cracked falsetto while the tears ran down his face. - “There was a little girl got lost back in twenty-three and the Injuns carried her off and we never got her again. He! he! Marthy, do you remember?” and turning from Elsie he went directly to the spare room, and before he could be prevented he had entered and had seen the invalid on the bed, He did not finish the reminiscence he had begun, but stood with doubly wrinkled brows staring at Dutton. “Who is it, Marthy?” he whispered, “why didn’t ye tell me?” “Hush, father,” said Mrs. Warren, going to him and turning him gently from the room, “you will disturb him.” Ths old man was loath to go, and while he was in the room he kept his eyes on Dutton with a puzzled expression. “Why didn’t ye tell me, Marthy?” he repeated. “Because I didn’t want you to know, father.” replied Mrs. Warren, earnestly “I didn’t want you to to be troubled, too. You must say nothing, father.” He compressed his lips and shook his head. “That's what it {s to be old,” he mut- tered peevishly, “they keep everything from you. He dropred into a chair in the kitchen looking very discontented and gravely thoughtful. Mrs. Warren stood over him a moment fearing lest he make some re- marks calculated to stir questions from the neighbors, “Where's Nick, Marthy?” he asked sud- denly, eyeing her sharply. “Nick had ought to be here. Where is he?” “Nicholas is in Denby on business,” she replied, “we are going to send for him.” ‘should think you'd * “Hm,” he murmured, better.”” + From then until he went back to bed, when the neighbors had gone, Gran'pa Kirk never opened his lips. He was think- ing, and his reflections were apparently not agreeable, but whether he was simply “put out” because he had been kept in the dark about recent events, or wheth- er he were pondering some ugly remi- niscence, he gave no sign. The neighbors sensibly cut their visits short, and by 4 o'clock the house was in comparative quiet. “Will,” said Mrs. Warren— “Let me say it, please,” he interrapted. “£ would have spoken an hour ago, but that I didn’t think anything would be gained by starting for Qenby so early. Nick {s probably asleep, und even if he wasn’t I don’t suppose the sunerinten- dent, or whatever he is, at the—er—” “Jail,"" said Mrs. Warren calmly. Would iet me see him before morning. I'll start right away. Sam will stay on, I'm sure. Of course Sam would stay on, and so would Martin and Will left them accord- ingly wita a very light heart to carry the good news to the prisoner. He went into the saddle, and as the distance was great and the horse not of the swiftest it was long after sunrise before he came within sight of Denby spires. There were about five miles yet to go when he turned aside to let a man driving furiously fast in a buggy, pass him. He saw that it was Gold- ing, and he pulled up with the impulse to speak to him and tell him about Elsie. He was so glad that he wanted every- body to know; but he was so uncertain of this man’s exact relation to the Warrens’ troubles, knowing surely that he was Mr. Warren's accuser, that after he had stop- ped and turned back he hesitated to speak. Golding had recognized Will and_ he, too, pulled up, and he, too, seemed in doubt as to whether he should address the young man. So for a moment they faced each other, and then one used his spu-s and the other his whip, and they parted without having exchanged a word. “I wonder what fresh trouble he may be taking to Granite,” thought Will, Just as he clattered up the main street, with but a few rods between him and the lock-up Williams and Jackson dashed past him, just beginning their effort to overtake Golding and protect Mrs. Warren from whatever plan he may have formed for obtaining possession of the President. Sam Springer did not go to bed again that night. He was always stirring by 5 o'clock, and an hour or so didn’t matter. He and Martin gossiped about the abduc- tion and speculated on the strange words “He struck Golding squarcly on the mouth Elsie had reported concerning diamonds. She had told how the black man and his anion were especially eager for “the ident.”” “Tell you what that means, Jack,” said Sam; “this fellow that Mrs. Warren is tak- ing care of is the president of some kind of organization, that's what ‘tis, and they want to get him for something or other. “Likely,” assented Martin, but he doubt- ed nevertheless. By 6 o'clock Sam's thoughts had so turned to business that he declared that he must attend to his store. Martin, too, wanted to go home and look aster his cattle. They arranged to take turns in gvarding the house, for both felt that it would be inconsiderate and possibly dan- gerous to leave Mrs. Warren and Elsie alone. Accordingly, Martin hurried home first, Sam meantime sending his wife to the store to open up for business, which was more likely to be rushing at an carly hour than later. By 8 o'clock, therefore, Martin was back again and was on guard alone. The day opened tranquil tient was much Improved. Elsie was sleep- ing peacefully, and Mrs. Warren herself, though physically worn, was not mentall as depressed as she had been the morning before, when she was cruelly pained at the conviction that her husband was keeping something from her. Martin had attended to the chores, and busied himself I::htly about the premises, for he felt no need of sleep. All-night hunts were commonplace episodes to him, though he had never hunted before when the quarry was of such infinite importance. He was in the barn when Gold- ing came. The traveler did not stop to nitch his foam- covered horse. He had been nough. The pa- had ther ed out that “Elsie was back agai When Sam Springer ieard that it was Golding who had passed at such high speed, he had dropped a sugar scoop, con- tents and all, on the floor and put out for the Warrens’ on the dead run. Golding strode up the p. th from and stalked into the sick room. Mrs, War- ren was in the kitchen at the inoment, but the door was open and she hucrisd back. “Has Wanga been ahead of me?” asked Golding savagely. “Did you give him the diamond? Answer me!” “I don't know what you mean,” said Mrs. Warren. “Then you've got it here. Where is it? Where's Freeman's vest?’ and he looked around the room eagerly, the invalid watch- ing him with a faint smile. Golding saw the closet door, dashed to it and pulled it open. “Thief!” cried Mrs. Warren at the top of her voice, “you shall not touch his clothing!” and she tried to get before nim. He pushed her away with an oath. t me alone or I'll throttle you hissed. “I guess not!” said the exultant voice of Martin, as he ran in from the kitchen, de- Lighted at the opportunity to work off his friendly indignation in a conflict. He struck Golding squarely on the mouth, and between the blow and a violent shove the traveler was stretched at full length on the Noor. ‘tomp on him, Jack,” said Sam Sprir-ger, appearing hot and panting in the front (To be continued next Mon lay.) ne gate he ee Beginning Practice Early. roms (ue Chicago Times-Herald, The ex-foo! his sleep. “Gracious! that was a beautiful rush,” he muttered. His infant son had kicked him up to the five-yard line and was trying hard to push him over the side of the bed for a touch- down, ball player turned uneasily in New N. a the New York Weekiy. Gotham Girl—“How do you New England- ers get over the fact that your ancestors believed in witches?” Boston .Girl—“We call it hypnotism.” F None better; take Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. THE METEOR MONTH Ls These Gleathing Visitors Are Quite Common During November. FEARFUL COLLISIONS WITH THE EARTH The Princigal Constellations and Where They May Be Found. ABOUT THE PLANETS Written for The Evening Star. HE PRINCI- Te constellations fa- vorably situated tor inspection in the early part of the month are Cassiopeia and the Dragonin the \ \\ ores the Swan or Northern Cross in the northwest; Pegasus toward the southwest and the combination of Andromeda, Aries, Perseus and Taurus, which occupy the uuarter of the heavens. All of these cerstellations are well above the horizon at nine o'clock, Cassiopeia, Andromeda and Pegasus being then nearly overhead. In the east Orion is rising; Hercules is setting in the northwest, and directly beneath the Pole €tar, in its lowest position, may be seen the Great Dipper in the Ursa Major. The first-magnitude stars now above the horizon at the hour named are Capella, in the northeast; Aldebaran, at a somewhat Jess altitude in the east; Betelgeuse, below j Aldebaran and barely above the horizon; Rigel, at about the same altitude bi east and southeast; Fomalhaut, a little west of south: Altair, in the west, and Vega, in the northwest. The Square of Pegasus has just crossed the meridian, ‘Phe two stars which form the eastern side pf this striking quadrangu- lar figure Le very nearly in Hne with the Vernal Equinox, thus serving as pointers, by means of)which this very Important ¢ tronomical position can be. located read- ily. It is situated south of the square, at a distance from the lower of the two “point- ers,” rather, greater than their distance apart. 5 = November is pre-eminently the meteor month. Although meteors may be seen at every season of the year—in not a night passes in which an attentive observer may pot see In an hour’s watching one or more of these ‘hooting stars’’—this month marked by two especially interesting groups he *HLeonids,” which are due on of the 13th and 14th of the month, and the “Andromedes,” due on the 2sth or 20th. Tt is In this month, too, that have occurred the grédtéest number and the most remarkable ef those startling phenomera known as “meteor showers.” The nature of these beautiful celestial which are popularly confounded with stars and which were long a pu: to astronomers, now well undei So different are they from the stars t while the stars are at an able distance from the. me in the earth’s atmosphere, and is more than fifty or seventy-five Its appearance accide r ordinary the me tble body. jes the planets and comets ther circling round the su a part of the solar s: nute particles or small mass which, in the words of Profe: & be thought of without ze of gravel = y thdrefore be rega’ of cosm dust. Thes bodies are associated in milkons of them traveling round the in the same orbit. Their movement may be likened to the march of a mighty army. -A main body, which may be many million of miles in length and thousands of mile in breadth, and which is made up of indi- viduals that are rarely less than two or three hundred miles apar is followed by stragglers that have in the course of time become separated from the main body and are scattered in greater or less profusion along the entire line of march. The orbits of these meteors, like those of comets, with which they are now known to be intimately related, wind about the sun in all directions. Some of them cre earth's orbit; and it is to this circumstaz that we owe our knowledge of the exi: ence of these minute bodies. When the earth encounters one of these meteor streams it plunges through it with a reckless speed of more than eighteen miles a second, and woe to the luckless meteor that stands in its way. A Frightful Collision. The meteor itself is in rapid motion, and often when it is struck by the earth it i moving in a contrary direction. The colli- sion fs a frightful one and is always fatal to the meteor. Entering the earth's atmos- phere with a speed of fifty or a hundred times that of a rifle ball, it quickly becomes heated by the friction of the air to redness, to whiteness, and usually within a second of time it has been melted and consum with a momentary streak of splendor. A meteor may make its appearance in any part of the heavens and may take any direction athwart the sky. Those belonsi to the same system, however, al the same direction. Their see them projected on are parallel to one another or nearly from the laws of perspective they ppear to radiate from some central point. he position of this “radiant” among the stars has been chosen as a convenient eans of naming each systemt. The “Le- onids” are so called because their radiant ts in the consteHation Leo, near the star mina in the Sickle. The radiant of the “Andromedes” is in the constellation An- dromeda. Ordinarily the earth in its passage through a meteor stream €ncounters only the strag- glers; but occasionally the main body of the army lies across its path, and then it is that the fali of meteors becomes a ver- itable shower. ‘The most remarkable of these grand and terrifying phenomena have been furnished by the Leoni They oc- cur at intervals of about thirty-three years, this being the time required by the main cluster to perform its revolution around the sun. The next shower may be looked for in 1899 or 1900. ¢ 46 : The ‘“‘Andromedes” are especially inter- esting from the fact that they, are thought to be the fragments of Biela's comet, which has noi heen, seen since 18; This comet | track: the sky, had a period of six-and-a-half years. Its | orbit was nearly, if not quite, identical with this meteor ream. Annually, when | the earth crosses it, in the latter part of | Novemb meteors a encountered, and in those years in which the lost comet is due they are exceptionally numerous. The } last “shower™ of Andromedes occurred in | ; the next is due in 1: part of November tne radiant of this tem is nearly in the zenith at 10 p.m. that meteors belonging to it, seen at that hour, will appear to fall from a2 point di- rectly overhead. The Planets. Verus is now a splendid morning star. It shone with its greatest brilliancy on the 27th of last month. On the 29th of this month it will be at its greatest elongation In the latter | (angular distance) west from the sun, Mercury also is a morning star, and Is now Visible in the east at daybreak. It will be at its greatest elongation from the sun, west, on the 10th of the month. Uranus, Saturn and Mars are all in the immediate vicinity of the sun, as shown on the diagram, and are, therefore, not now visible. Jupiter is a morning star,rising soon after midnight. On the 25th it will be stationary, and during the remainder of the year its mpyemene will be retrograde—toward the west. Neptune isin the constellation Taurus, very close to the more southerly of the two stars which tip the Bull’s horns, but far beyond the reach of the naked eye. Ee THE NAVY AS A CAREER. The Road to Wealth is Not Before Those Who Enter the Service. Captain A. T. Mahan in the Forun There remains the consideration of the navy as a career relatively to its place in the social organization. The consideration accorded to a profession in any society depends, not upon its intrinsic merits or atvantages, but upon the general aims and pursuits of that society, and upon the value to its interests that it recognizes in the profession in question. A combination of circumstances, which it is needless here to analyz2, have contributed to fasten the at- tention of the citizens of the United States pretty exclusively upon the internal affairs of the country, and to attach to the mak- ing and having of money an importance paramount to that of all other factors in life, Undoubtedly many other human in- terests claim and receive a certain share of attention; but money, as the representa- tive of power and the means to gratifica- tion, may without exaggeration be said to have no competitor so close as to be ac- curately called a rival. In the n: money will not be found; and as, if it stands for anything, it stands for the representation of external imter- ests, it fails there also to touch keenly the is that respond to the sense of danger vantage uear at hand. As a matter of fact, the external interests which are now generally recognized as calling for the existence and maintenance of a navy con- cern but a very smal] proportion of our ns—those who either reside or have ss interests in foreign lands where ical conditions are unsettled, and jus- at times hard to obtain, Whether a wider-embracing view cf national interests will in the future be justified, and, if ju: tified, will be reached by so large a number of our own people as to constitute anything like a national sentiment, is a questfon upon which it is impossible to speak with ce thinty. My own opinion is that within the proba- bie lifetime of one now entering the sery- ice such a sentiment will have become gen- eral, owing to the course that external events are likely to take; not by the inl- tiat:ve of our owr country, but by the ac- tion of other states. If this should come to pass, the navy will undoubtedly gain that width of sympathy and recognition which, by the digujty it confers, is of itself no slight advantage to be considered in the choice of a profession. In no event will there be money in it; but there may always te honor and quietness of mind, and worthy occupation, which are better guar- antees of happiness. --o2—__——_ ER FEELING. ‘To Meet and De Friends With the Girl Who Has Refused You, From the London Mlustrated News, I wonder how many young gentlemen— and even old ones—there are going about in society who have “popped the question” to young ladies whom they meet more or less constantly and have been rejected. The proper observation, I understand, for the lady to make after this painful and delicate duty has been performed is, “But I trust we shall remain friends.” The man may shake his head and mutter, “Friends be hanged!”” but there is no help for it. ‘As they move in the same set they can- not avoid meeting one another, and, of course, in a friendly way. It Is only in a very much lower rank in society that the rejected one swears no other man shall have his beloved object, and buys a second- hand revolver to prevent it. But just at first it mu embarrassing, and there is probs ays a certain queer feeling between them, as of a semi-attached le who might have been one for life for that monosyllabic and scarcely ar- ticulate “No.” Asa matter of fact, she never does say but wraps up the THAT QU negative, it were, in silver paper: “I respect ard honor you, Mr. Jones” (who hoped to be called dwin!") “beyond ything, but what you ask can never From an Exch: “Order? order But the naught Eddie rubbed « . And the Bght bad just b r stra With outst tway stood them, In the corre And two littl From her rul Now the Said the But the; ush. now, t Faldie Advertising as a S From the Grocery World. Some pecple say that advertising is all a matter of luck; that you cannot tell what advertising is going to do, or whether or not it is going to pay. This may be true, but it ts very strange that the man who gives intelligent thought to his advertising, id does it in an intelligent, carnest, straightforward way, usually has the luck en his side. He is lucky in his advertising because he reduces it to a science. Adver- tising is just as certain as ying rent. Advertising is governed by the same co mon-sense business lines that govern buy- ing a lot of tomatoes or coafish. -——+ee-—____- Why She Was Not Mad. From the New York Weekly. Jinks—"Today I pleased a pretty woman by telling her that a certain red-faced, snub-nosed, bald-headed mortal looked like her.’ Winks—"Get out! dJinks—"The red-faced, snub-no: bald-headed mortal was her firsc baby. ience Pays, d,, MONEY MYSTERIES New Romances From Bank Notes Spoiled in Queer Ways. FIFTY DOLLARS COT IN HALVES The Western Farmer Whose Game Wouldn't Work. —— STOVES AS SAVINGS BANKS T= REDEMPTION division of the treas- ury is forever pro- ductive of new ro- mances. Hardly a week passes that something odd and novel does not turn up there. Not seldom it is an incident that might afford to a novelist a theme for aromance. Spoiled money, which people , naturally are anxious to have repiaced, brings to light many phases of human nature, both comic and tregic. Only last week cne of these romances reached its denouement. It had been run- ning along for more than two years; for it was as far back as September, 1893, that a New York dealer in old coins and cur- rency sent to the treasury the equivalent of $25. It was in a rather queer shape, consisting of the right-hand halves of one $10 and two $20 bills. It was evident that the original notes had been deliberately | cut in two with a knife or a pair of scis- | sors. Of course, the half notes were re- deemed, the treasury returning $25 in crisp new bills to the New York dealer. Under the law a spolled note is redeemable at full vaiue if as much as three-fifths of it is presented. If the fragment is less than three-fifths and more than two-fifths of the whole, one-half of the face is paid for it.. Less than two-fifths of a bill is worth nothing, unless it can be proved that the balance has been destroyed. Ordinarily the spoiled money that has beea redeemed is promptly destroyed by boiling and grinding ‘t to a pulp. But in any case that locks suspicious the frag- ments are filed away and preserved to cover the possibility that something may turn up later to shed light on the puzzle. That is what was dene with the halves of $50 re- ceived from the New York dealer. They were put on a shelf for reference, and for the time being the matter dropped out of sight. Two years elapsed and they were practically forgotten, until the other day a fresh consignment consisting of the left- hand halves of one $10 and two $20 bills reached the treasury. They came all the way from Kansas, and the explanation ac- companying them was clear and succinct enough. An Ingenious Story. A well-to-do farmer in Kansas presented at his town bank the three half-notes de- scribed, which bore marks of burning along the edges toward the middle of each bill. He explained that he had been engaged in burning brush in a field. He had taken off his waistcoat and hung it on a fence. It fell down, and, in his absence from the spot, the fire, spreading through the grass, partly burned the waistcoat and the money in the pocket. The cashier of the bank, being a notary public, wrote out an affida- vit reciting these circumstances, which the farmer signed and swore to. The affidavit was then forwarded to Washington with a claim for the full value of the damaged dills—$50. ; On the face of it the story was entirely credible and well calculated to accomplish its purpose; but there was a contingency on which the farmer could hardly have reckon- ed. What cause had he to imagine that the other halves of those same notes mignt be on a shelf in the redemption division of the treasury? Mr. Relyea, the chief, went to the files and put his hand upon them in a_mo- ment. The halves sent in by the New York dealer and those received from the Kansas farmer had belonged to the same bills origi- nally. The matter was at once put into the hands of the United States district attorney for Kansas. That official began an investiga- tion, but hesitated to prosecute the supposed guilty man because the latter was an old settler, a large property owner and bere an unimpeached character. Nevertheless, the treasury insisted on pushing the case, and a warrant was issued for the farmer's arrest on the charge of trying to defraud the gov- ernment. Last week Mr. Relyea received a telegram from the district attorney stating that the farmer had plead guilty. A Possible Explanation. The story seems to end at this point; but a very interesting part of it remains as yet wholly enveloped in mystery. How did it happen that the unfortunate person in Kan- sas became possessed of those halves of $0? It is safe to say that few well-to-do farmers in the United States has failed to receive inviting circulars from green goods men, of- fering counterfeit money. Of course, the green goods people have no counterfeits to sell; all they want is to get hold of the un- suspecting Mr. Hayseed and fleece him. A favorite method of theirs is to cut a zood note in two and send half of it as a sample of their “goods” to the intended victim. It may be that the Kansas farmer nibbled at such a bait, but he refused finally to bite, retaining the divided cash that had been forwarded to him. The green goods men in New York disposed of the halves which they had re®ained by selling them to the dealer aforesaid, while the farmer held on to his for some time before he could decide what to do with them. Probably, if he had not come by them in this dubious way, he would have presented them for redemption in a legiti- mate fashion. As it was, if he had done so no questions would have been asked and he would have come out just $25 ahead of the green goods enterprise. So here is a mystery accounted for easily enough, supposing the theory to be correct. Another Mystery. Much more difficult fs it to explain how | in June of this year the sum of $1,000 came to be scattered along the lake front of Chi- | cago, torn into small scraps in such a man- ner as to leave no doubt that the destruc- tion of the cash was intentional. Early in | the morning of the twenty-eighth day of that month two colored laborers were walk- | ing along the shore south of 24th street, when they noticed some scraps of green paper blowing about. Looking further,they discovered a good many more pieces, which were distributed for a distance of a couple of blocks. After some hours of patient | search, they had gathered enough to rep- resent in a respectable manner two notes for $0 each, two more for $20 each and one for $10. Moncy Awaiting a Claimant. They took the fragments to the subtreas- | ury, supposing that they could claim the | face value of the morey. Imagine their | disgust when they were informed that the | fact of having found it gave them no title whatever to the cash. It was evident that | they were honest men, and memoranda of their story was taken down. Later a fish- erman picked up several other pieces of the same notes on the lake front in the same neighborhood, and these also were handed in at the subtreasury. All of them were forwarded to the redemption division at Washington, where they are now held ard iting a claimant. They have been ted together on sheets of paper in such | a shape as to show what parts are present and what are missing. There is not enough left of the ten and of the twenties to make it practicable to redeem them, but the two notes for $00 each are all right. The owner \has only to present the requisite evidence | and $1,000 in new money will be paid to him. Up to date, however, no claimant has appeared. This seems very extraordinary. The Stove as a Savings Bank. The first “stove case” for this season reached the redemption division last week. Mr. Quong Sing, a New York laundryman, about a fortnight ago wrapped $426 in notes in a silk handkerchief and put it into a stovepipe on his premises. His assistant in the washee-washee business, not knowing that the money was there, built a fire in the s . a THE WEDDING GIFT rou Ee ; for Wedding Gifts, witteartic. lake, oul eat any ‘upon request. fasonneneter) Pesce mcr or, The ae Bailey, . cnceme Banks and Gia as Biddle Co. Silverware for Table, Toilet, Desk = stove one chilly morning, and the bills were partly destroyed. Enough of them was left, however, to make identification easy, and Quong will get his cash back. He ts a lucky Chinaman, for, as the records of the treasury show, the domestic stove is the mest completely efficient destroyer of money in existence. People, especially in rural districts, will insist on employing it for the purpose of safe deposit, and sooner or later the family’s savings are apt to go up in smoke. Nearly always the bills are reduced to hopeless ashes, involving total loss. About 100 cases of this kind are re- ferred to the redemption division every year. 5 A Patchwork Expert. The government is always willing, and even anxious, to replace spoiled money if it can possibly be identified. The skill of the women employed in this work at the Treas- ury Department is little short of marvel- ous. One lady, Mrs. Brown, attends to all the burned notes. Patiently she picks out scrap after strap from a mass of charred fragments, such as any ordinary person would regard as hopeless. One by one she pastes them on paper, assembling the pieces of each note on a sheet by itself and trying to “restore” the greenback as a naturalist would build up an extinct animal from a few fossil remains. Even a portion that is hardly more than an ash may still show the engraved design. When she is done, it re- mains to be determined how many of the bills shall be considered as properly iden- tified. In the case of a bank note the name of the bank must be ascerta’ned. ——__ “THE RULES OF CIVILITY.” Good Breeding as It Was Taught in the Good Old Days. From the St. James Gazette. The author of a quaint little book pub- lished in England in the year 1685, though manifestly of French origin, defines civ- lity as “a science that teaches us to dis- pose of our words and actions in their proper and just places.” With this defig!- tion, based, as he honestly confesses it to be, upon the experience of the ancients, no one will feel disposed to quarrel; it is only when we come to examine the fruits of this philosophy that we feel tempted to enter a mild protest. Hear, for instance, the funny way in which the author of “The Rules of Civility” warns his contem- Poraries against making too abrupt an entry into the presence of a great person. Rule 2 says: “At the door of his chamber» or closet it would be rude to knock; we are only to scratch; and when in a king’s or prince’s lodgings our name is demanded by any of the officers, we must give him our surnames only without the addition of master.” Apropos of ladies, the author of “The Rules of Civility” tells us that “it is not becoming of a person of quality, when in the company of ladies, to handle them rcughly; to kiss them by surprise; to pull off their hoods; to snatch away their hand- kerchiefs; to rob them of their ribbands and put them into his hat; to force their letters or books from them, or to look into their papers, etc.” With regard to the subject of “what we are to observe at the table,” our author has many amusing things to say. “If a person of quality.” says he, “desires you to help him with anything that is to be carved with a spoon, you must by no means make use of your own spoon, if you have eaten anything with it,” but call for another, “unless he sends his own spoon along with his plate, when there will be no ceeasion for yours.” “If we eat out of the aish, we must have a care of putting in our spoons before our superiors; or of eat- ing out of any other part of the dish than that which is directly before us.” “Hi ing served yourself with your spoon, you must remember to wipe it; and, indeed, as often as you use it; for some are so nice that they will not eat potage or anything of that nature in which you put your spoon unwiped, after you have put ig ‘nto your mouth.” Why Do We Do It? From an Exchange. Perhaps some sage can tell me, for, inieed, Td like to know, ‘The secret of the titles that I hear where'er I go. There's Brown, who studied medicine, attaining some renown, Whose wife I bear referred to now as “Mrs. Dr. What reason for the custom can the wise ones give to me? Why ae well refer to her as “Mrs. Brown, Because O'Shea is on the bench why should we al- Ways say, In speaking of his charming wife, “There's Mra, Judge O'Shea?” Is she a judge by marriage? Was she wedded to the court? ‘There should be some good reason why the title she should sport. Te one, should wed a Justice, pray advise me, would sl Entitled to be known by all as “Mrs, Jones, J.P.?"* TE not, what rommim ‘can we. give for speaking 25 we Of “Mrs, Major Camonbell” or “Mes. Bishop Do titles go to families for use of ev'ry one? And If they do, why aren't they by daughter al 2 Why not a’ “‘Miss Lieutenant Sharpe?” Why not @ junior, too? At ici's be consistent in the things we try te SE The Boy's Version. From Harper's Round Table. It was a very cold morning, and Bobbie came rushing into the house very much — excited. “Mommer,” he cried, “there's scmething the matter with me. Please send for the doctoi I'm breathing fog.” sat Aces Disputed the Check. From the Philadelphia Record. Customer (in restaurant)—"Here, waiter, you've charged me ten cents too much, and, besides, you kept me waiting twenty min- utes for my dinner.” - Waiter—“Yes, sir; that's just why we charged you extra. It gave you time to get up an appetite.” She (to her fiaace)—“I heard an old lady, pay you a great compliment yesterday. He—"Quite natural. What was it?’ She—“She said you must be a very bright man to attract me as you did.”—Truth,