Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1897, Page 18

"18 + THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1897-24 PAGES. FIVE HUNDREDCARATS BY GEORGE GRIFFITH. = (Copyright, by Geo. Gritith.) w The F several 1897, Written It s after the bril- Kant, if somewhat mysterious, recovery of the £15,000 parcel from the notorious but now vanished Seth Salter that I had the ure, and I think I may fairly ada the privilege, of making the acquainiance of Inspector Lipinzkl. I can say without hesitation that in the course of wanderings which have led me € roa consider ‘e vertion of the lands longer ess to the in another but that must t er explanation acy which fo n the stateme est South African after all a man, 1 hence not onls many brilliant | offi Was taken by the overscer straight to the De Beers’ offices and placed on the secre- tary’s desk—you know where he sits, on the right-hand side as you go into the board room thrcugh the green baize doors. There were several of the directors present ai the time, and, as you may imagine, they were pretty weil pleased at the find, for the stone, without any exaggeration, was werth a prince's ransom. “Of cdurse, I needn't tell you that the value per carat of a diamond which is perfect and of a good color increases in a scrt of geometrical progression with the size. I dare say that stone was worth eny- where between one and two millions, ac- cerding to the depth of the purchaser's purse. It Was worthy to adorn the proud- est crown in the werid, instead of—but there, you'll think me a very poor story teller if I ae anticipate. the diamond, after being duly was taken upstairs to the dia- mcnd room by the secretary himseif, ac- ccmpanied by two of the directors. Of you have been through the new s of the De Beers, but still, perhaps I had better just run over the ground, as the locality is rather important. “You know that when you get upstairs and turn to the right on the landing from the top of the staircase there is a door with a little grille in it. You knock, a trapdoor ‘aised, and if you are recog- nized and your business warrants it you are admitted. Thi you go along a little passage, out of which a room opens on the left, and in front of you is another door to wait until 5 o'clock this and down the room with quick, stride end, to walk up irregular is to say, I had morning—for | _my men brought a read it In bed. it middle of a very one of the common I. D. B. cases we have almost every week, the whole of the work that I was engaged upon vanished from my mind, leaving it for the moment a perfect blank. Then, like a lightning flash out of a black cloud, there came a momentary ray of light which showed me the clew to the mystery. That was-the idea. These,” he said, stopping in front of the mantel and putting his finger on the glass case which covered the two relics which had comes of crime fh most of its worst forms, was shocked at the look of him. Still he greeted me politely and with perfect com- posure. He affected not to see the hand that I held out to him, but asked me quite kindly to sit down and have a chat with him. Isat down, and when I looked up I saw him standing in front of me, covering me with a brace of revolvers. My life, of ccurse, Was absolutely at his mercy, and whatever I might have thought of myself or the situation, there was obviously noth- ing to do but to sit still and wait for de- velopments. “He began very quietly to tell me why he had sent for me. He said: ‘I wanted to see you, Mr. Lipinzki, to clear up this mat- ter about the big diamond. I have seen for a Jong time—in fact from that Sunday night—that you had worked out a pretty correct notion as to the way that dlamond vanished. You are quite right; it did fly across the veldt to the Barkly hills. I am a bit of a chemist, you know, and when I had once-made up my mind to steal it—for there is no use in mincing words row--I “And yet, my dear inspector,” I ventured to interrupt, “you will perhaps pardon me, for saying that your ray of light leaves me as much in the dark as ever.” “But your darkness shall be made day, all in good course,” he said, with a smile. I could see that he had an eye for dramatic effect, and so I thought it was better to let him tell the story uninterrupted and in his own way. so I simply assured him of my er-incréasing interest and waited for bim to go on. He took a couple of turns up and down the room in silence, as though he were considering in what form he should spring the solution of the mystery upon me. Then he stopped, and said, abruptl: “J didn’t tell you that the next morning— that is to say, Sunday—Mr. Marsden went out on horseback, shooting, in the veldt, up toward that range ot hills which lies over yonder to the northwestward between here and Barkly West. I can see by your HOPES AND PLANS FOR THE FUTORE sales the world, in order to supply UNCLE SAM'S BOOKS|s2sucuctesttsortz| A Daughter Saved. as to the book fund than It has in tre pest | THE WONDERFUL RECOVERY About the New Library. See SOR eee Re Tne | Sistas So Gin Wad One Upon the the United States is paying As Verge of Insanity —She Finds a $300,000 a year for it Remedy When Hope Flea — The Best Fr From the Ithacan, Ithaca, N. ¥ Miss Hattie King of #4 Humboldt Sirest, Irhaca, y t Ue We have, for instance, the first folio editioa of Shakespeare, a volume which is worth from $4,000 to $5,000. I think we should have not only every book, but all the edi- tions of the greater writers that can be found.” May Some Day Be the Greatest in the World. ¥., Who was recently so bi entertained of her recovery, her health, Her ense ts Follow ¢ is substantially th father, Chas. M. Burret tise speaking Ttkacan le bape was sind of bw tangung, atop A Chance for Rich Men. “There is one idea that I would like to see grow in the minds of the rich men of the United States,” continued Mr. Young, “and that is, that one of the best places to leave their money to is to the National Library. The British Museum Library was toa OTHER COLLECTIONS HERE reporter of (Copyrighted, 1897, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Written for The Evening Star. H DA OUR'S : Pa eae ae founded by, the gift of a man named Hans = joan, y ye Mr. Join Russell one hundred and fifty years ago. It was first kept in one of the ducal palaces and for a time was called the Kin.'s Library. George IV desired to sell it at one time, when he was hard up, but when Young as to his plars for. the new National Library. He had just nents which illustrated his caree y no means loth that some da‘ y of them with all due and utions and reservations, be told bly less prejudiced au- and migratory popu- saw that 4t would be perfectly absurd to attempt to’smuggle such a stone out by ary of the ordinary methods. dare.say you wonder what these re- volvers are’for. They are to keep you there in ‘that, chair till I've done, for one he found that he could not do so he gave it to the people. It has since been largely increased by gifts. Just now I understand that there is a fine collection of Burns’ works in this city. It is owned by William R. Smith, the superintendent of the Botani- returned to his home, after going over the various rooms with Mr. Spofford and the i is day. thing. If you attempt to get out cf it chiefs of the differ-| 02) di lation of the camp as it was in his day. ip get out o or cal Gardens, and is said to be one of the I had not been five minutes in the coz: nee a sound I shall shoot you. If you ent divisions, and had | finest Burns collections in the world. I tastily f netum of his low, broad- ear me out you will not be injured, so you before him a set of | have understood that he expects to give De Bee: road roofed in New may as well sit still and keep your ears Ss 1 open. plans, showing the we ae stesen Aang of Washington, before I saw it was a museum as we! be "To hase esa and yasts how ve written him that he should aioe exe aan 3 any chance of success I must N y. Why sppavatiny €n ay ede tia then ese Te oa tie have had a confederate, and I made young | each part of this great book palace is to be | it to the National Library. Why should not MISS HATTIE Ki “Hattie is now seventeen years lest Angust she began to complain of Which became gradually worse, She suffered cussive mausea and attacks of \omiting. some rich man buy a collection of this kind and give it to the library. Take some of our millionaires, such as John Mackey, Rockefeller and others. What better mon- ument could they leave for themselves than Lemas one. If you look ‘on that hittle table beside your chair you will see a bit of closed lead piping with tap in it, and a piece of thin sheet India rubber. That is the remains of the apparatus I used. I smuggling diamonds were scattered the tables and mantelpiece. ‘There were massive, handsomely carved briar and meerschaum pipes. which seemed to hold wonderfully little tobacco bance arranged. Mr. Young’s home is now on New Jersey avenue, within a few blocks of the library. In going to see him walked by the front of the National Capi- a big collecti for their size: rough sticks of firewood in- Hele ees a. present 2 you: you may like | tol, down the central stairs of which a] ji), fier ears! eens ae = as days oe ~ could keep little s lowed out, which must have > em to your collection. wooden trough or chute has been built to “3 ©} on ber stomach. She also was trou si Regatta the i uale wuaiaie liele ‘Lomas, when he went on duty that = be always called by their name? I would | tc, Qiecasc. Her tieod carry the boxes of books from the old library down into the wagons in which they are to be carried to the new. I saw scores of workmen bringing these boxes on their shoulders out of the Capitol and put- ting them into the chute. Men stood at the bottom to catch the boxes as they came flying down, and as soon as one wagon was loaded I noticed that there was an- other there to take its place. Already sev- eral hundred thousand books have been moved, and it is expected that long before like to sce national pride aroused in the library. It is a library for the people, and we hope to make it so accessible that it will be at the command of every one who comes to Washington.” Washington as « Literary Center. S not Washing.on already one of the best literary centers of the “Yes, it is," was the reply becoming the seat of great The National Li Saturday night, took the bit of tube charged with compressed hydrogen and ah empty child’s toy balloon with him. Ycu will remember that that night was very dark, and that the wind had been blowing very steadily all day toward the Barkly hills. Weill, when everything. was quiet he filled the balloon with gus, tied the diamona— “ “But how did he get the diamond out of the safe? The secretary saw it locked up that evening! I exclaimed, my. curiosity getting the better of my prudence. * It was not locked up in the safe at all that night,’ he answered, smiling with a hollow handles ef traveling trunks: beot heels of the fashion affected on ion by Mrs. Micheel zand novels, hymn books, church services and Bibles, with cavities cut out of the center of their leaves which had held thousands of pounds’ worth of stones on their unsuspected passa: through the book post. But none cf these interested. or, indeed, 1 me did a couple “of s which lay under little glass ease on a corner bracket. One was an ordinary piece of heavy lead tub- or two drawn by the prick as colorless as water. Sh heart and often fainted fro t of a necdle was al bad trout the ll ratti ad sympton was a ing that it was the genera Was consumptive ines she would be cout oor three works, to suffer a ough, collections. brary is only one of a nuim- There should be a general catalogue published of all the books in Washington, fected, what sb complete 1 ization f COVERING ME WITH A BRACE OF REVOLVERS. sert of ghastly satisfaction. ‘Lomas and I, | COBSTess meets this vast Scars vol’ | stating where they may be found. We have | ! = yous know, took the tray of diamonds to | UMeS and pamphlets will be stored away = what is said to be the best medical li- ey ae ae the safe, ana, as far as th in its new home. brary of the world. This is known as the li- | rink Pill. 2 end e er was a it i @ secretary could y as th Pink Pills for oon eee ee ree ce Anata tabber cecy | leading Into the diamond rooms them- | face that you are already asking yourself | see, put them in hue ae he put=the. tray |2, wee wewaabrncien cer Comeress., | braray of the Army and Medical: Messe: [oy eee PACE LOSE itramepacent and | (eelves: what that has got to do with spiriting a | into its compartment he palmed the big 7 : ei Mr, | It bas more than 100,009 volumes and about | decided to giv ma trial. We eee anae Tero tee inches | “You know, too, that in the main room | million or so’s worth of crystallized carbon | diamond as I had taught him to do in a| Before I give my interview with T- | 150,000 pamphlets, comprising. it is said, of White & Bu I was looking at these things, wondering hat on eurth could be the connection be- and what manner of strange cted with them, when reign accent, what aresay on why their owner m,” I said. making provided always, of t be giving away e said, with a smile » ends of little black tache ever so slignt- made you the prom- club the other night if I had prepared to rely absolutely on your o Now, there's 2 or brandy; which do you oke, of course, and I think e pretty good, and that ecommmend. I have unraveled a krotty problem in it, I can tell “he went on when we were at ttled, “may I ask which most aroused your pro- y of the gaspipe and but the inspector a fair ques- seem pretty for instance, I saw 0 of my curios when I would hardly expect them ntimately too, aring and skilifully ry that ever took . or off them, for the mat- yet I think I of the devious ways prepared for a per- f urable t now, if ever, ttom of the in ca to think ment » been $s upon ther ive or hours He Committed It to the Air. them. Of course, it will in time t into the papers, although there has been, and will be, no prosecution; but e#nything in the newspapers willl of neces- sity be garbled and incorrect, and—well, I may as well confess that I am sufficiently vain to wish that my share in the transac- tion shall not be left altogether to the tender mercies of the imaginative penny-a- imer.”* I acknowledged the compliment with bow ax graceful as the easiness of the in- spector’s chair would allow me to make, but I said nothing, as I wanted to get to the story. “Tr d better begin at the beginning, the inspector went on as he meditatively snipped the end of a fresh cigar. -“. I suppose you already know, the largest and most valuable diamond ever found on these fields was a really magnificent stone, a perfect octahedron, pure white, without a flaw, and weighing close on 500 carats. ‘There's a photograph of it there on the mantelpiece, I've got another one by me; T'll give it you before you leave Kimberley. “Weil, this stone was found about six stating fronting Stockdale street and Jones street the diamond tables run around the two sides under the windows, and are railed off fgom the rest of the room by a sing! light wcoden rail. There is a table in the middle of the room, and on hend us you go in there is a big ing against the wall. You will ri too, that in the corner exactly facing the Goor stands the glass case containing the diemend scales. I want you particularly | fact that these scales stand the corner of the win- | : ‘ondary room, as you k ns out onto the left, but that is much consequence.” ed my remembrance of these de- tails, and the inspector went on: “The diamend was first put in the scale and weighed in the presence of the sec- retary ard the two directors by one of higher officials, a licensed diamond -brokcr and a most trusted employe of De Beers. whom you may call Philip Marsden when ‘ou come to write the story. The weight, as I told you, in round figures was 500 carats. The stone was then photographed, partly for purpeses of identification and partly as a reminder of the biggest stone ever found in Kimberly in its rough state. ‘The gem was then handed over to Mr. Marsden’s care pending the departure 0! the diamond post to Vryeburg on the fol- lowing Monday—this was a Tuesday. Th secretary saw it locked up in the big safe by Mr. Marsden, who, as usual, was ac- companied by another official, a younger man than himself, whom you can call Henry Lomas, a connection of his, and zlso one of the most trusted members of ff. ‘Every day, and sometimes two or three times a day, either the secretary or one cr other of the directors came up and had 2 look at the hig stone, either for their own satisfaction or to show it to some of their more intimate frieads. I ought, per- haps, to have told you Defcre that the whole Giamond room. staff were practically sworn to secrecy on the subject, because, as you will readily understand, it was not consid- zed desirable for such an exceedingly val- dtc be made public property in a this. When Saturday came it was | i not to send it down to Cape Town, sons connected with the state When the safe was opened morning the store was gone. t attempt to describe the abso- Ivte panic which followed. It had been seen two or three times in the safe on the Sat- and the secretary himself was posi- i as there at closing time, be- he saw it just as the safe was being for the night. In fact, he actually put in, for it had been taken out to a friend cf his a few minutes be- la; he safe had not been tampered with, | or could it have been unlocked, becaus vhen it is ch d fcr the night it cannot be ened again unless eith cretary or | » Managing director Ss without y is of no use. turday I should upon the theory—the only as it seemed—that the stone | racted from the safe during y, concealed in the room, and some- how or other smuggled cut, although even that would have been almost impossible in consequence of the strictness of the search x em and the almost certain discov- ch must have followed an attempt out of town. Hoth the rooms were searched in every kK and ci ny. The whole staff, naturai- ng that every one of them must be sted, immediately volunteered to sub- mit to any process of search that I might think satisfactory and I can assure you the search was a very thorough one. thing was found, and when we had done there wasn’t a scintilla of evidence to warrant us in suspecting anybody. It is true that the diamond was last actually seen by the secretary in charge of Mr. Marsden and Mr. Lomas. Mr. Marsden i the safe, Mr. Lomas put the tray ning the big stone and several other fine ones into its usual compartm and he safe oor was locked. Therefore that fact mt for nothing. ou know, I suppose, that one of the diamond room staff always remains all night in the room; there is at least one night watchman on every landing: and the froniages are patrolied all night by armed men of the special police. Lomas was on duty on the Saturday night.- He was searched as usual when he came off duty on Sunday morning. Nothing was found, and | recognized that it was absolutely im- possible that he could have brought the «iamond out of the room or passed it to any confederate in the street without being discovered. Therefore, though at first sight suspicion might have pointed to him us be~ ing the one who was apparently last in the room with the diamond, there was abso- lutely no reason to connect that fact with its disappearance.” “I must say that that is a great deal plainer and more matter-of-fact than any of the other stories that I have heard of the mysterious disappearance,” I said, as the Inspector paused to refill his glass and ask me to do likewise. “Yes,” he said, drily, “the truth is more commonplacg up to a certain point than the sort of stories that a stranger will find floating about Kimberley, but still I dare Say you have found in your own profession that it sometimes has a way of—to put it in sporting language—giving fiction a seve! pound handicap and beating it in a canter. “For my own part,” I answered, with en aifirmative nod, “my money would go on fact every time. Therefore, it would go on now if I were betting. At any rate, { may say that none of the fiction that I have so far heard has offered even a rea- tery.” “That's exactly what I said to i after I had been worrying and veal “then.” he went out of the safe at De Beers’. patience, and you rly that same Sunday morning I was walking down Stockdale street, in front of the De Beers’ office, smoking a cigar, and, of course, worrying my brains about the diamond. I took a long draw at my weed, and quite involuntarily put my head bi and biew it up into the air—there, just like Well, a little | gcod many less: that I shut the bis pocket. ““fhe secretary and his friends left the room; Lomas and I went back to the tables, and I told him to clean the scales, as I wanted to test them. While he was doing so he slipped the diamond behind the box, and there it lay between the box and the before. At the moment afe and locked it it was in Il see. that—and the cloud drifted diagonally | Corner of the oo tit wee once across the street, dead in the direction of | “We all left the neon: weseante the hills on waich Mr. Philip Marsden , and, as you know, we were searched. When Lomas v ht duty there was the diamond ready for its balloon voyage. He filled the balloon just so that it lifted the dia- trond and no more. Two of the windows Were ojn en account of the heat. He watched his opportunity and committed it to the air about two hours before dawn. You know what a sudden fall there is in the temperature here just before daybreak. I calculated upon that to contract the v ume of.the gas sufficiently to destroy the balance and bring the balloon to the ground, and I knew that, if Lomas had obeyed my instructions, it would fall either on the veldt or on this ‘side of the hills. “"The balloon was a bright red, and, to make a long story short, I started out before daybreak that morning, as you know, to look for buck. When I got out- side the camp I took compass bearings and rode straight down the wind toward the hill By good luck or good calculation, Beye © | or both, I must have followed the course of made this astounding assertion with a dra- | the aijoon’ althoot canoe foe euTee Of matic. Besture ana” iiiection “which: Sat Facute aber’ ict tie camp T aawekhe Se urally cannot be reproduced in print, would | { le red Speck ahead of me up among the be to utter the merest commonplace. He | {16 ,70) Speck ahead ss seemed to take my stare for one of incre- 7 s , I dodged, about for a bit as’ though culley re thers nan Wonder, ton Hel ealarrals Hy weretreatiy: after tuck Win ecesatasy hens, mo: @sharply: was watching me. I worked round to th “An, I see you are beginning to think ‘a ig me.I wor! und to the that [I am talking fiction now; but never | Td Spot, put my foot on the balloon and mind, we will see about that later on. ] burst it. I folded the india rubber up, as You have followed me, I have no doubt, | I didn’t like to leave it there, and put it closely enough to understand that, hav-| 1" my pocket book. You remember that ing exhausted all the resources of my e: when ycu searched me you didn’t open my perience and such native wit as the fates | Pocket book, as, of course, it was perfectly have given me, and having made the most | lat and the diamond couldn't possibly have minute analysis of the circumstances of the | been in it. That's how you missed your clue, though I don’t suppose it would have case, I had come to the fixed conclusion ~* at di @ had not been car- | been much use to you, as you'd already Pear eer tt cawmong lad of a | Suessed it. However, there it is at your ried out af the room on the person of a | guessed it. ng, nor had it been dro} dcr ~ human being, r en droppet ieerno wi eee thrown from the windows to the street— lee was z dentable it “As I said these three words his whole SEO GRCUT Gains AA Enh erthon manner suddenly changed. So far he had spoken quietly and deliberately, and with- out even a trace of anger in his voice, but now his white, sunken cheeks suddenly flushed a bright fever red and his literally blazed at me. His voice sank to a low, hissing tone that was really hor- rible to hear. ““The diamond!’ he said. ‘Yes, curse it, and curse you, Mr. Inspector Lipinzki—for it und you have been a curse to me! Day and night I have seen the spot where I buried it, and day and nignt you have kept your nets spread about my feet so that I could not move a step to go and take it. I can bear the suspense no longer. Be- tween you—you and that infernal stone— you have wrecked my health and driven me mad. If I had all the wealth of De Beer's new it wouldn’t be any use to me, and tonight a new fear came to me—that if this goes on much longer I shall go mad, really mad, and in my delirium rob myself of my revenge on you by letting out where T hid it. “Now, listen. Lomas has gone. He is beyond your reach. He has changed his neme—anis very identity. I have sent him by different posts, and to different names aid addreeses, two letters. One is a plan ard the other is a key to It. With those two pieces of paper he can find the diamond. Without them you can bunt for a century and never go near it. “*And now that you know that—that your incomparable stone, that skculd have been tine, is out yonder somewhere where you can never find it, you and the De Beer’s people will be able to guess at the tortures of Tantalus that you have made me en- dure, That is all you have got by your smartness. Taat is my legacy to you—curse you! If I had my way I would send you all out there to hunt for it withcut food or drink till you died of hunger and thirst of body, as you have made me die a living death by hunger and thirst of mind.’ “As he said this he covered me with one revolver, and put the muzzle of the other into his mouth. With an ungovernable im- pulse I sprang to my fect. He pulled both triggers at once. One bullet passed between my arm and my body, ripping a piece out of my coat; the other—well, I can spare you the details. He dropped dead instantly.” “And the diaménd?” I said. “Is at your service,” replied the inspector, in his suavest manner, “provided that you can find it—or Mr. Lomas and his plans.” ’ rt eee little. what it is that you want —wheth a situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the person Who can“fll your need. ee Marriage is Popular. Erem the’ Kansas ‘City Star. : In less than ten years 15,000 marriage licenses “have been issued by the city re- corder, id the number since 1881 was 23,000. These figures indicate that the con- ditions in Kansas City are favorable to the conjugal relation’ which is the great con- serving force of society. They denote that marriage is far from being a fatlure in this community at least. would just then be hunting buck. At the the lation which had my thoughts about the other lit that I mentioned just now- cai back to me, L saw, with my mind's e of et se—well, now, what do you think I ‘If it wouldn't spoil an incomparable ce- tective,” I id, somewhat irrelevant: hould say that you would make an exce it story-teller. Never mind what I think. I'm in the plastic condition just now. I receiving impressions, not making them. Now, what did you see?” “I saw the great De Beers’ diamond—say, from ten to fifteen hundred thousand pounds’ worth of concentrated capi floating from the upper story of the De Beers’ consolidated mines, rising over the housetops, and drifting down the wind to Mr. Philip Marsden’s hunting ground.” To say that I stared in the silence of blank amazement at the inspector, who therefore, it flew out, I could not help interrupting, nor, I am afraid, could I quite avoid a sugyestion of incredulity in my tone. ‘Yes, my dear sir,” repiied the inspector, with an emphasis which he increased by slappirg the four fingers of his right -hand on the palm of his left. “Yes, it lew ou i flew some seventeen or eighteen mil: ore it returned to the earth in whic it was born, if we may accept the theory of the terrestrial origin of diamonds. So far, as the event proved, I was absolutely correct, wild and all as you may naturally think my hypothesis to have ‘been. he continued, stopping in his walk and making an eloquent gesture of apc ‘being human, I almost instantly devi- ated from ‘ruth inton error. In fact, I freely confess to you that there and then I made what I consider to be the greatest and most fatal mistake of my career. “Absolutely certa ‘as I was that the diamend had been conveyed through the air to the Barkly hills, and that Mr. Philip Marsden’s shooting expedition had b: undertaken with the object of racovering it, I had all the approaches to the town watched tiil_he came back. He came in by the old Transvaal road about an hour after dark. I had him arrested, took him into the ho of one of my men who hap- e out that way, searched him, from the roots of his hair to the scles of his feet, and fournd—nothing. “Of course he was indignant, and of course I looked a very considerable fool. In feet, nothing would pacify him but that i should meet him the next morning in the board reom at-De Beers’, and, in the pres- ence of the secretary and at least three di- rectors, apologize to him for my unfounje] suspicions, and the outrage that they had led me to make upon him. I was, of course, as you might say, between the devil and the deep sea. I had to do { and I did it; but my convictions and my suspicions remained exactly what they were befcre. “Then there began a very strange, and, although you may think the term curious a very pathetic, waiting game between uw: He knew that in spite of his temporary vice- tory I had really solved the mystery, and was on thé right track. I knew that the great diamond was out yonder somewhere among the hills or on the veldt, and I knew, too, that he was only waiting for my vigil- ance to relax to go out and get it. “Day after day, week after weck, and month after month, the game went on in silence. We met almost every day. His credit had been completely restored at De Beers’. Lomas, his connection, and, as I firmly believed, his confederate, had been, through his influence, sent en a mission to England, and when he went I confess that I thought the game was up—that Marsden had somehow managed to recover the diamond, and that Lomas had taken it beyond our reach. “Still I watched and waited, and as time went on I saw that my fears were ground- less and that the gem was still on the veldt or in the hills. He kept- up bravely for It mat worth about £5 in England, and knowing that within a few miles of him, in a spot that he alone knew of, there lay a concrete fortune of, say, J ! d | Young, let me tell you something about the man. Some of the papers seem to look upon him as a politician rather than as a copies cf abcut thre--fourths of all the med- the qdtis ical literature published, and copies of nine-tenths of all the medical books pub- take i E 2 = - | lished within the last ten years, Doctors literary man. This is a mistake. Mr-| joy come from all parts of the country to Young is almost a born literateur. He be- j consult this library. Along some line: 4 8 the library of the British toms | Ils. be- gan to write for the newspapers 1 fore he was out of his teens. He has been that of France. The | alinost a student all his life, and today he has one | Library fs very rich in scientific matter. It of the largest private libraries in the someching like 300,000 volumes mnot Say enough in praise of Dr. Williams United States. His collection of Americana | and pamphlets. There will be about 10000 Faden osinias oes aa edie at Philadelphia numbers several thousand | of these books stored in the Nat led the pills 4 or at Cetons, volumes, and he has rare editions of nearly | Library and accessible there. Then bis remedy, we all the greater authors. His literary work] of the great departments has a library. has been carried on all over the world. For| The Patent Office Library is one of the NEW_ YORK, years he was the head of the New York of its kind. It contain OOUNTY. > Herald bureau in London, and as such | volumes, and is fich in scientific vw Burnett being duly ew is spent much time in the British Museum | ang The State Department Library. He has also worked for months in the National Library of France. He has had access to the collections of Spain at Madrid, and there is hardly a great library of the world which he does not know. AS has many valuable books and man and the War Department and Navy I partment are rich in publications along their own lines. The geological survey the forego report « TARLES NM. Subscribed and sworn io before n S07. ©. BR. WOLCOTT, Notar Public, has a fine library of travel and science, and In and for Tompking Coumy. X.Y a writer he is noted for the purity .of his | there are cther collections of value, all of . Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale Pes English, and when he talks his language} which are open to the public. A great deal | all the elements necessary to is the purest Anglo-Saxon, so worded that it could be published without revision. He has always received high salaries. I am told he got $10,000 a year from Mr. Bennett of the Herald. He must have been well paid when he was vice president of the Reading railroad, and I imagine his work today is done more for the love of it than for the $5,000 salary which he gets from the government. Mr. Young’s Appointment. It has been stated that Mr. Young’s ap- pointment was a severe blow to Ainsworth R. Spofford, the old librarian of Con- gress. This is a mistake. Mr. Spofford himself wrote the President that he did not wish to be continued as chief, and in his letter he himself suggest- ed that Mr. Young be chosen as libra- rian. When President McKinley offered John Russell Young the position, Mr. Young said ke could not accept it on account ef his friendship for Mr. Spofford. Said he: “Mr. President, Mr. Spofford and I have been friends for over thirty years. We like each other and I would not for the world do arything that would affect our relations.” 2 Upon this President McKinley showed ir. Young Mr. Spoffor: letter, and some weeks after that Mr. Young accepted the appointment. The relations of the two men ere of the best nuture. They ere of ntifie work is steadily going on in Washington, and there is no reason why it should not be the chief literary cénter of the country.” In the New Library. At this point Mr. Young spread out the Plans of the floors of the library and show- ed me how he expected to arrange the dif- ferent departments. We first took the third floor plan. “Here,” said he, “we will have a lecture room. which will seat 500 people, and which: may be used for scientific and literary con- yentions. We shall use one-of the rooms for the Smithsonian Institution collection, so thet it may be right near the lecture toom. In the south gallery we will havea collection of the graphic arts of the United States, making here an art gallery in whica people can see what our people nave done along these lires since the government has been founded. This collection is the out- growth of the copyright law, but hitherto, ewing to the lack of room, it has not been shown. Walking around the third floor, you next come to the side of ihe building fac- ing the Capitol. Here will be a department cevoted to early Americana and early print- ed works of Americans On the north sid» of the building I have decided to put the maps end charts.” This will be a very in- teresting collection. There are many imaps Which were made by our officers during the richness to the blood and restore They are sold in boxes (nev 30 ce make it a point to have every day's work done at the end of the day. have to work late, I tell them th: will hav business must be kept up. In addition to these departments, there will be a number of others. In the basement there is the mailing department. We expect to have a bindery there. We have a branch in which copyright books are kept, and, in ~ .ort, we hope eventually to have one of the most complete libraries of the world.” FRANK G. CARPENTER. they to rest the next day, but that the Hard Times. Lawyers a From Law Notes. A prominent western lawyer speaks of “these extremely trying financial times.” Lawyers know all about them. Hard times are bad for lawyers—not to say that they do not make bad lawyers. Alleged jokes on lawyers and disparaging remarks about them are common. They a’ hi d to cowplacently, snd an attempt to refuty them is seldom made. They are harm But it does seem stra it shoul! working together, Spofford acting as Iter-| revolutionary war. Some were drawn on ais S ary assistant snd Young as administration | the battlefields and not a few were made | P° = — — ee eae head, executive manager and in short as|by British, French and American engin- | Pecple who ought to know librarian-in-chief. cers. it is during pericds of finan: prosper. The pi “In the attic there will be a restaurant, Sebuiite tac the Uncle Sam’s Books. and the building will be so arranged that I asked Mr. Young to teli me some-| scholars who wish to werk here will have Eieahs OE” Auilaien 7 Ranbbcaationls thing of the size of Uncle Sam's book col- | all conventence: ee pee ae lection. He replied: A Leok Into the Reading Room. ‘able to settle their differen “It is hard to say as yet just what It is.| “Tell me something about the reading > of enforcing and prot For years thousands of pamphlets and] room, Mr. Youn, ia 1 s and redressing their injurie volumes have been stored away in boxes,| “Here it is on the liorary floor,” reptiea | S“quently the lawyer has a lange packed up in bundles and piled up in ail| John Russell Young, as he took another | fist blush imagine, There Is not sorts of shapes in the basement of the| }1an and spread it out before me. “It is . a vicio statute or an unwise Capitol. We know that we have altogether are ee AS ullsbaie Genin poe ep ted 750,000 books an 0) pamphiets, ect in : bas — Sas a'million in all. We have, I judge, alre: n, though not the n. The = mt that ensue something like 300,000 unbound periodicals, ou, think we shall be abie to seat olution of and 200,000 pieces of music and at least 40,000 ple and give them plenty of work- rersh'rs and the appointment of 1 maps. In addition to these there are manu- | !"* ace. The iby ns) will) bein the | Oss ene ee for th scripts, pictures and a vast amount of; citer of the room, and they will be con- | fr of ereditors all of whieh follow. in aterial, the value of which can only be| Rected by telephone with every part of the | tof creditors—all of which fotlo m: * it is properly arranged aaj | building and with both houses of Congress. | Vake Of Bard times ane the known when it is properly “S| They will have pneumatic tubes running | 63ers. Does eed classified. of the law is made more profitab! from their desk to every ory of the book stacks. There are cx “But there must be a great deal of trash which rue ten: by? It cannot be denied that the in such stuff, Mr. Young,” said I. Peart paecioeirtol : a1 business which is the imme “No, I think not,” was the reply. ““Al-} Stacks to the reading room, so that wees | Of financial depression, and that most every bit of it is valuable in one five minutes a librarian can get a book from | ECS*, Of at least some of it is p sense or another. You know the trash of one century becomes the classics of the next. Old pamphlets which are thought worthless often become very valuable. ‘The American ones are especially so. The library is the copyright record of what To think, howeve dition of the pro' labor under a great del capital is seeking inv m tions are being formed and promot when elevators are being fille &ny part of the + At the right of the reading room as you go out will be the office of the librarian, and near it will be the offices of Mr. Spofford, Mr. Hutcheson und others of the assistants, In the north- West corner I have decided tc put a library the great American brain is doing. It 15| for the bind. We hase eleven y ed and unloaded, tith:s examin the “great brain reservoir of the United | hooks wit raived ieteas pat Angee tracts executed, that the practice of law States, and it should contain everything | use of the blind. We cculd give these out 4 18 Temunerative published.” in the main reading room, but I fear that “But does it do this,” I asked. “Yes, I think so as far as the United States is concernea. The law requires that two copies of each took copyrighted must be deposited in the National Library. We also get every foreign book registered un- der the international copyright law, and cur additions to the library from copy- rights alone amount to tens of thousands a year. Last year there, were over 70,000 books, pictures and other things copyright- ed, and the increase of copyrights seems" to be steady from year to year.” | Enough Room for the Next Century. “Will not the library soon beco-ne full at this rate of increase?” I asked. “No, I think not,” replied the lbrarian. “We can put all the books in one wing or stack of the new building. We have shelv- ing for years to come. The library covers about three acres. There are three stories, which gives pine ecres for, books, ma- chinery, offices and reading rooms. Nine acres is a great deal of space. There ara already miles of shelving, and, if necessary, room could be made for more than 4,000,000 books. I doubt whether we will fill the library building within the next one hun- dred years. The greatest library of the world teday is that of Paris. It has 3,000,- 00 volumes, but books are badly housed. The British Museum 3s next, with more than two millions, and I think that St. Petersburg follows. As for the people reading in this way would 2 tract attention and sizhtseers might bother them, so I have decided to give them a room to themselves. Cataloguing Department. “Here along the north side of the build- ing on the library floor,” Mr. Young went on, “will be the cataloguing department. This is 2 very important branch of the li- brary. The catalogue of a library is like the radder of a ship—we should be at sea hout one. We want to keep the book lists up to date. We publish, you know. a bulletin every week of the copyrighted books which have come in. We have s ready a good catalogue of the periodicals and _of the volumes now in the library. “Further on, cn the same floor, in the northeast corner, is a room whichis to be devoted lo the Toner collection. This col- lection consists of 36,000 volumes. It was made by Dr. Toner of Washington. It is very strong in documents, manuscripts and } books relating to George Washingion, and I have placed it in charge of one of the last of the Washington family. Further around” the building to the cast there will be a de- partment devoted to manuscripts. You re- member that some manuscripts were Stolen from the library not long ago. We shall have these kept under special lock und key, and we hope to guard such treasures carefully. Then there will be a room de- voted to research, It matters little what it is that you want —whether a situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach th person whe can fill your need. bereiiterets Why They Smite. From the Argonaut. A hotel keeper near New York city is a Frenchman, and his family know little more about English than he does. His suburban hotel stands in the center of a yard filled with large trees. When the pro- prietor wanted to call attention to this ad- vantage. he put on his-cards: “The best shady hotel around New York.” The tation of the place is beyond reproach the proprietor does not know yet why so many persons smile when they read that line. NO MERCURY Xo potash—no mineral—no danger—in 8. 8. 8. ‘This means a great deal to all who know ‘the disastrous effects of these drugs. It is the only blood remedy guaraniced. third and we may eventually be first.” : Our Specialties. “In what features is the library especially strong, Mr. Young?” I asked. =