Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1898, Page 18

aN VON OCA OY, ( i) 1 as —_- > —— 5 BY GEORGE GRIFFITH. ) ——$—$——— (Copyright. 1897, by the 8. S. McClure Co.) e CHONG NOM OIOUS ONC HONE MONONC INO I than five years as a first offender, and if y, stone by stone, the parcel | you behave yourself you'll get out with nd every one of the now | three. 1 know the ropes down yonde splendid collection of gems represented [don't You fear, and TH pull ‘em hard for only so many pounds sterling in hacd | (housand for you in solid cash and cesh, wh nce successfully transleted | sand ur for five years after that. from the Kimberly compound and sorting | Jo: Fe what do you say to that?” : om naps srld, be so many | “What do you want me to be trapped at houses to the o1 world, but also many | Whar patanigtedt . mements of ssperate hid- skillful yet fickle 1 den anxi during which the of fate had swayed to and fro between two poles of fortune and ruin. Som n in Ridley's position— and he was most trus ers in @rnp—would have taken the out © . or empl them frem 1 is ed, a ect to one of Mieit but that was his way. He had no other confidant ti his own cor not n appro’ but him that vould number of f a single illici diss) nal servitud inly the discovery 0! rson of t twenty or thirty thousand pounds ms the very pick of the Ki output for nearly six months past afternoon he made up his mind el th mpted the permitted him: utes’ examin: and » him, but t n who should suc fates far eno. ch ning he walk rt tn his mouth ind therefe ret ram of » which inelosed bim him as in a net were many k was too great, considering tke £1000 or £5,000 in an Dat the same fer lis bility ‘ k to his work with } ertain sense, a clear Y oni whic r v the ne Se loved old Carlisi t he that there was mi color in the um it thont that just meant, Tir gton h change, Sto et he Well-dr s3sed, sper- Who nytied to him as peunt nd sa f tou he replied wn the street We've bad “ ay or two. it, ma mar m the jan rie of pew el, 1 have old cle” bine for Um alwa sure T sa * for a know, Mr. hat you're b you glad to see re on to that not such you you're thought ean good of wasting time Ii your boots now and ta He mut mor extrt J any thing ne now, 4 trade, the to that vd ¥ ny thing pair of se Ridley b till to rise im to ing them down to is time to have lay, are you? Well, hted idiot I L apok I s myself—but business ke et what's the t? Go and ger m to Tooley’s is ut, and he's got a pair of mine to m Vil be there ‘in half hour, and if I take your parcel away with me { ead of my ow Hl, what's that to any- iy but you or me It wasn't worke« In the r valuatio the boot tory that t two h ley went home with g anlout ora like an pair ¢ other his arm, neatly wrapp the Diamond check w Was payable to F Miss Alice 4 = but both the Ot eanwhile turn m Mr homewa nories and fond ant That same night, bet Muratti had a visit fro} people. youth of son mers, whose life h winter. Not many of t run to wi e, but Joshu short in camp as Josse d to do so. distantly rel: Kain and 2 . with the trad ple to their kin taken him out of the g! his feet on the pavement. rview that y akin to this sp » else was prese! ke plainly and to th “It just comes to th Di her a new device, but it esult’ Mr. was so fi urs later F cheek for mount in his p man’s b Muratti’s de r dup in a copy of Independent The Bank, London, ank Ridley, but to The 1 O U was 5 to England by t S$ stopped Ransome had f rmined later on Kidiey’s thought ugied with lovir ipations, Ween Ll and 12. Mr. m & man of his own me twenty-one so far been mostly he seed of Abraham at any rate in the financial Mosenstein, known for y Mo, had someho: ated to Micke: «ain that rising finan- itional generosity of | dred, mé@taphorical utter and set him on rticular night was cies of rescue work mt, and Mr. Muraitt e point. is, Josse " he said, toward the end of the discussion, “you'll never be i to your re ns as lon, around in this good-for- of yours. Now, here's for you. Do as I tell and play the greeney. ood to yourself or any Credit K as you go sloshing “nothing sort of way & good, solid chance you, man. Own up You won't get more sum- | The subject of | why don't you plant ‘em somewhere and ron ‘em down when you get a chance, like the others do? “Because I don't do business like the eplied Mickey with an air of con- pride, ‘and because I'm playing a eper came and for a bigger stake. It’s is way, you sec. Ridley and me_ were shadowed while we were talking in Stock- le street. He didn’t see it, but I did, and ‘s what mede me think of (iis lay. We that, and they ¢ the funk, own om from a K virtuous I needn't bs n’t get one, for you'll play >. and swear you bo » While I do the indig fraid of Ridley. t want him yet. They'll wait ub him when convenient want. De Beers would giv now to plant me on the br a few hours while they put t Y | ea tion business through hat's wh | my game comes in. ‘This parcel should 4 Jout at $t0,000at the very least, and that's what ant to fight these amalga- tors on their E “If L got nabbed the whole be up; but if you go for make my fortune and sin. Muratti will it won't be me would Jossey, Uli . too, my :upsky high, thousands, my by millions, shall have ‘your shat when you come at, never fear. “You know, if you were left to yourself, sey, You'd never make a thousand in a niury of blue m let alone ten thou- 1 you sand in years or so. Come now, {what do you say? You'll have to look sharp for they may be her any minut ah, yes, 1 thought so; there's the official knock. . don't act the goat and fly in the fac od fortune. Here's the goni- Yahs. That's it in your walstcoat pocket. Now button your coat. That'll do.” “Well, gontlemen, good e ening. What can I ou this evening, if it isn’t do for morning alr “You can hand over that parcel of dia- monds you got from Frank Ridley to- night, Mr. Murattl, and then you can come replied Inspector LAipin but still a trifle suffly. “I've a search wnt here, but you'll ve us a lot of nd household a jot of by passing over the stones Know they're In the hous " you know a mighty lot me hout than I do mys Mr. Lipinski, ki polit snapped the litth an, somewhat viciously. ereareno d Is here but what are n lawful p and they're all cut stones, so I'm afraid I can't give you what But of course you can act on tost unWarrantab! itish colony, too. if you've it—though e tyr Wh. y call it if ; a on nal settlement ad with i s ask my wife to ge! “I'M hope there'll be no necessity | ved the inspector. with a ph “But now, gentlemen, we must to work, please. ‘It isn't pleasant for I know, but it’s our duty, and it be done.” formalit stute Mickey hi diamonds resulted exactly as d predicted it would. The of stones worth about ‘ost—were promptly found in y's “ket, and he played the tyro in . BK. with a perfection that was by no ns all art. key, of course, did the virtuously in- nt relative and disappointed benefac- ter without a flaw, not only at the moment of discovery, but at the police court the next morning. So well, indeed, did woth ts that, to Inspector Lipinz- ntense disgust, the magistrate refused to send the chief criminal to the special court for trial, and so, after providing sen- crously for the defense of his erring rela- tive, he left the court hopse a triumphantly shed man. next sitting of the special court Jossey got five years, and the same train which took Tim to Cape Town happened also to take Mrs, Micaael Muratti, who, for reasons of hea not unconnected with increase of the seed of Abraham, had teen advised to take @ trip to Europe to the THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANU avoid the worst of the hot season in Kim- berley. Inspector Lipinzki still had his sus- Picions, but even they did not go so far as to put a value of about ‘thirty thousand pounds on the high and hollow heels of the lady's dainty French-made boots. i. Nearly five years later Michael Murattl, esq., was sitting at the writing table in the library of his town residence in Lancaster Gate. He was reading a letter and swear- ing softly under his breath at every line of it, When he had read it through for the second time he crushed it up in his hand, stuffed {t into his trouser pocket, went and stood on the hearthrug with his short, sturdy legs wide apart, and sized portrait of himself which hung in the middle of the opposite “No, bust me it I do! I've been generous to both of them, and I can't stick it 3 longer. I'll give ‘em just another thou: apie y old times’ sake, and that's the lot. Half a million apiec whew! Why doen't trey ask for the whole catoole at once? I'll see them selling fried (ish first. The explanation of this resolution may Thanks to ex- be briefly given as follow ain amount of emplary behavior and a cx “ judicionsly applied influence, Mr. Muratti's Scapegoat had got off with a Uttle over three years. The day he came out he re- ceived the welcome but not unexpected i telligence that through the death of a re tive In London, he had com» into ahout {5,000 ready cash, and property and securi- ties ylelding about another thousand a same evening he venewel the ac- qua'ntance of Frank Ridley, who had been ed without any assigned reason a few weeks after the great coup which had io him. The bank had MICKY DID THE VIRTUOUSLY INDIGNANT RELAT dated axain of Tooley =. and Vwne | Beer alcined by cable det a tear tail boon f ed home here by one of the smouches. | stolen out of Mr. Muratti's London check Lipinszi’s no fool, and neither is | book, and cautioned not to cash any checky Fox, ner Lowe, nor any of them. What do| without further notice, Henes, the: first | L want talking to Ridley for just after he's | £2,500 had not been paid. ‘The TO U Mr. | come out of the sorting room? What do 1 | Muratth had laughed at 1 stones had want to meet him again the same night at | cost him qui 3 a t store and bring a pair of his 1 | do before he ail done with Josaey, and home by mistake for didn’t prepose to pay any more. CTH tell you, Jossey, the haps know | It was a ¢ of dog cating dog, but Rid- fas well as | do that I took a parcel of | ley could do nothing without disclosing the tones from Ridley tonight, and — before | Whole tra that would) mean long Lipinski will be here with a scareh | not l the breakwater warrant to look for them. Now, if he | for him, so he nd bore it, and doesn't find any hel reckon that I've | Witited Ull Jossey came out planted I'm going to run ‘em as| Meanwhile Mr. Muratti grew and flour- you means that we shall be | ished exceedingly. Everything he toyched ry one who out | turned either to gold or diamonds, though any one bele to | he never touched anything illicit after the | and searched, o | last big deal. about as much chane He was quite a great man now, but, as of sett those stones down to Capetown | y one knows him, there is no need to and on to the steamer as T would. Jrepeat that, and there was not a cloud on | ce how my plan works out. They | his financial or social he rsitve his con- stones from Ridley nection with present. fm- know what stones sec possibility of introduced to the } com with their warrant, ar Prince of Wale both, anl seareh us, find this othe He had giv ey a couple of thons- - | lot on you, and jump to the conelusio! and In cash on Jossey’s strong represen they're the right ones, and that L have ; tion yd fondly thought that would si n vem to you. But t sno pr his able claim but that do made the bis Jossey came out of penal ry different person to the Ss one'er-do-well that he was when he entered it. It had done him a lot of good Ht had put back! into him, and, besides, he had learned many things that he wotted not of before. | After. more toil st than three years of penal and discipline, embittered by depriva- tion of all creature ecriforts, 1 was only In the course of natur cained his freedom, and foun | plenty of money, clined to compens of should be strongly in- himself for his. v hi “What Do You Wa ous sufferings on a somewhat liberal scale. It was in this humor that Ridley had found him. He had made a little money, more or less honest. since hts discharge, and so there was no igkestion of sponging. But he was very sore still about the check and the I. O. U., and in Joxsey he thought he saw the means of getting square with the millionaire who had done him such an unscrupulous “shot in the eye. To this end he worked both skilfully and successfully on the ex-convict's feelings un- ul he came to look upon himself as a mar- tyr and Michael Murratti as a monster of ingratitude. Waat were a few paltry thous- ands to the millions that were literally rolling in—the millions which would never have been his if he, Joshua, had not borne the penalty of his crime? He had the plain- est right to a good substantial share of them, and so, too, for the matter of that, had the man from whom Mickey had so dishonestly obtained the stones on which his new fortunes had been founded. As time went on these arguments were very strongly enforced by the fact that the aforesaid “paltry thousands” did not go very far when Mr. Joshua Mosenstein had once learned the joys of spending money with the cheerful freedom that is born of @ sure and certain hope that, when it is done, there will be plenty more forthcom- ing. The logical result was that the two worthies, now fast friends and allies in a common object, had made demand after demand on the apparently bottomless purse of the multi-millionaire, until at last: a certain fact had come to their knowledge which, after due deliberation together, had inspired them to write the joint letter that had so disturbed Mr. Muratti’s equanimity. They traveled honih by the same mail- boat which carried thelr letter, and on the morning fallowing its delivery they paid a visit to the’ millionaire at his West End mansion._ The interview was not exactly a friendly one. Mr. Muratti blustered, and bts vigitors quietly but firm- ly doubled ther ady exorbitant de- mands. The man of millions threateaed to have them put into the street, and broadly hint- ed at the advisability of giving them into custody as blai ixraaliers. That brought matters to a head in a somewhat dramatic fashion. The exsorter took out his pocket book and produced from it a half sheet of note paper, on which was pasted a short newspaper cutting. He handed it to the millionaire and said: “That's from the Cape Times, Mr. Mu- rattlL Do you think you could throw ony light on the subject? I have an {dea t you could, especially with our assistance. De Beers would give a good deal to know )how that stone got away. I believe they would even accept me as queen's evidence to get the mystery cleared up. What do you think With slowly widening eyes and sinking heart, the man of many millions and moro ambitions, read the cutting. It ran thus: 0 King of the Belgians has just in- eulgea in his well-known taste for gems by the addition to his already priceless ction of a magnificent rose-colored dia- weighing nearly thirty Karats in its cut state. His majesty is rumored to have paid the enormous price of a thousand pounds a karat to the Amsterdam mer- chant of whom he bought it. In color and water it is the exact counterpart of the famous rose diamond in the De Beers’ collection, but it Js much larger. origin 1s involved in some little The merchants from whom his majesty purchased {t affirm that the deal- er from whom they bought it declared It was an ancient eastern gem re- terdam, but experts who have seen It state with equal positiveness that it is a Kimberley stone. ‘A rumor reaches us. from Dlamond- lis that a certain Kaffir, who has sinc: disappeared, boasted one night in his cups, Just after he had been discharged from the Kimberley compound, that he had found the biggest rooiklippe (red stone) that ever was found on the fields. If this is true, the stone never reached the dia- mond room at De Beers’. It is just pos- sible that some of the I. D. B. fraternity could throw some light on the subse nderings the ‘mooi rool-klit ch the v hed Kaffir boasted.” Frank Ridley and Joshua Mosenstein watched the millionaire’s changing face narrowly as he rend. When he saw that he had finished, Ridley said tly: “1 can find that Kattir if ne ary, Mr. Muratti. Of course, the diamond law does not hold good in this country, but the laws as to conspiracy and dealing in_ stolen gcods do. If De Beers. prosecuted they would find my evidence worth buying. dossey bere has done his time, and could make a clean bi of it without fear, and so the only one who could be touched would be-— “Oh, that'll do! the million- exclaimed despa aire, in a last 2 “What do you want? “IT want half a million down, and an- other balf In approved securities pre ably De Eeers.” replied Ridley; “and as a of rin, An matter of principle { must have that cheek in favor of Miss Ransome duly honored, A millionaire’s wife should be above sus- pieton “And | wan million, te imedin Mr, Mosenstein, Sale Way unk wants his. And what% mor (aye went on, shaging his tinger In his, face, s you disgrackd me by sending me to the breakwater forgyour crime, you must re- store my credityin (3 of the soc that T shalt go4tntotnow, by making your wife let me maggry pretty little sister k a of herg tha 1 have loved all my atwayg fond of me, and will have me when § amga millionaire. 1 dari say you can spre portion.”* * OF life. She jer a decent marriage They were big tems, but Mr. Muratti did not yet de ir. 6f being Introduced to the Prince of Walegf and so in the end he yielded, A few, pee®is later two new-made uth African jimi one English and one Hebref¥, bites forth, each in his congenial sptheresof London society, A little later on there were two splendid wed- ding: nd, until th lines appear in print, the mystery of the “king's rose diia- mond” will remain umsolved. CANINE STABULARY, rleston News and frequently u authorities of this stat few years the exvediency of the pli keeping a few track hounds at some venient point in each county, not only to trace actual criminals, who cannot be fol- lowed by any other means, but to deter the ounty during the past n of con- criminally disposed from the commission of contemplated crimes by the assurance which the presence of the dog detectly affords that they will be speedily followed und tif they give effect to their evil nations. The suggestion has been en- everal occasions by reports of by the dos in the w counties where they aré Kept, and some very convineing testimony of the character is added by our ace pondent in his letter, published ye lerday. After relating how the mere i n unknown burg! ttempted flight, 1 Major Day rec day from J. W. ©! requesting that ti the city of lor to betray add 1a telegram yest himself by by first train. Jus’ dl ry hus not been in ha been use of North Carolina late by the authorities In for-running down crimin nd they have been very successful. Fic , of course keod pay for them wh er they ar for any other purpose than running down eriminals within the city limits. It has been a great thing for Florence, having these treilers on hand, for it has ‘reduce burglary and incendiarism very y 100 per cent daring the time they pen These dogs own a murde and ran down Edgar Pur mp who shot Flagman Blac t Line train at Dunn, N. C., about two weeks ago. They are sent anywhero upon ipt of a telegram, with assurances tha the pric paid for th The lively nd for the animals from neighboring counties is evidence enough of their ‘ssful servi heretofore, and proves that they are regarded as police instiiution. ful in every county. The most important value, however, ment as to tl ence in reducing crime. The mere fact of “haying these trailers on hand, are told, “has on a great thiag fer Florence,” as shown decrease in the number of ary and incendiarism alone, nothing ;of other serious or lesser A similar equipment should be a { thing for ether towns or counties for ame reason, and when {ts small is considered It is really strange that e county Is pot provided with o tee » saine ones that Hub, N. C. testimony is afforded in effect of thelr pre to their the state- The Drendful Consequences, From Life. “You liked my cooking well enough just after we were marred.” “Yes, but I didn't have dyspepsia then.” ARY 1, 1898—24 PAGES, [AT A COURT-MARTIAL One Man Who Thinks That a Pri- vate Has Small Chance. a eee IN HIS CASE If WAS REALLY TRUE |e Was Put Under Arrest for No Fault of His Own. eee A MEMORY OF ALCATRAZ —_+ T WAS NOT NEC- read all the details of the recent Lover- ing-Hammond court- martial case at Fort Sheridan to be re- minded of the fact that I once passed through the court- martial ordeal my- self,” said a Wash- ington man who ts now the father of a family and the pro- prietor of a fireside, to a Star man. “It hap- pened nearly twelve years ago, when I was soldiering as a private in the United States artillery out at Alcatraz Island, Cal, and, as I was just twelve years younger then than I now am, and was, besides, pretty new in the army, I need hardly say that the thing nearly scared me to death. When @ general court-martial sits on a man with the shoulder-straps, he has chances a- plenty to wriggle out of his scrape, but when one of those courts assembles to try a mere buck private, that soldier cer- tainly 1s In trouble, and no mistake. The trial of a soldier by a general court-mar- tal is purposely « ed into such a fright- fully solemn affair, you know, that if you've got any nerves concealed about you, you can’t help but fancy that It’s only a matter of days before you'll be led out, blindfolded and shot at sunrise. “There was a military p Island at the time I was packed pretty full of pr! nc { Alcatraz It was about Sen! The Arrest. of them, T should most of them ap- prehended deserters. ‘The post provost ser- geant s the boss of the prison, and he was kept pretty busy In finding work for o¢ Island is a_six- ut the post. rock right Alc these prisoners E in thy middle of San F °0 harbor, opposite the ito (th army headquarters on the Pacitic coast) and about four miles from the main lan re’s no gloom post on the map than Alcatraz Ing back to it now, the time I seems like a nightmare, and, | A y Place. “At the very top of the r there is a Dig stone and brick citadel, built by the Spanlards a good many rs before an American soldier ever saw the Pacitic coast. On the roof of this citadel, when Alca- had the military prison, placed to see that away from the island in open was a board alk running four sides of the roof, and . ‘There around th 8 this roof was about 350 feet above the sea, the sentry patrolling this alk had a pe et view 0 ery part of the fsland and all the waters surrounding it. As sev ly oners had got away from Aleatr: with the aid of confederates who brought 1 boats close up to its banks ichored for the apparent pur- pose of fishing, an order was Issued p oibiting any boa whats from proaching within ) yards of island. It was the business of the sentry on top of the adel to see that this order was not vio! He had to keep a constant lookout » that no be ithin the 4 red distance; if Ket In side the imaginary line, the sentry would bawl down to the guard house for the cor- poral of the guard, and point out the di- rection whither th vat was approaching orporal of the guard would then grab hustle over to the point indicated entry on the citadel and shout to at or occupants of the boat to It happened, once, by the w: s there, that a stubborn chap ot his boat too far in, and, when he was warned off, he told the corporal of the md to go to the dey und that all American waters were free to Am) ns He got a bullet in his foot, and would hav: got a few m in m Vital parts if h hadn't: exhibite od deal of Hyeliness in rigging up his soil and getting out of the way. nt post on top of the cit good deal despised by the soldic ous reasons—the responsibility of it, in the first place, and, secondly, its horrible windi ness. [ never saw a day in San Francisco that a more or less cold, biting wind did not blow a gale through the Gate, anyhow, and up there on top of the citadel ft was simply awful, The wind pounded a man th so he could hardly keep his feet, and two hours of {t four times on a ord was pretty raw work. There was a sentry into which n going un- but, all the box at one corner of the roof, DS prohibited fre ‘ell in torrent same, I don't suppose a sentry er did his two-hour go up there that he didn’t put in at least half the time in the box, out of the wind. I know I did, for one, and if I had been t this and be tried for it 1 we minded it so much; but T was nailed on account of the conc.tion of the elements, and IL believe I'm sore over ity he corpere) of the guard stationed me up there one clear, sharp morning for my two-hour turn. There wasn't a cloud in the sky when I took my post and began jogging und the citadel roof, although the wind » fury, and before I'd been f an hour this wind, which was blowing in from the Gate, hauled into the bay the mightiest and densi bank of fog you ever saw. It beat the so-cailed blaci fogs of London all hollow; liter: couldn't see my hand before me, ar couldn't help but think what a bully show this was for some poor devil of a prisoner to get off the island if one of his ‘Frisco pals would think to bring over a boat for him. But I didn't want this to happen on my watch, you may be certain. “Somehow or another, I didn't go into athe sentry box at all that morning. I be- leve I was thinking, as I trudged around the roof of the citadel, what an imbecile in general I had made of myself in getting into a private’s uniform in the United States army after throwing away a million or so good opportunities on the outside, and so I just kept on walking to work off my disgust for myself and forgot to go into the box. I had been ploughing around in the fog for about half an hour, when up pops the corporal of the guard’s head through the hatch in the middle of the citadel roof. A sentry, my relief, followed right after him. As it lacked an hour of the time for me to be relieved, I knew right off that I was on the breakers. An Escape in the Fog. “‘Did you see any boat draw near to the southeust correr of the island about ten minutes ago?’ says the corporal of the guard to me. “‘How the dickens do you suppose a man could see through all this foggy muck, bi if he had a search light” I inquired of him. “That's all right, so far as I am con- cerned,’ said the corporal (we were on very friendly terms), ‘but the officer of the guard don’t see it that way. Jim Campbell, the eight-year man, has just got away in a boat that pulled into the shal lows at the southeastern end of the island One of the chain guard saw the boat pull eff into the fog with Jim in the bow. The officer of the guard is frothing at the mouth. If you want my deliberate jud ment, Bill, you're in for a soaking.’ “AS a preliminary to my getting soak the corporal took me off the post and sta: ttoned my relief there, Then I descended to the guard house with the corporal. The officer of the guard was waiting for me. He looked blacker’n ink. Take off that man’s belt,’ said he tc the corporal, indicating me. | So my belt was ‘swiped,’ as the soldiers and s ik a pretty serious thing t n tk & man on guard tn the United States army Take him to his quarters for his blan- | * said the officer of the guard, ‘and | lock him up in the guard house." 1 ‘I was in the guard house for a week | before I knew what was going to be donc | to me. The one other man in the guard | house and T had to fall out with the guard | (we were turned loose for the purpose by | ry time the officer of the | « around, and at the end of a k I was notified that charges had boon red against me for neglect of duty post, and that I was to be tried by a general court-martial assembled at Ange’ Island, the infantry post across the bay The other man who kept me company in The Escape. the guard house was a good-natured Irish- man with the good-natured name of Pad dy Mulvihill, who was in for licking his first sergeant, and he tried to cheer me up after L heard this news, but it was nv use. I was, 1 suppose, the gloomiest young Whelp that ever sat on the edge of a guard house bunk nd smoked a pipe, Waiting for Hin Trial. “Well, I was tn the mill a fuil month be- fere I got tried—that 1s, I was locked up at night. During the day from 7 ck in the morning until 5 in the afternoon, I was chased out by a sentry with a loaded gun nd a fixed bayonet, to perform little chores around the Island whitewashing chicken coops thou: shoveli coal, digging gravel, sawing wood, 1 was almost dead every night wher through. Heartbroken? Lord, alme zy! “Finally, after Thad been In the clink for a full m h, one of the ants from my battery tur form, with a pistol strapped around waist, and carrying with him) my fatigue uniform. He told me that he under orders to tak me over to A Island for trial, and he advised me to tog myself out neatly to ‘make a hit with the yart.” to the uniform, 1 the sergeant me down to the k, where the government steamer was As I went over the gangway I about half a dozen cavalry and in ntry off sitting smoking and laugh on the upper deck. They were all rig cut in thelr full-dress uniforms . sashes and all, and I asked the sergeant what the deuce they were gotten up that way for. “They're som. ng to try My trip over t went for naught. case of aca ( up in bis full-dress uni hi: wa: a waiting. v of the officers that are he said. Angel Island that y The court took up the lryman first (a chap who had sold his saber for rum), and sy the ser- ant had to convoy me back to Aleatrez. same thing happened three days in su sion, and the strain was a bit wear- ing, 1 want to tell you. “On the fourth day I was led into the court. Even now L can 1 the hour or two To spent there without sensations of misery. Eleven officers, from second Heu- tenants up to the major, who was the pres- ident of the court, sat in their full regalia, taches and looking: which compelled them their full dress uniforms. h what seemed to me, nd ima tive state of mind, est sort vindictiveness when Tw reeant, and during: the 1 am certain that some glared at me as if T had fa dozen te ent houses round a long table at their mus- tugging of brought in by t whole pre of them dings ho burned down or so. The Mistake T ow to say right he that I mistake tn that I pre- written statement in my own de fense, and had it typewritten by a battery je Made. business, clerk for presentation to the court. As I remember it, it was a pretty well-written document, and it forth clearly that ing but the eye of omnipoten sul the he mor: shrouded put 0 fog that e ng T was s a bad break fc wed I hadn't penetrated citadel on th st. But it w make, and it sh fn the servi The judge advocates read the ment aloud to the court after they Jall taken the oath, It created conster- nation, The officers of the court gazed at in SAVED BY Osis WaAsHING PowoER What more can be asked? Only this; ask your grocer for it, and insist on trying it. Teest package—greatest economy. THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago, tL. Louts, New Yor, Boston, Philade}phia. sald encouragingly that he could see it was a cineh that | wa “Now, all this busin: tired, for T felt convic made me pretty mess that Twas a conseic being imposed upon all through the whe thing. So when [ got back to Alcatraz t sat me down at oa rickety t in th guard hye and penned about hot a letter as ever T wrote to some people here in Washington that knew my p me and all about me before I'd b enough to hold up my hand in ¢ and who cut st ut thr rks after I had my *« which interval, under the re of the fixed-bayor sentry, 4 mpelled to give all the sewers on Aleatrag such a flushing as T bet they never had before or xince, to say nothing of the cords uyon cords of woot that calloused my hands by sawing, the er of the day had m 1 out to the guard room, and read me the order rela ing to my trial Orders From Washington, he court of neglect {t seems, had found me gulity of duty on post, and had sen- tenced me to six months’ confinement in the Alcatraz prison at hard labor, at the conclusion of which T was to be dishonor ably discharged from the army, without pay or allowances. 1 ne: wed in when the officer of the d this far, But & felt different ast ded. The docu ment To had writt hington stuck out all over the the ord The judge adve nt of Cali fornia of the finding of the co vded the mitt gation of t the extent that T should be turned and restored to duty The neral commanding the de partment of California then got hold of t apers, and he not only expressed in wrath- ful and unmeasured terms his disapproval of the finding emphatteally ant of the that it to try y unfou are re vurt, but he stat an outr: soldier at all and flimsy a ch and may go to ¥ when nased said the oMecer of the day he got through reading the order, swallow quar’ ing a lump fn his throat, for I could that he didn't relish the sitthug down up his brother officers had gotten at th ds of the a buck f eral com private, punt like dummy at that court-martial, 1 would prob nding If t had Re nm ably have been this monkey tut it takes Jong time OWS, SAYS like this, all of lence army he a acquitted without Iness and corresp enti man in the to find that th or puts ¢ in writing in the at wn better his chances will a k de > ms in Alaska, Nature's Gar John Muir in the vT vet most rol Atlant te extensive, 1 ble of the gar vast tundras of spoiled and of the Alaska sinooth, eve n ust un 1s finent aa nvery summer they extend n, undulatin, ntinuous be rs and leaves from about Latitu to the shores of the Arctic 0+ in winter sheets of snow flowers make all the country shine, one mass of white radiance like a r. Nor are these arctle plant pe ple the pitiful, frost-pinched unfortunate they are guessed to be by those w never seen them, Though lowly in keeping near the frozen ground ing it, they are bright and che speak Nature's us phuinly relatives of the south ked in beneath downy s ch the huge white winter, they make ing without t me as if 1 were a madman! A pri sol- dicr make a written statement in his own defense before a general court-martial, and a well-written statement at that! Prepos- terous! What's the service coming to, any- The Reading of the Verdict. how? What does the man mean? Thes and a good many other questions the of- ficers asked each other with their aggrie ed eyes. It dawned upon me as soon as the judge advocate finished reading my defense that I was lost, and I learned then for the first tim: be pursued by a court-martial t closed and his n good. My witnesses, the corporal of the guard and the sentry who had relieved me, were produced. Was there fog around the cita- del? Yes, sir. Dense fog. Thick fog. Fog that couldn’t be cut with an ax. The offi- cers all looked incredulous, tugged at their ; mustaches very hard, and glowered upon j me so that I must have quailed in my chair and looked gullty of any oid thing, I ques: “The officer of the guard, who had cau: my arrest, came in, helmeted and spurred. Was there fox around the citadel at the time ‘this man’ (myself) was relieved? Fog! Why, the skies were of sapphire at the time. The heavens were so blindingly blue that he was just thinking of going to his quarters for his green glasses when the alarm was spread that a prisoner had got- ten away. Fog! Absurd! Saw His Finish. “There was a general expression of satis- faction among the officers of the court at this, and I could hear the ‘wind-jammer’ blowing taps over my grave, figuratively speaking. At thc conclusion of the officer's testimony it was all over so far as I was concerned. My sergeant haled me back to my guard house bunk at Alcatraz, and 1 was in for a period of waiting to see what my sentence was to me—and the sergeant me off paper, for his own to bloom tn th w tail, though some rise b and wave in the wind 4 of color—yellow, purple they look like beds visible miles and tatles nber the tundra my Kolden sunshin vd th ripe foliage of the heathworts, nd birch—red, purple and yellow—t bright to: are enriched with those berries which are scattered everywhet n showered down from the ; their colors, with those of ems, blending harmont- utral tints of the ground d mosses on which they seem And in of the leave ously with t ine Killed Him. From Harper's Magazine. Among the historical incidents connected with the Rathhaus is one relating to an old judge who laughed himself to death. One sultry day, reads the record, during a re- cess of the council, the members were lean- ing from the windows of the Rathhaus, In the hope to catch any stray wind, It was the period of hoops and voluminous skirts, and maid shared with mistress the mania for diste: ttire. On this pulseless summer day a pretty servant girl in a wide hooped skirt and y bodice made her way through the loitering groups up to the fountain, She filled her tub and lifted It to er head, but in this m t, lo, the wonderful skirt was wrested from its fast- enings, and it dropped to the ground. The judge ‘had seen the maid approach the fountain like a ship under full sail, and when he now beheld her, collapsed and w that upon the spot he laughed himself to abashed, he was filled with such humor death. —___—_+e-—__— The Dutch are the largest consumers of tobacco. In 183 the consumption in Hol- land and Belgium was cighty-four ounces to each inhabitant. Next comes Switzer- land with cighty-two. Brazil and Turkey follow with seventy ounces each per Bragzil- jan and per Turk. A ton of of! has been obtained from the tongue of e single whale,