The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1898, Page 24

1698 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 500000 0O O O\ 1 vy, stone by and every one of the now splendid collec- stone, the parcel had in- creased, a tion of gems represented, not only o many pounds h, when once successfully ly compound and sort- the outside world, but also many ret skillfully nidden anxiet e of fate had swayed to and e and ruin. position—and he was one d have taken the sterling in hard ca trans houses to during which the fickle nee fro between two poles of fortun Some me in F 6f.the most trusted sorters in camp—w stones out one by ¢ or employed Kaffirs to take them from b after they had be rched, and pass them direct to one of t it deale . but that was not his way. He had no other c t than his own con- Beience, T an approving one, but at any rate one ¢ one would only the dia- and ruin by a sngle illicit persan of worth of gems Fly or thirty thousand pound ; k of the Kimberley mine output for nea mind that he that evening his mouth habby felt wide his d at 6 heart what s had he dgl lining s with ¥ of his som . albeit with some little fear and trembling, & v minutes ’ he 1y im ‘s work In the world—but he nd therefore a marked I ons of the wonderful system 1 like him 2 2 net were many risk was too great, sidering that he could e or 25000 18 an. hour d at the same r all his risk and liability to some one else, K to his work with a light heart and, in a cer- magnificent rose dlamond, which rere between 40 and 30 cara ly cut and pol- thinking e unattainable ith some ssibilities . he tied up the with a quick are looking up ance tlon try, who scope of his vlameless, at d, added to d- nble ced up with a )t pleasant 5 contrary he sald with a ¢ old clo’ ltne for hing in ys on for a trade. ow I'm alw ey; 80 1 but, look sting time them to mine to take your what's that to \ hour, & i of my own but it worke he boots k for £ and o "k was on to Frank Ridley, personal, but both the unp! stopped nce of presen mined later sant necessity of adding le long before The fate of the Meanwhile Mr. and mingled on s turned homewara rank Ridl 1 lov wi nd fond ratti had of some_ h neial se mp as related to Mick and Muratti, = again and again that rising financler had, with the tra- eg ditional generosity of his phorically taken him out of the € 1e ect on the pavement. particular night was clo work. No_one plainiy t just comes to this of the discus any credit to your ® and to the poi on, * nt around In this good-for a good solid c and piay the years as a fi get o you fear, come out there’ thousand a y what do you “What do 3 tempted Joshua objected rather sulkily. why don't you p gonivahs, run ’em down when you “Because 1 don't do Mickey with s pla L were talking | did, a first was you'll relat nothing way of ance for you, greeney nder, and if you beha I know the ro] ‘em hard for »u want me to be trapped at all for?” the air of consclous pride, “‘and because I'm ing a deeper game a , you see. Ridley and that's wh were shadowed agal home here by one of the “Now, Lipinzki's no fool, and neither is Fox, nor Lowe, nor any of t What do I want talking to Ridley for Just after h want to m and bring a pair o Lo g that before t0 10 that I ay and search u to the conclusion th em. tockdale street. t made m at come out of the sorting room? to their kindred, meta- utter and set him on his ubject of thelr interview that akin to this species of rescue present, and Mr. Muratti spoke people Jossey,” he said, towdrd the end ever Be any good to yourself or ons as long as you go sloshing yours. Now here’s I tell v . Own on't get more than five yourself you'll down yonder; don’t you. Then when you nd for you in solid cash and a ears after that. Now, Jossey, “If you've got the nt 'em somewhere safe and t a chance, like the others do?” siness like the others,” replied you go fc won't It's this 1 wisle we but 1 nd for a bigger stake. d me shadow He didn’t see it think of this la. and I was followed You Toole: alone mouch What do I where my £30,000 at the very least s fight these amalgamators on thelr own ground. “If 1 got nabbed, the whole game too, my pippin, y boy—million: 3 never make a thc e fen thousand what do you say? ¥ be here any minut ctal knock. good fortune. e they put this amalgamation business through. That's 1 pan out at at I want to ameé comes in. This parcel sh and tha Just w or me, Josse | make my fortune, a Mur: z0 flying up skyh a matter of thousands then, Ji and you shall fe ) 2ft to yourself, Josse sand in a century of biu n_three years, 2 11l have to 100k h, yes, I thought so; at, and fly in the That's it; know, for t1 Now, don't act the g Here's the goniv: would be up; > moons, Come, ere's the ofii- in your Jorth about abou Forsey's pocket, and he playe on that was by 1o ¢, of course, did tive and di ki still AT a8 to put a Inspector Lipi did not go_s0 high boots. II. ¥ 3 2 - After more Nearly five years later Michael Muratt] Esq. was sit 4 you'd o ing table In the library of his town r pline, let dence in . He was reading a letter and it was only ir how, swearing softly under breath at every line of it. When freedom and found hims v'may he had read it through for the second time he crushed it ‘m up in his hand and face of and stood on the hearthrug ds—a dicted it would. The diamon :2 first COSt—W & a'ne played the K)'mlln I eans all art. he virtuously mndignant rela- inted benefactor without a ippointed benefactor Without ns o hhot unconmected with an_ increase of tl o O R htim, had been advised to fake a trip to Eu- Jossoy eed of Ao e worst of the hot season in Kimberley. wou rope to avoid the wors otk e Sloberlss suspi value of about ] 2nd hollow heels of the lady’s dainty French-made stuffed it into his trousers pocket, went with wide apart, and sald to a life-sized portrait of nimself parcel of stones promptly found in more. D. B. with a & flaw, not only e ‘court the 2 of the 20,000 on the it. into him, and wotted ot of his short, sturdy legs unscrupulous reet him tell you, lox k for t T ¥ as much ¢ wn again the same and on to the a boot store ht at boots home by mistake ‘Well, gentlemen, good evening. ¥ : you this evening, if it isn’t morni “You can hand over that pa from uk Ridley to-night, M a ¢ can come with us ] n going to T stiil a trifle stiffy. watched. save us a lot of troubl of inconv the They don’t know warrant, arr right ones, walstcoat pocket. R G oA To this ¢ been founded. did not go v learned th »m that i is done the; result wa: common ok apparentl At Bl 25 Ui Giisnd {0 ti’s_equanimit n He had given Ridle settle his unprovable Just where he had made the biggest mis Jossey came out of penal servitude a v 10 the shiftless ne’er-do-weel that he was when he entered It had done him a lot of g besides, he had learned many things that he efore. than three years of penal toil and disci- embittered by deprivation of all creature comforts, in the cour: s sufferings on a somewhat liberal sce in_thi ttle money, more or 1 nd so there was s very sore still about the ch v he thought t the shot in the the penalty of hi good substantial share of them, and of that, had the man from whom Mickey had so dishon- estly obtained the stones on which his new fortunes had til at last a cer which, after due delibe to write the joint letter that had so disturbed Mr. Murat- o [~] QQCooo0 < had done with Jossey, and he didn’t propose to pay any It was a case of dog eating dog, but Ridley could do nothing without disclosing the Wt would mean not le! b @ him, and so he grinned and bore it, and waited till Jossey e transaction, and that on the breakwater for that ten year: . scov came ou at the moment of GISOVEER 7¥a1q poth play thelr parts Meanwhile Mr. Muratti grew and flourished exceeding- X TOr epector Lipinzkl's intense disgust, the mag- ly. Everything he touched turned either o gold or diac {hat, 1o IR send tho chiel eriminal (G the speclal monds—though he never touched anything lllicit after the % = A0 a S0, after providing generously for the ast big deal. court for trial, and 5o ACT PIeYert the courthouse a tri- Ha Swae quite a great man, now, but, as every ons antly whitewashed man. Bea knows him, there is no need to repeat that, and there was e next sitting of the speclal court Jossey got five not a cioud on his financial or social horizon save his con- yemd e S me Lrain which took him to Cape Town nection with Jossey and the present \eapossibility of get- Bappened also to take Mrs. Michael Muratu, who, for rea- ting introduced to the Prince of Wales. a couple of thousand in cash on Pland fondly thought that m for good, but that was ke of his life. fferent person ntation, Ty »d. It had put backbone of nature when he regained his If in command of plenty of money be strongly inclined to compensate himself for le. had found him. He s honestly, '1z.xe‘hls no_suggestion of sponging. 'k and the I O lg. of getting m such an humor that Ridley saw the mea millionaire who had done b eye C killfully and successfully both until_he came to look upon WO a monster of tew paltry ally rolling been his if he, Joshua, had not borne crime? He had the plainest Tight to a 0, too, for the matter AS time went.on these arguments were very strongly enforced by the f y far when Mr. Joshua Mose oys of spending money with the born of a sure and certain hope that when it > will be plenty more forthcomini that these ect, bottomless purse of the multl-millionaire, un- ‘paltry thousands™ ein had once cheerful free- that the aforesaid The logical two worthies, now fast friends in a had made demand after demand on the had come to their knowledge on_together, had inspired them fac 1 home by the same malilboat which car- and on the morning following its delivery AR to the millionaire at his West End man- Ry sion. The interview was not a friendly one. Mr. Ff Muratti blustered, and his vi quietry but firmly ] doubled their a exorbitant demands The m the street, them into c to a head in a 4 i > merchan afirm th s do. Now button your cgat. y're nore about wpped the 1i no ds yusly. own lawfu afraid 1 ca course if ¥ eh it's em to you here's no proof of that, 1 I colony 3 I the funk, up, penal settlemen have em from a Kaffir, while { do the | wite, to get up afraid of Ridley. They don’t want him inspector with a A it for him, and nab must get to Wo 2 It isn't pleas It's me they w De Beers wi 1 know, but it's our du it must be done now to plant me on the breakwat The formality resulted exactly 60 ® foYoFeYooYooYoFoXotolofoYoreYoYololofoloXotolololoololooolo) PPEEEEEPNECOROOERD HE most deadly foe for grain |with that of our primitive cereals, | were merely broken by the wind or fields is the H an fly. The | Southern Europe and Western Asia.|fallen by their own weight; but if you last ten years or so have en | Another school, anxious to make out| examine them closely in the neighbor- England invaded by this foreign | the enemy an American citizen, fights| hood of the bend, which occurs with foe, but for more than a cen- | hard for its being an aboriginal inhab- | singular unanimity in all the affected tury he had already been a great|itant of the United States. Thus much, | plants at about the same point, you oUrRe i ATaerica syhese hedn at least, is certain, that at the present | will find inside the sheath of the blade, acquired the name of Hessian fly dur ing the Revolutionary War, through | the popular belief that he had been im- | ph s in too abundance, ce; ported from Europe into Pennsylvania | tain disastrous years it has almo by the Hessian troops employed as |ruined the entire wheat crop. The lo mercenaries of George III in his fruit- | produced by this insignificant creature, less struggle against the revolted colo- | nies. The Yankee farmers, finding their | crops devastated by a pest till then un- | known, me at once to the conclusion | that their enemy, King George, had | gent the two plagues, human and en- tomological, over sea together. One school of disputants clalm the Hessfan fly is a native of the Old |ggy World, and that its first home coincided | sight dollar: o SEVEN LEAN EARS ATTACKED BY GRUBS. Magazine. you might imagine these stalks millions day the “fly” is found in both hemis- great that in America in particular in and st | little indeed, has in some seaso been measured only by of If you go out into a barley-fleld in England where the Hessian fly has ef- | fected his entrance, you will probably find a large number of plants of barley, with the stem bent down sharply to- At firs ward the ground at the second joint, vs the Strand st where it encircles the stem, a curious little body which the farmers with rough eloquence have agreed to de- scribe as a “flax-seed.” If you watch the development of the ‘“flax-seed,” again, you will find that it is not a seed all, but the pupa-cese (or rather the grub-shell) of a small winged insect; and it is the life-history of this insect, the H ian fly, that I now propose to sketch for you in brief outline. The mother fly in nature is but a small black gnat, beionging to the same group as our old friend, the mosquito. You will observe that she is a fairy. like creature, for all her wickedne! she has two delicately fringed wings (with “‘poisers” behind them), a pair of long antennae with beaded joints, six spindle legs, and a very full and THE SOURCE OF THE MISCHIEF : THE HESSIAN Fyy v % my ttie Ido! I'v 1 intel 1 London he had come erty and securities yieid rening he signed reas: proved pe 3 had cost him quite enough RK IN She reeds that swollen W swollen body. body, for she is a mighty egg-layer. She flies about on the stubbles in Sep- tember and lay sown barl plan growth of the cut crops; spring (a second brood) on sprouting barley. The eggs are extremely minute, and are pale orange in color, with reddish dots. Most of them are deposited on the leaf itself, or on the sheath or tube which forms its lower portion. She lays her eggs witn the head end downward, and as soon as the tiny grub hatches, which it does about the fourth day, it emerges from the snell and walks straight down toward the stem, at the point where the protecting leaf sheaf is wrapped closely round it. The worm forces itself in between the as well as in the new stem and the sheath, and after walking | steadily for four hours, at the end of which time it has covered a racord space of nearly three inches, it arrives at the joint, where the sheath begius. and so finds its way blocked by the par- tition wall; it can get no farther. Here THE CLIMBING. PUPA: BELOW, THE EMPTY.CASE. in the middle of the opposite wall : *ve been T renewed ; had been disct r the gres Why I'll see them selling fried of de: “I want proved sec hs to both of vé 'em just , and that's don’t they ask c should be “same way as Muratti,’ f a_relative in sh,and p thousz ave loved a another spare he the acqual arged w societ ding The stones before he ghed 3 , or would do UR GRAIN then the young grub stops, wedgad tightly in between the leaf sheaf and the stem, and with its head pointing downward. Being a hungry, and there- fore an industricus, creature, it at once gets to work to eat the barley plant. How much damage this action does to the crop you can best understs by a glance at the two contrasted il- lustrations. Look on the “seven well- favored ears” of barley, unaffected by Hesslan fly, and with the grains richly filled out, as the farmer desires them Then nctice the “seven lean ears,” at- tacked by the fly. You will observe, by the way, that I speak throughout of barley, not of wheat. This is because in England, where these sketches are studied,. the time of wheat sowing is such that the wheat has so far escaped the pest—the female flies are all dead before the crop has sprouted—whereas in America the ‘“fall wheat” comes up at the exact moment when the female Hessian fly is abroad and scouring thc fields in search of plants on which 0 lay_the eggs of her future gener: In England, therefore, it is barley USE QF LEVERAGE” | yaper, on which was pi 3 inde at’s from the Ca think you coul ea that ye would give 4 collection, but it 3 Its origin is involved in some little mys from whom his Majesty t the dealer from who déclared that it was an ancient Ea in Amsterdam, but experts who ha with equal po: A rumor reaches us from Diamondopolls that a in Kaffir, e night in charged from t found the bigges was found on the fleld “T can find that Kaffir if necessary, Mr. Muratti. r‘nur.&in.(thg dllnmmnd law does not hold good in this coun- ut the laws as to conspiracy and dealin e If De Beers pro f aolen vorth buying. Jo 1d make a clean breast of it without fi nly one who could be touched would he—* “Oh, that'll do!” exclaime airing anger. £ a million down, he went you disgraced me b your crime, vou must restore my cred; eV society that I shall go into now by It Inifie oyse of fhe me marry that pretty ¥ my will have me whe = a na?»l\nttmnrfln{e p‘;wrtlon. They were big terms, bug, Mr. Muratti did no g spair of being Introduced toPthe Prince ot wommar YT in the end he vielded. A few weeks later two new-mad ith African millionaires, one English and one Hebrew somed forth, each in his congenlal sphere of London A littlé later on there were two Spi " . and, until these lines appear in print, of the King's rose dfamond will remain unsolved threatened to have them put into v hinted at the advisability of giving That brought matters ilers. iramatic fashion. The ex-sorter d produced from it a half sheet ted a short newspaper cut- millionaire and said: Times, Mr. Muratti. Do you light on the sunject? I have lly with our assistance. De to know how that stone got iccept me AS queen’s cared up. What do you d it to t v widening eyes and sinking heart, the man llions, and more ambitions, read the cutting. of a magnificent early thirty carats His Majesty is rumored to have s price of a thousand pou a rdam merchant of whom he it is the exact coun- e De Beers purel they bought it tern gem recut seen it state eness that it is a. Kimberley stone. who has since disappeared, boasted cups, just after he had been dis- e Kimberley compound, that he had kl(pive (red stone) that ever f this is_true the stone nd room at De Beers'. It is > of the L D. B. frafernity me light on the subsequent wander- 01, rool-kippe” of which the van- sted. k Ridley and Joshua Mosenstein watched the mil- changing face narrowl as he read. ‘When they safd quietly of ecuted they would find my sey here has done his time, ar, and so the millionaire, as *What do you wnnr’““n ilan and another half in ap- Beers,” replied Ridley; —preferably Dé Yand as a matter of principle, T must have that cho favor of Miss Ransome duly honored. s ekek n A millionatre’s wife " chimed in Mr. Mo ank wants his. And what's mmt-e,“)’}i'éfigifi on, shaking his finger in his face, “as sending me to the Breakwater for making your wi little sister Rebecca of hers gfi\t‘% life. She s always fond of me and I am a millionaire. T dare say you can -made sptendid wed- the mystery GEORGE GRIFFITH. Copyrighted, 1888, by S. S. McClure Co. [CXOXGICRoXOXORGIGROJOJOJOXOXO YO Ko Ko Yoo JoJojooojojoofoJoloJoRoloYoXc Yoo ROJoXoIo) FIELDS. ¢ which is largely attacked; and sinca barley is mainly used for malting, make beer or whisky, the teetotal may perhaps reflect with complacency that the fly is merely playing the same of the United Kingdom Temperance Al liance. The grub eats and eats, in his safe cradle between the sheath and the stem, till he is ready to pass into the adult condition. The succeeding illustrations show tha successive stages through which it passes before complete emancipation. It is a curious fact, however, that in spite of all the apparent pains be- stowed upon securing the perpetuation of such destructive creatures as the Hessian fly, the pest itself has its own enemies. as fatal to its life as it is to the barley. Ichneumon flies and other parasites prey by millions on the Hes- sian fly in its grub condition; and many good authorities believe that the safest wav of checking the depreda- tions of the barley-plague is by en- couraging the multi~lication of its nate ural enemies. THE [AST PULL;THE | HANGING-HERSELF UPTO DR