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| suggested that I should take my revolver with me. He had himself picked sides, there are one o: up the loaded bunting-crop, which was his favorite weapon, ‘A four-wheeler was at the door at eleven, and in it we drove to ® come around once more to my rooms ai 6 o'clock to-morrow, I think I sball Afteen shillings for the bust, and I think you ought to know that before I spot at the other side of Hammersmith Bridge. Here the cabman was di- pe able to show you that even now rected to wait. A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with you have not pleasant houses, each standng in tts own grounds. lamp we read “Laburnum Villa” upon the gate-post of one of them. occupants had evidently retired to rest, for all was dark, save for a fan- absolutely original in the history of light over the hall door, which shed a single blurred circle on to the crime, If ever I permit you to chron- garden path. The wooden fence which separated the grounds from the ‘cle any more of my little problems road threw @ dense black shadow upon the inner side, and here # was Watson, | foreseo that you will en- that we crouched. “I fear that you'll have a long wait,” Holmes whispered. vhenk our stars that {¢ is nog reiming, 2 don't think we can even venture busts.” to smoke to pass the time However, In the ight of a street The “We may it’s a two te one chance that we get something to pay us for our trouble.” It proved, however, that our vigil was not to be eo long as Holmes !Mformation concerning our prisoner had led us to fear, and it ended in a very suddem and singular faabion. His name, it appeared, was Beppo, In an instant, without the least sound to warn us of his coming, the gai den gate swung open, and a lithe, dark figure, as ewift and active as an Well-known no’er-do-well among the ape, rushed up the garden path. We saw it whisk past the light thrown from over the door and disappear againat the black shadow of the house. There was a long pause, during which we held our breath, and then a very gentle creaking sound came to opennd, dark lantern inside the room, What The noise ceased, and again there wae a long silence, low was making his way into the house. our ears. The window was being The fel- We saw the sudden flash of a he sought was evidently not there, for again we saw the flash through another blind, and then through an- other, “Let us get to the open window. We will nab him as he climbe out,” “or? still unknown, and he refused Lestrade whispered, But before we could move the man had emerged again. As ne came out into the glimmering patch of ligat we saw that he carried something white under his arm. He looked stealthily all around him. The eilence of the deserted street reassured him. Turning hie back upon us he laid down his burden, and the next instant there was the sound of a sharp tap, followed by a clatter and rattle. The man was go intent upon what he was doing that he never heard our steps as we atole across the grass plot. With the bound of a tiger Holmes was upon bis back, and an instnt later Lestrade and I had himby either wrist,and thebandcuffs had been fastened, As we turned him over I saw a hideous, sallow face, with writhing, furious features, glaring up at us, and I knew that it was indeed the man of the photograph whom we had secured. But it was not our prisoner to whi om Ho!mes was giving his attention, Squatted on the doorstep, he’ was engaged in most carefully examining that which the man had brought from the house. It was a bust of Napolen like the one which we had seen that morning, and It had been broken into similar fragments, Carefully Holmes held each separate shard to the light, but in no way did it differ from any other shattered piece of plaster. He had just completed his examination when the hall lights flew up, the door opened, and the owner of the house, a jovial, rotund figure in shirt Qnd trousers, presented himaelf. “Mr. Josiah Brown, I auppose?” eaid Holmes, “Yes, sir; and you, no doubt, are Mr. Sherlock Holmes? I had the note which you sent by the express messenger, and I did exactly what you told me. We locked every door on the inside and awaited developments. Well, I am very glad to see that you have got the rascal. I hope, gentle- men, that yon will come in and havo some refreshment.” However. Lestrade was anxious to get his man into safe Quarters, so within a few minutes our cab had been summoned and we were all four upon our way to London, Not a word would our captive say, but he glared at us from the shadow ef his matted hair, and once, when my hand seemed within his reach, he snapped at it like a hungry wolf. We stayed long enough @t the police station to learn that a search of his clothing revealed nothing save a few shillings and a long sheath knife, the handle of which bore copious traces of recent blood. “That's all right,” said Lestrade, as we parted. “Hill knows all these gentry, and he wil} give a mame to him, You'll find that my theory of the Mafia will work out al right. But I’m Mr. Holmes, for the workmanlike way don't quite understand it all ye sure I am exceedingly obliged to you, in which you laid hands upon him, I “I fear it is rather too late an hour for explanations,” sald Holmes, “Be- details which are not finished off, and it {8 one worth working out to the very end, If you will “No, he did not.” of those cases which grasped the entire meaning of this business, which pre sents some features which make it Gada t ‘ to it.” ven your pages by an account of the singular adventure of the Napoleonic When we met again next evening Lestrade was furnished with much second name unknown. He was a Italian colony, He had once been a skilful sculptor and had earned an honest living, but he had taken to evil courses and had twice already been in jail—once for a petty theft and onee, as we had already heard for stabbing a fellow-countryman. He could talk English perfectly well His reasons for destroying the busts ning.” to answer any questions upon the subject; but the police had discov- ered that these same busts might very well have teen made by his own hands, since he was engaged im this class of work at the establishment of Gelder & Co, To all this information, much of which we already knew Holmes Hstened with polite atten- tion; but I, who knew him so well, could clearly see that his thonghts were elsewhere, and I detected a mix- ture of mingled uneasiness and ex- Pectation beneath that mask which he has wont to assume, At last he started in his chair, and his eyes brightened, There had been a ring at the bell. A mipute later we heard steps upon the stairs, and an elderly, red-faced man with grizzled side- whiskers was ushered in, In his righ hand he carried an old-fashioned ear- pet-bag, which he placed upon the table. “Is Mr. Sherlock Holmes here?” My friend bowed and smiled “Mr. Sandeferd, of Reading, I sup pose?” said he, “Yes, sir, I fear that I am a little late; but the trains were awkward. You wrote to me about a bust that |. in my possession.” “Bxaetly,”” itt have your letter here. You sale,‘ ~— *0 Possess @ copy of Devine's Napoleon, and am prepared io Served nai seals betel eaid for the one which ig in your possession,’ Is that right?’ “I was very gnuch surprised at your letter, for I could not imagine how you knew that | owned such a thing.” “Of course you must have been surprised, but the explanation is very simple, Mr. Harding, of Harding Brothers, said that they had sold you their taat copy, and he gave me your address,” “Oh, that was H, was it? Did he tell you what I paid for it?” ding. play. He Carried a Large, Old-Fashioned Carpet-Bag. ed away W from a friend. An Eclipse ANY well- equipped expeditions will leave this couniry and ropa to view the ble aatronomicu event of the year 190 from the most advantageous points, This event will be a total eclipse of the sun, wiatch will occur Aug. 10. William H. Crocker, of California, has offered to defray the cost of sending expeditions from the Lick Observatory, California, to Lab- rador, Spain and Egypt. The Naval Observatory at Washington will prob-| ably send three expeditions, one of whicn may be located near Burgos, Spain. Photographs of the corona by means of a camera of five inches aper- ture and forty feet focus will be made by the Crocker parties, Miss Mary Proctor, the famous wom- an astronomer, writes aa follows; "An expedition composed largely of ama- teurs will go to Burgos, Spain, which in probahly one of the moat desirable ota- Is Coming. tions along ‘the route ef anticipated Garknees. “A programme te being ar- ranged for covering the minor deteile Of an eclipse. such as cbeervations of the diminishipg eunlight; the peculiar shadows cast by the follage om the ground when the sun is nearly eclipsed; the strange wavering linea ur shadow bands, as they are called, whieh make their appearance a few moments before totality; the swift onrush of shadow, and finally.the glorious but indesorib- able corona. "Thus, while the astronomer is ab- sorbed in special details which require his whole and undivided attontion, the ‘amateur enjoys the opportunity of watching the unfolding glories of the corona trom the standpoint of a poet or artist. Words fai] to convey the ém-. Pressiveness of the acene, From remot‘ est times it has been deworibed with en- thusiasm as being one of the mwost beautiful of natural pheno: 7 The Woman FTER the schoolgirl age, heart- A to-heart confidences are imexcusa- ble Tho woman who weeps on your shoulder and tells you how undp- @reciated she-is at home, how lttle she ‘es for her family and how Mttle she) im sympathy with them. or the one| ‘who wants to confide how she has loved and mfored, and give choking sobs and wring her bands, are all very well on the stags, but off it they are sign and symbol cf preverted egotiem and cheap emetionaliem, says the Pittaburg Gu- nette, ‘The woman whe bes loved and auf- vided she does not ealt him an ‘‘ingsensate wretoh,” ks uaually eating three square meals a day, with a Uttle after-theatre; supper besides, and taking considorably more imterest im her frocks and her oeifure than @ broken hoart would war- Bhe loves te tell the story, however; derstood he is @ selfiab, vain woman, who knows A Biologist Who Paints. Dorwin admitted that hie pursuit of Befence destroyed his love of art. but Haeckel, who ts one of the actentlsts, Who Talks. nothing about real suflering—and |x merely posing—atter using thy broken heart as an emcuse for Mirtation with impressionable youths. As for the girl who cannot feel any sympathy for her family, and who is ever appreciated, look closely at th situation before you hand out your con- dolences, Perhaps she has not tried to be in sympathy with hor family, and her idea of appreciation consists of adulation and @ constant bowing to her every capri march @f @ mob ‘to jay its un- bearable wrongs before the ruler has ocourred several thes in his. at Versailles. The rosulte wore difter- ent. At St, Petersburg the swift volleys of the troops brought the mob into the g@ubjection of complete terror, Frame the King lMatened and retumed © Paris, to his fasthful subjects, who ed him and his Queen as they death, The French King's way some, deatroyed him; comment on the Cuar'e “Well, I am an honest man, though not a very rich one, honor, Mr. you, Mr. Holmes, Here it is!" pocket and wpon the table. “You will kindly sign that paper, Mr. Sandeford, in the presence of It ts simply to say that you transfer every possible right that you ever had in the bust to me, I am a methodical man, you see, and you never know what turn events might take afterward, Mr. Sandeford; here is your money, and I wish you a very good eve- these witnesses. When our visitor peared, Sherlock Holmes’s movements were such 18 to rivet our attention, He began by taking a clean white cloth from a drawer and laying It ‘Phen he placed his newly acquired bust in the centre of Se the cloth, Finally, he picked up his _— hunting-crop and struck Napoleon a sharp blow on the top of the head, The figure broke into fragments, and Holmes bent eagerly over the shat- Next Instant, with @ loud ery of triumph, he held up one splinter, in which a round, dark ob- Ject was fixed like a plum in a pud- over the table, tered remains. 99909999999 OD 64O0000900O99O0H0GHOS HHH HOOHODO HONE $SGGG9OGHH99G99 99999 999990HO-900000-000-06> ‘The New Tenant and the Janitor. 7 & © A Surprise for the Flat-House Despot That Should Last HATA NAW! 4! rt ours Hered C » Marches of the Most F T only gave take ten pounds from you.” “IT am sure the scruple does you Sandeford. But I have named that price, so [ intend to stick “Well, it ia very bandsome of T brought the bust up with me, as you asked me to do He opened his bag, and at last we saw placed upon our table a complete specimen of that bust which we had already eeen more than once in fragments. Holmes took a paper from bis laid a ten-pound note Thank you, had disap- Gentlemen,” he cried, “let me introduce you to the famous black pearl of the Borgias.” Lestrade and I sat allent for a moment, and then, with a.epontancous impulse, we both broke out clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a A flush of color sprang to Holmes’s pale cheeks, and he bowed to us like the master dramatist who receives the homage of his audience, It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed bis human love for admiration and applause, ‘The same singularly proud and re- ith disdain ¢rom popular motoriety was capable of being moved to its depth by spontaneous wonder and praise “Yes, gentlemen,” said he, “it is the most famous pear! now existing in the world, and it has been my good fortune by a connected chain of inductive reasoning to trace it from the Prince of Colonna's bedroom at the Dacre Hotel, where it was lost, to the Interior of this, the last of the six busts of Napoleon which were manufactured by Gelder & Co., of Stepney. remember, Lestrade, the sensation caused by the disappearance of this vale Him for a Minute or Two, You will uable jewel and the vain efforts of the London police to recover myself consulted upon the case, but I Suspiciom fell upon the maid of the was unable to throw any jigh' was proved that she had a brother in London, but we failed to trace connection between them. The mat there is no doult in my mind that this Pietro who was murdered two ago wis the brother, I have been looking up the dates im the old | the paper, and I find that the disappearance of the pear! was exactt days before the arrest of Beppo for some crime of yiolence—an evemt wh! took place in the factory of Gelder & Co. at the very moment when th busts were being made, Now you clearly see the sequence of events, you seo them, of course, in the inverse order to the way in which they pr Beppo had the pearl in his possession, He m sented themselves to me. have stolen it from Pietro, he may h have been the go-between of Pietro a to us which ts the correct solution, \d’s name was Lucretia Vi ave been Pletro’s confederate, he nd his sister. It is of no consequence! “The main fact is that he had the pearl, and at that moment, when it was on his person, he was pursued by the police, He made for the factory in which he worked, and he knew that he had only a few minutes in which in the passage. workman, made a small hole in the hiding-place, No one could possibly a year's imprisonment, and In the meanwhile his six busts were spat He could not tell which contained his treasure. Only by over London. breaking them could he see. Even #1 the plaster was wet it was probable that the pearl would adhere to it—as, in fact, it has done, Beppo did not despair, and he conducted his search with | q Through a cousin who works ~ | He considerable ingenuity and persever with Gelder he found out the retail firms who had bought the busts. managed to find employment with Morse Hudson, and in that way track ‘The pearl was not there, some Italian employee, he succeeding in finding out where the other three There he was dogged by he down three of them, busts had gone, The first was at Hi confederate, who held Beppo responsible for the logs of the pearl, and to conceal this enormously valuable prize, which would otherwise be found on him when he was searches, Siz plaster casts of Napoleon were drying One of them was still soft. In an instant Beppo, @ wktifur * wet plaster, dropped in the pearl, add 7 with a few touchns covered the aperture once more, It was an admirable - But Beppo was condemned to tered find it. haking would tell him nothing, for as ‘ance. Then, with the help larker's. stabbed him in the scuffle which followed,” “If he was bia confederate, why should he carry his photograph?” J asked. third person. “As a means of tracing bim, if he wished to inquire about ‘That was the obvious reason, lated that Beppo would probably hurry rather than delay his mo Well, after the murder I caleus ments. He would fear that the police would read his secret, and so he hastenedjon before they should get ahead of him. not found the pear! in Harker's bust, that it was the pearl; but it was evident to me that he was looking for some-' thing, since he carried the bust past the other houses in order to break it 1b) the garden which had a lamp overlooking It. Of course I could not say that he bad I had not even concluded for certain Since Harker's bust was on in three, the chances were exactly as I told you—two to one against the pearl being inside of It, There remal he would go for the London one first ned two busts, and it was obvious that , I warned the inmates of the house, 80 as to avold a second tragedy, and we went down with the happiest regul Ry that time, of course, I knew for certain that it was the Borgia pearl ed we were after. The name of the mu: the other, There only remained a single bust—the Reading one—and th* 1 bought it in your presence from the owner—and pearl must there it Hes ‘We sat In silence for a moment, e there, rdered man linked the one evept wii “Well,” sald Lestrade, “I've seen you handle a good many cases, Mr. Holmes, but I don’t know that I eve that, you by the hand.” “Thank you!’ said Holmes, emotions than I had ever seen him. practical thinker once more, Lestrade, te give (THE “Thank you!" it seemed to me that he was more nearly moved by the softer human knew a more workmanlike one than We're not jealous of you at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are very proud of you; and, if you come down to-morrow, there's not a man, from the oldest inspector to the yungest constable, who wouldn't be glad to shake And, as he turned away, A moment later he was the cold and “Put the pearl in the safe, Watson,” eald nd get out the papers of the Conk-Singleton forgery case. Goodeby, If any little problem comes your way, I shall be happy, if I a hint or two aa to ita solution.” END.) This is the Eighth Story of the Series of new! Sherlock Holmes Stories. The Ninth—“The Mys- tery of the Three Students’’—will be published in a Special Color Supplement with THE EVENING WORLD of Saturday, April 8th, Arsenic on Our!IB acke. © you know that ordinary playing ecards frequently contain a suf- fictent amount of arsenic to pulson those who handle them? ‘That 11 per cent. of our dress gools contain enough seriously to endanger the health of the woarer and that wall paper is often so impregnated with Ht as to render those who purchase it Hable to infection? ‘hose important facta have been made | public by J, K. Haywood, Ontef of tne Insecticide and Agricultural Water Labs oratory of the Department of Agricul tune, a8 a result of a chemiou! analysis ot these articles, covering several months, ‘More is at present no kaw prohibiting he uve of arsenic by manufacturens, and the expert finds that the deadly poison bs Presemt in excessive quantities in play: ing cards, dress goods, ture and awe now on the markets. Physicians ‘throughout the States have reported many casee persons poisoned by the use of cards, by the wearing of dress terials containing arsenite, and mooping In rooms where ¢he or had been elmilarty 4 bers The results of the of Gere enty-two samples of fabrics show that the presence of lange amounts of ar: senic is mot confined to any class of goods, since those Pesce the lirgest amounts inckude oalicoss, oashmeres, outing flannels, ducks, mo- hairs and fannelettes, It is also ghown Ubat certain colors are more amt to con- tain arsente than others, namely, biack, ted and green, A Lost Invention. 4) “who can rediscover the combination of metals from which the Egyptians, the Aztecs and the Incas of Peru made their tools and amns, Though each of those nations reached a high state of civilization, Bone of them ever discovered iron, in weite of the fact that the poll of all three countries was largely impreg- nated with it, Their aubstitute for it was a combination of metals which had the temper of ateel. Despite the great- FF’ and fortune awalt the lucky est efforte the secret of this composi | thon hag baffled ecientists, and hus be- come @ lost art ~ The groat explorer Humbodat tried to discover |t from an Gopon did, led @ korde to London to; As a contrast to these marches of the lay thelr erievamces before the King | mob to see in person their ruler the ac- onouch ‘Tinelr return, Not only, however, in aaitocratic coun the number was | tion of the Roman plobe when thelr ap- | tries have euch mardhes been witnessed. aim was to ge.|peals went unheeded ‘by the patrician|It is mot so many years ago that this end pass lowe | rulers of the Bternad City ie interesting, | country saw Coxey’s mardh on Wagh- With the} These marched away ¢rom the city and |ingtom, Laughable as this effort was, stayed away until thelr demands were | waa a sign of the thmes no leas tm- ‘granted, This seems hardly as serious | portant in ita period perhaps than that & matter as the mardh of a mob |of Tyler’a march, or the French mob'e, stopped ‘by a whiff of grapeshot; but, | or that of the Russian workmen. It atrototiing a point, let all tho workmen, | was the expramion of a great discon- gay, of this great city of ours, march |tont, But the times hed changed. away, and soon the munteipal rulers | Coxcy’e band was laughed out of exiat- would ®e on their knees bogging their | once by a people whose kuws are lenient Queer Resemblances. ‘T ts a matter of common knowledre jong parted (3 yews, haeed, to ih | rot Se Condtant. nearnomm there I pect eueed bey! ropa iene bids thee usually on the part of the servant a ; {nee |dealre to imitate the vole aad manner onl wire the came tricks of |of the istrees she so 1. ae eae tut they. ahow a {and this often mtends tr the facial : resemblance, ‘There are im a small etrong facial resemblance, so that they | frovincial town of New Sak ee might caslly be taken for brother and |most mausual instances of thie gesem- Alster, Almost every one has at least |i hohe hen aiended fOr one such instance among hin acquaint-|{he greater part of fifty gears . ances. But Ht is perhaps a Ices well- |Wonee, wae on companice tl known fact that « similar resemblance |}, often resolte from a mistress and sor |Tv" become fo aeons amous Mobs ‘Tho Crusades, though of an evowedly bad many pointe in common with these mob marches, And one of them—the imdesoribably pitiful, well-nigh imeredible ado''—was abmost kientioal with such Justhee-seeking pilgrimages. Thousanis of Uttle children from aM parts of /u- Tope—come of thom were bates in ims —eathered am! marched for Pale sine their toby minds inflamed by holy zea! for the wresting of Christ's sepulchre from the heathen. The ohildren were unarmed and had no practical plan of action, their sole purpose being to win ‘the hoby @round back for Christianity, It is neadiogs to say tho expedititom was @ tragte failure, Same few of the sil dren wandered back to their homes, But meet of thome who set bravely, olanting hymns and waving stamdards, diced of disease and har\- ship, tholr ones strowing the whole warlike nature, PH flower of Ivamt belng associated together for a! for them. the Genths ef in “Children'e® = Cru- forth eo : History. (der the Hermil's flery appeals men left home, family and work and fomed in the hopeless rush toward Pa'- estine, The French peasants in the thirteenth century banded themselves together under the name of “Jacques Bon- homme" (Good Man Jacob) and de-, mande@d redress of their vacillating king from the destitution and poverty which had been wrought to the whole countryside by the prolonged Anglo- French wars, Failing in reaching the monarch’e ear, the peasants broke up into bands whose avowed purpose was to munder and rob the rich. They were hunted down and slauwehtered in thou- sands by the king's soldiery and by the mon-at-arms of various feudal lords. Mirabeau (of the Fronch revolution), Wat Tyler, Peter tho Hermit, Father Gopon, even Coxcy, are of the same type, They are men of the people; in . | their own persons the human concen- trated expression of great wrongs, The proper answer to their demands is not . |guns, but fustice, ; analysis of @ chisel found in an ancient Inca silver mine, but all that he oould find out wos that it appeared to be @ Combination of a small portion of tin with copper. This combination will not five the handness of steel, ao tt de avke dent that tin and copper could not have been its only component pants Says the Boys’ Warts, Whatever might have been the nature of the metallic combination, these ane clent races were able to so prepage pure |copper that it equalled in temper the finest steel produced at the present day by the most sclentifically approved process, With their bronze and copper instruments they were able to quarry and shabe the hardest knowa stones, such as grinite and porphyry, and evea cut emeralds and like substances, A ree discovery of this lost art would revolue tionize many trades in which steel at Present holds the monopoly. If copper could thus be tempered now, its edvan= tage over steel would be vel great, and It would no doubt be ferred to the latter in numerous indum- tries, It is a curious fact that, though this lost secret baffles modern solen- tists, 1t must have been discovered in« dependently by the three rac made use of it so long ago, ae —_———— The Lucky Horseshoe, BRE is an explanation of the old H horseshoe superatition: “8%, Dun- stan was a ekilled farrier, One |aay while at work in his forme the devil entered in disguise and requested Dunstan to shoe his ‘single hoof.’ The saint, although he recognized his ma lign customer, acceded, but caused him so much pain during the operation that Satan begged him to desist. This Bt, Dunstan did, but only after he had made the evil one promése that melther the nor any of the teaser ovil epirits, hit servants, would ever molest the inmates of a ho where the horseshoe waa displayed," f hm from any can,