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I IN THE Cf ji A NARRATIVE 0! 5X By SEWARD Tt jX5 (COPTBICHT 18M BT ROI CHAPTER in. t: [CONTINUED. ] ^Te did do it up quickly. In less ' than an hour we were back in Langs- ! ton's office with tickets for three? first-class passage?in our possession. On our way back we got a carriage for the sake of Mr. Ealston. While Langston had been talking to the agent, I had been telegraphing to Congressman Wellman, of San Francisco, then in Los Angeles on business connected with a large cattle-ranch which he owned there, and I had received a reply that he would cable the American consul at Hong Kong, a friend of his, to give us all the assistance in his power. It was with a sense of assured victory that we took Balston and his father to the Golden Gate Club for supper. We were a silent supper-party. But little was said. No one knew better than I that we were setting out on a . dangerous mission. The odds were 1 ii ? 1 * 1.1 - against us?no maner now lavurauie everything looked. We did not know what unknown foes we would meet or what agencies would be against us. The man who had carried away the most beautiful girl in California no doubt had powerful friends and abettors in the land to which he was taking her. * Edward was as gloomy as his father. Langston was more thoughtful than was his habit. As for me, I saw nothing but the sweet face of Annie Balston. It came between my plate and me. It was in the air around me. It was everywhere. Then, back of it, over it and through : it, I saw the diabolical face of that Cbinaman, around whose throat my fingers would so lovingly curl until 1 Lis lying tongue stretched from his mouth in strangulation. Having satisfied our hunger?there was no other pleasure attendant on the meat?we got into our carriage again and were taken to the Union ' Depot to see Mr. Balston off for Oak- \ land. At first, the old gentleman insisted npon remaining to sea ns embark the following morning, but Edward feared the excitement would be 1 too much for him. So, with a half- ! willing consent, he was going home to ' his grief?strioken wife. j When he left us at the gate his . emotion- almost overcame him. He talked long and lovingly to Edward, 1 while Langston and I roamed around ( the station-platform. When they had ] finished we went to them. "God bless you, my boys!" said the 1 old father, tremulously, as he grasped, ] first my hand and then Langston's in . a vise-like grip. "God bless you and 1 grant you success in this great under- 1 taking. I know you will do every-1. tViiner fVinfr con Ka i1rm? "MV -wiffi find I I will await your coming with hearts ! full of hope. Every night and every day we will pray for you and for her. ! Bring her back," and now his voice 3 was broken by sobs. "Bring her ( back, no matter what has happened to her. Tell her she shall be my darling notwithstanding. And, ob, if she ] should be dead, if you can only bring ] her body home! If not, then some proof of her death, that our hearts may not longer be tortured with fears." "Mr. Ralston," I replied, "do not worry. I have no doubt that we shall be in Shanghai before the Ketoto ( arrives. If so, all danger is past, for ] we will meet your daughter as she . * lands. It is all clear enough in my mind. You must not allow yourself to become sick with fear. Keep up a ^ good heart; we will bring Annie i back." "God bless you ag&in!" he said, gulping down his sobs. Then the uni- . formed gateman called out the train . for Oakland, and Mr. Ralston left us; We three said but little on the way from the depot to Ralston's hotel, , where we left the carriage for a last , chat. At ten o'clock I started for home. Langston lazily shook himself, and also bade Ralston good night. "Shall we meet you here," I asked, "or shall we meet at the pier?" "The pier. I think," said Ralston. ; "I shall be in more or less of a hurry, ; rushing around to Brown & Brown's. I will take a cab and save all the time ; I can. Don't miss the steamer." W"Pojj'tfear. We'll be there," we;, : "Goo3 night!'.' It did not take long in those days for me to prepare for a journey?even if it was half-way round the world. By midnight my trunk was in the hall, packed and waiting for the morning expressman. I called the janitor. "Mr. Robbins," I said, "I am going away for a short time, and I want to pay my rent in advance." "Bless me, doctor, your rent ain't due till the l9t, and you*Burely won't be gone longer than that." "Yes, I shall be gone a couple of months. I am going to China." "China!" "Yes; Hong Kong and Shanghai. I leave to-morrow -with twc friends. vr _ _ * i. j.1 j ,1 T i. xl, ? xes, iv ib raiuttr suuuen; out.?iiie case is urgeiit. Now, Mr. Robbine, if I don't come back?mind you, I expect to be back by the 1st of March? but if I don't come back, you can dispose of my things here. I have no heirs. If Langston, who is going with me, should return without me, he is to have anything that he wants that is mine. The rest is yours." The iauitor stood for a moment Btaring at me with wide-open eyes. Then, shaking bis head mournfully, he went away in silence. Then I threw myself on the bed, my bones aching with weariness, to catch a little sleep. I was soon in a eound slumber; but there, over me, around me, was the pale face of Annie Ralston aud* the horrid eyes of her Chinese master. J CHAPTER IV. j OVERBOARD. Xho shores of California racidlv & " swaseaj ** F ADVENTURE. ? ** hopkins* " ieet Bonnee's Sons.) ^ faded and sank into the waters of the tny, as the good ship City of Eio do Janeiro plowed her way through the Golden Gate and out into the broad Pacific. Langston was somewhat pensive as we stood together by the rail, talking little, but understanding, as if by occult communication, each other's thoughts. A slouch hat was drawn over his face. His hands 'were deep in the pockets of his great-coat. His eyes were bent on the receding highlands on which the noon-day sun was playing in its solitary'grandeur, making a picture for an artist's pencil. I .1 1.1 __ T 1- 1- - 1 - A. T A AU.l tnougnt, as x iookbu at juaugaiuu, mm he was, indeed, a handsome fellow. His large frame?he was fully as tall as I and perhaps morepowerfully built ?showed to advantage, oatlined against the water of the ocean, and I knew he would be a formidable antagonist in any kind of a melee that we might happen to get into. Now and then he would turn and look at Ralston,-and he would seemingly Btudy him for a moment. Like me, he felt a sincere pity for him. The poor fellow stood with glass in hand looking at that portion of the coastline behind which lay the city of Oakland. His face was very pale. He was not a very robust man. His studious and sedentary life had not developed his frame. He was a severe contrast to the giant Langston. If Langston and I were gloomy, what must have been the emotions of poor Ralston? Behind him he was leaving a weeping father, a delirious mother; before him lay the dangers of which none of us knew much. And his sistSr's fate, always uncertain, and awfully sure in case we were delayed, preyed upon his mind. It could not be wondered at that we were not a very gay party during our first day on board. When the shores of our State had sunk below the horizon, we strolled listlessy about, wishing it was the last instead of the first day of the voyage. The next day we did not do any strolling. I suppose I was the sickest man on the Pacific Occan. Perhaps [ might except Langston, who declared that he died three times during the day and night, and was lurched back into life by the roll of the vessel. If J, could have followed my inclination I would have died and ended my misery. We rolled, we moaned, we made the life of the ship's doctor miserable. And what made it more provoking was the fact that Ralston, who of the three ought to succumb to illness more readily than we, was scarcely sick at all. Sometimes Ralston would take to 1 ais bed to ward off the symptoms of joming trouble, but most of the time lie was on deck. He did not dare some near us. He would have been an invalid from sheer disgust. We received very good care from the doctor and the steward. Both were attentive to our wants in their respective lines. But we wanted nothing from the steward. He gave tis broth; but we were too sick even for that. The doctor encouraged us, or tried to, by saying that in a few days we would feel like new men. "Few days!"' groaned Langston. "You don't know what you are talking about, man. I shall be dead in a few bours." "Oh, no, you won't! Far from it," I V 1 Luugueu tuc uuuiui, "As for me," I groaned, "I feel the life oozing out of me! Every lurch of the boat brings me nearer death." ' "Nearer China, you mean," replied the doctor. "We are making good time." " 'Nearer China' is true enough," mumbled Langston. "It is only ; eight thousand miles, if you travel ( B:raight down." The doctor laughed. 1 "I will leave you now," he said. "You are getting unruly, and therefore convalescent." Unlikely as it seemed to us, on the fourth day out we were on deck, enjoying the cool breezes. Ralston was glad to see us. He had kept to himself and had made no acquaintances among the passengers. The time had hung heavy on his hands. It had giveiijJjim too much time for morbid musing.' With Langston's recovery from seasickness, his spirits came back to him. By his influence Ralston in a measurelost his depression, and we began to enjoy the trip. There is not much to be said about this portion of our journey. We read and talked over every phase of our enterprise. We made the acquaintance of several people. Some were merchants, some were diplomats, and one was a missionary on the way to India. We enjoyed the company of all these, and became very much interested in the stories they told of the Eastern countries. After hearing a Bangkok trader tell of the customs and habits of the Indians, we felt a profound pity for the missionary. "Suppose they eat him," I remarked. "No. He's safe enough as to that,-' replied Langston. "He is too thin." "Yes, I presume even they are particular about their food." "Tiie gentlemens na-ave a vane peculeer ideas about that countree," remarked a person who sat near us. "All we know is what we hear, Mr. Snell," replied Langstou. "The tales of some of the people who have been there are not calculated to arouse much admiration." "You do not know! You do not know!" answered the other. "Averyt'ing ees bcmteeful in that East?in India and China and Persia and Turkey. Ah, I know them all! I am a cosmopoieetan. i live an over xne world. But I love the East." This person, Mr. Gambok Suell, was not a prepossessing individual. He was not very Jtall. His physique was not striking. He was, perhaps, a trifle too stout. He had a sinister 1 - face. When he laughed he seemed to Bneer with it. He spoke with a peculiar accent. We could not judge oi his nationality. He was a nondescript. He was well dressed and seemed to have plenty of money. He seemed to have taken a great liking to us. He plied us with invitations to take refreshments at his expense. He was evidently telling the truth -when he said he was a cosmopolitan. He spoke knowingly of almost every country. He was willing to relate his experiences in traveling, and told them in a very entertaining way. This whiled away many an hour that would otherwise have been tedious. I think it was the interesting way lie had of telling his stories that made us overlook the disagreeable aspect of the man. He bore one mark that made his face look even more sinister than it would otherwise have done. TTo o o/*Q-r nn liio rirrVif T ^ ? uv-? ? cannot see now bow in the world we came to ignore that scar. We had hunted California high and low for a man of that very description. We ought to have known our man at first sight, but neither of us associated the chatty stranger with the man who had left Oakland with a young womau on the same night that Annie Ralston disappeared. It is difficult to account for our stupidity. We paid dearly enough for it afterward. Mr. Gambok Snell became a very close friend. That is, he remained close to us. He sat with us at dinner. It is true, his everlasting attentions grew rather wearisome, but he was bo earnest in his efforts to please, and always kept us in good humor with his stories, that we could not treat him otherwise than well. We told him very little about ourselves at first, but as our acquaintance lengthened from days into weeks we told mm, Ui ULil ililOOAUU iu AXVUg UUU Shanghai. He was, to all appearances, horrified at my recital of -what I had seen of Annie Ralston in the Chinaman's den. He said he 'was well acquainted in Hong Kong, and might be able to give us some valuable assistance in our search. He did render us valuable aid. It was a long time proving itself, but, nevertheless, much against his own intentions he helped us. So we passed our time until the 9th of January. We had scarcely noticed the advent of the new year. On January 1st the captain ordered a dinner on a little more elaborate scale than than we were accustomed to, and that was all. Une day we an sat on aecn. we had reached the tropics. It was nn longer necessary to wear coats and cloaks on deck. The rays of the sun were scorching at noon. It was toward the close of one of these oppressively warm days we sat on deck, smoking, as I said. Langston got up and wandered away. Ralston hung over the rail a few minutes and then strolled off. Gambok Sneil turned to me and said: "You are nearlee to the eend of your voyaage, Doctor Creeckmore." "Yes; we have only a few days more. I am heartily glad of it. I shall be ijlad when my feet get on solid ground again." "But you veel half a long sail back ?ees it not so?" "Just as long. But our purpose, I hope, will be accomplished. If we go back with Annie Ralston safe, I could stand any amount of sailing." "Ah! Thees ees a very 6ad affair, Docteer Creeckmore. The?ah? young ladee was so beautiful and noble. Ees eet not so?" "It is very sad. The thoughts of it are enough to drive a man insane. I shudder to think what the result would be if we failed to rescue her. j think it would kill her parents." "Ye-es. Eet ees too bad. I do not like these t'ings?murder, crime ?all of ^em. B-r-r-r! They make me to sheever! But you veel prevent eet. Ees eet not so?" "I hope so," I replied, puzzled at his persistenca. "And deed you say dat you are the only person who eaw thees woman and thees Chinaman, docteer?" "Xes; i am tne only one wno saw them." "Aha! You are a very important person in thee3 case, I say. You are the only person who could identify thees?ah?Chinaman. Eees eet not so?" "Yes; I am the only one." "And would you know bim again, Mr. Creeckmore, as you t'ink?" [to be continued. ] The Apple as Medicine. The apple is such a common fruit that few persons are familiar with its remarkably efficacious medicinal properties. Everybody ought to know tbat the very best thing he can do is to eat apples just before going to bed. The apple is excellent brain food, because it has more phosphoric acid, in an eas t_ .1 AT ny aigesuuie siiape, iuau huj umci fruit known. It excites the action of the liver, promotes sound and healthy sleep, and thoroughly disinfects the mouth. It also agglutinates the surplus acids of the stomach, helps the kidney secretion and prevents calculus growth, while it obviates indigestion and is one of the bast preventives of diseases of the throat. Next to lemon and orange, it is also the best antidote for the thirst and craving of persons addicted to alcohol and the opium habit.?Humanitarian. An OJd Porto Itican Town. Sail German is one of the oldest towns on the island of Porto Eico, having been founded in the same year as San Juan. It contains 24.847 inhabitants. It is situated on a long irregular ridge, along which runs the Guauagibo River. It has a due church with marble altars, and three plazas. It has a large botanical establishment in connection with a seminary for young priests and contains several charitable establishments. Its territory grows cane, coS'ee, cacao, cotton, corn, oranges, lemons, alligator pears, tamarinds, pines, and has large bands of cattle and forests of line trees. It manufactures Panama hats, mats, hampers, and hammocks of maguey fibre. This town was attacked and destroyed by the French in 152S, and in 1718 it obliged the English to retire. The Russian state sceptre is of solid gold, three feet long, and contains among its ornaments 268 diamonds, 360 rubies, and fifteen emeralds, fHAl/ANA'X mm One Thousand of Gomez's Vete ers, Now Keep Ord \ REMARKABLE TRANSI One morning not long ago the good people of Havana -woke np and found Jiemselves in possession of a brandaew, made-to-order police force, fully jquipped and clad in handsome um. forms. During the past few months ? band of nearly one thousand men have been drilling under the direction Df United States army officers, and at the same time becoming fully acquainted with all the duties which "one of the finest" is supposed to know. The larger number of the new force had served in the Cuban army, but in tbeir selection no distinction has been made because of previous affiliations, the preference being given to those who were'physically superior and who understood the peculiar conditions of government and people which obtains i? Havana. When John McCullagh, the famous ex-Chief of Police, went from New York City to Havana to help reorganize the force, and the police system generally, he undertook a more difficult task than he had at first anticipated. Under the recent Spanish regime there were three difierent kinds of "onti i-oc-nnrifiihlfl tn a. different head, and whose duties, often conflicting with each other, created friction and jealousies. Under the new rules governing. Havana's constabulary this conflict of authority has been avoided. There is but ono executive, General Menocal, Chief of Police, whose powers are supreme, and responsible to no one except General Ludlow, the Military Governor of Havana. There is no Board of Commissioners, but in other respects it is patterned closely upon New York's police organization. There ara six inspectors, twelve captains, twenty-four lieutenants and sergeants, and nearly one thousand i i I p I 3ENEBAL MARIO MENOCAL, HAVANA'S CHIEF OF POLICE. on nil nf TrViriQo rlntipsnrfl cl^ftr - and well defined. Frederic Remington gives in Collier's Weekly an entertaining account of police conditions in Havana before and after the Americans reorganized the force. He says: The last time I was in Havana Weyler sat in the palace and dirty Spanish soldiers prowled the streets by day and by night. These much starved and abused men held up the honest wayfarer on the principal streets and got from him wherewith to buy bread. The stretches down by the wharves were little battlefields for decently dressed men after dark. The old Havana gendarme walked about or leaned against buildings, firing their cigarettes, but no one ever took them seriously?they interfered with no body, no matter wuat. ma purpuoe might be. The Prado at evening was a gay scene, with its swarms of Spanish officers and pretty women strolling slowly about to the music of the mili TI1E NEW HAVANA POLICE-A CHIEF. | (Drnwn ior Coiiier's Weekly by F tary bauds. Much more cheerful than in these days, I must coufess; but the back streets were made dangerous by j etnrved soldiers; the insurgent bands j raided the country about to the out; posts on the neighboring hills, and j the people in the theatres insulted Americans, thirsted for their blood, and told them so by word of mouth. 1 cii1.fipnpr.il Tpp emoloyed his VVUUU1 ? 4 time in 6aviug Americau newspaper correspondents from the Cabanas, and I the United States Government siguii fied no more to these poor ignorant pools than a yesterday's edition?the , man Lee in person was the United IHN1ZED POIM. * irans, Drilled by West Pointer in Her Streets. FORMATION WROUGHT. States of America. He was not supported by Washington, but be pounded the table in Captain-General Weyler's presence, talking loud and vigorously, to good effect. This has all changed. The city is divided into four districts, and onr infantry soldiers -walk along the Btreets with loaded Krag-Jorgensens over their shoulders, and no city in the world is policed so -well. The private nt infontrw ilnoo nnt nnrlorfttn.nfl t.llfl Spanish language, but he compreCLUB DUILL OF THE FOURTH bends a row, and at the least dicker of disordei he precipitates himself into the middle of the throng, using language fierce and loud and picturesque. No one understands the language, but every one comprehends that the vicinity of the big man with the gun should be vacant and hushed. At night the streets are quiet?al,1/ic ?vfo ,-1 o n rl Hi a Ariminnl UiUOK UVOCA bVU MMV4 ... knows that the inarticulate Yankee will shoot him dead at the least suspicion, because how can a Yankee soldier know what else to do? At first there was some warm work, though the butt, the bayonet, and the small calibre soon brought things right. I employed an evening with an officer going his rounds. The thing was distressingly without incident. The lights from the buildings gridironed the narrow street, the small life of the people could be seen through the open door, and slowly down the middle paced the majesty of the Great Republic in the person of Jimmie Green from Poke County, or Paddy O'Brien from "de Ate Distric'." But make no mistake about Jimmie and Pat with the "setting up," the silence of discipline, the fetich of orders and the loaded gun. There on the streets of the strange tropic city they are as impersonal as gods. It all made me sigh for the riot and roar of Whitechapel or the lower East Side, or some of the ginger of Chicago after candle-light, and I appealed to my officer Jfriend. I asked him to kindly hit some passing straggler over the head with bis six-shooter, since I nniiM mnlra nrtthinc OTlt of all tliis but a pastoral. "Well,1' he said, laughing, "it was more interesting at first. There was a function here, and I was told off with my company to keep the crowd back. The people pressed the marching column, find as I passed along I said to the sentry at that point, 'The crowd must be kept back.' 'Yes, sor'?and I noticed that it was Private Shaunnessy, a good old vet, and passed on. Casually turniug around, I beheld the greatest commotion and rushed back. " 'Stop, stop!' I yelled, 'I don't want you to kill them!' "The crowd was flying from the quickly placed J'butts to the fronts,' and Private Shaunnessy soon had room. " 'My dear man, you must not kill them,'.[ said. " 'I was not killing them, captain. J L GENDAK3I1S Ur' U.L.W srA^isa xv-i.vx.. 'reileric Remington, at Ilavana.) I thought it best to assume a threatening attitude?sor.' "Auother soldier in dispersing a crowd pointed with his finger at them, and observed in a long southwestern drawl: 'Now?I?want?you people to get back. I know you don't understand what I am talkiug about but I understand my orders, and now I am sroinf? to plow into you,' with which calm statement he moved forward with the light of battle in his eyes. The crowd was as feathers in a wind." But when Havana thinks over her vicissitudes in the coming years, she can eay the Amuricim made Havana look like Sunday morning in a New England village on a summer's day, A and a Spanish-American town is not like that by nature. L TUC klCUJ RIIRAI PfJSTAI SYSTFM el . m( Delivery Wajron* That Will Replace 40,- f0; 000 Minor Poatofflcea. The Government has commenced to operate postal wagons which are intended to replace a majority of the star route poBtoffices in the United ; States. The star route offices are those which are called fourth-class postollices, ana tne postmasters in charge of these have been paid a percentage on the postal business they transacted. As fast as possible these wagons -will be introduced throughout the United States. Each State will be divided into circuits, these circuits being of the length that a ei wagon can cover in a day. The postal ? clerks in charge of these wagons issue ai money orders, register letters and ri pi sa to ti< a BATTALION?"PRESENT ARM8I" ?f th transact a general postal business. [jj The mail is delivered either at the ^ houses of the people along the route j or placed in what is called a rural free delivery box near a residence. The ^ postal clerk has one key to this box ( and the occupants of the residence the ^ other. In this way the postoffice 0f DELIVERING LETTERS AT THE ROADSIDE :o: UNDER THE NEW SYSTEM. A HORN pe RLOWN BY THE DRIVER NOTIFIES THE P* FARMER FOLK THAT THERE IS MAIL ai FOR THEM. JC - ir comes to the people instead of their in going to the postoffice. ?r The inventor of this postoffice in wagon is Edwin W. Shriver, of West- th minster, Md. It is estimated by the in Postoffice Department that about 40,* cv< 000 of the minor rural postoffices will it i ? At. f be done away wuu oy iue uae ui meae wagons. la: th Millions of Birds on Lejrson Island. be Leyson Island^ which lies about fe 800 miles west of Honolulu, is a gi* bj gantic birds' nest. About twenty- at five different species are found there, li( including ducks, boobies, gulls and pi frigate birds. On this speck of land th ? | b< BIRDS OS LEYS0X ISLAND. a] ft] the birds lay, hatch and die by mill- jc ions. They gather oil the railroac r( track in such numbers that they im- w pede the progress of the mule cars, jc and a man sits in front of the car witt t] a stick and pushes them out of thf C1 ~"| ai way. The inhabitants frequently are ^ compelled to close doors and windows to prevent the birds from coaling intc their houses in numbers. A wheel- ^ barrow full of eggs may be gathered in a short time. A Remarkable Accident. Mrs. John Tyler, one of the best known residents of East Haddam Conn., was badly injured while return ing from Mount Parnassus the othei afternoon with a team. Mrs. Tylei was leading a cow behind the wagon and while coming down a hill the cow jumped into the rear of the wagon *1 ? T^nViinlA nrpr I parujf uuruiuii Tyler was thrown between the whee' and the shaft of the wagon. The frightened horse ran away. Mrs Tyler's clothing became entangled ir the wagon and she was dragged foi three-quarters of a mile behind the ; running horse. When her clothing finally gave way she was left by tn* Bide of the road in a terribly injurec condition. It was at first thought thai ; she wonld die. Mrs. Tyler rallied somewhat and will recover. Perhaps J what saved lier life is the fortunatt ! = circumstance that a buffalo robe in the j x wagon became wound about her hear | p and the upper part of her body ant | f( afforded her considerable proteetior ci against the rough ground. s< 3 Eleven Mllci ?i Asphalt. q Iu some ways Philadelphia is not sc jj slow. The city is just finishing what fc is claimed to be the longest asphalted ar street in the world. It is also oue of S( the widest. In fact, its name is Broad street, and it runs straight from the | City Hall away out into the fields, as i traight as if drawn by a ruler. Thif j will likely be the scene of some spirited j I1 speed trials between bicycle cops and i 1 scorching wheelmen.?Xew York j et w?rld- gj A judge in Ohio has decided that the forgery of a check was not com 7* Dlete without the revenue etP1 V' WM NOVEL PATH FOR CYCLISTS. | a Elevated Affair Nine Miles Long la Southern California. In the monntainous region about os Angeles and Pasadena, in Sonthn California, the lot of the wheelin is not an altogether happy one, 1 At-- ikA.A C cycle paiUD ate uunuynu^uwo jevated cycle path nine miles long id beyond city limits the way for % ders is so rough and rolling that the easures of cycling scarcely compente for the pains. A change is about come over the face of these condiDns, however, by the constrnction of e most novel and elaborate wheelly in this conntry and probably in e world. An elevated cycle path of amework nine.miles long has been isigned to connect the two places. Pasadena and .Los Angeles are sisr cities, and the problem of translation between'them has been slow find solution owing to the rolling laracter of the intervening country id the waterways. The amount of affic between the towns demanded cilities, and as ways to furnish ma vp.ta fnnnd tha travel increased^ itil now they are bound together by chain of funr railroads, three of earn power and one electric. After e last link was added to this ohai? ere remained a large contingent of i e population in both cities that was ill unprovided for. There was not It route for cyclists. The lack of good roads between Lot igeles and Pasadena has been keen* felt for years, and the hills interning mado the construction of an dinary cycle path impracticable* le trip northward to Pasadena is an )hill grind. In spite of these dis- , mforts many made the inter-city [p for business or pleasure, and notithstanding all disadvantages the nks of the cyclists increased, until ere are at least 30,000 in Los Anilea County alone. This growth in e face of discouragement suggested e commercial wisdom of catering topersistent a sport, and the genius r the emergency appeared in the irson of Horace M. Dobbins, of isadena, who organized the Califora Cycleway Company. Capital waa lickly forthcoming and plans were awn for an ejevated balcony, stret^hg between the sister cities, excta- 1 rely for cyclists. The franchise id right of way have been secured. ' e engineers' estimates completed id work begun, and no.w the natives Dnder why someone did not think of before. The path will be supported by pil- v re of different heights, to equalize e grade, and the floor will be of mrds. The width will be about ten et, and each side will be inclosed j lattice work rising to a height of lout four feet. The path will b? jhted by a double row of lights, aced so as to alternate as they do on e East River Bridge, and half way jtween the cities a park and casino ill be established by the company, be tariff for the use of the structure is been figured down to a nominal isis, on a plan of issuing annual isses with a share of stock. The rcleway will start from a central )int in Pasadena and wiuding down le Arroyo Seco on its eastern sicte ill cross the Los Angeles River some [stance below Beuna Yista street and irminate at the plaza in Los Angeles. Wheelmen and wheelwomen will be jle to glide albng this smooth way most without exertion going south > Los Angeles, looking off upon the )lling scenery or down upon the oods, the fields, the hills and hol?w8, the heavy roads from which ley are freed, and the car tracks that. mnot jolt them. Reversing the ride ad traveling north from Los Angeles ill be no hardship, for the grade has een laid out so that it is almost imerceptible. Battle SliJp Maine'! Memorial Chapel. The chapel of the new naval academy i ? i uiiaings at Aiiuapuua, mu., nuiw re to cost in all 86,000,000, will be edicated to the men who were lost in le wrecking of the battle ship Maine, bis new chapel will occupy the highest oint on the grounds and will be one [ the prettiest buildings in the group, [r, Flagg's plans for the chapel, which THE CHAPEL AT AXXATCLI?. re now in the Treasury Department, rovide for a domed building in the >rm of a quatre-foil. Above the prin ipal entrance win ue piacea iqip in:ription: "To the Glory of God in femory of the U. S. S. Maine and Itf rew, Who Were Destroyed in Havana [arbor February 15, 1S98." The )undations of the chapel are 100 feet juare and the dome's height 150 feet, ) the new chapel is no small affair. In More of a Harry. "Remember Bill Pluggett's wedin', don't you?" asked the Oldest ihabitant. "Say I do," answered his underii/1v "t.liov ivnT If Ail thirtv niilps tc t the preacher to tie the knot." "Well, when Bill run away from her stiddy, I hear he took the fast ex;css." -Ia&ianaeolia Journal. , , Y&