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CrHE en NARRATIVE OF By SEWAKD W. (Co*TBi(inT 189! BT KOBE mmxsm [CHAPTER V. ir [continued.] 01 "No!" I replied, noting the time. tj 'You had better keep it. It is now two o'clock. If Cha Fong does not jr arrive before night I shall be very im- . patient. Don't forget to wind your watch, for we may want it to-morrow." "I will not forget." We went into the temple and ate Eome rice from the golden bowl. . "Do be careful, Mr. Crickmore," Miss Arnold said. "You must not ^ give Cha Fong any advantage. He is . no ordinary Chinaman." "Do not fear. I shall be prudent," J I replied. "Now I think I will go on , deck and reconnoiter." . . "On deck?" Bhe said, smiling. ? "Well, what would you call the top ,a of this thing? How does 'roof strike ' you? By the way, is this the tenth of u January?" ? "No?this is the eleventh." "Then I spent all day of the tenth , in stupor, as a result of meddling with c .Cha Fong's tobacco. No wonder I s< was hungry when I got into this world again. Well, Balston and Langston , are surely on shore by this time." We went through the garden and 1 out into the pit. We climbed up to ~ the top, and I carefully scanned the horizon to see if Cha Fong's yacht , was coming. It was not in sight, nor J: was any other vessel. I led her to a , , spot that was somewhat screened from view?to prevent any prying glass from coming suddenly upon ub, and we sat c. down on the rock. 1 "This is refreshing!" exclaimed . Miss Arnold, drawing the invigorating r air into her lungs. "I did not know the atmosphere down there was so vv close. But it is grand here." "It is," I replied. "This is an 8' ideal place for a residence, bat one ^ would need a fast yacht to establish ^ a ready communication -with the main ^ land." S{ "I don't think I -would ever -wish to see this place again," 6he said ^ with a shudder, "if I only leave it ^ ftlive." w "Prrthdhlv not. But von will leave ai it alive. Don't worry any more about rc that. How far do you think we are S from Hong Kong?" ^ "I cannot even imagine. I was con- ai fined in a stateroom in the yacht when we came here, and could not ei see how fast we came or the direction a* we took." e* The mention of Hong Kong brought to her mind her father's anxiety for *1 her safety. Her face saddened. : "My poor father!" she said. "He is no doubt frantic with grief and P? worry over my disappearance." "Then he will be frantic with joy ^ in a few hours, when you are restored te to him," I replied. We <sat there some time, talking, of Aside from the fact that her life and pi mine depended upon my efforts, I was th beginning to take a more than ordinary fn interest in tne girl wno naa oeen so m miraculously thrown tinder my protec- gr tion. She was very winsome. I th wonflered if our acquaintance would continue after Miss Arnold had re- Si samed her place among the friends ta from whom she had been taken. in I was musing thus when she spoke: of "I think I see a speck coming this wi way, Doctor Crickmora." in I followed the pointing of her ril finger. w< "You are right. That is a sail, and TVi if I am not greatly mistaken it is Cha Fong's yacht. It will be some time lbefore he can reach here, as there is f* vary little wind stirring. But it will in not do for ns to remain here. He s* might see us, and it would put him on his-guard." aD We carefully made our way into the ?a pit and down the long flight of rough- jD hewn steps. I led Miss Arnold into J" the garden. "Have von noticed the beauties of ~ A . this place?" I asked her. -ai "No, I did not pay much attention to it when we went out," ehe replied. "It is indeed a beautiful place. How Pr musical the fountains are!" As the time passed, I noticed my ln companion was becoming nervous, although she was evidently laboring hard to remv.n calm. After a time I " went out to see where the yacht was. W1 It was slowly coming toward the rock. I did not show myfielf, but cautiously peered from behind ihe ledge. I th judged that in half an hour she would lil be in the inlet. nc I returned to Alias Arnold, mere ti< were traces of tears on her face. It be was a trying ordeal for me. What m; must it have been to this gentle girl? pr I strove to encourage her, and soon oj had the pleasure of seeing her smile th 'again! th "I think it is time we made a move," fo I said, after a time. "You take this av pistol?you know what to do." m "Can't I help you if I remain with 70a 2 ask e d. G; "No. I prefer to bave you out of G; harm's way until it is over." "Very well?I will go." m I put her down in the trap and closed va it. I told her to be perfectly calm and fa not to fear the result. I did not feel ia sure of it myself, but no harm could d? come from encouraging her. I. care- nc fully rearranged the rugs, and removed co all evidence that any one had been di there. I took up the knife and put it fa in my pocket. Then with the rifle w< clasped fondly in my hand, I -went to the rear of the big idol in the temple, n< and entered it by way of an aperture or used no doubt to fill the lamp inside. I took my position to one side of the fo lamp, where I could look through the j at hideous mouth between the rows of | G priceless teeth. The air was suffocat-1 d( ing, but I did not dare put out the th lamp. I knew the absence of the light n< in the idol would attract the attention lit of Chav?ong at once. So I breathed M the hot Nmd stifling perfume and to waited. cc The minutes ^aemed like hours. My sa position was crammed, and it was with G ?lifficulty that I remamed quiet. And j I cursed Cha Fong for Jtoing so long J in coming?when it irighb have been _ w yi I( II\T A " cn A S " lirNA II" its ti t? ' ADVENTURE || * * HOPKINS. a bt Bosneh's rons.) a WW I lore to the purpose to curse liim for g aining at all. a But, notwithstanding my belief to le contrary, time passed. I could hear footsteps approaching ^ i the garden, the heavy tread of rnili- s iry boots and the softer step of a ^ nerson. I could Ilea'.' loud jices in angry argument. Tha lan- e aage was a queer mixture. Now and len I could catcli a word or a Ben- ^ snce that I could understand; but it ^ as mostly Chinese. v I felt a queer sensation at the start- ^ igly familiar sound of one of the ^ sices. It sounded unmistakably like le voice of a person whom I had cause j > remember, and whom I would be c lad to meet under circumstances ^ ivorable to [myself. My blood grew ot, my fingers tingled as they rested pon the rifle in my grasp. ^ The angry speakers advanced and ^ ime into the temple. I bent a little lower that I might c >ok up through the idol's mouth and n ;e the faces of the newcomers. ^ They stopped before the idol. v One was the gigantic Cha Fong, ressed as I had seen him before, in ill military costume and evidently in ' towering rage. The other was Mr. 0 ambok Snell. How I longed to empty the rifle in- s > Mr. Snell's snake-like carcass! ,Tith what joy, I thought, would I see P im writhing in dying agonies before e! But it was not yet time for me jjj > act. There was so much that I dered to learn. I thought perhaps by n smaiuing quiet I could catch enough 8 om their heated conversation to tell .9 of my friends, Ralston and Langs>n. t( I gathered from the bits of their ibberish that I could understand that ha Fong was accusing Mr. Snell of a t. reach of trust. It appeared that j tese two precious rogues alone pos>esedthe secret of the hidden spring ^ y which entrance to the island could 3 effected. Hence it was plain to Cha ong that Mr. Snell was the person g ho had been there in his absence, n id upon departing had left open the ^ dling doors. This was evidently a srious matter in the estimation of n ha Fong, for he was greatly excited ~ id wrought up. Mr. Gambok Snell way apparently ^ igaged in a frantic endeavor to dis>use the mind of Cha Fong of his ror. He seemed to be telling him << iat he had not had time Bince the ar7al of the City of Rio de Janeiro at ^ ong Kong to visit the island and re- q m to Hong Kong again. However ^ itent this fact may have been to Mr. j, lell, it was. a difficult task to thrust down the yellow throat of his mas- ,< ? w ?>ut ttie venemenoe ana earnestness Mr. Snell made at least a little im- p ession on Cha Fong, for he switched e .question of Mr. Snell's infidelity am the intrusive presence of himself the submarine palace to the still ^ eater crime of divulging the secret of ^ e place to a third person. In reply to this awful charge Mr. g lell grew perfectly wild in his protes- ^ tions of innooence, and seemed to be voking the wrath of the idol, inside which I knelt, upon himself if he ^ is not telling the truth. I chuckled c< audibly to myself and patted my 3e fondly. The wrath of the idol >uld come sure enough if they only xited with patience. I heard the name of "America" and tjirl;" and from the ugliness of Cha ^ jne. II concluded that he was accus- ? g Mr. Snell of playing him false in * ill another respect. I also heard e Ketoto mentioned. Pntting this id that together, I judged the accu- j tion against Mr. Snell to be the seiz- j g, for his own ends, of the girl who id been sought and abducted by 1a Fong's agents for Cha Fong's rn purpose. I had no doubt that ^ jnie Ralston had been taken from :r home to be the victim of Cha )ng, and that Gambok Snell had ap- 8t opriated her himself, and now was aI ping to hoodwink the Chinaman to believing something else. So far as the fortunes of the girl ^ ire concerned, I could not see that made any difference whether she is the wile of one or the other of ese scoundrels. wane me wo were engageu iu eir wordy war, I was calmly and dejerately shaping my course. I was ?t naturally of a murderous disposi- gi >n. In fact, it had always been my b< last that I was almost womanlike in st y gentleness in the practice of my k< ofession. Eren the most simple fc leration in minor Burgery called up a e utmost sympathy within me for w e sufferer. But there was no room 0 r sentiment here. I was wide fi cake to the fact that whatever I did pj ust be done boldly and quickly. It was the lives of Cha Fong and ambok Snell as against the lives of ri race Arnold and myself. pi Miss, Arnold was, no doubt, at that oi oment shivering with fear in the ,ult to which I had sent her. If I 'I iled in what I undertook now, her ti te was plain. My own would be d< mfVi . 11 utd wnrafl +1mn T flifl I >t know the extent of Cha Fong's ac-: tl mplishments in the way of crime. I w d know that Gambok Snell was, bo eg r as his knowledge and intentions p 2nt, a cold-blooded murderer. * ti I had no doubt that both these emi- a: mtRentlemeu would regard the sec- w id effort to kill me a merepleasantry. p; Existence bud, as [ have stated be- si re, always been very sweet to me; w id since my mishap at the hands of tl ambok Snell, resulting in the sud- tl m acquaintance and friendship of h e beautiful Euglish girl, whom I was u >w called upon to rescue, existence h id become sweeter than ever to me. c< y love of life and my resolve it save Grace Arnold bad be- it ime now uiy motive to act; and, as I id, it was the lives of Cha Fong and g arnbok Snell as against the lives of iss Arnold and myself. f( The argument of my two enemies If aned hotter and loader. Cha Fonr; it cinted to the despoiled rice-bowl be* 3re the idol in support of his accusa- I ~ * * ?-< n i. _ .i -u:-. I ions. tiamDOK oiien suouieu mo iigry denials and shook his fist in the ice of his Mantchoo master. As Cha Fong, with a gesture of rage, arned from Mr. Suell and was about 3 leave the temple for the room in 'hich he had left Miss Arnold, I ramped myself still more in my sufacating hidingplace and took good irn at his breast, where, if he had ny, his heart was located. Carefully sighting along the barrel, fired. The report of the rifle awoke a thouand reverberations which thundered round the rocky cavern. f.Kn Pnnrr foil nvnuo nnnTl tlio flonr I ^ r? -dead! Mr. Gambok Sriell became panictricken. His face became lived. He rembled and seemed to lose his head. Mr. Snell, perhaps, was a brave uough man in open warfare or in the ice of known and palpable danger, ut when idols dealt out death, and be very walls of the temple rolled rith the reports of cannon, he was not errible as a warrior. He turned and i led. This was not according to my plan, did not fear the result if Mr. Snell ame back with reinforcements, but e tfould do nothing of the kind. He ras on the run, and if he gained the acht and made off with it, Miss Lrnold and I would be no better ofl ban before. I have alwajs entertained a hearty ontempt for an assassin. To shoot a ian in the back was, in my estimaion, a cowardly thing to do. But it ras Snell or Crickmore, and I had no hoice. Before the retreating~figure got out f my sight 1 fired again. Mr. Snell shrieked with pain and ank to the floor. I made a hasty exit from my hidinglace and went to the side of Mr. Snell. As I stood over him, my rifle still Tasped tightly in my hand, he rolled is eyes up at me. He recognized le, and with a howl of terror he asped and fainted. If it had been to my advantage beore to shoot.Mr. Snell, it was equally 3 my advantage now to keep him live. I seriously questioned the reult, if I, with Miss Arnold, should ttempt to board the yacht, and the wo priests of Su Foo fail to appear, had no means of giving orders to the ailors, and as they were no doubt lithful adherents of Cha Fong, they rould unquestionably be inquisitive nough to spoil things. 'Hence, Mr. nell, wounded, but alive and sublissive to my will, was just then a aluable adjunct tp our escape. I rushed to the bedroom, kicked side the rug that covered the trap nd pulled it up. "You can come out now," I called 3 Miss Arnold. "Is it all right now?" she asked, merging from behind a pile of silks. Are we safe?" "So far we are safe," I replied. "I ave killed Cha Fong and wounded rambok Snell. I want to prevent his ying. if I can, until we get away from ere." "Gambok Snell!" she exclaimed. Why, that is the name of the man ho threw you overboard." . "Ye9, and this is the man," I relied. "He is not a Chinaman, is he?" ae asked, shuddering. "No. I don't know what he is. ut I know what he will be if I don't arry up. He'll be a dead man." I hurried back to the wounded Mr. nell, leaving JVlis's Arnold to follow i will. She soon joined me, and I as delighted at the coolness and jurage with which she took hold and elped me in my attentions to the unmscions man. She had wits, she had tact, she had mind. "By Jove!" I exclaimed, approvigly, after we had succeeded in getng Mr. Snell's eyes open in consiousness again. "You would make capital nurse or physician, or?er? *?a physician's wife." one smuea sngnuy ana oiusneu. I succeeded in getting Mr. Snell id out on two or three rugs, and lied him with restoratives. I was Dt so very particular about the jntleman's comfort, but I was eager i get him where he would not bleed i death. With Miss Arnold's assistance I anched the blood from his wound id bandaged it. He lay for some time with his eyes .stened upon me* In them there ere wonder, surprise and the fire of ite. Pr^tyB00n his curiosity overcame im. I heard his voice. [to be continued. ] *A Politician In Eiubr.ro. "This is a straight story," said the rocery clerk, whose veracity has nevei sen impeached. "Ithappened in our ,ore. A little boy came into our Maret street store on Monday, and waited >r some one to notice him. He carried sheet of writing paper in his hand, at hich he glanced from time to time, ne ofthe idle clerks came to him aally, and the boy, reading from his iper, announced in a sing-song sice: " 'My mother wants ten pounds of ce, fifteen pounds of sugar, twelve aunds of oatmeal, twenty pounds " 'Hold on!' interrupted the clerk. Cot so fast. Suppose you give me lat paper, and I'll find out the orer.' "But the boy insisted on calling ofl 18 articles himself. Two other clerkp J ere pressed into service and the three I ! ten proceeded to do up the various j 1 ackages as the boy called them off. | ' [e wanted all kinds of things, and he | ' 3ked the price of each article as they j * ent along, making a note of it on his , j aper. The clerks had the counter I racked with packages, when the boy j ouud up with 'eighteen pounds of ! our.' One of th'e clerks called out | le price, ami tne boy continued, in i is sing-song voice, 'and bow much j loney does uiy mother have to pay for |; ev groceries?' One of the clerks 1 Dunted up the total and announced at S18.73. The boy made a note of > and started out. " 'Come back here; where are you oing?' cried the clerks in cborus. j " 'Why,' said the boy, as he made J )r the door, 'that's jest me 'rithmetic iason for Monday. I have ter know < . or I'll git licked.' "?Boston Pilot. n?CT ?SB/*'" Z. Harry Vardon is now hailed as the nrizard of the golf links. He won the English championship this year for :he third time on the links of the Royal St. George Golf Club at Sandwich. His aggregate score for the four rounds was 310. Last year he captured the championship at Prestwick in 307, and won in J 896 at Muirfiela with 316. Since the championship of 1898 he has taken part in many contests with wonderful success. It is easy to understand why golf has become so popular. Any person who is fond of being out of doors anil of wandering across the hills and fields in pursuit of entertainment will find il in coif. And vet the exercise may be O If - - - r made as mild as one -wishes, for while the player chases the golf ball from hole to hole in going over the "links' as much time may be consumed as desired. The sport ia so interesting, howe^r, that the player usually rushet DARP.Y VARDON*. (Winner of the open golf championship for the third time and accepted by authorities as the greatest player of the decade.) through the game with all possible speed. The rules and method of the game are simple. Making the strokes with skill enough to "put" the golf ball into each of the score holes scattered over the links within a reasonable number of strokes is the difficult part of the game, and a part to be learned only by practice. The "links" comprise the course over which the game is played. They vary in form and extent to suit the taste of the makers of the links an/, to conform to the "lay of the land." As obstacles in the way of "holing" a ball add zest to the game, the link3 which hare sand pits, clumps of bushes, streams, bridges and so forth in the way are considered most desirable. Such obiects that interfere with the play are called hazards. A hazard in the form of a sand pit 'n% e, well, ridge, bowlder or other obstacle is called a bunker. The eighct?.^ holes usually constituting the "course" are marked by either Hags or signs bearing the hole numbers, beginning with No. 1 at the starting point and ending with No. 18. Unsually the holes are placed from 200 to 300 yards apart, the course being away from the starting point to the ninth hole and back toward the starting point to the eighteenth hole. The first nine holes comprise the "out" course, and are usually identified by red flags. The last nine holes comprise the "in" course, and are usually identified by white flags. At the beginning of the course is a "teeinj? cround," from which the ball must be "teed" or driven. This space is bounded by two whitewash lines at right angles with the course. The distance between these lines is usually about sis feet, and stakes about twenty feet apart indicate the other bounderies. The player shall not play in front of the foremost boundary line nor outside of the stakes. To make the first stroke, or tee, the player builds a little hill of sand not over an inch high, places the ball on this elevation and* makes a strong "drive" in the direction of the first hole. The object is to get the ball into the hole with the fewest possible strokes. Tlie holes are four and a rcn GOLF STICHS riuarter inches in diameter. Theregu lation ball is two and three-quarters iuches in diameter and is made of gutta-percha. Each hole if surrounded by a "putting g-een," or plat of carefully clipped sod. This putting green extends to a distance of twenty yards in every direction from the liole. Each hole is lined with metal and is four inches deep. After the first hole is made the ball is lifted out and carried to the teeing ground, there being one near each hole, and again teed, this time toward the second hole. This method is continued until all the holes have been made. In the ordinary match game of golf the side that wins the greater number of holes wins the game. The boles are won by the side holing its ball in the fewest number of strokes, 'i'lip same rule nirDlies when only two persons are playing. After the balls are struck from the tee the ball farthest Qom the hole being plnyeil for shall "t 1 . be played first, the players then play1 ing in rotation until one side has holed the ball. The side winning a hole leads in starting for tbe next hole. After the ball is once started from the teeing ground it may not be touched I with anything except one of the i "clubs" or implements nsed for ; "driving" or "putting" a ball. All ) strokes must be made with the club > swinging freely in the hands?the i club must not touch the ground or ' any object resting on the groand. Each stroke made to get a ball out of , a hazard, over or.beyond an obstruci tion or toward the object hole counts . as a stroke, regardless of whether the ball is hit or not. When a ball is lost /he player's side loses the hole. A player's caddie (the assistant who tarries the clubs) may stand at the hole being played for, but no other person is permitted to indicate tbe hole by any other means than pointing to indicate its direction. Any player by forfeiting two strokes may lift the ball oat of a difficulty and tee it from behind the same. While the greater amount of skill is required in putting the ball into the hole after it has reached the putting green, the "drive," or knocking the ball to cover the long distances be- , tween the holes, is very important. Your effort should be to get such a ( grasp on your "driver," and stand in ( such a position when driving that you : will hit the ball squarely with all your force and send it flying in a straight j line in the direction of the next hole. : Figures 1 and 2 in the accompany ing illustration will show you the be ginning and the finish of the driving stroke. You will miss it often until ( you learn the "knack" of driving, but 1 1 if you do hit the ball squarely you,may ( send it skimming a distance of 400 : feet. The accompanying illustration shows representations of the clubs in : i common use. These and the golf balls may be procured at any sporting goods store, but it is not difficult to make your own clubs, and a good ball , may be whittled out of hickory. k < Position of Teachers In Encland. A. E. Bernays, a graduate of Keble College, Oxford, and a Government /a. \ k '7 ~rr . >HC ^/3 rr ?*' - r :wA A ife?t^ 8IMPLE FLANS FOR BUILDINC Inspector of Schools in England, 1 who has just made a visit to this country, says: "The most surprising thing to me is the social position ot yonr public school teachers and prin- i cipals. I understand that the educa- < tion, culture, taste and friends of a teacher alone determine his or her ' standing in society. Consequently, i you get very superior men and women for the work. In England, with the < exception of a very few head masters < and mistresses in the larger schools, i the teacher has no recognition what- i ever. In some of the smaller places 1 he or she may occasionally visit the i . BuLCiW .53*? _JL Xir" ? * V- :<vv O J J AND STROKES. i C clergyman and his wife, but under no s consideration will the family of the * village doctor condescend to notice a the teacher. The position of private * governess in a good family is con- ( sidered of a much higher social J standard than that, of teacher in the s public schools. The salaries, too, e are very low compared with yours, o The masters will not average more than $500 a year, and the mistresses $350. These result in our drawing nur teachers almost entirely from the ? lower classes, and the children, of J3 course, must suffer."?New York Tri- " bune. r Evolution. ! 0 A Yankee paper mentions the case d of a near-sighted hen which mistook b sawdust for Indian meal, and ate t! heartily thereof, then laid a nest full of wooden knobs, and in three weeks hatched out a set of parlor furniture, a ?Pearson's Weekly, g * NJ/WM/>1/ y/ VlAI/V/VWM* | FJow to Make a Flatboat| Select two clear and straight boards of elm, white cedar or pine, each 12 feet long, IS inches wide and 1} inches thick, for the side pieces. This timber must be free from knots or cracks or decayed spots. For the end or "nose" pieces select two lj-inch' planks, each 3 feet long and 7 inches' wide. Next, from a point 2 feet 6 inches from each end of each sidepiece,' saw thfi hoards diaconallv (see ficrure 1 in the illustration) so that the end will measure 6 inches in width. Of course it will be necesi F7G\ S ' I THE FLATBOAT AS A SAILBOAT. Bary for you to exercise great care' in having each of the ends cut to exactly the same shape. Now put thej Bndpieces in their propter places and; inside the sidepieces. Have the side-; pieces resting on their top or straight j sides. When these four pieces that form the skeleton of the beat are in. place the endpie'ees should project one' inch above the ends of the sidepieces. Nail the frame . together with large copper, "wire!'' or wrought-iron nails. The next thing, to do is to nail th'abottom boards onto the sidepieces (see figure 2). Tirese bottom boards must be of clear timber and each 3 feet 2$ inches long and 1 inch thick. Six of the boards should be 10 inches wide, to cover each of the sloping ends. Now Jrou have completed the framfe of a boat that has an inside measurement of 11 feet 9 inches in length by 3 feet in width. Next secure two strips of elm each 13 feet long, 6 inches wide and five-eighths of an inch thick. These are to be nailed to the r * i A HOMEMADE FLA.TBOAT. bottom, directly under the sidepieces (see a-a, figure 3). A similar piece, but 1 inch in thickness and 8 inches wide, should be nailed to the center of the inside bottom of the boat (see c, ligure 4). These serve to brace the boat and make the bottom secure, as well as to act as guards on the outside bottom. The seat, or seats, may be placed to suit yoar convenience,i excepting that one shc'ald be placed far jnough to one side of the centre to makei it useful for rowing purposes (see f,j figure 4). Each seat should be 3 feet long, 10 inches wide and 1 inch thick, and be placed 14 inches above the) jottom of the boat. The seats should* est on brackets or 2-inch planking,! vhich may be ^fastened to the side-; sieces of the boat. The oarlocks may! be simply hand-made rests (see d,: igure 4) or the patent metal ones usuilly found in boats of more preten-/ ious pattern. Each end of the boat] should be covered with a platform of jreater or less width (see b, fig-? are 4), according to the taste of thel naker. Many flatboats have all tliei sloping portion covered, and a piece. )f planking 10 inches wide separating, :his covered part from the rest of the nsioe of the boat, thus making afish3ox. One end of the boat may be ixed up that way and the other end irranged for the accommodation of a lail mast. To do this simply cut a lole the size of the mast in the platorm, and directly under that hole and n the bottom of the boat nail a piece )f 2-inch planking supplied with a imilar hole. A straight basswood or uapie sapling luay serve us it ujusi auu i square piece of rag carpeting or teavy canvas, stretched on two arms see figure 5), will do for a sail. If ou wish to be stylish you may nail ide strips at the top of the sides (see -e, figure 4) and add to tho strength f the boat. Rattled at a Critical Moment. "That son-in-law of yours is a cool ne," remarked one Oris wold street anker to another, "and has a long ead for business. Does he ever get attled?" "Oh, be has his limit, like the rest f us. When he asked me for my , aughter, he was so confuddled that e kissed me and shook hands with L. ? Froo T'rpqa UC ?,li- 1. i/CU WAU A * ? ? The Mexican Government coins an verage of $25,000,000 a year in silver, old and copper, j . ? MOST FAMOUS CUBAN DETECTIVE. 1 ? Domingo Martinez Hat Sent Conntlcw , * Criminal* to tbe Garrote. . % Domingo Martinez is probably one 2 of tbe moat unpopular men in Havana. Certainly the Cubans have no great ; loudness lor mm. ne nas eeut muio ^ Cubans to the garrote and penal servitude than any modern sleuth. Martinez has. made a life study of rogues, and has brought up a family, i'{. of boys to recognize the fact that a j criminal is one on whom sympathy v should not be wasted. They say of Q Martinez, at least the Cubans do, that be was the paid assassin of Spaing " that he has sent more innocent meni /, to the vivac, the carcel and the gar-j f: rote than ever Weyler. The Spain y*| iards naturally deny this and hint! iJj that Martinez has not brought quite a: N sufficient number of Cubanu to justice to suit the criminal condition of auvitua. -j Martinez was chief of the detective bureau of Havana when the American: military authorities assumed charge.j When Mario Menocal was ap-pointed civil chief of police he in! true Cuban frankness promptly turned! Martinez out and appointed hisbrother Gustavo in his place.', Military Chief of Police Major1, Gary Evans became convinced about; >8 the same time that John McCullagh; and Sergeant Crowley did that Mar-' \ tinez was the only man ih Havana fit :- m to take charge of the then newly or-; V ? ganized detective bureau of that city,j '-3 and made that recommendation to Major-General Ludlow, who indorsed' 1 the idea, but altered his ODinion when i the whole Cuban police force said it 5 would resign in a body in the event of Martinez being made chief of the bu- - :j| reau. Martinez -was not made chief of the bureau, and the Cubans considered it | a capital joke that he was not. Some. JS are inclined to the belief that it isn't1 "M quite a joke after all, for Martinez has; :wi u/y\ 1 DOMINGO MAETINEZ. (This Is a picture of Cuba's iamous deteo- & tive who has sent countless men to tbe y-| garrote). ; ,S| a forty-five years' record of all the v noted criminals of Cuba and Porto * Rico, knows hundreds of them by ] eight, and as the Cubans haven't n rec- j ord of any kind and Martinez has his J 3 knowledge secured where the Cabana cannot get at it, the merchants of Havana, who really favor the return of Martinez to power, want to know what vl guarantee of protection they have. . There have been twenty-one distinct 3 attempts on ,the life of Martinez. In ? general appearance he is a thin, wiry man of ordinary height and weight, 1 but he has the eyes of a mind reader ^ and the grip of a 'longshoreman. Soldier's Marvelous ?scape. Mrs. J. E. Overshine, wife of Lieu- ' -'A tenant Overshine, of the Seventeenth ,! | United States Infantry, who arrived home from the Philippines recently, reports that Joseph Kenny, of Company L, Seventeenth Piegiment, who fell from a transport in the Indian Ocean, on the way to the Philippines, has turned up in Australia. He was seen to fall by companions, who threw life-preservers after him , in the darkness and gave the alarm, ;but when the vessel was stopped nothing could be heard of him and it was ' $ supposed he had drowned. Kenny says he caught a life-pre-< server by which he was kept afloat, and was picked up by an Australian it vessel and" carried to Melbourne. There he reported to his command- ] ing officer at Manila by mail and will soon join his regiment there. vi f New Flag: For Postal Service# The special flag proposed for the postal service by Postmaster Charles U. Gordon, of Chicago, and the adoption of which is now being considered1 by the department, is in r'epresenta-, tion of the obverse side of an envelope.It has a white field, with a bine center, in which is the figure of a mounted ~ ~~~ | | ' \r~ ? it SPECIAL FLAG FR0P0SED POIi THE POSTAL SERVICE. mailman with a mail pouch slung across the back of the saddle. Crimson etripes mark the folds of the envelope. Vorelgn Quarter* in New York City. There are about a dozen "quarters" in New York City. The Jewish quarter is east of the Buwery, in and around Ludlow and Hester streets; the Italians have two quarters, one in Mulberry street, the other in First avenue at about 110th street; the Germans have a krge quarter near T^mnUinB Snnnre: the French still live around the streets just south of , Washington Square. The Chinese live in lower Mott street. Pell and Doyers streets; the Bohemians and Czechs live near First avenue and Seveuth street. Many Scots live around Jackson Square. The negro quarters are west of Sixth avenue, between Twenty-seventh and Thirtythird streets, and around 100th street on the East Side; the Greeks live in Roosevelt street, the Syrians in lower Washington street. There are no woll defined limits to tho "nuarte:-?."?; flew xorit Bun. | r- \ A A A B fli