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CHAPTER XVIII.
Prior's Conclusions.
Prier read Mr. Jahnway's letter a
second time, a third time and a fourth
He laid it down at last.
"I don't understand it at all." he said
sadly: "I don't understand it at all
The letter is cold, flippant, insulting,
And yet?there is a vein of earnestness
running through it all. And he has
befriended Senn. He has taken him
away from his gloomy thoughts, and
away from the chances of insults and
slights. I wonder if he really Know?
anything which might be of service to
me. or whether that hint is as careless
and baseless, as much he has written
seems to be. 1 wonder whether his
invitation to me to come and hunt him
up is a mockery of my efforts or a challenge
to my earnestness? I wonder?i
wonder everything, almost; and 1
know?almost nothing! If I could only
look into Jasper Jahnway's face for a
half-dozen minutes; if I could only exchange
a dozen words with him, I
should not be so utterly in the dark
as I now am. And why may I not?
It wouldn't take a day to find a fishing
vessel, somewhere along the coast here,
that would be safe for an ocean voyage,
and that could be hired for a
reasonable sum, captain, crew and all.
It might not be very comfortable; but
I am ready to sacrifice comfort in this
matter. I don't know the name of
Jahnway's vessel, but I think I can
find out without great difficulty. I
don't know where he will go, but after
all he has written about the cold and
the season I doubt his going far south;
and if he has been a sailor, as he
hints and Patsy Gullens says, I don't
think he'll get very far off shore. If I
? hunt for him from Newfoundland to
New York, and in a strip of water
reaching two hundred miles off shore,
* 11 '? f T rl An't finH
i .snan of usuuusiiru 11. i
him.
"Danger?hardship?expense?uncertainty?I
realize all that. But I'll be
blamed if I don't hang somebody. I'll
be blamed if I don't go out after Jasper
Jahnway within forty-eight hours."
Mr. J. B. Prier had one enviable
characteristic appertaining to his Will.
You know he often let impulse sway
him: you know he often listened to the
dictates of his keen analytical powers
of reason: in these respects he was
like most men. Nor was he a very remarkable
man as regarded his power
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had the power, when he had once made
up his mind to do a thing, of putting
if aside until the proper time came.
It was a power we might any of us
covet.
He had decided to hire a large and
well constructed fishing vessel as soon
as he could find a suitable one. He
had decided to hunt thoroughly the
space he had decided it would be likely
Jahnway would cruise in. This was
a great undertaking. It was a strange
thing to do. It seemed quixotic. It
was entirely unprecedented in Frier's
experience. He was going outside of
anything he had ever known. He had
never heard of a detective doing as he
was about to do.
No matter, though all that were true.
? He had decided to go. He was going.
I^et his plans stand in general,
without further thought; let them wait
for the arrangement of details until a
more convenient season. "Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof," he
quoted, gravely, as he put thought of the
coming dangers and difficulties of the
ocean voyage resolutely from him and
took out the little book in which he
had put the analysis of the anonymous
|t*l Ifl .
"What shall I write? Shall it be:
Who killed Constance Craig?' Alas,
no; there is no use in writing that.
Shall?it?not?rather?he "
And he mused silently for some minutes.
"Yes." he said, aloud, suddenly and
with emphasis. "Yes, I will write that.
It will busy my mind for a little time.
But I will not write such a statement
of negations in my book; I will write
it elsewhere."
He closed his book. He put it in his
pocket. He drew a loose sheet of paper
toward him. He wrote on the first
line, in large letters:
"Who did not Kill Constance Craig.
He went on with his work, its follows:
"Gilbert Senn did not kill Constance
Craig. In spite of circumstantial evidence.
in all its strength?in spite oi
the new link in the chain which was
placed in my hand by Matilda Webb
when she was dying, Gilbert Senn is
innocent. He carries truth and honesty
in his face: I would stake my soul
on his honor: it does not need the
agreement of the anonymous letter
with the confession Jahnway sent me,
nor the fact that neither is like the
writing of this ill-used man, to prove
that Gilbert Senn is guiltless."
The detective was growing tired.
He suppressed a yawn; and then he
yawned, a half-minute later, without
ti-vinir rii soirmress it- ho looked sit the
inviting bed; he listened, from his
comfortable place before the fire, to the
wild night outside; his pen moved less
freely; lie wrote much less?said much
less aloud?and one could but have
I believed, could one have looked upon
J him, that he thought much less.
"Walter Aldtich did not kill Constance
Craig."
He wrote that. He said nothing.
His face darkened. Cndoubtedl.v he
believed Aldrich a liar. Rut he exonerated
him fiom all responsibility regarding
the greater crime?the crime
of murder.
"Elsie Senn is innocent."
It took no time for thought to enable
him to write that.
"John Kane is guiltless."
He muttered a half-apology to himself
for having used the clergyman's
name at all. And then, as he pushed
the ink from him, and sat lazily, s
moment or two, before rising, he
thought of the face he had seen in
Kane's album.
And he wrote, half unconsciously, the
yMuiitnyMntiifciyiitniiiiiiyiy 1
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: BOUTELLE. \
wiwywfiiwunfwwn ui HI IW HI i
name of one who had pone away from
his sight and knowledge long years be
fore:
"Lurline Bannottie."
Ho wrote that. He wrote no more.
He rose. He undressed. In Ave minutes
he had let the sound of the storm
soothe him to sleep. He slept as calmi
ly as though there were no mystery in
, the world?as calmly as though mur,
der were unheard of in all God's uniI
verse?as sweetly as he ever slept in
I the far vanished years, a helpless in,
fant on his mother's knee.
, Prier awoke in the early morning.
, The night lingered yet. especially In so *
dark a place as was Jahnway Park,
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I Willi IIS X1 letIl> UIIU llIK n-."3jj?raua?6
tre^s. But the storin was done, and s
the snow lay everywhere in fantastic
drifts of virgin whiteness, type of a
better world and a better, better fu- 8
tuiv, sometime, somewhere. t
The detective rose at once. He descended
to the dining room. Philip I
was evidently pleased at his punctuality;
he was just a minute early. The <3
meal was as good as the one of the f
evening before. Mr. Prier did as am- t
pie justice to it as he had to the supper?
perhaps because the thought of r
his coming sea voyage made him hun- c
gry already. At six o'clock the sleigh,
large and comfortable, full of robes q
and blankets, came to the door. Mr. I
Prier took his seat in it. Philip took a t
seat beside him. The driver spoke to >
the horses. Away they went, through
the keen air of the bright morning, to v
the station. Philip, or Philip's master, i<
had arranged the time for the successive
events in Prier's visit with great b
care and thoughtfulness?the train was
already in sight when they arrived at e
Jahnway Station, after an almost si- t
lent and decidedly unsocial drive. The JJ
train rolled up to the station. Prier 1'
turned and shook hands with Philip, v
Philip bowed gravely to the detective, 1'
and said a few words of stately fare- v
well to him as he stepped from the v
sleigh. Then, as Prier got aboard, he ?i
drove back toward Jahnway Park,
neither he nor the driver looking be- r
hind to see what might or might not b
happen. They had obeyed Jasper v
Jahnway's orders; they had been given t
unthinking: ana unquestionea merai ?
obedience for so many years that curl- e
osity had been crucified within them, a
Why should they look back? But Prier, d
looking after the hurrying sleigh with a t
return of that grim smile we have seen t
on his face so many times, stepped off d
the train as it rolled away, and entered P
the waiting room of the little station. e
The first man he saw was Patsy o
Gullens. Patsy Gullens was not a h
worker: he was usually at leisure; and h
he found his pleasure in being where P
the greatest excitement, which came a
toward his narrow and humdrum life
could be found. He rarely missed
seeing any train which passed Jahn- n
way Station?be the time day or night, s
summer or winter?and be the weather
hot or cold, wet or dry. Perhaps. ''
had Patsy Gullens's lot been cast un- K
der other influences, and amid other
scenes, he might have been a different
man. It is hard, for a man whose
nerves must be irritated with excite- t
ment in order that he may live, to be o
shut away from the world and its P
pleasures as was Patsy Gullens. A call
for him to go away, whatever the
place?the reason??ne worn?wouia dc
a temptation lie would lind it hard to g
refuse. d
"Good morning:. Mr. Gullens," said
Prier.
"Good morning."
"I'd like to ask you a few questions
this morning." t
"All right. About Jasper Jahnway?" n
"Yes. I didn't find Jahnway at
home."
"I knew you wouldn't." v
"You knew he was away?"
"Yes."
"Why didn't you tell me. then?" a
"You didn't ask me, and besides, after
I found out what sort of a man you
were?found out you really amounted
to something?you did not give me i
any chance."
Prier laughed. y
"I guess there is something in that. s
Hut. if you know that, he is away, j>er- v
haps you know where la1 has gone? t.
where 1 can find him. Do you?" a
"No, I don't. And I don't think any \
one does. He went away in his yacht, (j
some few days ago?I don't know just \
how many?and no one knows why he
went, where he went, or how long he
will remain away?at least no one y
, knows that I've had any chance to talk \
i with about it."
"Do you know the name of his
, yacht?" s
"Certainly?the Homeward Bound."
"A good vessel?" v
"I think so, I "
"You've seen her. of course?" 1
"Yes." 1
| "Ever been aboard?" f
-No." *
"Would you think, from what you r
, know of her. that she'd do to cross the ,
ocean in?" 1
Patsy (1 aliens looked away toward :l
the seii. the Ions billows of which, huge s
and sullen still by reason of the buffet'
ing of last night's storm, could be seen f
in the distance, sweeping in toward j
shore, while the thunder of their eter- j
nal tramp on the beach came harsh
and strong upon the breeze of morn- v
. ing. His eyes glittered. His cheeks
! flushed. His form straightened. For ,
a little time he was not the slouching
braggart and cowardly wretch he had
been for years; for a half-minute he a
seemed a man?in a good, almost in the .
best, sense of the word?a man. ,
Then the passion died out of his j
face. The flush faded from his cheek, j
leaving only the red which was the (
seal and signet of the dominion of al- (
coltol. His shoulders bent again. He v
i turned to Prier. ^
1 "I've lived here all my life," he said,
i sullenly, "here at Jahnway Station: I've ]
' never been twenty miles from where t
i we are standing in all the years I have t
lived. I've seen the sea every day; I've |
> listened to it every night; and I've f
lever been out far enough to be out of
dght of land. Fishing alongshore?
kVhen 1 had to; lighting; drinking;
ounging around this station to see the
[rains pass, carrying with them some
r>int of the world outside: this has been
riy life. I cannot read. I cannot
.vrite. I have been a lazy fellow always.
But?I can't help loving the
>cean; and so, when you ask me wheth?r
I think Homeward Bound would do
:o cross the ocean in, I say I'd cross
:he ocean in her?if I had the chance."
Prier smiled. He had seen this sort
>f man before. Men, passion wrecked
jecause of the quiet barrenness of
heir lives, men mad for something
hey had never known and could not
magine. were not new to him.
"You'd like to go to sea, would you?"
u- asked.
"Like it? Indeed I would. Hut
here's the wife and children. I?I
:ouldn't leave them to starve you
mow."
"To starve?" Then changing his
roice so that a strain of sternness
sounded in it. while he looked closely
ind critically at the man before him,
3rier asked; "How much better than
hat has it been for them, I'd like to
mow ?"
Gullens scowled.
"1 don't know as it is for you to
isk?" he replied, gruffly.
"But 1 do ask."
"I wouldn't let any of the boys here
it Jahnway Station ask such a quesion.
They wouldn't dare."
"Perhaps not. I presume not. But
dare. I ask it?"
There was a pause. Gullens looked
lown. He worked the snow back and
orth, nervously and tremblingly, with
he toe of his boot.
Then, suddenly, the detective's voice
ang out, clear as a bell, sharp and Inisive
as a knife:
"And I am in the habit of having my
luestions answered when I ask them,
low much better than starvation has
he condition of your family been for
ears?"
Gullens did not look up. He only
forked the snow to and fro more rapdly.
"How often have they suffered for
read that you might have liquor?"
Gullens's hand clasped and unclaspd
themselves. He was in torture?on
he rack: not so much because of the
ticture the detective's words brought
lonie to him, with its long tale of print
ion for his family and disgrace to
limself, but because he had met a man
those appeal he did not dare to meet
fith the argument of hrute force?a
nan he did not dare to threaten.
He clinched his hands; the words of
he detective seemed burning in his
rain. He unclinched them again; he
ras thinking of the story Prier had
old him twelve hours before of his
kill as a boxer. He felt in his pockt
for his knife, a wicked weapon, and
dangerous thing in the hands of a
esperate man; he was pondering on
he scorn Prier had put into the queslons
he had asked. He let the knife
rop from his hand, "back into his
ocket again, and drew his hand out
mpty; he was thinking of the falling
f the dead leaf through the snowy air
ist night, and wondering why Prier's
and was resting carelessly in the
ocket of his coat as he waited for his
nswer.
Come. Gullens," said Prier, sternly,
I've waited long enough. Give me
ny answer. How much better than
tarvation?"
Gullens glanced up. For one second
e faced Prier's eyes. Then his
lance fell.
"Not much, 1 suppose," he said.
Prler had conquered.
"Very well; now let us get back to
he questions again. Do you think any
lie would try to cross the ocean in the
lomeward Bound?"
"No; not unless he was a fool, or?"
"Well, or whom?"
."Or Jasper Jahnway. There's no
uessing what he would or wouldn't
o."
"You don't like Jasper Jahnway?"
"No, sir; 1 don't."
"You aire afraid of him?"
"Yes," sullenly; "1 told you last night
hat I am afraid of him?the only
nan I ever met "
"The only one?" said Prier, quietly;
the only man you ever met of whom
ou are afraid? Are you sure of that?"
"Weil, the only one except you."
"Ah? You are afraid of me, then,
re you?"
"Yes, I am."
"And perhaps you dislike me, too?"
I (ion l Know yei. i u icu juu nucu
do."
"Will you? Thank you. Now do
ou know where I can hire a goodized,
thoroughly seaworthy fishing
essel, crew and all. I want a good,
omfortable cabin for myself, comfortble
ciuarters for the crew, and I
rant a captain and men who can be
lepended upon in every respect. The
essel must be a swift sailer, and?"
"How swift?" queried Gullens.
"Swift enough to outsail the Homerard
Bound, if possible? Do you think
ou can tell me >vhere I can find such
. vessel?"
"I think so. Are you going out to
ea to try and find Mr. Jahnway?"
"I am. Will you go with me? The
rages will be good, and "
"Will I go with you?" cried Gulens.
springing forward and grasping
tier's hand: "will I go with you? Inleed
I will. And you asked me whethr
I dislike you or not. I'll tell you
low. I like you?I?I?I'll go through
? Ull'OUgn?uirougn pern<i.|>? jouu
-ather not hear the word, but through
i warmer place than there is in Maine
uch a morning as this, for you."
"All right." said Prier, smiling at the
VIlow's enthusiastic extravagance of
anguage, and pleased at the new manmud
which seemed rising within him;
all right. Now, when and how can
?>u find out about the vessel?"
"Here, at Jahnway's Station. And
low. I won't be gone an hour."
And he hurried away.
Prier stood on the platform, looking
iway over the snowy fields, white and
uire and glistening. He looked up the
oad to where the rails seemed to meet
n the distance and disappear?as
Memories meet and fade in the past;
lown the road to the converging of
he rails?as hope finds a point beyond
vhich the limitations of the human
toul will not permit it to be seen.
He was musing now, much as he
lad mused last night when he wrote
hat which occupied his last waking
houghts. Carelessly and thoughtlessly
ie took it from his pocket; heedlessly
>e read it; absentmindedly he tore it
into tiny fragments, tossed them from
him, and the wintry winds scattered
them beyond any hope of their ever
being brought together again:
"Gilbert Senn did not kill Constance
Craig. In spite of circumstantial evidence,
in all its strength?in spite of
the new link in the chain which was
placed in my hand by Matilda Webb
when she was dying, Gilbert Senn is
innocent. He carries truth and honesty
in his face; I would stake my soul on
his honor; it does not need the agreement
of the anonymous letter with the
confession Jahnway sent me, nor the i
fact that neither is like the writing of I
this ill-used man, to prove that Gilbert
Senn is guiltless.
"Walter Aldrlch did not kill Constance
Craig.
"Elsie Senn is innocent.
"John Kane is guiltless.
"Kurline Rannottie."
To be Continued.
dtttiscrlliutcous grading.
FAIR EASTERN SMUGGLER.
How a Turkish Woman Evaded the
Customs Officers.
Of course women are better smugglers
than men, says the Westminster
Gazette. Every custom house officer
of the western world is well
aware of that fact. Rut notwithstanding
Pierre Loti's recent revelations
as to the modernization of the
Turkish harem and the revolt of its
daughters, it seems strangely incongruous
that the veiled ladies who flit
in ghost like fashion about the streets
of Constantinople should not only
travel alone by train but defy the custom
house officer with a brazenness
that would do credit to a globe trotting
woman of the north or west,
Such, however, is the case, according
to a lady correspondent who some
time ago traveled in a ladies' carriage
from Constantinople to Sofia in
the company of a wealthy Turkish
lady.
By the help of a few French, Turkish
and Greek phrases we began a
queer sort of conversation, and my
traveling companion explained that
she was going on a visit to a married
sister in Bulgaria. Perhaps in order
to impress one with the idea of her
wealth, she showed all manner of
beautiful presents which she carried
with her in various pieces of luggage.
There were towels with wide embroidered
borders, handkerchiefs with fine
needlework corners and hems, veils
and scarfs of eastern silk and ever so
many other things, which I duly admired.
Then she pointed to the enormous
hassock under her feet. "Coffee,"
she said. There must have been
twenty pounds in it.
Knowing that the Bulgarian custom
house officers keep their sharpest eye
on coffee and cigarettes, and that we
were rapidly nearing the frontier, I
gave vent to my feelings by exclaiming:
"But the custom house!" ..But
my Turkish lady, with the characteristic
movement of the head which with
Orientals implies negation, clicked her
tongue and said, "Non lie vient pas
ici," obviously meaning the customs
officers.
At davdawn we reach Hermann, the
frontier station. The officer came to
our carriage, cast a glance into our
compartment, saw the Turkish lady
(who meanwhile had put her "feredshi"
over her head) and disappeared at
once, in deference to the Mohamme
dan objection that a woman should be
-seen by any man outside the harem.
After a while an old woman appeared.
"Hanum" (madam), she said, "the
customs officer sends me to ask whether
thou bast anything on which a duty
should be paid?" "Say to the child of
the desert." was the dignified reply,
that I have nothing but the things 1
require. A little coffee for the journey."
And she put down the front of her
dainty little traveling coffee machine
and a spirit lamp and began to prepare
her breakfast, throwing as an afterthought
a few coins and cigarettes
at the oid woman's feet. With a
blessing and a grin on her lips the
crone left the carriage. The customs
were passed, and I thought sadly of
all sorts of beautiful things which I
had not bought at the large bazaar at
Constantinople for fear of the customs.
GETTING THROUGH JAP LINES.
Chinese Spy Carried a Message From
One Russian General to Another.
Chinese honesty is proverbial, but
would seem to have its exceptions.
The Rev. John H. K. De Forest of
Auburndale, for thirty-five years resident
in Japan and high in the confidence
of Japanese statesmen and officials.
told of an episode of which he
had personal knowledge while with
the army of Kuroki in Manchuria:
"Some of the spies used by both
sides during the war were Chinese,"
he said. "Complications not infrequently
resulted.
"Kuropatkin one day had a particularly
important message to send to
General Stoessel. To get through the
Japanese lines seemed almost out of
the question, but the Russian commander
went to a Chinese famous for
his skill and intrepidity. The old fellow
didn't want to risk it, but Kuropatkin
cajoled him to it. giving him
$300 and promised him $200 when he
returned.
"When he reached the vicinity of
the Japanese lines, with an intention
that had evidently been with him
from the start, he went straight to
Kuroki. insisting that his business
was very pressing.
"He explained in full to Kuroki
that the Russian general had given
him a task which he could not perform
because of the admirable disposition
of the Japanese forces, that
therefore he hah done tne next oesi
thins and eome straight to the illustrious
leader of the triumphant Japanese.
"Ivuroki read the dispatch, gave it
back to him. bade him go on to Stoessel
with it and return with the answer
to the Japanese camp, where
he would receive $500 and be permitted
to carry the answer on to Kuropatkin
and collect his remaining $200.
The Chinaman carried out his instructions
in detail and collected for
his exploit $1,000."?Boston Herald.
?*jr in Norway he who cuts down a
tree must always plant three trees in
its place.
CALLAO, LIMA AND PERU. th<
Th
Information About the Country Vis- wa
ited by the Battleship Fleet. vai
In response to public interest and
inquiries which are constantly coming an
to the bureau about countries visited
by tiie fleet, the director of the inter- ^
national bureau of the American Republics,
John Barrett, has prepared
the following data about Callao, the ^
pori, Lima, the capital city, and Peru ,
du;
in general:
Callao, v-here the American battle ^
fleet is now making its fourth stop in
Its cruise around South America, is Jg
one of the most Important ports on ler
the Pacific side, and Is the great de- pe
pot for the. commerce of Peru. It Is
po
second only to Valparaiso. Chili. 1.500 .
miles to Ihe south. Approximately
one-half of the foreign trade of Peru, '
which amounted last year to more
than $50,000,000, passes in and out of Ac
Caliao, making it a busy, active and
Industrious city. Fully 1,000 vessels ^
put into the harbor every year, and
twenty steamships, together with forty
sailing crafts, may any day be seen j
lying at anchor In the hay. .
Caliao is one of the finest and safest .
tru
harbors on the Pacific, and the I'eruP0i
vian government Is showing great ^
energy not only to make it modern, nQ)
corjVenient and secure, but also to ^
equip the city itself with every neces- (^
siti for comfortable and hygienic llv- ^ (
ingj There are massive wharves at .
the water's edge, protected by a pier ^
SOft feet long: this pier is connected t<i
with the shore by a bridge, built on
iron piles, 2.800 feet long. In the bay ^
is a floating dock which will admit
vessels of twenty-one feet draught ^
and 5.000 tons weight. Steamships lie
alongside the wharves and freight Is
transhipped immediately into cars on
tracks within a few feet of the water.
The resemblance to a modern port like 1
Havre or Hook of Holland Is remark
. . pla
ably striking. ine macninery aooui
there docks is chiefly electric, the pow- spa
the
er being drawn from streams only a
.sor
small distance hack in the mountains.
A natural protection of the bay is *
the Island of San Lorenzo, which shel- .
ters the city from southwest storms. ,n
Adjacent to San Lorenzo is the Palo- coi
Th
minos group, on which is a nowerful
lighthouse, the light from which is
visible for eighteen miles. Just re- wa
cently erected Is a tower for wireless
telegraphy, and communication by this hai
means will soon be in operation all
along the coast.
Callao as a town is very old. its In
foundation dating back to the year na
1537. The original site was destroy- acr
ed bv an earthquake in 1746 and swal- s'u
lowed up by the sen. The present city ns'
vet retains some traces of its earlier
history, in the narrow and irregular a I1
streets, but today it has grown away ^
from such conditions, and is modern fra
in every sense of the word. The population
numbers 32,000, although !n the 'ec
daytime it would seem much larger, 171,1
because many men come here during wo
business hours but return in the af- sca
teTfcoon to their homes In Lima. p<^
Lima, the capital of Peru, is only P'?
nine miles from Callao, and lies 500 vej
feet higher, close against the foothills an(
of the Andes. Two steam and one
electric trolley lines connect the cap- ^OI
' * . ?^ XI sufc
uai wun me port, ana mere is uesldes
a fine avenue for carriages, so
that the traveler can easily and quick- ma
lv go from one city to the other at Ye
any time. This is one of the most ro- car
mantic spots of Spanish America, vy- on<
ing with the City of Mexico in the in- on<
terests which show the influence of
Europe upon the newly discovered 1
America, but Limn is far more than mn
a eitv of churches, plazas, monasteries anc
and houses of grandees of Spain. ^rc
Nevertheless, the impress of Pizarro 1110
ifei
and the viceroys should not be forgotten,
for Lima was at one time the Krr
centre of government for all South 'n '
America, and her authority extended not
from Panama to Buenos Ayres. Tt is a(^
one of the most beautiful cities of the
western world, and enjoys a climate cot
T it
which, without exaggeration, can be
called perpetual spring.
Lima also has a new avenue. Co- thp
lumbus avendia. nearly half a mile n01
long, at the end of which is the sta- s'n
tue of Columbus, reproduced in the p J
statue at the front of the Pe Lesseps *'n
house at Colon, on the Tsthumus of aiu
Panama. This is the fashionable thf
drive and promenade of society. Oth- t>a
er new streets testify to the rapid ad- ^or
vance the city is making. Electric Sai
* ab<
n^nis, ironey I'ars, uuuiiuuni nuici
and such public utilities are making c'u
this city of ISO.000 inhabitants fully abf
abreast of the times. Lima is the "ni
seat of the oldest university in Amer- me
ica. founded here in 1551. Not so pi
sin
very far from Lima as distances go in
South America, are the battlefields of
fen
Junin and Ayaeucho. where. In 1824
was fought the final struggle by which ' ,
Spain lost forever her hold on this
part of the world.
is 1
Peru has great advantage over othclo
er Republics of South America. She
is a transcontinental country, having P&|
a coast line on the Pacific of 1.600 a
est
miles, from which the whole world
can be reached, yet one of the great
commercial centres of Peru is Tquitos, ^ej
an inland city on the Atlantic water- ?
or
shed. From Tquitos ocean steamers , (
pass 2.000 miles down the Amazon \
the
through the Brazilian port of Manaos
and proceed to New York or Europe.
ere
just as if they had come from a coast j ^
town on salt water. This is an advantage
possessed by no other country
except Columbia, which has ports on
Pn^piKKaon / 4 find tllC
the Pacific. Gre
The variety of natural product? mo
within Peru's confines adds greatly to
her promise for future growth. Her
wealth does not by any means depend an<
upon minerals alone. She is a large I"
sugar producer: her cotton is famous u'a
for certain good qualities: she exports ?ov
hides, coffee and rice; silver, petroleum
and salt: guano is dug from its Pe'"
beds, and the native rubber tracts un- ufa
der cultivation are yielding riches to tee
their possessors. PP"
The government is today wide- s,a
awake and ambitious. It encourages
railroads, it invites foreign capital to
invest money in well-secured enterprises,
and has already entered upon ^ .
a career of substantial industrial
prosperity. Peru is a little less than
fifteen times the size of New York ^
state. Her climate embraces every
kind from the tropics to perpetual
snows. There is no known plant or %Aanimal
that will not grow here. The are
most famous engineering structure in Fa
the world, the Oroya railway, built by ott
Henry Meigs, the American, runs from ea.<
? Pacific ocean across the Andes,
e highest navigated body of fresh
ter, I^ake Tlticaca, and the Harrd
astronomical observatory, from
lich the most accurate observations
i taken from halfway up El Mlsti,
ar Arequipa, are institutions of
lich Peru is justly proud.
Peru has a population approximat:
5,000,000. The country is there e
not so sparsely settled as might
imagined, and the people are instrious
and home loving. The reblic
comes within what may be
led the canal belt, and when this
finished, when rail communication
established between the upper was
of the Amazon and the Pacific,
ru is sure to become one of the
iverful factors in the life of South
1 erica.
THE DYING EARTH.
cording to This Theory the Deserts
Are Spreading.
Deserts already exist on the earth.
i the nameless horror that attaches
the word in the thoughts of all who
ve had experience of them are glftwlth
imagination to conceive Is In
th greater than we commonly sup?e.
For the cosmic circumstance
jut them which is most terrible is
t that deserts are but that deserts
re begun to be. Not as local, cvlde
evils are they only to be pictured
L as the general unescapable death
p on our world. For It is the beir.ing
of the end. What depaupers
the forests to grass lands and
>nce to wastes must in turn attack
s sea bottoms when they shall have
rted with their seas. Last of the
tile spots upon the planet because
the salts the streams have for ages
shed down and of the remnant of
isture that would still drain Into
m. eventually they must share the
tune of their predecessors and ihe
net roll a parched orb through
ice. The picture is forbidding; but
i fact seems one to which we are in
ne sort already adventured,
rirriling the earth with what it
:es but little personification to liken
the life extinguishing serpent's
Is run two desert belts of country.
r- ?mic i'miwnn, i"usmi>
Tropic of Cancer, extending northrd
from it; the other, the Tropic of
prlcorn. Arizona Is in the northern
*d. as are the Sahara. Arabia and
deserts of central Asia.
Cow. these desert belts are growing,
the great desert of northern Arlzothe
traveler, threading his way
oss a sagebrush and cacti plain
it in by abrupt sided shelves of land
ng here and there some hundreds
feet higher, suddenly comes upon
etrifled forest.
rrunks of trees in all stages of
cture strew the ground over a
,ce of some miles in extent. So pert
are their forms he is almost
fided to think the usual wasteful
od chopper has been by and left the
ttered products of his art in litterconfusion
upon the scene of his exit.
Only their beautiful color con's
a sense of strangeness to the eye,
1 leaning down and touching them
finds that they are?stone. Chalcely.
not carbon! Form has outlived
stance and kept the resemblance,
lie the particles of the original
tter have all been spirited away,
t so perfect is the presentment one
i hardly believe the fact, and where
? fallen giant spans a little canon
? almost thinks to hear the sound
water rushing down the creek,
^ut it is some millions of years and
re since this catastrophe befell,
1 the torrent uprooting it left it
?ne, with limbs outstretched in fugrasp
upon the other side. A con..
if ,..no nnnclr. nnlv in o, W.V, no
>w today, and flourished probably
the Cretaceous era. for the land has
been under water here since the
:ent of tertiary times.
Nowhere nearMt, except for the rare
tomvoods along the bank of the
tie Colorado, grows anything loir.
The land which once supported
se forests is incompetent to do so
iv. Yet nothing has changed there
ce except the decreasing water sup.
During tertiary and quaternary
le the rainfall has been growing less
1 less. Proof of this is offered by
> great pine oasis that caps the plau
of which these petrified forests
m a part and is kernelled by the
l Francisco peaks. The height
>ve sea level of the spot where the
ilcedon.v trunks are strewn is
?ut 4.500 feet: the lower present
lit of the pine in its full developnt
is 6.500 feet. Two thousand feet
ward the verdure line has retreated
ce the former forests were. And
other side of the plateau petrified
aains of trees are similarly found,
s is no local alteration, for upon
I'he line of perpetual green has risen
ause in desert regions the moisture
round most plentiful nearest to the
uds. from which it falls upon a
ching earth. Streams instead of
hering volume as they go are largnear
their source, and grow less i
1 less with each fresh mile of flow,
p brooks descending from the Antijanon,
in Syria, water the gardens <
Damascus, and, thence issuing upon
*1 14..,.+
plain, lose ineiuseivtrn ju.n ucjumu
threshold of its gates. So in the i
zona desert, though in a less de- :
e, and those who live there know i
>ut too well.?Century. ,
' Today there are fewer saloons in
thirteen southern states than in i
ater New York and only a few
re than in the city of Chicago. In 1
iv York there are 30,000 places i
ere liquor is sold, in Chicago 28,000 1
1 in the entire south only 29,000.
New York state the estimated poption
in 1905 was 8,160.000, and the
ernment issued in the state that
r 34.080 "special-tax stamps" to
sons desiring to engage in the mancture
and sale of liquor. The thirn
southern states, with 23.500,000
>I?Ie, secured in 1906 less than 30,000
nips.
? The highest clouds reach ten
les above our heads. They are the
ite, feathery forms which we see
a clear day. Although apparently
lion I ess, they travel from seventy?
to ninety miles an hour.
" Diamonds, pearls and turquoises
; the precious stones best imitated,
lse rubies and sapphires, on the
ler hand, may be detected with
se.
CABIN BOYS AND KING OSCAR.
Senator Perkins's Adventure When a
Youth In Swedish Royal Garden.
It is not often two boys before the ;
mast enjoy an audience with a crown- >
ed head, but that was the experience of
United Slates Senator George Clement ,
Perkins of California and a "squarehead"
shipmate In the days of their ,
youth. Perkins was born and raised ,
in the quaint town of Kennebunkport,
Me., in the old times one of the great
shipping points of the Pine Tree State.
The roving blood of generations of ancestors
caused him to take "French ,
ItJtiYt? Ill HUIIlt? aiiu JOH1 H. 111CI UIItLU lman
which was bound for foreign parts.
At thp time Perkins was only 14 years
of age, and he shared the hard work
of cleaning up the cabin and the
foc'slc and doing other odd jobs with a ,
16-year-old youngster named Sandy.
The vessel put in at Stockholm, Swe- ,
den, and the two boys were granted |
shore leave. They wandered around the
city looking with goggle eyes at the
strange sights and finally came to a
garden which surrounded an imposing
mansion.
The youngsters sneaked over the
fence and walked about the grounds. (
Their promenade was Interrupted by a
benign looking middle aged man who
asked them in English how they had ,
entered and appeared to take the greatest
Interest in their adventure.
While the three were chattering several
soldiers dashed up and seized the
boys. They addressed the man with
great respect and released the Youngsters
when he told them to do so. A (
few more minutes were spent in the
company of their protector and then
the soldiers escorted the trespassers to
the gate.
"Do you know with whom you were
talking?" the boys were asked. And ,
their questioner, without giving them
an opportunity to respond, answered
himself:
"It was the king."
The good ship took Perkins to California.
where by industry and honesty
he acquired a fortune. In 1879 he was ,
inaugurated governor of the state. ,
While serving in this capacity he vis- |
ited tlie yacht of a millionaire friend. ,
As he boarded the vessel an old salt (
who was colling a rope straightened
up and ejacqlted:
"Well, by the great horn spoon, If
that ain't George Perkins!"
The governor Immediately recognized 1
his old shipmate Sandy. From that
time, almost a quarter of a century ago,
the latter has frequently profited by
the bounty of his boyhood friend. The |
senator says he frequently finds Sandy
a nuisance, but he cannot forget their j
cruise of long ago or fail to speculate
on what the cabin boy might have become
had he not taken to drink.? (
Washington Cor. Chicago Tribune.
THE CLEARING HOUSE.
(
Its Genesis and Manner of Settling I
Balances Among Banks. I
In its primary and simplest form, the i
form in which the fathers of the clear- <
Ing house system knew it, a clearing '
house is merely a centrally located
place where checks, drafts, bills, notes, '
or other kinds of credit Instruments 1
coming into the possession of the
banks are brought to be exchanged for ]
their equivalent In other similar credit ]
Instruments or for cash. Just as in 1
the old original "Kxcnange," wnere
merchants met to buy and sell commodities,
so do the banks through
clerks meet the exchange checks or
money for other checks or obligations
they owe or owed. To Illustrate we
must compare the old system of exchanging
claims against the respective
banks with that now in vogue in nearly
all the cities of the world having any
pretension to financial importance.
Under the old system a porter chosen
for his strength perhaps as much as
for his known honesty took all the
checks upon other banks that came
into his own bank's possession and went
the rounds from bank to bank collecting
his claims in the form of cash,
whether bank bills or gold. The result
was the carrying of large sums of
money through the streets, with the
consequent danger of loss by robbery
or carelessness. As the banks increased
in number an informal meeting of
the porters at one central point to exchange
checks for cash was a natural
evolution. This, however, was cumbersome
and oftentimes unsatisfactory
because of the lack of knowledge in
advance of the claim that would be
presented and of the sunls necessary
to meet them. Finally the banks tool:
cognizance of the necessities of the
case and arranged for a central
place of exchange, with a
manager and clerk? to supervise and
conduct the exchanges. This was the
genesis of the clearing house as it exists
today, and it may be said also that
a great many clearing houses are today
merely places of exchange for items
held by banks against other banks. 1
As to the nresent method of clearing 1
at. say. any of the larger clearing <
houses, the system in vogue at the New 1
York Clearing House may be cited as
exemplifying the modern plan of action.
Two clerks come from each bank
that is a member of the clearing house 1
each business day at 9.30. Exchanges
are made at 10 a. m. Each bank has
a desk assigned it, behind which sits S
one of the clerks, prepared to receive e
checks or other claims against his ?
bank. The other, or delivery clerk, has ?
a hag filled with checks against other ?
banks. At the stroke of a bell the line <
of delivery clerks moves slowly down (
and around the room, stopping at each '
other bank desk in turn, laying down t
the respective bundle of checks, get- '
ting receipts therefor, and passing on 1
until they have made the round of all ?
the bank desks and return to their own ?
desks. When the delivery clerk-re- 1
turns to his own desk he finds It piled .
high with checks left by other delivery i
clerks. After comparing the totals of ^
these checks with his fellow clerks' list
he takes them to his bank. The clerk ,
temaining adds his totals of checks re- t
reived front other banks and compares '
it with his original list of checks ,
against other banks which he made up j
before he left his own bank. The difference
between his two totals of checks 1
for and against his own bank is the ,
amount of balance his bank owes or <
is owed. If his bank owes more than
he receives from the other banks he
fills out a debit slip and hands it to the (
manager. If the total he receives Is <
less than what he has brought from his '
bank he fills out a credit slip. .
"lne imng Wiu.1 impresses yuu inu^i
Is the awful stillness. The slightest
sound seems like a cannon shot. You
get to talking to yourself, asking and
answering questions and lots of things
which you would not think of doing
down here, or If you did they would
be having a medical commission sitting
on you as a candidate for the dippy
house. About all you think of Is
bow to get enough to eat, for your appetite
increases as the supply of food
grows less. We got Into that condition
finally when it was get something
or begin to eat out boots.
"One morning my Indian came In
with a grin on his face. Now, an Indian
up there never smiles. In wrestling
with that frozen north they seem
to get sour and sullen. This made
me more surprised when the Indian
came Into the shack beaming.
Well, what Is It?' I Inquired.
" 'Moose, big moose,' was the reply.
Went by this morning; catch 'em
maybe.'
"That was enough for a hungry man.
[ went out and there were the footprints
of a big moose who had gone
by, as the Indian said, about three
bours before. I got into my coat,
strapped on my snowshoes, took my
rifle and we started after Mr. Moose.
We went about ten miles before we
saw him. He was on a hill side
browsing on the twigs. It was a long
shot. but I raised my rifle, when the
Indian touched my arm saying 'no
shoot.'
"I hesitated, but he Insisted, saying
no shoot now, bimeby maybe. By that
time the moose had sighted us and
started off at a rate which took him
jut of sight in a few minutes. We
were twenty miles further on when we
saw him again and were near enough
to try to shoot, but my Indian insisted
I must not. Well, we followed
that moose three day?. The big fellow
tired at last and started back the way
lie came, we following. Then we came
jp with him only a short distance from
the shack. 'Now shoot,' said the InJian.
I fired and the moose dropped.
"When it was all over and we had
neat in plenty und the big hide
stretched before the blazing fire in f
the shack I said to my Indian, 'Why
Jidn't you want me to shoot that
noose at first when he was not so
worn down as he was after that long
;hase?'
" 'Lose heap fun,' was the reply.
tVell, do you know when I came to
study over it I began to see his point
)f view. It was not so much the killng
as it was the chase which to him
,vas interesting, and he was willing to
ravel over forty or fifty miles just
' - > ? *?'1 ' f Ua m/kWA T f liAilffhf
,Wl lilt" IIUIIl, ailU IIIC 11 ivy 1 C JL lllVMgllV
)f it the more I agreed with him. I
lad been growing ugly and nervous
nyself before, but after that long
hase I was another man."?Milwautee
Sentinel.
STYRIAN ARSENIC EATERS.
They Rely Upon the Drug Both For
Beauty and Strength.
"Eating of arsenic is common in
5tyrla," said Alois E. Steinzierl, of VImna,
Austria, to a Washington Herild
reporter. "The Styrlans say that
irsenic makes one plump and comely
ind gives one strength for great ex;rtions,
such as running or mountain
dimbing. Styria, which is in Austria,
fives the world vast quantities of arsenic.
The manufacture of this drug
s. Indeed the main Styrian industry,
rhey who make arsenic eat it, as a
*ule, for they say that only the arsetic
eater can withstand arsenic fumes,
rhese makers and eaters of the drug
ire comely. They have a clear qolor
md look much younger than they are.
"The foreman in a certain factory
:old me that in his boyhood, when he
irst came to that plant, he was advised
to begin to eat arsenic, lest his
lealth sutYer from the fumes. He did
aegin, and his first two or three doses
?ave him a sharp pain, like a burn in
:he stomach, and this pain was followed
by tremendous hunger and a
/iolent disagreeable excitement. But
as his doses increased in frequency
and size their effect became pleasant.
There was no longer pain or excitement.
On the contrary, there was a
ravenous appetite and a mood of joyaus
activity wherein the youth could
io three men's work.
"This chap, by the time he got to
be 30, was taking four grains of arsenic
a day. He looked at 30, with his
ulear pink and white color, no more
than 23. He was as robust as a blacksmith.
But he said he would die at
15 or so, that being the age at which
all the Styrian arsenic eaters die."
The clerks of the clearing house have
a. memorandum of what he brought and
what he received, and, footing them
up, the manager knows what each
bank owes and what It should receive.
The totals of what Is owed by all of
the banks are the clearings, and the
differences then are alone to be settled
for. Usually the clearing house
sheets are finished and proved by 10.45
a. m., and fines are levied for any
mistakes made in footings. From 12.30
to 1.30 the banks settle for balances
they owe at the clearing house. Shortly
after 1.30 the clerks whose banks
are owed sums collect and return to
their banks. Differences due are paid,
If the sums are large, in certificates
representing gold deposited in the
vaults of the clearing house. Small
iidmiius uiu ncuifu ill iiinin. in nun, icgal
tenders and silver or copper coins.
All balances due at the New York
Clearing House are, therefore, settled
In cash.
Other clearing houses throughout
the country pursue very much the same
plan, some of them paying balances In
cash or its equivalent, some giving
New York exchange, and some cashiers'
checks, which are later presented
at the banks Issuing them or are passed
through the Clearing House the
next day. and others still have a varleey
of ways satisfactory to themselves
for settling the differences. There are
fully llli clearing houses in this country
and Canada reporting the total of
their exchanges each week and month,
and, representing as they do the payments
on account of all kinds of financial
transactions going on all over the
two countries each day, week, month
and year, they constitute a statistical
measure of the business of these countries
which is In a high degree valuable.?Frank
Greene In Review of Reviews.
WHEN TO SHOOT A M008E.
Hunter's Cure For the Blues In the
Canadian Wilderness.
"Did you ever spend the winter in
the woods up in Canada cruising for
timber?" said H. N. Brown. "Do you
know it Is a curious feeling being out
there alone, or with Just an Indian
guide.