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THEXDIER'S DIRGE. 'bead in the lie?dead on the field: vIore than hife can a soldier yield? :)ead for hisuntry. Muffle the drum3; "lowly the s.-proc'ession comes. The heart iy ache, but the heart must swell ' fith pride r tho soldier who fought so well. 3is blood h;burnishe 1 his sabre bright: To his memo', honor: to him, good night. ? ElizabetHarmaa, in Lippincott's Magtzine. j :THE lARNELIAN { ) ..OF.. , I GHOST VALLEY. 4 ? ? t | By 0Hn H. Raftery. $ When Colcni Dickinson had told his story of Cop>inger's fight with Indians at the batto of the Caverns, Processor Beekman, vhom we knew as an experienced ethnfiogist and traveler, showed no astom-hment at all over the manner in wlii-h the savages had burned their children at that famous "I believe all our aborigines were given to the same or umilar practices, though manifested in iifferent ways," jaid he. "It is not y?t thirty years iince I found 3s many is seven skele;ons of Navajo children u the branches of two trees in the Ghost Valley, one of the lost gorges southwest of the Mancos. Major Tuttle, who was living at Hermosillo when I last saw him, told me that the squaws of an old Navajo chief who was slain by the tfncompahgres away back ia the 50s had killed all their young as a sort of holocaust to the deity. It's a very odd story, and, come to think of it, I myself finally turned up as the unconscious agent of the Indian Manitou. "It was at Durango, after myself and a party of scientists had explored the cliff-dwellings of Mancos, that Major L Tuttle, who was agent at Red Mountain in those days, told us a lot of ' queer stories about Ghost Valley. It seems that the Uncompahgres, re-enforced by nearly 200 Piutes, had once surrounded and surprised a Navajo village which then nestled in its basin, and that the Navajos had not only lost most of their warriors, but that an idol of great age and 'experience' had been captured and either carried off or destroyed by the victors. Major Tuttle told us that the sacrifice of f. children had followed, and that to the present day the only surviving son of the beaten and slaughtered chief lived, an outcast and an object of supersti ? tious horror, near the Navajo reservation. This pariah of a once noble family had, according to Major Tuttle, gouged out one of his own eyes in the hope that this self-punishment might induce the gods to favor his search for the lost idol of the tribe, which had, it seems, but one eye. "You may be sure that after hearing Major Tuttle's story I was very anxious to penetrate Ghost Valley, and when we came to Hermosillo, which is at the edge of the Navajo's reservation, I set about finding a guide among the tribesmen who would lead our party into the historic basin. Major Tuttie, however, had gone to Denver, and I had to depend wholly upon my . own efforts. The settlers told me that neither Indians nor whites ever went into Ghost Valley. That it was known to be haunted, that its waters were poisonous and whosoever ventured within its howl-like depths returned no more. I tried to induce some of the f J Indians to lead me into the valley, but "they shrugged their shoulders at my offers of money, till at last a fine looking young buck who spoke pretty good English told me: 'You get Jim Look Once. Him go in Ghost Valley; Might never come - back, too. 411 right.' By which I un. derstood that Jim Look Once was the outcast son of the dead chief. And so it proved. I had no trouble in finding him nor in securing his services. He xwas an ill-favored, one-eyed Indian about 40 years old, stoop-shouldered, skulking and evidently bowed with the misfortunes of his forbears. A miner r.- named Schoolcraft, whom we had picked up at Silver City, and Dr. Hickman, the geologist, made up our party, and at daybreak one June morning, with Jim Look Once leading the pack mule, we started for Ghost Valley. On the evening of the second day, just as the - sun was sinking behind the western mountains, we stood upon a high shelf 17 of granite which looked sheer into the round bowl of the haunted valley. The depression, more than 2,000 feet m -depth and perhaps seven miles in circumference, was so beautiful in its motionless silence that I could hardly resist the desire to plunge onward into its mysteries. The yellow radiance of the evening sun seemed to sift even to'its depths; no sound of bird or ' breeze or waterfall broke the perfect silence; there was no motion in the tall trees or sprawling shrubs, nor in the weeds and vines which covered its precipitous walls with luminous verdure. "But we camped where we were for the night, and often during the dark hours I woke and saw Jim Look Once sitting at tne verge 01 the rock gazing i silenily into the shadowy abyss. No j .t howl of coyote or scream of night bird ! broke the stillness, and even when the sun reddened the east, nature seemed ^ to sleep on, voiceless and unmoved. The Indian led us down an almost perpendicular trail that seemed to vanish as the parted shrubbery closed behind us. When we reached the depths the air seemed suddenly cooled, and although we found no living water, we passed a pool covered with lily pads and yellow ooze that almost sickened us with its suffocating perfume. Almost in the centre of the oval bottom land we came upon traces of the burned Navajo village of long ago. Jim, our guide, here abandoned us to j our own resources and went ranging j about in the thicket like a bird dog j working the stublile. "We found the burial ground in the afternoon, and I think it was Dr. Hickman who came upon the seven baby skeletons. We tried to get our guide to go into some of the higher trees to j fetch us down some of the older skele- j tons, some of which, their weatherstained cerements yet clinging to them. I were in a good state of preservation, j but Jim Look Once showed a mortal j terror of hi3 ancestral dead and would not come near. Being the best climber*'in our party. I then essayed a tour ^ among the skeletons and had unfas^V?fiied^ fine articulate one and was comingXcarefully down, when the Indian sawNflie and set up an ear-splitting shriekX Then he darted away into : the dense u^er^rus^ an(* we 8aw him no more tn^t day. But a singular discovery distract^ our thoughts from the scared guide. When I got the skeleton down and examined its condition and counted the extraordinary fine teeth which ornamentedVhoth jaws, ! saw a beautiful polished sphere of -chalcedony, of a red darker most carnelian, and about as large ^j^an tgg, fixed between the clinched - *2 of the skull. We all wondered very roucb at the strangely beautiful specimen. but when I pried the jaws apart and examined the sphere I found that a segment of it had been cut away, showing an interior like that of the comrjon geod with glittering prismatic stalagmites, miscroscopicallv small but very brilliant. And, strangest of all, like a blue-green pupil of this tony orb, a smaller sphere of polished turquoise was set firmly, but without any evident metal, into the open aperture of the waxy carnelian. "Of course that was the chief reward of our descent into the Ghost Valley. Qur guide didn't come back that night or the next day. On the second night, while we were cheering ourselves with another inspection of the mysterious jewel. I thought I heard a faint rustling in the thicket, ana I'm sure I saw the green glare of some strange glowworm, which, as events transpired, might have been Jim Look Once's evil eye. However, we were famished for water and down to our lost J..scuit, when at last I stumbled across the lost trail and led my two fagged-out comrades out of the damp gorge. At Hermnssiiin T nacked my treasure away in my old leather field trunk. But our runaway Indian had not returned, and as we heard that Major Tuttle was down at Durango nursing a sprained ankle, wo all set off for thai camp full of our adventures in the haunted valley. We got there later than 10 o'clock at night, and it was nearly 11 the next morning when I arrived at his bedside and began to toll him the story of our adventures. When I got to the part about the big carnelian eye he sat up in his bed, with a very wild look in his face, and whispered: 'Before you say another word, where's that carnelian?' I told him it was packed away in my trunk at the hotel, and that I meant to bring it up and show it to him that very afternoon. 'But you won't, professor,' he said confidently, 'for it isn't in your trunk. It's on its way back to the Navajos at this minute. From my window early this j morning I saw Jim Look Once galloping up the Hermosa trail, and the look on his face was that of a transfigured brave.' "I refused to believe that my carnelian was gone, but I almost ran back to my hotel. I spent most of that day searching for it, and, though J my trunk was locked and its contents ! seemingly undisturbed, there was no trace of the treasure. Major Tuttle told me that night that I had found what the Navajos had prized most of all their lost riches, the eye of that old I idol that had been destroyed with the chief who once guarded it. Jim Look Once had probably watched me show- i ing it to my comrades and had followed j us in the night to Durango. I suppose he picked my pockets of the keys and opened the trunk while we slept. But 1 we never found out anything more of the mystery except that, when I visit.ed the Navajos five years ago old Jim Look Once was a 'heap big chief,' with many blankets and hundreds of ponies, and from a beaded girdle about his neck there swung a bulbous bag of buckskin, which, I doubt not, contained the sacred emblem of his nobility, the carnelian cf Ghost Valley."?Chicago Record-Herald. | i PEARLS Or THOJCHT. j r There Is a lool ai every leasu? i Dutch proverb. A gold key opens every door.? Italian proverb. A good conscience is a soft pillow.? ! German pro\erb. Indutsry is the parent of fortune.? German proverb. There is a remedy for everything but death.?Spanish proverb. It is not <-nough to run, one must start in time.?French proverb. He ^ho does not when he can cannot when he will.?Italian proverb. Feeling alone can conquer feeling. A noble passion must be aroused, that an ignoble one may be mastered.? Henry W. Crosskey. This ought to be our endeavor, to conquer ourselves, and daily wax stronger, and to make a further growth in holiness.?Thomas A. Kempis. The heights of spiritual attainment can only be safely reached by those who begin low down and mount upward by patient continuance in welldoing, by daily- faithfulness in that which is least.?C. W. Wellbeloved. We have a friend who knows us better than we know ourselves, loves us better than we love ourselves, helps us when we cannot help ourselves, forgives us when we cannot forgive ourselves, and in the midst of our deepest despair breathes into our heart the breath of a new and divine hope.? James Freeman Clarke. me Jti isioncni iivn. Concerning the historical novel a writer in the London Saturday Review makes a few bold assertions, which will probably call forth several discordant notes. Among other things he says: "It is a curious fact that there is not such a thing as a gfeat historic novel. In drama history has been used for great, tremendous purposes. No one can deny greatness to Shakespeare's "Henry IV." But no sooner does an historic novel get on the way to being great than it becomes dull. It must be amusing or it is nothing. The 'fact is if we want to take history seriously, to be interested in it, to get the true thrill and tragedy of it, we must go to those who have seriously studied it, who understand it, who can make us understand and feel it. The sheer story-maker also must have seriously studied it, must have been interested in it; but his ultimate object is quite different from the historian's. He does not want to tell the truth; he wants, ??j wp have said, to tell a story. He wants adventure, action, romance, the color and glory of active life lived in the bright sunlight. So far as the vast reading public is concerned Hugo is known only as a story-writer, and no one would dream of thinking about. Dumas as anything else." Neglected Baptism. A rather good story has been circulated respecting Canada's premier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, says the London News. While on a speechmaking tour through Ontario and the province of Quebec during the recent by-elections Sir Wilfrid received from a Quebec politician the following telegram: "Report in circulation in this country that your children have not been baptized. Telegraph denial." To which dispatch the premfer wired this reply: "Sorry to say the report i3 correct I have no children." As Time Passes. "Before we were married." said the nouroful looking little woman," my ! husband was a perfect cavalier." * j "Yes," answered Mrs, Ironjav -and low he's a perfect caviller."?Washington Star, k poigENQLD HINTS | C'hocol*r? ! rixtinj. A delicious frosting, and one thai is sure to turn out right be made by melting one-half pound of the best chocolate creams over a kettle of steam, When they are melted spread them over the cake. nmterpi] Wild Mnibronln*. Rinse carefully half a pound of mefrCt v mushrooms; cut the bottom Of the I sr?lks off; place upside do\v& in a baking tin; put a pea of butter in each one; sprinkle with a half-teaspoonful Of salt and the same amount of white pepper and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes, basting with melted butter. The Luncheon Sn!?d. Try, for a change* eoirtb hot day this summer, serving the luncheon salad in a mould of lice. Put a teacupful of rice that has been well washed into a kettle of boiling salted water, and <ook fifteen or twenty minutes, Of uil- , til the rice is perfectly tender* Theft \.ako from the fire, draft*, Unci toss through it lightly with a silver fork a teaspoonful of Salt and a half-teaspoonful of paprica. Mould in a ring mould which has been oiled with a few drops of olive oil, and use as a border, when thoroughly cold, for a salad of vegetables or fish and celery that has been prepared with a French dressing and kept chilled on the ice.? Harper's Bazar. Boston Brown Bread. No hot bread is more tempting or more wholesome than the Boston brown bread at its best. To make it as it is made at home it is necessary to obtain rye meal in place of the flour which is ordinarily used, but the result amply repays the trouble, which need not be excessive, as the meal can usually be found at feed stores of the larger and better sort. Mix together one and one-half pints of the rye meal and of southern corn meal. Stir into them one teaspoonful of salt and one cup of malasses. Mix all together with one and one-quarter pints of hot milk, and then add one heaping teaspoonful of baking soda dissolved in a little boiling water. Pour into a well-buttered mold, cover tightly and steam for four hours. Serve hot with butter or cream. Uoitin Mndfi 1're.Mtrve*, Fruit for preserving should be sound and fresh; it should be gathered in dry weather and the jam should bo made as soon as possible after picking or buying the fruit. Cut loaf sugar Is best and most economical to use, as it throws up less scum and make? a clearer syrup. In making jam be careful to stir it all the time and to. skim It carefully. Stir it with n long wooden spoon. To test if the jam is made pour a little off the I snoon on a date: if it sets it is done. I * - Use plenty of sugar; If too little is used it will not keep; if too much it will candy. Allow three-quarters of a pound to each pound of fruit; to stone fruit allow a pound. Put the preserving kettle with the fruit in it on the back or the side of the fire. Sprinkle a little sugar over the fruit, and as the fruit becomes more liquid add the remainder of the sugar. When the sugar has all dissolved put the kettle o\-er the hot part of the fire and bring it to a boil. Let it boil twenty minutes, keeping it constantly stirred and skimmed; then try a little on a plate" and see if it will set; if it does not, continue to cook for a little while longer. It is impossible to lay down a rule as to the exact time it takes to cook the fruit. This depends on the method employed, the kind of fruit, and whether it is quickly or slowly boiled. When the jam is cooked put it into glass jars when it is sufficiently cool and cover it to exclude the air. This may be done with the specially prepared covers, or paper may be brushed over with the white of an egg and put on while damp. Jams must be kept in a cool, dry place. Damp will make them get moldy and heat will make them ferment. Stir strawberries very carefully so as not to break the fruit Pour the jam, when cool enough, into jars and place a piece of oiled paper over the ! jam and over this a paper dipped in | the white of an egg. For strawberry ! jam the juice of three or four pints j of white or red currants prepared as for currant jelly will greatly improve the flavor. To make red currant jelly stalk the currants and put them into a double boiler until the juice is drawn out. Strain the juice and allow a pound of loaf sugar to every pint. Put into the preserving kettle and bring to a ptim'tiu +V10 iollv frnicto n 11 v until UUil, OU11U15 JViiJ UMV?* it will set and removing the scum as it rises.?American Queen. Note* for tlie Honsewifo. Hot water and soda will remove most grease stains. Coarse brown paper, such as is used by butchers, is best for draining fried things upon. Make tough meat tender by washing it in vinegar, rinsing this off before cooking the meat. Linen may be made beautifully white by the use of a little refined borax in the water, instead of using a washing fluid. Never leave a lemon or any acid jelly in a tin mold over night because it spoils the taste. Agate or earthenware molds arc best. If In baking cakes or gems in gen pans there is not enough batter to fill all the little pans, put water into the ; empty ones to prevent their burning. To put wide wicks in lamps or oil stoves thoroughly starch, dry and iron tho wirfc and it will slin in easilv without interference with its duty as j 1 conductor of oil. j 1 Scarfs in sheer linen in natural color make excellent bureau covers if em broidered in bright colors and placed over slips of pink or blue or cardinal scarlet which shows through the linen meshes. I A self basting roasting pan is now j included among the conveniences at the command of the housewife an'd j 1 meats and poultry may be left to take > care of themselves during the allotted time required for their cooking. The pods of peas which we extrava gantly throw away are never wasted by the thrifty Frenchwoman. Covered with water, they are allowed to simmer. then pressed through a colander. This makes an excellent stock in which to boil lettuce. With the addition of a single slice of bacon, a pinch of thyme and a clove of garlic it makes an unusually good soup. C^ed.p Foreign Newspapers. It remains to be seen whether Paris will appreciate its newspaper?La Journee?which is published at a farthing. A great difficulty is that hu French coin exists of the value 6t ft farthing, heftce the subscribers have to pay a sott, and cut off a mftricee corner, numbers of Which tan bo cashed 'at the newspaper offices. In this vy>uhiry farthing newspapers tailed to take with the public. Great hopes wOre entertained when The Penny a Weeh Country Daily Newspaper was published, 'in July, V$7$. The page Was twelve inches by eight, consisted of three columns, and a week's supply of papers was said to con't?J.h matter equal to thirty columns of The Times. As its title Implies, a penny covered the week's subscription, but a farthing was charged for a single copy. In the following September its name wfts ftltered to The Sun, but it just lift gOred for a time, and Was a pronounced sOo'cps3.~-London Chronicle. A DRUMMER. Bacon?What's his business? Egbert?Why ho.V 8. drummer Wr automobiles. l'v.T- V.?.?* L .1 ?_ tJ&eoii?uiv, ine-v nave arummers for those things, do they? Well, it's e tgfjCd idea. I think it would be much safer if they had a drummer and a flfer go in front of each of tho machines.?Yc-nkers Statesman, HE SLEEPS. "Has your !husba?d a. good ear for ttitlsic?" iaskeii Mrs. Oldgirl of Mrs. Kew*&. "I'm afraid not," replied Mrs. Newed. "He seems to think every' thing he hears played in church Is a lullaby."?Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. THE "FRISCO SYSTEM" ?&AI&ED. A Few Lines Fro^ft fone of Its Patrons. Trenton, Ga , July 8, 1902. Mh. W". T. Saunders, G. A. P. D., b r 8co System. Atlanta, Ga.: My Dear Sir?Having h d extensive travel over the Fr 6co System through the courtesy of yourself and Air. K. 'i. Heed, of t. Lou s. 11 . ko the lberty of fidd: ess ng you to express my since: e appreciation and thanks for jt u.r klhUhttes 1 have been unable to hear anything regatdlng your ro?d but words e? praise and commendation from theae Wh > patronize the Frisco 1 WtfUt to say tbat 1 legard the equlj mont- elegant reaches lighted uy electric lights ar.d dellgh Hilly cooled in summer by eiectr c fane, together with rapid t:an?j oitatlon and c che connection?vs second to none ever Which I have tr .veled. As h s been my pol>vy lFi the past. 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I HEADACHE by i | n0ured(jpil J LAlso Fevorithness, Sick Headache g Nervous Headache etc. 15,25 and J 50c. At Dru^ store*. J A A MOST AMAZING FEAtJG SVORf OF trtE tREATESf SWINDLE OF MODERN TIMES. All Pirlo Ael'i'ait Over tlie Developments .i'l tTie Humbert-Crawford Case ? Ten Million Dollars Borrowed on a Mjrthleal Fortune ? Safe the HchVj VillaiH. Paris, the gay, the laughidg, the Mways merry Pans-. *6 h^hast over the ?teve^rtrr^?r.i^ 'of the Humbert-Craw'case, as it is called. It is an amazing story?most amazing. It is the story of the greatest and most astounding fraud ?f modern times?a $20,000,000 fraud* a. *00*000-,"* 000 franc romance, vnhcocted ift tft? Liains of twe shreWd Wbmeft who have liv#! fOr t'WehtV -Vents oi\ the proceed* bf the credulity o? those whr. believed !t-. Those proceed c; it is "said t^'day, "were at. 'eiiol $10,000,000 Of borrowed &t>ney?'borrowed on the strength of a ' mythical fortune locked up in an empty safe. It has often been said that a man can live comfortably on the interest of his debt?*, if they be large enough-. 8u't here are persons who iu;ve seen accepieu as niumutia i>i uig haut ton of Paris, whose only capital was a wild romance and whose securU tics were the figments of an imaginative brain. . . I*"* CtiAPTER 1; The Romance To begin ?V "th^i beginning of this story ft? j. phantom fortune we must go back twenty years, when a Mr. Henry Robert Crawford died at Nice after a lingering illness, during which he had been nursed devotedly by ft lovely young French Ihfly, Milk Therese do'AurigftMh t)sAurign&c! The Very a&mfe has a golden, auriferous J sound! Ig course of tjrhb Ine romantic news crept Out that this Mr. Crawford was -'cry much of a millionaire. The figures :l00,000,000 francs slipped easily off the tongue in mentioning his money, and as most Americans are reputed 1ft France to be very rich, It. \va? Cisy to believe that, ho w&g One of them, though l.a tfill the truth nobody on this side of the .tuantic had ever heard of Henry Robert Crawford, the millionaire. When it wah found that the grateful man had left his entire estate t'o the dcVbted little mademoiselle Who W'ufcj&i him in his last illness, it seemed such a natural tfii'iig to do that the matter w&s accepted as of course. Mile. Therese d'Aurignac was looked upon as a very lucky young women. Fortune smiled upon her. She married a M. Frederick Humbert, ex-deputy for Seine and Marne, and soil of M-. liUBa-1 bert, minister of justice in M. de Freycinet'* cftbl'net of 1882. She entered Parisian society as one who had rights both of birth and money?parti eulftfly money?and when she ask&l for credit, hei story having been published and btthg public property, it showered upon her as freely as it was later showered upon the Castellanes?nay, it was forced upon her by DanKing bouses and tradesmen eager to h&Ve the patronage of the heiress to 100,000,000 francs, CHAPTER II. Enter Trouble. Eut now there comes upon the scene 1 new actors. There is a Mr. Henry i Crawford and a Mr. Robert Crawford, Americans, either of whom was as rich as the deceased Robert Henry Craw| ford, and to neither of whom was ten millions or- so of any particular object. But they brought with them a last will and testament of the deceased Robert Henry Crawford, and they said that for the principle of the thing they must demand that its provisions be carried out By this will Mme. Humbert received a mere bagatelle of an annuity of 36,000 francs. The remainder of the immense fortune was to be divided in three equal portions, one for Mr. Robert Crawford, one for Mr. Henry Crawford, and one for Mme. Humbert's little sister, Mile. Marie d'Aurignac. Dear, dear! here was a complication, to be sure! The Crawford3 were generous. One |Of the heirs said he would marry the first heiress and thus keep the money in the family, and not bother the courts about the matter. When it was pcinted out that Mme. Humbert was married already, he said all right. He would wait till the little sister grew up, and marry her instead. This served to keep matters in statu quo for several years, during which the Humberts borrowed assiduously, and the banks and trust companies and merchants lent with a glad heart. Whenever they grew weary of lending, or began to talk of reimbursing the legal romance assumed a new phase. At eighteen the young Mile d'Aurignac refused to marry the Crawford heir to which she was pledged. This lctiscu a, iciiiuic auuauaiuu. me ucua at once announced very publicly through their counsel that they would now contest the Crawford will. A bartie was begun, which lasted, as legal battles will, when both lawyers and clients are willing, for years. It has not been finished yet. There were decisions one way and decisions the other way. There were appeals and counter appeals. The case appeared to have no ending. And throughout these appeals and counter appeals and counter-counterappeals, no one ever saw Robert or Henry Crawford, the litigants. It is remembered now that they never made an appearance in court. Everything was done through attorneys. And still the money was borrowed. CHAPTER III, The Safe. All this time, it was universally understood, the securities representing the immense fortune of the late Mr. Crawford lay snugly ensconced In a burglar-proof safe in the mansion of the Humberts. By a mutual agreement, it was given out, the different parties to the controversy were content to let them remain there until the courts rendered final judgment on the claims. Once a year, so the pretty ron ance went, the different parties, with their solicitors, opened the safe and counted the securities and locked them up again when it was found that they were all correct. But one thing was made manifest to all outsiders interested in the Humbert-Crawford millions. If Mme. Humbert touched any ; of those securities she forfeited all right to their possession. This was nominated in the bond. CHAPTER IV. The Denouement. But now the drama hastens to a tragic end. Messrs. Girard & Co. have j loaned to Mme. Humbert, on her myth- 1 ical expectations, the sum of 6,200,000 ] francs. They are her heaviest creditor. ] They have lent the money at usurious rales, as did all who fell victim to the woman's specious story. She contested the suit for repayment, and M. Gir- : ard, the banker, committed suicide in despaii of ever seeing his money again. ] *. i - ?mmmmrnr "r ~i ^ The liquidator theh applies to M. WalVi'ecK lt&usseau as a barrister. The lattei goes to Roubaiy, and^n his pleading describes the affair As K ftiObste'r gets a judgment for the riumberts to repay 2,500,000 francs to the liquidator of the Girard bank, Shd the tribunal also orders the contents of, the famous safe to be ^ake?\ Possession t?f. t,tttimW?tS, however, settle with the creditors, and the safe remains intact. But how was this arranged? The barrister who was then acting for the Humberts* but is nd longer doihg so. One of the m'dst. respectable men ht the bar, s&id th hare a'dVah'rhd irVe ^,50^,000.francs. Vhis Staves frif disclosure fpr a_tirncf ?ut bftjy 'fgt a. uu\ev statements rnad'e by i\f. WahVeck-Kgusseau (have RtaVtH*. the .vyo'rm. of- suspicion... Other creditors, take .the alarm. inhere Is a demand^ upon the courts, the government, to order the opening of the .fumouB safe and the disclosure of the millions which are supposed to be hidden ill it. Permission is at last grautcd. The safe is to be opened at I p; in. on a certain dsy, At 10 a- hh th&fe afe 3C0 persons UefOhO the tibor. At i them nre a thousand. The dfriciai per1 SOflhgSs strive. They demand efitraiice, \Vherb Are :>j. dilil Mmtr. Humbert? *T&Wr $?? W'St at iibrhc.Thoy have fieri. Thb Safe is forced OfteiVv. ,_ ,. ? .. ... f It,is ? aqprf |affe, It take's tiie locksmiths, five hours to open it. And what c!o they find? Nothing! Nothing worth mentioning. Some dusty old papers of no value; a rusty buckle and a few discarded envelopes. That is all. When the news reaches the fcroWd 1ft the "street tlifc p?bplb hold their breath with hbrrOF afid hiftazement. They realize then, at least they believe, that they i stand in the shadow of thS greatest, the most ^gahtic swindle of the age. CLEVER BLIND CHILDREN. Tliey Succes&fnlly Prenented the 1'lay ol "Jack the fifnnt Killcri" A company of blind hhiitireft eHatted the ptey, "dack ihe Giant Killer," at fct.-. LCui? recently. It was their first attempt in the histrionic line and was pronounced the success of the season by the theatergoers. The children bfelOilg to the Missouri SbhG'oi fbi; the Blind, and the fentertainmeftt was arranged in celebration of the institution's fii'ty-first an ni verbal. The teachers made all of the costumes and trained the performers for weeks beforehand. The latter entered into the spirit of the occasion with all of the zest which more favored children. might hP.v? eShilMtcHk "tftS re; markable fehtuffe Was ihe keenness of pertte$tiOii which they displayed. Guided by some instinct they never made one false step, but passed and repassed each oth<H- fdi the stage and always fbtin'd their respective places without a collision. Their movements were all ease and freedom and grace and their step3 were as firm and full of confidence as though they had beeD blessed with the brightest and keeriest of eyes-. Sightless lords and ladies bowed to a blind king and queen in courtly style. A blind fairy waved her wand over their majesties without once touching their crowns. The blind Giant Blunderbore marched in all his terrible might across the stftge With the most threatening strides and blind Jack the Gi&nt Killer strutted gloriously up and down with his trusty sword. It was all done with such astonishing accuracy, and never was there a mistake in word or action. The orchestra which furnished the music was composed Of fifteen blind boy#, and the attendants of the king and queen numbered some twenty sightless little ones. Sn that it was a company which really crowded the narrow stage and made the excellence of the performance all the more notable. A particularly pretty scene was that in which Jack Ipi the Princess and Fairy Good in a dance which was very much like the Virginia reel. "They can do things and accomplish tendent of the institution, was the recipient of many congratulations upon the histrionic achievement of hiB pupils. "They can do things and accomplish good in the world just the same as people that have eyes," he said proudly. "Our motto is this: 'It is the soul that sees.' "We took that motto several years ago to Impress on the public the fart that blind people are not a lot of helpless,, unnatural creatures, as some suppose. Aside from the misfortune of being deprived of their sight, blind children are just like any other children. They are affectionate, they like to romp and play, they want to be out in the fresh air and the sunshine, and they enjoy hearing the songs of the birds and smelling the perfume of the flowers."?Chicago Record-Herald. Pine- I'onjf Player* Take Warnlnjj. Ping-pong has completed its title to be considered a popular game. It has produced a disease which is at least as much its own as the tennis-elbow is the product of that delightful pas time. Its imposing name is tenosynovitis, and it hurts very*much. Anaccount of a case is given in the current number of The British Medical Journal by Dr. F. Graham Crookshank, who states that a patient came to him with considerable swelling of the left Leg above the ankle. This subsided after a day in bed, and examination showed that there was acute tenosynovitis or inflammation of the sheaths of the tendons connected with the-muscles round the shin. "The patient," writes Dr. Crookshank, "attributed his condition to his daily avocation, which involves much walking, but incidentally another and more material circumstance was elicited? that he had been devoting his evenings with much ardor to ping-pong, and had, moreover, played the game wearing his usual stiff buttoned boots. The pastime in question appears to necessitate many sudden alterations in position, while at the same time the weight of the body is supported chiefly on the anterior pier of the main pedal arch. The ^train on the tibialis anticus muscle must under these circumstances be severe, and until in the fullness of time a costume and footgear appropriate to this national sport be evolved such cases as this will probably from time to time occur." Now that the warning has been published ping-pong will probably go on much as before.?London Telegraph. Proceeding With Cm lit ion. 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