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W-WEEKLY EDITION- WINNSBORO, S. JANUARY 29, 1881. VOL. IV.-NO LET BYGONES BE BYGONES, Let bygones be bygones: if bygones were clouded Dy aught that occasioned a pang of regret, Oh. let them in darkest oblivion be shrouded; 'le wile and'tUs kind to forgive and forget. Let bygones be bygones, a good be extracted From ill over which it In f ily to fret; The wisest of mortals have foolishly acted The kindest are those who forgive and for get. Lot bygones be bygones; oh, cherish no longer The thought that the sun of Affection has I ot. Eolipsed for a moment, its rays will be stronger, If you. like a Obristian, forgive and forget. Let bygones be liygones , your heart w:ll be light or, Whei: kindness of youn with reception has me'; The ilsmo of your love will be purer and britetor if. God ike, you strive to forgIve and for got. Let bygones be bygones; oh, purge out the leaven Of malice, and try an example to set To other, who craving the meroy of heaven, Are eadly too slow to forgive and forget. Let bygones be bygones ; remember how det ply To heaven's forbearance we all arc In dolt , 'T'hey valus Gd', infulte goodness too cheaply To heed not the precopt, "Forgive and for get.' Conquest of Cyprus. On the 19th of February, 1509 an exci ting scene took place at Abenarl, a sntall fortified town on tho western coast of the island of Cyprus, over which at that time the gloomy banner of the Republic of Ven ice was floating. Abenari lay In a small bay, which, owing to its deep anchorage, rendered the little town a place of decided inportance. In consequence. the Venetian Senate had caused to be constiucted there a rather strong citadel, which was armed with one hundred heavy guns, and garrisoned with one thousand veterans oldiers. The conimander-in-chief of this strong hold was a comparatively young man. ils name was Diego Razionon, Z. native of the Balearic Islands, but since his fourteenth year in the military service of the Republic of Venlce, in which he had distinguished hinself so signally that now, in his thirty fourth year, he was a colonel and in charge of an Independent command. Don Diego though a very intrdpid man, possessed all the vices of the race from which he had sprung. A very fine-look lug man, he was a dissolute rake, and the fair sex had no worse enemy than he. He never forgave a personal insult, and lie was treacherous, venal and corrupt. On the day when our narrative opens the garrison of Abenarl was drawn up in line in front of the citadel at an early hour in the morning. When Don Diego appeared in front of his soldiers the drummers beat a long roll. The commandant did not utter a w:)rd: but the sombre fire burning in his black eyes, his firmly compressed lips, and the neivous twitching of his ingers, plainly indicated that something extraordinary was about to hiappen. in fact, a few minutes later, nineteen heavily-ironed Turkish soldiers were led out from the citaaei by a squwl of soldiers, headed by a broad-shouldered, masked man, below the medium height, Viho was dressed In a close-ltting suit of crunson cloth. This masked man, who was no other than a Venetian executioner, carried on his shoulder a very short, but very broad naked sword. WVhen the prisoners, ali of whom looked stolid andi alnost unconcerned, arrived near Don Diego lItezion~on, he thundered at them. "Down on your knees, Ottoman dogs!" The prisoniers obeyed mechanically. Dou Diego proceeded as follows: "You tried to land here in one of the vessels of your udserable Sultan. Fo3r this your hands, feet and heads will be chopped off, and your carcasses will be thrown mnto the sea. To your work ex ecutioner." The~ masked headsman understood his horrible buisinets. While the soldiers were looking un moved upon the dreadful scene that was now enacted before their eyes, the execu tioner mutilated acd decapitated his nine teen victims with startling rapidity. Whun the last Tiurk had been dis patched, the soldiers returned to their quarters, while Dan Diego slowly and thoughtfully repaireud to the vIlla, close to .the citadel where lhe lived with his mis tress, Eugenie Die La Vertue, a young Frenchwomani of very rare beauty, whoam lie had botight for a large sum from the Gireek pirate that had stolen the girl two years before fromi the house of her lparents in the envirohs of Tonlon. 'The hapless pirate hiowvever, had not got his money from Don Diego, who caused hims to be hunged as soon as he delivered the French girl to him. We said that Mdlle. lie La Vertue was a great, beauty; but, her charms were miaterially enhanced by her vivacity and ' sprightliness. Bhs was kind hiearted and amiable in every respect, and D)on Diego Itazionon was p~assionately enamored of Op this occasion she awaited im on the r verandah ia front of the villa. lie etn braced her fervently. But sheo disengaged herself somewhat impetuously from ids arms. "TheTurkish prisoners! " she exeahnled, bending a piercing glanco on him. "They are dead," he replied carelessly. "Mon Dieu," she cried shudderingly. Don Diego looked at her almost compas sionately. "Eugenie," he said gravely, "supposing the Turks had caught you or me, what do you think they would have done with us? They would have put us cruelly to death." "Really, Diego ?" "As sure as there Is a God in heaven." She was reassured, and clasped hn in her arms; for she loved him as Intensely as he did her. A month elapsed. During a moonlight night, towards the close of March, a boat landed near Abonarl, from it jumped sli well armed men in the semi-barbarous cos tume of Turkish soldiers. But their whispered conversatlon was carried on in Greek,,and their faces Indi cated that they belong to the Hellenic race. They noiselessly hurgled toward the villa of Don Diego Razionon. The inmates of the villa consisted of the Don, his mistress, Eugenic, and three ser vants. The latter slept in the front room of the villa. The disguised Greeks who were evident ly familiar with the premises, burst the Iront door open without making much noise, and rushed into the servants' room. They remorselessly slow the three hap. less menials. Don Diego was aroused from his slum. bers. Ile rushed our, sword in hand, from the room which lie and his mistress oc6upled. But the intruders insidiously tripped him, and then beat him senseless. A new figure appeared now: Eugenio, the mistress. No sooner had the assailants caught iight of her in the uncertain light of the 1oon, than they rudely seized her, and 3arried her off to their boat. Upon reawaking to consciousness, Don Diego Razionon was nearly goaded to mad 1es by the disappearance of his charming namorata. He gave the alarm, and his soldiers icoured the neighborhood for several days n order to discover some traces of the nissing woman, but not the slightest clow is to her whereabouts was found. Don Diego fell, in consequence of this )ereavement, into a state of profound nelancholy. He sent a messenger to Ven. cot who r9t 'aed the fol lowimn2 mnonth to !enkti iw1ihUTli1 oi1wng ining iUmX igence. "La Signora Eugenia," he said, "has >cen abducted to Constantinople, where he is now an inmate of the Sultaa's lareni" Don Diego stamped his foot in speech ess rage. "But," proceeded the messenger, "your mxcellency is in grave danger. The Senate >f Venice has sent orders to the Governor >f this island to have you conveyed to Ven ce for sleeping outside of the citadel." Don Diego retired to his room, which lie )aced a long time in silent meditation. At length his clouded face brightened. "I will do It f" he cried. "What thanks Jo 1 owe to the ungrateful Republic of Venice, which is now evidently decaying ? [ 'wili do it I I will dolit I" That very night he, h!s above-mentioned niessenger, a nd two (Cypriotic sailors. left Jyprus secretly in a skiff. Although the night was stormy, they reached next morning the coast of Asia bimnor, where Don Diega had a long confi. .iential interview with the Turkish Goy arnor, who sent his companions under a strong escort to Constantiniople. At the Turkish Capital Don Diego Razi anon demanded to see the Grand Visler. Ohlacor Pashia; but instead of attaining his object, lie was contlnedl for six months in z dark, damp, loathsome dungeon. On day a eunuch from the Sultan's harem entered lis dungeon, and held a long, confidIential interview with him. In consequence of this interview Don Diego Razionon was set at liberty, fur nlshed with gorgeous clothes, fine horses, and a large sum in gold. One the day after his release lhe visitedl the seraghio, where his arrival was already expected. Some eunuchs respectfully conducted him to the golden room, where tho Grand Scigoior was reposing on a sumptuous divan. TIhe Sultan, who was an intellhgent, am bitious man, questioned Don Diego, who spoke the Turkish language fluently, for some time. Buddenly he said to Don Diego: "You think we could conquer Cyprus?" "Notinig easier than that." I Know all the weak points of the Venetians on the island, Give me ten thousand good sol diers, and blockade such ports as I s.iall designate, and the islanid will fall inevita bly Into your hands. "You shall have all that," replied the Sultan-"but you must first become a Mohammedan." "With the greatest of pleasure," re joined Don Diego, smilingly. "But you know my condition, most gracious ruler of the faithfull". "You want that French girl back? She ia even now at your house." Don Diego liazionon became a Turk un der the name ot' iassan Erib Pashma. Hie invaded Cyprus, and wrested it, aftier a territlo atrurcgle, from the Venetians. The Sultan then made him military governor of Ephesus. where he lived for many years NIlth Eugenie La Vertue, who had gained a controlling influence over him. ie died in 1004, leaving an iimmanse fortune. She returned to France, where her ar rival created a great sensation. In 1006 King Henry the Fourth received her at his court. She took up her abode at Fontalnbloau where she died in her eighty-first year. The Vigilantes. Ever since the town of Deadwood, was started, an( long before it was laid out, it has been the rendezvous of murderers, road agents, thieves and cut-throats, who gen erally latest a frontier river town, and the first murder dates back to the'days of '70, whea one out of a party of pilgrims con: Ing to Pierre was killed by a rutilan while camped at that place. The murderer made his escapo. The number of men killed at that town is not less the twelve or fifteen and In every case the m. 1orers have gono unpunished, and been allowed to walk the streets as free as any man. The city has not yet any government; the country is not organized, and law and order are things that are not known there-or have not been known heretofore. But, however, thero is an end to all thingsand the time has come when the outlaw will have to observe the laws of the vigilantes or take the conse quences-cold buck shot. A little over a week ago a character named "Arkansaw," and the man who killed the "Kid" last summer, with a gang of followers, went over to East Pierre and began making themselves a little too numerous with their pistols. Arkansaw would occasionally pull out his pistol,cock It and request some peaceabie cItizen to come to him, and it the least hesitancy was observed In cow plying with this request, the result would be a volley of pistol shots, after which Arkansaw would put his revolver back in th, holster and resume his search for another tender foot. bometimes a shot or two would take effect, but that didn't mat ter; it only gave a little spice to his per formances. His entire gang was composed of just such mon as himself, and on one afternoon they succeeded in creating terror wheiever they made their appearance.After creating all the disturbance they could,and taking a prisoner awayfroma Uni Led 8tates deputy marshal, they went to West Pierre.for the avowed purpose of returning )ad cleaning out the town. They did return, but were met by two hundred vigi!antes, %ad two hundred shotguns staring them in the face, and were requested to turn Iminediately and never again show them selves in East Pierre. The request was com plied with, but Arkansaw and gang got in the warpath, and, each one strapping :n three or four revolvers, the entire out fit, about one hundred and fifty outlaws, cowboys and bullwhackers, went over to 99 iPK q'lqeg, oQ'mtgonyugg when they got in, and went directly to the lance house, now and then shooting out a light in some store or house as they passed by. 'They shot everything-windows, lights, men, horses, and all had to take it. livery minute would be heard the sound "bang, baug" of the shotgun and heard the tramp of two hundred vigilantes jiarchiug in line, bearing d )wu upon the roughs. In a moment it seemed as if a territle cannonading was going on, and Dld soldiers said it sounded very much like a pitched battle. The gang was driven down to the river, flying in every direction before a determined tire of the vigilantes. Arkansaw, a little braver than his men, hesitated, then made an attempt at resistance. But in hesitating he sealed his own doom, for almost in a moment full fifty sh->t were fired, and the cut-throat brigand Arkausaw tell to the ground riddled with bullets. A re view of the grounds showed three or four wounded, but none others were killed.Thius Is the only method by which the communi ty can safely rid theinselves of these out laws, who set fire to their buildings, break in and cob stores and gasrrote men on pub lic streets, even in broau daylight. -Tihe Old Man's (Ihost Beveral days ago, a celebrated spiritus abet came to Little Rock and stated that before giving a public entertainment lie would give a seance, where any mnembea of a small invited circle could call up the spirits of their fiends and coniverse wvith them. By mistake a m~ n fronm down the river was admitted, a man whose reputa tion for deeds of violence would not place his spirit above par in the i oul market. After listening awhile to rapping, horn blowing and gauze veil materialization, the bad man arose and said: "Say cap'n, whar's the old nran 's ghost?" "What old man?" asked the medium. "My old man, the stovernor. Call binm uip.,, "What is his name?" "Toni Bealick; call him up." "I don't think we are in communication with him to night." "Whlat's the matter, wire down?" "lNe, the old gentleman is on a visit." "~Now, here, jest slhut up your wardrobe and turn out the light, if you don't give the old man's ghost a show, the thing shan't run." "Wait; I'll see if he'll come," said the spiritualist. "If lie raps three tames lie is willrng, If only once he has other engage ments." A sharp rap was sounded. "Ho is un willing." continued the spiritualist. "Now, here," said the bad man, "that wan't my ole man's knock. Why ef he'd lit that table he'd splintered it. Call him up;" and drawing a revolver the aff cethen ate son cast a severe look on the mediuma. "To' tell you the truth, I can I call him up." "Toll him that I want to see him. That'll fetch 11m up." "No, lie wont come, buit I beg of you to be patient. Wait! alh, hie will conme pres ently, lHe is here andl desires to talk with you. lie says that he s perfectly hasppy, and longs for the tinie when you will be with him. He is one of the rulers in the spirit land." "Cap'n you are the infernalest liar in Arkansas." "Why so, sir?" "Beocause the old man Is in the cIty prison, drunk as a peddler's poodle," Sand in Sug I had read that sugar-ro re used bul. locks' blood to clarify th iquor, and in muy simplicity asked my f d where was the bullocks' blood. 1: aughed very heartily at my ignorance, a told me there had not been such a thing d in Green ock since he had known thing about the trade, now over thirt, -cars. What struck me most was the 4 and mud that my friend showed me I been taken out ot the raw sugar when w it filtered; and I that day registered vow that I would never again be toinp to buy "real raw sugar" for domestic u I shudder as I think of the quantity nmud that I must have eaten in my tim iid feel an noyed at having been dolud into paying a penny a pound more fo te "real raw sugar" than I could have lit the pure reilned article for. I told i friend what was passing through my n d, at which he again laughed, and said "Every one that comes to see through ti refinery says the same thing. You some 1o hear gro. cors charged with putting ad in their sugar. They really do noth r of the sort. It would not pay them to d so, even if they had a mind. If the us f raw sugar wee given up by the pubi we would never again hear of such accusation against the poor grocer." friend, See. ing the disgust I bad display I at the sand and mud, took me to the lab atory in con nection with the refinery, wl re lie said he would show me even worse han nud in the raw sugar. He took a s all glass ves sel like a tumbler, into whic he put about a teaspoonful of "real raw s ;ar," such as is sold in the shops, and fihe poured some water slightly heated over . In a short time little specks appeared the surface, scarcely visible to the naket eye, two or three of which he placed u ter a nicro scope and bado me look thi ugh it. To my amazement I saw little I eets like lice crawling about. 1 asked wh t they were, and was told that they were the Acarius sacchari, or raw-sugar in e, and that they abound in raw sugar, m reespecially in the better descriptions. 1 sked if there were none to be found in r lined sugar, and my friend said no; that ey were all either retained in the filter aig or killed during the boiling. I under and a cole brated chemist has estimated that there will be as many as 100,000 of these crea tures in a pound of raw sugar. I learned that there were about a dozen rotineries at work in Greenock, turning out about 250,000 to 800,000 tons of soft, relined sugar per annum, being more than a third of all the sugar consumed in Great iBrit-in. Greenock has great natural advantages for the refining of sugar, having excellent harbor accommodations, where the largest vessels can discharge the raw material, be ing near to the Lanarkehire coal-fields, having an unlimited supply of water at a very cheap rate, and a plentiful supply of cheap labor. An Artist on nooks. - v" nun tnu War oroine our," lite said, "i had a little shop at the corner af Walkei and Eln streets, New York, where ] painted signs. Times were dull, and I used to sit for hours in my shop and won der what was to be done next. One day I saw a mau across the street go up to a dry goods box and stencil 'M1acallister's Ointment' on it with an ordinary stencil plate and a brush. The thought at once caie to my mind. Why wouldn't it be a good thing to paint advertisements in an attractive manner on fences and barns and such like ? 1 consulted with a friend, who said: 'Go and see Duke. le's just ntarted Plantation Joints, and maybe he'll hire you.' 1 Eaw Brake, and lie sent nie to Denas Barnes, who was furnishing the money, and had an oilce oii Park row. Barnes took to the idea at. once. I sug ge:-td that I paint in New York and on the roads in the up~per part of the Island. 'W~hat. pay do you want I' ho asked. 1 ire. plied that an ordinary house painter got $2 50 a day, and I thought that I was worth thu't. 'wll right,' he said, go ahead. Do you want any money to begin withi t 1 said that I did not, and started out. For a week I painted 'TP.-187b5-B.' with~ the half moon and crozier, on every fence and dead wall I could finhd it. the city. Tihen 1 wont out on the Hlarlen: road and on the avenues. I hadn't done dii I wanted to at the end of the week, so I kept away from time oflice, and the next veek 1 flu. ishmed up liarlenm, and gawve Broklyn and Jersey City a big dose of thme joints. Ou Baturday 1 went to the oflice. 4lr. Blarnes wants to see you,' said A. 4... 'terry, lis son-in-law. I went to him. 'look hero, lie said, 'Don't paSint another str~ko here not, another stroke. 1 want yo.s to start out on the road right off and go Wes-.. Wh'ien can you startd' 'Monda,' said 1. 'All iight ; go aheiid, and don'iyou conme back tuI I scnd for you.' "I started out on that Moiday,'' time veteran painter went on, "and .lidn't get back to New York for a yeaz I went west to the M1ssissipp~i, as far louth as 1 could go in war times, and Ncth to the Canadian line. For one sod year 1 painted nothing but 'T'P.-187'-B4.' You can inagine the curiosity that it excited. Then thu next year I wont righ over my first route and added 'Plantatbn Jonits.' From that clay to this I have ben on the road. 1 have traveled all overthe Union, in Canada, and have been In E~gland. Ii I had time I could to'l you erious Inci dents without cnd. Why, oni' the other clay 1 had a little fun up at Lao George. It was at the last regatta, I wvaibmsy p~aint ing at some rocks along the ako shore, when up marched a constable,tapped ime on the shoulder, and asked mdf I didn't knew that 1 wsas violating aBlate ordi nance mi painting these rocks. I had fin ished three, and there were mas nice ones that I wanted to oinament. Bc 1 looked innocent and didn't know anyting about the law. Tlhe constable said tiht he was going to arrest meo. 1 tried to eg off, but it was no go. Th'iat constable was bound to do his duty, and ho starc idne for Glen's Falls. Bunt on the wvv we had several drinks, and by the timovoereached the village lhe was in a good tumor and sympathetic. I pictured toe hit any inno cence of wrong imeontions, andt >ld hint if the Judge would only let tme i? I'd go back and paint out the signs, at graIn the rocks so that they'd look niore thnunatural. TIhe good fellow was so touch4 that lhe did appeal to the Judge, who t nme oif with paying $1.75 costs, and thu the eon. stable took mue in his wagon ad drove mue back, and 1 painted out ny sIgns. That was the only time I was evr arres ted. It would have cost mie $150 ,f they'd pressed the law. The penalty is $0 for each offence. "I had to keep pretty close up in New Hampshiro a while ago," continued Mr. Wise. 11 started to decorate the White Mountains along the line of the Boston, Concord, lontreal and White Mountain railroad with Beuzine. I told the pro prietor that if they caught moe they'd fine me $60 for each name, and that he must see me through. 'o ahead,' he said, 'if you're arrested I'll pay the flues.' 'Better give me the money,' said I, 'and I'll pay my own fines, and then I won't lose any time in jail.' So I started. I sent twenty five pounds of lead ahead to each town. When I got to the depot it was waiting for me. Then I went out and put It all on the rocks that were any way couspicuous. The lirat day I got through before dark ; but I didn't go into town. 1 just rested till dark, and ivent to the hotel stable and said to one of the hands: Look here, can't you fellows let me bunk ln' with you? I'm all paint, and it won't look well for me to go to the hotel. I'd just as leaf pay you as anybody.' And I handed him a $2 bill. That made it all right. I ate with the hostlers, slept in the barn, had an early breakiast with them, and was out on the road again. In this way I put 200 pounds of lead on the White blountains and deco. rated them so thoroughly that, had I shown my face, I'd have been arrested soon enough. I had a warm time one day near Annapolis. I found a low house, built against the gable end of a barn, and got on the house to paint 'Job's Pills' on the barn. I was working nicely on the 'P, when the farmer saw me and ordered ne away. I tried to reatson with him, but lie wasn't open to conviction. I had to go; but I hadn't gone far when 1 thought what a pity it was that the sign wasn't finished, and then I concluded to go back and finish it. I was working away on the last 'L,' when the farmer saw me again. He in sisted upon may getting right down. I paid no attention to him, finished the 'L,' and began on the 8 as if thero was no one within a thousand miles. '0, you won't stop, won't you I' yelled the farmer. 'Well, we'll see, and lie rushed into the little house on which I stood and began thump ing around at a great rate. 'What's he up to? thought I, and 1 began to shade the '13.' 1 soon found out, for just then b-z-z z, a bee spotted me in the loft ear, and an other jabbed me in the cheek, and before I know it a million of them were around my ahead. I didn't wait to make the period, I just fluished the 8 in a hurry, picked tip my paint pot, and lit out in double quick time. 'I thought I'd stop ye,' yelled the farmer after me. I thought lie had. The house was a bee house, and he waked up the inmates, and that fotched me. I had hard work to get rid of the bees, and- had to keep mud on my cheek and ear all that afternoon to keep the swelirg down. A turauea Ottoman, uppmaeumg eno pigeonhole of the postolile, bows repeat. edly to the official, and, laying his right hand on his breast, exclaims: "lay the noble morning be fortunate for you, sir I Oillelil.returning the salutatIou,inquires "What is your pleasure?" "Thy servant tesires a few stamps postage stamps-in order to send letters to Europe. Mty son, Atidullah Effendi, glass merchant of Ak 8eral, has traveled to Lon. don, and his family wishes to write to him. 1, myself, Indeed, do not possess the ac complishment of writing. but a relative, the grandson of my first wife's great uncle, the pipe-bowl munufactuier of Tophano, is master of that art, and he will pen the opistle for us." "Very good, and how many stamps do you want, sir?" "Ah, my jewel, how many (10 r reqilre? One, I suppose, wvill not be sufileent, for ho will not return yet for four weeks, so give me two." "Very good, here they are-two and a half plastres." "WVhat is that thou sayest, imy lamb? Two piastres is what 1 usaed to give sonme years back, when Abdullahi was previously in London. Wait, it was-" "'Qmilto right, Effendm; but since, the fee has been altered and thte p~rice is now greater." "is it so, ap~ple of my eye I The price is greater; alas I alas I" Herewith thme Ttirk pulls out ,a roll of notes, on seeing which the oilcial exclalims: "No, my dianmond, no I We take no p~aper money here. You p~ay in silver." "Eli, what V You take no paper ? Why inot i Surely it is aood nionecy of the Pad isliahi in whose realms you arc. Well well, I will give you hard money. I have soe with me ini copper." "No, Etiendhin," rejoined the official, "we don't take copper either. You must paty in silver." "Silver ? By my head I have nonel Do me the kindness of taking copper. I will pay you the agio." "Impossi55ble, Effondim; I am not allowed to take it." "Well, what anm I to do, then, my son?" "GJo to the money-changer; he is sitting there in the corner." "Ahi, me; it is very hot I Won't you really take cop~per?" "I cannot, immder any elrcuznstances.". "Very well, then, you shall have slver. Heare it is." "l'hanks" This pairt of thme business being conclud ed, thme Turk asks: "When will the letter be sent off ?" "First tell me, father, when do yca in tend~ to write?" "Oh I to-day; as soon as I get back .'rom the fish-market, whither 1 mitst first r.o, I will have the letter written." "Then it will be despatchmed in lime morn ing, if you bring it here before 2 o'clock this afiernooni." "Excellent, and when will the anawer come back?" "Well, Elffend!m. that wlli depend on when y'>ur son poets lis reply." "Writes his reply, my Iambi Why,what are you thimking off lie will do it at once, of course. D~o you suppose he will keelp his father waiting?" "Very well; in that case the answer will arrive quickly, you may, perhaps, get it in tea days." "Bravo I bravo I Then 1 wIll come back in ten days' time. Good-bye I Why Allah lengthen thy shadow, nay heart." "GJood-bye, sir,and may thy beard luxu rIantly flourish." One bad example spells many good nrecmrpts Abe Wallace. "What's er matter wid yer?" demanded Abe Wallace, with a not unnatural petu. lance under the circumstances. "Whoter yer lingerin' around that visage of nilno for? Can't yer rasp that countenance?" Obviously, Ie couldn't. For rearly an hour ie had strapped his razone and mow. ed diligently, but barber though he was of a thousand, barber extraordinary to Leap. Ing Antelope Run. he keemied to make no headway against Abe's bristling badge of manhood. "Ef yer razors won't cut, shoot 'em off. Ye'ar tme. Shoot 'em off," and the hand some, sunburned tnner composed himself for the novel operation. "Is the barber at home?" asked a low, sweet voice, entering the door at that me menut. lie started. No yellow water running from his pan had ever looked as sweet to him as that voice. It percolated him, and he arose from the chair a new nman. The rough life passed away from him. 'I he crust forined by lils habits and hardened by his surroundings was broken. "Permit me, madame, to assure you that this individual before you is the bar. ber," said Abe, and his new dignity sat easily upon him and seemed a part of him. "I at on my way fro.n Boston to the Sandwich Islands," said th young girl, quietly, "and our carriage broke ('own. I thought I would improve the opporLunt and have my hair banged. Oh, no, no, she exclaimed, as Abe gallantly drew forth a thousand dollar draft on New York. "Not for the world, I've $6,000,000, not only In imy right, but in my pocket. I will pay for any service'" As the barber proceeded with his task, Abe walked tihe shop loor nervously. A presage of danger oppressed Itim. The chestnut curis on his foreliead grow damp with anxiety. lie knew life in his rough way, and lie inew barbers. The fair young girl would he no maich for the fron. tier hair-dresser, if the worst should come? Hud she not millions in her pocket? lie glanced at the tiy feet planted squarely and firmly oi the stool before her, and re cognized character. Ile knew nothing of Boston, but he understood feet. "And (1o you live in this fuiny place, te lie?" asked the girl, smiling at Abe's re Ilection in the glaim. "1 (o," sighed Abe, "Misfortunes have cast my bark of life upon this barren shore and.left in with only the shelter the sea. weeds afford." "To liel how odd. Ouch'' But Abe grasped him and laid him upon the Ihoor. The barber had made a divo for the dainty pocket and had failed. Leaping Autelope Run was aroused. Such an attack foundl no apolgists aniony the wild, rough niners. Whatever they might be inherently they would tolerate nothing ,f the kind in the barber. "Away to the dull thud!" demanded one more IntemigenI, mn uv. t. A eld t I i. - -- - a tie moonlit air wa shivered and the beams %mvpt away con vulsively. Thay miay have expected hin to beg, but lie eyed thom sternly. "Ohl myI what will they (1o with him?' asked the beauty with one eye. She had no need to speak. The thrill of that eye struck a chord in Abe Wallace. "'They'll sprain his neck, darling," mur nured Wallace, in tender accunms. This feeling was new to hinm, but lie understood It. "Graciousl and may I see him?" whils pered she with the other eye. Abe's answer was lost In the sullen ron of the crowd. Out under the grand old trees that fringed the miines. Out under the whisper of the leaves. Out through the shadows. The wind swept down from the Sierras, velvet winds, but pitiless. They shook sweet voicea out of their satin garments, but not a pleatding tone for thait human barber, soon to be neither barber not human. The rope was aroundl his neck. A cloud floated across the face of the nioon, but she struggled from behind it, held by the her. ror of the scene. "hld!" commanded Abe. And then addressing the barber, lie asked: "You are 1hustice of the Peace, are you not?" "1 aum," responded the condemned, in low, steady tones. "T1nen marmry us," saId Wallace, draw. lng the Boston girl's aim within his owvn. ''You do take this woman for your wedided wife?" asked the barber, with a strange glitter in lia eye. "'I do," resp)ond~ed A be. "you do take this muan for your wedded husband?" inquired tihe barber with a po culiar smile. "Tre lie! I suppose so, to he!" whispered the musical voice. "Then I pronounce you man and wife. Go to the devil." The rope tightened, arid as he went up, the barber uttered a wil, demonic taugh. Then, with the shadow of the sierras gathered around him, lie hung dead!. Try as tic muight, Abe couild not shake off the influence ot thait laugh. It was a ghost in his life. "My GodI" lie screamed, as lie sprang fronm his seat a day or two afterward. "J urnerstand It now." ''Understand what, hove?" asked hit Scautiful bride, icoking upi from the bite of an apple. "I know why the barber laughed with lisa dying breath," ho moaned. "Gracious goodnessi Whiat was it for?' she demanded, with du npli g'smiiles. "Ueu,.nse he died wihout giving us a marrIage ced~iflcate." With a wild bric, the Boston girl sank dead at his feet. T1he barber was avenged. A Now Flut. An English omsician. banmvented a new flute, lie asserts that by doubling thie hast four holes lie has Iiproved the tones of the lower notes, while giving Increased power, ease and brlilliancy to the instru ment generally, and there Is nothing more to pay for those mmproveiments. The material chiefly usedi by the patentee for the head and body is ebonite, a p~repara. tion of indiarubber, which possesses ox traordinary sound producIng prop~erties. One of the greas diflicult ies of the flute has always been the third octave, the fingering for which differs entirely from that of .the first or second octave, and the new ilutes are constructed In suoh a manner that the third octave can be easily played with the same fingering as that employed for thec two lawar octaves. gold siberia. The chief riches of northern Siberia are the fisheries. The whale, the walrus, and the seal are found along the coasts, and the rivets are alive with fish of the finest species, among which are the sturgeon, salmon, sterlet, pike, perch, bream, her ring, and many indigenous varietiosknown only by their native names. 8O plentiful are they that the nets are often broken by their weight. Many fisheries are estab lished along the banks of the larger rlvers, and large quantities of cured and dried fish are annually sent in winter on sledges to Ekaterinburg. Few countrios are richer In forests than Siberia. A large part of the middle and southern belt is covered with a magalfloent growth of timber, consisting principally of pine, fir, larch and birch, but including nhany other varieties. For untold ages the rivers, whose upper waters flow through immense forests, have annually swept down many of these trees, so that all along their lower courses their banks are lined with driftwood, among which are great pines large enough for a man-of war's masts. Many of these Irees, too, are swept into the Arctic ocean and piled upon the islands there, and not unfrequently are carried even to Nova Zembla. Such is the preservative effect of the climate that trunks brought down from the upper regions, probably centuries ago, are still as sound as the day they were washed from their native forOsts. The whole timber region Is the home ot the most valuable fur-bearing animals, including the sable, ermine, beaver, lynx, marten, and marmot. '[ho bear, wolf, fox, wild boar, wild sheep (argali), wild ass (kulan) and Caspian antelope abound, and in the Alual inountains the tiger is found. Birds, too, exist int great variety and nuu. bers. Furs and skins are among the chief articles of export. In the southern part of Siberia all the common European grains, vegetubles, and fruits aire produced. Wheat, barley, oats, and linseed are grown in nearly all of the river valleys, and if there were means of gonunlation, there is no doubt but that Siberia could produce cereals enough to supply all western Europe. Thb basin of the 0 bi isespecially rich, the river overflow I ng its banks annually like the Nile. The soil is line and black, well adapted for wheat. In the neighborhood of the Tomsk, line fruits are produced, even the grape growing to perfection. In all this neigh urhooud, mind in the steppes southwest of here, large numbers of horses, cattle,. fat tailed sheep, and goats are raised. in soie of the villages the horses out-number the inhabitants three to one. lirse and cattle raising is also carried on largely in other parts ot the country. But biberia's principal wealth lies in her minerals. Gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, iron. coal, and salt are largely distributed throughout the Ural, the Attai, and the Stainovoi ranges, and many kinds of pro i poai ep abound. The principal min which has a population of about 28,00u, and is noted for its smelting works, a mint, and nmany t-tone polishing establishments. Noviansk, another large town of the Ural mining district, has large iron mines. In the Altai, berianovak Is one of the most impurtaut mining establishments, gold, silver, copper, lead and tin being produced there. The ores are carried in boats down the Irtish or by wagons to Barnaul, neinogorsk, but the latter are little worked now. Barnaul, the capital of the Siberian Altal, is a place uf auout 13,000 inhaiitanIts. All the gold of Sibe ria was iorinerly sent there to be smelted, but now it receives only the product of the Altai, all obtained in the mountains east of there going to Jrkutsk. At Kohivan are the famnous stone-polishing works, the pri vate property of the emiperor, where many large pieces of porphyry, jaspecr, marble, and other stones are produced. Tfhe great commercial center of north eastera Asia is Irkutsk, which has a varia ble population, reaching sometimes 100,000. It, has a large caravan trade with Uhina. Other provincial centers of trade are T1o bolek, Ohnsk, TIomusk, Krasnoyarsk and Yakutsk, each with lron 15,000 to 40,000 inhabitants. The pinicip~al shipping pont oii the Obi is Ti'utuon, where are several extensIve shipyards. Steaimoats 800) feet long navigate the river from this place, as welt as lighters of 600 to (500 tons burden. Yeniisoisk is the principal port cu the Yea isei river. it is a line to~w., with well built houses, and about 12,000 inhabitants. An extensive trade is earned on fromt hore by exchange with China. There are rich gold, copper nad iron mined in its vicinity. Biberia ls lit a measure isolated by the great chain of the Ural. it is true that a somuewhat, extensive comnierce has been carried on for a long time by the overland route, but It is so costly as to be almost pro bibitive to all except the wealthy. (4oods canmnot be transported from Moscow to Ir. kutsk at mutch less than $100 a ton. The transport through Siberia, in parts where the waiter communication is aot available, is by caravatis of camels In sumnier an sledges in winter to TrobolsK or E.kutermi burg, whence goods are scat across the mountains to Permt, on the Klama, fronm which point there is direct water connuuna cation with Nizlim-Novgorod amid Moscow. 01 late years a railway lhas been projected front Ekaterinburg, via. Omusk, TLousa, and Krasnoyarsk, to .lrkutsk, with a possi ble extension thence to Peking, but the amount of capital required is so great and the country througn which it must pass is as yet so uudeveloped, that it will probably remain a project for at least another gene ration. iButint must come in time, and then these rich river basina will become the seat of a thriving poptulatlon, whose labors will add immensely to Russia's already vass resources. Put on the Brakes, A party of men were talking about heavy railroad grades, when one man said: "I know of a grade so steep that the train gets such a start in going down that it is net necessary to use steanm for two hundred miiles." "Hlow about stopping at the station I" asked one of the party. "Oh, they just stop the train, and when they get ready to start again they just tuarn loose the brakes and she walzzes on.' "That was a very light grade compared to the one I went over once," said a man whose word is a long way below par. "[How steep was t?' "Why, it was so steep that you'd hate to use a step-ladder to go upa to the trout enid of the car."