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The dinner had been excellent, -ad the Pid colonel, as the guest of the evening, was feel ing psarticularly genial, as he drew a handful of change from out his trousers' pocket in order to reward the attentions of the waiter. As he did so the quick eye of th0 professor took note of a silver piece considerably larger than a dollar. "That's a curious coin, colonel," he remarked, leaning forward over the table. "That's a Louis," said the colonel, picking it out from the other coins in his hand and passing it over to the professor. "I always imagined that a 'Louis' was a gold piece," remarked young Jack Hawley. "They are generally gold," replied the colonel; "but evidently some sil ver Louis were coined, f r here is one.'' "I have never seen nor heard of one before," said the professor, looking with interest at the large, clumsy coin, with the heavy countenance of Louis XVI., and under it the date 1776. "I suppose this must be both rare and valuable." "I prize it more highly because of the wonderful coincidence connected I with it;" replied the colonel. I "Let's hear it," said young Hawley. t "Well," when I was a lad," began! the colonel, leaning back in his chair i ind lighting a cigar. "Such a long lime ago that your grandfather, Jack, was at school at the time and the pro- a .essor's father was probably wearing r kilts." "Oh, hardly as long as that," inter rupted the professor, laughing, ''Tm ~ >ver forty-six myself; you'll make nake yourself eighty at that rate." J "Well; that would not be so far out C >f the .way; I was seventy-four last! V nonth." And the old colonel stroked f iis white goatee complacently, for he lid not look a day over sixty-five. "It d vas when I was a of .eighteen, 2 a r, coin frtcame in my pos ession.' At that time, as you know, 1 great many Spanish, Mexican and i french coins were in circulation in IP his country, an'd I took this one in o:0 ny wages. The face of the unfortun- '3 ste French monarch rather took my ancy, and I kept it for a pdeket piece. s 3ut before I go any further I want to a sk whether either of you gentl.emen s5 ee any marked peculiarity about this oin?" And the colonel tossed it d ipon the table. P The professor examined it closely. io 'I notice that it bears the date of b terican independence," he said, a "Well, that's hardly a peculiarity. C. 'here were doubtless others minted in he,same year." - tl "I don't see anything else." c The colonel smiled. "Well, there t1 s, and I'll let you endearor to find Sout while I tell you the history. ri "In the year 18453 I went to Mex- sc eo. Silver mining was what I went h: bere for, but I did about everything hi eforo I left the country, and ended wv y going into Taylor's army when the c; var broke out. "One day I was seated in a gaming ouse at Saltillo. .Oh, I wcs wild te nough in those days, Jack Hawley, nd hardly a week passed that Dave V iranston - and Pedro Blanco (they 0 rere my two partners), and I did not a: ome into town foi a little game of c brisca.' "Well, on this day-ever to be Ih eembered by me as the last time I a at down to a game of chance where je he stakes were money"-here the h: olonel took a long pull at his cigar ai ud expelled the smoke slowly-"I s as having a particularly hard run of it ack and lost so rapidly that in less han. an hour after first sitting down was cleaned out. ~I had not had si early enough excitement for my tI oney, and wanted badly to keep on b laying. Searching all my pockets in he hope of finding a stray coin I drew n, ut this Louis, which I had carried for ver four years. The thought at once C ashed through my mind that per aps on this piece my luck would h hange, and I might retrieve my shat- n ered fortunes. S3o I tossed it on the able and took another hand at the n "And not only won.back your los- ci ngs, but such a large sum in addition tl hat you wisely resolved never to tl emnpt your luck again," interrupted s< oung Hawley. f "Inside of five minutes," said the alonel impressively, "I arose from hat table, having lost this piece andci iverything of value that I possessed, own to the silver mounting on my t, iorse's bridle, and I would have n taked the horse himself had not Dave d 3ranston and Pedro dragged me away rom the table, and putting me on the nimal's back, rode off with me be-1 ween them to our camp. I'm not go ng to read you a lecture on the im norality of gambling, young Hawley. ior lengthen out this story with an ac- a ~ount of my life in Mexico. Suffice it o say that I kept my resolution in re-;e ard to gaming, and whatever fortune [ have made was not amassed in Mex-! d can mines. "I suppose you'gothtiis piece backg yy purchasing it from the winner," emarked the professor, dropping it il >n the table and putting down his ear t o listen to the ring. e "'To my great chagrin he left Sal-a R TIMES 0, let is be glad that only the snow Lies white as a winding sheet; That the heart of the earth has warmth and glow; And strongly her life-pulses beat; That soon shall her fires awaken and set Each nerve of nature a-tsriil, And brimming with beauty the earth shall forget That long she lay silent and chill. -Dart Fairthorne, in Vick's Miagazine T.. Louis. a SA GE.\/ tillo that same afternoon, and I never set eyes on him again." "Indeed! Then how in the world did you regain possession of it?" "Forty years later," said Lthe col onel slowly. "Phew," whistled young Hawley, under his breath. "I was sojourning for a few days in a small town in Southern Spain. Passing through a narrow street one afternoon on my way back to the hotel. I chanced to stop, as any one might, to look into the window of a dealer in curios, and the first object that caught my eye was this identical coin. Now, I know that this sounds inciedible. I, myself, at first thought it was merely a coin of the same de aomin-ation and date, but imagine my surprise when, upon going in and ex imining it closely I discovered that it was the very same Louis that I had Lost at play in Saltillo so many years igo. I gladly paid the shopkeeper six pesos for it, and I have carried it n my pocket ever since." Here the colonel stopped. "Is that all?" inquired young Eawley. "That is all, except that I will nor proceed to show you----" "Will you permit me to take a look tt the coin?" The speaker who inter upted them had risen from a table in he adjoining alcove and-now stood at he professor's elbow. He looked ome years older than the colonel, his tair was white and he leaned upon a teavy cane, one leg being decidedly ame. "I'm Major Tracer; I overheard art of your conversation as I sat at ay table there, and I was so interested hat I could not refrain from coming ver and, at the risk of intruding, tak ng a part in it." "No intrusion at all, sir. One old oldier is always glad to make the equaintance of another, and your Lame, major, is known to every veter n of the Mexican War. Permit me o introduce my friends, Professor aangton and Mr. Hawley." "The colonel has just b)een 'enter lining us with a remarkable account f the io.ss and subsequent recovery of his piece of money," said the pro. assor;'handing the coin to the major. "Siventeen seventy-six-the same ate,? said the major half to-imself. 'hen'. utting the coin on .1e table he all int exactly ove ef Sth,e word Louis, a hair's breadth omn the edge, he gave a sharp, quick ressure and the-face of the coin flew pen as though on a spring. With an eclamation of surprise the professor >ok it and inspected it closely. Some tilled workman had cut it open all round the milled edge and fitted a >ring inside, just und.er the letter 0." So nicely had the work been ahe that when closed it was not ap irent to the naked eye. When sened, it was seen that a groove had een. hollowed through the inside >out an inch and a half long and one ghth of an inch wide. "By all the powers, how comes it at you knew that secret?" cried the >lonel, dumbfounded, as the major rew the fruit knif;a back on the table. Without answering the question di etly, the major took the other old >dier by the hand and, looking into ~s eyes with a peculiar expression on s face, asked: "Were you the man ho did that delicate piece of mechani l work?" "I was." "Tell me what on earth induced you Sdo it?" "For the life of me I can't say. That induces people to make baskets it of cherry pits, lockets out of hair id the thousand and one little gim -aks that are always being made? I as a skillful workman, and in an idle >ur I took up this coin, cut it open id fitted it with a spring. There is st one way to open it. You must ve had the piece in your possession one time and stumbled upon the cret. I put something in that cavity the centre-did you take it out?" "I did." The major drew up 'a chair and retched his stiff leg out uder the ble comfortably. "In 1847," he agan, looking fixedly at the colonel, I was also in Mexico." The colonel added and handed the major a cigar. Thanks. I was with Scott at Vera "And I," said the colonel, giving im a light, "was with Taylor in the rthern part of the country." "Having lived in Mexico for a umber of years previous to the war," yntinued the major. lighting his gar, "and speaking the language of ie country, I was more valuable in te secret service than is the field, >I was," here he puffed on the cigar r a few seconds to get it well lighted a scout." "I understand," ar.l the colonel odded again. "The American army took up quar irs at Jalapa, where I left them, and ade a detour towards the south,. to iscover a suitable route by which our >rees could approach the City of [exico, and avoid the fortifications cd ambuscades which General Santa :na had provided for their reception. had been most successful, and had eached Molino del Rey, a small town; most in the shadow of the walls of [exico City, when I was captured by ie.Mlexicans and thrown into the jail >await trial as a spy. Im:igine my espair. I had every inch .of- the round from Jalapa carefully photo-j raphedi in my brain. Conld furnish cott with information of the greatest nortance, and here I was jugged in iat little, mniserable Mlexican jai with. very prospect of being condemned to ath, and nn possible way of getting art of my valuable infoimation t e ears of th4 general; on will, of course, surmise that t first thing I had done on being alone in my cell was to examine i e y avenue of possible escape. My r was ten by twelve. There was i a table, one chair and a pallet of s . One small iron barred win d looking out on the prison yard b ath, furnished what light there w The bars were half an inch in ter, and firmly set in the . Using . all my strength I co not budge them. I was not, h era kept long in suspense:. On th ternoon of the-second day I was t out, tried, found guilty, and C ed to be shot at sunrise on th j'following-that is, within fli te ours. my return to the hot, badly air cell with the stunning effect of m ntence benumbing my brain, I sat stlessly down by the table and all d my head to rest in the hollow of. hands. My attitude of dejec Stio appealed to the sergeant who bro ht me in, for placing his hand on my houlder he asked if there was not g he could do for me. I shook my .. 'There are some very nice gra -in the market place outside;' he d persuasively. The sound of the wor 'grapes' recalled to my mind how par d the roof of mymouth was, so I tha d him, and said I should enjoy a fe I handed him a half eagle, whi my captors had overlooked whe they took everything else of valu 'from me. In less than five min s he was back with a basket of delic us-looking fruit, which he pla on the table at my elbow, and offer . me the change. I motioned him keep it, saying that he could spen 't to better advantage than I. He keted it with an expression on his c tenauce intending to denote co' eration, but he was such a happ smiling-faced fellow that ,the effect as rather comical. As he was puttitj the change in his pocket one of th4 larger coins slipped through his fiters and striking the floor on its edge ; circled about the room and endedcy nestling on the straw at my feet. {Actuated by a feeling of deli cacy -he sergeant withdrew without stoopg to pick it up, and hardly notic' the occurrence I remained seate4 at the table. After a short time ulled myself together enough to e .some grapes, and then com men ato write a few lines to my'' frienc at home in the hopes that throuli the kindness of my jailer, who hid also furnished me with paper and p'icil,they wculd some day reach the hrnds for whom they were in tendec As I finished writing my eye ca'ht the glitter of the coin at my feet. Iiicked it up and tossed it onto the tahe before me. On looking at it closer I noticed that it was a French coin, .?t the head of' Louis XVL. stamp4i upon it. This sent me off into a4ther train of thought, and as I muse-i I tapped mechanically on the coin wih the point of my pencil, thus," szad the major illustrated the action with the fruit knife. "I must' have s' 'ck a sharp, quick blow rightI over thqetter 0, for all of a enddenj btermy thumb and fing going to the light could hardly b my eyes when I saw that I held a tiny file about an inch and a half in length, with delieate sawteeth, which wei-e al most in isible to the naked eye. The next moment I was standing on my stool at the window, experimenting on the iron bar. The little instrument was made of the hardest steel, and its tiny teeth made some impression on the iron. For half an hour I worked away persistently, and by that time. I had cut into the bar a little. Not much,'to be sure, but s;till enough to raise my hopes. It was only a ques tion of timne and not being interrupted, and I shuld be through that window. I worked away like a beaver. T welve hours to,.saw through two half-inch bars. L had read of men who, with files mi e with watch-springs, had cut their wy to liberty through iron bolts and bars, or with no other tool than the blade of of a penknife had dug through a dozen feet of stone and mortar to the daylight beyond; but these men had taken weeks and months to complete their task, while I had just one short summer night The heat was, intense, and what with the exercise and the constant fear of interruption, the perspiration rolled in great drops from my brow. I had been at work, as it seemed to me, about two- hours, and had cut half through the first bar, when I was startled by the rattle of a key in the lockbehindme. Like an antelope Iwas away from the window, and by the time the door swung open I was seated on my stool at the table with my face down and my hands clapsed about my head. A soldier entered the cell with a lantern which he held above my head. I did not move. He placed one hand on my back. I could feel my heart throbbing like an engine, and I thought it must send a tremor through my whole body, which he could not help noticing,but he merely comm.ented upon the perspiration which drenched my shirt. I had taken off my coat in order to work more fraely. Stretehing out my arms and yawning, as if .thad just awakened, I looked up dully. It was not the same fellow who had gotten me the grapes. 'Have you come for nie?' I inquired, blinking at the lantern. "'O)h, no; it is only two o'clock.' '''T wo o'clock!' I cried inwardly, 'In two hours it will be day, aud I have not cut through one bar yet.' "'I thought I heard a rat gnawing in here and I came in to drive it away. The place is full oi them, and they steal the prisoners' bread if they are foolish enough to go to sleep leaving any food uneaten.' "Then he stepped to the window. I clutched the edge of the table tightly and turned slowly on my stool. He took hold of one of the bars-and the one I had been sawing-and looked out. I do not know to this day whether he discovered my work; but I could, afford to take no risk, sol stepping"up behind him I drew him over backward onto the table. He did not- cry out, for my fingers on his throat prevented. He - was as a baby in my hands, and in a inoment I had him bound,. pagged and lying on my straw. Tak iig a pistol from his - belt I made a sign to him that if he moved or made the slihiblst attempt to give the alarm iiould be his last act. In all my eici ement- at the eitrance of the sol dier I had found time to replace th4 file in the coin and put the whole ' into my pocket. I now had rea ston o curse this carelessness, for I did ot know how to open The piece .gai. I knew I had stumbled on it essing a spring near the edge, by 'ast where I could not teli. Tak i up my pencil I went carefully ao the rim. I must have missed it the :rst and second times round, but the -id time on striking, as I then not^ i exactly over the letter '0,' the LO ;s flew open again. Ten precious m" tes had beei lost; and I set to wor with desperate energy. The fart er I cut into the bar the slower the work went, and I also bad to conduct my operations with one ye on the Mexican, He did not mo , but lay there watching me ont of s large, dark eyes, wonderingly; e ly two hours passed thus when the aint twittering of a bird warned me of approaching day. I had not dni hed the first bar. I seemed to be me -ng no progress at all now. Once the little file had slipped from,my gi rs and fallen to the floor, where I had been obliged to grope for it, and the constant fear lest it should slip - and fall outside made me doubly cau 'ous and slow. As the first streal}s of r d tinged the eastern sky the roll of e drum in the guard room beneath told me that the sentries were about to a changed. Exerting all my str1 gth I wrenched the bar free at bottom and bent it inward and ~p rd like a hook. The aperture thu made was small, but-still I might squ eze through. The remembrance as a boy, I used to' crawl into barn at home through a small ow from which a pane of glass ad een knocked, came to my mind n nragingly. Snatching up the pis I I pushed the table under 1:he ow, and, jumping upon it, began, Efirst, to work myself through the aol , I was about the same size all the a p in those days"-here the major Loo d rather regretfully at sthe pres s enerous proportions of his waist ow "but when I had gotten half a through I stuck fast. Just at hi moment I heard voices at the 3- and a key grate in. the lock. lh had some difficulty in unlocking t or I had left the key in the lock on side. Meanwhile I struggled - antly, but the more I itriggled the ter I seemed to get wedged in the dow, and the blood surged up into ny head with splitting violence. n e I was, caught in my own trap, va ng my legs about and striking he against the wall on the outside. The key on my side of the door ell to the floor, and the key on the >th r side turned in the lock. I al d out as menacingly as my lack of >re 'th would permit: 'The first who nt rs will be shot dead.' Here I av a tremendous squirm. 'I have vpowered the sentry (wriggle), and ~.his* pistol.' The click of my ron carried conviction with it, for he en in the corridor paused. *By suerhuman effort I drew myself a ittl toward the inside of the room, , etting one a t side, managed ,having son the' ragged p of iron, prevented me for a ent from dropping to the - boneath. A sentry on the ri on wall spied me at this nn ture and firedis musket. It was .is ast shot, for as his ball strnck the no tar from the wall near me I raised :ny istol and picked him off his perch. [e ~ go my hold. There was a soft u1 of ripping flannel, and I fell to he round. .I was upon my feet and we the wall like a cat.- As I leaped a v ley of shot followed me, and the sold .ers poured out of the jail in pur - mit there were some horses tied in ro of the postofice opposite, and re- ing the tether of one of them I was on his back and away up the street in a flash. It was only an eighth of a ile long. You know how these little dcan towns are built. Padmn um eigned there for about ten see >,and then I was off towards the no tains. A dozen men were after ne ..full chase, but they never came with 'n shooting distance again. You ee, I knew the country even better tha they, having been sconting in it for eeks. I made my way back to our ine with all possible dispatch, avoid Lng ny encounter. with the natives. "'hen I finally reached the Ameri Son riny I found that Scott had given ap a idea of seeing me again, and was. rep ring to press forward to the at back "n the 18th of August our forces ver ishelling the City of Mexico from! the- vry town of Molino del Rey, and: n th~ 19th we took the city itself by~ assa It. "I wanted to have a hand at whip ping anta Anna, so took part in the hare and received a wound in the leg irich resulted in this." Tha majo4- stuck out his left leg from un der ti e table. "Cork, sir! " hat, gentlemen, is how I come to knov how to open this remarkable oin "L' Th n drawing a fat wallet fr.om his inside vest pocket he fished out from its r .esses something folded in what lisad ce been white paper, now dark with ge. Un'wrapping,.it he disclosed ti file, with delicate saw-teeth. Fitt g the file into the cavity in .the coin e handed it to the colonel, say ing, as he did so: "Allow me to re stor to you all your property.'' But the 1 tter refused it. "No, major, I thin it should belong to you." "ell, I should like to keep it imemento, but in turn you ust permit me to celebrate my irst eeting with the man to whom I am 'd<eeply indebted. by ordering a bottl 6f -ehaniagne." "W ith all my heart," said the genial colon4i. d now," continued the major, after he ariivil of the wine, as he illed he 'glasses around, "I want to ask y u again: What induced you to puta le, of all things, into the centre of coin after cutting it open?"' "d I can only say," replied thie colo , "that it was because that lit tle fi happened to be lying on my wor le near a.t band. It was the mer chance." "Iwas a lucky chance for me," said a major, devoutly, as' he raised his ass. "otherwise I should not have ad the pleasure of drinking your very good health to-day."--Short he cass ar mysepusi. From tie.&publfcan B ar-1t Penaa, 4The primary cause of dyspepsia islac 1 vitlity; tile absence of nerve force; the loss of,the life-snstaini letnents of the blood. No organ can properly peiorn3 i t$ funo tion whhn the source of ntttriment fail. When the stomach is robbed of the nourish ment demanded by nintre; assimilation ceases, unnatural gasesire iferat. ; the entire system responds to the disco. A praetlcal illustration of. the symptoms and torture of dyspepsia-Is farnished by the ease of Joseph T. Vandyke, 440 Hickory St., Scranton, Pa.. In telling his story, Mr. Vandyke says: "Five years ago I was afflicted with a trouble of the stomach, which was very aggravat- - leg. I had no appetite, . could no! ejoy myself at any time, and especially was the trouble severe when I awoke in the morn ig. I did not know what the ailment was, but It be came staidily worse and I was in constant misery f "I called in my family physician, and ho ding nosed the case as datarrh - - - of the stomach. He pro scribed for me and t had his prescription filled. I -In Misery. took nearly all of the medicine, but still the trouble became worse, and I'.elt that my condition was hopeless. I triedseveral ramedies recommended by my friends but without benefit. After I hadbeen suffering s*veral months, Thomas Campbell, also a resident of this city urged me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. "Ho finally persuaded me to buy a box and I began to use the pills according to directions. Before I had taken the second box I began-to feel relieved, and after tak ing a few more bores. I considered myself restored to health.. The pills gave me new life, strength, ambition and happiness." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure dyspepsia. by restoring to the blood the requisite con" stituents of life, by renewing tie nerve force and enabling the stomach to prompt ly and properl* assimilate the food. :These pills are a specifle for ali diseases having their origination in impoverished blood or disordered nerves. 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