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VOL. I.
ADORATION.
5liine eyes are like the (loot), blue, bound-
Tby voice, the voice of one who rides the
‘storm, bright
Thy countenance illumined like
Thym-eath the fragrant breath of dewy
morn.
Amazing breezes daily sing thy praises, speaketh
Awukeuing streams thy goodness
each.
Thine arms, unarmored, prove thy great¬
ness.
Thy lips, tby lips my own would teach.
Thy brow i.3 calm, serene and holy.
Thy heart, unchastened.warm and strong.
Thy speech the tongue of men and angels.
Thy pulse, thy pulse brings life along,
— Helen McQuado Day, Boston.
Sheer Luck.
Wlien the great pink diamond of
Guzuee reached Europe it created
widespread interest and took immedi-
ate rank with the historical stones of
the world. It was compared with the
finest gems in the roval and imperial
regalia, savants wrote learned ( lis-
quisitions upon its beauties, and the
magazines and newspapers spoke of
its value in a way that made one’s
mouth water.
Among others whose envy was
aroused by the descriptions of the
stone was a Mr. Lamorock, a gentle¬
man who had passed under many
aliases in his career, and who had only
recently been released from Portland,
where he had been sequestered for mis¬
taking the proprietorship of a check.
As he read of the great diamond his
eyes sparkled at the thought of its
worth. There it was—£100,000—and
Ton could put it in your waistcoat
*
pocket.
But how to get it?
The ex-convict, as he pondered over
tlie subject, knew the task was not an
easy one. The papers imparted the
confidence that it was in Messrs.Bons-
field Brothers’ safe at Bristol; but
burglary was not iu his line. There
are trades of refinement in all profes-
sions, and he looked upon burglary as
vulgar, besides which night watchmen,
strong rooms, and electric alarms
made such work hazardous and only
fit for people better supplied with
physical strength than brains.
The first step was to obtain the con-
fidence of the Bonsnelds. To get this?
—an introduction. How?—to forge
it!
Without more ado he wrote a short
note to Congleton & Co., the celebrated
diamond merchants of Hatton Garden,
asking them if they would care to buy
some old family jewels, and received
a reply expressing their willingness to
inspect them. After studiously ex-
amining the caligraphy of their letter
with a magnifying lens he set himself
to practising a number of curves and
flourishes on a sheet of paper. An
hour’s work seemed to satisfy him,
and he then indited the following
epistle: 1
. i. Hatton Garden, Jan 4, 1S96.
Messrs.Bonsfleld Brothers: Dear Sirs
—As a client of ours desires to inspect
your pink diamond known as ‘The
Light of Guzuee,’ with a view to pur¬
chase, we should feel obliged if you
would send it to us. Gar Mr. Lamo¬
rock will call upon you a few hours
after you receive this letter and will
bear a note vouching for his identity.
We shall be happy to undertake all
risk and responsibility for the stone
from the time it is intrusted to the
custody of our representative, and we
beg to remain yours faithfully'.
“CONGLETON & Co.”
When this production of his pen
and brain had been carefully scrutin-
ized, our caligraphist composed
another short letter, which stated that
the bearer was Mr. Lamorock,the rep¬
resentative of Congletou & Co. He
went out and bought half a dozen
Havana cigars, four of which he
steamed open and unrolled. Smearing
the interior portion over with a dark,
treacly liquid, he rolled them up again
with export fingers and put them into
Lis case.
The first letter he had written he
sent by registered post, going down to
Bristol by the same train that took the
mail. But on his arrival there he
waited for three hours so as to allow
of it being delivered before calling.
He then went to their office and pre¬
sented his credentials,the genuineness
of which were not for a moment sus-
pected. Bristol firm, who acted with
The
great caution in all their business
transactions, thought it safer
that the stone should be under
the mstodv of their own rep-
THE TRIBUNE. <»
“Don’t Grive Up til© Ship.”
BUCHANAN, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 2‘A 181)8.
resentative, and determined that one
of their partners, Harry Bonsfleld,
should accompany Lamorock up to
London, taking it with hint. this,
however, was a contingency provided
for both by Lamorock’s cigars and by
11 ueat littie revolver that nestled in
the pocket of his great coat.
It was a bitterly cold day,and a bit¬
ing east wind made them shiver iu
spite of their coats and wraps; so
much so that they mutually regretted
that the operation of securing a
reserved carriage left them no time to
pay a visit to the refreshment room.
, Ihey r , had , . just . . seated . themselves . .
comtortably and the tram was already
m motion, when an elderly gent eman
with a jovial red aceand black bushy
whiskers opened the door and bundled
himself in.
Bonsfleld was annoyed and Lamo-
rock disgusted; but as the intruder
was _____profuse in his apologies, and it
was too lute to mend matters, they
had to accept the situation with the
best grace they could. After the lapse
°f a quarter of an hour he had talked
their reserve away, and proved him-
self so amusing a companion that they
all became quite friendly; and then
Lamorock, who had grown suddenly
amiable, pressed the others into
accepting a cigai apiece, lhe jolly-
'“«> "« “• •• * «■*•*>
in hospitality. He opened his hand-
bag, and wu i a merry wink produced
a flask oi cm acoa, which fctie intense
cold made particularly acceptable to
them ail. Lamorock, indeed, found
the liquor so delicions that he took
two glasses. Before they got half
through their cigars he noticed with
suspicion that the conversation began
to slacken, and that his companions
showed a disposition to go to sleep.
Bonsfleld was the first to succumb
To somnolence, and Lamorock even
beg® 11 to feel sleepy himself. He
fought against the sensation by get-
fbig up to admire the colored photo-
gmphs beneath the hat-rails and by
trying to fix his attention upon the
passing scenery. He opened his cigar-
ca8e > counted and examined the con-
tents, and looked puzzled. He was
apparently satisfied that he not given
himself one of the drugged cigars,for
b e pufled vigorously away at his
stump, hoping that it would help to
keep him awake. He once thought
that the fumes of his companions
cigars might be affecting him, and
opened both windows. But he fouud
the cold air had no efiect. The^ in-
tinder also began to look as if he
would soon lollow Bonsfleld s example.
TT e vainly tried to look wide awake,
but his lids would droop heavily, his
head would sink down upon his chin,
lin< T be would then pull himself
together by a supreme effort and try
to sit up straight.
Their respective struggles to keep
awake, however, grew more and more
feeble until the pair finally collated
in their corners, and slept as if they
would never wake again.
When the train arrived at Swinton
Junction the guard discovered them
all asleep, and after trying in vain to
rouse them u», the conviction dawned
upon him that it was foul play. The
three patients were taken out and re-
moved to the hospital, arrangements
being made by the police that on their
recovery all three should be detained
in custody pending investigations. So,
when they had been brought round to
consciousness, they J were taken to the
police station.
Harry Bonsfleld easily established
his identity, and was set at liberty,
but the information that the police ob-
tained about his companions, the
revolvers they' found in both their
overcoats, tao tell-tale cigars,and two
equally damning cigar stumps, the
I'emnanfs of curacoa in the flask and a
very suspicious false beard, nil these
incidents led to their arrest, trial, and
subsequent conviction.
Scotland Yard keens the flask as a
curiosity', for it has two compartments
from which the contents can be drawn
a ' the will of the owner by a slight,
pressure on a secret spring. Both
compartments contained curacoa; but
what was left of one sample was found
to be drugged while the other was
P ure -
Tlie jovial gentleman,like Lamorock,
had had his imagination fired by the
accounts that the newspapers gave of
the great pink diamond, He had
wormed it out of a clerk iu Messrs.
Bonsfield’s office that the junior part¬
ner was taking it up to town, and he
thought the opportunity for which he
had waited so long had at length ar¬
rived. Tearing away to his lodgings,
he had provided himself with a flask
and a revolver, and was just in time
to catch the train. When the whole
faots were revealed iu the police court,
the natural astonishment of Lamorock
and the jolly gentleman was past de¬
scription. It beat even that of Harry
Bonsfleld. All the threeaetors inthis
scene are now firmly convinced that
one of the incalculable elements con¬
trolling man’s destiny is sheer luck.—
London Bun.
A BEAUTIFUL NEW SILK.
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Spmn Yet.
Some verv vei / remarkable remarkable buffs bugs are are 1 be
• j ust Present
! ng a “ l reare, l a
by the experts oi the government
bureau of entomology at Washington.
Most people would suppose that there
were enough insects ,n existence with-
out resorting to artihcia propagtion;
but the fact is that this kind ot scien-
title work has a very useful purpose in
view. This, too, notwithstanding tlio
fact that the species selected for breed-
jng are the most pestiferous that can
he found, says a writer m tae Boston
Transcript.
The bug hatcheiy, ot mseotary, „
as it is called is a brick building close
«y the department oi agriculture, in
®°"" tru C ^°"J* a
bouse, tue . uppei part being oi glass,
™ as to admit p 0 1 * or
‘ c ' -
Cm - for’the benzol . S.3 2
‘P- : warmth
' shelves '
all around , the liiteuoi, • . • and , on the
floor as well are glass jars and queer
glass-sided boxes con ai.uug a gien
^Th/obieets filling in°tho° glass' "li-iod tars are
r tables t pieces £ of fruits i blanches K or im roots ; vpw
etc. One does not see any bugs at
all, and the reason why is simply that
the vegetables, fruits and so forth are
the natural food of the insects,and the
latter are either inside of them or else
are “done up” in cocoons for the win¬
ter.
For example, there is a huge cocoon
nine .... inches long- hanging . from ,. a twig , .
in a jar of exceptional size Ibis is
the temporary communal dwelling
built by the so-called “gregarious but-
terfly in Mexico. Moie coiieetjy
spea ang, l is le ca eipi
olme ^ a er ° \ ‘
, . .. ,
co118 iac ie coc o o a * <■ 1
w l e ley aienm e „om n ie me :
moip osis, le c ocoon i . a
te s asl mat e o in %. pa t :i ,
an< a e c rin,^
oe ) Ul st 1 ' es *. 0 ,* j
'
. .. ,. ,
emp oyei iu nil c l mus >e tii 1
mous. . n< ei a powei i nn n yj lg
glass it is seen to be composed of an
m ni enum ei o s umn t , am ' * ] >
s em ei si tu ueiu ., nus^ i
o lei m e\ ei y ( n ec on. ". 1 1
°’ ncs ls °1' 11 ‘ !’
uuidred or more chrysalids ,., attached . ,
° ie " a s ou ie ( 1 °
representing . a futnie butterfly
The habit of comb mug tog her to
. «^ 11S 1 ‘ un Tl “ ° itLT 1 The
, . the nest , . exquisite, . ..
composing is
and from twenty to twenty-five sheets
°t it can e s i lppcc o 11)111 10
( OCOOU > looklu S a8 woven m
a Jooin - If the silk could only be
s l )nl b 0 ‘ ‘gregarious butterfly”
would soon displace , the silkworm,
ini< l UA m ^s am sa ins o commeu.e
^ ald be of butterfly manufacture,
Unfortunately, the dithculty remains
unsolved though many attempts m
this direction have been made. Could
a solution of the problem be found,
silk would become at once enormously
less costly, inasmuch as the cocoons
of this kind of butterfly are to be
gathered in immense numbers as a
wild crop in the forests of Mexico.
Dieting on the Side.
A certain stout lady resolved to
consult a physician about her corpu¬
lence. She had no previous experi¬
ence with “banting” of any sort. The
doctor drew up a careful dietary for
her. She must eat dry foist, plain
boiled beef, and a few other things of
the same lean sort and in a month re¬
turn and report the result.
At the end of the time the lady
came and was so stout she could
hardly geLthrough the door. Tho
doctor wasTtghast.
“|pid you eat what I told you?” he
asked.
“Religiously,” she answered.
His brow wrinkled in perplexity.
Suddenly he had a flash of inspira¬
tion.
“Did you eat - anything else?” he
asked.
“Why, my ordinary meals!” said
the lady.—Fearsou’s Weekly.
Onlv one person in a thousand dies
of old age.
LIFE AT DAWSON CITY.
fntfM-tfMtiiiK Facta About the Metropolis of
the Klondike.
A journey of forty-five miles from
Sixty-mile Post brought us to Dawson
City, the wonderful city of the new
mining district, populated almost in a
night. Although really sixty-five
miles distant from the Klondike, it is
a typical mining camp, minus the
guns. The laws of the British govern-
“ tllose lent laW8 ar0 enfo prohibit ™. e !* the at of tnc- all<1
use
al . ms; consequently few men carry
gunB> j n and aro nnd Dawson at the
wsent tilue theI . e aro ab out four
thousnlul men ftlul one hundred and
lift womeu . Daw80tt , of course, is
\ im itive alul ve rydirty,although
fl ,, m recent conversation with Mr.
La(lu(J j understand that every effort
is being made to clean it. There are
large stocks of provisions iu all the
storehouses, and it looks as though
there could be no hunger in the Klon-
dike. There will be little or no law-
lessness, and there is a probability of
very little sickness. The Alaskan
wiuterB are healthful. In September
can be seen quant iti e3 c f black ducks
wending their way southward, and
even on the streets of Dawson you
can see the sparrow and hear its
chirping. Here, as everywhere in
A 'a.ka, oat,.re h.a stored her trea-
^res in a safe of ice; in fact, one
wl 'iter has called Alaska the nation’s
icebox, but to me it represents the
paradise of poet and painter.
Nft ture has done much for Dawson, but
the energetic American has done more,
He ,ias l,lult warehouses in which he
has stored acres of food, built com-
stable log-cabins, erected a theatre,
efltablisbed mftnv sak)OUS) billiard-
rooms aU( [ dance halls. The sums of
money spent in these billiard saloons
and dance halls are simply fabulous;
fortunes changed hands every night
at the different gambling devices. At
poker in a single night §100,000 fre¬
quently changed hands, it being noth¬
ing unusual to see §10,000 bet on a
single band. Yet do not infer from
this that all the miners are gamblers.
Many of them never enter a saloon or
dance hall.
i have a little friend out there, an
old schoolmate, who is teaching school.
She hugely enjoy’s her winters there.
She is at Circle City. She takes a
daily ride behind a splendid dog team,
a nd, I tell you, it’s great fun. You
ride a while, and thou you get out and
inn; then yon get in and ride again,
No one really knows what asleighride
j 8 until he ridqs behind a tine dog
team. The inhabitants mauage to get
consiaerab i e amn semcnt. They have
private dances, parties, and in the
summer time they even have picnics,
The Arctic winters are most keenly
felt by those miners who are obliged
all through tbe lo , |{?> (lark winter to
live in tents and dugouts.
Dawson City is rectangular in shape,
It is laid out m town lots. Its streets
urc sixty-six ieot wide. It is situated
on a stretch of low ground on tho
northwest bank of tho Yukon, just be-
low the mouth of the Klondike. Toivn
lots in Dawson City are selling now at
§5000 each. Up to the present time
55 cents at Dawson is tho smallest
piece of money used; it is called four
bits. Both Protestants and Homan
Catholics have already established
mission churches in Dawson. Those
who visit Dawson next spring will see
a live metropolis.
Electrical Spanking.
Warden C. P. Hoyt of Denver has
designed a spanking chair for use in
the Industrial School for Girls. It
consists of a seatless chair ou which
the girls are placed. It is high enough
from the ground to allow four puddles
to be operated by electric wires.
Straps hold the victim’s wrists to the
arm of the chair.
At the Gills’ Industrial school of
Kansas, situated at Beloit, they have
whiif is called a spanking chair. Bad
girls are strapped in the chair, and an
attendent presses the button and the
chair does the rest. The Kansas
authorities will be asked in a few days
to explain the system, and if it is satis¬
factory to the local authorities a
spanking chair will be purchased for
the Colorado institution.—Pittsburg
Dispatch.
The ocean contains several fish
which clothe and adorn themselves.
The most conspicuous of them is the
antennarins, a small fish frequenting
the Saragasso sea, which literally
clothes itself with seaweed, fastening
the pieces together with sticky, gala-
tiuoua strings, and then, as it were,
holding ' the garments on with its fore
fins.
NO. 20,
BIRD-SONGS.
To Hear Them Truly Itaqulre* »n £ar
Particularly Attuned.
John Burroughs writes for The
Century an article on the “Songs of
American Birds.” Mr. Burroughs
says:
j Buap ect it requires a special gift
of griK . e to enable one to hear the
bird-songs; some new power must lie
a,ia 0 cl to the ear, or some obstruction
removed. There are not only scales
upon our eyes so we do not see; there
nre 8ca les unon our cars so that we
do not hear 'her V city woman who had
spent fv much of ‘time in the coun-
on ce asked a well known ornitliel-
0 „ st t o take her where she could hear
the * bluebird “What ’ never heard
ebmP" said he “[ have not will ”
sakl the woman ‘Then you
never hear it,” said the bird-lover,
-phut is, never hear it with that in¬
-ward ear that gives beauty and mean-
i, )g to the note. He could probably
have taken her in a few minutes where
s i ie col ,ia have heard the call or warble
0 f the bluebird, but it would have
fttI i en lipoll unresponsive ears—upon
eiU 8 that W ere not sensitized by lovo
fol . tll0 birds or associations with
them
Bird-songs are not music, properly
„Li,, speaking, but only suggestions of
A great mauv people arrested whose
attention would be quickly
by the same volume of sound made by
a musical instrument or bv any artili-
t .j a j meail3 ueV er hear them* at all.
The sound of a bov’s penny whistle
therein the grove or the meadow
W ould separate itself more from the
background change of nature, and be a greater
to the ear than is the strain
of the thrush or the song of the spar¬
row. There is something elusive, in¬
definite, neutral, about bird-songs
that makes them strike obliquely, as
it were, upon the ear, and we are very
apt to miss them. They are a part of
nature, and nature lies about us. en¬
tirely' occupied with her own affairs,
and quite regardless of our presence.
Hence it is with bird-songs as it is
with so many' other things in nature
—they are what we make them; the
ear that hears them must be half
creative.
| am always disturbed when per-
sons not especially observant of birds
ask me to take them where they can
bear some particular bird the song of
which they' have become interested in
through a description of it in some
book. As I listen with them I feel
like apologizing for the bird; it bus a
bad cold, or has just heard some de¬
pressing news; it will not let itself
o„ t . The song seems so casual and
minor when you make a dead set at it.
j have taken persons to hear the
hermit-thrush, and I have fancied that
theywereallthetimosavingtothem-
selves, “Is that all?” But when one
hears the bird in his walk, when the
mind is attuned to simple things and
j f i open and receptive, when expecta-
tion is not aroused and the song comes
as a surprise out of the dusky silence
the woods, one feels that it merits
a H tbe fine things that can bo said of it.
Tin? Feet.
A contemporary points out one or
two facts regarding the feet that can¬
not be too widely known, We all
know that our feet spread, and take it
quite ns a matter of course; but it
seems that, after all,there is no neces¬
sity' for their doing so. They spread be¬
cause we do not know how to rest them
properly. The feet do not grow, but
by resting them in the wrong way the
muscles have been permitted to take
a wrong direction, and the foot flat¬
tens, When a woman finds that the
instep of the foot is tired, she should
change her stockings for thin ones,
and put on slippers with a totally dif¬
ferent heel from that of the shoes she
took off, either higher or lower, ns tho
case may be; Then she should lie
down, turn upon her face, and place a
pil ow under the insteps of both feet,
so that every inch-of tho breadth of
her feet should rest upon the pillow.
When this is done, the foot is at ease.
The muscles rest and strengthen, and
the beautiful arch of tho instep is pre¬
served. Possibly some may think this
is nonsense, but let them try the above
plan of resting when very tired, and
they will be surprised to find out. bow
successful it really is.—New York
Ledger.
An Able Man,
“Yes sir. Bleeker would make
money out of anything,
“He is so lucky?
'I should penniless say girl so. Why, he mai'-
l ied a two years ago and
he got her a position that brings him
iu 81200 a year.”— Life.