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SHARP eiSCf Qversat h.6&C2S9imRe$5552aBB A ?enly fci. s the t- uldenlyt ms of t, some eh Incident which marks the pres, n out narrative occurred sev-eryears ago, when the steamboat Ben Lewis ex plodcd in sight of Cairo, I" if I remember rightly, a SL Memphis packet, was on her ' and was rounding or cross. of the Ohio, e bar at the mouth ber boiler burst, and she was a Many people were killed out by the explosion, others were in terrible (,j, others lingered until death put an end to their igs, and others received severe j HK dangert. the beginning of Upon t: was al rea J neatly is vict a for p isitorj his t. h. happen. vhite i it, and t seep m various injuries, at the time, and shall forget the heartrending scenes St Charles Hotel, to which most wounded were brought, and they lay on pallets In the rooms ills, many of them black as with the skin falling from and el to I; m its bo: in Cairo s Perfora; ne-ma- 4 none of these I have to narrative follows the for-i- f man who Jumped overboard, with it Is This a preferring to trust rather than to the I choose, for reasons that are al to him, to onll him John II. cr, simply boo- ose this name is "front as can he from that which illy belonged to him, lie was r nnlnjured, the river to f - Jly from Kingston, Canada, his being of English birth, but had during several years in Alton, here he had accumulated eonshl-nwne- y s in the grocery business; ugh tl bachelor, nenr forty years of d kept house in a cottage of his vitb a rather pretty German girl romii 'he i etlmes The mysterious of the German girl, for Jyrrotir did not account sntis-!y- , housework. aranre upoat occasioned unpleasant coin-msome very seriotis facts :tant to he brought to light, smiilenly left Alton, having .y disposed of his cottage and il heath. I stir: r repr 3l C It was because of this .iaess. Was rail c are ! circumstances that he hap-the a passenger on the Ben st th" time of the explosion, vonr Jumped overboard, as I of tiees r Ee o and was fortunate enough, he got char of those who were Mug In the water, to Cml a flont-or- , fatc-- ores! wlibh lie seized, anil which "" uo well, and thus he drifted the river, , had not dented far when he dls-that lie h id a companion. This "kn w.n holding to the door, j chttave put in an appearance nr might not hitherto have v.ii.'e to Seymour, As his face sc' y hi. rdi i sir fi nd, 1 'rained, Seymour perceived that been fearfully scalded. lie was ! fo sivak to be and tt appeared Yet. although he 'u hideous, o horribly marred and '!, Seymour could rot help ob- In his a certain Mnnee to himself. It was then strange and sudden thought into his mind. I am not record- Impressions by means of the nation, but derive them from wus which ho subsequently exhausted. coui-f.inn- nailed the fact that he had been d to leave Alton because of dis-- " that were about to be made, cae of a crime with which he i.siMt to be charged. It was high-Kn- l' that lie might yet lie pur-an- d proscn'eit. Suppose he fiinse himself to disappear? ,Sf that lie sliop'd fo pse th that It would prove n provl-- I Interposition to save hm from ,nent and anuoyrnep? Itis com 3 In the water, disfigured ns lie n'lglit easily be mistaken for 1dm i;h. and It was evident that lie 1 ex-1- 1 ""t live long. that b wore noon yrof his left hand a and w w M rofln--t- 'lien-mii- it- - "''l lgaarTa 'jtgaeffliuJBmaMMBaaLJ.'t.T.ji.Jinri gjff wag By Carl BranL. l ring, rot ln Alien, n "I"1 ndndred j was wr'l width had be-- n we!ioi"iaSiabIe, t0 make- - and he li 8UC- - hlS float ni,on tlle sand, found himself In an exhausted condition, and his burdensome companion quite dead. He did not wait long to recover his Strength, but soon proceeded to business. Removing the ring from Ids finger, he placed it on a similar finger of the dead mans hand. Then he felt In his pockets, to see If there were anything there by which he might be Identified. nothing he took from his pocket some wetted cards lThil,S bearing his address, and transferred them to a vest pocket of the other. Finally he dragged the body a little way up ou the sand, obliterated the footmarks, and his task whs done. Ills next object was to reach the mainland, and he succeeded in pushing his float over to the Kentucky shore, where he was cared for and hospitably entertained, ns a survivor of the great steamboat disaster. Ills money and securities were on his person, wet but unmutilnted, and he had lost nothing but his trunk and his ring. Thus he passed out of the world as John II. it as Benjamin Seymour, Sinnott, and rend with satisfaction the advertisement for his body and Us final discovery and burial. There was one fact, however, which should have been published, but which did not appear in any newspaper account which came under his notice. Nothing was said about his valuable and noticeable ring, and this omission was quite perplexing to Sinnott, alias Seymour. This mystery I proceed to solve by explaining that the body on the island was first discovered by a man named Wilson Replette, who had been seareh-In- g with a skiff for relics of the disaster. lie, also, had seen a description of Seymour, and had recognized the man ou the Island by the ring on his left hand. His cupidity being too strong for Ids conscience, he possessed himself of the ring, and left the body where he had found it. It was afterward discovered by oiliers, and buried as the body of John II. Seymour. Not long after the Ben Lewis disaster, news came to Canada of the death of an uncle of the supposed dead man, in England. Tiiis uncle lmd been merchant, and his property a well-to-discended to John II. Seymour and his elder brother, Pavid, .their parents bea man ing dead. David Seymour was of remarkable honesty in purpose and In action. As soon as lie learned of this unexpected wludfnll, his first of thought was to find his brother, during beard nothing whom he had him that many years, and secure to was which the property portion of he adverAccordingly, his. rightfully tised in a number of newspapers in Canada and the States, telling John II. bear of someSeymour that be would communicatthing to his advantage by at Kingsing with his brother Pavid, be ton, and requesting all who might concernInformation of any possessed address. ing him to send It to that a This notice came tinder the eye ofII. John known had who gentleman ami he wrote to Seymour In Alton, thnt his brother hint David, informing a waa supposed to have perished in Mississippi. the on disaster steamboat Further Inquiry brought out the particLewds ulars of the explosion of the Bea of burial and and of the discovery bo the body of to believed was what The evldpnca to John If. so eonviiHn, 1,at tills effect whs compelled to bewhs Pavl.l Seymour was dead, and lieve that his brother share of the bin use to was preparing a clnim nt when own. property s ills representing put Hi an appearance, who himself to he John II. Seymour, wns supposed to be lost. not to In pursuance of my purpose nl myst.Ard be nllow my readers to case might the of ttionch this phase o in by many i the k' ' than If that ring sluml l ), found ant was no other lmd tah-- .. th- I if tigured ho hnv, It Would reEl" ilio dead hand of the supposed MNmi tf Idmitiiv, nml h could f a, ii.d t give jf for t i purpose Ending the. public that be was S?eS,Sevmoursolverllse.i.eptcnmc and he saw ir , r l !s notice, a for Into stepping Into wntelmd Ids retty clearly ',rV'M'nn reader careful n Pad been sabttiblo romaidnn tmr- - tune, f, ), jj,,.,. ' .v linir eu hour, ru'd ,l to th- d or. But r',",li wns fnl'-uj- j r!l the while, bis grasp re-- t tv pe v -- s gone. i'i ) pv.o'itri t sink; be fr',r,t''; John; 11 peytnour had really O p, j1(, ( Seymour whether Is not at nil ' 'df 'h ft from Tint lie tnrned hH "tops 'rt,1e the body fust surpivilmi ... i.. ,' v(v of per'I 'l t on the door. d,,1'n h t1 t"ltl1 g John II Heyumttr '""s to the land, . by to ptmli r..i In l' .1 ir i pf the Mis. i (! 'I'e, lut trade little ptogress l!.n f.duinbiis was learn nJn 'Jlmm lie was to n th of It ci, pr,.,, PIUj ttl(, rlmr.n'ier (, iqlrle Jf' Wolf fid t' vni'ig vis-- ' bus a binding which o-- I' Witi-it.,- fr - -g yu-imr Imudi-eyiditr- - 11 -- i'li 1 sml.-vi-lur- ciub-avor- - as and presented himself to David oeymour as his long-los- t brother. David failed to recognize him, as "as not surprising after so long a separation, and called for his proofs Replette wns prepared these, and showed the ring, upon Vttiieh he chiefly relied to sustain his cause, with newspaper slips describing jt minutely, among other distinguishing marks upon the persons of people trh were missing after the explosion of t;e Ben Lewis. Ho also had a great deal to relate concivyiiing his life in Illinois, and his experiences In connection with the exploded steamer, but gave no information about the years he had passed in Canada, or about bis parents, relatives or friends. This he accounted for by saying thnt a severe attack of fever, during his residence in Illinois, which had nearly carried him to his grave, had also entirely destroyed all memory of his former life. David Seymour was almost, but nil quite, convinced that this man w really his brother. Before acknowledging him as such, however, lie cou sented, in deference to the advice .' his lawyer, to write to Alton, requesting some of the former acquaintances of John II. Feymour to come on t Kingston and identify him. Somo men caiuo to Kingston froij Illinois in answer to this request, but not the men expected. They were detective officers, provided with a requisition from the Governor of Illinois, for the arrest of John II. Seymour cm a criminal charge. As this requisition was of no effect in Canada, they decoyed Replette across the river into New York, where he was arrested and taken to Illinois. When David Seymour discovered that the man whom he nlmost believed to be his brother had been kidnaped and carried away, he was highly Indig- nant lie hastened to write to the lawyer at Alton, with whom ho had previously communicated, and was getting ready to go to Illinois', when he wus confronted by .mother claimant to the property which his uncle had left. This wus no other man than John II. Seymour himself. He bad been living in Tennessee, under tbe name of Sinnott, and he, as well as Replette, had kept np with the current literature of the I5en Lewis disaster. David Seymours advertisement had luckily come under his notice, and he saw no reason why he should not go and take possession of his property. Canada was not the United States, and he did not suppose that any senrch would be made for him, as he was believed to be dead. ne went to Kingston, accordingly, and presented himself to his brother, who did not recognize him, ns It was so long since they had met, and who told him of the claimant who had lntely appeared, wearing the ring that had belonged to John II. Seymour. The real John IT. luvd no means of Identifying himself, except by bringing to tbe remembrance of bis brother scenes and incidents, and words In connection with tlicir early life which were known only to themelvcs. This process was successful after a while, tbe relationI Seyship being admitted by Dnvl mour, and the proof being satisfactory even to bis lawyers. As for Replette, it was soon discovered st Alton thnt he was not the man he had represented himself to be, and he was set at liberty. He hastened to Kingston, but a letter from Alton bad reached David Seymour previous to his arrival, and lie only experienced a loss, ill being forced to give up to John II. Seymour the ring which bad played such a prominent part In this little drama. The Seymours went tr England, where they received and divided their still property, and whore John IT. Is living, in suite of extradition laws. I might have worked un these incidents into a sensational story, but the is sufficiently plain narrative of facts New singular to suit iny purpose. York Weekly. Official statistics show that there are 17,000,000 children in Russia between the ages of six and fourteen receiving absolutely no education. Mr. Carnegie's gifts to countries other than the United States are recorded to the amount of 53,801,330, making Mr. Carnegies total gift to libraries 14,300,030. Tlio continued drilling In Ohio for and gas and the consequent raising of the gas to the coal surface Is, and A CURIOUS-- . OCCURRENCE. will be, a soureo of very great danger Wee Willy Nilly run gulv away in coal mining for years to come, says Xo green grawy woods ona lino summer day. State Inspector Bisslon, of Ohio. So weary she grew, the sweet littla maid, 8 lie lay down to lest iu the cool, pleasant shade. In Europe alone Russia 1ms 7G.000 miles of canals, rivers and lakes, which Now what happened next is certainly queer, are navigable for some kind of craft. And sadiy perplexed the poor little dear. In Siberia there ore 30,000 miles of Rut, strange though it be, I really cant doubt it, navigable rivers, and In Central Asia For Winy heie!f told me ail about it. 20tK) more. Tlie merchant fleet Is euor-mouShe scarcely was settled, and taking ber oil east--, According to tbe statistics just compiled by the State Labor Commissioner of Kansas, there are 17,000 people employed regularly by the railroads of that State, their wages averaging $383.00, The total amount paid out in salaries nml wages last year aggregated $ i'G.0 1,384.57. Count Della Reggio Salvatore, an Italian Jioldenmu, 1ms reached Seattle in tbe course of a remarkable walking tour, in March, 1001, he made a bet of 520,000 with Duke Spluetta, also of the Italian nobility, that in three years he would travel on foot through ulne different countries, including the United States, without asking any one for money, food, transportation or shelter. There is a lively discussion going on in the newspapers of Chile over the project to make the Bay of San Antonio tlie principal port of the country. The frequent disasters which occur at Valparaiso, where the British steamer Arequipa foundered recently, have forced attention upon the advantages of San Antonio Bay, which la not an unprotected port like that of Valparaiso. Victoria, Australia, is one of the colonies which have not followed tbe lead of the motherland in refusing to allow a man to marry Ids deceased wifes sister, but a mini in that colony cannot marry his deceased wife's niece, such a marriage having been dissolved as illegal. This docs not mean that Victoria disapproves of such unions, but when the law allowing tho marriage of deceased wives sisters was passed nothing wns said about tlie nieces, s m-s- rull-roads- result XI, ITullwsy "Icsccinsher. 1 pur-nose- s s. d rose. When birds circled round her in flock from the trees. While squirrels ami rabbits and like a doth nml pluee the toy watch in full view at tho other eml of tho stick. To tho ticking to bs those uninitiated heard will appear marvelous. New York World. W TIIR riIANTOMriN, In studying tho properties of the reflection of light there are numberless Interesting experiments to be performed, One is herewith presented: Tuko a cork and cut It out into tbs form of t disk of about tho thickness of nti inch. In tho centre stick tbs point of n pin. Tills done, tnko a glass quad-ruN'd- a Stared so'emniy at her or stood on their heads. The bird The chirped ami chattered tered their wines. beat-tic- s turne 1 and flut- handsprings ami did lots ot things. At Ipst a pert tiunny climbed up on a stump And cried, Willy Nilly is such s sad gumpi" Then wee Willy Nilly arose In dismay, Determined to drive iho rude rasen.s sway, Rat, preto! before she could speak, in her fright, about s full of water and olace tho cork upon tho surface of ths sight. water with tho pin below. Now If you Washington Star, will look at tho cork from above yon A MYSTIFIED CROW. will not see tho piu, but if you will During a piazza game of ping pong, alter your position uml diminish the one of tho Irnlla was Rent quite a dis- sense of tho visual ray by placing the tance out over the lawn, whore a crow eyo ou a parallel with tho table on seized it and boro it off in triumph, which tho glass rests, you will perccivi evidently thinking It wus an egg. After a pin above tbe cork. much pecking, from nil of which the FABLE OF TWO RATS, frolicsome little lmll bounced away unhad tin excited consulA rat seeking a place in which tl broken, tho tation with several of bis fellows, and live choso a palace, saying he preferred then deliberately carried tho bull to tbe a high life, while Ills companion chos top of a high tree ami let it drop. a hut, saying he was content with less Again tho assembly of black feathered But tjie palace was found to bo a poo: gathered around in place for a rat. Tho walls and floori experimenters Thu who e saucy circle quick vanished from three-quarter- Historical Puzzle. Outside of Mexico there is a general Impression that because President Diaz is now seventy-thre- e years old be must be failing, uml Hint at best he can last but a little lime longer. On the eon trnry," says a man who has Just returned from a business trip to tlie sister republic, half a minutes talk with tho General will dispel any such notion. He is of Oaxaca Indian blood, a tribe noted for longevity and physical prowess. I.iko other men of prominence, Admiral Dewey often comes across the Irrepressible party who always affects to bo on terms of Intimacy with notable personages. Courteous and genial, the Admiral 1ms profound dislike for this sort of iiulsaiiee. Not long ago, while out walking In Washington, ho was acItobln That Hanged Itaetf. , costed by an effusive stranger, who Do birds commit suicide? It would evidence grasped Ids hand and said: George, seeiv from cimimstnnlinl I'll bet you dont know me." The Adthat they do. Recently while passing Hie State In miral looked his displeasure as he antree a large sycamore in swered writer a says grounds, grimly: You win, and walked university Forest and Stream, I happened by on. some chance to look up Into the tree, and there I saw n robin about twenty riillndelplda has 1310 tnib-- of streets a feet from tbe ground hanging to ami 480 of street rullwnya. Ft. Erich cml of siring ly the neck. has 873 miles of street and 321 of street the string was wrapped around limbs the railways, aud Boston has 405 miles of about eighteen ladies apart, and s robin the nrouml wound streets and 215 miles of street railmiddle was about u lili 450 miles of neck, so thnt it was Imaging I ot ways. Baltimore, inldwity litwiM11 Uw two limb. 53:! 1ms miles of street railways: while street, first thought it was dead, but 500 miles of streets, with move, Cleveland, looking at.lt I saw its wings got of street the 218 miles buildings, into has railways. Tin when I rushed arc: Buffalo cities for other a ladder and soon lmd It rescued. but after figures 530 Its life was pearly gone, r.mt Stiff; Hat railroads, miles, streets, fiewr a little while It revived 238 730, railroads, streets, t Francisco, In the tree away. A partly built a 2"S was 300, railroads, it currying Cincinnati, street, would Indicate that v. i'll I's ImiMii g maJ72 ia 3!'0, railroads, streets, to Pittsburg, put string 0! , terial amt 1" H""u' ,v"-- r nml New Orleans, streets, 700, the above with the In siring tangled 175. Tor presen In? the peace in a partly civilized country a railway, according -worth more to n fatuous s' at smuti, the Although than an army corps. from are building which rallwavs and Haifa to Damascus. In ralctlr.o, ""thwnrd toward from Diimn'n are primarily for military Mec-t- t they Will open up a country 2000 which was prosperous nml fertile become one since has but years ago. earth. They Of the waste places of the American harvesting using are already of Jezroel. machinery o the plains are finWhen the proposed railways for the demand a be will ished there accompanying mod. rn agricultural Galilee n'nt th country Jordan wilt a gain, blossom ft the CHILDRENS DEPARTMENT. One tbe day before his death, which occurred recently in Moscow, Professor riiilliimff addressed a letter to a paper of that city stating that for years he had been experimenting with a view Instrument of evolving it death-dealinof such power tlmt war would become Impossible, aud had found a mentis for transmitting the effects of nil explosion over a distance of thousands of miles The professor announced that ho would shortly impart his discovery to the Kt. Petersburg Academy of Science, and It 111 I ieleutlllc HOW being quesdniird circles whether ho has taken Ids to tho grave. Ilia death wus Uus to poikuulug from prussic add. g Two of Roger William Can yon flml them? companions in exllo wero lost in a douse forest amazement. Wus (here ever such a egg? It ha l fallen from a height thnt played havoc with their as well, nml eggs and their lit tl ou-yet survived Intact! Then one after another tramped ou it, cawing loudly all the while. At last, in sheer exhaustion end disgust, they nil gave It up, flew to tho top of tlu-l-r fuvorite tree, and, still cawing loudly, watched one of the ping pong players come out from tfte house ami carry off this luvim-lidegg that had bullied the!, boldest attacks. NeS York Tribune. were so well built thnt no holes could be made In them, and the pantry was so well kept tlmt nothing wns left to marauders. Moreover, there were so ninny pet rats and dogs that a rat lmd no liberty. As a result the rat got nothing to cat nml finally, from trying to starved to death-a- ll live Jn too high style. Tho other rat found tha hut just wbnt he wanted. There wero plenty of holes, the provisions wero poorly protected, the ham wns near by. Tb$ cottage rat, accordingly, lived in plenty and enjoyed wlmt wns really high lift for n rat. For, lie an Id, a palsco MICROPIIONIG TRICK, hns fewer opportunities for a rat than Here Is a curious Illusion in necous-tic- s a liovcl, nml they who aspire should based oil tho comjuellbiliiy of consider what the advantages for them are In the places which they seek, sound through wood. Take a long stick nml nt on end A WARSHIP'S MASCOT. place a real watch ami nt the other a lmtth-shlMassamascot tlie The of ear set will your toy watch, if you Js a three-leggechusetts to tunned will it le dog latter the appear against Roiger, The dog whs brought to th ship nt Cuh'brn Island. West Dulles. When the ship wns In New York liar-l.q- r hmt wilder the was allowed to go r.simro with several of the men, and wiiiH on the dock was attacked by Emu, the urn scot of the training ship liar; ford. For n v. hi!,- - lciih dogs put up a gam iiu.il IP) !g r slipp'd and caught Ids rldit bin I leg between two plnnka. This was nu unity for Bum t get dm better of Rodger, and lie rushed nt him nml burying his teeth hi th la k of Biig rs iu-- k, tried to slmk I'.'m, As n result tlie mascot of th Miiani-h'iM-Hlmd his lug broken, and Hr boys separated tlu-u- i nml carried their pet to till luspitnl, whero it WBI foiii d uc!e-:ir- y to iiui'iutate It. waa O'l his re, irn to the ship ui ui in' tv circled tut honorary mem-he-r of Iho crow. inch, a fact which wilt pnd.'.e th- - illusion tlmt It Is a r:il w ii. Tlie Aet Irons Own Hntnst, u i ' sound of the tiokl; lu.s Th to n.e 4.ur seven and a quarter of u .! milted through tin wi 1 . ;:! families living hi their ow - 's 'i In this country, Moro thnu a die comluciihility of worn. In default of n toy va.-you ciri n. r'n acquired homes hi tho lust toil simply place your car nt tie l ure cml jcitrs. of the slick and you ca.t ir Gie tic;-lll- g cud just of the wutcti a! t..1'ifti It Aili For n.i.e itia ii two hundred yeara ns If it were tea;:, ju,- - i.m. With ; Fr.tr o 1ms I, ecu Hemming pociuua i his yo I n it rro1,.tt n lu cuuccut Asia. tic real watch under trick; I d-- hr, - 1 : expi-mn'-u- lit-ili- |