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Show A FEMALE FOOTIAD. csse where a stranger la town has been uses of this sort. These uncrystslllze robbed of a few hundred dollars, it is CDPID IN THE HANKS. black diamonds are found In tha Bahia pointed out to blm that the court is region of South America, and they are not a collecting agency and that hit INVADES THE CAMP OP THE the hardest substance as yet discovered prosecution of the prisoner will not on tbe earth or under Us surface. Its SALVATION VOLUNTEERS. get him the money, whereas, if he falis I powder will rut tbe crystallized diato appear in court, bla "roll will be mond almost as easily as the diamond forthcoming the day after the woman Calaaal Fattla Watblaa Has UMy Ba-- 1 will cut tbe ruby, sapphire or other aama tha Wlfa af rajitala UsSiij af Is discharged. precious stone. Tho black diamond Sha Hama Orgaalxatloa Often half the money Is paid In adliar Wark that is to soy, the noncrystalline stone vance to bind the bargain, and this U far tha Caaia. has no beauty, but Us loss would be generally too strong an argument for almost Irreparable to tbe miner and the sucker to resist. Unless he ia esISS Pattie Watkins to many branches of manufacture. pecially vindictive he will take his of Balllngton money and quietly go home, or, If a Booth's Salvation LONDON "TOSHERS. resident of Chicago, leave the city so Volunteers, who the officera cannot find him. Search fa The., ' was recently mar- Ce Threat li Ilia towers when tbe ease of the people agalns Arttries af Yalae. to ried Captain Kittle Adame Is called the slate's attorShoremen, or shore workers, they Frederick A. Lind- sometimes call themselves, but their ney bas no witnesses and baa to nolle say of the same or-'4-Y most familiar appellation is "toshers, proese the rase. ganization, la the and tbe artifice they pick up tosh." colonel . command- - They really belong to another A n OUS SONG. ing the New York rise, tbe mudlarks, but conand New Jersey sider themselves a grade or two above ft Das Stanly Slager Isis gad Sbe U the prettiest and these regiment. iTranohi latter, for the genuine tosher Miss Uhi nle Slough, of Rockford, sweetest las in the Volunteers and bad does not confine himself as they do, has brought suit for breach of promise that distinction also in the old Salvatraveling through tbe Thames mud against Mr. George M. Dennett, also of tion army before she left It Miss Wat- and picking up odd pieces of coal or Rockford. Miss Dlough estimates tbe kins became Identified with the Salvawood, copper, nails, bolts. Iron and tion army about twelve years ago, and old rope. The tosher, when the coast wear and tear of her heart at 85,00-!)- . Mr. Rennett declares be never asked Is almost as well known In London ns is clear of tho police, makes his way for dough's band in marriage. and that she is In New York. Sbe Is about 28 into the hewers, and will venture someyears old and was born In Wales, times for miles In quest of valuables be is already engaged to another. It i said that Miss lilough will produce as where her father was a mining engi- that occasionally find their way into evidence love songs which sbe and Mr. neer and a man of means. She at- them by tbe kitchen sink or the street Bennett were wont to ijug in unison tended a young ladies' seminary at grating. When about to enter the and presumably harmony. Two of Cardiff and waa converted at 1C. Soon sewers these men provide themselves these songs arc: "Wilt Thou Be after that happy taking place a lot of with a pole seven or eight feet long, Miner and Would That We Two strolling Salvationists passed through on one end of which there Is a large Cardiff and Mire Watkins became In- Iron hoc, a bag earned on the back, a Were Maying Together. men will watch this terested in their life and the work and canvas apron tied around them, and a Marriageable suit with more than ordinary Interest. determined to become one of them. dark lantern, similar to a policeman's. It it bas com- to pass tbst s young She went to London, entered the Sal- This they strap on their right breast, gentleman cannot lift bis rich tsanr vation Army training school and waa so tbst while walking upright through voice witn m yuan ladys mellow so- assigned to work In London. In 1886 I he large sewers the light is thrown prano notes without It being construed a call was Issued for volunteers to go straight In front. When they eome to as a proposal of marriage the fact should be known. Still, there la some grounds on which Miss Dlough may proceed legally and with the full thought 'hat u suffering people are with her. Without desiring to prejudice the court or Jury, we wish to say that any man who will sing Wilt Thou He Mine? deserves the severest sentence within the limit of One-hu- lf the law. of the discontent frit in this country today and nearly all the financial and business troubles under which this country Is wobbling are directly or Indirectly due to that song. Men who never did a wrong act in their Uvea have been known to go home nnd beat their children and scold their wives after hearing "Wilt Thou Bo Mine? As to "Would That We Two Were suit against the Maying Together author should be brought on the charge of malicious and willful assault on the English language. Why Bhould any two Bens! ble persons want to be Maying together Instead of Junlng or Augurtlng? For our part we take more delight In Jnnuarylng and Fehruarylng than In Maying, and It Is proverbial there Is more solid enjoyment In July-Inand ScptcniL-rrinthan In any other form of social 'relaxation. Isn't to be sneezed at as national sport, cither, though It usually requires more persons to play It than the really parlor exercise of I KITTIE ADAMS A TERROR CHICAGO POLICE. TO It li DIHealt Mxttxr ta Cal Dlrarl KvMaaaa Agalaxt llats-oriRataraa Far af tha Spain Sha llaa a rail Will tha Jaxtkcaa. aa HEN the police of Chicago ace Kittle on the trw't they brio liXT? her In. When they meet her walking Jjfs'Ov' with some venera-- f iHiriili o1 d ble- - looking stranger they know a "squeal will be Am. registered before morning, and when be is brought in and convicted and held to the Criminal Court nothing ever comes of IL Once, and only once. In all tha years she has preyed upon the unsuspecting in Chicago has she been sentenced to prison, and then she was pardoned because she was "dying with consumption. Since that time he has knocked out more than one man who has struggled In her robber dutches, and has altogether been pretty husky for a consumptive. She has been arrested half a dozen times for larceny since her pardon, but, as has been stated, always manages to evade the law's grasp. With one Jennie Clark, another Adams ' j cl well-know- n - KITTIE ADAMS. woman, she was brought intv court recently charged with robbing an. elderly citizen who was walk ing on State street at a late hour at night The Judge seemed to think the women were entitled to his sympathy, and the Clark woman was finally discharged, while Kittle Adame got a continuance and gave bail. The Judge In likened the complainant the an old steamrobbery case to He had taken the women boat. In tow, had enjoyed the fun, and when he desired to shake off his consorts they carries away hie loose change. Thvre was no evidence to sustain tbo judges words, however. Kiltie lias been known to the police si a criminal and a dangerous woman for about twelve years, though It is only In tho last five years that she has followed the practice of street robbery. She is the wife of George Shine, a pickpocket, whose picture is In one of the big books at the bureau of identification, aud who la known to the police ns n "good man, which means to the layman that he Is a very bad man. Years ago Kittle Adams lived In a house In the lower section of Clark street, and, though a white woman, was famous among the police for alwaya eartylng a razor. Whenever her arrest was called for tha police went about It gingerly and with a wholesome regard for the razor which they knew was concealed somewhere ahQgt her. One night the house was raided and Kittle window Jumped from a third-stor- y rather than submit to arrest "Dig Totn Mulchay and Pot O'Drten, now a sergeant, took after KItlle, who was unihjured by her jump. She ran down Clark street to Polk, where she tripped and fell over the curbing and broke her collar bone. Another lime, about eight years ago. she had soine trouble with the driver of acavenger wagon In the alley west of Clnrk street, between Folk and Taylor streets, and, whipping out her ever-re- a ly razor, site cut a gash six Inrhei long In the side of the horse. For this she was arrested and fined. Kittle traveled with Nora Keating for a long time, and the pair were the terror of the "levee" district. Arreet did not bother them, fur they had money to pay fines, and aliould they bo held to the grand Jury the case was Invariably "squared by returning the money. Nora was finally sent to Jo.k'i. where she Is now serving lime, aud Kittle east about for n new partner. On June 18, 1S94, she was placed on trial before Judge llanecy for larcrny. and this time the complainant appeared. A case was made out and KItlle was seal meed to ten months lithe bridewell. Hut even here her luel. or "pull or whatever had Intervened between her and justice proved efliea-elouand within three muntha a petition was circulated by her friends Keying that she was dyhig with consumption, and aHk'.ng the governor to pardon her. An Investigation was ordered, and when Kittle was brought before a committee she hnd picked her gums with a toothpick till they bled. Then she dolorously spat out the b'.ou heforo the committee, which though she was going to die In a wrek, and ah was pardoned, only to return to ber o'. game. Many persons wonder how It is r'.'f alrays goes free when charged will highway robbery. The in.iial mode o. ' procedure is this: The witnees, an reare the romplalnnnt, especially proached by attorneys or friends of tli womsn nnd offered various lnd-.itvents c 1 ta testify. If It Is a Jnrce?-,strong-ar- m e, 1 1 .' - g g If, however, these songs are proposals of marriage it must follow that "Shall We Gather at the River" elopement. Yon Can't Holler Dowr Our Rain Barrel" a forecast of dry season and "Whero's My Wanan abduction. dering Iloy These ore indeed times that try men's souls. Chicago Record. an ?" FUNERAL FOR A DOG. MRS. WATKINS-LINDSAY- to America. Miss Watkins was the first to volunteer. When she arrivod she was a lieutenant and was sent to Taunton, Mass. She was later transferred to Boston, thence to Fall River and five years ago to New York. She took charge of the Bowery corps to find them $8,000 In debt. When she left it to join the Volunteers It hnd 8S00 In the treasury. She Is small In stature, has a very graceful figure, olive complexion, dark hair, and large, oxllke eyes. The wedding is to take place In Carnegie Hall. the brunch sewers and hare to stoop, the light Is thrown directly at their feet. As they make their way they use their hoe In the mud at their feet and in the crevices or the brickwork, and occasionally shillings and silver spoons find a temporary resting place in the bag at their back nr in their capacious -- Amelia V, Flealja of Baltimore Iarg Ftaal Iloaors to o Rkyo Tarrlai Dr. Amelia V. Flentje, of Haiti mi lost her Skye terrier Roy the other day, nnd ns she was very much attached to tho dog she decided that it should have a funeral. She had the dog embalmed, and for twodays the temains lay In stale In the parlor. The cofiln waa made by his mistress's own hands, and was two feet long by one wide. It waa covered with white goods, was trimmed with ribbon, and restod on a pedestal, at the foot of which waa a vase filled with row's. The dog's head rested upon a soft pillow of white crepon, edged with lace and eurrounded by flowers. Crowds Dr. A Kouth MONSTER DIAMOND. Imfrln th Prtxlur Kparkla In Fslitoner. Ur;Nt The largest diamond ever known wns recently found in South America and sent to Farie to be cut up and made a-- . j - coat pockets. The toshers generally go In gangs of three or four, both for the sake of company and to bo able to defend themselves from the rats with which the sewers swarm. When they come near a rtrert grating they close their lanfers and watch an opportunity to slip past unnoticed, for otherwise a crowd of people might collect at the grating, whooc presence would put the police on the alert. They find groat quantities of money, copper money especially. In I he crevices of the brlck-wror- k a little below the grating, and not Infrequently shillings, and cixpenccs, with an sovereign or In luck" When they find many rr Mrs of plate, spoons, knives and forks, ladles, silver-handlmngs and drinking cure, nnd now and then articles of Jewelry. They generally also mar.ave to fill their bags with the more bulky nrticlrn found In the renreh. such as old r.irtnl, bones and rones. These they dispose of to marine store dcrleis and men. and divide the pro-- r :is. along with tho coins found, amr.ug the iiiTcrent members of the g.ing. At cno lime the regto earn from tYs to ular toshers 2 a week each, but with the construction of new sew-rsgrated at the Is an no easily mouth, ther lr.du.-ir- y exercised, and is enure jsentiy much less profitable. Lot: dm Mail. f Wmiinr Cluli. Infln-- n Mr. Waller l'ommrcli, the distir gulshed mus'oian and composer, ( New York, rays of tbe women's clul of the west: "The especially Interesl ing features of the artirtlc life western towrs are the women's club and In these tbe culture nr.-- l Intellm tual life seems to he centered. The have a treim ndoiis influence, and it through thetr efforts that fine conceri aro given and that the artists are pci suaded to come there. We know vet little In New Y'ork of what happens other cities rf tho country, but would surprise New Y'orkers to see tl: activity with which the club warn? advance the interests of culture western towns. half-crow- n. ed :..t- . ' PR. AMELIA miXUE. visited the place until (be f.tmily vras cainptF.rd to shut the iluor. Tho remains were Interred near the Baltimore cemetery, nnd a tombstone will mark the dog's rur'ting place. W.f fWl Iff, Frank Br.niblw.. of Detroit ng-- 1J, shot and ir.rnnlly worm'd hi wife, to kill liia tw.i children. an.l Shot1 then blew his ov-- hrr.ius out. was n mem!;: f of an old family, was left re:!:.!ii. rYi- - money some tlmu Hot', uni hi.d b.- - n ii.'i:''.,i:i;: ever since. Fr-'iu- 'i t iectri.-'weThere in tali u? furaiv-hln,- : to the (Ny of M.xlca ftcvi p- - a: eds nine mil dl.uaut, own,',! ly B- n Interest?. r VW Vv V-"- - A- v AV:J ' ' -- - fir LARGEST DIAMOND EVER rOi'XD. ready for use. Doing purely useful and in nowise beautiful, ibis Immense pipce of carbon is not worth quite as much as others ef its genius that sparkle. Benjamin M. Levy, n New York dealer In precious stones, saw an-- bundled the Treat stone in South America, and vouches for its rise. Ho offered ls cwner $17,000 for it. but its finder refused to part with it for Icea than $'0,-- ( Broken into avntiut.ie pieces and polbh'd It will rrobahly veil for $65.- i!0. Were It of tl" crystalline kind Its voitli would be Incalculable. It la Juki stvenieen times the size of the great leiorln diamond, which sold far 1.5 ui.ui'O. Wire this stone of the v.hi'.c nnd blue kind the wealth of n Yar. " ill hardly buy it. for the finder, it is of that .'.niovpbouu variety known to the trade im urbou. and its solo use Is for mi-- i! anhal pu;p."ii:, such as tipping rock aud ore drills, facing t.ioi for turning heclr. nnd other hard tied, emery 1 iii-c- .l : : ; , . 1 i 1 1 to be dlftovered in the entire edition of April 23, and five in the succeeding Issue. There is no reason to suppose SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES that "ads" were any more plentiful during the rest of the year than in FOR OLD SOLDIERS. these two copies, as the clouds gathered more thickly with the opening of the lha Haaraaifal Bo? sett as Nurlhara summer months and bwdnejs became at tha llaglnulnE af tha War nmre paralysed as Johnston's weaker Traablaa that tha to.Cliara Fagan force sk'llfully retreated before GherExparlaucad la 1 SHI man's masterly movements; j Hood made his fatal mistake, and Sherman VER t b e narrow cicichcd victoriously to the sea, with Atlanta in ashes behind him. footpath That led from my lowly door, KxiHilna'i Attempt St Suli'ldx, I went with a Since 1808 he had worn about his thought of the neck as a kind of amulet a little bag Muster, said to contain a deadly poison, one of As oft I had the salts of prussic acid. That night, walked be- when the terrors of a shaken reason fore. overpowered him, it Is believed that he My heart was heavwallowed the drug. Instead of oblivion ily laden, came agony, and hli valet, rushing to And with tears my eyes were dim; his master's bedside at the sound of a But I knew I should lose tha burden bitter cry, claimed to catch' the worda: Could I get a glimpse of Him. Marmont has struck me the final blow! Unhappy man, I loved him! Over the trodden pathway. Berthler'a desertion has broken my To tbe fields all shorn aud bare; heart! My old friends, my comrades in I went with a atep that faltered, arms!" Ivan, the Emperor's body phyAnd a face that told of care. sician, was summoned, nnd adminisI had lost the light of the morning, tered an antidote; the spasm was alWith its shimmer of sun and dew; layed, and after a short sleep reason But a gracious look of the Master resumed her seat. It ia related in the Would the strength of morn renew. memoirs of Cuulalncourt, and probably with a sort of Homeric truth, that While et my courage wavered, when the reputed writer was admitted And lh sky before me blurred, in the early morning Napoleon's wan I heard a voice behind me and sunken eyes seemed struggling to Saying a tender word, recall tbe objects round about; a uniAnd 1 turned to tea the brightness verse of torture was revealed in the Of bsaven upon the road. vaguely deaolate look." Napoleon Is And suddenly lost the It ia not the lore reported as saying: Of the weary, 1 lu.hiug load. of the throne that makes existence unendurable: my military career suffices Nothing that hour was altered, for the glory of a single man. Do you I had still the weight of care; know- what is more difficult to bear But I bore it now with gladness than the reverses of fortune? It Is tho Which cornea of answered prayer. baseness, the horrible ingratitude, of Not a grief the soul can fetter, men. Before such acts of eawardlce, Nor cloud Us vision, when before the shamelessness of their egoThe dear Lord gives the spirit tism. I have turned away my head in To breathe to Hia will. Amen. and taken my life in horror. What I have suffered for Ilojeottlnx Xnrtb.rn IJtrratarw. nn cue can understand. twenty days At the outbreak of the war between and Ills the states the people of the south were (Life of Napoleon: The Exile YV. M. Sloane, In the Prof. Return, by bitterly opposed to everythingof northern origin, and they very naturally September Century.) decided to boycott the literature of Mmniarrk im a Jokor. hat section. Thu was all that they The following incident in the Hfe of could do. The blockade was effective, end northern books could not cross the the iron chancellor recently appeared line. At rrfre intervals a shipment In one of the New Y'ork papers: "Bismarck and a friend, after a heavy c.ime through ana was at once confiscated. The southern people and tlieir day's shooting, sat together sipping newspapers began to ridicule the lit- their wine and comparing notes of thrir erature of the north. All that was day's adventures. Bismarck's frh 'd or Immoral, complained that he was excessively i.ri.tiunl was namby-pamband all that was readable was plagiartire.l and would be unable to get up nt ised. This was the way the southern ? o'clock the next morning to join the press end people talked. sport. Bifmarck assured him that he But could tbe new republic create a would see that he got up at the right literature In a day? There were bold time, whether he would or not. "On retiring to their bedrooms.which ' spirits who made the effort. William Gilmore Simms wrote stories which adjoined each other, he barred end barwere not at all comparable with his ricaded his door, to prevent Bismarck early productions. John Esten Cooke from carrying out his threat. C "At half-palaid aside the pen for the sword, and on the following dashed through the country with Sm- morning tho ehanrcllor knorked at the art's cavalry. James D. McCabe, Jr., door, calling on his frirnd to get up. p. came to the front and wrote The llie friend didn't, but turned on his a novel of the war, while a pillow to enjoy another snooze. Then member of the Washington artillery Bismarck seized hie gun, went into tb wrote "Clarimonde," a story now for- yard and flred through the window of gotten. Miss Evans of Mobile wrote his friend s bedroom, hitting the ceilMacaria. the weakest of her nov- ing above the bed, and bringing a els, because It waa sectional. After a shower of plaster down on the head year or so the confederates gave their and shoulders of the sleeper. In the greatest alarm his friend literary craze a rest. Edward Pollard and others continued to write upon arose and looked out of the window to historical and lifrary subjects, but the see what was the matter. Seciag nonovelists and poets took a vacation. body, he hastily donned his clothes and ran down stains. Here he met Bismarck, who gravely bade him good morning, War Jnnmall.m In Dixie. Of all the reminiscent echoes from and added: I hope you slept well; it the ccpfcdcracy, there are few lr the is Just striking 7. journalistic line, says the 8L Louie Once in a while Globe Democrat. Rwlxa Koldlrrx. somebody rune across a Vicksburg Some of the stronger advocates of newspaper printed on wall paper dur- the extension of the American Nationing the siege, a Memphis Avalanche, or al guard to every public uchool in the a Richmond YVhig; but journalism In United States are calling attention to the south during the civil war was of the standing army of Switzerland, minor importance. Pressmen, editors which numbers 119,000 effective solnr.d reporters were needed at the diers. and ia maintained by the governfront, and a courier could bring the ment at a cost of $35 per annum per news of a battle sooner than a cripcapita. Tho school boys of Switzerpled printing office could set the type land are trained in gymnastics, the to tell the direful news. There were manual of arms and the elements of newspapers, of course, with their lists company Every Swiss Is a good of killed, wounded and missing, nnd rifle shot. There are 3.000 target shootthrir more or less authentic accounts ing societies in the republic, with a of victories and skirmishes; hot those membership of about 14'!,0O3, and tho that could be depended upon for news government encourages skill and comwere scarce and literary publications petition nmorg the marksmen by an had but few days and were full of appropriation of $700,000 annually. The toldier in the SwIns army serves srrrows. Of these latter, which eked out a for ten years between the ages of o and thirty-twbeing precarious existence and struggled twenty-twcalled out for drill forty-fiv- e daya in through three or four volumes, was the Southern Illustrated News, an eight-pag- e the first year and sixteen days in each publication, tour columns to the succeeding yror. I'nch man keeps hii i:u;:c, published in Richmond by men uniform, knapsack and rifle at home, and must be prepared for a strict inwho were at once editors and proprietor. and probably, if tbe truth were spection yearly. The training at school known, compositors and pressmen, re- fits the future ((i:!::1. r or militiaman for Two service, and after hla first year beneeds porters and general hustlers. training. The co; ios nr this weekly, yellow with age hut little additional and poor ink, hare drifted Into the Swiss Land well r, rompored of veterans and foriy-rou- r writer's pose welon. They are valuable between thiriy-t.v- o yenrn. numbers 8t,0;:0 men. The Land-strurouveuirs now of tlio "late unpleastbe liunl resrrve of run r.nd antness. but In a very few years they will le more valuable curios cf a period boys capable of bearing arms, numbers that has quite passed into history. The 27).l0t. Hence tbe mountain republic cdltor'.nl page of one bears the date is prepared to repp, the Invader with a of nearly ri 0.000 skilled r;.1r:nen April 23, 1864, and is followrd by an Lt:c announcement of "terms" that, la (he anil di.sripllnc-- soldiers. days of penny papers, rather taken MnltkP nnd 1 in 1'nrinx. It rails: "Rub- awry one's breath. One puirnirg at Y'creaiiles. in Janu-sv$20 per annum; t!;l for six 1ST!, the letters from h;j;::o were mciitlii- - (r.o for a looked through while Mcl.ke waa Ir: :; liir.e.l The trade supplied at $25 being In one of ile ui was a Ion; present. pi r 1 :(V No rounty or Individual money pnem In his honor, full of all iraagln-ii'wl- e taT." eiiloglcv.. such phrases as "the It Is unuectMsary to say that the of battles," "the greit siion: ?:;uihein Illustrated News In 1V61 paid man. etc., He constantly occurring. !,n dividends. iere.p:.lh!e to the outer eat quiet while this gnat ccmpn'sitlo.t rr ;.i:ea. The stock holdirs surely neither was iic'.ug out, and when it waa e:v we fell then: which is not a fact over lie stilled e.ilirly to Ilium-;- ; ar.d i,i be wonder'd at. since, of the remarked to us: "Well, you know, if y condition of th.- country at we had not cor.uucied. the poem would th.i time, and the shakiness of the have begun with the words. Thou old miri y qrcstca, there is only one "ad fool.' "The Ios urn. VETERANS CORNER. Ut-arata- ra 1 - db-giif- t y st Aide-de-Cam- ili-ll- o, 1 ini.-ttor.s- , y, BiibR.-rlptir.- n sag-ordc- rer out-ud- ;ry-ti:rv- I |
