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Show I mot for me to order out 'I1 fiveaof you to execution he went any on, so the fairest, way will be for you to draw for your lives. Sergeant, do you fjlH DEATH AOTTEHY. get twenty-tw- o pieces of paper, and - mm mark five of them with numbers from V one to five, leaving the other seventeen figure it, remarked my friend, blank. Each) man will then draw Lm there is just about one war with three chances to one for his life yC0Uf Coming so the order J that remaiqs to be told in print. seemed horrible. no I could longer Ind what is that? I queried. contain myself. went is the story on, ind that, he Col. I cried, I protest, in to me time the nameMosby the first of (humanity and honorable tfbat happened i in contact with Mosby, the warfare. I am an officer and a gentleman; these nlien are regularly-enliste' .erilla. soldiers in the United States army; ' 'jj was commissary captain at the you are not going to treat them surely, and we were located in our win: as spies or dogs. Whatyou propose d 'VfcamP four iniles scmth of Winches-r.iVnot sir, is assassination, were justice duties and light, My Mosbys ljp curled. '"listed mainly of fussing my train Justice! he cried. What justice wagons between the town and our would be meted out to me if I fell ip. It was only a short journey, into the hands of your soldiers? And, fj look you, sir, I value the life of the the thought or fear of encountereso was of my comrades more than from in far it poorest d danger i'Smind that half , the time I went that of twenty Yankees. Yet I only ask man for man, and that I will have. OMt either sword or pistol. you were an Vell, one afternoon in November, I was not avpare, sir,outhat can no bety the officer, of in front train but, surely, wagon rode t treatment ter I than said to others the I him: give Mb my orderly, If my Words will not move you in send the sergeant here to behalf of all, I ask no personal favor j ie and will I and ride you charge, I I confounded moles are replied. a ahead. These molasses cold than 'ower Nothing pore was said, and presi Xnis was done, and Leonard and I ently the sergeant returned with the I Je We had gone about half-wa- y papers, andj that awful death-lotter- y iicalmp when we saw six mounted began. I had faced deth, in battle h into the half a dozen times, but I Knew no suck en swing out of a . us-of ahead road fear as' came upon me then. I dont iin mind confessing that, as that hat came Whatj do you make of those fel-ffround for rde to draw, my limbs tremLeonard ? said I. They are some of our boys,' I reck-- j bled so- that I could hardly control replied Leonard. Theyve got our them. Blank! Fall back, sir! ;iiform on, and I dont believe the The words came from the sergeant, ,hs would venture so f ar inside our who glanced at the paper as my shakes, anyway. nervous be this afternoon i must ing fingers,1 opened it; and sweeter Of course they wouldnt, words neve sounded in my ears. They laughedtold me that I was saved. 'ae, they turned towards our camp.! we on But the (end was not yet. All of a the at this, Assurqd by kept soon sudden and overtook lively pace, rosje the plaintive cry of the As we ap-- f little drummer boy, , pleading for his life. reached,) they opened ranks to Jet us ass, and we rode between them. Sergeant cried Mosby, has that We had no sooner got by than we boy drawn one of the numbers? eard the clicks of half a dozen pis-i- s . Yes, coionel and! the command, Halt! We Sene him back to the rank3 again; seed round in blank surprise, he 'is too young to die yet. And now, whom shall we choose in his stead? j What does this mean? I cried. ) "Chop talk! cried the big fellow in Mps?y glanced along onr line until mmand- You Yanks want to keep his eye was fixed on me. tI felt that Hut mouths shut,, and do ras you are my time had come. But I was calmer rild, or it will he the worse for you. now, and had gained control of my j Like a flash my hand went to my self. J alt, hut it was empty, and perhaps it said Mosby, with a cruel jras well, for at that instant we were must not slight the officer. overed by six cocked pistols. Sergeant, place in the hat two papers, Forward, march! the command one numbered and one blank, and fate ame, without deldy, and away we shall decide between the captain and eat, surrounded and guarded by our the man next him In a mbment that fearful drawing iptors. I A our little a. mile of made! which doomed one of the was along quarter 'aval cade swept - off from the main two to dqath. Opening my paper, 1 ad into a bridle path. Presently it breathed ja fervent prayer, Thank iited, and Leonard and I were God! Again it was blank! strapped to our saddles. Then I seized the hand of the poor fellow Vrode on in silence for about .two the fatal number and wrung) Lies. in silent pity. Then, with the other it )Xow, I suppose, you Yanks' would four condemned, he was led away. ae to know whats to become of you? Capta in, said Mosby, you are an Jd the big fellow, at last. Well, Ill exceeding y lucky fellow. I congratu- late you Well, said Balcom, there Is little more to tell. Three or four days later I manage to make my escape, blacked up as a negro, and safely reached our own linesl Meantime, the five unfortunate prisoners had been shot to death. Boston Traveler. j ' r fi t '''" m I cold-bloodedl- y, I X d cold-bloode- a. 1 ; IS A GIANT GENIUS. r J I by-pat- s, n . r - it ii fellow-traveler- s. ti 7 L 4 03 'N 'I -- j - 11 'I years. Indeed, there are few men who achieved have more brilliant and in - than the discover the laboratory the which is now so . much of. Professor Crookes was born in London 64 years ago, and in his boyhood became interested in photography. He a course in the Royal College of Chemistry under Dr. Hoffman, and soon became assistant to his tutor. At 22 he was appointed superintendent of he Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford. In 1859 be founded the Chemical News, and in 1864 became the editor of the Quarterly Journal of Science.1 Professor Crookes was born with a love for original search. He discovered the new metal thallium while examining the residues from a sulphuric acid works. He was then made a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1872 he developed many interesting matters in his Investigations on repulsion resulting from radiation. In 1877 he invented . the otheoscope. In a paper that year before the Royal Society he said he had succeeded In obtaining a vacuum so nearly approaching perfection that the of ik i 1 ly - . a - id r SILVER CANNOT CE IT.; EVADED, with safety, this year. The Successful Party ll Have a Free Coinage Plank In Its Platform Oltl Parties Are Oetting Heady to Straddles Every day tbe question is asked: Wbat will the next national conven- tions of tbe republican and democratic do with reference to silver? parties ' answer To this question definitely now Is, of course, impossible, for tbo situation may very materially change during tbe next few months. But it is about as certain aa any future political event can be, that both will endeavor to evade the direct issue. With this probability strong before ns, silver men should sleep with at least young lady, and gave her, as a souvenir brand-necent piece. This he told her to guard carefully, and when she wanted entree to the White House to show this cent piece to the guards and that she would be admitted one eye open. In both parties they have been frereadily and: without question. Mis3 Parker treasured her cent piece with quently deceived. The framers of th great care. , Not long ago she was in platforms have played the part of linWashington, and she thought she guistic acrobats.. They have formuwould try the talismanic effect lated declarations so ingeniously wordMr. of Clevelands coin present. ed as to be acceptable to both sides. She did, Snd, mirabile dlctu! its glisten- The pledging qf a party to' bimetaling red color acted as an open sesame, lism (without defining it), coupled with and Miss Parker was promptly ushered sentimental demands for honest Into the presidential presence. Miss money, the best good money, Parker is one of the belles of Rich- money in the world, the maintenance mond, and is noted throughout the of "parity, one1 dollar as good as any south for her charm of person. She Is other dollar in Intrinsic and g a democrat and the daughter of Dr. are expressions through power, medical which the bimetallists of the country h W. W. Parker, a man of Virginias capital. have been frequently betrayed, and if it happens again it will be their own ON THE WRONG SIDE. fault. Those qualifications are intendOne Womans Search for Her Ancestors ed simply as loopholes through which to escape and avoid doing anything. Resulted In Disappointment. She had been invited to be present No matter ' what proposition of silver at the reception of the Daughters of coinage may be brought forward. It can the American Revolution, says an ex- always be antagonized; upon the plea change, and her heart glowed with pa- that parity wilLbe disturbed, and one triotism as she beheld the American dollar lose that grand quality of being equal to every other dollar. Tho democratic party has a stronger silver j wing than has the republican party. But in view of recent events, with an administration Utterly hostile to any step toward the remonetization of silver, the press and the money power on the same side, it Is almost too much to hope that the silver men can dominate the convention, it may declare for the equal use of bothmetalS as standard money and the coinage of both without discrimination against either, in one clause, but there will certainly he some other clause which will qualify and destroy it. If either convention is In favor - of restoring silver to the exact position it occupied prior to 1873, a declaration to that effect can be made in three lines of print that no human being capable of reading tan possibly misapprehend. Perfect bimetallism can only be reached by placing both metals upon an exactly equal footing before the law In the matter of coinage and legal tender. There is a simple formula that everybody familiar with thej course of this discussion perfectly understands. The free coinage .of both metals at the ratio of 16 to 1, with full legal ten. der functions accorded to each. That covers the ground and nothing5 less will satisfy any man who fully understands the question and Is determined that it shall be settled. The friends of silver restoration may be certain that any ambiguity which finds a place in a politick! platform is a cunning device of the enemy, and that every gold man wilU plant himself upon it, while every silver man will make it an excuse for an adverse vote. Bear this in mind, and stamp anything else than a unqualified declaration for free coinage at 16 to 1 as a fraud, for you can rest assured it will be so intended. And not only this, the candidate named must have such a past record as will make it certain that he can be relied upon to carry out the declaration in good faith nothing less will do. PARKER. DODGE GIVEN UP. Bimetallism Idea Gotttn and stream- International flags, shields, coats-of-ar, Up to Deceive American Patriots. ers with which the room was decorated. Times-Heral- d of the 22d devotes The speeches added to her exaltation a The deal of in its usual style space good and she felt the blood of fighting sires to of matter international agreethq running like fire through her veins. ments. One article begins as follows: The woman in the stunning chinchilla Thn faction dwindling cape and blue velvet gown, who really of the two political will find it didnt look as though she had ever difficult hereafter toparties up keep any prehad any ancestors, had discovered tense of succor an from intera friend In the dowdy woman in gray, national expected conference. and the outsider heard her say: Oh, Then 4t proceeds to argue that no yes; I belong. My children can traoe international can be agreement their ancestry back through five lines reached, and hence cause the of that, to the Norman conquest. A little ga.sp silver is doomed. If there is a profrom the recipient of this information nounced and uncompromising friend of broke the awestruck pause, and then, silver restoration in the United States regainig her breath, the dowdy womwho has any hope of substantial results an, with her nose tip tilted, said: from an International conference, he "They are fortunate. Indeed. We are has not been heard from very much of proud of our two lineal tracings to the late. But, as usual, the Times-Heral- d days of King Arthur, but only claim our is badly off in its conclusions. Instead ancestry hack to the revolution, since of dooming the cause of silver, it will we live In a republican country. strengthen it, and rouse its friends to The spirit of envy devoured the renewed effort. Some timid bimetalwoman who was not a Daughter. The lists have hesitated about voting for very next day she put into effect her free coinage because their truthful resolution to find out the names of her goldite friends such as the. Times-Heral- d represents have- been constantly revolutionary ancestors, for she was assured she must have had them. For proclaiming that an international three days she searched records and agreement was just at hand. But now the fourth day she searched again and.' all disguise is thrown off. Leading James Brown, gold standard papers not only proclaim ran them to earth. who married Marja, daughter of Jonas that no International agreement and Ellen "Smith, dated back to 1769 can be . obtained, but that none for the time of his marriage and she Is desired. They want the gold simple. Nothing sighed a great sigh of relief. But alas standard, pure and is right for ambition he fought on the t&ry less. And the Times-Heral- d no one There is in respect:. probabilside! ity of an international agreement at The latest university to open Its door any time until the United States takes to women is the one at Athens. Five the initiative. ' women were enrolled for the winter lecIn England and Germany there are The great tures, not without violent opposition many afel bimetallists. are and tollers from the students, who became dividof the producers body ed. One student finally, shot another on that side, but the money sharks are all for gold, and they control the action during the trouble. of the governments. A century ago paper was so dear in , The recent utterances of Hohenlobein this country that butchers used to Germany and Balfour in England give their customers the meat wrapped up in a large vegetable leaf. , of the occasion,' a w debt-payin- well-know- j : i MUST NOT DODGE m f se-are- PULL. This Young Woman Has tho Freedom of the Executive Mansion. PROF. WILLIAM CROOKES AND HIS FAMOUS TUBE. Miss Nellie Parker, of Richmond, Va., may not be a political boss, but she It Made Possible the Discovery of the has a longer and stronger pull with Wonderful Light Developed by Prof. President Cleveland than most of the "leaders of the democratic party. Mis3 Roentgen of Yienna A Patient and Parker deserves to have much influ.4 Painstaking Worker. ence at Washington or anywhere else, for that matter for she is one of the ROFESSOR WIL-lia- distinguished beauties of the south, and Crookes.whose that is saying a great deal. The story scientific genius of the great favor she is held in by made possible the the administration is interesting. Some discovery' of the months ago the president visited Atwonderful lights of lanta, and Miss Parker took advantage L t Roentgen, has been of his presence there to call upon him. V widely known fdr He was immediately delighted with the If 4 SHE HAS A j TO MAKE BOILER FUR FLY. k a Little Device to Accomplish and Also Soften Water. One of the latest devices that has come iilto play in England is a curious i ( i i 3M it contrivance for softening water and ketpreventing the growth of fur inoctoIs called the boilers. and It tles pus, and!, considering what it aeceom-plishesimit is such an exceedingly someseem as to little apparatus ple briefly noththing ofa!a wonder. It is' surrounddisk metallic small ing but mass of a circular vegetable ed by fibre. The principle that governs It is simis that yellow ple. Fur, substance that lines old kettles andbot-is often to he found lq lumps at the tom. Hitherto the only method of getoff the exting rid of this was to chip crescences that kept continually increasing.! This chipping .naturally weakened Tile boiler or kettle, and, .made It unfit for service. after a time, even worse effects than Fur has leads to the sometimes for! it this up the boilers blocking by bursting jof Tlfe new invention, a tiny little afvessel, and fair, is felippedL into the in attraction of unknown power off all the fur from the inner surface of the metal to itself. J by the same power It turns as well, lies within its fibres, of attraction that by! drawing unto soft water into of and itself the magnesia and carbonaAe for especially cooking purposes, the Chemithat, Not tea. only making while a after cals spoken of prove in to the human system, and l pan-funecessary make certain cases lith and operations of lithotomy trity. Trie Five Centnriea Old. Gericke, the great German forester, to which writes that the greatest ages known frees in Germany are positively are'from 500 to 570 years. to instance, the pine in Bohemia and fhe pinb in Norway and Sweden have comes the lived to the latter age. Next forBohemian the silver fir, which in thrived for upward ests has stood and has In Bavaria the larch Of Reached! the age of 275 years. d the oak appears to have the longest. The best example oak at Aschoffenburg, the years the age) of 410lived which to have Other oaks In Germany' s, out-and-o- half-heart- j , so-call- ed, Life or Death! yon part of It. First, yourire goin Jlosbys camp, but where hell send a! Lord only knows. But youll find 5 t 'j quick enough Loosen the straps, Jake he sala, ruing to one of the men, and well on a little faster. Guess were v st the Yankee lines . The man addressed unbound ns, 1 onr horses broke into a gallop, e guerillas kept us well hemmed in, wever, and we saw that any at- to escape would be worse than. ! -- less. We traveled all that afternoon and d til 8 In the .evening. Then we at at Mosbys headquarters, There were five or six hun-e- d men gathered there, and some caty Yankee prisoners, captured, as afterwards learned, in much the se manner as ourselves. were lMost of our dairymen, although one was an drummer, a lad of fourteen. I 5&ed to be the only commissioned was wearing a pri-s- s as I though, coat, my rank was not appar-(, Well, a rude supper wa3 served to hte comets, and then sentinels placed over ns and we lay down I ar-"e- -- Itec-rtow- n. S fellow-prisone- rs in-at- ry L 7 & Test, IS V m ' with "you, Yanks! . lively, there! order, loud and sharp, instantly sed ns, and we sat up and looked rd. Presently our gaze was cen-s-l upon a solitary figure approach-- : u? on horseback. It was Col. John X&sby, the terror of the valley., rail In! Fall In! Again came the - V from the sergeant in charge, and moment we were standing in before the guerilla commander, horse had now come to a stand- many prisoners have you? Twenty-twin all, sir fixed us with his keen eye Hgw cd o, u 1$ a , Men, moment, and then said; J commander has seen fit to refuse irter to my soldiers when capt--p snfi hangs or shoots them on the I do not approve of this kind of 3re, but I must retaliate; and as I re two of your army to every on cf my command, that is uot Just at present the balanceyou, and five of you twenty-- ".oners must die looked at each other In dismay. ' -- In-jurio- us v-- ie i ed flat-foote- i 3 ut MISS NELLIE pressure in it was qnly 0.4 millionth of an atmosphere, It was found that In such an extreme7 vacuum gases pass into an ultragaseous state, which JPro-fesCrookes described as radiant matter. It was these vacua that made possible the incandescent lamp. He has written admail library, every book of which i7 of value to experimental and commercial science. His name came before the general public in the he undertook an investiga70s, when 7 tion of the physical phenomena of His book on the results spiritualism. of thpse experiments, with the media of was John King and Katy King, on its publication. But widely-rea- d or ms free-coina- ge , . -- - snr-Sfve- Sed ; gH? 245 years anu at other known are: to ri70 years; birch, 160 200 years; Pw mountain maple, 225 years; red alder, 14S years. XxmdonPnWicOplnlon. eto.Tso ; A Stern Remedy. Johnny! why screamed his mother, onyou. brother ire you JtaIdIrewd.-Adam- es (Maes.) PROF. WILLIAM CROOKES, while the scientific world placed the experiments in highest 'Value on his no attention to the other lines, it paid his in work on the results he obtained Professor side of nature. occult never dissociated be can name Crookes rrom Roentgens discovery, because his tube was its basis. He is, perhaps, painstaking ex- the most patient and times. trim eater of modern , I d, Fbould convince er ry bimetallist la this country that the only hope of Americans is In America, if me wait for England or Germany to tae us, we will never be saved, and wo do not deserve to be. In another article the same attacks Speaker Reed because ofpaper the report that be Is about to pappose some sort of an international conference a3 a political maneuver to help him with his boom. Tho TImes-Heral- d evidently is not for Reed, but it need give itself no particu- lar anxiety about his candidacy so far as the silver men arqr. concerned, for they are not for Reed either, and no in- ternational conference palaver caa bring them to his support or the support of any other candidate. The question of the complete restoration of silver to its formerpositionintha monetary system of the United States will be the great issue in the campaign of 1896, and the silver men are perfectly indifferent as to what any other nation may or may not do. There never was an International agreement on the money question un- til 1865. Every country on the face of the earth has always adopted a monetary system to suit Itself except the United States, which had the gold standard sneaked in qn It in 1873, without the people being consulted at all. Silver was not demonetized by international agreement (unless it was a secret one), and no such agreement Is necessary for its restoration. No international conference or discussion is going to fool the silver men cf this country in the campaign of 1896. National Bimetallist. . IGNORANCE. All the Gold Standard Advocate Long Far. Wear Senator Caffery, of Louisiana, made a speech upon the currency question in the senate, the other day. From the report in the Congressional Record we take this extract: Mr. Daniel: The senator stated that as civilization advanced silver went Will the senator please state down. how that is consistent with the fact that from 1847 to 1850, when more gold was produced, the same people who are now warring upon silver led tho crusade against gold and actually demonetized it? How Is that consistent with th idea of the natural law, as claimed by the senator from Louisiana, that carried silver down as civilization advanced? Mr. Caffery: I think the senator from Virginia has not correctly- - stated the facts. Gold has never been demonetized inv Europe. Mr. Daniel: In one or two countries It has beeh. Mr. Caflfery: There is no country that I know of in Europe of course the superior information and knowledge of other senators on that point will correct me If I am wrong that ever demonetized gold. At the period of the discovery of the gold mines of California, when! there was a tremendous output of gold, gold being a commodity like everything else, a noted French writer of that period, M. Chevalier, in discuss- ing the finances of France, thought per- -; haps it was best jto demonetize gold, but it was never done.f Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon: Germany demonetized gpld, I will say to the senator. Mr. Teller: And so did Holland in ' . V i , 1847. I stand corrected then; and the question of the senator now needs an answer. Here is a senator of the United State presuming to Instruct the people upon the subject of currency, who actually did not know that two European nations demonetized gold when gold was If gold cheap and silver was .dear. silver and should nowj become cheap of thi dear, we would have a repetition more would and nothing performance, be heard of tEe superiority of that gold standard. The whole purpose of men who uphold the system is to mak money abnormally dear, and they car little whether they can accomplish the end by using one metal pr the other. Bimetallism means money of normal value. The Manufacturer. Mr. Caffery: from-Virgini- a -- What Demonetization Mean. What do you mean by demonetizing silver in 1873? Please explain. READER. Prior to the 12th of February, 1873, any person having silver bullion ol suitable fineness could take It to th American mint and have it coined into dollars' at the rate of 3714 grain of pure' silver to the dollar, the gov- ernment putting in enough copper aa alloy to make the weight of the dollar 412 grains. The money thus coined was full legal tender for all debts, public and private. On that date the mint law was revised, and in the revision the silver dollar was omitted from the list ot coins, and a trade dollar of 378 grains of pure silver; or.,420 grains of standard silver, was substituted. By the general revision of the statutes, which took place the same year the legal ten15 der of all silver coins was fired So that, instead of coining standard dollars of full legal tender, we went to "coining trade dollars that .were only available as money up to $5. This constituted the demonetization of silver. Every dollar of our enormousat debt, once public and private, In becameexcept that payable exclusively forgold, the payment of silver could be used $5. not exceeding small! debts to the reduced was Silver, In short, "our standand change, grade of small of comprising both Instead money. ard of gold alone. consisted and silver, gold of demonethe work Germany began In 1871, by stopping the tizing silver and it by taking-awacompleted coinage, its legal tender In 1873, a few months after our act was passed, Nationalist Bimetallist V , -- . |