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Show THE DAILY TRIIHXara: BAJT LAKE CITY, IITAT, SUXDAY MORNING, DECEMBER n tiiat there baa ever boforo been l ilnc was a pale,man, lack-halredan- inciter stands at present and the. ques tfo;,s which havo to be solved, what Seville ML Clair wa4 doing In the opium uen, what happened to him when there. I wbero he now and what Hugh Boone had to do with hlsdlsappoarance, are all ai far from solution! as ever. 1 confess that I cannot recall any rase within ray experience 'which looks at the first glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." Whllo Hherlock Holmes bad been detailing this ftlntrularjserles of events we had been whirling throuf h the outskirts of the great town until the last strag gling houses had been left behind and we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of in. Just as be fin Ished, however, we drove through two scattered villages, where a few lights still glimmered In the windows. "Wo are on the outskirts of Lee," said my com nan Ion. "We have touched tin three KiisrMsh counties In our short drive, starting In Middlesex, passing over an angle of Hurley, and ending In Kent. See that llgh among the trees? That Is tho Cedars, and beside that lamp Its a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have llttldjdoubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet.? "Hut. why are you jhot Conducting the case from Baker street?'1 I asked. "Because there are many inquiries which must be madeout hero. Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and yofc may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for my frlendfj and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when 1 have no news of her husband, Here we are. Whoa, there, whoal'lj Wo had pulled up In front of a large villa which stood within ltsown grounds. A stable boy had run out) to tho horso's head, and, springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding gravel drive which led to the house. As we approached the door fiW open, aud a little blpnde w.omatj stood In the opening, clad In some sort of light uiousselelne do tsolo, with a touch ofjlluffy pink chiffon A. t. Imp nanlr anrf urrlata Mlm afirut with her figure outlined against the flood of one half light, ono hand upon raised In her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing i I i the-doo- r, , question. "Well?" she cried, "well?" And that there were two of us, then, seeing fdlA ffAVA ft. frv nf hnria wfilti aaiiLr Intn . A groan as she saw jthat my companion shook his head and shrugged his choulders. fIv nv fr rri at a4 n xt tw m 9 w 'v .None." "No bad?" "No." Thank God for that. Hut come. In. You must be weary, lor you have had a long day." "This Is my frlend Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to me In several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made It possible for oio to bring him out and associate him with this InvestI igation." to; see you," said she, "I am delighted my hand warmly. " You will, pressing 1 arn suro, forglvo anything which may be wanting In our arrangements, when you consider tho blow, which has come so suddenly upon us.? My dear madam, J said I, " I am an eld campaigner, and If I were not, lean very well see that tiuj apology Is needed. If I can be of any assistance, either to you of to my friend here, I shall be in- deed happy-- " "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady, as we entered a well-li- t dintng-- ' room, upon the table of which a cold supper had been laid; out, I should very much like to ask you one or two plain questions, to which I; bog that you will give a plain answer.'( madaia." ""Certainly, Do not trouble abqut.my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given to fainting. I simply wish I to hear your real, real opinion." " Upon what point ?" j " In your heart of hearts do you think that Neville Is alive ?" Hherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "Frankly now " she repoated.f standing upon the rug and looking keenly dawn at him, as ho leaned back In a baakot chair. HFrankly then, madam, SI do not." """ -- ; ' ) " ; i : ' i ' j 1 ' -r- "Ida" "Murdered? Perhaps." day did he meet his death?" "On Monday.'1 "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to exblaln how It Is that :I have received a letter from hln day." Hherlock Holmes Sprang out of "ASD tVIIAT . WITH?" AM 1. CHARGED ! :l L . I deserve to be kicked us on the wrong scent. The ring, after fools in Europe. to here Cross, put I think from been have Charing It may all, proves nothing. I have the key of the affair now." taken from hlui." "AiSd where Is It?" I asked, smiling. it Is; it Is his very own "No, no; It " "In the bath room," ho answered. I ' writing!" yes, I am not joking," he con"Oh, have well, rlt may, however, "Very been written on,rMonday, and only posted tinued, seeing1 my look of Incredulity. "I have Just been there,, and I have ta." ken it out, and I have got it in this That is possible." and have happened bcfc tiladstoneseebag. Come on, my boy, "If so, much ('may fit will not we shall it whether 'the 1 tween." "Oh, you mijst not discourage me, lock." Wo made our way down stairs as Mr. Holmes, li know that all Is wellj as possible and out into the Thei-so a quietly is keen with him. sympathy! morning sunshine. In the road between us that I should know if evil brightour horse and trap, with the half came upon nim. uo tne very aay mai i stood head. Wo saw htm last he.cut himself in the bed- Clad stable boy waiting at the we' dashed room and yet l In the dining room both sprang in and away A few road. London down the utcountry with the rushed tl to-day- e j upstairs Instantly most certainty (hat something had happened. Do you? think that Iiwould respond to such a trifle and yet: be ignorant of ttls death!" not to know "I have seen ;too ofmuchwoman may be that the impression a more valuable than the conclusion of au analytical reasoner. iiui iu this letter you certainly haive a very strong piece carts were stirring bearing vogetables to the metropolis, but the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as some city In a dream. " It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn t of evidence to Corroborate your view. It at all." think that "Then you ydu can find Hut if your husband is alive and able to St. Neville Clair?" write letters. Why should he remain " I shall be very much surprised if I away from you?jj' don't." "X cannot imagine, it is untninKapie. " And where ? " "What do you; know of your husband' In and sound London town." "Safe antecedents before his marriage?" you think this beggar, Boone, Oh, I know all about them, he has"Then had nothing to do with it." speaks freely on- tho subject. He came I don't say that." "Oh, from Chesterfield, where his father was still in the dark." He was wild in his ,"IYouamwon a schoolmaster t oe there long, nut l am younger days and traveled a good deal. fond, you know, of a little dramatic Then he became an actor, then a jour effect. one Is of weaknesses. You It my nalist and afterward, when he came into to Bow street and see this his money, he Invested it to advantage and I will go and try whether w6 cannot beggar man, and was able to live at his ease." learn something more definite from him. "How did he invest It?" bring "Oh, I don't Iknow. I have heard Gee up, my beauty, and we may mistress. him talk of companies. Ladies don't some good news back to your .were InlOwn the earliest risers just understand business you know." to look sleepily from their "And these companies took him into beginning windows as we drove through the streets town?" of the Surrey side. Passing down the almost every 'Yes, day." watenoo crossed over rsriage roaa wedown went ho when did And where he go the the de river, and, dashing J to town?" to the wheeled serted Strand, sharply some one to sometimes "Oh, place, Bow in and found ourselves street right, times another. ; Just where business Sherlock Holmes was well known to the took him." force, aud the two constables at the door "I see. Theniho had no offices?" him. One of them held the "Oh.no. He 'had uo business of hlsi saluted horse's head while the other led us in own. "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "And on Monday he made no remarks "Inspector Ilradstreet sir." before leaving ydu?" "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A "No." "And you wer0 surprised to see, him tall, stout official had come down the - . stone flagged passage, In a peaked cap ana iroggea jacKet. "i wisn to nave a "Very much sd." you, Bradstreet." quiet word withMr. "Was the window open?". Holmes. Step Into "Certainly, "! 'Yes." ' here." "Then he might have called to you?" my room omce-UK- e was a with a room, it small, "He might." the table and a tele "He onlv. an I understand, gave an huge ledger upon from the wall. The phone projecting Inarticulate cry??'I Inspector sat down at his desk. "Yob." " What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "A call for help, you thought?" " I called about that beggarman. Yes. He waved his hands." Boone the one who was charged with "Hut it rulght have been a cry of sur being concerned in disappearance of, at Astonishment the unexpected Mr. Neville St. Clairthe prise. of Lee." cause him to throw sight of you might was Drought; up and re 'xes. lie his hands?" up manded for further Inquiries." "It is posslblef ' e him here?" "So I heard. "And you thought he was pulled In the cell." I back?" Is he quiet?" " "He disappeared so suddenly." he gives no trouble. But he is hive "Ob, You "He might leaped back. a dirty scoundrel." did not seo any oiio else in the room?" "Dirty" is all we can to "No, but this horrible man confessed do to having been (here, and the Lascar make him "Yes, it wash his hands, and his face Is as black was at the foot of the stairs." "Quite so. Ydur husband, as far as as a tinker's. Well, when once his case you could see, had nis ordinary clothes has been settled he will have a regular on?" prison bath, and I think, If; you &aw "Hut without his collar and tie.. I dis him, you would agree with me that he needed It." tinctly saw his hare throat." "I should like to see him very much." "Had he evejf spoken of Mwandam "Would you? That Is easily done. I ane?" tome mis way. xou can. leave your "Never." "Had he ever shown any signs of hav bag." "No, I think that I'll take it." ing taken opium?" "Never." "very good. xme this way II yon "Thank you, Mrs.. St. Clair. Those please. . vv are the principal t points about which I xie ied us oown a passage, opened a wish to be absolutely clear. We shall barred door, passed down a winding now have a little supper and then retire, stair, and brought us to a whitewashed for. we may have a Very busy day, to corridor with a line cf doors on each side. morrow." A largo and comfortable double! bedded "The third on the right Is his," said room had been pjaced at our disposal, the inspector. "Here it is." He quietly and I was quickly between the sheets. shot back a panel in the upper part of for I was weary after my night of ad the door, and glanced through.' venture. Sherlock Holmes was a man ii is asieep," saia ne. "You can however, who.iwhon he had an unsolved: see him very well." We both put our eyes to the, grating problem upon his; mind, would go1 fori face toward u: prisoner lay with-hl- s days, and. even fof a week,. without rest, The a In his very over, it deep sleep, breathing slowly turning at It rearranging, of facts, and heavily. He was a middle-size- d view. fromlevery point looking until no naa eitner laiuomeu it, or con man, coarsely clad as became his calling, vinced himself that bis data were Insuf- with a colored shirt protruding through ficient. It was soon evident to me that the rents In his fattened coat. lie was. he was preparing for an all night sit- as the Inspector h&l. said extremely but the jrrJme which .covered his ting. He took, off his. coat and waist- dirty, f large blue dressing face could not conceal Its repulsive uglicoat, put od gown, and then wandered aVout the ness. A broad wheel froni an old scar room collecting pillows from his bed, ran right across it from eye to chin, and and cushions from the sofa and arm- oy its contraction naa turned up one chairs. With those he constructed a side of the upper Hp so that three teeth sort of Eastern divan, upon which he were exposed in a perpetual snarl. A porched himself cross legged, with an shock of very bright red hair grew low ounce of shag tobacco and a box of over his eyes and forehead. "He's a beauty, Isn't he?' said the matches laid out in front of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him Inspector; "He certainly needs .a wash," resitting there, anf old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly marked Holmes. " I had , an idea that upon tho corner of the ceiling, the he might, and I took the liberty of bringblue smoke curling up from him, si- ing the tools with me." lie opened his lent motionless, ;with the light shin- Gladstone bag as he spoke and took out, ing upon his strong set aquiline fea- to my astonishment, a very large bath tures. So he sat jas I dropped off to sponge. sleep, and so he sat when a sudden i He I he I You are a fufiny one,V ejaculation caused, me to wake up, and chuckled the Inspector. , V I found the summer sun shining Into " Now. If you will have the great good the apartment.. The pipe was still be- ness to open that door very quietly, wo tween his - Hps, the smoke still curled will soon make him cut a much more upward and the 'room was full of a respectable figure." dense tobacco haze, but nothing re "Well, I don't know why not,w said mained of the heap of shag which I the Inspector. lie doesn't look credit had seen upon the previous nlghu to the Bow street cells, does he ? He his key Into, the lock, and we all "Awake, Watsoi?" he asked. ...j.... .;.,;.; slipped "Ygb." : very quietly entered the cell. The Game for a morning drive?" sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more Into a deep slumber. Certainly." No one la vet. Holmes stooped to the water jug, moistThen dress. but I know where the stablestirring boy sleeps, ened his sponge, and then rubbed it and wo shall soon have the trap out." twice vigorously across and down the He chuckled to himself as he spoke, his prisoner's face. Let me Introduce you," he, shoutad, eyes twinkled, and. he seemed a different man to tha somber thinker of the previ- "to Mr. Neville St. Clair of Loe, In the ! ous night. of Kent." , ,, county As I dressed I glanced at my watch. ever in mr lire have l seen such 'a It was no wonder that no one was stir sight. The man's face peeled off under ring. It was 4:35. I had hardly finished the sponge like the bark from & tree when Holmes returned with the news Gone was the coarse brown tint!-'- Gone, that tho boy was putting in the horse. too, the horrid zczr which he. i f ramed "I want to test a little theory of mine." it across, and the twist-- 1 1! wliich h 3 txlA he, pulling on his boots. "I think. given the repulsive tnzzr to "tLa tzcol I rc Watson,, t- - it .yoiuara now stani!j"T in A twitch fcroc-- ht C"rr tLv. t!ie presents cf oneTof the cicst tti-iut- a . and tlrra fly.!. .j t L, n Swandam lanej?" , . . , J ? You-hav- , - chair as If ha had been galvanized. " What I". he roared. She stood smiling, "Yes. a little slip: of paper In the air. holding up ?" "May 1 see It U. Certainly." Ho snatched it from her In his eager nesv and smoothiug tt out Upon the ta ble he drew over the lamp and examined it Intently. I had loft my chair and was gazing at it ovor his shoulder. The en velope was a very coarse one, aud was stamped with the Gravesend postmark. and with the date of; that very day, or rather of the day bo Tore, lor It was after midnight. "Coarse writing!" murmured Holmes. "Surely this Is not your husband's writing, madarae?" No, but the Inclosuro ls4" I perceive also that whoever addressed the envslopo bad to go and In, as to tho address." quire . en uair "liow can you All "The name, you see, Is in perfectly black Ink, which has dried Itself. The rest Is of the grayish !olor which shows that blotting paper has been used. If It had been written straight' etl and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This man haa written the name and there has been a pause before ha wrote tho address, which can only mean that he was not familiar with It. It is, of course, a trifle, but there, is nothing so Important as trifles. Let us now see tho letterl Hal there has (beon an in- Yes, there was a ring. Ills signet " . ,. ring." "And you are sura h that this la your husband's hand?" "One of his hands." Kine?" y ' Ills hand when he wrote hurriedly. unlike his usual writing and It isI very It well." know yet Dearest, do not bd frightened. All will come well. There Is a huge error which It may take some time to rectify. Walt in patience Neville. a Written in the fly leaf of book, octavo pencilnoupon mark. Ilumli Posted water tim, la (Jravesend by a man with a dirty And the Cap had been t!;u::b. Hal ana much Ini error .ot very c : I if ?, u! . , i t io-r a r: ;n wno iiaui oeeii cuewiug no have doubt It that you ' j.S' hand, madam?" liSTllIo wrote those words."' wrra rroittd at "!, T'xs. i:t. Clilr, the est vea-it cv '7 to at j to-day.- I ; 1 "- I ; - ly con-tlderab- ' I i - t m il A i :i- j - r . I J ! to-ti-ay ; Ar 1 1 to-d- ay i.-.- smooth-skinne- d, j ; J 2 don't say that. "I "And on what sad-face- d, d. : i j refinedXlooking rubbing rrrs eyes and staring abouK him with sleepy bewilderment. Then suddenly realizing the exposure he broke into a scream, and threw himself down with his face to the pillow. Great heavens V" cried the Inspector, "it Is indeed the missing man. I know him from the phonograph." Tho prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons himself to his destiny. "Be It so," said hie. "And pray, what am I charged with?! 'Wlth making away with Mr. Neville St. Oh, come, you can't be eharged with that, unless they make a case of inattempted suicide of it," said the spector, with a grin. "Weill 1 have been twenty-seve- n years; In tjhe force, but this really takes the cake.'? "If I amTSIr. Neville St. Clafr then it is evident that no crime has beeu committed, and that, therefore, Ij am illegally detained." "No crime, but a very grave (error has been committed," said Holmes. ' You would have djoue better to havje trusted your wife."It was nqt the wife, it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "God help me, I would 4iot have them ashamed of their father. My God! What an exposure! v What can I do?" Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him kindly on the shoulder. " If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said he, "of course Ou the you can hardiy avoid publicity other .hand, if you convince tiie police authorities that there is no possible case against you, I do not know tha;t there is any reason that the details sbjould lind their way into the papers. Inspector Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything whioh you might tell us, and submit it to the proper authorities. The case would then never go into court - iialfist blrnj He had for year i kuown as a professional beggar. iin uie appeared to nave been a Vff 7 quiet and innocent one. There the ; . f H if ; -- - -- '.. . ii - L-- Ir, ;; t: '1 -- - at all." . God bless you!" cried the prisoner, would have endured passionately. imprisonment, aye, even execution, rather than have lef t my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. I will tell you the whole truth, aud 1 implore you to use your influence to stop proceedings which can do nothins to help 'I but at that moment there was a rush of constables up the stair, and a. few min- A PRIVILEGED ARISTOCRACY. utes 'after I found, rather, I confess, to my relief, that Instead of being Identified as Mr. Seville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer.' "I do not know that there Is anything Its Persistent Efforts to Create a else for me to explain. I was deter--i Caste for ItsehV mihedto preserve my disguise as long as a of hence and my possible, preference dirty face. Knowing that my wife would be terribly anxious I slipped! off my ring ad confided It to the Lascar at THE SUPREME COURT JUDGES' REPUTE a moment when no constable was watching me. "together with a hurried scrawl. telling her that she had no cause to fear." "That note on ly reached her yester It Is Not an Enviable One Reverence for Courts as Sncb The Policeman day," said Holmes. "Good God! WhaCva week she must and the Dloodn Mr. Estee Aftain have spent." Good Work or the "Mentioned" The police have watched this LasNewspaper. car," said Inspector Bradstreet, "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor customer of his, who forgot all about it Cobbfsposdisc 'TRIBrSE-for some days." was "That it," said Holmes, noddi-napprovingly, 'I have no doubt of it. But have you noyer been prosecuted for begging?" , "Many times. But what was a fine to me?" "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are to hush this thing up there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "I have sworn by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "In that case I think it is probable that no further step may be taken. But if you are found again then all must come out. I am sure Mr. Holmes, that wo are very much indebted to you for having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your rsesults." ("4 reached this one," said my friend, upon live pillows and con"ty sitting ounce of shag. I think,, an suming Watson, that if wedrive to Baker stro t w shall just be in time for breakfast ' r5 j .ill j -- . 5 THE GREAT NOVELIST DANOKBOUSLT ILI Iff LONDON. - , : - j j m - , i j . i 'e ctL'-- r 1C-I- Jl I. ivo folli. . 1. " high-spirite- 400-poun- d, claw-hamme- rs base-born-rab- e fout-jyoar-s ' i , all-season- it-,- .. i" I 1 I . I fY K j . The pretensions of the San Francisco aristocracy to the privileges accorded their compeers in other lands are not, however, always deferred to in this city. There yet linger some traces of the democratic spirit belated Influences beby ruder and less queathed generations. 1 witnessed late opulent one night last week a shocking instance of disrespect for position. Two youths, cadets Of one of our very richest farnilios, who had been making free with thewinecup, d as youths will occasionally, climbed I'lne Street hill, whioh is very steep, with much difficulty. At tho summit they paused to rest, and were fortunate enough to observo some barrels of cement standing in front of a building in process of erection. Playfully they rolled ono of these barrels to the top of the hill, and Sax Francisco, Dec 3,. 1891. let it go. It did go, bounding down tho Notwithstanding the impatience of declivity at accelerating speed until tho the public and the proddings of the level roadway of Kearny strvet brought press, the Supreme Court calmly sits it to a standstill. While laughing: merupon the grand jury egg and takes Its rily at their innocent prank, tho young own time In hatching the chick of its men were amazed at the advent of a decision as to the legality of that dread policeman who collared them both with his rough, plebeian hands. Although are aisturome lbe oody. luuy in an unpleasant position, a Judges al they gave their names and dlcloed Judges ways are when they ltave before them a their quality going so far as to throw question in which'the populace and the opeo their overcoats and display their the starred bruto innewspapers are warmly interested; but our Supreme Court has, reascn to feel sisted on running them in, and in a of humiliation and fright tho particularly uncomfortable. It Is not a frenzylads were lod down tho hill. On It. and know poor the strong tribunal, people It is also of common knowledge that the official reaching Kearny street the bowelles Ws power the spawn of a most powerful Interests in the cifty are hostile to the grand jury. There-argazed meditatively at tho hundreds of wealthy men and corpor- barrel, and said: ations who year after year escape their "See, here, somebody's got to tako great share of the load of taxation that cement back to where it kern from. of I'm blamed if I'll do it. Tell you what by securing an undervaluation I'll do, cullies. Av ye fellys Ml rowl that are and their property, they to he Indictment of barrel back, blow me av I don't let you naturally opposed , the Assessor ror so favoring them. go." Necessity has no law. The brute had reMoreover, the bribed Supervisors and fused largess. Tho hard and shameful Legislatures were not brihed for nothing, conditions were accepted. Oh, sight to an and it for obviously unpleasant and eminently respectable citi- blight the gentle soul, oh, spectacle to opulent zen to be exposed as a grver of bribes. call for obliteration of humble blood. Besides, the rule of the Hack is a simple. Those two gentlemen, heirs to millions, and, on the whole, convenient and cheap. tackled the job, the policeman following, form of Government" which our better holding their overcoats, and the sideclasses would grieve to have replacedfby walks lined with jeering night-bird- s of low degree. And those two youths in one under which they would have more privileges than coarse, com- their spike-tai- l coats pushed and pushed mon persons of slender means. These that ponderous barrel up that sharp financial and social influences do not cobbled incline for three blocks, sweatshow diffidence In exerting themselves, ing, cursing, complaining, blistering and should the Supreme Court determine their hands, skinning their knees and that the grand jury Is not a legal body, shoulders and ruining their costly dress. and its work of no avail, the public It took them a whole hour and whett the would inevitably suspect, and the press task was done they sat down on the curb insinuate that the Court had reached its exhausted and wept as well as swore. conclusion in deference to the pfutocracy. They were too tired to walk and asked On the other hand, should a majority of the policeman to call them a eab, which the Judges decide the other way, the the heartless ruffian had the decency to moneyed nobility would In scornful do. They were ouito sober when a anger accuse them of pandering to the latchkey admitted them to their ancesd castlo on Nob Hill. mob, and arrange to take revenge when tral the next election occurs. Morris M. Estee is mentioned for the Few appear to recognize the fact that the Court has before It a question of cold Police Commissionership made vacant law merely, and that with the moral and by the death of Major Hammond. Mr. Estee has also been mentioned for a political conseqnence of its decision in Cabinet such a case it has nothing to do. The. position, but if ho bo knore void almost universal feeling Is that each of revenue than of honor, he will prefer mind made up at the be- the Commissionership. The empty plat e Judge had his now ginning and is putting in his learned is worth 8250 a month in salary alono, time hunting up authorities and argu- and there is every prospoct that the poments to back the opinion that will be sition will be for life. The Commissionin most agreeable to those whom he is anx- ers wero appointed for ious to please. The Supreme Court is 1878, and the new Constitution making Itself largely to blame for this disre- no provision for a method of; choosing except through the spectful state of the public mind. There their successors, is ho want of popular respect for adoption of a new charter by $an Francourts In general; on the contrary, they cisco, they have hung on over since in are commonly viewed with a sort of spite of all efforts to dislodge them. reverence that is quite This city has voted down two proposed superstitious medieval. The average citizen feels an charters, and it seems impossible to awe of a court that Is often disassociated frame one that will not have against it money and honest antagonism tc altogether from his estimate of the char- enough acter and ability of the Judge who hap- insure Its defeat. The people,; however. with the Compens to sit on Its bench. Hut 'the Su- are pretty well content preme Court when its personnel was mission, which, on the whole,; has mandifferent has done so many strange aged the police force acceptably, though things, such as amending the Constitu- the inevitable arrogance of officials not tion, rending the life out of acts of the feeling themselves responsible to tho given frequent offense." Legislature and reversing Its own decis- voters haswould be glad to see Mr. ions (always, by an odd coincidence, at Everybody a time when rich litigants profited by Estee provided for at last, since he has these performances) that the public has spent the bust energies of a vigorous come to regard the tribunal as a set of manhood In vainly seeking any office, of lawyers who can usually be depended whateveran nature, that happened to be upon to find law to fit any opinion It without occupant; and the persistence with which a cruelly sportive fate has suits them to hold. baffled his ambition, clothes his eager doubt this distrust Beyond prevalent, of the Impartiality of the Suprme Conrt figure with a pathetic Interest that pro and it is deepest among members of foundly affects the sensibilities of the the bar, astonishing to say does gross people of his adopted State. to some of the Judges, who are injustice The enterprising modern newspaper men of rigid integrity and respectable to deserve popularity by doing anxious to Chief his Justice IJeatty, capacity. honor be it recorded, escapes altogether admirable things In a striking way, has the sneers and revillngs which harass become an unexpected source of good.' and mortify his brethren. Everybody In New York the journals run to fresh air funds, giving the children of the will accept Beatty's judgment, whichever way it may go, as that of an very poor a chance to fill their lungs who has ( dealt solely with with undefiled oxygen. ' Here there is aud the legal aspect of the grand jury case. plenty of good air at As he decides, so will the law be held to philanthropic Ingenuity seeks other be In the popular Judgment. This is a fields. The 4rtcmaitt has raised thoufine, an exhilarating reputation for a sands of dollars for a splint and crutch to have, and the wonder Is that fund for the use of the Children's HosJudge more men on the California bench do not pital, and other newspapers go In per strive to attain iodically tor stirring up the charitable Our best lawyers are divided in their In various way. The Examiner make view of the lawfulness of - the grand a specialty of giving the little ones In the orphan asylums and the houses of expectajury'sis drawing, but the general tion that the Sepreme Court will not poverty a merry Christmas, and' this sustain Judge Wallace In bis course. year It has set all the fashionable women to dressing dolls, the same to be exhibited at a congress in a public hall. to our privileged aristoc- tne dolls and Recurring the proceeds of the wiowio as Is as to it racy, gratifying surprising to the go youngsters. It isafact hapless differentiare Observe how rapidly they to human nature in this town creditable In themselves San from the Vulgar ating the newspapers have but to menFrancisco, and setting op those distinc- that of real tion under any tions which In alt ages and' countries the noticecase of their in to order reporters have been at once the delight and the call forth the relief mis City required. of here the nobility. Being Strength and others who devote their without titles, which are so useful a de- sionaries to comfort to ' the distime carrying vice for advertising one's superiority tressed have come to understand this so over the scrnb herd, bur haute volee Is well that appeal for help to the they necessarily driven to exercise Its brains secular press quite frequently as they In keeping, it before the people that, do to the churches as In whose service they having money, their peculiar deserts' are. The amount of effort put forth In must te recognized. Mr. Will Crocker, San Francisco to search out and assist for Instance, who possesses the merit of the suffering is not appreciated except being a younger son of that fine old no- by those whose calling brings 'them In ble, the late Charles- Crocker, had the contact with the noble men and women becomea to the father other happiness whose hearts move them to sympathetic day. An event so extraordinary de- this Christlike work. Even the unde obto be celebrated by unusual served are not passed by and given up servances, and It was. In preparation serving these Samaritans. I know of a case by Inof for the coming the distinguished an unscrupulous reporter in .which parent laid in a wrote a moving fant, the patrician account of a poverty-stricke- n fs It and said, 20,000, layette costing. were without the who family dispatched an order to Palestine for a necessaries of life. A lady called the Jar of sacred water from the river Jor address given bearing with heratfood dan, wherewith to christen the young and clothing. She found the husband prince, heir ofashis anclentiouse. With and wife both drnnk. ' The woman, in such a start that, the eminent baby deed, abused her and threw her gifts is sure to grow up a-- simple, unostenta- out the window. Nevertheless, she tious citizen of the Beeublic, contemn- wentofagain, and it is a fact that her per baubles and wherewith the gauds ing made that, home a kindness severing monefTete social life Is decorated In the one, her influence having shamed archies and tottering despotisms of sober the pair into sobriety and sent the man Europe. specialty," said this And it Is with heartfelt, syri pathetic to work. "IsMy the lady, plous undeserving poor. It sorrow that the people of Ca"crn!a "is bad enough to bo poor and deserving, have been read In 3 the disptteliea from but how much worse not only to be poor New York narratint the trrrlble fact but as well." It Is good to that a son of Cyrus V. and a nephew of knowundeserving Is so active a leaven of there that has turned tUsf. That unselfishness In. the Stephen J. Field, city's life, which ia was, Indeed, a sid gathering cf relatives tho mass Is so vicegotistic, which ciet atthehcasacf tLs trcstrated. ious and .brutal to know Rraspln, raca tha 3 for 'v.! f the of men and women who emtbit father to take Had 1 cf tn hsnored blot from the escut in helping others has cot c!i I c ..t, zr.Z U true ".M It Ar.i;:i':; I.IcIwf-rI tli&t It would ti :iy 1: E T t,":,3 C i tO i I. C;CtttchC3 t, teS i" , n i r,:!n c :i It, LaS red-woo- EDMUND YATES. j - wise than by treading the path of rec, titude. - The wonderful popularity of Edmund Yates, the novelist, editor and newspaper correspondent, will cause the report of his serious illness bein London from pulmonary trouble to received with' profound regret by his many American admirers. Edmund Yates was the sou of Frederick II. Yates, an English actor, and was born In 1832. the elder Yates died in. 1842, he Though son in comfortable circumstances left the and with the means of securing an education which procured him a good berth in the postoffice. When he resigned in in- 1872,. he was chief of the Missing Letter Department. He began to write for the newspapers in 1854, and for six years was dramatic critic of the London Dally News. Subsequently he was editor of, the Temple Bar. His first book, " My Haunts and their Frequenters," appeared in 185 4. Ills list of novels is familiar to all readers of fiction. During the past twenty years he has been London correspondent for half a dozen In 1873 Mr. American newspapers. Yates visited this country, lecturing and was extensively lionized. frequently, In 1884 Mr. Yates passed. four months in jail for having libeled the notorious Lord Lonsdale in the London World,, of two pounds a week when I knew that I which he was then the editor. could earn as much in a day by Smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight Jbetween my pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up reporting, and sat day after day In the corner which I had first chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly .'LP face, and filling my pockets with copman one knew secret. my pers. Only He was the keeper of a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam lane, where I could every morning emerge as a squalid begger, and in the evening P . i My transform myself into a well) dressed man about town. This fellow, a Lascar, was well paid by me for his frooms, so in that I knew that my secret was; safe ' his possession! Well, veryisoon I found that I was sums of money. I saving considerable do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London could earn! 47 00 a IS less than myf average yearwhich takings but I had exceptional advan tages in my power of making up, and also in a facility in repartee, which im proved by practice, and made me quite a recognized character In the city. All day a stream of pennies varied by. silver, poured iu upon ;me; and It was a , very bad day upon vfhich I failed to take 2. 'As I grew richer I grew more am bitious. took;' a house In the countrv. and eventually married without any one having a suspicion as to my real occupa tion. My, dear wife knew that I had business in the city. She little knew, what.: I stifl kept the rooms In,Swan-dalane, where I used, to change myself into a beggar. every mbrningahd back into a country gentleman after business bows. "Last Monday I had finished for the day, and was dressing In my room above the opium den, when I looked out of the window, and saw to my horror) and as tonishment that jay wife was standing In the street, with her eyes fixed full upon. ,106., I gave a cry or surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and Lascar, rushing to my confident, the One from entreated him to prevent any coining up to me It struck cold to ray heart that my wife and worse still, that my children In the days taj come should know what had been the miser able trade of their father. Perhaps it would have been bettor to have con fessed to my identity. Looking back I can see that ft would havo been so. But for the moment iny whole soul Revolted against the thought. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on those of a beggar, and put on wife's my pigments and wig. Even eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then It occurred to me that there might be a search Iu tho room and that the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening by mv violence a small cut which 1 had inflicted upon, myself In the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to It from the leather 3"t i which I carried niy I h"urle3 it out cf tho window how any young man blessed .with Judge Field fof an uncle coukr take it into his head that success in life might be achieved other- 1 m schoolmaster In Chesterfield, where I 1 received an excellent education. traveled in my youth, took to the stage and finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. Onb day my editor wished to have a series ojf articles upon begging in the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point fromwhich all ray adventures In California can comprehend l justice, and which must bring misery upon myself and my family." "We'll do what we can," said the inspector, moved by the earnestness of his pleading. "I'd be glad to hear what it all means, for I tell you that I Can make neither head nor tail of it." You are the first who have ever heard my story. I can make it clear (to you in a very few wcrds. My father was a started. "'It was only by .trying as an amateur that I could get beggirg the facts upon which to base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the secrets, of making up, and had; been famous In the greenroom for myj skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my face, aud to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a.good scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a small slip of flesh colored plaster. Then with a red head of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station In the busiest part of tjhe city, ostensibly as a match seller, but really as a beggar. For seven hours I plied ray trade, and when I returned home in the evening I found to my surprise, that I had reeelve4 nb less, than tventy-si- x shillings and fourperice. "I wrote my articles and thought little, more of the matter Until, sdrae time later, I backed a bill for a friend, and had a writ served upon me fp 25. I was at my witsJend where to get the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I tho begged a fortnight's grace from creditor, asked .for a holiday Jfrom my employers, and spent the times in "begging in the city under my disguise, lii ten days-- I had -the; money, and had paid the debt. j "Well; you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous work at 1891. C, need-comi- IjYMAN U. IIUaiPHREY. TITE KANSAS OOVEBSOB IK A NEW BOUC Kansas may always be depended upon to evolve something new in the line of politics. The latest production of Kansas genius is the proposal to enact a law Senator. creating the ;Ispost of "proxy" This scheme merely an extension of the law passed last winter, providing for ai State Agent at Washington, whoso it should be to look after the Interduty ests of all Kansas claimants for pensions, the agent to receive a fat salary from the State. The idea Is the InvenB. W. Perkins, tion of whom Governor Humphrey will name as tho first Incumbent, and is designed to accomplish tho political effacement of W. A. Peffer during his six years term In the United States Senate Governor Humphrey was born in Ohio Jn 1844;a entered the army, where he became captain at the ago of 20, and at the conclusion of peace resumed his studies at Union College, read law and was adlit. mitted to the bar in 1863. After a short newspaper venture in Missouri, Humphrey settled at Independence, Kan., in 1871 where ho began the practice of law. In 1876 he was elected to the Legislature and to the State Senate in 1834. In 1837 be was chosen to fill a vacancy iri the office of Lieutenant-Gov'ernOand in 1888 was elected Governor of the State on tho Republican ticket." -- . r, trl Strength ko4 IItlUiIsealtljT. If yoa ar not feelioT"Lm ir'-try lef ro ' Ktectrla UUters. If T isctr-1 tod Eittr.nd i nis vuk nctm wr.'r. a 1" s directlytboseLier. or t i zr prU--?ipently functions. If iJing tou r vr iciel wjsij iMt-te end will .ef yovi asi pemsuest .A willcan-Viac- e On ty tikiryo-.-j .I.',i3t?i? 1 iti'm. vf s 1 t trd. liat ti: Is tL t'a C.' I r s fci j alj ; j 1 1 A. C retaedr fcta-a- c! - rry . VA3 I; ;":TES'C;i)i r X: IJ-e- I'.-- e, 1 ts-r;- s ;" -- L'ta Ocr tried ese5 y, alwij-s- . ng -- ' - . :;r 3. "-ni- . f- - icl . " u GW f ;! . I I.- .1 ... .t t :.. ii : 1 w VI i it 1 & 5 t ' ' i i ' t ii ixz ric'!::; ;. r J s.ti 7- x - ble |