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AS FOR_TUNE_SMILES. A TALE OF THE OLD AND NEW WOULD. CHAPTKR IL If there wa* ever a man who rprea*ntd in a worthy and stalwart fashion tlie Imnf, the sinew, th* pluck, the perseverance and the indomitable courage of the hardy Kiig- lish yeoman, driven from a Staffordshire home by hard tim*s, and a harder landlord, that man wa* Dick Ashland. Hi* father, and his grandfather before him, had farmed some meagre land* at Chaunoey Uroen, in South Staffordshire, and when the old man died an elder brother claimed possession oi th* farm. There waa an aged mother to support, and Dick Alhand ihared that duty with hi* brother, though h* did not mare the lalUr'* inheritance. Dick tried a little farming of hi* own, and wa* uniformly unlucky. Kent accrued, and for it* pay- menu, good*, chattel*, implement* and lock ere Mixed and acid, until Dich A*h- land, lick at heart and despairing of ucoea* it home, want to seek fortune in a freer and lent iron-hearted country. Fortune did not mile very broadly on Ashland, sven when I.e reached the vaat prairie*. H* worked hard, but year after yoar paased on, aud he wa* not much the richer. Us wa* hard witted and shrewd withal, and, in days gone by. h* had dabbled a little in coal and ironstoo* mining. Whan, therefore, hit built a hut far up the mountain, and lived there year in year out in itubborn lonelinew, George Maclan*, like others beside him, earn* to th* conclusion that Uick Ath- land wa* like themselves, hunting for that fabulous gold with which, according to rumor, th* region teemed, but which no one yet bad been able to find. H* was a burly, broad-shouldered, broad- heted, Kritlsh bulldog, was Uiok Ash- land, who, even in th* Rockies, affected th* dreas, and, as far a* he could, tb* habit* of th* Knglish farmer. Hi* jovial, round and florid fact, alwaya smoothly shaven, but for a pair of small, fair side whiskers, beamed wilb hones', good-nature, and, a* on that evening, he *at with Herbert Chaunoey, outaid* hi* primitive hut, two finer *pecim*D* of the Knglish farmer and the English gentltman could hardly hav* been found. Herbert was a younger th* youngest son, in fact, of 'hn Karl of Cleve, and his lordship had been bleeeed by hia lady with cms children, which included su then frown-upand marriageable, but unmarried, daughters. His Icrdahip was not a hard- hearted father, but *ix marriageable and unmarried daughter*, each of them engaged in frantic efforts to enter th* holy state of matrimony, and each of them (ailing re- ' peatedly and decisively, are apt to sour the te upers among elderly gentlemen, and the result wa* that Lord Cl*v* looked with a Itss lenient eye than h* might otherwise have don*, upon th* eeoapade* of hi* younger son. Herbert had tbe misfortune of reaembling, in a marked degree, hi* , mother, who had been >upremely beautiful' I while hie two elder brother), and all th* i young ladies, were juvenile reproduction) ) of th* face and features of my lord, who wa* ferooiouily ugly. A day of reckoning mi', aud Herbert Chaunoey, badgereil by creditor*, whom h* oould not pay, deniad aaaislanc* by hi* fatl.er and by his brothers, followed on the wke of Dick Ashland, and puked up hi* '.rape to rosin and rove abroad, nnd to lead a wild and hardy life on the Weitern plain*, where hi* genial bonhomie, hi) manly and distinguished bearing, won him many friends. While engaged in hunting the buffalo on the Plat te Kiver, where at that time they were still to be found in huge herd*, a let- ter of Dick Ashland's readied him,beming him to com* to the mountain hut. "I have something to tell you Mister Herbert," Pick wrote. "That will be worth while coming to hear. 1 want your arm unl your head both." I'erberl, in the vigor of hi) youthful im- pulse, had saddled hu horse and Htted it lor the jouney ere that letter had been two hours in hn pocket, Th* Journey of two hundred miles, belweeu the Pialte and th* Sanger d* Christo llangn, lay acrou barren plain), where, in many pans, both horee and ri-ler wained f r ordinary nruei- siims. Hut Herbert Chauncey waa not easily daunted, and when h* dashed across Hlacknnse Corner that afternoon, hia spirit* were a* buoyant a* though he had juil completed a ten-mile journey. Herbert Chaunoey'* advtnture with the fair one* hail been at one lima th* talk of th* metropolis. H* wa* a wild, harunv .-aruiM fellow, not over careful of hi* rep- mat on There had been a sort of half engagement between him and l.a ly Kvelyu* Winter, but th* young lady's pe>ranta w re mid of the young man's follies, and cloml their doors against him. He HU constantly falling in lot* with avery pretty face, sn-i it waa no winder, thsrefnrs, when he came across Miss Lucy, in all her natural and youthful oharmvtliat his heart went uraighl mi' to her and left him a sighing, love-lorn swain. Th* two insn were speaking in muler ton-s, taking short pulls of their pipes in th* meanwhile. "Theer's enough of it, Mr. Herbert," Dick AshUnd ssid, accentuating e*>uh word by a tap on hi< companion'* knee, "to pave the street at the Urean. Theer'* tons on il most likely, and no great job to gtl at it nfither. Th* only wonder is that it hasn't been rpolled afore this." "Hut with all tins untold wealth around in," Herbert interrupted, "why haven't you let me known before f" "i wanted to make sure on it. I wanted I i know exactly what I Wat about." "Well the boat thing w* can do now, I i|ipoe." said (Jhtuooey, is to *end to ll*trher's and get aomu hand) to help us. ' Thu yeoman gav* a low whittle. "No. thank von," h* exclaimed. "Not If I know u. I don't wau'l my throat cut, not just yet My find wouldn't be no good to in* if I wore rotting al tbe bottom of on* of the canyon*." " What do you mean '" tbe young man asksd, esgerly. Asiilsud looked warily about the place a* if, even in lhat lonely wilderness, h* was afraid of being overheard by a prying ear. " What do 1 mean?" he naked, with in- tense earnestness. " I moan that if a* much aa a whisper got abroad that I'd made this fled that if a human finger could point out ihe spot where il lies, our live* wouldn't be worth tour-aud-twsnly hour*' purchase. We'd have all the scoundrel* of th* plain* down upon us, and they'd think no more of Glowing out our braiui from behind, and then killing one another to get bold of the booty, than of eating their dinners." Herbert stretched bii leg* widely. " Thai'* warm,'' h* id quially. " You'd find it warmer than you oared for Mr. Herbert,' 1 Dick continued ; snd if we want to lav* our skin* and my. gold a* well, we've just got to put our head* to- gether, that we have. It'* easy lhat dot* it this time, and we've got to work slow and sure. Therr'i enough theer to let up a dozen on us for Ills, snd w* muiln'l loose our head* in getting it." " What do you propose to do ?" C'haun cey asked. "Our only chance is to get Government protection, and they wouldn't give ui that without an order franc Fort Bent. I'm not much afraid of anybody elae finding the pUue. It'* taken me just seventeen months, and then I only stumbled across it by a Hu.. All tbe same I don't intend to leave it without one of ui keeping an eye on it. What we'll have todo i* to pick outeaough to show lhat the sturT is theer ail right, and i hen you or I will have to ride to Fori Bent and get Captain MoArierly to send a aquad of soldiers here. All then* cut-throat* will tight shy of Uncle Sam'* uniform, though w* shall have no lull" trouble even then I" "Where's th* difficulty in all thia?" Herbert aakad. "No difficulty," Ashland replied, "If we only keep our heads clear and our nerve* stiff. But theer are over half a dozen *ta- lion* between here and Fort lient, and if, at any of theie, so much aa a breath got abroad of what w* were about, neither I nor you would live to see the end of it. " He again turned and looked 'round rau- tioualy . "I thought I heard something move among them cedan, " he aaid. "Don't lake any notice of it. You may hav* been followed. I'll go hy.and-by and look from another place. Did you tell anybidy at Hatcher's yon were coming here?" " No," the young man replied. " I had no need of thai ; your description of the roa.1 was plain enough j but I remember now, 1 did ask a girl, about two mile* down, how far it wss to your place. " "Trial was foolish," said Aihland. "Thai girl wa* Lucy Maclan*, freckled George's daui|hler, and he'* ihe man of all ot hers that I'm most afraid of. H*'s always dogging and dodging me about, but I've put him off the (oral so far. He's been on the same, gme as mjseif the** month* peal, and he'* a* greal a rascal a* is lo bo found on the plains. That killing of Dick Me gun* wa* never properly explained. George mints that il wa* don* in fair fiuht, but I for on* don't believe it. I'm ure theer's tome one dodging about them cedars," Aililand continued. " Perhap* it'* sums beast," Herbert *ug- gealed. "Not a bit of It," Di -k replied. "Theer's no game there thu time o' the day. You sit here and I'll get round to the back of the cabin and from there I'll quielly climb on to the rock, snd if theer's anything alive among them cedar* I'll ipot it. Keep your weather aye ikinned while I'm away. With lhat he rose and sauntered care- lessly to the door of the small, rude log hut which form-d hi* habitation. H* toll ily walk*d to tbe further sad of it, and there disappeared. Th* young Englishman looked ah ui him in that lovely wild-irneaa, tinged a* it waa in all tr>* sheen of lhat midsummer eve. The 1'ixuriaut thin mountain glass reached to his knee, here and there a brilliant wild flower looke 1 like a bright spot on the sober green, and further on feathery ferns roee in all their drooping grace. All round ihe hut the wild geranium, th* box elder, the spikenard, and the bear-lierry throv* in wild coofitsion; while hop plant*, wild vine* aud flow*ring creepers stretched out verdant tendrils to enlace tree and shrub. Th* rook* w*re ooverod with soft mosses and hanglkg grass** and 'erni, while a plantation of grsat cedars and mightier pine* itrelched us far aa th* ey* oould reach to the we*t, there to be overtopped by the groat orag> and mountain faftnease* in all their aveincg glory of purple and gold. He had been an iavetera'e theatre-goer in hi* days of London froliory, and oould not he.p, being an imaginative man, trans- porting on to th* stage ot th* I'rmoess or I'ti.ry Lane the picture that unrolled itself before Ins eye*. "Il.-Kail," he said to himself, "this bsais your pantomime* and sensational drams* hollow. Aud lo think thai there s gold - buihul* of ii, tons ot u lying omewhtr* about . And I'm to have my share of it Who aays there's no anoh thing a* luck in this world. Gold !" ha repeated lo himself. "Gold ' gold I ton* of gold I" Hn (hook himsslf together on a sudden, and commenced to pace up and down. " That was a pretty girl," he murmured to himself: "a downright jolly girl. And looked to me, too, as thotign sh* were a good girl. Th* son of a girl lhat would lick to a man through thick and thin and help him to fight it out, though th* dtvil and In* chances w*rr> against him. Diok doesn't like lier father, but h* didn't say a won) against th* girl. He'd have mention- ed it If there had been anything agaiiDl her. No, no. She's a Illll* brick, I'm sure. And if I'd dree* her in a nice gown and polish her a bit, she'd drive th* girls at the Cowers mad with anvy. A long way b*tw**n here and Staffordshire, but If there isn't a dip betwixt the oup and the lip I'll take her there, or ray name nn'l Herbert Ohauuoey." He mi. rd tapping the ground with hi* right foot, puffing away at his pipe, whils he kept his hand* in tha pocket* of hi* buck- skin trousers, and, with a vacant gaxe, searched the ground in front of him. A broad hand tapped him on the shoulder. It wss Diok. "I wa* mistook," said th* yeoman, "theei's nobody theer. It mud hav* been some beast after all. But I think we'd better wait until it's quite night for all that, before w* climb down and have a look at my rind." The pal* hazy light uf (he young mcon had swathed the mountain*, and the hut waa lost in ihe blsck shade of ihe giant rock lhat sheltered it. Among the cedan beyond, the nigdt seemed so dense a* to become nearly palpable, while just one or wo furtive gleams shot thioughthe pitchy gloom where the more open ipaoe permitted the light to penetrate. Aihlaod and Chaunoey were (till putting away at their pip**, talking of old time* at home, of those cheery time* in tb* old country when they holli would hav* thought one half the hardships they now endired a tribulation. Yet they both felt happier in being thus freed from the tram- mels of nineteenth century civilization, it* lhams, and it* hypocricie*. And here they were upon ihe brink of untold treasure*. They were both to be rich rich enough to satisfy every craving* of the body. It would have been unnatural if, under these circumstances, they had not felt that tremor of excitement which the most cool-headed and least sanguine of men cannot ometimea avoid. The young- er man especially ws* eager to feast hi* eye* upon th* spot where the treasure lay. "I'll tell you what we'll do. Vr. Herbert," Ashland said, at last, when they had losked ibe rough cabin door, and with i ifles slung across their shoulder*, and belt* garnished with knife, and pistol, were preparing themaelvee for their moun- tain journey. " I'll have a look along the trail down hill, first of all. I shouldn't be at all surprised to find Freckled George and that lanky Dave crawling around theer somewheer. You abide here awhile, and keep your weather eye to the top of that rock at the back tbeer. If you see any- thing moving theer, man or beast, blaxe away at it, and mind you hit it, too. Tbeer ain't nobody nor nothin' that'* got any bnainea* theer thi* time o' night, nor that'* iheer for any good to either ot us." With that h* cocked hi* rifle to th* full and itrod*, with body bent forward and head down, toward the confer* below. HOT wary figure could be aeen moving stealthily acmes the moonlit open, and then vanished n the black night beyond. The creaking of broken branches, a* h* now and then to him again, and without saying a word h* lifted hit rifle and Gred. The (harp crack rang through th* midnight air and reechoed among the crags aiid in the still- ness which succeeded the report, tbe two men MOO I breathless waiting the result hut the black thing disappeared -ranisbad gain a* if by magic. Not a a-mnd, not a sign, ruffled the hush of ths night. "If Uirnr's anybody following u*," said Diok "he'll know that we don't mean to land any nonaenae. and what he'll hav to expect if we catch him." The road lay itraighi up hill now, along a jagged mountain face where they had to climb now and then like cats. In five min- utes or more they had rea< hed the summit, and there stood uoou a smooth aud aparsely wooded table-land, about half a mile in lengt h.and some four or five hundred yard* broad. They walked across it with nflm Irsiled, and came to the edge of the gulch not more than five-and -twenty or thirty feel deep through which a mountain torrent waa rushing in melodious turmoil. D-ck stopped aud pointed with out* tretch- ed fore-finger to the bottom. "There'i where it lie*, thick as peas," he aid. "Any amount of it. I'd never dieamt o' coming here, only 1 shot a buck, and that wa* tb* p ace I had to gel him fro.i . Now you know it a* well as I do." After a moment'* pan** they made their way down. At the bottom among the young pines, the moonligit dripped lu ail- very flake* and blotches inlo a mod and fern strewn rocky ground. The fretting water* had in winter time overrun tne whole bed of the gulch, and smooth flints, varying from ihe sue ot a man'* fiat to the smallest of pebble*, gleamed and glittered in the pale sheen. LHck look up one un- evenly rounded fragment, and advanced with it to th* water's edge, where the light fell clear and br'gnt on hi* face. "L M,k at Ihis," h* said, pointing to a yel- lownn mining spot on th* dull, creamy tone, "tnsl's gold, I miglil V taken bush- el* from here if I hadn't been afraid o' somebody prying about my place and find- ing it while 1 wa* away. You aee, wbil* 1 wa* sione, I had nobody to lake care of the place, and thoee fallow* are mean enough for anything." He turned the (littering annferou* iton* in hi* hand over and over again. Both hi* figure and Herbert Cnauaoey'* were ataod- ing out, dark and sharp, againat th* haxy, moonlit, further *ide of th* ravine. Crack ! C-ack ! Two shot* rang ihrough th* air in quick uooeaeioo, and Dick Ash- land, with an unearthly cry, jumped full three feet in the air, and dropping rifle and TWO DESPERATE ROBBERS, THEY TRY TO LOOT A BANK SHOOT SIX CITIZENS. AND unguardedly stepped upon them, marked us progress to Herbert's accustomed ear, laslBK awsv at a Haak < aier In l.lll Ir 1 ., ! Inil Inn, H IICB ! Rank %<M T<M ll-l r HIM Ma Mr4. Cles*!/ l l e I,, umr < IIU. .a. On Tuesday morning at 9:10 o'clock on* of the moat sensational bank robberies in the hiatory of Iowa occurred at Adel. Delia* oouuty, twenty fire miles from Dei Moines. A few minutes after the bank opened two trangar*, now known to be Orlando P. vVilkinaand Charles \V . Crawford, drove into town, kitoheil their team in front of the bank, and entered. The only occupant of the bank wss Cashier S. II. Leach. < >ne of the men carried a aack and aaid he want- ed to depoait tome silver. The cashier came) to the railing, when one of the robber* lipped a rifle from under hu) ooatand point- ed it in hi* face. The other man kicked in the insid* door and went around for the money. About $2JO wan pat in a lack. hen Merchant C. D. Bailey happened in, The robber who wae on guard quick I j turned and fired at Bailey, anaotiag him in th* neck , and again in the jaw after he had fallen. He then turned and ihoi Cashier Leach, who, although (hot, itrup gled to the) vault and oloeed it, after throwing in a bag oi gold. Sheriff Payne heard the) shots, and, hast- ening to the auene, opened fir* with a revolver. The men ran to their buggy and itarled out ef town, followed by a poeae of twenty men, formed aln oat in an mutant. They were cloee behind them.aod contiuual- ly aent volley after volley after them, but to no effect. Finally the fleeing buggy tract: a log. which completely dsmolisned the fore wheel* and tent the robber* sprawl- ing on the ground. Crawford seemed to be dsxod for a moment. Wilkina grabbed hu rifle and made for a barn. Crawford crawl- ed under a brnih heap. He wa* dragged out and made to take a can of keroaene and eel flre to the) barn, the poos* knowing Wukins would no', ahoot hia partner in crime, Wilkin* held out until hi* whisker* were inged.aod then came out and made a daih for liberty. Nineteen ride* rang oat, and he fell to 'he grocnd a dead man. Crawford wae taken to jail and talk of lynching followed, but a* the wounded men are not flint from hie outelrolcbed haada, fell face | Mpw) ud to die the feeling quickly subsided. 106 j Wilkin* wa* from Paiterson, Ma.iiu _ I county, and ha* jn*t finiihed a term in the foremoet with his hand* toward tream. :>ut beyond lhat all was silence thsl wavy, | Herbert Channoey felt a sharp ating be- Minnesota penitentiary for robbing a Jev.. breesy, musical silence ol a beautiful I low hu shoulder, and ihe rifle -trapped from Crawford i Iron-. Iowa, also, and is only a summer night in a mountain wilderness hi* useless* right arm. H* looked round hoy ot 19 yean. Th* crime seem* lo have when the things of the air and tb* creature* of earth are quiet in *lep, and when only the soft wind make* melody a* it plays upon each leaflet. Herbeit stood there, quietly resting hu arm* upon hu rifle, and eagerly scanning the uneven lop line of ihe rook thai stood blaok a* a ooaJ auainil the hazy, transpar- ent, dark blue green of the distant moon balhed mountain*. As h* strained hi* eye*, h* thought that some of the uneven- nee* ol lhat rock line wa* not itationary. He *ank down upon hi* knees so as to be lolally hidden in the donee shadow, and carefully examined the top of the rock. No he mull have been mistaken. He quickened hi* hearing, and listened with bushed heart-heal lor any sound lhat might reach him from th* high level. No, there wa* nothing ; he felt *uee of that. He roee, rather aunoved, if anything, at having alltwed himself lo be thus deceived. But even a* h* looked again, h* fancied lhat the phenomenon of the moving rook wa* repeated, only to call himself a fool for thinking to the moment afterward. He odoked hi* rifle, nevertheless, ar.d re- mained kneeling there for a minute or two with husye* glued upon the rock above. It we* only when Aihland'* muffled footfall fall on hi* ear as the pioneer returned, thai ha roee and wenl to meet his friend. Tneer aim nobody within mile* of us," aid th* yeoman quietly. "Kverythin ^'t a* quiet as mice. Let's go. ' Th* words we-* upon Herbert'* lip* by hich to apprise Aahland of his suspicion that somebody or something wa* alive al Hi* top of lhat rock al th* back, but he wa* interrupted by Dick** cheery, "We can light our pipe* now, Mr. Herbert, and do the thing Uiturely." H* imitated his friend's example by filling hi* big wild cherry-root bowl andth* moment afterward the two set oul mountain ward, much atter th* manner of a couple of poacher* who are going nut for a midnight raid in a neigh- or ho.,,1 where the keeper* are known to b* aged and unwary. Tne mid was rough, and, lei* than 600 (ards from th* hut, i hey deserted the oar- row path altogether, and struck aoroe* irukeu ground, where the giant pine* rose ike hundreds of huge masts from ihe turf and moss-covered earth, with their crown* itretohing out like myriad* of jagged yard- arms, from which a* many tempest torn, ragged bits ot sails war* drooping. Between lha forest monsters th* underbrush briar, jranibls, wild currant, and wild vine in- termingled in snaring confusion, and mad* progress difficult and now and then pain- " You muitn'tmind this, Mr. Herbert," Dick exclaimed, "I'll tav* a good mile su 1 a half this way." Th* young man laughed. "I've been through many a thorn-buih before to-day, Dick," be said, "and a little Irifle like this doe* not upset me much." They were climbing up hill fait then. Th* vegetation wa* becoming scarcer and more stun led, the rock* lugger and more smoothed-faoed. Th* moon stood al its brightest, and where its silvery light did not penetrate, the shadow wa* black a* ink. Unos or twio* they halted and listened wilb suspicious ear* for the sound of pur- suing fooiilep*. but although tn*v both hml from time to time iibagined that unwarranted noue* had reached their ear*, on consultation they agreed that they were mistaken. Once Uiok imagined that he taw aahapel*** figure., he could not tell whether man or beait, crawling about th* rocki and th* underbrush some '>*> yard* away from them, and h* had already lifted hu rifle to aim at it. He lowered hi* weapon, however, aaying, "No I won't make a fool of myself," and, unoi rking hi* canteen, invited his friend to imitate hi* example. "We're not very far now and a pull or two won't do ui any harm." Kven an he ipok* th* ihapelees something which he thought he had noticed appeared _ H* looked round in vague amazement, and noticed that the blood trickled over hi* buckskin hunting shirt. A uffocaliiig famines* oams over him, and h* sank down on th* ground. Tbe noise ot footsteps attracted hu atten- tion, and as he looked up he aaw at th* top, where hi and Uick had descended, two men, rifle in hand, who were peering down, hailing their *yr* with their hand* against th* moonlight, and evidently preparing lo (TO been instigated by Wilkina. While on the bank and during their retreat the robber* fired repeatedly at the citizens who were after them. PUZZLE IN ANCESTRY. A alalneniallelan Triee te Clenr > a It goes without *aying that a man ha* ADVENTURE WITH A SHARK. two *<<' grandparent*,*^ great- grandparents, and so on, so that if w* go A rearl Mlver H<l an iieiiiac Bxner back, any 10 generation*, doubling al each "" ' (top. we bare 2.048 ancestor*. This sort Th* life of th* peail diver in Auslralian of argument has been used by superficial waters n the moat exciting of nil. I (bail ; genealogut* to show that at th* time of never forget the dreadful feeling that cane over me when, for the Ural time, I found William th* Conqueror each of us had more anoeeton than th* total population of Kngland, hence we muat each be descended felt, instinctively, a ilraag* presence be- ; from every Kngluhman of that day, includ- fore i saw anything, though 1 might have , l "> h '""*>'' William himself. walked by tnyaelf in cloee quarter* with a hats . I presence ave , The abeurdity ot thu aorl of reason in unconsciously bad not ay at- , ha , j^.,, om^a out by Prof. Brooks. H Hu tention been drawn to the fact that th* ' Immediate object is to establish a point la mall fish, which are usually found in great | 'be theory of evolution, bat he confutes number* among the oorau. had entirely disappeared. I parent*, they need not be four separata I'he absrnoa of these flitting little com- I and dutinct persons. First cousin* hav* psnioos, wh*a on* ha* become aocuitomed I "or* lh n tnre * *P*r*>U giandparenu; to Ihem, produce* the effect of munse '< 'hey ar* doubly cousins they hav* bni itiilneet-a feeling of silence. A creepy, two. So in the tenth generation one'* indefinable winwlion of dread took hold of 2 . 048 ano*lor* are never 1,048 separate me, but it turned to one of downright poreona. They abound in "duplicate." so terror when 1 turned and beheld within ten ' . T T one know* who has tried feel of m* th* bulk of an immense (bark, j * ** n deecent, not in one line, but in Tha creature had not perceived me, and *" poesible hooa. Thee* duplicate* abound lay almost motionless, half-hiddeo among especially, in small oomar.noitiea, whose inhabitaai a mass of cobweb corallines. Through the medium of the face-glass it looked about twenty-five feet long, the upper part of the body of a dirty, dark-green color, shad. ared the rigid, the inhabitant* hav* intermarried for year*. Beetdw thu th* line* from a given pair of ancestors tend lo become extinct sooner or later, so, a* ancestry is traced back, the ng away to a light yellow a* it .eared the probability u thai all th* person* living in Mlly ; the dorai fin blaok and rigid, the l community will be found to be id* fin* slightly trembling. My first ' deeoended. not from all, but from a very bought wa* to pull up, but a* fish have few-perhap* only on* or two ol th* in- human nature enough in them to want a habitant* o* the community at they w.r thing a* soon aa they see it is being taken contnnet *go. So instead of having all away from them, I rejected the idea, and. Kngluhm*n for tb* year 1000 for our an- n fear that, my bare band* might attract oeeuvr*. th* probability i* th*t w* are the man-eating propensity that sharks ar* deeoended from comparatively few of them supposed lo have, 1 lucked them carefully number may be technically uiany under my breaat- weight. , thousands, but on* individual doe* duty A w*ep of it* t*4l. and th* great flak ' * etwtJ oore*. or even several hundred* and I w*r* face to face. Holding my ' "*, '"* line* of anceelry converging breath, I stood perfectly still, my heart upon him from many different direction*, beating wildly, and my eye* riveted on It* \ Thi* u what Prof. Brook* call* th* " con- wicked eye* and cavernous month. I felt vergeaoe of ancestry, that, the shark wa* tn*p*oting m* with soms curiosity, and after a few moments I became aware that, by an almost impercep- tible motion of ita flexible toil, it wa* FLO QGINO IN RUSSIA. gradually approaching me. of (fee It* 4bmieai Beleva le Ike Dae Mel. sen No* the Kant Tbe Su Petersburg despatch to the effect that an imperial edict had bean istned p my arm*. ' water, a Nearer and nearer came the leviathan, the shove.! ihaped nose pointing directly to my faos-gls**, th* gleaming under part now plainly visible. Kiesh and blood oould stand it no longer, and, with a yell, I tf.rew i , . ., Inslamly there wa. a swirl *" tb **" W ~ k b J ' i n * ' of criminal* apparently refer* to tb* ue o 1 th* plet or pleti, and not to the knout, a* wa* first suppoeed. Punishment with th* knout, or more correctly the knul, wa* abolished by Kmperor Nicholas I. more than forty year* ago. Th* lash of th* knout wa* composed of broad leather thong*, prepared to a metallic baron***, and often intertwined with wire. A sentence ol from IOC- to 140 blow* wa* considered equivalent to death. When the knout wa* don* away with, th* plot, a simple lash, was substi- tuted for it. This wa* considered a much milder form of punishment, but the prison officials found ways of increasing it* effi- cacy, and d ath might b* caused by a hun- dred blowe of the plot. The abolition of (logging, if the report prove* to b* correct, is therefore distinct gain for th* Russian peaaant aud lor humanity. cloud of mud and my enemy vanished. Th* only thing to do, lays Lieutenant Herbert Phelp* Witmarah, R. N., it to close all openlnge in the head a* tightly a* possible and be pulled up. Japan's Proposed Eiffel Tower. Japan u to have its own Riflel Tower. The Kastern World published in Yokohama, announce* that a number of Japan*** pat- riot* in Tokio have conceived the Idea of so oomnwmoraling their victories. The tower will bt a thousand feet high, and tb* loweet lory is to contain an si hi hit ion of national industries, while the higheet will be a Walhalla devoted to th* statues of Japan- eae patriot* who hav* died for their country. The M*l it to be $3M),UOO. and European contractor* are invited to tend animate*.