THE DIAMOND KING. I beg of you, Monsieur, before you refuse THESTOBTf O^TTANCYFAT." "These thoughts "passed through Fat People and Thin. in the waiting-room, slipped into the it. 16 is a large sumthree thousand my mind as I, hurried back to the hotel. hotel, and next day set off for Cannes. Dr. ROBB R. Bunting in Ponnlar Science *r _____ francs, and, as if he were convinced Certainly the prospect .r-,was "My only regret was that 1 was unable How 3en. Elliott Tried to Make Social Qaeen frcs: the Whitehall (London) Review. News." that no one could refuse such gloomy enough. to make a study of the American's of Her sad Failed. "Yes it belonged to poprTurenne," a price, he put the stone once more Ldra Byron was an exception jption to "I easily ascertained that the American face when the Paris jeweler put Atlantic Special/.., among his own treasures and again said Wyse, as he pulled the ring from had taken the trainfor Paris the a .price on his beautiful diamond next the general desire to become fat. It Not long since there turned round for his check-book. day before, and I determined to follow morning." __, *is finger and handed it to us for inspection. is generally considered that he injured brief notice in the papers f4Jef 'Thunder!' exclaimed the Yankee: him at once. I did not despair of a annoucing the death 'of Mrs. ft. B. Elliott, "He left it to me by his his health from his great fear of corpulency. 'what do you take me for? I tell you finding him, as he would probably put wife of the negro Congressman A Ante-Belluni Reminiscence. will, and I keep it in memory of one I can't and I won't sell the ring. It Dr. Polidori, his physicians, up*at one of the good hotels. who a few years ago took such an 'Q was as good as sold to this British of the best actors and one of the best New York Corr. Philadelphia Record. "Dn the way up to Paris I could says he would retrain from food for active part in South Carolina politics. gentleman last night, and it isn't think of nothing but my loss. This men I ever knew." days, and then appease his hunger A few days ago I saw in a newspaper Possibly no wpman of the present mine to sell any more. Give me the fellow I saw had hit upon a very safe gM^- Meanwhile the ring was passing a sketch of the lite of "Dav" Strother, century has experienced such a sudden with a water and a glass of brandy. ring.' and profitable method of swindling. whom everybody knew here before change from indigence to opulenca 'from hand to hand, and the universjgy Fat is of great use in the human body "So saying the American took the In nine cases out of ten the cheated the war as "Porte Crayon" of Harper's or has risen so quickly in the social in moderate amount, in which case it ring rather sharply from the jeweler's al verdict was that none of us had man would not discover his loss for Magazine, and who served in the war scale. Mrs. Elliott was owned by a family is generally considered a sign of good hand and placed it on his finger. The for years after he had seen the last of --ever seen a finewstone. on tha Union side and was made a of Columbia, S. C. Her name was health. It forms one-twentieth of the Frenchman next made me an offer tor the American, if, indeed, the trick was Sp "Turenne was rather a wealthy brigadier general. In a green old age, Nancy, but on account of her plump the trinket but as I had not bought weight of a man and one-sixteenth of discovered at all, for the paste was this loyal Virginian is enjoying life at gll rman," said one of our little circle, figure she bore the suggestive appellation it for myself, of course I could not that of a woman. According to Dr. quitegood enough to decieve a casual his old homestead in Berkley county, of "Nancy Fat." She was an "but I didn't think he could have af- sell it, and we left the 3hop. Hutchinson, a man five feet seven observer, and the owner would, of which now forms a part of the state amiable, humble creature. Happy "My mind was clear now as to the inches in height may properly weigh course, be actuated by a profound |f* forded or would have cared to spend of West Virginia. In the sketch to and indolent, with no ambition or prudence of giving 80 for the diamond. 148 pounds six feeth in height, 178 faith in his diamond straight from 111 much money on an onanient as which refer one prominent incident of pride of character, she was as contented I had heard the best jeweler pounds, fat serves to protect the Brazil. Had it not been for the incident that ring must have cost." his lite has been omitted, and I am inclined while engaged in the most in the town offer 3,000 frances or body from external violence, of my finding the xing case to supply it. A short time before menial toil and drudgery as when KIsiC __, "He wanted it for some special pur- 120 for it. by uniform diffusion of pressure which the rogue had accidentally the war broke out I was on a arrayed in fantastic and gaudy attire, *%os which afterward fell through," 'Well, I must say you have acted through the entire adipose dropped, I should in all probability visit to the house of an aunt, who lived she danced as belle of the most honorably, said I to the have unwittingly cheated" poor Turenne tissue it promotes the easy gjl rejoined Wyse. "I know all about it, two miles from Shepherdstown, Va., shuckings. During the period of Republican American, when we reached the out of his monev, and he might movement of different organs, as the & for I bought it for him myself, I had and two miles on the other side of rule Gen. Elliott, while in street. 'After all, a bargain afterward have been supposed to be heart and the eyeball even in cases al\va3rs re 'f quite a little adventure on the occas- the village lived Alexander R. Boteler, Columbia, was oue afternoon driving can't be all on one side, and I trying to palm off a spurious diamond of very great emaciation it a cousin of my father, who was a behind his splendid pair of bays. He ion." had never promised to buy the ring, for a real gem. In all probability mains around these organs, motion member of both the federal and confederate was dressed in his usual style of black so you had perfect legal right to sell the fellow made a livingand a being very essential to the proper "Tell us the story," we cried. congresses, and afterward a broadcloth and lavender kid gloves. it to the Frenchman.' very good oneby going about Europe performance of their functions. Fat "Well, said Wyse, taking a pull at rebel brigadier. One morning I rode At"the corner of one of the streets he and practicing this trick. 'You needn't say no more, also keeps up the heat of the body, his cigar and settling himself back in on horseback to his house, and when saw a picture that proved to be the stranger,' said theYankee.asifhewere on account of fts imperfect conducting "This idea sent off my thoughts on his chair, "it is a good many years I got there he asked me if the stage had key tohis destiny. It was "Nancy tired of the subject. 'You can hev the power. We have a marked instanca a new track, and by the time I had ago now. I was playing high oomey passed, and, hearing that it had, ordered Fat." She had just drawn a bucket stone now, if you choose, at the price of this in the whale and seal, arrived in Paris I had decided on my characters at the old Princess,' and his horse and rode at preak-neek of water from the pump, and it was we fixed on last night,' and he held animals exposed to very low temperatures. course of action. as I had been working very hard I speed to Karney's depot to catch the balanced on her turbaned head, the the ring out to me. "First of all I made careful inquiries seb off for the south of France as soon Baltimore and Ohio train for Washington. crystal drops trickling down her "But I had to get my letter of credit at the railway station as to atall as the season closed. It happened Something was "up," but I brown face and neck, and she laughed cashed, and I agreed to meet the American who had arrived at that Turenne (who had proved The first few days after birth the did not know what it was. His wife was good-naturedly. Her skirts were American in the billiard-room in an Nice by a certain train on a proceding himself a true friend to me) wanted a human infant loses in weight considerably, in tears and half distracted,though his tucked high, and there was a generous hours's time and conclude the transaction. day and, by the help of some 5- good diamond for a purpose I needn't and, were there not a storehouse daughter seemed to know nothing display of bare feet and ankles. The france pieces, I found the cabman trouble you with and before I set of fat provided, would certainly about the trouble, and, as I afterward effect was instantaneous, and the Congressman "No one was in the billiard-room who had driven him to his hotelthe out on my travels I told him that if I die. "Fat and stupidity," says discovered, were in ignorance of it. A when I entered it (for it was still early in broadcloth was Continental. met with a particular^ fine one at a Lord Chesterfield, "are'looked upon few days later the secret came out. in the day) except the American, hopelessly infatuated with the "This being ascertained, 1 chose a moderate price I would buy it for him, as such inseparable companions that who was standing by the empty fireplace. Boteler had been challenged to fight a merry, ignorant water-carrier. The quiet, unpretendfng hotel for myself and he, peing too busy at the time to they are used as synonymous terms, The transfer did not occupy duel by the Hon. Charles James Faulkner, result was a speedy courtship near one of the railway stations. attend to the matter himself, gladly Edmnnd Burke, speairing of the more than five seconds, and father of the present senator-elect and marriage. The transformation Then I emptied the contents of a light consented. I was staying at Nice, French Revolutions, says that "fat, the Yankee immediately proposed from West Virginia, and minister to was wonderful as it was sodden. bag on my bed, and, taking it empty when there came to the hotel one of stupidity, irreligion and avarice arise drinks. These being discussed, we France. The inciting cause was a Grom the wash-tub and the cookingstove in my hand, 1 went to a theatrical those tall loquacious Americans who from the common cause." And yet separated, and I saw no more of my speech made in a political campaign. she became mistressof a magnificent costumer'a and saying I intended to are now so plentiful all over Europe. David Hume, the historian, Edward friend from the States that day. The results were bloodless. Somebody take part in some private theatricals, home on one of the fashionable There seemed to be nothing obiection-al Gibbon, author of the "Decline and "That evening after dinner I hadpened gave the scheme away, and the I hired the costume of a French abbe. streets of Columbia. Gen, Elliott was about the man, except that he was from the Fall of the Roman Empire," and Napoleon far1 to be sitting not (It was a part I had often played in a ontcome was that Botelar and his vulgar and eternally "talking about a man of brilliant intellect and unbounded the First grew fat fireplace in the billiard-room, when I piece that had a pretty long run in second, "Porte Crayon," and Faulkner the United States. ambition. He was one of the first two whilst performing noticed a small round object lying London some eight years ago, and I and his seconds were arrested at the leading spirits of the Republican "On the evening after his arrival great intellectual Inbors just inside the marble fender. Curious had little doubt that I would be able Washington, lodged in jail and put party, and was regarded as one of %a few of us happened to be sitting in the last, although under the influence, to know what it was I left my seat to acquit myself in it fairly well). I under bonds to keep the peace. Somebody the most intelligent negroes who was the billiard-room, and by some during most of his life, of one of tho and picked it up. It was a jeweler's got the proper dress, wig, powder and recognized "Porte Crayon" there, ever known in the South. He was chance or other the conversation passions one would think the least ring casenot an uncommon article, everything complete, and having put and added to his disgust by suggesting from Boston, Mass. he was a finished turned on the subject of diamonds. inclined to obosityambition. Cullen certainly, yet hardly the sort of thing all the articles into my bag, I went to that the scene would make an admirable scholar and a successful lawyer. His 'I don't know much about the one often sees on the floor of a billiard-room. considers obesity a disease when it one of the railway stations and took illustration for his next alliance with the untutored Nancy business myself,' said the American, renders persons, from a difficult resperation, a return ticket for a station a little magezine article. By the strange rulings caused general surprise. Yet she was 'but I'm told by good judges that uneasy in themselves, and, wav out the countiy. "Suddenly I remembered that the of fate "Porte Crayon" and the received by his friends with courtesy 'thar's about as good a stone as you'll inability of exercise, unfit for discharging American had been standing close to "To my disgust I found it impossiible writer afterward became Union officers, and kindness. One day I was passing see in a day's round.' the duties of life to others. the spot where I found it, when, earlier to get a compartment to myself, and "Alec" Boteler and most oi her house in company with her former "So saying he drew a ring from his The symptoms of corpulence are in the day, I had exchanged my the train was too crowded, but I reflected my relatives became confederate soldiers,! mistress when we espied a sitrht that 'finger and handed it to me, who happened 2,000 francs' worth of notes for his easily recognized, the more prominent that the trains returning to saw "Alec"when I was a prisoner was droll and amusing. Beside a to sit next him. It was, indeed diamond. An uncomfortable feeling being difficulty in breathing, inability Paris would probably be much less in Libby. and he assured me that he marble fountain surrounded by rare a magnificiant brilliant, set in a ring crossed my mind. What did he to walk any great distance, difficulty crowded in the afternoon than those would be the last man in tne South to exotics sat Mrs. Elliott. She was arrayed -of a peculiar pattern. When the lamp want with a ring case? He had in ascending a stairway, often tendency going into the country. surender. But he was one of the first in a custom of extreme eleganee. was removed it seemed to gather into been wearing the ring he sold to me. to palpitation, tendency to vertigo, whom President Johnson pardoned, Peeping from beneath, her "In this supposition I was right. I -itself the light out of the semi-dark.ness, He might have kept a case for it, of dispeptic troubles. In fat persons and he atterward held a position un skirts of amber satin we plainly hung about the suburban railway station and glittered like a bit of broken course and might have thrown it the bony framework is not so large der President Arthur. And thus saw her bare, brown feet. till a return train was about to glass in the sunshine. 'What is it away when he parted with the ring as in those who are thin they have peace smoothes out the wrinkles ol As she saw us she quickly tucked start. It was nearly empty, and a worth?' asked one of the men present. yet that seemed an unusual sort of a generally small hands and feet. The war. them under her skirts, and exclaimed, douceur to the guard secured me the 'That I can hardly tell you,' answered thing for a man to do. bony skeleton has therefore little to good-naturedly: '*Now, old missis, privacy I needed. By the time I returned the American, 'seein' a friend "I opened the case. The maker's do with the weight in these cases it to Paris I was a stout, benevolent-looking dont laugh at your nigger you know at Buenos sent it to me direct, and I name was inscribed in gilt letters inside is due to the adipose tissue. French priest, in comfortably I never did like shoes. If the General ha it cut myself. But I'm tired of The Jiew French Arm. the lid, and the address givenwaa No doubt some noted characters of circumstances. My suit of saw me he would scold, but every it, and seldom wear it.' New York Evening Post. Paris. 'Paris!' said I to myself. 'He history, although somewhat corpulent, tweeds I had placed in my bag, chance I get I just slip them off. All "'Would you sell it?' I inquired, said the ring had been bought in Bra- owed their large size to a muscular The Lebel rifle, the new arm with which I took care to leave at the railway the finery can't make me forget the out of curiosity. zil.' There was no real ground for development, as well as a large which the French infantry will be supplied station. Then I made the best happy days when I was plain 'Nancy 'I might,' answered the American, suspicion, yet I was uneasy. I went bony framework. We may cite as instances before next Spring, is, according of my way to the Hotel Continental. Fat' and now I am Mrs. Gem Congressman 'especially as this European trip is upstairs and took out the ring. The Marius the Roman consnl, to all accounts, a wonder, and several "I was just in time for the table Elliott." Much amused, we -cleaning me out faster than I expected patternyou see it is a peculiar one William the Conquea and John Sobieska. d'hote, and as 1 took my seat I noticed models of the gun which have been passed on, and left her with her bare and I don't want to go home to I remembered well. Somehow I It has been said that "in the with great satisfactian that my feet in the damp sand of the fountain. received here have excited great interest. Vermont skinned as neatly as a cod. judged, or fancied, that the diamond Bey's seragl'o at Tripoli women are transatlantic friend was sitting not A few years later Mrs. Elliott became The new rifle is known by the Yes, yes. you may have that diamond :4 did not shine as brightly as it had fattened against a certain day by very far off, and that he had not a a prominent feature in the Republicansociety tor 80 of your money, stranger, name of its inventor, Lebel, and is done the night before! means ol repose and baths, assisted suspicion of my identity. Nothing, of the state and also figured and dirt cheap at that, I should smaller and lighter than the rifle uow "Next morning I took the ring to a by a diet of Turkish flower mixed I knew, could be done until after dinner, conspicuously in Washington. It was say.' in use the French soldiers call it "the second jeweler and asked him his with honey. Fifteen days, it is said, so I waited through the tedious during President Grant's administration "1 looked at the stone again, and little gun." The most authentic descriptions opinion as to its value. He examined are suficient for the purpose." procession of courses as patiently am at one of the balls that she'caused fthe longer I looked at it the more I the diamond carefully and laid it given to the gun agree in Our fat ftiends must follow the- ad- I could, and when at last they came such a sensation on account of the hke it. Eighty pounds was quite as down on the glass case before him attributing to it a carrying power beyond vice given by Abernethy to-one of his to an end, I followed the American devoted attentions she received from much as my friend wished to pay for with one contemptuous word: that of any rifle heretofore in and a little group of men who surrounded noble patients: "Yon-r lordsMp must certain prominent white politicianswho- a stone, but what if I could get one l^f 'Paste!' use. The models received in. New him to the smoking-room. It do as the famous Duke of Wellington wished to make conspicuous, .for him worth 100 for 180? "'Paste!' I echoed. 'Impossible!' was not exactly the place for a priest, York are not known to be accurate did on a well-known occasioncut fl '"Will you trade?' he asked. their approval of the social equality 'Certainly paste, and a very good but I could not help that. the supplies, and the enemy will leave copies of the Lebel gun, and experiments law. The brilliant negro Congressman-is-dead. '"I am not a judge of diamonds my imitation,' he replied, turning away. the citadel they must take the sort "I sat down by a little round table with them are impossible, owing And only a few days self,' said I, returning thastono to its "My heart sank within me. Eighty of food that will prodnce the least near the American, but slightly behind to the fact that the powder used ago the woman whom he endeavored owner. 'I'm afraid I couldn't without pounds was a sum I could ill afford to him, so as to be able to hear the amount of fat, but will give strength is a secret co npound of which the to elevate by all that wealth and taking a lapidary's opinion as to loose. It meant a summary end to conversation without joining it unless they should therefore take more of French Government has the monopo- power could do died in poverty audi -its value.' my holidays, not to speak of embarrassments I wished. From time to time I offered nitrogenous aud less of carbonaceous "All right," said the American carelessly, obscurity. that wpuld last some time. a remark, speaking, of course, in food. Of the five different sorts ofanimal 'if you care to hev it we can According to all accounts, tne Lebel "With a faint hope that tne second French, to the man who sat next to foodbeef, veal, mutton, lamb go around to a jeweler's in the morning. gun will carry it3 bullet more expert had been mistaken, I took the me, but for the most part I smoked and porkthe first is the least, and And if he puts a lower value on Mv than a mile and a half and ring to the jeweler who had offered the my cigar and sipped my coffee in silence. pork the most, heat-producing. The the stones than I did you can hev it with a more certain aim than has American 3,000 francs for it. latter, therefore, should not be eaten. The Author of "Ca pe Cod Folks.'*' at the price he names, if you like to been possible with ordinary rifles. The "He seemed pleased to see me, but "As I expected, it was not long before As there are more thin people in theworld buy. I can'b say fairer than that." bore of the gun is very small and the There was a romantic macriage out as soon as he glanced at the ring his diamonds became the object of than fat people, a word of advice "The offer did, indeed, seem a very ball, which is of steel and sharply in St. Louis the other day, the bride face changed. conversation. to the former might not be out of 'fair one and I went to bed that night pointed at the end, is said to revolve sr*_ being Miss McLane, a clever New England "'This is not the same ring you place. They must sleep all they can 'I don't know much about diamonds determined to secure the jewel for my at a speed of a thousand revolutions gsrs showed me yesterday,' he said in a keep early hours for retiring lie down woman, who achieved fame in a myseif,' said the American, friend if the expert reported favorably a second. In the tests made by the tone that made it plain that he in the middle of the day drink a great speaking in his native tongue, 'but of it. French Government this ballet has rather odd manner, and the groom, thought I meant to cheat him. 'At deal of water eat heartily, especially I'm told by good judges that's about %*1. penetrated a brick wall eight inches "Next morning the American and I T- li. Green, a miner from the Chhwahua least he added, 'it is not the same of farinaceous food take plenty of exercise, as good astoneas you'll see anvwhere thick at a distance of 500 yards it strolled down to the shop of the chief country of Mexico- Says-the- stone. This is not a stone at all it is round.' (Almost exactly the phrases, but in moderation. Be" cheer- will go through any kind of armor Jeweler of the towu and when we entered &*4 paste. New York Graphic: I said to myself, which the fellow used fuL Sterne says that "every time a which can be worn by soldiers, and at the place I first of all paid my 'So I have been told,' I said sadly. to me at Nice!) man laughs, he adds something-to his a distance of more than a mile will lfooting by purchasing sqnie trifle, and The engagement was- one of long: 'Are you sure the jewel I showed 'You kiu take a look at it,' he life." And, according to Solomen, "A pass through a man as easily as at then, taking the ring from the hand of stamping, and Miss McLane had) jou-rmeyed HI you yesterday was a genuine dia- added carelessly, drawing off the ring merry heart doeth good like a medicine ten paces. The gun has no recoil under ray new acquaintance, placed it before all the way from Europe to' mond?' and handing it to one oi the group. I but a broken spirit drieth. the fire and the powder gives out no the jeweler and askad him to give meet and wed the man oi her choice-.* bent forward, so as to see more clearly 'I am certain af it,' he answered. bones." smoke whatever. It has been said cie an opinion as to its value. She made the long trip unattended,, what was going on. One after another that the powder used must be atypeol I 'Aver' fine stone, sir," said the "The honorable conduct (as I had and would probably havegone around Much Mulish MischieC m' the men who were sitting near smokeless hunting powder already in frenchman *I congratulate you on thought it) of the stranger in refusing by way of China could she have*reached From the Reno Gazette. examined and admired the ring. The the market, but this is denied by the the possession of so fine a diamond.' to sell to the jeweler was uow intelligible. St. Louis in no otner directioai. "Talk about mules," said! ILouieDeane, man next me was the last to look at inventor, who says that he uses- an x* "'It is not mine it belongs to my The jeweler meant to keep the The heroine of this wedding is. not xrnfj^own the cattleman, to a party of it. entirely new compound. The Lebel Sriend here. real stone. It was not difficult to see to the literary world. Shetaught friends in Becker'a saloon recently, gun is, of course, a repeater, and the how the fraud had been managed. school up and down tlie Massachusetts "'Ah! if that be the case, then I con- *A friend I hev at Buenos Ayres "puts me in mind of one that was. cartridges are so small that eaehi soldier The swindler had had two rings made coast for & number of myself,1 f{ sent it to me and I had it cut gratulate heem.' said the polite i* owned several yeari ago by Clemi Ogg, carries 220 rounds of ammunition, exactly alike of *a striking and peculiar years, writing sketches and serials for j tradesman. 'What do you suppose said the American, That animal knew more thani any I as against 116 rounds formerly pattern. In one of them -he had the magazines between times. Fiirally, it is worth?' I asked. "At this point I noticed that my ever saw, and was always up to soas*e considered the maximum. placed a genuine and very fine diamond. some five or six year3 ago. to* plucky 'Oh, it is difficult to say,' said the neighbor had finished his examination This was the decoy. In the little schoolmaim determined to-write mischief. If he saw a team hitched The French Government is now making of the diamond, and I touched him, Frenchman, shrugging his shoulders, other he had put a false diamond, a novel that would be a bit & a departure i these guns at the rate of 500 a day uipno difference if the~e were- two intimating that I too would like to *Von gentleman sinks von price mor' closely resembling in size and shape from the milk.-ao_-water at Saint Etienne, and is preparing, to have a look at it. He handed it to foe him, anotter sipks animals oi twenty animals- in Jfebe the genuine one in the first ring. brand of the school th*n. vogne-. turn out double that number. FI_F me as a matter of course. 'Yes but what would you give if i\ould sneak around until he saw nobody The one be wore and offered to sell Accordingly, she wrote "Cape Cod factories, those at Chatellerault, Tulle It was the very ring which had been .you were to buy it? Would you give was looking, and then he- would was the true stone. When he had got Folks." The book sold hke- wild fire and Saint Etienne, will soon, b/e-at exhibited in the same way at Nice. 1,800 francs?' unloosen the- bridles ol every one of it back from the jeweler he had kept for a couple of months and promised work upon them., j* I had the imitation one which had "The jeweler did not reply for a*few them quicker than a man, couthi, and it and had given me the sham one in to be the^ sensation, of the year. Its been palmed off* upon me ready in my seconds. He popped his microscope off they wold come. If he got into a exchange for my 80 characte-rs were portrayed so true to hand, and under pretense of trying once more into his eye," held the ring ,What was I to "I have made my will, dear,"" the corral where there were a lot of hor&es do. i*j life as tao be recognizable.a_d many the affect of the gem on my finger, I up to the light, examined the setting, sick man said to his wife, "and you or mules haltered, he would turn instances true names of persons were The first thing was to ascertain easily substituted the one for the and fell to making elaborate calculations will inherit everytmng unconditionally. every blasted one of them loose and used without resorting to aliases. whether my friend had left the hotel. other, slipped the false ring on my with a pencil on a sheet of blotting-paper. strut around among them as though But I have one- last request to The work was satirical, caustic and" Of course he hadon the afternoon of finger, admired it, as in duty bound, he were cock-of-the-walk. Nothing make, and that is you do set marry all fure, and every old busybody and the previous day still the scent was and then, pulling it off, handed it 'I do not often buy such large but a padlock would prevent his opening gossip of the Cape, irrespective of sex so hot. I fancied I should have little back to my neighbor, who m^urn again for two years.*' -w stones, but I willgive you 2,500 francs any stable or corral in Wadsworth, or social standing, came in for a haulins* difficulty in tracing him. But when I gave it to the American. 'How much is the property worth, for this one,' he finally said to the I actually saw him go one day over the coals. Then came an found him my difficulties would only "I put the real diamond which I John*" inquired the weeping lady. American. avalanche of libel suits, brought bv to a wagon loaded with barley in begin. Of coures he would swear that had secured into my pocket, and finished "About $1,600." "The Yankee did not reply and the the Cape Cod folks against the pulbK he had sold me the ring with the stone sacks. He caught a sack in his teeth, my coffee hastily, just as Brother "Well, John," she said, "the ^Frenchman, assuming that his offer lisher of the volume. Tne publisher which the jeweler had declared to be Jonathan was making an appointment yanked it off, dragged it to a corral thought that yoir may possibly die was accepted, placed the ring on a lit"tie investigated, found it useless to attempt genuine^" might, conceivably, have with a rich' young Frenchman almost breaks my heart but your last wherein were a lot of mules, unlatched ledge behind him and, opened his to fight the suits and compromised substituted paste for the true gem as to meet at the shop of a fashionable request shall be respected. *I think I 'desk fort hfs check-bookBrother ,?i tiw gate, took the sack inside, chawed *No so fast,' said Jonasthan by destroying the unsold copies well as he. In any case, when I jeweler next morning and take^ his lt can accomplish it with economy." a corner off it and poured the grain of the work, paying some of the slandered thought of the difficulty of getting HI opinion on the value of the gem. New York Sun. 'the diamond's not for sale.' out onto the ground. As the animals ones sums of money and aoing back my money from an American 'And since it has taken your fan- 'Two thousand six hundred gathered around and ate it he walked into bankruptcy. Miss McLane went wandering about Europe, my heart cy,* said the unsuspicious American, tfrancs,' was the Frenchman's reply)', offhand then viewed them with the Miss Gertrude Barrett, daughter abroad, and only returned to be married sank within me. Even if^the^poliece 'you shall hev it at the same sum the "The American shook his head. greatest satisfaction. He beat any the actor, Lawrence Barrett, is engaged as above narrated. She will accompany consented to help me, taking my word jeweler offers me for it. 1 can't say hundred!1 'Seven hundredeight animal I ever saw. And, remember, her husband to his Mexican to be married to Joseph Anderson, against his, even if the rogue were convicted, fairer than that, now, an I?' 'Noi'' cW* 1%/ i whatever mischief he did, it was al|apto jnine and probably give, up &tory-wr& how was I to recover the 2,000 brother of Mary Anderson, the "I went back to the Railway station, "Nine hunnredthree thousand hel put Ids fellmr ajnmals^* ing*^ francs. got my bag, changed, my hat and coat actress. fear-cesli,That is my last offer. Pause, -rji