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Daisy Marching Mokes,
Words by Hanny Bonxs. Muslo by H.R. BASLER.
(an rionte ts reserved.)
Say, x dove leggin's dar,
Nad'potlah ap deun boots
For 1 march out dis ebening wid
le enlius Brn
me ye
“Ant gettin’ od dar Clo
Wid towers and crreaths bung ou dar sleeves,
de Daisy Marctiog Mokes,
Cuorvs.
re, yo? coons Wid eyes like moons,
et vai your lookin roua’,
0 hear
George Washington Grant, o's most (00 fa,
back in de rears
jose 1n {to
nt must stan! de Yront,
Say, Luce, etc.
Now, bere dey come, so atrike de drum
Say, Luce, etc. ©
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“MRS. BROWN'S BOARDING HOUSE,”
BY BRICKTOP, IS PUBLISHED IN No, 38
OF THE WIDE AWAKE LIBRARY (SPE-
CIAL NUMBER), PRICE 10 CENTS, FOR
SALE RY ALL NEWSDEALERS.
e Topaz Cuff-Button
By A NEW YORK DETECTIVE.
bit of work was once done by a young
lady detective, whom We happened to have o
the force at the time.
Her name was Lizzie Lasher, but she was
Rotter known in the profession as “ The: Re
Weas
as a weasel on a trail, alert, agile and
end to nab the game she
She had been dubbed “red” in a jocular way
and lor ‘a simple reason.
ways wore the color; on duty and off
duty, except in in apecial in stances where a dis-
WAS nec be always io red
Of.w dark, dul aa a0 trusive hue.
not more than twenty,
bat ner'shrewduces and daring were matchless,
She often succeeded in difeulE cases where the
~ keenest and bravest among us had failed, and
ane a terror to the Wwrong-doers of the
THE BOYS OF NEW YORK.
“This gentleman has my orders to lock him
p the moment he puts eyes on hiw,” the old
indy said.
informed her that there was no evidence as
yet to justify me in doing that unless she should
a warrant for his arrest,
“And 50 1 ended the interview.
I made a thorough inspection of the prom-
tses, and I detected several items of impor-
‘The yard at the back of the house opened by a
wooden gate into an alley leading toward the
iver ba
Between this gate and a rear doorof the house
J discovered footprints —the tracks of a man’s
@ woman's small boot
broad shoe soles, and of
It had rained early the Seat evening, and
these tracks were clenriy defined in the partially
dried earth. I had also’ stains
onvinced that the
masked robber hed been admitted to the house
by an iumate, and. that the iamate
woman,
I discovered also something which I believed
to be u possible elow,
In a tuft of grass boside the gate I found a
oufl-buttor ona curious ‘tlds tse novol and un-
tt was. st porfeety pl silver, highly polish a,
was ol feet silver, c
shaped kel shidld, and sot with binge y
low topaz, sparkling 4s a diamond, and tl Hes
‘8 pea,
The _ The case, the incidents of which Tani about to |
Fy aad
_ mecrpe a
vesyioyed fas SAts
Tiny Bay
house.
She lived iilone with the exceptions of a de-
crepit and half-deat and bind woman servant
and @ handsome gir! nnie ‘fravers—
who bad been ber companion for several years,
e had retired 3
room—
Second story apataent with windows oreo
Sa the rool ot & low veranda at the back “of th
0
ere about midnight sho bad been
d. And at the
troment she pereolved « masked man riding an
old-fashioned wooden chest, wherein she was ac-
customed to keep her valuables and ready
Somewh,
awakened b:
money,
Ber start the masked in-
“teader; and vetors eho ould ator an.outcry he
was beside
inan Instant ho clatched her throat in a terrl-
‘Sho know nothing more; when her gonses were
restored to her it wna broad \d day, and her servant
‘Travers stood auiazed and trombl
mh fright at her bedside
ad at once sent for me, fltbough' this pro-
ceeding had boon opposed bi ‘Travers, who,
Hecoused. had aimose unbosaded infiwonce with
the aged wido
on
“Wo all think that the masked robber must
dson—Ben Brinloy t—nobod
ept my money and ralua-
ic,And Tennie
. gran
else knew wher
am determined he 6!
Ia
Miss Travers s much attached to you,” I re-
mark
and she will some day have all my
property, now Jon has turned ou 80 badly,” was
the answer
Tewould scom that with a view
own self interest handsome Ter
Would have no motive in silencing suspicion
Purely of her
‘Anyhow, it ‘meas a little Singular that
she should have 80 strenuously
Brinley in sending for
“ ris to how the robber
window over the veranda, we think,
All the other windows and the doors were bolted
on the inside, and the fastenings have not been
tur
Thad just examined that particular window,
and had convinced myself beyond a doubt that
tho masked robber bad poltior ma
trance nor his exit by
“ Are you sure you y eocured Four own door on
you,
retiring?”
‘Tennie Travers answered for her.
Ob, aunty never locks her own door,” said
sh fia “Lam a light sleeper, and m: m ts
wi
f ya noither oar anything nor saw
anything lnat night?” I queried, with my eyes full
upom her handsome, eountonn ance.
She showed no siga of confusion; her self-
possession remai Per rfect,
“It I had I don't think aunty wonld hay
been robbed of 0 much money and her diamonds
too.”
Sas spoke os if she wondored at the absurdity
of my que.
As the git detective sprang 50 abruptly from ard oti the North he celled himsol ut? remem-
shrut
, aies ‘Travers and her
the concealing
in slarmed surprise
si
nd tho other in dofant consternation,
It was quite obvious that Markey had instant-
ly recognized the readed ok Veasel,” and | ans
nderstood she was again 0! e trail, escal
Hie features turned livid; iis eyes blazed
like thoge of an inturiated tiger.
ered something to
‘iss Tras
something whieh he lort ears of t the girl detect-
ive did n
@ request for Tennio to leave
them, for with a reluctant backward glance she
turned aad disappeared rapidly down a pal
among the thick trees,
The Red Weasel knew she was alone with a
man rendered desperate by the fear of being
again tried for a heinous crime.
"AS she realized that in 80 unfrequented a spot
Was in a measure at his mercy, she com-
she
manded all her marvelous coolness and faced sorry
the situation,
‘" Resistance now won't help you any in the
Mort Marko;
orsho ‘spol roke ‘aquistly.
the folds of her rei
Pistol.
The movement seemed to madden, him.
‘nan instant be struck spon feom ner
One hand slipped among
‘arose and drew forth sraall
hold, pinioned both her armus-dn the grip of
ads, and so forced her into a irate
aneng ‘the rool 3.
“No oni
6 ever comes here but the rats, I have
ers— | tricks he perfor: ‘
he closed hi ‘at in Lon
tee et Covent Garden Theater ty giving & mies
uerade ball, and while the masqueraders wera
fh the midst of thelr revels the {heater took fire
masqui
barel
called by many the ine
carnation of the Evil One from the marvelous
Ono th parioular T will montion, He asked
it any one in the audience would ‘lend him a
Bank of England note, and an old, dilapidated
five-pound note, backed with nine’ signatures,
was handed to him, the owner having just taken
a note of the date and number of thy note and
the sigoatures, some of which were well known
to the holder of the note. ProfAnderson took
the note and held it apparently in the fame of a
candie until it was consumed, coolly
idienge, of course,
mensely, but, alter perform-
ing a few other trieks, he suddenly turned to the
er of the note and sais
ha
ead?
out a new, crisp Bank of England note of tho
same denomination, aud handed it to the gentle-
man. Knot 1g the o ie handed to the wiz-
ard was old, dirty, and with worn edges, a cars:
ful scrutiny was at once made, The date and
I spent the remainder of the day in sundry in-
uatigationy but I lonmed nothing whieh tended
all Fs tnoriminate young Ben
ts loned it ‘promised to
bea case ot eouliarly batting mystery.
the robber then T ras Batisfled he
bad an accomplice ia the ho!
twas impossible that i aceomrlen could be the
aidsome Tonnle
Travers, why Would sho express a belief in is
guilt and advise his immediate arrest?
‘And why had she in the beginning so strenu-
ously objected to detective service? Her reasons
for hnving done so stracl as being insin-
"hut would éhe be likely to abet a robber in
plundering such a large amount from property
‘which would somo day ba her own?
mit I could not solve the
Phd‘ ie was at this stage of investign-
tamed over to our gir
detective, “ the Red
so with the lights evidones had collected
and the clow of t sleeve button, ahe
started on the tral.
days passed and I had no report from
“Ta the meantime, the youns telegraph operator
had been arrested on Mrs, Brinley’s warrant and
Was bold for examination:
J shall record tho advontares of the
as that sharp-eyed and long
young woman related
Suehad ae once decided to shadow Mrs, Briu-
"ee handsome companion.
early a week passed without result of any
x Thon, late one afternoon, Tennie Trave
the hole and took a significantly Gireuitous
‘oute toward the wild north-western quarter of
Cente Park.
{Ss Travers appeared hurried, and from time
to time she glanced furtively
But she failed to notice a tall and
“Red
-headed
about her.
agile figure in dull red, which wus gliding not
y paces behind.
Jno of the least frequented parts of that
mostly, unfrequented, loeallty Mrs. | Brinley's
trusted companion ast a young man, whos:
pearance impressed the girl detective a8 belong
not wholly unknown to shar, ;alttough for the mo-
ment she could not
fue slipped quietly beuind a scroon of tek
shrubbery close to the spot where the tw:
That Miss Travers and the young man were
lovers shoe saw at a glance.
“1 wouldn't inks Sueh risks anybody but
” id Mrs. Brinley’: spose heiress
5
honldn’t want you to, ‘Tennie.
fart my finger dewadtally fastening things
ther night, Mort.
a totter oe eenibited a swollen digit for
her 1 ‘lovers conto mplation,
n took the
both ‘hie wy a and ‘the motion shoved 1 immac-
ulate white cuff fasten ¥ a curious ‘button ot
polished sive Set vita a apanliose yellow toy
For “Red Weusel” forgot her cun-
At sight of the novel euff-button—the counter-
part of her clow the girl detective Sarto ex-
behi cot
d in
‘quay ptened oe @ curious button of polished silver, 8
left | of escorting her
had | the brave gin “Tetoctive, who had saved
mi
uplifted hand in
both
e the «Red We:
only to roll a big rock across the mouth of this
charming grotto and you will have them for
ompany the rest of your lif, my trapped wea-
sol," he hissed.
fe had apparently mistaken her unresisting
aulatnvss far tho stupor of overmastering torror,
For just then ha loosened his grip with the in-
tention of executing his threat and making her a
captive | in the grotto,
ut he had miscalculated his chances. It was
the very moment for which tho shrovrd gist de-
fective had hoped, and that momen
doom
cond she had flashed out of his reach,
stationed hergolt at the entrance of the grotto
and « him with a revolver.
wwoapon ho hat atraok froin ho q
an unloaded toy affair, which she had displ
with the certainty that he would attempt 10
arm
She hed outwitted him.
He was her prisoner in the grotto, at the en
trance of which sho stood, resolute and unflinch-
ing, with the black muzzle of ber formidable re-
r hold was
layed
“If you move a step nearer you are a dead
man,” she said, and he knew she meant it too.
Fortunately at that moment there Was a thud
hi
bridle path ithe reach of her
Wit ving @ muscle or Sonoving her ter-
rible ee a fron hee enptive’s face, she uttered @
ringing g shout for help.
0 instant more a little crowd of pers:
among them one of the park police, Gathered | 8
abont the grotto,
And with the ald of the burly office:
the redoubtable Red
prisoner to the, nearest police
station,
‘The ‘chi
Proven against him, and he was eontenced to @
ong term of imprisonment
nie Trav ne was Never arrested.
shame of bein, as bis ac
griet of being sepurated from the kuave whom
cho loved dospite his erimes, she ended her own
a,
Ot course Ben Brinley was honorably released.
He effected a reconciliation with his aged rela-
tive, and a eventually inherited all hor preporty.
The rere regovered.
Anda pleasant ‘ending © of t ulti
mate marriage of the manly yong ‘Tallow with
im from
a life-long disgrace by ber wonderful ability, aid~
od by thovclow of the topar euff-button.
arge of the Brinley robbery was fully
In the
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Old-Time Conjurers.
AVE Just read of the death of Professor
Herraann in tis native town, Carlsbad, Ger-
SI
ic
yesterday. “He was the original
Horrmann, and the greatest prestidigitatour that
over lived.’ L saw him first in Now Orleans in
1860. "He was the originator of the fish trick, nt
that time connor the most wonderful invent-
ed. Extending his left arm to the audience, he
drew a handkerchief across it with his Tight, and
tn bis loft hand appearad a large globo with gold-
bh sw:
> and the ‘motion’ shdwed an immaculate white cuff fas-
get with a sparkling yellow topaz.. For
azel” forgot her, cunning.
| # good one, a the secret possaosed by the wiz.
rin gray
‘Weasel had the sation
he
number were found to correspond, and the in-
dorsements on the back were intact
“Tho wizard Inqul the note you
gave me, sir? and on receiving the reply, Ie ap:
Pears to be, but the one I gaye you was un old
note, but this new one, coolly replied, ‘It
has gone through # cleaning process,” ‘Not fo
ing satisfied, the owner of the nota the next any
showed it to'the person ho received it from, an
whose signature it bore, and said: ‘Is’ that
your signature?
“+ Yes,’ he said, ‘but that is’ pot the note I
gave you; I gave you
BATON the Citeadastances belug ex Iained, the
two weat to the Bank of Engiand and prose
t for payment. ‘The paying teller examined it
garatully and Paid ft, and was then asked, ‘Is
that not
“Ho asain examined {t griticaly, and sald,
‘Tos but it is remarkably clean and new for &
note bearing that date, Why do you
“Ho was then told what had ozeurred, and in
ited the persons nto the directors’ Foor, whore
the details were given to a director. A member
of the firm of Fairchilds, counsel of the Bank of
Don
ders, asthey will not be wnmeered.
‘he
Sher sea Mele ansitre te app
or’
table diainonds, and 277 pw:
Answers to Correspondents,
To Correspondent,
\otash question on the same ‘on of pay
por epodntenia ts
iy by weriting on 0%
orl be anarered wnt Ebro
fw ORK, Se and 96 North Moora St. BF
ter no.
‘a Bor:
‘3h.
Fanoten Bo.—A bear rarely oxcee
dog I ait keuty: & ine toaltece ‘or
or
hero beou Lagwe
rbinoceros to twenty.
“ ara oa
we ie
* ras NG” hat
men live tothe ane of io. Tie defobia and
se
‘an electric battery to
it Fenalate tio’ pewed of
shop snd “he tools. Por cone
es: ou ann the ieee fora of
at in .
to the
and Spall
‘Beside enel
jectro-mag
yack ‘to
sti
jeattracted and released in rapid
Gum av 4 thus continually broken current
passing. On th hai
phon that it,
rent of
utton,
at off wnd on by me
ry, litle abrige, ‘placed ta ovary
ateating with a bel. 4 Weiting
skors.
you the premiums on all ¢
jut would occupy too much 8}
ACTOR.
ession “The Littie Church
gioated under the following ci.
th of George Hol
be
oft
aye
outed
10%
cath Steet
the body ott net
a Littis ‘Church “Around
Boron ae eer the Hes,
+ 2 wilihaly erfornsed
of sho service 2 Mr. Joseph Jet °
aid
1.33 rose-diamo
four of thom dropseuaped.
A full-blooded bull-dog may bo either white or
‘od apacimens aro worth from. # 3100;
$5 0 800. Bloodhounds tie be
30
foo What are ka
England, was summoned, and in his presence
that of a deective ‘the circumstances were
gna rela fe Was pronounced to be
dangerous one’ for the bank.
was arranged that a note which was priv: Stel
marked ‘and bore sigoatures especially put there
ould be presented to the wizard the noxt night
by the. nme person Who gave him the "mystery,
as called, the detective to sit by him aid
Finer the operation. The note sent was an ol
ne hundred Pound bank post bill. ‘The wizard
it in tho same manner as he did
ound note and with the same result, but
ow he did it no one could find out.”
ene
A Cat Fascinates Snakes. |
o
Tre ruins of the old wat farm, at the end of
ter, Pa., offer excel-
¢ place now is
longing to
has brought several i
hom infront of his door, when they were S000
dispatched:
One 5 i over threo feet, which
and cause it t
snake was fgg y, leds and ‘since then it has
eat exerts the same
ber
hk
ta, book of the kind published. Price ton conte,
Seadvene Frank wey, publisher, Sand 96 North Moore
atteot, New York.
‘The rubbing is that of a token. bes
You failed te meation the kin
tain fom Di
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ver Dublishied in serial
‘barles K." in No. 612 of
into which a few di
of ammonia
Pe ise
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og-winded
ed trainin roten, oF
cate trainer ie athletic aporte,
na Greek. ‘or Latin proper ai
no definition regarding it
Y.8.—We cannot find ny record of bis pitching a
Yall For ths “"Lenwue.* 3 Claas mantsactured
in
flor various bata ae Sa ing sto the
indow: 3 sllcate of potash oF Soda, ims
andalumio. Bottlergiaes s composed of oaide of iros
or: 2 Your writing
show:
3 Lemon fies
swith wine round for baits day, ad the cor
Ione, Tes inate fe
Wate
ty aaana on ota
sont ee at of Spe Tintield abou
efown ip small
at prosent. Hig age
“Iuimping Joe
yas fist pablished in
2M
tb
ane Re Thee hibeary ino of ps
onled. electric battery
citi goatee and ant
dugtors of slectricity.
JAXK 8,—You must carry a com
Darton if yon wish 1 elec
7 Zobone outside the honse exes Biteily from behind tho concaaling sh miming around it, Ageia he threw the | understand how the eat manages to draw suck
son Knew {had thooe diamonds” Mra. frinley | ‘The Jowel was n the’ wole catae, of her ox-| handverehtof actors his ‘acme drawing it dows | big snakes. across the is remarkable reaper eraot mo ralue to ea
arked. citement. With the mention of bis name she [over the globe, and immedintoly ‘there ware twa | that no ono has been bitten, a3 the pinco is a gon- sha te ot
iiss Travers suggested that if the lady really| had reeegnized the young man as.an individual | globes fall of fib, one standing on the other. | eral resort tor the children ‘in the neighborhood, ca alt dota
meant to have the young fellow exposed and pun- | named Mort Markey, whom she hind ones helped | This wns his gren font.” boys sho eroated the place the othar fence of that
ished, there 1g hica time to bring to justice for Some during swindle in an-| “Talking o| prestidiertatenrs,” said * traveled day ‘ound ‘and killed four _jange snakes all with-
encape. eltizen, “ do you remember Anderson, * the Wiz-! in a few feet of ench other.
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