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.and is called the Tempo.
HAPPY DAYS
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The name of the coin is derived from
this. There are whole pagodas, half pago-
das and this is
not in any sense be termed rare.
No. 4 is an irregular lump of silver from
value. Under what circumstances these odd
cons circulated we do not know.
. 5 is a native of the province of Ben-
gal, “struck just previous to British rule;
that is, about a hundred and fifty years ago.
It is silver, but there are others looking
very much Uke | it struck in copper, also
others still in g¢
Foremost in “he march of modern im-
provement among nations is
Japan, which during the last twenty years
has given-to collectors some very respect-
able coins.
The oval coin is the oldest. It is bronze,
It is said to be
used exclusively for religious contributions
to the temple. The other coins in the illus-
tration are of silver, the larger ones being
the same weight a fineness as our
trade dollar. The sacred dragon of Japan
appears on one side, and the blazing sun on
the other, with an inscription in Japanese,
giving fre | Mikado’s name, the denomina-
tion and
One specimen used for trade with Eu-
ropeans bears the name One Yen in Roman
letters. These coins were probably made
in England. Certainly they were not na-
tive work.
A collection of Eastern coins exclusively
is one of the most interesting that it is
possible to make.
Besides the oddities which we have men-
tioned there is a long series of Chinese
coins of the most singular shape:
All these are struck in bronze, some be-
ing shaped like razors, others like keys,
and others again occur in shapes which it
is impossible to describe.
These coins are all very ancient and very
rare. Many of them were struck before
the birth & Christ.
Again, Siam gives us a large silver lump,
shaped like a helmet, and India thick cop-
per coins, with figures of birds, lions, ele-
phants, fishes, ete., stamped upon them.
Annam has silver coins, pierced with
square holes like the Chinese cash, and
Persia enormous copper lumps, with the
lion and the rising sun.
One peculiarity about China is that its
coinage is exclusively bronze, For a long
time the Chinese government has been talk-
ing about issuing a new series of coins in
gold and
Should they ever do this, doubtless the
devices will be as peculiar as is everything
else of Chinese origin, thus adding new
numbers to the already lengthy list of Odd
Coins from the Far Eas' >
re eee
Injurious Effects of Anger.
If one expects to live to a good old age
he must learn to govern his temper and
avoid those influences likely to excite an-
Instances where it has proved fatal
many. According to one writer, the
Emperor Nero died of a violent excess of
anger against a senator who had offended
im. Valentinian, the first Roman Em-
peror of that name, while reproaching with
_great passion the cepa from the Quadi,
, burst a blood yessel
women perish, the one in convulsions at
the end of six hours, and the other suf-
focated in twd days, from giving them-
selves up to the transport of fury.” If an
outburst of anger of any considerable in-
tensity does not prove fatal, it at least gen-
erally upsets the system. Its effects upon
the appetite are well known; let a person
get into a quarrel at the table and he a
once loses all relish for the food before him.
A choleric person is almost always subject
to attacks of indigestion, which are the
direct consequence of his getting angry.
Cramps are likely to follow a severe fit of
anger if it occurs soon after a meal is
eaten, because digestion stops without the
outburst, and is slow in starting up again,
and a bilious attack may be expected after
a “tantrum.” As for those who have been
generous livers, and those who suffer from
heart trouble of any sort, let them live as
wisely as they may, and.yet if they be
irritable and prone to give way to anger,
they are, as it were, over a mine which is
Hiable to explode at any time and destroy
a
The naturalists of this region were
startled the other day by the capture in Or-
rington of a civet cat, an Asiatic animal
e
mystery of how the animal came to this
part of the world is explained by the dis-
covery that several of the species were
brought here some time ago by a sea cap-
in.
{This story commenced in No. 269.]
A BOY WHO WOULD
FROM NEWSBOY TO MERCHANT.
By N. S. WOOD
(The Young American Actor).
Author ot, pane Boy Manager,” “A Star at
n,” “Herman, the Boy
ea ician,” etc., etc.
CHAPTER XIX.
WHAT DICK JONES SAW.
“What have you done?” cried Rooke in
the very white heat of passion. “That was
Bluff, the only man in the world who can
help me prove Ben Smith to be Harold Nor-
man, the heir to millions., You wretched
jaurderers, I’ve a mind to send you after
eM tiowa we know who he was?” said Dick,
cringing before the greater scoundrel. “He
saw us chuck Ben in and would have given
us, Bway, and we had ter do it.”
“What!” said Rooke, in a low, tense tone,
striking Dick to the floor with one swift
blow. “You threw Ben Smith into the
river
“De old gal killed him,” whined Dick,
“and made me help her chuck in.”
“And now his body will be carried gat to
sea and never be recovered. Oh, you fools;
you idiots; you imbeciles! To throw away
the chance of a lifetime! Oh, you worse
than fools!”
“Do think I was going to have any
dead bodies lying about, to hang us?” asked
Sue, impertin ently. “I would be a fool to
jo tha
ewgouidn’t you find it out in the snow,
floating in the dock or lying on the pier?
You wouldn’t have to keep it here. No, you
get rattled and throw it away when I could
have proved his identity and come in for a
fortune. What did you want to kill him
for? Haven't I told you often enough that
he was worth more to us alive than dead?”
“If dere’s any money in it, yer kin go out
now and catch him when he comes outside
de river,” said
“It’s too late now,” muttered Rooke.
“Why did you kill him, you old hag? What
had he done to you?”
“He came here to spy on us; he threat-
ened to send Dick back to prison; he knew
we were going to rob the sailor; he was on
.to us, and threatened us, and I struck him.
I didn’t suppose I was going to kill him.
Well, what of it? Can’t you find another?”
“But you’ve killed Bluff, too, and there
goes my last chance. I told you to stop,
but you wouldn’t listen, No, you were
bound to kill some one, and now the best
thing you can do is to get out of the city
as fast as you can.”
“The city is the safest place,” growled
Sue. The police don’t bother this place.
Who knows that Ben or Bluff came here?
You know what sort of light it is. Suppose
the bodies are found? . Does any one know
that the sewer runs under this cellar? Even
Dick didn’t know it, and he knows more
than any of fhe gang. I’m not going to
in do what you like.”
“Bluff was conscious when he fell, es. he
may get ou! o the river all righ
tide turned ‘na ts running swift. Suppose
he is picked up? Don’t you suppose he will
remember this place?”
“No, because he was drunk when he
came here, You’re making a lot of fuss
over nothing, Rooke. How do you know it
as Bluff? You haven’t seen him in over
ten years. You couldn’t remember him
that ong, and, besides, he was drowned.”
“H n’t drowned, he was cz3t ashore
on a ‘sland in the Pacific and rescued
from it a few months ago; he and three
others. To-day he and another of the party
came in on a sailing vessel. The story is
in all the evening papers. I came here to
tell you about i and, i find you throwing
the man in the
“Are you sure?" 3 asked the old woman.
“Sure? To be sure I’m sur, I couldn't
be mistaken in the man.”
“Well, then, find him and get his story,
e
That's easy enough, Where's Dick?”
“I don’t know. © Shut that trap. Oh,
here, give me that candle. He may be
down there
Rooke took the candle, held it in the
opening and looked down, when there pres-
ently came a gust of air and blew the light
on Confound it; now it’s gone out. Well,
he wasn’t there anyhow. Send Dick out on
the pier. The man, must have reached the
river by this ti
yourself,” snarled Sue. “You_know
Dick can’t go out. Shut that trap.
want somebody to fall into it?”
“It wouldn't hurt much if you did,”
laughed Rooke. “It would be a good rid-
dance to a wicked old ha:
“l’d throw you in, if you were worth it,”
wled Sue, as she hobbled into the other
‘. “Now, then, you, Dick, where have
Do you
Rooke closed the trap, struck a match
and got out of the cellar by another way,
closing the door after him and going up-
stairs into a front room of the wretched
house where Sue lived.
The old woman returned to the room
whence they had carried Ben, but saw noth-
ing of Dick, the boy having evidently fied.
To tell the truth, he had been so terrified
at what had happened that night that he
was afraid to remain there longer, and had
fled. while Rooke and old Sue were quarrel-
i
ing.
Reaching the rear room, he secured a
hat and coat and hurried outside, carefully
shutting the door after him that his es-
cape might not be noticed. ~
“I've got Ben’s money and ticker, and I
ought to get something on that,” he said to
himself. “I've
from here, and
cops don’t know I’m in
ain’t going to let ‘em know,
Rooke’ll give me away, and I ain’t going to
hang around to. get nabbed. I wouldn't
stay here, after what I seen to-night, not
for a million dollars.
He reached the street, pulled the brim of
his hat down, turned his back to the wind
and looked along the dreary, deserted
street, as if wondering which way to turn.
“I wonder if I could get Simon e take de
ticker?” he muttered. “He ge jon’t know I
swiped de tings from his ce, and any-
ww, he’s more’n halt crooked himself. I
gotten get rid of de ticker, "cause it won't
do to have it on me, and I want the money
Hie hurried on till he reached the saloon
on the corner, and slipped in unobserved,
taking a seat in an obscure corner near and
behind the stove.
“I gotter think what I’m going ter do,”
e mused. “I guess Simon’ll be all right.
He keeps open nights, and I can hock the
thing or let him have it right out. Den I
gotter skip. Guess I better go out West
Hey?” to the waiter, who ap-
“Whisky, and make it hot. I
got a doost of a cold.”
“Did de sailor bloke have any bones?”
whispered. the man. “You’se wouldn't give
us a chance at him, would yer
“Ah, go on, dat was me old man, I
wasn’t steerin’ him to no joint. Dat’s
straight.”
The man went away, but presently re-
turned with a tumbler of hot liquor, set it
down, and said in a whisper:
le place down de street is goin’ to
be pulled. The coppers suspects somethin’,
an’ anyhow, they gotter make a reperta-
tion, and somethin’s gotter go. We're all
right, ‘cause we staked ’em.”
“Going ter pinch de old woman’s, hey?”
‘are. You better give her de tip. You
lon’t want ter. be around here neither,
’cause they’ll get on to your havin’ come
from up de river. Red Bill’s been traced to
the city, but nobody knows where he’s hid-
Dick's hand shook so violently that he
spilled some of the liquor as he said nerv-
sly:
“Red Bill shot a bloke; I didn't. Dey
won’t want me fur nothin’.”
“Yes, they will, and it’s out that you an’
Bill come here together. You better skip,
dat's what I’m tellin’ yer.
“All right,” said Dick, swallowing the
liquor at a gulp. “I'll give the old girl a
tip, too.”
The man left him and he shrunk further
into his corner, unmindful of the noise
around him, so busy was he with his own
thoughts.
“Guess they'd pull the Place worse if they
knew what I know, I ai oin’ to give
tem 1 Took out for their-
couldn’t he stay away? Now they think
I'm-with him, I gotter git out o’ dis pret-
ty_sudden.”
He hugged the stove for some time
longer, and then, when the noise and con-
fusion in the saloon was at its height, he
slipped toward the side entrance and was
about to go out when the door swung open
and he found himself confronting Red Bill,
while just behind was a face he had good
cause to remember, and with alarm, too, for
it was that of Ben Smith, pale, dripping
wet and with a ook of aecusation upon it
which struck to his very he:
“T didn’t do it!” shrieked ithe conscience-
stricken fugitive. “It was the old woman,
T’ll take an oath to it!”
Then, overcome by superstitious fears, he
reeled and fell in a dead faint upon the
oor.
CHAPTER XX.
TWO STRANGE MEETINGS.
Ben had not been killed by the blow on
the head which old Sue had given him with
the poker, but he had been terribly stunned
and did not recover until the cold water of
the sewer struck a chill to his very boues.
He felt himself being borne forward,
where he could not realize, and, although
he struck out, so as to keep afloat, it was
several moments before he could remember
what had happened or give any explanation
of how he came to be in the water.
“The old woman struck me down, stun-
ned me, and then threw me into the water,”
he thought. “I wonder where I am, any-
i
how? This seat be the river, I don’t see
any lights. Hell
He suddenly tound the water rising so
rapidly that in an instant he was sub-
rged,
Then his hands struck the rough side of
the sewer and he realized that he was not
yet in the river, but in a passage leading to
it, and that, emptying under water, it was
at pimes en urely fu
uck out with all his strength,
length of the sewer, but realizing that
was in deadly peril.
He had often swum under water for a
long distance, and if he had known what to
expect he would ‘now have been at no dis-
advantage, but the peril had come upon him
suddenly, and his lungs were not more than
half filled at the time.
However, being unimpeded by heavy
clothing or shoes, he could make the best
progress, and, although he felt his head
splitting and the blood starting to his nose
d ears, he made a supreme effort, struck
out with arms and legs, and at last came
to the top when he could no longer hold his
re:
To his great relief he was in the river
and out of the sewer, but his a dangers were
not pet over, as he quickly
er was terribly spola and was
Alted with floating masses of ice and slush
which struck a chill to the very marrow
and made his teeth chatter.
Striking out briskly, he noticed not far
away a light upon a vessel of some sort ly-
ing alongside a wharf, and he began to di-
rect his re vee foward it, hoping that some
one might be
fast becoming benumbed, and
knew that he must make an extra effort, so
as he swam rapidly on he called out:
He allo Throw me a line, some one,
Help:
pip!” sounded across the raters. and
he wondered if it were an ec! r if some
other unfortunate needed assistance.
‘Help!” sounded the cry again, and Ben
stopped for an instant to see if he could de
termine from what direction it came.
oHelo. who's there?” called some one on
n had hailed
et nsw wered the boy,
“In “the water.
swimming
Throw me a line.”
nee cried the strange voice again.
“Aye, aye; I see you, doing all I
and then the light flashed out across
the water and a line went whizzing through
the air and fell close to the boy’s hand.
He caught it and cried out that he had
done so, at the same time passing the line
under his arms, as he felt his strength giv-
a
ig ow
“All right?”
be but be quick.”
“Yes. yes, I'm doing all I can.”
Ben was drawn alongside the "vessel and
hauled upon deck, having barely strength
to stand and feeling ready to drop.
“Come below, my lad; it’s no sort of
Jace out here for you, all wet and dripping.
Why, it’s a wonder you ain’t froze stiff from
being in that icy water.”
“There’s some one else out there,” Ben
managed to say. “I heard him call twice.
You'd better keep a lookout for him.”
“What? Another?”
“Yes,” and then the boy fell forward and
was carried below, where his wet clothes
were taken off and he was put between two
eavy blankets and a big tumbler of whis-
ky and water given to le
He was in the forecastle of a large ship
that expected to sail the next day, they told
him, and it was the watchman who ha‘
heard his cry for help, those of the crew
yee, were on board being below at the
aed they pick up the other man?” asked
Ben. “I think he was thrown overboard.”
He had suddenly remembered the drunk-
en sailor, and it at once occurred to him
at the man had been thrown into the
river after being robbed by Dick and old
ue.
“They took him aboard a tug,” said a
man who was drying Ben’s clothes at the
“Is this all the things you had?
Where’s your coat and shoes and vest?
Was you in your shirt sleeves? You must
in to go around like that on
“I don’t iknow.” said Ben. “Somebody
threw me in, I guess, I don’t remember. I
got a crack on the head and then I found
myself in the—in the water.”
“Well, it’s a pretty tough spot around
here, and more than one floater has been
started from here on its way to sea, I
guess, How's that, Bill?”
“Yes, I guess so,” answered a man lying
in a bunk over in a dark corner.
know much about it.
n't want to sail with us.”
“fielio!” “called a voice from tne, deck.
“Come up here two or three of
ie men except the one in the bunk
ansyered the summons, and he got up, sat
e edge of another bunk where the
fant fel on. “nis face and looked at Ben,
“You was going to say you found your-
self in the sewer, wasn’t you?” he asked.
“Yes, I suppose so,’ said Ben, looking at
the man with a strange feeling. “Haven’t
I seen you before somewhere? Yes, I know.
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